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WHEELING - Congress too often considers the needs of urban centers and ignores the concerns of rural communities, according to Rep. David B. McKinley.
McKinley, R-Wheeling, on Wednesday addressed a breakfast gathering of the Wellsburg Chamber of Commerce at the Station Grille in the city. About 25 people attended.
"People in Washington don't quite understand our values ... ," McKinley said. "It's an undercurrent in Washington. It's not always Republican versus Democrat or liberal versus conservative - it's not that. There's another undercurrent, and that's urban versus rural centers. What we don't have in West Virginia is an urban center."
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WELLSBURG VISIT — U.S. Rep. David B. McKinley, R-Wheeling, left, is greeted by Wellsburg City Manager Mark Henne, center, and Poke Beall of Scott Lumber before speaking to members of the Wellsburg Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday at Station Grille. -- Joselyn King
While some cities like Los Angeles and Chicago have as many as 16 representatives, there are only three representatives for the entire state of West Virginia. And the issues in urban America are different from those in rural American, he continued.
"There are more representatives from Pittsburgh than there are the entire state of West Virginia," McKinley said. "So the priorities in Washington often get caught up in the urban centers. They want to talk about mass transit ... some of those issues. In the rural areas, we want to talk about sewer and waterlines. They don't get it. They don't understand why communities don't already have sewer and waterlines. They have them."
He believes Washington is turning its back on smaller communities.
"We have lost touch with our America," McKinley continued. "America is not those big cities. America is just ... places that are off the map. But there are people who live there and have the same level of concerns they do."
McKinley pointed to the Federal Aviation Administration's announcement this week that it would shut down 149 of the 516 air traffic control towers across the nation on April 7.
"Where did they shut the towers down?" he asked. "Rural America. So who is going to be in jeopardy? People in rural America who use those towers."
McKinley also said 70 percent of the towers slated for closure are in congressional districts represented by Republicans.
"Is that coincidence?" he asked. "I don't know. But I can tell you my phone is already ringing off the hook telling me 'back off' from doing any more cuts. We can't afford to do this anymore. People are putting pressure on us to stop spending reductions and raise the debt."

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How much is known about irreducible polynomials over finite fields? I have seen the formula (a result of Möbius inversion) that gives the number of such polynomials, but I am looking for something more; say, a characterization of those sequences $(a_n, \ldots, a_0)$ which are the coefficients of a degree-$n$ irreducible polynomial over the finite field with $q = p^n$ elements. Does such a thing exist (even in special cases)? Might such a thing exist, or has it in some way been shown that such a characterization is impossible?
Trying to say something more. I don't know, if this is at all what you were hoping.
Let us agree to look at monic polynomials only. Things like the following are known. If you specify any low degree part $a_dx^d+\cdots a_1x+a_0$ with a non-zero constant term, then asymptotically (for degree $n$ much higher than $d$) the residue classes of irreducible polynomials of degree $n$ modulo $x^{d+1}$ are uniformly distributed. In other words, each such low degree part appears equally often at the tail of an irreducible polynomial (well, the distribution is not exactly uniform for any specific $n$, but asymptotically the error term becomes negligible).
This result is obviously an analogue of Dirichlet's result of equidistribution of rational primes into (coprime) residue classes modulo $m$. Its proof is IMHO a bit simpler. See, e.g. Rosen's book.
Does this kill some of your hopes?
Families of known irreducible polynomials are few. The first one that comes to mind is the family of cyclotomic polynomials with zeros that are primitive roots of unity of an order that is a power of three. These polynomials $$ \phi_{3^\ell}(x)=x^{2\cdot3^{\ell-1}}+x^{3^{\ell-1}}+1 $$ remain irreducible over the field of two elements. The proof is an exercise in Lidl & Niederreiter, and is essentially equivalent to showing that two is a primitive root modulo $3^\ell$. This family of irreducible polynomials is admittedly very sparse.
I don't know if this is enough for you or if you know the formula, but there exists a way to directly compute all the irreducible polynomials over $\mathbb F_p$ inductively.
Recall that for every integer $n$, there is only one field, namely $\mathbb F_{p^n}$, such that $[K : \mathbb F_p] = n$. It so happens that this field is the splitting field of the polynomial $x^{p^n}-x$, and that if $p(x) \, | \, x^{p^n}-x$ is irreducible, then its roots generate an extension of $\mathbb F_p$ which is of degree $d$ (isomorphic to $\mathbb F_{p^d}$), hence $d \, | \, n$, and using such facts, if we finish the argument one gets $$ x^{p^n} - x = \prod_{d \, | \, n} \left( \prod_{p \text{ irr. deg } d} p(x) \right) $$ where the second product is taken over all the irreducible polynomials of degree $d$. Therefore, we can use induction to compute all the irreducible factors of degree $n$ of $x^{p^n} - x$ when we know those of degree dividing $n$ being less than $n$.
Hope that helps,
You may see the text "Finite Fields" by Michael Waldschmidt. Corollary 37. A $n$-cyclotomic polynomial over a finite field of cardinality $q$ (a power of a prime $p$) if and only if the class of $q$ modulo $n$ has order $\varphi(n)$ (Euler's totient function if and only if $q$ is a generator of the group of units of $\mathbb Z/n\mathbb Z$.


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We have a form in our app that contains several select fields, and some of the option text is too long to be fully readable on a phone-sized screen in a picker. When the options appear in a list on an iPad, they wrap, which is what we need.
Is there a way to either make the options wrap in a picker, or to use the iPad style list instead of the picker on a phone (but only for this one form, not for the rest of the app)?
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Tony Dorsett Is Losing His Mind
Unexplained fits of rage. Forgetting where he was yesterday. A Dallas Cowboys great begins to discover the price of football.
It was January 3, 1983, the last day of the NFL's strike-shortened season, and Tony Dorsett's Dallas Cowboys were losing to the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football. A fumbled punt had the Cowboys trapped deep in their own territory, the ball a few inches outside the end zone.
And the Cowboys were out-manned. Fullback Ron Springs didn't hear what play they were going to run, so he was still on the sideline, leaving only 10 Cowboys on the field and Dorsett all alone in the backfield.
The Vikings were in their goal-line defense, bunched up around the line of scrimmage, gunning for a safety.
Do you remember? Tony Dorsett does.
The call was for a run—"Dive 21," Dorsett says—that would take Dorsett straight up the gut of the defense, between center Tom Rafferty and guard Herb Scott.
"When you're backed up that far, you just want to tighten up your chinstrap a little bit, because you know they know you can't get too tricky, too fancy," Dorsett says. "You just figure, I'm gonna get a good shot, so just get ready for it."
That shot never came. Rafferty hit defensive tackle James White, turning him around, out of the play. Scott paused to let Rafferty by, then fired out to his right to seal off linebacker Dennis Johnson. They created a giant opening in the middle of the defense.
"Man, I got great blocks from Herb Scott and Tom Rafferty," Dorsett says. He is almost hovering above his seat in the living room of his Frisco home, eyes wide as he narrates the play, calling every block and cut. He is right there again. "And I jumped through that hole."
After skipping over Scott's outstretched leg, he burst 10 yards up the field before veering to his right, heading for the sideline. "I run to daylight," he says, "just like I was always taught. I run to daylight."
Dorsett grew up wanting to be a running back like his older brothers at Hopewell High School in Alquippa, Pennsylvania. But he wasn't like them. He was better. What pushed him further than Melvin, Ernie, Tyrone, and Keith—to three All-American selections and the Heisman Trophy in 1976, to the Cowboys and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1994—was his mind. He studied his playbook until he was prepared for every outcome. He visualized himself in every situation, until he felt like he'd already been through it.
"And your recall is like—bam—nanoseconds," he says. "Bam."
Do you remember? Tony Dorsett does.
But even if you were inclined to lazily resort to cliche and say he remembers this play from 30 years ago like it was yesterday, you can't. Because Dorsett doesn't remember what he did yesterday. He has days where he wonders how he got here, from a steel town outside of Pittsburgh to a spot in the Cowboys' Ring of Honor. On the worst days, he literally wonders: How did I get here?
Dorsett moved to Frisco three decades ago, not long after he married his first wife, Julie, back when this area was mostly undeveloped pastureland. He has lived in a gated community a few minutes southwest of Toyota Stadium for the last 10 years or so.
He walks around the bottom floor of the two-story house, opening the blinds, trailed by a tiny, shivering Yorkshire terrier named Charlie. He is in all black—a black, hooded Old Navy sweatshirt; black pants; low-cut black suede boots; and black socks that he habitually pulls up every few minutes. He drops himself into the brown leather chair near a giant TV.
Next to the TV, above the fireplace, hangs a large portrait of Dorsett and his family—his second wife, Janet, and their daughters Jazmyn, Madison, and Mia—dressed alike in white shirts and jeans. It looks like it was taken six or seven years ago. Jazmyn is now out of the house, a senior guard on the Oklahoma State University basketball team. Madison, 15, and Mia, 10, will be home soon.
"My little Madison, boy—she's an athlete," he says. Madison plays soccer, and she's starting to show that certain something that separates good from great, that aggressiveness and extra effort. But her father's hopes for her athletic future lie elsewhere.
"I seen my daughter run track and my mouth just dropped," he says. "That's her? But I was watching her. She don't even know how to come out of the blocks, but she can roll. I was like, 'Girl, you are my Olympian. You are going to the Olympics. We going to the Olympics."
Dorsett says he only ran in a couple of meets when he was a high school senior. He didn't like it. He ran because he had to, not because he wanted to. "But I could have been a good track guy," he says. It's not hard to imagine him at a high school track meet. He is 59 now, 60 in April, but he looks no different than he does in the family portrait, and in the family portrait, he looks much the same as he did when he retired from the NFL after the 1988 season.
That is part of the reason there was such a strong reaction to news reports in early November that Dorsett's brain was damaged. But it's not just that he looks relatively youthful and healthy. He looks the same as he did when he was the charismatic leader of one of the most popular teams in NFL history, the version of the Cowboys first branded America's Team. That's why Dorsett rose straight to the top of the 24-hour news cycle, somber present-day clips juxtaposed with some of the brutal hits he took during his playing days, including the one that knocked him unconscious in a 1984 game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Today, there is a light dusting of gray in his hair, but he still could be the all-caps TONY DORSETT of his playing days, even if he lives a mostly lowercase life now. He doesn't necessarily look like a former NFL running back—at 5-foot-11 and around 180 pounds, he wasn't even big enough for that position back when he played—but it's clear from how he carries himself that he was an athlete. Maybe you'd guess he had been a middleweight boxer if you didn't know any better.
"Physically, I feel … pretty good." He says the last two words as though he has only just now considered his condition and is a little surprised by the answer. He had his share of injuries as a player, including a torn ligament in his left knee that ended his final season before it even began. "I mean, I'm still able to get out—I don't run or jog outside on pavement. I get on an elliptical machine. I can lift some."
There are former NFL players who can barely walk on artificial hips and knees, whose hands are gnarled by arthritis, who have the range of motion of a department-store mannequin. Dorsett is lucky in that regard. The game didn't rob him of his body.
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Liquid and solid chemical fuels in rockets are very expensive and inefficient. I have heard of solar sails but what are the most realistic space travel fuels that will be used in the future to get close to the speed of light?
In a lot of ways this is a technology---rather than physics---question, but lets look at some limits imposed by physics.
That's the killer for fast burn rockets. We still use them for launch from the surface because they can develop the necessary thrust (our high efficiency engines (ion drives and the like) are all low thrust at the present time).
That suggests one of two strategies:
Sail technology is--at least in principle--within reach of our current competence, but building and running one capable of efficient interstellar travel is beyond the current Gross Planetary Product. Star wisps are a subset of sails, but require considerable expertise in nanotechnology before they are useful even for exploration.
A second disadvantage of sails for traveling to other start in person, is that you're counting on politicians and policy makers you left behind to continue funding your trip...
Ram-scoops are a big unknown, as we don't know how to build them as yet. A BOTE calculation for a minimal, naive hydrogen fusion ram-scoop limits their top speed to about 14% of c (under the maximum drag assumption that the fuel must be brought to rest relative the craft).
I wrote a semi-popular book on this subject a couple of years ago:
A lot of this was worked out. I illustrate the relativistic rocket and the photon sail. The photon sail is clearly the most reasonable of these two. I also suggest using electromagnetically accelerated nano-probes, where millions of tiny probes are sent towards another star, with the prospect that a few might set up shop there and build up a robotic colony of sorts. The solar sail is capable of reaching a $\gamma~=~1.4$, or .$69c$, though a more realistic figure is $\gamma~=~1.15$ or about $v~=~.5c$. This analysis involve the redshifting of light on the frame of the sail craft and so forth. To accomplish this requires placing large Fresnel lenses in space which collimate light towards the sail.
There is not much point in sending probes towards extrasolar systems faster than $\gamma~=~2$, or $v~=~.86c$. The time saved becomes smaller and the energy costs enormous. A $\gamma~=~2$ probe has as much kinetic energy as its rest mass, which would be a considerable feat to achieve. At $.5c,~.7c$, and $.86c$ probes could be send within the interstellar neighborhood and signals returned in reasonable time.
The ramjet concept is useful IMO from one main reason. Suppose various instruments were packed onto a spacecraft with an acceleration of one gravity, or larger. These instruments look at the CMB and maybe particle detectors. The machine reaches a high $\gamma$ in order to probe the universe as it appeared earlier on. The CMB would be blue shifted into the IR, and maybe other detectors which can detect weakly interacting particles which pass through the early radiation dominated period of the universe. This is pretty speculative, but maybe not impossible in principle.
The most realistic way is to get rid of humans, and let robots travel. They don't eat and can spend 1'000'000 years in flight without being bored too much. This way is achievable even with current tech. ;-)
In order to make space travel truly affordable, the only realistic way is using thermonuclear explosions. The technology is relatively cheap and available, but it is dangerous, and must be strictly controlled by large stable governments. This puts it out of reach of commercial development, and there are well known issues with government controlled projects regarding efficiency. This makes it implausible that we will see such a thing realized soon or realized well. Since this is a problem of human political organization, not of technology, I won't discuss it further.
Ignoring politics and economics, the orion project proposed a ship propelled by thermonuclear explosion products, which produces ablation pressures from products at temperatures which are simply unreachable with any chemical fuel. This technology is not speculative in any way, and it certainly allows feasable economic travel to any point in the solar system in a time-scale of a few weeks. A large Orion can be the size of an office building, it can be shielded from cosmic ray radiation, and it could be built in a few years at a cost of a few billion dollars, with no technological innovation required.
The idea that further scientific discovery is going to do better than orion is not very realistic. It is actually remarkable that we know how to make Teller-Ulam devices. When people consider orion type things today, they are dreaming of an inertial confinement fusion, but even if this works, it will require an enormous laser in the ship, which is going to be heavy and require the ship to carry a ridiculously heavy power-source. Inertial confinement is also a dream. But plutonium triggered explosions are a reality, and it seems a waste to reject the peaceful applications of this technology because of the cold war nightmares everyone used to have.
I suppose that one could develop some sort of slingshot-like approach along side of some other approach using gravitaional pull of stars. My best guess is to look at technolgies that has yet to be discovered or developed. The current discussion seems limited to existing theory. Consider if similar discussion occurred 100 years ago about placing all of my phonograph records into a single device that I could carry with me and listen at whim to the different selection therein. We could very easily be discussing mini records, stacked in a tube with multiple needles to each disc. The techology of what would become an MP3 player would never occur to any in the discussion. This is why I enjoy - good - science fiction that tries to propose theory that is far beyond current and conventional understanding. I'm not sure but I would imagine that a better understanding of light itself may lead to a propulsion approach that far superior that what most consider.
A fun question for science fiction fans. Ever since strings started to look like the Theory Of Everything I have been fascinated by the extra dimensions. It is the analogy of an ant in a two dimensional maze. If it sees the third dimension it can climb over and be million of ant miles away from his two dimensional path to that point.
So the TOE will be great fun once it is found and established. Even if all extra dimensions are curled, each particle in our four dimensions exists also in those curled dimensions. Who knows what the future may bring in technology. The best bet then is to go full steam ahead and find the TOE, before starting on these journeys worrying about fuel.


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Let me start with two observations.
- In the classification of quadratic forms with rational coefficients, one has the following statement: a quadratic form in five indeterminates represents $0$ over $\mathbb Q$ if and only if it represents $0$ over $\mathbb R$.
- For every $n\ge2$, there exists a division ring $R_n$ of dimension $n^2$ over its center $\mathbb Q$. There is a 'norm' over $R_n$, which is an $n$-form (homogeneous polynomial of degree $n$) with rational coefficients, multiplicative over $R_n$. It is an example of $n$-form in $n^2$ indeterminates that represents $0$ over $\mathbb R$ but does not over $\mathbb Q$.
Question. Is it true that for every $n\ge2$, an $n$-form with rational coefficients in $n^2+1$ indeterminates represents $0$ over $\mathbb Q$ if and only if it represents $0$ over $\mathbb R$ ?
A positive answer would say that the norm in a division ring is a maximal (in terms of the number of indeterminates) example of an $n$-form representing zero over $\mathbb R$ but not over $\mathbb Q$.
Edit. After Laurent's answer, I see that my question was close to Artin's conjecture, that Terjanian's example disproves. However, for fixed degree $n$, Artin's conjecture is true for almost every prime $p$: every $n$-form in $n^2+1$ indeterminates represents zero over $Q_p$.


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List of Problems
List of Problems (on Google Docs) - anyone who has this link can edit/add problems.
These are problems that 1 or more people thought were interesting enough to try solving.
Each problem should include:
- the problem (or pointer to the problem)
- names of people who've worked through the problem
- (optional) what concepts are required for the solution (eg. conditional independence, continuous random variables, etc.)
A probability study group was proposed on the noisebridge-discuss list and cc'ed to the Machine Learning mailing list.
The goal is to go through the 7 chapters of Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory.
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- 30 min - a volunteer presents the material in the chapter (this will be for people who didn't have time to read the chapter at home, and for those who want to teach)
- 30-45 min - discussion and problem solving (those who solved the problems at home can compare answers, those who didn't can work on the problems together)
- MIT OCW - 6.041 / 6.431 Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability - the text book(s) we're using are from this course.
- Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory by Al Drake (pdf) - written in 1967 and used for several decades to teach the above course. From the preface: "This is a first textbook in applied probability theory, assuming a background of one year of calculus."
- Introduction to Probability by Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis - this is the book written and used by the current professors - it appears to be identical in terms of the layout and the topics covered.
- Fifty Challenging Problems by Frederick Mosteller (~ 15 of the problems are viewable in amazon's preview). Monte-carlo simulations of these: Josh Myer's blog
Past Meetings
- 11/16/2010 - chapter 2. Recommended problems 2.04, 2.07, 2.11, 2.17, 2.26, 2.27, 2.28, 2.30 (slides)
- 11/09/2010 - chapter 1. Recommended problems 1.03, 1.08, 1.09, 1.12, 1.13, 1.21, 1.24, 1.30 (slides)
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"I congratulate our inaugural class of Atlantic 10 Legends. These women have been instrumental in establishing the outstanding history of the A-10 women's basketball programs," stated Commissioner Bernadette V. McGlade. "Individually each legend has become a role model for others as they competed and benefited from Title IX to elevate women's basketball within the A-10 and nationally. They are a credit to their institutions, the league and are deserving of this honor on behalf of the Atlantic 10 Conference. "
Bennett, of Williamston, N.C., starred for the 49ers from 1979-82. A two-time all-America, Bennett earned first team all-America honors in 1980 from the American Women's Sports Foundation, becoming the 49ers first and only first team all-America in women's basketball. She averaged 21.1 points in 1980 as the 49ers won the NCAIAW Division II Championship. She earned honorable mention all-America honors in 1981-82.
The only player in school history to score over 2000 points, Bennett is first all-time with 2078 career points ranks and second all-time with over 1300 career rebounds. She boasts career records with both a 19.6 scoring average and a 12.3 rebounding average.
The 49ers posted three straight 20-win campaigns in her four seasons, a feat that has been accomplished just one time since.
She is one of only two 49ers to be named team MVP in three different seasons and she owns three of the 49ers top four single-season scoring efforts.
She still ranks in the program's all-time top three in career points, rebounds, steals and field goals made. Her fourteen 30-point games are still the program standard.
She averaged a double-double in each of her four years, bursting onto the scene with a freshman record 21.3 scoring average and 13.9 rebounds in her rookie season.
She was the 49ers first women's basketball player to have her jersey retired. Bennett went on to play professionally with the military and was named to the all-Army team seven times as well as to the all-Military team.
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John Couch Liles, 78, of Cleburne and Plano, Texas, passed away July 23 in the VA hospital in Dallas. He was born July 26, 1933 in El Paso, Texas to Marcella Jane Couch and Robert Lee Liles. He graduated from college in El Paso where he worked as a TV news manager. Later in Dallas he was a technical writer for Texas Instruments.
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31 Dec 2012 6:08 AM #1
No pictures in Architect2 docu
trying my first steps with Architect and reading the documentation I recognized that there the mentioned pictures are missing. For example on the page
after the text "Architect prompts you to rename the component and choose the Toolbox category in which the component will appear, as shown here:", no picture appears. I use Firefox 17.0.1 on Windows7.
It would be nice if someone could tell me how I could be able to see the missing pictures.
Thanks in advance.
1 Jan 2013 2:15 PM #2
I've gone ahead and moved this to the bug forum so that we can get the docs addressed.
I do notice above the sentence there is no picture.
Do other pictures appear in the docs for you?
2 Jan 2013 6:29 AM #3
2 Jan 2013 12:28 PM #4
Rechecking this, I do see a picture... (I missed the part about being under "Save to Toolbox") Perhaps you did too?
If not, could you attach a screenshot showing where the problem is?Aaron Conran
7 Jan 2013 2:32 AM #5
Yes, I recognized it also afterwards that the picture is there. It must have been the poor WIFI connection which I have here.


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It is obvious that in constructive mathematics, you cannot use the law of excluded middle. What else would be the reasons for not adopting constructive stance in mathematics?
This is a philosophical question rather than a mathematical one, although mathematical results can provide significant insight.
On its own, not being able to use excluded middle is not a justification for constructive logic any more than being able to use excluded middle is a justification for classical logic. The justification comes in the benefits that are derived from avoiding excluded middle, or are derived from using it.
Classical logic is the logic of structures - of things that "exist" in some sense, or at least have objective properties independent of whether we can verify those properties. Thus, for example, if I have a function that assigns each real number either "red" or "blue", then either every real number is assigned "red" or some real number is assigned "blue". That latter fact is not "constructively provable" - because constructive mathematics is not about what is true as much as it is about what we can verify (of course, anything we can verify to be true is true). Just because I know that "not every real number is assigned red" does not mean that I actually know a specific real number that is assigned "blue", and thus I have no way to verify that some real number is assigned "blue" even though I know, classically, that there must be one.
Thus, in a sense, classical logic is the logic of truth and constructive logics are logics of verification. By verification I mean more than just "proof"; I mean the sort of thing that is captured in the BHK interpretation. In settings where we are interested in that sort of verification - for example, in computable mathematics - a constructive logic will work well. In settings where we simply want to reason about truth, rather than about concrete verification, classical logic is better. Most mathematicians are interested in reasoning about mathematical objects, and because of this they use classical logic.
Historically the main reason that Hilbert and others have rejected constructive mathematics was because it mean that they have to use more restricted ways of reasoning and some felt that forbidding PEM in mathematics is to tie the hands of mathematician. Or in another colorful language due to Hilbert, it felt as being expelled from "Cantorian Paradise" of set theory (Mathematicians are very conservative people regarding mathematics).
It also seemed that by accepting constructivism one needs to throwing away a considerable amount of mathematics developed by that time. Even more troubling for them was the fact that some classical results become not just unprovable but false in their literal constructive reading! (Not very surprising after all, you can't expect much if you try to read an English sentence as if it is written in French.)
For that matter, the rejection was not as philosophical as it might seem. Hilbert himself was a finitist. He saw ideal objects as means that help one prove results, but he thought that they are not really needed. One of the goals of his proof theory program was to make sure that using "ideal" objects like abstract sets and real numbers does not lead to incorrect results about "real" objects like natural numbers.
In addition, stating or proving results in a constructive way is often not straight forward. The constructive language takes into account information when we talk about mathematical objects. How an object is represented and given becomes important. Classically equivalent concepts (e.g. $\lnot (\lnot p \land \lnot q)$ vs. $p \lor q$, Dedekind real numbers vs. Cauchy real numbers, etc.) become distinct.
I would suggest having a look at Bishop style constructive mathematics. Bishop tried to address these issues and obtain a constructive mathematics which is compatible with classical mathematics and would be more acceptable for classically minded mathematicians.
Another issue, as mentioned in the comments, was that at some point Godel proved that from the perspective of security of mathematical foundations, there is not much difference between classical and constructive. Simplified, this means that proving a result classically is the same as proving the Godel translation of the result constructively. So the main original supportive argument for constructive mathematics (i.e. it is more secure) became useless.
Constructive mathematics suffered a continuous decline among mathematicians until its relevance to computers become clear. It seems to me that eventually the relation with computational mathematics (e.g. Martin-Löf style type-theory) was a more important factor in revival of constructive mathematics that philosophical issues. (Bishop style constructivism also had a considerable effect).
for these reasons I'm sticking with classical mathematics for the moment.
On the other hand, I support constructive mathematics, in the sense that I think its great that people are working these things out.
One justification I've heard goes something like this: one of the purposes of constructive mathematics is that it is closer to being applicable in the real world. But non-constructive methods are useful for getting to results more expediently. Once a result is proven non-constructively, its constructive content (and hence is real-world applicability) can be investigated.


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an $n$-surgery on m dim manifold M is to cut out $S^n\times D^{m-n}$and replace it by $D^{n+1}\times S^{m-n-1}$. I want to know how this is invented? I do know that the effect of passing a critical point of index $n$ in $m$-manifold is equivalent to attach an $n+1$-handle $D^{n+1}\times D^{m-n-1}$.Now the boundary of $D^n\times D^{m-n}$ is $S^n\times D^{m-n}\cup D^{n+1}\times S^{m-n-1}$,i think there must be some close relation between the special form of $n$-surgery and handle.can someone help make this clear?
The Wikipedia article on surgery theory explains this! In addition, the Edinburgh Surgery Theory Study Group provides all kinds of surgery-related materials, including YouTube videos (not for the squeamish). There is all kinds of surgery bric-a-brac on Surgery Bits and Pieces and also here.
The best answer is to cite Tim Perutz answer to my question Surgery and homology: a reference request:
"To say that a smooth, closed manifold N is obtained by surgery along a (framed) sphere in M is to say that there is a cobordism P from M to N and a Morse function $f\colon P\to [0,1]$, with $f^{−1}(0)=M$, $f^{−1}(1)=N$, and exactly one critical point c."
Critical point corresponds to a handle, $S^n\times D^{m-n}$ lies in $M$, $D^{n+1}\times S^{m-n-1}$ lies in $N$ and spheres $S^n$ and $S^{m-n-1}$ are intersections of stable and unstable manifolds for $c$ with corresponding level sets.
In other words: to obtain $N$ from $M$ by a surgery one can consider $M\times [0,1]$, glue a handle using $S^n\times D^{m-n} \subset M=M\times 1$, smooth the resulted cobordism and take a component of a boundary.
This question has already been answered, but there's a tiny piece of intuition which I'd like to make explicit:
If you're thinking about a manifold in the PL world, surgery might look a bit arbitrary- why cut out and glue in those pieces and not others? Surgery's natural setting is the smooth world, where you're equipping a manifold with a Morse function $f\colon\, M\to \mathbb{R}$, and using information about critical points of $f$ to encode $M$.
It's actually a bit more involved than you might think it might be, but when you pass a critical point of $f$ you add a handle to $M$, and the boundary changes by surgery. For details, see answers to this question.
So really, surgery isn't an a-priori construction which somebody pulled from a hat- it is rather an operation which stems naturally and inevitably from Morse theory.


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I am making a mobile app to find anagrams and partial matches. Mobile is important because there is not a whole lot of computational power, and efficiency is key.
The algorithm takes any number of letters, including repeats, and finds the longest words made up from its letters, using every letter only once. I am also interested in finding the top results quickly, and am not really concerned with the bottoms (shorter ones) as long as N is met. For example:
STACK => stack, tacks, acts, cask, cast, cats…
I have done some googling and have found a few algorithms, and I came up with one which I thought would be efficient, but is not as efficient as I would like.
I have a lookup dictionary pre-made that maps a sorted key to the real words that generate that key.
"aelpp" => ["apple", "appel", "pepla"]
I have further split each dictionary into different ones based on the length of the key. So keys that are 5 letters long are in one dictionary, keys that are 6 are in another. Each of these dictionaries are in an array in which the index is the length of the keys that are found in the dictionary.
anagramArray[5] => dictionary5
dictionary5["aelpp"] => ["apple", "appel", "pepla"]
My algorithm starts by taking an input word "
lappe", and it sorts it:
"lappe" => "aelpp"
Now, for each dictionary that has contents of at most 5 letters, I do a comparison to pull it out. Here is pseudocode:
word = input.sort
for (i = word.length; i > 0; i--)
dictionaryN = array[i]
for (key in dictionaryN)
if word matches key
add to returnArray
if returnArray count > N
returnArray.sort by longest word, alphabetize
The dictionary only has about 170,000 words in it, but searches are taking up to 20 seconds for 12 letter inputs. My
match method makes a regex out of the key:
"ackst" => /a.*c.*k.*s.*t.*/
such that, for example, a 4 letter key such as
acst (acts), will match
ackst (stack) because:
"ackst" matches /a.*c.*s.*t.*/
I have seen other apps do the same thing in much less time, and I am wondering if my approach is garbage or just needs some tweaking.
How can I get the maximum computational efficiency for generating the top N anagrams from a word, sorted by max length?


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I am using http://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/ when working on my mac. It can trigger scripts when starting / stopping a Pomodoro.
Ideally, it would integrate with time tracking tools such as paymo or harvest.
I am a ruby developer so I could write a script to do that but I don't want to reinvent the wheel;)
What alternative tools / scripts do you use?


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Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
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[1]Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is a condition characterized by repeated episodes of severe pain in the tongue, throat, ear, and tonsils (areas connected to the ninth cranial nerve, or glossopharyngeal nerve). It typically occurs in individuals over age 40. Episodes of pain may last from a few seconds to a few minutes, and usually occur on one side. The pain may be triggered by swallowing, speaking, laughing, chewing or coughing. The condition is thought to be due to irritation of the nerve, although the source of irritation is unclear. The goal of treatment is to control pain, but over-the-counter pain medications are not very effective; the most effective drugs are anti-seizure medications. Some antidepressants help certain people. Surgery to cut or take pressure off of the glossopharyngeal nerve may be needed in severe cases.
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Perpetuum Game Review
TOG Score
Members (av.)
The Good
Massive potential for game development with the game Devs continually adding more content.
If you liked Mech Warrior then you should love this as it's Mech Warrior in an MMO (Quoted by Josh1965 & Shelts916)
The Bad
A little slow to start with while you learn your way through the Tutorial missions but after that it's gets very easy (with the help of fellow TOG's)
This is my first MMO and it's totally addictive!
Name: Perpetuum
Homepage: www.Perpetuum-online.com
Genre: Sci-fi/Mech
Style: MMORPG is an abbreviation. It means Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. In games as such thousands of players can be simultaneously involved in the action. A unique feature of Perpetuum is that while most other MMORPGs run multiple parallel servers, we have only one persistent, single universe.
Combat Style: Select target, lock & Fire !!
Learning Curve: Average. Very easy with help via TeamSpeak
Crafting: Complex and easy depending on how you want to play
PVP: Voluntary.
3 Alpha Islands are safe zones where only you can flag yourself for PvP action, but the 3 Beta Islands are Full PvP for the experienced player
Leveling style: Game is based on EP (Experience Points) built up at the rate of 1 EP/per minute while your account is active, so over 1 week everyone gets 10080 EP per week.
Server Pop: Growing but will hold tens of thousands and only one server which everyone uses.
Stability: Rarely crashes, Server lag is about 380 for most of Aus, which isn't an issue. Patching regularly with small downloads.
The Omen's Ratings
Immersion: 8.5/10
Graphic Quality: 8.5/10
Sound Quality: 8/10
Content Quality: 7.5/10
Overall Rating: 8.5/10
2 GHz processor
DirectX 9-class ATI or NVIDIA 3D graphics card
Windows XP/Vista/7
Internet connection
700MB free hard disk space
Subjective Comments: After playing solely FPS for 4 years, this is my first MMO and it's totally addictive. Many different aspects of gameplay you can immerse yourself in.
Just make sure when you first start off you jump onto TOG Teamspeak and we'll help you get started.
Plus the TOG Corp supplies most of what you need
Payment options: 4 day trial $2.95, 30 days $9.95, 90 days $23.95, 180 days $41.95, 365 days $71.95
Download Size: 300 meg approx
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Nice one Omie
<3 We need more corpies ... crack out those credit cards toggers and come join the mechwarrior fun!
Awesome game, excellent rev Omie, To be honest you really all should give it a try even if it is for a few days trial, I think you might find you wanna stay longer!
Thanks Crew! I spent a few minutes in TOG Teamspeak tonight, and from what I have garnered from the friendly lads there is that it is a cross between Mechwarrior and Eve Online (only, on the ground, if that makes sense!). Trading, mining, characters skilling up over time ( not by XP ), all seems like a great blend of styles. I have to say Im tempted....but do I need another addiction? :D
Give it the 1 month/$9.95 (6 cokes) and see if you like it. it has got lots of potential :)
I was invited to play this from Omen, I was already playing WoW so had a feel for the MMORG environment. I quickly learned it's not like WoW and more like Eve (so they say). The TOG guys in Teamspeak/Vent really do make the game easier to learn. I was a little frustrated at the pace of the game for leveling up (even with the guild help). Like Omie said the game leveling is based around EP and you only earn that at 1 EP per minute. If there was incentive to play missions and do group tasks that earn you extra EP I think I would have stuck it out longer, however I was discouraged because of the lack of this. One of the guys stated that you would need to be subscribed for 7 years! to earn enough EP to max out all the options for all the classes. Ahhh no thanks. I would still recommend you give give this game a try and being on TS/Vent with the more experienced guys IS A MUST while learning it. Good Luck Perpetuum Division!
bummer mate ... oh well the plus side to earning the EP is that if you like me and work forever you can stilll login and make a Mech just as bad ass as the other guy ... just your funds might be low :( but hit up shelts for a loan he is loaded!
Love the graphics for this! Where did you get them from? LOL!! :)
Looks good, pity no Mac version :(
I played Eve On-Line for close to two years. I was a valued member of a Corporation, and we often got into large scale operations, be they mining or warfare. I recently returned to Eve Online for a re trial, and found that while they keep adding to the game, the core compenents remain the same. I have a deep respect for CCP, and the game of Eve. It was and is a unique gaming experience. They stepped into intouched territory and did it with aplomb. And to do so in a single instance is trully staggering. Why am I writing this here? Because Perpetuum is Eve on the ground. If you have played Eve, you will automatically know the game engine, the user interface, and the mechanics of the game instinctively. The depth of options and character tweaking is almost endless, and the intensity of battles with your corporation are no less intense as they were with Eve. Playing the single player route and again NPC's is pretty mind numbing, though good as a tutorial if you are unfamilar. I just have one problem with both Eve and Perpetuum. I have the dominating sensation that the entire game is deisgned to have you perpetually in transit dissolving time. If you are not in tansit, then you are spending endless hours mining. You need to be very, VERY patient to play these games or have other things to do simultaneously, which to me, makes the game not very immersive. Interestingly, when I left Eve, they had commenced planetary industry. Players could setup their resouce collecting, refining, processessing and off world shipping installations to any planet they had scouted for the resources they needed. The layout of such an installation looks exactly like the symbol of Perpetuum. I have a strong feeling these two games are to be linked in the future.
Interesting review Ghoull but misinformed. Eve Online will be plugging in with "DUST541" a FPS shooter for the console. It is in no way connected with Perpetuum.
Real men fight in Real mechs. But a fun read non the less. Now if only you ladies apply your self like this to MWLL. Then my Thor would get more kills.
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Educators, pardon our dust!
- Our China Hall is currently disassembled. The artifacts will reappear as part of the Cyrus Tang Hall of China, a permanent exhibition scheduled to open by May 22, 2015.
- The Shoe Wall will be temporarily covered with tarps for fire protection construction September 1-September 19, 2014.
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I get tired of "he said", "she said", "they replied". Is there a better, but still reasonable way, to indicate dialogue?
I like to describe the how (explain intonation, body language) and the purpose of the dialogue, not just the fact of the speech being made.
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"Said" Bookism
The answer is: you may be bored with it, but your reader doesn't care. If you must use something other than "said," use the simplest, most common word you can get away with. But mostly, use "said."
My personal preference: omit the "he said" / "she said" entirely. You will need it when there is the slightest possibility that who is speaking is unclear, but otherwise there is no need for it. If you wind up with a stretch of dialogue so long that it's easy to lose track of who is speaking, that's a sign that your dialogue needs to be cut down or broken up by action anyway.
But you have to do it carefully. One book that does it wrong is "And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer, or at least my edition of it. I was confused about who was speaking on more than one occasion, because he (or his editor) didn't apply the following rules:
Best advice I ever got on this: use an action just before they say something. It's really easy. make them do something and then put what they said next to it. people understand who's talking, but they don't get tired of "he said", "she said", "they replied". Have fun writing!
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Photos and archived video of SJU inauguration available online
The inauguration of Michael Hemesath as SJU's new president occurred on Saturday, Oct. 20, in the Saint John's Abbey and University Church. Hemesath became the 13th president of SJU on July 1, 2012, and is the first layperson appointed to a full presidential term at SJU. He graduated summa cum laude from SJU in 1981 with a degree in economics and received his master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Harvard University.
CSB sustainability efforts generate positive reactions
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Career Services preparing students for upcoming job fair
With the fall semester half over, we at Career Services are starting to turn our thoughts to events and programs scheduled for early spring semester. One major event for Career Services occurs in February, the Minnesota Private Colleges Job and Internship Fair in Minneapolis. Our office will start informational meetings for students in November and continue these through January and early February.
Help your child stay healthy for the remainder of the semester
As your son or daughter ventures into the second half of the semester, they may be experiencing higher levels of stress. One impact of increased stress s is a suppressed immune system and a likelihood of getting sick. CSB students who are experiencing cold or flu symptoms are encouraged to visit CSB Health Services. SJU students are encouraged to use the Health Partners Central MN Clinic SJU campus or one of the area health clinics.
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CSB Campus Ministry Care Package Program
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CSB employee Diane Hageman recently returned from a visit to Italy, where son David Stemper, an SJU junior, is participating in the Roman/Greco study abroad experience. Diane, husband John Stemper and daughter Nicki Stemper spent time with David during the weeklong interval between the study site in Rome and the site in Athens, Greece. Here is her story.


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In the http://flashificator.com/gallery.htm you will be able to view a number of panos that were made with NN gear.
As a very satisfied NN products user, I am quite happy to recommend the NN product range. Actually I am so impressed by the quality that I include the NN logo in Flashificator's startup screen, and of course a link is included in the recommended links section of the new Flashificator website. Many people have asked over time if this was a paid product placement, but no, this is simply done because I can fully stand in for the quality.
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Garden Creature Connect the Dots
Connect the dots to find out what animal is living in the garden.
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WHEELING - Members of the West Virginia Legislature held interim session meetings Wednesday in Wheeling, but attendees couldn't help but notice no future legislation was discussed.
The first interim sessions of the 81st Legislature for many committees were mostly short and addressed organizational matters. Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Glen Dale, and House Speaker Tim Miley, D-Harrison, said the lack of activity was typical for the first interim session of a legislative term.
But at least one chairman attributed the lack of activity to Tuesday's election of Miley as the new speaker of the House of Delegates. Miley defeated House Minority Leader Tim Armstead, R-Kanawha, and House Finance Committee Chairman Harry Keith White, D-Mingo, for speaker.
"It's an anomaly to have a speaker's race in the middle of an elected term," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Roman Prezioso, D-Fairmont. "You don't know who the new speaker's committee choices are, and members have got to be assigned.
"A lot of the things discussed in interim sessions should be agreed upon by both chairmen," he added. "When he (Miley) does this, we'll make a connection and determine what the agenda should be."
The sessions in Wheeling to coincide with West Virginia's 150th birthday already had been scheduled when former Speaker Rick Thompson, D-Wayne, resigned.
"It's certainly great to be in Wheeling because of the historic relevance," Prezioso added. "It's a great opportunity to rekindle our history and take pride in our state."
Miley said he hasn't decided yet whether he will make changes in committees or their chairmanships.
"I made no promises to anybody to get elected," he noted. "I don't foresee any wholesale changes. I'm sure we will all work together. I campaigned for the speaker's job on the platform of stability and putting the needs of the state first."
Delegate Ryan Ferns, D-Ohio, voted for Armstead for speaker, opposing Miley and his own party.
"He voted for my opponent, but I hope to maintain his respect so that I get his votes in the future," Miley said.
Kessler agreed it's not uncommon for the first interim meetings of a legislative term to be organizational.
"We have new members just elected (in November), and our agenda topics have just been assigned," he said. "The work really starts in the second month. The speaker's race has not really had significant impact on how committee work is conducted."


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I'm a desktop developer (I mainly do WPF for a living) but I want to make games as a hobby.
So a few months ago, I started reading blogs, gamedevSE, you name it.
I understand in the C++ DirectX world, you have engines such as Unity3D with designers and whatnot, but as much as I'm ok to spend months understanding game development, I'd prefer to stay with my comfy C#.
So I thought I'd develop my first games in /C#/DirectX through SharpDX
But then, I can't use game engines anymore, since they're made for C++DirectX and not SharpDX. (ok, I could do P/Invokes but that defeats the purpose of SharpDX).
I do know about XNA, and I also do know I can't publish to the marketplace with it (and quite frankly, I don't really want to learn an API that is in jeopardy).
So how do you conceal writing games in C# and using existing game engines instead of reinventing the wheel? wait for ports?
So I've found out the following:
After doing the first tutorials of MOgre and digging around, it seems MOgre gives you the worse of both worlds: .
- You can't port it with Mono because it directly references a C++/CLI dll (Ogre) and C++/CLI isn't supported by Mono.
- And since it's not C++ itself, you can't make a pure build.
Which, as far as I understand, means I'd be stuck on windows (and not even WinRT/Metro compatible), without capability of porting anything to mobiles or other OS (Mac/Linux).
Even though it looks really nice to develop with MOgre, I'd like to learn something a little more open to future broadening.
On the other hand, MonoGame seems to be a rewrite of XNA with SharpDX which sounds very promising:
- Mono allows me to easily port my games to other platforms, mobiles included.
- SharpDX allows me to access the latest DirectX versions
- XNA would be my first choice if only MS showed some hope for the future
It really looks like MonoGame is nothing else than XNA on SharpDX.
- Axiom looks good too but I lack info on the subject (and pages with poor design don't give me a good feeling about an API...)
XNA with SunBurn looks good:
- It should be portable to Mono (can anyone with experience give us feedback on that?), thus multi-platform.
- It's then marketplace-able since Mono itself is.
Did I miss something or are 2) and 4) my best options (aside from the fact Mono doesn't support any XAML)?


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edo Competition, the German tuner, presents the black, powerful and extremely quick version of BMW M5, the edo M5 Dark Edition. Featuring a modified V10 engine with 555 HP and 560Nm of max torque, the 5-seater car gallops from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.2 seconds and reaches 200 km/h in another 10 seconds. The max speed is limited electronically to 250km/h.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. – June is National Zoo & Aquarium Month and Sunset Zoo has a weekend full of historic celebrations planned. On Sunday, Sunset Zoo will unveil its new entryway and education facility, The Nature Exploration Center, to the public. The Zoo will open at Noon with a formal ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony; guests be invited to use the new ticket booth immediately following the ceremonies. Zoo Ambassadors will be stationed throughout the facility to answer any questions as guests explore; regular Zoo admission rates apply for this event.
"We can't wait to show off this new building to the community," said Scott Shoemaker, Zoo Director. "We're excited for folks to see how this new space will enhance their connection to Sunset Zoo and I cannot thank our guests enough for their patience throughout the construction process.
Community members got an exclusive first look at the new facility during Friends of Sunset Zoo's Wine in the Wild Saturday evening. The event's VIP reception was held in the Nature Exploration Center with wine and food tasting stations set up throughout.
Sunset Zoo's new Nature Exploration Center will house an interactive distance learning lab, expanded education offerings, a year-round gift shop and ticket booth, and provide a unique venue for private events, including weddings, family reunions and corporate gatherings.
The project is funded primarily through a sales tax initiative that was passed by Manhattan citizens in 2009. Private support is also a crucial aspect of the project with several organizations and individuals providing funding. For more information about the Nature Exploration Center, the Zoo's new Gibbons Exhibit or Grand Opening festivities, visit www.SunsetZoo.com or call 785.587.APES.


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The Lincoln MKX 2011, midsize luxury crossover, has a new 3.7-liter Duratec® V-6 engine, delivering best-in-class 305 horsepower and 280 ft.-lb. of torque versus all V-6 competitors – plus unsurpassed fuel economy. The 2011 Lincoln MKX will be built at Oakville Assembly Plant; Ontario, Canada.


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Holiday Ring Sale for Men: $5.00 Off Any Light Tungsten Ring
coupon code: WOOT
Manly rings. Made with MANLY materials like wood! And … something black. And also TUNGSTEN! Yeah! Tungsten is, like, SUPER manly, right?
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Not really a deal, they just jacked up the price of these rings $5 and then give a $5 off coupon. I have bought a lot of rings off of Tanga and they are nice and at a very fair price, but this isn't a cool move by them.
@niel89: Not sure if you noticed or not, but right about Nov 3rd the price of pretty much everything went up.
Wearing 4 tungsten rings is much more comfortable and fashion forward than brass knuckles.
One Deal to Rule them All! Too bad they don't resize themselves like the real thing.
@niel89: And here I was thinking that I'd be able to get one of the LOTR rings for $10 (as I skipped when I saw them at $15), but their price change means that it's still at $15. Sneaky bastards.
I got a black tungsten lotr ring a couple weeks ago and I'm very impressed with the quality. At that price I kind of expected it to be kind of cheesy. I couldn't convince my finance that using the ring of power for a wedding band is a good idea though...
I bought the gold version of the LOTR ring a few weeks back, and love it!
My only issue is that the ring really is designed for men; it's much chunkier and heavier than a ladies' ring. I can definitely feel the weight of it. Other than that, it's beautiful. The script is perfect both inside and out! I'm working on my Sindarin, and the ring inspires me to keep going.