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- On-Campus Experience
Leadership Opportunities
Residence Hall Association
The Residence Hall Association (RHA) of Saint Louis University is a student-led organization. The Residence Hall Association strives toward "Building Community. Advocating Interests" for all on-campus residents. Under the advisement of the Department of Housing and Residence Life, RHA is the second largest student organization on campus, after the Student Government Association (SGA). Through its many events and programs, RHA stresses values such as leadership, diversity, and community. RHA is comprised of representatives from each of the residence halls and apartment complexes. If you live on campus at SLU, you are automatically a RHA member!
The Residence Hall Association serves as the voice of all resident students and expresses all residential life concerns to the University administration. RHA also coordinates educational, cultural, and social programs for the benefit of all residents. RHA offers opportunities for leadership development by working closely with the hall staff in recommending policies and programming that betters the community living experience of all residential students.
Click here to learn more about the Residence Hall Association
Hall and Apartment Council
Each hall and apartment area have its own council to build community and advocate interests for the residents of the respective community. Each Hall and Apartment Council is comprised of an executive board and representatives from the various floors or buildings. Each council sends representatives to the Residence Hall Association General Assembly bi-monthly meetings. Council is represented to the Residence Hall Association by the council president and one RHA Liaison for every two hundred residents of the building or area. Additionally, a Student Government Association Senator is part of each council in order to relay information and advocate on behalf of the residential students for university issues beyond the residential experience.
National Residence Hall Honorary
National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) is an organization comprised of the top 1% of student leaders living in the residence halls. NRHH is rooted in the four pillars of scholastics, leadership, recognition, and service. NRHH is also geared toward providing recognition for those outstanding individuals who work to improve life within the residence halls. The National Residence Hall Honorary is responsible for awarding the campus level awards of the national Of the Month (OTM) awards process. To submit an OTM for an outstanding Saint Louis University community member or program, just visit http://otms.nrhh.org/
Click here to learn more about the National Residence Hall Honorary at Saint Louis University
Learning Community Peer Mentor
Each Learning Community has two mentor positions that work with the LC resident advisors to assist students in the transition to the LC as well as focus on building upon and continuing the legacy of the learning community. The two positions are know as the LC mentors.
The LC Mentor position is a way for sophomores, juniors and senior students to return to the learning community in a leadership role and provide peer mentorship to incoming learning community students. The Learning Community Mentor (LC Mentor) works collaboratively with the learning community residence hall staff to provide students with an awareness of on-campus resources, connections with faculty and staff on campus, and opportunities to serve their local and global communities. In their role, LC Mentors work one on one with students to foster a sense of commitment to academics, service, and their individual learning community. As a live-in student leader, LC Mentors serve as a positive role model and peer educator for learning community students.
Learning Community Advisory Board
The LC Student Advisory Board is made up of student representatives from each of the 12 learning communities. This group takes on creating programming and ideas to bring the learning communities together as well as play a vital role in the continued development of the learning communities.
Each year the LC Student Advisory Board recruits students interested in representing their learning community. If you are interested in this opportunity make sure to contact your LC Resident Advisors, mentors or the Learning Community Coordinator to let them know!
Resident Advisors
Resident Advisors are helpful, highly-trained, well-respected Saint Louis University students who are chosen to assist you with any problems you may experience as a resident student. Your RA is also an information resource about campus life, a peer educator, and a staff member who ensures that the campus Code of Conduct is upheld. He or she is trained to handle emergencies and to maintain health and safety standards. In addition, the RA is responsible for coordinating a variety of educational strategies including, but not limited to: learner services, community meeting, and community experiences.
Desk Workers
The front desk is staffed 24-hour student coverage by a desk staff member or a Resident Advisor who are located in the lobby of each residence hall. All visitors are required to present identification to the desk staff and to be met by their host at the desk. Desk staff provides residents with information about the campus, check out equipment, check in guests and issue replacement keys. Students are expected to swipe their SLUID at the desk to gain entry to all residence halls. Federal Work Study status is required for this position.
Desk Managers
The Desk Managers are junior or senior student staff that work closely with the Residence Hall Coordinators to provide successful administration of the residence hall desk operations and maintain an accurate audit of resident room keys, including lockouts and core changes.
Furniture Crew
The furniture crew is a student staff team who performs minor furniture repairs, coordinates replacement, and assists with furniture moves on-campus.
Office Assistant
Office assistants fill a variety of administrative and clerical tasks for Housing and Residence Life. Office assistants work in both the housing and residence life central office as well as in the individual communities. Duties include typing, duplicating, filing, processing forms, completing inventories, and delivering materials on-campus. Federal Work Study status is required for this position.
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Last time I went to the US I travelled with a laptop and spent a lot of time taking it out at airport checks and removing the battery from it. This time I may be travelling with an iPad - do they make you do the same (minus battery removal) for tablet computers, etc? I.e. remove them from your luggage and scan them separately.
Since I've gotten my new iPad (3), I've been leaving it in my backpack and taking it through airport security checks without any problems. The rules explicitly refer to laptops. The original risk was that someone could remove the electronics of a laptop and replace them with explosives. With laptops getting thinner and thinner that is less likely, but they go by the old rules. I assume tablets are too thin to pose a risk. They still have an x-ray of the inside as it goes through the scanner.
This depends largely on the sort of case in which you carry your computer.
In 2008, The TSA began publishing guidelines for Checkpoint-friendly laptop bags. If you carry your computer in one of these kinds of cases, you shouldn't need to remove it. The key takeaway points are that:
If you carry your laptop in a bag that does not meet these standards, such as a backpack or messenger bag, you'll need to remove it. The electronics in a laptop are complex and detailed, and in order to get a clear view and ensure they haven't been tampered with, the TSA wants to make sure that these devices pass through the scanner relatively unobstructed.
Regardless of whether your bag is deemed 'laptop safe', if a TSA agent feels that your laptop warrants additional screening - whether because of the case, an irregular design, or for whatever other reason, they can and will ask you to remove it from it's case. Similarly, while you are not required to remove the battery from any device proactively, TSA agents may request that you do so (if possible) in order to more closely inspect it.
For the purposes of these rules, Smaller electronic devices, like tablets, e-readers, and even smaller netbooks/notebooks like the Macbook Air DO NOT need to be removed from your luggage unless explicitly requested by a TSA agent for further inspection. You should be able to leave these devices in your luggage and send it through the X-Ray machine without issue.

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STEUBENVILLE - City police arrested two teen girls Monday for allegedly threatening the victim in the Steubenville rape trial.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Monday that the two teenagers had been arrested on menacing charges. The threats were made via social media.
"Let me be clear. Threatening a teenage rape victim will not be tolerated. If anyone makes a threat verbally or via the Internet, we will take it seriously, we will find you, and we will arrest you," DeWine said.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Department detectives alerted the Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation to the online threats soon after Sunday's sentencing hearing concluded.
Steubenville Police Chief Bill McCafferty said juvenile division detectives were investigating social media comments they believed were menacing. He added that police are pursuing information about a juvenile male as well.
"We take these threats very seriously," McCafferty said, noting the investigation continues.
The department did not release the names of those arrested because they are juveniles.
The Steubenville girls, ages 15 and 16, were transported to the Jefferson County Juvenile Detention Center upon arrest.
The 16-year-old is charged with one misdemeanor count of aggravated menacing for threatening the life of the victim on Twitter. The 15-year-old is charged with one misdemeanor count of menacing for threatening bodily harm to the victim on Facebook.


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The new facility will be designed to produce 160,000 tpy of EPDM rubber. The plant is expected to start up in 2015. Germany-based specialty chemicals firm LANXESS says the new plant, which it describes as the largest EPDM rubber facility in the world, is its largest investment in China to date.
Foster Wheeler said Monday it was awarded an engineering,
procurement and construction management (EPCm)
contract by LANXESS for a new ethylene propylene diene monomer
(EPDM) rubber plant to be built at Changzhou in China's Jiangsu
Foster Wheeler is currently executing the front-end engineering
design (FEED) for this facility.
The contract value for this project was not disclosed and was
included in the company's third-quarter 2012 bookings.
The new facility will be designed to produce
160,000 tpy of EPDM rubber. The plant is expected to start
up in 2015.
LANXESS, a specialty chemicals company headquartered in
Germany, says the new plant, which it describes as
the largest EPDM rubber facility in the world, is its largest
investment in China to date.
EPDM is used primarily in the automotive industry as door
sealants or windscreen wipers. It is also used in the plastics
modification, cable and wire, construction and oil additives
"This latest win further demonstrates the value LANXESS
places on the quality of our people and its confidence in our
performance in delivering LANXESS' projects safely and successfully,"
said Umberto della Sala, chief operating officer
for Foster Wheeler.
"Foster Wheeler is working as the EPCm contractor on three of
LANXESS' major projects in Asia."
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
Is 2016 the peak for US gasoline demand?
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Presently in the install (USB stick) for 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04.1. Want to have dual-boot capabilities between Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Have partitioned hard drive with Windows System (sda1), Windows OS (sda2), Ubuntu (sda3 - with ext4 file system and a "/" mount point), swap (sda4) and need to know what file system to select for the remaining free space (storage) partition with a /home mount point? I presume it to be either FAT32 or ext4, yet I need to be sure that it enables cross-sharing of documents/directories with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu operating systems. Also, is FAT32 an NTFS type of system? Thanks in advance.
Since Windows systems support FAT32 and NTFS "out of the box" (And only those two for your case) and Linux supports a whole range of them including FAT32 and NTFS, it is highly recommended to format the partition or disk you want to share in either FAT32 or NTFS, but since FAT32 has a file size limit of 4.2 GB, if you happen to work with huge files, then it is better you use NTFS.
Just to add, if you do it with another type of partition like ext4, btrfs or any other that Windows does not support natively then the files will work in Ubuntu but not in Windows. Heck, in Windows if you try to access that drive it will offer an option to format the drive to NTFS. So this is the reason to stick with either FAT32 or NTFS.
You can actually do this from Ubuntu if you want using for example GPARTED which is found in the Software Center or the Disks utility which comes installed by default.
I even wrote an answer to the support NTFS has in Ubuntu. So no matter which one you decide, both will be supported between both systems and you can have a shareable partition/disk between Ubuntu and Windows.
For several security and performance related issues,
/sda1 - Windows (NTFS, FAT32)
This is just a rough sketch but I think it will give you the idea on how to make it so they share each other. If you happen to have 2 hard drives then:
/sda1 - Windows (NTFS, FAT32)
Set it as NTFS, since both Ubuntu and Windows will be able to read and write to and from the partition. Ext4 isn't natively recognized by Windows, so don't try that. NTFS has several improvements over FAT32, which (for instance) will not let you have a file over 4GB in size.


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I've just used the expression "expects to be waited on hand and foot", meaning someone who "expects others to do all the work of looking after his personal needs". A typical example (not necessarily true) being the suggestion that Prince Charles has a servant to put toothpaste on his toothbrush.
I'm struck by the rather odd juxtaposition of hands and feet. Does it derive from the personal attendants once known as handmaidens and footmen? When was it first used, and has it always had pejorative implications?


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Will Guaraldi Kahn-Greene
location: North Chelmsford, MA, USA (45 minutes from Boston)
Status (November 26, 2014)
Pre-schooler bikes and counts in binary. Toddler plays and says, "no".
I work at Mozilla in the webdev group on SUMO, Input, elasticutils (maintainer), django-browserid, Playdoh, and a long list of other things. I've got more on my plate than I can effectively work on.
I worked on Firefox OS for a bit and now I'm dogfooding/testing it.
In March 2012, I started richard which is the software that runs pyvideo.org. This is the successor to Python Miro Community. I also work on vidscraper and steve as they pertain to richard.
I put down my Pyblosxom maintenance mantle, but I did spend some time fixing issues related to static rendering recently.
This is the list of projects I work on:
Writings / Editings / Technical Reviewings
This is a list of things I've written, edited or did technical review on. I've done a lot of documentation work for projects I've worked on, but that's not really addressed well here. This is a list of books, articles, manuals and the like.
Abandoned Projects
It occurred to me that I should document my abandoned projects, too. I spent a lot of time on them and the only thing that differentiates them from other projects is that I stopped working on them.
This site
This site was written using Emacs and Vim (yes, both). I use Pyblosxom to power my blog, Gimp and InkScape for graphics, and Subversion and Git for version control. It's hosted on Apache 2 on Debian GNU/Linux.


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Personal Services Pt. 1
Mary Conley checked her makeup in the tiny mirror of her compact. Her ruby-red lipstick was perfect, thick mascara and smoky eye shadow, light blush across her high cheekbones all checked out fine. After applying a light dusting of powder across her nose, she snapped the compact closed and slipped it back into her purse. She hoped she looked all right, dressed in a dark green p


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I've been trying to find a font management tool that is free, but all solutions are comercial. Is there a good font management tool that is free?
I'm unsure about the goodness, but Fontmatrix is a free & open–source font manager that is available to Linux (as well as to Windows & OS X). Its searching and font comparison tools seem to be comprehensive.
The UI may be a bit rough on the edges and development isn't exactly rapid (last update 1½ years ago), but at least the price is right!
Screenshot (courtesy of Fontmatrix):
There's font-manager which is available for most linux distributions shipping with Gnome. It isn't installed by default but should be available to install through the package management system.
I have tried both Font Matrix and Font Manager. These appear to be the only two that are easy acquire. While Font Manager is more stable, it is lacking in features and very limited in scope. Font Matrix is slightly better in this but has choked on me several times in a fresh install of Linux Mint. Still, I will stick with Font Matrix as the slightly more feature rich and category standard in features and function compared to what I am used to in the OSX / Windows worlds.


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Edison High School graduate Meghan Scott, flanked by her parents Robert and Amy Scott, will continue her academic and athletic careers at Muskingum University, where she will be a member of the soccer team. Scott was one of eight seniors who led the Wildcats to a 9-6-1 record last fall and three winning seasons in four years. Scott was a black honor cord graduate and earned the President's Education Award Outstanding Academic Achievement. She was a Class 5A all-OVAC honorable mention selection. Scott will join a soccer program that was 8-9-2 a year ago. Also on hand for the signing were, from left, former assistant coach Chris Dopp and Edison Principal Matt Morrison.
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I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my new Windows 8 Dell Inspirin and would like to set up a Dual Boot. However, when I restarted, it just went straight to Windows 8 without giving me a Grub screen with options to start Ubuntu. I haven't had luck with EasyBCD or the BootRepair utility.
Any idea how I can get a Dual Boot working?


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in Micah 7:6 we read:
אֹיְבֵי אִישׁ, אַנְשֵׁי בֵיתוֹ
loosely translated as: the enemies of a man, the peoples of his house
Why would this be so? What is the context here?
In context, the phrase seems to be the culmination of a series of illustrations of the depravity surrounding the prophet:
Some translations render this as "his own servants" or otherwise indicate that it isn't referring to blood relatives. That might be a good translation, but the previous lines indicate that close relatives, even spouses, are under suspicion of doing harm. We see similar warnings elsewhere:
A number of passages in the Hebrew scripture draw a disjoint between trusting people and trusting God. For instance:
The next stanza echoes Psalm 1, which compares a person who trusts in the Lord to a tree planted beside a stream. Jeremiah continues by saying that even our own hearts can deceive us. By implication, the only person we can trust is God; we are, in a sense, our own enemy. The call to trust God (and Him alone) is pervasive in the Bible.
Micah speaks within a long tradition of warning Israel against its sins. While it might seem that as God's chosen people, an individual could trust that if they followed the rest of their culture, God would approve their actions. But Micah warns that trusting your neighbor and following their example can be dangerous since even the best can be a metaphorical snare.


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What does Jesus mean when He says that He is the way?
John 14:6 NIV
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
A lot of pastors preach about following Jesus because He declares that He is the Way. But what exactly does that mean? and what does it mean to follow Him if He is the Way?
It's not as if He is in the flesh leaving footprints for us to follow literally. So again, what does it mean for Jesus to be the Way?


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Invitation to the Webcast: Developing and Deploying sucessful enterprise apps
By Michaela Seika-Oracle on Jun 11, 2013
Dear partner,
there has been an explosion in the sales of smartphones and tablets in the past couple of years and sales continue to grow as well as the ecosystem of apps upon them. The mobile is fast becoming the dominant enterprise application platform. There are 100,000's of mobile apps aimed at consumers that operate locally on these device and that have little security built into them. Enterprises are adopting BYOD and applications that help employees operate more efficiently and effectively – with apps that go way beyond simple email.
This seminar series will present Oracle's mobility capabilities which is to leverage existing investments in IT by providing access to information and services in mobile apps. It will be clear that Oracle's middleware is a huge advantage in developing, deploying and managing secure, enterprise grade, mobile apps. Oracle also embraces the choice to either building native hybrid or web apps. Equally clear will be the need for Oracle partners to engage with customers to prioritize the areas they should start with to give the best business return.
Find out how you can accelerate mobile opportunities with your customers based on the Oracle stack you know together with new Oracle mobility capabilities now available.
Don't miss this opportunity and Register Today!
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9am UK / 10am CET /
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Duration: 1 hour
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Delivery Format
This FREE online LIVE eSeminar will be delivered over the Web. Registrations received less than 24 hours prior to start time may not receive confirmation to attend.
This seminar will be the first of a series covering topics partners want to hear about.
Looking forward to getting in touch with you.
Best regards,
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27 Sep 2012 12:04 AM #1
Sencha: Please contact me!
I am trying to purchase three Sencha Complete developer packs but I need to pay with a PO.
The site says if you want to pay with a PO - please contact us and we'll be happy to assist you..
I've completed the sites contact form twice now in the last 8 days and have had no contact back, I'm in the UK so time difference to CA can be an issue if someone is trying to call me, but I would have at least expexted an email!
If someone on the sales team is reading this .... please contact me!!
I know this is probably not forum content but as the site has no email address that I can see and there is no response to the contact form, this is my only other option.
27 Sep 2012 12:50 AM #2
Hi Evan,
I've just replied to your original enquiry you submitted via the website - apologies for this being missed before.
Thanks.Daniel Gallo
Sales Engineer
Sencha Inc.


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Given a number n. Suppose $p_1< p_2<....< p_k$ be any k distinct primes less than n. How do i find the cardinality of the set, S={$(e_1,e_2,...,e_k): p_1^{e_1}p_2^{e_2}...p_k^{e_k} < n$}. Assume that $(1,1,...,1)\in S$ and $e_i\geq 1\;\;\forall i$. It will be great if one could give a non-trivial upper bound for the cardinality of this set.
P.S. I have a way of getting the cardinality of the set approximately for four primes but things get complicated when the number of primes are increased.


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Student Accounts: Refunds
Tuition Refunds
Students are admitted to the University of Portland with the understanding they will remain until the end of the semester. The University makes commitments to the faculty and staff based on student enrollment. These commitments are not subject to change, even though enrollment may vary. For this reason, when students register for classes, they are responsible for payment of incurred charges whether or not they attend. To have the charges removed students must process a drop or withdrawal through the Registrar's office within the refund period. Certain programs have special refund schedules and students are encouraged to consult with their program office to determine if a special schedule applies.
Dropping a class, withdrawing from a class, and withdrawing from all of your classes have different effects on your financial aid for current and future semesters. Every student's situation is unique; the best thing to do is talk to a financial aid counselor BEFORE you take action so they can advise you on the financial aid repercussions of dropping or withdrawing from courses.
If a student is dismissed or suspended, no part of the tuition and fees including room and board for the remainder of the semester will be refunded. If a student finds it necessary to withdraw from specific courses or to withdraw completely, the following policies apply:Fall & Spring Tuition Refunds
For complete withdrawal, counting from the first day courses begin each semester, the following refund schedule applies:
During the first week - 100% of tuition and fees
During the second week - 75% of tuition
During the third week - 50% of tuition
During the fourth week - 25% of tuition
After the fourth week - No refunds
Please check with the Office of Student Accounts to see if you qualify for a refund from a partial withdrawal.
Tuition refunds are effective from the date a completed application to withdraw or drop courses is received in the Office of the Registrar, not from the last day of attendance. If you must withdraw after the refund period due to unusual circumstances, you may contact the Office of Student Accounts to apply for an exception to the refund policy.
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Summer Tuition Refunds
Refunds are calculated from the date your application for refund is approved, not from the date attendance is discontinued. You need to process the appropriate course drop or withdrawal paperwork by the deadlines specified in order to be eligible for a refund.
Eight-week Courses
Tuition refunds are given only during the initial two weeks of class. During the first week, you are eligible for a 100% refund: during the second week 40% refund.
Six-Week Courses
Tuition refunds are given only during the first seven weekdays after class begins. You are eligible for a 100% refund during the first four days after class begins, and for a 40% refund during the next three days.
Shorter Courses
After class begins, no refunds are given in a course of fewer than six week duration. You are eligible for a 100% refund for withdrawal before a class begins.
*Students enrolled in off-campus programs should refer to the specific program handbook.
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Credit Balance Refunds
Effective July 1, 2015
- Refunds will not be processed until after the first day of the semester; no refunds will be issued prior to the start of the semester
- Refund requests for students with Direct Deposit will be initiated twice a week, typically on the Tuesday or Friday after the credit appears on the student account. Once the request has been generated it will be deposited in your bank account within 5 business days
- Students will receive an email to their up.edu email account after the direct deposit refund is fully processed. Refunds will be direct deposited to the account the student has designated on the Direct Deposit form
- Refunds for students who have not signed up for Direct Deposit will be initiated once a week, and may take up to 8 days for the refund to be fully processed and mailed. The refund check will be mailed to an address from the Personal Information section of your self-serve account. The address order for fall and spring semesters (except winter break): BI, MA, LO, CA, PR. The address order for summer semester and winter break: BI, MA, PR, LO, CA
- We encourage students to sign up for direct deposit. You can obtain a direct deposit form from the controller's office or by clicking here: Direct Deposit
- If the credit balance results from Federal Title IV aid such as a Direct subsidized or unsubsidized loan, Perkins loan, Pell grant, ACG grant, SMART grant or SEOG, and/or from a credit or payment of any kind, the refund will be issued to the student regardless of where the payment originated. For instance, a check payment that overpays the student account will be refunded to the student even if the check was written by the parent
- A refund will ordinarily only be processed if your overall account balance is a credit. University of Portland reserves the right to apply a credit to any outstanding charges on your student account according to federal guidelines, regardless of when the charge(s) is due. This includes applying your credit to charges for a future or past term
- There is a two-week holding period for credits that result from an overpayment from a check or online payment of any kind
- If the credit balance results from a Parent PLUS loan, a refund check will be issued to the parent who took out the loan unless the parent has submitted written authorization to issue the refund to the student. Direct deposit is not currently available for refunds to parents
- If the credit balance is a combination of a Parent PLUS loan and another form of payment, the refund will be prorated to both student and parent based on the chronological order that the funds were disbursed to the student account unless the parent has submitted written authorization to issue the refund to the student
- Refund checks may not be returned to Student Accounts to be applied as a credit to the account. Once issued, refund checks must be cashed and an alternate payment option used to pay a student account balance
- Please see the policy below for refunds to students with a monthly payment plan
- Credit balances under $1.00 may not be refunded unless requested, and will be written off if they are over one year old
- Receipt of a refund does not imply that all charges have been paid. Students are strongly encouraged to carefully review the charges, payments, and other activity on their account even if a refund has been issued
***Please note: Due to the high volume of requests, there may be a delay in the processing of student refund checks during the first two weeks of each semester.
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Book Advance The University offers students the option to request book advance funds. Bookstore advances are based on the amount of excess aid expected; this means that once the student's tuition, room/board, and fees have been paid then the excess can be used to buy books from the University's bookstore. For example, if your bill is $18,000 and you are receiving $18,500 in financial aid, we may be able to grant you a book advance for up to $500. The following policies apply:
- Student must be matriculated and registered for classes
- All requested documents must have been submitted to the office of financial aid (i.e.: taxes, verification worksheets, etc) before the Financial Aid priority deadline
- Vouchers are available for request the Thursday prior to the start of the semester through the first day of the semester only
To request a book advance:
- Go to the campus bookstore and select your books. Bring them to the checkstand and tell the cashier you will be requesting a book advance. The cashier will ring up the books and then void the transaction
- Bring the voided sales slip to Student Accounts. You will receive a voucher for up to the amount of the anticipated credit on your account, or the amount of your books, whichever is less
- The amount of the voucher will be added as a charge to your student account
- You will bring the voucher back to the bookstore to purchase your books
IES Student Credits Students participating in the IES program may request to have their financial aid sent directly to IES the semester they are attending the program. IES request forms can be found at the Studies Abroad office or at IES Financial Aid Release. Once the form has been submitted, the following policies apply:
- Student Accounts will request a check to be sent to IES the first Tuesday of the University semester for the amount of credit on the student account at that time
- The check request will be processed and the check mailed directly to IES the first Friday of the University semester
- Anticipated financial aid will not be sent to IES, so it is important to complete all financial aid paperwork before the priority deadline ( Go to Financial Aid and select the calendar link for more information)
- Student account credits that occur after the first week of class will be refunded to the student or parent depending upon the type of loan
- Funds might not be released by Student Accounts before the IES payment is due. It is the student's responsibility to make arrangements and/or make payment to IES according to the IES deadline
Please note that TMS monthly payment plans are not available for students in the semester(s) they are participating in the IES program
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I am teaching a class in Number Theory and using a new textbook by James Pommersheim. There is a proof in the first chapter that states:
Let $m$ and $n$ be integers. If both $m$ and $n$ are odd, then $mn$ is odd.
They then prove this by saying $m=2q+1$ and $n=2r+1$. There's a simple foil, and then you can factor and find that $mn=2(\text{something})+1$ which means it's odd, thus proving the statement.
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Let $m$ and $n$ be integers. Prove that if $mn$ is odd, then both $m$ and $n$ are odd.
They then prove this by contradiction, saying $m=2k$. Then multiply both sides of the equation by $n$, giving $mn=2kn$, which states $mn$ is even, which contradicts the first statement. So, therefore, without loss of generality, both $m$ and $n$ must be odd.
My students had issue with the fact that they couldn't just use the proof for the first statement to prove the second statement. My understanding is that the two statements are converse of one another, they are both true, but need to be proven in different ways. In the first one, you start with $m$ and $n$, in the second one you start with $mn$. I'd like to give a more formal explanation for why we have a different method for proving the converse statement (using contradiction indirectly), but I could only just say "because it is the converse you have to go about it indirectly". But I'm not exactly sure.


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You've got to be doing something right when you can count amongst your fans the likes of Thom Yorke, Brian Eno, Carlos Santana or TV On The Radio. Formed in rebel training camps in Libya, these exiled nomads-turned-rockstars of the Sahara have become the soundtrack for Touareg independence and reconciliation, combining traditional Touareg melodies with Malian, Western, Berber and Arabic influences to create spare, evolving, hypnotic grooves. As if Keith Richards, Santana, John Lee Hooker, various members of Primal Scream, Mogwai and the Grateful Dead had got lost in the Sahara for a decade and then returned as a fully-fledged desert band.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – After claiming three wins in its last four games, the Anderson University softball team wraps up its four-game South Atlantic Conference homestand on Wednesday, as the Trojans play host to Lincoln Memorial in a twin bill slated for 2 p.m. at Smethers Field.
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After dropping its conference-opening doubleheader to preseason league favorite Lenoir-Rhyne nearly two weeks ago, Anderson earned a split at Mars Hill a week ago and swept Newberry last Saturday.
As a team, Anderson ranks third in the nation in home runs per game (1.57) and slugging percentage (.593) and the potent Trojan offense has three of the league's top four hitters in its lineup, as sophomore Molly Child leads the team and ranks third in the conference with a .429 batting average on the strength of a 16-game hitting streak. Junior Jessica Neidigh and senior shortstop Abby Child are tied for fourth in the SAC, with each sporting a .416 batting average.
Neidigh is seventh in the nation, scoring 1.33 runs per game and Abby Child ranks 16th in NCAA D-II with her league-leading 10 home runs.
Molly Child is also tied for the team lead with nine doubles, along with her sister Abby and is second behind Abby in home runs with seven. The center fielder ranks fourth in the league with a .735 slugging percentage and hits (42), third in runs scored (35) and RBI (30). Neidigh has hit safely in 18 of the Trojans last 20 contests and is tied with Molly Child for the team-lead in hits, with 42 on the season. Abby Child enters the midweek twin bill riding a four-game hitting streak and leads the league with her .854 slugging percentage. She ranks third in runs scored (35) and on-base percentage (.527), fourth in hitting, sixth in doubles (9) and eighth in hits with 37.
Outfielder Rebecca Martin boasts a career-best .373 batting average and has a career-high six home runs on the season. The junior would rank 15th in the conference in hitting, but would need 16 additional at-bats to qualify for the SAC statistical rankings. Her six round-trippers are tied for fourth in the SAC. Senior Danielle Swygert is fifth on the team and ranks 16th in the league with her .371 batting average and is in the top-13 in five additional offensive categories. After becoming the first Anderson batter to blast three home runs in a doubleheader since 2011 in the sweep of Newberry, freshman outfielder Courtney Czentnar is hitting .359 on the season and is currently on an eight-game hitting streak. The Lawrenceville, Ga. native is fourth on the squad with her .718 slugging percentage.
In the circle, junior hurler Katelynn Howser (8-2) has a 1.84 ERA, which ranks seventh in the conference and has recorded 68 strikeouts in 72 1/3 innings of work. She earned her first career save for the Black and Gold by tossing a perfect seventh inning in relief in Saturday's second contest. Howser struck out two of the three Wolves she faced in the seventh inning.
Freshman Lauren Rudesheim (10-4) leads the pitching staff with 19 appearances and has tossed six complete games, including a pair of shutouts on the season. Fellow freshman Augie Pena has earned wins in each of her last two outings, while improving to 5-1 on the season in 15 appearances. She has 54 strikeouts in 41 1/3 innings of work on the season and ranks second in the conference with her 9.15 strikeouts per contest, behind just sophomore hurler Carly Tysinger of league-leading Catawba.
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Lincoln Memorial was a preseason pick to finish seventh in the South Atlantic Conference in a poll of the league's coaches after finishing eighth in last season's league standings with a 30-22 overall record and a 7-11 mark in the SAC a year ago. The Lady Railsplitters compiled the program's first 30-win season since 2008, while earning a spot in the Food Lion SAC Championship. Lincoln Memorial eliminated No.4 Carson-Newman from the tournament before being ousted by Wingate.
Senior outfielder Brianna Mulkey and junior Amanda Snow were named to the Preseason All-SAC Second Team. Mulkey, a two-time All-SAC honoree, led the Lady Railsplitters and ranked seventh in the South Atlantic Conference with a .375 batting average. The Kettering, Ohio native compiled 65 hits on the season, ranking fifth in the SAC in that category. Mulkey led the league in stolen bases for the third-straight season a year ago, with 34. She also posted a team-high 40 runs scored and a .392 on-base percentage.
Snow ranked second in the South Atlantic Conference in slugging percentage (.558) and third in on-base percentage (.462) last season, accumulating 44 hits, including seven doubles, 12 home runs, 37 RBI and 87 total bases. She also drew 44 walks, ranking second in the league in that category.
The Lady Railsplitters, who are currently 18-9 overall and 4-2 in the conference, enter Wednesday's twin bill alone in fourth place in the conference standings, one game ahead of Anderson and Carson-Newman, who share the fifth spot in the league.
As a team LMU has recorded 32 doubles, 12 home runs and two triples. Behind the efforts of Mulkey, who is 15-of-18 on the base paths this season, and outfielder Emilee Solomon, who is a perfect 13-of-13, LMU is second in the SAC with 36 stolen bases.
Sophomore right-hander Samantha Smith leads the LMU pitching staff with an 11-3 record on the season and has three shutouts to her credit, while posting a 2.59 ERA.
The Lady Railsplitters are coming off a doubleheader split with league-newcomer Coker last Saturday, taking the opener 6-4, while the Cobras rallied for three runs in the top of the seventh inning of the nightcap to claim a 3-2 come-from-behind victory. LMU has split each of its last two conference doubleheaders and has won five of its last seven outings.
The Series vs. Lincoln Memorial
The Trojans and Lady Railsplitters have met 10 times in a series that dates back to the 2007 season, with the overall series deadlocked at five wins apiece. AU has won three of the last four after dropping the first doubleheader between the two programs with each as members of the South Atlantic Conference in 2011. The Trojans swept the first-ever twin bill in 2007, with LMU returning the favor during the 2008 campaign.
Anderson and the Lady Railsplitters officially split last year's regular-season series in Harrogate, Tenn., with the Trojans claiming the opener, 7-6, and LMU earning a 5-3 victory in the nightcap. In the first matchups on March 30, the Lady Railsplitters took 8-3 and 5-3 wins, but the opener was played under protest. The replayed contest was completed on April 8 from the top of the third inning with catcher Laura Jansky at second base with two outs and the Trojans trailing 5-3. Anderson rallied for four runs in the final two innings to take the victory.
In the original twin bill, Neidigh was a perfect 9-for-9 at the plate, including two doubles and a triple. She officially finished the doubleheader 6-for-9 with two doubles, a triple, three runs scored and an RBI. Charlotte Sieber was 4-for-6 with the game-winning RBI and a run scored, while Jansky finished 3-for-6 with two RBI and a walk. Swygert added three hits, including a three-run home run in the sixth inning of the replayed contest. Bri Cason tallied a pair of singles, two walks and a run scored. Ironically, the makeup game also ended in a protest.


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"Larry Massie is the most famous writer and speaker of Michigan history in our times," said Larry Franks, president of the Sturgis Historical Society.
Author of 20 books about Michigan history and owner of an extensive collection of books on state history, Massie also is known for his storytelling.
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PDF Mod worked well for me. The entries I see left when reading pdfs in document viewer are called "bookmarks" in the program and can be edited at will, just pick a title and the corresponding page to jump to.
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Now her son is gone. Eric Toth died when a landmine blew up the Humvee he was riding in.
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North Korea doesn't exactly scream cutting edge or progress or freedom or delicious burgers or a whole bunch of things. However, it does have an Android powered tablet.
Earlier this week in Pyongyang, Chosun Computer showed off its new tablet, which seems to be running Android. It's not clear, however, where the tablet is actually made.
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Description: The Vienna Tonkünstler-Verein (1885-1929) was established for the sole purpose of providing extensive support to the music and musicians of Vienna. The society became renowned in Vienna for its outstanding performances of chamber music and counted among its members many of the city's foremost musicians and composers. Johannes Brahms had a significant influence on the society as its honorary president and assisted in establishing its composition competitions, aimed at promoting and reviving under-developed chamber genres. Of particular interest to clarinetists is the Verein's competition of 1896, which aspired to promote chamber music literature for wind instruments. Brahms's recently completed chamber works for clarinet were clearly influential in fin-de-siècle Vienna; for of the twelve works chosen as finalists in the competition, ten included the clarinet in the chamber combination.The purpose of this document is to provide an English-language history of the Vienna Tonkünstler-Verein and a thorough account of its1896 competition based on my study of the society's annual reports. In addition, this document will provide the first published account of the anonymous submissions for the 1896 competition. It is my hope that this paper will serve as a springboard for future endeavors aimed at uncovering the identities of the anonymous finalists ...
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Description: The marimba is rapidly achieving greater importance as a solo percussion instrument. Solo compositions for the marimba have been commissioned and performed only in the last sixty years. The 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Solo Marimba Commission is considered one of the most important commissioning projects in the history of marimba literature. Two compositions created through this project, Velocities by Joseph Schwantner and Reflections on the Nature of Water by Jacob Druckman have become two of the most influential works in contemporary marimba music. This thesis will focus on a historical perspective of the project, as well as theoretical aspects and performance issues related to these two compositions. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) issued a consortium commissioning grant through the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) in 1986 to three internationally renowned marimbists, William Moersch, Leigh Howard Stevens and Gordon Stout. Three Pulitzer Prize winners were brought together to compose three new works for the marimba. The resulting pieces were: Reflections on the Nature of Water by Jacob Druckman, Velocities by Joseph Schwantner, and Islands from Archipelago: Autumn Island by Roger Reynolds. A brief history of the classical concert marimba and the development of solo marimba literature is provided ...
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Description: Alberto Grau is arguably one of the most influential contemporary Venezuelan choral composers and conductors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This thesis explores the synthesis of Venezuelan nationalism with global internationalism found within his works. As a student of the nationalistic generation of composers (Vicente Emilio Sojo, Juan Bautista Plaza, and Ángel Sauce) Grau's works display the distinct characteristics found in Venezuelan music. His output also exhibits international influences, using texts associated with social and environmental events and concerns including literary and musical influences of other nations and cultures. The first section of the thesis traces the lineage of Venezuelan choral composers beginning with the colonial period and the Escuela de Chacao to the nationalistic composers from the Santa Capilla generation. The second section describes Alberto Grau's compositional style as exemplified in his work Kasar mie la gaji (The Earth is Tired). The final section of the document comprises interviews with Alberto Grau and his wife, the Venezuelan choral conductor, María Guinand. Guinand studied piano and conducting with Alberto Grau and was his assistant at the Orfeón Universitario Simón Bolívar and the Schola Cantorum de Caracas. She is the founding conductor of the Cantoría Alberto Grau and the editor ...
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Alexander Johnson's Ni' Concerto (1994) - Concerto no. 1 for Piano and Orchestra: a Discussion of Influences from Africa, Eastern and Western Europe
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Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915): Piano Miniature as Chronicle of his Creative Evolution; Complexity of Interpretive Approach and its Implications.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Sukhina, Nataliya
Description: Scriabin's piano miniatures are ideal for the study of evolution of his style, which underwent an extreme transformation. They present heavily concentrated idioms and structural procedures within concise form, therefore making it more accessible to grasp the quintessence of the composer's thought. A plethora of studies often reviews isolated genres or periods of Scriabin's legacy, making it impossible to reveal important general tendencies and inner relationships between his pieces. While expanding the boundaries of tonality, Scriabin completed the expansion and universalization of the piano miniature genre. Starting from his middle years the 'poem' characteristics can be found in nearly every piece. The key to this process lies in Scriabin's compilation of certain symbolical musical gestures. Separation between technical means and poetic intention of Scriabin's works as well as rejection of his metaphysical thought evolution result in serious interpretive implications. Music of Scriabin provides an excellent opportunity for a performer to find a proper balance between rational and intuitive. The lack of any of these qualities will impoverish his works, making their interpretation incomplete. Following one of main Scriabin's ideas - synthesis of all arts - this study approaches his music not from the narrow analytical, but broad synthetic standpoint. The ...
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Alfredo Casella's Serenata, op. 46, A Performance Guide for the Ensemble and Trumpet Part
Date: May 2011
Creator: Walker, Brian Matthew
Description: Alfredo Casella's Serenata, op. 46 for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin and cello is a composition that received great acclaim at the time of its conception, it is all but unknown to modern audiences and performers. The Serenata has several historical influences from the French and Italian Baroque and Classical periods. At present, there is limited scholarship regarding the Serenata op. 46. The first section of this study presents a survey of historical information, current literature and methods of examination. The second section compares movements of the Serenata op. 46 to other historical forms of similar design. The third section provides a performance guide for the trumpeter and ensemble. Implications and suggestions for performance of the composition are provided for the trumpeter. This performance guide provides the trumpeter and ensemble with performance information to help facilitate an informed performance.
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The American Trumpet Sonata in the 1950s: An Analytical and Sociohistorical Discussion of Trumpet Sonatas by George Antheil, Kent Kennan, Halsey Stevens, and Burnet Tuthill.
Date: August 2007
Creator: Dearden, Jennifer Lorien
Description: The trumpet, or some ancestral form of the trumpet, has existed nearly as long as civilization itself. Despite its long history, however, the trumpet's solo repertoire remained limited and relatively unvaried until the second half of the twentieth century. Like most music, the American trumpet sonatas from the 1950s are a reflection of the culture and history surrounding their composition. The purpose of this research is to show how the trumpet sonatas by George Antheil, Kent Kennan, Halsey Stevens, and Burnet Tuthill are both distinctly American and unmistakably from the 1950s. The post-war era in America is often viewed as a time of unbridled optimism stemming from economic prosperity and the nation's military and industrial supremacy. The decade of the 1950s is often viewed today as a simpler, happier time in America's history. The trumpet sonatas of this era reflect this primarily in their ebullient rhythms and brilliant, often heroic melodies. However, darker characteristics of the decade (the rise of communism, for example) also make veiled appearances in these four sonatas. After an overview of the social and musical trends of the decade, the central chapter of the work delineates formal, thematic, and tonal structures of each of the four ...
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An Analysis and Comparison of Four Rotations Pour Marimba, A Solo Marimba Suite, by Eric Sammut
Date: May 2011
Creator: Suen, Ming-Jen
Description: Four Rotations Pour Marimba (1996) by Eric Sammut has become one of the most important marimba compositions in serious concert solo marimba literature. Four Rotations Pour Marimba is a suite of four short pieces; each of them demonstrates a different musical character while incorporating similar compositional components and techniques. The goal of this thesis project is to create a stylistic analysis for providing the concert marimbist with insight into the interpretation of these four pieces and also giving composers a more in-depth understanding of Sammut's compositional method. This thesis includes a formal analysis and comparisons of compositional elements used in Four Rotations. A brief biography of Sammut and historical significance of Four Rotations Pour Marimba are also included.
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An Analysis and Performance Guide to William Lovelock's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Date: December 2008
Creator: Place, Logan
Description: This paper investigates the usage of traditional compositional techniques on Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra by William Lovelock. (1899-1986) Like many other twentieth-century composers for trumpet Lovelock wrote in a romantic style using traditional forms. As a composer, Lovelock is largely under-appreciated. This paper explains Lovelock's compositional techniques and provides performers with a guide to help prepare the piece for performance.
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An Analysis of Form and Tonality in Arnold Cooke's Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1957)
Date: May 2008
Creator: Polk, Kristin Marie
Description: Arnold Cooke composed many works for oboe including two sonatas, a concerto and several pieces for chamber ensembles; however, his works are rarely performed. Through the analysis of form and tonality in his first oboe sonata, Cooke's musical style and influences become apparent. His musical style was primarily influenced by his teacher, Paul Hindemith, and can be characterized by traditional forms with the contemporary use of quartal harmonies and a variety of tertian sonorities. Cooke wrote music that is accessible for performers and audience members, and one way he achieved this accessibility is through the repetition of melodic ideas. In addition to exact melodic repetition, he also unified his works through fugue-like passages and sequences. Although he lived during a time of experimentation by many composers, Cooke maintained conservative elements in his music that he learned through his studies at Cambridge and through his studies with Hindemith. His first oboe sonata is tonal although he varied modes and used chromatic harmonies throughout. Cooke's clear writing and unique sound in his Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1957) provide oboists a solo piece for the repertoire that demonstrates a modern approach to the traditional style of composition.
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Hi, given a connection on the tangent space of a manifold, one can define its torsion: $$T(X,Y):=\triangledown_X Y - \triangledown_Y X - [X,Y]$$ What is the geometric picture behind this definition—what does torsion measure intuitively?
The torsion is a notoriously slippery concept. Personally I think the best way to understand it is to generalize past the place people first learn about torsion, which is usually in the context of Riemannian manifolds. Then you can see that the torsion can be understood as a sort of obstruction to integrability. Let me explain a little bit first.
The torsion really makes sense in the context of general G-structures. Here $G \subseteq GL_n(\mathbb{R}) = GL(V)$ is some fixed Lie group. Typical examples are $G = O(n)$ and $G = GL_n(\mathbb{C})$. We'll see that these will correspond to Riemannian metrics and complex structures respectively. Now given this data, we have an exact sequence of vector spaces,
$$0 \to K \to \mathfrak{g} \otimes V^\ast \stackrel{\sigma}{\to} V \otimes\wedge^2 V^\ast \to C \to 0 $$
Here $\sigma$ is the inclusion $\mathfrak{g} \subseteq V \otimes V^\ast$ together with anti-symmetrization. K and C are the kernel and cokernel of $\sigma$.
If we are given a manifold with $G$-structure, we then get four associated bundles, which fit into an exact sequence:
$$ 0 \to \rho_1P \to ad(P) \otimes T^*M \to \rho_3P \to \rho_4P \to 0$$
Now the difference of two connections which are both compatible with the G-structure is a tensor which is a section of the second space $\rho_2P = ad(P) \otimes T^*M$. This means that we can write any connection as $$\nabla + A$$ where $A$ is a section of $\rho_2(P)$.
Now the torsion of any G-compatible connection is a section of this third space. Suppose that we have two compatible connections. Then their torsions are sections of this third space. However since we can write the connections as $\nabla$ and $\nabla + A$, the torsion differ by $\sigma(A)$. Thus they have the same image in the fourth space $\rho_4(P)$.
The section of this fourth space is the intrinsic torsion of the G-structure. It measures the failure of our ability to find a torsion free connection. If this obstruction vanishes, then the torsion free connections are a torsor over sections of the smaller bundle $\rho_1P$. Now some examples:
From these examples you can see that the vanishing of torsion can be viewed as a sort of integrality condition. In these latter two cases the space of torsion free connections consists of more then a single point. There are many such connections. That's one reason why we don't see them popping up more often.
Here is an example which I found useful when learning about torsion. Consider $\mathbb{R}^3$. Let $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ be the coordinate vector fields, and take the connection for which $$\begin{matrix} \nabla_X(Y)=Z & \nabla_Y(X)=-Z \\ \nabla_X(Z)=-Y & \nabla_Z(X)=Y \\ \nabla_Y(Z)=X & \nabla_Z(Y)=-X \end{matrix}$$
A body undergoing parallel translation for this connection spins like an American football: around the axis of motion with speed proportional to its velocity. So the geodesics are straight lines, and this connection preserves the standard metric, but it has torsion and is thus not the Levi-Cevita connection.
Almost too basic an approach to give, but I think the only way to intuitively get under the hood of torsion (at least in the Levi-Civita sense) is to really understand the ideas of Lie bracket and connection:
We're used to the fact, working on $\mathbb{R}^n$, that partial derivatives commute: $\frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}\circ\frac{\partial}{\partial x_j}=\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_ix_j}=\frac{\partial}{\partial x_j}\circ\frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}$. But not only is this untrue in the setting of general $C^2$ manifolds, it also makes no sense- with no global coordinates to turn to, we need some other way of defining a 'direction of differentiation' globally. Fortunately that's exactly what vector fields do, so now our updated equation $\frac{\partial}{\partial X}\circ\frac{\partial}{\partial Y}=\frac{\partial}{\partial Y}\circ\frac{\partial}{\partial X}$ makes sense (modulo some issues of notation)- our only problem being its falsehood in general, which we measure with the Lie bracket.
Now it might be tempting to blame our vector fields for the Lie bracket's general non-zero nature- perhaps we get non-zero Lie brackets just when we pick a really weird vector field... but close examination (of, say, the image of the coordinate vector fields under the differential of your faourite chart map) reveals this is not the case. In fact the $C^2$ness of the vector field ensures that on an infinitessimal level our vector fields are never really very pathological: what the Lie bracket is measuring is something much more intrinsic about our manifold- about how vector fields must locally twist as they move along each other to keep time with the metric.
But telling us how vector fields do move along one another is the job of a connection- which, by giving us $\nabla_X Y$, prescribes $\frac{\partial}{\partial X}Y$, but $Y$ is really $\frac{\partial}{\partial Y}$ so this 'prescribes a value' for the Lie bracket as $\nabla_X Y-\nabla_Y X $.
Subrtracting the former from the latter gives the actual infinitessimal twist minus the neccessary infinitessimal twist to give the 'unneccessary twist' of the connection.
Here's another reinterpretation of the torsion tensor which seems perhaps more natural.
Consider the identity endomorphism $\mathrm{id}:TM \to TM$, but thought of as a 1-form with values in $TM$; that is, $$\mathrm{id} \in \Omega^1(M;TM).$$ The connection $\nabla$ defines an exterior covariant derivative: $$d^\nabla : \Omega^1(M;TM) \to \Omega^2(M;TM)$$ and the torsion of $\nabla$ is precisely $$T^\nabla = d^\nabla(\mathrm{id}).$$
Perhaps, the following two facts help to understand torsion:
Similar to José's answer, one can consider the following: for each connection $\nabla$ on the tangent bundle (or its dual), one can consider the induced connection $\nabla\colon\Gamma(M;\Lambda^k T^* M)\to\Gamma(M; T^* M\otimes \Lambda^k T^* M).$ Denote by $\Lambda\colon T^* M \otimes \Lambda^k T^* M\to \Lambda^{k+1} T^* M$ the antisymmetrising map, and by $d_\nabla=\Lambda\circ\nabla$ some kind of exterior derivative. Then $d_\nabla$ is the exterior derivative if and only if $\nabla$ is torsion free. Moreover $d_\nabla^2=0$ if and only if $\nabla$ is torsion free. This is very similar to the equation of the curvature of a connection $\tilde\nabla$ of an arbitary bundle in terms of its absolute exterior derivative $d^{\tilde\nabla}.$
The torsion of a connection is the obstruction to the induced calculus of the connection to be the usual/natural calculus on a manifold.
Torsion is easy to understand but this knowledge seems to be lost. I had to go back to Elie Cartan's articles to find an intuitive explanation (for example, chapter 2 of http://www.numdam.org/numdam-bin/fitem?id=ASENS_1923_3_40__325_0).
Let $M$ be a manifold with a connection on its tangent bundle. The basic idea is that any path $\gamma$ in $M$ starting at $x\in M$ can be lifted as a path $\tilde\gamma$ in $T_xM$, but is the $\gamma$ is a loop $\tilde \gamma$ need not be a loop. The resulting translation of the end point is the torsion (or its macroscopic version).
The situation is easy in a Lie group $G$ (which I imagine Cartan had in mind). $G$ has a canonical flat connection for which the parallel vectors fields are left invariant vectors fields. For this connection the parallel transport is simply the left translation. The Maurer-Cartan form $\alpha$ is then the parallel transport to the tangent space $T_1G$ at the identity $1\in G$.
If $\gamma:[0,1]\to G$ is a path in $G$ starting at $1$. $\gamma'$ is a path in $TG$ and $\alpha(\gamma')$ is a path in $T_1M$. $\alpha(\gamma')$ can be integrated to another path $\tilde \gamma$ in $T_1M$. Let $\gamma_{\leq x}$ be the path $\gamma:[0,x]\to G$, then we define $$ \tilde \gamma(x) = \int_0^x\alpha(\gamma'(t))dt = \int_{\gamma_{\leq x}}\alpha. $$ In the sense given by the connection, $\gamma$ and $\tilde\gamma$ have the same speed and the same starting point, so they are the same path (but in different spaces).
If $\gamma$ is a loop and $D$ a disk bounding $\gamma$, $\tilde\gamma$ is a loop iff $\tilde\gamma(1)=0\in T_1G$. We have $$ \tilde\gamma(1) = \int_\gamma\alpha = \int_Dd\alpha. $$ $\tilde\gamma$ is a loop iff this integral is zero.
Now, $\alpha$ can be viewed as the solder form for $TG$, so the torsion is the covariant differential $T=d^\nabla\alpha$. As the connection is flat $T$ reduces to $T=d\alpha$. The Maurer-Cartan equation gives an explicit formula: $T=d\alpha = -\frac{1}{2}[\alpha,\alpha]$. The previous integral is then the integral of the torsion $$ \tilde\gamma(1) = \int_Dd\alpha = -\frac{1}{2}\int_D[\alpha,\alpha] $$ and may not be zero.
The situation is the same for a general manifold, but the parallel transport is not explicit and formulas are harder.
The notion behing this is that of affine connection. As I understand it, an affine connection is a data that authorize to picture the geometry of $M$ inside the tangent space $T_xM$ of some point $x$. If I move away from $x$ in $M$, there will be a corresponding movement away from the origin in $T_xM$ (this is the above lifting of path). If I transport in parallel a frame with me, the frame will move in $T_xM$. Globally the movement of my point and frame is encoded by a family of affine transformations in $T_xM$.
Of course this picture of the geometry of $M$ in $T_xM$ is not faithful. Because of the torsion, if I have two paths in $G$ starting at $x$ and ending at the same point, they may not end at the same point in $T_xM$. Because of curvature, even if my two lifts end at the same point, my two frames may not be parallel. The picture is faithful if $M$ is an affine space iff both torsion and curvature vanish (Cartan's structural equations for affine space).
I think torsion is beautiful :)
Let me expand a little the answer of José Figueroa-O'Farrill.
Suppose that $\nabla$ is a linear connection on a vector bundle $E\to M$, and that there is $\sigma\in \Omega^1(M;E)$, a 1-form on $M$ with values in $E$ such that $\sigma_x:T_xM\to E_x$ is a linear isomorphism. This is called a soldering form. It identifies $E$ with $TM$.
The torsion is then $d^{\nabla}\sigma\in\Omega^2(M;E)$. It is an obstruction against the soldering form being parallel for $\nabla$. Maybe this explains, that space is twisting along geodesics if the torsion is non-zero. So torsion can be viewed either as a property of the soldering form (choose it better if you want to get rid of torsion), or as a property of $\nabla$ (if you identify $TM$ with $E$ with the given soldering form).
This works also with $G$-structures on $M$. Consider a principal $G$-bundle $P\to M$ and a representation $\rho:G\to GL(V)$ where $\dim(V)=\dim(M)$. A soldering form is now a $G$-equivariant and horizontal 1-form $\sigma\in\Omega^1(P,V)^G_{hor}$ which is fiberwise surjective. This induces a form $\bar\sigma\in\Omega^1(M,P\times_G V)$ which is a soldering form in the sense above. You can compute torsion either on $P$ or on $M$ and they correspond to each other. This ties in with the answer of Chris Schommer-Pries.
My geometric picture of torsion is as follows. Perhaps I am wrong? Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold and let $\nabla$ be a connection on it which is compatible with the metric, so that parallel transport preserves orthonormal frames.
Let $\exp: T_p (M) \rightarrow M$ be the exponential map, given by by sending a tangent vector $v \in T_pM$ to the endpoint $\sigma(1)$ of the parallel-transported curve $\sigma$ in $M$ with initial velocity vector $v$. So we are regarding $T_p M$ as a geodesic coordinate system on $M$.
Let $v \in T_p M$, and upgrade it to a frame $v, e_2, \ldots e_n$ at $0 \in T_pM$ by choosing $n-1$ vectors orthogonal to it. The radial line proceeding from the origin with initial velocity vector $v$ is a geodesic. Consider the moving frame $v(t), e_2(t), \ldots, e_n(t)$ along this line. Since it is a geodesic, $v(t) = v$ remains constant, but the frame can rotate around $v$.
Claim: the torsion of the connection measures the extent to which the moving frame is rotating around the axis $v$ along this straight line. That's why it's "torsion"... it measures the twisting of the frame.
I'm afraid that the torsion is not motivated by any picture. It's just the skew-symmetric part of $\nabla$.
Let $M$ be your manifold and $p\in M$. Consider two tangent vectors $v,w\in T_pM$. You can extend them to commuting vector fields $V$ and $W$ in a neighborhood of $p$. Then $$ T(v,w) = \nabla_vW-\nabla_wV , $$ so in this case $T$ measures non-symmetry of $\nabla$. In general (for non-commuting vector fields), the formula $\nabla_XY-\nabla_YX$ does not define a tensor and the term $[X,Y]$ fixes this problem.
I'm convinced that there is geometric explanation analogous to curvature measuring infinitesimal holonomy, but I haven't been able to work it out yet.
In any case, at least in the context of Riemannian geometry, what's geometrically natural is zero torsion, so it's not surprising that a geometric interpretation of nonvanishing torsion is a little elusive.
Here are some things that are implied by (and are essentially equivalent to) zero torsion:
1) The ability to define the Hessian of a function as a symmetric tensor
2) A parameterized curve is a constant speed geodesic if and only if its velocity curve is parallel along the curve
This extends some useful properties of Euclidean space to a Riemannian manifold. These properties (and probably some others) along with its uniqueness make the Levi-Civita connection very powerful and useful.
ere is a review article by Hehl and Obukhov about the role of torsion in geometry and physics. The article contains the intutive geometric explanation of the torsion tensor as stated by Deane Yang as a measure (figure-1) of the failure to close an infinitesimal parallel transport parallelogram.
The article also contains an interpretation of the torsion tensor in three dimensions as the dislocation density of a dislocated crystal.
Here are a few additional properties of the torsion tensor. In dynamically generated gravity theories and fluid dynamics, the generated torsion tensor is proportional to the anti-symmeterized spin density and vorticity respectively.
In harmonic analysis on (vector bundles over) homogeneous spaces G/H, the Levi-Civita Lagrangian, based on the torsionless connection is not diagonal in the spaces of sections beonging to irreducible G representations (except for the trivial representation). On the other hand there exists an H-connection which is not torsion free whose Laplacian is diagonal. The explanation of this result is that the information about the inducing H-representation defining the vector bundle is contained in the torsion tensor.
Well, one should think in term of Euclidean motions, i.e. rotations AND translations (see Cartan connections) - hence the name affine connection. The (Cartan) curvature of this (Cartan) connection splits into two parts: one measuring infinitesimal rotations (i.e. the ordinary Riemannian curvature) and one measuring infinitesimal translations ("slipping") (i.e. the torsion).
Intutively torsion is the screw-like twist of a manifold. Think of a 2-D sheet, a 2-D real manifold. Imagine that it ripples in one direction, say uniformly in a sinusoidal curve, but not in the second, orthogonal, direction -- all geodesics are straight lines along the second axis, and sine curves along the first. This is a manifold with curvature but no torsion. Now imagine the sheet instead twisted about some axis like a screw. This is a manifold with torsion. The generaization of this simple picture for the 2-D sheet to more general forms of torsion is probably fairly obvious, but (for me at least) visualizing it in higher dimensions is quite a challenge.
Here's a simple picture for connections on the tangent bundle from Kock's synthetic geometry of manifolds. Let $x$ and $y$ be infinitesimally close points in a manifold, and let $\nabla(x,y)$ denote the parallel transport map which takes the infinitesimal neighbourhood $\mathcal{N}(x)$ of $x$ into the infinitesimal neighbourhood $\mathcal{N}(y)$ of $y$. If we have a third point $z$ which lies in $\mathcal{N}(x)$, then we can transport it along the infinitesimal line segment between $x$ and $y$ to get a point $\nabla(x,y)z$ in $\mathcal{N}(y) \cap \mathcal{N}(z)$. But we could instead transport $y$ along the infinitesimal line segment from $x$ to $z$ to get a potentially different point $\nabla(x,z)y$ in $\mathcal{N}(y) \cap \mathcal{N}(z)$. Thus, we have two different ways to complete the infinitesimal wedge $z-x-y$ to an infinitesimal parallelogram. The torsion measures the extent to which these two completions differ.
One more interpretation: The torsion is the curvature of the smooth functions (as a vector bundle over your manifold).
Here is a simple physical example of a line with no curvature, but with torsion. This is a cartesian coordinate system with unit vectors z-hat, y-hat and x-hat. I am using a Frenet frame.
t = x-hat
n = cos(x) y-hat - sin(x) z-hat
b = - sin(x) y-hat - cos(x) z-hat
This is a straight line along the x-axis which is constantly "spinning".


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Architect Touch 2.1 - Tab Panel Docked Bottom Doesn't display
I am using Architect Touch v 2.1. For some reason the Tab Panel disappears when I set the docked attribute to bottom. I read some posts that say I need to set the doctype to html 5 in the index file, but I couldn't find where to do this in Architect because app.html file auto-generates and doesn't allow me to change this. I am using Chrome as the browser. Thanks,
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Could you attach an archive of a sample project that doesnt work and/or provide steps to reproduce?Aaron Conran
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Attached is the zip file of the project. If you change the docked attribute to bottom the screen is blank in Architect. I think ever since I upgraded Architect things have been kind of screwy.


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I'd like to know when to take my steaks off the grill and please everybody.
Note: Extra-Rare and Rare are not recommended by USDA
There are the temperatures recommended by the USDA and then there are the temperatures recommended for taste.
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I agree with the temperatures given for doneness by @BarrettJ, but especially when grilling flat cuts of meat like steak, pork chops, chicken breasts, etc., it's difficult to use even an accurate instant read thermometer to determine doneness. In my case, I grill on charcoal most often, and it's practically impossible to avoid hotspots. If I always relied on a thermometer reading, I'd have to test each steak or chop to know when I was done.
So, I'd recommend using the thermometer a few times, but pay close attention to how the steak feels when pinched or poked with a finger. Here is an example of an article that describes this with rules of thumb for how to tell roughly how done a piece of meat is. But rather than comparing how your steak feels with the firmness of the palm of your hand (as per the article), I'd recommend taking the thermo reading, feeling the steak, looking at how well done the meat is when it's cut open and adjusting accordingly on your next grill session. Soon it will be second nature, you can save the instant read for roasts, and your friends will deem you "The Grill Whisperer".


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At the CMA Awards show, host Brad Paisley took a moment to give the crowd an update on the health of Dolly Parton.
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I was wondering if there was any kind of stop plate available that I could attach to the Lower Rail so that when I re-assemble I don't have to set the Lower Rail setting. At the moment I just unfasten the vertical rail assembly (above the nadir adapter) and transport with the Lower Rail attached to my tripod, but having a kind of stop plate would be better for me. I currently am shooting in the dark so it would be easier to just connect at the location rather than fiddle with a torch.
p.s. I don't really need one for the upper rail because I just loosen the upper rotator and it folds nicely away, keeping my URS, providing I use the same lens.