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NCAAF Team Report - Nebraska - INSIDE SLANT
For one week at least, the Big Ten's focus shifted away from idle Ohio State to the other teams competing for division titles and national recognition.
Still, it was a good week for the Buckeyes. Though they had a bye on Saturday, they benefited from Oregon's 26-20 loss to Stanford on Thursday night, moving up to No. 3 in the BCS Standings behind Alabama and Florida State.
Ohio State (9-0) is now one loss away by either of those teams from possibly making the BCS championship game if they can remain undefeated. Its last three regular-season games are against Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
One of the Big Ten teams that could boost Ohio State's computer ranking is Wisconsin, which hasn't lost since its Sept. 28 game in Columbus. The Badgers were one of the teams making the biggest move in the Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday, jumping four spots to No. 17 after a 27-17 victory at home over Brigham Young in a nonconference game and are No. 22 in the BCS Standings.
Wisconsin (7-2) would need two losses by Ohio State to win the Leaders Division and reach the Big Ten championship game on Dec. 7 in Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium, but a BCS bowl berth is still within reach if the Badgers win out.
Michigan State (8-1) moved up a notch and is ranked No. 16 in this week's BCS Standings. The Spartans, who were idle on Saturday, travel to Lincoln, Neb., this week for a showdown against Nebraska (7-2) for the biggest game to date in the Big Ten. The winner will have the inside track to the Legends Division title and a spot in Indianapolis.
Nebraska is on the cusp of the Top 25 after coming away from Michigan with a 17-13 win on Saturday. The Cornhuskers trail Michigan State, which has never beaten Nebraska, by one game in the division.
Surprising Minnesota cracked the Top 25 for the first time since 2008 with a No. 25 ranking the coaches' poll but still remain outside the Top 25 in the BCS Standings. The Gophers ran their winning streak to four with a 24-10 victory over Penn State on Saturday.
It has been a long time since Minnesota has won four consecutive Big Ten games in one season. The last such winning streak came 40 years ago in 1973 when Tony Dungy, who went on to win a Super Bowl as coach of the Indianapolis Colts, was the starting quarterback for the Gophers. If they can make it five straight in two weeks against Wisconsin, it would be Minnesota's longest streak since 1962.
Meanwhile, Michigan (6-3) and Penn State (5-4) are headed in the opposite direction. The free-falling Wolverines' loss at home to Nebraska on Saturday was their second in a row and third in conference play.
Game: Indiana 52, Illinois 35. In position to end its long Big Ten losing streak, Illinois wilted in the fourth quarter on Saturday at Indiana. The score was tied 35-35 with 12:41 left in the game after Illinois lineman Corey Lewis recovered a fumble in the end zone, but the Hoosiers scored 17 points in the next seven minutes to seal the Fighting Illini's fate. Illinois produced 612 total yards, including 450 through the air by quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase, but the defense was gashed for 650 yards.
Takeaway: Simply put, Illinois and Indiana are two defenseless teams. So the game came down to which team could score more. On the first play after the Illini pulled even in the fourth quarter, the defense gave up a 75-yard touchdown run by Indiana running back Tevin Coleman. Then, on Illinois' next series, a fake punt deep in its own territory failed to produce a first down and Indiana capitalized with another score. Of the 650 yards allowed by the Illini defense, 371 were on the ground, an Indiana season high. The Illinois offense did what it could with Scheelhaase completing 38 of 57 passes for 450 yards and two touchdowns. Wide receiver Steve Hull caught nine passes for 224 yards and two touchdowns in the Illini's 19th consecutive Big Ten loss, a school record that likely will grow next week when Ohio State invades Champaign.
Next: vs. Ohio State, Nov. 16.
Game: Indiana 52, Illinois 35. The formula for success this season for Indiana is to outscore its opponents, and it was able to do that Saturday at home against hapless Illinois. The Hoosiers' offensive juggernaut produced big plays all day, but none was bigger than a 75-yard touchdown by running back Tevin Coleman with the score tied 35-35 in the fourth quarter. Coleman and teammate Stephen Houston ran through the Illinois defense. Coleman rushed for 215 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries and Houston had 150 yards and two scores on 17 carries. Quarterback Nate Sudfeld was an efficient 20-of-27 passing for 267 yards and three touchdowns.
Takeaway: Indiana needed a win to keep its faint bowl hopes alive. The Hoosiers' chances don't look good to reach the requisite six wins for bowl eligibility, though, with trips to Wisconsin and Ohio State the next two weeks. If they fall short, a defense that gave up 612 yards to Illinois, which entered the game ranked 70th in FBS in total offense, will be to blame. The Hoosiers can't fault an offense that has scored no fewer than 28 points in a game this season and rolled to a season-high 650 total yards against the Illini. One of the big contributors was wide receiver Cody Latimer with a career-high 11 receptions for 189 yards and three touchdowns.
Next: at Wisconsin, Nov. 16.
Game: Iowa 34, Purdue 14. Sophomore running back Jordan Canzeri had a career day with 165 yards and a touchdown on 20 carries to lead Iowa's 318-yard rushing effort against lowly Purdue. Canzeri's performance was unexpected considering he entered the game with 173 rushing yards all season. Teammate Damon Bullock added 85 yards on 10 carries. Iowa's rushing yards and its 509 total yards were season highs. The Hawkeyes dominated the first half with 250 yards but led just 14-7 at halftime. In the second half, Iowa took control and led 38-7 before giving up a meaningless late touchdown.
Takeaway: The Hawkeyes are bowl eligible after their sixth win of the season. Iowa sat out the postseason last year when it slipped to a 4-8 record -- its first losing season since 2006. Quarterback Jake Rudock returned after leaving last week's loss to Wisconsin with a minor injury. He connected on 12 of 20 passes for 191 yards and two touchdowns. One was a 22-yarder to wide receiver Kevonte Martin-Manley in the second quarter and the other was a 3-yarder to tight end Jake Duzey in the fourth quarter. Iowa's defense permitted only 53 rushing yards by Purdue. A bye week is next for the Hawkeyes, followed by season-ending games against Michigan and Nebraska.
Next: vs. Michigan, Nov. 23.
Game: Nebraska 17, Michigan 13. Losing at home for the first time in Brady Hoke's third season as coach, Michigan had no running game for the second straight week and failed to hold a late lead against Nebraska. After going ahead 13-10 on a 40-yard Brendan Gibbons field goal with 8:08 left, the Wolverines gave up a touchdown pass by Nebraska's Tommy Armstrong Jr. with 2:03 remaining and lost for the third time in their past four games. Michigan finished with minus-21 rushing yards and just 175 total yards.
Takeaway: A month ago, Michigan was sitting at 5-0 and appeared well positioned to be a contender entering Big Ten play. Since then, the Wolverines have completely lost it. The past two weeks were train wrecks for an offense that literally went backward with a combined minus-69 rushing yards and only 19 points. Michigan fell behind Nebraska 10-0 in the first quarter but rallied to tie it at 10 in the third quarter on a 5-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Devin Gardner to tight end Devin Funchess. After Gibbons' field goal was set up by a Nebraska fumble, the defense was not able to keep the Cornhuskers from driving 75 yards in six minutes to the winning score. The loss effectively ended any Michigan hopes for a Legends Division title. Hoke was quick to blame himself. "I've got to do a better job coaching," he said.
Next: vs. Northwestern, Nov. 16.
Game: Idle.
Next: at Nebraska, Nov. 16.
Game: Minnesota 24, Penn State 10. The surprising run of success continued for Minnesota with Saturday's win at home over Penn State. The Gophers did all of their scoring in the first half and shut out the Nittany Lions after halftime to secure their fourth straight Big Ten victory. The catalysts were quarterback Philip Nelson -- who passed for 186 yards and a touchdown and ran for a score -- and running back David Cobb with 139 yards on 27 carries and a touchdown.
Takeaway: The last time Minnesota reached eight or more wins was 2003 when it went 10-3. And the Gophers are still in the picture for the Legends Division title. They have a week off before finishing against rival Wisconsin and division-leading Michigan State. Minnesota has made its impressive run without coach Jerry Kill on the sideline. He watched again Saturday from the press box as he slowly returns to work after taking a medical leave to deal with his epilepsy. The Gophers weren't flashy in the win, but the defense yielded only a first-half touchdown and field goal while limiting Penn State freshman quarterback Christian Hackenberg, the Big Ten's leading passer, to 163 yards through the air. Three of Minnesota's scoring drives in the first half covered 96, 74 and 70 yards.
Next: vs. Wisconsin, Nov. 23.
Game: Nebraska 17, Michigan 13. Quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr., starting again in place of injured senior Taylor Martinez, calmly led Nebraska to the winning touchdown with 2:03 left on Saturday at Michigan. Armstrong capped the six-minute, 75-yard march with a left-handed, 5-yard shovel pass to running back Ameer Abdullah. The drive was kept alive with Armstrong's 26-yard pass to wide receiver Kenny Bell on a fourth-and-2. Abdullah was a workhorse, rushing for 105 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries, in a game largely dominated by the defense.
Takeaway: Nebraska coach Bo Pelini was impressed with his team's character and determination as it battled through some injuries to pull out a win in the Big House. "We're a little short-handed right now," Pelini said, "but the character on that football team showed. They just fought until the end. The way they played, they played with passion. Guys rose to the occasion." The defense sacked Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner seven times. The Wolverines' minus-21 yards rushing were the fewest the Cornhuskers had allowed since 2001 against Troy State. One of the defense's biggest stops came in the fourth quarter after Nebraska freshman Jordan Westerkamp -- the hero of the last-second win over Northwestern a week earlier -- fumbled a punt that was recovered by Michigan at the Nebraska 26-yard line. But the Wolverines were held without a first down and settled for a Brendan Gibbons field goal that gave Michigan a 13-10 lead and Nebraska a chance to score the winning touchdown on the ensuing drive.
Next: vs. Michigan State, Nov. 16.
Game: Idle.
Next: vs. Michigan, Nov. 16.
Game: Idle.
Next: at Illinois, Nov. 16.
Game: Minnesota 24, Penn State 10. Running back Bill Belton lost a fumble on Penn State's first play Saturday against Minnesota and the game went downhill from there for the Nittany Lions. Penn State fell behind 10-0 in the first quarter and could never catch up, losing to Minnesota for the first time since 2004. The Nittany Lions, who were shut out in the second half, had a chance to pull within seven points twice in the fourth quarter, but one long drive ended on downs at the Minnesota 12-yard line and another was halted when freshman quarterback Christian Hackenberg fumbled on second-and-goal at the 2.
Takeaway: The grim face of coach Bill O'Brien in the postgame news conference reflected Penn State's pain after the loss at Minnesota. O'Brien shielded his players from the media after the game and, frankly, there was not much to discuss after the Nittany Lions failed to score in the final 33 minutes as they fell to 0-3 on the road in Big Ten play. Hackenberg (14-of-25 passing, 163 yards) faced pressure much of the game that limited his effectiveness. Seven of his completions went to standout wide receiver Allen Robinson, who broke Bobby Engram's school record for receiving yards in a season with 1,106. After Belton's game-opening fumble, Penn State went with running back Zach Zwinak, who rushed for 150 yards on 26 carries and its lone touchdown.
Next: vs. Purdue, Nov. 16.
Game: Iowa 38, Purdue 14. After being shut out in its past two games, Purdue finally put points on the scoreboard Saturday in the second quarter against Iowa, briefly tying the score at 7, before the Hawkeyes pulled away in the second half. In losing their seventh straight game, the Boilermakers were held to 266 total yards (just 53 on the ground) and gave up 509.
Takeaway: For Purdue, the victory was getting into the end zone for the first time in a month -- albeit with a little help from Iowa. The Boilermakers had a short field after a Hawkeyes special-teams blunder and capitalized with a 2-yard touchdown pass from freshman quarterback Danny Etling to fullback Kurt Freytag. They added a score in the final minute in garbage time after the outcome was long decided. Etling completed 15 of 28 passes for 145 yards. Purdue has not beaten an FBS team this season and has scored just 31 points in five Big Ten games, but there could be a glimmer of hope with their final three games against lower-tier opponents Penn State, Illinois and Indiana.
Next: at Penn State, Nov. 16.
Game: Wisconsin 27, Brigham Young 17. A rare November nonconference game was no problem for Wisconsin, which relied on its ground and pound attack to throttle visiting Brigham Young on Saturday. The Badgers ground up the Cougars' defense with its two-headed monster at running back. Senior James White rushed for 147 yards and two touchdowns on 23 carries and sophomore Melvin Gordon carried 19 times for 86 yards. Wisconsin's defense, led by the return of injured linebacker Chris Borland, pounded BYU with its physical Big Ten style, allowing only three points in the first half and putting pressure on the Cougars all day.
Takeaway: The Badgers welcomed back linebacker Chris Borland, who sat out last week's game against Iowa with a hamstring issue. He showed no lingering signs of the injury in a 13-tackle, two-sack day. The defense held BYU, which was averaging more than 500 yards per game, to 370 -- and 174 of those came in the fourth quarter when the Cougars played catch-up. "The kids played extremely hard," Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen said. "I thought that was maybe overall our best team victory of the season as far as just every aspect of the game -- offense, defense, special teams -- being a factor in a positive way." Wisconsin built a 17-3 halftime lead and extended it to 20-3 early in the third quarter. White scored the Badgers' final touchdown -- his third of the day -- on a 14-yard run early in the fourth quarter. White surpassed 100 rushing yards for the sixth time this season.
Next: vs. Indiana, Nov. 16.
NCAAF Team Report - Nebraska - NOTES, QUOTES
--James White has shared carries and the spotlight with Montee Ball, John Clay and now Melvin Gordon during his career at Wisconsin, but the senior running back proved he need not take a back seat of any of them.
White rushed for 147 yards, added six catches for 47 yards and scored three touchdowns in Saturday's 27-17 victory over Brigham Young. He ranks fourth in the Big Ten in rushing yards this season with 951 yards and has 3,500 yards and 46 touchdowns on the ground during his college career.
"I'm just trying to be as versatile as possible out there," White said. "Be sharp on pass protection. Be a viable option in the receiving game and don't miss any cuts as a running back. I'm trying to play as complete as possible."
--Maybe there's a good reason why Michigan's offense has struggled the past few games.
Nebraska defensive end Randy Gregory said Saturday after the Cornhuskers' 17-13 win at Michigan that the Wolverines' plays were predictable based on their formations. That could explain Michigan's minus-21 yards rushing.
"This is rare," Nebraska defensive line coach Rick Kaczenski said, according to the Omaha World-Herald. "This'll never happen again. I'll probably be in this another 20 years or so, and I guarantee -- that won't happen again, especially against Michigan. Our guys were in the right spots. That's the best we've played since I've been a part of Nebraska."
Gardner finished with three sacks of Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner, the Big Ten's total offense leader.
"I could tell: We were getting in his head," Gregory said of Gardner. "Every now and then, he'd be on the ground longer than he should be. Even after the game, he was just kind of out of it. You take him out of the game, you take their whole offense out of the game."
-- Minnesota knows something about converting on third and fourth down while reeling off four straight Big Ten victories.
The Gophers were 4 of 4 on fourth downs Saturday in their 24-10 win over Penn State, boosting their success rate this season to 11 of 14. On third down, they were 9 of 17, which reflects their season average.
Coach Jerry Kill said the offense practices plays in tough situations rather than specifically for fourth downs.
"Offensively, we have six or eight fourth-down calls, and we believe in them," Kill said, according to the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. "Our philosophy is we are going to be an aggressive football team. We also have to be smart. The scoreboard has a lot to do with it."
QUOTE TO NOTE: "Whoever questions our toughness, they can shove it. I look in those guys' eyes in the huddle and they're tough guys and they're going out and fighting for me, so I don't care what any of you or whoever said that says." -- Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner after the Wolverines' 17-13 loss to Nebraska on Saturday.
NCAAF Team Report - Nebraska - STRATEGY AND PERSONNEL
1. Nebraska keeps finding ways to win. After the Cornhuskers lost at Minnesota on Oct. 26, it looked as though their season would nosedive. But they miraculously beat Northwestern with a last-second desperation pass and then scored with 2:03 left on Saturday at Michigan for a 17-13 victory. Now they play host to Michigan State with a possible Big Ten championship game berth at stake.
2. Minnesota's mojo is real. The Gophers handled Penn State on Saturday for their fourth straight win since coach Jerry Kill took a leave of absence to handle his medical issues. Kill has certainly provided inspiration, but the players also are performing on the field in all phases.
3. Michigan can't run the ball a lick. Two straight games with negative rushing yards have left the Wolverines in a funk. The offensive line can't seem to protect quarterback Devin Gardner, who was sacked seven times by Nebraska on Saturday. With games remaining at Northwestern and Iowa and at home against Ohio State, Michigan will have to work hard for another win this season.
4. Wisconsin is playing as well as anyone outside of Ohio State in the Big Ten. The Badgers were dominating in Saturday's win over Brigham Young, and they're just a blown call at Arizona State and a seven-point loss to the Buckeyes from being unbeaten. Whether they have a shot at a BCS bowl game remains to be seen.
5. Iowa has not reached the level it enjoyed four years ago when it went to a BCS bowl, but the Hawkeyes took a step toward restoring respectability after last year's 4-8 season with a win at Purdue at Saturday that made them bowl eligible. Now they hope to finish strong after a bye week with games against Michigan and Nebraska.


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I would like to study/understand the (complete) classification of compact lie groups. I know there are a lot of books on this subject, but I'd like to hear what's the best route I can follow (in your opinion, obviously), since there are a lot of different ideas involved.
First, here's a rough outline of how the classification works:
This reduces classification to a) understanding the Lie algebras and b) understanding the centers of simply connected Lie groups.
For references, I'd check out Fulton and Harris' book "Representation Theory". I'm not sure if it actually does 4., but that's a fairly easy exercise afterwards (except for perhaps the exceptional groups).
Compact Lie groups may not be connected, and the question did not assume connectedness whereas all of the other answers did. If $G$ is a linear algebraic group over $\mathbf{R}$ then $G(\mathbf{R})$ has finite component group which may be non-trivial even when $G$ is connected in the sense of the Zariski topology, such as $G = {\rm{GL}} _n$; see end of Borel's book on linear algebraic groups for a proof. And orthogonal groups for non-degenerate real quadratic forms of various signatures are very useful, but (in their incarnation as linear algebraic groups over $\mathbf{R}$) are even disconnected for the Zariski topology. So there is good reason to be interested in real Lie groups with nontrivial but finite component group (e.g., finite groups!) And in Hochschild's book "Structure of Lie Groups" he proves that the theory of maximal compact subgroups "works" in the case of finite component groups too: they're all conjugate and meet every component.
This is all setup for what I really wanted to say, which is that there is an awesome result, largely due to Chevalley, which beautifully "explains" the essentially algebraic nature of the category of compact Lie groups (without connectedness hypotheses). This concerns the functor $G \rightsquigarrow G(\mathbf{R})$ from linear algebraic groups over $\mathbf{R}$ to real Lie groups with finite component group. To appreciate the result, we need some preliminary observations, as follows. If $G(\mathbf{R})$ is to be compact then of course $G$ cannot contain as an $\mathbf{R}$-subgroup either $\mathbf{G}_a$ or $\mathbf{G}_m$. In particular, $G$ has to be reductive (maybe disconnected) since $\mathbf{R}$ has characteristic 0. [Side remark: for reductive groups over any field $k$ whatsoever, if there is a $\mathbf{G}_a$ as a $k$-subgroup then there must be a $\mathbf{G}_m$ as a $k$-subgroup; i.e., it is $k$-isotropic. See Corollary C.2.9 in "Pseudo-reductive groups" for a generalization.] It is a general fact (over any local field $k$ at all, whether archimedean or not) that a reductive $k$-group has compact group of $k$-points if and only if it contains no $\mathbf{G}_m$ as a $k$-subgroup (i.e., is $k$-anisotropic). Also, if $G$ is disconnected then it can happen that some connected components of $G$ have no $\mathbf{R}$-point (e.g., kernel of ${\rm{det}}^3$ on ${\rm{GL}} _n$ for any $n$), but the union of those components which do contain an $\mathbf{R}$-point is an open $\mathbf{R}$-subgroup which is "all" one could hope to ever recover from $G(\mathbf{R})$. So we may as well focus attention on those $G$ for which each connected component of $G$ does have an $\mathbf{R}$-point.
OK, so now we can state Chevalley's result. The preceding remarks show that formation of real points (as a Lie group) is a functor from the category of $\mathbf{R}$-anisotropic reductive $\mathbf{R}$-groups to the category of compact real Lie groups. (Beware it is not obvious if $G(\mathbf{R})$ is also connected for such a $G$ that is connected.) Chevalley proved that this is an equivalence of categories. More specifically, given a compact real Lie group $K$, he showed how to use the representation theory of $K$ to functorially construct a linear algebraic $\mathbf{R}$-group $K^{\rm{alg}}$ whose Lie group of $\mathbf{R}$-points is naturally isomorphic to $K$ (so $K^{\rm{alg}}$ must be reductive and $\mathbf{R}$-anisotropic, for reasons noted above). The construction shows also that every connected component of $K^{\rm{alg}}$ has an $\mathbf{R}$-point, and clearly $K^{\rm{alg}}$ is connected if $K$ is connected. That much is proved in the book by Brocker and tom Dieck. Using some input from the algebraic side (especially the fact that a semisimple Lie subalgebra of the Lie algebra of a linear algebraic group over a field $k$ of characteristic 0 is the Lie algebra of a unique connected closed $k$-subgroup which moreover is semisimple, so over $\mathbf{R}$ these "exponentiate" to closed $\mathbf{R}$-subgroups), one can show that it really inverts the functor of $\mathbf{R}$-points on the full subcategory of $\mathbf{R}$-anisotropic reductive $\mathbf{R}$-groups whose connected components all have $\mathbf{R}$-points.
To summarize, incorporating topological aspects:
Theorem (Chevalley) The category of compact Lie groups is equivalent to the category of $\mathbf{R}$-anisotropic reductive $\mathbf{R}$-groups whose connected components have $\mathbf{R}$-points, and if $G$ is such an $\mathbf{R}$-group then $G^0(\mathbf{R}) = G(\mathbf{R})^0$. The $\mathbf{R}$-group $G$ is semisimple if and only if $G(\mathbf{R})$ has finite center, and in such cases $G^0$ is simply connected in the sense of algebraic groups if and only if $G(\mathbf{R})^0$ is simply connected in the sense of topology.
Remark: The anisotropicity hypothesis is crucial. For example, if $n > 1$ is odd then ${\rm{SL}} _n \rightarrow {\rm{PGL}} _n$ is a degree-$n$ isogeny of $\mathbf{R}$-groups (so not an isomorphism) which induces an isomorphism on $\mathbf{R}$-points.
For any $G$ as in the Theorem, one can show that $G(\mathbf{C})$ contains $G(\mathbf{R})$ as a maximal compact subgroup, and that this is a "complexification" of $G(\mathbf{R})$ in the sense of being initial among complex Lie groups equipped with a homomorphism from $G(\mathbf{R})$. Using this and passing to the connected case, one shows that every $\mathbf{R}$-split connected reductive $\mathbf{R}$-group admits a unique "$\mathbf{R}$-anisotropic form" (usually called "compact form"), and this correspondence is also functorial if we keep track of a choice of suitable maximal torus. But the algebraic theory provides an equivalence between the category of pairs $(G,T)$ consistng of split connected reductive groups $G$ equipped with a choice of split maximal torus $T$ over any field, with isogenies as morphisms, and the category of root data with (a suitable notion of) "isogenies" as morphisms. This recovers exactly the classification of compact connected Lie groups (equipped with a maximal torus) in terms of root data as was mentioned in the other answers.
Of course, this is a much longer route to the punchline, and I am not recommending it as a good way to learn the classification of compact Lie groups in terms of root data (though it would not be circular to do so). But there is something remarkable about the direct link between compact Lie groups and algebraic groups (allowing disconnectedness as well, and no specified maximal torus), not defined by going through the crutch of root data and Lie algebras. Historically the case of compact groups was a very important guide for Borel and Tits and others when developing the structure theory for connected reductive groups, and the above result "explains" a posteriori why this case was such an excellent guide to the general case.
There is a clear, self-contained classification of compact, connected Lie groups in "Lie Groups: An Approach through Invariants and Representations" by Claudio Procesi. See Chapter 10, Section 7.2, Theorem 4, page 380. It says such a group is of the form $K_1\times\dots\times K_n\times T/Z$ where each $K_i$ is connected, compact, and simply connected, $T=(S^1)^m$ is a compact torus, and $Z$ is a finite subgroup of the center satisfying $Z\cap T=1$. Furthermore two such groups $K_1\times\dots\times T/Z$ and $K'_1\times\dots\times T'/Z'$ are isomorphic if and only if there is an isomorphism $K_1\times\dots\times T\rightarrow K'_1\times\dots\times T'$ taking $Z$ to $Z'$. Note that the numerator is specified by a list of types $A_n,B_n,\dots, E_8$ and the integer $m$. The result is obtained from a bijection between compact connected and reductive algebraic groups, and is equivalent to the classification by root data.
For example there are precisely $3$ compact groups of rank 2 and semisimple rank 1:
$SU(2)\times S^1$ ($Z=1$)
$SO(3)\times S^1$ ($Z=\langle -I,1\rangle$)
$U(2)=SU(2)\times S^1/\langle (-I,-1)\rangle$.
For another example the following two groups are not isomorphic, where $\zeta=e^{2\pi i/5}$:
$SU(5)\times S^1/\langle(\zeta I, \zeta)\rangle \simeq U(5)$
$SU(5)\times S^1/\langle(\zeta I,\zeta^2)\rangle$
The answers given are useful. Naturally some care always has to be taken with the connectedness question, since finite groups might be regarded as compact Lie groups or as algebraic groups. Then a full classification becomes unreasonable. On the other hand, some compact groups or algebraic groups occur most naturally as disconnected groups with an interesting component group.
I don't know if it's appropriate to link to self-advertise here. So at the risk of a minor faux pas, my edited notes from the Lie Groups class taught by Prof. Mark Haiman are available here. The bulk of the notes is the classification of complex semisimple Lie groups. For compact ones, follow the same argument, but add one fact: a simple group over R is compact iff the Killing form is negative definite.
In case one should not post one's own notes, here are some by Anton from the previous year. These include a bit more on real forms, and a bit less on the non-semisimple groups.
There's a concept called a root datum, which consists of an integer lattice and its dual, together with distinguished subsets (roots and coroots) satisfying some simple properties.
The theorem (I think!) is: isomorphism classes of compact connected Lie groups are in one-to-one correspondence with isomorphism classes of root data.
In particular, you can read off all sorts of information about your Lie group from it's root datum: Weyl group, Dynkin diagram, center, fundamental group, etc.
Unfortunately, root data only ever seem to be discussed in the context of algebraic groups; I've never seen an elementary treatment which talks about root data for compact Lie groups without reference to the algebraic group case.
Classification seems hard, and revolves around extension problems, which are often intractable. Years ago, I was able to prove that there are only countably many compact Lie groups. This is immediate from structure theory in the connected case, but took me some effort for disconnected compact Lie groups. I've always wondered if there's an easy way to prove this.

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The 15 Worst Celebrity Parents of 2007April Peveteaux and Liz Nadybal
Let's just say, this year, these Moms and Dads won't be taking home any parenting awards.
Britney Spears
It's Britney, bitch! The young Miss Spears is a drinking, drugging, soda pop pushing, nekkid, crotch-showing, devil-may-care behind the wheel kind of gal. While this has provided all of us with endless hours of entertainment, one look at the sweet little grubby faces of Sean Preston and Jayden James takes all the schadenfreude out of this American nightmare. It's about the children, Brit. It's about the children. Lest you think Britney has no allies besides the "Leave Britney Alone!" screamer, check this out.
Kevin Federline
How did this guy get fatherhood props? K-Fed has also got to shoulder some blame in this familial train wreck instead of sitting back and playing video games with his toddlers, which of course looks good compared to naked trips to Starbucks, but is still far from Dr. Spock. The dude has four kids and no job other than holding the world record in finger-crossing as the courts get closer to announcing how much of Britney's money he's going to be carrying off. And don't tell us he had no idea what madcap antics were going on in his house and his wife's car. The parenting mistakes are not one-sided here. Kevin, you need to Step. It. Up.
Heather Mills
It's true that the former Mrs. McCartney has been vilified in the press after her break-up with the cute one. But throwing $200,000 birthday parties for her four year-old (money that perhaps would be better spent on therapy), and giving a public demonstration of her own mental illness, did not endear her to the masses or promote a safe environment for little Beatrice. To perpetuate the crazy, Mills recently hired a new French "aristocrat" publicist and enemy of Barbara Walters, Michele Elyzabeth, who blogs about Heather alongside her dog and some random hair dresser to the stars. Hey Heather, how about throwing some of that Beatle money into parenting classes instead of supporting a crazy Frenchie not seen since the likes of Zinedine Zidane?
Dog the Bounty Hunter
What does your dad have to do to you in order to make you publicly humiliate him and cut off all that TV money? Dog's son, Tucker the Bounty Hunter, turned in the tape of Dog spewing nasty racist remarks and promptly got the reality show star dressed down. Dog says he was trying to warn off Tucker from his son's girlfriend who is black and apparently a bad influence on the recently paroled twenty-year-old, and apparently needed to be a complete dirt bag while doing so. Still, you've gotta think that something else was going on in that household that caused Tucker to destroy it from the inside. Hmmm, let's take a stab that it's something less Shakespearan and more corporal punishment-like, yes?
O.J. Simpson
While killing the mother of one's children should qualify a person for worst parent of all time, since the glove didn't fit, we'll just play along with that not-guilty verdict for now. But we're starting to think that O.J. wants to go to prison. First Simpson decides to muse about the double murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in his fantasy tell-all, If I Did It. But apparently the book advance couldn't cover the rising cost of Simpson's Oxycontin addiction/child care, so The Juice decided to sell some of his football memorabilia after retrieving it at gunpoint. Does anyone else think these children would be much better served if the authorities just went ahead and locked that man up?
Courtney Love
Courtney Love is a whole lot of mess, which doesn't necessarily have to translate into bad parenting, but in this case, it does. She took heroin during her pregnancy, according to a Vanity Fair article which she now refutes. In 2003, she overdosed on the celebrity drug of choice, Oxycontin, and was arrested for possession, resulting in the loss of custody of then eleven-year-old Francis Bean. In addition to a wildly unstable home life, Francis Bean has to live in a world where mom's misspelled/misguided blog is available to everyone with a MySpace account.
Kate Moss
Letting a public and messy drug addict hang out with your toddler qualifies as shaky judgment, at best. But Pete Doherty isn't the only bad influence in Moss' young daughters' life. Moss can hold her own in the seemingly popular arena of drug-influenced parenting. After being busted for cocaine possession, Moss started what will surely be a long line of self-esteem-destroying disappointments for her daughter Grace, when she reportedly missed her third birthday due to the requisite rehab stay. But at least Moss was cleaning up, cuz we've got Jo Frost on speed dial.
David Hasselhoff
The Hoff is no stranger to booze. Booze and burgers, that is. Having gone through rehab, he asked his (presumably mortified) daughters to film him if he ever fell off the wagon. Being the co-dependent children of an addict, they complied and daughter Taylor Ann caught this beauty. As if his music videos were not enough of an embarrassment. The video made its way onto Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, and other celebrity news outlets. Losing visitation rights
Flava Flav
Flava Flav may know what time it is, but does he know his kids' names and their mothers' names? Coming in at seven, from three different mothers, this man can't finish a thought but apparently he can finish when it counts. And when one of Flav's offspring showed up on camera on his own reality show, wearing a "Winning Against Deadbeat Dads" shirt, it became clear that Flav was not picking up the bill for Gymboree classes. Flav has also had his driver's license revoked forty-eight times, so you know he's not taking those kids out for a Sunday drive either. Tragically, we could see more Baby Flav's come about as a result of the latest season of Flavor of Love.
Larry Birkhead
I told you so!" were the first words from Larry Birkhead, who was presumably channeling a twelve-year-old boy, as he found out he was indeed the biological father of Danielynn, the daughter of Anna Nicole Smith. While most new parents would be holding their offspring tight and taking them out of harm's way, Birkhead was securing "exclusive" interviews and photo ops. There was plenty of sordid behavior by all the players in this very special episode of Montel, but we were all praying for a little normality for baby Danielynn, whose life began with the death of her half-brother, Daniel, and continues in the custody of (gay? sperm-mixing? friends with benefits to Howard K. Stern?) Birkhead.
Alec Baldwin
In the past year, Alec Baldwin has become a famous asshole thanks to his vitriolic voice mail to his eleven-year-old daughter. While most parents could relate to going nuts on occasion with their kids, the thing that shocked the public was the barnyard talk. Alec calls his daughter "a thoughtless, rude little pig." Naturally, the tape was leaked by ex-wife Kim Basinger to use in the custody battle. And putting her daughter's personal humiliation out there for the world to hear doesn't exactly qualify Basinger for mother of the year.
Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards
Booze, drugs and hookers are no stranger to Mr. Charles Sheen – and becoming a father to two adorable girls with mom Denise Richards did not seem to be enough to make the Sheen/Estevez black sheep change his ways. You know things are all kinds of effed up when you're taking your two- and three-year-old babies to therapy. Hmm, could it be the seriously nasty divorce proceedings with accusations from molestation to sperm stealing being tossed around? Sadly, this leaves the kids all alone with their Wild Things and Men at Work DVDs.
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown
"Crack is whack!" So says former diva and current mess, Whitney Houston. Apparently when the money ran out for the non-whack coke, pot and booze, the Browns decided to make some quick cash by letting the world see why child protective services should be called, and pronto. We all wanted to form an intervention, and apparently the Houston family made it happen because Whit came in and out of rehab and dumped that chump, resulting in the nasty custody battle that still wages. Still, visions of the two of them slurring singing in the hotel gift shop will haunt their daughter, Bobbi Kris, forever. Or maybe that's just us . . .


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Every once in a while, my iPod does a spectacular job at shuffling the perfect set of songs. Is there any way to save this sequence to a playlist so I can replay it again in the future?
You have two options.
1. On-the-road compatible, but not so user-friendy
They will be kept in sort order, and the playlist will be synced to iTunes for future use.
2. Much easier, but with listening limitations
The only problem with this solution is that if you listen to one of the songs that were in your set, it will have its Last played field updated, and won't be in the proper place… So this solution is usable only if you can sync pretty quickly after listening to the set, or can remember a few songs' positions, or if you avoid listening to them altogether before the next sync.
From any list of songs in iTunes (like for example, when you're on iTunes DJ) you can select the range of songs by clicking while holding the Shift key. Once all songs are highlighted you can go the File menu and select New Playlist From Selection. A new playlist will be shown at the bottom of the Playlist section containing the exact same song selection and ordering. Hope this helps.
But there is laborous workaround: If you don't use star rating normaly or using it but never use one star (or two) then go through every song that was playing during shuffle and star them.
After that sync to iTunes, create a Smart Playlist and sort it by the last played column. If you need to sync it back to iPod choose Copy to Play Order. More on this here.


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Being very fond of free prizes (:-) i really thought i should add a message saying i just ordered a NN5L after several hours of research (like 60 or so over the last two months), the main competition was the Manfrotto 303 Plus which would have ended at about the same price as the NN5L with shipping and everything, but the NN has the advantage of vertical shooting which the 303 SPH has at a 40% higher price. Also the NN has recieved alot of good reviews and this forum shows a great deal of interest in me as a customer so i actaully feel safer buying a NN5L from you, half a world away, than a 303 from the local reseller, 15 kilometers away.
One thing, and the main point of this message, was i found it a bit hard to order. I ended up ordering directly from nodalninja.com which was easy enough but a more local reseller would have been good. The ones in UK was about 25% more expensive, even including that i will have to pay toll fees and VAT, the Germans likewise. One Italian reseller had competitive prices but lacked in information and being that ordering from the states was only about 10% more expensive i decided better safe than sorry. Also i wasn't sure if the $50 upgrade to full NN5 would be offered to buyers from local resellers, again, better safe than sorry.
Moing along to my main point. I will definately have a talk with my usual store, one of the largest resellers of photo equipment in Sweden, Scandinavian Photo, and see if they wouldn't be interested in adding your products to their lineup. Perhaps you could contact them as well?
Their email address is email@example.com, which can be found at the bottom of their site, www.scandinavianphoto.se, also their phone number is +46 36 37 68 00, which can be found at the very top and right next to the search feature on their site.
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STEUBENVILLE — The alleged victim continued her testimony late this afternoon in the juvenile rape case being heard at the Jefferson County Justice Center ....
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I want to know what it exactly means when it is said the modes of vibration are Orthogonal.I understand what it means mathematically but what is its physical interpretation?
Concepts rather than math? Let me give this a shot:
By orthogonal modes of vibration, they mean that you cannot construct any one mode with any linear combination of the others. Moreover, you can't even construct part of one mode through any linear combination of the others.
What does that mean?
I'm going to have to get a little mathy here for the concept, but I hope it still works: Consider the modes, $f_0 = 1$, $f_1 = cos(\omega t)$, $f_2 = sin(\omega t)$, $f_3 = cos(2 \omega t)$ and $f_4 = sin(2 \omega t)$. This corresponds to holding steady, vibrating at a fundamental, vibrating at a fundamental of a different phase, and vibrating at twice the fundamental in two phases.
There's no way you can construct any one of these from a linear combination of all or some of the others. No linear combination of, say, $A f_1 + B f_2$, where $A$ and $B$ are constants, will give you $f_3$. You'll just get something that looks like $C sin(\omega t - \phi)$ (where, again, $C$ and $\phi$ are constants whose values I'm not calculating here).
On the other hand, consider $sin^2(\omega t)$. This might look orthogonal to our functions above, but really it's not, because it's a linear combination of $f_0$ and $f_1$: $sin^2(\omega t) = \frac{1 - 2 cos(\omega t)} {2} = \frac {f_0 + f_1} {2}$. So any orthogonal system of vibrations that included $sin^2(\omega t)$ could not include either $f_0$ or $f_1$. On the other hand, it is orthogonal to $f_2$, $f_3$, and $f_4$. The system one puts together, however, must include modes that are totally orthogonal to all other modes. They usually also try for "completeness" (being able to describe any arbitrary function with a linear combination of base modes) and "normality" (each mode has, in some sense, an "amplitude" of 1), but that stuff is beyond the concept of orthogonality.
I've tried to make this as non-mathy as possible, with really only moderate success; I hope it helps!.
It means that they cannot "interfere" basically, since two orthogonal modes are not at all "similar", aka the if one mode is projected to an orthogonal one, the result is "zero".
It also means, that for any other arbitrary function in the span of the orthogonal modes, you can write that arbitrary function as a weighted sum of those orthogonal modes uniquely! So you can identify an arbitrary function with some (possibly infinite) string of numbers corresponding to the weights!
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Suppose that we have some basis functions $f({\bf{r}}), g({\bf{r}})$, and some superposition (addition) of those functions $h({\bf{r}}) = \alpha f({\bf{r}})+\beta g({\bf{r}})$. Then usually the energy is found through the norm, i.e., $$ \|h({\bf{r}})\|=\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} h({\bf{r}})h^*({\bf{r}})d^n r $$ where ${\bf{r}} \in \mathbb{R}^n$, $\alpha,\beta\in \mathbb{C}$ and the integral above is $n$ integrals, each over infinity. If we expand $h({\bf{r}})$, then we get $$ \|h({\bf{r}})\|=\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} [\alpha f({\bf{r}})+\beta g({\bf{r}})][\alpha^* f^*({\bf{r}})+\beta^* g^*({\bf{r}})]d^n r\\ =|\alpha|^2\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} f({\bf{r}})f^*({\bf{r}})d^n r+|\beta|^2\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} g({\bf{r}})g^*({\bf{r}})d^n r\\ =|\alpha|^2\|f({\bf{r}})\| + |\beta|^2\|g({\bf{r}})\|, $$ since $$ \alpha\beta^*\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} f({\bf{r}})g^*({\bf{r}})d^n r=0\\ \alpha^*\beta\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} f^*({\bf{r}})g({\bf{r}})d^n r=0 $$ by the orthogonality. So when energy is defined this way (it often is) then the energies contributed by orthogonal modes do indeed add and contribute individually to the system.


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If a man needs to be brought to the hospital on Shabbat due to a life threatening situation, another man may bring him there even by violating biblical Shabbat prohibitions (e.g. driving a car). Which prohibitions (such as driving or Techum Shabbos) can the second man violate to return home on Shabbat, if any?
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I too must echo YS that this must be discussed with one's own halachic authority if it is a practical concern (as my teacher instructed us when teaching this topic).
Rav Moshe Feinstein zt'l ruled that one may return in order that one is able to assist the next time (I have not studied this inside but a quick glance and the secondary literature would seem to suggest that this leniency might be limited to professionals). Igros Moshe O.C. 4:80
Rabbi Ostroff has said that Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Aurbauch zt'l prohibited one from violating a Torah prohibition to return from an emergency call on Shabbos, but permitted violating a Rabbinic prohibition (i.e. instructing a non-Jew to drive oneself home). It would seem that Rav Yitzchak Yosef shlita also prohibits driving home oneself (Yalkut Yosef 328 page 208, cited in Practical Laws of Shabbat Part 2, Rabbi Rafael Cohen Soae, page 224).
One who has gone to retrieve a doctor may return with him to help show the most direct way and/or otherwise assist (Yalkut Yosef 328 page 210).
I would think that it would be forbidden in most circumstance, but I thought of one that might permit it. Here goes. Would it make a difference if the person driving the choleh to the hospital would otherwise not agree to drive him unless it was on condition that he could get a heter to drive back home afterwards? I think that if so, and assuming you couldn't find anyone else to drive the choleh, it would be permissible to let him drive back because otherwise there is a pikuach nefesh problem and he would die, ch"v.
To give a real example of the situation that Adam Moshe raised as a theoretical possibility:
I was not raised Orthodox (what would now be considered Traditional Halachic Conservative) but I encountered this situation once in my childhood - my sister was injured on Shabbat and my mother, without hesitation, bundled us all into the car and drove her to the hospital; clearly permissible, as this was the fastest way to get my sister to the hospital.
If it were not permissible to drive all of us home from the hospital (and remember that this was in the days before mobile phones, and even before 911) my mother might have hesitated over the logistics of getting my sister to the hospital while dealing with other small children too young to be left alone. Might have hesitated long enough to have affected my sister's health.
(I believe that it is completely irrelevant to the halachic question that my sister's injury turned out to be far less serious than it looked; I include this fact only to reassure the community that I am not sharing the sensitive story of some horrible tragedy from my past.)
If it is practical to reduce the degree to which you break Shabbat to deal with a medical emergency that should be done, but in practice "take someone to the hospital" may need to include "and bring them home afterwards."
After prompting by helpful commenters below I found this:
Eruvin 45 "ALL WHO GO OUT (beyond the Shabbat limit) [IN ORDER] TO SAVE LIFE MAY RETURN TO THEIR ORIGINAL PLACES." as quoted in talmudtweets.blogspot.com/2013/04/eruvin-45-national-guard.html
That seems to be mostly dealing with midwives carrying the tools of their occupation and militia members who are permitted to carry weapons home after dealing with an incursion (as otherwise clever foes learned to attack militia members walking home empty-handed.)


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6 Great Action Heroes (Who Should Be Convicted of Murder)
There's a reason action movies don't zoom in on the awesome explosions close enough to see the dozens of innocent burn victims in the vicinity. Nobody wants to get dragged down by the plight of these nobodies.
But still, some action heroes take the collateral damage (and lack of concern for it) to a level that blurs the line between hero and villain, and probably wouldn't have looked so good in a court of law.
#6. Neo from The Matrix
If you ask any Matrix fan about their favorite part of the film, their answer will invariably involve Keanu Reeves's breathtaking performance as Neo. From the inspiring "I know kung fu" speech to his tender and heartfelt "whoa" monologue, his brilliant and multifaceted portrayal made Neo a compelling symbol of humanity at its best, alive and vibrant in a world dominated by oppressive machines.
Also, it was totally awesome when he killed all those guys in slow-motion.
So What's the Problem?
So when Neo's mentor Morpheus gets captured by the bad guys, Neo responds by arming himself with an arsenal larger than that of most developing nations, slaughtering a cluster of security guards before they can even draw their guns, before dropping a bomb on the ground floor of the building just in case there were a few errant cockroaches that weren't killed in the earlier carnage.
Wachowski brothers fans have noted the deliberate parallels between the messianic Neo and the Biblical story of the moneychangers in the temple, in which Christ pulled out a Beretta and killed about 50 security guards.
The thing is, it's explained early in the movie that there are bad guys who are entirely computer-generated (the "Agents") and then there are regular people who, when they get shot in the Matrix, die in real life. And those security guards were the latter.
Yet, for some reason it's played so that Neo is totally free from any guilt over killing a bunch of people, instead of just generating a helicopter and grabbing Morpheus from the top floor. You know, like they wind up doing anyway.
Or, if that wasn't an option, instead of walking in with machine guns, show up with canisters of gas that would render everyone unconscious. Sure it wouldn't have looked nearly as awesome as the guns, but at least it wouldn't have felt as wasteful (of both human life and ammo). So at the end of the day the lesson is apparently that it doesn't matter how many civilians you kill as long as you make sure that you look as cool as possible while doing it.
Of course, there's also the rationale that Neo was fighting for the greater good of freeing humanity from the Matrix. And thanks to the sacrifice he forced those security guards to make, their families could now be free to starve in a filthy underground city while being relentlessly pursued by killer robots.
#5. The Fantastic Four from Fantastic Four
They're superheroes, they're in a summer action movie, it's sort of assumed we in the audience are going to be on their side. It helps that Jessica Alba is on that side too.
So What's the Problem?
Literally every single problem in this entire movie can be traced directly to the Fantastic Four's general incompetence. Don't believe us? Just take the scene when the Thing, in a bold act of heroism, saves a man from being hit by a car by causing a massive car accident that almost certainly killed the driver, and killed him in a way that his widow will never be able to adequately explain.
It gets better. In order to distract the crowd that has gathered at the accident site, the Four decide to spark a huge explosion. Amazingly, this well thought-out plan turns out catastrophically and the resulting blast nearly kills everyone on the bridge.
There's probably a deleted scene in which Mr. Fantastic attempts to pull a kitten out of a tree and winds up causing a nuclear meltdown.
You know, you never see Batman doing stuff like this, and he doesn't even have three superpowered teammates to pitch in. And at least when the Hulk damages property, he's doing it on purpose.
When the Fantastic Four finally confront their nemesis Doctor Doom for the heroic cause of saving their own asses, the only reason they prevail is that these heroic underdogs outnumber the villain 4-1.
The Fantastic Four do learn their lesson though, and in the sequel they basically step back and let the Silver Surfer save the world for them, probably saving countless innocent lives in the process, though not as many as they'd have saved if they'd just stayed home from the beginning.
#4. Ellen Ripley from Alien Resurrection
By the time of Alien Resurrection's release, Ellen Ripley was already one of the most beloved characters in science fiction history, following an epic arc from an escape from the first vicious alien, to her fierce battle with an alien army and their queen, all the way to her final confrontation with a single alien puppy.
So What's the Problem?
In a revolutionary new direction for the alien series, in part four Ripley and her unruly crew of extras are trapped in outer space with a swarm of aliens. When confronted with the problem of how to destroy them, our heroes carefully consider their options and decide that the best course of action would be to crash the ship into earth. After all, if you have to die, you might as well take out as many innocent bystanders as possible.
Of course, they manage to kill the main alien by blasting it into the vacuum of space (didn't see that coming did you?) which means that they basically blew up who knows how many people on the ground for no reason at all, other than maybe to justify a special effects budget.
Joss Whedon's script doesn't exactly help make Ripley more sympathetic. While excessively clever dialog might be tolerable coming from the teenagers on Buffy, glib one-liners probably aren't the best way to inform someone that they have been infected with a horrific parasite that will soon burrow its way out of their chest, killing them in the most agonizing way possible.


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- Backplate Height: 10.75"
- Backplate Width: 6.5"
- Weight: 26 lbs.
- Number of Bulbs: 1
- Bulb Base: Medium (E26)
- Bulb Type: Incandescent
- Bulb Included: No
- Wattage: 100
- Voltage: 120
- Energy Star: No
- Photocell: No
- Dark Sky: No
- Motion Sensor: No
- UL Listed: Yes
- UL Rating: Wet Location
Lamping Technology:
- Bulb Base - Medium (E26): The E26 (Edison 26mm), Medium Edison Screw, is the standard bulb used in 120-Volt applications in North America. E26 is the most common bulb type and is generally interchangeable with E27 bulbs.
- Compatible Bulb Types: Nearly all bulb types can be found for the E26 Medium Base, options include Incandescent, Fluorescent, LED, Halogen, and Xenon / Krypton.
- UL Listed - Indicates whether a product meets standards and compliance guidelines set by Underwriters Laboratories. This listing determines what types of rooms or environments a product can be used in safely.
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6 Questions from the Community
There are screws in the top crown of the fixture that you unscrew and the glass will drop down to access the bulbs.
How do you change the light?
A. There are screws in the top crown of the fixture that you unscrew and the glass will drop down to access the bulbs.
The Craftmade Z1324 is 10" wide by 26" tall with an extension of about 13".
What is the size?
A. The Craftmade Z1324 is 10" wide by 26" tall with an extension of about 13".
It is recommended to use the incandescent light bubls for the Craftmade Z1324.
Can flourescent bulbs be used instead of incandescent lights in the Z1324?
A. It is recommended to use the incandescent light bubls for the Craftmade Z1324.
The Craftmade Z1324 is made of cast aluminum with a bronze finish over it.
Is the aged bronze finish over a plastic product?
A. The Craftmade Z1324 is made of cast aluminum with a bronze finish over it.
Thank you for your question! The extension is how far out the light sticks out from the wall.
what does extension mean
A. Thank you for your question! The extension is how far out the light sticks out from the wall.
The Craftmade Z1324 backplate dimensions are 6.5" by 10.75".
What are the backplate dimensions?
A. The Craftmade Z1324 backplate dimensions are 6.5" by 10.75".
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Craftmade warrants against defects in materials or workmanship for a minimum of TWO (2) YEARS from date of purchase for use, and agrees to repair or, at our option, replace a defective unit without charge.
IMPORTANT: This Warranty does not cover damage resulting from accident, misuse or abuse, lack of reasonable care (as listed on the instructions), the affixing of any attachment not provided with the product, alteration of any attachments factory installed, loss of parts or subjecting the fixture to any but the specified electrical service.
This warranty does not cover failure of bulbs due to accidents, abuse, misuse, vandalism, power surges, and acts of nature such as lightning damage or any bulbs purchased separately and installed by the consumer or any damage to the fixture caused by a separately purchased bulb.
No responsibility is assumed for any special incidental or consequential damages. Damages occurring during transit are not covered by this warranty.
To obtain warranty service, mail sales receipt as proof of purchase-date, and a brief explanation of the nature of the defect, to P.O. Box 1037, Coppell, TX 75019. You will receive, by mail, a Return Goods Authorization number issued by Craftmade, and returned freight prepaid.


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some selected STAC courses in 2011-12:
Our courses change depending upon the unique focus of our faculty and their research. The selection of courses will vary from year to year. There are a number of new course offerings for 2011-12. Students' programs are conceived with the Faculty Advisor in order to take advantage of this variety.
Critical Practice in the Fine and Performing Arts
Interdisciplinary approach to key ideas about music, art, dance and drama through critical readings and guided exposure to selected public fine and performing art events. Exploration of issues in aesthetics and criticism using varied theoretical approaches.
Embodied Text: Art Beyond the Artifact
How art functions outside the conventions associated with words, texts, paintings and scores. Experiencing musical, visual, movement, and theatre vocabularies through exploration of spatial/temporal/aesthetic/embodied forms of art in performance.
STAC 3M07 and 3M08
Creative Cities of Culture: New York
Creative and performance aspects of New York City and environs. Emphasis on the urban spectacle, cultural assets and policy, presentation, production and management. Examination of public space, architecture, cultural generation, and the interaction between art forms, context and the city.
Creative Cities of Culture: Montreal
Media Transformations in The Creative Arts
The trajectory and influences of new media on the development of and discourses in 20th Century and contemporary creative production including the arts, broadcast, film, video, and electronic arenas such as the internet, games and interactive media. Overview of fundamental concepts, practices and language. Consideration of aesthetics, production, script and story, direction, authorship, collaborative process and distribution.
Dramatic Creation for Contemporary Cultural Practice
Components of dramatic story. Understanding character, dramatic action, structure, direction, improvisation, tempo, rhythm, voice and body potential. Theory and practical application in projects for creators in the arts, media and film.
Producing a Performance Event
(also offered as DART 3P93)
Functions of management: planning, organizing, leading and controlling in creation of a performance-based cultural event. Budget development, site selection and development, co-ordination of creative and production priorities, marketing, publicity and fund-raising, and analysis of measurement tools.
Interpretive and Critical Writing in the Arts
Principles and methodologies for the written presentation and representation of works of art, artists' practice and events within general and specific disciplinary contexts, discourses and frameworks. Examples from across the arts; practice based projects from real world events and performances. Orientation to specialized publics in print and other media.
Arts Management
Effective management of arts organizations to fulfill social and artistic mandates.
Honours Thesis
Critical, historical or creative project in the fine or performing arts of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Creating Social Value from Material Culture
(also offered as IASC 4P01)
Theory and practice of creating social value from material culture. Curatorial and interpretive practice in public institutions focusing on art, human and natural history, and science and technology. Informal learning theory, authority structures and community engagement, audience segmentation and selection, exhibit design, and collections development within social and political contexts.
Arts, Heritage and Culture: Public Policy and Governance
Examination of federal, provincial and municipal intervention in and support for the fine and performing arts and their cultural production. Strategies for effective engagement of policy through governance and philanthropy.
2011-2012: Contemporary Phototextuality
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Contemporary artists' narratives and literature with photographs: interactions of image and text, and moving image. Theoretical, creative and applied aspects, and text and visual analysis. Interdisciplinary focus on Canadian authors and artists. May include Sophie Calle, Andrée Christensen, Milutin Gubash, Never Lopez and Catherine Owen.
Interested students should be sure to check out the Calendar Course offerings of Studies in Arts and Culture, Visual Arts, Dramatic Arts, Music, and the other affiliated Departments and Centres.
Students of Brock, mix it up in arts and culture!
Broaden your horizons and make new connections with like-minded students and professors of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts while pursuing studies relevant to your program and area of interest.
Take a look at some of the new and innovative cross-listed course offerings from the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture that you should consider when planning your academic elective courses for 2011.
cross-listed courses in 2011-12:
(cross-listed courses are identified with the STAC prefix but are offered by sister-departments and programs and are part of the STAC project. There are a number of new course offerings for 2011-12, particularly in the digital arts and management field.)
Web Media Production
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Principles of website creation and design. Formatting, lists, images, links and tables with HTML. Web colour and graphics formats with Photoshop, Typography and layout with CSS. Button, rollovers and forms with JavaScript. Introduction to animation and sound with Flash. Usability, accessibility and interactivity. Creation of public interactive web based projects.
Introduction to Digital Images, Methods and Concepts
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Technical foundations of digital images, media methods and concepts including web-based, digital photography, image processing software, and printing foundations of digital media in video, audio and computational production and post-production. Contemporary digital practices within the broader history of visual and media arts.
Website Creation
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Creative approaches to basic technical and design foundations of website design and development. Processing and management of images and other media assets, structuring websites, development tools and applications, web hosting and dissemination strategies. Contemporary web-based art practices within the broader history of cultural production.
Innovations in Advanced Digital Media
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Introduction to advanced interactvie media concepts and visualization technologies. Design and workflow issues and integration of visual effects and 3D animations with live action media. May include motion capture, 3D and 2D animation, HD, 2K anf 4K live action video and 3D graphics software.
Expanded Video Process and Production
(also offered as IASC 3P10, VISA 3P10)
Practical and conceptual strategies in moving image production using digital video capture, other time-based media and emerging technologies. Contextualization in contemporary discourses. Script, location, directing actors, sequence, production design, planning and process, editing and effects.
Imitation in Art and Culture
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Imitation in Western visual art and culture form Plato to postmodernism focusing on the Renaissance and the modern period.
Appropriation in Art and Culture
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Authorship and appropriation in visual and literary culture. Topics include the historical development of the notions of the artist, copyright and plagiarism, quotation, parody and intertextuality, the role of found objects, collage and montage, and the significance of digital technologies. Historical and contemporary examples from a wide range of media.
Reporting Arts and Culture
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Contexts, genres, conventions, and practices of arts journalism in Canada; critical reading of selected texts in arts journalism; practical experience researching and writing arts news, reviews, features, and publicity for print and electronic media.
Innovations in Advanced Digital Media
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Introduction to advanced interactive media concepts and visualization technologies. Design and workflow issues and integration of visual effects and 3D animations with live action media. May include motion capture, 3D and 2D animation, HD, 2K and 4K live action video and 3D graphics software.
Curatorial Studies Practicum
Practical application of the critical and theoretical aspects of curating. Research and organization of an exhibition from proposal, thesis, work-plan, budget, marketing and program plan to dissemination and presentation of works of art within a professional gallery.
Forbidden Knowledge, Dangerous Art
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Works of art, literature, philosophy and science that were banned for religious, moral or political reasons.


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I've been trying to get my head around the various types of epimorphisms you get in category theory, but I can't see why anyone uses "extremal" epis as opposed to the slightly less general notion of "strong" epis.
Every strong epi is extremal; extremal epis can be proved strong if you have pullbacks; so the notions coincide in pretty much any category you're likely to be working in. So for instance in Top the extremal epis = strong epis = quotient maps (as opposed to any old surjective continuous map).
What's more, the definition of a "strong" epi arises naturally when you try to work out what conditions you need to put on an epi to get unique epi-monic factorisation. Try proving that Set has unique epi-monic factorisation, for instance; you'll end up proving a lemma that states all epis in Set are strong.
The definition of "extremal", in contrast, seems to come out of nowhere. So why bother with extremals at all? Is there any use or motivation for the definition, or is it just some kind of historical hangover?
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.


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I've got 2 raster maps (both with the same values: 0-100). After calculating the average I need to know how precise the map is. Is there any tool in QGis?
I try to explain my problem in another way:
I have 2 or maybe 3 percentaged raster maps. After putting together ((a+b+c)/3) I need to get a map that shows if the result map is statistically firm.
For instance: If all 3 maps have the same value in an area the result must be reliable/firm. If 2 maps have the same values and 1 map is totally different the result is a little bit unreliable. If 3 maps are totally different the result is unreliable.
I want to create a colored map (green, orange, red). I already have processed the average map!


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TORONTO - The city school district is changing its academic standards to help make it easier for city high school graduates to get into college.
The changes in the standards also will include a more aggressive curriculum for students before being able to be given school district honors, according to Maureen Taggart, Toronto High School principal and district communications coordinator.
"We needed to evaluate the curriculum at the high school and increase the rigor," said Taggart, adding the curriculum improvement will be in two stages beginning next school year. "We are establishing new eligibility standards for the (senior) top 10, valedictorian and salutatorian. We are phasing those eligibility requirements in."
Taggart said beginning in 2014, to be eligible for the top 10 a student must complete at least one class of advanced science - either chemistry, physics or anatomy - and successfully complete at least one class in a foreign language.
"These changes will be noted in students' handbooks for the next school year," said Taggart. "The standards will continue to increase as time goes on."
Beginning with this school year's freshmen, Taggart said students must participate in a scholars or honors program to be eligible for the senior top 10, valedictorian and salutatorian.
"The scholars program is going to focus on college readiness," said Taggart. "(Students will be required to take) the most rigorous and advanced courses in English, math, science and social studies."
By 2017, seniors also will have to take two years of a foreign language as well to be eligible for the top 10, valedictorian and salutatorian, Taggart continued.
"We're also going to have an honors program," said Taggart. "This program will meet the standards for an honors diploma in Ohio. (For the honors diploma) a student must have at least a 3.5 grade-point average or an ACT composite score of 27 or better."
The honors program will require that students take classes in chemistry I and physics, as well as taking additional classes in social studies and a foreign language, said Taggart. Students will receive an honors diploma along with it being noted on their grade transcript if they are successful, Taggart added.
"We've developed this four-year program for (students') ability to be an honors graduate and for college readiness," Taggart said. "It will help them enroll in a four-year college."


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The Stabene Society held its second-annual memorial six-course dinner in remembrance of the Rev. Edmundo Stabene on Oct. 18 at Scaffidi's Restaurant in Steubenville.
The more than 90 guests attending received a keepsake photo of Stabene along with his favorite prayer, "The Prayer of St. Francis," courtesy of honored guest Frances Fante. Guests also received a souvenir program provided by Dominic Potts, the society's founder and event moderator.
Monsignor Gerald Calovini of Holy Family Church gave the blessing and invocation, followed by Mena Potts introducing Martin Imbrosocio, a retired teacher who conducted the opening ceremony by reciting in Italian Stabene's favorite prayer, "The Prayer of St. Francis," then leading the audience in singing it.
Joe Pino, trained in classical voice, sang "Ave Maria," which he had sung at Stabene's funeral.
Dominic Potts welcomed those attending and explained the purpose of the society. Stabene, who died at age 92, had served more than 65 years in the priesthood, "always doing so perseveringly, indefatigably and unselfishly, making himself available to assist anyone on any occasion, at any time, at any place, regardless of the day of the week, the hour of the day or the time of night."
Potts said, "If we needed Father Stabene's comfort, prayers and solace, it mattered not to Father whether it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon or 3 o'clock in the morning - he was there. We knew he would be there. We knew we could count on his presence. Father remains a revered friend, spiritual icon and model of emulation for all of us in the society and beyond. He continues, in our memory, to be a paragon of nobility, ethicality and virtue. Having lighted a path and shown us the way in the past, we can now do so in his memory in the future," Potts said. "That's the purpose of the Stabene Society and the reason we gather and honor him tonight. We shall do so each year in the future on the anniversary of his death."
Mena Potts, founder and director of the Center for Dream Studies, was the first of several speakers, describing her long friendship with Stabene that began when she was a pupil at St. Anthony School. She also recalled how her parents, the late Emilio and Josephine Bernabei, provided food from their operation, Bernabei's Imported Foods, to the needy who Stabene helped over the years.
"Father was always there for his flock, assisting his parishioners during life's passages both joyous and sad," she said, remembering his generosity even in the weeks before his death how he organized a surprise birthday party for her, a memory she cherishes.
Carm Gentile, president of the Italian American Cultural Club, explained the organization established Stabene Scholarships in his memory, last year awarding five $1,000 scholarships.
Laura Meeks, president of Eastern Gateway Community College, recalled her warm welcome from Stabene when she first came to the area and how he consistently had one of the largest classes at the college when he taught Italian courses.
Brian Scarnecchia, founding president of the International Solidarity and Human Rights Institute and director of legal studies at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, recounted how he and his wife, Vickie, first met Stabene and enjoyed an endearing friendship to come.
Alphonse Ruggieri, radio host of the longtime "Italian Hour," recalled the inspiration and support of Stabene when Ruggieri receive a lifetime achievement award in 2009 from the Chamber of Commerce in Pescaro, Italy.
Mary Ellen Redington conducted an interlude call "Memories of Father," which gave others in attendance an opportunity to reminisce. She also joined with her husband, the Rev. Randall Redington, an ordained Catholic deacon for more than 29 years, in offering their memories.
The Reddingtons made a surprise presentation to the Dominic and Mena Potts - a statue of Jesus on the cross with open arms. It was given in appreciation of their effort to launch and perpetuate the Stabene Society.


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Been using Evernote for two years and as much as I love the ease of use and Twitter integration I find the UI ugly and hard to use. Anybody know of an alternative? One with social media and email integration. Thanks :)
Please limit your answers to apps that are under active development. My apologies for the vague question @Slavo.


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7 Jan 2013 5:42 AM #1
4.1.3 API Documentation - extremely slow
Any other here noticing extremely slow performance of the Documentation API v. 4.1.3 ?
For example - Chrome needs more than 10 seconds to load the API page for the grid panel, see the screenshot.
Is that normal?
the docs for 4.0.7 version does not have such a problem.
tested on chrome 23.0, same on FF 17.0.1 / win-32
7 Jan 2013 9:06 AM #2
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7 Jan 2013 2:12 PM #3
Plus, i have a feeling the bottleneck is with the icons from the screenshot...
8 Jan 2013 1:03 PM #4
This is driving me nuts. It is slow and freezes the browser (firefox 18.0 on mac) every time I open a tab of some heavy documented component like the List in Sencha Touch 2.1 docs. Try switching between List & DataView components to see what I'm talking about.
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7 Dec 2012 2:30 PM #1
Unanswered: [W] Obsolete warnings
I'm getting a ton of these [W] Obsolete warnings, but not info on what is obsolete.
I'd prefer not getting these warnings, how do I figure out how to resolve them?
I am using ExtJS 4.1
7 Dec 2012 9:14 PM #2
Easiest way to find out is to look at the file source and see what is raising the warning.
i.e. line 11505 of ext-all-dev.js if you click on the blue file name it should open the source file in debugger at the line position.
My guess is you maybe in your app somewhere using the functions - determineScrollbars or invalidateScroller on Ext.panel.Table
These two methods have been depreciated - hence the warning.
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Former Dobyns-Bennett standout Devaun Swafford, a walk-on true freshman, has been elevated to starter for Saturday's game against South Alabama.
Swafford has been listed as the back-up nickelback through the first four games this season. In the latest depth chart released Monday, he is listed as the starter ahead of JaRon Toney.
Swafford graduated from Dobyns-Bennett after a standout senior year. He followed teammate Malik Foreman to Tennessee as a walk-on, and has made the most of it.
Saturday against Florida Swafford returned his first career interception for a touchdown.
"Well Devaun is a great story," Tennessee head coach Butch Jones said Monday.
"Again, he's a walk-on who's done a tremendous job. When we were evaluating Malik Foreman, there was another individual who kept making plays on the film. So we kept asking about him and you know part of being a successful football program at this level is having a very successful walk-on program. He's an individual who's doing a tremendous job for us, again he's learning through fire – the good, the bad – but he's extremely competitive. He takes coaching and he's very athletic. As the season progresses we fully expect him to get better and progress as well."
Tennessee hosts South Alabama Saturday at noon. The game can be seen on News 5 WCYB.


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FORT BELVOIR, Va. (October 11, 2012)--An Army appeals court Thursday in Virginia was questioning whether accused Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan can be forcibly shaved before he goes on trial.
Judges on the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals also delved Thursday into a claim Hasan's lawyers that the judge who issued the order is biased and should be replaced.
Hasan's court-martial at Fort Hood is on hold for the appeal, which stems from Hasan's refusal to shave and the judge's insistence that he does.
The American-born Muslim psychiatrist says he grew the whiskers for religious reasons.
Army rules prohibit beards, but allow for religious exceptions.
Military judge Col. Gregory Gross rejected Hasan's religious arguments and ordered him forcibly shaved unless he shaves himself.
The judges didn't indicate when they might issue a ruling on the appeal, which may also be reviewed by the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder and faces the death penalty if convicted in the November 2009 shooting rampage at the post's Soldier Readiness Center.


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I'm aware that it is good to run
yum update from time to time to keep my Centos server updated, and I even see that there is way to automate this update. My question is, is it necessary to restart the server after the update? Is it a good idea? What happens if I keep updating and never restart?
So from the answers, I believe it is correct to say that I need to restart the server if the Kernel, libc, glibc has been updated. Alternatively use KSplice.