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Thursday night 4 On Your Side was the first to tell you about claims of abuse, child slavery, and disturbing torture by boys who once lived on the ranch. The next morning, New Mexico State Police and Children Youth & Families Dept. investigators went to the ranch to execute a search warrant and remove all the boys from the property. But to their surprise, everyone on the ranch was gone. Hours later, State Police issued an Amber Alert to locate nine missing teens who police believed were held by the ranch's owner Scott Chandler.
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Which ballet do You think is the most boring You've ever seen?
Posted 24 September 2007 - 07:44 PM
It definitely was not the music, but even the music (taped) couldn't salvage this fiasco.
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Posted 29 September 2007 - 07:35 AM
I saw 7 for 8 with two different casts and was impressed that each cast could stamp its own personality on the ballet. I liked it more than most of Tomasson's one-acters, most of which I find dry as kindling and very tedious.
This post attempts to generalize instead of being specific...I know this is treasonous (I live in the Bay Area) but 95% of Helgi Thomasson's one acters meet or exceed the boring quotient.
I saw his 7 for 8 (?) recently, and could not stay awake. What a waste of a major company's time.
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Posted 09 April 2008 - 07:01 PM
This made me imagine that this particular ballet may separate the extreme balletomane from the rest of us. POB is one of my two favourite companies, so I'm glad the one time I'll see a full-length 'Paquita' was from them. I don't know whether traditional productions contain only Minkus music, just read that Deldevez wrote the first music for this. Whatever it is, it's loud and coarse even in the waltzes and pseudo-lyrical parts; even when it tries to be piano it's loud and raucous in its coarseness and ugliness. There was all this brilliant male dancing from Jose Martinez, and POB has gorgeous dresses for Letestu, but it's meretricious to me, not charming like 'Coppelia', and not one I could develop a taste for when I 'find the right production' like 'Giselle', which does also have some simple, sweetly affecting music and real feeling in it. The only thing I find as boring as 'Paquita' is 'Mayerling.'
Posted 10 April 2008 - 07:03 AM
Alistair Macaulay, in his review of the Paris production in the NY Times, writes the following:
Just as the choreography for the âGiselleâ now seen around the world is the late-19th-century St. Petersburg work of Marius Petipa, some of it is set to music added to its original score by his long-term musical colleague Ludwig Minkus, so even bigger changes were made to âPaquitaâ by the Petipa-Minkus team. And when even the Kirov-Maryinsky Ballet dropped the complete ballet from repertory after the Bolshevik Revolution, the company kept some pure-dance Petipa-Minkus chunks glowingly alive, some of which have entered international ballet repertory since the 1970s.
It would be interesting to hear from the experts on who wrote what.
I haven't seen the POB dvd, but your post led me to Macaulay. Although he was enthusiastic about the designs, he was ambivalent about the project and makes an interesting criticism of the Paris company's approach:
My problem is with the Paris Opera dancing. No company is more elegant in presentation, and the level of technique is exceptionally efficient in academic terms. Yet I know no company that more completely illustrates the difference between academicism and classicism. The Paris dancers respond to the music without apparently finding any pleasure from, or point in, doing so. They exhibit line, placement and épaulement (shouldering) as if these points of ballet style were matters for point-scoring correctness rather than individual inflection.
In the late 1980s Manuel Legris, an étoile (the companyâs special designation above principal dancer) who is now 43, used to transcend the company style better than anybody. On Tuesday he danced Lucien with remarkable skill and panache; no Paris dancer I have seen phrases better or shows a more serious response to music. His style is still virile and handsome, but no longer spontaneous. As for his Paquita, Dorothée Gilbert, it is awkward to say that a dancer so skillful and elegant is also bland, but in that respect she epitomizes the Paris dance manner. How can three-dimensional dancing be impressive to see and yet impossible to feel? The Parisians, going through the motions without ever demonstrating how perfection turns into real dancing, show just how.
Posted 10 April 2008 - 08:54 AM
Papeetepatrick, I'm inclined to agree with you about an evening of this sort of music, which can be -- under certain circumstances -- rather like a preview of purgatory. The advertising for the Paris dvd mentions, variously, Edouard Deldevez and Minkus, or Deldevez with the addition of certain numbers by by Minkus.
Bart--thanks so much for that most thoughtful response. I read the whole Macauley piece, and I see we agree only on the exquisite set design and the most luscious dresses (one of Ms. Letestu's had so many billowing dimensions to it, it seemed to dance itself). He actually found some of the music 'irresistible', whereas a Minkus 'Mazurka' is not what one tends to think of if one wants to understand the form, as it were. He also characterized the music in general as 'always agreeable.' Yes, until the ear begins to hear all the cornball as a form of noise.
And it was interesting that what he was talking about as 'POB style' did occur to me while watching it last night. But I think he is wrong--this incredible French precision is what proves whether something can transcend its exquisite drilling and become free on top of this--and I think this does happen with dancers as great as Aurelie Dupont, who to me is as great as any ballerina in the world today. When it's a silly ballet like 'Paquita', it is still not, IMO, the 'POB style', that is the problem, but rather its perfection of corps excellence actually deconstructs and exposes the tedium of it--because while you are still in the first act and not dying of the tedium, Mr. Martinez's virtuosity is perfectly thrilling. It is never less than extraordinary even when everything seems to repeat itself in the subsequent acts--but it's hard to keep caring. And even though I also recently watched Minkus/Nureyev's POB DVD of 'Don Quixote', I was not bored in the same way, however broad and popular Don Q. is.
I think this precision that one sees with POB should be one of the gold standards, against which the 'free spirits' have to prove themselves. So I do not see that as a problem, and I find that I have now got my own set of difficulties with Mr. MacAuley as do other BTers, for perhaps other reasons. But he is also right that the orchestra plays the tacky score superbly: But what this does is make you realize (or at least I hear it this way) just how worthless this score is. In the same way, when I finally saw the Bruhn/Fracci movie of 'Giselle', I was finally able to hear the music played perfectly--but in this case the excellent performance revealed the beauty in the simple Adam music that I had heretofore beeen unable to appreciate, and despite all the directorial pretentious, I was finally able to love 'Giselle.'
But my impression thus far of POB (not having seen them live but once and many years ago), as I get to know a lot of their newer performances via DVD, is they are never guilty of the sloppiness that one finds in many other companies. There has always been talk, as long as I remember, way back to the NYCB's Golden Age (from about the mid-60s to mid-80s' I guess, in any case, it definitely is no more), was the occasional or frequent sloppiness of the corps due to having to give too many performances of too many different works in too close a period. While understandable, this was said in a way that made it then seem that the sloppiness you sometimes saw also did not really exist or even served a useful purpose. But after awhile, this weird suspension of criticism of technical laxity is not greeted with sympathetic good humour unless the company remains at a high level of inspiration in the most important creative ways.
Next week I'll see my other favourite company at this point in my ballet viewing--the Kirov. NYCB was my favourite when it was still the hottest thing in the world--when Balanchine was alive. At this point, I'd always choose ABT over NYCB (which I never thought I'd live to say), even while skipping 'Swan Lake' and 'Sleeping Beauty'. I'd rather see 'Giselle' at ABT than anything in the current NYCB.
Point being: I think this fierce precision is very much the hallmark of most of the finest Gallic things, and why France has long been the most supreme example of an artistic nation. You'll notice MacAuley only concentrates on the things that back up his thesis about the 'POB style' and how LeGris 'no longer danced with spontaneity...' etc.,etc. But who else has come up with a full-length ballet like 'Wuthering Heights', which just from clips alone show a fantastic creativity that is not within what MacAuley seems to want to emphasize. Likewise, glorious and incredibly beautiful Aurelie Dupont in Don Quixote is breathtaking. One wonders if some people need to see obvious messes and mistakes in order to find something 'musical' or 'expressive.' And Parisians are not interested in messes in their various arts. Not only that, but in the Jewels DVD, Marie-Agnes Gillot dances in a way that is not at all mechanical, has a great richness and musicality to it.
Sorry about length of this. Of course, I don't think POB took on Paquita to deconstruct it and show how basically ridiculous it is, but in dancing it and playing the vulgar music to near-perfection, they do this anyway. And their 'Coppelia' DVD is just marvelous, so much better-looking in every way than the Royal Ballet's that I had only memories of McBride to compare it to. I mean--'Paquita' is so slight a piece of material, at least when POB dances it you can rouse yourself from nodding off because they dance it so perfectly. And even though there are problems with the Jewels DVD, I can easily imagine that performances of 'Jewels' will come, and may have already, with dancers able to go beyond anything NYCB ever did with 'Emeralds' and maybe even equal 'Rubies' and 'Diamonds'.
Okay, so I'm a FAN of 'POB style. Macauley says this: 'The Paris dancers respond to the music without apparently finding any pleasure from, or point in, doing so. They exhibit line, placement and épaulement (shouldering) as if these points of ballet style were matters for point-scoring correctness rather than individual inflection.' One could as easily say he is trying to score points for something himself, but it's also true that this French coolness is not something everyone has a taste for.
Posted 10 April 2008 - 10:11 AM
I'm wondering whether we shouldn't start another thread -- perhaps copying parts of what you've posted here, papeetepatrick -- to discuss the Paris Paquita and posssibly the larger issues of Macaulay's criticisms in general. We have a number of French ballet experts who could give us some insights here, but who may not have been reading this particular thread. I would hate to start a new thread an lose papeetepatrick's comments on this one!
Helene, carbro -- would this be desirable? possible?
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The Concert. Thank goodness that NYCB usually programs it at the end of a triple bill. I just leave at the 2nd intermission.
Good thing that they do that so those who know it are not forced to stay 'till the end of the night waiting for a third favored one. I think they suspected this practice down here at MCB and now they are presenting the contemporary piece right in the middle. I used to do the same as you, but I couldn't in this program... BUT when time comes to the Broward performances, I'm DEFINITELY getting out on the lobby with a book to wait out there for the third ballet.
Posted 03 February 2011 - 04:49 PM
Which is worse is hard to tell, simply boring sends me to sleep or my mind wonders and I withdraw into myself, whereas ugly works puts me in a rage. Then of course, it all depends, a ballet can be very boring with one company and much less so with another.
Posted 03 February 2011 - 06:02 PM
The Concert. Thank goodness that NYCB usually programs it at the end of a triple bill. I just leave at the 2nd intermission.
Good thing that they do that so those who know it are not forced to stay 'till the end of the night waiting for a third favored one. I think they suspected this practice down here at MCB and now they are presenting the contemporary piece right in the middle. I used to do the same as you, but I couldn't in this program... BUT when time comes to the Broward performances, I'm DEFINITELY getting out on the lobby with a book to wait out there for the third ballet.
I don't know, Christian, you might enjoy it! I've seen it many times and always find it funny and delightful. I'm not the only one, either, The times when I saw it sitting in the first ring, theater left, it would be crowded with company members who weren't in it, and they would be howling with laughter!!!
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Daniel Olexia
OLEXIA, Daniel James, 64, of Weirton passed away Monday, September 17, 2012 at home, surrounded by his adoring family.
Dan was preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Francis (Emery) Olexia and mother-in-law Mildred Kelchak.
Dan is survived by his dear wife and best friend of 40 years, Cheryl Kelchak Olexia; son Daniel Christopher and wife Erin Olexia of Annapolis, MD; daughter Kelli and Timothy McCoy of Wintersville, OH and Drs. Albert Ryan and Molly Olexia of Fort Wright, KY.
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Dan's family would also like to send a special thank you to the staff of Valley Hospice and dear friend Cathy Cich of Charity Hospice.
The visitation celebration will be Thursday, September 20, 2012 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., at Greco Hertnick Funeral Home 3219 Main Street Weirton, WV followed by a memorial at 5 p.m., lead by Dan's long-time friend Danny Greathouse.
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On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman will discuss trial techniques and insights gained from that master of the courtroom, Vincent LaGuardia Gambini. "An Evening With My Cousin Vinny: Trial Techniques From a Master!" will cover best practices in conducting opening and closing statements, direct and cross examinations, and other trial‐related issues using examples and clips from the 1992 movie.
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This days I'm refactoring code and one of the things I want to improve is my entity manager code. More precisely, the update funcion where entities are updated. My engine is a 2D tile based engine that I'm using for an iphone game. The idea I had was to have the entity update splitted in several tasks because I'm willing to move to component based entities when I have the time. This is a Physic task, a collision detection task, AI task, etc...
For long time I have been using a simple update() function for my entity update that was called by the entity manager in a loop. Now I have come across another way to do it (in the end it is the same) but gives me some advantages like for example differnt ticks for the different tasks (Physics can run at a differnt refresh rate than collisions, etc...)
Here is the source code. I would be really happy if anyone could comment, give opinions, or improve it. Sorry ti is ObjC but I think it is pretty easy to understand:
//Run the update process o nall entities.
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GameObject* go=_entities[i];
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//It will be released when update loop is finished.
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for(int j=i+1; j < numGameObjects; ++j)
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There could be some sintactical errors in the code but I just wanted to show the idea. Sorry for the long question, but I thought I had to explain everything as clear as I could.
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"I Barrack Hussein Obama do solemnly swear."
As the President starts a fresh four years, the country is focusing on some things they believe he needs to work on in his 2nd term.
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Updated: December 23, 2012, 1:44 AM ETAssociated Press
20th Stage
Rambouillet to Paris Champs-Elysees
74.52 miles
1. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Liquigas -- Cannondale, 3 hours, 8 minutes, 7 seconds.
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One often hears in popular explanations of the failure to find a "Grand Unified Theory" that "Gravity goes off to infinity, but cutting off the edges gives us wrong answers", and other similar mathematically vague statements. Clearly, this issue has some kind of mathematical explanation, but I'm not really qualified to read the corresponding physics work, so I'm wondering what actually fails mathematically.
Other people have said that the problem is that GR isn't renormalizable. I want to explain what that means in measure-theoretic terms. What I say won't be 100% rigorous, but it should get the general story across.
Quantum field theories are generally defined using a Feynman path integral measure. This measn that you compute correlation functions of observables by summing over all histories of your system, weighting each history by e^{-S}, where S is an functional on the space of fields, called the action. In a field theory, these histories are functions on some spacetime manifold.
Just as you define the ordinary integral as a limit of Riemann sums, you define the Feynman path integral as a limit of "regularized" path integral measures. There are a lot of ways to do this; one of the most popular is the lattice regularization. We choose a finite set of points in spacetime, living on a lattice whose nearest neighbors are a distance a apart. Then we choose a "microscopic" action on our space of fields and discretize it, replacing derivatives with finite difference quotients, and approximate the path integral's weighted sum over histories with a sum over functions defined on the lattice.
Let's grant for a moment that, for any fixed lattice spacing a, this procedure defines a quantum theory, meaning that you can use the moments of the measure to compute correlation functions for your observables. Let's also grant that the expectation values of observables satisfy classical equations of motion (so that when we approach the classical limits, and the probability distributions become concentrated at their expected value, we get deterministic evolution of these values).
We usually want to take a continuum limit, making the lattice spacing smaller and smaller. If we do this, while keeping fixed the coupling constants in the microscopic action we used to define our measure, in most cases, we run into a problem: the coupling constants in the classical equations of motion depend on the lattice spacing a, and become infinite as a goes to zero. So that's probably not the limit we want.
And indeed, in most circumstances, we know the classical physics, and are trying to find a quantum theory that reproduces it. So we'll try something else: make the coupling constants in the microscopic action depend on the lattice spacing, and hope that we can tune them in a way that keeps the classical physics fixed.
Sometimes this works; sometimes it doesn't. It can happen that there isn't any way of tuning the coupling constants so as to reproduce a nice classical limit; when this happens, the theory is said to be non-renormalizable. This appears to be what happens in General Relativity, if you use the discretized Einstein-Hilbert action as your microscopic action.
General relativity is nonrenormalizable.
[On Mariano's advice I edited this answer to incorporate some earlier comments...hopefully this is more coherent to read/SH]
What this actually means is that there is not a semigroup parametrized by some scale (length or wavenumber) that allows the equations of gravity at one scale to be rewritten as identical-looking equations with different parameters at another scale. The existence of such a semigroup is what renormalizability means. The semigroup is called the renormalization group.
The best way to understand renormalization intuitively is to consider the real-space renormalization of the 1D Ising model (or the 2D Ising model on a triangular lattice), or even simpler examples: for instance, an charged particle in an electrolyte attracts a shell of counterions, which in turn attract another shell of counter-counter-ions, etc. The net effect is to transform the normal scale-invariant potential into a scale-dependent potential. This particular example is called Debye screening.
Although many nonabelian gauge theories (such as pure $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills or the Standard Model) are renormalizable (although this has not been proven at a strictly mathematical degree of rigor, but see, e.g., BRST) and general relativity is also a (classical) gauge theory, the space of field configurations or gauge equivalence classes $A/G$ in GR is not well understood, principally because the gauge group (diffeomorphisms) is infinite-dimensional. This also complicates attempts to take the approach of lattice gauge theory for GR.
Regarding the lattice approach: for a "nice" nonabelian gauge theory (such as the Standard Model) the gauge equivalence classes are better understood, but as I mentioned above, still not perfectly. Indeed, showing that discretized SU(2) quantum gauge theory has a well-defined limit (in particular, one that depends only on the size of the discretization and not its detailed structure) is half of a Millennium Problem. This has only been done at the level of rigor of mathematical physics, not mathematics.
Returning to the original focus, the easiest way to see that gravity is nonrenormalizable is the appearance of higher-order (< 4) terms in the action (this is called "power counting").
To add to what's been said, the modern idea of what a field theory comes from an effective field theory picture. That is, we look at a theory over some scale, and 'average out' the degrees of freedom smaller than that scale.
For example, you can take electromagnetism in a vacuum, which is well understood, and ask what happens in matter. In principle, for an exact description you'd have to describe the ~$10^{23}$ atoms making up whatever material you have in detail to understand their electric and magnetic fields, which means providing a full quantum mechanical description because the magnetic fields of media are `inherently quantum mechanical.'
But we don't have to actually do this because we average out all of the small scale behavior (essentially) by taking the continuum limit and making a few assumptions about the polarizability, etc. The interesting thing is that, while the microscopic physics is entirely determined by microscopic maxwell + the matter distribution, the macroscopic physics doesn't seem to strongly depend on anything `obviously' microscopic.
However, we DO see some mysterious new constants that show up in the effective picture of E&M we get out of this averaging procedure, eg, the magnetization or differing $\epsilon$ and $\mu$s from the free space case. Some of these show up as entirely new phenomena which are not evident in vacuum E&M, and some of them show up as something that looks just like vacuum E&M but with new constants.
The point of this is, the new effective theory has introduced new undetermined constants as a result of not knowing the small-scale physics.
Something similar happens in GR. We don't know a priori all of the small-scale physics because the details of how gravity has to interact with all of the standard model fields isn't determined in advance. So we write down an effective theory below some energy scale, and get some number of undetermined constants which `phenomenologically' encapsulate all of the unknown details. Then we say, we'd like to go to a smaller scale. So we write down a new effective theory. But since we don't know all of the details below a new scale, we end up writing down more unknown constants. As the scale goes to zero, we end up with an infinite number of undetermined constants.
It may not seem like it, but this is very closely related to what Tolland said above about the renormalization group.
The sense in which gravity is `nonrenormalizable' is the sense in which, in order to make everything match in order to be finite (which is the rule you use in the above procedure to make sure each step contains no infinities) you'd need to know an infinite number of corrections to the terms in your lagrangian. But these parameters are not determined any way other than by experiment.
So, to be clear, in some sense, there's nothing that "mathematically goes wrong" with gravity. The point of this procedure is to make sure quantum gravity would not give you any infinities, and it does not. But the cost of doing this is to make your theory depend on a countably infinite number of unknowns. It's just that there is no procedure to determine these constants simply by requiring consistency.
From another point of view, it's kind of like saying "I know the function f at two points" and wanting to find f. But all the information you have is that
$f(x) = \sum_n a_n x^n$.
If all you have is those two points, and the only requirement that $f$ be less than infinity, you can never ever determine $f$ exactly!
Let me add a few comments that might fill in some gaps not covered by other answers.
A quantum theory consists of an algebra of "observables" (taken often to be a C*-algebra), a "state"---positive linear functional on the algebra, and a way of assigning a Hermitian element of the algebra to each conceivable single-number-outcome experiment. The theoretical prediction for an experiment is given by evaluating the state on the corresponding observable---taking its "expectation value". Higher moments of the same observable give information on the statistical distribution of experimental outcomes under identical conditions. Of course, since physicists don't have perfect information about the state of the entire universe, we are forced to work with a class of states and test hypotheses about which are closest to fitting all available observations.
If the above construction can be carried out such that all experiments sensitive to gravitational effects have representative observables and all their expectation values with respect to states that are approximately classical reproduce the results of classical general relativity, then the result is a successful quantization of gravity.
This construction has been mathematically rigorously successful for free fields on Minkowski spacetime (and one some classes of curved Lorentzian manifolds, aka spacetimes). Other examples of rigorous constructions exist, but they are not of direct physical relevance. The golden standard of physically relevant field theories is quantum electrodynamics (QED). It has not yet been rigorously constructed. However, assuming that QED exists as a quantum theory and that all expectation values of observables in it can be expanded as power series in the strength of the interaction (electron charge), then each coefficient can be constructed order by order. Existence of a family of quantum theories corresponding to such a series expansion has not been resolved at the mathematical level.
The above construction is referred to as "perturbation theory". Essentially, it's a procedure that starts from a rigorously constructed free theory and constructs an interacting theory, in the above sense, as a power series in a finite number of parameters (coupling constants, which measure the strength of the interaction). This transition from free to interacting (for a given set of coupling constants) is not necessarily unique. Theories for which this non-uniqueness is parametrized by a finite number of parameters are called renormalizable, the rest are called non-renormalizable.
QED and the rest of the standard model have been found to be renormalizable, but perturbative gravity, obtained by expanding around Minkowski spacetime, has been found to be non-renormalizable. In principle, the non-uniqueness in the perturbative construction of interacting field theories needs to be fixed from experimental input. The unbounded number of experimental inputs needed to construct a particular realization of a non-renormalizable field theory is what makes such theories unattractive.
An even bigger failure on the part of gravity is that the classical structure of general relativity (a Lorenzian manifold) enters in an essential way into the construction of free quantum field theories. If it is omitted, we have no way of guaranteeing the correct classical limit of the resulting quantum theory. On the other hand, a Lorentzian manifold should be the result of a classical limit of quantized gravity, not an input to it. This problem has not yet been resolved at the level of theoretical physics.
The answer to this question is that it is unclear. Euclidean path integrals are equivalent to other constructions of quantum field theories if the space-time manifold has translational symmetry along the time direction. In such cases, given a Euclidean path integral formulation of a field theory (as mentioned in A.J. Tolland's reply), the corresponding quantum theory can be constructed and vice versa.
However, in the case of the gravitational path integral, if it is used as a starting point for a non-perturbative definition, it may not correspond to a quantum theory at all. Since the functional integration is performed over all possible Lorentzian metrics, there is no background time-translation symmetry to speak of. Therefore, even the construction of the Euclidean path integral succeeds, the equivalence to a quantum theory may fail. Again, this question has not yet been resolved even at the level of theoretical physics.
Unknown. However, there is no direct evidence that gravity cannot be formulated as just another field theory on a smooth manifold. In fact, there are counter examples: the infinitely many possibilities for perturbative quantization of gravity on Minkowski spacetime. Recall that non-renormalizability does not mean non-existence, just non-uniqueness. The many proposals that try to do away with a smooth manifold are heuristic at best.
If anyone is interested, I can elaborate on any of the points I've brought up above.
I'd say that the really fundamental issue is that the two theories have such different flavors that it's impossible to come up with an interpolation. General Relativity is about Lorentzian manifolds, so the objects are smooth, and the geometry is paramount to understanding the physics. On the other hand, although to do quantum mechanics does require vector bundles (or more generally, principal $G$-bundles for $G=SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ in particular) the study of these things is fundamentally rooted in discrete objects: the root, weight and character lattices of lie groups, which are where charges live, the collection of Feynman diagrams for a theory, are very much combinatorial.
One thing bearing this out is that two of the most well known attempts at quantum gravity work very hard to interpolate between these: in string theory, instead of looking at graphs, you have Riemann surfaces, which in some sense smooths everything out to be more like relativity, but in loop quantum gravity, you end up with discrete spacetime, and I've heard people talk about things like "Smooth discrete spaces" which I know absolutely nothing about, but which seem like a decent candidate for the cosmos in quantum gravity.
It is the physical model that fails. The physical model leads to certain equations that do not have physical (as well as mathematical) solutions. Even zeroth-order approximation fails.
This property does not belong exclusively to QG. Any QFT fails because of bad physical model. It is seen first in the zeroth-order approximation (it is too "far" form the exact solution); next it is seen as divergences of perturbative corrections (IR and UV infinities).
Normally one cannot proceed without patching and repairing the originally obtained solutions. Sometimes such "doctoring" numbers works but it is just a huge luck and in the end this luck turns into a bad luck - people (even mathematicians!) get used to patching and repairing solutions (???!!!) and try to apply such "prescriptions" to all models. Fortunately it does not work in many cases so not all people get smug.
There are several ideologies of justifying "renormalization" but even they fail. Nevertheless many keep smiling and "explaining" even in that case ("effective theory" ideology) like a failed magician.
It is practically impossible to find a reasonable attitude to all that. I was trying to understand and explain "success" of renormalizations myself and I even succeeded but my work needs further development.


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For products such as bread, state they are either natural or organic, what is the difference?
Natural is purely a marketing term, and it is essentially meaningless since it isn't regulated by the USDA (I'm assuming you are in the USA, I can't speak for other countries). Since the term isn't regulated (with the apparent exception of meat), any manufacturer can put it on any (non-meat) product that they want, weather it is actually "natural" or not.
Organic is well-defined by the USDA and places a number of restrictions on the types of pesticides and other chemicals that can be used to grow the crop. For things like meat, the organic label regulates both the drugs that the animal is given as well as the production of the feed.
See: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-07-10/business/chi-natural-foods-10-jul10_1_organics-or-least-chip-popular-horizon-organic-brand-organic-industry-watchdog-group
Natural "Natural foods" and "all natural foods" are widely used terms in food labeling and marketing with a variety of definitions, some of which are vague. The term is assumed to imply foods that are minimally processed and do not contain manufactured ingredients, but the lack of standards in some jurisdictions means that the term assures nothing. The term "organic" has similar implications and has an established legal definition in many countries and an international standard. In some places, the term "natural" is defined and enforced. In others, such as the United States, it has no meaning.
Organic Organic foods are those that are produced using environmentally sound methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers, do not contain genetically modified organisms, and are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or chemical food additives.
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From http://www.organicfacts.net/organic-food/organic-food-basics/difference-between-organic-and-natural-food.html
as far as I understand it, there's really no clear definition to either of these two terms and they're mostly overused by companies to sell you products. I believe the use of "Natural" is a little more devious. For instance, I just bought some "Natural Style" apple juice the other day. I'm sure it's just as processed and pasteurized, it's just a slightly different flavor/color.


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Older children who've outgrown front-facing car seats should ride in a booster seat with a high back until they are at least 4 foot, 9 inches, and 8-12 years old. The shoulder lap belt should fit before they make the transition out.
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I recently discovered an indie rock band called Imagine Dragons. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Imagine Dragons formed in 2008, and after winning multiple battle of the band competitions, released two EPs, one called Imagine Dragons EP and the other called Hell and Silence EP in 2010. The music video for their song "It's Time" has been nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category for "Best Rock Video." The single "It's Time" charted in the top 40 on the Billboard Alternative and Billboard Rock charts. After the music video's release in April 2012, Imagine Dragons was named MTV PUSH Artist of the Week.
Imagine Dragons released their debut album, entitled Night Visions, on September 4, 2012, and it peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, its first week of sales exceeding 83,000 copies. They have performed on both The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel Live! and on the TV show Glee, Darren Criss covered "It's Time." Their song "Lost Cause" is on the soundtrack for Frankenweenie: Unleashed!
An up-and-coming rock band, Imagine Dragons is currently on tour with electronic rock band Awolnation. Upcoming tour dates are as follows:
October 22, 2012: Nashville, TN (The Mercy Lounge)
October 23, 2012: Atlanta, GA (Tabernacle)
October 24, 2012: Tampa, FL (Ritz Ybor)
October 25, 2012: Lake Buena Vista, FL (House of Blues-Orlando)
In November, Imagine Dragons will be touring Europe.
Here's a look at their MTV nominated music video for the song "It's Time:"


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Due to the inherent risks associated with using dynamic languages (e.g. Python, Ruby) carelessly, what (if any) standards should be imposed on production code written in these languages?
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Your question contains two contradictory elements:
Any programmer that is part of a team that has standards for production code should not use a language, dynamic or not, carelessly. There is a lot of experience with writing code in dynamic language, starting with Lisp many, many years before Java was even thought of.
While non-dynamic languages can catch some errors at compile time, they would not catch mistakes like erroneous conversion from SI to English units, etc. As far as I know (and I would love to be proven wrong...) there does not exist any study that has shown that using dynamic languages to write programs leads to more errors.
Many programmers writing on this, and other forums, express strong opinions one way or another but I suspect (no proof, sorry...) that there is a lot more variation in programmer's skills and proficiency in using good tests than there is coming from the use of language X over language Y. (with the possible exception of Ada...)
Coding standards should be a simple as possible and hopefully restricted to avoiding language features and idioms which are known to be problematic or broken.
Too many rules in program standards can lead programmers to code sub-optimal and unreadable code because the best solution has been declared "bad" in the standards doc.
What dynamic languages really require are higher testing standards. As there are more run time errors possible, and, the forgiving nature of the languages means simple coding errors can cause weird behavior in seemingly unrelated components. You really need a good set of unit tests for every single component, plus a comprehensive set of integration tests which should be run every-time any piece of code has changed.
Not so much a coding standard as a good practice, I would say aggressive testing.
As you said, there are inherent risks with dynamic languages. Issues that would never even exist in a static language can and will crop up in poorly designed or written code in a dynamic language. Applying comprehensive, well-written unit tests as a part of your process will help ensure your code is correct and error free.
What "inherent risks" are you thinking of? I can't think of any run-time error that can occur in Python or Ruby that can't occur in C# or Java. Null pointer exceptions, missing method exceptions, and type conversion errors are all possible in C# and Java. In Java, we add back all the missing dynamic behavior through Spring and other packages layered on reflection. This enables all the run-time errors inherent in dynamically typed languages, except that to fix them you have to sift through seventeen layers of XML configuration files.
Connecting strongly typed languages to the untyped HTTP protocol, and the differently-typed SQL database in any reasonable way requires type conversions that cannot be validated at compile time. I don't believe that dynamically typed languages require special care. No matter the language, delivering reliable code will require extensive testing.


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The annual Around the World Cultural Festival is set for mid-November at Dakota Wesleyan University.
The festival will take place from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, in the East Main Dining Room upstairs in the Rollins Campus Center on campus. This event is a cultural cornucopia of facts, food and fun – with booths set up by DWU students, staff, faculty and even community members representing countries and cultures from around the world. The event is free and open to the public.
This is the university's 11th year and 12th festival, which is well-attended by the campus community and often attended by local elementary classes.
"The festival is a fun way to introduce people to different cultures and countries – many of which are set up by people who are originally from those countries or have visited them," said Kate Miller, director of TRiO Student Support Services and adviser for the DWU Multicultural Committee. "The Multicultural Committee is a student organization and these students strive to educate the public on cultural diversity – at Dakota Wesleyan we like to bring speakers to campus and host as many fun activities as we can, like our salsa event and Around the World Cultural Festival. All of these things are free and open to the public and we get fantastic student participation."
Visitors to the festival are issued a "passport" and take a "world tour" around the room stopping by each country. Completed passports are turned in for a prize drawing. Prizes are fair trade cultural items from the store, Ten Thousand Villages.
The Mitchell community is encouraged to take part in the event and register as a presenter. If interested in hosting a table, sign up by contacting Miller at 995-2901, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
DWU is a private, liberal arts university associated with the Dakotas Conference of the United Methodist Church. For more information about Dakota Wesleyan University, visit www.dwu.edu.


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March is lymphedema awareness month, aiming to draw attention to this under recognized complication so many survivors are living with. The National Lymphedema Network (NLN) is also celebrating- 20 years of supporting people with lymphedema through guidance, education, research and advocacy. The NLN was founded in 1988 by Saskia R.J. Thiadens, RN, who opened the first lymphedema clinic in the United States in 1987 and has been a tireless advocate for the advancement of lymphedema therapy ever since. She founded the NLN in response to a lack of knowledge or understanding about lymphedema and related disorders by patients and healthcare professionals alike. The NLN is non-profit organization, comprised of healthcare providers, researchers, lymphedema patients and patient advocates dedicated to providing authoritative information on the prevention and treatment of primary and secondary lymphedema. OncoLink sat down with Saskia to talk about the past, present and future of lymphedema care.
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: Thanks for talking with us, Saskia. I can imagine that there was little, if any, information and support available for people living with lymphedema in 1988 when the NLN began its mission. Has this changed? Are people getting the support they need?
Saskia: You are right, in 1988 there were no doctors and no other healthcare professionals able to diagnose, treat or refer patients with lymphedema (LE). My journey began with only a few patients, but soon I found myself advocating for the thousands of people suffering with this ignored disease. Now 20 years later, the NLN has joined forces with the oncological community, as well as other disciplines. LE now is identified as a legitimate disease in the United States. The most current and proper treatment is in place at University-based clinics, hospitals, rehab centers and free standing facilities: thousands of clinicians have become Certified Lymphedema Therapists; physicians have included the lymphatic system in their existing practice; research is in progress in academic institutions; and patients are actively advocating for their rights and convincing their state and federal representatives to get laws in place to support treatment and reimbursement.
: I would think that research and a better understanding of lymphedema have led to advances in treatment. What do you see as the major advances in the care of lymphedema over the last 20 years?
Saskia: I am delighted to tell you that there is marked increased interest in basic, clinical and genetic research in the United States as well as abroad, and it is comforting to see the number of articles published over the years in peer reviewed medical journals. Evidenced based research will strengthen the belief among physicians that Complete Decongestive Therapy is the standard treatment for effective and safe treatment for lymphedema. Numerous trials are now being conducted at Academic Institutions and patients are actively participating. As a result of more evidenced based research, we already are seeing more professionals becoming involved in the field of Lymphology. Our hope is that over the next 20 years we will see many multi-disciplinary lymphedema clinics throughout the country, universities promoting research, and see the number of certified lymphedema practitioners multiply.
: For cancer survivors, risk reduction for lymphedema is emphasized. How has the growing knowledge about lymphedema changed or improved the preventive recommendations we give survivors?
Saskia: Through ongoing persistent education and awareness we have seen marked improvement among the many cancer patients with LE or at risk for LE. The Lymphedema Alert Bracelet/Necklace, launched in 1998 has made an especially huge impact. Today thousands of cancer survivors are wearing the jewelry stating "No Blood pressure or needle in this arm ". Patients often do not allow their doctors to take a blood pressure, they also stop the lab technician from drawing blood from the affected limb; the bracelet has a dual purpose. Also the NLN Position Papers on Risk Reduction Practices, Air Travel and Exercise are widely used in breast centers, hospitals, doctor's offices ,lymphedema clinics and distributed among the many cancer support groups. Many patients call the NLN hotline requesting educational information before or after cancer surgery. In other words patients now are educated before, during and after cancer surgery and know what to look for, and where to go in case they develop the early signs of lymphedema.
: How have practical issues, like insurance coverage and access to qualified therapists, changed over the years? Are there still improvements to be made in these areas?
Saskia: Bob will respond to this question. I am sad to say that the reimbursement for treatment and garments have become increasingly difficult. In this political climate we continue to face insurance and legislative struggles, and subsequently many patients are not receiving the adequate care. We are fortunate to have a strong Lymphedema patient advocate "Bob" Weiss MS who has been very active in improving state and federal legislation relating to LE. Presently we are working to establish a Lymphedema and lymphatic disease research grants program and a comprehensive LE treatment and patient protection law in New York State. We also have been seeking congressional sponsors fro a comprehensive LE diagnosis and treatment cost saving bill for Medicare. Bob Weiss has helped dozens of individual's patients to obtain insurance reimbursement for treatment and garments. We recommend contacting your local and state representatives in case you receive denials for treatment. As patient advocates you can make a difference
: What do you see as the most important goals for the NLN and lymphedema care over the next 20 years?
Saskia: There are several important goals, but it is imperative that our doctors are educated in order to diagnose and refer patients at the onset of early swelling. Too many patients are still told by their doctor "There is no effective treatment for your swollen limb", "You just needto learn to live with it". Secondly, I would like to see a law that all our patients' sign an informed consent' stating that they were informed about lymphedema prior to their cancer surgery. Thirdly, legislation and proper reimbursement need to be in place to ensure that every patient young and old with a swollen limb(s) will receive adequate treatment.
: What would you say is the "take home" message for people living with lymphedema?
Saskia: My message for all our patients' young and old is "we can live a normal and productive life," as long as we do our day to day self-care, and maintain the affected area.
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St. Thomas Assembly Plant Tour - PenultimateWritten by John McGann on March 1, 2011 With The End Of Production In Sight, Some Dedicated Owners Visit The Place Where Their Cars Were Made.
Last summer, we flew 2,500 miles to the Great White North to check out a car show with just 33 cars in attendance. While our company's accountants might condemn this trip as a colossal waste of capital, it made perfect sense to us. We wanted to go to what we thought might be the last of the CrownVic.net assembly plant tours, a CVN forum member tour of the St. Thomas Assembly Plant that's been held almost every summer since 2002.
St. Thomas Fast Facts
Year opened: 1967
Site size: 635 acres
Plant size: 2,600,000 square feet
Employees: 1,508 hourly, 82 salary
Current vehicles assembled: Ford Crown Victoria, New York taxi (long-wheelbase CV), Lincoln Town Car Past vehicles assembled: Mercury Grand Marquis, Mercury Marauder, Ford Escort, Mercury Zephyr, Ford Fairmont, Ford Pinto, Ford Maverick, Ford Falcon
The assembly line moves at a rate of 60 cars per hour, meaning workers at each station have only 56 seconds to perform their assigned task. It takes about 22 hours to build a complete car. St. Thomas has assembled as many as 230,000 cars per year. Currently, it is operating at a rate of about 100,000 cars per year running one shift a day.
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Here's how a Panther car begins life. Body panels are manufactured at the Chicago stamping plant and delivered to St. Thomas. Assembly begins with the floorpans.Final spot welding of the body sides to the floorpan and firewall assembly is done by a group of robots within this structure, which is called the framer machine. The body shop can make as many as 70 cars per hour.As mentioned, we thought last summer's tour would be the last, but we've recently heard that Ford will continue production of the Crown Victoria and Town Car until August 31, 2011. The guys on CVN are starting to plan for this summer's tour, which would definitely be the last. We recommend that anyone who is interested plan a trip to see these cars before they go out of production. They are the last mass-produced, body-on-frame cars in the world and our last remaining ties to the muscle car era.After the body sides are joined to the floor, the bodies move to the paint shop. Tour groups aren't allowed in the paint area, and neither are most plant workers. Paint is so sensitive to contamination from outside chemicals, even perfume and deodorant can shut down the department-a big negative since the plant loses tens of thousands of dollars each hour the line is not running.After the paint shop, the bodies enter the trim shop, where the wiring harnesses and interiors are installed. Note the two-tone police car paint scheme. The paint shop at St. Thomas can do a total of eight two-tone cars per day. While the two-tone cars are painted by robots, the masking and prep are done by hand.Before entering the paint shop, cars destined as Executive Series Town Cars are pulled off the line. These cars use a longer-wheelbase frame, giving extra room to the rear seat passengers, so the bodies are cut in half and stretched 8 inches by hand to accommodate the larger rear doors. Because of their higher part content, Town Cars can only populate the line at a 4:1 ratio. The line workers couldn't keep up with their jobs if they had to assemble more than one Town Car in a row-they just have way more stuff in them than the Crown Victorias do. Incidentally, the Grand Marquis was the easiest of the recent Panther Platform cars to assemble-taking the least amount of time on average per station.To verify build quality, random bodies are pulled off the line and brought into the Blue Buck area of the plant where they are checked with fixtures and coordinate measuring machines. In addition, 12 cars are taken down per day. They are literally cut apart with air hammers to check their weld integrity.After the paint shop, the bodies enter the trim shop, where the wiring harnesses and interiors are installed. Note the two-tone police car paint scheme. The paint shop at St. Thomas can do a total of eight two-tone cars per day. While the two-tone cars are painted by robots, the masking and prep are done by hand.The lead image of this article shows the chassis (frame and complete drivetrain) being married to the body. From there, the fluids are added and the cars enter the final inspection where workers check the panel gaps and look for paint flaws. See the mirror in the upper left of the picture? It's positioned so the inspectors can verify that the car is wearing the same wheels on both sides. The sign next to the mirror shows the possible wheel options. It sounds elementary, but if you're looking at hundreds of cars per day, it would be easy to forget what wheels are on which side you just looked at.
Another standout in attendance was Pier-Luc Cadieoux with his '04 Police Interceptor complete with a truck 5.4L Triton engine and an '05 Mustang TR-3650 five-speed manual trans. He's on his third trans; he broke the synchros in the first two. Check out his videos on YouTube. His channel is P71C1.Meet The Guides
 Mark Moran is the quality control manager at St. Thomas. He has been with Ford for 23 years, the last six of which have been at St. Thomas. Prior to his current position, he was in charge of the body shop and oversaw the changes to bring the Town Car production from Wixom to St. Thomas in 2008.Gary VanderPloeg is an electrical engineer who has been with Ford for about 12 years. He is currently working in the electrical/interior trim department. He helped design this wiring harness.After the tours, there was plenty of time to meet fellow Panther owners. Probably the longest drive award would go to Robert Powers of St. Petersburg, Florida (right). He drove his '99 Crown Vic up to Clarksville, Tennessee, to meet his son, Cameron, and the two of them caravanned to St. Thomas.We're always excited to see a Cobra Vic. These were cars built by Roush by special order from the Bob Bondurant School of Performance Driving. Cobra Vics were fitted with the drivetrain from a Mustang Cobra-a 305hp, 32-valve 4.6 and a beefed-up T-45 trans-and used as instructor cars. Roush also installed a rollcage, a fuel cell, and a fire suppression system. A total of 18 were made, and the school sold most of them after GM began sponsorship at the institute. Mike Callahan of Cincinnati, Ohio, owns this model. He gave us a photocopy of the buildsheet from Roush. Step one: remove 4.6L 2V engine. Assemble to automatic trans and palletize.After some discussion, forum members decided to arrange their cars in a herringbone pattern for the group shot. Go to CrownVic.net for a lot more pictures and to see your author take some heat from the group. This article was supposed to run in the Nov. '10 issue. By the way, thanks go to CVN moderator Serge Drozd for organizing the tour for the last four years.


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The Raising: Novel (Paperback)
Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourning the loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sorority sister tragically killed in a car accident that left her boyfriend, who was driving, remarkablysome say suspiciouslyunscathed.
Although a year has passed, as winter begins and the nights darken, obsession with Nicole and her death reignites: She was so pretty. So sweet-tempered. So innocent. Too young to die.
Unless she didnt.
Because rumor has it that shes back.
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Laura Kasischke teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, she has published eight collections of poetry and ten novels, three of which have been made into films, including The Life Before Her Eyes.
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"Dark, disquieting...starts off as a tragic love story—beautiful sorority girl killed in a car accident—then is skillfully transformed into a thoroughly modern ghost story. Each character is haunted by the memories and repercussions of that night. Lyrical, layered and riveting to the final page."
-Family Circle
"An atmospheric shiver-fest . . . [a] devious, claustrophobic chiller."
-Marie Claire (UK)
"Haunting, unsettling, and unforgettable, THE RAISING limns love, longing, belonging and the things we only think we know about life--and yes, death. Told in knockout, shimmering prose, it's a literary mystery that's as hypnotic as it is brilliant."
-Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You
"A fine writer, a haunted and haunting tale, a flurry of beautiful girls -- you don't put this book down once you've picked it up."
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"Scary, spooky, sexy... we couldn't put it down."
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"From the first page of THE RAISING, Laura Kasischke tells a story of great weight and wicked beauty . . . Don't bother trying to put it down; it will call you back, and you'll go. Surrender. You'll be glad you did."
-Amy MacKinnon, author of Tethered
"[A] literary page-turner reminiscent of Donna Tartt's Secret History."
"THE RAISING is that rare thing: a literary novel distinguished by splendid prose that is also a down-and-dirty page-turner, a creep show featuring empty caskets and walking corpses. It's as if "The Grapes of Wrath" had been rewritten by H.P. Lovecraft."
-Chicago Tribune
"Almost a supernatural thriller, almost a campus satire and almost but not quite a coming-of-age tale...Kasischke remains aware that she works in familiar traditions: her scenes play knowingly with the expectations...that her precedents raise, from "Buffy" to Euripides' "Bacchae."
-New York Times Book Review
"Nothing is as it first appears in Laura Kasischke's suspense novel THE RAISING...Just when readers think they've got it all figured out, there's another twist that spins them off in another direction...The kind of story readers won't soon forget."
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