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The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are measured alternatively by value added growth and employment growth. Findings show a positive effect of the increase in the number of firms active in the creative industries, net entry, and a greater provision of leisure amenities on regional economic growth. A large portion of employment in the manufacturing, mining, and energy sector, and a high relative number of university faculties are found to lead to slower economic growth, whereas trademarks, patents, cultural amenities and industrial districts do not affect economic growth. Finally, the share of legal immigrants is found to have a positive impact on employment growth.
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text: Alligators are awesome looking creatures because they are a species that resembles dinosaurs the most. The other baby animal that we will be tackling is the alligator. I haven't really done any lessons in a while based on this water dwelling species, but in the past I had a lot of fun drawing both crocodiles and alligators. It's funny how these two creatures look the same but are noticeably different. When making your alligator you can choose to draw only the top part of the body while the rest is in the water. I do think you will have fun drawing a baby alligator because these reptiles are always fun to create.


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Gail Collins on the 'imaginary' War on Christmas
After you've read my latest column ("O Holy Fight"), you should be sure to follow up with Gail Collins's latest ("Culture War Games"), which is a variation on the same theme. Collins includes more details, and wonderful details they are, from Sarah Palin's War-on-Christmas book -- in which, I gather, she is named, or at least referenced, as one of those clueless "snickering" pundits who just don't get it. (To be sneered at by Sarah Palin is an honor that I dream not of.)
Bonus: Don't miss this Sarah Palin War-on-Christmas soundboard from the good folks over at New York magazine's Intelligencer blog. Happy Holidays indeed.
About the Author
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly is an editor at large and columnist at Commonweal.
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Of course, sneering at Sarah Palin is an honorable way of preparing for the season... Happy Holidays indeed!
Oh, enjoying the spectacle of Sarah Palin's post-political career in punditry is not part of my Advent observances. Today's woman is a multitasker, you betcha.
Ms. O'Reilly,
Can't you think of anything more substantive to write about? How is the Gospel advanced by picking on Sarah Palin?
Oh good grief, just how much of a sourpuss do you have to be to feel offended for the sake of Sarah Palin? Do you guys shoot up vinegar in dark alleys?
I'm going to start responding to everyone everywhere, "Hey, bub, do you think you're advancing the gospel there, eh?"
Charles Ryder:
I don't think you understand the commonweal mentality. Sneering at conservative commentators (especially a woman who didn't have her Down's Syndrome
unborn infant put to death) is sometimes part of the way they express their love of humanity. But they're basically good folks, just misguided. You have to be patient with them; that's something I've learned the hard way.
Merry Christmas
It can't be mere coincidence that the more catty criticisms of Sarah Palin seem to always come from other women. One might think, politics aside, women would appreciate the trail Mrs. Palin has blazed for them. Instead, one gets the sense that feelings of inadequacy are the source of the bitterness. After all, how many women have done any of the following, let alone all of them:
- Mother of 6 children;
- 1 special needs;
- Mayor;
- Governor;
- VP candidate;
- Successful author
The more you consider it, feelings of inadequacy are wholly appropriate!
Happy St. Nich's day!
As Garry Wills documented in Head and Heart: American Christianities, James Madison articulated a much more severe separation between religion and government than even Jefferson favored. IMO, we would have been well advised to have taken Madison's view.
Sarah Palin belongs to the world of celebrity, by her own volition. She may be a political conservative and a Christian in her personal life, and when she acts as a person in those fields, she is of course due full privilege for her personal agency. But when she acts as a celebrity, she must be ready to absorb the slings and arrows that the public always throws at actors when the role is poorly presented. And no one except the audience gets to say how the common wo/man in the stalls will judge the performance.
She is of course welcome to her opinions, but no one is obligated to grant respect, much less authority, to those opinions. If they are persuasive, they will sway action; if they are not, they will call down derision. None of this has any connection whatsoever to her son, and it ill becomes someone to assume that because I reject or mock her political pronouncements I make any judgment whatsoever about his personal spiritual journey.
Mark L.
Earlier today I read this essay and thought I'd like to write a post recommending it. But for now I think I'll just put the link here.
Mark Proska: Sarah has five children, not six. She served only half of a single term as governor before she resigned to chase the almighty dollar.
Running for VP, or even being one, is not necessarily a great accomplishment; ask George Dallas, William Rufus King, Hannibal Hamlin, Henry Wilson, Levi Morton, and a whole passel of other WhoDats. Our vice presidential candidates are almost always chosen for their ticket-balancing value, not for aptitude.
There are many intelligent and accomplished women trailblazers who have earned my appreciation and admiration. Snow Snooki isn't one of them.
Gentle correction:
Sarah Palin has five children.
Whoa, that things on smarm is one of the most useful things I've read lately. I've never been able to quite nail down that quality.
Not sure how it's advancing the gospel, though.
I agree.
The trail Sarah Palin has blazed for us? Snort.
Your comment is really mean-spirited, Mark. Maybe it's time to examine your conscience and go to confession.
I don't think it would be appropriate of anyone to comment on her as a woman, mother, or wife (not our busienss or right to judge), but as an author, mayor, governor, and all-purpose pundit, she is a public figure and rightly apt to be judged in those regards. If folks think she was a bad governor or mayor, it's legitimate to say so. If they think her books are a lamentable waste of trees, that is fair to say as well.
Waging a war on the "War on Christmas" is unimaginative, boring, and banal. Endlessly sniping at Sarah Palin is not only shooting fish is a barrel, it is is endlessly tiresome. And for all you Gawker hipsters -- it's really, how shall I say, a totally square pastime.
This is Commonweal, a Catholic magazine. Sorry for mentioning the Gospel.
Peace on Earth!
I agree with you, Charles, and I want to change my ways. But I need help from someone more experienced than I at being righteous. Tell me: if I told you to blow it our your rear, would I be advancing the gospel? I think so, but I need your superior wisdom. I just want to be holier (than everyone else). Can you give me some spiritual direction?
Sorry, I meant to add "Peace on Earth" or "Yours in Christ" or something like that at the end to make it all nice and pat. Like I said, I'm just learning.
Hark the Herald Angels!
Here's some advice for you.
Poop in your hat and pull it over your ears. I'd say shit, but, after all this is a Catholic magazine.
Mr Ryder,
Can't you think of anything more substantive to write? How is the Gospel advanced by picking on me?
Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Charles Ryder:
How old are you? Yoy certainly sound like some of the adolescent boys I used to teach.
Now, write 100 times: "I will clean up my act."
Correction: You certainly sound like some of the adolescent boys I used to teach.
By the way, nobody can shit in their hat and pull it over their ears ever since Bruce Nauman's 1990 installation "Shit in your hat--head in a chair." It's just passe.
Abe: Hey buddy, you need to calm down and return to your usually strange (but witty) persona. I'm surprised that Grant Gallicho hasn't censured your
s-word usage. He's censured me for far less scatological observations. But hey, it's Christmas time, so I guess he's cutting everyone some slack. Merry Christmas all of you commonweal bloggers, and I mean that sincerely...
P.S. to Grant: How come I'm not being identified as a subscriber?
Sarah Palin?
The one who entered the national stage with some snotty comment about community organizers?
She doesn't come off all that civil and polite to me; I'm not sure why people are outraged that she might be the subject of impolite comments herself.
Right. There's nothing outrageous about it. It's tit-for-tat, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, etc. It's perfectly natural.
Far be it from me to use scatology to refer to The Divine Sarah, but, in keeping with her "holier than thou" smarminess, may I remind her and her cadre of Mean Girls fans of this?
Women who farteth in church, sitteth in their own pew.
And, in keeping with the Spirit of the Season: shop early, often and spend more.
I suspect that the meanest thing one could do to Sarah Palin would be to ignore her. That also seems to be the hardest thing.
Io Saturnalia!
How does having a lot of children make anyone a good person? If nothing else, it should get you a ticket to carbon footprint hell ;) There's so much about Palin that I dislike, but I'll choose just one topic - she's cruel to animals.
Mollie—That idea is definitely worthy of its own thread. Maybe you can weave it around this Sunday's gospel?
A voice of one crying out in the desert,
Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
Angela—Why are you so intent on minimizing Mrs. Palin's accomplishments? This is exactly what I was getting at in my comment. Sure, I can appreciate there's much you might not like about her politics, but your criticisms seem decidedly small-minded.
Helen—Thanks both for the correction and its gentleness.
Connie—You are correct about confession, but I saw more of chivalry than mean-spiritedness in my comment.
Abe—Can you leave the locker room language in the locker room? Commonweal, and especially the Ladies of Commonweal, deserve better.
Bob—Thanks, same to you!
"War on Christmas" is an unfortunate term, but I think the old Knights of Columbus posters "Put Christ in Christmas" had something going.
The problem isn't with non-Christians co-opting our holy day, or sinister anti-religious government forces suppressing our traditions, it's that we Christians ourselves secularized our holy day with many of us focusing not on Advent but on Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping. If Christmas needs to be "fixed", we need to change our own ways.
I am all for keeping Christ in Christmas. For me, though, the real struggle is keeping Christmas out of Advent,
That line, from Mollie's original piece, is, for me, the money quote in this whole spat. There is a local guy driving around with a bumper sticker that says: "Don't rush the holy season/Advent exists for a specific reason." The Christian and quasi-Christian fight to keep Christ in Christmas is validating the mercantile move of Christmas into the shopping days formerly observed not as Christmas but as Advent. In other words, as currently fought, this war is a surrender.
One of the saddest things I saw last year was a Christmas tree out for the trash collectors on the evening of Dec. 25. (Seventh Day Adventists; they should have more respect than that for the calendar.)
Irene said, "If Christmas needs to be "fixed", we need to change our own ways." Amen to that!
True story. I was at a Christmas party at my wife's secular organization about eight years ago. Someone dressed as Santa came for the kids and have out toys. As they were gathered around him, he asked them, but what is the REAl meaning of Christmas. One young boy chimed up, it's when Santa was born!
I thought it was pretty funny but it underscored the point that by now there are two completely different traditions with their own rituals, themes, and fixed mythologies. Anybody is free to select either theme or both. There is no need to have any "war" although there are warriors on BOTH sides.
Speaking of alternate traditions, I grew up following the Finnish/Nordic tradition of opening gifts on Christmas Eve because Santa is actually from Lapland in northern Finland. Well after midnight or evening mass but when we came home presents were there because well you know Santa goes to the Finn kids first!!!
Mollie, thanks for the link to the smarm/snark piece. As a child frequently quelled by Thumper's maxim about "saying something nice," I was glad to see the rabbit get his, even though the article made me feel kinda bad about liking Dave Eggers.
Would be interesting to distill smarm/snark into an elemental list of characteristics, as Susan Sontag did with camp, no?
"Commonweal, and especially the Ladies of Commonweal, deserve better."
I've hardly ever been a lady, but if I were one I'd find that comment to be extremely patronizing.
Hardly ever???
Martin Marty's Sightings essay of December 9th tackles the contrast between "War on Christmas" narratives in contrast to those addressing Nelson Mandela's life and death.
"What strikes the analyst of the "War on Christmas" stories, or at least what struck me, was the difference in tone by sets of writers or broadcasters on both, or all, sides of the "culture wars"—there's that "war" image again—as they dealt with the events, personalities, and trends. The Mandela stories did justice to the flaws of the imperfect human who led causes for freedom in South Africa and inspired strugglers globally, but almost all were written in respectful, humane tones. After all, the Mandela effect is one of reconciliation, even though it was born of conflicts past, whose after-stories linger."
"In contrast, both, and all, sides in "The War on Christmas" stories were disrespectful, never empathic. Their authors gave no sign that they could understand why those on the other side were stirred to battle, and they gave every sign that they regarded their side in the argument as totally right in their self-chosen Total War."
Smarmy? I don't think so. I appreciate the attempt to understand without derision those who whose sensibilites differ from our own.
The thing is that the sensibilities of those advocating for the reality of a "war on Christmas" seem to be located in the rhetorical potential of that narrative for political maneuvering. The tail wags the dog. It's tough to open a sympathetic ear to such blatant grandstanding.
Pay-lo has a new reality show coming out on the Sportsmen Channel, so she's doing... fine(?)
My wife: Stop trying to make Pay-lo happen. It's not going to happen!
How come no one yet has started a war on sneezing? No more saying "[May God] bless you!" when someone sneezes! Something less religious is needed.
What some of these Scrooges seem to think is that they have a Constitutional right not to even *hear* someone saying something in public that offends them. They try to turn it into a freedom from religion right. Nothing could be further from the historical truth.
True, we don't have a right to incite to riot, but we may express our religious beliefs in public -- at least we used to have that right.
@ Mark Proska
Sarah Palin spent five years at five different colleges (one of them twice) before earning her B.A. degree. She was mayor of a city with a population of 6,000. She served half of one term as governor of the 47th most populous state. She's published a couple of books that were almost certainly ghost-written, because on live TV she can barely utter a coherent sentence. She starred in a reality TV series whose ratings were so low, it was canceled after one season.
Her accomplishments need no minimizing by anyone else.
Come on, Angela, fess up. She makes you feel inadequate. Don't get me wrong, if a man had done all that, I'd feel inaequate too!


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As a safety professional with 25 years of experience in the
hydrocarbon and chemical industries,
Ive had the unique opportunity to view first-hand the
evolution of safety. Upon entering this field, much of the
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I was starting to wonder how long TT thought he could coast on the Peppers signing.Hide replies
He is on a mission. Less likely now to draft for need with at least one need taken care of.
I was thinking the same thing. The recent FA signings will definitely give the Packers more freedom to draft for best available talent. That will only help the team compete against the NFC's best. I'm glad the front office is finally starting to get the memo about using an all-inclusive strategy for filling needs this off-season. I'm a little concerned about Center though. Only two players touch the football on 99.9% of all snaps - QB and Center - and now we're missing one of two of last year's starters there. You don't just plug someone in there without there being some transition time to get the cadence and snap procedure to become 100% automatic. The last thing you want to see is a handful of false starts and/or fumbled exchanges to start the season, or ever.
BMS - always ahead of the curve.
The Ted Thompson haters must be feeling a little depressed this free agent season.Hide replies
But.........what about the future?
Let's not get too excited. Let me know when he addresses S, C, ILB, TE and WR (assuming Jones leaves). The Peppers signing was great and begs the question why TT hasn't made similar moves in past years as the team's depth diminished.
Depressed,my gosh long over due. Now if it all goes as planned fine.This team is still very thin at key positions.TT should have doing this for a few years.
yeah, the people who bashed TT over his non interest in FA are the vindicated ones...the homers who constantly whined "we can't afford anyone, why pay for overpriced rejects, etc..."....those are the ones who must be depressed...TT has apparently switched to the dark side....lol
How are you vindicated. If Ted had signed all of the players everyone shouted for the last few years there wouldn't be any money to sign these guys.
it's hard for some people to understand badger, but it's not all or nothing....just because some of us believed players from other teams could help the pack, doesn't mean we wanted TT to sign every free agent there ever was...we have been asking for him to utilize all avenues to improve the defense, and this year he finally is.....
I wanted to see him sign guys too. I'm just honest enough to admit I don't know as much as Ted. I really wanted to see him sign Steven Jackson last year. I was wrong. Is that so hard?
I like the signing were going to be more physical up front and more athletic. Hope Peppers has a few more gallons in the tank along with Guion and all our up and coming D lineman im looking forward to a productive year need safety center and inside line backer help short list and we could go the distance.Hide replies
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Do't know anything about this guy - at 6-4 it sounds like he has some height and hopefully can add quality depth.
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I wonder why Chris Clemons hasn't gotten any coverage? He's a safety and reliable. He's the only decent one left and would fill a need.Hide replies
Good point. There was mention last week that the Steelers and Lions might be interested in Clemons, but there has been very little buzz about him.
I read on the acmepackingcompany website that Clemons is not the best tackler - and I think MM wants to emphasize if not demand more solid and fundamental tackling from the D. Although I thought the team greatly improved on it last year, even though they were inconsistent on defense the 2nd half of the year, solid tackling was a big part of a few of the crucial late season wins. Of course, the the whole defense should tackle solidly every game, not just once in a while. Maybe I'm wrong, but that could be why Clemons hasn't come to Green Bay for a visit yet.
agreed...Clemons would be a nice addition....I hope the plan at safety isn't to go with a rookie.....they need a vet so they can avoid all the coverage lapses they have had the last couple seasons..
Don't get the guy overwhelmed.
He would actually be a nice addition. It's easy to look at his numbers and conclude that the guy can't play, but he's actually very fundamenally sound if you take the time to break him down a bit. He would be a huge upgrade over what they went with last year.
Better than Jennings, but is that really praise? I'd rather see Pryor or Hicks backed up by Jimmy Leonhard. (Leonhard is too short for TT, but it seems to be a year to break his own rules.)
This is an interesting signing. Guion has played his whole career in a 4-3, so this is definitely an experiment. We now have 2 active roster members who have intimate knowledge of 2 different division rivals' defense. Let's put this to good use!
My packers draft hopes now that d-line should be solidified.
1. S Calvin Pryor, Lousville (or Clinton-Dix if he falls)
2. OLB Trent Murphy, Stanford
3. S Tre Boston, North Carolina or S Ahmad Dixon, Baylor
4. TE CJ Fiedorowicz, Iowa
5. C Tyler Larsen, Utah State
6. WR Ladamien Washington, Missouri
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Don't forget the compensatory picks we get and the fact that this is one of the deepest WR drafts in history. TT is good for 2 WR picks.
This would be great, though I'm not crazy about Pryor and doubt Fiedorowicz will be there in the 4th. If you end up with this draft plus 2 comp picks, have a party.
Too high for Pryor and who would Murphy beat out to actually get on the field? He's not better than Neal or Perry. Perhaps if Thompson could trade back from 21 into round two and grab another 3rd Pryor would make sense then Murphy could be a 3rd which would put him closer to where I think he'd be drafted.
Why would you want TT to take two safties in the first 3 rounds?? They already ahve Burnett so wasting a 3rd round pick on Boston (projected to be a 5-6 round pick) or Dixon is not going to happen. Same for Murphy. I don't see TT having any interest in him. He is way too small to play DE in a 3-4 and way too plodding and completely inexperienced to play OLB. The Pack has tried to convert the smallish college DEs to OLBs three times in the last three years with very poor results. Neal shows some promise, but far from being even average right now.
They need two safeties because they have none. Jury is still out on Burnett.
If memory serves, the last little-used DT the Pack grabbed from the Vikes was Gilbert Brown. That one turned out okay. Obviously this guy was signed to compete for a roster spot and add depth, but at only 26 with six years experiences you'd hope he's still got some upside.Hide replies
That would make my day if he would be another grave digger.
He needs to add 60 lbs of flesh.
A couple hundred Gilbert burgers and he'll get up to the same weight. ;)
Between Picket, C.J. Wilson, and Jolly, perhaps 2 of those 3 will not be kept on the roster at cut-down time? Pickett is still an ox but aging and slowing a little; Wilson has shown flashes of very good play, but not often enough; and Jolly is steady if no longer spectacular. What do ya'll think? Personally I like all three of these guys for their steadiness and lunch-pail attitudes (and Jolly for his reformation). But I think it's clear now Thompson and McCarthy are going to demand more from this defense and they are turning over a lot of stones to uncover the best group of guys they can mix and match. What do you all think?Hide replies
Since all three are free agents.....I'm going to say none of them.
CJ wilson is gone. There's no way they keep 5-6 DE's on the roster. Jolly or PIckett will be resigned to bring up the total # of DT's to 3.
I don't see them adding anyone else on the line, except maybe through the draft. Raji/Guion/Boyd Peppers/Daniels/Datone/Worthy That's a solid rotation right there.
Well isn't it about time?
Italo, out of these 3, I would keep Jolly for sure. Having Julius around and working with Raji, Jones, and 2 others from the draft or FA would be awesome. Worthy is good and so is Pickett, if he decides to stay. Still would like to see TT pull the trigger on JA, but I'm also excited about draft picks such as Beau Allen from the Badgers whom is 6'3" and 325 lbs or Louie Nix. For secondary, pick up Southward in mid rounds and HaHa early. Borland and Allen (Beau) would work together great and would be very affordable for 5 years. What ever happens, my faith in TT and MM does not waiver except for the misuse of the clock in game situations.
Don't think Peppers will be working with Raji.
iipjm raises a really great point. . . .I look for the Packers to carry 6 DL at the most next year (including Peppers who is probably a hydrid in certain schemes). That means Peppers, Raji, Jones, Guyon, Daniels and (Worthy/Boyd/Draft Choice). I doubt whether Pickett/Jolly/Wilson are even on the radar anymore.
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I'm in the middle of localizing my iPhone app, and I've gotten English, French, German and Japanese localizations working without any problems. Now I'm trying to get a simplified chinese localization working, and no matter what I try, the chinese .lproj bundle just won't be used when I have the phone set to simplified chinese.
One problem is that I'm not sure what the localization should be called. I've tried "Chinese", zh-Hans, zh-CN, zh_Hans, zh_CN and none of them work. I've even gone as far as digging around inside Remember The Milk's app bundle to see what they used. They're using zh_CN but that doesn't work for me.
Am I missing something obvious here? Do I need to update some plist somewhere? As far as I can see from reading the I18N documentation and looking at the relevant WWDC session video, all I should need to do is make sure I have the right .lproj bundle in my app bundle and I should be good to go... right?
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Is there anyway to retain/easily transfer symbology from ESRI to Mapinfo? The only process I found was posted in 2010 - https://groups.google.com/group/mapinfo-l/browse_thread/thread/883223ff4ae56809 and it is rather convoluted and supposed to be unreliable.
ArcGIS 10 and Mapinfo 11 are the core programs.
This is related to Is it possible to convert an ESRI style sheet to a font set? and Create a summary table of the symbology of all datasets in multiple mxd's as possible workarounds.


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Shortly after his work on the foundations of geometry David Hilbert turned his attention to finding a suitable statement of the Dirichlet principle, from which to prove the Riemann mapping theorem and vindicate the topological program for complex analysis. Based on comments made in letters to Frege a major motivation for Hilbert's foray into geometry and independence proofs was to investigate the Archimedean axiom. Specifically, Hilbert mentions (to Frege) Dehn's dissertation on the Archimedean axiom and Legendre's theorem. This leads me to think that conformal mappings were on Hilbert's mind and to guess that Weierstrass's counterexample somehow concerned the Archimedean property. But I can't find anything in the secondary history/philosophy of math literature that quite puts all the pieces of the puzzle together--that Weierstrass had a counter-example is mentioned but details are skirted--and qua philosopher I'm bumping up against my mathematical horizons in piecing it together myself.
Weierstrass simply observed that not every problem in the calculus of variations would have a solution. He considered the example $$D[y]=\int_{-1}^{1}x^2\left(\frac{d y}{dx}\right)^2dx\to \min,$$ where the functional $D[y]$ is minimized over continuous functions having piecewise continuous first derivatives in $[-1,1]$ and satisfying the boundary conditions $y(-1)=0$, $y(1)=1$. He proved that although there is a minimizing sequence $y_n=y_n(.)$ which makes $D[y_n]$ arbitrarily small, the minimal value of zero is never actually attained.
Weierstrass's example called into question the a priori validity of Dirichlet's principle. However, it did not completely refute the specific applications of Dirichlet's principle to boundary value problems for Laplace's equation developed by Green, Dirichlet, Riemann and others. It simply implied that the particular result required by Riemann would need a formal proof, which Riemann had not provided. For that reason some people refer to this example as Weierstrass's critique rather than Weierstrass's counterexample.
The story is briefly discussed in "A History of Analysis" edited by Hans Niels Jahnke.
I think I vaguely remember what the counterexpample was, but not the details. So if someone can fill it in it'd be great! (I'm putting this in CW mode for that reason.)
The idea is based on knowing explicitly the Green's function in the disk. The goal is to construct a continuous function $g$ on the boundary of the unit disk, such that it is the trace of some smooth function $f$ where $\triangle f = 0$ in the disk, and where the energy integral $\int_D |\partial f|^2 dx = \infty$.
The construction itself, I think, was based on finding a sequence of harmonic functions $f_k$ such that in the interior of the disk $\sum \partial^\alpha f_k$ converges pointwise for any derivative with multiindex $\alpha$ (but of course the sum fails to converge for any derivative on the boundary, so the final function only extends continuously to the boundary). the Trick is that these functions are chosen with specific boundary values, so that using the Green's function one can estimate (from below) the size of their gradients near the boundary. Then one just need to make sure that the blow-up rate of the gradient dominates the distance to the boundary, so the energy integral will fail to converge in a neighborhood of the boundary.
Since the energy integral of the solution to the Euler-Lagrange equation is infinite, the solution obviously is not a minimizer of the energy integral, thus contradicting Dirichlet's principle.
A short introduction and connection to Jacob Steiner's proofs of Dido's Problem can be found in Perron, O., Zur Existenzfrage eines Maximums oder Minimums, Deutsche Math.-Ver. 22, 140-144 (1913).


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I'm searching the site using the search box in the top corner and 'grails' returns nothing.
Using google and 'site:stackoverflow.com grails' gets me some results.
(I know I can use google, but would prefer the search box to work as it's quicker and especially as Jeff was bragging about how sweet the new search was ;) Or am I just doing something wrong?)
Update OK this is weird...when logged I get 0 results (tried many many times and triple-checked spelling). When I'm not logged in I get the results.
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I'm looking to visit places on UK that offer visitors an opportunity to wear medieval armor/clothes. Where can I find such a place?
England's Medieval Festival is the largest of its kind in the UK. This year it will take place at Herstmonceux Castle East Sussex, UK on the 24th, 25th and 26th August 2013.
Held annually since 1992 over the three days of the August Bank Holiday Weekend, England's Medieval Festival at Herstmonceux Castle is Britain's largest and most magnificant celebration of the colourful Middle Ages.
Also of interest
Tewkesbury Medieval Festival is now widely regarded as the largest medieval gathering of its kind in Europe, and attracts re-enactors, traders and entertainers, and visitors from all over the world.
Its central attraction is a re-enactment of the Battle of Tewkesbury, on part of the site of the original 1471 battlefield. Many of the participants including wives and children live as a medieval army in authentic medieval encampments for the whole weekend.
The event features a wide range of period entertainment, including music, dance and drama as well as a collection of fascinating characters from the past.
This year the festivities will take place on the 13-14th July 2013.
See their Facebook Page
A brief Google turns up Carisbrooke Castle and the Bodiam Castle for a start; the National Trust are big on recreating authentic experiences at their places.
If you've got some special interest I'm sure they're pretty approachable by email too, in case they only normally get the chain mail out for crushing children on school visits (how people fought in that stuff is beyond me, I can barely stand up in it for long).
If you don't mind going on a horse, try The Knights of Middle England in Warwickshire or The Knights Of Royal England in Kent.
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Emperor Chicks, you don't need a long Lens with these Guys, shot with 70-200 f/2.8 V1, you can generally shoot them with a wide angle they get so close.
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I was thrilled to be able to capture this shot..a White-tailed Kite. Not a common bird to start with and his haunting eyes against the white feathers make this raptor somewhat eerie.EnjoyWhite-tailed Kite by Revup67, on Flickr
Quote from: revup67 on January 15, 2013, 12:30:09 AMMy personal favorite bird..the Peregrine Falcon..only the second time I've seen one of these..just wonderfulPeregrine Falcon by Revup67, on FlickrFantastic! I love the shot.
My personal favorite bird..the Peregrine Falcon..only the second time I've seen one of these..just wonderfulPeregrine Falcon by Revup67, on Flickr
Here is a portrait. Posted under Spotted Owlets too.
A Pair.
A bird out in my backyard... that actually let me take photos of it without the need for a telephoto lens (but this one is with my 70-200 f/4 IS). I could actually use my 24-70 at times but I ended up feeling i wanted a tighter fit and didn't want to scare him off.
A few others from me from this week end taken with the Canon 135L @f2John
A family of 8
Nonac..love that cardinal shot..excellent !Here's my first capture of a Phainopepla (<say that 5x fast Phainopepla by Revup67, on FlickrWhat was cool about this event is a fellow birder had his iPhone. we quickly ID'd the bird, looked him up on Birdseye and started the bird call. The bird actually began responding and creating a conversation of sorts with the iPhone. He was intrigued enough so he also flew closer to our location so we could get up close shots..it was incredible to witness this as I had not before.
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5 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Video Game Realism (Pt. 2)
Video games let us do things we've always fantasized about but could never actually pull off without ending up in a prison cell, a mental institution, or a closed-casket funeral. But as with every entertainment medium, there are a few brave souls in gaming who declare that they want to make their work realistic, damn it!
It's a nice thought -- in theory. In reality, it just makes everything ridiculous ...
#5. Shenmue Makes You Get a Tedious Job
Shenmue pioneered many staples of video game realism: characters had their own schedules, almost every drawer and box could be obsessively searched, weather changed from day to day, and shops kept their own hours. It's one of the greatest and most influential games of all time. That's why we're immensely thankful that future games did not adopt the idea of making you work a repetitive, soul-crushingly dull day job.
Although we're immensely pissed that future games did not adopt the idea of
high stakes underground dapper duck racing. Get on that shit, GTA.
You see, Shenmue is about a man named Ryo who's trying to track down his father's murderer. Eventually you piece together enough clues to learn that the killer is connected to a local gang that's infamous for harassing dock workers. So of course the logical next step is for you, the player, to get an in-game job driving forklifts. You know, to attract the attention of the gangsters so you can try to get clues from them. It's a good plan that works perfectly, but it takes five tedious days of depressing manual labor to get there.
First you get training from a man who looks like a racist caricature from the 1960s.
"Have you ever noticed how black people look like this, but black video game characters look like this?"
And that's it. You're trained, so get to work. And make no mistake, this isn't some two-minute mini-game. This is an actual goddamn job. Bask in the excitement of the morning shift and the spectacular evening shift. Did you notice that the videos are each 20 minutes long? You've got to work two shifts a day for five days, which means you'll be spending over three hours picking up boxes and driving them around.
It's not like they couldn't have found a way to make this fun. Every day starts with a wildly irresponsible forklift race, and your lunch breaks are mostly spent beating up gangsters. That's a job we want in a video game. All they had to do was skip past the actual labor and get back to the action. But no -- the developers decided that, in the name of realism, you would have to spend three precious hours away from your real-life job ... working a job. You can't skip it. You can't shorten it. You can't phone in sick or tell the boss that your grandma died because her car got hit with a blue shell. Hell, we're surprised they don't make you fill out paperwork and attend a virtual workplace sensitivity seminar.
At the end of the grueling workweek, you're finally rewarded with a big fight ... and then the game abruptly ends on a cliffhanger. That's right: Your forklift job was the game's climax.
At the time it was the most expensive game ever made.
#4. Fable II Makes Your Character Struggle With Chronic Obesity
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The big selling point of the fantasy adventure Fable II is that your hero changed in realistic ways based on your actions. Swing your sword a lot and you'll get muscular. Be a jerk to everyone and people will avoid you. Have a lot of unprotected sex and you'll get STDs (yes, really). Overeat and you'll end up looking like a latter-day Marlon Brando.
But unlike the months of living off fried chicken and milkshakes that real-life obesity requires, in Fable II you can go from slim to fat in literally a minute. Just binge on 20 apple pies, and instead of vomiting and crying in shame, you'll balloon out like you ate the wrong candy in Willy Wonka's factory.
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Although your Oompa Loompas are far more stylish.
But whatever -- if it's that easy to gain weight, it must be easy to lose weight too, right? This is a game based on running around and fighting, which is a lot of exercise considering that the average person now regards lifting up the frozen peas to get at the ice cream to be a workout. But no -- you could kill half a dozen trolls and then run a few victory laps and you'd still be as corpulent as you would have been if you'd stayed in town and hit on saucy wenches.
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"The wenches all ran away with jealousy because my breasts are larger than theirs."
Eating healthy doesn't work either, because every food in the game (save one) either packs on the pounds or doesn't make a difference. And since food heals you and is cheaper and easier to find than health potions, weight gain is practically inevitable.
Take, for example, the grueling eight-stage battle arena known as the Crucible. Anything called a crucible is unlikely to be full of fluffy kittens and rainbows, and indeed you soon find yourself facing hordes of goblins and werewolves that want to smash your face in. You'll probably end up shoving a bunch of meat pies and apples into your mouth just to survive. To make matters worse, your fans in the arena give you support by ... throwing you food. You could therefore enter the arena as an unknown stick figure ...
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With some sort of inexplicable testicular camel toe.
... and emerge half an hour later as a champion who looks like he ate half the spectators.
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"Th- that was my wife ..."
So, how do you lose weight? Why, in a way that somehow manages to make even less sense, of course! Eat celery. That's right: Out of all the food you can eat and all the vigorous activities you can do, chowing down on celery is the only way to shed your love handles. Of course, thanks to the way items are randomly generated, it's possible you won't even find celery, but if you manage to stockpile enough, you can become a blob by devouring a Safeway's worth of food and then immediately slim down by shoving stalk after stalk of celery down your throat. Which is, sadly, how most people seem to think dieting works.
The developers realized that this was nonsensical and eventually introduced weight-loss potions in the downloadable content, because the whole point of video games is that this is the one area of life where we don't have to be fat.
#3. Jurassic Park: Trespasser Gives You Way Too Much Body Control
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1998's Jurassic Park: Trespasser was an overly ambitious bomb that's mostly remembered as the game where you play a busty woman who has to look down her tits to see the health bar:
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Thus turning a generation of 13-year-old boys into obsessive health awareness advocates.
It was supposed to be an awesome adventure across a dinosaur-ridden island, but instead was a dull disappointment. It's the Jurassic Park III of games, and almost every single one of Trespasser's flaws is an attempt at realism that failed miserably.
The revolutionary yet utterly broken physics engine turned the simplest box puzzles into Sisyphean endeavors. The attempt to make the dinosaurs behave in realistic, unpredictable ways resulted in the poor creatures running into walls, stumbling off ledges, and generally staggering around the jungle as if they had one too many drinks at the local Jurassic Bar. But if one glitch in this hopeless realm of digital waste reigns supreme, it's the painful experience of controlling the protagonist's arm.
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"Dude, have you ever, like, really looked at your hand?"
Trespasser is a shooting game, but without cross hairs to help you aim and interact with the world, because even though those are staples of the genre, they're just so silly and unrealistic. Instead, in what can only be described as the spiritual predecessor to QWOP, the game forces you to press several keys simultaneously in order to control the position and rotation of your arm and wrist.
This works about as well as you'd expect: Moving your arm feels more like operating the world's worst claw game, especially after the countless times you pick up objects and weapons only to drop them seconds later. Aiming a gun is even worse. It takes so much time to line up a shot that you're better off trying to slap the velociraptors to death with your flailing appendage. Trespasser should have been called One-Armed Stretch Armstrong versus the Mentally Handicapped Dinosaurs.
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*Play for full heroic effect*
So, for most of the game, you walk around looking like you're feeling your way through the dark or constantly saluting Hitler. But your arm (your other arm is "fractured," which is code for "we ran out of time and money") also likes to defy every law of physics and anatomy, bending and twisting in crazy ways impossible for anyone who isn't Mister Fantastic after he's been possessed by a demon. It's both hilarious and creepy, but we can only call it realistic if the character came down with a sudden case of boneitis.


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A dermatologist can treat any stretch marks that remain after a birth. Some doctors use topical prescription treatments that contain formulations such as glycolic acid. A recent study found that Retonoic acid reduced the length of stretch marks by 14 percent and the width by 8 percent. Laser treatments are also now being used to minimize the appearance of stretch marks.
How do you think you'll look with stretch marks? Well, you might want to convince yourself that you'll look great, because about 50 percent of pregnant women get stretch marks. As the name implies, these pale to dark red or purple streaks occur when the skin stretches to accommodate the growth of your belly. They can occur just about anywhere, but breasts, hips, abdomen, and thighs are the most common spots. If you're dark-skinned and/or have a mother or sister who had stretch marks, it's very likely you will join the club.
Don't get too upset about these badges of motherhood, there's nothing much you can do about them and you probably won't be wearing a bikini anytime soon anyway. Some women rub on special creams made to minimize these marks. The rubbing might make them feel better, but no cream currently on the market has been medically proven to effectively reduce stretch marks. Most stretch marks on light-skinned women fade on their own to a silvery white color.
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Imagine you have a pile of snow and a pile of ice shards. You put a soda bottle which has a room temperature into both piles. Which bottle is going to cool down faster?
This depends on contact area between bottle & ice/snow, and consistency of snow.
If there is not much air in the snow, it should have bigger contact area with bottle, and thus heat will be transferred faster.
Ice will contact with the bottle mainly at shards edges, so contact area is small.
PS. Adding water will change everything, as contact area would be maximized in both cases.
For one you must define room temperature. because if the bottle is worm enough to to slightly melt the show first and then refreeze then this one will cool 1st of not the air in the snow can act as an insulator and this one will take longer. Now the shape and sise of the ice will make a large contribution/small to the surface contact on the bottle this will also make a difference on the air flow around the pieces of ice.
You need to make the experiment MUCH more specific to get a correct answer.
The first thing to realize is that "ice" is a pile of small ice shards and snow is a pile of itty-bitty ice shards.
Assuming the snow and ice are at the same temperature, the answer to your question with come down to which one has more contact area and (to a much lesser extent) how that contact area is distributed. Also note that the contact area and its distribution could change over time, as the can melts the ice/snow.
You'd have to run the experiment. My guess is that ice would be the winner. This is because ice would maintain a much larger contact area over time. The can in the snow would melt the snow beneath it and drop away from the "snow roof" over it; whereas I would expect the "ice roof" to collapse with the can, continuing to cool it. The can contents in contact with the roof would be expected to be the warmest, thereby giving maximum cooling effect from any contact on the top side of the can.
Thermal conductivity of ice is higher than thermal conductivity of snow, so ice is the winner. Ice has higher thermal conductivity because it is more dense than snow. When snow is as dense as ice then it is no longer snow, it is ice.
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I'm devoting today's space to as many photos as I could possibly cram on here - ones I took at Steubenville's Eastern Gateway Community College Christmas parade held on Dec. 8.
It was a great parade to watch with terrific participation, both in the units marching and the people watching.
Sponsoring this year's event in addition to EGCC were the Steubenville Visitors Bureau, Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce and WTOV with help from the Franciscan University of Steubenville and the Steubenville Lions Club.
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The event committee included Judy Bratten, Sue Hershey, Ann Koon, Anita Jackson, Cathy Davison, Domenick Mucci, Mark Nelson, Rikki Kamarados, Jerry Barilla, Mary Snyder and Tim McCoy.
There were close to 90 units in the parade so there was a lot to see, and the weather cooperated, thank goodness.
Rich Donnelly of Steubenville, who has had a career in professional baseball that has spanned more than 40 years, including a stint as a coach with the Pittsburgh Pirates, is someone I got a chance to meet afterwards as reporter Dave Gossett and I were heading back to our cars as was Donnelly and his wife, Roberta, who is a horse person I discovered during a brief conversation. Neat!
Naturally, I took a parade photo of the guy standing atop two horses as he made his way down Fourth Street with ease. Wonder if I could do that.
And at the end of the parade was a horse-drawn carriage in which Laura Meeks, president of EGGC, was traveling.
I'm glad I made a point of going. Very nice.
By the way, Merry Christmas!


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I have two DateFields, startDate and endDate.
I want to write a validator that checks that startDate should be smaller than endDate and vice versa.
The Validator interface however only accepts one field and one value.
What's the best way to implement the this check?
23 Nov 2012 11:37 AM #2
One option would be to make the validator implementation's constructor accept as an argument the second field to compare against. Then, make a new instance of the validator for each field, pointing at the corresponding field that it needs to work with to behave correctly.
Another option would be to just make an anonymous subclass, and as long as the other field is made final (or an instance variable), refer to it within the implementation.
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Thanks, solved by putting the required fields into the constructor.


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Established in 1969, ASECS is an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period from the late 17th to the early 19th century.
The organization's award for innovative course design comes with a $500 honorarium and an invitation to present at the society's annual meeting this spring.
In recognizing her work, the selection committee praised Paku's innovation:
"This course takes a difficult topic - authorial identity - and makes it accessible and interesting without sacrificing any conceptual clarity or rigor. Indeed, its course objectives - with their attendant interest in the meta-analysis of authorship and canonicity - are remarkably ambitious. Laurence Sterne's work is difficult to decipher and yet Paku succeeds in using Tristram Shandy to actually render a more recent postmodern text more accessible to students by the end of the semester. This is a serious and innovative accomplishment. Along the way, the use of Skype is perfectly tuned to the course goals and allows the living post-modern author (Plascencia) to 'perform' in ways that can be discussed and deconstructed after the fact. In a major authors course, the identity and intentions of the author are always foregrounded, but students inevitably seem to wonder if they've accessed the "real" Sterne or the "real" Dryden or the "real" Milton. Paku's arrangement for an interview with a living author allows students to experience "authentic" contact that will shape their understanding of how well the written works capture the essence and intents of their creator. The use of puppets (and indeed Muppets) is also conceptually sound and pedagogically useful. These are not gimmicks."
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What's the origin of the idiom "to blow your own horn"?
Is there some metaphor behind it with some animal horn or whatnot?
According to http://www.writersblock.ca/fall2000/origins.htm, it refers to the practice of heraldry. It comes from the sense of 'horn' as a trumpet, and one who blows his own horn is someone making great fanfare about himself, as is usually more appropriately left to a herald.
It means praising or sticking up for yourself, and can have either positive or negative connotations, depending on the context.
Besides blowing your own horn/trumpet, you'll also occasionally tooting or honking substituted for blowing there. Important men used to have heralds to announce their greatness, which is where the expression originally derived from. The metaphor is sometimes adapted to more modern cirumstances; for example, "honking a horn" refers to the horn on a motor vehicle, but the underlying sense of self-praise is unchanged.
And that's not all...
There is one more modern use that's even more exotic. Every now and again you encounter "blow one's own horn" used in an extended metaphor, which put as delicately as possible, refers to the act of autofellatio. (And no, that auto- has nothing to do with motor vehicles. :) Eddie Murphy famously said he'd never leave home if he could blow his own horn, and this is what he meant by the expression.
Anyone who has trouble understanding where this idiom comes from obviously never shared quarters with a sixth-grader who was learning to play trumpet. ;^)
In addition to blow/toot your own horn/trumpet, there's also the idiom beat your own drum.
Either one means "draw some attention to yourself." Usually, the easiest way to do that is to make a lot of noise, to clang your own cymbals. Although, if you really want to catch someone's attention, whisper.3
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"Toot the horn" is referred to in Heart of Darkness
Matthew 6:2-4 2"Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
When Jesus was around, people would go to a synagogue and contribute by putting money in a container with a trumpet shaped top. The more valuable coins were bigger and if you threw them in, they made a noise that let everyone know you were giving a bigger donation. You were blowing your trumpet


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One of the things we emphasize heavily in my Hapkido group is breathing. It tends to flow with your motion and be very deep in nature. We also have deep breathing exercises along these lines (danjeon [단전] or abdominal breathing) which over time help develop the appropriate channeling of breath.
Recently we had a white belt join our dojang who is having some difficulty with the louder, more forceful breathing through his motions and asked how we do what we do. The answer is "years of practice doing the breathing exercises" (most of the people he's seen are 4th kup and above), but I wondered if there was some sort of exercise that I can show him that would illustrate the "how" a little more explicitly.
Has anyone had good luck with drills, really in any context (e.g., singing), that help train the "how" of making strong, deep breaths?


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When going up a slope, how often must you insert a powered rail to keep your cart going? What is the minimum to keep going at all, and what is a good recommendation for maintaining a reasonable speed?
I also decided to do some testing on this subject. I placed a powered rail every third track, and these 3 track sequences repeated 8 times.
The minecart (with me in it) initially looked like it was easily going to make it, but closer to the end, the cart only barely caught the edge of the powered track to boost it. Depending on how hard I pushed the cart at the beginning, the cart would only sometimes make it past the final powered track to the lip on flat land.
From the looks of my testing, you could get by with 2 tracks between powered rails for very short inclines, but for carts with no entities inside them and longer inclines, you'll need to put a powered rail every other track piece.
I experimented a bit. I placed a solid block to act as a brake, then two regular rails, then a powered rail with a redstone torch beside it, and then a slope. After pushing the cart approximately one block and getting into it, it managed to go up three blocks, but just barely. I tried with a sheep inside the cart and it almost reached three blocks, but it started falling down just before reaching the third meter. This may have something to do with how much I pushed the cart.
An empty cart, however, only managed to climb two blocks.
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I have a elementary question:If e^itπ is algebraic , is $t$ a rational number. I do not know whether it is right
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The question as stated is very easy to answer. If the question was really intended to be asked about algebraic integers, then there is still a relatively simple direct example to show that the answer is "no". The question about algebraic integers is well-studied, with a substantial literature and the example that follows is one easy instance:
If we take any real algebraic integer $s$ with $0 < s <1,$ then, $t = s + i \sqrt{1-s^{2}}$ is an algebraic integer which lies on the unit circle. Now apply this with $s = \sqrt{2}-1.$ Note that $t$ generates a degree $4$ extension of the rationals. If $t$ were a primitive $m$-th root of unity, we would have $\phi(m) = 4$ so that $m = 8.$ Hence $t$ would be a primitive $8$-th root of unity, but it is not, as each primitive $8$-th root of unity has real part $\pm \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}.$


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# PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE via Make:Blog
An interactive architectural mapping.
Fete des Lumieres / Lyon / France / 2010
A mapping by 1024 Architecture, projected on the facade of former Lyrical theater the "Celestins". The building deformations and figures were controlled by the audience, using a microphone and an audio analysis algorythm.
More info at 1024architecture.net and 1024d.wordpress.com
# Dan303: Tenori-On iPad app review
Dan Weatherall on the TNR-i for iOS:
The official Tenori on iOS app enter the app store the other week but at £12 I was a little hesitant to buy it. After a little thought and a bit of googling I decided it was indeed worth the price.
The cheapest hardware Tenori-On (the TNR-O) is roughly £500 where as the current price of the iPad 2 is £499 (cheapest wifi only model) so considering that both the devices are pretty much exactly the same price (and I already own an iPad) it makes sence to get the iOS version.
# Thumbs Up for Madrona Labs AALTO Software Synthesizer (Modulate This! – A Blog for Electronic Music Artists)
Mark Mosher shares some info on the Aalto semi-modular software synth.
Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music did a post on a new synth by Madrona Labs last month. Even though I wasn't in the market for a new synth right now I ended up buying this Aalto within an hour or so of downloading the demo so I wanted to pass this along and help promote Madrona's great work. At $99 this is an incredible value.
# From the Trenches of the Loudness Wars, A Broad Survey of Research
Peter Kirn writes:
You've heard the gripes, and heard and seen the somewhat unscientific demos. Now it's time to examine the over-compression of music with – science! Earl Vickers of STMicroelectronics examines the Loudness Wars in an academic paper, as noted to us by reader photohounds.
# Flickr: LEGO Album Covers via wire to the ear
# little-scale: Tau Percussion Sample Pack
Sebastian Tomczak has posted a nice free sample pack.
I made a small set of percussion samples using a waveform generated from the first 614 digits of 2π. Download it here: http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/downloads/sample_sets/Tau_Kit.zip
# Talking About The Upcoming Sound Packs With Elliott Fienberg
Nick of Nick's Tutorials:
I just finished recording a really enjoyable conversation with Elliott Fienberg, the man behind the Wobble Tech Radio podcast.
We chatted about some recording industry news and talked a bit about my upcoming Ableton Live packs that I'll start releasing in the next month or so.
Check out the recording here, and be sure to check out Elliott's other episodes: http://mixlr.com/mrtunes/wobble-tech-radio-10-with-the-ableton-tutor
# Dan303: Analog acid/minimal bass stabs (multisample)
More free samples from Dan303:
These multi samples were taken from my FreeBass FB383 bassline synth. It's a rackmount analog bass synthesizer (clone of the Roland TB303).
# Open-Source Rockit 8-bit Synth Kit Coming
Peter at Create Digital Music:
Chicago-based hacker and synthesist Matt Heins is working on an open source synth kit. As a co-creator of the MeeBlip open source-synth hardware, I'm biased — I want more open synth hardware! So this is looking like some great company. The instrument is 8-bit, with analog filter circuitry, coded in C.


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This is probably the dumbest question this forum has seen in a while, but how does one do it? Should I remove the O-rings or should I leave them there and use the silver screws with the smallest thread diameter? If yes, how does one tighten the whole assembly, if not, how does one prevent the rotation of the R1/R10 adapter?
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Let $A$ be an $n$ by $n$ matrix and $x$ a free parameter. Define $$p(A,x)=\sum_{\pi \in S_n} x^{n(\pi)}A_{1\pi(1)}\ldots A_{n\pi(n)},$$ where $\pi$ ranges over the permutation group $S_n$ and $n(\pi)$ is the number of cycles in the cycle decomposition of $\pi$. Clearly, $p(A,1)=perm(A)$, the permanent. In general, $p(A,x)$ has properties in common with the permanent such as $p(PAQ,x)=p(A,x)$ for permutation matrices $P,Q$.
Is this a well-known structure in combinatorics and where might I find more information?


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York College was founded on August 26, 1890, by the United Brethren Church in conjunction with York citizens who wanted a church-related college. In 1946, a merger with the Evangelical Church resulted in control of the college passing to the newly-formed Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) Church. In 1954, that body decided to transfer its support to another EUB institution, Westmar University in LeMars, Iowa. An agreement had existed from the school's beginning that control of the school would pass to the City of York should the governing body ever decide to close the college. Because of this, the city took control of the property, and the corporate structure, which has remained continuous since 1890, was transferred to members of the churches of Christ in 1956.
The new administration reopened York College in fall 1956 as a senior college with 89 students. After two years, the administration recommended that York College focus on associate degree programs, cease offering the baccalaureate program, and work toward accreditation with the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). In 1970, NCA awarded accreditation to York College, the first junior college in Nebraska to receive that distinction.
In 1988, York College began the transition to senior college status with the strong support of both the York community and church constituencies. The important first step came in 1989 when the North Central Association granted its approval for the College to award the Bachelor of Arts Degree with majors in Biblical Studies and Religious Studies. Approval of other programs in several branches of the arts, science, business, education and pre-professional pursuits soon followed. The college gained accreditation as a senior college in 1994.
From the first days of reopening, the college has had a strong focus in Christian mission work demonstrated by ongoing outreach by individuals, informal groups and official college sponsored programs. Major programs have included the Master's Apprentice Program (1960s through ~2005) and more recently in a strong partnership with Let's Start Talking ministries that involve outreach around the globe. On campus, this focus is demonstrated in a strong campus ministry, daily chapel, and multiple service projects.
Building on a long tradition of collegiate competition, York College quickly reintroduced basketball in 1957. By the end of its first decade, the new college had added programs in soccer, track and field, tennis and baseball. Women's sports and additional team sports have been added throughout the college's history. In recent years, the college has been consistently recognized in the NAIA for its commitment to an athletic's program that builds character in the context of competition.
A cappella music is a defining characteristic of churches of Christ and has proven to be a major influence on the college's tradition of daily chapel. For the public, this influence is most apparent in the college's Concert Choir. The choir has traveled extensively throughout its history including recent international trips and performances at major venues. With the Concert Choir as its flagship, the performing arts have developed a strong reputation. Outreach to patrons, churches, area schools and young audiences have solidified the value of the program for many audiences and the strength of the student experience.
Since receiving four-year accreditation, the college's Education Unit has emerged as the largest and most respected program on campus. The State of Nebraska approved the Teacher Education programs in 1994, the first new approval in more than half a century. That same year, the State Board of Education granted continuing approval to York College's Teacher Education programs for the five year maximum. In 2011, building on this strength, the college initiated its first graduate offering with a master's in education (instruction and curriculum development). This online program has been designed to meet the needs of full-time educators.
During the college's most recent accreditation visit (2003), the Higher Learning Commission (a Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools) granted York College the maximum 10 year accreditation. Two years later York College's Teacher Education program received national accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
In recent developments, the college launched York College Online in 2010 to expand the reach of the school with special focus on non-traditional students. The college has grown from only four major buildings in 1956, to a campus of 17 major facilities on 50 acres that serve the needs of a growing student body. Fall enrollment is typically between 400 and 500 students, coming from about 30 states and several countries. The college's 7,500 alumni reside in every state and several countries. As has been the case from its founding, the focus of the college is to transform lives through Christ-centered education and prepare each student for a life of service to God, family and society.
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