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By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: January 14, 1998
After 15 years of making and (mostly) winning courageous bets on artists at its Next Wave Festival, the always bold Brooklyn Academy of Music is entering an ambitious new phase, a next wave of the institution itself.
By almost any measure, the Brooklyn Academy is one of New York City's success stories. Back in 1967, when Harvey Lichtenstein became president and executive producer, there was talk of turning the elegant 135-year-old opera house into tennis courts.
Today its audiences, overwhelmingly from Manhattan, stream there to see and hear cutting-edge artists from around the world, and the academy has become a sparkling if idiosyncratic lure on the southern fringe of what had long been a deteriorating downtown Brooklyn.
Now the academy has taken on a new challenge, one calculated to connect it with its home borough and neighborhood in an unparalleled manner. The heavily subsidized institution famous for avant-garde programming and short seasons is plunging into a for-profit movie and restaurant business on a 14-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week schedule. Further, it is buying nearby real estate to foster an arts-fueled night life that Bruce Rattner, the academy's chairman, predicts will become ''the Left Bank of New York City.''
Mr. Lichtenstein said: ''We put an anchor in this area and helped save it from going down the drain. Now we're ready to help it build.'' The idea is to use infusions of city money and a little help from state agencies to accelerate the economic development of an area that for decades suffered decay.
The price tag is considerably less than the $180 million spent in Newark to build a new performing arts center as a magnet for urban development, but the effort is part of a national trend from Pittsburgh to Cleveland to Oakland, Calif.
Indeed, the expansion in Brooklyn directly emerged from a 1996 study by the Regional Plan Association on how to revitalize the downtown neighborhood, which was once home to dozens of theaters. The report urged steps to encourage a ''vibrant 24-hour community with an exciting mix of activities.'' The path may be easier in Brooklyn than Newark in the sense that the immediate neighborhood is already bouncing back. But success is hardly guaranteed, not least because some nearby residents and business owners regard the academy as essentially an island of Manhattan elitism in a working-class, mostly black neighborhood, a place many visit only on round-trip charter buses from midtown.
The people who run the academy ''need to understand that just because they're the big guys doesn't give them the right to walk all over other people,'' said Selma Jackson, co-owner of 4-W Circle, a gift shop in a nearby strip of Afrocentric boutiques and cafes.
The academy's first initiative, expected to be completed in September, is the reconstruction of major features of the opera house by Hardy Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates, the firm that renovated the academy's Majestic Theater and the New Victory Theater in Times Square. The opera house project, under way for more than a year, includes the conversion of the Carey Playhouse and Lepercq performance space into a cafe, a bookstore and a multi-screen theater showcasing independent films not regularly shown in Brooklyn.
The second, bolder venture is to reach out into the surrounding neighborhood to jump-start smaller arts organizations, restaurants and night clubs, in some cases by actually buying buildings and leasing them to others. The academy has revived a local development corporation that had been dormant for a decade.
Cultivating The Neighborhood
The city has put up $18 million for the academy's internal expansion, and the state is selling it a vacant building at 2 Lafayette Street, across from the opera house, at the low price of $185,000. The Mark Morris Dance Group, long one of the academy's most popular attractions, will make the building its permanent home, along with at least one restaurant, perhaps a branch of Sylvia's of Harlem or the New City Cafe in neighboring Fort Greene.
H. Claude Shostal, president of the Regional Plan Association, a strong backer of the academy's initiative, cautioned that success depended on the careful cultivation of neighborhood relations, among other factors. He pointed out that it took more than a decade for Lincoln Center to spark its neighborhood.
When Mr. Lichtenstein, now 68, came to Brooklyn three decades ago, after serving as an executive at the New York City Ballet, part of the opera house was rented to a martial-arts school, and there was talk of selling the building. Then came new artists, Next Wave and even a $15 million endowment. The academy's current operating budget is $17.2 million.
''Harvey never runs out of new ideas,'' Mr. Shostal said. ''He is one of the most remarkable innovators in the arts and community arts. The institution has taken risks like nobody else in the city, but successful risks.''
Mr. Lichtenstein said risk was necessary for the sort of institution he and a small cadre of dedicated aides have created. ''We want to be five steps ahead of everybody else,'' he said. ''That's our role.''


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MONTGOMERY | Archie Russ of Brantley caught a 1-pound, 4-ounce redbreast sunfish from the Choctawhatchee River in Geneva County to set a new state record.
He caught the fish at approximately 11:30 p.m. on June 12, 2010.
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Annabhau Sathe (1 August 1920 – 18 July 1969) was a social reformer, folk poet, and writer from Maharashtra, India.[1] Sathe was a Dalit born into the Mang (caste), and his upbringing and identity were central to his writing and political activism.[2]
Despite lacking formal education, Sathe wrote 35 novels in the Marathi. They include Fakira (1959), which is in its 19th edition and received a state government award in 1961. There are 15 collections of Sathe's short stories, of which a large number have been translated into many Indian and as many as 27 non-Indian languages. Besides novels and short stories, Sathe wrote a play, a travelogue on Russia, 12 screenplays, and 10 ballads in the Marathi powada style.[1]
Sathe's use of folkloric narrative styles like powada and lawani helped popularise and make his work accessible to many communities. In Fakira, Sathe portrays Fakira, the protagonist, revolting against the rural orthodox system and British Raj to save his community from utter starvation.[1] The protagonist and his community are subsequently arrested and tortured by British officers, and Fakira is eventually killed by hanging.
Sathe was initially influenced by communist ideology and later shifted toward Dalit activism following the teachings of B. R. Ambedkar, and used his stories to amplify the life experiences of Dalits and workers.[3]
Sathe inaugurated a Dalit Sahitya Sammelan (Literary Conference) held at Mumbai in 1958; in his inaugural speech he said that "The earth is not balanced on the snake's head but on the strength of Dalit and working-class people," emphasising the importance of Dalit and working-class people in global structures.[3]
Sathe's stories were testaments to Dalit self-respect and resistance, and he is quoted as saying that Dalit literature and "Dalit writers are entailed with the responsibility of liberating and shielding Dalits from the existing worldly and Hindu tortures as the long standing conventional beliefs cannot be destroyed instantly."[3]
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When the Ohio Department of Health has a surplus of adult hepatitis vaccines soon to expire at immunization sites around the state, the agency channels some supply to Columbus Public Health, where Denice Abbot, RN, makes sure the vaccines are used to protect vulnerable individuals.
For Abbot, that may mean working long weekends and collaborating with social services agencies to administer hundreds of vaccinations within short time frames to avoid expiration. She recently earned the American Nurses Association Immunity Award for her perseverance in ensuring high-risk clients, including people who are homeless or struggle with substance abuse, receive vaccinations as part of the Ohio state initiative.
"No short-dated vaccine that has come to CPH from other locations has ever expired since Denice came on board," CPH Program Director Sean Hubert said.
Within seven months at CPH, Abbot nearly doubled the number of clients who are immunized. While promoting the adult hepatitis vaccination, Abbot makes sure clients are current on other immunizations, including seasonal influenza and pertussis. She also has found opportunities to increase immunizations among children, who are at the sites while their parents receive services.
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Breast Cancer Health Center
Hormone Therapy for Breast Cancer
In this article
Hormones are chemical messengers that travel through your body, telling it what to do. The hormones estrogen and progesterone are important for women. They impact female development, menstrual cycles, and pregnancy. But in some women, they can also trigger breast cancer.
Hormone therapy for breast cancer, also called endocrine therapy, prevents cancer cells from growing by either blocking or removing the hormones.
In some cases, women may have surgery to stop making these hormones. If you're still having periods, your doctor may suggest removing your ovaries.
When Is Hormone Therapy Used?
Not all breast cancers are fueled by hormones, or "hormone-sensitive." Those that aren't won't respond to hormone therapy. If you're diagnosed with breast cancer, your health team will test your tumor to see if it's sensitive to either estrogen or progesterone. If it's sensitive to either or both, your doctor will prescribe you hormone-blocking treatment.
If you've already been treated for breast cancer, you might use hormone therapy to help keep it from coming back. It also helps lower the risk of new cancers in the other breast.
Also, if you don't have the disease but have a family history of it, or genes that raise your risk, your doctor may recommend hormone therapy to lower your chances of getting it.
What Are Common Hormone Drugs Used for Breast Cancer?
Tamoxifen blocks the activity of estrogen and is okay for women to use both before and after menopause. Men with hormone-sensitive breast cancer can take it, too.
For women with advanced cancer that's hormone-sensitive, it's standard treatment. If you have early stage breast cancer, or cancer that's advanced to other areas of the breast, you may take it after surgery.
It's also one of the drugs women at high risk of cancer may take it to lower their chances of getting cancer. The other drug approved to help lower the risk is raloxifene(Evista.)
Aromatase Inhibitors
Women past menopause may get prescribed one of these drugs. After menopause, your main source of estrogen comes through a process called aromatization, in which hormones called androgens are changed into estrogen. Aromatase inhibitors fight tumor growth by stopping aromatization from happening. These drugs include anastrozole(Arimidex), exemestane(Aromasin),andletrozole(Femara).


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I'm having quite a bit of trouble configuring nginx to serve my Rails app's static files; I mean all the files in the app's
public/ folder, not just the files in Rails' asset pipeline. It seems I'm able to get things mostly working but I can't figure out how to put everything together. My app is installed in a subdir on the server (
/dashboard) and not the web root.
Here are excerpts from my various config files:
map Dashboard::Application.config.relative_url_root || "/" do
run Rails.application
config.relative_url_root = "/dashboard"
config.assets.prefix = "/dashboard/assets/"
location /dashboard/ {
root /srv/XXX/dashboard/public;
location /dashboard/assets/ {
gzip_static on;
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
try_files $uri @unicorn;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
client_max_body_size 4G;
keepalive_timeout 10;
location @unicorn {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://unicorn_server;
upstream unicorn_server {
server unix:/srv/XXX/dashboard/tmp/sockets/unicorn.sock fail_timeout=0;
With this configuration I'm able to serve the Rails app itself using unicorn and the files inside the
public/assets/ folder using nginx, but the rest of the files in the
public/ folder are routed to Rails and end up returning a 404 status code. I know this is because the server is looking for (for example)
/dashboard/robots.txt which doesn't exist inside the
public/ folder. I believe I need to use
alias to manipulate the paths however I haven't been able to put everything together to get Rails to correctly serve the app and nginx to serve the static files.


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- Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 19:59:01 -0700
Hey everyone.
I just did a fresh install of Vista on a new 500gb hard drive. I backed up
all my old photos and data. Made 5 partitions on this new one and tried to
leave one for just media. I have alot of pictures. My C:\ drive was
originally intended for the OS, updates and virus/trojan scanners. I made it
for 40gb to have extra room left over.
It seems the extra room is going fast now. Most all my pictures i had in my
documents and my pictures. If i put these pictures back where they belong it
will just about fill up the rest of the space in the C;\ drive.
Is there any way i can put these pictures back in My Documents but actually
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Cantari, Voices' select vocal ensemble, made its choral debut in the 2006-07 season. Singing mostly a cappella music, Cantari's vocal selections are chosen from medieval to modern repertoire, and include sacred and secular, serious and humorous numbers.
Read Ken Hoover's November 6th review in CVNC about our first concert, "With Flowering Garlands Crowned"
2015-2016 Cantari Season Schedule
With Flowering Garlands Crowned
Friday, November 6 at 7:30 pm | Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
300 East Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
An international tour of madrigals followed by music for a British coronation.
From Britain with Love
Saturday, March 5 at 3 pm | Chapel of the Cross
304 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Music by four English greats – Vaughan Williams, Holst, Finzi, and Britten, with guest organist Matthew Brown.
Full of Wonder and Grace
Sunday, May 15 at 3 pm | University United Methodist Church
150 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Cycles of Life – creation, mystery, passing. Music by American composers Howard Hanson, Eric Whitacre, Randall Thompson, Stephen Paulus, Eliza Gilkyson, and young Latvian composer Eric Esenvalds. Cantari is joined by Sisters' Voices, a choral community for girls.
Tickets for these performances are $17 and $7 for students.
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Devon agrees to sell some China assets for $515M
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Devon Energy Corp. says it has agreed to sell its Panyu field off the shore of China to the China National Offshore Oil Corp. for $515 million.
The Oklahoma City-based independent energy company announced the deal Friday. It will net Devon about $370 million after taxes.
Devon said last November it planned to sell its Gulf of Mexico and international assets to focus on its North American onshore assets. Devon CEO Larry Nichols says the company has now divested nearly $10 billion of those assets.
The company says it also plans to sell its remaining exploration assets in China and Angola and other minor international assets. Devon says it expects the closing of all the divestitures to be finished by the end of the year.


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a stick stuck up an annoying person's ass.
by alisoncatie March 05, 2009
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a magical stick that can point to a hot girls as 100km away
my ass stick showed me 100 ass's in 1 day
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(n.) A biological or nutured anal predicament. Inflames when instigated by untimeliness, uncleanliness, dispropriety, etc. usually on the part of others rather than onesself. Derivation - from having a stick up one's ass.
Yo. Wassup with your asstick, I was only 15 minutes late. Or, chill out, dude, your assstick is showing. Or, my friend is such a pain in the ass. He's cool and all, but sometimes I wish I could just reach over and remove that assstick.
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The number of people out of work is on the decline, but still not where things were two years ago.
The latest numbers from the Texas Workforce Commission show 5.9% of the workforce lookng for work in the College Station-Bryan Metro area with some 7,000 people looking for a job.
That's a small improvement from a month earlier where the number of unemployed stood at 6.2% but a little worse from December of 09 when 5.7% of the workforce didn't have a job.
Those numbers put us at the fourth best unemploymente rate in the state.
Here are the top 5 metro areas in Texas:
*Midland 4.9%
*Amarillo 5.3%
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New Super Mario Bros. U trailer goes back to Dinosaur Land
New Super Mario Bros. U's latest Wii U trailer takes Mario, Luigi and the Toads back to Dinosaur Land, the mad setting of SNES classic Super Mario World. Relive your childhood below
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Mike Mullins resigned as head football coach at Harker Heights on Tuesday. Mullins has accepted the offensive coordinator position under Lee Fedora at Navasota. Mullins resignation is effective on June 30.
Fedora said, "That's a wow hire. I'm excited to have him as part of the staff."
Mullins went 4-7 this past season, leading the Knights back to the postseason for the first time since 2005. Harker Heights fell to No. 1 DeSoto in the 5A bi-district round 62-15. Mullins went 14-27 in his four years at the school.
Prior to coaching at Harker Heights, Mullins served as head coach at Cameron Yoe from 2003-2009.
His coaching record is 95-86-1 and his teams have reached the playoffs 11 times.


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Not sure....I had it in my VR6 I think it might work. I had a 2.0 GTI years ago I forget if this is the same type.
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Not sure....I had it in my VR6 I think it might work. I had a 2.0 GTI years ago I forget if this is the same type.
Sorry...I haven't been on in a while. I will post some pics!
thanks guys....
Yea...I swapped the wrapped up Jetta monster mats in the trunk with nice TDI monster Mats.
Yea...I figured it was done a computer generated process...but the defect...
yea....I guess it's not the end of the world. I'll see what they say today. It just seems like when you have them mess with it, they mess it up even more. That's just my personal experience. They did...
I told them I was not comfortable taking delivery of the car until it was completely taken care of. They insisted that the problem would be resolved by VW. They've had the car all day. I have a lame...
The paperwork was signed by that time and we didn't catch the defect until we were getting ready to leave.
I'm never lucky when it comes to cars.
Hi there,
Just took delivery of a Reflex silver/Titan Black JSW TDI this past Wednesday. When they had it all set to go and parked in front of the dealer, I noticed how the detailers did a...
I have a set of 4 Mcgard wheel locks. I got them in 2001 and they were used for a year. They were on a 1997 2.0 GTI with aftermarket OZ Volcano wheels.
They are bolt / cone style
Selling a MAF from my 1998 GTI.
asking $65.00 shipped.
Tolland, CT
I'm selling my K&N Drop in. I used it for a year and it has been cleaned/recharged and comes with a bottle of K&N recharge oil. It's in very good condition.
I went from an 86 Buick Regal T-Type
to a 97 2.0 GTI,
to a 03 GTI 1.8T
to a 98 GTI VR6
and now I have a 09 FIT Sport MT.
Overall the Fit is pretty cool, but the interior is a little cheap...
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Luzinterruptus: Bicycles owners seeking
On the streets of Madrid, Luzinterruptus the designers created the temporary installation "Bicycles owners seeking." By equipping terminals staking sidewalks stool informed bicycles with small lamps, the Madrid studio awareness passersby to use the bicycle for travel in the city.
On this project, Luzinterruptus states:
"One warm night in the month of April, we Took to the street loaded with lights to carry out our facility Bicycles owners seeking.
With it We Were try trying to motivate the people to use bicycles In Their travels about the city, Given That It deriving their a healthy and economical alternative to public transport qui HAS just risen by an average of 11% and qui In Some cases HAS Doubled in price ; as well as being white an effective way to Diminish the environmental pollution in That Is Worrying increasingly looks to the health of the citoyens of Madrid and pour qui The European Union is gravement Threatening to us sanction.
To carry this out, we used the annoying street bollards, qui we-have already done it Reviews another occasion, we can not avoid it, They are all too present in our life thanks to the use and abuse That city hall Makes of Them, In Their endeavor to Avoid holes through qui cars can access the space reserved for pedestrians.
This time we turned Them Into a single army of illuminated bicycles That roamed the quiet streets of the city center, looking for someone Who Might Be Inclined to adopt and use 'em, proving to Themselves, That Even without a bike lane, you can travel Easily, without disturbing pedestrians or traffic disruptimg.
And no matter how hard we try, in Many Areas of Madrid it is possible to create a bike lane without Invading pedestrian space or Hindering the movement of cars. We do not feel Discouraged by that ... There Are Some bicycle users, Who are collaborating to create a map of the quiet streets through qui you can travel without fear and enjoythe journey. They-have served as an inspiration to us.
And, well, if in the end we manages to About did not encourage people to take to the streets by bike, we Hope that our invention HAS au moins served as a seat for a short break on the way home. "
Photographs: Gustavo Sanabria
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JACKSON, Ala. (AP) - Police say a woman who jumped 100 feet from a bridge into the Tombigbee River was rescued by a passing motorist who witnessed the leap.
Jackson Police Chief Charles Burge says Chris Moseley of Leroy swam out to the woman during the incident Tuesday on U.S. 43.
Jackson Police Sgt. Josh Garrett and Officer Ben Marshall assisted Moseley in pulling the woman to shore from about 25 yards out in the river.
Marshall grabbed a rescue rope with a flotation device attached and hurled it toward Moseley, who grabbed the float.
Garrett says the woman was conscious and taken to a hospital. Her motive for the jump was unclear. Her name was not released.
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I know G.R. change our vision of space and time as a unique surface than can bend. We can associate the curvature of the space-time as the gravity created by the mass of planets, stars... But how can we measure the curvature of the space-time for calculate, as an example, the position of a star?
If you want a direct, physical measurement of curvature, here's a plan that would take lots of money and decades, possibly centuries to set up. Perfect for physics!
What you need are three satellites equipped with lasers, light detectors, precision aiming capabilities, and radio communication. These three satellites are launched into space and position themselves far away from each other so that they form the points of a very large triangle. The satellites then turn on two lasers, aiming each one at the other two. Each satellite reports to the others when it is receiving the laser light. Once the satellites are all reporting that they see the laser light from the others, they measure the angle between their own two laser beams. Each satellite transmits this angle back to headquarters on Earth.
The overall curvature of space can be determined from these angles. If the sum is 180 degrees, like you learned in geometry class, then the space around the satellites is flat.
If the sum is more than 180 degrees, then space has positive curvature there, like the surface of a sphere. You can picture the situation on Earth by drawing a line from the North Pole to the equator, continuing a quarter way around the world along the equator, then heading back to the North Pole. You've just drawn a triangle with three 90 degree angles for a sum of 270.
If the sum of the angles is less than 180, the region of space has negative curvature like a saddle.
Let's say the satellites are surrounding a star. Since light bends towards masses, the satellites will have to aim away from the star so that the light will bend around the star and hit the other satellites. This means that the angles of the resulting triangle will be larger than normal (i.e., flat space), meaning the sum will be greater than 180 degrees. Thus, we can conclude that space has positive curvature near a mass.
The exact relation between the sum of the angles of the triangle and the total curvature inside that triangle is given by $$\sum\limits^3_{i=1} \theta_i = \pi + \iint_T K dA$$ where $\theta_i$ is the angle measured at each satellite (measured in radians), $T$ is the 2D triangular surface defined by the three satellites being integrated over, $K$ is the Gaussian curvature at each point in the triangle, and $dA$ is the infinitesimal area with curvature $K$. For a region of space with zero total curvature, the angles will sum to $\pi$ radians (180$^\circ$). Positive curvature leads to a sum larger than $\pi$, negative curvature to a sum smaller than $\pi$.
Measuring Curvature
Curvature can be quantified by many tensors, and their various contractions give rise to a plethora of scalars describing curvature. In general relativity the most common are,
The Weyl tensor $C_{abcd}$ measures the tidal forces experienced along a geodesic. In addition, in dimensions $d\geq 4$, the vanishing of the Weyl tensor indicates the metric is conformally flat, i.e. a conformal transformation which changes the metric by an overall factor,
can be used to make the metric flat. Furthermore, the tensor governs whether radiation may propagate through spacetime with no matter content. Finally, the Ricci decomposition can be used to express the Riemann curvature in terms of various other curvature forms, which includes a Weyl piece.
Matter and Curvature
The Einstein field equations relate the curvature of a spacetime manifold to the matter content:
$$R_{ab}-\frac{1}{2}g_{ab}R + \Lambda g_{ab}=8\pi G T_{ab}$$
where $\Lambda$ is the cosmological constant, and $T_{ab}$ is the stress-energy tensor describing the matter content, which is derived from the Lagrangian of the matter. As an example, suppose we had some matter with a particular energy, then one of the entries would be $T_{00}=\epsilon$, where $\epsilon$ is the energy density. A general decomposition of the tensor is given here. Often we are not able to solve the equations exactly for a particular system. In this case we resort to perturbation theory, where we linearly perturb a known background, i.e.
$$g_{ab}\to g_{ab}+h_{ab} +\mathcal{O}(h^2)$$
Movement of Test Particles
The movement of a test particle on a particular spacetime is governed by the geodesic equation,
$$\frac{\mathrm{d}^2 x^\alpha}{\mathrm{d}s^2} + \Gamma^\alpha_{\beta \gamma} \frac{\mathrm{d}x^\beta}{\mathrm{ds}}\frac{\mathrm{d}x^\gamma}{\mathrm{d}s} = 0$$
where $\Gamma^{a}_{bc}$ are the Christoffel symbols, i.e. the Levi-Civita connection expressed in the coordinate basis, with the assumption that the metric tensor is torsionless. The general concept is that geodesics are the natural paths test particles will follow along a manifold. For example, for flat Minkowski space, the connection vanishes, and hence we obtain $x(s)$ is a linear function as expected, as $x''(s)=0$.
Physical Example
The Schwarzschild metric describes a spherical matter content, which is static, i.e. with a $\partial_t$ Killing vector and $SO(3)$ symmetry; e.g. it could describe the Earth, or a black hole:
$$\mathrm{d}s^2 = \left( 1- {2GM \over r}\right) \mathrm{d}t^2 - \left( 1- {2GM \over r}\right)^{-1}\mathrm{d}r^2 - \underbrace{r^2 \mathrm{d}\theta^2 -r^2 \sin^2 \theta \mathrm{d}\phi^2}_{\text{metric on the sphere}}$$
Simply by inspection, we see it is already in agreement with a classical understanding of gravitation as it possesses a singularity at $r=0$, as does the classical relation $F \propto r^{-2}$. The singularity at $r=2GM$ reflects that we have chosen an inappropriate coordinate system. It is not a curvature nor conical singularity, the curvature forms can be shown to be non-singular at $r=2GM$.
Evidence for General Relativity
The recent discovery of gravitational waves provides empirical evidence supporting the theory which predicted their existence. A gravitational wave may travel at the speed $c$, but also below depending on the amplitude. Essentially, it employs spacetime itself as a medium. A particular wave metric:
$$\mathrm{d}s^2 = \mathrm{d}t^2 -\mathrm{d}r^2 + H(t-r,x^1,x^2)(\mathrm{d}t-\mathrm{d}r)^2 - \mathrm{d}(x^1)^2 -\mathrm{d}(x^2)^2$$
where conditions on $H$ are determined by the demand that the stress-energy tensor vanishes to ensure the waves are truly purely gravitational, rather than, for example, electromagnetic. Specifically, $\Delta H = 0$, where $\Delta$ is the Laplacian with coordinates $x^1,x^2$.
Following Synge's description of a "five-point curvature detector" 1 and its generalization (e.g. as indicated in [2]), the curvature of five participants ($A$, $B$, $N$, $P$, $Q$) who were and remained (chrono-geometrically) rigid to each other (i.e. finding constant ping duration ratios) is measured as the real number value $\kappa_5$ for which the corresponding Gram determinant vanishes; i.e. as solution of
0 = $ \Tiny{ \begin{array}{|ccccc|} 1 & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{A \, B}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{A \, N}{A \, B} \frac{A \, N}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{A \, P}{A \, B} \frac{A \, P}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{A \, Q}{A \, B} \frac{A \, Q}{B \, A} } \text{]} \, \, \\ \, \, \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{B \, A}{A \, B} } \text{]}& 1 & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{B \, N}{A \, B} \frac{B \, N}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{B \, P}{A \, B} \frac{B \, P}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{B \, Q}{A \, B} \frac{B \, Q}{B \, A} } \text{]} \, \, \\ \, \, \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{N \, A}{A \, B} \frac{N \, A}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{N \, B}{A \, B} \frac{N \, B}{B \, A} } \text{]} & 1 & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{N \, P}{A \, B} \frac{N \, P}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{N \, Q}{A \, B} \frac{N \, Q}{B \, A} } \text{]} \, \, \\ \, \, \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{P \, A}{A \, B} \frac{P \, A}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{P \, B}{A \, B} \frac{P \, B}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{P \, N}{A \, B} \frac{P \, N}{B \, A} } \text{]} & 1 & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{P \, Q}{A \, B} \frac{P \, Q}{B \, A} } \text{]} \, \, \\ \, \, \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{Q \, A}{A \, B} \frac{Q \, A}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{Q \, B}{A \, B} \frac{Q \, B}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{Q \, N}{A \, B} \frac{Q \, N}{B \, A} } \text{]} & \text{Cos[} \sqrt{ \kappa_5 \frac{Q \, P}{A \, B} \frac{Q \, P}{B \, A} } \text{]} & 1 \, \, \end{array} } $,
where the chronometrically measured ping duration ratio $\frac{A \, B}{B \, A}$ is the ratio between $A$'s duration from having stated a signal indication until having observed the corresponding reflection (or "ping echo") from $B$ and $B$'s duration from having stated a signal indication until having observed the corresponding reflection from $A$,
Similarly, curvature values $\kappa_n$ may be determined for any $n$ mutually rigid participants (sensibly for $n \ge 4$).
Whether and how such measured "discrete" curvature values of $\kappa_n$ in general and of $\kappa_5$ in particular may be related to curvature tensors (or corresponding scalars) which are considered in differential geometry has been asked here already.
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As an illustration of the simplest case, the value $\kappa_4$ expressing "discrete" curvature for 4 given participants who are mutually rigid (as generally required) and who are even at rest to each other, i.e. such that $\frac{A \, B}{B \, A} = 1$, $\frac{A \, C}{C \, A} = 1$, and so on,
If the required values of ping duration ratios between those four participants are equal to the ratios of great circle arclengths between those vertices,
$\kappa_4 = \left( \frac{A_1 \, B_1}{ R/c } \right)^2$,
where $R$ is the radius of the sphere, and $c$ the "speed of light".
[1.] J.L.Synge, "Gravitation. The general theory"; ch. XI, §8: "A five-point curvature detector".
[2.] S.L.Kokkendorff, "Gram matrix analysis of finite distancé spaces in constant curvature" (Discrete and Computational Geometrie 31, 515, 2004).
There are measurable effects of the space-time curvature due to a star - the precession of the perihelion of Mercury and the bending of light as it passes near the sun, for instance. Indeed these were the first effects of GR to be experimentally confirmed.
There are even measurable effects of the space-time curvature due to the Earth: the redshifting of light as it climbs out of the gravity well, time dilation of ground-based clocks relative to ones in orbit (which GPS has to correct for), and the frame-dragging recently measured by Gravity Probe B.
All of these things can act as measures of the degree of space-time curvature near an object.
∆A+∆B+∆C = 180 in flat space. However, a triangle which was measured around the earth would have angles that sum up to an answer which is less than 180º. This is because space is bent downwards like a saddle by mass.


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A year measured between successive perihelia of the earth (approximately 365 1/4 days).
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The Youngstown State football team trails South Dakota 20-19 at halftime of Saturday's game.
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Formscan By Alan Magee - FARMLEIGH HOUSE put in a career best effort last time to notch up his third course and distance victory and, despite an 8lb hike for that success, can follow here. The top-weight had three of these four rivals behind on that occasion, and there was real authority about that win. Copper Dock did his bit to advertise the form when successful here on Wednesday evening but gets a mandatory 5lb penalty as a result. The only one of this quintet not to run against the selection last month is the hat-trick seeking My Good Brother. Very few got involved when he scored over course and distance last time but a 12lb hike for that win looks pretty harsh.
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An extended handicap for three yrs old and upwards (95 = 9st 10lb)
Weights - An extended handicap for three yrs old and upwards (95 = 9st 10lb)
Allowances - Top weight in the original handicap; shall not be less than 9st 10lb
Riders - (after calculation of the handicap) A winner shall carry 5lb extra for each race won Any horse rated above 95 shall initially be treated as having that rating and the highest weight allotted shall be 9st 10lb. Subsequently, the excess over 95 in any rating shall be added to the weight allotted to that horse.
Long Handicap My Good Brother 8-6.
Probable SP 7/4 Farmleigh House, 7/2 Almadaa, 4/1 Copper Dock, 5/1 My Good Brother, Knock Stars.
Previous Years
2011 Farmleigh House 4 7-13 C P Hoban 8/1 (W J Martin) (Drawn 1)
2010 Dash Back 5 8-9 S Foley 14/1 (Adrian McGuinness) (Drawn 3)


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Three people, including a minor, were injured Tuesday, Aug. 26, in a two-vehicle crash in Spring Lake Township.
The injuries were non-life-threatening, according to the Ottawa County Sheriff�s Office.
Tanja Stroessner, 33, of Spring Lake, was southbound on 152nd Avenue at about 6:41 p.m. and failed to stop for the stop sign at the intersection of Leonard Street, according to the Ottawa County Sheriff�s Office.
Stroessner pulled out onto Leonard Street and collided with an eastbound vehicle driven by Scott Ely, 49, of Spring Lake.
Stroessner and Ely were taken to North Ottawa Community Hospital.
A minor passenger in Ely�s vehicle was also injured and was treated then released at the crash scene, police said.
All were wearing seatbelts.
Spring Lake Fire Department and North Ottawa Community Hospital Ambulance assisted at the scene.
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