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ooo replied to iron_panda's topic in Beginners Trials ChatThat is your problem, you don't pull up to bunny hop (at all, at all), Ill describe it in a few different ways. - you have to squat down low and move your weight backwards horizontally, then once you are past the pivot point stand up. - compress, lean back and push your feet forwards and pull hands back, the stand up and push hands down. - The movement is a bit like using one of those rowing machines they have at gyms. - In terms of bike movement the bars need to go toward the pedals and the pedals toward the bars. -The pull up motion is generated by leg and hip movement and your arms are just used for control. So don't use your arms to pull. if you do this properly you'll do the first part of the bunny hop (and be more of a stood up position). ! At this point you are going to loop out because you'll land back wheel so you have to do the second part real quick. The next part is to bend your legs (squat/compress) and throw arms forward. (Its kind of the reverse motion of the first part). Also, imo if you ride a street zoot, don't worry too much about rear wheel hops and don't expect to be pogoing about. Work on wheelies and bunny hops.
ooo replied to Herbertlemon102's topic in Trials ChatI got a pair of these a couple of weeks ago, totally agree theyre amazing!
ooo replied to RossBurnside's topic in Chit ChatIt's probably different for everyone, but i tried quitting lots of times, and I properly quit about 7 years ago. I tried a lot of nicotine replacements and in the end just stopping cold turkey was most effective. The thing is all you really need is a reason or strong desire to quit, just get through the first three days and its easy. Nicotine is very addictive, but it is noting in comparison to actual will power. Whether you want to be fitter, or live longer, feel better, save money, be more attractive to the ladies, what ever it is for you.. once you actually commit all you have to do is just stop.
Also the ticking sound, is there any play in the headset ? It could also be spoke unwind ? I would start a separate thread to get some more help from others.
you can ride bars back if you like, but you can also ride bars forward and it is much easier on the rear wheel, so most people ride with their bars very far forward. The thing is lots of people don't realise how different these are to normal bikes. Basically don't put any weight on your hands at all, when you ride put 90% on your weight on your legs. You can ride weight forward but there is a limit to what your hands will take. Look at the body position at 0.03 in this video, practice that position on two wheels and just on the rear wheel, and get comfortable in it because it makes up like 50% of the moves, notice that he is doing a trackstand, and this is a better type of trackstand for pure trials in my opinion because your weight is ready to produce power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoblV_lN0Lc
ooo replied to bikeperson45's topic in Chit ChatIf you can use a computer just use this on google chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-playback-speed-co/hdannnflhlmdablckfkjpleikpphncik while watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkk1ibiPRw or video editing gear can probably do it pretty easily.
ooo replied to CMH's topic in Beginners Trials ChatWelcome to the forum! Skate parks with street sections would be okay, something like a grind box would be ideal, but transition will be sketchy to ride on a trials bike. Did you ride any trials before ? Check out these tutorials, they should get you some ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdHBldOr3pE http://www.trashzen.com/sitemap.php
ooo replied to CMH's topic in Beginners Trials ChatIts probably easiest to just pump extra air in the tyres and let it out as you ride, it can change the feel quite a bit. You will probably feel most difference when you learn rear wheel hops, the amount of air affects how easy it is too bounce and how stable the rear wheel is. If you are learning rolling moves more air will be less tiring to practice with and will reduce your risk of pinch flats, so bear that in mind if you are learning gaps or pedal ups. Harder tyres are easier to pivot on too, and the pressure of the front tyre can affect your track stands quite a bit. I found that tyre pressure and bar angle are good things to experiment with and continue to experiment with as you progress.
This video is good at explaining stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdHBldOr3pE
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ooo posted a topic in Trials Chatdoes this stuff work okay on powder coat ? they've got 1L tubs on ebay now !!!
You could look at getting a 50mm or even 40mm mtb stem like they use on dirt jump/street bikes, you could probably pick one up cheap on ebay to try. The steering would still feel okay with 50mm and it would be easier to spin. But I reckon you can shorten the setup a decent amount doing that, and then maybe try running the bars a touch higher. And just to state the obvious some of the 50mm stems only take smaller bmx diameter bars, so double check.
I think people are probably going to ask for a picture of your setup, to see bar angle stem etc.. Also I think high bars make pulling up much easier, high and short is pretty common for street riders. High bbs make looping out easier too. I would say lower back pain is almost always due to not using glutes and legs enough or not tensing abs enough and not really to do with geo, as plenty of people ride really really long bikes. You need to squat your bike up not lean it up. But that is just my opinion, and the right geo certainly does help ease pains.
ooo replied to Brettoll's topic in Trials-Forum News, Updates & SuggestionsJust noticed this, would be great to have it back to normal.
ooo replied to kaybs41282's topic in Trials Chatthe zoot pros are good there is one for sale in one of the uk facebook groups
ooo replied to aener's topic in VideosThe bit going up the zig zag stairs was mental. And great sock choice too!


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Alien Dungeon Show Their British Wave 2 Tanks
November 10, 2014 by dracs
Alien Dungeon recently had a whole load of new releases for All Quiet on the Martian Front and have recently shown off some of the tanks which the British Expeditionary Force will be able to bring with them in Wave 2.
These are three really interesting tank designs that look like they are crosses between the initial tanks of WWI and the more developed ones of WWII.
Alien Dungeon have done a good job in coming up with interesting and believable technologies for mankind in All Quiet on the Martian Front and these ones have a ton of unique character on display. I particularly like the Kitchener Tank with its triple barreled canon.
Do you play All Quiet on the Martian Front? Do you field the British Expeditionary Force?
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Middle School Admissions
We look forward to getting to know you. If you have not done so already, please fill out our admissions inquiry form. Our middle school admissions process has five required steps that begin in September of each year.
We will consider middle school applicants with sufficient Mandarin reading/writing and speaking skills to join a current class.
Process and Timeline
1. Submit Your Application Form Online.
The online application, including a $100 fee, must be submitted by January 10, 2019 at 10:00am (Pacific time). Please call or email the admissions office if you are experiencing hardships paying the fee. We suggest applying early to have your choice of dates for the student class visit, student interview, and parent interview.
2. Schedule a Campus Visit and Student Interview.
Campus visits provide an opportunity for the student to meet and interact with our teachers and other similar age students in a classroom setting. These visits are mandatory for admissions and take place in January and February. Once you have submitted an application online, you will receive an email with instructions on how to sign up online for a campus visit. Similarly, to assess the student's familiarity with Mandarin, an informal interview with a Mandarin teacher will be required. But relax! It's more of a chat than anything else. The interview will take place the day of the student's campus visit.
3. Register for an online AAPPL assessment.
Another data point that we use to assess a student's proficiency in Mandarin is the AAPPL. The AAPPL assesses the following modes of communication: Interpersonal Listening/Speaking, Presentational Writing, and Interpretive Reading and Listening. More information can be found here. Once the student has completed the campus visit and interview, the admissions office will email instructions on taking the AAPPL assessment.
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May 06, 2014 19:19 ET
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - May 6, 2014) - Hesperian Capital Management Ltd. ("Hesperian"), the manager of Norrep Global Class of Norrep Opportunities Corp. (the "Fund"), announced today its proposal to change the investment objective of the Fund. Hesperian will seek the approval of shareholders of the Fund for this change at a special meeting to be held on or about June 20, 2014. If shareholder approval is obtained, the change to the investment objective will be effective on or about June 20, 2014, and it is expected that there will be a change to the Fund's benchmark index to reflect the change to the investment objective. The proposed change to the investment objective of the Fund is to allow it to invest in a broader range of global equity securities.
Full details about the proposed change will be outlined in an information circular to be provided to shareholders of the Fund in May 2014.
Hesperian Capital Management Ltd. is a Canadian investment firm with offices in Calgary and Toronto. Please visit www.hesperiancapital.com for more details about Hesperian and the Fund.
Certain information set forth in this press release, including a discussion of future plans and operations, contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, some of which are beyond management's control, including but not limited to, the impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions, fluctuation of commodity prices, fluctuation of foreign exchange rates, environmental risks industry competition, availability of qualified personnel and management, stock market volatility, timely and cost effective access to sufficient capital from internal and external sources. Actual results, performance or achievement could differ from those expressed in or implied by these forward-looking statements.
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Oh the joys of the internet. If we are not looking for a cheap thrill or buying junk online, we are checking out what Google has to say about ourselves. Don't say you've never typed your name into the world's most successful search engine. Google knows that you have, because you leave a trace in cyberspace of every click you make.
Do not be too alarmed that you have exposed your vanity to public ridicule. The company insists that no human there ever actually looks at data about any of us as individuals (although there are reasonable concerns about whether Google is a see-through mirror for the US Government, whose snooping powers have been supercharged by the post-9/11 Patriot Act).
Google's 'knowledge' of what we do and are is in the brain of the most powerful computing resource known to man, more than 100,000 connected computers at the Googleplex in California. It may not yet yield perfect answers to queries, but it is googol times better than the search engines that went before.
The brilliant invention of its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin is the 'PageRank' algorithmic system for determining the relevance of any piece of information in the Babel din of the internet. But Google is still evolving. A vanity search for 'Robert Peston' throws up - as the first result of 20,400 - a mini-biography I provided years ago to an online bookstore. It is out of date, and not remotely how I wish the world to see me. Too bad. For the tens of millions of people for whom Google is their primary search and research tool, that view of me would be the one that sticks, were they ever minded to look me up.
Google and its competitors (such as Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon's A9) haven't even begun to make proper commercial use of all the data about us is that is potentially available to them, on our computers and in almost every other device that contains a computer chip, from our mobile phones to our cars.
The transmogrification of the internet from a network of conventional computers into a web that connects every electronic device that we use anywhere and anytime is happening now. Which in theory means that Google - or a successor - will know so much about each of us that we will be able to ask it any question we like and we will get a perfect 'intelligent' answer.
This is John Batelle's vision of the 'semantic web', an internet that is a meta-language connecting everyone everywhere. His compelling book, The Search, is subtitled 'how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture'. But it is not a conventional business book - although the chapter on how Google is rewriting the rules of advertising is a must-read for anyone in the media.
The best way of seeing Google is as a map of the DNA of the world economy, the global genome. The map is sketchy at the moment, but becoming more complete all the time. What it allows Google to do is put an advert of direct relevance next to the results of any search - and to receive a fee each time these searchers click on the ads. The almost-inevitable next stage for Google is to tempt us with a product or service, tailored to its knowledge of our tastes and habits (and take a slug of the profit on every sale).
All this mighty commercial potential means that a business that did not exist at all a decade ago is now worth more than $120bn. If you want to know how the Google boys became wealthy and powerful beyond dreams, then David Vise's assiduously researched The Google Story is for you. But if you want to look at the future of commerce from a high peak, Battelle is a better bet. It is difficult to overstate the significance of what Google does (as opposed to Google as a business, which like all companies, will have a life cycle of growth and decline).
As web synchronicity would have it, my Google homepage offers me this Arthur C. Clarke aphorism as Quote of the Day: 'If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.' Eureka.


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Fusion Cardio Toronto is pleased to offer one-time introductory spots in the Women's Pound Rockout Workout class for new beginners-only to promote a 14-week class in the Fall.
Pound combines easy to follow cardio moves, strength training, and drumming. The combo works the heart rate to a fat burning zone. Once you sign up successfully, a registration email will be sent to you with a waiver and additional information on what to wear/bring to rock out. Totally welcoming moms and their teenage daughters (ages 13 to 17) to create time for mother and daughter bonding.
5 intro spots allowed per class. Sign up now while spots last on Eventbrite.
RULES AND CONDITIONS: Due to last minute cancellations, those who sign up and do not attend class or cancel a ticket 24-hours in advance will be restricted from future class sign ups. New beginners-only. Female-only. 1 spot allowed per participant. Must bring waiver and release of liability form in registration e-mail. Please arrive 10 minutes prior to class to register. Picture and video taking may be taken from the back of the room, if you have any concerns, do let me know so I can accommodate you as best as possible.


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Side Skirts by Street Scene®. Complete your vehicle's sporty look and make it fully unique with these accessories. Featuring reliable urethane construction, the side skirts can take the knocks of everyday driving while looking great. Plus, the units install just fine, with no major effort.
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For many drivers, a vehicle is the ultimate statement of their pride and status, therefore, they always look for the ways to trick out their car with fancy add-ons. And this is when Street Scene Equipment comes into play. Designed to perfection, these accessories are sure to add a touch of distinction to the exterior look. The Street Scene products could be seen in numerous auto magazines and featured on many popular TV shows. It's no wonder why Street Scene is one of the most popular auto styling trendsetters.
Create a new look today with the Street Scene Side Skirts that are sure to take your vehicle's style level up a notch! With these awesome add-ons, your iron friend will look lower to the ground, so you don't have to spend a small fortune on a lowering kit. Besides improving the aesthetic look of your vehicle's exterior, the side skirts allow you to enjoy better aerodynamics and performance. Like most of Street Scene's products, the Side Skirts come to you ready to prep and paint to be personalized to your taste.
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Street Scene® Equipment, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of unique, stylish exterior accessories for cars, trucks, and SUVs. Currently based in California, Street Scene started in 1996 having a total of ten part numbers at that point of time. Over the years, the company has grown into a significant business, and today their product range numbers in thousands of parts with impeccable quality and cutting-edge design. Street Scene Equipment employs the most skilled and dedicated professionals who are avid automotive and truck enthusiasts. The company is always at the forefront of manufacturing technology to yield superior results in what they do.


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The Verses project is a literacy-based approach to the art of songwriting, composing, performing, mixing and recording. This program includes creative writing, instrumental instruction and open mic. Students make a professional recording and present a Listening Party for family and friends at the end of each semester.
Verses is made possible by the Marshall Mathers Foundation and Carhartt.
Verses meets on Mondays from 5:30-7:30 p.m. for 30 weeks (Sept-May). Week-long summer day camps take place in July and August. Students learn to use software on iPads and mixing/recording equipment with iDock stations. A recording studio with professional level equipment is available for student use.
This program is FREE for youth ages 10 to 16 by audition/application. To apply for Verses, complete this application and a Registration Packet and send to email@example.com. Call (313) 578-9716 for assistance.
Enrollment is limited. Some students may have prior instrumental music experience, but that is not a requirement for this program.


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Informational Links
Here are some interesting sites to explore out there on the internets. . .
Applications and Devices
- Adobe
The creators of Photoshop and much of the graphics software I use.
- Cakewalk Sonar
Sonar, software DAW recording studio for your computer.
- Autodesk 3ds Max
3ds Max is my main production software for my 3D graphics.
- Splutterfish Brazil r/s
I use the powerful Brazil Rendering System for Max for most of my work.
Learning new tricks
- Ted.com - Ideas worth spreading
Videos of inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
- Lucid Dreaming
Use the time you spend sleeping to train, entertain and explore yourself.
- The human brain
Get to know your brain and how to take care of it.
- Watching America
Find out what the rest of the world thinks of America and the world. It's completely different from the BS we get fed here.
- theREALnews.com
Publicly sponsored news channel. Not the fluff we get from our main-stream-media.


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Overcoming Stress and Anxiety
Meditation Workshop
Buddha Land Kadampa Buddhist Centre, Keighley
Saturday 18 Aug , 10am – 1pm
In this workshop we will look at how meditation can beat stress and anxiety and help us to be more relaxed, peaceful and positive in daily life. We will receive teachings and guided meditations which will give us more helpful and constructive ways of dealing with our stressful situations.
Stress and anxiety are endemic in our busy, fast paced life. We tend to think that situations or people in our life are the causes of our stress or unhappiness, so we then spend a lot of time mentally trying to figure out how to fix those situations or people. This often just makes our mind feel overwhelmed and more worried.
Buddha taught that all our unhappiness, stress and anxiety comes from our mind. More specifically it comes from our unrealistic expectations and our exaggerated views of ourself, people around us and the world in general.
Today we will learn simple meditation techniques that enable us to develop a peaceful mind and eliminate feelings of anxiety and stress. By practising meditation we shall experience a calm, spacious feeling in our mind, and many of our usual problems will fall away. Difficult situations will become easier to deal with, we shall naturally feel warm and well disposed towards other people, and our relationships with others will gradually improve.
This meditation event is open to all. It is suitable for complete beginners and those with some experience.
The cost of the workshop is £12 (GP Centre Card £5).
Refreshments are available in our World Peace Cafe during the workshop. Why not also stay for lunch afterwards?
Buddha Land Buddhist Centre, 1 Lawkholme Cres, Keighley, BD21 3NR, West Yorkshire, UK
Buddha Land Kadampa Buddhist Centre has a raised ground floor cafe/shop and a first floor meditation room. Entrance to the ground floor is via 6 steps.
The centre is open Tuesday to Saturday 10am til 4pm (9.30am on Saturdays).
Getting there
The Centre is situated on Keighley War Memorial Square between Abbey National and Speaks Work Wear. It is opposite Keighley Bus Station and the Airedale Centre.
It is 5min walk from Keighley Train Station.
Parking is readily available during the day either in the town centre car parks or in unrestricted street parking which starts about 5min walk away from the building. After 6pm and on Sundays town centre car parking is free. There are disabled parking bays oposite the building and alongside Abbey National.


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Session 109:
Country experiences in building health systems to achieve MDGs 4 and 5
Chair: Claire E. Bailey, University of Southampton
Discussant: Monica A. Magadi, City University London
The treatment of child illness in Southern Africa - how has it changed over time? Andrew A. R. Channon, University of Southampton ; Gobopamang Letamo, University of Botswana ; Jesman Chintsanya, University of Malawi ; Namuunda Mutombo, University of Zambia ; Isak Neema, Universiy of Namibia
Service delivery of maternal health care in urban India: are the Millennium Development Goals achievable? (WITHDRAWN) Amrita Gupta, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)
Maternal and neonatal mortality in Cameroon: Assessment of efforts made since 1990, challenges and prospects Bruno Magloire Kamgho Tezanou, Institut National de la Statistique du Cameroun
Effects of socio-political crises on the supply of care services to children under 5 years: cases of Togo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Paul Denis Nzita Kikhela, Université de Kinshasa
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Zsuzsi Gartner Shortlisted for Giller Prize
Zsuzsi came in to the studio to tape a conversation and I just couldn't stop talking to her. I enjoyed how she took our conversation into some very unexpected places, much the way she does with her writing.
Here is the pretty much unedited version of our chat.
Zsuzsi Gartner is taking part in two events at the
Vancouver International Writer's Festival.
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Tvergastein would like to invite you to take part in the launch of our newest edition titled Leaving the Box: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Initiatives.
The event will be held at Kulturhuset on Tuesday the 15th of September, from 18:00 to 20:00.
The topic of the panel debate will reflect the current issue, including subjects dealing with how (or if) entrepreneurship, innovations and different initiatives can help with the many environmental difficulties of the day.
The panel debate will be moderated by Andrew Kroglund and the panelists are:
– Karina Standal – PhD Stipendiat at University of Oslo's Centre for Development and the Environment
– Myriam Bouré – Co-founder of Open Food Network and Active Member of OuiShare
– Sigridur Thormodsdottir – Head of Bio-Based Industries, Sustainability Division at Innovasjon Norge
– Kompass & Co – Social entrepreneurship company with green profile
The event is part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Centre for Development and Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo. We are happy to announce that Det Andre Teatret will provide us all with some improvisational fun after the panel debate.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/153762148293365/
We hope you all will be able to attend and join us for the festivities!
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The 11th General Meeting of EWM
3-7 November 2003
CIRM, Luminy, Marseille, France
The 11th general meeting of the European Women in Mathematics (EWM), open to members and non-members of EWM, will take place at CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques) from 3 to 7 November 2003. Participants should plan to arrive on November 2 and are welcome to stay until the 8th.
The CIRM is both a conference center and a hotel. It is located on the campus of Luminy where one can find the Math Department of the Aix-Marseille II University.
Organizing committee
- bertheiml [dot] univ-mrs [dot] fr (Valérie Berthé) (France),
- lauramath [dot] chalmers [dot] se (Laura Fainsilber) (Sweden,chair),
- itathsun1 [dot] jinr [dot] ru (Tatiana Ivanova) (Russia),
- remyiml [dot] univ-mrs [dot] fr (Elisabeth Rémy) (France),
- irenecis [dot] um [dot] edu [dot] mt (Irene Sciriha) (Malta),
- avivamathlabo [dot] univ-poitiers [dot] fr (Aviva Szpirglas) (France),
- tsoumaths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk (Tsou Sheung Tsun) (United Kingdom).
Four sessions are planned. All talks are meant for a general public of mathematicians. The idea is that each session can serve as an introduction to the field, and present current research questions for non-experts (which of course can also be of interest for specialists).
A pure session devoted to Functional Analysis and Spectral Theory chaired by Karma Dajani, Netherlands Speakers:
Svetlana Katok, USA
Livshitz Theorem for the unitary frame flow and its applications, 50 minutes
The unitary frame flow is defined on a factor of the group of isometries of the complex hyperbolic space by a lattice and is an isometric extension of the geodesic flow. We will present a generalization of the classical Livshitz Theorem to the unitary frame flows and explain how it applies to a construction of spanning sets for cusp forms via new relative Poincare series.
Kathy Merrill, USA
Constructing Wavelets from Generalized Conjugate Mirror Filters, 50 minutes
Over the past ten years, wavelets have gained popularity as bases for transforms used in image and signal processing. This talk will begin with a brief introduction to how wavelets arise naturally in these contexts. We will then show how the tools of abstract harmonic analysis and spectral multiplicity theory can be used to build and classify wavelets. In particular, we present results from joint work with L. Baggett, P. Jorgensen, H. Medina and J. Packer that extends the techniques of Mallat and Meyer to construct wavelets using generalized multi-resolution analyses and generalized conjugate mirror filters.
Paola Loreti, Italy
Ingham type theorems and applications, 50 minutes
We talk about a well-known theorem due to Ingham and about some of its generalizations. The results are applied to exact controllolability problems. The method consists in considering an observability problem for a dual system governed by partial differential equations. Developing the solution of this homogeneous problem into Fourier series, we are led to establish some non-classical trigonometric inequalities. Ingham's theorem is very useful when the eigenvalues of the spatial operator associated with the system satisfy a suitable gap condition. However, this crucial gap condition is not always satisfied, so more general theorems are needed in order to solve the corresponding observability and controllability problems. An overview of this topics is given in "Fourier Series in Control Theory", a book project in collaboration with V. Komornik.
Anne Siegel, France
Spectral theory for dynamical systems arisen by substitutions, 50 minutes
Symbolic dynamical systems were first introduced to better understand the dynamics of geometric maps; particularly to study dynamical systems for which past and future are disjoint as toral automorphisms or Pseudo-Anosov doffeomorphisms of surfaces. Self-similar systems are defined to be topologically conjugate to their own first return map on a given subset. A basic idea is that, as soon as self-similarity appears, a substitution is hidden behind the original dynamical system. In this talk, we illustrate this idea with concrete examples, and then, try to understand when symbolic codings provide a good representation. The good question finally becomes the following : which substitutive dynamical systems are isomorphic to a rotation on a compact group ? Partial answers have been given by many authors since the early 60's. Hence, we will see how a spectral analysis problem finally reduces to a combinatorial problem, whose partial answers imply euclidean geometry and even some arithmetics.
Karma Dajani, Netherlands
Measures of maximal entropy for random expansions in non-integer bases, 50 minutes
We consider expansions of real numbers in non-integer bases, and digits generated by means of a random map K. We study the dynamics of K, and show that it has a unique measure of maximal entropy with marginal measure a generalization of the well-known Erd�s measure. Furthermore, under the measure of maximal entropy the sequence of digits is a uniform Bernoulli process. For certain class of Pisot bases, we show that the measure of maximal entropy is a Markov measure.
Martine Queffelec, France
Fourier analysis and continued fractions, 50 minutes
The set of normal numbers in any base is a big one for it is a set of full Lebesgue measure; on the opposite, numbers with bounded partial quotients are negligible. To precise the localization of these numbers, we prove that there exist infinitely many normal numbers with partial quotients 1 or 2, by using Fourier analysis technics.
An applied session devoted to Biomathematics chaired by Alessandra Carbone, France Speakers:
Natasha Jonoska, USA
DNA nanotechnology, 45 minutes
Recent experiments have shown that arbitrary non-regular graphs can be constructed by DNA self assembly such that junction molecules are used as vertices and duplex DNA molecules are used as edge connections. Such graph assembly has potential use in DNA nano-technology as well as in various models of DNA based computations. Many NP-complete problems such as 3-SAT can be solved by graph self assembly in one biostep (one-pot reaction). However, there are several mathematical problems that arise from these assemblies such as the minimal number of DNA strands needed for construction of the graph. We address this question by considering the DNA strands that make up the graph as boundaries of a compact orientable surface (2-dimensional manifold) such that the graph is topologically embedded in this manifold (as a 1-complex) as a deformation retract. In addition we discuss other mathematical (topological) problems related to DNA self-assembly or DNA based computations.
Marie-France Sagot, France
Bioinformatic, 45 minutes
Phylogenetic trees are a standard model for representing evolutionary processes, mostly involving biological entities such as species or genes. By a phylogenetic tree, we mean in this talk a rooted unordered tree whose leaves are uniquely labeled with elements of some set S, and whose internal nodes are unlabeled and have exactly two children. The elements of S stand for the contemporary taxa whose evolutionary relationships one intends to model. These taxa correspond to the leaves of the tree, whereas the ancestral taxa correspond to its internal nodes, so that for each ancestral taxon, all of its nearest derived taxa are depicted as its children in the tree. When there has been genetic transfer, that is, exchange of genetic material between the taxa, a taxon may have more than one ancestor. This poses a formidable problem for the reconstruction of a phylogeny from the genetic information present in such taxa: the phylogeny can not anymore be represented by a single tree. It is then important to be able to detect the presence and exact position of all genetic transfers that may have happened between the taxa of interest. This is a difficult problem which contains as sub-problem that of determining how distant two phylogenetic trees are from each other in terms of genetic transfer. In this talk, we shall just mention an initial pragmatic approach to the first problem and concentrate instead on the second sub-problem. Various metrics for measuring a distance between two trees have been defined, among which is SPR for Subtree Prune and Regraft. This was initially thought to be directly related to another way of comparing two trees T and U, which consists in computing their so-called Maximum Agreement Forest (MAF). Informally, the number of components of an agreement forest tells how many edges need to be cut from each of T and U so that the resulting forests agree, after performing some forced edge contractions. The relation between SPR and MAF is not so direct as was initially thought but there is a conjecture that the two are close. Being able to calculate the MAF is therefore an interesting issue for our purposes. This problem is known to be NP-hard. It was introduced by Hein et al. in 1997, who presented an approximation algorithm for it. We show that the performance ratio of Hein's algorithm is 4 and present three approximation algorithms for this problem whose ratio is 3. All three algorithms are very simple. Obtaining a proof of the ratio for one of them is however tricky. We show that proving it was nevertheless worth the effort as indicated by simulations: the corresponding algorithm presents a ratio that in practice is much better than for the other two 3-approximation algorithms, and is between 1.5 and 2 for trees that present a moderate to high level of rearrangement. The less well performing among the three new approximation algorithms is interesting for indirectly providing a lower bound for the MAF between two trees that is good, specially for trees with a moderate level of rearrangement.
Rebecca Wade, Germany
From protein structure to drug via the computer?
The polypeptide chains of proteins fold to adopt complex three-dimensional structures. These structures can be exploited in "structure-based drug design", a process that can be considered analogous to finding the right key (drug) for a lock (target protein). Computer-aided structure-based drug design has successfully led to the design of drugs that are now in clinical use, such as those against HIV and influenza. With the current emphasis on high-throughput experimental determination of protein structures, the number of potential protein targets for which structure-based drug design is possible is growing rapidly. Will this new structural information translate into new medicines? I will discuss some of the capabilities of and challenges for structure-based drug design approaches in the light of our current knowledge of protein structure and dynamics and in the context of the emerging systems biology perspective.
Susan Holmes, USA
Using distances in Multidimensional Statistics, 45 minutes
I will present examples of extracting useful information by using distances between non standard objects in computational biology. Visualisation of distances often provides much more information that the simple distributions.
Examples include :
- Comparing Phylogenetic trees from different DNA data.
- Comparing Hierarchical clustering trees on melanoma patiens.
- Comparing protein interaction networks.
- Constructing confidence sets for non standard data.
These all require use of interactive multidimensional visualisation techniques.
An interdisciplinary session devoted to Numerical Methods chaired by Rosa Maria Spitaleri, Italy
Tatyana Kozubskaya, Russia
Mathematical Models and Numerical Techniques in Euler Based Computational Aeroacoustics, 40 minutes
The talk represents a review on computational aeroacoustics (CAA) governed by the models derived on the base of complete Euler formulation in gas dynamics. Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) by the Euler or Navier-Stokes equations, Linearised Euler Equations (LEE) and Non-Linear Disturbance Equations (NLDE) are the basic models of this class.An attention is paid to the specifics of aeroacoustics problems resulting in the necessity in developing specific mathematical models and numerical techniques. New formulations of NLDE model are presented, a few efficient numerical algorithms are considered. The results of their implementation are demonstrated on a set of CAA problems.
Michelle Schatzman, France
Preconditioning and partial differential equations: cross-fertilization of numerical analysis and PDE theory in unusual ways, 40 minutes
Preconditioning is one of the most important issue of contemporary numerical analysis, since it is the key to the efficient implementation of numerical methods. If one wishes to solve a linear system Ax=b with so many unknowns (the dimension of the vector x that it is impractical to use direct methods, such as Gauss elimination, one must use iterative methods. But the rate of convergence of the method depends on the condition number of A which is the product of the norm of A by the norm of its inverse. The idea of preconditioning is to find an approximate inverse B and to replace the problem by BAx=Bb or by ABy=b. What is required from B? It should be computationnally friendly, and the condition number of BA or AB should be much smaller than the condition number of A. The perfect choice from the condition number point of view would be to take for B the inverse of A, which is computationnally quite unfriendly, since we are trying precisely to solve a system with matrix A. In fact, B can be understood as the numerical analogue of a parametrix in the theory of partial differential equations: a parametrix for a differential operator L=P(x,?) is a generally pseudo-differential operator M such that ML-1, and LM-1 are smoothing. The construction of a parametrix is an iterative process which resembles the iterative solution of linear systems of equations. Conversely, estimates on preconditioners need detailed information from the theory of partial differential equations. An example will be given, where the stationary phase method gives information on the zeroes of orthogonal polynomials, which in turn enables to prove that a preconditioner for a spectral method is spectrally equivalent to the matrix being preconditioned.
Rosa Maria Spitaleri, Italy
Grid generation and partial differential equations: numerical methods and applications, 40 minutes
Zorica Uzelac, Serbia, 25 minutes
tatiana_vasmail [dot] ru (Tatiana Vasileyva) Russia
Historical aspects of numerical methods for ODEs, 25 minutes
We present a short historical review of numerical methods for ODEs. Euler, Adams, Bashforth, Runge papers started the development of ODEs numerical methods. The modern theory of linear multistep methods, questions of stability, convergents are connected with Dahlquist papers. We finish the review with the modern theory of Runge-Kutta methods (DIRK, SIRK), Bashfort papers and stiff problems for ODES systems.
A social-cultural session around the theme of Mentoring, coordinated by lauramath [dot] chalmers [dot] se ( Laura Fainsilber).
We will discuss mentoring programs with different forms and ambitions, such as for instance EWM's web-based mentoring scheme set up since the last meeting.
If you have experience of mentoring you would like to mention, within a structured program or in a less formal way, please contact lauramath [dot] chalmers [dot] se ( Laura Fainsilber).
Preliminary program
FAST = Fonctional Analysis and Spectral Theory (40 minutes each)
- Kathy MERRILL
- Paola LORETI
- Martine QUEFFELEC
- Svetlana KATOK
- Karma DAJANI
- Anne SIEGEL
BIO = Biomathematics (45 minutes each)
- Natasha JONOSKA
- Marie-France SAGOT
- Rebecca WADE
- Susan HOLMES
NM = Numerical Methods
- Tatyana KOZUBSKAYA (40 minutes)
- Michelle SCHATZMAN (40 minutes)
- Rosa Maria SPITALERI (40 minutes)
- Tatyana VASSILIEYVA (25 minutes)
- Zorica UZELAC (25 minutes)
- D. Boukari (45 minutes)
- 09h00 09h30 Welcome
- 09h30 10h20 FAST 1
- 10h20 10h45 Pause
- 10h45 11h30 BIO 1
- 11h30 12h30 Getting to know each other
- Lunch
- 14h30 15h15 BIO 2
- 15h15 16h00 Pause
- 16h00 18h00 Mentoring
- 18h00 19h30 Posters writing and videos (if you know of any interesting video produced whose topic may be of interest to women in mathematics, please bring a copy and we will try to show it)
- 20h30 22h00 Poster Session I: biomathematics / applied mathematics
- 09h30 10h20 FAST 2
- 10h20 10h50 Pause
- 10h50 11h 30 NM 1
- 11h45 12h25 BIO 3
- Lunch
- 14h30 15h15 BIO 4
- 15h15 16h00 Pause
- 16h00 18h00 Pre-General Assembly: information and discussion
- 20h30 22h00 Poster Session II
- 09h30 10h20 FAST 3
- 10h20 10h50 Pause
- 10h50 11h35 NM2
- Lunch
- Afternoon: excursion (visiting the calanque area, i.e. the cliffs and the coast)
- 09h30 10h10 NM6
- 10h10 11h30 Pause
- 10h30 12h30 General Assembly EWM
- Lunch
- 14h00 14h45 NM4
- 15h30 16h10 FAST 4
- 16h10 16h30 Pause
- 16h30 17h00 NM4
- 17h00 19h00 Mentoring 2
- 20h30 22h00 Poster session 3
- 09h30 10h00 NM 5
- 10h10 10h50 FAST 5
- 10h50 11h30 Pause
- 11h30 12h30 Planinng the next meeting
- Lunch
- 14h30 15h10 FAST 6
- 15h10 15h30 Pause
- 15h30 17h30 Mentoring 3
- Evaluation of the meeting
The French Organization "Femmes et Mathématiques" organizes on Saturday 8th a special day "Mathématiques au féminin en Méditerranée" in Marseille, Centre Saint Charles, University of Provence. All the participants of the EWM conference are welcome.
Unfortunately, EWM does not have any funding available for participants. It is possible to arrive at Cirm on Saturday 1st and to be housed at Cirm in a special building. There will be no food service except on sunday evening. The price is 38,50 euros. Those interested should give their arrival time so that the guard can let them in and give them the keys. (There are no stores or restaurants on campus, so you should buy some food in Marseille before you take the bus to Luminy.)
- A POSTER SESSION will be organized and chaired by itathsun1 [dot] jinr [dot] ru ( Tatiana Ivanova) (Dubna, Russia) with special sections for the themes related to the meeting's main session, and of course general categories where people from other fields also can present their posters. All participants are encouraged to present their work in this way.
- Participants will be housed and will have their meals at CIRM. The cost of accommodation with full board will be 60 euros per person per day for a single room and 52 euros for a shared room. If you want to participate to the conference, please send an e-mail to bertheiml [dot] univ-mrs [dot] fr ( Valérie Berthé) before October 1st, 2003.
- Your name will then be communicated to CIRM which will contact you directly.
Badrié Kojok
University Saint-Joseph
P.O.Box 514
Mar Roukos, Beirut, Lebanon
The proceedings of the 11th conference of EWM
The proceedings of the 11th conference of EWM held at Luminy (2003) have appeared in the internationally known CWI Tract series. This enabled us, for the first time, to have EWM Scientific Proceedings, for the first time, automatically reviewed by Zentrablatt and Mathscinet.
Limited number of copies of the proceedings are available for purchase. The cost per copy is 15 euros. If you are interested please send an e-mail to dajanimath [dot] uu [dot] nl (Karma Dajani) with your name and address, and please send the payment to:
Name and Address of the payee: European Women in Mathematics Finland, Koulukatu 18 as 22, 20100 Turku, Finland
IBAN: FI 82 1652 3500 2180 71 (leave no blanks!)
Message (this is important!): What you pay for.
Name and address of the bank: Nordea Bank Finland Plc, Aleksanterinkatu 36, FI-00020 Nordea, Finland
A copy of the proceeedings will be sent once the payment is confirmed.
- From the Editors
- Preface
- List of Participants
- Kathy Merril: "Constructing Wavelets from Generalized Filters"
- Anne Siegel: "Spectral theory for dynamical systems arising from substitutions"
- Karma Dajani: "Properties of expansions to non-integer bases: a survey"
- Paola Loreti: "On some gap theorems"
- Martine Queffelec: "Fourier Analysis and Continued Fractions"
- Svetlana Katok and Ilie Ugarcovici: "Arithmetic coding of geodesics on the modular surface via continued fractions"
- Michelle Schatzman: "Preconditioning and partial differential equations"
- Poster Session
- About EWM
- EWM Web-based Mentoring Scheme


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I am famous for my terrible sense of direction. I'd rather be famous for winning the lottery or inventing renewable energy. Unfortunately, I'm known among friends and family for being able to get lost in my own house…and my house isn't that big.
So, taking an outdoor survival class seemed like a good idea…
After that class, I was driving through the woods on a friend's very large property. I realized I had no clue where I was going and that's when it kicked in!
I'm feeling mildly panicked after almost getting stuck in quicksand. The thought hits me, 'Is anyone going to help me.' But here are a few tips from the survival class that helped me through this:
- First of all, before I left my house that morning, and because I knew I was heading out to a fairly remote area, I told my teenaged son where I was going and approximately what time I'd be home. That right there is huge. In an absolute worse case scenario, if I didn't come home and my son reported me missing, rescuers wouldn't be like "Well, she's probably somewhere in Florida"; they'd know where to start looking right away.
- Secondly, after that survival class, I started making sure that I had a few basic survival supplies with me in the car, including bottles of fresh water and a box of granola bars, and a basic fire-starter.
- And thirdly, I remember one of the first things the instructor told us: Don't panic. If you start panicking and thinking "I'm going to die!" you probably will. If you stay calm and decide "I'm going to live", you also probably will.
Also, while my sense of direction still isn't great, thanks to the survival class, I now know how to make a compass out of objects lying around on any forest floor AMAZING
I'd debated getting out of my car and walking to get help, but I decided against it. I had shelter; why leave it? After a few minutes, I saw a car driving off in the distance, winding through the road that I'd been looking for. I managed to turn my car around, headed out that way, and within minutes, I was out on the main road.
To some people, a survival class may sound kind of extreme, but you literally never know when you may need some of these very basic skills that can keep you alive for the crucial few hours or days it might take for rescuers to find you.
It's easier than you think. Starting a fire with a magnifying glass is possible and in this short blog we're going to teach you how.
I was not very good at starting fires in the fireplace, so I loved Christmas time when we had tons of wrapping paper to put under the fireplace wood to get it started. Half the time the fire would quickly burn up the wrapping paper and go out. After practicing a few times, starting fires became easier for me. Now seeing kids and families learn how to start fires in our survival classes is so much fun.
Most people can't start a fire easily, because they don't prepare. Sp what will you need?
First of all, experiment with a round magnifying glass and focus the light on the area you want to light on fire until you have a small white dot. Use a plain white piece of paper as your tinder and go out in the middle of the day when the sun is hottest overhead and try to light the paper. Make sure this is done over something that will not burn like dirt or concrete. Use white paper and you will see that it won't light, then rub the paper in the dirt or use a black marker to draw a large spot on it. Be patient and try to light it again while focusing the light on the dark area and it will quickly burn a hole in it. Great, now you know how to make a hole but still no fire. It might light and burn if you hold the paper right, be sure and put it out completely as the fire can start back up.
NOTE a flat page magnifier can be much different to work with. Even though they are not very strong, the larger surface area can concentrate more of the sun's power on to the tinder. This time you will focus it into a tiny white square as opposed to the round circle. Make sure you notice one side of the flat page magnifier is smooth, face the smooth side down.
**Warning – it's never good to stare into the sun, or the magnified light, it can hurt your eyes**
Now the trick is to actually get a good fire going. For that you should always prepare some tinder, like a manmade bird's nest or tinder bundle from some palmetto fur, dryer lint, char or anything else that burns fast and easy. Whatever you use chop it into really small pieces or pull it apart and then form it into a bird's nest like in the picture. Now try it again with the small dark area inside the nest and then blow a little life into it as it starts to smoke and you see an ember. You can also take the entire bundle and move it around in the air to fan the ember and light the tinder bundle. Be careful not to burn yourself or start a fire out of control.
As it begins to light the tinder bundle (birds nest) flip it over to get the flames to burn up the rest of the bundle and slide it under the small to larger pieces of wood for the fuel and you will see the fire grow. I am still lazy about fires, so now I add lighter knot, pine needles, hand sanitizer or Vaseline to my wood and let it catch to keep burning. The hand sanitizer can be dangerous because you won't see the flame and it keeps burning for quite a while. Make sure if anyone else is around they know it is lit or they could get burned. You want to use the Vaseline like making a candle, just coat the outside of a cotton ball, which acts like the wick and light it. It will burn for a long time. When I first started survival classes, I saw a video to soak the cotton balls in Vaseline. That was a bad idea, you need something dry to light easy and the Vaseline part will burn slow, don't soak it, just smear some on.
All the other items listed above that can be used like a magnifying glass simply need to be used to either let light through and then concentrate the light to the tinder or reflect the sun to the tinder. A video even shows one guy polishing a tin can with a chocolate bar or some clay to shine a hot reflection from the sun. I prefer to eat the chocolate and use a lighter but in a survival situation you may have to do something extreme like sacrificing your chocolate bar for fire. All kidding aside, everything looks easy when someone with experience does it but there is a huge deference between watching or reading about survival training verses actually taking a survival training class. Our goal in the Omega Ranch survival classes is to make survival techniques natural and easy for you.
Be prepared! Learn to survive and thrive!
What is the best survival knife to have if I could only buy one?
From our Survival Expert: Jeremy Spence
When it comes to knives, the blade metal alloy, temper, thickness and shape are the most critical things. I prefer carbon steel because I can use it to start a fire in ways that are not possible with stainless steel knives. There are 4 basic knife shapes which would be very hard to explain in this post but they are the V shape flat grind, the standard half flat, half V shape and the Scandi grind shape. It all depends on what type of cutting you are doing to what type of shape works best.
But if I had to choose only one knife it would probably be an Ontario RAT-7 made in Franklinville, New York, USA which is about $85 on amazon.com. Ontario is my favorite knife manufacturer. They use good blade steel and make blades for use by the special forces. I personally use an Ontario Spec Plus knife for shelter building and log splitting. You can purchase the Spec Plus 2nd Generation version on amazon for $56.
Another good knife would be the Becker BK-7 or BK-9 by Ka-Bar, also American made and around $80.
I personally use a Habilis Bushtool made in Dalton Georgia that, at $200, is twice as expensive as a standard Ontario but it is hand made. I will one day buy a Habilis SRT (self reliance tool) for around $230. I also use a Old Hickory kitchen knife which is excellent steel for carving spears and starting fires, just not quite thick enough for chopping down trees and this knife can be had for less than $11 on amazon.
Another option is a Morakniv, made in Sweden, which is kinda on the small side but great for carving spears and splitting small wood down to kindling, it comes with a Scandi grind shape and is also good for cleaning fish and small game but a little too small to be the only knife you have but makes an excellent companion knife and costs between $13 and $16. I have a Mora companion knife I got for $16 on amazon.


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Beautiful Pictures From Gabriel Afolayan's Wedding
Yesterday the 5th of April marked a great day in the Nigerian music industry and in the life of the Afolayans as their son Gabriel Afolayan.
Celebrities like Banky W with wife Adesua Etomi and Mocheddah were spotted at the event and even got to spray the newlyweds on the dance floor.
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San Diego Chargers select former Arkansas All-American TE Hunter Henry in second round
In March, a top NFL scout called former Arkansas tight end Hunter Henry the most complete tight end in recent memory to enter the NFL draft. His new team hopes he lives up to that praise.
Henry is off the board, as the San Diego Chargers selected the Arkansas standout with the No. 35 pick in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft on Friday.
The 6-foot-5 tight end won the John Mackey Award, which is given to the nation's top tight end, in his final season with the Razorbacks. Henry finished his college career with 1,661 receiving yards, which ranks second among tight ends in Arkansas history. With 116 receptions in three seasons, Henry is one of only eight SEC tight ends to reach 100 or more receptions in his career.
Henry became a paragon of dependability with the Razorbacks and the Chargers will be glad if that continues in the NFL.


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Deyoung, describes Mystic-activist as a person of faith-inspired, generative action within shifting sociopolitical spheres of human interaction, particularly concerning the oppression of a community or individual. These actors pursue a "direct experience of ultimate reality" or "the experience of some form of union with God" to elevate the collective we (2007 pp7). The ineffable qualities of impermanent reality are confusing to the selfish, ego-driven moments we all share. Ineffectually struggling to solidify security in the present moment, the ego becomes hostile and afraid. Perhaps of illusions of scarcity and ill-perceived lack.
With so many cultural paradigms to ascribe to, how do we pick which to internalize? What seems obvious is that we pick and choose what we believe in according to our environment, both social and physical, e.g. we are the product of such. Symbols we construct and the meanings we apply to them form our external reality which reflects our inward mental-world, our ethos and worldview.
Concerning cultural conflict, what most people fall short of recognizing is that culture is not to be taken at face value because there are multiple layers of meaning encrypted within the symbols we construct, and are impermanent by nature. Humanity as a whole seems to suffer from or enjoy what some may interpret as a sort of historical amnesia, socially reconstructing and reinventing the wheel (perhaps this is the meaning). We forget that we are not the originators of now, the product of then as well as the idea that history is not a linear event. Myriad happenings unfold simultaneously that reshape the meanings of symbols all over the globe (this is a significant tenant of political economy [Stewart 1767], no one person, place, or thing is unaffected by another at any given time, everything is connected. i.e. Einstein's theory of relativity [1905, 1916]), so to internalize any one ideology, belief, or definition of being seems to me an error only to be exposed by time, experience, and meditation.
This is my current understanding of humanity and the construction of culture, among other social tools. A symbol and it's meanings are configured and reconfigured throughout history as people encounter one another resulting in various cultural paradigms making contact and amalgamating. Each individual is and is not a pro-generator of culture…
Not, in the sense that the individual did not construct the original symbol and it's implicit meanings. Is, in the sense that neither history, culture, nor reality is static, or fixed phenomena.
Symbols and meanings are constantly being reconfigured and renegotiated any moment encounters or exchanges occur between a person, place, or thing. Ultimately, culture is an imagination game we play with one another and ourselves in a sort of virtual reality, where the pieces, rules, and game-board are in constant flux. Though we may not be fully aware of this phenomenon, our participation and performance may be enhanced or diminished in accordance to our socioeconomic positioning within the implied hierarchies of a dynamic cultural matrix. I do not deny that emotion is a hell of a motivator, on the contrary I believe it is a force that moves us. Yet, extreme emotional polarization and attachment often leads to dangerous and violent behavior as a result of grasping at permanence.
Of course I have arrived at, "Well if that's all true, then what's the point, what's it all mean then?"
I entertain the possible conclusion that WE, as collective individuals, construct our meanings. The individual and their unique, single, subjective experiences that colors and constructs our shared social web of experience is drawn upon by others as a pool of referential significance and guidance, the collective unconscious (Jung 1936). At the end of the day… no one really knows what's going on and that to me is sublime. It is awe-inspiring, beautiful, and dreadfully freighting, purely a matter of perspective.
As a Cultural Anthropologist, I cognitively operate in this sort of analytical perspective exercise most of the time. As a human-being I am attempting to be present at every given moment to appreciate and accept life as a sacredly mundane and divinely ordinary experience. This Yin-Yang, dichotomous balancing act is my dominant experience and I feel freedom intellectually, and emotionally as well as a crippling melancholia, but I still keep moving. I am human after all… I think.


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A week ago I was introduced to the lovely Kosekis; my host family for my time here in Tokyo.
The Kosekis live in Fuchu, a suburb about an hour out of downtown Tokyo (by transit). It's a good neighbourhood with a residential section and a main shopping strip. I've yet to do a proper walk around, but I think there are some cool shops, shrines and other things to discover.
Their house is really modern and surrounded by Ms. Koseki's amazing garden. She is always out in the garden taking care of all her plants. And I found out the building across from us is actually their garage and more garden space. They have their own jungle!
The inside of the house is also quite modern – they have an elevator (for a 3 storey house…)! The set up is quite different from houses I'm used to: the first floor is a guest room (aka my room for the next 3 weeks), the second floor is for the family bedrooms and the third floor is the kitchen/living room.
I sleep in a traditional tatami straw floor room, which was quite a shock when I first walked in. It still kind of feels like I'm living in a touristy Japanese restaurant or something! But the most shocking bit was realizing I wouldn't be sleeping on a real bed, or even a mattress for that matter. Instead, I roll out two comforter blankets and sleep on top of those. My back is still getting used to it.
I have the sweetest host mom in Mrs. Koseki. She cooks all the meals, which are all amazing, and has been showing me around whenever she can. She greets me after school and indulges me in slow English conversations since my Japanese is nowhere near up to par. She always checks on me and never lets me help with anything. And, she always gets very excited whenever I use a Japanese phrase correctly – you should see her when I nail my "good mornings" and "thank you for dinners."
Mr. Koseki is a retired drug store owner. He seems to spend most of his time in front of the TV, but, let's be honest, that's pretty much my life and I'm nowhere close to retirement. And he has the best laugh! He is extremely good-natured and cracks up about everything. He also seems to think my grasp of Japanese is much better than it is as he is always trying to explain things to me without a word of English. I've mastered the smile and nod with appropriate pauses and the occasional laugh.
Yuko, 16, is my host sister. She's very sweet and is working on her confidence with English. However, Yuko is the busiest 16 year old I've ever met! She is always at school and then after school she has all of these activities or even more school! In the week that I've been here, I think we've had two meals together. And today (Saturday), she left the house by 7:30am, made a brief appearance around 7:30pm and then finally returned after more school by 10:00pm.
Lastly, there's Mamei, my host family's fat black cat. She has giant yellow eyes and is nimble as anything jumping around the place. Her favourite spots are on top of the piano, directly in front of the television or meowing near her empty food bowl. Friendly would be a stretch, but Mamei is definitely a character!
And that's the wonderful Koseki family! More to come on Japanese lessons, hanging with my host family and celebrating my 22nd birthday in Tokyo!


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Prediction of the binary surface tension of mixtures containing ionic liquids using Support Vector Machine algorithms
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Hashemkhani, M, Soleimani, R, Fazeli, H, Lee, M, Bahadori, A & Tavalaeian, M 2015, 'Prediction of the binary surface tension of mixtures containing ionic liquids using Support Vector Machine algorithms', Journal of Molecular Liquids, vol. 211, pp. 534-552.
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The surface tension of pure ionic liquids (ILs) and their mixtures with other compounds play a key role in the design and development of many industrial processes. Therefore, its modeling is extremely important from an industrial point of view. This study examined the capability and feasibility of three intelligence algorithms for predicting the surface tension of binary systems containing ILs. To construct and test the models, 748 data points corresponding to the experimental surface tension values of binary mixtures containing ILs were extracted from the literature. The surface tension was between 0.0157 and 0.07185 N·m− 1. The absolute temperature (T), mole fraction and molecular weight of the IL components (xIL and MwIL) and the density of the IL components (ρIL) together with the boiling point (Tbnon-IL) and molecular weight (Mwnon-IL) of the non-IL component were considered as model input variables to differentiate between the various compounds involved in binary systems. A comparison of the experimental data and predicted values using all three methods (in terms of statistical parameters) showed good agreement; however, the CSA-LSSVM prediction was better than the other two approaches.


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text: The Second Grade Simple Machine unit concluded with a successful "Invention Convention" in the Innovation Lab. Each child designed and built a machine using recycled materials. Thank you to our families for sending in reusable items, and a big shout out to the parents who volunteered to make it a fun learning experience for everyone!


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text: Nathan 0 Report post Posted April 28, 2006 Similar to those never-ending "What Are You Listening To?" threads I see on countless messageboards, I thought I would start a thread about the books we are reading. And what better place than the Word forum. Phatcatholic, you might want to make this a sticky. Here goes: At the moment I am finishing up [i]The History of the Bible in English[/i], by the late Scripture scholar F.F. Bruce. As its title implies, the book chronicles the development of the English Bible from a historical (and critical) standpoint, from the earliest indecipherable Old English translations to Wycliffe's Bible to the Douay-Rheims and Authorized Versions, all the way through to the modern biggies like the RSV, JB, NEB, NAB, NIV, etc. Many, many rare "specialty" translations, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish, are also discussed. It is excellent; insurmountably informative, and quite an entertaining read to boot. I recommend it highly. What about you? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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He's always been wiling to do anything for me, and I sometimes can't help but feel I don't deserve his love and devotion. Somehow, he seems to think the love I have for him is enough motivation, even though I think I'm more dead weight than anything else. So, I'm going to stick to thanking my lucky stars he decided to marry me.
So without further ado, here is a poem for my husband:
This life was bleak
under my sky
as I simply let
the time pass by.
You showed me
and taught me
how to really
love myself.
I never knew
til I knew you
what good loving
could really do.
Then suddenly
I loved you too.
It all made sense.
Now my life is better spent.