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Tidal locking (also called gravitational locking or captured rotation) occurs when the gravitational gradient makes one side of an astronomical body always face another, an effect known as synchronous rotation. For example, the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. A tidally locked body takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its partner. This causes one hemisphere constantly to face the partner body. Usually, at any given time only the satellite is tidally locked around the larger body, because this is the first stage that occurs and it takes a lot more time to also lock the heavier main body to the partner body. But given enough time, eventually each may be tidally locked to the other. This will occur more quickly if the difference in mass between the two bodies and their physical separation is small; which probably helped the fact that this is already the case with Pluto and its moon Charon.
This effect is employed to stabilize some artificial satellites.
The change in rotation rate necessary to tidally lock a body B to a larger body A is caused by the torque applied by A's gravity on bulges it has induced on B by tidal forces.
The gravity of body A produces a tidal force on B that distorts its gravitational equilibrium shape slightly so that it becomes elongated along the axis oriented toward A, and conversely, is slightly reduced in dimension in directions perpendicular to this axis. These distortions are known as tidal bulges. When B is not yet tidally locked, the bulges travel over its surface, with one of the two "high" tidal bulges traveling close to the point where body A is overhead. For large astronomical bodies that are near-spherical due to self-gravitation, the tidal distortion produces a slightly prolate spheroid - i.e., an axially symmetric ellipsoid that is elongated along its major axis. Smaller bodies also experience distortion, but this distortion is less regular.
The material of B exerts resistance to this periodic reshaping caused by the tidal force. In effect, some time is required to reshape B to the gravitational equilibrium shape, by which time the forming bulges have already been carried some distance away from the A–B axis by B's rotation. Seen from a vantage point in space, the points of maximum bulge extension are displaced from the axis oriented towards A. If B's rotation period is shorter than its orbital period, the bulges are carried forward of the axis oriented towards A in the direction of rotation, whereas if B's rotation period is longer the bulges lag behind instead.
Because the bulges are now displaced from the A–B axis, A's gravitational pull on the mass in them exerts a torque on B. The torque on the A-facing bulge acts to bring B's rotation in line with its orbital period, whereas the "back" bulge, which faces away from A, acts in the opposite sense. However, the bulge on the A-facing side is closer to A than the back bulge by a distance of approximately B's diameter, and so experiences a slightly stronger gravitational force and torque. The net resulting torque from both bulges, then, is always in the direction that acts to synchronize B's rotation with its orbital period, leading eventually to tidal locking.
The angular momentum of the whole A–B system is conserved in this process, so that when B slows down and loses rotational angular momentum, its orbital angular momentum is boosted by a similar amount (there are also some smaller effects on A's rotation). This results in a raising of B's orbit about A in tandem with its rotational slowdown. For the other case where B starts off rotating too slowly, tidal locking both speeds up its rotation, and lowers its orbit.
The tidal locking effect is also experienced by the larger body A, but at a slower rate because B's gravitational effect is weaker due to B's smaller size. For example, Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down because of the Moon, by an amount that becomes noticeable over geological time in some fossils.[1] The process is still happening and has significantly slowed down the rotation of Earth since the beginning of its existence. Current estimations are that this has helped lengthen the Earth day (together with the tidal influence of the Sun) from about 6 hours to the current 24 hours. And at this moment, atomic clocks show that Earth's day lengthens by about 15 microseconds every year.[2] Given enough time, this would create a mutual tidal locking between Earth and the Moon, where the length of a day has lengthened and the length of a lunar month would have shortened to a point where they are the same length. But it is happening so slowly that Earth is not expected to become tidally locked to the Moon before the Sun becomes a Red giant and engulfs Earth and the Moon.[3][4]
For bodies of similar size the effect may be of comparable size for both, and both may become tidally locked to each other on a much shorter timescale. The dwarf planet Pluto and its satellite Charon are good examples of this. They have already reached a state where Charon is only visible from one hemisphere of Pluto and vice versa. Pluto is roughly the same age as the planets in the Solar System.
Finally, in some cases where the orbit is eccentric and the tidal effect is relatively weak, the smaller body may end up in a so-called spin-orbit resonance, rather than tidally locked. Here the ratio of the rotation period of a body to its own orbital period is some well-defined fraction different from 1:1. A well known case is the rotation of Mercury—locked to its own orbit around the Sun in a 3:2 resonance.
Many exoplanets (especially the close-in ones) are expected to be in spin–orbit resonances higher than 1:1.
Most significant moons in the Solar System are tidally locked with their primaries, because they orbit very closely and tidal force increases rapidly (as a cubic) with decreasing distance. Notable exceptions are the irregular outer satellites of the gas giants, which orbit much farther away than the large well-known moons.
Pluto and Charon are an extreme example of a tidal lock. Charon is a relatively large moon in comparison to its primary and also has a very close orbit. This has made Pluto also tidally locked to Charon. In effect, these two celestial bodies revolve around each other (their barycenter lies outside of Pluto) as if joined with a rod connecting two opposite points on their surfaces.
The tidal locking situation for asteroid moons is largely unknown, but closely orbiting binaries are expected to be tidally locked, as well as contact binaries.
The Moon's rotation and orbital periods are tidally locked with each other, so no matter when the Moon is observed from Earth the same hemisphere of the Moon is always seen. The far side of the Moon was not seen in its entirety until 1959, when photographs were transmitted from the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3.
Despite the Moon's rotational and orbital periods being exactly locked, about 59% of the Moon's total surface may be seen with repeated observations from Earth due to the phenomena of libration and parallax. Librations are primarily caused by the Moon's varying orbital speed due to the eccentricity of its orbit: this allows up to about 6° more along its perimeter to be seen from Earth. Parallax is a geometric effect: at the surface of Earth we are offset from the line through the centers of Earth and Moon, and because of this we can observe a bit (about 1°) more around the side of the Moon when it is on our local horizon.
It was thought for some time that Mercury was tidally locked with the Sun. This was because whenever Mercury was best placed for observation, the same side faced inward. Radar observations in 1965 demonstrated instead that Mercury has a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, rotating three times for every two revolutions around the Sun, which results in the same positioning at those observation points. The eccentricity of Mercury's orbit makes this 3:2 resonance stable.
Venus's 583.92-day interval between successive close approaches to Earth is equal to 5.001444 Venusian solar days, making approximately the same face visible from Earth at each close approach. Whether this relationship arose by chance or is the result of some kind of tidal locking with Earth is unknown.[5]
A planet that is tidally locked to its star has one side that is in perpetual starlight and another that is in perpetual darkness.
Close binary stars throughout the universe are expected to be tidally locked with each other, and extrasolar planets that have been found to orbit their primaries extremely closely are also thought to be tidally locked to them. An unusual example, confirmed by MOST, is Tau Boötis, a star tidally locked by a planet. The tidal locking is almost certainly mutual.[6]
An estimate of the time for a body to become tidally locked can be obtained using the following formula:[7]
Q and k_2 are generally very poorly known except for the Moon, which has k_2/Q=0.0011. For a really rough estimate it is common to take Q \approx 100 (perhaps conservatively, giving overestimated locking times), and
As can be seen, even knowing the size and density of the satellite leaves many parameters that must be estimated (especially w, Q, and \mu\,), so that any calculated locking times obtained are expected to be inaccurate, to even factors of ten. Further, during the tidal locking phase the semi-major axis a may have been significantly different from that observed nowadays due to subsequent tidal acceleration, and the locking time is extremely sensitive to this value.
Because the uncertainty is so high, the above formulas can be simplified to give a somewhat less cumbersome one. By assuming that the satellite is spherical, k_2\ll1\, , Q = 100, and it is sensible to guess one revolution every 12 hours in the initial non-locked state (most asteroids have rotational periods between about 2 hours and about 2 days)
with masses in kilograms, distances in meters, and \mu in newtons per meter squared; \mu can be roughly taken as 3×1010 N·m−2 for rocky objects and 4×109 N·m−2 for icy ones.
Note the extremely strong dependence on semi-major axis a.
For the locking of a primary body to its satellite as in the case of Pluto, the satellite and primary body parameters can be interchanged.
One conclusion is that other things being equal (such as Q and \mu), a large moon will lock faster than a smaller moon at the same orbital distance from the planet because m_s\, grows as the cube of the satellite radius,R. A possible example of this is in the Saturn system, where Hyperion is not tidally locked, whereas the larger Iapetus, which orbits at a greater distance, is. However, this is not clear cut because Hyperion also experiences strong driving from the nearby Titan, which forces its rotation to be chaotic.
The above formulae for the timescale of locking may be off by orders of magnitude, because they ignore the frequency dependence of k_2/Q.
Locked to the Earth
Locked to Mars
Locked to Jupiter
Locked to Saturn
Locked to Uranus
Locked to Neptune
Locked to Pluto
Based on comparison between the likely time needed to lock a body to its primary, and the time it has been in its present orbit (comparable with the age of the Solar System for most planetary moons), a number of moons are thought to be locked. However their rotations are not known or not known enough. These are:
Probably locked to Saturn
Probably locked to Uranus
Probably locked to Neptune
Solar System, Mars, Earth, Apollo program, Pluto
Nasa, Antarctica, Solar System, Evolution, Apollo program
Neptune, Solar System, Uranus, Eris (dwarf planet), Charon (moon)
Moon, Pluto, Moons of Pluto, Earth, Styx (moon)
Solar System, Neptune, Sun, Moons of Uranus, Hydrogen
Moon, Earth, Venus, Mars, Energy
Orbit, Earth, Geostationary orbit, Mars, Equator
Charon (moon), Pluto, Hubble Space Telescope, New Horizons, Styx (moon)
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First, pick a commutative ring $k$ as the "ground field". Everything I say will be $k$-linear, e.g. "algebra" means "unital associative algebra over $k$". Then recall the following construction due to Grothendieck:
Let $A$ be a commutative algebra, and $X$ an $A$-module. Then the differential operators on $X$ is the filtered algebra $D = D(A,X)$ given inductively by: $$ D_{\leq 0} = \text{image of $A$ in }\hom_k(X,X) $$ $$ D_{\leq n} = \{ \phi \in \hom_k(X,X) \text{ s.t. } [\phi,a] \in D_{\leq n-1}\\, \forall a\in A\} $$ $$ D = \bigcup_{n=0}^\infty D_{\leq n} $$ (Edit: In the comments, Michael suggests that $D_{\leq 0} = \hom_A(X,X)$ is the more standard definition, and the rest is the same.)
Then the following facts are more or less standard:
- If $A$ acts freely on $X$, then $D_{\leq 1}$ acts on $A$ by derivations. (It's always true that $D_{\leq 1}$ acts on $D_{\leq 0}$ by derivations; the question is whether $D_{\leq 0} = A$ or a quotient.) If $X = A$ by multiplication, then $D_{\leq 1}$ splits as a direct sum $D_{\leq 1} = \text{Der}(A) \oplus A$.
- If $k=\mathbb R$, $M$ is a finite-dimensional smooth manifold, and $A = C^\infty(M) = X$, then $D$ is the usual algebra of differential operators generated by $A$ and $\text{Vect}(M) = \Gamma(TM \to M)$.
- If $A,X$ are actually sheaves, so is $D$.
Thus, at least in the situation where $A = X = C^{\infty}(M)$, the algebra $D$ is acting very much like the universal enveloping algebra of $U (\text{Vect}(M))$; in particular, the map $U(\text{Vect}(M)) \to D$ is filtered and is (almost) a surjection: it misses only the non-constant elements of $A$. So when $A = X = C^\infty(-)$ are sheaves on $M$, it's very tempting to think of $D$ as a sheafy version of $U(\text{Vect}(-))$. Note that $U(\text{Vect}(-))$ is not a sheaf: its degree $\leq 0$ part consists of constant functions, not locally constant, for example, and there are non-zero elements in $U_{\leq 2}$ that restrict to $0$ on an open cover. I think that it cannot be true that the sheafification of $U(\text{Vect}(-))$ is $D$, as the sheafification of $U_{\leq 0}$ is the locally-constant sheaf, not $C^\infty$.
So: is there a description of $D$ that makes it more obviously like a universal enveloping algebra? E.g. is there some adjunction or other categorical description? Is it really true that $D$ is a "sheafy" version of $U$ in a precise sense, or is this just a chimera?


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Ø Waldron Event Management
Ø Pure Magic Kitesurfing
Ø Irish Speedsailing Series
Ø Irish Slalom Series
Ø Dungarvan Harbour Sailing Club est. 1946
Ø Failte Ireland
Ø Waterford Leader Partnership Ltd.
Ø Dungarvan Town Council
Ø Irish Windsurfing Association
Ø Red Bull
Ø Park Hotel Dungarvan
Supporting organisations:
Ø IWA (Irish Windsurfing Association)
Ø IKSA (Irish Kitesurfing Association)
Event supporters:
Ø Wind and Wave
Ø Surf Dock
Ø Dunmore East Adventure Centre
Ø Kiteskool
Ø LSD Kiteboarding
Ø Ardmore Adventures
Ø Thundercat Demonstration Racing
Ø Big Surf
Asssociated events in conjunction with European Championships:
v Irish Slalom Series fun slalom racing
v Kitesurfing fun course racing
Public activities:
· Free introductory lessons to kitesurfing: Schools to be confirmed on site
· Free introductory lessons to windsurfing: Surf Dock and Wind & Wave
· Mixed watersports by Dunmore East Adventure Centre and Ardmore Adventures
· Thundercat Racing powerboat demonstrations and public demos
· Wakeboarding demos and introductory lessons (small fee to cover fuel only)
· Windsurfing 2010 gear test and demo: Loft Sails, KA Sails, North etc…
· Watersports exhibition (Surf Dock, Wind and Wave, Ardmore Adventures and Dunmore East Adventure Centre)
· The RNLI will be present and all attendees are asked to support this fantastic organisation on which we all rely
· Opening party (The Seannachai), Sunday 01/11, 8.30pm
· Red Bull closing party (The Anchor Bar), Saturday 07/11 8.30pm
· Public talk by Anders Bringdal on the record breaking 60' long hydrofoil triamaran, l'Hydroptere (Dungarvan Harbour Sailing Club), not to be missed. Wednesday 04/11, 7.30pm followed by:
· Drinks in the Moorings
· Live Red Bull DJ on site every day
· Bar on site every day with hot drinks to keep away the chill
Competitor information
The event takes place from 01/11/09 – 07/11/09
There was insufficient take up of the offer of kit and personal transport from Dublin Airport to Dungarvan; we are trying to arrange transfers for those who did wish to avail of same.
A large marquee has been arranged with allocated space for each competitor to store their equipment, within reason of course. This will be secured and have security every evening from 18.00 until skippers meeting the following morning.
The first day is set aside for registration, rigging, course inspection and race briefing.
Lunch will be provided (ticket basis) in the event marquee for all competitors and coffee and tea will be provided to competitors throughout the day.
The racing schedule is dependant on the tides and is outlined below.
Discounted rates have been agreed with The Park Hotel (€45.00 per night per person sharing & €65.00 per night single occupancy room) where the vast majority of competitors will be staying. The Park Hotel also has holiday homes adjacent to the hotel, anyone interested should contact the hotel for details. +353 58 42899
There will be a few shops in the marquee selling spares and extra woollies for the French.
We have a full time photographer in his own RIB on the water. EX Productions are producing a promotional programme using professional cameras and footage obtained from the helicopter which has been arranged for aerial coverage. We have been advised that the national broadcasters are interested in running a few segments on the event. All in all the media coverage is going to be huge pleasing the camera hogs and sponsored sailors alike.
There is a no wind day mornings entertainment arranged with Elite Paintball (due to budget constraints this will have to be paid for by those interested) and discounted green fees have been agreed with Dungarvan Golf Club for those too mature to act like teenagers for a few hours.
The opening party in The Seannachai is free of charge for competitors but open to the public for a cover fee incl. food. Further details available on event site at registration.
The prize giving takes place in Dungarvan Harbour Sailing Club. The prize fund is €10,000.00 with additional prizes on offer from event supporters.
The closing party supported by Red Bull will take place in The Anchor Bar with live music and food. Free of charge to competitors and open to the public for a cover fee incl. food. Further details available from event site.
All competitors should read the important information at the bottom of the document!!!
Registration update
The following giants of speedsailing have registered to take part in the event:
Ø Bjorn Dunkerbeck – 12 times overall world champion, 12 x race world champion, 7 x wave world champion, open ocean speed windsurfing world record holder, the list goes on…
Ø Anders Bringdal – Windsurfing legend who recently crewed on the boat Hydroptere which broke the speedsailing world record.
Ø Jemma Grobbelaar – Previous women's world record holder.
Ø Monty Spindler – A legend in sail design, many world records have been broken on sails he designed.
Ø Farrell O'Shea – British record holder and all round nice guy, many people at the event will have learned to windsurf from the books he wrote back in 19...!
Ø And many more
Event programme
Sunday 01/07
Registration 14.00 – 17.00
Unofficial racing and demos all day – details to be confirmed on site
Opening party in The Seanachai with traditional Irish food and entertainment Sunday night 8.30pm
Monday 02/11
Skippers meeting 09.30, speed racing 09.30 – 13.59
Windsurfing slalom racing and kitesurfing course racing 13.59 until 17.00
Tuesday 03/11
Skippers meeting 09.30, speed racing 09.30 – 14.37
Windsurfing slalom racing and kitesurfing course racing 14.37 until 17.00
Wednesday 04/11
Skippers meeting 09.30, speed racing 09.30 – 15.18
Windsurfing slalom racing and kitesurfing course racing 15.18 until 17.00
7.30pm Talk by Anders Bringdal on l'Hyroptere in Dungarvan Harbour Sailing Club followed by drinks in The Moorings
Thursday 05/11
Skippers meeting 09.30, speed racing 10.01 – 16.01
Windsurfing slalom racing and kitesurfing course racing 16.01 until 17.00
Friday 06/11
Skippers meeting 09.30, speed racing 10.37 – 16.37
Windsurfing slalom racing and kitesurfing course racing 09.30 until 10.37
Saturday 07/11
Skippers meeting 09.30, speed racing 11.38 – 17.00
Windsurfing slalom racing and kitesurfing course racing 09.30 until 11.38
Prize giving in the Dungarvan Harbour Sailing Club followed by:
Red Bull closing party in The Anchor bar with live band and food Saturday night 8.30pm
Where on any given day the conditions are not suitable for speedsailing, conditions permitting slalom races will be organised for the windsurfers and course racing for the kitesurfers.
Conditions of entry:
In addition to the waiver noted at the bottom of these notes, participant's specific attention is drawn to the following:
· Whilst the event programme is as accurate as possible, it is subject to change. The organisers reserve the right to alter the programme within the event schedule and to change any other items as may be necessary to ensure the success of the event or match finance requirements. No claims will be entertained in relation to these changes. Signed:____________________
· All competitors are advised that kit insurance is their own responsibility, the organisers or their affiliates will accept no claims whatsoever in relation to kit loss, damage or the like. This applies when in transport and on site. Signed:____________________
· All competitors are deemed to have read the ISWC and IKA rulebook prior to entering the competition. Signed:____________________
· All competitors are to be fully paid up members of the IWA or similar sporting body with 3rd party insurance. This insurance is to be available at registration for inspection; it must include value of cover (it need not match the IWA cover exactly), jurisdiction of cover and no limitation re. participation in professional events. Signed:____________________
· Specific attention has been drawn to the fact that the event is being held in an open sea tidal location and all competitors understand the there may be sandbanks or obstacles under the water line, it is the competitors responsibility to assess the course and sail it in a safe manner including sailing far enough away from the shore as they deem safe based on the state of the tide and their inspection of the course. Signed:____________________
· All competitors undertake to sail in a safe and respectful manner to their fellow competitors. Signed:____________________
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Your iPhone is a better entertainment device than anything you're going to get in a car stereo without spending big bucks. Snapping in an aux cable is a janky solution; the specialized iPod connectors in glove boxes aren't much better.
That's why Next-Base—yeah, never heard of them, either—was showing off the "Face Off Car Audio" dock at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, a double-DIN design which has a slick, if somewhat retrograde mechanical face that slides back to reveal an iPhone/iPod dock.
It gets better: after the front slides back and you've plugged in your iPhone, two little arms shoot out from the sides to hold it in place. It's so overwrought that it's kind of fantastic, and on the practical side of things, it does mean that nearly any size of Apple device will fit perfectly inside.
There's a button that allows you to control Siri from your steering wheel if you have an iPhone 4S, as well as a microphone and Bluetooth earpiece for making calls. But really, it's basically just a dock with an FM radio, a 4 x 45 Watt output and an as-yet-unknown price.
It's probably going to be terrible. But watch the video and I think you'll see why I find it so charming. If I had an older car in need of a new head unit—and it sold for around $100—I might just pull the trigger.
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A Christmas Adventure
"That couldn't be the real Santa. He would never hit his beloved reindeer!" I exclaimed.
I put my pedal down and raced to the North pole, I knew I had to get there in time to save Christmas!! Vrroommm!!
After a while I saw some snowmen and figured I must be getting close to Santa's Workshop. I stopped to ask directions, At first they gave me an icy stare and a cold shoulder but I asked ever so nicely and warmed their hearts a little. They said Santa's Workshop was just a bit further down the road.
In no time I was there and as I hopped out of my car a Green Santa came rushing over with a menacing look on his face.
And before he could say anything I took a deep breath and said loudly in a big clear voice "Bah! Humbug! Bah! Humbug!"
And believe it or not it worked!! The nasty green Santa shrunk into a very surprised little puppy and then he scampered away.
The real Santa came out of hiding and we all danced a merry jig to celebrate!!
The reindeer were so happy that they gave me a ride around Santa's gardens.
I helped Santa's little helpers wrap presents for all the good little boys and girls.
And then we all had cups of delicious cocoa.
And enjoyed singing a few rounds of "Have Yourself a Merry little Christmas".
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Marquette had not made a 3-pointer for the first 39 minutes and 59 seconds of Tuesday's game against Connecticut. That didn't worry Junior Cadougan.
Cadougan scored 18 points — including a buzzer-beating, tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation — to lead Marquette to an 82-76 overtime win over the Huskies in the Big East Conference opener for both teams.
"In that situation, you can't think about if we're 0 for 14," Cadougan said. "You have just got to shoot it to make it. If you make it, you make it. If you miss — tough luck."
Davante Gardner also scored 18 points for the Golden Eagles (10-3). Vander Blue scored 13 points as Marquette won its 17th in a row at home.
Shabazz Napier tied his career high with 29 points and had eight rebounds for Connecticut (10-3). Ryan Boatright added 16 for the Huskies, who saw a four-game winning streak end.
Marquette was without head coach Buzz Williams, serving a one-game suspension for NCAA recruiting rules violations announced in August. Assistant Brad Autry filled in for Williams, who is expected to return for Saturday's game against No. 15 Georgetown.
In a bizarre start to the overtime, the officials lined up the teams the wrong way.
Connecticut won the tip, and Jamil Wilson was initially whistled for goaltending on a shot by Napier. The officials then stopped play, noticed the mistake, gave Connecticut a team turnover and awarded the ball to Marquette, taking the two points off the board.
After the game, game official Karl Hess, speaking through a Marquette spokesman, said two points should have been awarded to the Huskies.
Said Hess: "Based on Rule 5, Section 1, Article 3 (of the NCAA rule book), when the official permits a team to go in the wrong direction, and then the error is discovered, all activity and time consumed shall count as though each team had gone in the proper direction."
That's not what officials told both coaches, though.
"The refs said they just would award them the basketball because Shabazz shot on the wrong basket, and they goaltended," Ollie said. "It was just some fluke. It wasn't the deciding factor of the game, but it started the overtime in kind of a bizarre way."
Autry joked about it after the game.
"The old turnaround trick ." the Marquette coach said, smiling. "I had it worked out where we were going to get the ball and the points on our goal-tend, and they didn't see it that way. . They said it was an illegal shot, and I think what they ultimately did is they reverted back to an old elementary school do-over. He was just like, 'Uh, it's your ball, and we're going that way. So be quiet now.' So I was just quiet."
Cadougan "officially" opened the overtime with a runner to make it 71-69, but UConn's Omar Calhoun sank a 3-pointer to make it 72-71 with 3:16 left. Vander Blue's 3-pointer with 1:41 left put the Golden Eagles ahead to stay at 74-72, and Wilson's layup put the Golden Eagles up 76-72 with 47 seconds remaining.
Napier made a layup to cut it back to two points, and Cadougan made a free throw with 33 seconds to go. Napier's shot at a tying 3-pointer missed with 18 seconds left, and Wilson made a free throw and Trent Lockett added two more as Marquette wrapped it up.
The Golden Eagles haven't lost at home since Vanderbilt beat them 74-57 on Dec. 29, 2011.
"We let them bully us in the first half," Napier said. "I think that's where we kind of messed up. The second half, I think we did so much better, rebounding and hitting them first. In overtime, we totally were out of it."
Marquette led 30-27 at halftime and scored the first seven points of the second half, but the Huskies cut it to 40-38 on a layup by DeAndre Daniels.
The Golden Eagles used a 12-4 run to open a 52-42 lead with 12:10 left. But Connecticut and Napier responded, with the junior guard scoring 11 straight points — three 3-pointers and two free throws — to tie the game at 57 with 7:23 remaining. A free throw by Tyler Olander with 6:46 left gave the Huskies their first lead since the opening minutes.
Both teams struggled to score down the stretch.
Connecticut took a 67-66 lead on a tough runner by Boatright with 3:36 left, and the Huskies made it 69-66 with 5.9 seconds left on Boatright's jumper from the top of the key with the shot clock winding down. Not using a timeout, Cadougan then took the inbounds pass, dribbled to the right wing and sank a 3-pointer over Boatright from well outside the arc. Marquette had gone more than 5 minutes without a basket before the shot.
"I didn't have a chance to tell Boatright to foul," Ollie said. "He took a great 3-point shot — 35-footer, it went in. We had a chance in overtime, just came up short tonight."
"To get down twice by 10 in this type of atmosphere and come back, it shows a lot of fight that our guys got," Ollie added. "Especially in the second half, I challenged them, and they stepped up to the challenge. We got beat tonight on a 3-point shot to send it into overtime."
Napier took responsibility for the breakdown on the game-tying shot.
"That's me and Boatright's fault," he said. "We should have thought of that (fouling Cadougan) as soon as (Boatright) knocked down the shot. But I was so intense and so passionate about (Boatright's) shot that he made that I just zoned out. I forgot how much time was left and I forgot that we could foul him, get him on the line and hopefully they miss and we get a rebound."
Autry said he was not surprised they didn't foul, given the Golden Eagles' 3-point woes.
"They feel pretty confident that you're not going to hit a shot," he said. "Junior is just a winner. What Junior really does well is win games."
Marquette outrebounded Connecticut 41-31. And with Gardner's 18 off the bench, Marquette's reserves outscored Connecticut's 41-11.
Ollie's deal, which began Monday, was announced on Saturday when UConn beat Washington 61-53.
Ollie replaced Jim Calhoun on Sept. 13. Calhoun, who won three NCAA championships at Connecticut, retired with 873 career wins, the sixth most all time, in 1,253 games, which is the third highest total. Ollie initially signed a seven-month contract set to expire in March before UConn rewarded its former star guard for the Huskies' surprising 10-2 start.


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The New Yorker Reviews the Kindle: "Buy an iPod Touch"
Novelist Nicholson Baker, whose first book was about a man riding an escalator, and who spends a lot of time thinking and writing about the future of reading, tackles the Kindle in this week's New Yorker. He devotes 6,219 words to the subject, and if you've got the time (it's summer!), they're worth reading.
If you're in a rush, the takeaway is that he's not very impressed with Amazon's (AMZN) device, and that all things being equal, he thinks Apple's e-reader is at least as good. He's not talking about the yet-to-appear iTablet, of course. Like a lot of other people, he's fond of Apple's (AAPL) current iPhone/iPod touch line:
Amazon, with its listmania lists and its sometimes inspired recommendations and its innumerable fascinating reviews, is very good at selling things. It isn't so good, to date anyway, at making things. But, fortunately, if you want to read electronic books there's another way to go. Here's what you do. Buy an iPod Touch (it costs seventy dollars less than the Kindle 2, even after the Kindle's price was recently cut), or buy an iPhone, and load the free "Kindle for iPod" application onto it.
Oddly, Baker doesn't make a reference to Kindlegate, even though the story broke a couple of weeks ago. If you're looking for a summary of where things stand on that one and have five minutes to spare, you can listen in to the chat I had with NPR's "On the Media," which aired over the weekend. You can hear the full show here.
One last note: I'm stepping out for a couple weeks and going semi-off the grid, so if all goes well you won't be hearing from me till the second week of August. If all goes really well, I may even read an ink-and-paper book. Meantime there will be plenty of fresh new stuff from Walt, Kara, John and Katie over at the mothership. See you soonish.


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The bulk of Orleans takes place over three days, starting on October 30, 2056. We have already been given a list of the catastrophic hurricanes that took place in the Delta region after Katrina. The most deadly was Hurricane Jesus on October 20, 2019 with an estimated death count of 8,000.
"After the storm deaths came other casualties: deaths by debris, cuts, tetanus, or loss of blood; suicide; heart attacks caused by stress of loss, or stress of rebuilding, or just as often from lack of medicines used to treat common ailments. The list of no-longer-treatable diseases grew: diabetes, asthma, cancer. Domestic violence rose, along with murder.
Then came the Fever.
And the Quarantine."
We follow two characters as their seemingly different lives come together in a common goal. Fen de la Guerre is a teenage O Positive girl living in the quarantined city of Orleans, formerly New Orleans, that has been so ravaged by the incurable Delta Fever that the United States has literally walled off the Delta region and declared itself separate from the quarantined area. The Fever is in the air, the water, the blood. The way to survive longer is to live in tribes ("tribe is life") that are ordered by blood type so that you can carry the disease without succumbing to it. Fen has learned to navigate this treacherous world by being "known for her fierceness," in spite of the past that haunts her.
Daniel is a young scientist from the Outer States who has devoted his life to finding a cure for the Fever that took his younger brother's life. He works for the military and has managed to engineer a virus that will attack the Fever and destroy it…along with the person who carries it. Daniel fears that the government will use this as a weapon in order to reclaim the natural resources of the Delta. He decides to take all his research with him over the wall into Orleans to find a cure.
The "tribe speak" that Fen uses can be challenging at first, but you will inevitably become sucked into this world as Fen and Daniel fight for their lives and also fight for something much bigger than themselves.


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Funeral services for Mildred "Midge" Posey, a longtime Cortez resident, were Saturday, November 15 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Empire Street Chapel. Interment followed at the Cortez Cemetery.
Mildred, better known as Midge, was born June 27, 1911 in Monticello, UT the youngest daughter of Parley Rogerson and Edith Alvilda (Bayles) Butt's five children. She passed away at Valley Inn Nursing Home in Mancos on Saturday, November 8, 2008 at the age of 97.
Midge's father, Parley, was an early scout/colonizer. At seventeen years old, he was part of a group of Mormons that formed the Hole in the Rock Expedition to settle and establish Bluff in southern Utah.
Later, he was one the founders of Monticello. In 1918, Midge's family moved to Dove Creek where they were associated with the mercantile business. The two-story store was named P.R. Butt and Sons. The building still stands today and can be seen on Highway 491 in the middle of Dove Creek.
Her mother spent long hours in the store so Midge's sister, Alma, who was ten years older, was her care giver.
In May of 1928, just shy of her 17th birthday, Midge eloped with Harvey Posey and her brother, Clark and his girlfriend to Dolores, where a preacher agreed to marry them.
Midge and Harvey settled in Dove Creek where two children were born, Walter Leo and Myrlene. In 1933, the family moved to Cortez. It was during the Depression years but Harvey was one of the fortunate ones who had a job working for the State Highway Department. In 1956, they adopted a little girl, Patricia Jane.
Midge was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She loved people and was always interested in them. Her other interests were fishing, gardening, crocheting, traveling, and above all, family.
Surviving Midge are her children, Walter Leo Posey of Cottonwood, AZ, Myrlene Harris and husband, Lavell of Cortez, and Jane Hafen and husband, Jeff of Henderson, Nev.; 14 grandchildren; and 31 great-grandchildren. Midge is preceded in death by her parents; and by all of her siblings.
Services are under the direction of Ertel Funeral Home. For further information or to send condolences, log on to www.ertelfuneralhome.com and click on the obituary section.


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One of the immutable facts of business is that employees and clients do not like change. Business management however, is an evolving process and needs to be periodically transformed in order to maximize growth.
The goals of this growth can be to increase a customer base, to achieve larger financial targets or to be known as leaders within the industry. Regardless of the goals, some sort of progression or transformation needs to take place, within an organisation, for these goals to be reached.
Organisation change management cannot take place unless the people involved are on-board. This means that managers need an armoury of change solutions, which are effective in altering people's behaviour, so that they will effectively embrace the change management process.
In today's highly competitive marketplace, many organisations are moving towards a more decentralised workforce. This means that employees may work in satellite offices, at home or on the road, or even in multiple countries.
Trying to initiate change in such a disparate collection of work environments and workplace cultures, has made a difficult process even more complex and fraught with danger.
Add to this already muddled environment, the problem that business management changes, more often than not, lack a clear strategic plan and you have a process that is designed for failure. Planning for change involves not only having a practical goal in sight, but it must also include the education and training of staff or clients, as well as clear communications and achievable timeframes.
Simply announcing new goals or changes does not make them happen. The voice from high will not resonate well with those down below, particularly if there is no plan, no help and no clear reason to change. All that will result is that employees will become apathetic and disengaged or resentful of the entire change management process – if one even exists.
The ideal solution involves a progressive engagement with the change management process, where productivity towards a defined goal steadily increases, but within a set timeframe.
The most successful change solutions involve four key components, all of which must be in place for the process to be successful. Ignoring any of these steps will jeopardise the transition to change; certainly lengthening the time to completion and most likely bringing it to a screeching halt.
The management of organisational change is not a linear progression from one step to the next, it involves organic change at all levels of a company. Some of these four steps can be taken together, others will benefit from feedback and yet others can only be implemented after previous steps.
There are no rules when you are initiating change within an organisation, there are however, four proven steps that must be taken:
Any change must be fully supported at the executive level within an organization. If the managers and CEO do not vocalize their support and do not explain the benefits of the proposed changes to not only the organization, but also to the employees and their clients, then the process is doomed to failure.
Advocates for the change management process are essential for a successful transition. These advocates should fully accept the need for the business management changes and understand the implementation process. If possible, there should be two advocates for the transition period, one taking on a more project management role, driving the process and maintaining the timeframes and budget.
The second advocate should have enough knowledge and influence amongst their peers that they can actively campaign for the changes and help to speed up their adoption within the workforce.
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A State of Trance 550 pre-sale starts Nov 1st!
Those who attended the ASOT 500 celebration will have the show in Den Bosch still etched in memory. It was a party to never forget. Now that the 550th episode of Armin's beloved radioshow is coming up, it's time to look forward to the next celebration: ASOT 550 is about to land. And it's coming with a BANG!
The first date of the A State of Trance 550 world tour to be revealed, is Saturday March 31st 2012. The world's largest trance event will once again be held at the massive Brabanthallen in Den Bosch, The Netherlands. With 15 million listeners, divided over 26 different countries, you know that the show is going to be a true invasion of international dance music lovers. You can be sure that the line-up will be another pool of new talents, big DJ's and surprises. Though the line-up will remain a secret for now, Armin can reveal one thing: he'll play an exclusive warm-up set on March 31st!
One hour before the doors open, Armin will welcome the people who bought one of the first 2500 tickets for an exclusive warm-up set. So only the first 2500 are lucky enough to get one hour of Armin's music extra that night!
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After last year's successful tour of the 500th edition, for 2012 an even larger world tour is scheduled. This time A State of Trance is coming in bigger numbers, with more interaction with the fans in order to spread the love for the music all over the globe. There is no doubt, 2012 is up for the biggest musical invasion the world has ever seen..


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All in the Family Home: Record 57 Million Americans Living in Multi-Generational Households
Is your post-college 20-something still living in the basement? Why, yes. Yes, he is.
Driven by young adults, the share of Americans living in multi-generational households continues to climb, a new report released Thursday finds, a trend that accelerated during the recession but has extended beyond it.
A record 57 million Americans—or 18.1% of the population—lived in multi-generational households in 2012, according to an analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center, a think tank. The rate, up from 17.8% in 2011, has been on a steady march upward since its post-World War 11 low in 1980, when just 12.1% of the population utilized these arrangements.
"After three decades of steady but measured growth, the arrangement of having multiple generations together under one roof spiked during the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and has kept on growing in the post-recession period, albeit at a slower pace," Pew found.
The 2012 rate is still lower than it was in 1940, when one in four Americans lived in a multi-generational home. At that time, multigenerational households were driven by older people living with their children. But improvements in the health of elderly Americans, rising incomes and the establishment of Social Security and private pensions allowed more older people to live on their own.
In 1900, 57% of adults ages 65 and older lived in a multi-generational household. By 1980, it was just 17%.
Pew defines a multigenerational household as one with at least two adult generations, such as adult children and their parents. The definition also includes homes with a skipped generation, such as grandparents and their grandchildren.
The rising numbers are being driven by young adults, age 25 to 34. Nearly one in four young adults (23.6%) lived in these homes in 2012, more than double the 11% in 1980. That's partly attributable to the poor economic circumstances of young people, Pew said, noting their large loss in employment during the recession.
Anecdotally, lots of people know people with adult children still at home. Pew puts it thusly: "The declining employment and wages of less-educated young adults may be undercutting their capacity to live independently of their parents."
The report also pointed to a larger trend: the Millennial generation's delayed entry into adulthood. This generation is marrying at older ages, staying in school longer and declining to affiliate with political parties or religious institutions. By those lights, it makes sense that these young people are still comfortable living in their childhood homes. It's easier to live with your parents if you aren't married or already a parent yourself.
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Can it be that the Naschyfest is almost over? Say it ain't so! While I'll relish the opportunity to rest and catch up on the commenting and re-reading of a lot of the posts from this week, it'll be strange to be without the almost hourly deliveries of Naschy Glee I've enjoyed this week. But if this blogathon has taught me anything, it's that the Joy of Naschy is extremely widespread, and a little spark of it lives within us all.
|The Vicar, in his dreams
- Creeping Bride of the SHOCK! Theater blog admits her connection of the famous "Shock!" syndicated movie package of the 50s and 60s to Naschy's legacy is tenuous, but to use her words, "I just had to participate somehow!" Check out her review of Lon Chaney Jr.'s portrayal of The Wolf Man, with extra added Naschy goodness!
- At In it for the Kills, Wednesday Child takes her first bite of the Naschy cake with her review of Count Dracula's Great Love!
- Video Junkie closes out its spectacular series of "El Hombre Mofo" articles, with "Tom & Will's Top 3 Naschy Picks"! William S. Wilson and Thomas T. Simmons each offer their top choices of flicks that will initiate Naschy newbies into the realm of the PecSlaves.
- Samuel Wilson offers his usual dose of scholarly critical excellence in his consideration of The Devil's Possessed, at one of the web's must-follow movie blogs, Mondo 70!
- Vila Wolf trumps my Naschy poetry with her own Naschy-inspired short story, in which "Daninsky himself explains to us how he became a werewolf." Which time? Never mind, just read Vila's story, "The Letter," at her LiveJournal, Remember; I Hate You All!
- And, at Naschy Blogathon headquarters here at Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies, the Vicar of VHS started the day with a review of a truly unique Naschy flick, the 1977 drama El Transexual! Then he closed it with his own Vicar-ious listing, "Performance Review: My Top 6 Naschy Roles!"
In all seriousness, thanks to EVERYONE who participated and read and commented during this wonderful week of Naschy love. It's been bigger and better than I could ever have imagined, and I'm extremely proud of what we've all done here. Now I know what I had always hoped to be true--that Naschy's legacy will not fade from the earth, for he lives forever in the hearts of his fans. You guys rule!
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Four years ago, Kent Couch made headlines by floating through the clouds in a lawn chair hoisted by party balloons from Oregon to Idaho. He's going to fly again, this time with a buddy sitting on a second lawn chair at his side.
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"We can't hit above 18,000 feet (because of federal flight restrictions), but we can make a good run at, I imagine, 400 miles or plus" in distance, which should put them in southwestern Montana after an overnight flight, Couch said.
The flight will be a warm-up for another one planned for this fall in Iraq. The men had to scrub a tandem flight last year after Iraqi officials said they couldn't provide security for the liftoff from a Baghdad soccer stadium.
Couch has wanted to fly like a cloud all his life, trying bungee jumping, sky diving, and hang gliding — everything short of getting an actual pilot's license. Then he saw a TV show about the 1982 lawn chair flight over Los Angeles by truck driver Larry Walters, who gained urban myth immortality.
"It looked plenty easy," he said. "I saw this as the easiest way for me to fly."
His first time up was in 2006, when he got only 99 miles before the helium balloons started popping and he had to bail out. In 2007, he flew 193 miles before running low on helium and landing in the sagebrush near Union, Ore.
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Couch is waiting for his favorite anti-gravity style of lawn chairs to go on sale before putting his latest flying rig together with parts he buys at the local hardware store. The others were bought by a museum.
He will need more than 350 5-foot-diameter balloons filled with helium to lift the two of them, plus 800 pounds of Ballast — red Kool-Aid in 40-gallon barrels.
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That's according to a statement stock-car racing's governing body issued today, which it did in the wake of Keselowski's tweeting spree during last night's fire-delayed Daytona 500:
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Keselowski was tweeting during a red flag, so it wasn't like he was roaring along with one hand on the wheel while the other one tapped away casually on his phone. NASCAR's decision is being hailed for making sense, but the motive driving it is likely that NASCAR sees a chance to make something else.
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The finding suggests that hepatitis B already known to cause liver cancer in some patients may also increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of tumor. But while the study showed an association, it did not prove cause and effect, the researchers said. More work is needed to determine whether the virus really can cause pancreatic cancer.
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That informal rule, which bars a vote on legislation unless it has the support of a majority of Republicans, has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks to progress and consensus in Congress, and, in its own way, is even more pernicious than the filibuster abuse that often ties up the Senate. Under the 60-vote requirement to break a filibuster, at least, coalitions can occasionally be formed between the Democratic majority and enough Republicans to reach the three-fifths threshold.
But under the majority-of-the-majority rule in the House, Democrats are completely cut out of the governing process, not even given a chance to vote unless Republicans have decided to pass something. Since 2010, there have been enough extremist Republicans in the caucus to block consideration of most of the bills requested by the White House or sent over from the Senate. If President Obama is for something, it's a safe bet that most House Republicans are against it, and thus won't bring it up.
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This anti-democratic tactic, now known as the "Hastert rule," helped turn the chamber into a one-party institution that utterly silenced the minority. A post-9/11 intelligence reform bill, urgently sought by President George W. Bush, was bottled up by Mr. Hastert and his allies, who knew it would pass if Democrats were allowed to vote.
This was not a rule used by Democrats. Speaker Tom Foley allowed the North American Free Trade Agreement to pass in 1993 on mostly Republican votes, and when Nancy Pelosi took the job in 2007, she repudiated the Hastert rule, allowing both parties to vote together on legislation. For example, she allowed a bill to pass paying for the Iraq war over the objections of most Democrats.
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That's an attitude rarely expressed by Mr. Boehner. But if the country is to move forward on issues with widespread support — getting past the debt limit, immigration reform, gun control, and investments in education and infrastructure — he will have to let the two parties vote together on a solution.


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Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. But we know little about how their successors, the mammals, recovered and took over the world. Now, hidden inside ordinary-looking rocks, an astonishing trove of fossils reveals a dramatic new picture of how rat-sized creatures ballooned in size and began to evolve into the vast array of species.
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The New York Marathon is open to all-comers, you just have to be drawn out of the ballot. The race runs through New York's five boroughs and the streets are lined with two million spectators cheering you on. Here is my blog on Tips for running the New York Marathon from my brother, who learned a thing or two in his quest.
This is more like a shuffle than a run in places because over 2500 people are squeezed onto the wall in this race that has been going since 1999 and includes 5164 steps. You can also do a half or even the 8.5km fun run. But that's probably not going to cut it with your friends when you post your pics on Facebook!
This is held in Entabeni Game reserve in South Africa's Limpopo province. There are no fences and nothing to separate you from the wildlife (which might make you run faster). If you're lucky you'll see the Big Five: elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard, and you most certainly will run by zebra, antelope and shy giraffes. This is considered a harder race than Comrades, a notorious 88 km run because it's strewn with loose stones and steep terrain. The next race is 21 June, 2014.
This race starts south of the Thames at Greenwich and ends at St James Park, right opposite Buckingham Palace. You'll run through the Monopoly board of London's icons with over 35,000 runners puffing alongside you. Word is Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah is in training to make next year's London Marathon his first marathon attempt. The next race is 13 April, 2014.
This is where it all began back in 490BC. The story is that the Greek village of Marathon was being attacked by the huge Persian Army - but they won. A young soldier named Phidippides ran 24 miles to Athens to bring news of the victory. Some records then say he collapsed and died. But you can take heart that you won't be in sandals and you'll also be able to grab water and sustenance en route. This same course was run in the 2004 Olympics. The next race is 10 November, 2013.
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