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Below the fold is a version of my talk "Recent progress on the Kakeya conjecture" that I gave at the Fefferman conference.
Additive combinatorics is largely focused on the additive properties of finite subsets A of an additive group . This group can be finite or infinite, but there is a very convenient trick, the Ruzsa projection trick, which allows one to reduce the latter case to the former. For instance, consider the set inside the integers . The integers of course form an infinite group, but if we are only interested in sums of at most two elements of A at a time, we can embed A ininside the finite cyclic group without losing any combinatorial information. More precisely, there is a Freiman isomorphism of order 2 between the set in and the set in . One can view the latter version of as a model for the former version of . More generally, it turns out that any finite set A in an additive group can be modeled in the above set by an equivalent set in a finite group, and in fact one can ensure that this ambient modeling group is not much larger than A itself if A has some additive structure; see this paper of Ruzsa (or Lemma 5.26 of my book with Van Vu) for a precise statement. This projection trick has a number of important uses in additive combinatorics, most notably in Ruzsa's simplified proof of Freiman's theorem.
Given the interest in non-commutative analogues of Freiman's theorem, it is natural to ask whether one can similarly model finite sets A in multiplicative (and non-commutative) groups using finite models. Unfortunately (as I learned recently from Akshay Venkatesh, via Ben Green), this turns out to be impossible in general, due to an old example of Higman. More precisely, Higman shows:
Theorem 1. There exists an infinite group G generated by four distinct elements a,b,c,d that obey the relations
; (1)
in fact, a and c generate the free group in G. On the other hand, if G' is a finite group containing four elements a,b,c,d obeying (1), then a,b,c,d are all trivial.
As a consequence, the finite set in G has no model (in the sense of Freiman isomorphisms) in a finite group.
Theorem 1 is proven by a small amount of elementary group theory and number theory, and it was neat enough that I thought I would reproduce it here.
I've uploaded a new paper to the arXiv entitled "The sum-product phenomenon in arbitrary rings", and submitted to Contributions to Discrete Mathematics. The sum-product phenomenon asserts, very roughly speaking, that given a finite non-empty set A in a ring R, then either the sum set or the product set will be significantly larger than A, unless A is somehow very close to being a subring of R, or if A is highly degenerate (for instance, containing a lot of zero divisors). For instance, in the case of the integers , which has no non-trivial finite subrings, a long-standing conjecture of Erdös and Szemerédi asserts that for every finite non-empty and every . (The current best result on this problem is a very recent result of Solymosi, who shows that the conjecture holds for any greater than 2/3.) In recent years, many other special rings have been studied intensively, most notably finite fields and cyclic groups, but also the complex numbers, quaternions, and other division algebras, and continuous counterparts in which A is now (for instance) a collection of intervals on the real line. I will not try to summarise all the work on sum-product estimates and their applications (which range from number theory to graph theory to ergodic theory to computer science) here, but I discuss this in the introduction to my paper, which has over 50 references to this literature (and I am probably still missing out on a few).
I was recently asked the question as to what could be said about the sum-product phenomenon in an arbitrary ring R, which need not be commutative or contain a multiplicative identity. Once one makes some assumptions to avoid the degenerate case when A (or related sets, such as A-A) are full of zero-divisors, it turns out that there is in fact quite a bit one can say, using only elementary methods from additive combinatorics (in particular, the Plünnecke-Ruzsa sum set theory). Roughly speaking, the main results of the paper assert that in an arbitrary ring, a set A which is non-degenerate and has small sum set and product set must be mostly contained inside a subring of R of comparable size to A, or a dilate of such a subring, though in the absence of invertible elements one sometimes has to enlarge the ambient ring R slightly before one can find the subring. At the end of the paper I specialise these results to specific rings, such as division algebras or products of division algebras, cyclic groups, or finite-dimensional algebras over fields. Generally speaking, the methods here give very good results when the set of zero divisors is sparse and easily describable, but poor results otherwise. (In particular, the sum-product theory in cyclic groups, as worked out by Bourgain and coauthors, is only recovered for groups which are the product of a bounded number of primes; the case of cyclic groups whose order has many factors seems to require a more multi-scale analysis which I did not attempt to perform in this paper.)
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This is my second Milliman lecture, in which I talk about recent applications of ideas from additive combinatorics (and in particular, from the inverse Littlewood-Offord problem) to the theory of discrete random matrices.
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This week I am visiting the University of Washington in Seattle, giving the Milliman Lecture Series for 2007-2008. My chosen theme here is "Recent developments in arithmetic combinatorics". In my first lecture, I will speak (once again) on how methods in additive combinatorics have allowed us to detect additive patterns in the prime numbers, in particular discussing my joint work with Ben Green. In the second lecture I will discuss how additive combinatorics has made it possible to study the invertibility and spectral behaviour of random discrete matrices, in particular discussing my joint work with Van Vu; and in the third lecture I will discuss how sum-product estimates have recently led to progress in the theory of expanders relating to Lie groups, as well as to sieving over orbits of such groups, in particular presenting work of Jean Bourgain and his coauthors.
Recently, I had tentatively announced a forthcoming result with Ben Green establishing the "Gowers inverse conjecture" (or more accurately, the "inverse conjecture for the Gowers uniformity norm") for vector spaces over a finite field , in the special case when p=2 and when the function for which the inverse conjecture is to be applied is assumed to be a polynomial phase of bounded degree (thus , where is a polynomial of some degree ). See my FOCS article for some further discussion of this conjecture, which has applications to both polynomiality testing and to various structural decompositions involving the Gowers norm.
This conjecture can be informally stated as follows. By iterating the obvious fact that the derivative of a polynomial of degree at most d is a polynomial of degree at most d-1, we see that a function is a polynomial of degree at most d if and only if
for all . From this one can deduce that a function bounded in magnitude by 1 is a polynomial phase of degree at most d if and only if the Gowers norm
is equal to its maximal value of 1. The inverse conjecture for the Gowers norm, in its usual formulation, says that, more generally, if a function bounded in magnitude by 1 has large Gowers norm (e.g. ) then f has some non-trivial correlation with some polynomial phase g (e.g. for some ). Informally, this conjecture asserts that if a function has biased derivatives, then one should be able to "integrate" this bias and conclude that the function is biased relative to a polynomial of degree d. The conjecture has already been proven for . There are analogues of this conjecture for cyclic groups which are of relevance to Szemerédi's theorem and to counting linear patterns in primes, but I will not discuss those here.
At the time of the announcement, our paper had not quite been fully written up. This turned out to be a little unfortunate, because soon afterwards we discovered that our arguments at one point had to go through a version of Newton's interpolation formula, which involves a factor of d! in the denominator and so is only valid when the characteristic p of the field exceeds the degree. So our arguments in fact are only valid in the range , and in particular are rather trivial in the important case ; my previous announcement should thus be amended accordingly.
Today I'd like to discuss a beautiful inequality in graph theory, namely the crossing number inequality. This inequality gives a useful bound on how far a given graph is from being planar, and has a number of applications, for instance to sum-product estimates. Its proof is also an excellent example of the amplification trick in action; here the main source of amplification is the freedom to pass to subobjects, which is a freedom which I didn't touch upon in the previous post on amplification. The crossing number inequality (and its proof) is well known among graph theorists but perhaps not among the wider mathematical community, so I thought I would publicise it here.
In this post, when I talk about a graph, I mean an abstract collection of vertices V, together with some abstract edges E joining pairs of vertices together. We will assume that the graph is undirected (the edges do not have a preferred orientation), loop-free (an edge cannot begin and start at the same vertex), and multiplicity-free (any pair of vertices is joined by at most one edge). More formally, we can model all this by viewing E as a subset of , the set of 2-element subsets of V, and we view the graph G as an ordered pair G = (V,E). (The notation is set up so that .)
Now one of the great features of graphs, as opposed to some other abstract maths concepts, is that they are easy to draw: the abstract vertices become dots on a plane, while the edges become line segments or curves connecting these dots. [To avoid some technicalities we do not allow these curves to pass through the dots, except if the curve is terminating at that dot.] Let us informally refer to such a concrete representation D of a graph G as a drawing of that graph. Clearly, any non-trivial graph is going to have an infinite number of possible drawings. In some of these drawings, a pair of edges might cross each other; in other drawings, all edges might be disjoint (except of course at the vertices, where edges with a common endpoint are obliged to meet). If G has a drawing D of the latter type, we say that the graph G is planar.
Given an abstract graph G, or a drawing thereof, it is not always obvious as to whether that graph is planar; just because the drawing that you currently possess of G contains crossings, does not necessarily mean that all drawings of G do. The wonderful little web game "Planarity" illustrates this point excellently. Nevertheless, there are definitely graphs which are not planar; in particular the complete graph on five vertices, and the complete bipartite graph on two sets of three vertices, are non-planar.
There is in fact a famous theorem of Kuratowski that says that these two graphs are the only "source" of non-planarity, in the sense that any non-planar graph contains (a subdivision of) one of these graphs as a subgraph. (There is of course the even more famous four-colour theorem that asserts that every planar graphs is four-colourable, but this is not the topic of my post today.)
Intuitively, if we fix the number of vertices |V|, and increase the number of edges |E|, then the graph should become "increasingly non-planar"; conversely, if we keep the same number of edges |E| but spread them amongst a greater number of vertices |V|, then the graph should become "increasingly planar". Is there a quantitative way to measure the "non-planarity" of a graph, and to formalise the above intuition as some sort of inequality?
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It occurred to me recently that the mathematical blog medium may be a good venue not just for expository "short stories" on mathematical concepts or results, but also for more technical discussions of individual mathematical "tricks", which would otherwise not be significant enough to warrant a publication-length (and publication-quality) article. So I thought today that I would discuss the amplification trick in harmonic analysis and combinatorics (and in particular, in the study of estimates); this trick takes an established estimate involving an arbitrary object (such as a function f), and obtains a stronger (or amplified) estimate by transforming the object in a well-chosen manner (often involving some new parameters) into a new object, applying the estimate to that new object, and seeing what that estimate says about the original object (after optimising the parameters or taking a limit). The amplification trick works particularly well for estimates which enjoy some sort of symmetry on one side of the estimate that is not represented on the other side; indeed, it can be viewed as a way to "arbitrage" differing amounts of symmetry between the left- and right-hand sides of an estimate. It can also be used in the contrapositive, amplifying a weak counterexample to an estimate into a strong counterexample. This trick also sheds some light as to why dimensional analysis works; an estimate which is not dimensionally consistent can often be amplified into a stronger estimate which is dimensionally consistent; in many cases, this new estimate is so strong that it cannot in fact be true, and thus dimensionally inconsistent inequalities tend to be either false or inefficient, which is why we rarely see them. (More generally, any inequality on which a group acts on either the left or right-hand side can often be "decomposed" into the "isotypic components" of the group action, either by the amplification trick or by other related tools, such as Fourier analysis.)
The amplification trick is a deceptively simple one, but it can become particularly powerful when one is arbitraging an unintuitive symmetry, such as symmetry under tensor powers. Indeed, the "tensor power trick", which can eliminate constants and even logarithms in an almost magical manner, can lead to some interesting proofs of sharp inequalities, which are difficult to establish by more direct means.
The most familiar example of the amplification trick in action is probably the textbook proof of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
for vectors v, w in a complex Hilbert space. To prove this inequality, one might start by exploiting the obvious inequality
but after expanding everything out, one only gets the weaker inequality
. (3)
Now (3) is weaker than (1) for two reasons; the left-hand side is smaller, and the right-hand side is larger (thanks to the arithmetic mean-geometric mean inequality). However, we can amplify (3) by arbitraging some symmetry imbalances. Firstly, observe that the phase rotation symmetry preserves the RHS of (3) but not the LHS. We exploit this by replacing v by in (3) for some phase to be chosen later, to obtain
Now we are free to choose at will (as long as it is real, of course), so it is natural to choose to optimise the inequality, which in this case means to make the left-hand side as large as possible. This is achieved by choosing to cancel the phase of , and we obtain
This is closer to (1); we have fixed the left-hand side, but the right-hand side is still too weak. But we can amplify further, by exploiting an imbalance in a different symmetry, namely the homogenisation symmetry for a scalar , which preserves the left-hand side but not the right. Inserting this transform into (4) we conclude that
where is at our disposal to choose. We can optimise in by minimising the right-hand side, and indeed one easily sees that the minimum (or infimum, if one of v and w vanishes) is (which is achieved when when are non-zero, or in an asymptotic limit or in the degenerate cases), and so we have amplified our way to the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality (1). [See also this discussion by Tim Gowers on the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.]
Van Vu and I have recently uploaded our joint paper, "Random matrices: the circular law", submitted to Contributions to Discrete Mathematics. In this paper we come close to fully resolving the circular law conjecture regarding the eigenvalue distribution of random matrices, for arbitrary choices of coefficient distribution.
More precisely, suppose we have an matrix for some large n, where each coefficient of is an independent identically distributed copy of a single random variable x (possibly complex-valued). x could be continuous (e.g. a Gaussian) or discrete (e.g. a Bernoulli random variable, taking values +1 and -1 with equal probability). For simplicity, let us normalise x to have mean 0 and variance 1 (in particular, the second moment is finite). This matrix will not be self-adjoint or normal, but we still expect it to be diagonalisable, with n complex eigenvalues. Heuristic arguments suggest that these eigenvalues should mostly have magnitude ; for instance, one can see this by observing that the Hilbert-Schmidt norm (a.k.a. the Frobenius norm) , which can be shown to dominate the sum of squares of the magnitudes of the eigenvalues, is of size comparable to on the average. Because of this, it is customary to normalise the matrix by ; thus let be the n complex eigenvalues of , arranged in any order.
Numerical evidence (as seen for instance here) soon reveals that these n eigenvalues appear to distribute themselves uniformly in the unit circle in the limit . This phenomenon is known as the circular law. It can be made more precise; if we define the empirical spectral distribution to be the function
then with probability 1, should converge uniformly to the uniform distribution of the unit circle, defined as
This statement is known as the circular law conjecture. In the case when x is a complex Gaussian, this law was verified by Mehta (using an explicit formula of Ginibre for the joint density function of the eigenvalues in this case). A strategy for attacking the general case was then formulated by Girko, although a fully rigorous execution of that strategy was first achieved by Bai (and then improved slightly by Bai and Silverstein). They established the circular law under the assumption that x had slightly better than bounded second moment (i.e. for some ), but more importantly that the probability density function of x in the complex plane was bounded (in particular, this ruled out all discrete random variables, such as the Bernoulli random variable). The reason for this latter restriction was in order to control the event that the matrix (or more precisely for various complex numbers z) becomes too ill-conditioned by having a very small least singular value.
In the last few years, work of Rudelson, of myself with Van Vu, and of Rudelson-Vershynin (building upon earlier work of Kahn, Komlos, and Szemerédi, and of Van and myself), have opened the way to control the condition number of random matrices even when the matrices are discrete, and so there have been a recent string of results using these techniques to extend the circular law to discrete settings. In particular, Gotze and Tikhomirov established the circular law for discrete random variables which were sub-Gaussian, which was then relaxed by Pan and Zhou to an assumption of bounded fourth moment. In our paper, we get very close to the ideal assumption of bounded second moment; we need for some . (The power of 16 in the logarithm can certainly be improved, though our methods do not allow the logarithm to be removed entirely.)
The main new difficulty that arises when relaxing the moment condition so close to the optimal one is that one begins to lose control on the largest singular value of , i.e. on the operator norm of . Under high moment assumptions (e.g. fourth moment) one can keep this operator norm bounded with reasonable probability (especially after truncating away some exceptionally large elements), but when the moment conditions are loosened, one can only bound this operator norm by a quantity bounded polynomially in n, even after truncation. This in turn causes certain metric entropy computations to become significantly more delicate, as one has to reduce the scale of the net below what one would ordinarily like to have.


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Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said he expects to make "significant" announcements this year of renewable energy investments in Scotland where the question of U.K. independence is not hampering investment.
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A few tips to secure your school's ICT resources
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 | security
With the increase of crime in many of our communities, it is important to secure the school's ICT resources. Consider whether all of the following are in place in your school:
The ceiling: a favourite entry point for criminals – if your ceiling is not made of concrete, reinforce it with steel mesh.
The walls: if not made of brick and mortar, they must be built up to enhance security.
The windows: must be secured – a minimum requirement is strong burglar bars.
The door: a steel safe door, or a steel security cage, should protect the entrance to your school's computer room.
An alarm system: with motion detection equipment must be installed to protect valuable ICT resources.
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2011
The most important security aspect left out is people. This seems to be the biggest threat to security despite having everything else in place.
The other is a comprehensive insurance that is revised annually as well as a backup plan for when things go wrong despite all efforts.
Monday, 15 August, 2011
There is more to security than the eye observe.
Read all small print when signing up with Insurance Company. Cheap can also mean less coverage
Make sure 24 hour security armed response is reliable and registered. Test their service rendered.
Check alarm systems daily and inform the security Company immediately.
Alarm wires should be securely stored in iron casing and should not be easily traceable or accessible
Take stock of all hardware equipment per month/term (Inventory check), to secure that all items are still intact and accounted for. It is surprising how small items can disappear such as headphones or a mouse.
Secure all new or upgraded technology.
Secure the Safety of technology lab/rooms keys
Keep Laptops and data projectors in the Strong room after hours, if staying in a high crime area.
Secure laptops and data projectors through signing technology out, utilizing a daily log book, for record keeping.
Secure Internet expense, printing costs, through Acceptable user policies, in order staff and learners understand the consequences of irresponsibility.
Security concerning the Internet poses a big problem for schools. With the New faster Internet Broadband envisage for South Africa, more Global Internet traffic can harm safe Internet surfing. It should be communicated to School managers and staff effectively on hacking and safety measures to stop illegal or harmful surfing and high virus activity that can influence resourceful curriculum delivery.
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Petron, San Mig dispute 3-2 lead
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THEY AVOIDED a major embarrassment the last time out and by doing so, the San Mig Coffee Mixers also prevented things from getting out hand.
The Coffee Mixers try to finally surge ahead while the Petron Blaze Boosters look to retake the upper-hand when they clash again in the pivotal Game Five of the 38th PBA Governors' Cup Best-of-Seven Finals at the Araneta Coliseum.
The Coffee Mixers won the last game, 88-86, despite losing a 28-point lead. The great escape allowed San Mig to tie the series at two games apiece.
"A one-point win is the same as a 30-point win," San Mig coach Tim Cone said. "We were just trying very hard in the fourth quarter and saying we can't regret losing that lead."
Cone said Petron's performance in Game Four showed how deadly the Boosters are.
"That's how explosive they are," he said. "I'm just glad to be two-two at this point. We're looking forward to Sunday."
Petron trailed by 28 points in the first half and was even down by 23 at the start of the third period.
The Boosters put up a searing rally in the final half that saw them taking the lead, 77-73, late in the game.
They failed to complete the comeback after committing crucial errors in the dying seconds.
Arwind Santos, the season's Most Valuable Player, had a crucial inbound error in the final 21 seconds while Marcio Lassiter also didn't have the presence of mind to call a timeout when they collared a defensive rebound with less than three seconds left and the Boosters clinging to a two-point lead.
"This is a game we should learn from," Petron coach Gee Abanilla said. /EDITORIAL ASSISTANT CALVIN D. CORDOVA
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"Hand down this is the best SUV you can get in this class. It handles like you are driving a car. The amount of interior space is excellent. We didn't opt for the 3rd row as we diden't need it and by seeing it I feel it is a waste. We went with the Premium edition and loaded it up with a nice amoutn of options. Must have options are the Multi-Contour seats and the Premium Sound."
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"I have owned several BMW's (8 or 9) and have loved every one of them for their excellent handeling. This particular 2007 X5 has been the most unreliable car I have ever owned! It has to be jump started almost twice a week. The dealership has not been able to figure out why this is occuring. So they blame it on not driving enough. I drive over 10,000 miles a year which should be more than enough for any car. The car is once again in the dealership with the same problem. I didn't pay this much money for my car to sit in the service department for half the time I have owned it!!!! BMW needs to stand behind their product and fix the car or replace it with a new one otherwise this will be my last BMW!"
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"I previously leased a 2006 X5, and liked it so much that I decided to purchase a 2009 X5 when the lease ran out. Although I am not thrilled about some of the new interior design features, the ride, handling, performance, and warranty on this vehicle is unrivaled. In comparison to other SUV's, this one may feel like you are driving a tank, but the responsiveness when accelerating and braking are amazing. There is no effort to get this vehicle up hills at highway speeds, or emergency braking. The warranty (no maintenance costs up to 50,000 miles) gives the BMW a considerable edge over M-B or Porsche. Although it is pricey, I have already recommended this vehicle to family and friends. Even if you can get a good deal on a used X5, it is worth it."
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I forgot the first day of Death Valley, and there's some really cool stuff there too.
Just on the outskirts of the California/Nevada line I stopped to check in with my wife. I didn't remember any cell signal in Death Valley when I was there in 2008, so I wanted to stop while I could and update my wife who has supported my craziness thus far. She informed me that some of the ruins I had been looking for weren't very far away. So, I headed for a ghost town called Rhyolite, one of the largest, well preserved ghost towns in the area.
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Sadly, many of these buildings have fences around them, but not all.
Rhyolite was a classic flash in the pan and fell apart almost as quickly as it rose. It's fascinating to poke around the many dirt roads here, but watch your step.
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The Department of the Interior (Interior) is responsible for managing much of the nation's vast natural resources. Its agencies implement an array of programs intended to protect these resources for future generations while also allowing certain uses of them, such as recreation and oil and gas development. In some cases, Interior is authorized to collect royalties and fees for these uses. Over the years, GAO has reported on management challenges at Interior, which are largely characterized by the struggle to balance the demand for greater use of its resources with the need to conserve and protect them. Furthermore, given the government's long-term fiscal challenges, Interior faces difficult choices in balancing its responsibilities. This testimony highlights some of the major management challenges facing Interior today. It is based on prior GAO reports.
As GAO's previous work has shown, Interior faces major management challenges in the following seven areas: (1) Strengthening resource protection: Interior has not yet developed a cohesive strategy to address wildland fire issues as GAO has recommended in the past. In addition, Interior faces challenges in adapting to climate change and protecting and securing federal lands from illegal activities. (2) Strengthening the accountability of Indian and insular area programs: Having a land base is important to Indian tribal governments. Concerns remain about the effect of a February 2009 Supreme Court decision on the process for taking land in trust for tribes and their members. In addition, seven insular areas--four U.S. territories and three sovereign island nations--continue to face financial, program management, and economic challenges. (3) Improving federal land acquisition and exchanges: As the steward of more than 500 million acres of federal land, land sales, acquisitions, and exchanges are important land management functions for the department. The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act of 2000 has had limited success and Interior needs to better manage land exchanges and protect federal funds. (4) Reducing Interior's deferred maintenance backlog: While Interior has made progress improving information on maintenance needs, the dollar estimate of the deferred maintenance backlog for fiscal year 2010 was between $13.5 billion and $19.9 billion. (5) Management of federal oil and gas resources: GAO designated Interior's management of federal oil and gas resources as a governmentwide high-risk area in February 2011. Interior faces ongoing challenges in four broad areas: (1) oil and gas revenue collection, (2) management of human capital, (3) reorganization of the bureaus dealing with oil and gas issues, and (4) balancing timely and efficient oil and gas development with environmental stewardship responsibilities. (6) Generating revenue and enhancing financial assurances and bonds: Additional revenues could be generated by amending the General Mining Act of 1872 so that the federal government could collect federal royalties on minerals extracted from U.S. mineral rights. In addition, financial assurances and bonds from hardrock mining and oil and gas operations could be enhanced to help ensure the reclamation of federal land disturbed by these operations. (7) Improving information security: Interior has been challenged to effectively protect its computer systems and networks. The department has not consistently implemented effective controls to prevent, limit, and detect unauthorized access to its systems or manage the configuration of network devices to prevent unauthorized access and ensure system integrity. GAO has made a number of recommendations intended to improve Interior's programs by enhancing the information it uses to manage its programs and strengthening internal controls. Interior has agreed with most of the recommendations and taken some steps to implement them. However, Interior has been slow to implement other recommendations, such as developing a cohesive wildland fire strategy and improving oversight of oil and gas activities.
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Bureau of Land Management:More Information Needed to Implement the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013GAO-15-394: Published: Apr 16, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 16, 2015.
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Rural Water Infrastructure:Federal Agencies Provide Funding but Could Increase Coordination to Help CommunitiesGAO-15-450T: Published: Feb 27, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 27, 2015.
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Hazardous Waste:Agencies Should Take Steps to Improve Information on USDA's and Interior's Potentially Contaminated SitesGAO-15-35: Published: Jan 16, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 13, 2015.
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Environmental Satellites:Improvements Needed in NOAA's Mitigation Strategies as It Prepares for Potential Satellite Coverage GapsGAO-15-386T: Published: Feb 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 12, 2015.
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Huge Voltage Drain Problem - Ideas?
Today I noticed (according to the Xantrex battery monitor) that the batteries were being
drained at a rate of -40A.
The Xantrex also said the batteries were at 37% of charge, and at -275Ah (for 4 Trojan T125s). Normal high draw rate is -10 to -15A.
These are new batteries, installed 2 weeks ago. They were charged to 75% yesterday. I shut off ALL power (refrigeration, bilge fuse, main breaker, battery switch) and still the drain was -40 A. I started the engine, which normally shows that +40 A is going into the batteries. Xantrex showed -8A, and battery percentage and Ah still dropping. That then changed to -40A with engine still running.
I turned off the engine, and the voltage was 13.0, the voltage draw was -74A!!!! And battery at 17% charge. And this is with everything turned off.
The battery ground to engine looks fine. The bilge pump fuse was pulled. Refrigeration turned off. Still -40A to -74A drain.
Any ideas of what to check next? Maybe the Xantrex is wrong? It has been flashing "Charge Battery Full" all of the time, full or not, since batteries were replaced.
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Despite rising tuition and falling wages, college graduates continue to earn far more over a lifetime than a worker with no more than a high school diploma, an analysis of four decades of federal data shows.
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'Investing in a college degree may be more important than ever before because those who fail to do so are falling further and further behind,' says the report, released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Calculations, based on the cost of college, the wages foregone by being in school and wages after graduation, show that the return on investment for earning an associate's or bachelor's degree, about 15% over the past decade, 'easily' surpasses the threshold for a sound investment -- about 7%, economists Jaison Abel and Richard Deitz write in the report, titled Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?
Areas of specialization also influence earnings. Among workers with a bachelor's degree, engineering majors earned the highest returns, 21%, while education majors earned the lowest, 9%. Liberal arts majors posted a 12% rate of return.
The study calculates federal data on wages for full-time workers ages 16-64 between 1970 and 2013 for workers in three categories: those with no more than either a high school diploma, associate's degree or bachelor's degree. It also assumes that a bachelor's degree is earned in four years and an associate's in two -- not the case for significant numbers of students.
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The surface texture of this 1915 is virtually identical to the PCGS Proof 64 1914 above--a coarse grain matte with deep color. The color, though, is slightly different on this coin, being a couple of shades lighter and seeming to sparkle just a bit more than the previous year. If one looks closely enough and with strong magnification, one notices a couple of microscopically small contact marks (shiny spots) on the Native American's necklace and lower feathers of the headdress. These are so small, however, they really have no noticeable affect on the coin's visual attractiveness or overall desirability. More noticeable, and also of little technical importance, are several streaks of copper alloy. These are mostly seen around the periphery of the reverse, but there are a few seen elsewhere.
According to current population data (6/94) only 5 other proofs of this date have been so graded by PCGS, and NGC has only certified 2 in Proof 66 (4/94), with none finer by either service. This is a rare opportunity for the specialist to acquire the key date in this significant series at a small premium over what the most "common" issue will sell for. (NGC ID# 289P, PCGS# 7964)
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The Guinness World Records has confirmed there is no record holder in the UK at the moment but the previous oldest UK cat was 29. 33-year-old Mrs Thorne says, "It's amazing - he just keeps going on and on."
Mr Thorne, 51, got Mischief as a kitten in 1981. He has photographs of Mischief at just a few months old being cuddled at Christmas that same year. Almost 30 years later, Mischief is still an integral part of the Thorne family, and their 20-month-old baby, Skye, reportedly adores him.
"She loves him to bits," said Mrs Thorne. "When he eventually goes we'll have to get another one because she'll be devastated."
According to Mrs Thorne, "He may be 27 but he still manages to jump over the stair gate and he's round your ankles constantly for food. He's an indoor cat now, and he's losing big clumps of fur, but he's still going."
A spokesman from Guinness World Records said a ginger cat called Spike was the last feline to hold the title of UK's oldest cat but Spike died in 2001 and there has not been an official record holder since. He encouraged Mr and Mrs Thorne to contact Guinness World Records.
The oldest cat ever recorded is Texas cat, Creme Puff, who was born on August 3, 1967 and lived until August 6, 2005 -- an astonishing 38 years and three days.
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Do not go gentle into that good night
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"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle, written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and considered to be one of his finest works.[citation needed] Originally published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951,[1] it also appeared as part of his 1952 collection In Country Sleep and other poems.
The poem was written for Thomas' dying father.[2] It has no title other than its first line, "Do not go gentle into that good night", a line which appears as a refrain throughout. The poem's other refrain is "Rage, rage against the dying of the light".
Use in popular culture[edit]
- The poem was used as the text for the 1954 In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (Dirge-Canons and Song) for tenor and chamber ensemble, by Igor Stravinsky. The piece was written soon after Thomas' death and first performed in 1954.[3]
- The poem was the inspiration for three paintings by Swansea-born painter and print-maker Ceri Richards, in 1954, 1956 and 1965 respectively.[4]
- The poem is recited by the character Thornton Melon, played by Rodney Dangerfield, in the 1986 film Back to School where his English professor has him recite the poem to inspire him to complete an exam.[5]
- The poem is sung by John Cale on his 1989 album Words for the Dying.[6]
- The Doctor quotes from the poem in the 2007 episode The Shakespeare Code of the series Doctor Who, humorously warning William Shakespeare that he can't use it as it's "someone else's".
- The poem is referred to in the Matched novel trilogy by Ally Condie. The poem is given to Cassia by her grandfather, although she later destroys it. It is also referred to in the other books of the trilogy, Crossed and Reached.
- The first line is quoted in the TV series Adventure Time by Princess Bubblegum in Sky Witch.
- The poem is the inspiration for the Anaal Nathrakh song "Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Light", which appears on their album Domine Non Es Dignus.
- The poem is featured in the TV spot for WWE 2K15, narrated by John Cena.
- The poem is featured in the movie Dangerous Minds.
- The poem is quoted by Gene Hackman in movie Loose Cannons (1990).
- The poem is quoted by the band Chumbawamba in the song Rage, which appears on their 1994 album Anarchy.
- The title of the poem is used as the name of Episode 20 of Season 3 in the show The Vampire Diaries.
- Part of the poem is recited in episode 7, series 7 of Benidorm by the character of Glynn Flint.
- The poem is recited near the end of the song Two-Twenty-Nine by the band Brave Saint Saturn, track 11 from their So Far from Home album released in 2000.
- The poem is referenced in the song Sudden Life by Rise Against in their 2014 album The Black Market.
- The poem is used repeatedly by the character Professor John Brand, played by Michael Caine, in the film Interstellar.[7]
- The poem was used by Frank Gallagher, in March 2015, in the US series of Shameless (S5, E10).[citation needed]
- The line "don't go gentle into the goodnight, rage on against the dying light" from the poem is used at the end of the song "Somebody to Die For" written and performed by British duo Hurts from their second studio album Exile.
- In the episode "Fore Father" of the cartoon Family Guy, an ill Stewie Griffin tells himself: "Fight it Stewie, fight it. 'Do not go gentle into that good night,' to quote Bob Dylan. Wait, no, wait, Dylan Thomas."
- The line "rage against the dying of the light" is referenced in the song "Even My Dad Does Sometimes" by Ed Sheeran.
- The poem is used by the character Declan, played by Ewen Bremner, in the 2003 film The Rundown.
- It is quoted in the novel Heart of the Comet by David Brin and Gregory Benford.
- The epitaph of Amy Dyer references the poem in the second episode of the BBC Three In The Flesh, 2013. [8]
- ^ Ferris, Paul (1989). Dylan Thomas, A Biography. New York: Paragon House. p. 283. ISBN 1-55778-215-6.
- ^ "Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night". BBC WalesArts. 6 November 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ^ Keller, Hans (1955). "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas: Strawinsky's Schoenbergian Technique". Tempo (35): 13–20.
- ^ "Ceri Richards: 'Do not go gentle into that good night' 1956". tate.org.uk/. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ^ Dangerfield, Rodney; Fields, Greg; Snee, Greg (1986). Back to School. United States: Orion Pictures.
- ^ "Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Performed by John Cale (and Produced by Brian Eno)". Open Culture. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ^ "IMDB Interstellar (2014) Quote".
- ^ "Amy Dyer: In The Flesh Wiki".
External links[edit]
- The Life and Work of Dylan Thomas
- National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
- A short analysis by the BBC
- Read the poem and listen to it read by Dylan Thomas at poets.org


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