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Once a strategic trading post that channeled the flow of riches and ideas among countries situated along the South China Sea and places as far away as India and Rome, Vietnam has a fascinating history and an artistic heritage to match it. This lavishly produced catalogue will help introduce English-speaking audiences to Vietnam's amazing body of artwork, ranging from the first millennium B.C. to the 18th century. The authors begin by discussing, for example, the elegant burial jars, iron axes, bronze artefacts, and jewellery of the early Sa Huynh culture; the bronze ritual drums of the Dong Son; and, the jewelled gold pieces, excavated from the walled center of Oc Eo in the kingdom of Fu Nan.New scholarship investigates the trade in gold and Chinese ceramics between Cham and the Philippine kingdom of Butuan. The final section is devoted to art from Hoi An, once a major international port. Of note are the ceramic wares produced in northern and central Vietnam from the 16th to 18th centuries.


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'Pixels' is a lousy movie that sets gamers back 20 yearsScott C. Jones at Plugged In5 days ago
I wanted to like Pixels .
Or, at the very least, I wanted to not be embarrassed by it.
Even though gaming has been part of my career for 15 years now, it ' s still occasionally tough for me to admit I ' m a gamer. I grew up in the 70 ' s and 80 ' s, which was a time when being a gamer was a touchy subject. My parents never really understood games or understood my interest in them. This means, sadly, that there will always be a part of me — that oddball gamer/weirdo part — that they will never fully comprehend.
Now along comes a movie that slaps a big Pac-Man on its poster. It stars Adam Sandler, an actor my fussy father claims to have enjoyed seeing in 50 First Dates . When I said that I didn ' t want to be embarrassed by Pixels , what I was trying to say was this: I hoped this movie might somehow help my parents understand why their oldest boy has chosen to live his life the way that he does.
It doesn't.
On heels of scandal, eSports league will introduce drug testingChris Morris at Plugged In6 days ago
Cyber athletes might not juice in quite the same way as a UFC fighter or MLB slugger, but performance-enhancing drugs are becoming a big enough concern that one of the largest pro gaming organizations in the world is about to start testing its players.
The Electronic Sports League (ESL) has announced it will begin policing substances that could unfairly improve a competitor's performance.
"The growing visibility and popularity of eSports, as well as increasing prize pools, make it not only more tempting for teams and players to break the rules, but also more damaging to our sport as a whole when they do," the group said in a statement. "ESL has an ongoing commitment to safeguarding the integrity of our competitions and providing a fair playground for professional players. With this in mind, today we're announcing further steps our organization is taking, to determine and enforce guidelines and rules the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) at ESL events."
Review: Disastrous 'Godzilla' stomps all over itselfMatt Cabral at Plugged In7 days ago
A few hours into Godzilla , I'm engaged in what should be an absolutely epic monster-on-monster melee. As the iconic beast, I'm belly-deep in the ocean trading blows with King Ghidora. With a stretching skyline in the distance, military strikes raining down from above, and my three-headed opponent against the ropes, the stage is set for a battle worthy of the King of the Monsters.
Except that the ropes are literal: We're artificially penned-in by an ugly rectangular outline.
That's just one of the ways Bandai Namco's video game take on the fire-breathing baddie for the PS3 and PS4 is off base. Much like the game's idiotic, gung-ho military that are convinced they can stop Godzilla, I was continuously fooled by cool concepts ultimately sullied by awkward implementation, fun-halting flaws, and bad design choices. While Japan's government remained clueless — shocked till the very end that Godzilla was coming for their precious G-Energy — I smartened up much sooner.
Pro gamer celebrates too early, loses matchChris Morris at Plugged In7 days ago
Over-the-top celebrations are perfectly fine when you've won a big game. Just make sure you've actually won first.
That's a lesson one pro gamer learned during the Evolution Championship Series (more commonly referred to as EVO) this past weekend when he prematurely took a victory lap.
A player named Woshige was in the semi-finals in a tough Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN battle against a fellow pro named Ogawa. After a back and forth fight, Woshige scored a knockout and began strutting around the stage with his arms raised.
The problem? The game wasn't over. He still needed another victory to seal it.
He realized that a few seconds too late, rushing back over to grab the controller as Ogawa effortless pounded his opponent to win the semifinal. As Ogawa made his own victory lap, Woshige sat slumped in his chair with his head down, humiliated but chuckling at his own mistake.
10 awesome old board game commercialsYahoo! Games at Plugged In12 days ago
If you've ever fired up a decades-old VHS tape, you may have noticed that the old commercials are often more interesting than the shows you or your parents were trying to tape.
A memorable commercial is a magical time capsule, a portal to bygone hair styles, dated social mores, crude special effects, and weird theme songs. Here are ten awesome board game commercials (and quasi-board-game commercials) covering over three decades' worth of frenzied advertising.
Legendary filmmaker Orson Welles was obliged to do a lot of side gigging in his sunset years. When he wasn't , Welles even dipped his formidable toe into the games business. Here he is seriously classing up the joint while pitching the coveted early-80s electronic board game Dark Tower . Take a lesson from the maestro: that's how you phone it in.
This perfectly serviceable commercial works more as a nostalgia hit than as anything especially weird or funny. We're mainly impressed with the bluesy way the vocalist sings "Hippooooo" at 0:05, and with the narrator's punctilious grammar. (Does anybody say "whosever" anymore?)
This one is, um...nope. We're not going to say anything. Mr. Bucket, everybody.
Review: 'Rory McIlroy PGA Tour' misses the cutBen Silverman at Plugged In13 days ago
Move over, Madden Curse. Tiger Woods wields some dark magic, too.
What else can explain the drama surrounding Rory McIlroy PGA Tour ? After spending well over a decade slapping Tiger's mug on the cover of PGA Tour games, EA Sports decided to switch it up and distance themselves from the ailing pro. I suppose you can't really blame them. EA's in the business of selling golf games, so swapping the troubled Tiger for the top-ranked player in the world was a no-brainer. There is no fairer weather fan than a video game sports publisher.
But a mere ten days before EA Sports released their new golf game, McIlroy severely injured his ankle while playing soccer with his pals. It's bad enough to keep him out of the British Open and possibly impact his ability to contend at the PGA Championship in August, a terrible break for both the young pro and the company hoping his popularity will help sell some golf video games.
Review: Bloody the heavens again in enhanced 'God of War III: Remastered'Scott C. Jones at Plugged In14 days ago
I ' ve always been partial to the irate Kratos.
The star of Sony ' s God of War series is two things that most video game protagonists don ' t have the guts to be: he is angry, and he is blatantly unlikeable. Like a heel in the WWE, Kratos has no use for kind hearts or good wishes (or shirts, for that matter; Kratos is most at home in his dangling loin cloth and Florida sandals). Love him, hate him, or love to hate him, he is going to yell at Athena and pleasure nymphs and cut open demons regardless.
Kratos ' bloodlust has been highlighted in four original consoles games, three compilations, two PSP games, and one mobile phone game. That ' s a lot of murder, but gamers keep eating it up. The central genius of the God of War series is pairing highbrow subject matter (Bullfinch ' s Greek mythology, basically) with puerile gameplay. We ' ve been pulling the heads off of enemies in video games for dozens of years, but if the head happens to belong to Medusa? Well. Pour me another chardonnay, barkeep, because things just got 82-percent more sophisticated.
10 of the biggest duds in video game historyChris Morris at Plugged In15 days ago
We saw plenty of great looking games at the recent E3 2015 conference. And while some of those will indeed live up to expectations, every single one is just a few bad decisions away from disaster.
All too often, we convince ourselves that a game is going to be awesome based on fancy tech demos, early impressions, or the developer's pedigree…only to watch in horror as 50 things go wrong and it turns out to be a mess. Here's a look at 10 of the biggest busts in gaming history.
Duke Nukem Forever (2011)
The one, the only. Long considered vaporware, this ill-fated shooter actually got released. It probably shouldn't have.
First announced in 1997, Duke Nukem Forever was originally planned for a 1998 release. Ten years later, gamers still didn't have anything to play, and when developer 3D Realms downsized in 2009, the game was seemingly cancelled. But where there's a square-jawed, butt-kicking icon, there's a way. Gearbox Software swooped in and resurrected Duke Nukem Forever a year later, and it finally hit shelves in 2011.
Satoru Iwata: A remembranceChris Morris at Plugged In16 days ago
Like many gamers, I was shocked to hear Sunday night's news about the sudden, unexpected passing of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Just as Nintendo isn't your typical video game company, Satoru Iwata wasn't your typical video game executive.
It would be inaccurate to say Iwata and I were friends. We never discussed our families, we never met in non-professional circumstances, and we were often forced to do the pas de deux of a reporter and executive who have different goals in the conversation. But our relationship, which evolved over the course of many annual get-togethers at the E3 video game conference from 2005 to 2013, was definitely friendly.
What struck me most about Iwata was his enthusiasm for gaming and the benefits it could offer. That kind of optimism is hard to maintain when you're in a leadership role, juggling the constant demand from shareholders to improve performance and the many moving parts of a massive, multi-national company.
But in all the times we met, Iwata was never without passion — even when his detractors were at their loudest.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata dies at 55Ben Silverman at Plugged In16 days ago
Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo, has passed away. He was 55.
Nintendo announced the tragic news in a brief statement, listing his cause of death as "a bile duct growth."
Iwata's health had been declining for some time. In 2014, he missed the E3 conference in Los Angeles on advice of his physician. He underwent what was believed to have been successful surgery shortly thereafter.
Iwata's career began as a developer with Nintendo subsidiary HAL Laboratories, where he worked on popular Nintendo games such as Balloon Fight and Earthbound . He became president of HAL in 1993. Seven years later he became the head of corporate planning at Nintendo proper, a title he held for only two years. In 2002, Iwata succeeded longtime company president Hiroshi Yamauchi to become only the fourth president in Nintendo's history.
Greatly admired by gamers and peers, Iwata steered Nintendo through some of its brightest days. During his tenure, Nintendo released the DS line of handhelds — the best-selling video game system of all-time — as well as the wildly popular Wii console.

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Nextgen Networks will today attempt a "temporary" fix on a flood-damaged fibre cable linking Sydney and Brisbane after field technicians got their first look at the site yesterday afternoon.
A post-incident report obtained by iTnews revealed the impacted cable was buried about 1.5 metres under a dirt road running under a railway bridge on an enbankment.
"The railway embankment servered as a dam wall with the road under it acting like a river spillway," Nextgen said.
"It appears that the dirt road turned into a river such that the wash eroded the surface to a depth that exposed the cable which was then damaged from floating debris."
"We have now accessed one end of the cable and will commence digging (with heavy machinery) [today] to expose the other end, create new cable joints at both ends and then install a temporary cable for rapid service restoration."
The company said it had been assisted by local farmers; a favour it repaid by using the hired machinery to "do some reinstatement work on their properties".
Nextgen said that monitoring tests had determined that the cable and electronic paths were clear "on either side of the damaged area".
The cable, located near Thagoona, west of Ipswich, had been cut since Tuesday.
All traffic that usually ran across the cable had been diverted to coastal fibre routes.
iTnews reported earlier this week that Nextgen was also organising "wavelength swaps" with other carriers to combat the impact of the cut cable.
The company said that it also had one microwave service down due to flood damage.
Nextgen field technicians were also "doing a reconciliation of services with ODFs [optical fibre distribution frames] and electronics in flooded customer basements against monitored equipment that is showing outages."
An ODF is usually where the fibre cable enters a building.
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I'm having sporadic X freezes on my workstation, a quad-core amd64 system running Ubuntu Karmic. At random times, the X server will freeze completely ; neither the mouse nor the keyboard respond to anything. However, I can ssh into the machine, and all of the processes on the system seem to be working fine. I tried restarting gdm, and even though gdm claims to have restarted, the screen remains frozen, with no response to mouse or keyboard. The [Xorg] process as reported by 'ps auwx' is blocking (in the "D" state) and does not respond to kill -15 or kill -9.
This has been happening ever since I got this machine about a month ago. It's been quite difficult to figure out what causes it, since it happens sporadically (maybe once or twice a week). So far, it looks like the freezes tend to correlate with high CPU load on the machine, and sometimes it seems to happen when I am doing something that involves fancy compiz effects on my desktop (but not always).
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By Staff Sgt. Kathleen T. Rhem, USAAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2000 The Marines have sent a colonel to Arizona from Marine Corps Headquarters here to head the service's investigation into the deadly April 8 crash of an MV-22 Osprey.
The officer, Col. Dennis Bartels, is a CH-46 pilot who has investigated several aviation accidents in the past.
"I don't think that we could find anybody more experienced to head up the investigation," Marine Lt. Gen. Fred McCorkle, the Corps' deputy chief of staff for aviation, said April 11 in a Pentagon briefing.
All 19 Marines aboard the Osprey died when the aircraft crashed next to a runway at Marana Northwest Regional Airport, about 25 miles northwest of Tucson, Ariz. Fourteen of the dead Marines were stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., one at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., and four at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va.
Military pathologists began removing the Marines' remains from the wreckage of the tilt-wing aircraft early April 11. McCorkle said investigators will wait for that to be completed before recovering the aircraft's flight data recorder. "We did not want to disturb the bodies in order to get to the flight data recorder," he said.
The general was hopeful the "black box" would provide the necessary information to determine the cause of the crash. He explained the Osprey's flight data recorders are state- of-the-art and continuously record 227 different parameters, including airspeed, altitude, heading and engine performance data. "Any potential system malfunction should be indicated on there," he said.
The Osprey flies like a plane; its two swiveling wing-tip engines and rotors allow it to lift and land like a helicopter. McCorkle confirmed the aircraft was fully in helicopter mode when it crashed, not in the transition phase as had previously been reported. He said the crew chief of another Osprey landing nearby confirmed the transition had been completed. He also said the Osprey hit the ground before bursting into flames.
"There is no indication whatsoever that there was any fire before the aircraft impacted the ground," he said.
McCorkle said the two pilots involved were "very experienced," with each having nearly 100 hours' flying time in MV-22s and more than 100 hours in simulators. Between them, they also had nearly 500 hours' flight training with night-vision goggles, which they were wearing at the time of the crash.
He said the aircraft that crashed was received in January and had been flown more than 135 hours since. The Marine Corps has received five aircraft so far and is scheduled to receive six more in 2000 and a total of 360 over the next several years.
McCorkle was adamant the crash won't derail the Marines' Osprey program. "I think the nation absolutely needs the MV-22," he said. "I've personally flown this aircraft ... and consider it to be the best aircraft that I've ever been in."
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Correct spelling: matrimony
Definition of matrimony:
1) state of being husband and wife; " a long and happy marriage"; " God bless this union"
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A Tennessee man convicted of strangling a homeless Oxnard-area woman in 2011 was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole.
James Wilkerson, 37, was convicted in June of first-degree murder in the death of Sarah Overholser. The nude body of the 33-year-old woman, who lived in a van with her fiancé, was found Nov. 7, 2011, about 200 yards off Sycamore Cove in south Ventura County. A helicopter pilot spotted her body in the ocean.
Prosecutors said Wilkerson choked Overholser until she lost consciousness so he could take the van in which she was living while his then-girlfriend, Kristina Canell, held Overholser's legs. Canell, 30, a prosecution witness in Wilkerson's case, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced July 24 to 11 years in prison.
Wilkerson, dressed in his county jail blue and orange garb, sat quietly Tuesday as defense attorney Robert Schwartz argued for a new trial. Schwartz said someone unrelated to the case heard a trial juror on the phone describe Wilkerson as a criminal.
Superior Court Judge James P. Cloninger denied the motion and said the person misunderstood the conversation. Jurors were questioned individually about the incident, but none was removed from the case because of it.
"I see no reason to come to a different conclusion now than I did during the trial," Cloninger said. "Whatever was said ... I was satisfied it wasn't a comment by the juror that betrayed the jury about the case or being biased against the defendant. There is an abundance of evidence that warrants the verdict provided in this case."
An additional year was added to Wilkerson's sentence for a past offense. Wilkerson has served 637 days. He has 60 days to file an appeal.
Before Cloninger sentenced Wilkerson, Senior Deputy District Attorney Audry Nafziger asked him to consider the suffering Overholser endured.
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Cloninger also denied Schwartz's request for Wilkerson to serve his time at a Tennessee prison, saying he was familiar with the prison system in that state.
Cloninger said the court did not have the authority to make such a decision but that if it did, he would not exercise it.
"I was concerned about the way that system is run, and I am not confident that society would be protected from Mr. Wilkerson should he be imprisoned in another state," Cloninger said.
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This is the first of two volumes and, as you may guess from the title, it contains the commutative part of the whole project. The second volume has not appeared yet, and I hope it will soon, since it will contain material that is less frequently found in textbooks on algebra, such as the theory of Hopf algebras and Jordan algebras.
Each time I'm asked to review a book on graduate algebra, the first question I have in my mind is: what can I find in it, and what couldn't I find in the classical literature in the field? For instance, Lang's monumental Algebra is a milestone and probably covers more material than a normal graduate student can learn in one single course. So, do we really need a new book on algebra?
To answer the question, let me say that Rowen's book is definitely oriented toward the applications of commutative algebra to the arithmetical algebraic geometry; this is, I think, its raison d'être. The author cites the proof of Fermat Last Theorem as one of the major developments of the last thirty years, and thus as one of the motivations to write a new book on commutative algebra. According to this point of view, he includes a chapter, at the end of the book, collecting the basics of the Diophantine geometry of elliptic curves over number fields. We remark, in passing, that it would have been interesting to have a section on Gorenstein rings, which are relevant to the construction of Taylor-Wiles systems (one of the main ingredients of Wile's proof).
A valuable part of Rowen's book is represented by the tenth chapter, where the author offers a concise introduction to the fundamentals of algebraic geometry: algebraic sets, the Zariski topology, Hilbert's Nullstellensatz, projective varieties and their morphisms.
The text is also enriched by a number of appendices and supplements, touching in 2-3 pages on topics that are more advanced in nature: Gröbner bases, catenarity of affine algebras, class field theory, etc. Of course, each one of these topics would deserve a whole book for itself; I think, however, that it is advisable for a graduate student to acquire at least a basic knowledge of some of them. So these parts represent certainly an added value of the book.
There is also a chapter zero, providing a reminder on the fundamentals of algebra: groups, rings, polynomials, linear algebra and bilinear forms. However, the reader is assumed to be well-acquainted with such notions, and over a general field.
As promised by the author in the introduction, the material in the main text is handled in as elementary fashion as possible. The proofs are clearly written and there is no abuse of formalism.
It is a real challenge to write a good book on graduate algebra, because of the size of the field and because of its depth. Even some apparently elementary topics may require a special care, since several different approaches may exist and it is left to the author's taste to choose its personal path. As an example, consider the Jordan decomposition of the endomorphisms of a finite-dimensional vector space: one may choose to start with the notion of companion matrices, but it is also possible to proceed in a completely different way and give an algorithmic proof based on a variant of Newton's iterative method to approximate the roots of an equation. Both approaches are highly instructive and useful in practice, and many others exist. Because of lack of space, time, and human endurance, any author is forced to exclude from his book a number of proofs, remarks and complements that are really a significant part of the theory (unless the author is Grothendieck or Dieudonné and he wants to write something like the monumental Eléments de Géométrie Algébrique …)
I believe that Rowen has written a valuable textbook that will also serve as a reliable reference for many graduate students.
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Introduction xi
List of symbols xv
Chapter 0. Introduction and Prerequisites 1
Groups 2
Rings 6
Polynomials 9
Structure theories 12
Vector spaces and linear algebra 13
Bilinear forms and inner products 15
Appendix 0A: Quadratic Forms 18
Appendix 0B: Ordered Monoids 23
Exercises – Chapter 0 25
Appendix 0A 28
Appendix 0B 31
Part I. Modules
Chapter 1. Introduction to Modules and their Structure Theory 35
Maps of modules 38
The lattice of submodules of a module 42
Appendix 1A: Categories 44
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Chapter 2. Finitely Generated Modules 51
Cyclic modules 51
Generating sets 52
Direct sums of two modules 53
The direct sum of any set of modules 54
Bases and free modules 56
Matrices over commutative rings 58
Torsion 61
The structure of finitely generated modules over a PID 62
The theory of a single linear transformation 71
Application to Abelian groups 77
Appendix 2A: Arithmetic Lattices 77
Chapter 3. Simple Modules and Composition Series 81
Simple modules 81
Composition series 82
A group-theoretic version of composition series 87
Exercises — Part I 89
Chapter 1 89
Appendix 1A 90
Chapter 2 94
Chapter 3 96
Part II. Affine Algebras and Noetherian Rings
Introduction to Part II 99
Chapter 4. Galois Theory of Fields 101
Field extensions 102
Adjoining roots of a polynomial 108
Separable polynomials and separable elements 114
The Galois group 117
Galois extensions 119
Application: Finite fields 126
The Galois closure and intermediate subfields 129
Chains of subfields 130
Contents vii
Application: Algebraically closed fields and the
algebraic closure 133
Constructibility of numbers 135
Solvability of polynomials by radicals 136
Supplement: Trace and norm 141
Appendix 4A: Generic Methods in Field Theory:
Transcendental Extensions 146
Transcendental field extensions 146
Appendix 4B: Computational Methods 150
The resultant of two polynomials 151
Appendix 4C: Formally Real Fields 155
Chapter 5. Algebras and Affine Fields 157
Affine algebras 161
The structure of affine fields – Main Theorem A 161
Integral extensions 165
Chapter 6. Transcendence Degree and the Krull Dimension
of a Ring 171
Abstract dependence 172
Noether normalization 178
Digression: Cancellation 180
Maximal ideals of polynomial rings 180
Prime ideals and Krull dimension 181
Lifting prime ideals to related rings 184
Main Theorem B 188
Supplement: Integral closure and normal domains 189
Appendix 6A: The automorphisms of F[λ1, . . . , λn] 194
Appendix 6B: Derivations of algebras 197
Chapter 7. Modules and Rings Satisfying Chain Conditions 207
Noetherian and Artinian modules (ACC and DCC) 207
Noetherian rings and Artinian rings 210
Supplement: Automorphisms, invariants, and Hilbert's
fourteenth problem 214
Supplement: Graded and filtered algebras 217
Appendix 7A: Gr¨obner bases 220
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Chapter 8. Localization and the Prime Spectrum 225
Localization 225
Localizing the prime spectrum 230
Localization to local rings 232
Localization to semilocal rings 235
Chapter 9. The Krull Dimension Theory of Commutative
Noetherian Rings 237
Prime ideals of Artinian and Noetherian rings 238
The Principal Ideal Theorem and its generalization 240
Supplement: Catenarity of affine algebras 242
Reduced rings and radical ideals 243
Exercises – Part II 247
Chapter 4 247
Appendix 4A 257
Appendix 4B 258
Appendix 4C 262
Chapter 5 264
Chapter 6 264
Appendix 6B 268
Chapter 7 274
Appendix 7A 276
Chapter 8 277
Chapter 9 280
Part III. Applications to Geometry and Number Theory
Introduction to Part III 287
Chapter 10. The Algebraic Foundations of Geometry 289
Affine algebraic sets 290
Hilbert's Nullstellensatz 293
Affine varieties 294
Affine "schemes" 298
Projective varieties and graded algebras 303
Varieties and their coordinate algebras 308
Appendix 10A. Singular points and tangents 309
Contents ix
Chapter 11. Applications to Algebraic Geometry over the Rationals–
Diophantine Equations and Elliptic Curves 313
Curves 315
Cubic curves 318
Elliptic curves 322
Reduction modulo p 337
Chapter 12. Absolute Values and Valuation Rings 339
Absolute values 340
Valuations 346
Completions 351
Extensions of absolute values 356
Supplement: Valuation rings and the integral closure 361
The ramification index and residue field 363
Local fields 369
Appendix 12A: Dedekind Domains and Class Field Theory 371
The ring-theoretic structure of Dedekind domains 371
The class group and class number 378
Exercises – Part III 387
Chapter 10 387
Appendix 10A 390
Chapter 11 391
Chapter 12 397
Appendix 12A 404
List of major results 413
Bibliography 427
Index 431


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Principals of Law Coursework R.J. Carmichael Contents Introduction Brief Definitions Task 1- What Remedies does Mary have Against Tom Task 2- Spartacus Graduates with 1st class honours. Is Sir Harry Bound in contract to pay Spartacus? Task 2- Suppose Sir Harry had said "If you buy a suitable boat and trailer I will reward you with £1000". Is Sir Harry Bound in Contract to Spartacus? Cases- List of cases used. Bibliography- List of material used Introduction Mozley and Whitleys Law Dictionary1 states a contract to be, "An agreement between competent persons, upon legal consideration, to do or abstain from doing some act." For the purpose of this essay we will look at the classical contract model. This consists of three essential members:- 1) Agreement- to do something in return for a promise. 2) Consideration- exchange of something of value (but not necessarily of equal value) 3) Intension to be bound- to make a binding agreement, enforceable in law. Although they make up the essential members other requirements must be met. These include compliance with Common Law and Statute (e.g. Unfair Contract Terms Act 1997), or other legal requirements (e.g. age of consent) It must also be noted that the agreement requirement of a contract is split up into two essential components. ...read more.
goods to a person, stipulating that if they do not reply within a specified time (7 days in this case) the goods are accepted and payment of the noted amount is due (£20). But the Felthouse rule applies, and mere silence is insufficient. Control of inertia Selling is part of Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 19715 and amended in, Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 6. These regulations state:- "If unsolicited goods are sent to a person ("the recipient") with a view to his acquiring them..... The recipient may, as between himself and the sender, use, deal with or dispose of the goods as if they were an unconditional gift to him. The rights of the sender to the goods are extinguished."7 They Outlaw Inertia selling, and the recipient of such goods can treat them as 'unconditional gifts'. It is also an offence to request payment for such goods or services, punishable by a fine. To round up the case, no contract was entered into because the counter offer destroyed the £20 offer. Mere silence cannot amount to acceptance. And finally Tom is not required to return the book to Mary as she entered into inertia selling, so the law views the book as an unconditional gift. ...read more.
An offer was made in the form of an advertisement and the performance of certain conditions by the plaintiff, stipulated in the advert constituted an acceptance. In this case it was to pay £100 to anyone who became ill with flu whilst using Carbolic Smoke Balls as prescribed on the instructions. This case shows that acceptance need not be conveyed. As Sir Henry, in his offer, states that he will 'reward' Spartacus with £1000, a second case can back up the validity of the formation of contractual obligation. Earlier than Carlill v Carbolic several reward cases emerged. In the case of Williams v Cardwine (1833)13 it was held that published 'Reward' offers i.e. The offerer to pay anyone who performs the conditions of publications, and thus accepts the offer, must be payed the published sum. The only difference between this and the case of Sir Harry is that the offer is only to one person. In answer to the initial question, I believe Sir Harry is bound in contract with Spartacus, and therefore must pay him if he buys a suitable trailer and boat. Cases Hyde v Wrench (1840) 3 Beav 334 3 Felthouse v Bindley (1862) 11 CBNS 869 3 Tweedle v Atkinson (1861) 1 B&S 393 5 Lampleigh v Braithwaite (1615) 5 Balfour v Balfour (1919) 5 Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. ...read more.
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On the second day of political leaders' meetings at UN climate talks, ACT General Secretary John Nduna said the alliance fully supported developing countries' push to ensure that concrete, clear agreements came out of Durban.
Nduna said there were encouraging signs that Durban was moving forward. "But it is now up to those still dragging their feet to make sure that happens. If Durban does not deliver, we know who to blame."
Developing countries have given a stern caution that delegates must come up with solutions to alleviate the suffering of those enduring the worst effects of climate change.
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Opening display of the Ni Air Spectacular 2006 and the first time all 4 of the Stermans were in Northern Ireland for a display.
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Weed goes by many names, such as cannabis, which is the scientific name, marijuana, ganja, pot, grass and hemp. It was well established in many cultures for both ritual and recreational use. Weed as been labeled an illegal drug for over a century. In fact, Greece and Turkey made its use illegal from as far back as 1890.
Today, its psychoactive properties make it popular with people from many walks of life, from college students to musicians. It has been well documented however that using marijuana can have an adverse effect on the health. In fact this goes beyond the most obvious risk of lung cancer from inhalation of the smoke. The reverse however is the many studies and reports of its medicinal properties including pain relief associated with many serious illnesses.
The effects of this drug or medicine depending on which side of the fence you stand are highly debated. Because of the highly controversial nature of the discussions it is important to show views from both sides.
There is little doubt that weed has medicinal value. In Jamaica, the highly effective glaucoma drug, Canasol is derived from weed. In many countries medicinal marijuana has been approved for use for various ailments for pain control. It is also used in killing brain tumor cells helping to make surgery and treatment more effective and improving the prognosis for patients.
There is research which shows that ganja positively impacts alpha wave activity in the brain which is responsible in part for a relaxed state. Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London in the UK have also found that the same chemicals in cannabis that alter mood can also be used to control seizures and pain.
Some studies have proven that ganja helps to alleviate or lessen nausea for persons with cancer and in those having chemotherapy.
For those persons on the other end of the spectrum, smoking weed has numerous unhealthy side effects. The main ones cited are:
This is the main reason why most people use weed. The 'high' can incorporate many feelings and sensations. Marijuana has been shown to have not only a mind altering effect, but also to change ones mood. The experience of some users has even bordered on the spiritual. There is concern in many circles that in this state, weed smokers can be a danger to themselves and to others and should seek marijuana rehab.
While this is still being hotly debated, most studies suggest a link between long term use and the body's production of certain hormones. According to the Brown University website, excessive weed use can lead to erectile problems and lower sperm count. Women's monthly cycles can also be affected by marijuana use. It should be noted that marijuana use has not been shown to cause complete infertility.
Both those for and against the use of the weed agree that excessive use can affect short term memory.
There have been a few studies which suggest that smoking weed during pregnancy can affect the neurological development of children.
One thing is certain, the debate as to the effect of weed will continue for a very long time. Like anything else that can be abused, marijuana use can be good or bad, it all depends on the purposes for which it is used. There is no denying the great potential that this embattled drug has for treating various ailments. Sadly, the level of research needed to fully expose the benefits of the "holy herb" is not where it should be. This is possibly a result of researchers not wanting to get caught up in the debate about the risks associated with its use.
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I find the negative effects spoken of regarding: 'Women's monthly cycles can also be affected by marijuana use. It should be noted that marijuana use has not been shown to cause complete infertility.' Totally unfounded. I know people that smoked pot for over 20 years and had children without any issues or even a miscarriage. I think the stats stated in that section are there just to frighten women & men that don't want E.D. This information as a whole seems to all be disturbingly incorrect. I have never personally known of anyone that smoked only weed, to have gotten lung cancer. I haven't ever seen anyone having a 'mind altering effect' let alone have the high become almost 'spiritual' as this says. I've never known of anyone having an accident as the result of 'smoking & driving' as you see constantly with people that 'drink & drive'. I believe that people are in far more control when they have smoked, then they would ever be if they had been drinking. I also can say that as far as the article link above, "Can Smoking Weed Cause Weight Loss?" it says re: 'munchies', that it causes people to crave sweets, everyone that I know that gets hungry, wants something salty/crunchy not 'sweets'. I don't know where your research was done, or if any was actually even done. I do know your articles are so far off, they are almost scary. As though they are written by someone that is totally against the use of marijuana for medical reasons or for personal enjoyment.
I happen to have a severe chronic pain issue and it is articles like this, that make my chances of ever receiving medicinal marijuana next to impossible.
I have been smoking weed for about 25 years. I haven't noticed any side affects yet, but that my be a side effect. I really don't care if society rejects me. I am not a sheep that has to be accepted by everyone else.
please guys do proper research about dope before posting such things. the only reason weed has been made ilegal in the first place is because government cannot tax it, thus they are unable to make profit from it, as they do with ciggerettes and alcohol! weed by the way is less harmful than alcohol, so rejetcs of society???? lol, I don't think so!
I would not really smoke weed that shit can be used for good and bad so i aint trying it.
i think im about to start smoking. im 34 and mentally i been smurfed up since a child lol. so this is right on time for me. matter fact…where is the lighter smh.
STFU "Stupid Dope Heads" nobody asked you. YOU'RE a reject of society dumb bith
now i know i need to smoke more weed!!!!!!!!!
Hello, guys.I'm from Russia, The Ural. It's pretty hard to get to weed here, and if you are, that shit here is so bad, that you could have smoked green tea instead of it to become the same effect…I lived in Germany for 7 years and I do know what real weed has to be like… smoked joint there from time to time and, at last, what I wanted to say: I dream of that time, smoking really good dope…Here, in the middle of Russia you can only drink or become hard drugs abuser…Peace.
I have been smoking weed for 24 years and could not be healthier. I am currently living with a disease that weed has been a blessing for……controlling my day to day nausea and giving me the appetite to eat when my stomach is causing me grief. I really don't have memory issues (unless I am really baked and I lose the joint). I am also a very active sports player and have not had a serious effect on my lungs….and I smoke cigarettes. My doctor (off the record) encouraged me to smoke every day and it has helped me to prolong having to start medications and the retched side effects for over 4 years now. Bottom Line the government should fund and regulate this and solve the damn national debt…lol
People that smoke weed are the most dilusional people. An epidemic of stupid weed smokers has plaqued canada's west coast. All that propogate dilusional thinking should be condemmed. Those that smoke weed are rejects of society
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The materialisation of smart grids, between fictions and realisations
Gregoire Wallenborn
Thursday 03 May 2012, 1200-1400
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Department of Sociology/ Society & Environment, Lancaster Environment Centre
The development of the 'smart grids' has much practical and theoretical importance. Smart grids are partially speculative objects, not yet stabilised, around which many different interests are crystallising. Information technologies are supposed to improve the reliability and efficiency of the electricity network while integrating renewables. Many different actors are investing huge amounts of money in the electricity grids in order to integrate intermittent renewables and distributed production to the electrical grid, and to strengthen demand side management. Actors' interests are not always aligned and nobody knows how these interests will be exactly translated in material infrastructures. Engineers dream about a complete automation of the grid that would balance production and consumption at each moment. Economists think that the increase of available information will improve the efficiency of the actors, including the end users. As I reckon that smart grids are a too serious topic to be left in the hands of the engineers and economists, I would like to develop a perspective that would include transition and practice approaches.
The theoretical challenge offered by the smart grids is to find a conceptual frame where production and consumption are thought together and where elements of technology and market are combined. The electricity grid is indeed characterised by the necessity to balance electricity production and consumption at each instant, and by the relative disconnection between electricity and money flows. For instance, 'green electricity' has to be consumed when it is produced and not necessarily by whom buy it. Much of our energy future will be shaped by the implementation of smart grids, but there is a risk to create lock-in situations that would be counter-efficient in the medium term if the developed technology is not open and flexible enough. Besides the stated aims of efficiency, reliability and renewables, the energy conservation objective is absent. A 'smart consumption' would imply less consumption at peak times but could entail an increase in the total electricity consumption. However, all the sensible scenarios about future energy use require an absolute decrease of energy consumption. Today the future of smart grids is not thought within this perspective since it is the development of the current grid. Therefore I suggest that the transition towards sustainable electricity production and consumption needs to be framed in a practice transformation perspective. We are at the historical moment when a new sociotechnical system is emerging: is it possible to steer it? How to prevent lock-in situations?
The presentation in this first part expands on the description of the main smart grid actors and the fictions they dream about. In the second part I focus on the case of the smart meters which will be deployed in many European countries. Their promises, failures, dangers and opportunities are described. Beyond technological and economic fictions, I explore the conditions under which smart grids could be appropriated by users. I suggest that users should have free access to their consumption data, so that a sort of open source movement could develop. The appropriation of the electricity production and consumption requires the possibility to understand and manipulate the different objects integrated into the grids. I conclude thus with an alternative socio-political fiction in which active users participate to the materialisation of functionalities, usages and meanings of the new grids.
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Just as there are books of special functions, this is a book of special numbers. That's an oversimplification, and it's hard to describe the boundaries of this deliberately discursive book, but that does give you the flavor.
Most of the book deals with particular number sequences such as the primes or the Stirling numbers, with particular numbers such as square root of 2 or π, and particular shapes of numbers such as figurate numbers and algebraic numbers, but it also deals with number structures such as complex numbers, infinitesimals, and surreal numbers.
The book starts with a charming chapter on number words: English words that have numbers buried in them (my favorites: biscuit = twice cooked, and uncial = inch-high letters, from Latin uncia = a one-twelfth part). It then takes a meandering tour through all kinds of numbers, darting off into other topics when they naturally come up. For example, the Fibonacci numbers lead to phyllotaxis, and the algebraic numbers lead to the classical Greek ruler-and-compass construction problems.
The announced aim of the book is "to bring to the inquisitive reader without particular mathematical background an explanation of the multitudinous ways in which the word 'number' is used." I wasn't convinced that this goal would be reached. The mathematical formalism of the book is very small: really nothing beyond high school algebra and trigonometry. But the level of mathematical reasoning is often quite high, particularly in the combinatorial and geometric topics, and I doubt that the average reader, no matter how inquisitive, would be able to work through all of this unaided.
I think the happiest readers for this book would be mathematicians who know some, but not all, of the material presented here. They will be continually surprised and pleased by the connections the book shows.
Allen Stenger is a math hobbyist, library propagandist, and retired computer programmer. He volunteers in his spare time at MathNerds.com, a math help site that fosters inquiry learning. His mathematical interests are number theory and classical analysis.
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The Carnegie Center will honor the 30-year career of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader.
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Two Bridgewater Men Face Charges Following Dispute
Shortly before 8:00 a.m. on Monday, a 911 call was received from the residence of Christian Rotter, at 277 Boundary Line Road in Bridgewater, reporting that James Peaslee had just been at his residence making threats. The caller reported that Peaslee brandished a "stun gun" before leaving the property. Peaslee also lives on the Boundary Line Road. As three Deputy Sheriffs responded to the call, a neighbor called 911 reporting they heard gunshots in the area of the Rotter residence.
When Deputies arrived, they noticed the power line near Rotter's home was damaged and learned the power was out. Deputies subsequently recovered an AK-47 rifle from Rotter's residence that Deputies believe was fired at least three shots into the air, damaging the power line. Additional evidence was recovered from the scene and Rotter, 59, was subsequently arrested and charged with Reckless Conduct with a Firearm (Class C), Criminal Mischief (Class D) and Prohibited Possession of a Firearm (by a convicted felon) (Class C). Following further investigation, Deputies also issued a criminal summons to Peaslee, 33, charging him with Criminal Threatening – a Class D misdemeanor.
Rotter's felony conviction is from June of 1991 in Washington County (Rhode Island) Superior Court, charging Assault with a Deadly Weapon. Rotter remains at the Aroostook County Jail pending an initial court appearance on Wednesday.
It is not yet clear what sparked the feud between the two men, but the investigation is continuing. Luckily, no one was hurt during this unfortunate encounter.
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First of all, there's the name, which is Gaelic for "pretty stream." Then there are the dogs: two West Highland white terriers and two black Scotties. The more than a dozen cats, among them Scottish Folds, known for ears that fold forward and downward. The horses: Clydesdales, a breed developed in Scotland. Terry and Heather Galbreath, owners of the ranch, also used to raise Highland cattle, a long-horned Scottish breed.


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DPS, PEFNC talk charters, school choice
Two forums last week focused on the challenges charter schools and public schools have and what advocates for each type of school believe their option has to offer.
At Duke, as part of the Education and Human Development series, Durham Public Schools Board of Education Vice Chairwoman Minnie Forte-Brown, member Nancy Cox and Durham County Commissioner and former school board member Steve Schewel, said that charter schools are not the enemy but they do present a unique set of obstacles for traditional public schools.
"Charter schools are public schools," Forte-Brown said. "Every charter school in Durham gets money from [DPS] because they're public school students. I don't want to bash charter schools. I want to level the playing field."
But at the ICON Issues Confronting Our Nation -- lecture series discussion at the Levin Jewish Community Center, also held last week, Darrell Allison, president of Parents for Educational Freedom in N.C., said that public charter schools, private schools and home schools are giving families options when they are not satisfied with the public school system.
"We need every quality option on the table," Allison said. "When one design does not work for you child, we believe that you should have other quality options."
Funding is one of the key areas in the debate between charter and public schools.
Schewel said that DPS has seen a reduction of between $12 million and $13 million in funding since 2008. He said that DPS and other districts across the state have been allotted $15 per student per year for textbooks.
But Allison argues that funding for the state's public schools is either a "parade or funeral," noting that $7.8 billion of the state's 2013-14 budget is allotted to K-12 public schools, equaling roughly $8,400 per pupil in combined state, local and federal funds.
Services that traditional public schools are mandated to provide vs. what public charter schools must provide also are a point of contention.
Forte-Brown and Cox pointed out that charter schools do not have to provide transportation for students, hot breakfasts or lunches, and that they are able to reject students whereas public schools are obligated to serve all students who go to the public system seeking education.
Allison said that many parents of charter school students have established carpooling systems that ensure children get to school, and that some community groups use their resources to provide hot meals to students.
The demand for charters appears to be growing. In 2010, there were 100 charter schools but concentrated in 47 of the state's 100 counties, Allison said. The number was capped at 100 until the legislature voted to abolish the limit. Now there are 129 public charter schools in North Carolina, with 54 counties having at least one charter; that number is expected to grow next year following recent approval from the state's Department of Public Instruction. "This would help so many parents who felt like there wasn't a quality option, now have an option," Allison said. "You have those who say, 'Oh, the sky is falling' but that's just not the case. Again we're talking about 155 public charter schools this time next year compared to 2,400 traditional public schools. Even with those 155 public charter schools we're only talking about 57 counties."
One additional charter school was approved to open its doors for the 2014-15 school year in Durham, Reaching All Minds Academy. There are currently nine charter schools in Durham, with 12 applications awaiting approval.
Forte-Brown believes that the county has too many charter schools and that areas that don't have as much of a need tend to have more charter schools because, "you get more money per pupil. The money is not going to the rural areas where they can help because there isn't funding there."


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"People can take us seriously or not. I don't care," he told the South Wales Argus. "They can think what they want but if they don't it's at their own peril because we know we'll give anyone a game.
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"We have got some really talented players and we are mentally and physically strong so we're ready for the Christmas period when some people will drop off physically."