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Not really a comment – more a request… Do you have a brochure or guidelines regarding correct attire in different situations. Ie: business – formal – relaxed, etc. I'm interested in having information about the number of lapel pins on a suit coat that might be deemed appropriate, when a bolo tie is not appropriate, when formal attire should be called for as opposed to business attire, etc. Esquire magazine, several years ago, put out a small booklet covering the etiquette of attire that covered these areas and I am looking for something similar.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- I get the same question every day: Which Android smartphone should I buy? For the last year, my answer has always been the same: Buy the one Google's
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Three buildings collapsed in south Philadelphia on July 29, injuring at least eight people but killing none.
The collapses happened on Daly Street around 11 a.m., reported local broadcaster WPVI-TV. Residents on the 400 blocks of Daly and Wolf Streets were evacuated to the Taggart School.
Philadelphia Gas Works was called about a possible gas leak connected to collapse, but the cause of the collapse is not yet pinpointed.
Eric Gripp, sergeant at the Philadelphia Police Department, said on Twitter that people should stay clear of the 300 and 400 blocks of Jackson Street, the 400 block of Daly Street, and the 300 and 400 blocks of Snyder Avenue because of "possibly building explosion/house collapse."
428 Daly Street collapsed and two adjoining homes were seriously damaged.
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On 18th March I am taking Harry to his first show of the season (2nd pr 3rd ever, I think). I am leading him whilst her daughter rides him in the Childs First Pony class, and I will be doing some sort of In Hand thing first to get him used to the arena etc...
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He's very cute and I did my first in hand show when I was 10. Good luck with it, I gave showing up due to some judges preferring the dainter ponies to the heavier cobs and all the cobs were placed last :( But I might be showing Ruby :)
Anyway make sure hes repsonsive and he trots when you ask him to, make sure he stands still and doesnt paw the ground or try to bite anyone else. Make sure he looks as clean as possible :P Make sure he doesnt nap towards anything.
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College Hockey:Betting the ranch, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Northeastern
This past week I learned that I could always eat one more drumstick. But that's not material for this blog (nor, sadly, is it very surprising).
Onward, then, to the three Hockey East things I think I learned.
1. If I were a betting man, I'd have lost the ranch.
I'd have wagered every shekel I had on Boston College beating Holy Cross last Friday. Especially at home. Admittedly, the Eagles had lost to Maine at Alfond but that seems to be happening to everyone this year and was clearly the outlier in a 6-1-1 recent record. BC couldn't possibly lose at home to a 3-9-0 Atlantic Hockey team.
And I'd have put almost every shekel on New Hampshire beating a struggling Harvard squad last Tuesday as well. Again, at home. The Crimson had lost five of their last six while the Wildcats had turned around a rough start with six wins in their last seven. A cakewalk to be sure.
Wrong, again!
2. New Hampshire is back!
Clearly, the aforementioned loss to Harvard is the outlier. While it dropped UNH's nonconference record to an ugly 2-4-1 at the time — a mark that will do the Wildcats no favors come NCAA tournament selection time — it sure looks like a fluke now.
The Wildcats traveled to Colorado College this past weekend and not only swept their struggling hosts, but did so in impressive fashion, 6-2 and 3-0. UNH is now 8-2 over its last ten and appears to have recovered from a brutal 1-5-1 start.
A challenging home-and-home series with BC remains before the holiday break and poor performances there could wipe out a lot of the momentum generated in this recent stretch, but for now at least, the Wildcats have reassumed their accustomed place near the top of the Hockey East pecking order.
3. Vermont and Northeastern are a lot better than I've been giving them credit for.
Yes, I know I've said this before, but based on their recent performances, I still have to ratchet up my impressions of these two teams.
In the preseason, I picked the Huskies to finish dead last in the league and Vermont barely above them in ninth place. (The two sandwiched Massachusetts.)
Well, Northeastern ain't finishing in last place. No way, no how.
The Huskies' win over Notre Dame to take the Shillelagh Tournament won't count in the standings, but it shows how far they've come. They rallied from a 2-0 deficit to beat the 11th-ranked team on its own ice.
As for the Catamounts, their sweep of Maine gives them four straight wins. While both of this weekend's victories go in the nonconference ledger (their earlier split at Maine counted for the Hockey East standings), they toppled a team coming off a 7-0 demolition of Boston University and a 5-1 spanking of BC.
If you're going to discount Vermont's wins over Maine by saying that the Black Bears are almighty at home (where they're 6-1-0) while less than tame on the road (where they're 0-5-1), I will concede you that point. But then I'd ask, who gave Maine that one loss at Alfond?
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But traditional dance isn't all there is to dance from Africa. Lately, African contemporary dance has been lighting up international stages. Now, in a program called Voices of Strength, the Walker Art Center is bringing together five female choreographers for a weekend immersion in this new African dance.
What makes this dance different? To start with, African dance has a present as well as a past. Contemporary African choreographers draw from their vibrant traditions, but they also struggle in a world plagued by poverty and war, where despotic governments rule and widespread oppression of women is the norm. These choreographers address their world—and its relation to ours—in stark and dreamy images. In Maria Helena Pinto's Sombra, a lone figure feels her way with a bucket on her head, hidden yet spotlit. In Kettly Noël and Nelisiwe Xaba's Correspondances, Xaba, a beautiful black woman, dances with a small white puppet as carefully as a girl with her doll.
The choreographers in Voices of Strength also embody the future of African dance. They've trained and performed all over the world, and their dances reflect their education and worldliness at the same time as they draw from deep local roots. Stylistically, they exhibit devastating strength and whisper-fine grace, along with wit that cuts through lies to reach truths that are both dark and beautiful. Oct. 10–13. Walker Art Center, 612-375-7600, walkerart.org
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When 10-old Xan and his father Peter come across an orphaned cheetah cub, they name their new friend "Duma," the Swahili name for cheetah, and he quickly becomes a member of the family. But, when Duma is almost fully grown, to Xan's dismay, his father tells him that it's time to take his friend to his real home before he grows too old to survive in his native habitat. Xan reluctantly agrees, but their plans must be put on hold when his father suddenly falls ill and Xan and his mother must move to Johannesburg. When Duma escapes and pays a disastrous visit to Xan's school, the two of them must flee the city to keep Duma from being put into captivity. Not knowing where to go, Xan gets an idea -- he'll carry out the plan his dad had outlined, taking Duma home to a safe and lush place hundreds of miles across South Africa, over the scorching Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, through the Okavango Delta and into the Erongo Mountains. Entering the lush jungles of the Okavango Delta, Xan finds himself surrounded by danger -- lions, crocodiles and deadly poisonous creatures. But it's far too late to turn back now as Xan faces the true test of love, attempting to cross the wilds to return his best friend to his rightful home.
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Hope Davis, Campbell Scott, Eamonn Walker, Clive Scott, Alex Michaeletos, Sam Ngakane, Nthabiseng Kenoshi
- Directed by Carroll Ballard
- Produced by Hunt Lowry, Doug Claybourne
- Written by Karen Janszen, Carol Flint
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Just seconds after a concert begins, we know whether a performance will be exciting or not. Unfair as it seems, listeners respond intuitively to music long before the artful aspects of performance bring themselves to bear. Very often, that intuitive, emotional response is driven by the acoustical responsiveness of the concert hall. Even the world's best artists or orchestras cannot overcome the deadening effect of a dull hall.
In music, as in life, first impressions rule. To a music lover, the first few seconds of a performance can conjure a blissful reaction or leave one cold. To most of us, appreciation of artistry or wonderment at virtuosity is not what we crave from music. Even those of us who might rank as connoisseurs are there to feel, not to think, and when we don't experience what we hope for, we often leave blaming the artists or the art form when it is the hall that failed us.
Trust your own experience.
Have you even noticed while driving home that the music you hear from your car's audio system sounds more exciting than the live concert you just left?
Such an experience might prompt you to think that you are no expert listener, but what you feel when you listen to music is genuine. You can distinguish when music sounds exciting to you and when it doesn't, even though you cannot explain why. Take comfort in knowing that you are not alone.
The basics.
Among professionals, there is an understanding that while a musician plays an instrument, a concert artist plays a room. The room is the concert artist's instrument. When a violin bow scrapes a string, causing it to vibrate, the string's sound is colored and amplified by the violin which is, in turn, colored and delivered to the listener by the hall. Just as a factory-made violin is no match for a Stradivarius, some halls are no match when compared against others. The hall is that last critical link between the artist's fingertips and your ears.
With concert hall acoustics, understanding your own emotional response can be traced back to distinct acoustical qualities of the room. The excitement, or lack thereof, can be traced back to the size, shape, and materials used to construct the room. Exciting concert halls are those which exhibit excellent running liveliness. Let's explore the meaning of this concept – running liveliness – let's start with the fundamentals.
Within a concert hall, the sound you hear results from of thousands of sound reflections bouncing off every surface within the room. Sound can reflect off dozens of surfaces, but those sound reflections which arrive first and loudest to your ears shape your emotional and physical response to the music.
It is not enough to hear a pin drop.
When the musician on-stage creates the music, the sound travels directly to your ears, but it also reflects from various surfaces all around you in the room: walls, ceiling, balcony fronts, pillars, etc. Sound reflects best off of hard, non-porous surfaces such as plaster and solid wood. Some surfaces, like people and fabrics, diminish or absorb sound reflections. Further, the angle and shape of a reflective surface determines whether sound is reflected to you in one bounce or many more. The proximity of the reflective surface to you determines just how quickly the reflected sound arrives to your ear. It also determines how loud that reflected sound will be when you hear it.
For you to hear subtlety and detail within music, you need strong and direct sound. You also need an abundance of loud sound reflections that arrive quickly – generally within 1/20th of a second. When the path of these sound reflections is sufficient, the concert hall exhibits clarity of sound. Clarity of sound ("you can hear a pin drop") is important, but clarity, by itself, won't excite you. The truth is that it is not enough to hear a pin drop. The sound has to be more than clear, it has to be beautiful.
What makes sound beautiful?
To most people, beautiful sound is reverberant. Reverberance is how long it takes sound to disappear after we first hear it. We call sound disappearance the "decay" of sound.
Reverberation time was a hot topic in the acoustics world. Most acousticians would agree that the ideal reverberation time ranges from 2 to 2.25 seconds for symphonic music. Think about this: You only hear the benefits of a 2+ second reverberation time when the music stops! So, reverberance heard when the music stops is desirable, but it is not what separates good concert halls from exciting concert halls.
So where does that excitement come from within great concert halls? It occurs when we can hear the reverberance of the concert hall as the music is ongoing!
For sound clarity, we need strong sound reflections arriving within 1/20th of a second following the creation of a music note while the music is ongoing. However, our ears are capable of gathering much more information from sound reflections that follow different paths within a concert hall from the stage to our ears. We also know that abundant sound is being held by the space because we can hear it linger when the music stops.
So, when the music is ongoing, what is the influence of sound we hear between the early sound reflections needed for clarity and those that we hear reverberate when the music stops?
Our Brain on Music:
Decades ago, audiology (the science of hearing) experts learned that, at every moment, our hearing system collects information for 1/4th to 1/3rd of a second before it becomes overloaded. Our hearing system collects and integrates the sound it hears over this significant fraction of a second, then we use everything we hear to form our overall impression of the sound. Long-lasting sounds are often very pleasing. For example, the sound of an ocean wave is more pleasing than the abrupt honk of a horn.
Our incredible hearing system is capable of collecting information about a musical note even when an additional two or more notes have already sounded. Our hearing system exhibits what could be called "running integration," using all overlapping sounds to create our experience of the music. Hence, we can simultaneously hear and process the distinctive nature of a single note plus those abundant sound reflections that occur for the first 1/4th of second or longer. The potential for hearing and feeling the excitement within a great concert hall resides in each and every normal listener.
Running Liveliness
This is why some concert halls give us goosebumps and some don't. Good concert halls offer clarity, but great concert halls allow you to hear the reverberance as the music is ongoing while preserving clarity. In the parlance of acoustics, halls which offer the ability to hear the liveliness of the hall as the music is ongoing exhibit excellent "running liveliness."
How is running liveliness achieved within a concert hall? Those of us who design these halls must create a room of proper size, shape, and materials to provide both clarity and running liveliness. We must design the space so that a multiplicity of sound reflections arrive at your ears while ensuring that the sound reflections arriving 1/4th of a second or longer after the sound's creation are strong and audible. When we're successful, the music will be very exciting to you.
This is, by far and away, the clearest explanation of a very complex topic that I've ever come across. Great work.
Your article is fascinating. It also leaves me a little confused.
I'm trying to understand what Running Liveliness is. I get the feeling it is something significant and is not a concept I have heard anyone else discuss. From what I read in your article, and what I learned at the League of American Orchestras Chicago conference, I get the feeling that Running Liveliness is a combination of two sets of sounds: 1) the sound from the stage and 2) the reverberation.
If I'm correct, a note sounded diminished in a more-or-less straight-line decline, sort of like this:
Then once the sound starts hitting the walls, ceiling, etc, and you get a new sound caller Reverberation, sort of like this:
And Running Liveliness is the combination of these two sounds:
And this sound is what brings the music to life.
Am I correct?
Direct Sound, Engagement, and Running Reverberance
© David Griesinger
This note is inspired by a blog by Richard Talaske – http://www.talaske.com/?p=100 – where he describes a common acoustic experience:
"Just seconds after a concert begins, we know whether a performance will be exciting or not. Unfair as it seems, listeners respond intuitively to music long before the artful aspects of performance bring themselves to bear. Very often, that intuitive, emotional response is driven by the acoustical responsiveness of the concert hall. Even the world's best artists or orchestras cannot overcome the deadening effect of a dull hall."
Bravo! Talaske accurately describes the excitement and immediacy that some halls and nearly all recordings provide, and he is definitely correct in suggesting that this excitement is related to the combination of direct sound, early reflections, and late reverberation. He suggests that sufficient very early reflections – as early as 20ms after the direct sound – are vital.
But the devil is in the details: how many early reflections do we need, and what is their strength and time delay? How much late reverberation, and how strong should it be? What is it about the mix of direct and reflections that delivers both immediacy and running liveness in a recording, and why do so few halls do so over a majority of the seats? (All halls posess a few good seats, and the management steers VIPs and critics to them. Our goal is to get a great sound to at least 60% of the listeners. These halls exist, but are quite rare.)
Hall design is currently an art – not a science. Results from this art are similar to other forms of art; a few disasters, a great many partial successes, and very, very, few masterpieces. To put more science into this art we need accurate models of how human (and animal) neurology processes sound, and a wide body of data on occupied halls and stages. Neurological data is rapidly becoming avilable. Hall data is hard to come by. Hall managers prefer that their acoustics be mysterious and unmeasurable. Even with permission measuremements under occupied conditions are tedious for audiences and musicians. And occupied measurements are vital.
But Talaske points out that recordings – even heard on a car radio after a concert – can seem both more immediately engaging and more reverberant than the experience in a hall. The acoustic properties of recordings can be measured – if a bit of time is taken during the mixing process. And the properties of the electronic acoustic devices used to make them can be known precisely. (The author knows a great deal about such devices.)
If we look closely at differences between the acoustics of sound reproduction and the experience in a hall, we find the major difference is the strength of the direct sound compared to the total strength of all the reflections, both early and late. Recordings engineers start with the direct sound alone, and carefully add reflections and reverberation until the ideal balance is found. The ideal balance of direct and reflected sound and the delay of major reflections can be measured during the recording process by simply recording hand claps at the positions of different musicians, and analyzing the energy balance that ends up in the mix.
That balance invariably has more energy in the direct sound (the component of the mix from the closest microphone) than the sum of all the other components in the mix. Tonmeisters and sound engineers are convinced otherwise, as few bother to make the measurement. But when they do, the direct sound from the closest microphone dominates. In spite of (or more likely because of) the strong direct sound the recording is perceived as both exciting and reverberant. But by necessity in halls the direct sound is nearly always far weaker than the sum of the energy in the reflections. Otherwise the sound would be far too soft in seats distant from the orchestra. When the direct sound is weaker than the reflections it can become quite difficult to generate the excitement Talaske mentions – and surprisingly it is also more difficult to perceive the reverbeance. But it can be done – if the level and time delay of the reflections is favorable.
Even though the direct sound is much stronger than in halls recordings have something to teach us. In the era of the recordings Talaske mentions it was standard practice to move the orchestra onto a platform in the middle of the hall, in order to minimze the strength of early reflections at the small number of microphones employed. In fact, in these recordings reflections that arrive before about 30ms are quite rare. The majority of the reflected energy comes much later, and is relatively low in total energy.
The result is counterintuitive. If we want "running liveness" to be audible, why is it not better to have more reverberation? The answer is that the perception of "running liveness", or running reverberation, depends both on the audibility of the direct sound and on reflected energy that arrives at least 100ms after the direct sound. This can be demonstrated easily with a dry recording and an electronic reverbeation device (preferrably by Lexicon.) Reflections that arrive earlier are desireable – but when there are too many they mask both the direct sound and the desirable late reverberation.
The time delay of reverbeartion is important – but how can the brain peceive this time delay? Clearly there must be some clear event that marks the start of a sound – be it a note or a phoneme. This event is the arrival of the direct sound at the ear – the "first wavefront". But when strong reflected sound follows closely after the direct sound the brain is unable to determine just when the sound started. The direct sound simply becomes an inaudible part of the whole envelope of sound. The time of the true beginning of the sound is indeterminite, and it is also impossible to localize the sound through the interaural time delay or amplitude difference.
Ideally the brain separates the direct sound and the running reverberation into separate sound streams; one (or more) for the foreground, and one for the background. The foreground streams contain the notes or phonemes that carry information, the background stream carries the room noise and reverberation. The background stream has some special properties. It is perceived as continuous even though it is frequently masked by the foreground. It is also usually perceived as unusually spacious. It is the background stream that gives the perception of "running liveness". The separation process is started by the arrival of the first wavefront – the first 20ms or so of sound that arrives before reflections overcome it. When there is sufficient time for direct sound to be analyzed, information is provided about the location and distance of the sound source – even if the reverberant energy which follows is much stronger.
The audibilty of what Talaske calls "running liveness" depends on the success of this separation. Where the direct sound cannot be separately perceived, the forground and background blend into one stream. The direction of which is perceived as frontal and not enveloping. This is why a recording – where the direct sound is stronger than all the reflections combined – can have more running liveness than a rear seat in a concert hall. In a recording the reverberation is easily separated from the foreground stream, and can be separately perceived. The rear seat is reverberant – but not enveloping. And the excitement, or engagement, of the performance is missing.
Perceiving and processing the first wavefront takes time. If strong reflections come too soon, the localization and distance cues are wiped out, and the brain treats the direct sound, early reflections, and reverberation as a single stream. This author and several collaborators are currently gathering neurological data on the time needed for this separation as a function of the direct to reverberant ratio and the initial time delay. The data show that with syllabic sources such as speech most people can accurately localize – and thus separate the direct sound – even when the total energy in reverberation is more than ten times stronger than the direct sound. But for this to be possible there must be at least a 20ms delay before significant reflected energy arrives. The shorter this delay, the stronger the direct sound must be if it is to be separately heard.
If we look at hall data, either the rare actual data from occupied halls and stages, or data from models, we find that this criterion is seldom achieved over a wide range of seats. For example, in a typical shoebox hall the direct sound is too weak in more than 50% of the seats to meet this criterion. This is in part because the direct sound becomes weaker as you move back in the hall, and in part because the delay of the first reflections becomes smaller. In small shoebox halls (under 1500 seats) the time delay is smaller than in large halls, and the reverberation is stronger. Fewer than 30% of the seats meet the criterion. In the remainder of the seats the sound is reverberant, muddy, and not enveloping. A performance can still be enjoyable, but the acoustic excitement mentioned by Talaske is missing.
Some halls do work well. In the Amsterdam Concertgebouw the square audience seating area and the central position of the orchestra brings the average listener closer to the orchestra, while at the same time increasing the time delay of the first reflections. As a result the direct sound is easily separated, and both clarity and running liveness are strong. In Boston Symphony Hall the time delays for the first reflections are shorter than in Amsterdam, but the expected reduction in clarity is mitigated by the effect of the nitches and coffers in the walls and ceiling. These features reduce the strength of the first reflections in the rear of the hall at frequencies around 1000Hz, where most of the excitement of a performance is perceived. A great small hall – such as Jordan Hall in Boston – succeeds by bringing the audience closer to the stage than a shoebox hall, while increasing the late reverberation by raising the ceiling. Musicians on the forestage in Jordan are heard with clarity and reverberation througout the hall. (Musicians deep in the stage house are not so lucky.)
It is current acoustic dogma that strong early lateral reflections are the key to a successful hall, but this is not the case when the reflections come too soon and are too strong. A few great halls – and small halls like Jordan Hall, contradict this dogma. Reflections arriving before 20ms are few and weak. But this is not the case in most halls, particularly smaller ones. Geometric acoustics shows that as a listener moves back into a shoebox hall the sidewall reflections become both stronger relative to the direct sound, and arrive with shorter delay. In London's famous Wigmore Hall strong prompt lateral reflections in seats more than half way back both blur the sound and cause instruments to appear to come from the side wall. This effect is not typically noticable unless you close your eyes, but it is clearly there. We have found that in a small hall these reflections (and prompt reflections from the stage back wall) can be deadly, because they arrive very closely after the direct sound, and prevent the stream separation process.
In a series of recent experiments in a small hall, blocking these strong reflections by adding a few absorbing panels to the back of the stage and the side walls dramatically increased both the clarity of the music and the sense of the hall, in spite of the slightly reduced reverberation time. The musicians immediately heard the difference, both in the hall and on stage. One particulally experienced musician exclaimed that he had never thought about or heard the enormous difference in sound these modification could make. He was amazed at how what appeared to be such simple acoustic modifications could change the musical values of a performance so greatly.
A few recent findings: The ability to separate the direct sound from reverberation is at least 4dB better in the 1000Hz octave band than at other frequencies. So maximizing the D/R ratio in this band over a wide range of seats is an important goal. In a recent experiment with several subjects we found that direct sound band limited to the 1000Hz octave greatly increased the envelopment of reverberation in the 500Hz band, even when the direct sound energy was 14dB less than the energy in the reverbeartion. It appears that the increase in envelopment or running liveness occurs over all frequencies, even when the direct sound is only perceivable in the 1000Hz band.
The implications of this recent research are beyond the scope of this note. Readers interested in more information, and some hard data on the subject, are encouraged to visit my web page: http://www.davidgriesinger.com. The recent set of power points "The importance of the direct to reverberant ratio in the perception of distance, localization, clarity, and envelopment" contain some of the latest data on the separation process and propose a mathematical method for predicting its success from acoustic measurements and architectrual models. The author believes a thorough understanding of the effects of early reflections on excitement, engagement, and running liveness will both guide acousticians in improving existing halls, and greatly increase the success rate for new consert halls and opera houses.


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Oh man, so much yes with that second kimono girl. I already loved the first one. It almost makes me want to attempt a more realistic drawing. Almost. But there'd have to be a reason in me doing it. If I was a fashion designer like my mom is, then I'd get right on it.
Anyway, I love the face on her, and the colors are swell (ahaha, "swell"). It's not finished it appears, so I can't really say too much, but I do like what I'm seeing. Do you plan on leaving it mostly white? I think for what the picture is, that would work out just fine.
I dunno what to say for your Larvitar that I haven't already said via VM. Although, didn't you say those weren't yours? Now I'm confused. Maybe I missed the intepretation somewhere. I think the easiest thing to do, though, is more or less to have something evolve naturally. It's one thing to make a character for a medium. It's another to have a general representation. I'm sure Musical Combusken, for example, appears to be Anastasia do a degree, but is her own entity as well, nevertheless with a characterization based on a real person, which makes her more exciting than if she was just filling a role.
Alright. It's like Woody from Toy Story compared to Ronald McDonald, who's sole purpose is to shill unhealthy hamburgers to little kids.
It's about empathy, really. I'm doing a whole study on this for my thesis, actually, related to why I feel people are quicker to believe fictional characters from animated films, especially from Disney/Pixar works are a lot more real and alive than video game characters, regardless of how much mocap and realistic textures we use. Something like that. Still working it out.
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I been so busy and stressed lately. I hadn't even realized that it has been so long since I last wrote. We had our second meet the teacher this week. We already met!! We shouldn't have had two...but we did...oh well. It just made the week seem really long. I am still struggling with accepting the school situation. I am letting it affect me too much. I have been thinking over the last two days that I need to pull myself out of this funk before it gets out of hand. A little over a year ago, I knew I was dealing with depression and had to see the doctor about getting on some medicine so that it wouldn't get out of control. My dad has dealt with it most of his life and he has been hospitalized several times from it. He has had to seek severe treatment and is still on medicine for it. I have seen some (not even all) of what he has been through with it and I don't want myself or my children going through that. That is why the first go around I saw my doctor about it. I don't feel like this bout is as bad, but it is slowly getting worse I am noticing. Things that aren't that bad and shouldn't affect me as much seem like the end of the world. I cry for no real reason at all. No legitimate reason. I don't do it as much as I was last year, but it is becoming more frequent.
I am searching within myself, trying to use rational and cognitive thinking, and looking towards God for help. Since moving up here after getting married, I never found a church where I felt at home. My husband's church wasn't bad, but I didn't connect with the sermons or feel right there. I felt judged a bit. We both went a few times, but he had his own concerns with that church and we stopped going. My children attend an awesome daycare that is in a church and they learn so much about the Lord there. My daughter is in her last year there in their Kindergarten program. In first grade, she will start public school and won't be getting that church influence from school anymore so I feel it is important that we find a church over the next year. I got my family to visit a church with me last weekend, thinking maybe that would help. It was another nice church, with a great sermon, but I don't know. It still doesn't feel like me. We are trying a different one this weekend and I hope its a fit. Our town isn't very big, so there aren't many options. To go to another town we will have to drive at least 20 miles there and we don't want to lose our Sunday family time to that. We already feel that we lose so much time with our kids during the week as it is.
So, I am looking. I am searching. I need to get out of this rather than letting it control me. I am thinking of taking some time from planned dieting. I am going to try to enforce and follow things that I have learned from various diets, but I just want to live and get happy. I know exercise is a big mood booster so I am going to focus on that. We still have 90 degree temps, but hopefully it will cool down soon. I am conflicted a bit, because I know that losing weight will help me feel better, but I am having trouble pushing past the first couple of days. I will do good 2-3 days and then crash and burn as I did last night. It wasn't pretty. I binged and I haven't done that in a long time. Disappointing. Today is another day though, another chance.
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If we have equal charges located at the corners of a regular polygon, then the electric field at its center is zero. Are there other points inside a polygon where the field vanishes? The simplest case would be an equilateral triangle of equal charges. I thought it would be easy to find the location of such other points, if they exist. I am having a hard time proving or disproving their existence.
In addition to Ali's answer, here are some pictures which may be helpful in convincing people that the origin is not the only point inside the polygon where $\mathbf{E}=\mathbf{0}$. Letting the charges be located at $(\cos(2\pi k/N),\sin(2\pi k/N))$ for $k\in\{1,2,...,N\}$, we can generate plots of $|\mathbf{E}|^{-1}$ for various $N$. The zeros of $\mathbf{E}$ will then show up as bright glowing singularities.
Example for $N=3$ (in Mathematica):
Similarly, for $N\in\{4,5,6,7,8,9\}$ their roots are distributed like this:
Note that in all cases, the zeros lie along the reflection axes of the symmetry group that do not pass through any of the charges.
The above is the existence proof you were looking for. without much more effort one can show that these points must lay on the symmetry axes of the polygon.
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Similar to DumpsterDoofus's answer, you can use the Mathematica function below to generate equipotential lines and find the zeros of $\left|\vec E\right|$.
For Instance:
gives us:
Note: The equipotential lines are not scaled uniformly. Want to see the uniform scaling of the equipotential lines, remove the $-1$ power in the code(and simplify my Mesh a little bit). Also, the charges are placed somewhere around the center of those big circles.
Estimating the place of the zeros:
First of all, I am confident that in most(If not all) of these cases, one cannot find the non-trivial zeros of electric field analytically. This being said, we can still write down an equation, which its roots are the zeros we're looking for. Being naive, that equation would be the electric field at the coordinates $(x,y)$(Duh!!); but using the symmetries of the problem, we should only look on the symmetry axes, which will simplify the procedure.
This is one way of writing down this equation:
$$\frac{\partial}{\partial r}\left(\sum_{i=1}^N\frac{1}{\sqrt{\left(r-\cos\left(\frac{(2i+1) \pi }{n}\right)\right)^2+\sin^2\left(\frac{(2i+1) \pi }{n}\right)}}\right)=0$$
This is just playing around with Mathematica, to make even more exotic plots. The function below, does the same job as above, except now it draws electric field lines as well.
For instance:
Note: The electric field arrows(near the center) are pointing towards the center. This means, as we claimed(and it is provable for the general case $n\ge 3$), the center is a minimum of potential.
Minimum of potential:
In the first part of my answer, I said that center of the polygon is a minimum of electric potential. This part is to show how that is true(for $n\ge3$). I am going to expand $V(\vec {\delta r})$ to the second order in $\delta \vec r$. I know the maths gets a little bit involved(depending on what you are used to, actually it's not that messy), but this is the cleanest way I knew. Let's put $n$ charges at the points $$\vec{R_i}=R(\cos(i \theta_n)\hat x +\sin(i \theta_n)\hat y)=R\hat{\eta}_{i,n} $$ where $\theta_n = \frac{2\pi}{n}$. Also, for simplicity, lets define $\vec{\delta \eta}=\frac{\vec{\delta r}}{R}$
\begin{align} \frac{4\pi\epsilon_0 R}{q}V(\vec{\delta r})&=\sum_{i=0}^{n-1}\frac{R}{\sqrt{R^2+\delta r^2-2\vec{R_i}.\vec{\delta r}}} \\ &=\sum_{i=0}^{n-1}\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+\delta\eta^2+2\hat\eta_{i,n}.\vec{\delta \eta}}} \\ &\approx \sum_{i=0}^{n-1}\left(1-\hat\eta_{n,i}.\vec{\delta \eta}-\frac{\delta \eta^2}{2}+\frac 3 2 (\hat\eta_{n,i}.\vec{\delta \eta})^2 + \mathcal{O}(\delta \eta^3)\right)\\ &= n -\left(\sum_{i=1}^n \hat\eta_{n,i}\right).\vec{\delta \eta}-\frac n 2 \delta \eta^2 + \frac {3n} 4 \delta \eta^2\\ &= n + \frac n 4 \delta \eta^2 \end{align}
The first three terms are simple to calculate; for the last term note that we have to do a summation of the form:
\begin{align} \sum_{k=1}^n \cos^2(k \theta_n-\theta_0)&=\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{1+\cos(2(k \theta_n-\theta_0))}{2}\\ &=\frac{n}{2}+\frac 1 2 \sum_{k=1}^n \Re \left(\mathcal e^{\frac{4\pi k i}{n}}\mathcal{e}^{-2 i \theta_0} \right) \\ &=\frac{n}{2}+\frac 1 2 \Re\left(\mathcal{e}^{-2 i \theta_0} {\sum_{k=1}^n \mathcal e^{\frac{4\pi k i}{n}}}\right) \\ &=\frac n 2 + \frac 1 2 \Re(0) = \frac n 2 \end{align}
Note: $\Rightarrow V(\vec{\delta r})\approx \frac{nq}{4\pi \epsilon_0 R}+\frac{nq}{16\pi \epsilon_0 R^3}\delta r^2$. So up to the second order, the differences in the electric potential have azimuthal symmetry!
We know that field due to point charge is zero at a distance infinity (and beyond) from it.
Let us consider a square with equal charges at the corners. Let us assume that the length of the side of the square to be such that, electric field due to charges at corners of that side, becomes zero (as like field is zero at infinity and beyond it) at some points along the length. Then some portion (not one or two points) inside the square will have zero net electric field due to the charges.
The same holds good for other polygons whose sides length is large enough, such that field due to charges at the corners of a particular side becomes zero at some point along the length (it also results in field to be zero in some portions inside the polygon).


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Hi all, I am new to this. I am 46 years old 2 sons 24 and 15 and 2 grad kids.I am a general contractor and sole bread winner. I have been married for 17 years, and we have know each other for 21 years. She is from down under and I am from california. She has always been fisty and straight to the point, no bs ing around, you knew where you stood. I love her and how she carried herself, ones own unique style. Over the years we have had the above normal problems, From my porn viewing 15 years ago, to the last 3 years, of our oldest son on herion. rehabs and more. His girl friend getting pregnet,haveing to have DNA tests due to her deceptions and lies regurding their relationship. My mother having dementa and care giving for her for over 2 years ( she is now in assisted living).
My wife has built up her drinking and several years ago fights have evolved to a higher level when she drinks (like my father). At one point she was arrested for an extreme DUI. She had to go to programs, jail time and fees had to be paid. Our fights have been more and more.
The fights are mostly started by her and her extreme rage and in defence I fight back because I am fed up with it.We do a dance, once I am in , its a loose loose for me, no way out but to walk away and get needled for reaction. Other fights are started by me in reguards to our sons and what they are going through and or her ratical behavior. Her father (adopted) now has stage 3 prostrate cancer and is in the beginig stages of dementia. My wife has been careing for him (over the phone). His 10 to 16 calls a day have defenitaly run her down. He came out in aug and that is when she dropped the bomb, he had molested her as a child. We all were blown away, no one knew. This is when all hell broke loose, her rage seemed to explode and at me! not the abuser.
My defending myself from her rage attacks with my own anger of being attacked, I am angry towards her for doing this in front of our 15 year old. Her father was very physical and verbaly abusive, now sexually abuse has been exposed. The fights are a no win for me, from her wanting to sell the house and live on the street to her telling our 15 year to find a ride home from school because she will not be picking him up due to the fact that she will be living on the street. These attacks kept going and going.And more and more irratical behavior.
She kept telling me she should have left my ass a long time ago and divorced me. She took off her rings and basicly distant herself. She went out looking for a job. ( She raised our kids and took care of the house duties, a more that full time job) She left at 4pm and by 12 mid night after no answer or message, I text my oldest son to see if she was there, he had no idea where she was. By 1;30 he found her but only said she was fine and she would be back in the morning. During the next 3 days, she crept out at 11pm to make a phone call, got caught in lies, and she claimed our oldest son knew where she was that night. So I am think affair, shes have an affair!
Many more verbal encounters
She picked a fight with me on a thursday night, and left the house 5 times back and forth in a complete rage, then drove a 6 hr trip to see her abusive father at 10;30 at night and came back the next night, a 22 hr road trip, Crazy! She then said wait and see what happens in 2 days!
In 2 days, nothing happened.
I have choose not to talk to her at all and do my thing (which is used by her, that I punish her by the silent treatment). Days before thanksgiving we both decited to be civil, it was great! we got along, talking laughing and just being a couple. I was on cloud nine. We have always been close, talking and laughing, fliting and very intimate over our 21 years. Thanksgiving evening she wanted to watch a movie, just the 2 of us.I was loving this. Then she brought up the past, her past ,my porno stuff of 15 years ago and she wanted to fight. I got up ,told I was not going to fight and left the room. she followed in now full rage, I took my son to his friend house, like I had done before.
I came back to 3 more confrontations, i left and came back when she was a sleep in the other room. What i did not know, she took 13 oxycoatons, (trip to her fathers, his meds). The next day, around 130 pm my 15 years sons found his mother in the bedroom,face swollen and very close to death. he called me in a panic. I called the paramedics, they gave her the electric jolt for her heartbeat, rushed her to the hospital. Her liver and kidneys were in danger of shutting down, or at best they would be damaged. For the next 4 days she recovered and supprised everyone. The phys released her from the hospital with out inpatient counseling, Big mistake!
Within 4 days, she is enrage again, telling our youngest son, that she had not finished what she started, I call crisis, I called them 3 more times in a week and a half. By dec 27 she was now acting like she was on cocain or meth. I have gone through everything in the house looking for anything and getting rid of any pill or alcohol, my oldest sons recovery meds. I finaly took her to the emergency room, she though it was 1996 feb 12th. They ran blood tests and scans and in 8 hrs there was no trace of anything in her blood, they told me she mental broke. They then released her. I went to the mental hospital the next day, they told me that she had had a stroke and delearium in the brain. On Dec 31 I had to pation the court to get her.
They came and got her at 11;50, by 4 am she was transfer to Good Sam. For the next few days, she had spinal taps, MRI s, and other tests, 6 doctors and when her mental statis was stable, they transfered her to the mental ward on Jan 7th to Jan 2oth. During that time, she was dianosed with pregresive dementa, brain damage. In 2 days the dianosed her with a rare brain disorder( dhsp??) toxins in the brain due to what she took) and in the last 4 days of her stay, she made a complete recovery! What a blessing a second lease on life.
Now because she is all better, the ahcss insurance may not cover her bills. The mental ward released her and because she is good to go, they can not make her go to and counseling, any programs, just check ups for her meds.
She has been back a week and a day, as of today. Within 4 hoursof her getting back, she started, pissy mood, fights me on the doctors orders to be watched for several days, taking meds complete resentment. By the second day, I am blamed for making most of this up, turning her friends against her, that the doctors don't know what they are doing and so on and so on. I am back to where we started. She made a statement to my youngest son that I am the reason that she wanted to kill herself.
Most importantly, is the protection of my son! I have him in counseling, school and out source, friends and backing and support from all.
My oldest son is in denial, and still has that druggy brain, sleeps untill 1pm, but he does work and cares for his kids, regiously! But does not want to deal with his mother situation.And he resents me when I get on his ass to do anything. (like his mother) The kids are torn apart, my oldest with his mother, and my youngest with me.
I do remodels and before Nov, we were ok, 10,000 on a cc, and jobs in the future , ready to go. loosing all the jobs during this time of chaos and with the med bills, (no insurace) I am now 140,000.00 in the hole, Being blamed for everything by her, protecting my youngest son and trying to keep order and security for all. I am at my wits end! I want out, is that wrong?? I feel that I have done more than my fair share, and that I am being drained of everything I have.being draing of my being!. I am trying to get 2 jobs right now and I will get them, catch up on my bills (2 months now behind), get a savings, and see where I am at and see where my son is at. He is fed up with his mother and brother. On a postive note, our father and son relationship as grown a lot stronger.So I am making several plans for the near future. This of couse will change, due to that she has not gottne help for what the issues are in the first place, After years of fighting me on seeing a counsler, she is now open to it, as long as its her pick.
Its been hell!
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You're in a serious predicament. Your wife appears to be suffering from some underlying psychosis or personality disorder. Her drinking must have been self medication. You mention a court order, did the hospital get legal guardianship of her? Because of the damn HIPA laws you can't even talk to her psychiatrist but I would let him know what's going on even though he can't discuss her case with you. I'd dole out those meds, wouldn't trust her with them. If she behaves in a way that is threatening, call the crisis hotline at the hospital and ask for an intervention. It seems to me she needs psychiatric testing and perhaps long term hospital care to determine if the medications are the right ones for her. You do have to protect your son but you don't know what the result will be should you take him and leave the home. Getting legal guardianship over someone for the purpose of having them hospitalized is very expensive and the courts are very slow to give it. Hospitals usually can do this easily. Since she's willing to see a counselor, I would do that, let her choose one. If a therapist sees she's erratic and out of control, s/he has the authority to have her hospitalized. Meanwhile your 15 yo son definitely needs counseling to help him cope with this horror at home.
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Thank you for the digestions, I he done pretty much what you have said. Its been calm for a day,strickly because we are gone.
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I read your story with great attention. It's just overwhelming, and the fact that you are still fighting on your family's behalf is an incredible testament to your character. Unbelievable. You have a lot to be proud of. I am glad you realize the affects all of this will have on your son and that you need to protect him. This must be so hard for him, well for both of them. I am glad your relationship has grown through this. I have been through hell over the last 5 years or so, but there have been some rewards and incredible lessons learned. Your tenacity is inspiring.
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Thankyou, Before this forum, even though I talked with friend and relatives (not a lot) I felt that their heads were nodding yes , but unless you experiance this , no one really understands the intensity. I have sadly shut off to her, every time I try to help, I am blamed by her for turning her family ,friends against her. They no longer check in to see how eveyone is doing, which means to me that she has menipulated her friend s again. Oh well, you find out really quick how this all works. So, thats fine, its my son and I. My other son has now be convinced by her that I over exaggerated the situation. How can one exaggerate a attempt of suicide?? Crazy how she make light of all of it. thanks
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I am so sorry that you're going through this. It seems like theres been a huge separation in your family and I can only imagine how difficult that must me. Your wife making light of the situation is actually her being in denial and not wanting to take responsibility for her problem. I'm really sad to hear what you're going through! Try to keep your head up!
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Nobody should use the kids, not as a alibi or make tem lie in any way. That teaches them that's okay. What will they think in the future. LET HER see what could happen if the child needs help and plays this game in the future He will lie to her when he needs her and your help. My kids are older and this has happened, they were protecting me because they didn't want to hurt me. It wasn't taught to them, and now they are better off , I can't fix every thing but they know I'll will help them If they tell me .
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Who did your wife loose to cause all this?
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The secret of her fathers sexual abuse came out. No one knew. When her father became vanurable,(cancer dementia). This was like a bomb going off. Rage,blame, odd and crazy behavior. Just like.....snapped!
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I'm here in az too, try lookin into treatment at banner Scottsdale behavioral health facility. She sounds like she's suffering a serious mental illnss.
I had a breakdown last june,not as serious but something just snapped.....turns out I'm bipolar, with no history of mood disorders....
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i wish you well, she was going to go to banner, but was given an option to do out patient, that did not work. she finially landed in good sam off of mcdowell, that was great, then the mental ward to see how she was doing. Now she is out as if nothing happened, but the problems remain, and resentments are stronger than ever. It s like waiting for a bomb to go off, I know it will happen but when. I am very emotionally drained. You put your heart and feelings out there for years, with no thought other than love for your partner. Then you become the scapegoat, and your feeling and heart get majorly hurt, hurt like never before. I am frustrated, its a loose loose for me. If I help, she attacks, if I dont she shuts off . I feel horriable for her, yet, she sees it a different way than I do. I may seem one sided, but I am in protection mode for my son and I . And honestly, right now, I am the only one watching out for him. Thank you for your comment, this is such a hard time for many.
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Rep. Simon represents the area around Hopkins, a town he also calls home. He lives there with his wife Leia and their one-year-old daughter Hannah. Rep. Simon's roots in politics go back for many years. According to his campaign's biography, Rep. Simon volunteered for the presidential campaigns of Walter Mondale and Paul Simon and served an internship with the Bill Clinton campaign. Rep. Simon has also served as Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota and worked as a lawyer before winning his first term in the State House of Representatives in 2004. Rep. Simon said he has been "in the trenches" on voter issues in the state for many years and has come to understand how "elections underlie" the most important issues facing the state.
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