text: Apr 12, 2013 17:22 Get noticed at prom for the right reasons Get noticed at prom for the right reasons Photo provided by STEVE WEBB -- Models show off varied looks for prom. From left, Ashlin Weaver wears a lavender hi-low dress with lace bodice and sweetheart neckline by Teeze Me with metallic silver peep toe pumps from Rampage, both from Macy's; Addison Sneed, a turquoise satin gown with jewel embellishments with silver crystal infused sandals, both from Deb Shops; Corde Cumba, a coral chiffon cocktail dress with silver metallic sandals, both from Deb Shops; and Keely Hanson, a neon pink satin gown with ruched bodice and jeweled detailing at the V-neck with silver metallic jewel encrusted sandals, both from Deb Shops. Photo provided by STEVE WEBB -- Ashlin Weaver is all about classic black and white in this tiered skirt with sequined cummerbund and lace bodice from Deb Shops. She finished the look off with black lace peep toe pumps from Deb Shops. Photo provided by STEVE WEBB -- Keely Hanson models a coral and black strapless gown with sweetheart neckline from Jump Apparel by Wendye with iridescent double platform bootie from Jessica Simpson, both from Dillard's. Photo provided by STEVE WEBB -- Corde Cumba shows off a deep plum metallic lace cocktail dress with fitted cummerbund waist from B. Darlin with grape metallic platform Mary Janes from G by Guess from Macy's. Photo provided by STEVE WEBB -- An empire waist and jewel-encrusted detailing highlight this jade chiffon full-length gown by D. Darlin from Dillard's modeled by Addison Sneed. Robbie Pettit| Special to The Advocate Comments As prom night fast approaches, teen girls should plan to get noticed for the right fashion choices. A memorable impression, not a cringe-inducing double-take is easily achieved for Prom 2013 with just a bit of preseason savvy. Got good legs? "We are seeing beautiful hi-low dresses that show off your legs," said Teesha Tyrrell, Deb Shops district manager for Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. "And these hemlines also showcase a great pair of shoes. Lace is another hot trend showing up in both full-length gowns and cocktail dresses." Kate Spencer at Dillard's Mall of Louisiana echoes the hemline edict: "It's all about hi-low in soft coral and mint." And, notes the official website of the International Prom Association (IPA), the timeless sparkle of sequins is joined this season by elegant hand-beaded accents. "Sequins, lace and form-fitting dresses," Tyrrell said. "Those are big this prom season." Like cut-outs? Less is usually more, stylists say. While flattering, cut-outs can veer out of control, according to stylist Sam Saboura, a regular contributor for such shows as "Good Morning America" and "The Tyra Banks Show." "You cannot have any tummy rolls or back rolls sticking out of that dress, so the athletic, boxy body types (think Hillary Swank) look good in this style," Saboura said. "There's a way to be sophisticated and sexy when you're doing cut-outs, but if you go over the top, it's going to err on the slutty side." Fuller figure? "Look for clean silhouettes that don't accentuate curves too much," said Saboura, "and go for details like flat pleating and ruching which will hide any bumps and bulges. As far as necklines go, look for a slimming V-neck that calls attention to the center line, but doesn't bare the breast." It's ruffles to the rescue for willowy figures. "It adds volume to a small bust, they break up a boxy frame and they add a feminine touch to a boyish figure," Saboura said. Red carpet glamour should be the goal. "We're seeing sequins on top and soft and sheer on the bottom," Spencer said. "Above all, glamorous." Again, lace is key, according to the IPA: "If you like that whimsy of vintage or red carpet high-end couture, look toward the use of lace to make your style picture perfect." Harmonize with skin tone, and not only through effective makeup. Saboura's advice: "Find a celebrity who has a similar color and search for images of their red carpet looks. In general, women with warmer and darker complexions look great in peach, coral and earthy colors. And I think navy is prettier on African-American skin than black is. Girls that are pale can look to the big pastel trend." Sarah Fuentes, Toni & Guy Salons regional director for Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, stressed, "Bold eyes or bold lip color. Not both at the same time, though — one or the other." And while many fashion websites and magazines tout extra dark liner and saturated eye color, Saboura cautioned, "The most common prom mistake I see is overdressing and overstyling." Don't forget, heavier makeup and darker eye colors can smudge and crease more easily. Hairstyles are simpler and less structured, according to veteran stylist Meghan Rolfs at Salon Boheme in Baton Rouge. "Nothing is super tailored. Volume is key for achieving a crown bun or one at the nape. Soft romantic curls for a tousled Hollywood look are always a glamorous choice." Hair Rule No. 1: A hairstyle should harmonize with the dress, not clash with it. Rule No. 2: It's got to look lovely for several hours. An overly elaborate creation which is stunning for 45 minutes before wilting to a limp mass on the dance floor just won't do. And don't overlook accessories. Always remember: the dress is the highlight. Jewelry should enhance, not detract from apparel. "A fabulous pair of shoes or a great necklace can transform a really simple dress into something amazing," Saboura said. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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Constructed in 1869, the Sandy Pond School is Ayer's oldest municipal building and only surviving single-room schoolhouse. It was originally built to serve the Groton, Massachusetts School District No. 11. When Ayer separated from Groton In 1871, it became part of the new community's school system and continued in that role until closed in 1906. Since 1908 it has been owned and maintained by the Sandy Pond School Association.
Today, our goal is to ensure the long-term preservation of this historic little school.As a first step in that process, we are working to put Sandy Pond School on the National Register.
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Entering this little building today is like stepping into a time warp. The teacher's desk at the front of the room, slate blackboards, rows of wooden student desks, tongue and groove birch flooring, kerosene lamps, plaster walls and ceiling, and the wood stove at the back of the room evoke memories of an earlier era.
In 1908, the Town of Ayer conveyed ownership of the school to the Sandy Pond School Association, a newly formed group of local citizens—many
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Minimal rainfall and wind is expected in the area, according to Fox 43 meteorologist Jim Buchanan. A cold front on Sunday may trigger stronger winds and storms than "Danny," Buchanan says.
But a tropical storm watch for the North Carolina coast remains in effect Friday morning. Large swells from Danny are expected to produce dangerous surf and life-threatening rip currents along the U.S. East Coast over the next day or two.
Danny's maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 40 mph (65 kph).
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text: Shumway — When students at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics head back next month, they'll be greeted by a courtyard entrance that's undergone a summer makeover. The VSAA Parent Teacher Student Association raised roughly $65,000 for the project, a majority from PTSA funds, class donations, sponsorships and fundraisers with a significant donation from patron Leslie Durst. The project included 6,000 square feet of new sod, sprinklers, 16 new trees, a renovation of the school's Peace Garden and the construction of raised planting beds. The feature students may appreciate most is an elevated performance platform and basalt seating columns scattered throughout the space. Many of the columns feature quotes about art and music or are dedicated to families. The makeover was a joint project of the VSAA Parent Teacher Student Association and Vancouver Public Schools.


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|It would be hard to get through a day without encountering surfaces separating distinct adjacent fluids. In a grotesque accident of history, all such things have come to be labeled capillary surfaces (capillus = hair in Latin). You encounter them whenever you drink a glass of water or wash your face, or sing in the rain or enjoy a candlelit dinner or see a spiderweb. They appear in all sizes, from microscopic to planetary and beyond. Experience has let us adapt to everyday occurrences, but the needs of quantitative theory lead to challenges that defy traditional methods. The formal equations have beautiful geometric form, but almost no exact solutions are known, and surprising things happen that have yet to be clarified. One of them is a striking relation to billiards theory. Some of the simplest problems were solved in approximate form during the 19th century. These "solutions" are still routinely used by engineers as models for general behavior, however recent discoveries (in some of which undergraduate students participated) have shown that such procedures can lead to major errors. I will discuss the state of the theory, with emphasis on current unsolved problems.
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Sports Gossip: The Monday Morning Couch Potatoes
Page 1 of 3Fellas, the "Monday Morning Couch Potatoes" feel your pain. We understand that sometimes in life, you have to make sacrifices. We've all been there before. Spent Saturday night watching Monster-in-Law with the lady instead of at the bar with the boys? Picked the kids up from the dance recital instead of watching the big game? It's okay. It happens. That's where we come in.
At the start of every other week, the "Monday Morning Couch Potatoes" (Peter Schrager and Adam Weinberg) will fill you in on the important things you missed while trying to pretend like you really care about all the other stuff in your life. Each Monday, you will wake up with an up-to-date summary of all the vital (and worthless) things you might have missed in the past week of sports and entertainment.
These are the six stories that sparked our interest the most during the past week of sports, pop culture and entertainment. This article, and every one of its biweekly successors, will serve as a "cheat sheet" for the various conversations you will have with co-workers and friends over the upcoming week.
So get educated, then hit up the water cooler for some conversation with the boys.
Water Cooler Topic #1:
Tiger doesn't make the cut
Tiger Woods' incredible streak of 142 tournament cuts made came to an end in last week's Byron Nelson Championship. For the first time since 1997, Woods failed to make the 36-hole cut after the second round. Tiger shot a second-round 72, eliminating him from weekend play for the first time since Greg Norman was the top-ranked golfer in the world.
Adam's take: Chalk this up next to Eminem's Oscar, Debbie Gibson's Play..boy cover and Brady Anderson's 50 home runs, as things I never expected to see in my lifetime. This freak incident brings into question Tiger Woods' very mind-state at the Byron Nelson. He could never just miss a cut, could he? Tiger had to have been somewhere else that weekend. Just where that is, I can't say for certain, but something tells me that it wasn't a midnight showing of A Lot Like Love.
Peter's take: I'm done with Tiger Woods. Who wants to root for a loser? I've moved on to the winner of the Byron Nelson Championship — a certain legend named Ted Purdy. You see, Ted Purdy doesn't choke when it matters. Ted Purdy is a winner. Ted Purdy shot one of the best rounds in the history of golf last Sunday, hitting 17 of 18 greens in regulation. He made five birdies, and had not a single bogey the entire day. His final-round 65 came smooth and easy. Who needs a Tiger when you've got something so Purdy?
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We told you so
Last off-season, the New York Yankees signed 37-year-old Tino Martinez to offer a left-handed bat off the bench. Two months into his 2005 campaign, Martinez is one of the American League's home run leaders, and he played a big role in the Yankees' recent 10-game winning streak. Heading into June, he is a frontrunner for the American League MVP award.
Adam's take: Since we predicted in our last column that the Yankees would turn it around, they have gone on a torrid tear and are back in the race for the AL East. Tino and A-Rod have at least 12 bombs apiece, Jeter seems to be getting a hit every time he's up and Ruben Sierra's ready to return from the injury list. Is this the magical season that the Yankees have been waiting for since 2000? Who knows, but just in case, let me predict some more things: I will win the lotto, date Natalie Portman, and Umbro shorts will come back in style.
Peter's take: As if Jason Giambi wasn't having a tough enough season already. First, he starts the year with a bull's-eye on his back because of his alleged steroid use. Then the hapless sap gets doused with a beer by an opposing fan. Through all this, he's hitting under .200. And now his old backup is hitting like Barry Bonds. Poor Giambi. Hope he has a good cry... maybe he can wipe his tears with the 11 million one-dollar bills he'll make from the bench this year.
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When it comes to viral trends, social media and pop culture, sometimes the lines get really obscured. It is the man who is suing Red Lobster that has people once again wondering how people deal with being part of a trend as it goes too far with threats, over the top opinions and rude remarks. According to the Huffington Post on Wednesday, Devin Barnes is suing Red Lobster after his information went viral once a waitress posted his receipt online.
On September 7, 2013, Devin Barnes visited a Red Lobster restaurant in Tennessee. After they placed a to-go order with their server and paid their $44 check. Apparently since the order was to-go the patron decided not to tip. On the receipt, the line for "Tip," Barnes wrote "none."
A few days later there was a viral storm as their server, 19-year-old Toni Christina Jenkins, posted the receipt to Facebook. The alleged receipt posted had a negative racial remark on the tip line, and displays Devin Barnes full name.
While the receipt was only posted on Facebook several days and then removed, but it has continued to circulate online. Leaving the name of the patron available for everyone to see and allegedly heckle the individual who bought the food.
The server was put on probation and returned to Red Lobster to work, but there was no resolution with the restaurant patron. The fallout from the situation got a fund established for the server and a bad rap for the man who bought the food.
Apparently, Devin Barnes wants justice in regards to the situation. He has filed a million dollar lawsuit against Red Lobster for the server for a willful and malicious act, slander and unlawful release of Barnes' personal information on the Internet. The lawsuit was filed in a circuit court in Williamson County, Tennessee, last week.
The server claims they didn't write the hateful remarks on the receipt and Devin Barnes had a handwriting expert verify he didn't write the remarks either. Which leaves everyone wondering who put the nasty note on the receipt in the first place and why was uploaded to Facebook instead of handed over to the cops. Apparently this is a decision for the courts to decide and it will be interesting if someone has to fork over a million bucks.


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What WSJ Canada is Reading Tuesday
By David George-Cosh
These are some of the stories we're reading Tuesday morning.
U.S. activist investor Bill Ackman, instrumental in turning around Canadian Pacific, has resigned from the board of U.S. retailer JC Penney.
A day after smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. formally put itself up for sale, residents of Waterloo, Ontario, where the company maintains its headquarters, react to the news.
Statistics Canada has pulled the plug on its national household survey two days prior to its release due to serious errors the government agency has recently uncovered.
A report that has audited Canadian Senator Pamela Wallin's expenses will be made public Tuesday, a day after she pledged to repay every dollar she is asked for, with interest. Details of the audit were released Monday and found that Ms. Wallin made ineligible claims amounting to as much as 140,000 Canadian dollars. ($135,632)
The northern Manitoba port of Churchill is planning to spend C$2 million in upgrades to boost its oil-pumping capacity.


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Harry Hugasian
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Looking through the fridge tonight, I was thinking about William Brand. I've been doing this a lot lately. I've met him in person a grand total of two times, but I feel like he's been a friend for many years, regularly exchanging texts and emails about beer and life. While searching for the right beer to toast tonight, I came across one that just screamed out Bill, so I had to have it.
A few weeks back, the topic came up of aging Imperial IPAs. Bill took a rather diplomatic stance that typically you drink them fresh, but sometimes, you should give them some age. The reason I mention this is because the bottle of Avery's Maharaja Imperial IPA in my fridge has a little piece of text on the front label that reads "Bottled in Feb 2008." Obviously this bottle has been aged a full year, but not because I did the aging. I bought this bottle last weekend after the Lagunitas Beer Circus in the middle of a serious hop binge. So, how did this Imperial IPA age?
The Maharaja pours a hazy range with a soft white head. The aroma ismalty with a stiff hoppiness to it. The flavor starts off with sweet malt and a touch of diacetyl. The hops are quite noticeable and hit you with a stiff citrus kick in the finish.
At first taste, this is a malty monster, 10.5%, and rather cakey. But after a few sips, the hops and alcohol start to beat on your taste buds. The malt flavor fades away as you're inundated with the sensation of fresh lemons and pepper. Even after a year of mellowing in the bottle, this beer still packs an immense hop punch.
In the end, I have to agree with Bill. This is an Imperial IPA that stood up to the time in the bottle, and if anything, might be up for another 6 months. I think I'll need to go back to the store and grab another bottle, as this will be one to share with Bill once he's recovered. Here's to you Bill. We'll be drinking this bottle together in no time.
And update on Bill's condition: The last report on his condition was that he's stable, but still having trouble breathing. Daryl, Bill's wife, says that sadly, Bill is not getting better. Hang in there Bill.


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Appropriately-numbered United Flight 757 from Chicago is over the fence on a Runway 15 approach.
Another changing of the guard at BDL, this time swapping out ATI DC-8s for Capital 727s. Cappy 724 to Boston continues its journey from Toledo, seen here departing from Runway 33.
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Head Coach Dan Hawkins
ON MIAMI, OHŚ"This game coming up, I think that Miami is similar to us in the fact that they are playing some young guys and trying to find their niche and trying to settle in on a quarterback which they seem to have done. They've struggled a little bit and had some injuries, but clearly a team with great tradition and are used to winning. They are very good in the kicking game and are a very good football team. We really have to throw ourselves back into the fire but I think our guys are really energized to do that. Hopefully we can get our crowd to come back again, get our students to come back again, our fans to come back again. I've always said that, to me, college football is 1:00 in the afternoon on green grass and that is a very special time. We want the crowd to be electric again, that was a huge boost for our team and the university as well. Clearly, we left some things on the table, but at the same time we made some emotional strides there."
ON SOPHOMORE DL CHRIS PERRIŚ"He's got a big time motor, he plays hard and he can come off the ball. He's a very aggressive defensive lineman, very strong, can run and he is really going to compliment our defensive front. I mean we're doing a great job up front right now, defensively, particularly [nose tackle] Brandon [Nicolas] and [defensive tackle] George [Hypolite] in there, but he will bring more of that to the table. He's a big motor guy."
ON THE TEAM'S ATTITUDE AFTER FLORIDA STATEŚ"Yeah, I think emotionally it was just a very different feeling and again it's with no disrespect to anyone else, they are Florida State and athletically they are going to be as good as anyone you play. Like I said, the feeling to me, after
ON MIAMI (OHIO) AND BOISE STATE'S COACHING TRADITIONŚ"It's like anything else, it starts speeding off of itself and when you have a great program you generate a lot of great football coaches out of it. People are so enriched and it is such a successful program that it breeds other guys out of it."
ON BIG UPSETS THIS SEASONŚ"You know, I was talking to our team about this and I was kind of going æHow can you be 1-2 and think you're the prohibitive favorite. I don't see how that can happen, and I don't think our guys will think that way because I certainly don't. So I don't think there is any reason for us to think all we have to do is show up. I think we know we have to go out and play better then we've been playing or we'll get beat again. You can't go out and rush for two yards on 57 carries and expect to win the football game. We're normally a pretty good football team at creating turnovers and we aren't right now, and we need to improve that. For any team that is 1-2 you can't just sit back, you have to go to work."
ON FRESHMAN TB BRIAN LOCKRIDGEŚ"He has a lot of speed, but he also has a different style in that he'll pour it up in there and has no trepidation about that, he'll just throw a rock on the gas pedal and go. He's kind of like an energizer bunny, the guy just has a tremendous spirit about him; he reminds me a lot of [former defensive end] Abe Wright in terms of that. He is a guy who will return a punt, catch it, run all the way down, hand it to the punter and be standing there before you even know that he just ran 100 yards. His biggest asset is his speed but that is also complimented by his attitude and his style; he's not afraid to put his pads down and hammer it up in there, even though he isn't the biggest guy."
ON THE RUNNING BACK POSITION BATTLEŚ"You know you're looking for somebody to step up and be the consistent guy, and be consistently productive and make the most of those carries. They all bring a little something different to the table and then sometimes it's like a good band when you get the right bass player and you're right there and that is a little bit of where we are at."
ON SOPHOMORE LB JEFF SMARTŚ"He has really stepped up, in a lot of ways. I am not surprised because I always believe that of all our guys, that within any great team or organization that great things can happen. I do think he is a product of one, he runs well and a [he is a] smart guy. I also think he is a product of our staff teaching and reaping the whole roster rather then just a few guys. Clearly he has made the most of his opportunities, with other guys being dinged up a little bit. To his credit, and this is the sidebar, when you coach guys, he was mostly playing behind [senior linebacker] Jordon [Dizon] then when [junior linebacker] R.J. [Brown] [was injured], he was able to step into R.J.'s position. He has had some work there but not a bunch and I'm always talking to our guys about opening their eyes and experiencing the world and understanding what's going on next door to them. I'm always amazed sometimes on punt team when they're a guard and you move them to tackle and they have no idea what the tackle does even though he does relatively the same job you do. To me that was another pleasurable thing in being able to see a guy slide over there, no big deal. I've been paying attention, I've been watching and now he's playing great."
ON DEFENSIVE SPEEDŚ"Speed is obviously a premium, we always laugh a little bit, and actually I saw [former linebacker] Greg Biekert's brother downtown last night, he's a policeman. He was saying that if Greg played today, he'd probably be a defensive lineman and that is kind of the case. As you see these teams start to put spread offenses out there, the premium is on running and he can run."
ON TEAM MATURITYŚ"Definitely, I think a lot of it is that; we've been talking a lot about fortifying our guys' mentality and they are starting to totally get into this learn, get better, put it away mentality and that takes a certain amount of emotional maturity. Not only as a coach but fans and players alike, and I think they are starting to get a handle on that whole process and not getting hung up on losses and that is hard. Obviously you have some programs around the country that people are wondering why they are in the position that they are in, or you have some people aren't suppose to be doing well and they are. That takes a certain level of emotional maturity when everyone says æWhy are you 0-3?' or æWhy are you 1-2 when everyone thought you were going to be 3-0?' and putting that to bed and moving on. I think our guys are starting to understand that process, but it's going to pop and we all feel like there is a lot of moving forward going on. I know the idea is to win the football game, and I know that and that is definitely what we're about, but at the same time if you keep doing the right things and moving forward those things will happen."
ON MIAMIŚ"I think that Cincinnati is really coming on, they have a lot of mojo going on and again I think you're dealing with a Miami club that has been a little nicked up and are playing a lot of young guys. They're going to make leaps and bounds too as they start to get healthier and their young guys start getting more reps and they settle their quarterback situation. They're program has tremendous tradition and when you have tradition you have that emotional background that allows you to keep pushing forward, and they will."
ON PLAYING A TRIPLE OVERTIME GAMEŚ"I don't know, it was pretty painful against Baylor last year. Well I think, having the guts to stay in there, I think you get a little steely-eyed because you're going æThe game's supposed to be over but now we have to go again, the game's supposed to be over, you go again, the game's supposed to be over, you go again.' That shows some resolve in there for your guys. I don't know, again
ON THE STRUGGLES IN THE RUNNING GAMEŚ"It is one of those things where you just tweak a few things in terms of maybe you cut a few things out or you look at your formations. You might practice in a different way; we went live in our running game last week and we'll do the same thing this week. You really just have to keep banging it and by and large what usually happens is there is one minuscule break down, whether it's five guys or seven guys and the back, one guy has an issue which makes the whole play look bad, which isn't always the case in the passing game."
ON FRESHMAN OL RYAN MILLER'S PROGRESSŚ"He's a big, strong, physical guy. He really is, he's a tough guy. The thing with Ryan is getting him consistent because so much of college football and pro football is blocking fronts because you aren't just going forward anymore, going in a certain direction. For him, learning the different nuances and being effective in that way...If he were just lining up and going on a board against a guy he'd be great like that, but that doesn't happen a lot. His pass protection is getting better too, there again it's not just you block the defensive end, sometimes you have to block a safety, sometimes you have to block a æbacker and sometimes you have to block against a twist so there is a whole other aspect to that."
ON HIS NICKNAME æGIRTHY'Ś"My freshman year, when I first got here I was at the first workout and I was working out in the summer time. I came to the workout and Matt McChesney, a senior defensive lineman, was looking at me and he was like æDude, you're a pretty big guy, you're real ægirthy,' you have a lot of size on you. We're going to start calling you æGirthy' from here on out, and from that point it has stuck with me the rest of the way and everyone has called me that since then. I weigh more now though."
ON THE MOVE FROM GUARD TO CENTERŚ"Being the center is a lot of fun, you get to touch the ball now and again. It's nice to get to run the whole offensive line, everything comes back to you and what you need to do to get the offensive line going in the right direction, making sure everyone is blocking the right people. So you have to watch a little more film and pay attention more because you have to know the offense a little better then the other offensive linemen. That way I can help everyone else out when they have questions and need help during the game or practice."
ON RUN BLOCKINGŚ"Every time so far, we have taken turns making mistakes on each one of the plays. Whether it is taking a bad step, blocking the wrong guy, blowing an assignment or just not finishing a guy and blocking him the whole play...What we need to do now is continue working on the basics and get going downhill so that we can get this run game going.
"We thought we were going to be able to keep running the ball well and continuing to get better each week, and as you have seen we have taken a step backward. So we need to work even harder this week and work harder then we did last week so that we can run the ball effectively this week."
ON THE FLORIDA STATE DEFENSIVE LINEŚ"They have been the best we've seen so far, they are all very good athletes and they are all really fast. Each of them was very good at what they did and if you made a mistake they would take advantage of it, so you had to be very good in your technique and go as hard as you can and try to out-hustle those guys because they were hustling hard on every play until the end of the game."
ON HAVING SUCCESS AGAINST THE FSU DEFENSIVE LINEŚ"I think it helped us as an offense line in the sense that now we know that we can come out and play with those guys, and we blocked them the way that we did. We knew we were good but this kind of solidified to us that we can block anybody if we can block them. All we have to do now is start taking care of ourselves, doing what we need to do and stop shooting ourselves in the foot."
ON THE DIFFERENT MENTALITY AFTER GEORGIA AND FLORIDA STATEŚ"They were both real good teams, the same type of team, very good defenses. I think that last year a lot of guys were surprised that we stayed with them as long as we did, where as this year a lot of guys were saying æI can't believe we lost this game, how did we do that?"
ON BEING 1-2 AND THE FAVORITE GOING INTO SATURDAY'S GAMEŚ"I don't know why that is, I guess just because of conferences and that type of thing. To us though we feel like we've been stopping ourselves so we just need to quit stopping ourselves in games because that is what has been beating us."
ON THE FRESHMAN OFFENSIVE LINEMENŚ"Every day they improve and they continue to get better and better and when they need to they ask questions to us older guys. When we don't know what to do we ask [offensive line] Coach [Jeff] Grimes and he'll explain to us what we need to do. They work hard every day."
ON HAVING THREE OFFENSIVE LINE COACHES IN FOUR YEARSŚ"It was a little difficult at first, but what you learn that you have to do is with each coach you just have to come in and play hard each and every time. You have to re-prove yourself to the coach and once you do that you just have to start doing what you've been doing in the past that has been working for you."
Freshman Wide Receiver Josh Smith
ON GETTING HIS FIRST REAL PLAYING TIMEŚ"Actually, I really felt like the hits weren't really that big at all, I felt like I was really protected out there. There wasn't anything I didn't think I could handle out there."
ON THE OFFENSE'S PROGRESSŚ"Yeah, I feel like I we're coming on at a great rate as a group and that we're starting to minimize our mistakes and stuff like that. For me personally, it's just a feel, I had about two real days of practice last week and I just tried my best to do my job against Florida State and I am pleased with that."
ON PERSONAL HEALTHŚ"I'm not 100 percent, I feel like I'm doing extra to try and catch up with the guys and stuff like that. I also feel like I'm not far from getting back to 100 percent, I feel like I'm working gradually and I'm almost there."
ON THE TEAM'S ATTITUDEŚ"I think the mood of the team is that we feel like we should have won that game, I mean the defense held them to 16 points. We know that we are better than six points on offense and we know that we need an earlier start. We did a lot of things right, the mood is just something I can't explain. I mean we have a really good attitude, it is something I don't think you can really coach, we know we're young and we're going to make mistakes it's just learning to minimize those mistakes. We get over our mistakes very quickly and move on; I think we just found out a little too late that we could move the ball on those guys."
ON PERSONAL IMPROVEMENTŚ"Studying and focus are the two main areas I think I can improve. I think I am going to bring speed and focus to every game, and my speed is there I just need to increase the focus."


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When I lived in TX when Bush was governor and long before he announced his aspirations for the Presidency, the guy went to church and said he read his Bible daily. That does not make him either a 'religious fanatic' or a 'fake religious fanatic'.
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is shorthand for how to meromorphically continue the Riemann zeta function beyond its region of convergence.
If you add up the integers there is no way you will get anything other than infinity. The equation needs to be understood in its context. The Riemann zeta function is defined as
If you put s equal to any number bigger than 1 then the infinite sum of fractions converges. For example put s=2 and the function says add together 1+1/4+1/9+1/16+... This infinite series can be added up and you get rather beautifully
However if you put s equal to a number less than 1 the infinite series doesn't make sense. For example put s=-1 and you get 1+2+3+4+...
But if you now allow s to be a complex number (not just a real number) then there is a unique way to smoothly extend the definition of the function into the region where it doesn't converge. It is essentially taking another formula which will make sense for values of s less than 1 but which seamlessly meshes with the function you have already defined. It is essential to put this in the context of complex numbers because we have a theorem which says there is a unique way to do this. So if you can extend the function there is only one way to do it. This new function gives the value -1/12 when you put in s=-1.
The story of this equation is discussed more in chapter 4 and chapter 6 of The Music of the Primes.
Do not trust physicists bearing divergent series. You will lose your wallet.
Saturday, 1 June 2013
Geometric Unity
Physics has a problem. In fact quite a few problems. Why are there three generations of fundamental particles, each seemingly just a heavier copy of the generation before? What is dark matter? Why is the expansion of the universe accelerating? How can one reconcile Einstein's Field Equations which control the curvature of space time and represent our theory of gravity with the Yang-Mills equations and the Dirac equation which represent our theory of particle interactions on a quantum level?
Two years ago Eric Weinstein, working from outside the academic system, came to me with some bold and unorthodox ideas that he had come up with as an attempt to answer these problems. My initial reaction to this was the same as to any such proposal of this type: skepticism. Like many academics I regularly receive hundreds of emails, letters, books from a whole range of people claiming the discovery of a theory of everything or proofs of the Riemann Hypothesis or the Goldbach Conjecture. However I have always kept in the back of my mind the story of Ramanujan writing out of the blue to GH Hardy. Ramanujan's approaches had been rejected by two academics in London before Hardy responded positively to his letters. So I try to give serious proposals a hearing regardless of whether they come from inside or outside the academy.
My initial skepticism began to wane though as I heard Weinstein's ideas unfold. By the end of our meeting I was intrigued enough to dedicate time during the last two years to work through the ideas. I don't understand every detail, but the ideas are beautiful and I believe extremely natural. It is a highly mathematical story but with clear implications to questions of physics. His approach is in line with Einstein's belief in the power of mathematical geometry. Einstein talked about his conviction that the universe was made of marble not wood. Weinstein's proposal which he calls Geometric Unity realizes Einstein's dream.
Geometric elegance is of course no guarantee that the mathematical universe that Weinstein describes must match the reality of our universe. However, if the details survive scrutiny it will still be a beautiful mathematical landscape Weinstein has uncovered, as well as one with uncanny similarities to the world we inhabit.
Weinstein has kept many of these ideas to himself for nearly three decades. It took some courage for him to discuss the ideas with me. I was sworn to secrecy. Weinstein has also been discussing the ideas in secret with mathematician Ed Frenkel and physicist David Kaplan. But as I spent time with the ideas I believed that they were too important to be kept private and needed to be discussed more broadly.
I debated with myself whether it was appropriate for me to host a lecture where Weinstein could begin to explain his ideas. Was this an appropriate use of my position as the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science? Charles Simonyi prepared a manifesto when he endowed my chair to guide the holders of the chair in their mission. I would like to quote one part of the manifesto:
"Scientific speculation, when so labelled, and when the concept of speculation and its place in the scientific method has been made clear to the audience, can be very exciting. It is a very effective communication tool, and it is by no means discouraged."
It was in the spirit of this part of my mission as the Simonyi professor that I decided to persuade Weinstein to give a special lecture in which he could start to propose the ideas he has been working on. The decision to try to publicise his ideas was not taken lightly as all attempts at a Unified Theory have failed so far. However, a little thought reveals that whenever a final theory is at last found, it will first begin its public life with an overwhelming statistical likelihood of failure.
As Charles Simonyi suggested let me make very clear how the scientific method can work. If you have new ideas it is perfectly acceptable to try to articulate these ideas through a seminar or lecture before publishing a paper. The ideas might go through some revision and evolve through dialogue with other scientists. Ultimately these ideas must be written down and evaluated by the communities to which they are relevant. The lecture that Weinstein gave last week was the beginning of that process. A paper which Weinstein is currently working on will in due course appear.
As Charles Simonyi expressed in his manifesto "scientific speculation can be very exciting". It is an excitement that I think the public can share. No one other than the relevant scientific communities will be able to evaluate the merit of the work, but why shouldn't the public see science in action? It can help communicate the challenging problems that physics still faces.
It took a lot of courage for Weinstein to come forward and talk about his ideas. He comes as something of an outsider but with the sensibilities and knowledge of an insider, a difficult place from which to propose bold ideas. He has a PhD from Harvard, post-doctoral experience from MIT and the Hebrew University. Not a bad grounding. But rather than staying in academia he went a more independent route working in economics, government and finance. But I have always been a believer that it doesn't matter who the person is and what is their background, it is the ideas that speak for themselves. I believe science has much to gain if the ideas turn out to be correct and little to lose if they turn out to be wrong.
For a general description of the ideas being proposed check my Guardian blogpost
Sunday, 24 February 2013
BBC Radio 6: Maths and Music with Miranda Sawyer
I did an interview for Miranda Sawyer on BBC Radio 6 for her forthcoming series which will include a programme about maths and music. I did a radio series about maths and music for The Essay on BBC Radio 3 some years ago which you can listen to here That series was mostly concerned with my love of classic music. So I was interested to find out about good examples of maths in popular music. Radiohead, Bjork, Gorillaz all have good examples of interesting time signatures and mixtures of beats which give an unsettling feel of not quite knowing where the beat is. For example: Radiohead 15 Step is in 10/8, Gorollaz 5/4 does what it says on the tin...moves between 5 and 4 beats per bar in an unsettling way, Bjork's Crystalline is in 17/8 (I think Messiaen would have enjoyed that!).
But I was intrigued to know about other examples. So who better to ask than my twitter followers. Below are some of their replies. I thought it worth sticking them here because it's hard sometimes for everyone to see all the interesting responses. It's also worth checking out the wiki entry which is full of good examples of songs with interesting rhythms and metres.
One of the most striking examples was Tool's Lateralus which uses the Fibonacci Series via @SalisburyHill Reminded me of my post on fibs
Here are some of the replies I had from twitter:
Jon Saunders @fygaro146 the Birdie Song is based on fractals. However hard you listen it remains just as annoying as it was before.
Paul O'Hagan @pmohagan Golden Brown by Stranglers has that extra beat in the instrumental. Think it goes 6/8 to 7/8 v. effective
MaST@EdgeHill @EdgeHill_MaST @RobertSmyth Golden Brown by Stranglers is in 13/4 time
Richard Hopkins @dadhopdog Golden Brown by the Stranglers is in 3 time but sticks in a 4 beat bar on the 4th bar between verses.
Julian Peace @JulianPeace1 As mentioned, Lateralus by Tool varies from 9/8 - 8/8 - 7/8. 987 being the 16th Fibonaci number.
Julian Peace @JulianPeace1 Lateralus by Tool is worth looking at. It's all rather clever...
Paul Firth @TedInCanada Check out the information online about tool, particularly the album lateralus. fibonnaci rhythms! Tool's Lateralus uses Fibonacci Series via @SalisburyHill@msmirandasawyer Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY …and http://findingmoonshine.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/twitter-fibs.html …
Damian Armitage @iAxiom78 All You Need is Love, by the Beatles swap between 3/4 and 4/4. Some think it's 7/8 but its not
Damian Armitage @iAxiom78 Excuse my language but "Bastard" by Ben Folds mixes it up; 3/2, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 & 7/4.
Stuart @20Hotels Jeff Buckley's "So Real" moves from 4/4 to 6/8 to 2/4 in space of a few bars. Quite unnerving. Cream "White Room" opens 5/4
Brett Callacher @bcbluesy Jacobs Ladder by Rush alternates 5/4 6/4 and 6/8 7/8. Results in a really ominous feel.
Brett Callacher @bcbluesy also intro: this song was originally done in 1968 but we are going to do it 4/4 so you can clap along.
Geoff Smith @GeoffBath "Strawberry Fields Forever" is all over the shop.
Robert Smyth @RobertSmyth two faves: tessellate by Alt J, and Dodecahedron by Beth Jeans Houghton
Michael Sheen @SheenNotHeard And the overture to Class's Akhnaten uses the same phrase but in 1/4 notes, then 16th notes, then 32 notes
Michael Sheen @SheenNotHeard More popularly, Kashmir by Led Zep: the riff is 3/4 or 6/8, and the drums 4/4. Black Dog is similar.
Michael Sheen @SheenNotHeard Math rock and metal acts like Meshuggah will play a riff in 17/8 etc over a 4/4 drum so the accent shifts
Eddie Rumkee @eddrumkee Penguin Cafe Orchestra's Perpetuum Mobile has 15 beat phrases.
Mike Pitt @mhpitt Serenade by Derek Bourgeois. Cuts from 11/8 (3323) to 13/8 and 7/8 etc. Wedding march for his wife...http://www.windrep.org/Serenade_(Bourgeois) …
Mike Pitt @mhpitt I assume you've got Brubeck on the list...
Leighton Pritchard @widdowquinn Not time sig, but 'phasing' may also be of interest: e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Phase … and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapping_Music …
EP @Phonosexual Conlon Nancarrow even experimented with using irrational and even transcendental musical proportions!
EP @Phonosexual Blackened, by Metallica also goes through a range of time signatures.
EP @Phonosexual Soft Machine also play a lot with time signatures. And Debussy allegedly used measures the length of Fionacci numbers.
EP @Phonosexual Lobachevsky, by Tom Lehrer! Frank Zappa's Little House I Used To Live In also has am interesting time sig.
Tariq Desai @tariqDesai Also, interesting thing about the Gorillaz song is the 20-beat phrasing; 20 being LCM of 5 and 4.
Tariq Desai @tariqDesai Pink Floyd's Money is interesting: 7/4 over melody but 4/4 over the guitar solo; illusion of speeding up.
Tariq Desai @tariqDesai Outkast's Hey Ya features a queer combination of 4/4 and 2/4 bars.
RespectMyCrest @RespectMyCrest @msmirandasawyer money changes sigs as Gilmore couldn't do a solo in original sig, unlike the saxophonist
Dave Brown @youldave http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenochrony
David Gower @Gowerly Skimbleshanks (from cats) starts in 13/8 and Gershwin's Chichester Psalms changes time whenever it wants
hooperdave @hooperdave Wikipedia claims Meheeco by Sky is 8/8 and 7/8. I'm sure they've done one in 3/4 and 4/4 or arguably 15/4
Jon Dickenson @Newtonfrisky Didn't 'Money' by Pink Floyd do 7/8 or 7/4 with 4/4 or something? It does sound a bit odd?!
Peter Jeal @redziller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIuDwESKjZc … Second part (from ~ 7mins) 4s & 3s classic Edgar Froese
Si Prentice @Mr_fermion Under a Glass Moon by Dream Theater, it's all over the show.
John Wilson @JohnWilson14 Try Radiohead's Pyramid Song - 7/8 time or something? - But you mean songs that interchange time sigs?
Laura Fearn @oulaura Some sections of Radiohead's Paranoid Android are in 7/8 timing in contrast to the general 4/4
Steve Skipper @SteveSkipper Nine Inch Nails March of the Pigs http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Pigs#section_1 … plus @trent_reznor had an interest in maths
Stephen J Henstridge @HenstridgeSJ I think "Money" (Pink Floyd) used a combination of 7/4 & 4/4
Alabaster Crippens @AlabasterC Outkast's Hey ya is probably the biggest pop hit of recent years to be so off kilter.
Alabaster Crippens @AlabasterC Blue Rondo alla Turk, 15 Steps, Money, Hey Ya!, two differently time signatured versions of Morning Bell.
davidjwbailey @davidjwbailey so many: for starters Foo fighters have intros in 7/4, and Genesis messed about with rhythm endlessly
Helen Ferguson @HelenFerguson5 love plus one by Haircut 100. What's the total?
Jane Bromley @jmbromley I like "New Math" composed and sung by Tom Lehrer.
Chris Marshall @oxbow_lakes American Pi: apparently it's 4
Helen Ferguson @HelenFerguson5 Senses Working Overtime by XTC. All together now 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc
Mark Fletcher @mdfletcher I am the Walrus: I = he as you = he therefore you = me and we are all together
FrankH @2FrankH Mathematic by Cherry Ghost
Jim Spinner @Vim_Fuego I believe when Queen recorded We Will Rock You @DrBrianMay used delay times that were prime numbers on the intro.
Raymond Vander Metal @MetalJudge Obvious - Karma Police "arrest this man he talks in maths" Radiohead
Matt Foster @matt_j_foster Quasimoto - Microphone Mathematics (which samples De La Soul) or The Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count
andy hilton @iamandyhilton The amazing Kate Bush and Pi
Johnny Daukes @jdaukes Violent Femmes 'Add it up...'
Richard Hopkins @dadhopdog I've always loved the five beat rhythm of Take Five or the seven beat rhythm of Sabine-Gould's Gabriel song
Alfred Walker @donawalf Bobby Darin's multiplication.
Dz3k0 @JamesDafydd Calculus rhapsody on youtube.
Jerry Roche @JerryRoche no. 6 on this article might be what you're looking for: http://www.cracked.com/article_18896_10-mind-blowing-easter-eggs-hidden-in-famous-albums.html … #biglink
david kelner @davidkelner The album A Grounding In Numbers by Van Der Graaf Generator has a track called 5533 among other mathematical delights
Jenny Jacoby @pixiecake obviously, three is the magic number. Even with the sums as lyrics I don't remember the three times table.
Cheesy winner Bruno Mars U can count on me like 1 2 3 I'll be there. And I can count on u like 4 3 2 U'll be there
Michael Seaton @mikeo_s Tom Lehrer's New Math and Lovachevsky - arithmetic method vs. results and mathematical plagiarism. :)
Malcolm Chalmers @UrsaMal Jonathan Coulton - Mandelbrot Set. Contains a (slightly adapted) version of the entire formula.
Phil Marsh @Hey_Marshy anything by Joy Division
Justified Left @justified_left Big Audio Dynamite: E=mc2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRyZyrnVsFA …
Paul O'Hagan @pmohagan 2 4 6 8 Motorway. (2 times table for the keen eyed).
Lorna @LornaRedpath Inchworm with Danny Kaye - maths isn't just for the classroom! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXi3bjKowJU …
Joel Tibbitts @TibbittsJoel It has to be Three is the magic number by Bob Dorough.Kate Bush's song Pi about pi is also good.
sam wollaston @samwollaston Hit Me With Your Logarithm Stick by Ian Dury #bbcradio6 #MathsMusic
Robert Smyth @RobertSmyth The whole Bjork's Biophilia album. One is 17/4.
Louise Brown @LouiseBrown definitely @applesinstereo. Robert did a whole episode of Relatively Prime on it @Samuel_Hansen
James Fowkes @fowkc check out Klein four "finite simple group of order two" http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUTby_e4-Rhg&gl=GB …
Norman Dunbar @NormanDunbar One and One is One by Medicine Head? I think they got it wrong!
Oliver Prior @InfraredPanda Most time signature changes in a song for some ~(relaxing) Sunday listening: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=69410 …
Monday, 15 October 2012
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Monday, 11 June 2012
Maths on Stage: The Dramatic Life of Numbers
A packed tent for double maths at 10 on a Saturday morning at the Hay Festival was a very gratifying sight as I came on stage for the first of three events I did at the Hay Festival this year. And the stage was the right place to be discussing the exciting fusion of maths and theatre that has emerged over the last few years. I was exploring my collaboration with Complicite on their award-winning show A Disappearing Number and a new show that I am devising and acting in with actress Victoria Gould. This new show is in some sense a baby of A Disappearing Number as it is growing out of many of the themes we explored while developing the play Complicite did on the extraordinary collaboration between Hardy and Ramanujan. We will be giving people a sneak preview of our work in progress on this new piece at Latitude Festival this year when we perform Act 1.
In my event at Hay I wanted to show the audience why the world of mathematics and theatre are actually much closer than you might imagine. On the spur of the moment I decided to use my event to create our own little bit of mathematical theatre at Hay. I wasn't sure whether it was going to work but in the end it was surprisingly effective. A lot of the theatre games that Complicite use to devise their theatre depend on setting up very simple rules that allow the actors just to concentrate on reacting to their fellow actors. Being given the freedom of the stage and being asked to improvise something can quickly lead to a creative freeze. Simple theatre games often allow something unexpected to emerge that no one could plan.
We started with an exercise that I think can look magical. 20 members of the audience came up on stage. I asked each person to silently choose two others on the stage. When I said "go" they had to move to try to create an equilateral triangle with the two people they'd chosen. (The person and the two they've chosen must be an equal distance from each other). Of course the two people you've chosen are unlikely to have chosen you so a strange dance starts to emerge on stage. As the audience members still in their chairs watched on they observed an extraordinary crowd ebbing a flowing on stage, something that would have been impossible to choreograph without the simple mathematical rule. It was chaos in action...and it was very funny to watch. Three girls did end up choosing each other and very quickly stabilised as a still triangle in the chaos. As the scene developed the others began to get close to stability. A stillness across the group seemed to emerge but then one person moved very slightly, obviously trying to get their equilateral triangle perfect. That caused other triangles to become unequal and more people began to adjust. Very soon manic chaos had flooded the stage again.
The second exercise I did was one that actually appeared in the production of A Disappearing Number. I got 5 volunteers from the audience. They came on stage and immediately formed a group of 3 on one side of the stage and 2 on the other. This is called a "partition of 5". The exercise was to find how many different ways there are to partition the 5 people, how many different groupings were there? The members in each of the groups doesn't matter. It's how many there are in each group that is important. When I said "go" 1 member of the group of 3 peeled off. Suddenly we had 2+2+1. One of the couples separated. We had 2+1+1+1. 3 partitions of 5 people had already been found. But then the one that broke off went to join one of the other actors on their own. We'd returned to 2+2+1. It was a different arrangement of people but the same pattern as the second partition. Gradually they went through the other partitions. 3+1+1, a single group of 5 people. Then suddenly one broke off. We had a group of 4 and one actor on his own. You could feel his sense of loneliness, rejection by the group, the strength of the group of 4 staring at him. We'd got 6 partitions. I said that there was one they'd missed. They thought for a while. And then suddenly all separated into individuals on the stage. 5 groups of 1. 1+1+1+1+1. The exercise had discovered all 7 different ways of partitioning 5 actors. But in the process they'd created a poignant piece of theatre. Partition Numbers are a sequence of numbers that Hardy and Ramanujan had great success investigating. If you have a 100 actors how many ways are there to partition them? Hardy and Ramanujan discovered a formula for telling you.
While working on A Disappearing Number I did a number of workshops with Complicite for Drama and Maths teachers. The Drama teachers of course all want to come to a Complicite workshop but maths teachers are a little more reluctant about doing some physical theatre workshops. So we made it a condition that the drama teacher from a school could only come if they also bought a maths teacher with them. Apparently this was the first time many of them had talked to each other in the school common room. As the teachers gathered at the beginning of the session it was quite easy to spot who were the maths teachers and who were the drama teachers. Half of them were waving their arms around, shaking their legs, rolling their shoulders, warming up for a physical workout. The other half were in a corner looking rather shyly at their shoes. However it didn't take long to get everyone buzzing. The maths teachers came into their own and felt more confident as we took them all off on a journey to explore why one infinity might be bigger than another. The Complicite website has a work-pack that was developed out of the workshops which teachers and others might enjoy.
I might add some more to this post but got to rush down to the National Theatre to do some maths with the cast of A Curious Incident of the Dog In The Time. More maths on stage!
Monday, 28 May 2012
Dara O'Briain's School of Hard Sums
I am co-hosting a mad comedy maths game show with Dara O'Briain on the TV channel Dave.
I was away filming for another series last week when an episode was aired that required some calculus. I got lots of tweets and emails about the problem so thought it worth just explaining how you solve it. It's got some great maths in it.
Problem: A lifeguard at the beach spots a swimmer in distress in the water. They need to run across the sand to the water and then swim out to rescue the swimmer. But what is the fastest path to take? If he can run twice as fast as he can swim, should he run as far as possible to swim the shortest distance possible? Or should he take a shorter path even if it involves more swimming? Here are the dimensions of the beach and locations of the lifeguard and swimmer.
Lets suppose the lifeguard's running speed is v1 and swimming speed is v2. The task is to find x which will minimise the time taken to travel along D1 and D2. The time taken is exactly T=D1/v1+D2/v2.
We note that v1=2*v2. Since v1 is a constant instead of minimising T we minimise v1*T i.e. v1*T=D1 +2D2. Now by Pythagoras D1=√(x2+22) and D2=√((75-x)2+252). To minimise v1*T we differentiate the right hand side with respect to x and set this derivative to zero. We solve for x and this gives us the critical value for x. Explicitly, once the maths is done we compute that x=60.58m. This you can get by Newton approximation method.
There is also a cute physical way you could use to solve this puzzle. Once you realise that you are having to minimise D1+2*D2 you can then take a piece of string which you run from the red spot round the yellow spot and then back to the point where the string crosses the dividing line. You then drag this point on the dividing line along the line and see where the string length is smallest. At x=60.58 you'll get a point where suddenly you need more string to move in either direction.
When you set the differential to 0 and expand it then they will get a quartic polynomial. If you want to find the exact value (rather than an approximate value) then you are going to need to know how to find roots of a quartic! Also there are 4 solutions. Two are complex but there is another real solution at 89.43. This corresponds in the equation to taking different roots of the square root.
At school you learn about a formula for solving quadratic equations. There is also an extraordinary formula for solving quartic equations discovered by Italian mathematician Ferrari. Details are here. Feeding in the coefficients of our quartic gives the exact solution in the following form:
Glorious...if you like that kind of thing.
Why do we need to do quadratic equations at school? The problem Dara had to solve is an example where a problem of trying to find the optimal solution reduces to solving an equation. This one has x raised to the power 4 which we call a quartic. In school we learn how to solve a quadratic equation using a bit of algebra
Solving quadratic equations is something we do every time you catch a ball. If someone throws, kicks or hits a ball and you want to work out where to stand to catch it then the trajectory is described by a quadratic equation and solving it tells us where to stand. So Wayne Rooney is actually solving quadratic equations in his head every time he works out where to stand in the box to volley a ball in the back of the net.
This skill is very important in warfare too. If you want to hit a target then again you need to solve a quadratic equation to be able to decide the angle to fire the missile at.
We have been solving quadratic equations for millennia. The method we use dates back to ancient Babylon. The mathematicians of Babylon found a cunning way to solve these equations. They were interested in quadratic equations because they also describe areas of land.
But already in the tablets of ancient Babylon you can see people solving these equations not for practical reasons but for the fun of it. A quadratic equation is a bit like a cryptic crossword that hides the solution in some encrypted equation. Your challenge is to undo that cryptic description to reveal the answer to the puzzle.
The problem of finding a formula for solving cubics (things with x to the power 3) was one of the big challenges of the sixteenth century. Mathematical duelling was a public sport and great crowds would gather to watch mathematicians jousting with each other. Mathematicians would offer a cubic equation up and declare "solve that!" Tartaglia was an Italian mathematician who discovered the secret to solving these equations and made a lot of money in this public mathematical jousts. But he was tempted into revealing his secret to Cardano in exchange for the promise of future support. But Cardano betrayed his trust and told his student Ferrari who then saw how to generalize it to solving the quartic equation (x to the power 4 like in our problem). They published and poor Tartaglia lost the credit!
The problem of solving quintic equations (x to the power 5) turned out to be impossible with a simple formula and began the study of group theory which seeks to understand the world of symmetry.
You can find lots about this story in my book Finding Moonshine.
In order to find the value of x for which the time travelled is minimal we used the calculus. The calculus discovered by Newton and Leibniz is an extremely powerful tool for finding the optimal solution to practical problems. This idea of the power of the calculus to home in on the most efficient solutions to problems is one of the reasons it is a central tool in all modern science. It is used to do this day across the industrial and financial world. Investors use it to maximize profits. Engineers exploit it to minimize energy use. Designers apply it to optimize construction. It has now become one of the lynchpins of our modern technological world.
The calculus tries to make sense of what at first sight looks like a meaningless sum: what is zero divided by zero. Such a sum is what you are faced with calculating if you try to understand the instantaneous speed of an accelerating object. Take the famous apple that legend has it fell from the tree onto the young Newton's head in the garden at Woolsthorpe and inspired his theory of gravity. The speed of the apple is constantly increasing as gravity pulls the apple to the ground. So how can you calculate what the speed is at any given instance of time. For example after one second how fast is the apple falling? Speed is distance travelled divided by time elapsed. So I could record the distance it drops in the next second and that would give me an average speed over that period. But I want the precise speed. Well I could record the distance travelled over a shorter period of time, say ½ a second or ¼ of a second. The smaller the interval of time the more accurately I will be calculating the speed. But ultimately to get the precise speed I want to take an interval of time that is infinitesimally small. But then I am faced with calculating 0 divided by 0. The invention of Newton's calculus made sense of this calculation. He understood how to calculate what the speed was tending towards as you made the time interval smaller and smaller. It was a revolutionary new language that managed to capture a changing dynamic world. The geometry of the ancient Greeks was perfect for a static frozen picture of the world. But Newton's mathematical breakthrough was the language that could describe a moving world. Mathematics had gone from describing a frozen still life to capturing a dynamic moving image. In our case we are trying to understand the behaviour of the distance D(1)+2D(2) as the distance x changes. If you draw a graph of this you get a curved graph. The calculus helps you to find the point where this graph reaches its minimum.
Work has been done by Timothy J. Pennings (Associate Professor of Mathematics at Hope College in Holland, Michigan) that suggests dogs are very good at finding such optimal solutions. See here and here Of course the dog isn't really doing calculus (in the same way Wayne Rooney isn't really solving quadratic equations) but it illustrates and important point that evolution has wired our brains to be good intuitive mathematicians. Those who can do maths survived. But it is by externalizing this maths that we can solve problems that defy our intuition.
The optimal path lifeguard is also the one light would choose if it travelled twice as fast in air as in water. In actual fact light travels only 1.33 times faster in air than in water so its path would be slightly different. However, this bending of the light waves (called refraction) produces many strange phenomena, such as making a straight pencil seem bent when it is put in water. Total internal reflection can be observed while swimming, if one opens one's eyes just under the water's surface. If the water is calm, its surface appears mirror-like. Another very common example of total internal reflection is a critically cut diamond. This is what gives it maximum sparkle.
The science behind this principle is known as Snell's law. Snell's law states that the ratio of the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is equivalent to the ratio of phase velocities in the two media. Using Snell's law you can create total internal reflection. This occurs when, instead of light travelling from one substance to the next, the light reflects. This is a crucial physical phenomenon that allows us to use optical fibres. The light enters the plastic, and travels until it hits one of the walls. However, when it hits the wall, it is reflected instead of travelling through the clear plastic.


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Iowa's New Anti-Texting Thumb Bands Misunderstand How Teenagers Work
Iowa inadvertently creates the next Silly Bandz.
To stop residents from driving while texting, Iowa police have basically created the next Silly Bandz. As part of its "X the TXT" campaign, the state has ordered 30,000 thumb bands in black, blue, and bright pink with words "TXTING KILLS," giving them away at the Iowa State Fair and high school football games. Hey, take a picture of me driving with this thing on so I can tweet that shit. Seriously, have you ever seen a kid in a D.A.R.E. shirt that wasn't stoned? [WSJ]


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Introduction. Milton probably intended "The Passion" as a companion piece to "On the Morning of Christs Nativity" and possibly "Upon the Circumcision." Written for Easter 1630, this work examines the death of Jesus. Milton thought this poem was a poor specimen of his ability and most critics agree, rating it as his worst English poem. Like many seventeenth-century Protestants, Milton found the subject of the crucifixion very difficult, perhaps because of centuries of iconic treatment in the Roman Catholic and orthodox traditions. Milton never thoroughly revised the poem between its first publication in 1645 and its final printing during his life in 1673. He included it, unfinished, in the 1645 collection probably because he intended that collection (and its re-issue in 1673) as a record of his juvenalia. This might also account for the engraved portrait of the poet "at age 21" as the frontispiece; Milton was 36 for most of 1645. One textual change exists: "latter" in line 22 became "latest" in 1673. The copy-text for this edition is Poems (1645).
Ere-while. Formerly.
Musick. Music of the spheres.
Ethereal. Heavenly.
My muse. This refers to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", composed for Christmas 1629.
divide. The separation of a musical score into choral parts possibly to embellish a basic musical theme; but Milton also suggests that the division of parts applies to the division of voices, his own and those heavenly.
sease. Seize.
Heroe. Milton draws a comparison between the deeds of Christ and the labors of Hercules.
human wight. Human being.
Priest. Christ is refered to as high priest in Hebrews 2: 17, 3:1, 4:14-15, 5: 1-6
Tabernacle. Milton imagines Christ's body, anointed with oil ( Matthew 26: 7-13) as the successionist replacement for the tabernacle (Exodus 25: 10- 27) in which the "testimony" of God's word to Moses was to be kept. See also Hebrews 1:9.
front. The forehead of Jesus resembled the starry heaven as he descended to earth.
Phoebus. Apollo, god of poetry and father of the Muses, is often associated with Christ.
Cremona's Trump doth sound. A reference to Marco Girolamo Vida's The Christiad (1535), a epic in Latin about the life of Christ.
Lute, or Viol. The viol and lute suggest pastoral or elegiac poetry rather than the sounding brass of Vida's epic.
still. Quiet.
Pole. The starry pole or northern star; a synechdoche for the sky.
wannish white. Some seventeenth century funeral notices were printed on black paper with white lettering or with a black border.
Prophet up at Chebar flood. stood at the river Chebar and had a vision of a divine chariot. See Ezekiel 1.
Salem. Jerusalem.
Sepulchral rock. According to legend, the sepulcher of Christ was created out of a single rock. See Mark 15:46 and Matthew 27:60.
Casket. Treasure chest; the sense of "casket" as "coffin" dates from 1863 (see OED2). But see Shakespeare's use of caskets in The Merchant of Venice 2.7 where they carry death's heads as well as treasure.
hands up-lock. Hands locked together while praying.
softned Quarry. The massive rock from which the sepulcher was cut.
score. Incise or engrave.
plaining. Mournful.
lively. Vividly.
Characters. Letters.
viewles. Invisible.
Take up a weeping. See Jeremiah 9: 10.
got. Conceived or begotten.
race of mourners. One of Milton's more baroque images—an infection prompting tears likened to a race of mourners begotten upon a rain cloud. The image alludes to the story of Ixion in Pindar's Pythian Odes 2. Ixion thought he was ravishing Hera, but Zeus put a raincloud in her place; Ixion thus begot a race of centaurs. See also the complicated allusions to the same story in Paradise Lost 4.499-500 and Paradise Regained 4.318-321.


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Leutert, Christian R; Stawarczyk, Bogna; Truninger, Thomas C; Hämmerle, Christoph H F; Sailer, Irena (2012). Bending moments and types of failure of zirconia and titanium abutments with internal implant-abutment connections: a laboratory study. International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Implants, 27(3):505-512.
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PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the bending moments and fracture patterns of different zirconia abutments with internal implant-abutment connections after static loading and to compare their bending moments to those of internally connected titanium abutments. Materials and METHODS: Three types of customized zirconia abutments (Straumann CARES abutments/Straumann BL implants [T1], Astra ZirDesign abutments/Astra Micro Thread OsseoSpeed implants [T2], Zirabut prototype abutments/Straumann SP implants [T3]) and one type of customized titanium abutment (control group, Straumann CARES abutments/Straumann BL implants [C]) were included. All abutments were one-piece abutments with an internal implant-abutment connection and were customized to the same shape but featured different implant-abutment connection designs. For each group, 20 identical copies of a master abutment were fabricated and fixed on their corresponding implants. Half of the abutments in each group were left unrestored, and the other 10 received glass-ceramic crowns. Static loading was applied at a 30-degree angle to the palatal surface until failure, and bending moments were calculated. The type of failure was characterized visually by dismounting the abutments and by examination of cross-sections of the embedded specimens. The results were analyzed statistically.
RESULTS: The mean range of bending moments was higher for the unrestored groups (158.2 to 678.2 Ncm) than for the restored groups (117.9 to 419.4 Ncm). The highest mean bending moments were seen in the control group, both restored and unrestored (419.4/678.2 Ncm). Unrestored, T1 and T2 exhibited significantly higher bending moments than T3. This was also observed in the restored groups. CONCLUSION:Both the abutment material and the implant-abutment connection design affected the bending moments of abutments after static loading. Internally connected zirconia abutments with horizontal mismatch to the implant exhibited significantly higher bending moments compared to those without horizontal mismatch.
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Welcome to Aldous Systems
Aldous Systems (Europe) Ltd. distributes a number of brands which ultimately create whole house automation solutions. Established in 2002, with a commitment to excellent customer service and a strong engineering background in networking products, Aldous Systems has managed to build a significant customer base in the UK. Product lines currently cover a range of technologies including structured cabling, security, door entry and intercom, energy management, lighting control, multi-room audio, home theatre and total control.


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Added my Flickr gallery to the site.
Since I have been getting into using my Nikon D60 a little bit more, I decided to add my flickr gallery to the site. For now it is just a slideshow off of flickr.com but I may use one of the many wordpress plug-ins or create my own flickr plug-in later on.
iPhone theme: SCOUR
I have been working on this theme off and on forever now. I have easily put more time in on this theme than any previous theme I have created. Click "read more" below to go into the post and download the theme.
CORE Identity and Business Card.
CORE is a new petroleum and mineral rights service company. They came to me looking for a logo for their company as well as a business card to start theirentrepreneurship. I created a logo that I believe to be timeless, and something that can grow with their business. The card I kept stark, and I felt the white space and blank red flip side of the card gave a veryauthoritative feel.
A site designed and created by me for UNOCO Petroleum Land Services. The site uses Wordpress as a content managment system. To view the site navigate to unocopls.com
A site created in Worpress™ for the Tennessee section of American Socitey of Civil Engineers. The site can be viewed at tnasce.org
Dream Systems environmental awareness flyer.
Another Dream Systems piece. This piece was created as a full color flyer that was handed out at a conference for environmental awareness. I got the call for the project about a week before the several 1000 flyers needed to be printed, so a quick turnaround was a necessity.
Julia Martin .com
A website created for a local Nashville artist, Julia Martin, to display her work and perhaps, in the future, sell her work. The site can be seen at julia-martin.com.
Ether Workshop
A partner in the field of design, Ether Workshop is a design shop located in East Nashville. I put this version of the site together for Ether Workshop at the begining of 2008. The site can currently be seen at etherworkshop.com.
Paradise Park Online
The site was created for a downtown Nashville venue called Paradise Park. The club is one that tries to be as "red neck" as they can, and they wanted a site taht reflected that. All the flash work, illustration, and coding were done by me.
Glyphs2 & nanoGlyphs
Sometime back, when I first was starting to theme the iphone and ipod touch, I created a theme of glyphs so that other artists could use them for there themes as a starting point. Some of the gyphs in that theme I was much happier with then others, not to mention it was missing some of the standard apps since the 2.0 software release for the iPhone. So this is my next go at it.
Dream Systems Press Kit
Created for Dream Systems, an audio visual company that focuses on the newest technologies, this pres kit is meant to be a left behind for potentialclientel and investors. The photography in this case is stock but all design decisions are completely original.
iPhone theme: SHINE
Yet another iPhone theme. I have just recently upgraded to 2.0 on my ipod touch, and I created these themes before I did the upgrade, so they are missing some 2.0 apps such as winterboard and cydia. I will make the updates to the theme though soon. Please check out the post for the credits to the flickr users that supplied the theme with the awesome photography.
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April 13, 2012
TUCSON, Ariz. -
Arizona's No. 29-ranked women's tennis team continued its home court dominance on Friday as it defeated Colorado (7-12, 0-8) by a score of 7-0. The Wildcats (13-8, 3-5) extended their home-court winning streak to 11-0 on the season.
Arizona started the match strong, winning the doubles point for the ninth time in 11 matches. Sophomores Susan Mc Rann (Dublin, Ireland) and Kim Stubbe (Mol, Belgium) finished a quick match at the No. 3 spot, followed by senior Natasha Marks (Nottingham, England) and sophomore Lacey Smyth (Oceanside, Calif.) at No. 1 to take the doubles point.
Senior Sarah Landsman (Syosset, N.Y.) and freshman Hailey Johnson (San Diego, Calif.) also earned a win at the No. 2 spot for the Wildcats.
"The team played a well-rounded match and I was happy to see everyone get a win," Arizona head coach Vicky Maes said. "Doubles went smoothly. Our games have improved so much and it really has resulted in high confidence on the court."
Arizona did not let up in singles play, as all Wildcats finished off their competitors in straight sets.
Freshman Laura Oldham (Sheffield, England) was the first to finish with her 6-1, 6-0 defeat of Ania Anuszkiewicz at the No. 5 position. Landsman was not far behind in her win over Carla Manzi Tenorio to give UA a 4-0 lead after a default at the No. 6 spot.
Smyth, Stubbe and Marks also earned victories at their respective positions.
"Singles was also focused and well-executed for everyone," Maes said. "We needed a strong, consistent performance going into tomorrow's match with Utah."
The Wildcats will be back in action on Saturday, April 14 to take on No. 43 Utah at Robson Tennis Center. Competition is slated to begin at noon and is free to the public.
For complete results and continued coverage of Arizona Women's Tennis, visit ArizonaWildcats.com.
Arizona 7, Colorado 0
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Arizona (13-8, 3-5)
Colorado (7-12, 0-8)
No. 1 Smyth/Marks (Arizona) def. Janssens/Steur (Colorado), 8-1*
No. 2 Landsman/Johnson (Arizona) def. Manzi Tenorio/Anuszkiewicz (Colorado), 8-3
No. 3 Stubbe/Mc Rann (Arizona) def. Schleich/Sabourin (Colorado), 8-0
Order of Finish: 3,1*,2
No. 1 Lacey Smyth (Arizona) def. Kristina Schleich (Colorado), 6-1, 6-3
No. 2 Natasha Marks (Arizona) def. Winde Janssens (Colorado), 6-3, 6-4
No. 3 Kim Stubbe (Arizona) def. Julyette Steur (Colorado), 7-5, 6-0
No. 4 Sarah Landsman (Arizona) def. Carla Manzi Tenorio (Colorado), 6-0, 6-1*
No. 5 Laura Oldham (Arizona) def. Ania Anuszkiewicz (Colorado), 6-1, 6-0
No. 6 Hailey Johnson (Arizona) def. Camille Sabourin (Colorado), DEF.
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How to Calculate the Price of a Call Option With Replication
Original post by Ryan Menezes of Demand Media
A call option is a contract that lets an investor buy stock in the future at a fixed price. The option is worth money when the stock's trading price exceeds its fixed price from the option. A replicating portfolio contains stock shares, which are the call option's underlying asset, along with a separate riskless asset. Through replication, asset managers choose the portfolio's components so their combined cash flow equals that of the call option. The far simpler reversal of this calculates the option price from the replicating portfolio.
Step 1
Multiply the number of shares in the replicating portfolio by the stock's final price. For example, if the portfolio contains 50 shares, and its stock sells at $70 when the call option expires, multiply 50 by $70 to get $3,500.
Step 2
Add one to the interest rate on the portfolio's borrowed funds. For example, if the interest rate is 8 percent (0.08), add 1 to 0.08, giving 1.08.
Step 3
Multiply the number of borrowed dollars that went into the portfolio by the sum from the previous step. For example, if the portfolio contains $1,000, multiply $1,000 by 1.08, giving $1,080.
Step 4
Subtract the sum in Step 3 from the sum in Step 1: $3,500 minus $1,080 is $2,420. This is the price of the call option whose cash flow the portfolio replicates.
- National Taiwan University: Static Hedge
- Volatility and Correlation: The Perfect Hedger and the Fox; Riccardo Rebonato
About the Author
Ryan Menezes is a professional writer and blogger. He has a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Boston University and has written for the American Civil Liberties Union, the marketing firm InSegment and the project management service Assembla. He is also a member of Mensa and the American Parliamentary Debate Association.
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PyPy sprint announcement: Gothenburg 7th - 11th December 2005
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Gothenburg PyPy Sprint II: 7th - 11th December 2005 ====================================================== (NOTE: internal EU-only sprint starts on the 5th!) The next PyPy sprint is scheduled to be in December 2005 in Gothenborg, Sweden. Its main focus is heading towards phase 2, which means JIT work, alternate threading models and logic programming (but there are also other possible topics). We'll give newcomer-friendly introductions. To learn more about the new PyPy Python-in-Python implementation look here: http://codespeak.net/pypy Goals and topics of the sprint ------------------------------ We have released pypy-0.8.0_, which is officially a "research base" for future work. The goal of the Gothenburg sprint is to start exploring new directions and continue in the directions started at the Paris sprint. The currently scheduled main topics are: - The L3 interpreter, a small fast interpreter for "assembler-level" flow graphs. This is heading towards JIT work. - Stackless: write an app-level interface, which might be either Tasklets, as in "Stackless CPython", or the more limited Greenlets. - Porting C modules from CPython. (_socket is not finished)(Continue reading)


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New York City has changed the minimum age to legally buy tobacco from 18 to 21, becoming the first major city to do so.
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Cantina Part 11- The Darkest Hour
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*The world turned dark and gloomy. Winds raced along the planetside, throwing dirt and ash into the air. The ground itself retained alot of the heat that was generated by the bombardments.
Suddendly out from nowhere a sphere of dark energy forms from the minutest size of a grain of sand, increasing to a formitable size. The sphere reshapes into a two diemisional object.
A few moments later beings appear from one of the sizes of the newly formed 'portal'. The beings 'appeared' carring stormtrooper rifles to be almost of the same race, but their appearences differed from one another. But each of them held a distinctive trait, their appearences were demonic.
The 'demons' threw a portion of their clothing over their faces to block out the dust and ash in the extreme wind.
Finally not too long after a sort of 'Lord' Demon walked out, his traits were completely differnt fromt he rest. Looking almost completely human, but for a few differences, pointed earlobes, sharp fingernails to be used a claws, and finally two large 'bird-like' wings with long black feathers. He didn't bother to cover his face in the wind.
He looks down at the ground, kneels and gathers a bit of the scorched soil into his hand. He rubs the scorched soil in his hand, looking at it, analising it.*
Lord Demon "This soil has to be about at least three hundred degress, and this damage appears recent. Who ever did this to this planet won't worry about us colonising it." *Turning to a large demon* "Commander, begin your operations at once."
*The 'Lord' demon turns around and walks back through the portal, which closes afterwards.
The commander demon orders the few demons to begin searching for the best possible place to set up a place to 'inhabit'.*
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Domingos Antonio "Tony" Fernandez
BANGOR - Domingos Antonio 'Tony' Fernandes (z), 92, of Bangor, Maine, died on April 29, 2014, at the Bangor Veterans Home, in Bangor, Maine.
Born in Palmerton, PA on April 12, 1922 son of the late Manuel Jose Fernandes and Maria Pereira Necho. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Albino Fernandes and Thomas Pereira, sister's Emily, Anna and Rosalina Benda.
Tony enlisted in the Coast Guard on July 2, 1942 as a signalman and went to school at Westfield High School in Massachusetts. He was on active duty for two years in the United States and Europe in
World War II
. He was honorably discharged on March 19, 1946. He work many years as store managers for many grocery stores throughout Maine, Shop n' Save, First National, and A & P.
He was married to Jeanne Greenlaw on February 8, 1946 in Belfast, Maine and they had four children. Tony cherished his memory of his life to his family, two sons John Fernandez, wife Linda of Bernard, Maine, William Fernandez, wife Diane of Bradford, Maine and daughters, Nancy (Fernandez) Higgins, husband, William of Greenville, Maine and Vicki Fernandez Newell, husband George of Holden, Maine and a brother Manuel Fernandes, Jr. in Swansea, MA.
Tony had five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, Anthony with his son Christopher of Trenton , Andrew Taylor of Machiasport with his two children Aiden and Sarah and Mark Taylor, wife Emese of Camden, and Felicia Fernandez of Brewer, and Thomas Fernandez of Bradford.
In his free time, Tony loved working in his gardens before arriving at the Veterans Home in Bangor and blessed with a great sense of humor, he was always ready to share a good joke with family and friends.
The family would like to thank the staffs of Maine Veteran Home, of Bangor, for the care given to him.
Private funeral services will be held at the Veterans Civic Center Cemetery in Augusta, Maine at a later date.
Published in BDN Maine on May 1, 2014