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Within minutes of landing back on Earth from space, Major Tim Peake chatted to a former Richmond College journalism student!
David Shukman, the BBC's man on the spot when the space capsule landed in Kazakhstan, trained at Richmond in the 1970s and keeps in touch. Lifted out of the capsule and feeling fresh air on his face for the first time in six months, Major Peake faced a crowd of scientists, medics and reporters. TV viewers heard him say: 'Hello David - that was the best ride I've ever had!'
David - now BBC News Science Editor - has previously interviewed Britain's only woman space traveller, Helen Sharman . . . whose father, John Sharman, was head of science at Richmond College during David's time there.
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Thanks for visiting. If you are interested in the training of journalists, for whatever reason, you should find this stuff entertaining - and possibly even useful! Enjoy the read . . .
Gerry Kreibich was one of five journalism lecturers at Richmond College, Sheffield, throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In those pioneering days the simple aim of the National Council for the Training of Journalists was to impart editorial skills that would enable students to join provincial newspapers and immediately be useful. What happened to those students after that was up to them . . . and many are now prominent people in newspapers, magazines, radio and television (and quite a few have retired!)
The work was often experimental - methods that worked well were constantly improved, bright ideas that failed were abandoned. Thus were laid the foundations of much that happens today in colleges and universities all over Britain.
Greetings from far away . . .
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Senior guard Jermart Miller scored the final seven points of the game, including a go-ahead four-point play with 18 seconds left, to rally Texas A&M-Commerce to a 71-69 victory over Eastern New Mexico University Thursday night in a Lone Star Conference men's crossover game at Greyhound Arena.
Miller, held in relative check for much of the game, scored 11 of Commerce's final 13 points over the last 3 1/2 minutes, rallying the Lions from a six-point deficit.
Miller finished with 26 points for Commerce (8-1), which extended its winning streak to seven. Chris Fantroy added 13 and Lamar Searight 11.
"He's a good player," ENMU coach Shawn Scanlan said of Miller. "We did a good job on him for (most) of the night. We made him take tough shots.
"We tried to keep a fresh body on him most of the night, but sometimes you just have to take your hat off to him."
Miller did a lot of damage last year at Greyhound Arena, scoring most of his 29 points to help the Lions pull out a 97-90 win.
The Hounds (3-4), losing their third in a row, got 15 points from junior guard Stephen Wilson, 14 from junior forward Ira Cross and 11 from junior guard Travis Carr.
Down by six at halftime, the Hounds went in front 49-48 with 10:13 left on a 3-pointer by Carr and never relinquished the lead until Miller's late heroics.
Jolen Montoya gave the Hounds a 69-64 lead on a steal and driving layup with 1:18 left. After Miller scored for Commerce, ENMU's Tristan Largent was called for a charge in the lane with 31.6 seconds left and the shot clock running out.
Miller then made the game-tying shot from wide left over Largent, who was called for a foul on the play. Miller made the free throw, then added an insurance free throw after Montoya's bank shot from the left side was off.
Largent missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer from the left corner as time ran out.
Commerce coach Sam Walker said the Lions were fortunate to get the win.
"I really thought coach Scanlan's team played harder and more efficiently than us," he said. "They got every loose ball and every hustle play. They just didn't get the ball to fall for them."
Walker said his team didn't overlook the Hounds, noting that the trip to ENMU and to West Texas A&M is a tough one for his team.
"We watched last year's game on film and knew how difficult it would be," he said.
The Hounds, who couldn't get their offense going in losing a pair of crossover games in Oklahoma, continued to struggle in the first half against the Lions. Still, despite shooting only 26 percent (11-of-42), ENMU was able to keep the game close.
Cross led the Hounds with 10 points at the half, but the rest of the team was just 6-of-34 from the field.
The teams exchanged the lead early before Commerce opened a 22-14 lead with eight minutes left after an 11-0 run, capped by seven consecutive points by Fantroy.
The Lions eventually extended their lead to 28-18, but a 3-pointer by freshman guard Joshua Jackson with under two minutes left kept the Hounds within 33-27 at the break.
Commerce, getting 11 points from Fantroy and nine from Miller, shot 52 percent for the half on 12-of-23. But the Lions committed 10 turnovers and were outrebounded 25-20 by ENMU, which grabbed 15 offensive rebounds in the half.

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Margaret Thatcher, one of the most significant leaders of the 20th century, died yesterday at age 87. A model of convictional leadership, Margaret Thatcher became…
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We live in a morally confused age, but there is little confusion about the fact that sexual behavior and personal character are inseparable.
The expanding scandal now associated with Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta is only the latest to dominate the nation's media attention. Four young men have filed lawsuits against Bishop Long, accusing him of trading gifts for sexual favors while they were still teenagers. Long told his massive congregation yesterday that he would fight the charges like David fighting Goliath.
But, as Tom Breen of the Associated Press reports, the larger issue here is the lack of accountability in many Christian ministries and independent mega-churches.
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It's too early to say whether the sex allegations against Bishop Eddie Long, the famed pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta, will spur the kind of soul-searching that followed the downfall of the Rev. Ted Haggard in Colorado.
Regardless, pastors and experts say the Long case demonstrates how vulnerable the country's independent churches still are to being damaged by the misbehavior — sexual, financial or otherwise — of leaders whose considerable influence often comes with temptation and little accountability.
The prior scandal in so many of these cases is the lack of accountability in these ministries. Many of these independent mega-church pastors are de facto dictators, totally without accountability structures. The congregations lack the discipline of a denomination, and the pastors or leaders often lack any accountability at all.
At the end of Breen's article, Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School points to the congregation as the instrument of accountability. Breen writes:
"The main check on leadership that goes berserk is really the congregation," said Harvard Divinity School professor Harvey Cox, an expert on Pentecostal and charismatic churches. "You've got to keep the congregation with you, or they can toss you out."
Well, the problem is that these ministries are built on charismatic leadership, so the congregation rarely tosses any leader out, regardless of behavior. In a confrontation with a Senate committee, Bishop Long was asked if he, rather than the church's board of directors, was in actual control. We are about to find out.
What about at your church?
Tom Breen, "Some Churches Like Georgia Pastor's Thin on Safeguards," The Washington Post, Saturday, September 25, 2010.
A news report from Washington, D.C. tells the story of vestigial Christianity unhinged from biblical authority. Religion News Service [RNS] reports that many pastors in the nation's capital are struggling with just how they can go about the wedding of same-sex couples now that gay marriage is legal in the District of Columbia.
This past Sunday marked the 45th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill, the man widely regarded as the greatest leader of the twentieth century. Churchill's life was large in every way. Born in the splendor of Blenheim Palace on November 30, 1874, Churchill's life would span the most decisive years of the transition into the modern world. Though faced with great adversity — and driven by a titanic self-confidence — he would emerge as the man who saved England from collapse in its darkest hour.
In my personal library I have two entire sections devoted to Churchill's own works and books about him. The most massive biography of Churchill is the multi-volume official biography written by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert. In recent years, significant single-volume biographies have been written by both Martin Gilbert and Roy Jenkins. Shorter works have been written by historians such as John Keegan. Those who love Churchill cherish the two volumes written by William Manchester, and lament that the third volume will never be written. Biographical studies on Churchill have been offered by figures ranging from Lord Moran, his personal physician, to the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Yet, until now, no shorter biography has done Sir Winston justice. Until now, that is, for the publication of Churchill by Paul Johnson fills that lamentable gap in the literature.
Johnson is a well-known British historian and a man of ideas. His books have their own honored place in my library, ranging from Modern Times and Intellectuals, to his History of the American People. With Churchill, he succeeds where others have failed. He captures Winston Churchill in under 200 pages of elegant and clear prose. The reasons for Johnson's success are these — he knows how to write, he knows the history of the era, and he knows Winston Churchill. Johnson never gets over his admiration for the great man, but he sees him in honest and very human terms.
Johnson is a master of the English language, as was Churchill. Noting Churchill's famous oratory — one of his major weapons of warfare — Johnson remarks that "he switched it on to its full power just as Hitler switched his off."
Johnson traces Churchill's life from his rather tragic childhood to the glory of his funeral service, an occasion of Britain's most severe mourning. He deals honestly with his shortcomings, character flaws, and setbacks. But he never loses sight of the man's greatness, nor the importance of his place in history. Paul Johnson's Churchill is now the first book I would recommend to anyone who would ask why Winston Churchill still matters. Lest anyone miss the lessons of the biography, Johnson offers five important lessons from Churchill's life in an epilogue. Churchill will please those who know little about Winston Churchill, as well as those who know a great deal.
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In his ninety years, Churchill had spent fifty-five years as a member of Parliament, thirty-one years as a minister, and nearly nine years as prime minister. He had been present at or fought in fifteen battles, and had been awarded fourteen campaign medals, some with multiple clasps. He had been a prominent figure in the First World War, and a dominant one in the Second. He had published nearly 10 million words, more than most professional writers in their lifetime, and painted over five hundred canvases, more than most professional painters. He had reconstructed a stately home and created a splendid garden with its three lakes, which he had caused to be dug himself. He had built a cottage and a garden wall. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, an Elder Brother of Trinity House, a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a Royal Academician, a university chancellor, a Nobel Prizeman, a Knight of the Garter, a Companion of Honour, and a member of the Order of Merit. Scores of towns made him an honorary citizen, dozens of universities awarded him honorary degrees, and thirteen countries gave him medals. He hunted big game and won a score of races. How many bottles of champagne he consumed is not recorded, but it may be close to twenty thousand. He had a large and much-loved family, and countless friends.
Communication is one of the central tasks of leadership. No one seemed to know this like Ronald Reagan. Much like Winston Churchill, President Reagan understood the power of words and the opportunity of a great speech.
On June 12, 1987, President Reagan delivered the 1,279th speech of his presidency. He stood at the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall and called for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to take down the wall.
Well into his speech, the President said:
We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some political prisoners have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state control.
Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace.
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
"Tear down this wall." Those four words, now so memorable, were words with effect. Just over two years later, the wall fell, torn down by a people tasting freedom.
In Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War, author Romesh Ratnesar, deputy managing editor of TIME magazine, tells the story of that speech and its delivery.
That story is nothing short of amazing. Ratnesar's book takes the reader into a feverish debate at the very top levels of the American government. He tells of diplomats and other figures who sought at great length to prevent the President from speaking those four words. The diplomatic establishment feared that the President's ultimatum would "embarrass" Gorbachev.
Ratnesar takes the reader into the times, into the White House, and into the mind of President Reagan. The book is a fascinating historical account. Leaders will be especially interested in Tear Down this Wall for its lessons in the strategic importance of words, a message, and the power of the spoken word.
From the book:
Reagan loathed the Wall. On a trip to West Berlin in 1978, he was taken to an eighth-floor office overlooking it and told the story of Peter Fechter, the youth who had been gunned down by East German police in 1962 as he tried to crawl over. The authorities left Fechter unattended for nearly an hour, while he bled to death. "Reagan just gritted his teeth when he heard all of this," says Peter Hannaford, a longtime aide who was with Reagan that day. "You could tell from the set of his jaw and his look and some of the things he said that . . . he was very, very determined that this was something that had to go.
The world around us is changing at a velocity unprecedented in human history. But we must realize that while the world seems to be changing…
"Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that…
As Solomon warned, "Of making many books there is no end" (Ecc 12:12). There is no way to read everything, and not everything deserves to be read. I say that in order to confront the notion that anyone, anywhere, can master all that could be read with profit. I read a great deal, and a large portion of my waking hours are devoted to reading.
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Hopkins, Budd, b. 1931
Painter, Sculptor
Active in New York, N.Y.
Collection size: 0.6 linear ft.
Collection Summary: Correspondence, writings, printed material, an audio cassette of a lecture, and photographs concern the career of painter Budd Hopkins.
Nineteen letters from artists and colleagues William Littlefield, George Mellor, Rafael Ferrer, Leo Manso, and Carol Haerer (1960-1981). A 3-page financial statement records money due to Hopkins from the Tirca Karlis Gallery (1967). Writings include artist's statements (1956-1972); a 1972 chronology of Hopkins' life; 7 typescripts by Hopkins including a manuscript on MISSING TIME: THE UFO ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE (1980) and essays on recent American painting and artists Jim Brooks, Remo Farruggio and Franz Kline; and Robert Motherwell's essay about Hopkins (1979).
Printed material consists of clippings (1961-1982), exhibition announcements and catalogs (1958-1983), and 3 art school brochures (1962-1974). An audio cassette tape and a 10-page transcript record Hopkins' lecture, "Modernism and the Collage Esthetic, " delivered at Montclair Art Museum (1979). Five photographs and 2 color transparencies show Hopkins; 9 photographs and 121 slides show his works and installations.
Biographical/Historical Note: Painter; New York, N.Y. After attending Oberlin College, Hopkins moved to New York City in 1953, receiving his first exhibition at the Poindexter Gallery in 1956. Later he spent summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he exhibited at the Tirca Karlis Gallery.
Donated 1980-1983 by Budd Hopkins.
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Lexington, KY – A group opposing a state constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage has been going door to door trying to raise opposition to the measure.
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If passed, Amendment #1 would change the state Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. It would also ban other marriage-like arrangements such as civil unions and domestic partnerships.
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Works for adults, too. A line in the water, no hook, just a bobber. Some shade, a good book and a little cooler with some beers. Everyone leaves me alone because I'm fishing. Try to read in the house and it's, "is that all you're going to do today?" LOL
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In the interview, Moore reveals that while in Tokyo to present the results of focus group testing in which gamers likened his former employer Sega to a "granddad with dementia who used to be cool but you couldn't remember why," Naka accused Moore of tampering with the tests. And that didn't go over with Moore at all. Not one bit.
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Here are some pictures of the most recent Washington generation chips. These are C16 chips — 16*16*8 = 2,048 physical qubits. Enjoy!
First look at some results from Washington chips
Colin Williams recently presented some new results in the UK. Here you can see some advance looks at the first results on up to 933 qubits. These are very early days for the Washington generation. Things will get a lot better on this one before it's released (Rainier and Vesuvius both took 7 generations of iteration before they stabilized). But some good results on the first few prototypes.
One of the interesting things we're playing with now is the following idea (starts at around 22:30 of the presentation linked to above). Imagine instead of measuring the time to find the ground state of a problem with some probability, instead measure the difference between the ground state energy and the median energy of samples returned, as a function of time and problem size. If we do this what we find is that the median distance from the ground state scales like where is the number of qubits, and is the number of couplers in the instance (proportional to for the current generation). More important, the scaling with time flattens out and becomes nearly constant. This is consistent with the main error mechanism being mis-specification of problem parameters in the Hamiltonian (what we call ICE or Intrinsic Control Errors).
In other words, the first sample from the processor (ie constant time), with high probability, will return a sample no further than from the ground state. That's pretty cool.
Discrete optimization using quantum annealing on sparse Ising models
Another paper, demonstrating some interesting techniques for overcoming practical problems in using D-Wave hardware. (Apologies Diana for the continuing lack of interpretation of these results🙂 ). These techniques were applied to Low Density Parity Check problems.
Discrete optimization using quantum annealing on sparse Ising models
- 1D-Wave Systems, Burnaby, BC, Canada
- 2Department of Computer Science, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
This paper discusses techniques for solving discrete optimization problems using quantum annealing. Practical issues likely to affect the computation include precision limitations, finite temperature, bounded energy range, sparse connectivity, and small numbers of qubits. To address these concerns we propose a way of finding energy representations with large classical gaps between ground and first excited states, efficient algorithms for mapping non-compatible Ising models into the hardware, and the use of decomposition methods for problems that are too large to fit in hardware. We validate the approach by describing experiments with D-Wave quantum hardware for low density parity check decoding with up to 1000 variables.
Reexamining classical and quantum models for the D-Wave One processor
More science on data from the D-Wave One system at USC.
Reexamining classical and quantum models for the D-Wave One processor
We revisit the evidence for quantum annealing in the D-Wave One device (DW1) based on the study of random Ising instances. Using the probability distributions of finding the ground states of such instances, previous work found agreement with both simulated quantum annealing (SQA) and a classical rotor model. Thus the DW1 ground state success probabilities are consistent with both models, and a different measure is needed to distinguish the data and the models. Here we consider measures that account for ground state degeneracy and the distributions of excited states, and present evidence that for these new measures neither SQA nor the classical rotor model correlate perfectly with the DW1 experiments. We thus provide evidence that SQA and the classical rotor model, both of which are classically efficient algorithms, do not satisfactorily explain all the DW1 data. A complete model for the DW1 remains an open problem. Using the same criteria we find that, on the other hand, SQA and the classical rotor model correlate closely with each other. To explain this we show that the rotor model can be derived as the semiclassical limit of the spin-coherent states path integral. We also find differences in which set of ground states is found by each method, though this feature is sensitive to calibration errors of the DW1 device and to simulation parameters.
Quantum annealing correction for random Ising problems
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We demonstrate that the performance of a quantum annealer on hard random Ising optimization problems can be substantially improved using quantum annealing correction (QAC). Our error correction strategy is tailored to the D-Wave Two device. We find that QAC provides a statistically significant enhancement in the performance of the device over a classical repetition code, improving as a function of problem size as well as hardness. Moreover, QAC provides a mechanism for overcoming the precision limit of the device, in addition to correcting calibration errors. Performance is robust even to missing qubits. We present evidence for a constructive role played by quantum effects in our experiments by contrasting the experimental results with the predictions of a classical model of the device. Our work demonstrates the importance of error correction in appropriately determining the performance of quantum annealers.
Getting in on the Ground Floor: Investing in Quantum Computing
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Two interesting papers from the Ames crew
Hi everyone! Sorry for being silent for a while. Working.🙂
Two interesting papers appeared on the arxiv this week, both from people at Ames working on their D-Wave Two.
First: A Quantum Annealing Approach for Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Graph-Based Systems
Second: Quantum Optimization of Fully-Connected Spin Glasses


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In your class notes or your text, what formulas do you have for present and future value? What formula do you have (if any) for an annuity?
Please help me solve this problem
Parents have two children aged 10 and 5 years now. The parents set up a savings account at an interest rate of 11,5% per hatf-year that will provide each child with and equal lump sum of Rx on their 18th birthday. If the parents deposit consecutive, equal, annual amounts of R11500 into the savings account starting one year from now and ending when the last child turns eighteen, then the value of Rx (to the nearest rand) is:
thanks in advance
OK. First there is something of an ambiguity in how the problem is given. What is the relationship of birthdays to when the deposits are made? What is the relationship between the birthdays of the two children? Are there fractional years involved? Is there a payment made on the 18th birthday? Another ambiguity is exactly what value is being asked for. The intuitive answer is how much is given to each child, is that correct?
Probably it is best to give the exact and complete problem so we are not guessing.
How many deposits will be made, assuming that the younger child turned 5 today, the first deposit will occur 1 year from today, and the last will occur 13 years from today? What will the future value of those deposits be 13 years from today.
That is the while question.
The possible answers are(rounded off):
I'd be great full if you could just give me a basic idea on how to solve it, how do I make it such that both children get the same about?
This is a nightmare to answer because the problem is grossly under-specified. It is not even clear what amount you are supposed to be finding. So I cannot be sure that I am giving you good guidance. I do get an answer that is close to one that is provided to you. The difference probably comes from conventions on rounding and truncation, but I can't be sure.
I am going to assume that the two children have the same birthday and that today is that birthday. This assumption avoids having to deal with fractional years. I am also assuming that the desired answer is the total amount that is divided evenly between the two children.
Let's get some preliminaries out of the way.
The relevant interest rate is $\left(1 + \dfrac{11.5}{2 * 100}\right)^2 - 1 \approx 0.118,306 = 11.8306\%.$ Now your problem may use a different approximation.
Now this is a question about future values so we will be using those formulas.
How many deposits are there.
Well the first occurs next year, when the children turn 6 and 11 respectively. I am assuming that a final deposit is made on the younger child's 18th birthday.
So that gives us 13 deposits at ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18, but we cannot use our formula for those 13 deposits because there is a withdrawal when the older child turns 18. There will be an equal withdrawal when the younger children turns 18.
$Let\ w = amount\ of\ withdrawal \implies 2w = amount\ given\ to\ children.$
The older child will turn 18 in 8 years. What will be in the account after the eighth deposit is made.
The answer is: $11,500 * \dfrac{\left(1 + 0.118,306\right)^8 - 1}{0.118,306} \approx 140,574.99.$ That part is just the formula.
How much is left in the account when the older child receives w. Obviously, $140,574.99 - w.$
Now 5 more deposits will be made at the start of years 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. How much will that accumulate to over the five years from year 8 to year 13. Again this is just the formula.
$11,500 * \dfrac{\left(1 + 0.118,306\right)^5 - 1}{0.118,306} \approx 72,812.23.$
But this may not be all that will be in the account. Some money may have been left in the account back when the withdrawal was made for the older child. If so, that money will still be there plus accumulated interest. So we have to use the other future value formula.
Amount left over plus accumulated interest = $(140,574.99 - w) * (1 + 0.118,306)^5 = 245,873.28 - 1.749,054w.$
So the total in the account to give to the younger child is $72,812.23 + 245,873.28 - 1.749,054w = 318,685.51 - 1.749,054w.$
Wonderful, but what is w? Well the amount in the account when the younger child turns 18 is to be w. Oh goody: we have an equation.
$w = 318,685.51 - 1.749,054w \implies 2.749,054w = 318,685.51 \implies w = 115,925.52 \implies 2w = 231,851.04.$
That looks pretty close to one of the answers you are given to choose among. When I work this out using excel, it comes out within 0.03. See what happens if you use 11.83% instead of 11.8306%.
11,500* [1-(1+w)^(-13)]/w = x (1+w)^(-13) + x (1+w)^(-8)
where w=(1+.115/2)^2-1=.11830625
Solve for x.
I'm somewhat surprised that the indefatigable math knight-errant Sir Wilmer/Denis didn't come to your aid sooner. For the record, I just finished my 6th beer bottle; so I wouldn't bet on me solution too much. Not too worry though, I'm sure Sir Wilmer/Denis will come along shortly to challenge my answer and guide you along, and lecture me for posting drunk again. Cheers.
Anyways, I take it that you're under the impression that my take on this situation is rather hazy; that my present value approach is not the way to do it.
The beauty of equations of value involving compound interest problems is that the answer will not vary with the choice of location of the focal or comparison date. I simply chose the present as comparison/focal date out of convenience (I didn't look at your analysis at the time as it seemed too lengthy for my heavily intoxicated brain at the time and because it was pure punishment using a smartphone what with the letters being too small and all). Your suggested solution, on the other hand, used the end of 15 years as the comparison date (with a lot of analysis and intermediate rounding involved).
Equivalently, you could have just as easily summarized the whole problem with the end of 15 years again as comparison date with the following equation of value:
11,500 * [ (1+w)^13-1]/w = x ( 1 + w ) ^ 5 + x
where w=(1+.115/2)^2-1=.11830625
Without any rounding of the effective rate w, you'd see for yourself that x=115,925.620233917...
(vs. your w=115,925.52, not much difference)
Btw, if I seem redundant, it's because I just had some strong brandy. Also, how come you specified twice the value of x (w in your case) as the final answer when the OP's problem was just asking for the value of x, thus my comment "None of your possible answers came close to mine." to his/her list of possible answers.
First of all, I tend to be erring rather than errant.
Right you are. I solved your equation and got an answer that differed from mine and assumed that there was something wrong with your answer. I think I probably made a mistake in entering the equation into my calculator. Of course, I may also have not noticed that you and I were answering different questions.
Anyway, it was dumb of me not to notice that you were equating the present value of two equal but non-simultaneous future values with the present value of the annuity used to create those future values. Very elegant solution. I wish I had thought of it.
Now as to why we got different answers. The question was very badly specified, were the birthdays on the same date or not, how far away from the present were the birthdays, etc. Worse, it appeared to be a multiple choice problem. Consequently I could not work backwards from the answer to what the premises of the problem actually were. Very frustrating. I eventually concluded that the question was asking for the total amount to be paid out at the two different birthdays. That did give me an answer close to one of the ones that were proposed. You made a different guess as to what the actual question proposed was. I also had to make a guess as to how the problem was dealing with fractional amounts: truncation, rounding, frequency, etc. Who knows what the author of the problem intended? I don't particularly like multiple choice questions.
Now what is most interesting to me is why I didn't hit on your elegant solution. (Well one possibility is that I am stupid, but I tend to reject that answer without many grounds for doing so.) I think the main reason is that I tended to present solutions to such problems in the form of a spreadsheet because people understood the spreadsheet and feared the formulas as magic. (I used the formulas myself to make sure I had not erred in constructing the spreadsheet.) Anyway that got me focused on the accrual aspect of the residual in the account after the first withdrawal.
Anyway, in case any student comes along and goes over this thread, it may be worthwhile to show that there are different methods to use the four basic formulas to arrive at the same answer. The formulas will almost always give an approximate answer because the actual answer will depend on the specific details of how interest computations are rounded or truncated.
My way, which is future and process oriented, sees that the account will be accumulating on an annuity basis for 8 years, then will have a withdrawal that leaves a residual, which will earn interest for five years, to which will be added an annuity for 5 years, leading to a final and equal withdrawal.
That gives the following equation for w, the amount of one withdrawal, and uses both future value formulas.
$\left(11,500 * \dfrac{1.11830625^8-1}{0.11830625} - w\right)(1.11830625)^5 + \left(11,500 * \dfrac{(1.11830625^5-1)}{0.11830625}\right) = w \implies$
$2.7490562w \approx 11,500(12.2239232 * 1.7490562 + 6.3315) \implies w \approx \dfrac{11,500 * (21.38033 + 6.3315}{2.7490562} \approx 115,925.62.$
This differs from my answer above because of a more exact approximation of the relevant interest rate. Furthermore, if the question is asking about the total amount disbursed, then 2w is the correct answer. That is approximately 231,851, which is close to one of the proposed answers, namely 230,840.
Jonah's way, which is present oriented and elegant, sees that, over time, the value of the deposits and withdrawals must equal, which means that their present values are equal. So he equates the present value of the deposits, using the present value of an annuity formula) to the sum of the present values of the two withdrawals.
That gives the following equation for w, the amount of one withdrawal, and uses both present value formulas.
$11,500 * \dfrac{1 - 1.11830625^{-13}}{0.11830625} = w\left(1.11830625^{-8} + 1.11830625^{-13}\right) \implies$
$0.64253w \approx 74,485.7623 \implies w \approx 115,925.73.$
The difference in the answers is negligible and is the result of rounding and truncation errors.


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Plans for Bryan and Wyatt, News on Kaitlyn's Fitness Clothing Line, RAW
- Former WWE Diva Kaitlyn has a new Twitter account for her Celestial Bodiez women's fitness clothing line at @CelestialBodiez. She tweeted:
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- WWE's website has a new playlist from last night's RAW of post-show reactions and Superstars discussing the launch of the WWE Network. Renee Young tried to get a word with The New Age Outlaws after walking out on CM Punk but they only "had two words" for her and kept walking.
- WWE is expected to announce a Daniel Bryan vs. Bray Wyatt singles match for the Royal Rumble on next week's RAW.
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Driving through downtown Port-au-Prince, it can be difficult at first to see much change from a year ago, when a 7.0 earthquake devastated this impoverished island nation. But despite the surface appearances, faith-based aid workers insist there has been progress in dealing with the humanitarian catastrophe. "The progress is slow, maybe not as quick as other emergencies, but ... we're moving ahead," Nicole Peter, Haiti operations director for the Christian relief agency World Vision, told Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. (RNS)


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"You won't like what she has to say about Indians," warned my husband, referring to my book.
I was 100 pages into my classic novel, and really enjoying it. Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead was coincidentally all over American news. Her philosophy, Objectivism, which had roots in The Fountainhead, was being credited for influencing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's Republican running mate.
The second I heard that Paul Ryan loved Ayn Rand, I knew my love affair with her was over. At that point in time, I hadn't yet grasped what Objectivism was — but I knew it couldn't be good if either Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan subscribed to her doctrines.
I don't care much for politics — not in Canada, not in the U.S. But my husband loves American politics and follows it religiously. I like to tease him by requesting tales of Mitt Romney antics at bedtime. Nothing puts me to sleep faster.
In any case, I continued reading my novel; albeit now wary of the characters and the direction they might take. Naturally this annoyed me, as I had previously found Rand's style of writing intelligent and refreshing, regardless that The Fountainhead had been first published in 1943.
But I didn't want my opinion marred just yet. I wanted to see where Rand would take the story before I studied her personal prejudices with what I knew might be inevitable disgust.
I had to wait until nearly the end of the book.
I had been willing to go along with the plot, with all the characters out to destroy the intransigent hero, because that is typical storyline fare. He was the hero. He would overcome them and be the shining beacon of fortitude to set example for all of us. He was Howard Roark, after all. He was the brilliant and daring architect that I wished could design my dream home.
Then he opened his mouth and all my admiration for him rapidly dissipated. Roark was selfish, egotistical and judgmental — nothing like the hero I envisioned him to be. I was partly to blame. I placed him on a pedestal, and one day he proved he was infallible, much like the disturbing discovery of a precious role model who is only human and capable of mistakes, like anyone else.
When I got over the disappointment and disillusionment I was ready to face Ayn Rand's opinions on American Indians. She stated in a lecture, at her infamous Address to West Point in 1974:
"They didn't have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using … What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their 'right' to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent."
Rand was spewing this racist vitriol in 1974. I would like to think we've come a long way since then, but the frightening reality is that our neighbours to the south could actually elect a vice-president who is comfortable espousing the tenets of someone so brazenly ignorant.
I can't say I was astonished to read her obscenities. After Howard Roark made his smug speeches on the value of individuality, debasing collective rights, I already knew what Ayn Rand would say about Indians.
Not surprisingly, much of her knowledge of American Indians was based on Hollywood stereotypes. Her asinine Objectivist arguments which promote capitalism are full of bigotry and contradictions.
On the one hand, she decries men who blindly follow others, but on the other hand she appeals to those very men, as she envisioned the masses would conform to her wild ideals.
I could not help but feel a pervasive loneliness when I read The Fountainhead. To be so biased and singular in your beliefs that you would push everyone away as you clamber to the top seems both bleak and isolating.
After I finished all 727 pages of The Fountainhead, I was profoundly grateful to be born a Cree woman. Having witnessed what it is like to be a part of such a beautiful and formerly repressed culture, I am privy to the joys of compassion and humility. Having always been an underdog in both race and gender, I understand the value of every person around me and I appreciate the interconnectedness of everything in nature.
Though I may while away my days in solitary confinement, it is a sacrifice I understand necessary to my craft as a writer. When I close my laptop and emerge from my room I like to connect to those around me. I still feel a part of something — something greater than me. Perhaps I am still in awe of the magnificent splendour that is all of Creation, and likely I always will be.
I think The Fountainhead endorses dated ideals. However, I could see how its elitist drivel would appeal to younger, more impressionable crowds. For someone who is mature and discerning, after serious and essential contemplation, this might be the book to reinforce your convictions and oddly enough, reinstate your faith in mankind.


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The Jeffrey A. Bartlome' Memorial Research Grant is designed to promote research in the health professions at Idaho State University. Specifically, the research grant will support undergraduate and graduate students in the health professions in any phase of research activity. This may include, but is not limited to, the purchase of equipment, cost of materials, travel for data collection, or costs associated with the dissemination of information. Research projects should have the potential for publication. A call for proposals will be issued at the start of each fall semester.


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Kid-friendly Linux distro gets a new character, features.
Qimo For Kids, the Linux distro aimed at educating children, today received a minor upgrade in the form of Qimo 2.0.
Qimo 2.0 features support for multiple accounts and replaces the eToys application on the launcher with Laby, a educational game that teaches children the basics of programming. A new character is introduced to the Qimo environment. Illa (pronounced 'ee-la') is a polar bear.
Qimo is based on Xubuntu Linux. If you're already using Ubuntu 10.04, Qimo can be run within your existing OS by using Apt-get or Synaptic to add the qimo-session package from the Universe repository. Qimo 2.0 can be dowloaded via BitTorrent and mirrored at USF, NiuX, and the University Roma.
Try DoudouLinux!We have launched a new kid's Linux this summer. Its name is DoudouLinux ( http://www.doudoulinux.org/ ) and its main goals are the following:
* be as easy to use as a gaming console
* provide as much kid oriented apps as possible (currently around 50)
* drive small children into mastering computer use from age 2
* be natively in kids language, we currently support 8 languages and provide 7 additional demo languages
* be simple for Dad and Mum too (no administration, no updates – it's read-only system, no naughty web sites – thanks to web content filtering, etc.)
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Lollipop Chainsaw First Look Preview -- Give Me a Chain! Give Me a Saw!By Kevin Kelly - Posted Sep 01, 2011
It seems like Suda51 can sneeze and have five games come out. Have you noticed that? At Gamescom alone he was previewing Black Knight Sword, Sine Mora, and Lollipop Chainsaw. That's a platformer, a side-scrolling shooter, and a 3D action game, all at the same game show. Plus, this is just a couple of months after putting Shadows of the Damned on store shelves. Either he has a crazy work ethic, or he's figured out how to clone himself.
He's also working closely, again, with Akira Yamaoka, composer of Silent Hill, to bring forth Lollipop Chainsaw, the newest game to burst forth from his overflowing Grasshopper Manufacture. But this one is about as far as you can get from platformers and side-shooters, although it does reside squarely in line with Shadows. But where that game is dark creepy with a dose of humor, Lollipop Chainsaw is bright and cheery with a dose of humor amidst a lot of horror elements. Think Army of Darkness with a buxom, bubbly cheerleader in the lead role instead of Ash.
Lollipop Chainsaw comes from minds of both Suda51 and James Gunn, the writer/director behind Super, Slither, Dawn of the Dead, and Tromeo and Juliet, so you can probably imagine what kind of game you'll end up with. And if you can't imagine, I'll just tell you right here in this preview. Sadly, Suda51 couldn't join us, although he did record a special message for us telling us how sad he wasn't there and warning that we might turn into zombies if we play too many video games. Which of course, we do.
You star at Juliet Starling, a cheerleader at San Romero (nice nod to George Romero) High, which has suddenly been overrun by zombies. Juliet is a an 18-year old student who carries a dark secret with her. She also wields a powerful chainsaw, and has a disembodied head of someone named Nick chained to her waist. When we asked if that was her boyfriend or what, we were told "All we can tell you is that his name is Nick." So, is that part of her dark secret? We'll find out at some point, but apparently she has the genetic makeup of a zombie hunter, which puts her squarely in Buffy's camp.
Juliet is trying to get to the bottom of a huge zombie outbreak, only to discover that the horde of undead "is only the opening act to a festival of zombie rock lords determined to kill the chainsaw-wielding cheerleader." Which brings us to the gameplay which yes, involves a lot of killing zombies with a chainsaw. And when we say "a lot," we mean a lot. This is a bloody and horrific game, to be sure. But it's filled with plenty of light moments as well, like the fact that Juliet's health powerups are lollipops, her favorite food. Does that even count as a food group?
It does to Candy, who appears to live in her own world. There's death, destruction, and the undead raining down all around her, and she's quipping lines, spouting rainbows, and generally being a girly girl, all while dishing out dead ends to zombiekind. All while opening up fountains of gore, literally. There is a ton of blood and guts in this game, and it's not for the squeamish. I have no idea how many shopping moms are going to accidentally pick this up for their daughters thinking that it's a cheeky game about a female lumberjack, only to walk in on their kid squealing gleefully while chopping zombies in half.
In the game, the menus are presented comic book style, which is also prevalent throughout the game. Think Vertigo horror comic with comedy, and you'll get the picture. Juliet, the titular (and we mean that) character has light attacks, which don't do much damage but allows her to set up the zombies into different formations, which will allow her to trigger combo moves for bigger points. She's extremely acrobatic, flipping around all over the place, and she uses cheer-based acrobatic modes to stun zombies. The more combos you pull off, the more rewards you get.
Juliet can also use her cheer attacks to set up execution moves, which are extremely over the top, and those also net her stars which unlock her special abilities. Throughout the game she'll encounter turned students, and in many cases teachers who often serve as mini-bosses, and she'll also find human students who haven't been turned yet, and if she's able to save those students, she'll net a big bonus. But, if she fails, those turned student zombies are more powerful and harder to take down that the standard undead.
She also has a dodge attack where she playfully leapfrogs over the head of an approaching zombie, and she can use that move to set up execution moves as well. The first maxi-boss we encountered during our demo was a punk-rock zombie named Zed, who Juliet calls a "Hot Topic Sales Reject." One rule of thumb for the game is that if a zombie has a name, it means he or she is more powerful. After shoving his menu card aside (nice touch), Zed attacks Juliet with a microphone, and he'll later summon amplifiers that drop down on the stage, threatening to kill Juliet.
But, Zed also proves that words can literally kill you in this game, as he'll scream things at her like C*CKSUCKER, and the enormous word will appear onscreen and rush towards Juliet, who can either dodge or smash through the letters. They'd overpowered Juliet for the purpose of our demo, and Juliet makes fast work of him, destroying his speakers and then killing him with her chainsaw, while he jibber and jabbers as the blade decimates him. There's a ton of not-safe-parentals language in these scenes, so buyer beware. But, it is hilarious dialogue, so you're also not going to want to miss out on it.
Lollipop Chainsaw is due out sometime in 2012, and so far it looks like one of Suda51's more enjoyable titles for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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Suda51 games =Must buy!!Posted: September 5, 2011 9:08 PM
NEVER has he made a game that sucked!!! Let's grab the game broPosted: September 5, 2011 9:07 PM
Suda 51 either reads minds or knows that Gen NESer's like me eat crazy stuff like this up like vitamins. I've already preordered it in anticipation. Has Suda 51 ever made a game that sucked? I ask because I haven't found one yet.Posted: September 2, 2011 10:38 AM
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