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Family SportRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
Three brothers share a family sport:
A non-stop marathon
The oldest one is fat and short
And trudges slowly on
The middle brother's tall and slim
And keeps a steady pace
The youngest runs just like the wind,
Speeding through the race
"He's young in years, we let him run,"
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"'Cause though he's surely number one,
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Dirks to do 'nothing' for three weeks
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Andy Dirks has no idea when his back started giving him problems, only that it had been bothering him for quite some time, back to his school days. However, he can pinpoint the play on which it flared up to the point that he had to get it checked.
It was a fly ball Dirks tried to run down last Sunday against the Braves at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex.
"I had a little bit of pain with it off and on [before that], but nothing extreme," Dirks said. "And then, I was running for a fly ball, and it kind of locked up. That was the first clue to me. It just kind of tightened up, and I could feel some pain going down my left leg. But then it kind of goes away. Like when I get loose, it wasn't too bad. But in the morning, waking up was the worst."
It clearly wasn't fine, but Dirks wasn't expecting it to require surgery to repair a disk in his back. Now, instead of spending the next few weeks trying to stake his claim to playing time in left field, he's going to be sitting around his Spring Training apartment, unable to do any workouts while his back heals.
"You prepare as well as you can, and when an injury happens you feel like all that was for nothing, because now I'm not going to be able to do anything for three weeks," Dirks said. "I'm just going to sit in the apartment. But you can't let it get you down at all. I know when I come back that I'll be stronger than I was before. …
"When you first think of back surgery, it seems like something that's just crazy, like you might not ever play again. And really, when you look at the facts, it's not as bad as maybe I played it out at first."
Doctors have expressed confidence to him that the surgery will be successful, and that his recovery should last about 12 weeks.
"It's like three weeks of nothing, let your body heal," Dirks said. "Then it'll be three weeks of physical therapy, then three to five weeks of some sort of baseball activities starting out."
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ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST - Several forest roads recently closed by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works Thursday due to snow and icy condition have been reopened, officials said Sunday.
The reopened roads include Angeles Forest highway from Angeles Crest Highway to Aliso Canyon Road, Big Tujunga Canyon Road from Angeles Forest Highway to Vogel Flats Road and Upper Big Tujunga Canyon Road from Angeles Forest Highway to Angeles Crest Highway, DPW officials said in a written statement.
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Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Features of Chronic Pancreatitis
This study has been terminated.
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The purpose of this study is to correlate Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) criteria for chronic pancreatitis with surgical pathology.
|Chronic Pancreatitis
|Other: chronic pancreatitis
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|Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Features of Chronic Pancreatitis: A Prospective Correlation With Intraoperative Findings and Surgical Pathology
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|September 2014
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|Chronic Pancreatitis
Other: chronic pancreatitis
No intervention, subjects followed through surgery
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Patients who are eligible are individuals who have:
- normal pancreas
- suspected chronic pancreatitis
- established chronic pancreatitis (by ERCP, MRI, previous EUS, CT)
- pancreatic cancer
Patients who are not eligible are individuals who have:
• an uncorrectable coagulopathy (platelet <50,000, INR>1.5), or bleeding disorder, or are unable to discontinue anticoagulation 5-7 days prior to EUS (aspirin and bridging therapy with lovenox are allowed, clopidogrel is not allowed)
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Michelle Obama is the First Lady of the United States and the mother of two daughters. In February 2010, she launched Let's Move!, a nationwide initiative to address the epidemic of childhood obesity by bringing healthier food into schools and communities, and encouraging kids to be more active. American Grown is her first book.


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August 27, 2013 — Welcome to the latest in our series of #WomenCan profiles, highlighting executives and experts who are Catalysts for change within their companies and fields.
Meet: Claudia Brind-Woody, Vice-President and Managing Director of Intellectual Property Licensing, IBM, United Kingdom.
From courtside to corporate: I started out working in sports, after playing college basketball. As a graduate student at the University of Tennessee, I was an assistant coach to Pat Summitt—one of the masters of college basketball—and then became the Assistant Athletics Director. I shifted to academia as an Assistant Dean at the University of Texas at Austin, until a headhunter recruited me to a role as VP of Business Development for a telecommunications company. I was asked to join the 1996 Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games to help bridge the gap between technology and sports by managing multiple technology providers. IBM hired me after the Olympics, and since then I have worked in a variety of roles, including a three-year stint in Finland as the IBM Managing Director for the Nokia account.
My personal rules of play: 1) I always listen when someone approaches me with an opportunity, then I do my homework. 2) I see things as opportunities instead of obstacles. 3) I pick my bosses, based on whether I can respect their integrity, their focus on the team, and their track record of leadership. 4) I ask myself, "What would I do if I were not afraid?" And then I do it.
Building a strong team: Playing and coaching sports significantly influenced my business leadership skills. Getting the right talent on the team is critical, and it's up to the coach to develop that talent appropriately. I use the team analogy to teach everyone (but mostly straight, white, middle-aged men) about the value of a diverse staff. Imagine if you had to put together a basketball team with all point guards to play against a more balanced team made of players of various positions. Who would win? When I explain it that way, suddenly a light bulb goes on for people, as they realize that the team with diverse talent will win every time.
My champions: I have had many mentors who have offered sage advice throughout the years. Some wisdom that really resonated: "authenticity matters." It takes courage to be yourself in the workplace, but it builds a foundation for trust with your co-workers. If you want to be part of a high-performance team, be authentic, so your energy isn't spent hiding or conforming, but rather on achieving your goals.
Game-changing strategy: It is in claiming my own authenticity that I have been able to be a catalyst for change in the workplace. As a lesbian who has chosen to be "out," I can help make a difference for LGBT employees throughout the world. I serve as co-chair of the IBM LGBT Executive Taskforce, and have been asked to speak in places like Poland, China, India, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, where the topic is difficult but critically important.
Winning tips: Develop an expertise, so you will always be a go-to player on the team. Know what you want, and ask for it. When I was mid-career and looking for my next assignment, my mentor asked me what I wanted to do next. I proceeded to tell her a dozen things I could do. She told me to come back when I could tell her specifically what I wanted. Once I did, I had the assignment I had asked for within six months. Never underestimate the power of asking for what you want.
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MALVERN'S North Midlands Cup semi-final with local rivals Worcester Wanderers has been bumped back until April because of the poor weather.
The Spring Lane side were due to play the last-four derby clash tomorrow, but the rearranged Midlands One West visit of Walsall takes priority.
Malvern's pitch was deemed unplayable last weekend, so the game against Walsall has been switched for tomorrow (2.15pm), which means the cup contest must be rescheduled.
Head coach Nick Tisdale was due to take last night's training session on the Spring Lane pitch, but it is still extremely wet and muddy.
A decision on whether the game can go ahead will be taken this afternoon.
Malvern spokesman Peter Woods said: "The top training pitch with the floodlights actually drains quite well, but it is too small to play league games on.
"Anyway, Nick prefers his players to train on a similar surface to the one they will play on at the weekend, which is why they planned to train on the first-team pitch last night.
"With the Walsall game being off last weekend, a few players have had extra time to recover from their knocks.
"Number eight Jamie Anderson was set to be on the bench last weekend, but the extra week could mean that he now starts tomorrow.
"Fly-half Adam Dixon still has a shoulder problem and we need to make a late decision on whether he can play or not. Tom Longley will step in at 10 if Adam can't play, but Alan Keylock is definitely still out.
"We have a free Saturday at the end of February, which can be used if the game is postponed again this weekend. However, any more postponements after that could cause a backlog."
Woods added: "The North Mids semi-final would have been our first cup game at home in more than three years, but that will have to wait now.
"The final isn't played until May anyway, so the semi being shifted to April is no real problem."
Meanwhile, Malvern will be screening both of tomorrow's big Six Nations games on the big screen at their Spring Lane base.
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Simon Kerry, A4LS network manager, said:
"The Angels for Life Sciences network will address the need for a UK-wide angel investment network to provide angels with the opportunity to invest in high-quality, emerging life science businesses and provide these businesses with an important funding channel.
"The importance of the life sciences sector to the UK economy has been reinforced by the government's support for the sector, including its Strategy for UK Life Sciences and the Biomedical Catalyst. This support has helped create an environment where angel investors can make a positive return on life sciences investments."
A4LS will bring together sector-experienced angels and generalist angels to invest in high quality life science companies. The sector-experienced angels will provide guidance and validation to for the generalists to invest in the life sciences sector.
The network will be led by Simon Kerry and Will West, life science entrepreneurs both with 20 years experience including in early-stage life science companies, and Eileen Modral, Investor Development Manager at Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION). The network is supported by the BIA, Fasken Martineau, Nesta, OION and Wellcome Trust.
The first A4LS meeting will be held in London next month and life science companies are invited to apply for an opportunity to present. A4LS aims to secure investment sof up to £2 million per company.
Steve Bates, BIA Chief Executive Officer, said:
"Access to finance is the key challenge for life science companies and I am delighted that the A4LS network provides a new opportunity for start-up companies to access capital.
"A4LS stands alongside recently announced funding initiatives, such as the Biomedical Catalyst, Cancer Research Technology Pioneer Fund, Wellcome Trust Project Sigma and the Index Ventures life sciences fund, to make the UK a place with a range of funding opportunities for life sciences companies at all stages of development."
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Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model One out of the three major indices are trading lower today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 51 points (0.4%) at 13,835 as of Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,532 issues advancing vs. 1,325 declining with 146 unchanged. The Financial sector currently sits up 0.3% versus the S&P 500, which is unchanged. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include MetLife ( MET), down 2.0%, Citigroup ( C), down 1.6%, Credit Suisse Group ( CS), down 1.2%, Royal Bank of Scotland Group (The ( RBS), down 1.0% and Royal Bank Of Canada ( RY), down 0.8%. Top gainers within the sector include CommonWealth REIT ( CWH), up 35.6%, American Tower ( AMT), up 2.5%, Nomura Holdings ( NMR), up 2.5%, Orix Corporation ( IX), up 2.4% and Banco Santander ( SAN), up 0.6%. TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector lower today: 5. Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A) is one of the companies pushing the Financial sector lower today. As of noon trading, Berkshire Hathaway is down $1,560.00 (-1.0%) to $148,340.00 on light volume Thus far, 261 shares of Berkshire Hathaway exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 700 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $148,105.00-$149,599.00 after having opened the day at $149,524.00 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $149,900.00. Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. Through its subsidiaries, the firm primarily engages in the insurance and reinsurance of property and casualty risks business. Berkshire Hathaway was founded in 1889 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska. Berkshire Hathaway has a market cap of $139.7 billion and is part of the insurance industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 2268.8, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 13.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. TheStreet Ratings rates Berkshire Hathaway as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income, revenue growth, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company is trading at a premium valuation based on our review of its current price compared to such things as earnings and book value. Get the full Berkshire Hathaway Ratings Report now. It's Official: Action Alerts PLUS beats the S&P 500 with Dividends Reinvested! Cramer and Link were up 16.72% in 2012. Were you? See what they are trading for 14-days FREE
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Corrective work has been ordered on Osea Island's ancient causeway after hundreds of tonnes of rubble was deposited without a licence in March.
According to Osea Island Resort, the huge piles of rocks, which were flagged up as a potential danger to boats, were being used by contractors to maintain the causeway that leads to the 400-acre island in the River Blackwater, near Heybridge Basin.
But the Marine Management Organisation said that the necessary marine licence under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 had not been granted and issued a remediation notice in June that required the material to be removed within eight weeks.
Owner Nigel Frieda appealed and the notice was suspended.
The case was heard by the First Tier Tribunal, General Regulatory Chamber (Environment) and an agreement reached for the corrective work to now be carried out.


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Elgin Genealogical Society (EGS) announced its 2014 Beginners' Workshop Series today - each one will cover a different topic important to helping you further your research.
The workshops will be held on the third Thursday of each month in the Community Room, Gail Borden Public Library, 270 N. Grove Avenue, Elgin, Illinois 60120 at 7:00 pm. All EGS meetings are open to the public.
Mark your calendar for these important dates in 2014:
- Jan 16, 2014 - Getting Started with your Research
- Feb 20, 2014 - Getting the Vitals Down—Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
- Mar 20, 2014 - Turning Fiction to Fact: Using, Identifying and Citing Sources
- Apr 17, 2014 - Making Sense of the Census
- May 15, 2014 - Organizing your Research
- Jun 19, 2014 - Using Libraries to Continue your Research
- Jul 17, 2014 - Analyzing and Tracking your Research
- Aug 21, 2014 - Using Websites to Help your Research
- Sep 18, 2014 - Digging into Land Records: The Neglected Resource
- Oct 16, 2014 - Dusting Off those Old Court Records
- Nov 20, 2014 - Fanning the Flames
"We are very exciting about the upcoming workshops" says EGS president, Sara Taylor. "They will provide new researchers the basic knowledge needed to create valued family histories and give veteran genealogists an opportunity to mentor others while brushing up on fundamentals."
Morning meetings are also held the first Tuesday of each month.
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'"After four hours of sleep, I woke up about 5 a.m. with a severe pain in my left shin and calf," he recalled. "By 7, my leg was so swollen, I couldn't walk. Here we were one game from the Stanley Cup Final and a staff infection was attacking my body. By 8, I was at the hospital and doctors were talking about how the infection, if not caught quickly, might take my leg or being life-threatening."'
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Are charter schools innovative? A new research brief, "School Innovation in District Context: Comparing Traditional Public and Charter Schools" by Courtney Preston, Ellen Goldring, Mark Berends, and Marisa Cannata examine whether the levels and types of innovation differ between charter and traditional public schools. Looking within a district context, the authors also explore the factors that predict a charter school's propensity toward innovation.
Theoretical claims that charter schools spur innovation lie in two realms: the first stems from market theory and the second from the idea that charter schools have greater autonomy and are free from the bureaucracy that may prevent innovation in traditional public schools. In this analysis, the authors examine data on practices within schools and find that, overall, charter schools in the sample are not more innovative than traditional public schools. Charter school do appear somewhat more innovative, however, in student grouping structures and staffing policies. Parental involvement and the proportion of students who receive free and reduced-price lunch may be related to a charter school's level of innovation.


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A SCHOOLBOY who went off the rails after learning he would never see his siblings again has been shown mercy by magistrates.
The 16-year-old lost it after his brother and sister were adopted by another family.
The youngster went out, got drunk with his friends, before stealing a sat nav from a car in Treelawn Gardens, Leigh.
Police were called to reports of two males wearing black clothing and trying to get into cars on January 18.
The teen was found in nearby Thistley Close with the sat nav.
He appeared before Southend Youth Court where he pleaded guilty to theft. Mr Ryland said the boy had committed offences in the past, but had started to straighten himself out after being taken into foster care.
The court heard that his relationship with his foster carer had developed, he now had a steady girlfriend, and was taking a college course.
A woman from the youth offending service said his "attitude has completely changed" in the last six months but he suffered a setback when his younger brother and sister were adopted.
His mother, who cried as she spoke, said: "A lot of what he has been through is down to me."
She added: "He has been through so much and it was only December things were resolved with his brother and sister, since then he's learned he's never going to see them again."
Martin Hampson, chairman of the bench, said: "We are prepared to give you one last chance."
He was given a 12-month youth rehabilitation order which means he must attend appointments with the youth offending service.
He was also given 60 hours unpaid work and put on an electronic tag. The tag will monitor a three month curfew between 9pm and 7am. He must also pay £15 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.


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Scaramouche JonesTrivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
Scaramouche Jones, the local professional circus clown spent most of his lunch-hour painting his portrait on an eggshell. The portrait looked realistic enough, but he was not a serious painter. Moreover, his artistic rendition was not done for fun.
Why would Scaramouche be doing this?
AnswerScaramouche was a professional clown who tried to have a unique face. By painting his face on an eggshell, his face is actually copyrighted and the egg is deposited with the International Clown's Club in a bank vault in England.
If someone copies another clown's face, that person is actually stealing the clown's spirit.
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A collaborative project between the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design and Metropolia University on Helsinki, Finland a group of us UT students are working towards a layout and design of an exhibit of already designed luminares from students at Metropolia.
The concept extends from all of our experiences while studying abroad in Finland. We have established a story alongside our process which relates to both submerging into water (an important ritual associated with sauna) and also inhabiting the night sky (which dominates a large portion of the year in Finland).
Our installation relates the Nocturne luminaire to the cosmos and introduces projections of our footage in Finland as a way to allow people to either enter into the lakes of Finland or the beloved Northern Lights.
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This article gives an introduction to processing n-gram data using Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Apache Hive. In this example we will calculate the top trending topics per decade. The data used to find the topics comes from the Google Book's n-gram corpus.
The n-gram data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. The original dataset is available from the Google Ngrams viewer website.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service which provides easy access to a Hadoop MapReduce cluster in the cloud. Apache Hive is an open source data warehouse built on top of Hadoop which provides a SQL-like interface over MapReduce.
In order to calculate the trending topics, we are going to have to go through a few steps. We'll launch an Elastic MapReduce job flow in which to do the processing. Then we'll set up Hive and the create the appropriate tables to load data from. Next we'll do some preprocessing to normalize the data by converting it to lower case and ignoring certain characters. We will aggregate the word counts per decade and find each word's usage fraction by decade. Finally, we'll do a decade by decade comparison to find the top words.
Starting a job flow with Hive
Before we can begin we must launch an Elastic MapReduce job flow with Hive installed. This will give us a SQL-like interface to the n-gram data and make it very easy to start processing it. We can launch a job flow using the Elastic MapReduce ruby client. If you've never used Elastic MapReduce before, you should read about how to install and configure the ruby client. That page also explains how to sign up for Elastic MapReduce if you are a new user. Once everything is set up, start a job flow with this command.
elastic-mapreduce --create --alive --hive-interactive --hive-versions 0.7
This will give you a job flow ID. You can track the status of your job low with the list parameter.
elastic-mapreduce --list <job-flow-id>
In a few minutes this will start and enter the waiting state, at which point we can SSH to the master node.
elastic-mapreduce --ssh <job-flow-id>
Now that we have Hive installed on our cluster we can log into its shell by typing 'hive'.
$ hive
There are two settings that we need to set in order to efficiently process the data from Amazon S3. Type these two commands into the Hive shell.
hive> set hive.base.inputformat=org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat; hive> set mapred.min.split.size=134217728;
Since the data is stored in Amazon S3 in a single file, if we don't specify these settings we will only use one mapper when processing the data, which doesn't take advantage of the distributed nature of MapReduce. These commands tell Hive to use an InputFormat that will split a file into pieces for processing, and tell it not to split them into pieces any smaller than 128 MB.
Creating input table
In order to process any data, we have to first define the source of the data. We do this using a CREATE TABLE statement. For the purpose of this example, I only care about English 1-grams. This is the statement I use to define that table.
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE english_1grams ( gram string, year int, occurrences bigint, pages bigint, books bigint ) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE LOCATION 's3://datasets.elasticmapreduce/ngrams/books/20090715/eng-all/1gram/';
This statement creates an external table (one not managed by Hive) and defines five columns representing the fields in the dataset. We tell Hive that these fields are delimited by tabs and stored in a SequenceFile. Finally we tell it the location of the table.
Normalizing the data
The data in its current form is very raw. It contains punctuation, numbers (typically years), and is case sensitive. For our use case we don't care about most of these and only want clean data that is nice to display. It is probably enough to filter out n-grams with certain non-alphabetical characters and then to lowercase everything.
First we want to create a table to store the results of the normalization. In the process, we can also drop unnecessary columns.
CREATE TABLE normalized ( gram string, year int, occurrences bigint );
Now we need to insert data into this table using a select query. We'll read from the raw data table and insert into this new table.
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE normalized SELECT lower(gram), year, occurrences FROM english_1grams WHERE year >= 1890 AND gram REGEXP "^[A-Za-z+'-]+$";
There are a couple of things I'd like to point out here. First, we are filtering out the data before 1890 because there is less of it therefore it is probably noisier.
Second, I'm lower casing the n-gram using the built-in lower() UDF. Finally, I'm using a regular expression to match n-grams that contain only certain characters.
Word ratio by decade
Next we want to find the ratio of each word per decade. More books are printed over time, so every word has a tendency to have more occurrences in later decades. We only care about the relative usage of that word over time, so we want to ignore the change in size of corpus. This can be done by finding the ratio of occurrences of this word over the total number of occurrences of all words.
Let's first create a table to store this data. We'll be swapping the year field with a decade field and the occurrence field with a ratio field (now of type double).
CREATE TABLE by_decade ( gram string, decade int, ratio double );
The query we construct has to first calculate the total number of word occurrences by decade. Then we can join this data with the normalized table in order to calculate the usage ratio. Here is the query.
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE by_decade SELECT a.gram, b.decade, sum(a.occurrences) / b.total FROM normalized a JOIN ( SELECT substr(year, 0, 3) as decade, sum(occurrences) as total FROM normalized GROUP BY substr(year, 0, 3) ) b ON substr(a.year, 0, 3) = b.decade GROUP BY a.gram, b.decade, b.total;
Calculating changes per decade
Now that we have a normalized dataset by decade we can get down to calculating changes by decade. This can be achieved by joining the dataset on itself. We'll want to join rows where the n-grams are equal and the decade is off by one. This lets us compare ratios for a given n-gram from one decade to the next.
SELECT a.gram as gram, a.decade as decade, a.ratio as ratio, a.ratio / b.ratio as increase FROM by_decade a JOIN by_decade b ON a.gram = b.gram and a.decade - 1 = b.decade WHERE a.ratio > 0.000001 and a.decade >= 190 DISTRIBUTE BY decade SORT BY decade ASC, increase DESC;
There are a couple things to point out here. First, we filter out any words with a ratio less than or equal to 0.001% of the corpus for the decade we are observing. This blocks out most of the noisy words that only appear a few dozen times per decade, but have massive proportional swings per decade. This ratio was chosen on a whim, but seems to work well.
We are using b.ratio as a denominator. However, we don't have to worry about dividing by zero because the join we are using ensures that b.ratio will always exist. If the word was never used in the previous decade then the join excludes that null row, preventing a divide by zero error. However, this means we will not see any words that are completely new, they had to be used at least once in the previous decade.
Also notice the DISTRIBUTE BY clause. That tells Hive which column should be used as a key to the reducer. Since we only care about the ordering of words within a decade, we don't need to have a total ordering across all decades. This lets Hive run more than one reducer and significantly increases the parallelism. It must still do a total ordering within a decade, but that is much less data.
Note: This query as currently written will send results to standard out. This query returns lots of data and you probably don't want it all dumped into your console. You will likely want to add a LIMIT clause to the end of the query to see just a subset of the data, or send the results into a new table which you can analyze at your leisure.
Here are the top 30 results per decade.
radium, ionization, automobiles, petrol, archivo, automobile, electrons, mukden, anopheles, marconi, botha, ladysmith, lhasa, boxers, suprema, aboord, rotor, turkes, wireless, conveyor, manchurian, erythrocytes, shoare, thirtie, kop, tuskegee, thorium, audiencia, bvo, arteriosclerosis
cowperwood, britling, boches, montessori, venizelos, bolsheviki, salvarsan, photoplay, pacifists, joffre, petrograd, pacifist, bolshevism, airmen, kerensky, foch, boche, serbia, serbian, hindenburg, madero, serbians, bombing, ameen, anaphylaxis, aviators, syndicalism, aviator, biplane, taxi
bacteriophage, fascist, mussolini, fascism, sablin, latvia, insulin, peyrol, volstead, czechoslovakia, iraq, vitamin, kenya, curricular, swaraj, reparations, broadcasting, slovakia, vitamins, gandhi, automotive, kemal, zoning, jazz, isotopes, isoelectric, airscrew, shivaji, czechoslovak, stabilization
dollfuss, goebbels, manchukuo, hitler, sudeten, hitler's, rearmament, nazis, wpa, nazi, nra, manchoukuo totalitarian, pwa, tva, stalin's, peiping, homeroom, kulaks, stalin, devaluation, bta, carotene, broadcasts, corporative, comintern, ergosterol, reichswehr, ussr, businessmen
waveguide, luftwaffe, plutonium, streptomycin, darlan, gaulle, beachhead, lanny, jeeps, penicillin, alamein, radar, bandwidth, psia, thiamine, quisling, sulfathiazole, wpb, airborne, jeep, aftr, bdg, tobruk, pakistan, sulfonamides, evacuees, guadalcanal, airfields, unesco, rommel
qumran, transistors, chlorpromazine, transistor, automation, terramycin, chloramphenicol, khrushchev, reserpine, pradesh, nasser, vietnamese, shri, uttar, madhya, vietnam, adenauer, aureomycin, nato, annexure, dna, edc, rna, biophys, pyarelal, cortisone, semiconductors, rajasthan, minh
tshombe, bhupesh, vietcong, lumumba, ribosomal, lasers, ribosomes, ieee, aerospace, malawi, thant, fortran, zambia, medicare, lysosomes, nlf, laser, tanzania, efta, oecd, astronaut, teilhard, goldwater, programed, uar, software, autoimmune, spacecraft, eec, nasa
biofeedback, sexist, sexism, multinationals, namibia, bangladesh, microprocessor, watergate, chicano, lifestyle, cytosol, medicaid, trh, chicanos, plasmid, jovanovich, ldcs, apg, pediatr, cyclase, isbn, immunotherapy, prostaglandin, opec, prostaglandins, gentamicin, bangla, radioimmunoassay, epa, ophthalmol
htlv, dbase, interleukin, spreadsheet, vlsi, videotex, calmodulin, sandinistas, contras, isdn, gorbachev's, sandinista, gorbachev, workstation, workstations, fsln, captopril, hybridoma, ifn, robotics, kda, fibronectin, khomeini, sql, robotic, oncogenes, rajiv, xiaoping, unix, microsoft
netscape, cyberspace, html, endothelin, toolbar, biodiversity, mpeg, tqm, harpercollins, applet, reengineering, nafta, http, c++, newsgroups, gallopade, belarus, internet, apec, url, yeltsin, adhd, apoptosis, integrin, usenet, hypermedia, globalisation, netware, africanamerican, myanmar
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Next steps
Now that we've seen how to calculate a rough estimate of popular words, what can we do to enhance our results? Here are some possible avenues for additional research.
- Extend it to search bigrams (2-grams) for popular phrases.
- Switch to 5 year increments to try and find words whose growth spanned decades.
- The current algorithm will not find entirely new words. The word has to have appeared at least once in the prior decade in order to show up in results, which might miss some important words. Try switching the query to use a LEFT OUTER JOIN and surface those words which are completely new.
- Adjust the ranking function to take into account absolute increase in word popularity and not just relative increase.
- Improve the noise filter algorithm. Instead of throwing away any grams that have a fixed ratio, can we just throw out the bottom n percent? How do we determine n?
- Add some basic stemming to improve the results. Now we get nazi/nazis and fascism/fascist. Can we use stemming to find the roots of these words and return just a summary of topics?


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So we've had the build up, the expectation, the excitement and the actual event. It's now time to get views on what we all thought about the whole extravaganza! So here are mine...
World Heavyweight Championship match: Daniel Bryan vs. Sheamus
Well what can I say! I was looking forward to that match and was completely shocked when I saw Sheamus walk out...opening the show! The match had so much promise to be entertaining, but, if you watched it, it turned out to be a complete joke. I understand that WWE wanted it to break the record of Wrestlemania's shortest ever match which stands at 8 seconds. By the end of this match it still stood at 8 seconds. So to me I feel it was a waste of a good opportunity for a really entertaining match.
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Kane vs. Randy Orton
This match, despite the "boring" chants from the crowd, was a good warm up match and should have probably been on before the Sheamus match (if the Sheamus match was to be a proper match). It wasn't the most entertaining match that I have ever seen but it was by no means a poor one. I don't think it went on too long and was a good foundation to build on.
I would give this match a 5/10.
Intercontinental Title Match, Cody Rhodes vs. Big Show
Again, as the like the previous match, it wasn't a bad match but was distinctively average and a typical David vs Goliath match (apart from David doesn't win in this one). The normal "go for the legs" tactic was in force like usual when facing the Big Show, which gave it a very average feel to it. I think it would have been more interesting if we were to see Rhodes win. It would have been a bit of a feat for him to do and would fit in with the twists and turns we come to expect from Wrestlemania. In addition to this, maybe a smaller opponent for Rhodes would have produced a better match with more physicality.
I give this match a 5/10 again.
Beth Phoenix & Eve Torres vs. Kelly Kelly & Maria Menounos
This match was a good divas match in my opinion. It was given a good slot and a decent amount of time compared to some divas matches that we see both in PPV's and on the weekly shows. There was some pretty good moves on show in this match as well. Overall a very entertaining match for a divas match.
End of an Era, Hell in a Cell Match
Triple H vs. Undertaker w/ Shawn Michaels special guest referee
The match that I was looking forward to the most! Did it disappoint? Not at all!! This match was a truly exceptional match that I think I will remember for many years to come! It had everything, drama, twists, great moves, chairs, sledgehammers...not forgetting the 20 foot cell they were locked in. The addition of HBK to the match as the ref added a great story and twist to the match. Also added was JR who called the match, reportedly at the Undertakers request. This was brilliant and I found myself a bit disappointed after the match when they cut to the annoucers desk and JR was gone and we were stuck with Cole.
It was a match that got me, literally, on the edge of my seat. I found myself living the match and willing Triple H to win, of course he didn't. However, deep down I knew the writers were going to get 'Taker to win as they wouldn't be so cruel as to stop him from getting to 20-0.
The hug at the end of the match between the three of them was very respectful and shows how much performing on the "Grandest Stage of them all" means to the performers (even if Triple H looked practically unconscious).
This match truly was a spectacle and one of the best matches I have seen for a long time! Therefore it earns a 9/10, a very well deserved 9 at that. It would have got a ten if there was such thing as a perfect match!
Team Johnny vs. Team Teddy
This was a match that I wasn't really looking forward to, and as Team Johnny made their way down the ramp to the ring I was thinking to myself "how are they going to top the last match". My answer came very quickly after the bell rung. It was "they aren't". The concept of the match was good, but the stars taking part were not my favourite and in my eyes some are second rate (I'm not going to name names). I found the match tedious and boring. My only thought as to why they put so many superstars in the match was to "make history" as the biggest tag match in Wrestlemania.
A boring match that should have been earlier in the show. 4/10.
WWE Championship Match, CM Punk vs. Chris Jericho
A feud that has had very good build up, much like the "End of an Era" and "Once in a Lifetime" matches, which didn't disappoint. The stipulation that was added by John Laurinatis in the backstage segment before Punk walked out (if he gets DQed he loses the title) seemed pretty pointless to me as it never really added much to the match. The pinning Jericho in the corner and the near count to 5 was too staged for my liking and the match really came alive when they just got on with the wrestling!
Great wrestling by two excellent performers, this match was great! 7.5/10
Brodus Clay segment...
I admit, I'm not a massive fan of the Funkasaurous and this ridiculous segemnt sealed the deal for me. It seemed pointless and lasted too long. It seemed, and probably was, just a reason to fill the sizable gap that there was between the Punk match and the Cena Rock match. Which, coinsidently, wouldn't have been there if they had done something serious with the Heavyweight title match!!
Once in a Lifetime, The Rock vs. John Cena
The final match of this years Wrestlemania, the match with the biggest hype that I can remember. Did it live up to the expectations? In my opinion, it wasn't as good as it could have been...which is an opinion that many will probably disagree with. It was very entertaining, don't get me wrong, and I really enjoyed watching it, but it was no Rock vs. Hulk Hogan of the Wrestlemania ten years previous. I found the "End of an Era" match the better of the mojorly hyped matches. The Rock did look a little rusty at times, but hey! He is the most electrifying sports entertainer on the planet, I think we can let him off as he really did put on a good show and pleased the crowd.
Rock winning definitely opens up next year for a re-match as I can see Cena being tormented by this loss and challenging The Rock for a re-match in New York next year. However this is very close to the Triple H and 'Taker story of this year...so it probably won't happen that way. Personally, I don't want to see a re-match. It's over. The Rock has proven himself.
I will give this match the same as the Punk Jericho match, 7.5/10.
So there we have it. Another year, another Wrestlemania gone and we wind down the road towards New York for Wrestlemania 29! Rumour has it WWE want to announce the headline for next year pretty soon to give it massive hype like this years main event so I am looking forward to what's in store for us!
In reguard to the overall show, this year was better than last years 'mania with 3 very good matches as opposed to only a couple (that I can remember) from last year. Triple H and Undertaker really set the bar for 'Takers next opponent on the "Grandest Stage of the all"...if there is one!


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However, with the Robins' 12-point lead after heat 10 eventually narrowed to just two by the end of the contest, Rossiter was not only frustrated to see maximum points go begging but was also concerned to see his side let yet another big lead slip.
"It was brilliant and I'm really proud of the boys because nobody gave us a chance in this one," he said.
"Sam (Masters) was a good guest for us and I'm really pleased for him. It could have been even better for us but Nick's (Morris) plug cap came off in heat 13. All in all everyone stepped in and did well.
"Stevie Worrall was great for us and Simon (Gustafsson) started off like a train, he tailed off at the end but he'd already done a good job.
"I'm frustrated though because we had a last minute collapse again. I should be happy but we have to address that last minute collapse because it really isn't good enough.
"Going to sleep in the last corner isn't good enough and we have to find a way to stop doing it.
"From a night like this, though, we have to take it for what it is and make sure we carry on doing what we're doing."
All the build-up to the meeting focused around whether the Lions should allow the fixture to go ahead given five riders were missing, but the enthusiasm and appreciation shown by the Leicester crowd ensured all Rossiter's frustration and anger was quickly put to one side.
"I have to say the supporters were fantastic, I've never seen so much applause and appreciation for us," he said.
"That was really nice and it took the sting out of everything in the build-up. It was really nice and I take my hat off to the Leicester supporters.
"They're a welcome addition to the league and it's great to have them."


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FIREFIGHTERS say they have dealt with more than 400 flood incidents in Devon and Somerset today.
A fire service spokesman said a short time ago: "Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service are still experiencing a high amount of calls to flooding incidents across the service area.
"Since the rainfall began early this morning at 2.12am, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service have attended 422 incidents due to flooding with 20 incidents still on-going. "There are 20 appliances at present committed, plus two appliances from Avon Fire and Rescue Service and one appliance from Dorset Fire and Rescue Service in assistance.
"Two specialist rescue teams are also committed to incidents. A floodwater rescue is on-going at Creech St Michael, Taunton and an animal rescue from floodwater at Bradford on Tone.
"We have one appliance in assistance to Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service attending a three appliance property fire."


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A BOXING club fighting to stay open has attracted big names to support its cause.
Former world champion Terry Marsh has joined Holland ShawABC to coach youngsters during weekly sessions.
Gym bosses spent £5,500 doing up a derelict warehouse in Bowlers Croft, on the Cranes Industrial Estate, in Basildon.
However, they were denied planning permission in December because councillors said it was against policy to allow business premises to be used for leisure.
The decision came in spite of body building gym Ripped Gym moving in to a similar warehouse just weeks earlier.
Now volunteer trainers behind the gym are compiling a dossier of evidence to prove why they should be allowed to stay. They have backing from the National Association of Boys Clubs and are confident they will soon also get backing from the Amateur Boxing Association.
Terry Marsh is also attending training sessions to give advice to up to 25 boxers aged from 11 on Monday and Wednesday nights.
Trainer Richard Adams said: "The kids are quite pleased to be working with Terry, especially to get the advice from him. It's a good advertisement for boxing and for him to give up Monday and Wednesday nights is brilliant.
Believing in us gives us a confidence in what we are doing."
Mr Adams was initially told by Basildon Council to look for town centre sites, but he said the only place suitable was £175,000 in rent and £41,000 in rates.
He added: "That's far too expensive to run a gym for the community.
"Our long term goal is to work with schools and young offenders. It's already shocked us how well it's gone so far. We have kids who were very aggressive, but now they are fine.
"Children feel like they're part of something rather than hanging around on a street corner causing mischief.
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INVESTIGATIONS continue after a suspected bomb was detonated in Risca on Tuesday morning.
All residents within a 100m cordon around the Risca police station were evacuated, while a controlled explosion took place.
Just after 9am on Tuesday, residents were told to leave their properties as a suspected bomb was in the police station on Tredegar Street. Residents had to wait almost two hours for the cordon to be lifted.
The device had been handed to police officers by a member of the public on Monday, but the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team waited until Tuesday to detonate the 'bomb' as according to Gwent Police, this kind of procedure is always undertaken in daylight hours- where possible.
One resident, Chris Jones said on Tuesday: "Why were we allowed to sleep in our beds last night just 30 yards from the device then this morning we were told to leave our homes? The bomb was there yesterday evening, they just put some sand bags around it then went home and left us without even being told."
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Summer is coming. That means it's time to eat. Soon, the stalls at the Santa Fe Farmers Market will teem with color and consumables. Luminous pyramids of peppers. Fennel as long as your arm. Zucchini so prodigious they look like implements of war.
Summer is the season of abundance, although most of us are woefully unprepared for it. If we weren't coddled by the supermarket and the frozen-foods section at Trader Joe's, we might make better use of this annual caloric windfall. If not for the ease with which we can drive up to Bumblebee's downtown and order a steamy Tito Burrito with shrimp and roasted salsa, we would probably spend this summer doing what our winter-respecting ancestors owed their lives and tribes to. Stuffing our faces.
There's one problem. That requires cooking.
Most Americans can't cook what doesn't come with instructions on the back and, despite Santa Fe's star on the map of culinary destinations, the same holds true here. I can vouch, at least, for myself. In my years of on-again, off-again bachelordom, I've eaten my share of macaroni and cheese, frozen burritos and pasta marinara (noodles from the box, sauce from the bottle).
Which helps to explain how surprised I was on a recent Saturday afternoon to find myself forking into some Thai red curry with pork, Thai green vegetable curry, chicken tikka, Sri Lankan eggplant and fresh garlic naan that I—the anti-chef—had helped create. Not only was it good enough to keep my dinner companions from gagging, but it was no fluke: I made most of the same meal a week later, and both my date and I survived.
Credit goes to Chef Johnny Vee—aka John Vollertsen—the man behind the apron at Las Cosas Kitchen Shoppe's cooking classes. The three-hour classes are held Tuesday and Friday nights, and Saturday at lunchtime, in a full-size, catalog-perfect designer kitchen built in the back of the store. The kitchen is so well apportioned it's hard not to wonder if the classes are just a means to foster utensil envy among future Las Cosas customers.
But Vollertsen's pitch is soft, and he's clearly there because he loves to teach. Wide-eyed and animated, with spiked hair and a flair for the appropriately timed off-color remark, Vollertsen is a natural entertainer. He has taught the courses for 10 years, written a cookbook based on his classes' greatest hits (Cooking with Johnny Vee: International Cuisine with a Modern Flair, Gibbs Smith), and built up a dedicated local following.
On the Saturday I sidled up to the kitchen counter for "Hot & Spicy Curries," I was the only new student among six regulars. Martine Tharp-Sharman and her husband Piers were back for their third or fourth class. "They're beautifully organized, and it's always something I wouldn't normally cook. And Johnny's great," she says.
Vollertsen has a politician's sense of audience. As soon as his pupils hit their chairs, he sizes them up (the ones who know their meringues from merengue, the ones who are apt to melt butter along with its wax paper) and adjusts the instruction and tasks for each. "I don't want anyone to feel discouraged," he says.
Vollertsen starts the three-hour class with a rapid-fire overview of the meal, and how it will all come together—eight Indian and Thai dishes, none of which any of us has cooked before. Vollertsen spends only a little time lecturing. Most of the class time is hands on, with everyone broken into small teams making parts of the meal and Vollertsen orbiting from station to station distributing tips, gentle corrections and generally stirring the pot. The women quickly become "sweetie" and "hon;" the men quickly become targets of playful ribbing. Any lapse in the conversation is an invitation for Vollertsen to share his quirky, ribald sense of humor.
"I try to make it fun," Vollertsen, who says he's suffered through his share of dull culinary courses himself, says. "If I ever see the students dozing off, I tell a dirty joke," Vollertsen says, then tries to acquit himself.
"They're all PG."
His taciturn, 16-year-old assistant David Campbell pipes in to correct him. "R."
Vollertsen doesn't miss a beat. "It's never, ever boring."
The dishes are simple, but not basic; the red lamb curry may have 12 ingredients but the dish only has about four main steps, so it's hard to get lost. Since most of the ingredients are prepped before class by Vollertsen's assistants, Campbell and Katie Crosman, this richly aromatic, exotic dish suddenly seems easy, despite all my best efforts to make a mess of it. "I want everyone to come away and think, 'Wow, I can't believe I did that,'" Vollertsen says.
Vollertsen treats his students to a wide range of courses, from the elementary (Knife Skills Workshop) to the foreign (Exotic Asian Appetizers), the practical (High-Altitude Baking) to the indulgent (Crazy for Caviar). There are Farmers Market-themed classes, classes for kids (without a PB&J in sight), classes on lobsters, Peking duck, French food, Spanish food and, of course, New Mexican food. "Santa Fe has always been a culinary destination. Even locals who like enchiladas and chile rellenos—they don't know how to make them," Vollertsen says.
In the end, it comes down to eating. By the time we get to dig in to the banquet of Indian and Thai dishes we prepared, Vollertsen has the class members uncorking their own off-kilter jokes and stories. And since we suddenly feel like master chefs and are all a little punch-drunk with kitchen envy, after desert (fried bananas and ice cream) a few of us waltz straight into Las Cosas and start cleaning house.
I make it halfway to my car before I realize I've spent $29 on a spatula. One spatula.
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Been playing for less than 1.5 years. I've spent a lot of time reading, throwing, (reading, throwing, reading, throwing) and trying to understand the concepts throughout this forum. I've tried many different things and realized many different things. Consequently, my search for distance and my constant changes shows with my inconsistency. However, I have slowly been gaining distance; I'm currently hitting my Teebirds anywhere from 330' - 375'... accuracy is definitely a big issue.
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16 U.S. Code § 410cc–22 - Acquisition of property
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(a) Specified property; manner of acquisition
(1) The Secretary is authorized to acquire the properties designated in paragraph (2) of this subsection, or any interest therein, by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, condemnation, or otherwise. Any property or interest therein owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any political subdivision thereof may be acquired only by donation. The Secretary may initiate condemnation proceedings under this paragraph only after making every reasonable effort to acquire property through negotiations and purchase, and consulting with the Commission (if established) and the city council of Lowell.
(2) The properties referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection are the following:
(B) The H and H Paper Company (commonly referred to as Boott Mill Boarding House), 42 French Street.
(F) The structures containing the Jade Pagoda and Solomon's Yard Goods, 210 and 200 Merrimack Street.
(b) Other property; criteria for acquisition; manner of acquisition
Until the date on which the Commission conducts its first meeting, the Secretary may acquire any property within the park or preservation district not designated in subsection (a)(2) of this section, or any interest therein, if such property—
(1) is identified in the report of the Lowell Historical Canal District Commission as a property which should be preserved, restored, managed, developed, or maintained in a manner consistent with the purpose of this subchapter;
(2) is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as maintained by the Secretary pursuant to section 470a (a) of this title, and section 462 (b) of this title; or
and would be subject to demolition or major alteration in a manner inconsistent with the purposes of this subchapter unless acquired by the Secretary. Such property may be acquired only as provided in subsection (a)(1) of this section.
(c) Easements; manner of acquisition
The Secretary may acquire easements within the park for the purpose of carrying out this subchapter. Such easements may be acquired only as provided in subsection (a)(1) of this section.
(d) Exchange of land or interest in land
(1) The Secretary may exchange any land or interest in land within the boundaries of the park for any land or interest in land owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the city of Lowell, or the University of Massachusetts Building Authority.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), an exchange under this subsection shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and policies applicable to exchanges of land administered by the National Park Service and any other terms and conditions that the Secretary determines to be necessary to protect the interests of the United States.
(3) Where facilities or infrastructure required for the management and operation of the Lowell National Historical Park exists on the Federal land to be exchanged, and the non-Federal land or interest in land to be exchanged is not of equal value, the values shall be equalized by the payment of cash to the Secretary. The Secretary shall not be required to equalize the values of any exchange conducted under this subsection if the land or interest in land received by the Federal Government exceeds the value of the Federal land or interest in land exchanged.
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 95–290, title II, § 202,June 5, 1978, 92 Stat. 293; Pub. L. 110–229, title III, § 312(2),May 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 769; Pub. L. 112–182, § 2,Oct. 5, 2012, 126 Stat. 1420.)
References in Text
Section 410cc–11 (a)(3) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(2)(G), was in the original "subsection (101)(a)(3)" and was translated as meaning section 101(a)(3) ofPub. L. 95–290, which is classified to section 410cc–11 (a)(3) of this title, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
2012—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 112–182added subsec. (d).
2008—Subsec. (a)(2)(G). Pub. L. 110–229added subpar. (G).
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WALNUT- Mt. San Antonio College will offer free financial aid assistance to area high school seniors and their parents during its annual "Cash for College" fair on Saturday.
The event kicks off with opening presentations by state Sens. Ed Hernandez and Bob Huff, starting at 9 a.m. in Mt. SAC's Sophia B. Clarke Theater.
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Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Josepho1997, Nov 25, 2012.
I've been told that .999...=1 (.999... means .9999 repeating)
What do you think? Does. 9999=1?
It's close enough for me, but .999.... is repeating to me, so no, it does not equal "1". "1" = 1.0000000.... My opinion anyhoo
.99999... does in fact equal 1 and can be easily mathematically proved.
Let x=.9999999......
Therefore 10x=9.99999.......
10x-x =9x. == 9.99999.....-.999999....=9
So 9x=9
Following the same set if steps, you would end up with 9x =2. Thus x =2\9, which is indeed what. 2222222..... is equal to.
Wait a second...I was promised there'd be no math in this job!
Also, this is pretty cool: 0.999... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (they say "yes", by the way )
Tell me if I'm wrong here:
10x= 2.22222222......
10x-x=9x 2.22222222.....-.2222222222= 2
divide each side by 9
back to where we started
ah, I think I get it...
.99999999.....would be the only number equal to 1?
Correct, it is an odd situation that comes up in mathematics. There others out there too, but I will spare everyone the messy details because the proofs involve higher mathematics and aren't easy to type. This method shown above can be used to figure out the fraction for any repeating decimal. Pretty nifty I'd say.
I knew I should've taken math a little further in school
Thanks jhawk
Anything after the "Analytic Proof" section in that wiki link, just fried my brain:help:
I like how one of the tags is "trolls." o.o
This was an awesome thread. Great read. It makes total sense.
It depends on the setting really. If your manufacturing gears with a wire edm then .9999 is still .0001 underside from 1.00000. now if you have a geometric tolerance of lets say +- .00001 than that dimention being at .9999 would bring you out of tolerance by .00009 rendering the part non conforming and scrap.
Partially true. .9999 itself is not equal to 1. But the idea behind the question and the proof is for .9999...., meaning repeating infinitely forever and is absolutely 100% true.
Also its not repeating unless it uses ~ above the last number
That is one way to show repeating decimals, but the ellipses "..." is also widely accepted in mathematics to signify a repeating sequence.
It's been said already, but it's true.
You can also see it even more easily like this:
(1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) = 1
0.3333... + 0.333333... + 0.333... = 1
0.999999..... = 1
It also works with other numbers that end with a decimal periodic 9. Such as:
23.56999999.... = 23.57
thats only true if you assume 0.3333... = 1/3
which (depending on context, may or may not be true
There are 10 types of people in the world.. those that count in binary, and those that don't.
1/3 is exactly = .333... repeated for ever and you can easily discover that for yourself by dividing 1 by 3. If you do it manually using the standard you will constantly get repeating 3's forever until you decide you've had enough punishment.
I wanted to avoid the use of higher mathematics, but the reason behind the equality is stated right in the wiki article:
Whether anyone chooses to accept it or not is their choice, but nonetheless, it is 100% true. I often run into non-believers when I teach this topic in the Infinite Series part of Calculus II, granted the proof for that class is different giving the context of the class.
One can look at all of the Notes, References, Further Reading, and External links listed in the wiki page.
I could give you the real reason, but would require the use of real analysis which is usually a 4th year mathematics course. As I stated earlier, it has to deal with the fact that there is no non-zero infinitesimal between .999... and 1.0. In other words, there is no number between .999... and 1.
For the purpose of a proof, lets assume they are distinct numbers. For any number not ending in a infinite sequence of 9's, you can always find another number in between two different numbers by simply finding the midpoint (x1+x2)/2. This doesn't work with numbers ending in the infinite sequence of 9's because the midpoint between .9 and 1 is .95. so if you could take the midpoint of the two, following that idea, the last number would have to be a 5, which contradicts the whole notion because .999 is an infinite sequence of 9's and would actually be greater than our midpoints. This creates an absurdity, which many mathematicians call a proof by contradiction. So since our original idea about them being two different numbers let to a contradiction, that means that assumption must be false, and thus means they have to be the same number.
Without a doubt .999 =1 it can be mathematicaly proved as shown above. .222 does not =1 nor does .3333 .444 etc. Again all this was said above but i thought i would verify it.
well.. in that case pie is 3.14
or whatever number you get before you decide you've had enough punishment.
or 3.2 if you're a stupid person from indiana
Indiana Pi Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hey, I'm from Indiana!
Oh, wait--that means....nooooooooooo!
Glad that all happened way back 1897 .


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Despite looming financial deadlines in Washington, D.C., including the immediate threat of $85 billion in mandatory budget cuts Friday, a group of private economists has a fairly upbeat view of the outlook.
The survey from the National Association for Business Economics looks for economic growth of 2.4 percent in the United States this year. Beyond that, the group expects gross domestic product to accelerate to 3 percent in 2014. Economist Nayantara Hensel of National Defense University, a spokeswoman for the group, concedes that she was surprised that the survey didn't reflect more downside risk associated with the budget issues. Says Hensel, "It is true that the panelists do expect the economy to grow. At the same time, they've been saying that growth this year is likely to be negatively affected" by budget issues.
In the near term, nearly 60 percent of the economists surveyed expect the sequester to take place in either "partial" or "full form" Friday.
As for the job market, the survey finds that economists expect the unemployment rate to average 7.7 percent this year and decline to 7.2 percent in 2014. With the Federal Reserve targeting an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent, Hensel says the group expects quantitative easing to continue over the next couple of years. The central bank has been engaged in $85 billion in monthly bond-buying with the aim of stimulating the economy.
The panel of 49 economists was surveyed from Jan. 28-Feb. 5.


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INDOT completes US 52 bridge over Buck Creek
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) plans to lift traffic restrictions before Thanksgiving on US 52 at the Buck Creek bridge construction site east of German Church Road.
INDOT and Rieth-Riley Construction, the state's contractor, were able to maintain traffic on US 52 throughout construction, which started in March. The $2 million project built a new, widened bridge carrying US 52 over Buck Creek. Improvements were also made to the intersection of US 52 and German Church Road by widening the intersection radius to improve right turns and lengthening both the eastbound left turn and westbound right turn lanes on US 52 to accommodate increased traffic volumes turning onto German Church Road.
The bridge was built in two phases by shifting both directions of traffic to one side of the bridge as the other side was under construction. Contractors are currently finishing pavement markings, and all traffic is expected to be placed in a permanent configuration Tuesday (Nov. 20) or Wednesday (Nov. 21).