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Gentrification, affordable housing and homelessness in Vancouver's DTES
Vancouver 'micro-lofts' billed as smallest in Canada
A Vancouver developer has unveiled 30 "micro-lofts," which are under 300 square feet in size and are touted as the smallest self-contained furnished rental apartments in Canada.They are in a newly renovated building at 18 West Hastings Street, across from Save-On Meats in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and were displayed Monday. The suites, which range in size from 226 to 291 square feet, go for an average of $850 per month, including cable and internet.
"I was looking for an affordable living space ... and the suite was perfect," said Lia Cosco, one of the building's tenants. "The unique allocation of space and the design concepts make the small space very inviting and comfortable to live in."
While the suites may seem microscopic to some, the developer says the units maximize the square footage by using built-in pull-down wall beds, folding tables and compact appliances....
The city, along with developers Reliance Properties and ITC Construction Group, are billing the suites as "an affordable and much needed non-subsidized rental housing opportunity in downtown Vancouver."
However, that description doesn't sit well with a handful of protesters who stormed the unveiling on Monday.
"I don't understand how this is part of an affordable housing strategy," said demonstrator Ivan Drury. "This is not an affordable housing strategy. This is a homelessness strategy."
Context: 18 West Hastings used to be the Burns Block hotel, which had a slate of single-resident occupancy units (SROs) for a fraction of the current rent. The hotel was shut down in 2006 for building code violations (a tried and true gentrification strategy--neglect, foreclose, rebuild).
Welfare rates in BC are $610 a month, with $375 allocated for housing (even though most SROs are $425 or more).
Here is Carnegie Community Action Plan's (CCAP) recent report on gentrification and affordable housing:
UPSCALE: The downside of gentrification (2011 CCAP SRO hotel report)
Hotel rooms that used to be the housing of last resort for low income people, are being upgraded and rented to students and young workers at rents that low income residents can't afford. The annual survey of privately owned DTES hotels found that only 7% of rooms (235) are in buildings where all rents are $375 or lower, down from 12% in 2010 and 29% in 2009.At least 700 people are literally homeless and living in DTES shelters, not counting people living on the streets or couch surfing says the report, released today. Thousands more live in about 3,500 privately owned SRO rooms. Many of these have deplorable conditions with poor management, rodents, cockroaches, bedbugs, and danger, especially for women, transgender people and people with health issues. Another 1,500 people live in government or non-profit owned SROs that are usually cleaner and better managed but are still tiny and don't have private bathrooms or kitchens or meet modern earthquake standards.
So yeah, I'm not opposed to the 'micro-lofts' per se. On average most people have too much house. Personally, I can't see myself living in a place less than 400 square feet, but to each their own and I kind of like the idea of something that would discourage consumption for the sake of consumption.
I suppose my objection to these places are that they're somehow billed as "affordable." 850$/month, considering the square footage, is not affordable. Granted that includes internet and cable, but even so that's still about $700-ish/month.
If the poverty-line wages for a single person in the region are about 21K/year, this is still well over the suggested "spend a third of your income on rent" advice. That of course doesn't even factor marginalized populations into the mix. But frankly, I feel as if the way things have gotten even middle and working class people are marginalized in this market.
What do developers expect? The average person to go into debt just to finance day-to-day living expenses? The real estate bubble, or better yet pyramid scheme that is Vancouver's real estate market, is not sustainable if Vancouver intends to stay a place where residents actually live (and contribute to society not just a speculative market for global capital looking for something "safe").
I voted for Sandy. Too bad she didn't get in.
Anyways, yeah, in many other neighborhoods in Vancouver, this would be a positive step, but not there. Rich people are often more willing to experiment on "other people's" turf which they consider to be a throwaway anyways..
Yeah, VK, part of the worst and most insidious aspect of this plan is that $850 is still too high for a single-occupant apartment on average or below-avergae wages--but it's pretty damn good for Vancouver. So this pits justly indignant average wage-earners against the low-income residents of the DTES who are normally fighting high-income people and developers. It's a great way to align the city against its poor (as if there's not enough of that going on already).
I saw a CBC vignette on this a couple of days ago and they ended with a quote from a micro-loft resident: "This isn't just a low-income problem, it's an average income problem." Then the voice over said: "And that's the message that gets lost in this protest [against the lofts]". So, CBC, let me get this straight: the low-income people should think of the middle-incomes' problems and weigh their protest accordingly? Why not phrase the story as low-income and middle-income people sharing a common interest and grudge against the developers and city hall? Well--I think we know the answer to that...[/cynicism]
Moving on up: Gentrification in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Gentrification is the social, economic, and cultural transformation of a predominantly low-income neighbourhood through the deliberate influx of upscale residential and commercial development. Encouraged by municipal development policies, economic incentives for investors, and the mythical pull of the creative city, urban land is purchased and developed at low cost for middle-class buyers. As urban theorist Neil Smith writes, "As a generalized urban strategy, gentrification weaves together the interests of city managers, developers and landlords, corporate employers and cultural and educational institutions."...The processes of neo-liberal urbanism that fuel this kind of gentrification are rooted in the colonial doctrines of discovery and terra nullius, as well as more modernized forms of transnational globalization. As Smith further articulates, "Gentrification has become a strategy within globalization itself; the effort to create a global city is the effort to attract capital and tourists, and gentrification is a central means for doing so."...
Many Downtown Eastside residents describe the impacts of gentrification as deeply traumatic. According to a recent Carnegie Community Action Project report, "Upscale: the Downside of Gentrification," affordable single-room occupancies (SRO) are increasingly scarce. More than half of SROs now rent higher than a person on welfare, disability or pension can afford. New retail shops and restaurants are zones of exclusion, offering goods and services beyond the means of the predominantly low-income residents. Public space has become more uncomfortable and hostile with increasing policing and private security surveillance, as well as constant reports by low-income residents of feeling judged by many of the new owners and consumers in the neighbourhood. As one DTES resident told Save-On-Meats owner Marc Brand in a meeting, "I was treated like a piece of meat in your restaurant."
In cities like Vancouver that purport to be progressive, the violence of gentrification is masked behind a three-fold ideological discourse aimed at giving it an air of reasonableness. First is "urban renewal." This presumes that the downtrodden ghetto will be uplifted and revitalized through social entrepreneurship and trickle-down investment, a now widely discreditedtheory at the global level. Second is the language of "affordability." When peddled by developers such as Marc Williams, Jon Stovell, Robert Fung, and Westbank, it does not mean affordable for current residents. Rather, the affordability is pitched to higher-income buyers and customers such as young artists, students, and professionals, the canaries for whether a neighbourhood will successfully be gentrified.
The third is "social mix." While it sounds inclusive, in reality it means that people with higher-incomes are at liberty to utilize their social capital to alter the demographics of a low-income community. On the one hand, low-income services such as shelters and food banks are systematically expunged from higher income neighbourhoods (why not enforce social mix in rich areas like Shaughnessy?). On the other hand, space in low-income neighbourhoods that could be used for community-based actualization is appropriated by those with greater power and wealth. As geographer Loretta Lees writes, "The rhetoric of 'social mix' hides a gentrification strategy and in that a hidden social cleansing agenda... Over the longer term poor people suffer more from the loss of benefits of living in a poor neighbourhood, than they gain from living in a more affluent one."
Amazing, comprehensive article by Harsha Walia and Dave Diewert. Anyone wanting to know about the effects of gentrification should read this. Perhaps Thomas Mulcair should have given it a read before his housing-plan policy announcement in Woodwards.
On the western edge of the DTES is the massive mixed development at the old Woodward's site/squat with over 500 condos, SFU campus with an arts centre funded by notorious mining giant Goldcorp, and retail stores. This has set off a tidal wave of gentrification within a few blocks, with four new condo developments (Paris Annex, Paris Block, 60 W. Cordova, 21 Doors) and countless restaurants and bars, including those owned by barons Sean Heather (Irish Heather, Salty Tongue, Shebeen, Penn Bakeshop, Everything Café, Fetch Kiosk, Bitter Tasting Room, Judas Goat) and Marc Brand (Diamond, Sharks and Hammers, Boneta, Sea Monstr Sushi, Save on Meats), overpriced coffee shops, and designer stores. In symbiotic fashion, retail stores and cultural sites proliferate alongside new housing, rendering the area more welcoming and familiar for wealthier consumers.
Carrall and Hastings, just shy of Pigeon Park, in the heart of Vancouver's grim Downtown Eastside. I'm walking home from Gastown with my two young boys, aged six and three. As we approach, a rough looking woman makes a clumsy attempt to hide her crack pipe."Kids on the street," she yells up and down the block, "Kids on the street!"
A few of the other dodgy characters try to hide their drugs, too, or shuffle a few steps into the alley until we pass. I smile and thank her. She smiles back, dirty and toothless and old before her time, but it's clear that she's happy to see the children, and she tells me my kids are cute. My boys, as usual, fail to notice most of this: the drugs, the mental illness, the human wreckage all around them. This is probably for the best, growing up, as they are, next to the worst neighbourhood in Canada.
For the past six years, our family has lived just around the corner from the worst stretch of Vancouver's notorious East Hastings Street, near dismal Pigeon Park. Curiously, we chose to move here while my wife was expecting, about nine years ago. We had found a condo that we could actually afford, so we purchased a unit pre-construction, gambling that the neighbourhood would improve significantly by the time our building was completed. It didn't. We moved in anyway, hopeful that change was just around the corner. It wasn't, although the area would improve, eventually. But first, we would spend a few years raising our children in what could generously be described as a disturbing new community.
Main and 14th Ave. Otherwise known as Mount Pleasant, in the heart of Vancouver's newly affluent east side. I'm walking home from the Library with my two sons Tylerdurden and Dolemite, aged 6 and 3. As we approach, a yuppie makes an awkward attempt to parallel park his orange SUV with "HIS" on the personalized license plate. Across the street is an identical orange SUV with the license plate reading "HERS". All the while he is listening to Maroon 5 at full volume.I hope my kids don't see, but they can certainly hear "She Will Be Loved".
For the past 6 years our family has lived in an over-priced one-bedroom apartment in the midst of condos that seem to be springing up like toxic mushrooms. The condos are all themed with bland names like "DoMAIN" and "DWELL" and my favorite "SOMA", presumably named after Brave New World's drug that dumbed-down the sexless, self-hypnotized masses.
Another of these condo units has sprung up, almost overnight. I distract my kids by pointing at a huge piece of dog shit, hoping they'll remember that instead of the flake-itorium on the corner. If there's one thing I can count on, it's dog shit on the sidewalk. At least the yuppies haven't taken that away. As long as there's dog shit on the sidewalk, I know I'm in East Van. I imagine in the future they'll have shit-free dogs, but not yet. Not yet.
Once, I watched two yoga enthusiasts comparing apple iphones in front of the playground where my kids eat their liverwurst sandwiches! I threw their lunch bags over their heads, raced home and forced them to watch "Manufacturing Consent", but the damage had been done.
Sooner or later these ipeople will be crushed by their immense debt load and wind up right back in the same apartments they presently disdain. The global economy will collapse and we'll all be back to wearing barrels as clothing and balancing on stacks of chairs for entertainment. As a life-long broke person, my life will be pretty much unaffected. My lower-class kids will be well-prepared when Mount Pleasant returns to its original working/lower-class roots. I'm betting on anti-gentrification. Hoping. Praying. Pleading.
thx Catchfire for my morning belly laugh.
Incredible graphic by Joel Marion:
Interesting, but what does it mean?
To own or rent?
Is it a metro average?
And does the percentage of 40 hour work week to own refer to ones monthly pay cheque or one of their weekly paycheques required?
And what's the difference between the two bars supposed to mean?
Love the satire though.
and though i guess the gatineau could end up being bizarrely representative of quebec with ultra-expensive ottawa burbs and the rural and all that, but i still don't see why you'd compare vancouver/calgary/toronto/halifax/gatineau, just seems weird.
that said, i'm weirdly proud at how relatively affordable montreal is, definitely the result of a pretty great rent control regime.
BC Liberals and Bob Rennie tighten grip on housing construction in Vancouver
This past Friday afternoon it was announced that real-estate tycoon Bob Rennie and former public servant Judy Rogers would be appointed as Commissioners of BC Housing. Some journalists noted that the appointment of Rennie was patronage for his support of Christy Clark in her leadership bid. Since the early rise of John Cummins and the B.C. Conservatives, Rennie has also been a proponent of a united right wing. He has contributed heavily to BC Liberal campaigns and often boasts of maintaining close contact with Rich Coleman and other higher ups in the current government.The appointment of Judy Rogers also appears to be patronage for her mishandling of the Olympic Village project. It was under her oversight that the intended investment in social housing became instead a luxury development. Under her leadership as former City Manager, the developer Millennium was selected for the project, and for all practical purposes given free reign to access city finances. While for most Vancouverites this has been a catastrophe, it would be disingenuous to say it wasn't what the higher ups in the BC Liberal party wanted the whole time.
The appointments are a sign of where the BC Liberals and Bob Rennie would like housing in this province to go. Rogers and Rennie both sit on Streetohome, which is a private funder of social housing. While Vision Vancouver, in its pre-majority incarnation denounced the creation of Streetohome, the initiative now provides them with a convenient shift in responsibility: the private market can be responsible for housing. This shift has been backed up by the neoliberal rhetoric put forward by federal, provincial, and local governments, passing the buck from tier to tier and finally into the hands of Vancouver's most wealthy.
I thought the laneway homes were a good idea until I saw the cost. They want anywhere from $160K to $225K for a 750 square foot prefab laneway home on a postage stamp size lot in Vancouver. That's ridiculous.
Not by Vancouver standards (which, I recognize, are somewhat ridiculous). A comparable-sized new condo downtown (so no yard) goes for almost double that.
Here's a photo of one from the City's website. It hardly seems like a hovel to me, and personally I'd jump at the chance to buy it for $200K. Unfortunately it's still out of reach of the vast majority of people in Vancouver.
Rather than focusing on housing prices, I personally believe the priority should be to build more affordable rental housing.
This thread would work better as an RSS feed of the excellent Mainlander.
BC Housing subsidizes Pantages Condo project
Should BC Housing subsidize a Downtown Eastside (DTES) condo developer when our neighbourhood has 850 homeless people and 3500 living in crummy hotel rooms that need to be replaced? Is Condo King Bob Rennie, also on the Board of BC Housing, behind a sweet deal that will probably increase property values two blocks away from his own office?
These are two questions that shocked Downtown Eastsiders are asking after learning that BC Housing plans to loan up to $23 million to condo developer Marc Williams. Williams plans to build 79 condo units plus 18 social housing units (only 9 will rent at welfare rates) at the site of the old Pantages Theatre, 138 E. Hastings. He calls the project Sequel 138. According to the Vancouver Province, the loans will be at 1.29 % interest, much lower than the going rate from a bank.
Over 40 organizations, housing providers, artists, and social workers have joined 2200 DTES residents in signing a Community Resolution opposing condos at the old Pantages Theatre site, stating, "We would not want to be complicit in a project that will further displace, impoverish, and police residents of the Downtown Eastside and make people feel more unwelcome in their own neighbourhood."
The groups want the city to buy the Pantages site and use it for resident controlled social housing that people on welfare can afford.
I hope they have some success. It has been very difficult here; the sell-off of the former Institute for the Deaf brought together the strings of Church abuse of vulnerable children, corruption and collusion (Charbonneau Commission) and the little fiefs of borough mayors who have every interest in increasing the tax base by expelling the working-class people who have lived in my area (Villeray and Petite-Patrie) for generations.
I've been involved in many battles against gentrification here, but I do have a question for Vancouver activists. We have to protect the rights of current Downtown Eastside residents to continue to live in their community - it is extremely important for poor people to maintain contacts and access to services.
But this does appear as an extremely broken community - yes, I'm looking at it from afar and have only the most cursory direct knowledge of it. The social problems are much graver than in the old working-class areas where we have waged housing fights. How can people in the neighbourhood be helped to get their lives in order and to be able to support themselves? (of course not all people can support themselves in any area).
I know that safe and secure housing is an important piece in the puzzle, but there are others. Just asking; not judging anyone.
In Vancouver the "NDP" supporters split into Vision Vancouver, Gregor's centrist developer backed party and the more left wing COPE. COPE and Vision both supported Gregor in his first bid for Mayor.
In Burnaby we have the most successful left of centre party in Canadian municipal politics The Burnaby Citizens Association is not affiliated directly with the NDP but to buy a membership in the BCA you must already be a member of the NDP. Their take on homelessness is not great because as far as they are concerned housing is a joint provincial and federal responsibility and not a municipal one. They are willing to expedite projects but will not budget any real resources since they consider it senior government downloading.
But this does appear as an extremely broken community - yes, I'm looking at it from afar and have only the most cursory direct knowledge of it. The social problems are much graver than in the old working-class areas where we have waged housing fights. How can people in the neighbourhood be helped to get their lives in order and to be able to support themselves? (of course not all people can support themselves in any area).
lagatta, one of the worst crimes of local and national media when reporting on the DTES is the incessant, even pathological demonization of the neighnourhood. No one -- and i mean no one -- in the MSM is able to utter the words "Vancouver's Downtown Eastside," without also uttering "poorest postal code in Canada": a statement that is not only factually incorrect, but chooses to highlight one aspect of the rich and diverse picture. I've been working with DTES people for about four years now, and I have never seen a more dedicated and vibrant community -- dedicated to fighting gentrification, police brutality, and systemic bias (e.g. Missing and Murdered Women Commission). There is also a large artist community, ad hoc support network and collective feeling.
None of this is ever mentioned in MSM reports on the DTES. Even the brief times something comes up -- for example InSite -- it's never mentioned that this was solely the result of a long and bitter struggle on the part of DTES residents. Politicians and academics get credit. Not to mention that even this feelgood story fits into the dominant narrative that the DTES is full of drug addicts and prostitutes.
Finally, even if the community is broken (which I don't accept), any damage is part of a sustained and psychopathic campaign by developers, shiteating politicians and capitalists to take land away from the people who live there and turn it into profit or vacation spots for the entitled rich. This fact alone is reason to step in and protect this communty from these -- pardon me -- fucking pigs.
Critiques have been made here,
I wrote this piece. And this is a perfect example of the way the DTES is represented. This fucking insuting "token" system from Mark Brand is hailed throughout the province for solving the "dilemma" (Brand's word) of middle-class liberals who are convinced that if they give money to panhandlers it is going directly to drugs or alcohol. What's missing from this story (and which Crompton makes clear in his article) is that Brand actually ownsseven restaurants in the DTES, and only one of them pretends to have a social agenda. There is no access to healthy food (or means to cook it) in the DTES, and the people responsible for this are the gentrifying developers and entrepreneurs -- people like Brand. So the chutzpah he exhibits by "solving" the problem for which he is responsible with a paternalistic, insulting and self-serving profit measure is galling.
I'm not a fan of the term lumpenproletariat, and certainly we are encouraged to think of DTES residents as the detritus of society, but from what I've seen, it's not the case anyway. DTES residents probably volunteer more than any middle-class liberal with an eye for charity. All of the great community centres in the DTES -- Carnegie, the Women's Centre, The Gathering Place, et al. -- are volunteer-run almost entirely by residents. It's extraordinary.
I do hope none of you think I favour gentrification or kicking low-income people (however troubled) out of their homes. I'm an old tenants' rights activist. I just had the suspicion that, in order to counter the gentrifiers' tarring of local residents, some community spokespersons were painting too glowing a picture of what appears (and not only in the bourgeois press or realtors' mendacious blogs) as a deeply troubled area.
lagatta, of course not! One of the things I have longest admired about you (and learned from over the years) is your longstanding courage in the fight for tenant rights. It's true that the DTES is embattled and faces many challenges -- but I think from an activist prespective we need only look at the scumbag developers, police and politicians who have targeted this area for profit to know which side to back. The fact is that none of these challenges can be faced until the neighbourhood is safe: not addiction, not sex work, not disability. I haven't seen gentrification wielded as so vile a weapon in any city I'm familiar with (not a long list, to be sure!)
The story behind The Waldorf's displacement from the Hastings Corridor
In late October 2011 the Globe and Mail published an article celebrating the revitalized hotel's one year anniversary, calling it "Vancouver's cultural oasis in the middle of nowhere." In one sentence, the article both erased already-existing cultural spaces a short walk away from the Waldorf (Cedar Root Gallery, The Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society, LES Gallery, The Purple Thistle Centre for Arts & Activism, The Dogwood Center for Socialist Education, to name a few), while contributing to a key aspect of gentrification discourse: the notion that nothing of value exists here anyhow.
Today, with news of the sale to Solterra, the 'nowhere' narrative continues as supporters begin a petition that decries the onslaught of condo-development, since it means losing the Waldorf. The petition celebrates the establishment of this "cultural oasis in the middle of nowhere" while also quoting Vancouver's mainstream poor-bashing magazine, Scout. Low-income people are of course the "nobody" in the middle of this DTES "nowhere," and the petition seems to suggest that the battle plan for a rescued Waldorf is to strike a new deal with Vision and city hall, rather than forge new alliances with the same people (renters) being evicted by the same developer (Solterra) in the same neighborhood (DTES).
This beggars the imagination. Vision--the party that's in bed with the provincial NDP and the trade unions--is raising the fine for sleeping on the streets from $2,000 to $10,000. Maggots have a better chance of getting into heaven than the people responsible for this cruelty.


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Developing and writing health related research funding applications
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Developing research funding applications is a multi-stage process including; refining the question and methods, finding collaborators, identifying appropriate funding sources, knowing what makes a successful application and who to get advice from, costing the bid and writing the application form. This project seeks to address some of these stages. The specific objectives are: 1. To create a series of short video clips/ audio recordings featuring staff from Department of Health Sciences, covering: • Features of successful applications. These will spotlight on senior staff who are panel members for some of the major health research funding bodies. • Staff experiences of applying for external funding. These will contain reflections of staff who have applied for research funding, both successful and unsuccessful. These resources will be stored on the Health Sciences Staff Intranet (on a web page dedicated to the project) with links from both research and teaching related pages. An online survey will give people who access the resource an opportunity to feedback their views on its usefulness. 2. To establish a Learning Set of early to mid career research staff to facilitate the development of skills in writing research funding applications. Early to mid career researchers will present research ideas to the learning set for discussion or commenting on applications in progress. The group would meet once a month and maintain an email list of members that could be contacted for advice when needed. The project team will be supported by two senior members of staff (Karen Bloor and Karen Spilsbury) and has been approved by Head of Department (Professor Christine Godfrey) and Chair of Departmental Research Committee (Professor Nicky Cullum).
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If you find grammatical terms confusing or hard to remember, you can use this quick-reference list to help you. All the main terms are listed in alphabetical order:
Forms of verbs/moods
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An active verb has a subject that is performing the action of the verb, e.g.:
John ate the apple.
The opposite of passive.
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A word, such as very, really, or slowly, that is used to give more information about an adjective, verb, or other adverb.
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I went to the bank and took out some money.
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See also main clause, subordinate clause, relative clause, conditional clause.
A noun that refers to a group of people or things—e.g., team, family, police, committee.
The comparative form of an adjective is used for comparing two people or things, to express the fact that one of the two has a higher degree of a quality than the other (e.g., taller, happier, more popular). Compare with superlative.
A word made up of two or more existing words, such as credit card, left-handed, or website.
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If it rains, the game will be canceled.
I'm not going to the party unless she comes too.
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In the context of dictionaries, a corpus is a very large collection of written (or spoken) material that is gathered into a database and can be analyzed to find out how people are really using language.
A noun that refers to something that can be counted and has both singular and plural forms, such as cat/cats, woman/women, family/families. Also called countable noun.
Another term for restrictive relative clause.
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A word that introduces a noun, such as the, a, every, and this.
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Another term for reported speech.
The basic unchanged form of a verb, which usually occurs with the word 'to.'
A change in the form of a word (usually the ending) to show its grammatical function in a sentence, for example, the tense of a verb or the plural of a noun.
An intransitive verb is not followed by an object. In the following sentences, talk and cry are intransitive verbs:
The baby was crying.
We talked for hours.
The opposite of transitive.
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A clause that makes sense on its own, or may form part of a longer sentence. For example:
We're waiting for the bus.
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I went to a restaurant and I treated myself to lunch.
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A category or form of a verb that indicates whether the verb expresses a fact (the indicative mood), a command (the imperative mood), a question (the interrogative mood), or a wish or possibility (the subjunctive mood).
A word or phrase stating that something is not the case, such as never, nothing, or not.
A clause that gives extra information that could be left out of a sentence without affecting the structure or meaning. Nonrestrictive relative clauses are normally introduced by which, who, or whose (but never by that). You should place a comma in front of them:
He held out the small bag, which Jane snatched eagerly.
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Also called nondefining relative clause.
A word that refers to a person or thing—e.g., book, John, country, California, or friendship.
The person or thing affected by a verb, for example:
He was eating a sandwich.
She loves animals.
Compare with subject.
Another term for word class.
The past participle is the form of a verb that is used to form:
- certain past tenses—e.g., I have lookedeverywhere; we had decidedto leave.
- adjectives—e.g., broken glass; lost property.
The present participle is the form of a verb, ending in –ing, that is used to form:
- tenses describing something that is still happening—e.g., I am thinking, she istalking.
- adjectives—e.g., runningwater, the freezingrain.
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A passive verb has a subject which is undergoing the action of the verb, rather than carrying it out, e.g.:
The apple was eaten.
The opposite of active.
A word such as I, me, mine, you, yours, his, hers, we, they, or them that is used in place of a noun that has already been mentioned or that is already known.
A verb that is made up of a main verb together with an adverb or a preposition (or both). Typically the meaning of a phrasal verb is not obvious from the meanings of the component words—e.g., his car broke down; the idea didn't catch on; you're puttingmeoff.
The form of a noun that is used to refer to more than one person or thing, such as books or benches.
A pronoun, such as mine, yours, hers, or ours, that refers to something owned by the speaker or by someone or something previously referred to, for example:that book is mine; John's eyes met hers; oursis a family farm.
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She ran across the street.
The restaurant is not open during the day.
We went by train.
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Kate was tired so she went to bed.
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I first saw her in Paris, where I lived in the early twenties.
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The reporting of a speaker's words, rather than quoting them directly—e.g., Nina said that she didn't believe him. Compare with direct speech.
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A clause that gives essential information about a noun that comes before it. Restrictive relative clauses can be introduced by that, which, who, or whose. You do not place a comma in front of them. For example:
It reminded him of the house that he used to live in.
It reminded him of the house which he used to live in.
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In sentences like this, the decided preference in American English is to use that, while in British English it is quite common to encounter that or which in both writing and speech.
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A sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense, contains a main verb, begins with a capital letter, and ends with a period, exclamation point, or question mark.
A split infinitive happens when an adverb is placed between to and a verb—e.g., She seems to really likehim. Some people object strongly to split infinitives. Although there's no real grammatical justification for this view, it's best to try to avoid them in formal writing.
The type of English that is suitable for use in every type of written or spoken situation (as opposed to informal language, slang, or jargon).
The subject of a sentence is generally the person or thing that the sentence is about, often the person or thing that performs the action of a verb. For example:
The restaurant was packed.
He was eating a sandwich.
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A special form (or mood) of a verb that expresses a wish or possibility instead of a fact. In the following sentence, the verb face is in the subjunctive mood. The ordinary indicative form would be faces:
The report recommends that he face a tribunal.
A clause that depends on a main clause for its meaning. Together with a main clause, a subordinate clause (or clauses) forms part of a longer sentence. There are two main types of subordinate clause: the relative clause and the conditional clause.
The superlative form of an adjective is used for comparing one person or thing with every other member of their group, to express the fact that they have the highest or a very high degree of a quality (e.g., tallest, happiest, most popular). Compare with comparative.
A group of letters placed at the end of an existing word to change its meaning, such as –ish (as in childish or feverish) or –able (as in bendable or breakable).
Syntax is the way in which words and phrases are put together to create well-formed sentences in a language.
The form that a verb takes to show when a person did something, or when something existed or happened. In English the main tenses are: present, past, and future.
A transitive verb is one that is used with an object. In the following sentences, admire and follow are transitive verbs:
I admire your courage.
They followed him back to his house.
The opposite of intransitive.
A word that describes what a person or thing does, or what happens, for example, run, sing, grow, occur, seem.
The present participle of a verb when it's used as a noun—e.g., smoking in smoking is strictly forbidden. Also called gerund.
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Reviewed by: DebbieCA
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Title: Great Likeness
Date: Mar 14, 2013
This item is such a cute Scooby Doo likeness that we will have a hard time using him as a pinata. :-) Will be a great table decoration too!
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Location: Columbus, OH
Title: Cute piñata
Date: Aug 10, 2012
This was a fun birthday activity at my daughter's 8th birthday party. We had to do it inside because of the weather, so the string game really came in handy! It holds a ton of candy and seemed pretty sturdy. My daughter loved it, so it was well worth the purchase!
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The Scooby Doo 3D Pull-String Pinata is great! My kids had a blast doing the string game!
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Scooby is larger than life. This pinata looks JUST like my son's favorite cartoon character. It's huge & perfect for my son's birthday party! love it.
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Date: Apr 22, 2011
This was the first pinata I bought and the kids loved it. Easy to fill and easy for the kids to pull the strings to get to the prizes. There was no beating the pinata and breaking it and no mess to clean up. It's not destroyed & can be used as a decoration.
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Date: Oct 13, 2010
The kids loved it and had no problems pulling the strings. It still looks cute too.
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Date: Dec 01, 2009
none of the children could pull it hard enough to get it to open. I finally pulled it and it took me many tries to get the candy to fall out. I had to reach in and pull the candy out by the handfuls. Wasn't the excitement I had hoped for.
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The kids at my son's party loved this item. I used Scooby as a party decoration on a table with snacks and later moved him to the "pinata" hanger! This pull-string pinata is a great idea, and Scooby stays intact for future playroom fun! Thanks for a great item.
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'03 Tournament | Mike Weir | Canada | -7 |
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'02 Tournament | Tiger Woods | United States | -12 |
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Hip Fractures: What Increases Your Risk
Topic Overview
In older adults, hip fractures are usually caused by a fall. Even a slight fall can sometimes cause a fracture in a weakened hipbone. Children and young adults are more likely to break a hip because of a bike or car accident or a sports injury.
Falls cause more fractures—including hip fractures—as people age because, starting at about age 30, bone begins to be reabsorbed by the body faster than it is replaced. Over time, it naturally gets thinner (less dense), weaker, and breaks more easily. If bones thin a certain amount, you are said to have osteoporosis. Both osteoporosis and hip fracture affect women more often than men, because men have higher bone density than women and because of the decrease in the hormone estrogen in women after menopause. Having lower levels of estrogen speeds up bone loss and results in weakened bones. Lower levels of testosterone in men can also speed up bone loss.
Although men are also at risk for hip fracture as they age, women have lower bone density to begin with, more bone loss after middle age, and live longer than men. As a result, most hip fractures occur in women.
Some medicines can also cause bone loss. These include:
- Antacids that contain aluminum.
- Corticosteroids used to treat conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
- Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) used regularly to decrease stomach acid.
- Antidepressant medicines called SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). They are associated with bone loss and also increase the risk of falling.1
Other things that increase the risk for hip fracture include:
- Your family history (heredity). Being thin or tall, or having family members who had fractures later in life increases your risk.
- Race. White and Asian people have a higher risk of osteoporosis. Black people have a lower risk. Osteoporosis raises the risk of a fracture if you fall, so the risk of hip fracture is also higher in whites and Asians.
- Poor eating habits. Eat a nutritious diet that includes adequate amounts of calcium and vitamin D. Both are needed for building healthy, strong bones.
- Smoking. Smoking puts you at a higher risk for osteoporosis and increases the rate of bone thinning after it starts.
- Drinking alcohol. Don't drink more than 2 alcoholic drinks a day if you are a man, or 1 alcohol drink a day if you are a woman. Drinking more than this puts you at higher risk for osteoporosis. Alcohol use also raises your risk of falling and breaking a bone. See pictures of standard alcoholic drinks.
- Not being active. Moderate amounts of weight-bearing exercise, such as walking and dancing, can help keep bones strong.
- Having certain medical problems. Some medical conditions, such as Ménière's disease, can cause problems with balance or dizziness. Other conditions such as arthritis can interfere with your ability to be steady as you walk and move.
- Drug interactions. Sometimes one medicine you are taking changes the action of another medicine, or the drugs act together to create unexpected side effects. These can include dizziness or blurred vision that make falls more likely.
Research also shows that if you have had a spine fracture or, in men, a Colles fracture of the wrist, you have an increased chance of hip fracture.2
Related Information
- Richards JB, et al. (2007). Effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors on the risk of fracture. Archives of Internal Medicine, 167(2): 188–194.
- Haentjens P, et al. (2003). Colles fracture, spine fracture, and subsequent risk of hip fracture in men and women: A meta-analysis. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 85-A(10): 1936–1943.
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When the numbers just don't add up...
Following in the footsteps of the successful The Humongous Books of Calculus Problems , bestselling author Michael Kelley has taken a typical algebra workbook, and made notes in the margins, adding missing steps and simplifying concepts and solutions. Students will learn how to interpret and solve problems as they are typically presented in algebra courses-and become prepared to solve those problems that were never discussed in class but always seem to find their way onto exams.
Annotations throughout the text clarify each problem and fill in...
2. | Numerical Ranges of Operators on Normed Spaces and of Elements of Normed Algebras By: F.F. Bonsall; J. Duncan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 02-MAR-1971 Insert Date: 05-OCT-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Numerical Ranges of Operators on Normed Spaces and of Elements of Normed Algebras
The theory of the numerical range of a linear operator on an arbitrary normed space had its beginnings around 1960, and during the 1970s the subject has developed and expanded rapidly. This book presents a self-contained exposition of the subject as a whole. The authors develop various applications, in particular to the study of Banach algebras where the numerical range provides an important link between the algebraic and metric structures.
3. | Handbook of Categorical Algebra By: Francis Borceux Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 03-NOV-1994 Insert Date: 05-OCT-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Categorical Algebra
The Handbook of Categorical Algebra is designed to give, in three volumes, a detailed account of what should be known by everybody working in, or using, category theory. As such it will be a unique reference. The volumes are written in sequence. The second, which assumes familiarity with the material in the first, introduces important classes of categories that have played a fundamental role in the subject's development and applications. In addition, after several chapters discussing specific categories, the book develops all the major concepts concerning Benabou's ideas of fibred...
4. | Universal Algebra: Fundamentals and Selected Topics By: Clifford Bergman Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC Publication Date: 20-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Universal Algebra: Fundamentals and Selected Topics
Starting with the most basic notions, this text introduces all the key elements needed to read and understand current research in the field. The first part of the book focuses on core components, including subalgebras, congruences, lattices, direct and subdirect products, isomorphism theorems, clones, and free algebras. The second part covers topics that demonstrate the power and breadth of the subject, such as Jónsson's lemma, finitely and nonfinitely based algebras, primal and quasiprimal algebras, Murskiĭ's theorem, and directly representable varieties. Examples and exercises are...
5. | Algebraic Number Theory, Second Edition By: Richard Mollin Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC Publication Date: 05-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Algebraic Number Theory, Second Edition
Bringing the material up to date to reflect modern applications, this second edition has been completely rewritten and reorganized to incorporate a new style, methodology, and presentation. It offers a more complete and involved treatment of Galois theory, a more comprehensive section on Pollard's cubic factoring algorithm, and more detailed explanations of proofs to provide a sound understanding of challenging material. This edition also studies binary quadratic forms and compares the ideal and form class groups. The text includes convenient cross-referencing, a comprehensive index, and...
6. | By: Steven H. Weintraub Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers Publication Date: 08-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 23-AUG-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Jordan Canonical Form Jordan Canonical Form (JCF) is one of the most important, and useful, concepts in linear algebra. The JCF of a linear transformation, or of a matrix, encodes all of the structural information about that linear transformation, or matrix. This book is a careful development of JCF. After beginning with background material, we introduce Jordan Canonical Form and related notions: eigenvalues, (generalized) eigenvectors, and the characteristic and minimum polynomials. We decide the question of diagonalizability, and prove the Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Then we present a careful and complete proof of...
7. | 1001 Algebra II Practice Problems For Dummies Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 04-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 21-AUG-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 1001 Algebra II Practice Problems For Dummies
Practice makes perfect—and helps deepen your understanding of algebra II by solving problems
1001 Algebra II Practice Problems For Dummies takes you beyond the instruction and guidance offered in Algebra II For Dummies, giving you 1001 opportunities to practice solving problems from the major topics in algebra II. Plus, an online component provides you with a collection of algebra problems presented in multiple choice format to further help you test your skills as you go.
Gives you a chance to practice and reinforce the skills you learn in Algebra II class
Helps you refine your...
8. | Modern Computer Algebra, Third Edition By: Joachim von zur Gathen; Jürgen Gerhard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 25-APR-2013 Insert Date: 31-JUL-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modern Computer Algebra, Third Edition
Computer algebra systems are now ubiquitous in all areas of science and engineering. This highly successful textbook, widely regarded as the "bible of computer algebra", gives a thorough introduction to the algorithmic basis of the mathematical engine in computer algebra systems. Designed to accompany one- or two-semester courses for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in computer science or mathematics, its comprehensiveness and reliability has also made it an essential reference for professionals in the area. Special features include: detailed study of algorithms including time...
9. | Solving Polynomial Equation Systems II By: Teo Mora Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 05-MAY-2005 Insert Date: 30-JUL-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Solving Polynomial Equation Systems II
The second volume of this comprehensive treatise focusses on Buchberger theory and its application to the algorithmic view of commutative algebra. In distinction to other works, the presentation here is based on the intrinsic linear algebra structure of Groebner bases, and thus elementary considerations lead easily to the state-of-the-art in issues of implementation. The same language describes the applications of Groebner technology to the central problems of commutative algebra. The book can be also used as a reference on elementary ideal theory and a source for the state-of-the-art in...
10. | Boolean Models and Methods in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering By: Yves Crama; Peter L. Hammer Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 28-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 30-JUL-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Boolean Models and Methods in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering
This collection of papers presents a series of in-depth examinations of a variety of advanced topics related to Boolean functions and expressions. The chapters are written by some of the most prominent experts in their respective fields and cover topics ranging from algebra and propositional logic to learning theory, cryptography, computational complexity, electrical engineering, and reliability theory. Beyond the diversity of the questions raised and investigated in different chapters, a remarkable feature of the collection is the common thread created by the fundamental language,...
11. | An Introduction to Homological Algebra By: Charles A. Weibel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 29-APR-1994 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to Homological Algebra
The landscape of homological algebra has evolved over the last half-century into a fundamental tool for the working mathematician. This book provides a unified account of homological algebra as it exists today. The historical connection with topology, regular local rings, and semi-simple Lie algebras are also described. This book is suitable for second or third year graduate students. The first half of the book takes as its subject the canonical topics in homological algebra: derived functors, Tor and Ext, projective dimensions and spectral sequences. Homology of group and Lie algebras...
12. | By: P. B. Bhattacharya; S. K. Jain; S. R. Nagpaul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 25-NOV-1994 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Basic Abstract Algebra
This book represents a complete course in abstract algebra, providing instructors with flexibility in the selection of topics to be taught in individual classes. All the topics presented are discussed in a direct and detailed manner. Throughout the text, complete proofs have been given for all theorems without glossing over significant details or leaving important theorems as exercises. The book contains many examples fully worked out and a variety of problems for practice and challenge. Solutions to the odd-numbered problems are provided at the end of the book. This new edition contains...
13. | Matrix Analysis, Second Edition By: Roger A. Horn; Charles R. Johnson Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Matrix Analysis, Second Edition
Linear algebra and matrix theory are fundamental tools in mathematical and physical science, as well as fertile fields for research. This new edition of this acclaimed text presents results of both classic and recent matrix analyses using canonical forms as a unifying theme and demonstrates their importance in a variety of applications. This thoroughly revised and updated second edition is a text for a second course on linear algebra and has more than 1,100 problems and exercises, new sections on the singular value and CS decompositions and the Weyr canonical form, expanded treatments of...
14. | A Double Hall Algebra Approach to Affine Quantum Schur-Weyl Theory By: Bangming Deng; Jie Du; Qiang Fu Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Double Hall Algebra Approach to Affine Quantum Schur-Weyl Theory
The theory of Schur–Weyl duality has had a profound influence over many areas of algebra and combinatorics. This text is original in two respects: it discusses affine q-Schur algebras and presents an algebraic, as opposed to geometric, approach to affine quantum Schur–Weyl theory. To begin, various algebraic structures are discussed, including double Ringel–Hall algebras of cyclic quivers and their quantum loop algebra interpretation. The rest of the book investigates the affine quantum Schur–Weyl duality on three levels. This includes the affine quantum Schur–Weyl reciprocity, the...
15. | Local Cohomology, Second Edition By: M. P. Brodmann; R. Y. Sharp Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 30-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Local Cohomology, Second Edition
This second edition of a successful graduate text provides a careful and detailed algebraic introduction to Grothendieck's local cohomology theory, including in multi-graded situations, and provides many illustrations of the theory in commutative algebra and in the geometry of quasi-affine and quasi-projective varieties. Topics covered include Serre's Affineness Criterion, the Lichtenbaum–Hartshorne Vanishing Theorem, Grothendieck's Finiteness Theorem and Faltings' Annihilator Theorem, local duality and canonical modules, the Fulton–Hansen Connectedness Theorem for projective varieties,...
16. | Algebra I: A Basic Course in Abstract Algebra By: Rajendra Kumar Sharma; Sudesh Kumari Shah; Asha Gauri Shankar Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 30-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Algebra I: A Basic Course in Abstract Algebra
Algebra is a compulsory paper offered to the undergraduate students of Mathematics. The majority of universities offer the subject as a two /three year paper or in two/three semesters. Algebra I: A Basic Course in Abstract Algebra covers the topic required for a basic course.
17. | By: U. M. Swamy; A. V. S. N. Murthy Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 02-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Algebra: Abstract and Modern
Algebra: Abstract and Modern, spread across 16 chapters, introduces the reader to the preliminaries of algebra and then explains topics like group theory and field theory in depth. It also features a blend of numerous challenging exercises and examples that further enhance each chapter. Covering all the necessary topics on the subject, this text is an ideal text book for an undergraduate course on mathematics.
18. | By: T. W. Körner Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 25-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Vectors, Pure and Applied
Many books in linear algebra focus purely on getting students through exams, but this text explains both the how and the why of linear algebra and enables students to begin thinking like mathematicians. The author demonstrates how different topics (geometry, abstract algebra, numerical analysis, physics) make use of vectors in different ways and how these ways are connected, preparing students for further work in these areas. The book is packed with hundreds of exercises ranging from the routine to the challenging. Sketch solutions of the easier exercises are available online.
19. | Representations of Lie Algebras By: Anthony Henderson Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 16-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 19-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Representations of Lie Algebras
This bold and refreshing approach to Lie algebras assumes only modest prerequisites (linear algebra up to the Jordan canonical form and a basic familiarity with groups and rings), yet it reaches a major result in representation theory: the highest-weight classification of irreducible modules of the general linear Lie algebra. The author's exposition is focused on this goal rather than aiming at the widest generality and emphasis is placed on explicit calculations with bases and matrices. The book begins with a motivating chapter explaining the context and relevance of Lie algebras and...
20. | Introduction to Abstract Algebra, Solutions Manual, 4th Edition By: W. Keith Nicholson Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 15-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Abstract Algebra, Solutions Manual, 4th Edition
Praise for the Third Edition
". . . an expository masterpiece of the highest didactic value that has gained additional attractivity through the various improvements . . ."—Zentralblatt MATH
The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Abstract Algebra continues to provide an accessible approach to the basic structures of abstract algebra: groups, rings, and fields. The book's unique presentation helps readers advance to abstract theory by presenting concrete examples of induction, number theory, integers modulo n, and permutations before the abstract structures are defined. Readers can...


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The Hindu
BANGALORE: Minister for Planning and Sericulture Ramachandra Gowda on Thursday advocated giving statutory powers to the State Planning Board on the lines of the Planning Commission.
This would help all departments to implement programmes for poverty alleviation and development of backward regions in a fixed timeframe, he said.
He was speaking after inaugurating a workshop for chief planning officers and district statistics officers, organised here by the Department of Economics and Statistics.
Mr. Gowda released the evaluation study report on self-help groups under Stree-Shakti/Swa-Shakti in Karnataka - 2004 and Karnataka at a glance 2005-06. The latter has information on a number of infrastructure and socio-economic indicators.
The Minister said while the Planning Commission could implement programmes, the board had no such powers. The work of the board based on extensive research, assessment and compilation of information by its officers all over the State would be a waste.
He likened the board's work to that of a radiographer who took an x-ray that would help the doctor in prescribing a cure. Other departments should study the board's reports for improving the standard of living of the poor.
He said that he would take up the issue of upgrading the board to the level of a commission with Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy.
He wanted Mr. Kumaraswamy to write to all Ministers and senior officers of various departments to discuss the Human Development Report brought out by his department.
Mr. Gowda said that he would shortly constitute taluk-level planning units. Planning should be decentralised to the gram panchayat level.
The Minister, who was a councillor of the Bangalore City Corporation three decades ago, felt that it was time Bangalore was decongested.
For that to happen, he said, other cities such as Mysore, Tumkur, Shimoga, Hubli, Belgaum, Karwar, Kushalnagar and Davangere should be developed and a few of them provided with airports.
Kushalnagar and Hassan should have rail connectivity, he added.
The Minister felicitated Malathi Das, who retired recently as Chief Secretary. Additional Chief Secretary (Planning) Neeraja Rajkumar spoke about the contributions of the Planning Department.
Director of Economic and Statistics B. Prasannaiah welcomed the gathering.
The Karnataka Human Development Report 2005 could be accessed by visiting http://planning.kar.nic.in/khdr2005/eindex.htm in English and http://planning.kar.nic.in/khdr2005/kindex.htm in Kannada.
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Keith Urban rocks the Yum! Center and the ladies with a muscular show
Keith Urban wrapped up the 2013 leg of his Light the Fuse Tour Sunday night at the KFC Yum! Center, powering through one more show before taking a month off for the holidays....
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Does the Clean Air Act prevent landowners from seeking private nuisance, negligence, or trespass remedies when an industrial plant emits noxious odors and chemicals that interfere with the use and enjoyment of nearby properties?
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Several scholars believe that the reason some countries are better off lies in the cultural values that shape people's economic, political, and social performance.
Terry Anderson
DIGNITY, n. 1: the state or quality of being worthy of respect. 2: a sense of pride in oneself.
For every $100 billion that the United States centrally directs to clean energy, GDP may decrease by over 0.4%, says Dino Falaschetti.
Matt Ridley
The death this week of Ronald Coase, one of the world's most-cited economists, comes at a time when there is lively debate about the very issue he raised: why neither markets nor government are panaceas.
Terry Anderson
Nobel laureate Ronald Coase has passed away at the age of 102. Coase's work provided the intellectual foundation on which free market environmentalism is built.


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Athens — The Plunkett Family Circus performed for two days in Gun Barrel City last week. The Mabank High School Choir sponsored the circus. Pictured is the act billed at the Barnyard Animals performing for the crowd. See additional photos at www.athensreview.com.
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A Military Christmas
A mother's love has far reaching effects.
Amy Hillhouse has sent her daughter Kaylee care packages on a routine basis to provide for her basic needs.
A 2009 Martin's Mill graduate, Kaylee Hillhouse is currently stationed in Afghanistan at Camp Leatherneck as she serves in the U.S. Navy.
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Community Christmas Concert coming
More than 100 choir members from seven organizations in the Cedar Creek Lake area have been preparing for several weeks for the upcoming Community Christmas Concert to be held at the Mabank High School auditorium on Saturday, Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is a canned good item for donation to the Family Resource Centers. -
Chandler Tour of Homes this Monday
The 25th annual Chandler Christmas Tour of Homes will be Monday, Dec. 9 from 6-9 p.m. The event is sponsored by Women's Unity Fellowship.
The organization has traditionally funded local groups and charities that improve the quality of life for children and young adults in the area.
These projects include the summer reading program at the Chandler Public Library, the Chandler Historical Museum, God's Open Hands, Chandler Volunteer Fire Department and the Brenda Epperson Memorial Scholarship for Future Teachers. -
Palestine library hosts Angel Tree for veterans
Palestine Public Library is partnering with the local veterans groups to make sure area veterans are remembered this Christmas.
'Mary Did You Know'
The members and guests at Payne Springs United Methodist Church Fellowship Night dinner were blessed by the Mabank High School Panther Edition on Wednesday, Dec. 4. The choir performed "Mary Did You Know," along with a medley of favorite TV theme songs. These students practice everyday, along with their regular school curriculum. "It does your heart good to see young students so dedicated and talented," an attendee said. The Panther Edition Christmas program will be Dec. 17. Mark your calendar for an entertaining evening.
It's a boom time for criminals
Christmas is a boom time for cybercriminals with spam e-mails, fake sites and fake products used to lure bargain hunters to their sites. Beware of the viruses that could possibly be lurking in these sites.
Henderson County police departments routinely check out possible scams and viruses that could effect the area. Recently, Infosecurity Magazine reported of a trojan virus that is set to target banking websites nationwide. Area police departments encourage citizens to be watchful while using the Internet, and keep a close eye on their transaction. -
Enrollment deadline nears
With the impending deadline for open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), insurance agents from around the county are scrambling to provide as much information as possible on the new law.
Lana Mock, with Skip Smith Insurance, spoke to the Cedar Creek Lake Area Chamber of Commerce (CCLACC) Seven Points/Tool/Kemp Branch members about what they can expect from the ACA. Mock tried to answer as many questions as she could. -
Upgrades continue at Chandler parks
Chandler City Administrator John Taylor updated the Chandler Parks and Recreation board on several of the ongoing projects at the three city parks - Winchester, River and McCain.
Winchester Park is the most-used facility and includes five baseball fields, a walking trail, lighted horse shoe pits, fishing pond, exercise course, playground and a pavilion. -
Tournament fees proposed
As field five near completion at Winchester Park in Chandler, the city's Parks and Recreation Board is looking at various ways for the facility to help fund future park improvements.
One of the areas discussed Wednesday, Dec. 4 during the special-scheduled meeting of the board was to recommend pricing and profit sharing for future non-league baseball and softball tournaments to the city council. -
Pinnacle Church serves the Chapman House
The Pinnacle Church has taken The Chapman House under its wing by providing the necessary support for the organization to help its residents recover from their addictions.
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Innovative thinking requires a process all its own
Visiting Budapest, CIO Alexander Pasik realized innovative thinkers are mostly born, not made. So he developed a process to capitalize on them.
Don't let business dogma bite you
Disruptive innovation theorist Clay Christensen warns CIOs to be skeptical of time-honored business tenets.
Need a data strategy? Cultivate people untainted by data science
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When I play Civ, I have a rule. Always always always place a city on water. That could be a lake, river, or the sea, but it must be. The reasons I feel are obvious. You can build gardens, build naval units, but also use great rivers for defense. Plus water and rivers give gold, making it more economically feasible.
But if any of you watched the PAX demo, I realized that things may change, for better or worse. Without much trouble the Huns took over the defenseless Ethiopian city. So I asked, if naval invasions are more likely now, how will this affect my water based strategy? Will I turtle into the continent? Or maybe increase my navy or coastal defenses?
I am curious to hear your ideas on water, cities, and the changes of Gods and Kings


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Key dates for year-end giving!by NCF staff, December 5, 2013 Thanksgiving is over, and the end of the year will soon be here. That can only mean one thing for generous givers ... year-end contributions and grant recommendations!
Did you know that so far this ... read more Typhoon Haiyan matching grant complete, but giving continuesby NCF staff, December 4, 2013 We're excited to announce that thanks to the generosity of NCF givers and many others around the world, Catholic Relief Services finished a 2-for-1 matching grant to support victims of Typhoon ... read more Welcome Katelyn Blalockby Alanna Linden, November 26, 2013 Katey Blalock is the new part-time Administrative Assistant at NCF Raleigh. We have been provided with an amazing young woman who is already "wowing" us with her love of God, desire to serve, strong ... read more The secret to contentmentby Bill Williams, November 26, 2013 Someone once told me that the secret to always being content and thankful is focusing on what you have – not on what you don't have. Perhaps this was the Apostle Paul's perspective ... read more Time to Celebrate $50 million in Grantsby Alanna Linden, November 22, 2013 NCF Raleigh is excited to announce we have surpassed the $50 million threshold in grants!! As of November 1, 2013, the foundation has given a total of $50,036,100 through 12,800 ... read more |


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The World In Gracie's Eyes
#lunchtime #lunch #salad #peas #beans #food #noddles #tasty (Taken with
I'm a fashion loving hair geek, unqiue and special with abit of a twist =D
iam Unique, Different & Insane
iheart Randomness & Smiling
idrink Creativity & Emotions
ieat Hair, Music & Fashion
ilive for the moment
Not a normal person
I am Fun.
I am Down to Earth
I have Blue Eyes.
I am Bubble'y Person
I am always smiling
I have Big Holes in my face. ( Dimples )
I love to Dance.
I am over dramatic
I tweet to much
I text too much
I am slightly Vain
I wear my heart on my sleeve
I have a unique relationships with all my friends.
I like to Enjoy life.
I always have something to say
I might like i act like im not listening on the phone but i am
I am funny by accident
I Love my Mummy & all my family
I Love My Husband
I cant keep still.
I get told i am cute.
I always have something to say
I love my career, huge hair geek
I am a Chatter box
I am very tidy but can be very messy too
I love Camden
I live in Soho
I have pink hair
I can spell to save my life, explains the D in english
I am a flirt ..
Loyal Friend.
I am a huge sleep talker
I can sleep thru ANYTHING
I would let rihanna or megan, amber rose & raquel reed RAPE me
I can be very impatient.
I have very hype blame the ADHD
I am very stubborn at times
I am fucking crap at telling joking.
I giggle for hours bout crap.
I Love music, cant live wthout it, its my soul
Im a Hairdresser who doesnt take charlie
I never wear matching socks, and if and when i do there is some wrong
I am just Random
Yes I am a white girl who listens to bashment.. get over it.
I dress like a glam rock chick, who doesnt listen to rock lives Hip Hop thru and thru.
I come out with silly random comments.
I worry alot
I Sound like a Dieing cat when i sing
I Have Crap Kidneys
I Wanna be lady ironman.
I Fuking Love TheTwilight Saga
I Love My waitrose belgian chocolate cookies.
Please dont no say " still "in every sentence when your telling to me.
I am a Bitch when i have to be
I am a clever, dumb blonde.. even tho i aint blonde.
I am a poser. Damn right.
I have a funny bar in my Lip.
I drink to much cola and redbull and stawberry ribene
Ask me anything you like <3
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