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Using the Second Derivative to Examine Concavity Page [1 of 4]
Okay. Now we just took a look at the notion of curvature, and in particular, the notion of a curve being concave up. And that notion requires us to notice that the function that produces the slopes when this is concave up, that function is increasing, which means that that function must have a positive derivative anywhere here. But that function is a derivative, and so, in fact, the second derivative--the derivative of the derivative--must be positive whenever the curve is concave up.
Similarly, for a curve to be curved concave down, the derivative function must be decreasing. And so, therefore, the derivative of the derivative must be negative. So, the second derivative is negative for concave down. The second derivative must be positive for concave up. And for changes in concavity, we must have the concavity being zero or the concavity not being defined, just like with finding critical points.
Okay, well I thought that--this is--this, I think, really is a tricky notion, by the way. And to be completely honest, I think this really requires a little bit of time for you, by yourself, to chew on this. If you re-think or re-watch the lecture and work it through yourself and realize this idea of taking the derivative of the derivative and realizing what that means. The first derivative represents slopes of tangents, but then, how that function is changing--instantaneous rate of change--is the derivative of that, and that gives you the second derivative.
Let's just jump to some examples so you can start seeing these notions in action. I want to--in the spirit that we've been keeping here--consider the examples in order that we've already looked at. The first one was this four x squared plus two x minus two. Let me see if I can very quickly recap for you what we've already seen.
We drew a little first derivative--a chart here, and we saw that there's a critical point at minus a fourth. We also saw that the derivative there was zero. To the left, it was negative, and to the right, it was positive. And so, we discovered a few things by the first derivative test--that's the fancy name for this. We see that here the function is falling, here the function is rising, and this, therefore, is a min. That's what we've already seen.
Now, I'd like us to examine the concavity. How is this thing curving? Well, so, let me just remind you what the derivative equals. That's eight x plus two. Now, for us to study the concavity, we need the second derivative. So, we need to now take the derivative of this function. The derivative of that function is equal to eight. It's a constant--eight.
But you'll notice that constant number is positive. It's positive for all x. So, since the second derivative is always positive, that means that the slopes are always increasing. And so, therefore, we must be concave up. And so, therefore, I conclude that f of x is always concave up because the second derivative is always positive.
Let me show you, actually, what the graph of this function looks like. I'm putting all the information together. I haven't plotted any of the points, but at least you can see that over here at minus a fourth--which if this is zero and this is minus ten. So, minus a fourth really is right here. We have that minimum. Notice that the function is falling and then rising, but always it's curved up. It's concave up.
So, now we know for sure that a parabola is always concave up, because it's second derivative is going to be constant. And if the parabola is a happy-faced parabola--it's a positive constant in front--we know it's always going to be curved up. We finally resolved that issue, because we know it can't wiggle. Because if it wiggles a little bit out there, well, there'd be changes in concavity. And we would find those changes in concavity.
But here we see the second derivative is always positive, and that means that, in fact, the derivatives are always getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. That means this is concave up. Finally you know that for a fact.
Okay, let's try another example. Let's try the second example we looked at. Let me refresh your memory here. So, this was g of x equals x cubed minus three x squared minus nine x plus one. And we drew a little sign chart here. This is a little bit more elaborate because we had the point minus one and the point three. Those were the two places where the derivative equals zero...of x.
And it turned out, if you remember, how we saw that, in fact, here the derivative was positive. In this region, the derivative is negative, and this region, the derivative is positive. And so, we conclude, therefore, that the function is rising here, falling here, rising here, which means this is a max and this is located at a min. And that's what we concluded so far. That is also the first derivative test, basically--the fact that we're increasing then decreasing. We're using the first derivative to discover that's a max--decreasing, increasing. The derivative shows us this is a min.
I now want to look at the curvature. So, to look at the curvature, I need the second derivative. Let me remind you what the first derivative is. The first derivative of this is three x squared minus six x minus nine. But now, I need the derivative of the derivative in order to study the curvature. So, if I take the derivative of the derivative--the second derivative--I see that equals six x minus six.
Okay, well now to see when this thing is positive or negative, what I'm going to do is actually create an entire new sign chart just for the second derivative. So, the first thing I'm going to do is to find the place where this equals zero. So, I set this equal to zero to find the point of inflection. So, point of inflection, that's a candidate for where the curvature may change.
I set the second derivative equal to zero. When I do that, I see six x minus six equals zero. And if you solve that, you see that x equals one. So, x equals one is a candidate for being a place where the concavity might, in fact, change.
So, now I'm going to do something that looks a little deja vous-ish. I'm going to draw a sign chart, but not for the derivative, instead for the second derivative. I'm going to mark the points of inflection. There's only one, so I'm going to mark this one one. The second derivative there is equal to zero. This is not going to tell me if the function is increasing or decreasing. This is the second derivative. So, this will tell me where the curve is concave up--the second derivative positive--or concave down--the second derivative negative.
So, let's take a look on either side of this. If I pick a point to the left of one--let's say zero. If I plug in zero here, I see I get negative six. So, g double prime at zero equals negative six, but all I care about is the sign. It's negative. So, I mark this whole region as negative-land.
Could there be any other change there? No, because if there was another change--if it were positive-land there--there would have to be a place where either the second derivative doesn't exist or where the second derivative is zero, and I would have found that. So, this is the only candidate. So therefore, it must be all negative here.
What about to the right? Well, you could pick a point like two. The second derivative at two would equal six times two, which is twelve, minus six is six. That's positive. So, I see positive here. So, what does it mean for the second derivative to be negative and then the second derivative to be positive? That's not a fact about how the function is increasing or decreasing. This is a fact about the curvature of the function.
And we see that this is curved down. This is concave down here. Here's how I denote that. I draw these little concave down, sort of, sad faces to tell me that we're curving downward somehow. And here, I write concave up faces--happy faces--to tell me here we're concave up.
So, we're concave up here, and we're concave down in this region. Well, what does the graph of this look like? Well, let me show you. It actually looks like this. Now, notice that everything has been fulfilled here.
First of all, let's take a look at the increasing and decreasing issues. Notice that we do have a maximum at negative one, just like we predicted. And the function is increasing up to that maximum, and then decreasing all the way down to three, and then increasing from then on in. But also, notice how here we see this is all concave down in this region up to the point one. And notice that that point right there is a point where the concavity changes.
To the left, we see it's concave down, and to the right, we see it's concave up. So, it's concave up from this point onward, and concave down before that point, which is what is captured in this sign chart. Do you see that? So, here we see concave down up to one, and then we see concave up. So, that is actually an accurate picture of this cubic--of this cubic expression.
Okay, and now lastly, what I'd like to take a look at is the last problem in this little sequence of three that we've been following through our journey to this discovery. That's h of x equals x to the one-third power. Let me show you what the sign chart looked like for this. H prime of x. We saw we had one critical point. That was at zero, and that was a critical point because the derivative didn't exist. So, this is undefined here.
And we discovered that the derivative is positive to the right and to the left. So, we discovered that, in fact, this curve is increasing before and increasing after. So, this is neither a max nor a min. So, this is neither max nor min, neither a max nor a min.
Okay. Well, let's see about curvature. So, I need the second derivative. And so, first I need the first derivative. Let me remind you what the first derivative is. We already computed that. It's one over three x to the two-thirds. That's the way I've been liking to write it. But since I have to take the derivative of it, it might be more convenient to re-write it in the way we originally had it, which was with that negative exponent. That will make it easier for me to take the derivative.
Now, if I take the second derivative, what do I see? Well, I bring this down in front, which means I have a negative two-thirds times this one-third, which gives me a negative two-ninths x raised to what power? I take negative two-thirds, and I subtract one. So, I'm subtracting three over three, which gives me a minus five-thirds. And you could write this now as minus two divided by nine x to the five-thirds power. That negative sign pushes all this stuff in the denominator.
When is this fraction equal to zero? The only way a fraction can equal zero is if the numerator is zero, but the numerator is never zero. Negative two is not equal to zero, so this is never equal to zero.
Is there any place where this is undefined? Yes, this is undefined at zero. Because if I put a zero in here, I have a zero in the denominator. So, the second derivative is undefined at x equals zero. So, there's a candidate for maybe a point of inflection.
Let's take a look at that by looking at a sign chart for the second derivative. I'll plug in zero again here, and let's see what the second derivative is doing. Well, over here I need to pick a point. How about--oh, oh, wait. I think--I'm sorry, this g should be an h. The function's name is h. Little typo there.
So, h double prime--let's pick a point to the left. Let's pick, let's say, minus one. That's left of zero. What do I get when I plug that in here? Well, if I take minus one and take the cubed root, we get minus one. Now what's minus one to the fifth power. That's minus one times mines one times minus one times minus one times minus one. Since there's an odd number of minus ones I'm multiplying together that will give me a minus one times the nine gives me a minus nine. Minus two divided by minus nine is actually equal to two-ninths.
I'm not interested in the actual value. All I care about is if it's positive or negative. It's positive. So I put positive signs all over here. At this point, I put down as undefined. Now, what happens over here? Well, let's take a look at h double prime at a point to the right of zero. Let's say one.
If you plug in one, well, one to the five-thirds power is one. So, this equals negative two over nine. But all I care about, really, is the sign. It's negative. So, what does this mean? Any information about increasing or decreasing? No, the second derivative tells me about the curvature.
So, here I see this is concave up. So, these are all happy faces--concave up. Here is I see we have sad faces, so this is concave down somehow. So, it's concave up here, concave down here. So, this really is a point of inflection. This is a point of inflection, because the curvature changes.
Now, what does the graph of this look like? Well, to sketch the graph of this, we have to be a little careful, because the derivative is undefined here. So, we know that we're going to have something that really is weird, and it turns out the graph looks like this. Let's make sure that everything meshes.
Notice that, first of all, the function is always increasing. It's always going up. However, at this point, what's the tangent? Well, the tangent is actually completely vertical. The tangent is undefined. And what about concavity? Notice in this region, it's curving up. It's concave up. And in this region, it's curving down. It's concave down.
So, everything has been fulfilled. So you know at the point of inflection--concave up, then concave down. We're always increasing. And here, the derivative--the tangent--is undefined.
So, you could start to see how we can use critical points, where the function's increasing, decreasing, where the function has points of inflection, and the concavity to sketch a very accurate picture of this.
What I want to do next is a whole bunch of new examples where we do everything from start to finish, and you can see how we put together these really pretty pictures. I'll see you in the example section. Bye for now.
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Perpetrate the myth? No myth, liberals do hate Christianity, it is an accepted fact. The rest of these people who post their insensitive drivel get about as much attention as they deserve. Their attitudes would most certainly be different if they were talking in person to someone, nevermind if they happened to be talking to their mother.
As both a liberal and someone who was raised Catholic (I even attended Catholic school for 1st-8th grade), I would like to say that "hate" is a strong word. I would think that, for reasonable liberals at least, that it's not so much a "hate" of Christianity, but a desire for society to dial down the notion that everything in our lives is and should be governed by the laws of some supposedly omniscient being rather than the laws of society and nature.
Just as there are crazy radical conservatives who make zero sense (i.e. the Tea Party) I realize that there are crazy radical liberals who would even disagree with me and say "No, I do HATE Christianity," but this is not the majority of us. The majority of us just wish some of our politicians would stop including phrases about their faith in speeches pertaining to social policies that impact ALL of our lives. We also just wish that the whole religion thing would ease back on mainstream society to where it become something one enjoys in the privacy of their own home rather than shoving it down the rest of our throats. Is that so wrong?
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That Popping Noise? The Obamacare Bubble!
Kate Randall in "Obamacare exposed: The gutting of health care for workers" contends that affordable, quality health care will not be provided by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Read below the fold...
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We can do better than Obamacare, so let's give it a shot
I'm working on some Medicare for All graphics that with your indulgence I would like to post here to solicit critiques. None of them have specific calls to action for now because I don't know where to direct people that they won't get bogged down, so I'll add those later as they become appropriate. (And I welcome any suggestions about whom to hook up with.) For now, I just want to get a sense of what works visually and textually for people who aren't me.
I'm doing this now because I think the ongoing Obamacare drama presents an opportunity to raise the visibility of single-payer and to draw new adherents to it from a variety of positions. Everybody everywhere likes them some Medicare, except the people whose profits are diminished by it. Nobody likes insurance companies, except the people whose profits depend on them. This is one of those rare moments when just about everybody is talking about health care and 90% of the people who are talking about it are saying "lord god this is fucked up."
Probably everybody who hangs out at Lambert's joint is of the opinion that we were robbed of a splendid opportunity to push for single-payer in 2009-2010. Now there's another opportunity and we'll be robbing ourselves if we don't take advantage of it.
The background photo in this flyer is off Flickr using a creative commons license. For font aficionados, the font all the way through is ITC New Baskerville Standard. I want to make graphics that are suitable both for posting online and printing as handouts/pinups. Let me know what you think.
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Obama to Seniors: 'Thank you for dying!'
Kate Randall in "Obamacare and the 'crisis' of an aging population" bluntly writes:
Underlying the immediate issue of the failure of the new web site is the character of Obamacare itself—an attack on health care cloaked in the guise of "reform," whose basic aim is to slash health care spending and shift a greater cost burden onto the backs of individuals. ....
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Obama Tossing Elderly Under Bus! What Say, Progressives?
Joseph Kishore of wsws refers to the latest phase of Democrat/Republican budget skirmishing as a "dog and pony show". The "big business" parties, Democrat and Republican, are united in ESSENTIALS -- the gutting of two programs, Social Security and Medicare, that have OVERWHELMING SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION.
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Jill Stein's SOTU Message to Reclaim Our Future
After Obama's SOTU message on February 12, 2013, Jill Stein, Green Party 2012 presidential candidate, addressed a national video audience with "Our Green State of the Union" assessment -- what Jill Stein herself called the "REAL state of our nation."
We need a real discussion of where we are, so we can set our priorities right and secure the future for our imperiled families, communities, country and planet.
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Libby's Political Stew: Behind SOTU Speech's Razzle Dazzle
Here are some "realpolitik" excerpted takes on Obama's State of the Union Address from Glen Ford, Norman Solomon, Barry Grey, Pepe Escobar, Matthew Rothschild:
Glen Ford of BAR in "Obama's State of the Corporate Union":
It was an impassioned performance by a cynical politician who offers little but corporate tax incentives and continued austerity. Barack Obama peppered his State of the Union address with up-tempo buzzwords about illusory "progress," but the president's substantive message was that he is determined to complete the austerity bargain he struck with the Republicans in 2011. ...
Obama's jobs program is almost entirely a corporate tax incentive scheme, to bribe corporations to send home the jobs they sent offshore, where they have also hidden tens of trillions from taxation – a subject not deemed worthy of mention in a national discussion of shared sacrifice and patriotic obligations.
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One More Reason Bed Bugs More Popular Than Congress
If you happen to catch Bill Moyers' show this week with his guest Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont or read "Foul Play in the Senate" published at common dreams by Moyers and co-writer Michael Winship, you will discover one more example of how Congressional crony capitalism has reached obscene levels.
Apparently if NYT team Eric Lipton and Kevin Sack hadn't published their exemplary investigative report most of Congress, let alone the citizenry, would not have even known about a colossal half a billion dollar sweetheart arrangement slipped into a covert clause of the recent "fiscal cliff bill."
The THREE SENATE PERPETRATORS, long-time enmeshed with a pharmaceutical giant called Amgen, are Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Democratic Senator Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and "that powerful committee's ranking Republican", Orrin Hatch.
The loophole "tucked" into the bill was that Amgen, not mentioned by name, would have two more years of relief from Medicare cost controls for certain drugs used by patients who are on kidney dialysis, including a pill called Sensipar. This gift (to the corporation but not the taxpayers who must foot it) amounts to a whopping half a billion dollars. Read below the fold...
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Dr. Margaret Flowers Helps Clear the 'Fog of Greed'
In a 1/24/13 article in Aljazeera entitled "Top CEOs plan to loot US social programmes", Dr. Margaret Flowers powerfully calls out the motives of a mendacious "Fix the Debt" campaign launched by 80 CEOs who are determined to cut their corporate taxes even further by decimating social programs beneficial to us, the lower whopping 99% of the American citizenry.
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Obama's Continuing 'Garden Path' to Fascism
I wonder if Obama's face will be carved into Mount Rushmore. Has the universe seriously become that cruelly surreal and Orwellian?
I think so.
A few days ago when I saw Obama's likeness photoshopped onto Mount Rushmore on Al Sharpton's show it made bitter bile burn my throat and choke me.
I then managed to scream and announce to a brother and nephew that if or when Obama ended up memorialized in such a way that would be the day I moved to another country.
"Where will you move to?" my nephew asked. Read below the fold...
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From Big Orange: White House might use Medicare reform momentum to push further health care reform
Reform is Obama speak for privatize. How can people like Joan McCarter fail to realize this? It isn't subtle. Read below the fold...
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The Fiscal Cliff: Time to Go Ahead and Jump
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In a recent broadcast, Thom Hartmann makes a compelling argument why Democrats should allow Congress to jump of the "fiscal cliff" and allow the automatic tax and spending cuts to take place on December 31st (when the Bush tax cuts expire and automatic cuts to defense and domestic spending occur as stipulated in the Budget Control Act of 2011). Read below the fold...
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Let's Defend Social Security and Other Entitlements With the Second Bill Of Rights
The favorite defense of Social Security by progressives harkens back to Franklin Roosevelt who famously said:
"I guess you're right on the economics. They are politics all the way through. We put those pay roll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. Those taxes aren't a matter of economics, they're straight politics."
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Wouldn't This Be a Lot Easier with Drones?
Seriously, if you want to wipe out large numbers of people, why bother with entitlement cuts when you've got high-tech weaponry available? It's fast, impersonal, and you can just hose down whatever's left and voila! Problem solved!
Unfortunately, it looks like Obama prefers the slow, painful method of saving us from the debt.
From a Healthcare NOW email [bolding added]:
Just because President Obama won another term doesn't mean that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are safe. Far from it. Obama's seeking a "grand bargain" with the Republican-controlled House by January 1.
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Remember "The Old Days," Before Social Security
Social Security Card -- Illustration
Illustration: 3D Social Security Card. SSA# 000-00-000, This number has been established for Jane Doe.
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Sunday Grand Bargain Alert! Woodward Leak--Obama-Boehner "Grand Bargain" Agreement
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White House Grand Bargain offer to Speaker Boehner
Obtained by Bob Woodward Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:58 AM ESTBelow are documents obtained by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward that show a grand bargain proposal the White House was prepared to make in July 2011, in order to reach agreement with the House Republicans last year. This is how Woodward described the documents on Meet the Press this morning:
"This is a confidential document, last offer the president -- the White House made last year to Speaker Boehner to try to reach this $4 trillion grand bargain. And it's long and it's tedious and it's got budget jargon in it. But what it shows is a willingness to cut all kinds of things, like TRICARE, which is the sacred health insurance program for the military, for military retirees; to cut Social Security; to cut Medicare. And there are some lines in there about, "We want to get tax rates down, not only for individuals but for businesses." So Obama and the White House were willing to go quite far."
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Insurgents intercepted drone spy videos, under the micoscope
It seemed to me at first stupid that the US Military had realized that people could access most satellites a decade ago. Even worst because the technology has now become much more sophisticated. Many people in remote places can not only buy satellite box cards to access a broad group of satellite but now one can buy off the shelf software. There have been stories that the drones have been hacked, not true there is no way to hack using the of the shelf software. It allows one to view what is seen by the drones, nothing else other than downloading on to a hard drive for later viewing.
This software just downloads from a satellite channel and pretty useless concerning US military drone. However it seems that terrorist had been trying to exploit and find weakness in the system. Due to the terrain it would be very hard to actually trace where the drone was. But it could be possible if the terrorist analyst knew the area like the back of his hand.
I expect the signals to the drones are in fact encrypted, the video channels where not and its obvious that some Afghans had been attracted to the software in the remote villages in valleys because satellite is the only access to TV. So it's not so surprising that the drones video became under scrutiny of the Taliban.
There is a lot of what if's involved but basically I can see why the US military had not been too worried about the video streams until public scrutiny had pointed to the fact it is easy for anyone to obtain the video signal. Reading between the lines its not actually thought to be a priority but they are gradually upgrading the system to include encryption.
I can now see its not really causing much of a problem, its not so stupid, but of course now this factor has become public knowledge precaution need to be taken because of the what if's. Because the main what if is the that a clever analyst, may see a weak point in the system but as I stated earlier that analyst would have to know the area like the back of his/her hand.
The main problem the US military are having is the bad publicity and the administration does not like that also. Of course this is all Obama's fault, yes lets blame Obama.
As an after thought the drones video could be used for propaganda purposes to indicate that civilians are accidentally killed?
WASHINGTON – Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have intercepted live video feeds from Predator drones, a key weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the military's eyes in the sky for surveillance and intelligence collection.
Though militants could see the video, there is no evidence they were able to jam the electronic signals from the unmanned aerial craft or take control of the vehicles, a senior defense official said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence issues.
Obtaining the video feeds can provide insurgents with critical information about what the military may be targeting, including buildings, roads and other facilities.
Shiite fighters in Iraq used off-the-shelf software programs such as SkyGrabber — available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet — to regularly capture drone video feeds, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The interception, first done there at least a year ago, was possible because the remotely flown planes had unprotected communications links.
Within the last several months, the military has found evidence of at least one instance where insurgents in Afghanistan also monitored U.S. drone video, a second defense official said. He had no details on how many times it was done in Afghanistan or by which group.
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Per Dave Wannstedt, Arthur Moats is currently our starting SLB and has beaten out Kirk Morrison to this point.
They are adding a 24 year old LB to the starting lineup with a unique set of pass rushing skills, a great move for the team in my opinion. Moats has 5.5 sacks in the league in his first two seasons, including breaking Brett Favre's consecutive games starting streak.
Kirk Morrison still gives the Buffalo Bills great depth. He can play all three LB spots, and give the Bills a much needed starter if one of the top three go down. But the race isn't over yet, and he could still find himself beating out Moats.
Is anyone else excited to see Moats crack the lineup? The 2010 draft gets better by the day, as it should. If Troup or Carrington can pan out, this will be a very solid draft class.
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text: The study of past societies (sociocultural systems) and the reconstruction of their paleoenvironments requires the creation of a chronological frame of reference that allows to situate them in time. The accuracy and nature of their construction vary according to the methods used. Archaeology usually refers to two major groups of procedures to date the reality it investigates. One of them, and for decades the only one available, is called relative dating and consists of placing the facts in time with each other, through the establishment of relations of anteriority, contemporaneity and posterity. This procedure uses, among other methods, stratigraphy, that is, the order of succession of the geological layers represented in the archaeological sites, and also the typological or stylistic sequences, which also intent to establish a logical temporal ordering applicable either to artefacts or to artistic representations. The second major pathway for dating the past is called absolute dating and intends to situate the events within a universally recognized numerical time scale (calendar). Established since the second half of last century with the invention of the radiocarbon method, this domain experienced, in the last half century and through the progress made especially in the fields of physics and chemistry, a huge development. Having today a very diverse and comprehensive range of methods, each based on the analysis of phenomena and/or different processes, they can cover, when combined with each other (because none can do it alone), the entire chronological spectrum of prehistorical times. Within the investigations conducted in the Côa area, the two methods used so far are in the field of absolute radiometric dating. One, radiocarbon, is based on measuring the physical phenomenon of the disintegration (decay) of C14 in organic matter. The other, luminescence, seeks to assess the amount of energy captured, in the form of radioactive elements, in the imperfections of the crystalline structure of certain minerals. Radiocarbon Invented in the late forties of the twentieth century by an American physicist named W. F. Libby, radiocarbon was the first absolute dating method to be developed. Its principle is based on the quantitative evaluation of the regression rate (decay or disintegration) of the radioactive isotope of carbon (C14) present in organic matter. In its natural state, carbon has three isotopes; two of them are stable, the C12 (the vast majority) and C13 (present in a percentage of just over 1%), and one is radioactive, therefore unstable, the C14. Formed in the upper layers of the atmosphere by the action of cosmic radiation, the radiocarbon is subject to a fast oxidation process, turning into radioactive carbon dioxide, which is dispersed through the atmosphere and is also absorbed in vast amounts by the oceans (hydrosphere). When it integrates the natural carbon cycle, it is also assimilated by all living things (biosphere) that is, by plants (photosynthesis) and animals (breathing, food chain). Even though it is constantly being produced, the rate of representation of C14 in the atmosphere remains constant, since its disintegration takes place at the same velocity it is formed. The same process occurs in living beings, which remain in equilibrium with the environment, and this cycle is interrupted only at their death. When this occurs, and the metabolic exchanges with the environment are ultimately interrupted, the unstable nature of the radioactive C14 determines that their presence in organisms begins a process of gradual decay. When he invented the method, W. Libby calculated that, by comparison with the rate of C12, the amount of radiocarbon initially present in an organism declined by half at the end of 5,568 years after his death (this figure came to be known as "half life"). Thus, if the value of the present radiation corresponds to one fourth, this will mean that 11,136 years have elapsed, or the equivalent of two "half lives", and so on. So, the measurement of residual C14 and its proportionality in relation to the presence of C12 is sufficient to find the age of a sample of organic matter, represented, for example, by fragments of wood, charcoal, peat, seeds, bones and shells (though some provide a greater accuracy of results). The limit for dating is close to 50,000 years, since from this time the measurement instruments can no longer assess the residual radioactivity in the samples. This method, however, and like all others, has its limitations. On the one hand, the fact that radioactive decay corresponds to a spontaneous and random phenomenon determines that its quantification must always admit a margin of error. Thus, the numerical expression of a radiocarbon dating is always constituted by two values: the first represents the estimated date, say the average value; and the second, the margin of error admitted around this value (standard deviation). A date of C14 with a value of 5568 ± 30 BP means that the event it seeks to date has a 68% probability of being within the range of time between 5538 and 5598 years, with the notation BP (Before Present) corresponding to year 1950 of our era, which was adopted internationally as the standard reference for all dating by this method. Another difficulty that quickly came across this method resulted from the confrontation of dates provided by it with others historically known and established through calendars, in particular the one of the Egyptian civilization. This comparison resulted, invariably, that radiocarbon datings provided a rejuvenation of facts in comparison to their actual age. Meanwhile, the study of the growth rings of trees, the object of attention of botanists and, in particular, of specialists in Dendrology, demonstrated, through the differences observed in their varied growth rates, that the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide had not remained stable over time. Now, this observation questioned, thoroughly, one of the basic assumptions admitted by W. Libby in the establishment of his method, according to which the production and proportion of atmospheric C14 would have been kept constant over time, which, as we know today, is far from the truth. This evidence has determined the need to find procedures to redress, as far as possible, the deviation provided by radiocarbon datings. The solution to overcome this difficulty would be supplied by another method of absolute dating, developed in the meantime, which was based precisely on the researches in the field of Dendrology. In fact, from the comparison of the rate of annual growth of certain tree species characterized by their longevity (the giant American sequoia, the European oak, one particular species of pine) and the similarities found, for each species, in their growth rings, it was possible to recognize several stages of coating, which reflected, over time, an analogous behavior. For these stages was awarded the designation of dendrochronological sequences, which, with a high degree of reliability, allowed, at first, to establish rigorous dating for the past 10,000 years, but which, presently, already exceed 20,000 years. The assistance provided by Dendrochronology, in order to correct the radiocarbon method, consisted in the collection of samples from growth rings that it accurately dated, and submit them to C14 dating. Successive deviations found between the dates allowed the construction of so-called calibration curves, which today are used to correct (calibrate) the radiocarbon datings. The conventional C14 dates (non calibrated) still contain the notation BP, whereas calibrated dates are identified with the title "cal BP", "cal BC (Before Christ) or" cal AD "(Anno Domini). The method of radiocarbon dating has known, from the late seventies and early eighties of last century, important developments in its technical procedures. The measurement of residual radioactive carbon present in the samples subjected to dating was held, until then, by measuring the β-ray emission (Beta) during the radioactive decay (conventional method). A new technology has since emerged and today, fully tested and developed, proceeds to the direct count of the number of C14 atoms present in the material submitted to dating, using a particle accelerator. It is therefore known as AMS - Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. The development of this new method promised to bring three important improvements for radiocarbon dating: a substantial reduction in the size of the samples (expressed in grams before, nowadays in less than a milligram); an equally significant reduction in the time required to obtain the results (this time was once measured in weeks, and can now be reduced to a few days); and, finally, an extension of the time limit of the method itself (it promised to approach the barrier of 100,000 years). If the first two advantages were fully realized, the last still remains well short of the promised (40,000 and 50,000 years), due to the difficulty in controlling the contamination problems of micro-samples. Luminescence The foundation of the methods of luminescence dating translates into a basic principle: the amount of retained energy in the form of particles of negative electrical charge (electrons) in the imperfections of the crystal lattice of some minerals or rocks (such as, for instance, quartz, feldspar, calcite, clay, flint), depends on the amount of radiation received and increases with time. Therefore, the more time has passed, the greater the value of stored energy. The source responsible for the radiation is represented, first, by the radioactive elements that, in a vestigial way, integrate the minerals and rocks (uranium, thorium, potassium). The radiation naturally emitted by them (α, β, and γ - Alpha, Beta and Gamma) will trigger the ionization of the atoms that make up the crystalline structure of the mineral, destabilizing it and, simultaneously, triggering the release of electrons. These will lodge in the natural imperfections of the structure itself, or in those created in the meantime by that very same phenomenon. Thus, the accumulation of these electrons will be a constant process until, for example, a sample of rock or mineral is heated in laboratory. This causes the release of these particles, accompanied by production of energy in the form of an ultraviolet ray emission (luminescence). The number of accumulated electrons and, hence, the intensity of the light emission associated with its release, as a result of heating, will be all the more intense as longer the radiation dose is received, so the more time has elapsed in the meantime. In the context of this phenomenon, three steps assume a particular relevance in its use for the domain of dating: a) the moment in which irradiation begins, after the material has been subjected to heat (about 500° C.), which has erased the effects of any previous radiation, is what we call "zero moment" and may correspond, for example, to the heating of the stones used to build a fireplace, or the baking of clay to make a figurine. b) the accumulation in the mineral of a latent energy represented by the action of radiation α, β, and γ. c) the laboratory-induced heating responsible for issuing of a thermoluminescence (TL), which is proportional to the radiation dose accumulated by the mineral, since its ability to retain electrons had been set to zero (when the stones were heated by fire produced in the fireplace, for example). Insofar as the sources of radiation did not change with time, the registered TL is proportional to the time that has elapsed since that zero moment. Therefore, from the first heating, the mineral has been receiving a certain dose of radiation, which corresponds to the so-called "archaeological dose". In order to be determined, it is necessary to compare the natural thermoluminescence of the material (rock or mineral) with its artificial thermoluminescence, which is triggered and evaluated in a laboratory by irradiating another sample of it with a controlled source of β radiation. Ascertaining the induced TL by a known dose, it is possible then, almost by the appliance of a simple rule of three, to establish the dose stored in an archaeological sample, which took place since its last heating. To complete the procedures that support the process of dating, it is still necessary to know the annual dose of radiation absorbed by the rock or mineral. As we have seen, this results, on the one hand, from the internal radiation (α and β rays) inherent to the presence of radioactive elements and, secondly, to external radiation (γ rays). These come from the same elements, but this time represented in the sediments that contextualize the archaeological materials and from cosmic radiation itself. The measurement of this radiation is established by placing at the site a set of thermoluminescent dosimeters that, for about a year, will accumulate and record it, its full amount being calculated later in laboratory. Finalmente, e uma vez na posse de toda esta informação, é possível enunciar a simples fórmula que possibilita o estabelecimento de uma datação. A idade de uma amostra (t) é igual à razão da dose arqueológica (DA) pela dose anual (Da). Finally, and once in possession of all this information, it is possible to state the simple formula that allows the establishment of a dating. The age of a sample (t) is equal to the ratio of the archaeological dose (AD) by the annual dose (aD). The method of dating by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), recently developed, can be considered a variant of the previous technique. Applied primarily to the direct dating of sediments rich in quartz and feldspar, its main difference is the fact that the phenomenon of luminescence is not caused by a phenomenon of rapid heating to high temperatures, but proceeds from the exposure of the sample to a source of green light (green laser) or ultraviolet rays. Further reading: BICHO, N. F. (2006) – Manual de Arqueologia Pré-Histórica, Edições 70, Lisboa, 525 p.


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BALTIMORE—The UMBC men's and women's swimming and diving teams host their first meet of the 2009-10 season Saturday when Navy travels to Baltimore. The men's meet starts at noon, while the women's action begins at 2 p.m.
Both Navy teams come in with a record of 3-0, while both Retrievers teams are 1-0 after defeating Rider last Saturday. Last year in this series, Navy swept both meets, winning the men's meet, 169-126, before the women won 136-105.
Senior Matt Mattingly (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill West) won the 100-meter breast, while sophomore Nour Saad (Columbia, Md./Oakland Mills) won 200-meter back. Senior Lindsay Sherman (Bethany, Conn./Amity) was the only individual winner in last year's women's meet, taking the 200-meter fly.


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Ya, you heard me. Ron Paul now has his own comic book and can officially be called a super hero. Just don't tell the GOP.
It is ironic that the headline for the Ron Paul comic book is "Political Power" given that that's the one thing Paul argues that he doesn't want (nor does he think any President should want it).


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Bittersweet Memories
By James Laube, senior editor
It was his dream to own a vineyard. It was his passion for Merlot that led to the vineyard's replanting. The old house underneath the towering oak tree had a basement for a future wine cellar and, well, what more could a winemaker ask for? A loving wife, three beautiful daughters, muddy boots and a tractor. He had them all.
Greg Upton lived that dream ever so briefly. Two years after he and his wife Tracey moved into their home on Big Ranch Road, in Napa, Greg died of leukemia, at age 39. The end came on Thanksgiving Day, 1997, 11 months after he was diagnosed with the disease.
"This place was Greg's dream, not mine," says Tracey, 36, slim, pretty and blond, staring out at their vineyard on a bright, warm February morning. "Part of me wants to stay, and part of me wants to go. It's an older house, there's a lot of work to be done and there are times when I'm overwhelmed."
The 10-acre Upton Family Vineyard is now mostly Merlot. Out behind the house sits the boat they bought. The tractor is in the shed. The front and back yards are decorated with children's toys, tiny chairs, tables and bikes. Their three daughters are growing up fast. Soon Samantha will be 7; Montana, 6; and little Dakota, born three months before Greg died, will be pushing 2.
Greg Upton was one of those people you never forget. Handsome, friendly, smart and personable, he was as gifted a winemaker as they come, only beginning to fulfill his potential. His years as a winemaker at Concannon and Franciscan had prepared him for what turned out to be his last assignment, overseeing Kendall-Jackson's new winery, Lokoya, and its vineyard-driven Cabernets.
The last few wines he made turned out to be dandies. The 1995 Lokoya Rutherford Cabernet is a rich and seamless wine, layered, textured, graceful and blessed with wonderful fruit flavor. Greg wouldn't have liked the fact that it sold for $100 a bottle, says Tracey, and he'd be even madder if he knew she spent $2,300 for several cases of Greg's 1995 wines. "Greg would have fought K-J tooth and nail about [the price]," she says. "Greg didn't think any wine was worth that much."
But when Wine Spectator rated the '95 Lokoya Rutherford at 97 points, she wanted to buy as much of the wine as she could. "It was one of those bittersweet moments. I want the girls to be able to taste the wine when they grow up. I just wish he could have been here to experience the excitement."
At last year's Napa Valley Wine Auction, a 5-liter bottle of the Uptons' 1996 Chardonnay drew an astonishing price. Pete Wittman from Dallas bid $100,000 for the wine and then promptly gave Tracey the bottle and a huge hug, which was captured in many news photos. "I was a nervous wreck before the auction, and when the bidding passed $30,000, I couldn't believe it. When it passed $80,000, I was in disbelief. When it hit $100,000, I was sobbing. I couldn't believe anyone would ever pay that much for one of Greg's wines."
Wine lovers admired Greg for his winemaking; Tracey remembers him as a friend, husband and father. "He was so sweet with his girls. His family was always his highest priority." He didn't like the sales and marketing meetings, and he didn't like to travel, she says. "He'd get home and want to get into his jeans and muddy boots and drive his tractor around."
Thanks to K-J, the vineyard has been well-groomed. Jess Jackson, K-J's owner, "is the most generous man I've ever met," she says. Jackson made sure all Greg's medical bills were paid and kept him on the payroll, even for periods when Greg was in and out of the hospital, unable to work.
In 1998, Tracey had her Merlot crushed and vinified by a winemaker friend, Peter Franus, and it's bright and juicy. "We'll see how it goes, if I can stick it out," she says of future wines from Upton. "I still don't understand why this happened to Greg, but I'm moving on. I try to focus on the positive. I have to be strong, and I want to hold onto things that were his."
Though his memory remains a precious mix of pleasure and pain, on this day, with the sun shimmering, the dormant vineyard and vibrant young wine in her glass give her some small consolation.
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Clint Engel -- Furniture Today, October 12, 2011
ROUND ROCK, Texas — Ikea said it will expand its store in this Austin, Texas, suburb by 54,000 square feet, making more room for its self-service furniture area, and adding a three-level parking garage.
The Sweden-based home furnishings retail giant said the move will boost the store's size to about 306,000 square feet. Work will begin this month and is expected to be completed next summer. The store will remain open during the construction.
The Top 100 company said the project includes extending the self-serve furniture area, where shoppers collect flat-packed furniture to take home on the same day, as well as relocating customer service functions to the new section. The parking structure will offset space eliminated by converting the northwest section of the parking lot into building.
"Ikea is thrilled with the success of Ikea Round Rock. But as its customer base and sales continue to grow - along with the product assortment we offer - the size of the store's warehouse capacity now is less than ideal," Store Manager Gerd Diewald said in a release. "Extending the store's self-serve furniture area so it can hold more products will allow us to improve the shopping experience, to meet our customers' needs more easily, and to enhance our ability to keep lowering prices."
The store, at Interstate 35 and University Boulevard, opened November 2006.
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