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Mrs. Peggy Joyce Hay, age 64, of Moreland died at her residence Oct. 24, 2013. Mrs. Hay was born Oct. 25, 1948, to the late Sam Frank Love Brasher and Mary Katherine Ellison Brasher in Jemison, Alabama. Mrs. Hay is survived by her husband, John Francis Hay; daughters, Kathi Ann Eason of Senoia, Samantha Paulette (Jimmy) Eason of Newnan, and Mandy Gail Hay of Grantville; brothers, George and Frank Brasher of Alabama; sisters, Virginia Ray of Alabama and Mary Spain of Alabama; grandchildren, Timothy, Christopher, Anna, Joshua, Jacob, Stephanie and Noelle; great-grandchildren, Kayleigh and Johnathon.
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Controversial Plymouth Traveller and Gypsy site gets go-ahead
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WORK is to go ahead on a new permanent Gypsy and Traveller site on the edge of Efford in the Spring.
Plymouth City Council has been awarded £600,000 to build 10 pitches on the permanent residential site at Military Road.
The cash from the Homes and Communities Agency will go some way towards meeting the city's need for 50 Gypsy and Traveller pitches.
Providing permanent sites will also help to control unauthorised developments.
The city earmarked the Military Road for a Gypsy and Traveller site in 2007, but was refused funding by the previous Government.
The Homes and Communities Agency has also awarded the council £550,000 to refurbish the existing site at The Ride near Chelson Meadow.
The programme of work will be developed to take into account recent flooding, a council spokeswoman said.
Some residents at The Ride were badly hit by November's floods.
A council spokeswoman said there had already been extensive public consultation over Military Road.
"Now council officers will meet with residents and local community groups and keep them informed about the progress of the scheme.
"Work is expected to start in late Spring next year."
Cllr Chris Penberthy, the city's Cabinet member for co-operatives and community development, said: "Gypsy and Traveller sites are always going to be a sensitive issue but winning this funding means we can press ahead with work to meet housing needs for our local Gypsy and Traveller community."
Clear procedures will be put in place to manage behaviour expectations, day-to-day issues and collecting rent, council tax and payment for services, the council said.
In 2011 the council also approved a transit site at Broadley Park in Roborough, near Belliver industrial estate.
Earlier this year the Government awarded the council £790,000 for that controversial project to build 15 pitches for Gypsies and Travellers passing through the city.
The council has now submitted a planning application for the transit site.
A third site approved in 2011, at Mowhay Road in St Budeaux, is not part of the latest funding award.
Last year there were 40 illegal encampments in Plymouth compared to an average of between 20 and 25 a year in previous years. Over the past five years there have been 33 unauthorised encampments within about two miles of the site at Broadley Park.
A quarter of the unauthorised encampments managed by Plymouth City Council are on land owned in the South Hams area.
The encampments cost the city council up to £300,000 a year in clean-up costs, and some cause significant problems for local residents.
New national policies could mean that councils will lose planning appeals when Gypsy and Traveller sites are set up on private land if they have not provided sufficient local sites.


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Do I Recognize Jesus Christ as My Savior? ~ Jasmine Gill
About mid-way through our short flight, the woman next to me said something. "Excuse me?" I asked as I pulled out an ear bud. She didn't realize I was listening to music. She suddenly asks "do you recognize Jesus Christ as your lord and savior?"
I sat down in the middle seat next to my boyfriend, excited that we had been moved into the exit aisle of the plane since they originally had a 90 year woman sitting there (she was not up for the responsibility). Free upgrade! I was free of the corporate dominion and off for a long weekend in the mountains. I could feel the woman to my right eying us, seeking a way to start a conversation. After making the usual small talk with her (where are you from, what part of town do you live in), we settled into our seats. Headphones in my ears and a book in hand I was content.
About mid-way through our short flight, the woman next to me said something. "Excuse me?" I asked as I pulled out an ear bud. She didn't realize I was listening to music. She suddenly asks "do you recognize Jesus Christ as your lord and savior?" I was stunned for a moment despite the fact that this was not the first time I had been asked this question by a total stranger. After recovering from the slight bit of shock I simply looked at her and said "I don't think that is an appropriate question to ask a stranger on a plane." She quietly said sorry and ran off to the bathroom as I went back to my music and book.
My reaction to this woman replayed. I went through all the typical mental chatter. Judgment—I can't believe she just asked me that? Worry—Did I overreact? Did I hurt her feelings? Mental replay—Is she really crazy? We had a good laugh as I repeated the story later to my boyfriend at the irony of this woman choosing to ask me of all people this question. I have never believed in organized religion and do not think I ever will.
Perhaps it was simply a matter of coincidence as I did happen to just get seated next to her. Perhaps it was more than that, the perfect opportunity for me to get insight into some things I need to work on from the universe's delightful way of bringing the right people together in random circumstances. In those moments of my mental chatter I was definitely judging this woman (and then judging myself for judging her—the maddening cycle).
The interaction led me to one solid question: How were my "beliefs" and systems as a yoga practitioner that different than hers? Were they at all?
Now before I take this story in the direction I'm heading allow me to place a careful caveat to prevent any misunderstandings of my intentions. I do not consider yoga as a "religion" defined in the traditional sense. I understand there are a myriad of differences that quite frankly are too long and extensive to go into at this point in time. That is not the point of this article. My purpose is not to initiate a discussion of whether people should follow organized religion nor any commentaries pertaining to that although I realize there is a chance of those who have stopped reading and possibly skipped straight to the comments. So let us continue…
How many times had I talked to someone about the practice of yoga and stated they should go to a class? How many times have I realized how attached to my practice I was because of how it has benefited me? How many relatives and friends have I said the phrase "do yoga" when they were complaining about some ailment? Anyone who knows me knows I instantly get engaged in conversation when yoga comes in, a light turns on.
How many times has that woman talked to someone about her religion and stated they should go to church? How many times has she been so attached to Jesus as her lord and savior because it had benefited her? How many relatives and friends has she stated to pray (or prayed for someone) when they were experiencing some ailment? I am quite certain if I had answered yes to her question on the plane she would have certainly been incredibly engaged in a conversation about Jesus if I were open to it.
Was I really so different from this woman?
Sure, we have probably had very different life experiences, at least our religious beliefs certainly were. We were on different paths up and I am certain that if you were to break down to the core the reasons why we even subscribed to any of our beliefs in the first place the reasons were probably very similar. We could debate about the differences for all of eternity. As much as I tried to separate myself from her, immediately dismissing her question as being inappropriate thereby dismissing her, I kept arriving at the same conclusion.
If there is anything I have learned over and over from all of my classes, workshops, teacher trainings, meditation, self-inquiries and time spent on my mat it is this: There is a source of energy that causes the electrical pulse in our heart, our lungs to fill with air and the neural pathways to connect and it comes from the same source for all of us. All the other perceived differences between us are matters of circumstances, facts, and the most dividing of all – mental constructs. This will be true for every single person (and in my opinion every being) you will ever meet, whether you like them or not, whether you agree with them or not, whether you respect them or not.
Ask yourself "how would I have reacted?"
It is very easy to cultivate compassion and be easy going as long as everyone around you thinks and behaves the same way as you do. What happens when they don't? It is through this type of mental inquiry and recognition of hypocrisy that we can begin to see how there are individuals with unlimited oceans of compassion and understanding. If you are anything like me you must be reminded of this capability, sometimes by a complete stranger.
Therefore woman on the plane who asked me if I recognize Jesus Christ as my lord and Savior? If you were to ask me again my response would be "no I do not but genuinely respect the fact that you do." I may even ask "have you ever tried yoga?"
Again I re-iterate. If you comment please have it be from a place of understanding and mutual respect.
Jasmine Gill has been practicing yoga for about 8 years, although only "seriously" practicing for the past two years. She attended teacher training for 200 hour Prana Flow Certification in 2010 and recognizes that the teacher training was just the beginning of a lifelong of learning and practicing. She currently lives in Tampa, FL however dreams of living in Boulder, Colorado one day.
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35 Responses to "Do I Recognize Jesus Christ as My Savior? ~ Jasmine Gill"
Jasmine your awareness is awesome. What a great article. Shared to Elephant Spirituality Facebook.
Thank you. Awareness is of course a never ending practice that can be more difficult to sustain than any asana out there!
Lovely essay! And I totally agree with your new response of, "No, I do not, but I genuinely respect the fact that you do." I think I'm going to swipe that one.
Thank you and by all means swipe away.
Dear jasmine , beautiful article and such honest reflection, truly inspirational, Thank you
Thank you Prasad, happy you enjoyed it.
Way to go with your realization, pushing our beliefs onto others is the same process no matter what those beliefs are and it blocks the true perception of the other person so its good to be able to see that at work to create space to see beyond it…
Yes exactly! Recognizing the hypocrisy in ourselves can sometimes be a tough pill to swallow but it's a necessary part of the process of just being a human being.
Thank you.
Amen and Namaste.
I love it! That SHOULD have been the title of the article (oh there I go using that dirty word should but I just couldn't help myself). Amen and Namaste Roger.
Pushing her beliefs on others is the cornerstone of that women's belief with a long history of using violence in the process. I would hope that is where the two belief systems diverge sharply.
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I believe the authors original response was honest and truthful. IMO, there can be no compassion without truthfulness. And compassion for people does not mean one gives up the right to be offended by inconsiderate behavior. My answer would have been "I do not believe in magic". Why? Because that would have been a truthful answer.
Why the all the hand wringing about the judgement you felt? Without judgement no one can be for or against anything. If you think murder, rape or rude questions posed by annoying people on airplanes are all wrong behaviors, then you have used your judgement to come to that conclusion. You can't be for compassion or against rape without the ability to judge the merits of those two behaviors.
Thanks Mike. I agree about your statement that truthfulness (also known of Satya from the eight limbs of yoga) is of course important. However there must be consideration given to what others do believe in. While your answer that you do not believe in magic may have been the most truthful answer you could give, it may have also caused unnecessary harm and conflict. It is certainly a difficult balancing act that I am still working on.
Judgement will always be a part of our every day life, we have to make decisions all day. My main cause of reflection came from the fact that I automatically went straight to the differences that I may have with this particular woman in theory instead of identifying with what ties us together as human beings. Upon reflection I realized that while there are certain ways we differed and probably would never agree, our similarities were greater and where I should focus my energy on.
Fair enough. Making good decisions should be a self correcting activity. I think it is great that you want to focus on the positive.
"In those moments of my mental chatter I was definitely judging this woman (and then judging myself for judging her—the maddening cycle)." That was one of my favorite parts of your article, one I can relate to whole-heartedly. When in this position, even from door to door proselytizers, when they ask me that question I find it easier to just say, "Yes, I do believe with my heart." This creates a positive reaction and usually a smile and then they tend to move on because I am already "saved". This may seem deceitful but at one time I did believe this way, the belief has just morphed into one of universal connection, to me it is the same thing, just not as judgemental. I loved this article and thank you for writing it.
Thank you MM Perusse for your comment. I think at the end of the day people are just looking for others to identify with and feel human with. Your way of responding certainly still allows this to occur without engaging in conflict or betraying your own beliefs, which is quite beautiful.
Great post! Compassion and understanding are the keys! We cannot bridge the gap and cross the divide with our defenses up…we must be able to SEE the other person fully, accept the other person fully and then communication can begin.
Thanks Shannon and completely agree with you.
Love, love, love this article! Thanks for sharing it with me Blessings & Namaste~
Thanks Lori, happy you enjoyed it. Blessings & namaste to you as well.
Beliefs are great crutches to stabilize the continuous potential of chaos with the absence of conceptual understanding is not present. A belief is a mindset, a window of view and the fixed set of constructed data that is designed as a crutch, a fortress and building block.
It is a collection of stable data in a sea of motion, essential for a reference when the motion is not desirable. Conceptual understanding, that level of knowing which requires no consultation of memory or of the mind will replace beliefs. That type of understanding is in continual "never not broken" evolving, not fixed.
Some will foist their beliefs upon others to fortify their own shaky confidence in it and others will be genuinely caring by offering up their discussion of a belief in the attempt to better another.
The issue so eloquently put by Jasmine Gill in her article is that such beliefs and whole systems of beliefs are what divide us (among other mental constructs) as spiritual beings utilizing the power of our own minds against us. Busywork is created just by the actions, think and judge.
Know that a person has his own mind to deal with and it is supposed to assist him in this thing called survival. Vested interests who wish to see people less capable will use beliefs systems against others for their own ill purposes or agenda's.
Divide and conquer is the basis and "different beliefs" do not make spiritual beings different from one another, unless we "believe" they do.
Absolutely agree with you Brooke. There are definitely appropriate times and places for the discussion the woman on the plane was attempting to start to happen. Not everyone has the discernment for these times nor the respect of boundaries the response can still happen with grace and integrity. Happy sunday!
Thank you Tom for this beautiful response. While it was not the main point of the article you bring up a realm of thought that I have been recently exploring in the practice to remain present. Our beliefs are essentially summed up points resulting from our memories and experiences. While memories are vital for our survival (i.e. do not touch the stove when it is on or you will get burned) the recycling of our memories keeps us living in the past instead of allowing us to exist completely in present time and react with our own natural intelligence as opposed to our patterns and habits.
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a possible comeback – i haven't but i know that xenu will beam me up to the mothership after i clear all the enneagrams that suck my negative energy, so good luck with your jesus, my xenu is much more ancient and powerful!
OR oh goodness, i know you mean well, but i have given my life to thor – and that's the only reason this plane is still in the air and hasn't been struck by lightning!
OR actually i have heard only atheists go to heaven, religious people tend to be too hypocritical and judgmental… so i am just trying to keep my side of the street clean.
OR have you accepted the fact that your imaginary friend cannot save you from the mortal destiny that awaits every living organism?
OR now, what's a nice all american girl like you doing messing with an ancient palestinian mythology?
given these options, i think your original response was quite appropriate and honest!
you don't believe in any kind of organized religion but you think 'the universe" somehow "brings people together" in some non-random intentional way to help us learn "lessons?" hmmmm… familiar but oh so fishy!
Yeah, that "universe" that's so ubiquitous in the yoga world really seems to be little more than a way of saying "God" without having to actually commit to anything.
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Right on. I agree with you on this.
I am asked way to often about my faith in Jesus and in God. My answer is now, "No, My God has been around longer than the story of Christ. My faith in God requires no messenger, I am a direct path with my God. Thank you." (insert smile)
The look is I get back is a long blank or confused stare. Then it might be followed up with a, "but" or a "so you DONT believe in God?"
And again I reply, "My God has been around longer than the story of Christ. My faith in God requires no messenger, I am a direct path with my God. Thank you." (and insert smile.)
And life is fantastic.
Great article! Thnxs!
Thanks Jenny for the comment. I definitely laughed when you stated " I don't seek out ppl to say, "do you recognize being a raw food vegan and yogini as your savior, saving you the hell of ill health …." While I understand where you are coming from in your statements (and even in this particular instance had mental thoughts of "I cannot believe the nerve this woman has to ask like that") reflection on this interaction along with my practice has recently begun to change my perspective.
There will always be people who believe in things that we do not support to the very core of our hearts. There may be actions we can take to ensure our own fundamental rights as human beings are protected and most certainly should. However, others beliefs will oftentimes be a realm where at the end of the day the only way to prevent even further violence against one another is simple, humbling respectful acknowledgment and acceptance.
While this particular woman certainly could have approached her conversation with me in a much more compassionate way, the fact that she didn't did not give me right to discount her as a human being, which is what I felt I was doing in my own internal reaction immediately following.
Thanks yogadivina for the response. Life is fantastic, isn't it?
Thanks Thaddeus and Redden for your comments. To clarify – the woman's simple act of asking the question was not necessarily an act of violence in itself but my ego's perception of it at the time was that is was one (and subsequently I responded in what I perceive to be a subtly violent manner as well). One of my main points, although this might not be explicitly stated, it to stop the cycle right in its path.
I'm on board with you comment about firm boundaries. Being nice doesn't mean one has to accept poor behavior in others.
And you reminded me of an old story about a man with a magical watch who stopped time while riding the train to hell so he could spend eternity with all the fun people.


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The canonical model structure on Cat November 16, 2012Posted by Chris Schommer-Pries in Algebraic Topology, Category Theory.
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In this post I want to describe the following result, which I think is pretty neat and should be more widely known:
Theorem: On the category of (small) categories there is a unique model structure in which the weak equivalences are the equivalences of categories.
Motive-ating the Weil Conjecture Proof June 10, 2010Posted by David Speyer in Algebraic Geometry, Category Theory.
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This post concludes a series of posts I've been writing on the attempt to prove the Weil Conjectures through the Standard Conjectures. (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.) In this post, I want to explain the idea of the category of motives. In the modern formulation of algebraic topology, cohomology theories are functors from some category of spaces to the category of abelian groups. The category of motives is meant to be a universal category through which any such functor should factor, when the source space is the category of algebraic varieties. At least in the early days of the subject, the gold test of this theory was the question of whether the Weil Conjectures could be proved entirely in this universal setting. Nowadays, this question is still open, but the use of motives has grown. To my limited understanding, this growth has two reasons: among number theorists, it has become clear that motivic language is an excellent way to formulate results on Galois representation theory; among birational geometers and string theorists, many applications have been found for motivic integration. There will be a bunch of category theory in this post, which I hope will make it more attractive to the tensor category crowd.
I am much less comfortable with this topic than the other posts in this series; my understanding doesn't go much further than Milne's survey article. So I'm going to make this post a pretty short introduction to the main ideas. That will be the end of my expository posts; I also want to write one more post raising some questions about motives that seem natural to me.
Are Lax Functors Good for Anything? December 10, 2009Posted by Chris Schommer-Pries in Category Theory.
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So I've recently been thinking a lot about lax functors between n-categories, trying to get a better feel for what they are and why we should care. I have a few ideas about how certain lax functors could eventually be useful for TQFTs, but ever since I asked this question on MathOverflow I have started to doubt that lax functors in themselves are really good for anything.
Concrete Categories October 26, 2009Posted by David Speyer in Algebraic Topology, Category Theory.
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In many introductions to category theory, you first learn the notion of a concrete category: A concrete category is a collection of sets, called the objects of the category and, for each pair of objects, a subset of the maps . (There are, of course, axioms that these things must obey.) In a concrete category, the objects are sets, and the morphisms are maps that obey certain conditions. So the category of groups is concrete: a map of groups is just a map of the underlying sets such that multiplication is preserved. So are the category of vector spaces, topologicial spaces, smooth manifolds and most of the other most intuitive examples of categories.
Using terminology from a discussion at MO, I'll call a category concretizable if it is isomorphic to a concrete category. For example, can be concretized by the functor which sends a set to the set of subsets of , and sends a map of sets to the preimage map .
At one point, I learned of a result of Freyd: The category of topological spaces, with maps up to homotopy, is not concretizable. I thought this was an amazing reflection of how subtle homotopy is. But now I think this result is sort of a cheat. As I'll explain in this post, if you are the sort of person who ignores details of set theory, then you might as well treat all categories as concrete. My view now is that specific concretizations are very interesting; but the question of whether a category has a concretization is not. I'll also say a few words about small concretizations, and Freyd's proof.
A hunka hunka burnin' knot homology September 24, 2009Posted by Ben Webster in category O, Category Theory, combinatorics, homological algebra, link homology, low-dimensional topology, quantum groups, representation theory.
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One of the conundra of mathematics in the age of the internet is when to start talking about your results. Do you wait until a convenient chance to talk at a conference? Wait until the paper is ready to be submitted to the arXiv (not to mention the question of when things are ready for the arXiv)? Until your paper is accepted? Or just until you're confident you've disposed of any major errors in your proofs?
This line is particularly hard to walk when you think the result in question is very exciting. On one hand, obviously you are excited yourself, and want to tell people your exciting results (not to mention any worries you might have about being scooped); on the other, the embarrassment of making a mistake is roughly proportional to the attention that a result will grab.
At the moment, as you may have guessed, this is not just theoretical musing on my part. Rather, I've been working on-and-off for the last year, but most intensely over the last couple of months, on a paper which I think will be rather exciting (of course, I could be wrong). (more…)
Quaternions and Tensor Categories July 30, 2009Posted by David Speyer in Algebraic Geometry, Category Theory, things I don't understand.
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As you can tell from the title of this post, I am trying to drag John Baez over to our blog.
Let be the ring of quaternions, i.e., with the standard relations. Let -mod be the category of left -modules.
This has an obvious tensor structure (including duals), inherited from the category of vector spaces. Actually, that structure doesn't quite work; I'll leave to you good folks to work out what I should have said.
Let be a quaternion. Anyone who works with quaternions knows that there are two notions of trace. The naive trace, , is the trace of multiplication by on any irreducible -module, using the obvious tensor structure. But there is a better notion, the reduced trace, which is equal to . Similarly, there is a naive norm, , and there is a reduced norm .
This all makes me think that there is a subtle tensor category structure on -mod, other than the obvious one, for which these are the trace and norm in the categorical sense. Can someone spell out the details for me?
By the way, a note about why I am asking. I am reading Milne's excellent notes on motives, and I therefore want to understand the notion of a non-neutral Tannakian category (page 10). As I understand it, this notion allows us to evade some of the standard problems in defining characteristic cohomology; one of which is the issue above about traces in quaternion algebras.
Working equivariantly for the action of a monoidal category May 22, 2009Posted by Ben Webster in Category Theory.
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I recently got an email question from Sergey Arkhipov with a question, which I couldn't answer to my own satisfaction, so I thought I would throw it open to the peanut gallery.
One construction I've used a lot in my recent work is the equivariant derived category for the action of a group G on a space X (in basically whatever category you like). This is basically the poor man's way of understanding sheaves on the quotient stack of that space by the group.
But, of course, one could forget that there was ever a space there, and just remember that you have a category of sheaves on X, which the group G acts on. So, questions:
- Is there a construction of the equivariant derived category which makes no reference to the space and just uses the category of sheaves?
- If there a generalization of this construction where the action of G can be replaced by one of an arbitrary monoidal category?
The first question is in that class of things I'm sure I could do myself if I forced myself to sit down and do it: the answer is something like replacing the category with the category of locally constant sheaves on BG valued in your category. The second, I'm less sure about.
The Witt group, or the cohomology of the periodic table of n-categories March 30, 2009Posted by Noah Snyder in Category Theory, conferences, homological algebra, quantum groups, talks.
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A very popular topic at the Modular Categories conference was the a generalization of the Witt group which is being developed by Davydov, Mueger, Nikshych, and Ostrik. What is this Witt group? Well it's the simplest case of the cohomology of the periodic table of n-categories!
In this post I want to explain the definition of this cohomology theory and explain why it generalizes the classical Witt group.
First recall the Baez-Dolan periodic table.
SF&PA: Subfactors = finite dimensional simple algebras March 23, 2009Posted by Noah Snyder in Category Theory, representation theory, subfactors.
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Since my next post on Scott's talk concerns the construction of a new subfactor, I wanted to give another attempt at explaining what a subfactor is. In particular, a subfactor is just a finite-dimensional simple algebra over C!
Now, I know what you're thinking, doesn't Artin-Wedderburn say that finite dimensional algebras over C are just matrix algebras? Yes, but those are just the finite dimensional algebras in the category of vector spaces! What if you had some other C-linear tensor category and a finite dimensional simple algebra object in that category?
Let me start with an example (very closely related to Scott Carnahan's pirate post).
Coincidences of tensor categories March 22, 2009Posted by Noah Snyder in Category Theory, quantum groups, small examples, talks.
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This week Scott and I were at a wonderful conference on Modular Categories at Indiana University. I find that I generally enjoy conferences on more specific subjects, especially in algebra. Otherwise you run the danger of every talk starting by defining some algebra you've never heard of (and won't hear of again the rest of the conference) and then spend a while proving some properties of this random algebra that you still don't know why you care about (let alone why you should learn about its projective modules). With more specific conferences if you don't quite get something the first time you have a good change of seeing it again and it slowly sinking in. The organizers (Michael Larsen, Eric Rowell, and Zhenghan Wang) did an excellent job putting together and interesting, topically coherent, and fun conference. I was also pleasantly surprised by Bloomington, which turned out to actually be kind of cute. I have several posts I'd like to give on other people's talks, in particular there were several talks (by Davydov, Mueger, and Ostrik) on the "Witt group" which involves the simplest case of a kind of cohomology of the periodic table of n-categories and thus should appeal to all of you over at the n-category theory cafe. But I think I'll start out with our talks (which Scott and I prepared jointly based on our joint work with (Emily Peters)^2 and Stephen Bigelow).
The first of these talks (click for beamer slides) was on coincidences of small tensor categories. The strangest thing about this talk was that I was introduced as a "celebrity math blogger."
Please note that in the slides I've completely elided the distinctions between a quantum group, its category of representations, and (when q is a root of unity) its semisimplified category of representations (where you quotient out by the kernel of the inner product as in David's post).


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PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - The Arizona Legislature has nearly completed action on a Republican budget proposal.
The Senate late Tuesday formally approved the 10 budget bills on nearly party line votes. They're being sent to the House for expected approval.
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ZAMBOANGA City Mayor Ma. Isabelle Climaco-Salazar led government officials on Monday in the launching of a massive information campaign on City Ordinance 413 that seeks to regulate smoking in the city.
The information campaign started with the unfurling of a giant bill board and tarpaulins by Salazar in front of City Hall after Monday's flag raising ceremony.
City Health Officer Dr. Rodelin Agbulos, Councilor Myra Paz Abubakar and other sponsors of City Ordinance 413 joined Salazar in unfurling the billboard and tarpaulins.
The event in front of City Hall was followed by a motorcade, which is aimed to instill awareness, along the main thoroughfares.
Abubakar said the ordinance, which was enacted in June of 2013, will be fully implemented starting May 31 coinciding with the observance of the World No Tobacco Day.
The ordinance prohibits smoking in centers of youth activity such as playschools, preparatory schools, elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities, youth hostels and recreational facilities for persons under 18 years of age; elevators and stairwells; fire hazard locations such as gas stations and storage areas for flammable liquids, gas, explosives or combustible materials; within the buildings and premises of public and private hospitals, medical, dental and optical clinics, health centers, nursing homes, dispensaries and laboratories; public conveyance and public facilities including airport and ship terminals, train and bus stations, restaurants and conference halls except for separate smoking areas and food preparation areas.
Abubakar said the designation of a smoking area in all enclosed places that are open to the general public, private work places and other places where smoking may expose a person to the other than the smoker, is mandated under the Ordinance.
Abubakar Ordinance 413 likewise provides penalties for smokers as well as establishments violating the provisions of the law.
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Pope Benedict XVI has sent a supportive message to the 33rd annual meeting in Rimini, Italy, sponsored by Communion and Liberation movement.
The Pope's message addressed the theme that has been selected for discussion at this year's meeting: "By nature, Man is relation to the Infinite." The Holy Father said that in his desire for infinity, man's appropriate first step is "acknowledging his constitutive relationship with the Creator."
"Today this word 'creature' appears almost out of fashion," the Pope remarked; "we prefer to think of man as being complete in himself and master of his own destiny." But the yearning for the infinite cannot be erased from human nature. When man rejects the idea of God, the Pope said, he "begins a frantic search for a sterile and false infinite," looking for help from "drugs, sexuality lived in a disorderly manner, success at any cost, and even deceptive forms of religiosity."
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|Carter responds to Foxx Town Hall
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Virginia Foxx's Democratic challenger Roy Carter released a statement today in response to last night's telephone town hall.
"Once again my opponent refused to answer the hard questions and provide honest answers to her constituents," he wrote.
Foxx's town hall was broadcast live on WATA. During the town hall, Foxx admitted there wasn't a lot of opposition on the line- and said all callers were welcome. Foxx said she faced opposition every day in her office, and wouldn't mind a few Democratic calls. Some callers alleged today that their questions were screened and they didn't make it on-air. Foxx's press secretary Aaron Groen says that's not the case- Foxx made an effort to answer all calls, he says. In fact, calls the town hall didn't have time to air were recorded as voice mail messages. They were resoundingly positive, Groen says. The Town Hall lasted an extra half hour due to the call volume.
Roy Carter's complete statement as received by Aisling Broadcasting:
"My opponent's town hall conference call was nothing more than an hour and half long campaign ad paid for by tax payer dollars. The last time I checked, a town hall was located in the heart of a community not at the other end of a telephone line that leads to Washington DC.In this campaign, I will go to every town in our district and I will talk with anyone who wants me to listen, regardless of whether they support me or not. I will give our district the true and honest representation that my opponent has failed to provide."
Once again my opponent refused to answer the hard questions and provide honest answers to her constituents.
Callers who wanted to ask questions expressing their dissatisfaction with my opponent's shameful voting record were cut off and were not allowed to speak on air. Every voice in this district deserves to be heard – not just those who were cherry picked by my opponent and her staff.
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Mayo Clinic researchers are moving closer to determining an individual woman's risk of developing breast cancer, which could help her make more-informed decisions about her health.
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Cells lacking BRCA2 don't divide properly. Arrows point to cells with multiple nuclei caused by a failure to divide and unresolved bridges between cells during cell division.
When a woman undergoes testing for the most common breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, it is usually because she wants to know if she will develop breast cancer. However, since mutations in these genes account for just a small fraction of all breast cancers, a negative test result doesn't mean she is in the clear. Likewise, testing positive doesn't presage a future tumor.
While it's true that certain specific genetic alterations could result in a 65 percent chance of developing breast cancer during one's lifetime, other alterations could be absolutely meaningless. With such a wide range of possible outcomes, the decision of whether or not to endure a prophylactic mastectomy can seem more like gambling than medicine.
But the innovative research of geneticist Fergus J. Couch, Ph.D., of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who is combining family history data with laboratory techniques, is giving women the genetic information they need to make crucial personal health decisions.
Dr. Couch, who cut his teeth as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of geneticist Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., now director of the National Institutes of Health, is widely regarded as one of the international leaders in the genomics of breast cancer. In the early 1990s, Dr. Couch was involved in the initial characterization of the BRCA1 gene and helped discover the full-length BRCA2 gene. In 1997, he came to Mayo Clinic and continues to study these two genes, with renewed emphasis on the clinical implications of his findings.
Today, Dr. Couch leads a number of international collaborations to identify and catalogue the remaining genetic risk factors for breast cancer.
"You can imagine this information will be useful for developing risk models in the future," Dr. Couch explains, "because it is all about risk and individualization of risk. Rather than giving a woman some number that really just represents the average risk of disease, we want to be able to give her a risk that takes into account her specific environmental and genetic influences."
As Dr. Couch explains it, two women with the same high-risk mutation in a breast cancer gene — and thus the same 65 percent lifetime risk of breast cancer — could, in fact, have very different outcomes. Depending on how the other 20,000-odd genes in her genome might be acting in the background, one woman may develop breast cancer at an earlier age, and the other might not ever get it.
Eager to identify the genetic factors that modify the effects of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, Dr. Couch teamed up with colleagues from around the world to form the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2. This international team is using genomewide scans to identify genetic variants (single-gene polymorphisms) that could explain the great variability in risk between individuals.
So far, the consortium has tested DNA from 17,000 BRCA1 mutation carriers and 9,000 BRCA2 mutation carriers. For his part, Dr. Couch has already uncovered a number of modifiers that can take that average risk of 65 percent up to as high as 90 percent or down to as low as 30 percent.
"If you find people at super-high risk, they may very quickly decide to do prophylactic surgery, but if you find people at a lower risk, they may decide to delay or even forgo that mastectomy," Dr. Couch says. "So it has real clinical implications. Now we have to improve on this model so that it can be brought to the clinic to help women understand what their risk is and to make more-informed clinical decisions."
BRCA2 is located at the spindle midzone during cell division. BRCA2, shown green, is located at the central midzone in cells. Spindles are shown in red, and DNA is stained blue.
Known predisposition genes account for 45 percent of all familial breast cancer. The other 55 percent are unexplained. The pie chart shows the proportion of cases accounted for by genes known to contain mutations that predispose to breast cancer and by common genetic risk factors (common SNPs).
Through another international consortium, Dr. Couch is looking for the causes of sporadic breast cancer, when the disease appears seemingly at random and with no apparent genetic cause. The endeavor, called the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, has studied 100,000 sporadic cases, pinpointing 60 different regions of the genome that increase the risk of breast cancer.
As part of this project, Dr. Couch and epidemiologist Celine M. Vachon, Ph.D., also of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., are investigating risk factors for a specific subset of the disease known as triple-negative breast cancer. Although it makes up only 12 percent of all cases, triple-negative breast cancer is the most aggressive form of the disease and is difficult to treat because the tumors don't contain estrogen, progesterone and HER2 receptors. By scanning the entire genome of 5,000 triple-negative breast cancer patients, the researchers have been able to identify nine new markers of the disease.
"The interesting thing about these particular markers is that we do not see some of them in the other forms of breast cancer, so they may be unique to triple negative breast cancers," Dr. Couch says. "Remember, we are looking at mutations present in every cell in the body, not just the tumor. So at the very basic blood level there are factors that specifically predispose you to triple-negative breast cancer."
Dr. Couch's quest to uncover the causes of many different forms of breast cancer has led him from the laboratory to the clinic and back again. His work at the bench has demonstrated that BRCA2, a known DNA repair gene, has an important role in cell division.
This novel function may help to explain why BRCA2 mutant breast tumors have high levels of genome instability. For instance, many breast cancer tumors either lose or gain big chunks of the genome, including a section of chromosome 17. Dr. Couch began to wonder if having extra copies of the genes within that region might actually be driving cancer.
His laboratory genetically engineered a series of mice to contain more than the usual dose of these genes in the mammary gland. Two of these juiced-up genes caused breast cancer in the mutant mice. When researchers compared their results to tumors from breast cancer patients, they found that the activity levels of these same two genes were highest in patients with poor outcomes. Dr. Couch now believes they have found two novel breast cancer genes, and he is back in the lab trying to understand how they are involved in cancer metastasis and progression.
"It was interesting to take what we had found in human tumors, put it into mice, find the specific gene responsible, and then we take it back around and show that it does make sense with regard to the outcome and progression of patients," Dr. Couch says. "We just have to figure out how it all works, and how it fits into the overall picture of a woman's risk. That is all in the future."
Celine M. Vachon, Ph.D.
For 1 out of every 10 women tested for breast cancer gene mutations, the findings are even more uncertain. Ten percent of test results reveal a change in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, yet whether or not that genetic alteration will lead to cancer is not known.
In 2009, Dr. Couch launched another international consortium to determine which of these genetic changes, called variants of uncertain significance, are background genetic noise and which are harbingers of disease. This new consortium is combining family history studies with molecular biology to calculate the odds that a particular mutation is causing disease.
Today, this consortium includes 100 scientists and physician-researchers from 17 countries. It meets twice a year to share family information, functional data and new ideas for cataloguing the more than 2,000 variants of uncertain significance identified so far.
"What Dr. Couch has done is bring together people globally to accomplish things that no one institution could do on its own," says James N. Ingle, M.D., the Betty J. Foust, M.D., and Parents' Professor at Mayo Clinic, and director of Mayo Clinic's Breast Cancer SPORE, which funds the new consortium. "One of the important parts of his work is the translation of this information so that no matter where in the world a woman is being seen, she knows whether her mutation is a bad result or a neutral result. The whole point of this is to bring advantage to the patient, who, in turn, could avoid these substantial prophylactic surgeries and also perhaps worry a little bit less about cancer."
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are by far the most common breast cancer-predisposing genes, yet they only account for 5 to 10 percent of all breast cancers, and less than half of all familial cases. So it is not surprising that Dr. Couch is also interested in discovering other breast cancer genes and risk factors.
He is going back to families whose members have breast cancer not explained by BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and sequencing their genes to look for genetic changes that track with disease. The research is in collaboration with the University of Delaware and City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in California, but Dr. Couch is hoping to extend it across international lines and recently met with investigators from 20 research groups from around the world.
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Pombo Committee Seeks to Commercialize National Parks, Sell off 15 Parks to Oil Industry, Developers
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Pombo Committee Seeks to Commercialize National Parks, Sell off 15 Parks to Oil Industry, Developers
In an outrageous budget reconciliation draft obtained by the National Parks Conservation Association, Rep. Richard Pombo (R-11-CA), Chairman of the House Resources Committee (the most influential House committee on public lands issues), has outlined a plan to close 15 national parks and sell them off to oil and gas industries and private developers; demand that park vehicles and facilities be turned into billboards for commercial advertising; and sell commercial naming rights for park buildings, among other devastating proposals.
Like Mr. Hoffman's recent rewrite of the National Park Service's management policies, this is another fundamental attack on America's national parks.
Congressman Pombo has proposed removing from the park system and selling for profit 15 national park sites, including several that honor Revolutionary War heroes, African American leaders, American Indian culture, magnificent Alaskan wilderness and wildlife, priceless archeological sites, and even the memorial to our greatest conservation president, Theodore Roosevelt. Closing these parks would rip significant pages from our American story, but could also devastate Native subsistence economies in Alaska, as well as affect local economies in other states that rely on visitors to these parks to generate annual tourism revenue.
These 15 parks make up approximately 23 percent of the total park system acreage—which is already only 2 percent of U.S. public lands.
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|Smith, Kanoy Qualify For State
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The doubles team of Kelsi Kanoy and Meghan Smith of the Watauga High girl's tennis team will be making its way to the state tournament next weekend, October 25-26. Kanoy and Smith qualified by winning
their first two matches on Friday at the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 4A West Regional at Cornilus-Hough High School
They defeated a doubles team from Charlotte-Myers Park, 6-4, 6-2; in the opening round, and they qualified for the semifinal round---which automatically guarantees them a trip to states---by knocking off a doubles team from Charlotte-Independance, 6-0, 6-2, in their second match of the day.
They were scheduled to play a doubles team from Charlotte-Ardrey Kell on Saturday, but the tournament was rained out. Play will resume on Monday.
Senior Meredith Smith of the Pioneers, playing singles, lost to Grace Deering of Charlotte Catholic, 6-0, 6-2, in the first round. The Pioneers (11-3 in duals) take on Ardrey Kell (12-0, and the No.1 seed from the South Mecklenburg 8 Conference) in the second round of the state dual team playoffs on Tuesday in Charlotte.
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LeadsOnline is the nation's largest online investigative system used by more than 3,000 law enforcement agencies to recover stolen property and solve crimes. Each day, millions of items are added to the LeadsOnline database by businesses including second-hand stores, scrap metal recyclers, pawnshops, and Internet drop-off stores across all 50 states. Those records are instantly available to law enforcement agencies, meaning crimes can be solved in seconds, not months. The LeadsOnline system, compatible with the NCIC, serves as an indispensible, efficient, and money-saving resource for detectives because it provides a cross-jurisdictional, instantaneous, and accurate database that stops criminals from escaping detection by selling stolen items in another city. An official eBay partner, LeadsOnline helps prevent illegal transactions on the eBay website by giving law enforcement access to the world's largest online marketplace through automatic upload of all eBay transactions into the LeadsOnline database. LeadsOnline also includes LeadsOnlabs, a system for tracking those involved in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamines; a Metal Theft Investigation System designed to track copper and other metal thefts; and cross-checks names of pawn customers against the OFAC SDN list of known terrorists and narcotics traffickers. Each year, LeadsOnline is credited with recovering millions of dollars in stolen goods and solving thousands of crimes that are often associated with bigger crimes, such as homicide, identity theft, and arson. Based in Dallas and led by President and CEO Dave Finley, LeadsOnline works with thousands of agencies throughout the country, including the New York Police Department, the Dallas Police Department, and the San Francisco Police Department.
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THURSDAY, July 12 (HealthDay News) -- Worried about the battle of the bulge? Your circle of friends might be key to your weight gain, a new study suggests.
The research, conducted among high school students, found that teens were more likely to pile on the pounds if they hung out with people who were already heavier than they were. The opposite was true for students whose friends were thinner, however.
The researchers say the findings might help experts combat obesity, at least among teenagers.
"These results can help us develop better interventions to prevent obesity. We should not be treating adolescents in isolation," study author David Shoham, an assistant professor in the department of preventive medicine and epidemiology of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, said in a Loyola news release.
In conducting the observational study, the researchers were trying to figure out if obesity clusters in groups of friends due to social influences (when friends influence one another) or if people simply seek out the friendship of people who are most similar to themselves, including weight status.
To answer this question, the researchers examined information previously collected from students at two large high schools over the course of two school years. One school, known as Jefferson High, was located in a rural area and had a mostly white student population. The second school, called Sunshine High, was located in a city and had a more racial and ethnically diverse student body.
The researchers applied a statistical technique to analyze survey responses from more than 600 students from Jefferson High and 1,151 students from Sunshine High. The teens were asked about their weight, friends, sports and the amount of time they spent in front of the TV or computer or playing video games. The researchers also calculated the students' body mass index (a measure of height and weight).
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A Conversation With Indians Assistant GM Mike Chernoff At The MLB Winter Meetings
By Matt Loede - 92.3 The Fan's Indians Beat Reporter December 5, 2012 7:23 AM
NASHVILLE (92.3 The Fan) – While all eyes are on Indians GM Chris Antonetti, he has another set of eyes and ears with him at the MLB Winter Meetings in Nashville, that of Assistant GM Mike Chernoff.
While doing his best to make the Indians better, Chernoff took some time out of his busy day to sit down for a few minutes with 92.3 The Fan's Indians beat reporter Matt Loede to talk about the meetings, deals, and all things Indians in his interview.
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Victor LandweberAmerican (Washington, D.C., 1943)
Capitol "120"
1983photograph | dye destruction print
Not on view at this time; find out where you can see works from our collection at locations around the Bay Area while our building is closed for expansion
20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)
Acquired 1986
Collection SFMOMA
Gift of Louis Landweber
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The Microsoft Campus Agreement at NDSU
The Microsoft Campus Agreement program provides licenses for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office for all university-owned computers. Additionally, the MCA allows faculty and staff to purchase one copy of MS Office for home use at a significant discount.
MCA and NDSU-owned computers
Although the MCA represents a significant cost and time savings for the university, most faculty and staff will not see a change in the way they order software.
Software licensing contacts in departments and business units will continue to handle requests for software. The difference is that departments will not receive a bill for Microsoft Office or Windows, as these are licensed for use on the whole campus.
MCA and software for home use
NDSU employees are eligible to purchase Microsoft Office for Windows or Macintosh for $9.95 to download or add $12 to have a DVD shipped.
To purchase Microsoft Office for home use, employees should contact the software licensing contact for their department or business unit. The software licensing contact can provide the Web site and password where the software can be purchased using a personal credit card.
Please note that employment status is verified during ordering to ensure that only eligible university employees can purchase the software.
Frequently Asked Questions Regarding MCA for Home Use
Q: How many copies can each faculty/staff member purchase?
A. Only one copy per employee is allowed.
Q: How do I obtain a copy of MS Office under the MCA?
A. Contact the software licensing contact for your department or business unit.
Q: Who is eligible to participate?
A. The following individuals are eligible to participate:
- Regular full-time and part-time employees - exempt and non-exempt
- Temporary full-time and part-time employees - exempt and non-exempt
- Graduate students with a current assistantship who are paid by stipend (but NOT other students or other student employees)
Q: How long can I keep the software on my home computer? How long does the license last?
A: You can keep the software on your personal computer as long as you are employed with North Dakota State University. Once you leave the software will need to be removed.
Q: Can I use the installation disks that are used for university computers to install my home version?
A: No. Although the software is similar, the home use licensing is only legal if you use the installation disk that you order online.
Q: Who do I contact if I have other questions?
A: You should contact your departmental software contact.
Q: Will NDSU's ITS Help Desk install the software for me?
A: The NDSU Help Desk does not provide support for home computers but will provide over-the-phone installation assistance if needed.
Q: When does the home use option start? When can I purchase the software for my home computer?
A: The home use option is available now. To purchase the software, please contact your departmental software contact. There is a two-step process that take about 10 minutes to complete.
Q: After I have ordered, how long does it take for the software to arrive?
A: Once you complete the purchase, you can download the software and use it immediately. If you order the backup disks, they will be delivered by U.S. Mail or other shipping service in approximately 15 days. (Express shipping is not available.)
Q: Can I download one copy for my home laptop and another for my home desktop?
A: No, you can only purchase one copy for home use.
Q: What software is available for at home use?
A: NDSU employees many purchase Office for Windows or Macintosh. Microsoft Windows is not available through the campus agreement.
Q: Are any other Microsoft programs available for home us through MCA?
A: No. Only Microsoft Office is available through this program. Other software can be purchased through the NDSU Bookstore.
New Software:
- Mathematica 10.2
- Minitab 17
Please contact Software Licensing for more information at 231-8685 (option 4).


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Jonathan "J.J." Jones' Fundraising Page
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Age: 34
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Why are you doing this event? I love having the opportunity to help out anyone, especially kids in need. Plus, my wife works for Children's Hospital so I was doing this whether I wanted to or not.
Why should people vote for you? I'm a competitive guy. I want my partner and I to do well so that the other dancers will have to work that much harder to beat us. If that happens, then all of us will have an even bigger impact on everyone in need at Children's Hospital.
Anything else you would like to add? I'm looking forward to witnessing first-hand how great the Volunteer State is at taking care of its own. Go Vols, Go Children's Hospital, Go America!


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Fossil found in China shows ancient reptile in the act of being born
Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of an ancient marine reptile in the act of being born.
The fossil shows that the little icthyosaur was just starting to swim headfirst out of its mother's body at the time of its death, with two other icthyosaur embryos still awaiting their own birth experience.
The rare fossil was discovered in what was once an inland sea that split China in two. Today, the site lies 150 miles east of Shanghai near the city of Chaohu in the Anhui province. Scientists believe the embryos and their mother were buried in a landslide.
"It must have been pretty close to where they lived because their skeletons were perfectly preserved," said Ryosuke Motani, a paleobiologist at the University of California, Davis.
Motani and his colleagues from Peking University and the Anhui Geological Museum have been working at the site for three years. In that time they have uncovered 80 new icthyosaur skeletons that date back to the early Triassic period, roughly 248 million years ago.
Icthyosaurs, technically called ichthyopterygians, were a group of reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. They looked a bit like dolphins with a torpedo shaped body and a long, thin snout, and like dolphins, they needed to swim to the surface to breathe. Adults were just under 3 feet long, and they probably ate worms and other small animals living in the sea.
It is not uncommon for reptiles and fish to give birth to live young, but while most land animals give birth head first, most air-breathing marine animals like dolphins and whales give birth tail first.
"This delays the exposure of the head for the last minute, which is ideal for a water birth," Motani said. Unlike a fish, a newly born icthyosaur or a dolphin would need to swim to the surface in order to take its first breath.
However, in the early icthyosaur fossil scientists found, the embryo icthyosaur is clearly coming out of its mother head first.
In a new paper published in the journal PLOS One, Motani argues that the headfirst birth of this primitive icthyosaur fossil suggests that giving birth to live young first developed on land, and then continued to evolve in the water.
"Icthyosaurs from a much later time period were out coming out like dolphins, tail first," he said. "But this is the most primitive kind of icthyosaur, and the headfirst birth suggests to me that its ancestors clearly lived on land."
Motani added that more findings from the Chaohu site will be coming soon.
"There are some very interesting animals there that we didn't know before," he said.
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Greenlight Process
1. Script Submission – DFIS will consider scripts for green light consideration in only 2 ways. First – one of our selected producing partners can submit a developed script that they feel is a commercially viable film that can be made for under $8 million. Second – we will accept scripts from outside sources such as agents, managers, talent or other producers, - BUT those scripts can only be green-lit if one of our producing partners chooses to supervise it under their DFIS slate allocation. This provides our producing partners with a pipeline of quality developed product, helps to create a stronger partnership of trust and cooperation, and develops a pipeline of new talent for everyone to work with under veteran supervision.
2. Production Dept Analysis – Script submissions should be made to AS. AS and team will read all scripts which fall within the parameters of DFIS productions. They will analyze the quality of the package's creative merit, commercial viability, and fit within the DFIS slate. They will consider any talent that may be attached or interested, as well as seek out a meeting with the filmmakers should it seem appropriate. They will also consider what tax incentive options might be available for the film.
3. Distribution Dept Analysis – If the Production Dept feels a script has potential, they will share it with the distribution division who will consider the following factors:
- Is this a commercially viable film? What audience is it targeting? Will a significant audience be willing to buy a ticket to see this movie?
- Will this film fit into our distribution output deals with our foreign sales partners? Television partner? DVD partner? VOD partner? Etc.
- Does this film fit into our DFIS slate by genre? Release timing?
- Does this film offer auxiliary revenue streams such as branded entertainment opportunities or soundtrack cross promotions/income or a book, video game, board game?
- Does this film offer prestige and brand building benefits such as award winning potential?
- Does this film have wide release, platform release or limited release potential?
- Does this film have a marketing hook?
- Is there a non-profit partner that could significantly increase the visibility and/or sales of this film?
- Is there an existing loyal following that can be tapped into online or offline or both?
- Is it based on a book or a true story that we can build a foundation upon?
- Can you visualize the poster for this film?
- Is there a similar film in development or production already by one or more other producers that could derail the box office success of this film?
- Is the title as good as it could be?
4. Meeting with Filmmakers - If the Distribution team agrees that a script has potential, they will send their questions and suggestions to the production department which will then set up a meeting with the filmmakers and producers involved. In this meeting there will be sharing of all relevant feedback including notes and suggestions regarding casting, script, production issues, distribution strategy & potential marketing opportunities and commercial viability.
5. Producer Prep Time – If all goes well in step 4 and both parties feel they are envisioning the same movie, the producer then needs to:
- Work with the production team on any script issues and cast attachments. Director and lead cast must be mutually approved before full greenlight.
- Provide proof of chain of title and an available budget under $8 million (total negative cost, before tax incentives – e.g. an $8 million approved budget for NYC might yield a tax credit of $2 million, resulting in a net production cost of $6 million). Budget must meet the parameters set by the distribution division and/or what is available in the producers' slate funding allocation. The cost of preparing the budget is paid for by the producer, but reimbursed out of the film budget if green-lit by DFIS.
- Work with the completion bond company to make sure the film is bondable.
- Work with the distribution team to make any changes in title.
6. Green light process final steps – If the budget, film locations, script, casting and title are approved, then a film will be officially green-lit. This means:
- DFIS will be financing 100% of film production costs
- DFIS will be the official US domestic distribution company and guarantee US theatrical distribution
- DFIS will have ALL distribution rights across all platforms


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We're delighted to announce that Worth1000 is joining DesignCrowd. DesignCrowd is a marketplace which connects individuals and businesses seeking design with the most creative people on the planet.Welcome aboard!
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The Giant Spider attempts to annihilate the human world.Full View OBLIGATORY!Sources: http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sourceswe5.jpg
...Happy Holiday...For the haters - Definition of Monster:1.Anything unnatural or monstrous.2.Any creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people.
Soldiers wondering what to try next as their big gun fails.Desert Monster about to show no mercy.Made from these SOURCES
Some said Satan himself wrecked havoc.
What is it? Where's it from? Where's it going? Who cares...just run!
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I didn't find this too easy but had great fun trying. That deadline sure creeps up doesn't it? I created it from my own photograph of London. I think those low budget horror films are just ace.(Thanks to Keith Pomakis for the hamster photograph)
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Taiwanese patrol ships set sail for disputed islands
Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:11AM
Shortly after the announcement by NHK, two Chinese patrol ships set sail for the resource-rich islands to "assert the country's sovereignty."China's Foreign Ministry on Monday warned that Beijing would not "sit back and watch its territorial sovereignty violated." The Chinese ministry said in a statement that "China strongly urges Japan to immediately stop all action to undermine China's territorial sovereignty and return to a negotiated settlement to the dispute. If Japan insists on going its own way, it will bear all the serious consequences that follow." Tokyo and Beijing have long been competing over the sovereignty of the islands, which would give the owner exclusive oil, mineral and fishing rights in surrounding waters. China, however, does not recognize the ownership of the Japanese Kurihara family. In August, tensions heightened after Japan arrested 14 Chinese nationals when they landed on one of the islands to voice their opposition against Japan's ownership of the islands. Analysts say Tokyo has been enjoying Washington's support in its island dispute with China, because Japan represents the regional interests of the United States. YH/JR


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So now you know everything there is to know about the structure and purpose of all the CakePHP libraries, or you have skipped to this part because you don't care about that stuff and just want to start playing. Either way, you're ready to get your hands dirty.
This chapter will describe what must be installed on the server, different ways to configure your server, downloading and installing CakePHP, bringing up the default CakePHP page, and some troubleshooting tips just in case everything does not go as planned.


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FIRST LOOK: Juan Ortiz Animated Series Art Prints, #17-20
By StarTrek.com Staff - September 12, 2013
Just six more left. StarTrek.com's Star Trek: The Animated Series Art Prints preview week carries on now with Prints #17-20 by Juan Ortiz. Check out our First Looks at "The Pirates of Orion," "Bem," "The Practical Joker" and "Albatross."
Ortiz considers "The Pirates of Orion" the best of the bunch, and here's why:
"'The Pirates of Orion' is to me, the most TOS-like," he argues. "It has Kirk doing what he does best, diplomacy and drop-kicking aliens. I don't think you need a better image for this episode. The thin type grew out of necessity."
Keep an eye on StarTrek.com for additional news about the TAS Art Prints and click HERE to see Prints 1-4, HERE to see Prints 5-8, HERE for Prints 9-12 and HERE for Prints 13-16.
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