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I asked this question of Keith Conrad, and he suggested that I try posting here. One of my students observed that the only instances of factorials in the interior of Pascal's triangle are $\binom{4}{2}=3!$ and $\binom{10}{3}=\binom{16}{2}=5!$. I checked the first 500 rows, and he's right up to that point.
This is a special case of the apparently unsolved problem of finding non-trivial solutions to n!=a!b!c!... The special feature here is that I need (a+b)!=a!b!c!, and that seems like a special enough case to have been treated by someone. Unfortunately, literature searches have been fruitless, because every paper about Pascal's triangle contains the word "factorial" somewhere.
My best idea (which I can't make work) is to show that the powers of 7 in the equation (a+b)!=a!b!c! can't be made to match up unless neither side is a multiple of 7. Then exhaustive searching can show that the above are the only non-trivial solutions.
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Yeah, it's a bit too powerful, and I favor simply giving half the CP on pick up.
Poison is too weak unless it's by level, but even then it is so weak it's not worth it. Now assassin is shoved even more into the caster only box.
If we're not going to scrap the new poison system altogether, my suggested tweaks (for the moment) would be something like Assassins getting something like a +2 or x2 level bonus when casting APHEELSIK (which would be consistent with Warlords and Paladins being better with their own glyphs) and having the dagger and TT boon add more poison when you deal more damage (e.g. hit for 5, add 5 poison, hit for 25, add 25 poison; or whatever numbers are suitable).
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Reply-to-all e-mail mishaps can cost you sales
After going back and forth trying to get an answer about a potential big gig from a very busy guy named James, a good friend of mine decided he needed some help. He tried to shoot me an e-mail, wanting my feedback as to what he should do next.
But instead of forwarding his correspondence with James to me, my friend mistakenly hit the dreaded "reply all" button:
"Hi Stevie, This is my correspondence w/ James. Trying to get him to answer my questions. He is barely giving me the time of day. What do I do? I thought by at least numbering my questions to him it would make it easy for him to answer. But nooooo. He seems too damn busy to even bother with any response at all. What do I do?"
My friend did get an answer to this e-mail, not surprisingly. James' answer, was, "What's this???? What the???" That was the last he ever heard from James.
Death by "reply all."
We've all done it. Sometimes, the damage is fixable, often it's not, but either way, there's almost no worse feeling than sending an e-mail that you thought was private, only to have people not privy to the confidential nature of the correspondence be included.
The stories would be funny if the results weren't so devastating:
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• Or what about the tale of the insurance company salesman who thought he was replying only to colleagues when he somehow included the customer on the e-mail, and sent out this: "We could easily convince the customer to buy it — even though the customer doesn't need it."
All this raises the question: Is there anything you can do to avoid such disasters? The good news is there is:
• If you use Outlook as your e-mail program, Microsoft offers a plug-in that you can download and add to your e-mail ribbon. Called NoReplyAll, the nifty app grays out your reply all button. If you do need to reply all or forward an e-mail, click "disable," and you're free to respond as you wish. That extra bit of caution can come in handy.
• If you use Google's Gmail, you can go to Settings –> Lab and enable the "Undo Send" button. Another Gmail option is to go into Settings –> General, and set a delay of up to 30 seconds before your e-mails go out. That may just be enough time to catch your mistake.
Then again, maybe not. Mistakes happen, but with e-mail, they seem to happen too often. This is so for two reasons.
First, the nature of e-mail is that is seems like a quick way to communicate. Of course, the operative phrase is "seems like." Very often, the opposite is true – e-mail ends up taking way too long when a simple phone call will suffice.
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I've always heard the old adage, "violence is a weapon of the weak." But after events like the Virginia Tech massacre, it's easy to think that violence has ultimate power. After all, we've learned history through the lens of war. And we read the news through acts of violence rather than the hidden acts of love that keep hope alive.
But there is a common thread in many of the most horrific perpetrators of violence that begs our attention – they kill themselves. Violence kills the image of God in us. It is a cry of desperation, a weak and cowardly cry of a person suffocated of hope. Violence goes against everything that we are created for – to love and to be loved – so it inevitably ends in misery and suicide. When people succumb to violence it ultimately infects them like a disease or a poison that leads to their own death. Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus with a violent kiss, ends his life by hanging himself with a noose. After his notorious persecutions, the Emperor Nero's story ends as he stabs himself. Hitler passed out suicide pills to all his heads of staff, and ended his life as one of the most pitifully lonely people to walk the earth. We see the same in the case of Columbine, the 2007 Amish school shootings, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and this recent Virginia Tech massacre – each ends in suicide.
Violence is suicidal. Suicide rates of folks in the military and working the chambers of death row execution are astronomical; they kill themselves as they feel the image of God dying in them.
It is in moments like these violent times that grace looks so magnificent. It is in the shadow of such violence, as was the case after the Amish school shooting, that the victims' grace to the murderer's family shines so brightly. Sometimes all the peacemakers need to do is practice revolutionary patience, and steadfast hope – for the universe bends toward justice, and the entire Christian story demonstrates the triumph of love. And it makes it even more scandalous to think of killing someone who kills – for they, more than anyone in the world, need to hear that they are created for something better than that.
I am reminded of a letter I got from someone currently on death row. After reading some of my writing, he wrote to me to share that he was a living testimony against the myth of redemptive violence (the idea that violence can bring redemption or peace). This fellow on death row told me that the family of his victim argued that he should not be killed for what he did, that he was not beyond redemption, and so he did not receive the death penalty for his crime. "That gave me a lot of time to think about grace," he said. And he became a Christian in prison. Another story of scandalous love and grace.
So in these days after Easter, even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly.
Shane Claiborne is a Red Letter Christian, author of The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, and a founding partner of The Simple Way community, a radical faith community that lives among and serves the homeless in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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The Philadelphia Eagles traded cornerback Asante Samuel to the Atlanta Falcons on Wednesday in exchange for a seventh-round pick in this week's NFL draft.
As part of the trade, Samuel and the Falcons have agreed to terms on a three-year, $18.5 million deal, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
"We are pleased to be able to add a player of Asante's caliber to our roster," Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff said in a statement released by the team. "Asante has established himself as a very productive player during his career. He is a proven player in this league and we feel that this move upgrades the talent of our roster and improves our football team."
Samuel had to rework the final two years of his existing contract -- which weren't guaranteed in the first place -- before the deal could be finished. Samuel was set to make $21.5 million over the next two seasons, and he would count for more than $8 million against the salary cap.
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In Bombay, you have many choices if you want to eat a Gujarati thali. The good old Thackers at Chowpatty (Birla Krida Kendra) serves a reasonably simple non-frill Thali for Rs 80. One advantage is that you will always get place here. Then there is Aram at Mahim (Opposite St Michael's Church), Thackers at Marine Lines, Rajdhani, opposite Mangaldas market, Samrat at Churchgate. Golden Star Thali near Charni Road station and Shri Thakkar Bhojanalaya at Dadysett Agiary lane at Kalbadevi. Panchavati Gaurav (near Bombay hospital) and Chetna (Kala Ghoda) serve a Rajasthani thali. The thali at all these places is priced between Rs 100 and 180 but I would recommend Shri Thakkar Bhojanalaya for its authentic taste and very good quality. Their thali is priced at Rs 130 on weekdays and Rs 150 on the weekends and the place is always crowded. Anil P informs me that Rasoi in Mulund(W) is also good and costs half.
Some days ago, my friend L had told me that Govinda, the restaurant run by ISKCON has opened a branch in South Bombay in the lane opposite the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at Chowpatty. I have heard a lot about their Thali (not Gujarati) and we decided to meet there for lunch only to beat a hasty exit after discovering that they served pizzas, Chinese food and cheesecakes but no Thali. Thus, when L suggested Shri Thakkar Bhojanalaya, I readily agreed but as she had not been to Friends Union Joshi Club, we decided to go there.
Friends Union Joshi Club is located at Kalbadevi. You need to take a left at the Round Building junction (the junction on Princess Street where you have to turn right to go to Metro) and walk on the main Kalbadevi Road for 5-10 minutes and it's located on the right hand side on the first floor in an old building in Narrotam Wadi.
It is a no frills place and the dining room is a big hall with rows of tables with cushioned seating a and each table accommodates two. The place accommodates 60 people at one time. Like all old buildings, it has a high ceiling and huge wooden windows. The absence of air-conditioning is not felt as the place is well ventilated. We seated ourselves on the corner table and from our window we could see the hustle and bustle of the very commercial Kalbadevi road below. Just opposite the hotel, I noticed shops with signboards "Omega Dresses" and "Platinum Men's Attire"
The Thali here is served in a huge stainless steel thali whose diameter must be at least 18 inches. They serve 4 vegetables, one farsan, phulkas or bhakri (small but crisp and is called biscuit bhakri), dal (sweet or regular), dahi or chaas, rice or khichadi, chopped salad, 2 chutneys (I loved the tikha garlic one), fried chopped chillies (tastes yummy) and pickle. You get all this, unlimited for Rs 70. The sweet has an extra charge according to the one you choose. We had Gulab Jamun and Aamras and both were very good.
Like many other 'khanavals' in Bombay, Friends Union Joshi Club was started more than 100 years ago to cater to men who left their villages in Gujarat to come and work in Mumbai and missed home-cooked food. It is now frequented by businessmen in the area and is more crowded during lunchtime and weekdays.
Mr. Purohit, the owner whose father has been running the place since 1955 played a good host going around urging his customers to eat more. He came to our table and was offering me a phulka or bhakri. When I told him I was full, he said that eating here is about 'trupti' and not about being full and put the phulka into my thali anyway.
I was surprised when he told me that he was a Rajasthani (I always thought it was run by a Gujarati) and his father had taken over the place from Joshi. He had taken care to retain not only the taste and quality of the Gujarati food served but also the name because of the goodwill the place had earned over the years.
On our way out he showed us a newspaper cutting, which mentioned that the late Dhirubhai Ambani frequented the place, when he first came to Bombay and his wife Kokilaben was not in the city.
So if you happen to go to Kalbadevi and you are not planning to do any active work after lunch, do go and try the Thali here and then have a good siesta on a very full stomach.


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In 1220 Sacrobosco went to study in Paris. Although almost all dates for Sacrobosco are guesses we do know one date precisely for, on 5 June 1221, he was appointed a teacher at the University of Paris. Soon after this he became professor of mathematics at Paris.
Sacrobosco promoted Arabic methods of arithmetic and algebra in his teachings. In De Algorismo he discusses calculating with positive integers. The work contains 11 chapters, one each on topics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square roots and cube roots.
In 1220 Sacrobosco wrote Tractatus de Sphaera a book on astronomy in four chapters. The first chapter deals with the shape and place of the Earth within a spherical universe. The second chapter deals with various circles on the sky. The third chapter describes rising and setting of heavenly bodies from different geographical locations while the fourth chapter gives a brief introduction to Ptolemy's theory of the planets and of eclipses.
The book, which predates Grosseteste's astronomy book, is well written and was widely used throughout Europe from the middle of the 13th Century. Clavius used in the 16th Century and it was still the basic astronomy text until the 17th Century. It was essentially the first astronomy text to be printed in 1472. Despite its long life as a teaching book Barocius had pointed out 84 errors in the book as early as 1570.
Sacrobosco wrote De Anni Ratione in 1232. This book deals with time, studying the day, week, month, year as well as the Moon and the ecclesiastical calendar. He maintains that the Julian calendar is 10 days in error and should be corrected. He suggest a reform of the calendar achieved by omitting one day every 288 years.
He wrote a number of other book including Tractatus de Quadrante on the quadrant.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants have raced to the best record in the majors with few contributions from two of their biggest stars.
Buster Posey and Matt Cain started to change that on June 6.
Posey hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the eighth inning for his first long ball in more than a month, Cain made a successful return from the disabled list and the Giants won for the eighth time in 10 games by beating the New York Mets 4-2.
"He's a talented hitter," Manager Bruce Bochy said of Posey. "We all have our ups and downs. We talk about that all the time. He saw the ball well tonight."
The big blast off Carlos Torres (2-3) capped a three-hit day for Posey, who entered the game with only four hits in his past 42 at-bats at home and no homers since May 3.
Angel Pagan started the rally with a leadoff walk against Torres and advanced to second on a groundout. Posey followed with a long drive to left-center to snap a 93 at-bat homer drought as the Giants (40-21) became the first team in the majors to reach 40 wins.
"In that situation you're just trying to get something you can stay in the middle of the field with and try to get that run in from second," Posey said. "Fortunately I got a good pitch I could handle and it went out."
Jeremy Affeldt (1-1) pitched a scoreless eighth on his 35th birthday to get the win. Sergio Romo got three outs for his 19th save in 21 chances.
Daniel Murphy hit a two-run homer for the Mets, who lost their fourth straight game. The bullpen has taken all four of the losses and has a major league-worst 15 losses on the season.
"He was the perfect guy," Manager Terry Collins said of Torres. "He's had great numbers against the Giants. He doesn't hardly walk anybody. Buster's made a career of getting big hits."
Cain allowed two runs and three hits in seven innings in his first start back from a stint on the disabled list for a strained right hamstring. But he got a no-decision and still has only one win in nine starts in a rough season that has included two trips to the disabled list.
"We had the fastball working pretty well today," Cain said. "We were on both sides of the plate and tried to mix some off-speed stuff after that. The big key today was getting the fastball over for strikes."
Cain was in complete control with a 1-0 lead having faced the minimum 18 batters through six innings before the Mets quickly turned the tide in the seventh.
Matt den Dekker led off the inning with a double for New York's second hit of the game and Murphy followed with his fourth home run of the season to put the Mets ahead 2-1.
The Giants tied it in the bottom half when Brandon Hicks and Brandon Crawford teamed up again to produce a run. Hicks drew a two-out walk from Jonathon Niese, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on Crawford's single to center.
The duo produced San Francisco's first run in the fifth when Hicks tripled and scored on Crawford's sacrifice fly to make it 1-0.
Niese allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings, extending his streak of consecutive starts allowing three earned runs or fewer to 16 but still ended up with a no-decision.
"It's tough," he said. "You go out there and battle and you want to see the win beside your name. But it is what it is, it's part of the game. It'll come eventually. I have all the confidence in the offense we have here. They're going to put up runs."
Cain retired the first 12 batters of the game before walking Curtis Granderson to lead off the fifth. Granderson was quickly erased when Andrew Brown hit into a double play.
The Mets got the leadoff runner on again in the sixth when Ruben Tejada reached on an infield single. Cain once again followed that by inducing a double-play grounder by Travis d'Arnaud.
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Day 2 at the 2013 North Pointe Junior Gold Championships
On Saturday, we started the morning with a two hour Lane Play seminar by Mark Baker at Sunnybrook Lanes. 150 youth bowlers got the chance to get some extra help on shooting their spares before the Junior Gold Qualifying begins. Mark did a quick presentation, and then we put the bowlers on the lanes where they could work with our coaching staff. We had Dino Castillo, Jason Couch, Ed Gallagher, Amleto Monacelli, Stefanie Nation, and quite a few others helping the Jr Gold bowlers.
Then it was off to the exhibit area at Junior Gold Check-In. Somerset Inn was the location, and the layout was great. We had our pro staff available to talk with the youth bowlers, and that was a great hit out of the park. Amleto was very popular (especially with the Moms). You could feel the energy from the bowlers as they did their check-in, took their Jr Gold picture, checked out the USBC store, visited the collegiate experience area, and visited us in the exhibit area. Over 2000 youth bowlers and their entourages came through Somerset Inn. What an amazing site.
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Paradigm shifts – major changes in the way things operate – happen slowly, especially in law enforcement. Only on the rarest occasion will police operations suddenly change to adapt to anything. The best tactical example of a rapid paradigm shift is Columbine. The transition from "Isolate, Contain, Wait for SWAT" to an immediate entry of patrol officers seemed to happen overnight.
Virtually every department in the US conducted in-service Active Shooter training using some sort of four officer, diamond or Y-formation. Most police academies began to teach this same Active Shooter patrol response.
The reason for this almost immediate change in technique was simple math. The average response time for a SWAT team is 50 minutes. The timeline of violence in Active Shooter scenarios is less than 5 minutes. To stop the Active Shooter, the police have to engage him. By the time SWAT arrives, the killing is long over. Patrol officers made entry as soon as the diamond formation was formed.
Very slowly, that same simple math, that same short timeline of violence, began to take hold again. Even in well-staffed urban departments, and especially in under-staffed rural areas where most school shootings occur, it could take too long to assemble four patrol officers.
Over a 10-year period, no four officer patrol formation actually stopped the ongoing killings. It was all over just too quickly. Again, slowly, four officer formations gave way to an immediate entry by the first officer on the scene. Again, it is simple math. If it is all over in less than 5 minutes and someone gets shot every 15 seconds, the first officer simply must enter.
We are now seeing another time-based, time-forced change in our Active Shooter response. The reality is that the shooting may have stopped, but the victim bleeding has not. Since the ultimate mission has always been to save lives, the latest paradigm shift is working with Fire/Rescue to quickly stop the bleeding. That means rapidly transitioning the hot zone into a warm zone and getting paramedics into the scene as soon as possible. Not the SWAT teams' TEMS officers, but Fire/Rescue's medics.
These are not just any paramedics. Instead, those who have trained with the police, have been equipped with body armor and helmets, and have their load bearing vest specifically fitted for the mass casualty incident response, i.e., dozens of tourniquets and numerous bags of homeostatic agents.
The SWAT teams TEMS cannot fill this role. SWAT is not there in time and the first responsibility for TEMS is the SWAT team. The paramedics are on the scene as fast as the patrol officers. Use who is already there.
Properly trained and equipped paramedics entering a warm zone is the paradigm shift. This is entry into a declared warm zone, meaning known perpetrators are either dead or in-custody. However, the structure has not been searched and secured; unknown perpetrators may exist; other threats may exist.
The rapid bleed-out time is the simple math compared to the time to declare a structure safe. Most departments are up to speed on buddy-care or self-care. The very essence of buddy-care is the short bleed-out time from an arterial injury. It depends on a number of factors relating to the injury, but 5-minutes keeps popping up in lethality timelines: "…within 5 minutes…" and "…more than 5 minutes…"
Yes, this next life-saving step in the Active Shooter response requires inter-agency coordination. However, a number of police and fire departments have already got this all sorted out. Arlington County, VA Police and Fire is one example. The Hillsboro, Ore. Police and Fire is another example.
Protocols differ, but typically two officers (front, rear) escorts two paramedics. The paramedics decide where they want to go. The patrol officers decide how to get there and when to move. This is indeed a medical mission. We just pull the security detail. They do triage, not us. We don't have the time to move the wounded to the paramedics – we need to escort the paramedics to the wounded. And that 5-minute countdown? It started when the first person was shot, not when the police/fire arrive.
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We are a fickle people, ruled by a fickle media. It's astonishing how much national opinion can change in just a week or two. And if you don't believe me, just ask the Tea Party.
They've had a rough couple of weeks. To summarize just some of the ongoing catastrophe:
* The third Tea Party express bus tour ended on April 15 with disappointing turnout at rallies across the country. I'd be surprised to see another one, frankly. The news value of these excursions is pretty much exhausted by now.
There is, absolutely, such a thing as overexposure; and the Tea Party seems to have finally achieved it. Reporters coming out for the third time around were no longer distracted by the novelty value of costumes, firearms, and signs — and thus more likely to start looking at little deeper at who was there and what they were actually saying. This time, the usual enchantments didn't work nearly as well, for several reasons that will become clear below.
* Even as the buses rolled across America, FOX News — which has been the media arm of the Tea Party from the very first — showed serious signs of backing off on its commitment to the movement. A few weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch promised to "look into" FOX's level of political advocacy. It's possible that his new interest may be the reason Sean Hannity's plans to broadcast his show directly from a Tea Party event in Cleveland last week were aborted by the network's senior management, who called him back to New York at the very last minute to do the show from his own studio instead. The message to Hannity and the rest of FOX's stable of on-air talent was clear: Don't do that again.
This is a costly blow. If the Tea Party loses the amplification provided by FOX's full-throated noise machine, and the day may not be far off when the Tea Party might is nothing more than a bunch of old ladies in gloves and hats, sitting around drinking, y'no, tea.
* Somehow, somewhere (I really can't imagine), the media finally picked up on the realization that what these people were advocating was nothing short of sedition, and started calling it out as such. Quite a few journalists
and their editors made the resolution that this was something that responsible news professionals shouldn't be feeding into, and decided not to spend any more bandwidth on it.
It's been a long time since the media took their job as guardians of democratic discourse this seriously. Let's hope it's the start of a new trend.
* This realization was helped along by a CBS/New York Times poll that revealed the true face of the Tea Party: white, male, middle-aged, and somewhat above the national average in both income and education. This revelation (which is hardly startling to people who've actually spent time with the far right wing, but apparently stunned mainstream journalists) blew the lid off the assumption that the group was somehow the authentic voice of a disenfranchised white American underclass. Now we all know that it's actually a group of overentitled whiners who've already gotten more than the usual breaks in our society, but still think they're owed more.
Perhaps the ugliest part of this was the finding that 25% of the movement's members are tired of the country's focus on the problems of black people. There have been a lot of attempts to attribute the Tea Party's entire agenda to unabashed racism, though I've argued that it's a little more complicated than that. Still, this little factoid provided irrefutable proof of race ugliness at work — which, in turn, gave the media the permission they needed to write the Tea Party off as nothing more than a bunch of cranky racists. It's not quite accurate, but anything that gets media to lay off giving these folks a public platform is probably a win.
* The same poll also revealed that the Tea Party represents the views of just 18% of the country — a number that's probably somewhere near the outer limit of what they can ever expect to achieve. (There are probably another 10% that broadly sympathize, but won't join.) This means that while they're the Republican Party's biggest problem right now, they're not really ours — a perspective that gives the media even more reason to put them on permanent "ignore" status.
* The Tea Party tried to own April 19 — the anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World, not to mention the tragedies at Waco and Oklahoma City — with not one, but two, Second Amendment rallies in the Washington area. One was armed. The other was not. Which was which hardly matters, given that neither attracted more than a few hundred souls.
Fortunately, the media (thank you MSNBC — and Rachel Maddow most especially) held up their end in turning this dismal occasion into a national teachable moment about where unchecked right-wing extremism can lead. The upshot is that more of us now understand that the Tea Party is a gateway drug for rageaholic right-wingers; and that once hooked, it's inevitable that some of them will move on to the harder stuff, like Tim McVeigh and Scott Roeder and the Hutaree did.
* Internally, the split between the corporatist wing of the party that's now firmly in thrall to Sarah Palin, and the more libertarian grassroots side, which is still gathered behind Ron Paul, is widening into a full-on schism. And the line seems to run 50/50, right down the middle — with one half saying they wouldn't vote for Sarah Palin if she was the only candidate on the ticket, and the other half shooting back that they wouldn't vote for Ron Paul if he turned out to be the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan. It's getting ugly, and seems likely to get uglier next year as the political world gears up for the 2012 election.
* Progressives have always known that there was more astroturf than grassroots in the Tea Party movement; but thanks to TPM Muckraker, we recently found out that a lot of that astroturf was laid down by Koch Industries, which has also been a major funder of the climate denial echo chamber. Koch funnels much largesse to Americans For Prosperity, one of the two DC-based GOP PR powerhouses that's been doing most of the organizing for the movement.
Tea Partiers love to present themselves as principled, individualistic patriots who want to "take their country back" from the liberal blight. Most of them have no idea they're being organized specifically — and a tremendous cost — by the country's biggest oil and chemical interests, for the specific purpose of permanently disabling our collective ability to regulate their corporate behavior. In short: it has nothing to do with taxes, and everything to do with Koch's single-minded determination to do whatever the hell it wants without accounting to anybody. That's the real freedom you're fighting for, y'all.
* And perhaps worst of all: the politicians are backpedaling away from the Tea Party's seditionist rhetoric at a speed that ought to qualify them for the next Summer Olympics. Elected Republicans aren't thrilled by the prospect of facing primary challenges from the Tea Party, which are starting to take shape here and there. GOP leaders are realizing that if the Tea Party candidates win those challenges, they've got almost no chance of winning the general elections and keeping those seats come fall. And almost every other pol with any sense is getting some mileage between themselves and the Tea Party's more rebellious excesses, out of fear that they'll be seen as standing too close for plausible deniability when the next act of right-wing domestic terrorism occurs.
Is the Tea Party over? It's too early to say. But it doesn't look good right now. Overexposed by a fickle media, jilted by FOX News, riven by a growing schism, confirmed as nothing more than a bunch of corporate tools, and increasingly viewed as potentially toxic by even the GOP's most ardent conservatives, they've hit a bad patch that may be very hard to pull out of in time for the fall elections.


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Register Now for Insane Inflatable 5K in Lansing
The Insane Inflatable 5K — a new dynamic and extreme obstacle race, made up solely of inflatable obstacles — will challenge you, surprise you, and leave you bouncing back for more!
We didn't just throw together a couple slides and bounce houses – we took imagination, creativity, and a collection of notes on bar napkins, and went to the leading manufacturer of custom inflatables. We told them, "Throw out the rulebook, we want to go extreme and INSANE!"
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Early evidence suggests that Parkinson's may be a gut disease that affects the brain.
Climate change has enabled the recent expansion of beavers into northwestern Alaska, a trend that could have major ecological consequences for the region in the coming decades.
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Early evidence suggests that Parkinson's may be a gut disease that affects the brain.
Climate change has enabled the recent expansion of beavers into northwestern Alaska, a trend that could have major ecological consequences for the region in the coming decades.
Nine-banded armadillos have identical quadruplets. But the youngsters aren't identical enough, and scientists 50 years ago could not figure out why.
Scientists have identified a new type of volcanic ash made up of millimeter-long spheres with a crackled surface.
When an entomologist decides to write a libretto, you get an operatic elegy to locusts.
Almost 60 years after a Polish astronomer spotted clouds of dust orbiting Earth near the moon, astronomers have detected those clouds again.
The discovery of a vast crater in Greenland suggests that a 1-kilometer-wide asteroid hit the Earth between 2.6 million and 11,700 years ago.
In May 2019, the system of measurement will be upgraded to rely on fundamental constants.
Rock art may have spread from Borneo across Southeast Asia starting 40,000 years ago or more.
People with, or at high risk of, cardiovascular disease lowered their chances of having a heart attack or stroke with a drug containing an omega-3 fatty acid.
Vitamin D supplements won't cut your risk of heart attack or stroke, according to highly anticipated study results.
What were once relatively safe havens in the Arctic are now feasting sites for predators of baby birds.
Tiny ultrathin scales on some moth wings absorb sound waves sent out by bats on the hunt.
Social isolation shrinks nerve cells in the brains of mice, a new study shows.
Pulling an all-nighter induced anxiety in healthy people, a recent study finds.
A marijuana-like drug given to male rats during adolescence changed the structure of their brains.
Sifting through the universe's early light could reveal planetary graveyards orbiting other stars.
Genetic studies of ancient remains are filling in the picture of who the earliest Americans were and how they spread through the Americas long ago.
An engineered partnership between yeast and E. coli suggests one way mitochondria may have evolved.
A new computer system that lets animated characters learn acrobatic skills from videos could be a cheaper alternative to traditional motion capture.
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EPA is providing $1.9 million in Brownfields grants will help Connecticut communities to assess, cleanup and redevelop abandoned or contaminated properties. The funding is part of more than $76 million in EPA brownfields investments across the country announced this week by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to protect health and the environment, create jobs and promote economic re-development in American communities.
The grant money will assist work to reclaim sites including old textile mills, sites containing hazardous substances and petroleum products and other abandoned industrial and commercial properties. EPA's Brownfields program encourages redevelopment of America's estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated waste sites.
In Connecticut, EPA is providing Brownfields grants to the following municipalities and groups:
• New Opportunities Economic Development Corp., Waterbury, $600,000 (3 cleanup grants, Cherry Street parcels)
• Police Activity League of Waterbury, Inc., Waterbury, $400,000 (2 cleanup grants, Division Street parcels)
• City of Stratford, $400,000 (community-wide assessment grant)
• Valley Council of Governments, $500,000 (community-wide revolving loan fund supplemental funding)
"This EPA funding will help strengthen the economic foundation of these communities," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA New England's office. "Cleaning and revitalizing contaminated sites helps create jobs, providing a solid foundation for a community to create new businesses and neighborhood centers, while making our environment cleaner and the community healthier."
Congressman Chris Murphy said, "Cleaning up brownfields is one of the best investments the federal government can make in a community. It not only improves the environment, it strengthens our economy, as blight is removed and new facilities are created for recreation, job growth and small business. Today's EPA grants are an investment in Connecticut's communities."
"Brownfields have had a serious environmental and economic impact in Connecticut, and these funds will help to bring new life to communities that have suffered. Cleaning these sites up will help to improve local citizens' quality of life, encourage economic growth, and foster the revitalization of neighborhoods and cities," said Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro. "I look forward to seeing these areas progress, and to a cleaner and healthier Connecticut."
DEP Commissioner Daniel C. Esty said, "EPA has been a strong partner with DEP in focusing on the cleanup of abandoned and contaminated sites and we appreciate their continue support. The grants being awarded today will allow for important cleanup work to be done that will help revitalize Connecticut communities and rebuild our economy."
The $12.55 million in grant and Revolving Loan Fund money awarded by EPA to a variety of New England communities and organization will provide substantial help around the region. The EPA funding leverages over $46 million of other money to pursue brownfields cleanup and revitalization work. In New England, these projects have created 98 clean up jobs this year as well as 135 redevelopment jobs.
As of June 2011, EPA's brownfields assistance has leveraged more than $16.3 billion in cleanup and redevelopment funding, and helped create more than 70,000 jobs in cleanup, construction and redevelopment. These investments and jobs target local, under-served and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods – places where environmental cleanups and new jobs are most needed.
Since the beginning of the Brownfields Program, in New England alone EPA has awarded 268 assessment grants totaling $67.1 million, 61 revolving loan fund grants and supplemental funding totaling $65 million and 174 cleanup grants totaling $39.3 million. These grant funds have paved the way for more than $1.3 billion in public and private cleanup and redevelopment investment and for 8815 jobs in assessment, cleanup, construction and redevelopment.
Some of the money announced today falls under EPA's brownfields revolving loan funding. Since 1995, EPA RLF recipients have provided 53 loans and 63 grants in New England totaling more than $29 million for brownfields cleanup. The loan funds have paved the way for more than $189 million in public and private cleanup and redevelopment investment and for 1034 jobs in cleanup, construction and redevelopment.
In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed. The brownfields law expanded the definition of what is considered a brownfield, so communities may now focus on mine-scarred lands, sites contaminated by petroleum, or sites contaminated as a result of manufacturing and distribution of illegal drugs (e.g. meth labs).
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Three Connecticut communities and regions will share in the $12.6 million the federal government has allocated to clean up and restore brownfield sites in New England.
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Earlier this month, EPA announced the winners of the 2011 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement. We are excited to report that Normal, Illinois is the recipient of the award in the Civic Places category for their traffic roundabout.
We've written before about how the town's new traffic circle has successfully managed traffic flow at a busy five-way intersection, diverted thousands of gallons of untreated stormwater away from the nearby creek, and become the town center by bringing residents together in an attractive public space. The more recent news is how the traffic roundabout is spurring local economic development with the construction of a multimodal transportation station adjacent to the circle, courtesy of a U.S. Department of Transportation grant. Both the transportation hub, which will eventually have high-speed rail service and create an estimated 400-500 new jobs, and the circle take advantage of the town's existing infrastructure, bus service, and the historic central business district to attract even more residents to the new town center.
The one-third-acre roundabout does much more than move cars. It invites pedestrians with shade trees, benches, lighting, bike parking, green space, and a water feature. People have lunch, read, and play music, and the open space invites community gatherings such as a holiday caroling event. It is the anchor for a community-wide revitalization and is part of Uptown Normal's LEED-ND Silver recognition.
A popular rails-to-trails conversion, the Constitution Trail, leads to and around the roundabout, helping both to revitalize Normal and to bring people from surrounding areas to Normal's central district. A new Children's Discovery Museum on the edge of the roundabout already receives over 140,000 visitors per year, and a hotel and conference enter have recently opened nearby. One indication of the success of the redevelopment is that property values in the district have increased by about 30 percent since 2004.
According to the short video, this traffic circle was almost banned to pedestrians. It's a good thing town officials fought back.
Read more about the project here, as well as the other winners from the 2011 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement.
From all of us at City Parks Blog, thanks for reading, commenting and inspiring us this past year with all of your park stories and successes. We look forward to hearing how park development and redevelopment is changing your city. Happy New Year and all the best in 2012 🙂
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Theoretical biologists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have used a New Mexico supercomputer to aid an international research team in untangling another mystery related to ribosomes – those enigmatic jumbles of molecules that are the protein factories of living cells.
The research, published today in the journal Nature, could aid in development of new antibiotics used to fight multidrug resistant superbugs such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections) found in many U.S. hospitals. The work may also be important for combating engineered strains of anthrax and plague.
In the context of synthetic biology, understanding the ribosome could be key to developing nanofactories that produce designer biomolecules and polymers.
In the paper, "Head swivel on the ribosome facilitates translocation via intra-subunit tRNA hybrid sites," Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers Karissa Sanbonmatsu and Paul Whitford and José N. Onuchic at the University of California-San Diego join Christian Spahn, Andreas Ratje, and others from the Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, Berlin, Germany, to describe for the first time how a complicated swivel movement within a bacterial ribosome accommodates synthesis of proteins.
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Diaper Senator Will Not Be Locked Up For Airport Rage Attack
Whoremaster and adult diaper fetishist (oh, and US Senator) David Vitter freaked the fuck out in an airport earlier this month. He will not be charged, because motherfucker can get away with anything.
Seriously: if you opened the security door at your plane's gate after it was closed and locked, you would be arrested. The TSA would not "[work] with local partners to review the incident and [determine] the actions of the individual did not pose a security threat." They would just put you in jail!
But no, this menace roams free.


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Syria: The Basics, an infographic presentation
Syria: The Basics is an infographic slide show using the Prezi presentation tool. It plays like a movie, and does a great job utilizing the new features of Prezi like Fade-In animation and Audio Overlay.
Designed by Lara Setrakian (@Lara), co-founder and managing editor of Syria Deeply, a single issue news website. Fantastic design work! The presentation utilizes data visualization design concepts including relative sizing to put the size of the country into perspective, a timeline layout of events, related news photos and world map information.


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It's August now, and the fall semester approaches apace. That can mean only one thing: it's time to sell my
body talks!
- Functors extending the Kauffman Bracket
The Kauffman Bracket is a family of invariants of knots and links up to regular isotopy taking their values in commutative rings, and defined by a "skein theory". We want to find monoidal functors defined on the category of framed tangles so that if we restrict the functors to knots and links we recover (essentially) the old invariants. This approach highlights the fact that "skein theories" are actually just generating sets for monoidal categorical ideals, and that the skein-theoretic approach to knot invariants is another branch of representation theory.
We thus study the representation theory of -linearizations of the category of framed tangles, and of the Temperley-Lieb categories . We show that the representation theory of these categories is equivalent to the theory of (non-symmetric) nondegenerate bilinear forms over .
- Spans: A (Braided) (Monoidal) Bicategory (with Duals)
The most famous braided monoidal bicategory with duals is the "universal" such category: that of tangles, or of 2-tangles up to isotopy. Slightly less well-known are the bicategories arising from knot homology theories. Still, the question is asked, "where are the braided monoidal bicategories with duals?"
One way to produce a bicategory with such extra structure is to consider the bicategory of spans on a category with the analogous such structures. In this talk, we discuss the span construction (and its dual, cospans) and show how well-behaved monoidal structures, braidings, and dualities lift to the bicategory of spans.
- The Tangle Group
The group of a knot or link is a well-known invariant of ambient isotopy. We would like to extend this invariant to a monoidal functor on the category of tangles in such a way that when we restrict to knots and links we recover (essentially) the old knot group.
Here, we define a monoidal bifunctor from the bicategory of (tangles, isotopies) to the bicategory of cospans of groups, and show how the restriction of the decategorification of this bifunctor to knots and links reproduces the knot group. We also indicate how the use of cospans immediately applies to generalize the fundamental quandle of a link, the fundamental biquandle of a virtual link, and other such invariants.
- A Categorification of Quandle Coloring Numbers by Anafunctors
The number of colorings of a link by a given quandle is a classical invariant of links up to ambient isotopy. We would like to categorify and extend this invariant to the category of tangles.
Here, we show how to associate, functorially, to each tangle an anafunctor between two comma categories of quandles. When we restrict this assignment to knots and links and specify a quandle of colors we recover -coloring invariant. If we first decategorify and specify a quandle of colors we recover the -coloring matrix of a given tangle.
This approach can be significantly generalized. We indicate the existence of a similar "-coloring" invariant for any co- object in the category of pointed topological pairs up to homotopy.
And now some comments. Generally, these abstracts apply to the highest-level version of each talk. I can tweak any of them down a bit, mostly to adjust for familiarity of the audience with categories and with knot theory.
The Kauffman Bracket talk is probably the most straightforward. It clearly highlights the relationship between skein theory and representation theory. Its primary interest is in this connection, and in the fact that it lays the groundwork for parallel categorifications of the Kauffman Bracket to Khovanov homology.
The talk on spans is, strictly speaking, spun off of my work on tangle groups. More explicitly, once you set things up in terms of cospans, extending the knot group to the tangle group becomes effortless. This talk, though, focuses on how spans and cospans are good tools for moving "up the ladder" of categorical structures, bringing lower-level structures along with them. This talk, it should be noted, is very preliminary, as I'm in the process of writing some of these things down.
The knot group talk should be clear to an algebraic topology audience. It's really the genesis of the use of cospans in the study of tangles For audiences more familiar with knot theory in particular, I can do the whole thing from the get-go in quandles.
The quandle talk really isn't that abstract when it comes down to it, but it uses a number of tools possibly unfamiliar to the general mathematical audience. In fact, a good part of it is devoted to getting the definitions down straight. Once they're in place, the whole structure just sort of builds itself, which is how I really like my mathematics to go. The caveat, then, is that the audience really does need to either be interested in knot theory already, or somewhat familiar with and friendly towards categories. Otherwise it's really tough to motivate the material and to cover it within the usual microcentury.
I could possibly put the latter two together in a pair of lectures, since the quandle coloring invariant is a direct outgrowth of the fundamental quandle of a tangle. That would also make it a bit easier to motivate the second half, so it may well go more smoothly as a pair to a more general audience.
So, if your department is looking to fill a slot in an algebraic topology (or "quantum topology", as they're calling this stuff now) or a category theory seminar, let's talk. Clearly the easier it is for me to get there from New Orleans the easier it will be to make arrangements. Also, though I've gotten used to paying out of pocket for these things, assistance in travel would also be helpful.
I am particularly looking for an engagement in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area around the weekend of October 6, so that gets high priority.
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The kaufmann talk looks promising.
There a knot/link theory group here now as well.
When in `winter' will you be available.
Canoical semainar day is Wed.
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[…] Stuck in Maryland I got bumped from my flight back to New Orleans tonight, but now I have a confirmed seat tomorrow afternoon (thus allowing me to get in early enough to grab dinner from Zara's) and a free round-trip voucher, good for a future speaking invitation that doesn't comp my airfare (hint, hint). […]
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The Roots worked as the house band for top-selling acts like Nicki Minaj and Ed Sheeran for its annual free concert Friday in Philadelphia celebrating Independence Day.
The Roots Philly 4th of July Jam was held on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, where U.K.-based Sheeran closed the three-hour event that also featured Jennifer Hudson and Aloe Blacc.
Sheeran sang "The A Team" as well as his latest hit, "Sing." The latter track is from his new album, "+," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week.
The event starring Questlove, Black Thought and other members of the hip-hop band aired live on VH1 and Palladia.
Minaj was energetic during her set, telling the crowd that Philadelphia is one of "her favorite places." She performed "Super Bass," ''Pills N Potions" and closed with "Moment 4 Life."
Pop singer Ariana Grande was supposed to be part of the lineup Friday, but her representative said she had to pull out because of a family emergency.
Hudson belted her signature high notes, especially on "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." When she sang "Spotlight," Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter got out of his seat, nodded his head and sang along.
Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway is also the home for the Jay Z-curated Made In America festival.


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Taylor Swift has become the most generous star to donate to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum by giving $4 million to the institute, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
The generous sum is the largest charitable gift handed to the operation by an artist and will go towards the creation of the Taylor Swift Education Center, an exhibit and classroom complex set to open in 2014.
Museum director Kyle Young tells the Associated Press, "In terms of what it will allow us to do, we do education very well now. It will allow us to do what we do better, serve more people, develop new programs and I'm happy to say that as we talked through this opportunity with Taylor, she very much wants to be involved in an advisory capacity in what we do.
"Is there a better person out there who's in touch with a young audience? I think not. I was joking we should be paying her to do that. I was only joking."
Swift has a long history of ties with the institute – she gave one of the earliest performances of her career in the building's plaza and signed her record contract at the site.


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