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For the Birds Radio Program: Woodpeckers
Original Air Date: Dec. 9, 1987
Glenn Miller's orchestra helped make Woody Woodpecker an iconic figure even among non-birders. (3:33)
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
(Recording Glenn Miller–Woody Woodpecker)
What do you mean when you say bird? If you show most people a picture of a warbler or an oriole, they'll instantly label it a Bird. But if you show them a picture of a Mallard, they're more likely to call it a duck. Geese, swans, eagles, owls, and herons are every bit as much birds as robins and sparrows, but people always identify them more specifically.
Woodpeckers are another group people seldom refer to merely as birds. They're so easy to recognize by their posture, their long, strong beak, and their habit of sitting on tree trunks that even the most urbane person would recognize one as a woodpecker–from the tiny downy woodpecker to a huge one atop a Macy's parade float with deformed feet and wings, such as Woody Woodpecker.
Woodpeckers are a fairly homogenous group as far as birds go. Most of them have black and white plumage–the only exception in the Northland is the flicker, which is mostly brown. The sexes of all our woodpeckers can be determined by markings on the head–usually males have some red or yellow. In the case of the flicker, the adult female lacks a mustache mark which is present on males and all juveniles. Pileateds can be told by a mustache mark, too–it's red on males and black on females.
Woodpeckers all have massive skulls–at least compared to other birds–and their brains are encased with strong membranes. Of course, you'd need that kind of protection, too, if you spent your days slamming your face into trees. Woodpecker nostrils are covered by bristle-like feathers to keep saw dust out, and they have zygodactylous feet, which have only two toes facing forward, like Walt Disney birds, and two toes behind for extra support when perched vertically. The only exceptions are the three-toed woodpeckers, which are missing the hind toe altogether–one of the front toes is reversible for those times when the bird needs more support.
Woodpeckers aren't songbirds. In order for them to attract mates and defend their territories, they drum loudly on a resonant tree or gutter.
(Recording of a Downy Woodpecker)
Most woodpeckers lead solitary lives. Ornithologist Joel Carl Welty said "In certain woodpecker species even the members of a mated pair seem to be 'on a wartime footing,' bickering and avoiding each other as much as possible and apparently resenting the fact that a second bird is necessary for reproduction." There are many documented cases of woodpeckers, including supposedly sweet little downies, hammering their mates' heads wide open. Although this kind of behavior is probably even more frequent among humans than woodpeckers, it's still pretty disturbing.
Except for the few individual woodpeckers that do damage to houses and telephone poles, the family is economically much more beneficial than harmful to man's economic interests, curbing the spread of wood-boring beetles and carpenter ants. And there're few sights more thrilling than a pileated woodpecker working on a tree at close range.
(Recording of Glenn Miller) That was the Glenn Miller Band, this is Laura Erickson, and this program has been "For the BIrds."


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"It's a real wide track," he said. "It's a good-sized race track and a lot of fun. It's nice to go back there and run."
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The Kinser name has been synonymous with Victory Lane at I-80 Speedway. In addition to his wins, Kinser's cousin, Mark, was the inaugural winner in 1995. In fact, Mark Kinser claimed the first four World of Outlaws races at the track and he holds a series-best five total wins.
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What an ordeal!
The Anglo-Saxon Monk offers his contemporaneous take on the infamous trial by ordeal in Anglo-Saxon England
The mystic Peter Batholomew undergoing the ordeal of fire, by the artist Gustave Doré (1832-1883). Public Domain image; click on image for the source.
Beloved readers,
As you may be aware, that other Monk has been busy translating Textus Roffensis, the remarkable 12th-century collection of early medieval laws. Well, good for him. Unfortunatley, whilst I was helping him out with his domestic chores, allowing him to pursue his more scholarly endeavours (we Anglo-Saxon Benedictines like to show a little humility now and then), he decided to abuse me with a snide comment about the backward ways of the Anglo-Saxons.
Invevitably, I was provoked (Father, forgive me) and so I asked him to amplify his meaning. He told me he was profoundly disturbed by one of the anonymous laws he was reading in Textus Roffensis, to be specific, the one known as Ordal ('Ordeal') which was probably produced during King Athelstan's time (r. 924-927). How could the Anglo-Saxons, he asked accusingly, have been so backwards and cruel with their justice system?
Well, we've always had a testy relationship at best, but that was just adding fuel to the flames! Rather appropriate, now I come to think about it...
The anonymous law known as Ordal (literally 'ordeal', meaning 'judicial decision' or 'judgement') was likely written in the reign of King Athelstan, here shown in the frontispiece of the contemporary manuscript known as Bede's Life of St Cuthbert. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 183, f. 1v. Public Domain image via Wikipedia: click on image for source.
"Your trouble," I lamented, "is that you focus on the negative. So, alright," I continued, "back in the tenth century we required thieves and the like to be punished rather severely, and one way of determining whether they were innocent or guilty of an alleged crime was to commit them to the judgement of the Lord by means of the trial by ordeal."
Well, blessed ones, he just ranted and raved:
"Asking someone to walk nine of their own feet in length with a red hot iron bar in their hand, and then bandaging their hand up for three days before inspecting it to see if it has healed [= innocent] or is full of puss [=guilty], is not my idea of reliably ascertaining if the Lord wishes you to declare somone innocent or guilty!"
Alas, he is Monk only by name. He is completely devoid of the understanding of the power of the Lord to intervene in our mundane lives. And so he just continued prattling on about the idiocy of making someone plunge their arm into a cooking pot of boiling water in order to retrieve a stone, and how the same procedure of determining the accused one's guilt or innocence by simply inspecting the wound three days later was astonishingly stupid.
I tried to reason with him, blessed ones, I tried. I told him it was all very fairly administered by the priest. All those present as witnesses of the ordeal were in equal number from both sides, supporters of the accuser and the accused. They had all fasted and couldn't go home to their wives that night and indulge in you know what.
I ignored, at this point, blessed ones, his snort of derision and his exclammation "What the Hell has that got to do with anything?" and simply persisted with my observations about the spirituality of the ordeal: how the priest spinkled all these fellows with holy water, allowed them all to taste of the holy water, and even to kiss the Gospel book whilst he made the sign of the cross. And, moreover, each man was not permitted to utter a word unless it was to beseech the Lord most earnestly that He should reveal the truth.
I was, admittedly, slightly thrown off my discourse when he asked me why they couldn't have just left it at that, why prayer wasn't a sufficient means of asking the Lord to reveal the truth. But I came to my senses and pointed out the obvious, that the Lord needs to see our commitment to the truth. And so concomitantly praying and heating up the piece of iron on the coals and then putting it upon a post for the accused and everyone else to look upon was a satisfactory way of allowing the solemnity of this hallowing to sink in.
His retort, that three days of subsequent agony for the accused was more than enough time for the ****ing solemnity of the hallowing to sink into his hand, was, quite frankly, blessed ones, a swear word too far for me. So I simply snapped back that had he been around in those days he would have undoubtedly disobeyed the king's law and would not only have been fined 120 shillings but would most likely have forfeited any hope in the future of being allowed himself to choose trial by ordeal as a means of defending his own innocence! Then I stamped my foot.
He just laughed at me and walked off. A moral victory for the Anglo-Saxon Monk, nevertheless.
Any how, we did make up later that day when he handed over his translation of Ordal for me to post for my blessed readers. So here it is, dear ones:
The ordeal by fire from a twelfth-century manuscript. Stiftsbibliothek Lambach. Cml LXXIII. f. 64v. Public Domain image; click on image for source.
The anonymous law known as Ordal ['Ordeal']: Textus Roffensis, ff. 32r-32v
Translated from Old English by Christopher Monk © 2017
Judgement by hot iron or water
And with this ordeal, we are commanding the command of God and the archbishop and all bishops:
No one may come into the church – except the mass-priest and the one who shall undertake the ordeal – after the one who carries in the fire, who heats up the ordeal.
And, there, measure nine feet from the stake to the finish mark, according to the measure of the foot of the one who undertakes the ordeal.
And, then, if it be water, heat it until it rapidly boils; and the cooking pot may be iron or brazen, leaden or earthen. And if it be a single accusation, he should plunge his hand after the stone, as far as the wrist. And if it be threefold, up to his elbow.
And when the ordeal is prepared, then from each side two men go in; and they shall reach agreement that it be as hot as we first said; and let equally as many persons of either side go in and stand on both sides of the ordeal, along the church.
And all should have fasted and should abstain from their wife for the night.
And the mass-priest shall sprinkle holy water over them all; and each of them shall taste of the holy water; and he shall give them the book to kiss and make the sign of the cross of Christ.
And no one may strengthen nor lengthen the fire when once the hallowing commences; but lay the iron upon the coals until they die down. Put it afterwards upon the post, and there let not anyone speak within, except that he beseech God Almighty earnestly, so that He the truth may reveal.
And let him go forth; and seal his hand; and let it be determined over on the third day, whether it be fully clean inside the seal.
And whoever shall break this law, the ordeal on [account of] him shall be void, and he shall render the king 120 shillings as punishment.
Jonathan Herold
You have the patience of a saint, O A. S. Monk, to endeavor to educate a creature of this skeptical age about the manifest simplicity of 10th-century judicial proceedings (of course, Dr. Monk also had the patience to translate the text, demonstrating that he's not -entirely- benighted). Kudos to you also for posting your meditation on the on the feast of St. Swithun, who, of course, we are told interceded on behalf of Queen Emma when she underwent her ordeal (which, it should be noted, was -not- entirely conducted 'by the book'--or at least not by -this- book).
Anglo-Saxon Monk
Blessed may you be, Jonathan Herold (what a shame that isn't an 'a' instead of an 'o' in your second name; it eould make you sound significantly more spiritual, heavenly even)! Quite right about the manifest patience, even that of the other Monk, I concede. And why anyone would wish to malign the gracious Queen Emma with such a scandalous accusation, I will never know. Though you do realise, blessed child, that her naughtiness with the bishop was complete and utter codswallop invented several centuries after her blessed passing. I do like the hot ploughshares elaboration though.
Why yes, dear Brother, I am aware that the story that I referred to above is (as we might say in the 21st century) a "truth-y" tale concocted to explain why Queen Emma donated several manors to St. Swithun's church in Winchester (for which generally trusted records have been preserved). What can I say? I'm a fan of Ruth Morse. . .


This year was full of discovery throughout the cosmos.
We were dazzled by beautiful images from space telescopes; marveled at the discovery of planets, stars and objects; were intrigued by a lunar mystery solved by missing Apollo mission data; and saw the first confirmed image of the birth of a planet.
Things were just waiting to be found in our own corner of the universe, like 12 new moons around Jupiter, Earth-like characteristics on Pluto and a possible super-Earth orbiting a neighboring star. More studies suggested water on Mars and the moon. And astronomers found the fastest-growing black hole ever.
Of course, speculation abounded over where signs of life may be found outside Earth.
Here are some of the most amazing discoveries and space happenings of 2018.
Although it's been over a year since a cigar-shaped object came rapidly tumbling through our solar system, we learned even more about this interstellar visitor in 2018.
The object, nicknamed 'Oumuamua, was discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. The name is Hawaiian for "a messenger that reaches out from the distant past."
Studies based on the observations made during its "flyby" have deemed it a new class of cometary interstellar object, although researchers are still debating how the long, dark-red object accelerated. The surface of it looked like a comet's core, but it didn't have a "coma," the atmosphere and dust around comets as they melt and release gases.
And this year, Harvard researchers mentioned in a research paper that it was possibly a probe sent from an ancient civilization -- although other experts were skeptical of this suggestion.
Meanwhile, an interstellar immigrant that originated outside our solar system was found hiding around Jupiter in May. The exo-asteroid, named 2015 BZ509, was captured by the gas giant's orbit during the early days of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago. It moves in a retrograde orbit around Jupiter and serves as a warning to other "visitors."
" 'Oumuamua is a visitor to the solar system," said Helena Morais, study author and professor of statistics at Sao Paulo State University in Brazil. "That was a nice and important confirmation that interstellar objects can pass by. If they pass by, then they may also be captured in a stable orbit, as it is the case of 2015 BZ509."
The only known repeating fast radio burst in the universe keeps sporadically flaring.
These radio flashes usually last a millisecond and have unknown physical origin. People love to believe that they're from an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, and this hypothesis hasn't been ruled out entirely by researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program dedicated to finding evidence of intelligent life in the universe.
So is it coming from a black hole, a powerful nebula or a neutron star? Or is it something else? Only time, and more detections, will tell.
For the first time, scientists were able to trace the origins of a ghostly subatomic particle that traveled 3.7 billion light-years to Earth. The tiny, high-energy cosmic particle is called a neutrino, and it was found by sensors deep in the Antarctic ice in the IceCube detector. The discovery was announced in July.
Scientists and observatories around the world were able to trace the neutrino to a galaxy with a supermassive, rapidly spinning black hole at its center, known as a blazar.
"What we've found is not only the first evidence of a neutrino source, but also evidence that this galaxy is a cosmic ray accelerator," Gary Hill, a study co-author, associate professor at the University of Adelaide's School of Physical Sciences and member of the IceCube collaboration, said in a statement. "I have been working in this field for almost 30 years and to find an actual neutrino source is an incredibly exciting moment. Now that we've identified a real source, we'll be able to focus in on other objects like this one, to understand more about these extreme events billions of years ago which set these particles racing towards our planet."
Scientists say the discovery heralds a new era of space research, allowing the use of these particles to study and observe the universe in an unprecedented way. And the finding suggests that scientists will be able to track the origin of mysterious cosmic rays for the first time.
A combination of observations and data across the electromagnetic spectrum, provided by observatories on Earth and in space, makes this a prime example of how "multimessenger" astronomy is helping make discoveries possible. Multimessenger astronomy also contributed to the discovery of the neutron star collision that created light, gravitational waves and gold in October 2017.
Why is Tabby's Star flickering?
More than 1,000 light-years away, there is a star that has been baffling astronomers since it was first observed in data collected by the Kepler mission. It's now largely known as Tabby's Star, named for Tabetha Boyajian, a Louisiana State University Department of Physics and Astronomy assistant professor.
For no obvious reason, Tabby's Star has been dimming and brightening in strange and unpredictable ways. It has dimmed for a few days or a week at a time. And then there's the fact that it grew fainter over the past century. It's an F star, which is supposed to maintain constant brightness. So what was causing the dips in light?
Hint: not an alien megastructure. That theory has been debunked by the latest data set released in January.
"Dust is most likely the reason why the star's light appears to dim and brighten," Boyajian said. "The new data shows that different colors of light are being blocked at different intensities. Therefore, whatever is passing between us and the star is not opaque, as would be expected from a planet or alien megastructure."
If anyone feels disappointed that the main culprit is most likely dust, rather than an alien megastructure, Boyajian offers this: "This is definitely something new and exciting. Even if it is dust, what kind of dust does this?"
The week bridging October and November saw the end of two landmark NASA missions: Dawn and Kepler. Both mission conclusions were expected, and they ran out of fuel within two days of each other.
Kepler, a nine-year planet-hunting mission, discovered 2,899 exoplanet candidates and 2,681 confirmed exoplanets in our galaxy, revealing that our solar system isn't the only home for planets.
Kepler allowed astronomers to discover that 20% to 50% of the stars we can see in the night sky are likely to have small, rocky, Earth-size planets within their habitable zones -- which means liquid water could pool on the surface, and life as we know it could exist on these planets.
Dawn's 11-year mission sent it on a 4.3 billion-mile journey to two of the largest objects in our solar system's main asteroid belt. Dawn visited Vesta and Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit two deep-space destinations.
Vesta and Ceres are considered to be like time capsules from the beginning of our solar system. The experiments Dawn carried out enabled astronomers to look at the different ways Vesta and Ceres formed and evolved, as well as revealing that dwarf planets can also host oceans.
Although we bid farewell to historic missions, 2018 was an exciting time for groundbreaking new ones to launch. NASA's TESS, InSight and Parker Solar Probe all had successful launches this year and are already sending back new science, with the promise of discoveries in 2019.
TESS, a planet-hunting satellite, launched in April. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is NASA's next mission in the search for exoplanets, or those that are outside our solar system, and TESS will be on the lookout for planets that could support life.
It picked up where Kepler left off. TESS will survey an area 400 times larger than what Kepler observed. NASA expects TESS to allow for the cataloging of more than 1,500 exoplanets, but it has the potential to find thousands. These exoplanets will be studied so that NASA can determine which are the best targets for missions like the James Webb Space Telescope.
The Mars InSight lander launched in May and landed on the Red Planet on November 26. The lander is already sending back photos and will begin science operations after a few months, when all of its instruments are on the surface.
It will be the first lander to investigate the deep interior of Mars. This will tell us not only about the history of Mars but about other rocky planets in our solar system like Earth.
The Parker Solar Probe, named for pioneering astrophysicist Eugene Parker, launched in August and has come closer to the sun than any spacecraft. This is the agency's first mission to the sun and its outermost atmosphere, the corona.
The mission will last seven years and provide data to answer key questions about the sun. The observations and data could provide insight about the physics of stars, change what we know about the mysterious corona, increase understanding of solar wind and help improve forecasting of major space weather events.
And OSIRIS-REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, just reached the asteroid Bennu after traveling through space for two years.
In June, the Curiosity rover found organic matter in Martian soil samples taken from 3 billion-year-old mudstone and detected methane in the atmosphere.
"With these new findings, Mars is telling us to stay the course and keep searching for evidence of life," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. "I'm confident that our ongoing and planned missions will unlock even more breathtaking discoveries on the Red Planet."
And while Curiosity has had another great year of photos and science on the Red Planet, it's been a sad one for the Opportunity rover.
On May 30, a dust storm began on Mars. By mid-June, the storm became "planet-encircling." Although Curiosity was largely unaffected, Opportunity was stranded in the dark and has maintained radio silence ever since.
NASA is hoping that winds will knock dust off of Oppy's solar panels so she can recharge and start communicating again. Until then, all they can do is try paging her each day with the hope of a response.
And in November, NASA selected the landing site for the next Martian mission: the Mars 2020 rover.
In October, astronomers announced the discovery of what could be an exomoon, a moon outside our solar system. The exomoon, which is estimated to be the size of Neptune, was found in orbit around a gigantic gas planet 8,000 light-years from Earth. This would be the first exomoon ever found.
The scientists behind this discovery are hesitant to confirm that the new find is an exomoon due to some of its peculiarities and the fact that more observation is needed.
However, the finding is both promising and intriguing. The moon, which orbits a giant exoplanet called Kepler-1625b, is incredibly large, comparable to the size of the gas giant Neptune in our solar system. There's no analog for such a large moon in our own system. In our sky, it would appear two times bigger than Earth's moon, the researchers said.
Christa McAuliffe never got to realize her dream of teaching from space.
The 37-year-old social studies teacher from Boston was selected above nearly 11,000 educators as the primary candidate for the first Teacher in Space Mission. But the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launching on January 28, 1986, taking McAuliffe's life and those of the six astronauts aboard.
McAuliffe's lessons have remained untaught and forgotten, until now. Astronauts filmed some of her original lessons on the International Space Station, continuing McAuliffe's legacy 32 years after they were planned. It's fitting that the two astronauts, Joe Acaba and Ricky Arnold, are both former educators.
The lessons touch on liquids in zero gravity, Newton's laws, effervescence (bubbles or fizz in liquid) and chromatography, or the separation of a mixture. The first of McAuliffe's lessons has been completed, and the lesson plans are available through the Challenger Center's website.
"Filming Christa McAuliffe's lessons in orbit this year is an incredible way to honor and remember her and the Challenger crew," said Mike Kincaid, associate administrator for NASA's Office of Education. "Developed with such care and expertise by Christa, the value these lessons will have as new tools available for educators to engage and inspire students in science, technology, education and math is what will continue to advance a true legacy of Challenger's mission."
Last year, astronomers announced that ocean worlds like Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus may be the best chance for finding life outside Earth in our solar system. Both are icy with subsurface oceans.
Now, the discovery of complex organic molecules in plumes that rise from Enceladus' subsurface ocean further suggests that the moon could support life as we know it.
And old data from NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter in 1997 revealed some of the best observations to date that plumes of water vapor and icy materials erupt from a literal hot spot on Europa.
NASA plans to further explore ocean worlds in our solar system through the Europa Clipper mission, the first to explore an alien ocean. The Europa Clipper, named for the innovative, streamlined ships of the 1800s, will launch in the 2020s and arrive at Europa after a few years.
Europa Clipper's instruments will be capable of "sniffing" the atmosphere of Europa, with more than 40 planned flybys. The flybys will be less than 228 miles above the surface, in the observed range of the plumes, which can reach 124 to 228 miles above the surface.
And although the Cassini mission made close flybys of Enceladus before coming to an end in 2017, proposals for missions to further study Enceladus have been submitted to NASA. Detecting complex organic molecules in its plumes needs further investigation, researchers said.
"Specific identification of these organic compounds is the next step in our search for life in Enceladus' ocean," said Hunter Waite, program director at the Southwest Research Institute and Cassini's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer principal investigator. "The complexity of the organic compounds identified was beyond our wildest expectations: nonsoluble complex organics floating as a film on an alien ocean. Wrap your head around that."


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Q: Pre-quantized observable functions can be written as flow Let $(X,\omega)$ be a symplectic manifolds.

For $f∈C^∞(M,ℂ)$ a function on phase space, the corresponding quantum
  operator(prequantized observable function) is the linear map
       $$\mathcal{O}_f:Γ_X(L)→Γ_X(L)$$ given by $$ψ↦−i\hbar∇ _{X_f}ψ+f⋅ψ$$
       Where

*

*$X_f$ is the Hamiltonian vector field corresponding to $f$;

  2.$∇_{X_f}:Γ_X(L)→Γ_X(L)$ is the covariant derivative of sections along $X_f$ for the given choice of pre-quantum connection;
3.$f⋅(−):Γ_X(L)→Γ_X(L)$ is the operation of degreewise multiplication pf sections.

Recall that a global flow is one whose flow domain is all of $\mathbf{R} \times M$ and a vector field is complete if it generates a global flow.
Then I can not see why
when the Hamiltonian vector field $X_f$ is complete the pre-quantized observable functions can be written as $$\mathcal{O}_fs=-\frac{i\hbar}{2\pi}\frac{d}{dt}(\exp(tX_f)s)\vert_{t=0}$$.
which $s$ is a section of Line bundle $L$ and $exp$ means "exponential" . Is there any referrence . What about when Hamiltonian vector field is not complete. Can we write the quantum operators as flow?
seehere for more details

A: Conceptually, it's much easier to see what is going on if you focus not on the line bundle $L$, but on the principal $\mathrm{U}(1)$-bundle $\pi:P\rightarrow M$ to which it is associated (so that $L=P\times_{\mathrm{U}(1)}\mathbb{C}$; $P$ can be thought of as the subset $L$ of unit norm with respect to the Hermitian form). In his 1970 lectures, Kostant showed how to lift the Hamiltonian vector fields $X_f$ on $M$ to $U(1)$-invariant vectors fields $A_f$ on $P$ while preserving the commutation relations (so $[A_f,A_g] = -A_{\lbrace f,g\rbrace}$ on $P$ covers $[X_f,X_g] = -X_{\lbrace f,g\rbrace}$ on $M$). Explicitly,
$$
A_f = X_f^\mathrm{h} - \frac{i}{\hbar}(f\circ\pi)
$$
where the first term is the horizontal lift of $X_f$ (with respect to a connection $\alpha$ on $P$ of curvature $\frac{i}{\hbar}\omega$), while the second term is a vector lying along the $\mathrm{U}(1)$-direction in $P$. BTW, the classical observables $f, g$ should be real-valued, not complex-valued as you wrote. It is not too difficult to see that $A_f$ is complete iff $X_f$ is complete, and by construction the flow $\phi_t^{A_f}:P\rightarrow P$ covers $\phi_t^{X_f}:M\rightarrow M$.
Now, a section $s\in\Gamma(L)$ can be thought of as a $\mathrm{U}(1)$-equivariant function $\tilde{s}:P\rightarrow \mathbb{C}$. The flow $\phi_t^{A_f}$ induces a flow on this space of sections, given by
$$
\tilde{s}\mapsto \tilde{s}\circ\phi_{-t}^{A_f}.
$$
Differentiating this expression wrt $t$ (and multiplying by $i\hbar$ to produce a Hermitian operator) yields the corresponding quantum observable $\mathcal{O}_f$
$$
\mathcal{O}_f\tilde{s} = i\hbar\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}\Bigg\vert_{t=0}\left(\tilde{s}\circ\phi_{-t}^{A_f}\right) = -i\hbar\, A_f\tilde{s} = \left(-i\hbar\, X_f^\mathrm{h} + f\circ\pi\right)\widetilde{s}.
$$
Thinking of sections $s\in\Gamma(L)$ instead of $\mathrm{U}(1)$-equivariant functions $\tilde{s}$, this says that
$$
\mathcal{O}_f s = (-i\hbar \nabla_{X_f} + f)s.
$$
I believe this also answers your other question - the Reeb vector field in this case is the vector field along the $\mathrm{U}(1)$ direction of $P$ (the contact form is the connection form $\alpha$).
Kostant's lecture notes are still the best place to learn all this, IMO.
Edit: of course, the whole point of requiring $[A_f,A_g] = A_{-\lbrace f,g\rbrace}$ is so that
$$
[\mathcal{O}_f,\mathcal{O}_g] = [-i\hbar\,A_f, -i\hbar\,A_g] = (i\hbar)^2 A_{-\lbrace f,g\rbrace} = i\hbar\,\mathcal{O}_{\lbrace f,g\rbrace},
$$
the usual Heisenberg ``Poisson brackets go to commutators'' relationship.

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Spider Diagrams with Absence: Inference Rules for Clutter Reduction
Gemmelia Stapleton, Lopamudra Choudhury, Mihir Chakraborty
Spider diagrams represent sets, their cardinalities and, sometimes, the specific individuals within those sets. They are expressively equivalent to monadic first-order logic with equality. Typically, diagrammatic logics with this level of expressiveness are not equipped to directly express the absence of an individual from a set. Instead, individuals must be asserted to be present and, thus, absent from the set's complement. The first time that absence could be directly asserted was in Venn-i. Since then, it been shown that in a related system called Venn-ie (a monadic first-order logic without equality) the inclusion of absence information can significantly reduce diagram clutter. In this paper, we explore an extension of spider diagrams to include direct representation of the absence of individuals from sets. We identify necessary and sufficient conditions for satisfiability, allowing us to define an inconsistency rule allowing significant reductions in diagram clutter. Building on that, we introduce sound inference rules specifically related to spiders (which represent elements, individuals or their absence) that alter the levels of clutter in consistent diagrams. In the context of these rules, we explore the implications of including absence information for reducing clutter. In particular, we show that the significant benefits, in terms of clutter reduction, seen through the use of absence in Venn-ie do not manifest to such an extent in spider diagrams.
Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems
https://doi.org/10.18293/VLSS2018-032
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Q: Wordpress add_action call function more than 1 time I have function which count page views in Wordrpess, but when I reload page add_action() call function 5 times, I not know why.
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A: You have hooked your function call into the 'wp' action hook.
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Can Cremated remains be taken overseas by Air?
Yes this is NOT a problem, unless you make it one!
It is suggested that if you are taking cremated remains overseas. First check with the embassy of the country you are intending to visit to find out if they have any legal requirements.
Frequently, the embassy will ask for the death certificate, the cremation certificate and sometimes a letter of authenticity. (This is either a letter or a certificate supplied by the crematorium stating that the cremated remains within the cremation urn are in fact the true remains of the particular person.) You also need to be aware that as English may not be spoken in the country you are going to; SOME of these countries will need translation of the certificates. Translations are best done by N.A.A.T.I. (National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters) info@naati.com.au or by telephone 1300 557 470.
These people are experts in their field and their translations are accepted worldwide.
Furthermore, in some very rare instances the country you are traveling to may require an Apostille Seal. This is available from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in your State. An "Apostille" is a form of authentication issued to documents for use in countries that participate in the Hague Convention of 1961.
Furthermore, as we all know airport security is a strict and necessary evil that has been forced on us by those selfish people who want to cause harm to innocent people.
Consequently, the cremated remains taken as carry-on luggage will be x-rayed. The box that is supplied by the crematorium is plastic and can easily be x-rayed. (IT IS BEST TO LEAVE THE ASHES IN THIS CONTAINER and there will not be a problem) Whereas, those people who insist on purchasing an expensive cremation urn will frequently, find that the urn is metal or of some other substance that cannot be x-rayed. At this point you will have the cremated remains taken from you possibly never to be seen again.
Furthermore it is strongly suggested that cremated remains are taken as carry-on luggage. The last thing you want is for your loved one to be on their way to New York with your stowed baggage while you are going to Denmark with your laptop.
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A very close friend of mine, who is currently doing his Masters in Media, abroad, called me yesterday late night, and asked me some tips to recruit a girl for his first ever short.
I must tell you his script was good. But it was going to be a dumb film. I mean literally speaking, people are not going to speak. The entire film is going to be through expressions, I then told him to get a girl with expressive eyes, to which he said, he kept auditions but none was upto to his expectations.
Very recently during one of my experience as an Executive Producer, there were a tussle between a co-actor and myself. He was not satisfied with the "small pay" that has been given, since, his partner in the film, a girl, performing a small similar role had to be given a 'significant' sum. He shouted at me saying, 'aambalaigna ungaluku elakarama pocha'!The scene there, as I recall now, was surreal, since here is an industry who is hellbent on women. Well, if you are an actor, a woman, and shrewed enough, you can make a sizable amount of money every month.
Coming back again, the problem is real even now. but not as severe as it used to be, since, there are more women venturing into acting and it all drops down to how effectively you get one, when I say effective, it means time saved and quality ensured.
I have seen Aspiring directors crying out, saying we dropped a particular project because of no female lead. I used to sympathize in the beginning, but now I can say, if you give such a reason, then it means 2 things. 1. You are not well connected enough and 2. You are not determined enough.
I say this confidently because time and again, I am seeing aspiring filmmakers getting quality female actors in less time and money.
Case 1 : Assume you have no budget, literally funds only for equipments and stuff, but still you need a girl, what will you do? You rely on friends, but with friends, there are severe restrictions, one such being, you have to tune the character of the subject to the real character of the actor. Another one, dont have big expectations, they are not actors, but when their real character is what it is going to be seen, then you are putting them in the comfort zone and who knows, you might discover magic. The innocence would work.
Case 2: Assume you have a budget for the female lead, in the range of 2k-5k, how to go about it?
First in this budget, you can get an aspiring female actor with fitting looks and who knows the basics in acting. but you got to be spending some quality time in front of your desktop. Make a thorough research. The research is going to be two ways. one, see whether you friends of friends' short film has a girl you expect. Two, Youtube. Research short films in youtube, start from popular youtube channels that host short films, moviebuff for example. I am sure, with a keen eye, you will easily arrive at a fitting girl, approach the particular director of the film through facebook, and then target the actor. I am sure that most of you would have adopted similar approaches but probably where I think you would miss is how you approach the particular female lead. Female actors, might not know who you are. You have to establish authenticity, then show them the promise. These actors might expect decent money and popularity. You have to talk their language to get them on board.
Case 3: When you have a good budget, then you can get quality established female actors, whose presence itself can promote your film. A good example could be Director Sarjun's Lakshmi and Maa, which had popular internet stars in the lead.
I am sure most of you would fall in the case 2 category and one of the many mistakes that you commit, would be having an actor who doesn't know to act. Keep this in mind, whatever category, you are in, rehearsal is must. In rehearsals, the actors will come to know how professional the team is in and accordingly they will give their performance.
Last but not least, when it comes to payment, you should have someone else to talk. Let the director tackle the creative end of things. For all tough things like payment, get some innocent friend to act as an executive producer.
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Risks of artificial intelligence
Vincent C. Müller (ed.)
CRC Press - Chapman & Hall (2016)
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Müller, Vincent C. (ed.) (2016). Risks of artificial intelligence. CRC Press - Chapman & Hall.
Papers from the conference on AI Risk (published in JETAI), supplemented by additional work. --- If the intelligence of artificial systems were to surpass that of humans, humanity would face significant risks. The time has come to consider these issues, and this consideration must include progress in artificial intelligence (AI) as much as insights from AI theory. -- Featuring contributions from leading experts and thinkers in artificial intelligence, Risks of Artificial Intelligence is the first volume of collected chapters dedicated to examining the risks of AI. The book evaluates predictions of the future of AI, proposes ways to ensure that AI systems will be beneficial to humans, and then critically evaluates such proposals. 1 Vincent C. Müller, Editorial: Risks of Artificial Intelligence - 2 Steve Omohundro, Autonomous Technology and the Greater Human Good - 3 Stuart Armstrong, Kaj Sotala and Sean O'Heigeartaigh, The Errors, Insights and Lessons of Famous AI Predictions - and What they Mean for the Future - 4 Ted Goertzel, The Path to More General Artificial Intelligence - 5 Miles Brundage, Limitations and Risks of Machine Ethics - 6 Roman Yampolskiy, Utility Function Security in Artificially Intelligent Agents - 7 Ben Goertzel, GOLEM: Toward an AGI Meta-Architecture Enabling Both Goal Preservation and Radical Self-Improvement - 8 Alexey Potapov and Sergey Rodionov, Universal Empathy and Ethical Bias for Artificial General Intelligence - 9 András Kornai, Bounding the Impact of AGI - 10 Anders Sandberg, Ethics and Impact of Brain Emulations 11 Daniel Dewey, Long-Term Strategies for Ending Existential Risk from Fast Takeoff - 12 Mark Bishop, The Singularity, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI -
Vincent C. Müller
Artificial Life in Philosophy of Biology
Machine Ethics in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Robot Ethics in Applied Ethics
The Singularity in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
AI risk philosophy of AI AI progress utility for AI goals empathy embodiment existential risk risk singularity
ISBN(s)
0367575183 1498734820 9781498734820 9780367575182


Jammu, Sep 4 (KNO) : Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday termed the dialogue and reconciliation between India and Pakistan inevitable for the resolution of Kashmir issue and making peace and tranquility in inseparable features of the violence infested state.
Addressing general masses, party functionaries, workers and activists in Rajoori, the former Chief Minister urged the two countries to rise above the ego clashes and exhibit the political astuteness so that the dream of a peaceful and tranquil Jammu and Kashmir is realised.
She further asserted that the embargo in the state wouldn't in any way be resolved through the announcement of the economic packages but by consistent and earnest efforts aimed to get the state out of the squalid conditions and taking youth into confidence so that to stop them going adrift. "Economic packages aren't going to resolve the issues in any way.
Though the roads, bridges and electricity are vital needs of the people but until and unless there is dialogue aimed at the resolution of the conflict, no sigh of relief could be provided to the already perturbed masses," she said in her address.
PDP chief remarked that after the 2014 polls accorded fragmented mandate to state's political landscape, PDP founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed decided to stitch the common ground with BJP will the sole motive to reincarnate the Vajpayee era in the state and to stop the vicious cycle of unbated killings and violence with an impeccable will and determination.
"Even when I told my father that the decision to join hands with the BJP has more risks than rewards and would decline party's popularity in the state, he said he was ready to sacrifice everything including his own self if that resolves the decades old conflict," Mehbooba said, adding that her father was confident that dialogue and reconciliation would be initiated and same measures taken during Vajpayee's time shall be witnessed once again.
"When I took over as the Chief Minister and headed the state for two years and two months, it is a fact known to all that I didn't compromise on my stand and stood like a rock before the central government for protection of state's special interests. If I would have shown mere laxity in my approach, BJP wouldn't have been compelled to topple the government.
They didn't succeeded in anyway to make me barter the interests of the state for petty power and I can tell you with all certainty that I kept the honour and dignity of my people intact and alive,"Mehbooba said. Appealing the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to extend hand of friendship to Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan, Mehbooba said that peace in south Asia will only be possible if peace is established in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
"Opening of the new roads between the divided parts of the state and strengthening of people to people contact will lead to success. Prime Minister Modi has to pick up wherefrom late Vajpayee has left the peace process and doing so will usher a new era of development and tranquility in the two countries and people living amid constant fear can heave a sigh of relief from constant confrontations and animosities," said the PDP chief.
"I remained in the forefront as the Chief Minister to thwart any attempts aimed at the intimidation of Gujjars and Bakerwals in the state and took every measure to ensure these communities that no one is going to do any harm to them," she said, adding that securing the secular character of the state has been the top most priority of the PDP since inception and that the party every time foiled the attempts of the fringe groups to create any communal wedge between the different religious communities living in the state with harmony and brotherhood for centuries.


The finest Western you'll see this year is set in aristocratic 16th-century France, in the heat of Counter-Reformation. Mélanie Thierry's father barters her for the titular title, marrying her off to Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet's shy, pained prince—instead of her heart's first choice, Gaspard Ulliel's Duke de Guise. De Guise keeps keeps chasing after the wedded princess, along with—for reasons requiring no explanation to anyone who's ever seen Thierry—the Duke d'Anjou (Raphaël Personnaz) and the film's calm center, the philosopher-warrior Count de Chabannes (Lambert Wilson), who has retired from an active role in the world after a campaigning tragedy. The Wars of Religion provide this boudoir-and-battlefield film's other front: Director Bertrand Tavernier applies athletic Steadicam to filthy melees and crossed dueling swords, conveying the heft of steel and crush of close combat in takes of endurance and harsh verisimilitude. The action is remarkable also for its revelation of character and moral dimension—qualities learned from American horse operas by Tavernier, who vigorously jounces painterly posing out of this period material. The setting always serves the performers rather than vice versa—though the film is also greatly enhanced by the costuming, the rugged French countryside photographed in outdoor-adventure CinemaScope, and Philippe Sarde's baroque-tribal score, its martial and romantic poles matching a tale of love (corrupted) and war (pointless).


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The 'Common Future' event organised by 'My Life My Say' (MLMS) was hosted in London City Hall, where the Mayor and London Assembly work, and "wouldn't be possible" without the support of the European Commission, according to organisers.
MLMS claims to be a "non-partisan" project aiming to "secure a better Brexit for young people." The group's "CEO" Mete Coban, however, is a Labour party councillor with links to the top of the party, and the group has have received public support from the European Commission's office in the UK.
They also claim to create a "safe space" where young people and activists can talk about Brexit and organise and are hosting a series of meetings all over the country this year.
A prominent line-up of fiercely anti-Brexit campaigners also spoke at the London event, including Labour MP Stephen Kinnock and Alastair Campbell, former press chief and spin doctor to Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair and editor-at-large of the anti-Brexit New European newspaper.
"Launched in partnership with the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, this CFF Launch will showcase our upcoming projects which all center around the conversations this country needs to have to bridge the post-Brexit divides," they add on the London event's Facebook page.


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Blogs & Editorials
The Halo Effect
The multiple ways by which sacred places contribute to the vitality and economic health of towns and neighborhoods.
Arch Street United Methodist Church in Center City, Philadelphia, has a long relationship with Partners for Sacred Places. The congregation has been through New Dollars/New Partners training, received a grant for building repairs, and participated in the Halo Effect study. The church provides a variety of social service programs for those in need, including Grace Cafe, which provides a hot meal, blankets and toiletries to the city's most vulnerable citizens.
By A. Robert Jaeger
In a few months, America will be learning for the first time about the economic value of its historic churches, synagogues, temples and mosques. This value – we are calling it the Economic Halo Effect of sacred places – captures the multiple ways by which sacred places contribute to the vitality and economic health of towns and neighborhoods. This Halo Effect has been captured by Partners for Sacred Places, America's only national nonprofit dedicated to preserving and sustaining the community value of religious buildings, in a research project conducted with the University of Pennsylvania.
Here's a quick preview: the Halo value for the average sacred place is enormous – in the millions of dollars – and it can be used to dramatically strengthen the argument that religious properties are an essential part of our streetscapes and our civic fabric.
The Halo Effect findings will be released early in 2014, but we can already predict how they will change the way we serve and assist our churches and synagogues. First, this understanding can help congregations and parishes raise capital funds from new sources. Second, Halo can be used to persuade public officials, philanthropies and business leaders to see themselves as stakeholders in the preservation of these buildings. And third, Halo will be a powerful tool to encourage and guide the way religious, community and philanthropic leaders invest in the most important and the most promising of our sacred places.
Sacred places are universal. They are present almost everywhere – evenly distributed in neighborhoods that may lack nutritional food, or a safe place for kids after school or the performing arts.
One significant element of Halo is the way congregations share their space with arts, social service, education and health organizations. As our towns and cities identify acute challenges with smaller budgets, especially in certain neighborhoods where people are underserved, Partners is seeing that sacred places are increasingly well-suited to function as incubators and homes for important nonprofit work. Why is this so?
Sacred places are universal. They are present almost everywhere – evenly distributed in neighborhoods that may lack nutritional food, or a safe place for kids after school or the performing arts. And they often have good, high-visibility locations that are easy to reach via public transportation.
Sacred places offer one-stop space shopping. Older churches often have a wide range of available space, including auditoriums, classrooms, institutional kitchens and a range of meeting spaces. There is likely to be a space to meet almost any need.
Sacred places are flexible. Church spaces have been used for multiple purposes over decades or longer. The congregation's parish hall, for example, may have housed theatre in the 1920s, civil rights meetings in the 1960s and after-school programs in the 1990s. Today, that same space might be appropriate for nutritional education or rehearsals.
Sacred places have owners with shared values. Congregations are, very often, eager to share their space and serve the community in new ways. They see this as a part of their mission, and are willing to share at a low cost. (But of course they'd like some help to keep the roof repaired!)
Sacred places come with "added benefits." Parish or congregation members and volunteers can provide hands-on help, referrals, tutoring and other support to those who are served by programs housed in sacred places.
Now that we are coming to understand the larger value of sacred places to our communities, it is time for architects, artisans and others who care about sacred places to work together to preserve these buildings and maximize their usefulness for the arts, food and nutrition programs, and other community services. We need to do everything we can to encourage and support the Halo Effect of sacred places.
A. Robert Jaeger is president and co-founder of Partners for Sacred Places, America's only national, nonprofit organization focused on caring for and making good use of older and historic religious properties. (www.sacredplaces.org) He has a Master of Arts in historic preservation planning from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Prior to that, he worked with the Philadelphia Historic Preservation Corporation as senior vice president for its Historic Religious Properties Program. Mr. Jaeger also is the co-author of Sacred Places at Risk (1998) and Strategies for Stewardship and Active Use of Older and Historic Religious Properties (1996), author of Sacred Places in Transition (1994), and editor (1985-89) of Inspired, a bi-monthly magazine with news and technical articles on religious property preservation.


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Man Accused of Setting Holy Fire Due In Court
SANTA ANA (CNS) - A man charged with setting the Holy Fire that torched 23,000 acres in Orange and Riverside counties, forcing thousands of people from their homes last August, described a "lucid dream" about a neighbor's cabin being set ablaze when questioned about the conflagration, an Orange County Fire Authority investigator testified today.
OCFA Capt. Donald Ford, who took the witness stand at the outset of Forrest Gordon Clark's preliminary hearing on arson and other charges, said the 51-year-old defendant described "a lucid dream" he said he had, in which Holy Jim Volunteer Fire Department Chief Michael Milligan, who owns a nearby cabin, took a "small container" of gas and poured it through a broken window of another cabin next door to the defendant's.
Clark, however, also told other versions of the dream in which "the Mexicans" set the massive blaze or even the owner of Cabin 15, his next-door neighbor Frank Romero, according to Ford and U.S. Forest Service Officer Albert Banh.
An animated Clark "was moving around quite a lot" as he relayed the "dream" to the investigators, who were trying to determine the cause of the blaze, Ford testified.
Milligan has denied any involvement in the blaze.
Upon questioning by the defendant's attorney, Ford acknowledged that he initially determined the fire started in Romero's Cabin 15, one cabin away from Clark's Cabin 14, but now believes it was ignited in or around Romero's cabin. He said he based his updated theory on reports from callers who dialed 911, saying they saw flames just outside the cabin before it was consumed.
When asked by Clark's attorney, Nicole Parness of the Orange County Public Defender's Office, why he didn't share that opinion with anyone until today, he cited "inexperience."
Ford testified that when Clark was told he was under arrest, "a struggle ensued" with sheriff's deputies.
Deputy District Attorney Jake Jondle, however, moved to have resisting arrest charges against Clark dismissed due to a lack of evidence, and the judge granted the request.
Under questioning from Parness, Ford said he was unaware Clark had "mental health issues" when he first encountered the defendant, who was not wearing clothes when he spoke with investigators.
"He had some kind of necklace on," Ford said.
"He was saying a lot of things... He spoke a lot," Ford said when asked if his conversation often veered into "tangents."
Ford testified he was also unaware of video evidence from the volunteer fire department that a "white truck" was seen speeding by before the fire erupted. Ford acknowledged that evidence bears further investigation, but could not speculate how significant it would be without knowing more.
Ford also testified that Clark had a burn on one of his shoulders, which the defendant said he suffered fighting a small blaze. Ford also acknowledged he had no direct physical evidence linking Clark to setting the blaze, but concluded Clark was the arsonist due to other evidence such as his statements to investigators and alleged threats to Romero, with whom he supposedly had a long-running feud.
Banh said when he drove to the scene of the fire on the day it started, he heard "yelling" near Cabins 14 and 15.
"I heard a man screaming who was later identified to me as Forrest Clark," Banh said. "He appeared to be arguing with those around him."
When he questioned Clark, the defendant initially denied having set the fire, but then said he "maybe" did it, Banh testified.
"There were several responses" as to how the blaze started, Banh said.
At one point, the defendant suggested candles could have been used to ignite the fire, and then he pulled out some candles to show the investigator, Banh testified.
Clark also told Banh that he broke the window at Cabin 15 and was "remorseful" about it, the investigator said.
Clark allegedly threatened to kill Romero earlier in the day, before the fire started, Banh testified.
The preliminary hearing, which will continue Thursday, will determine whether there is enough evidence to order Clark to stand trial on felony charges of aggravated arson damaging at least five inhabited structures, arson of inhabited property, arson of forest and making criminal threats. He could face 10 years to life in prison if convicted.
Clark's criminal case was briefly suspended in August when his courtroom outbursts led a judge to declare a doubt about his mental competency. Another judge on Nov. 28 found Clark competent to assist in his defense, and criminal proceedings were restarted.
At the defendant's Dec. 12 arraignment, Parness unsuccessfully argued then that her client's $1 million bail should be reduced because, she said, an OCFA arson investigator theorized that another person might be responsible for setting the blaze.
She told reporters that the investigator cited Milligan as a potential suspect, based on "very well thought-out and logical" analysis, and accused prosecutors of not following up while continuing to pursue Clark as the main suspect.
Milligan has denied any involvement in the blaze, telling City News Service earlier this month that he had fully cooperated with investigators and invited them into his home "to tear it apart, do what you have to do" so they could rule him out as a suspect. He said he met with investigators three times and turned over his phone, a GPS device and an iPad to authorities. He said he offered to submit DNA and fingerprints, as well.
Milligan conceded he was in the area when the fire erupted, saying he was about a mile away from Clark's cabin at the time, and said he understands law enforcement must investigate everyone who was in the vicinity of the fire's origin.
"There were four people in the canyon, and two people were above the fire and couldn't get back in and had to be rescued by helicopter," he told CNS.
Jondle has said the investigator's report mentioning Milligan is just an "alternative theory," but there is "no credible evidence" to lead prosecutors to consider it seriously.
Prosecutors are "confident" Clark is the right suspect, he said. Clark was the focus of investigators because of a "combination of things," such as text messages he sent to neighbors as well as alleged "threats made" to others, according to Jondle.
On Aug. 6, the day the Holy Fire erupted, Clark allegedly threatened to kill a neighbor about 7:30 a.m., prosecutors said in a previous motion to deny him bail.
As the neighbor walked to his truck, Clark told him that he "(expletive) with the wrong person," according to the motion. "The defendant stated that he was `crazy' and noted it was `perfect' because he could do anything he wants and get away with it."
Later that day, he allegedly set fire to his neighbor's residence. The Holy Fire ultimately also destroyed 13 other residences in Holy Jim Canjon and adjacent Trabuco Canyon.
Orange County sheriff's investigator Jennifer Hernandez, who will be called to testify on Thursday, said in an affidavit supporting the motion to deny bail that Clark "could be heard on video telling (a victim), `Mark my words, you're gonna die at 12:37... I have 100 percent plausible deniability. You're gonna die. I'm gonna murder you."'
Clark allegedly made at least five "specific threats" and "allusions" to setting fires, according to Hernandez, who said the defendant "appears to believe in the Sovereign Citizen ideology."
The ideology's supporters "believe the government does not have the authority to enforce a majority of our laws and taxes," Hernandez wrote, adding that not everyone who subscribes to the theory is violent, but law enforcement recognizes it as a "terrorism threat."
Orange County sheriff's deputies have had multiple encounters with Clark dating back to 2006, according to Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the department.


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Q: vim compiles with wrong python version (and not working with needed version) In brief:
I have a problem with compiling vim with preferred python version.
When I use --enable-pythoninterp it compiles with system OSX python version.
When I use --enable-pythoninterp=dynamic I get an error in vim while trying :py import sys
Here is what I was doing in more detail:
% git clone https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim.git
% cd macvim
% ./configure --enable-pythoninterp \
     --with-python-config-dir=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/config <- this option has no affects on result
...
checking for python... /usr/local/bin/python
checking Python version... 2.7
checking Python is 1.4 or better... yep
checking Python's install prefix... /usr/local
checking Python's execution prefix... /usr/local
checking Python's configuration directory... /usr/local/lib/python2.7/config
...
% make
...
** BUILD SUCCEEDED **
% open src/MacVim/build/Release/MacVim.app

In the opened MacVim I type:
:py import sys; print (sys.version, sys.executable)
('2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
  [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)]',
 '/usr/bin/python')

Why 2.6.1?
Why /usr/bin/python?
My default python is 2.7! And it lives at /usr/local/bin/python
I was searching for solution all day. And I found it. It is =dynamic attribute (but this solution had not explanation).
After that I tried to recompile vim with dynamic python:

% ./configure --enable-pythoninterp=dynamic
... output the same ...
% make
% open src/MacVim/build/Release/MacVim.app

In opened MacVim:

:py import sys

And here comes an error:

E370: Could not load library libpython2.7.a
E263: Sorry, this command is disabled, the Python library could not be loaded.

My OSX version is 10.6.8.
Default python version is 2.7.
% which python
/usr/local/bin/python

Can anybody explain how python is integrating into vim during the compilation?
And how to fix the error with libpython2.7.a?

update: I no longer have the environment described at the question. So I couldn't test new answers. But remaining part of mankind will appreciate your help.

A: My solution was to delete the configure cache file which was created from a previous built where I used the python which came with OSX.
Then I installed a new python version with homebrew and couldn't get .configure to take the new python version, even though I updated my PATH variable and which python showed the right python version.
Deleting the cache file and running configure again solved my problem.
rm src/auto/config.cache
./configure --enable-pythoninterp

Maybe it helps anybody.

A: I had the same problem. I compiled Macvim from source and tried to use the python version 2.7 from macports in:
/opt/local/bin/python

Some modules were not found, for example the os module. The reason for this was that the PYTHONPATH variable inside macvim is wrong!
To test, open macvim and type:
:python print sys.path

I got the following paths (note the ending, which is nonsense):
...
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.5/'
...

I presume the reason is in the linker flag "-framework Python". This picks up the wrong, i.e. the system python framework. If I change the line in the src/auto/configure script from:
if test "x$MACOSX" = "xyes" && ${vi_cv_path_python} -c \
"import sys; sys.exit(${vi_cv_var_python_version} < 2.3)"; then
      vi_cv_path_python_plibs="-framework Python"

to
if test "x$MACOSX" = "xyes" && ${vi_cv_path_python} -c \
"import sys; sys.exit(${vi_cv_var_python_version} < 2.3)"; then
      vi_cv_path_python_plibs="-F/opt/local/Library/Frameworks -framework Python"

Running configure again, after make clean,
Macvim  compiles and works  as expected. The -F flag tells the linker in which directory to find the following framework. Macports installs the Python.framework in this directory, YMMV.

A: I had a the same probleme as you (trying to compile MacVim with Python 2.7) and I finally managed to do it.
First the dynamic option doesn't work ! I've seen that tip too on the net, but if you look at the configure script (or just the help) it's not recognized. Therefore don't use it. That's equivalent to disabling python, which explain why :py doesn't work. You haven't compiled MacVim with Python.
What I've done at the end was reinstall Python 2.7.2 using the official installer on the Python website.
You should then have a config  in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/config.
Try to compile again with the following options
% ./configure --enable-pythoninterp \
   --with-python-config-dir=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/config/python2.7/config

That gave me an error at the end of the compilation, but if I ignore it and launch the binary anyway that works. This problem might be specific to my computer (it  seems to be related to the icon instalation).
Good luck.
Note that's the way I managed to compile MacVim with Python 2.7 (which was my objective) not necessarily the way to compile it with my runtime version of Python.

A: Make sure that the proper "python" is in your $PATH, which might not be the case when using "sudo".
There is an option to set the python binary to be used (if you cannot modify $PATH):
export vi_cv_path_python=/usr/local/bin/python

But still, with enable-pythoninterp=dynamic it failed to load libpython2.7.a when running ":python import sys", saying "E448: Could not load library function _PyArg_Parse_SizeT".

A: It sounds like the root of your problem lies in that Python is looking to the wrong directory.  That should be the first part you look to correct, before worrying about integrating into vim.  All Macs come with a version of Python already installed on their machine, in /usr/local/bin/python.  Usually by the time you get the machine, you want install a more recent version of Python.  The new version should be located:
% which python
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python

I don't know how you installed Python to begin with, but the easiest way is easy_install or pip.  This is a good link.  If that doesn't solve your path problem, then you should see here.  Hopefully this is all you need and the problem with vim will be resolved.

A: I found the above answer to be dangerous-- caused fatal errors when closing buffers in macvim.
The answer found here is much more stable:
Vim failing to compile with python on OS X

A: I just had the exact same wish, and MacPorts fulfilled it without additional fiddling:
$ port info macvim
MacVim @7.3.snapshot66, Revision 2 (editors)
Variants:             big, cscope, [+]huge, perl, python, python25, python26, python27, python31, python32, python33, ruby, ruby19, tcl, universal, xim
...

$ sudo port install macvim +python27
--->  Computing dependencies for MacVim
--->  Fetching archive for MacVim
--->  Attempting to fetch MacVim-7.3.snapshot66_2+huge+python27.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://jog.id.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/MacVim
--->  Attempting to fetch MacVim-7.3.snapshot66_2+huge+python27.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/MacVim
--->  Attempting to fetch MacVim-7.3.snapshot66_2+huge+python27.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/MacVim
--->  Fetching distfiles for MacVim
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for MacVim
--->  Extracting MacVim
--->  Applying patches to MacVim
--->  Configuring MacVim
--->  Building MacVim
--->  Staging MacVim into destroot
--->  Installing MacVim @7.3.snapshot66_2+huge+python27
--->  Deactivating MacVim @7.3.snapshot66_2+huge
--->  Cleaning MacVim
--->  Activating MacVim @7.3.snapshot66_2+huge+python27
--->  Cleaning MacVim
--->  Updating database of binaries: 100.0%
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
--->  No broken files found.

Note: As you can see above (deactivating), I've tried the default (precompiled) MacVim first (ie. sudo port install macvim -> MacVim @7.3.snapshot66_2+huge), and it didn't have Python support compiled in.
After the adding the +python27 variant, running :py import sys; print (sys.version, sys.executable) inside the newly installed MacVim now returns:
('2.7.3 (default, Oct 22 2012, 06:12:28) \n[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]', '/Applications/MacPorts/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim')

which happens to be the same as I have in my shell (depending on your $PATH and port select python):
$ which python
/opt/local/bin/python
$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Oct 22 2012, 06:12:28)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
...

A: The fix I found for this issue involved deleting the source and reacquiring it. I'm sure hg has a way to just delete the local changes, but I couldn't really find it in the help file.
I didn't use MacVim, but I suspect your issue is for the same reason.
Looking through the output of the configuration script it appears that it caches the python installation it used previously and just uses that.


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