Former All-Pro NFL kicker Morten Andersen will be inducted into the New Orleans Saints Ring of Honor in recognition for his accomplishments both on and off the playing field during his 25 year NFL Career. He joins former Saints players Rickey Jackson, Archie Manning and William Roaf.
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I was especially interested in this. Isn't it pretty?
I went looking for kitchen cotton just the other day and was bored by what Joann's had to offer. I wish Lily would put out some new colors. I got these but I was meh about them. I probably already own them.
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Ohhhhhhh. My friend is starting her knit career with dishcloths ! Perfect right? Glad you got some funmaiil!
She did send a really nice skein of kitchen cotton--I will try and look for that brand on my next shopping run next week. The new dishcloth is a fun pattern, isn't it?!
Wow, nice surprise! The cloth she sent it beautiful too!
Love your aqua and brown yarn and the dishcloth. The Crafter's Secret yarn looks like it has a lot of potential with those variegated colors.
Love love love those colors in the Crafter's Secret yarn! Also love the pattern of your dishcloth - have you identified the pattern in another post?
So glad you liked it! Hobby Lobby has Crafter's Secret yarn. Speaking of yarn, I've been knee deep for the past week trying to organize my stash. Sigh...so much yarn.......and no more yarn shops for me.


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Q: Explanation of fundamental groups $\pi_1(X_0,x_0)\approx\pi_1(X,x_0)$ Theorem. Let $x_0\in X,$ and let $X_0$ be the path component of $X$ containing  $x_0.$ Then $\pi_1(X_0,x_0)\approx\pi_1(X,x_0).$
What is this theorem telling?
Is it telling that the fundamental group of whole space $X$ based at $x_0$ is isomorphic to the fundamental group of $X_0$ based at $x_0$?
How is that it is true? If you take the $\pi_1(S^1,1)$ and $\pi_1(S^n,1)$ and use this theorem for each of them, would not be a contradiction?
Like this $π_1(S^1,1)≈π_1(X,1)$ and $π_1(S^n,1)≈π_1(X,1).$ Hence $π_1(S^1,1)≈π_1(S^n,1).$
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If you could give me an intuitively explanation, that would be enough. Thank you.

A: Let's use your example of a point $p$ on the sphere $S^n$ and show why this isn't a contradiction. Your theorem states
$$\pi_1(X_0, x_0) = \pi_1(X,x_0).$$
Here, we have $x_0 = p$ and $X = S^n$. By definition, the subspace $X_0$ is the path-connected component of $X$ containing $x_0$. We don't get to pick what $X_0$ is — we only get to pick the base point $p$ and then $X_0$ is given to us. Since $S^n$ is a path-connected space, i.e. it has one path-connected component, this implies that $X_0 = S^n$. Thus, your theorem says in this case that
$$\pi_1(S^n, p) = \pi_1(S^n,p).$$
Hopefully this equality is believable!

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Jane Goodall: Technology can help save environment
It is hard for me to believe that I will have lived on planet Earth for 80 years as of this Thursday. I was born on April 3, 1934 and the world has changed in almost all ways possible.
I write this article from a laptop computer while flying in an airplane to Nebraska, where I visit every year to see the migration of the majestic Sandhill cranes. My assistant is holding her cell phone and iPad. I Skyped with my son and grandchildren in Tanzania before breakfast, and sent emails to China, Australia and Nepal. All around me the world is tweeting, texting and using Facebook like crazy. It's all about technology today.
Taken for granted now, such technology would have been considered science fiction when I was young. Televisions and computers hadn't been invented. I still remember my first trip to Africa from my native England when I was only 23 years old; traveling for weeks in a boat that had no phones, let alone email.
When I first started studying the chimpanzees of Tanzania's Gombe National Park, communication from Africa meant sending letters in the mail and waiting weeks for a response. There were telegrams but they were very expensive. Now I can be connected in seconds with people in some of the world's remotest places.
While I analyzed my early field work by hand with the help of a slide rule, today conservationists use sophisticated computer software to determine things like the DNA profiles of wild chimpanzees. My organization, the Jane Goodall Institute, partners with innovative groups such as Google Earth, Esri, and others to use technological tools to map and monitor changes to chimpanzee habitat in real time. We are also employing local villagers to use Android tablets to record illegal activities in the forests where chimpanzees live. Advances like these are capable thanks to the explosive development of the human intellect — one of the characteristics that separates us from the chimpanzees.
Why is someone who turns 80 years old going on-and-on about technology? Because I believe strongly that it can — and must — be used as a force for advancing the work of environmental conservation.
I am often asked: "When will you retire?" The answer is I shall continue to carry my message as long as I am physically able to raise my voice in support of planet Earth. I still travel around the world some 300-days-per-year to raise awareness about the threats to our children's future. I hope the fight to try to make this a better world for all — people and animals — will continue after I am long gone. But I need your help now and I'm increasingly inspired by the role technology — and especially young people's mastery of it — can play to extend our voices and ideas in support of environmental stewardship.
From rural villages in Africa to megacities in Asia and everywhere in between, the damage that humans have inflicted on the natural world is apparent. We are seeing the sixth great extinction of animal species, chimpanzees are endangered, and many people are suffering the effects of pollution and climate change, which a new United Nations study this week says impacts every corner of the globe and threatens our future. The list goes on and on.
Why is it that the most intellectual creature to have walked the Earth — humans capable of amazing advances — are also destroying our only home? So many people, thinking of the mess we are in today, feel helpless and hopeless, so they do nothing. You can't blame them.
Technology alone will not solve every problem, but it is part of the solution. Let's use technology as a way to amplify our voices in support of the environment. Let's turn to Facebook, Twitter and the myriad other ways to connect and strategize with likeminded individuals about how to make this world better. Let's use technology to extend the reach of our personal influence in support of the planet we love.
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you — for better or for worse. What you do makes a difference. Technology can help us all make a positive difference.
Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a U.N. Messenger of Peace.
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Wing loading doesn't affect glide (unless the wing is distorted by the weight) you just go down the same glide angle at a higher speed if you are heavier.
Which means that adding the maximum ballast allowed under FAI/CIVL rules (about 10kg) can increase your speed by about 5 percent if you are an 80 kg pilot.
In a 4 hour competition that means that a given pilot on a given wing could finish (all other things being equal) 12 minutes earlier by carrying maximum ballast.
But all other things aren't usually equal. The ballasted pilot gets about a 5% increase in sink rate as well as flight speed. For any given turn radius a heavier loaded glider has to bank more steeply, and sink rate in turns increases rapidly with bank angle. So a ballasted pilot looses out in turns from both the direct increase in sink rate and the increase in sink rate that results from the steeper bank angles that are required for any given turn radius. The total effect is roughly proportional to the change in weight.
So if our competition pilot spends one third of the time during that 4 hour task climbing in thermals then by carrying ballast the higher speed on glides saves about 8 minutes, but the total time taken to climb is about 8 minutes longer.
If the conditions allow the task to be completed with only 1/3rd or less of the total time spent climbing then ballast could pay off. If more than about a third of total time is spent climbing then being light on the wing pays off.
But that isn't the whole story. Being heavy on the wing affects stability and agility as well.
A heavily loaded glider is (in general) more resistant to turbulence-induced collapses, but collapses more violently when it does go. This seems to be partly to do with internal pressure (dynamic pressure goes with speed squared, so it increases in proportion to any weight change), and partly to do with the angle of attack of the wing - at any given speed a heavily loaded wing is at a higher angle of attack than a lightly loaded one (to get the lift to balance weight the heavily loaded wing has to operate at a higher lift coefficient). Tucks are (usually) produced when turbulence causes the local angle of attack at the leading edge to go negative. The angle of attack effect seems to be stronger than the internal pressure effect (which is why flying fast (low angle of attack) makes the wing more likely to tuck - IMHO). The reason collapses are more violent on a heavily loaded wing is that the turbulence required to collapse them is more severe, and the speed prior to the collapse may be higher.
A heavily loaded wing is more agile because the pilot has greater control authority - shifting all that weight to one half of a tiny wing will make it bank up quickly....which is why comp wings feel like trucks if you are used to something with a shorter span, and why comp pilots end up wanging all over the sky on beginners wings when they borrow them. There also seems to be something going on with pitch stability and the speed of transmission of information about turbulence so that heavier loaded wings tell you more about what the air is doing - but I don't even have a theory about that.
All this goes to suggest that if you want to float around at the top of the stack all day then you should be light on your wing. If you want to fly cross country or in competitions then you have an optimization problem. If you expect to be racing spending 2/3rds or more of your time gliding then it might be good to be heavily loaded on your wing. This would be particularly true if you expect the thermals to be turbulent (when the extra agility and stability would help you core the thermal while lighter loaded wings get chucked about and thrown out of the core). This would be especially true if you expect to be flying in straight lines in lift a lot i.e. Alpine or desert flying. If however you fly in circumstances where you are likely to spend more than a third of the time climbing in thermals, where thermals are weak, or where climbing at all may be the key then you want to be lightly loaded. Every comp I have been in has had a task where staying in the air in weak lift was the key.
Finally, there is the question of big-glider performance. Big gliders glide better (other things being equal), at least so I am told by some of the best pilots (and designers) around. The only reason I have been given is that it is to do with their higher Reynolds number. Reynolds number depends on velocity, a characteristic length, air density (1.225kg/m3 at sea level) and air viscosity (17.9 x 10-6 kg/m/s at normal temperature and pressure). For a paraglider flying at 10m/s Re is about 106 times wing cord. So at a given speed a larger glider has a larger Reynolds number. As Reynolds number goes up drag goes down......all other things being equal. Going from the Argon 24 to Argon 26 changes wing cord from 2.71 to 2.82m. which changes the Re from 1.85 x 106 to 1.93 x 106 which is about a 4 percent increase. Von Mises reports NACA data for a NACA23012 airfoil which had a drag coefficient of 0.009 at 1.7 x 106 decreasing to 0.0075 at Re = 7.5 x 106...a 17% reduction in drag for a 4 fold increase in Re. so the effect being linear in this range our 4 percent increase in Re should give a 0.17% decrease in drag. Not insignificant, but not exactly huge either. At the same time though, the maximum lift coefficient of the wing increased from 1.4 to 1.6 which would mean that the larger wing can fly slower, or turn tighter before it stalls. Interesting.
SO maybe the reason so many comp pilots can be bothered to carry around huge bags of ballast is that it allows them to fly a bigger glider that glides a little bit better and can fly a little bit slower and turn a little bit tighter in thermals. As far as I can tell there are no disadvantages for big gliders except for carrying them up the hill.
The weight ranges manufacturers quote are almost always the certified weight ranges - the gliders have been tested at the bottom and top of the weight range. If a glider is particularly benign it passes the tests at a wider-than-expected range of weights (as was IIRC the case with the Argon). Beware gliders that have only a narrow weight range!
I spent this year (2000) flying a Nova Argon 24C at the top of its weight range. As expected the wing was stable, handling was fabulous and speed was high, but I had to work to climb with people if thermals were less than 4m/s or so. The advantages of high loading meant that I thoroughly enjoyed the rough air at the squad training camp in Castejon, the British open at Piedrahita (5th) and the Europeans, but I found it more difficult to get away XC in the UK than I did the year before when I was lightly loaded on a Nova X-Ray. Next year I will be changing to a wing where I am near the middle of the weight range, and if I expect to be racing or conditions are good (which is the same) then I will carry maximum ballast.
I've also put a lot of effort into reducing the weight of my flying gear this year, and by changing flying suits, and dumping excess gear I managed to loose 2Kg of useless weight. Weight is only useful as ballast if you can dump it when conditions get weak!


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