2015-08-05 - German photographer, frequent traveller and single parent Katja Hentschel treats us to a whirlwind tour of the city of Berlin, with her one-year-old son Atlas in tow.
From child psychologist to professional partygoer to photographer, thirty-something Katja Hentschel now travels the world as a Travelette. From her home base on the Eberswalder Straße in Prenzlauerberg, Katja and her son Atlas spend half the year travelling (often with friends) to destinations around the world, from the white sandy beaches of the Maldives to South Tyrol and Poland.
"Travelettes is a platform for and by girls who love to travel," says Katja of her website which she founded in 2009. "I feel that women tend to need role models, especially when it comes to traveling alone, and we aim to fill that shoe."Now a team of ten strong, Travelettes is monetised and allows Katja and company their choice of trips. "Although I don't mind paying for my own trips occasionally," she says with a smile. "Atlas has taken to traveling like a fish to the water," explains Katja of her son whom she raises alone – his father lives in the US. "He loves meeting new people and, unlike me, often enjoys the journey of getting from one place to another more than anything."
In Katja's apartment, that is full of references to travel and personal souvenirs, we are treated to coffee, croissants and the happy chuckles of one-year old Atlas. We spot three strollers lining the hallway of Katja's apartment as we walk up; she'll later admit to owning of all of them, "four in total". After growing up in a small town in Germany – "I hated it, and wish I had moved to Berlin when I was like, 16" – Hentschel began her career in child psychology. Her studies took her abroad to Paris, and London before settling down in her adopted city Berlin in 2009. That's when Katja's first blog – Glamcanyon – was born. It started as a nightlife blog and developed into a highly-praised and well-visited street-style blog, leading to more and more professional work as a photographer. With travelettes.net she has made her passion into her work, travelling around the world and going on adventures with friends. "It started because I wanted a place to document my many travels, and I dreamt of incorporating my favourite hobby into my professional life as a photographer." One of Katja's adventurous trips includes a road trip of the US, driving from New York to Miami, Boston and Austin, documented on the website.
In addition to photographing, filming and writing about her adventures, Katja's online and offline presence boomed and the Travelettes became a book, called Around the World in High Heels, filled with tips for lady travellers and stories of faraway lands.
Berlins landmark: the Fernsehturm (TV tower), and typical East Berlin traffic light: Ampelmännchen.
One of the best ways to get around in Berlin is public transport. There is enough room inside the trams to travel with your stroller!


I won't lie, sleeping in the car probably isn't the way to go for that kind of trip, one might need a bed if you're going to spread out that trip over a few days. Just a warning.
"You can live freely when you trust your intuition.
A break should rejuvenate and empower us to do better with our creative work. Our inspired work. Our light-bringing work. Our work that changes the world around us. However, if one is not motivated by their "work," why are they doing that work? This must be considered.
Championships don't always come in the way of sports, but to be a champion is to have done the best you can, for as long as you could have, UNTIL the outcome you seek has been achieved.
"My enemy holds the answer. But is my enemy outside, or within?


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3776 Vartiovuori è un asteroide della fascia principale del diametro medio di circa 23,42 km. Scoperto nel 1938, presenta un'orbita caratterizzata da un semiasse maggiore pari a 3,1866686 UA e da un'eccentricità di 0,0635603, inclinata di 27,42748° rispetto all'eclittica.

L'asteroide prende il nome di una collina presso Turku dove era situato l'osservatorio di Argelander.

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Corpi celesti scoperti nel 1938
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Always a favourite dive, the Batman never fails to impress not only those diving her for the first time but also the seasoned wreck diver having dived it many times before. There is a definite lack of ambient light today but we still have about 15metres if viz. We were the last group off a baot that was packed to the gunnels with equipment & most of the other divers have started their ascent as we arrive on the wreck, our 20 minute bottom time gives us just enough time to make the swim from the stern all the way to the bow, thus being able to cover all the main features of this wreck, the stern, distinct boiler, bow & of course the gun mounts at the bow as well. As with most wrecks there are always a few crayfish to be seen and this time Andy Barton has actually left one behind which I have the good fortune to be able to secure for dinner. There are 5 or 6 wrecks in the 45metre range – this one alone makes the training worthwhile.


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Др Војислав Суботић (Нови Сад, 6. јануар 1859 — Београд, 4. децембар 1923) био је српски хирург, резервни санитетски пуковник, један од оснивача Медицинског факултета у Београду, на коме је био професор , шеф хируршког одељења Опште државне болнице у Београду, водећи хирург у Србији крајем 19. и почетком 20. века. Објавио је низ радова из области абдоминалне хирургије, урологије, ортопедије. Његово име је у толикој мери повезано са оснивањем, развојем и афирмацијом српске оперативне медицине да се умногоме може тврдити да је био отац практичне хирургије у Србији.

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Војислав Суботић је био син српског песника и политичара Јована Суботића и његове супруге Савке (рођене Полит-Десанчић), добротворке, феминисткиње и прве председнице Српског женског савеза. Родитељи су му живели у Новом Саду, где је и он рођен 1859. године. Имао је још три брата: Дејана (постао генерал-потпуковник руске царске армије), Бранислава и Озрена и сестру Верицу. Основну школу завршио је у Загребу, гимназијско образовање је започео у Карловцима, а завршио у Новом Саду. Медицинске студије је започео у Бечу, које је са 17 година прекинуо да би за време Српско-турског рата 1876. године, као добровољац учествовао у борбама на Дрини. Студије наставља у Паризу, а у доктора медицине је промовисан у својој 22. години - 1881. године у Бечу.

Као млад, веома даровит и амбициозан, лекар његова жеља је била да се даље усавршава. По завршетку студија ради на патолошкој анатомији, а затим као аспирант на Хируршкој клиници проф. др Едуарда Алберта, познатог чешког хирурга, који је од 1881. године био професор хирургије у Бечу. Др Алберт је познат по Албертовом шаву, који је увео у употребу у дигестивну хирургију.

Праксу је у Земуну 1884. године када је постављен за градског физикуса и примарног лекара. Касније је основао прво хируршко одељење Земунске болнице. На позив Српског санитета, иако млад хирург, отворио је прво хируршко одељење у Београду 1889. године у тадашњој Палилулској болници.

У рату са Бугарима и Балканским ратовима (1912—1913.) је стекао многа искуства заснована на повредама малокалибарским оружјем, које проузрокује велика разарања ткива. С обзиром да је претежно радио као грађански, а не као војни хирург у Београду, нису му стизали многи од тешких рањеника који су страдали још на бојишту или убрзо након рањавања. Радећи у Палилулској болници, све до 1907. када прихвата место шефа болнице на Врачару - Опште државне болнице, др Суботић је својом енергијом покушао и успео, да запуштене болничке прилике имени до те мере да је болница постала једна од најбољих установа тог времена. Био је строг и ауторитативан шеф.

Године 1906. први пут је изабран за председника Српског лекарског друштва. Др Суботић је као учесник у ратовима 1912—1918. радио као грађански и у својству војног хирурга. У рату са Бугарима и Балканском рату радио је у позадини, Београду, где су стизали рањеници са бојишта. За време Првог светског рата он је као резервни санитетски пуковник радио у Београду, а потом у Нишу. Не желећи да падне у ропство непријатеља, евакуисао се преко Албаније, иако је његово здравствено стање било тешко због стенокардичних напада, које га је пратило током остатка живота. Оронуо и ослабио, више није имао своје хируршко одељење, одлази у Париз и Лондон, где је радио (1916—1918) у интералијалној комисији као наш делегат, користећи своја широка познанства у иностраним лекарским круговима. У Лондону је одржао предавање "О епидемији пегавца у Србији 1914—1915. године.

Године 1916. конструисао је шину за имобилизацију бутњаче и приказао је у Париској академији медицине, због чега је, између осталог и за остале значајне услуге нашег санитета, изабран за члана Парискг хируршког друштва 1916. године. Др Суботић је био један од првих хирурга у свету који је применио репарацију крвног суда уместо подвезивања. Почетком 1918. он се вратио на Крф и ставио на располагање министру војном, одакле је отишао у Солун. Ту му је понуђен безбедан рад у позадини Солунског фронта, међутим, он то није прихватио. Тражио је да ради на фронту и изабрао Другу армију, чији је командант био војвода Степа Степановић, и у њој је радио са својим ученицима. Искуство др Суботића и његови савети често су помогли да спасу велики број тешких рањеника. Прешавши Солунски фронт заједно са својим ученицима и сарадницима радио је у "Пољској хируршкој болници" у Драгоманцима.

Та болница је саграђена по његовој идеји и могла је да служи на част својим хирурзима и по завршетку операција добила је велику похвалу од стране војводе Степановића. Поред тога, др Суботић је био одличан посмарач, систематичан и студиозан научни радник. Својим успесима у раду и саопштењима стекао је глас ванредног ратног хирурга, јер је био покретач и носилац епохе савремене хирургије у нас. Није случајно изабран у то време за члана Друштва ратних хирурга САД и Енглеске.

Идеја за оснивање Медицинског факутлета у Београду потекла је још давне 1898. када је Народна скупштина Краљевине Србије донела одлуку да се Велика школа у Београду подигне на степен универзитета. На основу израђеног пројекта комисије из састава СКА и Велике школе, тек законом из 1905. ова промена је извршена, али Медицински факултет у то време није отпочео са радом. Међутим, уз меморандум Српског лекарског друштва, тадашња влада је одредила комисиу у саставу: др Милана Јовановића, др Војислава Суботића и др Ђорђа Јоановића, да израде Нацрт оргнизације будућег Медицинског факултета. Ова акција уродила је плодом и маја 1914. Народна скупштина Краљевине Србије донела одлуку о отварању Медицинског факутлета. Први светски рат је омео извођење овог плана и тек по завршетку рата 20. фебруара 1920. је почело админстративно функционисање Медицинског факултета у Београду.

После дугогодишњег и напорног рада др Суботић је поставио темеље прве хируршке литературе у нас и постао отац не смао српске хирургије, него целокупне опративне медицине. Због својих заслуга, изабран је 1919. за редовног професора хирургије. За првог декана новооснованог факутлета изабран је проф. др Милан Јовановић Батут, а први продекан постао је проф. др Суботић. Следеће, 1921. он је изабран за декана. Његов избор за декана, утицао је на оживљавање свих делатности Медицинског факултета. У исто време је основао и Прву хируршку клинику, чији је први директор био лично он.

За допринос медицинској науци и хируршкој пракси проф. др Војислав Суботић је за живота добио највише награде, одликовања и признања. Поред наведеног био је члан Француског, Немачког и Међународног хируршког друштва, Пештанског лекарског друштва, као и члан члан Париске академије медицине. Међутим, највећа награда му је била, како је сам једанпут рекао, поштовање и љубав његових ђака. Др Суботић је преминуо децембра 1923. у Београду у 64. години живота.

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У периоду 1886—1925 објавио је укупно 36 стручних научних радова, од чега се 20 налази у домаћој стручној литератури. Његов први рад Хирургија, цртице из Бугарско-српског рата из 1886. године у Загребу, описује обраду преко 350 рањеника са антисептичким методама, које су у то време биле оспораване од стране конзервативних лекара.

Легат породице
Заоставштина породице Суботић поклоњена је Музеју града Београда 1975. године. Састоји се од 56 предмета везаних већином за Војислава Суботића, његовог старијег брата Дејана по чину генерал-потпуковника и родоначелника породице др Јована Суботића, српског правника, филозофа и књижевника. Године 1986. Музеју су поклоњени породични албуми, генеалогија и друга породична документа.

Никола Тесла и др Суботић
У 108. писму у књизи "Никола Тесла преписка са родбином", Марица Косановић, сестра Николе Тесле, пише да је у лето 1912. др Суботић био код Николе Тесле у визити. Њен син Милутин је доктор медицине и отишао је помоћу браће у Србију, због рата 1912, а примио га је др Суботић. Суботић му је причао о ујаку, а и самог Милутина су изванредно примили у Београду због славног ујака.

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Jordan - October, 2018PSF Spain
The tour aimed to spread laughter through clown and circus performances among the refugee children and their communities in the Azraq Camp.
Jordan - April, 2018CWB UK
The "International Syrian Circus" was set up by ten young adults from Syria to alleviate the boredom they felt whilst at Za'atari. They want clowns to be in their circus so they asked if we could help. Of...
Jordan - November, 2017PSF Spain
PSF Spain went to Jordan and performed artistic shows to support refugees from Syria.
Jordan - March, 2017CWB Ireland
The shows were arranged mainly for children in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan comprised of Syrian refugees with a mixture of people from Iraq, Iran, Afganistan, Palestine, Somalia and Jordan.
Jordan - April, 2016CWB Ireland
In April 2016, Clowns Without Borders Ireland did a performance tour of UNHCR camps and children's projects in Jordan.
In November 2016, Clowns Without Borders Spain traveled to Jordania to support the many refugees living in the country.
Jordan - January, 2015CUG Sweden
In January 2015, Clowns Without Borders Sweden planned a tour in Jordan, but once the team arrived a large snow storm and bad weather hit all of the middle east. This led to all of the original shows (except for one)...
In April 2015, Clowns Without Borders Ireland did a performance tour of UNHCR camps in Jordan and a project with the children.
Jordan - July, 2015PSF Spain
In July 2015, Clowns Without Borders Spain went to Jordan and performed 19 shows for 2420 people.
Jordan - January, 2014CWB Ireland
In January 2014, Clowns Without Borders Ireland traveled to Jordan. The children targeted were Syrian Refugees. They performed 16 shows in 9 venues. They were hosted by refugee camps and community centres. In total...
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Pre-entries are accepted the day before the race. Late entries are accepted at the start from 06h00 onwards. Para-cyclists enjoy a reduced entry fee for all distances.
This is a challenging and scenic ride in the West Rand. First the route goes west of Krugersdorp and then brings you back over the demanding hills near the Krugersdorp Game Reserve.
This race will be held for the 16th time in 2019. The Mogale Spring Cycle Race's sole beneficiary is the WRAPD or West Rand Association for Persons with Disabilities, providing services to approximately 600 disabled persons on the West Rand. An annual fete is held in conjunction with the race.


Would love a simpler way to enter rates instead of having to set up seasons/dates and then rates. A downloadable excel or CSV file that could be manipulated and uploaded would be wonderful. Or even just something simpler like selecting the dates then entering the weekly, nightly, minimum stay, turnover day all on one screen would be preferred. As of now I have to create multiple "seasons" then the rates and filter by property (filter then gets reset each time I enter something). It's currently extremely time consuming and cumbersome especially to make changes.
We actually do have a rates download/upload now!
We haven't broadly announced it, but if you look at bottom of the Tools menu there is a Export Rates/Seasons to Excel and Import Rates/Seasons from Excel.
Let me know if you've got any questions on that.
Just used this to import 2 new listings from VRBO - looks like it successfully imported all of the content from VRBO including pictures, what a huge time saver!!


An audiometry evaluation is a painless, noninvasive hearing test that measures a person's ability to hear different sounds, pitches, or frequencies. It is also used to evaluate whether hearing aids or surgery may improve one's hearing. The test is performed by an audiologist.
There is no special preparation required for the test. It's best to remain still and quiet during the test so that an accurate recording can be made. The test carries no risks.


We are a professional electrical services company serving the Greater Vancouver and lower mainland since 2003. Our electricians are fully trained and certified to ensure our services meet all the standard electrical building code requirements. Santec Electric provides top quality fair priced electrical services, maintenance and repairs for residential and commercial customers.


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Theodore Frelinghuysen, né le  et mort le , est un avocat, président d'université et une personnalité politique américaine.

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Theodore Frelinghuysen, né le , diplômé du college du New Jersey en 1804, est admis au barreau en 1808. Pendant la guerre de 1812, il commande une compagnie de volontaires et, en 1829, il est élu sénateur des États-Unis. Il est nommé chancelier de l'université de New York en 1838; est nommé vice-président des États-Unis en 1844; et en 1850 devient président de l'université Rutgers. Il meurt le .

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Naissance en mars 1787
Décès en avril 1862
Personnalité politique américaine
Maire aux États-Unis
Avocat américain du XIXe siècle
Étudiant de l'université de Princeton
Sénateur des États-Unis pour le New Jersey
Décès à 75 ans


I called it! From the get go I said it was going to be a boy and it is! Now, I'd have been just as excited and still completely in love with my child even if it turned out to be a girl, but I'm mainly just excited 'cause I was right! I called it!
If you want to see some updated sonogram pictures you can checkout Rachel's MySpace Page, and go to her pictures. She posted some up there.
Ok, oops… So I didn't realize you had to have a MySpace account to view the pics.


The money raised from the USA Hockey Special Hockey Classic is going to The Friendship Circle and Achieva. We can't thank them enough for the wonderful things they do!
It only takes Israel 30 seconds to respond and we're tied at 1!
Greg Malone, Brett Keisel Neil Walker and Matt Spaeth are ready to go!
Some great silent auctions items are available tonight too!
Coming to the game? Stop by and get some awesome apparel! T-shirts are $25, kids baseball tees are $30, adults are $35 and hoodies are $60.


I've been using Linux for the past 20 years. Around 2000 I switched permanently to Linux, dual-booting into Windows when necessary. Linux has been good to me – I cannot recall ever catching a virus or other malware, or facing an unrecoverable system crash. There has always been a way to recover my personal data.
I am using virtualization under Linux out of necessity, in order to run my photo editing software that wasn't/isn't available under Linux. Back in 2012 I first used Xen to run Windows 7 on Linux Mint, then in 2015 I switched to KVM and Windows 10.
I've written two "HOW-TO make dual-boot obsolete using VGA passthrough". These tutorials describe how to run a Windows virtual machine on Linux without performance degradation. The tutorials have drawn several hundred thousand readers over at the Linux Mint forum.
I'm now hosting my latest tutorial here. You are welcome to join my Virtualization Forum, where you can post questions or suggestions related to Windows virtualization on Linux. Don't forget to register!
I love taking photos, particularly landscape and cityscape photos as well as some street photography. Here you find photos of Israel and other places I've visited. Hope you enjoy.
In the future I intent to post some reviews on photo gear, too.
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One of the many stories relating to the way that Ludchurch acquired its name is thought to stem from a man called Walter de Lud Auk, who was a Lollard, this meant that he wanted to worship God in his own way, free from the restrictions of the established church.
Walter and his followers worshipped out of doors and chose this ancient chasm to perform their religious ceremonies in. In this time gone by it would have been illegal not to attend established church services, and to perform your own church service would have been strictly illegal, this is probably why this isolated spot would have been chosen, well away from prying eyes and the authorities. Sometimes Walter and his followers would actually live in Ludchurch during the summer months using it as a base to spread their doctrines among the local people, while food would have been brought to them by Henrich Montair the Head Forester, and also a believer in Walter's doctrines.
Though many searches were made for them, the forest was so dense in those days, and so large, that the chasm remained well concealed and undetected so they were able to continue worshiping for many years.
It was one summers afternoon when Walter and his followers were assembled in Ludchurch to perform a service, Walter, who was now seventy years old, and although white haired did not look his age, stood straight and impressive as he delivered his sermon on an elevated mound in the upper part of Ludchurch.
Walters Sermon Mound?
There were fourteen people in attendance that day, including Walter's granddaughter Alice de Lud Auk, whose parents had died when she was an infant, and who had been raised by Walter, and often accompanied him on his religious activities. She was about eighteen years old, tall slim and attractive, and had been blessed with a beautiful singing voice. It was after a short prayer had been said, and during the first hymn that was being sung that tragedy struck, for it was during a lull in the singing and the fact that Alice continued to sing, that soldiers who were nearby were alerted to their presence. The soldiers rushed through the entrance of the chasm shouting, "Yield in the name of the blessed church, and his most gracious King Henry". The Lollards went to seize their weapons, but stopped when commanded to do so by Walter, all obeyed with the exception of Heinrich Montair the head Forester, who was a giant of a man, he grabbed the first soldier and threw him with such force into the other soldiers that they were forced back towards the entrance.
While this was going on one of the soldiers levelled his Arquebus (gun) at the forester and fired, just missing his head, he heard a scream from behind him, and turning saw Alice in the arms of her Grandfather, dying from a bullet wound to her chest. On seeing what had happened to Alice, the forester went beserk slashing at the approaching soldiers until his attention was drawn to a low sound emanating from the chasm, it was the death chant of the Lollards, expressing their grief at the loss of one of their brethren, and after this day the songs of the Lollards would never echo against the walls of Ludchurch ever again.
Walter de Lud Auk carried his Granddaughter, and followed by the Lollards they buried Alice a few yards from the entrance to the chasm where an Oak tree now grows, after praying over her grave Walter and the other Lollards gave themselves up to the soldiers.
An Oak tree marks the possible spot of Alice's grave.
Whilst on their way to London under guard, the forester hatched a plan for them all to escape, but Walter and his followers refused to go along with it, however Walter wanted the forester to escape and deliver important papers to France. Heinrich managed to do this and he stayed in France until the invasion by the English forces to which he joined. As to Walters followers, some were sent to prison for a while, others were pardoned, and as to what happened to Walter, it is assumed he died in prison.
Photographs by Gary Tacagni.
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Not so much his own way, but in God's way. Which has a varied dispensation, and exclusive Protestant piety. They wanted to topple the church and state for what was to later be Reformation purposes. Many Lollards were dominionist, and for a church and state relation. Others wanted to distance themselves from such institutions, in my understanding. This is the reality of Protestantism–with or without state application–that believers by rite of stewardship call the heavens upon this earthly plane to temper the World.
Maximus Anglicanus: The Old High Churchman said this on	November 20, 2013 at 7:27 am | Reply


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The Pasha Bulker ran aground amid the full force of an East Coast Low back in 2007. AAP Image/Dean Lewins
Nine years after the Pasha Bulker storm, we're finally getting a handle on East Coast Lows
Acacia Pepler, UNSW
Acacia Pepler
PhD student, UNSW
Acacia Pepler receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Eastern Seaboard Climate Change Initiative is spearheaded by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, and involves researchers from the Bureau of Meteorology, the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University and the University of Newcastle. The research was funded in part by the NSW Environmental Trust, NSW Department of Finance and Services, Hunter Water, and the Australian Research Council.
UNSW provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.
In June 2007, Australia was pummelled by five East Coast Lows. The most significant of them, which struck on June 8-9, is still referred to as the "Pasha Bulker" storm, after the 76,000-tonne bulk carrier that ran aground near Newcastle. The storm caused major flooding, strong winds, high seas and A$1.6 billion in damage, making it Australia's eighth most expensive disaster in the last 50 years.
East Coast Lows (ECLs) have been important features of the eastern seaboard for centuries, with the first case studies published back in 1954. But by June 2007 it had been ten years since the last serious scientific look at these storms. The damage suffered that month made it clear how much we still didn't know about these weather systems, let alone about how they might behave in the future.
Instead of a whole bunch of scientists going off and doing their own thing, we formed the Eastern Seaboard Climate Change Initiative, in which local universities and state and federal governments could work together to identify the biggest scientific questions for the eastern seaboard, and start to solve them.
Nine years and a slew of research papers later, we know a lot more about ECLs than we once did. We have built a strong research network that can expand our knowledge still further and put it into practice. Today, a special issue of the Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science highlights some of the things we've learned.
What do we know?
There are seven papers in the special issue, covering a broad range of topics.
Danielle Verdon-Kidd and her colleagues look back at the Pasha Bulker storm and reflect on the scale of the impacts, as well as issues for future flood planning, such as improved education about the dangers of entering floodwaters.
A group from the Bureau of Meteorology (including myself) has also developed a new online database of East Coast Lows over the past 60 years, to help emergency managers look back on the impacts of past storms or find out how many of the big events they remember were actually ECLs.
Going back still further, Stuart Browning and Ian Goodwin have looked at what sorts of ocean and atmospheric conditions influence East Coast Lows, as these storms tend not to be as strongly affected by big climate drivers such as La Niña. This research has helped to extend the record of East Coast Lows back to the 19th century and found that the numbers of ECLs can vary quite a lot over decades and longer. Interestingly, the past few decades (up to 2014) have been a period of relatively low activity.
Stormy times: the Sydney suburb of Collaroy bore the brunt of an East Coast Low in June. AAP/UNSW Water Research Laboratory
Anthony Kiem and his colleagues have delved into the question of how coastal rainfall patterns and impacts can change, depending on the "type" of ECL that happens. This work, as well as the work by Browning and Goodwin, highlights how important it is to consider the different types of East Coast Lows – a storm that causes heavy rain in the Northern Rivers looks very different to one that brings downpours to Gippsland, and these might also change in different ways over time. This teases out important detail that can be washed out in studies that lump all storms in together.
Before we can use climate models to assess how East Coast Lows and their impacts may change on the eastern seaboard, we need to know whether our models are doing a good job. So Alejandro Di Luca and colleagues have assessed how well the NARCliM regional climate model ensemble is able to represent East Coast Lows. They found that regional models have real benefits over global climate models, particularly for the most extreme events.
Despite these promising results, studies led by Nadeeka Parana Manage and Natalie Lockart found that there is still a way to go before the regional models produce data of the quality needed for simulating river flows and dam levels, and how future changes to storm patterns might affect these.
We know a lot more than we did nine years ago about things like how the upper atmosphere influences East Coast Lows, and how severe floods and East Coast Lows have changed over the past century. We are also starting to get a handle on how they may change in the future. Climate change is expected to reduce their frequency during the cool months May-October (which is when they currently happen most often), but potentially make them more common during the warmer months.
But there are still a lot of things we don't know. The papers in this issue are a start, but research continues and our group has many more questions left to answer. These include how ECLs have changed in the more distant past; how sea surface temperatures influence their frequency and impacts; and how changes in ECLs and other climate processes can affect our water security.
A whole bunch of research is also about to start into how ECLs interact with other climate extremes now and into the future, as part of the NSW Government's Climate Change Impacts and Extreme Climate Events research programs and the Australian government's National Environmental Science Program.
So read the articles, have a taste and watch this space: there are still many more questions and researchers from around the country are working together to answer them, to help us better understand the special, complex climate of the eastern seaboard of Australia.
East Coast Low


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Schweninger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Dietmar Schweninger, Austrian para-alpine skier
 Ernst Schweninger (1850–1924), German physician and naturopath
 Loren Schweninger (born 1942), history professor and author
 Rosa Schweninger (1849–1918), Austrian painter


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'Stitched together': A bold new look for the 130-year-old home of a former Sydney lord mayor
By Stephen Crafti
November 26, 2021 — 11.24am
The former Sydney home of Thomas Playfair has been beautifully stitched together by architecture studio Tzannes, leaving each of its parts with its own voice.
While many architects add new wings to historic buildings simply by copying the past, some of the finest additions to period structures take a considerably bolder approach.
Constructed with hundreds of bricks, each one turned out to express its profile, the highly textured form simply encloses a stairwell and a bathroom. Credit:Brett Boardman
Playfair's home - he was Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1885 and later became a member of Parliament - is one such example.
Located on the corner of Ridge and West streets in North Sydney, Playfair's impressive three-level home, built around 1891, was at the end of a row of seven two-storey terraces.
While it may have once shone on its prominent corner, by the time Tzannes inspected the property, it was in a fairly sad state. Even the wrought-iron balustrades that wrapped around two sides of the balcony were faux.
Even within the original footprint, there's a clear distinction between what is new and what isn't. Credit:Brett Boardman
"It was in a state of decay and needed immediate attention," says architect Alec Tzannes, whose team worked closely with heritage architect Stephen Davis from Urbis.
The building, used as offices by an investment company, was meticulously restored in some areas and updated in others.
The impressive rooms within the original home are now individual offices where clients can meet privately.
There's also a slightly English-style reception area/lounge (think high-back armchairs) for more informal meetings, complete with a concealed kitchen tucked away behind a curvaceous timber wall.
"We were fortunate that some of the building's features, such as the ornate timber staircase were intact and hadn't been painted," says Tzannes.
However, even within the original footprint, there's a clear distinction between what is new and what isn't.
Some of the doors, for example, are lined in fabric and have contemporary handles.
Other aspects, such as the ground floor windows facing West Street, are new but faithful to the shuttered Victorian-style windows directly above.
Some areas, such as the open plan office on the first floor, have a foot in both camps: the open plan workstations occupy what would have been an original room, complete with period detailing, while the new kitchenette is of today.
Between the two is a generous skylight that extends the length of the passage that offers views of the sky and vignettes of the old chimneys.
While Playfair would be delighted with the fine restoration, architecture and design buffs would certainly be impressed with the latest addition.
Constructed with hundreds of bricks, each one turned out to express its profile, the highly textured form to the rear simply encloses a stairwell and a bathroom.
Given its location on the northern edge of the property and bordering a lane to the company's car park, this is an unusual and quite radical solution.
However, when one sees the way the natural light circles this two-level brick column, only a couple of metres wide, one fully understands the reasoning behind it – magical to say the least.
Slightly elevated above ground level, also on bricks but with a smooth base, it prevents cars turning the corner to reach the car park from causing any damage to the artistry of the carefully arranged bricks.
It's also not simply a folly to slow down traffic, as the brief noted the requirement for additional entrances to the offices (now three in total including the original front door that leads directly to a boardroom).
"This means that people can use the boardroom independently of the offices and those arriving by car can simply come in without walking through the middle of an office," says Tzannes.
For those wanting an architectural experience, the corbelled brick tower is the obvious choice.
For those who are in two minds about adding a contemporary extension to a heritage-listed building or even one that's located in a heritage precinct, they would be well advised to take a look at the Ridge Street office.
It still retains that polite and genteel ambience that marked a fine residence.
But it also suggests what can be achieved when put into the right hands!
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Infidel Art è il secondo album in studio del gruppo musicale giapponese Sigh, pubblicato nel 1995 dalla Cacophonous Records.

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Mirai Kawashima – voce, basso, tastiere
Shinichi Ishikawa – chitarra
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Walk played at the entrance of The Artists Among Us, the tribute to Burchfield-Penney Art Center members that was our last major exhibition in Rockwell Hall. In it, Knowles documents a span of time during which she and her cat undergo positive and negative changes in their lives. It has been shown at a number of film festivals, including 20th Annual Dallas Film & Video Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (PDX Fest), the KLEX Festival in Kuala Lumpur, and won Best Experimental FIlm at the 34th Athens International Film & Video Festival, as well as in other settings like the Little Theater in Rochester, the Detroit Film Center, Pacific Cinematheque, the Women's Film Festival at the Market Arcade in Lockport, NY, among others.
Meg Knowles is an internationally recognized, award-winning documentary filmmaker and videographer who also is an associate professor of media production in the communication department of Buffalo State College. Among her many affiliations, she has been a member since 2002 of the Termite TV Collective with Dorothea Braemer, Carl Lee, Mike Kuetemeyer, and Anula Shetty. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College, 1982; M.A.H. in Media Study and Art History from the University at Buffalo, 1994; and M.F.A. in Film-Media Arts from Temple University, 2002.


(November 2012) – For more than 30 years the Nights Before Christmas Candlelight Tour of Homes has been welcoming area residents and guests to take a look inside Madison, Ind., residences, churches and buildings. Visitors enjoy the festive decorations and can get a glimpse into Christmases past as many of the historic sites take care to decorate according to the traditions of the homes' earliest residences.
• Dates: Nov. 23-25; Nov. 30-Dec. 1 in Madison, Ind.
• Organizing Sponsor: VisitMadison Inc.
• The Koleeta Tonkin House, 214 Baltimore St.
• St. John's United Church of Christ, 501 E. Main St.
• Schussler House, 514 Jefferson St.
• The Shrewsbury-Windle House, 301 W. First St.
• The Kirk-Webster-Dorsey House, 613 W. Main St.
• The Lanier Mansion, 511 W. First St.
• Jefferson County Historical Society, Heritage Center, 615 W. First St.
• The Gayle and Brenda Liter House, 916 W. Main St.
• The President's Residence at Hanover College, 554 College Ave., Hanover College Campus.
• The Crowe-Garritt House, 172 E. Crowe St.
• Eggleston School, 419 East St.
This year's tour takes place over the weekends of Nov. 23-24 and Nov. 24-Dec. 1. The tour features 11 private homes and historic buildings and three hospitality sites. Tour hours are 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays, and 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays. The tour, organized annually by VisitMadison Inc., has been expanded this year to include two stops in nearby Hanover. Among them is a unique peek into history with the addition of the the 1824 Crowe-Garritt house, 172 E. Crowe St. It stands as an important piece of history to the Hanover community and college and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The structure is not only the second oldest house in Hanover, but it also served as home to the founder of Hanover College, John Finley Crowe, and as the first post office for the small town.
Keach recalled a story often told about its famous original owner. College founder and pastor Crowe had a son who "married out of favor." He says that Crowe disapproved of the match, and "he wouldn't turn them out, but he didn't want to make things too comfortable for them." So Crowe's son and his new bride were given quarters in the dirt floor basement.
For the first 94 years of the home's existence, it remained in the Crowe family, first owned by John Finley Crowe and later his son-in-law, Dr. Joshua Bolles Garritt. During that time, the house served not only a beloved family residence but also a gathering place for alumni when they returned for visits and reunions.
The house eventually passed out of the family, and in 1979 the historic property faced demolition. Former Hanover faculty member Robert Ireland stepped in to help save the property, and a group of Hanover residences formed the non-profit Friends of the John Finley Crowe House.
"They started and what they did was they sold shares for $50 a share. When we came up with extra money, we would buy a share or two," Keach recalls.
When renovation plans called for a portion of the home to be torn down, the Keach family pledged the money to preserve it intact. In light of the family's support of the renovation project, Keach and his late wife, Serena, were given the option to purchase the property and they wound up completing the renovations and moving in to the house in 1984.
"It's a labor of love. There's a lot of blood, sweat and tears in this house," Keach says.
College is on the National Registry.
In addition to having a love of historic preservation, the Keach family also holds strong Hanover ties. Both Paul and Serena were graduates of the college, and Paul's father taught there for about 30 years.
A second stop in Hanover will be the home of Hanover College President Dr. Sue DeWine and her husband, Mike. It is located at 554 College Ave. Constructed in 1952, the current President's Home was a gift to the President from William H. Donner, an alumnus who tragically died just one year after its completion.
The tour also includes several stops in downtown Madison and three hospitality sites along the route.
The Madison sites include the Lanier Mansion State Historic Site and the Jefferson County Historical Society's Heritage Center, featuring a model train display by the Hanover Model Train Club.
She says that many families use the tour as a way to kick off their own holiday season and will bring in family and guests from out of town to enjoy the sights.
Jones said she expects the event to draw between 2,500 and 3,000 guests. She said it takes about 200 volunteers to staff the private homes over the tour weekends, and she invites area residents who are interested in taking part to contact her to learn how to get involved. While the historic sites provide their own staff and volunteers to serve as guides, the individual homes require hosts to welcome visitors and share information about the houses.
Tickets are $13.50 and may be picked up at the Lanier-Madison Visitors Center, 601 W. First St. When picking up their tickets, guests are also invited to enjoy the return of the Great Cookie Caper and pick up a box of homemade cookies with proceeds benefiting the Big Brothers, Big Sisters organization.


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He lives with his mother, Demi, in his family's house, which he inherited from his father along with the family fortune. He only eats sweets and has 3 chefs on staff at his house. One is dedicated to pastries, one to candy, and one to desserts. He has candy cane columns in the foyer of his house. They're actually candy canes. He made his mother get rid of her dog because it kept licking the candy cane columns and endangering the structural stability of the house, which was already fairly endangered with Fructo's massive weight walking upstairs.
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Within the last week and a half, I saw two movies that rank among the best I've ever seen: Slumdog Millionaire and Defiance. Slumdog, as you probably know by now, is about an orphan from Mumbai who, in the process of fleeing starvation, murder, and the gouging out of his eyes, picks up enough trivia to go on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and answer almost every question correctly. (It's about 100 times better than the premise makes it sound.) Defiance tells the true story of the Bielski brothers in Belorussia (where most of my family is from), who fled to the forest when the Jews were rounded up in December 1941, and eventually organized the largest Jewish resistance operation of the war.
On thinking it over, I was surprised to realize I liked these two seemingly-unrelated movies for the same reasons. Let me try to break down what made them good:
Both draw their emotional punch from reality. Almost everything in Defiance happened. Slumdog, while fictional, is (amazingly) the first Western blockbuster I can think of about modern India—a place where 21st-century communication, entertainment, and industry coexist with 16th-century squalor, and everyone acts as if that's normal. (If you haven't been there, the anarchic street scenes might strike you as obviously exaggerated for effect. They aren't.)
Both tell wildly-improbable tales of bare physical survival. Survival stories aren't just the best for keeping you in your seat: they also provide a useful reminder that your beliefs about politics and human nature might be badly distorted by the contingent facts that you have enough to eat and that armed thugs aren't trying to kill you. (I tried to think of a phrase to summarize my political philosophy, and came up with "liberal pessimist pragmatist rationalist of an unsentimental kind." Slumdog and Defiance both explain this concept better than I could.)
Even as they starve, sleep in the rain, and flee their would-be killers, the protagonists in both movies pursue goals beyond just staying alive—which is what lets us identify with them so strongly. Jamal Malik appears on a game show to win the beautiful Latika. Tuvia Bielski risks his life to exact revenge on the police officer who killed his parents. Days after losing their families to the Nazis, the young women who arrive at the Bielski settlement are weighing which of the men to offer themselves to as "forest wives."
Both movies use visuals in the service of a story rather than vice versa. When Spielberg filmed Schindler's List in black and white (save for the famous girl in red), reviewers were full of praise: what a profound artistic statement he must've been making! The result, though, was that people saw the Holocaust the same way they'd seen it everywhere else: as something from some remote, incomprehensible black-and-white past. But Defiance, like The Pianist, denies you the luxury of a visual remove—as if to say, "this is how it was. It's part of the same universe you live in right now. It's not even particularly incomprehensible, if you choose to comprehend it."
Both movies indulge the audience in what it already knows about the respective cultures. Slumdog features hilarious scenes at the Taj Mahal and a call center, and ends with a tongue-in-cheek Bollywood dance number. Defiance portrays the "malbushim" (the Bielskis' derisive term for intellectuals) arguing and quoting Talmud as they starve in the woods. It's as if, instead of telling you that the stereotypes you came in with are false, these movies say "and so what if they're true?"
Both movies have been criticized as "simplistic"—a word that seems to mean "too clear or comprehensible for polite company," and that I've found to be an almost-perfect marker for things that I'm going to like or agree with. Even as the plots add on layers of complexity—sibling rivalries, uneasy alliances, unconsummated love—the dialogue is always straightforward enough that even a borderline Aspberger's case like myself could follow what was going on without difficulty.
Despite a backdrop of blood and tears on a continent-wide scale—which the audience knows full well is real, not fictional—both movies end up joyous and uplifting. Lots of bad guys get blown to pieces, while the good guys you most care about live. Is such uplift "glib," "problematic," or even "simplistic"? Well, what's the point of going to a movie in the first place? I want to walk away feeling that the inherent injustice of the universe can be successfully defied, that I need not apologize for taking comparatively benign steps to solve the comparatively trivial problems in my own life. I want my $10's worth.
The arc of complexity is long, but it bends toward lower bounds
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
As MIT grad student Jelani Nelson rightly pointed out to me, an historic world event took place on Tuesday, January 20—an event that many of us have awaited for decades, one that we thought we'd never live to see—and I inexcusably failed my readers by neglecting to blog about it. The event in question, as everyone knows, was Mark Braverman posting to his web page what looks to be a proof of the Linial-Nisan Conjecture. The LN conjecture, posed in 1990, held that
Polylog-wise independence fools AC0.
Alright, let me try again in English. The conjecture says that no logic circuit, composed of a polynomial number of AND, OR, and NOT gates (of unbounded fan-in) arranged in a constant number of layers, can distinguish n input bits x1,…,xn that are truly random, from n input bits that look random on every subset of (say) n0.001 bits, but that could be correlated in arbitrary ways across larger scales. In other words, if such a circuit accepts truly random bits with probability close to 1, then it also accepts the pseudorandom bits with probability close to 1, and vice versa. If you want to distinguish the random bits from the pseudorandom bits with noticeable bias, then you need a more powerful kind of circuit: either greater depth (say, log(n) layers instead of O(1)), or more gates (say, exponentially many), or more powerful gates (say, XOR or MAJORITY gates instead of just AND, OR, and NOT). To a constant-depth, polynomial-size, AND/OR/NOT circuit (which we call an AC0 circuit for short—don't ask why), local randomness looks just the same as global randomness. Or so says the Linial-Nisan Conjecture.
Now, we've known since the eighties that AC0 circuits have serious limitations. In particular, we've known lots of specific pseudorandom distributions that fool them. What Linial and Nisan conjectured, and Braverman appears to have proved, is that any distribution will do the job, just so long as it "looks random locally."
A year and a half ago, Bazzi proved the Linial-Nisan conjecture in the special case of depth-two circuits, in a 64-page tour de force. Then Razborov gave an essentially 2-page proof of the same result. (Need I explain how awesome that is?) Braverman extends Bazzi's result to circuits of any constant depth; his proof is almost as short as Razborov's.
In proving these lower bounds, the name of the game is the polynomial method (the subject of my FOCS tutorial). Given an AC0 circuit C, you first construct a low-degree real polynomial that approximates C pretty well on most inputs. (How do you construct such a thing? And what does "pretty well" mean? Save it for the comments section.) Then you observe that no low-degree polynomial could possibly distinguish a random string from a string that only looks random locally. Why? Because a low-degree polynomial, by definition, is a sum of local terms, and if none of those individual terms can distinguish truly random bits from pseudorandom ones (as was assumed), then their sum can't distinguish them either, by the deep principle of the universe we call linearity of expectation. (By contrast, an AND or OR of terms could in principle detect "global" properties of the input that none of the individual terms detected—which is why we couldn't just apply such an argument to the AC0 circuit directly.) It follows, then, that the original circuit couldn't have distinguished local randomness from global randomness very well either, which is what we wanted to show.
So everything boils down to constructing these low-degree approximating polynomials and proving they have the right properties. And in that context, what Braverman does is almost hilariously simple. Given an AC0 circuit C, he first constructs a low-degree polynomial p that agrees with C on most inputs (from whatever fixed probability distribution you want), using the celebrated method of Valiant-Vazirani and Razborov-Smolensky. He then observes that, when p fails to agree with C, there's another AC0 circuit E, of depth slightly greater than C, that detects the failure. Next he finds a low-degree polynomial q that approximates E in L2-norm, using the also-celebrated 1993 theorem of Linial-Mansour-Nisan. Then he looks at p(1-q), and shows that it's a polynomial that usually agrees with C, but when it does disagree, usually isn't too far off. And then … well, at that point he's really almost done.
While I had no involvement whatsoever with this beautiful result, I'm pleased to have unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that led to it. Since the summer, I've been trying to get as many lowerbounderati as possible interested in BQP versus PH, a central open problem of quantum complexity theory that's resisted progress since the prehistoric days of 1993. (There are certain problems that I mentally classify as "rabbits," after the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. BQP vs. PH is one of the fluffiest, most adorable rabbits ever to leap for my throat.)
Concretely, the goal has been to construct an oracle relative to which BQP (Bounded-Error Quantum Polynomial-time, the class of problems that are feasible for a quantum computer) is not contained in PH (the Polynomial-time Hierarchy, a generalization of NP). Such a separation would give us probably our best evidence to date that BQP is not contained in NP—or loosely speaking, that not only can quantum computers solve certain problems exponentially faster than classical ones, they can solve certain problems exponentially faster than classical computers can even verify the answers.
(NerdNote: We do have oracles relative to which BQP⊄NP, and indeed BQP⊄MA. But we still don't have an oracle relative to which BQP⊄AM. And that sticks in the craw, since we know that AM=NP under a derandomization hypothesis.)
Now, it occurred to me that BQP versus PH is closely related to the Linial-Nisan Conjecture. That's not quite as surprising as it sounds, since you can think of PH as the "exponentially scaled-up version" of AC0 … so that fighting PH ultimately boils down to fighting AC0.
Alright, so consider the following problem, which we'll call Fourier Checking. You're given black-box access to two Boolean functions f,g:{-1,1}n→{-1,1}, and are promised that either
f and g were both generated uniformly at random (independently of each other), or
f and g were generated by first choosing a random 2n-dimensional unit vector v, then setting f(x)=sgn(vx) and g(x)=sgn((Hv)x), where H represents the Fourier transform over Z2n.
The problem is to decide which, with small probability of error.
It's not hard to see that Fourier Checking is in BQP (i.e., is efficiently solvable by a quantum computer). For to solve it, you just go into a uniform superposition over all x∈{-1,1}n, then query f, apply a Quantum Fourier Transform, query g, and see if you're left with (1) random garbage or (2) something close to the uniform superposition that you started with.
On the other hand, one can show that:
A certain generalization of Bazzi's Theorem (from "local randomness" to "local almost-randomness"—as usual, ask in the comments section) would imply that Fourier Checking is not in an important subclass of PH called AM (for "Arthur-Merlin"). And thus, we'd get an oracle relative to which BQP⊄AM.
The analogous generalization of the full Linial-Nisan Conjecture would imply that Fourier Checking is not in PH. And thus, we'd get our long-sought oracle relative to which BQP⊄PH.
After realizing the above, I tried for months to prove the requisite generalization of Bazzi's Theorem—or better yet, get someone else to prove it for me. But I failed. All I managed to do was to goad Razborov into proving his amazing 2-page version of Bazzi's original theorem, which in turn inspired Braverman to shoot for the full Linial-Nisan Conjecture.
In what appears to be a cosmic prank, about the only conjectures in this area that still haven't been proved are the ones I needed for the quantum computing problem. And thus, I will offer $100 for a proof that Fourier Checking is not in AM, $200 for a proof that it's not in PH. In so doing, my hope is to make Tuesday, January 20, 2009 remembered by all as the day our economy finally got back on track.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
In response to my (justified) kvetching about Vista in my last post, a commenter named Matt wrote in:
I hear there's some free operating system written by a guy from Finland. Sounds pretty crazy to me, but I hear you can just download it for free. Maybe you could have used that if you didn't like Vista?
Yes, I've heard of the OS by the guy from Finland, and even tried it. On introspection, though, my feelings about Windows are pretty much identical to my feelings about America: sure, it's big and bloated and crass and flawed and overcommercialized and buggy and insecure, and at least 95% of the insults that the sophisticates hurl at it are true. And other countries and OSes have a great deal to be said for them, and indeed I do spend much of my time visiting them. But this is home, dammit, it's where I was brought up, and things would have to get a lot worse before I'd consider moving away for good.
All I need, then, is the Windows analogue of Obama. Would that be the Windows 7 beta? (Vista, of course, being the Windows analogue of Bush?)
I've been suffering from terrible bronchitis for two weeks. I can barely talk. I had to cancel a planned colloquium. I'm not even gonna try to describe what I've been coughing up. The doctor couldn't figure out if it was viral or bacterial, but gave me antibiotics anyway.
My laptop broke, the day before I had to give my time travel talk at QIP'2009 in Santa Fe (if you want to know what actually happened at the conference, see Dave's blog or ask in the comments section). First the fan started acting up—causing the machine to overheat and shut itself off whenever the computations got too complex; then the 'G' and 'H' keys became unreliable; and finally the hard disk went, taking much of my data along with it (though I recovered the most important stuff). So I ran out and bought a new Toshiba laptop, which of course came preinstalled with Vista, which is not just said by everyone to suck but truly does suck. (Though if you spend a day disabling all the new features, you can make it almost like XP.)
On the flight back to Boston from Santa Fe, the pressure drop during the descent, combined with my bronchitis, sent my ears into pain for days.
The shitty economy is no longer just an abstraction, as friends and close family members have lost their jobs. I, the starving quantum complexity theorist, now feel like one of the last people I know with an income. (Though MIT, like other universities, has lost much of its endowment and now faces serious hardships as well.)
But it's all OK, because the competent guy is president now—even if he flubbed his Oath of Office (update: it seems most of the fault lies with Roberts (another update: Steven Pinker theorizes that the problem was Roberts's reluctance to split an infinitive)). He's gonna fix everything. Just give him a day or two.
Happy Barackday, everyone!
The T vs. HT (Truth vs. Higher Truth) problem
From a predictably-interesting article by Freeman Dyson in Notices of the AMS (hat tip to Peter Woit):
The mathematicians discovered the central mystery of computability, the conjecture represented by the statement P is not equal to NP. The conjecture asserts that there exist mathematical problems which can be quickly solved in individual cases but cannot be solved by a quick algorithm applicable to all cases. The most famous example of such a problem is the traveling salesman problem, which is to find the shortest route for a salesman visiting a set of cities, knowing the distance between each pair. All the experts believe that the conjecture is true, and that the traveling salesman problem is an example of a problem that is P but not NP. But nobody has even a glimmer of an idea how to prove it. This is a mystery that could not even have been formulated within the nineteenth-century mathematical universe of Hermann Weyl.
At a literal level, the above passage contains several howlers (I'll leave it to commenters to point them out), but at a "deeper" "poetic" level, Dyson happens to be absolutely right: P versus NP is the example par excellence of a mathematical mystery that human beings lacked the language even to express until very recently in our history.
Speaking of P versus NP, I'm currently visiting Sasha Razborov at his new home, the University of Chicago. (Yesterday we had lunch at "Barack's favorite pizza place", and walked past "Barack's favorite bookstore." Were they really his favorites? At a deeper poetic level, sure.)
One of the highlights of my trip was meeting Ketan Mulmuley for the first time, and talking with him about his geometric approach to the P vs. NP problem. Ketan comes across in person as an almost mythological figure, like a man who flew too close to the sun and was driven nearly to ecstatic obsession by what he saw. This is someone who'll explain to anyone in earshot, for as long as he or she cares to listen, that he's glimpsed the outlines of a solution of the P vs. NP problem in the far frontiers of mathematics, and it is beautiful, and it is elegant—someone who leaps from Ramanujan graphs to quantum groups to the Riemann Hypothesis over finite fields to circuit lower bounds in the space of a single sentence, as his hapless listener struggles to hold on by a fingernail—someone whose ideas seem to remain obstinately in limbo between incoherence and profundity, making just enough sense that you keep listening to them.
Now, I get emails every few months from people claiming to have proved P≠NP (not even counting the P=NP claimants). Without exception, they turn out to be hunting polar bears in the Sahara: they don't even grapple with natural proofs, or relativization, or algebrization, or the lower bounds/derandomization connection, or any the other stuff we know already about why the problem is hard. Ketan, by contrast, might be searching for polar bears with a kaleidoscope and trying to hunt them with a feather, but he's in the Arctic all right. I have no idea whether his program will succeed within my lifetime at uncovering any of the truth about the P vs. NP problem, but it at least clears the lower hurdle of reflecting some of the higher truth.
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W Kościele katolickim wspominany w grupie Siedmiu Apostołów Bułgarii dawniej 17 lipca, a w nowym Martyrologium Rzymskim 22 listopada, w prawosławiu 27 lipca lub 9 sierpnia.

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