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Signs of water on Saturn moon
Orbiting the moon, Cassini snapped high-resolution images of what appears to be the eruption of icy jets and giant water vapor plumes from geysers similar to those in the United States' Yellowstone Park.
"The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon," a NASA statement said.
Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said that NASA now has "the smoking gun" that may prove the existence of water on the moon.
"However, if we are right, we have significantly broadened the diversity of solar system environments where we might possibly have conditions suitable for living organisms," Ms Porco said.
Some scientists have said Enceladus should be added to the short list of places within the solar system most likely to have extraterrestrial life.
The findings were published in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
Not rushing to conclusions
A senior scientist at NASA's Astrobiology Institute, David Morrison, cautioned against rushing to judgment about whether the tiny moon could support life.
Scientists generally agree habitats need several ingredients for life to emerge, including water, a stable heat source and the right chemical recipe.
"It's certainly interesting, but I don't see how much more you can say beyond that," Mr Morrison said.
Scientists do believe Mars and Jupiter's icy moons might have, or once had, conditions hospitable to life.
Saturn is around 1,300 million kilometres from Earth. Enceladus measures 505 kilometres across and is the shiniest object in the solar system.
It was long thought to be cold and still. But scientists now believe it is a geologically active moon that possesses an unusually warm south pole.
The water is believed to vent from fissures in the south pole. Ms Porco said the venting has probably been going on for at least several thousand years, potentially providing a lasting heat source.
Cassini-Huygens mission
Cassini was launched in October 1997, carrying with it the European Space Agency's Huygens probe. Huygens separated from Cassini in December 2004 to land on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Cassini is on a four-year mission to survey the ringed giant and its satellites.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
New flag for Venezuela
On the flag the horse is galloping left instead of right and there is also an additional star, a bow and arrow representing Venezuela's indigenous people and a machete to represent the labor workers, among other changes.
Thousands of Chavez supporters and soldiers marched in a parade dedicated to the new flag as army helicopters and F-16 warplanes swooped overhead.
Floats, dancers and troops paraded past Mr Chavez, while his opponents held a small, boisterous march to protest the new flag.
Mr Chavez has been leading what he calls a "Bolivarian Revolution" to install socialism and help the poor.
As the symbol was hoisted he applauded and smiled as soldiers stood at attention at an outdoor ceremony marking the 200th anniversary of Venezuela's tri-colour flag.
"The white horse is now liberated, free, vigorous, trotting toward the left, representing the return of Bolivar and his dream," Mr Chavez said. "Long live the fatherland!"
Critics call the changes a waste of money. The new flag and coat of arms will eventually be adopted in the currency, passports and government documents.
When several Chavez supporters hung the new flag from light posts along the protest route, some opposition marchers pulled it down.
The two groups struggled over the flag, shouting, until police separated them. Opposition protesters held the old seven-starred flag, saying it will remain their national symbol.
Venezuela's solidly pro-Chavez National Assembly approved the new flag and coat of arms last week.
The horse on the coat of arms, which appears on the official flag's upper left corner, previously galloped right with its neck craning back the other way.
Mr Chavez has said the horse looked unnatural gazing backward, and historical drawings showed it was supposed to be running "freely to the left".
Many have suggested the horse's turnabout is simply a metaphor for Mr Chavez's politics.
Britain pulls troops from Iraq
British defence secretary John Reid told the House of Commons that there are now many more Iraqi forces ready to carry out duties performed until now by British troops.
He said there are about 235,000 members of the Iraqi security forces now trained and equipped with 5,000 more signing up each month.
British forces will still control operations for both their own troops and Iraqis for the time being, he said.
"But let me stress that the significant reductions I have announced are not part of the handover of security responsibilities to the Iraqis themselves…," he said.
A Joint Committee to Transfer Security Responsibility, involving coalition partners and Iraqis, will meet in the coming weeks to discuss whether conditions were right for some provinces to begin a full handover.
Ten percent of forces
The announcement marks a reduction of about 10 percent in British strength in Iraq. The country's troops are mainly based in Iraq's four southern provinces.
The date for a full pull-out of all US-led coalition troops from Iraq has been the source of much media speculation in Britain.
British Lieutenant General Nick Houghton told The Daily Telegraph earlier this month that Britain will withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by the middle of 2008 under a phased withdrawal that could begin within months.
Mr Reid played down fears of civil war and said that although violence had surged in some areas, particularly after the bomb attack on the Shia mosque in Samarra, north of Baghdad, there were pleas for calm from the leaders of Iraq's rival communities.
"Our analysis is that civil war is neither imminent nor inevitable," he added, after some commentators expressed concern that the violence could escalate into all-out conflict between Iraqi opposition groups.
He also reiterated his stance on Britain's presence in Iraq, stating: "We will stay as long as we are needed and wanted and until the job is done. Today marks another significant step in that direction."
Committed to Iraq
Britain continued to be "steadfastly" committed to Iraq and the coalition, he added.
Reaction to the announcement was mixed with Christopher Langton, from the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, saying that remaining forces were unlikely to be overstretched.
Troops were likely to be withdrawn from "softer areas" with fewer violent attacks, the former British army colonel added.
Anti-war campaigners said it was not enough and demanded a full pull out.
The smaller opposition Liberal Democrats, which was opposed to military action, called for a clear exit strategy, while the main opposition Conservatives asked if the draw down was connected to Afghanistan.
About 4,600 extra British troops are to be sent to Afghanistan, including 3,300 to help with reconstruction and counter-narcotics in the lawless southern Helmand province.
About 1,100 British troops are already in Afghanistan but Mr Reid stressed that the Iraq pullout was not connected with Afghanistan.
Haneef case 'not a mess'
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock denies the Haneef case is "a mess", despite reports that police allegedly wrote terror suspects' names in the doctor's diary.
Meanwhile, a peak legal body has called on Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews to grant Mohamed Haneef a temporary visa so he can remain in the community pending trial on a terrorism related charge.
VIDEO: Diary bungle?
The federal government accused the lawyers representing Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef of waging a campaign to undermine anti-terrorism laws.
Mr Ruddock dismissed allegations the case against Haneef had been bungled, saying some civil libertarians were prepared to say anything to achieve their ends.
The case against the Indian-born doctor has been plagued by a series of leaks of documents.
"These matters should not be dealt with in the way in which they have, either by leak or by counter-leak or whatever," Mr Ruddock said today.
Asked on Southern Cross radio whether the case was a mess, he replied: "No, what I think has happened is that people who have views about the nature of the law are determined to try and bring it into disrepute.
Referring to an admission by Haneef's barrister Stephen Keim SC that he had leaked a record of interview to the media, Mr Ruddock said: "Equally I don't believe the defence, as they did, should be putting records of interview into the public arena.
"I don't think people in official positions should be putting information in the public arena that should go to a court."
'Unethical'
He said the legal profession had acted unethically in revealing the transcript of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) interview with Haneef.
"There are certainly some people in the legal profession, particularly those who come out of the civil liberties groups, who have a view anything goes, and you see that in the nature of the comments they make."
Mr Ruddock also described as unhelpful a weekend report, subsequently denied by the AFP, that it had uncovered evidence Haneef had been planning to blow up a Gold Coast skyscraper.
Haneef is charged with providing support to a terrorist organisation by giving his mobile phone SIM card to a relative who has since been charged over last month's failed UK bomb plot.
Calls for bridging visa
Law Council of Australia president Tim Bugg urged Mr Andrews to issue a bridging visa to prevent the Gold Coast doctor being detained for more than a year pending his trial.
"In reality, he is not in detention because of the charges against him or because he has been deemed a threat to the community," he said.
"He is in detention because he no longer has a valid visa."
"After hearing evidence and robust arguments from both sides, a court has already decided that Dr Haneef is not a flight risk and is not a threat to the community," Mr Bugg said.
"If Mr Andrews' decision was made for a proper purpose, then his aim was not to detain Dr Haneef but to deport him.
"That not being a likely prospect in the near future, he should consider issuing a bridging visa."
'Keystone cops'
Earlier Foreign Minister Alexander Downer deflected criticism of the handling of the Haneef case.
He said Queensland Premier Peter Beattie was trying to undermine public support for the AFP with his criticism of the Haneef affair.
Mr Beattie yesterday said the AFP investigation into the Gold Coast doctor made the police look like "keystone cops".
Today, Mr Downer berated the premier, saying his comments were a partisan broadside designed to hurt the AFP.
"Mr Beattie goes around and calls the federal police keystone cops, he is trying to undermine public support in the federal police for party political reasons," Mr Downer told the Nine Network.
"I think we can do better than that as a society from our premiers."
Mr Beattie earlier called on the AFP to be frank with the public, after a series of leaks and inconsistencies he said were damaging the case.
He said he was annoyed to read reports, from anonymous sources, suggesting AFP officers had found photographs of a Gold Coast building on Haneef's computer.
"These sort of leaks … to me are just crazy and unacceptable in a climate where everyone is working to defeat terrorism," he told ABC Radio yesterday.
"The level of cynicism which is developing here is going to continue, and then that undermines public confidence in the anti-terrorism laws."
Mr Downer refused to comment on the Australian report which said federal investigators wrote in Haneef's diary.
"Let the court decide on these things. Let's not have the media trying to hear the whole case before the court does."
AWB inquiry claims first scalp
Mr Lindberg stepped down as a third whistleblower stepped up to tell the Cole inquiry that senior managers within AWB sanctioned payments of $300 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein.
Former AWB executive, Nigel Officer, admitted to the inquiry that the wheat contracts sent to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) and the United Nations did not provide the full picture.
He says they did not mention trucking fees imposed by the Iraqi Grains Board because AWB knew it was what he called a 'grey area' that might contravene UN sanctions.
Asked if it was a deliberate decision not to reveal details to DFAT or the UN, Nigel Officer said, "…it was not a deliberate decision not to advise them."
"Just to leave them uninformed?" asked Commissioner Terence Cole
"Correct", Mr Officer said.
"That was the decision that was taken?" asked Counsel Assisting the Commission, John Agius SC.
"That was the decision taken, yes." Mr Officer replied.
"Whose decision?" Mr Agius asked.
"That was a collective corporate decision." Mr Officer said.
Email evidence
The inquiry was also shown an email from an AWB executive, dated April 2000, which referred to a planned meeting between AWB executives and the Prime Minister's Parliamentary Secretary at the time, Bill Heffernan – and to a later meeting with Mark Vaile, now the Deputy Prime Minister.
The AWB executive proposed discussing trade opportunities in Iraq and the company's arrangement with the Iraqi Grains Board.
First scalp claimed
Meanwhile, one of AWB's first executives to give evidence at the inquiry has become its first casualty.
Managing Director, Andrew Lindberg, resigned in what AWB's Board says is the best interests of the company.
Water shortages follow floods
Thousands more are without drinking water after treatment plants were inundated, contaminating supplies.
VIDEO: Widespread damage
The latest worries come after a dismal summer which has seen floods across swathed of the country. On Friday, more than a month's rain fell on parts of England and Wales in just a few hours.
Floodwaters were still rising late on Sunday, with rivers bursting their banks and more rain forecast for the beginning of the week.
The Association of British Insurers said damage as a result of the extreme weather conditions could cost hundreds of millions of dollars to repair.
Evacuation by boat
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to tour some of the worst-hit areas on Monday, after monitoring the situation over the weekend.
Areas of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire and Berkshire are under water.
The town of Tewkesbury, on the banks of the River Severn, is completely cut off by flooding, with police bringing in boats to evacuate residents.
"You can't blame anyone," Tewkesbury Mayor Ken Powell told the BBC. "This is certainly down to the weather."
Thousands of people are spending their second night in emergency shelters after their homes were flooded.
"We are tired, fed up and we don't know when we are going home," said Darren Carr, 34, one of those stranded at a sports centre in Gloucester.
"Everyone here has been brilliant in the way they have looked after us but we just want our own beds and a shower now."
Water supplies threatened
Others whose property escaped damage are being urged to conserve drinking water, as officials warned it could be three days before supplies return to normal.
"We must wait for the flood water to subside before we can begin to assess the damage done to equipment and machinery," said Andy Smith, Severn Trent's director of water services.
"We are therefore urgently appealing to customers to use water sparingly and, in that way, help one another to make the remaining supplies last longer."
Tankers full of clean water are being delivered to towns across the affected areas.
Parts of the country's rail network are still suffering delays and cancellations because of the weather, which saw hundreds of drivers stranded in their cars on the M5 highway on Friday night.
The motorway has since reopened, but many smaller roads remain impassable.
Britain's Environment Agency has been criticised for failing to ensure sufficient flood defences were in place, but Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the conditions were "unprecedented".
"This was very, very intense rainfall," he told the BBC's Sunday AM program. With some areas receiving 13cm in 24 hours, "even some of the best defences are going to be overwhelmed".
Labor unveils forestry package
"Federal Labor supports the Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement (TCFA) which provided for the additional protection of over 170,000 hectares of forest, including 45,000 hectares of forest on private land through the Forest Conservation Fund," he said.
But Mr Rudd said a Labor government would not protect any Tasmanian forests not already included in Regional Forest Agreements (RFA) or the state's $250 million Community Forest Agreement.
"The Tasmanian Community Forestry Agreement fully embraces the conservation objectives we hold near and dear as a party," he said.
Forestry funding
Included in the $20 million package is $9 million to boost the export of forest products through a Forest Industries Development Fund and $8 million to address major knowledge gaps about the impact of climate change on forestry and the vulnerability of forest systems.
Skills shortage
The policy includes the long-term future of the state's forestry community with plans to help address the industry's skills crisis and encourage value-adding to improve exports.
It also includes a crackdown on illegally logged timber imports and prepares for the impact of climate change.
Another $1 million will be for a new Forest and Forest Products Industry Skills Council to be known as ForestWorks, $1 million to develop skills data and $1 million to help regional governments and the industry to combat illegal logging.
"A Rudd Labor government will provide Tasmanians' forestry community with certainty and security for the future while ensuring the ongoing protection of Tasmania's old growth forests as provided for under the RFA (Regional Forest Agreement)," he said in a statement.
New policy
The announcement dispenses with former opposition leader Mark Latham's forestry policy for the state, a plan which was blamed for the loss of two Labor seats in the 2004 federal election.
Mr Latham's plan called for saving up to 240,000 hectares of old-growth forests and the creation of an $800 million fund to protect forest jobs.
Announcement praised
National Association of Forest Industries chief executive Catherine Murphy gave the plan tentative support and said it looked like it meant no more forests would be locked up.
"Although the industry will be seeking more detail, the policy appears to have provided the Tasmanian forest industry with much needed short-term certainty that no more resource from public forests will be put in reserves," she said.
Premier Paul Lennon welcomed Mr Rudd's pledge not to protect any more of the state's forests from logging.
He said Mr Rudd's policy "finally ends the tired and unnecessary practice of the state being used as election bait".
"We can move forward with unity and confidence under this policy," Mr Lennon said.
Australian Conservation Foundation executive director Don Henry called on the ALP to honour its April national conference commitment to further protect identified Tasmanian high-conservation value, old growth forests, rainforests and other ecosystems.
"Labor's announcement leaves many tens of thousands of hectares of high conservation value forest on Tasmanian public land unprotected from logging," Mr Henry said in a statement.
"Spectacular parts of Tasmania that are vital for tourism and the environment like the Florentine, the Weld and the Blue Tiers remain open to logging under the terms of this statement.
"This announcement does nothing to secure the future of the Tasmanian forest industry. Rather it will entrench division and uncertainty."
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) said it would support Mr Rudd at this year's election over his pledge not to protect any more of the state's forests from logging.
"The ghost of Mr Latham has now been laid to rest," CFMEU state secretary Scott McLean said.
"Labor's forestry policy announced in October 2004 was a disaster, just five days away from the federal election.
"It cost the party dearly, but this time around the Rudd forest policy provides the security we have been looking for.
"It means that we will still have access to forests for harvesting, there will be no further lock-ups, and provisions already made between the state and federal governments remain in place."
Carbon exchange goes live
Australia's first carbon trading exchange went live today, setting the bid price of $8-point-50 a metric tonne.
The exchange is a joint venture between the existing niche bourse – the Australian Pacific Exchange – and a new entity, the Australian Carbon Exchange.
Diversified telecommunications services provider M2 Telecommunications Group Ltd became the first buyer – placing an order to purchase $5,000 worth of carbon offsets on the exchange.
"M2 has made a commitment to social and environmental responsibility within our company charter," M2 managing director Vaughan Bowen said.
"While the carbon footprint generated by the telco industry is not as substantial as other sectors, every sector should be contributing."
At 1201 AEST today, 600 metric tonnes of Australian Greenhouse Office – accredited voluntary emission reductions (VERs) – were traded on the exchange at $8.50 each.
Carbon trading allows rich countries to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets by paying poor countries to make emissions cuts for them, through the exchange of tradable carbon credits.
But the head of Australia's biggest energy retailer is concerned a significant number of companies could be carved out of Australia's mandatory carbon trading scheme.
AGL Energy chief executive Paul Anthony has questioned the viability of oil and gas producer Santos Ltd's plan to spend $7 billion on a liquefied natural gas plant at Gladstone in Queensland.
"First and foremost, the question we ask ourselves is how much of industry is going to be carved out by having free permits," Mr Anthony told Sky News Sunday Business.
"That leaves the remainder of the industry having to pick up – if you like – the tab for the remainder."
The government's trading scheme, due to go live in 2012, would fail if overall aspirational targets were set too low, permits were set too leniently or permits were given away, Mr Anthony said.
The lack of a carbon price, or the existence of a carbon trading exchange, in Australia has forced companies that want to trade carbon voluntarily, like AGL, to trade on an exchange in Chicago.
Meanwhile, Mr Anthony said Santos's LNG proposal could affect gas prices as a new supplier came on to the market on the eastern seaboard, but he was not totally convinced they would be able to pull off the ambitious project.
"There are two question marks," Mr Anthony said.
"One, can they withstand the capital intensity of building such a very large project given their market cap, and secondly, can they secure sufficient molecules of gas to ever bankroll such a large project."
Satellites to track logging
Mr Turnbull announced today Australia will participate in a system of satellite tracking stations to help monitor forest cover in the region.
The surveillance is aimed at helping countries track illegal logging.
Funding boost
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer and Mr Turnbull announced Australia will give $10 million to Indonesia and contribute almost $12 million to a World Bank program as part of the federal government's $200 million global climate initiative.
They said $10 million would go to Indonesia and $11.7 million to the World Bank's new global Forest Alliance to help fund sustainable forest management and international efforts to reduce global deforestation.
The funding is being provided from the federal government's $200 million Global Initiative on Forests and Climate Change.
Satellites tracking
Mr Turnbull said the use of technology in the fight against deforestation would be on the agenda at a meeting of about 70 countries in Sydney this week.
"We're going to need technology, we're going to need money, we're going to need goodwill and a lot of cooperation," Mr Turnbull told ABC Radio.
"Some of the largest deforesters will be there in the sense that countries like Indonesia and Brazil, the countries of big tropical forests where most of the deforestation is occurring, are going to be present.
"There's no point funding the protection of a forest in one valley if the forest in the adjoining valley is all clear-felled."
The report said countries would be asked to join the scheme so the results could be fed into an international database.
But Greenpeace spokesman Steven Campbell said a similar program was already up and running and funds should be directed elsewhere.
"One of the biggest problems with deforestation in our region in places such as Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, is the level of corruption and poor governance in the forest," he said.
"The best thing that the government can do is to stop the importation of illegal timber in Australia, because we import about $400 million worth of illegal timber every year."
Union backs Rudd forestry plan
Mr Rudd today was touring the Tasmanian marginal Liberal electorates of Braddon and Bass, which Labor lost in 2004 after former leader Mark Latham announced his forestry policy to quarantine up to 240,000 hectares of old-growth forests from logging.
Mr Rudd announced a $20 million support package for the forestry industry at a timber yard in the Braddon constituency town of Smithfield this morning.
He said the ALP would not protect any Tasmanian forests not included in the Regional Forest Agreements or the state's $250 million Community Forest Agreement.
The plan includes $8 million to help the industry adapt to the effects of climate change and a $9 million development fund to increase forestry exports.
Tasmanian Greens leader Peg Putt said Mr Rudd's challenge was to be forward-looking in relation to the forest debate in Tasmania and to "embrace a transition to a modern industry that allows the protection of high conservation value forests that are on the chopping block, and moves to non-conflictive use of alternative wood sources that are abundantly available".
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These are small swords, but made in Japan, apparently in the 18th century (while Japan was "closed"), for export to Europe. I found them to be quite interesting in the way they incorporate Japanese techniques but to an obvious Western design. I've seen other thins made purely for export, but I don't think I would have ever thought of western style swords being among the products being sent out of the country.


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Bin Yu
Statistical and Computational Data Science Distinguished Lecture Series
Monday, October 3, 2016 - 7:30pm
Speaker: Bin Yu, Professor, Department of Statistics and Department of EECS, UC Berkeley
Location: Computer Science Building, rm 150/151
Title: Theory to gain insight and inform practice: re-run of IMS Rietz Lecture, 2016
A reception will begin at 3:10 pm
Abstract: Henry L. Rietz, the first president of IMS, published his book "Mathematical Statistics" in 1927. One review wrote in 1928:
"Professor Rietz has developed this theory so skillfully that the 'workers in other fields', provided only that they have a passing familiarity with the grammar of mathematics, can secure a satisfactory understanding of the points involved."
In this lecture, I would like to promote the good tradition of mathematical statistics as expressed in Rietzs book in order to gain insight and inform practice. In particular, I will recount the beginning of our theoretical study of dictionary learning (DL) as part of a multi-disciplinary project to "map a cell's destiny" in Drosophila embryo. I will share insights gained regarding local identifiability of primal and dual formulations of DL. Furthermore, comparing the two formulations is leading us down the path of seeking confidence measures of the learned dictionary elements (corresponding to biologically meaningful regions in Drosophila embryo). Finally, I will present preliminary work using our confidence measures to identify potential knockout (or gene editing) experiments in an iterative interaction between biological and data sciences.
Bio: Bin Yu is Chancellor's Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and a former Chair of Statistics at Berkeley. She is founding co-director of the Microsoft Joint Lab at Peking University on Statistics and Information Technology. Her group at Berkeley is engaged in interdisciplinary research with scientists from genomics, neuroscience, and medicine. In order to solve data problems in these domain areas, her group employs quantitative critical thinking, and develops statistical and machine learning algorithms and theory. She has published over 100 scientific papers in premier journals in statistics, machine learning, information theory, signal processing, remote sensing, neuroscience, genomics, and networks.
She is Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2006, an Invited Speaker at ICIAM in 2011 and the Tukey Memorial Lecturer of the Bernoulli Society in 2012, the Rietz Lecture of Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in 2016. She was IMS President in 2013-2014, and is a Fellow of IMS, ASA, AAAS and IEEE. She has served or is serving on leadership committees of NAS-BMSA, SAMSI, IPAM and ICERM, and editorial boards of Journal of Machine Learning, Annals of Statistics, Annual Review of Statistics.

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I need your help. About four years ago, I began riding again after a multi-decade break. In that time, I became a full time bike commuter and have become active in BikeArlington and the Arlington Bike Advisory Committee. I credit my success with cycling to the willingness of my fellow riders on the BikeArlington Forum to share their experience and expertise.
Last year's long distance rides many of us supported (the Climate Ride from NYC to DC and Tim Johnson's Ride on Washington from Boston) got me thinking about a multi-day ride. I will ride the 300 miles of the NYC-DC Climate Ride on September 21-25 and have selected the Washington Area Bicyclist Association as the beneficiary for my fundraising. This year the funds are even more important because of the cancellation of Bike DC earlier this year.
I chose WABA because of their long term support of cycling in the DC area. Much of the cycling infrastructure I rely on is the result of WABA's advocacy. WABA has always been there and with our help, will continue to thrive.
Cycling in the DC area helps reduce air pollution (fewer cars), traffic congestion, and reduces the overcrowding (I am doing my part) on the Metro transit system. For me, this is possible because of the great cycling infrastructure available. By supporting my 300 mile ride we can raise money for WABA, working tirelessly to make the region better for cycling. With the help of the funds I raise, WABA will be able to work to improve and expand the region's cycle transportation systems.
You can make a secure, tax deductible, online donation today by clicking on the 'Support Me' button on the page link below. You'll automatically receive an acknowledgment and I will be notified by email of your support.
Giving this a bump. Ride is about six weeks out. Please support if you can.
Very happy to contribute. I thank you every single time I ride the path and round the curve where the 14th bridge path meets the MVT. Also greatly appreciate all the work you've been doing with NPS to plan improvements on the DC end of things. Thanks for the great ABAC minutes write ups and all the help you've given to individual cyclists too. You do so much in so many ways!
It's cool that the funds raised will benefit WABA too - especially since they couldn't get the permits for their biggest fundraiser this year.
I want you to be able to do this ride!
On the way to work this morning, I participated in a focus group. Like most focus groups, I had no idea who was paying for it or what their agenda was. Turns out, BP (yeah the Gulf oil spill BP) was testing some new public communication strategies to help me (actually you too) understand they'd done a great deal in the Gulf and we all should be appreciative. Alas, I might have been less appreciative than they hoped.
The good news is that the $125 I got for the focus group might be the first BP dollars that go to the Climate Ride! It will be going in the next donation I make. Seems only fitting the oil industry should help with cycling advocacy.


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Seraph Brass has toured throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe. They have performed multiple concerts at the Lieksa Brass Week in Finland, and they were the featured ensemble at the International Women's Brass Conference. Seraph has performed concerts at the Forum Cultural Guanajuato in León, Mexico, Dame Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago (IL), Gettysburg Concert Association (PA), Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach (FL), SUNY Cortland (NY), Jamestown Concert Association (NY), and they have toured extensively as Allied Concert Services artists. Seraph is on the roster of the Manhattan Music Ensemble. They performed with the Rowan University Wind Ensemble, performing Rick DeJonge's Prelude and Fantasy under the direction of Joseph Higgins. Many members of Seraph Brass have performed with Adele on her 2016 North American tour.
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Protein's Impact on Colorectal Cancer is Dappled
In early stages, it acts as tumor suppressor; later it can help spread disease
June 30, 2015 | Christina Johnson; Scott LaFee
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a cell signaling pathway that appears to exert some control over initiation and progression of colorectal cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. A key protein in the pathway also appears to be predictive of cancer survival rates.
The study is reported in the June 30 issue of eLife.
The protein, known as Dishevelled-associating protein with a high frequency of leucine residues or Daple, is produced by nearly all healthy cells in the body and is well-recognized for its role in helping cells in different tissues coordinate processes, such as development and maintenance of organs.
The study is the first to show that Daple is also a tumor suppressor, though only in the early stages of cancer. At later stages of disease, when cancer cells have escaped from the main tumor and are circulating in the blood stream, the protein may actually make cancer cells more invasive and likely to spread.
"Daple is a double-edged sword," said senior author Pradipta Ghosh, MD, an associate professor of medicine. "The protein is a tumor suppressor early on but heralds faster death in advanced stages of colorectal cancer. We are working to figure out why."
For the study, researchers analyzed tumor samples from 173 persons with stage 2 colon cancer for Daple levels. Among these people, lower Daple levels were associated with worse outcomes over a two-year period, while higher levels were associated with better patient survivorship over the same period.
Daple levels were then measured in cancer cells collected from the blood stream of 51 stage 4 colorectal cancer patients. Among these late-stage cancer patients, those with high Daple levels had a 20 percent survivorship over a 1,000-day period, compared with a 100 percent survivorship for those with low Daple levels. By the three-year mark, there were no survivors in the high-Daple group. In contrast, among those with low-Daple expression, 75 percent of the patients were still alive.
Consistent results were observed during 3D tumor cell culture tests. Reduced expression of Daple aided tumor formation and growth, while increased Daple expression triggered cancer cell motility, associated with metastasis.
Fluorescent imaging studies of cells showed that Daple functions primarily by regulating the activity of a family of cell-signaling proteins, known as G proteins. G proteins enable cells to sense and respond to what is happening around them. About 30 percent of all prescription drugs affect cells via G-protein-coupled receptors.
The UC San Diego-led team reported that it is G protein signaling that likely conveys both the desirable tumor-suppressing effects and the not-so-desirable tumor-spreading effects. The consequences of this G signaling on cancer patients' prognosis thus depends on where and when the G signaling occurs.
"Our next challenge is to figure out how we can exploit Daple's beneficial attributes while inhibiting its negative ones," Ghosh said.
The study was funded, in part, by the National Institutes of Health (grant R01CA160911), Burroughs Wellcome Fund and American Cancer Society.
Co-authors include Nicolas Aznar, Krishna Midde, Ying Dunkel, Inmaculada, Lopez-Sanchez, Yelena Pavlova, Fiona Murray, and Karl Willert, UC San Diego; Arthur Marivin, and Mikel Garcia-Marcos, Boston, University; Jorge Barbazán, and Miguel Abal, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela; Ulrich Nitsche, and Klaus-Peter Janssen, Technische Universität München; and Ajay Goel, Baylor Research Institute.
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Gualdani, R.; 2013; Using the Patch-Clamp technique to shed light on ion channels structure, function and pharmacology. Firenze, Firenze University Press.
She graduated in Chemistry at Scuola Normale Superiore in 2008, with a thesis carried out at NEST laboratory in Pisa. She subsequently joined the research team of Prof. Maria Rosa Moncelli (Chemistry Department, University of Florence) in 2009 as PhD student and, since 2012, as postdoctoral fellow. Her project is aiming to investigate how ion channels work and how novel drugs modulate them, by combining fluorescence and electrophysiological techniques.
Ion channels are membrane proteins that selectively allow ions to flow down their electrochemical gradient across the cellular membrane. They localize in both plasma and intracellular membranes and regulate a variety of functions such as neuronal excitability, heartbeat, muscle contraction and hormones release. Thus, understanding the molecular mechanism of ion channels function and regulation is one of the key goals of modern Biophysics. During my PhD thesis, by combining patch-clamp measurements with site-direct mutagenesis, fluorophore labeling experiments and pharmacological assays, I explored some functional and structural properties of different ion transporters: the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX); the large conductance Ca2+-voltage activated K+ channel (BK) channel; the human Transient receptor potential, member A1 (TRPA1) channel.


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5 Questions With a 5-Year-Old: One Year Later
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April 1, 2015 James Floyd Kelly0
What did you want to be when you were 5?
What Is 5 Questions With a 5-Year-Old?
About a year ago, I took my daughter (Zoey) to a performance of the musical Once on This Island that was directed by Alan Muraoka. If you've watched Sesame Street at any point since 1998, you know Alan. He's the proprietor of Hooper's Store and routinely gets caught up various Muppety shenanigans.
Anyway, I thought it would be cool if Zoey could meet Alan, so I contacted his agent. I honestly expected to receive a polite rejection or just be ignored. Surprisingly, Alan agreed to meet with her and answer a few questions!
About the same time, I had started up a blog about kid-friendly geekiness (inspired, actually, by this here GeekDad site that we all love so much), so I immediately thought that her "interview"–however it might turn out–would make a great post. She had recently turned 5, and it didn't take long for lightning to strike: 5 Questions with a 5-Year-Old.
That first interview was a fantastic experience, despite some technical "issues" on my end. Alan was incredibly nice, made Zoey feel completely at ease (even though they attracted a sizable crowd of onlookers … including several jealous kids), and more or less helped create the budding journalist she's become.
Almost immediately, she was hooked and asked to do more interviews. I'm not entirely sure what the attraction was at first (something totally new, perhaps), but she really wanted to talk to people who did and made things she loved.
Her second interview was a coup. The amazing people at Awesome Con DC helped set her up to chat with Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche. Zoey had recently started watching Animaniacs, and she of course adored Pinky and The Brain.
The rest, as they say, is history. There was no stopping her.
At first, I thought it would just be a cool project to do together. Maybe we could do a few interviews and she could meet some interesting people. I never seriously thought it would be much more than that.
But here it is, a year and 29 interviews(!) later, and there's still no stopping her! All of the interviewees were involved in something she very much enjoys: many are comic book creators and authors, and others have jobs she finds fascinating.
Most people don't believe me when I say it, but I need to emphasize: She came up with all of the questions. I prompt her in the videos since she often can't remember them all (and sometimes she did several interviews on the same day), but all of the questions are hers.
Why am I telling you this?
I can't deny that this project was the pinnacle of our daddy-daughter time over the past year. It's something we'll both look back on for years to come: me with nostalgia and her with growing appreciation. But this wasn't a purely selfish pursuit.
It's impossible to overstate how much Zoey developed and learned about herself during this project. I'm probably the only person (except for her mom and grandmother) who's actually watched all of the videos all the way through, but if you do, you can see how her self-confidence grows and begins to shine through.
She has moments of shyness through every interview ("because they're strangers," she explains), but the growth she demonstrates from interview 1 to interview 29 is truly remarkable. A huge factor in that growth is that, with rare exception, nearly everyone treated her with respect. No one talked down to her, dismissed her out of hand, or "dumbed down" their answers because she was only 5 years old. For that, I'm forever grateful to each and every one of the people who was kind enough to take time and chat with her.
I learned a few things, too. I learned how connected kids can get to something once they have a personal stake in it. Zoey was already into comics and graphic novels, but once she met someone who actually wrote and/or drew a book she liked, it became much more "real." Instead of just reading a story, she was able to equate the book to an actual person. Everything was suddenly very personal.
For example, about a week after her interview with Judith Viorst, Zoey's cat passed away. She was 16 years old and lived a long, full, healthy life. I'd had her since she was a kitten.
Kili's passing hit us all pretty hard, but it hit Zoey especially hard. She felt some consolation by helping me bury Kili beneath a tree in our backyard. And she felt a little better when she held her self-proclaimed "remembering ceremony" and ate Popsicles around the grave.
However, it wasn't until I read her Judith Viorst's The Tenth Good Thing About Barney at bedtime that she truly started to feel better. She was astounded at the parallels between that story and what just happened to her in real life. Halfway through the book, she stopped me to ask, "Did you tell Judith Viorst about Kili? Because this book is just like us!"
I also learned how important it is for kids, even kids as young as 5, to have something they call their own. I'm not talking about material things such as toys. I'm talking about something more conceptual–a project, hobby, or creation. The sense of ownership and control they develop is invaluable, and it naturally leads to feelings of empowerment, independence, and self-worth.
Here at GeekDad, we talk a lot about the Maker movement and getting your kids involved in DIY projects of various stripes. I am fully on board with all of these pursuits, as many of them serve the same end I describe here.
However, I honestly think the only limit to such projects is our imagination. Admittedly, our 5 Questions with a 5-Year-Old project is perhaps an extreme example since it required a lot of planning and work (for both of us), but its importance to Zoey cannot be overstated.
This was an experience that couldn't be bought. It didn't come prepackaged in a box or book, and it certainly didn't come from a screen. It wasn't a one-size-fits-all project; it could only have come from Zoey's mind. It was her project that spoke to her. It included her interests, her questions, and her ideas. And it will stay with her forever.
The best part? There's an adventure out there for every kid. They just need to freedom to dream up and run with projects of their own. Think outside the proverbial box. Identify whatever it is your kids love, and foster it. Nurture that interest until it becomes a passion.
After all, passionate people are the ones who change the world.
If your kids are already involved in a creative pursuit or project (short- or long-term), please leave a comment and let me know what it is. Let's share our ideas to help spark others' imaginations.
Zoey recently turned 6, so we obviously can't continue with 5 Questions with a 5-Year-Old. But she doesn't want to stop, and we always had a very loose definition of "5 questions" anyway. So I'm pleased to announce that Zoey will continue the adventure with Questions From a Kid!
I've included a list of all of her interviews below. The links will take you back to the original post with the video for each. Highlights (in my opinion) are 2, 3, 10, 12, 19, 24, and 27.
Thanks for sharing the journey!
1. Alan Muraoka : Proprietor of Hooper's Store on Sesame Street and has played the role of Alan since 1998.
2. Rob Paulsen / 3. Maurice LaMarche : Legendary voice actors who are perhaps best known as the the voices of Pinky and The Brain. Rob Paulsen is also the voice of Yakko (Animaniacs), Raphael (original TMNT), Donatello (current TMNT), and countless others. Maurice LaMarche is also the voice of hundreds of characters, including several roles on Futurama.
4. Grace Ellis / Brooke Allen : Cowriter and illustrator, respectively, of the Boom! Studios comic Lumberjanes.
5. Michael Brett-Surman : Museum Specialist for Dinosaurs and other Fossil Reptiles at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
6. Jay Tacey : Manager of Zoological Operations at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
7. Marie-Josée Côté : Polar bear keeper at the Zoo Sauvage de St-Félicien in Quebec, Canada.
8. Kate DiCamillo : 2014-15 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, two-time Newbery Medal winner, and author of The Tale of Despereaux, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, Because of Winn-Dixie, and many others.
9. Judith Viorst : Legendary children's author who wrote–among many many other books–Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
10. Jeff Smith : Writer/artist/creator of the Bone graphic novels, in addition to Rasl, Tuki, and others.
11. Jeffrey Brown : Writer and artist on the adorable Darth Vader and Son, Vader's Little Princess, Goodnight Darth Vader, and Jedi Academy books.
12. Gene Luen Yang : Writer and artist of several outstanding graphic novels, including American Born Chinese and Boxers and Saints.
13. David Petersen : Writer and artist of the Mouse Guard series of graphic novels.
14. Frank Cammuso : Writer and artist of books such as the Salem Hyde, Otto, and Knights of the Lunch Table series of graphic novels.
15. Mike Maihack : Writer and artist of the Cleopatra in Space graphic novels.
16. Andy Runton : Creator of and artist on the Owly books.
17. Ben Hatke : Artist, author, and creator of the Zita the Spacegirl graphic novels.
18. Kazu Kibuishi : Artist, author, and creator of the Amulet series of graphic novels.
19. G. Willow Wilson : Author of the ongoing Ms. Marvel series with Marvel Comics and the upcoming A-Force series.
20. Chris Steininger : Master Builder with The LEGO Group.
21. Peter Beagle : Author of the classic (and iconic) novel The Last Unicorn.
22. Leslie Carrara-Rudolph : Muppeteer behind Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby.
23. Abby Cadabby : Sesame Street's resident fairy-in-training!
24. Kevin Conroy : Voice actor best known as the voice of Batman on Batman: The Animated Series.
25. Alejandro "Toro" Cuenca : Cirque du Soleil performer.
26. Jason Miller : Master Model Builder at LEGOLAND Florida.
27. Joe Rohde : Senior Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering and driving creative force behind Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park.
28. Marcos Pontes : NASA Astronaut and first Brazilian in space.
29. Jeannie Carder : Dolphin trainer at SeaWorld Orlando.
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Q: Wicked PDF font size I have a Rails 3 app that creates a PDF using the gem 'wicked_pdf'.
I have an HTML page that looks fine online. But, the font is too large when it becomes a pdf.
Here is my controller code:
  def invoice_pdf
    @invoice = Invoice.find(params[:invoice_id])
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.html.erb
      format.pdf do
        render pdf: "invoice.pdf",
               font_size: 8,
               disable_links: true,
               template: 'invoices/_invoice_pdf.html.erb'
      end
    end
  end

The font_size: 8 doesn't seem to work.  I can change it to any value and the pdf text looks the same.

A: body {
  font-family: 'OpenSansRegular';
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}

Add this css in your html.erb file.

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Rain predicted over the weekend due to depression in Bay of Bengal
The Department of Meteorology predicts the low-pressure area over the Southwest Bay of Bengal has intensified in to a depression and is located 420k.m to the northeast of Trincomalee.
The Department said it is very likely to cross Sri Lanka on the 24th and 25th of December.
Under its influence, rainy and windy conditions are likely to increase over most parts of the island during the weekend.
Showers are accordingly expected at times in the Northern, Eastern, Uva and North-Central provinces.
Strong gusty winds of about 40-50kmph can be expected at times over the Northern, Eastern, Western, Sabaragamuwa and Uva provinces.
Weather forecast for the next 36-hours, issued at 4pm on 22nd December
Schools to close today and reopen on 2nd January in 2023
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Father John Sheridan to Lead St Mary of the Assumption
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As Fr. John Sheridan processed down the center aisle of St. Mary of the Asumption Church at his first Sunday 9:30 a.m. Eucharistic Liturgy parishioners were leaning over the pews to catch a glimpse of their new spiritual leader and pastoral patriarch. He stopped in front of the altar, bowed, and made his way to the position behind the altar, facing the congregation. "Hello, I'm the new guy," he bellowed. His smile was wide and his eyes lit up with happiness. This was met with instant applause. He was now in his new home, almost 25 years from the date of his ordination, June 16, 1993.
That smile he possesses is ever-present and genuine as is his passion for the priesthood and love for the Church. His boundless energy and electric personality makes you feel at ease. He firmly believes we are here to spread the word of Christ's message. "We are all disciples of mission – here to share our faith, be strong, and evangelize to people of all walks of life. We are called to reflect on our own vocations, and spread the Good News of Christ's ministry." He says this with conviction as the new pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption in Revere and Our Lady of Grace in Everett/Chelsea.
Fr. John, as he likes to be called, is determined to build a stronger and deeper collaborative union between the two parishes established by his predecessor, Fr. Jim Barry. Recently, Morning Star Collaborative became the unofficial name of reference when speaking about both parishes. Parishioners had the opportunity to submit their ideas. Morning Star, a title bestowed upon the Blessed Virgin Mary, was chosen. This seems perfect since both parishes are titled for the Mother of Jesus Christ.
After three years as pastor of "The Cranberry Collaborative", consisting of three parishes – Saints Martha & Mary Parish in Lakeville, Sacred Heart Parish in Middleborough, and St. Rose of Lima Parish in Rochester, he is happy to be back on the North Shore. However, this change of assignment, as with others he has experienced, is filled with emotion and gratitude. "Moving to a new parish is difficult," he says. "You always create bonds with people both individually and collectively. You become very attached to them. Although with social media, etc., you can remain part of their lives, it can be difficult." Fr. John continues," I feel very blessed to have been at different parishes. Each one has a different story and presents a new opportunity. I feel privileged to be part of so many lives. This has continued through his 25 years as a priest.
When asked if his fervor and conviction has increased over the past twenty-five years he says, "It's been quite an adventure and I've had many types of assignments. I've served in the city such as Dorchester, rural areas, the North Shore – Salem and Peabody, and the South Shore – the three parishes he just came from and others. I have also been assigned to very diverse communities, the Hispanic, community, Haitian community, and with Black Catholics."
Fr. John was born and raised in the "working class" section of Newton. His dad, Denis (one "n") was an Irish immigrant from County Mayo, Ireland, who met and married his mom, Elizabeth, from Somerville. His dad worked as a cook at The Metropolitan State Hospital for many years. Fr. John is the eighth of nine children. "I love chaos and noise, and I thrive in it. Growing up in such a large family you learn to stand up for yourself. I came from a very loving home with parents who totally supported me and my brothers and sisters who grew up close with you." Today he remains extremely close to his siblings, many nieces, nephews, and the next generations of children born in the Sheridan clan.
As a graduate of Newton High School, young John Sheridan aspired to be a sportswriter. He loves all sports, particularly Boston teams of which he is fanatical about. But the Boston Bruins are his favorite. He delightfully says, "I was born with a puck in my mouth." He then recalls playing in a hockey game that included seminarians and priests and fondly remembers getting checked hard by Bishop Thomas Dailey.
In 1979 Pope John Paul I visited Boston. Young John Sheridan was fascinated by him and his stature and God's love and presence in this holy man. At this point he seriously considered his "Calling" and then entered St. John Seminary in Brighton in 1982. He has never looked back. He loves being a priest.
He has felt very welcomed by both parishes in the Morning Star Collaborative. He will develop, with the assistance of Pastoral Associate Linda DeChristoforo and other staff, "A pastoral plan to review where we are, understand what we have, and determine where we want or should go. This is a continuation of evangelization." Fr. John welcomes children to mass. He loves the sounds of children and wailing of babies. "One of the reasons I feel I'm here is to bring children and their families back to mass and back to the parish. Not just having them partake of CCD classes only." He is an absolute advocate of Generations of Faith – involvement by all generations as its title states. He will reach out to youth and recruit altar servers and have music, another interest of his, become more prominent. He has currently created a Morning Star Collaborative weekly bulletin that combines both parish's information and is finalizing a common telephone system. His homilies are filled with personal stories while weaving in the specific Gospel message of the day. There is no doubt he is on the right track.
As "the new guy", Fr. John Sheridan has already made a very positive first impression. In his new home he has been welcomed and there is every reason to believe he will continue to build bonds and deepen relationships, evangelizing and strengthening the Good News to his parishioners. He might even convert you to being an ardent Boston Bruins fan!
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Q: Find an element $a$ from some group such that $|a|=6$ and $C(a) \neq C(a^3)$ Find an element $a$ from some group $G$ such that $|a|=6$ and $C(a) \neq C(a^3)$.
$|a|$ is the order of $a$.
$C(a)$ is the Centraliser of $a$ in $G$.
This question is from Contemprary Abstract Algebra by Joseph A Gallian 4th edition,
Chapter 3, Question 24.

A: We want $a$ to have order $6$? Let's try $a=(1\ 2\ 3\ 4\ 5\ 6)$ in the group $S_6$. Let's see, $a^3=(1\ 4)(2\ 5)(3\ 6)$ right? Does $C(a)$ mean the set of group elements that commute with $a$? So we're looking for something that commutes with $a^3$ but not with $a$? Hmm. The transposition $(1\ 4)$ commutes with $a^3$, doesn't it? I wonder if it commutes with $a$.

A: The simplest example that i see is the following. Take
$$G=S_5,$$
where $S_5$ denotes the group of all the permutations of the set $\{1,2,3,4,5\}$, and take
$$a=(123)(45).$$
So we have that
$$a^3=(45).$$
The centralizer of $a$ is given by
$$ C(a)=\left\{\sigma\tau \;| \; \sigma \in \langle(123)\rangle, \tau \in \langle(45)\rangle \right\} \simeq \mathbb Z_3 \times\mathbb Z_2,$$
while the centralizer of $a^3$
$$C(a^3)=\left\{\sigma\tau \;| \; \sigma \in S_3, \tau \in \langle(45)\rangle \right\} \simeq S_3 \times \mathbb Z_2.$$

A: Since $|a| =6$ must divide the group's order, and since the two groups of order $6$ do not work here, the smallest example must have at least $6n$ elements, with $n \geq 2$. But it turns out that the Dihedral group $D_6 = \langle a,s \,|\, a^6=s^2=1, \, as=sa^{-1} \rangle$ of order $12$ works. It is routinely checked that
(1) $a,a^2,a^3,a^4,a^5,a^6=1$ are distinct elements;
(2) $as \neq sa \implies s \notin C(a)$;
(3) $a^3s=sa^{-3} = sa^3 \implies s \in C(a)$.
Therefore $|a|=6$ by (1) and $C(a) \neq C(a^3)$ by (2) & (3).


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Posted byMarshal Brummel May 13, 2021 Posted inReviews, Show ReviewsTags:Akame Ga Kill, Animation, Anime, Anime Reviews, Armchair Anime, Reviews, Show Review
Tatsumi is a bright eyed, bushy tailed, country dweller that needs to go to the capital to send money back to his village. After a band of assassins called "Night Raid" free him from a conniving wealthy family that lured him into their home, he joins them in their mission to usurp the current ruling family who are ignoring the pain of their people.
Tatsumi is naive and weak, oh so naive and weak. His village is poor and starving so he sets out with two friends to move to the capital in order to make money and send it back to the village. Simple enough plan. But what complicates it is that the entire capital seems to produce all kinds of monstrous people who torture, kill, and plunder anything weak enough to let them. So "Night Raid" finds him interesting when they meet him at the home of a target. He joins them and realizes why he is so weak compared to most, they have these things called Imperial Arms. Imperial Arms are just long lost technology that are super powered weapons of one form or another. Is he given one? Not right away. Thinking back, I found Tatsumi pretty unremarkable. I enjoyed that how he was treated caused him to grow a little colder and to mesh with "Night Raid." But beyond his love for his team, I struggle to point out any distinguishing factors. There was even a point in the show where he was indifferent to what he ate. It felt like there were so many chances to give personality to Tatsumi, but he really just inherited from other characters.
Never before have I thought to myself, "You know what is missing from the anime universe? A caveman assassin waifu." Akame is a long-time Drake listener with not a lot to say. She is strictly carnivorous and not just because she has a taste for blood. Abducted by the empire and trained with her sister to be a master assassin, Akame turned against the empire, took her demonic sword (her Imperial Arm), and began executing people in the name of "Night Raid." For being the title character…the show really isn't about her, which is weird. I could never really get a grip on how I was supposed to feel about Akame and because of that, I never really felt any way about Akame. She is presented as someone cold, but we soon find out that she is anything but. She cares deeply for the people around her. Yet, how does that affect her? How does that change what she does? I really couldn't tell you, even after the show. If you watch to the end you can understand why I was disappointed that this element didn't mean anything for her character.
If you like the small, high pitched, lolli-esque girl, you found your favorite character. Mine is the group's sniper. Her Imperial Arm is a sniper/machine gun that feeds off spiritual energy. So it's only natural that she would be feisty and loud. I grew more and more fond of Mine as the show went on. Normally these kinds of characters are relegated to a role where we never care about them too much, but they are around just enough to be annoying. Yet, In Akame Ga Kill, we got to see Mine explored a little more. I feel like out of any of the characters that we got the best view of who she was, what she wanted, and how those affect her actions. I loved that her gun worked based on how desperate she was. As Night Raid gets closer to overthrowing the government and facing harder and harder enemies, you get the sense that she is indeed getting more and more desperate.
Leone was the catgirl of the group. Okay, so maybe she was supposed to be a lion but she looked like a catgirl. Leone was very flirtatious towards Tatsumi for someone who insisted he call her "sister" and I would be hard pressed to say she was not a fan service character given her outfit and catgirl features. I kept feeling like I should be more interested in her than I was. I wish I had a good reason for why she didn't resonate for me. She seemed like a potential love interest and I had a strict Esdeath only policy for this show so when she disappears bizarrely at the end of the show I was confused but not mad.
Bulat is the best male character in the whole show and was done dirty. Basically the Japanese Johnny Bravo, this man not only stole my heart but then put it in his hair with all the other hearts he has stolen. You will have to enjoy the rest of him for yourself because I don't spoil.
All hail ice queen, Esdeath. I loved her and her bizarre shift from dishing out murder darwin style to trying to find the love of her life, which she attempted to find through a fight to the death tournament. Needless to say, casual inquiries need not apply. After handing the king a detailed list of all the qualities she wanted in a lover, which mostly described a trainable gorilla that she could dominate, she naturally found that our kind-of-not-really-maybe-sort-of main character, Tatsumi, fits the bill. How else would we connect, effectively, the main villain to the main protagonist other than a romance? Esdeath is just fun though. She really doesn't care about anything. She likes to kill people and the empire lets her do that. She likes Tatsumi so she chases him to the ends of the world. Esdeath is like those girls that drop out of university after a year to backpack Europe, if Europe was still Feudal and instead of backpacking it was a war campaign to rival Rome in its prime. Esdeath found her calling and she was really good at it so can we really blame her? I don't think so.
So the first take went up on TikTok and I got so much more engagement than I normally do on first takes. I was told I was in for an emotional time. I was told that the ending was sad. I was told that I would leave hurt. Sadly, none of those things happened to me. Did I get sad during the show? I mean… I got disappointed when people died, but there were a lot of deaths. The show actually did a terrible job with their foreshadowing and made everything more obvious that the weatherman telling you it is supposed to rain today as water is currently coming through your open windows. Not to mention that half baked characters, a cup of terrible foreshadowing, and a metric butt ton of death was not a great combination for me to experience deep emotional moments. On the flip side, the development of characters like Mine, Tatsumi's during the final campaign, the connection between Bulat and Tatsumi, and any scene with Esdeath really overcame a lot of the bad elements of the show.
Probably the best idea to come out of the show is that someone will die. It is a saying in the world that when two Imperial Arms users clash, at least one will die. Doesn't that make sense? Forty-eight of the most powerful weapons in the world and there has to be a death. Thank goodness for approaching powerful weapons intelligently. Is this deep? Not at all. In fact, it just seems like something that should happen. But it causes so much more tension. Who will die? The characters I am rooting for, or the other one? Even if I was not a huge fan of most of the characters, I could at least appreciate the dilemma that was caused.
You have to wait for this idea until the very end and squint to see the development. Where do you make change? There is obviously a lot of discussion about this in America right now. Many people say that change is made from the inside. Become part of the system and change from inside the confines of what you want to change. Others say that the system does not want to change and it needs to be forced to change, from the outside. Therein lies the difference of approach between "Night Raid" and another character. Me? I would be hard pressed to sit here and tell you that I would be part of overthrowing a government. I am still trying to understand what the Bible says about such things in the context of the insurrection at the capital. Either way you look at it, things needed to change in the show and it was odd, but realistic, that one approach would resist the other.
Before TikTok, I had never seen those sushi conveyor belt restaurants. Now, I have first hand experience. Naturally you and I, the viewers, sat down and took a good look at that conveyor belt. This is when we take a whole bunch of dishes and drool over our food for a minute before someone awkwardly suggests that we dig in. So once we start eating, we figure out that some of the dishes are way better than others. Naturally we take a look at the conveyor belt for more good dishes, but wait… the dishes changed! Not only that, but we get fewer and fewer dishes. Now, take this same conveyor system, and picture it as Akame Ga Kill. We have a rotating set of characters as they are brought to the table, brutally murdered, and more characters are introduced. The first half of the show felt very directionless, we were just eating for the sake of eating. Targets seemed important at the time, but ultimately seemed meaningless once the group started campaigning towards overthrowing the government. While I praised the "Someone will die" idea, it did start to feel a bit repetitive that there were these one on one duels that there was so much build up for. So you got a classic build up to fight, someone died, team gets angrier and sadder, add new teammate, repeat. I would have loved to see some change ups. The best fights of the show were team fights so it was a bit disappointing to see them lean so much on this solo fighting trope.
I was so happy that I guessed the age range that this animation was from. I was talking to Randy about it when I told him that I guessed that Akame Ga Kill (2014) was from 2005-2015. He looked away quickly then back at me before not saying anything. Then it dawned on me. That is a very large range and not a very impressive guess. Here I was thinking that I had the thick black edge lines pinned to a specific time and all I was doing was guessing a ten year gap.
Regardless! I liked the style of Akame Ga Kill. Thick lines really gave a solid feel to the characters. It feels a little dated given the style that we are used to seeing from anime from this decade, but it was familiar. There were no scenes that stood out to me as canvas print worthy or that I could see making a montage, but it was just solid. Good use of style for humor, lots of blood, interesting single frame paintings. I have to say some of my favorite animation happened in fights that Seryu Ubiquitous was in. I won't say too much because it spoils but I love how crazy she was and how the animation around her fights were action packed and just absolutely explosive.
You all might not know it yet, but there is a specific setting that annoys me beyond comprehension. It is the generic desert mesas that just have tons of circular platforms raised above the ground. This is the laziest and most uninteresting setting ever. Ninety percent of the time it makes zero sense contextually and is almost never important to the story. But that was the story for most of the series. I never felt like the locations were important to the story. At one point "Night Raid" had to leave their stronghold, which was very obvious and out in the open by the way, to go to another stronghold that was exactly that same… There were two coliseum scenes. The first one made a good deal of sense, felt like part of the city and fit in. The second one felt like it was conjured out of the air. Beyond locations feeling discontinuous or out of place, there just wasn't a lot of interest generated from the world.
Danger beasts were these odd monsters that kind of played a role in the show and kind of didn't. None of the people in villages seem equipped to deal with them… at all. Not that this is surprising because they were often tens of feet tall and able to knock over buildings with a single swoop, but it begs questions. How did humans survive with these beasts around? Why do none of these villages have people who defend them? Why do humans not all live in walled cities? None of that really makes sense to me. Also they should rename them to something cooler and not so… straightforward.
Let's talk about the Imperial Arms. There are forty-eight of these weapons. These weapons have amazing powers from suits of powered armor to regeneration powers. Technology such as this is presented to us as beyond the limits of the current world. Yet, I felt so confused by this. How is it that the empire had people who could turn emotional energy into projectiles but they are still running on horsepower, literally. I get that the king died, but if people are making these weapons I feel like they could take some ideas from their weapons and maybe… make a gear? Perhaps they could power other things with spirit energy?
It's hard for me to be immersed in a world where I have so many questions like this. Not good questions but questions like, "Did they not think of that? Did this make sense to them? Where do they see this location in their world being?"
I am not even going to lie, I determined this score solely on a gut check and a single detail. Why? Because it's my blog, dang it. It was like the first or second episode and Tatsumi was in a bar with Leone. The bar music actually sounded like it was far away. Like if I turned to my right and looked down a set of stairs I would see some old guy with a greying beard sitting on a stool with some people behind him playing for me. I can not get this detail out of my head. It has made me reconsider all sources of music as ambiance. Other than that, the music did it's job. I can't imagine the score won awards but that one detail stuck with me enough to give it a decent score.
Points Given
Points Possible
I am interested in the characters in the story 5 6
I liked the emotion the story made me feel 5 6
The story brings up interesting ideas 4 6
I felt the pacing of the show was appropriate 3 4
The animation in the show is beautiful 2 4
I am interested in the world that the story takes place in 1 3
I felt that the music added to the story in a meaningful way 2 3
Akame Ga Kill had a great concept with straight to the point fights. Some characters were interesting but too often the focused characters seemed to lack ramifications of their personalities and the world was terribly underdeveloped. Akame is just outside of a show that I would recommend but would certainly confirm someone's will to watch it if they asked.
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Gho5tRUN3R says:
This is a super fair review of Akame ga Kill. When I watched this show, it was hyped up as "The Game of Thrones of anime." Sure, if you never watched GoT and thought the only appeal of that show was that people die a lot. So my feelings were colored by that.
I absolutely hated this show and almost everything in it except for the Arms, which weren't addressed nearly as much as they should Esdeath's motives confused me. Her logic of her father dying against an enemy raid was "he was weak." Ok. Sure. He died fighting like ten guys at once after having killed scores. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow and die, it wasn't because I was weak. It was because I was hit by a bus.
The show is extremely obnoxious about how it handles interactions with characters that have opposing viewpoints. We got a full episode of just Esdeath on an island with Tatsumi and both of them dig their heels in for really forced reasons. Even Akame's sister's reasons for staying with the empire were flimsy at best. It felt like this show wanted to be this political drama and then chickened out at the end.
And other than Mine, every character was super forgettable to me as there were just too many people introduced all at once. And then once the introductions were semi-made, they were all either caricatures or tropes that got some last minute backstory right before they died. It should be a crime with how this show treated its characters.


It was a hard fought test match at Perth but in the end, on a green top- it might just be a spinner who made most of the difference. No, it did not rhyme if you thought it will but neither did Nathan Lyon and Perth.
Surprisingly, India decided to go in with an all-out pace attack and Australia kept their faith in Lyon. Which year are we in again? To Be fair to Virat Kohli- Ravichandran Ashwin was indeed unfit but yes- They did have Ravindra Jadeja in the wings. Considering Lyon picked up 8 wickets in the entire game, many believed that India should have also played a spinner and Captain Kohli got it completely wrong in that aspect.
Having said that- Virat Kohli is not one of those who gives any excuses. He never did! He takes it up his chin and that's exactly what makes him a great man. When asked about his thoughts in a post-match press conference Virat Kohli stated, " When we looked at the pitch we didn't think about (playing Jadeja) but I thought Nathan bowled really well. We never thought we wanted to consider a spinner, thought four fast bowlers would be enough".
While he did not directly admit that he was completely wrong which he might not be either, to be honest- )What if Umesh Yadav got 6 wickets), his statement did suggest that he admitted to a possibility of misreading the pitch a bit. Other than that, Virat Kohli was looking forward to the 'Boxing Day' test and expected his team to not just play well with patches but keep fighting it out all the time instead! What is the opening combination going to be like? Well- Mayank Aggarwal might have to wait a bit more as Kohli hinted that they might just go in with the same opening combination of Murali Vijay and KL Rahul. As sad as it might sound- This is how it might be!
As far as his wonderful century was concerned, the Indian Captain refused to talk about it considering his team did not win and termed his century as 'irrelevant' considering his team did not win the game.
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A high-energy-laser (HEL) weapons system was successfully tested by firing at a fixed target from an Apache helicopter.
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The test system included a variant of the Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS) system, a highly integrated sensor subsystem which features electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), laser designation, and laser illumination functions in a single package. MTS sensors (Fig. 2) feature multiple fields of view, electronic zoom, and multimode video tracking. For the experimental flight, the MTS provided targeting information, situational awareness, and beam control.
2. The MTS is an integrated system that incorporates both electro-optical and infrared sensor technologies.
The combat-ready MTS family of sensors has nearly four million operational flight hours. More than 3,000 of the sensor subsystems have been delivered to global customers. For example, MTS sensors provide long-range surveillance, target acquisition, tracking, range finding, and laser designation for the Griffin and Paveway missiles, as well as all tri-service and NATO laser-guided munitions.


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