Just some of the words used by motorcycle enthusiasts describing the infamous Glendora Mountain Road. Fourty miles north of Orange and nestled above the city of Azusa, GMR is armed with blind turns, switchbacks, and hairpins so tight you can hardly breathe.
It's not the cleanest of roads either. Decorated with tar snakes, gravel and dips big enough to make your heart sink, you really have to develop a Jedi like focus to ride the road. It's not uncommon to see a tow truck hauling away pieces of motorcycle wreckage. This is one road amateur and intermediate motorcycle riders should consider taking slower than normal. For a select few this rollercoaster canyon is home, and has earned the right to be renamed Glendora Mountain Raceway by the bravest of riders.
The above photograph was taken by me while following my buddy down the canyon at nearly full lean, just inches from kissing the pavement. As avid riders we love testing the limits of our chariots to the max. Putting our bodies and our minds through the rigors of such an advanced canyon, we push ourselves to overcome it and achieve greatness.
Yes it's dangerous and sometimes outright crazy to tackle such a technical canyon, but to us it's utter bliss. It's an escape from our everyday lives. It's an opportunity to hang up our ties and forget about the 9 to 5 job, eagerly zooming out of the city.
GMR has attracted riders from all over Southern California bringing together new meetings and friendships. It brings together different styles and levels of riders searching for what is without a doubt one of the most challenging canyons in Socal. We come to put our skills against the mountain.
We know the risks, but to us canyon riders, it's the happiest place on earth.


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A well-written Statement of Purpose (SOP) is an essential ingredient to any application process. Here are 6 simple tips to make your SOP more effective.
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Divide the essay into short paragraphs each encapsulating an idea. If you do the planning properly, it will be easy to connect each paragraph to the next so that the flow is never broken. If you like to discuss disconnected topics, then subheadings can be used. Basically, having a structure with head, body and end is a must.
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Diana Lu is a former Minds Matter mentee. Over the holidays, she wrote this heartfelt letter to express her gratitude. we couldn't be happier to see the impact we can make on a student's life.
I am writing this letter to thank you for your generous financial support toward my college education. Thank you for making the Meritus Scholarship possible and thank you for giving me the opportunity to attend a four-year university.
I have completed my first quarter as a sophomore at the University of California, Santa Cruz and I will be able to declare a Human Biology major in late March or early April. I took Organic Chemistry and corresponding lab, Cell and Molecular Biology, and Spanish 2 last quarter. In addition, I also worked as a Student Assistant at Learning Support Services, a program that gives tutoring services to UCSC students. Due to a rigorous schedule with school and work, I made sure that I did not waste any time. I learned that I did not study really well in groups; therefore, I would usually do independent study in my room. I even used a technique called Pomodero Technique to study. For every 25 minutes I studied, I would take a 5 minutes break. Even though I studied a lot this quarter, I also spent time with friends by hiking around campus or sharing a meal together. I definitely feel that I worked really hard this quarter and I hope that I will continue to work just as hard next quarter. I am proud to say that I received a 4.0 this quarter.
Next quarter, I will take the second part of Organic Chemistry with a corresponding lab, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Spanish 3. My goal for next quarter is to eat healthier, look and apply to summer internships, revise my resume and cover letter, and keep up the good work in school. Looking forward to summer, I plan to do an internship at a hospital or clinic setting; however, if the plans do not work out, I will either get a summer job or take summer classes. I hope to continue exploring the many possible careers by networking and conducting informational interviews.
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As the Frankfurter Buchmesse comes to a close today (October 14), organizers are reporting that the 70th iteration of the book fair, ranked as the world's largest trade show for the books industry, "ended with an increase of 0.8 percent in visitors at the weekend"-the public-facing part of the week-"and a slight decrease of 1.8 percent during the trade visitor days," which are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
A total 285,024 visitors are reported being counted at the 2018 fair, as compared with 286,425 in 2017, representing a relatively flat level of participation year-over-year, a 0.5-percent decline from last year.
"For five days, Frankfurt was the world's largest trading center for content and stories. The book fair demonstrated that it is a place of ideas and debates - and a huge reading festival, as well. It was possible to clearly experience the enthusiasm people have for books and the meaning literature has for them. Publishers and booksellers are working intensively to develop new connections to today's customers, something that was also palpable at the fair."


Sophomore lefthander Will Lamb tossed 6.0 strong innings, allowing just one unearned run, to lead #7 Clemson to a 5-2 win over Virginia Tech in the first game of a doubleheader at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Saturday. The Tigers, who took a 2-0 series lead, improved to 16-2 overall and 5-0 in the ACC. Virginia Tech fell to 13-7 overall and 2-3 in ACC play.
Lamb (2-0) earned the win in 6.0 innings of work in a starting role. The Seaford, VA native allowed seven hits, one unearned run, and two walks with two strikeouts. Alex Frederick pitched 3.0 innings in relief, allowing three hits and one run to record his second save of the year.
Hokie starter Jesse Hahn (4-1) suffered the loss, as he yielded 10 hits, four runs (three earned), and one walk with two strikeouts in 5.1 innings pitched.
The Tigers dented the scoreboard with two runs on four singles in the first inning. Brad Miller led off with a single to left-center but was retired when Mike Freeman's sharp grounder hit Miller on what would have been a single through the right side. Jeff Schaus followed with a single through the right side to move Freeman to third, then Freeman scored on a passed ball. Two batters later, Wilson Boyd fisted a single to right-center to score Schaus.
In the third inning, Miller led off with a single to right and stole second. Then with two outs, Kyle Parker laced a single through the right side to score Miller.
A Tiger miscue allowed the Hokies to put a run on the scoreboard in the fourth inning. Anthony Sosnoskie and Michael Seaborn hit one-out singles. Two batters later with two outs, Tony Balisteri hit a routine grounder to Miller at shortstop. But Miller booted the ball, allowing Sosnoskie to score from second. Mike Kaminski's walk loaded the bases, but Clemson escaped further damage when first-baseman Richie Shaffer caught Sean Ryan's pop-up near the Tiger dugout.
The Tigers increased their lead in the sixth inning when Parker led off with an opposite-field, solo home run to right field, his ninth long ball of the season. It was Parker's 35th career home run, moving him into a tie for 10th place in the Clemson recordbook in that category. It was also the first homer allowed by Hahn in 2010.
In the top of the eighth inning, Ronnie Shaban drew a one-out walk and went to second on Balisteri's groundout. Pinch-hitter Matt Blow followed with a two-out single to right to score Shaban, cutting Clemson's lead to 4-2.
Clemson added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth inning. Schaus led off with a single through the right side and went to third two batters later when Boyd singled through the right side on a hit-and-run. John Hinson's sacrifice fly to left plated Schaus.
After the first two Hokies were retired in the ninth inning, Steve Domecus doubled down the left-field line and Sosnoskie followed with a walk to bring the potential tying run to the plate. Seaborn then hit a line drive to center, but Addison Johsnon made a sliding catch for the final out.
Miller, Schaus, Parker, and Boyd all had two hits apiece to pace Clemson's 12-hit attack.
Domecus went 3-for-5 to lead Virginia Tech, who had 10 hits in the game. However, the Hokies stranded 13 runners on base in the game, including nine in scoring position.
Clemson and Virginia Tech will play the second game of the doubleheader and series-finale on Saturday at 6:30 PM.


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I'll be back tomorrow and Sunday with the last two days of wedding DIY fun. Until then, enjoy the angry kitty!
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oh man. that is not a happy cat. :p that's the look i get when i pick Max up. totally worth it.


How times has changed since I last had dinner at Bukit Tambun which is a fishing village located near Juru. I have been to this place ever since I step foot in Penang and it used to be a place to get high quality seafood at a very affordable price. Well, I would say that fresh seafood is still in abundance here with the many seafood restaurants located here but the price has definitely gone up. I guess we just can't escape inflation right? I guess for the same amount of money, we can surely get similar or better food on the island and moreover, the traffic here is really terrible as there is only 1 road in and out of this place.
Here, as you drive towards Bukit Tambun town, just keep driving in on the road and you will reach till the road ends and on the right you will see Gee Seng Seafood. Its such a big place that you can't miss it. Enjoy the photos ya!
The first dish to arrive. Even though the place was packed, but the food was out of the kitchen really fast. I guess they have many cooks here. The fried noodles were rather bland and was just fried with some bean sprouts, egg and dried shrimp. Not too bad as a starter to fill the hungry stomach first.
The satay was equally fast. The size was pretty reasonable and this one also has the sauce on the meat while its cooked already. I'm wondering if this is a Penang thing with satay being made this way? Saves one the hassle to dip it in sauce but I do miss a good helping of Kajang Satay!
Anyone knows what is this? This is the infamous horse shoe crab. Honestly, this thing is tasteless and all you eat are its eggs which after its cook, is like chewing on mini rubber balls. Try it once but that is all I will say.
The many fresh seafood that is already prepared on baskets with ice.
Fried sotong(squid) with dried chillis was pretty good. The squid was not tough or chewy and had just the right texture to it.
I guess the highlight of the dinner was the steamed fresh mantis prawns. Each person had 2 mantis prawns with each piece costing RM8. The size is pretty decent and these are definitely very good and fresh. There goes my cholesterol levels.


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I want to buy a new ground glass to replace the one that is in my Chamonix F1, but I want to know if anyone knows if I replace the 3 pieces of ground glass that are already in my F1 will that affect focusing? I want to put in a Steve Hopf Borosilicate GG or one of those new bohemastudio acrylic GG.
There is only one piece of ground glass in the Chamonix. Closest to lens seated in a cutout is a fresnel lens, then the GG in the middle, with a protection clear plate behind that closest to your face. You only need the middle ground glass. You can remove the fresnel and clear plate without effecting the focus point.
The Chamonix GG is so bright and clear, what don't you like about it?
The Glass protective sheet on the outside is irrelevant. So you have a fresnel on the inside of the GG. If you remove the inside fresnel, thereby moving the middle ground glass that much forward, would that not affect focus? Wouldn't you need to add a spacer to maintain the original position of the GG?
That's he fresnel. You can remove that, this the piece in between the GG and the outer protective glass.
Try just removing the fresnel in between, then replace the protective glass on top of the ground glass and you should be fine.
It shouldn't be no, the older N-1's had them reversed and that caused focus problems and they fixed it.
I don't own an N-1, N-2, or F-1 but my 8x10 to 4x5 reducing back has the GG - fresnel - protective glass, in that order.
Is there any way to keep the GG/Fresnel/Protective glass combo without getting those weird rings that show up?
He's referring to the pattern that appears because of the pieces coming in contact with each other. Newton Rings.
Yeah that's what I'm referring to the newton rings.
Newton rings? Really? Hmm... I've never seen that on my GG and it's essentially the same thing, that said of he's seeing those, then removing the protective glass would fix that, since the only two points of smooth to smooth contact are the back of the fresnel and the front of the protective glass.
Sorry I didn't think Newton Rings would be an issue even if they are there, to new that wouldn't matter on the GG (not enough to spend money on new stuff).
But my suggestion SHOULD work.
I'll have to check to see if I see Newton rings on mine.


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Free Speech Battle Over Protests Looming at Seattle Colleges
Posted on April 11, 2012 Author MarkTC	Comments Off on Free Speech Battle Over Protests Looming at Seattle Colleges
A major battle over free speech is being waged on local college campuses in Seattle. The Seattle Community College District Board of Trustees wants to revise the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) for Seattle colleges. The district is proposing new rules that would regulate protests on all three of the city's state funded community college campuses.
Organizations opposed to the board's proposals include the ACLU, the Seattle chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, student councils at all three of the district's colleges, and Occupy Seattle.
About a hundred Occupy Seattle participants set up camp at Seattle Central Community College last fall after being pushed out of Westlake Park by police. SCCC president Paul Kilpatrick and the school administration went to court to evict the demonstrators from the campus, and on December 10, 2011, the occupiers were forced to leave. A Thurston County Superior Court judge has allowed the college to impose new rules which prohibit camping on the campus, on an "emergency" basis.
Prior to this ruling, there had been no rules regulating encampments on state college campuses in the state of Washington.
Among other proposals, the new set of rules would:
-restrict the size of protest signs to a maximum of 3 feet by 5 feet
-impose a limit of one sign per person.
-place restrictions on where protests can take place and how long they can last. Student groups would be forced to end their demonstrations after eight hours, whereas off-campus organizations like Occupy Seattle would only be allowed to rally for five hours at a time.
-prohibit protests outside of designated "free speech zones" on campus
-require non-student groups to notify the college 24 hours in advance of demonstrations.
Protesters who violate the rules could be arrested by Seattle police and charged with trespassing.
At the first board hearing on Tuesday March 27, Karen Strickland, president of the Seattle chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, said that if the changes are adopted, her organization's march banner will not be allowed on campus.
"Some people's views have not been appreciated," she told them. "Free speech, just like access to public higher education, is a core part of democracy. And that's what we need to fight for! Right now in our country there are all kinds of threats to democracy."
Although the school district claims that the process of adopting new rules actually began in 2010, Occupy Seattle activists have interpreted the proposed rule changes as a direct response to their occupation of the college. They claim that the district is placing a prior restraint on any future protest activity at the school.
Washington State law requires an open public comment period before any new state college rules can be established. In compliance with this requirement, the SCCD Board of Trustees held a public hearing on March 27. Due to the overwhelming community response to these proposed rule changes, the school district scheduled another hearing a week later.
On April 5, about 200 people participated in the second hearing held at the Broadway Performance Hall on the campus of Seattle Central Community College. Seattle Community College District Vice Chancellor Carin Weiss was "the presiding official over the proceedings." SCCC president Paul Kilpatrick was in attendance, along with a representative from the Washington State Attorney General's Office, Derek Edwards.
Weiss opened the hearing by stating that the purpose for the new rules is "to establish reasonable controls on demonstrations at the college campuses."
She asserted the Board of Trustees is attempting to propose rules which will maintain a balance between the rights of people to protest and the needs of the administration to limit disruptions to the educational process.
LaRond Baker from the Washington ACLU spoke against the proposed rules, citing limitations on the rights to freedom of speech and assembly that are protected under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
"We are opposed to the rules on several grounds and we believe they will not be upheld by the courts," she said.
The ACLU maintains that any rule which requires non-student groups to notify the college 24 hours in advance of protests is illegal and would be considered 'prior restraint' under the Washington State Constitution.
Baker also criticized a proposed prohibition on the distribution of potentially "libelous" material on campus. She described the language of the proposed school district rule as "vague" and warned that under the board's proposal, "persons passing out handbills on campus could be charged with a criminal offense."
She concluded her public testimony with the following statement: "The Washington ACLU is opposed to these new rule changes and we ask the Board of Trustees to withdraw their proposal."
Seattle Central Community College staff member Kelly McHenry told SCCC President Paul Kilpatrick, "As a college librarian, I love the free exchange of ideas. Because of this, I have to stand up against anything that infringes on the First Amendment."
McHenry opposes the regulation of demonstrations because she believes colleges and universities should encourage rather than limit public discussion.
"Allowing for free expression is part of the educational process," she argued. "Are you also going to limit what films students should see and what books they can read?"
Zack Robertson, head of the SCCC student government, read a statement to the board of trustees:
"We oppose the new rules because we find them unnecessary. Regulations already exist that prohibit disruptions of classrooms, vandalism, etcetera. Why do we need new rules when these issues have already been addressed?"
Robertson also opposed the idea of 'free speech zones'.
"We have measured the area on campus that is being designated for this purpose ," he said, "and found it to be less than 400 square feet. It's about the size of a small one bedroom apartment. That is clearly unacceptable."
One eloquent statement came from Sange, a 20 year old immigrant from Gambia who is enrolled at Seattle Central Community College.
"You may have forgotten why people from around the world come to this country," he said. "Where I lived we had no protections on our freedom, so let me say something to you."
Sange then proceeded to read the Declaration of Independence ."We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," he recited.
When he was finished reading he received a standing ovation from the crowd at the Broadway Performance Hall.
Although hundreds of people have participated in the public hearings, no one has spoken in favor of the new college district rules.
A board of trustees meeting is scheduled for April 12 to access the results of the public comment period. Despite the community outcry, school district officials could vote to approve the proposals on that date. There is nothing in the state law that requires the board to follow all public recommendations. Student groups say they will picket the meeting if they are not allowed to participate in the next step of the decision making process.
According to the state law governing changes to the WAC rules, if the community college district board decides to make significant changes to their original proposal, another series of public hearings will be required to provide for more public comment.
After the college school district hearing on April 5, one anonymous Occupy Seattle activist wearing a Guy Fawkes mask addressed a large crowd of students and teachers outside the building.
"If they approve these new restrictions on our freedom of speech and assembly," he said, "We will have to be ready to immediately challenge the rules by breaking them. We need hundreds of people on campus holding two signs or standing outside of the designated protest areas. We can't let them take away our First Amendment rights! I'm willing to go to jail to defend my freedom of speech! Are you?"
(originally published at HuffPost)
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Brooklyn-Based Bowling Alley, the Gutter, Headed For Essex Crossing (Updated)
A few months before the first phase of Essex Crossing makes its debut, there's been a change in one of the big commercial tenants coming to the mega-project. A Florida-based bowling concept, Splitsville Lanes, will be replaced by the Gutter, a home-grown bowling alley.
Back in 2015, Delancey Street Associates (the group building Essex Crossing) announced that Splitsville Lanes would be taking 17,000 square feet on the lower level of 242 Broome St. In an interview yesterday, Andrew Katz of the Prusik Group (one of the development partners) explained the reasons for the switch from one operator to another.
Splitsville Lanes, selected for the project after a nationwide search, had never done business in New York City. At some point, the owners of the company came to the developers to ask about taking on a partner with local experience. Delancey Street Associates was open to the idea, said Katz. In the process of locating the right NYC-based partner, the development team got to know the owners of the Gutter, which operates bowling alleys in Williamsburg/Greenpoint and Long Island City. Splitsville Lanes ultimately dropped out of Essex Crossing, with the Gutter taking over the Lower East Side space.
Image via the Gutter's website.
In the end, it was probably for the best. The Gutter opened on North 14th Street in 2007, cultivating an old school vibe. As the New York Times noted a few years ago, the venue presents "itself as a cheaper and lower-key alternative to Brooklyn Bowl, its higher-profile neighbor around the corner." In 2014, Gothamist called the Gutter one of the eight best bowling alleys in the city, praising its "elegant, old school lanes, classic bar and vintage decor." The existing locations, said Katz, have "a cool, homey feel." That might be a little harder to replicate in a shiny new real estate project on the Lower East Side, but the owners definitely know New York nightlife.
The entrance to the Gutter will be on Essex Street. Customers will walk into a 500 square foot lobby leading to the main space in the basement. While there are live bands at the Brooklyn original, Katz said the Lower East Side spot will not be a concert venue (there might be live bands from time-to-time). There will be 12 lanes.
Drinks and food will be served (think typical bowling alley grub, not high-end cuisine). The bowling alley is expected to open before the end of this year. We have reached out to co-owner Todd Powers, but haven't been able to connect just yet.
242 Broome St. also includes 55 condominium apartments, and a new home for the International Center of Photography (ICP won't open at Essex Crossing until 2019). There's about 9,000 square feet of ground floor retail space, most of which likely won't be leased until the building is officially opened in the summer/fall.
UPDATE 4/17 This morning we talked with Todd Powers, who owns the Gutter with Drew DeWitt. They already have preliminary drawings, and an architect is working on more formal designs. Powers said the idea is to play off the subterranean space, giving it a Mid-America/Mid-Century basement feel.
The all-wood lanes, like the Gutter's other locations, will be sourced from a shuttered bowling alley (the ones in Brooklyn came from Iowa). The place will still feel homey, said Powers, but it will have a bit more polish than the existing venues.
The plan is to serve Neapolitan-style pizza. There will be a full-scale restaurant/kitchen setup. While some live acoustic music is envisioned, the Gutter on the Lower East Side is not meant to be a performance venue. Powers said the build-out will take five or six months once the Department of Buildings signs off on the plans. He's hoping for a November opening.
By Ed Litvak in Nightlife, Real Estate on April 17, 2018 7:07 am | Comments closed
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You play as Faye an occupant of the Village of Wish which has had a spell cast over it causing all humans to fall asleep. Faye's husband (Fidget who we discover is actually a fairy) managed to awaken Faye before being captured by the Fairy Queen of Dreams, Lilith. It is Lilith who is responsible for Wish's current slumber. You must find your way to Fidget but Lilith uses her magic to slow you down at every opportunity.
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Too simple for it's own good – Dream Chronicles lacks any real challenge, most of the time it ends up being nothing more than a pixel hunt. Searching out objects in itself could be a fun challenge if things were hidden in a crowded screen but often items will be fairly obvious or irritatingly placed on the very edge of the game screen. The ability to lean into the room does add a little bit of depth to the searching, if you'll pardon the pun.
Once you have the objects you need to complete a puzzle, the actual puzzles themselves require very little thinking on the players part. Simply placing items in the right spot or in a specific is usually the extent of the puzzles challenge. The difficulty is further reduced by the fact you will only encounter the items you need for the part of the puzzle you are currently engaged in. So while some screens may have multiple puzzles to solve the items for each one will only ("magically") appear once those preceding it have been completed.
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Dream Chronicles may appeal to people who enjoy hidden object games but better versions of the genre no doubt exist elsewhere. It may be unfair to judge it so but when a game is released on the same day as the fantastic Super Meat Boy and the wonderful Costume Quest one can't help but think it doesn't belong. Much like the objects you must find throughout the game, Dream Chronicles feels out of place.
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Q: Plotting 2D equation with infinite sum I'm trying to plot the following equation (let's call it "Equation 1"):

This is the code I'm testing:
clear all;

xl=0; xr=1;                 % x domain [xl,xr]
J = 10;                     % J: number of division for x
dx = (xr-xl) / J;           % dx: mesh size
tf = 0.1;                   % final simulation time
Nt = 60;                    % Nt: number of time steps
dt = tf/Nt/4;

x = xl : dx : xr;              % generate the grid point
u_ex = zeros(J+1,Nt);

for n = 1:Nt
    t = n*dt;         % current time

    for j=1:J+1
      xj = xl + (j-1)*dx;
      suma = zeros(100 , 1);

      for k= 1:100
        suma(k) = 4/(((2*k-1)^2) *pi*pi);
        suma(k) = suma(k) * exp(-((2*k-1)^2) *pi*pi*t) * cos(2*k-1)*pi*xj;
      end

      m = sum(suma);
      u_ex(j, n)= 0.5 - m;

    end
end

tt = dt : dt : Nt*dt;

figure(1)
surf(x,tt, u_ex');     % 3-D surface plot
xlabel('x')
ylabel('t')
zlabel('u')

The problem is that all I get is a flat surface:

Equation 1 is suppossed to be the solution of the following parabolic partial differential equation with boundary values:

And after getting the numerical solution, it should look like this:

This plot gets the right values at the boundaries x = 0 and x = 1. The plot of Equation 1 doesn't have those values at the boundaries.
My complete .m code (that plots both the numerical solution and Equation 1) is:
clear all;                  % clear all variables in memory

xl=0; xr=1;                 % x domain [xl,xr]
J = 10;                     % J: number of division for x
dx = (xr-xl) / J;           % dx: mesh size
tf = 0.1;                   % final simulation time
Nt = 60;                    % Nt: number of time steps
dt = tf/Nt/4;

mu = dt/(dx)^2;

if mu > 0.5         % make sure dt satisy stability condition
    error('mu should < 0.5!')
end

% Evaluate the initial conditions
x = xl : dx : xr;              % generate the grid point

% store the solution at all grid points for all time steps
u = zeros(J+1,Nt);
u_ex = zeros(J+1,Nt);

% Find the approximate solution at each time step
for n = 1:Nt
    t = n*dt;         % current time
    % boundary condition at left side
    gl = 0;
    % boundary condition at right side
    gr = 0;

    for j=2:J
      if n==1    % first time step
         u(j,n) = j;
      else            % interior nodes
         u(j,n)=u(j,n-1) + mu*(u(j+1,n-1) - 2*u(j,n-1) + u(j-1,n-1));
      end
    end

    u(1,n) = gl;   % the left-end point
    u(J+1,n) = gr; % the right-end point

    % calculate the analytic solution
    for j=1:J+1
      xj = xl + (j-1)*dx;

      suma = zeros(100 , 1);

      for k= 1:100
        suma(k) = 4/(((2*k-1)^2) *pi*pi);
        suma(k) = suma(k) * exp(-((2*k-1)^2) *pi*pi*t) * cos(2*k-1)*pi*xj;
      end

      m = sum(suma);

      u_ex(j, n)= 0.5 - m;

    end
end

% Plot the results
tt = dt : dt : Nt*dt;
figure(1)
colormap(gray);     % draw gray figure
surf(x,tt, u');     % 3-D surface plot
xlabel('x')
ylabel('t')
zlabel('u')
title('Numerical solution of 1-D parabolic equation')

figure(2)
surf(x,tt, u_ex');     % 3-D surface plot
xlabel('x')
ylabel('t')
zlabel('u')
title('Analytic solution of 1-D parabolic equation')

maxerr=max(max(abs(u-u_ex))),

The code is taken from the book "Computational Partial Differential Equations Using MATLAB" by Yi-Tung Chen, Jichun Li, chapter 2, exercise 3.
In short: I'm not asking about the differential equation or the boundary problem, I want to know is: Why am I getting a flat surface when plotting Equation 1? Am I missing a parenthesis?
I do not want to use the symsum function because it never stop the script execution and I want to learn how to plot Equation 1 with no using symsum.
I've tested this code with Matlab R2008b and Octave 4.2.1. I got the same results (even with sums of 1000, 10000 and 50000 terms in the for loop with the k variable).
Edit!
Thanks, Steve!
I was missing a couple of parenthesis near the cosine, the right code is:
clear all;                  % clear all variables in memory

xl=0; xr=1;                 % x domain [xl,xr]
J = 10;                     % J: number of division for x
dx = (xr-xl) / J;           % dx: mesh size
tf = 0.1;                   % final simulation time
Nt = 60;                    % Nt: number of time steps
dt = tf/Nt/4;

mu = dt/(dx)^2;

if mu > 0.5         % make sure dt satisy stability condition
    error('mu should < 0.5!')
end

% Evaluate the initial conditions
x = xl : dx : xr;              % generate the grid point

% store the solution at all grid points for all time steps
u = zeros(J+1,Nt);
u_ex = zeros(J+1,Nt);

% Find the approximate solution at each time step
for n = 1:Nt
    t = n*dt;         % current time
    % boundary condition at left side
    gl = 0;
    % boundary condition at right side
    gr = 0;

    for j=2:J
      if n==1    % first time step
         u(j,n) = j;
      else            % interior nodes
         u(j,n)=u(j,n-1) + mu*(u(j+1,n-1) - 2*u(j,n-1) + u(j-1,n-1));
      end
    end

    u(1,n) = gl;   % the left-end point
    u(J+1,n) = gr; % the right-end point

    % calculate the analytic solution
    for j=1:J+1
      xj = xl + (j-1)*dx;

      suma = zeros(1000 , 1);

      for k= 1:1000
        suma(k) = 4/(((2*k-1)^2) *pi*pi);
        suma(k) *= exp(-((2*k-1)^2) *pi*pi*t) * cos((2*k-1)*pi*xj);
      end

      m = sum(suma);

      u_ex(j, n)= 0.5 - m;

    end
end

% Plot the results
tt = dt : dt : Nt*dt;
figure(1)
colormap(gray);     % draw gray figure
surf(x,tt, u');     % 3-D surface plot
xlabel('x')
ylabel('t')
zlabel('u')
title('Numerical solution of 1-D parabolic equation')

figure(2)
surf(x,tt, u_ex');     % 3-D surface plot
xlabel('x')
ylabel('t')
zlabel('u')
title('Analytic solution of 1-D parabolic equation')

Now my Equation 1 looks much better:

Also Steve was right when pointing out that my numerical solution may be wrong. I didn't notice that the boundary values are for the derivatives of my function, not the actual values of the function. I'll ask my teacher about this.
Edit2!
Ok, I got it. To calculate the derivatives at the boundaries you have to use hint 2.21 in the same book:

% hint 2.21 given by the book
% it is better to calculate the boundary values after calculating the inner points inside the for j = 1:m loop because you will need them:
u(1, n) = u(2, n) - dx * gl; % the left-end point
u(J+1,n) = u(J, n) + dx * gr; % the right-end point

Now my numerical solution looks like my analytic solution :D
Matlab R2008b can't recognize the *= operator that Octave does. I'm not tested this operator in other versions of Matlab because I'm too poor.
Yvon: I think the analytical solution formula comes from the real part of a Fourier expansion, but authors don't tell how they got it.

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Q: Why/where is code requesting a specific version of a library? This is in Linux. I've got the source code for a small tool that I'm installing on some new hosts. I compile the code on the new hosts, but it complains about a missing library:
ldd code.so
libpcre.so.0 => not found

The new hosts have libpcre.so.1 installed. So here's my question: why is it not compiling against the .so.1 library? Why is it looking specifically for .so.0? I've searched the through source code and through a few of the header files that it includes but there's no reference to a specific version of the library.
The following document mentions "Programs, when they internally list the shared libraries they need". This seems to be heading in the right direction, but it doesn't elaborate on how or where a program would do this.

A: Ok, looking into this further, it appears that when a program is compiled and linked, the linker automatically inserts the soname of all the required libraries into the compiled binary itself:
objdump -p ip.so | grep NEEDED
NEEDED               libpcre.so.0
strings ip.so | grep pcre
libpcre.so.0

In my particular case, the program I was talking about requires the above shared object, which requires the pcre library with soname libpcre.so.0. So that's where the dependency is failing. Even though my new host has the libpcre library, it has a different soname (libpcre.so.1 instead of libpcre.so.0) and hence the failure.
What would be interesting is: does anyone know if there's a way to tell the linker to substitute a different soname instead of the one specified in the dependency list? Obviously this would not work most of the time (if the soname changes it's most likely because the new version is no longer backwards-compatible), but still would be worthwhile knowing how to do this, if possible.


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