Two-timing his girlfriend, Kitty (Moira Lister), con man Mark Bellis (Ray Milland) woos naive widow Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd), luring her into his latest criminal scheme. Olivia begins stealing from her employer, Susan Courtney (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Soon, Mark is after more loot from the Courtney household, and Olivia reluctantly agrees to blackmail Susan. But the plan isn't foolproof, and, when Olivia realizes Mark has another lover, things get even dicier.
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Q: Non-working nginx rewrite rule with multiple params I'm trying to create a rewrite rule with nginx which rewrites a non-existent image uri to dynamic page with params but failing.
/images/395.4b2a-c6b.large-red/car-image.jpg

to
/thumb.php?param1=4b2a6aa&param2=c6bc&id=395&size=large&color=red

Param details in request are:
395 . 4b2a        - c6b         . large - red   /blabla-image.jpg
id  . 4 char hash - 3 char hash . size  - color

Colours are limited with : red | blue | green
Sizes are limited too   : small | large
My non-working rewrite rule is:
location ~* \.(jpg)$ {
   rewrite ^/images/([0-9-]+)\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}+\-[a-zA-Z0-9]{3}+\.(.*)\-(.*)/(.*)$ /thumb.php?id=$1&param1=$2&param3=$3&size=$4&color=$5 last;
    }

What is wrong with this rule? Any ideas?

A: Using Nginx 1.4.2, your location produced an error with the message...

nginx: [emerg] directive "rewrite" is not terminated by ";" in /path/to/conf

It's because, as per Nginx docs...

If a regular expression includes the "}" or ";" characters, the whole expressions should be enclosed in single or double quotes.

Fixed it by enclosing the rewrite condition in quotes.

What is wrong with this rule? Any ideas?

You missed the capturing braces too.
Here's the working solution...
rewrite "^/images/([0-9-]+)\.([a-zA-Z0-9]{4}+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9]{3}+)\.(.*)\-(.*)/(.*)$" /thumb.php?id=$1&param1=$2&param3=$3&size=$4&color=$5 last;

Your solution can be improved further, like...
rewrite "^/images/([0-9-]+)\.([a-zA-Z0-9]{4}+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9]{3}+)\.([a-zA-Z]+)\-([a-zA-Z]+)/(.*)$" /thumb.php?id=$1&param1=$2&param3=$3&size=$4&color=$5 last;

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Show #2050 - Friday, July 2, 1993
[<< previous game]
Allen Collins, a high school English teacher from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
Christine Quinones, a communications consultant from New York City, New York
Camille Calman, a researcher and writer from New York City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,100)
THE 50 STATES
30-SOMETHING
THE ROARING '20s
THE 9 WORTHIES
(Alex: These are 3 heroes from Classics, 3 heroes from the Bible, and 3 heroes from Romance.)
4-LETTER WORDS
People from Rhode Island are called Rhode Islanders & people from this state are just Islanders
At age 33 in 1804, he started a new symphony, his 5th, with a Da-Da-Da-Duh
In 1925 Chicago gangster John Torrio passed his empire to this man
He had a round table that could seat more than 150
Seraphim have 6 of them: 2 to cover their faces, 2 to cover their feet & 2 to fly with
Nanny, kid or billy
Only Wyoming has fewer people than this largest state in area
These comedians were both in their 30th when paired by Hal Roach in the 1920s
This radio show starring Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll joined the NBC network in 1929
When he sacked Thebes in 336 B.C., he was only about 20
It broke out June 5, 1967
It contains water under the bridge, a castle's drawbridge
Between 1980 & 1990 the City of Gary in this state lost 23.2% of its population
In need of money in 1835, this 30-year-old Dane published 4 fairy tales
The American Chronicle says that in 1924 half a million people wrote this Michigander asking for money
Among his Paladins were Rinaldo & Roland
The 6th letter of the Greek alphabet, it corresponds to our 26th
[CLUE MISSING BECAUSE OF GAP IN TAPE]
The National Fertilizer Development Center can be found in Muscle Shoals in this state
Of the 4 regular hosts of "The Tonight Show", he's the only one who didn't start when he was 30-something
This "lithiated lemon" soft drink made its debut in 1929; it's still around today
Hector was a chieftan of this ancient city around whose walls his body was dragged
Among the 6 counties that make up this country are Londonderry & Down
Put liquor in the punch or tie up a shoe
DD: $900 15
Its southeast corner touches Arizona, Colorado & New Mexico
Madonna was 34 in 1992, when she published "Sex", & this actress was 34 in 1926, when she produced the play "Sex"
Cluett, Peabody & Company was right on target when it introduced this collar-attached shirt brand
His book is considered the sequel to Deuteronomy
This holiday is the 6th Sunday in Lent
It describes a string stretched out fully & is a homophone for instructed
Camille Christine Allen
This czarina gave her lover Grigori Potemkin the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg
This purple gemstone is associated with St. Matthias, the apostle who replaced Judas Iscariot
Allan "Rocky" Lane, who starred in many '40s Westerns, later provided the voice of this TV horse
The name of this flower precedes "of the Nile" & "of the Valley"
In 1975 she became the first woman to head a major British political party
In 1945 this playwright won his first N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award, for "The Glass Menagerie"
1 of the 7 ancient wonders, the statue of this Greek god was destroyed by fire c. 475 A.D. in Constantinople
A golden variety of topaz is named for its resemblance to this fortified Spanish wine
On the final episode of this sitcom, Felix moved out to remarry Gloria
Water is lost to the atmosphere through this part of the tree
This "March King" not only led the Marine Corps Band but Army & Navy bands as well
Keir Dullea played this Jazz Age author in a one-man show called "The Other Side of Paradise"
This religious movement of the 1500s led to the birth of Protestantism
This blue-green stone has been mined for centuries at Neyshabur in northern Iran
Ann Sothern was the voice behind the 1928 Porter on this cult sitcom
This geological science studies the forces within the Earth that cause plate activity
In the 1950s he was Secretary of State & his brother Allen directed the CIA
Of Henry IV, V, VI, VII or VIII, the only one who isn't a title character in a Shakespeare play
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled the boundary dispute between New Brunswick & this state
The precious type of this gem named for a domestic feline feature is greenish in color
After working for several years at the Tropicana, Ricky Ricardo opened up this nightclub
A halophyte is a plant that can tolerate a large amount of this substance in the soil
When named Israel's first prime minister in 1948, he was chairman of the World Zionist Organization
Chekov play in which Treplev kills a bird & lays it at Nina's feet
Approved August 27, 1789, this French document proclaimed that "men are born & remain free..."
This gem with a "sanguine" name is a birthstone for March
As the men from U.N.C.L.E., Napoleon Solo & Illya Kiryakin fought against this crime syndicate
DD: $1,000 6
The radiation belts around the Earth are named for this man who was born in the heart of the Corn Belt
A high school dropout, he dropped back in after WWII & later became Cleveland's first black mayor
This 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was inspired by a story in Ovid's "Metamorphosis"
[wagering suggestions for these scores]
Dublin's famous Book of Kells is written in this language
2-day champion: $30,701 2nd place: a trip to Reno, Nevada aboard Delta Airlines with 1-week accomodations at the Reno Hilton 3rd place: a DeLonghi espresso/cappuccino maker
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Lightning Speed: Bolt Sets Twitter Olympic Record
The Telegraph , Sunday, August 12, 2012 1:57 PM
The official Twitter account revealed the new record after Bolt successfully defended his 200m title and became the first athlete in history to retain both the Olympic 100m and 200m title. Bolt also took to Twitter to express his happiness at his gold medal win. "Thanks to all my real fans and people who believe in me. I am now a living legend that's for sure," he tweeted to his 1.3 million followers. The tweet was retweeted more than 8,000 times and favourited by nearly 2,000 people.
Read the whole story at The Telegraph »
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I have picked up a few of the Kylie LipKits and their quality is amazing. They last for hours on end. I highly recommend these to anyone! But let's be real, they aren't cheap and they can be very hard to get. I wasn't able to get one for the first few releases, so I "settled on" ordering ColourPop lip glosses instead. I use quotations because there really isn't a difference in the product of the gloss itself. Continue reading to learn more!
I recently ordered the Kristen LipKit which was a new summer release. I wasn't able to get it on the first round when it was released, so I ordered the ColourPop Bumble in the meantime ($6) to hold me over. I had heard that they were similar - and now that I own both I can say they are super similar! There are very subtle differences on the color swatch between the two, but once applied, they look even more similar on me.
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Taiwan hit by power outages
Christian Fernsby ▼ | March 3, 2022
Taiwan reported a massive blackout on Thursday that is affecting its two biggest cities as well as its most important iPhone processor production hub.
Over 5 million households were affected by the power outages, including in Taipei, the capital, and Kaohsiung, the second-biggest city.
Taiwan Power Co. said in a brief statement that its southern power grid system encountered a malfunction causing blackouts in southern Taiwan. Knock-on effects from the outage triggered power outages in some parts of northern and central Taiwan as well.
The malfunction took place at Kaohsiung's Hsinta Power Plant, the biggest power plant in southern Taiwan, according to the company. The iPhone processor production hub is in Tainan, in southern Taiwan.
Economic Minister Wang Mei-Hua said a government team was doing its best to restore power to northern Taiwan by noon. To deal with the malfunction, Hsinta Power Plant must be cut off from other power plants, she said, explaining that it will then take time to restore and restart those plants.
"Southern Taiwan will take more time to restore power," Wang said. "Restarting power plants takes some time, too."
On Thursday afternoon, the government said that power had been restored to 75% of the 5.49 million households affected, with the remaining power to be restored by Thursday night.
President Tsai Ing-Wen, meanwhile, apologized for the massive power outage. ■
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Four honored with School of Science teaching prizes
The School of Science recently announced the winners of its 2018 Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education. The prizes are awarded annually to School of Science faculty members who demonstrate excellence in teaching. Winners are chosen from nominations by students and colleagues.
Ankur Moitra, the Rockwell International Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, was awarded the prize for graduate education, for course 18.S996/18.409 (Algorithmic Aspects of Machine Learning), which he designed. Notes from this class have been turned into a monograph, which has already been used in courses across the country. Nominators said Moitra distinguishes himself as an inspirational, caring, and captivating teacher.
Paul O'Gorman, an associate professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, was also awarded the prize for graduate education, for his teaching of 12.810 (Atmospheric Dynamics). Nominators noted that his class was well-organized with clear expectations set, and they also lauded his humorous, engaging, and passionate teaching style.
Kerstin Perez, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, was awarded the prize for undergraduate education, for her outstanding mentoring of undergraduate students, specifically women and students of color. In addition, nominators noted Perez consistently receives top marks for her classes, 8.13 (Experimental Physics) and 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism).
William Minicozzi, the Singer Professor of Mathematics, was also awarded the prize for undergraduate education, for his teaching of 18.02 (Multivariable Calculus), one of the General Institute Requirement subjects. Students consistently praise his clarity, ability to engage the class, and sense of humor. Nominators also note Minicozzi's ability to treat difficult topics at an appropriate pace in his upper-level undergraduate courses.
The School of Science welcomes Teaching Prize nominations for its faculty during the spring semester each academic year.
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Types and meaning of the branes
Peter Woit is trying to find out what a brane is, how does it differ from a string, and whether it is useful, disastrous or necessary for making predictions. Because it is an elementary but a very important question, it may be helpful to try to help him out of his confusion - a confusion that was magnified by Peter's reading of the comments by Warren Siegel that, as I believe, are also kind of confusing.
Da brane
First of all, let me start with a rather formal definition. The word "brane", created by removing "mem" from a "membrane", is a generalization of a "membrane" that can have an arbitrary number of spatial dimensions. A brane is allowed to be "thick"; it's important that it is localized in some directions, however. There are some dimensions parallel to the brane, and some dimensions that are transverse to the brane. Moreover, we require that the brane does not destroy any rotational symmetries between the dimensions transverse to the brane, and it also preserves the translational and Lorentz symmetries involving the dimensions along the brane worldvolume which is the subspace of spacetime spanned by time as well as the spatial dimensions of the brane. The fact that we require the Lorentz symmetries to be preserved means that we're talking about "relativistic branes".
The last condition implies that a sheet of paper is not quite a brane because the Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken by the sheet of paper: there is a preferred reference frame associated with the atoms of paper. The rubber band is another example of a non-relativistic brane. The real, relativistic branes don't have such a special reference frame.
Are there some simple examples of branes? Yes. All point-like particles are examples of a 0-brane, where the figure 0 counts the number of spatial dimensions. Black holes may also be treated as 0-branes. When string theory was getting started, people thought that no particle was really point-like - a statement that we will have to clarify later in this article. In a similar way, the fundamental strings in string theory are examples of (relativistic) 1-branes because they have 1 spatial dimension plus one time - these two dimensions together form the worldsheet, a history spanned by the oscillating strings in spacetime.
The fundamental strings are very special and they're the only objects that can describe spacetime interactions while avoiding the ultraviolet (short-distance) divergences. They have more dimensions than zero, so that the short-distance physics in spacetime is regulated by their finite extent - the interaction is smeared out over a finite region. But their worldsheet dimension is two, which turns out to be the maximal number of dimensions that avoids the ultraviolet divergences of the worldsheet (or worldvolume) itself. The internal dynamics of higher-dimensional branes has its own short-distance problems, analogous to the short-distance problems in spacetime.
This argument was known to pick the relativistic strings as a special kind of object - and the spacetime observables like the scattering amplitudes could have been calculated from the correlators of some operators in a two-dimensional conformal field theory, a special kind of quantum field theory defined on the two-dimensional worldsheet. (Conformal symmetry is another thing that has very special properties for the two dimensions of the worldsheet, but I don't want to discuss it in this text.)
Black p-branes
That was the situation in string theory before 1995. But nevertheless, there were always some other branes in the game. Recall that 0-branes are 0-dimensional objects, by which we really mean that they are localized in all spatial dimensions. Clearly, the black holes may be classified as a new type of 0-branes. Moreover, there exist other solutions for the so-called black p-branes. Note that the letter p is a mathematical variable counting the number of their spatial dimensions. These black branes generalize the Schwarzschild solution - and other solutions (we should be really talking about the Reissner-Nordstrom solution) - but they are not localized in all spatial dimensions of the spacetime. Instead, they're extended in some of them. It means that the metric does not depend on these dimensions parallel to the "worldvolume" of these branes.
OK, so we know what are the black 1-branes, black 2-branes, and so forth.
D-branes
But you've also heard about D-branes, haven't you? How were they discovered? For closed string, a special symmetry called T-duality was known for the closed strings. If you study closed strings propagating on a spacetime whose one dimension has a shape of a circle, these closed strings are able to oscillate and wiggle but also do the following two simpler things:
they can have a momentum along the circle which is, much like for point-like particles, quantized, n/R
they can be wound on the circle w times
It turns out that both the momentum as well as winding adds a contribution to the energy of the string - more precisely, the squared energy (or mass) has contributions (n/R)^2 from the momentum as well as (w.2.pi.R.T)^2 from the winding. Here T is the tension of the string, the mass per unit length. Note that there is a symmetry between n,w: both contribute quadratically. If you exchange the momentum and the winding, and you change R to 1/(2.pi.T.R) - essentially the inverse value of the radius - you will obtain the same spectrum of possible energies because the two contributions will simply interchange.
This symmetry applies to all states of the closed string, including the oscillating ones, and it is preserved by the interactions. It's called the T-duality - a symmetry whose validity can be proved in perturbative string theory. It implies that a Universe with a dimension smaller than a critical size is exactly equivalent to another Universe with another dimension which is larger than this critical size.
Note that it was important that the string could wind. But the open strings cannot be wound around anything, but they can still have a momentum. How does T-duality act on them? What is the momentum exchanged with?
The answer was already found in 1989 by Petr Hořava and Joe Polchinski et al. The answer is that the action of T-duality on a theory with open strings actually creates a slightly different theory: a theory with a Dirichlet brane or a D-brane for short. The name "Dirichlet" refers to the Dirichlet boundary conditions satisfied by the coordinates transverse to the D-brane, which is a function defined on the string that must be equal to a specific value at the string end-points (this is called the Dirichlet boundary conditions).
T-duality then acts on the open strings as follows:
In the original theory, we have open strings ending anywhere in space, and the momentum can be anything. For example, the momentum along the z-direction is quantized if the z-direction is compactified. The fact that the open strings can end anywhere may also be rephrased by saying that the open strings must end on a D-brane which is filling the space.
If we T-dualize along the z-direction, for example, we create a D-brane that looks like a "horizontal" sheet of paper, given by the equation z=const. The original open strings, that have an arbitrary momentum and ended anywhere, are mapped to new open strings that must end on the D-branes. Their momentum in the z-direction must vanish, because their endpoints are glued to the brane, but their winding can now be effectively anything, because such an open string can be wound many times before the end-point terminates at the same brane.
These open strings therefore only have either momentum (for the open strings ending on the space-filling brane - which is a D25-brane for bosonic strings or a D9-brane for the ten-dimensional superstrings), or winding (for the open strings ending on the sheet, the codimension one D-brane), and these two integers are interchanged by T-duality. That was a nice observation back in 1989, but no one was interested in it because no one wanted to consider these ugly surfaces (D-branes) that were clearly violating various spacetime symmetries and were "unnatural".
In the early 1990s, people used to discuss various topics during the lunch. For example, in the first part of the lunch, they would discuss p-branes, and in the second part of the lunch, they would chat about the D-branes. No one noticed that these objects sounded similar. ;-)
Polchinski's revolution
Everything changed in 1995 when Polchinski revolutionized the whole field of string theory. He showed that these strange D-branes on which the open strings can end are actually not uninteresting, bizarre modifications of string theory. Instead, they're real physical objects that have several newly discovered properties:
D-branes are dynamical. They're very heavy, but they can still oscillate. They're sources for forces - such as gravity - and they're also affected by forces from others.
All features of these oscillations, as well as dynamics and interactions of various new fields "stuck" to the D-brane are described exactly by open strings and their interactions, much like gravity and other forces in spacetime are described by closed strings. The relevant technology is again two-dimensional conformal field theory, but the worldsheets are allowed to have boundaries ending on D-branes.
Most importantly, D-brane carry charges - you should imagine a generalization of the electric charge.
The previous property implies that D-branes are actually physically identical objects to the black p-branes. They carry the same charges and they have the same mass. Actually, I was oversimplifying when I described the black branes: they're more like the generalized extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black holes with extra dimensions.
How can a D-brane, an infinite sheet of "paper" inserted into spacetime, be equivalent to a black brane, a black-hole-like solution that curves spacetime so much?
The answer is that string theory contains a coupling constant g - actually it is a dynamical scalar field in string theory called "the exponential of the dilaton", not an arbitrary parameter. Newton's constant is proportional to g^2. If the coupling constant is small, the best description of the brane is in terms of a D-brane that has almost no effect on the surrounding geometry. If the coupling constant becomes large, gravity grows stronger and it is better to describe the object as a black p-brane. More generally, the object both curves the geometry around, but it is also affected by excited open strings connected to it, and one needs the full string theory to describe what happens.
At the popular level, this equivalence between the black branes and D-branes sounds almost like Maldacena's AdS/CFT correspondence, even though it took two more years for people to appreciate it. One can focus on the "near-horizon" geometry of the black 3-branes, for example and it looks like five-dimensional anti de Sitter space (5 is 3+1+1, where 3 spatial dimensions come from the 3-branes, 1 is time, and the last 1 is the radial dimension) multiplied by a five-dimensional sphere, and type IIB superstring theory lives there. Equivalently, one can see that physics near the horizon is equivalent to the low-energy limit of the D3-branes.
Consequently, the gravitational type IIB theory (string theory that can be approximated by type IIB supergravity at low energies) is equivalent to a simple, four-dimensional gauge theory defined in flat space - the low-energy limit of the D-brane description. The two descriptions are more useful and "natural" in different regions of the parameter space and the AdS/CFT correspondence is the key quantitative example of the holographic principle in quantum gravity.
Wrapped branes and charges
When people finally understood that p-branes were really D-branes, they started to apply them in many ways. Andy Strominger was the first person who calculated that "wrapped" D3-branes actually regularize some divergences of the "conifold", a singular generalized manifold with a cone-like singularity in it. The low-energy theory for strings propagating on a certain singular space looks singular, but Strominger showed that there is a perfectly non-singular theory that contains the fundamental strings but also wrapped D3-branes. The singularity in the theory with strings only is reproduced if these D3-branes are "integrated out".
People studied various ways to "wrap" the branes on various "cycles" - submanifolds of the manifold of hidden dimensions of string theory. Each wrapped brane behaves like a charged object - each kind of wrapping a brane around a different homology cycle gives you a different type of an electric charge. These possible charges were first classified by homology, but homology was then seen to be superseded by K-theory - that used to be a purely mathematical subject, but was realized to be a more precise way to describe the possible ways how to wrap branes. I recommend you e.g. the recent article of Greg Moore for the mathematicians if you're interested.
Calculating with branes
But what I really want to fix in this article are the comments about our ability to calculate facts about the branes of different types. As indicated above, the D-branes are completely calculable at the weak coupling, and their internal dynamics is described by string theory - all the fields that propagate on their worldvolume (such as the scalar fields that remember the position in the transverse coordinates) are associated with open string states - open strings attached to this D-brane.
Besides string theory in 10 dimensions, there is also M-theory, a sibbling of string theory that exists in 11 dimensions. M-theory allows two types of branes to exist: M2-branes and M5-branes. M-theory in 11 dimensions has no strings, so there can't be any D-branes in 11 dimensions because D-branes are the branes on which the strings can end, and it's not possible without the strings.
Instead, M-theory has membranes which are kind of "fundamental" objects, but not quite. When we compactify M-theory on a circle, we obtain a 10-dimensional theory - namely type IIA string theory - and the M2-branes with one dimension wrapped on the circular dimension become the fundamental type IIA string.
As explained above, we can't really create a field theory based on M2-branes because they have worldvolume short-distance divergences. But that does not mean that M2-branes are unpredictable, as Peter and Warren kind of wanted to indicate. The dynamics of M2-branes is completely unique and fixed - for example, we can calculate it from Matrix theory that may be understood as "the correct" regularization of the worldvolume theories of M2-branes.
There exist questions about branes in sufficiently complicated situations that we're not able to calculate yet - for some of them, not even in principle - but there exists absolutely no indication that a question about brane dynamics could be ill-defined or ambiguous. There have been a plenty of questions and we could have answered a large portion of them. All of these answers turned out to be unique, beautiful, and illuminating, and there is simply no rational reason to think that something about the branes could have ambiguous answers or make string theory "unpredictable", as Peter Woit tried to suggest. The exact dynamics of branes is governed by the full structure of string/M-theory which is not just some naive local theory in spacetime. It is not a naive local theory in the worldvolume either - the fundamental strings are perhaps the only exception because their dynamics is a local two-dimensional field theory.
We have learned quite a lot about string theory and its accurate calculations in lots of different contexts - some of these calculations are dual or equivalent to each other. We have not learned everything about the question "what string theory is", but it may be just a temporary state of affairs. Warren's statement that "string theory is just a toy model" cannot be substantiated by anything material today - toy model of WHAT? - and I tend to guess that eventually we will prove that Warren's statement is simply wrong.
M-theory: broad and narrow meaning of the word
Also, Warren's viewpoint that M-theory is more fundamental than string theory is kind of obsolete, I think. 11-dimensional M-theory is just another limit of the "big string/M-theory" - it differs from the five perturbative string theory limit by its having no "fundamental strings". It also differs by a larger spacetime dimension - in this sense, M-theory is more "geometrical" than 10-dimensional string theory. But otherwise it is just another description of physics that has many other descriptions - each of them being very useful in a different limit of the parameter space.
Before people knew much about M-theory in 11-dimensions, they thought that it would answer all questions about string theory. The BFSS Matrix theory was found and it became clear that it contains all answers about M-theory in 11 dimensions, but in order to address the questions of various compactifications, new matrix models must be found. These insights made it clear that there is a "narrow" meaning of M-theory - the description in terms of an eleven-dimensional spacetime that looks like eleven-dimensional supergravity at low energies - and the "broad" definition of M-theory that includes everything good that the string theorists have ever studied.
One must distinguish these two definitions carefully. It is not correct to say that 11-dimensional M-theory is more fundamental than type IIB string theory in 10 infinite dimensions, for example. In fact, the latter can't be obtained by any finite compactification of M-theory. Because Imperialist Capitalist Pig found this statement strange, let me say a couple of words about their duality.
M-theory / type IIB duality
Eleven-dimensional M-theory is a description of string/M-theory in an 11-dimensional spacetime. By compactifying M-theory on a circle (i.e. taking the spacetime to be a product of R10 times S1), we obtain type IIA string theory in 10 dimensions. Its coupling constant is determined by the radius of the circle.
Now, type IIA is T-dual to type IIB. T-duality is explained at the beginning of the text. It means that type IIA on a short circle is equivalent to type IIB on a long circle, and vice versa. Both of them are theories with 9 large dimensions.
If you combine two previous paragraphs, you will see that M-theory compactified on a two-torus (i.e. the product of 2 circles) is equivalent to type IIB string theory compactified on a circle. Let me emphasize that this equivalence between M-theory and type IIB is absolutely exact. The relation between the parameters is a bit surprising:
The coupling constant of type IIB string theory is given simply by the ratio of the radii of the two circles that form the torus in M-theory
The radius of the circle in type IIB is inversely proportional to (a positive power of) the area of the torus of M-theory
The first point, incidentally, implies S-duality of type IIB. It's the statement that the theory with a large value of a coupling constant g is equivalent to the same theory with a small value of the coupling, g'=1/g. Using the relation between type IIB and M-theory, S-duality simply follows from the symmetry of the torus interchanging its two "sides".
The second relation between the two parameters is even more interesting: if we want to get the "decompactified" 10-dimensional type IIB string theory - i.e. the limit in which the circle in type IIB goes to infinity - we must take M-theory on a torus whose area goes to zero!
You know, in field theory you would expect that if you take an 11-dimensional theory and define it in a spacetime whose 2 dimensions are very tiny, you will obtain a 9-dimensional theory. The two dimensions simply disappear and you subtract them. However, string theory is not just some garden variety field theory: in string theory, you will obtain a ten-dimensional theory! Why is it so? It's because M-theory also admits M2-branes (membranes), as discussed previously, and these M2-branes may wrap on the small torus. Because the torus is small, these wrapped M2-branes will be very light (the mass is their tension times the area, in the simplest configuration), and by wrapping a large number of them, we can change the energy almost continuously. In fact, the winding number of these M2-branes is the same as the winding number w of the fundamental type IIA strings, and as we explained previously, using T-duality it is interpreted as the momentum n along the circle in the T-dual type IIB string theory.
For a small two-torus in M-theory, the wrapped membranes form a continuum; it is the continuum of momentum modes in type IIB, and if momentum becomes continuous, it means that the dimension becomes non-compact. It's not just this qualitative argument: we can prove the equivalence more exactly.
The left hand is not the right hand
Another interesting feature of type IIB string theory is that it is left-right asymmetric. For example, all of its gravitinos (supersymmetric partners of the graviton) are left-handed, if you define the word properly. In field theory, you could never obtain a left-right asymmetric theory by compactifying another theory on a circle: there is always a symmetry under the left-right flip in the "large" spacetime combined with the reversal of the circle (it was a rotation by pi before you compactified) - and this combined operation can always be named "parity" or "left-right symmetry". In string/M-theory, you often obtain "chiral" theories i.e. theories that distinguish between the left and the right. It's important in the Standard Model - for example, neutrinos are always left-handed. Heterotic string theory is also chiral, even if you compactify it on the Calabi-Yau manifold (which was the most classical "unique" way how superstring theory was believed to contain the real world).
One also obtains left-right asymmetric, chiral theories if she includes boundaries into M-theory. The boundaries of spacetime in 11-dimensional M-theory are called the "Hořava-Witten domain walls". They can be proved - by anomaly cancellation and other means - to carry a gauge field with a gaugino whose gauge group is the exceptional group E_8, and these domain walls also distinguish between the left and the right.
String/M-theory implies not only the existence of gravity: it also implies the existence of all other types of fields that we know and need - the fermions arranged in families, gauge fields, the Higgs fields - and the stringy vacua also naturally predict all the qualitative features we require - gauge interactions, Yukawa interactions, Higgs mechanism, confinement, left-right asymmetry, CP-violation, and so forth. The detailed portfolio of the particles and forces depends on the choice of the stringy vacuum - and we can get the right ones, although the right vacua don't seems sufficiently unique for us to make new unambiguous predictions beyond the Standard Model (at least so far). But the fact that we get all the qualitative phenomena and features right is highly non-trivial. Be sure that in loop quantum gravity or any other non-quantum-field-theoretical descriptions, you never get things like chiral interactions. All competitors are, in this sense, incompatible with the experimental discoveries in physics from the 1950s when parity violation was discovered. And it's not just parity violation.
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PlatoHagel Jan 7, 2005, 1:10:00 PM
Thank you Prof.Lubos Motl for the clear explanation. it is very much appreciated.
CapitalistImperialistPig Jan 7, 2005, 4:07:00 PM
Nice post, but I have a dumb question. You say It is not correct to say that 11-dimensional M-theory is more fundamental than type IIB string theory in 10 infinite dimensions, for example. In fact, the latter can't be obtained by any finite compactification of M-theory. Does this imply that one or the other must be false or only approximate? Or am I missing the point?
Luboš Motl Jan 7, 2005, 4:35:00 PM
Hi Plato! Thanks, and you may call me Lubos - especially if you're one of the most famous philosophers in history - or is it you? :-) The same comment applies to others who call me an idiot.
Capitalist: thanks, and I'm gonna add a sentence about the M/IIB duality to the article.
Anonymous Jan 7, 2005, 8:23:00 PM
Very nice, professor, and thank you. If you succeed, like here, to bridle your scorn of lqg you can educate us all.
Also: congratulations! It seems with your previous
entry you convinced Gerhard Schroeder to raise the German flood help to 500 MegaEuros.
PlatoHagel Jan 8, 2005, 5:16:00 AM
especially if you're one of the most famous philosophers in history - or is it you? :-) The same comment applies to others who call me an idiot.-------------------------------
The gangs all here, and we do not think you a idiot. Right Aristotle? That's right Plato.:)"PLato saids, I Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle saids "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth"
When you see Plato's finger up like that, and Aristotle with his hand the way it is, the struggle by whose hand reveals what in today's world, is not about rock, scissors, or paper:)


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The research produced by YU-CARE members and associates along the theme of the physiology and biomechanics of aging are impactful at the individual, organizational, and societal levels. Research spans from topics including:
Pain and Aging;
Physiology & Biomechanics and Aging; and
Physical Activity and Aging.
Pain and Aging
Bulanov V, Zakharov A, Sergio LE, Lebedev M (2021) Post-Stroke Rehabilitation with a P300 Brain-Computer Interface Combined with Robotics and Virtual Reality. A Case Series Report. International Journal of Neural Systems special issue on Brain/Neural-assistive technologies, May 2021: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3811232
Bunch M, Johnson M, Moro S, Adams MS, Sergio LE (2021) Language Games of Disability and Cure: Recommendations for Neurorehabilitation Research from a Critical Disability Studies Perspective. Disability and Rehabilitation DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2021.1982024
Gabriel GA, Harris LR, Gnanasegaram J, Cushing S, Gordon K, Haycock B, Pichora-Fuller MK, Campos JL. Vestibular Perceptual Thresholds in Older Adults with and without Age-Related Hearing Loss. Ear and Hearing. 2021 Sep 15. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001118. Online ahead of print.
Patelia, S., Fraser-Thomas, J., & Baker, J. (2021). Coaching for psychosocial assets and life skills in Masters sport. In B. Callary, B. Young and S. Rathwell (Eds.) Coaching masters sport. Routledge.
Stone, R., Gage, W. & Baker, J. (2021). The intersecting influence of age and performance stereotypes on physical and psychological aspects of stair navigation in older adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 40, 1865-1875.
Dormuth CR, Fisher A, Hudson M, Austin PC, Ernst P, Bresee L, Chateau D, Tamim H, Paterson JM, Lafrance JP, Taylor-Gjevre RM, Platt RW, Canadian Network For Observational Drug Effect Studies Cnodes Investigators. Impact of using concomitant conventional DMARDs on adherence to biologic DMARD treatment in rheumatoid arthritis: Multi-centre, population-based cohort study. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2021 Aug 19:S0049-0172(21)00156-6. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2021.08.002.
Cressman EK, Salomonczyk D, Constantin A, Miyasaki J, Moro E, Chen R, Strafella A, Fox S, Lang AE, Poizner H, Henriques DYP. Proprioceptive recalibration following implicit visuomotor adaptation is preserved in Parkinson's disease. Exp Brain Res, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s00221-021-06075-y
Eggert T, Henriques DYP, 't Hart BM, Straube A. Modeling inter-trial variability of pointing movements during visuomotor adaptation. Biol Cybern, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s00422-021-00858-w
Marcia Rioux and Tamara Daly (2019) "Constructing Disability and Illness" in Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care. Edition III Eds. Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant and Marcia Rioux, Canadian Scholars Press, 305 – 324.
Goodall, S., Gauthier, L.R., Li, M., Connor, M., Chan, V., Easson, A., Gagliese, L. (May, 2018). The impact of inflammatory cytokines and biopsychosocial factors on acute pain after breast cancer surgery. 39th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Pain Society, Montreal, QC. Canadian Journal of Pain, 2(1): A165.
Gagliese, L., Gauthier, L. R., Narain, N., & Freedman, T. (2018). Pain, aging and dementia: Towards a biopsychosocial model. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 87, 207-215.
Gauthier, L. R., Dworkin, R. H., Warr, D., Riddell, R. P., Macpherson, A. K., Rodin, G., ... Gagliese, L. (2017). Age-Related Patterns in Cancer Pain and Its Psychosocial Impact: Investigating the Role of Variability in Physical and Mental Health Quality of Life. Pain Medicine, 19(4), 658-676.
Gagliese, L., Gauthier, L. R., Narain, N., & Freedman, T. (2017). Pain, aging and dementia: Towards a biopsychosocial model. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry.
Mah, K.*, Tran, K.T.*, Gauthier, L.R., Rodin, G., Zimmermann, C., Warr, D.G., Librach, S.L., Moore, M.J., Shepherd, F.A., & Gagliese, L. (2017). Psychometric evaluation of the Pain Attitudes Questionnaire-Revised for younger and older people with advanced cancer. Submitted to The Journal of Pain. *Co-first authors
Gauthier, L.R., Dworkin, R.H., Warr, D., Pillai Riddell, R., Macpherson, A., Rodin, G., Zimmermann, C., Librach, S.L., Moore, M., Shepherd, F.A., & Gagliese, L. (2017) Age-related patterns in cancer pain and its psychosocial impact: investigating the role of variability in physical and mental health quality of life. Submitted to Pain Medicine.
Hochman, J.R., Davis, A.M., Elkayam J., Gagliese, L., & Hawker G.A., (2013) Neuropathic pain symptoms on the Modified painDETECT correlate with signs of central sensitization in knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 21(9) S1: 1236-1242.
Gagliese, L., Katz, L., Gibson, M., Clark, A. J., Lussier, D., Gordon, A., & Salter, M. W. (2012). A brief educational intervention about pain and aging for older members of the community and health care workers. Journal of Pain, 13(9), 849-856.
Gagliese, L., & Melzack, R. (2003). Age-related differences in the qualities but not the intensity of chronic pain. Pain, 104, 597-608.
Gagliese, L., & Melzack, R. (1997). Chronic pain in elderly people. Pain, 70, 3-14
Gagliese, L., & Melzack, R. (1997). Lack of evidence for age differences in pain beliefs. Pain Research and Management, 2, 19-28. [PDF]
Gagliese, L., & Melzack, R. (1997). Age differences in the quality of chronic pain. Pain Research and Management, 2, 157-162. [PDF]
Meisner, B. A., Linton, V., Séguin, A., & Spassiani, N. A. (2017). Examining chronic disease, pain-related impairment, and physical activity among middle-aged and older adults in Canada: Implications for current and future aging populations. Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, 33(3), 182-192.
Mah, K., Tran, K. T., Gauthier, L. R., Rodin, G., Zimmermann, C., Warr, D., ... & Gagliese, L. (2018). Do Correlates of Pain-Related Stoicism and Cautiousness Differ in Younger and Older People With Advanced Cancer?. Journal of Pain, 19(3), 301-316.
Gagliese, L. (2009). Pain and aging: The emergence of a new subfield of pain research. Journal of Pain 10(4):343-53.
Gagliese, L., Jovellanos, M., Zimmermann, C., Shobbrook, C., Warr, D., Rodin, G. (2009) Age-related patterns in adaptation to cancer pain: A mixed-method study. Pain Medicine 10(6): 1050-1061.
Gagliese, L., Gauthier, L., & Rodin, G.M., (2007). Cancer pain and depression: A systematic review of age-related patterns. Pain Research and Management, 20(3), 205-211
Gagliese, L., Weizblit, N., Ellis, W. & Chan, V. (2005). The measurement of postoperative pain: A comparison of intensity scales in younger and older surgical patients. Pain, 117, 412-20.
Physiology & Biomechanics of Aging
Triolo, Oliveira, A. N., Kumari, R., & Hood, D. A. (2022). The influence of age, sex, and exercise on autophagy, mitophagy, and lysosome biogenesis in skeletal muscle. Skeletal Muscle, 12(1), 13–13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-022-00296-7
Di Bacco, Kiriella, J. B., & Gage, W. H. (2022). The Influence of the Relative Timing between Pole and Heel Strike on Lower Limb Loading among Young and Older Naïve Pole Walkers. Translational Sports Medicine, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3938075
Memme, J.M., Erlich, A.T., Phukan, G., & Hood, D.A. (2021). Exercise and Mitochondrial Health. The Journal of Physiology, 599(3), 803-817. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP278853
Triolo, M., & Hood, D.A. (2021). Manifestations of Age on Autophagy, Mitophagy and Lysosomes in Skeletal Muscle. Cells (Basel, Switzerland), 10(5), 1054-. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10051054
Kathnelson, J.D., Kurtz Landy, C.M., Tamim, H., Ditor, D.S., & Gage, W.H. (2021). Utilizing the Delphi Method to Assess Issues of Sexuality for men Living with Spinal Cord Injury. Sexuality and Disability, 39(1), 33-54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-020-09673-w
Verschoor, C.P., & Tamim, H. (2019). Frailty is inversely related to age at Menopause and elevated in women who have had a Hysterectomy: An analysis of the Canadian longitudinal study on aging. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological and Medical Sciences, 74(5), 675-682. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/gly092
Yoo, S.A., Rosenbaum, R.S., Tsotsos, J.K., Fallah, M., & Hoffman, K.L., (2020). Long-term memory and hippocampal function support predictive gaze control during goal-directed search. Journal of Vission (Charlottesville, Va), 20(5), 10-10. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.5.10
Oliveira, A.N., Karmanova, L., Murugavel, S., Yanagawa, B., & Hood, D.A. (2020). Enhanced Mitochondiral Turnover in Aged Human Right Atrial Tissue. The FASEB Journal, 34(S1), 1-1.
Picca, A., Saini, S.K., Mankowski, R.T., Kamenov, G., Anton, S.D., Manini, T.M., Buford, T.W., Wohlgemuth, S.E., Xiao, R., Calvani, R., Coelho- Junior, H.J., Landi, F., Bernabei, R., Hood, D.A., Marzetti, E., & Leeuwenburgh, C. (2020). Altered Expression of Mitoferrin and Frataxin, Larger labile Iron Pool and Greater Mitochondrial DNA Damagein the Skeletal Muscle of Older Adults. Cells (Basel Switzerland), 9(12), 2579-. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9122579
Bury, N. A., Jenkins, M.R., Allison, R.S., & Harris, L.R. (2020). Perceiving jittering self-motion in a field of lollipops from ages 4 to 95. PloS Once, e0241087- e0241087. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241087
Stone, R.C., Gage, W.H., & Baker, J. (2020). The Intersecting Influence of Age and Performance Stereotypes on Physical and Psychological Aspects of Stair Navigation in Older Adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 733464820965340-733464820965340. https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464820965340
Kiriella, J.B., Di Bacco, V.E., Hollands, K.L., & Gage, W.H. (2020). Evaluation of the Effects of Prescribing Gait Complexity Using Several Fluctuating Timing Imperatives. Journal of Motor Behaviour, 52(5), 570-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2019.1654971
D. Kathnelson, J., Kurtz Landy, C.M., S. Ditor, Tamim, H., & Gage, W. (2020). Examining the psychological and emotional experience of sexuality for men after spinal cord injury. Cogent Psychology, 7(1), 1722355-. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2020.1722355
Kathnelson, J.D., Kurtz Landy, C.M., Ditor, D.S., Tamim, H., & Gage, W.H. (2020). Supporting sexual adjustment from the perspective of men living with spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord, 58(11), 1176-1182. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-020-0479-6
Curtis, A.F., Turner, G.R., Park, N.W., & Murtha, S.J.E. (2019). Improving visual spatial working memory in younger and older adults: effects of cross-modal cues. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 26(1), 24-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2017.1397096
Yu, W.W., Randhawa, A. K., Blair, S. N., Sui, X., & Kuk, J.L. (2019). Age- and Sex- specific all-cause mortality risk greatest in metabolic syndrome combinations with elevated blood pressure from 7 U.S. Cohorts. PloS One, 14(6), e0218307-e0218307. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218307
Al-Khalidi, B., Kuk, J.L., & Ardern, C.I. (2019) Lifetime risk of cardiometabolic mortality according to vitamin D status of middle and older- aged adults: NHANES III mortality follow-up. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 186, 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2018.09.007
Hood, D.A., Memme, J.M., Oliveira, A.N., & Triolo, M. (2019) Maintenance of Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria in Health, Exercise, and Aging. Annual Review of Physiology, 81(1), 19-41. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physiol-020518-114310
Verniba, D., & Gage, W. (2020). A comparison of balance-correcting responses induced with platform-translation and shoulder-pull perturbation methods. Journal of Biomechanics, 112, 110017-110017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.110017
Verniba, D., & Gage, W.H. (2019). Stepping threshold with platform-translation and shoulder-pull postural perturbation methods. Journal of Biomechanics, 94, 224-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.07.027
Street, B.D., & Gage, W. (2019). Younger total knee replacement patients do not demonstrate gait asymmetry for heel strike transient or knee joint moments that are observed in older patients. Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 3592), 140-148. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30526192/
Erlich, A. T. and D. A. Hood. (2019). Mitophagy regulation in skeletal muscle: Effect of endurance exercise and age. Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise.
Hood,A., J.M. Memme, A.N. Oliveira and M. Triolo. (2019). Maintenance of skeletal muscle mitochondria in health, exercise, and aging. Ann. Rev. Physiol. 81:19-41.
Chen, C. C., Erlich, A. T., Crilly, M. J., & Hood, D. A. (2018). Parkin is required for exercise-induced mitophagy in muscle: Impact of aging. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, 315(3).
Street BD, Adkin A, Gage W. (2018). Reported balance confidence and movement reinvestment of younger knee replacement patients are more like younger healthy individuals, than older patients. Gait and posture. 61:130-134.
Carter, H. N., Kim, Y., Erlich, A. T., Zarrin-Khat, D., & Hood, D. A. (2018). Autophagy and mitophagy flux in young and aged skeletal muscle following chronic contractile activity. The Journal of Physiology, 596(16), 3567-3584.
Street, B. D., & Gage, W. (2017). After total knee replacement younger patients demonstrate superior balance control compared to older patients when recovering from a forward fall. Clinical Biomechanics, 44, 59-66.
Huang J.H., A.-M. Joseph, V. Ljubicic, S. Iqbal, and D.A. Hood. Effect of age on the processing and import of matrix-destined mitochondrial proteins in skeletal muscle. Gerontol. A Biol. Sci. Med. Sci. 65:138-46, 2010.
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Rebels Break Into National Soccer Rankings
Ole Miss Ranked 24th In Latest Coaches Poll
Photo courtesy Ole Miss Communications
OXFORD, Miss. – The Rebels added to the teams in the national rankings this week when Ole Miss (8-1-1, 1-0-0) found itself ranked No. 24 by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America on Tuesday when the organization released its weekly poll.
Ole Miss is coming off a weekend sweep that saw the Rebels open Southeastern Conference play on the road with a 2-1 win at Arkansas and a home win over UALR to close out the non-conference slate for 2013.
"At the midway point of the season it is certainly nice to be recognized in the national rankings," said Ole Miss head coach Matt Mott. "With six of our first 10 games on the road, it really speaks to the resiliency and character of the team we are putting on the field. We're looking forward to taking the field again this weekend against one of the top teams in the country in Florida and an always dangerous Auburn team."
The Rebels will take on the seventh-ranked Florida Gators at 7 p.m. on Friday before hosting the Auburn Tigers at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Admission to all matches at the Ole Miss Soccer Stadium is free to the public.
Friday night's contest against the Gators will feature a "Red Out" with replica jersey t-shirts being given out to the first 300 fans in attendance. Sunday's game against the Tigers will be "Kid's Day" at the stadium. Fans can also add to their Rebel Rewards total for attending the match and gain entry into the "5 of 10" promotion to win a Rebel Soccer scarf for attending at least five of the Rebels' 10 home matches this season.
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Seventy years of the CCP's legitimacy crisis in Tibet: Research fellow
Tenzin Tseten, Tibet Post International
Seventy years of the CCP's legitimacy crisis in Tibet. Photo: File
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Dharamshala, India —The Chinese Communist Party's seventy years of rule in Tibet has failed to cultivate its legitimacy and also has failed to win the hearts and minds of Tibetans, said a think tank of the Tibetan government in-Exile, while answering the question of the illegality of Chinese actions —it is becoming more evident the CCP lacks legitimacy in Tibet.
The official media of the Central Tibetan Administration (tibet.net) published a piece by a research fellow at the official think-tank Tibet Policy Institute and it stated that "more than 150 Tibetans mostly young people have resorted to such measures as a symbol of their dissent to an 'alien' regime."
As Beijing commemorates the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tibet remains a sore point of contention for the Chinese Communist Party since its 'peaceful liberation'. The notion of 'peaceful liberation' is best challenged by Professor Tsering Shakya. In his book The Struggle for Tibet, he raises a central question, "why are the sons and daughters of the 'liberated slaves' rising against the 'liberator'?" (Lixiong, Wang and Shakya, Tsering 2009)
To facilitate the nuanced understanding of the question, I would bring my argument based on the past seventy years of the CCP's track record of its dealing with Tibetans. In these seventy years, the CCP has failed to win the hearts and minds of Tibetans. This bold claim could be substantiated by highlighting the 10th Panchen Lama's 70,000 Character Petition, which Mao Zedong labeled it as a "poison arrow shot at the Party by reactionary feudal lords", as a case in point. Regarding the magnitude of destruction highlighted in the petition, more than 97 percent of monasteries were destroyed and 93 percent of monks and nuns were disrobed.
Ironically, the petition was written four years before the Cultural Revolution, in 1962. The scale of destruction during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution was unfathomable. The implementation of regional autonomy promised in the 17-Point Agreement became virtually non-existence during the Cultural Revolution. The policy implemented in the1990s to denounce the Dalai Lama and name-calling him such as "a wolf in monk's robe" would hurt the sentiments of Tibetan people. No wonder, the Tibetans would rise against the 'colonial' rule.
A similar question, which tackles the notion of the CCP's legitimacy to rule Tibet was raised by late Professor Dawa Norbu, "Why do the Tibetans rebel?" He argued that "Tibetans realize that they are under the non-Tibetan rule. They also know that the alien rulers have no mandate to rule over them and that they, therefore, lack the necessary legitimacy. No doubt any rule entails some degree of domination, but, according to the logic of ethnicity, a regime is legitimate if the ruling class and the ruled share the same culture, language, tradition, historical memories, etc. This logic makes Han domination in Tibet illegitimate. The Tibetan sense of legitimacy of the rule seems to be heavily bound up with the Buddhist culture of Tibet, which has shaped Tibetan identity, society, and history for the last one thousand years." (Norbu 1995)
In line with this, the Dalai Lama has remained a symbol of Tibetan nationalism and identity despite the CCP's effort to 'modernize' and make Tibet an economic proud of. No doubt that their motive behind that is to divert the loyalty from the Dalai Lama and devotion from Tibetan Buddhism. I believe this kind of trying to buy the Tibetan people's loyalty is bound to fail.
The two questions have been figuratively acknowledged by Zhang Boshu of the Philosophy Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He provided a brief analysis of how to resolve the issue of Tibet in which he pointed out that the CCP is the root cause of all the problems in Tibet. He further stressed that "the dictatorship system of the Communist Party, the arrogance and ignorance of leaders, and the extreme leftist policies pursued by them in the Tibetan areas brought terrible disasters to both the religious and laypeople of Tibet."
As a scholar, Zhang Boshu exposed the CCP's propaganda in an academic fashion. He wrote that "Chinese of my age grew up hearing songs like "The Red Sun is rising about the snowy mountains" and seeing movies like "Serfs". In those days we really believed that under the leadership of the Communist Party "the serfs have been liberated" and were living happy lives. Later, after reading a lot of historical materials, I learned that there were many untruths in the propaganda."
Tibetans right from the beginning defy the Chinese rule. The sense of discontentment was reflected through a number of protests in the past seventy years. The most recent being the 2008 protests that spread across Tibet both laterally in location and vertically in class. A year later on February 27th, a young monk from Kirti monastery in Ngaba County in the Amdo region of north-eastern Tibet, set himself on fire as a protest against Chinese rule that marked the beginning of a series of self-immolation protests in Tibet. Since then more than 150 Tibetans have resorted to such measures as a symbol of their dissent to an 'alien' regime. The majority of them were young and were born after 1959. In fact, 26 of them were at the age of 18 or below.
Therefore, the transformation of the Tibetan movement in recent years, where younger generation Tibetans shouldered the responsibility of carrying forward their elder generation's struggle, has trivialized the shortsighted perception in Beijing that the Tibet issue will vanish in thin air after the passing away of the Dalai Lama.
In these seventy years of the CCP's rule in Tibet, the Tibetans continue to look up to the Dalai Lama.
Lixiong, Wang and Shakya, Tsering. 2009. The Struggle for Tibet. Verso.
Norbu, Dawa. 1995. "Han Hegemony and Tibetan Ethnicity." SAGE.
*Tenzin Tseten is a research fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of the Tibet Policy Institute.
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Top MLB Games and Series this Weekend (June 5-June 7)
Written by Jordan Walters on June 5, 2015
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Looking to catch some top MLB betting action this weekend? If so, follow us as we give a preview of the best games and series this weekend in the section below, complete with free MLB picks at your disposal.
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Cubs at Nationals Series – June 4th -7th
The Nationals have been a solid offensive unit this season, ranking among the highest scorers in the league, while also having a good slugging percentage and batting average. Unexpectedly, the Nats were unable to get their offense going last night in Game 1 of their four-game set, and the Cubs resultantly took advantage as right-hander Jake Arrieta took center stage to lead Chicago to a 2-1 win over left-hander Gio Gonzales and the Nats. With the Nats and Cubs now tied at a 2-all record this season, today's and tomorrow's games will be hotly contested, but in the end, the Nats should rediscover their good batting and give a good showing in the rest of the series. Prediction and Free MLB Picks: Cubs Win on Friday, Nats Bounce Back with 2 Wins on Saturday and Sunday. Series Ends at 2-2.
Cardinals at Dodgers Series – June 4th -7th
The St. Louis Cardinals showed why they are the best team in the league, manhandling the NL West-leading Dodgers in a 7-1 rout last night during Game 1 of their four-game series. If you are expecting anything different in the rest of the series, trash your hopes because the Cards have owned the Dodgers recently, including knocking them out of the MLB playoff twice in the last two seasons. Prediction and Free MLB Picks: Friday – In tonight's game, a win should be guaranteed for St. Louis, considering the Cards are on a 8-2 run and 8-2 in Carlos Martinez's last 10 starts, while lefty LA's lefty Brett Anderson has been struggling with his team going 1-3 in his last 4 starts. Series – Cards win the series 3-1, as the Dodgers claim one of the wins either on Saturday or Sunday.
Angels at Yankees Series – June 5th-7th
The NL East continues to be a juggernaut of powerful competition, as the Yankees hold on to a narrow lead at the top of the division, with just 5.5 games separating the top and bottom team in division, as of Friday morning. The Angels, meanwhile, are 2nd in the AL West, trailing the red-hot Astros by 5.5 games and are looking to make round through their three-game set in New York, starting tonight. Considering the Yankees are 13-9 against the LA Angels in the last three seasons and they come into this game on a three-game winning streak, while the Angels are trotting on two-game slide, New York looks most likely to take full advantage of its home advantage to claim the series. Prediction and Free MLB Picks: A sweep could be in the offing here, as the Yankees broom-off the Los Angeles. Still, with just a 12-10 record at home this season, I don't see the Yankees taking care of the business perfectly. I'll therefore go with LA's Jered Weaver getting the better of NY's N Eovaldi tonight, giving the Angels a win in Game 1, and then the Yankees will bounce back with wins in Game 2 (tomorrow) and Game 3 (on Sunday).
Bonus MLB Picks for Friday's Games:
Astros at Blue Jays, 7.07 PM ET:
The Best play on the MLB lines for this game would be to bet on the total lines. Entering this game, the Blue Jays are averaging 5.3 runs at home and 5 runs per game against right handers. In addition, the total has gone OVER in 6 of Toronto's last 8 Friday games. Meanwhile, the Astros have been lighting up the scoreboard on the road, averaging 5.2 runs per game away from home. An OVER total therefore looks like the smartest bet here.
Orioles vs. Indians, 7:10 PM ET:
Take Cleveland's offense to cause all kinds of trouble for Chris Tillman, who is yet to find his footing in 2015, giving the Indians the win this Friday. Sources: ESPN: http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30041/brett-anderson
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This year, we proposed to move the year 7 Celebration Evening from the school hall to the Tradies Club with a dinner. It did not gain the interest that we thought it would and as such, we are re-scheduling the celebration evening and holding it at the school as we have done in previous years. My apologies for any inconvenience caused by this change. It was something we thought we would give a go but understand that it would not suit everyone.
For those who have already paid, refunds will be paid in full.
The start to high school is an exciting time for our kids and us as parents. Our celebration evening is a fantastic way to acknowledge the successful start to high school, while being informed a little more about what students are learning and their experiences along the way.
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Ella, Lucas and Julian reflect on their time so far at Re-Member and on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Today we visited the Badlands and went for a short hike into the majestic, rugged peaks of the surrounding hills. We spent 30 minutes in silence connecting with the beauty of nature and the spirit that dwells there. Everyone entered into the silence willingly and gladly. Afterwards we spent time and had lunch at the Badland's Visitor Center where many had a chance to speak with Corbin, a Lakota Park Ranger. After lunch, we made our way Feather Two, the future site of Re-Member that will be able to house more volunteers, and also provide gardening areas for the local Lakota. Feather Two is located on 120+ acres of great farm land with the Porcupine Creek running through it. This future site will fulfill a true need for the people because it is truly a food desert on the Reservation.
What does "food desert" mean? Basically that fresh fruit and vegetables are simply not available. The only food people buy and eat is processed foods that contain high amounts of fats, added sugars, and carbohydrates. Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and many other books, call these things, "food like substances". It was very eye-opening to see at the local market – one of three and all with many miles to separate them – the lack of fresh food. In fact, the bagged lettuce for sale was rancid and costs $4.50 or more a bag. No wonder the Native Americans have such high rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, etc. – all conditions associated with the Western Diet. So, Feather Two is very much needed.
Ted, the leader of Re-Member, was there to introduce us to Feather Two and to pitch a very simple need – funding. Re-Member needs 1.5 million dollars to complete the project. Ted made a commitment that 50% of the labor will be Lakota.
After our visit, we headed to Wounded Knee. Here Dakota High Hawk spoke to us about what happened there on December 29, 1890. It was nothing less than a massacre of nearly 500 Native American men, women and children by the U.S. military. A people who had come in peace and under the flag of truce and were cut down by the new automatic machine guns at the time. It was an act of cowardice and remains today as the only military action with the highest number of military honors/medals awarded to soldiers. All the dead were buried in a mass grave after being left out in a blizzard for three days. Amazingly some were still alive and buried anyway. One baby – a little girl – was recused and taken by the leading officer, raised, and put on display as the only survivor of Wounded Knee. She committed suicide in 1929 and is buried at Wounded Knee. Dakota High Hawk knows the history well. His relatives were murdered at Wounded Knee. We visited the site in silence and spent time in espacio around the mass grave.
We headed back to Feather One – the original Re-Member site – and had dinner (pasta & salad). That evening Inela-Wakan – Quite Spirit – spoke to us and his words were powerful. He first prayed and sang in Lakota to the Four Directions and prayed for all those murdered and wounded in the mass shooting in Orlando, FL. He spoke about the Native American understanding of homosexuality where one person is given two spirits and they are deeply revered among the people. The young boys would be identified by the elders and allowed to grow up with the men until 12 years of age and then the women took them to nurture the boys' feminine spirit and help to developed them into the spiritual leaders of the people. He spoke of the hatred and evil that can corrupt the human spirit and cause people to kill others. He spoke of his people and their needs. He spoke to us about our being here on the Reservation. We aren't here really to serve; that's only the reason we think we're here. In fact, we are here because the Great Spirit led us here and we must remain open to discover why. He addressed the Lakota motto: Mitaku Oyasin"We Are All Related". He said this really cannot be translated. It's deeper meaning addresses the radical unity of all creation where nothing exists apart from anything else. We are all of one being.


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Q: MongoDB using $pull to delete dictionary in an array sub-document I'm trying to delete the following dict in this array:
{
"ProjectID": "8ToGTAUjT+CbcH68ZYuW8Q=="
"Tasks": [
    {
        "description": "",
        "title": "testcounter",
        "notes": "",
        "percentComplete": "100",
        "completedDate": {
            "hour": "12",
            "year": "2014",
            "day": "14",
            "minute": "43",
            "month": "11"
        },
        "completed": "",
        "ProjectID": "8ToGTAUjT+CbcH68ZYuW8Q==",
        "TaskID": "JxHddpQNSguzOqg1sdsdKtyQ=="
    },
    ......
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Tasks is a sub-document in this record.
I try to delete with this:
 db.projects.update({'ProjectID': "8ToGTAUjT+CbcH68ZYuW8Q=="},
                      {'$pull': {'Tasks.TaskID': "JxHddpQNSguzOqg1sdsdKtyQ=="}})

This however does not delete this sub-document. How can this dict in the array be deleted?

A: Try to use this code:
db.projects.update(
  {'ProjectID': "8ToGTAUjT+CbcH68ZYuW8Q=="},
  {'$pull': {Tasks:{ TaskID: "JxHddpQNSguzOqg1sdsdKtyQ=="}}}
)

The $pull expression applies the condition to each element of the tasks array as though it were a top-level document.


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By afaqs! news bureau Published: 26 Sep 2022, 4:06 IST
Instagram to allow uninterrupted longer Stories
Videos longer than 15 seconds and upto 60 seconds won't be broken up into segments.
Instagram is rolling out the ability for users to upload Stories upto 60 seconds long. With this, videos longer than 15 seconds won't be broken up into segments. The company began testing the change late last year and has now rolled it out to all users worldwide, reports TechCrunch.
The change will allow users to post uninterrupted Stories and viewers will also no longer have to continually tap to get through a long video that they may not actually want to see.
With this users now have two options when it comes to posting a 60-second video - Stories and Reels.
In June, the company increased the time limit for Reels up to 90 seconds, up from the previous 60 second-limit. Instagram also recently made a system change that sees new video posts that are shorter than 15 minutes being automatically shared as Reels.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri had said that the company would double down on video in 2022. He even hinted that Instagram would consolidate all of its video products around Reels and continue to grow the short-form product.


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Parking lot project on Istanbul vegetable garden canceled after public uproar
August 18 2014 15:22:00
The garden has become a symbolic spot for local activists, who planted their first seeds last May.
A parking lot project planned on a public vegetable garden on Istanbul's Asian side has been canceled following widespread criticism, officials said on Aug. 18.
The project was condemned by locals, particularly due to the fact that the garden, located in the Moda neighborhood of the Kadıköy district, was also designated as a gathering spot in the event of a natural disaster. In protest at the plans, locals had set up a camp in the area to prevent the construction works.
Following the protests, the Kadıköy mayor said he had applied to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality to request the cancelation of the construction permit given to a private investor.
In a public statement on Aug. 18, Kadıköy Municipality said the permit had been canceled following their request.
The garden has become a symbolic spot for the Caferağa Solidarity group, one of the many neighborhood forums set up during last summer's Gezi Park protests. Activists had planted their first seeds at the site last May and were set to harvest their first produce when construction machines showed up. The garden is also known as an important shelter for the neighborhood's stray cats.
On Aug. 17, activists have symbolically organized a commemoration for the 25th anniversary of the 1999 Marmara earthquake, attempting to raise awareness of the necessity to preserve gathering spots.
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Madison police say Saturday morning shooting may be result of gun mishandling, alcohol consumption
Posted 5:16 pm, June 25, 2019, by Christine Mitchell, Updated at 05:54PM, June 25, 2019
MADISON, Ala. - Police have revealed that a shooting on Saturday morning in Madison may have been a result of heavy alcohol consumption and gun mishandling.
Madison Police were called to a home on Mattie Court at 4:15 a.m. and found one victim with a gunshot wound. Life-saving measures were performed at the scene and the victim was transferred to Huntsville Hospital in critical condition.
Police say 21-year-old William Alexander Eckstein had three friends visiting the home he shared with his parents Friday night into Saturday morning.
"We suspect alcohol consumption was heavy," said Capt. John Stringer with the Madison Police Department.
At some point Eckstein was handling his gun, which he legally owned, and a shot was fired around 4:15 a.m.
It's still unclear exactly how the incident played out. Police say the problem is that everyone involved had consumed so much alcohol, those who were present are having trouble recalling what exactly happened.
"We don't have any indication at this point that there was an altercation or an argument, but it was irresponsible gun handling," Stringer said.
Police aren't yet calling this an accident because there was a conscious decision to drink, a weapon was involved, and there's a reckless element which resulted in Eckstein's assault charge.
"It could be upgraded if we find out some new information that indicated that it was intentional," Stringer said.
Police say it's still unclear as to why the gun was involved in the first place, but they're hoping follow-up interviews will assist in the investigation.
"After a traumatic event you want to make sure you give people the ability to sleep. It improves recall, and because we have alcohol involved, that delays it even more," Stringer said.
Eckstein remains in custody at the Limestone County Jail.
All we know about the victim is that he or she is at least 21 years old. No more information is being released because that person is still in the hospital in critical condition.
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Revenues from goods and services are expected to rise some 7% this year and then another 11% in 2008, after rising 6.7% in 2006 and 5.8% in 2005.
Increased local demand as the country experiences its fifth year of economic expansion is expected to result in 9 percent revenue growth to NIS 1.2 trillion for the country's business sectors, led by goods and services, the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce said on Tuesday as it forecast a further 9.8% jump to NIS 1.3 trillion in 2008. Revenues from goods and services are expected to rise some 7% this year and then another 11%, or NIS 82b., to NIS 830b. in 2008, after rising 6.7% in 2006 and 5.8% in 2005. "The increases stem from changes that the markets have undergone and as a result the goods and services industries will continue to be competitive and they will continue to increase the amount of money that they generate and the number of jobs they create," said Israela Many, deputy director general of economics and taxes in the FICC. Growth of 12% to NIS 175b. is expected in the business services industry this year, while the finance and securities sector is projected to grow 13.5% to NIS 27b. "The growth in these sectors can be attributed to the reforms introduced into the market by the Bachar Committee," Many noted. "Bachar opened up the market to greater competition in the finance sector and it allowed for significant growth in terms of sales in all the finance-related sectors." The capital market reforms established by the Bachar committee require the country's banks to sell their asset management businesses as a way of bringing new players into the market and reducing conflicts of interest. As a result of the reforms, said Many, some 8,500 new jobs have been created in the finance and securities sector. Meanwhile, David Artzi, chairman of the Israel Export Institute, said between the months of January-September of this year, exports of Israeli services rose to $15.3b., approximately 10% above numbers from the same period last year. Over all of 2007, Artzi expects service-based exports to reach $21b. "In 2006, Israel was ranked 31st in the world in terms of exporting services," Artzi said. "Part of the objective of the Export Institute this year was to raise our world standing." Between January-September, tourism-based service exports rose 8.5% to $2.4b., transportation exports (including shipping, port rental space and various port services) grew 17% to $3.2b and exports of computer and software services also increased 17% to $3.2b. Separately, on Tuesday, the FICC announced the appointment of Ami Lapidot as vice president of the organization and Avihu Ben Nun as chairman. Lapidot currently serves as chairman of Lapidot Pharmaceuticals, while Ben Nun is presently a director of Kardan Technologies, Bank Mizrahi and Elbit Systems.