Key lime is such a summer flavor, and especially paired with toasted coconut. It is going to take you away to a little tropical paradise without having to leave your kitchen. How is that for magic.
Melt butter in a small skillet over medium heat. Stir in the brown sugar and cook until bubbling, about 1-2 minutes. Stir in the graham cracker crumbs until a deep dark color. Turn out onto a plate to cool. Set aside.
To toast the coconut, heat a small skillet over medium heat and add the coconut. Stir frequently to evenly toast and prevent burning. Coconut is done when golden brown. Remove from heat and set aside.
Place water in a sauce pan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Once boiling, remove from heat and let sit for 5 minutes.
While the water sits, place the egg yolks in a bowl and whisk together. Set aside. Place the sugar and cornstarch in a bowl and whisk together.
After water has sat for 5 minutes, add the sugar/cornstarch mixture to the water. Whisk until well blended. Place over medium heat and whisk constantly until thick (think a pudding consistency).
Remove from the heat and add a couple spoonfuls of the mixture to the egg yolks that are set aside and whisk together. Add a couple more spoonfuls to the eggs and whisk again. This will temper the eggs so you don't end up with scrambled eggs.
Add the egg mixture to the remaining pudding mixture and whisk together. Then whisk in the lime juice, coconut extract, and food coloring. Add enough for coloring to get a nice shade of green. Pour into a bowl and let cool on the counter at least 20-30 minutes. Once cool enough cover with plastic wrap, be sure to press the plastic wrap onto the custard to avoid a film forming on the top. Place in the refrigerator.
When ready to assemble the parfaits, layer the graham cracker crumbs and lime custard and topping with whipped cream and toasted coconut. Serve immediately.


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Q: Configure the window of an NSWindowController before it appears on screen I am using an NSWindowController not I want to set some attributes (specifically the styleMask property) on the window, before the actual window is shown. However, the window property on the NSWindowController is only available once the window is already on screen.
I could use initWithWindow: on the NSWindowController but then I am no longer able to use a nib file for the content of the window (because this uses initWithWindowNibName:.
So how can I configure the view before it is shown, something similar to viewWillAppear on NSView?

A: In Interface Builder, uncheck the 'Visible At Launch' attribute. When doing this, the window is not shown when the corresponding nib file is loaded by the window controller, so you can configure your window in -[NSWindowController windowDidLoad] and then manually show it using  -[NSWindowController showWindow:].
Note that there's no -viewWillAppear method in Cocoa.

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NZ must not be tainted by 'maskophobia' - Islamic federation
"New Zealand Herald," July 6, 2011
Auckland, New Zealand - The head of a major Islamic community organisation in New Zealand says it is disappointing two Muslim women wearing veils were involved in incidents with two Auckland bus drivers, but he believes they are isolated incidents.
The two drivers were given a final warning and counselling after the incidents in May. In one case a Saudi Arabian student was left crying on the street after a bus driver refused to let her board because of her veil and in the other a driver for the same company told another woman to remove her veil.
The Saudi Arabia Consulate-General has complained to the Government about the incidents.
NZ Bus told the Dominion-Post both drivers had been sent on counselling programmes - and had been found to be suffering from "maskophobia".
"Both drivers ... claim it's not religious ... but they genuinely have a phobia of people wearing masks, hence why we have not dismissed them," general manager Jon Calder told the newspaper.
One driver had completed counselling programmes, had visited a mosque and had apologised to one of the women. The other was undergoing the same programme.
Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand president Anwar-ul Ghani today said the incidents were disappointing.
However, it was reassuring that the bus company involved had since taken steps to instruct its drivers on fundamental rights and acceptable behaviour, he said.
"The reputation of New Zealand as a country of tolerant and respectful people must not be allowed to be tainted by isolated cases such as these ones.
"While we are geographically distant we are very close in international news radar."
Ethnic Affairs Minister Hekia Parata said New Zealand had very clear laws on religious freedom.
"We recognise there are different ways in which religions reflect themselves but it's not an unfettered freedom and where security is paramount then some compromises are required," she said.
"We've seen that happen, last year there was a closed circuit court case that allowed a woman to give her evidence without having to unveil herself."
Ms Parata said New Zealand was becoming an increasingly multi-cultural nation.
"We have to encounter these challenges and find compromises that work for our country."
She did not think the bus incident required compromise.
The husband of one of the women intends to lodge an official complaint with the Human Rights Commission.
Commission spokesman Gilbert Wong told NZPA today the commission had, of its own accord, offered to mediate between the parties.
Following the May incidents the Saudi Arabian consulate had contacted the commission asking for some sort of response. The commission had written to the Saudis involved and the bus company offering mediation, and was waiting for a response.
The incidents appeared to amount to discrimination on religious and national identity grounds, Mr Wong said.

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Istanbul Film Festival
The largest, most established and most influential film event in Turkey, the Istanbul Film Festival has over the past 30 years, presented Istanbul audiences with a total of more than 3,250 films, showcasing the cinema of 103 countries, and attracting a total audience number of 3,150,000. With an audience of 150,000 in 2011, it is also considered the biggest Turkish film festival. Established in 1982 as a film week, and accredited by FIAPF in 1989, the Festival aims at encouraging the development of cinema in Turkey and promoting films of quality in the Turkish market. As such, the Festival incorporates the Meetings on the Bridge platform, and within the frame of this programme, a competitive Feature Film Project Development Workshop that was initiated in 2008, and a Work-in-Progress sidebar in order to support the Turkish film industry and Turkish film professionals. In 2015, the MoB began to accept submissions from neighbouring countries.
The Istanbul Film Festival features an International Competition (limited to films on arts and the artist or literary adaptations) with a monetary award of a total of €25,000 as its grand prize the Golden Tulip. Showcasing Turkish cinema as the most active promotional, international platform in Turkey, the Festival features a National Competition, A National Documentary Competition, and a Human Rights in Cinema competition endorsed by the Council of Europe. The festival each year screens around 200 feature films, and takes place in April.
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Q&A with Reis Çelik at İstanbul Film Festival
"Men are in the gloom!"
Director Reis Çelik talks about his film, Night of Silence
in the National Competition. In the film on child-brides, Reis Çelik is
in obstinacy just like he was in İnat Hikayeleri. He puts such a strong
actor as İlyas Salman and a beautiful young girl in the marriage room
and never leaves the room. He makes us watch the film even without
breathing for 90 minutes. The film returned with a Crystal Bear from
Berlin Film Festival, and its journey in Turkey is the object of
interest. In opposition to those asking "Is this still happening in
Turkey in 2012?", Reis Çelik believes that the film will be in demand
both during the festival and after it is released; and men will confront
themselves and change the fascist societies in the world.
Night of Silence will be screened on Monday, April 9 at Atlas Sineması at 19.00.
Interview: Ceyda Aşar
- You are interested in the hypocrisy in the society. Is
Night of Silence is some kind of revelation for what you have thought
for long?
I have been thinking about honour and religion for a long time. The
society tells the most lies on these two issues. This is a society of
lies. People are being killed because of their faith. People are being
murdered for honour. Defenders of honour are being dishonourable and
think it is allowable for them. A tribe murdering for honour can sell
their 12-year-old daughters to 50- or 60-year-old men without even
hesitating. If you say "You are a pimp if you sell a woman for money!",
they will shoot you. I don't target people or individuals in my films.
If you start your way by looking at the roots and reasons for these
structures in the society, only then you can say something. Hypocrisy in
the honour issue and the shame of child-brides are the result of
thousands years of patriarchal society. In order to prevent vendettas,
child-brides are getting married. There aren't individual here, there
are only materials and victims of social judgements. My aim was to
discuss this and to express the situation men go through.
- The male character in the film is not just guilty of being
the groom of the child-bride. Do his "masculine" crimes in the past
serve for your emphasis on the pathetic situations men go through?
What we should discuss is the structure and place of men in the society.
I don't like creating drama and tears. I don't want people to cry for
"the poor little girl". Doing this justifies the situation. When we look
at it dialectically, it is important to discuss what the dominant
character lived. The man should confront with himself. I don't think our
time puts male into a pathetic situation. We are in a horrible point
that we stab a woman in the middle of the street. If the man cannot
confront with himself, you cannot get anything good from the family he
built, the religion he believed, and his social being. We can get a
result only from his fascism, because he builds a dictatorship. Fascism
of the society and individual is the biggest danger we will ever face.
Therefore, my story is based on the male.
- One of the personalities in the mirror is İlyas Salman
himself. You said that his statement "This nation has laughed at me for
years, but I never laughed at it." impressed you. But you must have
thought of working with him before. Were you considering him even when
you wrote the script?
I cannot ever think about an actor while I'm writing. I decide
afterwards. I work with Tuncel Kurtiz for years. He was also somebody
excluded from Yeşilçam. He was angry, secluded and banished. However,
this time I needed a person with a more depressive look in his face,
somebody who will confront himself. I already knew how great İlyas
Salman is. I never doubted him. And I also felt guilty. Because he is a
great instrument and we don't use him, we ignore him. Then I enlarged a
photo of him, and made some moustache. He was just like I wanted him to
be. In the set, I demanded detailed and difficult things from him like
"Can you do this with the right side of your mouth?" and he could do
them. He was such an instrument that you could make the sound you
wanted. I watched him acting in surprise. I am very happy to work with
İlyas Salman, ignored by this country, 24 years later.
- We know that similar situations are happening in Berlin and other places. So what were the reactions to "masculinity" issues?
Three screenings in Berlin and the theatre for 1400 people was full.
Nobody left after the screening and they waited for the Q&A. The
classical question was: "Is this still happening in Turkey in 2012?" And
my answer was: "No, that's not what's happening in Turkey in 2012. It's
what's happening in the whole world in 2012! Maybe in your country, men
don't get married with 13-year-old girls, but they go to Thailand and
do the same thing!" And everyone was applauding.
Do you expect different reactions in the Istanbul Film Festival? Is winning an award also a reaction for your?
Making films is really hard especially if you are a part of the class
which makes movies by selling whatever they have. But I have a weakness;
I don't have a concern about the competition, about winning an award.
This film will meet with people. I don't think there will be anything
more exciting than feeling how the audience breathe when they see the
film. Will they give the reaction I wanted at times I want them to have a
tightness in the chest? After all these, it is enjoying to see that the
film is appreciated. I also want to add something: The film will be
released after the festival. If those who see Recep İvedik and
Fetih/Conquest will see Night of Silence and confuse the women
and men with common sense in this country, this will be the greatest
award for me. If this society can say "we watch that, but we watch this
also!", if the audience can start the discussion with itself, I think
that will be the turning point for Turkey.
- So what was the turning point for your cinema? Do you realise the difference in yourself from your first film to today?
In my first film, I stood out and cried: "Stop! We are killing each
other!" As an artist, I felt the need to cry out. In the second film, my
aim was to tell something after I got heard. I did not yell, but I
talked. I talked about the lies and Deniz Gezmiş. In my third film, İnat Hikayeleri,
I realized that what I was telling was listened to. Then I started to
talk about myself. After my third film, it was my time as a semiskilled
cinema worker and I expressed myself more delicately. I started the way
through the tradition of telling tales and expressed my story in detail.
I have many more stories to tell. We have many issues to talk about and
discuss in this country. When I was young, I saw the lights in Ardahan
and thought it was legendary and unreachable. Then I looked at Istanbul
from Ardahan, at Turkey from Istanbul. I realized that we have only one
world, this is the only place where we share together. We have to talk
everything to the rest of the world. Our exhaust fumes don't just poison
Istanbul. The world started to realise that there is no difference
between the cry of a woman from Afghanistan and Germany.
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Q: How can I hibernate my system without `sudo` access? I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and am hibernating my system by systemctl hibernate from my terminal(GNOME). Strange thing is, while calling poweroff, it is going straight into shutting down my whole system with no passwords asking. But systemctl hibernate is going for my passwords, asking Authentication is required to start 'hibernate.target'.
Any work around I can have my system hibernate without sudo priviledge?


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The contest last week featured a guest appearance by Resident Evil's Leon S. Kennedy.
I really must stress the "Keep It Nintendo" rule for this week's contest. Please keep your entries appropriate for all ages.
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Raelians censored and expelled by Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade
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After refusing to comply with censorship imposed by Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, the Raelians have been expelled after 12 years of participation in the event.
Raelian spokesperson Luke Roberts, who also speaks for ARAMIS (the Raelian Association of Sexual Minorities), explained in a statement released today that the parade committee objected both to the use of mainstream religious symbols in the word HOMOPHOBIA and to the phrase, "Homophobia is criminal bible bullshit."
In his statement, Roberts (aka Pope Alice, an icon of the Gay Movement) denounced the Mardi Gras committee's request to remove religious symbols from the word "homophobia."
"It's an absurd request considering that mainstream religions created homophobia in the first place," he said. "And use of the word bullshit is really pretty mild when there isn't a word despicable enough to describe the religious killings of millions of GLBTQ people [the acronym stands for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer] for centuries, or for the ongoing bullying, gay bashing and murders inspired by religious leaders and texts. Nor is there a word to convey the hopelessness that young gay, lesbian and transgender people feel in a world full of religious prejudice against them."
"It was a worrying development when the Mardi Gras committee pandered to religious pressure and thereby insulted the founders and the very spirit of Mardi Gras," Roberts continued. "The committee actually lost sight of the reasons this event originated. It appears that religious individuals have infiltrated Mardi Gras to pursue their agendas against gay rights and other freedoms, just as they do in schools and governments."
Roberts said it's important for those who disagree with such agendas to speak out now.
"To be silent on this serious matter is to be complicit with the censorship of free speech by the Mardi Gras board and its Parade Committee," he emphasized. "If we don't speak out against the homophobic crimes of mainstream religions, we are also complicit in those crimes, and thereby doomed to live truncated lives dominated by religious bigotry."
"That's why we're asking all gay Christians, gay Muslims and gay Jews to leave their religions. By remaining in those religions, they are hypocrites supporting crimes against their own people, and they're also giving strength to mainstream religious fervor, whether they are openly gay or not."
Roberts said the Raelian Movement understands that the Bible "has been manipulated by vested human interests and needs to be censored to remove the lies and hateful passages." But he said Raelians respect other Biblical passages that detail contact with the Elohim, a race of extraterrestrial scientists mistaken for gods by our ancestors. Raelian philosophy teaches that the Elohim "made humans in their own image and after their own likeness."
Raelians also respect Christ as one of the great prophets, along with Buddha, Moses and Mohammed.
"More than ever, we must speak out and prevent religious lobbying and prejudice masquerading as political correctness," Roberts said. "We must show that those with this agenda are putting undue pressure on Mardi Gras. And most of all, we need to ask, 'Now that you know, what can you do about it?' With that in mind, we're asking those with floats in this parade to highlight religious homophobia by displaying our message.
And we're also looking for people prepared to hang the "banned banner" on their buildings and/or in window spaces along the parade route, particularly at Oxford and Flinders Streets, or on their floats during the Mardi Gras Parade. We ask the community to assist us in getting this message out by promoting it freely and openly!"
Please help! ARAMIS (the Raelian Association of Sexual Minorities) has put out a call to all who wish to spread our message: HOMOPHOBIA IS CRIMINAL, BIBLE BULLSHIT. Please write to @ or see www.raeliangay.org.


ML, you goy my boat last year in a still that was in the Standard Times, three people called and sent me copies.
Hi Paul, Thanks for your comment and compliment on the website. Looking forward to nicer weather like that pretty soon! Maybe I'll catch your boat in a clip this season!
When i didn't see my boat in the picture i looked at the date. I'm on the empty cone shaped mooring and leave every weekend.
You are my hero!! I Look every week for your videos of the most lovely, peaceful scenes from home. Times like these are so taken for granted when you live there, and so special and beloved when you move far far away!! Thank you for these!!


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Q: How store foreach value in laravel with checkbox I have view code that get values from loop and each value have a checkbox
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This will allow you to pass an array of values.
Then in your controller when the form is submitted, you'd loop through the array of passed data:
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Eminem's success against NZ political party
Eminem, the American award-winning rapper, songwriter and producer, has been the latest artist to have copyright in his music infringed. The Judgment from a May 2017 trial in a copyright lawsuit in the High Court of New Zealand was published today and it is a victory for the rapper.
The track at the centre of the dispute is Eminem's critically acclaimed 'Lose Yourself', which won the rapper an Academy Award in 2003 and two Grammy's in 2004. Ten years later, in 2014, the New Zealand National Party used a similar sounding track in their campaign video. Subsequently, the rapper's publisher, Eight Mile Style, filed a lawsuit.
The National Party argued at court that the track used in their campaign advertisement was not 'Lose Yourself' but actually a track independently produced by a Michael Cohen entitled 'Eminem Esque' and commercially licensed by the party. Legal representatives for Eight Mile Style stated that the track was a clear infringement of 'Lose Yourself'. The lawsuit involved analysis of the two tracks by musicologists, in a trial that lasted two weeks.
The Judge considered different elements of the two tracks, including the drum beat, the melodic line and piano figures, in order to measure the similarities, before concluding that the track was sufficiently similar to, and the parts taken constituted a substantial part of, the copyright in 'Lose Yourself'. There had therefore been an infringement of copyright. Eight Mile Style was subsequently awarded damages of NZ$600,000 plus interest.
The case is the latest in a series of copyright cases in the music industry where the Courts have had to establish if a similar sounding piece of music infringes copyright.
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Pakistan to Record Highest Growth Rate in Nine Years: WB Report
ISLAMABAD, May 20, 2017- Pakistan's Gross Domestic Product growth in Fiscal Year 2017 is expected to climb to 5.2 percent — the highest in nine years -- and the growth rate will continue to accelerate, reaching 5.5 percent in FY18 and 5.8 percent in FY19.
Released twice a year, the Pakistan Development Update sets out recent developments across the economy and identifies risks and opportunities in the near-term future before focusing on a handful of key development challenges. The report was launched in Lahore on Saturday in collaboration with Lahore School of Economics.
Pakistan's growth will continue to benefit from growing consumer and investor confidence in the first half of FY17, following the successful efforts to restore macroeconomic stability during the last 4 years. The report highlights that more recently, weakening trade and fiscal balances point toward the need to continue with the reform efforts to consolidate the hard won stability.
"Pakistan's accelerating growth is good news and reflects the country's success in building confidence. But the pace of reforms has slowed and it is important for the structural reforms to accelerate," said Illango Patchamuthu, World Bank Country Director for Pakistan.
A moderate increase in investment is expected to supplement growth, driven primarily by public and private consumption. But the country's current account deficit and fiscal balances deteriorated in the first half of the financial year, which could affect the reform momentum. The report emphasized the importance of collaboration between federal and provincial governments in delivering on the country's reform agenda.
"Since the 18th Constitutional Amendment, many important reform areas are now shared responsibility. Provinces have a significant role to play in fiscal consolidation, energy sector reforms and business environment, not to mention their role in delivering high quality health and education services," said Muhammad Waheed, World Bank Senior Economist for Pakistan. "Effective collaboration between federal and provincial governments will be crucial if Pakistan has to deliver on its growth potential."
The report discusses a number of challenges that the provincial governments are facing. Using Punjab as an example, it is highlighted that while provincial own-source revenues have significantly increased in recent years, there could have been a further significant gains, if tax policy and administration reforms were implemented.
The World Bank also highlights the importance of the skilling of the youth bulge for better jobs. The Punjab Government is putting in efforts to significantly increase the scale of technical and vocational training programs in an attempt to boost job prospects for the province's 'youth bulge'. Several next steps in this area are identified in the report including the application of quality standards and the introduction of initiatives to improve matching between jobseekers and prospective employers.
In Islamabad
Shazhad Sharjeel
Tel : (92-51) 227 9641
ssharjeel@worldbank.org
Joe Qian
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World Bank Pakistan Facebook page
World Bank Pakistan Country Director's Twitter Account
Presentation on Pakistan Development Update, Spring 2017
Pakistan Development Update, Spring 2017


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Q: Codeship doesn't work with Rails multiverse gem locally all tests are passing but I cannot get rspec to run on Codeship:
Script:
bundle exec rake db:drop db:create db:migrate
DB=catalog bundle exec rake db:drop db:create db:migrate

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Failure/Error: establish_connection :"catalog_#{Rails.env}"

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end

A: Rails projects on CodeShip Basic will have their database.yml file overwritten in order to connect to default databases. I would check out the linked documentation on re-asserting your own database.yml variant.


Oh. My. Goodness. @Moultano how would you feel about me being the CDT's official baby-napper? Cause that might just happen. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO freaking cute. I'm actually vomiting rainbows right now.
The police have been called.
Woo, the Gorge has arrived! Much happiness all around. Thanks for making these a reality, Wasabi!
Everybody's got these cute kids and gorges. I tried to give my cat the gorge and it swatted at me, then ran away.
A gorge plushie costume is needed. Something the cat won't ever be able to wriggle out of.
All these kids with gorge plushies now.
Any Australians get theirs yet?
Savage tweeted back to me after asking, hopefully in the next 2 days well get something emailed!
ns2wasabione has the Australian pre orders for the gorge plush been dispatched?
has anyone from the UK received their gorge plushie yet?
None here yet also in NL.
hmm... Its a bit naughty to be taking more orders through gorgeplushie.com when you havnt even shipped orders placed over 6 months ago.
woot. Can't wait to get mine (I am in Aus).
And you have to understand that this is mostly a one person production. I'm sure the wait will be worth it in the end.
Well I got my mail today that shipment is underway.
Not received mine yet. Looks like the UK bound ones are still in transit.
When they are shipped you receive an email so, no, not even in transit.
"How long does it take to receive my order?
Domestic shipping (USA) will process within 2-3 Business days and can take up to 7 days to receive once shipped.
International shipping will process within 2-3 Business days and can take up to 20 days to receive once shipped."
You need to add that it takes over 6 months from taking the customers money to a time where they may possibly be being shipping.
I can wait till next year if necessary. But I want a confirmation if its in transit or not.
I won't wait till next year, really. 6 months is already being lenient.
I got mine just today.
For a one week trip I found it to be quite fast. Usually shipments from the USA last longer.
It was packaged in a plastic like 'bag'.
Each plushie on itself was contained in a transparent plastic bag with a few airholes.
Both plushies arrived in good condition.
In general I am not displeased with the whole time table. Lets not forget its just Wasabi doing this.
The whole family is here!
The problem is that wasabi has taken peoples money and then proceeds to not respond to genuine queries from the paying customers as to where their goods are.
Has he responded to anyone's email? Because he hasn't responded to mine.
It holds no bearing that he is a "one man operation" because he is running a legitimate trading company and has a duty to interact with the customers and actually give a response when they ask where their overdue orders are.
And lets not forget that he has been taking NEW orders since JUNE 29TH without fulfilling existing orders. That's nearly 10 weeks ago.
I've been in touch with Wasabi. He's had to re-post a large amount of orders due to them being returned due to shipping issues. For instance, all UK orders were returned & had to be re-shipped due to the way our post code system works when shipping internationally.
It's cost him $800+ of his own money to re-ship all the returned orders, but they are on their way. If you've not heard anything about your order and live outside the UK, PM him.
Cheers for the info! Poor Wasabi. Do you know how much was it to re-post each one? I might be able to throw a few quid in to cover my extra shipping at least.


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Liberal Democrat European Group
#LibDemEurope
New chair and executive team elected
David Chalmers, the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary spokesperson for Torridge and West Devon, has been elected chair of the Liberal Democrat European Group, which influences the party's European policy and campaigns.
Chalmers said: 'Teresa May's disgraceful attack on MPs and Parliament, which was reminiscent of a dictator in the mould of Hugo Chavez, was a disgraceful attempt to stir up hatred seldom if ever seen before by a British Prime Minister. She and her Brexit have become a threat to the reputation of our institutions, the safety of MPs and our traditional liberal approach to public debate. I vow to continue the fight to keep the UK in the European Union and ensure the Group promotes and protects liberal and European values.'
Chalmers supports an Exit from Brexit and was one of many Liberal Democrat European Group members on the rally on 23 March 2019 in London.
'The Liberal Democrats have consistently argued the British people should have a choice between the Government's Brexit Deal and Remaining in the EU. We are preparing to win the Peoples Vote and field candidates in European Elections. The local election campaigns in May offer us an opportunity to show how Brexit is already harming the livelihoods of the British people. This Government's obsession with taking us out of the EU has distracted it from dealing with the many pressing issues confronting our communities. We need to show voters that should the Brexiters, actually succeed in taking us out of the EU, how things will only get worse.'
The goal for the Group is to promote European policy at all levels of the party and the regions. The new executive will work with Parliamentarians and fellow Lib Dem international organisations here as well as our sister parties in the ALDE - Alliance of Liberal and Democratic Parties across Europe.
'I would like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing Exec of LDEG for all their hard work, especially Nick Hopkinson, for his stewardship of the Group over the past years. I am delighted Nick has decided to stay on as Vice Chair. We are joined by a strong team of passionate individuals, who will help to foster greater understanding of Europe and maintain our influence as a leading force on the party's European policy.'
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WEC | 2020/21 Hypercar announced
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2020/21 Hypercar announced
The announcement of the 2020/21 Hypercar regulations has rather settled the paddock at Le Mans, in one sense. At the press conference in France, the ACO and the FIA confirmed that the regulations as voted on by the FIA World Motorsport Council in December were largely written in stone, but that teams could bring a prototype hybrid, a prototype non-hybrid, a road car hybrid, and a road car non-hybrid, plus in year one they will also grandfather the current LMP1 cars that wish to race.
2020/21 Hypercar – Balance of performance
The key to the 2020/21 Hypercar regulations will be the ability to performance balance the concepts. Some say that this can be done, and will be done or the whole concept will fail, others say that it cannot be done. Power, weight, aero and hybrid deployment will all be tightly regulated, put into performance windows, including the torque curve and power delivery from the hybrid before the cars are performance balanced. With a lap time of 3m30s at Le Mans, manufacturers are looking at a relatively inexpensive way to race in the FIA WEC.
The single tyre supplier rule has not been met well by either Dunlop or Michelin, both of which want teams to have the option and to have competition between the brands. However, in a BoP world, this is a variable that the organisers cannot accommodate.
The BoP will be automated, FIA President Jean Todt reportedly against the idea that an individual or a team of engineers could decide the outcome of the race. Few believe that the BoP will be perfect first time out, but that it has been possible in GT racing after years of work and that it now is successful. The basics, as laid out by the FIA in its World Council decision on Friday, June 14, are that the 2020/21 Hypercar regulations are stable for five years, that the performance windows established and confirmed at the time of homologation will ensure cars have comparable performance levels, that the performance target at Le Mans in race conditions is 3m30s, there will be no fuel flow meters or Brake Specific Fuel Consumption (BSFC) limitation. The production cars will need to meet the same safety standards as an LMP car, which could be problematic.
2020/21 Hypercar – Teams
The 2020/21 Hypercar regulations are now fixed with enough certainty that it allowed the manufacturers to make their decisions whether or not to commit. The engineers are awaiting a final version of the regulations before finalising final spec and final costs.
Aston Martin was the first to confirm that it will come with its Valkyrie to the top class. The car will be built and developed by Multimatic after the initial design was created by Adrian Newey at Red Bull Advanced Technologies. The production car is expected to run within the next month of Le Mans, at a Grand Prix, so likely in Britain at the end of July. It will likely not race with a hybrid system, and so will rely on its Cosworth-developed 6.5-litre V12 engine for propulsi...
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"The staff at Devils Tower National Monument are planning to conduct a prescribed burn to restore the natural process of fire to the ecosystem and reduce the build-up of dead and dried fuels," announced Superintendent Amnesty Kochanowski. The fire is planned for later this month or in May. Depending on conditions, approximately 165 acres will be burned in the West Side Unit which is along the western boundary of the park.
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Honors Business Economics Chapter 3, 4 November 2010
Issued today following a two-day meeting on monetary policy was the Fed's statement.
Voting against the policy was Thomas M. Hoenig. Mr. Hoenig believed the risks of additional securities purchases outweighed the benefits. Mr. Hoenig also was concerned that this continued high level of monetary accommodation increased the risks of future financial imbalances and, over time, would cause an increase in long-term inflation expectations that could destabilize the economy."
CNBC: Fed's Big Gamble--What Could Go Wrong?
CNBC—Nov. 3, 2020— http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39985108/...
Former Fed Governor Larry Meyer discusses what could go wrong in the Fed's controversial plan to purchase more bonds.
Copyright CNBC 2010
Here's What Could Go Wrong:
It could make the weak dollar even weaker and lead to trade disputes with other countries. It could lead bond traders to believe that higher inflation is on the way, and they could derail the Fed's efforts by pushing rates higher.
Many investors argue that it may create bubbles as hedge funds and other speculators borrow cheaply and make even bigger bets on stocks, commodities and markets in developing countries like Brazil.
"It's a desperate act," says Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of the investment firm GMO. Grantham says it's a clear message from the Fed to the rest of the world: "The U.S. doesn't care if the dollar weakens."
Speaking of the 90's, David Ader, head of government bond strategy at CRT Capital, stated: "If the Fed's efforts fail we suddenly look like Japan," Ader says. "Japan started off wimpishly, then did it again, and again and then they wound up losing a decade."
Business Organizations, p. 60
Section 1 Forms of Business Organization, p. 61
Most businesses operate in search of profits. Others are organized and operate like a business, although profits are not their primary concern. There are three main forms of business organization. The first is the sole proprietorship, which is a business owned and operated by one person. The second is the partnership, which is a business jointly owned by two or more persons. The third is the corporation, which is recognized as a separate entity having all the rights of an individual. The proprietorship is the most common and most profitable form of business organization. The corporation is the largest and most visible.
One is a sole proprietorship which one individual, the sole proprietor, exercises complete control over the business. Another is a partnership in which two or more individuals combine their efforts and share the profits of the business. Under both business forms, the business is an asset owned by the owner or owner, it has no existence separate from them, and any financial or legal problems encountered by the business are their responsibility. All of the owners' assets, even those not involved in the business, are at risk. Liability is unlimited.
Chapter Three Spotlight Video
Some Real Examples
Some Final Basics
Why It Matters Today
Corporations and Stocks game
Cf. http://www.shmoop.com/corporations-stocks/game.html
Main types of business
Types reviewed and advantages and disadvantages
In-class assignment: what are the types reviewed, what are their respective advantages and disadvantages?
Sole Proprietorship, p. 62
Forming a Partnership, p. 65
Introduction to Shark Tank, 3:49
Cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9BGc3yxJ8Q&p=FB2A2A6F9312F01B&playnext=1&index=13
Shark Tank - Season 1 Episode 1 Part 1/5, 9:49
In-class assignment: how many "sharks" are there on the panel? We will divide the class into the same number of members in a small group. You have two tasks: one, do you think the "shark" you are representing will want to partner with the presenter? Two, would you want to partner with the presenter? We will go around the room and you can offer your assessment.
We need at least five people in each group. Each individual person should represent each one of the sharks. If your group has more than five members, more than one person can be "Barbara," or "Kevin O."
Please note that the shark you pick may drop out early in the first episode that you will see. Thus, you have to then remaining shark or sharks. The trick of course is to predict what each shark will do.
This is a brief introduction to each of the sharks. The actual show will introduce them in a bit more detail.
From right to left:
1) Robert
2) Barbara
3) Kevin O.
4) Daymond
5) Kevin H.
Disadvantages, p. 66
What are the differences between a general partnership and a limited partnership?
Corporations, p. 67
What is a Corporation?, 7:15
In-class assignment:
According to this video, what is a corporation? What is it composed of? What sort of characteristics are typical of a corporation?
A corporation is a very different type of business organization. Most significantly, a corporation is a business entity legally separated from its owners. When business owners decide to incorporate they secure a charter from the state government. This charter is like a birth certificate, establishing the existence of a new and separate legal entity. Once incorporated, the corporation can buy and sell property, enter into contracts, sue, and be sued... just like a living, breathing person.
In fact, that's what a corporation is: a legal "person." (The word "incorporate" shares the same root as "corpse"; it means something like "to give it a body.") The idea is that the corporation is a fictitious person, with many of the same rights under the law as a real person.
For the sole proprietor turned corporation, there are several benefits. Most importantly, his personal assets (home, car, boat, iPod) are no longer at risk should the corporation have problems. If the corporation is sued, only its assets are at risk. If the corporation goes broke, its creditors can only go after the corporation's assets. As there is a legal barrier separating the corporation and its owners, the owners enjoy limited liability.
There are other benefits as well. To finance expansion, corporations may sell stock. Most corporations, in fact, do not sell stock to the public; all of the stock is privately owned. But if a company decides to expand its capital base by "going public" it issues an initial public offering or IPO. People buying the stock acquire partial ownership in the corporation. And the more shares they buy, the larger percentage of the corporation they own. Of course, this also means that the original owners also have to share profits. These may be distributed to the shareholders quarterly in the form of dividends.
Corporations may also raise money by selling corporate bonds. Like governments, corporations may issue bonds that promise repayment over a specified period at a certain interest rate.
Another benefit of turning a sole proprietorship or partnership into a corporation is that the business becomes more durable—that is, it is no longer so tied to the health of the founder. If the founder dies, the corporation lives on. Similarly, a corporation is less dependent on the talents of its founders. As corporations grow, they are governed by a board of directors elected by the shareholders. This board selects a president or CEO (chief executive officer) to manage the corporation. A sole proprietorship may have a technically brilliant but, from a business point of view, inept founder. He may turn the business over to his even more incompetent children. But the governing structure of corporations allows management to be handed over to professionally trained executives.
Are corporations people?
The common-sense answer is no. A corporation is not, to state the obvious, actually a living human being.
But in the eye of the law, the answer is essentially yes. A series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1800s expanded the rights of corporations, eventually extending to them the crucial rights to substantive due process included in the 14th Amendment. As recently as January 2010, the Court reaffirmed that corporations have most of the rights of real people, overturning a campaign finance law on the grounds that it violated corporations' (and unions') right to free speech.
In Motion Corporate Structure
Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/in_motion_08/epp/EPP_p68.swf
Advantages, p. 68
Financially, corporations benefits from being allowed to raise capital by selling stock. In purchasing stock, stockholders become partial owners of the corporation and are entitled to a share of the profits. Corporations can also raise money by selling bonds like a government. Legally, corporations benefit from limited liability. Since the corporation is a legal entity separate from its owners, the owners' personal assets are not placed at risk by any action taken by the corporation. Should the corporation be sued or have financial problems, only corporate assets can be seized.
Through what is commonly labeled "double taxation," corporate profits are taxed and then, if distributed in the form of dividends, these same profits are taxed again along with the rest of the shareholder's income.
Reading Check, p. 70
Why do many business owners prefer corporations over other forms of business organizations?
Entrepreneur, p. 71
Profiles in Economics
On Charlie Rose - Andrea Jung, 2:20
Proprietorship - owned and run by a single person.
Partnership - jointly owned by two or more persons.
Corporation - business organization recognized by law as a separate legal entity with all the rights of an individual.
Forms of Business Organizations, Tax and Insurance Issues for Small Business, 9:56
Learn: * How to Choose a Form of Business * How it can maximize your protections and future growth potential * Characteristics of a sole proprietorship, general partnership, corporation, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships * Whether S Corporation Tax election is right for you * What tax issues are important for small business and why * What insurance coverage every small business owner should consider
Larissa Buerano, Agent, State Farm Insurance
Rajeev Kaul, CPA, PC.
Joyce Moy, Executive Director, Asian American / Asian Research Institute - CUNY
My Own Business: A course on how to start a business
Chapter 3: Business Organizations
Self-Check Quizzes
Show Business is the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's learning activity on economics and the entertainment industry. The goal is to provide an additional tool for teaching and learning about basic economic concepts, with some economic history snuck in.
Cf. http://www.bos.frb.org/entertainment/index.htm
JA Titan
Test your skills running a business in this ultimate business simulation! As CEO, you will match wits in the competitive, technologically advanced industry of the Holo-Generator™.Cf. http://oldtitan.ja.org/home.php
A music video from School House Rock on investing and Wall Street.
Cf. http://www.shmoop.com/corporations-stocks/botw/resources?d=http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=3797
Ch. 3 Sec. 2 Business Growth and Expansion
Honors Business Economics Chapter 3 Section 2 Business Growth and Expansion
Guide to Reading
Section Preview
Reinvesting for Monster Growth
Growth Through Reinvestment
Economics and You
Estimating Cash Flows
Reinvesting Cash Flows
What is the benefit of reinvesting cash flow in a business?
The Global Economy and You
Know Your Manners
Growth Through Mergers
Types of Mergers
Reasons for Merging
How do conglomerates and multinationals differ?
Figure 3.4 Growth Through Reinvestment, p. 73
Money (That's What I Want), 2:36
Barrett Strong recorded this in 1959 for Motown records, it reached number 2 on the R&B charts and 23rd on the US Pop charts making it Motown's first hit. Barrett Strong later went on to become one of Motown's most famous song writers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6xkT7FMyTc
Beatles, You Never Give Me Your Money, 3:26
HW email to gmsmith@shanahan.org or hand in hard copy.
1. Partnerships, How are partnerships founded ( p. 65)?
2. What disadvantage of general partnerships does the cartoon illustrate (p. 66)?
3. Liability, How do general partnerships and limited partnerships differ (p. 66)?
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Issue Thirty-Seven - Winter 2021
Groundhog Day — A Little in Advance
By Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Friends —
One of my favorite American movies is GROUNDHOG DAY, which was directed by the late Harold Ramis, and features an egoistical and annoying newscaster (Bill Murray) who gets trapped into living the same day over and over again in a small town he despises. The town in question is Punxatawney PA, where the famous groundhog of said Groundhog Day lives. What starts out as a comedy becomes in short order a meditation on the lives we feel we are trapped in, a set of routines we are condemned to repeat over and over again.
If you are an Albert Camus fan, you will think of his discussion of Sisyphus rolling the rock up the hill for eternity.
Camus makes an incredible statement that still haunts any reader who has read him. "We must imagine Sisyphus happy."
How can that be? "Well," Camus, explains. "It's all in the attitude. We make meaning out of our existences." (This is my paraphrase of a much more elegant formulation)
In my cis gendered white middle class way, I feel a bit like I'm rolling the same — arguably small — boulder up the hill every day. I social distance, I walk, I cook (well, more like reheat), I do curbside grocery pick up, I do remote convos with medical doctors (although at some point I'm going to really need to go to the dentist and see an actual doctor in person). And so on. It's a lonely business some days. As a big traveler, I miss seeing new places. I have not seen my daughter and son-in-law in a year.
But there is a blessing in the curse, as Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg puts it. I do not have to engage in any more meaningless social chatter. It's great. Empty conversation is a thing of the past — thank God. And there's more. Thrust upon my own resources, I have the opportunity to reflect on the past and reconsider experiences I do not think about often, because I am generally so involved with the present and making plans for the future. Third, I'm getting a lot of writing done, and that's a good thing for sure.
Fourth, and perhaps more importantly, I get to work on SHARK REEF, and I have the pleasure of supporting other writers and helping them get into print, either for the first time, or for the umpteenth time.
If you are a new writer with us, WELCOME! If you are returning writer, WELCOME BACK!
If you are a new reader, welcome to the SR corner of the writing world.
Spoiler alert: The anti-hero of GROUNDHOG DAY is finally released from the repetitious round of duties, but only after he has undergone a complete spiritual and intellectual transformation. And that's the challenge hidden in the film and hidden — perhaps — in this protracted pandemic moment.
The fact is, I do not know if everyone reading this message will have that chance at transformation — as I write the COVID circle tightens, and while I hope I will survive the pandemic, the chance remains that I may not be that fortunate. But I hope we all do.
In the meantime, we possess the possibility for change.
My friend, the artist Robert Gross, says he considers this time as though being in a chrysalis.
With that image in mind, may we change for the better. And, collectively, may we make where we live — locally and globally — a more just, more beautiful place.
Or to put it simply — in the words of Harold Ramis: "Life is ridiculous so why not be a good guy?"
PS — Please take a look at our new page, What We're Reading: a rundown of what some of us are reading and loving right now.
Copyright Barbé Hammer 2021
Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has published short stories, poems and lyric essays in the Bellevue Literary Review, GRAVEL, Birds We Piled Loosely, Pearl, and the Hayden's Ferry Review among other places. She is the author of the magical realist novel, The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior (Urban Farmhouse Press), the prose poem chapbook Sex with Buildings (Dancing Girl Press), the poetry collection How Formal? (Spout Hill Press) and most recently, a how-to-write magical realism manual, Delicious Strangeness (Spout Hill Press). Originally from Manhattan, Stephanie now lives on Whidbey Island, where she walks amongst the trees, looking for a dry cleaner, a taco truck and someone talk to. She is working on a new poetry collection/audio project entitled CITY SLICKER as well as a novella about two confused young people searching for a missing senior citizen aboard a luxury train bound for Quebec. She iis currently serving as managing editor for SHARK REEF.
All work by Stephanie Barbé Hammer
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Nowhere today is this juxtaposition starker than in Myanmar, where the government representing the majority Buddhist population has waged what the United Nations refers to as an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya, a Muslim minority group native to the country's Rakhine State. Doctors Without Borders estimates that a military crackdown begun on August 25 of last year has claimed the lives of nearly seven thousand Rohingya, and more than half a million more have fled to neighboring Bangladesh.
Many of Myanmar's Buddhists have appeared largely indifferent to the suffering of the Rohingya. Some have denied that the crackdown has occurred at all, as Bob Woodruff of ABC News discovered when he asked Buddhist monks about the situation during a reporting trip to Myanmar.
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Inversive Geometry
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Part 1: Inverting Generalized Circles, Ellipses, Polygons, and Tilings
This article explores the basic properties of inversive geometry from a computational point of view. Topics included in this part are involutions, generalized circles, and the inversion of segments, arcs, triangles, and quadrilaterals. The applications are to Nicomachus's theorem, the inversion of tilings made by regular polygons, and an inversive spirograph.
Geoff Smith, the author of [1], describes the technique of inversion as a "dark art." A suitable interpretation of this description is offered by [2] as "an advanced technique, which can offer considerable advantage in solving certain problems." This article examines the basic properties of inversive geometry, starting from the introduction of involutions and the family of generalized circles, the inversion of segments, arcs, triangles, and quadrilaterals with applications to Nicomachus's theorem, the inversion of tilings made by regular polygons, and an inversive spirograph. This work extends and complements the material in [3, 4, 5].
Involutions
A transformation that is not the identity with the property that is called an involution (or an involutory transformation, self-inverse, or of period two). Familiar examples of involutions are multiplication by and taking a reciprocal in arithmetic, taking a complement in set theory, taking the conjugate of a complex number (i.e., , if and are real), geometrical reflection in a line, the matrix transpose and matrix inverse, and the mapping of a number into , with an arbitrary number.
An important example of an involution involves permutations. A permutation under the operation of group composition is an involution if it is of order 2; that is, if it can be written as a product of disjoint transpositions (cycles of length 2). For example, the 7-permutation maps , , , , , , ; it factors into cycles as or, leaving out the fixed points 2, 3, 4, as .
The number of involutory -permutations grows quickly with .
These numbers can also be readily obtained by solving a recurrence equation [6].
Consider reversion, , an involution that maps a nonzero complex number to its reciprocal. Let be the unit circle given by the equation or , with . It is easy to see that maps the interior of to its exterior and vice versa; that is, iff . Moreover, iff . Reversion maps the number into the number , where is the conjugate of . Considering a complex number as a point in the complex plane, if a point is close to the origin, its reversion is far away, and vice versa.
Here is the reversion of a complex number.
Inversion, , is an involution similar to reversion. For inversion, and are collinear for nonzero . The point inverts to the point .
The following Manipulate compares reversion, inversion, and some similar transformations. Drag the point ; the arrow starts at and ends at for the chosen transformation ; the interior of is colored blue.
Generalized Circles and Ellipses
A linear transformation maps the family of lines to itself. The following theorem suggests a family that may be preserved by inversion.
Points that satisfy the equation , with , , , real numbers, invert into points that satisfy the equation .
To verify this, apply the transformation corresponding to inversion of Cartesian points.
Let be the set of points that satisfy the first equation in theorem 1. This four-parameter family includes points (for instance, when and ), lines (when ), circles (when ), the whole plane (when ), and the empty set (when ).
Define a generalized circle to be a line or circle. (The function generalizedCircle defined below constructs the graphics objects to draw the line or circle.) Under inversion, the generalized circle transforms into the generalized circle . If , (and , are not simultaneously 0), then is a line. If , the equation corresponds to a circle with center and radius , provided that . If , passes through the origin. For any nonzero , is the same as .
Other families of polynomials in two variables that include generalized circles do not transform their members into members of the same family; that is, they are not closed under inversion. For instance, the six-parameter family of equations includes conic sections, but some invert into quartics.
A line passing through different points and corresponds to the generalized circle if and otherwise.
The parameters needed to describe such a line are obtained by solving the following equation.
A circle with center and radius corresponds to the generalized circle .
This result is readily obtained by expanding the Cartesian equation of such a circle.
From a structural point of view, if a generalized circle is mapped to itself, it is said to be preserved by inversion. (Warning: that is not the same as saying that a point on a generalized circle is mapped to itself; for instance, a rotation about the center of a circle preserves the circle but moves each point of the circle.) In that case, . If , the line passes through the origin and each point is inverted into its negative. If , and , the circle is preserved. Assume its center is at a point of the form . Then, in particular, the point is inverted into the point .
Hence ; that is, the origin, center, and either of the two intersection points of the circle and the unit circle form a right triangle; hence the circle is orthogonal to . This condition turns out to be necessary and sufficient for a generalized circle to be preserved. Theorem 1 implies the following results, which also apply conversely.
Any circle not passing through the origin inverts into a circle not passing through the origin (in fact passing through its intersection points with the unit circle , if any).
Any circle passing through the origin inverts into a line not passing through the origin (in fact passing through its intersection points with , if any; in general, this line is parallel to the tangent of the circle at the origin).
Any line passing through the origin is preserved by inversion (any point is mapped into its negative).
Any line not passing through the origin inverts into a circle passing through the origin (and its intersection points with , if any).
To make inversion continuous, define the inversion of the origin to be a legal point, the "point at infinite," , making the phrase "nonzero" unnecessary when talking about inversion. Inversion is thus a one-to-one map of the extended plane.
Conversions of generalized circles to and from graphics primitives are handled by the following functions.
For example, the following Manipulate shows how a line and a circle behave under inversion. To vary their positions, drag the two small disks. For a line, the disks are points on the line; for a circle, one disk is the center and the other is on the circumference. You can also choose a family of parallel lines or a family of concentric circles. The arrows show the action of the inversion on the two control points.
Concentric circles do not invert into concentric circles, and the center of a circle does not invert into the center of its inversion (although the two centers are collinear with the origin). The center of the inverted circle can even be outside the original circle! (This particularly applies to ; its interior gets mapped into its exterior and its center gets mapped to .) The next section shows how to locate the center of the inversion of a given circle.
As a circle is a particular kind of ellipse, it is interesting to see the inversion of a general ellipse. The following Manipulate shows such an inversion; you can drag the center of the ellipse with a locator and vary the lengths of its axes with a pair of sliders. Contour lines showing concentric ellipses are optional; increase the zoom slider if the display is all one color.
Inversion in an Arbitrary Circle
Up to now, inversion has been in the unit circle; it can be generalized to use any circle . Assume , which means has center and radius . The generalization takes three steps: first transform into by translating to the origin and scaling by . Second, invert in . Third, scale back by and translate back by . As these operations are rigid motions, all the properties of inversion apply to the generalized inversion.
The function squareDistance computes the square of the Euclidean distance between two given points. (It is more convenient to use the following definition than the built-in Mathematica function SquaredEuclideanDistance.)
Thus, operating with Cartesian coordinates, the function inver inverts a given point in .
An interesting property of inversion is adopted by many authors as an alternative way of defining inversion. Let be the inversion of the point in the circle . It is easy to verify that the product of the distance of to and the distance of to is a constant equal to .
Therefore, define the point as the inverse of if is that unique point such that its distance to times the distance of to is [7].
When the points , , and are collinear (which includes the case of two or all of them being equal), the function applies a small random displacement to them to give three new noncollinear points.
The function circleABC computes the circle passing through three given points a, b, c.
Before obtaining the Cartesian coordinates corresponding to inverting circles and lines, first consider the following problem. What is the center of the circle through three different noncollinear points
, , ?
For example, here are explicit formulas for the center and radius of such a circle through , , and .
The denominators of the expressions for the center and radius contain a factor that is zero only when , , and are collinear.
Now consider an arbitrary circle that does not pass through the center of . Invert in to and then invert in to . Then the inversion of in is a circle with center . The equality of the following two results verifies this property.
If the circle inverts in into the circle , then the center of is and its radius is .
The vertical bars in the last expression have two different meanings: the modulus of a vector and the absolute value of a number. Theorem 4 arises from using the property mentioned in the previous paragraph. First we obtain the square of the radius of .
Match the center of with to get the following.
So a circle is inverted into a concentric circle if is outside the circle of inversion and . This implies that and are orthogonal. Therefore, a circle inverts into a concentric circle (and necessarily of the same radius, i.e. itself) iff it is orthogonal to . To visualize these ideas, consider the following Manipulate that inverts a pattern of tangent circles.
Inverting Segments and Arcs
The inversion of a polygon is a closed sequence of arcs of circles that go through the center of inversion. Consider the problem of finding an arc through three noncollinear points , , and . As stated, this problem has many solutions; by assuming one of the points is not an endpoint of the arc, there is a unique answer. The function arcABC constructs such an arc and includes an argument to control whether the arc passes through the point .
The following Manipulate applies the function arcABC to any three noncollinear points, optionally passing through one of them.
Let the inversion of the point be and the point be . There are four cases for the inversion of the finite line segment in the circle .
If , the segment is a point and inverts into the point .
If and , the segment inverts into a ray starting at , going away from .
If , , and are collinear, there are two subcases:
If is in between and , the inverse is the union of two rays, one starting at , the other starting at , and both going away from .
Otherwise, and are on the same side of , and the inverse of is a line segment joining and on the same side of as and , but now switched around.
If and are not collinear with , consider the circle passing through , , and . The inversion of is the arc joining and that does not pass through .
Similar results apply to the inversion of an arc. The following Manipulate shows all these cases as they apply to line segments and arcs. The initial segments or arcs are shown in red and their inversions in blue. Control locators are drawn in red. When a segment/arc is such that its corresponding line/circle passes through , say that it does so directly if is part of the segment/arc and indirectly otherwise.
Inverting a Triangle and a Quadrilateral
The function invSeg encapsulates the four cases appearing in the inversion of a segment mentioned in the previous section.
The function invert is extended here to invert a general triangle and a general quadrilateral. As mentioned before, the inversion of a polygon is a figure made by adjoining arcs of circles that pass through . (The geometry of coincident arcs is the same as the geometry of polygons. Just invert them!) However, the interior of a polygon does not invert to the interior of its inverse. The function fill fills this interior for aesthetics.
The following Manipulate shows a triangle or quadrilateral and the corresponding filled inversion. You can zoom by changing the radius of the circle of inversion . For what positions of do the sides of a given triangle invert into three congruent circles? Hint: it has something to do with its incircle. What about a quadrilateral?
Inverting the Visual Proof of Nicomachus's Theorem
Nicomachus's theorem [8, 9] states that . This section inverts a well-known pattern showing a proof without words of this identity.
To justify the identity, consider the pattern made by half-squares and squares of increasing integer side lengths. The area of the big square is the square of the sum of the side lengths on the base . On the other hand, this area is the sum of the individual areas of the interior squares, taking into account that two half-squares make a whole square: . Logically these quantities are the same; hence Nicomachus's theorem.
In order to get a symmetrical version, promote the half-squares into squares.
Add replicas around the lower-left vertex of the unit square made by rotating this pattern 90, 180, and 270 degrees to obtain a symmetrical pattern. Then eliminate repeated squares; moreover, eliminate repeated segments from adjacent squares using filter.
The function NicomachusSegments computes the segments needed to form the next pattern shown, which gives a visual proof of Nicomachus's theorem [9].
The function NicomachusSegments computes the minimum number of segments necessary to produce the pattern. This is the number of segments up to .
The pattern has segments and squares. Not removing unnecessary segments would give segments, so for large , removing unnecessary segments is more than four times better. The following Manipulate shows Nicomachus's pattern in gray along with its inversion in red. You can change and thus by dragging the locator, and you can vary with the slider.
Inversive Tiling with Equilateral Triangles, Squares, and Hexagons
There are only three ways to tile the plane with a regular polygon: using an equilateral triangle, a square, or a regular hexagon. The goal of this section is to show the patterns arising from inverting these tilings. To that end, the functions ring3, ring4, and ring6 generate the corresponding set of pieces in a ring surrounding the circle of inversion (in red).
Here is the triangular case for the first level of complexity .
The corresponding function invert, with an extra argument with possible values 3, 4 or 5, inverts each of the segments forming the tiling. For instance, here is the pattern for the triangular case.
Although the interiors of triangles are not preserved by inversion, they are filled to show the interference patterns they produce. The idea is shown in the next figure; to avoid clutter, only the first four members of are drawn. Lines join the vertices of the triangles to their inversions.
Although the triangles do not overlap, the interiors of their inverses do. In fact, the inversion of the central triangle contains the interiors of all the rest. The next level of complexity renders the following pattern.
Finally, a detail showing the sixth level.
Similarly, in the case of tiling with squares, here are the corresponding functions.
Here is a detail corresponding to the first four squares of the arrangement .
And here is a detail of the sixth level. (The color assignment has to be made explicit and does not rely only on overlapping as it did before.)
The tiling using regular hexagons cannot be colored with two colors, and there are too many segments to place the center of . So here is a line pattern.
The second level of complexity corresponding to the above pattern is the following.
This detail shows the sixth level of complexity, made with shapes formed with six arcs, all passing indirectly through .
An Inversive Spirograph
Finally, the following Manipulate shows an animated circle (orange) rotating inside a circle (pale brown) and the patterns generated by a point at the end of a line at a variable distance from the center of the circle. By varying the center and radius of the inversive circle, you can zoom in; the rotating radial line inverts into an arc orthogonal to the inversive path. You can enlarge the inversion by dragging the center of the inversive circle (light blue).
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[2] A. Goucher. "Complex Projective 4-Space." (Jun 24, 2013). cp4space.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/final-chapter-of-moda.
[3] J. Rangel-Mondragon, "Inversive Patterns, Part I: Complex Inversion," Mathematica in Education and Research, 12(2), 2007 pp. 162–183.
[4] J. Rangel-Mondragon, "Inversive Patterns, Part II: Fundamental Properties of Inversion," Mathematica in Education and Research, 12(4), 2007 pp. 330–354.
[5] J. Rangel-Mondragon, "Inversive Patterns, Part III: Common Tangents, Mandalas and Gothic Windows," Mathematica in Education and Research, 12(4), 2007 pp. 355–376.
[6] N. J. A. Sloane. seq. A001189 in The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. oeis.org.
[7] H. S. M. Coxeter and S. L. Greitzer, Geometry Revisited, New York: Random House, 1967.
[8] E. W. Weisstein. "Nicomachus's Theorem" from Wolfram MathWorld—A Wolfram Web Resource. mathworld.wolfram.com/NicomachussTheorem.html.
[9] M Schreiber. "A Visual Proof of Nicomachus's Theorem" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project—A Wolfram Web Resource. demonstrations.wolfram.com/AVisualProofOfNicomachussTheorem.
J. Rangel-Mondragon, "Inversive Geometry: Part 1," The Mathematica Journal, 2013. dx.doi.org/doi:10.3888/tmj.15-7.
Jaime Rangel-Mondragón received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computation from the School of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University College of North Wales in Bangor, UK. He was a visiting scholar at Wolfram Research, Inc. and held positions in the Faculty of Informatics at UCNW, the Center of Literary and Linguistic Studies at the College of Mexico, the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Center of Research and Advanced Studies, the Center of Computational Engineering (of which he was director) at the Monterrey Institute of Technology, the Department of Mechatronics at the Queretaro Institute of Technology and the Autonomous University of Queretaro in Mexico, where he was a member of the Department of Informatics and in charge of the Academic Body of Algorithms, Computation, and Networks. His research included combinatorics, the theory of computing, computational geometry, and recreational mathematics. Jaime Rangel-Mondragón died in 2015.
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