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Enjoy live jazz, dinner and stars at local fundraiser [Glenwood/Glenelg/Dayton]
By Tracy Trobridge , tracy21738@yahoo.com and 410-489-7444
| Howard County Times |
The Glenelg High School Jazz Ensemble will perform Jazz Under the Stars on Saturday, May 28, from 5 to 9 p.m., at Chapel View Farm in Woodbine. The ensemble, directed by Christopher Winters, will perform along with former band director Barry Enzman and other talented alumni and friends of the Glenelg music program. The Glenelg Color Guard will also perform. Tickets are $35 for adults and $17 for children under 12. Children under 5 are free. The picnic dinner will be catered by Putting on the Ritz. If it rains, the Exhibition Hall at the Howard County Fairgrounds becomes the venue location. You can purchase tickets from a band member, or on line. Go to www.jazzunderthestars.com if you need more information.
Congratulations to senior Kevin Cincotta, who created the design which will be featured on this year's Jazz Under the Stars tee shirt. Cincotta is the alto saxophonist for the Jazz Ensemble.
The Glenelg Marching Boosters are hosting a concert for Olivia Rox and Warren Hill on Sunday, June 26, at 7 p.m., in the Glenelg Auditorium. Olivia is the extraordinarily talented 17-year-old singer and songwriter who was a top 10 finalist this season on the television show 'American Idol.' Warren is an acclaimed jazz saxophonist and also Olivia's father. All the proceeds from this concert will support the Glenelg band.Tickets are on sale through Eventbrite at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/olivia-rox-warren-hill-at-glenelg-high-school-tickets-25214846284. Ticket sales end on Monday, June 13.
Glenelg residents, Geri and Rich Hastings and Barbara and Joe Keating recently spent 18 wonderful days traveling in Scotland and Ireland. While they were in Scotland they took the ferry from the Isle of Skye to the village of Glenelg. The Skye to Glenelg ferry is the last manually-operated turntable ferry in Scotland. Geri said the scenery is stunning, with snow-capped mountains serving as a backdrop to the Kylerhea Narrows on which Glenelg is located. Visiting the Glenelg Inn and the stores and post office in Glenelg, Scotland, was a highlight of their trip.
On Saturday, May 21, from 9 a.m. to1 p.m. the Glenwood Middle School Leo Club members will be collecting used bicycles in the parking lot at the front of the school. These bikes will be donated to the organization Bikes for the World. This is the eighth year that the Leo Club has been collecting bicycles. You can help them make it one of the best.
Congratulations to the Glenelg High School students who received the commended recognition in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program. These outstanding students are Bailey Arenberg, Emily Buckley, Erin Cauley, James Coyne, Robel Daniel, Jeremy Hess, Matthew Paquino, Marisa Patsy, Delaney Treacy, Mya Tsang, Martin Wang, Anne Xie and Tristan Young.
Amy Syversen, the band director at Dayton Oaks Elementary School, is recruiting students to join the school band next year. Current third and fourth graders can go to www.amybejm.com and sign up for the Dayton Oaks band. Absolutely no musical experience is needed to join. Syversen works with the students and starts at the beginning, as she teaches them to open the instrument case. Once on the web site, you can click on the links and listen to Syversen playing some beautiful music on the trumpet. When she is not teaching, Syversen plays trumpet for the Bayside Brass Quintet, which has played the National Anthem for the Orioles, and you can also listen to that performance on line.
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Should My Clients Stretch at All?
Flexibility is a common health marker in many fitness settings.
We've already seen an article on the PTDC advocating trainers not to perform passive stretches on their clients, (1) and I couldn't agree more. Stretching carries with it a non-insignificant potential for injury, and that risk is only increased when the trainer is at the wheel rather than the client. If you're responsible for that injury, it could mean extremely unwanted legal complications. From a business standpoint, that's an unnecessary risk.
So should clients even be bothering to stretch? Let's examine the arguments for and against flexibility training. We'll start with the myth busting.
What isn't stretching good for?
Stretching as injury prevention has been well studied, but the results are extremely mixed, and show minimal efficacy either way. A research review back in 1999 studied twelve separate studies and found no consensus on the effect of stretching. Further, it was noted that three of the four studies that noted a positive benefit in terms of injury prevention were confounded by the inclusion of a traditional warm-up alongside stretching (2). The result is that there's very little evidence that stretching has any positive ability to prevent injuries.
Stretching as muscle soreness prevention.
Stretching can't prevent DOMS (3, 4).
Many people will insist that they feel an acute reduction in DOMS from stretching, though this may be more psychological than physical. Chris Beardsley assembled a list of effective modalities for treating DOMS, and stretching was not listed as one of them, suggesting that the research isn't there (5).
However, it's important to understand that stretching probably works largely on the principle of "diffuse noxious inhibitory control" (DNIC). DNIC refers to the ability of your brain to inhibit pain in one area of the body when another is actively in pain. In short, by inducing the pain of a stretch, you can cause the body to temporarily focus on that instead of the area that's actually sore.
Of course, this doesn't last very long, and would need to be repeated regularly throughout the day. But it does work, as do similar things like massage, foam rolling, hot/cold therapy, etc.
The main purpose of any warm-up is to reduce the risk of injury and prepare the athlete for the task at hand. Multiple published papers by Torbjørn Soligard et al. examined the effects of a dynamic warm-up on female soccer players and found drastic reductions in injury rates over a large sample (6, 7). However, as seen above, stretching doesn't reduce injury rates.
Further, stretching can acutely reduce performance (8). While the effect is minimal and dose dependent, meaning that most exercisers would see little to no effect on their performance, it's important to understand that too much stretching (greater than one minute per stretch) will definitely decrease performance.
Sure, stretching gets the blood flowing and will raise core temperature somewhat, but so will walking/jogging before a run, doing lighter sets before heavier ones, dynamic warm-ups, etc. Chances are, given the above evidence for active warm-ups, that these would be a better option than stretching.
Stretching does improve flexibility, in terms of range of motion and joint angles at maximum stretch.
However, it's important to ask ourselves "for what reason?" If a client's major goals are health and fitness, chances are they don't need a huge range of motion for anything. Elite athletes and gymnasts do require flexibility, but only enough to do what their sport demands of them. In other words, you need only enough flexibility to do what you need to do — and for many people, that's not very much!
Now, let's move on to what does hold up.
Stretching is beneficial for the heart.
A study by Farinatti et al. found that stretching has some positive effect on heart rate variability in untrained subjects (9).
This shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. After all, all movement is exercise and all exercise benefits the heart to some extent. Of course, I'd argue that there are plenty of better ways to benefit your heart through exercise, and certainly plenty of ways more cost-efficient for your clients' time.
Yes, it's a study on rats (10). Still, there's evidence that stretching improves muscle size. Any movement of a muscle can induce hypertrophy, and the main factor in hypertrophic growth is time under tension. This may not be the best use of your time if you're looking for hypertrophy, since heavy weights will stimulate more muscle and lead to better muscle gains.
Furthermore, you'll also probably see an increase in strength, since bigger muscles are typically stronger given equal levels of training. This is probably why people who do yoga as their primary form of exercise gain strength, even though they don't do any real strength training. I'll repeat, there are probably better ways to improve strength out there.
Since there's no progressive overload in the equation, the only variable you can modify is time, and with diminishing returns that means you're soon putting massive amounts of time in for only minor strength gains.
Stretching does make you more flexible, even if it's not permanent and probably not a huge difference.
Some people simply enjoy being flexible, train for a flexibility-based sport, or like being able to perform feats of flexibility, and in this case, stretching is for you.
What does this mean? It means that adaptations to stretching are largely neurological in nature, and not physical. That explains why it doesn't have many of the physical benefits (injury prevention, DOMS reduction, permanent flexibility) that we attribute to it. Stretching thus results only in neurological adaptations, which improve pain tolerance and reduce the onset of pain in a stretching individual.
This also explains why it's so well suited for yoga — the combination of flexibility with mentally focused breathing and mindfulness seems rather natural if they're all neurological pursuits. Of course this is a double-edged sword — this pain only exists to prevent potentially injurious over-stretching, which means that the frequent stretcher puts him/herself at an increased risk for injury.
Given all of the above, I would not make any of my clients do static stretches. There could be some use for postural therapy and high-level athletes, but even then most trainers rarely work with these populations. Postural therapy is better left to physical therapists, if it needs to be performed at all, and most trainers work with health and wellness clients.
Stretching certainly has plenty of benefits, but there are also plenty of better ways to train for those benefits without eating up as much of your clients' time. It's not that stretching is useless, just that it's not cost-efficient.
If clients want to tie themselves up into a pretzel, chances are that as a trainer you don't have the specialized skills to help them do so. Otherwise, there's not much point to forcing clients to tie themselves up if they don't want to and won't get much out of it.
I still stretch daily while I watch television, but not because I think I need to – rather because, in the end, stretching just feels good.
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(10) Kamikawa Y et al., Passive repetitive stretching for a short duration within a week increases myogenic regulatory factors and myosin heavy chain mRNA in rats' skeletal muscles.
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Caddam, Kirriemuir, Angus
Stone Circle (remains of): OS Grid Reference – NO 3848 5625
Caldhame
1865 OS-map showing the stone
From Kirriemuir centre, take the B956 out of town until you hit the B955. Head north along this road until the houses are behind you. You'll pass a woodland on your left straight away and as the road starts to bend right, take the first small road on your left. Go along here for about 150 yards and stop. Look into the fields across the road and there it is!
Caddam stone, looking north
The small standing stone we see here today, within in a small fenced enclosure by the wall-side, was highlighted on the 1865 OS-map in exactly this position. However, its earlier history seems much more intriguing – and at least one account tells us how this solitary stone was once part of something much bigger—implying that it was of some considerable important to our ancestors. In A.J. Warden's (1884) magnum opus on the history of this region he told that,
"A circle of stones was discovered in trenching a field at Caldhame, a little to the north of (Kirriemuir) town. It was over sixty feet in diameter, and in the centre was a large standing stone. The circle was removed, but the centre stone was left."
The Caddam stone, looking SW
Another local writer later reported that there were remains of six stones in the field immediately below the remaining upright, but these have since disappeared. The descriptions seem to imply that the stone was a part of a burial complex of some sort. Sadly, all we see today is this one remaining upright: some 5 feet tall, but looking shorter as it leans to its side, seemingly ready to fall. Do any local people know anything more about this place?
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, The Archaeological Sites & Monuments of Central Angus, Angus District, Tayside Region, HMSO: Edinburgh 1983.
Warden, Alex J., Angus or Forfarshire: The Land and People – Descriptive and Historical – volume 4, Charles Alexander: Dundee 1884.
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Rocking Stones, Kirriemuir, Angus

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Événements

Politique
  : le gouvernement fédéral remet au Québec l'Ungava (le Nouveau-Québec).
 29 avril : élection générale au Yukon.
 15 mai : élection générale québécoise de 1912. Lomer Gouin (libéral) est réélu au Québec.
 11 juillet : élection générale saskatchewanaise de 1912. Le libéral Thomas Walter Scott est réélu.
 Juillet : adoption du Règlement 17 pour limiter l'usage du français dans les écoles de l'Ontario.

Justice
 Fermeture de la Prison du Pied-du-Courant et inauguration de la Prison de Bordeaux à Montréal.

Sport

Hockey sur glace
 Hockey sur glace : les Bulldogs de Québec remportent la Coupe Stanley.

Jeux olympiques
 Jeux olympiques de Stockholm
 Le nageur George Hodgson remporte 2 médailles d'or au 400 mètres libre et au 1500 mètres libre.

Football
 Football canadien, les Alerts de Hamilton rempotent la Coupe Grey contre les Argonauts de Toronto.

Cyclisme

 première édition des Six Jours de Toronto

Économie
 12 juin : inauguration du Château Laurier à Ottawa.
 Fondation de l'aciérie Dofasco.
 La Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson ouvre des grands magasins dans des grandes villes.
 Établissement d'une communauté francophone à Rivière-La-Paix en Alberta.

Science
 Thomas George Roddick contribue à créer Le conseil médical du Canada.

Culture

Littérature
 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town de Stephen Leacock.

Théâtre
 Olivier Guimond, père incarne le rôle de Ti-Zoune au théâtre burlesque dans la troupe de Arthur Pétrie.
 Ouverture du théatre Gayety à Montréal.

Autres

 premier Stampede de Calgary. L'événement va se poursuivre annuellement.

Religion
 15 juin : érection de l'exarchat apostolique de Winnipeg. Nicétas Budka en est le premier évêque.
 30 novembre : érection du Diocèse catholique de Calgary.
 Établissement de l'Abbaye Saint-Benoît-du-Lac au Québec.

Divers
 15 avril : naufrage du Titanic au large de Terre-Neuve. Les corps non réclamés sont enterrés dans des cimetières à Halifax.
 15 mai : le Manitoba, l'Ontario et le Québec étendent leurs territoires au nord.
 24 juin : grand feu de Chicoutimi au Québec : un incendie débute dans le Château Saguenay et se propage dans tout le centre-ville de Chicoutimi. 104 bâtiments, maisons ou commerces sont détruits mais aucune perte de vie n'est enregistrée.
 30 juin : une tornade à Regina tue 28 personnes.

Naissances
 9 janvier : Juliette Huot, comédienne.
 4 février : Louis-Albert Vachon, cardinal, archevêque de Québec († ).
  : Gerald Emmett Carter, cardinal, archevêque de Toronto († ).
 12 mars : Irving Layton, poète.
 21 mars : André Laurendeau, politicien.
 22 mars : Agnès Martin artiste peintre.
 2 avril : John Marlyn, auteur.
 26 avril : A. E. van Vogt, auteur de science fiction.
 5 mai : Louis-René Beaudoin, homme politique fédéral provenant du Québec.
 13 mai : Gil Evans, homme de musique.
 26 mai : Jay Silverheels, acteur.
 8 juin : Maurice Bellemare, politicien québécois.
 10 juin: Jean Lesage, premier ministre du Québec.
 16 juin : Albert Chartier, dessinateur de bande dessinée.
 2 juillet : René Bégin, homme politique fédéral provenant du Québec.
 12 juillet : Gustave Blouin, homme politique fédéral provenant du Québec.
 14 juillet : Northrop Frye, auteur et critique littéraire.
 17 juillet : Art Linkletter, acteur et producteur.
 5 octobre :
 Bora Laskin, juge à la cour suprême.
 Oscar Thiffault, chanteur folkloriste et country.
 Gérard Delage, gastronome.
 8 novembre : June Havoc, actrice.
 16 novembre : Richard Spink Bowles, lieutenant-gouverneur du Manitoba.

Décès
  : Edward Blake, premier ministre de l'Ontario et chef du Parti libéral du Canada.
 15 avril : Charles Melville Hays président du Grand Trunk Railway. Il est décédé lors du naufrage du Titanic.
 13 août : Errol Bouchette, sociologue et journaliste.
 10 novembre : Louis Cyr, homme fort.
 26 novembre : Lemuel Cambridge Owen, premier ministre de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 L'année 1912 dans le monde
 1912 aux États-Unis
 1912 en France, 1912 en Italie, 1912 en Suisse

Liens externes

Notes et références

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Born in East Whiteland Township, Pa., she was raised in Medford and lived in Venice, Fla. for 26 years before moving to Woodbury. Maggie was an active volunteer who loved to sew and crochet.
Wife of the late Alfred Quinden, she is survived by her two daughters, Marie Peters and her husband, Dennis, of Mantua, N.J. and Kathleen Quinden and her husband, William Hager, of Reno, Nev.; two grandchildren, Brian Peters of Chicago, Ill. and Kristen Kille and her husband, David, of Doylestown, Pa.; two great-grandchildren, Jack and Lauren Kille; one sister, Rose Cristino of Woolwich Township, N.J.; and two sisters-in-law, Anne Bastianelli of Florida and Catherine Bastianelli of Maryland.
Maggie was preceded in death by her brothers, Guido, Sam and Nicholas Bastianelli, and sisters, Filomena Assalone and Rita Keehn.
Relatives and friends may visit with the family from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 1, at Smith Funeral Home, 47 Main St., Mantua. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Church of the Incarnation, 240 Main St., Mantua. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Cherry Hill.
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FACULTY AWARD: Three professors elected to National Academy of Engineering
Alexander Smits and Richard Miles, professors of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Christodoulos Floudas, professor of chemical and biological engineering, have been elected as 2011 members of the National Academy of Engineering. Smits, the University's Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was elected for his contributions to the measurement and understanding of turbulent flows, fluids engineering and education; Miles was elected for development of laser-based flow field diagnostics and contributions to hypersonic testing technologies; and Floudas, the Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, was chosen for contributions to theory, methods, and applications of global optimization in process systems engineering, computational chemistry and molecular biology.
FACULTY AWARD: Floudas elected Academy of Athens corresponding member
Pioneer of global optimization Christodoulos Floudas dies
FACULTY HONOR: Floudas named faculty fellow of Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study
Two groups honor Smits for his contributions
Sixteen faculty members transfer to emeritus status
Seymour Bogdonoff, high-speed aerodynamics pioneer, dies
Class snapshot: 'The Energy-Water Nexus'


Chris Maguire's wonder goal crowned Sunderland's fifth successive win on Saturday, as Southend United fell at the Stadium of Light.
After a testing opening, Lynden Gooch's seventh assist of the season sent the Lads on their way, with George Honeyman glancing the American's cross into the corner.
Southend dusted themselves down and responded well, but the victory received the royal seal on 53 minutes, and the red and white army very much approved.
The visitors backed off and were duly punished, as Maguire unleashed a 25-yard thunderbolt that screamed into the top corner.
And the points were wrapped up with ten minutes remaining, with Aiden McGeady's fizzing drive found the corner.
Jack Ross named an unchanged side for the game, but the Scot's bench was bolstered as Bryan Oviedo and Josh Maja returned to the squad.
Southend, meanwhile, handed a start to former Black Cat Michael Turner, and the visiting backline came under immediate pressure at the Stadium of Light.
With less than three minutes on the clock, Reece James whipped an inviting cross into the box and Jerome Sinclair's header forced Mark Oxley into an acrobatic save.
The visitors responded with their first chance, as Dru Yearwood fired over the top after the Black Cats failed to clear their lines.
And Chris Powell's side kept up the pressure, with multiple set pieces forcing Jack Baldwin and Tom Flanagan to be at their best.
A lengthy stoppage followed, as Ben Coker landed awkwardly and was subsequently stretchered off.
As the half-hour mark approached, the Lads broke the deadlock.
Relentless pressing from the frontline forced Oxley into a hurried clearance and Lee Cattermole immediately fizzed the ball wide towards Gooch.
The visitors doubled up on the USA international, but he managed to squeeze a cross between his markers, and Honeyman glanced a magnificent header across goal and into the corner.
Southend rallied but, as he has done so often this season, McLaughlin showed his class, producing a fine save to deny Harry Bunn before penalty appeals were waved away after Yearwood tripped in the box.
Both sides saw plenty of the ball following the restart, but with 53 minutes on the clock Maguire took centre stage.
The forward picked up the ball 30 yards from goal, took a couple of touches to steady himself, and unleashed an absolute rocket into the top corner to lift the roof off the Stadium of Light.
Forget goal of the month, it may well go down as the goal of the season.
Southend refused to go down without a fight and McLaughlin was forced into another smart stop to deny Simon Cox, while Gooch and substitute McGeady went close at the other end.
After coming off the bench, Maja could have wrapped it up with 15 minutes remaining, but the striker was unable to connect with McGeady's tantalising cross.
Five minutes later, the winger decided enough was enough, though, and he slammed home an unstoppable low finish to wrap up another win for Ross' Lads.
Sunderland: McLaughlin, Flanagan, Baldwin, Matthews, James, McGeouch (McGeady 54), Cattermole, Honeyman, Maguire, Gooch (O'Nien 74), Sinclair (Maja 57).
Subs not used: Ruiter, Oviedo, Ozturk, Mumba.
Southend United: Oxley, Coker (Hendrie 21), Turner, Dieng, Cox, McLaughlin (McCoulsky 66), Yearwood (Kightly 78), Mantom, Moore, Demetriou, Bunn.
Subs not used: Bwomono, Bishop, Robinson, White.


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Q: Find a matrix such that $(1,1,1)\in C(A)$ and $N(A)=span(1,1,1,1)$ Find a matrix such  that $(1,1,1)\in C(A)$ and $N(A)=span(1,1,1,1)$.
From the dimensions, I know that $A\in\mathbb{R}^{3\times4}$, and a column should be $[1~1~1]^T$.
Also, it has to satisfy $A[\alpha~\alpha~\alpha~\alpha]^T=[0~0~0]^T$.
So the matrix would have 3 pivots and one free variable. However, I'm struggling trying to get the coefficients so the nullspace of A is that span, any hints or advice on how to get it?

A: See you want $(1,1,1)$ in the column space of A, so write $(1,1,1)$ as the first column and you want $(1,1,1,1)$ in the null space so make sure each row sum adds upto 0$. For example, the following matrix works.
$\begin{pmatrix}
1 & 1& 1&- 3\\
1 & 1& 1&- 3\\
1 & 1& 1&- 3
\end{pmatrix}$
Here,  $A(1,0,0,0)^t= (1,1,1)^t$ and $A(1,1,1,1)^t= (0,0,0)^t$

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Деви́ца — река в Нижнедевицком, Хохольском и Семилукском районах Воронежской области, верхний правый приток реки Дон. Длина около 89 км. Площадь бассейна 1520 км². Исток реки расположен близ села Кучугуры, устье недалеко от г. Семилуки.  Протекает по овражистой местности. Крупнейшие притоки Россошка, Ольшанка, Колотушка, Еманча и Гнилуша.

В нижнем течении реки на протяжении последних 100 лет производилась добыча огнеупорной глины и это полностью перестроило её долинный ландшафт.
Под котлованами карьеров и отвалами исчезли многочисленные балки, рассекающие некогда долинные склоны реки. На старых картах сохранились такие названия, как Орлов лог, Ендов лог, Отхожий лог, Величкин лог, лога Ближняя и Дальняя Стрелица.

В Воронежской области протекают две реки с именем Девица, обе впадают в Дон, и обе имеют притоком реки со схожими именами именем Россошка и Россошки. Кратчайшее расстояние между реками 24 км.

Населённые пункты
Река протекает через населённые пункты: Кучугуры, Нижнедевицк, Глазово, Нижнее Турово, Хохол, Хохольский, Бахчеево, Стрелица, Девица, Орлов Лог и Семилуки.

По мосту через реку в селе Девица проходит автомобильная дорога федерального значения .

Река упоминается в Книге Большому чертежу как Девица Смердячая:

А ниже Ведоги 3 версты, пала в Дон речка Девица Смердячая, от Воронежа 7 верст, а вытекла от верху речки Убли; а Убля пала в реку в Оскол, против города Оскола; Оскол от Ливен 130 верст, а до Воронежа тоже.

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None of these many aspects of the iota seem to speak directly to the observer principle, beyond what is contained in the uncertainty principle. It may ultimately come back to the label of 'imaginary' that was fortuitously placed on the iota. A Pythagorean may well ague that this designation was serendipitous. When, in 1572, Rafael Bombelli introduced complex numbers (not to mention the minus sign as well!) to the world, mathematics crossed its Rubicon. That single leap from the real to the 'imaginary' on the part of an entire profession remains historically unprecedented. One may argue that real numbers are an MIR, mind independent reality, but the sqrt (-1)? Yet, does not the above quantum anti-commutator place the iota squarely back into the MIR? Are not atoms an MIR? Well, not according to the 'wonderful' folks of Copenhagen. The essential role of the iota in the atom, underscores the 'mystical' Copenhagen Interpretation of the quantum. Most physicists quickly become jaded on the wonder of the quantum. Theirs is not to reason why!
I would argue with the Pythagoreans that the imaginary numbers ought really to convince us that all of mathematics must exist in a Platonic realm. The Platonists, however, were dualists concerning the corruption of the mundane world. Not so the true Pythagoreans and myself. We are monistically inclined toward the singular BPW. Those same Pythagoreans, as we have seen, were reluctant to embrace the irrational, imaginary and transcendental within 'modern' mathematics. These latter artifacts imply a personal touch. Finding them, however, fully embedded in mundane physics should instead provoke us to the realization that great minds think alike. The cosmic mind and the human mind must be mutually reflective, and this does not apply just to Srinivasa I & II. All of us are invited to bask in the greater glory. Furthermore, the BPW does not end with mathematics, fantastic and transcendental though it is. That is just the beginning of the story. That is just our aperitif.
Did God and we merely discover the imaginary iota? I suggest not. It was the dynamic resonance of life and creation that spun off e, i & pi. With the materialization of e, i & pi in the observer based physical resonance of creation, the fate of the Monster was sealed. The Monster Group is indeed the tail-end of the Big Six. In this case, it is the five that wag the sixth, and not the other way. There would be no monster without the vital syzygys or resonances of e, i & pi. There would be no e, i & pi outside of the cosmic creative intelligence. We are simply taking mathematical constructivism or intuitionism to its logical cosmic end. It is there that these many philosophies converge. Let us not tarry in the hinterland. The Alpha and Omega beckon.
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Dan struggles. See Dan struggle.
Don't we all love the constant juxtaposition of idiocy and sapience in our lives. Its all a part of the aesthetics.
One might think that, like Scheherazade, I filibuster the eschaton. That may be, but it is not my conscious intent.
What I struggle with is the juxtaposition of stark simplicity and utter complexity, in math as everywhere. In this holographic world, math is a microcosm. We might think that with math, we are beginning to see the limits of complexity. That, at least, is one of my hypotheses.
Is complexity limited in the BPW? Here are some reasons. Complexity is not an end in itself. In the BPW, everything serves the greatest good which is love. Love is the one thing of which there might never be enough. For everything else there is an optimum degree. Complexity is no exception. Creation cannot be more complex than what can ultimately be comprehended by the creatures. Every creature must be able to find its way back to the Creator. This is what coherence is about. The salvational economy hinges, of course, upon us sinners. Salvation is mainly our show. We set the pace for nature. Coherence and love are our only guides. Srinivasa II or Y2C are about our recall of coherence.
In our sojourn into complexity, we have forgotten about the coherence. We just need to remind ourselves that coherence is possible, that complexity is necessarily limited by the salvation economy. We can only sojourn half way into these woods. After that we are on our way home.
With e, i & pi we see the juxtaposition of simplicity and complexity. Like three children, separately they are little angels, but together they can create untold mischief, up to and including the Monster. Their various syzygys or couplings are the path to the monster, but they are also our clues to its taming, to recasting its complexity into the service of love.
Unlike for e, there are a plethora of formulas for pi. This probably has to do with its greater complexity or irrationality measure. Yes, perhaps, I misspoke. Pi has been able to stir up a pot-load of trouble just on its own. e & i are responsible for recruiting pi back into the service of the simple cycle, as in e^i*pi = -1. It is almost a right of passage into the mathematics club to come up with a new and clever formula for pi. New discoveries in math frequently lead to more such possibilities. e is easily the most ubiquitous, utilitarian constant, but it is relatively forthright in its appearances. Pi tends to rely more on stealth and cleverness in its frequent cameos. e is definitely blue collar, pi is strictly top-hat. But put them together and add just an iota, it is a whole new ballgame. The j-function and its modular cousins are quickly recruited to the cause.
The Monster Group, by its definition, defines the limits of quantitative or 'classical' mathematical complexity. With the syzygys we are looking ahead to a qualitative, organic, entangled or quantum-like complexity. In a similar fashion, the genome defines the limits of quantitative biological complexity. The proteome looks ahead to a qualitative complexity. This shift from quantitative to qualitative complexity portends our shift from a materialist to an immaterialist understanding of the world. It signals our return to coherence. Coherence is how we finally tame complexity. In order to resolve the Riemann Hypothesis, I believe that we will have to come to grips with this qualitative side of math.
What will the Pythagoreans make of this shift from quantitative to qualitative complexity? Will they still be able to say that God is a mathematician? We may have to redefine what constitutes mathematics. In the last century, mathematics paralleled philosophy in its shift from the analytical to the holistic. As far back as 1931, Godel's incompleteness theorem dashed the hopes for a purely axiomatic or algorithmic program for math, even before the computer came on the scene. Mathematician could not be synonymous with computer. But now, with this new understanding of the qualitative nature of complexity, mathematics is being removed from its pedestal or intellectual compartment. The role of conjecture and intuition will have to expand to be more in line with that of other disciplines. What this indicates is that mathematical intelligence cannot exist apart from a general or natural intelligence. For instance, the aesthetic correspondences between music and math will have to be taken more seriously.
What I am pointing to is that, whatever else cosmic intelligence might be, it cannot be considered to be strictly impersonal. We will have to take more seriously the alleged correspondences between cosmic and microcosmic intelligence. To be more specific, the shift to qualitative, coherent complexity is a shift not just to immaterialism, but also toward personalism rather than to the impersonalism of the mystics and materialists. In other words, the coherence of the BPW is necessarily of, by and for persons.
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What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
-- Wm Blake (late 1700s)
In my initial foray into immaterialism I postulated a chaotic primordial state: everything that could happen, would happen without benefit of time or place. Of late, I have turned more toward a primal symmetry.
The symmetry is totipotent. Actuality is realized in the breaking of the symmetry. The breaking could be spontaneous; however, an observable coherence would more likely be self-sustaining, and thus be the dominant process. That this coherence would include an 'aesthetic' dimension would only enhance its observability and so its self-perpetuation. That perception/conception is proactive in all processes has to be a given for any fully relational system.
And why couldn't we have left well-enough (Nirvana?) alone -- end of story? Only a fool would be so naive as to feel tempted by such a question, so just give me time.
It is, of course, impossible for us to conceive of pre-temporal or multi-temporal 'processes,' but, hey, what's a body to do? And, besides, I just work here.
'Early on,' numbers are entrained in the symmetry breaking. Numbers are a significant product of the process. The prime break might be abstracted as {0,1}, with all else contained in the [0,1] interval. Is this not the A & O? Conceivability implies a prime persona, even manifesting as a 'prime mover.' The splitting persona (my poor head!) arrays itself into various configurations, and the resultant relational networks (in terms of small and not so small group dynamics) are the source of all logically subsequent mathematical physics. Such cosmic numerology is the force underlying our Pythagorean world. And if primal symmetry breaking is a rip-off of the Big Bang, well, our hats off to our physical cosmology colleagues. Cosmogony makes for strange bedfellows. Or was it the other way around?
'Originally', psychology, math and physics are virtually indistinguishable. We are now witness to their separate appearing niches, although our continued probing into their foundations provides ample evidence for their primal unity.
Primal symmetry breaking may be viewed as asymmetric cloning or partial mirroring. I can't really define the 'mirror' beyond a general self-reflexiveness of the prime unity, tantamount to mentation. The symmetry breaking must be self-generated, there being no externality to begin with. We are not talking dialectics here, either. At best, this process might be seen as a reverse dialectic. Does this imply that the Omega would be a forward dialectic? Well, OK, if that would keep our Marxist colleagues pacified.
Clonings can give rise to cyclical network dynamics. There is a reproduction cycle, which may be short on metabolism. Perhaps numbers could serve as proto-atoms in a primal metabolic scheme. Atoms, cells and numbers might be indistinguishable in our primordial alphabet soup. They would provide a common currency. More accurately, they would be the necessary product of a relational, circulational network that requires lowest common denominations. Does this imply an economy? Heaven forbid? Problems of conservation and memory arise, but from physics we know that conservation and symmetry go hand-in-hand. There must be countervailing trends of increasing and decreasing symmetry. The '1' of the primal unity is somehow replaced by the '0' or symmetric void of the space-time background. This is surely a trick: like pulling a hat out of a rabbit. Projective geometry and spin-nets might come into play, not to mention holography. Does anyone else feel like there are a few too many balls in the air at this point? A lot is up for grabs in our brave new world.
While all of this is going on, we must not neglect the A/O split, giving rise to our experience of a linear history. It is the sum over relational paths leading from the A to O. Each person represents a partial trajectory. Together we manage to optimize, with quantum-like constructive and destructive interference, the possibilities of our collective trajectory. Interpersonal dream work could be a significant part of this dynamic.
You may have noticed that while carrying on about Creation, I have had little to say about the Creator. My hunch is that our BPW Creator, while being a maximalist wrt Creation, is a self-minimizer. Besides, we are the resurrection of the primal unified persona. No point in getting in our way or unnecessarily interfering in what is a fairly 'natural' salvation economy. It happens even, or especially, while we sleep.
What I seem to be struggling for now is a sense of the creative logos. Yes, we may wish to know, how did the word become flesh. The new testament speaks of a pre-existent logos, sometimes identified with sophia or the christ. The logos mediates creation. This is an odd theistic admission, one might think, but still commensurate with a trinitarian scheme. Am I then to surmise that our friendly Monster was indeed coexistent with the creator, and later to be identified with Jesus? I'm not real sure we want to go there. That is just what I have been trying to avoid.
Rather, the logos must refer to a 'proto-logic' where word and number could be identified. Notice that with words we are still in the realm of indivisibility. Atoms, or literally particles, are logical remnants of the primordial unity. As such do they carry their essential holographic charge. By such do they participate in the telos. The logos mediates both the alpha and the omega. It would indeed carry a salvific charge and so be identifiable with the charism. How then could we distinguish the second and third members: charism (christ?) and spirit? This may have something to do with the bios, specially linked to #2. Quantum entanglement is just the very most superficial aspect of the teleological or even eschatological charism. The quantum mystics have a point, but they have neither the logos nor the eschaton.
Does any of this help us to pin down the logos? The logos may be the closest we come to an external irritant provoking the primal break: the seed for the pearl that is creation. It is the key to the A&O. It would be the essence of cosmic mystery, partaking of the mystery of the cross. Speaking of crosses, we shift to syzygys and the mysterious couplings of eπ all part of the warp and woof of creation.
There are some in the wisdom tradition who identify the logos or creative spark with the overflow of God's love, leading to creation. In such manner we may avoid externality, but how far can we get with the logic of love?
Words are the prototypical exemplars of the logos. I wish to extend that designation to various other significant entities. In the interest of continuity it would be worthwhile to identify the logos as the source of the Big Six. More generally it is the source of the differentiation of the totality. In that sense it may be identified with Spencer Brown's 'mark of distinction.' Note that I have previously identified the logos with the Zim-zum and the syzygy. The logos is rapidly accumulating baggage. We'll have to sort things out a bit.
Of most immediate concern is how mathematical physics may have emerged out of the operation of the logos. This, of course, is the primary point of contact between the logos and the physical or material world: the Pythagorean imperative. The important point is that the operation of the logos must be reversible. The symmetry breaking can be restored, but only after the logos has taken us to the limit of atomization and analysis. The ultimate reversal probably also invokes the third member of the trinity. I am tempted now to identify the third person with the charism of philo-Sophia. Philosophy was intended to be the flip-side of analysis. That philosophy became identified with analysis in the previous century is one of the profound ironies of history. The dramatic turn by which philosophy regains its true identity would signal the advent noted in John 16:12&ff. It is part of the Aquarium protocol that this first advent be identified with the second, sometimes designated here as Y2C. This would be our own little syzygy: logos meets sophia.
The logos is not a dead letter. It is not mere logic chopping. It is the proactive, vital process of creative distinction. It is the only way in which the totality may circulate, recycle itself through a total reflexivity. We are the pivots of that reflection, not the passive mirrors. Astronomers now deploy active-array mirrors: that's us when you add in quantum-like observer effects.
It is a point of fact that mathematics' primary purchase on the physical is mediated at the quantum level. This is where symmetry is given a free reign. The governing structure here is just the e^i*pi = -1 coincidence, or perhaps the numerical mother or seed of all (physical) a/symmetries. When we carve out e&pi, we are carving out a very significant part of the logos. This is a probe into its operation. This little syzygy, as previously noted, captures (or even generates) much of the mathematical corpus through its various ramifications. It is also implicated as a logical source of the observer effect.
Clearly e&pi is no accident. Its reflexivities are crucial to the whole shebang. If e & pi didn't already exist, God would have had to create them, or did she? Therein lies the secret of the logos, or even of the trinity, for heaven's sake.
Am I being too farfetched here? Yes and no, but I'm not finished. One does not have to be a mystic to see some analogies. Pi stands for the totality or matrix, 'e' for the ramifying logos, and 'i' for the charism of the elusive spirit that ties everything back together. Is this 'ana-logos' purely fortuitous? Or is it the necessary projection of the trinity onto the realm of pure quantity? But it is just our numerological contention that there is no such thing as pure quantity. Quantity and quality are ultimately inseparable. We are trying to see how to realign and reunite them, as a significant part of the new philo-Sophia. This is also along the line of taming the Monster.
Quality conceives its own reflection in quantity. This is just the Pythagorean mystique. This is mathematical intuitionism raised to a new level. Quantity must be born out of quality, and we are beginning to see how. The numerical syzygys are the fossils of this birthing or evolutionary process, pace Darwin.
Let's go back a third time to the apparent jumping-off point for this present excursion: this time for the OM, completing the cycle, as it were. In the primal potency all things exist in a virtual state. The primal syzygy is the circulating resonance, often manifested as the OM. If we project this resonance into the virtual realm of quantity, the static duality of e & pi are set into motion by the essential ambiguity of the iota that now connects them. Which came first: the OM or the e^i*pi? The point, rather, is that they are symbiotic. Reification in this case is a bootstrap. The OM is the quality of motion 'before' the quantity of time. The OM is the seed of the Alpha & Omega 'cycle' whose asymmetry manifests the historical linear time of our Metanarrative. This logos is the logical source of physics. The 'numerological' or Pythagorean aspect of it was primal.
I need to be patient here. If this e&pi business has any merit we will need to extract as much information from it as possible. It could be our best handle on a very obscure dynamics.
The above distinction between quality and quantity is facile. It is just that distinction that I am trying to understand. I am trying to understand or justify Matthew Watkins notion of an evolving number system. An organic, evolving numerical system may actually not be anti-Pythagorean, but it is very un-Platonic. That numbers constitute a mind independent reality (MIR) is deeply ingrained, but it becomes a primary obstacle for monism.
There is not, then, simply a projection from quality onto quantity. It should be more like an extrusion of quantity from quality. This extrusion has something to do with symmetry, and it must go far beyond mere enumeration.
Two candidates for the ur-symmetry are the reflective and the cyclic. The former provides a basis only for enumeration. It is the cyclic symmetry that requires attention. Given a relational network of virtual mutually reflective psyches, there will be many possible circuits.... Sorry, but this still is not getting to the crux of the problem. The observer principle must be included explicitly. Now the observer is only implicit as in providing the (mental) basis of the relational network.
In quantum theory the observer is covered by the projection postulate, or by the collapse of the wave function. Looking back again, note the role of the octonions. Hold on while I take another look.
With reflective symmetry, I was using the mirror as a simile for consciousness, but, in fact, mirrors imply the prior existence of Euclidean space, an assumption which hardly conforms with immaterialism. Closer to our needs and assumptions is projective space. It probably is still too closely related to Euclid, but it is a step in the right direction.
It's time to toss a few more ideas into the pot, stirring vigorously. The strategy seems to be to work both ends, quantity v. quality, against coherence in the middle.
An 'early' state of creation is a growing, neurally networked, psychic pantheon. It needs to be shaped into a lattice and then into Newtonian space, along with bodies and their reproductive cycles, a la A&O.
We need a sequential circuit of psyches, a la the zodiac. This latter is just the metanarrative of the A&O written in the sky. This is the original reproducing cycle, somehow resonating and entraining the rest of the neural net. This is the big Om. In 2-D it would likely start with the circle of six, going to the 12 'pack' in 3-D.
In going from the finite lattice to infinite space we progress through the 17 quasi-exceptional space groups up to the final jump-off point at the sporadic monster. In the process we set up, evolve, the primes and integers by fixing 'e' and pi out of fractional dimensions of space and time(s). Transcendental pi determines translational space. Minimally transcendental 'e' determines directional time. Also, in passing from phi (1.618...) (Fibonacci's rabbit sequence) to 'e' (2.718...) we pass from lattice time to continuous time. (e/phi = 1.67999005... (= 2*3*7/5*5) for what it's worth.)
There is your basic dog's dinner, all I need now is an industrial strength blender. Where are Black&Decker when we need them? Just about a half-mile up Goucher Blvd, if they haven't moved to Bermuda.
OK. phi : e = x : pi -> x = 1.870006... (= 11*17/(2*5)^2). In other words: 3*7*11*17/2*5^4 = 3.1416. Then what? Somebody wants to square the circle via Fibonacci. A strange game here.
If any meaning may be attached to this further coincidence relating pi to 'e' and phi, it indicates a deeper connection between circles and exponentials. We should have already known this from our 'mother' of syzygys: e^i*pi = -1; a fact which we have yet to understand, but of which there are many reminders. We found this reflected in the 'Ramanujan' constant, e^pi*sqrt163, which pointed to a connection between the largest finite group, MG, and the largest uniquely factorizable algebraic discriminant, 163, via the j-function, based on the elliptic generalizations of the e^i*pi circular function, i.e. the functions of quantum angular momentum. The j-function was discovered in the process of factoring the quintic equation. As the cubic is solved by the trisection of angles, so is the quintic, by a five-section. Phi, of course, is the pentagonal number. Pentagonal crystals are quasi-periodic, reminiscent of various other objects of mathematical interest.
In the deck of numbers, the five-spot is more than a bit on the wild side. The power of the decimal system may be one result. Otherwise we would have been duo-decimalists, following the Solar cultists. This goes back to our metric related syzygy of 2*31*127^2 = 999998, and why the inch is exactly 2*1.27 cm . And note that pi^2 ~= 10, and pi^3 = 31.006..., and while you have your calculator handy, try the windows' one with the 'scientific' view, 2*31*127^2 = 9.999996666663888885...^6. Do we think we understand exactly what is going on with these decimals, or are they just playing around? And how could we forget that e^pi - pi = 19.99909998...? I wondered about that pattern of 9s, didn't you? It turns out, after some experimenting motivated by the previous pattern, that 99.982^1/2 = 9.99909996.... Exploiting this fact gives us a recursive formula for pi = ln (pi + 10 + (100 - .018)^1/2). Starting with, say, pi = 3, this formula rapidly converges on pi ~= 3.1415926527.... Pi = 3.1415926535.... The closest memorable competitor is 113\355 = 3.14159292.... You are invited to comparison shop at Math World. This is the simplest, least arbitrary of the bunch. Furthermore, it seems to beg of a functional meaning, as well as underscoring the decimal essence of pi.


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For many former Murray Goulburn suppliers, today's outcome in the Federal Court leaves many of their most pressing questions unanswered.
Cobram East dairy farmer Paul Mundy remains frustrated at the lack of answers to his questions about what went so wrong at top end of the co-operative.
"Why did our farmer directors just sit there and watch it happen? It didn't happen overnight," Mr Munday said.
"Gary Helou deserves all that he gets, and probably a lot more, but it's the board [at the time] of Murray Goulburn, they were the ones who were supposed to be in charge, and therefore they are the ones who should be held to account.
"They should have to answer questions about their role in the demise of a co-op that used to control 43 per cent of Australia's milk supply."
Mr Mundy said while nearly all the farmers affected by the 2016 price cuts had moved on, the true impact of losing the farmer-owned co-operative was yet to really sink in.
"I still maintain we are still yet to realise what it is we had [in the former co-op]," he said.
"Every morning I wake up and I know that, while I am working for myself on the farm, we don't own the co-op, we're not part of the bigger picture.
"We are now nothing more than an ingredients supplier, that's the true reality."


This graphic from a FiveThirtyEight article shows dozens of Congressmen were removed from office during the first four decades of the 20th century due to having election results overturned. Why was this so common at the start of the century, and what happened such that disputed elections haven't resulted in congressional representatives being booted from office since then?
Apparently, the House itself is the ultimate arbiter of whom to seat after an election.
From the FiveThirtyEight spreadsheet (thanks Michael Seifert), the most common reason for these elections to be overturned was that they had been challenged; the loser in the election had made a formal case to the chamber to be seated instead of the winner. Apparently they were often able to convince the body in this kind of case.
... contested elections were the vehicle by which the Republican Party sought to preserve a party organization in the South during the late-nineteenth century. That is, in the face of evenly divided national electorates from the mid-1870s through the early-to-mid-1890s and a growing Democratic-led disfranchisement of African Americans in the South, Republicans turned to contested elections as an institutional equalizer, a tool to maintain a sufficient number of southern seats to retain majority control of the House. Thus, for a period of two decades, contested elections played a crucial role in southern politics and House politics specifically, as well as national party politics more broadly.
Your chart shows contested elections immediately following this period. The various election-winning, seat-losing Ds in the FiveThirtyEight spreadsheet might have lost out in similar circumstances.
Have a large number of Congressmen announced voluntary retirement like they did after the 2016 elections?
Where have non-consecutive term limits been used? What were the results?
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by the Labor and Employment and Tax Groups
A recent opinion from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court clarifies the definition of employment under the state's Unemployment Compensation Law, potentially increasing the amount of Unemployment Compensation Tax (UC Tax) that employers must contribute to the Unemployment Compensation Fund and that employers must collect from employees. The majority held that under Pennsylvania law, for a worker to be classified as an independent contractor, and thus not subject to UC Tax, the individual must "actually be involved in an independently established trade, occupation, profession, or business," rather than just merely being "capable of performing their services for others."
In A Special Touch v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (No. 30 MAP 2019; available here), a majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed with the Department of Labor and Industry that five nail technicians and cleaning staff for the nail salon were employees for purposes of the Unemployment Compensation Law rather than independent contractors.
Although the independent contractor standard also includes an inquiry into whether individuals are free from the control of the company, the court's review focused solely on the phrase "clearly established" as used in the law, to determine whether it requires the worker actually performs work for another entity or just has the "mere ability to be so involved."
The statute provides in relevant part:
Services performed by an individual for wages shall be deemed to be employment subject to this act, unless and until it is shown to the satisfaction of the department that--(a) such individual has been and will continue to be free from control or direction over the performance of such services both under his contract of service and in fact; and (b) as to such services such individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business.
43 P.S. § 753(l)(2)(B).
The salon argued that the workers were contractors who could largely dictate their own schedule and, for the nail techs, were responsible for maintaining their own professional licenses and providing their own supplies and equipment. Some workers also had other jobs outside the salon.
Still, the court held these facts did not fulfill the "customarily engaged" requirement because the other work the individuals performed did not involve "providing their nail or cleaning services as part of their own business." Citing the Department's findings, the court highlighted that the workers did not hold themselves out as "having their own businesses" nor was there any evidence that they were actually involved in an "independently established business," as required under the statute. According to the majority, evidence that may demonstrate an individual is "customarily engaged" and thus, is appropriately classified as an independent contractor, includes use of business cards or advertising showing that the individual is "actively holding himself out to perform services for another, even if not actively performing those services."
The court also explained that while "customarily engaged requires actual, rather than hypothetical involvement in a trade or business," it does not require an independent contractor consistently perform work for other entities in order to evade classification as an employee for purposes of unemployment compensation taxes.
Employers subject to the provisions of the Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Law are responsible for contributions of UC Tax and withholding UC Tax from employees based on total payments for services performed in covered employment. Consequently, by expanding what is considered covered employment for these purposes, the court's ruling could expand the base subject to UC Tax contributions and withholding. Although the court's decision does not affect the classification of workers for federal, state and local tax purposes (because the tests are applied differently and the tax test does not include the "customarily engaged" test), the holding means that employers could be required to pay and withhold UC Tax from amounts paid to persons who are not treated as employees for tax purposes. Employment laws including workers' compensation, Title VII, the Fair Labor Standards Act and the National Labor Relations Act all have their own standards for independent contractor status that companies must comply with.
In light of the court's opinion, employers should review the classification of its independent contractors and ensure appropriate unemployment tax withholdings. Ballard Spahr's Labor and Employment Group regularly assists clients in all aspects of employer/employee relations, as well as compliance, audits, and litigation under state and federal law related to classification of workers. Additionally, Ballard Spahr's Tax Practice Group is ready to assist employers regarding employment tax issues, including Pennsylvania unemployment compensation tax liabilities.
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NY Jets Tailgating Series (Ice.edu)
The NY Jets and the Institute of Culinary Education have announced a second season of the Jets cooking school.
I'm very excited to team up with ICE for a second season of the Jets Cooking School," said New York Jets Offensive Lineman Willie Colon. "This year's classes will be bigger and better and will help Jets fans take their tailgating to the next level. I look forward to working with ICE's outstanding chefs and the amazing fans that participate to help make these delicious recipes.
Here is some more information on the program:
The New York Jets and the Institute of Culinary Education invite you to The Official Jets Cooking School, presented by Chase, a series of exclusive tailgate and game day cooking classes. Fans, bring your appetite and learn to create gourmet gameday dishes with ICE's team of all-pro chefs. In addition to cooking, don't miss the opportunity to meet current and former Jets players and Flight Crew Cheerleaders. Every class during the 2013 season sold out, so be sure to register early and join the roster!
New this season, attend any class and receive an ICE exclusive VIP Jets Experience. This VIP experience with purchase includes a once in a lifetime behind-the-scenes tour of MetLife Stadium, gameday home of the New York Jets. Your guided tour will include a visit to some of the stadium's premium spaces as well as the press box, Jets team locker room and more. Don't leave without taking a walk on the very same field your favorite Jets play on each season. The only way to be a part of this unique and unrivaled experience is to register to attend any Jets Cooking School class this season.
This year's class roster includes:
Deep Dish Pizza and Smokin' Hot Dogs: Thursday, September 18 at 7pm at ICE
Inspired by the New York Jets taking on the Chicago Bears on September 22, fans will learn the classics of deep dish pizza to grilled Chicago-style hot dogs. Plus an insider lesson on making hot dogs from scratch, homemade hot dog fixings and apple crumb pie doughnuts.
Everything Wings & Beer: Thursday, October 16 at 7pm at ICE
ICE turns its 12th floor into an all-green sports bar to watch the Jets take on the New England Patriots. What's better with football than wings and beer? Fans will learn to craft the ultimate wing bar – from beer-battered to smothered in buffalo sauce and beyond – and tips to shake up the perfectly paired beer cocktail to wash it all down.
Thanksgiving with a Tailgate Twist: Monday, November 17 at 8pm at ICE
Looking to take the Thanksgiving day tailgate to the next level? Learn to deep fry that turkey! Plus, learn to elevate those traditional Thanksgiving sides – with dishes like cornbread bread pudding, the new green bean casserole and pumpkin tiramisu – with current Jets players.
Tailgate Tennessee-Style with Southern Comfort Classics: Monday, December 8 at 7pm at ICE
As the Jets prepare to take on the Tennessee Titans on December 15, fans will learn to prepare the ultimate Southern Comfort classics for the game. From shrimp and grits to the perfect fried chicken and more, Jets players will help their "gang green" bring the dishes to the end zone.
Flavors of the AFC East: Saturday, January 31 at 1pm at MetLife Stadium
Join ICE and the Jets on a culinary tour to conquer the flavors of the AFC East: Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, New England Patriots and, of course, the New York Jets. Fans will choose their favorite competitor and learn to craft their hometown classics hands-on, alongside Jets personalities all inside the Jets' home turf, complete with a front row view of the field.
ICE's Exclusive VIP Jets Experience: Saturday, January 31 at 5pm at MetLife Stadium
Fans who attend any class during the season will receive the ICE VIP Jets Experience, including a once in a lifetime behind-the-scenes tour of MetLife Stadium, gameday home to the New York Jets. The tour includes a visit to the stadium's premium spaces, including the field, press box, Jets team locker room and more.
Please visit ICE.edu for more information.


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by Aaron Wertheimer
Aaron Wertheimer
Comedy, Sport
When a stone is skipped, flying through the air, skimming the water and taking off once more, it briefly goes beyond its fate as a dense object. Skippers is an offbeat indie comedy that explores the sacrifice of material comforts in pursuit of such beautiful moments.
raised $8,105
The story and world of Skippers has been marinating in my mind for over a decade, when I first envisioned a gang film, but instead of a motorcycle or breakdancing gang, it's a gang of skippers, who are seriously into skipping stones. They face resistance from the local townsfolk, and settle disputes not with physical fights but with skip-offs. Over time, that idea morphed into one man who is new in town and lives for those moments when the stone skims the water and flies through the air, transcending its mere stoneness. He split from his old crew because they were more concerned with money and fame.
The subtext of all this is an exploration of leading a comfortable life with material possessions, versus living for beautiful moments that can't be captured tangibly. And the question of, is it worth it, to sacrifice material pleasures for something you can't hold on to? Can you truly hold on to anything in this world? I think these ideas are relatable to most people.
My first feature film, Wedgerino, was an official selection at six festivals in North America, including the Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival in Bay City, Michigan. Bay City is a small, quiet town of about 25,000 located on Lake Huron, and with its charming vibe, engaging architecture and proximity to the water, it's the perfect location to shoot Skippers.
We have already raised half of the money needed to make the film, and also received numerous in-kind donations to help keep the actual budget down. The money raised here on Seed&Spark will just about complete the shooting budget.
I like to make films that are fun to watch, with an offbeat outlook, that attract a niche audience and are an enjoyable escape for the viewer. What I found with the short videos I made back in the day, and with Wedgerino, is that when people like it, they really like it. With such a glut of entertainment these days, it's important to stand out. Offering a unique sensibility, my films do stand out, and I am excited to put another one out into the world.
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"I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks." - will.i.am Shakespeare
Skip at your favorite body of water
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Live skipping a stone with your name on it
Aaron will skip a stone with your name on it using Facebook Live, which will, ironically, be the first time he has ever used Facebook Live.
Extra, Extra!!
If you are in Michigan, come spend a day as an extra, and hang out on set and eat some snacks.
Tickets to see Kenny perform
Two VIP tickets to enjoy the comedic stylings of Kenny the next time he comes to your city.
Skippers sweatshirt
An official Skippers sweatshirt as worn by the Skippers Crew in the film.
Skippin' hang
If you live in the Chicagoland area, Aaron will take you to Lake Michigan for an afternoon of stone skippin' and conversatin'.
Wow, hello Associate Producer. Very fancy title in the film's credits and on IMDb.
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Four of these drives ($280 each) are needed to store and back up all the footage.
For those times when you need to move from one place to another.
Camera & lenses
Contribute towards an excellent camera and lenses. (Note: this is not the full cost of the camera package.)
Healthy and delicious meals and snacks are one of the keys to a productive cast and crew.
We need to make special sweatshirts for the Skippers crew.
Skipping stones
A few buckets of primo skipping stones to help achieve impressive skips, so I don't have to steal the stones from my parents' yard.
Chris Roberti, "Carver": Starred opposite Ilana Glazer in the 2013 film How to Follow Strangers; starred in two short films written and directed by Anthony, who is going to edit Skippers (see below); plays Chad on High Maintenance on HBO, and Craig on season 3 of Comedy Central's Broad City; teacher at the Peoples Improv Theater in New York.
Kenny Zimlinghaus, "Kevin": Co-hosted Wake Up weekday morning show on Sirius XM, 2007 to 2016; regularly tours across North America as a standup comic; star of Wedgerino; featured in the 2015 film Adventures in Comedy, directed by and starring Tom McCaffrey, with Jim Gaffigan and Janeane Garofalo.
Kate Villanova, "Josie": Played 'Sa in Wedgerino; appeared in season 3 of the Hulu series Deadbeat; portrays Cyn in the Off-Broadway play Kept Woman.
Julie Mann, "Tanya": Played Nicole in Wedgerino; wrote, produced and starred in two seasons of the Web series Self Storage; plays Kateland in the upcoming ABC Family television series Famous in Love; has also been featured on Judging Amy, Numb3rs, Grey's Anatomy; and you may have spotted her while watching football, in recent commercials for Hulu and Best Buy.
Aaron Wertheimer (that's me), writer, director, producer, "Gerard": Writer, director and star of Wedgerino, Best Comedy at the 2015 Manhattan Fim Festival and an official selection in six festivals; assistant director on the upcoming feature Avenues; production coordinator for the Viceland TV network, 2015-16; jury member, 2016 Hell's Half Mile Film Festival.
Steven Schuermans, director of photography: Director of photography on Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts in 2015 and 2016; key grip on Douglas Brown (starring Zoe Bell and Robert Forster) and Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (directed by Mike Myers); gaffer on Wedgerino.
Anthony Mascorro, editor: Editor on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS; formerly an editor at Vice Media; edited and starred in Wedgerino; also a musician, he is a jack of all trades, master of all.
Many of the cast and crew of Skippers were also involved in my previous film Wedgerino - here's the preview:
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Feather identification is of crucial importance to the investigation of aircraft accidents (e.g. BENTZ 1982, BENTZ & BROM 1990, BROM & BENTZ 1991).
In order to evaluate and prevent the severe hazards birds can cause to aviation it is important to know what bird species are involved. After a bird strike often the only parts of the bird that remain are a few feathers or feather fragments. The identification of such remains has two approaches:
- The microscopic approach involves the analysis of downy feather structures under the microscope and in some cases biochemical examination or even DNA extraction. This method is necessary if only small feather fragments or blood traces are found, but it is rather expensive as it requires special equipment and training.
- In contrast, the macroscopic approach has the advantage that it relies on direct visual comparison and does not require expensive instruments. This method is useful if bigger feather remains (or other body parts) are found.
Whereas there are already some elaborate identification keys to microscopic feather analysis of European birds (BROM 1991, PRAST & SHAMOUN 1997), literature on macroscopic feather identification is scarce and a lacks a completely illustrated guide, especially one with color photos. The guide to pellets and pluckings by MÄRZ (1969, revised edition reprinted 1987) contains hardly any images and its very short texts do not provide sufficient details for identification. The series by HANSEN et al. (1973-1998) is limited to the tail feathers of central European bird species and contains only black and white drawings. The popular guide by BROWN et al. (1987) covers less than half of the European species and only illustrates 3 or 4 feathers per species with drawings. The promising work of BUSCHING (1991), which was planned in 10 volumes over 20 years, was unfortunately stopped by the publisher.
Faced with this lack of a practical guide, one and a half years ago I decided to develop a feather identification book based on color photos. The project is already well advanced. Several publishers have expressed interest to print the book, but additional finances need to be acquired because of the high production cost.
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Following a meeting with the Prime Minister, Liz Saville Roberts MP said that "with the calamity of a no deal being only nine days away, she now more than ever must seek genuine compromise across the House."
The meeting took place tonight in the House of Commons, along with the leaders of the SNP, Liberal Democrats, Green Party, DUP and The Independent Group. Jeremy Corbyn was invited, but refused to attend the meeting. It is understood that this is due to the presence of members of The Independent Group.
"The Prime Minister is still refusing to accept reality. She remains astonishingly intransigent, and continues to try to bully MPs into a false choice between her deal or no deal.
"In order to find an approach that can command the support of Parliament, the Prime Minister must accept that her strategy of a false binary option will not work.
"With the calamity of a no deal being only nine days away, she now more than ever must seek genuine compromise across the House.


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The Big Deal About KOTE – Kingston's Arts Festival
Karin June 26, 2013
So what's the big deal about KOTE, Kingston's Urban Arts Festival going on now in Kingston, Jamaica?
KOTE 2013 Features Pop-up Art Studios at Café What's On
Pop-up art studios exhibition on all week at Café What's On, 133 Barbican Road. Their first year participating in KOTE, Café What's On is focusing on the incredible talents of Jamaican visual artists. A diverse selection of artists will be showcasing their skills in the Café's pop-up studios ranging from
Kingston on the Edge (KOTE) On June 21-30
Opening night this Friday, June 21 at Redbones. See complete schedule of events: kingstonontheedge.org/schedule
Climate Change and the Caribbean – What Do We Need To Know?
The Caribbean is the most tourism dependent region of the world and also one of the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. How does climate change affect us here in the Caribbean? Caribbean countries and economies are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Jamaica, for example,
Rockhouse Hotel & Spa Presents Monthly Outdoor Acoustic Concert Series
JOHNNY OSBOURNE AT ROCKHOUSE HOTEL OUTDOOR ACOUSTIC CONCERT SERIES Johnny Osbourne Inna Campfire Acoustical Fashion Hosted by Tifa and featuring DJ Max Glazer of the Federation Sound System Tuesday June 18, 2013 Doors at 8pm Performance begins promptly at 9pm JA$1000 Rockhouse Hotel & Spa and Pushcart Restaurant in Negril
Unit 137 Live From London Producing Real Reggae Music
There's a big sound coming out of South East London and it's called Unit 137. In their own words, Unit 1-3-7 is a "a collective of DJs, producers, vocalists, engineers and instrumentalists drawn together by a shared passion of conscious, forward thinking bass music," consisting of Hylu, Jago, Zico, D-Tek,
Jamaica's Beautiful Mountains
Jamaica's beautiful mountains. Thanks to Chelsea Smallwood for this photo from the edge!
Caribbean Suffers from Perpetual Recession from Climate Change
Karin June 9, 2013
Thank You & Come Again, Solo Exhibition by Raine Manley Robertson
With her first public exhibition of work, Jamaican-born artist Raine Manley Robertson has created a two-part show entitled, Thank You & Come Again. In Thank You, the artist presents a powerful and brilliantly-colored series of nude self-portraits. The second component of the show, Come Again, spotlights Manley Robertson's keen interest


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Webb triathlon holds first intramural competition
Laura Haushalter and Vivien Xi|December 12, 2019
Triathletes race around Faculty Field.
Laura Haushalter
As we head into December, we may notice that the California sun sets earlier and the temperature cools down. Although one might think the changing weather will affect Webb's outdoor winter sports, Webb triathlon pushed through and hosted their own first mini-competition of the season on December 5th.
Throughout the past few weeks, Webb triathlon alternated between running, swimming, and biking practices. Unlike the past few years, there have been mini-competitions between the members on the team, allowing the afternoon activity to become more than just a place where people train. Triathletes earn points each day for workouts completed and also for winning the weekly competition.
Brian Caldwell, head coach of the triathlon team, said, "One of the goals of the point system is to build in some competition. That was an issue in years before because we didn't have enough racing going on since there are no high schools to compete against."
Initially, the swimmers completed a 300-yard freestyle, progressing down the lanes with splashy strokes. For most triathletes, the swim portion of the race proved the most difficult.
Then, triathlon racers darted up the hill from the pool to the Faculty Field track and started the five-mile biking portion of the competition. They had to bike up Gym Hill to begin racing at the track.
Finally, the racers exited Faculty Field from the left gate and finished up the competition by running a lap around church loop – a loop around the Webb campus – finishing by running up Mongo Hill.
Amanda Wang ('20), a third-year triathlete, said, "I think it is a great way to stay in shape. I had been swimming for a long time. I was getting tired of just swimming laps but I still wanted to use my skill so triathlon seemed like the next step. The season just started but every year it's a really good group of people and this year is no exception."
After completing the course, Mr. Caldwell distributed points for the day's competition. Dean Woelfle ('21) won overall, despite having a slow start in the pool.
Dean said, "I'm not very good at swimming and that was first, so there was a lot of fatigue right away and tiredness so I had to deal with that. Though I did overall beat Garrett [ Revelli ('20)] so that's a win. Garrett is my competition. Triathlon is hard to come in good though. Everyone has to overcome something whether that is like biking or running. We can do a lot better as a team. Over the season we will get better and see what happens."
Everyone showed great determination and ability given the opportunity to race in all three events. For first-time triathletes, they were able to learn a thing or two about their new sport.
Mr. Caldwell said, "Today was really a success in my mind because everyone really gave their best effort on all three segments of the race. You didn't see anyone making excuses. They just got out there and did their best. In the front end, like the top 5-6 people, [it] was super competitive, so it was exciting to watch."
The Webb triathlon team is excited to continue their season with more intramural competitions every Thursday.
The course map shows how triathletes race all around Webb campus.
Laura Haushalter, Editor of Sports
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