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Tories Cut Benefits to win Popularity.
Clegg and Osborne Enjoy a Special Moment Together.
This says it all .
Clegg: Osborne casually cut welfare for poorest to boost Tory popularity (Guardian today)
Exclusive: Former deputy PM says 'cynical' ex-chancellor was not bothered about human consequences.
Nick Clegg has accused the former chancellor George Osborne of casually cutting the benefits of the poorest people in society because he believed taking the austerity axe to welfare would boost Conservative popularity.
In a candid interview looking back on his five years as deputy prime minister in the Tory-Lib Dem coalition, Clegg said he found the behaviour of his senior Conservative partner "very unattractive, very cynical".
"Welfare for Osborne was just a bottomless pit of savings, and it didn't really matter what the human consequences were, because focus groups had shown that the voters they wanted to appeal to were very anti-welfare, and therefore there was almost no limit to those anti-welfare prejudices," he told the Guardian.
Speaking before the publication of his anticipated political memoir, written after his party was reduced to eight seats in last year's general election, Clegg hit out at David Cameron and his Conservative partners in government. He said the former Tory leader or the chancellor – "I honestly can't remember whom – looked genuinely nonplussed and said: 'I don't understand why you keep going on about the need for more social housing – it just creates Labour voters.' They genuinely saw housing as a Petri dish for voters. It was unbelievable."
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This doesn't surprise me. The vermin's support base practically put the bunting out whenever cuts are aimed at the unemployed, single mothers or working poor but cry like babies when the nice to have freebies are taken away for the affluent old.
The Tory support base are nasty pieces of work. There is a section of the electorate who'll vote Tory not in spite of them being a hateful class war party with no compassion for the weakest but because they are a hateful classwar party with no compassion for the weakest.
These people complain when they are called out on their behaviour.
Its amazing what short memories some people have when it comes to state benefits.
He didn't cuts the £85bn in corporate welfare handouts
But did cut to Personal Independence Payments to raise £4.4BILLION to fund tax cut for the rich
In fact he consistently helped the rich – and he did it by hurting disabled people.
Posted in Cuts, DWP, Government, Liberal Tory Coalition, Welfare Reform
Tagged with Cuts. Welfare State, DWP, George Osborne, Nick Clegg
Iain Duncan Smith "Does not Know Where Welfare Cuts will Come from". Vote Him Out!
Iain Duncan Smith admits the Tories have not worked out where their £12bn welfare cuts will come from.
The Conservatives have not worked out where their planned £12bn welfare cuts will come from, Iain Duncan Smith has admitted.
The Work and Pensions Secretary said the Tories had not "done the work" and were not in a position to say which benefits would be curtailed.
Asked why he could not disclose the cuts, he said: "We would have to have done the work on it. That's why. We would have had to reach agreement as to exactly where those are… as soon as we've done the work and had it modelled we'll let everybody know what that is."
In March of this year the Institute for Fiscal Studies challenges the Conservatives over their planned cuts and said the Chancellor should spell out exactly which benefits would suffer.
"But it is now almost two years since he announced his intention of cutting welfare spending by £12bn. Since then the main announcement has been the plan not to cut anything from the main pensioner benefits," Paul Johnson, the Institute's Director, said.
"We have been told about no more than £2bn of the planned cuts to working-age benefits. And, remember, apparently the 'plan' is to have those £12bn of cuts in place by 2017-18. It is time we knew more about what they might actually involve."
The New Statesman provides the detailed transcript of what he said,
N: Let me come – speaking of a benefits and welfare, let me come back to you IDS. Now in March you said that you are – I quote you: 'May or may not decide that it's relevant to reveal to the British electorate where the £12bn of welfare cuts are going to come from in the next government' if you win. Why don't think it's relevant that we should know?
IDS: Because we'd have to have done the work on it, that's why and we'd have had to reached agreement as to exactly where those are. We've let know – the public know exactly one area which was that we're going to freeze those benefits. That's going to save between 2 and 3 three billion pounds and also –
AN: About £2bn now with low inflation.
IDS: – and we're going to lower the cap to £23,000 which is average earnings. But as I said on the Marr programme more recently I said, you know, as soon as we have done the work and had it properly modelled then we will let everybody know what that is.
AN: Shouldn't you have done the work before you come to the British people to ask for re-election?
IDS: Yes, but the key area here of course –
RR: Yes.
IDS: no, well okay, but the key area here is that everyone is very clear that after the next election, if you get a Conservative government we have already said that we will save £12bn from essentially working age benefits and we've said that. That's very clear. But I have locked out –
SW: What I don't understand is … what you won't cut. If you're clear you won't cut pensions, child benefit, disablement benefit.
IDS: Yes.
RR: Well he hasn't completely about child benefit.
SW: Then why can't you be clear about what you will cut?
IDS: Well because, as I said, the work that we do on this will be done in the spending room, we will announce that out at the time.
Now we already have
The Benefit Cap.
The Bedroom Tax.
No rise in many benefits to meet growing cost of living.
Obligation to pay Council Tax percentage by all claimants.
Massive sanctions.
In the offing are (Guardian): "abolishing statutory maternity pay and barring under-25s from claiming incapacity benefit or housing benefit. "
• Getting employers to contribute more to the cost of statutory maternity pay – or as an alternative abolishing it entirely.
• Freezing benefit payments at current levels across the board.
• Limiting welfare payments by family size.
• Forcing single parents on income support to seek work when their youngest child reaches the age of three (currently five).
• Making it harder for sick people to claim state aid when they are out of work by introducing "stricter" fit-for-work tests and/or tighter limits on eligibility.
• Increasing the bedroom tax on certain categories of renters.
• Barring under-25s from claiming incapacity benefit or housing benefit.
They could simply cut JSA…..
I bet they'd like to.
So we'd all be begging charity from Foodbanks and the 'Big Society'.
Vote to get rid of this crew!
Posted in Council Tax, Cuts, Food Banks, Iain Duncan Smith, Liberal Tory Coalition, Sanctions, Tories, Welfare Reform, Welfare State
Tagged with Benefit Cuts, Charity, Iain Duncan Smith, sanctions, Tories, Welfare cuts
Two Million a Year to Have to Use Foodbanks if Tories Win.
The Tory Future: An Endless Queue for Charity Food Banks.
Planned £12bn Tory welfare cuts will lead to two million a year using food banks, says study.
The number of people using food banks will double to more than two million a year under the Conservatives' plans for £12bn of welfare cuts, an academic study by Oxford University suggests.
The research was seized on by Labour as evidence that David Cameron's welfare cuts will have far-reaching consequences for family budgets, including eating into in-work benefits, if the Conservatives get back into power next week. On the Question Time leaders' debate on Thursday, Mr Cameron said he did not want or had no plans to cut child benefit further – but Labour claims this does not mean he has ruled it out. The Prime Minister, asked about child benefit cuts on BBC Breakfast yesterday, again refused to rule it out.
Labour's spokesperson on work and pensions, Rachel Reeves, told The Independent on Sunday that the Oxford University study was extremely worrying for families on low incomes, and claimed that Mr Cameron's failure to rule out child benefit cuts suggested that they were on the table.
Last month, the Trussell Trust, the charity that provides parcels to food banks, revealed that visits had risen to over one million a year for the first time.
This is the 'Big Society' Cameron Promises.
Oxford academic Dr Rachel Loopstra's research paper, entitled Austerity, Sanctions and the Rise of Food Banks in the UK, examined the relationship between benefit cuts and food bank demand. The study shows that food parcel distribution per head of population will rise by 0.16 percentage points for every 1 per cent annual cut in benefit spending.
This is the future: living on charity handouts from the Lord and Lady Bountifuls of the land.
Even in school: Schools feeding and clothing pupils, say heads
Head teachers are warning that schools are having to act like "mini-welfare states" in having to provide food, spare uniform and even to wash clothes and provide showers for some pupils.
The National Association of Head Teachers says such welfare support is costing £43.5m from school budgets.
Heads' leader Russell Hobby said it was a "hidden national scandal".
A Conservative spokesman said "the number of children living in poverty has fallen by 300,000".
The warning from members of the NAHT, as they gather for their annual conference in Liverpool, is that schools are having to step in with welfare support for pupils, either because of poverty or dysfunctional families.
The union's report, based on responses from more than 2,000 head teachers in England, found examples of schools supplying food, clothes, PE kit, headlice treatment, transport costs and equipment for lessons.
There were schools which now had facilities for washing clothes and providing showers for pupils.
We want rights not charity!
Vote to the Tory and Liberal Rabble Out!
Posted in Cuts, Food Banks, Government, Iain Duncan Smith, Liberal Tory Coalition, Sanctions, Tories, Uncategorized, Unemployment, Universal Jobmatch, Welfare Reform
Tagged with Charity, Charity Food Banks, child benefit, David Cameron, Food Banks, sanctions, Tories, Unemployment
Welfare Reform: Iain Duncan Smith Trumpets Success.
Some of those 'Benefiting' from Iain Duncan Smith's Reforms.
Welfare reform has improved lives claims Iain Duncan Smith
Saturday April 25th. Express and Star, Wolverhampton.
The architect of the controversial 'bedroom tax' has insisted low and middle earners have benefited from his welfare reforms.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith slashed millions from the welfare bill as the coalition government sought to balance the books.
But he claimed these savings, alongside the falling number of people claiming certain benefits, had allowed the coalition to introduce tax cuts for those on low pay.
From this month the tax-free personal allowance threshold on income tax increased to £10,600.
Speaking in Walsall, Mr Duncan Smith said: "What I have been doing now for a number of years is reforming welfare as a means to making more people better off.
"The reforms have not just saved tax payers money, including those on low and middle incomes, we have actually been able to give them tax cuts by raising the threshold on the personal allowance on income tax.
"We have been able to afford that because more people have got back into work as a result of our reforms."
Mr Duncan Smith, who led the Conservatives for two years during Tony Blair's New Labour government, was at Nova Training in Goscote where unemployed young people are taught skills to help them secure work.
Evidence of this success…
Fuel banks pilot scheme aims to address austerity-era dilemma of 'heat or eat'.
Guardian. 24th April.
Fuel voucher for families who use prepayment meters will be available to those in crisis referred to food banks by welfare advice agencies, GPs and social workers.
Families in poverty who are forced to switch off their gas and electricity supply because they are unable afford spiralling energy bills will be offered free charity fuel vouchers under a pilot scheme. The so-called "fuel banks" initiative will provide a £49 credit for struggling families who use prepayment meters in a move designed to address the austerity-era dilemma of "heat or eat". It is being run by energy firm nPower and poverty charities including the food bank network Trussell trust.
The vouchers, which will provide enough credit to restore power, and keep lights and heating on for up to two weeks, will be available to people in crisis referred to food banks by welfare advice agencies, GPs and social workers.
Posted in Council Tax, Food Banks, Government, Iain Duncan Smith, Liberal Tory Coalition, Sanctions, Tories, Welfare Reform
Tagged with Iain Duncan Smith, welfare reforms
Benefit-Related Suicides: DWP Forced to Open up?
Not to Escape Responsibility for Deaths.
A Few Days ago:
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing an investigation into its refusal to publish 'secret' reviews into 49 benefit-related deaths, it has been reported today.
Welfare News.
The investigation was launched by the Information Commissioners Office following a complaint from Disability News Service (DNS).
A number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, including from DNS, demanding that the DWP publish its reviews into benefit-related deaths have been rebuffed by the department.
Officials have since admitted that of the 49 reviews the DWP has carried out so far, 33 included a recommendation to make improvements and 40 were made in response to an apparent suicide.
The DWP says publishing the reviews could represent a breach of section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act; which states that it would be an offence for a DWP employee to, "disclose without lawful authority any information which he acquired in the course of that employment and which relates to a particular person".
A complaint from DNS has now sparked an investigation by the information watchdog.
Just now we learn: Information commissioner to force DWP to be transparent about investigation into benefit-related suicides. Third Force News.
England's information commissioner is to launch an investigation into the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) "refusal" to reveal reviews into 49 benefit-related deaths.
It comes after the DWP refused several requests to publish the information saying publishing the reviews could represent a breach of section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act.
The act states it would be an offence for a DWP employee to "disclose without lawful authority any information which he acquired in the course of that employment and which relates to a particular person".
However, a complaint by campaign group Disability News Service (DNS) has launched an investigation by the watchdog.
Campaigners believe sanctions and cuts to benefits have been so severe many claimants – especially those with mental health problems – have taken their own lives.
The investigation will take a number of months to conclude but in the event investigators rule against the DWP the decision can be appealed.
A spokesman for the information commissioner's office said: "The focus of my investigation will be to determine whether the DWP is entitled to rely on section 44 as a basis for refusing to provide the information you requested.
"Should it not be a valid refusal of your request the commissioner will also determine what information can be provided within the appropriate cost limit."
We should make it clear: CO not 'investigating' DWP on suicide reports, is assessing if FOI Act refusal justified @johnpringdns
Refuted added,
Still,
As the so-called opinion polls saying that 99.9% of people back sending unemployment out to clean the streets with their toothbrushes and beg for charity in Food Banks cover the pages of the Sun, the Mail and Express, spare a thought for the poor bastards who'd had enough of all that – and ended up in these "events".
Posted in DWP, Food Banks, Iain Duncan Smith, Liberal Tory Coalition, Sanctions, Welfare Reform
Tagged with DWP, Foodbanks, sanctions


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The Americans Recap 5/2/17: Season 5 Episode 9 "IHOP"
BY Heather R Brueck on May 2, 2017 | Comments: Leave Comments
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Tonight on FX The Americans airs with an all new Tuesday, May 2, 2017, episode and we have your The Americans recap below. On tonight's The Americans season 5 episode 9 called, "IHOP" as per the FX synopsis, "Philip and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) are thrown off balance when things with Tuan take an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Henry makes a startling proposition and Stan has a disturbing encounter with Frank Gaad's widow."
So make sure to bookmark this spot and come back between 10 PM – 11 PM ET for our The American's recap. While you wait for our recap make sure to check out all our The Americans recaps, news, spoilers, videos & more, right here!
Tonight's The Americans recap begins now – Refresh Page often to get the most current updates!
Kinsey celebrates her 17th birthday. Elizabeth and Phillip talk about Henry's report card and how much better his grades are then Paige's. Dr. Tippens' office calls to say Dr. Penderson will be covering for Dr. Tippens. Phillip is to see him Tuesday. Stan learns that KGB officers where in the country the same time as the murders. Elizabeth goes to Tuan's house but he isn't home. Phillip listens in on Stan.
Elizabeth calls Pasha to see if Tuan is there but he is not. It is very late and he is still not home so Elizabeth searches his room. She doesn't find anything and he never returns home. She tells Phillip something doesn't feel right. He tells her on the tape he heard that a group died of a hemorrhagic attack. It was the same virus they gave the CIA.
Phillip goes to the hospital to meet Dr. Penderson and he says Phillip needs to protect himself. Stan visits Frank's widow and it is very awkward. He asks her if she knows anything about Bangkok. She tells Stan Frank would want revenge for his death. Elizabeth and Phillip talk to Henry and he asks if he can go to a boarding school in New Hampshire. He would leave in the fall.
Gabriel goes to see Martha. He asks how her Russian is coming. She wonders if her parents know where she is and he says no. He is retired now and Clark thinks of her often. She tells him to leave and to never come back. Tuan is being followed. Elizabeth and Phillip talk about Henry's request and Elizabeth thinks they should let him go but Phillip does not. Tuan is spotted at the bus station and Elizabeth sees him board a bus bound for Harrisburg.
Oleg is questioned about his time in America. He met with Stan often. They talk about his relationship with Nina. The Russians want to know if he was angry about Nina's death and tried to do something about it. He asks what he could have done. Oleg and his father talk about his mother's time in a prison camp. Elizabeth finds Tuan but doesn't speak to him. Oleg brings an apple to Dmitri in his cell. He threatens his wife and son and Dmitri gives him a name. Tuan returns home and Phillip and Elizabeth confront him. He says he goes out of state to talk to his parents because his brother is sick. He hasn't turned on them. He begs them not to tell anyone. They don't know if they can believe him.
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Agree a charge per hanging space (i.e. £20 for 100cm by 240cm, £5 per freestanding piece). Charge commission on each piece sold, i.e. 20%.
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Let us enjoy reading this Chinese Story of The Short-Sighted Brothers .
"Agreed," said his brothers in unison.
As soon as they had gone, the eldest brother sneaked out of the house and went to the monastery where he met a monk.
The brother went away chuckling at his cleverness. A little later the second brother arrived there.
"Can you tell me what the inscription you are going to put up over the doorway reads?" he said to the monk.
"Only the donor's name, Wang Lee, at the bottom," said the monk.
The next morning the three short-sighted brothers made their way to the monastery.
"There's a floral decoration all around the tablet," said the brother, triumphantly.
The monk they had talked to the previous evening came out of the monastery just then and walked towards the short-sighted brothers.
The short-sighted brothers realised their foolies.


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The Kepler Problem (Part 4)
The Kepler problem is the study of a particle moving in an attractive inverse square force. In classical mechanics, this problem shows up when you study the motion of a planet around the Sun in the Solar System. In quantum mechanics, it shows up when you study the motion of an electron around a proton in a hydrogen atom.
In Part 2 we saw that the classical Kepler problem has, besides energy and the three components of angular momentum, three more conserved quantities: the components of the eccentricity vector!
This was discovered long ago, in 1710, by the physicist Jakob Hermann. But thanks to Noether, we now know that in classical mechanics, conserved quantities come from symmetries. In the Kepler problem, conservation of energy comes from time translation symmetry, while conservation of the angular momentum comes from rotation symmetry. Which symmetries give conservation of the eccentricity vector?
As we shall see, these symmetries are rotations in 4-dimensional space. These include the obvious rotations in 3-dimensional space which give angular momentum. The other 4-dimensional rotations act in a much less obvious way, and give the eccentricity vector.
In fact, we'll see that the Kepler problem can be rephrased in terms of a free particle moving around on a sphere in 4-dimensional space. This is a nice explanation of the 4-dimensional rotation symmetry.
After that we'll see a second way to rephrase the Kepler problem: in terms of a massless, relativistic free particle moving at the speed of light on a sphere in 4-dimensional space. Our first formulation will not involve relativity. This second will.
All this is very nice. You can read some fun explanations of the first formulation here:
• Greg Egan, The ellipse and the atom.
• John Baez, Planets in the fourth dimension.
But how could you guess this 4-dimensional rotation symmetry if you didn't know about it already? One systematic approach uses Poisson brackets. I won't explain these, just dive in and use them!
Remember, the particle in the Kepler problem has various observables, which are all ultimately functions of its position and momentum:
• position:
• momentum:
• energy:
• angular momentum:
• the eccentricity vector:
I'll use conventions where the Poisson brackets of the components of position and momentum are taken to be
From this, using the rules for Poisson brackets, we can calculate the Poisson brackets of everything else. For starters:
These equations are utterly unsurprising, since they are equivalent to saying that angular momentum and the eccentricity vector are conserved. More interestingly, we have
where all the indices go from 1 to 3, I'm summing over repeated indices even if they're both subscripts, and are the Levi–Civita symbols.
Now, the factor of above is annoying. But on the region of phase space where —that is, the space of bound states, where the particle carries out an elliptical orbit—we can define a new vector to deal with this annoyance:
Now we easily get
This is nicer, but we can simplify it even more if we introduce some new vectors that are linear combinations of and namely half their sum and half their difference:
Then we get
So, the observables and contain the same information as the angular momentum and eccentricity vectors, but now they commute with each other!
Well, when you're first learning math the Levi–Civita symbols may seem like just a way to summarize the funny rules for cross products in 3-dimensional space. But as you proceed, you ultimately learn that with its cross product is the Lie algebra of the Lie group of rotations in 3-dimensional space. From this viewpoint, the Levi–Civita symbols are nothing but the structure constants for the Lie algebra that is, a way of describing the bracket operation in this Lie algebra in terms of basis vectors.
So, what we've got here are two commuting copies of one having the as a basis and the other having the as a basis, both with the Poisson bracket as their Lie bracket.
A better way to say the same thing is that we've got a single 6-dimensional Lie algebra
having both the and as basis. But then comes the miracle:
The easiest way to see this is to realize that the unit sphere in 4 dimensions, is itself a Lie group with Lie algebra isomorphic to Namely, it's the unit quaternions!—or if you prefer, the Lie group Like any Lie group it acts on itself via left and right translations, which commute. But these are actually ways of rotating So, you get a map of Lie algebras from to and you can check that this is an isomorphism.
So in this approach, the 4th dimension pops out of the fact that the Kepler problem has conserved quantities that give two commuting copies of By Noether's theorem, it follows that conservation of angular momentum and the eccentricity vector must come from a hidden symmetry: symmetry under some group whose Lie algebra is
And indeed, it turns out that the group acts on the bound states of the Kepler problem in a way that commutes with time evolution!
But how can we understand this fact?
Historically, it seems that the first explanation was found in the quantum-mechanical context. In 1926, even before Schrödinger came up with his famous equation, Pauli used conservation of angular momentum and the eccentricity to determine the spectrum of hydrogen. But I believe he was using what we now call Lie algebra methods, not bringing in the group
In 1935, Vladimir Fock, famous for the 'Fock space' in quantum field theory, explained this 4-dimensional rotation symmetry by setting up an equivalence between hydrogen atom bound states and functions on the 3-sphere! In the following year, Valentine Bargmann, later famous for being Einstein's assistant, connected Pauli and Fock's work using group representation theory.
All this is quantum mechanics. It seems the first global discussion of this symmetry in the classical context was given by Bacry, Ruegg, and Souriau in 1966, leading to important work by Souriau and Moser in the early 1970s. Since then, much more has been done. You can learn about a lot of it from these two books, which are my constant companions these days:
• Victor Guillemin and Shlomo Sternberg, Variations on a Theme by Kepler, Providence, R.I., American Mathematical Society, 1990.
• Bruno Cordani, The Kepler Problem: Group Theoretical Aspects, Regularization and Quantization, with Application to the Study of Pertubation, Birkhäuser, Boston, 2002.
But let me try to summarize a bit of this material.
One way to understand the symmetry for bound states of the Kepler problem is the result of Hamilton that I explained last time: for a particle moving around an elliptical orbit in the Kepler problem, its momentum moves round and round in a circle.
I'll call these circles Hamilton's circles. Hamilton's circles are not arbitrary circles in . Using the inverse of stereographic projection, we can map to the unit 3-sphere:
This map sends Hamilton's circles in to great circles in Furthermore, this construction gives all the great circles in except those that go through the north and south poles, These missing great circles correspond to periodic orbits in the Kepler problem where a particle starts with momentum zero, falls straight to the origin, and bounces back the way it came. If we include these degenerate orbits, every great circle on the unit 3-sphere is the path traced out by the momentum in some solution of the Kepler problem.
Let me reemphasize: in this picture, points of correspond not to positions but to momenta in the Kepler problem. As time passes, these points move along great circles in but not at constant speed.
How is their dynamics related to geodesic motion on the 3-sphere?
We can understand this as follows. In Part 2 we saw that
and using the fact that an easy calculation gives
In the 3-sphere picture, the observables become functions on the cotangent bundle . These functions are just the components of momentum for a particle on , defined using a standard basis of right-invariant vector fields on Similarly, the observables are the components of momentum using a standard basis of left-invariant vector fields. It follows that
is the Hamiltonian for a nonrelativistic free particle on with an appropriately chosen mass. Such a particle moves around a great circle on at constant speed. Since the Kepler Hamiltonian is a function of , particles governed by this Hamiltonian move along the same trajectories—but typically not at constant speed!
Both and the Kepler Hamiltonian are well-defined smooth functions on the symplectic manifold that Souriau dubbed the Kepler manifold:
This is the cotangent bundle of the 3-sphere with the zero cotangent vectors removed, so that is well-defined.
All this is great. But even better, there's yet another picture of what's going on, which brings relativity into the game!
We can also think of as a space of null geodesics in the Einstein universe: the manifold with the Lorentzian metric
where is the usual Riemannian metric on the real line ('time') and is the usual metric on the unit sphere ('space'). In this picture describes the geodesic's position at time zero, while the null cotangent vector describes its 4-momentum at time zero. Beware: in this picture two geodesics count as distinct if we rescale by any positive factor other than 1. But this is good: physically, it reflects the fact that in relativity, massless particles can have different 4-momentum even if they trace out the same path in spacetime.
In short, the Kepler manifold also serves as the classical phase space for a free massless spin-0 particle in the Einstein universe!
And here's the cool part: the Hamiltonian for such a particle is
So it's a function of both the Hamiltonians we've seen before. Thus, time evolution given by this Hamiltonian carries particles around great circles on the 3-sphere… at constant speed, but at a different speed than the nonrelativistic free particle described by the Hamiltonian
In future episodes, I want to quantize this whole story. We'll get some interesting outlooks on the quantum mechanics of the hydrogen atom.
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11 Responses to The Kepler Problem (Part 4)
Is a quantum particle in a Kepler potential with positive energy equivalent to a free quantum particle on some sort of hyperboloid?
allenknutson says:
28 January, 2022 at 4:06 am
Curiously, there's a diffeomorphism of the Kepler manifold with the space of 2×2 complex matrices of rank exactly 1 (I'm pretty sure). That has not just the SO(4) action you mentioned but also an extra circle, multiplication by scalars. I wonder if that's going to appear in the story.
OK yeah that circle action is exactly the one whose Hamiltonian is that square root at the end of what you wrote.
Consider the map . The general fiber looks like . It has an action from each side, which put together, are your action. The special fiber, matrices, also has the scaling action. By Harada-Kaveh there is a symplectic map from the general fiber to the special, and it exactly collapses the to the zero matrix. Geometrically quantizing, we get the vector space of holomorphic functions on the variety of determinant zero matrices. How'm I doing.
Sounds cool! I hadn't thought about in this context, though it's in my realm of knowledge.
What's the space of determinant zero 2 × 2 matrices like? What does it mean in terms of the Kepler problem?
I'll talk a bit about geometric quantization later—a lot of people have tried geometrically quantizing the Kepler problem, with mixed success.
2 February, 2022 at 5:05 am
"What's it like…" Well, it's the toric variety associated to the square-based pyramid with no base, if you like that sort of thing. If you leave out the zero matrix, it's the total space of a -bundle over .
AK says:
The following paper is relevant too.
D. M. Fradkin
"Existence of the Dynamic Symmetries and for All Classical Central Potential Problems"
Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 37, No. 5, May 1967
MH says:
31 March, 2022 at 3:32 pm
I feel a bit cheeky asking, but, do you have any plans to write a post discussing the finer details of the zero energy case?
No, I don't plan to write anything about the zero or positive energy cases, even though they're interesting. I plan to write a lot more about the negative energy case. In fact I already have written a lot more: I just haven't had time to turn it into blog articles yet.
GB says:
25 April, 2022 at 5:44 pm
Click to access 2104.14416.pdf
2 May, 2022 at 4:35 pm
Surprisingly, this mystery "click to access" link isn't blog comment spam or phishing!
Less cryptically:
arXiv:2104.14416 "Global Symmetries of the Kepler Problem"
Joanna Gonera, Piotr Kosi´nski, Patryk Michel
The global symmetry transformations generated by Runge-Lenz vector of twodimensional Kepler problem are explicitly described. They are given in terms of SU(2) left group multiplication with group elements being suitably parametrized by phase space points. The resulting non-linear action of SU(2) on the phase space is characterized in terms of the theory of nonlinear realizations developed in Phys. Rev. 177 (1969) 2239.
3 May, 2022 at 6:19 am
Thanks! I often expand cryptic links provided by readers of this blog, but I hadn't gotten around to this one.


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#define CEREAL_TEST_MEMORY_CYCLES_H_
#include "common.hpp"

struct MemoryCycle
{
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}

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{
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    {
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      ar( val, p );
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std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, MemoryCycleLoadAndConstruct const & s)
{
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template <class IArchive, class OArchive> inline
void test_memory_cycles()
{
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  {
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}
#endif // CEREAL_TEST_MEMORY_CYCLES_H_

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Conjugates, Filters and Quantum Mechanics
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Susquehanna University
Eprint: arXiv:1206.2897v8
Scirate: https://scirate.com/arxiv/1206.2897v8
The Jordan structure of finite-dimensional quantum theory is derived, in a conspicuously easy way, from a few simple postulates concerning abstract probabilistic models (each defined by a set of basic measurements and a convex set of states). The key assumption is that each system $A$ can be paired with an isomorphic $\textit{conjugate}$ system, $\overline{A}$, by means of a non-signaling bipartite state $\eta_A$ perfectly and uniformly correlating each basic measurement on $A$ with its counterpart on $\overline{A}$. In the case of a quantum-mechanical system associated with a complex Hilbert space $H$, the conjugate system is that associated with the conjugate Hilbert space $H$, and $\eta_A$ corresponds to the standard maximally entangled EPR state on $H \otimes \overline{H}$. A second ingredient is the notion of a $\textit{reversible filter}$, that is, a probabilistically reversible process that independently attenuates the sensitivity of detectors associated with a measurement. In addition to offering more flexibility than most existing reconstructions of finite-dimensional quantum theory, the approach taken here has the advantage of not relying on any form of the ``no restriction" hypothesis. That is, it is not assumed that arbitrary effects are physically measurable, nor that arbitrary families of physically measurable effects summing to the unit effect, represent physically accessible observables. (An appendix shows how a version of Hardy's ``subpace axiom" can replace several assumptions native to this paper, although at the cost of disallowing superselection rules.)
@article{Wilce2019conjugatesfilters, doi = {10.22331/q-2019-07-08-158}, url = {https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2019-07-08-158}, title = {Conjugates, {F}ilters and {Q}uantum {M}echanics}, author = {Wilce, Alexander}, journal = {{Quantum}}, issn = {2521-327X}, publisher = {{Verein zur F{\"{o}}rderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften}}, volume = {3}, pages = {158}, month = jul, year = {2019} }
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Il brano è stato scritto interamente da Emis Killa, che in un primo momento doveva anche cantarne il ritornello, ma poi decise di farlo cantare al cantautore italiano Neffa, poiché a detta del rapper, cantato da lui era «meno forte».

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Out There in the Capertee Valley
Just been out there in big bold country (Capertee and up to Rylstone) and travelling alone. The people are great. Don't you just love Aussies. Heaps of people helped me drag 60 kg of camera gear off platforms and were just darn nice.
Jessie spent the summers higher up in the Nullo Mountain area but also further south (especially during the bitterly cold winters and deep snow) in the Capertee Valley around Bogee. The Capertee area is famous for birdwatching. The scenery is truly "western" as in traditional cowboy western.
NSW State Library – Nice Beards Gentlemen
Recently went on a Research Recce to NSW to check out the private box of research there on the Lady Bushranger, deposited by author Pat Studdy-Clift.
I was surprised at how good looking Andy Black was. During a severe winter he invited Jessie off the mountain to his hut and then roped her into his cattle stealing enterprise. Andy is in the centre of the photo below. There is information out now, that he fathered a child with Jessie, who was then raised as a child of Jessie's brother, Ken Hunt. The decendents of this child Dorothy, are proud of their infamous relative.
A Bushranger's Cave
A few years ago we were helped to visit the Nullo Mountain Cave. Jessie had spent long stints up there and had amazingly hauled some turniture up there ; a bed, table and small cupboard. The remains of the bed and cupboard are still there. Her teapot was taken to a local museum.
Nullo Mountain and Jessie's Hideout
When Jessie first absconded from a domestic violence situation, she headed to remote bushland on Nullo Mountain. Here she set up one of her main cave hideouts. Even now the cave is so remote only a few people know how to get there. The cave is very high up and accessible from only one side. Back then a huge tree blocked the front aspect of the cave. Once Jessie climbed up there she was safe and could see anyone approaching. She certainly had a gun with her and we can assume she would have used it if the police ever found the cave.
Location Visit to Kandos, Rylstone, Nullo Mountain and Capertee
The beautiful area on the "other" side of the Blue Mountains is country with stunning mountains, canyons and rangelands. On the boarder of a national park in this remote location was where Jessie spent most of her adult life. In short; the agricultural areas (cattle farming) merge into the remote forests (Wollomi) and mountainous terrain.
The Lady Bushranger
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WHO WAS JESSIE?
Elizabeth Jessie Hunt, born in 1890, used many aliases. As a child in the circus, she had a series of stage names and later while cattle duffing in the 1920's, she was Mrs Lizzie Hickman. Police records show Jessie McIntyre, Martini, Murray and Thomas. For us she will always be Jessie.


Anybody inside the tech world has heard about Virtual Reality (VR), especially the gamers, looking for that 'real life' experience of actually participating within the game itself. How about driving a racecar, flying a plane, boxing with the champ, or playing golf with Arnold Palmer – it could 'really' happen with VR. Samsung, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rifting are all vying for your hard earned dollars, each with their own version of VR. Many were wondering when Google was going to throw their virtual reality in the 'ring' and start competing with their own VR headset platform. The wait is officially over as Google announced at their annual I/O conference yesterday, their Virtual Reality platform as Daydream.
Android's virtual reality platform, Daydream, will no doubt involve both hardware and software requirements, and that will start with having Android N or higher for Daydream to run properly. We also expect a new Daydream VR headset will be coming with a dedicated controller. Once the final design and specs are determined, other manufacturers will be making their own headsets to run Daydream programs. Whereas Samsung's Gear VR is restricted to Samsung smartphones, Daydream will be compatible with most Android devices (running Android N), and this will significantly increase its availability - not forcing you to purchase a particular brand of smartphone. The Daydream VR apps will be sold through the Google Play Store. The estimated time of arrival is sometime in late summer or early fall.


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Why Not Aznavour?
Edmond Y. Azadian
By Edmond Y. Azadian
Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature last week, winning accolades and stirring controversy.
"Now, Mr. Dylan, the poet laureate of the rock era, has been rewarded with the Nobel Prize in literature, an honor that elevates him to the company of T. S. Eliot, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison and Samuel Becket," wrote the New York Times.
But the questions raised were about the definition of literature. Does songwriting amount to literature? It seems that the Swedish Academy has redefined what constitutes literature and has given a strong yes as an answer. Any means through which a creative mind touches the human soul deserves to be recognized as literature or art.
Billy Collins, the former United States Poet Laureate argued that Mr. Dylan deserved to be recognized not merely as a songwriter, but as a poet. As well, literary scholars believe that Bob Dylan is a literary stylist, especially based on the Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, a compendium published by Cambridge University Press, with 17 essays by scholars from Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, the University of Virginia, and so on.
Throughout his career as a songwriter, Dylan has outgrown his vagabond troubadour status to elevate his art to a more sophisticated and unique level. His topics touch all aspects of the human condition and his moral strength has led him to stand up for some political causes, no matter how risky they may have proved to be for his career. He is especially celebrated for his campaign against the Vietnam War, calling it an immoral act. His erudition is revealed in deceptively simple songs in which he references French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, as well as the American Ezra Pound. In their daily lives, Rimbaud and Verlaine were no different from vagabonds.
The Swedish Academy credits Dylan with "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
Dwight Garner further adds in a Times article that "This Nobel acknowledges what we have long sensed to be true: that Mr. Dylan is among the most authentic voices America has produced, a maker of images as audacious and resonant as anything in Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson."
Bob Dylan was born in 1941 as Robert Allen Zimmerman, in Duluth, Minn., to a Midwestern Jewish family, but he climbed to the peak of his career in New York, through his championing human rights and anti-war ballads.
Has politics to do anything for his selection for the prize? The Academy, which awards the prize, has proven time and again that political considerations, sometimes, underlie its decisions. For example, during the Soviet period, political dissidents, more often than not, were selected for nomination: Boris Pasternak, Joseph Brodsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Even the selection of Orhan Pamuk was a rebuke to Turkey's brutal regime as Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai's peace prize was a message to the Taliban who had tried to assassinate her.
The closest that any Armenians has come to receiving the Nobel Prize was Dr. Raymond Damadian, the inventor of the Magnetic Resonance Scanning Machine, but he was bypassed, triggering controversy.
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Indeed, in 2003, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield for their discoveries related to the MRI.
"If I had not been born, would the MRI have existed? I don't think so. If Lauterbur had not been born? I would have gotten there. Eventually," Damadian said.
The controversy continued in the news media for a long time to no avail, to be concluded by a statement made by philosopher Michael Ruse, who wrote that he believes Damadian must have been denied a Nobel Prize because of his Creationist views: "I cringe at the thought that Raymond Damadian was refused his just honor because of his religious beliefs. Having silly ideas in one field is no good reason to deny merit for great ideas in another field. Apart from the fact that this time Creation scientists will think that they are the objects of unfair treatment at the hands of the scientific community."
If the chapter is closed on Damadian, the door may still be open for another Armenian celebrity, Charles Aznavour, who can favorably be compared to Dylan, who in turn has named Aznavour "among the greatest live performers."
In 1988, Aznavour was named Entertainer of the century by CNN and users of Time online from around the globe. He was recognized as the century's outstanding performer with nearly 18 percent of the total vote, edging out Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan.
During the De Gaulle era, France boasted of two Charles: Le grand Charles and le petit Charles.
Aznavour has inherited his skills in entertainment and singing from his parents. The breakthrough in his career came when he performed at the Moulin Rouge, with the legendary Edith Piaf, who encouraged him to pursue a career in singing. He is called the French Frank Sinatra and a "French pop deity." He is a singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. He has written 800 songs and recorded more than 1,200 in eight languages and sold more than 180 million records.
His popularity is not only based on his performances, but also his creative writing. His lyrics have contributed tremendously to the development of modern French poetry. His songs cover almost all phases of human condition: the vagabond (La Boheme), and many dramatic love scenes (Emmenez Moi), desolation of separation and aging.
As much as Piaf and Jacques Brel, and as a true chanteur in the French tradition, he has elevated the ordinary into art through words and music.
He has highlighted once taboo issues such as homosexuality, long before being gay was considered unremarkable, while it was still hidden away in dark corners. He has also been active politically, rising against the French right-wing political currents in France.
His philanthropic activities extend beyond Armenia to take on a global amplitude. His songs touch the most searing issues of the human soul. Thus, in 2013, he appeared with Ahinoaru Nini (Noa) in a concert, dedicated to peace, at the Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv. He has dedicated doleful songs to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia (Pour Toi, Armenie) and to the Armenian Genocide (Ils Sont Tombés).
It may sound ironic but touching the Genocide topic may prove to be counterproductive, given the Turkish political bullying lurking.
Aznavour, this diminutive man, stands tall at age 92, one foot in two centuries, to be seen and rewarded by the Nobel Committee for a staggering body of work.
That's why we can ask: Why not Aznavour?
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Saudi Arabia air campaign continues to pound Yemen
By Bill Humphrey April 6, 2015 - 9:03 pm September 22, 2016 Arsenal Pulse
Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen against the Houthi rebels continues to obliterate housing and infrastructure. According to sources on the ground in Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition bombed the water pipelines into Aden:
The main water pipeline feeding Aden city was blown up. Pic today:long lines for just cooking/drinking. #AdenBleeding pic.twitter.com/4wip3HSdAY
— Ammar Aulaqi (@ammar82) April 5, 2015
The BBC reports:
"People cannot go out to buy food, we know that there is a lack of water in the city because the water pipes have been damaged, we are trying to do everything we can but the situation is extremely difficult," she said.
Ali al-Mujahed of The Washington Post, who lives in Yemen, reported on the nightly terror of the coalition air raids and the mounting daytime hoarding of resources before things run out.
International aid organizations have struggled to persuade the Saudis to stop bombing long enough to allow food and water in.
People are even fleeing the chaos to Somalia. When people have to flee to Somalia that means the "intervention" is a real step backward.
Airstrikes have been poorly targeted. Channel News Asia:
An air strike on a village near the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed a family of nine, residents said on Saturday [April 4], in what appeared to be a hit by the Saudi-led military campaign against Houthi militia.
France24:
An air strike on Monday [March 30] hit a refugee camp in northwest Yemen, killing 21 people, aid workers said.
Other reactions from Yemen, after al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) emptied a key prison and seized several military and political targets amid the general pandemonium:
That sums up the Saudi war in #Yemen : KSA jets can detect & destroy milk factories and refugee camps but cannot see AQAP militants.
— Haykal Bafana (@BaFana3) April 2, 2015
The Saudi leadership acknowledges it has intentionally bombed residential areas but claims that these strikes were necessary to hit military equipment being sheltered among houses.
Saudi Arabia has requested that Pakistan deploy ground troops to Yemen, though there has been tremendous public resistance in Pakistan to any participation in the Saudi war in Yemen.
Meanwhile, some of the coalition participants are being pretty publicly cynical about the whole thing and their reasons for getting involved. Sudanese media reported that Sudan's government openly admits it expects its role in the Yemen war will help its economy via US cash and hopes that the US will lift sanctions against the genocidal Sudanese regime.
There wasn't much left of Yemen when this war started, but the GCC is finishing the job. This is going to be non-country by the end of this "intervention."
That may well be the goal:
Relations with Saudi Arabia have always been a central feature of Yemeni foreign policy, not merely because the kingdom is the dominant state in the peninsula and Yemen's most important neighbour, but also because the Saudis' perception of their security needs is that they should seek to influence Yemen as much as possible in order to prevent it from becoming a threat.
According to this view, Saudi interests are best served by keeping Yemen "on the wobble" (as one western diplomat put it) – though not so wobbly that regional stability is jeopardised. Before the unification of north and south Yemen in 1990, this amounted to ensuring that both parts of the country focused their attentions on each other rather than on their non-Yemeni neighbours.
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We suggest an amount of $5 to $50 for animals relinquished; however, no pet will be turned away because of an owner's inability to pay. All donations are greatly appreciated and help to offset a portion of the cost of caring for the 16,000 pets we receive each year.
Bringing your pet to the Kansas Humane Society animal shelter can be a difficult decision to make. We would like you to know that we understand how hard it can be to relinquish a beloved pet and appreciate your choice to surrender your animal responsibly so that he or she will be safe and humanely cared for. As a private, nonprofit organization dependent on community contributions, we request a donation when an animal is admitted to us. We suggest an amount of $5 to $50 for animals relinquished; however, no pet will be turned away because of an owner's inability to pay.
If your pet is placed for adoption, we will make every reasonable effort to find your pet(s) a new home. We cannot make any guarantee that your pet(s) will be placed for adoption or be adopted. Other options we may explore for your pet include breed-rescue groups, transfer to another shelter, or humane euthanasia. You may choose to reclaim your pet through our Reclaim Program in the event that your pet is not a candidate for our adoption program. Please ask an Admissions staff member for details.
One of the best features of the Murfin Animal Care Campus is how animals are first admitted to the Kansas Humane Society and Wichita Animal Services. All pets being relinquished by their owners will go directly to the KHS Admissions Department where they will receive a thorough evaluation and necessary vaccinations. All lost or stray animals are admitted to Wichita Animal Services, where they will stay to give their owners time to find them. If an animal is not reclaimed, animals may be transferred to the Kansas Humane Society as available.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Feature (6.28.07)-- We all know it's going to be a madhouse at all Apple and AT&T stores over the next two days, especially in locations with both storefronts just "inches" away from each other. We'd recommend staying away from those locations since that's where all the action is going to be, but in the location where this columnist resides and frequently visits, two interesting thoughts came to mind.
The first is to stay away from those types of locations at all costs (we have no choice since that's where we're doing our coverage tomorrow evening). Lining up at a lesser-known AT&T location--though by this point, all AT&T stores are probably in the spotlight, regardless of location... especially in markets where an Apple Store doesn't exist--and one that is a stand-alone store would probably be best in order to minimize the chaos.
On second thought, maybe going to a place with both an Apple and AT&T store isn't such a bad idea after all. Why? It might prove to be a feather in your pocket by increasing the chances of you getting a new iPhone.
With just a little over 24 hours left until the release of the iPhone at 6:00p local time in each time zone, the "frenzy," to quote NBC's Today show, is already present across the nation with people already in line. Apple has been even reported to be holding sleepovers at its stores for employees in order to maintain high security, not wanting to leave stores unmanned.
Previous reports that Apple would be shooing away customers and telling them to come back later in the day, not people inside, but those lining up, have not yet come to fruition. As we said on Tuesday, this is probably the case at Apple Stores inside indoor malls. Apple Stores out in the open, such as Apple's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York can't be too much of a problem.
But what if your local Apple Store is part of a line of other retailers on the block, located on a narrow street, and across the street is an AT&T owned and operated Cingular Wireless store who will be carrying the iPhone on Friday, and on the third level of the complex are residential units? It's going to be pretty interesting what comes to pass. (Though we haven't had a chance to swing by there yet to see what it looks like... should we?).
You see... both the Cingular Wireless store and Apple Store we visited last week for our story on 6/20, are located in the same place on a small block in the city of Emeryville, CA, aptly named "Bay Street" in the San Francisco Bay Area. And since both these stores will be carrying the iPhone during its premiere release tomorrow, it might just turn out to be a real madhouse of sorts.
To paint a picture for you, Bay Street, Emeryville is roughly 1.5 city blocks, and is about as wide as, well, it's a narrow street! The road is a one-lane thoroughfare for each direction with room for cars to park adjacent to it. The sidewalk accommodates, at best, two to three people side-by-side walking down its path. And the distance from the edge of the sidewalk to the front of the stores isn't much space to work with either.
Put that all together, with the fact that all the stores on the street are adjacent to each other like that of an indoor mall--by the way, that's what Bay Street is... an outdoor shopping center with parking on the second level and residential housing units built on the third level--it's going to get just a little crowded!
Can you just imagine in your mind hordes of people on each side of the street, lining up hours beforehand in order to get their hands on an iPhone? No space on the sidewalk for shoppers/residents, and blocking the entrances of the other storefronts? It's happened before, like during the release of Tiger, where people in line (including us) were in the way of shoppers trying to get into the Pottery Barn and a coffee shop next door.
For the iPhone event, the lines and crowds could be unprecedented, amounting to a Steve Jobs Keynote Address type of line! Now repeat that image in your head a "million" times over in similar locations across America. Not a pretty sight.
Too bad PBCentral.com couldn't cover the event with live webcams at all Apple and AT&T stores in the U.S.!


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· October 17, 2003 ·2 min read
Jesse Belcher
Women's SoccerThe last chance for the women's soccer team to have a chance of advancing to the conference tournament passed them by in the 5-1 loss to St. Norbert last Friday.
The Green Knights were only up 1-0 at halftime but managed to convert four more chances into goals in the second half, while LU's Emily Buzicky was able to do only minimal damage with her team-leading 10th goal of the season.
On Tuesday, Lawrence played Ripon to a 1-1 tie in double overtime. Ripon opened the scoring first, though the Vikings had most of the possession in the opening half.
With the score 0-1 at halftime, the women were determined to score. They were rewarded in the 67th minute, when freshman Melinda Luber darted in front of the onrushing Ripon goalie to slot a Beth Shaker pass just inside the near post.
Lawrence had a number of chances, outshooting Ripon 35-15, but was also called for seven offsides that could have easily led to one-on-ones with the goalkeeper.
The women are back in action tomorrow, Saturday, against Illinois Wesleyan at 2 p.m.
With a three-game winning streak at risk, the men's soccer team was determined to play their best against sixth-ranked UW Oshkosh last Wednesday.
The perennial power had defeated Lawrence 5-0 last year with the Vikings only managing one long-range shot, but the Vikings were adamant that they would make the Titans work for a win.
Oshkosh jumped out to a 2-0 halftime lead, but that's not to say LU didn't have their chances. Having only conceded one goal in their previous nine games combined, it was never going to be easy for LU to score.
The Vikings came out hard in the second half but were unable to tally a goal. Matt Wolin beat the keeper but smashed his shot off the crossbar, and Rodrigo Gomes was unable to turn the rebound into the net.
After Oshkosh made it 3-0 on a defensive error, the Vikings were finally rewarded for their hard work in the 71st minute , Gomes slid a pass from Klas Berghede inside the near post to score only the second goal against Oshkosh this year.
The last 20 minutes saw both sides pushing forward in an effort to score more goals, but it ended 3-1 with the Vikings feeling like they could have put a few more in the back of the net.
The game was a good buildup to their last three home games of the season. The Vikings played Ripon this past Wednesday and play Carroll tomorrow, and Midwest Conference leaders St. Norbert on Tuesday.
In their last home meet of the season, the women's tennis team lost to Beloit 7-2.
Amy Gammon won her match 6-0, 6-2 and the doubles team of Serene Sahar and Adriana Teodoro-Dier claimed the second point for the Vikings with an 8-4 win.
The loss puts the Vikings at 7-7-1 overall and 0-4 in conference. The conference tournament will be held this weekend.
The women's soccer team plays tomorrow in a non-conference game against Illinois Wesleyan at home at 2 p.m. following the men's conference game against Carroll at noon.
The men have their last home game of the season next Tuesday against defending champions St. Norbert at 3 p.m.
Football plays Monmouth away tomorrow before returning next weekend for the homecoming game against Grinnell.
The cross country team is away at Carthage tomorrow, but play host next Saturday at Plamann Park for the Lawrence Invitational.
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