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Megan's Law
Megan Kanka
Richard and Maurine Kanka and their three children lived in a small town in New Jersey. On 29 July 1994 their daughter Megan was lured into a neighbor's house to see a non-existent puppy. There she was raped and murdered by her abductor, Jesse Timmendequas. Timmendequas had just recently been released from prison after his second conviction on sexual offenses against children. He had served six of the ten years of his sentence. Searches for the girl turned up nothing. The local police quickly focused on three known sex offenders living across the street from the missing girl. Police released two of the suspects when they verified where they were. Timmendequas became the main suspect. He was released after several hours of interrogation. After obtaining a search warrant detectives searched Timmendequas's trash and found a piece of Megan Kanka's clothing. Timmendequas was questioned again and after several hours told police "She's in the park." When police then asked if she was still alive Timmendequas said "No, she's dead. I put a plastic bag over her head."
The Kankas were outraged to find they were living across the street from a convicted child sex offender. Two days after her murder, the parents of Megan Kanka started the "Megan Nichole Kanka Foundation". The mission of the foundation is to identify the location of convicted child sex offenders in every community.
Shortcomings of Megan's law
Megan's law is not without problems.
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Dot product
In mathematics, the dot product is an operation that takes two vectors as input, and that returns a scalar number as output. The number returned is dependent on the length of both vectors, and on the angle between them. The name is derived from the centered dot "·" that is often used to designate this operation; the alternative name scalar product emphasizes the scalar (rather than vector) nature of the result.
In three-dimensional space, the dot product contrasts with the cross product, which produces a vector as result.
Definition
The dot product of two vectors a = [a1, a2, ..., an] and b = [b1, b2, ..., bn] is defined as: where Σ denotes summation notation (the sum of all the terms) and n is the dimension of the vector space.
In dimension 2, the dot product of vectors [a,b] and [c,d] is ac + bd. The same way, in a dimension 3, the dot product of vectors [a,b,c] and [d,e,f] is ad + be + cf. For example, the dot product of two three-dimensional vectors [1, 3, −5] and [4, −2, −1] is
Geometric interpretation
[[File:Dot Product.svg|thumb|300px|right|A • B = | A | | B | cos(θ).
In Euclidean geometry, the dot product, length, and angle are related. For a vector a, the dot product a · a is the square of the length of a, or
where ||a|| and ||b|| denote the length of a and b and θ is the angle between them.
This formula can be rearranged to determine the size of the angle between two nonzero vectors:
One can also first convert the vectors to unit vectors, by dividing by their magnitude: then the angle θ is given by
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Dot product
Geometric interpretation
As the cosine of 90° is zero, the dot product of two orthogonal (perpendicular in 2D and 3D) vectors is always zero. Moreover, two vectors can be considered orthogonal if and only if their dot product is zero, and they both have a nonzero length. This property provides a simple method to test the condition of orthogonality.
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Dot product
Geometric interpretation
Sometimes, these properties are also used for defining the dot product, especially in 2 and 3 dimensions; this definition is equivalent to the above one. For higher dimensions, the formula can be used to define the concept of angle.
The geometric properties rely on the basis being orthonormal (composed of pairwise perpendicular vectors with unit length).
Scalar projection
If both a and b are unit vectors (vectors of length one), then their dot product simply gives the cosine of the angle between them.
If only b is a unit vector, then the dot product a · b gives |a| cos(θ). This corresponds to the magnitude of the projection of a in the direction of b, with a minus sign if the direction is opposite. This is called the scalar projection of a onto b, or scalar component of a in the direction of b (see figure). This property of the dot product has several useful applications (see § Rotation below).
If neither a nor b is a unit vector, then the magnitude of the projection of a in the direction of b would be a · (b / |b|), as the unit vector in the direction of b is b / |b|.
Rotation
A rotation of the orthonormal basis in terms of which vector a is represented is obtained with a multiplication of a by a rotation matrix R. This matrix multiplication is just a compact representation of a sequence of dot products.
For instance, let Then the rotation from B1 to B2 is performed as follows:
Notice that the rotation matrix R is assembled by using the rotated basis vectors u1, v1, w1 as its rows, and these vectors are unit vectors. By definition, Ra1 consists of a sequence of dot products between each of the three rows of R and vector a1. Each of these dot products determines a scalar component of a in the direction of a rotated basis vector (see previous section).
If a1 is a row vector, rather than a column vector, then R must contain the rotated basis vectors in its columns, and must post-multiply a1:
Physics
In physics, magnitude is a scalar in the physical sense, in that.it is a physical quantity independent of the coordinate system, expressed as the product of a numerical value and a physical unit, not just a number. The dot product is also a scalar in this sense, given by the formula, independent of the coordinate system. For example:
Properties
The following properties hold if a, b, and c are real vectors and r is a scalar.
The dot product is commutative:
The dot product is distributive over vector addition:
The dot product is bilinear:
Two non-zero vectors a and b are perpendicular if and only if a • b = 0.
Unlike multiplication of ordinary numbers, where if ab = ac, then b always equals c unless a is zero, the dot product does not obey the cancellation law:
Provided that the basis is orthonormal, the dot product is invariant under isometric changes of the basis: rotations, reflections, and combinations, keeping the origin fixed. The above mentioned geometric interpretation relies on this property. In other words, for an orthonormal space with any number of dimensions, the dot product is invariant under a coordinate transformation based on an orthogonal matrix. This corresponds to the following two conditions:
If a and b are functions, then the derivative of a • b is a' • b + a • b'.
Triple product expansion
This is a very useful identity (also known as Lagrange's formula) involving the dot- and cross-products. It is written as
which is easier to remember as "BAC minus CAB", keeping in mind which vectors are dotted together. This formula is commonly used to simplify vector calculations in physics.
Proof of the geometric interpretation
Consider the element of Rn Repeated application of the Pythagorean theorem yields for its length |v| But this is the same as so we conclude that taking the dot product of a vector v with itself yields the squared length of the vector.
Now consider two vectors a and b extending from the origin, separated by an angle θ. A third vector c may be defined as creating a triangle with sides a, b, and c. According to the law of cosines, we have Substituting dot products for the squared lengths according to Lemma 1, we get But as c ≡ a − b, we also have which, according to the distributive law, expands to Merging the two c • c equations, (1) and (2), we obtain Subtracting a • a + b • b from both sides and dividing by −2 leaves Q.E.D.
Generalization
The inner product generalizes the dot product to abstract vector spaces and is usually denoted by. Due to the geometric interpretation of the dot product, the norm ||a|| of a vector a in such an inner product space is defined as
such that it generalizes length, and the angle θ between two vectors a and b by
In particular, two vectors are considered orthogonal if their inner product is zero
For vectors with complex entries, using the given definition of the dot product would lead to quite different geometric properties. For instance, the dot product of a vector with itself can be an arbitrary complex number, and can be zero without the vector being the zero vector; this in turn would have severe consequences for notions like length and angle. Many geometric properties can be salvaged, at the cost of giving up the symmetric and bilinear properties of the scalar product, by alternatively defining where bi is the complex conjugate of bi. Then the scalar product of any vector with itself is a non-negative real number, and it is nonzero except for the zero vector. However, this scalar product is not linear in b (but rather conjugate linear), and the scalar product is not symmetric either, since This type of scalar product is nevertheless quite useful, and leads to the notions of Hermitian form and of general inner product spaces.
The Frobenius inner product generalizes the dot product to matrices. It is defined as the sum of the products of the corresponding components of two matrices having the same size.
Generalization to tensors
The dot product between a tensor of order n and a tensor of order m is a tensor of order n+m-2. The dot product is worked out by multiplying and summing across a single index in both tensors. If \mathbf{A} and \mathbf{B} are two tensors with element representation and  the elements of the dot product  are given by
This definition naturally reduces to the standard vector dot product when applied to vectors, and matrix multiplication when applied to matrices.
Occasionally, a double dot product is used to represent multiplying and summing across two indices. The double dot product between two 2nd order tensors is a scalar.
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Candidates
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Les Reed (songwriter)
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Lethal injection is usually done by using three chemicals. The chemicals are usually sodium thiopental (an anesthetic), pancuronium bromide (used to paralyze the person being injected), and potassium chloride (to stop the heart so that the person being injected dies). In the United States, a chemical shortage has made some states have to wait to inject criminals. Other states have changed what chemicals they use.
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Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah
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The show is based on the column Duniya Ne Undha Chashma written by columnist and journalist/playwright Taarak Mehta for the Gujarati weekly magazine Chitralekha.
Gérard Worms
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Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah
Plot
The series takes place at the Gokuldham Co-operative Society, an apartment complex in Powder Gali, Goregaon East, Mumbai around Gada Family which consists of a successful businessman Jethalal Champaklal Gada, his father Champaklal Jayantilal Gada, his wife Daya and their naughty son Tipendra Gada (Tapu) who is the leader of his friend circle called "Tapu Sena."
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Worms died on 31 August 2020, aged 84.
Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah
Plot
Jethalal calls his father Champaklal to keep an eye on Tapu but the opposite happens and he joins hands with Tapu. Most of the episodes are based on Jethalal being stuck in a problem and Taarak Mehta, his best friend, helps him out of it whom Jethalal calls "Fire Brigade."
The show covers topical issues which are socially relevant. The residents of Gokuldham faces daily life problems and finds solutions for it but with a moral value too in a hilarious manner. Although Gokuldham Society consists of 50 flats but the show mostly focuses on the lives of the families, that are of; Jethalal Champaklal Gada, a Gujarati; Taarak Mehta, who is from Rajasthan; Aatmaram Tukaram Bhide, who belongs to Marathi culture; Dr. Hansraj Hathi, a Bihari overweight doctor; Krishnan Iyer, a scientist from Chennai but has a Bengali wife; Roshan Singh Sodhi, A Punjabi but has a Parsi wife and Patrakaar Popatlal from Bhopal, a bachelor from eleven years. They always help each-other in their problems, to promote Unity in Diversity.
Cast and Characters
Main
Gada Family:
Dilip Joshi as Jethalal Champaklal Gada (2008-present)
Disha Vakani as Daya Jethalal Gada (2008-2017)
Amit Bhatt as Champaklal Jayantilal Gada (2008-present)
Bhavya Gandhi / Raj Anadkat / Nitish Bhaluni as Tipendra Jethalal Gada (Tapu) (2008-2017/2017-2022/2023-present)
Mehta Family:
Shailesh Lodha / Sachin Shroff as Taarak Mehta (2008-2022 / 2022-present)
Neha Mehta / Sunanya Fozdar as Anjali Mehta (2008-2020/2020-present)
Iyer Family:
Tanuj Mahashabde as Krishnan Subramaniam Iyer (2008-present)
Munmun Dutta as Babita Iyer (2008-present)
Mandar Chandwadkar as Aatmaram Tukaram Bhide (2008-present)
Sonalika Joshi as Madhavi Aatmaram Bhide (2008-present)
Sodhi Family:
Gurcharan Singh / Laad Singh Mann / Balvinder Singh as Harjeet Singh Sodhi (2008-2013,2014-2020/2013-2014/2020-present)
Samay Shah as Gurcharan Singh Sodhi (Gogi) (2008-present)
Hathi Family:
Nirmal Soni / Kavi Kumar Azad / Nirmal Soni as Dr. Hansraj Hathi (2008-2009,2018-present/2009-2018)
Ambika Ranjankar as Komal Hathi (2008-present)
Kush Shah as Gulabkumar Hathi (Goli) (2008-present)
Others:
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Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah
Cast and Characters
Azhar Shaik as Pankaj Diwan Sahay (Pinku) (2008-present)
Sharad Sankla as Abdul (2008-present)
Shyam Pathak as Patrakar Popatlal Bhagwati Pandey (2009-present)
California State Senate
Officers
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Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah
Cast and Characters
Ghanashyam Nayak as Natwarlal Prabhashankar Udhaiwala (Nattu Kaka) (2008-2020)
Tanmay Vekaria as Bagheshawar Dadukh Udhaiwala (Bagha) (2011-present)
Monika Bhadoriya / Navina Wadekaras as Bawri Dhondulal Kanpuria (2013-2019/2023-present)
Mayur Vakani as Sundarlal (2008-present)
Priya Ahuja / Mihika Verma as Rita Srivastava (2009-2010,2013-present/2010-2013)
Daya Shankar Pandey as Inspector Chalu Pandey (2010-present)
Asitkumarr Modi as himself (2008-present)
Guests
John Roper, Baron Roper
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OCLC
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Piston
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Piston
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Personal life
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Early life
Glyndŵr was born into an Anglo-Welsh family in about 1355. His family were reasonably rich and had large properties in the north east of Wales. He was educated in England, and later joined the English army. He took part in an attack on Scotland, and then later went back to Wales. After Richard II was overthrown by Henry IV there was a period of confusion, and Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn took the opportunity to take some of Glyndŵr's lands. Grey was a supporter of Henry IV, while Glyndŵr had supported Richard II.
Rebellion
Glyndŵr sought help from Henry IV to deal with his land being taken, but Henry refused to take action against his supporters. Glyndŵr also failed to supply soldiers to the king for another attack on Scotland. Grey called him a traitor. Glyndŵr decided to take action against Henry IV. He gave himself the title of Prince of Wales in September 1400, and began a series of attacks against Grey and towns along the borders with England. Henry IV sent his army to Wales to fight Glyndŵr and regain control, but it had the opposite effect. It became a widespread rebellion against England.
By 1408 the English forces were able to defeat the Welsh, and support for the rebellion collapsed. Glyndŵr still kept up attacks and raids on the English, but this was more of a guerrilla campaign than a full scale revolt. The last mention of Glyndŵr is when the English offered terms if he surrendered in 1416. It is believed that he was already dead.
Family
Owain married Margaret Hanmer (Marred ferch Dafydd). Her father was Sir David Hanmer. Margaret had five sons and four daughters with Owain. These children were:
All of Owain's sons either died while fighting in war, taken prisoner and died as prisoners, or died with no children of their own. Owain also had children from other women who were not his wife. They were named: David, Gwenllian, Ieuan, and Myfanwy.
Tudor Dynasty
After Owain died, most people did not care if the English people ruled the country anymore. During the time of the Tudor's, men from Wales, called Welshmen, started to become more famous in English society.
A hero in Wales
Many people forgot about how important Owain was until the 1800s, when people started to celebrate his life. The "Young Wales" group made him the symbol of Welsh nationalism. Things that were owned by Owain were found in the National Library of France during this time period. They found his "Great Seal" and letters he had written to French people. A statue of him was made and put at Cardiff City Hall during World War I. Postcards were sold with Owain on them. The postcards were sold to make money to help soldiers who were injured in war.
In 1808, the Royal Navy named a Fifth-rate frigate after Owain. It was called the HMS Owen Glendower. The boat served in the Gunboat War. It helped take over the island of Anholt. During the years 1822 and 1824, the boat was in the West Africa Squadron, where it chased slave ships. It captured two ships. Nationally, Owain is as famous as King Arthur. Organizations use his name and drawings of him as their symbols to celebrate Wales as a country and Welsh culture. In the 1980s, a group of people called "Meibion Glyndŵr" burned down vacation homes owned by English people. They used Owain as their logo. In the year 2000, parties were held across Wales to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Owain's revolt. In 1974 and 2008, stamps were made with Owain on them. There is an award that is given every year for arts and writing called the Glyndŵr Award. The band Manic Street Preachers wrote a song about Owain in 2007 called "1404". There are many statues throughout Wales of Owain.
There is a building at the University of Cape Town, called Glendower Residence, that is named after Owain. It used to be a hotel, and is now where students live.
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