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Banks 'willing to change': former ANZ CEO
Aleks Vickovich
Financial institutions are willing and able to innovate, but fintech disruptors have a natural advantage, says former ANZ chief executive Mike Smith.
Speaking on a panel at the Intersekt fintech festival in Melbourne on Friday, Mr Smith – who is now chairman of tech incubator York Butter Factory – said banks are willing and able to shift their modus operandi.
"The product of a bank is fundamentally a bill of exchange and that hasn't changed since the 1400s," Mr Smith said. "But the delivery of customer service has changed so much. Banks are willing to change."
However, while there is an appetite among institutional leaders to adapt to shifting technological trends and consumer demand, Mr Smith conceded that nimble start-ups have the edge when it comes to business agility, particularly in the financial services realm.
"The advantage for the fintechs is that the pace of change is unprecedented and that is an advantage for them," Mr Smith said.
"When you look at fintech and the real future and how it can make a difference, the key is to find a cheaper process than is presently being used."
Banks struggle with legacy technology that are built around "accounting systems, not customers", the former big bank boss said.
"The key is anticipating consumer behaviour," he said. "What happens now is completely reactive."
Mr Smith also advised fintech start-ups to seek relationships with "visionaries" within senior leadership of the banks, rather than middle management or other non-decision-makers.
"If you're in the machine, you'll be in the machine forever," he said. |
Pirate Soccer Finishes 3rd in Classic
September 15, 2014 admin Boys Soccer
On Friday night the Charlestown Boys Soccer team played their first round match up of the Southern Indiana Soccer Classic against Christian Academy of Indiana. Having never beaten the Warriors before, it was a tough draw for the Pirates. However, the boys dominated possession from the opening whistle straight through to the end of the match and claiming the victory 2-1. Junior Trent Wight scored the opening goal for the Pirates with 33 minutes remaining in the first half on a penalty kick awarded for a CAI hand ball in the box. After some confusion over a controversial offsides call from the referees, Senior Goalkeeper Nick Wirthwein was left standing at the top of his box as he watched Christian Academy dribble past him and score an easy goal to equalize the game. But with just 12:50 remaining in the second half, Freshman forward Jeremiah Paiz made a long crossing pass from the corner that was bobbled by the opposing keeper and ended up falling into the net to put the Pirates ahead for the win. This was Paiz first career goal for the Pirates after he earned an assist to a teammate in an previous contest. The victory placed Charlestown into the Semi-Finals on Saturday afternoon at 1:00 against Southwestern High School (Hanover). However, having not returned home the night before until well after 11:00 pm and having a couple of players taking the ACT before the game, the team was generally sluggish and slow throughout the afternoon as they fought hard in a losing effort to the Southwestern team who had earned a bye and not competed the night before.
The loss to Southwestern landed the Pirates in the 3rd place consolation game against Trinity Lutheran (Seymour) and advanced Southwestern into the Championship against the River City Jaguars, whom the Pirates had already dismantled 6-4 back in August. The Trinity Lutheran contest kicked-off at 6:00 pm and would see the Charlestown boys take home their 3rd victory in 4 games over a 3 day period. Senior Michael Navetta commanded the midfield and penetrated the penalty box where he drew a hard challenge and earned a penalty kick for himself which he easily converted to put the Pirates level at 1-1 as the Junior Jose Arredondo allowed an earlier goal from Trinity Lutheran as he was playing goal keeper for the first time ever as Wirthwein was injured and unable to compete. As the game progressed, a command of the midfield would eventually lead to Navetta sending a ball into Senior Colin Martin inside the box who unselfishly flicked it on to Junior Trent Wight for a nice little goal to take the lead at 2-1. Trinity Lutheran was not finished yet however, as a seemingly stonewalled Freshman Isai Galvan agonizingly watched as they dribbled right passed him as he stood still watching to score the equalizing goal. It would be Senior team captain Michael Navetta who would eventually save the day for the Pirates late in the second half as he took possession of the ball on the far right side flank and launched a long high shot to the far post corner, over the leaping outstretched arms of the Trinity Lutheran keeper and into the net for the go ahead goal. |
HomeTechnologyElectronicsAT&T Lands Exclusive Deal With Intel-Powered MICA Smart Wearable Fashion Communication Accessory
AT&T Lands Exclusive Deal With Intel-Powered MICA Smart Wearable Fashion Communication Accessory
November 18, 2014 V-Gamer Author Electronics, Technology 0
Opening Ceremony and Intel today took the wraps off the complete features of MICA, My Intelligent Communication Accessory, the smart and fashionable luxury accessory that truly redefines the concept of wearable technology. MICA is a beautiful and intelligent bracelet that provides today's highly connected woman with access to text messages, Yelp, Gmail** notifications, Facebook events and Google Calendar** through discreet notifications delivered directly to the wrist.
The feminine communications accessory will be available by early December in the United States and will retail exclusively at Opening Ceremony New York and Los Angeles, select Barneys New York locations, and online at Openingceremony.us and Barneys.com.
MICA, My Intelligent Communication Accessory, designed by Opening Ceremony, engineered by Intel, connects fashion-forward women to text messages, Google** and Facebook* notifications, and local business recommendations powered by Yelp* and TomTom*.
An intelligent bracelet composed of precious gems and Ayers snakeskin, MICA will retail for $495, which includes two years of AT&T* wireless data service provided by Intel.
MICA will be available by early December exclusively in the U.S. at Opening Ceremony New York and Los Angeles, select Barneys New York locations, and online at OpeningCeremony.us and Barneys.com.
"Our pioneering collaboration with Opening Ceremony and the introduction of this category-defining smart jewelry piece advances wearable technology as a distinctively stylish accessory that places importance on both aesthetics and functionality," said Ayse Ildeniz, vice president and general manager for business development and strategy, New Devices Group at Intel Corporation. "MICA captures Intel's philosophy that technology should enhance jewelry in order to make wearable technology truly 'wantable,' in addition to seamless and productive."
"Today's modern woman maintains selectivity and exclusivity when choosing accessories, and MICA embodies a beautifully unique statement piece," said Humberto Leon, co-founder and creative director, Opening Ceremony. "The wearable space is an exciting, rapidly expanding category, and it has been a thrill to be involved in the convergence of fashion and technology through this collaboration with Intel."
"Mobile technology really guides everything we do. The issue for many consumers on wearable technology lies in the fact that the devices typically are not attractive and are often times cumbersome," said Daniella Vitale, chief operating officer and senior executive vice president, Barneys New York. "Opening Ceremony founders Carol and Humberto, along with Intel, had the prescience to create something functional but also beautiful and chic. We are excited to be the first on something that mirrors the Barneys strategy of a beautiful, exclusive and unique product!"
"MICA acts as an extension of a customer's smartphone, for those times when it's not convenient to carry with you," said Chris Penrose, senior vice president, Internet of Things, AT&T. "It allows customers to receive texts and email notifications so that they can stay connected, while still wearing a fashionable jewelry piece to almost any occasion."
MICA PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS:
Reflecting market research garnered from the Opening Ceremony community and influencers in the industry, Opening Ceremony and Intel developed the design, features and purpose of the MICA bracelet for the woman who is always on the go and enjoys being socially connected, and who has a deep appreciation for fashion. Via a touch-screen sapphire display, wearers can easily view content. Vibration-based alerts, a curated VIP contact list and customizable quick replies deliver notifications directly to the wrist – eliminating the need to fumble through a handbag or interrupt a meeting or event.
Messaging:
MICA provides access to text messages and notifications of incoming mails from "important contacts" as designated in Gmail. Users can dismiss notifications from the device and respond with customizable quick replies.
Calendar and Event Notifications:
MICA displays Google Calendar and Facebook event notifications while enabling users to accept or reject appointments.
Personal Concierge:
MICA offers intelligent reminders, "Time to Go" (TTG), powered by TomTom and Intel, that dynamically adjust based on location to account for the time required to get to the next appointment. MICA also provides users with access to Yelp local search, which includes business ratings and reviews. MICA wearers can use Yelp to locate restaurants, shops and other local businesses nearby.
Priority Notifications:
Users can curate a VIP contact list that filters notifications and text messages. Vibration-based alerts discreetly alert the wearer to incoming alerts.
Elevating the appearance of traditional wearable devices, MICA's cutting-edge design is constructed of premium finishes and 18K gold coating with a curved sapphire glass touch screen display. One style features black water snake skin, pearls from China and lapis stones from Madagascar, while the other style features white water snake skin, tiger's eye from South Africa and obsidian from Russia.
Configuration and Security:
The bracelet provides remote access and locking, the ability to locate the device, and configuration capabilities via a Web-based portal.
Two-Year AT&T Data Service Paid by Intel:
MICA is connected by AT&T and includes a two-year wireless service plan provided by Intel in the price of the bracelet.
Pricing, Availability and Additional Product Information
Up to two days of battery life
Micro-USB charging
Available for sale only in the United States for $495
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package com.support.android.michealjackson.fragments;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import com.support.android.michealjackson.R;
import com.support.android.michealjackson.activities.SongDetailsActivity;
import com.support.android.michealjackson.adapters.RecyclerViewAdapter;
import com.support.android.michealjackson.helper.ConnectionDetector;
import com.support.android.michealjackson.helper.DividerItemDecoration;
import com.support.android.michealjackson.model.Songs;
import java.util.ArrayList;
/**
* A placeholder fragment containing a simple view.
*/
public class MainActivityFragment extends Fragment {
private RecyclerView rv;
public MainActivityFragment() {
}
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View view =inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main_activity_jackson, container, false);
final ConnectionDetector conDet = new ConnectionDetector(getActivity());
ArrayList<Songs> songs = (ArrayList) getActivity().getIntent().getParcelableArrayListExtra("SONGS_LIST_INTENT");
rv = (RecyclerView) view.findViewById(R.id.recycler_view_mj);
RecyclerViewAdapter rcAdapter = new RecyclerViewAdapter(getActivity(), songs, new RecyclerViewAdapter.OnItemClickListener() {
@Override
public void onItemClick(Songs item) {
Intent i = new Intent(getContext(), SongDetailsActivity.class);
i.putExtra("SongsObject", item);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(i);
}
});
rv.setAdapter(rcAdapter);
rv.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(rv.getContext()));
rv.addItemDecoration(new DividerItemDecoration(getActivity(), LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL));
return view;
}
}
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Bait Shop Blues
Author: Nancy Pirri
Review by: Edie
* Contemporary
Publisher: Uncial Press
Cassandra Thompson, a high-heeled Marilyn Monroe look-alike city slicker from Chicago came to northern Minnesota to check out her inheritance. She understood she owned one-half of a gift shop, a legacy from her grandfather, and she was determined to make it a success. The admitted type-A go-getter, owner of her own successful business, immediately saw how she could turn the land into a resort area that would attract hundreds of vacationers.
Leif Halverson resented the intruder, granddaughter of the late Roy Thompson, his mentor and the only father he had ever known. He and Roy had run the rustic bait shop for many years. Hoping Cassandra would sell her half to him; Leif was disappointed when she moved in and started making numerous changes to Gateway to Paradise.
Hoping to drive Cassandra away, Leif challenged her to a two-week trip into the wilderness. If she made it through the trip, she would stay and could make any changes she wanted. If not, it was back to Chicago, permanently.
In Bait Shop Blues, author Nancy Pirri has written a fun insightful look at male/female relationships. The two protagonists butt heads and challenge one-another every inch of the way. With their future riding on the outcome of the wilderness survival challenge, both take the trip seriously.
Will Leif get his bait shop back along with his quiet life as a fishing guide, or will the citified interloper have her way in creating a modern resort that will destroy the wilderness forever? Read this wonderful story to find out the surprising answer.
Book Blurb for Bait Shop Blues
What does a businesswoman from Chicago want with a bait shop in northern Minnesota, willed to her by her grandfather? How will the reclusive, current owner convince the woman to sell out her half of the shop to him? For Cassandra Thompson, a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, it could mean a well-needed change in life. For Leif Halverson, a handsome man of Ojibwe extraction, and co-owner of the shop, it could mean disaster-falling love. Leif hates this city woman invading his territory so he challenges her to a wilderness survival contest where the winner takes all.
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Five Afghan soldiers were accidentally killed and eight injured in an overnight American drone operation, an incident Western leaders quickly apologized for and that is sure to anger outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Five Afghan soldiers were accidentally killed and eight injured in an overnight American drone operation, an incident that is sure to anger outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai, even as Western leaders quickly apologized.
Regional official Din Mohammad Darwish said "we believe the strike was the result of poor coordination between the people on the ground and the operators of the drone." He added, "the area is frequented by insurgents both foreign and local, and drone strikes are carried out quite often in that part of Charkh. The [Afghan National Army] outpost was part of the security belt in the province." Another local leader, Abdul Wali, responded with more anger, commenting "the coalition knows the location of every Afghan outpost. How can such incidents happen?"
The accident, one of the deadliest cases of friendly fire in the war's history, took place at an outpost in Logar Province. The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) responded to the event by saying "we value the strong relationship with our Afghan partners, and we will determine what actions will be taken to ensure incidents like this do not happen again." NATO said it was an "unfortunate incident," and that it is looking into what happened.
Military casualties from drone strikes are less common than civilian ones, although a recent report revised estimates of Afghan soldier death significantly upward, suggesting that the army suffered more deaths than previously thought.
Aimal Faizi, a Karzai spokesman, said "we condemn the attack on the Afghan National Army in Logar. The president has ordered an investigation." The president has repeatedly condemned casualties from U.S. drone strike, and the issue has contributed to the chilly relations between Kabul and Washington. Just last week, the Afghan president, who has refused to sign a security pact with the U.S. before he leaves office next month, told The Washington Post that "Afghans died in a war that's not ours." He added an unfriendly message to Washington, which we think he'd reiterate today : "To the U.S. government, give them my anger, my extreme anger." |
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Warsash Band hosts 44 musicians from Vannes
Monday 9 April 2012
Over the Easter weekend 2012, the Warsash Band was delighted to welcome the musicians of L'Harmonie du Conservatoire de Vannes.
'Harmonie' is the evocative French word for a wind ensemble or band and, similar to the Warsash Band, theirs is a community band with a mix of adults and older students.
The party arrived early on Easter Saturday morning having travelled on the overnight ferry and were soon paired up with the families who had so kindly offered to host one or more guests. Some hosts were not even closely associated with the band but willingly welcomed the visitors into their homes nonetheless and I should like to say a huge thank you to each and every one of the 20 hosts; without you the visit would simply not have been possible.
Of course the twin purposes of a visit like this are music and friendship so we launched straight into rehearsals on Saturday afternoon. With a total of some 80 or so British and French musicians available, what better than to put both bands together for some combined music making? We all learned a lot from listening to each other and adjusting our playing style to produce one harmonious whole.
On the social sides, we had a lot of fun when we went ten-pin bowling on Saturday evening; it was fascinating to watch normally placid individuals become highly competitive when faced with the challenge of skittling over those ten pins! But whatever the level of one's personal incompetence, everyone had a thoroughly good time.
We aimed for a relaxed start to Easter Sunday morning taking the ferry over to Hamble for a gentle wander round. After lunch Alan Webber kindly showed some of us round his extraordinary collection of vintage bicycles, motor bikes and cars before it was time for a final rehearsal of the evening concert. Because the Victory Hall was not open over this holiday weekend, we were most grateful to be able to use the Sarisbury Green Community Centre. Tucked away behind the green, the Centre has a good-sized hall and a number of other rooms which proved ideal. We were honoured that the concert was graced by the presence of His Worshipful the Mayor of Fareham, Cllr Trevor Cartwright, who gave the formal speech of welcome and the Mayoress, Mrs Ruth Cartwright.
The hall was packed but no one was turned away and the warmth of the audience's response delighted the French musicians who responded with some fine playing. Their programme included the Concerto d'Aranjuez by Rodrigo, music by Rimsky Korsakov and Grieg and two obvious crowd pleasers: Pirates of the Caribbean and Batman. A special festival band from the Warsash Band rose to the challenge and played with panache in a programme that included Shenandoah, Music from Cats and a Tribute to Ray Charles. But the highlight of the evening was undoubtedly the combined bands of 80 musicians performing two pieces under the batons of the two conductors: Benjamin Arnoux (Vannes) and Jon Audain (Warsash). The sound was thrilling with an almost physical impact and everyone agreed that it had been a very special occasion. The musicians and hosts relaxed afterwards over a traditional fish and chip supper.
It had been a short but very happy visit and we said our fond farewells to the visitors on Monday morning. Before returning to France, the party visited Windsor on Monday and several of us went along too. The weather over the weekend had fortunately been better than the dismal forecasts and, although damp on Monday, the rain was much lighter than expected and the party had an interesting day exploring Windsor, Eton and the Thames before travelling back to catch the evening ferry.
But that was not the end of it. By Monday evening the weather had well and truly turned and, as we later heard, the trip to St. Malo was grim indeed with many of the party turning various shades of green, poor souls; what a miserable end to a joyous weekend of camaraderie and music making! The Warsash Band has been invited for a return visit to Vannes in 2013 and we will start planning this soon.
But none of this would have been possible without the generosity of the FVTA who kindly supported the visit. The Warsash Band and its members are truly grateful to the Association for their financial assistance. We look forward to continuing to deepen and strengthen our links with Vannes and wish that all nations shared a similar friendship through the universal language of music: wouldn't that make the world a better place? So thank you, FVTA, for your generous support, which is greatly appreciated.
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Q: Is there a way to get battery level using unix c program is there any way to create a daemon in unix that would monitor my battery level and notify me after the crtical level. and is there any way to identify a node that is joining and leaving a network using c
A: As a solution to both problems (and assuming by "unix" you mean "Linux"), you could look into using DBus: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
I know Ubuntu has daemons running by default which trigger DBus events when network connections change and there are standard endpoints for things like current battery charge.
Look for information on DBus network manager and perhaps try this project for the power monitoring portion: http://powersave.sourceforge.net/powersave/DBus.html
A: It may be a good start for you:
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\section{Dynamical mean-field theory}
\label{sec:DMFT}
To set the stage, we first discuss the familiar case of DMFT.
For concreteness, we focus on the two-dimensional (2D) paramagnetic Hubbard model on the square lattice with nearest-neighbor hopping given by the Hamiltonian
\begin{align}
\label{hubbardmodel}
H = &-t\sum_{\langle ij\rangle\sigma} c^\dagger_{i\sigma}c^{}_{j\sigma}+ U\sum_{i} n_{i\ensuremath{\uparrow}} n_{i\ensuremath{\downarrow}}.
\end{align}
Here $i,j$ label lattice sites. The local Hubbard interaction has strength $U$. We use the hopping $t=1$ as the unit of energy and denote Green's function as $G_{ij}$ in real space and $G_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}}$ in momentum space respectively (when it is not ambiguous, we omit the frequency dependence for brevity).
DMFT is a local approximation to the exact Luttinger-Ward functional $\Phi[G_{ij}]\approx\sum_{i}\phi[G_{\text{loc}}]$, which is therefore conserving in the Baym-Kadanoff sense~\cite{Georges96,Baym62}.
As a result of the local approximation, the self-energy is local: $\Sigma_{ij}=\delta\Phi[G_{i'j'}]/\delta G_{ji}=\delta\phi[G_{\text{loc}}]/\delta G_{\text{loc}}\, \delta_{ji}$ and we note that the same holds for the irreducible vertex: $-\Gamma_{ijkl}=\delta^2\Phi[G_{i'j'}]/\delta G_{ji}\delta G_{lk}=\delta^2\phi[G_{\text{loc}}]/\delta G_{\text{loc}}^{2}\, \delta_{li}\delta_{lj}\delta_{lk}$~\footnote{A minus sign arises in the functional relation of $\Gamma$ due to the definitions chosen in this publication.}.
If we know the local Green's function, the problem is solved: In this case we can evaluate the local functional and its derivatives at the local Green's function and hence compute the self-energy.
Since we do not know the local Green's function a priori and the self-energy is a functional of the latter, we have to solve this problem self-consistently:
we vary $G_{\text{loc}}$ until the local Green's function computed from the self-energy equals $G_{\text{loc}}$.
We can employ an auxiliary local model as a \emph{tool} to accomplish this and to sum the diagrams of this local functional exactly.
This means letting $\phi[G_{\text{loc}}]\equiv \phi_{\text{imp}}[g_{\text{imp}}]$ and $\Sigma[G_{\text{loc}}]\equiv \Sigma_{\text{imp}}[g_{\text{imp}}]$.
The desired solution is evidently obtained when the DMFT self-consistency condition is satisfied,
\begin{align}
g_{\text{imp},\nu}=G_{\text{loc},\nu}.
\label{eq:DMFTsc}
\end{align}
(Where unambiguous, we drop labels 'imp' and 'lat' in what follows.)
In practice, an Anderson impurity model (AIM) is often employed for this purpose, whose action reads
\begin{align}
\hspace*{-0.18cm}S_{\text{AIM}}=&\hspace*{-0.01cm}-\hspace*{-0.01cm}\sum_{\nu\sigma}c^*_{\nu\sigma}(\imath\nu+\mu-\Delta_\nu)c^{}_{\nu\sigma}+\hspace*{-0.01cm}U\sum_{\omega}n_{-\omega\uparrow} n_{\omega\downarrow}.
\label{eq:AIM}
\end{align}
Here $\Delta_{\nu}$ denotes the electronic hybridization, $\mu$ is the chemical potential and $\nu$ ($\omega$) denote the discrete fermionic (bosonic) Matsubara frequencies $\nu_n=(2n+1)\pi/\beta$ and $\omega_m=2m\pi/\beta$, respectively. $\beta=1/T$ is the inverse temperature. The AIM has the same local interaction $U$ as the lattice model.
Let us now take a \emph{practical} viewpoint.
Assume we have a non-trivial model that we can solve exactly, such as the AIM described by the action~\eqref{eq:AIM}. From this model we can obtain the local impurity self-energy and irreducible vertex function. We can now ask the question of how to construct a conserving approximation given these quantities.
We recall that \emph{local} conservation of charge and spin means that the following continuity equations for the charge ($\rho^{0}$) and spin densities ($\rho^{x,y,z}$) hold:
\begin{align}
\partial_\tau\rho^\alpha=-[\rho^\alpha,H].
\label{eq:conteq}
\end{align}
We have introduced the index $\alpha=0,x,y,z$ to label the charge and spin channels.
The corresponding charge and spin density operators are defined as $\rho^\alpha = \sum_{\sigma\sigma'}c^\dagger_{\sigma}s^\alpha_{\sigma\sigma'}c_{\sigma'}$ with the Pauli matrices $s^\alpha$,
such that $\rho^0=n=n_\uparrow+n_\downarrow$ and $\rho^{x,y,z}=2S^{x,y,z}$.
On the lattice we can formulate the following Ward identities (cf. Appendix~\ref{app:Wardlat}), which are the Green's function analogues of the continuity equations~\eqref{eq:conteq}:
\begin{align}
\Sigma_{k+q}-\Sigma_{k}=-\sum_{k'}\Gamma^{\alpha}_{kk'q}[G_{k'+q}-G_{k'}].
\label{eq:Ward}
\end{align}
Here we have introduced four-vector notation $k\equiv(\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}},\nu)$ and $q\equiv(\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}},\omega)$. Summations over frequencies and momenta imply factors $\beta^{-1}$ and $N^{-1}$, respectively, with $N$ being the number of sites.
$\Sigma$ and $G$ are the exact lattice self-energy and Green's function, respectively, and $\Gamma^{\alpha}$ denotes the \textit{irreducible} (horizontal) \textit{particle-hole} vertex.
The irreducible vertices in the charge and spin channels are explicitly defined as $\Gamma^{0}=\Gamma^{\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow}+\Gamma^{\uparrow\uparrow\downarrow\downarrow}$,
$\Gamma^{z}=\Gamma^{\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow}-\Gamma^{\uparrow\uparrow\downarrow\downarrow}$
and $\Gamma^{x}=\Gamma^{y}=\frac{1}{2}(\Gamma^{\uparrow\downarrow\downarrow\uparrow}+\Gamma^{\downarrow\uparrow\uparrow\downarrow})=\Gamma^{\uparrow\downarrow\downarrow\uparrow}$.
In a local approximation, $\Sigma_k\equiv\Sigma_\nu$ and $\Gamma^{\alpha}_{kk'q}\equiv\gamma^{\alpha}_{\nu\nu'\omega}$, such as DMFT, all momentum dependence drops out of the Ward identities~\eqref{eq:Ward} and we obtain~\footnote{In an earlier publication by Hettler et al. the right-hand-side of Eq.~\eqref{eq:dmft_definition} was expressed in terms of the \textit{reducible} vertex function~\cite{Hettler00}.
In that form one does not straightforwardly realize the momentum-independence of Eq.~\eqref{eq:dmft_definition} which misled the authors to believe that DMFT does not satisfy the Ward identities.}
\begin{align}
\Sigma_{\nu+\omega}-\Sigma_{\nu}=-\sum_{\nu'}\gamma^{\alpha}_{\nu\nu'\omega}[G_{\text{loc},\nu'+\omega}-G_{\text{loc},\nu'}].\label{eq:dmft_definition}
\end{align}
An analogous Ward identity holds for the AIM (see Appendix~\ref{app:Wardlocal}),
\begin{align}
\Sigma_{\nu+\omega}-\Sigma_\nu = -\sum_{\nu'}\gamma_{\nu\nu'\omega}^{\alpha}[g_{\nu'+\omega}-g_{\nu'}],
\label{eq:Wardimp}
\end{align}
where $\Sigma_\nu, g_\nu$ and $\gamma^\alpha_{\nu\nu'\omega}$ are the self-energy, Green's function and the irreducible vertex of the AIM, respectively.
Hence the DMFT approximation is apparently conserving when the self-consistency condition~\eqref{eq:DMFTsc} holds.
Remarkably, DMFT arises when we attempt to construct a locally conserving approximation based on the AIM~\eqref{eq:AIM}.
Let us consider further properties of the DMFT approximation. To this end, we introduce the (connected) susceptibilities
\begin{align}
X^\alpha_q = -\langle \bar{\rho}^\alpha_{-q}\bar{\rho}^\alpha_q\rangle= 2\sum_{kk'}X_{kk'q}^{\alpha},
\end{align}
which are defined in terms of density fluctuations, $\bar{\rho}^\alpha(\tau)=\rho^\alpha(\tau)-\langle\rho^\alpha\rangle$.
Their local parts are given by $X^\alpha_\text{loc} = \sum_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}} X^\alpha_q$.
The generalized susceptibility $X^\alpha_{kk'q}$ is related to the irreducible vertex function via the integral equation
\begin{align}
X_{kk'q}^{\alpha}=G_{k}G_{k+q}\left[\beta \delta_{kk'}-\sum_{k''}\Gamma_{kk''q}^{\alpha}X_{k''k'q}^\alpha\right].
\label{eq:lthroughgamma}
\end{align}
Now consider the kinetic energy of the lattice. It is expressed through single-particle quantities as $E^{\text{lat}}_\text{kin}=\sum_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}\sigma}\varepsilon_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}}\langle n_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}\sigma}\rangle$.
In Appendix~\ref{app:asymptotefromward} we establish a relation that expresses the kinetic energy in terms of a two-particle quantity, more precisely the high-frequency behavior of the local susceptibility. The relation follows directly from the Ward identities, Eq.~\eqref{eq:Ward}:
\begin{align}
\lim\limits_{\omega\rightarrow\infty}(\imath\omega)^2 X^{\alpha}_{\text{loc},\omega} &=-2E^{\text{lat}}_\text{kin}\label{eq:xloc_asymptote}.
\end{align}
As the Ward identities themselves, this relation connects single- and two-particle quantities.
The local impurity Ward identities~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} imply an analogous relation (see Appendix~\ref{app:WardAIM}),
\begin{align}
\lim\limits_{\omega\rightarrow\infty}(\imath\omega)^2\chi^{\alpha}_\omega &=-2E^{\text{imp}}_\text{kin},\label{eq:imp_asymptote}
\end{align}
where $\chi^\alpha_\omega=-\langle\bar{\rho}^\alpha_{-\omega}\bar{\rho}^\alpha_\omega\rangle_{\text{imp}}$ is the impurity susceptibility and the kinetic energy of the impurity model is given by~\cite{Haule07}
\begin{equation}
E^{\text{imp}}_\text{kin}=2\sum_{\nu}\Delta_{\nu}g_{\nu}.
\label{eq:Ekinimp}
\end{equation}
DMFT is not two-particle self-consistent. As a consequence, the impurity and local lattice susceptibility differ in general.
Remarkably, however, their asymptotes are the same.
Decomposing the susceptibility into a contribution from the impurity susceptibility and a momentum-dependent correction~\cite{Hafermann14-2},
$X^{\text{DMFT}}_{\text{loc}}=\chi+X'_{\text{loc}}$, one can show that $X'_{\text{loc}}$ decays at least with $\omega^{-4}$.
Therefore, $\lim\limits_{\omega\rightarrow\infty}(\imath\omega)^2 X_{\text{loc},\omega} = \lim\limits_{\omega\rightarrow\infty}(\imath\omega)^2 \chi_\omega$.
We demonstrate this numerically in the left panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:dmft:asymptote} in the section on numerical results.
As a consequence, $E^{\text{lat}}_\text{kin}=E^{\text{imp}}_\text{kin}$ and the kinetic energy can be determined from the impurity model in DMFT.
Next, we consider the potential energy $E_{\text{pot}}=Ud_{\text{lat}}$ where $d_{\text{lat}}=\av{n_{\ensuremath{\uparrow}} n_{\ensuremath{\downarrow}}}$ is the double occupancy of the lattice.
As a two-particle correlation function, $d$ is naturally computed from two-particle quantities. We denote this by a superscript '2P'. We have the following relations:
\begin{align}
X^0_{\text{loc},\tau=0}&=-\av{\bar{\rho}^0\bar{\rho}^0}=-(\av{n}+2d^{\text{2P}}_{\text{lat}}-\av{n}^2),\label{eq:docc2P}\\
X^z_{\text{loc},\tau=0}&=-\av{\bar{\rho}^z\bar{\rho}^z}=-(\av{n}-2d^{\text{2P}}_{\text{lat}}),
\end{align}
where $\rho^0=n=n_\ensuremath{\uparrow}+n_\ensuremath{\downarrow}, \rho^z=m=n_\ensuremath{\uparrow}-n_\ensuremath{\downarrow}$ and $\av{m}=0$. Hence the double occupancy can be expressed in terms of the susceptibilities as
\begin{align}
d^{\text{2P}}_\text{lat} &= -\frac{1}{4}\left[X^0_{\text{loc},\tau=0}-X^z_{\text{loc},\tau=0}-\av{n}^2_\text{lat}\right].
\label{eq:dlat2}
\end{align}
Similarly, $d$ may be obtained from the impurity as
\begin{align}
d^{\text{2P}}_\text{imp} &= -\frac{1}{4}\left[\chi^0_{\tau=0}-\chi^z_{\tau=0}-\av{n}^2_\text{imp}\right]\label{eq:dimp2}.
\end{align}
By virtue of the single-particle self-consistency condition~\eqref{eq:DMFTsc} we have $\av{n}_{\text{lat}}=\av{n}_{\text{imp}}$.
Due to the missing two-particle self-consistency in DMFT however, the susceptibilities differ and we have in general $d^{\text{2P}}_\text{lat}\neq d^{\text{2P}}_\text{imp}$~\cite{vanLoon16}.
On the other hand, we can compute the double occupancies from single-particle quantities via the Migdal-Galitskii formula of the Hubbard model~\cite{Galitskii58},
\begin{align}
d^{\text{1P}}_\text{lat} &= \frac{1}{U}\sum_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}\nu}G_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}\nu} \Sigma_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}\nu},\label{eq:dlat1}
\end{align}
and its counterpart of the Anderson impurity model,
\begin{align}
d^{\text{1P}}_\text{imp}=\frac{1}{U}\sum_\nu g_\nu \Sigma_\nu\label{eq:dimp1}.
\end{align}
Making use of the single-particle self-consistency condition~\eqref{eq:DMFTsc} and of the locality of the self-energy, $\Sigma_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}\nu}=\Sigma_\nu$, we see that lattice and impurity double occupancies computed in this way are the same.
In summary, DMFT arises when one attempts to construct a conserving, single-particle self-consistent approximation based on the AIM.
The kinetic energy of the lattice model is equal to the kinetic energy of the impurity model.
It can be obtained from the asymptote of the local lattice susceptibility, a general feature of conserving approximations,
while in DMFT, it may also be obtained from the impurity susceptibility.
An ambiguity arises in the calculation of the double occupancy from single- and two-particle quantities: $d_\text{imp}=d^{\text{1P}}_\text{lat}\neq d^{\text{2P}}_\text{lat}$ in DMFT as a consequence of the lack of two-particle self-consistency.
We speak of several thermodynamically consistent~\cite{Aichhorn06,Janis17} ways to obtain a quantity if these yield one and the same result.
That different ways of calculating a quantity yield the same result is in general only true for an exact solution.
The kinetic energy and the $f$-sum rule (see, e.g.,~\cite{Vilk97}, see Appendix~\ref{app:fsumrule_derivation}) are examples where thermodynamic consistency between one- and two-particle level is ensured through the Ward identities~\eqref{eq:Ward}.
Obviously, the Ward identities are insufficient for consistency in other cases, as we have seen for the double occupancy, whose value is ambiguous in DMFT.
Another important example is the inconsistency of the Schwinger-Dyson equation with the Ward identities when the reducible vertex is computed from the irreducible one through the Bethe-Salpeter equation~\cite{Janis17}.
The recently proposed QUADRILEX approach has been reported to be free of this inconsistency~\cite{Ayral16}.
We will examine in the following section to what extent the deficiencies of DMFT can be cured by two-particle self-consistency.
\section{Two-particle self-consistency}
\label{sec:2psc}
Two-particle self-consistent approximations based on an impurity model go back to extended dynamical mean-field theory (EDMFT) and its precursors~\cite{Sengupta95,Otsuki13-2,sachdev93,Si96,Kajueter96,Smith00,Chitra01}.
In these approximations, a frequency-dependent interaction is introduced in the impurity model, and its values are fixed through a self-consistency condition on a two-particle (bosonic) correlation function such as the susceptibility.
In general, we can augment the AIM of~\eqref{eq:AIM} by a dynamical interaction in all four (one charge and three spin) channels as follows:
\begin{align}
S_{\text{BFK}}=& S_{\text{AIM}}+
\frac{1}{2}\sum_{\alpha\omega}\bar{\rho}^\alpha_{-\omega} \Lambda^\alpha_\omega\bar{\rho}^\alpha_\omega.\label{BFK}
\end{align}
We refer to this model as the Bose-Fermi-Kondo impurity (BFK) model.
$\Lambda^\alpha_{\omega}$ is a dynamical interaction which can be viewed as a bosonic bath or hybridization. We consider approximations to Green's function $G$ and to the susceptibility $X$ that are locally conserving and two-particle self-consistent. In analogy to the single-particle self-consistency condition~\eqref{eq:DMFTsc}, the retarded interactions in~\eqref{BFK} are determined through the following condition~\cite{vanLoon16-2,Stepanov16},
\begin{align}
\chi^{\alpha}_{\omega} = X_{\text{loc},\omega}^{\alpha}.
\label{eq:2psc}
\end{align}
This self-consistency condition provides a bounded double occupancy by construction [cf. Eqs.~\eqref{eq:dlat2} and~\eqref{eq:dimp2}],
which is sufficient to suppress magnetic phase transitions in two dimensions, as shown by Vilk and Tremblay~\cite{Vilk97}.
The Ward-identities~\eqref{eq:Ward} relate single-particle quantities (Green's function and self-energies) to two-particle quantities (vertex functions and susceptibilities).
We study the interplay between the requirement of local conservation and the self-consistency conditions~\eqref{eq:DMFTsc} and~\eqref{eq:2psc}.
We differentiate between two kinds of approaches: (i) The case of Ising-type ($S_{z}$) coupling is characterized by a finite $\Lambda^z_\omega$ and $\Lambda^{0}_\omega$, while we set $\Lambda^{x,y}_\omega = 0$. That is, we require self-consistency~\eqref{eq:2psc} only in the charge- and one of the spin channels, i.e., for $\alpha=0,z$.
(ii) For rotationally invariant Heisenberg-type coupling, all retarded interactions $\Lambda_{\omega}^{\alpha}$ for $\alpha=0,x,y,z$ are finite and determined by~\eqref{eq:2psc}.
The retarded interactions cause shifts in the Hubbard interaction and the chemical potential which are discussed in Appendix~\ref{app:impurity:hamiltonian}.
\subsection{Ising-type coupling}
\label{section:sz-coupling}
In the discussion of the kinetic energy in the context of DMFT we have shown that, assuming local conservation, it can be expressed in terms of the asymptotic behavior of the susceptibility.
For the lattice we have by virtue of local conservation $\lim\limits_{\omega\rightarrow\infty}(\imath\omega)^2 X^{0,z}_{\text{loc},\omega} =-2E_\text{kin}^{\text{lat}}$, while on the impurity,
$\lim\limits_{\omega\rightarrow\infty}(\imath\omega)^2\chi^{0,z}_\omega =-2E_{\text{kin}}^{\text{imp}}$ holds (cf. Appendix~\ref{app:asymptotics:impurity}).
In this case, the kinetic energies computed in the two ways are equal by means of the two-particle self-consistency~\eqref{eq:2psc}.
The kinetic energy can therefore be obtained from the impurity model, as in DMFT. Note that $E_\text{kin}^{\text{lat}}=E_{\text{kin}}^{\text{imp}}$ may be determined from the charge or spin susceptibility alike.
We saw previously that the double occupancy computed from two-particle quantities, $d_{\text{lat}}^{\text{2P}}$ and $d_{\text{imp}}^{\text{2P}}$, can be expressed in terms of the local susceptibilities $X_{\text{loc}}^{0,z}$ and $\chi^{0,z}$, respectively [Eqs.~\eqref{eq:dlat2} and~\eqref{eq:dimp2}].
While these differ in DMFT in general, the two-particle self-consistency ensures that $d_{\text{lat}}^{\text{2P}}=d_{\text{imp}}^{\text{2P}}$.
Using single-particle quantities, we can still compute it on the lattice using the Migdal-Galitskii formula, Eq.~\eqref{eq:dlat1}.
In a local approximation to the self-energy and with the single-particle self-consistency condition~\eqref{eq:DMFTsc}, we can express the double occupancy in terms of the impurity self-energy and Green's function, $d^{\text{1P}}_\text{lat} = (1/U)\sum_\nu g_\nu \Sigma_\nu$.
In contrast to DMFT however, this expression is \emph{not} equal to the impurity double occupancy.
Because the Migdal-Galitskii formula involves the potential energy, it is comprehensible that the retarded interactions will affect it. In Appendix~\ref{app:migdal} we derive the double occupancy for the Bose-Fermi-Kondo model, with the result
\begin{align}
d^{\text{1P}}_\text{imp} &= \frac{1}{2\tilde{U}}\left[2\sum_\nu g_\nu \Sigma_\nu+\sum_{\omega,\alpha}\tilde{\Lambda}^\alpha_\omega(\chi^\alpha_\omega-\beta\av{\rho^\alpha}^2\delta_\omega)\right].
\label{eq:dimp1_bfk}
\end{align}
Here $\tilde{U}=U+\Lambda^0_\infty-\Lambda^z_\infty$ contains the asymptotic part of the retarded interaction $\Lambda^{\alpha}_\omega=\Lambda^{\alpha}_\infty+\tilde{\Lambda}^{\alpha}_\omega$ (cf. Appendix~\ref{app:impurity:hamiltonian}). The summation in the second term in brackets in Eq.~\eqref{eq:dimp1_bfk} in general runs over all channels, $\alpha=0,x,y,z$. In the case of Ising-type coupling, only the retarded interaction in the two channels $\alpha=0,z$ is non-zero.
Because we assume that we solve the impurity model exactly, we have $d^{\text{1P}}_\text{imp}=d^{\text{2P}}_\text{imp}\equiv d_\text{imp}$ (so that we can drop the superscript indices). While $d^{\text{2P}}_\text{lat}=d_\text{imp}$, the second term in~\eqref{eq:dimp1_bfk} will in general lead to $d^{\text{1P}}_\text{lat}\neq d_\text{imp}$. The double occupancy computed from two-particle quantities $d^{\text{2P}}$ is consistent with that of the impurity (because of two-particle self-consistency), while that obtained from single-particle quantities is not.
This situation is exactly opposite to DMFT, where $d^{\text{1P}}$ is consistent. We see that while the retarded interactions allow us to enforce consistency of $d^{\text{2P}}$, they simultaneously undermine the consistency of $d^{\text{1P}}$.
We demonstrate this numerically in Fig.~\ref{fig:docc} for the two-particle self-consistent approximation presented in Sec.~\ref{section:scdb} representative of Ising-type coupling and compare to DMFT.
\subsection{Heisenberg-type coupling}
\label{section:3d-coupling}
In the case of a Heisenberg-type coupling, all retarded interactions $\Lambda_{\omega}^{\alpha}$ are in general non-zero. We fix their values through the self-consistency condition~\eqref{eq:2psc}, as before, and consider the $SU(2)$-symmetric case with $\Lambda^x=\Lambda^y=\Lambda^z$.
We further assume that the Ward identities hold. As a consequence, the relation (cf. Appendix~\ref{app:asymptotefromward})
\begin{align}
\lim\limits_{\omega\rightarrow\infty}(\imath\omega)^2 X^{\alpha}_{\text{loc},\omega} =-2E_\text{kin}\label{eq:xloc_asymptote_3d}
\end{align}
holds in all channels $\alpha=0,x,y,z$.
On the impurity model, contrary to the case of Ising-type coupling, we now have separate relations for the charge and spin susceptibilities (Appendix~\ref{app:asymptotics:impurity}):
\begin{align}
\lim\limits_{\omega\rightarrow\infty}(\imath\omega)^2\chi^0_\omega &=-4\sum_\nu\Delta_\nu g_\nu,\label{eq:imp_asymptote_3dch}\\
\lim\limits_{\omega\rightarrow\infty}(\imath\omega)^2\chi^z_\omega &=-4\sum_\nu\Delta_\nu g_\nu+4\sum_{\omega',\alpha=x,y}\tilde{\Lambda}^\alpha_{\omega'}\chi^\alpha_{\omega'}.\label{eq:imp_asymptote_3dsp}
\end{align}
The corresponding relations for $\chi^{x,y}$ are obtained by permuting $x,y,z$ in~\eqref{eq:imp_asymptote_3dsp}.
We see that in presence of retarded spin interactions the asymptote of the impurity spin susceptibility in Eq.~\eqref{eq:imp_asymptote_3dsp} no longer equals the kinetic energy.
In addition, the asymptotes of the charge and spin channels are different.
By virtue of the self-consistency condition, $\chi_{\omega}^{\alpha}=X_{\text{loc},\omega}^{\alpha}$, this must also hold for the asymptote of $X_{\text{loc},\omega}^{\alpha}$.
Eq.~\eqref{eq:xloc_asymptote_3d}, on the other hand, implies that the asymptote of the local susceptibility must be equal in all channels. We therefore conclude that there is no two-particle self-consistent approximation employing the self-consistency condition~\eqref{eq:2psc}, which at the same time is locally conserving
~\footnote{This only holds if $\sum_{\omega',\alpha=x,y}\tilde{\Lambda}^\alpha_{\omega'}\chi^\alpha_{\omega'}$ is nonzero. The term does not vanish in our calculations and can only do so for an unphysical $\tilde{\Lambda}^\alpha_{\omega}$ which changes its sign for different $\omega$ [as $\chi$ does not, cf. Eq.~\eqref{discretelambda}].}.
We note that in the case of Heisenberg-type coupling, the conclusions regarding the potential energy remain the same as in the Ising-type coupling. In particular the equation~\eqref{eq:dimp1_bfk} still holds.
We provide a numerical example of Eqs.~\eqref{eq:imp_asymptote_3dch} and~\eqref{eq:imp_asymptote_3dsp} in the right panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:doped:chi:imp:asymptote} in Appendix~\ref{app:asymptotics:impurity}.
\section{Ward identities and retarded spin-spin interactions}
\label{section:conservation_scdb}
In this section we show that the Ward identities of the Bose-Fermi-Kondo model are incompatible with the Ward identities~\eqref{eq:Ward} of the Hubbard model.
We identify this as the root cause of our earlier finding in the previous section, that no locally conserving approximation can be obtained in case of a Heisenberg-type coupling.
In the Hamiltonian formulation of the Bose-Fermi-Kondo model (cf. Appendix~\ref{bose_anderson}) the retarded interactions enter as density-boson couplings $\propto \phi^\alpha \rho^\alpha$.
Here, $\phi=b^\dagger+b$ are bosonic operators which commute with all fermions. Integrating out the bosons in the functional integral yields the effective impurity action~\eqref{BFK}.
Since the Ward identities are Green's function equivalents of the continuity equations, they describe conservation of the charge- and spin-currents.
These currents may be caused by kinetic and interaction contributions.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[]{ward_3d}
\caption{(Color online) Test of Eq.~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} for an isotropic retarded spin-spin interaction $\tilde{\Lambda}^x=\tilde{\Lambda}^y=\tilde{\Lambda}^z$ and a retarded charge-charge interaction $\tilde{\Lambda}^0$.
The imaginary part of the left-hand-side (dashed black lines) and of the right-hand-side (symbols) of Eq.~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} is drawn at the first two bosonic Matsubara frequencies $\omega_{m=1,2}$.
Eq.~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} holds in the charge channel (open green symbols) but is violated in the spin channels (filled blue symbols).
This test was performed at $\beta=2$ and $U=6$ with a conducting bath $\Delta$.
The violation of Eq.~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} in the spin channels depends on the magnitude of $\tilde{\Lambda}^{x,y,z}$, which was chosen large for demonstration purposes.
The data shown in this figure was produced with the CTQMC solver presented in reference~\cite{Otsuki13}.}
\label{fig:ward3d}
\end{figure}
Regarding the latter, we notice two properties: (i) None of the retarded interactions contribute to the charge-current, that is $[\rho^{0},\phi^\alpha \rho^\alpha]=\phi^\alpha [n,\rho^\alpha]=0$ for $\alpha=0,x,y,z$.
(ii) The spin-current on the other hand has contributions from the retarded spin-spin interactions $\Lambda^\beta$ due to non-commutativity of the spin operators,
$[\rho^{\alpha},\phi^\beta \rho^\beta]=2\imath\phi^\beta\sum_\gamma\varepsilon_{\alpha\beta\gamma}\rho^\gamma$ for $\alpha,\beta=x,y,z$.
We show in Appendix~\ref{app:Wardlocal} that the resulting Ward identities contain an additional term that couples the retarded spin interaction to a three-particle correlation function~\cite{rostamiTBP}.
As a consequence, they cannot be brought into the form of the local Ward identities~\eqref{eq:Wardimp}.
We emphasize that this does not imply a violation of spin conservation in the Bose-Fermi-Kondo model.
The issue is instead that the Ward identities accounting for spin conservation simply have a form different from Eq.~\eqref{eq:Wardimp}.
It therefore seems plausible that conservation on the level of the BFK model does not imply that the local Ward identities~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} are fulfilled.
That they are indeed violated in general is illustrated numerically in Fig.~\ref{fig:ward3d} by plotting the left- and right-hand sides of Eq.~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} for finite $\tilde{\Lambda}^{x,y,z}$.
In order to understand the consequences for constructing conserving approximations based on an impurity model, we recall that in a local approximation to the self-energy and irreducible vertex function the local Ward identities~\eqref{eq:dmft_definition} are sufficient to guarantee that the approximation is conserving.
In the case of DMFT, with the self-consistency condition $G_{\text{loc}}=g$, they \emph{coincide} with the Ward identities of the AIM, so that DMFT is conserving. In presence of retarded spin-spin interactions this is no longer the case and, as we have seen numerically, this equation in general is violated. This can be seen as follows: Eq.~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} implies that the tails of the local susceptibilities must be identical independent of the channel index $\alpha$. We show this in Appendix~\ref{app:asymptotefromward} and~\ref{app:WardAIM}. In the previous section, we have seen however, that for the Heisenberg-type coupling they are different because of the retarded interaction [cf. Eqs.~\eqref{eq:imp_asymptote_3dch} and~\eqref{eq:imp_asymptote_3dsp}]. \eqref{eq:Wardimp} must therefore be violated and the approximation is not conserving.
In the case of Ising-type coupling, the retarded interaction $\Lambda^z$ in the longitudinal spin channel contributes to the currents in the transversal spin channels of the impurity.
The violation of the local Ward identites~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} thus affects only the transversal spin channels, while the longitudinal spin channel itself remains unaffected.
That the Ward identity in the longitudinal spin channel indeed holds under these circumstances is demonstrated in Fig.~\ref{fig:ward}.
\section{An example: Two-particle self-consistent DMFT}
\label{section:scdb}
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[]{ward}
\caption{(Color online) Test of Eq.~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} for a retarded spin-spin interaction $\tilde{\Lambda}^z$ in the $z$-channel
and a retarded charge-charge interaction $\tilde{\Lambda}^0$. Eq.~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} holds in the channels $\alpha=0,z$.
Parameters as in Fig.~\ref{fig:ward3d}, except $\tilde{\Lambda}^x=\tilde{\Lambda}^y=0$.}
\label{fig:ward}
\end{figure}
We have discussed the general conditions for a conserving and two-particle self-consistent approximation in Sec.~\ref{sec:2psc}. Here we construct a concrete example.
As we have seen, an approximation that satisfies the two particle self-consistency condition~\eqref{eq:2psc} can be conserving in the charge- and at most one of the spin channels. One may refer to this approximation as two-particle self-consistent DMFT.
We compute the lattice susceptibility in this approach according to
\begin{align}
X^{\alpha}_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}\omega}=\left[\left(X^{\text{DMFT},\alpha}_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}\omega}\right)^{-1}+\Lambda^{\alpha}_\omega\right]^{-1}.\label{eq:xdb}
\end{align}
The particular form~\eqref{eq:xdb} of the susceptibility can be motivated in the DB approach~\cite{Rubtsov12}. In this form the retarded interaction is reminiscent of the Moriya~$\Lambda$ correction employed in D$\Gamma$A.
Here $\Lambda$ however depends on frequency, while in D$\Gamma$A it is instantaneous.
We emphasize that the way of calculating the susceptibility and its particular form do not change the conserving character of the theory (see Sec.~\ref{section:sz-coupling} and results in Sec.~\ref{sec:results} below), but will of course affect the results.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[]{x_wn1}
\caption{(Color online) Susceptibility at the first Matsubara frequency in the two-particle self-consistent DMFT. Shown is a momentum cross-section at $q_y=0$ for different values of $U$ ($\beta=2$).
The vanishing of the susceptibility for $\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}\rightarrow 0$ with $X\sim |\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}|^2$ is a necessary condition for global conservation, see text.}
\label{fig:x_wn1}
\end{figure}
In the above, $X^{\text{DMFT},\alpha}$ denotes the susceptibility computed as in DMFT in the standard way~\cite{Georges96}, including vertex corrections.
This amounts to approximating the irreducible vertex function of the lattice with its local counterpart on the impurity, $\Gamma^{\alpha}_{kk'q}\equiv\gamma^{\alpha}_{\nu\nu'\omega}$, in the channels $\alpha=0,z$.
We compute the generalized susceptibility from the integral equation $X_{kk'q}^{\alpha}=G_{k}G_{k+q}\left[\beta\delta_{kk'}-\sum_{k''}\gamma_{\nu\nu''\omega}^{\alpha}X_{k''k'q}^\alpha\right]$. The susceptibilities are obtained from the latter by tracing out $k,k'$: $X^{\text{DMFT},\alpha}_q=2\sum_{kk'}X_{kk'q}^{\alpha}$.
We emphasize that the label 'DMFT' merely indicates that $X^{\text{DMFT},\alpha}$ is computed as in DMFT. Its value will differ from the DMFT susceptibility, because the impurity model is different.
The BFK model can be solved accurately using a suitably generalized continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo (CTQMC) algorithm. In weak-coupling CTQMC, the inclusion of these terms is straightforward~\cite{Rubtsov05}. In strong-coupling CTQMC the impurity model can be solved in the segment representation when only $\Lambda^{0}$ or $\Lambda^{z}$ are included~\cite{Werner07,Werner10,Hafermann13}. For the general case of a vector bosonic field (not considered in the numerical results of this section), the algorithm simultaneously performs a hybridization expansion and an interaction expansion with respect to the spin-off-diagonal interactions $\Lambda^{x,y}$~\cite{Otsuki13}.
Here we compute the correlation functions $g_\nu$ and $\chi^\alpha_\omega$, the self-energy $\Sigma_\nu$ and the irreducible vertex function $\gamma_{\nu\nu'\omega}^{\alpha}$ for $\alpha=0,z$ using a strong coupling quantum Monte Carlo solver~\cite{Hafermann13} with improved estimators adapted to treat the retarded interactions~\cite{Hafermann12,Hafermann14}.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.235\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{chi_asymptote_dmft}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.235\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{chi_asymptote_scdb}
\end{minipage}
\caption{\label{fig:dmft:asymptote} (Color online) High frequency behavior of $\chi$ (open triangles, bold lines) and $X_{\text{loc}}$ (filled triangles, dashed lines) in DMFT (left) and in the two-particle self-consistent DMFT (right).
The dashed black lines indicate the asymptotes $-2E_\text{kin}/\omega^2$ computed from~\eqref{eq:imp_asymptote}.
The charge (green) and spin (blue) susceptibility approach the same asymptote in both approximations.
}
\end{figure}
The calculation procedure is as follows: We start from initial values for the hybridization $\Delta_{\nu}$ and retarded interactions $\Lambda^{\alpha}_{\omega}$, which specify the BFK impurity model~\eqref{BFK}. After solving the model, we evaluate the lattice susceptibility~\eqref{eq:xdb}. The Green's function is computed from the impurity self-energy in the same way as in DMFT:
\begin{align}
G_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}\nu}^{-1} = i\nu+\mu-\epsilon_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}}-\Sigma_{\nu}^{\text{imp}}.
\end{align}
The local parts of $G_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{k}}\nu}$ and $X^{\alpha}_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}\omega}$ will in general be different from the impurity quantities $g_\nu$ and $\chi^{\alpha}_{\omega}$. We update the hybridization $\Delta_{\nu}$ and retarded interactions $\Lambda^{0}_{\omega}$, $\Lambda^{z}_{\omega}$ simultaneously and iteratively, until the conditions $G_{\text{loc},\nu}=g_\nu$ and $X^\alpha_{\text{loc},\omega}=\chi^\alpha_\omega$ for $\alpha=0,z$ are satisfied.
\subsection{Numerical results}
\label{sec:results}
Let us now turn to the discussion of numerical results of the two-particle self-consistent DMFT.
In the following we use parameters $U=6$, $T=0.5$ (in units of $t$), which is somewhat above the DMFT N\'eel temperature $T\approx 0.35$.
In Fig.~\ref{fig:ward} we illustrate numerically that contrary to Heisenberg-type coupling (cf. Fig.~\ref{fig:ward3d}) the local Ward identities~\eqref{eq:Wardimp} hold in the considered channels, $\alpha=0,z$.
As shown in Appendix~\ref{app:asymptotefromward}, this implies $X^{\text{DMFT},\alpha}_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}=0,\omega\neq 0}=0$. Inserting this into Eq.~\eqref{eq:xdb} it follows that $X^\alpha_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}=0,\omega\neq 0}=0$, which is a necessary condition for conservation of the total density, i.e., $\omega\rho_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}=0,\omega}=0$.
Thus, $X^0$ and $X^z$ are at least globally conserving.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{doped_sz_susc}
\caption{Top: Static susceptibilities of the Hubbard model~\eqref{hubbardmodel} at $U=6, \beta=2$
in DMFT (triangles) and in the 2P self-consistent approximation~\eqref{eq:xdb} (circles) as a function of the density $\langle n\rangle$.
Left: Lattice susceptibility $X^z_{\mathbf{Q},\omega=0}$ at $\mathbf{Q}=(\pi,\pi)$. Right: Local lattice ($X^z_{\text{loc}}$) and impurity ($\chi^z$) susceptibility.
In DMFT (open and filled triangles), the local susceptibility $X^z_{\text{loc}}$ (full triangles, dashed lines) is larger than the impurity susceptibility $\chi^z$ (open triangles, bold lines). They coincide in the 2P self-consistent approximation (open and filled circles). Bottom, left: Static component of the retarded spin-spin interaction $\Lambda^z_{\omega=0}$. Bottom, right: Effective Hubbard repulsion $\tilde{U}$.
}
\label{fig:doped:X:sz}
\end{figure}
Fig.~\ref{fig:x_wn1} illustrates that $X^0$ and $X^z$ indeed vanish in the limit $|\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}|\to 0$ for finite frequencies ($\omega_{m=1}$ in this case).
We note that due to the retarded spin interaction $\tilde{\Lambda}^z$ this approximation is not conserving in the $x$ and $y$ channels (cf. discussion in Sec.~\ref{section:conservation_scdb} and Appendix~\ref{app:Wardlocal}).
The right panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:dmft:asymptote} demonstrates the equivalence of the impurity and local lattice susceptibility in two-particle self-consistent DMFT.
In this approximation the charge and the longitudinal spin susceptibility approach the same asymptote.
This is required by the conservation laws and also satisfied in DMFT (see left panel, cf. Sec.~\ref{sec:DMFT} and~\ref{section:sz-coupling}).
In the top left panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:doped:X:sz} we compare the static spin susceptibility $X_{\mathbf{Q},\omega=0}$ at $\mathbf{Q}=(\pi,\pi)$ in DMFT,
two-particle self-consistent DMFT and the quantity $X_{\mathbf{Q},\omega=0}^{\text{DMFT}}$ in~\eqref{eq:xdb} at and near half-filling.
The increase of $X_{\mathbf{Q},\omega=0}^{\text{DMFT}}$ compared to its value in standard DMFT is consistent with an enhanced local interaction on the impurity model $\tilde{U}-U=\Lambda^0_\infty-\Lambda^z_\infty>0$ as seen in the bottom right panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:doped:X:sz}.
Concomitantly, we also find a larger leading eigenvalue of the Bethe-Salpeter equation in the two-particle self-consistent DMFT (not shown).
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{docc}
\caption{\label{fig:docc} (Color online) Double occupancy as a function of filling. The figure illustrates the inconsistency of $d_\text{imp}$ and $d^{\text{2P}}_\text{lat}$ in DMFT and of $d_\text{imp}$ and $d^{\text{1P}}_\text{lat}$ in 2PSC.
The impurity double occupancy computed from the susceptibilities~\eqref{eq:dimp2} and the Migdal-Galitskii formula~\eqref{eq:dimp1_bfk} yield the same result because we solve the impurity model exactly.}
\end{figure}
In the top right panel we see that the local susceptibility of the converged solution lies between the two values of DMFT.
The effect of the two-particle self-consistency is larger close to half-filling, where antiferromagnetic fluctuations are strongest.
Compared to DMFT, the increase of $\chi_{\omega=0}$ in the two-particle self-consistent method correlates with the large enhancement $U\rightarrow\tilde{U}$ of the on-site interaction in the impurity model.
Finally, we see in the top left panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:doped:X:sz} that $X^z_{\mathbf{Q},\omega=0}$ is significantly reduced compared to $X^{\text{DMFT}}$ due to $\Lambda$ which acts as a cutoff.
This reduction (marked by downward arrows) becomes larger with a larger absolute value of the cutoff $\Lambda_{\omega=0}$, as can be seen in the bottom left panel.
While the lattice susceptibility~\eqref{eq:xdb} can in principle be defined without the dynamical cutoff $\Lambda$, this solution gives results closer to benchmarks:
The double occupancy computed from the susceptibilities according to Eq.~\eqref{eq:dlat2} or~\eqref{eq:dimp2} gives a result that is closer to DCA benchmarks than either of the two values that are obtained in DMFT~\cite{vanLoon16}.
Despite two-particle self-consistency, the double occupancy is nevertheless inconsistent between one- and two-particle level, as discussed in Sec.~\ref{section:sz-coupling} and demonstrated in Fig.~\ref{fig:docc}.
We note that this approximation has several issues:
The dynamic part of the retarded interaction in the spin channel $\tilde{\Lambda}_\omega=\Lambda_\omega-\Lambda_\infty$ is positive.
This corresponds to negative energies of the bosons [cf.~\eqref{discretelambda}] and is unphysical. The impurity model can nevertheless be solved in the QMC solver in the segment picture.
Secondly, the asymptotic behavior of the self-energy is modified due to the retarded interactions~\cite{Hafermann14}. Since DMFT produces the correct asymptotic behavior~\cite{Rohringer16}, the high-frequency tail of the self-energy in this approximation is no longer exact.
Finally, even though the approximation suppresses a magnetic phase transition in two dimensions, the momentum-independent cutoff leads to an unphysical plateau of the susceptibility $X_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}},\omega=0}=\Lambda^{-1}_{\omega=0}$ for all momenta $\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}}$ in the vicinity of $\vc{Q}$ for which $X^{\text{DMFT}}_{\ensuremath{\mathbf{q}},\omega=0}$ diverges when approaching the DMFT N\'eel temperature.
\section{Discussion}
\label{sec:discussion}
We have discussed the conservation of charge and spin in two-particle self-consistent extensions of DMFT for the Hubbard model.
For large interaction, the Hubbard model approximately maps to the Heisenberg model and is hence dominated by spin fluctuations.
The motivation for including a retarded spin-spin interaction into the impurity model is to account for these fluctuations.
As we have seen however, introducing a retarded interaction in the longitudinal spin channel leads to a violation of conservation in the transversal spin channels of the lattice approximation.
Moreover, a retarded interaction in all three spin channels violates conservation on the lattice in all spin channels (cf. Table~\ref{table:conservation}).
We have argued that this is related to the fact that the Ward identities of the lattice and impurity are incompatible.
To make sense of this physically, we recall that an interaction only conserves the local charge- or spin-density if it commutes with the corresponding observable.
The retarded charge-charge interaction commutes with the charge density and therefore preserves charge on the impurity.
In other words, the bosons that mediate the retarded interaction do not carry a charge.
On the other hand, the transversal components of the retarded spin-spin interaction do \emph{not} commute with the longitudinal spin density operator.
Consequently, the spin bosons carry spin: Acting with the operator $S^{+}$ or $S^{-}$ on the impurity flips the spin of an electron by one quantum, which is carried by the boson. This leads to spin currents onto and off the impurity, which manifest themselves in the impurity Ward identities.
These currents have no analogue in the Hubbard model, where the motion of spin inevitably involves motion of charge. The latter is accounted for by the fermionic hybridization function.
In essence, the introduction of the retarded spin-spin interactions in order to achieve two-particle self-consistency causes a ``spin leak'' in the lattice approximation.
One may speculate that if the interaction of a lattice model conserves a local density, the local reference system should have the same property.
\begin{table}[t]
\begin{tabular}{ l | c || c | c || c | c | c}
& $\Lambda$ & $d^{\text{1P}}$ & $d^{\text{2P}}$ & charge & spin-$z$ & spin-$x,y$ \\\hline
DMFT & - & \tikz\fill[scale=0.4,color=red](0,.35) -- (.25,0) -- (1,.6) -- (.25,.15) -- cycle; & - & \tikz\fill[scale=0.4,color=red](0,.35) -- (.25,0) -- (1,.6) -- (.25,.15) -- cycle; & \tikz\fill[scale=0.4,color=red](0,.35) -- (.25,0) -- (1,.6) -- (.25,.15) -- cycle; & \tikz\fill[scale=0.4,color=red](0,.35) -- (.25,0) -- (1,.6) -- (.25,.15) -- cycle; \\\hline
Ising & $0,z$ & - & \tikz\fill[scale=0.4,color=red](0,.35) -- (.25,0) -- (1,.6) -- (.25,.15) -- cycle; & \tikz\fill[scale=0.4,color=red](0,.35) -- (.25,0) -- (1,.6) -- (.25,.15) -- cycle; & \tikz\fill[scale=0.4,color=red](0,.35) -- (.25,0) -- (1,.6) -- (.25,.15) -- cycle; & - \\\hline
Heisenberg & $0,x,y,z$ & - & \tikz\fill[scale=0.4,color=red](0,.35) -- (.25,0) -- (1,.6) -- (.25,.15) -- cycle; & \tikz\fill[scale=0.4,color=red](0,.35) -- (.25,0) -- (1,.6) -- (.25,.15) -- cycle; & - & - \\\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{\label{table:conservation} A summary of the main results for DMFT and 2PSC methods, respectively.
The second column indicates which retarded interactions $\Lambda^\alpha$ act on the impurity.
The third and fourth column show if the double occupancy $d$ is consistent between impurity and lattice on the 1P and 2P level, respectively [see Sec.~\ref{sec:DMFT} and~\ref{sec:2psc}].
The remaining columns list the channels in which local conservation is satisfied [see Eqs.~\eqref{eq:Ward}-\eqref{eq:Wardimp} for DMFT, and Sec.~\ref{section:3d-coupling} and~\ref{section:conservation_scdb} for 2PSC].
}
\end{table}
Even though the Hubbard model maps to a Heisenberg model for strong coupling, spin conservation is violated due to the exchange interaction on the impurity.
This is no contradiction because the Heisenberg model is an effective low-energy model.
The Ward identities however imply the equivalence of the charge- and spin susceptibilities and excitations at high energies for any finite value of $U$ [cf. Eq.~\eqref{eq:xloc_asymptote} in Sec.~\ref{sec:DMFT}]. Indeed, the effective exchange coupling $J=-4t^{2}/U$ involves two hopping processes and thus virtual high-energy charge excitations.
In the $t$-$J$ model, on the other hand, part of the spin currents is caused by the exchange interaction on the lattice. This part is decoupled from the charge current.
Contrary to the Hubbard model, a spin current on the impurity that is decoupled from the charge current a priori poses no problem and is even necessary.
However, there remains the problem of finding a two-particle self-consistency condition which satisfies the Ward identities of the $t$-$J$ model.
This brings us to a last point, namely a possible way out of this dilemma.
We recall that our conclusions about the conserving character of the considered approximations follow from the two-particle self-consistency condition $\chi^{\alpha}_{\omega} = X_{\text{loc},\omega}^{\alpha}$, which seems like a natural choice.
We can therefore not rule out the possibility that a different prescription exists, such that conservation is satisfied.
In view of the above arguments, this seems unlikely in case of the Hubbard model, but more promising for the $t$-$J$ model.
\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec:conclusions}
We have investigated the interplay between the requirement of conservation of an approximation and two-particle self-consistency.
Retarded interactions are required to enforce two-particle self-consistency, but their presence leads to problems. While the ambiguity in computing the DMFT double occupancy from two-particle quantities is resolved, the retarded interaction instead introduces an ambiguity in the calculation of the double occupancy from single-particle quantities.
More importantly, the Ward identities of the resulting impurity model are no longer compatible with the lattice Ward identities.
As a consequence, we found that it is impossible to construct a two-particle self-consistent approximation to the Hubbard model which simultaneously fulfills the lattice Ward identities in the charge and all spin channels.
A conserving two-particle self-consistent approximation can be obtained when restricting self-consistency to the charge and one of the spin channels.
We have used this to construct a two-particle self-consistent version of DMFT, which provably obeys global conservation laws and which resolves the ambiguity in the calculation of the double occupancy on the two-particle level.
While this approximation suppresses a magnetic phase transition in two dimensions and yields results for the double occupancy which are closer to benchmarks than either of the two DMFT values,
it however has several issues which make it impractical, in particular at low temperature.
Our results imply constraints for the construction of two-particle self-consistent diagrammatic extensions.
Finally, we have seen that DMFT arises naturally when constructing a conserving approximation based on the Anderson impurity model.
It may be possible to derive the cellular DMFT from the Ward identities, avoiding the cavity construction.
\acknowledgments
We thank the referees for constructive suggestions that have led to an improvement of this work.
F.K. likes to thank G. Rohringer and A. Toschi for a useful discussion on Ward identities.
F.K. and A.L. are supported by the DFG-SFB668 program. E.G.C.P.v.L. and M.I.K. acknowledge support from ERC Advanced Grant 338957 FEMTO/NANO.
The auxiliary impurity model was solved using a modified version of the open source CT-HYB solver~\cite{Hafermann13} based on the ALPS libraries~\cite{ALPS2}.
Computational resources were provided by the HLRN-cluster under Project No. hhp 00030.
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Lodrino è una frazione di 1.779 abitanti del comune svizzero di Riviera, nel Cantone Ticino (distretto di Riviera).
Geografia fisica
La frazione di Lodrino confina a sud con la città di Bellinzona e si trova a 7 km da Biasca, sulla sponda destra del fiume Ticino, nella valle Riviera, a un'altitudine di 269 m s.l.m. Il nucleo principale di Lodrino (260-290 m s.l.m.) e, a sud, la frazione di Prosito (255-270 m s.l.m.) si trovano sul fondovalle, mentre all'estremo nord del territorio c'è il piccolo insediamento di Rodaglio.
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Storia
Lodrino è citato per la prima volta in un documento scritto risalente all'anno 857 (Ludrini). . A quel tempo la gente viveva esclusivamente di agricoltura e pastorizia, mentre nel corso del XVIII e del XIX secolo fu importante lo sviluppo dell'industria del vetro e, successivamente, del granito. Lodrino iniziò poi a svilupparsi in modo importante , con lo sviluppo edilizio e un forte incremento demografico.
Già comune autonomo che si estendeva per 31,6 km² e del quale facevano parte anche le frazioni di Prosito e Rodaglio, il 2 aprile 2017 è stato accorpato agli altri comuni soppressi di Cresciano, Iragna e Osogna per formare il comune di Riviera.
Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse
Architetture religiose
Chiesa parrocchiale di Sant'Ambrogio, attestata dal 1375 ma eretta su una preesistente costruzione dell'XI-XII secolo;
Chiesa di San Martino di Tours, già chiesa parrocchiale dei Santi Placido e Sigisberto, in località Monte Paglio, attestata dal 1215 e ricostruita nel 1375
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Architetture civili
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: tipiche costruzioni ticinesi in sasso che venivano utilizzate come depositi di alimentari (salumi, formaggi, vini);
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Capanna Alpe d'Alva, nella valle di Lodrino, posta a 1 570 m s.l.m..
Architetture militari
Linea LONA, sbarramento difensivo tra Lodrino e Osogna costruito nel 1939;
Aerodromo militare aperto nel 1943, ; è anche un eliporto civile.
Società
Evoluzione demografica
e 534 nel 1850. . L'evoluzione demografica è riportata nella seguente tabella:
Etnie e minoranze straniere
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Cultura
Istruzione
A Lodrino sono presenti tutte le scuole dell'obbligo. Ci sono infatti la scuola dell'infanzia, la scuola elementare e la scuola media, che accoglie anche gli allievi dei quartieri della Città di Bellinzona: Gnosca, Moleno, Preonzo e delle altre frazioni di Riviera: Cresciano, Osogna e Iragna.
Economia
L'industria del vetro prese avvio nel 1782, e la vetreria chiuse definitivamente nel 1869.
Lodrino è noto per le sue numerose cave e la qualità del granito (gneiss), la cui estrazione dalla montagna prese avvio alla fine del XIX secolo, in corrispondenza dell'apertura della ferrovia del Gottardo; . L'estrazione di granito è attiva ancora oggi (numerose sono le cave in attività), seppur con un numero di operai molto minore. .
L'aerodromo di Lodrino è la sede della RUAG Aviation del gruppo tecnologico svizzero RUAG e della Heli-TV SA.
Infrastrutture e trasporti
Lodrino è raggiungibile tramite le strade cantonali che collegano Biasca e Bellinzona. L'uscita autostradale più vicina è quella di Biasca (autostrada A2/E35). Il comune non è servito direttamente dalla ferrovia, ma il trasporto pubblico è garantito da una linea di autobus. In campagna, a sud dell'abitato, ci sono un piccolo aeroporto militare ed un eliporto civile.
Amministrazione
Ogni famiglia originaria del luogo fa parte del cosiddetto comune patriziale e ha la responsabilità della manutenzione di ogni bene ricadente all'interno dei confini della frazione.
Gemellaggi
Sport
Ogni anno si svolge la corsa in montagna Lodrino-Lavertezzo con partenza a Lodrino (260 m s.l.m.) e arrivo a Lavertezzo (540 m s.l.m.), percorrendo la valle di Lodrino e la val Pincascia per un totale di 21 km raggiungendo i 2 220 m s.l.m. della Forcarella di Lodrino.
Lodrino è dotato di infrastrutture sportive per calcio, tennis, basket, tiro con l'arco, oltre alle palestre scolastiche, vi hanno sede squadre dilettantistiche di calcio, hockey su ghiaccio, ginnastica, tiro con l'arco, tennis e unihockey.
Note
Bibliografia
Johann Rudolf Rahn, I monumenti artistici del medio evo nel Cantone Ticino, Tipo-Litografia di Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona 1894, 172-173.
Virgilio Gilardoni, Il Romanico. Catalogo dei monumenti nella Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino, La Vesconta, Casagrande S.A., Bellinzona 1967, 37, 40, 43, 123, 254, 374, 383-386, 571.
Agostino Robertini et alii, Lodrino, in Il Comune, Edizioni Giornale del popolo, Lugano 1978, 211-224; Idem et alii, Prosito, in Il Comune, Edizioni Giornale del popolo, Lugano 1978, 315-326.
Bernhhard Anderes, Guida d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana, Edizioni Trelingue, Porza-Lugano 1980, 7, 49-51.
Flavio Maggi, Patriziati e patrizi ticinesi, Pramo Edizioni, Viganello 1997.
Luciano Vaccaro, Giuseppe Chiesi, Fabrizio Panzera, Terre del Ticino. Diocesi di Lugano, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 2003, 30.
AA.VV., Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, 66, 76, 77, 78.
Marina Bernasconi Reusser, Monumenti storici e documenti d'archivio. I «Materiali e Documenti Ticinesi» (MDT) quali fonti per la storia e le ricerche sull'architettura e l'arte medievale delle Tre Valli, in Archivio Storico Ticinese, seconda serie, 148, Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010, 207, 210, 212, 223, 230.
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Collegamenti esterni
Frazioni di Riviera
Comuni del Canton Ticino soppressi
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Aimed at visitors and residents alike, this companion to the history of Chester is an indispensable reference guide to the long, varied and sometimes surprising story of the town. Essential information on the people, places and events that played key roles in the story is presented in a convenient A to Z format. Famous and notorious individuals are portrayed here, dramatic, sometimes tragic events are remembered, and familiar local myths and legends are explored. The volume is a source of fascinating insights into Chester's past and should provide answers to frequently asked historical questions - the whos, wheres and whys that make up the rich history of the town.
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Planted Design Wins Two Prestigious International Plantscape Design Awards!
We are pleased to announce that Planted Design has earned two international platinum-level awards in the "Design" and "Silk, Replica & Preserved" categories. We had a wonderful time participating at the AmericanHort Cultivate Conference in July!
Emeryville, CA– Planted Design (www.planteddesign.com), an industry leader in designing Living Walls and Moss Walls, recently earned two acclaimed International Platinum-level Plantscape Awards in the category of "Design" and "Silk, Replica & Preserved" at the AmericanHort Cultivate Conference, the largest all-industry horticulture event in North America. Winners were selected based on the quality, design and innovative strength of each project. Acquiring 90 percent or more of the total number of points possible earned the recognition of Platinum Level for both of these awards, which were selected by a panel of three industry-leading judges.
The first award, in the category of "Design," is for Planted Design's Exterior Living Wall installation in San Francisco's Mission District. The 1,200 square foot wall was designed using 3,200 plants, many of which were bay-native and drought tolerant with bloom cycles throughout the year.
The second award, in the category of "Silk, Replica & Preserved" is for Planted Designs staged moss backdrop for a speaker series at the Visa Everywhere Lounge at Superbowl 50 in San Francisco. This Moss Wall spanned 24' x 10', and was branded 'Everywhere Lounge' with a variety of different colored mosses making up the lettering.
"It is a great honor to be recognized amongst such an amazing industry. I hope our designs can continue to brighten and transform buildings in city environments, and help bring the beauty and healing power of nature and plants into more home and office environments throughout the country," said Amanda Goldberg, Founder of Planted Design.
Planted Design is a full service firm focused on creating beautiful, functional and sustainable designs using plants and mosses. We connect nature in unexpected places, and in unexpected ways. Whether you are a business, designer, homeowner or planning a special event, we can help your next project 'come alive.' We offer permanent installations as well as rentals, and utilize a large assortment of live plants or preserved plants, depending on the intended use, available lighting and client desires. We also create customized shapes, logos and lettering to help our clients showcase their brand in unique and beautiful ways.
Whether you choose a small or large, indoor or outdoor planting, we help you select the site, the plant palette and the framing to create a living architecture that incorporates sustainable design.
AmericanHort was formed in 2014 by the consolidation of the American Nursery & Landscape Association and OFA – The Association of Horticulture Professionals. With a combined history of 220+ years, AmericanHort supports nearly 16,000 member and affiliated businesses that include breeders, greenhouse and nursery growers, garden retailers, distributors, interior and exterior landscape professionals, florists, students, educators, researchers, manufacturers, and all of those who are part of the industry market chain. The horticulture industry's production, wholesale, retail, and landscape service components have annual sales of $163 billion, and sustain over 1.15 million full- and part-time jobs. Our mission is to unite, promote, and advance the horticulture industry through advocacy, collaboration, connectivity, education, market development, and research. The association has offices in Columbus, Ohio for administration and member services, and in Washington, DC to facilitate government relations and research activities. |
The end of the Double tax Treaty between Cyprus and Russia as we know it
When addressing his nation regarding the Covid19 pandemic, Vladimir Putin made an unexpected announcement regarding Russian Double Tax Treaties: all dividends which are withdrawn to foreign accounts will suffer a 15% withholding tax. This is opposed to the current 5% rate applicable when the recipient of the dividends invests at least EUR 100,000 in the capital of the payer company; otherwise, the rate is 10%.
The Russian Ministry of Finance remarked that the dividend tax will be in force in 2021 and that the changes will affect only the alleged transit jurisdictions with lowered tax rates. Russia is planning to put into effect the above amendment to double tax treaties with all its treaty partners to reflect this unilateral decision but such amendment seems to be more of a procedural matter without leaving much room for negotiation.
According to the Russian embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus had been selected as the first country for objective reasons. "Thirty-four per cent of the cumulative direct foreign investment in the Russian economy comes from Cyprus," the embassy told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA).
For Cyprus – which has taken immediate measures to support the economy due to the pandemic – this comes as an additional hit to its financial sector which has been for supported by Russian entrepreneurs for many years now, and hopes for a renegotiation with Russia which would allow more time for its service industry to adjust to the new circumstances.
Our tax team in Cyprus will continue to monitor this developing story and provide timely updates and advice. For any questions on how this impacts your business please contact us at [email protected]
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AT THE CLOSE OF EVERYDAY
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One cannot disavow Minco Eggersman's ambition. Next to running the VOLKOREN label on a daily basis as well as the Tongval beer-label every now and then, the singer/drummer of the dutch melancholics 'at the close of every day' is a very productive producer and soundtrack composer. Born in 1977, Minco is based in Amsterdam and whenever he is not working in his own studio he travels to different studios to record music.
Apart from his activities in various bands, Eggersman's first solo album saw the light of day under the meaningful alias of ME at the start of this millennium. The songs on his debut 'The Wagon Fair' (recorded at the Mailmen Studio with Martijn Groeneveld), and his first soundtrack album 'ooit' (which, as all his soundtracks, was released under his full name Minco Eggersman), are akin to the work of 'at the close of every day' (winner of first 3voor12 award in the Netherlands), but sound even more intimate and less polished, raising the question whether pop music can be stripped down any further.
Minco's second solo album is called 'HAMDEN' – a remarkably intimate album with a crystal clear sound, on which ME's hallmark style is joined by a hint of new wave that would later be explored much further in the highly acclaimed third solo album 'RESERVOIRS', which are both recorded by Jan Borger.
Over the last couple of years soundtracks have been his main focus. Minco has created several soundtracks to different (international) documentaries, films and series. The most fertile collaboration has grown with director Jaap van Heusden as after 'ooit', also Eggersman's fourth solo album 'WIN/WIN' was a soundtrack to a film by Jaap van Heusden. And a typical one at that: the 28 tracks (eight of which do not feature in the film) immediately take the listener into the often nocturnal and spheric scenes of the film. 'WIN/WIN' also features music by Wovenhand, with whom Eggersman collaborated before. 'WIN/WIN' has won various international prizes, and was shown in many cinemas worldwide, as well as featuring at film festivals in New York, Vancouver, Warsaw, in Korea, Germany and Italy and at the 30th Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
On the next two films (combined on one album) Drone (feat. 'Blaudzun') and De Nieuwe Wereld ('the new world') Eggersman created some dark, stripped-down guitar sounds resting on a heavy bed of minimal, abrasive and layered drones. What stands out is the emphasis on bows and strings, such as the Chinese 'guzheng', but also the Thai 'kim', which was flown in especially for this film. These special sounds are typical of Eggersman's later work and will probably resonate for a little longer. For De Nieuwe Wereld Minco even had a number of instruments custom built that perfectly add to and enrich the musical jargon he has developed. An example of this is the 'Baskalimba' – consisting of six different rulers fit on the resonance box of an old western guitar. Nothing is sacred and the beaten paths are easily left – as long as it serves the 'story', be it in a film or in a song. The premiere of De Nieuwe Wereld was at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, the film has won a Signis award at the Film Festival DC in Washington in the USA and Bianca Krijgsman even won an Emmy award for her main role in this film. Also this film has been playing at different filmfestivals around the world.
In general Eggersman's work, as well as that of his various previous bands 'Hill Made Low', 'Rollercoaster 23' and 'the spirit that guides us', has been released worldwide, from several albums through different record labels released all over Europe, Japan and the USA till the placement of several tracks in documentaries (o.a. R.A.M, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Zembla, Metterdaad, Kunstuur, Opium, De Arabische Storm) and several programmes on tv (Netwerk, Memories, De Tijd Van Je Leven, Ik Vertrek, De Wereld Draait Door, Doe Even Normaal) and commercials (Nespresso). Over the years he has produced over 50 albums of various artists (such as Ponoka, this beautiful mess, Anderson, Meadowlake, A Red Season Shade, Charles Frail, Silmus, Charles Henri Maulini) from different countries. His works (publishing) have been or are presented by One Little Indian as well as Bandcamp (runned by Music Alternatives' Scott Cresto – who has also published works of artists such as 'Radiohead', 'Black Rebel Motorcycle Club' and Daniel Lanois), AMP and DE VOLKOREN UITGEVERIJ. Also, Eggersman joined Depeche Mode, Deep Purple, Bon Iver and many others, to write the introduction to the biography of one of Minco's favorite bands 'Talk Talk', entitled 'The Spirit of Talk Talk'. His song 'God's country' (taken from RESERVOIRS) was selected for 'The Prefab Sprout Project' – an American 'ode to'-project by various artists.
Over the years Minco has signed several endorsement deals. For instance early 2001 – after a concert at the Belgian Pukkelpop Festival -, Converse All Star released a special limited 'the spirit that guides us' version of their ever popular 'all star' – shoe. A couple of years later Eggersman signed a more personal deal with Amedia Cymbals and got his own 'signature' – drumstick from Balbex sticks.
During a roadtrip in 2014 through the US and Canada Eggersman wrote the lyrics and melodies for his own projects as well as for his cooperation with 'Stafron Hakon' from Iceland. Eggersman has co-written and sung on two of 'Stafron Hakon's previous albums before. On his return he recorded the album darkness travels light with his band at the close of every day, an album that was released as a special beer (as well as on CD/LP) including download on his own beerlabel 'Tongval'. darkness travels light was received very well and some call it the best work of at the close of every day as of yet. Later Eggersmans' created the orchestral soundtrack for the very dramatic dutch tv-film 'De Verloren Zoon' (by the book of Flannery O'Connor) by Jaap van Heusden feat. strings by Jonas Pap, David Ahlen and Hanna Ekstrom.
In 2016 Minco mainly devoted this energies to creating soundtracks for films and documentaries. In the fall of that year he worked on 'Onze missie in Afghanistan' a 'VARA' documentary by Sinan Can and Thomas Blom for the Dutch TV. The rest of the year he worked on In Blue, the new film by Jaap van Heusden for IJswater films that will be released in the second part of 2017. Shortly after finishing the soundtrack to 'De Verloren Zoon' in 2014 Minco left for on what turned out to be a very inspirational trip to the Caucasus (Georgia). Since that trip (whenever he found a moment in between other soundtracks) and together with the helps of befriended musicians like Svante Henryson, Audun Erlien, Jonas Nyström, René de Vries, Paul van der Feen, Jan Borger, Oene van Geel and the Iberi Choir from Georgia Minco has been working on his fourth and most ambitious solo album as of yet, a soundtrack to Georgia called 'KAVKASIA' (april 2017).
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It's not often these days that Treasurer Scott Morrison has a good word for Australia's big banks.
But when they do something good for their customers he is willing to give them at least some credit.
Commonwealth Bank announced on Sunday it was scrapping it $2 fee on customers of other banks when making withdrawals using their ATMs.
ANZ was quick to follow suit, and Westpac is reportedly doing the same.
Mr Morrison said he was pleased to see the ice broken on the issue of ATM fees.
He said the government is putting pressure on the banks to put their customers first.
"So when banks respond in this way, I am happy to give them a pat back when they do the right thing," he said.
Labor's financial services spokeswoman Katy Gallagher said these fees have been unfairly chipping away at people's savings little by little for years.
"Today's decision has shown that the game is finally up," she said in a statement.
"There is no doubting that Labor's calls for a Royal Commission has led to this decision."
Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson agreed, saying there is no way CBA would have made this move without the public pressure on them over their multiple scandals.
He said a royal commission or a parliamentary commission of inquiry will put more pressure on the banks to lift their game.
"Australians have had enough of these rip-offs and now it seems some of the banks are realising it," the senator said in a statement.
US President Donald Trump says North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and leader Kim Jong Un "won't be around much longer" if Ri echoed the thoughts of "Little Rocket Man" – a reference to Kim.
Ri told the United Nations General Assembly earlier on Saturday that targeting the US mainland with its rockets was inevitable after "Mr Evil President" Trump called Pyongyang's leader "rocket man".
"Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at UN If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!" Trump tweeted.
Trump and Kim have traded increasingly threatening and personal insults as Pyongyang races towards its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the US – something Trump has vowed to prevent.
In an unprecedented direct statement on Friday, Kim described Trump as a "mentally deranged US dotard" whom he would tame with fire. His comments came after Trump threatened in his maiden UN address on Thursday to "totally destroy" the country of 26 million people.
It was not clear from Trump's latest tweet if he was referring to Ri and Kim, or North Korea more broadly.
North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb test on September 3, prompting another round of UN sanctions. Pyongyang said on Friday it might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean.
"It is only a forlorn hope to consider any chance that the DPRK (North Korea) would be shaken an inch or change its stance due to the harsher sanctions by the hostile forces," Ri told the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
US Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers escorted by fighters flew in international airspace over waters east of North Korea on Saturday in a show of force the Pentagon said indicated the range of military options available to Trump.
The leaders of New Zealand's two main parties will have to court NZ First's Winston Peters to help form government after Saturday's election failed to deliver a clear majority win.
The incumbent National party has 58 seats after Saturday's general election but is short of the 61 needed for a majority in parliament. Labour has 45, the Greens seven and NZ First nine.
The numbers may change when special votes are counted, but NZ First is the kingmaker.
National Party leader Bill English expects a call from Mr Peters in the next few days when they'll talk about the process of negotiating to form a government.
"We want to get on with the job of forming a government but we will work with New Zealand First essentially at the pace that they're willing to go," Mr English said on Sunday.
A National/NZ First government would have 67, while a Labour/Greens/NZ First coalition would have 61.
Mr English said senior National ministers met on Sunday morning "to discuss the results and our approach to the negotiations".
He said a two-party coalition would be more stable.
"Our position is almost one-in-two New Zealanders supported National," he said.
"The voters have given us the task of forming a government with NZ First and that is what we will proceed to do."
The option of a National/Greens coalition has always been seen as unlikely, and on Sunday Mr English said National would need to see some indication of interest from the Greens in constructive discussion.
"There hasn't been any indication so far," he said.
Mr English confirmed National's previous coalition partner, ACT, would not be part of a National government with NZ First.
Leader David Seymour understood how the numbers worked, he said.
Labour has not conceded and itself is looking to form a government.
On Sunday leader Jacinda Ardern said a majority of people had voted against the status quo.
"What New Zealanders want us to focus on is forming a credible, stable government."
She's including NZ First when she talks about a majority voting against the status quo, although Mr Peters didn't give any indication before the election which party he would support after it.
He still hasn't.
After a night to sleep on it, Mr Peters wasn't giving anything away.
He said he would not be making a decision without consulting the party board and his MP colleagues.
Ms Ardern will be talking to the Greens, Labour's natural partner, and Mr Peters to try to forge a three-way coalition.
Coalition negotiations with Mr Peters aren't expected to be determined until at least October 7 when the final results, including special votes, are in.
Mr Peters has set October 12 as his deadline for a decision.
Yet authorities were still listening to anguished families who insisted that painstaking rescue operations continue at a handful of sites.
Foreign teams from Japan, the US and elsewhere were working with dogs and hi-tech gear to try to detect signs of life under the rubble.
In the first three days, 69 people were pulled out alive. But since Friday only bodies have been recovered.
A series of smaller earthquakes in the south of Mexico on Saturday — including a 6.1-magnitude one that triggered seismic alerts in the capital — stoked panic in a population traumatized by Tuesday's disaster.
Authorities said two people died in the southern state of Oaxaca, where tectonic upheaval was centered. A bridge buckled and collapsed, as did several other previously damaged structures.
In Mexico City, two women, one aged in her 80s, the other 52, died of heart attacks as they tried to evacuate their homes.
Others prayed the rocking earth wasn't going to swell into a new catastrophe.
"Oh God, have mercy," exclaimed one resident, Teresa Martinez, 74, who stood in the street with other women, all crying.
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Prey to quakes
The tremors – possibly aftershocks from a massive 8.2-magnitude quake that hit southern Mexico two weeks ago – forced rescue workers in the capital to pause their efforts for a couple of hours.
They also underlined the historic vulnerability of the country to quakes, siting as it does on several tectonic plates.
No citizen has forgotten a 1985 earthquake that killed 10,000 people in Mexico City.
But some of the families hoping against hope to see trapped loved ones again also clung to memories of "miracle" rescues in 1985 that happened a week after that quake.
Experts say that, usually, there is little to no chance of finding quake survivors after three days have passed.
Yet Mexico City's mayor, Miguel Angel Mancera, told Televisa television that around "30 people may yet be able to be found in this search and rescue operation."
Paola Solorio, a 35-year-old who had three relatives trapped at one flattened building, said: "We've been told they have detected areas with life. They've sent in dogs and the dogs have indicated life."
Nevertheless, the smell of decaying bodies wafting out from collapsed buildings presaged grief for some relatives.
Rescue workers wore face masks to shield themselves from the odor.
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But some of the foreign crews sent to Mexico on hasty rescue mission refused to call it quits.
"We're here to save lives. You have to have faith and believe (the people inside) are in a place with access to air and managed to survive," said Karin Kvitca, a 29-year-old with an Israeli rescue crew.
So far the foreign specialists have found only bodies. At one point, Japanese rescuers were seen removing their helmets and bowing before a recovered corpse.
The latest death toll stands at 307, of which more than half — 169 fatalities — were in Mexico City.
One of the most poignant scenes in the city was white wreaths laid at what used to be a school in the south of the capital where 19 children and six adults died. An eight-year-old boy recovered alive was in an induced coma in hospital.
The rest of the deaths occurred in the states of Morelos, Puebla, Mexico, Guerrero and Oaxaca.
Families were starting to hold funerals. One of the first was that of Gabriel Morales and Agueda Mendoza, a married couple found locked in embrace under the rubble, along with their dog Quino.
Former AFL match review panel member Brad Sewell predicts Trent Cotchin will be cleared to play in the grand final.
Much of the focus at the start of grand final week surrounds what will happen on Monday, when the MRP hands down its findings from the preliminary finals.
The Richmond captain is in strife for a heavy collision with GWS opponent Dylan Shiel in the first quarter of Saturday's MCG clash.
Adelaide vice-captain Rory Sloane will also be under scrutiny for the heavy hit that floored Geelong star Patrick Dangerfield, a key moment on Friday night at Adelaide Oval.
Richmond utility Brandon Ellis is a third player sweating on the MRP deliberations, after his high bump on Lachie Whitfield.
But Cotchin and Sloane are the big incidents.
Sewell, the retired Hawthorn premiership player, served on the panel two seasons ago.
"Whether we like or not, there is an unspoken bias for finals – you want to see the very best players out there, playing every week," Sewell told Channel Seven's Game Day.
"But when it's finals and grand finals … he (Cotchin) has to be fine."
The other big factor is it cannot be a fine – in other words, Cotchin either is cleared or he faces suspension.
He was fined twice earlier this season for jumper punches and under the tribunal system, a third fine would mean an automatic one-game ban.
GWS player Toby Greene had priors when the MRP ruled against him last month for an incident where his raised foot left Western Bulldogs opponent Luke Dahlhaus with a bloodied mouth.
But that was ruled as misconduct – a separate category to his previous offences.
In Cotchin's case, the charge would be rough conduct and that would be in the same bracket as his two striking offences.
Matthew expects the MRP will clear Cotchin and Sloane, but said the Adelaide star might have more reason to worry because he appears to lift an arm before the collision with Dangerfield to protect himself.
"I'm for making the game safer. You can't bump high and that wasn't a bump, that was more a collision for me," Matthews told Channel Seven.
"But you have to be able to attack the footy with as much force and ferocity that you can summon.
"I just reckon it would be really bad for the game if there was a problem with that incident, because that was what he was doing.
"I think nothing should happen (with Sloane), but this is a little more debatable."
Cotchin starred in their six-goal win over GWS, continuing his great finals series.
Sloane returned from having his appendix removed on Friday night, as Adelaide mauled Geelong by 61 points.
The game attracted a record Adelaide Oval crowd and at the final siren, the top of the western grandstand shook with the noise.
It is Richmond's first grand final in 35 years, while the Crows have waited 19 years since their 1997-98 premiership double.
The Tigers will start underdogs as they try to break their 37-year premiership drought.
LNP and Qld govt's buy local policy battle
The upcoming Queensland election is likely to be a battle over jobs, with the opposition launching a buy local procurement policy just weeks after the government rolled out its own.
Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls denied it was a copycat move and said the LNP's proposal was vastly different to that introduced by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on September 1.
"It's a real policy that will deliver real benefits," he said at the announcement on Sunday.
"Labor's policy puts at risk Queensland jobs."
But government minister and spokesman Mick de Brenni said Mr Nicholls' policy was a joke and would force local businesses into a "race to the bottom" for the lowest price.
"It's the same old, tired approach to procurement that Tim Nicholls and Campbell Newman had when they were last in government," he said on Sunday.
"Our buy Queensland policy delivers a preference for Queensland businesses."
If elected at the next state election, the LNP will give local businesses with 200 staff or less, the opportunity to match the price for government projects valued at under $100 million.
The companies will be required to have their headquarters in Queensland in order to be considered.
Mr Nicholls said local businesses would still have to adhere to the "same quality and service standards" but the price match would enable them to get a look-in for jobs they might otherwise not be able to compete for.
The LNP leader said its policy would generate jobs but also wouldn't start a "phoney trade war with New Zealand" like the government's had.
Mr Nicholls said he would work with the federal government to ensure local businesses had an opportunity to bid on projects valued at more than $100m, while not damaging free trade agreements with other countries.
Ms Palaszczuk announced the government's buy Queensland procurement policy in August ahead of its implementation on September 1.
Local businesses located within a 125km radius of a project now receive a weighting of up to 30 per cent.
Ms Palaszczuk said at the time of the announcement the Australian-first initiative was "unashamedly a 'Buy Queensland' one".
"Wherever possible, one regional and one Queensland supplier will be invited to quote or tender for every procurement opportunity offered," she said.
"Preference must be given to local subbies and manufacturers on significant infrastructure projects of $100 million or more."
Mr Nicholls also vowed to cut red tape by 20 per cent, but Mr de Brenni said such a move would remove protections for local business owners.
Deadly aftershock, volcanic ash spread alarm in Mexico
A strong new earthquake has shaken Mexico, toppling already damaged homes and a highway bridge and causing new alarm in a country reeling from two even more powerful quakes this month that together have killed nearly 400 people.
The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City sent a column of ash into the sky, capping an intense period of seismic activity including two powerful tremors this month that have killed more than 400 people and caused damage of up to $8 billion.
Mexico's capital was shattered by Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 quake that flattened dozens of buildings and killed at least 307 people. The government's response to the disaster is under close scrutiny ahead of a presidential election next year.
Although the latest quake was not as destructive, fear is running high among the population. Terrified residents ran into the streets, where they crouched and prayed as earthquake sirens went off. Two women died of heart attacks as the ground shook, the city government said.
The US Geological Survey said the new, magnitude 6.1 temblor was centred about in the state of Oaxaca, which was the region most battered by a magnitude 8.1 quake on September 7.
US Geological Survey geophysicist Paul Caruso said the new temblor was an aftershock of the 8.1 quake, and after a jolt of that size even buildings left standing can be more vulnerable.
Buildings swayed in Mexico City, where nerves are still raw from Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 temblor that has killed at least 305 across the region. Many residents and visitors fled homes, hotels and businesses, some in tears.
At the Xoco General Hospital, which is treating the largest number of quake victims, workers ordered visitors to evacuate when seismic alarms began to blare.
As rescue operations stretched into day five, residents throughout the capital have held out hope that dozens still missing might be found alive.
More than half the dead – 167 – perished in the capital, while another 73 died in the state of Morelos, 45 in Puebla, 13 in Mexico State, six in Guerrero and one in Oaxaca.
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Banks bow to pressure on ATM fees
Australia's four biggest banks have bowed to years of consumer pressure and abolished the ATM withdrawal fees for customers of other banks.
The Commonwealth was the first strike, making an announcement early on Sunday that it would axe the $2 fee that applied to any user who was not using a CommBank key card.
Westpac, the ANZ and National Australian Bank followed suit later in the day.
All four banks cited the unpopularity of the fee with consumers, who were forking out $500 million a year for withdrawing their own cash .
"As Australia's largest bank, with one of the largest branch and ATM networks, we think this change will benefit many Australians and hopefully demonstrate our willingness to listen and act on customer feedback," CommBank Group Executive, Retail Banking Services, Matt Comyn said.
Westpac Group Executive, Consumer, George Frazis, said in a statement that it understood "the 'foreign ATM' fee has been deeply unpopular with consumers."
NAB Chief Customer Officer of Consumer Banking and Wealth, Andrew Hagger, said the decision was about making banking fairer.
"We know it has been frustrating for them to be charged to withdraw their own money from an ATM, and the change we are announcing today will benefit millions of Australians."
Australia's fifth largest bank, Macquarie, said it did not charge ATM fees and would refund the $2 fee if their customer was slugged by another bank.
The fee abolition will not apply to cards from overseas banks.
The Australian Bankers Association said Sunday's announcements were another example of how banks were working to improve their services.
"This is the latest in a suite of initiatives by banks to create better products and services for customers and boost customer choice, including reducing interest rates on credit cards and offering fee-free transaction accounts," CEO Anna Bligh said in a statement.
"A competitive banking system is good for customers and good for the sector."
But the changes, while welcomed by federal politicians, did not stop calls for a banking royal commission.
"Imagine how we could get better banking for all Australians if we had a banking royal commission," Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said.
Blight hopes for Crows AFL flag bridge
AFL legend Malcolm Blight would love to build a premiership bridge with Adelaide coach Don Pyke.
It is two decades – more than two generations in the AFL life cycle – since Blight coached the Crows to their only two premierships in 1997-98.
And Blight says it's high time someone joined him.
Blight compares it to playing in North Melbourne's first premiership teams – 1975 and '77 – and then two decades later watching Denis Pagan and Wayne Carey leading the Kangaroos to another double dose of glory.
"Football history to me is important … it's terrific when you see them around the traps, you build bridges and every club should require that," he told AAP.
Blight noted that when he first came to Melbourne, it quickly became clear how Carlton's generations of premiership players kept tight.
"They had this fantastic 'bridge' network, where you'd just run across them and they'd all be involved in successful times," he said.
"The more the merrier, I think.
"It would be great to build that bridge with this group of players, the staff and all that."
Blight said Neil Craig was stiff that he did not coach the Crows to at least one flat in the middle of last decade.
"I'd like to sit down, look at every finals game, and show you where some luck came into it," he said.
"We always say you make your own luck and that's true – I reckon in 95 per cent you do – but there are some strange things that happen in our game.
"And it's not always the bounce of the ball.
"Neil was a bit stiff with that.
"Some days are diamonds."
Blight will be at the MCG next Saturday and is looking forward to a rivetting game.
And he predicts a third Adelaide premiership, just.
"I don't know, I just have this feeling that the Crows might bat down a bit further," he said.
"Richmond are certainly up and about and they have those great midfielders.
"The stars have to star, the rest have to pick up the slack.
"It's a pretty exciting game and so it should be."
Pressure mounts on Green to play Scott
Pressure is mounting on North Queensland coach Paul Green to make one of the toughest calls of his coaching career and bring Matt Scott back for Sunday's NRL grand final.
Scott won't have played for 205 days come kick off against Melbourne on Sunday, but Cowboys players have spoken of his desire to return from a season-long knee injury before Saturday's preliminary final win over the Sydney Roosters.
Scott was a late omission in the No.21 jersey, but fellow injured co-captain Johnathan Thurston declared he thought he'd be "fit to play" the Storm on Sunday night.
Senior Cowboys Jason Taumalolo and Michael Morgan have also voiced their support on the impact he would have on the team if he returned.
"It'd be a huge confidence boost, but at the same time someone gets to miss out," Taumalolo said.
"Everyone that's been playing has been great, but I think it's inspirational to see our co-captain make himself available.
"At the moment it's a tough decision. I'll leave that to Greeny."
Green dodged questions on Scott's selection on Saturday night, but confirmed on the return to Townsville on Sunday the prop would again be named in his 21-man squad on Tuesday.
Only second-rower Ethan Lowe (black eye) picked up an injury in Saturday night's win, but Coen Hess (knee), John Asiata (broken hand) and Shaun Fensom (knee) are all playing through pain.
Scott has played 16 finals matches since he debuted for the Cowboys in 2004, and has led their forward pack since he became a Queensland State of Origin regular in 2009.
If he was to come into the side, it would most likely be in place of interchange forward Corey Jensen, who debuted for the Cowboys in round seven this year and has averaged 23 minutes off the bench.
It's expected Scott would come off the bench and play two stints totalling 30 minutes – as was the plan if he had turned out against the Roosters.
On his departure from Sydney on Sunday morning, five-eighth Morgan told Fox Sports News even that time would be valuable.
"A guy like Matt Scott, to have him in the team in a game like this as well, it would be huge … just his influence across the team," Morgan said.
"He obviously wouldn't need to play too many minutes, it would be about his presence and what he could bring for the side – his leadership qualities and just his experience can't be underrated.
"I certainly trust the guys who are there. They've certainly shown that in the last few weeks and through the season that they're more than capable of doing the job for us and doing the job well." |
Q: Apache - child process exited with status 255 I am running Windows 7 64-bit with an older version of (Apache 2.0.59) and PHP 5.2 - just switched from XP and wanted to keep the same versions.
Everything will initially be working fine, but then I'll be trying to load a page and Apache crashes. I'll get an error in the browser that says "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." Then Apache stops running. Sometimes it can be restarted, but then crashes again on the next page load. Sometimes it can't even be restarted at all.
Looking in the Apache error logs, I see a series of messages that goes something like:
[notice] Apache/2.0.59 (Win32) PHP/5.2.13 configured -- resuming normal operations
[notice] Server built: Jul 27 2006 15:55:03
[notice] Parent: Created child process 1220
[notice] Child 1220: Child process is running
[notice] Child 1220: Acquired the start mutex.
[notice] Child 1220: Starting 250 worker threads.
[notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting.
I have just come from Win XP where I never had any problems - is this an issue with my Apache version on Win7? Or perhaps it's a configuration issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've done days of research and found nothing helpful.
Thanks, Brian
A: Switched to a Mac. Now works beautifully.
A: I had this same problem, almost always this is something related to incompatible versions(apache and php) or compiled with different compilers(VC11, VC14) of for different platform(64bit 32bit). So just make sure you have everything as compatible as possible. I finally got it working with:
httpd-2.4.20-win32-VC11
php-5.6.20-Win32-VC11-x86
A: Had the same problem on Win 7 while using WAMP. I upgraded PHP to 5.31 and Apache to 2.2.14 and it works like a charm.
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Q: How to add a suitable margin
How can I make the second line have an indentation such that it aligns with the "If" of the first line (I want to define some kind of section s.t. always when I'm in this section I get this indentation)?
A: Just for fun, I thought I would show every way I could think of to achieve this effect. Interestingly, using amsthm or enumerate took too much effort.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{paracol}
\newcounter{theorem}
\renewcommand{\thetheorem}{\thesection-\arabic{theorem}}
\setcounter{section}{10}
\globalcounter{theorem}% for paracol
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item[\stepcounter{theorem}\thetheorem] \blindtext
\end{itemize}
\hangindent=2.5em
\noindent\hbox to 2.5em{\stepcounter{theorem}\thetheorem\hfill}\blindtext
\medskip
\noindent\makebox[2.5em][l]{\stepcounter{theorem}\thetheorem}%
\parbox[t]{\dimexpr \textwidth-2.5em}{\blindtext}% will not break across tables
\setcolumnwidth{\dimexpr 2.5em-\columnsep}%
\medskip
\begin{paracol}{2}
\parindent=0pt
\stepcounter{theorem}\thetheorem
\switchcolumn
\blindtext
\end{paracol}
\end{document}
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Leukaemia is a type of cancer of white blood cells in your body. It affects the blood and bone marrow, where blood cells are made. Leukaemia may be acute, appearing fast and growing quickly, or chronic, appearing gradually and growing slowly.
While the cause of leukaemia is not known in most cases, there are treatments available that can help manage the disease. Acute leukaemia can be cured. There is no cure for chronic leukaemia, but it can often be managed by lifelong treatments.
If you have leukaemia, your bone marrow makes large numbers of abnormal white blood cells. These abnormal cells build up in the bone marrow and then spill out into the blood and crowd out the healthy cells. They may then spread to organs such as the liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, and in some cases, the brain and spinal cord.
When your body doesn't have enough healthy blood cells, this can lead to a range of problems. For example, a lack of red blood cells can cause weakness, tiredness and breathlessness. A lack of healthy white blood cells lowers your immunity to disease and infections. A lack of platelets can make it easy to bruise and bleed.
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), also called acute lymphocytic leukaemia — the most common type of leukaemia in children, and can also affect adults.
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), sometimes called acute myelocytic, myelogenous or granulocytic leukaemia — can occur at any age, although it tends to affect older people.
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) — the most common type of leukaemia in adults. CLL tends to be slow-growing and may have little impact on a person's health for months or even years.
Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) — tends to progress over weeks or months. CML mostly affects adults over 40 and is rare in children.
CMML is a form of leukaemia that is characterised by high numbers of white blood cells, called 'monocytes', in the blood and bone marrow.
What is Hairy Cell Leukaemia?
Hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) is one of the lymphoproliferative disorders of which the most common is chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
Richter's Syndrome (RS), also known as Richter's Transformation, is a rare complication of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia and/or Small Lymphocytic Leukaemia. |
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a) Mrs. Garcia needs a new car. The car she wants costs $16,000 but she doesn't have the money so she has to go to the bank and borrow it. The bank charges 2% simple interest. In addition to the $16,000, how much will she have to pay?
b) If she pays the bank in monthly payments for four years, how much will each monthly payment be?
c) If she doesn't get to the bank in time and they raise the interest to 3%, how much more will she pay? How much more will her monthly payment be?
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Q: IBM Watson Speech to Text in Python gives 404 when using model parameter I am testing the use of IBM Watson Speech to Text with Python. I was able to successfully test transcribing an audio in English but when I put the model parameter to change the language model for my language, a 404 not found error appears. I have already looked at the IBM page several times that explains the use of the model parameter and I can't understand what's missing. Can anyone help?
My code:
from ibm_watson import SpeechToTextV1
from ibm_cloud_sdk_core.authenticators import IAMAuthenticator
api = IAMAuthenticator("my_credential")
speech_2_text = SpeechToTextV1(authenticator=api)
speech_2_text.set_service_url("https://api.us-south.speech-to-text.watson.cloud.ibm.com/instances/20a185d6-6953-4334-9cea-e9f5ebc2267d?model=fr-FR_BroadbandModel")
with open("test.mp3", "rb") as audio_file:
result = speech_2_text.recognize(
audio=audio_file,content_type="audio/mp3"
).get_result()
Error message:
ibm_cloud_sdk_core\base_service.py", line 224,
in send raise ApiException(ibm_cloud_sdk_core.api_exception.ApiException: Error: Not Found, Code: 404
A: The model should be passed as part of the recognize method
speech_recognition_results = speech_to_text.recognize(
audio=audio_file,
content_type='audio/mp3',
word_alternatives_threshold=0.9,
model='fr-FR_BroadbandModel'
).get_result()
Pasting the complete code that worked me for your reference
import json
from os.path import join, dirname
from ibm_watson import SpeechToTextV1
from ibm_cloud_sdk_core.authenticators import IAMAuthenticator
authenticator = IAMAuthenticator('<API_KEY>')
speech_to_text = SpeechToTextV1(
authenticator=authenticator
)
speech_to_text.set_service_url('<URL>')
with open(join(dirname(__file__), './.', 'audio-file2.mp3'),
'rb') as audio_file:
speech_recognition_results = speech_to_text.recognize(
audio=audio_file,
content_type='audio/mp3',
word_alternatives_threshold=0.9,
model='fr-FR_BroadbandModel'
).get_result()
print(json.dumps(speech_recognition_results, indent=2))
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Q: How to obtain the BIOS boot sequence? Is there any BIOS call that can be used in order to obtain the BIOS' boot sequence? The origin of this question was me trying to install Windows 7 on a very old Pentium III machine, where the installer kept insisting that "The computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk", in spite of the 1st HDD being set as the first boot device.
The only mention of programatically getting the boot sequence that I could find was in the DOS API reference, where int 21/AX=3305h in DOS 4.0+ is defined as "Get Boot Drive", with the dl register set on return to the drive the OS was booted from, 1 meaning A: and so on. However, it is obviously very doubtful that this call is used by the Windows 7 installer.
A: There is no (standard) BIOS call for obtaining the boot sequence, and as you say, DOS calls aren't relevant to Windows. However, it doesn't really matter in the case you're considering, because by convention only one hard drive (drive 0) is bootable.
Some BIOSes do allow you to select a particular hard drive as the boot drive. They do this by rearranging the drive order at boot time so that the selected drive is drive 0.
The warning message you describe was probably due to the size of the hard disk drive. Some older BIOSes can't boot to larger drives, and since the Windows installer had no way to tell whether your machine was one of the exceptions, it gave you the warning. (There are various other similar possibilities, such as the hard drive type.)
Assuming it did in fact boot, you don't really need to worry about it. :-)
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The castle is under attack in Giants and Dwarves TD.
Huge giants and large waves of enemies are attacking!
Build multistorey towers and use heroes to repel them.
Can you lead your fighters to victory?
Enjoy Giants and Dwarves TD.
Scroll the map by moving the cursor to the edges of the screen.
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Kelly Wearstler is one of the best and most rewarded interior designers in the world and by all means one of our favorites! Today, Home Decor Ideas wants to show 8 interior designs from the designer and help you in finding inspiration for your house decoration.
This 11,00 SQ home shows us a different world – part Parisian jewel box, scholar's retreat and natural wonder. Elements of cubist furniture, pistachio green millwork and delicately handmade brass railings on an old world circular staircase were blended seamlessly here to create a never boring and always daring interior design.
One of Kelly Wearstler priorities was to make the apartment as open as possible and bring the vibrancy of the surrounding life outdoors inside. The designer knocked down walls, mixed metals, leather, and silk, as well as other artisanal elements to add sumptuous texture to the avant-garde aesthetic in this interior decoration project.
Contemporary design yet classic? Yes, Kelly Wearstler can make this work. Italian antiques, custom rugs, hand-painted wallcoverings and endless amounts of onyx and marble slab walls and floors make for an unapologetically lavish and seductive home.
In this 1956's residence, Kelly Wearstler used a thoughtfully curated collection of vintage furniture, textiles, and finishes. The color scheme includes shades like eggplant, vermillion, and papaya with beautiful touches of brass makes this another great example of home design ideas you can fearlessly follow.
This home showcases Kelly Wearstler confident and sophisticated design as well as her love for graphic art, vintage lighting, and playful surrealism. A tip for your home design ideas: a diverse color palette that ranges from subtle to bold.
This stunning seaside residence belonging to Kelly Wearstler and her family means a new wave in her design style. The home has a sun-bleached color palette and shades of driftwood taupe, misty grey, watery green and shell pink.
The modernist furniture contradicts the idyllic living room design, yet the result is a cohesively organic and raw texture.
This example of a natural and organic palette of sandstones, shell pinks, rusts, and moonstone grays will help you shape an imaginative modernist dialogue with a sea if you're searching for interior design ideas for a beach house, for example. Doesn't this home bring you memories of Blue Lagoon with Brooke Shields?
Dary, modern furniture and full of statement pieces. This loft in Soho, New Yok, is an endless "wow!" Even though the color selection for the loft is minimal, with black and white, grey, ochre, and accents of the palest pink, various types of metals, marble and waxed wood add depth to the decor without overloading the space. |
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"I love it! The bass frequencies sound amazing and the highs have the perfect brightness. Ground-breaking!"
Heavyocity's DM-307 is a highly-stylized collection of modular synth drums, live percussion, and processed classic analog drum machines. With more than 3,600 unique sounds and loops housed in 1500+ presets, DM-307 introduces innovative ways to quickly and easily create production-ready beats in a variety of contemporary styles; including electronic, hip hop, industrial, ethnic and cinematic.
DM-307's extensive content is complemented by an intuitive user interface featuring the all-new. The Grid™ is an advanced 5 voice drum machine with 8 programmable patterns, allowing you to build grooves by simply clicking on a step.
Expand your beat creation by stacking 5 grid presets in a performance multi and gain unprecedented control over each part with individual FX, modulators and envelopes.
Load one of the 180+ Kit Groove presets or 300 Performance Multis to get a true sense of the power of the Grid, or create your own complex grooves from the thousands of sounds found in the Kits and Multis.
DM-307's interface was designed for quick and simple groove creation. You can easily create a beat, alter the envelope, and drastically affect the tone of the sounds.
Similar to Damage and AEON, there are 3 levels of effects provided in the instrument. Apply effects globally with the Master effects, tweak individual sounds with the ADSR, filter, EQ, and tune, or engage the signature Advanced Trigger FX™ to quickly modulate and alter the sound.
Tempo sync is automatic, and exporting a loop's MIDI data to your sequencer is simply drag-and-drop. Tweak your grooves quickly with the integrated keyswitches for effects and stutters, and create instant impacts with the unique 'Analog Hits'.
DM-307 provides a host of loop menus and single loop presets. Stocked with over 1200 loops in 5 contemporary styles. , you can quickly mix and match kicks, snares, hits, and other elements to build complex layered rhythms and grooves.
The Loop Menus are intelligently mapped, and formatted into "breakout" presets, allowing you to perform the full loop in a single key, or mix and match the individual layers of different loops, all in one preset. Single Loop presets provide level, pan, and tuning for each slice, and allows you to recompose via midi drag-and-drop.
DM-307 offers more than 80 different kits, built from nearly 2,000 unique sounds. These kits combine organic drums with processed classic drum machines and aggressive modular synth sounds to create a one-of-a-kind palette of genre-defying percussion.
The signature 'Analog Hits' and 'Tempo Synced Risers' are perfect for adding impact and emotion to any track.
DM-307 offers 3 different levels of effects - apply effects globally with the Master FX (Reverb, Delay, Distortion, Modulation, Twist and Punish), Trigger Performance Effects, or tweak individual sounds.
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The signature Punish and Twist knobs preside over everything, adding aggressive drive and character to your beats.
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Now that warmer weather is just-around-the-corner, you're probably ready to tackle the age-old ritual of springtime house cleaning. Then head-out your backdoor to spruce-up your outdoor spaces as well… both landscaping and hardscaping.
When it comes to spring landscaping, most folks will rake, seed, trim, prune and plant. For fabulous gardening advice, yard tools and more, visit reputable sites such as P. Allen Smith, ProPlugger, or the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
When it comes to building a deck, the materials you choose are important. What's directly beneath your feet will influence style, maintenance and bottom-line price.
But what's UNDER your deck, below the surface, is equally significant. From fasteners to footings, piers to posts, ledger to joists, a deck's substructure defines its structural integrity. Period.
Those critical substructure details — especially for a deck high off-the-ground — aren't much to look at unless you're a construction junkie. But to many of us, a well-designed and built substructure is truly a thing of beauty!
If, however, you don't want to see the underside of your deck, you can camouflage, cloak or completely conceal what lies beneath. And your underdeck solution doesn't need to break-the-bank either.
A smart and common question among St. Louis homeowners interested in a deck: "Which is better, wood or composite (or vinyl)?" We hear this on a daily basis!
The answer? Both are absolutely, positively terrific options. And when it comes to looks, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
At first glance, wood and composite seem pretty darn close in appearance, however, there ARE differences.
Distinctive features and variations are found in: the manufacturing process; overall price and return-on-investment; material maintenance and warranties. |
Q: Lower bound via Sobolev Inequality Let $ f \in L^1(\mathbb{R}^3) $ be such that $ \int f =1 $ and $ \int \tfrac{f}{\|x\|} < \infty $.
I want to show that
\begin{equation}\label{key}
27 \left( \dfrac{\pi}{2} \right)^4 \int f^3 \ge \left( \int (\dfrac{1}{\| x\|} - \dfrac{1}{3} ) f\right)^3.
\end{equation}
Now, it is clear to me that the integrals converge by the assumptions given. The hint given is to use H/"older inequality.
Now, the most obvious step would be to choose $ p=3, q=3/2 $, and do Holder on $ f $. However, I run into the issue that $ (\tfrac{1}{\|x\|}-\tfrac{1}{3}) $ is not integrable.
I was wondering if this was the right approach? Or do I need to take a positive part first?
A: The claimed inequality is false
I assume the functions are real-valued. Taking the cube root (which is order preserving on the reals), your claimed inequality is equivalent to
$$ 3 \cdot \left(\frac\pi2\right)^{4/3} \left(\int f^3 \right)^{1/3} + \frac13 \int f \geq \int \frac{1}{|x|} f $$
We note that the assumption that $\int f = 1$ is inconsequential, as long as $\int f > 0$. For given any $f$ with positive total integral, you can set $g = (\int f)^{-1} f$ to get that $\int g = 1$. Applying the inequality to $g$ we can restore to an inequality for $f$ by multiplying throughout by $\int f$.
I claim in fact that the result cannot hold for any sets of constants. More precisely
Claim For any $A, B > 0$, there exists $f\in L^1$ with $\frac{1}{|x|}f$ integrable, and $\int f > 0$, such that
$$ A (\int f^3)^{1/3} + B \int f < \int \frac{1}{|x|} f $$
To prove this claim, we will consider the three parameter family of functions $f_{\mu,\kappa,\rho}$, with $\mu,\rho > 0$ and $\kappa > 1$
$$ f_{\mu,\kappa,\rho}(x) = \begin{cases} -\mu & |x| \leq \rho \\
1 & |x| \in [\kappa\rho, 2\kappa\rho] \\
0 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases} $$
A direct computation yields that
$$ \int f_{\mu,\kappa,\rho} = \frac43 \pi \rho^3 \left( 7 \kappa^3 - \mu\right) $$
$$ \int \frac{1}{|x|} f_{\mu,\kappa,\rho} = 2\pi \rho^2 \left( 3 \kappa^2 - \mu\right) $$
$$ \int f^3_{\mu,\kappa,\rho} = \frac43 \pi \rho^3 \left( 7 \kappa^3 - \mu^3 \right) $$
If you set $\mu = \kappa^{3/2}$, then there exists $\kappa_0$ such that for all $\kappa > \kappa_0$,
$$ 3\kappa^2 - \mu > \kappa^2, \qquad 7 \kappa^3 - \mu^3 < 0. $$
Now let $A, B > 0$ be given. Fix $\kappa > \kappa_0$ and $\mu = \kappa^{3/2}$.
Our goal is to find $\rho$ such that
$$ A (\int f_{\mu,\kappa,\rho}^3)^{1/3} + B \int f_{\mu,\kappa,\rho} < \int \frac{1}{|x|} f_{\mu,\kappa,\rho} $$
Our choice of $\kappa$ and $\mu$ guarantees that the first term is negative, and hence it suffices to find $\rho$ such that that
$$ B\int f_{\mu,\kappa,\rho} < \int \frac{1}{|x|} f_{\mu,\kappa,\rho} $$
or
$$ B \frac43 \pi \rho^3 \left( 7 \kappa^3 - \mu\right) < 2\pi \rho^2 \left( 3 \kappa^2 - \mu\right) $$
or, simplifying, it suffices to show that
$$ 2 B \rho \left( 7 \kappa^3 - \mu\right) < 3 \left( 3 \kappa^2 - \mu\right) $$
Our choice of $\kappa$ and $\mu$ guarantees that the RHS is at least $3 \kappa^2$, and the LHS is at most $14 B \rho \kappa^3$. And so if we choose
$$ \rho < \frac{3}{14 B \kappa} $$
we obtain the desired counterexample.
Remark
This counterexample strongly depends on the fact that I am taking at face value that the cubic integral is of $f^3$ and not $|f|^3$. This allows me to take the cubic integral out of the action and avoid any Holder like controls.
Indeed, if we make the additional assumption that $f$ is a non-negative function, then we would have that
$$ \int \left(\frac1{|x|} - \frac13\right) f \leq \int_{|x| < 3} \left(\frac1{|x|} - \frac13\right) f \leq \tilde{C} \|f\|_{L^3} $$
through Holder inequality, where
$$ \tilde{C} = \left( 4\pi \int_0^3 (1/r - 1/3)^{3/2} r^2 ~dr \right)^{2/3} = \left( \frac{\pi^2 3^{3/2}}{4} \right)^{2/3} $$
the evaluation performed by trig substitution. And you see that this is the exact constant claimed in the question. So I strongly suspect that the question is intended only for $f \geq 0$, and not general $f$ as stated.
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How Kigali Hacked Phone of Belgium Based Daughter of Incarcerated 'Hotel Rwanda' Inspiration
Carine has led an international campaign to have his father released.
Pegasus software made by Israeli firm NSO Group was used to spy on the daughter of imprisoned dissident Paul Rusesabagina, whose actions during the 1994 genocide were dramatized in a 2004 film starring Don Cheadle.
In August 2020, Paul Rusesabagina, a Rwandan dissident and the inspiration for the award-winning movie Hotel Rwanda, left his home in Texas to fly to Burundi for a speaking tour. When he landed in Dubai to change planes, he sent a WhatsApp message to his family to say happy birthday to his grandson.
Then he disappeared.
Four days later, Rusesabagina emerged on television in Rwanda, handcuffed and escorted by officers. In a bold and complex operation, Rwandan authorities had tricked Rusesabagina onto a private plane in Dubai. It flew him not to Burundi, as he believed, but to Rwanda, where he faced charges of financing terrorist activities.
His adopted daughter, Carine Kanimba, a U.S. and Belgian citizen, soon launched a campaign to free her father. She never set foot in Rwanda — but it is likely the government in Kigali had her under close watch, thanks to cutting-edge and highly invasive Israeli spyware that was placed on her phone.
For almost six months, until as recently as July 3, Kanimba's cell phone was bombarded with Pegasus, malicious software manufactured by Israeli tech firm NSO Group, according to research by OCCRP and The Pegasus Project, a global consortium of journalists coordinated by Forbidden Stories. Forensic analysis by Amnesty International's Security Lab, which lent technical assistance to the project, found that Kanimba's phone was successfully infected with Pegasus multiple times.
When Pegasus is implanted on a device, it effectively gives an attacker complete access to the target's phone. It can read messages and passwords, access social media, use GPS to locate the target, listen to the target's conversations, and even record them. End-to-end encryption, available through popular apps like Signal, does not protect against Pegasus once the phone is compromised.
In a series of responses, NSO Group said Pegasus is sold only to governments to go after criminals and terrorists, and has saved many lives. It denied that its spyware was systematically misused and challenged the validity of data obtained by reporters.
As part of the investigation, reporters obtained a list of over 50,000 numbers throughout the world believed to have been selected by NSO Group clients for targeting with Pegasus. Reporters were able to identify dozens of numbers belonging to Rwandans or other people of likely interest to Rwanda's government from neighboring countries. They included activists, journalists, dissidents, and government officials.
Reporters were unable to conduct forensic analyses to verify infection on these phones, but the extent and nature of the Rwandan numbers in the data strongly suggests that the Rwandan government was a client of NSO Group. There's also a history of Pegasus being used against Rwandan dissidents. In 2019, a number of Rwandans were among 1,400 victims of Pegasus attack using a vulnerability in the messaging application WhatsApp that became the basis of a lawsuit by Facebook against NSO Group.
Three Western government officials told OCCRP, on the basis of anonymity, that they were aware that Rwanda had access to advanced Israeli spyware technology, and that there was concern at how it was being deployed.
Dr. Vincent Biruta, Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said Rwanda does not use or have access to Pegasus. He dismissed the hacking of Kanimba's phone and the potential targeting of activists, journalists, lawyers, politicians, and others as "false accusations."
Kanimba's number was not on the list of potential targets, but The Pegasus Project decided to approach her separately as a likely victim. A subsequent forensic analysis verified that her phone was infected. Many others on the list were not approached to conduct forensics before publication out of concern that a leak could undermine the security of the journalistic collaboration, or put targets in danger.
Rusesabagina has been a high-profile critic of Rwanda's government for many years. He was the manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali during the genocide and helped shelter and save nearly 1,300 people, acts that inspired the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. Rusesabagina fled Rwanda in 1996, ending up in the U.S. where he was eventually granted the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.
In exile, Rusesabagina helped set up a coalition of opposition groups. Rwanda has accused him of a raft of terrorism-related offenses. His daughter, Kanimba, told Pegasus Project reporters that the charges are groundless and that Kagame is jealous of Rusesabagina.
"A running joke in our family is that Kagame thinks about us every night before going to bed," she said during an interview with Pegasus Project member Knack, a Belgian magazine.
"I wasn't shocked [about being targeted]. … Because we are dealing with a dictatorship," she said. "They are distracting me by making me think about this."
"It's also an intimidation tool."
By January 2021, while her phone was being targeted, Kanimba was in Belgium, where Rusesabagina holds citizenship, trying to organize support among European officials for her campaign. Kanimba said she was speaking to officials from several other major diplomatic powers as well.
"All of January and until February 11, I was contacting every single MEP across Europe, also the members of the EU delegation in Rwanda," she said. She was also using her cell phone in communications with British members of parliament, as well as British and U.S. diplomats and officials. With Pegasus on Kanimba's phone, it's feasible that Rwandan agents could have observed and recorded all of these interactions.
Her phone continued to be attacked by Pegasus spyware throughout the first half of this year. It's not clear why repeated attacks were needed, but researchers believe the software is not persistent and disappears or deletes itself during certain phone operations, such as rebooting.
Amnesty International's analysis found an attack on June 14, the day Kanimba met with Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sophie Wilmès. "I had the phone in the room too," Kanimba told reporters.
Kanimba said Rwandan officials began to act in ways that suggested they were aware of her movements, schedule, and even private conversations. Some Belgian members of parliament who had only expressed support to her privately were subsequently contacted by Rwandan officials, she said.
Kanimba told reporters of a conversation between her family and their lawyers about getting Rusesabagina to sign an affidavit describing how he was tortured while held captive.
"We hadn't shared [this idea] with the Rwandan lawyers, but the next time our Rwandan lawyer went to see my father in prison he was searched, he was asked for a form that my father was supposed to sign," Kanimba said. "[The Rwandan lawyer] didn't know anything about it. We hadn't even sent it to him. But somehow they knew to look for it."
"Genocide Ideology"
Rwanda was once the poster child for the success of Western development aid. Emerging from the ravages of the 1994 genocide, in which roughly 800,000 were killed, Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took power and brought a fragile peace and order to the tiny East African nation.
Kagame, an RPF military leader who rose in the ranks to become president in 2000, has ruled Rwanda ruthlessly but effectively. Rwandans enjoy paved roads, fewer blackouts, and a relatively thriving economy compared to other countries in the region. Tony Blair and Bill Clinton led a long procession of world leaders eager to celebrate Kagame's "visionary leadership" in the 2000s. But criticism of his methods is growing.
Kagame raises the specter of the genocide to justify chasing and crushing his opponents at home and abroad. The RPF dismisses critics as ethnic extremists, while laws against "genocide ideology" and "sectarianism" are loosely defined, allowing the government to criminalize particularly irksome opponents.
In 2014 the government arrested the popular singer Kizito Mihigo after he released a song remembering Hutu as well as Tutsi victims of the 1994 genocide. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring against the government. Though freed in 2018, he was captured and rearrested at the Burundian border in February 2020, and found dead in his cell days later. Rwanda claims Mihigo killed himself, but Human Rights Watch and other groups have called for an independent inquiry into his death, which they describe as suspicious.
Journalist and author Michela Wrong, the author of a recent book on Rwanda's treatment of dissidents, described Rwanda as "a state run along intelligence lines." Kagame was trained in military intelligence and has carried that through into his presidency, and it's likely he is personally involved in all major decisions on espionage, she said.
"There's no sign of any real power base outside Kagame," Wrong told OCCRP. "When you have a top-down system of that kind, with such strong executive control, you can take it as read that all of these key decisions – taking out opponents, harassing and intimidating members of the opposition, surveillance, and monitoring – all that goes straight to Kagame."
Targeting Opponents
In May this year, Cassien Ntamuhanga, a Rwandan asylum seeker and critic of Kagame's government who had been tried alongside the singer Mihigo in 2015, was arrested by Mozambican authorities. Mozambique police denied knowledge of his detention. Human Rights Watch said that he "risks being handed over to Rwanda."
Now, reporting by The Pegasus Project has found that Ntamuhanga's Dutch phone number was on the list of numbers selected by NSO Group clients for targeting with Pegasus.
It's not known if any of the Rwandans whose numbers appear on the list were successfully hacked. However, forensic checks of phones around the world from the list showed that, of those that could be tested, 84 percent showed signs of successful or attempted infection.
Another Kagame critic on the list is David Himbara, who lives in Canada and runs a prominent blog. His number was selected for targeting in early 2019, though forensic analysis of his cell phone did not find traces of an attack. Himbara told the Guardian, a participant in The Pegasus Project, that he believes Kagame poses a threat to his life.
As well as critics, the Kagame government may have targeted lawyers working against its interests. A South African phone number for lawyer and RNC spokesman Frank Ntwali was added to the list between 2017 and 2019. Ntwali was the target of a failed assassination attempt in 2012, and was one of the Rwandans allegedly hacked by Pegasus via WhatsApp in 2019.
Both Karegeya's former lawyer and Rusesabagina's Rwandan lawyer were selected as targets between 2017 and 2018. Several journalists in Rwanda, Uganda, and DRC were also on the list.
Other than in the case of David Himbara, reporters were unable to carry out forensic analyses on their phones due to security concerns.
Diplomatic Espionage
The list of selected numbers also shows the Kagame government may have used Pegasus to target high-ranking political and military figures in neighboring countries.
Several numbers for high-profile figures in Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) feature in the data. Rwanda has had frosty relations with these neighbors over the years. It has sponsored armed groups in the east of DRC, criticized Uganda for harboring anti-RPF militias, and been accused by Burundi of plotting to overthrow its president.
Telephone numbers for Ruhakana Rugunda, the prime minister of Uganda until last month, and Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, the prime minister of Burundi, appear on the list. Bunyoni was added before he was appointed prime minister, when he was Burundi's interior minister.
Among the Ugandans on the list, OCCRP has identified numbers belonging to longtime senior cabinet member Sam Kutesa, former Defense Forces Chief General David Muhoozi, senior intelligence officer Joseph Ocwet, and leading opposition figure Fred Nyanzi Ssentamu. The selections coincided with a visit by Kagame to Uganda.
In DRC, OCCRP identified numbers in the data for Lambert Mende and Albert Yuma, both powerful allies of longtime former President Joseph Kabila, who stepped down in January 2019. Reporters also found a number belonging to Jean Bamanisa Saïdi, a prominent provincial governor in DRC's gold-rich east. These numbers were selected around the time of a political crisis in DRC over whether Kabila would respect constitutional term limits.
"There is already enormous, well-founded suspicion between the governments in the Great Lakes region and Rwanda," said journalist Michela Wrong. "[Evidence of spying] will certainly encourage the view that Rwanda is not a partner playing by the rules."
Spokespeople for the DRC and Burundi declined to comment. A Ugandan government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo, said that it is "up to Uganda to strengthen its cyber security protocols, otherwise the world is full of spying and espionage even among allies."
"In the Claws of the Monster"
Back in Brussels, Kanimba says she has purchased a new phone and continued her campaign to free her father. The campaign has enjoyed some recent successes. On June 23, members of the U.S. Congress from both parties sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing concern over the detention of Rusesabagina. The next day, the Belgian parliament called for Rusesabagina to be freed and allowed to return to Belgium.
Earlier, in February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the "enforced disappearance, illegal rendition and incommunicado detention" of Rusesabagina.
Meanwhile Rusesabagina's trial in Kigali has resumed after a hiatus. In March, he refused to participate any further in the trial, writing in a letter to the court that he did not expect justice to be served.
We know that emotionally he is a very strong man," said Kanimba. But she and her family are anxious about the 67-year-old's health. "He has hypertension. He has a heart condition. He is a cancer survivor … This is what scares us the most."
"My father is in the claws of the monster. So we have to get him out."
By OCCRP
Tags: Israel spywareKigaliPaul KagamePaul RusesabaginaRDFRwandaRwanda NewsSoft PowerSoft Power NewsSoftPower NewsTopTop News |
The superstar of marathi film industry "Ankush Chaudhari" will be seen in lead role of Satish Rajwade's upcoming movie "Autograph". The movie is produced by STV Networks. The Actor, Director duo has worked together on a thriller "Gaiir" in 2009 which was a hit at box-office.
In year 2015 both Actor and Director had a great year at box-office, Ankush had given back to back hit films like 'Classmates', 'Double Seat' and 'Dagdi Chawal' his hit trend was still continued in year 2016 with film 'Guru' and Satish Rajwade had great year with film "Mumbai Pune Mumbai 2" which was sequel to "Mumbai Pune Mumbai".
The combination of these actor and director had created lot of excitement among the marathi film lovers and among there fans.
Though much details were not revealed but makers are planning to release it in August 2016. |
Trade Agreements: Impact on the U.S. Economy
James K. Jackson, Congressional Research ServiceFollow
[Excerpt] The United States is in the process of considering a number of trade agreements. In addition, the 111th Congress may address the issue of trade promotion authority (TPA), which expired on July 1, 2007. These agreements range from bilateral trade agreements with countries that account for meager shares of U.S. trade to multilateral negotiations that could affect large numbers of U.S. workers and businesses. During this process, Congress likely will be presented with an array of data estimating the impact of trade agreements on the economy, or on a particular segment of the economy.
An important policy tool that can assist Congress in assessing the value and the impact of trade agreements is represented by sophisticated models of the economy that are capable of simulating changes in economic conditions. These models are particularly helpful in estimating the effects of trade liberalization in such sectors as agriculture and manufacturing where the barriers to trade are identifiable and subject to some quantifiable estimation. Barriers to trade in services, however, are proving to be more difficult to identify and, therefore, to quantify in an economic model. In addition, the models are highly sensitive to the assumptions that are used to establish the parameters of the model and they are hampered by a serious lack of comprehensive data in the services sector. Nevertheless, the models do provide insight into the magnitude of the economic effects that may occur across economic sectors as a result of trade liberalization. These insights are especially helpful in identifying sectors expected to experience the greatest adjustment costs and, therefore, where opposition to trade agreements is likely to occur.
This report examines the major features of economic models being used to estimate the effects of trade agreements. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the models as an aid in helping Congress evaluate the economic impact of trade agreements on the U.S. economy. In addition, this report identifies and assesses some of the assumptions used in the economic models and how these assumptions affect the data generated by the models. Finally, this report evaluates the implications for Congress of various options it may consider as it assesses trade agreements.
Jackson, J. K. (2010). Trade agreements: Impact on the U.S. economy. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/key_workplace/705 |
Drinking coffee before a nap may seem counter intuitive.
However, many people endorse this habit as a way to boost energy levels.
This article provides a detailed look at the science behind coffee naps and whether they offer benefits.
A coffee nap refers to drinking coffee before sleeping for a short period of time.
This is thought to boost energy levels because of its effect on adenosine, a chemical that promotes sleep (1).
When you feel tired, adenosine circulates through your body in high amounts. After you fall asleep, adenosine levels begin to drop.
Caffeine competes with adenosine for receptors in your brain. So while caffeine doesn't decrease adenosine in your body as sleep does, it prevents this substance from being received by your brain. Therefore, you feel less drowsy (1, 2, 3).
Scientists suspect that drinking coffee before a nap may boost energy levels, as sleep helps your body get rid of adenosine. In turn, caffeine has to compete with less adenosine for the receptors in your brain (1).
In other words, sleep may enhance the effects of coffee by increasing the availability of receptors for caffeine in your brain. That's why a coffee nap may increase energy levels more than just drinking coffee or sleeping.
You may think that drinking coffee would prevent you from napping, but keep in mind that it takes some time until your body feels the effects of caffeine.
Most experts propose that the best way to take a coffee nap is to consume caffeine right before falling asleep for approximately 15–20 minutes (4, 5).
This timing is suggested partially because it takes about that long to feel the effects of caffeine (5).
Moreover, you may fall into a type of deep sleep called slow-wave sleep if you sleep for a half-hour or more.
Waking up during slow-wave sleep can lead to sleep inertia, a state of drowsiness and disorientation. It's thought that limiting coffee naps to less than 30 minutes may prevent this (6).
The time of day that someone takes a coffee nap may also be important.
One small study in 12 healthy adults found that participants who had 400 mg of caffeine — the equivalent of four cups of coffee — six, three or zero hours before bed all experienced disrupted sleep (7).
This research indicates that it may be best to take coffee naps more than six hours before bedtime.
Finally, the amount of caffeine consumed before a coffee nap appears to impact its effectiveness.
Most research suggests that 200 mg of caffeine — about two cups of coffee — is the approximate amount you need to feel more alert and energized upon waking (4, 5, 8).
Do Coffee Naps Really Give You More Energy?
Though the logic behind coffee naps seems plausible, research to support the claims that they increase energy more than naps or coffee alone is limited.
However, the few studies that exist are promising.
A study in 12 adults showed that participants who took 200 mg of caffeine followed by a 15-minute nap before being placed in a driving simulator for two hours felt 91% less sleepy behind the wheel than those who didn't have caffeine and a nap (4).
The study also found that those who didn't completely fall asleep during the nap period still experienced improved energy (4).
A similar study in 10 people determined that those who took 150 mg of caffeine before sleeping for less than 15 minutes felt significantly less drowsy during their two hours in a driving simulator, compared to the control group (9).
Another small study showed that taking 200 mg of caffeine followed by a 20-minute nap is more effective at improving energy and performance in computer tasks than napping plus face washing or exposure to bright light (5).
Lastly, additional research suggests that consuming caffeine and taking naps together increases alertness and energy during night work more than caffeine or sleep alone (8, 10).
While the results of these studies imply that coffee naps are effective at boosting energy, they're small and use caffeine in pill form.
More research is needed to assess how liquid coffee before naps improves energy and alertness upon waking.
Should You Take Coffee Naps?
It's not surprising that many people want to try taking coffee naps to boost energy levels or improve alertness.
However, research to support the effectiveness of coffee naps is limited.
If you're interested in incorporating coffee naps into your day, keep in mind the type and amount of coffee you drink.
The dose of caffeine used in most studies is equivalent to approximately two cups of coffee. Consuming this amount of liquid coffee likely has the same effects as taking caffeine pills before a nap, but has not been tested.
Furthermore, drinking coffee with added sugars or flavors before sleeping may decrease the effectiveness of a coffee nap — black coffee is a healthier option.
Finally, excessive caffeine intake can cause restlessness, anxiety, muscle tremors and other issues in some people. Caffeine may also disrupt sleep if consumed less than six hours before bed (7).
Most health experts agree that up to 400 mg of caffeine a day — the equivalent of about four cups of coffee — is safe for most people (11, 12).
Remember this recommended maximum daily caffeine intake if you increase your coffee consumption to start taking coffee naps.
Coffee naps may increase energy more than coffee or sleeping alone, though research to support this effect is limited.
About 2 cups of coffee right before a 20-minute nap may be the best way to reap benefits.
To avoid nighttime sleep disturbances, stop drinking coffee at least six hours before bed.
Coffee naps may certainly be worth a try, as long as you don't go overboard with your caffeine consumption. |
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
NBC SPORTS' RACING WEEK IN AMERICA BEGINS MONDAY, APRIL 6 ON NBCSN
More Than 65 Hours of Motorsports Coverage from NASCAR, INDYCAR, IMSA, Supercross and More
Themed Nights of Memorable Races on NBCSN Include "Mayhem Monday," "WednesDale," "Best at the Brickyard," and "Daytona Speed Day"
NASCAR America Presents NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge Monday-Thursday at 7 p.m. ET on NBCSN; Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin Headline Competitors
Content to Stream on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports App
STAMFORD, Conn. – April 2, 2020 – Beginning April 6, NBC Sports will present Racing Week in America on NBCSN, providing racing fans with a chance to relive the most thrilling motorsports moments from the past two decades on NBC and NBCSN.
Featuring races from NASCAR, INDYCAR, IMSA, Supercross and other series, Racing Week in America will have a specific theme for each day, starting with "Mayhem Monday" on April 6. NBC Sports will air 12 hours of motorsports coverage (1 p.m.-3 a.m. ET) Monday-Thursday and seven hours (8 p.m.-3 a.m. ET) on Friday-Saturday. Sunday's coverage airs 2-4 p.m. ET and 10:30 p.m.-3 a.m. ET. Below is each day's highlighted content throughout the week:
Monday, April 6: "Mayhem Monday"
Tuesday, April 7: "Twists and Turns Tuesday"
Wednesday, April 8: "WednesDale"
Thursday, April 9: "Best at the Brickyard"
Friday, April 10: "Daytona Speed Day"
Saturday, April 11: "Championship Saturday"
Sunday, April 12: "Sunday Funday"
Programming will also stream on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app.
In addition, NASCAR America will present the NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge from Monday-Thursday at 7 p.m. ET on NBCSN, as Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch, and Denny Hamlin headline a group of 18 drivers competing at virtual versions of iconic race tracks across America. Click here for more information.
MONDAY, APRIL 6 – MAYHEM MONDAY
"Mayhem Monday" will feature some of the most intense battles across NASCAR, INDYCAR, Supercross, and American Flat Track, including two classics from Martinsville Speedway. The 2017 NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race saw Kyle Busch win in overtime and Chase Elliott confront Denny Hamlin for costing him the victory. Two years earlier at Martinsville, Jeff Gordon earned his final win after Matt Kenseth put his feud with Joey Logano to rest. "Mayhem Monday" also has the 2015 INDYCAR race from Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, which produced a record 80 lead changes before Graham Rahal finally won out.
COVERAGE TIME (ET) NETWORK
NASCAR – Bristol Motor Speedway 2019 1 p.m. NBCSN
INDYCAR – Auto Club Speedway 2015 3 p.m. NBCSN
NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge – Rockingham 7 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – Martinsville Speedway 2017 8 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – Martinsville Speedway 2015 10 p.m. NBCSN
Supercross – Anaheim #2 2020 12 a.m. NBCSN
American Flat Track – Buffalo Chip TT 2019 2 a.m. NBCSN
TUESDAY, APRIL 7 – TWISTS AND TURNS TUESDAY
From city streets to massive dirt jumps, NBCSN will showcase the best twists and turns that motorsports have to offer starting Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET. "Twists and Turns Tuesday" includes the NASCAR Cup Series' thrilling first race on the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL; a return to INDYCAR Victory Lane for NBC Sports' own James Hinchcliffe at iconic Long Beach; and the closest finish in Supercross history from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
IMSA – Long Beach 2019 1 p.m. NBCSN
INDYCAR – Long Beach 2017 3 p.m. NBCSN
NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge – Lucas Oil Raceway 7 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL 2018 8 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – Watkins Glen 2017 10 p.m. NBCSN
Supercross – Arlington 2019 12 a.m. NBCSN
Monster Jam World Finals 2019 2 a.m. NBCSN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 – WEDNESDALE
NBC Sports presents a full day dedicated to motorsports icon and NBC Sports analyst Dale Earnhardt. Jr. From his emotional victory at Daytona in 2001 to making "Slide Job!" go viral in his broadcasting debut at Chicago in 2018, fans will see highlights from his memorable career, as well as an episode of his popular podcast/TV show, The Dale Jr. Download.
NASCAR – Talladega Superspeedway 2019 1 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – Chicagoland Speedway 2018 3 p.m. NBCSN
NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge – Myrtle Beach 7 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – Daytona International Speedway, July 2001 8 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – Talladega Superspeedway 2017 10 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – Martinsville Speedway 2005 12 a.m. NBCSN
The Dale Jr. Download 2 a.m. NBCSN
THURSDAY, APRIL 9 – BEST AT THE BRICKYARD
Thursday takes a look back on NBC Sports' exciting history at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, highlighted by Simon Pagenaud's win last May in NBC Sports' first-ever Indianapolis 500 broadcast. Also included are emotional Brickyard 400 wins for Indiana native Tony Stewart and transplant Jeff Gordon, and Drive Like Andretti, NBC Sports' captivating documentary on the life and times of racing icon Mario Andretti.
INDYCAR – Grand Prix of Indianapolis 2019 1 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – 2005 Brickyard 400 3 p.m. NBCSN
NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge Championship – Martinsville 7 p.m. NBCSN
INDYCAR – 103rd Indianapolis 500 (2019) 8 p.m. NBCSN
Drive Like Andretti 11 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – 2004 Brickyard 400 12 a.m. NBCSN
100th Indy 500 Special 2 a.m. NBCSN
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 – DAYTONA SPEED DAY
Whether they're on two or four wheels, legends are made at Daytona International Speedway. On Friday, NBCSN focuses on 'The World Center of Racing' with exciting races from NASCAR and Supercross, plus highlights from this year's 24 Hours of Daytona – better known as the Rolex 24.
EVENT TIME (ET) NETWORK
NASCAR – 2004 Daytona 500 8 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR – Daytona International Speedway, July 2001 10 p.m. NBCSN
2020 Daytona Supercross 12 a.m. NBCSN
IMSA – 2020 Rolex 24 2 a.m. NBCSN
SATURDAY, APRIL 11 – CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY
It's what every driver works for. On Saturday, NBCSN gives fans some of the best championship moments, starting at 8 p.m. ET. The day's schedule includes Jimmie Johnson claiming his record-tying 7th NASCAR Cup Series title in 2016; Kurt Busch's stirring rally to become the first champion of the NASCAR Playoff era in 2004; and Scott Dixon's triumph over Juan Pablo Montoya by the slimmest of margins to win the 2015 INDYCAR crown.
NASCAR Cup Series Championship – Miami 2016 8 p.m. NBCSN
INDYCAR Championship – Sonoma 2015 10 p.m. NBCSN
NASCAR Cup Series Championship – Miami 2004 12 a.m. NBCSN
American Flat Track – Meadowlands 2018 2 a.m. NBCSN
SUNDAY, APRIL 12 – SUNDAY FUNDAY
Above all else, racing is fun – and that's what the final day of Racing Week in America is about. "Sunday Funday" has the incredible 2019 NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race from Talladega (won by Ryan Blaney over Ryan Newman by .007 of a second), as well as INDYCAR's Texas thriller from 2016, where four drivers – Graham Rahal, James Hinchcliffe, Tony Kanaan and Simon Pagenaud – went wheel-to-wheel in a pulse-pounding dash to the checkered flag.
NASCAR – Talladega Superspeedway 2019 10:30 p.m. NBCSN
INDYCAR – Texas Motor Speedway 2016 12:30 a.m. NBCSN
Racing Roots – Kyle Larson 2:30 a.m. NBCSN
-NBC SPORTS- |
Q: Unit testing background threads How do you test background threads like this?
As the fetching of the kinect sensor could be a very time-consuming task. I create a task that calls Parallel to fetch the two things-kinect sensor and mcu. If either one is done, the UI will change the string (for both could be done first). It seems really hard to test for you cannot create a new kinectsensor, you can just get one from the KinectSensor.KinectSensors, I tried to simulate the delay so that I can check if the string has changed.
private void Initialize()
{
Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
Parallel.Invoke(() =>
{
KinectSensor kinectSensor = null;
// while haven't got the sensor, keep fetching
while (kinectSensor == null)
{
Thread.Sleep(200);
kinectSensor = (from sensor in KinectSensor.KinectSensors
where sensor.Status == KinectStatus.Connected
select sensor).FirstOrDefault();
}
_kinectService = new KinectService(kinectSensor);
_kinectService.SetupKinectSensor(new EventHandler<ColorImageFrameReadyEventArgs>(ColorImageFrameReadyEventHandler),
new EventHandler<SkeletonFrameReadyEventArgs>(SkeletonFrameReadyEventHandler));
DispatcherHelper.CheckBeginInvokeOnUI(() =>
{
StatusDescription = "Kinect Has connected";
});
}, () =>
{
IMCU mcu = null;
while (mcu == null)
{
Thread.Sleep(200);
// get mcu here
}
_mcuService = new MCUService(mcu);
DispatcherHelper.CheckBeginInvokeOnUI(() =>
{
StatusDescription = "MCU Has connected";
});
});
DispatcherHelper.CheckBeginInvokeOnUI(() =>
{
CameraShadowColor = "#FF66B034";
StatusColor = "#FF66B034";
StatusCaption = "Ready";
StatusDescription = "Ready to go";
ButtonString = "OK";
});
});
}
|
(n)Iceland.
December 4, 2014 /0 Comments/in Overland, Photography /by Geoffrey
I know this is not the first time I write about Iceland. But I can't help it, this land has a magnetic effect on me. I have spent 3 complete months in it's amazing highlands in the last 5 years. But last summer, the summer of 2014 was something special. Read more
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Room with a view: Nordisk Svalbard 1 si
July 18, 2014 /0 Comments/in Used Gear /by Geoffrey
Nordisk is a Danish tentmaker that has been delivering high end tents for more than 100 years. I was on the lookout for a single person light compact tent that could resist everything the harsh Icelandic nature could throw at it. After a lot of comparisons I opted for the Svalbard with the optional footprint. On paper it should prove ideal for Iceland with a hurricane resistant 40 meter per second wind rating and industry leading water resistance. With an amazingly small pack size and a total weight of only 1,7kg (including everything from pegs to storm lines and even the carrying bag) you can tuck this little tent everywhere.
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Garðar's rusty fate
November 15, 2013 /0 Comments/in Overland, Photography /by Geoffrey
We were cruising Iceland's magnificent Westfjords when out of the fog a beautiful old shipwreck appeared. It was quietly resting on the beach as if mother nature had put it here after a terrible storm. Garðar BA 64 is the oldest steel-ship in Iceland. It was build in 1912 in Norway and almost 70 years later in 1981 was beached in The Latrabjarg Peninsula in the West Fjords of Iceland. And it was no accident. In december 1981 the owners of ship thought it was no longer fit for duty. In those thays it was the custom to sink a ship at sea when it went out of service. But instead the captain of the ship rammed it ashore at Skápadalur valley in Patreksfjörður.
Today Garðar patiently awaits it's inevitable rusty fate in the sand. She sure makes one hell of a photo opportunity though!
The picture was taken with a Nikon D2x and a Sigma 14mm 2,8 lens.
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The best public roads in the world!
August 28, 2013 /0 Comments/in Overland /by Geoffrey
Don't worry, I'm not going to praise Germany's perfect engineered autobahn. Nor am I going to get all lyrical about those switchbacks in the Alpes. The best roads…those have to be roads that are so exhilarating that they are the very reason to be there. If you are on the best roads no destination matters. You just want to see the very best nature has to offer glide by. On the best roads you never want to arrive, you just want those jaw dropping sceneries to keep hitting you. So where might those roads be you wonder? Well, they are in Iceland!
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Icecold, Crystal Clear and Extremely Beautiful
August 17, 2013 /1 Comment/in Underwater /by Geoffrey
It's a cold and misty morning. I feel like the Michelin Man geared up for a dive in the Silfra pass in Iceland. Thermic underwear, an artic undersuit that is thicker than my skisuit, A thick neoprene drysuit and about 20 kg of lead…If it wasn't clear before it's clear now; this is not going to be a tropic dive. The water temperature is two degrees celcius. And believe you me, you can't imagine how cold that is untill you stick your head in it!
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MAYDAY…MAYDAY…
August 2, 2013 /0 Comments/in Photography /by Geoffrey
I imagine that's what was heard over the radio on the saturday of november 24 in 1973. A United states C-47 Skytrain was forced to attempt an emergency landing on Solheimasandur's black sandy beach in the south of Iceland. The crew survived the crash, and the wreck still lays in the exact spot where it hit the earth almost 40 years ago. Since then it became a landmark in Iceland and a great photo opportunity for those who are able to find it. Putting these coördinates in your GPS might help: 63.459523, -19.364618. My picture was taken with a Nikon D2X and a Sigma 14mm 2,8 lens on a tripod with a long exposure. Happy hunting!
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using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using ICSharpCode.Core;
using ICSharpCode.NRefactory.CSharp;
using ICSharpCode.NRefactory.TypeSystem;
using ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop;
using ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Dom;
using ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Parser;
using ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Project;
using ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Refactoring;
using Microsoft.Framework.DesignTimeHost.Models.OutgoingMessages;
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{
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Items.RemoveAll(item => item is ReferenceProjectItem);
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SOLANO COUNTY – The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), in partnership with the Solano County Department of Resource Management, Integrated Waste Management division, will host a county-wide Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, April 27 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at six convenient locations in Solano County. All Solano County residents are encouraged to bring their unwanted, unneeded or expired prescription drugs for free, safe and convenient disposal.
The National Prescription Drug Take-Back event addresses a vital public safety and public health issue, nationally and in Solano County. Many Americans are not aware that medicines that go bad in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse, leading to thousands of prescription drug overdoses, poisonings and accidental deaths.
Please remove all personal information, or empty contents into a Ziploc. All liquids and creams should be properly sealed, or contained inside a plastic bag, to prevent spillage. Needles, sharps and lancets will not be accepted but can be brought to a sharps collection container located at the emergency room entrance at NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield or VacaValley Hospital in Vacaville. For more information visit SafeNeedleDisposal.org.
Acceptable items are medication waste defined as items intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or animals.
For more information visit Recycle.SolanoCounty.com. |
Woodward Park is een park in de Amerikaanse stad Fresno in Californië. Het park ligt in het noorden van de stad naast de California State Route 41 aan Friant Road nabij de oever van de San Joaquin. Het park heeft een oppervlakte van ruim 120 ha, waarmee het het grootste park van de stad is. Het is ook het populairste.
Geschiedenis
Ralph Woodward, die in lange tijd in Fresno gewoond heeft, liet een deel van zijn grond na in 1968 om er een park en vogelgebied van te maken. Het park kwam te liggen in het noordoosten van de stad op de zuidoever van de San Joaquin tussen de SR 41 en Friant Road. In eerste instantie had het park een oppervlakte van zo'n 95 hectare en door toezeggingen van grond door het stadsbestuur is dat later vergroot naar ongeveer 120 hectare, waarmee het een van de grootste parken in de Central Valley is.
Voorzieningen
In het park bevinden zich drie kleinere vijvers en een groter meer en door het hele park lopen wandelpaden. Daarnaast beschikt het park over een amfitheater, verscheidene picknickgebieden en enkele speeltuinen.
Japanse tuin
Woodward Park huisvest ook een 2,34 ha grote Japanse tuin. Het idee om een Japanse tuin met bijbehorende objecten aan te leggen kwam tijdens de ontwikkeling van het park in 1967. De tuin werd een symbool van vriendschap tussen Fresno en haar Japanse partnerstad Kochi. In 1972 kreeg de landschapsarchitect Paul Saito de opdracht om samen met de Japanse theehuisbouwer Shiro Nakagawa het park te ontwerpen. De ontwerpen van een vier-seizoenentuin werden in 1974 ingeleverd.
In 1975 begon men met de bouw, waarbij verschillende elementen zoals een koivijver en stenen paden werden toegevoegd, en elk seizoen kreeg zijn eigen beplanting. In 1981 was de opening voor het publiek met onder andere een delegatie uit Kochi, die als cadeau een Japanse esdoorn mee hadden gebracht om te planten bij de ingang.
De tuin beschikt sinds 1989 ook over een van de twee authentieke theehuizen in de Aaneengesloten Staten. Het huisje werd in Japan gebouwd en later in de tuin weer opgebouwd.
Park in de Verenigde Staten
Fresno |
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NASHVILLE — Several new laws protecting children are set to take effect on July 1 in Tennessee. This includes major Truth in Sentencing legislation ensuring parole and probation are not options for those found guilty of certain violent crimes that historically target women and children. These crimes include child abuse, child sexual abuse, felony solicitation of a minor and producing child pornography. It is sponsored by Lt. Governor Randy McNally and Judiciary Committee Chairman Mike Bell, R-Riceville, in the Tennessee Senate.
"This Republican majority has always made cracking down on crimes against children a priority," said McNally. "This year has been no different. Part of criminal justice reform is drawing a bold, bright line between those crimes for which we can show mercy and allow some flexibility in sentencing and those we cannot. Crimes against children simply cannot be tolerated. A society that does not protect its children is not worthy of calling itself one. I am proud of all the legislation we passed this year specifically to protect children and commend the sponsors for their excellent work."
July 1 also marks the enactment of Evelyn Boswell's Law which provides that parents in Tennessee who do not report children missing to law enforcement within 24 hours could face Class A misdemeanor charges. Sponsored by Senator Jon Lundberg, R-Bristol, the legislation was named after a Sullivan County 15-month-old who was found dead after her mother failed to report her missing to the authorities for months.
Lundberg also sponsored Eli's Law, which will also take effect on Thursday. It was named after a child subjected to traumatizing levels of parental abuse, even though his older brother had been removed from the parents' custody for both neglect and abuse. This legislation helps prevent such tragic situations by giving the court that previously decided the first child's case the ability to take further action needed to protect children.
Protection of children is the impetus of another law that will go into effect July 1 requiring adoptive parents receiving subsidies to annually provide the Department of Children's Services (DCS) with medical or school enrollment records in order to ascertain a health check. The new law was passed after the horrific deaths of two Roane County children. The arrest warrant said the children were caged in isolation and fed a "starvation diet of light bread and water" by their adoptive parents. Authorities believe the children were buried several years before discovery, while the adoptive parents continued receiving financial benefits. Sponsored by Senator Ken Yager (R-Kingston), it authorizes DCS to initiate a face-to-face visit if the adoptive parent fails to provide the documentation and foul play might be suspected.
Other child protection laws that will take effect on Thursday include:
• A new statute sponsored by Bell requiring a person convicted of the facilitation of rape of a child or aggravated rape of a child serve their full sentence, followed by community supervision for life;
• A new law sponsored by Senator Dawn White, R-Murfreesboro, removing the statute of limitations for any commercial sex trafficking offense committed against a child on or after July 1, 2021 as many victims don't immediately report due to trauma or fear of retaliation;
• Legislation sponsored by Senator Paul Rose, R-Covington, which ensures that a juvenile convicted of conduct that would constitute rape if committed by an adult cannot work or volunteer at a place that is in close or frequent contact with children;
• A new law sponsored by Senator Kerry Roberts, R-Springfield, expanding the definition of "severe child abuse" to involve a child's exposure to certain extremely dangerous or illegal drugs; and
• A new law sponsored by Senator Paul Bailey, R-Sparta, which expands the definition of child neglect and endangerment to include the exposure of a child to methamphetamines and other dangerous drugs. |
using System;
namespace MaterialIcons.FormsPlugin.WinPhone
{
/// <summary>
/// Enables renderers for various aspects of the library.
/// </summary>
public static class MaterialIconControls
{
/// <summary>
/// Initializes the control library.
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{
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Family Law season 2: Is it renewed, canceled at The CW?
Family Law December 11, 2022
Following tonight's big finale on The CW, can you expect a Family Law season 2 down the road? Or, is this the end?
There are a few different things to break down within this piece about the show's future, largely because it is complicated. For those who do not know, Family Law is not a CW original; it is an acquisition from Canada, similar to Coroner and some other series we have seen them broadcast over the years. This show does have a good bit of appeal to US audiences, mostly because stars Jewel Staite (Firefly) and Victor Garber (Legends of Tomorrow) are both familiar faces. Also, legal dramas in particular tend to have big followings.
If you are watching this show up in Canada, then you know already that there's nothing to be concerned about here — after all, Family Law has already been renewed through season 3! The question is whether or not The CW will air the upcoming seasons. Financially, it makes a good bit of sense to do so, if the new ownership is really about trying to save money. The financial responsibility here is significantly less than a series like The Flash or Walker. However, the live ratings have also left something to be desired. Some of that may be due to the timeslot, where the show is up against NFL football and a number of other primetime shows.
Could Family Law season 2 perform better in a different spot, and also with a greater number of similar shows around it? It's possible. We know that The CW moving forward is going to appeal more towards older viewers, and this series on paper seems to fit that demographic rather well. We may not get an answer on their season 2 plans for a good while, so we'd go ahead and advise you to exercise some patience here.
If season 2 is ordered…
Be prepared to wait a while. We wouldn't expect it until at least the fall, if not later than that.
Do you think we are going to see a Family Law season 2 over on The CW?
Be sure to let us know right away in the comments, and be sure to still around for other news. (Photo: The CW.)
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The 2010 Shanghai World Expo opens May 1, and 2,500 ordinary Chinese living in the Bay Area will be part of it.
That's how many have been photographed for a wall exhibition called "The Chinese in America," in the U.S. pavilion of the world's fair, which about 70 million people are expected to visit before it closes in six months. That's a lot of exposure for people who were just going about their routine when they came within the long outreach arm of Mabel Teng, executive director of the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco.
Teng, a former city supervisor and tax assessor, heard about the photo exhibition from Dennis Wu, a San Francisco philanthropist who sits on the Committee of 100, a national nonpartisan organization that is sponsoring the exhibit. Teng threw the weight of her foundation behind it, launching an outreach drive on Chinese New Year last February.
"The idea is to show that America is a diverse country and that Chinese are part of the diversity and the strength," she says. "We want to have every strata represented in the digital wall."
The virtual picture montage, which will rotate 10,000 images, is fundamentally an Internet project. People of Chinese heritage are invited to submit digital pictures of themselves by using personal computers to upload them onto www.jointhewall.org.
"They take this really, really seriously," says Teng, who has seen men bring their wedding suits to the Chinese Culture Center, to change into before being photographed. She's also seen entire families come in their Sunday best and then only the father is photographed. The others are dressed up for support.
One-third of the 2,500 subjects have been photographed in the studio, and the rest have let the camera find them. Teng has sent outreach teams into 23 gathering places in Chinese strongholds on both sides of the bay and down the Peninsula.
City College of San Francisco has been a strategic location, and one morning as the deadline neared, Teng brought her road show to the Chinatown/North Beach campus in a redundant elementary school.
Outside the door of English 101, her team set up a recruitment display as if it were a blood drive. Then as the overcrowded class got under way, Teng, a former teacher, came in and gave a pep rally, moving up and down the aisle and using hand gestures like a coach.
Alternating languages, she made sure to use the English when mentioning "70 million" viewers. That's a phrase they all understood. When Teng was finished, the volunteers practically bowled her over to get out into the hall where the pictures were to be taken.
The line ran from the classroom door to the front door on Filbert Street. Students of all ages eagerly filled out the release forms, and they weren't all just trying to avoid their English lessons.
Among the first through was Yin San Chan, who has been in San Francisco since 1948 but is just now getting around to English lessons.
"It's a people's wall, and the people want to be part of it," said Chan, using Teng as an interpreter. At the back end of the line was Robin Xu, 24, who arrived from Tsingtao eight months ago. "It's a really big event for China," said Xu, "and I think I should participate."
By noon, Teng's recruitment drive had tallied 123 face models - signed up, shot and ready for the big wall in China. |
I have said it before, but the Royal Rumble is my favorite wwe event of the year. It's the kickoff to the road to WrestleMania. The matches are normally exciting and anything can happen in the Rumble itself. Surprise entrances, shocking moments, and standoffs that either build to rivalries or never seen before, and this year didn't disappoint and was thrilling to me as ever. Before I jump into things I need to say, I didn't watch the pre show matches that saw Shinsuke Nakamura regain his US Title, Murphy retain the Cruiserweight title, and Bobby Roode and Gable pick up the tag win. Sure they were good, just missed them. Without said, going to discuss my opinon on the regular matches and then the rumbles, so let's get to it shall we.
Going to start with the women's matches which really stole the show. Sasha Banks and Rhonda Rousey put on a surprisingly exciting match. That had such an old school back and forth match with alot of submission matches. That harkened back to the days of technical wrestling. Alot of moments where Sasha looked like she was primed to win with how she went from one hold to the next and Rousey getting the win with a pinfall. Rhonda showed that she can go with one of the best Raw has to offer while Sasha got a long awaited return to glory, with a little tease to a four horsewomen match. Meanwhile Becky Lynch and Asuka opened the event to a great performance that had everything a match needs. Pushing each other to the limit for nearly twenty minutes. Going from technical prowless to high impact moves and Becksploder off the top for a two count. Telling a hell of a story with Asuka getting the tap out victory with a crazy reverse Asuka Lock with a bridge. It made Asuka look dominating and not the last time we see The Man for the evening.
The men's side of the card was a little lackluster, but still pretty decent. Shane McMahon and The Miz dethroning The Smackdown Champs The Bar was the men's match of the evening. A good solid tag match that could have gone either way, with a fun moment that saw Caesaro catch Shane in mid air during Coast-to-Coast. Definitely interested in seeing what happens going forward. While The Brock vs Balor match may have ended as perdicted but glad to see a Brock match that used more then just three or four moves. The Daniel Bryan vs Aj match was a real let down though. They are both so talented but the match was so dull and seemed to lack any sort of energy, and the Rowan involvement was just weird.
Going from the match card to the Royal Rumble matches and will start with the men's. I always love these matches and this one didn't disappoint and was a little more special this time for the fact that we didn't have any real Legends involved, with the exception of Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle, neither of which lasted very long and in Jeff's case, minutes. They utilized their regulars, Nxt, and Pete Dunne from The UK brand and they put on a show with the time they had. Nia coming into the mix and changing the usual big guy being swarmed to Mysterio, Ziggler, and Orton having to team up to have to deal with the threat she was imposing on everyone was a fun twist that really worked well. The fact she got time to show off her ability against the guys and did well was exciting to see and hope it carries on. Seth Rollins getting the win was kind of expected since it leaked out a few weeks ago. May have been hoping for Braun myself, but Rollins has been a machine in 2018 and one of the hardest workers on the raw brand. Will deserved win despite my lack of interest in seeing him take on Lesnar which is looking like will come to be.
The women on the other hand, was so good. Again, they didn't have really legend involvement. Relying on their main roster and NXT for the most part. They were all just so terrific. Lacey Evans, Rhea Ripley, Xia Li, Kairi Sane all grabbed their moments and ran with it. While the main roster showed they are the best part of wrestling today and I am so freaking excited to see more of Nikki Cross. So much fun to watch her insanity flow in the ring, and of course The Man, Becky Lynch entered to a huge pop, myself included, and got the win.
And now we are on the Road to WrestleMania. Starting off with a massive bang and plenty of room to run going forward. Becky and Rollins cementing their place on the show of shows and the women's tag team titles looking at Elimination Chamber. These next few months are looking to be a legitimate wild ride that has been missing for WWE for quite some time and I am excited to see where it leads. As always thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed. |
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Free Books for Kids! United Way Brings Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to Whatcom County
Yes, you read that right! United Way of Whatcom County has recently signed on as the local affiliate for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a world-wide program that sends free books each month to kids aged birth to five.
Since launching in 1995, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has become the most recognized early childhood book gifting program in the world. The flagship program of The Dollywood Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Imagination Library mails more than 1.8 million high-quality, age-appropriate books to registered children each month. Dolly created the program in honor of her father, who never learned to read. In doing so, she envisioned fostering a lifelong love of reading in children everywhere, inspiring them to dream big.
This much-loved program promotes reading skills, family time, and school readiness. Any child under the age of 5 living in Whatcom County is eligible to enroll.
Registered children receive an age-appropriate book in the mail each month addressed specifically to them. The books are selected by a national committee of early childhood literacy experts with the intent to provide a variety of inclusive and diverse titles that cover feel good topics. The Blue Ribbon Book Selection Committee takes great care in choosing books that meet the different needs of children as they progress from birth to age five. There two bi-lingual books (English/Spanish) per child per year. Books are also offered in braille.
Kids receive books from time of enrollment until their fifth birthday, at which time they receive a letter from Dolly printed in the last book (Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come) encouraging them to continue with their love of books and learning.
Register a child here.
Participation in the Imagination Library program is positively and significantly associated with higher measures of early language and math development. Research indicates the program is extremely popular in the communities where its implemented and shows promise in promoting changes in home literacy environments, children's attitudes toward reading, and early literacy skills.
More than just books
Making sure Whatcom County kids have access to high quality early learning opportunities, childcare, and parent support programs is a critical element of United Way's work to break the cycle of poverty in our community. When we give kids and families the tools and opportunities they need to be successful, everybody wins.
"We are thrilled to be able to bring Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to Whatcom County kids and families," says United Way Community Impact Manager Patricia Boyce. "We know kids love getting books in the mail, but we also know this program has been proven to promote literacy and school readiness. This is more critical than ever to help offset the learning slide we're seeing as a result of Covid-19. This extremely low-barrier reading program will help promote pandemic literacy recovery throughout our community, and we are so excited to be able to help."
It's a LIVE UNITED effort
The launch of Imagination Library in Whatcom County coincides with a larger effort to expand the program throughout Washington State.
Many local United Ways have committed to this work by stepping up as affiliates and agreeing to take on the program in their respective counties. The statewide rollout is also receiving a high level of support from the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) with $2 million in matching funds to make the program more cost effective for regional affiliates to administer. The Dollywood Foundation covers a substantial portion of Imagination Library expenses. Local affiliates are responsible for funding the program at a cost of $25 per year per child. This covers 12 new books each year plus shipping.
United Way of Whatcom County will be partnering with a variety of organizations locally to maximize the success of this program and reach as many kids as possible. We want every child in Whatcom County to be able to benefit from having Dolly Parton's Imagination Library available in our community. Our goal is to foster a love of reading and prepare our littlest learners for long-term success in school and life.
Want to help support this program and/or sponsor a child? We love that! Reach out to us here.
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There's no chance of this ever being completed, so why are you doing it?
Along with the conundrum of the underwater civilizations, this is undeniably the most frequently asked question we have. Each of our team members has their own opinion on the matter, so a single uniform answer isn't possible, and in the context of visible progress so far, many are justified in believing that the full game will indeed never come to fruition.
The team formed out of a uniform desire to create an evolution game better than all which came before. Spore was, for many, a huge disappointment – after promising the epic tale of an organism's grand rise from cell to space empire, all it delivered was a set of limited, scientifically inaccurate mini-games. Admittedly, it's still fun (many of us still play it to this day), but it's certainly not what EA promised. Revolutionary Games' goal is to find out where Spore went wrong, fix its shortcomings, improve upon it as much as we can, and ultimately give the world the game it was denied. Yes, we are well aware of the risk; the possibility that, despite its lofty ambitions, the project will fizzle out has been a constant thought in all our minds. We seek to accomplish more and have less capacity to do so than some, but each of us has the motivation and skill to succeed, and so far, despite the adversities we've experienced, we're still here, incrementally drawing closer to the game we hope is possible.
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Twyla Exner is a Canadian contemporary artist who resides in Prince George, British Columbia. She creates art works in various mediums, including drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and installation. Exner's pieces explore themes of nature, combined with technology and electronics, and have been exhibited across Canada. She is currently employed as the director of Public Programs at Two Rivers Gallery.
Education
Exner studied at the University of Regina, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture in 2004. She then went on to complete a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts from Concordia University in 2010.
Career
Exner taught at Thompson Rivers University, in Kamloops, BC, and Grande Prairie Regional College in Grande Prairie, Alberta. She was a part of the Saskatchewan arts community as a curator, writer, art juror, mentor, and artist. In 2014, Exner was selected to exhibit her work at the Art Gallery of Algoma, based on the high quality of her work, and also her willingness to engage with the community by teaching workshops, and giving artists talks. The event was covered by Shaw TV.
Exner has received grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012). She is a member of CARFAC.
Work
Exner creates hands-on, labour-intensive sculptures. Some of her work is made by weaving together salvaged electronic components, like wires and circuits. She also makes detailed drawings that connote themes of invention; merging technology and biology.
Exner's work has been exhibited across Canada. In 2013 and 2014, her work became part of the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils' touring show, Creative Play: Saskatchewan Arts Board 65th Anniversary Exhibition. Her work is in private collections, and the collection of the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
Exhibitions
Exner has shown her art works in a number of solo and group exhibitions across Canada, including the art gallery of St Albert, the Campbell River Art Gallery, the Vernon Public Art Gallery, the ODD Gallery, and the Cube Gallery.
Solo exhibitions
2020 – Cling, Cube Gallery at Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC.
2018 – Send & Receive | Arnica Artist-Run Centre | Kamloops, BC.
2017 – Technological Wanders, Art Gallery of Saint Albert, Saint Albert, AB.
2015 – Structure of a Substance: Cluster, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, BC.
2014 – Systems & Things, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, BC.
2012 – Entangled, Odd Gallery (KIAC), Dawson City, YT.
Group exhibitions
2019 – Curiosity Collider: Invasive Systems | VIVO | Vancouver, BC.
2018 – Remembering Mr. LeBlonde | Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre | Regina Beach, SK.
2018 – Send & Receive | The Works Art & Design Festival | Edmonton, AB.
2017 – Colour | Hill Tower | Saskatchewan Arts Board Collection Exhibition | Curator: Belinda Harrow | Regina, SK.
2016 – Visual Arts Faculty Biennial, Thompson Rivers University Gallery, Kamloops, BC.
2014 –Creative Play: Saskatchewan Arts Board 65th Anniversary Exhibition, program for ten Saskatchewan venues.
2010 – Detritus Ecologies, Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON.
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Concordia University alumni
Academic staff of Thompson Rivers University
University of Regina alumni
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What's Really the Reason Behind 'The Great Resignation'?
People changed jobs in record numbers in 2021, and 2022 is projected to bring more of the same. So what's behind these trends? Let's explore with the results of a new study from PlanBeyond.
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Question: What happens when you combine:
A multiyear, global pandemic,
With a mass move to working from home,
With a jump in inflation,
With a surge in digital transformation in global businesses,
With an increase in retirements,
With worker shortages,
With pent-up demands for change,
With other factors?
Answer: "The Great Resignation" of 2021.
Or, perhaps these are not the real reasons behind a record number of people quitting their jobs in the U.S. in the past year.
But let's begin with some definitions. According to the BBC, "'For talented individuals, in high-demand industries like tech, we're seeing a lot of movement,' says Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of management at Texas A&M University, and the originator of the term 'Great Resignation.' 'People are finding jobs that give them the right pay, benefits and work arrangements in the longer term.'"
And almost anywhere you turn at the end of January 2022, there are media stories about the search for talent in the public and private sectors, along with articles about "The Great Resignation." Consider this sample of stories from just two days this past week:
NPR: The Great Resignation? More like The Great Renegotiation
"Most Americans quitting their jobs merely seem to be aiming to get better jobs. While we are living in a bizarre pandemic economy with countless strange trends, this isn't necessarily one of them; it's pretty standard to see a swell of workers quitting their jobs for greener pastures when the job market is strong and there are lots of shiny opportunities available. When the stars align as they're aligning now, workers gun for better pay, perks, flexibility, and treatment. Bargaining power has shifted in their favor."
Forbes: The Great Resignation And Great Talent Migration
"The current pandemic has caused many people to rethink their jobs and careers from minimum wage earners to highly skilled and highly compensated workers. For many low-wage earners, the decision to remain employed, look for a new job, or leave the workforce has mostly come down to money. At the other end of the spectrum, like the current housing market favoring sellers, high earners, comprised of skilled workers and professionals, now hold the upper hand with employers. While some may refer to the current job environment as the Great Resignation, especially at the high end of the market, it's more appropriate to call this period The Great Talent Migration."
Detroit Free Press: GM to fill 400 software jobs in defiance of the Great Resignation
"General Motors is looking to recruit the top software developers around the world this year. GM will hire 300 to 400 software specialists as it builds its Ultifi platform and designs in-vehicle apps and other technology for it."
NBC News: Covid made millions quit their jobs. Many probably should've stayed put a little longer
"The 'Great Resignation' was fueled partly by a desire to find happiness and work-life balance, but abruptly quitting a good job solely out of desperation can lead to problems you don't see coming."
Fortune: The Great Resignation is coming to decimate the ranks of middle management. The C-Suite should be worried
"It's hard to overstate the impact a proactive, insightful manager can have on a business — and its employees. At a time of unprecedented turnover, feeling connected to, respected by, and engaged with one's manager is vital. Not to mention, recent research from analytics company Visier shows that highly effective managers drive 48% greater profits for their organizations than average managers."
CNBC: The 5 states where workers are quitting their jobs the most—and the least
"A record 4.5 million Americans quit in November alone, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the Great Resignation is hitting some states worse than others.
"WalletHub looked at state resignation rates over the last 12 months based on numbers from the BLS to determine where people are quitting their jobs the most —and the least. Alaska and Wyoming topped the list of quit-heavy states while New York, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia saw the lowest quit rates among workers."
DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE REASONS BEHIND RESIGNATIONS
This list of articles tells a wider story. I was amazed that all of these were released on Jan. 25 or Jan. 26 of 2022. Also released on Jan. 26 was this excellent report on the reasons behind The Great Resignation from PlanBeyond, a marketing research and strategy firm.
Included in this summary are charts used by permission which describe motivations and trends.
First, here is a helpful executive summary on the report:
"Featuring survey findings from over 1,000 U.S. full-time employees between the ages of 18-64, the study asked respondents about their plans to quit their jobs in the next six months as well as their attitudes toward other work-related issues including feelings about their managers and colleagues, compensation, and professional growth opportunities. Key survey insights include:
- The Great Resignation Is Not Over. 42% of employees are considering quitting in the next six months. While men and women are equally split, there is a greater tendency for employees ages 44 and younger to consider quitting.
- Appreciation Is a Powerful Retention Factor. The biggest force behind considering quitting was feeling unappreciated (21%).
- Women Are Extremely Impacted By Poor Supervisors. While not a major factor for men, lack of respect or trust in their supervisor is the #1 influencer of women considering quitting their job.
- Employees Want to Be Themselves at Work. A top factor behind employees thinking about quitting is not being able to be themselves on the job. Remarkably, this factor was especially pronounced among employees 35-44 (31%) and 45-54 (24%) years of age.
- Compensation & Workplace Flexibility Are Not Attrition Factors. Neither workplace inflexibility nor disappointment with compensation were significant attrition drivers, a dynamic true across genders and ages. 'What's remarkable about these findings is that keeping employees still comes down to age-old interpersonal dynamics,' said Laura Troyani, PlanBeyond's Principal. 'We hear issues like compensation or work-from-home dynamics pointed to time and time again as Great Recession culprits. Yet the data shows us that keeping employees still comes down to treating them well and showing them that they are appreciated. …'"
I am sure some readers are wondering whether there are unique aspects regarding technology and cybersecurity roles within The Great Resignation.
While this study did not cover that topic specifically, I have posted many related articles covering cybersecurity and attracting talent, including this recent article as well as this article from 2018 on the reasons behind the public- and private-sector pay divide.
And this Forbes article from last month describes how The Great Resignation could actually benefit the cybersecurity industry: "Cyber leaders should consider taking advantage of the fact that so many people are looking for a new career to bring more people into the field because we definitely need them."
In conclusion, I know there will be readers who disagree with some of the findings from this PlanBeyond report. Many colleagues I have spoken with believe that working from home is now a "must have."
Nevertheless, it behooves all of us to think long and hard about the questions and answers in this report.
Why? Because attracting and maintaining talent is still our No. 1 business issue today.
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Area religious leader reacts to SCOTUS marriage equality hearing
Posted: Mar 27, 2013 12:08 AM EST | Updated: Nov 5, 2014 8:00 PM EST
ELKHART, Ind. -- The Supreme Court of the United States will hear two oral arguments this week regarding marriage equality. Locally, there's support for marriage equality.
"We were always aiming for the middle thirty percent," Rev. Amy DeBeck, of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Elkhart, said. "Thirty percent are already on your side. Thirty percent are never going to be."
She can't convince everyone to be for marriage equality, but she's O.K. with that.
"People are afraid of what they don't know," DeBeck said.
Her Elkhart congregation supports marriage for all, regardless of sexual orientation. In the last few days, especially, there's been a lot of attention on this issue.
"There has finally been a groundswell," DeBeck said. "This is the tipping point. This is what we needed, because the fact that it's already made it to the Supreme Court, says America is ready to accept this."
Because she believes marriage isn't between a man and a woman, but between love and love.
"At some point, the states will catch up. At some point, the nation will catch up," she said. "But as a professional clergy member, love is what I'm sanctioning when I do a wedding."
Unclear on how the rest of the country will move forward, she plans to keep fighting for what she calls basic human rights.
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Politics / Arnold Ahlert / January 30, 2020
'Fairness' Is No Substitute for Moral Obligation
Why Elizabeth Warren's redistribution plan for forgive student loans is so very wrong.
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By now, millions of Americans have seen the exchange between Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and the angry father who confronted her at a campaign stop in Iowa, regarding her promise to cancel outstanding student-loan debt. Unfortunately, there are also millions of other Americans who either don't understand or aren't particularly concerned with why this exchange was taken to heart by so many of their fellow citizens. It's because moral obligation has, for almost all intents and purposes, been tossed on the ash heap of history.
"I just wanted to ask one question," the father began. "My daughter is getting out of school. I've saved all my money. She doesn't have any student loans. Am I going to get my money back?"
"Of course not," Warren answered.
"So you're going to pay for people who didn't save any money and those of us who did the right thing get screwed? My buddy had fun, bought a car, and went on all the vacations. I saved my money. He makes more than I did. I worked a double shift. So, you're laughing at me," he continued, as Warren shook her head in denial. "Yeah, that's exactly what you're doing. We did the right thing and we get screwed."
"I appreciate your time," Warren responded before the man briskly walked away.
Sen. Warren might appreciate many things, but the extra time and effort that millions of Americans put in to do the right thing — rather than taking the easy way out — isn't one of them.
Yet based on the current ethos of the nation, why should she? If there's one thing Warren and her fellow Democrats know, it's that there's a cohort of Americans who have been carefully nurtured to believe they are, above all else, "victims." Victims of a nation characterized by Democrats — depending on which group of constituents they are addressing — as racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, nativist, or just plain bigoted. One where irredeemably evil rich people made their fortunes solely by screwing over wholly virtuous lower- and middle-class Americans.
Lower- and middle-class Americans who deserve redress, because "fairness" demands it.
Thus, Warren's plan, estimated to cost $640 billion, would be underwritten by a 2% "wealth tax" on individuals earning greater than $50 million, which Warren claims would raise enough money to fund the cancellation of student-loan debts and universal pre-K. It would forgive $50,000 of student-loan debt for individuals in households earning less than $100,000 per year, while individuals in households earning more than $100,000 would receive a reduced amount of loan forgiveness, based on a sliding scale.
Bernie Sanders also has a plan. He would eliminate all education-related debt underwritten, guaranteed, or insured by the federal government, regardless of the borrowers' current income.
Fox News columnist Justin Haskins points out some inconvenient truths about the issue, noting that only about 10% of students default on their loans and that the federal government already has several programs for canceling student debt. There are also income-based repayment plans, tying monthly student-loan payments to household income, rather than their total debt amount, and a program that provides loan forgiveness after 10 years of on-time, income-based repayments to those who work for a nonprofit organization or for the government.
Haskins also explains that the status quo fuels the crisis because the federal government ultimately guarantees student loans, allowing colleges to raise their costs with impunity, while various programs of debt reduction or forgiveness incentivize unwise borrowing decisions by parents and students.
Thus, he suggests "reforms" that would mitigate both. "Until we fix the foundational problems at the root of the student debt crisis, this important issue will never be resolved," he concludes.
In reality, there is only one "foundational" problem here, one that has plagued this nation for decades: the virtual elimination of moral obligation that begets personal responsibility.
Columnist Katherine Timpf gets to the heart of the issue. Even if Warren had offered to pay back the Iowa father, "this man's own suggestion for how to make things fair would still leave him (in his words) getting 'screwed,'" she writes. "When he references the sacrifices that he and his family had to make to pay for his daughter's college, what he's implicitly saying is that his choice to be financially responsible has cost him things that money cannot replace."
In Timpf's case, it meant a series of life decisions that included withdrawing from Columbia University's graduate school of journalism after she had been accepted, because she realized "I'd never be able to repay the $80,000 loan I'd have to take out out to attend my dream school."
Instead, she chose to pursue unpaid internships to advance her career. She also made other choices with which millions of her fellow Americans are intimately familiar. They included going "months without a single day off," "waking up at 4 a.m. and not getting home until after 11 at night," and living in an apartment building that was "so dilapidated that you could effortlessly break into the front door with a credit card, so poorly run that I'd have no water without warning, and so downright filthy that I once had scabies and fleas in the same week."
Thus Ms. Timpf, who currently writes for National Review and appears on Fox News, has little patience for the Democrats' siren song. "I don't think that I should have to pay for someone else making an irresponsible decision when they could have made a responsible one," she writes. "What's more, talking about this issue only in terms of money truly minimizes the fact that, really, it's about so much more."
It most certainly is. If freely undertaken contractual commitments with regard to student loans can be tossed aside, what other commitments or promises can be dispensed with when one finds them "problematic?" Mortgages? Car loans?
In a nation where one-third of marriages end in divorce, the out-of-wedlock birthrate is now 40%, more "adults" ages 18 to 34 are living at home with their parents than with a spouse, and 15% of American men between the ages of 25 and 54 still aren't working despite a good economy, it should surprise no one that shirking obligations and/or avoiding commitments altogether resonates, especially when politicians deliberately obscure the reality of cost transfers — or insist those transfers to Americans with greater wherewithal constitute "social justice."
Once concepts like "fairness," "social justice," or "free" anything are conflated with genuine morality and personal responsibility, all vote-buying schemes become viable. Add the aforementioned embrace of victimhood to the mix, and such concepts are construed as noble.
Does the American electorate wish to continue expanding a safety net — one that's precipitated the lion's share of our $23 trillion national debt — already covering a large number of able-bodied people who can rationalize anything and whose entire journey through life is traveled on the path of least resistance? And, with regard to college-loan forgiveness, relatively well-off Americans who don't wish to abide by their freely made obligations?
President Trump once said a nation without borders is no nation at all. Neither is one where free-riding is promoted as justice and compassion.
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The stereochemistry of the thermal cheletropic decarbonylation of 3-cyclopentenone as determined by multiphoton infrared photolysis/thermolysis
Gregory R. Unruh, David M. Birney
There are two allowed pathways for the thermal cheletropic decarbonylation of 3-cyclopentenone. The stereochemistry of decarbonylation of an unconstrained derivative (trans, trans-2,5-dimethyl-3-cyclopentenone, 4) has been determined for the first time. Under conventional pyrolysis conditions, thermal rearrangements of the initial product (trans, trans-2,4-hexadiene, 5) occur at the high temperatures required for the decarbonylation. However, by using multiphoton infrared photolysis/thermolysis to initiate decarbonylation, it was shown that the initial products from thermal decarbonylation of 4 are solely carbon monoxide and stereospecifically 5. The stereochemistry of decarbonylation is thus disrotatory, in accord with prior theoretical studies. A survey of crystal structures reveals ground-state distortions along this reaction coordinate as well.
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Unruh, G. R., & Birney, D. M. (2003). The stereochemistry of the thermal cheletropic decarbonylation of 3-cyclopentenone as determined by multiphoton infrared photolysis/thermolysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125(28), 8529-8533. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0353661
Unruh, Gregory R. ; Birney, David M. / The stereochemistry of the thermal cheletropic decarbonylation of 3-cyclopentenone as determined by multiphoton infrared photolysis/thermolysis. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2003 ; Vol. 125, No. 28. pp. 8529-8533.
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Unruh, GR & Birney, DM 2003, 'The stereochemistry of the thermal cheletropic decarbonylation of 3-cyclopentenone as determined by multiphoton infrared photolysis/thermolysis', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 28, pp. 8529-8533. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0353661
The stereochemistry of the thermal cheletropic decarbonylation of 3-cyclopentenone as determined by multiphoton infrared photolysis/thermolysis. / Unruh, Gregory R.; Birney, David M.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 125, No. 28, 16.07.2003, p. 8529-8533.
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N2 - There are two allowed pathways for the thermal cheletropic decarbonylation of 3-cyclopentenone. The stereochemistry of decarbonylation of an unconstrained derivative (trans, trans-2,5-dimethyl-3-cyclopentenone, 4) has been determined for the first time. Under conventional pyrolysis conditions, thermal rearrangements of the initial product (trans, trans-2,4-hexadiene, 5) occur at the high temperatures required for the decarbonylation. However, by using multiphoton infrared photolysis/thermolysis to initiate decarbonylation, it was shown that the initial products from thermal decarbonylation of 4 are solely carbon monoxide and stereospecifically 5. The stereochemistry of decarbonylation is thus disrotatory, in accord with prior theoretical studies. A survey of crystal structures reveals ground-state distortions along this reaction coordinate as well.
AB - There are two allowed pathways for the thermal cheletropic decarbonylation of 3-cyclopentenone. The stereochemistry of decarbonylation of an unconstrained derivative (trans, trans-2,5-dimethyl-3-cyclopentenone, 4) has been determined for the first time. Under conventional pyrolysis conditions, thermal rearrangements of the initial product (trans, trans-2,4-hexadiene, 5) occur at the high temperatures required for the decarbonylation. However, by using multiphoton infrared photolysis/thermolysis to initiate decarbonylation, it was shown that the initial products from thermal decarbonylation of 4 are solely carbon monoxide and stereospecifically 5. The stereochemistry of decarbonylation is thus disrotatory, in accord with prior theoretical studies. A survey of crystal structures reveals ground-state distortions along this reaction coordinate as well.
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Unruh GR, Birney DM. The stereochemistry of the thermal cheletropic decarbonylation of 3-cyclopentenone as determined by multiphoton infrared photolysis/thermolysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2003 Jul 16;125(28):8529-8533. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0353661 |
HomeTECHNOLOGYWhat is USB type-A?
What is USB type-A?
USB Type-A connectors, also known as Standard-A connections, are rectangular and flat. Type A is the "original" USB connector, and it is the most well-known and widely used.
Every USB version, including USB 3.0, USB 2.0, and USB 1.1, supports USB Type-A connectors.
Blue USB 3.0 Type-A connectors are common, though not always. The USB 2.0 Type-A and USB 1.1 Type-A connections are typically black, although not always.
The component of the USB Type-A cord that plugs into a device is known as the plug or a connector, while the component that takes the plug is known as the receptacle, but is more often known as the port.
Usage of USB Type-A
USB Type-A ports/receptacles can be found on practically any modern computer or computer-like device that can operate as a USB host, including, of course, desktops, laptops, netbooks, and many tablets. micro usb to usb c adapter possible?
Other computer-like devices with USB Type-A connections include video game consoles (PlayStation, Xbox, Wii, and so on), home audio/video receivers, "smart" televisions, DVRs, streaming players (Roku, and so on), DVD and Blu-ray players, and so on.
The majority of USB Type-A connectors are found at one end of a variety of USB cables, each of which is designed to connect the host device to another USB-enabled device, usually via a different USB connector type such as Micro-B or Type-B.
USB Type-A ports can also be found at the end of hard-wired USB cables. USB keyboards, mice, joysticks, a ps3 controller charger, and other similar devices are often designed in this manner.
Some USB devices are so little that they don't require a cord. A USB Type-A plug is built right into the USB device in those circumstances. A good example is the popular USB flash drive.
Compatibility with USB Type-A
The USB Type-A connections shown in all three USB versions have the same fundamental shape. This means that any USB Type-A plug will fit into any USB Type-A usb header from any other USB version, and vice versa.
However, there are some key distinctions between USB 3.0 Type-A connectors and USB 2.0 and 1.1 connectors.
The nine pins on USB 3.0 Type-A connections are much greater than the four pins on USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 Type-A connectors. These extra pins are used to enable USB 3.0's faster data transfer rate, but they are put in the connections in such a way that they can physically operate with Type-A connectors from prior USB standards.
Which option is the best: USB flash drive Type-A vs. Type-B vs. Type-C
We must first examine the various versions of the USB standard in order to completely comprehend USB Type-C, Type-A, and Type-B. The USB Type relates to the physical shape and wiring of the ports and plugs, whereas the version refers to the overall speed and capability of the system.usb composite device can't work properly with usb 3.0
USB comes in four different versions: 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1. The initial USB version, USB 1.1, was released in 1998 and offers a max speed of 12Mbps. USB 1.1 can barely transfer data at 1.2Mbps in many circumstances, making it mostly obsolete.
USB 2.0 was released in 2000 and has a maximum speed of 480Mbps in Hi-Speed mode or 12Mbps in standard mode. It has a maximum output power of 2.5 V and is backward compatible with USB 1.1. (1.8 A)
USB 3.0 was introduced in 2008, with a max speed of 5 Gbps in SuperSpeed mode and a blue hue. It can give up to 5 V(1.8 A) of power and is backwards compatible with USB 2.0.
USB 3.1 was announced in 2013 and twice the speed of 10Gbps, making it as fast as the original Thunderbolt standard. USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 are backward compatible. Larger devices can draw power from the host using USB 3.1's three power profiles: up to 2 A at 5 V (for a power consumption of up to 10 W), and up to 5 A at either 12 V (60 W) or 20 V (80 W) (100 W).usb composite device can't work properly with usb 3.0
The USB Type-A was the original design for the first USB standard, with a flat and rectangular shape. The Type-A connector, also known as the A-male connection, is plugged into a host on a typical USB cable, and the USB port into which the Type A-male is entered is referred to as a Type A-female port. Type-A ports are mostly found in host devices such desktop computers, laptops, game consoles, keyboards, mice, thumb drives, and media players; peripheral devices rarely use them.
USB 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 all use the same Type-A design, therefore they'll always work with a Type-A port, even if the device and the host are using different USB versions.
The Type-B connector, also known as the Type B-male, is the end of a common USB connection that plugs into a peripheral device such as a printer, phone, or external hard drive. The Type B-female port on the device is what it's called.
Because peripheral devices come in many shapes and sizes, the Type-B connector and its companion port are available in a range of styles. The USB Type-B plugs and connections are currently available in five different designs: the original Standard-B, Mini-B, Micro-B USB, Micro-B USB 3.0, and Standard-B USB 3.0.
The Standard-B design was created for USB 1.1 and is used to connect big peripheral devices to a computer, such as printers or scanners. Mini-B ports, which are significantly smaller, are present in older portable devices such as digital cameras and portable drives, and are quickly becoming obsolete. The Micro-B USB port, which is slightly smaller than the Mini, is the most common USB port design for modern smartphones and tablets. Micro-USB 3.0 is the most common design, and it's mostly used for USB 3.0 portable drives; the Type-A end of the cable is normally blue. The Standard-B USB 3.0, like the Standard-B, is intended to handle 3.0 speed administration.
The Type-C port and connector are about the same size as the Micro-B USB port and connection at 8.3 × 2.5 mm, making it compact enough to function with even the tiniest peripheral devices. The cable is similar on both ends, allowing for reversible plug position and eliminating the risk of accidentally plugging it in backwards.
USB 3.0 and 2.0 are backward compatible with USB Type-C and USB 3.1. Type-A ports and plugs are no longer available in a pure Type-C USB connection, however, a Type A to Type C cable is offered for compatibility. Adapters for Type C hosts and devices to work with existing USB devices are also available.
While this is the first time USB adapters are necessary, it is likely to be the last, as Type-C is intended to be utilized for future, faster USB versions.
What are USB-C and USB 3.2 Gen 1×2 and USB 3.2 Gen 2×2?
What is USB Type-B?
What is the difference between a USB Type-A and a USB Type-C connection?
USB-C is a newer, thinner, and more powerful version of USB-A. Also, with Thunderbolt 3 compatibility, USB-C has the ability to handle faster data transfer speeds. Another distinction is that USB-C cables are reversible, meaning there is no "up" or "down" side; simply plug them in.
The USB-A connector on my computer isn't working. Is it possible to fix it?
It's possible. There are a few troubleshooting procedures you may do to try to fix a broken USB-A port or connector. Checking for debris or a loose connection are examples of hardware repairs, but you could also be encountering a software fault that necessitates updating or resetting your system.
Is USB-A on its way out?
Despite the fact that USB-C is newer and more adaptable, USB-A cabling and connections are still used by many users and devices. USB-A isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
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ABC-CLIO Ebook Collection
History & literature eBooks, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
The award-winning ABCmouse curriculum is designed to help young children (ages 2-8+) build a strong foundation for future academic success. ABCmouse is 100% educational, with more than 10,000 learning activities (books, puzzles, educational games, art activities, songs, etc.) across all major subject areas: reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music—including more than 1,200 of those learning activities in Spanish. Best of all, kids just love it! (From Age of Learning, Inc.)
Premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas.
Ebook Central Academic and Public Library Complete
Scholarly titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.
Ebooks on EBSCOhost
Over 26,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
ebrary Public Library Complete
Nonfiction titles for exploration and research, with topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.
Searchable collection of online reference titles.
Homegrown Ebooks Collection
A collection of more than 1,000 eBooks from a variety of North Carolina publishers. Includes popular and scholarly nonfiction, novels by well-known NC authors, and award-winning short fiction and poetry.
Downloadable audio and ebooks on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with all popular e-readers. An app is available for download. Users will need to make a personal account to use this resource.
Steps for User Registration:
Users will need to register for an account before accessing NC LIVE content on hoopla.
Enter an email address.
Search for and select library as "NC LIVE".
Enter your library card number and add "NC" at the end, for example "2000385723NC".
NC Kids Digital Library
Kids eBooks, eAudibooks, and videos. Sponsored by NCPLDA, NCGA, and the State Library.
North Carolina Digital Library
The North Carolina Digital Library offers a wide variety of ebooks, downloadble audiobooks, videos, and magazines in fiction, non-fiction, children, and young adult subject areas.
A downloadable eBook collection with books contributed from libraries across the country. Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time.
SIRS Discoverer
Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students, SIRS Discoverer offer articles, nonfiction books, images, activities and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability.
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A scale consisting of eight suggestions worded with specific sensory predicates was administered to a large undergraduate introductory psychology class. Following the presentation of the suggestions, Self-Scoring Forms were filled out to assess the subjects' response to auditory (A), visual (V), and kinesthetic (K) suggestions. prior to the conclusion of the session, subjects were asked to write a brief essay describing their experience of the suggestion portion of the session. Subject essays were content analyzed for the use of predicates (including, but not only A, V, and K). Frequency of usage of A, V, and K predicates were compared with responses to A, V, and K suggestions to determine the amount of consistency between preference for the use of a specific category of sensory predicates and responsiveness suggestions worded in similar language. No significant correlations between the use of specific sensory predicates and response to specific sensory suggestions were found.
Talone, James M., "The Use of Sensory Predicates to Predict Responses to Sensory Suggestions" (1982). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 5930. |
Pickett Family Foundation
The foundation is focused and committed to making life better for individuals and communities by working and collaborating with technology leaders and other deserving philanthropic organizations, dedicated to making a positive difference in our home region in three focus areas:
When nfrastructure was launched by the Pickett family as a small technology company in 1992, one of the goals was to increase opportunity and improve the lives of the people and communities that become part of our story. This guiding principle has played a major role in the growth of a small business that started in the basement of a liquor store into one of New York's largest private technology companies; and with the formation of Zones nfrastructure in 2018, one of the largest private technology companies in the world. This principle – to the benefit of deserving people and inspiring projects around the United States – also drives the philanthropic mission of the Pickett Family Foundation.
The Pickett Family Foundation reviews requests for funding annually. If you are an organization or have a project which you believe shares the Pickett Family Foundation's mission, you may provide information about your organization or project in writing for consideration.
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The 12th Annual Pickett Family Foundation Golf Outing & Cocktail Reception plans to return at a later date in 2021 at Saratoga National Golf Course.
Since its inception, the Pickett family and Pickett Family Foundation invested over $2,000,000 in causes that addressed significant social issues.
Grantees:
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The Albany Medical Center Foundation
Alzheimer's Association
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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
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Nick's Fight to be Healed Foundation
Northeast Association of the Blind
Northeast Kidney Foundation
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The Museum is situated between North Camp and Aldershot. It is easily reached by road and free parking is available outside.
The Number One route Stagecoach Goldline bus runs every 10 minutes between Aldershot and Old Dean. It stops in Queen's Avenue, close to the Museum entrance.
The nearest train stations to the Museum are North Camp and Aldershot. Both are approximately 2 miles from the Museum. The Number One bus can be caught from Aldershot station. |
Isolated Building Facades
Art | March 21, 2014 |
Image courtesy of Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy
In architecture, the facade of a building is often the most important aspect from a design standpoint, as it sets the tone for the rest of the building. From the engineering perspective of a building, the facade is also of great importance due to its impact on energy efficiency.
How about the Artistic perspective? Well, French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy presents the ongoing series which isolates building facades. A vision of a new world that is only an image without intimate space.
He explains, "this series offers a vision of an unknown world that would only be a picture, without intimate space, with looks as the only refuge."
more. www.zachariegaudrillot-roy.com
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Apple Marina Bay Sands is set to be a distinctive presence on the bay, with a 30-metre diameter dome that is a contemporary interpretation of the geodesic dome, using minimal material to enclose the maximum space. Imagined as a clear bubble in the water, it references the sister pavilion through its materiality and site. Read more
Beblau
Design | December 31, 2020
Beblau is a startup from Barcelona, Spain, that was born to enable organization and mobility working from anywhere. They aim to make work life easier, smarter, more flexible and in style for today's workers, the digital nomads. Beblau makes unique and sleek design smart tech organizers. As co-founder Guido Charosky says "It all started with a pain we observed and that we also had ourselves: changing places when working, either at home or in an office, moving from our desktop to a meeting room carrying our stuff around using your laptop as a tray. Nobody uses a backpack within an office to go to a meeting". Read more |
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Ready to Rumble: WrestleMania Coming to Jerry's World!
ARLINGTON, TX -- There was a big announcement at AT&T Stadium Tuesday. And no, it wasn't the NFL admitting it was wrong about the Dez call.
The announcement concerned another subject that brought out Hulk Hogan himself. It was the official reveal that Jerry's World will host WrestleMania 32.
Hogan lived up to his reputation as the ultimate pitchman.
"You guys have to be here because it's going be so exciting. It's going to be so crazy! It'll be a memory that'll last a lifetime."
The news is sure to leave some WWE fans speechless, but can the stadium handle the massive international WrestleMania crowd?
Well, this isn't the stadium's first rodeo, literally. Along with rodeos, the stadium has hosted some of the biggest events in sports entertainment, a list that includes the Super Bowl.
The stadium even has WWE superstar John Cena excited. "Our production manager is actually behind the scenes and I gave him a pat on the back and said I can't wait to see what you do with this place."
This is the first time the WWE is bringing its most-watched event of the year to North Texas. They're expecting more than 100,000 fans from all 50 states and more than 30 countries.
The week-long celebration will generate more than $100 million for DFW.
"We have been ready and we've proven that over and over again with all the big events," Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck said.
So, DFW is ready to rumble! Let the mania begin! |
Cancer patient Martin too ill to attend own wedding but still charged £4,600 by venue
Frankie Lister-Fell
Published: 7:00 AM November 3, 2021
Updated: 12:15 PM November 9, 2021
Seriously ill Martin McMullan and his fiancée Lindsay got married at Stevenage's Lister Hospital last week - Credit: Courtesy of the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
A wedding venue refused to offer a full refund to a couple despite the groom being in the last stages of terminal cancer.
Welwyn Garden City resident Martin McMullan hoped to marry his fiancée Lindsay Grice at the Shenley Cricket Centre near Radlett.
The wedding was set for November 1, but after Martin's cancer spread to his liver and the rest of his body, it soon became clear he was too unwell to attend.
The family made the difficult decision to cancel the event nine days before the day, and their wedding was eventually held in Lister Hospital, Stevenage, where Martin was being cared for at the time.
Lindsay's father Paul Grice had paid Shenley Cricket Centre £6,400 for the wedding, but the contract stated that unless the event was cancelled within a certain timeframe, the booking would not be refunded.
As a "goodwill gesture", the venue refunded Paul £1,800 but he was still charged £4,600 for the cancelled event.
"I thought that under the circumstances they would retain some of the money but we didn't think it would be the proportion that it is," Paul explained.
The cricket club told Paul that their chefs were paid a retainer, which meant they were unable to refund the full amount. "But that still doesn't come to £4,600," said Paul. The cricket centre has not explained what the £4,600 has been spent on. "It's not about the money though, it's a moral thing," Paul added.
Martin and Lindsay planned to marry at Redborun's Shenley Cricket Centre. - Credit: Nigel Cox
Martin's condition has worsened. He is now coming in and out of consciousness. "It just leaves a sour taste in your throat, to be honest. We shouldn't be having to argue about money now," Paul said.
Shenley Cricket Centre was contacted but declined to comment.
Martin and Lindsay tied the knot on Tuesday, October 26 with close family. Staff spaced out along the corridor to welcome the bride and her father while remaining socially distanced.
Despite not marrying at their dream venue, the occasion was full of joy. Martin said: "After 10 years together, we're so happy to finally be married!", and Lindsay added: "We grew up together and have known each other our whole lives – we're so happy."
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Thorpe's school does not have a middle school lacrosse team. The Weddington-based CLF gives Thorpe and his schoolmates a chance to play on regulated teams while emphasizing character, discipline, teamwork and inclusiveness.
The CLF recently named Thorpe the first recipient of its annual Mike VanScoy Memorial Sportsmanship Award. The award honors a young lacrosse player who best promotes the game through sportsmanship, integrity and a willingness to help other players.
VanScoy was an exceptional athlete who played hockey and lacrosse for Lake Forest High School in Illinois and was co-founder of a state-of-the-art sports complex in Michigan.
To be honored for the award, Thorpe was nominated by a former coach.
"Jacob embodies the standards of the award ... on and off the lacrosse field," said CLF President Bob VanScoy.
Thorpe was awarded a plaque commemorating the achievement, a new lacrosse stick and a check for $1,000.
"We are proud to award the first Mike VanScoy Memorial Sportsmanship Award to such a deserving young man who exhibits passion, commitment, and respect for his teammates, coaches and other players," VanScoy said.
In addition to the award, CLF is helping spread the game through a variety of programs and grants.
Scholarships are given to deserving individuals who could not otherwise afford to play youth lacrosse. Free stick and equipment programs expand the sport's reach by working with local lacrosse organizations to provide sticks and balls for practice at home and proper-fitting equipment to ensure safety.
The CLF also offers the New Start Program, which provides equipment to launch lacrosse programs at local schools, field development grants and free lacrosse clinics.
"Jacob is a great example of why we were set up," VanScoy said. "We spoke with him and two of his old coaches, and he was the person we felt best exemplified all of the qualities that we are about.
"He is a very deserving recipient and a great ambassador for our sport." |
Moscow: The Riches of Russia
Eastern Europe & Russia
Alternative escorted tours
Tania Illingworth (née Tolstoy) returns to Moscow for this 'one-off' long weekend to Moscow – the capital dramatically changed since the fall of Communism.
Tania, a descendant of the world-famous novelist, will focus on art and history with a private visit to Leo Tolstoy's pretty country estate. Other important highlights are the UNESCO World Heritage Site - the Kremlin complex uniting the original fortress, the medieval churches and the unique repository of artistic treasures beautifully displayed in the Armoury Museum. Also see The State Tretyakov Gallery – the richest museum of Russian national art – as well as the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art famed for its unique collection of Impressionist and Old Master paintings.
There will be an opportunity to attend a ballet or opera performance at The Bolshoi Theatre, programme will be available 6 weeks before departure.
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Accommodation, breakfast daily; 4 lunches; 1 dinner, all entrance fees, visits, excursions and transportation as per the itinerary, gratuities to guide/s gratuities to driver/s, local English-speaking guide/s
International flights, travel insurance, optional dinner at the Pushkin Café (supplement of EUR 100 per person), visa and visa service, theatre tickets and transport to and from the theatre, government levies or taxes introduced after costing and publication of this programme on 04/04/19
Tour Leader
Tania Illingworth
Tania Illingworth (nee Tolstoy) is three quarters Russian by birth, all her grandparents having fled the Russian Revolution in 1918. A degree in Russian Language & Literature, with Byzantine Art, reinforced her passionate interest in all things Russian. This, and the extensive knowledge she has acquired through years of visits to Russia, make her tours very special.
Day 1 LONDON / MOSCOW
LONDON / MOSCOW
Suggested flight (not included in the cost of the tour) with British Airways BA 235 departing London Heathrow at 10.55 hrs arriving in Moscow Sheremetyevo at 16.50 hrs. On arrival, transfer to the National Hotel for four nights. The hotel is located on the famous Tverskaya Street in the city centre. Optional tour of the Battle of Borodino Panorama and Field Marshal Kutuzov's House. Field Marshal Kutuzov was in command of the armies defending the capital in 1812 and after the most bloody and indecisive of all Napoleonic battles, the Russian forces retreated, and Moscow was abandoned to the French. Return to the hotel. Dinner at the hotel.
Day 2 MOSCOW
Your tour of Moscow begins with a short walk to the station where you go by Metro to the State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow's metro stations are the 'Palaces of the People' built on the orders of Stalin during the 1930s and are extraordinarily lavish with mosaics, chandeliers and sculptures. The State Tretyakov Gallery holds all of Russia's major and most important Russian works of art – appropriated by the State after the Revolution. The roots of Russian art derive entirely from Byzantium after Russia adopted Christianity in the 10th century and the museum holds the finest collection of Russian icons worldwide. Portraiture follows rather naturally after icon-painting. See 19th and 20th century arresting portraits by Kramskoi, Petrov, Repin and, above all, Serov. Also, wonderful landscapes by Shishkin, Polenov, Surikov and Levitan. See the internationally known artists such as Chagall, Malevich and Kandinsky.
Lunch at a local restaurant. This afternoon drive past the Novodevichy Convent, built originally in the 16th century, with massive white encircling walls and blue and gold onion domes. Considered Moscow's finest baroque architecture, it was the most important convent in Russia and fortunately escaped the Napoleonic Invasion in 1812. Continue to Leo Tolstoy's town home, which has remained intact since the world-famous Russian novelist died in 1910. Return to the hotel. Dinner under own arrangements.
Day 3 YASNAYA POLYANA
YASNAYA POLYANA
This morning take a fast train to Tula and continue on to Yasnaya Polyana (translated as Clear Glades) to see Leo Tolstoy's country home, Russia's No. 1 Historic House. See the picturesque estate unchanged since the large family lived there. Remarkably, despite WW2, all the furnishings and contents remain intact and are reverently preserved. Tour the estate and visit Leo Tolstoy's modest grave. Time permitting see the local market in Tula.
Lunch at the museum's restaurant. This afternoon drive to the 16th century fortress, the Tula Kremlin – a former famous arms factory and silver workshop but now an art gallery and folk museum. Within the Kremlin walls see both the 18th and 19th century cathedrals. Return to the hotel by fast train to Moscow. Dinner under own arrangements.
Day 4 MOSCOW CITY
This morning there is a city tour by coach which will include the main architectural sights such as Kutuzov Avenue, Tversaya Street, the Kremlin Embankment and the Cathedral of Jesus Christ the Saviour (inside) built in just five years to mark the millennium. This immense cathedral was built on the same site as the original church destroyed by Stalin in 1931 during the soviet atheist years. The site would have been the colossal 'Palace of the Soviets' but Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 so all construction ceased.
Lunch at a local restaurant. Transfer to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art renowned for its collection of French paintings, especially the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist schools mostly acquired after the Russian Revolution in 1917, when the Soviet government nationalised all private collections. See works by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin Matisse, Picasso. Early 19th century French works include works by Corot, Delacroix, Rubens, Rembrandt, Murillo and van Dyck. Also see the remarkable Fayum 'mummy' portraits (1 – 4th century AD). Time permitting see the Treasures of Priam – a cache of Troy gold and other artefacts dating from 2450 BC discovered by the German multi-millionaire and archaeologist H. Schliemann in the late 1870s in modern Turkey. With other war booty at this time, these incredible treasures were plundered by the Soviets in Berlin in 1945 and have been on permanent display in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art only since 1993. Return to the hotel. Optional dinner at Pushkin Café.
Day 5 MOSCOW / LONDON
MOSCOW / LONDON
Walk to Red Square, built in the 15th century, originally meaning 'Beautiful Square'. See St Basil's Cathedral, built in the late 16th century (exterior only) and Lenin's Mausoleum. Along the walled cemetery the remains of leading Soviet politicians including Stalin, Brezhnev, and Andropov are buried. From the balcony of the Mausoleum Soviet leaders watched the great military parades. See GUM, the State Department Store during the Soviet era. Walk to the Kremlin itself, built as a fortress in the early 16th century – the historic heart of the capital. Tour the Kremlin territory, both the seat of Government as well as a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Armoury Museum, exhibiting splendid Russian State Regalia, carriages, porcelain, jewellery, works by Fabergé and an unrivalled collection of 16th – 17th century British silver. Optional and time permitting, visit the spectacular Diamond Treasury displaying Imperial Russia's precious stones and coronation jewels.
Lunch at a local restaurant. Transfer to the airport for a return flight to London Heathrow. Suggested flight (not included in the cost of the tour) British Airways BA 234 departing Moscow Sheremetyevo at 18.10 hrs arriving in London Heathrow at 20.20 hrs.
NB: During your stay there will be an opportunity to attend an opera or ballet performance at the famous Bolshoi Theatre. Further details of performances will only be available about 6 weeks prior to performance.
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Gallery > Hen Lane
Located to the north on the border between Coventry and North Warwickshire this is now a public footpath.
1. This is the start - on Bennetts Road just past Grove Lane, on the left going away from Coventry. In 1846 these houses were called Hen Lane End
2. It first goes by the side of a house called The Squirrels
3. For the first section a stream runs beside the path. But at the start, the stream IS the path
4. Past the house, we are beside the Rugby Club seen to the right
5. The pictures seen here were taken in early April. In mid-summer it may be far more overgrown
6. Before around 1850, all 'roads' in Keresley would have been like this, except for the Turnpike Road
7. The path now turns left through a kissing gate emerging into open fields
8. Ahead Thompsons Farm can be seen. The path turns to the right
9. To the right another pond can be seen
10. After 50 yards the path enters the next field, with a very tidy holly hedge to the left
11. At the end of the field another pond can be seen
12. Up a slope to the next field. Spring ploughing has just taken place
13. From the highest point Keresley Village can be seen to the left
14. Looking forward to the corner of Fivefield Road. In 1846 that was Farfield Lane. At the top was Le Thefestak'feldputt. That is, the Thieves Stake, where naughty people were staked beside the road towards Tamworth to discourage brigandage
15. Hall Yard Wood to the left - still owned by Queens College Oxford having been bequeathed to them in the sixteenth century.
16. On the ridge can be seen the rear of the Horse and Jockey on Tamworth Road
17. A nice piece of fencing stops the motor bikes. The path continues to Corley Rocks
18. The route is retraced past the ploughed field
19. Thompsons Lane is seen in the distance to the right
20. Back through the wooded lane to Bennetts Road
21. It is April and the bluebells are about 3 inches high
22. Though the old lane
23. Bennetts Road is reached. The village shps are 400 yards away
24. Bennetts Road is the boundary between Coventry and Warwickshire. Across the road the footpath continues past Grove Lane estate and on to Smorrall Lane and Astley Lane exiting near the Astley Book Farm. |
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The Best Eclipse Photos From Folks You Know
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After having a full year to work with his team, he's saying they're stronger and faster, and expects this season's win-loss record to reflect that.
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Sapulpa Times Announces Major Updates to its Community Events Calendar
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Sapulpa Cinema 8 Theater Closes for "Major Renovations," including New Seating
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Mission Street Tattoo becomes Water Street Tattoo, opens tomorrow
ByMicah Choquette July 31, 2017 July 31, 2017
When we first learned that Mission Street Tattoo would be moving from the location it's held for years, it wasn't under the best of terms. The beloved studio owned by community-activists Brandon and Brooke Mull was facing the third rent increase in four years, and it was getting to be untenable. Mull says they were…
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Jamie Arnett: Unfair court proceedings?
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All the details you need for today's Rock Creek Folk Festival featuring Annie Oakley, Chris Blevins and more
a one-day Folk Festival at Kelly Lane Park featuring contemporary Folk Artists Annie Oakley, 11 a.m. to Noon; Chris Blevins, 1 to 2 p.m.; O'Fidelis, 3 to 4 p.m.; Zach Winters Band, 5 to 6 p.m.; and the Justin Joslin Band, 7 to 8 p.m.
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Sapulpa Police make arrest in alleged sexual abuse of 4-year-old
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SCRA's Government Affiliate is Acquired
JANUARY 30, 2017 | PRESS RELEASES
Virginia-Based Analytic Services Inc. to Purchase Advanced Technology International
Summerville, S.C. – SCRA today announced that it will sell its private, non-profit affiliate, Advanced Technology International (ATI) to Analytic Services Inc. (ANSER), an independent public service institute in Falls Church, Virginia. SCRA expects the transaction to close on January 31.
ANSER is a 58-year old non-profit organization focused on helping United States government decision-makers address complex problems so they can make better decisions. ANSER's primary area of focus is national security, providing objective, timely and forward thinking analysis independent of political or commercial influences.
ATI manages research and development collaborations for the U.S. government that range from medical technologies, shipbuilding and ordnance and serves many Department of Defense agencies. ATI was created in 1998 to assist in SCRA's long-term sustainability.
"This announcement is a win for everyone," said Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt. "South Carolina gets a great new corporate citizen in ANSER, SCRA has recommitted itself to growing the state's Innovation Economy and we keep the core ATI business and jobs in Summerville."
In 2016, the SCRA Board of Trustees' Executive Committee separated the ATI personnel from SCRA to better ensure a core focus on SCRA's mission.
"The parallel missions of ATI and ANSER to provide solutions to the U.S. government make the acquisition a natural fit for both companies," said Bob Quinn, SCRA Executive Director. "This sale will keep a homegrown company in South Carolina and give SCRA the opportunity to advance our mission to create high-paying jobs by enhancing the Innovation Economy. The sale fosters our renewed commitment to supporting entrepreneurs, enabling academic research and its commercialization and connecting industry to innovators."
"ATI's unique R&D collaboration work with the government will complement the portfolio of solutions we are able to offer our government clients." said Carmen Spencer, President and CEO of ANSER. "Together ANSER and ATI will focus on informing decisions that shape our nation's future."
A particularly crucial consideration in approving the transaction was retaining jobs and the core business in South Carolina. Spencer said ATI and its 165 employees will remain in Summerville. The purchase will allow ANSER to provide the best possible advice to its government clients regarding technology developments due to the research and development collaborations managed by ATI.
"We are excited to join the ANSER team – a team who values ATI's business expertise and with whom ATI shares an incredible sense of commitment to the nation, our clients and our employees," said ATI President and CEO Chris Van Metre.
Under the terms of the sale agreement, SCRA will receive approximately $25 million. In addition, SCRA could receive up to an additional $15 million over the next four years based on the growth of ATI's support to ANSER's federal sponsors.
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In a letter signed by Cardinal Bertone, Benedict XVI expresses his appreciation for the initiative by the Muslim scholars, inviting its initiator and a delegation of signatories to the Vatican. Jointly, both sides must promote mutual respect and acceptance amongst the younger generations.
Vatican City (AsiaNews) – Benedict XVI has replied to the letter sent on 13 October by 138 Muslim scholars. In his response the Holy Father invites Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal, who was behind the initiative, to visit the Vatican with a delegation of signatories, the latter to continue their dialogue with the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue.
In his reply, which was released today by the Vatican, the Pope reiterates the importance of dialogue based on actual respect for the dignity of the person, on objective knowledge of the other's religion, on the sharing of religious experience, and on a joint commitment to promote mutual respect and acceptance. |
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Lawmaker urges gov't show 'empathy' for homeless after subways jet-cleaned
by Karen Cheung 17:56, 25 January 2016 Updated 19:26, 31 March 2020
A lawmaker has asked a government department to show some empathy for homeless people seeking respite from the cold after pictures of workers washing pedestrian tunnels angered netizens.
At a Legislative Council Panel on Welfare Services meeting on Monday, Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker Tang Ka-piu said that the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) should refrain from washing floors in districts with a high concentration of homeless people during spells of cold weather.
"I don't understand, everyone knows it's cold, and yet [the government] is still cleaning places where homeless people are commonly found… under such special circumstances, shouldn't we be more understanding and not wet their blankets?" Tang said.
FEHD staff washing the tunnels next to the homeless.
Reports of FEHD employees washing floors in tunnels next to homeless people surfaced over the weekend, sparking outrage online.
"They've done the same in parks before, washing the floors at night… the government is not solving problems, it's getting rid of people with problems," one netizen said. "It'll be better if they washed it in the daytime, washing it at night makes it seem like there's a political objective behind this," said another.
Labour Party's Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung was also concerned about whether elderly care homes have sufficient thermal facilities and requested those patrolling the facilities pay extra attention to the matter, Commercial Radio reported.
Fernando Cheung. File photo: HKFP.
Secretary for Labour and Welfare Matthew Cheung Kin-chung said that he will contact the relevant department after the LegCo meeting and that he agreed that they should be considerate to the homeless, RTHK reported. He also said that the Social Welfare Department has made comprehensive preparations to deal with the weather conditions. Cold shelters will be open for 24 hours while local charities will be providing supplies to the needy.
The Chief Executive visited the Nam Cheong District Community Centre. Photo: Facebook, via CY Leung.
On Saturday, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying posted a picture of a community centre he was visiting in Nam Cheong, Sham Shui Po. Leung said that he chatted with homeless people who were waiting to be allocated public housing estates. He added that those who are opposed to the government changing zoning rules to build public housing should come and listen to the homeless.
'Crocodile tears'
Leung was criticised by Scholarism convenor Joshua Wong who said he was being hypocritical and shedding crocodile tears, pretending to be take pity on the homeless while spraying tunnels with cold water. The student activist accused Leung of using the homeless as a tool to attack the enemy. Wong also pointed out that in order to apply for public housing, one must have proof of address: "Did Leung Chun-ying ask how the homeless people would have proof of address?"
Volunteers handing out hot soup.
Meanwhile, a group of around a dozen students visited cold shelters on Sunday night, handing out homemade congee to the homeless and distributing items donated by others, such as clothing, shoes, socks and hats, Ming Pao reported. The Street Sleepers Action Committee also went to various cold shelters and gave out hot soup.
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Karen is a journalist and writer covering politics and legal affairs in Hong Kong for HKFP. She has also written features on human rights, public space, regional legal developments, social and grassroots activism, and arts & culture. She is a BA and LLB graduate from the University of Hong Kong.
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Republicans will conduct a 4th vote this afternoon. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
House GOP to likely conduct fourth round of voting for House Speaker, hope for decision after Tuesday debacle
Despite being an early favorite, California Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed to win the gavel after three rounds of voting yesterday.
Swear-in day, on top of House Republicans failing to pick a new Speaker of the House after a day's worth of discussions and three rounds of voting, made Tuesday, Jan. 3, all the more like a circus.
The House GOP is stuck and discombobulated after failing to elect a new Speaker to replace veteran and longtime official Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Failure to choose a new Speaker in the first round of voting is a new kind of failure never seen before in 100 years.
While California and GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, failed to get enough votes to secure him the gavel, he was an early favorite to take over following the 2022 midterms elections this past November, though he only had a slim GOP majority. He has been the House Minority Leader since 2019.
Though it is possible that he could still win the post, he currently lacks momentum heading into Wednesday's noon session, along with having a few enemies on his own team. The Golden State Republican lost 19 GOP votes on the first two ballots and 20 on the third.
Following a late adjournment last night, he teamed up with his allies in his office to discuss new strategies with less than 24 hours to figure out a solution.
"This can't be about that you are going to leverage somebody for your own personal gain inside Congress," McCarthy told reporters in the early evening. "This has to be about the country."
"Today, is that the day I wanted to have? No," McCarthy also said late Tuesday at the Capitol.
When asked if he would drop out, he said: "It's not going to happen."
The fight for the gavel first began on the first day of the 118th Congress and as a direct consequence, has weakened the House GOP's political agenda and put them as a whole, into disarray, just days into the New Year.
Voters are let down as no official business can be conducted until a Speaker is chosen, and the narrative from the Democrats, painting Republicans as extreme and disorganized, was only affirmed a bit more.
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"Every day we are delaying, we are letting down those voters," Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, told Fox News as the voting was still in motion.
As for what we can expect to happen in the near future, McCarthy could change his mind and drop out, and a fourth round of voting could very well occur later today when they officially meet at noon, Wednesday, Jan. 4. The vote could last a day, or two, or weeks and even months in the worst case scenario, but as the country saw Tuesday, nothing should be a surprise anymore.
With no Speaker, no work can be done and many campaign promises are temporarily halted as veteran lawmakers cannot figure out how to pick a leader. Along with no leader, there cannot be a swearing-in for its members, no new committee chairmen, no floor proceedings and no investigations of the Biden administration as they have threatened to.
Former President Donald Trump is also watching closely as he urged in a post on his Truth social app, for the GOP to vote for McCarthy.
"CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY," he wrote, "REPUBLICANS, DO NOT TURN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEFEAT."
There were tough scenes all day as pictures and videos surfaced of many lawmakers' families waiting around, despite the day normally being one of joy and festivity filled with food. But unfortunately for them, it turned into a complete meltdown on the national stage.
For McCarthy, many wonder, including in his party, whether the Californian is the answer to lead and be the voice.
Tuesday proved that the House GOP cannot even vote for something as easy as a Speaker, which will make Americans and voters question how and if they will be able to come together when it comes down to bigger issues such as the economy and spending.
The Republican needs 218 votes to win the gavel and based off of Tuesday night's all-nighter in the McCarthy office, he is going all in. |
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Maureen O'Sullivan was a fresh-faced beauty with flowing brunette locks, and an often bikini-clad curvaceous figure. Read more: Incredible behind-the-scenes photos of John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara filming The Quiet Man. In 1950, O'Hara entered a new phase of her career when she was cast as John Wayne's estranged wife in John Ford's romantic Western Rio Grande. 4,62 € Favorisieren Hinzufügen Postkarte Typ Werbung Foto der wunderschönen Irish Born Film Star Maureen O'Hara MagasinDeCurios. They were just as passionate friends off-screen though it never strayed into an affair as some claimed. Votes: 33,824 | Gross: $10.55M. Actress Maureen O'Sullivan and husband director John Farrow attend an event in Los Angeles, California. Esperanza Baur and John Wayne in 1945 (Getty Images), Read More: John Wayne's Irish roles beyond "The Quiet Man". your own Pins on Pinterest John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara - der ruhige Mann - Mini Filmplakat 01 (A4 Größe - 210 x 297mm - 8,5 "x 11,75") VintageImageryStore. This actor appeared in the following radio shows . Leben und Wirken. One night, while on location with Wayne in Louisiana, she slit her wrists while hallucinating. Maureen O'Sullivan was kind of a non-entity. Then he found out he couldn't.'. After he died, O'Hara blamed his heavy cigarette habit for his death: "That's what did him in if we knew then why we know now about cancer maybe we'd have done something about it.". Aug 21, 2016 - This Pin was discovered by Dave Brown. The John Wayne Westerns Collection. 27.07.2017 - Entdecke die Pinnwand "John Wayne & Maureen O´Hara" von Rose x. Dieser Pinnwand folgen 290 Nutzer auf Pinterest. Februar 1904 in Sydney, Australien; † 28. He first met Maureen in 1941 at … Director John Ford and legendary actor John Wayne collaborated on a fair few movies, many of those being memorable westerns. Maureen O'Hara, the definition of the fiery redhead.She could be warm and inviting, yet hard and willful; but no matter where she fell, she always had a mind of her own. She was a famous redhead who was known for playing passionate, but sensible heroines, often in westerns and adventure films. Off-screen, the pair remained the best of pals, and Wayne considered her the only woman he ever thought of as a real friend. Most if not all of these movies were directed by John Ford. Read More: John Wayne's love of Ireland and The Quiet Man. In America, the early performing arts accomplishments of young Maureen FitzSimons (who we know as Maureen O'Hara) would definitely have put her in the child prodigy category. Looking for the best Maureen O'Sullivan Wallpaper? © Copyright 2021 Irish Studio LLC All rights reserved. Although the actor converted to Catholicism on his deathbed, the intervention wasn't appreciated at the time. 30-ene-2020 - Explora el tablero "Carol Wayne" de Manuel Sverdlov, que 225 personas siguen en Pinterest. Wayne became romantically involved for the rest of his life with his former secretary, Pat Stacy. Kirk Douglas 'Champion' 1949. added by flint1. Maureen O'Sullivan full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. He married women he thought he could control. Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne's Movie Sweetheart Maureen O'Hara was born in 1920 in Dublin Ireland. Nine days after his Oscar appearance he was rushed to UCLA hospital. Her brother said: "Wayne looked up at Maureen and said 'Why don't you give up this movie business and stay home and be a wife?'. What we do know is that director John Ford wanted to capture a genuine reaction from Wayne and asked O'Hara to whisper something 'extremely suggestive' as the scene was playing out. Wayne and O'Hara starred in three films together, including 'The Quiet Man," and became good friends. Maureen O'Hara not only starred with John Wayne in five films — she also was his longtime close friend. Among her female rivals, she certainly had no equal. Alcoa Premiere-Wikipedia. Veteran Irish actress passed away this afternoon surrounded by … And one of the greatest female swashbucklers! He claims Wayne was 'truly in love with that woman.', When asked why they never married, he said: 'Because Maureen was strong and tough . Maureen Paula O'Sullivan (17 May 1911 – 23 June 1998) was an Irish-American actress. The eldest daughter of Australian director John Farrow and Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan, Farrow had a strict Catholic upbringing in Beverly Hills, California. When it was time to go, O'Hara put on her coat and turned to say goodbye. Although the actor converted to Catholicism on his deathbed, the intervention wasn't appreciated at the time. Free shipping . 5 von 5 Sternen (84) 84 Bewertungen. Why Quiet Man director John Ford was obsessed with Maureen O'Hara and sent her a Valentine Card. We've got 48+ great wallpaper images hand-picked by our users. John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (Getty Images), Read More: Maureen O'Hara's marriages and loves: The good, the bad and the ugly, Robert Mitchum's son Christopher worked with both Wayne and O'Hara. On numerous occasions, she worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. O'Hara shared great screen chemistry with Wayne … ***http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2612662/John-Wayne-The-unlikely-lothario-West.html. Spoiler : MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN (1911 ~ 1998) O'Sullivan is best remembered for playing 'Jane' to Johnny Weismuller's 'Tarzan' in six features (from 1932 to '42), beginning with the successful "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932). The couple had three children together, but separated after 19 years. "Mileage never hurt a Rolls Royce.". He retold the anecdote of how he and O'Hara, out on a bender, pulled off the highway somewhere in Los Angeles and knocked on a stranger's door looking for a drink. Thanks. Apart from being arguably Ireland's greatest film actor, Maureen O'Hara was one helluva lady, which comes across in a charming TG4 documentary to be screened on Christmas Day. A biography of Western legend John Wayne alleges there was a skirt-chasing side to the famous cinema cowboy, who had three wives and had numerous love affairs, including one with his 'Quiet Man' co-star Maureen O'Hara. Author Aubrey Malone rips the lid off "The Quiet Man" beauty's shocking lies and cover-ups, including her steamy affair with a married man and the abuse she endured from hubby Will Price, who blew her fortune. Old Movies Vintage Movies Young John Wayne Maureen O'sullivan The Quiet Man John Wayne Movies John Ford Movie Couples I Love Lucy More information ... More ideas for you MAUREEN O'HARA (1920 ~ 2015) O'Hara is perhaps the most famous Irish actress and certainly one of the most beloved (and beautiful). John continued to write, and began his career as a director. Wayne "tried to be a family man and mostly succeeded," says Scott Eyman. O'Hara stayed three days, every day "putting on a cheerful Irish act," according to Stacy. © Copyright 2021 Irish Studio LLC All rights reserved. Coronavirus live updates: 40 deaths reported between NI and RoI today, Genetic mapping reveals ancestry between Ireland and Scotland, Guinness-loving 96-year-old twins "in shock" after testing positive, Delightful Irish porridge recipe for National Oatmeal Month, Biden and Walsh tout their Irish roots during Cabinet nominations briefing, Stay at home order comes into effect in Northern Ireland today. He was her favorite co-star--both on screen and off. However, there was one man in her life who never disappointed her – Photo of Johnny Weismuller With Maureen O'Sullivan for fans of Stars From The Past 32282869. 3,6 von 5 Sternen 7 Sternebewertungen. Coronavirus live updates: 40 deaths reported between NI and RoI today, Genetic mapping reveals ancestry between Ireland and Scotland, Guinness-loving 96-year-old twins "in shock" after testing positive, Delightful Irish porridge recipe for National Oatmeal Month, Biden and Walsh tout their Irish roots during Cabinet nominations briefing, Stay at home order comes into effect in Northern Ireland today. Directed by: John Farrow Copper Canyon (1950) - Paramount Region 2 PAL. 0871_0040 Ronald Reagan with wife Jane Wyman and their daughter Maureen, saying their goodbyes as he prepares to leave for the army 1942 MPTV 99. Although they were never married, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara had their own version of a love affair, keeping up a strong friendship throughout their careers. Although they were never married, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara had their own version of a love affair, keeping up a strong friendship throughout their careers. She alternated between lead and second lead in her films. 3.3 out of 5 stars 4. The homeowner almost fainted when he saw Hollywood's two brightest stars at his front door but invited them in for a nightcap anyway. Scott plays a former ranch foreman who, along with newlyweds Maureen O'Sullivan and John Hubbard, is held hostage at a deserted stagecoach station by ruthless bandit Richard Boone and his henchmen Henry Silva and Skip Homeier. He asked his partner Patricia Stacy to bring him his gun. Ver más ideas sobre maureen o'sullivan, joey heatherton, john wayne. Thus ended one of the great screen partnerships in movie history. She gave as good as she got. During his marriage to his first wife, Josephine Saenz, a convent-educated, strict Catholic, he had two affairs — one with Marlene Dietrich and one with Espereanza 'Chata Baur, the 'courtesan' daughter of a Mexican brothel keeper. She was best known for playing Jane in the Tarzan series of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller.In 2020, she was listed at number 8 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. (1963) and Big Jake (1971) - always as his wife or love-interest. Wayne appeared at the Oscars in 1978 looking shockingly thin. . Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015) was an Irish singer and actress from Dublin, who worked primarily in American film and television.She was born into a close-knit and artistically talented family; her mother was a contralto vocalist, and her three sisters and two brothers were budding actors and musical performers. One of his biggest failures on the fidelity front, according to friends, involved his 'Quiet Man' co-star. True love: Maureen O'Hara met Wayne at the home of director John Ford in 1941. This beauty has grown over the years. A new biography of Western legend John Wayne reveals a lothario side to the famous cinema cowboy, who had three wives and had numerous love affairs, including one with his 'Quiet Man' co-star Maureen O'Hara. I can't really even picture her. Discover (and save!) Maureen O'Sullivan Wallpaper. Although her stage name sounds Irish enough her name was originally Maureen Fitzsimmons. DVD £10.99 £ 10. "Maureen why did you and I have such lousy luck," asked Wayne referring to his and her illnesses, broken marriages, and the death of her husband Charles Blair in a mysterious plane crash. At no time did she let on she was seriously worried. The program also featured actors such as James Stewart, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, James Whitmore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Arthur Kennedy and Ray Milland. © Copyright 2021 Irish Studio LLC All rights reserved. Although her stage name sounds Irish enough her name was originally Maureen Fitzsimmons. Aug 21, 2016 - This Pin was discovered by Dave Brown. She was a frequent partner to John Wayne in films like: "Rio Grande" (1950), "The Quiet Man" (52), "The Wings Of Eagles" (57), "McLintock!" Wayne married Chata, but the marriage was a tumultuous one. A spirited Irish lass capable of going head to head with John Wayne, she could also portray the most sophisticated and caring mother you could possibly wish for. Wedding reception with Australian director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan. © Copyright 2021 Irish Studio LLC All rights reserved. John Ford and Maureen O'Hara circa 1955: director's feelings for the actress are evident in a letter soon to be auctioned. Weitere Ideen zu Schauspieler, Hollywood schauspielerinnen, Filmstars. Maureen O'Hara, Actress: The Quiet Man. In a long acting career of 64 years and comprising over 60 films,her best known role by far was as the heroine, Jane, in six of Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan films during the 1930's and early 1940's. John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara famously starred together in the beloved film 'The Quiet Man'. Maureen O'Hara on American TV show This is Your Life. The couple, who'd had four children together, divorced. What brings tourists to Ireland over and over again? "John Wayne would have known these details about her – that you didn't mess with Maureen O'Hara. Maureen O Sullivan 08.17.1920 - 10.24.2015 (95 years old) Click here to read more about Maureen O Sullivan. Palette became pregnant while Wayne was still married to Chata, and fearing the scandal would ruin his career, persuaded her to have an abortion. 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If you read my hands-on review of the Nokia N8 – in my humble opinion it was only really the clunky operating system that let the premium handset down.
It seems that Nokia may be taking my (and others) opinions on-board and could be about to make an announcement regarding a change of OS.
This all stems from comments made by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop where he stated "We must build, catalyse or join a competitive ecosystem."
Various anylysts are hoping that the "join" in his comment is pointing towards a team up with Windows Phone 7.
Gartner analyst, Carolina Milanesi, told the New York Times: "I don't know if this is just wishful thinking, but it could definitely be the big announcement we are expecting," and Canalys analyst Pete Cunningham agrees: "I can see how this could benefit both companies."
This was the reaction after Nokia's share price rose more than 4% after Berenberg Bank analyst Adnaan Ahmad wrote an open letter to Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer the crux of which is basically — stop being so coy and get a room — or, words to that effect:
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It's 50 years since Play School first hit our screens - but where are the presenters now?
Millions of children grew up thinking of toys Humpty, Hamble and Jemima as friends and the Play School presenters as surrogate aunts and uncles
Rachael Bletchly
Stars: Splay School (Image: BBC)
Ready to play? What's the day...?
It's 50 years since legendary series Play School first hit British TV screens.
The show, which defined children's broadcasting for generations, ran twice a day for 24 years – first in black and white and then in colour.
It was also – accidentally - the first programme ever shown on new Channel BBC2, after a power cut prevented shows going out the night before.
Millions of children grew up thinking of toys Humpty, Hamble and Jemima as friends and the Play School presenters as surrogate aunts and uncles.
But what happened to those Cbeebie pioneers who taught us how to tell the time, sang us songs and helped us learn our shapes by peering through their odd windows
Here's a house, here's a door...and here's a what became of nine Play School presenters.
Tell all: Johnny Ball
After working as a Butlins Redcoat and northern club cabaret act Johnny, now 75, joined Play School in 1967.
In a recent BBC documentary he sensationally revealed how fellow stars Rick Jones, Lionel Morton smoked drugs on the Play Away set.
He said: "They got stoned on the biggest joint you've ever seen — in the studio.
"We were in silhouette as the three shepherds with our crooks. Lionel purposely held his crook so the crook didn't show.
"They were absolutely stoned out of their minds. I couldn't work with it. I really couldn't."
Dad to Radio 1 DJ Zoe Ball, Johnny went on to present science programmes and become TV's popular maths guru.
In 2012 he appeared on Strictly Come Dancing.
Virginia Stride
Actress who appeared in Z Cars and The Avengers, Virginia presented the first ever Play School with Gordon Rollings.
Left in 1966 and joined comedy sketch show On the Margin with Alan Bennett and John Sergeant (later of Strictly fame).
Starred as Liz Champion in Champion House, had numerous film and TV roles then joined the Agatha Christie Theatre Company.
Had two daughters by her first husband, actor, John Stride and one from a later relationship with producer and football chairman Bill Kenwright.
Gordon Rollings
Trained as a clown in Paris he started his career on radio in Israel before appearing in a string of TV roles in the 60s, including Corrie and Wurzel Gummidge.
He made a brief appearance in Beatles' film A Hard Days Night –Ringo threw a dart in his lunch in a pub.
After Play School he became a story teller on Jackanory, narrate The Herbs and appeared in Carry On Doctor, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Superman 2 and Superman 3!
His last role was in a TV Miss Marple film The Moving Finger.
He died in 1985 aged 59.
Floella Benjamin
Life Peer: Floella Benjamin (Image: Getty)
Started her acting career in West End musicals like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar then joined Play School in 1976.
Also appeared in Angels, Within These Walls and Bergerac.
In 1987 she founded her own TV production company and in 2001 was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting.
She was Chairman of BAFTA, an honorary graduate and later Chancellor of The University of Exeter and in 2010 was made a Lid Dem Life Peer, Baroness Benjamin, of Beckenham in the County of Kent. She is 64.
Brian Cant
Favourite: Brian Cant (Image: Getty)
Every kid's favourite TV presenter, Brian worked on Trumpton, Chigley, Camberwick Green and Bric-A-Brac.
In 1971 he auditioned for Play School – climbing in to a cardboard box, pretending it was a boat and "rowing out to sea".
He stayed with the BBC for the next eighteen years also acting in Doctor Who, Doctors and Life On Mars. Married to Fern Britton's sister, Cherry, Brian, now 80, was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 1999.
Fred Harris
The former school teacher appeared on the show between 1973 and 1988.
After Play School he fronted several computing shows for the BBC and other educational shows including Make it Count.
He worked in comedy too, with guest appearances in the radio shows, Huddwinks,The Half Open University, and The Burkiss Way.
He now presents called Broom Cupboard on British Forces Broadcasting Service.
Toni Arthur
Antoinette Alice Priscilla Wilson trained at the Royal Academy of Music and released several folk albums in the late 60s and early 70s with her then husband Dave Arthur.
She presented Play School alongside Brian Cant in the 70s, went on to present Woman's Hour and appear on TV and has written and directed award-winning plays.
In 2010 Toni, now 74, criticised modern children's TV programmes and called for gentler programmes to allow toddlers to build up reassuring relationships with presenters.
Paul Danquah
The lawyer-turned actor joined Play School in 1966 and was the first black presenter of a children's programme.
The painter Francis Bacon lived with Paul and his partner Peter Pollock in their Battersea flat from 1956 to 1961.
Paul made his screen debut in 1961 in the acclaimed British film A Taste of Honey and was later in The Riviera Touch with Morecambe and Wise.
In the late 70s he and his partner moved to Tangiers and years later discovered a suitcase containing drawings by Bacon which were acquired by The Tate gallery in 1996.
Julie Stevens
Actress Julie, now 77, trained as a nurse before launching her TV career.
She appeared on Play School and spin-off Playaway and had roles in The Avengers and movie Carry On Cleo.
At a recent reunion of Play School presenters Julie revealed Prince Andrew once visited the Play School set. She asked him how old he was and he said he was six.
She said: "That's a bit old for Play School. It goes up to five - you'll be watching other programmes soon."
But the Prince replied: "I am going to watch it for ever and ever and ever."
Julie said: "It was a fabulous programme to do. It had a special place in children's hearts - when their mother came in during the show they would say 'Sshhh'.
"It was for them and only for them."
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Book Review: The Irish Civil War and Society, Politics Class and Conflict
John_Dorney 16 September, 2015 Reviews, The Irish Civil War
By Gavin Foster
Published by Palgrave MacMillan, London 2015
Reviewer: John Dorney
Irish history is often inward looking, almost navel gazing, obsessed with the same arguments and the same issues, to be debated time after time. It is as well therefore at times to get an outside viewpoint. One such is provided here by Gavin Foster, an American historian of the Irish Civil War working at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
This book is a very original look at the conflict that immediately followed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, one which split open the hitherto united nationalist movement and which shaped the politics of independent (southern) Ireland for much of the twentieth century.
In eight chapters, each really a stand-alone essay, Foster reconsiders the society that shaped and was shaped by the intra-nationalist conflict. This means not so much the military aspect of the war, or the time worn questions of whether it was a war of pro-Treaty democrats against anti-Treaty militarists or of republicans against pro-Treaty 'imperialists'. Rather it looks at questions of whether it was a war caused by class or status-conflict within Irish society.
Class, youth and status
What Foster argues is that, first of all, one must set aside classical ideas of Marxist class conflict, where politics and history is driven by the clashing of rival economic interests, manifested in clearly defined rival classes. Rather, he argues, Ireland was a society of multiple social divisions, only some of which can be defined as purely economic. For instance, the older, mostly Protestant, upper middle class (often dubbed pejoratively 'imperialist' by republicans) tended to look down on the arriviste Catholic professionals, who in turn tried to ape their manners.
Republicans in the years after the Civil War, Foster reports, took great glee in hearing how the Free State nationalist establishment was scorned by the older upper classes, not knowing their conventions of dress and speech. Republicans for their part eschewed dinner suits top hats and the like in conscious rejection of such affectations and represented themselves as the champion of the 'common people'. Despite this the top echelons of both pro and anti-Treaty factions tended to come from a similar lower middle class Catholic background.
Foster examines class and status through indirect means such as by examining the social meaning of clothes and language.
Both sides seemed to agree that the Anti-Treatyites represented the lower orders. Although in truth there was no clear social distinction between pre-1922 republicans who accepted the Treaty and those who rejected it (not in the form of classical class conflict at any rate), both sides seemed to agree that the anti-Treatyites – 'Irregulars' in Free State terminology – were of a lower social class.
Foster reports that pro-Treatyites tended to refer to their opponents (in terms similar to how the British had referred to them all before the truce of 1921) as 'corner boys' 'riff raff' and other such labels. Their supporters were merely out for loot and material gain.
Alternatively, when they were not painting them as 'looters' and criminals, pro-Treaty accounts tended to speak of the 'Irregulars' as irresponsible young people, often 'trucileers' who had not fought the British, while the real national fighters supported the government.
Republicans on the other hand raged against the middle class, the Catholic Church, the press, and big business which had united with former unionists and Free State traitors to bury the Republic of 1919. Todd Andrews in his memoir described the Civil War as a 'White Terror' while Liam Mellows famously wrote that 'we are back to [Wolfe] Tone and the men of no property'.
Then there was the urban rural divide. Broadly speaking Dublin and its hinterland was pro-Treaty and the more remote, mountainous and poor a rural region was, the more likely it would be anti-Treaty. While this is of course a generalisation, there were for instance, plenty of republican guerrillas in Dublin and conversely, Donegal, the most remote and poorest county in the Free State, was majority pro-Treaty in sympathy. Nevertheless the urban-rural divide did colour combatants perceptions of each other.
Foster conveys to us the sense of Dublin National Army troops being sent to places like Kerry or Connemara that their enemies were 'culchies', 'padjoes', or 'bog trotters' – all derogatory Dublin nicknames for supposedly uncivilised country people who lived on mountain or bog. Conversely in counties like Kerry the republican fighters saw the war to a large degree as defending their county from an invasion by a hostile Dublin government.
Class War?
What of actual class conflict, the clashing of rival economic interests? Foster argues that rural class conflict was an important aspect of the Civil War, those without land often seized it during the conflict, sometimes under the protection of the anti-Treaty IRA. On the other side government Ministers such as Kevin O'Higgins and Patrick Hogan worried that society itself was breaking down as a result.
To combat social disorder they formed the Special Infantry Corps, basically a gendarmerie charged with putting down disorder that was not part of the IRA campaign but too militant for the nascent Civic Guard police to deal with.
So concerned were Free State Ministers at social 'anarchy that they set up a new Army Corps to deal with it.
Their largest deployment was in helping to break a farm labourers' strike in County Waterford, where they ended up in gun battles with the local IRA who were acting on behalf of the strikers. Foster has useful figures for their deployment, numbers of arrests and so on. For the record Foster records that the 4,000 strong Special Infantry Corps arrested 371 people in the first nine months of 1923, seized over 1,500 animals and 60 gallons of poitin (illegal liquor). Not a chilling level of repression but nevertheless significant.
The Republicans never had a clear policy on either agrarian or class conflict but did stand over and defend the confiscation of farms from those they had judged to be spies or informers. They did however, discuss at various times adopting more radical policies of land confiscation or nationalization.
In short class and status was not irrelevant to the Civil War, but nor was it a straightforward cause or driver of events. Nevertheless, the perception that the Free State embraced the monied establishment and the republicans the lower classes was reinforced after the conflict when thousands of republicans, jobless after release from internment had to leave the country in search of work
An Uncivil Post-War
Ireland was far from the only country to experience internal conflict in inter-war Europe. Many of these civil wars ended in bitter and bloody repression of the vanquished. In Finland the 'Whites' oversaw the deaths in captivity of some 13,000 'Red' prisoners, in 1918-9, while in Spain, after Franco's victory over the Republicans in 1939 at least 50,000 and perhaps as many as 200,000 of his opponents may have died either through execution or overwork in prison camps.
By comparison as Foster notes, the vengefulness of the pro-Treatyites in Ireland was rather muted. Nevertheless Republicans felt it keenly for all that and Foster argues here that the continuing imprisonment of anti-Treatyites after the IRA's dump arms order of May 1923 contributed greatly to the bitterness the war engendered in subsequent years.
Republican nursed bitterness for many years at post civil war repression but it was mild compared with elsewhere in interwar Europe.
Many thousands were arrested in sweeps in the summer of 1923 and up to 12,000 were still held up to December 1923 (prompting a mass hunger strike) with the last prisoners not being released until the summer of 1924.
There were in addition, by Foster's count, at least 18 killings of prisoners or unarmed republicans after the Civil War (alongside 80 official executions and about 150 'summary killings' of anti-Treaty prisoners during the actual civil war). Rather vindictively also, the Free State granted an amnesty to any illegal acts carried out by its own forces in August 1923 but did not enact a similar amnesty for its opponents until November 1924. Anti-Treaty political activists complained all the way up to Fianna Fail's accession to power in 1932 of police harassment.
However, Foster also argues that whereas republicans argued that they were systematically sacked from their jobs, and boycotted when they tried to get new ones after the Civil War, this is not borne out by a close look at the evidence. Many republicans, for instance, retained or recovered their position in the Civil Service throughout the period.
In short republican grievances about a vengeful Free State are not without some substance but should not be overstated either. There were also killings on the other side after the war, including the shooting of a Garda during a concerted series of raids on police stations in 1926 and of course the assassination of leading pro-Treaty politician Kevin O'Higgins in 1927.
This is an interesting, original and thought provoking book. But I do have some criticisms of Foster's theses. 'The Irish Civil War and Society' almost totally avoids talking about the military aspects of the conflict and therefore misses out on some important points.
For instance, Foster on a number of occasions voices the rather strange opinion that the expansion of the National Army to over 55,000 men was a measure aimed at curbing social discontent by temporarily alleviating unemployment. Admittedly the slump in the world economy after 1921 hit Ireland hard and it probably did the Free State no harm to find temporary work for thousands of unemployed First World War veterans. But in fact the Free State cabinet were acutely aware that Army was creating major financial burden for the new state and tolerated it only because they thought it was a military necessity.
Was the bloated National Army really a way of alleviating unemployment?
The reason for this was that although by late 1922 the anti-Treaty IRA had been largely broken as an offensive force, by this date the National Army's control still did not extend far beyond barracks in large towns. It was unable to enforce things such as unimpeded transport, tax collection or law enforcement.
While this remained the case the basic functions of the state were inoperable and the only thing the pro-Treaty authorities could think of to do about it was to recruit thousands more men in early 1923. They distributed them in small garrisons throughout the countryside to secure it from anti-Treatyite raids and enable the Free State's civilian administration to get up and running. By contrast, almost the entire IRA strategy by this time – destroying railway lines, blocking roads, burning income tax offices and Civic Guard barracks, intimidating tax collectors, and so on – was aimed at preventing the operating of civil government. This struggle and not any social concern, was what prompted the intensive recruitment to the National Army throughout the Civil War.
One other comment; a close look at the IRA files in the Twomey papers reveals that the IRA adopted agrarian agitation to a degree which may not have been appreciated yet, in this book or elsewhere. Correspondence from Liam Lynch to the Dublin Brigade in early 1923 for example orders raids on the houses of those who sold cattle seized from agrarian agitators. In the border counties Cavan and Leitrim the National Army reported that the IRA's main support came from landless men to whom it gave land after evicting unionists or Free State supporters.
These caveats aside however, I can warmly recommend this book to all those interested in making sense of the bitter little war between former comrades in Ireland between 1922 and 1923.
See Also Making Sense of the Irish Civil War – A Conversation with Gavin Foster.
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Recommendation: Adopt second reading of Ordinance No. 7,635-N.S. amending the Berkeley Municipal Code to streamline and clarify the permitting process for small businesses in commercial districts by: 1. Reducing the amount of parking required for businesses moving into existing commercial spaces; 2. Simplifying food service categories by reducing them from three to one; 3. Reducing permitting time and costs for small businesses that request a change of use in existing commercial spaces; 4. Clarifying the permit process for new business types that may not be specifically defined in the City's zoning rules; 5. Making 'commercial recreation' uses (such as bowling alleys, miniature golf courses or ping pong clubs) easier to permit in commercial districts; and 6. Streamlining the permit process and providing clear performance standards for restaurants that wish to serve beer and wine.
The ordinance would amend Berkeley Municipal Code Chapters 23E.16, 23E.36, 23E.40, 23E.44, 23E.48, 23E.52, 23E.56, 23E.60, 23E.64, 23E.68, and 23E.98.
1. Adopt a Resolution: a) Confirming the results of the November 6, 2018, General Municipal Election; and b) Declaring the passage of Measure O – General Obligation Bond for Affordable Housing, Measure P – Transfer Tax Measure, Measure Q – Amendments to the Berkeley Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance, and Measure R – Advisory Measure - Vision 2050.
2. Adopt two Ordinances amending the Berkeley Municipal Code to incorporate the passage of Measure P – Transfer Tax Measure, and Measure Q - Amendments to the Berkeley Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance.
3. Adopt two Resolutions codifying the text of Measure O – General Obligation Bond for Affordable Housing, and Measure R – Advisory Measure - Vision 2050.
Recommendation: Approve the minutes for the Council meeting of November 13, 2018 (regular).
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution approving a revised commission meeting frequency schedule, changing the reporting period for the annual attendance report, and accepting the annual attendance report.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract, for an amount not to exceed $150,000, and any amendments thereto, with a vendor to be determined, to study the economic and fiscal impacts of the University of California, Berkeley on the City of Berkeley.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract and any amendments with Wittman Enterprises LLC (Contractor) to provide the following services for the Berkeley Fire Department (Department) from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2023, in an amount of $3,655,677, with an option to extend for ten additional years in two five-year increments in the amount of $2,055,233 for the first option term, and $2,157,995 for the second optional term, for a total contract amount not to exceed $7,868,905: -Emergency response billing, and -Fire inspection billing, and -Related hardware, software, and program oversight.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to amend Contract No. 9111E with City Data Services (CDS) for an online data management system through June 30, 2020 to add $35,860 for ongoing monitoring and a new monitoring module, bringing the total contract amount to $198,630, and execute any amendments with CDS for ongoing maintenance of the community agency online applications and reporting.
2. Approving a new salary resolution for Representation Units M, P1, and P2 that implement the new salary levels negotiated in the new labor agreement and rescinding Resolution No. 67,485-N.S. Also, authorize the City Manager to make non substantive edits to the format and language of the Memorandum of Understanding in alignment with Council Direction, the tentative agreements and conforming to legal requirements.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager or her designee to execute an expenditure contract, and any amendments or extensions with Hyphae Design Laboratory ("Hyphae") to perform professional consulting services for the Citywide Restroom Assessment Project in an amount not to exceed $148,215 for the period January 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute an amendment to Contract No. 10874A with Street Level Advisors, to analyze the impact of fees and other variables on development project feasibility and to gather additional stakeholder input, increasing the contract amount by $30,000 to a new total not-to-exceed contract amount of $75,400, and extending the contract period to December 31, 2019.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract for with Disability Access Consultants to provide an updated and comprehensive Title II Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan for one year starting February 1, 2018, in an amount not to exceed $406,600.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to amend Contract No. 10552A with Revel Environmental Manufacturing, Inc. for on-call storm water maintenance services, increasing the current contract by $225,000 for a total contract amount not to exceed $500,000.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a five-year contract amendment with AMB Industries to purchase Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations, provide EV network operations and maintenance, plus extended warranty services, in an amount of $366,962 for a total Contract not to exceed $413,940 through June 30, 2023.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution approving plans and specifications for the FY 2018 Measure M Street Rehabilitation Project, Specification No. 18-11179-C (Re-Issued); accepting the bid of Gallagher & Burk, Inc. as the lowest responsive and responsible bidder; and authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract and any amendments, extensions or other change orders until completion of the project in accordance with the approved plans and specifications in an amount not to exceed $3,863,909.
Recommendation: Direct the City Manager to send a letter of support on behalf of proposed SB 3342, referred to as the HOME Act.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution that recommends approval of the Five-Year Street Rehabilitation Plan for FY2019 to FY2023 as proposed by Staff.
Recommendation: Review the results of the Zero Waste Commission's community outreach and analysis provided in response to Council's referral and consider incorporating the Zero Waste Commission recommendations for improvements into the referred draft proposed Berkeley Single Use Foodware and Litter Reduction Ordinance.
Recommendation: Staff appreciates the Zero Waste Commission's diligent and thoughtful work and requests that Council refer their recommendations for the proposed Berkeley Single Use Foodware and Litter Reduction Ordinance to the City Manager to review, to quantify the potential impacts, and to report back to Council with an analysis.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution changing the seating placement of City Councilmembers as follows on the dais (From left to right, facing the dais): Kesarwani, Harrison, Bartlett, Hahn, Arreguin, Wengraf, Droste, Davila, Robinson.
1. Adopt a Resolution co-sponsoring the 8th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Breakfast on January 21, 2019.
2. Adopt a Resolution approving the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $500 per Councilmember including $500 from Mayor Arreguin, to the Rotary Endowment, the fiscal sponsor of the 8th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, with funds relinquished to the City's general fund for this purpose from the discretionary Council Office Budgets of Mayor Arreguin and any other Councilmembers who would like to contribute.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution retroactively sponsoring the November 11, 2018 United Against Hate Week Kick-Off, waiving city fees and costs associated with the event and authorizing reimbursement of $7,725 for the cost of stage and production for the event.
Recommendation: Establish a Traffic Circle Policy Task Force comprised of representatives of the Parks and Waterfront Commission, Transportation Commission, community representatives from the neighborhoods where traffic circles are located, and city staff in the Parks and Public Works Departments as follows: City Staff, 1 representative from the Transportation Department and 1 representative from the Parks Department; Commissions, 1 representative from the Parks and Waterfront Commission and 1 representative from the Transportation Commission; Community, Several representatives from the neighborhoods currently maintaining traffic circles, chosen from geographically diverse parts of the city and 1 representative from Berkeley Partners for Parks.
The charge of this Task Force is to: a) Evaluate the City's current traffic circle vegetation policy; and b) Conduct a community led process to update that policy to ensure pedestrian/bicycle/ vehicle safety and preserve community efforts to beautify traffic circles.
Task Force activities may include, but are not limited to: -Determine appropriate characteristics and parameters for allowed plantings; -Develop policy that ensures lines of sight and other important safety considerations; -Conducting a survey of current traffic circles and their vegetation; -Conducting a survey of neighborhood associations, neighborhood captains, community and community groups such as Berkeley Partners for Parks to determine which traffic circles are being maintained by community members; Examining the City of Oakland's 'Adopt a Spot' initiative to encourage community involvement in the maintenance of public spaces by loaning tools, supplies, and technical assistance to committed members of the community; -Hosting a presentation from City staff to better understand concerns with the current traffic circle policy and any safety concerns that should be taken into consideration; -Developing a clear set of guidelines/criteria to allow for community maintenance of traffic Circles; -Outlining the appropriate community outreach strategy and process to share the updated policy for managing vegetation in traffic circles; -Developing a replanting strategy, with emphasis on drought-resistant plants.
Recommendation: Direct the City Manager to send a letter to, and follow-up with, Sutter Health requesting a plan to retrofit and rebuild Alta Bates to state regulations by 2030 or agree to sell Alta Bates hospital to an operator who will maintain a full-service, acute care hospital in Berkeley. The City of Berkeley expresses its strong desire to work in collaboration with Sutter Health to develop a plan to keep a full-service, acute care hospital in Berkeley. The letter shall reference the findings from the Health Impact Assessment completed by the University of California, Department of Public Health, dated September 2018 and state that the closure of Alta Bates would: -Create a harmful cascade effect on remaining hospitals and emergency services, exacerbating already overcrowded ERs; -Lengthen wait times for hospital beds; -Reduce the ability of first responders and emergency service vehicles to respond due to increased transport times through the East Bay's congested roadways; -Disproportionally affect marginalized communities; -Impact acute care services in this region that need to be expanded, not consolidated.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution approving the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $250 per Councilmember including $150 from Councilmember Cheryl Davila, to African American Tobacco Leadership Council for their great work reducing youth tobacco use, particularly among African American youth, in Berkeley, with funds relinquished to the City's general fund for this purpose from the discretionary Council Office Budgets of Councilmember Davila and any other Councilmembers who would like to contribute.
Recommendation: Short-term referral to City Attorney and Health Housing and Community Service to amend Berkeley Municipal Code 7,441-N.S. according to the changes made in the attached amended ordinance to prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products and require a minimum package size for cigars and little cigars across the City of Berkeley. The primary purpose of the amendment to the ordinance is to do more to prevent youth and young adult tobacco use.
2. Refer costs associated with the facility to the FY 2020/21 Budget Process.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution approving the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $500 per Councilmember including $500 from Councilmembers Wengraf and Droste to the Berkeley Public Library Foundation's 17th Annual Authors Dinner with funds relinquished to the City's General Fund for this purpose from the discretionary Council Office Budgets of Councilmembers Wengraf, Droste, and any other Councilmembers who would like to contribute. The Berkeley Public Library Foundation raises funds to support and enhance the facilities, programs and services of the Berkeley Public Library. The proceeds from this event will subsidize library programs and would fulfill the municipal public purpose.
3. Adopt a Resolution adopting findings under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that determine how potential impacts are to be mitigated, to adopt an Initial Study / Mitigated Negative Declaration that concludes that all impacts of the rezone and re-designations can be reduced to a less-than-significant level under CEQA, and to adopt a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program that ensures the measures will be implemented.
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution approving the framework and procedures for standing policy committees of the City Council as part of the City's legislative process.
Recommendation: That the Council provides requested direction to the Planning Department on how to proceed with the Equity Program recommended by the Cannabis Commission in the October 9, 2018 staff report. Recommending allowing 4 equity applicants and 2 non-equity applicants to apply and be processed by the City within 2 years.
Recommendation: Short-term Referral to the Planning Commission and Design Review Committee (DRC) to research and draft an Urban Forestry Ordinance requiring tree planting upon completion of new residential construction and certain alterations. The Planning Commission and DRC should consider the following: -Establishing appropriate tree planting requirements, e.g. a ratio of trees required per square foot, for new single-family and multi-family construction, as well as qualifying alterations to existing residential buildings. -Establishing appropriate tree planting requirements for larger projects, including options to plant trees at alternative locations identified by the City and within the City limits. The developer should incur the cost of maintenance of the trees for a defined period of years after planting.
Recommendation: Since the drought-storm-flooding cycle is predicted to get worse, refer to the City Manager to develop and implement measures to help reduce runoff from private property when rain exceeds two inches in a 24-hour period. The City Manager and staff should consider the following: - Comply beyond the State and Alameda County current requirements; -Encourage the treating and detaining of runoff up to approximately the 85th per-centile of water deposited in a 24-hour period; -Establish site design measures that include minimizing impervious surfaces; -Require homeowners to include flooding offsets in preparing properties for sale; -Offer option(s) for property owners to fund in-lieu centralized off-site storm-water retention facilities that would hold an equivalent volume of runoff; -Require abatements for newly paved areas over a specific size; -Make exceptions for properties that offer significantly below-market rent or sale prices; -Authorize a fee for all new construction or for title transfer to cover the cost of required compliance inspections. -Incorporate these measures for private property with similar measures for Public Works, while coordinating with EBMUD, BUSD, UCB and LBNL.
Recommendation: Express appreciation for the intent of the Community Environmental Advisory Commission (CEAC) recommendation to develop and implement measures to help reduce runoff from private property when rain exceeds two inches in a 24-hour period, and allow staff to continue existing efforts to implement Municipal Regional Stormwater Permit regulations in coordination with the 14 other local governments and agencies that participate in the Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program.
Recommendation: Referral to the City Manager to include in the Housing Pipeline Report an analysis of the time between planning entitlements and building permit requests for all projects of five units or greater over the past five years. On an ongoing basis, refer to the City Manager and Commission to propose changes to current Planning approval process to address the causes of delays between entitlements and building permits for construction or substantial rehabilitation of five or more dwelling units.
1. Adopt a first reading of the Single Use Foodware and Litter Reduction Ordinance.
2. Refer to the City Manager to: a. Establish a mini-grant program administered and funded either directly by the City or by community partners to help Prepared Food Vendors with one-time costs associated with conversion to Reusable Foodware for eating on the premises ("eating-in"), to be launched by January 1, 2020 (six months before the date Reusable Foodware requirements become effective). b. Establish a program administered and funded either directly by the City or by community partners to provide technical assistance to Prepared Food Vendors implementing the Single Use Foodware Ordinance, on a free or sliding-scale fee basis, to be launched by July 1, 2019. c. Create a Reusable Takeout Foodware program for launch July 1, 2021, in collaboration with community partners such as the Ecology Center, Rethink Disposables and StopWaste. d. Draft for approval amendments to the Single Use Foodware and Litter Reduction Ordinance to implement the Reusable Takeout Foodware program as an alternative to Compostable Takeout Foodware, and impose a charge, similar to or the same as the Disposable Cup charge, on other Disposable Foodware containers. e. Create a program to expand and support composting, to ensure Single Use Disposable Foodware is actually composted.
3. Refer to the City Manager to determine funding and staffing needs and sources of funds for each program/phase, and submit funding allocations or requests to the budget process.
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People in our communities have been suffering constantly for the last seven years.
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One of our volunteers, Ahmad, visits camps in the Al Mara district. He told us how he met Sara, who was washing clothes for her brothers in a bowl with dirty water and no washing liquid. The water was freezing, so Sara's little hands had become cracked and sore. She told Ahmad about the things she had left behind at home when she fled with her family - her pink bed, toys, a comb, a mirror. Her eyes filled with tears as she remembered her friends and the fun they used to have playing together.
Sara now lives in a tent without even the most basic amenities. She wakes up in the night to her brothers crying. They are infected with lice and have scabies - the continuous scratching causes bleeding.
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Two train journeys later, back at home, I wrote an email to thank Anandhi, one of the founders of Abhaya Waldorf School, for sparing her time to have a free-wheeling discussion with me. I ended my email with a question:
'I wanted to ask you and didn't quite get around to it when we met, how does spirituality fit into Abhaya and independently into your personal journey?'
Her response was unexpected. She wrote back:
'That's a question no one has asked me so far (in 18 years of running Waldorf schools) and perhaps the most crucial with regard to Waldorf Education.'
And she then went on to explain her perspective at length.
You see, the first Waldorf School that Rudolf Steiner started in Stuttgart in 1919 was a practical application of Anthroposophy, his highly influential system of bringing together spirituality and science. (Today there are 1000 Waldorf schools and 2000 kindergartens in 60 countries and it is the largest and fastest growing 'alternative schooling' movement in the world) So, can you see any reason why no one is talking to Anandhi about spirituality in relation to Waldorf education?
Be that as it may, let me back off and start at the beginning. Anandhi was very busy with administrative and academic work when I called her, but I travelled the three hours across Hyderabad by public transport and was lucky that I got more time than I hoped for. This is her story:
Abhinaya, Anandhi's daughter was around five years old and was beginning to learn things like 'Man is a social animal' in her school, when Anandhi attended a seminar on Waldorf education. Realizing that there was a better option, within a few months Anandhi was Abhinaya's class teacher in the first Waldorf School in Hyderabad. (Anandhi moved on and co-founded Abhaya, one of the four Waldorf schools in the city). In this model, the class teacher travels up with the class till standard 7, at which point she starts a new cycle from standard 1 and the children move on to standard 8, transitioning to prepare for the 10th board exams. Over the seven years that they study together, the students and their class teacher form strong connections that are a hallmark of Waldorf education. The students also transition from an emotional and mental dependence on their class teacher towards emotional and mental freedom – a process that Anandhi finds exhilarating.
The Waldorf curriculum based on a non-mainstream worldview, the beautiful classwork, the intricate work done on the blackboards – Anandhi talked enthusiastically about all these, but what has kept her going over the years, she said, was the felt experience of every single day being a new challenge. Walking through the bright, vibrant, joyful spaces of Abhaya Waldorf School, listening to the background hum of happy children, I think I got a deep sense of what she meant.
Been around for: 12 years
Number of teachers/staff: 20
Number of children: 200
Classes handled: Nursery to 10 with plans of expanding up to class 12
Uniqueness: Based on Rudolf Steiner's ideas about children and their education
Location: Gundlapochampalli, Hyderabad
The author got his degree from IIT Kharagpur in 1988 and is currently a Wipro Education Fellow. He can be reached at [email protected].
Alternatiview, March 2016 |
\section{Introduction}
The radio source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the center of our Galaxy is the best-constrained supermassive black hole candidate found thus far (\citealt{Genzel2010, Falcke2013} for a review). Located at a distance of 8.3$\pm 0.4$ kpc from the solar system, its mass is calculated to be $4.3\pm 0.4\cdot 10^6$ $M_{\odot}$ \citep{Eisenhauer2003, Reid04, Ghez08, Gillessen09, Genzel2010}. For a black hole of this mass, Sgr A* seems to be accreting gas at a very low rate of $\lesssim10^{-7}$ $M_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$, as was derived from Faraday rotation measures \citep{Bower2005, Marrone2007}.
The emission from Sgr A* between frequencies of 20 GHz and 230 GHz shows flux density variability of a few tens of percent on hour-long timescales, up to 100\% on month-long timescales, as well as occasional flaring behavior \citep{Dexter2013}. In radio, Sgr A* has an inverted spectrum (i.e., rising flux density with increasing frequency) that peaks at the 'submm bump', around 350 GHz, beyond which the spectrum steeply drops in the infrared regime. The radio emission is thought to originate mostly from partially self-absorbed synchrotron radiation emitted farther out from the black hole, while emission at frequencies corresponding to the submm bump \citep{Falcke1998} of the Sgr A* spectrum is commonly associated with the optically thin emission closest to the black hole \citep{Falcke1998, Shen2005, Bower2006-2, Doeleman2008}. In the mm regime and at longer wavelengths, the flux density variation is thought to arise from local bulk properties (magnetic field strength, gas density, temperature) of the plasma, while the variability seen in infrared and X-rays is mostly attributed to changes in the population of the high-energy tail of the local electron energy distribution \citep{Ozel2000, Markoff2001, Yuan2003,DoddsEden10, Dibi2013}.\\
While the emission mechanisms for the radio and mm-wavelength emission of Sgr A* are understood fairly well, the identification of the emission with specific flow regions is still a subject of debate. For example, an important question is whether the radio emission is generated in a jet \citep{Falcke93} or in a radiatively ineffcient accretion flow \citep{Narayan1995}. Sgr A* in its flaring state fits neatly onto the fundamental plane of black hole activity \citep{Merloni2003, Falcke2004, Plotkin2012}, and as such it would be expected to feature a jet as other sources on that scaling relation do \citep{Markoff2005}. As yet, no direct detection of a jet has been made for Sgr A* despite the claimed presence of tantalizing jet-like features close to the Galactic center on parsec scales \citep{YZ2012, Li2013}. Any putative jet structure close to the black hole cannot be resolved below observing frequencies of $\sim$100 GHz because interstellar scatter-broadening blurs our view of the Galactic center at such frequencies, an effect that progressively increases with lower frequency \citep{Lo1981, Langevelde1992, Bower2006, Moscibrodzka2014}. At higher observing frequencies, interstellar scintillation is less of a problem - in the mm-wave regime, existing VLBI networks should be able to directly observe the proposed shadow of the event horizon with mmVLBI \citep{Falcke00,Doeleman2008}.\\
There are other ways in which the nature of the emitting gas flow may be determined, however. Sgr A* exhibits an inverted radio spectrum. Flat or inverted radio spectra are commonly seen in quasars and active galactic nuclei, where the bases of radio jets resolved at high resolution show dominant emission at different radio frequencies as a function of distance from the core, which
is due to optical depth effects \citep{Hada11}, as has also been predicted from theory \citep{BK79, FB95}. The multifrequency spectrum of Sgr A* (from radio to X-ray) in its flaring state looks very much like the spectrum of M81*, which has a weak jet \citep{Bietenholz04}. The emission from an unresolved, compact jet may explain the inverted radio spectrum of Sgr A* \citep{Falcke93, Moscibrodzka2013}.\\
Presence of a jet implies that specific correlations should be detected between light curves at different frequencies. As the peak frequency of radio emission changes with position along the jet axis, we expect variations in flux density at different observing frequencies to exhibit time lags relative to one another as the emitting gas moves out. Previous observations of Sgr A* made with the VLA have indeed suggested the existence of a time lag of $\sim$20 to 40 minutes in flux density variability between light curves measured at 43 GHz and 22 GHz, with variability in the higher-frequency lightcurve leading that in the lower-frequency lightcurve \citep{YZ2006, YZ2008}. Yusef-Zadeh et al. interpreted this as emission from an expanding plasma cloud \citep{vdLaan1966} with velocities reaching about 0.01$c$, but this interpretation does not take VLBA sizes into account. When coupled to the observed relation between the observing frequency and the measured intrinsic size of Sgr A* \citep{Bower04, Doeleman2008}, the time lag between 43 GHz and 22 GHz corresponds to a size difference of $\sim$30 light minutes. Thus, such a time lag suggests the presence of a fast and directed outflow with a moderately relativistic speed \citep{Falcke2009}. As the emission at observing frequencies below the submm bump is probably all partially self-absorbed synchrotron emission, time lags may be present between the light curves at any two different frequencies in that region. Measurements of time lags over a wider range of frequencies are of interest as they may aid in establishing a flow velocity profile, and they may even provide an estimate of how close to the black hole the outflow can be traced.\\
\section{Observations and data reduction}
Our VLA observations were taken on May 18, 2012 from 05:25:15 UT to 12:54:01 UT in CnB configuration, chosen to coincide with a Chandra observation. Light curves for Sgr A* were taken in pairs of subbands for three basebands (X, Ka and Q), yielding 1-GHz-wide subbands at center frequencies of 19 and 25.5 GHz (K-band), 27.48 and 37.99 GHz (Ka-band), and 39.55 and 48.5 GHz (Q-band) - each using 30-second scans at an integration time of 3 seconds. The subbands eventually used for each center frequency were 4-7 (19 GHz), 0-7 (25.5 GHz), 0-7 (27 GHz), 0-7 (37 GHz), 2-7 (39 GHz), and 1-2 (48 GHz). Flux and bandpass calibration were made on the standard VLA calibrator 3C286. A monitoring loop with a period of 7.5 minutes was used for Sgr A*: within each iteration of this loop, J1744-3116 was used as a gain calibrator source and J1745-283 was used as a check-source, cycling through all three basebands in turn. The integration time of 3 seconds was chosen such that the RMS noise per scan was expected to be 1 mJy when all subbands in a baseband were used.\\
The VLA data (project code: 12A-339) were initially reduced using the VLA pipeline version 1.2.0 (rev. 9744) on CASA 4.1.0. After running the VLA pipeline, the sufficiently high flux density of all sources allowed us to perform careful phase self-calibration on them using progressively shorter solution intervals down to one integration length (3 seconds). Some subbands were flagged in this calibration process because their calibration solutions
did not converge. The subbands that remained unflagged were (format: baseband (subbands)) 48 GHz (1,2), 39 GHz (2-7), 37 GHz (all), 27 GHz (all), 25 GHz (all), and 19 GHz (4-7). The declination of Sgr A* combined with the latitude of the VLA means that Sgr A* never reaches an elevation over 27 degrees for the VLA. Therefore the first and last parts (before approximately 6:40 UT and after approximately 11:50 UT) of the observation suffer from coherence loss: the source is less than 18 degrees above the horizon, and the effective path length through the atmosphere for the signal varies rapidly and strongly between antennas. As such, all data in these time windows were flagged before recalibration.\\
For the ALMA track, observations were made in ALMA cycle 0 on May 18, 2012 from 03:30:47 UT to 10:52:16 UT (project code: 2011.0.00887.S). The ALMA light curves for Sgr A* were taken at ALMA bands 3, 6, and 7 using pairs of spectral windows each centered on 95, 105, 247, 260, 338, and 348 GHz. Each pair of spectral windows covered 3.75 GHz bandwidth for a total of 7.5 GHz bandwidth per ALMA band. Scan lengths were chosen to yield a sensitivity of 0.5 mJy. All individual scans of Sgr A* were bracketed by either NRAO530 or J1924-292 as calibrators, while flux density calibration was made on Titan and Neptune. At that time, ALMA had 19 antennas available. In this paper we limit discussion to the 100 GHz ALMA data: the light curves at 250 GHz and 340 GHz will be the subject of a future paper.\\
For ALMA, the source setup was somewhat more complicated because all observations in cycle 0 had to be obtained in two-hour blocks. This means that the ALMA dataset consists of four separate blocks that are contiguous in time, each starting with a flux density calibrator measurement (Titan for the first two blocks, Neptune for the latter two). Within each block, five scans on Sgr A* were made where each of these was bracketed by scans on one of the calibrator sources NRAO530 and J1924-292, a precaution taken because of possible calibration difficulties that might otherwise occur in cycle 0. Thus the scan setup for each block was (using the first letter of each source) 'NSN JSJ NSN JSJ NSN', the average switching time between bracketing calibrator scans and Sgr A* scans was 2 minutes, and the time cadence on Sgr A* in each band was 15 minutes. As J1924-292 exhibited irregular results in its polarization-dependent flux density levels, it was not used as a calibrator and only used as a check-source. Gain levels were stable enough to warrant the usage of NRAO530 as the only gain calibrator. The ALMA data were calibrated using a custom script based on the calibration procedure for the QA2 process of Cycle 0 data, with subsequent phase self-calibration on Sgr A* (which has a very strong unresolved component of around 2.5 Jy at 100 GHz) using baselines longer than 150 k$\lambda$.\\
From the calibrated VLA and ALMA data, the light curves for Sgr A* were obtained by averaging all unflagged UV visibilities per scan from all baselines longer than $150\hspace{3pt}\textrm{k}\lambda$, using uniform weighting for the selected baselines. We chose to only use projected baseline lengths over $150\hspace{3pt}\textrm{k}\lambda$ because we wished to avoid any contamination from the extended emission around Sgr A*, and baselines shorter than the chosen length show hints of structural variations over the track. Limiting ourselves to the longer baselines enabled us to work directly with the visibilities rather than needing the additional steps of imaging and model fitting. The errors on the flux density levels were estimated using the spread in amplitude of the calibrated visibilities over each scan. The calibrated light-curve data can be seen in the left column of Fig. \ref{fig-fits}. All light
curves can be seen to exhibit a gradual rise and decay, with shorter-timescale variation superimposed. For the calibrated VLA data, the resulting noise levels for the basebands at 19, 25, 27, 37, 39, and 48 GHz are 1.4, 0.7, 1.2, 0.9, 2.6, and 12.1 mJy, respectively. Limited calibration accuracy and the flagging of several subbands degrades the sensitivity from the desired sensitivity in the highest frequency bands. The final uncertainties in flux density are dominated by the calibration uncertainty coming from the variability that was exhibited by the check-source: this brings the total relative flux density measurement uncertainty to approximately 5\% for the VLA data. For the ALMA data, the uncertainty in flux density is approximately 5\% as well - however, the errors there are relatively small compared to the intrinsic variability of Sgr A* at 100 GHz. We note that the flux calibration of the VLA data does not give a perfectly smooth spectrum for our calibrator source J1744-3116, but this only affects the overall flux levels of the Sgr A* light curves by $\sim$5\% and does not affect the conclusions in this paper.\\
\begin{figure*}
\hspace{0pt}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{fullcurves-fits.png}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{calibrator-lcs.png}
\caption{{\bf Left:} Flux vs. time of Sgr A* for the VLA data (top six graphs) and the 100 GHz ALMA data (bottom graph). The fitted FRED function is plotted as a green (gray) curve, the position of the maxima is plotted as a vertical red (dark gray) line with the uncertainty in the fit superimposed as a red-shaded (dark gray) region. Green-shaded (light gray) regions indicate the uncertainty on the fits obtained by randomly dropping half of the data points for 500 iterations - see Sect. 3 for details. {\bf Right:} Flux vs. time for the calibrator sources (J1744-3116 for the VLA data, NRAO530 for the ALMA data).}
\label{fig-fits}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{fluxfreq.png}
\caption{Averaged flux density as a function of frequency for all light curves for the time period between 7h and 11h UT. The error bars denote measurement error convolved with flux density variability over the track, where variability is the dominant contribution. Variability is strongest at the highest frequencies. The spectral index obtained from using VLA + ALMA data is indicated by the black line (with 1-sigma fit uncertainties filled in with gray) and yields $\alpha = 0.42 \pm 0.03$. Using the VLA data only (red/gray line, with red/light gray 1-sigma uncertainty region), $\alpha = 0.45 \pm 0.07$.}
\label{fig-fluxfreq}
\end{figure}
\section{Analysis and results}
The spectral energy distribution of Sgr A* across the measured frequencies (see Fig. \ref{fig-fluxfreq}) has a spectral index of $\alpha = 0.41 \pm 0.03$ (with $\alpha$ defined as in $S_\nu \propto \nu^{\alpha}$) when all data (VLA + ALMA) are used for the spectral fit, and we obtain $\alpha = 0.50 \pm 0.07$ when only the VLA data are used. While this difference in spectral index cannot be called significant, it hints at a flattening of the spectrum as the submm bump is approached.\\
The VLA light curves at first sight each show a similar evolution of flux density with time: a rise in flux density level between 7h and 8h/9h UT, and a more slowly diminishing flux density beyond 8h/9h UT. The observed longer-term flux evolution over the full track is overlaid with more rapid variations in measured flux, which occur simultaneously in all frequency bands. These fluctuations are probably caused by atmospheric influence, which causes varying coherence loss as a function of time. The ALMA flux density measurements are highly precise, with a very small spread in visibility values per scan. The time cadence, however, is coarser than it is for the VLA data. Nonetheless, the evolution of flux density with time can be distinguished with high significance. At 100 GHz the flux density evolution is smooth, and there is a local maximum in flux at around 7:45h UT, followed by a later peak around 10:00h UT.
The z-transform discrete correlation function (ZDCF) algorithm \citep{Alexander1997} provides a way to cross-correlate light
curves that have uneven temporal sampling. This method for finding time lags between the VLA light curves yields a strong zero-lag component in every case (see Fig. \ref{fig-var-cc} for an example), coming from the short-time fluctuations in the data and probably attributable to coherence loss. These zero-time lag spikes tend to dominate the cross-correlation curves. Although skew is apparent in most cross-correlation curves, the zero-lag peaks preclude any meaningful time lag estimates to be made this way. To derive reliable time lag estimates, we chose the simple and robust approach of fitting the longer-term flux density evolution in all light
curves. To establish the times at which flux density maxima occur in these light curves, we fitted a smooth function to this general trend, allowing for different timescales to be associated with the rise and fall. Based on the general shape of the light curves, the choice was made to employ 'fast rise, exponential decay' (FRED) functions as fitting functions \citep{Bhat1994} (widely used in GRB light curve fitting). These functions consist of the product of two exponentials, involving four free parameters:\\
\begin{equation}
f(t)=A\cdot e^{2\sqrt{b/a}}\cdot e^{-(t-\Delta)/a-b/(t-\Delta)},
\label{FREDfunction}
\end{equation}
where $A$ is the maximum value of $f(t)$, $a$ and $b$ are parameters controlling the slopes of either side of that maximum, and $\Delta$ is the value of $t$ for which the maximum value is reached. Because the FRED flux density value rises up from zero and returns to zero as its argument $t$ is left running, it is not a suitable function to use over time intervals that are too long: we are only interested in using it to fit a local and asymmetric feature in the light curves. To keep the general shape of the light curves sufficiently simple to enable the fit without sacrificing too many data points, we only used the flux density measurements directly around the bump feature (7h - 11h UT for VLA, 6:50 - 8:50 UT for ALMA). Acting on the assumption that this feature in the ALMA light curve can be attributed to the same event in the source that caused the maxima found in the VLA light curves, we used the fitting algorithm on this feature as well.\\
Variations on shorter timescales in the VLA light curves may affect the fit results. Therefore we also performed the fits using a Monte Carlo approach in which, at random, half of the data points (20 out of 40) for a given VLA light curve were dropped before attempting a fit with the FRED function. For each light
curve, this was iterated 500 times. The resulting times of maxima for all obtained fits were averaged, and the standard deviation of their distribution was calculated. These results are also plotted in Fig. \ref{fig-fits}, shaded in green. The large standard deviation in the 48 GHz case indicates skew in the range of predictions made by the Monte Carlo method, causing the left limit to fall outside of the data range. High reduced $\chi$-squared values indicate that we fitted light curves whose evolution is more complicated than can be grasped by a simple function; significant short-term variability remains from imperfect flux calibration. The absolute flux density uncertainties are dominated by the calibration uncertainty of $\sim$5 percent for the entire light
curve (not shown in the figure). For most light curves, these results correspond well to the fit for which all data were used. For the light curve at 48 GHz the fits are not as robust. This is most probably due to the relatively strong flux density variations at short timescales for the 48 GHz light curve, combined with the short FRED rise time. The resulting best-fit values and uncertainties for the times of flux density maximum are shown in Fig. \ref{fig-fits}, and the time lags we found are summarized in Table \ref{table-timelags} where the middle column uses all data and the rightmost column uses the average result from the Monte Carlo approach. As the ALMA data does not have many measurements within the relevant time window, the Monte Carlo approach could not be used there.\\
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Times of flux density maxima from curve-fitting of individual light curves. Column 1: all data, Col. 2: subsample with MC}
\label{table-timelags}
\begin{tabular}{rll}
Frequency & Time of max (hrs UT) (1) & Time of max (hrs UT) (2)\\
\hline\\
100 GHz & $7.65\pm0.19$ & - \\
48 GHz & $7.93\pm0.31$ & $7.82\pm0.90$ \\
39 GHz & $8.03\pm0.14$ & $8.01\pm0.12$ \\
37 GHz & $8.17\pm0.13$ & $8.17\pm0.13$ \\
27 GHz & $8.38\pm0.11$ & $8.38\pm0.11$ \\
25 GHz & $7.98\pm0.16$ & $7.97\pm0.15$ \\
19 GHz & $8.78\pm0.29$ & $8.72\pm0.19$ \\
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\begin{figure*}
\hspace{0pt}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{27-37newtest.png}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{27-37flattest.png}
\caption{Example of a cross-correlation curve for the original light-curve data (left) and for the light-curve data with the FRED trend subtracted (right). The skew in the CCF for the full light curves suggests a nonzero timelag, but the zero-lag peak is too prominent to provide any useful estimate. After the fitted FRED trend is subtracted from both light curves and the cross-correlation is performed again, the only prominent cross-correlation peak corresponds to zero time lag.}
\label{fig-var-cc}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{modeltimelags-new.png}
\caption{Fitted times for the flux density maxima in each baseband (relative to the 19 GHz (1.6 cm) maximum), plotted as a function of observing wavelength. The figure uses the errors on the fit maxima obtained from fitting all data points. Dark shaded regions indicate the uncertainty in fit slope using all light curves, lighter shaded regions indicate the uncertainty in fit slope from VLA light curves alone. The slopes obtained are $42 \pm 14$ mins/cm (all data) and $36 \pm 21$ mins/cm (VLA data alone). The continuous lines are time-lag predictions from the jet model by \citet{Falcke2009} assuming inclinations of 30, 60, and 90$^\circ$.}
\label{fig-lags}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\hspace{0pt}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{variability-trend-vs-residual.png}
\caption{Variability due to FRED-fitted light-curve trends (vertical axis) versus remaining variability in trend-subtracted light
curves (horizontal axis) for the VLA data. Both axes show standard deviations. These quantities indicate that the long-term variability that is fitted by the FRED function scales with the remaining short-term variability.}
\label{fig-var-trend-res}
\end{figure}
With the 25 GHz data as notable exception, the maxima occur at later times for the lower observing frequencies, which is compatible with a linear relation between observing wavelength and time of maximum flux density. There is always the risk of misinterpreting the ALMA bump at 7:40h UT as being causally connected to the maxima in flux density found in the VLA data. To check whether the VLA data by themselves are consistent with the existence of these time lags, a separate fit was made using only the VLA data (Fig. \ref{fig-lags}), and the fit results are practically identical to those obtained with the full data set. The time lag expected for the ALMA peak based on the VLA time lag/frequency fit coincides with the measured value, and thus the identification of the ALMA flux density maximum as being related to the VLA flux density maxima seems justified. The fact that the maxima occur at different times for different frequencies also precludes interpreting the observed flux density evolution as being a purely atmospheric or elevation-dependent effect. Any elevation-dependent change in measured flux density would impose a simultaneous rising and falling of all light curves, which is not what we observe.\\
The FRED fits follow the general, long-term trend that is present in the data. In addition to this general trend, all light curves exhibit shorter-timescale fluctuations. Cross-correlation analysis on the original light curves therefore shows correlation contributions from both the general trends in the data and the shorter-timescale fluctuations. If these two variability components do not exhibit the same time lag between frequencies, interpreting the cross-correlation curves is problematic. To deal with this problem, we have subtracted the fitted FRED trends from all light curves and performed a cross-correlation analysis on the de-trended light curves (see Fig. \ref{fig-var-cc}). This cross-correlation peaks at zero time lag, suggesting that the short-term fluctuations have a different origin from the long-term trends. The most likely cause of the short-term fluctuations are calibration residuals stemming from phase-coherence loss due to the low elevation of Sgr A* at the VLA site. While there is a correlation between the FRED variability and the residual variability as seen from Fig. \ref{fig-var-trend-res}, this does not imply that they share the same cause. Atmospheric influence is stronger for higher observing frequency, and this effect is unrelated to intrinsic source variability.
\section{Discussion and conclusion}
The time lags across this broad range of frequencies corroborate the picture of an expanding plasma flow with a diminishing optical depth over time. When the time lags found in this work are combined with the existing results from \citet{YZ2006}, they are compatible: Yusef-Zadeh et al. reported a time lag between 43 GHz and 22 GHz of 20 to 40 minutes, while we detect a time lag of 28 $\pm$ 9 minutes between these two frequencies when we use the linear time lag/wavelength fit based on our measurements (see Fig. \ref{fig-lags} and caption).\\
Measurements on time lags between Sgr A* light curves at 102 and 90 GHz were performed by \citet{Miyazaki2013}, and they reported the time delay between 102 GHz and 90 GHz as being $-2.56 \pm 0.9$ min (i.e., the 90 GHz light curve is leading the 102 GHz light curve). The expected time lag between 102 and 90 GHz that would agree with the 43 GHz -22 GHz lag found by \citet{YZ2006} is quoted as being close to 3 min (with the precise value depending on the index of the power-law distribution in electron energy), whereas an extension of the linear relation we find in this work predicts a time lag between these frequencies of $1.7 \pm 0.6$ min (this figure increases somewhat if low inclination angles are considered, see Fig. \ref{fig-lags}). We stress that the models used to predict the time lags are very simple in all cases, and in particular measured time lags between closely neighboring frequencies can deviate from the predicted relation due to more complex plasma flow properties close to the black hole. The Blandford-K\"onigl jet model uses a $\tau=1$ surface, the location of which along the jet only depends on the accretion rate, and which is constant throughout the jet cross-section. The actual nature of any outflow may locally be of a more chaotic character, with different regions in the jet cross-section having different plasma densities and different optical depths, as is typically witnessed in GRMHD simulations \citep{Moscibrodzka2014}. Our measurements, obtained over a broad range of frequencies, are expected to sample a greater spatial range of the proposed outflow. They should hence provide a robust result and a characterization of the behavior of the system as a whole, and we believe this approach warrants the use of a simple outflow model.\\
Without source size measurements, many different models of expanding plasma flows can be made to fit our observations. Following the analysis by \citet{YZ2008}, where an adiabatically expanding plasma cloud was used as a model for flare occurrence in Sgr A*, the cloud expands to just $\sim$2.3 times the size it initially has at the 100 GHz maximum (see Figs. \ref{YZflareprofile-radius} and \ref{YZflare-evolution}) for the frequency range we record. The radii at which the lower-frequency emission peaks is only a few times the initial radius (which is taken to be 3 Schwarzschild radii). If we adopt the initial radius of the cloud as being $\sim$3 Schwarzschild radii, as was done by \citet{YZ2008}, the associated flow velocities that occur according to this model are only around 3 percent of the speed of light. This is twice the velocity that was found by \citet{YZ2008}.\\
However, we can use the size-frequency relation of Sgr A* as presented in \citet{Falcke09} as additional information with which to provide a general estimate of the gas flow velocity. Although we do not have sufficient information to identify the variable emission (that we focus on) with the quiescent emission for which the size-frequency relation holds, considering the two components to reflect the same gas flow is the simplest hypothesis that we can consider. The size-frequency relation describes the measured intrinsic (i.e., corrected for interstellar scattering) size of Sgr A* as a function of observing wavelength, and has the form\\
\begin{equation}
\phi_{\textrm{Sgr A*}}=(0.52 \pm 0.03) \textrm{mas} \times (\lambda/\textrm{cm})^{1.3 \pm 0.1}.
\label{angularsize}
\end{equation}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{YZflareprofile-radius.png}
\caption{Normalized flux density profiles of an adiabatically expanding plasma cloud as a function of radius for all frequencies. The continuous flux profiles use the expressions given in \citet{YZ2008}, with a particle spectral index of 1 as was determined to be the best-fitting value in that work. Note that the initial radius used by \citet{YZ2008} ($\sim$3 Schwarzschild radii) is different from the initial radius that follows from using the size-frequency relation ($\sim$ 11 Schwarzschild radii).}
\label{YZflareprofile-radius}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{YZflare-evolution.png}
\caption{Times of flux density maxima for different frequencies plotted against the radii at which maximum flux density is reached. Black data points are obtained by combining our time lags with the outflow model used in \citet{YZ2008}, see also Fig. \ref{YZflareprofile-radius}. If the initial radius is a only few Schwarzschild radii, the estimated flow velocity reached by the expanding plasma is on the order of 0.03$c$. Orange (light gray) data points are obtained by combining our time lags with the size-frequency relation (Eq. \ref{angularsize}), and yield a velocity of $\sim$0.5$c$. Note that the initial radii are not the same for both cases.}
\label{YZflare-evolution}
\end{figure}
In this expression, $\phi_{\textrm{Sgr A*}}$ is the angular size of Sgr A* on the sky and $\lambda$ is the observing wavelength. Combining this (angular) size-frequency relation with an estimate for the distance between Earth and the Galactic center and taking the difference in source size for two observing frequencies, we obtain an expression for the projected source size difference on the sky in length units. When we assume a source inclination of 90$^\circ$ and a one-sided outflow interpretation (as was done by \citet{Falcke2009}), we find that our data suggest an outflow velocity of $\sim$0.77$c$ ($\gamma\beta\approx1.2$). Using the variability seen in our measurements (Fig. \ref{fig-var-trend-res}) as a proxy for flare amplitude with the size-frequency relation (Eq. \ref{angularsize}), we obtain the data points that are plotted separately in Fig. \ref{YZflareprofile-radius}.\\
Because the source centroid position on the sky as a function of observing frequency is not known, however,we can derive a lower limit on the outflow velocity by assuming identical centroid positions for all observing frequencies. This assumption corresponds to a two-sided jet interpretation (the source grows symmetrically on the sky with lower observing frequency), so for the distance traveled by the gas in one jet we can take half of the intrinsic source size difference. Taking into account the influence of light travel time with different inclination angles yields the following expression for the expected time lag between observing frequencies:\\
\begin{equation}
\Delta_{\textrm{diff}} = \frac{R_{\textrm{SgrA,diff}}}{\sin{i}} \left( \frac{1}{v_f} - \frac{\cos{i}}{c}\right),
\label{lagfreq}
\end{equation}
with $\Delta_{\textrm{diff}}$ the time lag between two observing frequencies, $R_{\textrm{SgrA,diff}}$ the radius difference for the two observing frequencies as calculated using Eq. \ref{angularsize} and our distance to the Galactic center of 8.3 kpc, $i$ the inclination angle (angle between the flow vector and the line of sight from Sgr A* to Earth) and $v_f$ the flow velocity. We can express this relation in terms of $v_f$ and combine it with the relation between time lag and wavelength (see Fig. \ref{fig-lags}). In this way, we can plot the relation between flow velocity estimate and jet inclination angle, where we place the constraint that the flow velocity needs to be positive and lower than the speed of light. Figure \ref{fig-outflowvel-vs-inc} shows this dependence and indicates a minimum flow velocity of $v_f = 0.5$c ($\gamma\beta=0.58$) for an inclination of 60$^\circ$. Including the light travel time in the calculation breaks the symmetry around an inclination of 90 degrees that would otherwise be present. For the two-sided outflow, we assumed here that the outflow component with an inclination smaller than 90 degrees is the one that is picked up in the time lag measurements. For the two-sided jet interpretation only inclinations close to 90$^\circ$ can be modeled reasonably in this way. Inclinations deviating significantly from 90$^\circ$ would result in ambiguous time lags because of the different light travel times from the gas in the two jets. For the case of a one-sided jet, where the source only grows toward one side with lower observing frequency, the lower velocity bound is approximately $v_f = 0.77$c ($\gamma\beta=1.2$). Figure \ref{fig-lags} plots the model-predicted time lags for different inclination angles and shows that no strong constraints are posed on the inclination angle by these data.\\
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{outflowvel-vs-inc.png}
\caption{Estimates of minimum outflow velocity (expressed in $\gamma\beta$) as a function of the inclination angle of the flow direction. The uncertainties have been calculated from the uncertainty in Galactic center distance (0.4 kpc), the uncertainties in the size-frequency relation (see Eq. \ref{angularsize}) and the uncertainty in time lag vs observing wavelength (14 mins/cm, see Fig. \ref{fig-lags}) using standard error propagation.}
\label{fig-outflowvel-vs-inc}
\end{figure}
As these results are based upon measurements of a light-curve feature from a single track, it is prudent to perform this analysis on more light curves as they become available to verify the picture we establish. Although the broad nature of the flux density feature that we used in the FRED fit generally agrees with the result of the ZDCF analysis, light curves with significant flux density changes over shorter timescales would offer an opportunity of using the ZDCF more effectively as an alternative verification of the FRED fitting results. ALMA observations at a higher time cadence taken contemporaneously with VLA observations would facilitate the cross-matching of light-curve features between these frequencies.\\
To summarize, we have measured time lags in Sgr A* light curves from 100 GHz to 19 GHz using ALMA and the VLA. Higher-frequency light curves are seen to have their maxima at earlier times than the lower-frequency light curves. Coupled to the size-frequency relation for Sgr A*, these measurements indicate a moderately relativistic, directed outflow from Sgr A*.
\section{Acknowledgements}
This work was performed as part of the Chandra XVP collaboration (see http://www.sgra-star.com/collaboration-members/ for a list of collaboration members). This paper makes use of the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO.ALMA\#2011.0.00887.S. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada) and NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO and NAOJ. We thank our referee for providing useful comments that improved the presentation of this paper. Reproduced with permission from Astronomy \& Astrophysics, \textcopyright ESO.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{timelags-constvel-1.png}
\caption{Time delays as a function of frequency, expressed in minutes before the time of maximum flux density at $\lambda=1.57$ cm (19 GHz). Colored lines indicate the model time-lag predictions for different constant outflow and inflow velocities. Orange (light gray) lines indicate outflow, blue (dark gray) lines indicate inflow. The data points, derived from the full-data FRED curve fits, suggest an outflow with a moderately relativistic velocity, clustering around $\gamma \beta = 2$. This figure is valid for an inclination angle of 90 degrees and is adapted from \citet{Falcke2009}.}
\label{fig-mrel}
\end{figure}
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TEHRAN - A group of 13 Malaysians who had joined the ISIS to fight in Syria are now making desperate attempts to return to their country.
The fighters are caught in an offensive against ISIS in eastern Syria and are itching to return home, according to reports. Some have even contacted their families.
In recent months, with the defeat of ISIS in Syria and triumph of the Syrian army, many ISIS fighters from different countries have expressed their desire to reunite with their families.
Before these 19 Malaysian fighters, some teenage girls from UK who had left their families and joined ISIS in Syria had expressed their desire to return to their birth country.
Having married ISIS fighters and bore children with them, the girls feared for the safety of their children and wanted to return. However, they expressed no remorse for joining ISIS and marrying ISIS fighters.
According to reports, Malaysian authorities have said the ideology of the returnees would be evaluated before taking the decision. They would be allowed to come back, if they comply with rules, and complete one-month government-run rehabilitation program.
So far, 11 Malaysians have returned home from Syria. Eight men were charged in court and convicted. The other three included one woman and two children, aged 3 and 5 respectively.
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Foster Street is a hamlet in the North Weald Bassett civil parish of the Epping Forest district in the English county of Essex.
A non-conformist burying ground was established in 1677 by William Woodward, for the congregation that he was the leader of in the Harlow area. Among the burials are the radical editor Benjamin Flower, his wife Eliza, and their two daughters, the composer Eliza Flower and the poet Sarah Fuller Adams. The burial ground remained in use until 1979.
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Hobbit-like humans may emerge as global warming takes hold
Humans will have to cope with less food and shrink to the size of hobbits if they are to survive in a warmer world, according to scientists.
Published 7th January 2013
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New research is predicting the mass extinction of many species if the planet's temperature rises by 6°C. With food supplies drastically reduced in such a climate, dwarfism is likely to result among humans as an evolutionary strategy to avoid starvation.
This forecast is based on historical evidence that points to a similar scenario when the world's temperature last rose by 6°C.
Under the Bighorn Basin Coring Project, an international group of 30 scientists have studied vast fossil deposits in rock strata in Wyoming in the US, charting the period 55 million years ago when the Earth's temperature rose suddenly – as it is expected to do this century.
On that occasion it took 10,000 years for the temperature to rise by 6°C. While there were mass extinctions, the timescale gave some plants and animals time to adapt and migrate to survive.
Many species such as horses, insects and earthworms evolved quickly – dwarfism being one of the most widespread and successful strategies.
However this current warming period could take as little as 200 years, according to predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Scientists say this would allow no time for many long-lived species, such as trees, to evolve and migrate.
Mammals would also struggle to move to new areas due to industrialisation and agricultural development. As mass extinction results, surviving species will end up competing for diminishing and less nutritious food supplies.
The findings also pour cold water on earlier optimism that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would have a fertilisation effect for food plants, as this would be more than countered by a loss in nutrition.
According to University of Birmingham research fellow Dr Phillip Jardine, one of the scientists involved in the project, the impacts of altering the global carbon balance could be catashropic for an over-populated world.
Speaking to Climate News Network, he said: "Even if future climate change isn't a convincing enough argument to decrease carbon emissions, increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations has a very real possibility of reducing the viability of our own food supplies, by compromising the base of the food chain for ourselves and the animals that we farm and eat.
"If we acknowledge the presence of increasing temperatures then we have an additional factor that we would expect to decrease further the size of our farmed animals, and thus the amount of food that we can take from them."
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SWI/SNF-related, matrix-associated, actin-dependent regulator of chromatin, subfamily B, member 1, commonly abbreviated SMARCB1, is a diagnostic immunostain, because nuclear staining is lost in some specific types of cancer shown below.
It is also known as INI1, INI-1 and BAF47.
SMARCB1 (INI-1)-deficient carcinomas of the sinonasal tract.
Up to 30% of synovial sarcoma.
SMARCA4-deficient adenocarcinoma of the lung.
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Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
versão impressa ISSN 1019-9128
J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. vol.81 no.3 Pretoria Set. 2010
ARTICLE ARTIKEL
Veterinary extension on sampling techniques related to heartwater research
H C SteynI,III,*; C M E McCrindleII; D Du ToitIII
IOnderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Private Bag X5, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa
IISection Veterinary Public Health, Department Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X04, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa
IIIDepartment of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Science, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Heartwater, a tick-borne disease caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium, is considered to be a significant cause of mortality amongst domestic and wild ruminants in South Africa. The main vector is Amblyomma hebraeum and although previous epidemiological studies have outlined endemic areas based on mortalities, these have been limited by diagnostic methods which relied mainly on positive brain smears. The indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFA) has a low specificity for heartwater organisms as it cross-reacts with some other species. Since the advent of biotechnology and genomics, molecular epidemiology has evolved using the methodology of traditional epidemiology coupled with the new molecular techniques. A new quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) test has been developed for rapid and accurate diagnosis of heartwater in the live animal. This method can also be used to survey populations of A. hebraeum ticks for heartwater. Sampling whole blood and ticks for this qPCR differs from routine serum sampling, which is used for many serological tests. Veterinary field staff, particularly animal health technicians, are involved in surveillance and monitoring of controlled and other diseases of animals in South Africa. However, it was found that the sampling of whole blood was not done correctly, probably because it is a new sampling technique specific for new technology, where the heartwater organism is much more labile than the serum antibodies required for other tests. This qPCR technique is highly sensitive and can diagnose heartwater in the living animal within 2 hours, in time to treat it. Poor sampling techniques that decrease the sensitivity of the test will, however, result in a false negative diagnosis. This paper describes the development of a skills training programme for para-veterinary field staff, to facilitate research into the molecular epidemiology of heartwater in ruminants and eliminate any sampling bias due to collection errors. Humane handling techniques were also included in the training, in line with the current focus on improved livestock welfare.
Keywords: Ehrlichia ruminantium, livestock welfare, molecular epidemiology, sampling precision, veterinary extension.
The rickettsial agent Ehrlichia ruminantium is the causative agent of the disease known as heartwater and is transmitted to domestic and wild ruminants by the tick Amblyomma hebraeum7,8. E. ruminantium is an obligate intracellular parasite that infects endothelial cells7. Traditionally, extensive cattle, sheep and goat farming systems have been the central focus of livestock production in South Africa. Because of exposure to A. hebraeum ticks in such grazing systems, heartwater is regarded as one of the most important diseases in the region1,17,24.
In South Africa, veterinary extension has changed since 1994 from a dualistic service to a single amalgamated service to facilitate the control of animal diseases and thus increase productivity of previously disadvantaged, small-scale livestock farmers. State veterinary services cooperate with researchers, private veterinarians, agricultural extension services, farmers and farmers' organisations9,19,21.
Previously the diagnosis of heartwater depended mainly on the detection of clinical signs and a post mortem brain smear. The IFA and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests, used on serum from live animals, have a low specificity for E. ruminantium organisms, as crossreactions with antibodies against Anaplasma and other Ehrlichia spp. can occur, resulting in false positives1. These techniques allowed for the diagnosis of outbreaks and determination of endemic areas, but were insufficiently sensitive to allow for epidemiological studies. A new diagnostic assay (qPCR) developed to detect the organism in the blood of infected animals and ticks, together with the in vitro culture of new genotypes, facilitate molecular epidemiological studies which should contribute to better control of heartwater and the development of a more effective vaccine22. It is recognised, however, that the sensitivity of any diagnostic test can be considerably reduced by poor sampling techniques23.
Most animal disease surveillance and monitoring was previously based on serological tests and the antibodies required for diagnosis are relatively stable. However, E. ruminantium is an extremely fragile organism; it dies 6 hours after an animal has died and will lose its infectivity when exposed to the sun for only 5 minutes, to a depth of 1 cm, in a blood collection tube4. Although the DNA may still be identifiable using the new qPCR, in vitro culture of the genotype to test its virulence and cross-protection capacity will not be possible.
Animal health technicians (AHTs) work under the supervision of the state veterinarian and are well-trained professionals who constitute an integral part of the veterinary team to produce high-quality animal health care and public education. They are responsible for restraining and handling animals (cattle, sheep and goats), collecting blood samples, tick identification, vaccination of animals and are involved in dipping programmes for the control of ticks and tick-borne diseases (Veterinary and Para-veterinary Act of 2000). A pilot study, however, showed that AHTs lacked the knowledge and skills to collect blood and tick samples correctly for a research study on the epidemiology of heartwater based on identification of the organism. A possible solution for this problem was specific skills training of the AHTs. Existing Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (ARC-OVI) extension material was found to be suitable for training farmers in the recognition of heartwater and understanding of its importance. The ARC-OVI also has preserved samples and illustrations available for the identification of A. hebraeum in all its stages. However, no extension materials for training AHTs in the correct methods of handling animals, collecting and dispatching samples were found. It has been suggested that a great deal of attention be paid to this3, as it can be a major constraint to the successful surveillance of animal diseases. The learning outcome was thus the correct collection, labelling, handling and dispatch of blood and tick samples by AHTs for the study of heartwater epidemiology.
Veterinary extension makes use of adult learning and community development techniques to improve food safety and control animal dieases2,13,14,15,20,21. A previous study20 showed that an essential part of successful transfer of skills and knowledge to farmers and rural communities involved the correct in-service training of AHTs.
Effective in-service training aims to improve skills and change actions, beliefs and knowledge to promote better extension and communication by veterinary staff2,11. It is also essential for successful research projects6. Methods developed for veterinary extension and communication provide a good model for the training of both para-veterinary staff and end users.10,16,21
Outcomes-based education is based on a framework that breaks down learning objectives and attaches measurable assessment criteria to each objective5. Evaluation of the performance of both the trainees and the training programme itself are necessary to identify constraints and to ensure success10.
This paper describes the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme using veterinary extension techniques and outcomes based education to train AHTs in the correct methods of collection, handling and dispatch of whole blood and A. hebraeum ticks required for a study related to the molecular epidemiology of heartwater. Humane handling techniques while restraining and bleeding ruminants were also addressed, in line with the modern focus on livestock welfare10.
The study area was selected randomly from veterinary districts within the endemic areas for heartwater in South Africa12. The geographical coordinates of Mbombela (formerly Nelspruit) are 25º29'S, 30º59'E. The area is situated in the northeastern part of the Mpumalanga Province and has bushveld vegetation (Fig. 1). The area borders the Kruger National Park on the eastern side and Swaziland on the southern side. The southwestern region of Nelspruit consists of mountains and plantations, such as banana farms. It has summer rainfall. The area has a high incidence of heartwater in cattle, sheep and goats.
Ten AHTs employed by state veterinary services in the Nelspruit area participated in the project. For initial evaluation prior to the development of the programme, they were issued with the prerequisite materials listed in Table 1.
The blood samples had to be collected from the medial coccygeal vein of cattle and from the jugular vein of sheep and goats. Ticks were collected from these animals, as well as other animals in the herd, if none were seen on sampled animals. The AHTs (n = 10) were taken to the local dip tanks where they were asked to collect blood from sheep, cattle and goats. After a verbal description of what was required, AHTs were observed during bleeding and dispatch of samples using a checklist (Table 2).
The correct techniques used and criteria for assessment, as listed in Table 2, are described in more detail below. Prerequisites had to be unpacked and set out neatly and collection tubes correctly and clearly labelled in pencil or with a laundry marker. All tubes were correctly numbered and correlated on an information sheet labelled with the farm name, GPS reading, owner name and contact details, number and description of individual animals and the date. Correct and humane restraint and handling of animals was expected to be in line with international animal welfare norms and South African legislation (Animal Protection Act of 1962).
Sheep and goats were restrained manually and 10 mℓ of blood was collected from the left jugular vein using 18-gauge Vacutainer® needles and 10 mℓ capacity EDTA BD Vacutainer® K2E tubes. Cattle were restrained in a crush-pen and blood was drawn from the medial coccygeal vein using 18-gauge Vacutainer® needles and 10 mℓ capacity EDTA BD Vacutainer® K2E tubes. The medial coccygeal artery and vein lie on the ventral side of the coccygeal vertebrae. Samples were taken from the vein or artery at the level of the 3rd or 4th coccygeal vertebra. The needle was inserted ventral to the vertebral body (not ventral to intervertebral joint) so that no nerve damage would occur. All tubes were correctly numbered and placed immediately (not left lying in the sun until all the animals were bled) in a zip-lock plastic bag in a polystyrene cooler box, next to a frozen ice brick, and the lid of the box closed.
A maximum of 5 adult A. hebraeum ticks were collected from each animal that was bled and these were stored in a correctly labelled, screw-topped plastic container, with holes in the lid, inside a larger zip-lock plastic bag (a maximum of 15 containers) and kept in the same cooler box with an ice brick for transport to the regional veterinary offices or laboratory.
Once they reached the regional centre, the blood sample tubes were wrapped separately in order to prevent contact between them. A triple layer packaging system was used (absorbent, leak-proof bag, cool bag or freezer) to meet the relevant packing instructions. The documentation accompanying the parcel included the delivery address, sender 's details, emergency contact details (name and telephone number) and parcels had to be clearly marked as diagnostic specimens transported for research and diagnosis. Tick specimen bottles were placed in a special portable acaridarium containing a saturated saline solution. To ensure humidity and prevent spilling of the saline solution a thick layer of cotton wool was moistened with 40 % saline at the bottom of the acaridarium.
Samples were sent or transported according to the Dangerous Goods Packaging regulations as per UN class 6.2, when transported by road (SANS 10229-1: 2005 edition 1) (Laboratory Specialist Services (Pty) Ltd, 2005). This final packaging and dispatch from the regional laboratory or veterinary centre was done by laboratory technicians or the researcher and thus did not form part of the field assessment of the AHTs.
The level of proficiency in field collection of samples (whole blood and ticks) was assessed and scored (Table 3). The deficiencies seen during this initial assessment of the AHTs were broken down into achievable outcomes and a template developed in line with that described by McCrindle16 for dairy farming extension. The learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the learning programme are shown in Table 4. Photographs were taken on station to show exact steps in the process (Fig. 2) and these were then used to develop extension materials. Microsoft Power Point® was used as a tool to train learners and each photograph was explained with simple text. In order to test the training materials, a training day was held with the same AHTs and they were then asked to once again sample cattle sheep and goats. A final assessment of the skills of the 10 AHTs was carried out during whole blood sample and tick collection from a total of 465 animals (15 animals per dip tank) and 247 tick samples (either from animals bled or from the herd) collected at dip tanks and commercial farms in the study area (Fig. 1).
During the initial assessment livestock were not always correctly restrained, handling was not always humane, blood samples were left in the sun, incorrect tick species were collected, containers were incorrectly labelled and data sheets incorrectly completed. These observed deficiencies were used to design the training materials and were remedied after training (Table 3). After training, the AHTs correctly restrained the animals and were successful in filling tubes. Tubes were not exposed to sunlight and labelling was done correctly. Only A. hebraeum ticks were subsequently collected.
Examples of some of the pictures used as training materials are included (Fig. 2). These will shortly be available from the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute on CD's with an attached training module, as they can be used for field training in the correct collection and dispatch of whole blood samples required for surveillance or research on other diseases.
After the initial assessment a training programme was developed using Microsoft PowerPoint®. The training materials were saved as a slide show on a computer. These can be printed and put in flip files for field training of the target audience, in this case the AHTs16.
The outcome of the training showed an increase from 20 % accuracy before skills training to 90-100 % after skills training (Table 3).
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
The AHTs were successfully trained in all aspects of correct sample taking and dispatch. These included humane handling of livestock, correct collection of blood and ticks for heartwater epidemiology studies and preventing exposure to heat and sunlight.
Correctly collected samples were subsequently used in another study, for the accurate monitoring of heartwater in problem and endemic areas as well as the identification and characterisation of new genotypes for future vaccine development. AHTs who had undergone skills training also played a vital role in the success of a current study on heartwater epidemiology. This technique also has the potential to improve future sampling for routine diagnosis of heartwater during outbreaks, as using the newly developed technology means that the genotype can be identified and characterised.
The training materials can also be used to train AHTs to collect blood samples for other diseases such as brucellosis and foot-and-mouth disease surveillance programmes. This investigation accentuates the important role of veterinary extension and communication in the correct training of AHTs working in the field, so that poor sampling does not decrease the accuracy of disease diagnosis and research. It is important for the state veterinary services to understand new research technologies and the importance of collecting samples accurately and correctly, not only for research but also for routine surveillance in the field.
In conclusion, the method used for training of the AHTs was successful as the samples taken after training were suitable for epidemiological investigations of heartwater using molecular techniques.
This research was supported by the National Research Foundation, European Union (EU) and the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Division of the Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute. We thank Dr M van Kleef (New Generation Vaccines) and Mr A Spickett (Parasites, Vectors and Vectorborn Diseases) for helpful comments on the manuscript.
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Accepted: July 2010.
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Another week and another push higher by the S&P 500 but as tempting as it might be to say that the pattern that's dominated the markets over the last few weeks remains unchanged, a subtle shift is beginning to take over investor behavior. We're keeping a close eye on a number of trends, but the weak action in the markets last week serves as a symptom of the shift. Instead of the strong late week rally we've come to expect, the entire gain for the week came from Wednesday's powerful move after the FOMC report. Profit taking later in the week then left the S&P 500 up just .2%. Maybe investors are just tired of feeling like travelers in a land of confusion but we've noticed a common thread in our list of biggest ETFG Quant Movers, a focus on fundamentals like earnings growth that has us wondering whether the market is beginning to look beyond the Fed and back to fundamentals.
While our list of 25 Top Behavioral Scoring Funds again is dominated by biotech names, our list of funds with the biggest % change in their weekly behavioral quant score reflects the shifting investor focus on profitability with four funds seeing major momentum changes. Three of the four funds have a pharmaceutical focus with the PowerShares DWA Healthcare Momentum Portfolio (PTH), PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals Portfolio (PJP), iShares U.S. Pharmaceuticals ETF (IHE) being joined by only one broad based fund, the Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF (FHLC.) Critics can be forgiven for thinking this is just an overdue bounce after all the negative press the sector has endured thanks to Valeant and Turning Pharmaceuticals, but there may be more to this move than just sentiment. Quarterly earnings growth for the S&P 500 is currently a negative 2.2% with nearly 70% of the constituents having reported, but it's a very different story for the healthcare sector which leads the market in the number of companies reporting upside earnings surprises and which is only trailing the tiny telecommunications sector in earnings growth! Thanks to strong earnings from names like Pfizer, Gilead and Amgen, the quarterly earnings growth rate is now at 13.6% so small wonder that investors funneled over $247 million into healthcare funds in October, outpacing every other equity sector that month!
Even more interesting to us than the amount of money flowing into the healthcare sector or the number of funds on our list of quant movers is the nature of the funds that make it up. All four of the funds on the weekly behavioral movers list held large allocations to Allergan (AGN) although given that stock is a large component of even the much broader XLV it would be more remarkable if they didn't own it. However only FHLC held an allocation to the week's biggest mover, AbbVie Inc. (ABBV), up 18.3% last week on a major earnings blowout. That exposure for FHLC reflects the fact that it's the only fund of the four to offer broad healthcare sector exposure with the other three major movers all being highly concentrated pharmaceutical funds with anywhere from 23 (PJP) to 46 (PTH) holdings. Concentration like that usually is a cause for concern given the amount of stock-specific risk that it adds to the portfolio but the common holdings among the funds is hardly a pharmaceutical rogue's gallery. The common holdings are mega-cap names like Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Bristol Meyers Squibb meaning either investors are buying funds without carefully examining the holdings or that they are looking to add exposure to the more consistent earnings of the top names in the sector. Adding that exposure has paid off this earnings season as companies with upside earnings surprises have delivered strong outperformance in the two days leading up to the earnings release and in the two days after the announcement.
But if there's one sector that's feeling the pinch it's the financials where the Financials Select Sector SPDR (XLF) continues to struggle for traction. XLF and the broader sector lost ground after a promising start to the week when the somewhat hawkish FOMC statement was seen improving the odds for a future rate hike ran smack into more weak data points including Thursday's GDP report and Friday's Personal Income release. Even the possibility of a bout of merger mania couldn't ignite investor interest with Thursday's announcement by Key Corp (KEY) of its acquisition of First Niagara Financial (FNFG) sent Keys' stock plummeting down 10.65% in the next two days and dragging large holders like the PowerShares KBW Bank Portfolio (KBWB) down with it. But investor pragmatism is again on display as the financial sector has failed to "wow" with its third quarter earnings reports. While earnings have grown slightly faster than many analysts forecasted on September 30th, none have reported sharply higher earnings surprises (which capture investor enthusiasm) like healthcare stocks while disappointments from titans like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs remind investors of the troubled state of the industry. Investors looking for one sector that could stand to benefit the most from improving sentiment need look no further. |
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As part of this work we have produced a digital rights toolkit and a range of other resources to try to make it easier for everyone approaching the subject.
Below, you will find links to a number of resources including an introduction to what we mean by digital rights, things to think about when approaching a contract by digital rights expert Ben Green, top tips from leading producers in the field of stage-to-screen; and, a digital rights lexicon that defines the terms around digital rights to help artists and rights holders to know what's being negotiated.
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#
# Module manifest for module 'PSGitLab'
#
# Generated by: Nicholas M. Getchell
#
# Generated on: 7/1/2015
#
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# Script module or binary module file associated with this manifest.
RootModule = 'PSGitLab.psm1'
# Version number of this module.
ModuleVersion = '3.0.1'
# ID used to uniquely identify this module
GUID = 'f844db87-fda8-403b-a7da-bdc00a3f5a58'
# Author of this module
Author = 'Nicholas M. Getchell, Leonhard Schick, Brooks Collins, and Wojciech Sciesinski'
# Company or vendor of this module
# CompanyName = 'Unknown'
# Copyright statement for this module
Copyright = '(c) 2018 PSGitLab. All rights reserved.'
# Description of the functionality provided by this module
Description = 'GitLab API accessable from the Windows PowerShell console'
# Minimum version of the Windows PowerShell engine required by this module
# PowerShellVersion = ''
# Name of the Windows PowerShell host required by this module
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# Minimum version of the Windows PowerShell host required by this module
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'Close-GitLabMergeRequest',
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'Get-GitLabGroup',
'Get-GitLabIssue',
'Get-GitLabMergeRequest',
'Get-GitLabMilestone',
'Get-GitLabNamespace',
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'Get-GitLabProject',
'Get-GitLabProjectArchive',
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'Get-GitlabProjectServiceSlack',
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Q: CSS: preventing div container to scale or stretch I am creating a navigator for my website which has 5 buttons: Button1-4 and background-image as Button5.
If you maximize your browser window with width and scale it down by height only, 1280x300 for example, you will see that div containers background is off from the buttons, which looks terrible, see the result here.
By my research, i have tried every possible options which didn't seem to work, div menu style:
.menu {
position: fixed;
display: inline-block; /* did not work */
overflow: auto; /* did not work */
top: 0%;
left: 0%;
right: 0%;
background-color: black;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
border-style: solid;
border-color: black;
border-radius: 3%;
z-index:99;
max-height: 15%; /* non of these below worked. */
max-width: 100%;
min-height: 15%;
min-width: 100%;
}
Why is it stretching down with window even when it exceeds its max and min width? How can i avoid my div menu to stretch and scale with browser? What are the options with css?
Full code.
A: To prevent a div container from streching, when defining the width and height, don't use %, because this means that the width and height of the div is changed based on the width and height of the browser window. Use px instead, and you should not have such issues.
.menu {
display: inline-block;
position: fixed;
top: 0%;
left: 0%;
right: 0%;
background-color: black;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
border-style: solid;
border-color: black;
border-radius: 3%;
z-index:99;
}`
This should work.
You can see the changes here:
https://jsfiddle.net/4bm2kxxj/4/
The same thing could be done with the buttons as well, give the margins, width and height px values instead of % values;
This should solve the problem.
A good Idea would be to use media queries in your code to change the css of the elements when a specific condition is true.
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_mediaquery.asp
Or frameworks like Bootstrap, where everything is pre-made and all you have to do is learn how to use it in your project.
A: I think this is what you were looking for: https://jsfiddle.net/4bm2kxxj/2/
Add this line:
overflow:hidden;
to the menu class
A: Give min-height in pixels instead of percent. Since you are already specifying height and max-height in percent, your layout can afford the min-height in pixels.
For sake of a demo, I used 100px as height
Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/4bm2kxxj/3/
CSS:
.menu {
display: inline-block;
overflow: auto;
position: fixed;
top: 0%;
left: 0%;
right: 0%;
background-color: black;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
border-style: solid;
border-color: black;
border-radius: 3%;
z-index: 99;
max-height: 15%;
max-width: 100%;
min-height: 100px; /*can be any other value*/
min-width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
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Q: Efficiently generating the cartesian product of lists with > 50 elements I am trying to generate all possible combinations from a list over 50 elements, I was working in a previous implementation with this function:
let rec extract k list =
if k <= 0 then [ [] ]
else
match list with
| [] -> []
| h :: tl ->
let with_h = List.map (fun l -> h :: l) (extract (k-1) tl) in
let without_h = extract k tl in
with_h @ without_h
And everything was OK, the point is that in my previous application the size of the list was small, between 5 and 10 items. However now my list will in some cases have more than 50 items, and this and other functions for generating combinations crash (with overflow memory messages in some cases). Is there a way to generate a function that can manage to generate combinations with very big lists?
A: A generic solution is to switch to sequences in order to lazily compute elements of the combination:
let rec extract k list () =
if k <= 0 then Seq.return [] ()
else match list with
| [] -> Seq.Nil
| h :: tl ->
let with_h = Seq.map (fun l -> h :: l) (extract (k-1) tl) in
let without_h = extract k tl in
Seq.append with_h without_h ()
let test = extract 20 (List.init 1_000_000 Fun.id)
let view = List.of_seq (Seq.take 20 l)
This solution avoids both the issue of stack overflows due to non-tailrecursive functions and the issue of eagerly generating a list of size n^k which would not fit in memory for large n.
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