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Heretofore, devices used to measure the electrical characteristics of a ferroelectric material, such as its dielectric constant versus temperature or its dielectric constant versus electric potential, have been comprised of a temperature controlled plate and a holder for the ferroelectric material or device under test (DUT). In these prior art devices, the DUT is thermally connected to the temperature controlled plate and electrically connected to probes for measuring the actual dielectric constant change over a range of temperatures. Essentially, these devices require a very time consuming and manually intensive data taking procedure for taking such measurements. As a result, the DUT could be exposed to external air or unwanted environmental conditions for a significant period of time.
This exposure to unwanted environmental conditions (i.e. humidity), however, directly affects the accuracy and reliability of the desired measurements. Specifically, the lower the humidity, the greater the reliability of the measurement. As a result, the prior art devices tend to provide inaccurate and unreliable measurements.
Moreover, these devices fail to provide a quick-mounting means that is truly reliable for insuring that there is intimate thermal contact between the DUT and the temperature controlled plate. As a result, the DUT may not be fully exposed to the desired testing temperature, and thus add to the unreliability of the measurements.
As a result, those skilled in the art would greatly welcome any device that could measure a ferroelectric material's dielectric constant as a function of temperature with minimal exposure to outside or unwanted environmental conditions, in a more timely, more reliable, and less manually intensive manner. |
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Miami Mutton Report Fridays trip 6/15/12
Hereís Fridays report, went out of Gov cut headed to the bent marker and filled the well with a bunch of thread hearing, some real big ones. Then headed south the ocean was nice and an overcast morning made it stay cool, for most of the morning. I was riding a diesel boat that was toping 19 kts, but was a solid fishing machine. The anglers where Robert and his daughter Alexandra,. we hit the first spot and after a short demo and instructions, Alex had her first huge yellowtail her biggest ever heading to the gaff reach, she did a great job and followed instructions, which gave her the power to reel one in after another until she wanted to take a brake. Her dad Robert tried it also and had a huge yellowtail coming up and the shark took most of it leaving only a Quarter of the fish that was around two pounds. After the shark scared them away and we could not get them to hit consistently again so I decided to take them to another spot that was going to keep them busy reeling. So we get there to the spot, in 60 feet and there are 3 boats around the spot and the current was faster than a would of liked and one boat is catching tails. So I put down the chum and started to make the fish come behind our boat, after a 20 min chum war, finally Alex got into action as her dad was fishing on the bottom with no hits yet. She was catching one, while I had the next rod ready with a bait, after landing the fish, I gave her the next rod baited and by the time, I took one fish of the hook and bait the other rod, she would have another one hooked and coming in. After running out of chum we went deep to gat a shot at some grouper or muttons. After a few minutes at this spot in deep water, Robert gets a hit and is looking like a nice fish, he fights it up to my gaff reach and up came a nice black grouper to top off the days catch. we headed back after running out of time and on the ways we were hit, by a strong storm that didnít last very long, thank god it rained so hard it felt like needles in our face, and thunder and lightning were all around us for a few minutes too, but finally everything passed and the story had a happy ending. Here are some pics, for more Google Miamimuttonman |
You might not know the name Ray Harryhausen, but you will know the Special Effects Titan after you watch this documentary about his illustrious career this Wednesday at 8p on the Sony Movie Channel.
Back in 1933, a 13 year old Ray went to see King Kong in the theaters and his life was forever changed. After he saw that movie, he decided that he wanted to make the creatures that like the big ape for the cinema. It was from then on, that he started making dinosaurs in his house and creating his own films with them.
Then after he got out of the military a chance meeting got him into the biz, and the movie industry was changed forever.
He came up with a new way to make Stop Motion look more real and because of that he inspired the greatest directors of our time. Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Tim Burton and Peter Jackson all talk about how his work on movies like Mighty Joe Young, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts all influenced them.
But not only do you hear their stories, you hear Harryhausen’s story about how he made some of the most memorable Stop Motion movie creatures you have ever seen. You hear how he came up with the creatures and how he made them look as real as possible. Listening to his tales, is so cool to any fan of Hollywood movies. Because without his brilliance, who knows what films would’ve looked like. He changed them for them better.
One of the coolest parts of this documentary comes at the end when you see the actual size of these creatures. After hearing him talk about it, and seeing what he did you’d think they would be life-size, but in reality they are about the same height of a Barbie doll.
If you have seen any movie that you loved with a monster or a spaceship, then you are going to watch Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan on Wednesday at 8p on the Sony Movie Channel.
Cory Monteith has entered rehab. His rep told People, that he “has voluntarily admitted himself to a treatment facility for substance addiction. He graciously asks for your respect and privacy as he takes the necessary steps towards recovery.” This is second time he has been in rehab for substance abuse, he also did a stay there when he was just 19 years old.
Hopefully he will get the help he needs and be back on Glee soon. But only when he is well enough to do so.
While people are watching Easter classics like Here Comes Peter Cottontail and The Ten Commandments, I will be watching Serial Rabbit 3: Splitting Hares to honor the day!
I hope you all enjoy all of your Peeps and Cadbury Eggs, and find the most eggs in your family’s Easter Egg Hunt today!
Happy Easter!
We all know that Kristen Bell loves sloths, but does she love the animal more than her brand new baby?
Bell’s daughter Lincoln is just 2 days old and she has already made an offer to trade her little girl for a sloth. Veronica Mars Tweeted to her House of Lies co-star Don Cheadle, who is in Costa Rica where they have slots, “@IamDonCheadle bring me one and ill trade u for the baby!” So how did he react her to her request, he Tweeted back “@IMKristenBell Done! That baby’s gonna grow up so twisted! Can’t wait!”
No word if he found a sloth and if it will clear customs, but if he does will she turn her house into one of lies and deny him Lincoln for a sloth. We will just have to wait to find out. |
There’s no shame in watching the Super Bowl for the ads or the halftime show or just because Donald Trump bet on the Patriots and you became a fair-weather Falcons fan.
But this year — amidst political turmoil, daily protests and corporate boycotts — those ads took on a whole new meaning, and more than a few corporations made an effort to share an inspiring message through their multimillion-dollar ad spend.
The political undertones this year included things like inclusion, equal pay and the American Dream. In any other year, these topics would be near-universally celebrated. But in our politically divisive environment, anything construed to be in favor of either side of the aisle was bound to elicit partisan feedback and derision on social media.
These ads prove that it’s now up to corporations more than ever to take a stand for the things they believe are ethical and right.
Airbnb
The home-sharing company touted the message of acceptance in a spot that immediately went viral. The text of the ad read: “We believe no matter who you are, where you’re from, who you love or who you worship, we all belong. The world is more beautiful the more you accept.”
Audi
An ad advocating for equal pay for women should not be considered subversive in this day and age. But in Trump’s America, it apparently is. In the ad, a dad is watching his daughter participate in a soap box derby, wondering whether she will be unfairly judged in the race, and in life, because she is a girl.
“What do I tell my daughter?” the dad ponders. .”
Audi’s executive team explained that it’s possible to enlighten and entertain at the same time:
“You can entertain by doing one of two things to speak to all America but still do something that you can be proud of as a luxury brand,” Loren Angelo, vice president of marketing for Audi of America, told Forbes.
Coca-Cola
What should have been a celebration of American diversity triggered a knee-jerk reaction from some of the very worst Internet trolls and a viral #BoycottCoke campaign which appeared seconds after the ad aired. In the ad, the lyrics to “America the Beautiful’ are sung in English, Spanish, Keres, Tagalog, Hindi, Senegalese, French and Hebrew.
The ad was actually a repeat from a 2014 ad that has been replayed numerous times with much less controversy.
Budweiser
Budweiser faced a boycott leading up to the Super Bowl for its seemingly pro-immigration advertisement — despite the fact that the company released a statement claiming the ad was produced prior to President Donald Trump’s controversial immigrant ban.
The ad depicts Budweiser’s German founder Adolphus Busch traveling to the United States with the dream of brewing beer. Along the way, Busch is treated poorly because he doesn’t “look like he’s from around here.” The ultimate message is that “nothing stops your dream.”
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The company’s site crashed with viewers eager to watch the full story of a mother and child attempting to cross the American border on their path toward immigration and citizenship.
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After reading the theory cited in a recent study that women are more attracted to men who are uncertain about them (, it hit home for me personally. When we were in the early stages of dating, my husband Jeff acted like the typical illusive guy afraid of commitment. If I hadn’t used the Smart Heart Skills I developed for communication, I probably would have pushed his buttons and scared him off.
The study states that women are attracted to illusive men because they grasp that men are more distant, and intuitively think they can somehow bridge the gap—or “fix him”. However, without knowing the communication skills provided in my Smart Heart Skills, a woman can turn an illusive man into a vanishing act real fast.
By nature women are the guardians of connection, so it is natural for us to think we can be the intimacy bridge to our distancing men. 80 percent of men are Distancers and 80 percent of women are Pursuers. And since we women are wired for emotional connections, we are more adept at developing emotional intimacy—but only if we learn the right tools because men react and process what we say completely differently than we would anticipate.
In Make Up Don’t Break Up with accompanying DVD Falling in Love and Staying in Love—the NY Times about.com award winning best dating book of 2010, I explain how to keep an illusive man from vanishing by using communication skills that leads to intimate connections.
Smart Heart Skills are important for all women to understand and adopt because without the right tools we will inadvertently push men further away, ending relationships before they begin, and cause unnecessary power struggles. |
Q:
WPF Datagrid: Clear column sorting
I am using a WPF Datagrid in my application where columns can be sorted by clicking on the header.
I was wondering if there was any way to clear a column's sorting programatically ?
I tried sorting a column and then clearing MyDataGrid.Items.SortDescriptions, but that collection was empty (even though one column was sorted).
I also tried :
MyDataGridColumn.SortDirection = null;
The problem is that the column indication is gone, but the sorting still occurs when editing a cell and switching rows.
Is there no way to clear a column's sort ?
Edit (for clarity): The problem is that I'd like to allow sorting again if the user re-clicks on the same column header, so setting CanUserSort to false would be problematic, even if it were done in the XAML. In short, what I'm attempting to do, is prevent rows from being ordered once a sorted column has a cell that was modified. I want to force the user to re-click on the header.
A:
Here is what you need:
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.ComponentModel;
ICollectionView view = CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(grid.ItemsSource);
if (view != null)
{
view.SortDescriptions.Clear();
foreach (DataGridColumn column in grid.Columns)
{
column.SortDirection = null;
}
}
Original source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9533076/964053
What I want to know is what was M$ thinking for not putting a ClearSort() method...
A:
Set CanUserSort to false for all columns -
foreach (var a in MyDataGrid.Columns)
{
a.CanUserSort = false;
}
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a radiation image detecting device for detecting a radiographic image through a grid, a radiation imaging system and an operation method thereof.
2. Description Related to the Prior Art
In a medical field, a radiation imaging system, for example, an X-ray imaging system using X-rays is known. The X-ray imaging system is constituted of an X-ray generating apparatus for producing the X-rays, and an X-ray imaging apparatus for taking an X-ray image formed by the X-rays passed through an object (a patient). The X-ray generating apparatus has an X-ray source for emitting the X-rays to the object, a source control device for controlling the operation of the X-ray source, and an emission switch for commanding the source control device to start X-ray emission. The X-ray imaging apparatus has an X-ray image detecting device for detecting the X-ray image by converting the X-rays passed through each part of the object into an electric signal, and a console that controls the operation of the X-ray image detecting device and saves and displays the X-ray image.
The X-ray image detecting device includes an image detector for converting the X-ray image into the electric signal, a controller for controlling the image detector, and the like. As the image detector, a flat panel detector (FPD) having a lot of pixels arrayed in two dimensions in an imaging area is widely used. Each pixel accumulates electric charge in accordance with an X-ray dose (a time-integrated X-ray value). After imaging, the electric charge accumulated in each pixel is read out to a signal processing circuit through a switching element such as a TFT (thin film transistor). The signal processing circuit converts the electric charge of each pixel into a voltage signal, and outputs the voltage signals as an X-ray image signal.
There is known an X-ray image detecting device that has an X-ray dose measurement function and an automatic exposure control (AEC) function (for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 07-201490). In this X-ray image detecting device, one or a plurality of measurement pixels for measuring an X-ray dose is disposed in the imaging area of the image detector, together with normal pixels (X-ray image detection pixels) for detecting an X-ray image. This measurement pixel is used as a dose measurement sensor for measuring the X-ray dose. A measurement signal is read out of the measurement pixel at regular time intervals and integrated to measure the X-ray dose. At the instant when the X-ray dose reaches a predetermined emission stop threshold value (a target X-ray dose) the AEC function commands the X-ray source to stop X-ray emission. In the following description, both of the normal pixels and the measurement pixels are collectively called pixels. The pixel refers to an ingredient that has at least a conversion function for converting a small portion of the X-ray image into the electric charge.
The measurement pixel is the same as or several times larger than the normal pixel in size, and is disposed in one or a plurality of portions in the imaging area. Provided that the measurement pixel is the same size as the normal pixel, the normal pixel may be substituted with the measurement pixel or changed into the measurement pixel by easy modification. In some cases, the normal pixel may be used as the measurement pixel, or variation in a leak current or a bias current of the normal pixel may be detected to measure the X-ray dose therefrom. The small-sized measurement pixel does not hinder the detection of the X-ray image and hence facilitates detecting the X-ray image with high resolution, as compared with a conventional large-sized dose measurement sensor such as an ion chamber. Furthermore, selective use of the measurement pixels in accordance with a body part to be imaged makes it possible to precisely measure the X-ray dose passed through the body part.
By the way, in X-ray imaging, the X-rays produce scattered radiation in passing through the object. To remove this scattered radiation, a thin plate-shaped grid is used often. This grid is disposed between the object and the X-ray image detecting device, and preferably just in front of the X-ray image detecting device. There are two types of grids, one known as a movable grid swinging during X-ray imaging and the other known as a static grid standing still. In the following description, either type of grid is simply called grid except in cases where distinction between the types is necessary.
The grid is provided with strip-shaped X-ray transparent layers and X-ray absorbing layers that extend in a column direction of the pixels and are alternately and repeatedly arranged along a row direction of the pixels. Since the X-ray absorbing layer absorbs the X-rays passed through the object, widening the X-ray absorbing layers deteriorates the image quality of the X-ray image to be taken. Accordingly, the width of the X-ray absorbing layer is, for example, of the order of ⅕ to ⅓ of the width of the X-ray transparent layer, in general.
According to X-ray imaging using the grid, since the X-ray absorbing layers of the grid attenuate the X-rays to be incident upon the measurement pixels, a measurement value of each measurement pixel has to be calibrated to measure an X-ray irradiation amount (an X-ray exposure amount) of the object. This calibration method of the measurement value is described in US Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0096035 corresponding to Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2004-166724, for example. First, X-ray imaging is performed in a state of disposing no object with and without using the grid. From two images obtained thereby, a correction coefficient of each individual measurement pixel is calculated such that an output signal of the measurement pixel (referred to as an AEC pixel in the US Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0096035) becomes the same between with and without the grid. In imaging using the grid, the output signal of the measurement pixel is multiplied by the correction coefficient to calibrate the X-ray dose.
An arrangement direction of the X-ray transparent layers and the X-ray absorbing layers of the grid is orthogonal to a row direction of the pixels. Provided that the normal pixel and the measurement pixel are of the same size, the size of one normal pixel (the pitch of the pixels) is 100 μm to 200 μm, and hence the size of the measurement pixel is of the order of 100 μm to 200 μm. On the other hand, there are two types of grids in which the number of the X-ray absorbing layers per unit length in the arrangement direction is 100/cm and 32/cm. By converting this number into a grid pitch (the arrangement pitch of the X-ray absorbing layers), grid pitches of 100 μm and approximately 300 μm are obtained.
Taking the case of a grid pitch of 300 μm and a measurement pixel size of 100 μm as an example, since the width of the X-ray absorbing layers is approximately 50 μm to 100 μm, a shift of the positional relation between the grid and the measurement pixels changes overlap between the measurement pixels and the X-ray absorbing layers and hence largely varies the output signals.
Since the X-ray transparent layers and the X-ray absorbing layers are regularly arranged at a constant period in the grid, an M or M+1 (M is an integer of 0 or more) number of X-ray absorbing layers are opposed to an arbitrary measurement pixel in accordance with the relation between the grid pitch and the size of the measurement pixels. Thus, in a case where the positional relation between the grid and the measurement pixels is shifted, variation in the output signal of the measurement pixel has its maximum value that corresponds to attenuation of the X-rays absorbed by one X-ray absorbing layer relative to the measurement pixel. Given that each X-ray absorbing layer has an almost constant X-ray absorptivity, the variation in the output signal is increased with decrease in the number M. If the grid pitch takes a value close to the size of the measurement pixels, the number M is a relatively small value. Therefore, the output signal of the measurement pixel is especially susceptible to the X-ray absorbing layer, and a problem of measurement precision of the X-ray dose owing to the shift of the positional relation between the grid and the measurement pixels becomes conspicuous.
The effect of the X-ray absorbing layers can be calculated from an image of the stopped movable grid or the still grid captured in the absence of the object. According to experiment of the inventors, it is apparent that a pixel value is decreased on the order of 20% by a certain grid owing to the effect of the X-ray absorbing layer, by comparison between a large pixel value and a nearby decreased pixel value that the X-ray absorbing layer affects.
In a case where the grid is secured to the X-ray image detecting device, variations in attachment position of each part in manufacturing cause the shift of the positional relation between the grid and the measurement pixels. In the case of an electronic cassette separate from the grid or in the case of the grid detachable from an imaging stand or an imaging table, variations in loading position of the electronic cassette or the grid cause the shift of the positional relation between the grid and the measurement pixels. In some cases, the positional relation between the grid and the measurement pixels may be shifted by vibration and the like while imaging is repeatedly performed.
In the calibration method of the measurement pixels according to the US Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0096035, in a case where the positional relation between the grid and the measurement pixels is shifted whenever imaging is performed, a lot of calibration images are prepared in accordance with a shift amount, and the shift amount is detected in the imaging on the order of μm corresponding to the grid pitch. One of the calibration images is chosen in accordance with the shift amount, and the correction coefficient to correct sensitivity of the measurement pixel is calculated. This calibration method of the measurement pixels precisely measures the shift amount and allows calibration with high precision, but requires the many calibration images. Also, in a case where the positional relation between the grid and the measurement pixels is shifted during manufacturing, the calibration images have to be taken on a product-by-product basis, and its preparation operation requires much time and effort. Furthermore, a huge number of calibration images have to be prepared at the thought of oblique incidence of the X-rays upon the imaging area, so that realization is difficult. Accordingly, it is desired that the X-ray dose can be measured easily and precisely even if the positional relation between the measurement pixels (the dose measurement sensors, in general) and the grid is shifted, without using the huge number of calibration images. |
The Ex-Congressman Behind the Ban on Federal Gun Violence Research Explains His Big Regrets "My conscience wasn't doing well," says Jay Dickey, who adds that he never intended his budget amendment to prohibit the CDC from studying firearm deaths and injuries.
The controversy over a two-decade-old prohibition on gun violence research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resurfaced on Thursday when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that Democrats will insist on the removal of the rider as part of the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill required to fund the government. Failure to pass the package will trigger a government shutdown, and Pelosi’s move may complicate negotiations for Republican leaders, who have consistently deflected efforts to allow the CDC to resume funding studies of the subject. In June of this year, during the last such push on Capitol Hill, then-Speaker of the House John Boehner flatly stated, “I’m sorry, but a gun is not a disease.”
The effective ban can be traced back to the 1996 Dickey Amendment, which famously barred the CDC from involvement in any research that could be interpreted as advocating tougher gun laws. Jay Dickey, a Republican Congressman from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, slipped the rider into a spending bill as a junior member of the House Appropriations Committee. Congress slashed $2.6 million from the CDC’s budget after the amendment went into effect — the exact amount that the organization had dedicated to studying gun violence the year before. The swift one-two punch has come to define the organization’s current research climate, in which studies on guns and public health are virtually non-existent.
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Opponents of the research ban argue that it hugely complicates the task of reducing gun deaths and injuries. “In terms of resources and the burden to the U.S. public, there are order and orders of magnitude between gun violence and various infectious diseases,” Dr. Charles Branas, a gun violence researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, tells The Trace. “So why aren’t we investing in this, and why aren’t we making this a very important topic of study?”
Democrats and public health experts aren’t the only ones calling for an end to the ban. In recent years, Dickey himself has actively spoken out against his own amendment. One day before the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Dickey published a sober letter to Congress. “Research could have been continued on gun violence without infringing on the rights of gun owners,” he writes. “Doing nothing is no longer an acceptable solution.”
In a conversation with The Trace, Dickey discussed how his reading of the Second Amendment motivated his legislation, the importance of science in addressing the gun problem, and his growing regrets over the research funding freeze.
Your amendment established the CDC ban on gun violence research. You’ve since had a change of heart. Why?
I just regret it. I don’t know if it was a change of heart, I just regret that we didn’t maintain the commitment to funding science and research. In fact, I don’t think I ever intended it to be a prohibition against spending money like that. It just shouldn’t be spent for political purposes.
If you didn’t intend it to prohibit federal gun violence research, what did you hope the result would be?
That the politicalization of the research stop. Because we were spending money, not for health purposes, but for political agenda purposes. But I would have added to the amendment, if I had the control. I was just a junior member of the [appropriations] committee, and I didn’t know what wording went into the amendment before it passed. I would have added to it and made it a requirement that there be scientific research. That it should continue until a solution is reached. And at no time is the solution to even get close to infringing on the rights of gun owners.
How did gun rights come to be major priority for you?
The more I read about the Second Amendment and the more I read about why it was there, I just finally figured it was important. Then when I saw the opposition on the other side, it just kind of took it to another level.
On the research issue, the side that wanted to stop gun control felt like they were fighting for the Second Amendment. That was a constitutional amendment, and that connected them with the framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. That’s a pretty strong motivation.
What do you think would have happened if the CDC’s research had continued?
We could have been spending a little bit of money for a long period of time and we would have a solution. The highway industry, it solved their problem with the use of science and didn’t eliminate the car. If someone asked me, “What do you think the solution would be to eliminate head-on collisions?,” I never would have thought that a little guardrail would be enough force to stop a car. But science won out. There’s no telling what science will do. If a consistent, continual effort is made, we’ll find a solution.
Do you have any idea of what that solution might be?
That’s what I can’t figure out. I don’t think I can predict it right now. But we can’t get to a solution by doing nothing. We need to do something.
You recently sent a letter to Congress, calling for renewed federal funding for research on gun violence. Given the intensity of the debate around guns, do you think you would have sent the letter if you were facing re-election?
No. People are used to the NRA [National Rifle Association] on one side and the gun control people on the other. And they’re accustomed to speaking in those terms. They’re unaccustomed to doing things in a joint fashion. And so, when you delve into that environment, you get these knee-jerk reactions. And you have to overcome the knee-jerk.
Do you think that’ll ever happen, where the two sides will find a way to compromise and collaborate?
Well, Mark Rosenberg and I have it. He was the was head of the CDC department that was supposed to be spending the money at the time. [Rosenberg is now CEO of the Taskforce for Global Health.] We were the point men for each side when the issue came up in Congress. I mean, I was told to watch out for him. And I think he was told to watch out for me. So we were on opposite sides. But later I got to know him, and we found a middle ground.
And how did you guys reach that understanding?
He showed up in the office to say hello once. We started talking and then we got to our families and we started connecting. And I don’t think I’ve convinced him, and I don’t think he’s convinced me, but we are miles further along than we were.
Have you gotten any feedback from other Republicans about your letter?
Zero. I didn’t expect anything. I just did that because my conscience wasn’t doing well. I had to do something, even if no one else did.
How much blame do you think sitting Congress members hold for the state of gun research in the U.S.?
I can’t attribute any guilt to them right now. I’m just saying, something could have been done. And I could have done it. I could have put the language in the amendment that did more to encourage the science. But when you have those kinds of fights, there’s kind of an anticlimax. It was a big battle to get the amendment passed, and after it was over, I kind of just said, “I don’t want to hear about that for a while.” And so I stopped.
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The Missouri Compromise, also called the Compromise of 1820, was a plan proposed by Henry Clay of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was signed by President James Monroe and passed in 1820. The agreement was between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in the United States Congress, mostly about the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It admitted Missouri as a slave state to please the South and it also admitted Maine as a free state to please the North. It kept the balance of power in the United States Senate between the free states and slave states. The plan also called for slavery to be banned from the Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36 degrees 30' north (also known as the Missouri Compromise Line), except inside the borders of the proposed state of Missouri.
Before the agreement, the House of Representatives had refused to accept this compromise and a conference committee was appointed. The United States Senate refused to concur in the amendment, and the whole measure was lost.
During the following session (1819-1820), the House passed a similar bill with an amendment, created on January 26, 1820 by John W. Taylor of New York, allowing Missouri into the union as a slave state. In December, the question had been complicated by the admission in of Alabama, a slave state, making the number of slave and free states the same. Also, there was a bill in passage through the House (January 3, 1820) to admit Maine as a free state.
The Senate decided to connect the two measures. It passed a bill for the admission of Maine with an amendment allowing the people of Missouri to make a state constitution. Before the bill returned to the House, a second amendment was adopted on the motion of Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois, excluding slavery from the Missouri Territory north of the parallel 36deg30' north (the southern boundary of Missouri), except within the limits of the proposed state of Missouri. |
18/09/2017
How to choose a good BMW motorbike diagnostic tool?
There are three diagnostic tools mostly used to diagnose/program BMW motorcycles:BMW Icom a2, BMW moto diagnotic tool and gs-911 BMW motorcycle diagnostic. Here, take the best choice for you all to share: BMW ICOM A2 + ICOM D.
What can BMW Icom a2 + Icom D do for bmw moto?
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3Support Vehicles including BMW cars, BMW motorcycle, rolls-royce, mini cooper
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Actually, ICOM A2 + ICOM D… is kind of expensive but most people use this kit. So far, it is the TOP 1 in the BMW motor diagnostics list, with the most powerful & stable function and the best reputation. ICOM A2 and ICOM D do well in diagnostic, coding and programming. A cool BMW motor deserves the best diagnostic kit.
Here is a successful case of bmw moto diagnosis via icom a2 and icom d.
Managed to do flash programming on BMW motorrad k1300s:
But, if you really cannot afford to ICOM A2 + ICOM D for diagnosis, we suggest you try the cheap kit – K+DCAN cable and BMW Motorcycles Motobikes ICOM D. Attention!! The kit is for diagnosis only, not programming!
Here are the steps that I followed:
1. I cut all the big wire
- I used a multimeter in order to get the relationship between the pins and wires. I used continuity function.
3. I ordered a female OBD2 (k+dcan cable and Vagcom cable both ok) because I broke mine trying to eliminate the plastic housing
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Breakthrough – Things Making Sense Now…
Lots of things going on in/around the two legal cases involving Michael Flynn today. The origination of the DOJ shift in position involves the indirect case (EDVA) where Flynn is/was a witness in the FARA (Foreign Agent Registration Act) case against Bijan Rafiekian and the Flynn Intel Group.
Hat Tip to Techno-Fog for a litany of legal filings assembled today [132 pages here]. This is somewhat complex to explain.
The direct case against Flynn (Judge Sullivan court – Washington DC), where Flynn copped a guilty plea for lying to FBI investigators, has a sentencing predicated on Flynn’s ongoing cooperation in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) case against Bijan Rafiekian and FIG (Flynn Intel Group). However, in a stunning move today the DOJ prosecuting Rafiekian now says it will not call Flynn as a witness; and further the DOJ state they now consider Flynn an “unindicted co-conspirator”.
From court filings (on behalf of Flynn) we find the reason. Michael Flynn refused a demand by the DOJ to testify that the Flynn Group FARA filing was completed with knowingly false information and contained “false statements”.
Michael Flynn refused to testify to this DOJ construct because the claim was not true.
Michael Flynn and his lawyers say there was no intentional filing of false information in the Flynn Group FARA submissions; and the FARA forms were submitted based on legal advice provided for their completion. If there were mistakes in the FARA filing, they were not falsehoods and/or mistakes made purposefully or with purposeful intent.
When Flynn agreed to the plea for lying, he was agreeing with hindsight and accepting the government position that some of the material in the FARA submission was false. However, Flynn did not admit that anything was intentionally false, but rather an outcome of mistakes made within a process that relied on legal advice.
(Source – pg 6)
It is worth noting here that Flynn lawyers call out former DOJ-NSD Official David Laufman for pressuring Flynn to sign the FARA submission; a FARA submission the DOJ would later claim contained false information.
The DOJ prosecutors wanted Flynn to say that he, the group and Bijan Rafiekian, knew the information on the FARA submissions was false. Flynn refused; and would not testify to that falsehood in the case. As a result the DOJ retaliated against Flynn by changing his position to a “co-conspirator” and cancelling his testimony.
The DOJ prosecutors don’t want Flynn to testify (no longer want his cooperation) because his testimony would undercut the foundation of their case against Bijan Rafiekian.
Here’s Flynn’s Filing:
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So with Flynn’s cooperation now at issue in the secondary EDVA case, in the primary case against Flynn himself, Judge Sullivan (Washington, DC) wants some answers:
BACK TO EDVA – The lawyers for Bijan Rafiekian, also filed motions to dismiss the DOJ indictment based on the prosecutors inability to prove the Flynn Intel Group knowingly acted on behalf of the Turkish government.
Essentially Rafiekian is arguing the Flynn group were hired and advocating for private interests and they had no reason to belief the Turkish government was behind the contract. This is the essential underpin for the FARA registration. If the Flynn Group didn’t know they were contracted by a foreign government, they wouldn’t know how to fill out the FARA forms.
Here’s where it gets interesting and a picture starts to emerge. It is possible, very possible, the DOJ-NSD using their legally authorized database and surveillance access, knew the background principals behind the Flynn Group contract were members of the Turkish Government. [DOJ-NSD head David Laufman knew] However, Flynn, Rafiekian and their lawyers did not know; and therefore signed a FARA submission that was later shown to be false.
Yes, Laufman -representing the DOJ- knowingly pressured Flynn to sign a FARA submission while withholding evidence the DOJ would later use to prove the FARA submission contained materially false information. That’s how it looks.
The same David Laufman who sat in on the Clinton email interview. The same David Laufman who was FBI official Monica McLean’s lawyer when things got sketchy about her work with “beach friend” Christine Blasey-Ford…
… Yes, THAT David Laufman.
♦ In a late breaking development, Judge Anthony Trenga (EDVA) ruled the DOJ has not presented evidence sufficient to establish “evidence of a conspiracy” for the purposes of admitting the hearsay statements of alleged co-conspirator (Flynn).
TECHNO: “Notably absent” from the DOJ’s proffer is “any evidence… that Flynn… has admitted that he made certain false statements in the FARA filing” that was part of the alleged conspiracy.
(Source)
TECHNO: “the FARA statement and related filings do not reflect the existence of the alleged conspiracy to act as undisclosed Turkish agents”
TECHNO: Turkey funding – the US didn’t have the evidence. “the US may not argue or state to the jury that Turkey … funded the work by Flynn Intel Group under the contractual agreement”
Here’s the EDVA Ruling:
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Bear with me…
Here’s what I THINK is going on…. Keep in mind we saw this in 2016, and we warned about something weird going on in the background, but we did not know what it was.
Now we have hindsight to overlay with our CTH warnings in late 2016 (Oct/Nov).
I suspect the DOJ-NSD knew Flynn was lobbying for clients closely related to the Turkish government. I suspect Flynn was already under Title-3 surveillance (confirmed by Mueller report) and this lobbying issue likely became the legal predicate for a Flynn Title-1 FISA warrant. [Go Deep To See] That 2016 FISA warrant, likely approved by FISA Judge Rudy Contreras, allowed the DOJ-NSD -via FBI (Strzok)- to launch a counterintelligence investigation into the people who hired Flynn as a lobbyist.
If my suspicion is correct, in addition to the larger surveillance issues upon Flynn, the DOJ-NSD knew the people who contracted Flynn and Rafiekian were a ‘front‘ for senior Turkish officials (not withstanding possible WH coordination).
(See Page 132 – Flynn Docs)
So when Flynn was confronted by DOJ-NSD head David Laufman, he was being *interviewed* by a DOJ official who knew more about the contract initiator than Flynn did. The DOJ-NSD and David Laufman was involved because manipulating FARA violations was the method to conduct surveillance (SEE HERE).
David Laufman then pressured Flynn in January 2017 to sign the FARA submission, knowing it contained material that was false, but unbeknownst to Flynn. This later became the predicate for the FARA case against Flynn and Rafiekian.
However, there’s a twist as highlighted by the Judge Trenga order.
The DOJ (Laufman first) knew the background of the FARA filing was false because they had conducted a FISA Title-1 investigation prior to the Flynn FARA submission; and the DOJ (Mueller team now in 2017) knew the Turkish government was behind the lobbying contract…..
….But the DOJ cannot tell the court how they knew the lobbying contract was from the Turkish government, because they didn’t want to reveal the FISA surveillance; AND the DOJ may have an additional interest in hiding their knowledge of their origination of the lobbying contract by the Turkish government,… because it might have been somewhat coordinated by the Obama White House (pro-brotherhood, and pro-Erdogan).
See the issue?
Slimy bastards. |
By: Abbey Herringshaw, Karina G. Campos, Psy.D., & Suzi Naguib, Psy.D. November 2011 Blog PDF
Ryan is a 7-year-old 2nd grader whose parents sought help due to his frequent behavioral outbursts. They noted that they have significant difficulty getting Ryan to engage in daily tasks, such as completing his homework, taking a bath on time and helping put his toys away. Specifically, when demands are placed on him, he frequently yells back and refuses to follow directions. This has negatively impacted Ryan’s relationship with his parents and has also put a strain on his parent’s marriage.
Parenting1, both at home and in school2. At the conclusion of treatment, parents report decreased parenting related stress3 and improved1 attitudes toward their child. Additionally, child compliance increases1 and parents typically endorse high treatment satisfaction. Given that PCIT is time limited, even busy parents are able to participate.
References:
Eyberg, S. M., & Robinson, E. A. (1982). Parent–child interaction training: Effects on family functioning. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 11, 130-137.
McNeil, C. B., Eyberg, S., Eisenstadt, T. H., & Newcomb, K. (1991). Parent-child interaction therapy with behavior problem children: Generalization of treatment effects to the school setting. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 20, 140-151.
Schuhmann, E. M., Foote, R. C., Eyberg, S. M., Boggs, S. R., & Algina, J. (1998). Efficacy of parent–child interaction therapy: Interim report of a randomized trial with short-term maintenance. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 27, 34-45.
Recommended Readings:
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy by Cheryl Bodiford McNeil and Toni L. Hembree-Kigin
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Interactions of pyrethroids and octylguanidine with sodium channels of squid giant axons.
Kinetics of pyrethroid-modified sodium channels and the interaction of N-octylguanidine with the modified channels have been studied with internally perfused and voltage-clamped squid giant axons. The pyrethroids used were 1R-cis-phenothrin; 1R-cis-permethrin; 1R-cis-cyphenothrin; and 1R-cis-deltamethrin. Modification of sodium channels by pyrethroids resulted in marked slowing of opening and closing kinetics. The rate at which sodium channels arrived at the open pyrethroid-modified state during a depolarizing step was independent of the concentration of pyrethroids applied. The time of exposure to pyrethroids required for the pyrethroid-induced sodium tail current following a step depolarization to reach a steady-state amplitude was independent of the frequency of short (5 ms) depolarizing pulses, and in the pronase-treated axons was independent of the membrane potential (0 mV or -90 mV). We conclude that sodium channels are modified by pyrethroids primarily in the closed resting state. A small fraction of sodium channels is modified in the open state. The dose-response curve for N-octylguanidine block of sodium channels was not shifted by pyrethroids. The rate at which the pyrethroid-modified sodium channels were blocked by octylguanidine during a depolarizing step depended neither on the concentration of pyrethroids nor on the depolarizing potential, but depended on the concentration of octylguanidine. The time course of the pyrethroid-induced slow sodium tail current was not altered by octylguanidine. We conclude that the actions of pyrethroids and N-octylguanidine on sodium channels are independent of each other. |
Name of restaurant: Lola’s Mexican Cuisine
Chef: Luis Navarro
What dish represents the restaurant, and why? It’s hard to say which single dish best represents the restaurant, but it would probably have to be the green salsa that comes with the complimentary basket of chips at every table -- it may be the single most compulsively delicious sauce since the heyday of the white garlic paste at Zankou Chicken.
Concept: Relaxed, friendly restaurant serving slightly upscale Mexican food in the middle of Long Beach’s Retro Row strip of thrift stores and Midcentury Modern shops, directly across from the renovated streamline-moderne Art Theater.
Who's at the next table? Lola’s is incredibly eclectic. The next table could be artists, skateboarders, family friends or just folks from the neighborhood.
Appropriate for... A quick bite after the movie, dinner with friends; it’s our favorite Friday night here-comes-the-weekend dinner spot.
Uh-oh... Get there early, it’s always packed. On the other hand, with summer coming, there is a back patio and a “parklet” out front for outdoor eating.
Service: Come more than once and you’re likely to be greeted at the door with a hug. It’s just that kind of place.
What are you drinking? Decent beer selection, and there’s always a craft beer or two on tap. Also, Mexican Coke.
Info: 2030 4th St., Long Beach, (562) 343-5506,
The Scouting Form is a quick look at restaurants worth a visit. Scouts were selected by restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, who may or may not agree with a single word. |
WITH APPROXIMATELY 20 per cent of students failing to turn up for CSEC exams which were paid for by the taxpayers, Education Minister Ronald Thwaites is adamant that the time has come for a rethink of the way the subsidy is given.
"The Government of Jamaica as well as many other philanthropic (entities) pay for the entries of many, many students. Regretfully, what we are finding is that a significant number of those who are paid for do not even turn up for the examination," said Thwaites.
He added: "That has to be remedied; we cannot afford to waste that money - millions and millions of dollars and we are going to have to review the criteria for entry that is applicable for those students."
Reform the system
It is the second time in two years that the Government is moving to reform the system.
In 2010, the then Government reviewed the way in which it approached the payment for the subjects.
Then Education Minister Andrew Holness announced that the Government would no longer subsidise students sitting mathematics, English language, information technology and a science subject in Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence on a broad scale.
Under the revision, students were required to have a grade point that would suggest that they were capable of getting a pass mark in the exam.
The Government has been paying for students to sit the four subjects since 2002. |
CARMIEL, Israel, Sept. 4, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE MKT:PLX) (TASE:PLX), today announced that Yossi Maimon, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Rodman & Renshaw 16th Annual Global Investment Conference on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Eastern Time. The conference will be held at the New York Palace Hotel in New York City on September 8-10, 2014.
A live webcast of the presentation will be available at www.protalix.com on the event calendar page and a replay of each conference will be archived and available after the conference for 30 days.
About ProtalixBioTherapeutics, Inc.
Protalix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins expressed through its proprietary plant cell-based expression system, ProCellEx®. Protalix's unique expression system presents a proprietary method for developing recombinant proteins in a cost-effective, industrial-scale manner. Protalix's first product manufactured by ProCellEx, taliglucerase alfa, was approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May 2012, by Israel's Ministry of Health in September 2012, by the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) in March 2013, by the Mexican Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS) in April 2013, by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in May 2014 and by the regulatory authorities of other countries. Marketing applications for taliglucerase alfa have been filed in additional territories as well. Protalix has partnered with Pfizer Inc. for the worldwide development and commercialization of taliglucerase alfa, excluding Israel and Brazil, where Protalix retains full rights. Protalix's development pipeline includes the following product candidates: PRX-102, a modified version of the recombinant human alpha-GAL-A protein for the treatment of Fabry disease; PRX-112, an orally-delivered glucocerebrosidase enzyme that is produced and encapsulated within carrot cells, also for the treatment of Gaucher disease; pr-antiTNF, a similar plant cell version of etanercept (Enbrel®) for the treatment of certain immune and inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, colitis, psoriasis and other autoimmune and inflammatory disorders; PRX-110 for the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis; and others. |
First Holy Communion
June 04, 2020
It is my most earnest wish to consider those children who yearn for First Communion, so we have planned a selection of choices to permit them to receive this life-giving sacrament as soon as possible. The children were always so excited and could hardly wait whenever I discussed the Eucharist with them in class. The times demand we surrender some of our ideas about what a perfect First Communion should look like, especially those which have little to do with the spiritual importance of the sacrament. My personal belief is that things will not be “back to normal” for a long time. It is certainly futile to plan for “normal” reception of the sacraments before the end of this liturgical year, the First Sunday of Advent, the date established by our bishop as the deadline for reception of the 2020 sacraments.
Participating in the group celebrations is, of course, entirely voluntary. We are planning the ceremonies to be beautiful and safe, according to the careful guidelines of the diocese which will be in effect during the latter part of June.
If coming into church isn’t within your comfort zone, listening on speakers, social distancing and receiving Holy Communion in car or outside in the prayer garden on that day is also a possibility.
We have already begun the high-volume beach traffic weekends - not a good time for parish sacramental celebrations, which is one reason we’d like to complete these celebrations before the end of June and during the week. There is also the possibility that restrictions on church and outdoor assemblies may become more stringent as time passes, even impossible again.
Families can certainly postpone the celebration of this important event and plan to receive Eucharist during any regular mass - Sunday or weekday. Reservations need to be taken and the same limitations on number of family members in a pew will apply at a parish mass as for the June ceremonies. Outdoor, prayer garden communion for individual families who attended mass by listening to that mass via loudspeaker or watched it streaming is also feasible.
We're trying to be as flexible as possible, yet get the Holy Eucharist to our children as quickly as possible. |
Marriage Information
Information Regarding Marriage in Brazil
The marriage process in Brazil can be complicated and time consuming. All individuals, regardless of nationality, who desire to be married in Brazil must comply with Brazilian law. There are no provisions for American Diplomatic or Consular Officers to perform marriages in Brazil. In addition, marriages may not be performed at the U.S. Embassy or Consulates.
In Brazil, a civil process is required in order to legalize the marriage. Religious ceremonies may also be performed, but they are not legally recognized. Religious ceremonies alone are not considered legally binding. Civil ceremonies may be performed at Civil Registry Offices (Registros Civis). Marriages are normally performed at the Civil Registry Office that has jurisdiction over the resident or the registration of the party. In addition to performing marriages, this office also contains all the required forms and pertinent procedural information necessary to be married in Brazil.
U.S. citizens intending to marry in Brazil should visit the Civil Registry Office where they live to obtain a list of the documents required for the marriage to be legally registered. If neither the groom nor the bride lives in Brazil, you may visit the Civil Registry Office closest to where you would like to get married.
The following information and document requirements will help guide you in the marriage process. Please make sure to obtain the most up to date information from the Civil Registry Office since requirements, procedures, and costs are subject to change. marriages witnesses. The witnesses should be at least 21 years old have their Brazilian I.D. card and C.P.F. (cadastro de pessoa fisica). All signatures must be certified by the "Registro de Notas". The following forms will also be necessary for registration as well as a fee of approximately R$72.
Please note that registering your intent to marry is different from registering the actual marriage. You will be required to submit all original documents as well as another copy when registering your intent to marry. If the documents are in English, you should provide a translation by a sworn public translator. Please check with the appropriate Civil Registry Office for current fee information.
Forms Involving the Brazilian Consulate
- Birth Certificate: U.S. birth certificates must be authenticated by a Brazilian Consulate in the U.S. and translated into Portuguese by a sworn public translator. The U.S. Embassy and Consulates do not provide translation services. However, we can provide a list of sworn public translators. You may also be required to have the translation authenticated by a local notary public (tabelião).
- Evidence of termination of prior marriage: (if applicable) If you are divorced or widowed, you may be required to present previous marriage, divorce or death certificates as applicable. If the documents are not from Brazil, they must be authenticated by the Brazilian Embassy or Consulate in the country of origin and translated into Portuguese by a sworn public translator..
- "Certidão de Inscrição Consular": This document is normally requested if your birth certificate does not show your parents' full names. You may request this document from the U.S. Embassy or Consulate. The document will state your full legal name, birth date, place of birth, and your parents' names. Please bring your U.S. passport and a recent photograph (2x2 inches). There is a fee of US$ 50.00 for this service.
Forms Involving the Civil Registry Office
- Application form: To register intention to marry
- U.S. Passport: Copy of your U.S. passport, including the biographical data page and any other pages containing information, certified by a Registry Office (Cartório).
General
- Brazilian identity card: (if applicable) Photocopy of your Brazilian identity card if you are a temporary or permanent resident of Brazil, authenticated by a local notary public.
Note: If you are in Brazil on a permanent resident visa (Carteira de Residente Permanente) or as a temporary worker (Carteira de Temporario), some of the above documents may be waived.
Registering the Marriage
A second fee is required to register the marriage at the Civil Registry Office (Registro de Títulos e documentos). This registration also takes place before you can get married. The fee is about R$18 for each page of the documents listed above. Please check with the appropriate Civil Registry Office for current fee information.
Marriage License
Once the required documents have been filed and the fee paid, there is a waiting period of about 30 days before the marriage license is approved. At this point, the marriage license is valid for three months during which time you may legally get married. |
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Latitude: 51.2055 / 51°12'19"N
Longitude: -2.1881 / 2°11'17"W
OS Eastings: 386956
OS Northings: 145162
OS Grid: ST869451
Mapcode National: GBR 1V5.CMK
Mapcode Global: VH97H.1Y3Q
Entry Name: Teddington House
Listing Date: 28 April 1952
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1036195
English Heritage Legacy ID: 3128 CHURCH STREET
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5411
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No 47
(Teddington House)
ST 8645 SE 5/61 28.4.52.
II GV
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Circa 1700 or possibly rebuilt circa 1745 when it was sold from Longleat Estate.
2 storeys and attic.
Main block: Ashlar stone on projecting plinth with moulded capping. Rusticated
quoins. Moulded string 1st floor level and bold moulded stone cornice, broken
forward over quoins. Glazing bar sash windows. 2 segmental headed dormers
with moulded cornices, and tile-hung cheeks, each with small 4 pane sashes.
5 windows on 1st floor. All windows with stone architrave surrounds. Internal
shutters with raised and fielded panels. 6 panel central door in stone architrave
with plain stone surround crowned with moulded cornice and pediment on plain
scroll brackets. Foot scrapers recessed each side of door. Elevation returned
to right. Hipped old tile roof carried through over stable wing which is
a plainer circa 1700 2 storey extension to left of coursed and squared rubble
with ashlar quoins, projecting plinth, weathered string at 1st floor level,
and small moulded eaves cornice. Central plain stable door, 1 range of glazing
bar sash windows to right. The interior of Teddington House has a small
staircase and has been somewhat altered. Central passage leads to former
kitchen which has C18 Tudor arched fireplace with beaded inner edge. Front
room on left of entrance panelled. Alterations probably date from circa
1875 when the stable wing to left was incorporated with main house.
Listing NGR: ST8695645162
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We are just weeks away from the Valentine’s Day release of Fifty Shades of Gray and anticipation for the film is at an all-time high. Fans are already going crazy for Jamie, but the fanfare is only going to get more insane once the movie hits theaters!
“Everyone that I meet, people who run studios or other actors, everybody is saying, ‘Are you ready?'” Jamie told Variety about preparing for the inevitable craziness that is about to swirl around him. One person who knows a thing or two about being the center of a fan craze? Rob Pattinson, who starred in a little franchise you might have heard of called Twilight.
“I’ve been around Rob enough, I’ve seen what it’s been like for him,” Jamie said. So has Rob given Jamie any advice on how to cope? Um, kinda!
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Speaking of drinking, now that he is known and watched by so many, Jamie is learning the all important rule: don’t drink and Tweet. While in Ireland for Christmas, the actor might have drank one too many vodka shots. “I woke up the next day and I’d seen I’d tweeted the word ‘Christmas,'” Jamie said. “I don’t know if I’d planned on saying more… It made me wish I didn’t know my Twitter password.”
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Year 10: Rights and Freedoms ( present) An elective depth study as part of ‘The Modern World and Australia’
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1. The origins and significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including Australia’s involvement in the development of the declaration – The Four Freedoms Watch: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Four Freedoms
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Other resources: Australian Human Rights Commission (formerly HREOC) United Nations
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2. Background to the struggle of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for rights and freedoms before 1965, including the 1938 Day of Mourning and the Stolen Generations
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Coranderrk The fight for Coranderrk was one of the first political struggles for Aboriginal people in Victoria. Watch: Episode 3 of the SBS series ‘First Australians’ – Freedom for our Lifetime. pid/3
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William Cooper William Cooper was a prominent Victorian Aboriginal activist who was a founding member of the Aborigines Advancement League, and helped coordinate the 1938 Day of Mourning. He also led the only known public protest against Khristallnacht. Watch a news clip about William Cooper:
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3. The US Civil Rights movement and its influence on Australia: 1961 US Freedom Rides The US Civil Rights movement was a major influence in the struggle for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and freedoms in Australia. In particular, the Freedoms Rides were of great inspiration. Watch a trailer for a documentary about the US Freedom Rides:
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4. The significance of the following for the civil rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: 1962 Right to Vote
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1967 Referendum
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Faith Bandler Faith Bandler was a prominent Aboriginal woman who worked to ensure the success of the 1967 Referendum. Here she explains the importance of the changes for Aboriginal people:
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Bringing Them Home Report
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The Apology Kevin Rudd’s Apology to the Stolen Generations was of great significance in terms of reconciliation.
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5. Methods used by civil rights activists to achieve change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the role of ONE individual or group in the struggle
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Gary Foley and Black Power Gary Foley was an active member of the 1970’s Redfern Black Power movement. Below is a trailer from a show he performed with Ilbiderri Theatre:
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Tent Embassy
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The 1972 Tent Embassy is a great example of Indigenous activism. A documentary was made on the tent embassy, and is available on Youtube:
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6. The continuing nature of efforts to secure rights and freedoms in Australia and throughout the world, such as the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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Keating’s Redfern Speech Paul Keating’s 1992 Redfern Speech, on the even of the Year of the World’s Indigenous People’s, was one of the first speeches by an Australian Prime Minister that directly acknowledged the immense harm caused by past government policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
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Chicken Scarpariello is an Italian-American chicken stew, punched up with red peppers, cherry peppers, and spicy Italian sausage for a subtle heat. Chicken stock and a dry white wine form the base of the soup, while fresh thyme lends flavour.
Ingredients:
8 chicken thighs, bone-in, skin-on
1 medium yellow onion, minced
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 roasted peppers, cut roughly (I used a mix of red and yellow peppers for colour)
4 tbsp cherry peppers (you can get this from Marketplace or any gourmet grocer)
4 links spicy Italian sausage, cut to 1" cubes (I prefer the chunky Johnsonville ones from the frozen section at Meidi-Ya or Cold Storage Great World City)
3 cups white wine
3 cups chicken stock
10 stalks fresh thyme, tied together with butcher's twine
1 tbsp olive oil
Salt
Directions:
1) Brown chicken in olive oil (you can use less oil if using a non-stick pan, as the chicken releases fat on its own anyway), about 3 minutes on high heat each side, salting liberally, and taking care not to overcrowd the pan.
2) Set aside in stew pot.
3) Using 2 tbsp of the chicken fat-infused olive oil, fry onions in pan, until translucent, about 3 minutes on medium-high heat.
4) Lower fire to medium heat, and add garlic (garlic burns easily so a lower fire prevents the garlic from being burnt), fry about 1 minute.
5) Add white wine, reduce by half.
6) Transfer to stew pot with chicken, and add red peppers, cherry peppers, and thyme bundle.
7) Add chicken stock, bring to a boil and lower to a simmer for about 40 minutes or until fall-off-the-bone.
8) Fry sausage separately, and add that to the stew just before serving.
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Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) represent an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients affected by hematological malignancies (HMs), particularly those with an immunocompromised status.[@b1-mjhid-9-1-e2017012],[@b2-mjhid-9-1-e2017012] In this setting, IFIs still represents a major clinical problem also for the high costs related to the antifungal prophylaxis and treatment.[@b3-mjhid-9-1-e2017012],[@b4-mjhid-9-1-e2017012] When considering the high clinical heterogeneity of these patients, the risk of IFIs may be remarkably different. Accordingly, if such a risk is not appropriately evaluated, the possibility of an overtreatment in some or an undertreatment in other patients is very likely.
Pagano et al., on behalf of SEIFEM (Sorveglianza Epidemiologica Infezioni Fungine nelle Emopatie Maligne) group, recently published a systematic review of the literature on the risk and incidence of IFIs in the setting of HMs with the aim to consider the main predisposing factors and to suggest practical strategies for prevention and treatment of IFIs.[@b5-mjhid-9-1-e2017012] In this review, specific IFI predisposing factors are summarized for each disease class. Depending on the risk of developing IFIs, patients are then divided into three groups: high, intermediate, low-risk group. Briefly, patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or treated with an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) have *per se* an increased risk of IFI. Moreover, some conditions predispose a high risk of IFI, independently of the underlying disease, like neutropenia, relapse/refractory disease, previous history of IFI, salvage therapy and a high dose of steroids.
To facilitate the reading of this analysis and to estimate in each patient the IFI specific risk, we here propose a practical consultation tool composed of a table where risk categories, their related risk factors, and the HMs, are reported and matched ([Table 1, part 1 and 2](#t1-mjhid-9-1-e2017012){ref-type="table"}). This estimated risk stratification was developed correlating each disease class with the variables risk factors, categorized according to patient's features, underlying comorbidities, immunity status, environmental factors, neutropenic status, disease and therapy or transplant's procedures.
By this approach, each box of the table represents a matching of a specific disease with a specific risk factor. Red boxes, expressing a high risk (HR) of IFI, are used to indicate a reported incidence of IFI above 5%; yellow boxes, expressing an intermediate risk (IR) of IFI, are used to indicate a reported incidence of IFI of 2--5%; green boxes, expressing low risk (LR) of IFI, are used to indicate a reported incidence of IFI minor of 2%. In the case of lacking data, the boxes are white.
Looking at the colored boxes, people can read this table from two different points of view, by focusing on the risk categories or *vice versa* on the specific HM. In general, the horizontal reading of the table highlights the principal IFI risk factors, regardless of the underlying disease. In particular, red boxes appear to be associated with a long history of HM, with a relapse or refractory disease, a prolong neutropenia, older age, predisposing polymorphisms, pulmonary comorbidities, intense chemotherapy and prolong used of steroids. Some of these risk factors are routinely screened in the clinical practice, others, like predisposing genetic polymorphisms, are used only in experimental setting, but look promising. On the other hand, the vertical reading of the table highlights the disease mostly associated with IFI, in particular, AML and patients undergoing HSCT.
It should be underlined that each disease may present one or more risk factors and that the risk factors may vary during the course of illness and due to the type of treatments. For this reasons, it is important to follow the patient over time, with a dynamic score, evaluating the presence or absence of risk factors, with the aim to start or withdrawn an appropriate antifungal prophylaxis or treatment. In this setting, this table allows a rapid consultation in the clinical practice.
In conclusion, this IFI's risk table may represent a useful and simple tool to assess over time the risk of developing IFI in patients with HMs and may help to plan an appropriate antifungal stewardship.
**Competing interests:** The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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IFI risk table: risk categories and their related risk factors are reported in the first and second column of the table, respectively; the HMs are listed in the first row of the table.
Categories Risk Factors HSCT ASCT AML MDS ALL MPN NHL HL CLL MM
--------------------- ------------------------------------------ ------ ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- -------- ----- ----
**Patient** Age \> 65
Age 55--65
Age 30--54
Male sex
**Comorbidities** PS ≥2
Previous IFI
Iron overload
Diabetes
Prior respiratory disease
Hypoalbuminemia
Influenza/parainfluenza virus
Mucositis ≥3 for \>7 days
Esophagitis \>2 (WHO)
CMV infection
Candida multiple colonization
High e-TRM score^‡^
**Immunity status** Toll-like rec. Polymorphism
Plasminogen polymorphism
Mannose binding lectin polymorphism
Other polymorphism (PTX3, Dectin-1)
Lymphocytes dysfunction
Prolong lymphocytopenia (\<300 cells/μL)
**Environment**^‡‡^
**Neutropenia** Neutropenia at baseline
Neutropenia \<500/μL for \>10gg
**Legend:**
• : incidence \> 5%, risk factor that put patient at high risk for IFI, reported in previous studies or risk factor in the setting of HSCT
• : incidence 2--5%, risk factor known in this setting, but that do not identify a high or low risk for IFI, reported in previous studies
• : incidence \< 2%, risk factor that put patient at low risk for IFI, reported in previous studies
• Allogeneic Stem Cell transplantation (HSCT), Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (ASCT), Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN), Non Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL), Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), Multiple Myeloma (MM).
**High e-TRM score**^‡^**:** PS (performance status), Age, Platelet, Albumin, secondary AML, WBC, % blast in PB, creatinine (Walter RB, et al. JCO, Oct. 2011)
**Environment**^‡‡^**:** intensive care unit admission, building works, tobacco, cannabis, residence, pets, potted plants, gardening, room without HEPA filtration, airways colonization by Aspergillus
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IFI risk table: risk categories and their related risk factors are reported in the first and second column of the table, respectively; the HMs are listed in the first row of the table.
Categories Risk Factors HSCT ASCT AML MDS ALL MPN NHL HL CLL MM
------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------ ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- -------- ----- ----
**Disease** Active disease^†^
First Remission
Aggressive disease ^††^
**Therapy** No Antifungal Prophylaxis
Many previous treatment lines
High dose Chemotherapy^†††^
Salvage Regimen
First Induction
Consolidation
Maintenance
High dose of steroid
T-cell suppressors\*
B-cell suppressors\*\*
Hypomethylating agents (not as salvage therapy)
Total Body Irradiation
TKI
Central Venous Catheter
Bortezomib
**Transplant related** Type of donor (MMURD\>MUD\>MRD)\*\*\*
Stem cell source (UCB \> BM \> PB)
Moderate-severe acute or chronic GVHD
\> 1 HSCT
Cell manipulations
CMV serology status (R+/D− vs R+/D+ vs R−/D+ vs R−/D−)
ATG
CD34+ infused (\< 3 × 10\^6/Kg)
EBMT score°
BO score°°
Pre-transplant diagnosis (AML early onset-Lymphoma late onset)
Late post-transplant immune recovery
**Legend:**
• : incidence \> 5%, risk factor that put patient at high risk for IFI, reported in previous studies or risk factor in the setting of HSCT
• : incidence 2--5%, risk factor known in this setting, but that do not identify a high or low risk for IFI, reported in previous studies
• : incidence \< 2%, risk factor that put patient at low risk for IFI, reported in previous studies
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor (TKI); HLA-mismatched unrelated donor unrelated donor (MMURD); matched unrelated donor (MUD); matched related donor (MRD); Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB); Bone Marrow(BM); Peripheral Blood (PB); Cytomegalovirus (CMV); Recipient (R); Donor (D); Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG).
**Active disease**^†^**:** Day 15 blasts \> 5% or No Complete Remission by the end of induction. **Aggressive disease**^††^**:** (lower probability of Complete Remission) Adverse cytogenetic/gene mutation profile, WBC \> 50.000/μL, secondary AML. **High dose chemotherapy**^†††^**:** for ALL is pediatric conditioning, for HSCT in myeloablative conditioning. **T-cell suppressors\*:** Fludarabine, Cyclosporine, Tacrolimus, Mycophenolate mofetil, ATG, Alemtuzumab. **B-cell suppressors\*\*:** Rituximab. **EBMT score°:** Age, disease stage, time between diagnosis and transplant, donor type, donor/recipient sex (Gratwohl A, et al. Cancer, Oct. 2009). **BO score°°:** bronchiolitis obliterans CT score (de Jong PA, et al. Thorax, 2006 Sep; 61(9): 799--804).
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My mom raised me vegetarian. It was all about health and I didn’t even consider the ethical implications until I was an adult and started meditating.
Vipassana is a Buddhist practice that takes 10 days in silence to learn. You commit to five precepts during your stay and one is not to kill or support killing. Every Vipassana center is traditionally vegetarian because cows’ milk and unfertilized eggs probably didn’t involve killing during Buddha’s lifetime, but I had a vague understanding of the modern-day egg and dairy industries and knew I had to go vegan to stay in line with my practice.
I had a bumpy start with lots of mishaps. I slipped up and ate non-vegan food when I was drunk, so I gave up alcohol after my first Vipassana retreat and finally went vegan after my second. Midway through 2015, I was fully committed to a vegan lifestyle.
I started freelance writing for vegan businesses and contributing articles to HuffPost so I’d have the flexibility to attend vegan conferences all over the world. My goal has always been to increase the prevalence of plant-based eating in African American communities--I just didn’t know how. Since animal activists want people eating plants as much as I do, I figured learning their best practices and translating them to my community would be helpful.
I complained a lot until I realized I could take an idea and do something with it. I founded Wanyama Box in October of 2016 as a tool to help vegans get their loved ones to stop eating animals while raising money for vegan initiatives in communities of color.
Wanyama (which means “animals” in Swahili) is my way of bridging the causes I care about most: animals and the black community. I know I have a lot bring to each issue, so I’m excited to see how my ideas and involvement grow over time. |
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to semiconductor packaging, and more particularly to a three-dimensional stacked semiconductor package with multiple semiconductor chips and its method of manufacture.
2. Description of the Related Art
In the field of electronic systems, there is a continuous need to increase performance and reduce size. This is largely achieved by improving semiconductor wafer manufacturing and semiconductor packaging technologies. Wafer manufacturing involves simultaneously fabricating numerous semiconductor chips as a batch on a silicon wafer using various etching, doping and depositing steps. After the wafer is complete, the chips are separated from one another and packaged.
Wafer manufacturing strives to reduce transistor or capacitor feature size in order to increase circuit density and enhance functionality. Device geometries with sub-micron line widths are so common that individual chips routinely contain millions of electronic devices. Reduced feature size has been quite successful in improving electronic systems, and continuous development is expected in the future. However, significant obstacles to further reduction in feature size are being encountered. These obstacles include defect density control, optical system resolution limits, and availability of processing material and equipment. Attention has therefore increasingly shifted to semiconductor packaging as a means to fulfill the relentless demands for enhanced system performance.
Semiconductor chips have input/output pads that must be connected to external circuitry in order to function as part of an electronic system. Traditionally, a single chip is individually housed in a single-chip package that is connected to other single-chip packages through a printed circuit board (or motherboard) which supplies power to the chips and provides signal routing among the chips. The single-chip package has connection media that is typically an array of metallic leads (e.g., a lead frame) or a support circuit (e.g., a substrate).
Several connection techniques are widely used for connecting the chip pads and the connection media. These include wire bonding, tape automated bonding (TAB) and flip-chip bonding. Wire bonding is by far the most common. In this approach, wires are bonded, one at a time, from the chip to external circuitry by thermocompression, thermosonic or ultrasonic processes. TAB involves bonding gold-bumped pads on the chip to external circuitry on a polymer tape using thermocompression bonding. TAB requires mechanical force such as pressure or a burst of ultrasonic vibration and elevated temperature to accomplish metallurgical welding between the wires or bumps and the designated surface. Flip-chip bonding involves providing pre-formed solder bumps on the pads, flipping the chip so that the pads face down and are aligned with and contact matching bond sites, and melting the solder bumps to wet the pads and the bond sites. After the solder reflows it is cooled down and solidified to form solder joints between the pads and the bond sites. Many variations exist on these basic methods.
A major advantage of flip-chip bonding over wiring bonding and TAB is that it provides shorter connection paths between the chip and the external circuitry, and therefore has better electrical characteristics such as less inductive noise, cross-talk, propagation delay and waveform distortion. In addition, flip-chip bonding requires minimal mounting area and weight which results in overall cost saving since no extra packaging and less circuit board space are used. While flip-chip technology has tremendous advantages over wire bonding and TAB, its cost and technical limitations are significant. For instance, the cost of forming bumps on the pads is significant. In addition, an adhesive is normally underfilled between the chip and the support circuit to reduce stress on the solder joints due to thermal mismatch between the chip and the support circuit, and the underfilling process increases both manufacturing complexity and cost. Thus, none of these conventional connection techniques are entirely satisfactory.
Conventional single-chip packages typically have an area (or footprint) that is many times larger than the area of the chip, causing the printed circuit board to have excessively large area relative to the chips. However, as chip speeds increase, it becomes critical to position the chips close together since excessive signal transmission distance deteriorates signal integrity and propagation times. Other considerations such as manufacturing cost, reliability, heat transfer, moisture resistance, mounting and interconnect standardization, testability, and quality control have also become focal points of chip packaging.
Single-chip packages such as ball grid arrays (BGA) and chip scale packages (CSP) have been recently developed to address these considerations. Although these packages provide certain advantages, further size reduction and performance enhancement with these packages has been difficult to obtain due to physical dimension, design and manufacturing constraints.
Multi-chip modules (MCM) or hybrid modules that package multiple chips on a common platform are an alternative to single-chip packages. These modules aim to achieve higher packaging density (lower volume and mass per chip), better signal integrity and reasonable manufacturing cost. Conventional multi-chip modules are essentially two-dimensional structures with multiple chips connected to a planar interconnection substrate which contains traces to supply power and signal transmission. Co-fired ceramic substrates have given way to organic-based substrates due to performance and cost advantages. However, since multi-chip modules utilize a planar interconnection substrate as the base, their effectiveness in packaging density is limited. For instance, a substrate transmission line that is 25 microns wide, 5 microns high and 10 millimeters long creates high line resistance and signal delays, which necessitates complex wiring rules in order to provide acceptable signal transmission distances and reasonable propagation delays.
Therefore, in order to create higher density packages, reduce area requirements and shorten signal transmission distances, three-dimensional packages with two, three or more vertically stacked chips are an emerging trend. Three-dimensional packages are particularly suitable for the electronic systems such as supercomputers and large cache memory devices which require high operating speed and high capacity in very limited space.
Three-dimensional packages generally follow two approaches. In one approach, individual chips are packaged in conventional single-chip packages and then the single-chip packages are vertically stacked and interconnected to one another. Single-chip packages stacked this way include thin small-outline packages (TSOP), ball grid arrays (BGA) and tape chip packages (TCP), and chip connections within the single-chip packages include wire bonding, TAB and flip-chip bonding. In another approach, leads are connected to the chips, and then the exposed leaded chips are vertically stacked and interconnected to one another. Most three-dimensional packages involve peripheral interconnection, but some provide area array interconnection. Numerous three-dimensional packages are reported in the literature.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,484,959, 5,514,907, 5,625,221 and 5,744,827 disclose three-dimensional packages in which stacked single-chip packages have large footprints that require large amounts of space. The single-chip packages also have long extended leads and associated wire bonds that limit electrical performance.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,854,507 and 6,072,233 disclose three-dimensional packages with stacked single-chip packages in which solder balls provide the primary vertical interconnections. The solder balls require large amounts of space.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,394,303 discloses a three-dimensional package in which the stacked single-chip packages include a flexible film with wiring layers wrapped around the chip. The flexible film is relatively difficult to wrap and bending the wiring layers causes low yields.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,996,583, 5,138,438 and 5,910,685 disclose three-dimensional packages in which TAB leads are connected to and extend beyond the peripheries of the chips, the exposed chips are stacked together and the TAB leads are connected together. The TAB leads for different chips have different shapes and lengths which complicates manufacturing. Furthermore, the TAB leads are interconnected by applying thermocompression, which also complicates manufacturing.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,706,166 and 5,104,820 disclose three-dimensional packages in which chips are formed with leads that extend to the sidewalls, the exposed chips are stacked together, and then thin film routing lines are deposited on the sidewalls to interconnect the leads. The wafer process must be modified, and aligning the sidewalls and forming the routing lines on the leads is difficult.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,897,708 and 4,954,875 disclose three-dimensional packages composed of wafers rather than individual chips. Cone-shaped vias are formed in the wafers, electrically conductive material is filled in the vias which contacts the pads on the wafers, and the wafers are stacked such that the electrically conductive material in the vias provides vertical interconnections between the pads. The wafer stacks are difficult to separate for repairs and too large for many applications.
Another drawback with many conventional three-dimensional packages is that the vertical interconnections lack the flexibility to accommodate thickness variations of the stacked assemblies. For instance, chip thickness may vary by 20 microns or more even after back-side wafer polishing attempts to planarize the wafer. As a result, vertical interconnections with fixed heights cannot adequately accommodate these thickness variations, and suffer from disoriented, cracked and open connections, high mechanical stress and reliability problems.
In summary, conventional three-dimensional packages suffer from numerous deficiencies including large area requirements, inflexible vertical interconnections, limited electrical performance, poor structural strength and low reliability. Moreover, conventional three-dimensional packages are often unsuitable for test and repair, manufactured by complicated processes that are impractical for volume production, and too difficult and costly to develop.
In view of the various development stages and limitations in currently available three-dimensional packages, there is a need for a three-dimensional package that is cost-effective, reliable, manufacturable, ultra-thin and provides excellent mechanical and electrical performance. |
Many faces of Wikibase: Lingua Libre makes [ˈlæŋgwəʤəz] audible
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MediaWiki, the free and open source software behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, is widely known and used outside the Wikimedia ecosystem, powering thousands of individual wikis around the world. Fewer people know that Wikibase—the software behind Wikidata, Wikimedia's knowledge base—is also available as free and open software, and can be used for external databases and linked open data projects. To highlight how organizations use Wikibase, the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Germany (Deutschland) are publishing a series of blog posts called the 'Many faces of Wikibase'.
Languages and multilinguality have always been an important part of the Wikimedia projects. After all, Wikimedia projects are available in over 300 languages. But most of these languages are accessible as a form of knowledge of their own only in their written form. Lingua Libre aims to change that by making the sound of a language and its pronunciation freely available in the form of structured data. Jens Ohlig interviewed Antoine Lamielle, main developer of Lingua Libre, about his project and how it uses Wikibase.
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Jens: Could you introduce yourself? What brought you to the Wikimedia project?
I started editing a bit by accident, convinced by the philosophy of global free knowledge sharing. Over time, I’ve become a sysop and checkuser on the French Wikipedia, regular Commonist, working on a lot of on-wiki technical stuff (maintaining and developing bots, gadgets, templates, modules). Now, I’m also the architect and main developer of Lingua Libre since mid-2017.
Off wiki, I’m a French software engineer, fond of kayaking, photography and linguistics.
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Jens: Tell us more about Lingua Libre! What is it? What’s its history? What is its status at the moment?
Antoine: Lingua Libre is a library of free audio pronunciation recordings that everyone can complete by giving a few words, some proverbs, a few sentences, and so on. These sounds will mainly enrich Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia or Wiktionary, but also help specialists in language studies in their research.
It is a pretty new project, taking its roots in the French wikiproject “Languages of France“, whose goal is to promote and preserve endangered regional languages on the Wikimedia sites. We found at that time that only 3% of all Wiktionary entries had an audio recording. That’s really bad given that it’s a very important element! It allows anyone who does not understand the IPA notation—a large part of the world population—to know how to pronounce a word. From there, the first version of Lingua Libre was born, an online tool to record word lists.
Nowadays, it has become a fully automated process that helps you record and upload pronunciations on Commons and reuse them on Wikidata and Wiktionary. We can do up to 1,200 word pronunciations per hour—this used to be more like 80 per hour with the manual process!
Jens: What brought you to Wikibase? Why is it a good fit for Lingua Libre?
Antoine: The first version of Lingua Libre collected metadata for each audio record, but it was stored in a traditional relational database, with no way to re-use it. We wanted to enhance that sleeping metadata by allowing anyone to explore it freely. But we also wished to gain flexibility in easily adding new metadata. Wikibase, equipped with a SPARQL endpoint, offered us all these possibilities, and all that in a well-known environment for Wikimedians! Paired with other benefits of MediaWiki—version history to name only one—the choice was clear.
The Lingua Libre interface. Screenshot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
In our Wikibase instance we store three different types of items: languages (including dialects) imported directly from Wikidata; speakers, containing linguistic information on each person performing a recording (what level he/she has in the languages he/she speaks, and where they learned them, accent etc.); and recordings. These are created transparently by the Lingua Libre recorder for each recording made, linking the file on Wikimedia Commons to metadata (language, transcription, date of the recording, to which Wikipedia article / entry of Wiktionary / Wikidata item it corresponds etc), but also to the item of its author.
Jens: Anything positive you realized about Wikibase as a software? Were there any hurdles you had to overcome? Is there anything that can be improved?
Antoine: Using the same software as Wikidata has made it easy for us to build bridges with this project, and take advantage of this incredible wealth of structured data. For example, to allow our speakers to describe where they learned a language, we use Wikidata IDs directly. This has many advantages in our use; so when we ask a new user where they have learned a language, they have total freedom on the level of precision they want to indicate (country, region, city, even neighborhood or school if they wish to), most often with labels translated into their own language.
Backstage we can thus mix and re-use the data of Wikidata and Lingua Libre via federated SPARQL queries (for example to search all the records made in a country, or to be able to listen to variations of pronunciation of the same word in several different regions) and all that without having to manage the cost, the limitations and the heavy maintenance of a geo name database!
However, this is currently more of a set of hacks than a perfect solution. Wikidata items are currently stored as external identifiers in our Wikibase instance, and the entire UI / UX depends on client-side AJAX calls to the Wikidata API. The ideal would be to be able to federate several Wikibases, allowing them to share items natively between them.
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Jens: Is there something else you’d like to add?
Antoine: Thanks for the amazing job you’ve done so far on Wikibase, hoping it will continue so for a long time!
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In the last few years, body positivity has taken off in a major way. While plus size people, and especially plus size women, still don't get the same respect as everyone else (and there's a lot of work to be done before they will), some seriously badass body activists have started sharing their lives, and their bodies, to show other plus people that fat bodies can be beautiful. Even thinner women have reclaimed their stretch marks, their belly roles, and their cellulite.
But almost all of the body love we've seen over the last few years has come from cisgender (meaning, not transgender) women. Some men have also had their moment, of course, but where are the stories from transgender men and women and gender non-conforming people?
Just as cisgender women are held to strict expectations of what a perfect woman's body looks like, transgender people also feel pressure to live up to those ideals, and many of them are also dealing with bodies that already don't fit their true gender. That can cause major stress and other health concerns. A recent survey of 1,000 LGBTQ youth from the National Eating Disorders Association found that about 40% of transgender men and gender non-conforming people are diagnosed with eating disorders. While eating disorders aren't always a measure of body dissatisfaction, a percentage this high says something about how transgender men experience their bodies. As cisgender women get support from their peers to shed their body shame, transgender men also need that support.
"We still have work to do in our community, and in society in general, to push back against the stereotype of what a man should look like," says Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas. "Right now, we have this image of what makes men attractive and we say, 'This is how you have to be to feel good about who you are.'"
We talked with Schelling and three other transmasculine people about what body positivity really looks like for them. In some ways, transgender men have the same message that we hear from cisgender body activists: Start loving your body as it is. But in other ways they have a very different experience with body positivity, and it has a lot to do with gender dysphoria (the feeling that their bodies don't match their gender). Read on for their experiences.
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Our trip was heavily influenced and organized by Kate via Mickey World Travel. I cannot tell you how incredible she is, but I surely will try! In an upcoming post, I will explain what she did and how it was super helpful to my family as we tried to tackle this beast called Disney!
In the fall, my parents started expressing interest in taking Caroline "to see Mickey," for her first birthday. Mark and I talked about it... and thought it was ridiculous! Disney?! For a one-year-old?! Eventually, we agreed (with a stipulation, but more on that later) and surprised them with a gift on Christmas telling them that The Adventures of Caroline and the Mouse was a go!
Fast forward to the week following her birthday - we (except Mark due to work obligations) were at Disney! I haven't been to Disney since I was a little kid and, lets just say, it wasn't very much fun back then. So, I started seeing this as an opportunity to create new memories! Plus, Disney really does accommodate adults just as much as it does kids.
We hit up Epcot on our first evening. My parents had been before and thought it was the best fireworks show and the food opportunities seemed promising. They weren't lying! The ability to walk around the park, have some drinks, and eat from anywhere around the world was awesome.
After some great Italian food, we walked all around the park just taking it all in. We bought the Memory Maker (hello military discount) so we stopped every time we saw a Disney Photographer. I loved that part. Knowing that we were going to have some great photos of the whole group at some of the most iconic spots at Disney made me really happy.
We finished up the night with the fireworks show. At first Caroline was all, "What are those pretty sparkling things?!" Then this happened...
Poor girl was TERRIFIED! She did not love the booms. She didn't really cry - she just cuddled in really closely and pinched the back of our arms, a nervous habit that she does when she's uncomfortable.
PopPop was a pretty great protector though and, after some extra love, she'd peek out to see the lights.
Our first day was a success, but we were all really tired from the day of travel and adventuring. We needed a good nights rest because tomorrow we were tackling The Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom! |
Hi All!
This week has been CRAZY!! and I have SO much to tell you all! I have: 1. that exciting news I mentioned a while back!, 2. Updates from the Etsy shop, 3. What’s coming up this fall for the Bra-A-Week Challenge and 4. Some family fun 🙂
First I’m going to start off with my exciting news!
I have been given the most amazing opportunity to travel to Connecticut to teach private bra-making classes! YAY! I’m heading out early next week and I’ll be gone for the week! I’m teaching a lovely lady that I know who is looking into designing a RTW collection, and needs some assistance on designing the patterns, figuring out fabrics, and understanding all the fundamental elements of bra-draft & design that will help make her bras exactly what she wants!
What this means on the blog is: for the next two Bra-A-Week Challenges, I’ll share with you two of the tester bras that I’ve made for the private lessons that show more about the impacts of direction of stretch, the amount of stretch and the impacts of different design elements! (YAY for bra theory!)
I will also be leaving my Etsy store in the very capable hands of my mom 🙂 although I will always be available for questions!
I can not wait for next Saturday Life – (when I’ll still be in Connecticut) and to share my week! 🙂 🙂
And that brings me to The Emerald Studio Etsy Shop!
Wow it’s been absolutely incredible!- if you didn’t know from my previous post, I launched my bra kits this week! And you have been loving them! I am so excited that I’m finally open and getting to share all my favourite bra making supplies with you! And this is only the start!!
This is my shipping department, beside my elastic department! lol
And here is a ready-to-go bra kit with small sized findings! I like to keep them all nice and tidy so they don’t get wrinkled on their journey through the post!
I have been absolutely loving running the Etsy shop so far! and I can’t wait to bring out more products! If there is anything that you know that you LOVE for bra-making and you think I’m missing, please let me know- I would love to grow this business with all of you in mind 🙂
Also a little bit of extra business stuff- I just got my “The Emerald Studio” Sign art digitized and put on my business cards!! I’m obsessed with them! YAY
You might be seeing more of this branding coming up!
Now the next order of business is the Bra-A-Week Challenge!
Lovely wine tasting in Prince Edward County 🙂
Some strolling around the vineyards 🙂
Some family feasting at my grandparents house 🙂
And last but certainly not least, a few hands of bid euchre that went late into the night 🙂 my favourite!
So that was my week! I hope you’ve all had a lovely week- please tell me about it in the comments 🙂
until tomorrow for the Bra-A-Week Challenge!
xo erin! |
FIR-1.11 - Unsafe Buildings Alert Program
UNSAFE BUILDINGS ALERT PROGRAM
Administrative Rule Adopted by Portland Fire & Rescue Pursuant to Rule-Making Authority
ARB-FIR-1.11
I. GENERAL
A. This policy is established January 15, 2008.
B. Applies to all commercial occupancies where PF&R has authority.
C. This policy will improve coordination between the Fire Marshal's Office (FMO) and the Emergency Operations Division (EOPS). It provides a tool for identifying structures that due to their construction, use, or their state of maintenance; pose extraordinary hazards to emergency personnel. It requires documentation of dangerous situations and communicating that information though predetermined channels. This policy encourages an active working relationship between the FMO and EOPS, and ultimately improves firefighter safety.
D. It is intended that buildings entered into the "Unsafe Buildings List" will only be those that pose extraordinary threat to firefighters. It is felt that if the program becomes too broad, that the alert from dispatch may go unheeded.
E. It is intended that all members involved in emergency response will be made aware of situations that are inherently dangerous to life.
II. SPECIFIC
A. REFERENCES
a. 2007 Portland Fire Code (PFC)
b. 2007 Oregon Structural Specialty Code as adopted by Portland
B. DEFINITIONS
1. Process Hazard: Such things as acid dip tanks or the manufacture of biological agents. Note: Storage or use of hazardous materials is not part of this notification process; they are identified by the 704 placard system (see FMO Policy G-5).
2. Structural Hazards: Building structural members showing severe dry rot, iron members rusted through, concrete spalled or crumbling, etc.; building types historically proven to be flawed, such as bowstring trusses; illegal and ill-advised renovations where structural components are weakened or removed and will leave the building weakened.
3. Contents: Some common materials such as paper are a concern when firefighting water is absorbed causing extreme loads on building members.
4. Unsafe Buildings Coordinator: Chief Scott Beyers is assigned to coordinate the EOPS portion of the Unsafe Building Alert Program Policy. He has been assigned the administrative duty of overseeing the program.
III. PROCEDURES
A. EOPS INITIATED ALERT
1. In the event an imminently dangerous situation is discovered, contact the FMO directly, 503-823-3700 and ask for the Senior Inspector on phones; in their absence contact the Deputy Chief Fire Marshal (DCFM); and if no one is available in the FMO, contact the On-Duty Deputy Chief (C-103).
2. Follow up with an FMO Company Referral (PFB Form 300.07) and include the reason the structure/process/contents are believed dangerous.
3. E-mail the form to "FMO Company Referrals".
B. FMO INITIATED ALERT/DISTRICT INSPECTOR RESPONSIBILITY
1. This policy encourages direct communication between District Inspectors and EOPS personnel on an informal level. As stated in the "General" section of this policy, buildings entered into the "Unsafe Buildings List" will only be those that are deemed to pose an extraordinary threat to the safety of firefighters. That said, there is value to Fire Inspectors directly notifying the first-in response companies when buildings or processes could pose complications to emergency service workers, but do not rise to the danger that this policy addresses.
a. District Inspectors are encouraged to inform the first-in EOPS personnel of issues they find in their area.
2. When a District Inspector believes a structure is inherently dangerous to firefighters, they should collect following information:
a. Building address
b. Building owner's name and contact information
c. The reason the structure/process/contents are believed to be dangerous
3. Make immediate contact with the Senior Inspector on phones; in his/her absence the DCFM; and if no one is available in the FMO, contact the On-Duty C-103.
4. Follow up with a written report to the DCFM. The report shall include as much information as possible about the hazards, whether the hazards are believed to be legal, and options to abate the illegal hazards.
5. The District Inspector, or DCFM designee, will write the appropriate violation notices to the building owner/occupant and follow the violations through to abatement.
6. Upon designation as an "Unsafe Building", pertinent information will be entered in FIRES2000:
a. Check the "Unsafe Building" box on the Field Data Form.
b. Enter narrative information under the "Hazards" tab for the location.
c. Pictures can also be attached to the FIRES2000 file.
7. When appropriate, the District Inspector, or DCFM designee, will give notice to the Bureau of Development Services (BDS) dangerous building inspectors and/or building inspectors regarding the state of the designated unsafe building.
8. The District Inspector or DCFM designee shall be the contact point for BDS inspectors to report buildings in which they have safety concerns.
C. DEPUTY CHIEF FIRE MARSHAL
1. If an Unsafe Building notification is received from an EOPS company, the DCFM may order a District Inspector to report to the address to verify the fire company's findings and provide guidance as to the legal standing of the situation.
2. The DCFM acts as a first screen. He/she should consider the information gathered by the District Inspector (whether it is EOPS initiated, or FMO initiated) and make an initial determination whether the building/process poses an extraordinary hazard to firefighters.
3. If the DCFM deems that building meets the standards for listing as an "Unsafe Building", he/she will make notification to C-103 via e-mail with an attachment containing the information that has been compiled for the building in question.
4. If the situation appears to merit the BDS classification of a "Dangerous Building," BDS will be notified. If BDS evaluates the building and it is deemed a "Dangerous Building", the DCFM will notify Chief Scott Beyers of the BDS listing.
5. Once a building is identified as an "Unsafe Building" by the C-103, the DCFM, or their designee, will be available to assist EOPS as needed.
D. DEPUTY CHIEF (C-103) AND BATTALION 1 (Chief Scott Beyers)
1. C-103 will review the information provided by the FMO. C-103 may direct Chief Beyers and the responsible Battalion Chief to conduct an on-site visit for additional follow-up and recommendations.
2. If C-103 deems that the building meets the criteria for identifying it as an unsafe building, Chief Beyers will be directed to develop "Premise Information" for the building to be inserted into the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system. C-103 will review the Premise Information and then direct Chief Beyers to forward the information to BOEC for insertion.
3. C-103 will contact the DCFM and request that the building be placed on the "Unsafe Buildings" list.
4. If C-103 determines that the building does not require the unsafe building designation they will communicate this decision to the DCFM.
E. FIRE LIAISON AT THE BUREAU OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (BOEC)
1. Chief Beyers will forward the premise information for an unsafe building to the Fire Liaison at BOEC. The Fire Liaison will in turn enter the information into the CAD system.
F. EOPS COMPANY ACTIONS UPON NOTIFICATION
1. Chief Beyers will notify first-in companies and chief officers via e-mail. The unsafe building will also appear in FIRES2000 on the "Unsafe Buildings List".
2. Upon receiving the unsafe building information, Battalion Chiefs will communicate with their companies as to the best plan of action. The primary first-in company may be directed to take one or more of the following actions:
a. Verify if a current Pre-fire Survey is available.
b. Conduct an on site visit; this may consist of an exterior evaluation only. If a prefire survey for the building is not on file, this visit could be used to produce one.
c. Conduct a multi-company familiarization drill.
d. Contact your District Inspector for additional information and training.
Chief Beyers and the respective Battalion Chief will confer with companies as to the best plan of action.
3. Emergency Response:
a. When companies are dispatched to a location with a direct hit on a building address for a structure that is designated as an unsafe building, fire dispatchers will make a verbal announcement over the radio to responding companies that the structure at the dispatched location is designated as an "Unsafe Building".
b. While enroute, or upon arrival, Incident Commanders must access the Premise Information on the Mobile Data Computer (MDC) and take into account the condition of the structure when formulating an incident action plan. They should reconsider standard strategy and tactics when operating on-scene at a structure identified as an unsafe building.
c. Consider the risk versus the benefit of what can be accomplished before committing personnel to an interior fire and/or rescue operations. Take into account occupants reported to be trapped, occupants known to be missing or unaccounted for at the scene, exposures, potential for structural collapse, extent and time of fire involvement, etc.
G. POSTING SIGNAGE FOR UNSAFE BUILDINGS
1. The C-103 will determine if is prudent to post signs on the building to warn firefighters that the building is unsafe. Signage will follow the Portland Fire Code standard for placarding vacant premises, currently Section 311.
2. "Exterior Operations, Enter Only for Known Life Hazard", shall be designated by a white "X" on a square red background. This shall be clearly visible from the street.
3. "Interior Operations with Extreme Caution" shall be designated by a white diagonal line on a square red background. This shall be clearly visible from the street.
4. Signage will be available from the Fire Marshal's Office Code Enforcement Section at 1300 SE Gideon Street.
H. MAINTENANCE OF DANGEROUS SITUATION LIST
1. A report listing Unsafe Buildings can be generated from FIRES2000.
2. The DCFM, or designee, is responsible for maintaining the "Unsafe Buildings List".
3. The DCFM, or designee, will maintain contact with the Bureau of Development Services (BDS) inspectors to keep a timely record of all buildings designated as an "Unsafe Building" or "Dangerous Building" by either the Fire Bureau or BDS.
I. REMOVAL OF COMPLIANT SITUATIONS
1. When a Dangerous Situation is determined to no longer be a threat, the information shall be forwarded to the DCFM, or designee, to be removed from the "Unsafe Buildings List".
2. The DCFM, or designee, shall notify Chief Beyers who will modify the current CAD Premise Information and forward the updated status to BOEC.
3. The responsible Inspector shall update FIRES2000 if appropriate.
HISTORY
Policy originally adopted by Fire Marshall as FMO Policy CE A-11, effective January 15, 2008.
Policy revised by Chief of Portland Fire & Rescue and filed for inclusion in PPD July 31, 2008. |
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Q:
How to find the range for a given number, interval and start value?
Provided the below values
start value = 1
End Value = 20
Interval = 5
I have been provided a number 6. I have to find the range of numbers in which the number 6 falls say now the answer is 6-10.
If the given number is greater than the end value then return the same number.
Is there any formula so that i can generate the range for the number?
UPDATE
I tried the below solution, But it is not working if the range interval is changed,
$end_value = $start_value + $range_interval;
// we blindly return the last term if value is greater than max value
if ($input_num > $end_value) {
return '>' . $end_value;
}
// we also find if its a first value
if ($input_num <= $end_value && $value >= $start_value) {
return $start_value . '-' . $end_value;
}
// logic to find the range for a given integer
$dived_value = $input_num/$end_value;
// round the value to get the exact match
$rounded_value = ceil($dived_value);
$upper_bound_range = $rounded_value*$end_value;
$lower_bound_range = $upper_bound_range - $end_value;
return $lower_bound_range . '-'. $upper_bound_range;
A:
In (c-style) pseudocode:
// Integer division assumed
rangeNumber = (yourNumber - startValue) / rangeLength;
lower_bound_range = startValue + rangeNumber*rangeLength;
upper_bound_range = lower_bound_range + rangeLength-1;
For your input:
rangeNumber = (6-1)/5 = 1
lower_bound_range = 1 + 5*1 = 6
upper_bound_range = 10
and so range is [6, 10]
|
Nancy Kanter is Playhouse Disney Worldwide senior VP
MUMBAI: US kids broadcaster Disney has announced that Nancy Kanter has been promoted to Playhouse Disney Worldwide senior VP and will have responsibility for the Playhouse Disney creative content on a global basis.
Kanter has been with Disney since 2001, most recently as Playhouse Disney US senior VP, programming. The announcement was made by Disney Channels Worldwide president, entertainment Gary Marsh to whom Kanter reports.In her new role, Kanter will continue to oversee the development and production of all long and short-form programming, encompassing live action and animated series, and will add the responsibility of unifying all programming, marketing and brand management teams on the creative vision for Playhouse Disney, ensuring cohesiveness between programming and promotion and all extensions of the brand.
Marsh said, "Nancy‘s dedication to learning-focused stories for preschoolers helped drive unprecedented success for our Playhouse Disney programming. As we increase our programming development around the world, this promotion recognizes her valued contribution to creative excellence and will ensure a consistent vision for all Playhouse Disney content."
Kanter is responsible for supervising the development of Playhouse Disney‘s most successful original series thus far, including Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, My Friends Tigger and Pooh and Handy Manny; the new series Bunnytown and upcoming Imagination Movers. |
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2009-08-13:
- 20:08 Changeset [17246] by
- [lib80211] fix build
- 19:05 Changeset [17245] by
- [pakages] kismet: Fix kismet_client linking against uClibc++ and libm, …
- 15:59 Ticket #5692 (sysupgrade error with glibc and x86) created by
- I'm testing trunk version with glibc on a x86 board (PCEngines Alix). When …
- 12:43 Changeset [17244] by
- [ar71xx] switch to 2.6.30
- 12:42 Changeset [17243] by
- [packages] kismet: Add missing dependency on libpcre
- 12:38 Ticket #5676 (config files for kismet are out of date, bug is brcm-2.4 specific) closed by
- fixed: Fixed in r17241. Thanks for your report!
- 12:37 Changeset [17242] by
- [packages] usbutils: Fix package installation if IDs list update fails
- 12:37 Changeset [17241] by
- [packages] kismet: Update configuration and remove deprecated files …
- 12:37 Changeset [17240] by
- [packages] pciutils: Fix updating of PCI IDs list, bump release number
- 10:47 ar7 edited by
- (diff)
- 10:30 brcm63xx edited by
- (diff)
- 05:47 Ticket #5626 (Asus WL-330gE quick fix in the 8.09 branch) closed by
- fixed: see r17139
- 05:35 Changeset [17239] by
- [8.09] firewall: merge r17238, bump patch level
- 05:32 Ticket #4781 (OpenWRT kill all active connections after dhcp ip renew) closed by
- fixed: see r17238
- 05:32 Ticket #4108 (udhcpc ignores renew replies from dhcp server) closed by
- fixed: see r17238
- 05:31 Changeset [17238] by
- [package] firewall: allow incoming udp/68 packets in the default …
- 03:50 Ticket #5691 (new spi-gpio module has bug, unable to assign ip address to its clients, ...) created by
- I tried to use new spi-gpi module from trunk trunk (r17166), but found …
- 03:05 Ticket #5690 (acx-mac80211-20080805 fails spectacularly when building ar7 image) created by
- Hi, In an attempt to get wireless support on my Netcomm NB5PLUS4W, I …
- 02:48 Changeset [17237] by
- [packages] openvpn: load config only once in the init script up() and …
2009-08-12:
- 21:05 Ticket #5689 (compilation of sane-backends fails on mips (gcc 4.3.4)) created by
- Hi there, I get the following compilation error for sane-backends 1.0.20: …
- 20:32 Ticket #5688 (bandwidthd postgresql option) created by
- Question: why postgresql option disable in bandwidthd package and how to …
- 16:09 Changeset [17236] by
- remove PID-file on TERM.
- 15:19 Changeset [17235] by
- [package] opkg: crlf -> lf in 001-fix-double-parsing.patch
- 15:07 Ticket #5687 (ifconfig downs all aliases) created by
- Hi When using ifconfig to down first alias, it also downs next aliases. …
- 14:08 Ticket #5686 (Python compilation on Mac OS X (10.5.8)) created by
- I had issues with compiling the Python module under Mac OS X using: - Mac …
- 14:07 Ticket #5685 (Python compilation on Mac OS X (10.5.8)) created by
- I had issues with compiling the Python module under Mac OS X using: - Mac …
- 12:32 Ticket #5684 (tftpd-hpa package missing dependency: libwrap) created by
- the tftpd-hpa package should depende on libwrap […]
- 10:41 Changeset [17234] by
- [brcm63xx] add missing patch which fakes a cardbus controller on top of …
- 07:52 Ticket #5683 (build fails at acx compile) created by
- In SVN revision 17229, the build mysteriously fails while packaging acx …
- 01:51 Ticket #5682 (New version of rdiff-backup) created by
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At least 15 Haitians were killed when a vessel carrying the migrants capsized in shark-infested waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands on Sunday, officials said.
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for additional survivors late Sunday, hours after the boat carrying at least two dozen migrants from Haiti sank off West Caicos, an uninhabited island in the Turks and Caicos archipelago.
At least 14 people survived and four others remain unaccounted for, the Coast Guard said.
The Coast Guard joined Royal Turks and Caicos police after officials received reports of a capsized vessel just after 8 a.m. Sunday.
“Today, March 31st, 2019 we have seen the heroic efforts of my Police Officers, Immigration Officials, Emergency Medical Response teams and private citizens, after a boat carrying suspected illegal migrants capsized off West Caicos,” Acting Turks and Caicos Police Commissioner Trevor Botting said in a statement. “This has indeed been a difficult day, and I would like to express thanks and appreciation to all of you that responded. Your service today is invaluable and appreciated.”
STATE DEPARTMENT REACTS TO REPORTED ARRESTS OF AMERICANS IN HAITI
Botting said it’s unclear how many people were on the vessel when it sank. Authorities are investigating the incident to identify what caused the boat to sink.
Authorities have been warning Haitians about making dangerous trips by boat. At least 28 Haitians were killed in February after a boat sank off the northern Bahamas, the Miami Herald reported.
“No journey is worth risking lives on the dangerous seas in these small vessels,” Botting said.
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Chrysanthemums are an important source of medicines and insecticides; however, when I look at them I think about gratitude and how grateful I am for all the good things God has given me.
Make a list of what you are grateful for: e.g.
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Is there any way that you can share any item on your list with someone less blessed? That would be a way to show God how grateful you are to Him for blessing you so abundantly.
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Commodores hope to add inside presence to 3-point proficiency
The 3-pointer and Vanderbilt have been connected ... well, from the start.
Since the arc’s inception in 1986, the Commodores are one of just hree Division I teams — UNLV and Princeton are the others — to make at least one 3-pointer in every game. Vanderbilt’s streak currently sits at 811 contests, just 13 behind UNLV for the longest streak.
“I think we have a reputation for shooting a bunch of 3s,” said guard John Jenkins, who leads the country with four 3-pointers a game. “We’re known for shooting a lot."
Lately, the Commodores’ love affair with the long ball has been more evident. Over the last five games, they have averaged 19 3-point attempts, sinking 45.3 percent.
Heading into Tuesday’s road game at South Carolina (8 p.m, ESPNU), Vanderbilt (11-4, 1-0 SEC) ranks eighth in the country with 9.2 3-pointers a game. While it rides the hot perimeter shooting, the squad says the offense must expand — inward.
“We all understand that we can’t really fall in love with the 3. It can win you games but it can also lose you games,” guard Brad Tinsley said. “With [center Festus Ezeli] coming back, we want to play inside and out. That has been our game plan for a long time, since he has been here. We’ve got great shooters on the perimeter, but we also know we can’t live and die by the 3.”
So far going cold from 3-point range has cost the Commodores. They are 2-3 when they fail to make more than seven treys.
Still, those off nights have been rare. The team ranks second in the SEC with a 38.7 shooting percentage from beyond the arc.
“Knock on wood, we’ve been a good shooting team, so I’m really OK with utilizing the 3-point line to our advantage,” Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings said.
It played in the Commodores’ favor on Saturday in a 65-35 victory against Auburn. They were 13-of-29 from beyond the arc, while Auburn was just 3-of-13. On the flip side, the Tigers had a 22-10 edge in the paint.
Ezeli, a 6-foot-11 senior, has played in just five games since recovering from knee injuries and will greatly impact Vanderbilt’s inside game. Stallings doesn’t just want his team to pound the paint to post up but to also draw contact.
Known in recent years for their ability to get to the foul line, the Commodores’ 298 free-throw attempts through 15 games ranks just sixth in the league.
“I want to get it inside, whether we pass it there or drive it there, so that we get to the foul line,” Stallings said. “That is my bigger concern — to make sure we get to the foul line as often as we can and as much as we need to because of the benefits are gained. Obviously, from having the other team in foul trouble ... but I’m plenty OK with what we’re doing from the perimeter right now.
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• South Carolina is 8-7 and is coming off a 79-64 loss at No. 2 Kentucky in the SEC opener on Saturday.
The Gamecocks are led by Malik Cooke (12.9 ppg) — the only player who averages more than 10 points per game. The teams split the series last year. Vanderbilt blew a 14-point, second-half lead on the road, losing in overtime. But the Commodores dominated in the second meeting, winning 78-60 in Nashville.
• Stallings will be coaching in his 400th game at Vanderbilt when he steps onto the court Tuesday.
He is 247-152 in 13 years at Vanderbilt. He is the school’s second all-time winningest coach, only behind Roy Skinner, who won 278 (1959, 1962-76). |
20th-century dance idiom that evolved in opposition to traditional ballet by those seeking a freer and more immediate means of dance expression. Leading exponents include Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham in the USA, Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman in Europe.
Modern dance was pioneered by US women seeking individual freedom but it is from Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn's Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts in Los Angeles (1915) that the first generation of modern dance – Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman – emerged. In the UK, the London Contemporary Dance Theatre and school was set up in 1966–67 and flourished under the artistic direction of Graham's pupil, Robert Cohan. The school is the only European institute authorized to teach Graham Technique. In 1966, the Ballet Rambert became a modern-dance company. In Germany, the originators of a modernist movement known as Ausdruckstanz were Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and Rudolf von Laban. The leading exponents, Mary Wigman, Harald Kreutzberg, and Kurt Jooss, had some influence on modern dance through their visits to the USA and through Hanya Holm, a former Wigman dancer who settled and taught in New York, and with whom the choreographer/producer, Alwyn Nikolais, was originally associated. Recent experimental work is known as new dance or avant-garde dance. |
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Woodcarvings are the adornments; the little accessories that really make it look special. Spruce up the corners of windows and door casings with rosettes and it’s easy to see how prettily they punctuate where one room ends and the other begins.
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In a way, learning about architectural details and then going back to your architecturally detail-less home can be a somewhat uncomfortable experience. Gradually, a general feeling of self-consciousness begins to creep into the psyche: have you ever had the dream where you are out in public, and you suddenly become keenly aware that you are stark naked? It is that sensation of being caught in a state of bareness, of the embarrassment that comes with the traumatic knowledge that others have noticed something obvious about you that you have never noticed yourself. Call it a very sudden onset of homeowners’ self-awareness; and with all of the effort today’s homeowners put into making their homes reflections of themselves, this realization can be somewhat painful.
“Naked Interiors Syndrome is often treated superficially,” says the Julia Delaney with a tone that is half joking, half serious. “Everyone can relate to attempts made in trying to create a mood in a space through just the use of furnishings and decorative accessories. While the homeowner may succeed in filling the room with “stuff”, all he or she really succeeds in doing is glossing over the issue with vanilla frosting. Real substance lurks beneath it all. If you take it all away and are simply left with an empty, featureless room, you realize that there was never any real substance to the character of your home. This is a classic case of Naked Interiors Syndrome.”
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Q:
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I'm new to Django, and i have a form that has two fields :
Client name & bill number .
i've created a validator that tests if the bill number already exists in the database table (called bills).
But now i need to transform this validator to another that tests in addition of the previous test, if the Client name exists in the same table line (more smiply : if client name and the bille number have the same pk).
The validator :
def validate_url(value):
try:
entry=facture_ventes.objects.get(numfac=value)
except ObjectDoesNotExist:
entry = None
if entry is not None:
factexist=facture_ventes.objects.all().filter(id=entry.id).count()
if factexist is not None:
raise ValidationError("Numéro de Facture déja saisi ! ")
the form :
class SubmitUrlForm(forms.Form):
numfacture=forms.CharField(label='Submit Form', validators=[validate_url])
here is the data base table :
https://i.stack.imgur.com/3xmpd.png
any help please, cause i know that validators cant return a value so i'm stuck here. Thank You
A:
This isn't a job for a validator, but for the form's clean method.
def clean(self):
numfac = self.cleaned_data.get('numfacture')
try:
entry=facture_ventes.objects.get(numfac=numfac)
except ObjectDoesNotExist:
entry = None
if entry is not None:
factexist=facture_ventes.objects.all().filter(id=entry.id).count()
if factexist is not None:
raise forms.ValidationError("Numéro de Facture déja saisi ! ")
if entry.client_name == self.cleaned_data.get('client_name'): # or whatever
raise forms.ValidationError("Facture avec ce numéro et cliente existe déjà")
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Syllabus prep led me to two versions of the song “Little Red Riding Hood,” by Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs, and the cover by Amanda Seyfried. I’ll be asking my students to analyze the two versions, as part of a close-reading/note-taking exercise for a freshman composition class. But I have many thoughts about aspects we likely won’t touch in class.
At first, I thought the song was irredeemably misogynist. I’m still pretty sure the original is. But after listening to the Amanda Seyfried version about a million times on repeat, I think it might actually have a positive feminist message, partly about adolescence.
When the singer is male, the song is disturbing enough (it’s using a disturbing fairy tale about female puberty, after all). It’s essentially the “nice-guy” trope – I’ll protect you until you trust me. Until you trust me enough that I can drop the nice guy act, that is, and be the bad wolf I am – until I can drop my sheep clothes.
Then again, there’s that line “bad wolves can be good” – perhaps a reference to BDSM? (Apparently there are some very dirty versions of this song. But I only found references to those, I didn’t find the songs themselves.) I kind of liked to think it is, but the addressee of the song is very clearly a young girl. That’s not okay.
50 Shades is only fine if Ana actually wanted it. If she was tricked or manipulated into wanting it, as the girl in this song might be, that’s a problem.
It does sound at times that he is a genuinely nice guy, not out to trick or manipulate Red into anything she might not want. He wants to hold her, “But you might think I’m a big bad wolf so I won’t.” That could go both ways. He’s really not a big bad wolf, because he doesn’t try to hold her.
But at the end he has to remind himself not to howl but to bleat, and he does hope that eventually Red will accept that a bad wolf isn’t bad. He gains her trust, and in his own mind he’s worthy of that trust. But he initiated contact because he noticed a pretty girl, he claims to be protecting her from others, and he plans to act differently once he’s gained that trust. That is classic nice-guy behavior.
Then there’s the “blazon” – the cataloging of the girl’s features, obviously echoing Red’s own words in the tale “my, what big eyes you have.” But here it’s “the kind of eyes that drive wolves mad,” “what full lips you have, sure to lure someone bad.”
A girl can’t help her full lips (not counting the craziness of the Kylie Jenner challenge), but they’re apparently going to lure someone bad regardless of what she does.
“You’re everything a big bad wolf could want.” If that isn’t a life-long unshakable scare, I don’t know what is. It tells her she can do nothing, she just will always be attracting these big bad wolves simply because of physical features she has no control over. If she wants big bad wolves, good for her. If she doesn’t – well, too bad. It’ll happen anyway.
The only thing that can protect her is this guy escorting her – and he plans to become that big bad wolf driven mad eventually.
So what happens when the speaker is a woman?
First of all, Amanda Seyfried sings this far more seductively than the original. I’m not entirely sure yet what that does to it. Her tone could be interpreted as soothing and comforting rather than seductive.
It starts off sounding like the speaker might be someone like Red’s mother in the tale, who warns her about the dangers in the wood – an older wiser woman giving a young girl advice.
With that message of “you can’t help it, your body will always attract the wrong type of guy,” having a woman say it is troubling. Internalized misogyny, acceptance of patriarchal attitudes, female acceptance of their own inevitable sexualization and being at the mercy of anyone who wants to focus on and pursue them sexually.
But considering that the woman says the same words as the man (“maybe you’ll see things my way / before we get to grandma’s place”), the female speaker could be interested in the little girl sexually too. The problems are the same as with the man, but with a twist.
Assuming the wolf is still male, it’s an added problem of portraying an older lesbian woman telling a young girl that men are predators, and that a woman can protect her, only to become just as predatory as the men she’s warned the girl about.
Then again, maybe seeing things her way before she gets to grandma’s place isn’t referring to Red agreeing to have sex with the speaker. And here’s where the feminist reading kicks in.
Maybe the offer to escort her, keep her safe so she doesn’t get chased, is actually about ushering her through the time when she is a “little big girl,” vulnerable to society sexualizing her body. The speaker is then assuring her that she is not simply a sexual being – and maybe by the time she gets through these woods (adolescence? society in general?), she’ll understand that just because wolves chase her, that doesn’t mean that’s her identity.
Keeping her sheep suit on until Red knows she can be trusted might mean speaking and acting meekly as society has told Red a woman should. Ultimately, she can show Red that “even bad wolves can be good” – both that a vocal and angry feminist is not a bad thing, and also that “notallmen” – a full understanding of it all. “Grandma’s house” then refers to adulthood.
In this reading, the whole song is advocating for female mentorship of adolescent girls to both keep them safe in the moment and to teach them that society’s view of them (read: men’s sexualization of them) should not shape their own views of themselves, of sexuality, of men, of society.
Notably, Amanda Seyfried’s cover leaves out both the beginning howl of appreciation and the closing howl-to-bleat. The last lines in the original, before the howl-to-bleat, is a reminder that she’s everything a big bad wolf could want. The last lines in the cover is a repetition of “So until you get to grandma’s place / I think you ought to walk with me and be safe.” The male speaker reiterates the little big girl’s desirability; the female speaker reiterates the wish to keep the little big girl safe.
I love the Amanda Seyfried cover, despite its disturbing undertones. Partly because of its disturbing undertones. But mostly because within those disturbing undertones, I see the possibility for a really cool feminist reading of it.
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Really enjoyed your interpretation of a song that was popular in my youth. The tune was catchy and you could not help but sing along. How sad that we, as women, have been conditioned that songs like this are fine. Should we object, then it is just boys being boys. Thank you! |
Andrea Yates Verdict: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
Justice has been served by the finding of a Texas jury today that Andrea Yates is “not guilty by reason of insanity” (NGRI) in the tragic deaths of her children five years ago.
Too often, tragedies are only compounded by tragedies. In this case, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) trusts that Andrea Yates will get the treatment she needs in a secure and appropriate psychiatric hospital. Even if she is released at some future point in time, she will likely be subject to continual court monitoring.
Andrea Yates was sick. We praise the jury for recognizing that fact.
NAMI hopes the two trials and ultimate verdict in the case have contributed to a broader public recognition and understanding of severe mental illnesses, particularly postpartum depression, psychosis, hallucinations, and delusions.
NGRI defenses are rarely raised and rarely succeed. The criminal justice system usually is ill-suited to address issues involving mental illness as it tries to impose legal logic on biological irrationality.
Human tragedies must lead not simply to individual trials. Broader inquiries are needed, particularly to determine where the mental healthcare system may have failed prior to those tragedies that do occur.
Whatever else happens to Andrea Yates, her children will have died in vain, unless we as a society address that fundamental concern.
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This year in January, there was this thing that went around, called Pay if Forward 2012. Many of my friends posted it, and there were variations, but this is pretty much what it said:
Pay It Forward 2012: I will make something handmade for the first five people who comment on my status, AND who will, in turn, post this as their status. * The rules are it has to be handmade by you, and can be as complicated or as simple as you want, it can even just be a cup of coffee.
I had dutifully signed up on someone’s Facebook, but I never posted mine. I had planned on doing what I’m doing now: making a blog post, and then have people sign up under it. I wasn’t sure what I was going to make, since this was before I was doing glass.
After I got into kilnforming, I knew I was going to make gifts out of glass. And once I got my kiln, I knew I could make them easily at home.
But I never made the post. I thought about it, but like so many other posts, the idea occurred to me at work, and by the time I was somewhere I could write it down, or make a note, I’d forgotten about it.
Now it’s December, and 2012 is ending in less than a month. And I haven’t done my Pay It Forward. So now’s the time.
Want something made of glass from me, for free? Comment below with a couple of colours you like, and make sure when you comment that your email address is valid. The first 5 people who comment within the next week will get something free.
There are two restrictions: You must live in the US (I’ll hold an international one later), and you must not be a relative of mine, through blood, marriage, former marriage, or fur 🙂
Yes!!! I would LOVE something handmade from you! Purple and green are my favorite colors.
This is such a great idea! I would have loved to receive something from you and continue on from that… well too bad I don’t stay in US ;). Will definitely join when you do the international one. All the best with this and have a good time.
rtwong (Follow Me # 8)
I dont know if i am too late or not, but this is cool! I would love to do this.
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“Elder Gary E. Stevenson,” Ensign, November 2015, 136
Elder Gary E. Stevenson
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
As he reflected on his call to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Elder Gary E. Stevenson concluded that his service in the Lord’s kingdom and particularly as an Apostle will be more about leading by serving than about serving by leading.
“Jesus Christ considered Himself a servant,” Elder Stevenson said during a press conference after he was sustained. “We too consider ourselves servants” (see Mark 10:44).
Elder Stevenson’s call to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles came unexpectedly. He feels, however, that his service in the Church—especially as a General Authority Seventy from 2008 to 2012 and as Presiding Bishop since March 2012—has helped prepare him for his new responsibilities.
One of the most important things he has learned in the Lord’s service is the great worth of Heavenly Father’s children. Elder Stevenson looks forward to the increased opportunities he will have as an Apostle to associate with and testify to God’s children throughout the world.
He also looks forward to continued association with those who lead the Lord’s Church. “To think of sitting in council and being able to learn from [them], to be tutored by [them], and to feel of their strength and their testimonies of Jesus Christ and His Atonement,” he said, “is something that I believe will be a beautiful experience.”
Gary E. Stevenson was born on August 6, 1955, to Evan N. and Vera Jean Stevenson. He traces his family roots to Utah’s early Latter-day Saint pioneers. He grew up in northern Utah’s Cache Valley in a gospel-centered home where he learned the value of hard work and the importance of service. His father, “the bishop of my youth,” often invited him along on visits to the many widows living in their ward. Lessons young Gary learned from his father about Christlike care and service left an indelible impression on him that would serve him well as Presiding Bishop.
“The bishops of the Church,” he said, “really are my heroes.”
Elder Stevenson’s service in the Church began in earnest when he was called as a full-time missionary to the Japan Fukuoka Mission, where he developed a lasting love for the Japanese people and their language, which he still speaks fluently. Following his mission he attended Utah State University, where he met Lesa Jean Higley. They married in the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple in 1979 and are the parents of four sons. Elder Stevenson earned a degree in business administration, with an emphasis in marketing. He later cofounded and served as president and chief operating officer of one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of exercise equipment.
The Stevenson family lived in Japan for several years. In 2004 Elder Stevenson was called as president of the Japan Nagoya Mission. Following his call to the Seventy in 2008, he served as a counselor and president in the Asia North Area. He was serving as Area President in 2011 when a major earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan, triggering a massive tsunami that killed thousands. That experience proved to be a defining moment in his life.
Elder Stevenson helped shape the response of the Church, which provided food, supplies, support, and longer-term assistance.
“That was a manifestation of the Church of Jesus Christ filling one of its divinely appointed responsibilities of caring for the poor and needy,” he recalls. He said it was a sacred privilege to “minister, and bless, and organize assistance.”
Elder Stevenson said the Lord has counseled Latter-day Saints to “succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees” (D&C 81:5). “In that,” he said at the press conference, “comes the charge that we feel as members of the Quorum of the Twelve and as Apostles in providing Christlike service.” |
For politicians, there is nothing easier than giving money away.... especially during an election year.
Today the House overwhelmingly approved a $146 billion plan to jump-start our stalled economy, and now it's up to the Senate to pass their form of the plan.
The House stimulus package calls for most workers to receive $600 from the government, plus $300 per child. Eligibility for the full payment would be capped at $75,000 in adjusted gross income for individuals, and $150,000 for couples. Workers with at least $3,000 of income last year who earned too little to pay taxes would receive $300 plus $300 per child. Businesses would receive $45 billion in tax incentives to invest in new plants and equipment.
The plan under consideration by the Senate Finance Committee reduces the rebates to $500 per person but offers them to virtually everyone, including low-income seniors and the affluent. It would include a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits.
Some senators are also calling for housing provisions, food-stamp extensions, money for infrastructure and even an amendment to make Bush's first-term tax cuts permanent.... as well as extending renewable energy tax credits, heating assistance for the poor and a tax payment to disabled veterans. If some of these measures are adopted, the Senate plan would cost unknown billions more.
Absent from the discussion is how the government is going to pay for this monumental boondoggle (of course they can't talk about that because the government is already living on borrowed prime), or provisions to address a long-term solution. This short-term "fix" will only feed the deficit pig.
But hey, let's all go buy more big-screen TV's, made in China, paid for with money we've borrowed from China. What a good deal..... for China. |
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Tomorrow we’re headed to Cabo San Lucas on the tip of the
Aristotle's concept that the goal of life is happiness and it's to be achieved through reaching one's full potential
Tomorrow we’re headed to Cabo San Lucas on the tip of:
Wow! Is this spontaneous? Or planned?
Have a wonderful time!!
We planned it back in July with thoughts that by October it might start getting cold. We will do that, thanks!
have a great time!
Oh, Lisa, hope your trip proves to be as glorious as mine was! A few pictures of here and there, but now they'll definitely be saved until you return.
Travel safe.
Have a wonderful time!
Moonrat, thanks and GREAT post today!
Larramie, I can't wait to hear about it and see the pix.
Ello, thanks and great post on at your place Ms. Troublemaker :)
Happy trails, Lisa! Enjoy the sunshine and warmth. Fall has a-r-r-i-v-e-d in NE OH--complete with rain, wind, gray skies and falling leaves. In the words of Joni Mitchel,: "And the seasons they go round and round..."
Oh, now I hate you.
Okay, not really. But I am sick, sick, sick with jealousy.
Have a good time. No really. I really mean it. Have loads of fun. Don't give us a second thought. We'll just be here, not on vacation, doing the regular nonvacation things.
Don't forget to take lots of pictures to torture us with when you get back.
So, you're migratory is what you're saying? Have fun.
Have a wonderful time.
Have a wonderful time :-)
Have a wonderful time! Lucky you...soak up the sunshine and surf. It's good for the writing.
Rebecca said it.
~colour me green~
dia de los muertos!
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What is the process of freezing eggs and timeline?
Answer from: Maria José Mendiola, MD, MSc in Human Genetics, MSc in Science Communication, ObGyn
The first step is to make the decision and go for a medical consultation. Detailed evaluation of the patients by the physicist, her history will be carried out as well as her ovarian reserve and hormonal profile will be assessed. The process involves stimulating, collecting, freezing and their storing of women’s eggs. The way eggs are collected for egg freezing is the same as IVF and it involves injecting hormones to stimulate the ovaries over a few weeks to produce multiple eggs. When the eggs have matured, they are collected from the patients and frozen. Typically this process takes around two weeks.
Answer from: Melvin H. Thornton, Associate Professor
The egg freezing process is a pretty straightforward process. The first thing when you’re undergoing social freezing is to have ovarian reserve testing. These are ways to check your ovarian reserve, your blood test to look and at your hormones. There is one hormone called Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), which gives you an idea of what your long-term reserve is like. As well as having an ultrasound to look to see how many resting follicles or antral follicles you have resting at the beginning of your period. Once you have a screening process, everything looks like you still have a good healthy reserve of eggs.
The actual procedure to freeze eggs is very quick from start to finish, it may take about 10 to 12 days. At the time of the retrieval, which is done either on the local or IV sedation mostly here in the US is an IV sedation. The procedure itself takes about 20 to 30 minutes from start to finish. And then recovery is about another 30 to 40 minutes, and at that time, we will be able to let you know how many eggs we’re actually able to retrieve. And then later that day we’ll let you know how many eggs are actually frozen. And what I mean by that is that when you undergo the egg freezing process, you will have eggs that are mature and eggs that are immature. Only the mature eggs can be frozen and used in the future for your fertility. So you may have a young healthy woman that may make 20 eggs and of the 20 there may be 17 or 18 that are mature. So those 17 or 18 are the ones that we will freeze and the other two that the immature, we wouldn’t be able to freeze.
How many eggs are able to be retrieved? It depends upon the ovarian reserve of the person who’s undergoing the freezing. So for example, we don’t want to make too many eggs because if you make too many eggs, many times those eggs are unhealthy. And you have to worry about a condition called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, where if you make too many eggs, that will make you get very bloated and in very rare cases can end up in the hospital. So the average number of eggs that we shoot for is anywhere between 15 to 20. Now, some women will make less someone will make more. But as long as you make a good number in this safe range, that’s fine. The woman who makes few eggs such as you know two or three; those may be enough to help her have a child in the future. But we do have conversations about considering doing the process again to make sure you have a good number of eggs.
And everyone says well what’s a good number of eggs? Most people will say about 15 to 20 eggs now that depends upon your age because a young woman who has good quality eggs may only need six to eight eggs, while a woman who’s in her early 40s may need 20 eggs. So it’s all about what is your goal for the future. When you look into the future, how many children do you see? If you say I just want to have a chance to have one baby; then 15 eggs is a good number. If you say I like to have the chance to have two eggs, then you’re gonna need more and young women you may need about 15 and 20. In older women in their 40s, you may need somewhere between 20 to 25 sometimes 30. So it all depends on the quality of your egg reserve, your future goals, and your physician who will be able to help you identify what’s the best number of eggs for you.
Answer from: Ioannis Zervomanolakis, PhD
Answer from: Jessica Subira, M.D. Consultant in Gynecology, Sub-specialist in Reproductive Medicine
The first part as we said before is an ovarian stimulation and that usually takes around between 10 and 12 days. You will be injecting yourself every day with gonadotropins which are artificial forms of the natural hormones. Then what we will be doing is just measuring and bringing you back to the unit for several scans to check how the eggs are growing inside the follicles. Once they reach the perfect diameter then you will be given what we call a trigger injection to trigger the maturation of the oocyte and we will do the egg retrieval.
The egg retrieval itself it’s a very simple procedure. It’s a surgical technique and then it’s like a normal scan but with heavy sedation where with a needle attached to the prob of the scan so we can aspirate the fluid and then get the eggs. During this time you can have use normal life and then there is very very little limitations so very few limitations so in that would be the process of egg freezing
Answer from: Bárbara Silvera Gijón, Embriologist
First we do ovarian reserve testing, blood tests to check your hormones, there is one hormone called Anti Mullerian Hormone which gives us approximately what your long-term reserve is like, also we do an ultrasound to see the follicles the patient has at the beginning of the period. Once everything is ok to continue with the procedure which is not long it takes about 10-12 days depending on the response, injectable hormone medications are given for females when they are safe to give. The retrieval surgery takes place about 36 hours after the injection of trigger shot, which signals the follicles to prepare to ovulate, the procedure, the egg retrieval is done under sedation, a catheter is put through the upper part of the vagina and into the ovary to collect the eggs. The procedure itself takes about 20 minutes, and the patient’s recovery is about another 30-40 minutes.
At that moment is when we really know how many oocytes are extracted exactly and on that same day the patient is told how many have been vitrified, since they have to be accumulated to see how many of these oocytes are mature, only the mature can be frozen, and also they have to be morphologically normal, after this we proceed to the vitrification of these eggs. So for example if we have a patient that has 15 eggs there may be 12 mature so those would be vitrified.
Answer from: Alicia Tio Castro
Typically when a woman wants to preserve her fertility she needs to visit a fertility specialist, so they can talk with them, explain the process and what they can expect from the treatment. The process itself is very easy and takes less than a month. Treatment starts with the first day of the cycle, the woman starts taking medication to stimulate the ovaries to produce enough eggs. This takes around 10-12 days, the medication is usually by injection and on day 12, the egg retrieval happens. This procedure takes around 10 -15 minutes and it is not painful because it is done under sedation. After the egg retrieval, eggs will go to the lab, they choose the good (matured) eggs to freeze and the process ends. The process is easy for the patient, it is not painful. There might be some level of discomfort but after the egg retrieval, they can take nolotil or any other anti-inflammatory drugs.
Fertility preservation for men is not painful at all, they only need a few samples by masturbation, so they don’t need medication.
Egg freezing - the process and timeline
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PIKE (PI 3-kinase Enhancer) is a brain specific GTPase that enhances PI 3-kinase (PI3K) activity. PIKE binds and stimulates PI3K activity in a GTP-dependent manner. PLC-g1 activates PIKE by acting as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF). In hippocampal neurons, activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRIs) stimulates formation of an mGluRI-Homer-PIKE-L complex, leading to activation of PI3K and prevention of neuronal apoptosis. Our preliminary studies show that netrin-1 induces interaction of UNC5B, a netrin receptor, with PIKE-L, which triggers activation of PI3K signaling, and prevents UNC5B's pro-apoptotic activity and enhances neuronal survival. The association between PIKE and UNC5B is mediated by netrin-activated Fyn tyrosine kinase. In alignment with this observation, PIKE deficient mice are vulnerable to neuroexcitotoxicity or stroke-provoked neuronal apoptosis. Moreover, we found that Akt feeds back and phosphorylates PIKE-L. However, the biological significance of this event remains elusive. We hypothesize that PIKE is critical for NGF-provoked neuronal survival, netrin-mediated neuronal survival and netrin receptor dimerization. The objective of this proposed research is to determine the physiological functions of GTPase PIKE (PI 3-Kinase Enhancer) in various cellular processes including NGF-mediated neuronal survival and netrin-1 signaling using PIKE knockout mice. Characterization of the molecular mechanisms by PIKE in the cell death machinery in neurons not only leads to a better understanding of nervous system development but also promises to provide multiple points of therapeutic intervention for neurodegenerative diseases.
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Nuclear GTPase PIKE Regulation and Functions Project Narrative PIKE (PI 3-Kinase Enhancer) is critical for mediating cell survival through PI 3-kinase/Akt signaling pathway. NGF treatment activates PI 3-kinase partially through PIKE GTPase in primary neurons. Recently, we found that netrin-1 induces interaction of UNC5B, a netrin receptor, with PIKE-L, which triggers activation of PI3K signaling, and prevents UNC5B's pro-apoptotic activity and enhances neuronal survival. The association between UNC5B and PIKE-L is regulated by Fyn-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation on both UNC5B and PIKE-L. Moreover, PIKE deficient mice are vulnerable to neuroexcitotoxicity or stroke-provoked neuronal apoptosis. In addition, we found that Akt feeds back and phosphorylates PIKE. However, the biological significance of this event remains elusive. We hypothesize that PIKE is critical for NGF-provoked neuronal survival and netrin-mediated neuronal signalings. In the current proposal, we will examine these hypotheses. Successful accomplishment of the proposed projects not only leads to a better understanding of nervous system development but also promises to provide multiple points of therapeutic intervention for neurodegenerative diseases. |
This just in! :eek1 Older Motorcyclists May Be At Greater Risk Of Injury 2/7/2013 11:25 AM ET Older motorcyclists may be prone to more serious injuries than younger ones, says a new study from researchers at Brown University. According to the study, those who begin motorcycling later in life, or return to it, are more likely to endure more significant injuries if they crash. For the study, the research team reviewed data collected from over 1.5 million motorcycle accidents. They found that cyclists over the age of 60 were over 2.5 times more likely to end up in an emergency room with significant injuries than riders in their 20s and 30s. "There are always some risks involved with motorcycles. But there may be some physical factors that make older riders more prone to being in an accident, or more prone to injury," says lead author Tracy Jackson. Researchers add: "The greater severity of injuries among older adults may be due to the physiological changes that occur as the body ages. Bone strength decreases, subcutaneous and visceral fat distribution may change, and there is a decrease in the elasticity of the chest wall. . . . Other factors such as delayed reaction time, altered balance and worsening vision may also make older adults more prone to getting into crashes." by RTT Staff Writer The best part is the photo they used... no helmet standing on one peg with a foot in the air Somebody actually got paid to put this shit together? |
I prefer both, raw and cooked.
Raw is very good because you can enjoy all the vitamins and elements fruits and vegetables have to offer. We have a garden and grow our own fruits and vegetables. There's nothing better then to go out and pick some fruits for a snack or breakfast. Homegrown, organic fruits and vegetables are the best. I try to eat as much raw fruits and vegetables as I can, and not to destroy vitamins by cooking. Fruits and vegetable salads are excellent during the summer and not only.
However, i prefer cooked food as well because that's how I was raised and I got used to it. Cooking vegetables doesn't mean you have to cook them till you destroy all the nutrients. If you can eat them raw, that means they don't have to be like mashed potato when cooked.
We do a lot of canned products to have during the winter. I've been learning over the years and trying to find the best solution to preserve as much nutrients as I can. Some vegetables like zucchini, spinach, salt, nettle are better kept frozen and some of the fruits like raspberry.
I'm making a lot of jams, fruit jellies and compote as well, these are excellent during the winter and when it comes to baking. What you can get at the supermarket has less then 50% fruits. Mine is 100% natural and organic. This year we had the opportunity to go foraging, which is pretty new to me but it's fun. A friend of ours has a land full of plum trees. It's taken care of God only, no human care or pollution is there. It's far away from any contamination. He doesn't care about it, we do, so we gather as many plums as we can and I'm making jams. It's great as gift as well, homemade is always appreciated and not many people can afford it.
Health is the most important thing you have and eating healthy you can stay healthy. It's better to get vitamins and nutrients from the source directly then take supplements. It's easier to go out or order something but you never know what you get. Processed food is not healthy, we all know that. It's better to make your own.
Note: All the photographs are mine.
I prefer both and in the breakfast I generally take raw sprouts, almonds and juice and in the mid-day meal I generally take cooked food but prefer healthy and organic food and that to home-made as far as possible.
In my opinion it is little difficult to purely rely on raw food on a daily and continuous basis. Therefore I always want to mix it a little bit, like sometimes I take raw, sometimes boiled food and sometimes delicious cooked food but all are vegetarian food and healthy food too.
Raw food lately is gaining popularity and people are restoring to it with a fashionable trend and once the trends fades away people will choose something else. Therefore I think it is better to choose the food depending upon the availability in your locality and how best you can mange it both health wise and taste wise. Some people think we should not go for taste and very few people know that even boiled food can also be made tasty and even cooked food can also be tasty as well healthy, you must know that art and should not make it fashionable trend.
Whatever be the case, health is one of the most important priority of human life now a days and keeping that in mind, natural, healthy and organic food is always preferable.
Thank you and Have a great day.
Cooked food! Its a no brainer for me. Uncooked food is a definite no! Most people would argue that all raw-food diets are the best way to be completely healthy but it also has its side effects and an upside to eating cooked food.
The body requires the food to be digestable in order for it to be readily absorbed and the nutrients spread though the body. A strict raw food diet is difficult to follow in the long run. Also there are enzymes and microorganisms within these raw foods that can only be eliminated by cooking. Persistence not to coom and continuous consumption of these raw foods can lead to illnesses.
Opponents to cooked food argue that important enzymes are lost in the cooking process which leads to harder breakdown of the food. Enzymes help in the breakdown of food for quick absorption of nutrients.
They argue that with the loss of the enzymes to the cooking of the food, the body will require more enzymes to break down the food. Scientists are yet to prove this notion. Instead it is scientifically known that enzymes help in the growth of plants and not in help humans digest them.
Cooking food makes it easier to chew and digest as chewing is the first step in the digestive process. When we chew, we break down large pieces of food into smaller ones so that the body can digest it easily. Not chewing properly leads to improper digestion and harder absorption of the nutrients and also, raw foods a considerablly without a doubt harder to chew than cooked food.
Cooking food breaks down the fibre and plant cell walls to aid in proper digestion and also changes the general aroma of foods which make them favourable to eat.
I choose a salad for me because salad can fulfill your healthy nutrition that is most important in the balanced diet. I personaly would love to eat a lot of salad in the regular routine of life even in the morning time. The salad would be a great option for me to stay healthy.
Beside this, I prefer to eat veggies because the vegetable is all about the natural healthy nutrition that also very important in your diet. So I always prefer to eat veggie rather then non vegg. A well-balanced diet can improve your health condition. We never compromise on our health because health is wealth. So we should maintain our healthy diet.
I love to eat healthy food which is full of nutrition and protein. Sometimes I prefer to eat fruit because the fruit is also a great option to eat. Fruits are full of healthy patients and calories. First I prefer to eat the apple because Apple is one of the main fruit that you should eat daily. So I eat daily because I know If I want to stay healthy then this would be perfect in my diet. One Apple a Day, no Doctor.
For other meat and side dishes, I choose to cook it first.
As for vegetables (whatever), I chose to eat them raw because the nutrients they contain will not disappear. This is very good for our health. |
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Mild-mannered basketball junkie, a 64-year-old who talks in hushed tones, says he is focused on improving the WNBA team rather than what his future might be.
Gary Kloppenburg isn’t the loudest voice in the gym. Quite the opposite, in fact.
The mild-mannered basketball junkie talks in hushed tones, and sometimes you have to lean in close to hear the Storm’s new interim coach speak.
But if his first go-round as a WNBA head coach taught him anything, it’s the importance of making sure he is heard.
DAY HERE
“The biggest lesson I learned coaching in Tulsa is just to really be hands on and make sure you’re always communicating with your players and not letting anything slide,” said Kloppenburg, who compiled a 20-48 record during two years (2012-13) with the Shock.
“Pro players really respond to that,” he said. “They expect you to be honest and tell them straight and then follow up with it. Try to create a positive atmosphere.”
For most of his 14-year WNBA career, the 64-year-old Kloppenburg had been an assistant in Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Indiana.
He got his big break in 2012 and inherited a 3-31 team in Tulsa. The win totals improved each season, but he was released in 2013 after an 11-23 season.
“I’m not sure why they let us go,” Kloppenburg said. “We felt like that next year we could have made another huge jump. We had a good group of young core players with (Skylar Diggins-Smith) and Glory Johnson. It was kind of disappointing, but I understood.
“It’s the pro game. You’re at the whim of what owners’ expectations are, and I think they felt we should have been better that year.”
To wit, an inability to meet expectations is the biggest reason why the Storm fired Jenny Boucek last week and promoted Kloppenburg, who joined the team in January as an assistant.
Despite title-contending aspirations entering the season, Seattle has fallen into an eighth-place tie with Chicago at 11-16 for the last playoff spot with seven games remaining.
It was the first time the 18-year-old franchise made a coaching change during the season, and the shock waves are still reverberating.
Gary Kloppenburg file
Age: 64
Hometown: San Diego
College: UC San Diego
Previous WNBA head- coaching stint: 20-48 (.294) during two seasons (2012-13) with the Tulsa Shock.
Famous father: Dad Bob Kloppenburg is a former interim coach of the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers. He’s regarded as a defensive guru and the innovator of an aggressive defensive scheme that was used in Seattle, Denver and Toronto, where he served as an assistant.
“We all love Jenny,” fifth-year veteran forward Alysha Clark said.
“We think she’s an amazing person. She’s a passionate coach. It’s going to take a hit on a personal level, but at the same time we don’t have time to sit around and not get on with the season. As hard as it is, it’s the realization of our business and we still have a job to do as players.”
Second-year forward Breanna Stewart added: “We didn’t have a lot of time to think about it. It happened on a Thursday. We practiced Friday and we played Saturday. It’s been like boom, boom, boom. And that’s probably better, so we don’t think about it as much.”
With less than three weeks remaining in the regular season, Kloppenburg admits there’s not enough time to make significant alterations in philosophies or schemes.
Still, he’ll try and implement the disruptive defensive principles he learned from his father, Bob, a reputed basketball guru and longtime NBA assistant who spent 11 seasons (1985-96) with the Seattle Sonics.
“Klop is not someone who is going to be yelling all over the place and that type of stuff,” Stewart said. “But he knows what he’s doing. His defense, that’s his specialty. He’s been around the game for a long time, and he has a knack for what’s going on.”
The Storm delivered its new coach an impressive 98-89 victory last week at Phoenix, which snapped a four-game losing streak. Seattle hosts WNBA-leading Minnesota (21-4) at 7 p.m. Wednesday at KeyArena.
Beyond this season, Kloppenburg is unsure if he’ll remain with the Storm.
“I honestly don’t know,” he.” |
This invention relates to methods for improving surface mechanical properties such as hardness and wear resistance of materials incorporating partially stabilized zirconia.
Partially stabilized zirconia ("PSZ") is a ceramic with unusual properties that make it attractive for a number of commercial applications. The review article "An Introduction to Zirconia" by Dr. R. Stevens (Magnesium Elektron, Ltd., Publication No. 113, June, 1983) provides an overview of PSZ and its properties.
Briefly, zirconia exhibits three well-defined crystalline phases or lattice modifications: the monoclinic, tetragonal, and cubic phases. The monoclinic phase is stable up to about 1170.degree. C., at which point it transforms to the tetragonal phase. The tetragonal phase is stable up to 2370.degree. C., at which point it transforms to the cubic phase. The cubic phase is stable up to 2680.degree. C., the melting point. The monoclinic phase has a lower density than either the tetragonal or cubic phase, and the transition from the tetragonal to the cubic phase results in a volume increase of three to nine percent. As explained below, this volume expansion has been used to improve the mechanical properties of zirconia.
PSZ is obtained by mixing zirconium dioxide with a stabilizing additives such as MgO, CaO, Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, or other rare metal oxides, which increase the stability of the cubic phase at room temperature. PSZ is usually made up of two or more intimately mixed phases, and can include a mixture of all three phases.
Several approaches to toughening PSZ are described at Section 5 of the above-identified Stephens article, including stress induced transformation toughening (Sections 5.2 and 5.3). In this approach, particles of metastable tetragonal phase PSZ are introduced into a ceramic body, either during initial fabrication or by heat treatment during or after sintering. Surface grinding is then used to create stresses in a surface layer, which cause the tetragonal phase particles to transform to the monoclinic phase. This transformation generates large compressive surface layer stresses which increase the toughness and strength of the surface layer. In many applications, such surface grinding can bring disadvantages, because it alters the exterior dimensions of the article being processed. For this reason, molding techniques cannot be used to form articles to finished dimensions when surface grinding is required to obtain desired surface mechanical properties of the article. Also, surface grinding is not suitable for all potentially useful surface contours.
A second approach is to anneal or age PSZ at elevated temperatures in order to obtain a desired crystalline structure. Garvie U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,067,745, 4,279,655, and 3,620,781, disclose a number of such aging processes, in which PSZ is aged at elevated temperatures for time periods ranging between 0.5 hour and 40 hours. Similarly, Yamada U.S. Pat. No. 4,344,904 discloses a process in which PSZ is annealed at an elevated temperature for 1-3 hours. Claussen U.S. Pat. No. 4,525,464 discloses a process in which PSZ is annealed for two hours to eliminate the monoclinic phase in a surface layer.
The processes described in these patents are directed to bulk heating steps in which heating is not limited to a surface region. Furthermore, the object of the Garvie and Yamada processes is to alter the crystalline form of the bulk of the article. The Claussen process attempts to eliminate the monoclinic phase in the surface layer. In all of these respects, the Garvie, Yamada and Claussen processes differ significantly from the present invention. |
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me. (Remember ♫ The Who?) Do you love a spa experience, too?
One of the things I like to do while travelling is give myself a little gift every now and then. I’ve saved plenty of money from getting free tickets and free hotels, so, why not spoil myself on occasion? Getting a good massage is one of those little luxurious gifts.
My first massage abroad ever, and the best massage in Bangkok, was at Wat Po, the graceful and pretty Buddhist temple made from ceramic pieces, styled like mosaics, on the banks of the Chao Phrya River, that also houses the Wat Po Traditional Massage school. The rubdown was fantastic, and I felt great afterwards, but it was not a luxury spa event, and that was quite okay. Instead, it was outdoors, and surrounded by a sea of another dozen or so people also getting massages, in a friendly, communal atmosphere- and the air was charged with the relaxation we were all enjoying, simultaneously. Different, yes, but a delicious rubdown nonetheless. I highly recommend this as a do not miss Bangkok activity to definitely do. And it was easy to get to; I was staying at the Royal Orchid Sheraton (hotel free with my SPG points), which has a stop for the public river boat taxi ride just in front. A few bahts and a few smooth minutes later, I was there.
My most recent favorite massage in Southeast Asia was at the Novotel in Solo, on the Island of Java, absolutely divine. I arrived jet lagged, got my massage after showering and unpacking, figuring it would be a good way to unwind before going to bed. Naturally I fell sound asleep about half way through, but when I woke up, it was heavenly. I felt that all the soreness and stiffness of my muscles from the long flight had just melted away, and instead, every part of me was relaxing, cooling and healing. The masseuse was wonderful. I would go back in a flash. It was the best massage I had in Indonesia.
One of the strangest massages I ever got, was from a young woman at the Sheraton Suzhou (hotel free with my SPG points) in China who looked like she couldn’t have weighed more then 70 pounds dripping wet, but, wow, she could pack a serious punch in her rubdowns. Each time I was just about to whimper, “you’re hurting me, could we have a little less pressure, please?”, it was as if she read my mind and adjusted accordingly. The rough part was only during the first third of the massage, the last two were as gentle as the breeze. I’m glad I tried it there, but I might think twice about going for it again.
Speaking of breezes, the best massage in Bali was a lovely one I had outdoors, set back from the beach, under a canopy on a bed nestled under trees facing the ocean. This was my treat at the Sheraton Laguna Nusa Dua Resort (hotel free with my SPG points.)
I also really like enjoying a dry sauna in these steamy, hot countries- a good sweat there helps counteract the relentless humidity outside, and I found my favorites at the Regent (first visit to KL) and also at the Imperial (next visits to KL, hotel free with my SPG points), both in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
And one of my all-time favorite spas is the Olympic Korean Day Spa in Los Angeles. There I like to soak for a while in the distinct herbal baths they have (hot and cold), and then have a scrub afterwards. Best part of the scrub is when the fancy-black-lace-bra-and-black-underwear-clad attendants (what a uniform!) rinse you off by gently throwing buckets of warm water at a time all over; it feels so good. Wow! I wish we had that in Boston, but, alas….
It’s definitely fun to have fun, but you have to know how. So says Dr. Seuss, and I believe the man knew what he was talking about.
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This Hotpoint double oven will fit seamlessly within the kitchen, sitting at eye level within a column, providing easy access when lifting large dishes in and out of the oven. With a 74L main oven and a 42L secondary oven there's plenty of cooking space for family meals, large joints of meat and poultry.
The main cavity is a spacious fan oven, distributing heat evenly throughout it is ideal for cooking multiple dishes simultaneously at the same temperature, no matter where you place your dish inside it will be cooked to perfection. The top cavity can be put to use for extra oven space when you're cooking up a feast or use it as a grill for some quick and intensive heat, its perfect for finishing a dish with a golden crispy top. This oven also helps you out with a defrost function to gently thaw frozen food quickly and hygienically, and there's also a slow cook function which is just what you need for tender meat dishes and flavoursome stews.
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- Push button and knob controls with LED display
- Electronic programmable timer for precision cooking
- Easy clean enamel oven interior
- Interior main oven light
- Fits within a kitchen column at eye level
- Double glazed oven doors lock in heat
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Adolfo Odnoposoff
Adolfo Odnoposoff (Buenos Aires, 22 February 1917 – Denton, Texas, 13 March 1992) was an Argentine-born-and-raised cellist of Russian ancestry who performed in concerts for 5 decades in South, Central, and North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Israel, and the former USSR. He had performed as principal cellist in the Israel Philharmonic and many of the important orchestras of Latin America. He had soloed with major orchestras under conductors that include Arturo Toscanini, Erich Kleiber, Fritz Busch, Juan José Castro, Rafael Kubelik, Victor Tevah, Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Carlos Chavez, Paul Kletzki, Luis Ximénez Caballero (es), Willem van Otterloo, Sir John Barbirolli, Eduardo Mata, Antal Doráti, Jorge Sarmientos (es), Erich Kleiber, George Singer (1908–1980), Ricardo del Carmen (1937-2003) , Anshel Brusilow, Pau Casals and Enrique Gimeno. He also performed a Khachaturian work under the direction of Khachaturian. Odnoposoff was tall.
Berthe Odnoposoff, née Huberman
Odnoposoff's wife, Berthe (also spelled Berte and Berta; née Huberman born in Paris) is a widely acclaimed piano virtuoso. Since 1941, when they met in Havana, until his retirement in 1988, she had been his accompanist and chief musical collaborator. In concerts and on recordings, they were often billed as a duo. Composers often inscribed dedications to both Adolfo and Berthe. She is also an influential piano pedagogue. Since 1976 (for years), she has been a member of the faculty at the University of North Texas College of Music. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Degree, a Diploma in piano, and a Diploma in theory and harmony from the Ministry of Education, Havana, Cuba. She not only has mentored aspiring performing artists at the conservatory and collegiate levels, she has developed effective pedagogical approaches for gifted pianists at primary and secondary school ages.
Career
Formal education
Beginning around 1930, Odnoposoff studied with Emanuel Feuermann and Paul Grümmer at the Music High School in Berlin (die Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin, which, as of 2001, has been known as Berlin University of the Arts). 1930 coincided with the coup d'état in Argentina. In 1932, Odnoposoff moved to Paris, entering École Normale de Musique, where, in 1935, he earned a concert and teaching diploma. While there, he studied cello with Diran Alexanian, a colleague of Pablo Casals.
Israel
1936, Odnoposoff, seeking refuge from the Third Reich because he was a Jew, moved to Tel Aviv, where he became a founding member of the Israel Philharmonic for its inaugural 1936–1937 season. He had performed with the orchestra, then called the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, in various roles, including that of principal cellist and soloist. The orchestra was founded by Bronisław Huberman, a cousin once removed of Odnoposoff's future wife, Berthe Huberman.
Peru and Chile
From 1938 to 1941, Odnoposoff was principal cellist with The National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. In 1940, he was a founding member of the Chile Cuarteto de Cuerdas (Chile String Quartet) — with Willie McDermott (violin), Raúl Martínez (viola), Fredy Wang (Alfredo Wang; 1918–2004) (violin), sponsored by The Institute of Musical Extension at the University of Chile. He held that chair until 1944.
Cuba
From 1944 to 1958, he was principal cellist of the Orquesta Filarmónica de La Habana, when, then, was conducted by Erich Kleiber. Alexander Prilutchi (1913–2001) was concertmaster and, from 1945 to 1953, J. Wolfgang Granat (1918–1998) was first violist. Granat went to play viola with the Philadelphia Orchestra for 35 years, until he retired in 1991. In Havana, Odnoposoff had been a member of a trio of Sociedad de Música de Cámara (Chamber Music Society) — with Prilutchi and pianist Paquito Godino (né Francisco Jose Godino; 1919–1996). In January 1959, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries overtook Havana. Within 6 months, Castro became the new president and restructured Cuba as a communist state.
Mexico and Puerto Rico
From 1958 to 1961, Odnoposoff was cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. While in Mexico, he taught at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. From 1964 to 1974, Odnoposoff, at the invitation of Pablo Casals, taught at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. For 10 years, he was head of the Cello Department and served as the right-hand man of Casals, director of the conservatory that he founded. Casals died on October 22, 1973.
United States
During the 1975–1976 academic year, Odnoposoff became a visiting professor at the University of North Texas College of Music following an extensive tour of the Soviet Union — while still holding the post as Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. He and his wife soon became a full-time professors at North Texas. In 1977, his friend, Eduardo Mata became the conductor of the Dallas Symphony. Odnoposoff remained active teaching and concertizing until his retirement in 1988, whereupon North Texas awarded him Professor Emeritus status. His wife, Berthe, is still a professor of music at North Texas.
Legacy in Latin American classical music
Odnoposoff was an influential exponent of Latin classical music, notably works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alberto Ginastera, Blas Galindo Dimas, Rodolfo Halffter. He presented numerous lectures, master classes, and concerts throughout the Western Hemisphere on that theme.
Selected discography
Beethoven, Cello Sonata No. 1, in F Major, Op. 5, RCA Victor (Chile) (1945)
Odnoposoff, cello; Elvira Savi (es) (1920–1913)
The record also includes Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, performed by Rosita Renard
Alberto Ginastera, "Pampeana No. 2" for cello and piano, Op. 21, Victor (Argentina) 68 8047 (78 rpm)
Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano
At The Center, New York: Center For Inter-American Relations, 33- LP (1970);
Side B
Alberto Ginastera, "Pampeana No. 2" for cello and piano, Op. 21
Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano
Recorded on November 21, 1968
Saint-Saëns, "Allegro Appassionata," Op. 43, for cello and piano, Victor 68 8046 (1953)
Granados, "Intermezzo" from the opera Goyescas
Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano
Cuban Contemporary Music, Panart Records (1954);
Odnoposoff, cello, Huberman, pianist,
José Ardévol, "Sonatina For Cello And Piano"
a) "Andantino"
b) "Slow-vivo"
c) "Alegretto"
Amadeo Roldán: Two Popular Songs
a) "Cuban Point"
b) "Vueltabajo Guajira" ("The Babbling Brook")
Aurelio de la Vega, "Legend of Ariel Criollo"
Pedro Menéndez, "Black Canto"
String Orchestra of CMZ Radio, Havana, José Ardévol, conductor
Harold Gramatges, "Serenade For String Orchestra"
a) "Allegretto"
b) "Andante Moderato"
c) "Allegro"
National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba conducted by Jean Constantinesco
Live performance, Auditorium Theatre in 1960
John White, "Elegy"
In Memory of Pablo Casals, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, 33- LP (1974);
Unnamed composition of Pablo Casals
Olga Iglesias, soprano; Emilio Belaval, tenor; Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano, Jesús María Sanromá, piano
In Memory of Pablo Casals, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, 33- LP (1975); ,
"Reverie," for cello and piano, Odnoposoff; cello, Huberman, piano
Recorded 1974–1975 at the Ochoa and Echo Sound Studios, Puerto Rico
Aurelio de la Vega (de), Legend of the Creole Ariel (audiotape) (no date); Hans Moldenhauer Collection, Harvard University, Call No. MS Mus 261, Item 2091
Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano
Includes also Quintet for winds (1959), with the Westwood Woodwind Quintet
Moldenhauer, Hans, collector. The Moldenhauer Archives at Harvard University
Third Music Festival of Caracas, digital files (WAV; 96–kHz, 24 bit)
(works 1–3), (works 4–5), (work 4), (work 5), (work 5)
Live performance, Third Music Festival of Caracas, Venezuela, May 12, 1966
Halffter: "Sonata," Op. 26
a) "Allegro deciso"
b) "Tempo de siciliana"
c) "Rondó: Allegro"
Vega (de): "Legend of Ariel Criollo"
Ginastera, "Pampeana No. 2"
Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano
Sergio Cervetti (es), "Cinco Episodios Para Trio" ("Five Movements For Trio")
Salas, "Trio" Op. 58
José Figueroa, violin; Odnoposoff, cello; Elias López, piano
Héctor Campos Parsi, "Serenade," for string trio, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña ICP MC-4, 33- LP (197?); ,
José Madera, violin; Guillermo Figueroa, viola; Odnoposoff, cello
Seis piezas breves (Six Short Pieces), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña ICP C-8 (197?); ,
Luis Antonio Ramírez (1923–1995): "Sonata Elegiaca," for cello and piano
Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano
Recorded July & August 1971 at the Ochoa Sound Studio
Hector Campos Parsi: "Petroglifos," for violin, cello and piano
José Figueroa, violin; Odnoposoff, cello; Jesús María Sanromá, piano
Recorded in concert at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, October 8, 1967
Adolfo Odnoposoff: Obras De Galindo-Halffter-Ponce-Revueltas-Sandi, Mexico: Musart MCD-3027, Serie SACM (es), 33- LP (1962);
Side A
Galindo: "Sonata"
Ponce: "Tres preludios"
Side B
Halffter: "Sonata," Op. 26
a) "Allegro deciso"
b) "Tempo de siciliana"
c) "Rondó: Allegro"
Revueltas: two selections from "Siete canciones" ("Seven Children's Songs")
a) "Canción de cuna" ("Cradle Song")
b) "Las cinco horas" ("The Five Hours")
Sandi: "Hoja de albúm" ("Sheet album")
Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano
Liner notes by Otto Mayer-Serra
Ginastera, "Rhapsody for Cello and Piano" (last movement) (recording date not known);
Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano
Selected dedicated works
Works dedicated to Adolfo and Berthe Odnoposoff
Cuban composers
Aurelio de la Vega (de) (Cuba): "Legend of Ariel Criollo" (1953);
Premiered by Adolfo and Berthe in Havana in 1954 at a concert of the Sociedad de Conciertos; it was immediately recorded by Panart as an LP that included works by other Cuban composers, such as Amadeo Roldán, Pedro Menéndez, and José Ardévol (see Selected discography above); Vega (de) dedicated the work to the marriage of Odnoposoff and Huberman. The work was published in the Washington, D.C., in 1955 by the Pan American Union
José Ardévol (Cuba): "Sonatina," for cello and piano, Buenos Aires: Ricordi Americana (publisher) (1955);
Mexican composers
Simón Tapia Colman (ca): "Sonata," for cello and piano, Ediciones Mexicanas de Música (publisher) (1961); (2nd reference is a manuscript copy)
Rodolfo Halffter: "Sonata," Op. 26, Peer International (publisher) (1962);
Blas Galindo: "Sonata," Ediciones Mexicanas de Música (publisher) (1962);
Manuel Enríquez: "Sonatina" (manuscript copy) (1962);
Luis Sandi: "Hoja de Album," for cello and piano, Ediciones Mexicanas de Música (publisher) (1963); ,
Luis Sandi: "Sonatina," for cello and piano, Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica (publisher) (1965);
Eduardo Mata: "Sonata" (1966)
Argentine composers
Guillermo Graetzer (de): "Concierto para Cello y Orquesta"
Julio César Brero: "Variaciones sobre un tema italiano";
Floro Ugarte (es): "Elegia"
Antonío Tauriello (es): "Diferencias No. 3"
Puerto Rican composers
Hector Campos Parsi: "Arawak para Cello and Electronic Sounds"
Luis Antonio Ramírez: "Sonata Elegiaca," for cello and piano (1970)
Roberto Sierra: "Dialogo No. 1"
Roberto Sierra: "Salsa on the C String," for cello and piano (1981);
Elsewhere
Paul Csonka (Austria): "Serenata for Cello and Orchestra" (1954);
Roque Cordero (Panama): "Sonata for Violoncello and Piano," Peer International (publisher) (1963) (commissioned by Odnoposoff);
Federico Heinlein (es) (Chile): "Sonatina"
Ninón de Brouwer Lapeiretta (Santo Domingo): "Romanza"
Martin Mailman (United States): "Clastics: Formations for Solo Cello," Op. 61
German Borda (es) (Colombia): "Movimiento de Sonata"
Notable performances
1947: Odnoposoff debuted in New York at Town Hall, January 29, 1947.
1949: Aurelio de la Vega (de): "Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano" (1949), performed in Havana by Odnoposoff, Alexander Prilutchi (violin), and Rafael Morales (1905–1990) (piano). The trio was sponsored by the Sociedad de Música de Cámara (Chamber Music Society)
1957: Odnoposoff, as guest soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile (es), performed Ernest Bloch's Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra, Victor Tevah, conductor
1961: Rodolfo Halffter's "Cello Sonata," Op. 26, was composed between 1959 and 1960 for the second Inter-American Festival, held in Washington in 1961. The composer dedicated it to Adolfo Odnoposoff and his wife, Berthe Huberman. Odnoposoff performed the premiere with Mexican pianist and composer Alicia Urreta on 26 April 1961 in the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium;
1963–1964 season, Brahms's "Double Concerto," Endre Wolf, violin, and Adolfo Odnoposoff, cello, Palestine Symphony Orchestra, George Singer conducting
March 1966: Mario Davidovsky's "Synchronisms No. 3" (1964), for cello and electronic sound, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1966: Rházes Hernández-López, "Tres Espacios Para Trio," Third Music Festival of Caracas, Venezuela, performed by Jose Figueroa (violin), Odnoposoff, Héctor Tosar (es) (piano)
1988: Wigmore Hall, London, March 19, at 7:30, Odnoposoff, cello, with Aldo Ciccolini
"Fantasia for Cello and Piano" – Gerard Schurmann (fr)
(other works were performed by Ciccolini)
"Fantasia" was composed in 1967 and premiered March 1967 by Odnoposoff and Ciccolini at the Salle Pleyel, Paris – Odnoposoff and Ciccolini also performed the work at Lincoln Center, Manhattan
Notable music festivals
January 19–31, 1959, Xalapa, Mexico — Pablo Casals Music Festival; and the Segundo Concurso Internacional de Violonchelo (Second International Cello Competition)
Judges' panel: Blas Galindo, Pablo Casals, Gaspar Cassadó, Adolfo Odnoposoff, Maurice Eisenberg (1900–1972), Rubén Montiel Viveros (1892–1985), André Navarra, Zara Nelsova, Mstislav Rostropovich, Miloš Sádlo, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
1952, Venice Biennale — International Festival of Contemporary Music, La Fenice
Caesar Brero, "Concertino," for cello and small orchestra
Odnoposoff, cello; Rome Symphony Orchestra of Italian Radio, Fernando Previtali, conductor
1961, Jerusalem — Inaugural Israel Music Festival (beginning August 18), followed by the Third International Cello Competition (beginning August 23)
Judges (selected by Pablo Casals) included: Maurice Eisenberg (1900–1972), Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Zara Nelsova, Adolfo Odnoposoff, Marta Casals
November 1976: Concurso Internacional de Violonchelo (International Cello Competition), commemorating the 100th birthday of Pablo Casals, Odnoposoff was an adjudicator and performer during the final night.
Instrument
Odnoposoff owned and performed on a compound Amati cello, circa 1680.
Notable former students
Christopher Adkins (born 1959), principal cellist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (1987–present); former principal cellist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Landa (born 1924), cellist, composer, studied with Odnoposoff in Havana, Cuba
Deborah Petty Brooks (born 1955), Associate Principal Cellist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (1985-1999) and solo cellist of Casa Mañana Musicals (1981-present) and Dallas Summer Musicals (1998-present).
Musical family
Adolfo was one of three children born in Buenos Aires to the marriage of Mauricio (altnernate spelling: Moisés) Odnoposoff and Juana (née Veinstien; alternate spelling Weinstien).
Alolfo's brother, Ricardo Odnoposoff (de) (1914–2004), was the former concertmaster of Vienna Philharmonic.
Adolfo's sister, Nélida Odnoposoff (born 1919), was a critically acclaimed Argentine concert pianist whose European debut was in 1935 in Berlin. Growing up in Buenos Aires, she had been a protégée of the Argentine pianist Edmundo Piazzini (es), and in Berlin, she studied with Hansi Freudberg. Nélida concertized until the late 1950s. During the early 1940s, was associated with the Opera and Ballet of Montevideo and had soloed with important orchestras of Latin America.
Mauricio Odnoposoff had emigrated from Russia to Argentina with his father. When Ricardo, Adolfo, and Nélida were studying music in Germany, Mauricio and Juana Odnoposoff moved to Germany.
Adolfo met his wife, Berthe (né Huberman; born in Paris) in Cuba in 1941, when he was principal cellist with the Havana Symphony. Berthe was a young aspiring concert pianist. She is a first cousin once removed of the violinist Bronislaw Huberman and also the sister-in-law of Mexican poet Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, PhD.
Adolfo, his wife, and his brother performed their final concert together in May 1987— and billed it as a farewell — playing Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra of Guatemala under the direction of Ricardo del Carmen.
Adolfo Odnoposoff maintained his Argentine citizenship; although, in 1977 Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe made him an honorary citizen of the State of Texas, and presented him a commemorative plaque.
The surname, Odnoposoff, has various spellings (typically "z" instead of "s" and "v" instead of "ff"). But under this particular spelling, the name faces extinction in the Western Hemisphere. Of the two males born to Mauricio and Juana Odnoposoff, (i) Ricardo Odnoposoff (de) and his wife Hilde had one daughter, Henriette Helene Odnoposoff, who, in 1978, married David Mark Hume (born 1952); (ii) Adolfo and Berthe had one daughter, Alina M. Odnoposoff (born 1954), who married Mark J. Heller (born 1954).
External links
Conciertos Daniel, an artist management agency, managed the concert tours of Adolfo Odnoposoff. Primarily a family business, three generations of family members managed Odnoposoff.
Adolfo Odnoposoff photo at the Conciertos Daniel website
Berthe Odnoposoff's bio at the University of North Texas
Audio sample: Amadeo Roldan (1900–1939), "Punto cubano," Odnoposoff, cello; Huberman, piano
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abstract: 'Just as the Jacobi identity of vector fields is a natural consequence of the general Jacobi identity of microcubes in synthetic differential geometry, it is to be shown in this paper that the graded Jacobi identity of the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket is also a natural consequence of the general Jacobi identity of microcubes.'
author:
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Hirokazu Nishimura\
Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba\
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8571\
Japan
title: 'The Frölicher-Nijenhuis Calculus in Synthetic Differential Geometry'
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Introduction
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It has long been known that the totality of vector fields on a well-behaved space forms a Lie algebra. Since vector fields and their corresponding derivations can not be identified in synthetic differential geometry, it is by no means direct to establish this fact synthetically. It was Nishimura [@n1] that noted, behind the Jacobi identity of vector fields, what is to be called the general Jacobi identity of microcubes.
The Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket, discussed in [@fn] and [@n0], is a natural extension of the Lie bracket of vector fields to tangent-vector-valued differential forms. The principal objective in this paper is to derive the graded Jacobi identity for the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket from the general Jacobi identity synthetically. The interior derivation and the Lie derivation are discussed in passing.
Preliminaries
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We assume that the reader is familiar with Lavendhomme’s textbook [@l1] on synthetic differential geometry up to Chapter 5. We denote by $D$ the subset of $\mathbb{R}$ (the extended set of real numbers satisfying the Kock-Lawvere axiom) consisting of elements $d$ of $\mathbb{R}$ with $d^{2}=0$. Given a function $F:D\rightarrow\mathbf{E}$ of $D$ into a Euclidean space $\mathbf{E}$, we write $\mathbf{D}F$ for the entity of $\mathbf{E}$ characterized by $$F(d)=F(0)+d\mathbf{D}F$$ for any $d\in D$.
Given a microlinear space $M$, we denote $M^{D}$ by $\mathbf{T}M$. The notion of strong difference $\overset{\cdot}{-}$ was introduced by Kock and Lavendhomme [@kl] into synthetic differential geometry. The following proposition belongs to the folklore.
For any function $f:M\rightarrow N$ of microlinear spaces and any $\gamma
_{1},\gamma_{2}\in M^{D^{2}}$ with $\gamma_{1}\mid_{D(2)}=\gamma_{2}\mid_{D(2)}$, we have $$f\circ\gamma_{1}\overset{\cdot}{-}f\circ\gamma_{2}=f\circ\left( \gamma
_{1}\overset{\cdot}{-}\gamma_{2}\right)$$
The notion of strong difference $\overset{\cdot}{-}$ can be relativized. Since $M^{D^{3}}=(M^{D})^{D^{2}}$, microcubes on $M$ can be viewed as microsquares on $M^{D}$. According to which $D$ in the right-hand side of $D^{3}=D\times
D\times D$ appears as the superscript just over $M$, we get the three relativized strong differences $\underset{i}{\overset{\cdot}{-}}$ $(i=1,2,3)$, for which we have the following general Jacobi identity.
Let $\gamma_{123},\gamma_{132},\gamma_{213},\gamma_{231},\gamma_{312},\gamma_{321}\in M^{D^{3}}$. As long as the following three expressions are well defined, they sum up only to vanish: $$\begin{aligned}
& (\gamma_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{1}{-}}\gamma_{132})\overset{\cdot
}{-}(\gamma_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{1}{-}}\gamma_{321})\\
& (\gamma_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\gamma_{213})\overset{\cdot
}{-}(\gamma_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\gamma_{132})\\
& (\gamma_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\gamma_{321})\overset{\cdot
}{-}(\gamma_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\gamma_{213})\end{aligned}$$
The theorem was established by Nishimura [@n1] and has been reproved twice by himself in [@n2] and [@n3].
We use the notion of *linear connection* in the sense of Definition 1 in §§5.1 of Lavendhomme [@l1]. Given a linear connection $\nabla$ on a microlinear space $M$ and a linear connection $\nabla^{\prime}$ on a microlinear space $N$ with a function $f:M\rightarrow N$, we say that $\nabla^{\prime}$ *is* $f$*-related to* $\nabla$ provided that $$f\circ\nabla(t_{1},t_{2})=\nabla^{\prime}(f\circ t_{1},f\circ t_{2})$$ for any $t_{1},t_{2}\in\mathbf{T}M$ with $t_{1}(0)=t_{2}(0)$. We will often write $\nabla\gamma$ for $\nabla(t_{1},t_{2})$, where $t_{1}=\gamma(\cdot,0)$ and $t_{2}=\gamma(0,\cdot)$.
We write $\mathbb{S}_{n}$ for the permutation group of the first $n$ natural numbers, namely, $1,...,n$. Given $\gamma\in M^{D^{n}}$ and $\sigma
\in\mathbb{S}_{n}$, we define $\gamma^{\sigma}\in M^{D^{n}}$ to be $$\gamma^{\sigma}(d_{1},...,d_{n})=\gamma(d_{\sigma(1)},...,d_{\sigma(n)})$$ for any $(d_{1},...,d_{n})\in D^{n}$. Given $\gamma\in M^{D^{n}}$, we write $\mathfrak{o}_{n}(\gamma)$ for $\gamma(0,...,0)$.
Tangent-Vector-Valued Differential Forms
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It is well known in synthetic differential geometry that vector fields can be viewed in three different but essentially equivalent ways, namely, as sections of the tangent bundle, as infinitesimal flows and as infinitesimal transformations, for which the reader is referred to §3.2 of Lavendhomme [@l1]. These three viewpoints can easily be extended to tangent-vector-valued differential forms. Let $M$ be a microlinear space. The first orthodox viewpoint is to regard tangent-vector-valued differential $p$-forms on $M$ as mappings $K:M^{D^{p}}\rightarrow M^{D}$ with $\mathfrak{o}_{p}(\gamma)=\mathfrak{o}_{1}(K(\gamma))$ for any $\gamma\in
M^{D^{p}}$ and satisfying the $p$-homogeneity and the alternating property in the sense of Definition 1 in §4.1 of Lavendhomme [@l1]. The second viewpoint goes as follows.
\[2.1\]Tangent-vector-valued differential $p$-forms on $M$ can be identified with mappings $K:D\times M^{D^{p}}\rightarrow M$ pursuant to the following conditions:
1. $K(0,\gamma)=\mathfrak{o}_{p}(\gamma)$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{p}}$.
2. $K(\alpha d,\gamma)=K(d,\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}\gamma)$ for any $d\in
D$, any $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$, any $\gamma\in M^{D^{p}}$ and any natural number $i$ with $1\leq i\leq p$.
3. $K(d,\gamma^{\sigma})=K(\varepsilon_{\sigma}d,\gamma)$ for any $d\in D
$, any $\gamma\in M^{D^{p}}$ and any $\sigma\in\mathbb{S}_{p}$.
This follows from the set-theoretical identity $$(M^{D})^{M^{D^{p}}}=M^{D\times M^{D^{p}}}$$ The details can safely be left to the reader.
Given $\varphi\in M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ and $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$, we define $\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}\varphi\in M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ ($1\leq i\leq p$) to be $$(\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}\varphi)(\gamma)=\varphi(\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot
}\gamma)$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{p}}$. Given $\varphi\in M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ and any $\sigma\in\mathbb{S}_{p}$, we define $\varphi^{\sigma}\in M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ to be $$\varphi^{\sigma}(\gamma)=\varphi(\gamma^{\sigma})$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{p}}$. Given $\varphi\in M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ and $\sigma,\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p}$, it is easy to see that $$\varphi^{\sigma\tau}(\gamma)=\varphi(\gamma^{\sigma\tau})=\varphi
((\gamma^{\sigma})^{\tau})=\varphi^{\tau}(\gamma^{\sigma})=(\varphi^{\tau
})^{\sigma}(\gamma)$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{p}}$, so that $\varphi^{\sigma\tau}=(\varphi^{\tau
})^{\sigma}$. The third viewpoint goes as follows.
\[2.2\]Tangent-vector-valued differential $p$-forms on $M$ can be identified with mappings $K:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ satisfying the following conditions:
1. $K_{0}=\mathfrak{o}_{p}$
2. $\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}K_{d}=K_{\alpha d}$ for any $d\in D$, any $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$ and any natural number $i$ with $1\leq i\leq p$.
3. $(K_{d})^{\sigma}=K_{\varepsilon_{\sigma}d}$ for any $d\in D$ and any $\sigma\in\mathbb{S}_{p}$.
This follows from the set-theoretical identity $$(M^{D})^{M^{D^{p}}}=(M^{M^{D^{p}}})^{D}$$ The details can safely be left to the reader.
We will use the above three viewpoints on tangent-vector-valued differential forms interchangeably, though we prefer the last one to the preceding two. The following lemma, which will be used in the next section, should be obvious.
\[2.3\]For any mappings $K,L:D^{2}\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ with $$\begin{aligned}
K(d,0) & =L(d,0)\\
K(0,d) & =L(0,d)\end{aligned}$$ for any $d\in D$, we have $$\begin{aligned}
\{(d_{1},d_{2}) & \in D^{2}\mapsto L(d_{1},d_{2})^{\sigma}\}\overset{\cdot
}{-}\\
\{(d_{1},d_{2}) & \in D^{2}\mapsto K(d_{1},d_{2})^{\sigma}\}\\
& =d\in D\mapsto((L\overset{\cdot}{-}K)_{d})^{\sigma}$$ for any $\sigma\in\mathbb{S}_{p}$. Similar formulas hold for $\underset
{i}{\overset{\cdot}{-}}$ ($i=1,2,3$).
We will write $\Omega^{k}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ for the totality of tangent-vector-valued differential $k$-forms on $M$. Given $K\in\Omega
^{k}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$, $K^{\prime}\in\Omega^{k}(N;\mathbf{T}N)$ and $f:M\rightarrow N$, we say that $K^{\prime}$ is $f$*-related* to $K$ if we have $$K_{d}^{\prime}(f\circ\gamma)=f(K_{d}(\gamma))$$ for any $d\in D$ and any $\gamma\in M^{D}$.
If we drop the condition of the alternating property while keeping the $k$-homogeneity in the definition of a tangent-vector-valued differential $k$-form on $M$, we get the notion of a tangent-vector-valued differential $k$-semiform on $M$. We denote by $\widehat{\Omega}^{k}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ the totality of tangent-vector-valued differential $k$-semiforms on $M$. Given $K\in\widehat{\Omega}^{k}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$, we define $\mathcal{A}K\in
\Omega^{k}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ to be $$\mathcal{A}K(\gamma)=\sum_{\sigma\in\mathbb{S}_{k}}\varepsilon_{\sigma
}K(\gamma^{\sigma})$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{k}}$, where $\varepsilon_{\sigma}$ is the sign of $\sigma$. We write $\mathcal{A}_{p,q}K$ and $\mathcal{A}_{p,q,r}K$ for $(1/p!q!)\mathcal{A}K$ and $(1/p!q!r!)\mathcal{A}K$ respectively.
Interior Derivations
====================
Given $K\in\Omega^{k+1}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ and $L\in\Omega^{l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$, we define $\widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K}L\in\widehat{\Omega}^{k+l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ to be $$\begin{aligned}
(\widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K}L)(\gamma) & =L\{(e_{1},...,e_{l})\in D^{l}\mapsto
K_{e_{1}}((d_{1},...d_{k+1})\in D^{k+1}\\
& \mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,d_{k+1},e_{2},...,e_{l}))\}\end{aligned}$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{k+l}}$. Obviously we have to verify that
We have $$\widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K}L\in\widehat{\Omega}^{k+l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$$
Let $e$ be an arbitrary element of $D$ with $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$. For $1\leq
i\leq k+1$, we have $$\begin{aligned}
& (\widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K}L)_{e}(\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}\gamma)\\
& =L_{e}\{(e_{1},...,e_{l})\in D^{l}\mapsto\\
K_{e_{1}}((d_{1},...d_{k+1}) & \in D^{k+1}\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,,\alpha
d_{i},...,d_{k+1},e_{2},...,e_{l}))\}\\
& =L_{e}\{(e_{1},...,e_{l})\in D^{l}\mapsto\\
K_{\alpha e_{1}}((d_{1},...d_{k+1}) & \in D^{k+1}\mapsto\gamma
(d_{1},...,,d_{i},...,d_{k+1},e_{2},...,e_{l}))\}\\
& =L_{\alpha e}\{(e_{1},...,e_{l})\in D^{l}\mapsto\\
K_{e_{1}}((d_{1},...d_{k+1}) & \in D^{k+1}\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,,d_{i},...,d_{k+1},e_{2},...,e_{l}))\}\\
& =(\widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K}L)_{\alpha e}(\gamma)\end{aligned}$$ while the case of $k+2\leq i\leq k+l$ can safely be left to the reader.
Given $K\in\Omega^{k+1}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ and $L\in\Omega^{l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$, we define $\mathbf{i}_{K}L\in\Omega^{k+l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ to be $$\mathcal{A}_{k+1,l-1}\left( \widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K}L\right)$$
Let $f:M\rightarrow N$ be a mapping. Let us suppose that $K^{\prime}\in
\Omega^{k+1}(N;\mathbf{T}N)$ is $f$-related to $K\in\Omega^{k+1}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ and that $L^{\prime}\in\Omega^{l}(N;\mathbf{T}N)$ is $f$-related to $L\in\Omega^{l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$. Then $\mathbf{i}_{K^{\prime}}L^{\prime}$ is $f$-related to $\mathbf{i}_{K}L$.
It suffices to show that $\widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K^{\prime}}L^{\prime}$ is $f$-related to $\widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K}L$. Let $d\in D$ and $\gamma\in
M^{D^{k+l}}$. Then we have $$\begin{aligned}
& f((\widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K}L)_{e}(\gamma))\\
& =f[L_{e}\{(e_{1},...,e_{l})\in D^{l}\mapsto\\
K_{e_{1}}((d_{1},...d_{k+1}) & \in D^{k+1}\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,d_{k+1},e_{2},...,e_{l}))\}]\\
& =L_{e}^{\prime}[(e_{1},...,e_{l})\in D^{l}\mapsto\\
f\{K_{e_{1}}((d_{1},...d_{k+1}) & \in D^{k+1}\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,d_{k+1},e_{2},...,e_{l}))\}]\\
& =L_{e}^{\prime}[(e_{1},...,e_{l})\in D^{l}\mapsto K_{d_{1}}^{\prime
}((f\circ\gamma)(\cdot_{1},...,\cdot_{k+1},d_{2},...,d_{l}))\\
K_{e_{1}}\{(d_{1},...d_{k+1}) & \in D^{k+1}\mapsto(f\circ\gamma
)(d_{1},...,d_{k+1},e_{2},...,e_{l})\}]\\
& =(\widehat{\mathbf{i}}_{K^{\prime}}L^{\prime})_{e}(f\circ\gamma)\end{aligned}$$ which completes the proof.
The Frölicher-Nijenhuis Bracket
===============================
Given $\varphi\in M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ and $\psi\in M^{M^{D^{q}}}$, we define $\psi\ast\varphi\in M^{M^{D^{p+q}}}$ to be $$\begin{aligned}
& \psi\ast\varphi(\gamma)\\
& =\psi\{(e_{1},...,e_{q})\in D^{q}\mapsto\\
\varphi((d_{1},...,d_{p}) & \in D^{p}\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,d_{p},e_{1},...,e_{q}))\}\end{aligned}$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{p+q}}$. Given two tangent-vector-valued differential forms $K:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ and $L:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{q}}}$, we define a mapping $L\ast K:D^{2}\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{p+q}}} $ to be $$(L\ast K)(d_{1},d_{2})=L_{d_{2}}\ast K_{d_{1}}$$ for any $(d_{1},d_{2})\in D^{2}$. The following lemma should be obvious.
\[t4.1\]Given two tangent-vector-valued differential forms $K:D\rightarrow
M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ and $L:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{q}}}$ with $\sigma=(
\begin{array}
[c]{cccccc}1 & ... & q & q+1 & ... & p+q\\
p+1 & ... & p+q & 1 & ... & p
\end{array}
)\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q}$, we have
1. $(L\ast K)(d,0)=((K\ast L)(0,d))^{\sigma}$ for any $d\in D$.
2. $(L\ast K)(0,d)=((K\ast L)(d,0))^{\sigma}$ for any $d\in D$.
We continue to use the notation of the above lemma for a while. We denote by $K\widetilde{\ast}L$ the mapping $(d_{1},d_{2})\in D^{2}\mapsto((K\ast
L)(d_{2},d_{1}))^{\sigma}\in M^{M^{D^{p+q}}}$. We are thus entitled by the above lemma to define $\left\lfloor K,L\right\rfloor \in(M^{M^{D^{p+q}}})^{D}$ to be $$L\ast K\overset{\cdot}{-}K\widetilde{\ast}L$$
\[t4.2\]The mapping $\left\lfloor K,L\right\rfloor :D\rightarrow
M^{M^{D^{p+q}}}$ satisfies the following conditions:
1. $\left\lfloor K,L\right\rfloor _{0}=\mathfrak{o}_{p}$
2. $\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}\left\lfloor K,L\right\rfloor _{d}=\left\lfloor K,L\right\rfloor _{\alpha d}$ for any $d\in D$, any $\alpha
\in\mathbb{R}$ and any natural number $i$ with $1\leq i\leq p+q$.
The first condition should be obvious. To see the second condition, we note that
1. $\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}(L\ast K)(d_{1},d_{2})=(L\ast K)(\alpha
d_{1},d_{2})$ and $\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}(K\widetilde{\ast}L)(d_{1},d_{2})=(K\widetilde{\ast}L)(\alpha d_{1},d_{2})$ for any natural number $i$ with $1\leq i\leq p$.
2. $\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}(L\ast K)(d_{1},d_{2})=(L\ast K)(d_{1},\alpha
d_{2})$ and $\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}(K\widetilde{\ast}L)(d_{1},d_{2})=(K\widetilde{\ast}L)(d_{1},\alpha d_{2})$ for any natural number $i$ with $p+1\leq i\leq p+q$.
Therefore the second condition follows by Proposition 5 in §3.4 of Lavendhomme [@l1] from the first property in case of $1\leq i\leq p$ and from the second property in case of $p+1\leq i\leq p+q$.
\[t4.3\]Given three tangent-vector-valued differential forms $K_{1}:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{p}}}$, $K_{2}:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{q}}}$ and $K_{3}:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{r}}}$, we have $$\mathcal{A}_{p,q+r}(\left\lfloor K_{1},\mathcal{A}_{q,r}(\left\lfloor
K_{2},K_{3}\right\rfloor )\right\rfloor )=\mathcal{A}_{p,q,r}(\left\lfloor
K_{1},\left\lfloor K_{2},K_{3}\right\rfloor \right\rfloor )$$
By the same token as in the familiar associativity of wedge products in differential forms.
We are going to define the *Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket* $\left\lceil K,L\right\rceil $ to be $$\left\lceil K,L\right\rceil =\mathcal{A}_{p,q}\mathcal{(}\left\lfloor
K,L\right\rfloor )$$ which is undoubtedly a tangent-vector-valued differential $(p+q)$-form.
\[t4.4\]The following two properties hold for the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket:
1. We have $$\left\lceil K,L\right\rceil =-(-1)^{pq}\left\lceil L,K\right\rceil$$ for any two tangent-vector-valued differential forms $K:D\rightarrow
M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ and $L:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{q}}}$.
2. We have $$\left\lceil K_{1},\left\lceil K_{2},K_{3}\right\rceil \right\rceil
+(-1)^{p(q+r)}\left\lceil K_{2},\left\lceil K_{3},K_{1}\right\rceil
\right\rceil +(-1)^{r(p+q)}\left\lceil K_{3},\left\lceil K_{1},K_{2}\right\rceil \right\rceil =0$$ for any three tangent-vector-valued differential forms $K_{1}:D\rightarrow
M^{M^{D^{p}}}$, $K_{2}:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{q}}}$ and $K_{3}:D\rightarrow
M^{M^{D^{r}}}$.
In order to see the first property, it suffices to note that $$\begin{aligned}
(L\ast K)(d_{1},d_{2})^{\sigma} & =(L\widetilde{\ast}K)(d_{2},d_{1})\\
(K\widetilde{\ast}L)(d_{1},d_{2})^{\sigma} & =(K\ast L)(d_{2},d_{1})\end{aligned}$$ from which it follows Propositions 4 and 6 in §3.4 of Lavendhomme [@l1] and Lemma \[2.3\] that $$\begin{aligned}
& \left\lceil K,L\right\rceil \\
& =\mathcal{A}_{p,q}\mathcal{(}\left\lfloor K,L\right\rfloor )\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q}}\varepsilon_{\tau}\varepsilon_{\sigma}\{d\in D\mapsto((L\ast K\overset{\cdot}{-}K\widetilde
{\ast}L)_{d})^{\tau\sigma}\}\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!}\varepsilon_{\sigma}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q}}\varepsilon_{\tau}[\{(d_{1},d_{2})\in D^{2}\mapsto(L\ast K)(d_{1},d_{2})^{\tau\sigma}\}\overset{\cdot}{-}\\
\{(d_{1},d_{2}) & \in D^{2}\mapsto(K\widetilde{\ast}L)(d_{1},d_{2})^{\tau\sigma}\}]\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!}\varepsilon_{\sigma}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q}}\varepsilon_{\tau}[\{(d_{1},d_{2})\in D^{2}\mapsto((L\ast K)(d_{1},d_{2})^{\sigma})^{\tau}\}\overset{\cdot}{-}\\
\{(d_{1},d_{2}) & \in D^{2}\mapsto((K\widetilde{\ast}L)(d_{1},d_{2})^{\sigma
})^{\tau}\}]\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!}\varepsilon_{\sigma}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q}}\varepsilon_{\tau}[\{(d_{1},d_{2})\in D^{2}\mapsto(L\widetilde{\ast}K)(d_{2},d_{1})^{\tau}\}\overset{\cdot}{-}\\
\{(d_{1},d_{2}) & \in D^{2}\mapsto(K\ast L)(d_{2},d_{1})^{\tau}\}]\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!}\varepsilon_{\sigma}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q}}\varepsilon_{\tau}\{d\in D\mapsto((L\widetilde{\ast}K\overset{\cdot}{-}K\ast
L)_{d})^{\tau}\}\\
& =-\frac{1}{p!q!}\varepsilon_{\sigma}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q}}\varepsilon_{\tau}\{d\in D\mapsto((K\ast L\overset{\cdot}{-}L\widetilde{\ast
}K)_{d})^{\tau}\}\\
& =-\frac{1}{p!q!}\varepsilon_{\sigma}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q}}\varepsilon_{\tau}\{d\in D\mapsto(\left\lfloor L,K\right\rfloor _{d})^{\tau
}\}\\
& =-\varepsilon_{\sigma}\left\lceil L,K\right\rceil\end{aligned}$$ Since it is easy to see that $\varepsilon_{\sigma}=(-1)^{pq}$, the desired first property follows at once. In order to see the second property, we first define six mappings $\varphi_{123},\varphi_{132},\varphi_{213},\varphi
_{231},\varphi_{312},\varphi_{321}:D^{3}\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{p+q+r}}}$ to be $$\begin{aligned}
\varphi_{123} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto(K_{3})_{d_{3}}\ast
(K_{2})_{d_{2}}\ast(K_{1})_{d_{1}}\in M^{M^{D^{p+q+r}}}\\
\varphi_{132} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto((K_{2})_{d_{2}}\ast(K_{3})_{d_{3}}\ast(K_{1})_{d_{1}})^{\sigma_{132}}\in M^{M^{D^{p+q+r}}}\\
\varphi_{213} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto((K_{3})_{d_{3}}\ast(K_{1})_{d_{1}}\ast(K_{2})_{d_{2}})^{\sigma_{213}}\in M^{M^{D^{p+q+r}}}\\
\varphi_{231} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto((K_{1})_{d_{1}}\ast(K_{3})_{d_{3}}\ast(K_{2})_{d_{2}})^{\sigma_{231}}\in M^{M^{D^{p+q+r}}}\\
\varphi_{312} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto((K_{2})_{d_{2}}\ast(K_{1})_{d_{1}}\ast(K_{3})_{d_{3}})^{\sigma_{312}}\in M^{M^{D^{p+q+r}}}\\
\varphi_{321} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto((K_{1})_{d_{1}}\ast(K_{2})_{d_{2}}\ast(K_{3})_{d_{3}})^{\sigma_{321}}\in M^{M^{D^{p+q+r}}}$$ where $$\begin{aligned}
\sigma_{132} & =\left(
\begin{array}
[c]{ccccccccc}1 & ... & p & p+1 & ... & p+r & p+r+1 & ... & p+q+r\\
1 & ... & p & p+q+1 & ... & p+q+r & p+1 & ... & p+q
\end{array}
\right) \\
\sigma_{213} & =\left(
\begin{array}
[c]{ccccccccc}1 & ... & q & q+1 & ... & p+q & p+q+1 & ... & p+q+r\\
p+1 & ... & p+q & 1 & ... & p & p+q+1 & ... & p+q+r
\end{array}
\right) \\
\sigma_{231} & =\left(
\begin{array}
[c]{ccccccccc}1 & ... & q & q+1 & ... & q+r & q+r+1 & ... & p+q+r\\
p+1 & ... & p+q & p+q+1 & ... & p+q+r & 1 & ... & p
\end{array}
\right) \\
\sigma_{312} & =\left(
\begin{array}
[c]{ccccccccc}1 & ... & r & r+1 & ... & p+r & p+r+1 & ... & p+q+r\\
p+q+1 & ... & p+q+r & 1 & ... & p & p+1 & ... & p+q
\end{array}
\right) \\
\sigma_{321} & =\left(
\begin{array}
[c]{ccccccccc}1 & ... & r & r+1 & ... & q+r & q+r+1 & ... & p+q+r\\
p+q+1 & ... & p+q+r & p+1 & ... & p+q & 1 & ... & p
\end{array}
\right)\end{aligned}$$ Now we have $$\begin{aligned}
& \left\lceil K_{1},\left\lceil K_{2},K_{3}\right\rceil \right\rceil \\
& =\mathcal{A}_{p,q+r}(\left\lfloor K_{1},\mathcal{A}_{q,r}(\left\lfloor
K_{2},K_{3}\right\rfloor )\right\rfloor )\\
& =\mathcal{A}_{p,q,r}(\left\lfloor K_{1},\left\lfloor K_{2},K_{3}\right\rfloor \right\rfloor )\\
& =\mathcal{A}_{p,q,r}((\varphi_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{1}{-}}\varphi_{132})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{1}{-}}\varphi_{321}))\end{aligned}$$ Let $\rho_{1}\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q+r}$ be $\sigma_{231}$, for which we have $\varepsilon_{\rho_{1}}=(-1)^{p(q+r)}$. Let $\varphi_{231}^{2},\varphi
_{213}^{2},\varphi_{312}^{2},\varphi_{132}^{2}:D^{3}\mapsto M^{M^{D^{p+q+r}}}$ be mapping $$\begin{aligned}
\varphi_{231}^{2} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto\varphi_{231}(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})^{\rho_{1}}\\
\varphi_{213}^{2} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto\varphi_{213}(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})^{\rho_{1}}\\
\varphi_{312}^{2} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto\varphi_{312}(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})^{\rho_{1}}\\
\varphi_{132}^{2} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto\varphi_{132}(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})^{\rho_{1}}$$ Now we have $$\begin{aligned}
& \left\lceil K_{2},\left\lceil K_{3},K_{1}\right\rceil \right\rceil \\
& =\mathcal{A}_{q,r+p}(\left\lfloor K_{2},\mathcal{A}_{r,p}(\left\lfloor
K_{3},K_{1}\right\rfloor )\right\rfloor )\\
& =\mathcal{A}_{q,r,p}(\left\lfloor K_{2},\left\lfloor K_{3},K_{1}\right\rfloor \right\rfloor )\\
& =\mathcal{A}_{q,r,p}((\varphi_{231}^{2}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{213}^{2})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{312}^{2}\overset{\cdot
}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{132}^{2}))\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!r!}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q+r}}\varepsilon_{\tau}\{d\in
D\mapsto(((\varphi_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{213})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi
_{132}))_{d})^{\tau\rho_{1}}\}\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!r!}\varepsilon_{\rho_{1}}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q+r}}\varepsilon_{\tau}\varepsilon_{\rho_{1}}\{d\in D\mapsto(((\varphi
_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{213})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{132}))_{d})^{\tau
\rho_{1}}\}\\
& =\varepsilon_{\rho_{1}}\mathcal{A}_{q,r,p}((\varphi_{231}\overset{\cdot
}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{213})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{312}\overset
{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{132}))\end{aligned}$$ which implies that $$\begin{aligned}
& (-1)^{p(q+r)}\left\lceil K_{2},\left\lceil K_{3},K_{1}\right\rceil
\right\rceil \\
& =\mathcal{A}_{q,r,p}((\varphi_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{213})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{132}))\end{aligned}$$ Let $\rho_{2}\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q+r}$ be $\sigma_{312}$, for which we have $\varepsilon_{\rho_{2}}=(-1)^{r(p+q)}$. Let $\varphi_{312}^{3},\varphi
_{321}^{3},\varphi_{123}^{3},\varphi_{213}^{3}:D^{3}\mapsto M^{M^{D^{p+q+r}}}$ be mappings $$\begin{aligned}
\varphi_{312}^{3} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto\varphi_{312}(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})^{\rho_{2}}\\
\varphi_{321}^{3} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto\varphi_{321}(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})^{\rho_{2}}\\
\varphi_{123}^{3} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto\varphi_{123}(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})^{\rho_{2}}\\
\varphi_{213}^{3} & =(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})\in D^{3}\mapsto\varphi_{213}(d_{1},d_{2},d_{3})^{\rho_{2}}$$ Now we have $$\begin{aligned}
& \left\lceil K_{3},\left\lceil K_{1},K_{2}\right\rceil \right\rceil \\
& =\mathcal{A}_{r,p+q}(\left\lfloor K_{3},\mathcal{A}_{p,q}(\left\lfloor
K_{1},K_{2}\right\rfloor )\right\rfloor )\\
& =\mathcal{A}_{r,p,q}(\left\lfloor K_{3},\left\lfloor K_{1},K_{2}\right\rfloor \right\rfloor )\\
& =\mathcal{A}_{r,p,q}((\varphi_{312}^{3}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{321}^{3})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{123}^{3}\overset{\cdot
}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{213}^{3}))\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!r!}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q+r}}\varepsilon_{\tau}\{d\in
D\mapsto(((\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{321})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi
_{213}))_{d})^{\tau\rho_{2}}\}\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!r!}\varepsilon_{\rho_{2}}\sum_{\tau\in\mathbb{S}_{p+q+r}}\varepsilon_{\tau}\varepsilon_{\rho_{2}}\{d\in D\mapsto(((\varphi
_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{321})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{213}))_{d})^{\tau
\rho_{2}}\}\\
& =\varepsilon_{\rho_{2}}\mathcal{A}_{r,p,q}((\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot
}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{321})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{123}\overset
{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{213}))\end{aligned}$$ which implies that $$\begin{aligned}
& (-1)^{r(p+q)}\left\lceil K_{3},\left\lceil K_{1},K_{2}\right\rceil
\right\rceil \\
& =\mathcal{A}_{r,p,q}((\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{321})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{213}))\end{aligned}$$ Therefore we have $$\begin{aligned}
& \left\lceil K_{1},\left\lceil K_{2},K_{3}\right\rceil \right\rceil
+(-1)^{p(q+r)}\left\lceil K_{2},\left\lceil K_{3},K_{1}\right\rceil
\right\rceil +(-1)^{r(p+q)}\left\lceil K_{3},\left\lceil K_{1},K_{2}\right\rceil \right\rceil \\
& =\mathcal{A}_{p,q,r}((\varphi_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{1}{-}}\varphi_{132})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{1}{-}}\varphi_{321}))+\\
& \mathcal{A}_{q,r,p}((\varphi_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{213})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{132}))+\\
& \mathcal{A}_{r,p,q}((\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{321})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{213}))\\
& =\frac{1}{p!q!r!}\mathcal{A(\{}(\varphi_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset
{1}{-}}\varphi_{132})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{1}{-}}\varphi_{321})\}+\{(\varphi_{231}\overset{\cdot}{\underset
{2}{-}}\varphi_{213})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{2}{-}}\varphi_{132})\}\\
& +\{(\varphi_{312}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi_{321})\overset{\cdot}{-}(\varphi_{123}\overset{\cdot}{\underset{3}{-}}\varphi
_{213})\})\\
& =0\text{ \ \ \ [by the general Jacobi identity]}$$
Now we are going to show the naturality of the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket. Let $f:M\rightarrow N$ be a function of microlinear spaces.
\[t4.5\]If tangent-vector-valued differential forms $K^{\prime
}:D\rightarrow N^{N^{D^{p}}}$ and $L^{\prime}:D\rightarrow N^{N^{D^{q}}}$ are $f$-related to tangent-vector-valued differential forms $K:D\rightarrow
M^{M^{D^{p}}}$ and $L:D\rightarrow M^{M^{D^{q}}}$ respectively, then we have $$\begin{aligned}
f\circ\left( (L\ast K)(\gamma)\right) & =(L^{\prime}\ast K^{\prime
})(f\circ\gamma)\\
f\circ\left( (K\widetilde{\ast}L)(\gamma)\right) & =(K^{\prime}\widetilde{\ast}L^{\prime})(f\circ\gamma)\end{aligned}$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{p+q}}$.
For the first identity, we have $$\begin{aligned}
& f\circ\left( (L\ast K)(\gamma)\right) \\
& =f\circ\lbrack(d,d^{\prime})\in D^{2}\mapsto L_{d^{\prime}}\{(e_{1},...,e_{q})\in D^{q}\mapsto\\
K_{d}((d_{1},...,d_{p}) & \in D^{p}\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,d_{p},e_{1},...,e_{q}))\}]\\
& =(d,d^{\prime})\in D^{2}\mapsto f[L_{d^{\prime}}\{(e_{1},...,e_{q})\in
D^{q}\mapsto\\
K_{d}((d_{1},...,d_{p}) & \in D^{p}\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,d_{p},e_{1},...,e_{q}))\}]\\
& =(d,d^{\prime})\in D^{2}\mapsto L_{d^{\prime}}^{\prime}[(e_{1},...,e_{q})\in D^{q}\mapsto\\
f\{K_{d}((d_{1},...,d_{p}) & \in D^{p}\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,d_{p},e_{1},...,e_{q}))\}]\\
& =(d,d^{\prime})\in D^{2}\mapsto L_{d^{\prime}}^{\prime}[(e_{1},...,e_{q})\in D^{q}\mapsto\\
\{K_{d}((d_{1},...,d_{p}) & \in D^{p}\mapsto(f\circ\gamma)(d_{1},...,d_{p},e_{1},...,e_{q}))\}]\\
& =(L^{\prime}\ast K^{\prime})(f\circ\gamma)\end{aligned}$$ The second formula can be established by the same token.
\[t4.6\]Under the same assumption and notation as in the above lemma, $\left\lceil K^{\prime},L^{\prime}\right\rceil $ is $f$-related to $\left\lceil K,L\right\rceil $.
It suffices to show that $\left\lfloor K^{\prime},L^{\prime}\right\rfloor $ is $f$-related to $\left\lfloor K,L\right\rfloor $, which follows from the following calculation: $$\begin{aligned}
& f\circ\left( \left\lfloor K,L\right\rfloor (\gamma)\right) \\
& =f\circ\{(L\ast K)(\gamma)\overset{\cdot}{-}(K\widetilde{\ast}L)(\gamma)\}\\
& =f\circ\left( (L\ast K)(\gamma)\right) \overset{\cdot}{-}f\circ\left(
(K\widetilde{\ast}L)(\gamma)\right) \\
& =(L^{\prime}\ast K^{\prime})(f\circ\gamma)\overset{\cdot}{-}(K^{\prime
}\widetilde{\ast}L^{\prime})(f\circ\gamma)\\
& =\left\lfloor K^{\prime},L^{\prime}\right\rfloor (f\circ\gamma)\end{aligned}$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{p+q}}$.
Lie Derivations
===============
Let $K\in\Omega^{k}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ and $L\in\Omega^{l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$. Let $\nabla$ be a linear connection on $M$. It is easy to see that
We have $$\begin{aligned}
(L\ast K)(d,0) & =\nabla(L\ast K)(d,0)\\
(L\ast K)(0,d) & =\nabla(L\ast K)(0,d)\end{aligned}$$ for any $d\in D$.
Now we define $\widehat{\mathbf{L}}_{K}^{\nabla}L\in\widehat{\Omega}^{k+l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ to be $$\widehat{\mathbf{L}}_{K}^{\nabla}L(\gamma)=(L\ast K)(\gamma)\overset{\cdot}{-}\nabla((L\ast K)(\gamma))$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{k+l}}$. Indeed we have to verify that
We have $$\widehat{\mathbf{L}}_{K}^{\nabla}L(\alpha\underset{i}{\cdot}\gamma
)=\alpha\left( \widehat{\mathbf{L}}_{K}^{\nabla}L(\gamma)\right)$$ for any $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$ and any natural number $i$ with $1\leq i\leq
k+l$.
By the same token as in the proof of Lemma \[t4.2\].
With the above notation, we have $$\begin{gathered}
\widehat{\mathbf{L}}_{K}^{\nabla}L(\gamma)\\
=\mathbf{D[}e\in D\mapsto\mathbf{q}_{(t,e)}[L\{(e_{1},...,e_{l})\in
D^{l}\mapsto K_{e}((d_{1},...d_{k})\in D^{k}\\
\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,d_{k},e_{1},...,e_{l}))\}]]\end{gathered}$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{k+l}}$, where $t\in M^{D}$ is the mapping $d\in
D\mapsto K_{d}((d_{1},...d_{k})\in D^{k}\mapsto\gamma(d_{1},...,d_{k},0,...,0))\in M$.
By Propositions 3 and 7 in §§5.2 of Lavendhomme [@l1].
We define $\mathbf{L}_{K}^{\nabla}L\in\Omega^{k+l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ to be $$\mathbf{L}_{K}^{\nabla}L=\mathcal{A}_{k,l}\left( \widehat{\mathbf{L}}_{K}^{\nabla}L\right)$$
Continuing with the above notation and assuming that the linear connection $\nabla$ is symmetric, we have $$\left\lceil K,L\right\rceil =\mathbf{L}_{K}^{\nabla}L-(-1)^{kl}\mathbf{L}_{L}^{\nabla}K$$
It suffices to show that $$\left\lfloor K,L\right\rfloor =\widehat{\mathbf{L}}_{K}^{\nabla}L-\left(
\widehat{\mathbf{L}}_{L}^{\nabla}K\right) ^{\sigma}$$ with $\sigma=\left(
\begin{array}
[c]{cccccc}1 & ... & k & k+1 & ... & k+l\\
k+1 & ... & k+l & 1 & ... & k
\end{array}
\right) \in\mathbb{S}_{k+l}$, which follows by the same token as in Proposition 3 in §§5.3 of Lavendhomme [@l1].
Finally we are going to establish the naturality of Lie derivations. Let $f:M\rightarrow N$ be a function of microlinear spaces with a linear connection $\nabla^{\prime}$ on $N$ being $f$-related to the linear connection $\nabla$ on $M$.
Let $K^{\prime}\in\Omega^{k}(N;\mathbf{T}N)$ and $L^{\prime}\in\Omega
^{l}(N;\mathbf{T}N)$ be $f$-related to $K\in\Omega^{k}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ and $L\in\Omega^{l}(M;\mathbf{T}M)$ respectively. Then we have $$f\circ\left( \nabla(L\ast K)(\gamma)\right) =\nabla^{\prime}(L^{\prime}\ast
K^{\prime})(f\circ\gamma)$$ for any $\gamma\in M^{D^{k+l}}$.
By the same token as in the proof of Lemma \[t4.5\].
Under the same assumption and notation as in the above lemma, $\mathbf{L}_{K^{\prime}}^{\nabla^{\prime}}L^{\prime}$ is $f$-related to $\mathbf{L}_{K}^{\nabla}L$.
By the same token as in the proof of Proposition \[t4.6\].
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Bond Yields Today – Gold prices hover near 5-month highs as US yields retreat
Spot gold was steady at $1,907.67 per ounce, as of 0042 GMT. On Tuesday, gold prices hit their highest level since Jan. 8 at $1,916.40.
U.S. gold futures were little changed at $1,910.60 per ounce.
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield slipped below 1.60%, reducing the opportunity cost of holding non-interest bearing gold.
The dollar index gave up overnight gains and was trading around 89.913 against its rivals.
Focus shifts to U.S. weekly jobless claims data later in the day followed by monthly jobs numbers on Friday, for further clues on economic recovery and rising inflation.
The U.S. economic recovery accelerated in recent weeks even as a long list of supply chain troubles, hiring difficulties, and rising prices cascaded through the country, Federal Reserve officials said in their latest review of economic conditions.
The European Central Bank will not change the total size of its asset purchase programme at its June 10 meeting but will start tapering its pandemic purchases later this year, according to a Reuters poll which also showed inflation risks to the upside.
SPDR Gold Trust, the world’s largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, said its holdings fell to 1,041.75 tonnes on Wednesday from 1,045.83 tonnes on Tuesday.
Silver edged 0.1% lower to $28.16 per ounce, palladium rose 0.2% to $2,861.65, and platinum gained 0.2% at $1,192.
Bond Yields Today – Gold prices hover near 5-month highs as US yields retreat |
I am determined to try as much as possible to make Christmas more about a season than One Big Day for my boys. My theory is if you spend all your time anticipating the Big Event and not enjoying all the little things that make Christmas special then you are setting yourself up for a let-down.
And yet, in a tremendous case of self-contradiction, we have five, count 'em five countdown gizmos going on.
In the boys' room we have an oldie from my childhood, the DecemBear:
My mom hemmed this up and sewed a little stuffed bear when we were kids. The bear moves around to a different location each day until he "finds" Christmas.
For some reason I do not know, I consider this piece of tradition as belonging to my sister, just on loan to us until her own kiddos are old enough to enjoy it. We've never even discussed it, yet I make sure to take extra care of it for her family. (Hey Kristin.... do you want the DecemBear???)
Also in the boys' room in the paper chain they made earlier this week. Since we have so many activities counting down to December 25th (and since we'll be gone for several days leading up to that day) I am considering calculating the chain the countdown to our trip to see family the week before Christmas. That would also allow more than one boy to tear off a link each day.
Just for fun the boys colored up this freebie printable this week also. We will glue on an ornament a day until we add the star on December 25th:
You can download one too at Printables4Kids.com
We have two new countdowns this year (and one from last year that I left packed away this time... that would have made six!). One is this add-a-cookie-magnet set, a recent gift from Grandma:
And finally, the subtract-some-candy garland.
Looks like it's going to be a busy (and sweet!) month ahead!
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SF police officer who alleged internal racism no longer employed by force
In April, a San Francisco police officer, who asked that his name not be released, said he experienced harassment and racist treatment from fellow officers over the past year. In April, a San Francisco police officer, who asked that his name not be released, said he experienced harassment and racist treatment from fellow officers over the past year. Photo: Evan Sernoffsky / Photo: Evan Sernoffsky / Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close SF police officer who alleged internal racism no longer employed by force 1 / 1 Back to Gallery
A San Francisco police officer who accused the department of anti-Muslim harassment and racism is no longer with the department, a police spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
In April, the officer, who is Muslim and emigrated from Afghanistan, accused his colleagues and superiors of referring to him as a terrorist and subjecting him to offensive jokes, slurs and other “blatant racism” in his first two years with the department.
He began working for the San Francisco Police Department in June 2016 after graduating from San Francisco’s Police Academy. A year later, he completed field training and was assigned to the Central Station.
But in an unusual twist, the officer’s own conduct has come under scrutiny after it was learned that prior to joining the force he previously came to the attention of Napa law enforcement for allegedly impersonating a CIA agent while on a date with a woman, a source confirmed.
Mission Local first reported the Napa police bulletin on Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear why or when the officer left the San Francisco Police Department.
The Napa incident reportedly occurred in 2013, when the officer met a woman through a dating website using the name “Danny Costello.” He told her he was a “high level CIA Agent,” according to a bulletin issued by the Napa Police Department.
The officer reportedly said he was involved in killing Osama Bin Laden in 2011 and the investigation of General David Petraeus, who pleaded guilty in 2015 to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling confidential materials after giving his biographer and mistress access to classified information.
Investigators determined that the man had previously applied to the Sacramento, Santa Cruz and San Francisco police departments.
Last month, at a news conference arranged by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, the officer said he witnessed officers engaging in sexual and racist misconduct toward citizens, such as one colleague calling a black motorist a “monkey.”
The officer additionally alleged that a fellow officer asked him, “Do you know any towel heads?” and another asked if his police earpiece wire was connected to a bomb.
In August, the officer said, someone wrote “tick tick” on his police locker.
Adachi showed a picture of the officer’s Central Station locker, on which someone allegedly wrote the words, “ISIS go back.”
The officer also reported misconduct against citizens including an incident during patrol when an officer told him, “I want to get guns, and the only people who have guns are blacks and Hispanics. The department doesn’t like us to make judgments like that, but if I see a black person behind the wheel of the vehicle, I’ll pull the car over and figure out my probable cause later.”
The San Francisco Police Department issued a statement in April saying they were made aware of the allegations in November 2017 and initiated investigations.
“There are currently three ongoing investigations by SFPD and the City’s Department of Human Resources,” officials said. “SFPD will thoroughly investigate all alleged misconduct uncovered during these investigations which implicates any member of this department.”
Despite his allegations, the officer said at the April press conference that he hoped to continue working for the department for the next 30 years.
Sarah Ravani is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: sravani@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SarRavani |
Q:
Transferring content of block devices
For the purpose of backups, I'd like to transfer (several) whole disk partitions over an ssh link. The source is a block special device and the target should be a regular file. Common tools seem ill-suited for this, though:
scp will complain not a regular file
tar will try to recreate device inodes on the target side
rsync says skipping non-regular file
My best bet currently is nc over a port forwarding, or one cat invocation on the remote side per partition, which means one password entry per partition unless one sets up public keys. Is there a more elegant solution?
Environment would be any reasonable Linux live system. Currently I happen to have a Debian wheezy lying around, but it should not be too specific to that.
A:
You could pipe through SSH. Example using dd:
dd bs=1M if=/dev/disk | ssh -C target dd bs=1M of=disk.img
If the network connection breaks during transfer, you can resume if you know how much was copied. For example if you're sure at least 1000MiB were transferred already (check the file size of disk.img):
dd bs=1M skip=1000 if=/dev/disk | ssh -C target dd bs=1M seek=1000 of=disk.img
dd is just an example, it works just as well with other commands, as long as they work with pipes.
A:
I'd install the buffer program (if it is not already there in your distribution) if you are trying to transfer via an ethernet link. It is like dd but FAR better and faster. Basically it is programmed to do concurrent reads and writes using a shared memory buffer. I used to use this for tape dumps and it saved about 10% transfer time. The command line would be:
buffer -i /dev/disk -m 100m | ssh -C target buffer -o disk.image -m 100m
There are more options available default blocksize is 10K. The above allocates 100MBytes of shared memory, you might have to adjust either this parameter or your configuration to allow this.
WARNING: Transmission of an ACTIVE partition in this manner will be problematic. So make sure that the partition to be transmitted is NOT mounted.
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Amphibia is an American animated series created by Matt Braly for Disney Channel. It premiered on June 17, 2019. The series was announced that it will have 3 parts. The series features the voices of Brenda Song, Justin Felbinger, Bill Farmer, and Amanda Leighton.
The third and final season of Amphibia premiered on October 2, 2021 with the series finale airing on May 14, 2022.
Premise
Season 1
After Anne is peer pressured into stealing a mysterious music box on her 13th birthday, it magically transports her and her two best friends Sasha Waybright and Marcy Wu to the world of Amphibia, a wild marshland tropical island full of anthropomorphic amphibians and threatening creatures, where they are separated (Anne transported to a small swampy forest, Sasha to Toad Tower, and Marcy to Newtopia). Anne, after a month of living in a cave, is taken in by the Plantars, a family of frogs that consists of excitable young Sprig; unpredictable and adventurous baby pollywog Polly; and overprotective and traditional grandfather Hop Pop who live on a farm in the town of Wartwood. As she bonds with her newfound family, Anne gradually learns what it means to be a hero and develop a true friendship, all the while trying to find her friends and return home. The matter is complicated when Sasha allies with Captain Grime, leader of the warfaring toads of Toad Tower, who seek to control their home of Frog Valley.
Season 2
Anne and the Plantars go on a road trip to the Amphibian capital, Newtopia, to learn the secrets of the Calamity Box and find a way to get Anne home. There, Anne reunites with Marcy, who offers to help restore the box's power through a series of ancient trials, unaware that Amphibia's ruler, King Andrias secretly has his own plans for them. Meanwhile, Sasha and Grime plot to invade Newtopia and overthrow the monarch, allowing the toads to rule over all of Amphibia.
Season 3
Anne and the Plantars are transported to Anne's home in the suburbs of East Los Angeles. Anne must now help the frog family adjust to the human world and keep their identities a secret, while searching for a way to return to Amphibia and stop Andrias's invasion on the Multiverse. In Amphibia, Sasha and Grime lead the people of Wartwood in a rebellion against Andrias. However, Andrias begins sending forces to Earth to eliminate Anne, while keeping Marcy in suspended animation inside of a stasis capsule for future plans.
During "Olivia and Yunnan however, Marcy is freed by Lady Olivia and Yunnan but they get caught by Andrias and she is used to contain a hive mind known as the Core and will be referred to as, Darcy. |
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was .
Events
January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
February 14-March 7 - Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer" is the #1 song. It would be 1987's Biggest hit song.
February 22 - The Airbus A320 makes its first flight.
March 7 - The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! are released on Compact disc. Capitol Records decides to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes were available in the US.
March 4 - Ronald Reagan issues a televised address to apologize to the American people about the Iran-Contra affair.
March 27 - Inspired by The Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert, U2 shoots a music video for the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in Los Angeles, California.
June 12 - Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!" at the Brandenburg Gate.
October - electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart.
October 7 - Independence of Khalistan is legally declared from the Hindu Indians
October 12 - Twisted Sister breaks up.
October 19 - Motley Crue release the song "You're All I Need" as a single. Its lyrics cause MTV to refuse to play its video. Radio stations never play the song either.
November 7 - The first MRT section between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh opened.
December 8 - President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty banning all nuclear weapons. |
Thank you all for your super sweet comments on my post last Friday. Don’t worry! I haven’t forgotten to comment on them, I just haven’t had time yet. Patience my friends!
So, this morning I am going to participate in Healthy Diva Eat’s Marvelous in my Monday, which I haven’t done for quite a few weeks (3 to be exact). I’ve really missed them, as they add a little happy dose to an otherwise dreary start to the week.
And without need for other introduction, here is my MIMM post for the first week of February 2013:
Marvelous is…
Kicking butt in MIS. I felt like a speed demon as I typed those IF and Payment formulas into Excel.
The fact that my car started on Friday on the first try, despite me being lazy and not checking the battery during the week.
The right to vote. Before I went home I stopped by the Board of Elections and I voted with an absentee ballot for a local school levy. Here’s hoping for my mom, brother, and high school friends that it passes!
Paleo Recipes. No, I’m not officially “Paleo,” but it is a much more popular following than GAPS, and since they both follow similar principles, typing “Paleo recipes” into Google/Pinterest/Yahoo/Foodgawker delivers much more promising results.
Weekends for making said Paleo recipes. Look out world! WIAW is going to be filled to the brim with delicious real-food eye candy.
My MIS teacher. Do you know what you get when your professor comes to class 10 minutes late and leaves 15 minutes early? That’s right folks— A 25 minute lecture.
Plus add to the fact that this teacher is always sputtering out quotes like a modern day Plato. Everything that comes out of his mouth sounds like pure gold. Take for instance this quote from the other day…
“The certainty of misery is better than the misery of uncertainty.” -Pogo
I have no idea what it has to do with Management Information Systems, but I’ll take it!
Feeling like writing a post ahead of time. Yes, this post was actually written in advanced. Be amazed.
More quotes for Monday that I just saw plastered on the wall outside of my Physics class:
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” Native American Proverb
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” –Michelangelo
It’s like a fortune cookie word-vomited all over the walls. You can’t escape the fumes of inspiration.
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Now tell me:
What is Marvelous about your Monday?
Did you seriously kick butt in anything this past week?
Any inspiring quotes to start off on a good foot?
20 thoughts on “MIMM- No Procrastinating Here”
Sounds like you have had more time on your hands which is always nice, I like going into a week being more organized and prepared. I can’t wait to see these new recipes that emerge!
Yes. I love feeling like I’m prepared when the week starts. Recipes will be coming soon I hope!
Glad you are linking up today love, missed ya!!
I have heard that cookbook is great, hope you enjoy it!
Happy Monday!
Thanks. MIMMs are so much fun! 🙂
I really want to check out the Practical Paleo cookbook. I’ve heard it’s great too.
Love shortened classes! It’s not that I dislike school, but I enjoy the surprise when we get let out early and start late. Happy Monday!
I have the same feelings in regard to shortened classes. I love school, but I’m never one to argue when a teacher let us out early!
mmmm there are so many good paleo recipes
Yes there are 🙂
I am sooooo bad a procrastinating! Loving the quotes though!
Glad you liked them!
I kicked butt at eating yummy food this weekend with my boy and not feeling guilty about any of it! Which is also what made my Monday marvelous 😉 I love all of those quotes you listed…some may consider them cheesy and fortune cookie esque, but I believe they make us think 🙂
That is so awesome. And ya– My Mondays aren’t always the greatest, but marvelous weekends seem to just carry over and make up for it 🙂
Glad you loved the quotes. They really do make us think.
Sounds like your monday is very marvelous indeed! I’ve got a really busy week coming up with work (2 jobs) school, and my student teaching, but I guess one thing that’s so marvelous about it is that I have all of these opportunities!
It was very marvelous.
I hope you are managing your week okay! Sounds like you have a lot to keep you busy. But way to stay positive– Definitely some great opportunities in there!
Word vomit and fumes of inispiration….I love it.
I remember shortened classes and they were pure bliss. I also happen to love excel and doing crazy formulas (I use the If statements all the time!!) so I’m a dork, but that’s ok. I’m cool with it.
I guess I’m a dork too then. I wish I had an excel class in high school. It’s just so darn useful!
Today is Wednesday, which means you will be sharing those recipes 🙂 🙂
Actually… I may have lied 😀 Lol. I was totally planning on posting those recipes today, but then my WIAW took a spin to a whole other direction. Sorry! I’ll definitely be posting them soon though.
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Copywriting
Writing a great sales copy for your product or services will increase the likelihood of it being sold and will generate huge profits! The purpose of copywriting is to entice your potential customers with attention grabbing headlines and descriptions explaining how your products will benefit them. It is similar to creative writing, in a sense that writers have to use creative language to make their products seem attractive. However, they can’t be too descriptive or abstract because they might lose readers’ attention. Unlike creative writing, copywriters need to be more personal. They need to understand their potential customer’s buying behavior, desires, and experiences in order to create a copy that will persuade them to buy their product or use their service.
Graphic Design
If entrepreneurs want to take over social media and grab their potential customer’s eye, they need to learn how to create outstanding visuals. Humans are visual creatures that are more responsive to colorful images and love to take time processing them. For example, social media posts with pictures and videos receive a lot more shares, engagement, and likes than plain text posts. If your business has a blog or website, using stunning photos for pictures, slideshows, and infographics it will increase your viewership, traffic, and comments.
I personally believe that social media is a groundbreaking tool that has changed how businesses communicate with their target market, and it should be taken advantage of. However, social media might not beat the personal and accurately targeted reach of email marketing. Emails give businesses permission to enter the personal space of their subscribers to give them relevant information. These subscribers are also called leads who want to know more about what your business has to offer. If you want to build an email list, offer free digital products (ebooks, whitepapers, or annual industry reports) in exchange for your targeted lead’s email address.
Public Relations
Even though this isn’t a skill, it’s still an underrated asset to every business owner. Entrepreneurs need to learn how to build relationships with the media and journalists for press coverage, and network with bloggers and other businesses to be seen as an industry authority. Public relations allows entrepreneurs’ businesses, products, or the owners themselves to be seen in front of a large audience that they couldn’t obtain simply from blogging or their website. More exposure means more customers, brand awareness, and businesses opportunities.
Psychology or Sociology
These are not necessarily skills, but possessing knowledge on both of these topics can be a very powerful asset to have, if used correctly. Psychology and sociology are different fields of social sciences that explain how humans and society work with each other, objects, and institutions. Entrepreneurs can use these fields to take part in cause marketing, a marketing strategy where for-profit businesses partner with non-profit organizations to bring awareness to social and charitable causes. Also psychology can be used to influence consumer behavior, for example using specific colors in pictures to encourage an emotion or response for customers to perform a certain action. |
This invention relates to powering of kinescopes, and more particularly to focus tracking in the presence of ultor voltage variation.
Video displays, such as are used for television viewing and computer operation, often use kinescopes, picture tubes, or cathode ray tubes (CRTs) as the display device. A picture tube is a vacuum tube which has a phosphorescent display screen and control terminals for directing a focussed electron beam toward the screen to generate the desired image. In general, a picture tube requires a relatively high anode or xe2x80x9cultorxe2x80x9d voltage to accelerate the electron beam toward the screen, a cathode and a grid which coact for modulating the intensity of the electron beam in accordance with the image to be generated, and a focus electrode to which a focus voltage is applied to cause the electron beam to be focussed at the screen. In addition, a picture tube is associated with a deflection arrangement for deflecting the electron beam both vertically and horizontally. The ultor or anode voltage of the picture tube is often regulated in order to reduce voltage changes attributable to interaction between the internal impedance of the ultor voltage source and the varying cathode or beam current required to generate an image. xe2x80x9cStaticxe2x80x9d focus voltage is applied to the focus terminal of the picture tube in order to focus the electron beam at a given location, such as the center of the screen. It is well understood that the value of the xe2x80x9cstaticxe2x80x9d focus voltage is desirably a fixed proportion of the ultor voltage. Dynamic focus control is often provided for adjusting the value of the focus voltage applied to the picture tube in accordance with the position of the electron beam, in order to keep the electron beam focussed on the screen notwithstanding the changing length of the electron beam path attributable to deflection.
A video imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the invention comprises a first cathode-ray tube having a first ultor electrode and a first focus electrode, and a second cathode-ray tube having a second ultor electrode and a second focus electrode. A power supply for generating an ultor voltage is coupled to the first and second ultor electrodes. The ultor voltage may have a fluctuating voltage component produced by beam current variations. A high voltage amplifier generates a dynamic focus voltage component at a frequency related to a deflection frequency. A combining network combines the fluctuating voltage component and the dynamic focus voltage component to develop a combined, dynamic focus voltage. The combined, dynamic focus voltage is coupled to each of the first and second focus electrodes for developing from the combined, dynamic focus voltage each of a first dynamic focus voltage at the first focus electrode and a second dynamic focus voltage at the second focus electrode.
According to another aspect of the invention, a video imaging apparatus comprises a first cathode-ray tube having a first ultor electrode and a first focus electrode, and a second cathode-ray tube having a second ultor electrode and a second focus electrode. A power supply generates an ultor voltage coupled to the first and second ultor electrodes having a fluctuating voltage component produced by beam current variations. A high voltage amplifier generates a dynamic focus voltage component at a frequency related to a deflection frequency. A combining network combines the fluctuating voltage component and the dynamic focus voltage component to develop a combined, dynamic focus voltage. A first voltage divider is responsive to the combined, dynamic focus voltage for developing from the combined, dynamic focus voltage a first dynamic focus voltage at the first focus electrode, and a second voltage divider is responsive to the combined, dynamic focus voltage for developing from the combined, dynamic focus voltage a second focus voltage at the second focus electrode.
A video imaging apparatus according to another aspect of the invention comprises a first cathode-ray tube having a first ultor electrode and a first focus electrode, and a second cathode-ray tube having a second ultor electrode and a second focus electrode. A power supply for generating an ultor voltage is coupled to the first and second ultor electrodes. The ultor voltage may have a fluctuating voltage component produced by beam current variations. A high voltage amplifier generates a dynamic focus voltage component at a frequency related to a deflection frequency. A combining network combines the fluctuating voltage component and the dynamic focus voltage component to develop a combined, dynamic focus voltage. The combined, dynamic focus voltage is coupled to each of the first and second focus electrodes for developing from the combined, dynamic focus voltage each of a first dynamic focus voltage at the first focus electrode and a second dynamic focus voltage at the second focus electrode.
According to yet another aspect of the invention, a video imaging apparatus comprises a first cathode-ray tube having a first ultor electrode and a first focus electrode, and a second cathode-ray tube having a second ultor electrode and a second focus electrode. A power supply generates an ultor voltage coupled to the first and second ultor electrodes having a fluctuating voltage component produced by beam current variations. A high voltage amplifier generates a dynamic focus voltage component at a frequency related to a deflection frequency. A combining network combines the fluctuating voltage component and the dynamic focus voltage component to develop a combined, dynamic focus voltage. A first voltage divider is responsive to the combined, dynamic focus voltage for developing from the combined, dynamic focus voltage a first dynamic focus voltage at the first focus electrode, and a second voltage divider is responsive to the combined, dynamic focus voltage for developing from the combined, dynamic focus voltage a second focus voltage at the second focus electrode. |
How’s your week going?
If you or your team was in Washington, DC – how did the tournament go?
I have been talking a lot lately about ACL injuries and female athletes
I am very passionate about educating and getting the information out there, so athletes, coaches and parents know exactly what they should be doing to help reduce their risk of injury
I had a great conversation with Noah Harrison, a Physical Therapist and strength coach out of Portland, Maine about reducing the risk of the ACL injury
Noah will be doing a lecture and hands on presentation as part of The Female Sports Performance Workshop on August 12th in Kennebunk, Maine on this exact topic
In our 20 minute conversation, Noah and I discussed:
* His presentation on August 12th and what he will be teaching the attendees
* Why the ACL injury is on the rise
* 3 things we can do right now to help prevent these injuries
* Why we need to get this information out there so we can educate coaches and parents (we know the statistics)
* Ankle Mobility and how it plays into injuries
* Why we need to respect the injury (looking beyond the injury) and how these athletes feel 20-30 years from now and being active
* Looking at these females as life long athletes
If you want to hear Noah speak and 4 other experts (including myself), check out The Female Sports Performance Workshop HERE!
I will be presenting with Noah on A Better Alternative to Olympic Lifting: Kettlebells
If you have questions about the workshop, feel free to shoot me an email
As for our discussion on the ACL, let me know your thoughts?
As a coach, did your know the statistics and why sports performance training is so improvement?
As an athlete, do you strength train, condition, work on performance and work on preventing an injury?
I look forward to hearing from you,
Your friend and coach,
Jen
PS – Here is all the information of The Female Athlete Sports Performance Workshop and how to sign up. |
The Income Tax authorities have issued notice to 1.16 lakh firms and individuals who deposited more than Rs 25 lakh in their bank accounts after demonetisation on Nov 8, 2016 and failed to file returns by due date. Those who deposited large amounts and filed returns are under close scrutiny of the tax authorities as well. The information has been given by the CBDT Chairman, Sushil Chandra.
The 1.16 people who deposited more than 25 lakh and filed to file returns have been asked to file returns within 30 days.
Another 18 lakh people are being combed for making deposits of over Rs 2.5 lakh in old denominations post note ban.
Two brackets
The government has made two categories to closely scrutinize those who have not files returns – those depositing more than Rs 25 lakh and those adding Rs 10-25 lakh to their accounts.
Nearly 2.4 lakh people made a deposit between Rs 10-25 lakh after note ban.
The Income tax notice is given as specified under Section 142(1) of I-T Act.
The incidence of tax violations in India is rising. The number of complaints this year is 1,046
against 652 last year. The convictions too have been on the rise at 43 this year against 13.
The taxmen identified 17.7 lakh cases involving Rs 3.7 trillion in 23.2 lakh bank accounts after note ban. Some 11.8 lakh people responded online explaining money incidence for 16.9 lakh accounts. |
Brownie
As a Girl Scout Brownie, you can:
- earn Journey awards, badges, and participation patches.
- conduct service projects for the community.
- participate in activities with your troop or individually, including the Girl Scout Cookie Program and Fall Product Program.
- earn the My Promise, My Faith award and other religious recognitions that help you strengthen the connection between your faith and Girl Scouts.
- attend summer day camp or resident camp.
- develop planning and cooperation skills.
- plan day trips and overnights with the help of the other girls in your troop and adult volunteers.
- learn more about your neighborhood, city, and state.:
Brownie Quest
What are the most important keys for a Girl Scout to own? This Journey answers that question in a very special way. Along the Quest, you will meet three new friends and a bright and shining elf—in a brand-new story to inspire your own Take Action Project. You’ll earn four Girl Scout leadership awards as you enjoy the Journey: the Discover, Connect, and Take Action keys and the Brownie Quest award. Try two activities and peek at the Journey!
WOW! Wonders of Water
Enjoy some wonder-filled adventures with the Brownie friends and Brownie Elf. As you dive in, you’ll realize you can create a big WOW as you try out new Ways of Working with a team. You’ll learn about the water cycle, make your own rainbows, and pledge to LOVE, SAVE, and SHARE water. You’ll earn four Girl Scout leadership awards as you enjoy the Journey: the LOVE Water, SAVE Water, SHARE Water, and WOW! awards. Try two activities and peek at the Journey! Brownies. The binder comes chock full of information, activities, and colorful stickers.
- can see every award available to you as a Girl Scout Brownie, as well as the entire badge program at every grade level so you can see how your skills will grow in Girl Scouting!
Plus, you can choose to add in a Skill Building Badge Set to enhance your Journey. Each Skill Building Badge Set includes activities to earn five brand new badges tailor-made to make your Journey experience even better! The Badge Explorer will show you which badges you can add for even more adventure.
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Some newspapers have been converted from paid-fors to frees. Now, in the US, there's a paper launched three years ago as a freesheet that's going in the opposite direction. Bluffton Today, a free daily tabloid in South Carolina, is going to start charging 25 cents a copy (75c on Sundays) from December 1.
The reason? The economy, stupid. Publisher Tim Anderson explains: "The [business] model was built to rely solely on advertising revenues But these are extreme times for most businesses, and newspapers are no exception.
"Over the past year we have experienced significant price increases in newsprint and ink. And newsprint price increases are projected into 2009. In addition to expense issues our advertising revenues began to 'soften' in the second quarter. Our revenue was not covering the additional expenses."
Blufton Today, owned by the privately-held Georgia-based company, Morris Communications, was considered by some US media commentators to be a vanguard publication because of its hyperlocal format and its accent on participation between journalists and the community. Its website makes much of its use of reader-submitted blogs.
But it is the print version that is eating up money, and it is further proof that the producing ink-on-paper titles during this severe advertising downturn is going to prove too costly for many publishers, even including those experimenting with an innovative journalistic approach.
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IMBERLY JONES, PLAINTIFF(S),v.DEJA VU, INC., ET AL., DEFENDANT(S).
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Bernard Zimmerman United States Magistrate Judge
ORDER WITH RESPECT TO ROE 7
Before the court is a motion to dismiss three defendants on grounds of res judicata and abstention, and in the alternative, to compel Roe 7 to arbitrate her claims.
As I understand the motion to dismiss or abstain, its essence is that as part of a settlement reached in Seifred v. Centerfolds, and other consolidated cases, pending in San Francisco Superior Court, all dancers employed at Centerfolds, Roaring 20's, and Garden of Eden agreed that for a three year period commencing with the effective date of the settlement, which appears to be February 21, 2004, the defendants would treat the dancers as independent contractors. Since in this lawsuit plaintiffs are claiming that defendants are not treating them as independent contractors but as employees while not providing them with an employee's federal and state labor code rights, defendants argue those claims are either barred by the settlement agreement or should be resolved by the state court which retained jurisdiction to enforce the settlement. Roe 7 is the only named plaintiff who is a member of the Seifred settlement class.
During argument, the moving defendants agreed that the better procedure would be for the court to first consider the motion to arbitrate, since if their dispute with Roe 7 is arbitrable, the other issues should be resolved in that forum. Counsel for plaintiff advised that Roe 7 had no interest in the court abstaining so she could raise her claims before the state court with jurisdiction to enforce the settlement. Accordingly, I will first consider the motion to compel arbitration.
The arbitration provision in the Performer Contracts entered into by Roe 7 and Déjà Vu San Francisco, LLC is identical to the arbitration provision in the Performer Contracts at issue in my June 30, 2005 Order on the motions of defendants' Chowder House, Inc. and SAW Entertainment, Ltd. to compel arbitration. The other provisions are, in pertinent part, substantively similar, with the exception that Roe 7's Performer Contracts contain no class action ban. For the reasons stated in my June 30, 2005 Order, IT IS ORDERED that the motion to compel Roe 7 to arbitrate her claims is GRANTED, with the exception that the provision shortening the statute of limitations is severed. The motion to dismiss on grounds of res judicata and abstention is DENIED without prejudice to being renewed in arbitration.
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Do you want to sell your Android device to get a new device better than the old one? If yes, then you should take some precautionary measures before selling Android device. It is always a good idea to go through your old device to ensure that it doesn’t have any important data. You would also make a copy of that data so that you can have all your important data with you in your new device.
Here, we are going to explain few important things which you should do before selling Android device.
Create a Backup
Creating a backup of all your data should be the first thing before selling the device. No one wants to lose their data. So, it’s better to create a backup of your data. There are two common ways of creating a backup, you can either copy all your device data to your personal computer via USB/data cable or you can upload all the data to any cloud service like Google drive, Dropbox, OneDrive etc.
You can use any of the above mentioned cloud services but I’ll recommend you to use you Google drive account. It is the easiest way to backup all your media, calendar, app data, contacts, bookmarks and network settings. In order to create a backup on your Google drive account follow the steps enlisted below.
- Go to ‘Settings’.
- Go to ‘Accounts’.
- Select ‘Google Account’. Now select all the data you want to backup.
If you want to follow a complete guide then follow the link given below.
Factory Reset
Once you are done with creating a backup of all your required data, the immediate next step should be to remove all the data from your Android device. This will help you to prevent your data from new owner of the device. Factory resetting the data will erase all the data from your device. This will include media, all installed apps, calendar, contacts, documents, music, messages and even network settings.
In order to factory reset your Android device, follow the steps enlisted below.
- Go to ‘Settings’.
- Go to ‘Backup and reset’.
- Select ‘Factory data reset’.
Now, all the data will be erased from your device. If you want to follow a complete guide then follow the link given below.
Remove/Format Memory Card
While selling Android device, memory card should be removed or formatted. Removing memory card will help you to use it again with a new Android device in future. If you do not want a memory card in future and want to sell it with your Android device then you should format it also. You can erase all the data from your memory card. To do so, follow the steps enlisted below.
- Go to ‘Settings’.
- Go to ‘Storage’.
- Now, tap on ‘Format SD card’.
You can also follow a complete guide on How to Format SD card from recovery menu.
Clean your Android device
Till now, you have done all the important tasks you should do before selling Android device. Now, cleaning your Android device is not that important task but it will help you to get a better price for your device. By using any device, it gets rough and dust particles settles at any available slot/ports or even at the edges of the device. You should clean your device by removing any dust particles, wiping of the screen and clean all the ports/slots of the device.
This guide covers all the important things to do before selling Android device. If you think there is any other thing then share with us. |
Intro
You know sometimes I like to challenge myself.
How to Play
This reading challenge consists of 3 sections. Fantasy, Sci-Fi and General for a total of 52 prompts which comes down to about 1 book a week.
- You can do 1, 2 or all 3 sections.
- With each section you are allowed 1 Double-Up. Double-Up means you can use 1 book for 2 prompts. Preferred is not to at all but if for some reason you are struggling with time or a prompt you can.
- In the general sections you can use both fantasy and sci-fi books but not other genres.
- Graphic novels, comics, audiobooks and novella’s are allowed. It is all reading in my book.
- Rereads count.
- You can move the books around throughout the year if things fit better elsewhere and all.
- You can step into this reading challenge at any point. I’m starting it in January 2019 but in reality this is a reading challenge you can fit for yourself in anyway you like. If you want to start in May and end April the year after, that is totally fine.
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I don’t know if people want to join me but I would love to interact with each other if you do. You can participate anyway you like, with goodreads, twitter, instagram or your blog. I don’t require a sign-up post but I would appreciate if you boosted this.
If there are a nice group of people we can see if we can do a twitter dm group or an fb group or something to chat with each other on how to fill the prompts. 🙂
The widget won’t go into the post because wp sucks so here is the direct link.
If You Need Inspiration:
Find Some Fitting Books Per Prompt Here
I figured some of you might like to have a list of options for each prompt so here we are. I’ve read a portion of these, others are on my own TBR and others I just know fit with the prompt. These are in no way meant as real recommendations, just those that fit the prompt. No links because do you see how many books I mention haha.
Fantasy
Classic Fantasy
The Dragon Bone Chair by Tad Williams / Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin / The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien / Narnia by C.S Lewis /
Magic School
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling / Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce / A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. le Guin / The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss / Carry On by Rainbow Rowell / Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones / The Magicians by Lev Grossman / The Novice by Taran Matharu
Necromancers
Darkest Powers by Kelley Armstrong / Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride / Sabriel by Garth Nix / The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco / Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews / Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard / Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh / Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry / Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis
PTSD
Witchmark C.L. Polk / The First Law by Joe Abercrombie /
Dragons
The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli / Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb / The Copper Promise by Jen Williams / Talon by Julie Kagawa / Seraphina by Rachel Hartman / A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin / Eragon by Christopher Paolini / Eon by Alison Goodman / Temeraire by Naomi Novik / A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan / How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell / Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland / Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aron
Fairytale Retelling
Uprooted by Naomi Novik / A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas / Ash by Melinda Lo / Forests of a Thousand Lanters by Julie C. Dao / The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh / The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden / Thorn by Intisar Khanani / To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
Grimdark
Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence / Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson / Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin / A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall / Skullsworn by Brian Stavely / Red Sister by Mark Lawrence / The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
Ghosts
Lockwood & Co. by Jonathan Stroud / The Graveyard Queen by Amanda Stevens / City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab / The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman / The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater / Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Uncommon Fantasy Creatures
So not the usual werewolf, dragons, vampires and the like
Bones and Bourbon by Dorian Graves (Huldra) / The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker (Golem) / Steel & Stone by Annette Marie (Incubus) / Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish (Trolls) / The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (Goblins)
Shapeshifters
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs / Written in Red by Anne Bishop / Stray by Rachel Vincent / Soulless by Gail Carragher / The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong /
Gods
Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan / Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan / Aru Shah at the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi / American Gods by Neil Gaiman / The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin / The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter / The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White / Furyborn by Claire LeGrand / Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor / Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman / Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova / The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris
Animal (or in Animal Form) Companion(s)
Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb / The Dragon Bone Chair by Tad Williams / Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh / Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell / The Summoner by Taran Matharu
Matriarchy
Seven Realms by Cinda Williams Chima / Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake / Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop / Dragonflight by Anne McAffrey / The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells / The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
Set in Our World
The Others by Anne Bishop / Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling / Shadowhunters by Cassandra Clare / American Gods by Neil Gaiman / Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning / Psy-Changeling by Nalini Singh / Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Witches
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt / The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco / A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness / Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett / The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy / Uprooted by Naomi Novik / Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Magical Law Enforcement
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling / Rivers of London by Ben Aaronvitch / The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher / The Golem’s Eye by Jonathan Stroud / Lockwood & Co. by Jonathan Stroud
Thief
The Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron / The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch / Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo / The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima / The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
Pirates
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo / Magic of Blood and Sea by Cassandra Rose Clarke / Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch / The Nature of a Pirate by A.M. Dellamonica
Portal Fantasy
Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica / The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis / Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll / Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire / The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Warrior
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin / Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien / Night Angel by Brent Weeks / Half a King by Joe Abercrombie /
Sci-Fi
On a Different Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers / Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray / The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin / The Martian by Andy Weir / Dune by Frank Herbert / Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Space Ship
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers / The Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers / An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon / Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Addams
Artificial Intelligence Point of View
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers / I, Robot by Isaac Asimov / 2001: A Space Odessey by Arthur C. Clarke / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Kick
Proto Sci-Fi
As Frankenstein is seen as the first sci-fi novel all books prior to that that seem to be sci-fi are called proto sci-fi but anything before H.G. Wells will count here as it seems to cause some discussions.
New Atlantis by Francis Bacon / Frankenstein by Mary Shelley / The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson / From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne /
Alien
The Fifth Wave by Rick Riordan / The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Addams / The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells / Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Time Travel
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells / Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier / Passenger by Alexandra Bracken / The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig / The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma / Invictus by Ryan Graudin
Utopia
The Dispossed by Ursula K. le Guin / Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel / Andromeda by Ivan Efremov / The Giver by Lois Lowry
Games/Gaming/Virtual Reality
Warcross by Marie Lu / Armada by Ernest Cline / Otherland by Tad Williams / In Real Life by Cory Doctorow / Unplugged by Donna Freitas
Hive (Mind)
The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft / Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie / City of Broken Magic by Mirah Bolender
Steampunk
Soulless by Gail Carrigher / Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve / Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld / Boneshaker by Cherie Priest / Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina
Super Powers
The Reckoners by Brandon Sanderson / Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore / Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee / Nimona by Noelle Stevenson / The Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan
Science
Better known as heavy sci-fi if you go searching for books
Foundation by Isaac Asimov / World War Z by Max Brooks / The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson / Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Replicate/Replica
Accelerando by Charles Stross / Replica by Lauren Oliver / Evolution by Stephen Baxter / The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Space Colonization
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs / Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie / The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradburry
Mecha
Themis Files by Sylvain Neuvel / Gundam Wing by Haijme Hatate / Dreadnought by Cherie Priest
Space Creatures/Beasts
Mistworld by Simon Green / Dune by Frank Herbert / Alien by Alan Dean Foster /
Teleportation
Jumper by Stephen Gould / Timeline by Michael Crighton / The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter / The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Space Western
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury / Six-Gun Planet by John Yakes / Trigun by Yasuhiro Nightow / Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon / Cowboy Bebop by Yutaka Nanten
The Moon
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer / Moonseed by Stephen Baxter / Artemis by Andy Weir / Red Rising by Pierce Brown / The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
Invasion
Alien or Human
The Andromedia Strain by Michael Crighton / Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout / The Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore / The Alien Years by Robert Silverberg / Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card / First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells / Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
General
For this you can use sci-fi and fantasy where you can make them fit.
Satire
Discworld by Terry Pratchett / Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams / The Portable Door by Tom Holt / Red Shirts by John Scalzi /
Novella
Binty by Nnedi Okorafor / Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire / The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray / The Girl Who Rules Fairyland – For a Little While by Catheryne M. Valente
Finish a Series
For this you can read the other books for other prompts throughout this challenge and read the last one here or finish a series you previously started. Or you could just read a whole series for this prompt alone. Whatever you want haha.
Mental Health
Stormlight Archives by Branden Sanderson (depression) / The Magicians by Lev Grossman (depression) / Witchmark by C.L Polk (PTSD) / Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (PTSD)
Disability *
On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (autism) / October Daye by Seanan McGuire (weelchair)
*Kristen from Metaphors and Moonlight created a masterlist.
Set in Africa
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor / Zoo City by Lauren Beukes / The Famished Road by Ben Okri / Changa’s Safari by Milton J. Davis
Library
Library is semi-important in the book
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor / Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine / The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman / The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins /
By a Woman of Color
Nnedi Okorafor / N.K. Jemisin / Tomi Adeyemi / Julie Kagawa / Malinda Lo / Heidi Helig / to name only a few…
One Word Title / Under 500 Pages / Over 800 Pages / Published Before 1990
I don’t think I need to make a list for these, right?
If you have any recs for any of these categories (especially Disability, Mental Health, Set in Africa and PTSD) than please leave them down below.
Printables
Let me know if these don’t work to save.
124 thoughts on “Dancing with Fantasy and Sci-Fi – A (2019) Reading Challenge + Bingo Cards”
This looks like a fun challenge to do on the side. Thanks for putting it together. I’m not much of a sci fi reader so it will be interesting to see if I can get a few of those knocked off.
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Great to see joining in. I hope the prompts will help you find some great sci-fi along the way. 😀
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This sounds like a fun challenge. I would love to take part in this.
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You are totally welcome to join. ❤
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Is there some way to get this challenge in text? It´s very annoying to just have it as an image while jotting down the books I read…
Hi. I can put it in a table in a word document if that is something you’d like. Email me at whisper2imaginary@gmail.com and I’ll send it your way.
Is it too late to join in for this? I’m so bummed I missed it!
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Sorry for the slow reply, I’m running a bit behind. But of course you can still do this. 😀 |
require 'test_helper'
class UserSessionsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
test 'should login an user' do
post :create, params: { user_session: { username: users(:jeff).username, password: 'secretive' } }
assert_redirected_to '/dashboard'
end
test 'should redirect to create new account if username doesnt exist' do
post :create, params: { user_session: { username: 'nobody', password: 'blablabla' } }
assert_redirected_to '/login'
assert_equal 'There is nobody in our system by that name, are you sure you have the right username?', flash[:warning]
end
test 'login user with an email' do
post :create, params: { user_session: { username: users(:jeff).email, password: 'secretive' } }
assert_redirected_to '/dashboard'
end
test 'should login and redirect to correct url' do
session[:return_to] = '/post?tags=question:question&template=question'
post :create, params: { user_session: { username: users(:jeff).username, password: 'secretive' } }
assert_redirected_to '/post?tags=question:question&template=question'
end
test 'should choose I18n in settings controller, then display correct language login message on log in' do
available_testing_locales.each do |lang|
old_controller = @controller
@controller = SettingsController.new
# set locale in cookie
get :change_locale, params: { locale: lang.to_s }
@controller = old_controller
post :create, params: { user_session: { username: users(:jeff).username, password: 'secretive' } }
assert_redirected_to '/dashboard'
assert_equal I18n.t('user_sessions_controller.logged_in'), flash[:notice]
end
end
test 'sign up and login via provider basic flow for google' do
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:google_oauth2]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:google_oauth2]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Sign Up for a new user
post :create
assert_equal "You have successfully signed in. Please change your password using the link sent to you via e-mail.", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
#auth hash is present so login via a provider
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully logged in.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'sign up and login via provider alternative flow for google' do
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:google_oauth2_2]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:google_oauth2_2]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Sign Up for an existing user as email exists in the db
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
#auth hash is present so login via a provider
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully logged in.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'login user with an email and then connect google provider' do
post :create,
params: {
user_session: {
username: users(:jeff).email,
password: 'secretive'
}
}
assert_redirected_to '/dashboard'
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:google_oauth2_2]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:google_oauth2_2]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Link a google account to an existing user
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Link same google account to an existing user again
post :create
assert_equal "Already linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'sign up and login via provider basic flow for github' do
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github1]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github1]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Sign Up for a new user
post :create
assert_equal "You have successfully signed in. Please change your password using the link sent to you via e-mail.", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
#auth hash is present so login via a provider
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully logged in.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'sign up and login via provider alternative flow for github' do
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github2]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github2]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Sign Up for an existing user as email exists in the db
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
#auth hash is present so login via a provider
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully logged in.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'login user with an email and then connect github provider' do
post :create,
params: {
user_session: {
username: users(:jeff).email,
password: 'secretive'
}
}
assert_redirected_to '/dashboard'
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github2]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github2]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Link a github account to an existing user
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Link same github account to an existing user again
post :create
assert_equal "Already linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'sign up and login via provider basic flow for twitter' do
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:twitter1]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:twitter1]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Sign Up for a new user
post :create
assert_equal "You have successfully signed in. Please change your password using the link sent to you via e-mail.", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
#auth hash is present so login via a provider
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully logged in.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'sign up and login via provider alternative flow for twitter' do
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:twitter2]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:twitter2]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Sign Up for an existing user as email exists in the db
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
#auth hash is present so login via a provider
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully logged in.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'login user with an email and then contwitter provider' do
post :create,
params: {
user_session: {
username: users(:jeff).email,
password: 'secretive'
}
}
assert_redirected_to '/dashboard'
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:twitter2]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:twitter2]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Link a twitter account to an existing user
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Link same twitter account to an existing user again
post :create
assert_equal "Already linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'sign up and login via provider basic flow for facebook' do
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:facebook1]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:facebook1]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Sign Up for a new user
post :create
assert_equal "You have successfully signed in. Please change your password using the link sent to you via e-mail.", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
#auth hash is present so login via a provider
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully logged in.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'sign up and login via provider alternative flow for facebook' do
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:facebook2]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:facebook2]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Sign Up for an existing user as email exists in the db
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
#auth hash is present so login via a provider
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully logged in.", flash[:notice]
end
test 'login user with an email and then connect facebook provider' do
post :create,
params: {
user_session: {
username: users(:jeff).email,
password: 'secretive'
}
}
assert_redirected_to '/dashboard'
assert_not_nil OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:facebook2]
#Omniauth hash is present
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:facebook2]
assert_not_nil request.env['omniauth.auth']
#Link a facebook account to an existing user
post :create
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Link same facebook account to an existing user again
post :create
assert_equal "Already linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
#Log Out
post :destroy
assert_equal "Successfully logged out.", flash[:notice]
end
test "logging in with banned user through oauth should fail and redirect correctly" do
request.env['omniauth.origin'] = "/notes/liked"
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github1]
post :create
post :destroy
# name of omniauth user
User.find_by(name: "bansal_sidharth309").ban
post :create
assert @response.redirect_url.include? "/notes/liked"
assert_equal flash[:error], I18n.t('user_sessions_controller.user_has_been_banned', username: "bansal_sidharth309").html_safe
end
test "logging in with moderated user through oauth should fail and redirect correctly" do
request.env['omniauth.origin'] = "/notes/liked"
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github1]
post :create
post :destroy
User.find_by(name: "bansal_sidharth309").moderate
post :create
assert @response.redirect_url.include? "/notes/liked"
assert_equal flash[:error], I18n.t('user_sessions_controller.user_has_been_moderated', username: "bansal_sidharth309").html_safe
end
test "redirects dashboard on signup with oauth and redirects to previous page when logging in" do
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github1]
post :create
assert_equal "You have successfully signed in. Please change your password using the link sent to you via e-mail.", flash[:notice]
assert_redirected_to "/dashboard"
post :destroy
assert_equal I18n.t('user_sessions_controller.logged_out'), flash[:notice]
request.env['omniauth.origin'] = "/notes/liked"
post :create
assert_equal I18n.t('user_sessions_controller.logged_in'), flash[:notice]
assert @response.redirect_url.include? "/notes/liked"
end
test "logging in through omniauth and then logging in with username should display correct error and redirect" do
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github1]
# login through omniauth
post :create
# logout
post :destroy
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = nil
post :create, params: { user_session: { username: "bansal_sidharth309", password: "random"} }
assert_equal flash[:error], "This account doesn't have a password set. It may be logged in with Github account, or you can set a new password via Forget password feature"
end
test "logging in through omniauth and then logging in with email should display correct error and redirect" do
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github1]
# login through omniauth
post :create
# logout
post :destroy
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = nil
post :create, params: { user_session: { username: "bansal.sidharth309@gmail.com", password: "random"} }
assert_equal flash[:error], "This account doesn't have a password set. It may be logged in with Github account, or you can set a new password via Forget password feature"
end
test "logging in with banned user through normal login should fail" do
user = users(:bob)
user.ban
post :create, params: { user_session: { username: user.username, password: 'secretive' } }
assert_redirected_to root_url
assert_equal flash[:error], I18n.t('user_sessions_controller.user_has_been_banned', username: user.username).html_safe
end
test "logging in with moderated user through normal login should fail" do
user = users(:bob)
user.moderate
post :create, params: { user_session: { username: user.username, password: 'secretive' } }
assert_redirected_to root_url
assert_equal flash[:error], I18n.t('user_sessions_controller.user_has_been_moderated', username: user.username).html_safe
end
test "user that links provider to existing account should not be redirected to dashboard on oauth signup for Github provider" do
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:github4]
request.env['omniauth.origin'] = "/notes/liked"
post :create
assert @response.redirect_url.include? "/notes/liked"
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
end
test "user that links provider to existing account should not be redirected to dashboard on oauth signup for Google provider" do
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:google_oauth2_4]
request.env['omniauth.origin'] = "/notes/liked"
post :create
assert @response.redirect_url.include? "/notes/liked"
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
end
test "user that links provider to existing account should not be redirected to dashboard on oauth signup for Facebook provider" do
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:facebook4]
request.env['omniauth.origin'] = "/notes/liked"
post :create
assert @response.redirect_url.include? "/notes/liked"
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
end
test "user that links provider to existing account should not be redirected to dashboard on oauth signup for Twitter provider" do
request.env['omniauth.auth'] = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:twitter4]
request.env['omniauth.origin'] = "/notes/liked"
post :create
assert @response.redirect_url.include? "/notes/liked"
assert_equal "Successfully linked to your account!", flash[:notice]
end
end
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If you need a reminder that the world is full of hopeful dreamers, look no further than Angad Singh Padda.
Padda is a recent graduate of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. After being chosen to represent his class as undergraduate student speaker, Padda took it upon himself to interview 70 classmates about what mattered to them the most.
The apparently unscripted speech that resulted from these interviews comes straight from Padda’s heart. He laid out a bright, beautiful vision of a world where smart and dedicated people work hard to solve the planet’s biggest problems.
Speaking to an audience full of soon-to-be business majors, Padda encouraged his classmates not to use their education just make a profit, but to go out into the world to do good.
“We want to use our education to go beyond ourselves, to make the world a better place, we want to unify this world,” Padda said.
The Sikh student is a native of Chandigarh, Punjab. He said he came to America hoping to learn how to solve his home state’s drug epidemic. He said he had lost two of his best friends to drug abuse. But once he arrived in America, Padda started learning about the problems that his classmates were concerned about ― things like war, poverty, climate change and hate crimes.
Padda spoke of a village in India called Shani Shingnapur. The residents of this village refuse to construct permanent doors to their houses, believing in the goodness of their God and of their neighbors. Although some are skeptical of the claim, villagers report that Shani Shingnapur has a low rate of crime and thefts.
Padda’s hope is that his classmates will one day help create a world just like Shani Shingnapur.
“What if all of us can use our education to create a world just like that village? You know what that world would look like?” Padda asked. “There would be no walls or borders, none. There would be no Muslim ban, nobody would call the other person bad hombres. That is the world we have to create.”
Padda knows unifying the world is a lofty dream. But that doesn’t stop this young man from believing.
“They say that dreams are not the ones you have when you go to bed. Hell no. Dreams are the ones that don’t let you go to bed,” he said.
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Last-mile delivery and logistics has been the hot ticket of the European VC space this year.
Spurred on by Covid-19 and changing consumer habits, the sector has been a flurry of activity in the past few months, and VCs have been only too happy to splash the cash.
Finnish delivery company Wolt, Q commerce startups Gorillas and Getir as well as freight forwarder Sennder have all become unicorns in 2021.
Spain’s Glovo raised the country’s biggest ever funding round in April and there have also been hefty raises for the new kids on the block Dija, smart parcel locker solution Instabox and last-mile delivery startup Budbee.
The last-mile sector is on fire, and it’s showing no signs of sputtering out.
But what’s next? We spoke to five prominent investors to find out which European last-mile startups they’re most excited about. There was only one rule: the companies they earmark can’t be part of their portfolio… yet.
Paulina Lutz — early-stage investor at Earlybird VC
Earlybird VC is a Berlin-based multi-stage investor with a focus on European tech companies. Lutz’s portfolio includes: ecommerce logistics provider Hive, unicorn freight forwarder Sennder, and digital supply chain platform Forto.
GetHenry
“GetHenry offers a monthly e-bike subscription service to delivery companies that includes insurance, mechanic support and rental software to help with repairs and more effective fleet management. What makes GetHenry so exciting is that it has jumped on the food delivery boom, and has the perfect e-bike solution for the fastest growing last-mile delivery companies such as Wolt, Gorillas and Mjam.”
Raised: €534k
Founded: 2018
Round: Seed
Headquartered: Berlin, Germany
Ducktrain
“Ducktrain wants to make urban transportation greener and more efficient. With its small and automated ‘Ducks’, it offers an alternative to conventional delivery trucks. The 100% electric vehicles are only one metre wide and two metres long, and can drive on bicycle lanes and sidewalks.
Ducktrain tackles the problem of pollution and congested inner-city streets and, although the vehicles aren’t fully autonomous yet, they offer an exciting glimpse into a future of fully automated deliveries.”
Raised: Undisclosed
Founded: 2018
Round: Convertible
Headquartered: Aachen, Germany
Ryders
“London-based Ryders wants to capitalise on businesses’ growing demand for fast, same-day delivery jobs while ensuring better work conditions for its workers. Opposed to fixed schedules and a pay-per-drop compensation system, Ryders gives its delivery drivers the chance to work on demand and offers pay based on actual time spent working.
With frequent negative reports about working conditions in the gig economy, Ryders contributes with a fresh and worker-centred approach, and the big promise to give the sector a makeover.”
Raised: £700k
Founded: 2018
Round: Pre-seed
Headquartered: London, UK
Manna
“Manna takes its deliveries to the air — whether it is food, medicine or any other item. Manna guarantees three minute drone deliveries for items up to a 2kg weight limit within a 2km radius. It taps into the huge delivery market with the competitive advantage of much faster and safer deliveries.
Although Manna’s services are only active in Oranmore, Ireland so far, the expansion of its delivery network might bring real competition to cars, bikes and other road-based delivery vehicles in other areas.”
Read more on Manna’s recent raise and how it really works.
Raised: €4.7m
Founded: 2018
Round: Seed
Headquartered: Dublin, Ireland
João Duarte — investment associate at Verve Ventures
Verve Ventures is an early and growth-stage tech fund headquartered in Zurich. Duarte’s portfolio includes: cybersecurity startup Threatray, SaaS platform Frontastic and ecommerce logistics provider Byrd.
Ziticity
“Ziticity allows ecommerce startups and local businesses to offer their customers same-day deliveries at a lower cost than established messenger type companies. They do this by combining different delivery methods, hyper-local urban delivery centres and smart routing algorithms. Started in Lithuania, it’s now active in Latvia, Estonia, France and is expanding into Poland.”
Raised: €2.6m
Founded: 2017
Round: Seed
Headquartered: Vilnius, Lithuania
Citibox
“Spanish startup Citibox places smart delivery boxes inside residential buildings. It attempts to substantially reduce the hassle of delivering parcels to individuals, as both couriers and customers can access the boxes when they like, which are placed for free in the buildings. Although this model has upfront costs for the company, the long lifetime of the boxes and possibility of monetising them in different ways makes it an interesting business model.”
Raised: €33.8m
Founded: 2015
Round: Series B
Headquartered: Madrid, Spain
Zasilkovna
“Zasilkovna is a Czech startup that turns local retail businesses into parcel drop-off and pick-up points. This represents a new revenue stream for businesses and the added benefit of bringing customers into their shops. For customers, it’s very convenient and cost efficient. Today, it has over 5k pick up points, and is expanding aggressively across Central and Eastern Europe.”
Founded: 2010
Headquartered: Prague, Czech Republic
Christy McCaig — principal at Fuse Venture Partners
Fuse Venture Partners is a high-growth tech fund based in London. McCaig’s portfolio includes: ecommerce delivery solution Paack, last-mile delivery startup Cubyn and direct-to-consumer delivery service Kurly.
Getir
“Getir is a quick commerce company which offers ultrafast grocery delivery via its own micro-fulfilment centres and last-mile delivery. Quick commerce is a model that is now exploding in Europe, with the launch of competitors like Gorillaz, Weezy and Dija. These companies stand to transform consumer shopping habits, particularly in urban areas where consumers have limited time and space.
Getir is particularly interesting due to its success in Turkey, where it offers a 10-minute delivery — quicker than other global companies like GoPuff and Meituan. It differentiates through its franchise model and commitment to their couriers — who are employees rather than contracted gig workers. The startup recently raised to focus on their international roll-out, and it’s always interesting to see players from the east move west.”
Raised: €424m
Founded: 2015
Round: Series C
Headquartered: Istanbul, Turkey
Wolt
“Wolt launched as a restaurant marketplace and last-mile logistics provider with the strategy of focusing on second tier markets, where competition was less fierce. This strategy worked remarkably well for them, and the challenge of launching in less dense regions forced them to focus on efficiency from day one.
The startup is now planning to leverage its advanced logistic network to expand beyond food delivery, enabling offline stores to compete with ecommerce giants. We view the addition of non-food retail to these last-mile apps as a major, currently untapped opportunity in Europe. In our mind the CEO Miki Kuusi symbolises the best of breed of the next generation of young entrepreneurs in Europe.”
Raised: €748m
Founded: 2014
Round: Late VC
Headquartered: Helsinki, Finland
Crisp
“Crisp is an online grocer operating in the Netherlands providing next day delivery of high-quality groceries for any orders placed by 10pm. Products are sourced directly from producers, farmers and speciality stores, with a very low inventory model held by Crisp.
This vertical integration from supplier relationships through to last-mile delivery leads to better unit economics, less waste, fresher products and a superior customer experience. Crisp is led by an incredibly impressive CEO Tom Peters, who we think could be poised to lead the disruption of incumbent grocers in some European markets with a model fully optimised for 100% online.”
Raised: €46.5m
Founded: 2018
Round: Series B
Headquartered: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oliver Finch — partner at Maersk Growth
Maersk Growth is the Denmark-based corporate venture arm of shipping giant Maersk. Finch’s portfolio includes: ecommerce fulfilment startup Huboo, digital supply chain platform Forto and fresh food supply chain solution Afresh.
Paack
“Paack is the leader in the scheduled ecommerce delivery space. This is a really exciting area as we move from the narrative of ‘speed is everything’ to ‘precision is everything’. It’s really hard to consistently do that, at scale, while pursuing aggressive growth targets.”
Raised: €73.3m
Founded: 2015
Round: Series C
Headquartered: Barcelona, Spain
Budbee
“Budbee’s focus on reducing the environmental impact of the last mile is worth a special mention. Building these types of network around emergent mini and micro-fulfilment hubs appears quite an interesting path for the longer-term.”
Raised: €76.1m
Founded: 2015
Round: Late VC
Headquartered: Stockholm, Sweden
Paul Bazin — investor at Daphni
Daphni is a Paris-based VC firm that focuses European user-oriented startups with international ambitions. Bazin’s portfolio includes: secondhand electronics marketplace Back Market, last-mile delivery marketplace Trusk, P2P object donation platform Geev.
Cubyn
“As proven by their latest fundraise, Cubyn answers the real need of retailers and e-merchants to have a tech logistician who can take care of 100% of their logistics chain — all with an attractive price due to their tech optimisation.”
Raised: €53.4m
Founded: 2014
Round: Late VC
Headquartered: Paris, France
SpaceFill
“SpaceFill is optimising last-mile logistics with its tech enabled short-term warehousing solution. The startup is operating in a huge but — up until now — very fragmented warehouse market, and enables better supply chain management through its geographic distribution of inventory and unique SaaS platform.”
Raised: €1m
Founded: 2018
Round: Seed
Headquartered: Paris, France
Sezaam
“Sezaam provides an alternative to parcel relay that allows consumers to receive their parcels as close as possible to their place of work or home. The startup is a rare example of a mailbox solution that corresponds to the needs of today’s consumer.”
Founded: 2018
Headquartered: Paris, France
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At noon, Greenwich time, December 31, 2020 – (7:00 am Grand Rapids, Michigan time) men, women, and children around the world gather to participate in a comprehensive prayer activity– an annual planetary affirmation of peace, and love, forgiveness and understanding involving millions of people gather each year on this date in a simultaneous global mind link. The purpose: Change the polarity of the positive force field in the universal mind and, achieve a heightened awareness of spiritual consciousness to usher in a new era of Peace on Earth.
This is the 35th World Healing Day, a global mind-link for peace involving millions of people that began on December 31, 1986.
World Healing Day, World of Cooperation, World Peace Day – a moment of Oneness to dissolve the sense of separation and help to return to God consciousness. Whatever the term or label, it is a New Beginning in restoring this world to peace.
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Battle of Route Coloniale 4 was a campaign in the First Indochina War carried out by the Viet Minh Army from 16 September to 17 October 1950 to break the isolation of the Viet Bac base, clear the Vietnam-China border Bridge to receive aid. Another objective was to expand the base and destroy some of the French garrison force, experimenting with tactics for the People's Army of Vietnam at that time with little experience in combat.
Background
In 1949 the French Army was still unable to advance into the Viet Bac area. The control of the Northern Delta was slow but unstable. Viet Minh gradually reorganized its apparatus and forces, and began organizing large-scale battles against French forces.During the five years of the war against the French in isolation, the Viet Minh actively expanded relations to seek international support. On October 1 1949 the People's Republic of China was established and quickly recognized and established diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Then on January 18, 1950 the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries recognized and established diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The prestige and military capabilities of the Viet Minh Front are growing in the people.
During the same five years, the Viet Minh also adopted overseas Vietnamese organizations in France and left-leaning organizations to fight politics strongly influencing the French people's rising resistance to Indochina War. France fell into an unprecedented political crisis. The Vietnamese State lacked credibility among the people as a puppet government, and its army was too weak to cooperate with French troops in Indochina to win the war. The French government was forced to take into account the US government's plan to accept economic and military aid to pursue the war.
However, after five years of war French troops in Indochina became more and more bogged down in defense. In addition, although the development of the native force, but the quality and the fighting spirit is low it is almost impossible to undertake military tasks instead of the French. |
The Arizona senate election in which Democrat Rep. Kyrsten Sinema defeated Republican Rep. Martha McSally is not over.
McSally lost to Sinema despite a 16,000 vote lead on Election Night as the votes were slowly counted.
Some Republicans have suggested that there could have been shenanigans that led to the defeat and now they are doing something about it.
The GOP is set to do an audit of the Maricopa County votes which took a major swing to the left and evaporated not onlyMcSally’s vote but other Republican candidates too, The Daily Caller reported.
Despite leading on election night and for some time afterward, GOP Rep. Martha McSally ultimately lost her Senate campaign to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. The neck-and-neck race took almost a week to call. The former Air Force pilot initially led her Democratic challenger by about 16,000 votes the day after Election Day. However, the slow count of mail-in ballots pushed Sinema into the lead and eventually handed her victory.
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McSally wasn’t the only Arizona Republican who saw her lead vanish as outstanding ballots trickled in.
Republican Frank Riggs initially led Democrat Kathy Hoffman in the race for Arizona superintendent of public instruction. He went on to lose about a week later. Katie Hobbs, the Democratic candidate for Arizona Secretary of State, had been trailing Republican Steve Gaynor on Election Day, and The Associated Press went so far as to project Gaynor the winner that night. However, after several days of ballot counting, the Democratic candidate is expected to win that race.
The Arizona GOP wants to review the counting process in Maricopa County, the most populous county in the state.
“Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Lines today announces the formation of an independent audit to review the actions of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in the recent midterm elections,” read a Thursday press release from the Arizona GOP. “It is the AZ GOP’s hope that this audit will produce a fair, factually-based report that will help us better understand what happened in this drawn-out election and address the many concerns of the voters.”
There are a number of issues the audit plans to analyze, such as the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office’s decision to open emergency voting center before Election Day; voting challenges and procedures on Election Day; how ballot counting and results reporting was handled; and allegations of election fraud.
Phoenix attorney Stephen Richer will be leading the audit, and Statecraft PLLC will be serving as advisory legal counsel.
Republicans have been outraged since McSally conceded.
300k voters vote for Ducey but not McSally? Hello voter fraud. — Oh my science! 🇺🇸 (@udubfan13) November 10, 2018
I want to SEE these ballots with Ducey for Governor and Sinema for Senate. I don't believe it. McSally may have been a moderate, but AZ LIKES moderate Senators (McCain, Flake). There is simply no way this is not FRAUD. 100'S of thousands of R's voted Marxist? — Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 13, 2018
she win by fraud an knows it and this recount is bullshit mcsally reallyt won — naomi berberian (@BerberianNaomi) November 15, 2018
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Hellfrost
Destiny And Ambitions
When created, Characters start with Three Ambitions and one Heroic Destiny.
Ambitions
Ambitions are relatively short-term, specific goals a character is driven to accomplish. These must be very specific and not vague, stating not only the goal, but the steps required to accomplish it.
For example, “Become famous” is a bad Ambition. “Earn renown by slaying the fell Hellfrost Dragon Nidhogg who terrorizes the Thunor Peaks” is a very good ambition. Ambitions should be the kind of thing a whole adventure or possibly a story arc, can hang off of.
Ambitions can be tied to Boasts to gain a bonus on all rolls to accomplish them.
When completed, you earn 1 XP on the spot. You then select a new Ambition to take it’s place.
Heroic Destiny
Heroic Destiny is what you envision the character’s larger story being about. Like Ambitions, a Destiny should be specific, but it’s a long-term goal. This is what you envision as being the “end game” for your character, the big final conflict that win or lose will likely bring their story to a close. It’s the central conflict that your character’s story is ultimately (probably) going to be about.
When taking actions that push you towards your destiny over the course of a session, you will receive a Glory Bonus.
No Plan Survives Contact With Play
You may abandon an Ambition at any time. The only rule is that you must always have three Ambitions, so if you abandon one, you must gain another. If you also made a Boast about an Abandoned Ambition, you also receive the penalty for failing a Boast.
Some times your character’s major life goal changes. Maybe they realize they don’t really WANT to be king after all, or that the princess they thought they wanted to win the hand of isn’t actually their true love. Every time you achieve a new rank, you have the option to change your Heroic Destiny without penalty. This should be accompanied by some introspective roleplaying, either in game or through a character journal published on the site. |
After having studied the track and the new bike, Pramac Racing Finnish rider Mika Kallio has found the right compromise to conquer the sixth position in the official test in Jerez de la Frontera. Yesterday and this morning Mika has tried different technical solutions and today thanks to the work of his technicians has found an almost perfect bike for the 45 minutes official session. A great start for the Pramac Racing rookie. Opposite sensation in the other half of the box where Niccolò Canepa couldn’t manage to go more than the eighteenth position. Niccolò found too many complications this weekend that didn’t allow him to work in total tranquility. Next appointment in two weeks times in Qatar for the first race of the season.
Paolo Campinoti – Team Principal Pramac Racing
“What to say it seems like we have started the season well. We have renovated our structure and things are turning in the right direction for us. We are really satisfied. After the results of this test it seems like we will be able to be between the protagonists during this season. Niccolò has on the other side found too many difficulties. He has to stay calm, we know his true value and we will do all possible to put him in the best situation to perform at his best.”
Mika Kallio – Pramac Racing rider – 6th in 1’40.149
“Between yesterday and this morning we have studied the situation of the track and the bike. Together with my Technical Director, Fabiano Sterlacchini, we have put together all the positive things we found and we had an almost perfect bike. I still lose too much time in the last sector otherwise we could have finished in an even better position. We are doing a great work and I believe we can keep up the good work also in the first race in Qatar.”
Niccolò Canepa – Pramac Racing rider – 18th in 1’41.551
“Day of immense emotions. I have taken my first official photo with the great MotoGP riders. Then I have done a photo with all the Italian riders, I almost wanted to ask if I could have taken a picture of them. I was beside Vale, Macho, Loris, Dovi and De Angelis. But then things didn’t go too well for me during official qualifying, as it has been yesterday. I couldn’t manage to be fast in the corners and I was losing too much time. I hope in Qatar things will go better. Surely I can guarantee I will keep my morale high and never give up.”
Rizla Suzuki
Rizla Suzuki’s Loris Capirossi rode to a fantastic third position during today’s Official Practice at the final pre-season test, held at Jerez in Spain.
Capirossi (1’39.757, 15 laps) spent much of this morning’s free practice session getting his Suzuki GSV-R finely tuned for the 4,423m re-surfaced Spanish circuit, in readiness for the timed afternoon shoot-out. He worked hard with his crew to get the best from his bike and reaped the rewards in the qualifying-type session to put his bike up towards the top of the timesheets.
Team-mate Chris Vermeulen was only narrowly behind Capirossi, as he clocked a fastest time of 1’39.848 from his 13 laps. He used a harder compound Bridgestone tire during the timed session to try and replicate the racing conditions he will encounter when the team return for the Jerez GP next month. Vermeulen was pleased with the results and is convinced that this shows the whole team is now capable to challenge this season.
Today’s proceedings were held in very changeable conditions that varied from bright and warm sunshine, through strong winds and finally a heavy rainstorm for the final free practice of the day. Ducati’s Casey Stoner produced the fastest lap in the Official Practice to win a brand new car for his efforts.
Rizla Suzuki now travels to the Middle East for the first round of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. The season kicks off with the only night race on the calendar, which will be held at Losail in Qatar on Sunday 12th April.
Loris Capirossi:
“I think this has been a very positive day, especially this morning because we found a good setting that made the bike very comfortable for me to ride fast. I worked hard with the whole team and tested many things and I now have a really good feeling – I can say that it is a 100% improvement from last year! In every test we have been competitive and this is very important for us. Today’s third-place was in a 45-minute session, but the good thing is that this was like a qualifying session that we will have in the season and everybody had the same tire so we have got to be pleased with that. The position today is good but we have to continue to work as hard as we have done this year. The Factory has done a really great job in the winter, but we have to continue because our potential is good, but not at the top and we need to be at the top! I want to say a big thanks to the whole crew for the work in testing and especially to Suzuki for the bike they have given us. This is only the beginning really because we need to go well in a race and we don’t care a lot about today’s result as it will be when the racing starts that it matters!”
Chris Vermeulen:
“It was a bit difficult today with the weather changing like it did, but I tried a hard tire – which we will probably use as the race tire here – in this afternoon’s session and I did a run of fast and consistent laps .Then I tried the softer tires and went a bit quicker. I was fairly happy with the lap-time, but it would have been good to have been a couple of places up the board or even a bit closer to Casey’s time. I guess the time between Loris and me proves that the whole Rizla Suzuki team has lifted things and that Suzuki has done a great job in the off-season. It’s the closest we’ve both been to the front in a qualifying session for a long while and hopefully it’s a sign of what will be coming this year – if that’s the case it’s going to be a good year for us!”
Paul Denning – Team Manager:
“Everyone at Rizla Suzuki had hoped that the lack of qualifying tires would help our race potential and looking at today’s result that theory seems to be true. We only kept back two new tires for both of our guys because we’d planned a full test programme – including a long run – after the timed session and I think maybe some of our competitors used more than that. Nonetheless, we can be satisfied that we are continuing to show good potential and that both Loris and Chris are evenly matched. The confidence of both riders is increasing all the time and our target has always been to keep improving and we will try to keep doing that. We are all now looking forward to racing and trying to replicate the pre-season performances where it really matters!”
Fiat Yamaha ‘qualifying’ session since the single-tire rule came into play the riders were keen to get a feel for the new system and were disappointed not to be able use the session to the full, but both are nonetheless satisfied with the work they’ve done this weekend and are now looking forward to the first race in two weeks time, under the Qatar floodlights. Rossi was third in this morning’s’38.646.
Valentino Rossi – Position: 2nd Time: 1’39.365 Laps: 16
“Really I was aiming for second place because I don’t’t much time before the rain came at the end. I am not sure I could have beaten Stoner today though; he was faster over one lap than me. It was strange not to have a qualifying tire, the grip is not the same but Bridgestone have done a good job and you can still push so I think it will be possible to have some fun. Now we have finished testing and we’re waiting to go racing; I think we’re in good shape and it will be possible to push from the start.”
Jorge Lorenzo – Position: 4th Time: 1’39.829 Laps: 21
“Yesterday was good but today it was a lot colder and I found it harder to be as fast because the conditions were quite different. I think that the qualifying this year is going to be quite hard without the special tires, which always suited my riding style quite well. I was quite a specialist with the qualifying tires and now I don’t have that advantage, so I have to learn to adapt. My riding style is better with the harder Bridgestone tire and so it will be quite difficult for me to be as good in the qualifying sessions this year I think! Today Stoner was so fast with the soft tire and I didn’t have a chance to catch him. Anyway, the important thing is that I have felt really good on both days here, I have been consistently fast and I am definitely prepared to fight for the podium at the first race in Qatar.”
Davide Brivio – Team manager
“It’s been a positive test because we’ve pretty much got through everything we needed to and at the end of the day we’re in good shape and we’ve made further improvements to our bike. Most importantly, Valentino’s race pace is now very good. It was unfortunate not to win the ‘qualifying’ session today because it’s always nice to start the season off on that note but Casey was very strong, so congratulations to him. We’re leaving here happy and satisfied; we have a few small things to work on for Qatar but we’re basically ready to race.”
Daniele Romagnoli –Team Manager
“After yesterday and this morning’s sessions we expected to be closer to the front, but we couldn’t get there today. We used the harder tire that we selected yesterday, with which Jorge had his best performance, but unfortunately the weather was colder today and so the potential for a few fast laps was higher with the softer tire today. Our race pace is good, but obviously we still need to keep working to keep up with Casey, because he is very fast. Next time it will be the real thing in Qatar, where we had a very good test, and we’re confident that Jorge can be at the top.”
Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team
Colin Edwards 10th, James Toseland in lucky escape
“When I saw Casey do a 39.1 on only his third lap, I knew my package wasn’t ready to do that and I’m not going to take any risks with the first race so close.” tire’s opening race under the Losail International Circuit’s floodlights.
Colin Edwards – 10th – 1.40.305
“I started the timed session and I knew I could do a low 40 but to do a 39 I just didn’t have the right set-up. The harder I tried to push I seemed to get more chatter and it was a bit of a speed limit. We’ve got a good idea of how to make it better and we are just a little bit too hard on the front fork spring. When I saw Casey do a 39.1 on only his third lap, I knew my package wasn’t ready to do that and I’m not going to take any risks with the first race so close. I’m happy with the way the winter has gone. Yamaha has done a great job and at every test we have been competitive. I can’t wait for the first race to try and get a good start for Monster and Yamaha.”
Herve Poncharal – Team Manager
“It was obviously not the way we wanted to finish what has been a very positive winter for the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team. Firstly, I’d tires ahead of the first race. I think we can be very optimistic after Colin’s tires. I’m sure he will be ready and determined to give 100 per cent again in Qatar. All of us can’t wait for the first race.”
Honda Motorsports
Honda’s six MotoGP riders completed their offseason testing programmes at Jerez today, allowing them to look forward to next month’s long-awaited Qatar season opener, the first of 17 races for the 2009 World Championship.
“My lap times on paper look reasonably good on their own, but if you compare them with Casey’s, the gap we need to close is still quite big.”
Repsol Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso was once again the fastest Honda man, the Italian running seventh quickest on his factory RC212V during this afternoon’s 45-minute ‘qualifying’ session, televised around the world and topped by Casey Stoner (Ducati). The outing was briefly red flagged, after Briton James Toseland (Yamaha) fell heavily, suffering concussion. The track was then soaked by a rain shower with five minutes of the 45 minutes remaining, spoiling some riders’ plans to complete the session with their fastest run of the day. Conditions were cooler than yesterday, with ambient temperature at 55F and track temperature at 66F.
Still working to extract maximum performance from his RC212V, Dovizioso announced himself satisfied
with these two days of testing and is now very much looking forward to making his race debut as a factory MotoGP rider. The Italian rode a lot of laps today, making important improvements to power delivery and stability, even though the rain cost him crucial dry track time. Dovizioso made the most of the rain anyway, venturing out on the wet track during the final two hours of the day. He recorded the fastest lap time during this period, clocking a 1m 51.488s on a drying track.
San Carlo Honda Gresini rider Elias ended the 45 minute ‘qualifying’ session less than a tenth of a second slower than Dovizioso, but the Spaniard wasn’t happy because he knows he can go faster. Elias and his crew have been working at adapting machine set-up to get more heat into the rear tire, but have been unable to find a solution
here, despite their best efforts. They are optimistic that they will be able to get on top of the problem at the very different Qatar track. Despite the difficulties, Elias’ RC212V recorded the fastest top speed at Jerez today.
De Puniet was happy with the work he did with his LCR Honda crew today. The Frenchman worked at getting the most out of his RC212V on used tires to ensure that he can perform well in the all-important later stages of races. He was 13th during the 45-minute televised outing, but knows he would have been faster if he hadn’t made a minor error during his quickest lap. De Puniet had planned to do a race simulation during the final two hours of the day but the rain spoiled that plan, so he did a couple of runs on rain tires instead.
MotoGP rookie Yuki Takahashi continued to improve on his Scot Racing Team RC212V, the young Japanese rider cutting a further half a second off his best Saturday lap time. After concentrating on front-end settings yesterday,
Takahashi and his technicians worked mostly on the rear end of the machine, looking to further improve performance through corners and on corner exits. Takahashi spent his final day of preseason testing thinking more about improving machine set-up for the first race, rather than worrying too much about recording ultra-quick lap times.
De Angelis had hoped to run closer to the front this afternoon but the knock-on effects of yesterday’s tumble hampered his plans. The crash crucially used up one of the rear tires in his tire allocation, forcing him to run second-hand
rubber this morning when he was aiming to push the limits in search of a better set-up. Like his San Carlo Honda Gresini team-mate, de Angelis wanted more heat in the rear tire of his RC212V, today’s cooler conditions not helping matters.
Kousuke Akiyoshi, riding as substitute for the injured Dani Pedrosa, made a valuable contribution to Repsol Honda’s weekend, the Japanese rider focusing on making improvements to power delivery and chassis balance. Akiyoshi was
looking forward to doing his very best during the televised 45 minutes but his hopes were dashed when he slid off his RC212V at the hairpin.
Pedrosa is currently working hard at recuperating from the left wrist and knee injuries he suffered when he crashed during testing at Qatar earlier this month. The Spaniard is aiming to be ready for action when the MotoGP World Championship returns to Qatar for the season-opening GP.
The night-time Qatar Grand Prix takes place under floodlights at the Losail racetrack outside the capital of Doha on April 10/11/12. MotoGP then heads further east for the Japanese GP at Motegi on April 24/25/26 before returning to Jerez for
the first race of the European season on May 1/2/3.
Honda rider quotes and lap times
Andrea Dovizioso, Repsol Honda Team: 1m 40.168s, on lap 51 of 77
“During these two days of testing the machine has improved quite a lot, especially the stability and power delivery which were two important areas we were working on. My lap times on paper look reasonably good on their own, but if you compare them with Casey’s, the gap we need to close is still quite big. After the 45-minute shoot-out it started raining and this spoiled our program for the afternoon, so we still have some things to try in dry conditions which might move us further forward. As far as the wet set-up, my feeling with the bike and tires is good and I’m happy about this. Now I’m looking forward to getting to Qatar for the first race.”
Toni Elias, San Carlo Honda Gresini: 1m 40.266s, on lap 42 of 43
“It was more difficult today because of the cooler temperatures but it is the same for everybody and the fact is that even though the track was cold, Stoner was hot! We’re not happy to be 1.6 seconds behind but with the difficulties we’re having in setting the bike up at the moment, it is to be expected. The important thing is that we know what we have to work on, we’ve known it since Qatar, but it is clear that the solution wasn’t going to come to us at this circuit. We have to be patient because we know the bike is good, we have a great package and a great team – we just need a bit more time to work things out. We have good data from Qatar and I can’t wait to get there and go racing again!”
Randy de Puniet, LCR Honda MotoGP: 1m 40.646s, on lap 52 of 60
“Before the 45-minute session we worked especially on a used rear tire to find better grip and we fixed some points on the chassis and suspension set-up. We found good solutions, because I set a good lap time on the used tire, but I expected something better with a soft tire in the qualifying session, maybe three or four tenths faster, but I made a small mistake in my last lap. Anyway we must continue our job because I am sure we can close the gap with the middle group. Honestly my intention is to qualify in the top ten and my squad is doing a very good job to adjust the machine for the first race in Qatar.”
Yuki Takahashi, Scot Racing Team Honda: 1m 40.814s, on lap 49 of 65
“I’m happy with the improvement we have made during the two days here. Today we worked particularly on the rear end of the machine. The rain during the afternoon gave me a chance to check how my Honda works in the rain, and I have
to say that its character does not change on a wet track, which is a positive thing. Of course, I wish that we could have some more practice time, but now I am looking forward to my first race on the RC212V.”
Alex de Angelis, San Carlo Honda Gresini: 1m 40.869s, on lap 39 of 40
“Unfortunately after the crash yesterday I had to use a new tire so that meant I had to run a used tire this morning and that is obviously not the ideal way to test new technical solutions with the bike. We’ve been off the pace here today but
we’re going to keep working hard to be in the mix in Qatar. Our problem has been getting heat into the tire but hopefully the track conditions are going to be warmer once the season starts so we’re still optimistic and very determined about what lies ahead.”
Kousuke Akiyoshi, Repsol Honda Team: 1m 42.206s, on lap 34 of 40
“This was another positive day where we worked on both chassis balance to improve the handling and the engine balance for driveability. My pace on the first section of the lap was very good and actually nearly as fast as the quickest riders. We were losing some time however in the middle section of the lap. Towards the end of the timed session I had a fall at the hairpin which was a shame, but the overall results from this test, in spite of the rain today and yesterday, are quite good.” |
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