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Don Jr. is laying<|fim_middle|> a recent Trumpworld wedding, per Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman.
"Don is very worried," the attendee said. According to the source, Don Jr. departed this week on a hunting trip to Canada. "They think the bomb's coming this week, and he doesn't want to be anywhere near a microphone if the bomb drops," the source said.
#Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, #Canada, #Donald Trump, #Donald Trump Jr, #Justice, #Michael Cohen, #Mueller, #Politics, #Robert Mueller, #Russia Investigation | low due to feared Mueller indictment, but still picking fights with Ocasio-Cortez
"It's definitely a 'very, very large brain' idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month."
Frank Dale Twitter Dec 8, 2018, 2:17 pm
Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Dallas, Texas on May 4, 2018. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
It appears that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election could be nearing its conclusion.
On Friday, President Donald Trump's Justice Department (DOJ) implicated the president ("Individual 1") as having directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to commit felony "campaign finance crimes" in order to keep allegations of extramarital affairs from being revealed to voters in 2016.
These latest developments in the Russia probe — which are believed to be "the first time in our lives that a President's own DOJ" is saying the commander-in-chief has "directed a felony" — come a week after Cohen revealed Trump and his family apparently pursued a huge real estate deal in Moscow through the summer of the 2016 campaign.
Amid the many details in Cohen's latest plea deal with Mueller was the disclosure that Donald Trump Jr., the president's oldest son, likely lied to Congress about his family's business in Russia.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), a member of the powerful House Intelligence Committee that will be controlled by Democrats come January 3, told CNN on Friday that she believes Don Jr. has lied to Congress multiple times, which is a felony.
The president's oldest son apparently is aware that he's in serious legal jeopardy. Trump Jr. has reportedly told friends that he's very worried about being indicted.
But Don Jr. took time out of his busy schedule of fearing indictments and retweeting himself to become the latest conservative to make the mistake of challenging Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on social media.
Trump Jr. declared a meme about the 29-year-old Democratic socialist — who is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress — and eating dogs was "funny cuz it's true!!!" on Thursday.
It's funny cuz it's true!!! 🤣🇺🇸🤣🇺🇸🤣
A post shared by Donald Trump Jr. (@donaldjtrumpjr) on Dec 6, 2018 at 4:01pm PST
The New York congresswoman-elect reacted on Friday by noting Don Jr.'s interesting strategy of continuing to troll Democrats who will gain subpoena power next month.
I have noticed that Junior here has a habit of posting nonsense about me whenever the Mueller investigation heats up.
Please, keep it coming Jr – it's definitely a "very, very large brain" idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month.
Have fun! https://t.co/oQ6MsdJYCk
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 7, 2018
After conservatives — including Kimberly Guilfoyle, the ex-Fox News host, former wife of the next Democratic governor of California, and current girlfriend of Don Jr. — circled the wagons and claimed poor Trump Jr. was being threatened with a subpoena for being deplorable, Ocasio-Cortez pointed out that is literally impossible.
For the GOP crying that this is a "threat" – I don't have power to subpoena anybody.
Congress as a body, GOP included, has the power. No indiv. member can issue a subpoena unless they are a Chair (which, as a freshman, I can assure you I will not be). Also must be under purview.
In addition to facing legal scrutiny for possibly lying to Congress about the "Moscow Project," Trump Jr. is also thought to be in hot water over his connection to the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian agent.
Don Jr. denied that the meeting ever occurred, before claiming it was about "the adoption of Russian children" after emails emerged showing his involvement, including one message in which he famously wrote, "If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer."
Eventually, Trump Jr. admitted on Twitter that the purpose of the meeting was to obtain information regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D), his father's opponent in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The president's namesake has been warned that his social media activity increases his legal risk.
Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon — who has called Trump Jr.'s participation in the Trump Tower meeting "treasonous" and "unpatriotic" — predicted Mueller's probe will "crack Don Jr. like an egg on national TV" in a book released earlier this year.
Cohen has alleged the now-president was informed about the Trump Tower meeting in advance by his son. Trump admitted earlier this year that he personally dictated a false statement from Trump Jr. about the meeting.
Don Jr.'s legal troubles were reportedly the talk of | 1,075 |
PHP Anonymous Functions: What Are They, and Why Use Them?
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Check your syntax and ensure it is accurate!
You say "Note that, by this point, getGreetingFunction() has finished running. In normal circumstances, its local variable, $timeOfDay, would have fallen out of scope and disappeared. However, because we've created a closure using the anonymous function (now stored in $greetingFunction), the anonymous function can still access this $timeOfDay variable.".
I cant shake off the idea that $greetingFunction is a reference to getGreetingFunction(). You say getGreetingFunction has finished running but isnt it so that the named function is called every time the variable $greetingFunction is used? I cant get my head around the fact that the named function as well as the anonymous function runs whenever the variable is used (since it references the named function).
Can I call anonymous function inside another anonymous function?
Provided the functions are not reiterative (calling an instance of themselves), there should be no problem. | Blog / Web Development / PHP / PHP Functions / PHP Anonymous Functions: What Are They, and Why Use Them?
In this tutorial you'll explore anonymous functions in PHP. Anonymous functions are a PHP feature that you probably won't use that often; however, they can be really useful in certain situations, as you'll see.
Creating closures with anonymous functions.
Ready to dive into anonymous functions in PHP? Let's go!
Anonymous functions are similar to regular functions, in that they contain a block of code that is run when they are called. They can also accept arguments, and return values.
There is no function name between the function keyword and the opening parenthesis ('('). This tells PHP that you're creating an anonymous function.
There is a semicolon after the function definition. This is because anonymous function definitions are expressions, whereas regular function definitions are code constructs.
While the above code is perfectly valid, it isn't very useful. Since the anonymous function has no name, you can't refer to it anywhere else in your code, so it can never be called!
Assign it to a variable, then call it later using the variable's name. You can even store a bunch of different anonymous functions in a single array.
Pass it to another function that can then call it later. This is known as a callback.
Return it from within an outer function so that it can access the outer function's variables. This is known as a closure.
You'll explore these three techniques in the rest of this tutorial.
One common use of anonymous functions is to create simple inline callback functions. A callback function is a function that you create yourself, then pass to another function as an argument. Once it has access to your callback function, the receiving function can then call it whenever it needs to. This gives you an easy way to customise the behaviour of the receiving function.
Many built-in PHP functions accept callbacks, and you can also write your own callback-accepting functions. Let's look at a couple of built-in functions that use callbacks, and see how to use them.
PHP's array_map() function accepts a callback function and an array as arguments. It then walks through the elements in the array. For each element, it calls your callback function with the element's value, and your callback function needs to return the new value to use for the element. array_map() then replaces the element's value with your callback's return value. Once it's done, array_map() returns the modified array.
array_map() works on a copy of the array you pass to it. The original array is untouched.
// ...then map the callback function to elements in an array.
// Map an anonymous callback function to elements in an array.
This approach saves a line of code, but more importantly, it avoids cluttering up the PHP file with a separate regular function that is only being used as a one-off callback.
Another common use of callbacks is with PHP's usort() function. This function lets you sort arrays using a sorting callback function that you write yourself. This is particularly handy if you need to sort an array of objects or associative arrays, since only you, as the coder, know the best way to sort such complex structures.
Another common use of anonymous functions is to create closures. A closure is a function that retains access to the variables in its enclosing scope, even if that scope has since disappeared.
A function, myFunction(), contains a local variable (or parameter) called $myVar.
The function also defines and returns an anonymous function that accesses $myVar.
Some other code calls myFunction() and gets back the anonymous function, which it stores in $anonFunction. By this time, myFunction() has, of course, finished running.
If the code now calls $anonFunction(), the anonymous function can still access the $myVar local variable that was in myFunction(), even though myFunction() is no longer running! The anonymous function, together with its reference to the $myVar variable, constitute a closure.
Rather confusingly, the PHP manual refers to anonymous functions as closures. They are not the same thing! Anonymous functions are used to create closures.
Closures can be difficult to get your head around at first, but once you grasp the concept, they let you write clean, powerful and flexible code. Let's look at a couple of examples of closures to make things clearer.
echo $greetingFunction( "Fred" ); // Displays "Good Morning, Fred!"
getGreetingFunction() initialises a local variable, $timeOfDay, on line 5, and on lines 7-10 it also defines and returns an anonymous function (described below).
On line 8, the anonymous function manipulates getGreetingFunction()'s local $timeOfDay variable by converting its first letter to uppercase, and on line 9 it returns a greeting string that contains $timeOfDay's value.
Normally, the anonymous function wouldn't have access to the $timeOfDay variable, since that variable is local to getGreetingFunction()'s scope only. However, the use keyword on line 7 tells PHP to let the anonymous function access $timeOfDay. This lets us create the closure.
The ampersand (&) before $timeOfDay tells PHP to pass a reference to the $timeOfDay variable into the anonymous function, rather than just copying the variable's value. This allows the anonymous function to manipulate $timeOfDay directly. Strictly speaking, a closure's function should always access variables in its enclosing scope by reference. That said, if you know that you won't need to change the value of a variable then you can omit the ampersand to pass the variable by value instead.
On line 13, we call getGreetingFunction() and get back the returned anonymous function, which we store in a $greetingFunction variable.
Note that, by this point, getGreetingFunction() has finished running. In normal circumstances, its local variable, $timeOfDay, would have fallen out of scope and disappeared. However, because we've created a closure using the anonymous function (now stored in $greetingFunction), the anonymous function can still access this $timeOfDay variable.
On line 14, we call our anonymous function. It manipulates the value of the $timeofDay variable inside the closure by converting its first letter to uppercase, then it returns a greeting containing $timeOfDay's new value, which is "Morning".
That, in a nutshell, is how you create a closure in PHP. It's a trivial example, but the important point to note is that the returned anonymous function can still access its enclosing function's $timeOfDay local variable, even after the enclosing function has finished running.
Now that we've seen how to create a closure, let's look at a common practical use for them.
When you pass a callback function to the PHP usort() function, and usort() calls your callback, the callback receives the two arguments passed to it by usort() — that is, the two values in the array to compare.
But what if you wanted your callback function to receive extra information? For example, taking our usort() example from earlier in the article, we might want to pass an additional $sortKey argument to our callback to tell it which key it should use for sorting the array ("name" or "age").
However, usort() — not us — calls our callback. Since it's called within usort()'s scope, we don't have a chance to pass additional arguments to the callback at the time it's called.
Create an array of people.
First we create our usual array of people. Each person is represented by an associative array with two keys: "name" and "age".
On lines 8-10, getSortFunction() defines and returns an anonymous function, which is the sorting function that we'll pass to usort(). The anonymous function accepts the usual two array elements to sort — $personA and $personB — but it also uses the use keyword to access the $sortKey parameter, which is within the scope of the enclosing getSortFunction() function. This creates the closure. It then uses $sortKey to determine which key to use for the comparison (either "name" or "age").
Remember: Since we've created a closure, the anonymous function still has access to the value of the $sortKey parameter after getSortFunction() has finished running.
Finally our code sorts the array, first by name and then by age. To do this, it calls getSortFunction(), passing in the key to sort by ("name" or "age"). getSortFunction() then returns an appropriate anonymous sort function that uses the supplied sort key. The code then passes this anonymous function to usort(), along with the array to sort.
You can use this trick any time you need to pass additional data to a callback function.
Closures are quite a broad and subtle topic. If you're not familiar with them, check out the following good articles on anonymous functions and closures in PHP and closures and lambda functions, which explain in detail exactly what a closure is (and isn't).
That an anonymous function is much like a regular function, except it has no name, and is an expression rather than a code construct.
How to assign an anonymous function to a variable, and how to call the anonymous function using the variable.
Ways to use inline anonymous functions as callbacks to create neater, tidier code.
How to create closures using anonymous functions. Closures are useful for many things, including making code more readable, avoiding global variables, and creating customisable callback functions.
I hope you found this tutorial helpful, and that you now feel confident creating and using anonymous functions in your PHP code. Have fun!
Some of it is a bit over my head, but I get the general gist!
One thing that has me confused is the usort example.
Have "name" for $personA ?
Hello. Thanks for all your nices tutorials. I am learning a lot.
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Two of our favourites were just eliminated from My Kitchen Rules.
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It's over for two fan favourites on My Kitchen Rules.
Stella and Jazzey were forced out of the kitchen after an epic cook-off against Alex and Emily.
The teams were fighting for a place in the grand final, but Stella and Jazzey, both 21, couldn't compete with Alex, 35, and Emily, 27, who scored almost all eights and nines for their dishes.
Judge Pete Evans gave the Queensland couple a 10, calling it a "hat trick". He said their dishes were "perfect, perfect and perfect".
Despite winning a spot in the final, Alex and Emily were devastated to see Stella and Jazzey leave the competition. Image: Channel 7
"You could be our next champions," fellow judge Manu Feildel told<|fim_middle|> it. All good," he told them.
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It was welcome news for the pair.
"We just had this aim. We wanted to get to the grand final, it's everything we wanted, and I just can't believe that it's happened," said a tearful Emily, 27.
But you could see how heartbroken Stella and Jazzey were. Stella couldn't even talk at first, and the other contestants felt their pain at coming so close, only to miss out on a spot at the final.
"We're definitely disappointed to go out like this," said Jazzey.
"We didn't want that at all. You want to go out on a high, and that definitely was not our best three-course."
Still, she was able to stay upbeat, even in the face of defeat.
"We're disappointed in that way, but to come third... Like, if this was the Olympics, we'd get bronze medals," added Jazzey, prompting everybody to laugh.
Jazzey said one of the best parts of the competition was getting to meet her celebrity crush, Manu... Image: Channel 7
...Who responded with a suave wink. Image: Channel 7
"I've never cried on this show before. Sorry," Stella said.
"It's been an incredible journey, and we're really grateful that we got this far. We're really proud of ourselves, and I'm really proud of Jazzey."
Meanwhile, Jazzey was just thrilled she managed to get close to her celebrity crush Manu, 44, without anyone getting the authorities involved.
"There's been heaps of great stuff. Meeting you, Manu," she said.
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Clearly sensing Pete, 45, was feeling a little left out, Stella added it had been great to meet him, too.
"Obviously Pete, but for a second, I was in love with Manu for a bit," continued Jazzey.
But Pete was able to laugh it off. We think.
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CO<|fim_middle|> | QUITLAM, BC, June 14, 2016 – The City of Coquitlam has awarded nearly $200,529 in Spirit of Coquitlam grants, in support of local non-profit and community-based organizations.
Through the spring 2016 intake for the City's Spirit of Coquitlam Grant Program, 22 projects will receive a total of $200,529 in funding. For 2016, the City continues to emphasize projects focused on events, celebrations and sports hosting applications, as well as providing community support through funding of initiatives that have public benefits and enrich the community.
This support will strengthen the community's experience, enhance knowledge and skills within the volunteer resource, as well as provide future support for key 2016 celebrations such as Coquitlam 125 and the Coquitlam 2016 55+ BC Games.
Successful Spirit of Coquitlam grant projects must have outcomes that align with the City's strategic goals, as well as meeting eligibility criteria outlined in the grant guidelines. A multi-departmental staff team reviews grant requests to ensure this alignment. Staff recommendations are then forwarded to Council for discussion and approval.
The Spirit of Coquitlam Grant Program was created in 2002 to assist local organizations in purchasing equipment for their use and development, hosting events, and realizing capital projects to advance community goals. Since 2002, through this program, the City of Coquitlam has awarded over $7.56 million to approximately 189 different community organizations. Funding for the Spirit of Coquitlam Grant Program is derived from the Casino Host Agreement revenue.
The next Spirit of Coquitlam Grant intake will occur in fall 2016. More information about the Spirit of Coquitlam Grant can be found on the Spirit Grant webpage.
List of Spirit Grant Spring 2016 grant recipients. | 401 |
New faces looking to make an impact in the secondary
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Women's basketball cracked the USA TODAY/WBCA poll for the first time this season on Tuesday, coming in at the No. 25 slot. However, considering the strength of their schedule and their dominance over league play, there's room to wonder why it took so long for the Bulls (19-4, 8-0 AAC) to finally gain entry into […]
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As USF women's and men's basketball get into the thick of their conference schedules, each matchup will now make or break their opportunities for advancing into the postseason. Here is how both programs finished their matchups on Wednesday on the road. Women's basketball – USF 89, Tulsa 68 Senior forward Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu put up […]
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Despite losing notable players to the 2023 college transfer portal, South Florida football still snagged a handful of promising new signees of its own. Departed players like sophomore running back Brian Battie, junior kicker Spencer Shrader and sophomore wide receiver Jimmy Horn Jr. left the Bulls after receiving offers from other schools. Battie will make […] | to NCAA transfer rules. USF ATHLETICS PHOTO
From the coach to the players, the secondary for the USF football team has plenty of new individuals ready to make a difference.
Newly hired cornerbacks coach George Barlow has decades of experience. He has been coaching since 1991 and most recently worked as an assistant to the head coach and cornerbacks coach at NC State.
in a press conference Thursday afternoon, Barlow talked about how he became interested in the job at USF and how the hiring process worked, citing mutual friends as a big reason he got the opportunity.
"One of the coaches I used to coach with a couple years ago, actually two coaches, were friends with coach [Jeff] Scott and [defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer]," Barlow said. "I kind of got to know them and got in touch with them through some coaches that I coached with in the past. They got to telling me about the opportunity, and then I talked to coach Scott and coach Spencer, and they actually interviewed me and we liked each other.
"We both had the same similar vision of how we wanted to coach guys, and how we wanted to develop them, and I was familiar with the defensive scheme. So, everything kind of meshed together and I decided to take the job here, and obviously they accepted me so they thought I would be a good fit."
So far, Barlow said he has enjoyed his time at USF and believes that Scott is building the program the right way.
"It's been really good, I really enjoy being here. Coach [Scott] has a great vision to build a quality program," Barlow said. "He's making it about family, he's making it about developing men, developing leaders, and then of course developing players to get to a point where we can be a championship-type program.
"He's got a great vision and he's doing things the right way. I'm happy to be a part of it, I've been very pleased."
As Barlow gets more comfortable in the program, the secondary itself has a plethora of talent that has yet to play a single snap for the Bulls, whether that be due to them being a transfer or a freshman.
Redshirt sophomore TJ Robinson and sophomore Christian Williams, two transfers, are players who have impressed Barlow in spring practice so far.
"TJ [Robinson] would be one, he's had a pretty decent spring. [He] started out kind of slow, but again, we're continuing to develop upwardly as we go," Barlow said. "Christian Williams has also had a really good spring. Like [Daquan Evans], they definitely have the ability, and they have the mentality to go along with it. Both of those kids have been pleasant surprises."
In addition to Robinson and Williams, the Bulls also have newcomers such as sophomore Matthew Hill, who transferred from Auburn, and freshman Will Jones who came over from Kansas State.
While the influx of depth and talent is always welcomed, growing accustomed to one another and learning the standards is crucial for the success of a team. Barlow said he utilizes spring practice for that purpose.
"That's what spring ball is all about. We get 15 practices to get them to where they need to be," Barlow said. "As far as my group, every day we have to do things to get better, whether it be on or off the field. A lot of guys just haven't played a bunch, so you're teaching them from the ground up, which is a good thing.
"These guys, they got the talent to do it … so like I said before, they're progressing in the right direction."
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"Untapped potential" was the phrase CEO and Founder of Biggest Fan Consulting Brandon Kaiser used to describe the South Florida basketball's student section. The SoFlo Rodeo student section has been growing since its introduction in November. The backbone behind it has been Kaiser's company that USF Athletics hired to instill the beginning of what could […]
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Freshmen Jazmyn Myers, Luke Zimmer and Eli Hermann teamed up with USF Athletics to create an organization called SoFlo Rodeo, which focuses on raising more attendance in student sections at games. Since their start in mid-November of last year, the trio has been able to attract hundreds of students to games. The group hit an […]
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Veronica 'Ronnie' Gajownik played for USF softball from 2014-15, but now is in charge of running High-A Arizona Diamondback affiliate, the Hillsboro Hops. On Friday, Gajownik was announced as Minor League Baseball's second woman manager in the MLB and the first at the High-A level. For Gajownik, the feeling of being named a High-A manager […]
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Louisville QB commit Jawon Pass named U.S. Army All-American
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Louisville quarterback Jawon Pass has officially been named a U.S. Army All-American. He was presented with his jersey for the famed exhibition game Wednesday morning at his Carver High School in Columbus, Ga.
On behalf of the @GoArmy welcome @Puma_Blessed2 to the @ArmyAllAmerican class of 2016! #ArmyBowlTour #GoCards pic.twitter.com/V7I0lf0uEl
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Pass became one of Louisville's most high-profile recruiting victories ever when he committed to the Cardinals over Auburn and Alabama on July 16. The four-star prospect also spent a chunk of his summer competing at the prestigious national Elite 11 quarterback competition.
Pass becomes Louisville's seventh Army All-American since 2011, but its first since James Quick in 2013. In addition to Quick and Pass, Teddy Bridgewater, Nick Dawson-Brents, Gerod Holliman, Keith Brown and Eli Rogers were also honored as All-Americans.
The 2016<|fim_middle|> | U.S. Army All-American game will be played on Jan. 9, 2016 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. You'll be able to watch the game on NBC. | 43 |
I am a doodler. Always have been.<|fim_middle|> pen?
I found the photo on Flickr, and it is by Treatinfamy. | I doodle when I sit in my critique group and listen to the discussion, I doodle when I am at lectures or readings, I doodle when I'm writing with pen and paper and stop to think.
Usually, I don't think much about it. I just do it. Doodling is an ingrained habit of years and years and years. But the other day I paused to ponder something in the middle of writing in my journal and found myself doodling. A row of spirals. A line of squares beneath that, their insides decorated with lines and dots. And in the midst of that doodling I started thinking about it.
What an odd thing doodling is. I'm sure to others it appears that I'm not paying attention when I doodle. But actually, the opposite is true. Since I'm a writer, my brain needs a direct connection to my hand in order to focus. So, if I'm not taking notes, I'm doodling.
Since I do tend to doodle the same basic designs over and over again–the above-mentioned spirals, squares, triangles, dots and lines–I wonder if these basic shapes provide deep insight about me. Probably not, because they are quite basic. When I look at other people's doodles, they seem much more profound and organized than mine.
According to the all-knowing Wikipedia, doodling is "unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied." And, I am vindicated, because the same Wikipedia article sites a study that doodling improves memory. However, according to this blog, doodling can have severe ramifications, even setting criminals free.
What I wonder is if certain types of people are more apt to doodle than others. Do writers doodle more than non-writers? Do artists doodle more than writers? What is the profile of a doodler? And should we even care? Probably not. It is just good to look at these ingrained habits we don't even think about once in awhile, especially since we are writers dedicated to illuminating the human condition. We are, aren't we?
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What are your honest opinions regarding the topic?
Have you addressed your internal biases?
Make an all-inclusive list of counter-opinions or counter-arguments.
Finding unbiased resources:
Conduct a general knowledge overview.
Search for information in : encyclopedias, wikis, dictionaries, etc.
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Identify credible materials for all of the viewpoints - yours and the additional you identified
Reject unsound arguments - have the courage to accept that not all viewpoints are valid
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Have they written other articles or books?
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Mindware by Richard E. Nisbett
Call Number: BC177.N57 2015
"The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world." -Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times Book Review Scientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively about our behavior and our world. Surprisingly, despite their utility, many of these tools remain unknown to most of us. In Mindware, the world-renowned psychologist Richard E. Nisbett presents these ideas in clear and accessible detail. Nisbett has made a distinguished career of studying and teaching such powerful problem-solving concepts as the law of large numbers, statistical regression, cost-benefit analysis, sunk costs and opportunity costs, and causation and correlation, probing the best methods for teaching others how to use them effectively in their daily lives. In this groundbreaking book, Nisbett shows us how to frame common problems in such a way that these scientific and statistical principles can be applied to them. The result is an enlightening and practical guide to the most essential tools of reasoning ever developed-tools that can easily be used to make better professional, business, and personal decisions.
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BAD ARGUMENTS
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi; Alejandro Giraldo (Illustrator)
Call Number: BC177.A46 2014
"A flawless compendium of flaws." --Alice Roberts, PhD, anatomist, writer, and presenter of The Incredible Human Journey The antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school, a la Aristotle). Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short--plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn't believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that were true, he wouldn't like the result (the argument from consequences). Once you learn to recognize these abuses of reason, they start to crop up everywhere from congressional debate to YouTube comments--which makes this geek-chic book a must for anyone in the habit of holding opinions.
A Field Guide to Lies by Daniel J. Levitin
Call Number: BC177.L486 2016
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This is Your Brain on Music, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process--especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them. It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions, and outright lies from reliable information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categories--statistical infomation and faulty arguments--ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. Infoliteracy means understanding that there are hierarchies of source quality and bias that variously distort our information feeds via every media channel, including social media. We may expect newspapers, bloggers, the government, and Wikipedia to be factually and logically correct, but they so often aren't. We need | 586 |
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ZEE5 recently released the motion poster on their social media, which has received a heart-warming response from fans and media alike. This Friendship Day, the audience will get a glimpse into the world of 'YAARA' exclusively on ZEE5.
One of the most anticipated premieres on ZEE5, a Tigmanshu Dhulia directorial, YAARA is an unforgettable story about friendship that will be celebrated in the coming years.
Talking about this Vidyut Jammwal expresses, "Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. Yaara is a story of friends growing up together and about their journeys."
"Yaara is extremely close to my heart, it gives a new meaning and outlook to what describes a bond between a group of friends. The characters are really living their true self in the movie and everyone is free-spirited. This unforgettable story about friendship will definitely trigger a lot of emotions. All of us shared a great bond on the set which translates naturally on screen. Finally, the world is getting introduced to YAARA on 30th July on ZEE5, just in time for Friendship Day," says Amit Sadh.
"Yaara was such an interesting project, it was the easiest yes I have ever said. The motion poster has received a heartwarming response from the audience and finally, Yaara will premiere on 30th July on ZEE5. It is a story of four notorious criminals and time will surely test their friendship, that's how the narrative of the film is shaped. The timing with Friendship Day is perfect!, added Vijay Varma on the premiere of Yaara.
Kenny Basumatary shares, "Yaara is one of the most exciting projects that I have worked on and I am thrilled that it will premiere on 30th July on ZEE5. In the process of shooting the film, we all found a friend in each other. I could have not asked for better co-actors and our director Tigmanshu Sir, who has lent his brilliance to the project. It is so special that the film is releasing on Friendship Day."
'YAARA' is a crime drama that tests an enduring friendship between four notorious criminals. Set in the backdrop of North India, the narrative is wrapped in a thin sheet of history. This ZEE5 original film is a fun, stimulating and thrilling tale that will take you back in time in UP to witness the rise and fall of the चौकड़ी गैंग of 4 friends rustling operations across the Nepal-India border. The movie is a licensed adaptation of the French Feature Film "A Gang Story".
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Foxtrot er en pardans, som er opstået i USA omkring <|fim_middle|>iseret sportsdans normeret i et tempo på 30 takter i minuttet.
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Selskabsdans | 1914. Den danses i 4/4-takt.
Dens oprindelse tilskrives en vaudevilleskuespiller ved navn Harry Fox, som opfandt den til brug for optrædende, der ikke beherskede den vanskeligere two-step. Dog knytter navnet sig muligvis også til en amerikansk betegnelse for en travart, fox trot, som ses hos heste.
Dansen opstod blandt New Yorks sorte befolkningsgrupper, men bredte sig hurtigt i både USA og Europa. Dansen var fra starten relativt langsom i sin rytme, men blev hurtigt tilpasset et højere tempo, som omkring 1920 lå på omkring 34-42 takter i minuttet. Samtidig begyndte man at standardisere dansen, så danseskoler kunne undervise eleverne på en ensartet måde.
I midten af 1920'erne kom charleston frem med sit hurtige tempo og overtog for en tid en del af foxtrottens popularitet, og selvom charlestonmoden forsvandt ret hurtigt, havde den påvirket foxtrot i en grad, så der opstod en ny quick-foxtrot dans. Denne dans er siden blevet etableret som quickstep.
Den langsommere, oprindelige foxtrot blev også videreudviklet og bliver nu ofte betegnet "slow foxtrot" eller "slowfox", som er en internationalt standard | 359 |
Farmer Nappy Among Grounded Airline Passengers. Artist Now Home, Safe and Sound.
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Soca artist Farmer Nappy is back on local soil after being grounded in Puerto Rico on December 13th, along with other passengers. In a statement, Nappy's management told EBUZZTT that Farmer got home tired, frustrated but relieved, on Wednesday morning.
The Caribbean Airlines flight BW 483 had diverted to Puerto Rico as a result of a medical emergency on board. The airline said that due to restrictions in that territory and other regulatory issues , a second relief aircraft was sent from Trinidad to Puerto Rico to bring the passengers to Trinidad however due to mitigating circumstances beyond the control of the airline, the relief flight was unable to leave Puerto Rico.
Farmer's management explained that for the artist, it was understood that situations like this one, while unfortunate, do in fact happen from time to time. "It<|fim_middle|> communication from the airline in the initial stages of the situation," Farmer's management explained. "Finally after almost an entire day in Puerto Rico's Airport, with no place to sleep and no food, passengers were provided hotel accommodations for a few hours while the airline made final arrangements for the flight last night," they told us.
Caribbean Airlines, in a statement issued this morning, said that Puerto Rico is not a destination on Caribbean Airlines' regular route network, and while support systems were in place on the island, several factors outside of the airline's authority made the operation less efficient than planned.
The relief flight landed at the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad at 2:26am today.
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"Focus on the Talent and Market Soca." This Artist Says Its High Time for Change. | was a very frustrating and helpless experience made worse by the challenges with the local authorities in Puerto Rico and the lack of proper | 24 |
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Hillary & Tenzing during the 1st summit of Everest in 1953
Everest climbing season is here. Summits are about to be had. Lives are about to be changed forever… for better or for worse.
Everest with forming clouds
1. Everest grows 4mm higher every year due to geologic uplift.
2. <|fim_middle|> summit Everest, on May 19 1953.
9. Over 2000 people have reached the top of Everest.
Everest & HImalayas from the International Space Station
10. There are around 120 dead bodies of climbers on the mountain.
11. Avalanches are the greatest cause of death for climbers scaling Everest (Avalanches at about a 2:1 ratio over falls).
12. The summit is just below the cruising height of a jet.
13. The youngest person to reach summit was 13 and the oldest was 80 (same guy who skied Everest in 1971).
Yuichiro Miura 2 days ago after his summit of Everest at age 80
Yuichiro Miura also was the guy who famously skied down Everest in 1971.
14. In Nepal the mountain is called Sagarmatha, meaning 'forehead of the sky'.
15. In Tibet the mountain is known as Chomolangma for 'mother of the universe'
Everest from the TIbetan plateau
16. It is the highest mountain in the world at 29,035 feet, although its exact height is often disputed.
17. Everest was created about 60 million years ago.
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3. Over 4,000 people have attempted to climb Everest.
Mount Everest and friends
4. George Everest, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843, discovered Everest in 1841.
5. Mount Everest is also home to a very minute black jumping spider. These spiders hide in crevices and feed on frozen insects. Their food depends largely upon what is blown by the wind into the specific area. They live as high as 22,000 feet.
6. Over 260 people have died on Everest (exact number unknown).
Mount Everest's North Face
7. In 2014, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake triggered an avalanche that base camp killed 16 Sherpa and climbers and injured 61. This is the greatest tragedy ever seen on Everest.
In 2014, an avalanche killed 16 Sherpa above the Khumbu icefall. At the time this was the worst accident in Everest history.
During 1996, around 15 people lost their lives while trying to descend from the summit of Mount Everest (the 3rd most in one year). In 2012, 11 people perished on Everest (the 4th most).
8. Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to | 301 |
Almost as if<|fim_middle|> | it were straight out of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', this beautiful wedding had one defining element: flowers and botanicals – everywhere! Orchids were a particular favourite, as it held significant meaning for the bridal couple, and they covered everything from the decorations, invitations, and favours to even the lace cape of the bride's evening gown. We're also loving the bride's dress, which was custom made by Yefta Gunawan, one of Indonesia's leading bridal designers.
The bride and groom exchanged their vows amidst a truly stunning décor of white rose petals and hanging roses, which created a ceiling over the intimate and serene space with its breathtaking cliff top view. Replicating this elegant décor for their reception, they opted for fresh flowers that adorned the tables as well as the ceiling, and fresh pink roses for the tea ceremony. Many thanks to Terralogical for capturing this absolutely gorgeous set of photos.
Katarina: "We really treasured sharing these precious moments with the ones closest to our hearts; our wedding was dearly intimate and filled with the people we love the most. | 220 |
Joaquin Baca's Teo and Günter Seeger NY Both Close After Short Runs
"(…) Short-lived restaurants don't get the same treatment, for obvious reasons, but it's still unfortunate when ambitious places from established players fizzle out fast. There are all kinds of reasons why these closings happen. But it's still a bummer to hear that Bushwick's Teo has closed after just five months of serving cast-iron-skillet okonomiyakis.
The closing came out of nowhere, given what the restaurant had going for it. It wasn't a rookie chef's project. The owner was Joaquin Baca, who was David Chang's first employee at Momofuku Noodle Bar and helped right the ship at Ssäm Bar after a rocky start. Baca helped shape Momofuku in its earliest years before going on to open Williamsburg's the Brooklyn Star, which closed in May after nine years in Williamsburg. He's a talented chef who was cooking food people want to eat; short rib over kimchee fried rice, oysters coated in cornmeal and then fried, a confit duck-leg ramen. The news was announced on the restaurant's Instagram and website, but no reason was given.
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Toby's Estate Brooklyn Changes Name to Partners Coffee
April 18, 2019 by TaraPaige Group Leave a Comment
Fresh off the heels of a second Brooklyn roastery opening and new cafe, Toby's Estate New York today announced a name and brand change, becoming Partners Coffee.
Toby's Estate in Brooklyn has been building a passionate following and impressive wholesale roster since opening with a Williamsburg roastery in 2012. Co-Owners Amber Jacobsen and Adam Boyd had licensed the name from the popular Australian roastery, founded by Toby Smith, of the same name.
While 2012 and the subsequent years turned out to be fortuitous times for Australophile specialty cafe businesses riding the Third Wave in New York, the change to Partners Coffee serves to better reflect the local ownership.
"We are only as great as the sum of our partners, and we are excited to continue evolving and growing with a new look, feel and name that fully embodies who we are and what we stand for," Jacobsen and Boyd said in an announcement of the rebranding.
The Partners Coffee effort was assisted by the New York design firm Love & War, which sought to "develop a bold, dynamic design aesthetic that evokes heritage coffee brands and the classic energy, optimism and simplicity of old-school New York coffee counters," according to the Partners Coffee announcement today. (…)"
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Inside Williamsburg's New All-Day Restaurant Gertie
"In its bright, 70-seat space, Gertie — which opened over the weekend at 357 Grand St., at Marcy Avenue — will eventually serve an all-day menu built around its rotisserie, dedicated to roasted meats and vegetables. The setting and service style are casual: Orders get placed at the counter, but there's still an element of table service when it comes to refilling drinks and bussing. There's also a full bar program to come, the restaurant billing itself as both a luncheonette and a liquor bar.
Adler went to business school and was on the finance track when he started dabbling in the restaurant world by starting his own business in college. It was a take-out and delivery-only service for University of Pennsylvania students that mimicked home-cooked meals. After school, he decided to go all-in on hospitality and got a job at Danny Meyer's Blue Smoke, working as a bus boy and then a floor manager. A couple years later, he partnered with fellow Danny Meyer vet Jonah Miller to open Huertas, East Village's Basque tapas restaurant."
Filed Under: Baking, Cooking, Events, Local Market Buzz, Operations, Shopbuzz, Trending Now, Wine Tagged With: all day, Bar, Blue Smoke, business, changes, customers, Drinks, Food, Food<|fim_middle|> damage done by Hurricane Sandy is quickly approaching.
Businesses in Williamsburg are understandably concerned, particularly Bars and Restaurants for whom nights and weekends are the worst possible shutdown times. Matthew Webber, owner of several restaurants in Bushwick and Williamsburg, says that past weekend disruptions have resulted in a 30% drop in sales for some of his restaurants. When the L train shuts down, "Williamsburg gets brutalized," says Webber.
Some business owners, like Kevin Adey of Faro in Bushwick, don't believe that the shutdown will happen. Since real estate developers now have a huge stake in Williamsburg, they may have the opportunity to influence the MTA's decision and lessen the blow, possibly by expanding G train service. But without some compromise, the MTA warns that delays due to hurricane damage and increasing wear and tear could become much more commonplace.
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Toby's Estate Doubles Capacity with New Bushwick Roastery Cafe
"Toby's Estate has opened its second production roastery in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, alongside a new cafe space with seating for 40, a daily brunch menu and a pourover bar outfitted by Saint Anthony Industries.
The New York arm of the Australian-born brand created by Sydney native Toby Smith in 2001 is co-owned by Amber Jacobsen and Adam Boyd, who first opened a Toby's Estate roastery cafe in Williamsburg in 2012.
Since then, Toby's Estate has opened four other retail bars throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, with a temporarily closed Flatiron location in Manhattan to be replaced this year by another Flatiron bar, according to the company.
At 8 Wilson Ave. in Bushwick, the new roastery will allow the company to double its current production capacity with the addition of a 22-kilo Probat roaster. The roastery will also be home to a new wholesale partnership initiative, through which cafes, restaurants or other wholesale partners can receive a more tailored coffee program."
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Pearl Found In Restaurant Oyster For Second Time In Month
December 26, 2018 by TaraPaige Group Leave a Comment
"The latest treasure was discovered at the Williamsburg eatery Maison Premiere on Bedford Ave., the New York Post reported. Kristin Pulaski, 29, told the newspaper she felt something hard in an oyster that she bit into on Dec. 15.
Earlier this month, Rick Antosh, 66, chewed an oyster in the Grand Central Oyster Bar and bit down on a pearl thought to be worth $4,000.
An appraiser told Pulaski her the pearl was lumpy and wouldn't be worth a fortune, but she intends to have some statement jewelry made out of it, she told the Post. The restaurant's owner told the paper this was the first pearl he knew of that had been found there in eight years."
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Popular Bushwick Seafood Spot Heads to Williamsburg Waterfront This Spring
October 22, 2018 by TaraPaige Group Leave a Comment
"Popular Bushwick seafood restaurant Sea Wolf will set up shop this spring in a new luxury real estate development rising on the Williamsburg waterfront — a much more high-end locale compared to the restaurant's original digs in Bushwick.
Sea Wolf has plans to swing open within the residential and commercial project under development at 420 Kent Ave., at South Eighth Street, in a "polished," nautical-inspired version of its original outpost, according to a news release. Owner Daniel Cipriani says the "boat-like," low-ceilinged space has a windowed front, making the view of the East River, three bridges, and Manhattan skyline a main draw.
The upscale waterfront spot is a prime slice of Brooklyn real estate that has attracted big-name chefs like Danny Meyer, who launched taco stand Tacocina this past summer in nearby Domino Park. Cipriani's personal connection to the water — his lifestyle revolves around fishing and surfing — attracted him to the space, which he says will have a more "refined" menu than his Bushwick location."
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Multiple Scenarios for an L Train Shutdown, None of them Good for Business
February 29, 2016 by TaraPaige Group Leave a Comment
Rumors have been stirring for awhile now about a possible shutdown of the L Train in order to make repairs, and local business owners in Williamsburg are feeling the pressure. Two possible scenarios discussed by the MTA involve either a 3-year, 24-hour-a-day shutdown, or a 7-year shutdown of night and weekend service. The MTA has yet to commit to either, and some doubt the service disruptions will be so severe, but the deadline to receive Federal relief money for | 1,003 |
The youth team extended the unbeaten run this morning to six games with a 1-1 draw against Barnsley at Gawthorpe in what was probably the least entertaining game I've seen from the team this season.
The two goals were scored within just over a minute of each other with Tristan Jumeau (pictured) giving us the lead in the 29th minute and Barnsley recording their equaliser in the 31st, but it was a game of few chance for either side and, in the end, the result was probably a fair one.
Visits to Gawthorpe have long brought discussions on the weather while last week we had to face a battle of sorts to get in, both were certainly talking points this morning. As it happens, we had about three minutes of heavy rain around half an hour before kick off and that was it and I can report that the gentleman on security this morning was pleasant and helpful as supporters arrived for the game.
Danny Cadamarteri named the same team that had beaten Sheffield Wednesday seven days earlier and on the bench he was able to call up goalkeeper Kai Calderbank-Park for the first time, presumably with his international clearance having come through from the Australian FA.
For almost half an hour the game was very scrappy with neither side really threatening a goal, but then it sparked into life. After a couple of blocked efforts, the ball finally dropped for Jumeau in the box and he made no mistake with a powerful shot to give us the lead.
At that point we settled back and waited for the sort of performance we'd seen a week earlier but we were hit immediately when Barnsley got down the right and the cross was met by the striker whose header nestled in the bottom corner.
In truth, the game returned to its previous pattern and it was no surprise to see no further goals in the first half.
We might have expected to step things up after the break but it didn't really happen. We seemed reluctant to get too many players forward and in truth rarely threatened the Barnsley goal although we did come closest to getting a winner when Jumeau found himself in space on the left hand side of the box but hit his shot just too high and it came back off the bar.
Barnsley might claim to have had more second half opportunities, and they did twice come close with deflected efforts with, on another occasion , Adam Bruce pulling out a good save to deny them.
But in the end a draw, and a point, with the team now getting a week off. The next game is two weeks today when we play Bolton Wanderers at home.
The team was: Adam Bruce, Dan Moss, Bobby Thomas, James Clarke, Kwasinkosi Mpofu, Tristan Jumeau (Michael Fowler 86), Ethan Kershaw, Terry Mupari<|fim_middle|>ighton Egan. | wa, Dylon Meredith (Akim Samms 75), Kian Yari (Will Harris 89), Jordan Cropper. Subs not used: Kai Calderbank-Park, Le | 41 |
Cancer is a dreaded disease. The five most frequently diagnosed cancers among VA cancer patients are prostate, lung and bronchial, colorectal, urinary and bladder cancers, and skin melanomas. In Philadelphia, PA, the VA's Corporal Michael J. Cresencz Medical Center (the "Philly VA") is certainly well established in the high-quality treatment care of most types of cancer in its Radiation/Oncology Treatment Department in the sub-basement (SB) of that facility. About 350 Veteran cancer patients per year are treated by this department through its radiation therapy (RT) services.
About 11 years ago, this institution faced a firestorm of criticism in the Philadelphia Inquirer about long patient wait times for all types of medical procedures and appointments to even get treated. Since this time, the Philly VA, and VA institutions nationwide, have worked feverishly to fix these systemic shortcomings. Veterans and Americans need to know that, today, the quality of VA care exceeds non-VA care. What's more, the VA patients are more likely than patients with other types of insurance to receive cancer treatments according to current guidelines supported by the most recent scientific research. The Philly VA is in step with this process through its well-established partnership with the nearby University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
Nationally, Veterans are more likely than individuals covered by Medicaid or private insurance to receive appropriate treatment and clinical quality-of-care once they are diagnosed with cancerous diseases. VA patients experience overall disease prognosis and treatment outcomes comparable or superior to those with other patient types of private insurance, Medicaid or Medicare. Certainly, the Philly VA Radiation/Oncology Department strives to keep in step with these national norms and provides very high-quality customer care with every Veteran patient contact.
In my own personal experience with prostate cancer, I was given a biopsy and diagnosed with this disease early summer 2018. The diagnosis was critically important enough so that I had to postpone arthritic hip surgery I was about to have in July 2018. Over the next several weeks I had conversations with RT doctors affiliated with the University of PA Medical Center and given preparatory medication to get me ready for recommended radiation treatments. At this time, I had to come to grips with the fact that I was afflicted with cancer and had to have something done about it. I was in disbelief because most of my life I was a good athlete until my middle 50's. This was a real struggle for me. So, I had to accept the diagnosis and move on with it.
In the Philly VA RT department, I was treated with dignity and respect at the highest level. I was not in favor of receiving this radiation treatment<|fim_middle|> and cure me of my prostate cancer. Many Veterans before me rang this bell, and many after me will do the same. Like other Veterans, I also received a "Graduation Certificate" from the Veterans Health Administration proclaiming my accomplishment. | in the first place due to my own personal beliefs, perhaps some denial. I explored facts about other kinds of treatments. It was not an easy decision to go ahead with radiation therapy treatment. However, through informative discussions with Dr. Andrew Minn, the attending physician at the RT Department, and some of his associates, I decided to proceed under their recommended 28 radiation treatments program because of the type of prostate cancer I had. My treatments began on November 29, 2018 and ended on January 9, 2019.
During this time, I had to travel to the Philly VA every week day from my home in North Wales, PA, a distance of 35 miles one way. I had to adjust my body to drinking a certain amount of water to fill my bladder just before treatment time, and make sure my bowels were emptied out as well. That certainly was a big adjustment and challenging to put in motion. After some time, I became used to the process, but occasionally there were times when I did not have enough water in my bladder and had to wait in the department waiting room until I did have enough. Additionally, the women workers in the Transport Department on the main floor providing wheelchair service came to know and recognize me upon my arrival at the VA. They welcomed me, signed me in (they knew me by name and didn't even ask me for that anymore), promptly transported me to the RT Department in the sub-basement, and signed me in. I did not have to sign myself in there either. They did it for me! Such great service!
While in the RT department waiting room, I met quite a few other Veterans going through the same process as I. Some, however, were scheduled for more treatments, 44, as opposed to my 28. Their conditions seemed to be far worse than mine. Their PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) readings were higher than mine, in some cases significantly higher. I felt somewhat relieved that, if they could survive their cancer condition and treatments, I could survive mine. Even though the other Veterans were complete strangers to me, there seemed to be a bond that developed as we kept on meeting in the waiting room for our scheduled turn at subsequent radiation treatments. It didn't take long because most of us came from the similar Vietnam Era timeframe and each of us were proud Veterans having served our country honorably. Nobody truly knows a Veteran like another Veteran!
At the close of their treatment sessions, Veterans get to ring the Bravery Bell in a room adjacent to the Waiting Room. For me, it was a significant event because I had completed a life-changing process in an effort to heal | 547 |
My short, but entirely sweet, 3 days in Reykjavik
Along the Golden Circle, Hosted by Discover Iceland, I came across this. At Kerið volcanic crater lake outside Reykjavik, Iceland
Embrace the #stopover
Do you remember that week in 2010 when a volcano eruption disrupted air travel through much of Europe? I do. My husband, Bob, was on business travel in Amsterdam at the time and got stuck. Poor Bob. For a day or two he contemplated returning to the United States by getting a train to England first and then crossing the Atlantic on board the Queen Mary 2 from Southampton to New York.
That volcanic eruption? It was in Iceland. And if business wasn't slow enough on that arctic island, that dark cloud didn't help.
Since then, the fog has lifted for Iceland, and Reykjavik, the capital and largest city in Iceland, is one of the hottest places to visit, even when it's below freezing much of the year. And for good reason. The tourism industry is incredibly strong - there are more than 600 tour companies operating in Iceland - and the major tourist spots are well run, offering good food and knowledgeable guides.
The popular #mystopover campaign is initially what turned our attention to Iceland. We had booked our cabin on the QM2 for the 8-night transatlantic crossing from Southampton to Brooklyn and were searching around for flights to London when we saw Iceland Air's advertisements for booking air travel to Europe but stopping over, for up to 7 nights, in Reykjavik first. We'd contemplated visiting Ireland first or Scotland before spending 24 hours in London but there was something about the Iceland adventure that caught my eye.
I've been on a personal fitness revolution for nearly 4 years, and the payoff, simply, has been a ton of energy and a strong interest in doing anything active, particularly outdoors. We looked at photos online of Iceland's icy terrain, geothermal hot springs, geysers, and miles and miles of hiking paths, and that was it. We booked our tickets to Reykjavik and our connecting flight to London 4 days later. We'd have 3 full days in Iceland.
We'd worried that with all the attention on Reykjavik and practically everyone I knew making plans to visit Iceland, the place would be overrun and kitschy. Not at all, it turned out, and Bob and I fully intend to return to the island for a longer stay, but this time in the summer when the days are longer and the weather temperate. We traveled the first week of November and saw just a small amount of snow on the ground.
3 Days in Reykjavik
Our flight arrived at 6:30 am on a Wednesday morning. The flight from Washington, D.C., is only 5 hours, so we knew we'd be beat but didn't want to waste the day sleeping or lounging around the hotel. Instead, we arranged for a bus transfer from the airport to the Blue Lagoon, Iceland's most popular tourist spot with close to a million people visiting every year. National Geographic named the Blue Lagoon, located in an 800-year-old lava field, one of the "25 Wonders of the World," which is interesting, of course, but not why you go. On the south coast of Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, about 20 minutes from the airport, the lagoon holds 3 million gallons of geothermal seawater, covering an area of around 5 miles. The water ranges from around 4 to 5 feet deep, which means you can walk in any direction with just your arms and head above comfortably warm seawater sourced directly as overflow from the Svartsengí geothermal energy plant. The runoff from the plant recirculates every 40 hours.
Doesn't sound appealing? I didn't think so either.
But what about this: The wellspring of the geothermal plant lies 6,600 feet below the earth, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet. According to the Blue Lagoon's media guide, it's in this spot where porous lava and searing heat, seawater, and groundwater converge, giving rise to a hybrid fluid called geothermal seawater. How cool is that? Under immense pressure, this geothermal seawater surges to the earth's surface, emerging enriched with unique concentrations of silica, algae, and minerals. The Blue Lagoon is full of this, and as you walk around the lagoon, with much of your body submerged in the heated water, you'll come across drink bars but also mud bars where you can smear mud and silica masks on your face and arms. The locker rooms, with cleverly devised lockers for your personal items, are stocked with large bottles of hair conditioner, which the lagoon staff recommend you put on your hair before entering the water. Otherwise the silica lingering in the mist can turn your hair stiff and brittle.
We booked our timed entrance to the Blue Lagoon directly on the Blue Lagoon website in advance and when we arrived we were handed a bathrobe, slippers, and a towel. Since so many tourists visit the Blue Lagoon either from or to the airport, there's a little house set up in the parking lot to store your luggage. There are a few package options for your visit at the lagoon. We chose the premium package, which included our entrance ticket to the Blue Lagoon, silica and algae masks at the mud bar, towel, bathrobe, slippers, and a reservation and complimentary glass of sparkling wine at the Lava Restaurant on the premise.
The gift shop sells Blue Lagoon skin care products as well as waterproof cases for your phones and cameras, which plenty of people used so they could take photos and selfies while wading in the Lagoon. It's such a surreal place that I can understand why people take photo after photo. You just don't how else to describe the experience. We stashed our phones in the lockers and only brought one of the phones out for a quick photo. Next time we'll buy the case or arrive with one.
You can purchase massage treatments and other upgrades, but your entrance fee gives you access to the waterfall within the lagoon and both the sauna and the steam baths carved into the lava rock.
We enjoyed our lunch at the restaurant in our bathrobes. The lunch menu was prix fixe and pricey at $63 for two courses and $72 for three courses per person, but we felt both the experience and the food were worth every penny. Food especially is crazy expensive in Iceland, and there is lots of joking around about this once you start meeting and talking with other tourists, many from the U.K. After a day or two you'll find a way to put everything into perspective. As in, "Does it cost less than a cup of soup in Iceland?" Don't be surprised if you're asked to pay $15 for a cup of soup or $30 for a panini sandwich anywhere in and around Reykjavik.
We stayed at the Blue Lagoon until 4 pm and boarded a bus to the Grand Hotel, a 2-mile walk from downtown Reykjavik. The bus ride took a little over an hour, so by the time we checked in to our room and organized our things, we were fine having a light dinner of lamb skewers at the hotel lounge in a seat by the fireplace. It turns out plenty of locals go to the Blue Lagoon with their families. It might feel at first a bit like Disney Land, but like that popular theme park, the Blue Lagoon is well-equipped to handle the crowds so that you can enjoy the natural wonder of it all and explore at your leisure.
While the return to the hotel from the Lagoon at the end of the day was chaotic as there were too many people for seats on the bus, and it was cold waiting outside to board the bus, in the end, the tour bus system in Reykjavik is well developed and we got to where we needed to go. If you prefer a taxi, the cost from the airport to downtown Reykjavik is about $100 one way. The most popular bus is FlyBus, and as of this writing, Uber is not yet in Iceland.
A note about lamb in Iceland: When we ordered the lamb skewers we hadn't yet been aware of the abundance of lamb processed and consumed in Iceland. Much of the countryside is covered in moss, including lava surfaces, and the country is known for its free-range grazing lamb. The lamb meat, no matter where you get it in Reykjavik as it turns out, is delicious with characteristic earthy tones.
We woke up to a rainy, gray day and considered booking another bus to the Blue Lagoon, but that seemed silly, although even as I'm typing this, it would have been fun to visit without the luggage and knowing what to expect. But we stuck to the plan and after breakfast in the hotel, we headed into downtown Reykjavik. We didn't have anything specific lined up to do, but we knew we wanted to see art, which is abundant in Reykjavik, and eat some fish and seafood. Icelanders, in addition to eating a lot of fish and lamb, also enjoy a diet rich in, of all things, hot dogs. We were walking downtown near the harbor and bought our first hot dog of the trip from a little hot dog stand, Bæjarins beztu pylsur. The long, skinny hot dogs, which cost about $5, are made from beef, lamb, and pork, and they're served with ketchup, mustard, relish, fried and raw onions, and a mayonnaisey remoulade sauce. We ended up having at least 3 hot dogs during our trip, and each one, like gelato in Florence, no matter where we bought it, tasted completely delicious.
A highlight was the Erró exhibit in the permanent collection at the Reykjavik Art Museum (LISTASAFN REYKJAVIKUR) and contemporary works on the top floor. Iceland claims the artist, born in 1932 in Iceland as Guðmundur GuðmundssonIceland, but for much of his life Erró has lived and worked in Paris. We also happened to be in Reykjavik during the Iceland Airwaves music festival, and there was a band rehearsing at the museum. Bands were also playing in venues throughout the city, and many had their doors open, so the streets were filled with live music. For dinner we walked over to the docks and selected our fresh fish at the counter at the understated but highly rated Saegreifinn, or sea baron, restaurant. The restaurant is most famous for its lobster soup, which Bob ordered, and fish grilled on skewers. We paid extra for a skewer of vegetables, and all dinners come with a basket of warm bread. This meal remains a highlight of our trip, and just thinking about it makes me want to go ahead and make my plane reservations for our return. It's a busy place, but we were on the early side and sat upstairs where it was less hectic.
My friend Mimi, who left Reykjavik as we were arriving, sent me a note with her recommendations. She and her husband, Michael, said they had a great dinner at OstaBudin and recommended Sandholt bakery for coffee and pastries.
There is a lot of public art in Reykjavik, so while you're there don't miss the Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat by Magnús Tómasson near the parliament house. The sculpture depicts the torso and lower body of a man holding a briefcase but he's got kind of a sculpted stone brown bag over his head. Probably the most famous sculpture in Reykjavik is the Sun Voyager by Jón Gunnar Árnason on the waterfront. We walked by the Water Carrier, the 1936 large bronze sculpture of a person - could be a man or a woman - carrying two large jugs of water by Reykjavik-born artist Ásmundur Sveinsson and nearby was one of the larger-than-life Reykjavik trolls. As we left the square we approached the Hallgrímskirkja church, which was lit up and visible from almost anywhere in the city.
Earlier, we had stopped into the Settlement Exhibition, not too far from the hot dog stand, and beneath the Hotel Reykjavík Centrum. During construction of the hotel in 2001 workers discovered and experts excavated archaeological remains that could be the oldest relics of human habitation in Reykjavík. According to the exhibition, which focuses on the remains of the Longhouse, some fragments could date to before 871 AD. Even if you're not a history buff or an archeologist you'll appreciate the snazzy, high-tech quality of the exhibition itself. You touch a button and a multimedia light show or projection screen provides small bits of information about Viking life. The exhibition also includes artifacts from other excavations in Reykjavik.
Georg, from Discover Iceland, stayed in touch with us from the moment we arrived in Reykjavik to arrange a late-night tour of the Northern Lights. Unfortunately it was too cloudy all three nights we were in Reykjavik to see the Northern Lights or Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Tower, conceived in memory of John Lennon, situated on an island off Reykjavik. Next time.
Next to the Blue Lagoon, taking a tour of the Golden Circle is the second most popular must-do activity during your stopover. As I was making my initial plans, the Golden Circle popped up everywhere, but I could not visualize just what any of the guidebooks meant by the phrase "Golden Circle." In fact, there isn't anything particularly golden and it's not exactly a circle, but in general, any "Golden Circle" tour will include stops at several natural wonders, including the Þingvellir National Park, the Gullfoss waterfall, and the geysers at Haukadal<|fim_middle|> cook up for you
Water Carrier, 1936, by Reykjavik-born artist Ásmundur Sveinsson
One of the famous trolls in downtown Reykjavik
Hallgrímskirkja church, Reykjavik
Þingvellir National Park
Cows in the barn - and oh, yes, that's where they sell the ice cream at Efstidalur dairy farm in Bláskógabyggð
White chocolate ice cream and a handmade waffle cone at Efstidalur dairy farm in Bláskógabyggð
It was icy at Gullfoss, but we did okay
Iceland's famous long, skinny hot dogs, which cost about $5, are made from beef, lamb, and pork, and they're served with ketchup, mustard, relish, fried and raw onions, and a mayonnaisey remoulade sauce.
That's Gummi, our Discover Iceland driver
The black sand beach at Ölfus
Hiking around the top of Kerið volcanic crater
We came across people of all ages using high-tech trekking sticks. Nice. Kerið volcanic crater
Another waterfall on our Golden Circle tour. Bláskógabyggð
Súpa, home of the $15 cup of soup. Worth it, I promise you. Geysir Haukadalur
"Little Geysir"
Haukadalur geysir - the big one
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Exercise, Fitness, Health, NutritionCarolee Walker December 26, 2017 exercise, Wellness, weight loss, feeling good, lifestyle | ur. Our Discover Iceland hosts, Georg and Karen, arranged for our driver, Gummi, to pick us up at our hotel at 8:30 Friday morning. Georg offers several options for exploring the sights in the Golden Circle, including in smaller off-road jeeps, in a minibus, and tours offering the opportunity for more significant glacier hiking.
Georg told me his Golden Circle Glacier tour is a popular option that offers an in depth and personalized experience. The superjeep carries up to 5 passengers and is modified to go off road and drive on the glacier. On this trip, you'll spend 2-3 hours in the highlands and driving at Langjökull glacier.
As we were looking for an overall introduction to the Golden Circle, we opted for the minibus Spicy Golden Circle tour. Guided by Gummi, whose English-speaking skills were impressive as he offered cultural background and historical anecdotes during the 8-hour tour, we had the opportunity to spend between 20 and 30 minutes at each site hiking on challenging walkways and trails. The weather was bone-chillingly cold and at times windy, but we were dressed appropriately in our cold weather tech gear, and since we were only outside for about half an hour at a time, we were fine.
On the luxury minibus with us were mostly tourists from the U.K., and there was one other U.S. family. Each stop along the way felt like the highlight of the day, but one unexpected highlight was Gummi's stop at Efstidalur dairy farm in Bláskógabyggð. Apparently it was the family's grown children's idea to make their own ice cream and sell it at a small ice cream counter set up in the barn with the cows. Bob and I independently opted for 2 scoops of the white chocolate ice cream in a handmade waffle cone. Both the ice cream and the waffle cone were remarkably fresh and light-tasting, and not too sugary-sweet, although I doubt either one was particularly light on fat or sugar. I was sad to take that last bite of that cone and will make sure whatever we do when we return to Reykjavik that we make at least one trip to that farm, but I'm not ruling out two.
The most challenging hiking was at Þingvellir (Thingvellir) National Park where the trails were steep and rocky but our reward was hearing the powerful sounds of one waterfall after another and panoramic views of Thingvallavatn, Iceland's largest lake. Apparently this hike along the Almannagja rock wall marking the eastern boundary of the North American plate was also the walk prisoners took as they met a violent fate. The small memorial plaque at the spot of the ancient Parliament House commemorating the 18 women who met their death by drowning in the "Drowning Pool" for committing "immoral" acts catches you by surprise as you stand in awe of the place and try to reconcile Iceland today with the island's 17th century history of violence.
As we entered Gullfoss, we walked right past the sign warning us to attach traction cleats to our boots. The trail, which was cut along the hillside at the edge, was coated in ice, but oh well, we didn't see anybody slide over the cliff.
(I had a moment during the tour when I remembered the first time I rode my bike along the Silverado Trail in Napa Valley and thought to myself, after hours of riding, if I see another grape vine lining the road I'll shoot myself. It was only a moment – I never truly felt that way in Iceland. I could see a 100 falls and not get tired of the awesome sight.)
It was time for lunch so it was lucky for us that we happened upon perhaps the most famous geyser (pronounced gay-zur in Iceland) at Geysir Haukadalur, which is also the home of the above-mentioned $15 cup of soup at Súpa at the Hotel Geysir. Along the path to Haukadalur is Little Geyser and if you're patient you only have to wait 4 minutes or so for the big one to erupt. How exciting. Now time for soup.
And, yes, it was that delicious. Fifteen dollars well spent.
Next we stopped and hiked around Kerið, a volcanic crater lake in Grímsnes. We had the option to walk around the top of the crater, looking down at the lake, which formed after the volcano erupted, or to climb down the steep-walled, red volcanic rock. Or if you were feeling energetic, Gummi gave us time to do both. As we climbed to get to the top of the crater I began to notice tourists of all ages using trekking poles, sometimes one in each hand, so if you're concerned about the uneven terrain, these high-tech, collapsible, hiking sticks might interest you. I've got my eye on a few models myself. Gummi told us in summertime, there are concerts on the lake.
As it was getting dark, and we started making our way back to our hotel, Gummi made one last stop before the sun set. Especially after Gummi took us to the Scoria volcanic bright-red rock quarry and excavation site at Seydisholar, seeing the black sand beach at Ölfus seemed almost over the top. Wow. What a sight. The black sand felt clean and slightly pebbly in your hand and like the Blue Lagoon the sight reminded me of the cypress trees along the 17-mile drive in Carmel, California, which seem to pop out of Disney's Fantasia.
After returning to our hotel and enjoying a drink in the lobby bar during happy hour we walked midway into downtown Reykjavik to have dinner at the locally popular Ban Thai. The small restaurant was full when we arrived. We waited about 15 minutes and were seated next to a large group of what looked like 2 families. The families enjoyed course after course and round after round of beer while we enjoyed our dinner of Kra Prow with lamb, Kaeng Koong with haddock, and Pad Thai Koong. As we waited for our dishes to arrive and watched wait staff and chefs whizzing in and out of the swinging door outside the kitchen we thought it was unfortunate the restaurant felt it needed to apologize for taking the time to prepare all of the dishes to order. There was a note on the menu advising that when the restaurant is busy it might take longer than usual to prepare the food. We were on vacation. Take as much as time as you need. The food was superb and absolutely worth the wait.
At the Reykjavik airport early Saturday morning, waiting to board our flight to London, we indulged and had one last hot dog. Yes, it was 7:30 in the morning. It was delicious.
Uh, huh. We'll be back.
You can see the white silica coming up onto the rocks in the Blue Lagoon
Downtown Reykjavik
The artist Erró was born in Iceland but he's lived most of his life in Paris
That delicious $15 cup of soup at Súpa, at the Geysir Haukadalur
Scoria volcanic bright-red rock quarry and excavation site at Seydisholar. That boulder was as heavy as it looks.
Red lava rock in Iceland. Yes it is really red. Lately it's being used to make roads. Red roads.
Kerið volcanic crater lake
About to take off for Reykjavik!
Lava Restaurant at the Blue Lagoon. Lunch in our robes.
The Blue Lagoon. I put this picture in because it looks blue. But it's not really blue.
Moss covered lava rocks near the Blue Lagoon
You can see the Svartsengi geothermal power station across from the Blue Lagoon.
Litter, 2011, by Hanna Hallin, at the Reykjavik Art Museum
Band rehearsing at the Reykjavik Art Museum during Air Waves 2017
Reykjavik waterfront. It's often a gray day in Reykjavik but there's a campaign to embrace the gray. The suicide rate in Iceland is No. 1 in the world.
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2015 SS Customs Pagani Huayra is definitely one-off. Why I am sure of this? First, it is a Huayra and we don't see these rolling on the streets very often. Secondly its exterior has been updated by the specialists at SS Customs. Lately, they have become popular with their TeslaVets Model S car, which has received unique treatment and looks like no other second car in the world.
With this Pagani the situation is the same and therefore the tuning studio was obliged to make a photoshoot to remember. As a result, they contacted the well-known Richard Le Photography & Desing studio. In fact, the TeslaVets was also shot by this photographer.
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So, what's the "thing" about this Huayra. We have to disappoint you by saying that there are any modifications or any aero kit added. There is nothing touched in terms of mechanics or upgrades for the output of the engine.
However, the exterior of the supercar looks much different from what it used to be. The SS Customs experts have wrapped many parts of car's body in a satin black chrome foil and have then accented it with red striping. The one-off design of the car has been rounded out by the many carbon fiber elements and the black seven double-spoke alloy wheels.
The Huayra is powered by a 6.0 liter bi-turbo V12 engine, producing 710PS (522 kW) and 1000Nm (737 lb-ft) of torque. The engine is mated to an XTRAC 7-speed sequential transmission. The overall weight of the original Huayra is 1 350 kg (2 975 lb),<|fim_middle|> US market in 2013
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A ray of hope: the lapacho trees have bloomed
With one of the longest and most restrictive Covid-19 lockdowns in the world, people in Argentina, and specially those in Buenos Aires and other major cities, have been forced to stay inside closed doors for more than 6 months now.
Of course I also tried to stay at home as much as possible and have only left home for essential necessities. For this reason I thought that I wouldn't have the chance to see my dear Lapacho tree announcing Spring for the first time in many years. But for some unexpected circumstances I happened to be just a couple of blocks away yesterday, so I took the chance to take a glance and take some photos of this wonderful tree, which was just starting to bloom.
The quality of the photos is not very good but I wanted to share this sign of hope and the joy of Spring with all of you.
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2020 Virtual World Tango Festival and World Tango Dance Competition
The highly anticipated World Tango Festival and World Tango Dance Competition adapt their formats this year to the current Covid-19 situation, so all of those who wish to participate can do it from their own homes and from anywhere in the world. The events will take place online from August 26th to August 30th through the Festival's website and social media.
The call for the World Tango Dance Competition is open to dancers (single or in couples) over 18 years of age, of any nationality, for the categories Estilo Tango de Pista and Estilo Tango Escenario. The participation will be through a video recorded in the context of their homes and respecting the legal regulations in force for the pandemic at their respective cities.
Submissions will be received between August 15th and August 22nd, 2020. In the category Estilo Tango de Pista, the Participants must dance to "Paciencia", by Juan D' Arienzo and his orchestra with Alberto Echagüe. Only the version of the son on this link will be accepted.
In the category Estilo Tango Escenario, the dancer or the couple can choose the theme to dance, which duration must not exceed four (4) minutes.
All the terms and conditions for the Dance Championship can be accessed here.
The registration is free for all, for both amateur and professional dancers, through this link.
A panel of experts will select the best 10 participants in Estilo Tango de Pista and the best 5 in Estilo Tango Escenario. On August 26th all the finalist will be announced on the Festival's website, and the public will be able to vote for their favorites until August 30th. The participants with more votes will be the winners of the Dance Championship.
The World Tango Festival will feature more than 200 online contents by renowned local artists, like Amelita Baltar, Juan Carlos Copes, José Colangelo, Walter Ríos, María Nieves and Nicolás Ledesma. The Opening will honor the Women of Tango. The Festival will also pay tribute to Astor Piazzolla, Mariano Mores, Aníbal Troilo and Osvaldo Pugliese, and to dancers such as Juan Carlos Copes, Los Dinzel, María Nieves, and Gloria Arquimbau. It will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of Argentine radio.
The classic Milongas and Dance Lessons will be offered in virtual format.
For more information on the complete program and social media links, visit the Festival's portal: https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/tangoba
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Monuments of Buenos Aires: Monument of the Two Congresses
One of the largest sculptural monuments and the largest fountain in the city of Buenos Aires are located at Plaza del Congreso, opposite the National Congress (Av. Callao & Av. Rivadavia).
This imposing monument, inaugurated in 1914, is called Monumento de los Dos Congresos (Monument of the Two Congresses), in commemoration of the Constitutional Assembly of 1813, and the Congress of Tucuman of 1816, which declared the Independence of Argentina from the Spanish Empire.
The Monument is the work of Belgian sculptor Jules Lagae, who created the figures, and Eugenio D'Huicque, the Belgian architect who designed the basement, entirely constructed in stone from the French city of Nancy. It consists of a large fountain and an elevated platform surrounded by three flights of stairs.
The main allegory in the center represents the Argentine Republic, holding a branch of laurel in one hand, and the other hand resting on a plough. At its feet, the snakes of evil and a figure representing labor. Below on each the sides, two female figures represent the 1813 Assembly, and the Congress of Tucuman.
The fountain, which is oriented towards the East, represents the Rio de la Plata, and two allegoric figures represent its tributaries, the Uruguay and Parana rivers. The fountain is surrounded by bronze sculptures of animals representing the national fauna, a group of horses, condors, and rounds of cherubs representing Peace.
The Monument to the Two Congresses and the three plazas where it is located, were designated a National Historic Monument in 1997.
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Home Next Post | have always characterized the city of Buenos Aires, which draws millions of people from all around the world, is its endless offer of cultural activities.
Unfortunately the COVID-19 pandemic is keeping us all at home and international travelers can't have the chance to visit our beautiful country for now, but we can still enjoy the Argentine culture from home. I have complied a few of the available options below:
1. TEATRO COLON
Every Sunday at 8:00 PM (Buenos Aires time) the prestigious Teatro Colón broadcasts some of its past fantastic productions for free to the world through its website and social media:
https://teatrocolon.org.ar/es/en-vivo
https://www.facebook.com/TeatroColonOficial/
https://www.youtube.com/user/teatrocolontv/featured
2. COMPARTIR CULTURA (Sharing Culture)
This platform, created by the National Ministry of Culture, presents the full audio and visual content produced by this Ministry, offering in one single site the best of the cultural and artistic expressions in our country: movies, theater, music, visual arts, literature, all in one easy access platform:
https://compartir.cultura.gob.ar/
3. CULTURA EN CASA (Culture at home)
This initiative of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires presents all the digital contents from the Ministry of Culture of the city, from theater plays, to workshops, virtual tours, music shows, concerts, audiobooks, movies, series and tutorials. All the contents are updated every day:
https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/culturaencasa
4. NATIONAL FINE ARTS MUSEUM ONLINE
Explore the digital collection of the The Fine Arts Museum, with more than 2500 works, with high definition images, audios, and suggested tours.
Through its YouTube channel, the Museum presents a series of interviews to great artists that have had a great impact in the visual history of our country: Julio Le Parc, Juan Carlos Distéfano, Norberto Gómez, Sara Facio, Marie Orensanz, César Paternosto, Eduardo Stupía, Delia Cancela, Manuela Rasjido and Roberto Jacoby.
https://www.bellasartes.gob.ar/en/
https://www.youtube.com/user/MNBAdigital
6. MALBA Virtual
While we stay at home, Malba Museum offers a series of online proposals to bring the Museum to your own home, including virtual guided visits, movies, talks, classes, interviews:
https://malba.org.ar/en/
7. FUNDACION PROA
Proa Foundation offers a wide variety of virtual tours, activities, conferences, and multimedia content available online:
http://www.proa.org/eng/index.php
You can tour numerous exhibitions through a very comprehensive section of Audio guides
https://soundcloud.com/proa-audioguias/sets
At their YouTube channel you can see their historical exhibitions, accompanied by the orientation of their art guides:
www.youtube.com/user/proawebtv
8. VISIT ARGENTINA channel
Discover some astonishing videos featuring some of the wonderful landscapes Argentina has to offer:
https://www.youtube.com/user/visitarg/featured
Art Ballet Concerts
French Market in Recoleta - March 2020
NOTICE: AS PART OF THE PREVENTIVE MEASURES FOR THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.
The first edition of the year of the authentic French Market "Le Marché" will be installed in Plaza Francia, on Av. Del Libertador between Dr. Luis Agote & Av. Pueyrredón on Saturday, March 14th and Sunday, March 15th, 2020, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Over 25 gastronomic stalls run by some of the most renowned French chefs and restaurants in Argentina will be offering their special dishes characteristic of the French cuisine, such as boeuf bourguignon, carbonade flamande, crêpes, raclette, quiches, onion soup. Visitors will have the chance to taste and purchase French bakeries and different specialties, like macarons, croissants, éclairs, croque-monsieur, pains au chocolat, crème brûlée, tarte Tatin, Paris-Brest, and much more!
There will be a sector dedicated to French produce, like artisan cheese, cold cuts, bread, mustard, jams, among many other delicacies.
Live French music shows, talks, tastings and activities for kids will be presented during the weekend.
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iOS 12: iPhone and iPad New Features
Garrick Chow
iOS 12 focuses on performance and personalization, but also packs in some exciting new features for iPhone and iPad users alike. This course explores the new settings, preferences, apps, and feature enhancements in iOS 12. Garrick Chow takes you on a tour of grouped notifications and Instant Tuning; security enhancements such as strong password enforcement and USB restricted mode; and Screen Time, which helps you track and manage the amount of time you or your kids spend on your device. Plus, learn how to create your<|fim_middle|>cing apps to quit
Do Not Disturb settings
Strong password creation and management
Use multiple faces in Face ID
USB restricted mode
Group FaceTime calls
2. App Updates
Photos new features
Messages new features
The Measure app
3. New iPad Features
Multitask up to three apps
Open Control Center
Use the keyboard as a trackpad while typing
Business Photography iPhone, iPod, iPad iOS iPad iPhone
Video: Get up to speed with the new features of iOS 12 | own time-saving Siri shortcuts, and work with updates to popular apps such as Photos and Messages. Garrick also covers productivity enhancements for the iPad, such as multitasking and new keyboards shortcuts for cursor placement.
Explain how to set the Instant Tune to prevent notifications from popping up.
Recognize the purpose of the bedtime switch.
Recall the feature that deactivates the lightning port to protect data from thieves.
Explain how to add a participant to a FaceTime call.
Identify the app that allows users to record a video while wearing a 3D Animoji mask?
- [Garrick] iOS 12 is the latest version of the operating system for iPhones and iPads as of September 2018, it comes with a slew of under-the-hood performance enhancements as well as plenty of new and useful features. Hi, I'm Garrick Chow, and here we'll be looking at some of the most useful and significant new features found in iOS 12. We'll start with a look at improvements to how notification messages are handled by your device, and its new ability to group related notifications together. We'll explore the new Screen Time feature, which helps you track and manage the amount of time you spend using your device, and gives you insight on which apps take up most of your time.
We'll take a look at the improved Strong Password feature, which helps you pick, store, and use strong, unique passwords for the sites you visit. And we'll check out updates to specific apps, like Photos, which makes it easier to search for and find the pictures you're looking for, and the new Measure app, for measuring the length and dimensions of real-world objects using augmented reality. I've also included a chapter on new features that are specific to the iPad, like the ability to multitask up to three apps simultaneously, where to find the Control Center in iOS 12, and how to use the keyboard as a trackpad while working with text.
We'll be looking at all these new features and much more, so let's get started, and jump into iOS 12.
Q: This course was updated on 11/21/2018. What changed?
A: A new video was added that covers using the new Group FaceTime calling feature.
with Dave Crenshaw
Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
with Kelley O'Connell
1h 53m Beginner
Get up to speed with the new features of iOS 12
1. iOS 12 New Features
Grouped notifications
Instant Tuning
For | 540 |
In Here Be Dragons, astronomer David Koerner and neurobiologist Simon LeVay offer a scientifically compelling and colorful account of the search for life beyond Earth.
The authors survey the work of biologists, cosmologists, computer theorists, NASA engineers, SETI researchers, roboticists, and UFO enthusiasts and debunkers as they attempt to answer the greatest remaining question facing<|fim_middle|> light on the wildly divergent claims about the universe and life's place in it.
David Koerner is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. Simon LeVay is an Independent Consultant and former Associate Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. | humankind: Are we alone? From their "safe haven of skepticism" the authors venture into the "rough seas of speculation," where theory and evidence run the gamut from hard science to hocus pocus. Arguing that the universe is spectacularly suited for the evolution of living creatures, Koerner and LeVay give us ringside seats at the great debates of Big Science. The contentious arguments about what really happens in evolution, the acrimonious UFO controversy, and the debate over intelligence versus artificial intelligence shed new | 105 |
We all just wannabe writers. Buzz.
Don't Get Old, Get Fabulous!
Meet Suzi, the face behind fashion, food and fitness blog (and book), Alternative Ageing.
So Suzi, tell us, what inspired you to create something so unique and refreshing?
Well thank you! I have always had a passion for photography, fashion & nutrition and I was inspired by the Advanced Style documentary, in New York, which features amazing ladies in their 60s, 70,s, 80s and even 90s, who are anything but invisible. They wear the most incredible clothes and accessories full of colour and eccentricity and the documentary inspired me to start my blog for women in that age group here in the UK and all over the world.
It was easy to find a name for my blog as my last book is called Alternative Ageing and encompasses everything I feel about ageing healthily and visibly! I started a regular radio slot for BBC Radio Sussex last summer, called Fashion, Fitness & Food for the Over Fifties – and the blog was born!
Who would you say your Alternative Ageing target audience is?
Anyone over 50 who's interested in Fashion, Fitness & Food, Healthy and Beauty and ageing disgracefully! Amazingly, I have loads of followers on Instagram [which is where we discovered Suzi!] and my other social accounts who are much,<|fim_middle|> the most amazing bargains there, like a vintage tea dress for £5! In Brighton, I tend to have a look at shops like Whistles, River Island, Ted Baker & Fred Perry, but am not buying much at the moment because I came back from Oz with a suitcase full of lovely summer clothes – mostly vintage because I do love having a one-off piece that no one else has.
What sets you apart from all the other fashion bloggers?
I hope it's the fact that I am much older than the majority of other fashion bloggers and that I am not encouraging readers to dress up in young clothes that are all over the magazines, but clothes that they can find rummaging through second-hand stores or markets. Also, by adapting what they have already to better suit them with a scarf here or a belt there and the right shoes, or by going to a tailor and having a dress turned into a skirt, like I did recently. There's so much you can do with clothes you already have if you think outside the box. No amazing outfit needs to cost a fortune.
But what also sets me apart is that there is also Nutrition & Health advice on my blog as well as Beauty, Travel & I Like Your Style, where people I meet in the street get to star in their amazing outfits, male and female!
What are your aspirations for Alternative Ageing?
To inspire thousands of women, and men, all over the world, to be funky, fit and healthy. I hope to do more workshops, lectures, radio & TV on Alternative Ageing and who knows, maybe even another book featuring the best of my blogs and photographs. Or even a clothing line of one-offs – Vintage for a Vintage!
The great thing is that this blog can grow old with me and, by the time I am 80-something, the 40-somethings will be 60-something and more tech-savvy than the 60-somethings now and, hopefully, I will be a famous 80-something blogger and vlogger wearing eccentric clothes, travelling, blogging and appearing in the odd advert!
If you think that Suzi is as great as we do, then you can read all about her styling and health and beauty tips for ageing gracefully over on Alternative Ageing – that is, when she's not busy doing photo shoots with vintage and retro brands in Australia and hitting up Latitude Festival…!
Is this where you thought you'd be? | much younger.
Which older women in the media inspire you?
Zandra Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood, Janet Street Porter, Helen Mirren, Judy Dench – any older fashionistas who are used for advertising campaigns and older bloggers!
What is the message you wish to portray to women, and men, with Alternative Ageing?
How would you describe your staple style?
I discovered my style by moving to Brighton and adopting a more eccentric hair colour and style of dressing! Suddenly, not kept in the confines of a TV job where you have to have a certain 'look', I dyed my hair red then orange, and found that vintage 50's dresses really suited my body shape and bright colours suit my colouring! So it's basically a vintage style, with plenty of colour, and always with the trade mark scarf around my head. I feel naked without it, even if I am just going to the gym!
Could you talk us through one of your favourite looks?
I've actually chosen 2 looks to share with you today!
The green outfit is interesting because I bought this amazing green two-piece made by Elif Kose, in Rottingdean, near Brighton, who is a tailor and owns a clothes shop too. She made the two piece from 50's material that her boyfriend's grandmother gave her. What I love about the outfit is it's like a capsule wardrobe because I have so many things to go with it, so it's really good value. I wore it to London recently with a very old Boden cashmere card, a lovely necklace, which I also bought from Elif's shop, old pink brogues from Clarkes and my trademark bow – in pink of course! The skirt goes with so many tops and vice versa – it has become a packing staple for the UK whatever the weather! And no-one else has got one!
The second outfit is my very favourite combination from Byron Bay and not something I can wear till it's much hotter here and I get to go to a Festival or party. The party pants are very retro but were actually picked up at a market in Australia and cost very little and the green top was bought from a vintage and retro shop in Byron Bay called Trash, which goes with everything I have – including the vintage skirt in the previous photo. The scarf is also a cheapie bought in a vintage shop and the sunglasses are my own 50's frames with new lenses.
The thing about these clothes is that they make me feel great – people remark on how much they like "the look" and they suit me in colour and style. That would be my advice to anyone: find your colours, go to a colour advisor if necessary, find your style, and then rummage around charity shops, vintage shops, markets and don't be afraid of mixing and not matching, trying things back to front, taking in or taking up, and being bold with accessories to liven up an old outfit! Think out of the box when it comes to dressing up!
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White Roofs Could Reduce Urban Heat Island Effect By 33 Percent
By News Staff | January 27th 2010 10:00 PM | Print | E-mail
Painting the roofs of buildings white may reduce the impact of the urban heat island effect by as much as 33 percent, significantly cooling off cities and helping society adjust to the changing climate, suggests a new study soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters.
The study's authors used a newly developed computer model to simulate the amount of solar
radiation that is absorbed or reflected by urban surfaces. The model simulations, which provide scientists with an idealized view of different types of cities around the world, indicate that, if every roof were entirely painted white, the world's cities could cool by an average of about 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.7 degrees Fahrenheit), with the cooling influence being particularly pronounced during the day, especially in summer.
In addition, white roofs would have the effect of cooling temperatures within buildings.
As a result, depending on the local climate, the amount of energy used for space heating
and air conditioning could change, which could affect both outside air temperatures and
the consumption of fossil fuels such as oil and coal that are associated with global warming. Depending on whether air conditioning or heating is affected more, this could either magnify or partially offset the impact of the roofs.
The new computer model is designed to assess the impacts of a changing climate on urban populations and explore options for countering rising temperatures. This urban canyon model simulates temperature changes in city landscapes, capturing such factors as the influence of roofs, walls, streets, and green spaces on local temperatures. Oleson has successfully linked it to a computer simulation of worldwide climate, the NCAR-based Community Climate System Model, thereby enabling researchers to study the interactions between global climate change and urban areas.
"Our research demonstrates that white roofs, at least in theory, can be an effective
method for reducing urban heat," says Keith Oleson, the lead author of the study and a
scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "It remains to be seen
if it's actually feasible for cities to paint their roofs white, but the idea certainly warrants
further investigation."
The authors emphasize that their research should be viewed as a hypothetical look at
typical city landscapes rather than the actual rooftops of any one city. In the real world,
the cooling impact might be somewhat less because dust and weathering would cause the
white paint to darken over time and parts of roofs would remain unpainted because of
openings such as heating and cooling vents.
"It's not as simple as just painting roofs white and cooling off a city," Oleson says.
The research indicates that some cities would benefit more than others from white roofs,
depending on such factors as the city's location and design:
Roof density: Cities where roofs make up more of the urban surface area would cool more.
Construction: Roofs that allow large amounts of heat from the Sun to penetrate the interior of a building (as can happen with metal roofs and<|fim_middle|>Climate Change Could Increase Ozone Pollution 70 Percent By 2050
Bering Strait Had Profound Impact On Ice Age Climate | little insulation) are less effective in cooling outside temperatures when painted white.
Location: White roofs tend to have a larger impact in relatively warm climates that receive strong, year-round sunlight.
While the model did not have enough detail to capture individual cities, it did show the change in temperatures in larger metropolitan regions. The New York area, for example, would cool in summer afternoons by almost 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit).
Researchers say they can't yet replicate the architecture and design of specific cities. Instead, they created abstractions of cities in the model, using classes of population density, urban design, and building construction. Oleson and his colleagues plan to continue refining the model to provide more information for policymakers concerned about protecting urban populations from the risks associated with heat waves and other changes in climate.
"It's critical to understand how climate change will affect vulnerable urban areas, which
are home to most of the world's population," says NCAR scientist Gordon Bonan, a co-
author of the study.
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\section{Introduction: Extrasolar planetary systems}
The first "hot Jupiter" around the nearby solar-type star 51 Peg was discovered
using precise radial velocity measurements (Mayor \& Queloz 1995).
The first multiple planet system around $\upsilon$ And was discovered also using
radial velocities (Butler et al. 1999). Indeed, this search technique
continues to be the most successful (Fischer et al. 2004, Pont et al. 2004,
Konacki et al. 2004).
The total sample of extrasolar planets todate discovered using the
radial velocity technique is reaching 135 planets (see the
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia by J. Schneider 2005
{\footnote{ http://www.obspm.fr/planets }}
). In this sample there are 14
multiple planet systems, containing between 2 and 4 planets. This means that
a significant fraction of the planets are in planetary systems.
A new search technique of transits has been systematically pursued by the OGLE
Collaboration, who published low amplitude ($\Delta I <0.08$ mag)
transiting planetary candidates based on extensive $I$-band photometry
of several fields spread across the Milky Way
(Udalski et al. 2002a, 2002b, 2002c, 2003). While many of these
are binaries or blends, the OGLE sample contains real planets: five of
them have been confirmed using radial velocities
(Bouchy et al. 2004, Pont et al. 2004, Konacki et al. 2003, 2004).
Due to purely geometric effects, the discovery of
short period transiting planets ($P<5$ days) is favoured.
One of the many advantages of the known transiting planets is that their
orbital plane is well defined. Using the reasonable assumption
(unproved until now) that
other planets in these stars lie in the same orbital plane, one
can search for other transits. A major
limitation is the quality of the photometry,
which demands confirmation of any other planets by radial velocities.
Here we report the search for double transiting planets in
OGLE-TR-10, OGLE-TR-56, OGLE-TR-111, OGLE-TR-113, and OGLE-TR-132,
which are the OGLE systems confirmed todate to harbor single planets
(Table 1).
The initial search for additional unnoticed eclipses in the light curves
is followed by examination of the existing radial velocity data.
We find two possible interesting candidates, OGLE-TR-10 and OGLE-TR-111,
of which OGLE-TR-111 is the most promising one because its light
curve can be phased with a $P=16$ day period in absence of the known
planet OGLE-TR-111b. We conclude that further photometric coverage of
this system is needed.
\section{Search for Double Transiting Planets}
\begin{table}[t]\tabcolsep=1pt\small
\begin{center}
\caption{Sample OGLE Stars With Confirmed Planets.}
\label{Table1}
\begin{tabular}{l@{ }l@{ }l@{ }l@{ }l@{ }}
\hline
\multicolumn{1}{l}{OGLE}&
\multicolumn{1}{l}{RA}&
\multicolumn{1}{l}{DEC}&
\multicolumn{1}{l}{P(d)}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Reference}\\
\hline
&\\
TR10 & 17 51 28.25 & -29 52 34.9& 3.10139&Konacki+ 2005 \\
TR56 & 17 56 35.51 & -29 32 21.2& 1.21192&Konacki+ 2003 \\
TR111& 10 53 17.91 & -61 24 20.3& 4.01610&Pont+ 2004 \\
TR113& 10 52 24.40 & -61 26 48.5& 1.43248&Bouchy+ 2004, Konacki+ 2004 \\
TR132& 10 50 34.72 & -61 57 25.9& 1.68965&Bouchy+ 2004 \\
&\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
Systematics in the OGLE light curves are explored by Udalski et al. (2002a, 2002b, 2002c, 2003),
Drake (2003), and Sirko \& Paczy\'nski (2003). They discuss the possible
contaminants and different effects that are present in the OGLE transit sample.
We have decided to search for double transiting planets only on the
stars that have been confirmed by radial velocities, where the parameters
of the planet are accurately known.
The stellar sample considered here is listed in Table 1, along with the main
properties of the transiting planets.
The most important parameter to consider when searching for additional planets
is the orbital inclination, as the range of semimajor orbital axis of
additonal transiting planets depend strongly on this.
Even though the confirmed OGLE planets are very close to their parent stars,
fortunately, they have transits with flat bottoms, implying orbital inclination angles
$i>85$ deg, allowing the search for planets more distant from their stars.
The procedure followed is very simple, and can be described into four
main steps.
First, phasing the light curve of each star with the known period of the planet,
and substracting the points around the planetary transit.
Typical OGLE light curves contain 1000-1500 data points, of which 70-140
around<|fim_middle|>.
\subsection{OGLE-TR-56}
OGLE-TR-56b was the first secure
OGLE planet: it was confirmed as a planetary mass object by the
radial velocities of Konacki et al. (2003).
We substracted 137 points (out of 1115 total points) next to the transit of OGLE-TR-56b.
The scatter in the reduced light curve of OGLE-TR-56 gives $\sigma_I=0.005$,
smaller than OGLE-TR-10 in spite of being $0.4$ mag fainter.
However, the magnitude distribution of the reduced light curve is very symmetric,
and there is no evidence for points from additional transits.
\subsection{OGLE-TR-113}
OGLE-TR-113b was confirmed as a planet almost simultaneously by two different groups:
Bouchy et al. (2004) and Konacki et al. (2004).
The reduced light curve was obtained by eliminating 67 points centered on the
OGLE-TR-113b transits (out of a total of 1517 points).
The scatter in the reduced light curve of OGLE-TR-113 is very low, $\sigma_I=0.004$.
However, we find evidence for a long term periodic behaviour with $P=26.5$ d, at
very low amplitude ($0.005$ mag). If this is taken into account, the light curve
becomes even tighter. This is a good case of a star where strong limits may be put
on the absence of additional transiting giant planets with orbital semimajor
axis $a<0.2$ AU.
\subsection{OGLE-TR-132}
OGLE-TR-132b was confirmed with the radial velocities of Bouchy et al. (2004).
OGLE-TR-132 is the faintest star of this sample.
We substracted 71 points (out of 1044 total points) next to the transit of OGLE-TR-132.
The dispersion of its light curve is large, $\sigma_I=0.008$,
preventing us from putting useful limits to the presence of additional transiting planets.
\section{The Case of OGLE-TR-111}
\subsection{Stellar parameters for OGLE-TR-111}
We have previously carried out a selection of the most promising
OGLE planetary candidates using low dispersion spectroscopy in combination
with optical and near-infrared
photometry (Gallardo et al. 2004). This work identified
OGLE-TR-111 as one of the most likely candidates to host exoplanets. The
planet OGLE-TR-111b was discovered by Pont et al. (2004)
using precise velocities.
Based on the spectroscopy, Pont et al. (2004) derive the following
stellar parameters for OGLE-TR-111:
mass $M = 0.82 M\odot$,
radius $R = 0.85 R\odot$,
temperature $T_{eff} = 5070$ K,
gravity $log ~g = 4.8$, and
metallicity $[Fe/H]=0.12$ dex.
Based on a low resolution spectrum plus optical and infrared photometry,
Gallardo et al. (2004) derive the following stellar parameters:
radius $R = 0.71 R\odot$,
temperature $T_{eff} = 4460$ K,
reddening $E(B-V) = 0.16$,
absolute magnitude $M_V = 6.82$, and
distance $D = 850$ pc for OGLE-TR-111.
Even though the values from these independent studies are not identical,
both studies agree in the parameters within the uncertainties.
In order to derive planetary parametes hereafter
we use for consistency the stellar parameters adopted by Pont et al. (2004),
with the cautionary remark that the major uncertainties on the planetary
parameters (mostly the radius) would arise from the uncertainties in the stellar properties.
\subsection{Photometric Evidence for OGLE-TR-111c}
The Existing planet OGLE-TR-111b is a massive planet with mass $M_p sin~i=0.53 ~M_J$,
radius $R = 1.0 R_J$, in an orbit with
period $P=4.0166$ days and semimajor orbital axis $a=0.047 ~AU$
(Pont et al. 2004). They call this planet OGLE-TR-111b the "missing link".
The transit signature of this planet is clearly seen in the
phased OGLE lightcurve (Figure 2).
Aside from the
transit of OGLE-TR-111b, additional points well below the
baseline are observed, clumped at a single phase. Specifically,
there are 7 points located $4\sigma$ below the mean magnitude. This clumping hinted
at the presence of additional transits with
a period multiple of $P=4.011$ dat, the OGLE-TR-111b period.
Because the additional feature is 180 degrees out of phase we have to
make sure that it is not a noisy secondary eclipse caused by an
eclipsing binary system.
This possibility is discarded because of (a) the new transits are not always
present, and (b) the radial velocities of Pont et al. (2004) show
low amplitudes.
\begin{figure}[h]
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{minnitid_fig2.ps}}
\caption{
OGLE lightcurve for OGLE-TR-111 phased for $P=4.0166$ days
(1176 photometric points), showing the transit of OGLE-TR-111b
at phase 0.6. Several points clumped at phase 0.1 hint at the presence
of additional eclipses.}
\label{Fig01}
\end{figure}
There are nine transits of OGLE-TR-111b observed by OGLE.
Looking at the unphased light curve (Figure 3), it became clear
that there might be some possible additional transits interleaved with
some of the transits of OGLE-TR-111b. Two of these transits are
indicated with the arrows in Figure 3.
Figure 3 also clearly illustrates the fortunate fact that the period of
OGLE-TR-111b is a multiple of the Earth's rotation period, as discussed
by Pont et al. (2004), resulting in
a favorable transit observing condition during the OGLE observations.
We then proceeded to phase the OGLE data in search for additional transits.
For this, 68 points around the OGLE-TR-111b
transits were discarded, phasing only the remaining 1108 baseline points.
A new phased possible transit was found with a period of $P=16.0644$ days,
as shown in Figure 4.
This period would in 1:4 mean motion resonance with
the previously known planet of this system OGLE-TR-111b, with $P = 4.0161 ~d$.
Caution should be taken with this period, because it is largely based on
two transit like features. The aspect of these two individual
transits is not different from the other nine transits of OGLE-TR-111b,
but a larger number of individual transits must be observed in order
to confirm this periodic nature.
Pending confirmation of this possible period, we note that a
1:4 mean motion resonance should not be totally unexpected.
Let us consider
a simple example from our own neighborhood: the Jovian system is a good
example, because it is considered to be a stable "mini Solar system".
The Galilean satellites
Io and Ganimede share a 1:4 mean motion resonance.
But also Europa has a 1:2 mean motion
resonance with Io (and 2:1 with Ganimede), so on a very speculative
side one could search for
another planet around OGLE-TR-111 in a similar mean
motion resonance in between the two possible planets, with a period of $P=8.03$
days. In the case of the OGLE-TR-111 with an orbital inclination
of 88-89 deg, planets located as far out as 0.3 AU might be detected. This would
correspond to the 3:7 resonance
with the outer planet (e.g. Callisto is in 3:7 mean motion resonance with Ganimede).
With the more accurate periods to be determined by this years OGLE campaign,
one can tune the searches for transits from
additional planets to specific mean motion resonances.
The possible transit appears to be symmetric, with a duration of
$t_T=4$ hours. The transit also appears to
have a flat portion lasting about $2$ hours, ruling out a grazing eclipse,
and constraining the orbital inclination angle to $88-89$ degrees.
Other transient features such as star spots cannot be ruled out with the
available data. However, it is very suggestive that the two
additional transits alternate with the main transits of OGLE-TR-111b
(Figure 4).
\begin{figure}[h]
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{minnitid_fig3.ps}}
\caption{
Unphased OGLE data for OGLE-TR-111, showing the individual
transits of OGLE-TR-111b indicated by the vertical lines.
Two additional eclipses can be identified at the locations of the arrows.
}
\label{Fig02}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[h]
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{minnitid_fig4.ps}}
\caption{
Lightcurve of OGLE-TR-111 phased with $P=16.0644$ days
after discarding 68 points around the transits of OGLE-TR-111b.
The possible 4 hour long transit of OGLE-TR-111c is seen.
}
\label{Fig03}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Spectroscopic Evidence for OGLE-TR-111c}
The photometry of OGLE-TR-111 suggests the presence of an additional
giant planet with $P=16.0664$ days, but it is not conclusive.
Here we check if the existing
spectroscopic data are consistent with this suggestion, and try to
derive the parameters of the possible additional planet.
We would call this possible extrasolar transiting planet OGLE-TR-111c, {\it a.k.a.}
the "missing link's sister".
Based on the radial velocities of the star, it is straightforward to fit the
eight individual velocity measurements of Pont et al. (2004)
with a double Keplerian model instead of a single one
(Figure 4). Given the original parameters for OGLE-TR-111b,
this fit is not free, however: the period and the phase of
OGLE-TR-111c are fixed by
the photometric data. The amplitude is a free parameter, which is clearly
poorly constrained due to the limited orbital coverage:
only one half of the putative second planet orbit is covered.
With this caveat, if there is an additional planet,
we obtain the parameters listed in Table 2. This Table presents the
photometric results and the final parameters for the
possible OGLE-TR-111c planet as well.
Different fits changing the original parameters for OGLE-TR-111b
are allowed, but are not significantly better.
The amplitude of the radial velocities induced by the additional planet are
scaled by the factor $M_P/M_*$. In the case of
OGLE-TR-111c, the fit shown in Figure 4 has
velocity semiamplitude $V_r=60$ m/s, and $M_P=0.75 ~M_J$.
For comparison, the O-C residuals of the single planet fit are
$24$ m/s, which are reduced to $14$ m/s with the double Keplerian model.
The major difficulties for better constraining the parameters of the
two possible planets
circling the star OGLE-TR-111 are the uncertainty in the photometry and
the limited spectroscopic coverage.
Clearly, further photometric and spectroscopic observations over
an extended period of time are needed
to confirm the existence of OGLE-TR-111c, and to refine the measured parameters
of the planets.
Finally, the planetary radius listed in Table 2 is also uncertain
because it depends on the adopted stellar size.
In particular, adoption of a different stellar radius, $R = 0.71 R\odot$
from Gallardo et al. (2004), leads to a smaller planet radius $R = 0.7 ~R_J$ for
OGLE-TR-111c, which would translate into a higher density.
\begin{figure}[h]
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{minnitid_fig5.ps}}
\caption{
Radial velocity measurements for OGLE-TR-111 from Pont et al. (2004).
The dotted line shows their fit for OGLE-TR-111b, the dashed line shows the
effect of OGLE-TR-111c, and the solid curve the combined effect of the
two planets.
}
\label{Fig01}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}[t]\tabcolsep=1pt\small
\begin{center}
\caption{Possible OGLE-TR-111c planetary parameters.}
\label{Table2}
\begin{tabular}{l@{ }l@{ }}
\hline
\hline
&\\
Orbital period & $16.0644 \pm 0.0050 ~d$ \\
Semimajor axis & $0.12 \pm 0.01 ~AU $ \\
Orbital eccentricity & $ 0 $ (assumed) \\
Transit epoch & $JD~2453064.73\pm 0.01 $ \\
Transit duration & $4 \pm 1 ~h$ \\
Transit depth & $0.01 \pm 0.005 ~mag$ \\
Orbital inclination & $88-89 ~deg$ \\
Systemic velocity & $25.40 \pm 0.05~km/s$ \\
RV semiamplitude & $60 \pm 20 ~km/s$ \\
Planet mass & $M = 0.7 \pm 0.2 ~M_J$ \\
Planet radius & $R = 0.85 \pm 0.15 ~R_J$ \\
Planet density & $\rho = 1.4 \pm 0.3 ~g/cm^3$ \\
&\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\subsection{Discussion of an Optimistic Scenario}
We have argued that the evidence is not conclusive to distinguish
between a second transiting planet around OGLE-TR-111 and a false positive detection.
However, here we briefly discuss the implications of a positive confirmation
of the existence of OGLE-TR-111c. If confirmed, this new planet would be unique and hold
several interesting records:
$\bullet$ OGLE-TR-111 would be the first extrasolar system with multiple
planets detected by transits, and the first multiple system for which
planetary masses and radii are measured.
With a distance of 850 pc, OGLE-TR-111 it would also be the most distant
extrasolar planetary system discovered todate.
$\bullet$ The transit of OGLE-TR-111c allows to constrain further the
inclination of the orbital plane of the system to $i = ~88-89 deg$.
This would prove for the first time that the orbits of two planets of
an extrasolar planetary system are coplanar to within 2 degrees.
The most important implication of coplanarity is that careful photometric
monitoring may reveal rocky planets in this and other systems
by timing the transits of giant planets Holman \& Murray (2004), or by directly
detecting their transits.
$\bullet$ With radius $R = 0.85 ~R_J$, mass $M = 0.7 ~M_J$,
and density $\rho = 1.4 ~g/cm^3$, the planet OGLE-TR-111c would be
smallest and densest extrasolar planet found. It could be called a true
Jovian planet, albeit with shorter period,
because it has size like Saturn, density like Jupiter, and mass
intermediate between them. Its radius, however, could be as small as $R = 0.7 ~R_J$.
$\bullet$ With $P = ~16.0644$ d,
OGLE-TR-111c would also the transiting planet with the longest orbital period,
lying at the arbitrary boundary between "hot" and
"normal" giant extrasolar planets.
In that sense it could also be considered a
"missing link" on its own, justifying the "missing link's sister"
nickname given here.
$\bullet$ Comparison with the properties of OGLE-TR-111b would directly
confirm the effects of inflation due to stellar
irradiation, as the less massive planet closer to the star would be bigger than
the more massive OGLE-TR-111c.
In fact, planet OGLE-TR-111b would be 1.22 times bigger than OGLE-TR-111c.
This result is independent of the uncertainties in the stellar mass and radius.
However, reducing the uncertainties in the radii is very important in
order to test the models.
$\bullet$ If the period of $P = ~16.0644$ d
is confirmed,
the OGLE-TR-111 system would an interesting case for stability studies because of the
presence of a 1:4 mean motion resonance.
The confirmation of the orbital resonances coupled with the low inclination
of the system the exiting possibility of the search
for transiting smaller (rocky?) planets in OGLE-TR-111.
\section{Conclusions}
We have started a search for second planets around existing
transiting systems. This search has been applied
to the specific case of the stars
OGLE-TR-10, OGLE-TR-56, OGLE-TR-111, OGLE-TR-113, and OGLE-TR-132.
Even though OGLE-TR-56, OGLE-TR-113, and OGLE-TR-132 do not show
evidence for scatter above what is expected, there are
several data points of OGLE-TR-10 and OGLE-TR-111 below their mean
magnitudes that suggest the possibility of additional transits.
While it was not possible to phase the OGLE-TR-10 reduced light curve
in order to find the orbital period for another planet, the
OGLE-TR-111 reduced light curve was successfully phased with $P\approx 16$ days.
Thus we explore the possibility of a putative additional planet in this system.
Based on published photometry and radial velocities, we
tentatively derive the following parameters for OGLE-TR-111c:
orbital period
$P = ~16.0644$ d,
semimajor axis $a = 0.12 ~AU$,
mass $M = 0.75 ~M_J$,
radius $R = 0.85 ~R_J$, and
density $\rho = 1.5 ~g/cm^3$.
We stress that the possibility of a false positive detection is not ruled out,
and that this must be confirmed with additional data.
The major difficulty for securing the present claim of another planet
transiting around OGLE-TR-111 is the uncertainty in the photometry and
the limited spectroscopic coverage. Both difficulties would
be easily overcome with more observations. We thus stress the need
for the photometric and spectroscopic follow up of this system.
However, we speculate that extensive transit searches by space missions (KEPLER,
COROT, MPS) will find numerous multiple systems, as predicted by Holman \& Murray (2004).
The present search for double transit planetary systems suggests a number of
interesting follow-up studies.
Theoretical modeling of formation and stability
of such systems including different migration scenarios can be pursued.
These systems would provide also a good opportunity to test various
models of the effects of stellar radiation in planetary atmospheres.
Further observation of multiple transit systems would refine the
planetary parameters and reveal similarities and differences between
the structures of "hot" and "normal" extrasolar giant planets.
\begin{acknowledgements}
DM is supported by Fondap Center for Astrophysics 15010003.
\end{acknowledgements}
| the transit are discarded. The light curves with the main transits
removed are called "reduced" light curves hereafter. We compute the dispersion
of these light curves by binning 10 contiguous datapoints, and check on the
stability of this dispersion (e.g. in other OGLE
light curves that turned out to be low amplitude grazing binaries
it was found that the dispersion increases).
This step was carried out for all the stars of Table 1.
Second, examination of this "reduced" light curve (Figure 1), to search for
asymmetries or excess points below the normal star baseline, beyond the
photometric errors.
This step was carried out for all the stars of Table 1.
Third, phasing the reduced light curve to search for periodicity that
may reveal an additional transiting planet. At this stage we pay particular
attention to periods which would be in mean motion resonances with the
original periods.
This step was carried out only for OGLE-TR-10 and OGLE-TR-111.
Finally, if a good candidate is found, we check the existing radial velocitiy
to confirm if they are consistent with the presence of an additional
planet, and try to derive its physical parameters from the photometry and spectroscopy.
This step was carried out only for OGLE-TR-111
We discuss here the stars OGLE-TR-10, OGLE-TR-56, OGLE-TR-113, and OGLE-TR-132, reserving the next
section for a more thorough discussion of the most promising candidate, OGLE-TR-111.
\begin{figure}[h]
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{minnitid_fig1.ps}}
\caption{
Magnitude distribution for
OGLE-TR-10, OGLE-TR-56, OGLE-TR-111, and OGLE-TR-113,
obtained after discarding the eclipses from the known transiting planets.
The open histograms are an expanded version of the hashed histograms
in order to illustrate possible excess of points below the mean
magnitudes. Stars OGLE-TR-10 and OGLE-TR-111 show several points
4$\sigma$ fainter than the mean magnitudes.
}
\label{Fig01}
\end{figure}
\subsection{OGLE-TR-10}
OGLE-TR-10 shows larger than normal scatter compared with other OGLE stars at
this magnitude ($I=14.93$). Its planet was suggested by
Bouchy et al. (2004), and was finally confirmed by Konacki et al. (2005).
After substraction of the 117 points (from a total of 1082 points)
next to the transit of OGLE-TR-10b,
we find $\sigma_I=0.006$ mag. There are a group of fainter points suggesting
the possibility of additional transits (Figure 1), including
3 points located $4\sigma$ below the mean magnitude.
However, the reduced light curve could not be phased adequately to reveal any
clear low amplitude transits. More accurate photometric follow up of this star is needed | 708 |
Per FEIF standards, Blessi does not have a good
example of finely chizzled head--his head is a bit coarse and
raven nosed.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Icelandic people began to write poetry about horses whose appearance and performance inspired them.<|fim_middle|> traits and rideability which was used in the show at Thingvellir, the first Landsmót. This type of rating by individual trait with a calculated overall total was the first use of its kind in the horse world (Bjőrnsson & Sveinsson, 2006, pp. 204-213).
Over the years in Iceland, the weightings of various traits have changed to encourage desired breeding results. In 1952, the Agricultural Society decided that only riding horses should be bred as opposed to work or plow horses. As Breeding Advisor from 1961-1996, Thorkell Bjarnason emphasized the importance of pace in retaining the tolt as a distinct gait in the breeding of the Icelandic horse. He also focused on refining the breeding standards to develop a lighter neck, good legs, and an outstanding character. (Bjőrnsson & Sveinsson, 2006, pp. 204-213).
In 1969, a group of Icelandic horse enthusiasts founded FEIF or Föderation Europäischer Islandpferde Freunde (translated as Friends of the Icelandic Horse) which is known by its English translation as International Federation of Icelandic Horse Associations. Founding member countries were Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, and Switzerland. Currently 18 countries, including the US, are members of FEIF. Over the past 40 years, FEIF has established a series of committees to work with its member national organizations to set up international standards for breeding, rules for sanctioned sports competitions, world championships, youth events, education, etc. (Note: Merging the various national breeding standards into one international system involved much heated discussion over the years.) One of its most important accomplishments was the establishment of WorldFengur. (Kolnes, n.d.) After considerable discussion, debate, and research, BLUP (Best Linear Unbiased Prediction) or a computer model for predicting breeding potential was added to the Icelandic breeding standards in 1992 (Bjőrnsson & Sveinsson, 2006).
Overall, Blessi has good, but somewhat coarse, proportions
with a relatively long neck and legs. However, his back
is too long and his shoulder could be sloped more.
The development of breeding standards and information about the Icelandic horse continues to evolve. Recent developments include tracking additional information such incidence of spavin and blood types. Current breeding standards are based on over 100 years of accumulated data and history on breeding horses with outstanding gaits, good conformation, and willing personalities.
Purpose of Breeding Standards
What is the goal of breeding standards? Although published in 1988 and somewhat outdated, the book Judging Icelandic Breeding Horses by Marit Jonsson provides a clear articulation of the goal of Icelandic horse breeding standards:
The Icelandic horse must be a true riding horse, courageous, cheerful, trustworthy, spirited and cooperative. It must command at least four gaits, of which one must be tolt, and should preferably also have flying pace. It must be strong, enduring and have a long useful life. It must be frugal, robust and inexpensive to keep (Jonsson, 1988, p. 8).
Jonsson goes on to explain that the tolt is the primary defining characteristic of the Icelandic horse. As you review the description of breeding standards around conformation traits below, you will want to keep that in mind since weighting of conformation traits in the overall score is based on their perceived relationship to tolt and, to a lesser degree, pace.
Conformation Traits
Conformation may vary considerably since Icelandic horses are bred for purposes from pace racing to general riding to international competitions. However, a typical Icelandic horse is rectangular and compact in shape. Typical of the breed is a sloping croup, a long, thick mane and tail, and a thick, protective coat in winter (Antonsson, Siiger Hansen, and Grimm, 2011, p. E-2).
Blessi has a strong, if relatively long back. He also has a bit
of a bump along his loins (stiff loins) indicating
that his gaits are not as fluid as they could be.
The following section briefly describes each conformation trait and lists common flaws. The judges use an assessment form to rate conformation traits and rideability. You can find a more detailed description, including details on the judging scale, for each trait by consulting the FEIF Rules for Icelandic Horse Breeding located at www.feif.org. The judges assign a number from 5 to 10 for each trait depending on how the horse conforms to international breeding standards.
Please note that any discussion of Icelandic horse breeding standards requires an in-depth knowledge of basic horse conformation. Icelandic horse judging manuals such as Studhorse Judging and Studshows and Judging Icelandic Breeding Horses assume that judges understand such terms as cow hocked, over at the knee, good proportions, well set neck, etc.
Judges measure the horse at several points such as highest point of withers and croup, lowest point of back, depth of breast, length of body, width of chest, circumference of knee, top of hoof to toe, etc.
2012 version of FEIF Assessment Form
Head (Weighted Factor 3%)
Judges are looking for a proud, pretty, fine head with thin, fine ears and large eyes. There is a good space between the jaws and the noseline is straight with wide open nostrils. Common flaws are extreme dished face, coarse head, and badly positioned ears.
Neck/Withers/Shoulders (Weighted Factor 10%)
Ideally, the neck should be long, raised, and fine and clearly separated from the body. Withers are prominent and well-defined. Shoulders are long and sloping. Common flaws are the neck is too thick, ewe neck, hollow neck, and too short or too long neck, upright shoulders. Neck is set too deep.
Back and Croup or Topline (Weighted Factor 3%)
The judges are looking for a great topline with a soft, supple back—average length, broad, and well muscled. The hindquarters are long, adequately sloped, and equally developed. The thighs are long and muscled and the tail is well set. Common flaws are humped or sway back, too long or too short back, a forward sloping back or lack of muscling in thighs or croup.
Sigh, Blessi has always had below
average amount of mane. His forelock
never seems to get longer than this.
Proportions (Weighted Factor 7.5%)
As the FEIF standards state, "The horse should be full of splendour and presence" (Antonsson, et al, 2011, p. E-10). The body should be light and cylindrical in shape. The front, middle, and hind portions of the horse should be approximately equal. The legs should be long. "The highest point at the withers should be higher than the highest point of the croup" (Antonsson, et al, 2011, p. E-10). Common flaws are legs that are too short; body is too round; horse is lower in the front; or front, mid, and hind sections are not proportional.
Leg Quality (Weighted Factor 6%)
The horse should have strong joints and exceptional pasterns. There should be good separation between tendons and bones. Common flaws are straight or weak pasterns, swelling in the tendons, over at the knee, cow hocked, knock kneed, and little separation between tendons and bones.
Leg Structure (Weighted Factor 3%)
The front legs should be straight with sufficient space between the legs. The hind legs may be slightly splayed. Common flaws are front or back legs turned too far in or out or cow hocked. The judges typically assess leg structure at both the walk and the trot. They look for overreaching or signs of unusual stress.
Hooves (Weighted Factor 6%)
The hoof should be deep, round, and concave with a thick horn and large frog. Hooves should be one color—preferably dark. Common flaws are thin horn, little frog or heel, shallow or boxy hoof.
Mane and Tail (Weighted Factor 1.5%)
The mane, forelock, and tail should be exceeding thick and long. Mares usually have a finer mane and tail than stallions. The flaw, of course, is a mane and tail that is thin and/or short.
Conformation Weight in Relation to Ridden Abilities
It is beyond the scope of this article to discuss in detail how rideability is judged per FEIF standards. However, it is important to know that in the calculation of the overall score for the horse, conformation is worth 40% and ridden ability is worth 60%. Tolt and pace are weighted higher than canter, trot, and walk. The weighting illustrates the strong emphasis given to performance by FEIF. However, any potential breeder or buyer should take into account this weighting to determine if an outstanding score for ridden abilities outweighs a conformational trait that is average or flawed. For example, a strong back may be very important for a buyer's future plans for a horse but "back and croup" is only given a 3% weighting for conformation traits.
When an international breeding judge looked at Blessi as part of a clinic on
Icelandic breeding standards, she noted that his overall conformation was
good and that he would be suitable for a wide variety of equine activities
except for endurance riding--he is a bit too big boned for that.
Relationship to Sports Competitions
The results of FEIF-sanctioned sports competitions are not considered in FEIF breeding evaluations. E. Albertsdóttir (2007) conducted a study to analyze if there was any correlation among Icelandic horse breeding assessment traits and performance in Icelandic horse sports competitions. She found "Moderately strong genetic correlations were generally estimated between the competition traits and the following conformation traits recorded in breeding field-tests: neck, withers and shoulders; back and hindquarters; proportions; and hooves" (Albertsdóttir, 2007, p. 17). Moderate to high genetic correlation was found between most of the riding ability traits such as tolt and pace and their associated sports tests. Albertsdóttir's results confirm that "competition traits and riding ability traits from breeding field-tests are closely genetically correlated" (Albertsdóttir, 2007, p. 20).
International Breeding Judges
The scheduling of a sanctioned breeding show requires the submission of a FEIF application form (details provided on the USIHC web site). Assessments of gaits and riding ability of adult horses are conducted by three judges. Judges can be certified at the national level or the international level. Currently, the US has no resident breeding judges certified at the International level. Up to this point in time, Icelandic breeding shows in the US have been conducted by International Breeding Judges from other FEIF member countries.
There are two types of judges: International Breeding Judge and International Breeding and Riding Judge. Both types of judges require years of experience, approval by the national member association of FEIF, passing of a 1- to 2-day test conducted per FEIF standards, and continual licensing by FEIF.
One of the strengths of the Icelandic breed and the hope for the continued quality of the Icelandic horse in the future is the international Icelandic horse breeding standards. To the author's knowledge, no other gaited breed has such detailed, international standards based on numerical assessment of individual conformation traits and rating of all gaits. As the FEIF Rules for Icelandic Horse Breeding state, "Everybody [has] the silent hope that the present FIZO [international Icelandic horse breeding rules] shall achieve the aim of all FEIF member nation states - one breeding assessment system for all individual Icelandic horses - the best in the world. Nothing less will do for the Icelandic horse" (Antonsson, et al, 2011, p. E-1).
Agricultural Society of Iceland. (1992). Studhorse Judging and Studshows. Steindórsprent-Gutenberg, Búnatharfélag Islands.
Albertsdóttir, E. (2007). Genetic analysis of competition traits in Icelandic horses. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Upsalla, Sweden.
Antonsson, G., Siiger Hansen, J., Grimm, M. eds. (2011) FEIF Rules for Icelandic Horse Breeding FEIF International Federation of Icelandic Horse Associations. Found on September 23, 2011 at http://feif.org/Download/Breeding/tabid/204/Default.aspx
Bjőrnsson, G., & Sveinsson, H. (2006). The Icelandic Horse, Edda Publishing, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Jonsson, M. (1988). Judging Icelandic Breeding Horses. Agricultural Society of Iceland, Búnatharfélag Islands.
Kolnes, T. (n.d.) The development of FEIF. Found on September 30, 2011 at http://www.feif.org/FEIF/History/tabid/108/Default.aspx
The Points Scale for Assessing Conformation Traits
Unsatisfactory
Slightly below average
Average for the current population
Good, somewhat above average
Perfect – cannot be improved – given very rarely
Each conformational trait is given a numeric rating based on how it compares to the international breeding standards. The above table defines the general meaning of each score (Jonsson, 1988, p. 18).
2016 World Equestrian Festival
Riding Icelandics in Grand Gourmet Tour of France
Brúará River in Iceland circa 1900
Training,Trust, and Leadership
Behind the Scenes of Printing Hestur Book
A Poem for Blessi | A poem from this era, believed to be by Stefán Ólafsson, describes an Icelandic horse named Penni-- "standing at its stall, has lively moving ears, crystal clear eyes and a strong croup. Penni is wonderfully raised, has a broad chest and covers a lot of ground in pace" (Bjőrnsson and Sveinsson, 2006, p. 347). What a wonderful description of an Icelandic horse!
These days there is no need to rely on literary creations to evaluate Icelandic horse conformation. For over 20 years, international Icelandic horse standards for judging ridden ability and conformation have been established and revised by FEIF, the International Federation of Icelandic Horse Associations. Any registered Icelandic horse can be assessed at a national or international breeding show using internationally established standards. The results are maintained in WorldFengur, the international breeding registry of the Icelandic horse, which can be accessed on-line at www.worldfengur.com.
The goal of this article is to discuss the history of Icelandic horse breeding standards, outline the goal of these standards, define the basic traits of Icelandic horse conformation and how they are weighted, look at the genetic reliability of breeding standards, and describe the requirements for breeding judges. Assessment of ridden abilities is not covered in this article.
One of Blessi's best conformational
attributes is his legs. His cannon bone
circumference measures 10 1/4 inches and
he has super thick, well separated tendons.
However his pasterns could be a bit more angled
to help with a better tolt.
A Brief History of Standards
Since Viking times, the Icelanders have discussed what makes a good horse—color, spirit, gaits, endurance, or other traits—and how to breed for these characteristics. As early as 1879, the County Council of Skagafjőrthur, Iceland, suggested standards for farm animals including the horse. In 1899, the Agricultural Society was formed in Iceland followed a few years later by the Horse Breeding Society. In the early 1900s, a series of Breeding Advisors began collecting and codifying breeding data and the results of horse shows and competitions into studbooks. In 1950, Gunnar Bjarnason developed a simple scale of scores for conformational | 489 |
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Between St Austell and Truro, Bissick Old Mill contains bed and breakfast rooms, 15 miles from the Eden Project. Surrounded by beautiful countryside, this 17th-century mill provides free parking and free WiFi. The luxury rooms all have an en suite bathroom, with shower or bath and hairdryer. All have a TV, DVD player, radio, fridge and tea and coffee facilities with fresh Cornish milk, biscuits and spring water, as well as hot chocolate. A full breakfast menu is served in the dining room or out on the courtyard, using locally sourced, organic produce where possible. Tea and coffee is also served on arrival. The Granary is a 1-bedroom house providing private accommodation, with a king-size bed and en suite bathroom downstairs, ...
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Trispen, Truro, UK
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12 Pennance Road, Falmouth, UK
Situated in Falmouth in the Cornwall region, The Sandy Duck features accommodation with free WiFi and free private parking.
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Pennance Road 8, Falmouth, UK
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Greenbank Hotel
Harbour Side, Falmouth, UK
With a stay at Greenbank Hotel & Retreat in Falmouth (South Cornish Coast), you'll be convenient to National Maritime Museum and Gyllyngvase Beach.
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Budock Water, Falmouth, UK
This recently extended elegant Victorian Manor House, Penmorvah Manor Hotel set in 6 acres of private woodland and mature gardens.
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Gyllyngvase Hill, Falmouth, UK
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Delta variant is putting a damper on travel in Europe
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Portugal, Spain and Germany are among the first nations to initiate new travel restrictions in a bid to limit the spread of the more contagious variant which was first detected in India, reported Euronews.
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\section{Introduction}
Energy consumption has become a key issue in the design of microprocessors.
Major chip manufacturers, such as Intel, AMD and IBM,
now produce chips with dynamically scalable speeds,
and produce associated software, such as Intel's SpeedStep and AMD's PowerNow,
that enables an operating system to manage
power by scaling processor speed. Thus the operating system should
have an online {\em speed scaling} policy for setting the speed
of the processor, that ideally should work in tandem with a
{\em job selection} policy for determining which job to run.
In order to be implementable in a real system, these policies must be online since the
system will not in general be aware of which jobs will arrive in the future.
The resulting online optimization problems, generally called speed scaling
problems, have dual objectives as one both
wants to optimize some schedule quality of service objective
and some power related objective.
In this paper we consider the first~\cite{YDS},
and most well studied~\cite{YDS,BBCP,CCL+,BKPSTACS,BKP,LY,LLY,AMS,KK}, speed scaling problem in the
algorithmic literature:
where the scheduling quality of
service measure is a deadline feasibility constraint
(each job must be completed by its deadline), and where the power
objective is to minimize the total energy used.
This problem can be more formally described as follows.
A problem instance consists of $n$ tasks. Task $i$ has a release time
$r_i$, a deadline $d_i > r_i$, and work $w_i > 0$.
An online scheduler learns
about a task only at its release time; at this time, the scheduler also learns
the exact work requirement and the deadline of the task.
A schedule specifies for each time a task to be run and a speed at which to
run the task.
The speed is the amount of work performed on the task per unit time.
Thus, a task with work $w$ run at a constant speed $s$ takes time $\frac{w}{s}$
to complete.
More generally, the work done on a task during a
time period is the integral over that time period of the speed at which
the task is run.
A schedule is {\em feasible} if for each task $i$, work
at least $w_i$ is done on task $i$ during $[r_i, d_i]$.
Note that the times at which work is performed on task $i$ do not have to
be contiguous.
Essentially all of the algorithmic literature has assumed a power function,
which specifies the power $P$ usage as a function of the speed $s$ of
the processor, as $P=s^\alpha$, where $\alpha > 1$ is some constant.
Of particular interest is $\alpha=3$ since dynamic power in
CMOS based processors is approximately the speed cubed.
The energy used during a time period is the integral of the power
over that time period.
It is easy to see that without loss of generality one can adopt Earliest Deadline First (${\rm EDF}$)
as the job selection algorithm. So the problem reduces to finding algorithms for speed scaling.
Four online speed scaling algorithms for this problem has been proposed in the literature.
Table \ref{table:CR} summarizes where each of these algorithms were proposed, and the
best known bounds on the competitive ratio for these algorithms. We now briefly describe
these algorithms:
\smallskip
\noindent
{\bf Average Rate (\boldmath${\rm AVR}$\unboldmath)}
runs each job at a constant speed between its release and its deadline.
The attraction of the algorithm ${\rm AVR}$ is that it is in some sense fair
to all jobs.
\smallskip
\noindent
{\bf Optimal Available (\boldmath${\rm OA}$\unboldmath)}
runs at the speed that would be optimal, given the current state, and given that no more tasks will arrive.
This speed can be determined using the offline greedy
algorithm ${\rm YDS}$ from \cite{YDS} for computing an optimal schedule.
\smallskip
\noindent
{\bf \boldmath${\rm BKP}$\unboldmath}
intuitively computes the least possible speed
that optimal offline schedule ${\rm YDS}$ might currently be running at given the
tasks that have arrived to date, and
then runs at $e$ times that speed. (If the algorithm ran at some constant $q< e$ times this lower bound,
the deadline of some jobs may be missed.)
\smallskip
\noindent
{\bf \boldmath${\rm qOA}$\unboldmath}
runs at
speed equal to some constant $q\ge1$ times the speed that ${\rm OA}$
would run in the current state.
\smallskip
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|}
\hline
Algorithm&\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{General $\alpha$} \\
\hline
&Upper&Lower\\
\hline
General&&$e^{\alpha-1}/\alpha\cite{qOA}$\\
\hline
{\rm AVR}\cite{YDS}&$2^{\alpha-1} \alpha^\alpha$\cite{YDS,BBCP}&$(2-\delta)^{\alpha<|fim_middle|> online algorithm at time $t$.
It is easy to see that $v(t) \leq p(t)$.
\section{Experimental Setup}
\label{sec:setup}
We use the trace file {\tt epa-http.txt} from the Internet Traffic
Archive (\url{http://ita.ee.lbl.gov/}) to generate the workloads for
our experiments.
This trace contains about 50,000 http requests received during one day
by the EPA's webserver located at Research Triangle Park, NC.
Each http request has two main pieces of information: its time and
the number of bytes in the response.
Some requests received 0 bytes in response, nearly always
corresponding to a 304 (page not modified since last download) or 404
(page not found) response code.
In these cases, we treat the response size as 50 bytes to approximate
the header; this value is small relative to the responses generated by
other requests.
We treat each http request as a job whose release time is the same as
the http request time, whose work requirement is the number of
transferred bytes in response to the request, and whose deadline is
generated in different ways to produce workloads with specific
characteristics.
Since our trace file contains a day's worth of http requests, it has a
peak period and slow periods corresponding to high traffic and low
traffic reaching the website, respectively.
Since we are
interested in workloads with different degrees of spikiness, we repeat
the set of jobs we create based on the trace file five times to
simulate having requests of five days.
To allow us to run multiple experiments on this one trace, in each
experiment we only create a job for every 20$^{\textrm{th}}$ http
request in the original trace. This allows us to generate 20 different
workloads where the first one starts with the first http request in
the file, the second workload starts with the second http request, and
so on.
Each of these workloads contains different jobs, but each spans the
entire day and contains similar variations in request density.
In addition to providing multiple input workloads, splitting the trace
this way also keeps the computation time of our simulator reasonable. In our simulations, the results of the different workloads exhibited similar trends, so we arbitrarily chose the workload generated starting with the sixth job to present its simulation results.
We will now explain how the deadline is generated for each type of
workload. Through these explanations the variable $S$ will stand
for a fixed scaling factor, and $N$ will denote some random number.
We start with the flat and fixed span workloads. These
are the most natural since they correspond to requiring
a response time proportional to the request size, and requiring a fixed
response time for every request, respectively. After that, we
consider the moderately and highly spiky workloads. We include them
because we wanted to compare the algorithms on spikier workloads.
\subsubsection{Flat Workload}
The first workload we consider is the {\em flat workload}, in which
the span of each job is proportional to its amount of work.
Although the amount of work varies over time in this workload, it
does not particularly strain the processor.
We call this work load flat because the optimal energy schedule shows
a relatively modest number and degree of speed changes.
See Figure \ref{fig:YDS_Flat}, which is typical of optimal schedules for
this type of workload.%
\footnote{To make it easy to compare all
figures, we displayed the same time interval (0--550,000 seconds)
for all of them, trimming the plots to fit.
From 550,000 seconds on, the speed continues to decrease as the
last set of active jobs complete.}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/flat1_yds.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm YDS}$ schedule for the flat workload.}
\label{fig:YDS_Flat}
\end{figure}
We generate the deadlines of jobs in a flat workload using the equation
$d_i = r_i + Sw_i$, with $S = 0.4$.
\subsubsection{Fixed Span Workload}
Our second workload is the {\em fixed span workload}, in which all jobs
have the same span, corresponding to a system that guarantees a
worst-case response time for each task.
Since jobs vary in their work requirement, the amount of work per unit
time varies.
The optimal schedule produced by ${\rm YDS}$ for this kind of workload may
have large or small variations in speed depending on the job span
and how much jobs overlap.
Figure \ref{fig:YDS_Fixed} plots the ${\rm YDS}$ schedule for
one of these workloads generated using a fixed span of 1000 seconds.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/fixed1_yds.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm YDS}$ schedule for the fixed span workload.}
\label{fig:YDS_Fixed}
\end{figure}
\subsubsection{Moderately Spiky Workload}
Our third workload is the {\em moderately spiky workload}, which has
greater variation in the amount of arriving work.
An optimal solution for a moderately spiky workload is shown in
Figure \ref{fig:YDS_Moderate}.
To generate the deadlines for this workload, we used the equation
$d_i = r_i + Sw_i$, with $S = 0.1$.
Note that this is the same equation we used to generate a flat
workload except for the scaling factor.
The change in the optimal schedule can be seen by comparing
Figures~\ref{fig:YDS_Flat} and \ref{fig:YDS_Moderate}.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/mod1_yds.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm YDS}$ schedule for the moderately spiky workload.}
\label{fig:YDS_Moderate}
\end{figure}
\subsubsection{Highly Spiky Workload}
For our last workload, which we call the {\em highly spiky workload},
we further increased the variability of the amount of work arriving.
Intuitively, a highly spiky workload contains bursts of high work
when several jobs arrive requiring a lot of work that needs to be
finished in a small time period.
Therefore, a highly spiky workload
contains huge variations in speeds as illustrated by the optimal
${\rm YDS}$ schedule shown in Figure \ref{fig:YDS_High}.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/high1_yds.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm YDS}$ schedule for the highly spiky workload.}
\label{fig:YDS_High}
\end{figure}
When generating this workload, we added additional jobs as well as
generating job deadlines.
We did this as follows:
\begin{enumerate}
\item We divide the time line into intervals of two alternating
lengths, $L, H$, with $L > H$. $L$ and $H$ stand for light and high
load intervals, respectively. We used $L = 200$ and $H = 50$.
\item For any job, regardless of whether its release time falls in an
$L$ or $H$ interval, we compute its deadline using the equation:
$d_i = r_i + Sw_i$, with $S = 0.4$.
\item For a job whose release time falls in an $H$ interval we also
create zero to two additional jobs with the same release time and
amount of work. To compute their deadlines, we first compute the
span of the original job (after computing its deadline in the
previous step) as $t_i = d_i - r_i$. Then we use the following equation
for computing the deadline of each additional job:
$d_i = r_i + N t_i$,
where $N$ is a pseudorandom number selected uniformly over the range
$(0,2]$.
To decide how many additional jobs to
create, we use a triangle shaped function $f$ over the
high load interval with peak $=2$, and we compute the
value $f(x)$ at $x = r_i$, the release time of the job; the
number of jobs we generate is then $\lceil f(r_i) \rceil$.
\end{enumerate}
Note that we use a random number in computing the deadlines of these
jobs so that we do not have multiple identical jobs which would be
equivalent to just one job with the same release time and
deadline and an amount of work equal to the sum of their work.
\section{Experimental Results}
\label{sec:results}
In this section we show the experimental results for the different
types of workloads.
Our first observation addresses one possible concern with using ${\rm qOA}$:
how does one pick a good value of $q$?
For each experiment we run ${\rm qOA}$ with
different values of $q$ to find the value that results in the least
amount of consumed energy. We tried values of $q$ from $1$ to $9$,
increasing in steps of $0.1$.
It turns out that the performance of ${\rm qOA}$ is not highly
sensitive to the exact value of $q$.
Figures \ref{fig:q_Flat} and \ref{fig:q_High} show the consumed
energy as a function of $q$ for $\alpha = 3$ for the flat and
highly spiky workloads, respectively.
The curve for a moderately spiky workload is similar to Figure
\ref{fig:q_Flat}, though less steep to the right of the minimum.
The curve for a fixed time workload is similar to Figure
\ref{fig:q_High}, but with the minimum at 1.
In all cases, the curves are relatively flat near the optimal value of
$q$, implying that any value near the optimal $q$ produces a near
optimal schedule. We set $q=1.5$ when comparing ${\rm qOA}$ to other algorithms
because this is the value of $q$ recommended by the competitive analysis of
${\rm qOA}$ when $\alpha$ is about three.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/q_flat1.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of consumed energy vs. $q$ for ${\rm qOA}$ schedules of a flat
workload. ($\alpha=3$)}
\label{fig:q_Flat}
\end{figure}
\mycomment{
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/q_moderate1.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of consumed energy vs. $q$ for ${\rm qOA}$ schedules of a
moderately spiky workload. ($\alpha=3$)}
\label{fig:q_Moderate}
\end{figure}
}
\mycomment{
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/q_fixed1.eps, scale=0.6}
\caption{Plot of consumed energy vs. $q$ for ${\rm qOA}$ schedules of a
fixed time workload. ($\alpha=3$)}
\label{fig:q_Fixed}
\end{figure}
}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/q_high1.eps, scale=0.6}
\caption{Plot of consumed energy vs. $q$ for ${\rm qOA}$ schedules of a
highly spiky workload. ($\alpha=3$)}
\label{fig:q_High}
\end{figure}
Now that the choice of $q$ has been addressed, we can compare
the different algorithms.
In our experiments, the schedule produced by ${\rm qOA}$ (with optimal $q$)
always consumed less energy than the schedules produced by
${\rm AVR}$ or ${\rm BKP}$.
In fact, ${\rm BKP}$ consistently used the most energy of the algorithms we
compared.
Figures \ref{fig:energy-flat}--\ref{fig:energy-high} show the energy
consumed by each algorithm's schedule on typical instances of each
type of workload.
Since the competitive ratio of ${\rm BKP}$ improves relative to the
competitive ratio of the other algorithms as $\alpha$ increases,
we tried values of $\alpha$ up to 12 and found
that ${\rm qOA}$ still always used less energy than ${\rm BKP}$.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/tbl_energy_flat.eps, scale=0.45}
\caption{Energy consumption for a flat workload.}
\label{fig:energy-flat}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/tbl_energy_fixed.eps, scale=0.45}
\caption{Energy consumption for a fixed span workload.}
\label{fig:energy-fixed}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/tbl_energy_mod.eps, scale=0.45}
\caption{Energy consumption for a moderately spiky workload.}
\label{fig:energy-moderate}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/tbl_energy_high.eps, scale=0.45}
\caption{Energy consumption for a highly spiky workload.}
\label{fig:energy-high}
\end{figure}
What causes the relatively poor performance of ${\rm BKP}$?
For our inputs, it seems to consistently choose a high speed at
which to run. ${\rm BKP}$ needs to use a
high multiplicative factor $e$ times its current estimated load in order to guarantee a feasible schedule.
In addition, ${\rm BKP}$'s calculated speed can be increased by
jobs that have already finished.
Observe the ${\rm BKP}$ schedules depicted in Figures \ref{fig:BKP_vt_Flat}--\ref{fig:BKP_vt_High}.
The area under the curve appears partially filled because the
algorithm keeps switching between a high speed and being idle
(i.e. running at speed 0) because it has finished all released jobs.
Comparison with Figures \ref{fig:YDS_Flat}--\ref{fig:YDS_High}, which
show the optimal schedule for the same workloads, confirms that ${\rm BKP}$
does indeed use much higher speeds than necessary.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/flat1_BKP_vt.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm BKP}$ $ev(t)$ schedule for a flat workload.}
\label{fig:BKP_vt_Flat}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/fixed1_BKP_vt.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm BKP}$ $ev(t)$ schedule for a fixed span workload.}
\label{fig:BKP_vt_Fixed}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/mod1_BKP_vt.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm BKP}$ $ev(t)$ schedule for a moderately spiky workload.}
\label{fig:BKP_vt_Moderate}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/high1_BKP_vt.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm BKP}$ $ev(t)$ schedule for a highly spiky workload.}
\label{fig:BKP_vt_High}
\end{figure}
Comparing the energy consumption of ${\rm BKP}$ schedules when speed is
computed using $ep(t)$ and $ev(t)$, we notice that less energy is
consumed when speed is computed using $ev(t)$.
This is demonstrated in
Figures \ref{fig:energy-flat}--\ref{fig:energy-high}.
To see why this occurs, compare Figures \ref{fig:BKP_vt_Flat} and
\ref{fig:BKP_pt_Flat}, which respectively give the
${\rm BKP}$ schedules using $ev(t)$ and $ep(t)$ for the flat workload.
Notice that the schedule using $ep(t)$ has higher peaks.
This is not surprising given that it seems that both versions of ${\rm BKP}$ are
running too fast at critical times, and we know that $v(t) \le p(t)$.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/flat1_BKP_pt.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm BKP}$ $ep(t)$ schedule for a flat workload.}
\label{fig:BKP_pt_Flat}
\end{figure}
Our next several observations concern the optimal value of $q$ for
algorithm ${\rm qOA}$ on different workloads.
As noted above, the performance of ${\rm qOA}$ is not highly
sensitive to the exact value of $q$, but its value nonetheless
does matter.
Our explanation for why different workloads favor different values of
$q$ focuses on the spikes in schedule speed.
These spikes have disproportionate affect on the energy consumption because
raising speed to $\alpha$ causes the power to be much higher at
these times due to the convexity of the power function.
The spikes occur because the workload itself contains periods when more work
arrives, but their height is affected by two factors related to the
value of $q$.
The first factor relates to the amount of work arriving before the spike
that must be finished during it.
A higher value of $q$ tends to reduce the amount of this type of work
because higher $q$ causes ${\rm qOA}$ to
run faster before the spike, thereby reducing the optimal speed during
the spike.
The second factor, which works against the first, is that ${\rm qOA}$ runs
at $q$ times the optimal speed, including during the spike.
Thus, a large value of $q$ may increase the speed of a spike even if
the optimal speed during that time has been reduced.
We believe that the optimal value of $q$ for different types of
workloads is largely explained by the interaction of these factors on
each type of workload.
First consider flat and moderately spiky workloads.
For these workloads, the optimal value of $q$ is usually high---
typically around 4 or higher.
It is generally higher for moderately spiky workloads than for flat
ones, as demonstrated in Figures \ref{fig:energy-flat} and
\ref{fig:energy-moderate}.
To explain these observations, we refer back to the optimal schedules
for these workloads shown in Figures \ref{fig:YDS_Flat} and
\ref{fig:YDS_Moderate}.
These figures show that the spikes in the optimal schedule are fairly
broad, with the optimal schedule for the flat workload exhibiting
smaller spikes than the optimal schedule of the moderately spiky
workload.
The broad spikes allow the benefits of higher $q$ to be felt since
finishing work early creates a narrower (but taller) spike.
The difference between the workloads occurs because
the flat workload, where the arrival rate of work varies less (smaller
spikes in the optimal schedule), does not benefit as much from
increasing $q$.
The ${\rm qOA}$ schedules corresponding to the optimal schedules depicted in
Figures \ref{fig:YDS_Flat} and
\ref{fig:YDS_Moderate} are shown in
Figures \ref{fig:qOA_Flat} and \ref{fig:qOA_Moderate}.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/flat1_qOA_1.5.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm qOA}$ schedule with $q = 1.5$ for a flat workload.}
\label{fig:qOA_Flat}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/mod1_qOA_1.5.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm qOA}$ schedule with $q = 1.5$ for a moderately
spiky workload.}
\label{fig:qOA_Moderate}
\end{figure}
As occurs in Figures \ref{fig:energy-flat} and
\ref{fig:energy-moderate}, we observed that optimal $q$ usually
increases with increasing $\alpha$ for both flat and
moderately spiky workloads.
Increasing $\alpha$ raises the penalty for having spikes in the
schedule, so the workloads benefit from a slightly higher $q$, which
finishes work slightly earlier and shrinks the spikes.
Now we turn our attention to the value of $q$ in fixed span and
highly spiky workloads.
For these workloads, optimal $q$
is usually very low (near 1), as demonstrated in Figures
\ref{fig:energy-fixed} and \ref{fig:energy-high}.
To explain this, we again examine the optimal schedules for these
workloads; see Figures \ref{fig:YDS_Fixed} and \ref{fig:YDS_High}.
These optimal schedules have a number of very tall, very narrow spikes,
indicating the arrival of a large amount of urgent work.
The narrowness of the spike decreases the benefit of
increasing $q$ because the schedule quickly runs out of urgent work.
The height of the spike also increases the cost of large $q$ because
running at a greater multiple of the optimal speed makes the tall
spikes even taller.
The ${\rm qOA}$ schedules corresponding to the optimal schedules depicted in
Figures \ref{fig:YDS_Fixed} and \ref{fig:YDS_High} are shown in
Figures \ref{fig:qOA_Fixed} and \ref{fig:qOA_High}.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/fixed1_qOA_1.5.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm qOA}$ schedule with $q = 1.5$ for a fixed span
workload.}
\label{fig:qOA_Fixed}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/high1_qOA_1.5.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of ${\rm qOA}$ schedule with $q = 1.5$ for a highly spiky
workload.}
\label{fig:qOA_High}
\end{figure}
As $\alpha$ increases, the optimal value of $q$
for fixed span and highly spiky workloads decreased in our
experiments (as demonstrated in Figures
\ref{fig:energy-fixed} and \ref{fig:energy-high}), which is consistent
with the observation that increasing $\alpha$ increases the penalty
for tall spikes.
Regarding the fixed span workload, the observation that optimal
$q$ is near 1 holds for all the span lengths we tried.
We offer a partial justification for this by discussing the extreme cases.
With a short fixed span, there is little overlap between jobs and
little reason to finish one before the next arrives since they are
largely independent.
With a long fixed span, there is a lot of overlap between the
spans of jobs, allowing the optimal algorithm enough knowledge
to find a good schedule, which then does not benefit by a speed increase.
In both cases, the best $q$ will tend to be low.
In addition to comparing the algorithms with respect to energy
consumption, we also compare them with respect to the maximum
temperature reached by the schedules they compute.
Our temperature calculations use a discrete approximation.
We considered a range of values for the parameter $b$, and a time step of 0.1
seconds for the discrete approximation.
We compared the algorithms using the parameters: $\alpha=2, 3, 4$,
and a wide range of cooling parameters $b$.
We found that the
performance of the algorithms relative to each other with respect to
temperature is the same as their relative performance with respect to
energy consumption; from best to worst, the order was ${\rm YDS}$, ${\rm qOA}$,
${\rm AVR}$, ${\rm BKP}$ using $ev(t)$, and ${\rm BKP}$ using $ep(t)$.
We did observe that the optimal value of $q$ for ${\rm qOA}$ could be
slightly different for minimizing temperature than for minimizing
energy consumption.
(Although none of the algorithms take $\alpha$ into account when
calculating speed, variations in $\alpha$ do favor differently shaped
schedules.)
Figure \ref{fig:temperature_plot} plots maximum
temperature as a function of the cooling parameter for the schedules
produced by ${\rm BKP}$ $ev(t)$ and ${\rm qOA}$ ($q=1.5$) for a moderately
spiky workload with $\alpha=3$.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\epsfig{file=figs/temp_plot4.eps, scale=.6}
\caption{Plot of maximum temperature vs. cooling parameter for schedules of ${\rm BKP}$ $ev(t)$ and ${\rm qOA}$ with $q=1.5$, for a moderately spiky workload using $\alpha=3$}
\label{fig:temperature_plot}
\end{figure}
\section{Conclusion}
In summary, if you order the
candidate speed scaling algorithms in the
literature by the best competitive ratio
that has been proved, this is exactly the order that these
algorithms finished in our experimental horse race.
We performed many more experiments than the
representative sample that we report here,
and we saw the same ordering of the algorithms
across a wide range of different input distributions.
So we don't believe that these experimental results
are due to any particularities in the input distributions that used.
We thus believe that these experimental results
can be viewed as a victory for competitive analysis as
a predictor of experimental performance, even though that
is the not the main goal of competitive analysis.
\bibliographystyle{plain}
| -1} \alpha^\alpha$\cite{BBCP}\\
\hline
{\rm OA}\cite{YDS}&$\alpha^\alpha$\cite{BKP}&$\alpha^\alpha$\cite{YDS}\\
\hline
{\rm BKP}\cite{BKP}&$2 (\alpha/(\alpha-1))^\alpha e^\alpha$\cite{BKP}&\\
\hline
{\rm qOA}\cite{qOA}&$4^\alpha/(2 \sqrt{e \alpha})$\cite{qOA}&$\frac{1}{2q\alpha}4^\alpha(1-\frac{2}{\alpha})^{\alpha/2}$\cite{qOA}\\
&when $q=2 - \frac{1}{\alpha}$& \\
\hline
\hline
&\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{$\alpha=3$} \\
\hline
&Upper&Lower\\
\hline
General&&2.4\\
\hline
{\rm AVR}&108&48\\
\hline
{\rm OA}&27&27\\
\hline
{\rm BKP}&135.6&\\
\hline
{\rm qOA}&6.7&\\
&when $q=1.54$&\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Where the online algorithms in the literature were proposed, and the best known bounds on the competitive ratios}
\label{table:CR}
\end{table}
Competitive analysis for online scheduling problems in particular, and online problems in general,
is sometimes criticized for a variety of reasons. The most common criticism is that competitive
analysis focuses on worst-case performance, and thus may not predict
the algorithm that performs best in practice, or on average.
However, competitive analysis likely will not go
away because it can be tractably applied to such a wide range of problems,
for which it is
not clear how to obtain a useful average case analysis.
Competitive analysis has applied to several reasonable
algorithms for this problem, and
the search
for optimally competitive algorithms has lead to candidate algorithms
that
would not likely have been discovered by local search and
experimentation.
Plausibly any of these candidate algorithms might be the best experimentally.
So as a test case on the effectiveness of competitive analysis to
predict the best experimental online algorithm,
we report on an experimental ``horse race'' between these speed scaling algorithms.
Our data was based on web traces, which naturally gave release times
and sizes for each job.
We consider several natural ways of adding deadlines
to the jobs, and tweak the data to produce inputs with workloads with
different levels of spikiness.
Based on the best upper bound that can be proved on the competitive ratio,
when $\alpha$ is around 3, the ranking of the online algorithms from best
to worst is: ${\rm qOA}$, ${\rm OA}$, ${\rm AVR}$, ${\rm BKP}$.
Our experimental results are essentially that over the wide range of input instances we
tried, the order of the algorithms from best to worst was
exactly the same order as predicted by the best known upper bounds on the competitive ratio.
Further, the differences between the various algorithms was
significant.
So these experimental results can be viewed as a victory for competitive analysis (or alternatively
as a defeat for critics of competitive analysis).
A priori we intuitively expected ${\rm BKP}$ to be
the best experimental algorithm, not the worst.
We believed that the reason that the best known competitive ratio
for ${\rm BKP}$ was so high was that its non-local nature made it more difficult to analyze accurately.
To understand the conceptual difference between ${\rm BKP}$ and ${\rm qOA}$, consider
a situation where the current load (unfinished work) is low, but the load in the recent past was high.
In this situation ${\rm BKP}$ may run at a high speed, while ${\rm qOA}$ definitely will not run at a high speed.
It seemed to us that ${\rm BKP}$'s use of the historical load should give it an advantage.
Further, in the extreme, when $\alpha=\infty$,
the energy optimal schedule is one that is optimal with respect to the
maximum speed that it reaches. \cite{BKP} show that ${\rm BKP}$ is optimally $e$-competitive
with respect to maximum speed.
This led us to believe that ${\rm BKP}$ is near optimally competitive for large $\alpha$.
Further, there appears to be no obvious reason why the relative performance of the algorithms
should depend on $\alpha$.
Thus, we expected that ${\rm BKP}$ would also be the best algorithm when
the cube-root rule ($\alpha=3$) holds.
Some other experimental observations that we believe are interesting are:
\begin{itemize}
\item
The performance of ${\rm qOA}$ is not so sensitive to the value
of $q$. Picking $q$ to be in the range $[1.5, 2]$, as suggested
by the competitiveness results, gives performance reasonably close to the optimal $q$
for each particular instance.
We select $q=1.5$ in comparison with other algorithms because this is the
value of $q$ suggested by the competitive analysis of ${\rm qOA}$.
\item The schedule produced by ${\rm qOA}$ uses
less energy than the schedules produced by ${\rm AVR}$ or ${\rm BKP}$.
\item
There are two alternative formulations of the algorithm ${\rm BKP}$ given
in \cite{BKP}. We find that the one that produces a better (higher) lower bound for
the speed of the optimal algorithm ${\rm YDS}$ at the current time, is the worse performing
of the two alternatives.
\item
The value of $q$ is generally higher for moderately spiky workloads than for flat
ones.
For flat and moderately spiky workloads, the optimal $q$ for the ${\rm qOA}$ algorithm is
usually high--- typically around 4 or higher.
This is significant because it shows that ${\rm BKP}$ loses to ${\rm qOA}$ even when the multiplier $q$ is relatively
large (and bigger than the multiplier $e$ used in ${\rm BKP}$). Intuitively this suggests that the main
reason that ${\rm BKP}$ loses relative to ${\rm qOA}$ is because of its consideration of load in the recent past.
Further, for these workloads, the optimal value of $q$ tends to increase as $\alpha$ is increased.
\mycomment{
\item As $\alpha$ is increased, optimal $q$ of ${\rm qOA}$ usually increases
for flat and moderately spiky workloads. Optimal $q$ is usually high
- around 3 or higher - for both types of workload, and hence it is
logical that optimal $q$ does not go down, because using a smaller
$q$ means that jobs preceding a spike would run slower, thus taking
longer and forcing later jobs - which constitute a spike - to run
much faster to be able to meet their deadlines, which consequently
cause the workload to consume more energy. However, it is probably
beneficial to increase $q$ to allow the jobs preceding a spike to
finish faster, thus giving more room, i.e. a longer time span, for
later jobs to complete, and therefore enabling them to run at lower
speeds; which can result in overall less energy consumption.
}
\item For highly spiky workloads and workloads with a fixed time span
for all jobs, the optimal value of $q$ for ${\rm qOA}$ is quite low---
near 1.
This is true for fixed time span workloads regardless of the length
of the fixed time span.
For these workloads, the optimal value of $q$ usually decreases as
$\alpha$ is increased.
\mycomment{
\item As $\alpha$ is increased, optimal $q$ of ${\rm qOA}$ usually decreases
for highly spiky and fixed time span workloads. For both types of
workload optimal $q$ is quite low - near 1 - which means that
running faster is not beneficial, and with a greater value of
$\alpha$ even more energy is consumed that it makes sense to use
smaller values of $q$ to reduce consumed energy.
}
\item
\cite{BKP} also showed that ${\rm BKP}$ and ${\rm YDS}$ are cooling oblivious, i.e.
they are simultaneously constant-competitive with
respect to temperature for all values of the cooling parameter
assuming that the environment
has a fixed ambient temperature and that the device cools
according to Newton's law of cooling.
This led us to also compare the various algorithms with respect to
the objective of maximum temperature.
The relative ordering of the algorithms with respect to maximum
temperature is the same as their order with
respect to energy consumption. Further, the energy optimal schedule ${\rm YDS}$ is better
than ${\rm qOA}$ with respect to maximum temperature.
\end{itemize}
All of the implementations of the speed scaling algorithms, and related programs, such as
those for generating test instances, can be found at
{\tt http://www.cs.pitt.edu/$\sim$kirk/SpeedScalingExperiments}.
We expect, or at least hope, that these tools will be useful to future researchers.
It is important to note again that the purpose of this paper was to determine how
the performance of the candidate algorithms predicted by competitive
analysis compared to a generic experimental analysis.
Thus we based our input on web traces instead of program traces because
these were more readily available, and still served our purposes.
We acknowledge that the common abstract model for a processor, which we
use in this paper, is a significant simplification of a real processor, and
that there
are many significant issues that would have to be addressed in applying
these algorithms in a real setting. But these lower level implementation
issues are beyond the scope of
this paper.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In section \ref{sec:preliminaries} we give more
formal definitions of the problem and algorithms.
In section \ref{sec:setup} we explain our experimental setup.
In section \ref{sec:results} we give our experimental observations.
\section{Preliminaries}
\label{sec:preliminaries}
Newton's Law of heat conduction states that the rate of cooling is
proportional to the difference in temperature between the object and
its environment.
We assume the environment has a fixed temperature and that temperature
is scaled so that the environmental temperature is zero.
A first-order approximation for the rate of change $T'$ of the
temperature $T$ is then $T'=P-bT$, where $P$ is the
power used at time $t$, and $b$ is a constant.
A schedule is $R$-competitive, or $R$-approximate,
for a particular objective function
if the value of that objective function on the schedule is at most
$R$ times the value of the objective function on an optimal schedule.
An algorithm $A$
is $R$-competitive, or has competitive ratio $R$, if $A(I)$ is $R$-competitive
for all instances.
We now more formally define the algorithms that we consider in this paper, along
with related concepts.
The span of a job $i$ is $d_i - r_i$.
We start with the offline speed scaling algorithm
${\rm YDS}$ proposed in \cite{YDS}.
Let $w(t_1,t_2)$ denote the work that has release time at least $t_1$ and has
deadline at most $t_2$. The \emph{intensity} $I(t_1, t_2)$
of the time interval $[t_1, t_2]$ is
defined to be $w(t_1,t_2)/(t_2 - t_1)$.
\medskip
\noindent
{\bf Algorithm \boldmath${\rm YDS}$\unboldmath} \cite{YDS}:
The algorithm repeats the following steps until all jobs are scheduled:
\begin{enumerate}
\item
Let $[t_1, t_2]$ be the maximum intensity time interval.
\item
The processor will
run at speed $I(t_1,t_2)$ during $[t_1, t_2]$ and schedule all
the jobs comprising $w(t_1,t_2)$, always running the released,
unfinished task with the earliest deadline.
\item
Then the instance is modified as if the times $[t_1, t_2]$ didn't exist.
That is, all deadlines $d_i > t_1$ are reduced to
$\max(t_1, d_i - (t_2 -t_1))$, and all release times $r_i > t_1$
are reduced to $\max(t_1, r_i - (t_2 - t_1))$.
\end{enumerate}
\medskip
\noindent
{\bf Algorithm \boldmath${\rm qOA}$\unboldmath} \cite{qOA}:
The speed is $q \cdot \max_t w(t)/t$, where
$w(t)$ is the unfinished work that has deadline within the next $t$
units of time. Here $q$ is some constant that is at least 1.
We set $q=1.5$ when we compare ${\rm qOA}$ to other algorithms. ${\rm OA}$ is
just the algorithm ${\rm qOA}$ when $q=1$.
\medskip
\noindent
{\bf Algorithm \boldmath${\rm AVR}$\unboldmath} \cite{YDS}:
The speed is
$\sum_{i \in J(t)} \frac{w_i}{d_i -r_i}$,
where $J(t)$ is the collection of tasks $i$ with $r_i \le t \le d_i$.
\medskip
\medskip
\noindent
{\bf Algorithm \boldmath${\rm BKP}$\unboldmath} \cite{BKP}:
For $t_1 \leq t \leq t_2$, let $w(t,t_1,t_2)$ denote the amount of work that
has release time at least
$t_1$ and deadline at most $t_2$ and that has already arrived by time $t$.
Let $p(t)$ be defined by:
$$
p(t) = \max_{t_1,t_2} \frac{w(t, t_1,t_2)}{(t_2-t_1)} \qquad \textrm{ such
that $t_1 < t \leq t_2$} $$
Let $v(t)$ be defined by:
$$
v(t) = \max_{t' > t} \frac{ w(t, e t - (e-1) t',t')}{e(t' -t)}
$$
In one variation of ${\rm BKP}$ in \cite{BKP}, the speed is $e \cdot v(t)$, and in the other variation, it is
$e \cdot p(t)$.
Note that $w(t,t_1,t_2)$, $p(t)$ and $v(t)$ may be computed by
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The used Toyota Corolla has long been the quintessential economy car, bringing fuel-efficient, reliable transport at a price that's exactly right. It's certainly no accident that the Corolla is the world's bestselling nameplate. If you're wondering what to expect as you peruse the used car lot, our used Corolla buying guide is here to help.
Like the models that came before it<|fim_middle|>. The lane departure warning system also actively helps you stay safe with lane keeping assist technology. Should you stray from your intended path, it will gently put you back on track.
Compared to previous models, these Corollas are slightly wider, perfect for families who crave extra elbow oom. On the road, these Corollas always feel smooth and composed. And they certainly live up to Toyota's reputation for reliability.
As you shop these used Toyota Corolla models, you'll find the base Corolla, LE, S, XLE, and XRS trims. The base model has everything you need for a smooth, comfortable ride. That means full power accessories and air conditioning. Plug your smartphone into the auxiliary audio jack to play your music over the system's speakers. Upgrade to the LE for additional conveniences, such as cruise control and Bluetooth hands-free calling capabilities.
The Corolla S looks sportier than the other models with special styling accents, metallic interior trim, and fog lights. Its upgrade cloth upholstery also sets it apart, giving you a little extra comfort as you cruise around town. The XRS takes performance even further, with its bigger engine and sport-tuned suspension. Check out the XLE for top-of-the-line luxury and style, including wood-grain interior trim and a sliding center armrest.
How has this generation of used Toyota Corolla sedans evolved?
Beginning in 2010, stability control became standard equipment. When you test-drive a 2009 used Corolla, simply check the features list to make sure this important safety gear is on it. If you're looking for the Corolla XRS or XLE trims, you should note that they were only sold for the 2009 and 2010 model years. From 2013 and on, the Corolla featured an optional touchscreen audio system for a more modern infotainment experience. | , the current Corolla is a spacious sedan with a strong reputation for reliability. Treat it right, with proper maintenance and oil changes, and it'll take you beyond the 100,000-mile marker without hesitation. The Corolla's blend of interior comfort, fuel mileage, easygoing driving dynamics, and economy price tag make it the total package.
What do the different used Corolla trim models offer?
Look for six trims on the used lot: the L, LE, LE Eco, XLE, SE, and XSE. Every Corolla from this generation comes standard with a long list of modern comforts. That means a rearview camera to help you back up safely and the Entune infotainment system for impressive smartphone connectivity.
In the mid-grade Corolla LE, you'll find timesaving conveniences, like keyless entry and heated mirrors. This model also includes automatic climate control, so the system maintains your perfect temperature, with no work on your part. The LE Eco adds low rolling-resistance tires and enhanced aerodynamics to achieve this Corolla's thriftiest fuel economy ratings, 30 city/40 highway mpg.
The sporty Corolla SE upgrades performance with larger wheels and a rear spoiler. As you zoom around town, the manual transmission gives you complete control over performance. Inside, its front sport seats and leather-wrapped steering wheel upgrade your daily drive.
In the upscale XLE, you'll find all the latest comfort and convenience items. Keyless entry and ignition offer a quick and easy way to hit the road. On your ride to work, the sunroof fills the cabin with early morning sunshine. If it's cold outside, the heated seats have you covered. The upgraded audio system with touchscreen display and satellite radio is the perfect companion on long highway rides. Choose the used Toyota Corolla XSE to combine the luxury features of the XLE with the performance upgrades in the SE.
What's changed during this generation?
Starting with the 2017 model, the eleventh-generation used Toyota Corolla comes standard with the Toyota Safety Sense P system. This suite of driver aids keeps you on your toes. The forward collision warning system doesn't just alert you to danger; it can automatically hit the brakes to reduce damages | 459 |
'I hope he stays' - Hudson-Odoi 'central' to Chelsea's future, insists Lampard
Thread: 'I hope he stays' - Hudson-Odoi 'central' to Chelsea's future, insists Lampard
The Blues' new boss has insisted the England international forward is an integral part of his plans for the future
Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has admitted he is desperate to hold onto Callum Hudson-Odoi and make him central to the club's plans next season.
The England winger handed in a transfer request last January amid interest from German<|fim_middle|> to pen a new £100,000-per-week long-term deal with Chelsea , now that Maurizio Sarri has left the club to join Juventus .
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Under the Italian's watch, Hudson-Odoi started just four league matches last season, which only fuelled his desire to leave the Blues during the campaign.
However, Sarri's replacement has indicated the attacker has a much bigger role to play in the 2019-20 campaign.
"He [Hudson-Odoi] is going to be central for us on the pitch and that is the opportunity that is really in front of him now," Lampard told reporters. "So that's what I will speak to him about and I hope he stays.
"I am not going say things that are pie in the sky. I am not going to say: 'This is all going to be your way'. But knowing his talent he can be central to this team, he can be central to an England team.
"I am going to say I want to work with him, I want to drive him forward. I want to improve him as a player and he can show right here at Chelsea, the club he came through the academy at, that he is going to be an absolute world-class player – because I truly believe that."
Asked about Hudson-Odoi's rumoured near switch to Bayern in January, Lampard claimed he was unsure exactly what transpired between the player and club.
"I don't know what the position was too much last year," said the new Chelsea boss. "What I do know that before Callum got injured you could certainly see when he got opportunities he was playing well. He was showing the player that he is."
Despite Lampard's positive words regarding Hudson-Odoi, Chelsea supporters will have to wait to see the youngster next in action for the Blues.
The winger ruptured his Achilles tendon against Burnley in April and will consequently miss the start of the upcoming campaign.
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Max's Baubee came to visit the day that Max arrived, and today was her last day with us before she had to leave for Washington….to celebrate another huge milestone in our family….Uncle Scott's graduation!
She was such<|fim_middle|> Jack is Here! | an incredible help to us as we have been adjusting to our new routine of sleep deprivation, dirty diapers, and deciphering baby language (oh, and she totally put up with my crazy pregnancy hormones and helped calm down MY crying fits….not just Max's!). We honestly could not have done it without her help….we miss you already Baubee!
Mom knows best, and she made some great meals for us to help us get our strength back up. The hospital had given us a "Celebration Dinner" the night before we left, but my mom won the "Celebration Throwdown" with this meal of my favorite things on our first night home….tuna noodle casserole and salad with goat cheese….yum!
From singing yiddish lullabies to Max (the ones that my Baubee sang to me) and cuddling him so that Sean and I could have a minute to breathe (or shower, or work….) to cooking enormous amounts of food for us to eat over the next few weeks (kugel, lasagna, oh my!) to doing loads of laundry and sterilizing an endless supply of bottles…..Baubee made sure that we started off in the right direction on this journey of parenthood!!!
Uncle Scott and Zaydee Peter joined us later in the week too, and were able to spend some time getting to know little Max. We hope that this is the first of many family get-togethers in our new home!
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Stoner: Reader
Stoner is "a perfect novel" said Morris Dickstein in the review that got it all going. Stoner himself is a "perfect protagonist" according to Ruth Rendell. The book stumbled upon first publication and has been reissued a couple of times since, but it wasn't until its publication by New York Review Books in 2006 that it really took off. Here's a Publishers Weekly story from April 2013 about the book's success, which continues to this day.
Last week I went to a book event organized by The Community Bookstore at the Brooklyn Public Library on the 18th of November at which Ruth Rendell, Honor Moore, and Daniel Mendelsohn discussed the book under the moderation of Liesl Schillinger. It was an altogether excellent event. And it got me thinking that Stoner is a rather bookish book.
William Stoner, (Bill to his colleagues, Willy to his awful wife) deliberate, steady, slow-moving man, transfers from agriculture to English literature after a classroom epiphany, when he is unable to find the words to say what Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 "means". Later, as a graduate student instructor "He found his release and fulfillment in the classes in which he himself was a student. There he was able to recapture the sense of discovery he had felt on that first day, when Archer Sloane had spoken to him in class and he had, in an instant, become someone other than who he had been. As his mind engaged itself with its subject, as it grappled with the power of the literature he studied and tried to understand its nature, he was aware of a constant change within himself; and as he was aware of that, he moved outward from himself into the world which contained him, so that he knew that the poem of Milton's that he read or the essay of Bacon's or the drama of Ben Jonson's changed the world which was its subject, and changed it because of its dependence upon it."
The story of William Stoner's life, Stoner, changes the world which is its subject, Stoner, because of its dependence on him. Books are or stand for his deepest love, and books mark his life's progress. In a book naked of metaphor, written in simple, slow-moving language reflective of the protagonist's own internal dialog, the hidden surprise is that the entire work is a meta-metaphor. Stoner isn't living his life so much as reading a book about it. Panelists spoke about Stoner's passivity and lack of intervention in events going on around him. Events, often quite dramatic, do come up. Stoner, however, takes in the events reflectively and for the majority of us justly, and then turns to the next page. When his wife would rant at him ". . . Stoner looked upon it all—the rage, the woe, the screams, and the hateful silences—as if it were happening to two other people, in whom, by an effort of the will, he could summon only the most perfunctory interest." His action consists in deciding not to act, as we all must do when reading a book. We sometimes feel like shouting "Bill, don't do it" but we never do. We remain silent. Readers always remain silent, but not unchanged. Stoner is no different; he is reading the book of his life, the book of life.
Maybe it's no more than a cheap coincidence, but if Stoner had been working in a British university his job title, as he never got promoted from assistant professor, would have been Reader.
Stoner published one book, a revision of his PhD dissertation.<|fim_middle|> own temerity and at the responsibility he had assumed."
In middle age Stoner experiences an all-consuming love affair; and starts to write another book. "What he wanted to do in this new book was not yet precisely clear to him; in general, he wished to extend himself beyond his first study, in both time and scope. . . . The possibilities he could see so exhilarated him that he could not keep still." In an intense passage he and Katherine remain almost secluded all summer in her apartment, writing and making love. Each is writing their own book. "For hours at a time she would sit at the tiny desk against the wall, her head bent down in intense concentration over books and papers, her slender pale neck curving and flowing out of the dark blue robe she habitually wore; Stoner sprawled in the chair or lay on the bed in like concentration." "Then they would make love, and lie quietly for a while, and return to their studies, as if their love and learning were one process." "'Lust and learning,' Katherine once said. 'That's really all there is, isn't it?'"
Departmental politics take his love and most of his meaningful teaching from him. He abandons the second book. Later, reading Katherine's book "he marveled at how truly he could see her even now. Suddenly it was as if she were in the next room, and he had only moments before left her; his hands tingled, as if they had touched her."
Cancer takes him. On his deathbed he dizzily gropes for his one book. "It was his own book he sought, and when the hand held it he smiled at the familiar red cover that had for a long time been faded and scuffed."
"It hardly mattered to him that the book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth at any time seemed almost trivial. He did not have the illusion that he would find himself there, in that fading print; and yet, he knew, a small part of him that he could not deny was there, and would be there.
"He opened the book; and as he did so it became not his own. He let his fingers riffle through the pages and felt a tingling, as if those pages were alive. The tingling came through his fingers and coursed through his flesh and bone; he was minutely aware of it, and he waited until it contained him, until the old excitement that was like terror fixed him where he lay. The sunlight, passing his window, shone upon the page, and he could not see what was written there.
"The fingers loosened, and the book they had held moved slowly and then swiftly across the still body and fell into the silence of the room."
John Williams: Stoner (1965) New York Review Books. Williams' two other great books, Butcher's Crossing (1960) and Augustus (1972), have also been reissued by New York Review Books. If you have not read these, please do so.
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Last week, I toyed with the question of leaving the church.
Strictly speaking, of course, it is quite impossible for any true disciple of Jesus to "leave the church," if "church" is to be understood as the body of Christ in the world. The disciple is, ipso facto, a part of the church. That's what Paul was saying in I Corinthians 12 and elsewhere. If you decide to follow Jesus, you are part of the new people of God – whether you want to be or not.
But the word "church" has accumulated two millennia of linguistic baggage. This is what has largely alienated folks from the institution – long memories of doctrinal disputes, inquisitions, closed minds, irrelevant debates, etc. Most of us think of "church" as the institution that meets in a building, or at least of the system that undergirds the people who meet for weekly worship in a given place.
From the beginning, "church" was not a particularly good word for<|fim_middle|> exploration of authentic relationships? And what is social media all about except the craving for real friendships?
As I indicated in my last post, it is certainly permissible for a Jesus follower to leave the church. But it is not at all permissible, nor right, for her to leave, or neglect, community. Every one of us who calls himself a disciple must be a functioning member of a community of faith, because that's what we are called to.
The answers to those questions are something that each of us must discern. And a quick look at the church landscape in America reveals that the options are becoming increasingly diverse and exciting! | what happened in the wake of Pentecost. The Greek word, "ecclesia," from which "church" derives, simply meant a gathering, or public assembly.
A closer reading of the book of Acts, however, reveals that what seems to have formed as a result of the Holy Spirit's descent was a clear sense of community, a group of people who understood that they belonged together. Acts 2:43-47 describes people who are so hungry for community that they spent time together eating and drinking, even sharing their possessions and money. Acts 4:32-37 broadens the picture, revealing that people voluntarily gave up their wealth in order to meet each other's needs.
Community is the one thing that many of today's churches sorely lack. Instead, church is a building to visit once a week to pay respects to a national deity. It doesn't appear often enough to be a place where disciples gather around a meal to figure out where God is calling them next.
And yet, community is also the thing that most people today really want! How else to explain the fact that most of our television shows and movies are about the longing, creation and | 239 |
Get Your Free Digital Download of The Hunger Games Audiobook
The Hunger Games Audiobook is a popular novel written by Suzanne Collins. The book was initially released last 2008 to much acclaim. Critics gave The Hunger Games good reviews because of the themes covered by the<|fim_middle|> that Peeta has aligned himself with the strong tributes. She defends herself by hiding up in the trees and strikes at the right moment to net her first kill. Peeta later leaves the alliance he made because of his injuries. Katniss finds Peeta and finally decides to play along with the supposed love affair. The two faced the last tribute Cato and a pack of wild dogs. The moment Cato died, Katniss and Peeta decide to commit suicide together to avoid killing each other. Just before Katniss and Peeta swallow the poison berries, the announcer tells them that they have just won the Hunger Games. The two continue to play the role of star-crossed lovers as they leave the arena. They must now go on a tour to the other districts saying what the Capitol wants them to say.
The allegory behind the book carries on in each page. The audiobook is masterfully voiced to ensure that each reader feels every emotion felt by the protagonists. The popularity of the audiobook has soared because of the voice acting and convenience it offers. The audiobook format is easy to download and find online.
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Get the acclaimed sequel; Catching Fire Audiobook. | book. Stephen King, an acclaimed writer himself, gave The Hunger Games a good review. The book covers a vast range of themes that include inequality, effects of war, poverty, and hope among other things. Despite covering a wide range of themes, the book has gained mass appeal because of the love triangle among its main characters namely Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, and Gale Hawthorne. The Hunger Games is the first book in the trilogy.
The Hunger Games Overview
The story unfolds on a nation called Panem. The state is cut into districts wherein The Capitol is the governing body. As punishment, The Capitol has created the annual Hunger Games wherein children from 12 to 18 must go head-to-head until one person remains standing. Two tributes, a girl, and boy, are chosen from each district for the games. Katniss volunteered herself as a tribute in place of her sister Prim, and Peeta was the other tribute chosen through the lottery. Katniss and Peeta are trained by Haymitch Abernathy, a former tribute from District 12. Haymitch shows the two tributes the ropes and the things they need to do to get sponsors for the event.
Peeta plays up his role as a tribute and knows exactly what to say in front of the cameras. Katniss has a harder time being part of the show. Peeta tells live television that he has a crush on his fellow tribute Katniss. Katniss, despite being more skilled than Peeta, finds it difficult to play along.
As soon as the games begin, blood has been shed and lives lost. Katniss and Peeta survive the first wave of attacks and deaths. Katniss finds herself alone in the woods while the other tributes band together to hunt down the others. Katniss soon discovers | 377 |
Recently I gave angular-data a try and found it awesome for data modeling<|fim_middle|> can access data using our models and how the data store keeps track of the identity of our records. | in Angular.js.
There are many ways to model your data in Angular. You can use the built in $http or $resource services, or you can use popular 3rd party libraries like Restangular, Breeze, or angular-data, all of which are great choices.
When I started using Angular, I, like most people, started using $http. $http feels very familiar to $.ajax from jQuery and gives you a simple API for making AJAX requests. This works great for small applications. Then I got to the point where I wanted custom methods on my models. I started taking my JSON responses and wrapping them up in custom collection and model classes/constructors. This felt very familiar coming from the Backbone world or working with an ORM on the server, as it allowed me to put business logic on models.
The previous solution works fine, but it was kind of tedious since I never abstracted that out into something reusable. During that time, I started learning Ember and Ember Data and I really liked what it offered. I wanted similar functionality for my Angular models, primarily model relationships and identity mapping. If you're unfamiliar with an identity map, think of a person. A person has a unique identity. Regardless if a person changes jobs, name, and appearance, they still have the same identity. If my name were Douglas Crockford, the real Douglas Crockford and myself would have our own identities despite having the same name. Now think about your data / database records. In your application, if you make a request for a user object with an ID of 1, and you make another AJAX request for the user with an ID of 1, you're going to have 2 user objects with an ID of 1 which represent the same person but they are different objects in memory. Many times in web applications you need a reference to the same "user with an ID of 1" instance, not a copy of it. Identity mapping is a pattern that allows you to return the same user with an ID of 1 instance, regardless of how many times you look it up. I learned about this pattern as I was digging into Ember Data of the Ember.js framework. The Ember Guides have a great explanation on it so be sure to read that.
angular-data was inspired by Ember Data. If you haven't worked with Ember Data, it is an awesome modeling layer created by the Ember team. angular-data offers more features than what I just mentioned, but these 2 features were the reasons I decided to learn it and use in an application I am building at work. Anyways, let's get into the basics of angular-data.
Follow the angular-data installation instructions. You can install it either through NPM, Bower, or download manually.
Next, specify angular-data.DS as a module dependency.
angular-data has a service we can inject called DS, which stands for Data Store. We can call the defineResource() method on DS to create a new resource model.
The name attribute allows us to specify a name for our resource. Think of it like a table name in your database and it can be used to look up book records in your application. Next I provided an endpoint property. If you don't specify an endpoint, it will have a sensible default using the resource's name. Lastly, I specified the unique id / primary key property name of all book records. By default this is set to id, but if you need something different, you can set it, such as in the example above.
So we have a Book model defined. How can we fetch books, store the records in our data store, and bind them to our view from our controller?
Personally, I like the latter approach. My controllers only ever need to know about the DS service injected in order to fetch data. With the former approach, if I need other resources in my controller, like Author, Book, etc, then I'd have to inject each one, making my list of dependencies for the controller longer. However, in the latter approach, by not injecting the Book service into the controller, the book resource is never set up. Remember, the book resource is in a factory called Book. If that factory is never injected anywhere, DS.defineResource() is never called and the book resource is never initialized.
One other thing to note is that your custom resources have all the methods that are on the DS service. As you are looking through the docs and see references to DS, you call call those methods directly on your resources too.
The neat thing about making the findAll() call is that it will load all book objects from the server into memory in the data store. If I want to find a particular book, say with an isbn13 of 123456789, the data store won't make another request for this book because it was already loaded into the store from .findAll(), and it will return that instance to you instead, hence the identity mapping taking effect.
We can also bind book records in the store to a controller's $scope directly with DS.bindAll().
Below we are binding all records of resource name book to $scope.books. When DS.findAll() resolves and updates the data store, $scope.books will immediately update. How cool is that!
If you have data dumped out onto the page from the server and you need that injected into the store, you can easily do that with the inject() method.
In this post we looked at how to create models using the DS service that angular-data provides. We also looked at how we | 1,125 |
LETTER: Boycott circus, support fire department
There is nothing to see at the circus, folks, except for animal cruelty and torture.
LETTER: Boycott circus, support fire department There is nothing to see at the circus, folks, except for animal cruelty and torture. Check out this story on thedailyjournal.com: http://vineland.dj/1Sy793d
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Cole Bros. Circus comes to Vineland. Sean M. Fitzgerald
Rachel Ogden (left) of Westville, and Joan Conn of West Deptford protest outside Cole Bros. Circus in Vineland in May.(Photo: SEAN M. FITZGERALD/Daily Journal file)Buy Photo
My name is Kate Nardone. I was the protest leader against the Cole Bros. Circus event hosted by the Vineland Fire Department last year (a fundraiser it holds each year). I am also the founder of the Southern NJ Activists Against Cole Bros. Circus group.
In 2015, I was joined by around 20 brave activists who stood at the U Sell Flea Market and raised our voices for the animals! We pleaded (and are still pleading) with the community to donate directly to the fire department instead of supporting cruelty through attending shows that exploit and abuse animals for profit.
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And throughout the year, we have reached out to the mayor's office (sending in sheets of petitions signed by hundreds of members of the community who want animals circuses banned from the area), the flea market (asking it to please not host events that promote animal abuse), and the fire department directly (begging it to consider an alternative way of raising money).
We have offered repeatedly to help the fire department raise money by exploring other options with it to help it meet its financial goals for the year. Each request for a meeting to discuss these ideas has been ignored.
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In 2016, our group was thrilled to learn that Cole Bros. was delayed in its tour, and would not be returning to the area, as of now. We held hope in our hearts that this would allow the fire department to possibly look into other options for fundraising. Sadly, it simply moved onto the next animal abusers available — the Kelly Miller Circus, which intends to come in June to the Vineland Flea Market (previously U Sell Flea Market). Our emotions are heavy and disappointed.
However, we want to assure the members of our community who feel the same way we do that we will be there protesting with our voices raised high! Please join our group on Facebook (Southern NJ Activists Against Cole Bros. Circus), and we will keep you updated on the protest, dates, times, etc. We encourage you to join us in June to tell Kelly Miller Circus that we will not stay quiet! We will speak for the freedom of its animals as well!
Cole Bros. Circus comes to the Burlington Center Mall, May 22, 2014 in Burlington Twp. Jodi Samsel/Courier-Post
The Kelly Miller Circus, just like Cole Bros., has an endless dirty list of U.S. Department of Agriculture violations against it for the treatment of its animals, safety conditions, lack of proper animal handling, etc.
There is nothing to see at the circus, folks, except for animal cruelty and torture. The animals are performing for you because they are afraid! From birth they are taken from their families and trained through punishment to perform tricks for your entertainment. They are beaten with bullhooks and whips until they submit to unnatural behaviors. Then they are boxed into small cages and vehicles to travel to endless cities to repeat the same pathetic tricks over and over.
Cole Bros. Circus at the Burlington Center Mall
Vincenta Pages performs with tigers at the Cole Bros. Circus, May 22, 2014 at the Burlington Center Mall in Burlington Twp. JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post
Cole Bros. Circus, May 22, 2014 at the Burlington Center Mall in Burlington Twp. JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post
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LETTER: Turn off your phone and be thankful | allo "Clown Chips" greets guests as they arrive at Cole Bros. Circus, May 22, 2014 at the Burlington Center Mall in Burlington Twp. JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post
Shadows of the trapeze artists are seen as they take the stage at the Cole Bros. Circus, May 22, 2014 at the Burlington Center Mall in Burlington Twp. JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post
18-month-old Keira Bargull of Bensalem, PA, takes a ride on an elephant with her mom, Danielle, at the Cole Bros. Circus, May 22, 2014 at the Burlington Center Mall in Burlington Twp. JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post JODI SAMSEL/Courier-Post
Elephants never get to know what it's like to be an elephant. No animal in any circus gets to live the natural life it deserves. Animals want to be free, just like us! Animals have families, just like us! Animals have feelings, just like us! Look into their eyes; they are heartbroken.
Is a few minutes of laughter and entertainment for you worth their entire life's misery? Please open your eyes and hearts to the truth. These animals need our help!
Lastly, we want the community to support the Vineland Fire Department, as we also support it — just not this way. Not at the expense of animal abuse. Please make a donation directly to it, and include a note letting it know you don't support this choice of fundraiser. You can help change things!
Encourage compassion! Raise your voice! Boycott the circus!
Kate Nardone
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(b Breslau [now Wrocław], Aug 13, 1831; d Leipzig, Feb 1, 1902). German composer, theorist, teacher and conductor. He studied first in Breslau and later at the Leipzig Conservatory. He left Leipzig to study the piano<|fim_middle|>hn, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner and others.... | with Liszt in Weimar (1849–52); there he heard Wagner's Lohengrin, which greatly impressed him. After returning to Leipzig, he studied with E.F. Richter and privately with Moritz Hauptmann. Jadassohn taught the piano in Leipzig, then conducted the synagogue choir (1865), the Psalterion choral society (1866) and the Musikverein Euterpe concerts (1867–9). In 1871 he was appointed teacher of harmony, counterpoint, composition and piano at the conservatory, and in 1893 named royal professor. His students included Busoni, George Chadwick, Delius, Grieg, Karg-Elert and Felix Weingartner.
Although successful as a performer, theorist and teacher, Jadassohn considered himself primarily a composer. He wrote works for piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra, chorus and solo voices, comprising over 140 opus numbers, but was perhaps best known for his canonic compositions: the Serenade for Orchestra op.35, two serenades for piano opp.8 and 125, the ballet music op.58 and the vocal duets opp.9, 36, 38 and 43. He also edited and arranged works by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelsso | 291 |
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Continuing with the momentum that begun in later part of last year, 2021 is turning out to be a great year for investment banks as global merger and acquisition (M&A) activities continue at a record pace. Hence, investment banks like Goldman Sachs GS, Morgan Stanley MS, Moelis & Company MC, Evercore Inc. EVR and Jefferies Financial Group Inc. JEF are likely to post stellar profits this year.
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Similarly, Moelis & Company CEO Ken Moelis commented, "the pace of our new business activity remains high, and our pipeline is stronger than it has ever been."
Deal making is, therefore, expected to continue at a faster pace and investment banks will surely gain from such favorable trends.
Even analysts are bullish on these stocks as evident from favorable earnings estimate revision trends. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Goldman's earnings of $15.72 per share for the current year has moved 16.7% north over the past month and suggests 113.1% jump from the prior-year reported number.
Similarly, Morgan Stanley, which currently carries a Zacks Rank of 3, has witnessed 4.2% upward estimate revision over the past 30 days. The consensus estimate of $7.42 for this year implies 12.8% rise. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Evercore's earnings of $12.73 for 2021 suggests 32.3% year-over-year growth and has moved 10.2% north over the past month. It is a Zacks Rank #2 stock.
For Moelis & Company, which also has a Zacks Rank of 2, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings of $4.03 for 2021 has moved 16.5% upward over the past 30 days and suggests an increase of 38.5%. Also, Jefferies' consensus estimate of $4.76 indicates 79.6% year-over-year surge for fiscal 2021. Estimates have remained unchanged over the past month.
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According to PwC's latest report on Global M&A Industry Trends (that sourced information from Refinitiv, Dealogic and PwC analysis), the first half of 2021 witnessed record levels of deal making, with deal value and volume surging 135% and 30%, respectively, on a year-over-year basis.
The said period also recorded a large number of megadeals – those with deal value of more than $5 billion, with technology, media and telecommunications companies accounting for almost 33% of such transactions.
The very basis for such record levels of M&As seems to be the continued focus of the companies to adapt to the changing operating environment in wake of the coronavirus pandemic. As ambiguity gradually lifted following the vaccine discoveries and subsequent large-scale inoculations, companies and their management became more confident of strong economic rebound.
Other factors like ultra-low interest rates, abundance of capital, tightening regulatory scrutiny and potential capital gains tax hikes have also contributed to high level of M&A activity during the first six months of 2021.
Investment Banks Profiting From Global M&A Boom
If we check out the above-mentioned investment banks' first-half results, M&As were one of the major contributing factors for their impressive performance.
Goldman's total net revenues jumped 50% year over year to $33.1 billion. This Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company's top line was mainly driven by solid Investment Banking segment performance (debt and equity underwriting, and advisory services), which recorded top-line growth of 57% hitting $7.02 billion.
Another major global investment bank – Morgan Stanley's – net revenues rose 30% from the first six months of 2020 to $30.5 billion. The top-line growth was primarily driven by solid investment banking activity, with the company recording 58% increase in investment banking fees to $5.4 billion.
Further, Moelis & Company's top line surged 99% to $624.7 million during the first half of the year, while Evercore's net revenues increased 45% to $1.35 billion. Out of this, investment banking fees totaled $1.3 billion, up 37% from the prior-year period.
Jefferies' net revenues soared 75% year over year to $4.44 billion. This Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) company's top line was largely backed by robust investment banking activity, with the company posting revenues of $2 billion from its investment banking business, an 105% jump from the first half of 2020.
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Given the robust performance, investors are optimistic on these companies. This can be seen from the chart below:
Year-to-Date Price Performance
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Road Ahead for Investment Banks
Outlook for the global M&As remains bullish for the second half of 2021. As the companies emerge from the pandemic-induced mayhem, drive for scale and changes toward digitization of operations are likely to result in more consolidation across several industries.
During second-quarter earnings conference call, Goldman CEO David Solomon stated that backlog of deals at the company is at record levels and said, "we observed certain secular changes driving strategic activity as our key clients emerge from the pandemic | 721 |
Singapore, Shanghai to boost collaboration in financial services, innovation
10 MOUs signed during second Singapore-Shanghai Comprehensive Cooperation Council meeting
Second Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong, who is also Education Minister, has proposed that Singapore and Shanghai continue to bolster their hub-to-hub connectivity in three key areas.
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SINGAPORE and Shanghai will strengthen collaboration in financial services and innovation, as the latter develops the China (Shanghai) Free Trade Zone and spearheads the integration of the Yangtze River Delta region.
These key areas are financial connectivity, transport and supply chain, as well as enhancing innovation linkages, he said during the second Singapore-Shanghai Comprehensive Cooperation Council (SSCCC) meeting on Friday.
Mr Wong said there had been concrete progress since the inaugural council meeting, especially in the area of financial services.
"We can build on this strong foundation to deepen the connectivity between our capital markets, and expand our collaboration in cross-border RMB (renminbi) initiatives and fintech," he added.
The second SSCCC meeting saw the signing of 10 memoranda of understanding (MOUs) by government organisations, Singapore banks, as well as the Singapore Exchange (SGX).
SGX signed two agreements, including one with the China Central Depository & Clearing Co to enhance cross-border connectivity, jointly develop the bond market in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, among other initiatives.
The other was with Guotai Junan Securities to partner across fixed income, currencies and commodities-related businesses and promote listings of Chinese enterprises on SGX.
Among banks, DBS inked an MOU to expand its existing partnership with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank to include financial technology and its applications. UOB signed an agreement with Shenergy Group to establish a company to offer consumer financing that will help to drive the adoption of green energy products and services.
Meanwhile, Enterprise Singapore tied up with the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce to renew collaboration to facilitate investments and strengthen trade linkages.
SingCham Shanghai - the Shanghai chapter of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce and Industry - partnered the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce to strengthen economic and trade cooperation between Singapore and Shanghai.
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, tech company Neeuro and Glee Trees - a robot process automation startup - also signed MOUs.
The SSCCC meeting also saw the launch of several projects, including the registration of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) representative office in Shanghai. This will help to deepen the strong collaboration between regulatory agencies and financial institutions, Enterprise Singapore said in a press statement.
"Shanghai is the first port-of-call for many Singapore companies venturing into China," Mr Wong said. Many Singapore companies such as CapitaLand and Sembcorp have based their China regional headquarters in Shanghai, he noted.
Mr Wong said that as of June this year, there were more than 5,000 Singapore projects in Shanghai amounting to US$18 billion, spanning sectors from financial services, advanced manufacturing, to retail.
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The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," carries a $1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google, Inc. It is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing. Hennessy and Patterson will formally receive the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award at the ACM's annual awards banquet on June 23 in San Francisco, California. They will deliver their Turing Lecture at the ISCA 2018 conference on June 4 in Los Angeles.
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ACM has assembled its slate of candidates for President, Vice President, and Secretary/Treasurer (for the 1 July 2018 — 30 June 2020 term), and Members at Large (for the 1 July 2018 — 30 June 2022 term). Statements and biographical sketches of all candidates will appear in the May 2018 issue of Communications of the ACM. Visit the ACM Elections page for more information and to view the slate.
ACM 2018 SIGGRAPH Election Candidate Slate
The ACM SIGGRAPH Nominating Committee has proposed the following candidates for the 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH election which will commence on 15 June 2018:
Brad Lawrence, Kennedy Space Center
David Spoelstra, Algaeon, Inc.
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Evan Hirsch, Engine Co. 4
Terrence Masson, School of Visual Arts
Jerome Solomon, Cogswell College
Paul Strauss, Software Engineer
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Scott Owen, Chair, Georgia State University
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Mark Elendt, Side Effects Software
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ACM and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) have announced the winners of the 2017-2018 Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing. Five high school students were selected from among a pool of graduating high school seniors throughout the US who applied for the award by submitting a project or artifact that engages modern technology and computer science. A panel of judges selected the recipients based on the ingenuity, complexity, relevancy and originality of their projects.
The winners are Sreya Guha, Castilleja School, Palo Alto, California; Amir Helmy, Eastside High School, Gainesville, Florida; Amy Jin, The Harker School, San Jose, California; and Benjamin Spector and Michael Truell, Horace Mann School, Bronx, New York. The winning projects illustrate the diverse applications being developed by the next generation of computer scientists.
Juan E. Gilbert, Chair of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida and a member of ACM's US Public Policy Council (USACM) has been named a co-recipient of the Ccomputing Research Association's 2018 A. Nico Habermann Award, along with Manuel A. Pérez Quiñones, Associate Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Gilbert was honored for his impact on diversifying the field of computer science, especially on increasing the number of African-American PhD recipients and faculty members in the institutions in which he has worked.
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Mills College in Oakland, California hosted Tech Intersections: Women of Color in Computing, an ACM Celebration on January 27. The first conference of its kind, it was geared exclusively toward women and nonbinary people of color from ethnicities underrepresented in technology fields.
The first session opened with a musical performance by Honey Gold Jasmine and included a well-received keynote address, "Lies of Silicon Valley," by Erica Baker, Senior Engineering Manager at Patreon and renowned advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech. Participants then attended breakout sessions of presentations, panels, and workshops on Breaking into Tech, Business Skills, Community, Data Analysis, Developer Skills, Impact of Technology, Self-Care, and User Experience. Some of the most popular sessions were Negotiation; Decolonizing Self-Care: Tools for Empowerment and Healing for WOC in Tech; Management and Leadership: Tactics and Strategies for Climbing the Ladder; and Recognizing Cultural Bias in AI.
The hashtag #TechIntersections trended for the city of Oakland, with attendees sharing speakers' words and photos and expressing their excitement at being around so many amazing women of color. As Founder Gym tweeted: "Wow! This is history: 5 Black and Latinx women venture capitalists on one panel sharing 'The Unspoken Rules of VC.'"
The conference closed with a keynote by Leah McGowen-Hare, a Director at Salesforce, who described the source of her power as the four Cs: Connection, Collaboration, Conviction, and Celebration. Her advice: "They may be of your color but they may not be of your kind. They may be of your kind but they may not be your color. Build up allies of all kinds."
In addition to the main conference, we held an allies workshop, which sold out at 40 tickets. It featured a two-hour interactive ally skills training led by Y-Vonne Hutchinson, founder of Ready Set (a diversity solutions firm based in Oakland) and co-founder and advisor to Project Include. It was followed by a presentation on fighting hate speech in the workspace, given by Valerie Aurora, a kernel developer turned diversity consultant.
If you would like more information on Celebrations or would like to organize an event in your area, please contact Wendy Powley, Chair of the Celebr | 5,783 |
There's something so incredibly pure about the romanticism of Frank Borzage that his films become, at least for me, impossible to resist. When you watch a movie like 7TH HEAVEN, you're watching a filmmaker in complete command of his craft. That he is making a romance about the transcendent power of love is, in some ways, of secondary concern for me. Perhaps another way of saying this is that while I don't believe in the transcendent power of love in the way that Borzage did, I do believe in Borzage.
7TH HEAVEN is based on a play by Austin Strong, and the screenplay and titles were written by Benjamin Glazer, H.H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker, and Bernard Vorhaus. It tells the story of an impoverished young prostitute named Diane (Janet Gaynor) who lives with her abusive sister in the slums of Paris. She is rescued from this plight by a sewer worker named Chico (Charles Farrell), who takes her to his bird's nest apartment high above the city. Soon they fall in love and are married, but Chico is drafted into service in the killing fields of WWI. Will he return to her? Can even death itself keep them apart?
A film like 7TH HEAVEN is at once wholly artificial and deeply real--which might be a good description of the Borzage aesthetic. It is artificial in the sense that it is every inch a silent film, a film of big broad gestures and big broad emotions in both the acting and directing. The set design and cinematography are impressionistic. Even by the standards of the silents, though, the film unfolds in a world of fantasy. Despite the backdrop of WWI, there is no hint of the literary modernism that came out of that war and informed much of the literature that dealt with it.
Yet the glory of Borzage's film is that it makes the unreal real, makes the plainly artificial deeply believable. It is a movie about dreamers who are desperate to escape the unbearable realities of poverty and war. The key to understanding it is to understand that their dreams, their romance, is more important to Borzage than those grim realities. Near the end, Chico is killed in the war. Yet he returns to her, born again in shafts of bright white light. It is pure fantasy, and I mean both the "pure" and the "fantasy." What is real here is the yearning, the desire to be free of the dirt and pain and sorrow.
Chico is a proud atheist, but<|fim_middle|> so far removed from what we think of as a movie today, it's essentially a different art form. It's part fairy tale, part light show. It is beautiful, though. Beautiful, deep and true.
Thanks for the very accurate description. When I saw it last weekend I fell in love. I was transported to a different world. A world where -just like you say- the actions might be a little over exaggerated but the emotions behind them are real. It is the ideal that everyone wants deep in their heart.
Thanks for such a lovely comment! You sum it up nicely. | he finds spiritual (and bodily) redemption in his love with Diane. I don't think Borzage is trying to make a theological statement here--there's no reason to think he actually believed that love could bring the dead back to life--but he is clearly making an artistic statement. He was the screen's great romantic. Modernism be damned.
The central performances of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are glorious. They were the perfect screen couple of their day. She was tiny, pixish, and fragile--yet somehow indestructible as well. (The scene where she finally fights back against her abusive sister is surprising in the furor of its violence.) He was tall and handsome, masculine yet entirely vulnerable. (He breaks down crying from fear when he discovers he has to go to war, an unthinkable thing for a screen hero to do in our macho age.) They are such products of their era, not simply in their acting but in their bearing and being. He's more beautiful than she is, and she has a scrappiness that makes her a particularly earthy angel.
Of course, like all silent films, 7TH HEAVEN is not for everyone. It is | 241 |
Olysio (simeprevir) for the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C (CHC)
Olysio (simeprevir) is an antiviral drug indicated for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection.
Drug Name (Brand / Generic)
Olysio / simeprevir
Janssen Therapeutics / Medivir
Antiviral drug
NS3/4A protease inhibitor
Chronic Hepatitis C (CHC)
Approved in the US, Japan, Canada, and Received positive opinion from CHMP of EMA
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease of the liver caused by hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Olysio is an antiviral drug containing simeprevir, a NS3/4A protease inhibitor.
Olysio is prepared in combination with peginterferon-alfa and ribavirin substances.
Olysio (simeprevir) is an antiviral drug indicated for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection. The drug was jointly developed by Janssen Therapeutics and Medivir.
Janssen received approval for Olysio from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in November 2013, for the treatment of hepatitis C genotype 1 infected adult patients.
Janssen also received positive opinion for the marketing authorisation application (MAA) for Olysio for the treatment of CHC infection from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in March 2014.
"The drug was approved for CHC in Japan in September 2013 and is being traded under the name Sovriad."
The drug was approved for CHC in Japan in September 2013 and is being traded under the name Sovriad. It was also approved in Canada in November 2013 and is being sold under the brand name Galexos.
Hepatitis C – causes and severity
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease of the liver caused by hepatitis C virus (HCV). It may increase the risk of developing complications from cirrhosis, which may include liver failure.
The infectious disease is estimated to affect about 150million people across the world, of which about 350,000 people die from the disease every year. The disease is estimated to affect about 3.2million people in the US.
Olysio's mechanism of action
Olysio contains an active substance called simeprevir, a NS3/4A protease inhibitor. The drug is made in combination with peginterferon-alfa and ribavirin. The drug prevents viral maturation through inhibition of protein synthesis.
Olysio is available in capsule form in 150mg dose for oral administration.
Clinical trials on Olysio (simeprevir)
Janssen Submitted new drug application (NDA) for Olysio based on the results obtained from<|fim_middle|>12 with the Q80K polymorphism.
The results from Quest 1 and Quest 2 pooled analysis showed that 80% of the Olysio treatment-naïve group patients achieved SVR12 after the end of treatment, compared to 50% of the patients who achieved it in the placebo groups.
The results from PROMISE study conducted on prior-relapser patients showed that the patients with the Q80K polymorphism who received Olysio achieved 47% SVR12 in comparison to 78% of patients who achieved it without the polymorphism. In the placebo arm 30% of the patients with the Q80K polymorphism achieved SVR12.
The results from ASPIRE study demonstrated that at the end of treatment, after 24 weeks, 65% of the prior partial-responder patients in Olysio group achieved SVR24 compared to nine percent of the patients in placebo group, and 53% of prior-null responder patients in Olysio group achieved SVR24, compared to 19% of patients in the placebo group.
"Janssen initiated two more Phase III clinical trials on Olysio in April 2014. The clinical studies will examine the efficacy and safety of simeprevir in combination with the nucleotide inhibitor sofosbuvir."
Janssen initiated two more Phase III clinical trials on Olysio in April 2014. The clinical studies will examine the efficacy and safety of simeprevir in combination with the nucleotide inhibitor sofosbuvir.
The first trial, known as OPTIMIST-1 (optimal treatment with a simeprevir and sofosbuvir therapy), will be an open-label, randomised, multicentre study that will investigate the efficacy and safety of simeprevir 150mg in combination with sofosbuvir 400mg. The patients will be administered with the combination once daily for eight or 12 weeks. The combination will be used on HCV genotype 1 infected patients with cirrhosis who are HCV treatment naïve or treatment experienced.
The second Phase III clinical trial, known as OPTIMIST-2, will be an open-label, single-arm study that will investigate the efficacy and safety of simeprevir 150mg in combination with sofosbuvir 400mg. The combination will be used once daily for 12 weeks on HCV genotype 1 infected patients with cirrhosis who are HCV treatment naïve or treatment experienced.
The primary efficacy endpoint in both the OPTIMIST trials will be the proportion of patients achieving sustained virologic response 12 weeks after the end of treatment (SVR12). Both the studies will enrol about 400 patients in the US and Canada. Ribavirin will not be used in both the OPTIMIST trials.
Janssen Therapeutics holds the worldwide clinical development and marketing rights of Olysio excluding Nordic countries. Medivir retains the marketing rights for Olysio under the marketing authorisation held by Janssen-Cilag International in Nordic countries.
Other medications available in the market for the treatment of the same indication include Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) developed by Gilead Sciences, and Incivek (telaprevir) manufactured by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation and Tibotec BVBA. | two Phase III clinical trials known as Quest 1 and Quest 2, and a Phase 2b study called ASPIRE. The clinical studies evaluated Olysio dosed once daily in combination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin, versus treatment with placebo plus pegylated interferon and ribavirin.
The results from the Quest 1 and Quest 2 studies demonstrated that 58% of the genotype 1a treatment-naïve patients with Q80K polymorphism who were administered with Olysio achieved sustained virologic response in 12 weeks (SVR12) after the end of treatment, compared to 84% of patients without the Q80K polymorphism. The patients who were administered with placebo achieved 52% SVR | 165 |
In almost every neighborhood of Athens during some day of the week, there's an open air market called Laiki, the people's market, and the smells and sights and sounds are intoxicating: the stinging waft of lemon getting deep into your nose, picking up a piece of coriander to breathe it in, squeezing lemons and apples and pears and mandarins, picking out potatoes, pinching a green pepper and tasting the residue on your finger.
These are experiences, in the fresh air too, that you can't get in<|fim_middle|> willing to trade off some freshness.
Then there's the loud sounds of the hawkers bellowing and beckoning: "Ola, ena euro!" (Everything one euro) or "Pare! Pare! Pare!" (Come and Buy!) You won't need much coaxing. | a supermarket and the reason – along with the usually cheaper prices – why many people prefer Laiki to stores. There's the hustle, the bustle, and the hustling so be on guard for that too from aggressive hawkers who want to do the picking for you.
Favorites are honey, so thick it takes a while to drip off the spoon, and the famous Greek tomatoes. You'll never be able to eat one from an American supermarket again after this.
You can get cherries, bananas, watermelons, melons, cucumbers, garlic, apricots, beans, peaches and even clothes and utensils for the kitchen and garden. Sellers change their prices frequently within the same day, especially for sensitive products such as fish and the prices drop the later it gets in the day if you're | 165 |
This inn is in Boston's historic Back Bay, one block from the Shops at Prudential Center and subway station. A kitchenette and 42-inch flat-screen TV is offered in every suite. Inn at St. Botolph features studios and suites with Wi-Fi and iPod docking stations. Gas fireplaces are included in the one and 2-bedroom suites. A continental breakfast is served every morning in the St. Botolph Inn's lounge. Guests can use the modern fitness center or the on-site business center. Original art pieces are also included throughout the inn.
This historic guest house is located in Boston's Back Bay district, only 2 minutes' walk from the Hynes Convention Center and various shops along Newbury Street. The guest house offers free Wi-Fi and a 24-hour front desk. New<|fim_middle|>3.2 km away from Best Western Plus Boston Hotel. The historic Back Bay neighborhood is 4.7 km away and the Boston Logan International Airport is 9.9 km away. | bury Guest House consists of 3 connected town houses. A designer boutique store is available on site and the Newbury Guest House features our on-site bakery, Patisserie On Newbury. Guest rooms at the Guest House on Newbury are equipped with 37-inch flat-screen TV and DVD players. Mini-refrigerators and safety deposit boxes are also included in each room. The Shops at Prudential Center and the Hynes Convention Center Subway Station are 5 minutes' walk from the Newbury Guest House in Boston. The Boston Common and Fenway Park are both 1.6 km away.
Located in Boston's waterfront district, this hotel is 280 metres from the harbor. Harborside Inn offers free Wi-Fi, a free movie library and modern rooms with a DVD player. The underground is steps away from this hotel. A 32-inch flat-screen cable TV with HBO and a CD player are included in each of the modern rooms. The cream-colored rooms also provide Boston guide books and a seating area. Guests can enjoy free daily newspapers and use the business center. The hotel also offers car rentals. Light American cuisine is served at the restaurant on site. The Boston Harborside Inn is 130 metres away from the Aquarium Subway Station. Guests can walk the Freedom Trail, a historical tour that starts 140 metres from the hotel. Faneuil Hall Marketplace is 350 metres away and the Paul Revere House is 700 metres walk away.
Set in the heart of Boston's Beacon Hill district, only steps from the Boston Common and the Theatre District, this hotel offers contemporary guestrooms and an award-winning bistro. Beacon Hill Hotel features unique guestrooms with plantation shutters and photography by Daniel Jones. Guests will enjoy the in-room flat-screen TV with satellite channels as well as free high-speed wireless internet access. The hotel's Beacon Hill Bistro serves American and international dishes for breakfast and lunch, while dinner offers a French-style menu. In the evening, the fireplace bar is the perfect place for a drink with a late night snack.
Situated in Boston's Back Bay 600 metres from Copley Place Mall and Newbury Street, this hotel offers free WiFi, hot breakfast and a fitness center. Guest rooms at Courtyard Boston feature satellite TV and a work desk with a free high-speed, wired internet connection. Each has a marble bathroom. There is an on-site breakfast restaurant and a 24-hour Market Café offering light meals and beverages. Many area restaurants are within a 10 metre radius of Courtyard Boston Copley Square. Guests can enjoy the #HoppyHour offerings every evening. Fenway Park and the TD Garden sports arena are 1.6 km of Courtyard Boston Copley Square. The Charles River and historic Boston Common is 3 km away while Boston's Logan International Airport is 10 km from the property.
This boutique hotel is located in a historic building in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood at Copley Square. The hotel offers a continental breakfast and guest rooms with free Wi-Fi. Charlesmark Hotel is directly across the street from the Boston Public Library and the Copley subway station. The Hynes Convention Center is also within walking distance of the hotel. Guest rooms at the Charlesmark are equipped with cable TV and DVD players. Each room offers a private bathroom with a walk-in shower.
Overlooking Fenway Park and just 3 minutes' walk to the Kenmore light rail station, this historic Boston hotel features on-site dining. The Museum of Fine Arts is 1.6 km away. The traditional rooms of the Boston Hotel Buckminster feature spacious windows, cable TV and an iPod docking station. A microwave and refrigerator are included. Fenmore American Bistro serves breakfast. Free limited Wi-Fi, a business centre and ticket services are also available. Guests can work out in the fitness centre. The Buckminster Boston is 900 metres from Boston University. The New England Aquarium is 4.8 km away.
Located in Boston's historic South End, this European-style boutique hotel offers modern guest rooms with free WiFi. Staypineapple, South End is within walking distance to many popular restaurants and attractions. Every room at The Staypineapple, South End features a flat-screen TV and iPod docking station. The private bathroom includes a walk-in marble shower. A work desk and telephone with access to the 24-hour front desk are provided for guest convenience. The Trophy Room, located on site, offers American bistro cuisine and features craft cocktails, draught beer and a large wine selection. Dinner is served daily and brunch is offered on weekends. Only steps from the completely non-smoking property are some of the city's most famous sites. The scenic Back Bay area, as well as the unique shops and gourmet restaurants of Newbury Street are within 10 minutes' walk.
Located 4.5 km from Logan International Airport, this hotel provides free shuttle service to/from the airport and features a hot tub and gym. Guest rooms offer a cable TV and free Wi-Fi access. The air-conditioned rooms are fitted with chic, modern furnishings. A work desk and tea and coffee making facilities are included. Guests can benefit from Courtyard Boston Logan Airport's 24-hour front desk service. Free public parking is provided by the hotel. Brinkley's Restaurant serves American meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Refreshing drinks and snacks are served in a relaxing atmosphere at Brinkley's Lounge.
Located outside of Boston city centre and 9 km from Logan International Airport, this hotel offers completely non-smoking rooms and a free hot breakfast. All guest rooms feature microwaves, refrigerators and flat-screen cable TV's. The property offers guests a 24-hour fitness centre, free WiFi, free weekday newspapers and 24-hour front desk service. The city's theatre district along with the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hynes Convention Center are all within 4.5 km of Holiday Inn Express Boston. Chinatown and the JFK Museum and Library are also within 6 km of the hotel.
This landmark Boston hotel in Back Bay has rooms with free cable TV and wired Internet access. Boston Common is a 900 metres' walk from Hotel 140 and Hynes Convention Center is 1 km away. All rooms at the Hotel 140 have ironing facilities and refrigerators. Microwaves are available to hotel guests in the common area. Tile bathrooms with shower feature hair dryer and complimentary toiletries. Guests can enjoy live performances by the Lyric Stage Company, located in the same building as Hotel 140. Viga Italian Eatery is located in the lobby, serving guests breakfast, lunch and dinner throughout the day. The hotel is 350 metres from both Copley Square and the Back Bay subway station. Faneuil Hall is 3.1 km away and within walking distance, the Public Garden is 850 metres from the property.
Centrally located within walking distance to many of Boston's cultural, recreational and business areas, this hotel offers a multi-lingual staff, modern amenities, and is attached to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. The guest rooms features a 32" LCD flat-screen TV, a work desk and bathroom. Single-Serve Keurig coffee maker is available. Suites are equipped with wet bar with microwave and refrigerator. The Inn at Longwood Medical is also conveniently connected to the Longwood Galleria, featuring shops, restaurants and more. Guests can also enjoy the hotel's completely non-smoking atmosphere and free wireless internet access. Boston The Inn at Longwood is ideally situated steps away from a variety of attractions. Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Art are 1.3 km away. Boston's Children's Hospital is 200 metres away and the Harvard Medical School is 550 metres away.
This Boston hotel serves a daily continental breakfast and offers rooms with free Wi-Fi and a cable TV. A free shuttle is offered both to the JFK/UMass Subway Station and Logan International Airport. A coffee maker and work desk are provided in all rooms at the Comfort Inn Boston. Each room features simple décor and includes a seating area. Guests can enjoy the expansive on-site Family Fun Center, featuring arcade games, bowling lanes and billiards. This hotel also has a fitness room and a business center. The Boston Comfort Inn offers on-site dining for lunch and dinner at Deadwood Brewery and Restaurant. The hotel offers desserts at Phillips Candy House. Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, is just a 15-minute drive from this hotel, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is 2.6 miles away. Logan International Airport is 8.9 miles away.
This unique and historic hotel is less than 1.5 km off I-93 and only a few blocks away from downtown Boston. It features free parking and a daily continental breakfast. Rooms at Best Western Plus Boston Hotel have cable TV and free WiFi. They are equipped with a microwave and a refrigerator and are furnished with a work desk. The Best Western Plus Boston Hotel has a business center that is open 24 hours a day, as well as a modern, on-site fitness center. The hotel offers a complimentary shuttle to Boston Medical Center and the nearby metro station. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is | 1,919 |
Leucospermum vestitum is an evergreen, upright to more or less spreading shrub of up to 2½ m (9 ft) high and wide from the family Proteaceae. It has greyish, seated, oblong, 2–3 inch long leaves with two to four teeth near the tip and large, showy two-toned flower heads that are bright orange at first by and age to brilliant crimson. From the center of the perianth emerge long styles, higher up bending towards the center of the head, that jointly give the impression of a pincushion. It is called silky-haired pincushion in English and bergluisie in Afrikaans. It can be found in the Western Cape province of South Africa, and flowers from July until January, peaking October and November.
Description
Leucospermum vestitum is a stiff, upright to spreading, evergreen shrub of<|fim_middle|> that naturally occur in the fynbos where it lives. The seeds germinate because of the increased daily temperature fluctuations caused by the removal of the overhead vegetation, and chemicals that wash out of the char during the winter rains, so regenerating the local population.
Use
L. vestitum is one of several species of Leucospermum that are used as cut flower, in particular because it combines showy flowers heads with long straight stems. It is used as a parent for creating Leucospermum hybrids fit for both the garden and the cutflower market.
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Plants described in 1792 | up to 2½ m (9 ft) high and 3 m (10 ft) in diameter, that grows from a single stout stem with a smooth grey bark. The flowering stems are 5–8 mm (0.20-0.32 in) in diameter, stiff upright to horizontally spreading, with a thin covering of powdery hairs. The seated and hairless leaves are oblong, elliptic or narrowly oval, 5–7½ cm (2–3 in) long and 1–3 cm (0.4–1.2 in) wide, cut-off or heart-shaped at the foot the tip pointy or with two to four teeth, arranged alternately and somewhat overlapping.
The flower heads are egg- to globe-shaped, 7–9 cm (2.8–3.6 in) in diameter, mostly set individually on the flowering branch. The common base of the flowers in the same head is very narrowly cone-shaped with a pointy tip, 4–5 cm (1.6–2.0 in) long and ¾–1 cm (0.3–0.4 in) across. The bracts subtending the flower head are broadly oval with a pointy to pointed tip, 1–1½ cm (0.4–0.6 in) long and ½–1 cm wide, loosely spreading, membranous, hairless, pale green and shiny, and with a regular row of hairs along the edge.
The bract subtending the individual flower is pointy oval, membranous, enveloping the flower at its foot, about 1½ cm long and 5–7 mm wide, hairless or with a very fine powdery covering and with a row of hairs along the edge. The 4-merous perianth is about 3½ cm (1.4 in) long, initially orange but changing to brilliant carmine later.
The lower part of the perianth called tube, that remains merged when the flower is open, is about 6 mm (¼ in) long, cylinder-shaped, somewhat compressed sideways and hairless. The middle part (or claws) is crescent-shaped and coiling back on the base. The claw facing the center of the head is hairless, the two sideways facing claws have protruding silky hairs, while the claw facing the edge of the head is entirely covered in protruding silky hairs. The upper part (or limbs), which enclosed the pollen presenter in the bud, are oval, each 4–5 mm (0.16–0.2 in) long and set with long protruding silky hairs. Implanted on the inside of each of the four limbs is an oval anther of about 3 mm (0.12 in) long, on a filament of about 1.0 mm (0.04 in) long. From the centre of the perianth emerges a slender tapering and the upper part slightly curved to the center of the head, style of 5–6 cm (2.0–2.4 in) long that is curved toward the center of the head in the upper third. The thickened part at the tip of the style called pollen presenter is yellow, skewed, egg-shaped with a pointy tip, about 3 mm (0.12 in) long, with the groove that functions as the stigma in a raised papilla at the very tip. The ovary is subtended by four white, blunt, line-shaped scales of 1½–2 mm (0.06–0.08 in) long.
Differences with related species
L. vestitum can be distinguished from related species by the hairless, membranous, loosely spreading involucral bracts, the very narrow, pointy, cone-shaped common base of the flower head, the hairless oblong leaves and the skewed egg-shaped pollen presenter.
Taxonomy
Joseph Martin, a French plant collector who was gardener at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, probably was the first to collect the silky-haired pincushion in 1788. Although there seems to be no written record of his Cape visit en route to Mauritius, the collection of Proteaceae he sent to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck makes it evident that he at least reached the upper Breede River Valley between Worcester and Tulbagh. Lamarck was the first to describe the silky-haired pincushion in 1792 and he named it Protea vestita. Based on another specimen, English botanist Richard Anthony Salisbury described Leucadendrum ellipticum in 1809 in a book titled On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae, that was officially authored by Joseph Knight. Robert Brown published a paper in 1810 called On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae, wherein he created the genus Leucospermum and described Leucospermum medium. In 1816, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, who lumped species that had been assigned to new genera like Leucadendrum and Leucospermum. He assigned Brown's species to Protea, made the new combination Protea media. Edwin Percy Phillips in 1910 distinguished Leucospermum incisum. John Patrick Rourke considered all of these names synonymous, and made created Leucospermum vestitum in 1967 combining the earliest species name with the correct genus name.
L. vestitum is the type species of the showy pincushions, section Brevifilamentum.
The species name vestitum is Latin and means clothed or covered, probably a reference to the silky hairs that surround the perianth.
Distribution, habitat and ecology
The silky-haired pincushion can be found between Heerenlogementberg (halfway between Klawer and Graafwater) in the north, through the Clanwilliam, Ceres, Piketberg and Tulbagh districts to the Breede River Valley, several kilometers north of Worcester in the south. It was collected on three occasions on the Cape Peninsula (Table Mountain, Lion's Head and Green Point but since 1886 it seems to have disappeared. It also went extinct on the Paarl mountain, close to Paarl. The silky-haired pincushion seems to agree with a range of ecological circumstances, apart from a well-drained rocky slope of Table Mountain Sandstone. It grows at an altitude of 70–1400 m (200–4000 ft), where it mostly appears on slopes facing north or west. It is very tolerant of drought, which frequently occurs in the arid type of fynbos where it grows, with average annual precipitation as low as 250 mm (10 in). In the Tulbagh valley plants will mostly have a stiff upright habit while in northerly populations the shrub are rather more sprawling.
The flowers of Leucospermum vestitum are pollinated by birds like the Cape sugarbird and several species of sunbird, that come to feed on the nectar. When the fruits are ripe, about two months after flowering, these fall to the ground, where they attract the attention of ants with the fleshy pale coating called the elaiosome. The ants carry the fruits away to their nests and eat the elaiosome, while the smooth, hard seeds that remain do not fit within the ants' jaws and so remain stored safely underground. The mature plants are killed by the wildfires | 1,617 |
Blemished skin can be unpredictable and looking after it can be a tough task. When imperfections and breakouts appear on the days you least expect (or want) them, it can be difficult understanding where your daily skincare routine should begin and when it should end. It's time to learn how to battle blemishes and take back control of your skincare routine.
There are oil glands in our skin called sebaceous glands. These produce oil called sebum. Overactive sebaceous glands produce more sebum than the skin needs, which can lead to blemishes.
DO I HAVE A BLEMISHED SKIN?
A variety of factors can contribute to blemished skin, but more often than not it comes down to your unique genetic make-up. Your skin type is something you're born with that's unique to you. We're all different and there isn't a simple answer. We do know how blemishes usually form, which can help us address them. A blemish usually begins with blocked pores, which can be caused by increased sebum, the natural oil our skin produces.
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6 Facts About the Delta Variant and COVID-19
BY Michele Debczak
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Since the first case was identified in India in December 2020, the delta variant of the novel coronavirus has spread across the globe. Though it's hard to read news about COVID-19 without seeing the name, a lot of confusion still exists around the strain. Here's what you should know about the delta variant, including what it is, how it mutated, and how the COVID-19 vaccines stack up against it.
1. The delta variant is a mutated version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Delta, officially known as B.1.617.2, is a strain of the SARS-CoV<|fim_middle|> no protection at all. In addition to making it less likely that you'll get infected in the first place, the vaccines also make rare breakthrough infections less severe. More research still needs to be done into how vaccines hold up to delta as well as the need for booster shots targeted at the new strain. The current dominant variants are still susceptible to the COVID vaccines, but that may not always be the case. As long as the virus is spreading freely, it will continue to mutate, and the next variant may be better equipped to get around our defenses.
coronavirus disease Health News | -2 virus. It's still the same virus that causes COVID-19, but it has mutated to pose new threats. This distinguishes it from the original strain of the virus we encountered at the beginning of the pandemic.
2. High community spread allowed the delta variant to occur.
Viruses spread by replicating, and the more people the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects, the more chances it has to mutate. Most of these mutations are inconsequential, but some of them make the virus more formidable. The delta variant has a number of concerning mutations, including ones that allow it to produce higher viral loads in patients, evade antibodies, and infiltrate cells more easily. As delta becomes the dominant strain around the world, the chances of it developing even more deadly mutations increase.
3. The delta variant is present in at least 132 countries.
As of July 27, 132 countries have reported cases of the delta mutation, according to WHO. The organization predicts that the variant will become the main COVID strain around the world in the next few months if it continues to spread at its current rate. Delta is already dominating cases in the U.S., where it accounts for more than 80 percent of all new infections.
4. The delta variant is more contagious.
The biggest threat posed by the delta variant is how easily it spreads between hosts. Research shows that delta is up to 60 percent more contagious than the previous dominant strain in the U.S., alpha. Its infectiousness may be due to its ability to produce higher viral loads in patients.
5. It's unclear if the delta variant is more severe.
Experts still aren't sure how the severity of sickness from the delta variant compares to previous strains. Though some early data suggests that people infected with delta are more likely to be hospitalized, more research needs to be done. Even if the infections caused by delta aren't more severe, the virus is still dangerous. Because it's capable of infecting more people in less time, the variant has the potential to be more deadly on a global scale.
6. Vaccines are effective against the delta variant.
Limited research shows that the approved COVID-19 vaccines may be slightly less effective at defending against the new strain than the ones they were developed for. Despite this, they still offer excellent protection, and are significantly better than having | 479 |
Every week Mat Corne scours the TV Guide for the best movies showing on UK free-to-air TV. So for those of you that refuse to pay for Sky Movies, Amazon Prime or Netflix, here are some of the best freeview movies for the coming week.
Roger Moore may not have been everyone's favourite, but you can't argue that this is one of the quintessential films in the series. Everything you could want from a James Bond film can be found here, with exotic locations, beautiful women, an evil mastermind in a utopian lair, a classic<|fim_middle|> to find the body of a boy that has recently been reported missing. On their journey they get into a variety of dangerous situations, share their problems and begin their journey to adulthood. This coming of age film is based on the Stephen King novella The Body, and in terms of adaptations the writer's work it is second only to The Shawshank Redemption, which came from the same anthology. It works as both a comedy and drama thanks to some brilliant performances from a young cast that would all go on to be major stars, and a carefree spirit that will remind you of simpler days spent in the outdoors with friends. | henchman in the terrifying Jaws, and of course one of the most iconic cars in the submersible Lotus Turbo Esprit. The plot is as predictable as ever, but the acting is less hammy than usual for this era, there's great chemistry between Moore and Barbara Bach, and some pulsating action sequences. All of which make it Moore's greatest outing as 007 and my personal favourite of all the films in the franchise.
Following the success of Independence Day, Will Smith cemented his A-List status with another film about man's relationship with alien visitors. This time around the majority of aliens are happily accepted on Earth and live in peace and anonymity, until an unpleasant bug-like visitor causes havoc. Smith plays a cop that joins forces with Tommy Lee Jones in the government agency tasked with keeping the extra-terrestrials in line. The film is little more than a rehash of Ghostbusters, with aliens replacing spooks, but there are enough interesting characters, gadgets, action sequences and gags to keep your attention, while the two lead actors work very well together.
The crew of an isolated Antarctic research station get more than they bargained for when they take in an escaped sled dog that has been overtaken by a particularly unpleasant alien being. Soon the residents of the station are being killed off and imitated by the creature and it's down to helicopter pilot Kurt Russell to work out which of his colleagues are still human. It will always be best remembered for Rob Bottin's stomach-churning special effects, but beyond that John Carpenter's film is a clever, claustrophobic thriller that still has you wondering who is human or not even after repeated viewings. Critically panned on release, the film has since become a cult classic and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest horror films of its era.
One of many Steven Spielberg-helmed blockbusters, this one is based on Michael Crichton's story about a theme park populated with genetically-recreated dinosaurs that run amok after an unexpected power cut. The story is enjoyable enough with a number of dramatic scenes, and actors such as Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum do an admirable job, but the real stars of the movie are the park's residents. From the initial childlike wonder of seeing Brontosauruses and Triceratops, to the terror of the T-Rex attack, to the suspense of the Velociraptor hunt, the special effects are incredibly convincing. More than 20 years on and they still compare favourably with modern CGI effects, which is the best praise you can give to the ground-breaking work done by Phil Tippett and ILM.
It may not be as festive as the first two films, but don't let that stop you seeing Bruce Willis return for his third outing as John McClane, teaming up with Samuel L. Jackson to take on another group of bad guys in New York. Bringing back the original film's director John McTiernan and ignoring the events of the second film was a masterstroke, as this is almost as good as the original, albeit in a different way. The series of challenges that face the heroes at the beginning of the movie are cleverly designed and thrillingly executed, and while the story gets a little more generic towards the latter half of the film, the relationship between the main characters and a mix of action and humour make this one of the greatest sequels of the 90s.
Jesse Eisenberg stars as Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard computing student who comes up with the idea of a social networking website for his fellow students. The rest, as they say, is history which is still being made. What was in reality a fairly boring story is spiced up by some over-dramatised incidents, compelling performances from all the main stars and David Fincher's typically subversive direction. As an insight into the creators of something that has become part of everyday life for much of the world's population, this is a truly fascinating film. It may paint a completely accurate picture of the people involved, but why let the truth get in the way of a good story?
Stock up on the tissues and brace yourself for Frank Darabont's epic adaptation of Stephen King's serial novel. Tom Hanks stars as a Death Row prison guard whose life is unexpectedly changed by a giant but gentle inmate, who displays some out of the ordinary powers. Hanks is good as usual, but is completely upstaged on this occasion by the performance of the late Michael Clarke Duncan, in what was undoubtedly his most memorable role. It's hard watching at times, and doesn't reach the heights of Darabont's earlier prison based King adaptation The Shawshank Redemption, but there's still plenty to admire here if you can cope with the long running time.
Following the success of The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan reunited with Bruce Willis for one of the director's most intriguing films. Willis stars as a seemingly ordinary security guard who becomes the sole, uninjured survivor of a devastating train accident. His superhuman escape from certain death attracts the interest of Samuel L. Jackson's frail art dealer, and the two strike up an odd relationship that leads to increasingly more dangerous situations. The film is a fascinating entry into the superhero genre that dispels with fancy costumes and powers, instead looking at heroes and villains in a 'real world' way and featuring superb performances from Willis and Jackson. With both characters recently revived on the big screen in Glass, it's definitely worth taking another look at their origins in what is arguably Shyamalan's finest hour.
If you're looking for a film to just sit back and enjoy without having to think about it, Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to full-time acting might be just the ticket. He plays an ageing sheriff in a small town on the US-Mexico border, which just happens to be the destination for an escaped cartel leader hoping to escape back to his home country. With the FBI struggling to keep up with the fugitive in his supercharged sports car, Arnie must try and stop him and his gang with just a small police force and some willing volunteers. All of which is just an excuse for car chases, explosions and lots of gunfire. With a decent supporting cast and plenty of jokes about the leading man's advancing years, this is an undemanding but thoroughly enjoyable action film.
On a hot summer weekend in the late 1950s, four boys from the sleepy town of Castle Rock set out | 1,330 |
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May spoke with representatives from the European Roundtable of Industrialists (ERT) in London on the 1 November 2018.
The Prime Minister set out that since their previous meeting in May 2018, the vision for the future economic partnership with the European Union had been published. The plan would protect frictionless trade, which was in the interests of both UK and EU businesses, employees and citizens. The Prime Minister emphasised that the proposals would not only ensure there was no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, but it would also safeguard jobs, just-in-time manufacturing and integrated supply chains, all of which were important to business.
Second, the Prime Minister spoke about the good progress in negotiations, with 95% of the Withdrawal Agreement complete and with agreement on the structure and scope of the Future Framework. She reiterated that she was confident a deal would be reached.
The Prime Minister heard from the ERT about their priorities, and all agreed that it was in everyone's interests to secure a good deal for both sides and provide clarity for businesses and employees in the UK and across Europe. The Prime Minister emphasised her commitment to achieving this and all agreed the importance of getting a deal as soon as possible.
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Verbal reasoning tests are used widely by employers during assessment centres in order to select the right person(s) for the job. They are particularly common during selection processes for careers that require an ability to communicate both verbally and in written format with customers or clients.
Here are a number<|fim_middle|> practice questions.
Verbal text extracts to assess your ability.
Verbal comprehension tests and how to pass them.
Advice on how to answer the test questions.
How to avoid the common pitfalls.
Written by a verbal reasoning test expert.
How to increase your chances of success.
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Many people ask me what the scoring criteria are for verbal reasoning tests. They want to know how many they need to get correct in order to pass. To be honest, every employer/test administrator will have a different standard. Tests of this nature in the public sector normally require a pass rate of 70%. My advice would be to not focus on the pass mark but instead focus on trying to get every question correct. Some employers will set the pass mark according to the overall average score amongst the applicants. Therefore, it is pointless worrying about the pass mark.
The vast majority of verbal reasoning tests are timed; therefore, you need to practice under timed conditions. Savvy test takers will be fully aware of the amount of time they have to answer each question on average. I encourage you to do the same during your preparation.
Test administrators should be suitably qualified in order to administer the test. They will provide you with sufficient information on how to take the test and the rules/guidelines involved immediately prior to the real test. This is also your opportunity to ask any questions that you may have. In the majority of cases you will be given the opportunity to try a small number of sample questions.
Be prepared to be faced by a variety of test styles. The verbal reasoning test that you are required to undertake should be representative of the type of role you are applying for. That is why you do not see many verbal reasoning tests that require you to 'select the odd one out' or 'fill in the missing words' of a sentence, simply because the majority of occupational roles are not relevant to this type of test. Having said that, the Army still uses a 'select the odd one out' test during its selection process for soldiers.
You should learn to concentrate intently on the test you are taking and the questions you are required to answer. You should learn to block everything that is irrelevant to the test out of your mind. That means not worrying about what the other test takers are doing or where they are in relation to you in the test! Focus on your own test only.
Just about every other psychometric testing book out there will tell you to get some sleep the night before your test. The chances are, you won't be able to rest fully the night before your test. My advice is to get plenty of rest in the fortnight before the test. Eat healthily, get some exercise (brisk walking is perfect) and avoid coffee and alcohol too. I see lots of people drinking energy drinks before their test. Energy drinks may claim to increase stimulation and concentration, but how long for is debatable. The danger is, once the effect wears off, you will start to feel lethargic. Choose clean, healthy water instead.
Test administrators are required to keep a log of events during the test. They are required to write down any incidents that occur, such as noise in neighbouring rooms or interruptions that may occur. They are also required to write down any anomalies that occur with the test takers. Any information that is written down could be used to influence your scores, both good and bad. Follow all instructions carefully and stop writing when told to do so!
As part of your interview skills preparation you're taught to always have something to say in response to a question. You never answer with "don't know" or "can't say", instead you always seek to find a relevant response which will put you in a good light. So for many test takers it is unnerving to answer with the option 'cannot say'. In fact this is often the reason some companies use this specific abbreviation – to test your nerve. So it is important to remember that 'cannot say' is only an abbreviation of the 'cannot say on the information provided' option and is a valid answer from observant and successful candidates.
Let's take a look at a sample verbal reasoning test question (in the purple box).
1. Read the following text before answering the questions as either TRUE (A), FALSE (B) or CANNOT SAY (C) from the information given.
The Office for National Statistics said internet shopping and sales of household goods had been better in October compared with previous months.
However, sales of clothing and footwear, where many retailers cut prices before Christmas, were particularly weak.The increase came as a surprise to many analysts who were predicting a 0.4% fall in internet shopping and sales of household goods. The rise meant that retail sales volumes in the three months to January were up by 2.6% on the previous quarter. The final quarter of the year is a better guide to the underlying trend than one month's figures.Some analysts cautioned that the heavy seasonal adjustment of the raw spending figures at the turn of the year made interpreting the data difficult.
Even so, the government will be relieved that spending appears to be holding up despite the squeeze on incomes caused by high inflation, rising unemployment, a weak housing market and the crisis in the eurozone.Retail sales account for less than half of total consumer spending and do not include the purchase of cars or eating out. The ONS said that its measure of inflation in the high street – the annual retail sales deflator – fell to 2.2% last month, its lowest level since November 2009. Ministers are hoping that lower inflation will boost real income growth during the course of 2012.
VERBAL REASONING QUESTION 1: Ministers hope that higher inflation will boost real income growth during 2012.
Q1.The sentence states that ministers hope that 'lower' inflation will boost real income growth, not higher. Therefore, the statement is false (B).
VERBAL REASONING QUESTION 2: Analyst's predicted a 0.4% rise in the sales of household goods.
Q2.The passage states that analysts were predicting a 0.4% fall in sales of household goods, not rise. Therefore, the statement is false (B).
VERBAL REASONING QUESTION 3: The crisis in the eurozone is contributing to the squeeze on incomes.
Q3.This statement is true (A) based on the information provided in the passage.
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Grieving Process and Pets: a different kind of Loss?
As one who for many years has supported bereaved animal lovers as well as people mourning the loss of human loved ones, I'm often asked how losing a pet might differ from losing a person. Is the grieving process any different, and if so<|fim_middle|> be cared for, and we need not bear our sorrow all alone. Even if we're grieving in a normal, healthy way, it is wise to use all the resources available to help recover our balance and put our life back together again.
Marty Tousely, CNS-BC, FT, DCC, is a Grief Counselor and author with 40 year experience in the field. Her GriefHealingBlog.com is superlative. | , how?
Having worked as a grief counselor with both kinds of loss, and having experienced both kinds of loss myself, I can say without reservation that the grief that accompanies pet loss is no different from that of losing a cherished friend or special member of the family. As I often tell my clients, love is love, loss is loss, and pain is pain. Grief is a natural, spontaneous response to the loss of someone dearly loved. Without a doubt, the loss of a loved animal companion and the feelings associated with that loss are real, and they deserve a time of grief, mourning and healing.
People are shocked at how sad they feel, and are overwhelmed by the intensity of their feelings, especially those of sorrow (feeling that they've lost a very close friend or member of the family, often noting in amazement that they didn't feel this bad when a human relative had died); anger (at themselves for not doing enough; at the animal for leaving them; at the vet for failing to save the animal; at God for letting the animal get sick and die, etc.) and guilt(over what they did or failed to do for their animals).
They are relieved to learn that they're not going crazy, that grief is a normal response to losing someone they love, that only they can know the special place in their life and in their heart that was occupied by their animal, and only they can measure how very much they've lost. The more significant the bond between them, the greater the feeling of loss.
So what is the most important advice I can give to a grieving animal lover? Don't bear this burden all alone! Find someone you trust to talk to about it! Sometimes we wish that others would just be there for us without our having to ask. Unfortunately, when it comes to pet loss, that's not likely to happen. It's not so much that others are uncaring; if they're not animal lovers and they've never had pets, there simply is no way for them to fully understand the attachment we had to the pet who died, the significance of our loss and the depth of our pain. They may unintentionally minimize our loss or, not wanting to see us hurt, discourage us from expressing our grief. Their insensitivity can be even more painful for us than grief from the actual loss. As my friend and colleague Teresa Wagner wisely says, we need to remember that grief is indifferent to the species lost. A person's grief is legitimate and real regardless of anyone else's comments, behavior or opinions.
In such cases it's important to seek the support of those who understand our experience and accept our feelings (close friends, family members, fellow animal lovers, support groups, helplines, Internet Web sites, message boards and chat rooms, articles and books on pet loss, and bereavement counseling – preferably with a counselor who is sensitive to pet loss).
Some of us may be more comfortable in the role of giving care than in receiving it. We may see the need for counseling as a sign of weakness or of mental illness, and thus are reluctant to seek the help of a support group or a professional counselor. But it takes strength and courage to let ourselves | 647 |
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The friendly staff here at Job Center are ready to help you. When you come in please dress for an interview, smart casual is fine with us. Please remember this is a job interview not a night out with friends.
Look your best, bring everything you need, limit your cell phone use, and watch your language. This will go a long way toward making that great first impression.
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Rhinoplasty is an operation to straighten the midline partition of the nose, which is called septum, along with additional correction of problems related to other parts of the nose such as the outer walls, tip, bridge etc.
In carefully selected cases, it is a more effective procedure<|fim_middle|> It usually does not stop you from performing routine activities including work that is not to physically demanding. Excessive physical exertion is not advised for two weeks and it is best to wait until your first post operative outpatient review by a surgeon before you start running or going to the gym.
Potential risks and complications are usually low. These consist of a small risk of unusual bleeding past 12 hours after surgery and a small risk of infection. It is also important to be aware that while this operation improves nasal airway and appearance, the nose may not go back to looking and functioning like a natural, pristine nose that one is born with, particularly when there is a history of trauma. Final healing can take up to 18 months with up to 90% of it occurring within 2 to 3 months. It is therefore important to be patient while your nose recovers from this extensive procedure.
This page provides you with general information about rhinoplasty. Mr Samant will discuss further details specific to your nose during your consultation with him. Please do remember to note down any questions you might have while you are waiting to see him or to have the operation. | to improve nasal airway than simply straightening the nasal septum with a septoplasty. Additionally, obvious and significant cosmetic abnormalities can often be improved as well.
You typically arrive at the hospital on the day of the procedure. This operation is performed under a general anaesthetic and generally takes 2 to 3 hours. Most patients can go on the same day if they feel up to it and are deemed medically fit for discharge.
Most patients do not experience much post operative pain and are usually quite comfortable with simple painkillers. In fact, the most common cause for discomfort is nasal stuffiness due to swelling of the lining of the nose in response to the operation. There is also external swelling on the nose but usually no bruising under the eyes. Both internal and external swelling gradually settles over 8 to 10 weeks. It is never dramatic and is usually noticed more by the patient themselves than others. | 184 |
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WASHINGTON — On Sept. 16, 1991, Angela Merkel, then a young protégé<|fim_middle|>.
Nor did he mention Ms. Merkel's struggle to keep the European Union intact, amid a wave of nationalist fervor across the Continent. To the extent that Mr. Trump mentions the bloc at all, he tends to disparage it.
Mr. Trump's aides played up their effort to discredit another of Mr. Bush's legacies, the World Trade Organization. The communiqué released by the Group of 20 after the meeting said, "the system is currently falling short of its objectives and there is room for improvement" — language inserted at the request of the United States.
As Mr. Trump has gotten to know Ms. Merkel over the last two years, their relationship has become laden with symbolism: the great disrupter facing off against the last defender of the liberal world order. But it is not clear Mr. Trump fully grasped the contradictions between Ms. Merkel's encounter with Mr. Bush, and his relationship with her.
"I found that very interesting," Mr. Trump said again.
Christopher Schuetze contributed reporting from Berlin. | of Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany, watched in the Oval Office as her boss and President George Bush wrestled with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union. Without an influx of emergency aid, Germans feared that refugees could pour across the border, threatening the stability of their newly reunified country.
With Mr. Bush's death, a generation of Cold War leaders has passed from the stage. Of the major figures of that era, only Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader, is still alive. But at 87, he is too ill to attend Mr. Bush's funeral. Mr. Kohl died last year; even his protégé Ms. Merkel, who will go to the funeral, is now in the sunset of a political career that made her Germany's first female chancellor.
Ms. Merkel's reminiscences about Mr. Bush were all the more poignant, given that she was about to sit down with Mr. Trump, who grew up during the Cold War but has gleefully tried to dismantle the European and global institutions that Mr. Bush and his Cold War-vintage colleagues built.
"What exactly is the partnership that is managing this now?" he asked.
It is easy to forget, as the tributes to Mr. Bush pour in, that these Cold War partnerships were not without their bumps. While Mr. Bush and Mr. Kohl agreed on the need for food and medicine for the Soviets, they differed over how quickly to provide economic assistance. Mr. Bush wanted the Soviets to undertake sweeping market-oriented changes first.
Some analysts argue that it is pointless to pine for the restoration of the American-led international order that Mr. Bush helped create. That system was beginning to fray well before Mr. Trump took office, for all sorts of reasons unrelated to him, and it is likely to keep unraveling, regardless of who follows him into the White House.
Still, Mr. Kornblum and others said, there were lessons to be learned from Mr. Bush's approach to foreign policy, which can be applied to the upheavals of today. He was a master at building coalitions, a skilled diplomat who understood how to corral balky allies, like Britain and France, and deal adroitly with failing adversaries, like the Soviet Union.
By declaring his faith in a united Germany, even before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mr. Bush helped secure a united Europe. He also frustrated last-ditch Soviet efforts to dissolve the Atlantic alliance. Mr. Gorbachev paid his respects.
In addition to winding down the Cold War, historians credit Mr. Bush with helping facilitate the reunification of Germany and Europe, as well as the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union. And he was an apostle for free trade, negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and laying the groundwork for the World Trade Organization.
"We had a leader in Bush who had a superb sense of timing, who knew when to coddle and when to cajole," said Josef Joffe, a member of the editorial council of the German newspaper Die Zeit.
The contrast with Mr. Bush was on stark display at the Group of 20 meeting in Buenos Aires. Mr. Trump declared that he and Ms. Merkel would talk about trade, saying that Germany knew how unacceptable Americans found its trade surplus. As Ms. Merkel has pointed out to him in previous meetings, Germany, as a member of the European Union, cannot negotiate independently on trade with the United States.
Mr. Trump did not mention the issue that most concerned Germany at this meeting: the clash between Russian and Ukrainian naval vessels, which the Germans view as a drastic escalation of President Vladimir V. Putin's predatory behavior toward his neighbor | 751 |
Arsenal: Arsene Wenger leaving like 'a star has dropped out of the sky' – David Dein
April 23, 2018 News Comments Off on Arsenal: Arsene Wenger leaving like 'a star has dropped out of the sky' – David Dein
Former Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein recruited Arsene Wenger in 1996
The decision of manager Arsen Wenger to leave Arsenal, it seems, "the star fell out of the sky," says former vice chairman David Dane.
68-year-old Frenchman Wenger said that on Friday he will retire after almost 22 years.
Dean hired Wenger to become manager of Arsenal in October 1996, before leaving his post as vice chairman in 2007.
"He will undoubtedly go down in history as the greatest manager of Arsenal," Dane said.
"His style of football, the way he behaved, honesty, honesty, how he manages the players, how he develops the youth – what he did for the club is immeasurable.
"It's not just for Arsenal, its legacy is for global football."
Wenger won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups, including the Double in 1997-98 and 2001-02.
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"Gunners" rank sixth in the league and are going to miss fourth place for the second consecutive season, hoping to get into the Champions League next year, relying on the victory in the European League. They face Atletico Madrid in a two-story semi-final on April 26 and May 3.
Dean said that the last two years have been "very difficult" for Wenger, who will leave a year before the expiration of his contract.
Some fans have included Wenger in recent years, raising the signs of "Wenger" in the matches. Wenger said on Sunday that the lack of unity was "harmful" for the club.
"At the end of last season I discussed with him:" Arsen, what do you want to do? Are you going to stay or go? "Dane said.
"He was a little hesitant. In the end, I told him that he loved the club too much.
"He made his own mind and decided to stay. The last couple of weeks he became increasingly difficult, especially with the results of the team, so I felt that on a personal level, he was unlikely to stay after the end of this season. "
Arsenal beat West Ham 4-1 on Sunday in the first match since Arsene Wenger announced he will step down
Dane appointed the then little-known Wenger from the Japanese side Nagoya Grampus Eight in 1996, before they watched the progress from Highbury at the Emirates Stadium in 2006.
Dane said that Arsenal "managed to get funding" for the Emirates on the back of the "Invincibles" team, which won the<|fim_middle|> .APK +18 | Terms & Conditions [...]
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"When you go to the stadium today and you see this magnificent singing and dancing stadium, you have to say" thank you Arsene Wenger "because we managed to get it through the team's achievement," Dean added.
"He absolutely revolutionized the club, it was a" boring, boring "Arsenal" at one stage. Now we play pretty football.
"He is a purist footballer, so this is one of his legacies and always earns on an annual basis. He is very perceptive, he can read the balance.
"He is an honorable, honest and extremely reliable guy. Shareholders probably tripled or quadrupled under Arsen Wenger, and they should thank him. "
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Arsenal said that they will appoint Wenger's successor "as soon as possible."
Former Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel, manager of Juventus Massimiliano Allegri and former coach of Chelsea and Real Madrid Carlo Ancelotti were involved in the work, as well as former players Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry and Mikel Arteta.
Dane said he hopes that the new manager will inherit Wenger's "extraordinary" values for the club.
"It must be successful, and the only advice I can give it is to get the winning team – everything flows from there," Dean said.
After Arsenal won 4-1 at West Ham on Sunday, Wenger said he was not sure if he could retire, work elsewhere, or take a director of a football role, but Dane believes he will continue the game.
"Over the past few years, I know that he was approached by some of the biggest clubs in the world – Real Madrid, Paris-Saint-Germain and even the England team wanted him at one stage," Dane said.
"There will be no shortage of offers. I personally called from people asking to talk with him. "
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Music Therapy activities can range from passive interventions like listening, or lyric analysis, to active interventions like music making, and songwriting. Of course, the therapy population plays a major role in the types of activities that will take place. For example, music therapy activities such as learning about sharing, or shapes, or colors would be appropriate in a special needs educational setting, but not-so-appropriate in a substance-abuse rehabilitation facility. Sessions are structured around client-preferred music no matter the genre, and the songs are chosen based on the goals, needs, and skill set of a given client or group.
The music is oriented toward areas like education, development of social skills, behavior modification, pain management, emotional expression, communication, and physical wellness. More intellectually and musically complex interventions, like songwriting, can be made accessible to all skill levels, and are designed to be challenging while still attainable to participants. Much of the session cannot be pre-planned because the structure and content of the session depends greatly upon the clients' reactions. If a Music Therapist has prepared a day of movement-based activities and up-beat songs for a group of elders, the plan may well change if the group members need a more reflective, or discussion-based group for whatever reason. Flexibility is an important key.
One<|fim_middle|>, and express. | pillar of the profession is providing clients with success-oriented therapeutic interventions; Music Therapists design activities to highlight the client's abilities rather than disabilities which promotes positive self-esteem and can be much more motivating. In private lesson instruction with children and adults with special needs, the Music Therapist will break down the learning to smaller, more manageable pieces than the lessons that might be used in a more typical private lesson. These types of activities provide clients with a sense of accomplishment, afford them an opportunity to work towards defined goal areas, and are a fun and enjoyable way to learn, recover | 115 |
Apartment Living was written by my partner Sue Williams and me in response to the fairly troubled times we faced when we first moved into a new apartment block in Sydney.
We ran the whole gauntlet of issues, from a dodgy Executive Committee the chair of which was a little too autocratic and close to the developers for comfort, to a building manager – also employed by the developers – who was not only utterly incompetent but ran nasty little vendettas against any residents who dared to criticise the way the building was being run.
It took a group of committed owners nine months to resolve this scandalous situation, sack the original EC and the building manager and get things running smoothly (for which I can take no credit).
Both being writers, our instinctive response was to get it down on paper and make some of the stuff that we'd<|fim_middle|>It was published by ABC Books in June 2004 and one reviewer for The Age in Melbourne called it "The Lonely Planet for apartments" which was just about the feel we were looking for.
many of the laws referred to in the book have changes and are about to change even more in 2014 when the new NSW strta laws come in. I plan to have a new version of the book available then. Check the Flat Chat website for updates. | discovered available to others. We also tried to make the book as entertaining and informative as we could.
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Remember the other day when I posted about How To Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs? That wasn't by accident because you'll need them for this recipe.
I love deviled eggs and I love<|fim_middle|>ocados, it works a bit better, but nothing is truly perfect that I have tried. Enjoy the recipe tomorrow! | avocado. I decided to marry the two and we loved the guacamole-inspired vibe.
The creaminess and healthy fat from the avocado adds extra richness and flavor to these deviled eggs that's so satisfying.
The filling tastes like jacked up guac in the best possible way from the mayo (although you could probably skip it if you had to), Grey Poupon, lime juice, and cilantro. So much flavor.
Deviled eggs get their name 'deviled' because in the 18th century foods that were spicy were said to be deviled. In those days apparently mustard and pepper were spicy. Whereas my definition of spicy is a Scotch bonnet pepper.
Depending on how devilish you want things, add cayenne or chili powder. Or omit and use (smoked) paprika or use no red spices at all. Your choice.
Because this filling is hand-mashed and retains some texture, dolloping the filling into the egg white halves with a spoon is recommended. Plus it's far easier that way than piping it in like you would with traditional deviled eggs.
If you're making these for an event and need to make a large quantity, I recommend hard boiling and peeling your eggs the night before, storing them in the fridge, and prepping the filling as close to service as possible. I kept an eye on the color of the filling as time passed and stored airtight in the fridge, it held a decently green color for about 8 hours. Avocados oxidize and there's no way around it.
I married deviled eggs and avocado and loved the guacamole-inspired vibe. The creaminess and healthy fat from the avocado adds extra richness and flavor that's so satisfying. There's also mayo, Grey Poupon, lime juice, and cilantro for so much flavor. Depending on how devilish you want your eggs add cayenne or chili powder, or omit and use (smoked) paprika, or use no red spices at all. Mash the filling and simply dollop it in.
Make a batch of Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs (Tip – Boil a couple extra eggs in case yours don't peel easily and a few rip or are raggedy), peel, and halve them lengthwise. Scoop out the yolks into a large bowl and set whites aside on a platter.
To the bowl with the yolks, add the avocado, lime juice, mayo, mustard, salt, pepper, optional cayenne pepper, and mash with a fork to combine.
Stir in the cilantro. Taste filling and make any necessary seasoning tweaks, i.e. more salt, spice, etc.
Dollop the filling into the whites with a small spoon.
Optionally garnish with (smoked) paprika, chili powder, or cayenne. Serving immediately is best; alternatively place in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 8 hours before serving, noting the avocado will oxidize as time passes and the color of the filling will turn duller.
White Cheddar and Dijon Baked Eggs – Fast and easy comfort food that's ready in 15 minutes! The Dijon and cheese just jazz these eggs right up!
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Thanks for explaining the 'deviled' part – I never really thought about it, but it makes total sense now! I'm not really good with spicy food myself since I can literally ONLY taste the pepper and none of the other ingredients, but I'll be able to make these eggs as I see fit ;) Have a great week!
This is a nice looking mix of deviled eggs and guacamole. Most of my co workers love both so this would be fun to take to the office sometime. Interesting background on how deviled eggs got their name as well—spice levels then were probably a bit tame compared to what we have access to today!
If I was going to eat deviled eggs I would totally eat them with avocado. Genius!
haha :) me too! For some reason I have always LOVED loved deviled eggs and the avocado just put them over the top!
This recipe was a great find. I loved the creaminess of the yolk and avocado mixture. The lime juice was also detectable, which we enjoyed. I only made 3 hard-boiled eggs and used all the yolks in the recipe. Yes, I did have extra filling, but I just finished it on a cracker or two. The one change I made was an optional item. Instead of the dash of hot sauce, I added a sprinkle of the cayenne pepper. Eggs were delish, and a definite keeper in this house. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, love that you made this the same day I posted it! Awesome! So glad you enjoyed the recipe and yes just adding the extra filling to crackers was what I did when I had some left over as well.
Awesome images and simple recipe shared. Thanks for easy to make recipe would definitely try it today. This looks awesome as you made yolks look like creamy leather.
hey girl- these eggs look so yummy!
Love the avocado addition to the deviled eggs! Never thought of that before; I want to try it!
Thanks for posting this. I've never made deviled eggs but will try some avocado ones for a gathering tomorrow. Just wanted to pass along a little information. You mentioned that avocados oxidize and there is no way around it. There is, when storing them for any amount of time, leave the seeds with the avocado meat. That will delay the oxidation by quite a bit.
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Editor's Note: I'm delighted to share a guest post today by Jasmin Lee Cori, MS, LPC on a topic that trips up so many of us.
Is this what you call yourself when you stumble or make a mistake?
My niece called herself an idiot last week when she made a small error cooking our brunch. When I commented on calling herself an idiot, she assured me she would never call her children that. I believe her. Ann is a particularly giving woman and very conscientious as a parent. So how come she doesn't extend that to herself? What gives?
As a psychotherapist I get to listen in on that voice chattering away in people's heads, and although I work with very nice people, how they speak to themselves can make me cringe.
There are different names for the critical voice in our heads; the most common is Inner Critic. Generally this is an aspect of our consciousness that developed when we were very young and internalized rules from our environment. These rules tend to be very black-and-white, as they are to a young mind, and the way of enforcing them is also rather primitive. Mocking, ridiculing, threatening with extreme consequences are actually rather coarse influence skills. It's like a terrified four-year-old desperately trying to keep you in line, warning you the world will end if you don't do something just right.
There are books about trying to defend against or slowly dismantle this inner critic. Here I'm going to focus on bringing in a voice that may help neutralize the critic and eventually replace it. Wouldn't you like a kinder voice inside your head?
That was really hard, wasn't it? I'm here with you.
Remember how you mastered (XYZ).
What if you didn't ever hear these kinds of things growing up? What if "nurturing parent" sounds like fiction to you? All is not lost. You can develop an inner presence with these qualities. As I wrote in The Emotionally Absent Mother, you can learn to mother yourself.
This capacity to respond to our needs in a nurturing way is something we develop over time. In doing so, we are actually growing a part of our self. Although often couched in terms of an Inner Parent helping an Inner Child, it doesn't need to be.
What if you think of this voice we want to cultivate as an Inner Ally? Whereas the Inner Critic is like someone who kicks you when you're down, this Inner Ally is someone who helps pick you up.
It helps us develop a nurturing inner voice if we have (or had) someone in our life who was especially kind and supportive<|fim_middle|> attack to how it might be trying to protect her, I changed tacks. I invited her to bring in a figure of light, perhaps someone from the Upper World. She had a clear sense of a spiritual teacher she had a strong connection with, and let herself orient to that. I watched as her face became beatific. She was filling with love. Since love is opposite hatred, it unhooked her from the hatred.
This is the choice we need to consciously make: We can listen to the shame attack, living under the thumb of the Inner Critic, or we can "change the channel" to a different energy.
Think about the energy you'd like to have available in times of need. That's the energy you want to cultivate. That's the loving voice you want as an inside companion. See if you can practice a more loving voice this week.
What's the voice like inside your head? Have you practiced nurturing self-talk? If you're reading by email or RSS, click here to join the conversation.
Jasmin Cori is the author of 6 books, including Healing From Trauma and The Emotionally Absent Mother. Her psychotherapy practice includes clients around the US and several other countries. Sign up for her blog or visit her site for more. | to us. For me it began with "practicing" the response of a therapist I was working with at the time, which helped me set up a mirror image of her inside. (I've also written about this as a "Portable Good Mother." Portable is good. You can't always call someone in the middle of the night.) It starts out generally as a real, external resource that is then internalized.
If you absolutely can't think of someone to base this inner ally on, you can work with a fictional image or an archetype. Everyone has been exposed to images of a nurturing other.
To develop your Inner Ally, begin by imagining what an ally would say when you burn the crust or make a mistake. What would a good parent or good partner say? What would you want to say to someone you love who just stumbled or fumbled in some way?
Imagine that being said to you, or saying it to yourself. Practice! We have plenty of opportunities in a day to comfort or encourage ourselves.
Gradually, this voice is there more and more of the time. I would say late in the process of integration, it feels indistinguishable from you.
I had a client the other day who had been simmering in self-hate for several weeks. The hatred was communicated through a shaming voice. It had been beating her up, bad. When I couldn't get behind the shame | 284 |
Humour, pop culture and reality: creating a new identity for Sad Girls Club
The online community dedicated to supporting the mental health of hundreds of thousands of young women of colour has been rebranded by Tickety Boo.
By Molly Long May 14, 2020 11:04 am May 14, 2020 11:04 am
Online mental health community Sad Girls Club has been given a "70s-style" visual identity by international design<|fim_middle|> of the Sad Girls Club platform, the organisation had previously gone without a "fully formed brand or communications approach", and as such, Fox approached Tickety Boo to help boost brand recognition.
Featuring a redrawn logo, a suite of illustrations, branding assets and strategy, the identity has been launched as part of celebrations for Mental Health Awareness Month in the UK.
Capturing the "happy/sad dichotomy"
In creating the new identity, the team was inspired by the "bold and graphical style of the 1970s", Tickety Boo founder and creative director Judy Andrews tells Design Week. Additionally, the team needed to establish a look the emphasised the platform's mental health mission.
So while the colour palette is "bright, bold and inclusive", the applications of the new brand showcase "the reality of mental illness" and the "happy/sad dichotomy" for all to see.
The new logo is perhaps the best example of this. Most often appearing in bold pink and blue, it features a two-part graphic: a smile and a downturned mouth. Since the purpose of Sad Girls Club is to diminish stigma, Andrews says it felt important to include the happy/sad reference "as a reminder that it's OK to feel this way and to share those feelings".
In this same vein, elsewhere the team developed a series of "quirky, irreverent" character illustrations, for use in Sad Girls Club's communications. Each has been designed to represent a different emotional state, with Andrews explaining the intention is to de-stigmatise feelings like anxiety and frustration.
"Accessibility and relatability"
The driving force behind Sad Girls Club's new look was the people in its community, Andrews adds.
"The brief was to create an inviting space to hold open conversations," she explains. "Being real and down to earth was absolutely critical."
As with any conversation around mental health, Andrews says tackling it required a complex approach. At the core of Sad Girls Club, she says, is "accessibility and relatability", so the identity needed to reflect that.
The branding therefore has been designed with the aesthetics, references and mannerisms that young women of colour can feel comfortable around. Frequently, it uses humour, pop culture and meme references, with the ultimate aim of bringing "hope and understanding" to conversations being had by the community.
This is emphasised in particular by the new brand line, Small Talk Real Talk (in which "Small Talk" has been crossed out). As Andrews points out, the motivation behind this was to signpost that "this community digs deeper than the small talk, exploring issues which are both personal and critical for wellbeing".
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Founded in 2017 by Elyse Fox, Sad Girls Club is a grassroots platform that supports young women of colour in their struggles with mental health. Since inception, it has amassed some 300,000 followers, and regularly puts on workshops, virtual therapist sessions and other events for its community.
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2019 is quickly coming to an end and we asked the boys to tell us the details on New Years Eve so we can break the news to you! If you want to spend New Years Eve with your favorite boy band and ours, you're gonna have to make a trip to South Carolina this year! The boys are ringing in the New Year as part of the massive block party that the Senate Theater and Tin Roof are having in Columbia, South Carolina! They go on stage at 9 PM at the Senate Theater. More information can be found here: New Year's Eve Roaring into 2020
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In honor of Chris' solo single, we decided that it was time to see what other news the guys wanted to share with their fans so we reached out to each one of them and we are pretty eager to share all the exciting and interesting ventures all the guys have been up to and have coming up!!
Starting with Chris…
Chris' released his single "Welcome to the Hollow" on Thursday, April 10, 2019. The video is on youtube, spotify, and itunes! Chris' full ep will be out next year and he just<|fim_middle|>, Spotify , and itunes He is currently working on an album that will be released in the fall and producing and starring in a new thriller movie!
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Edvin has been busy honing his brand (Larger Than Life shows) and focusing on his private events company, LTL Events – so if you're getting married or throwing a party, consider hitting him up for professional services!
He also wanted us to know about his new show called "Independent Women" – starring Lena, Virginia , and Emily – They have their first show at the Winery at St George's on 4/24!!!
Price just got his personal trainer certification through NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) which is one of the highest accredited!!
He also just signed with Encompass Arts Management and has signed onto a new project that's based off of Dungeons and Dragons. He's also potentially going to record a demo for a songwriter!
Dan is responsible for the creation of another one of the new LTL shows called ABBA MIA and if you couldn't guess its a ABBA tribute band. The show consists of Dan, Chance, Emily, Deanna, and Danielle! They have several upcoming shows but most notably a show at the Queen in Wilmington Delaware that LTL played last month to a crowd of over 600 people!!
Dan's solo album is slated to come out later this year and he has solo shows and single release announcements coming soon as well!
Mike wanted the world to know that he is celebrating the dirty 30 this Thursday, April 18th! Be sure to get on instagram and wish him a Happy Birthday!
And last but not least…George…
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We devised a method of estimating population size of Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) found in California?s offshore waters. The method involves determining the distribution of birds from the<|fim_middle|>95 and 1996 on national forest lands that were south of the Klamath Mountains Section and within B....
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An essential element in the conservation of rare species is the ranking of some aspects of habitat quality. We developed a method to rank the importance of individual habitat patches to Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in 26 old-growth forest stands in northern California, using estimates of stand occupaqcy as an index of nesting activity...
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The Northwest Forest Plan (the Plan) is a large-scale ecosystem management plan for federal land in the Pacific Northwest. Marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) populations and habitat were monitored to evaluate effectiveness of the Plan. The chapters in this volume summarize information on marbled murrelet ecology and present the monitoring...
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\section{ INTRODUCTION}
The construction of a consistent theory of quantum gravity is a
problem in theoretical physics that has so far defied all attempts
at resolution. The problem of finding a consistent quantum theory
of gravity is in part due to that general relativity is a very
complicated mathematical non-linear field theory and furthermore,
it's a geometric theory of spacetime, and quantizing gravity means
quantizing spacetime itself, and so far we do not know what this
means \cite{Kuchar}.
In order to overcome such difficulties, it is natural to look for
simpler models that share, mathematically and physically, the
important conceptual features of general relativity, while
avoiding some of the computational difficulties. For quantum
gravity, a model as such, is general relativity in three
space-time dimensions. As a generally covariant field theory of
space-time geometry, $(2+1)$-dimensional gravity possesses the
same conceptual foundations as a realistic $(3+1)$-dimensional
general relativity, since many of the fundamental issues of
quantum gravity carry over to the lower dimensional setting
\cite{Witten},\cite{Carlip}.
For understanding fundamental concepts: the nature of time, the
construction of states and observables, the role of topology, and
the relationships among different quantization approaches, the
model has proven highly instructive \cite{Carlip}. Classical
solutions to the vacuum field equations turn out to be all locally
diffeomorphic to spacetimes of constant curvature, that is,
Minkowski, de Sitter, or anti-de Sitter spaces. This means that
any solution of the field equations with a cosmological constant
has constant curvature. Physically, a $(2+1)$-dimensional
spacetime has no local degrees of freedom, i.e., there are no
gravitational waves in the classical theory, and no propagating
gravitons in the quantum theory.
One of the central problems generated by the application of the
rules of quantum mechanics to a covariant field theory is the
problem of the dynamics. When formulated canonically, general
relativity has a vanishing Hamiltonian, which has to be
implemented as a constraint. In the loop quantum gravity approach
\cite{Rovelli}, this has been achieved \cite{Thiemann}, but to
characterize the resulting theory in a way in which the dynamics
of general relativity is explicit remains a challenge. In order to
overpass these obstacles, there has long been the hope that
lattice methods could be used as a non-perturbative approach to
quantum gravity. This is in part based on the fact that lattice
methods had been quite successful in the treatment of quantum
chromodynamics (QCD), not only in making the theory finite, but
also in making it computable. However, in lattice QCD there exist
regularization methods that are gauge invariant, whilst in the
gravitational context this is not the case \cite{Loll}. As soon as
one discretizes space-time one breaks the invariance under
diffeomorphisms, then lattice methods in the gravitational setting
face unique challenges.
To address these problems, it has been proposed a systematic
canonical treatment for discretizing covariant field theories,
both at a classical and quantum mechanical level. This methodology
is related to a discretization technique called variational
integrators \cite{Marsden},
\cite{Lew},\cite{Gambini1},\cite{Gambini2}. This method consists
in discretizing the action of the theory and working from it the
discrete equations of motion. Automatically, the latter are
generically guaranteed to be consistent. The resulting discrete
theories have unique features that distinguish them from the
continuum theories, although a satisfactory canonical formulation
can be found for them. The discrete theories do not have
constraints associated with the space-time diffeomorphisms and as
a consequence the quantities that in the continuum are the
associated Lagrange multipliers become regular variables of the
discrete theories whose values are determined by the equations of
motion \cite{Gambini3}. Furthermore, the discretization breaks the
initial gauge freedom and solutions to the discrete theory, that
are different correspond, in the continuum limit, to the same
solution of the continuum theory. Hence the discrete theory has
more degrees of freedom. On the other hand, the lack of
constraints makes the discretized theories very promising at the
time of quantization, since most of the hard conceptual questions
of quantum gravity are related to the presence of constraints in
the theory \cite{Gambini4},\cite{Gambini5}.
Considering what is been stated, the purpose of this paper is to
present a consistent discretization of $(2+1)$-gravity with
cosmological constant, and discuss whether discretization leads to
a breaking of the local symmetries of the theory. The organization
of the paper is as follows: in section $2$, we study the
Kalb-Ramond transformations at the Lagrange level, in section $3$
we develop an extended canonical analysis of the continuum theory
by turning the quantities that play the role of Lagrange
multipliers into dynamical variables. This extended version,
although completely equivalent to the usual one, will allow us to
make a cleaner conection with the discrete theory. In section $4$
we briefly review the consistent discretization technique, and in
section $5$, we finally discuss $(2+1)$-gravity in a lattice. We
end with a discussion and present some conclusions.
\section{ Lagrangian formulation}
Let us take the Lie group $SU(2)$ as our gauge group. This group
is semisimple so there is an invariant non degenerate bilinear
form, the so called, Cartan-Killing form. We take as our spacetime
a 3-dimensional oriented smooth manifold $\mathcal{M}$ with
$\mathcal{M}=\mathbb{R}\times \Sigma$, right by $\Sigma$ (which we
take to be compact and without boundary) corresponding to Cauchy's
surfaces and $\mathbb{R}$ representing an evolution parameter
(global hyperbolicity is imposed to exclude spacetimes with bad
causality properties). Now choose a principal $SU(2)$-bundle $P$
over $M$. Due to the fact that $SU(2)$ is simply connected, this
$SU(2)$-bundle admits a trivialization \cite{Baez-bf}
\cite{Cattaneo BF 3-4 dim}. We can define the dynamical fields of
our theory as follows
\begin{itemize}
\item A connection $A$ which is a $su(2)$-valued 1-form on
$\mathcal{M}$, $A=A^{\ I}_{\mu}t_{I}dx^{\mu}$.
\item A $su(2)$-valued 1-form field $e$ on $\mathcal{M}$, the dreibein, $e=e^{\ I}_{\mu}t_{I}dx^{\mu}$,
\end{itemize}
where we have defined $t_{I}$, with $I=1,2,3$, as the generators
of the $su(2)$ Lie algebra in the adjoint representation. These
generators satisfy
\begin{equation}
[t_{I},t_{J}]=2\epsilon_{IJ}^{\ \ \ K}t_{K}
\end{equation}
where $\epsilon_{IJK}$ is the totally antisymmetric tensor,
Levi-Civita tensor. The Cartan-Killing form is given by
\begin{equation}
\kappa_{IJ}=Tr(t_{I}t_{J})=\delta_{IJ}.
\end{equation}
Then, the action principle is given by
\begin{equation}\label{action}
S\left[ e,A\right]=\int_{\mathcal{M}}\ Tr \bigg[ e\wedge F
+\frac{\Lambda}{3}\ e\wedge e\wedge e
\bigg]=\int_{\mathcal{M}}e_{I}\wedge F^{I}+\frac{\Lambda}{3}\
\epsilon_{IJK}e^{I}\wedge e^{J}\wedge e^{K},
\end{equation}
where $\Lambda$ is the cosmological constant and the strength
tensor is a $su(2)$-valued 2-form which, as usual, it is taken as
$F=dA+A \wedge A$. \\
The equations of motion from the action read
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{1acartan } \delta_{A}S=0 & \Rightarrow & De^{I}=0, \\
\label{Einstein equations} \delta_{e}S=0 & \Rightarrow & F^{I}+\Lambda \ \epsilon^{IJK} e_{J}\wedge e_{K}=0,
\end{eqnarray}
where the covariant derivative is defined as,
$D\xi^{I}=d\xi^{I}+[A,\xi]^{I}$, for an $su(2)$-valued k-form
$\xi^{I}$. The spacetime is locally either flat ($\Lambda = 0$),
de Sitter ($\Lambda > 0$), or anti-de Sitter ($\Lambda < 0$).\\
The equation (\ref{1acartan }) is the zero-torsion condition, which let us
write the connection as function of the dreibein, $A=A(e)$. Then
when we use the last result back to the equation of motion
(\ref{Einstein equations}), we obtain
Riemannnian general relativity with cosmological constant \cite{Baez-bf}, \cite{4-dim BF Functor}.\\
The action, (\ref{action}), is invariant under $SU(2)$
transformations,
\begin{equation}
\delta_{\alpha}e=[e,\alpha] \qquad \delta_{\alpha}A=D\alpha.
\end{equation}
\noindent Inspired in the Kalb-Ramond transformation and the
transformation of the fields in Horowitz's theory for the BF model
\cite{Horowitz},\cite{Broda},\cite{Cattaneo BF 3-4 dim}, we find
that the action is invariant under field-dependent transformation
parameters, defined as
\begin{eqnarray}
\delta_{C} e &=& DC, \\
\delta_{C} A &=& \Lambda[C,e],
\end{eqnarray}
where $C$ are 0-form $su(2)$-valued transformation parameters.
These parameters generate on-shell gauge transformations plus
diffeomorphisms of the basic fields. In this manner, if we define
the field-dependent parameters as $C^{I}=i_{v}e^{I}=v^{\mu}e^{\
I}_{\mu}$, the Kalb-Ramond transformations read
\begin{eqnarray}
\delta_{v} e^{\ I}_{\nu} &=& D_{\nu}v^{\mu}\cdot e^{\ I}_{\mu}+v^{\mu}\cdot D_{\nu}e^{\
I}_{\mu},\\
\delta_{v} A^{\ I}_{\nu} &=& 2 v^{\mu}( \Lambda\epsilon^{IJK}e_{\mu J}e_{\nu K}).
\end{eqnarray}
Considering the equations of motion (\ref{1acartan }),
(\ref{Einstein equations}) and the Bianchi's identity $DF=0$, we
obtain
\begin{eqnarray}
\delta_{v} e &=& \mathcal{L}_{v}e-\delta_{\alpha}e \\
\delta_{v} A &=& \mathcal{L}_{v}A-\delta_{\alpha}A
\end{eqnarray}
where we have taken the $SU(2)$ field-dependent transformation
parameters as, $\alpha^{I}=v^{\rho}A_{\rho}^{\ I}$, and
$\mathcal{L}_{v}$ is the usual Lie derivative along the vector
field $v$. We can observe that these results coincide with the
fact that the previous action, (\ref{action}), is invariant under
diffeomorphisms and
internal gauge transformations by construction.\\
We now turn our attention to develop a canonical analysis of the
theory in order to show that the symmetries, we have found in the
Lagrangian formalism, are preserved at the Hamiltonian level.
\section{Canonical Analysis for the three dimensional gravity model}
In this section, we carry out an extended canonical analysis of
$(2+1)$-gravity; as we mentioned above, this analysis consists in
turning the quantities that play the role of Lagrange multipliers
into dynamical variables \cite{tesis},
\cite{Berra1},\cite{Berra2},\cite{Escalante}. This procedure, will
allow us to make a cleaner contact with the discrete version, as
in order to obtain a consistent discretization, some of the
Lagrange multipliers get determined by the scheme, and the
evolution is implemented by a canonical transformation, this means
that the set of discrete equations that were formely incompatible
can be solved simultaneously.
We start from the action
(\ref{action}), taking both $e$ and $A$ as dynamical variables. By
performing the $2+1$ decomposition, we can write the action as
\begin{equation}
S\left[e,A
\right]=\int_{\mathit{R}\times\Sigma}\eta^{ij}\left[e_{0I}F^{\ \
I}_{ij}-2e_{iI}F_{0j}^{\ \ I}+\Lambda\epsilon_{IJK}e^{\ I}_{0}e^{\
J}_{i}e^{\ K}_{j} \right],
\end{equation}
\noindent where $\eta^{ij}=\epsilon^{0ij}$. From this action, we
identify the Lagrangian density
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}=\eta^{ij}\left[e_{0I}F^{\ \ I}_{ij}-2e_{iI}F_{0j}^{\ \
I}+\Lambda\epsilon_{IJK}e^{\ I}_{0}e^{\ J}_{i}e^{\ K}_{j} \right].
\end{equation}
\noindent By determining the set of dynamical variables, we need
the definition of the momenta $\left(p^{\alpha}_{\ A},
\pi^{\alpha}_{\ A} \right) $,
\begin{equation}
p^{\alpha}_{\ A}=\frac{\delta\mathcal{L}}{\delta \dot{e}^{\
A}_{\alpha}},
\quad\quad \pi^{\alpha}_{\ A}=\frac{\delta\mathcal{L}}{\delta\dot{A}^{\ A}_{\alpha}},
\end{equation}
\noindent canonically conjugate to $\left(e^{\ A}_{\alpha},A^{\
A}_{\alpha} \right) $. The matrix elements of the Hessian,
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial^2{\mathcal{L}} }{\partial (\partial_\mu A_{\alpha
}^{\ A} )\partial(\partial_\mu A_{\beta }^{\ B} ) }, \quad
\frac{\partial^2{\mathcal{L}} }{\partial (\partial_\mu e^{\ A}_{\alpha} )
\partial(\partial_\mu A_{\beta }^{\ B} ) }, \quad \frac{\partial^2{\mathcal{L}} }
{\partial (\partial_\mu e^{\ A}_{\alpha} ) \partial(\partial_\mu e^{\ B}_{\beta } ) },
\end{equation}
\noindent vanish, which means that the rank of the Hessian is
equal to zero, so that, 18 primary constraints are expected. From
the definition of the momenta, it is possible to identify the
following 18 primary constraints:
\begin{eqnarray}
\phi^{0}_{\ A}&:& p^{0}_{\ A} \approx 0, \nonumber \\
\phi^{a}_{\ A}&:& p^{a}_{\ A} \approx 0, \nonumber \\
\psi^{0}_{\ A}&:& \pi^{0}_{\ A} \approx 0, \nonumber \\
\psi^{a}_{\ A}&:& \pi^{a}_{\ A}-2\eta^{ab}e_{b A} \approx 0.
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent By neglecting the terms on the frontier, the canonical
Hamiltonian for the three dimensional gravity model is expressed
as
\begin{equation}
H_{\rm c}=-\int_{\Sigma}d^{3}x\ \eta^{ij}\left[- e_{0I}F^{\ \
I}_{ij}-\Lambda\epsilon_{IJK}e^{\ I}_{0}e^{\ J}_{i}e^{\
K}_{j}\right]-A_{0}^{\ I}D_{i}\pi^{i}_{\ I}.
\end{equation}
\noindent By adding the primary constraints to the canonical
Hamiltonian, we obtain the primary Hamiltonian
\begin{equation}
H_{\rm P}=H_{\rm c}+\int_{\Sigma}d^{3}x \left[ \lambda_{0}^{\
I}\phi^{0}_{\ I} +\lambda^{\ I}_{i}\phi^{i}_{\ I}+\rho^{\
I}_{0}\psi^{0}_{\ I}+\rho^{\ I}_{i}\psi^{i}_{\ I}\right],
\end{equation}
\noindent where $\lambda^{\ I}_{0}$, $\lambda^{\ I}_{i}$, $\rho^{\
I}_{0}$ and $\rho^{\ I}_{i}$ are Lagrange multipliers enforcing
the constraints. The non-vanishing fundamental Poisson brackets
for the theory under study are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\{e^{\ A}_{\alpha}(x^{0},x), p^{ \mu}_{\ I}(y^{0},y) \} & =& \delta^{\mu}_\alpha \delta^{A}_{ I} \delta^2(x,y), \nonumber \\
\{ A^{\ A}_{\alpha}(x^{0},x), \pi^{\mu}_{\ I}(y^{0},y) \} &=&
\delta^\mu_\alpha \delta^{A}_{I} \delta^2(x,y).
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent Now, we need to identify if the theory has secondary
constraints. For this aim, we compute the $18\times 18$ matrix
whose entries are the Poisson brackets among the primary
constraints
\begin{eqnarray}\label{primary}
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \} = 0 \nonumber \\
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} = 0, \nonumber \\
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \} = 0, \nonumber \\
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} =- 2\eta^{ai}\delta_{AI}\delta(x,y), \nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ \psi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \} = 0 \nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \psi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} = -2\eta^{ai}\delta_{AI}\delta(x,y), \nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \psi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \} = 0, \nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \psi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} =0. \nonumber \\
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent This matrix has rank=12 and 6 linearly independent
null-vectors, which implies that there are 6 secondary constraints
to be determined by consistency conditions. By requiring
consistency of the temporal evolution of the constraints and the 6
null vectors, 6 secondary constraints arise,
\begin{eqnarray}
\dot{\phi}^{0}_{\ A}&=&\{\phi^{0}_{A}, H_{P} \}\approx 0 \quad \Rightarrow \quad D^{A}:= \eta^{ab}F_{ab}^{\ \ A}+\Lambda\eta^{bc}\epsilon^{A}_{\;\;BC}e^{\ B}_{b}e^{\ C}_{c} \approx 0, \nonumber \\
\dot{\psi}^{0}_{\ A}&=&\{\psi^{0}_{A}, H_P \}\approx 0 \quad
\Rightarrow \quad G_{A}:= D_{a}\pi^{a}_{\ A} \approx 0,
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent and the following Lagrange multipliers are fixed,
\begin{eqnarray}\label{multipliers}
\dot{\phi}^{a}_{\ A}&=&\{\phi^{a}_{\ A}, H_P \} \approx 0 \quad \Rightarrow \quad \rho_{aA}=-\Lambda\epsilon_{ABC}e^{\ B}_{0}e^{\ C}_{a}, \nonumber \\
\dot{\psi}^{a}_{\ A}&=&\{\psi^{a}_{\ A}, H_P \}\approx 0 \quad
\Rightarrow \quad \lambda^{\ A}_{a}=-D_{a}e^{\
A}_{0}+2\epsilon^{A}_{\;\;BC}A^{\ B}_{a}e^{\ C}_{0}-\frac{1}{2}\
\epsilon^{A}_{\;\;BC}A^{\ B}_{0}\pi_{a}^{\ C} .
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent This theory does not have terciary constraints. By
following the method, we determine which of the constraints
(primary and secondary) are first class and which are second
class. To accomplish such a task we calculate the Poisson brackets
between the primary and secondary constraints. To complete the
constraint matrix, we add to the algebra shown in Eq.
(\ref{primary}) the following expressions
\begin{eqnarray}\label{secondary}
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),G_{I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),G_{I}(y) \} = 0 \nonumber \\
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),D^{I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),D^{I}(y) \} = 2\Lambda\eta^{ab}\epsilon^{I}_{\ AB}e_{b}^{\ B}\delta(x,y), \nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),G_{I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ \psi^{a}_{\ A}(x),G_{I}(y) \} = \epsilon_{AI}^{\;\;\;\;K}\pi^{a}_{\ K}(y)\delta(x,y) \nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),D^{I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \psi^{a}_{\ A}(x),D^{I}(y) \} =2\eta^{ai}\left[\delta^{I}_{A}\partial_{i}(y)+\epsilon_{A\;K}^{\;\;\;I}A^{\ K}_{i}(y)\right]\delta(x,y), \nonumber \\
\{ D^{A}(x),D^{I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ G_{A}(x),D^{I}(y) \} = \epsilon_{A}^{\;\ IC}D_{C}\delta(x,y)=0 \nonumber \\
\{ G_{A}(x),G_{I}(y)
\}&=&\epsilon_{AI}^{\;\;\;\;C}G_{C}\delta(x,y)=0.
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent The matrix formed by the Poisson brackets among all the
constraints exhibited in Eqs. (\ref{primary}) and
(\ref{secondary}) has rank=18 and 6 null-vectors. The contraction
of the null vectors with the matrix formed by the constraints
results in 12 first class constraints:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{firstclass}
\phi^{0}_{\ A}&:& p^{0}_{\ A}, \nonumber \\
\psi^{0}_{\ A}&:& \pi^{0}_{\ A}, \nonumber \\
G_{A}&:& D_{a}\pi^{a}_{\ A}+\epsilon_{AB}^{\;\;\;\; \;C}e^{\ B}_{a}p^{a}_{\ C},\nonumber \\
D^{A}&:&\eta^{ab}F_{ab}^{\ \ A}-\Lambda\eta^{ab}\epsilon^{A}_{\;\;BC}e^{\ B}_{a}e^{\ C}_{b}+\Lambda\epsilon^{A\;C}_{\;B}e^{\ B}_{a}\pi^{a}_{\ C}+D_{a}p^{aA}.
\end{eqnarray}
On the other hand, we find 12 second class constraints:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{secondclass}
\phi^{a}_{\ A}&:& p^{a}_{\ A}, \nonumber \\
\psi^{a}_{\ A}&:& \pi^{a}_{\ A}-\eta^{ab}e_{b A}.
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent After this analysis, we conclude the model has 18
canonical variables, 12 independent first class constraints and 12
independent second class constraints, which leads to determine, by
performing a counting of the degrees of freedom \cite{Henneaux},
that this model has none degrees of freedom per space-time point.
Of course, by considering the second class constraints Eq.
(\ref{secondclass}) as strong equations, the above relations are
reduced to the usual constraints \cite{Witten}, so that this
analysis extends and completes the results in the literature.
\noindent By calculating the algebra among the constraints, we
find that
\begin{eqnarray}\label{algebra}
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} = 0, \nonumber \\
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\phi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \} = 0, \nonumber \\
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} =-2\eta^{ai}\delta_{AI}\delta(x,y), \nonumber \\
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),G_{I}(y) \} = \epsilon_{AI}^{\;\;\; \; K}\phi^{a}_{\ K}\delta(x,y), \nonumber \\
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),G_{I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \phi^{a}_{\ A}(x),D^{I}(y) \} = 0, \nonumber \\
\{ \phi^{0}_{\ A}(x),D^{I}(y) \} &=& 0, \qquad \{ \psi^{a}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \}= 0, \nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{0}_{\ I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ \psi^{a}_{\ A}(x),G_{I}(y) \}=\epsilon_{AI}^{\;\;\;\;\; K}\psi^{a}_{\ K}\delta(x,y),\nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),\psi^{i}_{\ I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ \psi^{a}_{\ A}(x),D^{I}(y) \} = \epsilon_{A\; K}^{\;\;\;I}\phi^{a}_{\ K}\delta(x,y), \nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),G_{I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ G_{A}(x),G_{I}(y) \}=\epsilon_{AI}^{\;\;\;\;C}G_{C}\delta(x,y), \nonumber \\
\{ \psi^{0}_{\ A}(x),D^{I}(y) \}&=&0, \qquad \{ G_{A}(x),D^{I}(y) \}=\epsilon_{A\;C}^{\;\;\;I}D^{C}\delta(x,y), \nonumber\\
\{ D^{A}(x),D^{I}(y) \}&=& 0,
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent from where we can appreciate that the constraints form a
set of first and second class constraints, as expected. The
determination of the nature of the constraints allow us to find
the extended action. By employing the first class constraints, Eq.
(\ref{firstclass}), the second class constraints, Eq.
(\ref{secondclass}), and the Lagrange multipliers, Eq.
(\ref{multipliers}), we find that the extended action takes the
form
\begin{equation}
S_{E}[e,p,A,\pi,\lambda,\rho,\gamma,\xi] = \int \left[
\dot{e}_{\alpha}^{\ A}p^{\alpha}_{\ A}+\dot{A}_{\alpha}^{\
A}\pi^{\alpha}_{\ A}-H -\lambda_{\alpha}^{\ A}\phi^{\alpha}_{\
A}-\rho^{\ A}_{\alpha}\psi^{\alpha}_{\
A}-\gamma^{A}G_{A}-\xi_{A}D^{A}\right]d^{3}x,
\end{equation}
\noindent where $H$ is a linear combination of first class
constraints, and is given by
\begin{equation}\label{Hamiltonian}
H=-A_{0}^{\ A}G_{A}-e_{0A}D^{A}
\end{equation}
\noindent and $\lambda_{\alpha}^{\ A}$ , $\rho_{\alpha}^{\ A}$ ,
$\gamma^{A}$ , $\xi_{A}$ are the Lagrange multipliers enforcing
the first and second class constraints. We observe, by considering
the second class constraints as strong equations, that the
Hamiltonian shown in Eq. (\ref{Hamiltonian}) is reduced to the
usual expression found in the literature \cite{Witten},
\cite{Carlip}, which is defined on a reduced phase space context.
From the extended action, we identify the extended Hamiltonian,
$H_{\rm E}$, which is given by
\begin{equation}\label{extendedH}
H_{\rm E}=H-\lambda_{0}^{\ A}\phi^{0}_{\
A}-\rho^{A}_{0}\psi^{0}_{A}-\gamma^{A}G_{A}-\xi_{A}D^{A}.
\end{equation}
\noindent By utilizing our expressions for the complete set of
constraints, it is possible to obtain the gauge transformations
acting on the full phase space. For this important step, we shall
use the Castellani's formalism \cite{Castellani}, which allows us
to define the following gauge generator in terms of the first
class constraints:
\begin{equation}\label{generator}
G=\int_{\Sigma}\left[ D_{0}\varepsilon_{0}^{\
A}\phi^{0}_{A}+D_{0}\zeta_{0}^{\ A}\psi^{0}_{\
I}+\varepsilon^{A}G_{A}+\zeta_{A}D^{A}\right]d^{3}x,
\end{equation}
\noindent where $\varepsilon_{0}^{\ A}$, $ \varepsilon^{\ A}$,
$\zeta_{0}^{\ A}$ and $\zeta_{A}$ are arbitrary continuum real
parameters. Thus, we find that the gauge transformations in the
phase space are
\begin{eqnarray}
\delta_{0}e_{0}^{\ A}&=& D_{0}\varepsilon_{0}^{\ A}, \nonumber \\
\delta_{0}e_{a}^{\ A}&=&\epsilon^{A}_{\;\;IJ}\varepsilon^{I}e^{\ J}_{a}-D_{a}\zeta^{A}, \nonumber \\
\delta_{0}A_{0}^{\ A}&=& D_{0}\zeta_{0}^{\ A}, \nonumber \\
\delta_{0}A_{a}^{\ A}&=& -D_{a}\varepsilon^{A}+\Lambda\epsilon^{AI}_{\;\;\;J}e^{\ J}_{a}, \nonumber \\
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent In order to recover the on-shell diffeomorphisms
symmetry, one can redefine the gauge parameters as
$-\varepsilon_{0}^{\ I}=\varepsilon^{I}=-v^{\alpha}A_{\alpha}^{\
I}$, and $-\zeta^{\ I}_{0}=\zeta^{I}=-v^{\alpha}e_{\alpha}^{\ I}$.
By such an election, the gauge tranformations take the form
\begin{eqnarray}\label{gauge}
e_{\alpha}^{'A} &\longrightarrow & e_{\alpha}^{A}+\mathcal{L}_{v}e^{A}_{\alpha}+\left(v\times De\right)^{\ A}_{\alpha}, \nonumber \\
A_{\alpha}^{'A} &\longrightarrow &
A_{\alpha}^{A}+\mathcal{L}_{v}A^{I}_{\alpha}+\left[v\cdot\left(F+\Lambda
e\wedge e\right)\right]^{\ A}_{\alpha}.
\end{eqnarray}
Where "$\times$", and "$\cdot$" denote the usual cross and dot
product in the three dimensional space-time. By examining the
constraints in the complete phase space, we have obtained, in an
explicit form, the generators of the gauge transformations for all
fields within the action, even if they behave like Lagrange
multipliers in accordance with the on-shell Kalb-Ramond
transformations found in the last section.
\section{Consistent discretization of constrained theories}
We illustrate the technique with a mechanical system for
simplicity, the case of field theories is straightforward, since
upon discretization the latter become mechanical systems
\cite{Marsden},\cite{Gambini1},\cite{Gambini2}. We assume we start
from an action in the continuum, written in first-order form,
\begin{equation}
S=\int L(q,p)dt,
\end{equation}
with
\begin{equation}
L(q,p)=p\dot{q}-H(q,p)-\lambda_{B}\phi^{B}(q,p),
\end{equation}
where $\lambda_{B}$ are the Lagrange multipliers that enforce the
constraints $\phi^{B}(q,p)=0$. The discretization of the action
yields $S=\sum_{n=0}^{N}L(n,n+1)$, where
\begin{equation}
L(n,n+1)=p_{n}(q_{n+1}-q_{n})-\varepsilon
H(q_{n},p_{n})-\lambda_{nB}\phi^{B}(q_{n},p_{n}),
\end{equation}
where $\varepsilon=t_{n+1}-t_{n}$, and we have absorbed an
$\varepsilon$ in the definition of the Lagrange multipliers. In
the discrete setting, the Lagrangian can be seen has the generator
of a type 1 canonical transformations between the instant $n$ and
the instant $n+1$. In order to obtain a fully consistent theory,
the equations of the discrete theory must be solved
simultaneously, we will view $q_{n}$, $p_{n}$, $\lambda_{nB}$ and
$q_{n+1}$, $p_{n+1}$, $\lambda_{n+1B}$ as configuration variables
and will assign to each of them a canonically conjugate momentum,
$P_{n}^{q}$, $P_{n}^{p}$, $P_{n}^{\lambda_{B}}$ and $P_{n+1}^{q}$,
$P_{n+1}^{p}$, $P_{n+1}^{\lambda_{B}}$. If one explicitly computes
the partial derivatives with the Lagrangian already given, one can
obtain a more familiar-looking set of equations,
\begin{eqnarray}
p_{n}-p_{n-1}&=&-\varepsilon\frac{\partial H(q_{n},p_{n})}{\partial q_{n}}-\lambda_{nB}\frac{\partial\phi^{B}(q_{n},p_{n})}{\partial q_{n}}, \nonumber\\
q_{n+1}-q_{n}&=&\varepsilon\frac{\partial H(q_{n},p_{n})}{\partial p_{n}}+\lambda_{nB}\frac{\partial\phi^{B}(q_{n},p_{n})}{\partial p_{n}},\\
\phi^{B}(q_{n},p_{n})&=&0 \nonumber.
\end{eqnarray}
These equations appear very similar to the ones one would obtain
by first working out the equations of motion in the continuum and
then discretizing them. A significant difference, however, is that
when one solves this set of equations some of the Lagrange
multipliers get determined, they are not free anymore as they are
in the continuum \cite{Sigma}. We therefore see that generically
when one discretizes constrained theories one gets a different
structure than in the continuum, in which some of the Lagrange
multipliers get undetermined. The equations that in the continuum
used to be constraints become upon discretization
pseudo-constraints in that they relate variables at different
instants of time and are solved by determining the Lagrange
multipliers.
\section{The consistent discretization approach}
In this section, we will apply the consistent discretization
technique to the three-dimensional gravity with cosmological
constant (\ref{action}), defined on a lattice. We discretize the
three dimensional gravity action as follows (see Figure 1),
\begin{eqnarray}
L(n,n+1)&&=\sum_{v}Tr [e^{0}_{n,v}h^{1}_{n,v}h^{2}_{n,v+e_{1}}(h^{1}_{n,v+e_{2}})^{\dagger}(h^{2}_{n,v})^{\dagger}+e^{2}_{n,v}V_{n,v}h^{1}_{n+1,v}(V_{n,v+e_{1}})^{\dagger}(h^{1}_{n,v})^{\dagger} \nonumber \\
&&-e^{1}_{n,v}V_{n,v}h^{2}_{n+1,v}(V_{n,v+e_{2}})^{\dagger}(h^{2}_{n,v})^{\dagger}+\rho_{n,v}(V_{n,v}(V_{n,v})^{\dagger}-1)+\lambda^{1}_{n,v}(h^{1}_{n,v}(h^{1}_{n,v})^{\dagger}-1) \nonumber \\
&&+\lambda^{2}_{n,v}(h^{2}_{n,v}(h^{2}_{n,v})^{\dagger}-1)+\Lambda\
e^{0}_{n,v}e^{1}_{n,v}e^{2}_{n,v}].
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent By $h^{a}_{n,v}$ we mean the holonomy along the spatial
direction of the elementary unit vector $e_{1}, e_{2}$, starting
from the lattice
point labeled by the time step $n$ and the spatial point $v$ (which is labelled by a pair of indices as we are dealing with a three dimensional field theory). By the
index $v+e_{a}$, we mean a lattice point coming from the spatial point $v$ in direction of $e_{a}$. The $e$ fields live in a
one dimensional surface, dual to the plaquette on which we compute the holonomy representing the curvature field $F$, and
hence, it is an element of $SU(2)$, i.e, an algebra valued one
form. The symbol $V_{n,v}$ represents the vertical holonomies and
are only labelled by
the lattice point they start at. We will consider that the holonomies are matrices of the form $h=h^{A}t_{A}, V=V^{A}t_{A}$, where
$t^{0}=I/\sqrt{2}$ and $t^{I}=-i\sigma^{I}/\sqrt{2}$, and $\sigma^{I}$ are the well known Pauli matrices (In this section, we consider the capital
latin letters from the beginning of the alphabet as labels of the gauge group $A, B, \ldots =\{0, I\}$ ). Finally, $\rho$ and $\lambda$ are
Lagrange multipliers that enforce, the above defined holonomies are indeed elements of $SU(2)$.
The canonical variables of the theory are $h^{a,A}_{n,v}$, $V_{n,v}^{A}$, $e^{a, I}_{n,v}$, $e^{0, I}_{n,v}$,
$\rho_{n,v}$ and $\lambda^{a}_{n,v}$ where $a=1,2$.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{gravity.eps}
\caption{A elementary cell for a discrete description of 2+1 gravity.}
\label{lattice}
\end{figure}
The momenta associated for $\lambda^{a}_{n,v}$, are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\Pi^{\lambda^{a}}_{n+1,v}&\equiv&\frac{\partial L(n,n+1)}{\partial \lambda^{a}_{n+1,v}}=0, \nonumber \\
\Pi^{\lambda^{a}}_{n,v}&\equiv&-\frac{\partial L(n,n+1)}{\partial
\lambda^{a}_{n,v}}=-Tr\left[h^{a}_{n,v}(h^{a}_{n,v})^{\dagger}-1\right].
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent Consistency in time leads to the secondary class
constraint:
\begin{equation}
Tr \left[h^{a}_{n,v}(h^{a}_{n,v})^{\dagger}-1\right]=0,
\end{equation}
\noindent which, after time evolution, does not yield any new
constraint. The momenta associated for $\rho_{v,n}$, are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\Pi^{\rho}_{n+1,v}&\equiv&\frac{\partial L(n,n+1)}{\partial \rho_{n+1,v}}=0, \nonumber \\
\Pi^{\rho}_{n,v}&\equiv&-\frac{\partial L(n,n+1)}{\partial
\rho_{n,v}}=-Tr\left[V_{n,v}(V_{n,v})^{\dagger}-1\right].
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent Consistency in time leads to the secondary class
constraint
\begin{equation}
Tr\left[V_{n,v}(V_{n,v})^{\dagger}-1\right]=0,
\end{equation}
\noindent which, again is preserved in time without generating any
new constraint. Now, we consider the momenta associated to the
fields $e^{a}_{n,v}$, which read
\begin{eqnarray}\label{Fzero}
\Pi^{e^{a}}_{n+1,\nu}&\equiv& \frac{\partial L(n,n+1)}{\partial e^{a,I}_{n+1,v}}\ (T^{I})^\dagger =0, \nonumber \\
\Pi^{e^{a}}_{n,\nu}&\equiv&-\frac{\partial L(n,n+1)}{\partial
e^{a,I}_{n,v}}(T^{I})^\dagger=-Tr\left[h^{bc}_{n,v}T_{I}+\Lambda
e_{n,v}^{b}e_{n,v}^{c} T_{I}\right](T^{I})^\dagger,
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent where $\{a,b,c\}$ represents a cyclic permutation of $\{
0,1,2\}$, and $h^{ab}_{n,v}$ stands for an holonomy starting from
the point labelled by $n$, $v$, around the elementary plaquette in
the plane $a - b$. On the other hand, $e_{n,v}^{a}e_{n,v}^{b}$, is
the dual plaquette related to the $a - b$ holonomy, as shown in
figure (\ref{lattice}). Consistency in time of the constraint
(\ref{Fzero}) leads to
\begin{equation}
Tr\left[h^{ab}_{n,v}T_{I}+\Lambda\ e_{n,v}^{a}e_{n,v}^{b}
T_{I}\right]=0,
\end{equation}
\noindent the most general solution for this equation is given by
\begin{equation} \label{eq: general solution traces}
h^{bc}_{n,v}=-\Lambda\ e^{b}_{n,v}e^{c}_{n,v}+\sigma^{bc}_{n,v}I
\end{equation}
where $(h^{bc}_{n,v})^{\dag}=h^{cb}_{n,v}$ and
$\sigma^{ab}_{n,v}=\pm 1$, this sign is arbitrary and can change
from plaquette to plaquette. The appearance of $\sigma$ is due
that the solution is defined upon a traceless
term\cite{Gambini1}.\\
The expression for the momenta associated with the vertical
holonomies, $V_{n,v}^{A}$, are
\begin{eqnarray}\label{Vconstraints}
\Pi_{n+1,v}^{V}&=&\frac{\partial L(n,n+1)}{\partial V_{n+1,v}^{A}}(T^{A})^\dagger=0, \nonumber \\
V_{n,v}\Pi_{n,v}^{V}&=&h^{01}_{n,v}e^{2}_{n,v}-h^{02}_{n,v}e^{1}_{n,v}-(h^{1}_{n,v-e_{1}})^{\dagger}h^{10}_{n,v-e_{1}}e^{2}_{n,v-e_{1}}h^{1}_{n,v-e_{1}} \nonumber \\
&+&(h^{2}_{n,v-e_{2}})^{\dagger}h^{20}_{n,v-e_{2}}e^{1}_{n,v-e_{2}}h^{2}_{n,v-e_{2}}+2\rho_{n,v}I.
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent Preserving in time the constraints (\ref{Vconstraints})
, together with (\ref{eq: general solution traces}), we obtain
\begin{equation}\label{defV}
2Tr(-\Lambda e^{0}_{n,v}e^{1}_{n,v}e^{2}_{n,v})+Tr(-\Lambda
e^{0}_{n,v-e_1}e^{1}_{n,v-e_1}e^{2}_{n,v-e_1})+Tr(-\Lambda
e^{0}_{n,v-e_2}e^{1}_{n,v-e_2}e^{2}_{n,v-e_2})=-4\rho_{n,v},
\end{equation}
\noindent where we can notice, that all terms are the same three
volume element, but evaluated at diferent points. Because the
cells are all equivalent and they do not depend on the label
attached to them, it is useful to define the trace of the volume
element as $\mathcal{V}=Tr(e^{0}_{n,v}e^{1}_{n,v}e^{2}_{n,v})$.
Taking this into account, consistency in time of the constraint
(\ref{Vconstraints}), allow us to fix the multiplier,
$\rho_{n,v}=\Lambda \mathcal{V}$. Then, the equation of motion<|fim_middle|> new paradigm for dealing with cases
where the continuum theory does not exist \cite{Gambini1},
\cite{Sigma}.
\section{Conclusions}
In this paper we have presented a continuous and discrete
canonical analysis of the $(2+1)$-dimensional gravity plus
cosmological constant. At the lagrangian level we obtained that
the gauge invariance generated by the space-time diffeomorphisms
is given by the Kalb-Ramond transformations. Then, in order to
make a clear-cut comparison with the discrete case, we carried-out
an extended canonical analysis of the continuous theory, where all
fields were considered as dynamical. Within this context, by
examining the constraints in the complete phase space, we obtained
in an explicit form, the generators of the gauge transformations
for all fields present in the action, even if they behave as
Lagrange multipliers, in accordance with the on-shell Kalb-Ramond
transformations. Finally, we present a discrete canonical analysis
based on the so called variational integrators method. Even
though, the discretization breaks the initial gauge freedom, the
theory preserves certain gauge invariance generated by the Gauss's
law, but in this case defined on the lattice context. In this
manner, a quantisation scheme such as the refined algebraic
quantisation will be of wide interest in the treatment of discrete
gauge symmetries, whose implications will be the aim future
investigations.
\noindent \textbf{Acknowledgements}\\[1ex]
The authors acknowledges support from a CONACyT scholarship
(M\'exico), J.E.R.Q. is supported by PROMEP postdoctoral grant.
|
associated to the vertical holonomies, $V_{n,v}$, reads
\begin{equation} \label{eq: of motion for Gauss's law}
h^{01}_{n,v}e^{2}_{n,v}-h^{02}_{n,v}e^{1}_{n,v}-(h^{1}_{n,v-e_1})^{\dag}h^{10}_{n,v-e_1}e^{2}_{n,v-e_1}h^{1}_{n,v-e_1}
+(h^{2}_{n,v-e_2})^{\dag}h^{20}_{n,v-e_2}e^{1}_{n,v-e_2}h^{2}_{n,v-e_2}=-2\Lambda
\mathcal{V} I,
\end{equation}
\noindent where $I$, denotes the identity matrix. In a similar
fashion, and in accordance with the consistent discretization
approach, the equation of motion associated to the spatial
holonomy, $h^{1}_{n+1,v}$, defined at the point, $(n+1,v)$, is
given by
\begin{equation}
h^{1}_{n+1,v}\Pi^{h^{1}}_{n+1,v}=(V_{n,v})^{\dag}h^{01}_{n,v}e^{2}_{n,v}V_{n,v},
\end{equation}
\noindent by using (\ref{eq: general solution traces}), we obtain
the primary constraint
\begin{equation}\label{electric1}
Tr(h^{1}_{n+1,v}\Pi^{h^{1}}_{n+1,v})=-\Lambda \mathcal{V}.
\end{equation}
\noindent Furthermore, the equation of motion associated with the
spatial holonomy, $h^{1}_{n,v}$, this time evaluated at the point
$(n,v)$, leads to
\begin{equation}
h^{1}_{n,v}\Pi^{h^{1}}_{n,v}=h^{10}_{n,v}e^{2}_{n,v}-h^{12}_{n,v}e^{0}_{n,v}+(h^{2}_{n,v-e_2})^{\dag}h^{21}_{n,v-e_2}e^{0}_{n,v-e_2}h^{2}_{n,v-e_2}
+2\lambda^{1}_{n,v}I,
\end{equation}
\noindent preserving in time this contraint, allows us to fix the
Lagrange multiplier
\begin{equation}
\lambda^{1}_{n,v}=-\Lambda \mathcal{V}.
\end{equation}
We proceed analogously for the variable $h^{2}_{n,v}$. The
equation of motion associated with the spatial holonomy
$h^{2}_{n+1,v}$, defined at the point $(n+1,v)$ is
\begin{equation}
h^{2}_{n+1,v}\Pi^{h^{2}}_{n+1,v}=-(V_{n,v})^{\dag}h^{02}_{n,v}e^{1}_{n,v}V_{n,v},
\end{equation}
\noindent from which we obtain the primary constraint
\begin{equation}\label{electric2}
Tr(h^{2}_{n+1,v}\Pi^{h^{2}}_{n+1,v})=-\Lambda \mathcal{V},
\end{equation}
\noindent and the equation of motion related to the spatial
holonomy, $h^{2}_{n,v}$, at the point $(n,v)$, gives us
\begin{equation}
h^{2}_{n,v}\Pi^{h^{2}}_{n,v}=h^{21}_{n,v}e^{0}_{n,v}-h^{20}_{n,v}e^{1}_{n,v}-(h^{1}_{n,v-e_1})^{\dag}h^{12}_{n,v-e_1}e^{0}_{n,v-e_1}h^{1}_{n,v-e_1}
+2\lambda^{2}_{n,v}I,
\end{equation}
\noindent which fix the corresponding Lagrange multiplier
\begin{equation}
\lambda^{2}_{n,v}=-\Lambda \mathcal{V}.
\end{equation}
We now consider the variable,
$E^{a}_{n,v}=h^{a}_{n,v}\Pi^{h^a}_{n,v}$ with $a\in \{1,2\}$, such
combination of spatial holonomies and their associated conjugate
momenta, play the role of an electric field, along the direction
$e_{a}$ at the point $(n,v)$, in the study of non-abelian theories
in the lattice approach. In our case, due to the constraints
(\ref{electric1}) and (\ref{electric2}), we observe that the
electric field $E^{a}_{n,v}$, is not an element of the algebra,
this occurs because, a closed loop results modified by the
presence of the cosmological constant
\begin{equation}
Tr (E^{a}_{n,v})=-\Lambda \mathcal{V}.
\end{equation}
For our purposes, it is useful to define the electric field in the
opposite direction. $-e_{a}$, evaluated at the point $\{ n,v \}$,
as
\begin{equation}
E^{\bar{a}}_{n,v}=
h^{\bar{a}}_{n,v}\Pi^{h^{\bar{a}}}_{n,v}=(h^{a}_{n,v-e_a})^{\dag}(\Pi^{h^{a}}_{n,v-e_a})^{\dag}
=(h^{a}_{n,v-e_a})^{\dag}(E^{a}_{n,v-e_a})^{\dag}h^{a}_{n,v-e_a}.
\end{equation}
In order to calculate $(E^{a}_{n,v})^{\dagger}$, we make use of
the following straightforward relations, which can be derived
directly from the constraint (\ref{eq: general solution traces}):
\begin{eqnarray}
h^{cb}_{n,v} &=& h^{bc}_{n,v}+\Lambda\ [e^{b}_{n,v},e^{c}_{n,v}]\\
e^{a}_{n,v}(h^{bc}_{n,v}) &=& (h^{bc}_{n,v})e^{a}_{n,v}+[e^{a}_{n,v},h^{bc}_{n,v}].
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent Therefore, the hermitian conjugate of the electric field
is given by
\begin{equation}
(E^{a}_{n,v})^{\dag}=-E^{a}_{n,v}+\Lambda \Xi^{a}_{n,v},
\end{equation}
\noindent where, $\Xi^{a}_{n,v}$, is a linear combination, coming
from different permutations of the three-volume element
\begin{equation}
\Xi^{a}_{n,v}=(-1)^{a}\left[e^{1}_{n,v}e^{2}_{n,v}\right]e^{0}_{n,v}+(-1)^{a}\left[e^{1}_{n,v},e^{0}_{n,v}
e^{2}_{n,v}\right]+(-1)^{a}\left[e^{0}_{n,v}e^{1}_{n,v},e^{2}_{n,v} \right].
\end{equation}
where $a\in \{ 1,2 \}$. With all this at hand, the electric field
along the opposite direction, evaluated at point (n,v) reads
\begin{equation} \label{eq: E bar a before eq of motion}
E^{\bar{a}}_{n,v}=-(h^{a}_{n,v-e_a})^{\dag}E^{a}_{n,v-e_a}(h^{a}_{n,v-e_a})+\Lambda\
(h^{a}_{n,v-e_a})^{\dag}\Xi^{a}_{n,v-e_a}(h^{a}_{n,v-e_a}).
\end{equation}
\noindent Using the constraints, (\ref{eq: general solution
traces}), and the definition of the electric field, one can show
that
\begin{eqnarray}
E^{1}_{n+1,v} &=& +V_{n,v}^{\dag}h^{01}_{n,v}e^{2}_{n,v}V_{n,v} \\
E^{2}_{n+1,v} &=& -V_{n,v}^{\dag}h^{02}_{n,v}e^{1}_{n,v}V_{n,v}.
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent Finally, the above relations together with (\ref{eq: E
bar a before eq of motion}), allow us to prove that the equation
(\ref{eq: of motion for Gauss's law}), is equivalent to
\begin{equation}
E^{1}_{n+1,v}+E^{2}_{n+1,v}+E^{\bar{1}}_{n+1,v}+E^{\bar{2}}_{n+1,v}=0
\end{equation}
\noindent This is, of course, the Gauss's law defined on the
lattice context. When the cosmological constant is present, we
observe that the lattice version of $(2+1)$-gravity, preserves a
remnant symmetry from the continuum theory, this local discrete
symmetry is generated by the internal group thorough the Gauss's
law in its discrete version.\\
From equation (\ref{eq: general solution traces}), we noted that
the holonomy along the spacial plaquettes is proportional to the
cosmological constant, which depending on its value we will have
(Anti)de Sitter solution or as it was considered at \cite{Sigma},
flat solutions when the cosmological constant vanishes. But even
more, the discrete theory admits more solutions than the continuum
one, this is because there is one more term $\sigma^{bc}$ which
depends on the plaquettes, in the sense that a possible solution
would be a connection that makes the term $\sigma^{bc}$ be +1 on
certain plaquettes and -1 on others. \\
The next step (it will be presented in a future work), will be to
solve the discrete constraints as operators on a appropiate
Hilbert space, and then construct unitary projectors of the
discrete theory onto the physical space of the continuum theory.
An useful idea for constructing the physical Hilbert space is to
average states in an auxiliary Hilbert space over a suitable
action of the gauge group \cite{raq1}, \cite{raq2}, \cite{raq3}.
For a noncompact gauge group the averaging need not converge, but
when the averaging is formulated within refined algebraic
quantisation, convergence on a linear subspace will suffice.
Within this formalism, and the nature of the discretization, it is
possible to show that the group averaging provides considerable
control over quantisation. On the other hand the discretization
technique can be viewed as a | 2,463 |
Relatives greet Pakistani jet diverted because of false bomb threat
By Ashraf Khan, AP
Plane arrives in Pakistan after false bomb threat
KARACHI, Pakistan — Relatives thronged an airport in southern Pakistan on Sunday to greet passengers whose flight from Canada was diverted to Sweden after a baseless report that a<|fim_middle|> that body is found after uncle confesses
Museum in Sweden unaware of theft of Munch painting, artwork recovered | man aboard had explosives. Canadian officials investigated whether someone with a grudge called in the threat.
As passengers were smothered with hugs and kisses from the crowd, they expressed relief that the threat turned out to be nothing. They said the experience was quite frightening, especially when a SWAT team seized the suspect as they evacuated the plane in Stockholm.
"We really got scared, especially when we saw a large number of commandos wearing masks coming in," said Irfan Ahmed, a 35-year-old passenger on the flight from Toronto.
Passengers were told there was a technical problem with the aircraft — a Boeing 777 operated by Pakistan International Airlines — and didn't find out the real reason until they were on the ground.
The plane was diverted after an anonymous woman in Canada tipped off authorities that a Canadian man on the flight was carrying explosives, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman Sgt. Marc LaPorte. The tip proved false, and police are now investigating whether the incident was a "terrorism hoax," he said.
A prosecutor decided to release the man after questioning, and police were trying to help him continue his journey to Karachi either late Saturday or Sunday, police spokesman Erik Widstrand said, adding the man had cooperated with investigators.
Haji Mohammad Umar, who sat next to the suspect during the flight, said the man told him he was returning to Pakistan after a very long time to get married. He seemed happy by the prospect and was a bit drunk, said Umar.
"When he was arrested, he remained calm and did not react much," said Umar.
Swedish police described the man as a Canadian citizen born in 1982. Initially they said he was of Pakistani background but later said they were not sure. The man was not on any international no-fly lists and had cleared a security check in Canada, said the police.
LaPorte, the police spokesman, said it appeared that the person who called in the tip had an ax to grind with the man. If the information is deemed a hoax, the caller could be charged with public mischief.
All 273 passengers — except the suspect — were allowed back on the plane in Stockholm nine hours after they landed.
"With the grace of God, it's all OK," said Zainab Jissani after arriving at the airport in Karachi with her two children.
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You Are The Change.
Echoes from a Small Town of Manesar
by Vallary Gupta
The heritage structures need to be enveloped and encompassed within the newly created precincts. They are the lifeline of a place, the storyteller of the reason of our existence that hides beneath the layers of stones and traditions. Man must progress and move. Modernization and urbanisation are the keys to the lock that opens up the gates to growth. Though, the price that we pay is inhumane.
We live, we create, we leave impressions in every minuscule thing we do. The imprints continue to speak the saga of our existence for the ages to come. We aspire, we move and we leave behind our roots that continue to reflect our pristine culture.
Today, is a reflection of an unfulfilled desire. A tree ceases to exist without its roots and so are we, a hollow empty cage of stardust without our heritage and culture. The greed for luxuries keeps us moving, a desire for comfort drives us towards a never ending race at cost of nothing but our very own ethnic pride and art.
The world is moving from an agrarian economy to industrialisation and<|fim_middle|> rapid growth was accompanied by alternation of several land uses. "Mud and brick huts, the vast chunks of agricultural lands that once enlaced my landscape, now stand on a brink of extinction. The breathing settlements with their essence of mud, feel of barefoot on brick paving, wind chimes within the internal open courtyards are today loaded by lifeless sky soaring concrete structures. The once lush green lands, swaying and singing of rejoice with the first spell of rain now lie still with lifeless and rigid covers that blemish their remains".
Insensitive as these structures are, the people residing within are left to just exist. These land use alternations and alterations led to varying degrees of land cover changes which are currently paving way for the construction of new roads, new residential and industrial layouts, recreation and amusement parks.
"The older settlements have been overwhelmed and squeezed into the narrow confines of their built properties by the new developments." In a region where joint settlements were surrounded by agricultural lands, the sale of their agricultural holdings at nominal sums has left them with only their homes in the villages. Romanticised fantasies of an idealised rural life and Indian urbanism abound and continue to fool people to yearn for luxuries at the cost of their own comfort and simplicity.
"History, heritage, and village life, were denigrated all at once, global spaces that they created as alluring visualisations and for experiences bury beneath them the dreams of millions of rural pastorals, transforming my native, cultural and intrinsic setting into the monotonous urban form". A redundant replica of big urbanised metropolitan city like Delhi and NCRs has very well ruled the local inborn scenery of Manesar.
"The legacy from18th and 19th centuries that I carry in my heart are long forgotten amidst the dust and noise of an urbanised life, I am threatened by transformation, a change in never yearned for, a change that continues to put a price to my existence".
To capitalise on their tourism potential, the monuments that dot the town have been taken up for preservation only since 2009. Luxury hotels vie with each other to promise distinctive and memorable experiences, conjure tantalising visions of the pleasure and a lost memory of a mythical orient. Heritage Village Manesar has been conceived and promoted, according to its marketing brochure and website, as 'Rajasthani Haveli style palatial resort' that invites guests to experience 'a world of ethnic grandeur'. "An irony of human desires- I saw them demolish my innate grandeur, the vast open spaces and now, I see them re-create the lost charm, the natural settings back again."
Varying levels of affordable housings have come up in this area to hold the ever rising population of people migrating to these regions. Large housing projects comprising of vast open green spaces and nucleated housing tend to be the major infrastructural mediation. These projects very well reflect the vernacular inborn setting that the place was once bestowed upon with and blend smoothly to suit the spirit of the town. Creation of these artificial yet lively spaces brings back to its residents the same local sentiment of living close to large agricultural lands. At a major level, the past land use pattern with cluster housing and alternate greens, is restored, helping to preserve the natural heritage of Manesar.
The global imaginaries of the Gurgaon and Manesar region, with their allusions to a placeless cosmopolitanism, and connectivity to the global economy, belie their rootedness in local specificity of history and circumstance. "The vast tracts of land, outlined by wide, straight roads, the futuristic towers, the apartment blocks set amidst manicured gardens are all my lost replicas, they try to create within their homes today."
Cities and towns are centres of innovation in the economic, cultural, and social realms. The efforts to re-humanize our cities through culture-sensitive urban strategies are increasingly underpinned by a sprint to access, representation, and participation.
As the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments acknowledges the need to explicitly include culture in the paradigm of sustainable cities: "Culture will be key in the success of sustainable development policies, as driver and enabler of development and people-centered societies. A holistic and integrated approach to development needs to take creativity, heritage, knowledge, and diversity into account."
Small towns, with their intrinsic cultural identity, social-realm, native character are unexplored opportunities to become transformative platforms. To preserve what is gifted and to carry and build along the natural-scapes, the role of cultural practices, inherent city character, and values must be explicitly recognized, supported, and integrated into planning and policy in a systematic and comprehensive way.
Cite This Article As: Vallary Gupta. "Echoes from a Small Town of Manesar." International Youth Journal, 27. June 2020.
Link To Article: https://youth-journal.org/echoes-from-a-small-town-of-manesar | new technologies. Consequently, it draws the crowds to the urban centres resulting in urbanisation. The trend of urbanisation cannot be reversed. There has been a remarkable growth of India's population in urban areas over the last two decades. Increasing urbanisation in metropolises or mega cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, etc., has shown the necessity of dormitory towns in their vicinity to accommodate the urban sprawl. These dormitory towns or satellite towns are small towns in the periphery of these metropolises. These small towns have their own vernacularism, in which lies their essence. But in the contemporary conditions, these towns have been developed into miniatures of the metropolitan cities areas depriving them of their originality.
"Located on periphery of the city of Gurugram, I was a sleepy village with agrarian economy, folklore and sparse population with people from different communities, all green, in peace". Spurred with the success of Gurgaon as the 'Millennium City', the Haryana government declared Manesar a site for a 4000 acre Industrial Model Township, a program of the Indian government to attract businesses and investments from international companies. This resulted in transformation of a dormant village of about 1000 dwellings on Delhi-Jaipur highway to one of the fastest-growing townships in India. Today, it is swamped by people from all across the globe, indulging in almost every profession one can think of in the modern India. Farmers have become millionaire or multi-millionaires by selling their lands. A majority of them are living upscale lives.
The | 324 |
#include "qxtscheduleview.h"
#include "qxtscheduleview_p.h"
#include "qxtscheduleheaderwidget.h"
#include "qxtscheduleviewheadermodel_p.h"
#include <QPainter>
#include <QScrollBar>
#include <QBrush>
#include <QMouseEvent>
#include <QDebug>
#include <QApplication>
#include <QTimer>
#include <QStringList>
#include <QWidget>
#include <QList>
#include <QListIterator>
#include <QWheelEvent>
/**
* @class QxtScheduleView QxtScheduleView
* @ingroup QxtGui
* @brief The QxtScheduleView provides an iCal like view to plan events
*
* QxtScheduleView is a item based View,inspired by iCal, that makes it possible to visualize event planning.<br/>
It's time based and can show the events in different modes:<br/>
<ul>
* <li><strong>DayMode</strong> : Every column in the view shows one day</li>
* <li><strong>HourMode</strong> : Every column in the view shows one hour</li>
* <li><strong>MinuteMode</strong><|fim_middle|>.toTime_t();
}
| : Every column in the view shows one minute</li>>
</ul>
* In addition you can adjust how much time every cell represents in the view. The default value is 900 seconds
* or 15 minutes and DayMode.
*
*/
QxtScheduleView::QxtScheduleView(QWidget *parent)
: QAbstractScrollArea(parent)
{
QXT_INIT_PRIVATE(QxtScheduleView);
/*standart values are 15 minutes per cell and 69 rows == 1 Day*/
qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth = 15 * 60;
qxt_d().m_currentViewMode = DayView;
qxt_d().m_startUnixTime = 0;
qxt_d().m_endUnixTime = 0;
qxt_d().delegate = qxt_d().defaultDelegate = new QxtScheduleItemDelegate(this);
qxt_d().m_vHeader = new QxtScheduleHeaderWidget(Qt::Vertical, this);
connect(qxt_d().m_vHeader, SIGNAL(geometriesChanged()), this, SLOT(updateGeometries()));
qxt_d().m_vHeader->hide();
qxt_d().m_hHeader = new QxtScheduleHeaderWidget(Qt::Horizontal, this);
connect(qxt_d().m_hHeader, SIGNAL(geometriesChanged()), this, SLOT(updateGeometries()));
qxt_d().m_hHeader->hide();
}
/**
* @desc sets the model for QxtScheduleView
*
* @param model
*/
void QxtScheduleView::setModel(QAbstractItemModel *model)
{
if (qxt_d().m_Model)
{
/*delete all cached items*/
qDeleteAll(qxt_d().m_Items.begin(), qxt_d().m_Items.end());
qxt_d().m_Items.clear();
/*disconnect all signals*/
disconnect(qxt_d().m_Model, SIGNAL(dataChanged(const QModelIndex &, const QModelIndex &)), this, SLOT(dataChanged(const QModelIndex &, const QModelIndex &)));
disconnect(qxt_d().m_Model, SIGNAL(rowsAboutToBeInserted(const QModelIndex &, int, int)), this, SLOT(rowsAboutToBeInserted(const QModelIndex &, int , int)));
disconnect(qxt_d().m_Model, SIGNAL(rowsInserted(const QModelIndex &, int, int)), this, SLOT(rowsInserted(const QModelIndex &, int , int)));
disconnect(qxt_d().m_Model, SIGNAL(rowsAboutToBeRemoved(const QModelIndex &, int, int)), this, SLOT(rowsAboutToBeRemoved(const QModelIndex &, int , int)));
disconnect(qxt_d().m_Model, SIGNAL(rowsRemoved(const QModelIndex &, int, int)), this, SLOT(rowsRemoved(const QModelIndex &, int , int)));
/*don't delete the model maybe someone else will use it*/
qxt_d().m_Model = 0;
}
if (model != 0)
{
/*initialize the new model*/
qxt_d().m_Model = model;
connect(model, SIGNAL(dataChanged(const QModelIndex &, const QModelIndex &)), this, SLOT(dataChanged(const QModelIndex &, const QModelIndex &)));
connect(model, SIGNAL(rowsAboutToBeInserted(const QModelIndex &, int, int)), this, SLOT(rowsAboutToBeInserted(const QModelIndex &, int , int)));
connect(model, SIGNAL(rowsInserted(const QModelIndex &, int, int)), this, SLOT(rowsInserted(const QModelIndex &, int , int)));
connect(model, SIGNAL(rowsAboutToBeRemoved(const QModelIndex &, int, int)), this, SLOT(rowsAboutToBeRemoved(const QModelIndex &, int , int)));
connect(model, SIGNAL(rowsRemoved(const QModelIndex &, int, int)), this, SLOT(rowsRemoved(const QModelIndex &, int , int)));
}
qxt_d().init();
}
QAbstractItemModel * QxtScheduleView::model() const
{
return qxt_d().m_Model;
}
/**
* @desc changes the current ViewMode
* The QxtScheduleView supports some different viewmodes. A viewmode defines how much time a column holds.
* It is also possible to define custom viewmodes. To do that you have to set the currentView mode to Custom and
* reimplement timePerColumn
*
* @param QxtScheduleView::ViewMode mode the new ViewMode
*
* @sa timePerColumn()
* @sa viewMode()
*/
void QxtScheduleView::setViewMode(const QxtScheduleView::ViewMode mode)
{
qxt_d().m_currentViewMode = mode;
//this will calculate the correct alignment
//@BUG this may not work because the currentZoomDepth may not fit into the new viewMode
setCurrentZoomDepth(qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth);
}
/**
*@desc returns the current used delegate
*/
QxtScheduleItemDelegate* QxtScheduleView::delegate () const
{
return qxt_d().delegate;
}
/**
*Sets the item delegate for this view and its model to delegate. This is useful if you want complete control over the editing and display of items.
*Any existing delegate will be removed, but not deleted. QxtScheduleView does not take ownership of delegate.
*Passing a 0 pointer will restore the view to use the default delegate.
*@Warning You should not share the same instance of a delegate between views. Doing so can cause incorrect or unintuitive behavior.
*/
void QxtScheduleView::setItemDelegate (QxtScheduleItemDelegate * delegate)
{
if(!delegate)
qxt_d().delegate = qxt_d().defaultDelegate;
else
qxt_d().delegate = delegate;
//the delegate changed repaint everything
viewport()->update();
}
/**
* @desc returns the current ViewMode
*
* @return QxtScheduleView::ViewMode
* @sa setViewMode()
*/
QxtScheduleView::ViewMode QxtScheduleView::viewMode() const
{
return (ViewMode)qxt_d().m_currentViewMode;
}
/**
* @desc changes the current Zoom step width
* Changes the current Zoom step width. Zooming in QxtScheduleView means to change the amount
* of time one cell holds. For example 5 Minutes. The zoom step width defines how many time
* is added / removed from the cell when zooming the view.
*
* @param int zoomWidth the new zoom step width
* @param Qxt::Timeunit unit the unit of the new step width (Minutes , Seconds , Hours)
*
* @sa zoomIn() zoomOut() setCurrentZoomDepth()
*/
void QxtScheduleView::setZoomStepWidth(const int zoomWidth , const Qxt::Timeunit unit)
{
switch (unit)
{
case Qxt::Second:
{
qxt_d().m_zoomStepWidth = zoomWidth;
}
break;
case Qxt::Minute:
{
qxt_d().m_zoomStepWidth = zoomWidth * 60;
}
break;
case Qxt::Hour:
{
qxt_d().m_zoomStepWidth = zoomWidth * 60 * 60;
}
break;
default:
qWarning() << "This Timeunit is not implemented yet you can use Second,Minute,Hour using standart 15 minutes";
qxt_d().m_zoomStepWidth = 900;
break;
}
}
/**
* @desc changes the current zoom depth
* The current zoom depth in QxtScheduleView defines how many time one cell holds in the view.
* If the new depth does not fit in the view the next possible value is used. If no possible value can be found
* nothing changes.
* Normally this is used only to initialize the view, later you want to use zoomIn and zoomOut
*
* @param int depth
* @param Qxt::Timeunit unit
*
* @sa zoomIn() zoomOut() setCurrentZoomDepth()
*/
void QxtScheduleView::setCurrentZoomDepth(const int depth , const Qxt::Timeunit unit)
{
int newZoomDepth = 900;
//a zoom depth of 0 is invalid
if (depth == 0)
return;
switch (unit)
{
case Qxt::Second:
{
newZoomDepth = depth;
}
break;
case Qxt::Minute:
{
newZoomDepth = depth * 60;
}
break;
case Qxt::Hour:
{
newZoomDepth = depth * 60 * 60;
}
break;
default:
qWarning() << "This Timeunit is not implemented yet you can use Second,Minute,Hour using standart 15 minutes";
break;
}
//now we have to align the currentZoomDepth to the viewMode
int timePerCol = timePerColumn();
newZoomDepth = newZoomDepth > timePerCol ? timePerCol : newZoomDepth;
newZoomDepth = newZoomDepth <= 0 ? 1 : newZoomDepth;
while (timePerCol % newZoomDepth)
{
if (depth > qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth)
{
newZoomDepth++;
if (newZoomDepth >= timePerCol)
return;
}
else
{
newZoomDepth--;
if (newZoomDepth <= 1)
return;
}
}
qDebug() << "Zoomed, old zoom depth: " << qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth << " new zoom depth: " << newZoomDepth;
qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth = newZoomDepth;
emit this->newZoomDepth(newZoomDepth);
/*reinit the view*/
if (model())
{
updateGeometries();
qxt_d().reloadItemsFromModel();
}
}
/**
* @desc returns the current zoom depth
*/
int QxtScheduleView::currentZoomDepth(const Qxt::Timeunit unit)
{
switch (unit)
{
case Qxt::Second:
{
return qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth;
}
break;
case Qxt::Minute:
{
return qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth / 60;
}
break;
case Qxt::Hour:
{
return qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth / 60 / 60;
}
break;
default:
qWarning() << "This Timeunit is not implemented yet you can use Second,Minute,Hour returning seconds";
return qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth;
break;
}
}
/**
* @desc zooms one step in
*
* @sa zoomOut() setCurrentZoomDepth() setZoomStepWidth()
*/
void QxtScheduleView::zoomIn()
{
setCurrentZoomDepth(qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth - qxt_d().m_zoomStepWidth);
}
/**
* @desc zooms one step out
*
* @sa zoomIn() setCurrentZoomDepth() setZoomStepWidth()
*/
void QxtScheduleView::zoomOut()
{
setCurrentZoomDepth(qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth + qxt_d().m_zoomStepWidth);
}
void QxtScheduleView::paintEvent(QPaintEvent * /*event*/)
{
if (model())
{
/*paint the grid*/
int iNumRows = qxt_d().m_vHeader->count();
qDebug() << "Painting rows " << iNumRows;
int xRowEnd = qxt_d().m_hHeader->sectionViewportPosition(qxt_d().m_hHeader->count() - 1) + qxt_d().m_hHeader->sectionSize(qxt_d().m_hHeader->count() - 1);
QPainter painter(viewport());
painter.save();
painter.setPen(QColor(220, 220, 220));
bool thinLine;
thinLine = false;
for (int iLoop = 0; iLoop < iNumRows; iLoop += 2)
{
painter.drawLine(0 , qxt_d().m_vHeader->sectionViewportPosition(iLoop), xRowEnd, qxt_d().m_vHeader->sectionViewportPosition(iLoop));
}
int iNumCols = qxt_d().m_hHeader->count();
int iYColEnd = qxt_d().m_vHeader->sectionViewportPosition(qxt_d().m_vHeader->count() - 1) + qxt_d().m_vHeader->sectionSize(qxt_d().m_vHeader->count() - 1);
for (int iLoop = 0; iLoop < iNumCols ; iLoop++)
{
painter.drawLine(qxt_d().m_hHeader->sectionViewportPosition(iLoop), 0, qxt_d().m_hHeader->sectionViewportPosition(iLoop), iYColEnd);
}
painter.restore();
QListIterator<QxtScheduleInternalItem *> itemIterator(qxt_d().m_Items);
while (itemIterator.hasNext())
{
QxtScheduleInternalItem * currItem = itemIterator.next();
QxtStyleOptionScheduleViewItem style;
//@BUG use the correct section here or find a way to forbit section resizing
style.roundCornersRadius = qxt_d().m_vHeader->sectionSize(1) / 2;
style.itemHeaderHeight = qxt_d().m_vHeader->sectionSize(1);
style.maxSubItemHeight = qxt_d().m_vHeader->sectionSize(1);
if (currItem->isDirty)
currItem->m_cachedParts.clear();
style.itemGeometries = currItem->m_geometries;
style.itemPaintCache = &currItem->m_cachedParts;
style.translate = QPoint(-qxt_d().m_hHeader->offset(), -qxt_d().m_vHeader->offset());
painter.save();
qxt_d().delegate->paint(&painter, style, currItem->modelIndex());
painter.restore();
currItem->setDirty(false);
}
painter.end();
}
}
void QxtScheduleView::updateGeometries()
{
this->setViewportMargins(qxt_d().m_vHeader->sizeHint().width() + 1, qxt_d().m_hHeader->sizeHint().height() + 1, 0, 0);
verticalScrollBar()->setRange(0, qxt_d().m_vHeader->count()*qxt_d().m_vHeader->defaultSectionSize() - viewport()->height());
verticalScrollBar()->setSingleStep(qxt_d().m_vHeader->defaultSectionSize());
verticalScrollBar()->setPageStep(qxt_d().m_vHeader->defaultSectionSize());
int left = 2;
int top = qxt_d().m_hHeader->sizeHint().height() + 2;
int width = qxt_d().m_vHeader->sizeHint().width();
int height = viewport()->height();
qxt_d().m_vHeader->setGeometry(left, top, width, height);
left = left + width;
top = 1;
width = viewport()->width();
height = qxt_d().m_hHeader->sizeHint().height();
qxt_d().m_hHeader->setGeometry(left, top, width, height);
qxt_d().m_hHeader->setDefaultSectionSize(viewport()->width() / 5);
for (int iLoop = 0; iLoop < qxt_d().m_hHeader->count(); iLoop++)
qxt_d().m_hHeader->resizeSection(iLoop, viewport()->width() / 5);
qxt_d().m_hHeader->setResizeMode(QHeaderView::Fixed);
horizontalScrollBar()->setRange(0, (qxt_d().m_hHeader->count() * qxt_d().m_hHeader->defaultSectionSize() - viewport()->width()));
horizontalScrollBar()->setSingleStep(qxt_d().m_hHeader->defaultSectionSize());
horizontalScrollBar()->setPageStep(qxt_d().m_hHeader->defaultSectionSize());
qxt_d().m_vHeader->show();
qxt_d().m_hHeader->show();
qxt_d().handleItemConcurrency(0, this->rows() * this->cols() - 1);
viewport()->update();
}
void QxtScheduleView::scrollContentsBy(int dx, int dy)
{
qxt_d().m_vHeader->setOffset(qxt_d().m_vHeader->offset() - dy);
qxt_d().m_hHeader->setOffset(qxt_d().m_hHeader->offset() - dx);
QAbstractScrollArea::scrollContentsBy(dx, dy);
}
void QxtScheduleView::mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent * e)
{
if (qxt_d().m_selectedItem)
{
int currentMousePosTableOffset = qxt_d().pointToOffset((e->pos()));
if (currentMousePosTableOffset != qxt_d().m_lastMousePosOffset)
{
if (currentMousePosTableOffset >= 0)
{
/*i cannot use the model data here because all changes are committed to the model only when the move ends*/
int startTableOffset = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->visualStartTableOffset();
int endTableOffset = -1;
/*i simply use the shape to check if we have a move or a resize. Because we enter this codepath the shape gets not changed*/
if (this->viewport()->cursor().shape() == Qt::SizeVerCursor)
{
QVector<QRect> geo = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->geometry();
QRect rect = geo[geo.size()-1];
endTableOffset = currentMousePosTableOffset;
}
else
{
/*well the duration is the same for a move*/
//qint32 difference = qxt_d().rowsTo(qxt_d().m_lastMousePosIndex,currentMousePos); // tableCellToUnixTime(currentMousePos) - tableCellToUnixTime(this->m_lastMousePosIndex);
int difference = currentMousePosTableOffset - qxt_d().m_lastMousePosOffset;
//qDebug()<<"Difference Rows: "<<difference;
startTableOffset = startTableOffset + difference;
endTableOffset = startTableOffset + qxt_d().m_selectedItem->rows() - 1;
}
if (startTableOffset >= 0 && endTableOffset >= startTableOffset && endTableOffset < (rows()*cols()))
{
QVector< QRect > newGeometry = qxt_d().calculateRangeGeometries(startTableOffset, endTableOffset);
int oldStartOffset = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->visualStartTableOffset();
int newStartOffset = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->visualEndTableOffset();
qxt_d().m_selectedItem->setGeometry(newGeometry);
qxt_d().m_selectedItem->setDirty();
qxt_d().m_lastMousePosOffset = currentMousePosTableOffset;
#if 1
if (newGeometry.size() > 0)
{
int start = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->visualStartTableOffset();
int end = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->visualEndTableOffset();
qxt_d().handleItemConcurrency(oldStartOffset, newStartOffset);
qxt_d().handleItemConcurrency(start, end);
}
#endif
}
}
}
return;
}
else
{
/*change the cursor to show the resize arrow*/
QPoint translatedPos = mapFromViewport(e->pos());
QxtScheduleInternalItem * it = qxt_d().internalItemAt(translatedPos);
if (it)
{
QVector<QRect> geo = it->geometry();
QRect rect = geo[geo.size()-1];
if (rect.contains(translatedPos) && (translatedPos.y() >= rect.bottom() - 5 && translatedPos.y() <= rect.bottom()))
{
this->viewport()->setCursor(Qt::SizeVerCursor);
return;
}
}
if (this->viewport()->cursor().shape() != Qt::ArrowCursor)
this->viewport()->setCursor(Qt::ArrowCursor);
}
}
void QxtScheduleView::mouseDoubleClickEvent ( QMouseEvent * e )
{
qxt_d().m_currentItem = qxt_d().internalItemAt(mapFromViewport(e->pos()));
if (qxt_d().m_currentItem)
{
emit indexDoubleClicked(qxt_d().m_currentItem->modelIndex());
}
}
void QxtScheduleView::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent * e)
{
qxt_d().m_currentItem = qxt_d().internalItemAt(mapFromViewport(e->pos()));
if (qxt_d().m_currentItem)
{
emit indexSelected(qxt_d().m_currentItem->modelIndex());
}
else
emit indexSelected(QModelIndex());
if (e->button() == Qt::RightButton)
{
if (qxt_d().m_currentItem)
emit contextMenuRequested(qxt_d().m_currentItem->modelIndex());
}
else
{
qxt_d().m_lastMousePosOffset = qxt_d().pointToOffset(e->pos());
if (qxt_d().m_lastMousePosOffset >= 0)
{
qxt_d().m_selectedItem = qxt_d().m_currentItem;
if (qxt_d().m_selectedItem)
{
qDebug() << "Selected Item:" << qxt_d().m_selectedItem->m_iModelRow;
raiseItem(qxt_d().m_selectedItem->modelIndex());
qxt_d().m_selectedItem->startMove();
qxt_d().scrollTimer.start(100);
}
else
qxt_d().m_lastMousePosOffset = -1;
}
}
}
void QxtScheduleView::mouseReleaseEvent(QMouseEvent * /*e*/)
{
qxt_d().scrollTimer.stop();
if (qxt_d().m_selectedItem)
{
int oldStartTableOffset = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->startTableOffset();
int oldEndTableOffset = oldStartTableOffset + qxt_d().m_selectedItem->rows() - 1 ;
QVector<QRect> geo = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->geometry();
QRect rect = geo[geo.size()-1];
int newStartTableOffset = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->visualStartTableOffset();
int newEndTableOffset = qxt_d().m_selectedItem->visualEndTableOffset();
qxt_d().m_selectedItem->stopMove();
QVariant newStartUnixTime;
QVariant newDuration;
newStartUnixTime = qxt_d().offsetToUnixTime(newStartTableOffset);
model()->setData(qxt_d().m_selectedItem->modelIndex(), newStartUnixTime, Qxt::ItemStartTimeRole);
newDuration = qxt_d().offsetToUnixTime(newEndTableOffset, true) - newStartUnixTime.toInt();
model()->setData(qxt_d().m_selectedItem->modelIndex(), newDuration, Qxt::ItemDurationRole);
qxt_d().m_selectedItem = NULL;
qxt_d().m_lastMousePosOffset = -1;
/*only call for the old geometry the dataChanged slot will call it for the new position*/
qxt_d().handleItemConcurrency(oldStartTableOffset, oldEndTableOffset);
//qxt_d().handleItemConcurrency(newStartIndex,newEndIndex);
//viewport()->update();
}
}
void QxtScheduleView::wheelEvent(QWheelEvent * e)
{
/*time scrolling when pressing ctrl while using the mouse wheel*/
if (e->modifiers() & Qt::ControlModifier)
{
if (e->delta() < 0)
zoomOut();
else
zoomIn();
}
else
QAbstractScrollArea::wheelEvent(e);
}
/**
* @desc returns the current row count of the view
*/
int QxtScheduleView::rows() const
{
if (!model())
return 0;
int timePerCol = timePerColumn();
Q_ASSERT(timePerCol % qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth == 0);
int iNeededRows = timePerCol / qxt_d().m_currentZoomDepth;
return iNeededRows;
}
/**
* @desc returns the current column count of the view
*/
int QxtScheduleView::cols() const
{
if (!model())
return 0;
int cols = 0;
int timeToShow = qxt_d().m_endUnixTime - qxt_d().m_startUnixTime + 1 ;
int timePerCol = timePerColumn();
Q_ASSERT(timeToShow % timePerCol == 0);
cols = (timeToShow / timePerCol);
return cols;
}
/**
*@desc reimplement this to support custom view modes
*@return the time per column in seconds
*/
int QxtScheduleView::timePerColumn() const
{
int timePerColumn = 0;
switch (qxt_d().m_currentViewMode)
{
case DayView:
timePerColumn = 24 * 60 * 60;
break;
case HourView:
timePerColumn = 60 * 60;
break;
case MinuteView:
timePerColumn = 60;
break;
default:
Q_ASSERT(false);
}
return timePerColumn;
}
/**
* @desc reimplement this to support custom view modes
* This function has to adjust the given start and end time to the current view mode:
* For example, the DayMode always adjust to time 0:00:00am for startTime and 11:59:59pm for endTime
*/
void QxtScheduleView::adjustRangeToViewMode(QDateTime *startTime, QDateTime *endTime) const
{
switch (qxt_d().m_currentViewMode)
{
case DayView:
startTime->setTime(QTime(0, 0));
endTime ->setTime(QTime(23, 59, 59));
break;
case HourView:
startTime->setTime(QTime(startTime->time().hour(), 0));
endTime ->setTime(QTime(endTime->time().hour(), 59, 59));
break;
case MinuteView:
startTime->setTime(QTime(startTime->time().hour(), startTime->time().minute(), 0));
endTime ->setTime(QTime(endTime->time().hour(), endTime->time().minute(), 59));
break;
default:
Q_ASSERT(false);
}
}
QPoint QxtScheduleView::mapFromViewport(const QPoint & point) const
{
return point + QPoint(qxt_d().m_hHeader->offset(), qxt_d().m_vHeader->offset());
}
QPoint QxtScheduleView::mapToViewport(const QPoint & point) const
{
return point - QPoint(qxt_d().m_hHeader->offset(), qxt_d().m_vHeader->offset());
}
/**
* @desc raises the item belonging to index
*/
void QxtScheduleView::raiseItem(const QModelIndex &index)
{
QxtScheduleInternalItem *item = qxt_d().itemForModelIndex(index);
if (item)
{
int iItemIndex = -1;
if ((iItemIndex = qxt_d().m_Items.indexOf(item)) >= 0)
{
qxt_d().m_Items.takeAt(iItemIndex);
qxt_d().m_Items.append(item);
viewport()->update();
}
}
}
void QxtScheduleView::dataChanged(const QModelIndex & topLeft, const QModelIndex & bottomRight)
{
for (int iLoop = topLeft.row(); iLoop <= bottomRight.row();iLoop++)
{
QModelIndex index = model()->index(iLoop, 0);
QxtScheduleInternalItem * item = qxt_d().itemForModelIndex(index);
if (item)
{
int startOffset = item->startTableOffset();
int endIndex = item->startTableOffset() + item->rows() - 1;
if (item->m_geometries.count() > 0)
{
int oldStartOffset = qxt_d().pointToOffset(mapToViewport(item->m_geometries[0].topLeft()));
int oldEndOffset = qxt_d().pointToOffset(mapToViewport(item->m_geometries[item->m_geometries.size()-1].bottomRight()));
qxt_d().handleItemConcurrency(oldStartOffset, oldEndOffset);
}
/*that maybe will set a empty geometry thats okay because the item maybe out of bounds of the view */
item->setGeometry(qxt_d().calculateRangeGeometries(startOffset, endIndex));
/*force item cache update even if the geometry is the same*/
item->setDirty();
qxt_d().handleItemConcurrency(startOffset, endIndex);
viewport()->update();
}
}
}
/**
* @desc triggers the view to relayout the items that are concurrent to index
*/
void QxtScheduleView::handleItemConcurrency(const QModelIndex &index)
{
QxtScheduleInternalItem *item = qxt_d().itemForModelIndex(index);
if (item)
qxt_d().handleItemConcurrency(item);
}
void QxtScheduleView::resizeEvent(QResizeEvent * /* e*/)
{
updateGeometries();
}
void QxtScheduleView::rowsRemoved(const QModelIndex & parent, int start, int end)
{
/**
*@FIXME write correct code here
*/
return qxt_d().reloadItemsFromModel();
/*for now we care only about toplevel items*/
if (!parent.isValid())
{
for (int iLoop = 0; iLoop < qxt_d().m_Items.count();iLoop++)
{
QxtScheduleInternalItem *item = qxt_d().m_Items.at(iLoop);
if (item)
{
if (item->m_iModelRow >= start && item->m_iModelRow <= end)
{
qxt_d().m_Items.takeAt(iLoop);
if (item == qxt_d().m_currentItem)
{
qxt_d().m_currentItem = 0;
emit indexSelected(QModelIndex());
}
delete item;
continue;
}
if (item->m_iModelRow > end)
{
int iDifference = end - start + 1;
item->m_iModelRow -= iDifference;
}
}
}
}
}
void QxtScheduleView::rowsInserted(const QModelIndex & parent, int start, int end)
{
/*for now we care only about toplevel items*/
if (!parent.isValid())
{
for (int iLoop = start; iLoop <= end;iLoop++)
{
/*now create the items*/
QxtScheduleInternalItem *currentItem = new QxtScheduleInternalItem(this, model()->index(iLoop, 0));
qxt_d().m_Items.append(currentItem);
connect(currentItem, SIGNAL(geometryChanged(QxtScheduleInternalItem*, QVector<QRect>)), &qxt_d(), SLOT(itemGeometryChanged(QxtScheduleInternalItem * , QVector< QRect >)));
qxt_d().handleItemConcurrency(currentItem);
}
}
viewport()->update();
}
void QxtScheduleView::rowsAboutToBeRemoved(const QModelIndex & parent, int start, int end)
{
Q_UNUSED(parent);
Q_UNUSED(start);
Q_UNUSED(end);
/*for now we care only about toplevel items*/
return;
}
void QxtScheduleView::rowsAboutToBeInserted(const QModelIndex & parent, int start, int end)
{
/*for now we care only about toplevel items*/
if (!parent.isValid())
{
int iDifference = end - start;
for (int iLoop = 0; iLoop < qxt_d().m_Items.count();iLoop++)
{
QxtScheduleInternalItem * item = qxt_d().m_Items[iLoop];
if (item)
if (item->m_iModelRow >= start && item->m_iModelRow < model()->rowCount())
item->m_iModelRow += iDifference + 1;
}
}
}
/**
* @desc returns the current selected index
*/
QModelIndex QxtScheduleView::currentIndex()
{
QModelIndex currIndex;
if (qxt_d().m_currentItem)
currIndex = qxt_d().m_currentItem->modelIndex();
return currIndex;
}
/**
* @desc sets the timerange
* This function will set a Timerange from fromDate 00:00am to toDate 23:59pm
*/
void QxtScheduleView::setDateRange(const QDate & fromDate, const QDate & toDate)
{
Q_UNUSED(fromDate);
Q_UNUSED(toDate);
QDateTime startTime = QDateTime(fromDate, QTime(0, 0, 0));
QDateTime endTime = QDateTime(toDate, QTime(23, 59, 59));
setTimeRange(startTime, endTime);
}
/**
* @desc sets the timerange
* This function will set the passed timerange, but may adjust it to the current viewmode.
* e.g You cannot start at 1:30am in a DayMode, this gets adjusted to 00:00am
*/
void QxtScheduleView::setTimeRange(const QDateTime & fromDateTime, const QDateTime & toDateTime)
{
QDateTime startTime = fromDateTime;
QDateTime endTime = toDateTime;
//adjust the timeranges to fit in the view
adjustRangeToViewMode(&startTime, &endTime);
qxt_d().m_startUnixTime = startTime.toTime_t();
qxt_d().m_endUnixTime = endTime | 7,164 |
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*
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*
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*
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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Awards Wildlife Conservation Society with Donation Towards its Marine Protected Area Fund
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Research has found that MPAs are critical for conserving marine ecosystems like coral reefs. More than 450 million people live within 60 kilometers of coral reefs, with many deriving food and income from them, yet they face extinction in the face of warming temperatures. The continued establishment of MPAs will further protect biodiversity, prevent overfishing and increase economic opportunity.
WCS has a long history with protecting marine species and ecosystems in the world's oceans and coastal areas. The society's Marine Conservation Program is active in the sovereign waters of 23 countries in five oceans, with projects focusing on defending marine species such as whales, sharks, and rays and supporting sustainable fishery practices. The Tiffany & Co. Foundation has supported WCS's marine conservation program since 2000, with grants going towards global efforts spanning the Coral Triangle and the coasts of Kenya and Mauritius.
"The ocean and coral reefs face a myriad of threats today from climate change to pollution and overfishing." said Anisa Kamadoli Costa, Chairman and President of The Tiffany & Co. Foundation. "The creation of MPAs is a critical strategy to safeguard our oceans. We're proud to support WCS's ambitious vision to preserve this crucial resource for the enjoyment and livelihood of future generations."
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Ben Morrison
Episode 183 - August 14, 2018
Ben Morrison describes himself as a comedian, writer, actor, and director. But he is so much more than that. He's also an internationally celebrated (by few) photographer of sheep and the self-proclaimed Michael Phelps of poop jokes. Most importantly, he is a hilariously outspoken advocate for Crohn's Disease education and a dear friend of Mark.
While most comedians decided to pull back on their craft just after 9/11, Ben decided to double down and use it as a method of healing his own emotional wounds as well as his audience's. His courage to write material on difficult<|fim_middle|>.com
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"Nothing is ever going to be more impactful than the simple reality of what is going on now."
"There is nothing funnier than the truth."
"You know what isn't funny? Fake."
"Humor can re-paint any situation."
"Explore what you can do artistically with the hand that you've been dealt." | subjects has helped many cope with their own stigmas, especially around Crohn's Disease (something Ben has had since his youth). Tune in to see for yourself how Ben's incredible example shows us how to laugh in the face of adversity and help others find their laughter along the way as well.
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-How 9/11 affected the comedy scene.
-Ben's personal thesis on comedy as a vehicle for healing.
-Why Ben fell in love with the lifestyle of a comedian.
-How Ben uses comedy to talk about difficult subjects, like Crohn's Disease and colonoscopies.
-Ben's daily routine to keep himself sane.
-When it's most difficult to be authentic.
-The craziest prank Ben has ever played on someone.
-How Ben deals with criticism from his audience and other comedians.
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Buffett's Berkshire: Investments Faced Loss, Operating Earnings Rose – TheStreet
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) – Get Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Report suffered investment losses during the market volatility, but the conglomerate's operating profits skyrocketed.
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A multitude of businesses such as energy, insurance and utilities owned by Berkshire Hathaway make up its operating earnings, which rose to $9.283 billion during the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 38.8% from<|fim_middle|> diversified nature is a proxy for the overall economy," he said. "Those pundits espousing the opinion that we are not in a recession are heartened by Berkshire's results."
Berkshire's earnings also revealed that the company scaled back share repurchases over the same time last year to $1 billion, resulting in a six-month total to $4.2 billion. During the first quarter, the pace was higher and the company bought back $3.2 billion of its own stock.
"This is not surprising given the firm's recent purchases of Occidental Petroleum," Johnson said.
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The businesses were not immune to the turmoil in the market, declining by $53 billion during the quarter, Berkshire reported August 6.
But Buffett, the well-known and highly regarded investor, cautioned against focusing on the short-term fluctuations on its investments.
"The amount of investment gains/losses in any given quarter is usually meaningless and delivers figures for net earnings per share that can be extremely misleading to investors who have little or no knowledge of accounting rules," Berkshire said in a statement.
Berkshire Operating Earnings Skyrocketed
The headline number is that Berkshire Hathaway suffered a loss in the second quarter and in the first six months of 2022 compared to the first six months of 2021, Robert Johnson, a professor at the Heider College of Business at Creighton University, told TheStreet.
Berkshire's investors should be focused on that operating earnings were up 38.8% in the second quarter compared to the second quarter 2021, he said.
Investors should also note that the operating earnings were up 19.1% in the first six months of 2022 compared to the first six months of 2021.
The net earnings were down because of investment losses and the mark to market accounting requirement, Johnson said.
Buffett's investment philosophy has always been to maintain a portfolio consisting of investments in a range of industries.
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Acts of kindness and the power of positivity bringing joy to Genesis patients
by: Eric Zizich
Posted: Feb 8, 2019 / 12:04 AM CST / Updated: Jun 24, 2019 / 12:53 PM CDT
Genesis Health System is using acts of kindness and the power of positivity to bring joy to patients.
The Genesis initiative is called 28 Days of Happiness and goes on during February.
"The concept is that by feeling good about themselves through simple acts of kindness, the power of positivity will be passed down to patients, their families and anyone else coming in contact with Genesis Health System employees," says Kate Murphy, Manager of Corporate Communications at Genesis.
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Officers, fire crews and Medic EMS responded shortly after 7 p.m. to the 2600 block of Fillmore Lane about an unresponsive person in the street.
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Several area emergency crews responded to a fire call at Community Home Partners nine-floor Spencer Towers in Rock Island just before 3 p.m. on Monday.
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Iowa Safe Schools pushes bill to ban conversion therapy in the state
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- This legislative session, the advocacy group Iowa Safe Schools wants lawmakers to focus on issues harmful to Iowa's LGBTQ youth.
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Guava is a tropical fruit that should be welcomed in any dietary protocol that appreciates healthy nutrition and good health. Guava is called a supper fruit because of its numerous health benefits. The health benefits of guava are due largely to its richness in antioxidants like lycopene and beta carotene; and trace minerals such as selenium and manganese. The recognized spheres of significant biological effects for guava are shown below.
u Anti-cancer effects
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Anti-cancer Effects
Guava is an antioxidant-rich food. These antioxidants are largely responsible for the anti-cancer effects of guava. This fruit is remarkably rich in lycopene, a potent antioxidant. Guava has the second highest level of lycopene among fruits and vegetables. It contains four times as much lycopene as tomato, a highly regarded lycopene-rich food. Only one uncommon fruit, gac, has a higher level of lycopene than guava. Gac is an emerging anti-cancer fruit found mainly in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam. Besides lycopene, guava contains other antioxidants that help to fight cancer and support good health. These other antioxidants include vitamin C, beta carotene, selenium, zinc and manganese.
Guava is important for healthy skin and prevention of skin cancer. One important effect of guava is that it protects the skin from the sun's ultraviolet rays (UV rays). Ultraviolet rays promote wrinkling of the skin and skin cancer. This skin protective effect of guava is attributed to its anti-oxidant constituents, particularly lycopene.
Guava supports healthy blood pressure. Metabolites like potassium and magnesium are important for preventing high blood pressure. The high potassium content of this fruit may be the key factor for the healthy blood pressure from guava. According to the USDA Nutrient Data Base for Standard Reference, guava contains 417mg potassium per 100 gram. This potassium content is approximately four times the concentration in the apple, a highly regarded healthy fruit. Good blood pressure is critical for a<|fim_middle|> Unhealthiest Fast Food Burgers
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DB Connections: 98 | healthy cardiovascular system. Therefore, the blood pressure effect of a given nutrient can be used as an index of the beneficial cardiovascular effects of the nutrient. The magnesium in guava is another nutrient that may contribute to healthy blood pressure. The magnesium content of guava is also about four times the value in apple.
Healthy Digestive System
Guava supports food digestion and healthy digestive system. The high content of dietary fiber in guava is a key factor for this beneficial effect on the digestive system. The fiber content of guava is about 5.4 grams per 100 grams, a significant fraction of which is soluble fiber. Fruits, such as apples and papayas, typically have fiber contents of 1.7 to 2.4 grams per 100 grams. This high fiber content supports good health by stabilizing blood glucose and improving regularity.
Dietary fibers, particularly soluble fibers, help to stabilize plasma glucose (blood sugar) by slowing down the rate of glucose absorption from the small intestine. This prevents huge spikes in plasma glucose and helps you to maintain healthy levels of insulin activity (insulin sensitivity). Many chronic diseases such as diabetes and ischemic heart disease are preventable at the inception by maintaining normal insulin sensitivity.
Dietary fibers also support good health by improving regularity. Improvements in gastro-intestinal motility (peristalsis) and proper moisture levels in the gastro-intestinal content are the primary changes responsible for the regularity. Consequently, dietary fibers can prevent both constipation and diarrhea. Diarrhea would tend to cause dehydration and nutrient losses. Constipation, on the other hand, raises the risk for hemorrhoids, diverticulitis and colon cancer.
Guava is grown in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The tree can reach a height of 4 to 7 feet. The fruit is similar in size and shape to a typical lemon. A typical guava fruit is about 3.5 inches long. The unripe guava fruit is green in color; whereas, a ripe one can be green, yellow or maroon. The maroon colored fruit (pink guava) is very rich in lycopene. This tropical fruit has small seeds that are dispersed in the flesh. All parts of this fruit are edible, and like most fruits, guava is often eaten raw. It can also be consumed as jam or jelly. Additionally, beverages can be made from this tropical fruit. Beverages from guava such as agua freca are popular in some parts of the world such as Mexico. Apart from Mexico, guava is a common component of the diets in many countries, including Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Columbia, Venezuela, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt and South Africa.
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We are told that in the Milky Way there are millions and millions of stars and ever so many sun families. Western astronomy placed on record with regard to its numbers also but, who is there to verify all these? However we will just understand the universe first in which we live. There is a Sun, everybody knows it, and around this Sun the planets like Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune which<|fim_middle|> I leave the rest of the depth about the cosmos to your imagination! | are travelling in the space in a certain prefixed circle. However, we should realize that we are living in this earth which is a part of the sun family and the fifth largest planet in the solar system. This earth is the only planet known to support life. It weighs roughly about 5, 97, 20,000 million tons and its circumference covers 40,075 km. It is located 14, 95, 97,000 km away from the sun. The earth circles itself at a speed of 1,670 km/h and it took 23 hours 56 minutes 04.09053 seconds to complete one full circle. By this time it travels 40,075 km on its path which we call as a Day, besides it floats around the sun at a speed of 1,07,870 km/h by this ratio in a single day it covers 25,41,450 km and in 365.2564 days completes 940 million km we term this a year. In addition to that you would be astonished to know that in the above process sun's peripheral atmosphere wind flows 400 km/second which accounts for 14,40,000 km/h. What the beauty in it is that not only the planetary system travels in the space but also we, the human beings, all the living creations including vegetation and animals and the things which are placed on the earth are all travelling such a long distance constantly throughout the lifespan along with the earth without any obstacles, at the same time we, as we are standing, walking, swimming, playing etc. on the earth could not feel the happenings in the universe. Is it not an amazing to you to imagine all the happenings?
Similarly,the moon, which is a natural satellite to the earth, we see the moon in the sky is encircling the earth in 28 days. It weighs 735,000 million tones and its circumference covers 10,919 km. It is located 4, 07,000 km away from the earth. This sun family is said to have number of moons viz. Earth 01 moon, Mars 02 moons, Jupiter 63 moons, Saturn 34 moons, Uranus 27 moons and Neptune 13 moons, but the Mercury and Venus have no moons. Besides dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris, countless comets, asteroids and meteoroids are there. This info's are subject to changes according to the vision of the scientists then and there. But, it is true that the said above are encircling the sun. Likewise we can say plentiful about the sun family and the universe endlessly, but we cannot just imagine the entirety of the cosmos with the facts just emerging from the sun family known to our eyes and knowledge. So, | 620 |
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By Richard van der Draay on February 1, 2019 • ( 0 )
John Brumby will step down from the Board of Huawei Australia after eight years of service, effective 1 March 2019.
The firm noted Brumby was one of the original independent directors appointed to the Board of Huawei Australia, the first local board established by the company in 2011.
Brumby, who was Labor Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010 and also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs, said he had particularly enjoyed being part of a global company "leading the world in innovation and technology<|fim_middle|>&D," he said.
"Finally, in addition to helping build a more innovative, connected and competitive Australia, I am proud of the significant contribution Huawei has made to cancer research, sporting development, Indigenous education and children's health," said Brumby.
"John was instrumental in establishing the processes and operation of Huawei's first ever
local Board. He brought to the role a deep understanding of management processes and public policy in Australia," said Huawei Australian Chairman John Lord.
"John stayed on the Board longer than he first intended and we wish him all the best for the future, especially with his upcoming role as Chancellor of La Trobe University." said Lord.
Huawei has started the process to fill the Board vacancy.
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"Today, we have a large, diverse and multicultural workforce which is fully committed to the company's future in Australia," he added. "Huawei's Australian business has grown strongly over the last 8 years with employee numbers doubling during my time on the Board from 300 to around 700."
"Since we established the board in 2011, our revenue has increased from $229 million to $623 million in 2017, a cumulative annual growth rate of 18% per annum," said Brumby, looking back over his time with the Shenzhen-based company.
"While we have had some challenging times over the years, Huawei Australia has continued to go from strength to strength, becoming Australia's largest provider of wireless technology and serving more than half the Australian population," he said. "Our world leading equipment has supported Optus and Vodafone to drive improvements in service performance and reduced costs for Australian businesses and consumers."
"The timing of my retirement from the Board is completely unrelated to any recent commentary regarding China and Huawei," emphasised Brumby who also served on the firm's Risk & Compliance committee.
"More than a year ago, I advised the Board and Huawei HQ of my intention to retire to make time for new commitments I was taking on in early 2019. I remain a strong supporter of closer ties between Australia and China, particularly in the fields of investment, trade, education and R | 300 |
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The story of Tissot
The Tissot story begins in Le Locle, Switzerland, in 1853. Still at home in Le Locle, today Tissot is the largest traditional Swiss watch Brand, based on volume, and is represented across five continents. The Brand's DNA has two distinctive elements – traditional values and a commitment to innovation. Throughout its history, these have characterised all its products and technologies, as well as the diverse portfolio of sales and marketing activities. The high calibre of the Brand has been repeatedly recognised and in its illustrious history, Tissot has been named Official Timekeeper and Partner of many disciplines including Basketball, Motorsports, Rugby and Cycling. Tissot, which sells its timepieces in more than 160 countries round the world, is a member of the Swatch Group, the world's largest producer and distributor of Swiss watches.
Tissot and Sports
The bond between Tissot and the dynamic world of sports was forged in its early days. Tissot then entered the field of sports timekeeping in 1938 to become a key player in the championships.
Today, its sporting calendar unites high-profile events and a diverse spectrum of disciplines. In addition to its Official Timekeeping partnerships in the world of basketball with the NBA and FIBA; cycling with the Tour de France and the UCI World Cycling Championships; motorsports with MotoGPTM and the FIM World Superbike Championship and rugby with the 6 Nations Championship, TOP14, the European Rugby Champions and Challenge Cups, the World Championships of Fencing and Ice hockey also entrust their timekeeping and data handling to the Swiss Brand.
It goes without saying that the Swiss Made label is one of our core values alongside tradition, precision and innovation. So it is not surprising that Tissot gladly supports and promotes projects that share its values. Tissot has been involved in Swiss Alpine tourism and Switzerland's mountain scenery for many years through various partnerships. It partners the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC), with whom it shares an allegiance to tradition, as well as the ever-in<|fim_middle|>://www.tissotwatches.com/en-gb/
© 2019 Hour Passion SAS All rights reserved. | novative Jungfrau railways. Tissot itself boosted this pursuit of innovation by supporting the First Cliff Walk by Tissot, in Grindelwald. The Brand has an equally innovative presence on Glacier 3000, where Tissot has put its name to the world's first suspension bridge linking two summits: Peak Walk by Tissot.
Tissot ambassadors
Tissot has carefully selected 8 talented ambassadors to promote and inspire the watches created by the Brand. Each of these personalities was chosen for the qualities they have in common with Tissot.
Tony Parker, former NBA player is one of the Brand's ambassadors. He says: " I don't like wasting time, that's why I am the ambassador for Tissot."
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Congratulation to the PCS Award Winners!
On Tuesday, October 9, PCS recognized the achievements and contributions of several of our members at our annual Awards Reception, at the Fairwinds Alumni Center on the campus of the University of Central Florida. I was able to get a photo of each award winner, and here they are:
Richard House and Charles Kostelnick, Goldsmith Award winner
The Alfred N. Goldsmith Award recognizes Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Communication. The 2012 winner of the Goldsmith Award was Charles Kostelnick (Iowa State University). Richard House (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), program chair for IPCC 2012 and a member of the PCS AdCom, presented Charles with the award.
Muriel Zimmerman, winner of the Schlesinger Award, with George Hayhoe
Muriel Zimmerman (UC Santa Barbara and MIT) received the Emily K. Schlesinger Award for Distinguished Service to the Professional Communication Society. George Hayhoe (Mercer University), the 2002 winner of the award and conference chair for IPCC 2012, was thrilled to present Muriel with the award.
Suguru Ishizaki receives the Joenk Award from Ann Watt, chair of the Awards Committee
<|fim_middle|> Mines) received the James M. Lufkin Award for Best Paper in the IPCC 2012 Proceedings. The title of Jon's paper is "What Does Professional Communication Research Have To Do With Social Justice? Intersections and Sources of Resistance." Sandy Bartell, conference proceedings chair for IPCC 2012 and conference chair for IPCC 2013, gave Jon the award.
It is important, even as we recognize the achievements of long-standing members of PCS, to highlight the accomplishments of the next generation. For that reason, PCS presented the award for Best Student Poster at IPCC 2012 to Justin Parmer (University of South Alabama) for his poster entitled "Attic vs. Asiatic, Explained through Apple Advertising." Nicole Amare (University of South Alabama) presented the award–way to go, Justin!
Nicole Amare presents the Best Student Poster Award to Justin Parmer
Although the winners of the awards were known in advance of the Awards Reception, there was one surprise. George Hayhoe, who is retiring from the AdCom after 20 years of service to PCS, received a commemorative clock from Julia Williams (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), PCS president. In addition, the AdCom has created a new program to honor George, the Hayhoe Fellows, which will support the attendance at IPCC of a deserving graduate student each year. Congratulations to all the winners and to George! | The Rudolph J. Joenk Award recognizes the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication during the previous year. Suguru Ishizaki (Carnegie Mellon Univeristy) received the award from Ann Watt (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology).
Ron Blicq presents the award to Kirk St. Amant
The Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication Education was a special event this year. Ron Blicq, for whom the award is named, was in attendance to present the award to Kirk St. Amant (East Carolina University). Both Ron and Kirk were pleased to meet each other and to share in this important moment.
Sandy Bartell (left), proceedings chair for IPCC 2012, and Jon Leydens, winner of the Lufkin Award
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In collaboration with iTeachU, SCA is very excited to present our hybrid course - part online learning and part hands-on participation.
We conducted an extensive needs based assessment for the use of clinical ultrasound by anesthesiologists in the practice of perioperative medicine. The Perioperative Ultrasound Course (PoCUS) is a collaboration between SCA and iTeachU that provides education to help address the professional practice gaps found in the assessment.
PoCUS offers training in utilizing basic clinical ultrasound to assist in<|fim_middle|>The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists designates this enduring material for a maximum of 85 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Perioperative Ultrasound Institutional Program - NEW!
There is a growing demand for cardiac anesthesiologists to have the knowledge and skills to perform and interpret perioperative ultrasound images. There has been interest from institutions to utilize the Perioperative Ultrasound Course as part of the training program for their interns, residents, and fellows.
In an effort to help institutions meet this demand, SCA, in collaboration with iTeachU, is pleased to introduce the Perioperative Ultrasound Institutional Program. | clinical assessment, decision-making and using ultrasound to guide percutaneous procedures. This is a three-part course that requires learners to complete an online portion, a hands-on workshop and a number of supervised studies which are tracked in an online log book.
Participants who compete the online program, live hands-on workshop, and the log book (75 studies), will receive a program completion certificate.
The 2019 Hands-On Perioperative Ultrasound Course workshop offers in-depth and focused learning in an intimate environment with a faculty-participant ratio of about 1:4. Participants will gain practical knowledge on how to perform safe ultrasound guided procedures.
View more information about the upcoming 2019 meeting.
Students have the flexibility to study on their own schedule. Program materials can be accessed through the iTeachU app on smartphones and tablets with iOS, Android or Windows systems. Once the program materials have been downloaded, all interactive media content can be viewed even when offline (periodic internet access is required to login or verify login credentials). The course can also be accessed online using a web browser.
To complete the online portion of the course, the participant must read the subject tutorials, submit the related tutorial assessments and get a pass mark of 70%. Upon payment, the student will receive a "Getting Started" email with instructions on how to access the program materials.
Academic and private practice anesthesiologists, residents, and fellows providing patient care in a teaching or community-based health care settings.
The use of clinical ultrasound to assist in clinical decision making in perioperative medicine, such as basic transthoracic echocardiography, lung ultrasound, basic abdominal ultrasound, and basic transesophageal echocardiography is a major advancement in perioperative health care and anesthesiology practice, but is currently not widely used or adopted in health care settings.
The use of clinical ultrasound to help guide percutaneous procedures in perioperative practice, such as nerve blocks, vascular access, and pleural drain insertion is an established practice in anesthesiology, but not yet widely adopted.
Acquiring knowledge is difficult to achieve while caring for patients in a busy practice setting.
Knowledge is an essential component to increasing competency in clinical ultrasound.
A structured learning program of theory, supplemented by extensive case review is needed to improve patient care.
This activity was designed to change learners' knowledge by providing them the strategies to adopt clinical ultrasound in their clinical practice and care of patients in anesthesiology and critical care medicine.
Learn the cognitive skills needed to apply the knowledge gained through learning sono-anatomy, the uses of clinical ultrasound, and learn patterns of pathology that integrate the ultrasound diagnosis into clinical decision making. This includes case study review through the uses of case-based examples.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and iTeachU. The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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Howard Kurtz disturbed by CNN's 'all-plane, all-the-time' coverage of Malaysia flight [VIDEO]
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Fox News media reporter Howard Kurtz said he's "disturbed" by the media's rampant speculation on missing Malaysian Air Flight 3<|fim_middle|>Brendan Bordelon | 70, singling out CNN in particular for its "all-plane, all-the-time" coverage.
The American media has gradually ratcheted up its coverage of the flight since its mysterious disappearance off Vietnam one week ago, filling airtime with increasingly bizarre theories and developments later proven incorrect (RELATED: US believes Flight 370 flew 4 hours after transponder disabled, Malaysia denies)
Kurtz seems to have had enough. "It's too much with too few facts," he told Fox's Gregg Jarrett. "Lots of news organizations and television networks are going very heavy on the missing plane. And you know, it's an important story and there's huge global interest, I get that. CNN has gotten a huge ratings bump."
"But a lot of those hours — not just on CNN — are filled with theories and speculation and false starts," he continued, citing incorrect reports about recovered wreckage and oil slicks. "We're all falling into the trap, I think, of filling airtime with facts, or pseudo-facts, or speculation that turns out not to be true."
"I understand that everybody is hungry to get the next detail," Kurtz said, "and to fill in some of the blanks on something that seems to make no sense . . . [but] I think that a little bit more double-checking and a little bit less of the speculation would serve viewers better."
He was particularly harsh on CNN's wall-to-wall coverage of the flight's disappearance this week, criticizing CNN anchor Chris Cuomo's explanation that "the job is to have more questions than answers."
"That's an attempt to justify the all-plane, all-the-time coverage that CNN is engaged in," Kurtz said. "Cuomo's co-anchor, Michaela Pereira, said today, 'In the absence of facts, we have to consider all possibilities.'"
"Well we do, as journalists, off the air," he said, "but we don't have to air them in front of a camera if we don't know. It seems to me that too many in this business have veered off course because there's a mystery, there's ratings in it."
"It's almost turned into a bit of a parlor game," he concluded, "and that disturbs me."
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I hope you find the answer to your question here! If not, please email me at alice@alicesheridan.com or message me under the CONTACT menu at the top of the page.
I work mainly<|fim_middle|> extra strong cardboard tube to make sure it reaches you in best condition. For further details about delivery please see the Shipping details. | in water based mediums; acrylic paint, inks and pencils. Further details will usually be listed alongside each piece.
It varies. Most work on canvas is sold unframed; many people prefer this more modern look and it means it can be shipped without costing you more. If you like the look of a frame you can choose when you have the painting with you – it's easier to decide that way! A slimline box frame looks great on a canvas.
Paintings on cradled wood usually have a simple handprinted wooden frame. Details will be with each work. Please contact me if you would like bespoke advice or have any further questions – framing can be an art in itself!
Will my painting be ready to hang?
Yes, all paintings will come with picture wire already fixed and ready to hang. You just need to decide where!
Can I purchase your work with a payment plan?
Yes, that can be arranged. For any work over £400 you can pay in instalments. Please send me a message and we can work out an arrangement that suits you. As soon as the final payment is made, your work will be shipped to you.
My favourite painting has sold – how can I be sure to know about new work?
Some pieces sell very quickly. Make sure you join my mailing list to find out about new work before it is added to the Shop. But, as I try not to bombard you with emails, you can also follow studio progress on Instagram or Facebook to see work coming up.
How will my painting be wrapped?
It depends on size, but paintings will be carefully packed using corner protection, bubble wrap and cardboard. Each one is unique so I take care that is well protected to arrive in perfect condition. For further details about delivery please see the Shipping details.
Do you do special commissions?
Currently I'm not taking on any new commissions, as I'm working on a new body of work. If you like my style then one of those may be the one for you!
An edition is a high quality reproduction of an original artwork, the print is so fine you can't see the printed dots with the naked eye. All editions are signed by me on the front.
How are the editions made?
A high resolution photograph of the original work is taken and carefully colour adjusted to ensure the optimum colour match. The editions are giclee prints made at a specialist printer using archival quality inks on a 100% cotton rag acid free paper.
Why do you use the word 'edition' when so many artists call them prints?
Because I also do 'proper' fine art printmaking using traditional techniques such as drypoint and etching so I thought using the word print could get confusing!
Do you make editions of all your paintings?
No, most are available as originals only. Certain paintings which I feel would work particularly well as reproductions are selected to be available as editions.
Can I order an edition at a different size?
Most editions have some sizing options so you can choose what suits you, although not all are available at the largest size. Remember once you have added a mount and a frame the final dimensions will be larger.
Will my edition be framed?
Because of the difficulty of shipping glass I don't usually sell framed work. If you are happy to collect from my studio in Chiswick I can arrange framing for you. Please email me at alice@alicesheridan.com or add a message to your order. You could also look at eframe for ordering mounts and frames online.
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Pieces under 20 x 30 cm will be carefully packed flat. Larger artwork will be rolled and sent in an | 746 |
2013: Kill the Status Quo and SEE Your Laughable Dreams.
Gordon McKenzie's unofficial title at Hallmark was vice president for creative disruption.
Not too many years ago, McKenzie conducted an informal, yet profound experiment.
His findings? Nearly every student in the first grade raised their hand. Second grade, maybe two-thirds. Third grade, half. Fourth grade, one-third, and by the fifth grade, only two or three students raised their hands, and they were obviously embarrassed to do so.
McKenzie surmised that the school – the students' actual supportive organization – actively participated in the suppression of creative genius, and that it's a trait among almost all organizations. Schools, the workplace, church, anywhere you might imagine, it's the organization's desperate attempt to maintain the status quo. At the heart of it all is that the organization takes on its own life to radically curtail change, that which would often be change for the good.
The organization, you see, wants to "survive" just as it is, and always has been.
I've learned to hate the status quo. Succumbing to the status quo would have prevented every dream I ever had.
A go-along attitude would have quashed my dreams as a writer, creative marketer and I'd surely never have written this post from a new base in the peaceful fishing village of Puerto Cayo, Ecuador, a place I consider an entrepreneur's paradise where the risks are low and the potential for success is high.
DON'T pull out a pen and paper tonight and jot down 10 quick "resolutions" five minutes before midnight.
DON'T get an accountability partner to hold you to your mutual commitment.
DON'T buy new batteries for the bathroom scales.
I want you to VISUALIZE your success stories in 2013.
For years, Tiger Woods visualized sinking a 40-foot putt to win Augusta's Masters.
In many NBA pre-seasons Michael Jordan paid a professional who would help him see his final shot in the championship series seventh game.
A few years ago, I even did it myself as I trained for my first marathon and at the end of each Saturday's long run (which was just a bit further than the<|fim_middle|> have gone back to look at it a dozen times. I love how these guys threw caution to the wind just to have a little fun.
play, do it, so that it becomes second nature.
6. Develop your personal MANTRA – that is, adopt, or create a set of words with a certain rhythm that resonates with everything you do. Five years ago, I adopted as my mantra a quote by renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, who said, "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." That mantra changed, and continues to change my life, and it's the very thing I pursue every day.
Lay claim to your dreams right now.
← Goodbye to the Old Years: The Ano Viejos in Ecuador!
Steve, This reminds me of the quote that Lindsey Little, my daughter, repeated to me last night on skype. " Do not ask what the world needs from you, but ask what your passion is because that is what the world needs." Hope I quoted that right. Anyway, I am following you and Dana and praying for you all.
Thanks, Pam. Though she is in a MUCH different part of the world than us, Dana and I think of Lindsey often and pray for her as well. Just before we left Jonesboro, Dana bought a shirt from the Refinery to help support her. She wears it many nights. Thanks so much for your comment, and for your prayers. Steve. | previous Saturday's training run) I visualized myself crossing the 26.2 mile finish line as a volunteer placed a finisher's medal around my neck.
So stop hoping, stop dreaming, and start SEEING your laughable dream now.
Try any of these six ways to begin visualizing your laughable dreams, many of which I've adopted from the book, On the Verge, by Alan Hirsh and Dave Ferguson.
1. Use this formula: L = P + Q. That is LEARNING takes place when PROGRAMMING (that of your organization's status quo) is subject to QUESTION. Learn how to ask the right questions to initiate a genuine quest for the answers.
2. Take more RISKS. Conformity is the result of obsession with safety. Diversity and adventure result from a willingness to take risks. Take yourself entirely out of your comfort zone. I've failed in a huge way, many, many times.
3. Think like a BEGINNER, not an expert. Even if you must "unlearn" much of what you think you already know.
4. Know that it's okay to FEEL. I admire the great thinkers around me, but I wouldn't take anything for my feelings and gut instincts.
I took this photo on the streets of Puerto Cayo less than 24 hours ago and must | 272 |
Q: Swipe gestures in Windows Phone 8.1 In my app i want to be able to recognise certain gestures that occur on an ui element.
So far i have got this: (where main grid is the element)
mainGrid.ManipulationMode = ManipulationModes.TranslateX | ManipulationModes.TranslateY;
mainGrid.ManipulationCompleted += OnManipulationCompleted;
public void OnManipulationCompleted(object sender, ManipulationCompletedEventArgs e)
{
var velocities = e.Velocities;
}
but i get certain weird errors
Error 1 No<|fim_middle|> ManipulationModes.TranslateX | ManipulationModes.TranslateY;
mainGrid.ManipulationCompleted += OnManipulationCompleted;
public void OnManipulationCompleted(object sender, ManipulationCompletedRoutedEventArgse)
{
var velocities = e.Velocities;
}
EDIT: didnt fully fix it,app crashes when getting velocities
| overload for 'OnManipulationCompleted' matches delegate
'Windows.UI.Xaml.Input.ManipulationCompletedEventHandler' C:\Visual
Studio 2013\Projects\Swell\Swell\MainPage.xaml.cs
reference : Handling Swipe Guesture in Windows 8 Grid
A: OnManipulationCompleted is probably a method provided by your base class its signature does not match.
I suspect that you need to change the name to avoid a conflict such as:
mainGrid.ManipulationCompleted += MainGridManipulationCompleted;
public void MainGridManipulationCompleted(object sender, ManipulationCompletedEventArgs e)
{
var velocities = e.Velocities;
}
A: So i think i fixed it guys
had to change 'ManipulationCompletedEventArgs' to 'ManipulationCompletedRoutedEventArgse'
mainGrid.ManipulationMode = | 173 |
The Connemara Heritage Centre is an open-air museum near Clifden, County Galway, in the Connemara region, Ireland. The Centre introduces the<|fim_middle|> the hardship endured by tenant farmers. Dan was forced to emigrate when he was evicted from his home for non-payment of rent. His story is immortalised in the ballad Dan O' Hara. | history of the area from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
The centre's attractions include audiovisual and history presentations, as well as outdoor exhibits including reconstructions like the reconstructions of the crannóg, ring fort and a clochaun give an insight into life in ancient times.
The first settlers in Connemara settled mainly along the shoreline and rivers. They were hunter-gatherers and the main legacy they have left behind is 'middens' or ancient dumping sites which are found along the coast.
Farming began in Connemara approximately 6000 years ago. Evidence suggests that the settlers began to clear the woods in the valleys and that it was predominantly pastoral farming with some arable farming. They also continued to fish and hunt. The vast amount of megalithic tombs which dot the landscape in Connemara are reminders of these first farmers and their beliefs and rituals.
Many of the standing stones, stone alignments and burial monuments in Connemara date to the Bronze Age. The Celts emerged from Europe about 1000 B.C and brought with them new skills and traditions which have survived in Ireland to the present day. They were a warrior class and evidence of this shows in the remains of cliff top forts and crannogs which can be found in Connemara today. Reconstructions of a ring fort and a crannog are found on the grounds of the heritage centre.
Also on the grounds are the Dan O'Hara Homestead and pre-famine farm. Dan O'Hara's Homestead gives an insight into life in Connemara in the 19th century and | 340 |
package code.snippet
import code.model.User
import code.service.ReportService.TaskSheet
import code.service.TaskItemService.IntervalQuery
import code.service.UserService.nonAdmin
import code.service.{ReportService, TaskSheetItem}
import code.snippet.Params.{parseInterval, parseMonths, parseUser}
import code.snippet.mixin.DateFunctions
import code.util.{I18n, TaskSheetUtils}
import code.util.TaskSheetUtils._
import com.github.nscala_time.time.Imports._
import net.liftweb.common.Box
import net.liftweb<|fim_middle|>taskSum *" #> durations.print(sumByTasks(taskSheet)(t)) &
".taskRatio *" #> f"${(sumByTasks(taskSheet)(t).getMillis * 100.0d) / sum(taskSheet).getMillis}%1.2f"
} &
".dailySum" #> dates(taskSheet).map(d => ".dailySum *" #> durations.print(sumByDates(taskSheet)(d))) &
".totalSum *" #> durations.print(sum(taskSheet))
}
def printDateHeader(d: ReadablePartial): String =
Try(d.get(DateTimeFieldType.dayOfMonth())) map (_.toString) getOrElse d.toString
def formatCell(d: ReadablePartial): CssSel =
Try(d.get(DateTimeFieldType.dayOfWeek())).toOption flatMap { i =>
if (i == SATURDAY || i == SUNDAY) Some(".dailyData [class]" #> "colWeekend") else None
} getOrElse ".dailyData [class]" #> "colWeekday"
class Durations(ts: TaskSheet) {
val minutes = ("minutes", S.?("dimensions.minutes"), (d: Duration) => d.minutes.toString)
val hours = ("hours", S.?("dimensions.hours"), (d: Duration) => f"${d.minutes / 60.0d}%1.2f")
val manDays = ("manDays", S.?("dimensions.manDays"), (d: Duration) => f"${(d.minutes / 60.0d) / 8.0d}%1.2f")
val all = List(minutes, hours, manDays)
def print(d: Duration): String = {
(S.param("dimension") flatMap (s => all find (_._1 == s) map (_._3)) getOrElse minutes._3)(d)
}
}
object Durations {
val empty = new Durations(Map.empty[ReadablePartial, Map[TaskSheetItem, Duration]])
}
}
| .http.S
import net.liftweb.util.{CssSel, Helpers}
import net.liftweb.util.Helpers._
import org.joda.time.DateTimeConstants.{SATURDAY, SUNDAY}
import org.joda.time.{DateTimeFieldType, ReadablePartial, YearMonth}
import scala.util.Try
import scala.xml.NodeSeq
/**
* Tasksheet displaying component.
* @author David Csakvari
*/
class TasksheetSnippet extends DateFunctions {
def tasksheetExportLink(in: NodeSeq): NodeSeq = {
val params =
"interval" -> (parseMonths() getOrElse List(YearMonth.now()) mkString ";") ::
"dimension" -> S.param("dimension").getOrElse("minutes") ::
"taskFilter" -> S.param("taskFilter").getOrElse("") ::
(S.param("user") map (u => List("user" -> u)) getOrElse Nil)
("a [href]" #> s"/export/tasksheet?${ params map { case (k, v) => k + "=" + v } mkString "&" }").apply(in)
}
def title(in: NodeSeq): NodeSeq = {
val i = parseInterval getOrElse IntervalQuery.thisMonth()
<span>{I18n.Dates.printLongForm(i.interval, S.locale)}</span>
}
def taskFilter(in: NodeSeq): NodeSeq = {
(
"* [value]" #> S.param("taskFilter").getOrElse("") &
"* [placeholder]" #> S.loc("tasksheet.filter.task")
) apply in
}
def dimensionSelector(in: NodeSeq): NodeSeq = {
("select" #> ("option" #> (Durations.empty.all map { case (value, text, _) =>
val option = "option *" #> text & "option [value]" #> value
if (S.param("dimension").exists(_ == value)) option & "option [selected]" #> true else option
}))) apply in
}
def tasksheet(in: NodeSeq): NodeSeq = {
val i = parseInterval getOrElse IntervalQuery.thisMonth()
val user = User.currentUser filter nonAdmin or parseUser()
val taskFilter = S.param("taskFilter").getOrElse("")
renderTaskSheet(i, user, taskFilter)(in)
}
def renderTaskSheet(i: IntervalQuery, u: Box[User], taskFilter: String): CssSel = {
val taskSheet = ReportService.taskSheetData(i, u, taskFilter)
val durations = new Durations(taskSheet)
".dayHeader" #> dates(taskSheet).map(d => ".dayHeader *" #> printDateHeader(d)) &
".TaskRow" #> tasks(taskSheet).map { t =>
".taskFullName *" #> t.name & ".taskFullName [title]" #> t.name &
".dailyData" #> dates(taskSheet)
.map(d => ".dailyData *" #> durations.print(duration(taskSheet, d, t)) & formatCell(d)) &
". | 637 |
Mobile Ad<|fim_middle|> Apple is announcing its mobile ad plans tomorrow. If anything, these networks will now have to compete with two of the largest companies in the world.
But Millennial Media is wise to being offering innovative ad formats for the iPad and should be able to stand on its own if these formats ends of producing high click through rates. | Network Millennial Media Unveils iPad SDK And New Ad Formats
Leena Rao @LeenaRao / 13 years
With the iPad officially in the hands of consumers, mobile ad networks and platforms are rushing to create iPad specific ad formats. Medialets, Mobclix, and Greystripe have all created ad formats for the device. And AdMob is said to be releasing its iPad-specific SDK in the next few weeks. Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing an iPad-specific SDK and a customized PadMedia Creative Suite that includes new creative ad formats built specifically for the iPad.
Millennial Media's iPad SDK is code complete, and will be deployed after testing with beta publishers on-device is finalized this week. Developers will be able to download the SDK through Millennial's developer portal. For advertisers, Millennial Media is releasing its PadMedia Creative Suite, which includes standard mobile ad units and new unique ad formats for the iPad.
These include floating canvas, where a rich media ad will expand upon click, attempting to leverage the canvas of the iPad; RTP (Return-to-Play), which is an ad unit that allows consumers to respond to an ad, pausing their application experience and resuming when they are ready; Motion Creative, which allows ad units to become interactive when the user turns or rotates the iPad in different ways; and full-page Interstitials, which are full-page ads that appear upon application launch or during transition in game play.
Millennial is now one of the largest mobile ad networks in and U.S. According to Nielsen, Millennial Media reaches 83 percent of 72 million mobile web users, across every mobile platform. And the Baltimore-based startup is growing; in February Millennial Media acquired mobile metrics and analytics firm TapMetrics. Additionally, the ad network raised $16 million in Series C funding last November.
Of course, like many of its fellow ad networks, Millennial finds itself in a perplexing situation in the space. It's unclear how Google's acquisition of AdMob (although this may be derailed) and Apple's acquisition of Quattro Wireless will effect the other ad networks in the space. And | 438 |
Tackley Methodist Church is in a village of approximately 1,000 people 10 miles north of Oxford. We have a membership of 12 and most members live in the village. Our Sunday morning worship embraces a range of styles, including Café Church once a quarter. We also have a thriving "Messy<|fim_middle|>ades Road
OX5 3BE | Church" on a Saturday afternoon once a month. This has attracted an enthusiastic following of mainly younger mums and children. We have a good relationship with the parish church through regular meetings and a variety of joint activities. Our church is actively involved in the local community through running a weekly coffee morning and a monthly film night (known as FEATURES), and by hosting other village activities such as the village choir. Our film nights, on the second Sunday of the month at 7pm, show films in the church using a high-definition, surround sound system, and we also occasionally show films on Saturdays or Sundays to cater for our teenage and family audiences. Proceeds from these film nights go to help a whole range of charities.
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