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Did you miss Part 1 in the SWR Spelling Rules series? Read it now.
Let's continue by discussing the learning process for the SWR Spelling Rules. Some teachers make the mistake of handing the student the list of the rules, having him memorize them, and then calling the learning process "done." This is not how true learning takes place, and it certainly won't translate into proper usage of the rules during the writing process when the brain is focused on thoughts and ideas and not the mechanics of spelling or penmanship.
"Knowing" the rules is a process of learning.
Initially the student is asked to merely recite the rule. Gradually<|fim_middle|> in the Wise List. The PDF on our site called "An SWR Road Map" helps explain how this works.
Many of the rules are first learned by teaching a Reference Page.
The SWR book gives you instructions for how to introduce the rules to a Beginning student and then adds information for teaching an Advanced student.
Some of the Reference Pages introduce several rules all at once. For example, the student is exposed to eight different rules when you teach the Consonant/Vowel Page.
It's important for you to have worked your way through the instructions and have built the Reference Page in your own Master Teacher's Log so that you're better equipped to teach these. How are you doing on building your Master Teacher's Log? See Tip #7 on our Getting Started Series for more on building your own log.
The pages with multiple ideas on them are also what we call "Fixed" Reference Pages.
These are called "fixed" in that you teach the page and other than referring back to it during the year for review, you will not add anything to them. The "fixed pages" include the Consonant/Vowel, Silent Final E, and AEIOU Pages. Wanda Sanseri, the author of SWR, has even provided dialogue for your teaching on these pages. These are key concepts so you want to learn them well yourself.
You need to allow for more time to teach the "Fixed" Reference Pages, but remember that your initial goal when teaching these pages is EXPOSURE, not that the student will have mastered the material by the time you're done with that lesson.
Most of the Reference Pages are what we call "Collections" Reference Pages.
The first lesson for introducing a Collections Reference Page is typically simple and short. The E's Dropping or Y's Exchanging Pages are examples of Collections Pages.
As you continue to work through the Wise lists, you "collect" words to add to the Reference Page in order to practice the rules. You'll come back to these page over and over, as directed by the Wise Guide, to reinforce the rule. This allows the student to gain a deeper understanding of these rules. Don't you find there are lessons in life that you need to return to often before it finally "sticks?" The same holds true with the phonograms and spelling rules. Repeated exposure as you move up in vocabulary solidifies these concepts. Mastery comes by experiencing the rules as work over and over and over again as you work your way through the Wise List.
Sometimes a rule is merely introduced in the context of a new spelling list rather than with a Reference Page.
For example, Rule 17 (the FF, LL, SS rule) is introduced to a Beginning student when you teach the word "all" in List A.
You simply introduce the rule when you're analyzing it together and then move on to the next word. You'll continue to reinforce it verbally and with the rule cards whenever it comes up.
You want to learn the rules word-perfect, you and the student.
Learning the rules word-perfect also helps you and/or your student NOT "rewrite" the rules. If you ask him to "explain" the rule in his own words, it is highly likely he'll change the meaning of the rule. The wording of the rules is very precise. You do not want to change them to mean something they don't. Learn them they way they're written so you'll be able to use them more accurately.
Learning the rules word-perfect also helps a group or a class stay together when practicing them. It's very difficult to hear whether they've "got it" when they're all saying it differently. | and with repetition, he memorizes the rules. Next, he learns to use our special marking system to identify the rule in a word, thus building the connection between the rule and the word's spelling. Your ultimate goal is for him to be able to instinctively use the rules when writing and putting thoughts on paper. All of these require increasingly deeper "knowledge" of a rule. For both the teacher and the student, this is a process of moving from rote knowledge (repeating and reciting a rule) to automaticity during while writing. It takes a lot of work with the SWR process and moving through the Wise List to get to the automatic level.
When you have introduced a rule one or two times, don't expect your student to be able to say them back to you, how to mark them, or even how to apply them. He needs lots of practice and exposure to the rules before he can do this for himself. You're his guide, slowly releasing more and more of the dialogue to him as he gains autonomy in the process. See our blog post on Scaffolding with SWR for more on this topic.
The order for learning the rules varies.
Neither the teacher nor the student need to know all the rules before starting. Just to ease your mind, it's very likely you already know five of them if you have any handle on how English works.
As you progress through the Wise List, you and your student will learn the rules as they are needed for new vocabulary. The order in which these rules come up will completely depend on where you're starting | 320 |
Social media marketing is definitely more than what simply meets the eye. If done correctly then social media marketing can help increase your business three folds<|fim_middle|> a grave mistake for your brand name or business.
So what should you do to avoid such mistakes? Well, today we are going to give you a few tips that you can implement to see better end results. With the help of these steps and tips you can avoid the pitfalls and rise towards success. Once you have a strategy planned out for your business you are ready to outshine your competition! Now let's get started.
In order to successfully utilize the power of social media marketing you need to set clear marketing goals. If you do not know where you want to reach, you will easily get distracted and end up not getting the desired results.
While setting your social media marketing goals you need to keep a few things in mind. Be sure to set an achievable, measurable and defined goal. This way you can really understand whether your strategy is working or not.
Since you are new to this scenario so you can set a goal that you think is achievable in a few weeks or even months. Once you achieve your goal you will get a sense of accomplishment which is a great confidence booster.
Identifying the social platforms specific to your business is a very important step. You need to understand the importance and the power of all the social platform available to us. Some social media platforms are very versatile while some have a more defined set of rules.
Facebook and Instagram are some major social media platforms that all types of business and websites can utilize. While Pinterest and LinkedIn are more defined where Pinterest is more inclined towards creativity and DIY whereas LinkedIn is towards Jobs and latest Tech trends.
You also need to figure out how you are going to share your content with your audience. Whether you will add links or share pictures or videos of your content will also play a major role in deciding what platform you can choose to start with.
Once you understand how this works, then you can use all the social media platforms and share all types of contents.
Every year it is getting harder and harder to create unique and quality content. You can think of any topic to write about on your blog or website and I can tell you that there are hundreds of websites with the same topic or same content.
So if you want to stand out in the crowd of so many similar business then you need to do something unique. Not just with your content but also with your pictures, videos and captions. People love to see something new everyday. They want to be engaged, they want to be hooked on to your content.
You may have a wonderful blog but if you are just regurgitating what others are doing then you will lose out on your audience. Originality and uniqueness is widely appreciated and applauded.
So brainstorm a little on how your business is unique and get the word out in even more fantastic and unique ways using social media.
Whenever you enter a market space for any kind of business you are bound to face some competition. This is applicable in the blogosphere as well. Whether your blog is all about latest technologies and IT or it is about health and fitness, you will always see many established top ranking blogs in every domain.
So you need to learn to take advantage of these established blogs or websites. How can you do that? Well, it's really easy, all you need to do is invest some time to research them.
What all social media tools are they using?
What kind of post and captions do they write?
How often do they post on social media?
What time do they post on social media?
How are they interacting with their audience through social media?
These are just a few questions that you need to find answers for when you do your research. Once you understand what works for them you can tweak it according to your business and implement it.
One of the questions that I mentioned above that you need to answer is "how often do they post on social media?". Having a proper posting schedule is really important for the success of your marketing strategies. But why?
Well, even if your post is incredible and eye catching, if you post it when your audience is inactive on social media then your views will fall. In case you even get some views still you have missed out on the opportunity to get more.
Timing and schedules are the most important factors. All your efforts can be of no use if your audience does not get to see the post at the right time. You can look for the best times to post on different social media platforms on google.
You can easily find out the schedule for multiple social media sites online. Accordingly you can plan out what to post when and where to create the maximum impact. Get over your laziness if it is something that is stopping you or slowing you down.
Once you have come up with a strategy, go ahead and implement it. Give it some time so that you can understand and make minute changes to your strategy while it is implemented. Lastly you need to evaluate your performance and identify what worked for you and what failed.
The online blogging market changes very frequently. It is mainly due to the changes in Google SEO policies or can be also because of policy changes by the social media platform itself. Since this is an ever changing and ever evolving entity, you need to update your plans as well.
Even if some part of your plan worked perfectly in the past, it may not work now. So you need to be aware of it and take periodical performance evaluations. Surviving and thriving here can only be attained by your ability to enhance and evolve.
Understanding the quirks of social media marketing will help you in growing your visibility in a cost effective manner. Don't think of this as a complex and time consuming process because if you follow the above steps you will eventually succeed.
So, grab a diary or use Google Docs or any other tool to document and plan out your Social Media Marketing strategy today!
Komal Singh is an author at Litlisted and she is enthusiastic to read and write about emerging technologies. She wants to roam the world learning and celebrating all the cultures. | . You don't need to have a technical background to successfully use social platforms for your benefit.
There are a variety of tools available now that can help you develop a truly beneficial marketing strategy. Social media can help you reach out to your audience and also help you develop a valuable relationship with your audience. It doesn't matter if you are starting a blog or a website or a business of your own, social media marketing is essential.
When using social media marketing strategies you should aim at growing your product awareness. The more people know about you, the more visitors you will have on your blog or website. However you need to be careful not to leverage social media without any proper planning. This can be | 139 |
Map of Inwardleigh, Hatherleigh and Okehampton.
This post follows on from my previous one about the family of Nathaniel Edwards and Grace Reckett.
Grace's father was Robert Ridstone Recket who was born in Inwardleigh, Devon, in about 1722 to an unmarried woman called Catherine Recket. There are a number of variants for Robert's surname which appear in the parish registers as Recket, Reckett, Record and possibly Riccard.
It remains a possibility that an alternative spelling of Robert's middle name might have been Risdon as there are people by that name living in Inwardleigh around the time Robert was born. The name might even have been Redstone. His middle name may give us a clue to who Robert's father was but an obvious candidate cannot be easily identified in the parish registers. One possibility is one John Risdon who was buried a few days after Robert's baptism.
Robert's wife was Elizabeth but her maiden name is unknown. She died in 1761 and it's possible that Robert married again. In 1775, a Robert Riccard married a widow called Dorothy Clarke in Inwardleigh. Could this have been my Robert?
Nathaniel Edwards was the fifth of seven children although at least three died in infancy. His parents were<|fim_middle|>pton which is situated at the northern edge of Dartmoor National Park and this is where we will pick up the story next time. | John Edwards and Jane Randal/Rendal who were married in 1737 in the ancient market town of Hatherleigh. All of their children were baptized in the Presbyterian Chapel.
John's parents are unknown but Jane was the daughter of Nathaniel Randall and Rebecca Pudicome. It seems Nathaniel Edwards was named after his maternal grandfather.
Nathaniel and Rebecca were married in Hatherleigh in 1706 and probably lived there until their deaths in 1731 and 1736 respectively. Nathaniel left a will which has not survived. He was born in 1672 in Okeham | 133 |
In Lithuania over 600 children and young people under 18 suffer from diabetes mellitus. 150 of them live in Vilnius and its region. Currently over 100 families with children and young people suffering from diabetes belong to the Vilnius Children and Youth Diabetes Club, 'DIABITĖ PLIUS', which can be roughly transla ted as 'DiaBee Plus'.
Diabetes mellitus is incurable. When children fall ill, they and their parents encouter numerous psychological problems and changes in their everyday lives. For the rest of their lives, the children have to use insulin and must check the levels of their blood sugar every day. It is not a simple task to maintain the levels of the necessary components in the blood, especially carbohydrates, in order to meet the norms of a healthy person. Every day, it is necessary to combine doses of insulin with a careful diet, as well as physical and emotional activities<|fim_middle|>We, the members of the Vilnius Children and Youth Club 'Diabitė Plius', appeal to those around us who are not aware of our problems: please help these children to avoid numerous moral and health problems in their future lives.
·support the children of our Club by financial donations or in other ways.
We are really grateful that you are not indifferent to our children's misfortune.
P.S. The form concerning the 2% transfer should be filled in and put in an envelope. Please sign on the seal. The envelope can be delivered to the tax inspection personally by May 1, 2012 or via the accountant of the company where you work or alternatively via the accountant of our Club. The form can also be filled in on the Internet while declaring your income online. | . In cases of failure, a high quantity of blood sugar can cause long-lasting complications; diabetes can lead to damage to the blood vessels of eyes, kidneys, and other organs, which may result in blindness, the transplantation of kidneys, or the amputation of the legs. If an insulin overdose occurs, the low quantity of blood sugar can result in disrupted consciousness, coma, or damage to the nervous system.
Consequently, the patients and their family members must know a lot about the disease and its processes, and be in regular contact with their doctors. The patients themselves and their families can be of great help to each other. That's why we set up the support organisations of friends in need. The children with compensated diabetes are bright students, creative and valuable citizens, and the future of our country.
The main goal of the Club is to help children and young people suffering from diabetes to learn to live with their condition by looking after themselves appropriately in order to avoid the serious complications of the disease. The Club arranges educational, sport, cultural leisure events, camps for the study of diabetes, as well as organising material, methodological, psychological, and social aid for the patients and their family members. Our aim is that every child suffering from diabetes will become involved in this activity with his/her family members. No one should be left by themselves with the problems that the disease causes.
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Sony's Wireless Earbuds Allow Ambient Sounds To Pass Through
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By now, we've all seen "truly wireless earbuds." Some people like them. Others don't. Regardless of your feelings for them, fact remains that they're only going to get more ubiquitous in the future. As such, we're going to see more and more novel designs for the technology come out. The Sony Xperia Ear Duo is one of those innovations. Like similar products in the market, the ear buds pipe music straight to your ears without having to deal with wires that are either tethered to your phone or wrapped behind your neck. Unlike them, it's designed to let you stay aware of your surroundings, so you can hear the car coming behind you, your friends calling out to you, and the rest of the noises from the world at large.
The Sony Xperia Ear Duo uses a unique open-ear design that doesn't block the ear canal, allowing ambient sounds to pass through even as you listen to music, podcasts, and audiobooks. We know, some of you probably pop in earphones to tune out the world. This pair, however, is aimed at those who prefer to be conscious of what's happening around them, all while being able to listen to their favorite songs. That way, you can still chat with friends while listening to a high-energy playlist in the gym, as well as listen to the lecture in class while playing relaxing music in the background.
According to Sony, the unique design that leaves the passageway to the ear partially clear also allows it to be more comfortable than your typical in-ears, while a support ring near the tip anchors it to your ear to ensure it stays in place no matter how much you move. That ring, by the way, is detachable and comes in three sizes, so you can play around to find which one fits your ear shape best.
The Sony Xperia Ear Duo uses a technology called the Spatial Acoustic Conductor, which allows the sound generated on the driver situated behind the ear to be transmitted directly to the ear, leaving the ear canal open to take in environmental sounds. The same unit behind the ear has a touch-sensitive surface that you can tap for one-touch access to Siri or Google Assistant, so you can control playback, ask queries, and do a whole load of other things over voice commands. Picking up those voice commands are a quad-microphone arrangement, with two mics equipped in each of the earpieces, while beamforming noise suppression, adaptive volume control, and noise cancellation ensures it picks up your voice loud and clear every time.
According to the outfit, it's fitted with Head Gesture capability, which, we're guessing is a way of controlling playback using head movement. There are no details on how that works, though, so it's probably not that ready for primetime. Other features include IPX2 water protection, so it should shed off sweat and moisture without any trouble, and a battery that lasts for four hours of listening time (the case houses another 12 hours' worth of battery).
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LeBron James Reign Supreme in 2018 All-Star Game
NBA – Cleveland Cavaliers superstar<|fim_middle|> Game " | LeBron James was named 2018 All-Star Game MVP after leading his team, Team LeBron in a 148 – 145 win over Team Stephen in a down to the wire finish in a very exciting and rejuvenate All-Star Game at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California just last February 18.
LeBron James, who seems rejuvenated in Cleveland Cavaliers last 4 – game winning streak shows a huge and clutch basketball game during the 2018 All-Star Game dropping game high 29 points with 10 rebounds and 8 assist, just fall short of 2 assist shy of a triple double.
As the Team Captain of Team LeBron he set up a tempo that his fellow teammates followed and took the game seriously, despite it's just an exhibition game, but nonetheless it rejuvenated the game in which for the last several years the All-Star Game has been criticized for no defense and motivation for the players to play the game. Overall the game went successful with the new format that brings back excitement for the game.
James, who is responsible for the late game run in the 4th quarter tied the game with his clutch 3's, clutch lay-up that gives the lead and clutch assist to Russell Westbrook that sealed the game and eventually leads for James 3rd All-Star MVP where he last won in 2008 over 10 years ago.
James at age 33 is the oldest All-Star participants in this year 2018 All-Star Game and marked his 14th consecutive All-Star Game in 15th Season, he also tied the 2nd most All-Star MVP Award with 3 awards along with retired players Shaquille O'Neal, Oscar Robertson and the GOAT Michael Jordan and currently holds the record in career points scored in All-Star Game with 343 points with an average of 24.5 points per All-Star Game.
James impressive All-Star Game despite his age and already in 15th season shows that he is not done yet and still the best player in the NBA today.
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South Africa may look far away on the map but it is really just a flight away from several of the world's major cities. It is a technologically and socially advanced nation – in a landscape that's out of this world!
Q1. When is the best time to visit South Africa?
South Africa is a great year-round destination. Temperatures range around 20 degrees celsius throughout the year. For whale watching best months to visit are June to October at Hermanus. Be sure to include a night at Hermanus if you are travelling between this time.
Q2. Does it requires a long visit to experience South Africa?
Although it would take several weeks to cover all of South Africa, there are many ways to experience the variety of the country in a brief visit. Nine days is a good starting point for shorter visits to South Africa, but even those visiting for a shorter period (or<|fim_middle|> in India and it is the best place to start a self drive holiday. Empty roads with turning landscapes and scenery, no parking hassles and road signs all along that will make it almost impossible for you to lose your way.
Q7. Where can you experience Adventure Sports in South Africa?
Adventure activities are found all over South Africa. The most famous is Shark Cage Diving in Gansbaai, which can be done as a day trip from Cape Town. There are other sports like River Rafting, Sky Diving, Mountain Climbing, Bungee Jumping etc.
Q8. Where can you see Wildlife other than Kruger?
If Kruger is too expensive, Shamwari in the Eastern Cape region is an excellent substitute where you can view a variety of wildlife. | adding a few days of vacation to a business trip) can experience a taste of what the country has to offer.
Q3. Is there much to do in South Africa?
South Africa offers a wealth of activities- from action packed adventures and indulgent relaxation to family-friendly activities. Travellers can hike through forests, kayak in sparkling rivers, experience the local culture, sample boutique wines, visit exceptional museums and more…….
Q4. Is South Africa expensive?
Travellers from many parts of the world will find South Africa to be a good value for money destination.
South Africa food and wines are world-class. Fresh produce ensures high quality and the nation is renowned as a producer of premium wines. For those wanting Indian cuisine, there are Indian restaurants galore all across South Africa and ample vegetarian options too.
Q6. Can travellers drive in South Africa?
Cars, campervans and small campers that lie somewhere between the two are readily available for hire. The minimum hire age would vary from 21 to 25 and travellers who wish to hire a vehicle will need to produce an International Driver's Permit or a valid driver's licence (in English) from their home country. In South Africa you can drive on the same side of the road as | 253 |
Home Long Island Weekly Closing Out A Career Of Helping Others
Closing Out A Career Of Helping Others
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Guidance Center executive director retires after 45 years
From left: North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center board member Rita Castagna, North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center Executive Director Andrew Malekoff and Anton Media Group publisher Angela Anton
(Photo courtesy of the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center)
When Andrew Malekoff retires in July, it<|fim_middle|> of Long Island (PCLI). | will have been after spending his entire 45-year career at Roslyn's North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center. When he arrived as an intern to do his second-year field placement while working towards his masters degree at the Adelphi University School of Social Work, little did Malekoff know he'd leave four and a half decades later as the executive director. It's an experience he treasures and attributes to how special a place North Shore was to work at all these years.
"It was really inspiring for me to become a part of an organization that was exclusively devoted to working with children, youth, teenagers and families," he said. "We saw anybody that needed us without turning anybody away for inability to pay. Being able to be a part of an organization that had access to universal mental health care was really exciting. It was also innovative and saw children not as broken part. We invited the whole person to participate in the work that we did, so there was a kind of culture and tradition that I became a part of and was ultimately able to carry forth. That was really exciting. It felt like the right fit for me and was a big part of why I stayed there for so long."
Having had a front-row seat, Malekoff saw changes in the clientele that sought North Shore's help.
"Just being able to observe things from the waiting room alone, you could see there was a big change over time." Malekoff recalled. "It was a much more homogeneous, white, ethnic population [in the beginning]. Over time, there were more people of color and different religions. People dressed differently—some with religious garb. There were different accents, languages and so forth. Different groups over a period of time that were more reticent about going outside of the home and wherever they might traditionally go to seek help—for them to see that this was an alternative they could take advantage of versus what was available."
During Malekoff's run, he spent 15 years as a monthly contributor to Anton Community Newspapers. Publisher Angela Anton invited him to pen a column that initially started out as Parenting in February 2007 before it evolved into Parenting Matters a few years later. Despite having extensive experience as the author of a widely used textbook (Group Work with Adolescents: Principles and Practices, now in its third edition) and being the editor of the professional journal Social Work with Groups, the New Jersey native admits this new outlet required a creative pivot on his part.
"The discipline of writing a monthly column was something new to me," he said. "It was a great opportunity and I like to take on new challenges like the experience of coming up with ideas and then putting something into 500 or 600 words and appealing to not just a professional audience, but to the regular citizenry so to speak. At the time, the column was called Parenting and I had wanted to change it and discussed that at the time with Angela. We changed it to Parenting Plus. I wanted to put the 'Plus' in because I felt there were things that I could write about that would fall outside of the more rigid guidelines of writing about parenting and kids. I thought [it could encompass] other issues whether it was government, policy or with certain news events that were reflections of issues of mental health that people would be interested in and give me a little more latitude."
Over time, Parenting Plus became on of Anton's more popular columns, always generating plenty of interest in print along with a heavy flow of traffic on the web. For Anton, bringing Malekoff into the editorial fold was an easy decision, particularly given the work she'd seen him do in his role at the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center.
"I have know Andy from the start as a board member and as a dear friend," she said. "He was responsible for starting many new programs and receiving many government grants at the North Shore Child And Family Guidance Center. The center was stronger because of him and as a columnist, we will always cherish the insight he brought to every story he wrote."
Future Executive Director Andrew Malekoff got his start with the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center as an intern in 1977
Malekoff's path to a career in social work wasn't readily apparent in the beginning. Born in Newark, he moved to the leafy Jersey suburb of Maplewood, eventually going to Rutgers University on a football scholarship as a linebacker, eventually being one of the two defensive captains of the 1972 Scarlet Knights football team. And while he earned a bachelor of arts in business, the idea of serving others came via work with volunteer organizations, first at Rutgers and then following his university graduation.
"When I was attending Rutgers University. I joined something called Rutgers Community Action, which was sort of a Big Brothers-type program," he said. "That was my first exposure that I had to anything that would be considered close to social work. I majored in economics and thought I would go into business. [Social work] wasn't anything I pursued. After trying a few different things after college, I joined VISTA, which is Volunteers In Service To America, which is the domestic equivalent of the Peace Corps. I went out to Grand Island, NE, where I lived and worked in a Mexican-American community for about three years. It was during the course of my work with teenagers and families there that I decided that I wanted to pursue this as a career."
Having spent 45 years helping families and youth get through trauma, one thing Malekoff says hasn't changed is the anxiety and depression young people continue to experience. For him, these experiences require quite a bit of self forgiveness for the people going through these trials and tribulations.
"It's a harsh world and it's easy to be too hard on yourself," he said. "Anthropologist Joseph Campbell came up with a favorite quote of mine 'Perfection is not lovable. It's the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. It's something that's a little longer than go easy on yourself. I give that out because sometimes I think people can be too hard on themselves and think that they have to be perfect. It's a great lesson for parents and for parents to give to kids. It doesn't mean you don't try to hard or strive for excellence. It means you go a little bit easier on yourself than otherwise."
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Group Work with Adolescents
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Christmas Trip to Portugal
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Categories Sri Chinmoy•Tags Albufeira, Christmas, Portugal, Sri Chinmoy, statue | , 2014 January 5, 2014 by .Leave a comment
Every year, the disciples of Sri Chinmoy travel to various destinations over Christmas and the New Year. This year the journey started in Portugal. Abhinabha reports:
The Trip started with a manifestation bang, as a statue of Sri Chinmoy was being inaugurated on 23 December – a full day into the Trip – in the picturesque coastal town of Figueira da Foz. The Portuguese statue dedication has likely been one of the quickest ones to organize, as a single phone call to an extremely receptive city council and mayor proved to be enough to get the green light. The mayor himself was present to unveil the statue, as two teams of disciple runners of our Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team – joined by school children and runners from the police and fire departments – convened at a prime location near the ocean to kick off the ceremony. The mayor turned out to be the most humble and receptive person you'd ever want to meet. Neither costs nor efforts on the part of the city council were spared to give the statue a proper home – the city even paid for the transport and the marble foundation underneath the statue. The powerful burst of rain that descended as the ceremony began couldn't dampen anyone's spirits.
You would think a lightning start like that would be hard to follow through, but not so. From the very start of the Trip the functions, both mornings and evenings, were so filled with soulfulness, peace, joy and happiness, they burst at their very seams. It was actually hard to secure a spot on the program, as almost everybody was eager to contribute their unique talents to the functions. Especially on the play front there was no dearth of inspiration. Three plays a night was a common occurrence and we even had nights of six and seven plays to watch. The old Christmas Trip glory days with the master in the physical seemed to have returned in full measure. I heard several people saying they thought this was the best trip since Sri Chinmoy's passing. Sometimes I felt like pinching myself to check if I was not really dreaming.
The stunning location of Albufeira played no small part in these lofty appraisals. Our five-star hotel – one of the only two special Luxury hotels in the worldwide Sheraton family – catered to all our needs, both inner and outer. If the food was excellent, the scenery was even better. High orange tinged cliffs towered above the gently rolling Mediterranean Sea to evoke the most unbelievable colours, especially at dawn and dusk. The hotel gardens were a lush ever-green paradise of pine and palmetto trees, framing the wonderful whitewashed architecture of the hotel itself. It proved an excellent backdrop for many physical adventures, such as the weekly one- and two-mile races, but also a genuine treasure hunt with riddles, games and other challenges (like standing on one leg with your eyes closed for three minutes). Joyful competitions were the middle name of this Christmas Trip. The treasure-hunt was followed by a New Year's Eve games extravaganza, organised by 'masters of mirth' Devashishu and Sahadeva from Great Britain, which a day later was succeeded by an evening long quiz on Sri Chinmoy's life and activities, staged by Projjwal and Aruna from Augsburg. Then a day later a fun and challenging one-mile obstacle course was held on the beach, organized by Suchitra.
As I write this, I can't believe that this is already the last day of the Trip. Tomorrow we all pack our bags and most of us will return to their 'normal' lives. Yet it is a great comfort to know that that life is forever enriched by the memories, joy, happiness and sheer delight of these past two weeks in Portugal. (Source: | 782 |
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The amount of credit lent by banks to SMEs is declining by 7% year-on-year, leading to a proliferation in the number of virtual loan marketplaces including credit unions, crowdfunding platforms and online lenders. In this context the crowdfunding industry has an opportunity to provide a sustainable alternative in the emerging SME loan market. One of the world's first investment crowdfunding platforms, this year Symbid relaunched as a go-to funding platform for all types of finance – alternative and traditional.
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How would life change if there was no limits. If you had available all the money for any of your dreams and family, vacations or investments then what would you do?
The sad thing is that most people give all the money to someone else and really do not even think about it. I have worked with billionaires and high ranking officials that gave the most to those who needed it. For sure they had a private jet, nice car and the proper things in life. But one thing struck me when driving their cars, everything was clean and neat. No mess or useless things anywhere, after a trip to the cabin the car was cleaned and put back to excellent condition.
I do believe the example with the car shows a lot of<|fim_middle|> until they are completed, the feeling of success and completion will be fuel for your next goal.
Keep your mind clean and organized, plan the days ahead of you with a bit of room for some coincidences and watch the difference. The plan and goal may be altered, however the progress will be better and a lot closer to your personal values.
In short, be present in this moment and bring what you need to make it to the goal and it does not make sense to bring gasoline to a fire. Keep your focus!! | value to anyone. Let us say that the car was your mind and the way your car looked, you mind looked equally organized.
The people that really make it happen in life only deals with things that have value to them, the car is cared for and anything not useful in it will be removed, if it gets dirty they clean it however they do like a lot of energy!! When they drive all that is needed is a car, not a empty soda bottle or old newspapers in the back in addition. If they use the car for a vacation they pack for vacation, however if the next trip will be for business they make sure all the vacation-gear is out of the car. You will not find a ball or a bike in the back of the car since it will not be needed for the current trip!! Don't bring things with you into your mind that belongs to the past, forgive it, leave it behind and bring just the necessary ideas for the future.
The same people do not keep problems in their mind, if something comes up they fix it to avoid any noise. If something comes up that is starting to turn their thoughts into a negative vibration they call someone to make it positive. Last but not least they keep educating themselves in order to keep the energy level high and brain active.
My kids play this "game" all the time. My oldest had a problem with keeping the bicycle rolling because he remembered that on his last trip he fell off the bike. I asked him what connection that trip has with the trip we are about to start. When he understood that this was a brand new trip and there was no way of knowing how the trip would turn out, he came along. Sure enough he was biking faster and better than ever with no problems at all. It just proves that to assume that the past will repeat itself is an illusion that will not come true!
Fear is an illusion and belief. If 10 people makes it safely and happy up to a mountain top then why would person number 11 be paralyzed with certainty of not making it? It is proven to everyone that the trip is safe, however in someones mind the illusion still exist that this will be scary.
One more very important feature they have is to live in the moment!! This is really the Master Key to yourself. I sometimes find myself worrying about how the kids will react to a present I intend to give. Why worry? When the gift is given, the result will come to the surface! If I am at my work and thinks about the gift, I am not doing my work since there is only room for one thought at a time. Be present in your own life! Most people that fall down stairs do so because they are not aware the fact that they are walking! While going down the stairs they put their mind into the kitchen and think about dinner instead of being present so they do not miss the next step.
This is why you should have times during the day to sit down and plan your next day or week. When you plan the mind and body is in separate places, you sit in a chair and your mind is already working on next days dinner. However if you try to plan next days dinner while making todays dinner, you may just wind up burning yourself on a pot or a pan.
This is also part of the reason why it is very important to finish things. Anything that are not completed will add to the "trash" in you mind. When it is completed, the mind will stop figuring out how to fix it and new tasks can take its place.
In my opinion the brain always set a goal of completing what is started, and if you start 10 projects it will create 10 goals. To work on 10 goals at the same time will never work since it becomes too much to handle and then no goals will be reached. If you start working on 1 or maybe 2 projects and keep it going | 796 |
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"It's the gayest neighborhood in the city! It's the most unique, most diverse―everyone's here, one big city; just very inclusive neighborhood," Aaron smiles. His black t-shirt with SIR printed across the front sharply contrasts the painted rainbow crosswalk on the corner of Aldine & Halsted.
This is Boystown―declared the first official gay neighborhood in the United States by Mayor Daley back in 1997. It was previously known as New Town when gays and lesbians started moving to the area from River North in the 60s and <|fim_middle|>ed planters signaling the names of every side street. When the weather's nice, people fill the streets, patios, and rooftops. Everyone is friendly and happy. It's a relaxed place to be. "You get to see a bunch of different people…I've seen ones where they're just giving hugs for free for people who have been dejected from their family―LGBT and stuff like that. So I just see them set up on the corner and they give hugs for free," remarks Blake, who originally came to the neighborhood for DePaul and remained because of the community.
For many, this area represents the place they feel welcomed and accepted as they are―without pretense or fear of rejection. "It's kind of like a weight lifted off of you, like for me as like a queer individual, just walking this strip is kind of like I can breathe a little easier seeing the people that kind of identify the same way that I identify," says Kennedy.
The annual Pride Parade will kick off June 30th, and you already spy Pride shirts on the streets. It's been a yearly event since the first parade on June 27, 1970, when 50 people marched through River North―formerly one of the main neighborhoods for the LGBTQ community. Over the years the parade moved north and grew in size. Today around a million attendees participate in the march down Halsted from Addison, participants and onlookers alike dressed in the vibrant colors of the rainbow banners that line the street..
For the residents of Boystown and many others in the city, it's one of the most anticipated events of the year. "The Pride Parade―it's basically a free for all. Everyone's just being themselves and enjoying the day, and a lot of glitter―a lot of glitter, lot of feathers, lot of music, lot of fun!" beams Aaron. Crowds fill the streets, "people complimenting people—and dance battles…it's wild, I love it," says Kennedy.
Walk through Boystown any evening, you'll see this neighborhood knows how to enjoy itself, even outside of Pride month. Between Roscoe's drag shows, Sidetrack's musical Mondays, and scores of other events, there's never a dull moment. If life were a party, Boystown would be at its center.
admin2021-03-10T23:01:27-05:00June 27th, 2019| | 70s. Nearly ten blocks on Halsted between Grace Street and Belmont Avenue are now home to the highest concentration of LGBTQ-owned businesses in Chicago.
On a Tuesday evening it's the usual weekday bustle―couples walking to dinner, people returning from work, pet owners taking the dog for a potty break. But Thursday is an entirely different beast. "This area is always popping. But definitely tonight―Thursday is the day where it starts to get really crazy," says Blake Stewart, a ten-year resident of Boystown.
Bars line the street, windows and doors open to the summer breeze. The first gay bar in the area "Little Jims" opened here in 1975. Now you can't walk a block without passing a bar or club welcoming people in for the nightly show or drink special.
Tonight Roscoe's is drawing a crowd for the drag race season 11 finale. "It's kind of like how people flock to sporting events―like this is the queer event right now going," says Kennedy, walking with a co-attendee named Jesse down Halsted toward Roscoe's.
"Me being a drag entertainer myself, I can only aspire to one day get on it, but I love everything about it. I just love the exposure to the culture that we have as artists. I love the colors, I love the atmosphere, I love the comfortability that I have out here," remarks Jesse, posing in front of one of the Legacy walk art deco rainbow pillars that line Halsted. They were installed in 1998 to commemorate LGBTQ individuals when Boystown became an officially recognized gay neighborhood.
Now flags and Boystown banners wave over Halsted, rainbow-letter | 349 |
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Luna knows a good thing when she tastes it. Teigen's daughter got her first taste of muddy buddies this week and her face says it all.
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The candidate for governer of New York knows the best way to see a new city is through food. She stopped at local spot, Paula's Donuts while campaigning in Buffalo, NY.
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America's sweetheart and This Is Us star headed to Sweet Laurel Bakery in Los Angeles for a class in gluten-free baking and cake decorating. Based on her Instagram slideshow, Moore might have a future in floral cake decor.
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Little Free Libraries Design Exhibition a Big Draw
September 28, 2013 11:01 AM | Columns
By Eden Ramsay
Little Free Libraries Design Exhibition at the Millennium Library runs until October 31. (EDEN RAMSAY PHOTO)
A movie theatre style LFL design (EDEN RAMSAY PHOTO)
Imagine a handcrafted container in a public space that encourages the love of reading and helps to build community. Such a thing is possible with the Little Free Library movement.
Culture Days, The Winnipeg Public Library, and StorefrontMB have invited local artists to design a little public library. People can vote for their favourite Little Free Library entry at the Millennium Library which showcases the designs of several local designers and describes more about the movement in their showcase wall.
Little Free Libraries started up in Hudson, Wisconsin in 2009. Since then, it has grown as a non-profit organization and over 6,000 have been registered around the world in over 40 countries. For a small fee, registered members receive a plaque with their registration number and a location of their book vessel on the Little Free Library movement's online worldwide map. The average Little Free Library is about the size of a dollhouse and most are handmade and beautifully detailed.
Winnipeg's first Little Free Library 273 Mandeville St. just celebrated its first anniversary this past June. Other Little Free Libraries in the city can be found at 3354 Assiniboine Avenue and 503 Gilmore Avenue.
The Winnipeg Public Library's take on a LFL (EDEN RAMSAY PHOTO)
I enjoy architecture inc.'s take on the Little Free Library design, titled Pulp Fiction. The container itself is a simple rectangular cube, or cuboid, made out of an elm tree truck. It allows one to see the books inside through the glass panels surrounding the books on two of the four sides.
I also enjoyed KJ Hildrebrand's contest entry, Torii Book Library. The ancient Asian structure, the Torii was her inspiration for this piece.
Bios Architecture's take on the contest is very functional. The plywood structure is not only a library, but operates as a seating space for up<|fim_middle|> for favourite design will be announced on October 31.
I love the idea of being able to take a book, return it, or leave one in its place along with many others who are doing the same. It's a great addition to any community and helps bring about a feeling of connection.
What is your favourite design of the submissions in this year's Little Free Library Design Exhibition? Have you ever seen a Little Free Library?
Eden Ramsay is a Creative Communications student at Red River College. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Manitoba and majored in graphic design. She loves culture, design in its many forms, and exploring the world around her. Follow her on Twitter:@EdenRamsay.
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The Film Comment Podcast: Formative Filmmakers (Part Two)
By Film Comment on December 5, 2017
Picking up where we left off last week, this week's episode travels further down cinephilic memory lane…or should we say, further forward. We check back in with the panel from Formative Filmmakers Part One—Nick Davis, professor of film, literature, and gender studies at Northwestern; Girish Shambu, author of The New Cinephilia and the September/October FC feature on immigration cinema "A Double Life"; Michael Koresky, Director of Editorial and Creative Strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; and Violet Lucca, Film Comment Digital Producer and podcast host—to dive deep into<|fim_middle|>Double the fun: the directors of De Palma, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, discuss their relationship with the auteur—and then our critics hash out their own feelings about his work | their memories of another early favorite filmmaker. This time, the critics move away from their earliest fascinations toward the directors they found later in life, especially ones who might have redefined their preconceived notions about the medium. Héctor Babenco, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, and Abbas Kiarostami all crop up in this half.
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Al-Khobar is a city located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, Al-Khobar and Dhahran cities make up the more widely known Dammam metropolitan areas. Al-Khobar is a thriving city with lots of shopping malls and boutiques, there are also a handful of high-rise buildings around, and some are currently under construction. The city is quieter and more layback as compared to the capital city Riyadh and Jeddah. Despite, Saudi Aramco's headquarter is in here (Eastern Province).
Take a photo with the Al-Khobar Water Tower – There is no other landmark in Al-Khobar that could rival the popularity of this building that resembles like a standing mushroom. Its unique architecture captures the attention of most of the visitors in the city, thus it's the most recognizable symbol of Al-Khobar. It's specifically built on a man-made island off the coast of Al-Khobar sea-front. It's always been the subject of both photographers and photo enthusiasts due to its incredible odd design, at night, the building splendors as it changes lighting colors. Your visit to Al-Khobar won't be complete without seeing this place.
Meander around Al-Khobar Corniche – During the weekend, Al-Khobar is crowded with local tourists visiting or having a picnic in the corniche. Aside from the huge malls, Al-Khobar corniche is the most visited place during the weekend. Perhaps the best place to spend time with your family and friends. Healthy conscious locals and expats love to jog here daily after work-hours, and during the weekends. Personally, this is my favorite spot in Al-Khobar, I could stay here all-day-long simply sitting on the bench and mesmerizing the tranquil Persian Gulf. There are plenty of international coffee shops, restaurants, and boutiques around here as well.
Shop at two of the biggest malls: Rashid and Dhahran malls – If you're done sightseeing outside, perhaps its time for you to wander inside two of the biggest malls in the Kingdom: Rashid and Dhahran malls. These malls offer a variety of high-end and affordable shops, you can practically get almost everything here, from branded shoes, clothes, children's wear or that designer's bags you've always wanted. There are also a huge array of cafes and restaurants inside these malls. Avoid going during the weekend as it becomes very crowded sometimes, otherwise, come earlier to avoid the rush hour.
Explore the state-of-the-art King Abdul-Aziz Center for World Culture (ithra) – Built by Saudi Aramco, the biggest oil company in the world. The King Abdul-Aziz Center for World Culture or locally known as "Ithra" is by far the most iconic landmark in Saudi Arabia, not only in Al-Khobar. The building is actually located in Dh<|fim_middle|> market – If you love pieces of jewelry for giveaways or for your personal use and investment. Don't forget to visit the famous Al-Khobar jewelry shops in Al-Shamalia area, just a few steps away from Al-Ramaniyah mall. I have personally love to buy jewelry here for my personal collection and souvenirs. The prices are affordable and you can even negotiate for a discount.
Swim at Half-moon bay/beach – Half-moon bay is another popular weekend destination in Al-Khobar, it takes around 40 minutes to 1 an hour drive from the city center. There are various resorts and high-end hotels here for a staycation. And if you're not willing to pay for the price, you can opt to swim in the public beach free of charge. However, please ensure you're on a beach allowed for swimming as some beach areas are restricted for swimming for safety reasons. If you don't like to swim, there are nearby stalls where you can rent an ATV car and enjoy driving through the vast desert land. I tried it before, it was really a great experience. I've always wanted to go back there.
There are still various places and exciting things to do in Al-Khobar City, over the past years this vibrant city continues to boom, making it one of the fastest growing cities in Saudi Arabia. Do you like this blog? Don't forget to share this to your friends! | ahran City, just minutes away from Al-Khobar. The center houses a museum, world-class theater, library, cinemas, and exhibition center. It was inaugurated by King Salman himself last Dec 2017, a number of high profile personalities have visited this building. To visit "ithra" you need to register online through their website.
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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 16: Emmanuel Garcia of CF Pachuca shows appreciation to the fans after the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 third place play off match between Al Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Zayed Sports City Stadium on December 16, 2017 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Abdalla Ramadan and team mates look dejected after conceding a goal REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 General view of both teams lined up before the match REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 CF Pachuca players pose for a team group photo before the match REUTERS/Matthew Childs
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Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira players pose for the pre match photograph REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 16: Diego Alonso, Manager of CF Pachuca looks on prior to the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 third place play off match between Al Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Zayed Sports City Stadium on December 16, 2017 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)
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Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Mohamad Al Attas in action with Pachuca's Erick Aguirre REUTERS/Matthew Childs
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Romarinho in action with Pachuca's Raul Lopez REUTERS/Matthew Childs
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Romarinho in action with Pachuca's Omar Gonzalez REUTERS/Matthew Childs
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Salem Rashid in action with Pachuca's Angelo Sagal REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Jonathan Urretaviscaya in action before scoring their first goal REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 16: Jonathan Urretaviscaya of CF Pachuca scores his sides first goal during the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 third place play off match between Al Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Zayed Sports City Stadium on December 16, 2017 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Mike Hewitt - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)
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Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Jonathan Urretaviscaya scores their first goal REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
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Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Jonathan Urretaviscaya scores their first goal REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Jonathan Urretaviscaya celebrates scoring their first goal as Al Jazira's Khaled Al-Senani looks dejected REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Jonathan Urretaviscaya celebrates scoring their first goal with Oscar Murillo and team mates REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Jonathan Urretaviscaya celebrates scoring their first goal with Franco Jara REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Alfonso Blanco celebrates after their first goal REUTERS/Matthew Childs
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Khalfan Alrezzi scores their first goal REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Khalfan Alrezzi celebrates scoring their first goal with Salem Rashid REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Khalfan Alrezzi celebrates with Salem Ali Ibrahim and Salem Rashid after scoring their first goal REUTERS/Matthew Childs
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Khalfan Alrezzi celebrates scoring their first goal with team mates REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Al Jazira's Khalfan Alrezzi in action with Pachuca's Erick Sanchez REUTERS/Matthew Childs
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Franco Jara clashes with Al Jazira's Fares Juma REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Franco Jara and Al Jazira's Fares Juma are seperated after clashing REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 16: Franco Jara of CF Pachuca scores his sides second goal during the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 third place play off match between Al Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Zayed Sports City Stadium on December 16, 2017 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by David Ramos - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)
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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 16: Franco Jara of CF Pachuca celebrates after scoring his sides second goal during the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 third place play off match between Al Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Zayed Sports City Stadium on December 16, 2017 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by David Ramos - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)
CF Pachuca's Argentinian forward Franco Jara (L) celebrates with his Uruguayan teammate Jonathan Urretaviscaya after scoring a goal during the third place football match of the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 between Al-Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on December 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE
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Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Franco Jara celebrates scoring their second goal REUTERS/Matthew Childs
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 16: Franco Jara of CF Pachuca celebrates after scoring his sides second goal during the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 third place play off match between Al Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Zayed Sports City Stadium on December 16, 2017 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)
CF Pachuca's Argentinian forward Franco Jara celebrates with his Uruguayan teammate Jonathan Urretaviscaya after scoring a goal during the third place football match of the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 between Al-Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on December 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE
Al-Jazira's Emirati goalkeeper Khaled al-Senaani (R) fails to save a shot on goal by CF Pachuca's Mexican forward Roberto De La Rosa during the third place football match of the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 between Al-Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on December 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Roberto Carlos de la Rosa celebrates scoring their third goal REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Pachuca's Roberto De La Rosa celebrates after scoring his side's third goal during the Club World Cup third place soccer match between Al Jazira and CF Pachuca at Zayed Sports City stadium in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Roberto Carlos de la Rosa celebrates scoring their third goal with Erick Sanchez REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Roberto Carlos de la Rosa celebrates with Erick Sanchez after scoring their third goal REUTERS/Matthew Childs
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Roberto Carlos de la Rosa celebrates scoring their third goal with Raul Lopez and team mates REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
CF Pachuca's Mexican forward Roberto De La Rosa (C) celebrates with his teammates after scoring a goal during the third place football match of the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 between Al-Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on December 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca coach Diego Alonso REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Angelo Sagal scores their fourth goal from the penalty spot REUTERS/Matthew Childs
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Angelo Sagal scores their fourth goal from a penalty REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Franco Jara scores their second goal REUTERS/Matthew Childs
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Angelo Sagal scores their fourth goal from the penalty spot REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Soccer Football - FIFA Club World Cup Third Place Match - Al Jazira vs CF Pachuca - Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - December 16, 2017 Pachuca's Angelo Sagal celebrates scoring their fourth goal from the penalty spot REUTERS/Matthew Childs
CF Pachuca's Chilean forward Angelo Sagal celebrates after scoring a goal during the third place football match of the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 between Al-Jazira and CF Pachuca at the Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on December 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / | 3,387 |
If conservation science is going to save the myriad species under threat in the world today, it's going to have to go about it more efficiently, according to a paper published this week by an Arizona State University ecology professor.
If academia remains in an ivory tower and nongovernmental organizations working to save species lurch from problem to problem, headway won't be made fast enough to stem the tide of biodiversity loss, said Leah Gerber,<|fim_middle|> International has excellent scientists, but they're doing a lot more than science. This offers an opportunity for ASU to offer a deep research bench to achieving measurable conservation outcomes across the globe, all while training the next generation."
Conservation organizations get the best science, methods and technologies. Scientists get to see their research implemented on the ground.
"What we collectively get is by putting those two things together we get a different type of innovation that we haven't yet realized," Gerber said.
The paper, co-authored with Daniela Raik, a senior vice president of Conservation International, was published this week in the Ecological Society of America's Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.'" | a professor in the School of Life Sciences. She is also founding director of the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, where she leads a team of staff and scholars building capacity to solve the most pressing biodiversity environmental challenges.
Like many other fields, conservation science tends to rely on intuition — rather than evidence — about decision-making, resource allocation and spatial planning. Evidence would be the basis for an actionable principle, Gerber said.
What Gerber proposes is a particular kind of boundary organization in conservation science — one with interdisciplinary research capacity and "real‐world" experience.
Last year ASU powered up its conservation biology program by adding seven professors of practice to the faculty as part of a partnership between the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and Conservation International, the biggest American conservation organization.
Cambridge, Cornell and Stanford have set up similar partnerships in recent years. Gerber hopes that model will become the wave of the future in conservation.
"Increasingly this has to be the way it goes, because it's an efficiency issue," she said. "Conservation | 211 |
President Joan recognised by the VAFA
Fitzroy President, Joan Eddy, was recognised by the VAFA at the season launch at the MCG on Wednesday night.
Asked to offer up the toast to open the season the first woman to do it in the league's 127 year history Joan was also surprised to learn she was to be amongst eight of her peers to be awarded a certificate of merit.
The Fitzroy Directors had nominated Joan for her incredible service to community football over 20 years and here is the citation read out on the night as VAFA President, George Voyage, acknowledged her achievements:
"For more than 20 years, Joan Eddy has given selfless service to community football through her involvement with Fitzroy Football Club. From the time Joan brought her son to the Fitzroy-Carlton Auskick at Brunswick St Oval in 1995, she has led from the front as Auskick Coordinator, Team Manager for Fitzroy Juniors and Juniors Secretary. Once her son graduated to U19s with Fitzroy, Joan became team manager for another two years, Vice-President in 2009, and has been Fitzroys universally-respected President since 2010!
"Joan introduced the clubs ritual of acknowledging the traditional owners of the land, officiates their Annual Anzac Day ceremonies and was instrumental in the introduction of Fitzroys womens teams in late 2014."
Congratulations Joan. We couldn't do it without you. Head to the VAFA website to read about the other wonderful volunteers from across the competition, acknowledged for<|fim_middle|> who was inducted as a Life Member and Nancy McTaggart, recognised for 50 years of service! | their service and commitment, including Bruno Conti from North Old Boys, | 14 |
Goodbye to My Brother
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I'm writing today on a personal note. YourWords STL, and my family, lost one of our most ardent supporters recently in a sudden and tragic accident. My brother-in-law, Joe Giljum, should have turned 37 today. He would have hated the Cubs clinching on his home field, but he would have loved<|fim_middle|> Giljum, continues to work among the people of his parish even as he mourns his brother. | the gorgeous Chicago weather perfect for camping with his girls. He would be astounded at the effect he has had on YourWords STL and the accolades we have gotten for our work this week. My involvement with YourWords STL sprung from Joe. Indeed, his brother, Fr. Steve's, stories of the young and vulnerable in his parish ignited my initial interest in our work.
Over these numb couple weeks, I keep flashing back to dozens of memories with Joe Giljum clad in his YourWords STL t-shirt. No one has worn it more. Two days after his death, in the daze of making arrangements, I learned that YourWords STL had been designated for donations in his name. Along with St. Elizabeth- Mother of John the Baptist Parish of Joe's brother and Buddy's Place, a non-profit in Western Springs, IL for local families dealing with grief, both Joe's mother and wife thought of our organization. Conflicted, I was reminded by Anna that it was an honor and a challenge to live up to their trust.
It was fitting then, that amidst such pain and shock that weekend, we were lifted up by the raw and honest stories told by friends and family of the extraordinary human that was Joe Giljum. Preposterous tales spoken for the first time were met with knowing laughter, and incredulity at how each story so accurately captured his booming essence. After friends had finished extolling his brilliance, candor, voracious quest for knowledge and experience, and blazing love for his family, his father-in-law concluded by stating, "He was a good man.
Out of pain, stories give us hope and strength. His was a life lived so full but too short. It brims with such memories that his friends and family are devoted to putting his adventures to paper for his daughters, wife, and family. Seeing his rapt daughters squeal with delight at each and any tale of their Papa has been illuminating during this trying time. The power of stories to mobilize, soothe, entertain, and unite is limitless. YourWords STL is devoted to ensuring that our work fulfills the trust we have been given by Joe's family. To date, over $3000 has been raised in honor of Joe. As we amplify the stories of St. Louis's unheard youth, the students, tutors, and artists honor a man whose life inspires all who knew him. Joe's influence helped shape YourWords STL today. His memory and the generosity of those he impacted help us to continue working to encourage the power of stories.
Joe's obituary
In addition to YourWords STL, the Giljum family asks that donations be considered for Buddy's Place and St. Elizabeth's Parish. Joe's children are currently participating in an 8-week course at Buddy's Place just blocks from their home. Joe's brother, Father Steve | 581 |
Lucy Brazier awarded OBE for services to Office Professionals
Lucy Brazier, CEO Marcham Publishing, publishers of Executive Support Magazine was among those named on the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2021.
Lucy Brazier: "I would like to dedicate the award to the recognition of our community of administrative professionals."
Lucy has been awarded an OBE for services to Office Professionals.
Lucy is known globally for her years of leadership and dedication to the development of administrative professionals and to changing the face of the profession. Her passion, she says, is for the Assistant role to be recognised as a career and not just a job.
She has spent much of the last 10 years training and running events for assistants around the world, campaigning for a clear global framework for career progression and educating executives on how best to use their executive support functions.
Responding, Lucy said: "I am overwhelmed that what started out 10 years ago as a small publishing business, begun after a nervous breakdown and run from my kitchen table, has become a global movement for a sector which is made up of 98% women and makes up a fifth of the world's working population. It's an amazing honour to receive recognition for my contribution and I<|fim_middle|>ane-Dawson
5 ResearchGate & IOP partner to increase visibility of academic content 10 Condé Nast announces launch of Vogue Philippines | hope that it will help to raise awareness of the underutilisation of the largest sector in the world for working women. I would like to dedicate the award to the recognition of our community of administrative professionals from across the globe, whose passion and commitment to their profession underpins everything their stakeholders and businesses do."
"Especially during the pandemic, it has never been so important for business leaders to have their time freed up in order for them to get on with the job in hand; creating the landscape for the new world of work. A well-trained executive support professional does just that and their contribution to business can't be underestimated."
Brazier says that her vision for her business has always been about delivering the best training available to all four corners of the world.
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4 Launch: Swashbuckle magazine 9 Time Out Group appoints Mary Ke | 421 |
"The third faculty Kant finds in reason, to which he advances from the understanding after the same psychological method; that is to say, he hunts through the soul's sack to see what faculties are still to be found there; and thus by merest chance he lights on Reason."
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c. The third faculty Kant finds in reason, to which he advances from the understanding after the same psychological method; that is to say, he hunts through the soul's sack to see what faculties are still to be found there; and thus by merest chance he lights on Reason. It would make no difference if there had been no Reason there, just as with physicists it is a matter of perfect indifference whether, for instance, there is such a thing as magnetism or not. "All our knowledge begins from the senses, thence proceeds to the understanding, and finishes up with reason; nothing higher than this is to be found in us, for it signifies the working up of the material of perception, and the reducing of it to the highest unity of thought." Reason is therefore, according to Kant, the power of obtaining knowledge from principles, that is, the power of knowing the particular in the universal by means of Notions; the understanding, on the contrary, reaches its particular by means of perception. But the categories are themselves particular. The principle of reason, according to Kant, is really the universal, inasmuch as it finds the unconditioned involved in the conditioned knowledge of the understanding. Understanding is hence for him thought in finite relations; reason, on the contrary, is thought which makes the unconditioned its object. Since Kant's time it has become customary in the language of philosophy to distinguish understanding and reason, while by earlier philosophers this distinction was not drawn. The product of reason is, according to Kant, the Idea -- a Platonic expression -- and he understands by it the unconditioned, the infinite. It is a great step forward to say that reason brings forth Ideas | 402 |
The world of wine<|fim_middle|> you with esoterica on wine but useful, quickly applicable information that should increase your enjoyment of wine. | can be confusing and wading through it to find and order the wines you'll love seems like a big hassle to a lot of people!
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We hope to see you online and come back and visit this blog. We'll strive not to bore | 319 |
Fancy feet are in sandals and peep shoes so pamper your feet to get their look, pedicure is the best way to get require result. Here we will<|fim_middle|> beautiful file nailed and soft feet that are ready to wear sandals and peep toes shoes.
You Need: For pedicure you need following things that are easily available in the market and some are in your home.
Pumice stone or callus file.
Now we will do our pedicure in these easy steps.
1- Remove existing nail polish with remover and cotton pads or cotton balls.
2- Clip toes nails with clipper up to desired length and shape.File the toe nails straight across to reduce the risk of getting hurt.
3- Dip your feet into the bearable heated water in which you need to add Epsom salt at least 3 tbs it will soften callus and slop off dead skin.
4- Use cuticle remover and orange stick to push cuticle and remove access of cuticle lining to toe, trim access cuticle skin.
5- Apply foot scrub and massage on foot and rub pumice stone to remove dead skin on the feet and heel skin. Then dry your feet with soft towel.
6- Moisturize your feet with thick moisturizer to keep natural moisture store in feet skin and soften the skin. Wipe off access lotion from your nails after the gentle massage.
7- Paint your nails with strengthening base coat. Apply two coats of your favorite nail polish then top shining coat. Let it dry at least for five minutes.
Now you are ready to try all kinds of fancy peep toes shoes and step out with lot of confident. | tell you How To Do A Pedicure that is easy and with very less time you will be able to get | 23 |
Latino Victory Fund Congratulates Congressman Pete Aguilar on his election to House Democratic Caucus Chair
Washington, D.C. – Latino Victory Fund, the nation's largest political action committee dedicated to building Latino political power, congratulates Congressman Pete Aguilar, D-CA, on his election to House Democratic Caucus Chair.
Nathalie Rayes, Latino Victory Fund president and CEO, issued the following statement:
"Latino Victory Fund is proud to congratulate Congressman Pete Aguilar on his election as House Democratic Caucus Chair. Congressman Aguilar has risen through the Democratic leadership ranks to become the highest-ranking Latino in Congress thanks to his proven leadership and consensus-building abilities. Throughout his career in the U.S. House, he has been a champion for the Latino community, including one of the most vocal supporters of DACA protections and immigration reform. He also demonstrated an unwavering commitment to<|fim_middle|> seeing him working and advocating for Latino families across the country in this new role." | protecting our nation's democracy during his service on the January 6 Committee. We look forward to | 19 |
Meet the Money® 2013 online registration ends Friday. Don't miss this year's exciting edition of the hotel industry's finance conference.
Meet the Money® 2013 is next week!<|fim_middle|> more than "just" great hotel lawyers. They are also hospitality consultants and business advisors. They are deal makers. They can help find the right operator or capital provider. | Online registration ends this Friday, May 3, 2013 at 5 pm.
It is hard to believe but our 23rd annual Meet the Money® conference is less than a week away — May 6 to 8, 2013 at the Sheraton LAX.
We have an exciting program with the top providers and consumers of debt, equity and other pieces of the capital stack. We also have top industry leaders speaking and attending, plenty of opportunities for networking and deal making, and the best conference food and snacks in the industry.
Hot topics include all the latest on WHO is providing hotel financing and HOW the deals are being done — from small deals to big deals. Presenters are all active in providing capital or finding the best sources of it.
Why the ADA matters to you.
Why are people adding hotels to shopping centers?
Although this will mark the 23rd time I have hosted Meet the Money®, I always look forward to meeting new people, seeing old friends, helping facilitate a new deal and learning something new. I hope you will join me. And if this is your first time attending, please come up and introduce yourself!
There is still time to register online for two more days, and then you will be able to register at the door, but your name won't be on the delegate list.
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Manuel Pougès
Born in 1990 in Evry-Courcouronnes, Manuel Pougès has been living and working in Bordeaux since 2016. Drawing has always been a part of his life since he used it to kill time in the classrooms, not being part of the pack of Alpha students. The caricatures and saucy scenes he made, whose protagonists were no more than 10 metres away from him, were his first training in drawing.
Manuel Pougès continued this self-taught training until the day he left to study art in Belgium. This was a godsend, as he was beginning to run out of new models to satisfy his creativity.
He thus went through two phases of learning: illustration in St-Luc in Belgium, which was very useful in teaching graphic techniques, and then the Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, thanks to which he developed a more conceptual art and a more serious approach.
Manuel Pougès is now inspired by the possibilities of the invisible universes and their macroscopic details, with the aim of rendering without scale. He offers an imaginary form to this infinity of possibilities. He explores the notion of geometric purity through the circle, which concentrates each motif in a fractal world.
"I think that repetition can sublimate a simple motif and bring an aesthetic, unusual and hypnotic dimension to it. When I start a new design I first look for a pattern. Then I try to imagine the final form that the accumulation of this pattern will create, its final appearance. Once seduced, I can begin to draw; an automatism gradually takes place. I try to ape the Machine, but my human nature will inevitably create imperfections. This is what I call natural geometry." - Manuel Pougès
This young artist is not anchored in a fixed approach, although the method is obsessive, aesthetic research takes precedence over reasoning. Manuel Pougès brings his own explanations to | 475 |
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The Yellow Mythos – 5 Reasons Why True Detective Was The Best Show This Year
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***WARNING: this post will contain spoilers for this season of True Detective. Turn back now, ye who have not seen it.***
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I don't believe I have ever witnessed such a frenzied, overwhelming reaction to a television show in such a short amount of time. True Detective was only eight episodes long. I knew, for myself, that I was going to be completely obsessed with it by the second episode; I warned Geoff about it and that I was going to have to buy it on DVD the very moment it came out. You all probably know by now how I tend to obsess over things.
For anyone unfamiliar with True Detective, it is an eight-episode series which recently ran on HBO. It tells the story of Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, two detectives who are partnered together to solve a serial killer murder mystery. The show jumps around from 1995, when they believe they solved the crime, and 2012, when it rapidly becomes obvious that something is amiss; the killer was not apprehended after all.
What impressed me so much was how strongly the entire internet reacted to the show. Within those same short, first few weeks the internet exploded with True Detective interest, and by the finale, the fervor was so high that fans streaming the episode through HBO GO crashed the network's servers. This is the kind of rabid loyalty that usually takes years to build up, like with Breaking Bad, for example. Both shows completely deserved the devotion given to them, but it intrigues me that True Detective was able to accomplish this in a mere eight weeks. What is so different about this show?
Like the very best art, it's extremely difficult to parse out exactly what makes it so special. True Detective was pure magic, and I don't believe it's something that can be distilled down to a formula and repeated endlessly. But I'm still going to take a stab at defining what I think people, including myself, are responding to so strongly.
1. Relateable, real, unique characters. Marty Hart and Rust Cohle, played by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey respectively, are fascinating. They are fully realized, flawed, broken men but they still try to do good and make a difference in the world. Whether you're more of a Hart or a Cohle (guess which one I am – HAH), you'll find someone to identify with.
These men both deserve Emmys and any and all awards given out to television performances for their acting. To be honest, I'd never really gotten Matthew McConnaughey before. True Detective completely changed my opinion of him; I was absolutely blown away. Woody Harrelson is, of course, spectacular as well, but I went in expecting to enjoy his work. McConnaughey's jaw-dropping performance in scene after scene was a revelation to me.
2. A script which treats its audience with respect. You will not be talked down to here. There is no spoon-feeding of the audience. You are expected to pay attention and remember clues dropped in one episode and discovered in another. Nothing has been dumbed-down and it's incredibly refreshing. I want my shows to challenge me, to engage me, to literally take me on a journey. True Detective does all that and more.
3. Myth and metaphor. If you've seen any of the series, you've probably already read about how much of it was inspired by Robert W. Chambers' 1895 classic work The King In Yellow. The King In Yellow is a collection of<|fim_middle|> King, masks (both literal and metaphoric, masking who you truly are), black stars, the sign of the Yellow King, truth about the world bringing on madness, it all stems from The King In Yellow. This is the kind of thing that really excites me. And yes, I did read the entire King In Yellow between episodes just enhance my viewing pleasure. This is the kind of loyalty the show inspires. While it is certainly possible to watch the show and enjoy it without having delved into hundred-year-old, obscure literature, you want to for True Detective.
I have always been a proponent of the power of myth and metaphor. Its something that I try to use as often as possible in my own work. They are an incredibly strong force, which is rarely drawn on in television; certainly not to this degree.
Take the detectives' names. Marty (Martin) Hart and Rust (Rustin) Cohle. Marty; the warm, personable, passionate, fiery, family-man-with-something-on-the-side. Martin is derived from Mars, Roman god of war and means "warring." "Warring," whether against the killer he hunts or the banalities of daily life, and "heart" are two perfect words to sum Marty up. "Rust" and "coal" are perfect expressions of Rustin Cohle; bleak, nihilistic and emotionless. Rust only occurs on metal, an element which is the perfect metaphor for Rust, cold and strong, but wounded, and we watch him disintegrate a little bit at a time. Coal… I can think of nothing better to describe Rust's heart after his young daughter's death, which sent him down this path of meaninglessness and hopelessness. But like real coal, there is the potential to change into something utterly different and glitteringly beautiful.
The more you pay attention to the show, the more subtleties you pick up on. Pay attention to how the color yellow is used, for example. Scenes that have the most to do with the killer are the most yellow. When Rust makes Marty view the VHS tape of Marie Fontenot's murder, not only is the whole screen is saturated in yellow, it's a clear metaphor for Marty having read the "second act." And after you've read the second act, there is no going back. Things can never be the same.
Myth and metaphor are so cleverly and generously used, I could go on for pages about it, but you get the idea. I think you'll have more fun if you watch the show and try to pick out the references yourself 🙂
4. A beautifully shot piece of art. Not to mention interestingly shot. Incredibly complicated, gun-fighting, fist-fighting, dozens-of-extras, police-cars-and-helicopters, lifting-the-camera-man-over-a-fence-with-a-crane, six-minute-without-a-cut scene, anyone?
I also love how the show uses classic noir and literature traits, like showing peoples' reactions to horror instead of the horror itself. It's an underused and extremely effective method of story-telling, not to mention underscores the mysterious tone of the entire show.
5. Healing and redemption – and the twist-within-a-twist ending. You expect, this being a show about two detectives solving a crime, even though by now you know you'll see something more than that, that the show will end on a climax of Marty and Rust catching the killer. And they do catch their killer… who ends up being at once creepier and more ordinary than you had expected the grand Yellow King to be, which feels like a very authentic picture of actual murderers. Twist one. Marty and Rust catch their Yellow King about halfway through the last episode, giving them almost another 30 minutes to fill. Why would they need the extra time, you wonder. To finish the story. To really finish the real story.
What's the real story? As Rust says, it's the oldest story, of light verses darkness. Not just in the grander sense of of Marty and Rust catching their man, but of them facing the darknesses within their own lives. For Marty, this means seeing the family he destroyed years ago with his multiple affairs. And while things are far from all forgiven and forgotten, the show makes it clear that the fact that his ex-wife and daughters are even in the same room with him is a huge hurdle to have crossed. Marty is not ok. His family is not ok. But now, finally, things can begin to heal and just maybe, they will be ok some day.
And then there's Rust. Rust, who began to withdraw from the world years and years ago when his young daughter was suddenly killed. Rust, who wants to hurry up and catch their man because his entire life has been "a circle of violence and degradation as long as I can remember" and he wants to end it as soon as his work is done. You can't blame him for feeling that way. I think he expected he would die in the final confrontation with the killer, which very nearly did happen, but he finds himself alive still at the other end, after awakening from the coma his wounds put him in. What's left for our nihilistic, philosophical, misanthropic hero?
A lot, it turns out. Our emotionless, cerebral, steely man, who I can remember smiling only once during the whole series, breaks down sobbing. In his coma, he had a vision of the afterlife where he encountered his father's and daughter's spirits, and moreover, he encountered their love. Love which continued beyond death. Which wiped away any disappointments his father may have had for him in life, any guilt he may have felt over his daughter's death. He was wrapped in pure love, something he had never experienced before.
It profoundly effected him. When Marty, looking up at the night sky observes that the dark seems to have a lot more territory, Rust responds with "Yeah, you're right about that… But you're looking at it wrong… Once, there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning."
Twist two. The entire show wasn't about them catching the Yellow King. The entire thing led up to this moment, when Marty and Rust are reconciled, the healing has begun, and Rust has his first moment of optimism. Healing and redemption. Light verses dark. That's what we'd been watching this whole time.
So how does my self portrait tie in? In a lot of ways actually. Most obviously, it's a reference to the starry night Marty and Rust philosophize under, the hope and beauty they were able to find. The yellow is obvious as well, and since purple is yellow's complimentary color, that seemed like a good direction to go in. What's hard to see in the shrunken, internet-appropriate version of the image is how the yellow fabric is sliding off my face; the mask is coming off. And most importantly, I wanted to portray the optimism Rust found there at the very end. Maybe life isn't all shit and misery. Maybe it's full of beauty and wonder too. I'll do my part to try and make that second part more and more true.
The Light Is Winning
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I personally had a hate/love relationship with the first season of Kaiji. Of course the concept was awesome: gambling and mind games? this series would have been awesome to watch… if only it didn't take forever to get from A to B. The first season just consisted out of four arcs, but in the end it was just too dragged out for me to really recommend it. Now, the second season only has two arcs. And yes, it's just as long.
Again, it sounds wonderful on paper: this series continues with Kaiji having to find a way to win seemingly simple gambles, which prove to be exceptionally devious. The first arc is actually very good: it's got excellent build-up and knows exactly what it wants to be. There is a good balance of Kaiji to figure out a plan to win his bets, the execution is short but sweet and it overall reaches a very satisfying and adrenaline filled conclusion.
The problem with this season lies with its monstrous second arc: the pachinko arc. Oh my god, that was way too long. In total, this one takes up a whopping seventeen episodes, even though its story really isn't that complicated. The creators could easily have done this arc in about 11 episodes. The result? is that the remaining time is spent on stalling time.
Now, delaying the inevitable on its own can be quite effective. This show however takes it way too far. It starts off nicely with a crazy premise, intriguing build-up and an atmosphere that just tightens with every episode. After a while though, the creators just start to repeat themselves to increase tension. They repeat over and over how characters are feeling, they explain over and over what's going on, and this just goes on and on, without going even further. On top of that, they just keep inserting these pointless and inconclusive symbolism scenes that all try to be different yet all just try to say the same thing. This show tries to build up an over the top atmosphere filled with adrenaline, but it lacks the substance to keep it up. I'm willing to say that if you marathon the first season, you'll get an adrenaline filled roller-coaster ride out of it. I can not say the same for the second season, however.
To make matters even worse, this season also features its share of character derailment, especially near its end. The old man of the first season devolves into a deranged lunatic for no discernable reason whatsoever. Kaiji himself also starts to act really weirdly and against his character near the end, and the final episodes are also way too filled with manly tears. There's a difference between acting over the top and overacting, and this series ends up crossing that line. And this takes into account the first season, in which that line wasn't crossed.
What also makes this less adrenaline filled as what it could have been is that the stakes at the final arc… really aren't that severe when you compare it to what Kaiji had to go through in the first season. That season was completely crazy in what Kaiji all had to do in order to win. When you compare the gore with each other, the second season is really tame. In the first season Kaiji was pretty much scarred for life or even dead in the case of a lost bet. The second season reduces the stakes to life time imprisonment. I mean, that's pretty bad too and all, but not for watching a hot blooded adrenaline show.
There were months in which I rated this second season quite highly, and its first fifteen episodes or so pretty much do what they need to do. Looking back<|fim_middle|> might want to close this window, as SPOILERS will follow.
Overall, this episode disappointed, especially considering the enormous build-up that preceded it. This arc was in no way as intense as the E-card arc, simply because the creators refused to show Kaiji's reaction after his hands got cut off. And to think that the gore was actually one of the best parts of this series. The raw emotions when seeing Kaiji, cutting off his own ear, and my favourite moment of the entire series: seeing Tonegawa punish himself: even though this series mostly bored me, I have to admit that these moments were truly unrivalled. It was a real downer that the screen just blacked out and we saw Kaiji's hand wrapped in bondages.
What also disappointed me is that we never really got to look in the mind of Hyoudou, but that's only natural, since the manga went on for much longer. This episode also hinted at a second season (although with Madhouse, you never know; yes, I'm looking at you, Shigurui), though it that ever comes, I don't think I'll end up blogging it.
Having said that, I at least like that this episode wrapped up this entire arc well enough. The aftermath wrapped up all of the loose ends of the storyline, and it didn't really leave a bad taste behind, apart from what I just mentioned. At least we got to know a bit more about Hyoudou when Kaiji figured out how he won. I like how Kaiji himself figured it out, instead of in regular anime, where the opponent just brainlessly tells his opponent all of his plans. The guy is smarter than he looks, and I like that.
Yup, like expected: the entire success of this arc will depend on whether the final episode will deliver or not. Unfortunately, I've also been spoiled about it, so it'll all depend on the execution. What I'm most curious about is the chairman himself. We know Kaiji by now and his fear is nothing new by now. But what I really want to see is the tricks up on the sleeve of this old master. He says that he's a king and he can draw whatever he wants on a second turn, but it this just a bluff?
My guess is that he very well knew that Kaiji was cheating. I mean, what other idiot would just throw away his fingers? The guy checked out all possibilities, and probably found the second winning lot when he was checking every corner inside the box. He didn't draw it, and instead mixed it with the other lots in order to make the gamble more "fun", and make it last longer.
I admit that the choice to blog this series was a wrong one. During the past fall-season, I ended up blogging a lot of "wrong" shows. Shugo Chara, Suteki Tantei Labyrinth and Gundam 00 were also nice series and all, but I didn't feel like blogging them was really interesting, especially with Shugo Chara. During the past Autumn-season, I really found out that I have the most fun in blogging a series that I can sing praises over and over about. Of course, making fun of bad series is fun as well once in a while, but you don't want to do this for every episode. This is why the final episodes of Claymore and .Hack//Roots also felt such a chore for me to blog.
It's the same as with Kaiji, although I don't mean to say that this series isn't good. This isn't a show like Jigoku Shoujo that's different with each single episode, so that I can have something to say for each single one of them. This is a series that is intended to be marathoned for entire arcs, just to beef you up with adrenaline for some kind of major sporting event or something.
When most other series build up for one big event, they usually have plenty of time with one episode that's entirely meant to build up for that particular scene.
But Kaiji is different. Kaiji doesn't need one episode, no. It needs three of them.
And so we've passed the second episode. All that's left now is the final episode of building up, after which the episode where stuff actually happens will finally close off this series. The narrator was right: it has been a real night of lunacy, and I can expect someone to go crazy if you marathoned it entirely.
And although I admit that the pacing could have been a bit faster, I like the themes a lot. Here, people really try to outsmart each other, with carefully laid-out plans. This is much more interesting than a bunch of guys being scared to death on top of a beam that hangs 80 meters above the ground.
Okay, this'll be a short entry, since all this episode did was building up anyway. Kaiji, while still under the influence of the adrenaline from his match with Tonegawa, is screwed in the head enough to abandon the 20 million he won, just for a shot to challenge the chairman. Even though the chairman claims that it doesn't really hurt him whether or not he loses, Kaiji is still determined to gamble. This begs the question: how is Kaiji planning to take revenge on the chairman? The most obvious strategy would of course be for the guy to put all of his money on the line. If it's one thing that rich people are terrified of, it's getting poor. But this guy is a professional. He just isn't crazy enough to just do it for the life of one measly ant.
Apart from that, the pacing was as slow as usual, which isn't the most exciting thing when this series isn't in one of its climaxes, so I'll withhold my judgement until the next episode.
One thing that I do want to praise this series about is the balls that it has to go really extreme. After the Boat-arc, for a minute I feared that Kaiji would try to stop the punishment of Tonegawa. Instead, Tonegawa has proven that he's a real man this time, even though he lost. He was just unable to escape the clutches of the employer he worked for for decades. His final moments were truly terrific, and I'm glad to say that this series now has two well-developed characters. And with a bit of luck, the chairman will make this count three, but that depends entirely on what's going to happen for the final four episodes.
At the moment, I still don't regard Kaiji as a flawless series. The boat-arc and especially the beam-arc dragged on, were a tad predictable and lacked engaging characters to keep me interested. And yet, the past few episodes, ever since Kaiji cut off his ear, have been absolutely amazing. I guess that that's the time since the characters clicked with me.
The chairman has been an interesting character so far, with an interesting philosophy, but he still lacks development a bit. This episode told a bit of his background, but the final episodes still do have a bit of work to do. It would be a bit of a shame for Kaiji to just defeat the guy and make an end to his twisted ideas.
Oh god… as it stands now, reviewing Kaiji when it's finally over is going to be a incredibly difficult. At the moment, I have no idea whether to classify it as just good or excellent. All the commenters on the previous episode made me see this series in a new light, but on the other hand I still remain convinced that the beam-arc was just way too long and drawn-out. I hope that the final episodes will either back up how amazing this series is, or how flawed it is.
The current episode was just amazing, though. This is really what I've been hoping for: mind-games without cheating. Tonegawa was absolutely amazing this time, because for once he has to use his head. He's now going through the same as Kaiji was, back in round one. The creators also switched the viewpoint for this episode: the entire episode was told from the perspective of Tonegawa. We never get to see any of the worries that play into Kaiji's head.
There's one thing I do know for sure about this series: I absolutely HATE the cliff-hangers. They work fine if you're marathoning this thing, but when you watch it on a weekly basis like I'm currently doing, they leave me every episode with a bad taste in my mouth, just because I'm too eager to find out what's happening next.
I'm really interested to find out where Tonegawa's thinking-error lies. Obviously, Kaiji can't die yet; there are still five episodes left. But this also means that the final arc is going to be a relatively small one. The next episode will probably be enough to conclude the E-Card arc and introduce the final one, leaving just four episodes for the real action. If I had to guess (and hope), then Kaiji will be taking on the big boss himself. At the moment, I see Kaiji crazy enough to challenge that guy for something around 20 billion yen. Bleeding ear or no bleeding ear.
Oh my god… I'm speechless. I know I have been whining against this series, but that doesn't matter for this episode. All I know that these were 20 of the most disturbing minutes of anime I've seen. Let me warn you: do not watch this episode if you can't stand gore. I still can't call this series great, but damn… this episode was so worth it.
I'm going to keep this entry short, because even though it was an awesome episode, it's also one that I'd like to forget as soon as possible. In this sense, the gore is even worse than in Shigurui because there, you can see it coming. I didn't expect for Kaiji to be this screwed in the mind to just cut off his ENTIRE EAR.
Call me gullible, but I'm not really pleased to find out that my praises for the E-Card arc of a few episodes ago, where I finally hoped to see some complex mind-games between two masterminds, turned out to be one big mistake. How I hoped to see both Tonegawa and Kaiji outsmart each other with complex tactics… well, it now turns out that Tonegawa has been cheating. Sigh. The episode was quite intense, and it wasn't bad at all, actually, but it's the whole attitude of this series that bothers me.
I finally think that I know where my problems for this series lie: with those cursed expectations again. A couple of years ago, I watched the first arc of Akagi. I'm still not sure why I didn't continue it, but I loved the complex tactics that it brought into Mah-jong. Shion no Ou is currently doing a similar thing with complex and character-based tactics. So yes, I was hoping for the same kind of experience, where Kaiji would use his head while gambling, and come up with nice ideas to win money. It was even advertised, how Kaiji would "enter the dangerous world of gambling".
Instead, we get 26 episodes of bunch of yakuza who like to bully a bunch of defenceless young adults. It's nice and all, but it's so different and less interesting (in my opinion, at least) from what I expected from this series. I also see no reason why this couldn't be cut into just thirteen episodes. That would have been the perfect length for a concept such as this one. Each arc thus far has featured Kaiji enter a challenge full of confidence, dive into the deepest pit of despair imaginable, only to rise up again and survive with one masterful insight. In that way, the Boat-arc has so far been the best arc so far, because at least that one did have a bit more than just the formula I described.
Now I also understand why I'm so bothered with the slow pacing of this series, even though I usually don't have this problem at all. The arcs are just so formulaic that I find myself thinking "just get on with it". I mean, the creators really try to keep the episodes interesting, but the fact that Kaiji will rise from his despair and will at least do something that wasn't part of Tonegawa's plans are just way too apparent. It doesn't even matter whether Kaiji wins or loses, because by the nature of this series I'm already expecting that Kaiji will walk away without any money, yet again, and that the creators will find another way to keep Kaiji on their leash so that he can enter the fourth and final arc of this series.
So, how is it that Shion no Ou is currently my absolute favourite series, even though it too is in the middle of a tournament-arc with a similar premise as that of Kaiji? Well, Shion no Ou makes sure that there's enough going on for me not to care. It's hard to explain, but it feels like every character there has his or her own goals and morals. In Kaiji, it just feels like they exist to carry Kaiji through the storyline. | though… I really can't recommend this show in its entirety. Just watch up to the Chinchiro arc for a nice conclusion, but there's no need to bother with the incredibly long pachinko arc. It's just not worth it.
Storytelling: 7/10 – Is way too long for its own good and drags on needlessly by repeating itself. It's a shame, because the first arc is well written.
Characters: 7/10 – The final parts are bogged down by tons of bad overacting.
Production-Values: 8/10 – The unusual art style is definitely appreciated, and the animation does what it needs to do, although it's nothing amazing.
Setting: 8/10 – This show does have the uncanny ability to portray gambling well. The best parts of this second season are the plans that Kaiji comes up with.
Short Synopsis: Our lead character really likes tea.
I really have no doubt that this will be the most underrated show of the season. It's just completely void of just about any trope that you usually see in the popular anime: there is no moe whatsoever, nor any bishies. Instead the lead characters are all in their thirties; there is no youth in this show whatsoever. Meanwhile, takes place during the samurai age, yet there are hardly any battles, with this instead being a dialogue-centred series. On top of that, this is Bee-Train, so there is a lot of focus on talking heads. The soundtrack is completely weird and unconventional and the characters all tend to make silly faces. And I absolutely loved this first episode. It's completely unlike any other series set in the Samurai Age, especially the main character is unique, with his really weird combination of silly facial expressions and down to earth dialogue. Steins;Gate's lead looks just ordinary compared to this guy. Still, his characterization is excellent, and with Bee-Train, the build-up also was just terrific. Most of this episode was quiet, but the climax of this episode was already amazing. And you know what the best part is? This will go on for 39 episodes. When was the last time that a series of this caliber got more than 13 episodes? Let alone 26!
OP: Quiet and laid-back, with interesting visuals.
ED: I don't think I've ever heard a Bee-Train OP or ED like this. Again really relaxed.
Short Synopsis: Our lead character has money problems.
Kaiji is a show about Gambling, but this first episode of the sequel didn't have any of that. It was just meant to build up, and introduce the next arc, and it was actually very good in doing so. For Kaiji standards in particular, a lot happened here. The creators really wanted to show how deep one could fall if you get on the wrong side of the mafia. They lure you in with the promise that one day your debt will be over, but use very dirty tricks to just push that deadline back and back. This episode did a great job of breaking apart Kaiji's spirit with basic psychology. That's the big difference between Akagi and One outs: those are shows to see how well a superhuman can pwn just about everyone around him and their lead characters are more than aware of their own abilities.. Kaiji is at the complete opposite: he's completely flawed, makes the most stupid decisions, only standing out because he can struggle like no other. Of course, at this point I can't yet comment on whether this second season has improved the pacing issues of the first season. The only criticism I have at this point is that the narrator is a bit too enthusiastic. Even describing the most mundane activities are announced with that over the top voice of his. But then again, why am I expecting subtlety from this series?
Short Synopsis: Our lead character lands is just an average schoolgirl who winds up amongst famous people from the Sengoku Era.
Sengoku Otome's biggest sin is its blandness. I wouldn't call this bad.. it just fails to stand out in any kind of way. Just about everything about this show screams "been there, done that". It has nothing that really sets itself apart of that is actually remotely good. The creators to me just didn't seem to care here. The premise of a random teenager ending up in a fantasy world has been done a ton of times before, so you really need to set yourself apart in this genre. So what do the creators do? They choose a complete airhead as their main character. They turn it into self-insert fan-fiction amongst famous historical figures. They gender-swap said figures into females. They put no effort whatsoever into the character designs. And okay, the character-designs aren't as bad as with Dog Days, but they still are pretty bad here. This entire episode just followed one cliche after the other, with nothing really to make up for it. If the characters were likable then this could be forgiven, but even there this show doesn't do anything. The lead character is beyond annoying, and the rest of the cast is just completely one-sided and uninteresting.
OP: Like the show, bland, both in terms of visuals and music.
And it's finally over. I've decided not to write a review about this series, though. I've watched this series the wrong way, and it turned out to be a big disappointment, save for four or five episodes. I feel that I'm way too biased to give an objective view about this series. It already was difficult to give this series a fair rating during my monthly summaries. Kaiji is a series that you need to marathon, in order to pump yourself up with adrenaline. It's not something you can watch casually. Having said that, if you haven't seen this episode yet, you | 1,202 |
Saturday morning we have an<|fim_middle|>'m a big believer that a little planning, some forethought, and smart purposeful execution pays off huge dividends in skill development.
One of the items that came up has come up several times recently. I don't take any rounds off at that open mat. Now, for me, where I am now that's no big deal. I have plenty of much much longer training sessions in the week. Doing 2, 3, or even 4 hours is not uncommon as well as days where I train in more than one session throughout the day or lift in the morning and train a few hours at night.
I just want to go over the math real quick with you.
Lets say we have 2 students. Student A, and student B. Now A&B both train a respectable 5 times a week for 1 hour sessions. To keep this simple lets say each of those hour sessions is 10 x 5 min rounds. Student A takes no rounds off all week. Student B takes 1 round off each session.
25 more training sessions a year is an extra 5 WEEKS a year.
That's more than a extra month of training per year Student A gets over Student B just by not taking that one round off each session.
So at the end of several years when Student B looks at A and says man, we both started at the same time why is that A-hole getting better than me! Well, in 10 years he may have nearly a full more year of mat time!
That's a simple scenario using some easy numbers and very small amount of training. These dudes are only training 5 hours a week! I normally train 10-12 hours a week. My gains might be double or more if we do the math on it.
Let me challenge you. Find the wasted spaces, and fill them in. When class splits up be the first group to start working. If you are already repping out the technique while another group is still chit chatting it up you may get an extra few minutes than them during that session. Maybe physically your not able to do an open mat and not take a round off, but maybe you can take a round to drill instead with a partner as a rest round. Maybe after class breaks you can get one more round in with your partner if there's time and space for it, so you get just one more round than everyone else that day. I don't know about anyone else but I'd much rather have my years be 14 months instead of 10. Over the long haul its going to add up, it has to, its all mathematics. | open mat at our Cranberry PA location at 9AM. It runs until 10AM when I teach the Fundamentals BJJ class. I try to get there early, warm up a little, and try not to take any rounds off. It's just one hour. 5 minute rounds with 1 minute rests if can get the first round started on time I should be able to get at least 10 rounds in.
After the 10AM Fundamentals class I teach the 11AM Self Defense class. Last week following that I taught a private lesson. In discussion after that lesson we discussed how to train at open mats, setting training goals, and general training philosophy. It's always a goal of mine to distill solid framework of how to train in new students. I | 163 |
Architecture and UX: The art of making things good
December 11th, 2014 by htadmin
Dan Klyn, information architect, has studied the works of Richard Saul Wurman, the architect, author, and designer who coined the term "information architecture." In a recent lecture at UX Week 2013, Klyn talked about the concepts that link architecture as we know it and how we organize information.
I had the pleasure of hearing Dan Klyn's lecture at UX Week in San Francisco recently, where he shared his work in decoding the relationship between Richard Saul Wurman's ideas on architecture, design, and how we structure information. Klyn claimed that what he found in Wurman's work goes beyond information architecture, and even UX–that he defined a way of thinking, living life, and "making things be good."
Klyn identified at least five patterns in Wurman's work that describe this way of thinking and can be tools for UX designers today: 1. Order encodes meaning, 2. What before how, 3. Apperception, 4. Terror and confidence, and 5. Expertise expires.
In this post, I will focus on "What before how," a concept that was best illustrated in Wurman's architecture project, Sandcastles.
But first, a story: Problems with information and language
In 1976, Wurman was the chairman of the American Institute of Architects and gave a presentation at its national conference. This presentation, more fable than slide deck, tells the story of a fictional town in which its inhabitants are only able to describe their needs using the words "more" and "no."
Wurman's character in this tale, the commissioner of curiosity, travels across town investigating the problems faced by its residents. In response to the town's architectural despair, Wurman summarizes that, "The problems in the architecture of the built environment are due to the problems in the architecture of information and language."
When the commissioner of the town asks a teacher how education could be improved, she said they need more books, more classrooms, more pencils. A policeman replied that they needed more jail cells, more cops, more bullets and bullet proof vests. The commissioner realizes that the reason why the town's citizens cannot be satisfied is that they lack the language necessary to describe their needs–they're only describing solutions using "more" and "no."
It's a problem we deal with everyday: Wurman's Sandcast<|fim_middle|> where the world is becoming more conscious of this idea, but the responsibility lies on us as designers to hold up our end. We must work harder than ever to prove to those around us that investing in understanding is requisite to creating honest and truly helpful solutions for people engaging with technology.
Our toolkits have never been more fully realized so we have the opportunity to take advantage of techniques such user research, testing, prototyping, and others that so many before us have worked to refine. We are also fortunate that, unlike the physically built environment, we have more opportunity to iterate on and improve our solutions through understanding people and their contexts.
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In 1970, Wurman and his architecture firm designed and developed four vacation homes on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Wurman called them Sandcastles, and only one of them still stands today. Three homes were constructed in place of the fallen sandcastles, each an amalgamation of the styles of neighboring homes and generic New England architecture.
In response to this unfortunate turn of events, Klyn asks, "How do we account for the significant differences between sandcastles and whatever… this is?"
It becomes clear that their replacements were built with a focus on "more" and "no."
What does this mean for UX today?
As a designer in any field, we are often faced with the challenge of defending our ideas against the onslaught of more's and no's. At times, we may even find ourselves gravitating toward the easy answers that this approach often provides us. Wurman put it best when he said, "The classic, pervasive seduction to designers has been to find a solution instead of the truth."
The best defense against this seduction is a willingness to invest in defining "why" before "what."
I believe that the field of user experience is a reaction to this sentiment. It's a paradigm shift in the way we design for software, web, and beyond. We are lucky to participate in a time | 277 |
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Drug Identification Number is an eight-digit (8) numerical code assigned to each drug product marketed under or in accordance with the Food and Drugs Act and Food and Drug Regulations of Health Canada.
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• suggests limiting salt or sodium to between 1500 mg (2/3 tsp) to 2300 mg (1 tsp) per day.
• is low in saturated fat, cholesterol and total fat
• emphasizes fruit, vegetables, and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products.
• includes whole grain products, fish, poultry and nuts.
• is low in lean red meat, sweets, added sugars and sugar-containing beverages
• is rich in potassium, magnesium, and calcium as well as protein and fibre.
"A systematic approach to decision making under conditions of uncertainty. It involves identifying all available alternatives and estimating the probabilities of potential outcomes associated with each alternative, valuing each outcome, and, on the basis of the probabilities and values, arriving at a quantitative estimate of the relative merit of the alternatives."
Deft Index
Dmft or deft index is a count of decayed, missing or filled teeth with a maximum score of 20.
Dehydration is the depletion in total body water content due to pathologic water losses, diminished water intake or a combination of both.
Descriptive Study
"A study that describes characteristics of a sample of individuals. Unlike an experimental study, the investigators do not actively intervene to test a hypothesis, but merely describe the health status or characteristics of a sample from a defined population."
Detection Bias
"Tendency to look more carefully for an outcome in one of the comparison groups (also known as surveillance bias)."
Development Coordination Disorder
Development Coordination Disorder is associated commonly with difficulties in learning, behavior, and psychosocial adjustment, in addition to core deficits in motor function.
Diabetic ketoacidosis is a very serious condition which results in alterations in pH and electrolyte balance leading to acidosis and dehydration caused by a lack or relative deficiency of insulin.
Diarrhea is frequent and watery bowel movements; commonly qualified as the passage of three or more loose or watery stools/day.
A collective term for a variety of plant substances that are resistant to digestion by human gastrointestinal enzymes.
Dietary Reference Intakes
An "umbrella" term for four nutrient-based reference values that are used to assess and plan the diets of healthy people. The reference values include: the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR), the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), the Adequate Intake (AI) and the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL). Relevant to U.S.A. and Canada only.
Dietary Reference Standards
Dietary Reference Standards are nutrient intake values established as goals for individuals or groups for good nutrition and health.
Dietary status
The condition of an individual or group as a result of food and nutrient intake. Dietary status also refers to the sum of dietary intake measurements for an individual or a group.
A regulated dietitian has the following titles and credentials:
Australia and New Zealand: Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD)
Canada: Registered Dietitian (RD) in all provinces, except Quebec (P.Dt.)
New Zealand: New Zealand Registered Dietitian (NZRD)
United Kingdom: Registered Dietitian (RD) and HCPC Registered.
Discourse refers to bodies of knowledge created through subjective thought, power structures, people and experiences.
Disinhibition
The tendency to overeat in response to different stimuli.
Distribution of observed intakes
The distribution of observed intakes represents the variability of observed intakes in the population of interest.
Distribution of Requirements
The distribution of requirements reflects the individual-to-individual (between person) variability in requirements. Variability exists because not all individuals in a group have the same requirements for a nutrient, even if they are similar in characteristics such as age and sex.
Distribution of usual intakes
The distribution of usual intakes is the long-run average nutrient intakes of individuals in the population. The distribution should reflect only the individual-to-individual (between-person) variability in intakes. Statistical procedures may be used to adjust the distribution of observed intakes by partially removing the day-to-day variability in individual intakes, so the adjusted distribution more closely resembles a usual intake distribution. Sometimes referred to as the "usual intake distribution".
Diverticula
Two or more diverticulum.
Infection or inflammation of one or more diverticula.
Presence of diverticula in the gastrointestinal tract.
Diverticulum
A sac-like pouch in the intestinal wall.
Dominant paradigm
A dominant paradigm is the knowledge and guidance that is most widely accepted.
Dose-response assessment
Dose-response assessment is the second step in a risk assessment in which the relationship between nutrient intake and adverse effect (in terms of incidence and/or severity of the effect) is determined.
Double-Blind
"A procedure of blind assignment to study and control groups and blind assessment of outcome, designed to ensure that ascertainment of outcome is not biased by knowledge of the group to which an individual was assigned. Double refers to both parties –the subjects in the study and control groups, and the observer(s) in contact with the subjects; those describing a randomized controlled trial should provide a specific description of who among those involved in the trial were blinded."
Doubly-labelled water
Doubly-labelled water is a form of indirect calorimetry where the average metabolic rate is measured over a period of time. This process is done | 1,089 |
<|fim_middle|> team every driver would love to race for.
The battle has ebbed and flowed this year, with Ferrari winning the first two races before Mercedes came back and were then overtaken again. For much of the season, Mercedes felt the Italians had the fastest car.
"That is why this championship feels best, because we had a hell of a fight on our hands throughout the season with Ferrari," said Wolff.
"And being able to win a fifth consecutive championship is something we wouldn't have dreamt of six years ago. In our wildest dreams that wouldn't have come to mind. | SAO PAULO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Mercedes won their fifth successive Formula One constructors' championship on Sunday, joining glamour team Ferrari in the record books and rendering team boss Toto Wolff temporarily speechless.
"He said 'it is an honour to welcome you to the five times club'. Which is unbelievable to even hear that. I am speechless," Wolff told reporters, even if he was not lost for words for long.
While Ferrari won six team titles from 1999 to 2004, they and Mercedes are the only ones to have won five successive 'doubles' — the drivers' and constructors titles together.
Next season will see Mercedes attempt to break new boundaries, with Sunday's race winner Lewis Hamilton also chasing his sixth title to move closer to Schumacher's seven, but there is plenty to celebrate before then.
"We had such a horrible race today with the perfect end result, with Lewis winning and us winning the constructors' championship.
Since the start of the V6 turbo hybrid era in 2014, Mercedes have won every title and Hamilton 50 of the 99 races — a phenomenal return.
When Hamilton moved from McLaren in 2013 there were plenty of pundits predicting the Briton would regret it but now Mercedes, along with Ferrari, are the | 270 |
Fortune Favours Amatil
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Wellington Craft Brewer Fortune Favours has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Coca-Cola Amatil NZ (Amatil) for the sale and distribution of their beer and cider range throughout New Zealand.
By Coca-Cola Amatil 25 February 2019
Fortune Favours is a relatively new entrant into the Wellington brewing scene, opening its brewery and bar in August 2017. In 18 months Fortune Favours has already achieved over 100 taps nationally pouring their product and approximately 300 customers for their packaged beer.
Fortune Favours has a core range of five products that includes: The Wellingtonian<|fim_middle|> Employer in Australasia for three years in a row.
Rainbow Tick – Amatil NZ is proud to have been awarded the Rainbow Tick four years running for our values around inclusion and diversity.
Gender Tick – Amatil NZ is proud to be one of the first companies in New Zealand to be awarded the Gender Tick in 2018 for our gender inclusive culture.
YWCA Compact – Amatil NZ has been awarded the YWCA Compact for alignment on equal pay between men and women. With a national average differential of 9%, Amatil's differential is less than 1%.
Delighted Consumers
Value For Shareholders
Official soft drink supplier for 36th America's Cup
Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand, America's Cup Event Ltd and Challenger of Record 36 have announced a partnership agreement for the 36th America's Cup presented by Prada.
New Zealand's favourite Christmas party goes live
New Zealand's favourite Christmas party goes live to raise $100,000 for Youthline. | NZIPA; The Adventurer Pilsner; The Oregonian American Amber Ale; The Naturalist Unfiltered Pale Ale and The Sunchaser Blueberry Cider. Fortune Favours also produces numerous seasonal and experimental beers from their central Wellington Brewery.
CEO and Founder of Fortune Favours (FF) Shannon Thorpe says, "We are very excited about this partnership and see it as a great way to take FF from being a strong 'up and coming' Wellington brand to a true national brand" Thorpe said.
"There is a great culture and enthusiasm within Amatil, and their sales & distribution network is second to none. This relationship will allow us to continue the growth of Fortune Favours, we'll continue to own and run the brand but with the added support of Amatil's substantial sales and distribution expertise."
Coca-Cola Amatil NZ General Manager of Sales Steve Inch says he's looking forward to adding Fortune Favours to the Amatil portfolio, and the chance to introduce more customers and consumers to this great brand.
"We're very excited to be working with Shannon and the team at Fortune Favours. In just over 18 months since they started they've gone from strength to strength, building a fantastic brand anchored in a range of great-tasting, highly sessionable craft beers," said Inch.
"The next step in their growth needs to come from expanding to a national level, which is where we come in. It's a natural fit with our reach and route to market capability."
As part of the agreement, Coca-Cola Amatil will be putting a team of Beer Ambassadors on the road to ensure that customers have all the support and information they need to engage their consumers with the brand and its great products. The Agreement officially commences 1st April 2019.
Fortune Favours is a small, independent brewery based out of Wellington. The brewery is a partnership between Shannon Thorpe (Founder / CEO), Dale Cooper (Head Brewer) and Wellington Hospitality Group who operate over 30 bars throughout the Wellington region.
Coca-Cola Amatil NZ is a New Zealand company that employs more than a thousand people throughout the country and has a portfolio of over 270 beverage options. These include iconic Kiwi brands L&P and Pump, MOST organic juice, Deep Spring, Halo coffee, Kronenbourg premium beer, Jim Beam, Canadian Club and more. A beverage for every occasion and every lifestyle. Coca-Cola Amatil works closely with its biggest partner The Coca-Cola Company and is proud to also distribute Coca-Cola portfolio of products.
Aon Hewitt Best Employer – Coca-Cola Amatil NZ has been awarded the Aon Hewitt Accreditation for Best | 548 |
I want to address a topic today that has a wide impact on all aspects of learning and functioning for most individuals on the autism spectrum - the debilitating effects of background noise. Here is a picture drawn by Brett (who has Asperger's Syndrome) showing his reaction to a regular classroom environment where the other students are chatting. The number in the bottom right-hand corner represents his irritation level (from Tony Attwood's emotional thermometers) - well past the "danger" level, at 100%.
For most neuro-typical people, screening out and damping down background noise is an automatic ability. Many people don't even realize how loud the background noise is until something specifically draws their attention to it. For example, have you ever attempted to audiotape a lecture at school or at a conference? From where you're sitting, the speaker's voice seems perfectly clear, and you have no doubt that the audiotape will be of high quality. Then you go home and try to listen to it - to your great surprise, all you can hear is voices of people in the audience, whispers and rustles, an annoying air conditioning fan from overhead, the sounds of footsteps - the speaker's voice is barely audible and certainly not clear enough to decipher the meaning of what he or she is saying.
Perception and processing of language is an active process involving multiple levels of your neurological system. The raw sound signal that hits your outer ear is a mass of sensory information. Your auditory system goes to work on that signal immediately, with automatic processes turning up the volume of the person you're listening to, and turning down the volume of everything else in the room. Your visual system feeds in information as well, with your eyes<|fim_middle|> information given in class, so they should always have a visual version of the information to look at while the teacher is talking, and a permanent copy given to them to keep for study (don't make them take notes while you talk). Use noise-blocking headphones to subtract background noise during classroom work periods - for students who are self-conscious about standing out, try using ear-bud headphones with a personal music player, so the music can block out the sound of external voices (you may need to experiment to see what "blocking" auditory information is helpful vs. distracting). If the ASD person is participating in an activity where the background noise is high (eg. gym class, social activity like bowling), make sure key information is in a visual format, give information ahead of time (eg. as a social story), and don't expect a lot of conversation out in the hub-bub. Give the ASD student access to quiet spots to work and learn (to be used with your encouragement, but at their discretion). If you're a job coach, pay attention to background noise, when you are assessing co-op and permanent work placements for ASD clients. For family members, make sure the home environment has quiet "escape spots" so that the ASD individual has a chance to get away from the noise and unwind, decompress and recharge - make home a haven from the chaos they must constantly deal with out in the larger world. | picking up non-verbal communication cues that fill in gaps in the auditory signal's information. Your knowledge of language allows your brain to assign meaning to indistinct words by quickly sorting through all of the possible things that might have been said (based on the flow of information). At the same time, your brain also scans the background for important information that you might want to know - like the sound of a fire alarm, or perhaps simply a question from another speaker in the audience that your ear will tune to, so that you can follow the flow of verbal interaction. All of these brain functions happen automatically, in milliseconds, so far below your conscious level of thinking that you are totally unaware of them.
Individuals with ASD may have weak or non-existent abilities to effectively process the raw auditory signal. For them, any group situation is a wash of babbling voices, overwhelming their senses and their ability to think. Often a rise in background noise can cause a behavioural outburst or melt-down. The ASD individuals that I see commonly report that the sound of human voices is more irritating than other environmental noises - it seems that words and language are harder to simply ignore (part of the brain insists on attempting to process the language, even if you don't want to).
Michael is currently learning how to make animated movies himself, using a simplified version of Flash (called "Koolmoves") that has a more direct user interface than the full Flash animation program (easier to simply work on the screen, choosing tools from a toolbox, but not having to deal with putting items in layers or specifying "tweens" that control the movement pattern between key frames). My hope is that this will provide another channel of expression for him, and perhaps also lead to development of skills that will help him find employment as an adult.
So what's the moral of the story? Pay attention to the environments that ASD individuals are exposed to, especially when you're asking that person to use language, or learn something new. Understand that an ASD student may receive 0% of the verbal | 413 |
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Retired nurse; 'strong and determined woman', devoted to family Josephine "Jo" Procida Iacono died peacefully on December 15, 2021, at St. Joseph's Skilled Nursing at Morris Hall in Lawrenceville, NJ. She lived 40 years in Westfield, NJ, prior to moving to Lawrenceville two years ago. Jo was the beloved wife of the late Placido "Pat" Iacono. They shared 50 years of marriage until Pat died in 1998. They raised three sons together in Iselin, NJ. Jo was a devoted wife and mother. She was predeceased by her sons, Paul Iacono, Richard Iacono and Kenneth Iacono, and also by her dear grandson, Marc Iacono. Born in Bayonne, NJ, in 1926, Jo was a daughter of the late Mary Milione Procida and Alfonso Procida. She was one of seven children and has been predeceased by all 6 siblings: Ann Zec, Martin Procida, Palma Barnack, Lucy Procida, Gloria Mack and Al Procida. Jo worked many years as a nurse, in hospitals, doctors' offices, and as a school nurse. She received her RN in the 1940s and continued her education by graduating from college in 1973 with a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing. She was a very strong and determined woman. She made healthy living a priority in her life, by exercising regularly and eating nutritiously. In her retired years you could always find her walking the streets of Westfield or working out at the local YMCA, having a membership there until the age of 92! Jo liked keeping busy. She played bridge for many, many years. She enjoyed traveling and each year would take an international sightseeing vacation. She and Pat took their three grandchildren with them on several of their big trips. She also appreciated the theater and arts and included her grandchildren on these excursions as well. She was an avid reader and frequently visited her local library in search of a new book. Jo's love for learning never ceased. Jo will be deeply missed by her granddaughters, Sara Kopcho (Tom) and Christin Iacono; her daughter-in-law, Linda Iacono (Scott Feldman), and her great-grandchildren, Marc, Juliette, David, and Maureen. She will also be missed by many nieces and nephews with whom she was very close. Her long life allowed her to share in the joy of watching all of these individuals grow up and make their paths in the world. She always showed interest in and admiration for her many relatives. A funeral service will take place on Saturday March 19th | 610 |
All week writers who knew him far better than I have been eulogizing Rick Majerus.
The 64-year old former Marquette basketball coach died on December 1.
And, while my only real claim to the Majerus fame is a goofy rap song I wrote in the 1986 Marquette Tribune, I want to add a few words to the chorus of tributes.
As an uncommonly timid college junior working as the Tribune's associate sports editor, I genuinely liked Coach Majerus. In a way, he and I came of age together as he began to emerge from Al McGuire's intimidating shadow and I built a career as a sportswriter.
We shared an appreciation for all things Wisconsin — Sheboygan brats, Green Bay Packers and especially Marquette basketball and he graciously allowed me time to interview him whenever I asked.
He treated me and my fellow Tribune reporters with the same respect he offered the professionals back then and, as one of the few females in the post-game locker room, I relied on his support.
Coach Majerus approached the game with such a laser focus that I doubt he ever considered the impact he had on the peripheral associates of the game — especially the writers who covered the sport.
As I look back on the sports<|fim_middle|>986. Go Warriors!
Can't find a photo credit for this widely distributed shot but I'm posting it because I love it. The Majerus pants! The Raymonds tears! The McGuire hair!
Hard to believe he let me interview again after this ditty. "My name's Rick and I like ribs. Don't talk to me about tournament bids…" My years with Coach Majerus were all NIT years, but I treasured them just the same. | pages of the Marquette Tribune during the Majerus years, I note that almost all of those sports reporters have gone on to successful writing careers.
I know at least one that considers the time she spent covering the Rick Majerus Warriors one of the great privileges of her life.
I really hope I wasn't the editor responsible for this boring bust out quote "We're going to be a good team." Either Coach Majerus grew wittier as his career advanced or sports editors grew more selective. This is what the coach looked like in 1 | 109 |
At our most recent workshop on organizational culture, one participant asked about the particular challenges of establishing trust after a thorny corporate merger. Another wanted to know how mid-level executives might reassure their charges even when leaders send signals of distrust throughout the organization. Still another sought to understand how differences in ethnicity or gender influence the extent to which trust can pervade a diverse workforce.
In our work fostering ethical cultures and helping management teams architect purpose-led, values based companies, the topic of trust is always central to the dialogue. Yet the challenges of establishing a trust-based organization have never been greater. Research we conducted over the past year, across thousands of companies and<|fim_middle|> actually embrace the need to extend trust to one another. The expectation becomes one where all extend trust and trust is extended back in return, and through that dynamic each has an opportunity to make her own contribution and do his part in pursuit of a shared purpose. Such a culture super-charges an organization's ability to take on hard challenges and thrive in good times and rough. And such behavior is the key to building healthy and agile cultures.
Can trust be designed into your organization?
There are no shortcuts to change culture. Nonetheless, through our work with organizations around the world, we have identified three areas where, through focused and deliberate effort, leaders can begin to infuse their organizations with a culture of trust. "Culture" refers to how things really work around an organization — the norms, traditions, habits and mindsets. Culture is created through the actions of those who lead and work within it. Culture is shaped by how we show up for work, how we engage our greatest challenges, and how we execute and follow through on all the small tasks at hand. To build a culture of trust, our experience suggests, we must target three critical areas: how we behave; how we relate and how we pursue. Click here to learn more on these three ingredients for fostering a culture of trust. | a wide swath of industries, found that almost three quarters of organizations around the world have low-trust cultures.
Before discussing how to foster trust, let's take a step back to define what trust is — and what it is not. Often, when people talk about trust, what they intend is closer to "confidence." For example, if you order a pair of shoes online, you probably trust that they will be the right size and color, based on your order. But that trust is simply the expectation that a company or person will do what you requested. While earning another's confidence through a proven track record is an important aspect of a high-performance culture, it differs from building an organizational culture on trust.
Trust is a profound act that occurs on a human scale. Real interpersonal trust lies in the act of making oneself vulnerable by putting your welfare in the hands of another, by trusting that person to deliver on something important to you. It is this openness to vulnerability that makes the act of trusting one another so deeply challenging.
In a culture of trust, people | 212 |
Reconciliation/Confession/Penance is a celebration of renewal of our relationship with God and with one another. When we go to confession we encounter Jesus Risen, to honestly acknowledge our sins and be forgiven. Through absolution the priest bestows upon the person the pardon that Christ is giving.
This sacrament of forgiveness is celebrated in the parish every Saturday beginning at 4:30 p.m. The priest is in the Reconciliation room in the church, on your right side as you face the altar. (It's also called the "confessional<|fim_middle|> minister of hospitality is in the church at 4:30; he can point it out to you.
Preparation for First Penance/Reconciliation/Confession is given to children as part of their preparation for First Communion, and precedes Communion. Adults in their Faith Formation program are also instructed about this forgiving sacrament, and receive it if they have already been baptized. | .") The | 2 |
Tverrbottindene is a mountain ridge with a number of high peaks in Lom Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Jotunheimen mountains within Jotun<|fim_middle|>kja to the south, Stehøi and Stetinden to the southwest, Smørstabbtindene to the west, and Store Bukkeholstinden.
The main peaks of the mountain ridge include:
Store Tverrbottindan, which reaches above sea level
Søre Tverrbottindan, which reaches above sea level
Midtre Tverrbottindan Nord, which reaches above sea level
Midtre Tverrbottindan Sør, which reaches above sea level
Vestre Tverrbottinden, which reaches above sea level
See also
List of mountains of Norway by height
References
Jotunheimen
Lom, Norway
Mountains of Innlandet | heimen National Park. The mountain sits about southwest of the village of Fossbergom and about northeast of the village of Øvre Årdal. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Tverrbytthornet to the southeast, Kyr | 57 |
Binance is Now in the Channel Islands: Agreement Signed in Jersey
A memorandum of understanding has been ratified between Binance and Digital Jersey.
Simon Golstein | News ( CryptoCurrency ) | Wednesday, 13/06/2018 | 09:07 GMT+1 2018-07-08 14:48:46
Photo: Jersey
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges (at the time of writing), has signed a memorandum of understanding with an industry organisation on the island of Jersey.
The organisation is called Digital Jersey. It is an economic development association which aims to establish Jersey as an "internationally recognised centre of digital excellence." It promotes the excellence through services such as working spaces for local tech businesses and training courses. It also runs events – 165 since 2017 to be exact, according to the official website.
Among other things, the website signals its desire to attract internet-of-things-based businesses; it boasts a population of well-connected citizens and fibre broadband almost everywhere.
According to the official press release, Binance will be opening an exchange on the island. The two parties will engage in a mutually-beneficial collaboration in which Binance will help Digital Jersey to develop the blockchain infrastructure of the island while Digital Jersey will help Binance by hurrying its licence and banking permits along.
Binance is expected to invest in local startups and support Digital Jersey to establish training schemes. Digital Jersey says that it hopes that around 40 new jobs will be created.
Tony Moretta, CEO of Digital Jersey, said: "Jersey was one of the first countries in the world to clarify the legal position of cryptocurrency exchanges back in 2015. We can provide a permissive sandbox for innovative crypto businesses to thrive without moving away from the general high standards of regulation that apply in our jurisdiction. We look forward to collaborating with Binance to develop their exchange and compliance function in Jersey, deliver blockchain training as part of our digital skills programme and support the growth of new start-ups in this area."
Binance opened an office in Malta earlier this year, and the massive trading volumes pouring through that country demonstrate the effect that this company's presence has. Yesterday we reported that the exchange<|fim_middle|>ta / pound | intends to use the base to launch fiat/cryptocurrency pairs for the first time.
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, said: "We have chosen Jersey to be the next big step in our global expansion strategy for its clear and pro-crypto investment and regulatory environment. With its local economy based on a major currency (GBP), and its close proximity to the UK and Western Europe, we are confident the cooperation with Jersey will not only benefit the local economy, but also form a strong operational foundation for our expansion into the rest of Europe."
Jersey is an island of about 100,000 people which is located between France and England. It is geographically closer to the former but is a crown dependency of the latter – this means that while it is entirely self-governing, its governor is technically a representative of the monarch of England and the UK is responsible for the island's defence.
It is part of an archipelago called the Channel Islands, a handful of territories which all share a similar status. These were the only British territories to be occupied by the Germans during the Second World War – islanders that chose not to evacuate did not have an easy time of it.
Tags: binance / cryptocurrency exchange / euro / europe / Jersey / mal | 259 |
By Kam Allen, our<|fim_middle|> a fun day out with a friend or loved one affected by breast cancer, let us know. We'd love to hear about it through the blog, Facebook or our Instagram. Likewise, if you have any other ideas or suggestions, please let us know in the comments below.
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Over 5,000 women in the UK will be diagnosed with breast cancer this October, the most common cancer in the UK. Through personal experience with friends, family and people I've met, it's startled me just how common breast cancer has become. It's a disease that affects 1 in 8 women in the UK, and has already affected many of us London New Girls both directly and indirectly. That's why Breast Cancer Awareness month this October is more important than ever.
Raising funds for cancer research is a crucial step towards developing means of detection and treatment. This October, organisations around the world will be highlighting the importance of breast cancer awareness, research and education. Their ultimate goal is to raise the bar for the detection and treatment of all types of breast cancer.
There are lots of Breast Cancer Awareness Month events taking place around London. Here are some ways to brighten up the month of October for anyone affected by breast cancer, with some added pink flair!
Over the years, the colour pink has become synonymous with breast cancer awareness and fundraising. The pink ribbon has been used since the early 90's and today, there's a whole host of pink-themed events, fundraisers and products available to help raise awareness and donations for fighting breast cancer. Here are some ways to get involved, with a splash of pink.
Lock in a pink-themed brunch at Élan Café and bask in the uber-pink seating and their incredible flower wall display. Dubbed as London's 'most Instagrammable café', they have three branches to visit in Knightsbridge, Mayfair and Market Place (Oxford Circus). For something a bit different, try their pink Ruby latte made with beetroot and ginger. Élan don't take bookings so get there early to avoid a queue.
For something a little more zen, invite your friends to a morning of restorative yoga at Chroma Yoga where the entire room is lit up pink. Not just the official colour of breast cancer fundraising, pink is also associated with love, affection and nurturing. Using natural scents, sound frequencies and light, the pink yoga class is a sensory experience for a relaxed state of mind. Plus it count towards your weekly workout goals! A single class starts from £11 in Shoreditch, East London. Make sure to book ahead to make sure you get a spot.
For those of you feeling fit and wanting to show support for breast cancer awareness, you can run in pink and raise money for a huge number of charities including Breast Cancer Care, Against Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Now. RunThrough has organised a 5km or 10km autumnal run through the picturesque Battersea Park. The route is totally flat so it's also perfect for beginners. Entry costs £24 and the event starts at 9:30am on Saturday 20th October. Click here to register online.
Trekstock is an organisation that supports young adults in their 20s and 30s with all types of cancer. Their aim is to get young cancer sufferers moving again when cancer puts their lives on hold. Volunteering options are quite fitness-focused and aim to raise money for their vital work. You can take part in their exercise programmes and challenge events (anything from a Dog Jog to climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro), lend a hand at a Trekstock event or volunteer in your local community. You also have the option of creating your own challenge – just contact their fundraising team to discuss your ideas.
Prevent Breast Cancer have a range of volunteering opportunities available. From assisting with basic administration duties to becoming a collection box volunteer, helping out at their coffee shop or even doing the gardening at the Nightingale centre to improve their patients' experience. Take a look at their website for a list of all volunteering options.
Breast Cancer Care have pulled together a wonderful list of ideas for ways to volunteer and raise money. Check out their website for inspiration on hosting afternoon teas, running your own fundraiser and joining the Breast Cancer Care team, amongst many other things.
Finally, we all know the importance of raising funds for breast cancer research. However, it's just as important to raise awareness on how to detect if you may have breast cancer yourself. Why? Because early detection has a big impact on the chances, and speed of, recovery. Doing a self-exam once a month will get you more familiar with how your breasts look and feel. As a result, it'll help you notice if there are any sudden changes. Set a monthly phone reminder to do your self-exam – whether it be in the shower, lying in bed or in front of the mirror. Click here for a great guide on how to check your breasts and what to look out for.
For care, support and information, call Breast Cancer Care's free Helpline on 0808 800 6000. You can also check out their website for more information.
If this post has left you feeling inspired to organise an event, or | 1,034 |
Process Technology, Inc. (PTI), an electrical distributor serving Utah, eastern Nevada, southern Idaho, Colorado, and southwest Wyoming since 1986, has established itself as an industry leader in process instrumentation and automation control.
PTI initially went live with Epicor Prophet 21 enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in 2007, focusing first on the system's manufacturer rep capabilities to track commissions for orders placed directly with the manufacturers-as opposed to PTI-as their agent.
Support from Epicor Professional Services makes it so easy; it's all at our fingertips, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
Systems Manager | Process Technology, Inc.
According to Michelle Bennion, Systems Manager, Process Technology, Inc. has increased its use of Prophet 21 over time, with support from Epicor Professional Services and the Learning Management System (LMS). "Prophet 21 is just the vehicle," she states. "The team behind it, and the resources like LMS and the training courses, are what allow us to use it best." She cautions that Prophet 21 can seem "HUGE, due to the endless possibilities of the system…but you have to learn how to use it. That's where Epicor Professional Services comes in."
Bennion praises the willingness and know-how of the Epicor support team. "If you can't figure something out or you want to do something and don't know how, they'll help you with whatever you need," she says. "For example, we wanted to create a process that wasn't in<|fim_middle|> themselves, which Bennion credits for a quicker ramp-up. "We provide access to the Prophet 21 'play' database to give people a feel for it, and allow them to explore with no consequences, before it becomes real," she explains. "You need to let them test 'if/then' scenarios, explore new modules, figure out different ways to do things, and make suggestions or give feedback. Prophet 21 provides that capability because it is so open."
Bennion believes the company's valuation has "skyrocketed" as customer service levels have gone up: "We're becoming a 'name' in the industry, without doing any marketing! It's all about having the data at the click of a button when they call." From 2007 to 2011, PTI increased its annual revenues from $5 million to $9 million, while only adding two employees to its workforce.
"Prophet 21 does most of the work for us," Bennion states. Asked what she would do differently in hindsight, Bennion responds, "I would have used Epicor's Professional Services more, and much sooner…I could've saved myself a lot of time! That's what they're there for. Epicor really listens and responds to its customers…They want to help you succeed!" | the system, so via discovery sessions with an Epicor specialist, we learned how to use Secondary Processing for it, and made it completely automated. Support from Professional Services makes it so easy; it's all at our fingertips, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg."
She also appreciates how the flexibility of the Prophet 21 system meets PTI's business needs. "When I started on the system, I was expecting just a generic user manual, but you don't have to cater your business to Prophet 21; there are so many different ways to make it work for you, to do exactly what you need to run your business," Bennion observes. "For example, you can pull information from Prophet 21 and export it into Microsoft® SQL Server® or Crystal Reports® to look the way you want. It's worth its weight in gold." Most recently, PTI has used the Prophet 21 Crystal Forms capabilities to modify forms regarding consignment inventory locations so that a customer could read and understand them accurately.
According to Bennion, the Epicor Learning Management System can benefit even small distributors. PTI has 13 employees, and has used the LMS beginners' courses on Prophet 21 extensively. "It's the easiest training I've ever done in my life," says Bennion. "It's good for learning the Prophet 21 system before jumping in; employees are able to ask questions beforehand. If we attack business objectives before people start actually using the procedures, it reduces the need for 'untraining' of bad habits later."
In a small company like PTI, this is very valuable, because by the time employees are ready to go on the live system, they've trained | 351 |
Syracuse University football team served up<|fim_middle|> at the end of the day it's what they put between the white lines."
Here was Shafer's quick hits on the trio a few days prior to the scrimmage:
On Jones: "Z is getting in shape. He's shown progress. He gives us another big body inside."
On Walls: "With Walls you have a big, strong kid. He's a little bit raw, but he's a heavy-handed kid and I saw him in the backfield a bunch these last two or three days. I'm excited to see what he brings to the table."
On Raymon: "John Raymon is another young man who's easy to work with. He works hard. When he makes a mistake he bounces back and replaces it with effort. I think that's the biggest thing with those guys. It's nice to see those big bodies in there. Now we just have to teach them how to play football the Syracuse way." | a large helping of meat inside during Saturday scrimmage
Dave Rahme, The Post-Standard
Frank Ordoñez / The Post-StandardSyracuse University defensive tackle Davon Walls (92) works on using his hands to push off the weight of 335-pound teammate Zian Jones under the direction of defensive line coach Tim Daoust during a recent practice.
Syracuse, NY -- The Syracuse University football team employed all three of its big transfer defensive tackles – juniors Davon Walls (6-5, 306) and Zian Jones (6-4, 335) and redshirt freshman John Raymon (6-5, 316) – during Saturday's scrimmage at Fort Drum. While none wowed the crowd with individual dominance, together they formed an imposing physical presence.
"The coaches call us the meat," Walls said. "We're the meat inside. I'm OK with that. Those are my brothers, what else can I say?"
"Getting off the bus it looks nice, you know?" defensive coordinator Scott Shafer said. "But | 228 |
Inc. 5000 Europe 2018
How This Founder Ditched Politics to Launch France's Fastest-Growing Private Company
Ever since her father abandoned her family, Anne Méaux has understood the power of financial and emotional independence.
By Zoë Henry@ZoeLaHenry
Anne Méaux, the founder and CEO of Image 7, an independent communications firm, is too distracted to drink her coffee.
"I was just with a talkative client," she explains in a rush.
Méaux, to be fair, is usually pressed for time. She spends two days each week in London, where her company has a second office location. She meets with many clients individually, and manages a team of 65 at her headquarters<|fim_middle|> of France.
Still, for Méaux, success is measured less in terms of revenues and more in terms of personal independence. Prior to launching her company, she spent over a decade looking after the precarious reputations of French politicians--including Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the former President of France, and Alain Madelein, the former Industry Minister. For several years, she served on the direct press team for the Elysée, which is shorthand for office of the President.
"I didn't want to continue in politics for the sake of my own happiness," Méaux tells me, seated in her swanky, third-floor office, next to a bright red abstract sculpture, and with a view of Paris from her window.
"I had a father who left when I was really young, so I always told myself I would be financially independent, independent in every sense of the word," she says. "In politics, you depend on a man."
Méaux financed Image 7 herself (the company's simple name comes from her birth date on the seventh day of the seventh month of the year). Rather than advising politicians, she resolved to work directly with the leaders of companies.
One such client is Kering, the luxury goods holding company that owns such labels as Alexander McQueen and Gucci, and ArcelorMittal, one of the largest steel production companies in the world. She also works with startups, particularly those hungry for an injection of capital; a recent entrepreneurial client is Alexandre Malsch, the founder of Melty, a quirky news website, which raised €10.5 million in a Series C funding round last November.
A day's work at Image 7 involves meeting with a client, learning about their reputation challenge, enlisting the advice of a specialist on the team, and helping the client to ultimately improve their image. Consultants at Image 7 range from eager Millennials, to seasoned hires in their late sixties; one employee used to head up communications for Canal Plus, the premium French television cable channel. Uniquely, there are no titles at Image 7. Everyone is a "consultant," regardless of his or her level of expertise.
Compared to her career in politics, Méaux explains, growing Image 7 has been something of a cakewalk. The major difference is that she now has the power to speak out, and refuses to work with certain clients.
"I saw at the Élysee an enormous amount of intelligence, but people who wouldn't dare to say things to the President," she recalls. "The most important thing is daring to speak up."
Méaux speaks up at Image 7. She remembers once working for the former CEO of Laboratoires Servier, a privately-owned pharmaceutical company, as it dealt with the aftermath of a corporate drama. One of Servier's medications, a pill called mediator, became linked to more than 2,000 deaths.
At the time, Méaux suggested holding a press conference, to air everything to the public. She recalls: "The president of Servier turned to his colleague and said, 'tell the young girl that we don't pay her to give her opinion, we pay her to say what we tell her to.'"
Méaux left the room, and her client, immediately. "I understood that they wanted me to help them lie," she says. In the world of corporate communications, "you can't say everything, but you can never lie." (Mediator was drawn from the market in 2009, and the company was ultimately found guilty of negligence in 2015.)
In many ways, Méaux says she takes after her mother, who was a professor of Greek and Latin. That realm of thinking has proven immensely useful at her company.
Declining a verb, she says, forces you to take a word that you think you know, and turn it on its head. The ability to problem solve--by looking at something from the opposite angle --is exactly what a good consultant (and entrepreneur) does. | in Paris's trendy 17th district. (She also has three children, whom she says she'll prioritize at any cost.)
Being multitache, which is the French word for the ability to multi-task, she explains, is what makes women uniquely successful leaders; it helps them find the most creative solutions.
Since launching Image 7 back in 1988, the company has opened up offices in two separate locations, now managing more than 100 clients. In 2016, it landed the second-annual Inc. 5000 Europe list, for rapid revenue growth between fiscal years 2011 and 2014: the company brought in €18.3 million in 2014, representing a three-year growth rate of 1,718 percent. Méaux herself was the recipient of the 2007 chevalier legion of honor under Dominique de Villepin, the former prime minister | 201 |
Gene Gibson's Record vs. Kentucky
Alma Mater: Texas Tech [1950]
Hometown: Lakeview, TX
Date Born: September 24, 1924
Date Died: May 26, 2007
Overall Record: 100-92 [8 Seasons]
12/22/196<|fim_middle|> at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Dallas | 5 Kentucky at Texas Tech W 89 - 73 -
12/2/1963 Texas Tech at Kentucky W 107 - 91 -
Obituary - Associated Press (May 31, 2007)
Gibson, former Red Raiders coach and player, dies
LUBBOCK, Texas -- Former Texas Tech basketball coach Gene Gibson, who led the Red Raiders to the NCAA tournament in his first year, has died. He was 82.
Gibson, of Dallas, died Saturday at Presbyterian Hospital in Plano from complications of five surgeries over the past few months, his daughter, Lisa Gibson, said Thursday.
"He just wasn't able to bounce back," she said.
Gibson played for the Red Raiders from 1947-50 and was All-Border Conference center in his last season.
In 1962, his first year as head coach, he led Tech to the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Red Raiders lost to Colorado. He compiled a 101-91 record from 1961-69.
In 1965, Gibson's Red Raiders team won the Southwest Conference title but had to forfeit because of an ineligible player.
He served in the Army in the Pacific during World War II, Lisa Gibson said.
Services were scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday | 291 |
This week, Match invited me on to their Datemaster Bus – a converted double decker Routemaster that was beautifully decorated for some pre-work speed dating.
My train to work is often filled with the things I don't have time to do such as: brainstorm blog posts, write shopping lists and respond to my dating matches. Match thought they could use this commuting time more wisely – for people to mingle and date! No more giving up your busy evenings with this Transport for Lovin'!
Once you climb aboard the bus, you're sat down in groups or 1-2-1 with the fellow singletons, and given an Oyster Card holder full of ice-breaker questions – should you need them – and a delicious breakfast, complete with a hot beverage or smoothie. So that's dating and my first meal of the day<|fim_middle|> really love these themed dating events that keep cropping up. | sorted for me!
DO arrive early and scope out the singletons. Most events like this, and others Match put on have an introductory period where people can briefly introduce themselves and calm the nerves. Also, it's a great way to spot someone you could be interested in.
DON'T chicken out. These things can be daunting but once you're there and you've met everyone, it's actually a lot of fun.
DO dress to impress. You may only have a few minutes with each prospective date so catch their eye with an outfit which presents your personality.
DON'T blabber on about yourself. Imagine having just a few minutes to chat to someone and you've used it all up to tell them about a horrific date you've had, or your boring work responsibilities. Use the time to find out a few key facts about each other. This will help you decide if you fancy another date.
DO try and chat to as many people as possible. You never know what connection you might make or friend you might meet so, even if you're shy, don't keep yourself to yourself – mingle!
DON'T be disappointed. Yes, you may have gotten excited and secretly hope that you'll meett Mr Right but it might not work out that way. Especially if not that many men show up, or the other singletons are out of your age range or whatever. Use the opportunity to build confidence and dip your toe in the pond.
DO show up if you're a bloke. Women always seem to be more daring with dating and up for trying new things whereas guys tend to drop out more easily. On our bus, there were less guys than girls, so GUYS get in there! The odds could be in your favour!
All in all, I had a fun time on the bus. I had breakfast, a whistle-stop tour of London sights and loads of good conversations with people I may not have met before. I may not have found Mr Right but now I've experienced a dating event, I'm up for giving more a go. Turns out, they're not that scary after all!
This post was written in collaboration with Match but all views expressed are my own.
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Robotic Dinosaurs On the Way for Next-Gen Paleontology at Drexel
Researchers at Drexel University are bringing the latest technological advancements in 3-D printing to the study of ancient life. Using scale models of real fossils, for the first time, they will be able to test hypotheses about how dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals moved and lived in their environments.
"Technology in paleontology hasn't changed in about 150 years," said Drexel pale<|fim_middle|> | ontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. "We use shovels and pickaxes and burlap and plaster. It hasn't changed -- until right now."
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3-D Printing Technology in Paleontology
Lacovara has begun creating 3-D scans of giant dinosaur bones and other fossils in his lab. The 3-D scan puts a virtual image in a digital workspace that researchers can manipulate and analyze. To bring these scans to life, Lacovara is also teaming up with mechanical engineer Dr. James Tangorra, an assistant professor in Drexel's College of Engineering, to use 3-D printing technology to create and test scale models of fossil bones.
A 3-D printer is a technology for rapid prototyping and manufacturing objects based on a digital design. Common models work by repeatedly extruding extremely thin layers of a resin or other material, building up strata to create a physical object.
"It's kind of like Star Trek technology, where you can press a button and the object pops out," Lacovara said. A six-inch model of a dinosaur bone can be printed in a few hours using current technology.
Using 3-D printing can aid paleontology in several ways:
To create exact-size replicas for museum display, without the limitation on the number of copies made and materials and storage hassles of traditional casting methods.
To create small-scale models for educational use.
To create small-scale models for modeling and testing hypotheses about the mechanics of how long-extinct animals moved and behaved.
This biologically-derived modeling to test possible movements of extinct species is the major focus of Lacovara and Tangorra's collaboration.
Robotic Models to Test Mechanics of Dinosaur Movement
"We don't know a lot about the way dinosaurs move," Lacovara said. "How did they stand? How did they ambulate? Did they run or trot? How did they reproduce? It's all a bit mysterious," especially when it comes to the largest dinosaurs. Paleontologists' current methods of understanding such mechanics rely heavily on guesswork and common sense about what types of movements seem possible. With new technology, researchers can begin testing their predictions for the first time.
Lacovara has been part of scientific teams unearthing some of the largest known giant sauropod dinosaur specimens, including the new species Paralititan stromeri found in Egypt in 2000, which is the second-most-massive known dinosaur species and a new giant from Patagonia. Such giant sauropod dinosaurs could reach weights of 60 to 80 tons, which is 12 to 14 times heavier than a large modern elephant.
When working with enormous dinosaur fossils, Lacovara said, it's simply physically impossible to manipulate the bones to test theories about mechanics and movement. That's why scaled-down replicas that preserve the exact shape and proportion of the bones can help. Researchers can also digitally reshape the models to correct for changes that may have occurred over millions of years of fossilization and compression.
Lacovara and Tangorra will work together to create robotic models of giant sauropod dinosaurs, attaching artificial muscles and tendons to perform comprehensive tests of how the animal's body could have handled physical stresses of the environment.
This work is similar to Tangorra's ongoing work modeling and manufacturing robotic fish. "We extract features from biological species and create software-based or robotic testing systems. It's easier to test a biorobotic system than a biological system," Tangorra said. This work relies on studies of the fish's movements, biomechanics and fluid mechanics to ensure that the robot reflects the biological system. Tangorra noted that because the dinosaur species they are modeling are extinct, any robotic reconstructions will be more speculative.
Lacovara predicts that they will have a working robotic dinosaur limb constructed by the end of 2012. A complete robotic dinosaur replica will take one to two years to create.
"A Virtual Zoo of Cretaceous New Jersey"
In addition to constructing models of giant dinosaurs, the researchers will make 3-D models of some fossils found closer to home. A fossil dig site in Gloucester County, N.J., has yielded a large number of marine animal fossils from the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. Lacovara and his students and collaborators from other institutions continue to excavate the site. Now they will begin producing 3-D models of the turtles, crocodilians, fish and other animals found at that site, for what Lacovara called "a virtual zoo of Cretaceous New Jersey." A sample of their first reconstruction, of an ancient New Jersey crocodile, can be seen here: http://www.drexel.edu/now/features/archive/2011/November/Evan-Boucher-Dream-Job/
See A Giant Dinosaur Bone and its 3-D Model in Philadelphia
A cast of the giant, 5.5-foot-long humerus bone of the Paralititan dinosaur is on display alongside a 1/10 scale 3-D printed model at the Franklin Institute as part of the Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs exhibit. The Franklin and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University are offering a "Giant Dinosaur Deal" combination ticket, available at the box offices of both museums through March 18, 2012.
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Getting cannabis on the books – The River Reporter
By LAURIE STUART
ELDRED, NY — No one's lining up to open a dispensary in Highland yet.
However, if someone is fortunate enough to get one of the first-round New York State licenses to open an adult-use cannabis retail dispensary, Highland is ready for them.
A new law, adopted on January 3, lays out where a dispensary can or cannot be located.
"The key word here is 'cannot.' Where it cannot be located," said Kevin Schwenzfeier from the Laberge Group, who presented the law at a public hearing held that evening.
Laberge has been consulting with the board's code committee—councilmembers Fred Bosch and Chris Tambini—to develop the legal and procedural processes that come as a result of the town's<|fim_middle|>organizational meeting, which
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The local law and the presentation were straightforward and there was allowance of audience questions and feedback throughout the presentation. By the hearing's end, there were three residents in attendance. Deputy highway superintendent Robert Robertson was present and on the board's workshop agenda, which was scheduled after the re | 94 |
Set within Orlandes City itself, nobles are being systematically murdered by a ruthless assassin no-one seems able to catch. Finding yourself thrust in the middle of a large<|fim_middle|> more of Orlandes and its surroundings. | conspiracy, you must make decisions that may put yourself and one other most precious to you in great danger. Can you locate the Assassin in Orlandes before it is too late?
The first of Tin Man's in-house series set in the continents of Orlandes, Rema and Drymar introduces us to the city of Orlandes itself via an initially uninteresting plot based around your having just been jilted by a lover. You begin in a bar drowning your sorrows before happening upon the far more exciting assasination of a local Noble's son. Your investigation of this leads to the discovery of a plot to overthrow the leadership of Orlandes and seize the city, at the root of which lies your ex who it transpires was just using you anyway. The plot itself is all fairly corny, but the adventure plays out decently enough, although it is very linear and certain attribute tests in the latter part can be excessively punishing. As gamebooks go, this one is relatively short and there are several sidelines to add a little variety to replays, but it will not take anyone long to beat it as it is pretty easy. Some nice black and white art accompanies the text, although it is presented from a third party perspective so you often see yourself in the images which can be slightly distancing. All things considered though, this is good and appealing enough to make you want to play more of the series and see | 288 |
LifeShare has Fourth Consecutive Record Breaking Year
481 Lives Saved in 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY (Jan. 9, 2018) - For the fourth consecutive year, LifeShare broke its previous records and coordinated the donation of lifesaving organs from 183 donors whose generous gifts resulted in 529 organs transplanted in 2017, saving 481 lives.
LifeShare is the federally designated organ procurement organization in the state of Oklahoma and is responsible for organ and tissue donation statewide.
In 2016, LifeShare recovered 180 organ donors, passing the organization's all-time high record of 174 donors set in 2015.
"We are humbled and inspired by those individuals who registered as donors to give the gift of life, and those who made the decision to look past their own loss to help others," explained Jeffrey Orlowski, President and Chief Executive Officer for LifeShare. "For the fourth consecutive year, LifeShare continues to make a tremendous impact on others' lives with the help of the entire LifeShare team including staff, leadership<|fim_middle|> donation. The need for transplant is growing, and there are still approximately 700 Oklahomans currently waiting for a lifesaving transplant.
LifeShare encourages all Oklahomans to register as an organ, eye and tissue donor and to share your decision with your family. You can give the gift of life by registering to be an organ, eye and tissue donor at www.LifeShareRegistry.org. | , volunteers and the efforts of the Oklahoma medical community."
Last year, LifeShare also broke its previous record and coordinated the donation of life enhancing tissue from 789 donors whose generous gifts could impact more than 59,000 people. Tissue donation will impact people through bone donations to improve mobility, skin donations to heal burn patients, cornea donations to restore sight and heart valve donations to repair life-threatening defects.
In 2016, LifeShare recovered tissue from 725 donors, passing the organization's all-time high record of 643 donors set in 2015.
"We are proud of these accomplishments and hope to continue to have an impact on those currently waiting on a lifesaving transplant," said Orlowski. "We encourage all Oklahomans to register to be organ, eye and tissue donors so more lives can be saved."
This record breaking year, more than 481 lives were saved through organ and tissue | 199 |
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These country classic song lyrics are the property of the<|fim_middle|>Like I was fallin' off Niagara in a paddle boat canoe
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Fallin' lyrics and chords are intended for your personal use only, it's a very good country song recorded by Wanda Jackson.
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I got the feelin' I'm fallin' like a star up in the blue
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"Adapt or die," is how we hear statistical mastermind Billy Bean — played by Brad Pitt in "Moneyball" — describe the application of analytics to baseball, and it is time HR<|fim_middle|> incorporate traditional achievement characteristics as well as specific talent management attributes, behaviors and activities. Updating this data with new attributes and requirements, such as social media expertise, can help prevent any company from misjudging their players or mismanaging their teams.
Predictive analytics can optimize any talent management team by helping them — as Peter Grant would say — stop buying players, and start buying wins.
The best way to keep your statistical playbook up-to-date is to keep learning from the best in the industry, like the analytics heads for the giants of baseball, the Texas Rangers. Join them and other Rangers executives for a thought-provoking discussion on where analytics performs best and what is needed to help it thrive at BPI's annual Conference. Register Now in time for the early bird registration. We are only accepting 100 people, and teams are sending between 5-10 people, so it is filling up quickly.
The Best Practice Institute strives to deliver high-quality services and support for companies of all sizes as they optimize talent and encourage growth from within. We hope you'll join us at the home of the Rangers for this unique collaborative experience designed for talent acquisitions specialists, development executes, and CHROs. | managers heard the same thing. Here are just three of the many ways HR managers and talent leader can turn to baseball-inspired predictive analytics to improve their efforts.
Promote to the Majors More Effectively Before analytics arrived in baseball, Peter Brand saw a world based on player affection when what a team really needed was wins. In the film, we hear how pitching star Chad Bradford's submarine style pushed his acquisition cost under 10 percent of his value because it "looks funny." Without statistical predictions on performance, his future and that of the Oakland Athletics' would have been troubled.
In hiring and managing our talent, there are plenty of attributes that may keep someone from making the promotion cut. Predictive analytics can help remove those roadblocks and support the people who deserve it by judging based on performance data since their hire.
Objective ranking of candidates on their past successes help HR managers promote people who consistently knock it out of the park. Analytics doesn't remove gut instinct, but can provide a reason to look past it.
That same Big Data baseline also helps HR talent add new people to the roster based on known leading indicators of job performance. When a top candidate is found, they can be fast-tracked through the process to move quickly and secure them at optimum value.
Learn What Your Roster Needs Organizations that have very specific indicators can also use baselines to determine which skills combinations play best. "Moneyball" views wins above replacement (WAR) as the most important stat for a player's performance, and it's a complicated thing to incorporate innately.
WAR is essentially a numerical representation of how valuable a player is — based on a review of nearly every available stat — relative to a below-average replacement from the minors.
Businesses with lengthy data recordkeeping can create their own metrics similar to WAR thanks to modeling and predictive analytics. Performances based on certain categories or characteristics can be evaluated historically, limiting the need to make changes to learn outcomes.
Just as in baseball, these metrics are always relative to the position you're looking to fill, so a strong hiring model can point out candidates that are the fit you need.
Scout the Right Talent Knowing what you're looking for doesn't always mean you find it, but predictive analytics has a benefit here too.
By analyzing past successes in individual hiring and hiring events, HR can optimize placement relative to job responses. Firms can generate high-quality responses by precisely targeting posting locations and determining what characteristics — such as current certifications, title or employment duration – must be listed as requirements.
A deep dive into existing HR data often provides a clear look at past time-to-fill and fill ratios. Predictive modeling here can help HR managers reduce overall search time and improve candidate ranking. That means the right talent is found, matched to the proper position and offers are made sooner and more affordably.
Always Update Your Playbook Past behavior has its best chance to guide future success when companies implement predictive analytics. Because of its historical nature, data paradigms need strong collection and retention strategies plus the talent to maintain and improve models.
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Many think that India's growth story since the 1947 was good. But several experts often opinion that the country's development for the past six decades has been average. Despite the announcement of Five-Year Plans which focused on many sectors in order to speed up the pace of development, the result hasn't been on expected lines. And, the country is taking its own time to climb up with the economic and social world.
Telecom and software development had most of the growth in the nation's services sector. A trend that started some twenty years back is now well in its prime. Several multinational companies continue to outsource their telecom and IT services to the country. In terms of employment, the services sector employs 24 % of the Indian workforce and this process of development started back in the 1980s. In the 1960s, the sector employed just 4.5% of the working population. According to the experts, the services sector accounted for 63% of Indian GDP (2008-09) and the numbers continues to grow.
Since Independence the growth in agriculture has been somewhat steady. The growth of the sector was about 1 percent per annum up to 1950's. During the post-Independence era, the growth rate bumped<|fim_middle|> world's fastest cruise missile. After more than six decades of independence, India has reached the level of being self-dependent in the field of space and missile technology. | about 2.6 percent per annum. Rapid expansion of farming lands and introduction of high-yielding varieties of crops were the major factors contributing to the growth in agricultural production. One of the significant effects of the growth was that it could well manage to end dependency on import of food grains. Despite the unpredictability of the monsoon, the sector has progressed both in terms of yield and structural changes. Other factors contributed to the growth include, good investment in research, land reforms, expansion of scope for lending facilities, and improvement in rural infrastructure. Besides, the country has also grown strong in the agri-biotech sector. A report from a leading financial institution had revealed that the agri-biotech sector has been growing at 30 percent since the last few years.
Allocation of huge funds and availability of electricity had triggered large scale expansion of infrastructure. The Indian road network has become one of the largest in the world with the total road length increasing from 0.399 million km in 1951 to 4.24 million km in 2014 (July 2014). Moreover, the total length of the country's national highways has increased from 24,000 km (1947-69) to 92,851 km (2014). Governmental efforts have led to the expansion of the network of State highways and major district roads, which in turn has directly contributed to industrial growth. After almost seven decades, India has bagged the third place in the list of largest producers of electricity in Asia. It has increased its electricity generation capacity from 1,362 MW in 1947 to 1,13,506 MW in 2004. When it comes to rural electrification, the Indian government has managed to bring lights to 5,93,732 (2013) villages as compared to 3061 in 1950.
India has somewhat managed to bring its education system at par with the global standard in some cases. A number of initiatives have been implemented to eradicate illiteracy. The number of schools witnessed a dramatic increase after 1950's. The government had declared elementary education, a fundamental right for children in the age group of 6-14 years by passing the 86th amendment to the Constitution in 2002. At independence, India's literacy rate was a paltry 12.2 % which increased to 74.04% in 2011. The Government launched a big initiative under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan programme in 2001 to ensure education for the children from 6 to 14 years.
Increase in life-expectancy is considered one of the major achievements in health care in India. For example, life expectancy was around 37 years in 1951, it almost doubled to 65 years by 2011. Besides, Infant Mortality (IM) has also declined with death rate coming down to half of what it was during the 1940-50s. Moreover, similar developments were noticed in maternal mortality rate also. After a long-drawn struggle, India has finally been declared a polio-free country. Malnutrition in children under five years came down to 44% in 2005-06 from 67% in 1980. The number of tuberculosis cases also got reduced to 185 per lakh people in 2009. Moreover, the cases of HIV-infected people are also witnessing a declining trend. Government had also increased public health spending which is about 6- 6.5 % of the GDP.
India has reached new heights in rocket science and space technologies. Ever since, the launch of its first satellite Aryabhatta in 1975. India has emerged as a growing power that has successfully launched several foreign satellites. Its first mission to Mars was launched in November 2013 which successfully reached the planet's orbit on 24 September 2014. Besides, space technology, India is also aggressively pursuing both nuclear and missile programmes. BrahMos Missile (with the help of Russia) inducted into the defence system is the | 899 |
The Area Resource Base (ARB) known as The ARK, is a 15 place provision for students with an EHCP who would benefit from a more specialist place to learn.
In The ARK students follow a curriculum based on their learning and sensory needs. Opportunities for learning are presented though a wide variety of adapted activities to support and encourage access to all aspects of the curriculum including English and Maths. We deliver learning within the ARK, along with lessons to mainstream classrooms for more practical subjects such as Cooking, DT, ART, Science, ICT, PE and Drama.
We are particularly aware of the need to support students in communication skills, managing themselves emotionally and gaining confidence in life skills. Making progress in developing these skills the students work towards Bronze, Silver and Gold in Personal Social Development through the ASDAN curriculum.
Forest school sessions provide outdoor learning opportunities for team work along with visits to the local area. Experiencing real life scenarios through the local community amenities such as the Post Office, shops,<|fim_middle|> college placement or further specialist provision. Successful transition is a team effort with parents, Cornwall Careers South West, Work Experience providers and local college staff.
Being part of The Ark gives individual support, but with the benefit of opportunities in the life of the wider Richard Lander School, such as World Book Day, Fundraising events, Duke of Edinburgh Award and our own Summer Fun in the Sun Day!
In the ARK we have three classrooms, a sensory room, small kitchen and an area for Funfit and physio sessions.
The unit is led by a SEN specialist teacher along with a HLTA and teaching assistants. Working closely with parents and other support services we are able to support the development of each individual student to ensure they are happy and ready to learn. In spite of challenges our hope is that each student thrives and enjoys school and all it has to offer them at this stage of their life.
All applications for places within the ARB go through the SEND admissions team at the Local Authority. Parents are welcome to look around and meet staff at our open evening in September each year. | swimming at Truro Leisure Centre and summer sailing sessions at Mylor Sailing Centre provide authentic experiences to develop their life skills. We make termly trips based on our topic of learning and have regular weekly music sessions supported by Open School Orchestra.
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Momma Morrah, Omari and the children thought it would be a good idea to give back to their community the kind of generosity and selflessness they have been given over the years. For their first community service project, they wanted to clean up the field located very near to their home and school. Sporting their new Faraja Children's Home t-shirts, donated by Tammy Ma, and armed with garbage bags and latex gloves, the children spent their Sunday morning picking up plastic bags and garbage that littered the field.
Future projects to help out the sick and elderly with household chores are being planned! We are continuously impressed by the children's dedication, willingness, even eagerness, to help others.
Thing's have been very busy lately at both Faraja Children's Home and at<|fim_middle|> sold (at a very good price given the high demand for milk in Kenya) for a profit.
Construction of the new Longonot ECD School has also begun! We are building two new classrooms, a kitchen, a dining area, and new latrines. The teachers and children are extremely excited to see the progress each day. So far, the foundation is nearly complete, and we are hoping the construction will be finished before May. After a year of planning, tangible progress is finally being made!
We will upload photos of the construction soon! | the Longonot ECD School!
Faraja has received brand new bunk beds, meaning each child has their own bed and no longer has to sleep on the floor (see pictures below)! There's now more space and comfort to be had for everyone. We have also been adding to Faraja's sustainability efforts by improving the chicken coop, planting new vegetables in the garden in preparation for the rainy season, and will be buying cows for milk production. The milk will not only be used at the orphanage but will also be | 105 |
The drudge of a long workday can cause fatigue and stress–what you don't<|fim_middle|> be offered in the intermediary. It's important to keep up the momentum!
For more information on how to implement the winning health wellness challenge at your company, check out our programming at Wellworks For You. | want to see affecting employees for extended periods of time! The effects of fatigue and stress on your employees may include: errors on the job, a negative attitude, lack of motivation, and an inability to complete tasks in a timely manner.
Make the Health Wellness Challenge Fun.
Don't let your challenge be viewed as another work chore! You can encourage participation and enjoyment by implementing a team-based program, and even up the stakes by creating intra- company competition. Establish the program so that employees can team up based on common sites and then report the aggregated results. Choose wellness activities that are popular within the company, and create options so that people can choose what best suits their interests. For example, teams could get points for attending a Zumba class or for a certain number of steps walked. The possibilities are endless!
Make sure that the participants are aware of the prize offerings, especially emphasizing group prizes for the team that wins. Free pizza lunch, gift cards, or a technological prize such as an iPad are examples of popular incentives for wellness programs. You could also implement individual and group prizes. To increase participation across the company, you might offer a "prize" such as a free paid day off for everyone who reaches a certain level of consistent activity throughout the campaign.
Find the Correct Length of Time for the Challenge.
This is an important tip because you don't want your participants to lose steam. Think about the amount of time it would take to establish new habits without causing fatigue. 12 weeks is usually an ideal amount of time that fulfills these criteria. Consider also how often your company will hold these competitions, and what kinds of health and wellness offerings will | 333 |
Brrrr! It's cold outside! You probably didn't need me to tell you that. What I can tell you is how important it is to stay active during the winter months, even with Jack Frost nipping at your nose!
1. Beat the winter blues. People tend to be more sad, depressed, or just less lively in winter due to the short days, lower light levels, and less interaction.
3. Don't hide under that<|fim_middle|> ever tried, and work those into your winter routine for a change of pace.
4. Be creative! Make up fun games at home for you and your family. Take the laundry upstairs one item at a time so you get a lot of stair work. Have silly relay races, or do exercise versions of "Simon Says" where Simon gives 10 jumping jacks or 5 pushups as part of the game.
Keeping active in the cold months of winter will help you be happy and healthy now… and during all the seasons to come! | sweater! Bulkier clothing tends to hide those extra few pounds brought on by inactivity and more calories… but they creep up on you and leap out yelling, "Surprise!" just as shorts season rolls around in late spring! Staying active through the winter keeps you in shape for the showier clothing seasons ahead.
4. Your Immune system will thank you. Staying active helps your body stay strong and in top shape to outrun or battle bugs from people that try to hack their insidious germs onto you.
2. Play outside! If you live close to fun winter sporting activities like skiing, ice skating, snow shoeing or even snow tubing and sledding, get out there and play! Even having a snowball fight with your family can be a wonderful way to be active and have fun at the same time. Even in winter, most of us live in areas that have days that are moderate enough to get out for a brisk walk if you invest in the right outerwear to be safe, sure-footed, and warm.
3. Find a class! Winter can be an ideal time to find a class through your local Y, a gym, or a parks and recreation organization. Salsa dancing, yoga, kickboxing… what sounds interesting to you?
If you already belong to a gym, find out about spinning classes, water aerobics or other classes you haven't | 282 |
Why Pressure Causes Sports Kids to Drop Out
October 20, 2012 By Patrick Cohn
A sports mom, "Alice," recently made this confession: "I am guilty! I am a frustrated but well-meaning mother who has put pressure to perform on my children."
First, the good news: Alice realized she made a mistake. The bad news: Her young athlete has experienced a drop in confidence and is not enjoying sports.
Why pressure hurts<|fim_middle|> the pluses. When parents and coaches pressure kids to excel, the young athletes may miss out on some of these benefits. Remember, most kids take part in athletics to have fun. Let them do just that, and they're more likely to feel confident and happy in sports.
Learn how to encourage your kids in sports without putting pressure on them with Kids' Sports Psychology. | young athletes
When parents and coaches pressure their young athletes, this is exactly what happens. Kids lose confidence. They sometimes drop out of sports altogether.
Alice, who has two basketball players, says that she's been exerting pressure on her youngest daughter because Alice doesn't want her daughter to quit basketball, like her older sister did.
To sum it up, the older daughter had a bad experience with a coach who seemed to favor his own daughters. The older daughter quit the team. Now the younger daughter has the same coach, and she's sitting on the bench.
"So to compensate, I pressured her to work harder, thinking that would help, but it's only made things worse. She's lost her confidence and is now believing the coach when he says she doesn't have what it takes." Alice's daughter, who won awards in basketball last year, has said she wants to quit basketball altogether—unless her mother attends all the practices, which ensures the coach will behave a little better.
This is clearly a difficult situation. However, as the mother now realizes, pressuring her daughter to perform was not the answer.
Pressuring vs. helping athletes achieve their goals
It's critical for parents and coaches to understand the difference between helping kids achieve their goals and pressuring them to perform.
When parents and coaches help kids aim for their goals, they help them identify their long-term goals. They then help kids set mini-goals for achieving the longer-term goals: where they should practice, for how long, and under what circumstances. It's important that these goals reflect the young athletes' desires—not the parents'. Parents and coaches should ask their young athletes what level of play they prefer (recreational vs. competitive, for example) and how much training they're willing to do. Some kids love to practice, while some don't.
Both the long-term and short-term goals should be established with the understanding that the child can change them.
The role of parents' and coaches' expectations
Setting goals in this fashion is very different from pressuring kids. When parents pressure sports kids, they often establish high expectations for them, and communicate these expectations. The young athletes often take on these expectations as their own.
In this case, this well-meaning mother's expectation that her youngest daughter excel in the face of huge challenges—a difficult coach who favored his own kids–certainly was a lot of pressure. It probably felt to the daughter like she was expected to achieve the impossible.
When young athletes experience these kinds of expectations, they get frustrated and lose confidence when they don't meet the expectations. And losing confidence never improves a young athlete's performance.
Understanding why kids want to play their sport
A parent's or coaches' expectations can be very different from their athletes' expectations for themselves. Parents and coaches need to remember that even at the high school level, many young athletes participate in sports to be with friends and to have fun. Before you decide how and where your kids should play sports, be sure to check in with them first. Don't make any assumptions.
One coach in Portland, Ore. asks his new players and parents to separately complete a survey that inquires what the athletes and parents expect the young athlete to get out of sports. This is a good idea. It gives the coach some perspective about expectations and potential conflicts between the athlete's and the parent's expectations.
Not only should parents and coaches keep their expectations in check.
It's important to stress to sports kids the many benefits of taking part in sports. Young athletes learn how to contribute to a team, acquire important social skills, and learn how to focus and overcome adversity, to name just a few of | 740 |
\section{Introduction}
\label{sect:intro}
Quaternions, also called Hamilton numbers, are the first non-commutative
division algebra as a natural extension to complex numbers
(See the quaternion plaque in Fig. \ref{fig:quaternion}).
Imaginary quaternion units $i,j$ and $k$
are isomorphic to the anti-commutative SU(2) Pauli matrices
$-i\sigma_{1,2,3}$.
Hamilton used quaternions to represent three-(3D) and
four-dimensional (4D) rotations, and performed the product of two rotations.
In fact, it is amazing that he was well ahead of his time --
equivalently he was using the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fundamental
representations of the SU(2) group, which was before
quantum mechanics was discovered.
Nevertheless, the development of quaternoinic analysis met
significant difficulty since quaternions do not commute.
An important progress was made by Fueter in 1935 as reviewed in
Ref. \cite{sudbery1979}, who defined the Cauchy-Riemann-Fueter condition
for quaternionic analyticity.
Amazingly again, this is essentially the Euclidean version of the
Weyl equation proposed in 1929.
Later on, there have been considerable efforts in constructing
quantum mechanics and quantum field theory based on quaternions
\cite{adler1995,finkelstein1962,yang2005}.
On the other hand, the past decade has witnessed a tremendous
progress in the study of topological states of matter, in particular,
time-reversal invariant topological insulators in two dimensions
(2D) and 3D.
Topological properties of their band structures are characterized
by a $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$-index, which are stable against time-reversal
invariant perturbations and weak interactions
\cite{bernevig2006a,kane2005,kane2005a,fu2007,fu2007a,moore2007,bernevig2006,
wu2006,qi2008,roy2009,roy2010}.
These studies are further developments of quantum anomalous Hall insulators characterized by the integer-valued Chern numbers \cite{thouless1982,haldane1988}.
Later on, topological states of matter including both insulating and
superconducting states have been classified into ten different
classes in terms of their properties under the chiral, time-reversal, and particle-hole symmetries \cite{kitaev2009,schnyder2008}.
These studies have mostly focused on lattice systems.
The wavefunctions of the Bloch bands are complicated, and their energy
spectra are dispersive, both of which are obstacles for the study of
high-dimensional fractional topological states.
In contrast, the 2D quantum Hall states \cite{klitzing1980,tsui1982}
are early examples of topological states of matter studied
in condensed matter physics.
They arise from Landau level quantizations due to the cyclotron
motion of electrons in magnetic fields \cite{girvin1999}.
Their wavefunctions are simple and elegant, which are basically
harmonic oscillator wavefunctions.
They are reorganized
to exhibit analytic properties by an external magnetic field.
Generally speaking, a 2D quantum mechanical wavefunction
$\psi(x,y)$ is complex-valued, but not necessarily complex analytic.
We do not need all the set of 2D harmonic oscillator wavefunctions,
but would like to select a subset of them with non-trivial
topological properties, then complex analyticity is a natural
selection criterion.
Indeed, the lowest Landau level wavefunctions exhibit complex
analyticity.
Mathematically, it is imposed by the Cauchy-Riemann condition
(See Eq. \ref{eq:cauchy} in the text.), and
physically it is implemented by the magnetic field, which reflects
that the cyclotron motion is chiral.
This fact greatly facilitated the construction of Laughlin
wavefunction in the study of fractional quantum Hall states
\cite{laughlin1983}.
How to generalize Landau levels to 3D and even higher dimensions
is a challenging question.
A pioneering work was done by Shoucheng and his former student
Jiangping Hu in 2001 \cite{zhang2001}.
They constructed the Landau level problem on a compact space of
the $S^4$ sphere, which generalizes Haldane's formulation of the 2D
Landau levels on an $S^2$ sphere.
Haldane's construction is based on the 1st Hopf map \cite{haldane1983},
in which a particle is coupled to the vector potential from
a $U(1)$ magnetic monopole.
Zhang and Hu considered a particle lying on the $S^4$ sphere coupled to
an SU(2) monopole gauge field, and employed the 2nd Hopf map
which maps a unit vector on the $S^4$ sphere to a normalized
4-component spinor.
The Landau level wavefunctions are expressed in terms of the
four components of the spinor.
Such a system is topologically non-trivial characterized by
the 2nd Chern number possessing time-reversal symmetry.
This construction is very beautiful, nevertheless, it needs
significantly advanced mathematical physics knowledge which
may not be common for the general readers in the condensed
matter physics, and atomic, molecular, and optical physics
community.
We have constructed high-dimensional topological states
(e.g. 3D and 4D) based on harmonic oscillator wavefunctions
in flat spaces \cite{li2012a,li2013}.
They exhibit flat energy dispersions and non-trivial topological
properties, hence, they are generalizations of the 2D Landau level
problem to high dimensions.
Again we will select and reorganize a subset of wavefunctions
in seeking for non-trivial topological properties.
The strategy we employ is to use quaternion analyticity
as the new selection criterion to replace the previous one of
complex analyticity.
Physically it is imposed by spin-orbit coupling, which
couples orbital angular momentum and spin together
to form the helicity structure.
In other words, the helicity generated by spin-orbit
coupling plays the role of 2D chirality due to the
magnetic field.
Our proposed Hamiltonians can also be formulated in terms of
spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fermions coupled to the SU(2) gauge potential,
or, the Aharanov-Casher potential.
Gapless helical Dirac surface modes, or, chiral Weyl modes,
appear on open boundaries manifesting the non-trivial
topology of the bulk states.
We have also constructed high-dimensional Landau levels of Dirac
fermions \cite{li2012}, whose Hamiltonians can be interpreted in
terms of complex quaternions.
The zeroth Landau levels of Dirac fermions are a branch of
half-fermion Jackiw-Rebbi modes \cite{jackiw1976}, which are
degenerate over all the 3D angular momentum quantum numbers.
Unlike the usual parity anomaly and chiral anomaly in which
massless Dirac fermions are minimally coupled to the
background gauge fields,
these Dirac Landau level problems correspond to a non-minimal
coupling between massless Dirac fermions and background fields.
This problem lies at the interfaces among condensed matter physics,
mathematical physics, and high energy physics.
High-dimensional Landau levels can also be constructed in the
Landau-type gauge, in which rotational symmetry is explicitly
broken \cite{li2013a}.
The helical, or, chiral plane-waves are reorganized by
spatially dependent spin-orbit coupling to yield non-trivial
topological properties.
The 4D quantum Hall effect of the SU(2) Landau levels have
also been studied in the Landau-type gauge, which exhibits
the quantized non-linear electromagnetic response as a spatially
separated 3D chiral anomaly.
We speculate that quaternionic analyticity would act as a guiding
principle for studying high-dimensional interacting topological
states, which are a major challenging question.
The high-dimensional Landau level problems reviewed below provide
an ideal platform for this research.
This research is at the interface between mathematical and
condensed matter physics, and has potential benefits
to both fields.
This review is organized as follows:
In Sect. \ref{sect:history}, histories of complex number and
quaternion, and the basic knowledge of complex analysis and
quaternion analysis are reviewed.
In Sect. \ref{sect:2Dlandau}, the 2D Landau level problems are
reviewed both for the non-relativistic particles and for relativistic
particles.
The complex analyticity of the lowest Landau level wavefunctions
is presented.
In Sect. \ref{sect:3DLL}, the constructions of high-dimensional
Landau levels in 3D and 4D with explicit rotational symmetries
are reviewed.
The quaternionic analyticity of the lowest Landau level
wavefunctions, and the bulk-boundary correspondences
in terms of the Euclidean and Minkowski versions of
the Weyl equation are presented.
In Sect. \ref{sect:reduction}, we review the dimensional reductions
from the 3D and 4D Landau level problems to yield the
2D and 3D isotropic but parity-broken Landau levels.
They can be constructed by combining harmonic potentials and
linear spin-orbit couplings.
In Sect. \ref{sect:diracLL}, the high-dimensional Landau levels
of Dirac fermions are constructed, which can be viewed as
Dirac equations in the phase spaces.
They are related to gapless Dirac fermions non-minimally coupled
to background fields.
In Sect. \ref{sect:landaugauge},
high-dimensional Landau levels in the anisotropic Landau-type
gauge are reviewed.
The 4D quantum Hall responses are derived as a spatially
separated chiral anomaly.
Conclusions and outlooks are presented in Sect. \ref{sect:conclusion}.
\section{Histories of complex number and quaternion}
\label{sect:history}
\subsection{Complex number}
Complex number plays an essential role in mathematics and quantum physics.
The invention of complex number was actually related to the history of
solving the algebraic cubic equations, rather than solving
the quadratic equation of $x^2=-1$.
If one lived in the 16th century, one could simply say that
such an equation has no solution.
But cubic equations are different.
Consider a reduced cubic equation $x^3+p x+q=0$, which can be solved by using radicals.
Here is the Cardano formula,
\begin{eqnarray}
x_1&=&c_1+c_2, ~~ x_2=c_1 e^{i\frac{2\pi}{3}}+ c_2 e^{-i\frac{2\pi}{3}},
\nonumber \\
x_3&=& c_1 e^{-i\frac{2\pi}{3}}+ c_2 e^{i\frac{2\pi}{3}},
\label{eq:cubic}
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{eqnarray}
c_{1}=\sqrt[3]{-\frac{q}{2}+ \sqrt{\Delta}}, \ \ \, \ \ \,
c_{2}=\sqrt[3]{-\frac{q}{2}-\sqrt{\Delta}},
\end{eqnarray}
with the discriminant $\Delta=(\frac{q}{2})^2+(\frac{p}{3})^3$.
The key point of the expressions in Eq. \ref{eq:cubic} is that they involve
complex numbers.
For example, consider a cubic equation with real coefficients
and three real roots $x_{1,2,3}$.
It is purely a real problem: It starts with real coefficients and ends up
with real solutions.
Nevertheless, it can be proved that there is no way to bypass $i$.
Complex conjugate numbers appear in the intermediate steps,
and finally they cancel to yield real solutions.
For a concrete example, for the case that $p=-9$ and $q=8$,
complex numbers are unavoidable since $\sqrt{\Delta}=\sqrt{-11}$.
The readers may check how to arrive at three real roots
of $x_{1,2,3}=1,-\frac{1}{2}\pm
\frac{\sqrt{33}}{2}$.
Once the concept of complex number was accepted, it opened up an entire
new field for both mathematics and physics.
Early developments include the geometric interpretation of complex
numbers in terms of the Gauss plane, the application of complex
numbers for two-dimensional rotations, and the Euler
formula
\begin{eqnarray}
e^{i\theta}=\cos\theta+i\sin\theta.
\end{eqnarray}
The complex phase appears in the Euler formula, which is widely used
in describing mechanical and electromagnetic waves in classic physics,
and also quantum mechanical wavefunctions.
Moreover, when a complex-valued function $f(x,y)$ satisfies
the Cauchy-Riemann condition,
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{\partial f}{\partial x} +i \frac{\partial f}{\partial y}=0,
\label{eq:cauchy}
\end{eqnarray}
it means that it only depends on $z=x+iy$ but not on $\bar z=x-iy$.
The Cauchy-Riemann condition sets up the foundation of complex analysis,
giving rise to the Cauchy integral,
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{1}{2\pi i} \oint \frac{1}{z-z_0} dz f(z)=f(z_0).
\end{eqnarray}
For physicists, one practical use of complex analysis is to
calculate loop integrals.
Certainly, its importance is well beyond this.
Complex analysis is the basic tool for many modern branches of mathematics.
For example, it gives the most elegant proof to {\it the fundamental theorem
of algebra}: An algebraic equation $f(z)=0$, i.e. $f(z)$ is
a $n$-th order polynomial, has $n$ complex roots.
The proof is essentially to count the phase winding number of $1/f(z)$
as moving around a circle of radius $R\to +\infty$, which simply
equals $n$.
On the other hand, the winding number is a topological invariant
equal to the number of poles of $1/f(z)$, or, the number of
zeros of $f(z)$.
It is also the basic tool for number theory: The Riemann hypothesis,
which aims at studying the distribution of prime numbers, is
formulated as a complex analysis problem of the distributions
of the zeros of the Riemann $\zeta(z)$-function.
Complex numbers actually are inessential in the entire
branches of classical physics.
It is well-known that the complex number description for classic waves
is only a convenience but not necessary.
The first time that complex numbers are necessary is
in quantum mechanics -- the Schr\"odinger equation,
\begin{eqnarray}
i\hbar\partial_t \psi=H\psi.
\end{eqnarray}
In contrast, classic wave equations involve<|fim_middle|>hat e_3$ form an orthogonal triad.
The lowest Landau level wavefunction is
complex analytic in the orbital plane $\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$
and spin is polarized along $\hat e_3$.
B) The surface spectra for the 3D Landau level Hamiltonian Eq.\ref{eq:3D_symm}.
The open boundary condition is used for a ball with the radius $R_0/l_{so}=8$.
(From Ref. \cite{li2013}.)
}
\label{fig:3DLL}
\end{figure}
Now we present the 3D Landau level Hamiltonian as constructed
in Ref. \cite{li2013}.
Consider to couple a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fermion to the 3D
isotropic SU(2) Aharanov-Casher potential $\vec A=\frac{G}{2} \vec \sigma
\times \vec r$ where $G$ is the coupling constant and $\vec\sigma$'s
are the Pauli matrices.
The resultant Hamiltonian is
\begin{eqnarray}
H^{\pm}_{3D,sym}&=&\frac{1}{2M}
\big( \vec P - \frac{q}{c} \vec A (\vec{r})\big )^{2}
+V(\vec r) \nonumber \\
&=&\frac{P^2}{2M}+ \frac{1}{2}M\omega _{0}^{2} r^2
\mp \omega _{0}\vec{\sigma}\cdot \vec{L},
\label{eq:3D_symm}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\pm$ refer to $G>0 ~ (<0)$, respectively; $\omega_{0}=\frac{1}{2}\omega_{so}$ and $\omega_{so}
=|qG|/(Mc)$ is the analogy of the cyclotron frequency.
$V(r)=-\frac{1}{2}M\omega _{0}^{2}r^{2}$,
nevertheless, the $\frac{1}{2M}(\frac{q}{c})^2 A^2(r)$ term in the
kinetic energy contributes a quadratic scalar potential which
equals $2|V(r)|$, hence, Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm} is still bound from below.
In contrast to the 2D case, $H^\pm_{3D,sym}$ preserve
time-reversal symmetry.
It can also be formulated as a 3D harmonic potential plus a
spin-orbit coupling term.
Again since these two terms commute, the 3D Landau level
wavefunctions are just the eigenstates of a 3D harmonic oscillator.
Consider the eigenstates of a 3D harmonic oscillator with an additional
spin degeneracy $\uparrow$ and $\downarrow$.
For later convenience, their eigenstates are organized into the bases of the total angular momentum $j_\pm=l\pm\frac{1}{2}$, where $\pm$ represent the positive and negative helicities, respectively.
The corresponding spectra are plotted in Fig. \ref{fig:spectra} (B),
showing a linear dispersion with respect to $l$ as
$E_{n_r,J_\pm=l\pm\frac{1}{2},J_z}=\hbar \omega_0
(2 n_r + l +\frac{3}{2})$.
Again, if we view the spectra along the diagonal direction,
the novel topology appears.
The spin-orbit coupling term $\vec \sigma \cdot \vec k$ has two branches of eigenvalues, both of which disperse linearly with $l$ as $l\hbar$ and $-(l+1)\hbar$
for the positive and negative helicity sectors, respectively.
Combining the harmonic potential and spin-orbit coupling,
we arrive at the flat Landau levels:
For $H^+_{3D}$, the positive helicity states become dispersionless
with respect to $j_+$ , a main feature of Landau levels.
Similarly, the negative helicity states become flat for $H^-_{3D}$.
States in the 3D Landau level show the same helicity.
\subsection{The SU(2) group manifold for the lowest Landau level
wavefunctions}
Having understood why the spectra are flat, now we provide
an intuitive picture for the lowest Landau level wavefunctions
with the positive helicity.
If expressed in the orthonormal basis of $(j\pm,j_z)$, they are
rather complicated,
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_{LLL, j_+=l+\frac{1}{2}, j_z}(r,\hat\Omega)=r^l
Y_{j_+=l+\frac{1}{2}, j_z}(\hat \Omega)
e^{-\frac{r^{2}}{4l_{so}^{2}}},
\label{eq:LL_orthonomal}
\end{eqnarray}
where $l_{so}=\sqrt{\hbar c/|qG|}$ is the analogy of the magnetic
length and $Y_{j_+=l+\frac{1}{2}, j_z}(\hat \Omega)$ is the
spin-orbit coupled spherical harmonic function.
Instead, they become very intuitive in the coherent state representation.
Let us start with the highest weight states with $j_+=j_z$, whose
wavefunctions are $\psi_{LLL, j_+=j_z}(r,\hat\Omega)=(x+iy)^l \exp\{-\frac{r^{2}}{4l_{so}^{2}}\} \otimes |\uparrow\rangle$.
Their spins are polarized along the $z$-direction and
orbital parts are complex analytic in the $xy$ plane.
We then perform a general SU(2) rotation such that the $xyz$-frame is rotated to the frame of $\hat e_{1}$-$\hat e_2$-$\hat e_3$.
For a coordinate vector $\vec r$, its projection in the $\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$ plane forms a complex variable $\vec r \cdot (\hat e_1 +i \hat e_2)$
based on which we construct complex analytic functions.
Now it is clear why spin-orbit coupling is essential.
Otherwise, if the plane is flipped, then the complex variable changes to
its conjugate, and the complex analyticity is lost.
Nevertheless, since spin is polarized perpendicular to the $\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$-plane, spin also flips during the flipping of the orbital plane, such
that the helicity remains invariant.
In general, we can perform an arbitrary $SU(2)$ rotation on
the highest weight states and arrive at a set of coherent states
forming the over-complete bases of the lowest Landau level states as
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_{LLL,\hat e_{1,2,3}, j_+}(r, \hat \Omega)=[(\hat e_1 +i \hat e_2)
\cdot \vec r]^l e^{-\frac{r^{2}}{4l_{so}^{2}}}
\otimes \ket{\alpha_{\hat e_3}}, (l\ge 0)
\nonumber \\
\label{eq:3Dcoherent}
\end{eqnarray}
where $(\hat e_3 \cdot \vec \sigma)
\ket{\alpha_{\hat e_3}}= \ket{\alpha_{\hat e_3}}$.
Now we can make a comparison among harmonic oscillator wavefunctions in different dimensions.
\begin{enumerate}
\item
In 1D, we only have the real Hermite polynomials.
\item
In 2D, a subset of harmonic wavefunctions $z^m$ (lowest Landau level) are selected exhibiting the $U(1)$ structure.
\item
In 3D, the complex plane $\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$ associated with the
frame $\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$-$\hat e_3$ are floating.
This is similar to the rigid-body configuration.
In other words, the configuration space of the 3D lowest Landau level
states is that of a triad, or, the $SU(2)$ group manifold.
\end{enumerate}
Since the SU(2) group manifold is isomorphic to the space of unit quaternions,
this motivates us to consider the analytic structure in terms of
quaternions, which will be presented in Sect. \ref{sect:analyticity}.
\subsection{The off-centered solutions to the lowest Landau level states}
\label{sect:off-center}
Different from the 2D Landau level Hamiltonian, which possesses the magnetic
translation symmetry, the 3D one of Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm}
does not possess such a symmetry due to the non-Abelian nature of the
SU(2) gauge potential.
Nevertheless, based on the coherent states described by Eq. \ref{eq:3Dcoherent},
we can define magnetic translations within the
$\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$ plane, and organize the off-centered
solutions in the lowest Landau level.
Consider all the coherent states in the $\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$ plane
described by Eq. \ref{eq:3Dcoherent}.
We define the magnetic translation for this set of states as
\begin{eqnarray}
T_{\hat{e}_{3}}(\vec{\delta})=\exp [-\vec \delta \cdot \vec{\nabla}+
\frac{i}{4l_{so}^{2}}
~\vec r_{12} \cdot (\hat e_3 \times \vec{\delta})],
\label{eq:tran}
\end{eqnarray}
where the translation vector $\vec{\delta}$ lies in the $\hat{e}_{1,2}$-plane
and $\vec{r}_{12}= \vec{r}-\hat{e}_{3}(\vec{r}\cdot \hat{e}_{3})$.
Set $\hat e_1=\hat z$, and the normal vector $\hat e_3$ lying in the
$xy$-plane with an azimuthal angle $\phi'$,
\textit{i.e.}, $\hat e_3(\phi')=\hat x\cos \phi' +\hat y\sin
\phi'$, then
$\alpha_{\hat e_3}(\phi')= \frac{1}{\sqrt 2}
(|\uparrow \rangle +e^{i\phi'} |\downarrow\rangle)$.
Consider the lowest Landau level states localized at the origin,
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_{l=0,\hat e_3}(r, \hat \Omega)=e^{-\frac{r^{2}}{4l_{so}^{2}}}
\otimes \ket{\alpha_{\hat e_3}},
\end{eqnarray}
and translate it along $\hat z$ at the distance $R$.
According to Eq. \ref{eq:tran}, we arrive at
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_{\phi',R} (\rho,\phi,z) =e^{i\frac{1}{2l_{so}^2} R\rho \sin (\phi-\phi')}
e^{-|\vec r- R \hat z|^2/4l_{so}^2}\otimes \alpha_{\hat e_3}(\phi'),
~
\label{eq:off-center}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\rho=\sqrt{%
x^2+y^2}$ and $\phi$ is the azimuthal angular of $\vec r$
in the $xy$-plane.
Now we can restore the rotational symmetry around the $\hat z$-axis by
performing the Fourier transform with respect to the angle $\phi'$, i.e.,
$\psi _{j_{z}=m+\frac{1}{2},R}(\rho,\phi,z)=\int_{0}^{2\pi }\frac{d\phi'
}{2\pi }e^{im\phi' }\psi _{\phi' ,R}$.
We arrive at the eigenstates of $j_z$ as
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi _{j_{z}=m+\frac{1}{2},R}(\rho,\phi,z)
&=& e^{\frac{-|\vec{r}-R\hat{z}|^{2}}{4l_{so}^{2}}}
e^{im\phi }\Big\{J_{m}(x)|\uparrow \rangle \nonumber \\
&+&J_{m+1}(x)e^{i\phi }|\downarrow \rangle \Big\},
\label{eq:fourier}
\end{eqnarray}
where $x=R\rho /(2l_{so}^{2})$.
It describes a wavefunction with the shape of
an ellipsoid, whose distribution in the $xy$-plane is within the
distance of $ml_{so}^2/R$.
The narrowest states $\psi_{\pm \frac{1}{2},R}$ have an aspect
ratio scaling as $l_{so}/R$ when $R$ goes large.
On the other hand, for those states with $|m|<R/l_{so}$, they localize
within the distance of $l_{so}$ from the center located at $R\hat{z}$.
As a result, the real space local density of states of the lowest
Landau level grows linearly with $R$.
\subsection{Quaternionic analyticity of the lowest Landau
level wavefunctions}
\label{sect:analyticity}
In analogy to complex analyticity of the 2D lowest Landau level states,
we have found that the helicity structure of the 3D lowest Landau levels
leads to quaternionic analyticity.
Just like two real numbers forming a complex number, a two-component
complex spinor $\psi=(\psi_\uparrow, \psi_\downarrow)^T$ can be mapped
to a quaternion by multiplying a $j$ to the 2nd component
\begin{eqnarray}
f=\psi_\uparrow + j \psi_\downarrow.
\label{eq:map}
\end{eqnarray}
Then the familiar symmetry transformations can be represented via
multiplying quaternions.
The time-reversal transformation $i\sigma_2 \psi^*$ becomes $T f=-fj$ satisfying $T^2=-1$.
The $U(1)$ phase $e^{i\theta}\to f e^{i\theta}$,
and the SU(2) rotation becomes
\begin{eqnarray}
e^{i\frac{\phi}{2}\sigma_x} \psi \to e^{k\frac{\phi}{2}} f, \ \ \,
e^{i\frac{\phi}{2}\sigma_y} \psi \to e^{j\frac{\phi}{2}} f, \ \ \,
e^{i\frac{\phi}{2}\sigma_z} \psi \to e^{-i\frac{\phi}{2}} f.
\nonumber \\
\end{eqnarray}
To apply the Cauchy-Riemann-Fueter condition Eq. \ref{eq:quater_cauchy}
to 3D, we simply suppress the 4th coordinate,
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}
+i\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}
+j\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}
\label{eq:quater_ana_3D}
=0.
\end{eqnarray}
We prove a remarkable property below
that this condition (Eq. \ref{eq:quater_ana_3D}) is rotationally invariant.
\begin{lemma}
If a quaternionic wavefunction $f(x,y,z)$ is quaternionic analytic,
i.e., it satisfies the Cauchy-Riemann-Futer condition,
then after an arbitrary rotation, the consequential wavefunction $f^\prime(x,y,z)$ remains quaternionic analytic.
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
Consider an arbitrary SU(2) rotation $g(\alpha,\beta,\gamma)=e^{-i\frac{\alpha}{2}\sigma_z}
e^{-i\frac{\beta}{2}\sigma_y} e^{-i\frac{\gamma}{2}\sigma_z}$,
where $\alpha, \beta,\gamma$ are Eulerian angles.
In the quaternion representation, it maps to
$g=e^{i\frac{\alpha}{2}} e^{-j\frac{\beta}{2}}
e^{i\frac{\gamma}{2}}$.
After this rotation $f(x,y,z)$ transforms to
\begin{eqnarray}
f^{\prime}(x,y,z)
=e^{i\frac{\alpha}{2}} e^{-j\frac{\beta}{2}}
e^{i\frac{\gamma}{2}} f( x^\prime, y^\prime, z^\prime),
\label{eq:rotation}
\end{eqnarray}
where $(x^\prime,y^\prime$, $z^\prime)$ are the coordinates
by applying $g^{-1}$ on $(x,y,z)$.
It can be checked that
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\Big(\frac{\partial}{\partial x}+ i\frac{\partial}{\partial y}
+j\frac{\partial}{\partial z} \Big)
e^{i\frac{\alpha}{2}} e^{-j\frac{\beta}{2}}
e^{i\frac{\gamma}{2}}\nonumber \\
&=&e^{i\frac{\alpha}{2}} e^{-j\frac{\beta}{2}} e^{i\frac{\gamma}{2}}
\Big(\frac{\partial}{\partial x'} +i\frac{\partial}{\partial y'}
+j\frac{\partial}{\partial z'} \Big).
\end{eqnarray}
Then we have
\begin{eqnarray}
(\frac{\partial}{\partial x}+ i\frac{\partial}{\partial y}
+j\frac{\partial}{\partial z})f'(x,y,z)=0.
\end{eqnarray}
Hence, the Cauchy-Riemann-Fueter condition is rotationally
invariant.
\end{proof}
Based on this lemma, we prove the quaternionic analyticity of
the 3D lowest Landau level wavefunctions.
\begin{theorem}
The 3D lowest Landau level wavefunctions of $H^+_{3D,sym}$ in Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm}
have a one-to-one correspondence to the quaternionic analytic polynomials
in 3D.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
We denote the quaternionic polynomials, which correspond to the
orthonormal bases of the lowest Landau level wavefunctions
in Eq. \ref{eq:LL_orthonomal}, as $f^{LLL}_{j_+,j_z}$ with
$j_+=l+\frac{1}{2}$, and $-j_+\le j_z \le j_+$.
The highest weight states $f^{LLL}_{j_+,j_+}=(x+iy)^l$ are
complex analytic in the $xy$-plane, hence, it is obviously
quaternionic analytic.
Since all the coherent states can be obtained from the highest weight
states via rotations, they are also quaternionic analytic.
The coherent states form a set of overcomplete basis of the lowest Landau
level wavefunctions, hence all the lowest Landau level wavefunctions
are quaternionic analytic.
Next we prove the completeness that $f^{LLL}_{j_+,j_z}$'s
form the complete basis of the quaternoinic analytic polynomials
in 3D.
By counting the degrees of freedom of the $l$-th order polynomials
of $x,y,z$, and the number of the constraints from Eq. \ref{eq:quater_cauchy},
we calculate the total number of the linearly independent
$l$-th order quaternionic analytic polynomials
as $C^2_{l+2}-C^2_{l+1}=l+1$.
On the other hand, any lowest Landau level state in the sector of $j_+=l+\frac{1}{2}$ can be represented as
\begin{eqnarray}
f_l(x,y,z) =\sum_{m=0}^{l} f^{LLL}_{j_+=l+\frac{1}{2},j_z=m+\frac{1}{2}} q_m,
\label{eq:cmplt}
\end{eqnarray}
where $q_m$ is a quaternion constant coefficient.
Please note that $q_{lm}$'s are multiplied from right
due to the non-commutativity of quaternions.
In Eq. \ref{eq:cmplt}, we have taken into account the fact
$f^{LLL}_{j_+,-j_z}=-f^{LLL}_{j_+,-j_z}j$ due to the time-reversal
transformation.
Hence, the degrees of freedom in the lowest Landau level with $j_+=l+\frac{1}{2}$ is also $l+1$.
Hence, the lowest Landau level wavefunctions are complete
for quaternionic analytic polynomials.
\end{proof}
\subsection{Generalizations to 4D and above}
The above procedure can be straightforwardly generalized to four and
even higher dimensions.
To proceed, we need to employ the Clifford algebra $\Gamma$-matrices.
Their ranks in different dimensions and concrete representations
are presented in Appendix \ref{appendix:cliff}.
Then we use the $N$-D harmonic oscillator
potential combined with spin-orbit coupling as
\begin{eqnarray}
H^{ND, LL}=\frac{p_{ND}^2}{2m}+\frac{1}{2}m \omega_0^2 r_{ND}^2
-\omega_0
\sum_{1\le i<j \le N} \Gamma_{ij} L_{ij},
\label{eq:4DQHE}
\end{eqnarray}
where $L_{ij}=r_i p_j - r_j p_i$.
The spectra of Eq. \ref{eq:4DQHE} were studied in the context
of the supersymmetric quantum mechanics \cite{bagchi2001}.
However, its connection with Landau levels was not noticed
there.
The spin operators in $N$-dimensions are defined as
$\frac{1}{2}\Gamma_{ij}$.
For the 4D case, the minimal representations
for the $\Gamma$-matrices are still two-dimensional.
They are defined as
\begin{eqnarray}
\Gamma_{ij}=-\frac{i}{2}[\sigma_{i}, \sigma_{j}], \ \ \,
\Gamma_{i4}=\pm \sigma_{i},
\end{eqnarray}
with $1\le i<j\le3$.
The $\pm$ signs of $\Gamma^{i4}$ correspond to two complex
conjugate irreducible
fundamental spinor representations of $SO(4)$, and the $+$
sign will be taken below.
The spectra of the positive helicity states are flat as
$E_{+, n_r}=(2n_{r}+2) \hbar \omega$.
The coherent state picture for the 4D lowest Landau levels can
be similarly constructed as follows:
Again pick up two orthogonal axes $\hat e$ and $\hat f$ to form
a 2D complex plane, and define complex analytic functions therein as,
\begin{eqnarray}
(x_a \hat e_a + i x_a \hat f_a)^l e^{-\frac{r^2}{4l_{so}^2}}
\otimes |\alpha_{\hat e, \hat f}\rangle,
\label{eq:4Dcoherent}
\end{eqnarray}
where $|\alpha_{\hat e, \hat f}\rangle$ is the eigenstate
of $\Gamma^{\hat e,\hat f}=\hat e_a \hat f_b \Gamma^{ab}$ satisfying
\begin{eqnarray}
\Gamma^{\hat e,\hat f} |\alpha_{\hat e, \hat f}\rangle
=|\alpha_{\hat e, \hat f}\rangle.
\end{eqnarray}
Hence, its spin is locked with its orbital angular momentum in the
$\hat e$-$\hat f$ plane.
Following similar methods in Sect. \ref{sect:analyticity}, we can prove
that the 4D lowest Landau level wavefunctions for Eq. \ref{eq:4DQHE}
satisfy the 4D Cauchy-Riemann-Futer condition Eq. \ref{eq:quater_ana},
and thus are quaternionic analytic functions.
Again it can be proved that they form the complete basis for
quaternionic left-analytic polynomials in 4D.
As for even higher dimensions, quaternions are not defined.
Nevertheless, the picture of the complex analytic function defined in
the moving frame still applies.
If we still work in the spinor representation, we can express
the lowest Landau level wavefunctions as
$\psi_{LLL}(x_i)=f_{LLL}(x_i) e^{-\frac{r^2}{2l_0^2}}$,
where each component of the spinor $f_{LLL}$ is a polynomial of
$r_i$ $(1\le i \le N)$.
To work out the analytic properties of $f_{LLL}$, we
factorize Eq. \ref{eq:4DQHE} as
\begin{eqnarray}
H^{ND,LL}= \hbar \omega_0 \left(\Gamma^i a_i^\dagger\right)
\left(\Gamma^j a_j\right),
\end{eqnarray}
where $a_i$ is the phonon operator in the $i$-th dimension
defined as
$a_i=\frac{1}{\sqrt 2}\big(\frac{1}{l_0} r_i +i \frac{l_0}{\hbar }p_i\big)$,
and $l_0=\sqrt{\frac{\hbar}{m\omega_0}}$.
Then $f_{LLL}(x_i)$ satisfies the following equation,
\begin{eqnarray}
\Gamma^j \frac{\partial}{\partial x_j} f_{LLL}(x_i)=0,
\end{eqnarray}
which can be viewed as the Euclidean version of the
Weyl equation.
When coming back to 3D and 4D, and following
the mapping Eq. \ref{eq:map}, we arrive at quaternionic
analyticity.
New let us construct the off-centered solutions to the lowest
Landau level states in 4D.
We use $\vec r$ to denote a point in the subspace of $x_1$-$x_2$-$x_3$,
and $\hat \Omega$ as an arbitrary unit vector in it.
Set $\hat e=\hat \Omega$ and $\hat f=\hat e_4$ (the unit vector
along the 4th axis) in Eq. \ref{eq:4Dcoherent}.
$\alpha_{\hat\Omega\hat e_4}$ satisfies
\begin{eqnarray}
(\sigma_{i4}\Omega_i)\alpha_{\hat\Omega\hat e_4 }
=(\vec \sigma \cdot \hat \Omega) \alpha_{\hat\Omega\hat e_4}
=\alpha_{\hat\Omega\hat e_4},
\end{eqnarray}
hence,
\begin{eqnarray}
\alpha_{\hat\Omega\hat e_4}=(\cos\frac{\theta}{2},\sin\frac{\theta}{2} e^{i\phi})^T,
\label{eq:alpha}
\end{eqnarray}
where we have used the gauge convention that the singularity
is located at the south pole.
Define the magnetic translation in the $\hat\Omega$-$\hat e_4$ plane,
\begin{eqnarray}
T_{\hat\Omega x_4} (u_0 \hat x_4)=
\exp\Big(-u_0 \partial_{x_4} -\frac{i}{4l_{so}^2}
(\vec r \cdot \hat\Omega) u_0 \Big),
\end{eqnarray}
which translates along the $\hat e_4$-axis at the distance of $u_0$.
Apply this translation to the state of $e^{-r^2/4l_{so}^2}\otimes \alpha_{\hat\Omega\hat e_4}$, we arrive at the off-center solution
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_{\Omega,u_0}(\vec r, x_4)= e^{-\frac{r^2+x_4^2}{4l_{so}^2}}
e^{-i\frac{r u_0}{2l_{so}^2}} \otimes \alpha_{\hat\Omega\hat e_4}.
\end{eqnarray}
Next, we perform the Fourier transform over the direction $\hat \Omega$,
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_{4D;j,j_z}(\vec r, x_4)&=& \int d \Omega ~
Y_{-\frac{1}{2},l+\frac{1}{2}, m+\frac{1}{2}} (\hat \Omega)
\psi_{\Omega,w_0}(\vec r, x_4), \ \ \, \ \ \,
\label{eq:4D_offcenter}
\end{eqnarray}
where $j=l+\frac{1}{2}$ and $j_z=m+\frac{1}{2}$.
Due to the Berry phase structure $\alpha_{\hat \Omega\hat e_4}$
over $\hat \Omega$, monopole spherical harmonics,
$Y_{-\frac{1}{2},l+\frac{1}{2},m+\frac{1}{2}}(\hat\Omega)$,
are used instead of the regular spherical harmonics.
Then Eq. \ref{eq:4D_offcenter} possesses the 3D rotational symmetry
around the new center $(0,0,0, w_0)$, and Eq. \ref{eq:4D_offcenter}
possesses with the good quantum numbers of 3D angular momentum $(j, j_z)$.
The monopole harmonic function $Y_{q;jj_z}(\hat \Omega)$ here
is defined as
\begin{eqnarray}
Y_{q;jj_z}(\hat \Omega)=\sqrt{\frac{2j+1}{4\pi}} e^{i(j_z+q)\phi} d^l_{j_z,-q}(\theta),
\end{eqnarray}
where $\theta$ and $\phi$ are the polar and azimuthal angles
of $\hat \Omega$, and
$d^l_{j_z,-q}(\theta)=\langle jj_z|e^{-iJ_y\theta}|j-q\rangle$
is the standard Wigner rotation $d$-matrix.
The gauge choice is consistent with that of the
Eq. \ref{eq:alpha}.
\subsection{\small Boundary helical Dirac and Weyl modes}
\label{sect:3Dboundary}
The topological nature of the 3D Landau level states exhibits clearly
in the gapless surface spectra.
Consider a ball of the radius $R_0\gg l_{so}$ imposed by the open
boundary condition.
We have numerically solved the spectra as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:3DLL}
(B).
Inside the bulk, the Landau level spectra are flat with respect to $j_+=l+\frac{1}{2}$.
As $l$ increases to large values such that the classic orbital radiuses
approach the boundary, the Landau levels become surface states
and develop dispersive spectra.
We can also derive the effective equation for the surface mode based on Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm}.
Since $r$ is fixed at the boundary, it becomes a rotator equation on the sphere.
By linearizing the dispersion at the chemical potential $\mu$,
and replacing the angular momentum quantum number $l$ by the operator
$\vec \sigma \cdot \vec L$, we arrive at
$H_{sf}=(v_{f}/R_{0})\vec{\sigma} \cdot \vec{L}-\mu$
with $v_{f}$ the Fermi velocity.
This is the helical Dirac equation defined on the boundary sphere.
When expanded in the local patch around the north pole
$R_{0}\hat{z}$, we arrive at
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{sf}=\hbar v_{f}(\vec{k}\times \vec{\sigma})\cdot \hat{z}-\mu.
\end{eqnarray}
The gapless surface states are robust against time-reversal invariant
perturbations if odd numbers of helical Fermi surfaces exist according
to the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ criterion \cite{kane2005,kane2005a}.
Since each fully occupied Landau level contributes one helical
Dirac Fermi surface, the bulk is topologically nontrivial if
odd numbers of Landau levels are occupied.
A similar procedure can be applied to the high-dimensional case
by imposing the open boundary condition to Eq. \ref{eq:4DQHE}.
For example, around the north pole of $r_N=(0,...., R_0)$,
the linearized low energy equation for the boundary modes is
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{bd}=\hbar v_f \sum_{i=1}^{D-1} k_i \Gamma^{iN} -\mu.
\end{eqnarray}
On the boundary of the 4D sphere, it becomes the 3D Weyl equation that
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{bd}=\hbar v_f \vec k \cdot \vec \sigma -\mu.
\end{eqnarray}
\subsection{Bulk-boundary correspondence}
\begin{widetext}
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
& Bulk (Euclidean) & Boundary (Minkowski)\\
\hline
& & \\
2D LLL & complex analyticity & 1D chiral wave \\
& $\partial_x f +i \partial_y f=0$
& $\partial_t \psi+\partial_x \psi=0$ \\
& & \\
\hline
& & \\
3D LLL & (3D) quaternionic analyticity & 2D helical Dirac mode\\
& $\partial_x f +i \partial_y f +j\partial_z f=0$ &
$ \partial_t \psi +\sigma_2 \partial_x \psi -\sigma_1 \partial_y \psi=0$\\
& & \\
\hline
& & \\
4D LLL & quaternionic analyticity & 3D Weyl mode \\
& $\partial_x f +i \partial_y f +j\partial_z f +k\partial_u f=0$
& $\partial_t \psi +\sigma_1 \partial_x \psi +\sigma_2 \partial_y \psi
+\sigma_3 \partial_z \psi=0$ \\
& & \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{\normalsize Bulk-boundary correspondence in the lowest
(LLL) states in 2, 3, and 4 dimensions.}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{widetext}
We have already studied the bulk and boundary states of 2D, 3D and
4D lowest Landau level states.
They exhibit a series of interesting bulk-boundary correspondences
as summarized in Table I.
In the 2D case, the bulk wavefunctions in the lowest Landau level
is complex analytic satisfying the Cauchy-Riemann condition.
The 1D edge states satisfy the chiral wave equation Eq. \ref{eq:chiraledge}.
It is essentially the Weyl equation, which is actually a
single component equation in 1D.
It can be viewed as the Minkowski version of the Cauchy-Riemann
condition of Eq. \ref{eq:cauchy}.
Or, conversely, the Cauchy-Riemann condition for the bulk
wavefunctions can be viewed as the Euclidean
version of the Weyl equation.
This correspondence goes in parallel in 3D and 4D lowest Landau
level wavefunctions.
Their bulk wavefunctions satisfy the quaternionic analytic
conditions, which can be viewed as an Euclidean version of the
helical Dirac and Weyl equations, respectively.
\subsection{Many-body interacting wavefunctions}
It is natural to further investigate many-body interacting wavefunctions
in the lowest Landau levels in 3D and 4D.
As is well-known that the complex analyticity of the 2D lowest Landau level wavefunctions results in the elegant from of the 2D Laughlin wavefunction Eq. \ref{eq:laughlin}, which describes a 2D quantum liquid \cite{laughlin1983,girvin1999}.
It is natural to further expect that the quaternionic analyticity of the
3D and 4D lowest Landau levels would work as a guidance in
constructing high-dimensional SU(2) invariant quantum liquid.
Nevertheless, the major difficulty is that quaternions do not commute.
It remains challenging how to use quaternions to represent
a many-body wavefunction with the spin degree of freedom.
Nevertheless, we present below the spin polarized fractional many-body
states in 3D and 4D Landau levels.
In the 3D case, if the interaction is spin-independent, we expect
spontaneous spin polarization at very low fillings due to the
flatness of lowest Landau level states in analogy to the 2D quantum Hall ferromagnetism \cite{Lee1990,Sondhi1993,Fertig1994,Read1995,girvin1999}.
According to Eq. \ref{eq:3Dcoherent}, fermions concentrate to
the highest weight states in the orbital plane $\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$
with spin polarized along $\hat e_3$, then it is reduced to a 2D
quantum Hall-like problem on a membrane floating in the 3D space.
Any 2D fractional quantum Hall-like state can be formed under suitable
interaction pseudopotentials \cite{haldane1983,haldane1985,Prange1990}.
For example, the $\nu=\frac{1}{3}$ Laughlin-like state on this
membrane is constructed as
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\Psi_{\frac{1}{3}}(\vec r_1,\vec r_2, ..., \vec r_n)_
{\sigma_1\sigma_2...\sigma_n}\nonumber \\
&=&\prod_{i < j} [(\vec r_i-\vec r_j)\cdot (\hat e_1 +i \hat e_2)]^3
\otimes \ket{\alpha_{\hat e_3}}_{\sigma_1} \ket{\alpha_{\hat e_3}}_{\sigma_2} ...
\ket{\alpha_{\hat e_3}}_{\sigma_n}, \nonumber \\
\label{eq:ferro_3D}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\ket{\alpha_{\hat e_3}}$ represents a polarized spin eigenstate along $\hat e_3$, and the Gaussian weight is suppressed for simplicity.
Such a state breaks rotational symmetry and time-reversal symmetry spontaneously,
thus it possesses low energy spin-wave modes.
Due to the spin-orbit locked configuration in Eq. \ref{eq:3Dcoherent},
spin fluctuations couple to the vibrations of the orbital motion plane,
thus the metric of the orbital plane becomes dynamic.
This is a natural connection to the work of geometrical
description in fractional quantum Hall states \cite{haldane2011,can2014,klevtsov2017}.
Let us consider the 4D case, we assume that spin is polarized
as the eigenstate $\ket{\uparrow}$ of
$\Gamma^{12}=\Gamma^{34}=\sigma_3$.
The corresponding spin-polarized lowest Landau level wavefunctions
are expressed as
\begin{eqnarray}
\Psi^{4D}_{LLL,m,n}=(x+iy)^m (z+iu)^n
\otimes \ket{\uparrow},
\end{eqnarray}
with $m, n\ge 0$.
If all these spin polarized lowest Landau level states with
$0 \le m < N_m$ and $0 \le n < N_n $ are
filled, the many-body wavefunction is a Slater-determinant as
\begin{eqnarray}
\Psi^{4D}(v_1, w_1; \cdots; v_N, w_N)= \det[v_i^{\alpha} w_i^{\beta}],
\label{eq:4Dwf}
\end{eqnarray}
where the coordinates of the $i$-th particle form two pairs
of complex numbers as $v_i=x_i+iy_i$ and $w_i=z_i+iu_i$;
$\alpha$, $\beta$ and $i$ satisfy $0 \le \alpha <N_m $, $0\le
\beta < N_n $, and $1\le i \le N=N_m N_n$.
Such a state has a 4D uniform density as $\rho=\frac{1}{4\pi^4 l_G^2}$.
A Laughlin-like wavefunction can be written down as
$\Psi^{4D}_k =(\Psi^{4D})^k$ whose filling relative to $\rho$ should be $1/k^2$.
It would be interesting to further study its electromagnetic responses
and fractional topological excitations based on $\Psi^{4D}_k$.
Again such a state spontaneously breaks rotational symmetry, and
the coupled spin and orbital excitations would be interesting.
\section{Dimensional reductions: 2D and 3D Landau levels with broken parity}
\label{sect:reduction}
In this section, we review another class of isotropic Landau level-like
states with time-reversal symmetry but broken parity in both 2D and 3D.
The Hamiltonians are again harmonic potential plus spin-orbit coupling,
but it is the coupling between spin and linear momentum, not orbital
angular momentum \cite{wu2011_Ian,li2012a,li2016}.
They exhibit topological properties very similar to Landau levels.
An early study of these systems filled with bosons can be found in Ref. \cite{wuexciton2008}.
The spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensations (BECs) spontaneously
break time-reversal symmetry, and exhibit the skyrmion type spin textures
coexisting with half-quantum vortices, which have been reviewed
in Ref. \cite{zhouXF2013}.
Spin-orbit coupled BECs have become an active research direction
of cold-atom physics, as extensively studied in literature.
\cite{wu2011_Ian,hu2012,sinha2011,ghosh2011,wang2010,ho2011}.
\subsection{The 2D parity-broken Landau levels}
We consider the Hamiltonian of Rashba spin-orbit coupling combined
with a 2D harmonic potential as
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{2D,hm}=-\frac{\hbar^2\nabla^2}{2M}+\frac{1}{2} M \omega^2r^2
-\lambda (-i\hbar\nabla_x \sigma_y +i\hbar \nabla_y \sigma_x),
\nonumber \\
\label{eq:rashba}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\lambda$ is the spin-orbit coupling strength with the unit of velocity.
Eq. \ref{eq:rashba} possesses the $C_{v\infty}$-symmetry and time-reversal
symmetry.
We fill the system with fermions and work on its topological properties.
There are two length scales.
The trap length scale is defined as $l_T=\sqrt{\frac{\hbar }{M\omega}}$.
If without the trap, the single particle states $\psi_\pm (\vec k)$
are eigenstates of the helicity operator $\vec \sigma \cdot (\vec k
\times \hat z)$ with eigenvalues of $\pm 1$.
Their spectra are $\epsilon_{\pm}(\vec k)=
\hbar^2(k \mp k_{0})^2/(2M)$, respectively.
The lowest energy states are $\psi_+(\vec k)$ located around a ring in
momentum space with radius $k_{0}=M\lambda/\hbar$.
This introduces a spin-orbit length scale as $l_{so}=1/k_0$.
Then the ratio between these two length scales defines a dimensionless
parameter $\alpha=l_T/l_{so}$,
which describes the spin-orbit coupling strength relative
to the harmonic potential.
In the case of strong spin-orbit coupling, {\it i.e.}, $\alpha\gg 1$,
a clear picture appears in momentum space.
The low energy states are reorganized from the plane-wave states
$\psi_+(\vec k)$ with $k\approx k_0 $.
Since $\alpha\gg 1$, we can safely project out the high energy
negative helicity states $\psi_{-}(\vec k)$, then
the harmonic potential in the low energy sector
becomes a Laplacian in momentum space
coupled to a Berry connection $\vec A_k$ as
\begin{eqnarray}
V=\frac{M}{2}\omega^2 r^2=\frac{M}{2} \omega^2 (i\nabla_k - A_k)^2,
\end{eqnarray}
which drives particle moving around the ring.
It is well-known that for the Rashba Hamiltonian, the Berry connection
$A_k$ gives rise to a $\pi$-flux at $\vec k=(0,0)$ but zero
Berry curvature at $\vec k\neq 0$ \cite{xiao2010}.
The consequence is that
the angular momentum eigenvalues become half-integers as $j_z=m+\frac{1}{2}$.
The angular dispersion of the spectra can be estimated as
$E_{agl}(j_z)=(j_z^2/2\alpha^2) \hbar\omega$, which is strongly
suppressed by spin-orbit coupling.
On the other hand, the radial energy quantization remains as
usual $E_{rad}(n_r)=(n_r+\frac{1}{2}) \hbar\omega$ up to a constant.
Thus the total energy dispersion is
\begin{eqnarray}
E_{n_r,j_z}\approx \Big(n_r+ \frac{1}{2}
+\frac{j_z^2}{2\alpha^2} \Big )\hbar \omega.
\end{eqnarray}
Similar results have also been obtained in recent works of Ref.
\cite{hu2012,sinha2011,ghosh2011}.
Since $\alpha\gg 1$, the spectra are nearly flat with
respect to $j_z$, we can treat $n_r$ as a Landau level index.
The wavefunctions of Eq. \ref{eq:rashba} in the lowest Landau level
with $n_r=0$ can be expressed in the polar coordinate
as Eq. \ref{eq:rashba_wf}.
Next we define the edge modes of such systems, and
their stability problem is quite different from that of
the chiral edge modes of 2D magnetic Landau level systems.
In the regime that $\alpha\gg 1$, the spin-orbit length $l_{so}$
is much shorter than $l_T$, such that $l_T$ is viewed as the cutoff
of the sample size.
States with $|j_z|< \alpha$ are viewed as bulk states
which localize within the region of $r<l_T$.
For states with $|J_z|\sim \alpha$, their energies touch the
the bottom of the next higher Landau level, and thus they
should be considered as edge states.
Due to time-reversal symmetry, each filled Landau level of
Eq. \ref{eq:rashba} gives rise to a branch of edge modes of
Kramers' doublets $\psi_{n_r,\pm j_z}$.
In other words, these edge modes are helical rather than chiral.
Similarly to the $Z_2$ criterion in Ref. \cite{kane2005,kane2005a},
which was defined for Bloch wave states,
in our case the following mixing term,
$
H_{mx}=\psi^\dagger_{2D,n_r,j_z} \psi_{2D,n_r, -j_z}+h.c.,
$
is forbidden by time-reversal symmetry.
Consequently, the topological index for this system is $Z_2$.
\subsection {Dimensional reduction from 3D}
In fact, we construct a Hamiltonian closely related to Eq. \ref{eq:rashba}
such that its ground state is solvable exhibiting exactly flat dispersion.
It is a consequence of dimensional reduction based on the 3D Landau level Hamiltonian Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm}.
We cut a 2D off-centered plane perpendicular to the $z$-axis
with the interception $z=z_0$.
In this off-centered plane, inversion symmetry is broken, and Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm} is reduced to
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{2D,re}&=& H_{2D,hm} - \omega L_z \sigma_z.
\label{eq:2D_reduce}
\end{eqnarray}
The first term is just Eq. \ref{eq:rashba} by identifying $\lambda=\omega z_0$
and the frequency of the 2nd term is the same as that of the harmonic trap.
If $z_0=0$, the Rashba spin-orbit coupling vanishes, and
Eq.\ref{eq:2D_reduce} becomes the 2D quantum spin-Hall Hamiltonian,
which is a double copy of Eq. \ref{eq:2D_symm}.
At $z_0\neq 0$, $\sigma_z$ is no longer conserved due to
spin-orbit coupling.
In Sect. \ref{sect:off-center}, we derived the off-centered ellipsoid
type wavefunction in Eq. \ref{eq:fourier}.
After setting $z=z_0$ in Eq. \ref{eq:fourier}, we arrive
at the following 2D wavefunction,
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_{2D,j_z}(r,\phi)&=&
e^{-\frac{r^2}{4l_{so}^2}}\Big\{
e^{im\phi} J_m(k_0 r) \ket{\uparrow}\nonumber \\
&+&e^{i(m+1)\phi} J_{m+1} (k_0 r)
\ket{\downarrow} \Big\},
\label{eq:rashba_wf}
\end{eqnarray}
where $J_m(k_0r)$'s are the Bessel functions.
It is straightforward to prove that the simple reduction indeed
gives rise to the solutions to the lowest Landau levels for Eq. \ref{eq:2D_reduce}, since the partial derivative along the $z$-direction
of the solution in Eq. \ref{eq:fourier} equal zero at $z=z_0$.
We also derive that the energy dispersion is
exactly flat as,
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{2D,re} ~\psi_{2D,j_z}= \Big(1 -\frac{\alpha^2}{2} \Big)
\hbar \omega~ \psi_{2D,j_z}.
\end{eqnarray}
The above two Hamiltonians Eq. \ref{eq:2D_reduce} and Eq. \ref{eq:rashba} are
nearly the same except the $L_z\sigma_z$ term, whose effect
relies on the distance from the origin.
Consider the lowest Landau level solutions at $\alpha\gg 1$.
The decay length of the Gaussian factor is $l_T$.
Nevertheless, the Bessel functions peak around $k_0 r_0\approx m$, i.e., $r_0\approx \frac{m}{\alpha} l_T$.
Hence for states with $j_z<\alpha$, their wavefunctions
already decay before reach $l_T$.
Then the $L_z \sigma_z$-term compared to the Rashba one
is a small perturbation at the order of $\omega r_0/
\lambda=r_0/z_0\ll 1$.
In this regime, these two Hamiltonians are equivalent.
In contrast, in the opposite limit that $j_z\gg \alpha^2$,
the Bessel functions are cut off by the Gaussian factor,
and only their initial power-law parts participate, and
the classic orbit radiuses are just $r_0\approx \sqrt{m} l_T$,
then the physics of Eq. \ref{eq:2D_reduce} is controlled by
the $L_s\sigma_z$-term as in the quantum spin Hall systems.
For the intermediate region that $\alpha<j_z< \alpha^2$, the physics
is a crossover between the above two limits.
The many-body physics based on the above spin-orbit coupled Landau levels
in Eq. \ref{eq:rashba_wf} would be very interesting.
Fractional topological states would be expected which
are both rotationally and time-reversal invariant.
However, $s_z$ is not a good quantum number and party is also broken,
hence, these states should be very different from a double copy of
fractional Laughlin states with spin up and down particles.
The nature of topological excitations and properties of
edge modes will be deferred to a future study.
\subsection{The 3D parity-broken Landau levels}
We have also considered the problem of 3D harmonic potential
plus a Weyl-type spin-orbit coupling as
\cite{li2012a},
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{3D,hm}=-\frac{\hbar^2 \nabla^2}{2M}+\frac{1}{2}M \omega^2r^2
-\lambda (-i\hbar\vec \nabla \cdot \vec \sigma).
\label{eq:3DSO}
\end{eqnarray}
The analysis can be performed in parallel to the 2D case.
In the absence of spin-orbit coupling, the low energy states of
Eq. \ref{eq:3DSO} in momentum space form a spin-orbit sphere.
The harmonic potential further quantizes the energy spectra as
\begin{eqnarray}
E_{n_r,j,j_z}\approx \big(n_r+ \frac{1}{2}
+\frac{j(j+1)}{2\alpha^2} \big )\hbar \omega,
\end{eqnarray}
where $n_r$ is the Landau level index and $j$ is the total
angular momentum.
Again $j$ takes half-integer values because the Berry phase
on the low energy sphere exhibits a unit monopole structure.
Now we perform the dimensional reduction from the 4D Hamiltonian
Eq. \ref{eq:4DQHE} to 3D.
We cut a 3D off-centered hyper-plane perpendicular to the 4-th
axis with the
interception $x_4=u_0$.
Within this 3D hyper-plane of $(x_1,x_2,x_3, x_4=u_0)$,
Eq. \ref{eq:4DQHE} is reduced to
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{3D,re}=H_{3D,hm}-\omega \vec L \cdot \vec \sigma,
\label{eq:3D_reduce}
\end{eqnarray}
where the first term is just Eq. \ref{eq:3DSO} with the spin-orbit
coupling strength set by $\lambda=\omega u_0$.
Again, based on the center-shifted wavefunction in the lowest Landau
level Eq. \ref{eq:4D_offcenter}, and by setting $x_4=u_0$, we
arrive at the following wavefunction
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_{3D, J J_z}(\vec r)&=& e^{-\frac{r^2}{4l_{so}^2}} \Big\{ j_l(k_0 r)
Y_{+,J,J_z} (\Omega_r) \nonumber \\
&+&i j_{l+1}(k_0 r) Y_{-,J,J_z} (\Omega_r) \Big\},
\label{eq:3D_WF}
\end{eqnarray}
where $k_0=u_0/l_T^2=m \lambda/\hbar$;
$j_l$ is the $l$-th order spherical Bessel function.
$Y_{\pm,j, l,j_z}$'s are the spin-orbit coupled spherical harmonics defined as
\begin{eqnarray}
Y_{+,j,l,j_z}(\Omega)=\Big(\sqrt{\frac{l+m+1}{2l+1}} Y_{lm},
\sqrt{\frac{l-m}{2l+1}} Y_{l,m+1}\Big)^T
\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
with the positive
eigenvalue of $l\hbar$ for $\vec \sigma \cdot \vec L$, and
\begin{eqnarray}
Y_{-,j,l,j_z}(\Omega)=\Big(-\sqrt{\frac{l-m}{2l+1}} Y_{lm},
\sqrt{\frac{l+m+1}{2l+1}} Y_{l,m+1}\Big)^T
\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
with the negative
eigenvalue of $-(l+1)\hbar$ for $\vec \sigma \cdot \vec L$.
It is straightforward to check that $\psi_{3D,j,j_z}(\vec r)$
in Eq. \ref{eq:3D_WF} is the ground state wavefunction
satisfying
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{3D,re} \psi_{3D,j,j_z}(\vec r)= \Big (\frac{3}{2}
-\frac{\alpha^2}{2} \Big )\hbar \omega
\psi_{3D,j,j_z}(\vec r).
\end{eqnarray}
\section{High-dimensional Landau levels of Dirac fermions}
\label{sect:diracLL}
In this section, we review the progress on the study of 3D Landau levels
of relativistic Dirac fermions \cite{li2012}.
This is a square-root problem of the 3D Landau level problem of
Schr\"odinger fermions reviewed in Sect. \ref{sect:3DLL}.
This can also be viewed of Landau levels of complex quaternions.
\subsection{3D Landau levels for Dirac fermions}
In Eq. \ref{eq:2DLL_harm}, two sets of phonon creation and annihilation
operators $(a_x,a_y;a_x^\dagger,a_y^\dagger)$ are combined with the
real and imaginary units to construct Landau level Hamiltonian for
2D Dirac fermions.
Science in 3D there exist three sets of phonon creation and annihilation operators,
complex numbers are insufficient.
The new strategy is to employ Pauli matrices $\vec\sigma$
such that
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{3D}^D&=& v \Big\{ \alpha_i p_i
+ \gamma_i i \hbar \frac{r_i}{l_0^2} \Big\}
=
\frac{\hbar \omega}{\sqrt 2}
\left[
\begin{array}{cc}
0 & i\sigma_i a_i^\dagger \\
-i\sigma_i a_i & 0
\end{array}
\right ], \ \ \,
\label{eq:Dirac_3D}
\end{eqnarray}
where the repeated index $i$ runs over $x,y$ and $z$;
$v_F= \frac{1}{2} l_0\omega$.
The convention of $\gamma$-matrices is
\begin{eqnarray}
\beta=\gamma_0=\tau_3\otimes I, \ \ \, \alpha_i=\tau_1\otimes\sigma_i, \ \ \,
\gamma_i=\beta\alpha_i=i\tau_2\otimes\sigma_i.
\end{eqnarray}
Eq. \ref{eq:Dirac_3D} contains the complex combination of
momenta and coordinates, thus it can be viewed as the generalized
Dirac equation defined in the phase space.
Apparently, Eq. \ref{eq:Dirac_3D} is rotationally invariant.
It is also time-reversal invariant with the definition
$T=\gamma_2\gamma_3K$ where $K$ is the complex conjugation,
and $T^2=-1$.
Since $\beta H_{3D}^D \beta =-H_{3D}^D$, $H_{3D}^D$ possesses the
particle-hole symmetry and its spectra are symmetric with
respect to the zero energy.
Similar to the 2D case, $(H^{D}_{3D})^2$ has a supersymmetric structure.
The square of Eq. \ref{eq:Dirac_3D} is block-diagonal, and two blocks
are just the non-relativistic 3D Landau level Hamiltonians
in Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm},
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{(H^{D}_{3D})^2}{\frac{1}{2}\hbar \omega}=
\left[ \begin{array}{cc}
H^+_{3D,sym}-\frac{3}{2}\hbar\omega& 0\\
0&H^-_{3D,sym}+\frac{3}{2}\hbar\omega
\end{array}
\right],
\label{eq:super}
\end{eqnarray}
where the mass $M$ in $H^\pm_{3D,sym}$ is defined through the relation $l_{0}=\sqrt{\hbar/(M\omega)}$.
Based on Eq. \ref{eq:super}, the energy eigenvalues of Eq. \ref{eq:Dirac_3D} are
$E_{\pm n_r, j, j_z}=\pm \hbar \omega \sqrt n_r$, corresponding to taking
positive and negative square roots of the non-relativistic dispersion,
respectively.
The Landau level wavefunctions of the 3D Dirac electrons are expressed
in terms of the non-relativistic ones of
Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm} as
\begin{eqnarray}
\Psi_{\pm n_r,j,j_z} (\vec r)=\frac{1}{\sqrt 2}
\left( \begin{array}{c}
\psi_{n_r,j_+,l, j_z} (\vec r) \\
\pm i\psi_{n_r-1,j_-, l+1, j_z }(\vec r)
\end{array}
\right).
\label{eq:LLWF}
\end{eqnarray}
Please note that the upper and lower two components
possess different values of orbital angular momenta.
They exhibit opposite helicities of $j_\pm$, respectively.
The zeroth Landau level ($n_r=0$) states are special: There is only one
branch, and only the first two components of the wavefunctions
are non-zero as
\begin{eqnarray}
\Psi_{n_r=0, j, j_z} (\vec r)=\left[\begin{array}{c}
\Psi_{LLL,j_+,j_z}(\vec r)\\
0
\end{array}
\right],
\end{eqnarray}
where $\Psi_{LLL,j_+,j_z}$'s are the lowest Landau level solutions
to the non-relativistic Hamiltonian Eq. \ref{eq:LL_orthonomal}.
Again the nontrivial topology of the 3D Dirac Landau problem manifests
in the gapless surface modes.
Consider a spherical boundary with a large radius $R$.
The Hamiltonian takes the form of Eq. \ref{eq:Dirac_3D} inside the sphere,
and has the usual massive Dirac Hamiltonian
$H_{D}=\alpha_i P_i + \beta\Delta$ outside.
We also take the limit of $|\Delta|\rightarrow \infty$.
Loosely speaking, this is a square-root version of the open boundary
problem of the 3D non-relativistic case
in Sect. \ref{sect:3Dboundary}.
Since square-roots can be taken as positive and negative,
each branch of the surface modes in the non-relativistic Schr\"odinger case
corresponds to a pair of relativistic surface branches.
These two branches disperse upward and downward as increasing the
angular momentum $j$, respectively.
However, the zeroth Landau level branch is singled out.
We can only take either the positive, or, negative
square root, for its surface excitations.
Hence, the surface spectra connected to the bulk zeroth Landau level
disperse upward or downward depending on the sign of the vacuum mass.
\subsection{Non-minimal Pauli coupling and anomaly}
Due to the particle-hole symmetry of Eq. \ref{eq:Dirac_3D}, the 3D
zeroth Landau level states are half-fermion modes in the same
way as those in the 2D Dirac case.
Moreover, in the 3D case, the degeneracy is over the
3D angular momentum numbers $(j_+, j_z)$, thus the
degeneracy is much higher than that of 2D.
According to whether the chemical potential $\mu$ approaches
$0^+$ or $0^-$, each state in the zeroth lowest Landau level contributes a
positive, or, negative half fermion number, respectively.
The Lagrangian of the 3D massless Dirac Landau level problem is,
\begin{eqnarray}
L= \bar \psi \Big\{ \gamma_0 i\hbar \partial_t
- i v \gamma_i \hbar \partial_i\Big\} \psi
- v \hbar \bar\psi i \gamma_0 \gamma_i \psi
F^{0i}(r),
\label{eq:lang}
\end{eqnarray}
where $F^{0i}= x_i/l_0^2$.
In all the dimensions higher than 2, $i\gamma_0\gamma_i$'s are
a different set from $\gamma_i$'s, thus Eq. \ref{eq:lang} is an example of
non-minimal coupling of the Pauli type.
More precisely, it is a coupling between the electric field and the electric
dipole moment.
In the 2D case, the Lagrangian has the same form as Eq. \ref{eq:lang},
however, since $\gamma_{0,1,2}$ are just the usual Pauli matrices,
it is reduced to the minimal coupling to the $U(1)$ gauge field.
Eq. \ref{eq:lang} is a problem of massless Dirac fermions coupled to
a background field via non-minimal Pauli coupling at 3D and above.
Fermion density is pumped by the background field from vacuum.
This is similar to parity anomaly, and indeed it is
reduced to parity anomaly in 2D.
However, the standard parity anomaly only exists in even spatial
dimensions \cite{redlich1984,redlich1984a,semenoff1984,niemi1986}.
By contrast, the Landau level problems of massless Dirac fermions
can be constructed in any high spatial dimensions.
Obviously, they are not chiral anomalies defined in odd spatial
dimensions, either.
It would be interesting to further study the nature of such
kind of ``anomaly''.
In fact, Eq. \ref{eq:Dirac_3D} is just one possible representation
for Landau levels of 3D massless Dirac fermions.
A general 3D Dirac Landau level Hamiltonian with a mass term
can be defined as
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{3D}^D (\hat e_1, \hat e_2,\hat e_3)&=&
v \Big [(\vec \tau \cdot \hat e_1) \otimes\sigma_i P_i
+ \hbar/l_0^2 (\vec \tau \cdot \hat e_2 )\otimes \sigma_i r_i
\Big] \nonumber \\
&+& mv^2 (\vec \tau \cdot \hat e_3)\otimes I,
\label{eq:3D_Dirac_general}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\tau_{1,2,3}$ are Pauli matrices acting in the particle-hole
channel, and $\hat e_{1,2,3}$ form an orthogonal triad in the 3D space.
Eq. \ref{eq:Dirac_3D} corresponds to the case of $\hat e_1=\hat x$
and $\hat e_2=\hat y$, and $m=0$.
The parameter space of $H_{3D}^D (\hat e_1, \hat e_2, \hat e_3)$
is the triad configuration space of $SO(3)$.
Consider that the configuration of the triad $\hat e_{1,2,3}$
is spatially dependent.
The first term in Eq. \ref{eq:3D_Dirac_general} should be symmetrized
as $\frac{1}{2}\vec \tau \cdot
\big[(\hat e_1(r) P_i + P_i \hat e_1(r) \big] \otimes \sigma_i$.
The spatial distribution of the triad of $\hat e_{1,2,3}(\vec r)$
can be in a topologically nontrivial configuration.
If the triad is only allowed to rotate around a fixed axis, its
configuration space is $U(1)$ which can form a vortex line
type defect.
There should be a Callan-Harvey type effect of the fermion
zero modes confined around the vortex line \cite{Callan1985}.
In general, we can also have a 3D skyrmion type defect of the triad
configuration.
These novel defect problems and the associated zero energy fermionic
excitations will be deferred for later studies.
\subsection{Landau levels for Dirac fermions in four dimensions
and above}
The Landau level Hamiltonian for Dirac fermions can be generalized
to arbitrary $N$-dimensions ($N$-D) by replacing the Pauli matrices in Eq. \ref{eq:Dirac_3D} with the Clifford algebra $\Gamma$-matrices in $N$-D
as presented in Appendix \ref{appendix:cliff}.
In odd dimensions $D=2k+1$, we use the $k$-th rank
$\Gamma$-matrices to construct the $D=2k+1$ dimensional
Dirac Landau level Hamiltonian,
\begin{eqnarray}
H^D_{2k+1}=\frac{\hbar\omega_0}{2}\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
0& i\Gamma_i^{(k)} a^\dagger_i \\
-i\Gamma_i^{(k)} a_i & 0
\end{array}
\right),
\label{eq:highDirac}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\Gamma_i^{(k)}$ is $2^k\times 2^k$ dimensional matrix,
and $1\le i\le 2k+1$.
Again, $(H_{2k+1}^{D})^2$ are reduced to a supersymmetric version
of the $2k+1$-dimensional Landau level Hamiltonian for Sch\"odinger
fermions in Eq. \ref{eq:4DQHE}.
All other properties are parallel to the 3D case explained before.
For even dimensions $D=2k$, we still take Eq. \ref{eq:highDirac}
by suppressing the $2k+1$-th dimension.
Nevertheless, such a construction is reducible.
In the representation presented in
Appendix \ref{appendix:cliff},
Eq \ref{eq:highDirac} after eliminating the $\Gamma^{(k)}_{2k+1}$ term
can be factorized into a pair of Hamiltonians
\begin{eqnarray}
H^{\pm,D}_{2k}=\frac{\hbar\omega_0}{2}\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
0& \pm a^\dagger_{2k}+ i \sum_{i=1}^k \Gamma_i^{(k-1)} a^\dagger_i \\
\pm a_k -i \sum_{i=1}^k \Gamma_i^{(k-1)} a_i & 0
\end{array}
\right),\nonumber \\
\end{eqnarray}
where $\pm$ correspond to the pair of fundamental and anti-fundamental
spinor representations in even dimensions.
For example, for the 4D system, we have
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{4D}^{\pm, D} =\frac{\hbar \omega}{\sqrt 2}\left[ \begin{array}{cc}
0& \pm a^\dagger_4 + i \sigma_i a_i^\dagger\\
\pm a_4 - i \sigma_i a_i &0
\end{array}
\right].
\label{eq:reduce}
\end{eqnarray}
Since three quaternionic imaginary units $i,j$, and $k$ can be
mapped to Pauli matrices $i\sigma_1, i\sigma_2$, and $i\sigma_3$,
respectively,
and the annihilation and creation operators are essentially complex.
$\pm a_4 - i \sigma_i a_i$ can be viewed as complex quaternions.
Hence, Eq. \ref{eq:reduce} is a complex quaternionic
generalization of the 2D Dirac Landau level Hamiltonian Eq. \ref{eq:2DLL_harm}.
\section{High-dimensional Landau levels in the Landau-like gauge}
\label{sect:landaugauge}
We have discussed the construction of Landau levels in high dimensions
for both Schr\"odinger and Dirac fermions in the symmetric-like
gauge.
In those problems, the rotational symmetry is explicitly maintained.
Below we review the construction of Landau levels in the Landau-like
gauge by reorganizing plane-waves to exhibit non-trivial
topological properties \cite{li2013a}.
It still preserves the flat spectra but not the rotational
symmetry.
\subsection{Spatially separated 1D chiral modes -- 2D Landau level}
We recapitulate the Landau level in the Landau gauge.
By setting $A_x=By$ and $A_y=0$ in the Hamiltonian Eq. \ref{eq:2DLL},
we arrive at
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{2D,L}&=& \frac{P_y^2}{2M} +\frac{(P_x-\frac{e}{c} A_x)^2}{2M}\nonumber \\
&=&\frac{P_y^2}{2M} +\frac{1}{2}M \omega^2 (y-l_B^2 P_x)^2,
\label{eq:2D_LL_Landau}
\end{eqnarray}
with $l_B=\sqrt{\frac{\hbar}{M\omega}}$.
The Landau level wavefunctions are a product of a plane wave along
the $x$-direction and a 1D harmonic oscillator wavefunction in the
$y$-direction,
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_n(x,y)=e^{ik_x} \phi_n(y-y_0(k)),
\end{eqnarray}
where $\phi_n$ is the $n$th harmonic oscillator eigenstate
with the characteristic length $l_B$, and its
equilibrium position is determined by the momentum $k_x$,
$y_0(k_x)=l_B^2 k_x$.
Hence, the Landau level states with positive and negative values of $k_x$
are shifted oppositely along the $y$-direction, and become spatially
separated.
If imposing the open boundary condition along the $y$-axis, chiral
edge modes appear.
The 2D quantum Hall effect is just the spatially separated 1D chiral
anomaly in which the chiral current becomes the transverse charge current.
After the projection to the lowest Landau level, we identify
$y=l_B^2 k_x$, hence, the two spatial coordinates
$x$ and $y$ become non-commutative as \cite{lee2004}
\begin{eqnarray}
[x,y]_{LLL}=il_B^2.
\end{eqnarray}
In other words, the $xy$-plane is equivalent to the 2D phase space of a 1D system
$(x;k_x)$ after the lowest Landau level projection.
\subsection{Spatially separated 2D helical modes - 3D Landau level}
The above picture can be generalized to the 3D Landau level states:
We keep the plane-wave modes with the good momentum numbers $(k_x,k_y)$
and shift them along the $z$-axis.
Spin-orbit coupling is introduced to generate the helical structure
to these plane-waves, and the shifting direction
is determined by the sign of helicity.
To be concrete, the 3D Landau level Hamiltonian in the Landau-like
gauge is constructed as follows \cite{li2013a},
\begin{eqnarray}
H^{\pm}_{3D,L} &=&
\frac{\vec P^2}{2M}+\frac{1}{2}M \omega_{so}^2 z^2
\mp \omega_{so} z (P_x \sigma_y-P_y \sigma_x) \nonumber \\
&=& \frac{P_z^2}{2M } + \frac{1}{2} M \omega_{so}^2
[z \mp \frac{1}{\hbar}l_{so}^2 (P_x \sigma_y - P_y\sigma_x) ]^2, \nonumber\\
\label{eq:3D_Landau}
\end{eqnarray}
where $l_{so}=\sqrt{\hbar/(M\omega_{so})}$.
The key of Eq. \ref{eq:3D_Landau} is the $z$-dependent Rashba spin-orbit
coupling, such that it can be decomposed into a set of 1D harmonic
oscillators along the $z$-axis coupled to 2D helical plane-waves.
Define the helicity operator $\hat \Sigma_{2d} (\hat k_{2d} )=
\hat k_x \sigma_y -\hat k_y \sigma_x$ where $\hat k$ is the
unit vector along the direction of $\vec k$.
$\chi_\Sigma(\hat k_{2d})$ is the eigenstate of $\hat \Sigma$
and $\Sigma=\pm 1$ is the eigenvalue.
Then the 3D Landau level wavefunctions are expressed as
\begin{eqnarray}
\Psi_{n, \vec k_{2d},\Sigma}(\vec{r}) = e^{i \vec k_{2d} \cdot \vec r_{2d}}
\phi_n [z - z_0( k_{2d},\Sigma)] \otimes \chi_{\Sigma}(\hat k_{2d}),
\label{eq:3DLL_WF}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\vec k_{2d}=(k_x,k_y)$, $\vec r_{2d}=(x,y)$,
and $k_{2d}=(k_x^2+k_y^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}$.
The energy spectra of Eq. \ref{eq:3DLL_WF} is flat as $E_n=(n+\frac{1}{2}) \hbar
\omega_{so}$.
The center of the oscillator wavefunction in Eq. \ref{eq:3DLL_WF}
is shifted to $z_0=l_{so}^2 k_{2d} \Sigma$.
The 3D Landau level wavefunctions of Eq. \ref{eq:3DLL_WF} are spatially
separated 2D helical plane-waves along the $z$-axis.
As shown in Fig. \ref{fig:3Ddemon} (A), for states
with opposite helicity eigenvalues, their central positions
are shifted in opposite directions.
If open boundaries are imposed perpendicular to the $z$-axis, each Landau
level contributes a branch of gapless helical Dirac modes.
For the system described by $H^+_{3D,L}$, the surface Hamiltonian is
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{bd}= \pm v_f (\vec p \times \vec \sigma) \cdot \hat z-\mu,
\end{eqnarray}
where $\pm$ apply to upper and lower boundaries, respectively.
Unlike the 2D case in which the symmetric and Landau gauges are
equivalent,
the Hamiltonian of the symmetric-like gauge Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm} and
that of the Landau-like gauge Eq. \ref{eq:3D_Landau} are {\it not}
gauge equivalent.
The Landau-like gauge explicitly breaks the 3D rotational symmetry
while the symmetric-like gauge preserves it.
Physical quantities calculated based on Eq. \ref{eq:3D_Landau}, such as
density of states, are not 3D rotationally symmetric as those
from Eq. \ref{eq:3D_symm}.
Nevertheless, these two Hamiltonians belong to the same topological class.
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering\epsfig{file=01_3Ddemon.eps,clip=1, width=0.3\textwidth,
}
\hspace{2mm}
\centering\epsfig{file=02_4Ddemon.eps,clip=2, width=0.3\textwidth,
}
\hspace{2mm}
\centering\epsfig{file=03_4Dpump.eps,clip=1,width=0.3\textwidth, angle=0}
\caption{\small
(A) 3D Landau level wavefunctions as spatially separated 2D helical Dirac modes
localized along the $z$-axis.
(B) 4D Landau level wavefunctions as spatially separated 3D Weyl modes
localized along the $u$-axis.
Note that 2D plane-wave modes with opposite helicities
and the 3D ones with opposite chiralities are located at
opposite sides of $z=0$ and $u=0$ planes, respectively.
C) The central positions $u_{0}(m,k_z,\nu)$ of the 4d Landau levels
in the presence of the magnetic field $\vec B= B\hat z$.
The branch of $m=0$ runs across the entire $u$-axis, which gives
rise to quantized charge transport along $u$-axis in the presence
of $\vec E\parallel \vec B$ as indicated in Eq. \ref{eq:4DQHE}.
From Ref. \cite{li2013a}.
}
\label{fig:3Ddemon}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Spatially separated 3D Weyl modes --4D Landau level}
\label{sect:4D}
Again we can easily generalize the above procedure to any dimensions.
For example, in four dimensions, we need to use the 3d helicity
operator $\hat \Sigma_{3d} =\hat P_{3d} \cdot \vec \sigma$, whose
eigenstates are denoted as $\chi_{\Sigma}$ with the eigenvalues
$\Sigma=\pm 1$.
Then the 4D Landau level Hamiltonian is defined as \cite{li2013a}
\begin{eqnarray}
H^{4d,\mp}_{LL} &=& \frac{P_u^2+\vec P_{3d}^2}{2M}+\frac{1}{2}M \omega^2 u^2
\mp \omega u \vec{P}_{3d} \cdot \vec{\sigma} \nonumber \\
&=& \frac{P_u^2}{2M } + \frac{1}{2} M \omega_{so}^2
(u \mp \frac{1}{\hbar}l_{so}^2 \vec P_{3d} \cdot \vec \sigma )^2, \ \ \,
\label{eq:4D_LL}
\end{eqnarray}
where $u$ and $P_u$ are the coordinate and momentum
in the 4th dimension, respectively,
and $\vec P_{3d}$ is defined in the $xyz$-space.
Inside each Landau level, the spectra are flat with respect to
$\vec k_{3d}$ and $\Sigma$.
Similarly to the 3D case, the 4D LL spectra and wavefunctions are solved
by reducing Eq. \ref{eq:4D_LL} into a set of 1D harmonic
oscillators along the $u$-axis as
\begin{eqnarray}
\Psi_{n, \vec{k}_{3d},\Sigma}(\vec{r},u) = e^{i \vec{k}_{3d} \cdot \vec{r}}
\phi_n [u - u_0(k_{3d},\Sigma)] \otimes \chi_{\Sigma}(\vec k_{3d}).
\end{eqnarray}
The central positions $u_0(k_{3d},\Sigma)=\Sigma l_{so}^2 k_{3d}$.
This realizes the spatial separation of the 3D Weyl fermion modes
with the opposite chiralities as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:3Ddemon} (B).
With an open boundary imposed along the $u$-direction,
the 3D chiral Weyl fermion modes appear on the boundary
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{bd}=\pm v_f (\vec k_{3D} \cdot \vec \sigma)-\mu.
\end{eqnarray}
\subsection{\normalsize Phase space picture of high-dimensional
Landau levels}
\label{sect:phase}
For the 2D case described by Eq. \ref{eq:2D_LL_Landau},
the $xy$-plane is equivalent to the 2D phase space of a 1D system
$(x;k_x)$ after the lowest Landau level projection.
The discrete step of $k_x$ is $\Delta k_x=2\pi/L_x$, and
the momentum cutoff of the bulk state is determined by $L_y$
as $k_{bk}=L_y/(2l_B^2)$.
Since $|k_x|<k_{bk}$, the number of states $N_{2D,LL}$ scales with
$L_xL_y$ as the usual 2D systems,
but the crucial difference is that enlarging $L_y$ does not change
$\Delta k_x$ but instead increases $k_{bk}$.
Similarly, the 3D Landau level states (Eq. \ref{eq:3D_Landau}) can be viewed as
states in the 4D phase space ($xy;k_xk_y$).
The $z$-axis plays the double role of $k_x$ and $k_y$.
After the lowest Landau level projection,
$z$ is equivalent to $z=l_{so}^2(p_x \sigma_y - p_y\sigma_x)/\hbar$,
and thus
\begin{eqnarray}
&&[x, z]_{LLL}=i l_{so}^2 \sigma_y, \ \ \,
[y, z]_{LLL}=-i l_{so}^2 \sigma_x,
\nonumber \\
&&[x,y]_{LLL}=0.
\end{eqnarray}
The momentum cutoff of the bulk state is determined as
$(k_x^2+k^2_y)^{\frac{1}{2}}<k_{bk}=\hbar L_z/
(2 l_{so}^2)$, thus the total number of states $N$ scales as $L_x L_y L_z^2$.
As a result, the 3D local density of states linearly diverges as
$\rho_{3D}(z)\propto |z|/l_{so}^4$ as $|z|\rightarrow \infty$.
Similar divergence also occurs in the symmetric-like gauge
as $\rho_{3D}(r)\propto r/l_{so}^4$.
Now this seeming pathological result can be understood as the
consequence of squeezing states of 4D phase space $(xy;k_xk_y)$ into the 3D
real space $(xyz)$.
In other words, the correct thermodynamic limit should be taken according
to the volume of 4D phase space.
This reasoning is easily extended to the 4D LL systems
(Eq.\ref{eq:4D_LL}), which can be understood as a 6D phase
space of $(xyz;k_xk_yk_z)$.
\subsection{\normalsize Charge pumping and the 4D quantum Hall effects}
The above 4D Landau level states presented in Sect. \ref{sect:4D} exhibit
non-linear electromagnetic response \cite{zhang2001,qi2008,Werner2012,
Frohlich2000} as the 4D quantum Hall effect.
We apply the electromagnetic fields as
\begin{eqnarray}
\vec{E}=E \hat{z}, \ \ \, \vec{B}=B \hat{z},
\end{eqnarray}
to the 4D Landau level Hamiltonian Eq. \ref{eq:4D_LL}
by minimally coupling fermions to the $U(1)$ vector potential,
\begin{eqnarray}
A_{em,x}=0, \ \ \, A_{em,y} = B x, \ \ \, A_{em,z} = -cEt.
\end{eqnarray}
The $\vec B$-field further quantizes the chiral plane-wave modes
inside the $n$-th 4D spin-orbit Landau level states into a series of
2D magnetic Landau level states in the
$xy$-plane as labeled by the magnetic Landau level index $m$.
For the case of $m=0$, the eigen-wavefunctions are spin polarized as
\begin{eqnarray}
\Psi_{n,m=0}(k_y,k_z)&=&e^{ik_y y+ik_z z} \phi_{n}(u-u_0(k_z,m=0))
\nonumber \\
&\times&\varphi_{m=0}(x-x_0(k_y))
\otimes \ket{\uparrow},
\label{eq:em4dwf}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\phi_n$ is the $n$-th order harmonic oscillator wavefunction with
the spin-orbit length scale $l_{so}$, and $\varphi_0$ is the
zeroth order harmonic oscillator wavefunction
with the magnetic length scale $l_B$.
The central positions of the $u$-directional and $x$-directional
oscillators are
\begin{eqnarray}
x_0(k_y)=l_B^2 k_y, \ \ \, u_0(k_z,m=0)=l_{so}^2 k_z,
\end{eqnarray}
respectively.
The key point is that $u_0(k_z,m=0)$ runs across the entire $u$-axis.
In contrast, wavefunctions $\Psi_{n,m}$ with $m\ge 1$
also exhibit harmonic oscillator
wavefunctions along the $u$-axis.
However, their central positions at $m\ge 1$ are,
\begin{eqnarray}
u_0(k_z)=\pm l_{so}^2 \sqrt{k_z^2+\frac{2m}{l_B^2}},
\end{eqnarray}
which only lie in half of the $u$-axis as
shown in Fig. \ref{fig:3Ddemon} (C).
Since $k_z$ increases with time in the presence of $E_z$,
$u_0(m,k_z(t))$ moves along the $u$-axis.
Only the $m=0$ branch of the magnetic Landau level states contribute
to the charge pumping since their centers go across the entire
$u$-axis, which results in an electric current along the $u$-direction.
Since $k_z(t)=k_z(0)-\frac{eE}{\hbar}t$,
during the time interval $\Delta t$, the number of electrons
passing the cross-section at a fixed $u$ is
\begin{eqnarray}
\Delta N=\frac{L_xL_y}{2\pi l_B^2}
\frac{e E_z \Delta t }{2\pi \hbar/L_z}
=\frac{e^2}{4\pi^2\hbar^2c} \vec E \cdot \vec B V\Delta t,
\end{eqnarray}
where $V$ is the 3D cross-volume.
Then the current density is calculated as
\begin{eqnarray}
j_u= n_{occ} \frac{e\Delta N}{V\Delta t}= n_{occ} \alpha \frac{e}{4 \pi^2 \hbar} \vec{E} \cdot \vec{B},
\label{eq:4Dpump}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\alpha$ is the fine-structure constant,
and $n_{occ}$ is the occupation number of the 4D spin-orbit Landau levels.
Eq. \ref{eq:4Dpump} is in agreement with
results from the effective field theory \cite{qi2008} as the 4D generalization
of the quantum Hall effect.
If we impose the open boundary condition perpendicular to the $u$-direction,
the above charge pump process corresponds to the chiral anomalies of Weyl
fermions with opposite chiralities on two opposite 3D boundaries, respectively.
Since they are spatially separated, the chiral current corresponds to the
electric current along the $u$-direction.
\section{Conclusions and outlooks}
\label{sect:conclusion}
I have reviewed a general framework to construct Landau
levels in high dimensions based on harmonic oscillator wavefunctions.
By imposing spin-orbit coupling, their spectra are reorganized to exhibit
flat dispersions.
In particular, the lowest Landau level wavefunctions in 3D and 4D in the quaternion representation satisfy the
Cauchy-Riemann-Fueter condition, which is the generalization
of complex analyticity to high dimensions.
The boundary excitations are the 2D helical Dirac surface modes,
or, the 3D chiral Weyl modes.
There is a beautiful bulk-boundary correspondence that the
Cauchy-Riemann-Fueter condition and the helical Dirac (chiral Weyl)
equation are the Euclidean and Minkowski representations of the
same analyticity condition, respectively.
By dimensional reductions, we constructed a class of Landau levels
in 2D and 3D which are time-reversal invariant but parity breaking.
The Landau level problem for Dirac fermions is a square-root problem of
the non-relativistic one, corresponding to complex quaternions.
The zeroth Landau level states are a flat band of half-fermion
Jackiw-Rebbi zero modes.
It is at the interface between condensed matter and high energy
physics, related to a new type of anomaly.
Unlike parity anomaly and chiral anomaly studied in field theory
in which Dirac fermions are coupled to gauge fields through
the minimal coupling, here Dirac fermions are coupled to background
fields in a non-minimal way.
I speculate that high-dimensional Landau levels could provide a platform
for exploring interacting topological states in high dimensions - due
to the band flatness, and also the quaternionic analyticity of lowest
Landau level wavefunctions.
It would stimulate the developments of various theoretical and
numerical methods.
This would be an important direction in both condensed matter physics
and mathematical physics for studying high
dimensional topological states for both
non-relativistic and relativistic fermions.
This research also provides interesting applications of quaternion
analysis in theoretical physics.
\section{Acknowledgments}
I thank Yi Li for collaborations on this set of works on high-dimensional topological states and for bringing in interesting concepts including the quaternionic analyticity.
I also thank J. E. Hirsch for stimulating discussions, and S. C. Zhang,
T. L. Ho, E. H. Fradkin, S. Das Sarma, F. D. M. Haldane, and C. N. Yang for their warm encouragements and appreciations.
| $\partial_t^2$.
In fact, Schr\"oedinger attempted to eliminate $i$ in his equation,
but did not succeed.
Hence, to a certain extent, $i$, or, the complex phase, is more
important than $\hbar$
in quantum physics.
\subsection{Quaternion and quaternoinic analyticity}
Since 2D rotations can be elegantly described by
the multiplication of complex numbers.
It is reasonable to expect that 3D rotations could
also be described in a similar way by extending complex numbers
to include the 3rd dimension.
Simply adding another imaginary unit $j$ to construct $x+yi+zj$ does not
work, since the product of two imaginary units
$ij\neq i \neq j \neq \pm 1$.
It has to be a new imaginary unit defined as $k=ij$, and then
the quaternion is constructed as,
\begin{eqnarray}
q=x+yi+zj+uk.
\end{eqnarray}
The quaternion algebra,
\begin{eqnarray}
i^2=j^2=k^2=ijk=-1,
\label{eq:quaternion}
\end{eqnarray}
was invented by Hamilton in 1843 when he passed the Brougham bridge
in Dublin (See Fig. \ref{fig:quaternion}.).
He realized in a genius way that the product table of the imaginary
units cannot be commutative.
In fact, it can be derived based on Eq. \ref{eq:quaternion}
that $i$, $j$, and $k$ anti-commute with one another, {\it i.e.},
\begin{eqnarray}
ij=-ji, \ \ \, jk=-kj, \ \ \, ki=-ik.
\end{eqnarray}
This is the first non-commutative division algebra discovered,
and actually it was constructed before the invention of the concept of
matrix.
In modern languages, quaternion imaginary units are isomorphic to
Pauli matrices $-i\sigma_1, -i\sigma_2, -i\sigma_3$.
\begin{figure}
\centering\psfig{file=quaternion.eps,width=\linewidth, angle=0}
\caption{The quaternion plaque on Brougham Bridge, Dublin.
From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History\_of\_quaternions
}
\label{fig:quaternion}
\end{figure}
Hamilton employed quaternions to describe the 3D rotations.
Essentially he used the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ spinor representation:
Consider a 3D rotation $R$ around the axis along the direction
of $\hat \Omega$ and the rotation angle is $\gamma$.
Define a unit imaginary quaternion,
\begin{eqnarray}
\omega(\hat\Omega)=i\sin\theta\cos\phi+j\sin\theta\sin\phi
+k\cos\theta,
\end{eqnarray}
where $\theta$ and $\phi$ are the
polar and azimuthal angles of $\hat\Omega$.
Then a unit quaternion associated with such a rotation
is defined as
\begin{eqnarray}
q=\cos\frac{\gamma}{2}+\omega(\hat\Omega)\sin\frac{\gamma}{2},
\end{eqnarray}
which is essentially an SU(2) matrix.
A 3D vector $\vec r$ is mapped to an imaginary quaternion
$r=xi+yj+zk$.
After the rotation, $\vec r$ is transformed to $\vec r'$,
and its quaternion form is
\begin{eqnarray}
r'= q r q^{-1}.
\label{eq:3Drotation}
\end{eqnarray}
This expression defines the homomorphism from SU(2) to SO(3).
In fact, using quaternions to describe rotation is
more efficient than using the 3D orthogonal matrix,
hence, quaternions are widely used in computer graphics
and aerospace engineering even today.
If set $\vec r =\hat z$ in Eq. \ref{eq:3Drotation}, and
let $q$ run over unit quaternions, which span the $S^3$ sphere,
then a mapping from $S^3$ to $S^2$ is defined as
\begin{eqnarray}
n=qkq^{-1},
\end{eqnarray}
which is the 1st Hopf map.
Hamilton spent the last 20 years of his life to promote
quaternions.
His ambition was to invent quaternion analysis which could
be as powerful as complex analysis.
Unfortunately, this was not successful because of the
non-commutative nature of quaternions.
Nevertheless, Fueter found the analogy to the Cauchy-Riemann
condition for quaternion analysis \cite{sudbery1979,frenkel2008}.
Consider a quaternionically valued function $f(x,y,z,u)$:
It is quaternionic analytic if it satisfies the following
Cauchy-Riemann-Fueter condition,
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}
+i\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}
+j\frac{\partial f}{\partial z}
+k\frac{\partial f}{\partial u}
\label{eq:quater_ana}
=0.
\end{eqnarray}
Eq. \ref{eq:quater_ana} is the left-analyticity condition since
imaginary units are multiplied from the left.
A right-analyticity condition can also be similarly defined in which imaginary
units are multiplied from the right.
The left one is employed throughout this article
for consistency.
For a quaternionic analytic function, the analogy to the Cauchy integral is
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{1}{2\pi^2} \oiiint \frac{1}{|q-q_0|^2 (q-q_0)} Dq f(q)=f(q_0),
\label{eq:quater_cauchy}
\end{eqnarray}
where the integral is over a closed three-dimensional volume surrounding
$q_0$.
The measure of the volume element is,
\begin{eqnarray}
D(q)&=&dy\wedge dz\wedge du-idx\wedge dz\wedge du \nonumber \\
&+& jdx\wedge dy\wedge du
-kdx\wedge dy\wedge dz,
\end{eqnarray}
and $K(q)$ is the four-dimensional Green's function,
\begin{eqnarray}
K(q)=\frac{1}{q|q|^2}=\frac{x-yi-zj-uk}{(x^2+y^2+z^2+u^2)^2}.
\end{eqnarray}
There have also been considerable efforts in formulating quantum mechanics
and quantum field theory based on quaternions instead of complex numbers
\cite{finkelstein1962,adler1995}.
Quaternions are also used to formulate the Laughlin-like wavefunctions
in the 2D fractional quantum Hall physics \cite{balatsky1992}.
As discussed in {\it ``Selected Papers (1945-1980)
of Chen Ning Yang with Commentary"} \cite{yang2005}, C. N. Yang speculated that
quaternion quantum theory would be a major revolution to physics,
mostly based on the viewpoint of non-Abelian gauge theory.
He wrote, ``{\it... I continue to believe that the basic direction
is right.
There must be an explanation for the existence of SU(2) symmetry:
Nature, we have repeatedly learned, does not do random things at the
fundamental level.
Furthermore, the explanation is most likely in quaternion algebra:
its symmetry is exactly SU(2).
Besides, the quaternion algebra is a beautiful structure.
Yes, it is noncommutative.
But we have already learned that nature chose noncommutative algebra
as the language of quantum mechanics.
How could she resist using the only other possible nice algebra as
the language to start all the complex symmetries that she
built into the universe?"}
\section{Complex analyticity and two-dimensional Landau level}
\label{sect:2Dlandau}
In this section, I recapitulate the basic knowledge of the 2D Landau level problem,
including both the non-relativistic Schr\"odinger equation
in Sect. \ref{sect:2DSch} and the Dirac equation in Sect. \ref{sect:2DDirac}.
I explain the complex analyticity of the 2D lowest Landau level
wavefunctions.
\subsection{2D Landau level for non-relativistic electrons}
\label{sect:2DSch}
\begin{figure}
\centering\epsfig{file=spec_2DSHO.eps,clip=1,width=0.8\linewidth,angle=0}
\hspace{10mm}
\centering\epsfig{file=spec_3DQH.eps,clip=1,width=0.7\linewidth,angle=0}
\caption{
A) The energy level diagram of 2D harmonic oscillators v.s. the magnetic
quantum number $m$. The states along
the tilted lines are reorganized into the 2D flat Landau levels.
B) The eigenstates of the 3D harmonic oscillator labeled by total angular
momentum $j_\pm=l\pm \frac{1}{2}$
Following the tilted solid (dashed) lines, these states are reorganized
into the 3D Landau level sates with the positive (negative) helicity
for $H^\pm_{3D,symm}$, respectively.
(From Ref.\cite{li2013}).
}
\label{fig:spectra}
\end{figure}
The reason that the 2D Landau level wavefunctions are so interesting
is that their elegancy.
The external magnetic field reorganizes harmonic oscillator wavefunctions
to yield analytic properties.
To be concrete, the Hamiltonian for a 2D electron moving in an
external magnetic field $B$ reads,
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{2D,sym}=\frac{(\vec P -\frac{q}{c}\vec A)^2}{2M}.
\label{eq:2DLL}
\end{eqnarray}
In the symmetric gauge, i.e., $A_x=-\frac{1}{2}By$ and
$A_y=\frac{1}{2}Bx$, the 2D rotational symmetry is explicit.
The diamagnetic $A^2$-term gives rise to the harmonic potential, and
the cross term becomes the orbital Zeeman term.
Then Eq. \ref{eq:2DLL} can be reformulated as
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{2D,sym}= \frac{P_x^2+P_y^2}{2M}+\frac{1}{2} M \omega_0^2 (x^2+y^2)
- \omega_0 L_z,
\label{eq:2D_symm}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\omega_0$ is half of the cyclotron frequency $\omega_c$;
$\omega_c=qB/(Mc)$ and $qB>0$ is assumed.
Eq. \ref{eq:2D_symm} can also be interpreted as the Hamiltonian of a
rotating 2D harmonic potential, which is how the Landau level
Hamiltonian is realized in cold atom systems.
Since these the harmonic potential and orbital Zeeman term commute
with each other, the Landau level wavefunctions are just
wavefunctions of 2D harmonic oscillators.
In Fig. \ref{fig:spectra} A), the spectra of the 2D harmonic
oscillator {\it v.s.} the magnetic quantum number $m$ are plotted,
exhibiting a linear dependence on $m$ as $E_{n_r,m}=\hbar \omega_0 (2n_r+m+1)$
where $n_r$ is the radial quantum number.
If we view this diagram horizontally, they are with finite degeneracies
exhibiting a trivial topology.
But if they are viewed along the diagonal direction, they become
Landau levels.
This reorganization is due to the orbital Zeeman term, which
also disperses linearly $E_{Z}=-m\hbar\omega_0$.
It cancels the same linear dispersion of the 2D harmonic oscillator,
such that the Landau level energies become flat.
The wavefunctions of the lowest Landau level states with $n_r=0$
are $\psi_{LLL,m}(z)=z^m e^{-|z|^2/(4l_B^2)}$ with $m\ge 0$, where
the magnetic length $l_B=\sqrt{\hbar c/(qB)}$.
Now we impose the complex analyticity, i.e., the Cauchy-Riemann condition,
to select a subset of harmonic oscillator wavefunctions.
Physically it is implemented by the magnetic field.
It just means that the cyclotron motion is chiral.
After suppressing the Gaussian factor, the lowest Landau level
wavefunction is simply,
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_{LLL}(z)=f(z),
\end{eqnarray}
which has a one-to-one correspondence to a complex analytic function.
In fact, the complex analyticity greatly facilitated the
construction of the many-body Laughlin wavefunctions \cite{laughlin1983},
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_L(z_1,...,z_n)=\Pi_{i<j} (z_i-z_j)^3
e^{-\sum_i\frac{|z_i|^2}{4l^2_b}},
\label{eq:laughlin}
\end{eqnarray}
which is actually analytic in terms of multi-complex variables.
Along the edge of a 2D Landau level system, the bulk flat states
change to 1D dispersive chiral edge modes.
They satisfy the chiral wave equation \cite{girvin1999},
\begin{eqnarray}
\Big(\frac{1}{v_f}\frac{\partial }{\partial t} -
\frac{\partial }{\partial x}
\Big) \psi (x,t)=0,
\label{eq:chiraledge}
\end{eqnarray}
where $v_f$ is the Fermi velocity.
\subsection{2D Landau level for Dirac fermions}
\label{sect:2DDirac}
The is essentially a square-root problem of the Landau level
Hamiltonian of a Schr\"odinger fermion in Eq. \ref{eq:2DLL}.
The Hamiltonian reads \cite{semenoff1984},
\begin{eqnarray}
H^{D}_{2D}=l_0\omega \Big\{(p_x - A_x) \sigma_x+(p_y -A_y) \sigma_y \Big\},
\end{eqnarray}
where $A_x=-\frac{1}{2}By$, $A_y=\frac{1}{2}Bx$,
$l_0=\sqrt{\frac{2\hbar c}{|qB|}}$, and
$\omega=\frac{|qB|}{2mc}$.
It can be recast in the form of
\begin{eqnarray}
H_{2D}^{D}=\frac{ \hbar \omega}{\sqrt 2} \left[
\begin{array}{cc}
0& a_y^\dagger + ia_x^\dagger \\
a_y -i a_x & 0
\end{array}
\right],
\label{eq:2DLL_harm}
\end{eqnarray}
where $a_i=\frac{1}{\sqrt 2}(x_i/l_0+ip_i l_0/\hbar)$
$(i=x,y)$ are the phonon annihilation operators.
The square of Eq. \ref{eq:2DLL_harm} is reduced to the Landau level
Hamiltonian of a Schr\"odinger fermion with a supersymmetric structure
as
\begin{eqnarray}
(H_{2D}^{D})^2/(\frac{1}{2}\hbar \omega)=\left[
\begin{array}{cc}
H_{2D,sym}-\frac{1}{2}\hbar\omega&0\\
0& H_{2D,sym}+\frac{1}{2}\hbar\omega
\end{array} \right], \nonumber
\\
\end{eqnarray}
where $H_{2D,sym}$ is given in Eq. \ref{eq:2D_symm}.
The spectra of Eq. \ref{eq:2DLL_harm} are $E_{\pm n}=\pm \sqrt n\hbar\omega$
where $n$ is the Landau level index.
The zeroth Landau level states are singled out:
Only the upper component of their wavefunctions is nonzero,
\begin{eqnarray}
\Psi_{2D,LLL}^D(z)=\left( \begin{array}{c}
\psi_{LLL}(z)\\
0
\end{array}
\right).
\end{eqnarray}
$\psi_{LLL}(z)$ is the 2D lowest Landau level wavefunctions of the Schr\"odinger equation, which is complex analytic.
Other Landau levels with positive and negative energies distribute symmetrically around the zero energy.
Due to the particle-hole symmetry, each state of the zeroth Landau level
is a half-fermion Jackiw-Rebbi mode \cite{jackiw1976,heeger1988}.
When the chemical potential $\mu$ approaches $0^\pm$,
the zeroth Landau level is fully occupied, or, empty, respectively.
The corresponding electromagnetic response is,
\begin{eqnarray}
j_\mu=\pm\frac{1}{8\pi}\frac{q^2}{\hbar}
\epsilon_{\mu\nu\lambda} F_{\nu\lambda},
\label{eq:panomaly}
\end{eqnarray}
known as the 2D parity anomaly
\cite{redlich1984,redlich1984a,semenoff1984,niemi1986},
where $\pm$ refer to $\mu=0^\pm$, respectively.
The two spatial components of Eq. \ref{eq:panomaly} are just the half-quantized quantum Hall conductance, and the temporal component is the half-quantized
Streda formula \cite{streda1982}.
\section{3D Landau level and quaternionic analyticity}
\label{sect:3DLL}
We have seen the close connection between complex analyticity and
2D topological states.
In this section, we discuss how to construct high-dimensional
topological states in flat spaces based on
quaternionic analyticity.
\subsection{3D Landau level Hamiltonian}
Our strategy is based on high-dimensional harmonic oscillator
wavefunctions.
Again we need to select a subset of them for non-trivial topological
properties:
{\it The selection criterion is quaternionic analyticity,
and physically it is imposed by spin-orbit coupling.}
The physical picture of the 3D Landau level wavefunctions in the symmetric-like gauge is intuitively presented in
Fig. \ref{fig:3DLL} (A).
It generalizes the fixed complex plane in the 2D Landau level
problem to a moving frame embedded in 3D.
Define a frame with the orthogonal axes $\hat e_1$, $\hat e_2$,
and $\hat e_3$, and the complex analytic wavefunctions are defined
in the $\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$ plane with spin polarized along the
$\hat e_3$ direction.
Certainly this frame can be rotated to an arbitrary configuration.
The same strategy can be applied to any high dimensions.
\begin{figure}
\centering\epsfig{file=orbital.eps,clip=1,width=0.5\linewidth,angle=0}
\hspace{20mm}
\centering\epsfig{file=spec_edge_b_label.eps,clip=1,width=0.6\linewidth,angle=0}
\caption{
A) The coherent state picture for 3D lowest Landau level
wavefunctions based on Eq. \ref{eq:3Dcoherent}.
$\hat e_1$-$\hat e_2$-$\ | 4,455 |
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'''* Book: Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. Douglas Rushkoff. OR Books, 2010.'''
=Introduction=
Here is what Douglas writes about his motivation for reading the book:
"As I was shooting the Frontline documentary Digital Nation, about the ways in which technology is changing the way people think and act, I realized we were all missing the point. Technologies don't change people; people use technologies to change one another.
I see the swath of books coming out from my peers, each one trying to determine whether the net makes us smarter or dumber, and I see them all falling into one extreme or another – either shunning the net entirely, or demanding we all migrate to the digital realm and not look back. The best of them call for some sort of balancing act, where we walk a middle path between techno-utopianism and dystopianism.
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Instead of looking at whether this stuff is so "good" or so "bad," I want us to start looking at the particular biases of the technologies we are using. How do they lean? What sorts of behaviors do our programs encourage or discourage?
Only then can we begin to judge one another on how we're choosing to use this stuff, and whether we should be using it differently.
That's why I wrote this book, looking at how the digital environments we're creating together (or having created for us by companies we don't know) influence our choices and behaviors. For a technology as biased toward p2p exchange of ideas and values as this one, the net is nonetheless moving increasingly toward centralized control and the support of traditional monopolies – even as they pretend to be promoting p2p. It's time we move it consciously in the other direction.
To that end, I'm releasing this book through an independent publisher so that it costs about half of what it would cost through traditional top-down publishers, and I'm donating 10% of my proceeds to WikiMedia and Archive.org."
* Book: Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. Douglas Rushkoff. OR Books, 2010.
"Our screens are the windows through which we are experiencing, organizing, and interpreting the world in which we live. They are also the interfaces through which we express who we are and what we believe to everyone else. They are fast becoming the boundaries of our perceptual and conceptual apparatus; the edge between our nervous systems and everyone else's, our understanding of the world and the world itself. And they have been created entirely by us.
But -- just as we do with religion, law, and almost every other human invention -- we tend to relate to digital technology as a pre-existing condition of the universe. We think of our technologies in terms of the applications they offer right out of the box instead of how we might change them or even write new ones. We are content to learn what our computers already do instead of what we can make them do.
This isn't even the way a kid naturally approaches a video game. Sure, a child may play the video game as it's supposed to be played for a few dozen or hundred hours. When he gets stuck, what does he do? He goes online to find the "cheat codes" for the game. Now, with infinite ammunition or extra-strength armor, he can get through the entire game. Is he still playing the game? Yes, but from outside the confines of the original rules. He's gone from player to cheater.
After that, if he really likes the game, he goes back online to find the modification kit -- a simple set of tools that lets a more advanced user change the way the game looks and feels. So instead of running around in a dungeon fighting monsters, a kid might make a version of the game where players run around in a high school fighting their teachers -- much to the chagrin of parents and educators everywhere. He uploads his version of the game to the Internet, and watches with pride as dozens or even hundreds of other kids download and play his game, and then comment about it on gamers' bulletin boards. The more open it is to modification, the more consistent software becomes with the social bias of digital media.
Finally, if the version of the game that kid has developed is popular and interesting enough, he just may get a call from a gaming company looking for new programmers. Then, instead of just creating his own components for some other programmer's game engine, he will be ready to build his own.
These stages of development -- from player to cheater to modder to programmer -- mirror our own developing relationship to media through the ages. In preliterate civilizations, people attempted to live their lives and appease their gods with no real sense of the rules. They just did what they could, sacrificing animals and even children along the way to appease the gods they didn't understand. The invention of text gave them a set of rules to follow -- or not. Now, everyone was a cheater to some extent, at least in that they had the choice of whether to go by the law, or to evade it. With the printing press came writing. The Bible was no longer set in stone, but something to be changed. Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses, the first great "mod" of Catholicism and later, nations rewrote their histories by launching their revolutions.
Finally, the invention of digital technology gives us the ability to program: to create self-sustaining information systems, or virtual life. These are technologies that carry on long after we've created them, making future decisions without us. The digital age includes robotics, genetics, nanotechnology, and computer programs -- each capable of self-regulation, self-improvement, and self-perpetuation. They can alter themselves, create new versions of themselves, and even collaborate with others. They grow. These are not just things you make and use. These are emergent forms that are biased toward their own survival. Programming in a digital age means determining the codes and rules through which our many technologies will build the future -- or at least how they will start out.
The problem is that we haven't actually seized the capability of each great media age. We have remained one dimensional leap behind the technology on offer. Before text, only the Pharaoh could hear the words of the gods. After text, the people could gather in the town square and hear the word of God read to them by a rabbi. But only the rabbi could read the scroll. The people remained one stage behind their elite. After the printing press a great many people<|fim_middle|> that have the potential to reshape our economy, our ecology, and our society more profoundly and intentionally than ever before in our collective history. As biologists now understand, our evolution as a species was not a product of random chance, but the forward momentum of matter and life seeking greater organization and awareness. This is not a moment to relinquish our participation in that development, but to step up and bring our own sense of purpose to the table. It is the moment we have been waiting for." (http://www.realitysandwich.com/program_or_be_programmed)
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Retrieved from "https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Program_or_Be_Programmed&oldid=44045" | learned to read, but only an elite with access to the presses had the ability to write. People didn't become authors; they became the gaming equivalent of the "cheaters" who could now read the Bible for themselves and choose which laws to follow.
Finally, we have the tools to program. Yet we are content to seize only the capability of the last great media renaissance, that of writing. We feel proud to build a web page or finish our profile on a social networking site, as if this means we are now full-fledged participants in the cyber era. We remain unaware of the biases of the programs in which we are participating, as well as the ways they circumscribe our newfound authorship within their predetermined agendas. Yes, it is a leap forward, at least in the sense that we are now capable of some active participation, but we may as well be sending text messages to the producers of a TV talent show, telling them which of their ten contestants we think sings the best. Such are the limits of our interactivity when the ways in which we are allowed to interact have been programmed for us in advance.
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less. We end up at the mercy of voting machines with "black box" technologies known only to their programmers, whose neutrality we must accept on faith. We become dependent on search engines and smart phones developed by companies we can only hope value our productivity over their bottom lines. We learn to socialize and make friends through interfaces and networks that may be more dedicated to finding a valid advertising model than helping us find one another.
Yet again, we have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing presses by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest. We are too busy wading through our overflowing inboxes to consider how they got this way, and whether there's a better or less frantic way to stay informed and in touch. We are intimidated by the whole notion of programming, seeing it as a chore for mathematically inclined menials than a language through which we can re-create the world on our own terms.
We're not just building cars or televisions sets -- devices that, if we later decide we don't like, we can choose not to use. We're tinkering with the genome, building intelligent machines, and designing nanotechnologies that will continue where we leave off. The biases of the digital age will not just be those of the people who programmed it, but of the programs, machines, and life-forms they have unleashed. In the short term, we are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively. Other societies, such as China, where programming is more valued, seem destined to surpass us -- unless, of course, the other forms of cultural repression in force there offset their progress as technologists. We shall see. Until push comes to shove and geopolitics force us to program or perish, however, we will likely content ourselves with the phone apps and social networks on offer. We will be driven toward the activities that help distract us from the coming challenges -- or stave them off -- rather than the ones that encourage us to act upon them.
But futurism is not an exact science, particularly where technology is concerned. In most cases, the real biases of a technology are not even known until that technology has had a chance to exist and replicate for a while. Technologies created for one reason usually end up having a very different use and effect. The "missed call" feature on cell phones ended up being hacked to give us text messaging. Personal computers, once connected to phone lines, ended up becoming more useful as Internet terminals. Our technologies only submit to our own needs and biases once we hack them in one way or another. We are in partnership with our digital tools, teaching them how to survive and spread by showing them how they can serve our own intentions. We do this by accepting our roles as our programs' true users, rather than subordinating ourselves to them and becoming the used.
In the long term, if we take up this challenge, we are looking at nothing less than the conscious, collective intervention of human beings in their own evolution. It's the opportunity of a civilization's lifetime. Shouldn't more of us want to participate actively in this project?
Digital technologies are different. They are not just objects, but systems embedded with purpose. They act with intention. If we don't know how they work, we won't even know what they want. The less involved and aware we are of the way our technologies are programmed and program themselves, the more narrow our choices will become; the less we will be able to envision alternatives to the pathways described by our programs; and the more our lives and experiences will be dictated by their biases.
On the other hand, the more humans become involved in their design, the more humanely inspired these tools will end up behaving. We are developing technologies and networks | 1,051 |
Tim Branco February 12, 2010
To golfers Florida is a wonderful place to live or visit or watch their favorite professionals tee it up and with more than 1,200 golf facilities the state has the largest golf economy in the country. It is instructive to look at the numbers of this $7.5 billion Florida golf economy as much for what they tell us as what they do not. The numbers and a couple of related points are particularly important for those who love golf to understand in light of the disingenuous image of the game as a "rich man's sport' being pushed by politicians with other agendas.
During the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla. last month two items on the agenda has particular significance. First the Florida Golf Impact Task Force showed the golf industry as a major employer which generates in the Sunshine State a significant amount of revenue for hotels, restaurants and other tourist related businesses. Second, with truly long range national significance was the announcement of WE ARE GOLF by four golf organizations to improve golf's image in the eyes of national leaders.
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Amputee Golf Association Welcomes All With Disabilities
timonty branco February 8, 2010
The National Amputee Golf Association, (NAGA) announced today that its Board of Trustees has elected to include a division for for men and women with disabilities other than a major joint amputation to be able to compete in both the annual NAGA National Championship tournament for golfers of any age, and the Senior National Championship for golfers over fifty years of age.
Tom Watson is a 60 year old stud
jeff palopoli February 8, 2010
Last July at the 2009 British Open, Tom Watson reminded us that age is just a number. He came within just one misjudged club selection of raising the Claret Jug. Watson was thinking about hitting a 9-iron from the middle of the fairway, but then settled on an 8-iron. The ball soared right at the flag, then bounced hard and fast over the back of the green. His putt back up the slope ran 8 feet past the hole. We all know if that ball stopped a foot or two short he'd be heading to St. Andrews this year as the reigning British Open Champion. Unfortunately that didn't happen. But that hasn't stopped Watson from playing great golf well in to his "senior years".
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Ryder Cup Captain Pavin chooses his assistants
Yesterday Ryder Cup Captain, Cory Pavin, announced the selections for his assistant captains for the 2010 Ryder Cup. The Ryder Cup will be played October 1-3 in Wales. For the first time in a while, the<|fim_middle|>itt makes comments regarding Tiger Woods, his self-centered behavior and how in part sports fans were "enablers" for Woods.
Is Phil Mickelson Cheating?
jeff palopoli January 29, 2010
It seems our good friend Phil, or as some are calling him this week, "The Tour Savior" is ruffling some feathers already after only being back for a total of 18 holes. Phil has decided to put in to play a Ping wedge that falls through the loophole of the new groove rule that was put in to effect this year. A couple weeks ago at the Sony Open we saw John Daly and Dean Wilson already take advantage of this loophole putting 20 year old wedges in play.
PGA Merchandise Show Report: Williams $50,000 set
Tim Branco January 27, 2010
Williams Formula One is a big name in that sport and now the company, Williams Sports has jumped into golf in what might be called a big way with a $50,000 set of clubs. Yes, that's not a misprint and presumably they are not anticipating selling a bunch of sets at the local muni. | U.S. team is the defending champion after beating Europe in 2008 at Valhalla.
Tiger Woods returning: maybe
Tim Branco February 4, 2010
In spite of reports the missing Tiger Woods will return to PGA Tour competition at the Accenture Match Play Championship in two weeks, don't count on it. The original news story appeared in an Australian newspaper yesterday and was subsequently picked up by other news outlets.
Absent Tiger Woods puts grooves center stage
At last week's PGA Merchandise Show two topics dominated many conversations with the first being the Tiger Woods debacle. His fall from grace and his return to the PGA Tour was discussed endlessly with a significant minority raising the question of "if he will return" rather than "when." However, since speculation is at best only grist for tabloids, the second and less sensational topic was the controversy over the groove change imposed on short irons.
Observations from the Farmers Insurance Open
While following the Farmers Insurance Open this past week and weekend I couldn't help but notice a few things I felt the need to point out.
Tiger Woods: No slack
In this morning's Global Golf Post, editor Brian Hew | 245 |
The Child, Том 8
"MUSCATOL." Open-air life has many benefits : it is rich in forces for the maintenance of health and agencies for recovery from disease. In the up-building of delicate and sick children the application of outdoor methods has accomplished much. Among all ranks of society and subjects of every age the benefits of open-air treatment and a hygienically directed out-door life are becoming understood. But it cannot be denied that there are certain drawbacks to a regular conduct of the open-air life, and chief among these are the discomforts and disorders arising from the onslaughts of mosquitoes, midges, gnats, harvesters' and other biting and blood-sucking invaders. Children in sanatoria and open-air schools often suffer much, and many boys and girls when camping out or engaged in outdoor work or games fall victims. In some adults the lesions resulting from insect bites are most painful, and sometimes really serious. We have investigated many of the numerous preparations which have been introduced for combating mosquitoes and like invaders, and amongst them all there is one which for convenience and reliability must be given premier place. It is known as MUSCATOL, and is prepared by Mr. Frank A. Rogers, the well-known pharmacist of 327, Oxford Street, London, W.1. This preparation is a colourless liquid with a pleasant scent, free from oil or grease, and as clean as eau de cologne. Muscatol can be sprinkled or sprayed on to exposed parts, but for the protection of young children, it is best applied by means of a small tuft of cotton-wool moistened with the preparation. Muscatol is supplied in small bottles of convenient size and at varying prices. This excellent anti-fly application only needs to be used to be appreciated. The sphere of beneficent influence of this serviceable preparation is
YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND TO-MORROW.
Under this general heading appear miscellaneous notes and records of current events and other topics relating to child welfare, and to this section it is earnestly hoped readers of this Journal will contribute
" THE CHILD."
THE CHILD with the present issue completes its eighth year. THE CHILD was conceived and born in the long-ago days of peace and seeming prosperity, but more than half its life has been lived in a. of war.
THE CHILD occupies an unique position among medical and educational journals. It is the organ of no special school or institution. It has no particular axe to grind, and no definite tenets or dogmas to hold and support. Its aim is the furtherance of all scientifically planned and rationally conducted enterprises and efforts striving for human betterment by the establishment and maintenance of principles and practices of child welfare. THE CHILD is essentially a medico-sociological and medicoeducational journal, primarily intended for medical advisers and practical educationists engaged in work for maternity and child welfare. With the coming of war many difficulties have had to be faced. The perplexities and obstacles have steadily increased, but so far they have been successfully overcome.
The cost of production has increased enormously, and expenses in connection with all departments have multiplied to such an extent as to threaten the very existence of the journal. In spite of all, however, we have been able to hold on, and with the support and encouragement of our many friends we trust to weather all the storms. We take this opportunity of expressing sincere thanks to all our contributors and subscribers, for it is through their practical sympathy and generous assistance that the journal has been enabled to continue its work, which is now recognized as an enterprise of national importance. The increasing pressure of war conditions has made it necessary to diminish somewhat the size of the journal, and our exchange and free lists have had to be seriously curtailed. Through the generosity of several friends of child welfare work we have been enabled to send regu
larly copies of THE CHILD to a number of superintendents and responsible workers in connection with certain homes and orphanages and other educational enterprises. This form of educational endeavour we are most anxious to extend. We earnestly invite all interested in<|fim_middle|> at infant welfare centres has indicated no ground for these fears; but as an extra precaution to avoid the possibility of scurvy, and particularly if the use of dried milk is to be continued for a long time, a little fruit juice, such as orange or grape juice, may be given to the baby one or twice a week. Dried milk is also a valuable food for nursing mothers. In a very large number of towns dried milk for baby feeding is supplied from infant welfare centres, at which advice is also given as to the method of preparing and using the food. Where any difficulty is experienced in obtaining supplies of dried milk for infant feeding, information can be obtained by application to the medical officer of health."
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COMING EVENTS. The National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality, whose previous fifteen courses of lectures on mothercraft have proved so popular, is now organizing autumn courses, which are to be given in London, Nottingham and Swansea. The London course will be held at 1, Wimpole Street, on Mordars, | improving services for child welfare to operate in providing for an extension of the plan to distribute free copies of the journal to those who are not in a position to become regular subscribers.
We are most anxious that a copy of THE CHILD should be available in every public library in the country. We are desirous also that the Directories published each month in the journal should be extended. It will be of considerable advantage to all if supporters of child welfare work can arrange for those homes, orphanages, schools and other institutions and organizations in which they are interested to have place month by month in the Directories appearing in THE CHILD. Entry is free to subscribers. At a time when increasing attention is being given to schemes for child welfare it is essential that organizers and administrators should be acquainted with experiments and enterprises which are now being carried out in various parts of this country and in America. THE CHILD seeks to keep its readers in touch with all forms of progressive work mak. ing for child betterment. A few sets of the eight volumes of THE CHILD are still available and form a veritable encyclopædia of child welfare service. Applications for these should be made at once to the publishers. These volumes might well have a permanent place in all reference libraries in Great Britain and America. THE CHILD looks forward to increasing service in the cause it seeks to serve; and we count on continued sympathy and support from contributors and subscribers, so that in the coming year of the journals existence we may grow in wisdom and power, and may thus be better fitted to co-operate with the many and various forces now striving for the establishment of justice, liberty and righteousness on earth, and for the establishment of truth and freedom among the children of men.
THE EDUCATION ACT, 1918.
and nursing mothers and for children under 5 years of age; crèches and day nurseries; convalescent homes; homes for the children of widowed and deserted mothers and for illegitimate children; and experimental work for the health of expectant and nursing mothers, and of infants and children under 5 years of age. It should be noted also that in certain other respects the scope of the grant has been enlarged.
The greatest reform measure of modern times is now an accomplished fact. The Education Act, 1918, received the Royal Assent on Thursday, August 8. The same day the Board of Education issued an Order fixing the first appointed day under Sub-section (3) of Section 52 of the Act. It now rests with the people of England and Wales to use this instrument for educational progress and human betterment to the full extent of its farreaching powers. In the Times Educational Supplement for August 8, the full text of the Act was reproduced. The National Education Association, Caxton House, Westminster, S.W.1, have issued in convenient pamphlet form an excellent abstract and epitome : "The Education Act, 1918, Summarized and Explained" (price 6d.). Educationists would be well advised to procure these publications and keep them for reference. Every effort must now be made to educate the people for education.
MATERNITY AND CHILD
WELFARE.
THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN. The Cambridge University Press have recently issued a striking History of England in four volumes under the general title of " The Story of the People of Britain." The series seeks to provide manuals for school children which will give a consecutive account of the fortunes, adventures, and progress of the British people from the time of Julius Cæsar up to the present time. The everyday life of men and women in all classes of society and in various parts of the British Isles is most picturesquely and accurately depicted. The doings of monarchs, and the course of battles and the effects of treaties are referred to in the narrative, but mainly only to indicate how the people as a whole are affected either for good or ill. Only short lists of dates are presented, and just sufficient to prevent any chronological confusion arising in the mind of the young scholar. Special praise must be given for the Splendid collection of illustrations which illuminate these pages. Many contemporary prints have been reproduced, and photographs of historic relics and portraits appear. We have nothing but praise for these splendid volumes. Book I deals with the period 55 B.C. to A.D. 1485; Book II, 1485 to 1688; Book III, 1688 to 1815; and Book IV, 1815 to 1914. We hope that on an early date an additional volume may be issued which shall give to our children a reliable and reasonable history of the Great War. It should be added that in the production of the four volumes, Miss Mary Sarson, formerly Exhibitioner of Somerville College, Oxford, is responsible for Books I and II, and Miss Lucy Hanson for Books III and IV. These history handbooks will stir the imagination of Britain's sons and
A circular on " Maternity and Child Welfare" has recently been issued by the Local Government Board for England and Wales, explaining the widened powers given by the Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918, and emphasizing the necessity for efficient and immediate action. With a view to encouraging the provision of further services, which experience has shown would be of value for conserving infant lives and health, Mr. Hayes Fisher has obtained the sanction of the Treasury to a considerable extension of the scope of the Board's grant. The additional services for which the grant is now available, subject to the Board approving the arrangements, relate to hospital treatment for children up to 5 years of age; lying-in homes; home helps; the provision of food for expectant
daughters, and should awaken the true spirit of patriotism which dwells in every child's soul. The history of their country as here so effectively set forth should also go far to quicken in children an intelligent interest and participation in the state of society in which they have their lot, and to determine them in playing an honourable part in faithful service for the Commonwealth.
DRIED MILK.
The long continuance of war conditions and the difficulties in connection with the provision and transit of food have done much to focus attention on the milk problem. The recent issue of the masterly Report of Dr. F. J. H. Coutts has also directed prominent attention to the convenience, economy, hygienic and nutritive advantages of making use of dried milk. In previous issue of this journal we have directed attention to the more important conclusions presented in the official Report (New Series, No. 116, Food Reports, No. 24). The complete Report may
be obtained from His Majesty's Stationery Office. The Local Government Board have very wisely issued, in four-page tract form, a summary of such essentials of Dr. Coutts's report as should be known by every careful housewife. In order to bring this valuable information before the notice of many taking an active part in practical measures for the furtherance of child welfare we venture to reproduce the official résumé. During coming months it seems very probable that in many parts of the country unsurmountable difficulties will be experienced in regard to the supply of an abundance of pure®milk for children. It is reassuring to know that dried milk will be available, and that it may be used with confidence, that it will furnish a reliable and nutritious food for infants and young children, and free from any drawbacks provided a reliable brand is used. "Dried milk or milk powder is a substance prepared from cows milk by the abstraction of almost the whole of the water so as to leave practically nothing but the solids of the milk. The product may contain varying amounts of milk fat, according as it is made from full cream milk or from milk partially or completely
skimmed. Dried milk made from full cream milk contains 26.62 per cent. of fat, 24:46 per cent of protein, 36'98 per cent. of milk sugar, 6'12 per cent. of mineral matter, and 432 per cent. of water. There are several processes for preparing dried milk, but two methods
most commonly employed : (a) by passing liquid milk over metal cylinders heated internally by steam or hot water; and (b) by spraying milk, after partial condensation, into heated air. The chief object is to obtain milk in a solid condition with as little change as possible in the milk constituents. Dried milk is a light yellowish-white powder which, when carefully prepared from good fresh milk, keeps for several weeks or months if it is kept dry. On mixing with warm water in the proportion of one part by weight of the dry powder to seven parts by weight of water (approximately one large teaspoonful of the dried milk to tablespoonfuls of water), a liquid is obtained corresponding in composition to ordinary milk, but usually having a slight boiled taste and a tendency for a little solid matter to settle and for fat to rise to the top. Dried milk as put on sale in this country comes usually under one of four classes : (1) full cream; (2) threequarter cream; (3) half cream; and (4) skimmed. Full cream dried milk for baby feeding is sometimes sold merely under this description, but certain firms supply it under special names or brands. It is most important to emphasize that babies should, wherever possible, be fed solely on their mothers' milk. If this is impossible, it is best to feed partly on the breast and partly on the bottle. No other food can really replace breast milk. If, however, an infant must be hand-fed, cows' milk in some form or other is the most satisfactory substitute usually available. Dried Milk for Feeding of Infants. -Experience during the last twelve or fourteen years shows that dried milk is one of the most satisfactory forms of cows' milk for use in the feeding of infants. It has been very largely employed in connection with infant welfare centres in England, particularly in Leicester and in Sheffield, and experience in these towns, and also in many other places, shows that a very large proportion of babies can take dried milk very well, and
that on this food they thrive and develop in a satisfactory manner. It has been found that babies digest dried milk well. Vomiting is less frequent with dried milk than with ordinary cows' milk. Fresh, clean, pure, raw cows milk is a very good food for a baby when mother's milk is not available, but unfortunately the milk ordinarily sold in towns does not conform to this description, being often far from clean and containing large numbers of germs. Such milk, especially in summer, will not keep a day without becoming sour, and is apt to cause digestive troubles in babies. Dried milk contains far fewer germs than ordinary town milk, and is less likely to contain the germs of infectious diseases. Also germs do not multiply in dried milk; they do in ordinary milk. Dried milk keeps well so long as it is kept dry. Only as much should be made up at a time as is required for one feed, and there need, therefore, be no waste. Pasteurized, sterilized, or boiled cows' milk are useful foods if properly prepared, but they have some disadvantages as compared with dried milk. In particular, they do not keep well, especially in summer. Unsweetened full cream condensed milk is also useful for baby feeding, but when mixed with water in the proportions sometimes recommended it is too weak for the satisfactory nourishment of the baby. Sweetened condensed milk is often used for baby feeding. Dried milk has the advantage, when made up with the proper proportion of water, of containing the essential food elements in a proportion more suitable for the baby than when ful cream sweetened condensed milk is used. The latter, if made up so give the right proportion of fat, has a very excessive amount of sugar. This is not good for the baby, who usually becomes fat and flabby and is liable to suffer from diseases, such as rickets, &c. These same risks attach to other infant foods containing excess of sugar.
Socalled 'malted' milks have in recent years been recommended for baby feeding. These, like sweetened condensed milks, contain much too low a proportion of fat as compared with the amount of sugar, They differ from sweetened condensed milk in the nature of the sugar. In condensed milk this is mainly cane
sugar, in malted milk it is largely malt sugar derived from the malted cereal used in its preparation. The ordinary patent infants' foods, containing large quantities of practically unaltered starch, are worse than sweetened condensed milk or malted milk. They are not fit for use for a baby under seven months of age. In view of the above considerations it is not surprising that at official infant welfare clinics dried milk is becoming used to an increasing extent as on the whole it is the most convenient and most suitable food when babies cannot get breast milk. In feeding babies on dried milk the full cream variety should alone be used, unless on the advice of a doctor. Commencing with 1 teaspoonful of dried milk in 3 tablespoonfuls of water in the first or second weeks of life, it can be rapidly increased to 1} to 2 teaspoonfuls of dried milk in 4 to 5 tablespoonfuls of water by the end of the second month, and so on to 5 teaspoonfuls of dried milk in 10 tablespoonfuls of water at the age of 5 or 6 months. Fears were at one time expressed that the use of dried milk for babies might result in scurvy or rickets. Prolonged experience | 2,836 |
I have been the Head at Bevington since September 15 and I love working here. The children and families are amazing and every day is packed. I joined the school after working in Harrow and Ealing for the last 10 years, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I also inspect for Ofsted when I have time!
My name is Mr Byrne-Smith and I am the Deputy Headteacher at Beving<|fim_middle|> Bevington Primary School, and my position allows me to offer support to children, parents and teachers. I am proud and honoured to have the opportunity to work and engage within a community which has nurtured my own schooling experience. Giving back and helping children achieve their full potential is the most rewarding part of my job.
I started at Bevington as an SEN teaching assistant and I now work in year 6. I live locally and I enjoy creative pastimes. My passions include travel and baking.
My name is Marie Kimera and I have been at Bevington since 2014. Both years I have worked in year 6 as a Teaching Assistant which has been challenging but enjoyable. This year I will be working with year 5 which will be a real change but something I am looking forward to. I am a mother of one and enjoy travelling with family and friends.
Hi my name is Belen and I joined Bevington in 2015 as a Teaching assistant. I currently work in Year 1 and help children who have just joined the school from overseas to learn English, as well as leading Spanish lessons across the school.
My name is Ayesha Ali and I am a TA in Elm Class. I have been working at Bevington Primary School since 2003. Throughout the years I have mostly worked in Early Years. I enjoy my role as a TA as it gives me great satisfaction to see the children develop in their learning. Bevington is close to my heart as I used to attend the school as a pupil. My siblings and daughter have also attended Bevington. My hobbies are cooking, baking and reading.
My name is Pat Hurley and I have worked at Bevington for over 20 years. I started as a dinner lady and now I work in year 1 and 2. I enjoy all aspects of school life and really want to help children to learn, especially through supporting them with their reading and phonics.
My name is Phoebe Clegg. I have been a teaching assistant at Bevington for many years- normally assisting in Key Stage 2. I am working in Year 3 and Year 4 this year for a change. I very much like supporting and nurturing children to achieve their full potential. I am a mother of 3 and enjoy spending time with my family.
Hi my name is Sharon. I work in Nutmeg. I love working with children and have done for the past 20 years. I think I am patient, fair and fun but also firm. I have lived in the local community all my life and have two sons who I love spending time with.
Hi my name is Christelle Pambu. I am a teaching assistant at Bevington. I have been at the school for 4 years and I am passionate about my job and I enjoy it very much. It gives me satisfaction to know that as a teaching assistant that I also contribute to children's learning and development.
My name is Belen and I support in Elm class in Early Years. I really enjoy working with young children and also being part of the PTFA as I am also a parent here at Bevington.
I am Kenza Arab and I have been working at Bevington for 12 years now and I like working with children as I am the mum of 3 children that are now adults. I enjoy teaching maths, which was a specialism when I trained. I live locally and am lucky to have a great relationship with parents because of this.
Hi my name is Fatima and I joined Bevington to work as a Special Needs Teaching Assistant. i enjoy working in Early Years and Year 1 and most recently I have started supporting a child in Year 3. I love working with all the children and learn something new from them every day.
I am a Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant at Bevington with specialist training in Speech and Language. I have been working with children for 10 years and I enjoy it very much! I also enjoy drawing, baking and spending time with my family.
Hi, my name is Johanna Fisher. I have been working as a teaching assistant since 2004. I joined Bevington in October 2015 as an SEN teaching assistant working 1-1 with children. My interests are walking, keep fit and looking after my cousins.
Hello my name is Leander and I am a teaching assistant at Bevington. I have worked here for 8 years and I support the teacher and children in my class. I have worked in all Key Stages and also with children who have Special Educational Needs which I found very rewarding. The best thing about my job is getting to see the children grow up and achieve their goals.
I am Hassiba Aissaoui. I am a Teaching Assistant at Bevington. I joined Bevington in 2011 as a Teaching Assistant. My children have attended Bevington and are now in secondary school.
I work in the office at Bevington and I have lots of different roles. I talk to lots of you on the phone and in person every day and work hard to answer all your queries. I enjoy being creative, especially with costumes and design, and I have a keen interest in magical creatures and shoes!
I started my time at Bevington working as a TA in the school and I became part of the office team full time last year. I talk regularly with lots of parents and I make sure that all the children are in school every day. I enjoy listening to music, especially Beyoncé, and I live nearby with my 2 children.
I start my day with a big smile. Cook healthy, eat healthy, live healthy. I love travelling, cooking, singing and reading.
I love my job and I enjoy reading and cooking.
I am always smiling because I enjoy cooking and feeding the children.
I like to work as a team and I love cooking and basketball.
Hi I am Aziz , I have recently joined the Kitchen staff and I really like it here. The children are very happy and they do enjoy their food.
I am a freelance teacher currently teaching at primary and upper schools across London while teaching privately in the evenings and weekends. I have a wealth of experience in teaching and as a graduate of the Royal College of Music, I've learned a thing or two, and I hope you can learn a thing or two as well as loving music in the process.
I have played in Spain and UK with International Artitsts such as Geronimo Maya, David Garcia " El Indio ," John Adeleye , Gloria Garcia , Gak Jone , David Jordan , DeeLee Dube, Natalia Vergara, Roberta de France, Carlos Paul and Frankie Negron. Currently I combine my role as a teacher, session musician, music producer and arranger, with my own project, "La senda del Loco" which is an album about to be released. | ton. I am responsible for our Curriculum and Assessment, as well as making sure that all children at Bevington are happy and safe through my role as the school's Designated Safeguarding Lead. I also teach Year 6 children Maths. I have worked in lots of different schools in my time as a teacher and my aim is using this experience to make Bevington the best school in the country.
Having been brought up in London, I moved to Brighton to study Psychology at The University of Sussex, before going on to complete a PGCE at St Mary's in Twickenham. Before starting at Bevington, I worked at a school in Hammersmith and Fulham for 6 years where I led maths and taught in both key stage 1 and 2. Currently, I am teaching in Reception (Elm Class). As well as teaching in Reception, I lead Assessment and Curriculum across the school. Outside of school, I enjoy travelling and exploring new places, baking treats for others to enjoy, reading and running.
I arrived at Bevington in July 2013 after teaching for 4 years in secondary schools around Birmingham and Worcestershire. I completed my undergraduate degree at Sheffield Hallam University and completed my PGCE at the University of Worcester. Currently, I am teaching a mixed Year 3/4 class (Sequoia Class). Away from school I enjoy spectating and participating in a wide range of sports and physical activities.
At Bevington I am responsible for standards in KS2.
It was working on a children's summer camp in America that first inspired me to become a teacher. After completing my PGCE, I spent 5 years working at a school in Tower Hamlets, before moving across London to lead Early Years at Bevington. When I'm not dancing around with tiny people at work, I can usually be found perusing bookshops for something to read. As a vegan, I love finding new places to eat, as well as experimenting with weird and wonderful recipes!
At Bevington I am the Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator (SENCO), and I also lead standards across EYFS and KS1.
I am an Assistant Headteacher and also manage Inclusion/SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability). Since starting my teaching career at Bevington in 2006, I have led music and behaviour, coordinated child protection and safe-guarding and taught across all key stages with most of my teaching experience being in year 6. I now work part time so I have more time to run around after my energetic toddler! I have a Music degree from Bristol University and still love to sing and play the piano in my free time, mostly to an audience of my husband, our son and the two cats.
My name is Hayley Murphy and I am the Premises and HR manager at Bevington. I look after building and maintenance in the school and am responsible for health and safety. I am also the lead person for HR which means I work with staffing and contracts information.
I'm Mr. Collett. I have lived in London all my life and have worked at Bevington since 2015. My favourite subjects to teach are Maths, Science and Geography. My main hobbies are football and travelling.
At Bevington, I am responsible for leading Maths.
Hi, I'm Miss Medwicz and I am currently the year five teacher at Bevington Primary. I started working at Bevington in 2014, where I started in a year four class. I lead English at Bevington. In my spare time I love to travel!
I spend my time in Oak Class where we seem to laugh a lot, as well as work hard! When I am not at Bevington you may catch me on my bike or out for a run. I love spending time with my friends and family and eating delicious food!
Hi, I started my teaching career at Bevington in 2014 and my favourite subjects to teach are Humanities, Science and Literacy. I am currently teaching year 2 and am the Science leader at the Bevington, which is a subject that I am very passionate about. In my spare time, I love travelling, baking and reading.
After studying Philosophy at the University of Birmingham I followed my passion for food and pursued a career as a professional chef where I worked for Michelin starred chef Glynn Purnell. I then returned to academia where I studied for my PGCE and am now currently studying for a master's in Education. At weekends I love playing netball and training for CrossFit and Olympic weightlifting.
At Bevington I am responsible for standards in KS1.
Having qualified at the Institute of Education, I have worked in schools across London and now love having the chance to work in my local community. As a passionate Early Years teacher, it is of the utmost importance to ensure all my pupils love learning; through play, exploration and fun, we experience the excitement of discovering new ideas and skills. I set high standards for all my pupils and encourage them to aim for the best, to learn from their mistakes and most importantly, to know and believe that they can succeed.
At Bevington, I am responsible for standards in EYFS.
I am a highly motivated and enthusiastic PE professional who has a keen interest in all things SPORT. I have a real passion for teaching and aiding children to learn new skills through fun and engaging PE lessons. I also run holiday and weekend sports clubs in my free time.
At Bevington, I am responsible for leading our PE Curriculum, and extra-curricular sports activities.
I am an energetic, highly enthusiastic and devoted individual and I love all kinds of sport. I have an enormous passion for teaching PE and providing children with new skills and achievements they can retain for life. Watching children meet and exceed their capabilities gives me a great deal of satisfaction.
My name is Tracey Simpson and I am the Safeguarding Co-ordinator at Bevington. I act as an advocate who speaks for and on behalf of our pupils. I liaise, meet and plan with other agencies and staff as required and have a responsibility for the day to day co-ordination and management of safeguarding.
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Cross-linguistic semantics – investigating how languages package deal and exhibit meanings in a different way – is principal to the linguistic quest to appreciate the character of human language. This set of reviews explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised within the usual semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework, originated by way of Anna Wierzbicka. the hole chapters supply a state of the art evaluation of the NSM version, suggest numerous theoretical techniques and improve a few unique analyses in reference to names and naming, clefts and different specificational sentences, and discourse anaphora. next chapters describe and examine different phenomena in ten languages from a number of households, geographical destinations, and cultural settings world wide. 3 enormous experiences rfile how the metalanguage of NSM semantic primes might be realised in languages of commonly differing kinds: Amharic (Ethiopia), Korean, and East Cree. every one constitutes a lexicogrammatical portrait in miniature of the language involved. different chapters probe issues resembling inalienable ownership in Koromu (Papua New Guinea), epistemic verbs in Swedish, hyperpolysemy in Bunuba (Australia), the expression of "momentariness" in Berber, ethnogeometry in<|fim_middle|> addition to its sleek descendents, through the therapy of outlined expressions. The booklet starts off via targeting the mental constraints governing Frege's concept of experience, or which means, and argues that, given those constraints, even the remedy of easy stipulative definitions led Frege to special problems.
Kempson, Ruth. 1977. Semantic Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ). 1996. The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory. Oxford: Blackwell. Lehrman, Alexander. 2006. Meaning as grammar. Language Sciences 28: 497–507. Levinson, Stephen C. 2005. Comments on Daniel L. Everett, Cultural constraints on grammar and cognition in Pirahã. Current Anthropology 46(4): 637–638. Majid, Asifa, Enfield, N. J. and van Staden, Miriam (eds). 2006. Parts of the body: Crosslinguistic categorisation. Special Issue of Language Sciences 28(2/3): 137–360.
Cognitive Linguistics 9(3): 239–282. Bohnemeyer, Jürgen. 2003. NSM without the Strong Lexicalization Hypothesis. Theoretical Linguistics [Special Issue on "Natural Semantic Metalanguage", edited by Uwe Durst] 29(3): 223–226. Brotherson, Anna. This volume. The ethnogeometry of Makasai (East Timor). ), 259–276. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Chappell, Hilary. 2002. The universal syntax of semantic primes in Mandarin Chinese. In Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings, Vol. I, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), 243–322.
Dordrecht: Reidel. Meira, Sérgio. 2006. Tiriyó body part terms. Language Sciences [Special Issue on "Parts of the body: Cross-linguistic categorisation", edited by Asifa Majid, N. J. Enfield and Miriam van Staden] 28(2/3): 262–279. Mel'čuk, Igor A. 1989. Semantic primitives from the viewpoint of the Meaning-Text Linguistic Theory. Quaderni di Semantica 10(1): 65–102. Myhill, John. 1996. Is BAD a semantic primitive: Evidence from Biblical Hebrew. Lexicology 2(2): 99–126. Peeters, Bert. ). 2006. Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar. | Makasai (East Timor), price techniques in Russian, and "virtuous feelings" in eastern. This booklet can be useful for linguists engaged on language description, lexical semantics, or the semantics of grammar, for complex scholars of linguistics, and for others drawn to language universals and language range.
This paintings offers a unified idea of point inside common Grammar. It presents an strange mixture of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic techniques to a unmarried area, and provides distinctive linguistic analyses of 5 languages with very diversified aspectual structures: English, French, Mandarin chinese language, Navajo and Russian.
During this brief monograph, John Horty explores the problems awarded for Gottlob Frege's semantic idea, in | 146 |
Castle Crashers dev working on an Xbox One game -- Check out the bizarre concept art here Updated Apr 11, 2014. XBLA critical to indie console community, says Castle Crashers dev Updated Dec 3, 2012. Castle Crashers launching on PC, Mac September 26 Updated Sep 2<|fim_middle|>3 for a number of years, but was only released on the PC THE GOOD: Castle Crashers has been a long standing top seller for the XBOX360 and PS3 for a number of years, but was only released on the PC via Steam in September. Wow, first off it's surprisingly fun and simple to play.
Castle Crashers is an Action, Adventure and RPG game for PC published by The Behemoth in 2012. Little knights are ready for the adventures! Castle Crashers PC Game 2012 Overview: The story is about four knights trying to save the princess. Attack to the castles and destroy them. Maybe you would be able to rescue princess.
Featuring hand-drawn characters, Castle Crashers delivers unique hi-res illustrated visuals like nothing you've ever seen before. Play with up to three friends locally or over Xbox LIVE and discover the mind-boggling magic and mystery in the amazing world we have created just for you.
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Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this Remastered edition of the popular 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth! At 60FPS, Castle Crashers Remastered delivers hi-res visuals like nothing you've ever seen before.
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Castle Crashers is a 2D belt-scrolling brawler developed and published by The Behemoth for the Xbox 360 (via Xbox Live Arcade on August 27, 2008), PlayStation 3 (via PlayStation Network on August 31, 2010), PC/Mac (via Steam on September 26, 2012), and Xbox One (as Castle Crashers Remastered on September 8, 2015).
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The main appeal of Castle Crashers though is the co-operative gameplay that sees gamers fighting off enemies with melee attacks, combos and magic in various stages for experience and coins. Outside the main game Castle Crashers also includes some simple minigames. | 0, 2012. Get more Castle Crashers news at GameSpot.
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Halloumi's claim to fame is that it holds its shape when grilled or fried. Preserved lemon, more intense in flavor than fresh lemon, is available in specialty food shops or can be made at home — here's our recipe.
Arrange the cheese slices in a shallow baking dish and drizzle with <|fim_middle|> chopped lemons to the vinaigrette, stir well and set aside.
Remove the cheese slices from the marinade, place them on the grill rack, and cook until the edges soften, the interior is warm and grill marks appear underneath, about 2 minutes. Turn the slices over and grill until lightly golden on the other side, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
Brush the lettuce halves with the remaining 1 Tbs. olive oil and place, cut sides down, on the grill rack. Cook until grill marks appear underneath, about 2 minutes, then transfer the lettuce to a serving platter. Top with the warm cheese and drizzle the lettuce and cheese with the vinaigrette. Garnish with the reserved lemon slices and serve immediately. Serves 4 to 6.
I have "Healthy Dish of the Day" and now it looks like I need to purchase this book from the series. Everything in that salad I love…..of course the grilling makes it modern!
This looks so delicious! I love the combination of a salad with lemon. | 1 1/2 Tbs. of the olive oil, 1/4 tsp. of the salt, 3/4 tsp. of the pepper and 1 1/2 Tbs. of the oregano. Let marinate for 1 hour.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine 3 1/2 Tbs. of the olive oil, the vinegar, the remaining 1/4 tsp. salt, 3/4 tsp. pepper and 1 1/2 Tbs. oregano. Whisk well to make a vinaigrette. Reserve a few of the preserved lemon slices and finely chop the remaining slices. Add the | 140 |
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What Is Inorganic Chemistry?
Inorganic chemistry studies the properties and reactions of inorganic elements and compounds that exist naturally in the earth and do not contain a carbon-hydrogen bond. Inorganics such as carbon dioxide, oxygen, minerals, and water are necessary to sustain life.
What is the Difference Between Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry?
While inorganic chemistry is concerned with elements and compounds that do not contain a carbon-hydrogen bond, organic chemistry is the study of elements and compounds that do contain a carbon-hydrogen bond. The two fields can also overlap in compounds that contain a metal bonded directly to carbon, such as organometallic compounds.
Examples of Inorganic Compounds and Elements:
Table salt or sodium chloride
Diamond (pure carbon)
Nitrites
All elements on The Periodic Table except carbon-bonded elements
Examples of Organic Compounds and Elements:
Table sugar or sucrose
Ethanol or grain alcohol
Carbon (when bound to hydrogen)
Examples of compounds with overlapped organic and inorganic elements are metals or metalloids bonded directly to carbon:
What Significance (Other Than Sustaining All Living Things) Does Inorganic Chemistry Have to Human Existence?
Inorganic metals are so important to civilization that the ages of human existence are named after the metal most used during that period, beginning with The Bronze Age (3300 B.C. – 1200 B.C.). Metals are used in countless everyday items such as vehicles, machinery, tools, weapons, cookware, and all electronics including cell phones, computers, and televisions. While a few metals are found in their pure forms, most are found in silicates and oxides from which the metals must be isolated from the minerals.
Another early example of inorganic chemicals used in society is the deep blue pigment called Prussian blue, which consists of iron cations, cyanide anions, and water. The name originated in the 18th century when the compound was used to dye the coats for the Prussian army. The pigment has had other names over the centuries as well as many other uses, such as:
Paints, inks, and enamels
Textiles, rubber, and plastics
Antidote for heavy-metal poisoning
Histopathology stain for detecting iron
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Even though this important pigment contains cyanide groups, it is not toxic to humans. Other permanent colorants (pigments) are inorganics used for specific purposes in daily life. Iron oxides have a variety of red hues that are most notably used in bricks, and chromium oxides provide the green hues for military vehicle paint. Titanium dioxide is the base of almost all interior paints because of its exceptional whiteness and opacity. Even the pigments in makeup are commonly purified inorganic compounds. Noah Chemicals provides inorganic elements necessary for your pigment needs.
Vitamins are a mixture of inorganic and organic compounds. Inorganic compounds in vitamins include calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide, potassium chloride, vanadyl sulfate and copper sulfate | 627 |
Bakery in Berwyn Challenging Customers' Palates with 'Not-Your-Average Combinations'
By Kimberly McGuane
Published: 5:30 am EST November 19, 2020 Published: November 19, 2020 Updated: 6:55 am EST November 19, 2020
Image of Kim Cuthbert via Sweet Jazmine's Bakery.
Sweet Jazmine's Bakery in Berwyn is a local staple that has<|fim_middle|>, including sweet potato muffins and sweet potato cupcakes. This line has become so popular that Cuthbert now makes and sells the batter for customers to take home to finish making the desserts themselves.
The bakery had to close for two weeks due to the pandemic. But once it reopened, Cuthbert added an online store, along with contact-free pickup.
Read more about Sweet Jazmine's Bakery at 6ABC here.
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The bakery is owned by Kimberly Cuthbert, who discovered her passion for cooking when her parents introduced her to a Betty Crocker Cooking Oven.
Today, she runs her own kitchen, where she specializes in creating cakes and sweets to die for.
"It's a labor of love," she said.
Most of her cakes are named by the reactions customers have to them, such as the "OMG Buns" or the "WOW Chocolate Cake." She receives these strong responses by not sticking to common recipes.
Instead, she is "challenging the palate a little bit with not-your-average combinations," said Cuthbert.
Among the biggest hits is her line of sweet potato items | 157 |
Isle of Man Archery Club
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Club Report 25th October 2020
The first handicap round of the Indoor season took place on Sunday, with age groups and bow types shooting a Three-spot Portsmouth. The handicap round gives the archer a chance to see how well (or not) they are shooting. If an archer shoots to his handicap the "magic" tables will adjust the score to 1440; anything above or below this will give an indication of an archer's current form. The system also allows all the archers to compete against one another on a level playing field.
There was a disappointingly<|fim_middle|>ore 1435 (60/570/33, 3.N.Kinrade 1434 (59/511/8)pb, =3.P.Mumford 1434 (60/566/26, 5.J.Gough 1433 (60/552/17), =5A.Westmorland 1433 (60/548/12)pb, 7.C.Crompton 1429 (60/519/13)CR, 8.C.Moore 1412 (59/529/11, 9.B.Harris 1408 (59/535/18), 10.S.Kenyon 1407 (55/479/16)pb, 11.J.Hill 1402 (60/513/14), 12. P.Howland 1401 (57/473/8.
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Club Report 15th November 2020 November 17, 2020 | low turnout for Sunday's shoot with only a dozen archers making it to the venue, but those who did make it enjoyed a fierce competition as the vied for scratch honours. Rhys Moore continued his winning streak in the Gents Compound with a performance that not only gave him the scratch win over Pete Mumford but also secured second place overall. Pete Mumford shot solidly, never scoring less that a 9 with every arrow, but just could not hit enough 10's to challenge Rhys who twice strayed out into the red. After the handicap was applied Pete still found himself a point behind Rhys and finishing in third place. Andy Westmorland added an excellent 35 points to his pb for the round but had to settle for a share of fifth place overall with Joy Gough. Colin Moore struggled to find the centre of the target. A lack of 10's and a miss in the final dozen put him bottom of the Gents Compound in scratch terms but he finished in eighth place after handicapping.
In scratch terms Peter Howland and Simon Kenyon enjoyed a close battle in the Gents Recurve. An early miss by Simon handed Peter the lead which he held onto until the fourth dozen. Despite recording more misses that Peter, Simon found the centre of the target more often when he did get the shot right to take scratch honours by 6 points. In overall terms their relative positions remained the same with Simon finishing in tenth and Peter propping up the leader board in twelfth. Lone lady Recurve, Barbara Harris, recorded the highest recurve scratch score of the day despite opening with a miss but her lacklustre efforts were only good enough for ninth place overall.
The story of the day was proved by Chris Crompton. Chris, a barebow specialist – that is someone who shoots a recurve bow without the benefit of a sight or stabilizing system, attempted the round for the first time. His scratch total was the highest male non-compound score of the day and established a new Club Record into the bargain. Chris finished in seventh place after the handicap was applied.
Three Juniors also took part. James Hill was still someway off the form he showed earlier in the year and finished just above Peter Howland after handicapping. U16 Gents Jacob Brookes and Nathan Kinrade had a ding-dong battle in scratch terms. Nathan made a terrific start only to see Jacob peg him back to take the lead by a single point at the end of the third dozen. Nathan squeezed ahead again at the end of the fourth dozen and managed to hang on to the end to take the scratch honours. Both boys added 14 points to their respective pb's but Jacob had the last laugh as he finished in top spot overall. Nathan shared third place alongside Pete Mumford.
Results Portsmouth 3 Spot Handicap: 1.J.Brookes 1514 (60/509/9)pb, 2.R.Mo | 610 |
Depart Arusha in the morning for Lake Manyara, Afternoon game drive to explore this wonderful park famous for its tree-climbing lions and birdlife. Contrasting with the intimacy of the forest, is the grass floodplain and its expansive views eastward across the alkaline lake, to the jagged blue volcanic peaks that rise from the endless Maasai steppes large buffalo, wildebeest and zebra congregate on these grassy plains, as do giraffes. Some so dark in coloration that they appear to be from a distance. Dinner and overnight at sopa lodge.
After breakfast proceed on to Ngorongoro crater to arrive in time for lunch. After the lunch descend to the floor of the crater by use of 4wheel drive vehicle that will take you 2000ft down to the crater. The Crater is one of the world's greatest natural spectacles; its magical setting and abundant wildlife never fail to enthral visitors. It borders the Serengeti National Park to the north and west. Dinner and overnight at sopa lodge.
Full day in Serengeti plains, Search for wild game you might have missed the previous game drive. Morning and after noon game drives. It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl<|fim_middle|> infested river can hold them back. Meals and overnight at Sopa lodge. | west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile | 30 |
Many Americans insisted on their traditional rights as Englishmen in the<|fim_middle|>, masking the steady decline of jury power. | conflict with Britain before and after declaring independence. Magna Carta—particularly the provisions concerning the "law of the land" and "judgment of his peers"—embodied fundamental rights of Englishmen that American revolutionaries were willing to fight to protect. As Edward Coke had found more than a century before, American revolutionaries understood that invoking such an ancient document inspired resistance to authority.
Americans cherished Magna Carta most because of its association with jury trial. Juries had proved useful to Americans in their conflict with Britain. Colonial American juries had nullified the law of seditious libel, customs taxes, and debts to British merchants. It was no wonder Americans held the jury in high esteem, at least until they had to run their own governments. Americans filled their constitutions, both federal and state, with rights to jury trial. Several American states even included translations of provisions from Magna Carta in their constitutions, enshrining the "judgment of his peers." Once Americans had achieved independence and formed the new republics, judges faced the task of interpreting these thirteenth-century provisions as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century law. American judges quoted Blackstone and historical treatises. Through the nineteenth century, however, American enthusiasm for juries waned. The much-repeated phrases from Magna Carta became a flimsy screen | 273 |
On March 5th, severe storms and copious amounts of rain caused many issues to the island of Oahu. The rain continued all night, and by the time it let up, it was too late. The Kaneohe Wastewater Pre-Treatment Facility had two manholes spewing out 51,000 gallons of raw sewage and storm water (Sakahara 2012). This happens because the storm sewer can overflow and mix with the sanitary sewer, and once they are both high, the water overflows into the ocean untreated. In this dirty water, was significant amounts of prohibited debris, such as wipes, hygiene products, and medical waste. As Hawaii News Now stated, "The City & County of Honolulu reminds people the toilet is not a trash can." Human waste and toilet paper are the only things that should be flushed down the toilet (Sakahara 2012).
This toxic waste triggered a brown water advisory for the entire island. Warning signs have been posted and people are advised to avoid the ocean at all costs. All the sewage, medical waste, and pesticides carried in to the ocean would cause damage to anyone swimming in it.
Brown water advisories raise an issue for the inhabitants of Hawaii because the economy depends on the tourists, who come here for activities such as snorkeling, going to the beach, and surfing. These activities come to a screeching halt when a brown water advisory is in place. "From 2005 to 2009, a total of 17,449 advisories due to stormwater pollution were issued, making up 96.8% of all water advisory events in Hawaii" (Penn 2012). This excess storm water run off reduces water quality and the excess nutrients can cause algael blooms, which can damage humans and marine organisms.
Since this is such a large issue during the raining season, the UH Manoa SOEST program has created extensive methods to research how storms effect coastal waters.<|fim_middle|>". Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL. February 4-7, 2012.
-"Effects of Storm Water Runoff on the Coastal Ocean". School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System.
This entry was posted on Friday, March 9th, 2012 at 8:31 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. | They placed CTDs on buoys about 500 yards offshore and on docks, and an autonomous underwater vehicle that measured wave height, period, direction, current speed, temperature and suspended particulates in the water column(SOEST). The National Weather Service measures rainfall in rain gauges, a stream gauge measures the streamflow that drains into the Ala Wai, and the tide is measured by the National Ocean Service. Obviously, the effects are much greater in the Ala Wai itself, but the ocean was changed for days, and even weeks after a large storm. Figure 3 shows that temperature and sailinity greatly decreased, and the turbidity increased or several days after the storm (SOEST). Some data even showed that the salinity was still lower a half a mile offshore two days after the storm! It is important that this data is collected because it can explain ecological changes and can be used to evaluate the methods effects of shore run off. Perhaps the run off patterns can be changed or be made more efficient in the future.
-Sakahara, Tim. "Rain Causes Sewage Spill in Kanohe Bay". Hawaii News Now. 5 March 2012.
-Penn, Jerrod, Hu, W., Cox, L., and Lara Kozloff. 2012. "Beach Quality and Recreational Values: A Pictorialized Stated Preference Analysis of Residents and Tourists | 293 |
A Corporate Trailblazer Goes for Grammy Gold
Grammy-nominated musician Chandrika Tandon plays a Tambura, a traditional Indian stringed instrument, in her home on the Upper East Side. Below, the cover of Ms. Tandon's album.
Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal
By Lavina Melwani
Updated Feb. 11, 2011 12:01 am ET
She is the quintessential underdog, the unknown. Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, a financial advisor and a trustee of New York University, is also a nominee<|fim_middle|>. I live by the words of the mystic Kabir:
When 'I' was there, the Divine was missing.
When 'I' left, the Divine took over'.
So the quest is to lose myself and go with the flow. | for the Grammy Award in the Best Contemporary World Music Album category, and she's up against veterans and superstars of the music world—Bela Fleck, Bebel Gilberto, Angelique Kidjo and Sergio Mendes.
Ms. Tandon's résumé doesn't exactly read like that of a music diva: A graduate of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, she was a partner at the corporate consulting firm McKinsey and Company before founding Tandon Capital Associates in 1992. Apart from her work at NYU, she is a board member of the American India Foundation (AIF) and the founder of Tandon Foundation. There's not a musical note in there—she's better known on Wall Street than in Woodstock.
Indeed, Ms. Tandon, a 56-year-old Upper East Side resident, earned her Grammy nomination without a major record label or any star power behind her. Yet "Soul Call," her second self-produced album on her own Soul Chants label, has become a sleeper hit, garnering more than 36,000 followers on Facebook. One, an expecting mother, wrote that her unborn baby kicks and dances when she listens to it; another wrote: "This music is like digging a tunnel deep into my soul."
The Journal spoke with Ms. Tandon about mixing business with music and the prospect of taking home Grammy gold on Feb. 13 in Los Angeles.
What was your reaction when you heard of the Grammy nomination?
Utter shock and wonder. I have such gratitude that the community of music industry folks has taken the time to listen to an unknown. What it's done is made the music accessible to so many more people than would have heard it otherwise.
Was music a big part of your growing up years in India?
We lived in a joint family where everyone loved to sing, and music would always be playing on the radio. When we had power cuts, my sister, brother and I would sing in the dark—we didn't care how long the power cuts lasted! (Ms. Tandon's sister is PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.) We were a simple family where education was so important. Music was my soul but I chose to pursue a career in business.
Tell us about the journey from business success to composing 'Soul Call'?
Ten years ago I realized that the happiest moments of my life were tied to music and decided to make it center-stage in my life. I searched far and wide to find great masters to give me a rigorous grounding in classical Hindustani music and devoted hours of study despite my tough work schedule. This whole journey has been about going deep into myself, of viewing the world through a kaleidoscope rather than a single lens. We have one short life, are given certain resources and have an obligation to use them. It's all about giving back, and sharing. That's why all proceeds of "Soul Call" go to community-building causes.
How have your worlds of business and music intersected?
Music keeps me centered at my deepest level and has made me a more expansive person. I am learning every day that it is easy to radiate grace if you can find it within. This journey has also helped me redefine my concept of perfection—many birds in the forest can sing sweetly even if they are not all nightingales…. we have to honor them all and it does not compromise excellence. After listening to 'Soul Call', some of my most reserved business acquaintances are much more forthcoming about their passions and their spirituality, and I hope some have been inspired to actively follow their dreams, even as a second innings.
How much has music affected your life as a New Yorker?
I am a New Yorker inside and out, having lived here for 31 years. I get to listen to all the great Western and Indian musicians more easily here—and sometimes go to the same concert many times! I just love the city, and am very involved in great institutions here, like NYU, where I get to work with some of the greatest minds ever. One of my great passions is a community choir which I founded and conduct for the seniors in the Queens Hindu temple. We perform ancient Sanskrit chants set to rocking western harmonies, using Indian classical and western vocal training techniques for people who have never sung before. Each session is a shared celebration.
With the Grammy ceremony just days away, what are your thoughts on winning—or not winning?
That's not the way I think of my life; I don't think of winning or losing. I think of the Grammys as a happening at a point in time. I'm not trying to use this as a stepping stone to something else | 958 |
Institutional investors are increasingly using factor-based strategies, with their motivation shifting from risk management to improving performance, according to a survey sponsored by BlackRock.
The survey was of 200 executives from institutional investment organisations in 20 countries across the Americas, the EMEA and Asia Pacific, with more than $5.5trn (€4.8trn) in assets under management.
According to BlackRock, the survey found that factor use was widespread and on the rise.
More than 85% of respondents employ factors in some part of the investment process, and nearly 66% of the organisations surveyed said they had increased their usage of factors over the past three years.
Sixty per cent of respondents said they planned to increase their use of factors over the next three years.
The desire to improve returns was the most important motivation for increasing factor use, said BlackRock.
For new factor users, the top motivation is to better understand risk and return.
The same percentage said they achieved this goal, while 59% said they increased diversification, and similar proportions said they lowered risk (56%) and increased returns (55%).
More than half (53%) of the institutions surveyed use investment strategies targeting one or more factors, according to BlackRock, with value being the most commonly targeted style factor and inflation the most commonly used macro factor.
Equity factor strategies – smart beta, for example – are most widespread, used by 68% of investors, but 57% of respondents investing in factors also use more advanced long/short multi-asset strategies.
More than two-thirds of respondents seeking to increase factor use over the next three years will be working on their risk-management<|fim_middle|>", rejecting claims the results of smart beta strategies could be generated by any random selection of stocks.
ERI Scientific Beta, part of EDHEC-Risk Institute, said it ran tests that "directly invalidate" these claims and that "many smart beta strategies display exposure to factors other than value or small cap, as well as pronounced differences in factor exposures across different strategies".
Factor investing is based on the idea that the risks and returns of all investments can be linked back to a common set of underlying factors.
These can be what are referred to as style factors, such as size, momentum, quality and value – or macro-economic factors, such as growth, inflation and interest rates.
Smart beta is an alternative term and captures the idea that investment strategies based on factors such as these, rather than market capitalisation, can add value. | systems, while more than half expect to seek advice from asset managers, and 37% expect to hire additional staff.
Half of those increasing said they would make an initial allocation to an investment strategy to monitor performance, according to BlackRock.
Andy Tunningley, head of strategic clients at BlackRock's UK institutional business, said the "unexpected correlations" of asset performance during the financial crisis spurred investors to better understand underlying risks, and that this had piqued interest in factor strategies.
"Following an initial focus on risk management, investors increasingly believe factor strategies can drive enhanced performance," he said.
The results of BlackRock's survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, come after ERI Scientific Beta, a provider of smart beta indices, late last month published research, "Smart beta is not monkey business | 163 |
Personal development covers many different aspects – from activities that improve self awareness, to those<|fim_middle|> coachee coming up with their own answers, helping them set goals or intentions and then exploring ways to achieve those.
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Contact me for more information and to arrange a taster session. Prices available on request. | that enhance employability and career development. We are all continually learning, and particularly in times of change and career transition, it can seem overwhelming. Being stretched too much out of our comfort zone can impact on confidence and wellbeing, resulting in stress, poor sleep, headaches and anxiety. Instead of working through tasks systematically and prioritizing we put things off and then nothing progresses. Taking small steps rather than big leaps can help build confidence and reduce procrastination.
We are all ultimately responsible for our own personal development but may benefit from some extra support at times. Coaching can play a valuable role in building confidence and developing effective communication skills. Until experiencing the benefits of being coached myself, I'd been a confirmed problem solver. I also realized that instead of coaching my team members I was in fact giving advice in disguise! It can be difficult to understand how coaching works and how effective it can be until you've tried it.
As a coach it's my role to ask the questions.
I facilitate the conversation that will lead to the | 203 |
Lieutenant West was in a good enough mood when he arrived for the meeting, but Captain Jurgens seemed a bit grumpier than usual. The lieutenant's duty was focused upon the security of one particular floor, whereas the Captain was responsible for the security guard troops for the entire lower third of the lab complex. The weight on<|fim_middle|> a moment, he decided, he'd see how well his two soldiers were hiding.
Just as he was about to give the command, he found himself standing before the closed doors outside of Sigma block. He looked through the recently-repaired doors, not able to see anything inside but confirming that it was dark. His thoughts and instincts continued to lead him back here. A separate security team had gone over the entire lab block- with much complaining by the resident scientists- and found nothing that would indicate any entry or escape routes. But something was tugging at his mind, and it started in there. The skelebot he had dispatched to this station stood just to the side of the doors, standing at near-attention with its weapon at the ready. Its head swiveled slowly, scanning the corridors. It had already recognized Jonas, and was now ignoring him.
The communications band was silent. Jonas looked into the doors again, then waved his left arm past the sensor beside the door, and the doors slid open. The night-lights had been on, but as the doors finished opening, the regular work-lights began to come to life. He walked in among the desks and workstations, glancing at stacks of papers and modeling materials that had been left out. The scientists had been instructed to lock up all their sensitive data and equipment every time they left work, but like academics everywhere, they didn't take security seriously enough. Jonas grumbled to himself. They were working every day to create new technology that would help the CS rise above its enemies and invaders, and leaving their work out in the open to be stolen- even after this very lab had been broken into!
"Damn!" came the instant response.
"No, sarge, he's got me," Charleston replied.
Jonas wandered through the deserted lab block, down the secondary corridor that led to the two primary procedure rooms. He looked inside of one of them, opening the door slowly out of respect for the room itself. It was impeccably clean inside, and he could contaminate it just by setting a foot over the door threshold. The primary door was only used for wheeling equipment in or out- during a procedure, the room would be entered and exited only by a secondary 'scrub' room that would thoroughly surface clean everyone and everything going into the room- and keep any dangerous 'stuff' from getting out.
Jonas looked around inside, then heard a series of clicking sounds from near the ceiling. There were six grills at the top of the walls, evenly spaced around the room to control the air temperature and keep the room ventilated. His opening of the door had changed the room air enough to activate the vent fans. The vents were large enough to move a lot of air- if some dangerous bug got into the air, it would get pulled out of the room within a couple of seconds.
Which meant that the vents were most likely big enough for Jonas to crawl around inside of them. He closed the door, and began walking briskly back toward checkpoint alpha. He was about to call Baker and have him request the heating/cooling system layout from the central database, but another call came across the com-link first.
"Sarge, this is Orwell, and I've found something." As soon as she'd finished speaking, she cried out in pain, then went silent.
"Sarge, this is Baker. The system is not reporting Orwell's position." Jonas swore again, and headed back out into the hallway. The surveillance video had been interrupted before, and he had guessed that their voice comms were penetrated. Now this- their security system was completely compromised.
But the Skelebots were independent of the hard-wired system. That was part of the reason they'd been assigned there.
The instant the command was received, the twelve skelebots began to work as a team. Their sensor systems all queried the locations of the entire security team, and Skelebot R7-21D was the closest- right next to Jonas, outside Sigma labs. The network of skelebots selected that unit to report in. The voice was just as cold over the com-link as it was in person.
"Baker, co-ordinate from Alpha. Vellis, Shields, Cray, get to Gamma block now." No one would respond to Orwell's rescue faster than her own unit.
"Roger that Sarge," Vellis replied. "We were on our way already." Vellis was her Corporal, and a good one. He wasn't about to let her go down without a good fight.
Jonas arrived at Gamma block just after Vellis spoke. The outer doors were wide open, all the lights on, but the room was deserted. Jonas stepped across the threshold, and heard the distinctive sound of a CP-40 rifle firing. It still made a sizzling sound, but it was different from the old rifles the CS had recently finished replacing. He sprinted down the hall toward the sound, coming through a smashed door and into Storage 43A. The front doors to Gamma block had been opened automatically for the Skelebots, but apparently they hadn't waited for this particular door to unlock on its own. So much the better, he thought. He'd have instructed his own living soldiers to do the exact same thing.
The three skelebots stood in a triangle in the middle of the room, having pushed aside storage containers and unused desks. One of them was shooting his CP-40 at the ceiling, and even set to low-power mode, the energy bolts were rapidly punching through the thin ceiling panels. His weapon ran out of charge, and he lowered his weapon, but the 'bot just to his left had known precisely when it would run out of power and had begun firing at that exact moment. They were cutting a perfect circle in the ceiling, four meters across. They were cutting in passes, weakening the entire circle so it would fall all at once instead of tearing out one side. They had nearly cut a solid line when the third skelebot turned its head toward Jonas.
"Sergeant, your sidearm please," it said in unshaken monotone. Jonas didn't hesitate, but unsnapped his weapon, checked its energy clip, and handed it to the robot. It had dropped its own rifle- apparently out of energy as well. When the rifle in the hands of the 'bot beside him ran out of charge, the 'bot with the sidearm raised the pistol with one hand and continued firing- albeit more slowly- and weakened the ceiling enough for the cut section to fall to the floor. The skelebot silently handed Jonas's sidearm back to him, then turned to retrieve his own rifle.
The ceiling panels hit the ground first, shattering into thumbnail-sized wafers upon impact. A moment later, a long section of the ventilation duct landed, severed in two places and broken open from the force of the landing. Pvt Orwell lay in the middle of what was left of the duct section, with a smouldering vibro-knife wound in the back of her armor. Jonas's helmet unit registered her vital signs as strong, but her breathing irregular. He pulled her clear of the ductwork and knelt beside her, and a moment later Vellis and his sub-unit entered the room, training their rifles on the large hole in the ceiling.
Vellis swore once when he saw what the skelebots had done, then again when he saw his trooper.
"Roger, and I agree." Jonas looked closer at the wound, but guessed it was superficial. It was a slash, just beside the spine, but not damaging her body any more than some shallow cuts across the muscle tissue. It had severed several of the armor's systems. Whatever had hit her hadn't wanted to hurt her much- it had just wanted to quiet her down.
"I wouldn't bet against it, sarge," Vellis replied. The standard CS armor would stop regular knives, ballistic bullets, and some low-power energy bolts without even getting a scratch, but weapons had been devised that would deliver a concussive shock through this sort of armor, to disable the wearer. Electro-shock stunners, a cross between an impact hammer and a cattle prod, were used by crowd control police throughout the Coalition States.
"Markins, are you armed?" Jonas asked.
"I want you four here," the sergeant said. "Have one of your team stop by the weapons locker and pick up 6 extra energy clips for the CP-40s; the skelebots used up their ammunition. Vellis, hand me your rifle, then get your girl in the hands of the medics. Once she's in their hands, you three get back here." Vellis checked his rifle, and handed it across. He then turned to follow his team out the door. A moment later, Jonas was alone in the room with the skelebots.
He looked up at the hole in the ceiling. It was cut with mechanical precision. The ductwork was supported by hangers less than a half-meter apart. What was left looked solid enough, even with all the shooting earlier. The concrete structure above was scratched up from the remaining energy that came through, but not even cracked.
"So if we were all up there, we'd just have to spread out," Jonas thought aloud.
"Affirmitive," R7-19D replied, thinking it a question.
The two robots farthest from him moved toward the hole, folding their hands into stirrups and waiting for him to step up. Once his feet were in place, the two robots smoothly and effortlessly pushed him up toward the torn edge of the duct. He got a hand-hold easily, his gauntlets and armored knees protecting him from the sharp, tattered steel. He moved down the duct, trying his best to be silent but foiled by the boing of the metal duct as it deflected under his weight. His helmet's visual system compensated for the low light immediately, and he could see perhaps 20 meters down the duct before it ended in a 'T' intersection. He had just enough room to crawl forward comfortably. He put his rifle back in his hands, checked its settings again, then moved forward to give the skelebot behind him enough room. The head and red-glowing eyes of R6-65C appeared behind him, and he heard the robot claw its way up into the duct behind him.
"Roger that, LT," Jonas said with a sigh. He reached the 'T' intersection, and looked down each branch carefully. To his left, the duct ran straight for 50 meters, with intermittent branches feeding back into the lab complex. To his right, his helmet display estimated 70 meters and just as many branches. The duct to his right seemed to get larger as it travelled, which made some sense. That was the direction of the air-handling units that fed Level 7.
R6-65C kept his distance, hunched over with his knees almost folded up in front of him, in a stance a human could never attain, let alone hold. It had its weapon up and ready for action. Jonas looked up and down the ducts a few more times. He couldn't see anything that would indicate a trail, or an aggressor. Searching the ductwork would be necessary, and soon, but he needed to think before committing the soldiers. The ductwork would be just too easy to booby trap, and too convenient for crossfires. Anyone clever enough to do what this opponent had already accomplished could make a graveyard out of the system.
"Back down, robot," he said. The skelebot instantly complied, sliding itself backward and dropping back through the shredded ceiling. Jonas crawled back to the edge, lowered himself carefully and dropped back into the storage room.
The conference room in Beta lab block wasn't in use, and it was close to security checkpoint Alpha. The researchers in Beta were still doing their work, and minded their own business when the two soldiers walked through the outer lab area and into 'their' conference room. Jonas didn't mean to slam the door as hard as he did, but the LT knew his soldier's rage wasn't directed up the chain of command. At least, not yet. | her shoulders was quite a bit heavier.
Jonas sat between the other two shift-lead sergeants that worked on Level 7, all of them guessing at what the meeting was about. This particular shift was being taken by a fill-in squad from the special forces units, who Jonas guessed either loved or hated sitting still for 5 hours. All the regular soldiers were off-duty right now, which suited Jonas' people just fine- they were the ones who were given an extra break. But they'd all be called in to a special meeting within two hours, and hopefully given enough information to let them all know why there was a crowd of skelebots arriving on Level 7 today.
"Allright, everyone, you probably guessed what this is about, but I'll spell it out in bold letters for you. We've been experiencing a series of security breaches throughout the complex, and we've got orders from topside to make it stop- preferably finding out how they're getting in." The LT's good mood didn't extend to her official tone, Jonas knew. She was cheerful enough with the troops, even while on duty, but as soon as orders came down or action started up, she turned ice-cold. Not a bad thing for an officer, Jonas thought- he thought about adopting that mannerism.
All three Sergeants shook their heads.
Jonas met the Lieutenant from Robotics Corps at the elevator. She was older than he, still attractive but beginning to show grey in her red-brown hair. She stepped out into the lobby, and was followed by a dozen skeletal black robots. They were the new model, with a head-unit and chassis design that mimicked the minor changes his own uniform had taken about two months earlier. These robots were slightly scarier than their old cousins, and supposedly more intelligent- Jonas hadn't worked directly with them before, in either case. They certainly made him feel better, knowing they were on his side. They were also carrying their rifles, and even at rest it struck Jonas as intimidating.
"Roger. Thanks, LT." He snapped a quick salute, which she returned a little sloppily. He guessed that the computer geeks upstairs were more relaxed with their drill than his own squad was. If the 'bots performed well, he'd be happy to forgive her. She returned to the elevators, and disappeared behind the closing doors.
"Robots, follow me to our post," he said, turning to head to his station. The robots didn't speak, but he heard their metal feet on the floor as they marched, not quite in step, behind him. The sound was a bit unsettling, but again made him feel good to know they were on his side. Some of the scientists paused in their work as the cadre marched past their labs and offices, then drew back when they saw what was coming. Jonas found that amusing- some of these people were probably on the team that had designed these things.
He reached the security station, smiling to himself as the three soldiers looked to see where the noise was coming from. They stopped when he stopped, standing at attention and waiting patiently for his next command.
The robots spoke without moving their faces at all, and the chorus of identical, electronic voices was un-nerving. "Command confirmed. No lethal action unless specific orders from Sgt Dickinson or unless it will save a human life." Jonas knew he'd have to practice giving them orders- being too vague with them, especially in a group, could lead to amusing, yet catastrophic, results.
He turned to see Corp. Baker standing just behind him, not quite at attention, as if the two of them were addressing a new squad of cadets. "Where do you think we should place them, Baker?" Jonas already had a decent plan on where to assign the robots, but he wanted to hear his corporal's ideas before polluting them with his own. Besides, it was a good chance for Baker to play at being Sergeant.
"Yes, Sergeant," Baker confirmed, smiling. Another good chance to play at being sergeant. Baker was currently weighing his options; being promoted would most likely mean being moved to a different floor. The regular Sergeant pay would be just a little more than he was making on Level 7- the security clearance and extra hazard bonus pay almost made up the difference, but not quite. But Baker was used to being down there, and not everyone could handle being around the creepiest of CS creations. He turned, sat behind the computer workstation at the desk, and began to organize his thoughts.
Jonas turned to the other two soldiers at the checkpoint. "Charleston, Orwell, I have a job for you. Check in your rifles, you won't need them." The two soldiers nodded, turning toward the weapons locker. They removed the energy clips, then set the CP-40 pulse rifles into their places on the rack. The display just inside the door confirmed the weapons' return. The system didn't require any ID from them- it remembered who had checked out which weapon. The soldiers were back out in the hallway in 45 seconds, facing Jonas and his squad of robotic skeletons.
The two turned and jogged down the corridor, then split up at the next junction. Jonas turned to the skelebots. He pointed to each one- he was too lazy to call out their serial numbers- and assigned it a laboratory block or a major intersection. One by one, the robots marched off to their destinations.
"Security team level 7, check in with position," Jonas said after the last skelebot had left his sight. Singly and in pairs, his team reported their locations. He decided to walk a roaming patrol, and give his mind some time to really work on an opposing-force exercise of some kind.
Just as he had told his troops, he needed to get inside the heads of his opponents. The rats that were breaking in weren't well-equipped, certainly not armed well enough to present a realistic threat to his troops unless they had their helmets off. Their advantages were what he had to guess at- they were obviously sneaky and clever enough to get inside the lowest level of the Lone Star complex, but there had to be more. They had the ability to at least interrupt video surveillance- did they also have voice communications cracked? Were they able to listen to him co-ordinate his troops? He'd have to look into the particulars of the system. He realized that he had no idea how the comm system worked- he'd taken it for granted ever since basic training. That would have to change. But for now, he'd presume they could listen in. They could most likely interrupt voice communication as well, but would it be more valuable to just listen in? The rats could potentially have a much greater advantage than he'd previously thought. He shook his head. Frustration wouldn't do him much good now.
He was passing by a laboratory block's front entrance, but he didn't look at the signage. The large plexiglass doors were opened wide, the technicians and researchers inside hard at work behind their computer workstations and polymer models. Were they solving greater problems than his own? He continued walking, letting his mind wander and not quite paying attention to precisely where he was walking. In | 1,477 |
Rachel and Justin had an unusual guest for their farm wedding in Southern Western Virginia: their Australian Shepherd puppy, Grace. Only a few months old, many might be concerned about inviting a puppy to a wedding. But Grace actually walked alongside the bridal party and stayed leash free the entire evening.
There was plenty of other whimsical notes in Rachel and Justin's wedding, captured with charm by Jasmine White Photography. A fun autumnal theme was evident in the mini pumpkins that lined the outdoor space and games with checkers. Rows of fold out chairs led to a wooden archway, where Rachel and Justin exchanged vows before a priest. The bride got ready with her bridesmaids in a room filled with soft rose petals scattered across the floor<|fim_middle|> train added a dramatic but not overdone look as the newlyweds made their way back down the aisle.
The reception was given a touch of glamour with string lights and tall but still rustic candlesticks. For a quirky dessert finale, the wedding cake and individual cupcakes were placed on tiered cake stands made from tree rings. And there was plenty of dancing, with violet hued spotlights and some memorable dancing moves. | . The bridal rings were kept safe in a wooden jewelry box.
Crimson red bridesmaid gowns and gray afternoon suits played with rustic and fall themes but added unexpected pops of color to the naturally lush landscape. It's hard to understate the charm of the bridal gown itself, with a lace halter neckline and inner sweetheart neckline, all over embroidery, and a fitted skirt. The sweep | 79 |
Set in Stone: Majestic Northwest landscapes on view in Tacoma
by Margo Vansynghel October 23, 2018
'Pyramidal Rock with Bird Lime—North of Oceanside, Oregon,' 2001.
Terry Toedtemeier was still a kid when he made a discovery that changed his life. It was simple: Take a rock. Put it under another rock. Hit that<|fim_middle|> managers of the Oregon wilderness than among the gatekeepers of the art world. Perhaps, like a true romantic, he found nature more real than anywhere else. A "stone-age reality," he called it.
Many romantics yearn(ed) for a time when man hadn't yet altered nature's beauty, its wildness; not Toedtemeier. He registered the traces of human life on the landscape: railroads, fences, a power plant, farms, powerlines. Toedtemeier's photography was not just a stratigraphy of earth, it was also one of life. Humans, whether they were in the picture or not, added another layer of history, one that's unbearably light. Impossibly grand swirling rocks, dark mass, or a tiny tree gasping for air between giant boulders all tell us that the traces of what came before run deeper.
Toedtemeier's lifelong obsession with basalt perhaps best exemplifies this history: millions of years ago, it ran as liquid lava across the earth. The hardened, bumpy rocks today are only a suggestion of a time that far, far predates us. That's a romantic idea, sure, but how could one not be in awe of the eons and feel small, a particle in something bigger?
"That the land is beautiful is the strongest clue I have towards a greater sense of unity," Toedtemeier wrote in a letter in 1998.
Unity is not often the defining relationship between photographer and subject. Terms like "take a photo" and "capture an image" are about making the subject one's own. Tame the incomprehensible wildness, defy your own smallness. Toedtemeier seemed to lack these inclinations.
'Burning Railroad Tie, Burlington Cut near Catherine Creek, Klickitat Co., Washington,' 1987.
"Through his work, Toedtemeier insists that the land is not significant because of what we can take from it or use it for," wrote John Weber, a colleague at the Portland Art Museum, in a catalogue of a 1986 Toedtemeier solo show. "Rather the land, like our understanding and treatment of it, is crucial because we are ultimately and inescapably part of nature."
Humanity's interactions with nature typically give the impression of being extractional or transactional. Toedtemeier's tendency toward integration suggests a bigger picture.
Sun, Shadows, Stone: The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier runs through Feb. 17, 2019 at the Tacoma Art Museum. | rock with another, bigger rock. And voilà—its dull armor cracked to reveal a glittering heart of quartz.
Toedtemeier later reminisced in Portland Monthly, "I look at this, I look up at the sky, and I remember thinking, What is this all about?" The inner configurations of geological formations kept Toedtemeier, photographer and photography curator at the Portland Art Museum, captivated until his sudden death in 2008 at 62 years old.
A touching tribute and posthumous retrospective of Toedtemeier's landscape photography at Tacoma Art Museum, on view now through Feb. 17, 2019, traces his lifelong fascination with geologic landforms and formations. The black-and-white photos of Sun, Shadows, Stone. The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier bear witness to a life of wandering through sea caves at the Oregon coast, Owyhee Canyonlands, lakebeds of Eastern Oregon and the Columbia River Gorge, places Toedtemeier intimately knew and loved.
Two wonderfully symbiotic photos, hung side by side on dark-blue walls, evince Toedtemeier's lifelong love with one type of rock in particular: basalt. The gelatin silver prints were taken in 2001, likely on the same trip to Oceanside, Oregon. In one, water licks at the foothills of a pyramid-shaped rock of dark and rough bulbous basalt. A white slice of (presumably) salt illuminates its core. The second rock would be shaped like a triangle too, if not for an archway cutting through its dark mass.
'Radial Fractures, Basalt, Molalla River, Clackamas Co., Oregon,' 2002.
Toedtemeier taught himself how to photograph as a teenager and studied geography at Oregon State University. During a summer course in field geology in Oregon in the late 1960s, Toedtemeier connected the dots. Traversing age-old rock formations on foot with just a pencil and his camera, he found himself at home.
It took him another decade to arrive at landscape photography. Before then he mainly shot dryly funny, black-and-white infrared snapshots of family, friends, strangers and strange scenes found in Portland: a cat hanging from a chair, two men leaving a bar. At the Tacoma Art Museum, these early photos are hung in a room within the exhibition room, slightly separated from the rest of his work.
In the room, we also witness Toedtemeier's first attempts at nature photography, shot out of the car window, quickly but neatly, with a handheld camera. The resulting scenes are sparse, empty and vast, as if he finally realized that humans and cities were distractions from what he really wanted to do: comprehend the land.
Later, armed with a large-format camera, Toedtemeier ventured deeper into Oregon and Washington and his photos started to change. A literal and figurative crossroads is "Soliton In Shallow Water Waves, Manzanita-Neahkahnie, Oregon," from 1978, a famous early photo. Two waves in shallow water intersect diagonally from opposing compass points. It's photographic evidence of a fortuitous natural occurrence, not uncommon but exuding mystery.
'Pothole Erosion, Big Wood River, Lincoln Co., Idaho,' 1995.
Though Toedtemeier would dedicate himself later to rocks more than water, the photo made him famous and appeared in numerous books. He cemented his reputation in the mid-'80s as curator of photography at the Portland Art Museum, where he stayed on until his death. Yet Toedtemeier often said that he felt more comfortable among the ranchers and land | 787 |
Enjoy Your Travel In The United States Of America With Family!
Are you considering taking some time out and have a great vacation in the USA with your family? With 50 different states to choose from, you will surely find one or more that is just perfect not only for you but for your family as well.
From coast to coast, east to west in the North America, which is generally called as the 'the lower 48 ', there are some incredible destinations and sites in the USA you must visit. Needless to say, you simply cannot overlook the great tropical island of Hawaii, the amazing state of Alaska, which make up the other 50 states.
There are numerous<|fim_middle|> not have sufficient time to take in what the place has to offer!
Perhaps, you simply like exploring exciting and incredible cities with the dining, shopping, the sites along the entertainment it has to offer. All you have to do is to explore the city and have fun.
To the shores of Florida to the beautiful Hawaiian Islands, you choose how and where you want to spend your family holiday.
Fun Actitives For Everyone To Enjoy!
You can plan your trip around the several professional sports events that are held throughout the year. For instance, you can pick a a winter escape to the Phoenix Arizona and take in one of the several Nascar Races that is held at the Phoenix International Raceway, at the same time as soaking up the sun and taking in all the other family fun activities the metropolitan cities offer.
It is all here in the USA! All you have to do is to plan your trip appropriately. Apply for a visa or an ESTA, which is a specialist visa waiver application product. Once you have obtained an ESTA authorization for you or your family, it indicates that you will no longer required to have a US visa to take a trip to the land. So get off your bed and start planning your family adventure now! | activities and attractions for the entire family to explore and enjoy, both in summers and winters. Whether you are travelling via car, a train, plane, a recreational vehicle or any other transportation mode, you have to make certain that you discover the true beauty of the USA. Taking a family vacation in the USA is certainly a great choice!
No matter you along your family enjoys the great outdoors in search of different surprises, seeking the amazing adventures or simply enjoy what the US has to offer, you will not find yourself disappointed at all. For history lovers, you will | 112 |
Linda is an engaging, dynamic coach and communicator! Her presentation on The Economy of Kindness was insightful and inspired and provided my team ways to better support each other while serving our customers. I highly recommend Linda for coaching, consulting and presenting to your organization.
Linda spoke for my CEO leadership group. They LOVED her! Linda is a highly skilled speaker and consultant. Her message on the importance of including acts of kindness within your day to day activities is applicable to all people at all stages of life. Not only will incorporating small acts of kindness transform your individual interactions with others, it will also enrich the culture of your workplace. The CEO's said they took away ideas that could be implemented in their companies to enrich their culture of kindness.
Linda, it was wonderful to have you at our 2018 WRC-ALCA Conference. You had a great impact on the membership. I heard several references throughout the conference to "kindness" and "mitzvahs". In fact, the final presentation, which was a panel of Aging Life Care Managers discussing the next steps to grow our profession, reminded everyone to practice kindness with employees and reminded everyone about points with your "kick-off" session. Thank you for being a "Kindness Super-Hero"!
What a surprise and a delight to show up for healthcare quality continuing education to find Linda Cohen! How effortless she made the link between healthcare quality and how humans treat each other. Her stories are widely applicable, and make a convincing argument for maintaining one's own emotional and spiritual health vital to supporting those we serve.
In this highly interactive workshop, Cohen helps employees and<|fim_middle|> loyalty from customers and clients.
Cohen will illustrate how kindness in action makes a difference using examples of how kindness can impact individuals, communities and businesses.
Cohen will share her three greatest lessons from her own personal story and how she became a "kindness catalyst": the size of the action doesn't matter, there is often an unexpected ripple effect, and giving and receiving are often experienced differently. Cohen will enlist the audience to expand the conversation around why kindness can be so crucial in a business setting and what value our individual actions can have on the bottom line of our organizations.
If you are in need of a cultural reboot, hire Cohen to empower your organization or business and teach you about the ROI of kindness!
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Cohen has offered this program for more than five years and it always gets to the heart of what's important to human beings. Belonging, connection and authenticity. If you are looking for an inspirational speaker to connect with people at a deep level this is the program to choose.
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Kindness in the workplace… improves employee morale, increases retention and creates | 45 |
The Tilted World
by Tom Franklin, Beth Ann Fennelly
Two prohibition agents are sent to a small Deep South town to investigate the disappearance of their predecessors.
The Tilted World is a thriller for those who like literary fiction, or alternatively, literary fiction for those who like a thriller. It's also a magnificent and touching love story and grippingly accurate portrayal of one of the greatest natural disasters in American history – the great Mississippi flood of 1927 which drowned 27,00<|fim_middle|> about the fate of the missing agents.
This is a book to savour and one you will remember long after you have put it down – it's a gripping, lyrical novel set against a great natural disaster and weaving a clever and unforgettable story of love and survival. | 0 square miles in up to 30 feet of water for four months and killed hundreds.
Gold Dagger winner Tom Franklin has collaborated with his poet wife Beth Ann Fennelly and the end result is spectacular. It's a beautifully written, raucous, gritty and amazingly vivid story, and together they produce a unique, captivating, and often lyrical single voice.
Literary buffs can debate whether Franklin is really a crime writer, or like William Faulkner, merely utilising the genre. Whatever your opinion, this epic portrait of the Deep South
is a brilliant combination of loyalty, loneliness, betrayal, love, corruption and duty which plays out in the often dirty realism of Prohibition America in the shadow of a great disaster.
Franklin and Fennelly's characters are beautifully and precisely realised, from the backwoods bootlegger Dixie Clay, tough, isolated and longing for a child to replace her dead baby, to Ingersoll, the blues-playing orphan, turned war hero sharpshooter and revenue agent struggling to find a place in life. Lesser characters and even bit part players come to life with equal reality and are perfectly complemented by the almost surreal landscape in which they battle for survival as Dixie and Ingersoll struggle to reconcile individual interpretations of right and wrong.
After months of rain, the Mississippi has reached critical levels and the town of Hobnob is at risk as its creaking, daily reinforced levee faces a twin threat from the rising waters and saboteurs from New Orleans who will sacrifice the smaller town to save their own city.
Ingersoll and his partner Ham are sent to investigate the disappearance of their predecessors, but when they discover an orphaned baby they cannot imagine how this will change them. Dixie Clay brews moonshine for her feckless, violent and ambitious husband and mourns the loss of their baby while her marriage crumbles and she nurtures a terrible fear | 388 |
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Theatrical Releases: 'Oranges and Sunshine' – Cine Vue (01apr11)
08 Apr 2011 /
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'Understated' is a word that is rarely applied to mainstream entertainment today. With the rapid advancement in technology that enables 3D graphics and surround-sound not just into people's cinemas but their living rooms, it's a refreshing experience to sit and observe, and not be a player in the action. Don't get me wrong – I'm not an archaic enough soul to wish it away, but the unobtrusive beauty of the way Jim Loach's Oranges and Sunshine (2011) unravelled meant the journey was emotional and poignant, as opposed to dramatic and hard-hitting.
It's the kind subtle shake-up that's very difficult to obtain and risky to attempt, but Jim Loach has proved with Oranges and Sunshine that putting trust in the talent of your actors and the gravitas of your story pays off tremendously.
Emily Watson plays Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham-based social worker and married mother of two, who is approached one evening by an Australian woman named Charlotte (Federay Holmes) who is searching for her mother. Margaret is apprehensive to believe her story at first, as Charlotte tells of being in an English children's home until the age of four, when she was piled onto boats with thousands of other young children and shipped off to Australia. As absurd as the story seems to Margaret, her curiosity is aroused when another woman tells of her long-lost brother Jack (Hugo Weaving) contacting her from Australia and recalling a similar type of story. Margaret accompanies Jack's sister Nicky (Lorraine Ashbourne) to Australia with her own agenda to unravel the mystery, but is highly unprepared for the shocking truths she discovers. Margaret is overwhelmed at the response her tentative plea for orphaned adults at a<|fim_middle|> Christmas dinner between Margaret's family and the Australian orphans, when in swapping gifts stories he says, 'You got my mum'. The table falls silent while the gravity of his statement sinks in, until the situation is saved by Pauline (Tara Morice) expressing their gratitude that Margaret came into their lives.
Rather than pile on the sentiment and wring the emotion dry, Loach lets the story speak for itself, a wise move considering the abhorrent tales some of its victims tell. Real footage occasionally splices into the film, serving to remind us that not only did this really happen, it occurred as recently as 1970.
The casting, one of the absolutely crucial elements of a successful movie, was handled extremely well by Kahleen Crawford and Nikki Barrett, as performers gelled well and emitted totally believable chemistry. The performances are outstanding, particularly from Watson and Weaving, yet all involved seemed to respect the story and its significance enough to really connect with the parts they play.
Despite the difficulties the team faced when filming on opposite sides of the world, Oranges and Sunshine beats with one heart and develops its story coherently. As well as allowing the audience a glimpse of the lives some of the people had, the film served an important purpose in exposing the scandal, as during the film's production both the UK and the Australian governments offered public apologies to the parents and children who were separated, mistreated and lied to. Fingers crossed this film will enjoy the recognition it deserves. | barbeque makes, and we watch her personal life suffer and the threats made on her life as she delves deeper into the pasts that come to light.
As an avid fan of Ken Loach since my university days (I know, what a cliché), I was very pleasantly surprised to see that his son, director Jim Loach, had absorbed precious elements of his father's style, particularly in the exploration of moralistic issues. I was interested to learn that, despite his background in documentary making, Loach felt approaching this real-life story as a drama meant he could explore themes from different angles instead of the finger pointing that a documentary would bring.
Writer Rona Munro, faced with the challenge of telling thousand's of people's stories in one, focuses around Margaret in order to make it an emotional drama as opposed to a historical one, a decision that divides audiences but one I felt was highly effective. As told through the eyes and experiences of Margaret Humphreys herself, Oranges and Sunshine shows the devastating effects of parent/child separation and loss of identity, as well as the consequences that absorbing other's pain had on Margaret herself and her family. A particularly memorable line uttered from her son came after a light-hearted discussion over | 250 |
There's no shortage of content marketing advice in the industry right now, especially not at Content Marketing World 2016.<|fim_middle|> already attracted to that content. Remember, build a relationship, don't make assumptions, and be open to change.
As much as possible, make changes in real-time.
Waiting for a monthly metric meeting to A/B test content or try something new isn't going to create a pro-active feedback loop. If you're looking to improve the performance and reach of your content, act on small improvements as quickly as you're measuring them.
Face the fact that sometimes things just don't go according to your roadmap.
Roadmaps are made based on assumptions of behaviours, but no one can accurately predict what readers and consumers are going to resonate with. You have to be flexible and not stuck to a particular theme or strategy.
You probably have amazing quality content that's being under-utilized in favor of producing new content. Work smarter, not harder to ramp up your content strategy. Look at what's performing really well and repurpose it! It's performing well for a reason.
Defining your audience and niche once is not enough.
When was the last time you gave your personas a look? Iterating on your content strategy continuously is key to creating a successful content program. You have to constantly listen to what your market is telling you and tweak your efforts to these new behaviours.
Were you at Content Marketing World? What's your take on my key takeaways? Comment below! | With over 3,500 attendees and two 10 hour days of sessions and expo hall conversations, it was an amazing opportunity to find answers to questions you might have.
As humans we're wired to naturally believe we don't need something unless we fall in love with a story first. It has to fit into our lives before we'll make a connection with why it should be there.
Behaviours of consumers are changing, but content marketing efforts stay the same. The Kronkiwongi campaign teaches content marketers that we should stop placing arbitrary understandings of how our audience understands our story. We need to uncover those assumptions and seek to break down those perceptions that are incorrect.
Your content should build a brand.
Stories builds brands, brands build relationships, relationship builds trust, and trust builds revenue. Focus on telling the story first, and naturally revenue will follow. Don't get stuck on plugging in keywords and speaking in marketing-lingo to trick search engines into displaying your content first. If that's all your efforts are focused on, those that find you won't know what story you're telling.
"…Companies tend to engage in head-to-head competition in search of sustained profitable growth. Yet in today's overcrowded industries competing head-on results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Lasting success increasingly comes, not from battling competitors, but from creating blue oceans of untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.
Benchmarks that strive to "just be better than" are like comparing apples to oranges. Both give you vitamins and essential nutrients, but how they grow are drastically different. Your content marketing efforts shouldn't strive to just be better than your competitors or "steal" customers away from other products.
Nothing fuels consumer culture more than a content brand that transforms what they love into something that speaks directly to them. You aren't going to speak to your consumer by trash talking your competitor or battling against what they've already done. Speak to something your competitors haven't yet addressed.
Tapping into a new space means that you have no one to battle against. Your story will be the most heard.
Prior to coming to CMW I committed to blogging about my learnings everyday. However, social media was blowing up with everything good that I was going to share. I decided that reflecting on what I learned and telling a story was more powerful. Not only that, but we don't have a daily blogging cadence. Sticking to a regular schedule of content distribution and committing to that schedule is more powerful than just creating content for content's sake. This is because of the power of predictability in maintaining a schedule.
Make it easy for your audience to love you.
When was the last time you went through your own subscribe, onboarding, or sales nurture workflow? With the rise of content marketing, experience and UX are falling behind and thought of as a secondary factor to marketing success. However, we're not stopping to ask how easy it is for our customers to access our content or want to be our customer.
Your customers are in a relationship with you. If every time your customer interacts with you it's a pain, they're going to become unhappy quite fast. We all know what happens when someone in a relationship becomes unhappy… ?.
We should treat our customers like we would treat any other relationship. Your content is a brand, just like your product.
Happiness is a metric—One of the most important metrics that content marketing should measure. It builds loyalty, trust, and maintains a healthy relationship.
Review your call-to-actions, forms you make your customers submit, and what painful friction points cause drop-offs. What can you tweak to be less painful? Small improvements that create happy interactions go a long way in driving long-term revenue.
Look for organic traffic trends before you pay to promote your content.
This will help your reach with consumers be greater. Amplifying what's performing naturally means that your readers, your audience, are | 803 |
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The cause of the blast at the Russian-owned oil refinery<|fim_middle|> refinery, which can handle up to 1.2 million tonnes of crude oil per year. | was not immediately known.
An explosion at a Russian-owned oil refinery in Bosnia slightly injured eight workers late Tuesday, local television reported citing officials.
The blast at the plant in the northern town of Brod, on the border with Croatia, occurred around 1930 GMT (9:30 pm), RTRS television reported, citing the head of the municipality, Ilija Jovicic.
The cause of the explosion at Bosnia's sole oil refinery, which sparked a fire, was not immediately known.
Firefighters were sent to the scene and brought the blaze under control, RTRS reported.
Eight workers, who sustained minor injuries, were treated by the local health centre, its head Zoran Predojevic told RTRS.
The Russian state-controlled Zarubezneft oil company holds a majority stake in the Brod | 168 |
What to Expect When United Technologies Releases Q3 Results
United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) is scheduled to report its most recent quarterly results before the opening bell on Tuesday. The consensus estimates are $2.03 in earnings per share (EPS) and $19.3 billion in revenue. In the third quarter of last year, the conglomerate said it had $1.93 in EPS and $16.51 billion in revenue.
In the second quarter, the company's acquisition of Rockwell Collins added 13 percentage points to the company's 18% year-over-year revenue gain. Another six points of growth was organic, and both were offset by a one-point foreign exchange headwind.
At the same time, Collins Aerospace commercial aftermarket (parts) sales jumped 75% and 18% organically. The segment's profit margin rose year over year from 14.4% to 17.8%, and operating profit more than doubled from $569 million to $1.17 billion.
Also, the Pratt & Whitney jet engine segment posted sales of $5.15 billion, up 8.7% compared with $4.74 billion in the year-ago quarter, and operating profit was up 6.8% to $424 million on a profit margin of 8.2%.
As for United Technologies on a longer-term scale, the company's pending merger with Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) is also likely to move Raytheon shares in tandem. The merger is set as a merger of equals, but it is<|fim_middle|> in defense and aerospace rather than a complicated conglomerate.
Excluding Monday's move, United Tech had outperformed the broad markets, with its stock up about 28.5% year to date. However, in the past 52 weeks, the stock was up only 5%.
A few analysts weighed in on the stock ahead of the results:
JPMorgan has an Overweight rating and a $155 price target.
Credit Suisse has an Outperform rating with a $164 price target.
Wolfe Research's Buy rating comes with a $152 target price.
Sanford Bernstein rates it as Market Perform with a $154 target.
Cowen has a Buy rating with a $150 target price.
William Blair has a Hold rating.
Shares of United Tech traded up about 1% at $138.39 on Monday, in a 52-week range of $100.48 to $144.40. The consensus price target is $155.47.
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It is most likely a topic you have, at some point, discussed with your friends and family, so we put the question to Rovers fans to collate an all-time<|fim_middle|> sense to partner him with the man who stood by his side and tore up Premier League defences as a partnership back in 1995.
Sutton became the most expensive player in English football when he joined Rovers in 1994 and was worth every penny as he contributed 15 goals to help Rovers to the title. | Blackburn Rovers XI.
The question, posed on @RoversTweet on Twitter, was for fans to vote for their favourite players from the Premier League era in a flat 4-4-2 formation - and there was some surprising results.
Joining on a free transfer, Friedel spent eight years at Rovers and lifted silverware as Blackburn Rovers' Number 1. The former USA international, who gained 82 caps, won the League Cup in 2002 and went on to represent Blackburn in the Europa League.
He even managed to get on the scoresheet during his time at Rovers, getting a 90th-minute equaliser at Charlton in 2004, only to concede again moments later.
The shot-stopper beat the likes of Premier League winner Tim Flowers to represent Rovers with a staggering 90 per cent of 406 votes.
Perhaps a surprise inclusion, Salgado beat the likes of Henning Berg and Lucas Neill to the right-back spot.
Don't get me wrong, the decorated footballer spent 10 years at Real Madrid and won countless trophies a a member of the Galacticos.
And his time at Ewood wasn't too shabby either, on a personal level, but the then 34-year-old was a part of the Steve Kean era which eventually saw Blackburn Rovers relegated - although he was dropped from the side in controversial circumstances.
Salgado amassed 45 per cent of votes, with Neil pipping Berg for second place.
Braveheart at the back, Hendry was a huge part of the success built by Jack Walker in the 1990s, helping the club achieve promotion to and winning the Premier League.
The central defender received 45 per cent of votes from Rovers fans as our first choice centre-half.
Ryan Nelsen meanwhile was a part of Blackburn's European exploits and beat the likes of central-defensive partner Chris Samba to stand alongside Hendry, receiving 43 per cent of votes.
The no-nonsense partnership would battle it out for the armband and, although not the fastest pair we could have had at the heart of defence, it is hard to disagree with the colossal ability the pairing possessed.
Another Premier League winner, Le Saux faced stiff competition with the likes of popular left-backs Stephen Warnock and Martin Olsson competing for the spot.
Le Saux, though, gained 49 per cent of the vote and was a part of the Premier League team of the year for the 1994-95 season.
He is, not so fondly, remembered for his bust up with team-mate David Batty in the Champions League match against Spartak Moscow though, but this did not damage his chances of claiming a place in the fans' hearts.
Featuring two loans and one permanent stint in East Lancashire, Bentley was the fans choice to rip up the right-hand side rather than Stuart Ripley and Brett Emerton, gaining 53 per cent of votes.
Bentley first joined on loan from Arsenal before securing a permanent transfer. He returned the favour for the faith put in him by hitting a hat-trick against Manchester United in his first game.
The winger eventually went on to pastures new at Tottenham Hotspur, commanding a £15million fee, but his career soon fizzled out and he concentrated on his restaurant venture in Marbella after falling out of love with the game.
He may have only scored 11 goals for Rovers, but you can guarantee every one Tugay hit was an absolute screamer, a main factor in the reason he got 79 per cent of votes for the first central midfield slot.
Mark Noble once described the midfield maestro as the best player he had come up against, the Turkish international had a grace of quality not many Rovers fans have seen before - earning him the vote as the second ever greatest football at Ewood Park by the fans.
His partner, David Dunn, needs no introduction as the local lad put his best years in at Ewood Park and pipped Tim Sherwood, captain of the title winning squad, to play in the centre of the park.
Dunn, who got 53 per cent of votes for the second central midfield position, is well remembered for priceless moments against bitter rivals Burnley, including the 'debatable' offside strike in 2013 to continue Blackburn's then impressive run against the Clarets. Luckily for him, his failed Rabona trick came in the blue of Birmingham, so it doesn't make the list.
Naturally a right-footed winger, Pedersen's father and then footballer Ernst Pedersen trained his son to become stronger on his left side due to the fierce competition down the right.
Not only did he become competent on that side, it became a wand of a foot that earned him 54 per cent of the votes from Blackburn fans ahead of the likes of Damien Duff, who had a brilliant few years at Rovers before joining Chelsea and going on to win countless trophies.
Pedersen hit 35 goals in 288 appearances for Rovers and his trademark set-pieces had the Ewood faithful on their feet time and time again.
It is hardly surprising that this title-winning strike force, dubbed the SAS, topped the charts in term of Rovers' forwards.
And we've had some good ones. Andy Cole, Roque Santa Cruz, Benni McCarthy, Matt Jansen... the list could go on.
Shearer, the PFA Player of the Year in 1995 and all-time Premier League top scorer, earned 97 per cent of the votes and stands in Rovers' folklore as the greatest ever player to wear the shirt.
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