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Entering car zero: the first Bentley blower in 90 years and the first pre-war continuation series in the world
Bentley Car Zero Blower car
ZTSG 21/04/2022 New energy 195
Car Zero was created by Bentley Mulliner and is the first brand new Blower since 1930.Handcrafted from original drawings by in-house techs and British suppliers.An extensive testing and durability pro...
Car Zero was created by Bentley Mulliner and is the first brand new Blower since 1930.
Handcrafted from original drawings by in-house techs and British suppliers.
An extensive testing and durability program is set to begin, including top speed runs.
Bentley has gone and done the most Bentley thing imaginable: They brought back the Blower. No, not a modern, updated version of the car that put them on the map, the "Blower" Bentley from the late 1920s. They've gone and remade the old Blower as a continuation car. This is a very cool move.
For those not in the know, cars like this are basically another production run – or a continuation of a production run – of a famous car from the past. The people best known for this are Shelby, who has made limited runs of the Cobra from the 1960s. Continuation cars are usually not something done by "respectable" car companies, especially car companies like, well, Bentley. But huzzah, someone must have slipped some tipple into Bentley's tea because check this monster out.
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It's just like what the legendary Sir Henry 'Tim' Birkin raced at Le Mans in the late 1920s. And I mean just like the 90-year-old car. Bentley designed and hand-crafted nearly 2,000 parts and put in more than 40,000 hours of work before they were finished with what they call Car Zero, the prototype for the Blower Continuation Series.
The Blower Continuation Series is a limited production run of just 12 customer-specified cars. All have been pre-sold, so don't even think of bothering your local dealer. Car Zero is just like the 12 that will find their way into the lucky hands of Bentley collectors.
It is crafted from the original design drawings and uses the same tooling jigs for the original four Blowers built and raced by Birkin. Bentley's own Team Car served as the master model for the Continuation Series, with every single component laser-scanned as part of a "from the wheels up" restoration.
"The very latest digital design techniques came together with genuine artisanal hand-crafted artistry – often using manufacturing methods true to the 1920s," explained Bentley's Director of Mulliner, Paul Williams. "It's only through this fusion of old and new that we could craft these cars, with the skills of our engineers mirrored in those of our specialist suppliers."
Bentley Mulliner has finished the first prototype for the Blower Continuation Series. Photo: Bentley Motors.
From the laser scanned data, 1,846 individual parts were designed and handcrafted to create the "new" Blower. Each of these parts and assemblies was created by a project team of Bentley Mulliner engineers, craftspeople, and technicians working together with other British specialists and suppliers. "We've issued thousands of drawings and specifications for components, and watching them arrive into Mulliner and then seeing the car take shape has been hugely rewarding," Williams continued.
For example, the chassis has been forged in heavy-gauge steel, hand-formed and hot riveted by Israel Newton & Sons Ltd. The Vintage Car Radiator Company, based at Bicester Heritage, has crafted exact recreations of some of the Blower's key components – including the mirror-polished, solid nickel silver radiator shell and the hand-beaten fuel tank formed in steel and copper. The leaf springs and shackles have been made to original specifications by Jones Springs Ltd, a specialist in the West Midlands.
And finally, the building of the new 41⁄2-liter engine, originally designed by W.O Bentley, was done so under the supervision of NDR Ltd in Watford.
The new Blower engine with four valves per cylinder is an exact recreation of the engines that powered Tim Birkin's four Team Blowers in the late 1920s. Design features include aluminum pistons, an overhead camshaft, twin spark ignition, and a newly machined Amherst Villiers roots-type supercharger. Photo: Bentley Motors.
After all of that, Blower Car Zero is still just a factory test and development prototype and will be subjected to months of durability and performance testing. Unlike every other pre-production prototype I've ever seen, Car Zero looks fantastic. They are finished in gloss black, with an interior in Oxblood red leather from Bridge of Weir. Just like the original cars, the new Blower's seats are stuffed with 22 lbs. of natural horsehair.
Now that Car Zero has been rolled out, the next step will be a program of real-world durability testing. And Bentley isn't joking around with a series of top speed tests to check functionality and durability under ever more demanding conditions. The test program is designed to achieve the equivalent of nearly 22,000 miles of real-world driving, including nearly 5,000 miles of track driving. The track driving will mirror rallies such as Peking to Paris and Mille Miglia.
"Now we start the next phase," Williams said. "Testing and development, ahead of the build of the 12 customer cars."
And I love this bit from Bentley corporate: "The testing will also see a particularly brave driver taking the car to its top speed – with Adrian Hallmark first in the queue..."
Adrian Hallmark, in case you're wondering, is the CEO of Bentley. You gotta love a car company where the main man is in charge of details like this.
Tony Borroz has spent his entire life racing antique and sports cars. He is the author of Bricks & Bones: The Endearing Legacy and Nitty-Gritty Phenomenon of The Indy 500, available in paperback or Kindle format. Follow his work on Twitter: @TonyBorroz.
Photo and photo source: Bentley Motors.
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Original story by Alvin Plexico, Navy Office of Community<|fim_middle|>I get to see the officer world and take both and combine them and hopefully become a chief."
Kenny is a 2002 graduate of Old Rochester Regional High School and a 2006 graduate of Bristol Community College.
There are many sacrifices and goals one must achieve to be selected as an instructor and Kenny is most proud of being able to mentor and teach junior sailors.
"Being able to help someone else reach their goals is what I like to do," said Kenny. "Being able to see the smile on their face after an achievement brings happiness to me."
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"My town is a small town so everyone knows everyone," said Kenny. "Living aboard small confined spaces aboard ships, you have to apply those lessons to learn and work with everyone because that's all we got is each other."
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Celebrated Métis musician Ray St. German was one of the performers in the recent "From Paris to the Prairies" concert held at the Lorne Watson Recital hall.
BRANDON — Modern interpretation of traditional songs took centre stage at a special concert to showcase Métis songcraft. The concert, "From Paris to the Prairies," was arranged by Brandon University Professor Emerita Dr. Lynn Whidden, an ethnomusicologist whose teaching<|fim_middle|> a rich repertoire of songs from medieval France, from Parisian dance halls, from Quebec, and some created in the Northwest Territories.
The lyrics of traditional Métis songs are of great interest to historians.
The lyrics of old French songs on the prairies, some going back to the 17th century, also intrigue historians. They tell of local events as well as European heroes such as Napoleon, of the joy of love and "the bottle." Others are just plain funny: in "Le beau plumage" the singer, flouting his finery as "big bird" is shot in the tailfeathers by a hunter.
These old French songs were dramatically interpreted by Conlin Delbaere-Sawchuk with backup of a dozen Brandon University students. They skillfully negotiated many "rum-diddle-dum-deedle-deedle-deedle-dum-dums" and accompaniments that involved traditional and modern rhythms and instruments such as Indigenous drumming with electric keyboard and guitar sounds that propel these songs into the 21st century.
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The fiddle is a well-known cornerstone of the rich tradition of Métis music.
On stage at BU's Lorne Watson Recital Hall, listeners were treated to a prairie fusion sound coming from Métis song.
Now, Métis people have once again found their stride, taking pride in their Michif language, their culture and traditions, which draw on | 80 |
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To ring in<|fim_middle|> going for. Either way I'll be looking forward to more of these, if they continue.
I absolutely adore this new format. Of course we all listen to R5 for the fantastic audio drama, but, if it can't be done, why leave the feed (and your fans) feeling empty?
Good idea, hun. Real good idea.
Also, whatever happened to Conversations with Will? They were pretty entertaining, and I really loved the theme song you used for them.
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I very much so like the lite format. It works for me when I don't have much time to be listing to stuff. I don't think you lost anything either, it did just seem like taking a segment of the longer shows and making it stand alone; which I think is a good thing, not sure if that is what you were | 208 |
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The Watershed
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Rich DiPaolo, June 6, 2019 | moment happened in the career of John Tankersley, majority shareholder of Florida Carwash Enterprises, dba The Watershed, over a decade ago when watching television — only, he didn't know it yet.
At the time, Tankersley was watching Real Sports, the HBO sports journalism series, and this particular episode happened to profile Lenny Dykstra, a former baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets. As Tankersley recalls, the profile explained how, after a bout of financial mismanagement, Dykstra used what proceeds remained from his major league baseball career to buy some land and build a carwash. The business proliferated into several stores, and in the end, Tankersley recollects, Dykstra sold the carwashes for more than he had made in his major league career.
"And so, I thought to myself, 'If Lenny can do this, I can do this,'" Tankersley recounts.
Don't quit your day job — sell it
Unfortunately, it would be well over a decade before Tankersley's carwash plans came to fruition. In 2007, Tankersley and a group of other interested businessmen got together to try to start the business. However, Tankersley couldn't get the bank to agree on how to manage the ground lease and equipment funding, which slowed down the process. Then, the Great Recession hit, and the group had to table the idea for the time being.
Around a decade later, Tankersley started trying to figure out what the next career phase of his life would be. He and his business partner owned a property and casualty insurance agency, and as Tankersley revisited the prospect of owning a carwash, he discovered that the two businesses shared very similar revenue models.
According to Tankersley, "The revenue model for a carwash actually emulates the revenue on a property and casualty insurance agency. A large part of the property and casualty insurance agency revenue is residual income. Well, the residual income with the carwash model is club members that reoccur every month and also the appreciation of the real estate, if you're not on a ground lease. It was attractive to me because it was something that was new and different. It was something that I tried to do in the past, [and], once I had the ability to do it, I dived right in."
So, Tankersley and his business partner sold the insurance agency to an agency conglomerate, and while Tankersley still retains employment there for his day job, he used the funds from the sale to find a site for the carwash and build it. Finally, after years of laying as a stagnant idea in Tankersley's mind, The Watershed opened its doors on Aug. 3, 2018 in Kissimmee, Florida.
Let the customer create the experience
For Tankersley, creating The Watershed has been about creating an all-encompassing experience for the customer, no matter what service tier he or she purchases. If a customer only feels the need to purchase a basic wash and use the free vacuums, Tankersley wants that customer to feel that the wash was worth the price. The same goes for the customers who buy the premium packages.
Delivering that experience starts with the equipment. As a brand-new wash, Watershed invested in all-new, state-of-the-art equipment. "We don't want to have to retrofit this wash in two years or five years. We want this to be the leading edge stuff," Tankersley notes.
Customers can begin their experience by using the designated self-serve bug prep stations before the tunnel. Then, they will proceed into the tunnel itself, which is 130 feet long and features a stimulating LED light show. The light show has a two-fold purpose of entertaining the customers while also highlighting the wash processes, allowing customers to see exactly how their cars are getting cleaned. At the end of the tunnel is buff 'n' shine equipment and automatic tire shiner, which Tankersley says is still somewhat rare to see in the industry.
After exiting the tunnel, customers can park in one of 27 free vacuum stalls. The dual vacuum drops feature two types of nozzles: the classic triangular head for carpet and upholstery cleaning as well as a narrow, single-edged nozzle to get into crevices. Each stall also has a compressed air gun, the original purpose of which was to allow customers to blow out crevices in the car, but Tankersley has also been pleasantly surprised to find several customers lifting up their hoods and blowing out their engine compartments. To him, such behavior has reinforced the fact that this is a niche but desired feature. The vacuum area also has automated mat cleaners with options to shampoo and dry floor mats.
As if that weren't enough, there are also designated vacuum stalls just for those who purchase the premium packages. Watershed calls these the "red carpet" areas, where customers have access to carts with towels, window cleaner and tire shine. Tankersley has seen people detail their cars for 30 to 45 minutes in these stalls, but that doesn't bother him in the least.
Whether it's a quick in-and-out or a self-detailing session, Tankersley says, "We want to try to give the customer the ability to have the level of customer experience that they choose. We want folks to come in and pay a fair price and get a quality wash that's actually going to last more than just a couple of days. And, we want these folks to have the ability to be as comprehensive [as they want] with the type of wash that they want for their car."
Watershed also adds on special experiences for the holidays. For instance, the company had a trunk or treat at Halloween, elves who gave out candy canes at Christmas, roses on Valentine's Day and an Easter promo. "We incorporate all the major holidays because people are happier [during these times of the year], and they look forward to something, and so we want the carwash to be part of that," Tankersley explains.
Part of the community
Community has always been of utmost importance to The Watershed, whether it be the environment itself or the people living there.
For instance, from the very beginning in developing the site and building the carwash, Watershed sought to be eco-friendly. Recycled material was used in the building construction, and concrete was poured for the parking lot, sidewalks and easements in lieu of asphalt. Watershed also reclaims a significant portion of its water and has a self-cleaning pit.
Leaving as little an environmental footprint as possible is only one way that Watershed contributes to the community. What Watershed truly takes pride in is being a business that provides both employment and services to the area.
Tankersley considers the carwash's staff as part of his family. Watershed employs four or five full-time workers, who make a living from these jobs, as well as three to four student-age part-timers. The community is predominantly Hispanic, so the vast majority of Watershed employees are bilingual. However, the best thing about the employees, Tankersley notes, is how they care about the carwash like it is their own and want to help it thrive.
"I think the thing that's important to know as a new carwash operator was a lot of the feedback that we got where we could make things better at a much more expeditious fashion [came from] listening to our employees," Tankersley asserts. "They've come up with wonderful ideas on the red carpet treatment that the folks have. They came up with ideas on a new menu item that was introduced, which was based solely on feedback from customers."
Tankersley and The Watershed's workers have also established friendly relationships with their other commercial neighbors — the 7-Eleven, the Walmart, the ice cream parlor and even the funeral home.
And, when Tankersley walks his lot and talks to customers, asking them how they feel about the carwash and any improvements they might suggest, he says, "The overwhelming response I get is this is a good business and, 'You guys are doing a good job,' and 'We appreciate you being here.' And so that to me is very self-actualizing," Tankersley confides.
A word to the wise
Every carwash operator faces challenges, but the ones new operators face are especially unique. According to Tankersley, there were two challenges in particular that, though he originally felt sufficiently prepared for, showed him that he truly did not know what to expect until they happened.
The first challenge he came across was developing a raw land purchase. The most unexpected anecdote that he recalls is that, about a month before the carwash opened, the developers discovered a large pipe underground on the outparcel. However, neither the civil engineers, local water authority nor even the municipality itself knew what it was, for it was not outlined on any of their plans. After all this back-and-forth, they ended up having to cap and remove the pipe, which ended up costing an extra $6,000 or $7,000.
"And so you can laugh about it or cry about it," Tankersley says in regards to such unexpected problems. "We laughed. The challenges of site development were certainly something that was, 'You don't know what you don't know until you know it.'"
The second challenge, Tankersley states, was understanding the sheer scope of maintenance involved in a tunnel carwash.
"As a new operator, we think to ourselves, 'Well, this is new equipment — it's under warranty; there's not going to be a lot of wrenches that you have to turn in the tunnel.' But what I've found is that it's a chain reaction inside the tunnel. If one part of the tunnel — a piece of equipment or calibration device is off … you have to address it, and if you don't, it affects the entire tunnel very soon."
It came as a shock, at first, that they were undergoing so much maintenance (aside from just cleaning the tunnel) every week, but Tankersley now understands how important it is that everything must be measured and checked to maintain consistency and to keep everything in proper working order.
However, every challenge has its rewards, and for Tankersley, the rewards of starting a carwash have been the ties to the community that The Watershed has created.
"The most rewarding thing for me is, it's really cool … as a business owner to pull up on your site and you see the vacuum bays packed, and you're not just calculating the revenue in your head that day, but what you're doing is you're looking at how [you've] become … a really good neighbor in the community," he says.
Of course, Tankersley also admits that while they've done a lot of things right, he's still learning as he goes, and he knows there are things they can and will do better. "And, I will say that the cooperation that I've gotten from other carwash operators in terms of them giving me advice and trying to steer me in the right direction one way or the other has been overwhelmingly positive," he adds.
So far, The Watershed has been a success this year, with each month being more profitable than the last, save for one. This success and the joys that have come with owning a carwash have given Tankersley a new dream for the future.
"I can honestly say I hope that I have the opportunity to have another site. I hope I have the opportunity to have multiple locations," Tankersley concludes.
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Top 5 tips on taking better photos of your kids... and organizing and sharing your photos too!
Originally given as a live webinar, this FREE<|fim_middle|> and joy! You are delicious and adorable!
I've lived in New York City for over twenty years and I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't think I've actually ever been to the American Museum of Natural History before!
That exhibit could pretty much have been the whole trip, except of course we had to then go and visit all the classics - the elephants, the whale, and of course the dinosaurs.
I think Liam was already in overload by the time we made it to the dinosaurs and Carolyn and I were more in awe than he was, but he's been talking about the museum all week and asking to go again, so I would say the visit was a big hit!
Anyone who knows me knows that I am rather partial to chocolate. Liam has apparently inherited this preference from me, whether genetically or by osmosis or both, who knows.
In fact, he recently informed me: "Mama, lemonade doesn't have chocolate, so it's not a treat" meaning "I will only accept bribes that contain chocolate."
Now, I happen to also be rather partial to lemonade but I can't really fault his philosophy!
Friday was a very special day. Liam and I had our first adventure into the city in almost two years (I was pregnant last year and didn't want to risk being stranded on the subway due to a broken elevator and having to carry him up or down the stairs).
We went to the New York City Fire Museum first, then headed to Moomah Cafe for lunch and a special treat - Three Twins Bittersweet Chocolate Ice cream.
Fortunately for Liam, I was so busy taking photos of him eating it that I didn't have time for more than a few bites myself.
Definitely delish though and I would say that Liam was one happy customer!
Thank you Liam and Jack for making me a mother.
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Sometimes photographing your own kids is easier than photographing someone else's... and sometimes it isn't. Trying to corale a rambunctious three year old with his six month old baby brother to capture both of them smiling sweetly and looking at the camera definitely falls under the category of "isn't"!
Last Friday, a last minute sitter cancellation and 98F weather meant I was unexpectedly at home in the morning with the two boys. Liam wanted to hold Jack, which I have become increasingly more comfortable with as Jack becomes more robust and self-supporting, so I thought, hey, why not try for that quintessential sibling portrait?
To be honest, my efforts have been somewhat weak in this area to date, Friday being my first semi-serious attempt at a more "formal" portrait of the two of them together, and, well, it was total chaos! Hilarious chaos, but basically, it was a complete disaster. Liam would barely cooperate and when he did, Jack wouldn't.
But then I captured this photo and it was all worth it. It wasn't what I had in mind, it wasn't the quintessential sibling portrait... but it's even better! To me, this photo captures their personalities, the reality of parenting a toddler and a baby, and what was going on at the time. It's cute, it's real, and as a mom, I couldn't have hoped for a better outcome and it's now the cover photo for my personal facebook profile!
Plus the "outtakes" from the session are hilarious and PURE GOLD! I will definitely be using them as material for The Photosanity Workshop!
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Jack is five months old. Actually he's almost six months old but let's just say he's five months old because the time is starting to pass so quickly!
Things are definitely getting so much easier than those first few newborn months. In fact, although every age is the perfect age in some way, this age might just be the most perfect perfect age. Pay Jack just a little bit of attention and he will reward you with lovely smiles that make you feel like you're the greatest thing since sliced bread. Put just a little bit more effort into it and he will giggle and laugh like you are the most hilarious thing in the world. He barely cries these days (I think Liam cries more) and he's not yet crawling or getting into things or having tantrums.
Jack, you are amazing. Thank your for brightening my days with your own special brand of sunshine | 646 |
Now, maybe you've never eaten a southern tomato pie and if you haven't? You don't have any time to waste because it must be made with the freshest possible summer tomatoes. There are about 6-10 weeks in the summer when this is possible.
Tomato Pie is a very seasonal recipe.
Tomato Pie requires very few ingredients and none that are exotic.
Tomato Pie is like so many other southern recipes, as common to the southern cook as cornbread, fried okra, steamed crowder peas, squash casserole and fried green tomatoes.
The origins are obscure, some think variations of Tomato Pies began in the early 1800's, others think it became more common in the 1940's.
Still others think it was a ladies' luncheon food, had to be served right away and then we're back to the seasonal aspect- a short season for making them.
And there is this- some Southerners have never even heard of tomato pies.
I've recently been told by a friend that at an upscale farmers' market- she recently purchased a tomato pie. I'm told tomato pies seem to be too labor intensive, I personally think it just falls in that category of how much you want one and are willing to take the time to make a tomato pie. There's even a few shortcuts that can help you make one a bit faster, like using a purchased pie crust and bagged grated sharp cheddar cheese.
Folks in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama seem to know about tomato pies. Here's the thing about a tomato pie that I find interesting… Tomato pies are equally at home on the brunch table, a ladies luncheon or Sunday Dinner; make one and put a simple salad on the side and it's a full meal, or fry up some pork chops, steam crowder peas, slice up some fresh cucumbers and sweet onions- maybe add a jalapeno pepper on the side and it's one of our famous Southern Plate lunches.
For Sunday Dinner it's equally good with fried chicken or baked ham, tiny yeast rolls and fresh cooked pole beans or baby lima beans. Tomato Pie has enough confidence to sit alongside flash fried softshell crab, pickled shrimp or broiled red snapper for an elegant meal. Crumble crunchy bacon in it or over the top and you have a delicious variation of Tomato Pie.
I had some fresh grown tomatoes<|fim_middle|> really good. Time to hit the farmers' market.
Ok, it's done! And tasted. And loved! I posted about my (lesser) version. Thank you again for the inspiration!
🙂 It looks so good!
But Sis' pie sounds scrumptious!!
Aw of course not! But now you know…hope you'll try one!
Oh my! I am going to have to try this! I love tomatoes! | in our garden – our regular summer tomatoes and some very special San Marzano tomatoes, which we grew for the first time this year! Some use heirloom tomatoes in various colors. The main thing is- use fresh summer tomatoes, peel and drain well! Others add a bit of finely chopped garlic and vary the herbs- but please don't mess with it too much! And as I mentioned before- feel free to fry several slices of good bacon and add to the pie or crumble on top before it's served. This recipe also makes very good tartlets using very small tomatoes, like these cherry tomatoes and a cupcake pan- yield is about a dozen, great for serving a crowd! I did double this recipe to make two pies and it worked fine.
A reminder, you don't have much time left this summer to make a tomato pie, but if you do- I hope you'll try my Sister's Tomato Pie… it's southern and it's so good!
That looks delicious Camellia !
Looks absolutely delicious and I will definitely give this a shot next summer with our garden grown tomatoes.
I love fresh tomatoes – and, of course, cheese :-). This looks | 237 |
Rick Mercer Quotes
List of quotations by the canadian comedian Rick Mercer on topics like people, minute, vote
I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.
— Rick Mercer in gay quotes
It's a brave new world.<|fim_middle|> going to be the victim.
— Rick Mercer in networks quotes
Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.
— Rick Mercer in afraid quotes
In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States.
We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.
I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.
— Rick Mercer in accept quotes
The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away.
On my job I end up jumping out of planes.
Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.
— Rick Mercer in bottom quotes
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country quotes | I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
— Rick Mercer in brave quotes
And under our system, much like you see in the U.
K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.
— Rick Mercer in coalition quotes
Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.
— Rick Mercer in american quotes
Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.
— Rick Mercer in canada quotes
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This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you.
I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.
— Rick Mercer in individual quotes
Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
— Rick Mercer in democracy quotes
I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.
— Rick Mercer in amazing quotes
I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.
— Rick Mercer in equal quotes
I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
— Rick Mercer in beat quotes
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
— Rick Mercer in dying quotes
About Rick Mercer
Name Rick Mercer
Quotes 26 quotations by Rick Mercer
Nationality Canadian quotes
Profession Comedian quotes
Birthday October 16
Topics people, minute, vote, united, election
It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.
— Rick Mercer in gonna quotes
And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.
— Rick Mercer in admission quotes
You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
— Rick Mercer in conservatives quotes
If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.
— Rick Mercer in cup quotes
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In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
— Rick Mercer in believed quotes
Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.
— Rick Mercer in america quotes
I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.
— Rick Mercer in bed quotes
And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.
— Rick Mercer in assume quotes
The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is | 860 |
The Fife Pilgrim Way
The Pilgrim Kingdom
For 400 years, St Andrews was one of the main pilgrimage destinations in Medieval Europe. Rich and poor flocked to be near the bones of St Andrew, one of Jesus' disciples. This was considered to be the next best thing to being in the Holy Land and walking in the footsteps of Jesus himself. St Andrews joined ranks in terms of importance with the popular disciple destinations of Rome (St Peter) and Santiago de Compostela (St James the Great).
Across the heart of Scotland – The Pilgrim Kingdom
St Andrews may have been the main attraction, but pilgrims were also drawn to Dunfermline to visit St Margaret's miraculous shrine within the beautiful Dunfermline Abbey a burial place for Kings and which has seen worshiping since 1072. A host of other saints were represented by churches, chapels and healing wells along the road to St Andrews. These provided perfect places to pause, as well as important destinations in their own right for local pilgrims.
Dunfermline Abbey and Palace (1072)
Pilgrimage made a permanent mark on the landscape of Fife. Many of its roads, bridges and crossing points, including the famous Queen's Ferry, were created hundreds of years ago to ease the way for the steady stream of pilgrims. Inns, chapels and almshouses were also built to offer the travellers a place to rest, refresh and receive medical help. Providing these facilities was considered an act of piety that helped to smooth the path to Heaven. Pilgrimage changed the face of Fife forever and earned it the nickname of the 'Pilgrim Kingdom'.
The Fife Pilgrim Way follows one of the routes taken by countless pilgrims to Scotland's holy hot-spot.
For more information head to the Fife Pilgrims Way website.
The Fife Pilgrim Way was re-opened in July 2019, connecting West Fife with East Fife via routes used by medieval pilgrims. The overall route brings together a network of existing paths, tracks, core paths and rights of way into a single journey across the heart of Fife. During Lockdown the Guardian sent their reporter along the 52mile route, read his full reflection here.
The route described below is split into 7 convenient sections to do together or separately, each between<|fim_middle|> and Queen Margaret, who was later made a saint.
Many miracles are recorded as having taken place close to St Margaret's shrine, and a number of Scottish queens wore her shirt for protection during childbirth. Medieval pilgrims who visited the abbey on her feast day of 16 November were promised a smoother journey to heaven. This made the arduous journey of pilgrimage worthwhile.
A number of other local sites associated with pilgrimage and Saint Margaret may still be visited today. These include the Head Well, Saint Margaret's Stone and St Margaret's Cave, where the Queen is said to have rested and prayed respectively.
7th June 2020 a Joint Service to celebrate the Pilgrimage and St Margaret
Holy Trinity Dunfermline
The pilgrim routes passes our church
Holy Trinity Dunfermline sits right on the route itself. The East Port (named after the old eastern portcullis entrance to the formally walled medieval part of the town) of Dunfermline is an area of the centre with a collection of churches built in the 1800s, St Margarets Memorial Catholic Church (1896), Viewfield Baptist Church (1884) and Holy Trinity Dunfermline – Scottish Episcopal Church (1891).
If you or your church group would like us to open the church for worship please get in touch. The church is open throughout the week, more details of this and our regular services can be found on this website and we are hoping to extend our opening times to suit pilgrims arriving and leaving Dunfermline.
The church also has a large hall, sun-trap enclosed garden, two toilets and a big modern kitchen. If you or your group would like to use the hall for accomodation please get in touch.
Future plans: in 2019 the vestry committed to improvements to the building, this included wi-fi, upgraded sound, new signage and a new porch entrance. The initial work is all now complete (Summer 2021), and in the future we hope to be able to improve our facilities further to better accommodate the needs of pilgrims. | 8 and 11 miles (12-18km). Each start and end point is linked by a single bus service making it easy to do a one way walk whilst leaving a car at one end.
The route is waymarked throughout it's length though some of the waymarkers can be a bit subtle in built up areas this is being improved upon each month.
Much of the route is on hard surfaces (over a third is on road and pavement), hence trainers may be a better choice than boots for footwear. However, there are some unsurfaced path sections and a couple of field edges where the route could be a bit muddy after rain. It is to be hoped that in time, as the route matures, pavement/road walking will be replaced with off-road sections. The description below includes suggestions of alternative routes to miss out some of the road and town walking. For a review of the whole route and the highlights associates have a look at this helpful guide.
The historic town of Dunfermline has been a chief draw for pilgrims to Fife for centuries. Immerse yourself in its history and hospitality before following the route through the beautiful backdrops of Loch Fitty and Blairadam Forest.
HTD at the heart of the Fife Pilgrim Way
For hundreds of years Dunfermline has provided countless pilgrims with an inspiring destination. Its magnificent abbey is the burial place of many of Scotland's kings and queens, including King Robert the Bruce | 299 |
Cubicles That Make You Envy the Dead
"The cartoon hero of the workplace" --San Francisco Examiner
Dilbert is the cubicle-bound star of the most photocopied, pinned-up, downloaded, faxed, and e-mailed comic strip in the world.As fresh a look at the inanity of office life as it brought to the comics pages when<|fim_middle|>ls Before Swine, has sold through four printings.
This Little Piggy Stayed Home continues the adventures of Rat and Pig, two characters who couldn't be more different-or more surprising. Rat is your typical Every Rodent: scheming, self-centered, and more than occasionally manipulative. By contrast, Pig is sensitive, kind, and-even on his best days-just plain stupid. Together with Zebra and Goat, they confront the strange and wonderful world around them, a place that looks suspiciously like our own.
By turns thoughtful and subversive, silly and sophisticated, This Little Piggy Stayed Home is one of the funniest comic collections out there.
This Little Piggy Stayed Home
Patrick McDonnell possesses an elegance of line and narrative that both transcends and defines his medium. His artistry is in his Zen-like clarity, his simple direct address, and his unique understanding of the essential animal-human continuum. When one experiences MUTTS, one experiences genius." -Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
"Dog-Eared"is exactly what this latest collection from cartoonist Patrick McDonnell is destined to become. The brilliant assortment of simple-yet-complex strips will have readers turning its pages again and again, eager to revisit the charm, truth, and humor found within.
McDonnell's strip, highlights the adventures of Earl the dog and Mooch the cat, best buddies who regularly come in contact with Shtinky Puddin', Sourpuss, Guard Dog, and Crabby-as well as an assortment of whimsically rendered humans. This cast is capable of endless antics, interspersed with poignant views on both the animal and human condition. And whether they're raiding garbage cans or basking in full-frontal belly rubs, Mooch and Earl always have a comment to clinch the scene.
MUTTS is the kind of strip that comic readers find irresistible. "Dog-Eared" is the same kind of collection. One strip leads to another, and before you know it you've turned page after dog-eared page to satisfy a growing MUTTS addiction.
Dog-Eared
Touching the hearts and tickling the funny bones of readers since 1971, Ziggy is a cultural icon. Who knows how many yellowed and curling clippings of the cartoon are displayed on refrigerators, computers, doors, and bulletin boards across America? Some of the most cherished panels are ones that feature Ziggy performing small acts of kindness and good works. The best of these are collected in the latest Ziggy book, Character Matters.
The charm of Ziggy is that he lives a sweetly simple life. Things often don't go his way, but he always perseveres and maintains his sunny outlook. Ziggy is Everyperson, the part of us that harbors warm feelings and good intentions, but sometimes gets stepped on by a reckless world. In the great tradition of Ben Franklin, Roy Rogers, and Forrest Gump, Ziggy delivers his own homespun philosophy and retains his individualism and character, regardless of the transforming forces at work in a swiftly changing world.
Comforted and inspired by his steadfastness, his tenacity, and his gentle spirit, Ziggy fans have been intensely loyal for over three decades. | it first appeared in 1989, this new Dilbert collection comically confirms to the working public that we all really know what's going on. Our devices might be more sophisticated, our software and apps might be more plentiful, but when it gets down to interactions between the worker bees and the clueless in-controls, discontent and sarcasm rule, as only Dilbert can proclaim.
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You have to wonder what kind of pets cartoonist Darby Conley had as a child. If they were anything like Bucky Katt and Satchel Pooch. . . well, life in the Conley house must have been interesting to say the least. The wacky triumvirate of Bucky, Satchel, and Rob are back in this Get Fuzzy collection,
Rob Wilco is the mild-mannered ad executive caretaker of Bucky and Satchel. Satchel is a sweet and naïve shar-pei-yellow-Lab cross, while Bucky is a Siamese with "cat-titude" to spare. Bucky and Satchel get along like, well, like cats and dogs. Like a beleaguered parent, Rob constantly must thwart Bucky's schemes and protect the unsuspecting Satchel. His pets' mischief continually disrupts his attempts to meet women. You try explaining to your date why your cat thinks he's a gangsta rapper and your dog is filming his ";crib" for MTV. Would anyone live with humans who behaved like this?
Bitingly funny with a wry sense of the absurdity of life with pets, Get Fuzzy appeals to everyone who has ever lived in a mixed-species household.
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The National Cartoonists Society nominated Pearls Before Swine as one of the best comic strips of 2002.
Pearls Before Swine is an impressive comic strip success story. After only a few years of syndication, it appears in more than 150 newspapers worldwide, was nominated as Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society in its debut year-an unprecedented achievement-and its first book collection, Pear | 445 |
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SIMPLY OUTSTANDING: Blue Bombers dominate CFL awards
"We won some awards tonight, which is pretty cool, but all that matters is Sunday. We have our eyes on that."
Tim Baines • Postmedia
Blue Bombers quarterback Zach Collaros was named the CFL's most outstanding player for 2021 after leading the league's top offence. Photo by KEVIN KING /Postmedia
HAMILTON — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers dominated the Canadian Football League Awards Friday night at the Hamilton Convention Centre, winning four of seven categories.
Bombers quarterback Zach Collaros was named the Most Outstanding Player, linebacker Adam Bighill was named Most Outstanding Defensive Player, Stanley Bryant was named Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman and Mike O'Shea was named Coach of the Year. Ottawa Redblacks' returner DeVonte Dedmon was named Most Outstanding Special Teams Player. B.C. Lions linebacker Jordan Williams was named Most Outstanding Rookie,and Lions linebacker Bo Lokombo was named Most Outstanding Canadian.
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Collaros led the Blue Bombers to the CFL's best record (11-3). He had a league-best 20 touchdown passes, throwing for 3,185 yards. In his 10th season, Collaros led the top-ranked offence to league highs in offensive points scored (322), offensive touchdowns (35), average gain per pass (8.4 yards) and passing efficiency (101.5). The 33-year-old is the first Blue Bomber to win the MOP award since receiver Milt Stegall in 2002. Collaros received 43 first-place votes out of 54 ballots completed.
"My time in the league has been an unbelievable ride," Collaros said. "What really sticks out are the people I've met along the way. It's not lost on me some of those guys who have won this thing. Warren Moon, Doug Flutie are people I looked up to growing up. Ricky Ray, being a teammate of his and somebody I really tried to emulate in my preparation and how<|fim_middle|>."
Tiger-Cats offensive lineman Chris Van Zeyl received the Jack Gaudaur Veterans' Award, given to a Canadian player who demonstrates the attributes of Canada's veterans: strength, perseverance, courage, comradeship and contribution to Canadian communities.
Ticats safety Mike Daly was named the winner of the Tom Pate Award. | he approached the game. There have been ups and downs … everybody has ups and downs, but I have an amazing support group. Being here with my wife, Nicole, she's been there with me through it all."
Bighill is the third player to win three Most Outstanding Defensive Player awards (also in 2015 and 2018). This season he had 70 defensive tackles, two sacks, two interceptions, two fumble recoveries and a touchdown. Winnipeg's defence led the CFL in fewest offensive points allowed (12.9), fewest offensive touchdowns (15) and most turnovers (38). Bighill received 42 first-place votes.
In just 14 games, Lokombo fell just five defensive tackles short of his career high of 71; his 66 ranked 10th in the league. He added 11 special-teams tackles, four quarterback sacks and three interceptions. Lokombo is the first Lion to be recognized as top Canadian since defensive lineman Ricky Foley in 2009.
Bryant was a rock on an offensive line that allowed a league-low 16 sacks and helped fuel an impressive running game. The Bombers finished first in rushing touchdowns (14) and second in rushing yards per game (119.7). He received 50 first-place votes.
"I don't know what to say. I'm grateful for the honour, to receive the award," Bryant said. "This is one of those things I never thought would happen."
Dedmon led the league in return touchdowns (three), punt-return yards (737), punt-return average (15.4), kickoff-return yards (1,223) and kickoff-return average (25.0). He had two punt return touchdowns (73 and 64 yards) and a touchdown on a kickoff return (100 yards). He received 46 first-place votes.
Williams led the Lions with 92 defensive tackles, second most in the CFL. The first-overall selection in the 2020 draft shattered O'Shea's Canadian-rookie record of 75 tackles. He had 46 first-place votes.
"What an honour," Williams said. "I'm the man who always says hard work and dedication will help get you where you want to get in life."
O'Shea, the coach when the Bombers won the Grey Cup in 2019, helped his team to a terrific regular season. With 47 first-place votes, he's the sixth Winnipeg coach to win the award, but the first in 20 years.
Collaros and the Bombers have a bigger prize in mind: They play in Sunday's Grey Cup game against the host Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
"The season is not over yet," Collaros said. "You go into training camp and you don't think about winning the MVP or the Most Outstanding Defensive Player or the Most Outstanding Lineman or Most Outstanding Coach. You have one goal in mind: the Grey Cup. Along the way, you have these little checkmarks and goals to accomplish. The process has been great so far. We won some awards tonight, which is pretty cool, but all that matters is Sunday. We have our eyes on that | 680 |
My white boards cried when I finally erased their notes from the day (or was that me?), and if I try hard enough, I can see a flash of Ron writing them in my memory. Another flash I can still conjure is of Kaveh's rocking back and forth, as if possessed by language, reading from his book. I try to summon the images repeatedly, try to tap back into the energy and wonder of it all, as I write this post. I know I can never do it justice; I will never be able to explain the magic that happened just a few days ago, but I am certain that the magic I'm speaking of is out there, being carried around inside of my students. The room has lingerings of the energy created by the fusion of Ron and Kaveh and my kids – an energy I want to nurture and sustain as long as possible. I almost want to stop writing, because maybe if I write it all down, it will somehow be over.
A little context for this event: my students had just finished reading Reliquaria by RA Villanueva and Portrait of the Alcoholic by Kaveh Akbar. Kaveh has a newer, full collection out, Calling<|fim_middle|> students afterward, some of them preferred the more open nature of crafting a poem using Kaveh's method, while others preferred to have more structure using Ron's method.
After some time spent writing, our next activity had us in groups of 3. We listened to an audio of Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer creating an improvisational poem (one word at a time and taking turns) titled "Laundromat of the Cosmos." As we listened, Kaveh transcribed the poem (our mentor text) on the board, modeling the role of the third person in group. Two of us took turns playing the poets, while the third assigned the topic for the poem and transcribed.
Anyone can write. About anything.
After lunch and taking a group pic, we headed back as one big group for a reading. Ron went first, and I am kicking myself now for not recording the titles of all of the poems they read, but I'll do my best to remember. Ron started with "Fish Heads," then "You Will Drown for Poems, lead us is a choral reading of "Mass," and also read a new poem "Damnatio Memoriae" which was just featured in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month. Ron read one of Kaveh's poems, too.
Each poet read for about 20 minutes, then we moved right into the Q & A. We got through several questions, but I'm pretty sure everyone wishes we had more time because it was a special opportunity to be able to ask them our questions in such an intimate setting, and after we had shared the day together. I say share because that's how it felt – Ron and Kaveh are so down-to-earth, humble, and kind – they worked with us, shared the space of poetry, and treated us as equals.
We had moments of vulnerability, experimentation, wonder, laughter, and friendship. Turbo squishy.
During the workshops, I learned a lot about myself. Their workshops allowed me to stop, take a second, and reflect on my past experiences and emotions. It was therapeutic to write out and acknowledge these thoughts that often bounce off the sides of my skull. –Ashley T.
Special thank you to Kaveh Akbar, Ron Villanueva, Tabia Yapp of Beotis Creative (Kaveh's manager), and all the people at my school who helped make this special day happen: Valerie Norris, Warren Colby, Leslie McFarland, Shannon Stein, Craig Smith, the parent volunteers who brought in items, and especially those who helped set up breakfast and lunch: Ms. Chapman, Ms. Young, and Ms. Husak.
You can follow me on Twitter at @MelAlterSmith and please check out the hashtag #TeachLivingPoets. | a Wolf a Wolf, but that wasn't out yet when I had to order my books last summer. When choosing titles and ordering books all that time ago, I had a clear mission–to get these poets to come to my classroom and talk with my students. We had Skyped last year with Ron, and I had some interaction with Kaveh on Twitter, but I thought my mission was a little insane, and probably impossible.
Good thing I like a challenge.
We started the day with breakfast as a large group. I have 47 AP Literature students, plus a couple of talented writers I pulled from my Creative Writing class; we also welcomed Melissa Tucker's class from Rock Hill, SC. Ms. Tucker and I are both members of the #aplitchat PLN, and I'm so happy I was able to share this special day with her and her brilliant students. With such a large group, we had to split into halves for the morning workshops. Half of us started off with one poet, then we switched after a short break. To open each workshop, a student who had worked closely with each respective poet's work read an introduction about the poet. Thank you to Mary, Dominic, Janais, Genevieve, and Rhea for your beautiful introductions.
Ron started off his 90-minute workshop with a collection of 14 "catalysts" – little bits of texts and quotations about writing to get our minds engaged for the day.
As we read them out loud, he encouraged us to underline, circle, write notes in the margins, of words and phrases that stood out to us. Afterward, we discussed the catalysts as a collective to investigate the conversation they were having with each other, the threads running through them, and referring back to them for specific textual evidence.
Fun fact: RA Villanueva writes in all CAPS and has an unparalleled energy when he teaches.
(split in half) 1st: beautiful, joyful, wondrous things, people, or phenomena. 2nd: monstrous, terrifying, unsettling things, people, or phenomena.
We then flipped our papers over and drew a self-portrait of ourselves. I was reminded during this portion of the workshop that I can't draw. We got a good five minutes or so for this, so I actually had time to make two drawings, one more literal and one metaphorical. After drawing, we made a list of things we see in our illustrations – what did we include? Then a second list of things we left out. I included my spine, but no neck or hands? Interesting to consider why, which is what we were asked to do next.
We then watched this rehearsal excerpt from "Untitled America" featuring choreography by Kyle Abraham.
Title must be "Self-Portrait as _____" or "Self-Portrait with ____", use words from all 4 lists, the last word of the poem must rhyme with star. After writing for a while and wrapping up our poems, Ron informed us that this isn't the end of our poem, but instead a shift. Our next line had to signal the shift with using a transitional word (see #6 in the pic above). In this last section of the poem, he wanted us to consider the relationship between the video we watched, performance, dance, and music with our self-portraits.
To end the workshop, we went around the room and shared something out loud about our experience, whether it be our thoughts about the process of writing, sharing some of our poem, or stating something we learned in our time spent together.
For me personally, the 90-minutes flew by. Ron kept us at a swift pace, moving seamlessly from one activity to the next, but I never felt rushed. His energy was incredible, he kept us engaged the entire time, and we all walked out with a draft of a poem we felt proud of. In talking with my students afterward, they were surprised at how easy it was to write a poem in such a short amount of time, and how inspired and creative we felt heading into our next session.
Fun fact: Kaveh is filled with wonder by photosynthesis and laughter.
After a short break, we headed into Kaveh's session and started off with introductions, which included our name, preferred pronouns, and something that fills us with wonder. This was a brilliant way to start off the workshop because, not only did I learn new things about my students and their interests, but we very quickly created a community of inspired thinkers. Kaveh responded to each student's individual sense of wonder and followed up with a question or a comment, building bridges between himself and the students, as well as among the group by weaving our wonders together. It was basically a spider web of magic and awe by the time we got to the last person, which was me. Hi, Melissa Smith, she/her, the miracle of childbirth and the fact that I built a little skeleton inside me and a miniature human came out of me (twice) fills me with wonder.
Kaveh explained how the best poems orbit around a sense of amazement or marvel, and how "language orbits the nucleus of wonder." Poets use specific objects and images, a "cloud of particulars," to orbit the center of the poem, and it is "through these that we can shape or ascertain the nucleus." In other words, we don't just say "I am so sad my dog died" in a poem, but we use concrete images to shape a sadness.
In order to collect our own arsenal of images, we passed around books from my classroom collection of living poets' books. Students took a random book, opened to a random page, and wrote down the first word they saw. We spent a good amount of time with the book before we traded books with someone next to us; we traded 3 times. At first, it was a flurry of page turning and writing spurts, but as time went on, the page turning slowed down and we started reading more, spending more time on each page with each poem. It felt like a very organic process.
Once we had our papers filled with words and phrases (by connecting words together), it was time to draft a poem. We could add in words as we felt needed, and in comparison to Ron's workshop, there weren't really any constraints at all. Talking to | 1,300 |
This session of Super Puppy 1 will run from 30 January – 24 April 2019.
My Super Puppy class is designed with future agility stars in mind, but is a valuable addition to any training regimen for any dog, young or old.
This class will focus on strengthening the relationship between you and your dog through clicker tricks and foundation skills. A desire to train your dog using positive reinforcement is a must, and the ability to think outside the box is a step in the right direction. Join us as we shape the young minds of tomorrow's agility rockstars, one bit of body awareness at a time.
The tricks we will introduce will get the dog thinking, increasing proprioception, and strengthening their desire to work for you. You will get an outline of what to work on and why we are focusing on those skills every 2 weeks. Class will officially run for 12 weeks, with a potential 2 week "catch up" break added in for those that might need a little extra time.
You can ask questions when you are stumped, and videos you submit will help me give you ideas on how to improve or progress past a point where you might get stuck. Your videos don't have to be fancy or even edited (though cutting out the bits where you're off camera or getting more treats don't need to be included unless you think they're relevant in some way). I prefer of course to be able to hear when the clicks are happening, and anything you are saying to the dog (which in shaping should of course be minimal at first, besides giving praise) so videos without music overlay are preferred. If you have a YouTube account you can post these videos as unlisted so that only your fellow students and I can see your work, and then dazzle your subscribers with your finished product! You can also upload videos directly to the Facebook group and they will be<|fim_middle|> have learned. We are a team, and I know we would not be where we are today if it were not for Emily and her Super Puppy classes!!!
Tristan was my first puppy to ever go through Super Puppy with Emily. Previously, I started puppies in a traditional "puppy manners and socialization class" with very little emphasis put on future agility training. Those skills were reserved for the beginner's agility classes where the attendees in that class were of all ages and had various beginner skills geared toward agility. Super Puppy changed all that. Puppies are introduced to activities and skills that not only build them socially but also introduce them to body awareness, drive, speed and focus. Body awareness has never been made a priority in any puppy or beginner class I have ever taken. Super Puppy taught Tristan that he has four feet and that he can use those feet independently or they can work together. It taught him that he can control his body by finding balance, that he can control his speed and he can adjust his angles by focusing on his feet, rear, shoulders and head. All things that I really gave not much consideration to o before taking the Super Puppy class. I see a clear difference between Tristan and my other dog who did not go through Super Puppy. Tristan is more confident and conscience of his body and where he is in space. He is thoughtful as to where his feet are and where he places them. He is very focus forward and drives between obstacles because I believe he is more confident in the use of his space and body. Super Puppy gave him these skills and taught me that these skills are the foundation to building a successful and happy relationship with my agility dogs.
My Cardigan Welsh corgi, Franny, is the first puppy I've trained for agility, and I could not have done it without Emily's Super Puppy class. The emphasis on impulse control and clicker training/shaping gave Franny the very best foundation and I am truly grateful to Emily for all her help! Emily also gave us many helpful suggestions for specific focus issues we were having. Franny has been amazingly successful at everything she tries, and I have no doubt everything we worked on in Super Puppy class contributed to that. Even better, Franny's solid foundation work has given ME the confidence and joy I need to truly enjoy stepping up to the line with her for every run, and I can't thank Emily enough for that!
I was very fortunate that Emily was offering Super Puppy class when I got my Border Collie puppy Trillian. I was looking for fresh new ideas for my third agility dog, and this class was exactly what I needed!
For Trillian, I knew I wanted to learn how to channel her incredible speed and energy into learning, and we accomplished it in this class. Emily has such talent for keeping enthusiasm and drive high, while still having the dogs think and practice impulse control. When Trillian hit the agility ring for the first time, she was more than ready to take it all on and her success as a young dog has been astounding! | viewable only by me and your classmates.
This class has a limited number of openings and is being offered at $195 for workers, and $125 for active auditors (discussion but video). Workers will be able to send in an unlimited amount of video for review and assessment, and auditors will be able to join in group discussions as well as watch all of the videos that are submitted. This will be a Facebook-based class, so access to Facebook is a requirement.
Working spots in the Super Puppy 2 are also now available to anyone who participated in any of the previous offerings of Super Puppy class (working or auditing spot)! Auditing spots are open to everyone, but realize that this class expands on a lot of the behaviours we start in Super Puppy 1, so it is highly recommended to at least audit Super Puppy 1 before auditing Super Puppy 2.
I had recently moved back to the DFW area and got a puppy. Thief is my 3rd agility dog and when I found myself trying to decide where to train with her, I thought about Emily. We started Super Puppy classes when Thief was around 4 months old, we did Super Puppy 1 & 2, as well as the online course during a break in classes. What a blast and opportunity for me to grow on my agility journey it was!!! Focus was on building a solid relationship, a confident dog who loves to learn and for us to be having fun. Yep, all of that happened and more! We thrived, both of us! I learned how to work with the dog in front of me, she learned that playing with me was most excellent and we learned so many skills that gave us a fantastic foundation that we continue to build on in our weekly classes at EmDogs. My Super Puppy amazes me with her abilities every time we play, I am so impressed with all we | 383 |
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Review: Supersmall, "Silent Moon"
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"Schiller and Dempsey are one of those rare duos that captures two perfectly matched counterparts bringing out the best in each other. The strength of the songwriting and lyricism is almost a bonus; their individual performances are so charismatic<|fim_middle|>supersmallmusic.com/
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Artist: Supersmall
Album: Silent Moon
Genre: Rock / Folk
RIYL: Neil Finn, Colin Hay, Nick Drake, Glen Hansard
The last time we heard from Supersmall they had just release their debut album, 2013's This Other World. This record set the bar fairly high for a follow-up, landing them as one of our favorite indie releases from that year. So I pressed play with a sense of purposeful anticipation and just an extra ounce of hope that they'd pick up where they left off and move the needle even further with Silent Moon. I wasn't disappointed.
Irish singer-songwriter Colin Dempsey and Israeli percussionist Daniela Schiller have captured the same delightful voodoo that worked its magic so well with their previous release and exceeded expectations with Silent Moon. Where I heard jazzy and progressive rock influences in their previous work, they have fleshed those out and harnessed them with even more success. It's damn hard to create material that pulls successfully from one genre and breathes new life into it; so their ability to intertwine classic folk, jazz and prog rock with fluidity and a fresh take is what will continue to set them apart from their contemporaries.
The instrumental interplay between Dempsey's smooth vocals and prolific guitar work and Schiller's accomplished and compelling percussion lines makes for an undeniably appealing album. While this signature sound pervades the record, it's most uniquely evident on the fantastic "Free From Harm," the irrepressible "Take A Day Off," and the title track. In fact, it's wonderful to hear a title track that is such a great representation of the entire album, making it an obvious choice for a first listen to this duo. Similarly, the catchy opener, "A Better Life," reels in listeners note by note (and those horns!) and sets the tone for the rest to come. A bonus acoustic version of the title track closes the album with a strong and warm impression, one that shows off Dempsey's vocal chops and the strength of the songwriting behind the voice.
When I had the opportunity to hear this new material, I jumped on it. Schiller and Dempsey are one of those rare duos that captures two perfectly matched counterparts bringing out the best in each other. The strength of the songwriting and lyricism is almost a bonus; their individual performances are so charismatic and seamless that it's easy to get lost and swept up in Silent Moon. It is hopeful, romantic, and timeless. And it is a wonderfully sophisticated record that will endure the test of time.
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An Activist's Journey
Home – Along Middle Path – An Activist's Journey
From Alumni Bulletin - April 28, 2014
This must be poetic justice, thought Marco Saavedra, though the situation had little to do with poetry and, in his view, nothing at all with justice.
As a twenty-two-year-old undocumented immigrant, Saavedra was well accustomed to living in the shadows, keeping his status a secret from even his closest friends. He had no U.S. passport, no driver's license, no Social Security number. In grade school, he missed a class trip to watch a space shuttle launch because flying to Florida would be too risky. At Kenyon, he abandoned his dream of a junior year abroad, knowing once he left the country he might not be welcomed back.
A lifetime spent carefully avoiding the authorities, and now here he was at a South Florida border patrol station, all but begging to be detained. And the agent was ignoring him! Two other attempts—at a shipping terminal and an airport immigration office—had failed. This wasn't poetic justice; it was cruel irony. Saavedra marshaled his courage and tried a new tack. In his best broken English, he fabricated a story about an undocumented friend who had gone missing. Now the guard looked him up and down, demanded his name and immigration status. Saavedra quickly admitted to being undocumented as well. Hearing this, the guard produced his handcuffs and slapped them on Saavedra's wrists.
Finally, the young activist thought to himself.
Saavedra was taken to the Broward Transitional Center, a detention camp housing several hundred undocumented immigrants, in nearby Pompano Beach. It was exactly where he was hoping to go. Once inside, his plan was to record and, with the help of fellow organizers from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, help publicize the stories of as many detainees as possible. Most had no criminal records; they were guilty only of being the wrong color, or in the wrong place, or having the wrong papers (or no papers). They had fallen through the cracks of a badly fractured system and now existed in official limbo—within a country but without it. By infiltrating Broward, Saavedra himself was risking deportation, but he and his cohorts believed their actions could lead to the release of dozens, maybe even hundreds, of detainees. It was the summer of 2012. The presidential election campaign was in high gear, and immigration reform was a major issue. This was the time to act.
For a young radical with a rap sheet, Marco Saavedra is surprisingly easy to track down. On most days he operates out of his family's restaurant, La Morada, a popular Oaxacan fonda wedged between a funeral parlor and a beauty salon on a busy thoroughfare in Mott Haven, at the southern tip of the Bronx in New York City. It was cold and sleeting on the winter afternoon I visited, and the warmth inside was amplified by the intimacy of La Morada's décor. The walls were a deep Santa Fe purple, adorned here and there with vibrant oil paintings (some of which I immediately recognized as portraits of Kenyon's Middle Path). A handful of customers lounged at tables, while pots clanged and a flat-screen TV broadcast Spanish-language news.
Someone nearby said my name, and I turned to find Saavedra standing beside me. He'd been clearing tables, and I realized: this wasn't just his office; it was also where he worked. On cue, his mother—the chef—emerged from the open kitchen, and Saavedra introduced us. She was beaming, and it wasn't hard to see why. The restaurant was charming, but she was more proud of her son, who, slightly embarrassed, motioned for me to follow him toward the back.
I saw it then, Saavedra's mini-command center, fashioned from the four-top farthest from the door. It looked like a computer hacker's desk during finals week. Books and papers (and glasses and plates) lay strewn haphazardly around a laptop and various technology accoutrements. Behind us, separating the dining room from the restroom, stood a bookcase crowded with more paintings and an impressive array of books. Camus and Kafka. Baldwin and Du Bois. Frost and Rilke. Virginia Woolf and Michael Cunningham. The Bible and the Koran.
"They're from the public library across the street, Saavedra explained.
He smiled self-consciously and took a seat. He was small in stature but well built, with the studied frown, round-framed glasses, and shabby-prep wardrobe of an academic. He closed his computer and cleared his throat.
"I'm from a small town of 600 people in Oaxaca, Mexico," Saavedra tells me. "My mom was the oldest of twelve and my dad was the youngest of five, so they grew up in pretty impoverished circumstances. They got married young and decided to relocate to the States when I was three."
The year was 1992 and Mexico's pre-NAFTA economy was in shambles. The border back then was not the militarized zone it has become in the years since 9/11, but crossing it, especially with two small children (Saavedra's sister was four), was still dangerous. The family hired a guide, or "coyote," and crossed at night near Nogales, Arizona. After regrouping in Phoenix, the Saavedras made their way to New York City.
They settled in Washington Heights, a predominantly Dominican neighborhood in northern Manhattan. "We were surrounded by immigrants," Saavedra says, "but most had already lived there for one or two generations, so we were still outcasts." The family lived quietly and tried to stay out of trouble. Saavedra's mother found work at a garment factory near the Port Authority, and then as a high school janitor. His father took two buses to a job pumping gas in New Jersey, until he was found out and fired for not having papers. Eventually, the senior Saavedra caught on as food deliveryman and, in what spare time he had, began learning the tricks of the restaurant trade.
His son, meanwhile, had started attracting a different kind of attention. After excelling in middle school, Marco was recommended for Prep for Prep, a nonprofit that aids in the education and school placements of promising minority students. He continued to stand out, and in eighth grade was accepted to Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts.
"It was a shock," he says. "I had never lived away from home. I was on an equal footing academically, but I was clueless about everything else—like the wardrobe. They tell you coat and tie, so I showed up at my first dinner wearing a full suit and dress shoes. I didn't know you could wear khakis and flip-flops!"
But Saavedra was recognizing his otherness in more important ways as well. "Have you ever read Their Eyes Were Watching God?" he asks, motioning toward the bookshelf behind him. "There's that scene near the beginning when the main character sees herself in a photograph and realizes for the first time that she's colored. Deerfield is when I realized I was very much in the minority in terms of where I came from, what I looked like and, of course, my legal status."
Saavedra remembers sitting in the student lounge of his dorm, watching immigration marches on TV for the first time. What a revelation! That a movement existed out there, activists fighting for people like him. He was by now quite familiar with the realities of being undocumented—the truths he couldn't share, the places he couldn't go—so it was hardly a shock when, during his junior year, Deerfield's college guidance counselor told Saavedra some schools might be less amenable than others to his "situation." Dartmouth was struck from the list, and Cornell. But Saavedra already had his eyes on Kenyon. There was something open and accepting about the place. And Kenyon wanted him as well.
"We were aware of his status," says Jennifer Delahunty, dean of admissions and financial aid. "He applied early, was qualified for Kenyon work, and could write his socks off. It wasn't a hard decision, though I do remember we had to think about what it would mean to enroll a student who was 'out of status.'"
While no law explicitly prohibits college and universities from admitting undocumented students, the practice is controversial (in theory, the coveted spot could otherwise go to a legal citizen), and, with financial aid almost always involved, sometimes cost-prohibitive. But Kenyon is hardly alone in its openness. According to 2011 study, 57 percent of private colleges and 29 percent of public colleges provide aid to undocumented students, although of the 2,650 institutions surveyed, only 447 responded.
"It does feel a little risky to be public on the fact that we enroll and fund undocumented students," Delehunty says. "But imagine if we hadn't enrolled Marco?"
For two years Saavedra kept his undocumented status a secret from both friends and faculty. He found sol<|fim_middle|> been rewarded with another immigration "policy change." Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced that only "serious criminal offenders" will be targeted for detention (though advocates, including Saavedra, claim the move is an attempt to deflect attention from another record year for deportations). Republicans have also shown signs of joining Democrats in finally helping craft a comprehensive immigration policy—be it a version of the DREAM Act or something else. This, too, could be perceived as purely reactionary, of course (the Hispanic vote having become crucial to national elections), but what is evident in any case is that change may be close at hand. If and when Dreamers are granted a path to citizenship, Saavedra and millions like him will no longer be outsiders looking in. They'll be Americans.
"And what then?" I ask.
"Maybe I'll cut back on organizing. I don't think it's sustainable as a career."
"What would you do instead?"
"Write poetry," he says, reflexively. And then he smiles, warming to the idea. "Why not? It can't be any harder."
Read more about Marco as covered by the LA Times and New York Daily News.
Volume 35 Number 3 Spring Summer 2013
David Goodwillie '94 | ace in Kenyon's religious community, becoming a peer minister, and developed serious interests in painting, poetry, and multicultural literature. But try as he might, the issue of who he was—and wasn't—consumed him, as did his sense of social justice, his need to get involved, to do something.
Unable to spend a semester abroad his junior year, he enrolled at Georgetown, where he fell in with a group of immigration activists know as "Dreamers." They took their name from the DREAM Act, an as-yet-unpassed measure that would grant conditional permanent residency to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as minors, have stayed for at least five years, graduated from high school, and have no criminal record. Like Saavedra, most of the Georgetown activists were young and undocumented; unlike him, most had also gone public with their status. It was more than a matter of pride; his new friends believed "being out" humanized their cause. Proclaiming their status was a great risk—deportations had reached record levels during the Obama's first term—but the torment of staying silent cut far deeper.
Back at Kenyon for his senior year, Saavedra spoke freely about his undocumented status for the first time. It made him feel emboldened, like he finally belonged, and he began devoting much of his time to immigration issues. The DREAM Act had recently been voted down for the third time since 2001, but another presidential election was coming up and, with a growing Hispanic population changing electoral dynamics, immigration reform loomed large.
Saavedra organized workshops and invited speakers to campus in an effort to raise awareness of the issue. At Honors Day, his dedication was rewarded when he won Kenyon's Humanitarian Award and Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, the latter presented to the student who has "best promoted social justice through service activities and programs as exemplified by the life and work of Dr. King."
"When he got [the two awards] the entire audience rose spontaneously to its feet," Delahanty says. "Faculty, students, administration. Everyone on campus knew Marco."
Perhaps no one has influenced the course of Saavedra's life more than Aileen Hefferren, the chief executive of Prep for Prep and a Kenyon trustee. Hefferren '88 H'12 first met Saavedra when he was at Deerfield, and the two became close during his time in Gambier. (Prep for Prep has had a decades-long relationship with Kenyon, and it was a Prep counselor who first suggested the College to Saavedra.) "I was always struck by Marco's soft-spoken intelligence and his very deep sense of justice and compassion for others," Hefferren says. "I respect that he acts on [these traits] even when it means putting himself at risk. I might prefer to protect him, but real leaders sometimes take real risks."
Indeed, Saavedra's work as an activist was only beginning. After graduation, he started organizing almost full time for the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA), a grassroots group of mostly undocumented students who believed civil disobedience to be more effective than legislative lobbying when it came to raising awareness of their plight. Saavedra took a lead role in the NIYA's actions, and in the late summer of 2011 he was arrested while protesting in Charlotte, North Carolina. He spent three nights in prison, but emerged resolute and undeterred (the charges were eventually dropped).
He and his fellow activists continued their campaign in cities across the country throughout the winter and spring of 2012. Polls showed Hispanic voters favoring Democrats by large margins, but many Dreamers attributed those numbers to Republican anti-immigration sentiment rather than anything the Obama administration had accomplished. While the president had offered tepid support for the DREAM Act, he was also responsible for tightened border security and record-breaking numbers of deportations (396,000 in 2011, according to the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
Then in June, just as Saavedra was preparing to "occupy" an Obama campaign office in Cincinnati, the president announced a "reprieve" program for certain undocumented immigrants. "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" offered two-year deferrals, along with work permits, for people who met the requirements laid out in the DREAM Act. What it did not promise—and what the DREAM Act did—was a concrete road to citizenship. Saavedra carried on with his sit-in, which by then was making headlines.
"'Deferred Action' was a compromise," Saavedra explains. "We got it because President Obama needed to win an election. Also, Senator Marco Rubio had introduced his own version of the DREAM Act, and that was troublesome for the Democrats."
Buoyed by the media's coverage of their actions, the NIYA organizers now focused their energies on halting non-criminal deportations. They set their sights on the detention centers where immigrants were being held. One of the largest and most notorious was in Broward County, Florida.
After waiting six hours to be processed, Saavedra was given a jump suit and placed in a cell with five other men. It was July 11,2012. He didn't know when he'd be released, or even what country he'd be released into, so he concentrated on the task at hand. Slowly, methodically, over days and then weeks, Saavedra canvassed the detention center. He spoke with hundreds of detainees, recording their stories, advising them on their rights, and encouraging them to call an NIYA hotline, run by activists on the outside, where they could receive legal advice on their specific cases.
What Saavedra found at Broward was extremely unsettling. According to the NIYA, over 100 detainees met the government's "low-priority" threshold and shouldn't have been detained at all. Many needed medical care or had been victims of serious crimes. Dozens more had no criminal records. All existed in official limbo.
The weeks dragged on and Saavedra began wondering if he, too, might be indefinitely detained. At the same time, his fellow detainees were becoming increasingly comfortable opening up to him, so he kept organizing and advocating, even starting a hunger strike. Then, one afternoon, his face appeared on Telemundo. The Broward infiltration was making national news. The following day, a detainee asked Saavedra for an autograph. His cover had been blown.
Fearing an avalanche of negative press, exasperated authorities finally released him, but not before initiating deportation proceedings. He'd been in detention for twenty-three days.
Framed by the bookshelf behind him, Marco Saavedra leans back and sighs. From the kitchen comes the intoxicating smell of La Morada's signature platillo, the Senor Molcajete. I've asked him what his future holds, and for the first time in our two highly animated hours together he's not sure of what to say. Saavedra remains undocumented, and his deportation case is slowly winding its way through the courts. (Although he could apply for deferred action and conceivably nullify the legal proceedings, he believes remaining undocumented gives him a stronger platform for his activist work.)
On a broader scale, there have been some incremental gains since Broward. Hispanics, who again turned out in massive numbers for Obama, have | 1,535 |
"Charity suffers long, and is kind"
As a young man hunting one pleasant winter afternoon, I brought down a dove with my grandpa's double barrel twelve gauge shotgun. Walking through the bushy field to pick up the bird, I found that he was only wounded. Cautiously, I stooped to pick him up. In my hand, his head was erect, his eyes open, and he was fully alert, though unable to fly. I was very cautious about touching him at first, but I soon found that my fear of the wounded dove was baseless. He never once attempted to peck my hand or in other way harm me. He let me hold him in my hand without any resistance, but only stared out toward the fields, over which he would never again dart with such grace as doves soar. In sober amazement, I stood there holding the clearly terrified and yet completely submissive creature. My heart ached that I had shot such a gentle creature.
One of the most remarkable qualities of the love of God in action, or "charity", is the power that it can give people to endure suffering and, at the same time, be kind to others, even to those who are hurting them. The brutalized Jesus meant it from the bottom of his harmless heart when he pleaded from the cross, "Father! Forgive them. They do not know what they are doing!" The young man Stephen also, when he was being stoned to death, begged God not to charge his murderers with the crime. The love of God removes malice so completely from the soul that Jesus' injunction<|fim_middle|> calls us, for by his retaining a kind disposition toward those who were hurting him, Jesus obtained for us the gift of the Spirit that enables us to be like him. | to "pray for your enemies" can become part of our nature. "Turning the other cheek" runs against the grain of our human nature, but the holy Ghost makes us "partakers of the nature of God" so that we can think as He thinks and feel as He feels toward people. The love of God does not take away pain; if anything, it awakens the spirit so that one feels the pain more acutely. But it creates in us an attitude towards others that is like our heavenly Father, and like Jesus, and like Stephen.
It is impossible for any man to be, by nature, as harmless as a dove, but what is impossible for man is possible with God. It is to that once-impossible life that Jesus | 151 |
Surprise! Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas Got Married in Las Vegas
Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams' Friendship Is the Only Pure Thing We Have Left
The Absolute Best Looks From the Billboard Music Awards
Sophie Turner Wore a Bridal Jumpsuit to Her Surprise Vegas Wedding
Here's the Real Reason Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas Got Married in Las Vegas
It's a logistics thing.
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Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas surprised us all this week when they popped over to a wedding chapel in Las Vegas<|fim_middle|> married."
Now we have a little more insight into why the impromptu wedding happened in the first place—especially given their previous plans to wed in France this summer. "They knew they needed to have a legal ceremony in the U.S. and decided a few weeks ago to do it in Vegas after the Billboard Awards," a source told E! News. "Some of their friends and family would be there, so it felt like the perfect timing."
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"They booked the chapel for a big block of the night to make sure they had it to themselves and that the timing could be spontaneous," the source continued. "A friend paid and set up the entire thing." But the wedding in France is still a go. "Their real wedding will be in France this summer, but they thought this would be a fun way to make it legal," the source said. "They wanted to have it planned out in advance to give friends a chance to come. It was a fun night in Vegas and it worked out perfectly."
The couple seems like a super-fun hang, so we can't wait to see what they do for their European ceremony. Hopefully, some of Turner's Game of Thrones costars will make appearances. And can we please get footage of a sure-to-be hilarious speech from her BFF Maisie Williams?
Topicssophie turnerjoe jonas | after the Billboard Music Awards and got married.
The wedding honestly sounded pretty awesome. Kevin and Nick were there, along with their respective wives, Danielle Jonas and Priyanka Chopra; Dan + Shay sang while Turner walked down the aisle in a chic white jumpsuit; Ring Pops were involved; and an Elvis impersonator did the honors. Oh, and Diplo documented the whole ceremony on Instagram. E! reports that Turner and Jonas are "just so excited to be together and to be | 99 |
I would say I live a pretty typical 23 year old single Indian women's life here in Chennai. I go to work, do some grocery shopping on the way home, watch tamil movies in my little living room while drinking copius amounts of tea and listning<|fim_middle|> as an object and not just a subject. It makes us aware that the Gaze of the Other con-constitutes our own facticity and this takes away from our control, messes with our worldview and our ego. But there I stop. If I can't stop being objectified, at least I can have a choice over the type of object.
So maybe I should start practising those faces, who knows, maybe next time I might even get them to laugh. | to my roomates complain about their work and families, or talk about the men they hope their parents will marry them off to. Sometimes we go down to the beach at night, when it is getting dark and there is a cool breeze. Then the beach comes alive with acrobats and vendors and people doing the craziest things and we stroll along, drinking mango juice,eating chaat and watching the sun set behind the clear blue sea ( actually I lie, the sea is pretty dirty and the sun usually sets behind a haze of smoke and pollution but that doesn't sound quite as romantic). I don't really party, hardly drink and am home usually by my 9.30 curfew.
However last weekend I sort of snapped. I wanted an original nontraditional Indian experience. So I went out. Both nights. I went to a club where an Indian band was playing covers of Rage against the Machine and Korn. I stayed out way past my curfew talking to French expats, eating gruyere and drinking pastis. I went to a tourist hotspot with a friend to go surfing, a male friend at that and stayed up drinking lukewarm beer and singing Pink Floyd covers with a group of drunk Indians and Russians.
So Sunday found me sitting on a cheap red surfboard, my legs dangiling lazily in the bay of Bengal, scanning the horizon for a wave big enough to propel me towards the sandy shore. Even at 8am in the morning it felt like it was already 35 degrees out. Sitting there,in the middle of the bay, my wet tshirt clinging to my back,my face getting redder by the minute, my head pounding from a long night and a beer too many I was doing prehaps the three most unorthodox things a women in India could do. I was swimming, engaged in strenuous physical activity that requires a fair amount of strength and I was wearing shorts.It felt AMAZING.
"We seem to have a fan club already" my new friend Arne yells at me from 30 feet away. I look towards the outcrop that supports a 14th century temple ( and conveniently provides a small point break that we arsurfing on) and see a row of maybe 50 school children, probably on a field trip, their faces pressed up against the mesh, their fingers gripping the wire, watching us intently. I turn and wave and as if on cue the blue and white checkered line erupts in a burst of waving and giggling and yelling.
I love that I am a constant source of amusement for children in India. Everytime I come across a group of more than 5 school children I will always hear the ubiquous "Hello, what is your good name?" from the most daring child, the rest giggling uncontrollably, hiding their shy smiles behind their hands. In cars as soon as they spot me they wave furiously, smiling through then gaps in their teeth. It is impossible to resist such genuine cuteness. The men on the other hand I could do without. They seem content to just sit and stare at me, not actually aknowledging my existance, just staring.
I now realize more fully the tension that is felt by most western women when coming to India. You ask them about the most annoying thing in India ( and as much as I love India there are a fair number of annoyances) and the majority will probably list the never ending staring in their list. Men will stare at you when you walk, when you talk, when you stand, when you sit, when you pick your nose. Especially when you pick your nose.
When my sister and I were young and travelling in India we used to make a game out of it. Whenever we would find someone staring at us we would pull the most hideous face we could, stick our tongues out, cross our eyes and blow up our cheeks. It was hilarious to say the least. We would kill ourselves laughing and the men would look away confused and and bewildered. At least, however, we got some kind of a reaction.
I feel I have already resigned myself to the fact that the men here will just always stare and the best thing to do is ignore it. However, the unorthodox white chick attempting to stand on a large over-sized board while being propelled towards the shore seems to be almost too much for their otherwise inert gawking. Do remember that this is a country where the majority of grown men still use swim rings when swimming in deep pools and the most strenuous thing a women can engage in is table tennis.As I am once again tumbled, head over heals into the frothy foam beneath me I chance a glance at my unsolicited fan group and swear I see a smile or two. Maybe I underestimate them and they stare, not because they are rude, creepy men but because with all the cultural, social and linguistic errors I assume I commit 90% of the time I am a potential source of constant amusement.
I personally think the anxiety that many women, myself included, feel is based upon being constantly under the "gaze of the other". Here I would evoke the feminist theorists that argue that the constant male gaze makes us aware of being objectified and thus aware of our own selves | 1,075 |
This 4,650-sf custom home by an award-winning builder is sited at 9120 Manorwood Way on a well-treed three-acre lot and features an ideally designed in-law suite on the lower level.
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More than half of the lovely acreage at Ford's Colony will never be developed, giving residents plenty to see when the Virginia countryside goes through the changes of the seasons.
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Located at the confluence of the James and Chickahominy Rivers seven miles west of Colonial Williamsburg, Goverrnor's Land at Two Rivers features 650 single-family homesites.
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Governor's Land at Two Rivers residents also enjoy membership in the private Two Rivers Country Club. Located within the community, the club features an outstanding 18-hole golf course designed by Tom Fazio. Full-service dining, protected marina and full schedule of social and athletic activities and events all add to the complete club experience.
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The Two Rivers Harbor & Marina Village is perfect for setting sail for a day filled with fishing, swimming, boating, and skiing the James and Chickahominy rivers and the Chesapeake Bay.
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Obec Lukov se nachází v okrese Teplice, kraj Ústecký. Žije zde obyvatel.
Historie
Obec Lukov se skládá ze dvou osad – Lukova a Štěpánova. Z počátku měla každá ze vsí jiné osudy, teprve od počátku 16. století sdílejí dějiny lobkovického panství Bílina.
Jméno Lukov vzniklo asi z příjmení Luk a to z appelativu luk (něm. Bogen, lat. arcus), nebo z luk s významem "česnek". Možná povstalo z osobního jména Luka, které bylo odvozeno od Lukáš, resp. z latinského Lucas, a znamenalo "Lukův", či "Lukášův". Zde tedy dvůr.
První písemná zmínka o Lukovu v je z roku 1378, kdy bratři Maněk a Boreš z Lukova uplatnili své patronátní právo k farnímu kostelu sv. Vavřince v Mirošovicích. Tvrz v Lukově se poprvé uvádí v roce 1496, kdy zde žil Petr Lukovský z Truzenic. V uvedeném roce na zdejší tvrzi a vsi pojistil věno<|fim_middle|>í bez vyznání byli římskými katolíky.
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Kaple sv. Antonína Paduánského. Kaple stojí v obci na návsi pod lipou. V průčelní věžičce se nachází zvon.
Hradiště štítarské kultury nad Štěpánovem, archeologické naleziště
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Sídla v CHKO České středohoří | své manželky Barbory z Harasova. Barbora přežila jak svého manžela, tak i syna Jana a v roce 1510 prodala Lukov Děpoltovi z Lobkovic, který ves a již zpustlou tvrz s poplužním dvorem připojil ke svému panství Bílina. Od té doby byly vsi Lukov a Štěpánov součástí bílinského panství pánů, pak hrabat a nakonec knížat z Lobkovic. Když se Eleonora Kateřina Karolína (1685–1720), dcera Václava Ferdinanda z Lobkovic, jako universální dědička panství Bílina, vdala (1703) za Filipa Hyacinta z Lobkovic, bylo její dědictví připojeno k majetkům roudnických Lobkoviců a zůstalo tak až do konce patrimoniální správy v roce 1850.
Obyvatelstvo
Při sčítání lidu v roce 1921 zde žilo 172 obyvatel (z toho 85 mužů), z nichž bylo šest Čechoslováků, 165 Němců a jeden cizinec. Až na dva evangelíky se hlásili k římskokatolické církvi. Podle sčítání lidu z roku 1930 měla vesnice 174 obyvatel: tři Čechoslováky a 171 Němců. S výjimkou dvou lid | 441 |
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Beginning in 2013 and continuing through 20<|fim_middle|>, a complete information re-architecture of the internaldocument sharing system, and a design strategy for Flip Labs, a spin- out organization focused on Collective Impact across sectors. | 14, Sarah worked with Future of Fish to look at business solutions to address the problem of overfishing by supporting collective impact of entrepreneurs and strategic partners.
"Their collaborations re-frame existing system wisdom, find new market opportunities, and unleash people's belief in their own power to drive change," Sarah says. "It's amazing systems
Future of Fish is a nonprofit systems change incubator that partners with industry players, technologists and NGOs to create business solutions for ocean challenges.
When Sarah first started working with Future of Fish, she helped design and facilitate a conference in New Orleans that looked at the question, "How can we drive more successful and efficient oyster
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The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation had asked Future of Fish to look at ways to reduce the costs of getting more reefs and oysters in the water, increase the efficiency of oyster farmers, spur entrepreneurship, and leverage other non- conventional approaches that have the potential to drive and sustain large-scale restoration.
Over two days, Sarah facilitated discussions with 24 collaborators, who wrestled with those problems— and then came up with dozens of ideas, thinking about what they could do if they had no constraints, and then how those ideas might fit in with real- world customers, as well as who might be willing to champion the ideas.
Sarah worked with a second, smaller group of collaborators to refine their initial ideas. A third group continues the work as an "oyster pod" that receives services from Future of Fish to continue their business initiatives for oyster restoration system change. Three more pods look at technology and transparency, storied fish, and breakthrough aquaculture.
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Smart skincare: How today's beauty products do more than just cleanse and moisturise
A new generation of skincare products is tapping into scientific knowledge and medical research. Here's a look at what some of these can do.
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There was a time when skincare products were frills-free and basic. What women used on their faces way back when were pretty much just a cleanser, toner and moisturiser, and these did no more than what their names indicated, which was simply to cleanse, tone and moisturise the skin.
Fast-forward to current times and the skincare landscape has changed vastly, along with our evolving and ever-expanding skincare needs. Basic is no longer adequate, evidently.
Even as the world is leaning towards skincare that is formulated with more natural ingredients, we want, at the same time, to be stunned by innovations that are built on advanced methodologies.
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The answer, as recent trends in the beauty industry show, lies in science, medical research and technology. Skincare companies are leveraging knowledge from these fields and applying it on products that delve far deeper beyond the surface, both literally and figuratively.
Even as the world is leaning towards skincare with more natural ingredients, we want to be stunned by innovations built on advanced methodologies.
Some of them tap on medical science from biological and genetic studies, while others employ high-tech methods to package precious youth-giving ingredients and deliver them not just deep into skin, but to exactly where they are required.
If these set the path for future products to follow, we can expect great things to come indeed. For now, though, here's how skincare has already been scientifically advanced to give you better skin in ways we'd never have imagined.
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THEY CAN 'READ' YOUR SKIN
A product that can read your skin, recognise what it needs and give it exactly what it wants? It sounds like a dream too good to be true. Yet, this custom-fix effect is exactly what some skincare brands have been pushing in recent years.
Clinique Smart Custom-Repair Serum, S$115 (30ML). (Photo: Clinique)
An example is Clinique's Smart Custom-Repair range, which comprises a serum, eye treatment, and day and night moisturisers that purportedly can "understand" the specific signals your skin is sending out and delivers targeted repair as needed and where needed.
While the technology within it isn't specifically spelled out, a large range of actives is evident in the ingredient list. This demonstrates how the product can cover a wide spectrum of skin concerns, thus translating into its ability to meet each individual's unique combination of skin needs.
Elsewhere, niche skincare brand Priori claims to use biotechnology expertise in its formulations to give them similar "custom" repairing abilities. Its products contain a sequence of "super-hero" complexes created by combining a known active ingredient with other complementary ingredients – this increases the products' scope of<|fim_middle|>, Estee Lauder tapped into epigenetics studies and found out how it can target a specific micro signalling molecule found in skin cells that's essential to the skin's natural repair processes and youth-generating strength.
The result is this latest generation of its iconic Advanced Night Repair serum, which promises to surpass its predecessor by plumping up lines, boosting skin's hydration levels and firmness, while diminishing pore size in just three weeks, according to efficacy tests.
THEY TAKE THEIR CUE FROM YOUR GUT
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The microbiome of the skin refers to the biological environment of its surface, and is composed of many micro-organisms that each play a role in maintaining skin health.
Just like how gut health can be maintained by balancing its microbiome with the right prebiotics and probiotics, the skin can also benefit from these cultures.
Research of late has shown that skin's microbiome can easily be thrown out of whack when it is subjected to stress – particularly when it is washed with cleansers that are too harsh or have an antibacterial effect.
When this happens, it becomes more prone to the onset of skin problems like dryness, an acne breakout or eczema flare-up.
This is where skincare products that can restore microbial balance step in. Instead of fighting a breakout or a rash solely with targeted treatment products, it could help to restore skin's health and reinforce its natural barrier at the same time by supplying it with probiotics.
Microbiome products also go further by playing a preventative role – they make skin more resilient against future potential stressors.
Hera Cell Essence Biome Plus, S$80. (Photo: Hera)
There's plenty to choose from as more and more skincare brands are hitching on to the trend. Start with a serum like Lancome's Advanced Genifique Youth Activating Concentrate Serum, which contains lactobacillus; or a quick-absorbing essence such as Hera's Cell Essence Biome Plus, which is packed with both probiotics and prebiotics.
Prefer a brand that specialises in this field of skincare? Aurelia Probiotic Skincare is a pioneer in this respect and sells an entire line of probiotic-infused products, from face to body care, made with BioOrganic ingredients at that. | effect and thus improves their adaptive properties.
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The encapsulation of skincare products in pods or tiny beads isn't new – we've seen it in use from as early as the 1990s in products such as Elizabeth Arden's iconic Ceramide Capsules, which were designed to keep the ingredients at their freshest until they were ready to be used.
Soon after, there were serums and moisturisers that had micro-pearls suspended in them, which contained little pockets of actives that are meant to be released only when the product is applied onto skin.
Dior Prestige La Micro-huile De Rose Advanced Serum, S$370 (30ML). (Photo: Dior Beauty)
These are early examples of how microfluidics – the study and manipulation of fluid behaviour – can be applied to skincare technology.
Twenty years into the new millennium, micro-encapsulation has advanced by bounds and leaps, as seen in Dior's Micro-Huile de Rose Advanced Serum (available in September) that is filled to the brim with 10,000 micro-pearls containing the prized extract of its custom-bred Rose de Granville.
These micro-pearls, unlike those that came before them, are produced with micrometric precision that is the result of a complete reinvention of early encapsulation processes.
According to Dior, the ingredients are weighed in microgrammes, along with controlled micro-flow pressure, while temperatures are adjusted as near as possible to the required degree. It took two years of adjustments to achieve an ultra-potent serum that is optimally absorbed by skin and penetrates deeper into skin's layers in order to transform it.
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THEY ZOOM IN ON YOUR GENES
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Epigenetics is a buzzword that has found its way from the medical field to the beauty industry of late. Via the science that studies how genes can be "switched" on and off, skincare brands are learning how to hone in on the genes that will give you better skin.
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Sisley is one of the first names to have produced products based on this area of research – its Sisleya L'Integral Anti-Age Firming Concentrated Serum helps mature skin regain a tauter appearance by targeting the origin of behavioural ageing at a cellular level.
It works to plump and lift skin, while diminishing wrinkles by reawakening elastin production at its source.
Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-recovery complex, S$130 (30ML). (Photo: Estee Lauder)
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National Register of Historic Places in Watertown, New York | a courthouse complex and national historic district located at Watertown in Jefferson County, New York. The district includes three contributing buildings; the courthouse building (1862), Clerk's Office (1883–1884) and Surrogate's Office (1905). The courthouse building is a two-story, red brick structure with limestone trim. It features a three-story tower on the northwest corner. It was designed by architect Horatio Nelson White.
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This report looks at the developing enterprise tech landscape – practices and systems that are becoming more widely adopted, prevalently enough to be considered business trends. We will proceed with the following sections:
Introduction: Additional 2015 Trends
Endpoint Security Advances for Better Protection
Machine Learning for Intelligent Automation
Devops for Increased Agility
Nixing Network Switches for Streamlined Systems
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Infrastructure as a service – Companies have started to realize that due to the rate of cloud advances, it makes sense to choose a provider over an internal datacenter.
Containers – Docker has created an easy-to-use system that makes it much faster to move applications from development to testing to production, or between clouds.
Microservices architecture – The ability to use microservices, simple applications meant to fulfill specific needs within more complex applications, was also given a huge boost by Docker.
Liquid computing – This concept, first introduced by InfoWorld's Galen Gruman, refers to the ability to move seamlessly between one's different devices, as with Apple's Handoff tool.
Here are the rest of the 2015 trends from Eric's InfoWorld report:
Knorr is not impressed with the current enterprise security status quo, noting that the ability of the average firm to protect itself "will remain in a desperate state as long as systems remain unpatched and untrained users continue to accidentally download malware." However, Eric recommends that you look into a number of different security applications that he expects will become increasingly popular in 2015:
Tanium– This software allows you to look at endpoints throughout the company, using data that has "near-real-time" accuracy for hundreds of thousands of clients, finding any aberrations and where security patches are needed.
Fingerprint recognition – This technology is becoming more refined and widespread.
Proximity – Similarly to pairing a Wi-Fi printer with a computer or a Wi-Fi speaker with a tablet, a few Bluetooth LE tools streamline security by using cell phones as security keys or pairing a smart phone with a "physical token" to authenticate on the basis of location.
Location, location, location – Trusted places, built into the Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system, allows you to forgo pins and passwords if you are at a recognized safe place (e.g., home or work), making security easier in the right places: "Convenience is an<|fim_middle|> 2011 (1) October 2010 (1) June 2010 (1) September 2009 (3) August 2009 (1) July 2009 (2) June 2009 (14) May 2009 (3) April 2009 (4) December 2008 (2) November 2008 (4) October 2008 (5) September 2008 (6) August 2008 (7) July 2008 (14) June 2008 (15) May 2008 (1) March 2008 (1) February 2008 (2) January 2008 (7) December 2007 (3) November 2007 (4) October 2007 (14) September 2007 (14) August 2007 (1) June 2007 (1)
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This concept is essentially a new way to think of artificial intelligence. It would be easy to exaggerate how much machine learning will progress in the next few years, says Eric. However, making servers smarter is critical for optimizing the use of data analytics, with open source tools such as Spark/MLlib andNahout simplifying the process. Knorr paraphrases James Kobielus, who commented in early 2014 that "machine learning is so pervasive, we can often assume its presence in big data applications."
Devops, a term that combines development with operations , is a way to create applications that focuses on strong interconnection between IT staff (as a part of operations) and developers. This model has been around since 2009 per Eric, but it has become more popular lately as the need for operations that can allow true development agility has become more pronounced.
Knorr thinks that there is general miscomprehension of the devops concept: "In some circles, devops is considered a way to give developers ongoing responsibility for applications in production, but that doesn't scale." Instead, Eric argues that the best way to think of this strategy is as the most streamlined, integrated method for development and testing – since businesses are wanting to deploy sophisticated applications faster than ever.
Network switches are gradually on their way out. Virtual networking tools, software-defined networking, and the incredible power of today's servers are all prompting datacenter specialists to reconsider the best possible way of structuring the network. As Eric puts it, a futuristic idea of "the network being reduced to 'the wires between the servers'" is becoming more of a possibility each year.
At the end of his report, Eric zeros in on a theme that he sees as pervasive throughout – a sort of macro-trend, similar to virtualization: open source. Knorr describes the transparent, community-based approach as "the vehicle of choice for startups to gain traction, as customers… take new technologies for a spin, provide feedback, and eventually put them into production." Some developers, rather than focusing on independent applications, look at popular systems and engineer tools to support them. Examples of thriving open source ecosystems include OpenStack, Hadoop, and Docker.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale (Review)
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The legendary Dungeons & Dragons universe has never really had the game to stand tall in its legacy. While the more popular brand, Games Workshop, has the Dawn of War games and soon the very tasty looking Warhammer 40K: Space Marine to keep gamers coming back. So it's about time D&D had another roll of the dice with us.
Daggerdale takes the Warcraft route for its XBLA/PSN debut and be warned fellow-console gamers, it's a bit PC-beardy. The best way to go would have been to try to replicate a slick combat title like last-gen's Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance as this slow style of combat is always going to feel a little stale on consoles.
After reading the help menu items before the playing the game you might get worried about it blathering on about dice throws. Don't, it's not turn-based, I think they just wanted to excite some old-school fans by mentioning dice.
The combat involves pressing A until goblins fall over and carelessly drop their purse. Pressing X will throw whichever weapon you have equipped such as throwing knives or hand-axes. At least you have an infinite number of them. Special moves can be used once, with you having to wait for what seems like forever (a few seconds) while they recharge. You'll rely on them so much as your regular attacks do very little damage in comparison. Extra special moves take ages to unlock and upgrading existing ones only has a minimal effect. Later levels will unlock attribute points for you to allow specific character tailoring but it doesn't make the combat any better.
The biggest combat culprit though is the blatant lie that is the 'lock-on' button. It struggles with standard moves and completely abandons you for the special moves, usually ripping through the thing air behind you, turning you around for a good old-fashioned goblin sword enema.
There are your usual fantasy characters to play as: a human with a sword, an elf with a bow, a dwarf with an axe and healing powers, and a halfling with a staff and mystical abilities. Combat essentially feels the same with all of them though. You're either hitting things up close or blasting something from a distance. It doesn't matter, the disappointment you get from how small the damage-indicator numbers are remains permanently disheartening.
Quests are handed out by generic grumbling characters that aren't voiced, but make an ugly gagged simlish noise instead. The quests are the usual go there, kill that, bring me this and so on. If you're playing on your own the difficulty curve is harsh and the checkpoints miserably sparse. Die during a quest and you'll be sent back to the nearest town or village with an XP penalty, but at least your items remain intact. You will have to restart the whole quest though, despite there are obvious areas checkpoints could have been added, after finding one of two items for example.
After grinding away through the first few quests and having a thoroughly miserable time, I decided to reach out for some help. With the single-player game being almost unplayable on your own it's obvious the game was really designed to be multiplayer only. You can play locally or opt to go online with up to three more players. Going online, you can join an existing party or resume your character's progress in your own game. You might be waiting a while in your own lobby, but if you go ahead and start, other players will come and join you soon enough.
It's worth the effort of going online, as the game is so much easier when there are more of you. If you die, you can be revived (albeit with a tiny amount of health) with a tap of Y from one of your group. It doesn't cost them anything and takes a second, meaning you can get back into the frantic brawls once again.
A well-balanced team will see players of each race and with a range of abilities, none more important than the healers. When you have this, progress is much easier and you can even start to enjoy it. The problems arise when your party isn't balanced enough, throw in three human characters with similar abilities and quests become hard work without a healer. It doesn't help matters that you all look the same too.
Extra weapons can be picked up from smashed barrels and defeated enemies, although you'll have less time to faff around deciding what to use when your party is waiting. If one of your team activates a quest-giver when you're<|fim_middle|> really handle a busy screen either. As well as losing yourself in a crowded mob, the game starts to judder along. There's horizontal screen-tearing when you're running around an empty area offline, so it isn't surprising to see the game buckle under the strain of a few extra ugly sprites.
Multiplayer makes life much easier
Grind through and you can spice up your abilities
That last point was forced. I'm all out
Low production values and too much slowdown
Too hard and too dull on your own
Too dull with other people too really
The Short Version: The online functionality saves Daggerdale from being a complete disaster, but the gameplay is ultimately too tedious and the game engine too weak to take the strain when the action heats up. It's a failed attempt for console gamers. PC gamers should be aware that there are lots of better alternatives, even in the free-to-play range.
Platforms: XBLA (reviewed) | PS3 (coming soon) | PC
Developer: Bedlam Games
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Language family explained
See also: List of language families. A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree, or in a subsequent modification, to species in a phylogenetic tree of evolutionary taxonomy. Linguists therefore describe the daughter languages within a language family as being genetically related.[1]
According to Ethnologue the 7,111 living human languages are distributed in 141 different language families.[2] A "living language" is simply one that is currently used as the primary form of communication of a group of people. There are also many dead languages, or languages which have no native speakers living, and extinct languages, which have no native speakers and no descendant languages. Finally, there are some languages that are insufficiently studied to be classified, and probably some which are not even known to exist outside their respective speech communities.
Membership of languages in a language family is established by research in comparative linguistics. Sister languages are said to have a "genetic" or "genealogical" relationship. The latter term is older.[3] Speakers of a language family belong to a common speech community. The divergence of a proto-language into daughter languages typically occurs through geographical separation, with the original speech community gradually evolving into distinct linguistic units. Individuals belonging to other speech communities may also adopt languages from a different language family through the language shift process.[4]
Genealogically related languages present shared retentions; that is, features of the proto-language (or reflexes of such features) that cannot be explained by chance or borrowing (convergence). Membership in a branch or group within a language family is established by shared innovations; that is, common features of those languages that are not found in the common ancestor of the entire family. For example, Germanic languages are "Germanic" in that they share vocabulary and grammatical features that are not believed to have been present in the Proto-Indo-European language. These features are believed to be innovations that took place in Proto-Germanic, a descendant of Proto-Indo-European that was the source of all Germanic languages.
Structure of a family
Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram. A family is a monophyletic unit; all its members derive from a common ancestor, and all attested descendants of that ancestor are included in the family. (Thus, the term family is analogous to the biological term clade.)
Some taxonomists restrict the term family to a certain level, but there is little consensus in how to do so. Those who affix such labels also subdivide branches into groups, and groups into complexes. A top-level (i.e., the largest) family is often called a phylum or stock. The closer the branches are to each other, the closer the languages will be related. This means if a branch off of a proto-language is 4 branches down and there is also a sister language to that fourth branch, then the two sister languages are more closely related to each other than to that common ancestral proto-language.
The term macrofamily or superfamily is sometimes applied to proposed groupings of language families whose status as phylogenetic units is generally considered to be unsubstantiated by accepted historical linguistic methods. For example, the Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Italic, and Indo-Iranian language families are branches of a larger Indo-European language family. There is a remarkably similar pattern shown by the linguistic tree and the genetic tree of human ancestry[5] that was verified statistically.[6] Languages interpreted in terms of the putative phylogenetic tree of human languages are transmitted to a great extent vertically (by ancestry) as opposed to horizontally (by spatial diffusion).[7]
Dialect continua
See main article: Dialect continuum.
Some closely knit language families, and many branches within larger families, take the form of dialect continua in which there are no clear-cut borders that make it possible to unequivocally identify, define, or count individual languages within the family. However, when the differences between the speech of different regions at the extremes of the continuum are so great that there is no mutual intelligibility between them, as occurs in Arabic, the continuum cannot meaningfully be seen as a single language.
A speech variety may also be considered either a language or a dialect depending on social or political considerations. Thus, different sources, especially over time, can give wildly different numbers of languages within a certain family. Classifications of the Japonic family, for example, range from one language (a language isolate with dialects) to nearly twenty—until the classification of Ryukyuan as separate languages within a Japonic language family rather than dialects of Japanese, the Japanese language itself was considered a language isolate and therefore the only language in its family.
See main article: Language isolate. Most of the world's languages are known to be related to others. Those that have no known relatives (or for which family relationships are only tentatively proposed) are called language isolates, essentially language families consisting of a single language. An example is Basque. In general, it is assumed that language isolates have relatives or had relatives at some point in their history but at a time depth too great for linguistic comparison to recover them.
A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Albanian and Armenian within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but the meaning of the word "isolate" in such cases is usually clarified with a modifier. For instance, Albanian and Armenian may be referred to as an "Indo-European isolate". By contrast, so far as is known, the Basque language is an absolute isolate: it has not been shown to be related to any other language despite numerous attempts. Another well-known isolate is Mapudungun, the Mapuche language from the Araucanían language family in Chile. A language may be said to be an isolate currently but not historically if related but now extinct relatives are attested. The Aquitanian language, spoken in Roman times, may have been an ancestor of Basque, but it could also have been a sister language to the ancestor of Basque. In the latter case, Basque and Aquitanian would form a small family together. (Ancestors are not considered to be distinct members of a family.)
Proto-languages
See main article: Proto-language. A proto-language can be thought of as a mother language (not to be confused with a mother tongue, which is one that a specific person has been exposed to from birth[8]), being the root which all languages in the family stem from. The common ancestor of a language family is seldom known directly since most languages have a relatively short recorded history. However, it is possible to recover many features of a proto-language by applying the comparative method, a reconstructive procedure worked out by 19th century linguist August Schleicher. This can demonstrate the validity of many of the proposed families in the list of language families. For example, the reconstructible common ancestor of the Indo-European language family is called Proto-Indo-European. Proto-Indo-European is not attested by written records<|fim_middle|> of Sciences. 10 October 2011. 108. 42. 17290–17295. 10.1073/pnas.1113716108. 2011PNAS..10817290G. 41352497.
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Other classifications of languages
Sprachbund
See main article: Sprachbund.
Shared innovations, acquired by borrowing or other means, are not considered genetic and have no bearing with the language family concept. It has been asserted, for example, that many of the more striking features shared by Italic languages (Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, etc.) might well be "areal features". However, very similar-looking alterations in the systems of long vowels in the West Germanic languages greatly postdate any possible notion of a proto-language innovation (and cannot readily be regarded as "areal", either, since English and continental West Germanic were not a linguistic area). In a similar vein, there are many similar unique innovations in Germanic, Baltic and Slavic that are far more likely to be areal features than traceable to a common proto-language. But legitimate uncertainty about whether shared innovations are areal features, coincidence, or inheritance from a common ancestor, leads to disagreement over the proper subdivisions of any large language family.
A sprachbund is a geographic area having several languages that feature common linguistic structures. The similarities between those languages are caused by language contact, not by chance or common origin, and are not recognized as criteria that define a language family. An example of a sprachbund would be the Indian subcontinent.
Contact languages
See main article: Mixed language and Creole language. The concept of language families is based on the historical observation that languages develop dialects, which over time may diverge into distinct languages. However, linguistic ancestry is less clear-cut than familiar biological ancestry, in which species do not crossbreed.[9] It is more like the evolution of microbes, with extensive lateral gene transfer: Quite distantly related languages may affect each other through language contact, which in extreme cases may lead to languages with no single ancestor, whether they be creoles or mixed languages. In addition, a number of sign languages have developed in isolation and appear to have no relatives at all. Nonetheless, such cases are relatively rare and most well-attested languages can be unambiguously classified as belonging to one language family or another, even if this family's relation to other families is not known.
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"VCC has all the time targeted on long-term resiliency, and that is the fruits of a multi-year succession plan," stated Sam Alley in a information launch. "Our trade finds itself in a dynamic place, and so does VCC. The time was proper for this transition, setting the stage for VCC's continued development for years to come back."
Sam Alley will stay quartered out of the Little Rock company workplace, residence to the corporate's largest focus of staffers at 60. His son will proceed to work primarily from the Dallas workplace, the bottom of operation for 30 extra staffers.
Derek Alley, 37, grew up within the enterprise as an adolescent and joined the corporate in a management function in March 2008 as a director and later as a managing director.
"Functionally, I used to be doing the job of CEO for a lot of years, however the title change is official now," he advised Arkansas Enterprise in an interview. "As an organization since day one, the leaders understood that planning for succession is important. We delight ourselves on coaching, mentoring and mentioning the following era of management throughout the firm. Now we have near 40 individuals who have been with VCC for 20 years or extra."
Derek Alley stated the corporate has a pipeline of labor in place that can doubtless produce a report 12 months for income in 2022. VCC set a high-water mark for annual income in 2019 at $950 million, which ranked it because the 107th largest development firm within the nation.
Hampered by the pandemic ripples, 2020 income was stunted at $650 million, in response to Arkansas Enterprise' most up-to-date record of the state's largest industrial contractors, printed in April.
"That is an thrilling time for our firm and our trade," Derek Alley stated in a information launch. "I'm honored to assist lead our agency by specializing in a number of key areas: constructing resilience in our processes to adapt to the quick altering trade, adopting applied sciences that drive operational excellence within the workplace and within the discipline, driving new strains of enterprise that present extra worth for our purchasers and supporting our superb staff and firm tradition that really units us aside."
Based in 1987, the corporate has grown from a single workplace in Little Rock to incorporate a community of eight extra places of work across the nation. Alongside the way in which, VCC established a monitor report as the biggest contractor of retail area in America and labored on development initiatives totaling greater than $25 billion in all 50 states.
"Builders in any asset class are in search of consultants who may also help them navigate complicated threat elements in all phases of development," Derek Alley stated in a press launch. "They notice that price isn't the one, or maybe most essential, consideration. It's additionally about who can navigate provide and manufacturing challenges whereas delivering high quality, innovation and security, and VCC is well-positioned to ship on all three."
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Thanks for cheering me on! I'm having fun jumping between resource sharing, and slightly deeper reflections. Just hoping I can fit it all into just 14 posts; this year's conference was awesome! | prevent me from having a typical conference experience. Don't get me wrong, I love being on the service-side of the organization, helping so many educators connect, learn, and grow. But it was nice to sit down for a couple of sessions, connect with some new colleagues previously only known through Twitter, and play "conference attendee" for a bit. So I'm dedicating 14 posts to my experience at MACUL 2014!
Today's post is a Storify archive of all the tools and sites shared on stage during Leslie Fisher's "Smackdown" session on Friday morning of the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) annual conference.
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Beginning in 2009 as a hand-made chapbook series focusing on long poems, The Song Cave published emerging and established poets side-by-side, drawing attention and new readers to both. In 2013, the press began publishing full-length books, beginning with A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. The subsequent books range from debut poetry collections, art criticism, and translations of Latin poetry. In order to support the publication of these books and help raise funds for the publication of future books, various artists, including Kim Gordon, Richard Prince, Josh Smith, R.H. Quaytman, Eileen Quinlan, and more, have donated special limited-edition prints for the press to sell. The Song Cave is run and edited by Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal.
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What/Why: "Montserrat Galleries has invited seven artists to draw directly onto the seven walls of Montserrat Gallery over the course of seven weeks. Highlighting the ways the artists' bodies and gestures activate the gallery space, this project celebrates the performative aspects of drawing and the individual nature of each artist's process. SEVEN challenges traditional definitions of drawing, inviting artists of to mark-make in a variety of disciplines including performance, video and textile.
The gallery will act as an open studio over the course of each artist's week-long residency, students and guests are welcome to come in.
What/Why: "ACTION KITS is an exhibition based on interaction and experience. Visitors are invited to activate and explore the works in this show.
To create these interactive systems, five artists were paired with five South End-area professionals. Each professional was asked five questions about his or her working methodologies and philosophies. The artists then translated these answers into ACTION KITS. The completed ACTION KITS are on exhibit in the gallery alongside the original questions and answers.
Designed for interaction and collaboration, these ACTION KITS are activated by the visitors' engagement. Members of the public can play, experiment and open their own inquiries within the dynamics of these systems. They are encouraged to find narratives that test their expectations and create new experiences.
What/Why: "In "Chroma", 31 talented artists from across the United States wield color to its full intensity in varying medium, scales, and shapes, ranging from subdued tones to riotous vibrancy. Gallery 263 invites you into this luscious world during Winter 2015 to discuss, wonder, and soak up the saturation we've gathered for you.
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Once upon a time, being an intern might have meant going on coffee runs or making copies. Luckily, that isn't the case anymore in most businesses. Companies are<|fim_middle|> portion of the pie. For reference, lots of NBA players have solid statistics, but can't perform in the playoffs or don't understand situational basketball.
What should applicants know before applying to be an intern at Hawke Media?
Be ready to work hard and learn. Also be prepared to think critically. Our culture is based on autonomy, many of our full-time staff came in with no experience and learned on the fly and on their own. We like candidates who are solution oriented and who would rather learn how to shoot free throws by actually shooting free throws instead of watching instructional videos on how to shoot free throws.
Stand out. Have a positive attitude and be open to learning new things. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, just be able to put bad plays behind you, learn quickly and move on with your applied learnings. | investing as much in their internship programs as they are in their full-time employees, and that's leading to better-prepared graduates and stronger companies.
With the summer fast approaching, a number of local tech startups are in the market for talented young individuals to join their teams as interns. Here's what they look for.
Sidebench is a company dedicated to helping companies grow their brands. According to Co-Founder Nate Schier, interns play meaningful roles in day-to-day operations, and the company recently announced they were doubling down on their internship program.
What are interns responsible for at Sidebench?
Interns at Sidebench do indeed play a variety of key roles. We typically have 1-2 design interns and 1-2 biz dev at any given time. Design interns will help support our full-time design team and take work off their plates, and they also often do a lot of spec work as part of our business development process. Several of our past design interns who played key roles in bringing in new business with their work. On the biz dev side, interns help support our BD team by leading special research projects and helping prepare presentation decks.
We've also just launched the Sidebench Apprentice Program which is a six-month paid rotational internship geared toward recent graduates looking to gain meaningful experience in the tech space. The program provides a more structured experience, exposure to a variety of business areas and a dedicated mentor throughout.
Initiative. There are plenty of relatively smart intern candidates with good grades, but only a select few clearly display a self-starting mentality, which, in our opinion, is one of the biggest determinants of success in a fast-paced professional setting. Initiative can come through in a variety of ways, but several key indicators that we look for are real leadership experience (president of a club, captain of a team, etc), creation of and follow through on projects or programs (started a business, founded and grew a club, etc) and extracurricular pursuits that go beyond the norm and showcase the individual's drive (significant volunteer experience, notable participation in events/groups/competitions outside of school, etc).
How important are school prestige and an applicant's GPA?
When evaluating individuals we put little stock in school, though other companies certainly do place an emphasis on the prestige of an institution. GPA is more important to us, though it is more of a supporting indicator rather than a leading one. So long as their GPA is decent-to-good (3.3+ typically) it is not considered a red flag. If it is just below that we may want to dig into the details during the interview process, and if it is below 3.0 it may be a red flag that would stop us from interviewing them.
What should applicants know before applying to be an intern at Sidebench?
We look for interns who want to make meaningful contributions and play an active role in their learning process. It is not just a resume filler.
What advice would you give students/recent grads who are interested in interning?
Do your research on the company and find a way to tactfully convey that you have indeed taken the time to do so. No company expects you to be solely interested in them or only looking at one type of internship, but companies do expect you to have done your homework and have supporting evidence of your genuine interest in the company. There is no need to gush (IE "I am the PERFECT fit"), and you should focus on learning about the company and what you'll get to do there as much as if not more than why the company should select you for the internship.
The only coffee interns at Centerfield get is for themselves. The company often hires interns post program, and according to the Centerfield team, the intern program is as collaborative and transparent as possible.
What are interns responsible for at Centerfield?
We are grooming our interns to become full-time Media Buyers, so they definitely don't have to worry about office coffee runs. Interns here do real industry-applicable work. You'd be responsible for assisting the Media Buying team with building, optimizing and reporting on campaigns, as well as creating reports and reviewing campaigns and search terms. Most importantly, you'd be expanding our search engine marketing campaigns to help Centerfield grow as an industry leader.
Being an entrepreneur — we really like to see interns who have started and owned their own businesses and done some of their own media buying. It also helps to have basic knowledge of search engine marketing and Google AdWords concepts.
School prestige is not important; we have highly talented interns from a wide range of colleges across the country. However, we do love bringing in people from our area, schools like UCLA, USC, Pepperdine and more. We are truly Built in LA. A high GPA is never going to be a bad thing on your resume, but it's not something we specifically target.
What should applicants know before applying to be an intern at Centerfield?
Centerfield is a fun, collaborative and hard-working environment. All three are very important for the success of Centerfield and for your own personal growth. We embody the Latin saying "Esse Non Videri," meaning, "to be, not to seem." So be fun, be collaborative and be hard working!
Apply! The answer will always be "no" if you never ask the question. Our team of recruiters is more than happy to speak with you and help you throughout the entire process. Again, hard work is key. Many of our interns are hired permanently, so think of interning here as an awesome stepping stone in your career.
Hawke Media offers businesses a suite of services to help them stand out amongst their competition and establish an identifiable brand name. According to Hawke's Head of Media Buying, Jeeyan Rostam-Abadi, interning has a few parallels with the game of basketball.
What are interns responsible for at Hawke Media?
While interns generally support our full-time staff, we believe that internships should be an equitable exchange and we provide challenging and meaningful work to our interns. The first few weeks of onboarding an intern are largely focused on fundamental lessons and skills that are required to succeed in the long-run. This includes familiarizing an intern with our processes, relevant platforms and the essential skills that are required to succeed in their respective role.
A strong resume is one that is quantified and results-oriented. A lot of resumes that we receive talk about what a prospective intern has done in their past experience but not what the direct outcome of their contributions was. We typically seek interns who can juggle multiple activities or projects at once, and who have also had a proven track record of success.
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Above & Beyond are firm favourites of Northern Irish dance music fans, with numerous sell out shows in Belfast in recent years, including an outdoor show at Belsonic , Custom House Square in 2015.
They will perform at CHSq this year on August 11.
In 2014 they became the first British DJs to sell out New York City's Madison Square Garden. Over the course of their career the group has amassed over 100 million YouTube views and sold more than a million records.
Over their four critically acclaimed studio albums, along with their acoustic project, Above & Beyond have continually been celebrated for placing real musicianship and songwriting at the heart of what they do.
Belsonic 2015: Above & Beyond have Belfast crowds dancing the night away
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As influenced as much by Jeff Buckley or Bon Iver as they are by their deep love of electronic music, Above & Beyond's songs and lyrics have been sung back to them at the world's biggest stadiums and stages – from Alexandra Palace, to Madison Square Garden, to LA's Forum, to their famed one million people gig at Barra Beach in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.
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"An invitation to think differently about how we inhabit our future cities." That's how Bjarke Ingels describes his "court-scraper," a wh<|fim_middle|> Valentina Mele; Valerie Lechene; Xu Li; Yi Li; Aaron Hales; Brian Foster; Ivy Hume; Jenny Chang; Mina Rafiee; Rakel Karlsdottir; Thomas Fagan. | izzed-up blend of the 19th-century courtyard typology and a contemporary high-rise. In geometric terms rather than architectural ones, we're talking about a hollowed-out tetrahedron.
There's a garden in the middle of the 830,000-square-foot sloped wedge of 709 apartments. While one corner of the building soars to a 32-story point, like the prow of a majestic ship, Ingels kept the three corners closest to the Hudson River low. That configuration allows afternoon sun to filter deep into the garden in addition to giving most apartments clear sight lines to the water. The garden itself is Central Park in miniature, with proportions the same as the real one by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Tenants can stroll along a brick path that winds through birch trees before they give way to a sunbathing lawn. Inside, the common spaces boast a Scandi-industrial materials palette of white oak, blackened steel, and polished concrete. The game room's ceiling slopes upward, toward courtyard-facing windows, to soak in daylight. Underneath the courtyard is the basketball court.
Project Team: Thomas Christoffersen; Beat Schenk; David Brown; Aleksander Tokarz; Alessandro Ronfini; Alessio Valmori; Alvaro Mendive; Benjamin Schulte; Birk Daugaard; Brandon Cook; Celine Jeanne; Christoffer Gotfredsen; Daniel Sundlin; Dominyka Mineikyte; Eivor Davidsen; Felicia Guldberg; Florian Oberschneider; Gabrielle Nadeau; Gül Ertekin; Ho Kyung Lee; Hongyi Jin; Julian Liang; Julianne Gola; Justyna Mydlak; Laura Youf; Lauren Turner; Lucian Racovitan; Marcella Martinez; Maria Nikolova; Maya Shopova; Mitesh Dixit; Nicklas A. Rasch; Ola Hariri; Riccardo Mariano; Sheela Maini Søgaard; So?ren Gru?nert; Steffan Heath; Stanley Lung; Tara Hagan; Thilani Rajarathna; Tiago Barros; Tyler Polich; | 461 |
House — Museum Of Jewish Heritage — A Dwelling Memorial To The Holocaust
Come see a few of the quickest, rarest and most beloved Ferraris of all time. American museums eventually joined European museums because the world's leading centers for the production of latest knowledge of their fields of curiosity. Our incredible assortment spans five centuries of historical past, protecting all the things from groundbreaking design and quirky technology to the intimacy of non-public letters. Their<|fim_middle|>0 items, systematised in about 80 collections. These appear in its Shipwreck Galleries, a wing of the Maritime Museum.
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Science museums and know-how centers or technology museums revolve around scientific achievements, and marvels and their history. The museum has a big assortment of outdated automobiles from around the world and there are 3 predominant zones which might be primarily based on the autos' place of origin: American zone, European and Asian zones. ^ Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, The Youngsters's Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1901) 7.
Early museums began as the non-public collections of wealthy people, families or establishments of artwork and uncommon or curious pure objects and artifacts These were typically displayed in so-called marvel rooms or cabinets of curiosities The oldest such museum in proof was Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum , courting from c. 530 BC and devoted to Mesopotamian antiquities; it apparently had sufficient traffic as to warrant labels for the ordered assortment, although there isn't a source for this information.
Architecture museums are in truth a much less common kind within the United States, due partly to the issue of curating a collection which may adequately represent or embody the massive scale material. History museums cowl the data of historical past and its relevance to the current and future. Musician and producer Claes Clabbe" af Geijerstam opens his distinctive collection of signature guitars to the public in a by no means- earlier than-seen exhibition.
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Armed suicide threat closes off part of The…
Armed suicide threat closes off part of The Esplanade
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PUBLISHED:<|fim_middle|> was recovered from a locked container, O"Brien said.
The Esplanade and some smaller streets in the area remained closed until about 4:30 p.m. while police searched the house.
O"Brien said the man was taken to Enloe Medical Center for evaluation, then referred to Butte County Behavioral Health.
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Reports of a suicidal man with access to a semi-automatic handgun prompted police to surround his home and shut down The Esplanade between East Shasta Avenue and Yellowstone Drive around 4 p.m. Monday.
Chico police Sgt. Mike O"Brien said allegations were made that the 55-year-old man was upset about being denied medications, but that wasn"t immediately confirmed.
Family members, including an infant, were safely removed from the home by officers, who also evacuated at least one neighboring residence in an area near Aspen Glen Drive and The Esplanade.
O"Brien said officers had the home closely guarded, and a negotiating team was en route, when the man came out about 4:20 p.m. and surrendered to police without incident.
The man was never seen brandishing a weapon, but the hand gun he kept in the house | 213 |
The 2013 Wimbledon junior champion Gianluigi Quinzi said he has not as many routines on court and off court as before. Speaking to Federtennis.it, Quinzi said: 'As a junior I had routines and superstitions, then little by little I got free of it because I could not do that anymore.
I do not really know how (R<|fim_middle|> play freely: 'Now I am one of the many on Tour, I do not feel myself in the spotlight, i am not obliged to win anymore.
Now I feel a dangerous player. In order to beat me, opponents need to really make an effort.' Looking at his career so far, Quinzi admitted he has some regrets: 'I definitely made some mistakes, for example in choosing some coaches and being unable to improve my game.
I switched a lot of coaches, I do not know exactly how many but more than ten. Unfortunately I got nervous and I saw all black. Coping with that was not easy. I felt with no motivations and I had thought about retiring from tennis. | afael) Nadal does it. The only routine I still have is to play a tournament with one shirt. Cleaning it in the evening, clearly.' Quinzi also added now he can | 39 |
Enjoy the top 5 famous quotes,<|fim_middle|> beyond the trouble and money wasted on it. The disdain Britons reserve for politicians is fuelled by doubts about" — Anonymous. | sayings and quotations by Subhajit Ganguly.
"Yet, the man never goes slow!
Feted against all the odds.
From the dawn of civilization, human beings have tried to find out order in the chaotic world surrounding them. It has however never been easy to find a solution to explain a given system while being a part of that system. The best bet is to find out the most fundamental components within the system and building a theory round these. In other words, a theory that is able to describe the world in totality has to keep the number of basic postulates it depends upon to zero or near zero.
Yet, the man never goes slow!
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happy birthday, mr. gropius.
Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and pioneering master of Modernism, was born on this day (May 18) in 1883. Revered designer, teacher, and champion of a radically simplified architecture, Gropius remains a canonical figure, the golden god of modernity. After leaving Europe for the United States in 1937, Gropius set his sights on the American landscape, introducing Bauhaus principles to a new generation of architects. Perhaps the most complete example of his influential doctrine, the Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts, started a revolution, its stark white form a radical break from tradition.
Located an hour outside of Boston, the Gropius House served as the architect's home during his tenure at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. After securing funding for the project from a generous local patron, Helen Osborne Storrow, Gropius (with the help and influence of his wife, Ise, daughter Ati, and partner Marcel Breuer) designed a striking white box that reflected both the progressive teachings of the Bauhaus and the local vernacular traditions of New England. Combining regional building practices (wood clapboard, fieldstone foundation, brick fireplace wall) with mass-produced and prefabricated materials (glass block, steel sash windows, I-beams), the<|fim_middle|>'s post are part of the Library of Congress's HABS collection (MA-1228).
A version of this post was published on May 16, 2017.
This architectural historian cannot stop thinking about buildings, food, and that vintage rug she found online.
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A model of efficiency and simplicity, the collaborative design of the Gropius House is a pivotal piece of Modernism. With its flat roof, box-like form, and ribbon windows, the home exemplifies Gropius' bold architectural vision in a preview of architecture to come. In 2000, the Modern icon became a National Historic Landmark and is currently run by Historic New England. Information about visiting the property is available here.
Cheers to Mr. Gropius.
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Marco Zappacosta (born 1985) is an American entrepreneur. He co-founded Thumbtack and serves as the company's CEO.
Biography
Zappacosta was born in Stanford<|fim_middle|>Zappacosta led the company to develop and launch an instant matching feature that automates and streamlines the booking process between customers and professionals, a process taking nine years and 25 million requests from Thumbtack's over 1,000 categories of jobs.
As of 2021, Thumbtack has a $3.2 billion valuation and has the highest number of professional listings, followed by Yelp.
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1985 births | , California in 1985 and grew up in Menlo Park, California. His father is Pierluigi Zappacosta, an Italian engineer who emigrated to the United States in the 1970s and co-founded Logitech. He is bilingual and speaks Italian.
Zappacosta attended Columbia University, graduating in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in political science. During college, Zappacosta was the director of Students for Saving Social Security (S4) in Washington, D.C., a group representing the student voice in the Social Security debate, with more than 10,000 student members in over 300 campus chapters nationwide.
He later came up with the idea of creating an online marketplace matching service providers and their customers. In 2008, he launched Thumbtack with two of his fellow S4 directors Jonathan Swanson and Jeremy Tunnell, as well as Sander Daniels.
In the early years, Zappacosta and his team were scrapping Craigslist and built an online directory of verified service providers with their photos, license, and reviews. The idea appealed to angel investor Jason Calacanis, who became the first person to invest in the startup.
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In 1998, almost 90 years after Arizona women were given the right to vote, five women were elected to serve in the state's five most<|fim_middle|> about their work?
Why do you think ninety years passed between when women were allowed to vote and when women filled all five of the state's top elected positions? | important government positions. Jane Dee Hull was elected governor, Betsey Bayless was elected Secretary Of State, Janet Napolitano was elected Attorney General, Carol Springer was elected Treasurer, and Lisa Graham-Keegan was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction. To this day, the Fab Five remain the greatest number of women to serve in a state's highest elected offices at any given time.
When were the Fab Five elected? What elected positions had women previously filled in Arizona?
Who created the documents linked above? What do these documents tell us about the work of the Fab Five? What don't these documents tell us | 122 |
Characteristics of student accommodation construction projects include tight programme timings, sustainability and energy efficiency. Minimal disruption is<|fim_middle|> are fully committed to using BIM to collaborate effectively with all partners, ensuring that even the most complex projects proceed smoothly. | also a common objective for both city-centre and campus based sites.
Whether used for the full structure or to wrap concrete or steel frames, the i-SIP System is normally installed in a few days without the need for scaffolding. A watertight structure is ready for fit-out weeks earlier than with traditional methods.
Tight manufacturing tolerances, low thermal bridging losses and the inherent high insulation values of the panels result in highly energy efficient buildings. Typically it is possible to use a lower specified heating system than would be possible with traditional construction. This, combined with greater manufacturing flexibility, means that M&E costs are often substantially reduced.
Our SIP building engineers and design teams work in close partnership with all stakeholders to ensure that the cost and time saving opportunities are fully realised throughout design and installation. We | 160 |
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Suppose the mean GPA of BYU-Idaho students is 3.5 and the standard deviation is 0.7. It is well known that this distribution is left- skewed. A random sample of n=81 stud...
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The market value of the equity of Thompson, Inc., is $593,000. The balance sheet shows $32,000 in cash and $203,000 in debt, while the income statement has EBIT of $104,000 and a total of $148,000 in
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The NUT and the other education unions have organised an urgent rally and lobby of Parliament<|fim_middle|> use this facility to arrange a meeting with your MP in your constituency.
A briefing on how to get the most from the lobby, including questions to ask your MP, will be posted on the National website shortly.
If you have not already done so please also email your MP about the Academies Bill here. | on Monday 19 July 2010. The lobby follows the announcement of cuts to the Building Schools for the Future programme and is also timed to coincide with the Second Reading of the Academies Bill in the House of Commons on that day.
The rally will take place at Westminster Central Hall, Storey's Gate, London SW1H 9NH between 1 and 2 pm. Central Hall will be open from 11.30am to allow for registration, networking and any pre-meetings. A map showing the location of Central Hall can be found here. After the rally lobbyists will be able to lobby their MPs via the Green Card system from 2.30 pm when Parliament is sitting.
Anyone wishing to attend the lobby should contact us using the link on the left hand side.
If you are attending the lobby you are also advised to contact your MP in advance and seek to arrange a suitable time to meet with them on the day. You can email your MP via the NUT's easy to use facility here. If you are unable to attend the lobby you may also | 224 |
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Robolancers EmPOWER Girls in STEM
Posted on September 30, 2017 by The Centralizer in Science & Technology
Members of the Robolancers inspect their robot. PC: Ernesto Estremera
The Robol<|fim_middle|> shoot two balls simultaneously. Last but not least, the robot is able to climb a rope using pneumatics."
The robotics team also took some innovative measures in the electrical and programming aspects of the robot. The electronic components were placed under the robot, rather than above, leaving more space for other mechanisms. One of these mechanisms included a new vision processor that allowed the robot to sense reflective tape placed on the pegs on which it was required to place gears. The robot would then automatically approach the peg and place the gear on top of it.
Although the Robolancers did not win the competition, they did make it to the semifinals. One of their foremost objectives for the competition was to prepare new members for the upcoming competition season, and GirlPOWER did just that. Furthermore, the competition was a great opportunity to acknowledge the talent and determination of girls in STEM. Robotics serves as a crucial gateway for many female students at Central and other schools to develop an interest and experience in STEM fields.
"I personally began freshman year, with absolutely no background in STEM projects," reminisces Jennifer Guevara (277). "When I first laid eyes on Central's robot at orientation, I immediately knew: 'I want to be able to create that.' After three years on the team, I've become one of its dedicated mechanical members, as well as the FRC Team Captain for two years. I am no longer afraid to share my ideas on design or build of the robot (or the team), and jump at the opportunity to spread STEM throughout the Philadelphia community along with my team."
Besides a passion for STEM, a strong sense of camaraderie and and a love of competition motivate the Robolancers as they prepare for the 2018 competition season, which kicks off on January 6, the pivotal date when the game and rules are released. The Robolancers then have six weeks to build a robot based on the criteria. With the seniors of 277 at the helm, the robotics team is optimistic and excited about this year's prospects.
"Everyone on the team is excited for the season. We enjoy the competitive atmosphere as well as the bonds we create," says Robolancers president Viwing Zheng (277). "We stay until 6 PM in school on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. In addition, we come to school on Saturdays to build. It's a time investment and it gets really stressful with the piled-up school work, but no one complains because we really love the thrill of competing and putting our best onto the field."
With hard work and dedication comes spectacular robotics creations. The Robolancers certainly have a great season ahead of them as their supporters and competitors alike wait anxiously to see what arresting engineering feats this robotics dream team has in store.
Miriam Solowey (277)
PC: Ernesto Estremera | ancers competed in GirlPOWER on Saturday, September 16, an off-season competition hosted by FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) Team 443, at Mount Saint Joseph Academy. GirlPOWER is an annual competition run by girls and for girls to recognize women in STEM and inspire others to follow in their footsteps. Fifteen teams competed in GirlPOWER. Because the competition is so early in the off-season, many robotics teams use it as an opportunity to train new team members for the upcoming season by practicing fixing, driving, and presenting robots, in addition to learning how to work under pressure. Each team's robot had three main objectives: to place gears onto pegs, shoot a ball into a goal, and climb a rope. Central's robot successfully performed all three of these objectives.
As Jennifer Guevara (277), FRC Team Captain explains, "The robot uses a piston-manipulated 'pocket,' which intakes the gear pieces from the game field (gears are 10 inches in diameter), to place gears onto pegs, which were then lifted up into a field structure. To shoot the balls 9 feet up, the robot has an empty 'tank' that can hold 50 balls at a time, with a conveyor system underneath the tank. The conveyor belt system guides the balls into the robot's shooting mechanism: dual flywheel shooters. This allows the robot to | 286 |
The Study Centre and Communication Archive (<|fim_middle|> e Archivio della Comunicazione). | CSAC) is a research centre of the University of Parma founded in 1968 by Professor Arturo Carlo Quintavalle. Right from the start, it concentrated on assembling a collection of fine art, photography, architectural drawings, design, fashion and graphics, as well as organizing exhibitions and publishing catalogues.
Since 2007, it has been based at the Valserena Abbey, also known as the Charterhouse of Paradigna, just a few kilometres from Parma. It is divided into five sections – Fine Art, Photography, Media, Project, and Visual Arts – containing around 12 million single items.
Its institutional task is the collection, conservation, cataloguing and promotion of cultural heritage. In addition, it provides scientific consultancy to support teaching, research and design, and organizes exhibitions: to date, it has over 100 exhibitions and as many publications to its credit.
CSAC (Centro Studi | 194 |
COVID-19 Updates for the Town of Davidson
As the situation continues to evolve with regards to COVID-19, we want to be sure to keep our community members in-the-know with the most current information for our area. Please take note of the three important updates below coming from Mecklenburg County and the State of North Carolina:
EXTENSION OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY STAY AT HOME ORDER
The Mecklenburg County Stay at Home Order has been extended to April 29, 2020 to match the Governor's Executive Order 121 for the State of North Carolina. The County's Stay at Home Order will extend if the Governor extends the Order for North Carolina. To view the full details of the extension, please click HERE.
GUIDANCE ON MASKS
The Mecklenburg County Public Health Department is advising residents to use simple cloth face coverings when in public settings where social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g. grocery stores and pharmacies) in order to slow the spread of COVID-19 and help people who may be transmitting the virus without knowing it.
Most importantly, wearing a cloth face mask does NOT change the importance of complying with the state's Stay at Home Order.
Here are some things to keep in mind when using a cloth face mask:
Routinely wash the face covering and ensure that it is completely dry before using it again. It's recommended to use a washing and drying machine.
Avoid adjusting the mask by touching your face while wearing the mask.
Continue to practice frequent hygiene while wearing the mask
Avoid touching your face when removing the mask and wash your hands immediately after removing.
If you'd like more information pertaining to the "dos and don'ts" of using a mask, please click HERE.
REQUIREMENTS FOR RETAIL STORES
This week, Governor Cooper issued Executive Order 131 which offers clear requirements that essential businesses must implement in order to safeguard the health of customers and employees. Some of the directives include:
Setting limits of how many people can be in a store at one time, 5 people per 1,000 square feet of retail space or 20% of fire marshal posted occupancy limits
Marking six feet of distance in areas where people gather, such as checkout lines
Requiring specific cleaning measures for retail stores
In addition, the Order also encourages:
Implementing hygiene recommendations for employees and customers, like hand sanitizer at the doors and face coverings for workers
Establishing designated shopping times for high-risk groups
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216 South Main Street Davidson, NC 28036 | barriers between customers and employees at checkout to lower the risk of required interactions
To read the state's press release pertaining to Executive Order 131, click HERE. For the full Executive Order, click HERE.
For the latest, local health information about COVID-19, visit the Mecklenburg County Public Health Department website here. The Town of Davidson also has a dedicated COVID-19 webpage here | 83 |
True American Heroes
Yesterday I had the honor and pleasure of attending a very special ceremony. My friend Larry Provost was honored for his brave work at Ground Zero following the September 11 terrorist attacks, along with 12 other Army members. It was held on Greenwich Street, right at the base of 7 World Trade Center, directly across from the site.
Larry was awarded The Department of the Army Certificate, and other members were awarded the Army Commendation Medal by Secretary of the Army Pete Geren. Larry was one of those first responders who went to the World Trade Center right after the attacks, and did a lot of brave work, along with thousands of other courageous people. It took nearly six years to honor them, but I'm glad to see him and<|fim_middle|>/task,view/id,272/
Larry's one of the good guys, and it has been a blessing for me to know him, and to be with him and his family yesterday. Larry and his 12 colleagues are true American heroes, and their courage and sacrifice will never be forgotten.
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Celebrating With The BLOHARDS | the others get such official recognition. Afterwards, there was a nice luncheon for everyone involved at the Millennium Hilton on Church Street.
Larry is one of those great people who came into my life because of the terrorist attacks, and whom I probably would never have met under better circumstances.
Back in 2004, I sent a package to the troops serving in Iraq, through the WTC support group I belong to. It included things for the children of Iraq, like candy, pencils and other things. But the troops there also requested photos from people sending packages who lost a loved one in the terror attacks. So I sent along a photo of my friend Joyce, as well as the poem I wrote in her memory.
I got back a very nice email from Larry, who thanked for sending the package to them. We began swapping emails, and I found out that he was from upstate New York, and he was a big Yankees fan. Despite that, we got on well, and I also found out that he had also done a tour in Afghanistan and was at the WTC after the September 11 attacks. He returned to the States in 2005, and we met for the first time. Larry and I have been together at the remembrances at Ground Zero in both 2005 and 2006.
He wrote a great piece a few years ago on the IAVA web site (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America) about his service in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the World Trade Center. It's definitely worth taking the time to read:
http://www.iava.org/component/option,com_/Itemid,119/option,content | 342 |
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But these animals only live about 15 years - so how could the two be related...unless a mating pair had been released!
Assuming that farmers are right that a large animal is sometimes killing their sheep, and assuming that eye-witnesses are telling the truth (fair asumptions) it seems possible that there is one or more large, probably cat related animals living wild in Exmoor.
So while you will most likely not see any sign of the beast during your visit to Exmoor, be sure to take a photograph if a large black cat, perhaps two metres long, suddenly appears in front of you. Just before screaming loudly and running very fast.
England This Way - copyright 2009 - 2020 :: privacy policy | neighbour Exmoor has something altogether more exciting for you to look out for - the Beast of Exmoor!
The Exmoor Beast is a large cat-like creature, that is said to live in the Exmoor National Park, where it ccasionally kills sheep, and is very occasionally spotted by people.
Perhaps the size of a puma, it is black or dark grey, more than 1.5 metres long, very fast and very quiet. It stalks the moors preying on wildlife and posing risk to all who dare enter.
The greatest evidence for the presence of the animal emerged in the 1980's with a wave of sheep killing in Exmoor, which had throat injuries consistent with those a large cat might cause. More recently a puma skull has reputedly been found on Exmoor. Sightings are generally reported every few years, occasionally with a very blurred photo, that keep the story alive.
Does the Beast of Exmoor exist?
No one knows for sure whether there really is a large cat prowling Exmoor. The Exmoor National Park refuses to confirm it, and the photographic evidence is, to say the least, not compelling. The photos that exist are far from clear and could have been falsified. The Ministry of Agriculture has stated that they do not believe there is an unidentified beast roaming the moors - although the Royal Marines sent in to
hunt the animal in 1983 believed they had seen it, though not caught it...
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The Work Place Mediation UK offers expert mediation, settlement, appellate settlement, project neutral, and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services to the UK and global construction industry to settle conflicts in a timely as well as budget-friendly fashion. These professionals also solve also the most complex issues efficiently utilizing very early treatment methods, ranging from structured negotiations, task neutrals, initial decision-making, as well as mediation, to adjudication, dispute testimonial boards, and also mini-trials.
Mediation is a collective technique of solving disagreements or distinctions. By contrast with court, mediation or adjudication proceedings mediation is:
Quick – instances generally clear up within 4 weeks of the parties consenting to moderate.
Affordable – offered the rate of the procedure, mediation is typically more budget-friendly than the choices.
Due to the fact that they desire to maintain or restore functioning connections as well as fix their conflicts or distinctions prior to they escalate better, Collaborative – parties usually agree to moderate. The spirit of mediation lines up with the spirit of collaborative working.
Less formal – the procedure is casual and also its personal nature usually encourages a much more open dialogue.
Much less high-risk – settlement at mediation has the capacity for 'win-win' results and also gets rid of all the danger which would certainly otherwise be had of losing an adjudication, court or adjudication proceedings.
Adaptable – the parties can get to versatile negotiations that are not feasible with alternative types of dispute resolution. {For instance, in a construction context, the events can agree that repayment by Party A will certainly be made in return for conclusion of job by Party B.
Final – a settlement of the disagreement got to at mediation is typically complete and last.
Parties that hesitate to mediate will encounter stress from the Court to do so:
The Pre-Action Protocol for Construction and also Design Disputes as well as the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (particularly the Overriding Goal and the Practice Direction for Pre-Action Conduct), which apply to all construction and design disagreements, attend to mediation at an onset.
A refusal to mediate should be sustained by really great reasons to avoid assents, frequently in costs, which the Court is significantly most likely to or else impose.
Mediation is a form of alternative disagreement resolution usually made use of in construction disagreements.
This procedure gives a quick review of the key stages of a mediation although, as the events select just how this procedure runs, this can vary.
as set out in the agreement, or.
by asking a 3rd event (eg a mediation service provider) to choose.
Celebrations will after that need to agree the mediator's conditions and terms.
The contract is usually supplied by the mediator and also generally:
includes discretion arrangements.
allocates the mediator's fees (usually equally between the parties although the celebrations are cost-free to agree otherwise).
is normally distributed in draft beforehand and also joined the day of mediation.
Plan for mediation
Prior to the mediation, the events generally:
prepare a situation summary/ position statement in addition to any kind of key supporting files. This is exchanged by the parties as well as sent to the mediator.
have contact with the mediator, usually using a quick (scheduled) phone conversation for each event, to identify key problems.
select a mediation group, to include a rep from each party with the authority to agree a settlement.
prepare a method, including settlement criteria and any type of opening presentation.
prepare a draft settlement arrangement to take to the mediation.
The mediation contract is normally authorized by the parties on the day of mediation.
The format the session can take is entirely flexible and also several various approaches can be used, yet each event will usually have its own breakout room.
A mediation might last anything from a matter of hrs to a matter of days.
The mediator will commonly formally open the mediation with a joint session, at which the events may offer opening statements, setting out their placements.
Afterwards, the mediator may have exclusive conversations with each party to promote negotiations as well as to attempt to help the events to reach a settlement.
As private sessions with the mediator, there may additionally be sessions in between the events' key decision manufacturers or sessions just between the events' legal representatives or specialists, to try to concur certain factors.
If the parties reach a settlement, it is a good idea to authorize a settlement contract (to include all terms agreed in between the parties, not just the settlement sum worth), preferably, at the mediation to bind the parties.
It may be that no settlement is gotten to at the mediation or that just particular points are concurred (eg responsibility but not quantum).
The events' options could after that include:
accepting an additional mediation or making use of the development made at mediation to continue settlement discussions, either through the mediator or straight, or.
taking into consideration a various type of alternative conflict resolution.
If the mediation was a pre-trial effort to stay clear of a full hearing (and also the associated prices exposure), the existing procedures might need to proceed.
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Mediation is a conflict resolution method where a neutral 3rd party, the Mediator, helps celebrations resolve their conflict amicably. The Mediator aids contesting celebrations acquire a better understanding of each other's demands and also passions so they can bargain a settlement contract which fits those<|fim_middle|> parties to a resolution of their conflict as agreed between themselves. A mediator has no power to honor, also much less to implement, any sort of remedy. Early interaction by a mediator to every of the events of this fundamental difference is one key to developing a connection of trust as well as self-confidence in between the mediator as well as each of the parties themselves.
The Technology and Construction Court Overview (Area 7) keeps in mind that the court "will certainly give support" to the celebrations to use different conflict resolution (" ADR") as well as will, whenever appropriate, "assist in making use of such procedure". The Overview defines ADR as taking the form "of inter-party arrangements or a mediation performed by a neutral mediator". The Method Instructions on Pre-Action Conduct and also Protocols supplies that, pre-litigation, the parties "need to think about if negotiation or ADR could enable settlement without commencing process" as well as puts a proceeding duty upon events to think about the possibility of clearing up in all times, including after proceedings have begun. In the event that process are provided, the Practice Instructions notes that the court may require evidence from the celebrations that ADR was taken into consideration, and that silence in action to an invite to participate or a rejection to take part in ADR might be considered unreasonable and also can cause the court ordering the failing event to pay extra court prices. Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Pre-Action Method for Construction and Design Disputes (2nd version) specifies that of its purposes is to 'make proper attempts to settle the issue without beginning process and, in specific, to consider the usage of an appropriate kind of ADR in order to do so.' Celebrations are expected to hold a Pre-Action Meeting as component of the Protocol, which itself can 'take the type of an ADR process such as mediation.' (para 9.3).
Construction conflicts of a significant dimension are typically based on mediation. Such conduct in support of the parties tends to occur not just by reason of possible court sanctions on the occasion that ADR is not correctly resolved, but additionally by reason of an acknowledgment on the component of each event (or their advisors) that a successful mediation and worked out settlement can usually be the most effective outcome to the disagreement. In this context, "ideal end result" can be defined not just in terms of readily available solution, but likewise in terms of cost and the lack of substantial hold-up before resolution. Construction disputes are usually multi-party, the origins of the disagreement can usually be discovered in the pre-dispute personal connections between the events instead of in the context of legal "significances", and an agreed settlement is practically usually a lot more practical, extra wider-ranging and also flexible than the rigorous treatments offered within the relevant lawful system.
Dr. Tim Sampson has previously explained that there is an unique stress between the professed court approval of ADR and the enhancing use the adjudication procedure. It holds true that the technique of "ambush adjudication" and the stringent time frame applicable within the adjudication process tend versus the loosened up use of mediation as an ADR device in such disputes. The proposed option, particularly that an arbitrator or arbitrator can first act as mediator, as well as afterwards, in default of settlement, go back to his standard function and the making of a judgment and also award, constitutes a misunderstanding of the component components of the mediation process as well as the essential function as well as abilities of a mediator. Parties provided with a neutral mediator who might, eventually, come to be a neutral judge would certainly need to meticulously examine with their advisers problems of privacy and privilege in connection to the stipulation of info. The mediator/potential adjudicator would certainly need to do exactly the very same in relation to the receipt and also re-transmission of info to the other event. The possibility of building a very early partnership of trust and self-confidence in between each party as well as the mediator, and also thereafter between the events themselves with the support of a mediator, would be destroyed. Rather of the mediation constituting a casual procedure concentrated on the end result of dispute resolution by arrangement, it would undoubtedly come down right into a tactical game designed to manipulate and locate benefit for succeeding usage in the adjudication or adjudication, and also subsequent impact of the arbitrator's independent judgment. Apart from these problems, the here and now problems bordering using mediation within a construction adjudication procedure do not require the development of a new "mediator/adjudicator" role.
Mediation is an inherently versatile process. All that it calls for is the contract of the parties to the mediation process, a suite of rooms (2 will certainly do at a push), a mediator, and the participation of the parties at the mediation itself. A mediation can, if required, be arranged within 24 hrs. Although pre-mediation help is constantly valued, a mediator does not require "Mediation Statements" (typically phrased as "Skeleton Arguments") from each party, nor packages as well as packages of documents, neither costs timetables, nor any of the paper paraphernalia effectively called for by an adversarial procedure. The mediator's ability and issue is the re-building of a partnership of adequate trust fund as well as self-confidence between the parties to make it possible for the celebrations themselves to reach a concurred compromise of their conflict. Such process, although it may be notified by all type of files that the parties might desire to produce before or throughout the mediation, counts much more on personal inter-action than stringent lawful proof. In any kind of situation, a lot of this material will currently be readily available in digital format as entries to the arbitrator.
In recent King's University, London research into mediation in construction, it was reported that 'Where mediation brought about a settlement, the respondents reported their belief that the process had actually resulted in significant savings, in contrast with the cost of going onwards to a traditional trial. Also where the mediation was not successful, couple of respondents believed it to have been a wild-goose chase or cash; numerous regarded it as a favorable experience.' (Moderating Construction Disagreements: An Evaluation of Existing Practice (King's College, London, 2010), p2).
As necessary, whatever formal process might have been taken on by the celebrations to the dispute– whether litigation, adjudication or settlement– there is constantly room for mediation if the celebrations and their advisers so desire it. Whether they pick to do so will certainly depend upon the truths of the disagreement, the techniques of the advisers and the celebrations' willingness to send themselves to the difficult procedure– frequently harder for the parties themselves than being the passive recipient of a judgment– of seeking an agreed resolution. In construction disagreements particularly, regardless of the schedule and also procedural limitations of the adjudication process, an agreed resolution using mediation still often tends to provide the "best end result" for the parties.
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Construction as well as engineering disagreements may not only damage company partnerships but have both a financial cost which can be high, and also an emotional cost which can be debilitating. Mediation has a vital function to play in the resolution of construction and design conflicts. Work Place Mediation UK released the Work Place Mediation UK Model Mediation Arrangement as well as Procedure (Work Place Mediation UK MMAP)– Very first Version to assist events jeopardize a construction and also engineering disagreement using mediation. The Work Place Mediation UK MMAP is based on the perspective that where the disagreement fixes around concerns of truth, the finest mediation approach is evaluative accomplished by a seasoned construction as well as engineering specialist.
Parties may apply to Work Place Mediation UK to supply a list of three Conciliators or to choose a Mediator from the Work Place Mediation UK Panel of Mediators.
The Work Place Mediation UK Panel of Mediators comprises skilled recognized Arbitrators. They are construction as well as engineering experts who are participants of Work Place Mediation UK member organisations, as well as who have a minimum of ten years' message specialist credentials experience in their primary career.
To request a checklist of 3 Conciliators or to nominate a Mediator please complete the Schedule One Mediation Request– Demand to the Work Place Mediation UK for the Election of a Mediator at the end of the Work Place Mediation UK MMAP, which can be found below. The management fee is ₤ 360.00 (inclusive of BARREL).
Arbitrators will just be included in the listing of three Conciliators or chosen if they have validated they:
have no existing relationship in the direction of or with either party, no link with the topic of dispute, no passion in the result;
will comply with the Work Place Mediation UK Version Mediation Procedure.
Work Place Mediation UK accepts applications from knowledgeable certified moderators that:
are a participant of Work Place Mediation UK Participant organisations;
have a minimum of one decade' message specialist credentials experience in their key occupation;
can provide referral from events or their representatives in a commercial conflict where they have actually functioned as mediator in the previous 2 years.
The essence of mediation is the re-building of a partnership of count on and self-confidence, using transmission of information, between parties in disagreement.
The count on as well as self-confidence re-built need not restore the parties to their previous, pre-dispute, connection. Such is not a demand of mediation, as well as without a doubt the necessarily time-limited process itself seldom does so. All that is necessary in the training course of mediation is that enough trust and also self-confidence is re-built between the parties to permit them to get to a concurred compromise of their disagreement. A settlement is hardly ever achieved between celebrations who have no count on whatsoever in each various other, which is frequently the pre-mediation placement in many construction disagreements.
A mediator is an experienced private efficient in helping the parties in conflict to get to an agreed compromise. The connection in between the mediator and each of the parties is the key to an effective mediation. Such relationship is once again one of depend on as well as self-confidence. A mediator needs to build a trusting partnership in between himself and each of the parties as quickly as possible within the program of the mediation itself in order to obtain information relevant to the conflict and also the connection in between the celebrations. If a mediator can not promptly build count on and also confidence in between himself as well as each of the celebrations, he is unlikely to be able to do so, in due course, between the celebrations themselves.
The information acquired by a mediator is gotten based on party confidentiality. It can not be sent by the mediator to the various other event without the express permission of the party giving the info. Such an assurance of party-mediator confidentiality permits the relevant celebration to talk openly as well as honestly to the mediator as to the realities of the disagreement (from that celebration's point of view) and also the potential customers and prospective terms of a suggested settlement (again from that party's perspective). Such fundamental information, acquired by the mediator from each party subsequently, yet always subject to celebration privacy, allows a mediator to obtain an independent viewpoint on– or "helicopter view" of– the conflict.
A judge, mediator or arbitrator just as has an independent perspective, or "helicopter sight" of a dispute. When it comes to a judge, arbitrator or arbitrator , nonetheless, such perspective is supplied by the celebrations in the hearing of the various other– by method of proof or entries– and is purely restricted by the suitable law as well as procedural rules. An adversarial procedure is designed to remove irrelevancy (again as specified by the relevant law and procedural rules) as well as to isolate concerns for independent judgment. The result of an adversarial process upon any type of problem as isolated need to necessarily be binary: that is, a person "wins" and somebody "loses". The result of an adversarial process, being the cumulation of a collection of judgments upon the issues as separated, can just be the grant or denial of a treatment or remedies sought, once again, based on the relevant law.
The independent viewpoint or "helicopter view" obtained by a mediator in private as well as private conversations with each event is equivalent to, however not the like, the independent point of view of the court, arbitrator or arbitrator. The mediator's viewpoint is not restricted by rules of law or procedure, yet only by the degree of the details given by the celebrations as reviewed by the mediator and each party interacting. The events frequently have a really various point of view from a judge or adjudicator on what matters could be "relevant" or "irrelevant" to their conflict, and also the parties' recommended resolutions to their disagreement may entail matters which, by their nature, can not undergo a lawsuits based solution. It is for these reasons that a mediator, in personal conversations with each celebration, will certainly inquire from each ranging well beyond the "standard info" supplied to a mediator, court or adjudicator . A mediation process inquires not only regarding the interpretation of the conflict between the celebrations, yet also, using example, the history of each of the parties (including their financial setting and potential customers), the formula and terms of the pre– dispute connection in between them, the functionalities and also causation of the failure of their connection because the dispute, and also their fears as well as hopes for the future in the occasion of a settlement of the disagreement, alternatively, in the occasion that the conflict can not be resolved. It is not unusual for the causation of a dispute to be located in matters which an attorney in an adversarial procedure would correctly consider "unnecessary", and also for a resolution to the dispute to be located by the parties themselves upon the mediator helping their interactions on such matters.
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The pamphlet contains work by Ruth Steadman, Jonathan Hart, Tom Clark, Jess Murrain, Clare Whittle, Leonardo Boix, Stef Bottinelli, Barbara Dillon, Anjila Sinha, Paul Lee-Maynard, Analia Padin and Jenni Emery; and is illustrated by the gorgeous black and white photography of Tom Clark.
The students launched their pamphlet at our Autumn Term reading which was a great night, full of poetry, conviviality and cakes. They sold more than 70 copies of the pamphlet and raised a very welcome £235 for our Bursary Scheme.
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Identifying Factors that Facilitate Becoming Re-Housed and Improving Personal Well-Being for Persons who are Homeless. Tim Aubry, Ph.D., C.Psych. Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services University of Ottawa Presentation at the Institute of Population Health April 15, 2008.
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Identifying Factors that Facilitate Becoming Re-Housed and Improving Personal Well-Being for Persons who are Homeless Tim Aubry, Ph.D., C.Psych. Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services University of Ottawa Presentation at the Institute of Population Health April 15, 2008
Etiology of Homelessness • Homelessness = Poverty X Vulnerability* (* Vulnerabilities – e.g., social isolation, developmental transitions, family conflict, relationship dissolution, domestic violence, mental illness, addictions)
Research Objectives • Objectives of the study were: (i) to identify factors that facilitate or impede a person's exit from homelessness, and (ii) examine the relationship between becoming re-housed and health • One of only a small number longitudinal studies on homelessness conducted in Canada
Research Questions • 1. What is the housing trajectory of participants over the course of the study? • 2. What are the resources and risk factors associated with exiting homelessness? • 3. Are there improvements in physical health functioning and mental health functioning associated with the exiting of homelessness?
Previous Research: Exits from Homelessness • Predictors of a successful exit from homelessness include: • Personal characteristics(Wong et al., 1998; Caton et al., 2005) : • Demographics: Younger age, being female • Having children • Orwin et al. (2005) found that having others dependent on one for food an shelter was a protective factor for becoming housed and preventing homelessness • Good coping skills (Caton et al., 2005) • Shorter history of homelessness (Pilianvin et al., 1996; Zlotnick et al., 1999)
Previous Research: Exits from Homelessness • Interpersonal Resources: • Social support (Cohen et al., 1997; Caton et al., 2005) • Caton et al. found that family support, in particular, predicted shorter episodes of homelessness • Community resources:(e.g. Wong & Piliavin, 1997; Stojanovic et al., 1999; Shinn et al., 1998; Zlotnick et al., 1999; Piliavin et al., 1996; Caton et al., 2005) • Use of community services(Cohen et al., 1997) • Employment & job training • Earned income • Social benefits • Subsidized housing
Model of Risk Factors and Resources Related to Exiting Homelessness Improved Health Risk Factors Physical health problems Mental health problems Substance abuse problems - • Resources • Individual • Employment History • Educational Attainment • Housing Stability • Sense of Empowerment • Interpersonal • Size of social network • Availability of social support • Satisfaction with social support • Community • Income support • Use of health services • Use of social services • Subsidized housing + Exit from Homelessness +
Method • Two in-person interviews that were approximately 24 months apart • Located participants through friends, family members, and service providers • Used empirically validated measures when available: HIST (Toro et al., 1995); SSQ (Saranson et al., 1983); ISEL (Cohen & Hoberman, 1983); CAGE (Chan et al., 1994); DAST (Skinner, 1982); SF-36 (Ware et al., 1998);
Method • 412 individuals interviewed in the first phase (87 single men, 85 single women, 79 male youth, 78 female youth, and 83 adults in families) • 255 participants (62%) re-interviewed in the second phase (43 single men, 55 single women, 49 male youth, 50 female youth, and 58 adults in families) • Those re-interviewed did not differ from drop-outs in demographics or housing characteristics, although they had typically resided in Ottawa for a longer time
Results: Housing Trajectories • Three-quarters (76%) of respondents had been housed for 90 days or more at the time of being re-interviewed • Most common type of housing in which they lived was apartments (52%), followed by townhouses (17%) and houses (14%) • 79% of those who were housed rated the overall quality of their housing as being "somewhat good", "good", or "very good" • Families most likely to be housed (97%); single men least likely to be housed (49%) • Majority of families (78%) and over one-half of single women (51%) living in subsidized housing; no single men living in subsidized housing
Results: Housing Trajectories
Results: Resources and Risk Factors Predictive of Housing Status at Follow-up • "Stably housed" = housed for 90(+) days • Demographic characteristics: • younger, female, being in a family • Individual resources • higher number of moves • higher level of personal empowerment • Community resources: • accessing subsidized housing • higher level of income • No risk factors or interpersonal factors significantly related to housing status at follow-up
Risk Factors Physical Health Mental Health Drug Use Alcohol Use
Individual Resources Housing Stability** + Educational Attainment Work History + Personal Empowerment* Chi2 (5) = 12.19, p < .05; R2 ch = 6% **p < .05; p < .10
Community Resources Income** + Health Services Social Services + Subsidized Housing* Chi2 (4) = 19.11, p = .001, R2 ch = 9% *p < .01; **p = .001
Qualitative Findings: How People Explain Their Housing Experiences • Economic Factors: • Many respondents identified the gap between what they could afford and the cost of rent as the major source of their housing problem. • This was particularly acute among individuals receiving social assistance and those working low-wage jobs. More social housing would help the problem: "Even on welfare, after rent you're left with less than $100."
Qualitative Findings: How People Explain Their Housing Experiences • Housing arrangements: • In order to afford housing, people sometimes shared costs by living with roommates or romantic partners, or by returning to the family home. • In some cases, this resulted in interpersonal conflicts that resulted in new episodes of homelessness.
Qualitative Findings: How People Explain Their Housing Experiences • Substance use problems: • Some respondents identified personal drug use problems, or the easy availability of drugs and open drug use in their living environments, as obstacles to staying housed. "In my apartment building there are lots of drugs around. People always have drugs in the building and the dealers are always harassing you. [If] you are trying to move on from being an addict, they [drug dealers and other drug users] don't understand and put you down for not using drugs."
Qualitative Findings: How People Explain Their Housing Experiences • Violence and abuse: • Family conflicts – which included running away, being forced out of the home by parents and experiencing abuse at home – were described as obstacles to stable housing by many youth. • Some adult women identified violence or abuse by a partner as contributing to their homelessness. "I am homeless because my husband abused me and I needed to leave with my children. Here, where we are now, it's very well organized. They've really helped us – morally, mentally, in every way."
Qualitative Findings: How People Explain Their Housing Experiences • Health status: • Physical or mental health problems impacted the ability of some respondents to accessing stable housing. • In some cases, the impairment was the route to stable housing, and in other circumstances it was the reason for their housing difficulties.
Qualitative Findings: How People Explain Their Housing Experiences • Housing and neighbourhood<|fim_middle|> Health + Housing Quality* *F ch (1, 250) = 5.25, p < .05, R2 = 2%
Results: Changes in Health Functioning Associated with Changes in Housing Status
Conclusions / Implications • Affordable housing and income emerge as the key community resources behind exiting from homelessness. Policies and programs directed at housing, income support, and employment are recommended.
Conclusions / Implications • Becoming housed after a period of homelessness did not produce, at least in the short-term, improvements in health. Housing quality emerges as an important contributor to mental health. Policies ensuring that the quality of affordable housing meets an acceptable standard are recommended.
Future Research • Three city two-year longitudinal study funded by CIHR (Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver) and conducted by REACH3 • Cohort of single adults (N = 600) starting out homeless and another cohort (N = 600) of single adults who are precariously housed • Study pathways in and out of homeless with three interviews over two year period • Examine the interaction between housing status and health
Study Findings: Further Information • http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/crcs/eng/pub_proj_reports.asp | characteristics: • Some women, particularly those with children, emphasized the value of living in a safe neighbourhood. • For others, negative environmental features, such as fear, neighbours with dangerous lifestyles and restricted access to amenities such as parks and recreation centres were reasons for leaving their housing.
Results: Changes in Health Functioning Associated with Changes in Housing Status • Housing status at follow-up was not related to changes in either physical or mental health from phase 1 to phase 2 • HOWEVER, participants were also asked about their perception of the quality of their housing • Better perceived housing quality at follow-up was significantly related to improvements in mental health functioning from phase 1 to phase 2
Does Becoming Housed Lead to Improvements in Health? Leaving Homelessness Mental | 151 |
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Nutrition and Digestion System of Toad
Topic: Animal Kingdom
Nutrition System of Toad
Intake of food, digestion of food, absorption of digested food materials, and elimination of undigested waste materials are included in nutrition.
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Fore Limb of Toad | snails, etc. With the sticky tongue, it catches the prey and swallows it. Like all vertebrate animals, in the food of toad protein, carbohydrate, fat, salt, vitamins, and water components are present. These six types of components can be obtained from the bodies of worms and insects. It is not required to digest salt, vitamins, and water.
The cells of the body of toad can directly absorb these three types of food. But protein, carbohydrate, and fat are complex organic substances; hence the body cells cannot absorb them directly. In the presence of enzymes, these insoluble, complex, and non-absorbable food substances take part in organic chemical reactions and transform into simple and absorbable liquid components. These changes in food substances are called digestion.
After the intake of the food, there are no chemical changes inside the buccal cavity. The food substances become slippery by the mucus secreted from the walls of the buccal cavity. Food substances reach the stomach through the oesophagus where digestion begins.
Digestion System of Toad
The toad lives on worms, insects, etc. The system which takes part to perform this work is called the digestive system. The digestive system of the toad can be divided into two parts such as the Alimentary canal and Digestive glands.
(a) Alimentary Canal: The canal extended from, the mouth opening to the cloacal aperture is called the alimentary canal or gut.
(i) Mouth: At the front end of the body of the toad the mouth or mouth opening is situated. The mouth of the toad is quite wide and semicircular.
(ii) Buccal cavity: Behind the mouth opening the wide buccal cavity is situated. On the lower side of the buccal cavity lies the wide muscular tongue.
(iii) Pharynx: The narrow extended part of the gut between the buccal cavity and oesophagus is the pharynx.
(iv) Oesophagus: The stout, short, and canal-like part next to the pharynx is the oesophagus. Through the oesophagus, food substances reach the stomach.
(v) Stomach: Behind the oesophagus the curved sac-like part is the stomach. Its wall is thick, muscular, and glandular. The glands remain within the inner surface of the wall. The stomach is divided into parts, cardiac and pyloric part.
(vi) Intestine: The coiled duct extended from behind the stomach up to the cloacal aperture is the intestine. The intestine is divided into two parts, Small intestine, and Large intestine.
Small intestine: The narrow, coiled anterior part of the intestine behind the stomach is the small intestine.
Large intestine: Posterior to the small intestine, the comparatively thick part is the large intestine. It is divided into two parts, rectum and cloaca.
(b) Digestive glands: The glands which secrete digestive juices and digestion and helps in the digestive process are called the digestive glands. Toads have two main digestive glands, Liver and Pancreas.
Liver: The liver is the largest gland of the body, located on either side of the heart. This gland is divided into two parts, right and left, which are connected together by a middle part. The functions of the liver are
Liver stores glycogen, fat, and vitamins. It is called the storehouse of the body.
It assists in protein synthesis.
Red blood corpuscles originate in the liver.
Pancreas: Pancreas is a very important digestive gland of the vertebrate animals. This gland is situated in between the stomach and duodenum.
Digestion in the stomach: Inner walls of the stomach are glandular. After the food substances reach the stomach a hormone is secreted from its walls. This hormone is called gastrin. By the influence of gastrin, digestive juice is secreted from the gastric glands.
Digestion in the duodenum: When the chyme reaches the duodenum from the stomach, it comes in contact with the bile, secreted from the liver, and pancreatic juice from the pancreas. Bile converts the fat food into smaller droplets and makes it suitable for reaction with the enzyme.
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Frédéric-Marc-Joseph Taulier, né le 15 décembre 1806 à Grenoble et mort le 22 janvier 1861 à Grenoble, avocat de profession, a été maire de Grenoble à deux reprises, de 1845 à 1848, puis de 1849 à 1851.
Biographie
Né en décembre 1806, il fait des études de Droit à la faculté de Grenoble et reçoit en août 1828 le grade de docteur en droit. Après un stage de trois ans à Paris auprès de Antoine Marie Hennequin, il se fait inscrire au barreau de Grenoble en 1831. À 32 ans, à la suite d'un concours des plus brillants, il est nommé titulaire de la chaire de Code civil à la faculté de droit de Grenoble.
En 1843, il est adjoint au maire de Grenoble sous la magistrature d'Artus de Miribel. Il est nommé maire par ordonnance royale le 16 février 1845. C'est au cours de son premier mandat de maire qu'est créé en 1846 le musée archéologique de la ville et que s'achèvent l'année suivante les fortifications de la colline de la Bastille avec son fort les surmontant.
Les nouvelles de la révolution de février 1848 arrivent à Grenoble le matin du 25 février. Le soir même, une manifestation de étudiants<|fim_middle|> Imprimerie Allier, Grenoble, 1949.
Les dictionnaires départementaux: Isère, Librairie Flammarion, 1906
Maire de Grenoble
Naissance en décembre 1806
Décès en janvier 1861
Conseiller général de l'Isère
Décès à 54 ans
Avocat au barreau de Grenoble | et ouvriers traverse la ville. Frédéric Taulier demande au préfet la convocation et l'armement de la garde nationale de façon à garantir le maintien de l'ordre, ce que le préfet lui accorde. Le lendemain, la nouvelle de la proclamation de la République à Paris est connue à Grenoble. Le préfet décide la constitution d'une Commission consultative composée de cinq membres choisis parmi les plus notables représentants de l'opposition républicaine : Augustin Thévenet, Alexandre Crépu, Joseph-François Repellin, Auguste Clément et Prosper Leborgne. Cette Commission se transforme en Commission départementale de l'Isère le 28 février lorsque le préfet démissionne. Taulier, le même jour, se démet de ses fonctions. La Commission départementale nomme à sa place, en tant que maire provisoire, l'avocat Frédéric Farconnet, qui est remplacé après les élections du 30 juillet par Adolphe Anthoard.
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte étant élu président de la République, les anciens orléanistes comme Frédéric Taulier ne tardent pas à retrouver les faveurs du pouvoir : le 2 avril 1849, treize mois après sa démission, il est nommé de nouveau maire de Grenoble.
Durant son second mandat de maire, une polémique éclate en 1850 sur l'emplacement du théâtre municipal que certains habitants jugent inapproprié devant la collégiale Saint-André, préférant le voir déplacer vers la nouvelle place d'Armes. Mais le manque de moyens financiers empêche ce projet de transfert.
Le 5 janvier 1851, Taulier inaugure à Grenoble l'Association alimentaire, un restaurant coopératif dont les réfectoires étaient situés dans le quartier Très-Cloître, destiné aux populations ouvrières les plus démunies. Des irrégularités dans la gestion de l'association vont servir de prétexte, le 13 mars, au limogeage de Taulier qui irritait par son indépendance d'esprit les autorités bonapartistes de stricte obédience. Frédéric Farconnet, pourtant républicain de la première heure, s'élèvera contre cette sanction et rendra hommage à Taulier : « Le maire de Grenoble n'est pas sorti de nos rangs ; c'est un legs de la monarchie, legs que nous avons accepté de grand cœur, car c'est un homme de zèle, d'intelligence et de dévouement, un homme qui aura marqué noblement son passage dans la municipalité de Grenoble. » L'association alimentaire survivra toutefois jusqu'en 1861 à ces déboires. Frédéric Taulier reviendra sur cette expérience mutualiste dans un ouvrage paru en 1860, Le Vrai Livre du Peuple.
Frédéric Taulier a été conseiller général de l'Isère de 1848 jusqu'à sa mort le 22 janvier 1861. Il est inhumé au cimetière ancien de La Tronche en Isère. En hommage à ce maire, une rue de Grenoble porte son nom.
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Voir aussi
Liste des maires de Grenoble
Bibliographie
F. Rude, « La révolution de 1848 à Grenoble » in La Révolution de 1848 dans le département de l'Isère. Ouvrage publié sous les auspices du Comité Départemental du Centenaire de la Révolution, Imprimerie Allier, Grenoble, 1949.
R. Avezou, « Frédéric Taulier» in La Révolution de 1848 dans le département de l'Isère. Ouvrage publié sous les auspices du Comité Départemental du Centenaire de la Révolution, | 928 |
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Aiding clients in weathering the pandemic involves more than deploying a<|fim_middle|>2021 | few service tweaks.
Author: Gilly Wright
Face-to-face business was among Covid-19's earliest casualties, forcing companies to accelerate their technological transformation plans, according to Philip King, global head of retail banking at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), the winner of the region's Outstanding Crisis Finance Innovations 2021.
"It has prompted a fundamental shift in customer behavior, marked by an increased preference for remote and contactless banking experience," he says. "Nowadays, digitization of banking services has become a necessary advancement to help banks fuel new growth opportunities and unlock greater value for customers. However, to retain customer loyalty and attract new customers, banks need to reimagine their approach in delivering a holistic and personalized banking experience."
ADIB recognizes the need to deliver distinctive and personalized banking services for its customers. The bank leveraged data analytics to track and analyze the evolving financial behaviors of its customers through its Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE), which the bank launched in March.
"ACE is a fully integrated, real-time data analysis and visualization center that aggregates real-time information across all ADIB's business units and uses smart analytical models, AI [artificial intelligence] and big data to generate operational insights and recommendations," explains King. "Through the data and insights gathered from ACE, ADIB aims to develop more tailored solutions and products that will drive further value for customers."
Recent digital initiatives launched by ADIB include a remote sales platform allowing customers to interact with ADIB and apply for personal finance, covered cards and other banking products without having to leave their homes.
The bank also partnered with the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Finance to offer a new range of eDirham card which enables UAE residents to access 5,000 government services, adopted SAS' AI-driven Fraud Detection to enhance its fraud detection capabilities, worked with IBM to adopt a hybrid cloud platform to strengthen the bank's digital infrastructure, introduced the Apple Pay service to let customers make contactless payments and partnered with Huawei to allow Huawei smartphone users to access ADIB's Mobile Banking App.
ADIB also launched its ADIB Chat Banking—a customer-care chatbot that is accessible via the WhatsApp messaging platform to provide clients with key information regarding their accounts and finances.
"We also launched a digital booking service that lets customers schedule their branch visits ahead of time through the online banking platform and mobile banking app," adds King. "In addition, customers can virtually update their personal information such as their Emirates ID national identity card, passport and contact details without having to visit the branch."
For retail customers, ADIB introduced more enhancements to its mobile app, including the launch of the Express Finance service that provides qualifying customers with instant access to personal finance. In response to the banking needs of corporate clients, ADIB updated its digital transaction banking and trade finance platforms with the launch of ADIB Direct eFX, enabling businesses, with just a few clicks, to access foreign exchange services to support their imports and exports.
Gulf International Bank (GIB), the Middle East's Outstanding Financial Innovator 2021, also looked at ways of helping corporate customers. In-house banking using virtual account management will help corporate clients manage complex global account structures and control working capital effectively; and a bundled package offers seamless collection and reconciliation, which will completely digitize business processes for many segments. This holistic approach also helps customers move away from physical cash and check-based collections.
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Whether it's on your way to work, on a treadmill at a gym, or through the park on a summer evening, walking can be extremely beneficial for your health. Because it is such a huge part of our daily lives, we often forget about all the positive effects walking can have, particularly in terms of burning calories. Even walking normally can help burn calories.
Your weight and the distance you walk can influence how many calories you burn, but there are a few things you can do during your walk to burn even more calories. If you're looking to make the most of your walk, consider doing these four things the next time you head out for a stroll.
When you walk at a speed of around 4.7 miles per hour (which is, admittedly, walking really fast), you burn just as many calories as you would while running. But don't worry. You don't have to keep up this speed the entire time. In fact, you'll burn even more calories if you don't.
Research has shown that if you vary your speed, you can burn 20 percent more calories. So there's really no need to exhaust yourself by walking at<|fim_middle|>. | a fast pace the entire time.
The next time you go for a walk, change your speed in intervals. Walk as fast as you can for 30 to 60 seconds, and then move at a normal speed for about five minutes. You'll burn calories and get your heart pumping without tiring yourself out.
It may feel natural to leave your arms by your sides as you walk, but this isn't then best position if you're looking to burn calories. Instead, bend your elbows at a 90-degree angle and swing them as you walk. Keep the movements quick and close to your body to maximize calorie burn.
When you're in the fast 30- to 60-second interval, take small steps. The tinier the steps you take, the more quickly your body can move, and the more calories you'll burn. When you're trying to increase your speed, small, quick steps are much more effective than long strides. It may feel funny at first, but will ultimately lead to burning more calories.
Walking on an incline requires far more effort than walking on flat ground, which in turn leads to burning almost 70 percent more calories. It's also great for muscle growth and cardiovascular health, so opting for a hilly walk or using an incline on the treadmill is certainly a good choice.
You don't need to schedule intense workouts every day of the week to see improvements in your health and burn calories. Simply keeping these tips in mind whenever you're walking can help you look and feel better.
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Tyson Fury v Deontay Wilder III press conference
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If you have ever watched a Tyson Fury press conference, you will know they don't often follow the "Q&A" format.
So when WBC world heavyweight champion Fury, 32, and American challenger Deontay Wilder, 35, faced each other in Los Angeles on Tuesday, something was bound to happen.
The pair were appearing to preview their third fight, which takes place on Saturday, 24 July in Las Vegas.
Sadly, there was no Batman costume this time.
In fact, there was almost no clothing at all<|fim_middle|> to become a little tedious for the expectant media.
After around two minutes of the pair staring menacingly into one another's eyes, and with Fury's taunts having to become even more creative, ("The bogey man is here to get you again"), one or two members of the press requested they face the cameras for a final snap.
But the request was ignored by both fighters for a further four minutes until Wilder eventually replaced his sunglasses and walked off stage right.
Thus concluded one of the most bizarre press conferences the boxing world has ever seen.
Fury summed it up.
"Thank you for turning out for this one sided press conference," he said.
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COVID: Gambia cancel Cup of Nations prep games | as Fury walked on stage topless, in just a pair of white jeans (with his own face on – of course) and a backwards baseball cap.
But that wasn't even the most bizarre moment of the press event.
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Wilder, who was defeated when the pair met for the second time in 2020, only stepped up to the microphone to say he wasn't going to say anything.
After thanking Jesus, his training team and his lawyers, he said: "Look, enough said. Time to cut off his head. And come July 24, there will be blood shed."
And that was it. Wilder put his headphones on and didn't say another word, with his trainer Malik Scott speaking for him throughout the press conference.
Asked about his opponent's behaviour, Fury said it "showed how weak a mental person he is" and that the previous loss has had "an emotional and physical effect on his life".
Hat's off to Crystina Poncher, the ESPN commentator, who had the tough job of hosting the event. She continued to press Scott for responses, barely blinking at the fact one of the fighters was point-blank ignoring her questioning.
When Fury and Scott talked eardrums
As Wilder wasn't going to hit back at Fury's constant stream of put-downs, Scott could only respond and defend his athlete.
But Fury decided to make it personal, reminding him of an occasion when the pair sparred.
"You can't expect him to do something you couldn't do," he said to Scott – a former heavyweight fighter who lost to Britain's Derek Chisora for the vacant WBO International heavyweight title in 2013.
Scott hit back by saying: "You are a 260lb man that can fight – you burst my eardrum the first time we sparred – that's not something to brag about, that's what you do!"
Fury, perhaps a little frustrated by this, further questioned Scott's expertise, saying: "You can't teach him to be some great fighter when you [weren't]."
The back and forth continued a little longer, with eardrums mentioned once or twice more by both men, before Fury, in typical Fury-style, rounded off the debate.
Speaking to the assembled media, he laughed: "While we are on the subject of eardrums, don't you find it funny that I have busted the eardrums of both trainer and fighter?"
Fury went on to mention that he was aiming to reach the "300lb mark" by the fight, saying he was looking for "a big knockout straight away".
When Fury and Wilder faced off for nearly six minutes
The press conference ended with both men in the classic "face off photo op" position, with Fury once again removing his jacket especially for it.
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Jason Kilar helped write the game plan to expand Amazon out<|fim_middle|> firm's board of directors.
Kilar said people won't believe in the human-less future of finance, until they see it. | of just the book business.
The 46-year-old, who on Wednesday was named a board member of Wealthfront, an $8 billion roboadviser, told Business Insider Amazon was ridiculed in its earliest days.
"Back then it was just books," Kilar, who reported directly to Jeff Bezos during his time at Amazon, told Business Insider in a recent interview. "In 1997 when it was a small company people referred to it as Amazon.bomb."
Very few people expected Amazon to completely turn the retail industry on its head, he said.
Today, Kilar sees a similar situation in financial services. Folks aren't anticipating a major transformation in the industry and are clinging onto the belief that financial services customers will continue to need the same level of human support they need today, according to Kilar.
"50 years from now the names of the top financial companies will be different from what they are today," he said. "Today, there are a good five to six companies with double-digit market share, but in the future there will be two to three, and one or two of those will be one of today's startups."
Wealthfront, the San Francisco-based company, has adamantly held on to its belief that the future of financial advice is in automation. Unlike, fellow roboadviser, Betterment, or incumbent rivals such as Charles Schwab, Wealthfront has remained a pure roboadviser without human advisers.
In February, Betterment rolled out two new hybrid services that pair human help with its computerized financial advice: Betterment Plus and Betterment Premium.
Wealthfront, however, is making a bet on pure automated advice.
"The industry consensus is that financial advice will always be delivered through a person simply because it's always been done that way," wrote Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff, in a letter welcoming Kilar to the | 388 |
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Our Phi Phi hotel is surrounded by breathtaking scenery, world famous natural attractions and an amazing underwater world, there is always plenty to see and do around Phi Phi Islands. And just a 10 minute walk away you can find an array of Koh Phi Phi hotels, shopping, entertainment and nightlife at the village centre. | a tranquil hideaway for nature lovers and romantics.
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MUSSELS ARE BACK!
Why not join us for Mussels Night from 5pm on 4th October and enjoy a mussels main course and a drink for £13.99*
The golden shell Hebridean mussels we serve in our restaurants are supplied by Loch Fyne Oysters Ltd., which has been supplying customers worldwide with the best in authentic Scottish seafood products for 40 years. Mussels are a firm favourite in our restaurants - each year we serve around 100 tons of mussels to discerning seafood lovers!
At their mussel farm, Loch Fyne Oysters Ltd. takes care to harvest and release its mussels for sale only when they are in season and at their best, which is usually from now until around the end of May each year. Every batch undergoes a rigorous heath screening process to ensure that only optimum quality mussels make it to the dinner table.
The mussels are grown on ropes in the pristine waters of<|fim_middle|>8s only. Available from 5pm on 4th October only. | Loch Roag which is located far away on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. They are a natural, nutritious and delicious shellfish showcasing the very best of Scotland's larder. By the time the mussels reach our restaurants they are well travelled, but not as well travelled as some of Loch Fyne's mussels which are also shipped to places like Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong – making mussels a truly international food!
The company takes great care in minimising the environmental impact associated with its commercial activities. In 2017, Loch Fyne Oysters Ltd. was recognised as the first blue mussel producer in the world to receive certification against the ASC bivalve standard, awarded by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council.
Managing Director of Loch Fyne Oysters, Cameron Brown said, "The award is recognition of the company's dedication and hard work to provide ethically grown and environmentally friendly mussels to our friends at Loch Fyne Restaurants and our other valued customers around the globe. Knowing that we have ASC accreditation, customers have confidence that they are purchasing the best mussels, harvested under the best practices."
We hope that you will take the opportunity to enjoy a plate of golden shell Hebridean mussels next time you visit one of our restaurants. You will do so, knowing that they have been grown and nurtured by a company which minimises its impact on the environment and which cares for workers and local communities.
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Aviation Trails
A trail around Britain's historical airfields many lost to developers or mother nature herself. Come along on a voyage of discovery and nostalgia.
Me and my Trails…
My Dad – My Hero 25th June 2018.
Information, disclosures and Contacts
Index of Airfields, Memorials and Museums
Index of Airfields
Aviation Museums to Visit
RAF and USAAF Memorials
Major Memorials and Monuments in the UK
The Development of Britain's Airfields.
Choose your Trail…
Trail 1 – Lower Lincolnshire
July 30th 1944 – Loss of Lancaster PB304 – 106 Squadron.
Trail 2 – Lincoln Borders and Newark
Trail 3 – Gone but Not Forgotten
Trail 4 – Kent (Part 1)
RAF Biggin Hill Vestry demolished.
Trail 5 – de Havilland Aircraft – Salisbury Hall
Part 6 – 'American Ghosts'
As Heard on the BBC: RAF Kings Cliffe – Time is running out!
King's Cliffe Planning Application gets the go ahead.
RAF King's Cliffe – Buildings not to be listed.
A Long Way from Home
Secrets Of The (Not So) Deep.
Boeing B-29s in the UK.
Trail 7 – North West Norfolk
A New Memorial to Honour Those Who Never Came Home.
Trail 8 – Swaffham and Her Neighbours (Part 1)
Trail 10 – Swaffham and Her Neighbours (Part 3)
Trail 11 – Around Ely, Cambridgeshire
September 8th 1943 – Tragedy at RAF Mepal.
29th December 1944 – Disaster at RAF Waterbeach
Trail 12 – Southern Norfolk (1)
Trail 14 – Central Suffolk (Part 1)
Trail 16 – West Suffolk (Part 1)
Trail 17 – The Pathfinders
Trail 18 – Kent Part 2
Trail 19 – Northamptonshire (American Ghosts Part II)
Trail 20 – North Norfolk (Part 1)
Trail 24 – Gloucestershire
Trail 25 – Hertfordshire
Trail 26 – Midland Air Museum, Coventry
Trail 27 – Southern Norfolk (Part 3)
Trail 28 – Southern Norfolk (part 4) Fersfield.
Trail 29 – Southern Cambridgeshire (Part 1)
Trail 30 – RAF Scampton and the Heritage Centre
RAF Scampton – What does the future hold?
Trail 33 – Essex (Part 1)
Trail 35 – Blickling Hall, RAF Oulton Museum
Trail 37 – The Northern Reaches of Cambridgeshire (Part 1)
Trail 38 – To the West of Norwich.
Loss of Mosquito FBVI 'NS828' RAF Swanton Morley.
Trail 39 Suffolk Around Ipswich (Part 1)
Trail 40 – Yorkshire (East Riding)
Trail 41 – The Borders of Scotland and England
Fogo Church – Sixteen of the men who died around Charterhall and Winfield.
Duns Cemetery – Two accidents that took three young lives.
Trail 42 – East Lothain – Edinburgh's neighbours.
Trail 43 – The National Museum of Flight – East Fortune.
Trail 44 – Kent (Part 3).
Trail 45 – Essex Part 2: Castle Camps and Wethersfield.
Trail 46 – Essex Part 3.
Trail 47 – Northumberland – The schooling of Ground Attack!
Trail 48 – Suffolk around Ipswich (Part 2)
Trail 49 – Bomber Command – Bury St Edmunds to Haverhill.
Trail 50 – Haverhill's neighbours – Wratting Common and Great Sampford.
September 26th 1942, a near tragedy for three RAF Squadrons.
Trail 51 – RAF Macmerry – The darker side of War.
Trail 52- Leicestershire's border
Trail 53 – Scotland's East Coast – Fife.
Trail 54 – The Great North Road (P1)
Trail 55 – Around Newmarket.
Trail 56 – Perthshire.
Trail 57 RAF Leeming – The Great North Road (P2).
Trail 58 – To the East of Norwich.
Trail 59 – Windermere's Sunderlands
Trail 60 – Scotland's West Coast
Trail 61 – RAF Dishforth – The Great North Road (P3).
Trail 62 – RAF Leuchars (Fife)
de Havilland Mosquitoes in BOAC Service.
Heroic Tales from WW2
Robert C Frascotti, USAAF, 352nd FG, 486th FS. RAF Bodney (Trail 8)
Rear Gunner Flight Sergeant Nicholas S. Alkemade, 115 Squadron RAF Witchford (Trail 11)
B-17 Pilot 1st Lt.D. J. Gott and 2nd. Lt W. E. Metzger
The Transformation of 2nd Lt. Kermit D. Wooldridge, 379th BG, 525th BS.
Leslie Manser VC. (RAFVR) 50 Squadron – Royal Air Force
2nd Lt. Robert E. Femoyer MOH, 711th BS Rattlesden
Mosquito Crew – P.O. James McLean and Sergeant Mervyn Tansley, RAF(VR)
Lt. Col. Leon Vance 489th BG – Medal of Honour
1st. Lt. William G. Rueckert, 93BG, 409BS, RAF Hardwick
Sgt. Archibald Mathies, USAAF, 510th BS, 351st BG (Medal Of Honour)
1st Lt. Raymond Harney and 2nd Lt. Warren French – 349th BS, 100th BG
The last flight of Joe Kennedy and Wilford Willy – (RAF Fersfield).
Brigadier General Frederick W. Castle – Heartbreak on Christmas Eve, 1944
M/Sgt. Hewitt Dunn – 104 Missions with the 390th (Framlingham)
Col. Ashley Woolridge; Flew 106 Missions in a B-26
Georges Nadon – Spitfire pilot, flew 277 sorties
Sqn. Ldr. Leonard Trent VC – RAF Methwold
Sqn. Ldr. Ian Willoughby Bazalgette (RAFVR) VC
Flt. Sgt. Arthur Louis Aaron, V.C., D.F.M., 218 Sqn, RAF Downham Market
Major George Preddy – 352nd FG – A tragic loss.
Operation 'Fuller' – "The Channel Dash".
P.O William Davis (Eagle Sqn) – March 18th 1941
1st Lieutenant John E. Morse – 379th BG RAF Kimbolton
Lt. Jack Watson 303rd BG. – From Villain to Hero.
P/O. Lewis Booth RAF Waterbeach – June <|fim_middle|> buildings can be found here, the whole area in a rapid state of decline and disrepair.
Taking a left turn back onto the main road takes you toward the airfield with its modern buildings, hangar space and offices. A small but excellent cafe 'The Apron' provides refreshments and the chance to sit and watch the activities of this small but thriving airport. There is also further evidence of the airfields history here, one of the hardstands now forms a parking area, discernible only where a careful eye will distinguish its outline amongst the more modern structures around it.
The general state pf the site suggests a bleak future for these historic buildings.
Compared to front line operational airfields Gamston's history is perhaps 'less intense'. But, in the bigger picture of Bomber Command, it is a major cog that helped turn the wheels of this massive wartime organisation, providing trained crews for operations over a country, whose determination to destroy all in its path, was finally brought to its knees by those who passed though Gamston's very doors.
As we leave Gamston behind, we return to the A1 and head north and yet more trails around Britain's forgotten airfields.
Sources and further reading (Gamston).
AIR 27/127/24 – 9 Squadron ORB National Archives.
Chorley, W.R., "Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses Vol 7", Midland Publishing, 2002.
The website for Retford (Gamston) Airport has details of its operations and facilities.
My thanks to the anonymous reader for the update of the 1970s/80s.
All about me and my trails…
Index of Airfields, Museums, Memorials and Maps
Interactive Map: Airfields, Museums and Memorials.
Map of Britain's Counties
The Inspiration Behind my Trails – My Dad
Trail 2 – Lincoln Borders – Newark Museum and Cranwell.
Trail 3 – Gone but Not Forgotten (Cambs / Lincs border)
The de Havilland Sea Mosquito
Trail 6 – 'American Ghosts'
King's Cliffe Planning Application gets approval.
Trail 12 – Southern Norfolk Around Diss (Part 1)
Trail 37 – The Northern Reaches of Cambridgeshire.
Trail 44 – Kent (Part 3) – The Northern Coast.
Trail 57 RAF Leeming – The Great North Road (Part 2).
Eighth Air Force (Heavy BG) Losses During World War II
Luftwaffe Diary – September 15th 1940
Luftwaffe Diaries (2) – 'Big Week'
Structure of the Luftwaffe (The High Command)
Heroic Tales of World War 2
Mosquito Crew – P.O. James McLean and Sgt. Mervyn Tansley, RAF(VR)
Australian Flt. Sgt. Rawdon H. Middleton VC (RAAF) 149 Sqn RAF
For the Fallen – (Robert) Laurence Binyon
William Butler Yeats – An Irishman forsees his Death
'Anthem for Doomed Youth' – Wilfred Own
'The Soldier' – Rupert Chawner Brooke
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner – Randall Jarrell
Airfield control towers of WWII
Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust
American Air Museum in Britain
Cambridgeshire Aviation Heritage Trail
Eighth Airforce Historical Society
Military Aviation Heritage Networks
Oldcranwellians
RAF combat reports 1939-1945
The Imperial War Museum, collections.
The National Archives – Air Force
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Colonel Thomas J.J. Christian Jnr. 361st FG RAF Bottisham.
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Trail 54 – The Great North Road (Part 1)
Britain's longest, and perhaps most famous road the A1, which is known in part as the 'Great North Road', stands at 410 miles (660km) in length, and connects the two capitals of England (London) and Scotland (Edinburgh) in one direct route. Original parts of it were built by the Romans, always easily distinguished by its direct routing. Over the years, the numerous upgrades and widening programmes have revealed both Roman settlements and Roman artefacts now totalling their thousands. Much has been written about the A1, both its history and its legacy, but little about its aviation connections.
It is therefore along this route that we next travel, for here we find many of Britain's wartime airfields, and while most have now disappeared into the history books, a few still linger on operating the fast jets of the current Royal Air Force.
With such a huge route to cover, it will take time to travel from one end to the other, but it is along this route that we begin our next trail, Trail 54, The Great North Road.
The majority of these airfields, of which there are literally dozens, lie in Northern England, but include notable examples such as: Old Warden (The Shuttleworth Collection), Brampton, Alconbury, Glatton, Wittering, North Witham, Bottesford, Winthorpe, Dishforth, Leeming, Brunton, East Fortune and Macmerry as its close or direct neighbours.
Our first stop in this next trail, is one of the lesser known airfields along this route, one that sits on the very edge of this great road, and one that survives today, not as a military site, but as a civilian airfield where flying is a strong today as it was during those dark days of the 1940s.
From Newark in Nottinghamshire we travel north where we find our first stop, the former RAF Gamston.
RAF Gamston (Retford Airport).
Gamston is a little known airfield, but it is one that played an important part during the Second World War. Opened in December 1942 it was a classic Class A airfield, built with three concrete and tarmac runways with a main runway of 2,000 yards and two subsidiary runways of the standard 1,400 yards forming the distinctive offset A frame. A perimeter track linked all three runways with thirty heavy bomber hardstands located around its length giving an indication as to its wartime role. Further clues to this role are the four type T2 and single B1 aircraft hangars, designed large enough to hold medium to heavy bombers of the RAF. As with all wartime airfields, the technical area came with a variety of ancillary buildings, workshops, MT sheds (12775/41) and stores.
Gamston's former Watch Office is now a residential property.
With temporary accommodation for almost 1,000 male ranks and over 300 female ranks, it was by no means a large airfield, but at a cost of £468,000, it was quite an expensive airfield to build.
When Gamston was being constructed in 1942, Bomber Command was going through a period of reorganisation and re-equipment. At the beginning of the year there were six operational groups: 1,2,3,4,5 and 8 along with two training groups 6 and 7. No. 8 Group was disbanded only to be reborn as the Pathfinders in January 1943 whilst No. 2 Group was transferred to the Tactical Air Force in that same year. A further part of this reorganisation was the renaming of 6 and 7 Operational Training Unit (O.T.U) Groups as No. 91 and 92 (OTU) Groups in the May 1942. In the June, another new Training Group No. 93 (OTU) Group was formed, giving three training Groups in total under Bomber Command's control. 93 Group bucked the general trend at this point in the war, being the only expansion in what was basically a shrinking Command.
It was this third Group, led by Air Vice Marshal P. E. Maitland, that Gamston would fall beneath, joining in a collection of twelve airfields: Finningly, Bircotes, Worksop, Ossington, Castle Donnington, Wymeswold, Lichfield, Church Broughton, Hixon, Seighford and Peplow that all fell under the direct control of the headquarters at Eggington near Nottingham. This meant that the responsibility of No. 93 Group stretched from Shropshire in the west, through the centre of England into Derbyshire and Nottingham, and north as far as Yorkshire. The purpose of these Operational Training Units was to meet the demand for new crews whilst conducting operational flights with experienced crews as their leads. To this end, Gamston's closet neighbour Ossington, was to be its 'parent', Gamston forming the satellite airfield for all flying operations.
One of the many buildings left standing on the Technical Site.
The first unit to use Gamston was No. 82 Operational Training Unit, who were formed at Ossington on June 1st 1943 with Wellington MK.IIIs. Over the time that 82 OTU used the two airfields, they would also fly Wellington MK.Xs. Martinets, Oxfords, Tomahawks, Miles Masters and the Hawker Hurricane. Their period of operations lasted for almost two years until they were disbanded in January 1945 just prior to the war's end. Flying mainly out of Ossington, 82 OTU wold have their fair share of fatalities, with their first occurring with devastating effect on August 9th 1943, with the loss of all five crewmen and the first total aircraft write-off since forming.
The first Gamston based fatalities occurred on 12th October that year, when Wellington MK.X HK201 took off on a training flight. Immediately after take off the port engine cut out forcing the aircraft down. Three of the seven crew were killed, the remaining four being treated for their injuries in hospital. For his actions that day, F/O. J Coughian was awarded the DFM.
Gamston would also serve as a safe haven for other operational bombers returning from action over occupied Europe. On December 1st 1943, a No. 9 Squadron RAF, Lancaster MK.I was returning from operations over Berlin. In attempting to land at Gamston, the aircraft DV334 'WS-C' crashed killing six of the eight crewmen on board. The remaining two crew, Sgt. C. Rickards and F/S. L. Owen (RCAF), both being injured. This tragedy brought an end to 1943 but not a change in luck for the training crews of 82 OTU.
Many buildings are overgrown and in a poor state.
The January and February 1944 brought two more accidents, the first without fatalities as F/L. D. Parry brought the aircraft, a Wellington MK.X, down with its wheels retracted after the port engine lost power. F/L. Parry was uninjured in the accident unlike his five colleagues, who on the night of February 3 – 4, were all killed when their Wellington 'X3409' was seen to dive into the ground near the airfield resulting in a massive explosion. The crew, four Canadians and an Englishman, all perished.
Being an operational training unit, 82 OTU would participate in operational duties, such as flying 'Nickel' operations (leaflet dropping) over occupied Europe. One such operation saw the loss of Wellington MK.X on the night of May 14 – 15 with the loss of all as the aircraft ran out of fuel on the return flight from Rennes.
Another near tragic accident occurred in June when a returning bomber, a Halifax from 1667 HCU was trying to make an emergency landing at Gamston when it collided with a stationary Wellington. There were no injuries in the collision but it was another event that brought home the dangers of flying heavy bombers in wartime Britain.
With two further losses in August 1944, and another in April 1945, death or injury were never far from the minds of the crews. Even as a ground crew you were not safe from the slightest lack of concentration or slip. In November, an accidental spark caused by a slipping airman ignited petrol in one of the hangars whilst working on Wellington MK.X 'HK750. The accident on November 13th 1944, proved fatal for the Wellington destroying it completely in the subsequent fire.
1944 saw yet further changes to the Training Command. In June, the number of Bomber Command Squadrons increased, conversion training was taken away from the main squadrons and given to a new Heavy Conversion Group No. 7 (HCU) Group. it was also decided that a new OTU was required and so 'C' Flight of 82 OTU was moved permanently to Gamston where it was re-designated No. 86 OTU who would specialise in the role of night training with both the Wellington MK.III and X. This was a short-lived unit though, lasting only until October 15th that same year before being disbanded. Crews from 86 OTU were then used to form the Heavy Glider Conversion Units elsewhere.
A gradual reduction in crew losses toward the end of 1944 meant that 93 (OTU) Group could now be disbanded, with the operational training being consolidated into the two original groups. By the end of February 1945, No. 93 (OTU) Group was no more.
As the war drew to a close, other training units also began to close. No. 30 OTU who were originally formed at Hixon in June 1942, also with Wellingtons, moved to Gamston where they were disbanded on 12th June 1945. Their final days at Gamston would not be the quite and sedate ending that many would have hoped for though. On May 18th, a month before disbanding, Gamston would see its final wartime loss, when Wellington NA718 'BT-O' crashed killing both crewmen: F/O. Robert Fraser Thompson (s/n:174908) and Leading Aircraftman. Douglas Fletcher Dryden (s/n:1353162). It is not known what caused the accident but, the pilot had attempted to glide the aircraft back into Gamston without success.
With the closure of these units, Bomber Command began the rapid decline that would see it become a shadow of its former self. Crew training was put on hold, aircrew held pending a decision as to where to send them and aircraft mothballed.
Once the European war was finally over, Gamston's flying days were over, at least for the time being, and from July 1945, it became the main resettlement camp for repatriating Royal Australian Air Force personnel. The responsibility for this fell to No. 9 Aircrew Holding Unit (ACHU), where crews were sent before departure to either the Pacific Theatre or more likely home. Once all the residents had departed the Nottingham site, it lay dormant, being used primarily for agricultural purposes.
Many buildings a re left open to the elements.
For 8 years the airfield remained closed, but over 1950-51, the site was used for motor racing activities. Small races were held but these never truly 'took off' and any future use of the site for such activities, were curtailed in May 1953, when Gamston reopened as a satellite for nearby RAF Worksop, where No. 211 Advanced Flying School (AFS) were currently based. The aircraft type had now changed and the jet age had dawned. The RAF's latest jet aircraft the Gloster Meteor and de Havilland Vampire now being the aircraft to utilise Gamston's runways.
No.211 AFS would go through several numerical changes over the next few years, on June 1st 1954 it became 211 Flying Training School (FTS), disbanding on June 9th 1956 to be absorbed into No. 4 Flying Training School (FTS). This in turn was disbanded at Worksop in 1958 to be reformed at RAF Valley in Wales – thus ending the links with Gamston. All through these changes, the aircraft remained primarily the same types, Meteors, Vampires and Prenctices of various marks.
It was during this time, on 1st April 1955, that a Gloster Meteor T.7 WL474 of 211 FTS would crash 2½m north-east of Gamston whilst performing asymmetric training. During the manoeuvres the aircraft dived into the ground killing both its crewmen: F/O. Stanley T. Jenkins and Acting Pilot Officer Duncan H. Moffat.
Gamston then again closed in 1957, but although officially closed it was used during the 1970s and 80s as a satellite landing ground by training aircraft from RAF Finningley. These consisted mainly of the small de Havilland 'Chipmunks' and later Scottish Aviation's 'Bulldogs'.
Then in 1993 when the site was purchased by Gamston Aviation Limited who opened and operated it as a civil airport under the name Retford Gamston Airport.
Gamston's former runway is still in use (in part) today as part of Retford Airport.
Since then, Gamston has been upgraded with maintenance work being carried out on both the hangars, usable runway and perimeter tracks. Whilst these are part of the original infrastructure, they are much smaller only dealing with single or twin-engined light aircraft rather than the larger bombers of Bomber command.
The airfield is a going concern today, the main site operated by the Airport Authority whilst the technical area is a small industrial unit. Within this, there are numerous original wartime buildings still surviving in varying degrees of condition. The various stores are used for storing of industrial 'components' and general industrial rubbish, whilst another houses a car repair shop. Discarded vehicles lay buried beneath an ever-increasing range of thorny shrubbery while the whole area is fenced off and basically left with little outside interest.
Accessing the two sites is best from the A1, the industrial area is the first turning off this road and takes you along the former perimeter track past the end of the former main runway. It is this runway that is used today, very much a smaller part of the original. The former watch office is also here, tucked away behind hedges it is now a private residence. Various huts and small | 3,446 |
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State's oldest AFT local shares 100th Birthday with CFT
United Educators of San Francisco, 1919-2019
Article November 20, 2019 Local Action CFT 100
Editor's note: With uniquely linked histories, the CFT and AFT Local 61 both celebrate their 100th Anniversaries in 2019. What follows is a capsule history of the oldest local union in the California Federation of Teachers. From the search for true union representation in 1919 to the quest for affordable housing for union members 100 years later, the history of AFT Local 61 — the United Educators of San Francisco — is one of proud support for educators, their unions and students.
By Dennis Kelly
PART 1: Local 61 – The beginning
When the San Francisco Federation of Teachers formed in 1919, there were already nine existing teacher organizations in the city. But none of them was a union.
One organization called itself a federation, but it was not affiliated with the San Francisco Labor Council. The San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association (1917) was dominated by administrators and preferred to be known as an Association. There were High School Teachers and Teachers' Councils. The most militant organization was the Teachers Association of San Francisco — in 1917 it grew out of the Kate Kennedy Teachers Clubs (1911) and was led by Margaret Mahoney, but it also shied away from joining with labor.
J.P. Utter founded the first California local union of the American Federation of Teachers in 1918 in Vallejo. He urged other teachers to join the AFT, and affiliate with the local labor council. He believed that teachers could speak through the labor council and have allies and an enhanced voice.
Seven high school teachers in San Francisco took up the challenge in April of 1919. They submitted the request for a charter and promised to enlist others. By the end of the month they had 60 members. Paul Mohr was the first president and Edward J. Dupuy was in charge of organization according to Harriet Talan's invaluable masters thesis on the first 40 years of Local 61.
One of the first decisions they faced was how to structure their organization and who should be members. The national AFT urged them to keep Local 61 as a union of high school teachers and to work on the creation of an elementary local that would appeal to women.
John O'Connell, the head of the San Francisco Labor Council, urged something else: keep one local and include elementary and high school teachers, men and women. Presaging the inclusivity that has been a hallmark of the local, the founders of Local 61 decided to build one strong union for all of San Francisco's public school teachers.
By the end of the school year Local 61 had grown to over 100 members.
PART 2: A founder – Edward J. Dupuy
We don't know much about the founders of Local 61, but one of the first members gives us some insight into the early days of the union.
Edward J. Dupuy was a French teacher at Girls High. In 1919 he was a founding member of the local and chairman of the Organizing Committee. Despite the AFT's requirement that any group wishing to be chartered as a local had to have a minimum of 10 members, Dupuy sent in only seven names from San Francisco, but promised more. The local aimed at 500 and hoped to recruit some women, too.
By the end of the school year, membership had grown to 100, Paul Mohr was the first president and Anne Crowley was selected as the local's first vice president.
In 1920, with the local only a year old, district Superintendent Alfred Roncovieri began a purge of union members who were teachers. This official hostility had the effect of suppressing the membership. However, E.J. Dupuy kept the union flag flying. Between 1920 and 1923 he appeared on radio to speak for unions and traveled throughout the state, as far away as Los Angeles, to help organize new locals.
By 1926 there were 12 outstanding complaints about pay in San Francisco schools, but no contract and no grievance process. Superintendent Joseph Gwinn unilaterally withheld pay that teachers had earned if he had reason to believe they would not return the next year.
Despite the existence of several teacher organizations, the absence of collective bargaining and a recognized union made it difficult to confront these injustices. Dupuy, who was a dual member of AFT Local 61 and the California Teachers Association, decided to do something about it himself. He filed suit on behalf of the teachers and won two settlements, the first for $600,000 and a second one for $190,000.
Dupuy's advocacy brought attacks from the superintendent and rumors of spies at Girls High who were charged with snooping on Dupuy. Superintendent Gwinn lashed out at Dupuy, but a few years later the superintendent was charged with financial irregularities and had to resign.
According to Harriet Talan's early history of Local 61, John O'Connell, head of the San Francisco Labor Council, threatened he would call a strike of every union in the city if Dupuy was removed from his assignment.
Edward J. Dupuy helped to establish the reputation of Local 61 as a union dedicated to the fight for justice. He joined the district in 1899 and served until his death in 1937. Local 61 President H. P. Dole referred to him as a "jolly-natured Frenchman," a man of considerable charm and a popular reputation for taking on school administrators.
PART 3: Jim Ballard
James Edward Ballard was an elementary teacher specializing in math. A navy veteran of World War II, Ballard hailed from Kentucky and had worked in the United Auto Workers before coming to teaching. In the mid-60s, Jim Ballard was hired as the field representative for the San Francisco Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 61. Two years later he was elected president of the local.
Jim Ballard brought the local union into the modern era. He followed men who were committed to the union and were great spokespeople for teachers, Al Tapson and Dan Jackson. What Ballard added was organization and a sense of the necessary discipline to get the job done.
Under Ballard, the SFFT took a militant edge. The city was divided into 10 areas and a feeder system was developed for the distribution and collection of information. Ballard presided over the organization of paraprofessionals into a separate bargaining unit and led Local 61 on four strikes in 1968, 1971, 1974, and 1979.
Ballard was the union president at the time of Proposition 13, a California ballot measure that changed the way taxes were collected, and destabilized education funding necessitating more than a generation of struggle and catching up.
Ballard's presidency was marked by intense rivalry between the San Francisco Federation of Teachers and the San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association. The 1975 passage of the Rodda Act granting collective bargaining rights to certificated employees meant that the winner of the rivalry represented all the teachers.
Local 61 won the first representation election in 1977. SFCTA won a subsequent one in 1981, after the six-week strike of 1979. SFCTA claimed the dues deduction apparatus and Local 61 was on the verge of going out of business. But Ballard mustered his organizational abilities and Local 61 continued by collecting dues through its affiliated credit union. This meant approaching the entire membership and convincing them to sign up in the union again.
This feat, plus representation of the paraprofessionals, kept Local 61 alive until 1989. At that time the local won back collective bargaining rights for teachers and jointly formed the merged United Educators of San Francisco.
Jim Ballard stepped down from the presidency in 1984 and was succeeded by his vice president, Joan-Marie Shelley.
PART 4: Strikes
The San Francisco Federation of Teachers, Local 61, has led four strikes. Three of them came before the existence of collective bargaining for educators. Only one, in 1979, came under the rubric of the Rodda Act. The strikes were in 1968, 1971, 1974, and 1979. Each one was longer than the previous one.
The 1968 strike lasted only one day. Local 61 President Jim Ballard liked to tell the story of negotiations. "We don't have to bargain with you," the district said, "there is no law that commands it."<|fim_middle|> how to work together. There were no merged states and only one merged local (Rosemount, Minnesota) that used the full merger model that would become UESF.
The state and national parent unions agreed that they would grant full representation, but accept half dues for all the members in San Francisco. This would end the expensive collective bargaining elections and create stability and strength in the union. Every teacher would be a member of UESF, AFT, NEA, CFT, and CTA.
Teachers who had philosophical or other reasons for not belonging to one of the affiliates would still maintain membership in UESF and the other affiliates. There was no financial incentive not to belong. Joan-Marie Shelley wrote in "Unity, Strength, and Merger" that there were 13 SFCTA members who chose not to join AFT and 13 SFFT members who did not join NEA.
Larry Halling (SFFT) chaired a joint constitution and bylaws committee that successfully created the governing documents for UESF. A transitional executive board was carved from the two existing unions with the SFCTA president serving as UESF vice president.
PART 7: Paraeducators
When teaching was a solely male occupation, the watchword was that the teacher had to be strong enough to physically control the largest boy in class. A great deal of progress has been made since that time.
The 1965 "War on Poverty" of the Lyndon Johnson presidential administration authorized classroom support directed to children living in poverty. That support most often was embodied in a paraprofessional classroom aide who shared some of the classroom responsibilities with the assigned teacher.
In San Francisco this new job classification was ensnared in a web of complexity that the school district exploited. Caught between city civil service and temporary status under the Title I injunction to supplement, not supplant local efforts, the paraeducators became vulnerable to annual layoffs and had no guarantee of a job.
In 1972 Local 61 opened its membership to paraeducators (then called paraprofessionals). Early leaders included Linda Cook, James Nethers, Gloria Washington, Wesley Williams and Aracelly Martinez. San Francisco Unified denied that they were the employers of the paraeducators until a 1977 ruling by the Public Employment Relations Board settled the issue. Until that time, these district employees had no civil service protections, no movement on the salary schedule, no paid vacation, and no dental plan.
Paraeducators won their first contract in 1977. By 1979 their benefits included a salary schedule, and medical coverage if they worked a four-hour day. The PARS retirement program was put in place as a stop-gap, and was not removed for more than two decades. At that time paraeducators were moved under the umbrella of Social Security. Paraeducators are also beneficiaries of an annual bonus generated by the parcel taxes.
Local 61 changed its structure in 1981 to include a vice president representing paraeducators. Peggy Gash became the first person to fill that position and go on union staff. Gash was succeeded by Bradley Reeves and Carolyn Samoa according to UESF's booklet, "Paraprofessionals and their Union."
In 2005, CTA finally voted to accept paras as members, making their inclusion in the union family complete. Locally, the mayor's office now recognizes a Paraeducator of the Year in addition to the teachers and administrators who are recognized annually.
PART 8: Parcel Taxes
The passage of Proposition 13 in 1978 meant that school funding would have to be re-thought. School districts lost their ability to tax and California plummeted from one of the states with the highest per capita investment in education to one of the lowest. Layoffs and threats of layoffs became an annual spring ritual. This coincided with the advent of collective bargaining for educational employees.
In negotiations for 2003-04, the district complained again that it did not have enough money for significant raises, but agreed to contractual language that committed the district to attempting a parcel tax for increased revenue. In negotiations of 2008, UESF activated that language. After supporting several bond elections for maintaining the schools, the local demanded that the next effort be for the benefit of educators.
A separate bargaining team of five people (Linda Plack, Armen Sedrakian, Carolyn Samoa, Ken Tray, and Dennis Kelly) was created and the union side was determined to learn from the mistakes of other locals which had opposed their local parcel taxes because of distrust of their district administrations.
UESF's answer was to jointly create a spending proposal for the parcel tax and put that plan into the contract. Like contractual matters, the spending proposals of that first parcel tax were under constant scrutiny by the union.
The 2008 parcel tax was passed by the electorate and raised the floor of the pay scale to $50,000, created a variety of bonuses and awards recognizing teacher scarcity, longevity, and whole school awards for school-wide projects.
A second parcel tax was put on the ballot in 2018. Both parcel taxes have a 20-year life span and must be renewed by another vote. As of this writing, the 2018 parcel tax has been challenged based on interpretations of legislative changes to the passage rate, and is still awaiting a final verdict.
PART 9: UESF and Housing
On election day in 2019, the voters of San Francisco passed a measure that made it easier to build housing for the city's educators. This measure streamlined and consolidated some of the difficult restrictions and regulations that had impeded educator housing in the past and brought to a conclusion more than 15 years of striving by UESF.
During the presidency of Kent Mitchell (1997–2003), San Francisco Unified offered to co-locate some housing for teachers on the site where a new school was being built. Although the union saw it as a good first step, the membership rejected the offer as too little and a failure to address the need for both salary and housing on the part of the whole union. Nothing was offered for paraeducators.
In 2004, when Dennis Kelly was president of the union, the board of education passed a resolution committing excess property to educator housing, now including paras. Proposition 39, giving charter schools access to surplus school property, complicated that phase of the effort.
In 2014, the late mayor, Edwin Lee, stepped in when it was clear to him that the school district was allowing its mantra ("We are educators; we don't want to be landlords.") to interfere with a full-scale effort to create workforce housing. The district had hired a for-profit company to handle its property, traded buildable sites to the city to acquire title to the board's parking lot, virtually gave others to non-public schools, and failed to make any progress toward housing. Mayor Lee sought to change all that.
During the tenure of Lita Blanc as UESF president, an agreement was reached between the city, the schools, and the union to develop the campus of a former elementary school for housing. The 2019 passage of Proposition E, under the UESF presidential tenure of Susan Solomon, means that there is rising hope for a continuation of the building begun at the one site and the further implementation of educator housing on a variety of parcels within city limits.
On November 17, the union community gathered in the city to celebrate the triumphant history of Local 61 and United Educators of San Francisco. All anticipated with relish the challenges and achievements of the next 100 years.
Dennis Kelly has been an AFT member since 1968. He is the former president of United Educators of San Francisco, AFT Local 61, a former CFT Vice President and former AFT Vice President. Kelly was honored with CFT's highest honor, the Ben Rust Award, in 2018.
As the union's Parliamentarian for 34 annual CFT Conventions he has served under six CFT presidents—Raoul Teilhet, Miles Miles, Marvin Katz, Mary Bergan, Marty Hittelman and Joshua Pechthalt.
Kelly has an abiding interest in union history. Local 61 is the oldest AFT local union in the California Federation of Teachers, with both CFT and Local 61 observing their 100th anniversaries in 2019. Kelly has written histories for both centennial celebrations.
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CFT 100 | Then after the one-day strike, the tune was changed to "There is no law that says we can't bargain with you, so we will."
That strike saw a commitment to affirmative action hiring to integrate the teaching corps, the added benefit of a dental plan, pay raises, and a limit on class sizes.
The strikes of 1971 and 1974 were longer, four days and seven days, and less productive.
The strike of 1979 came after San Francisco Unified tried to make sense of Proposition 13. Over 2,000 teachers were laid off, cutting back to people with 10 years of seniority. Lay-offs for about 1,000 were rescinded and the final thousand were to come back on a temporary basis, subject to dismissal any day by the notification of the human resources department.
That strike took place at the beginning of the school year. As it dragged on support wavered. When teachers went back into the buildings, the superintendent added another destabilizing element, massive transfers that moved many teachers all around the city. As a result of the strike most of the final thousand laid-off teachers were brought back to work on permanent status.
Two years later, the SFCTA won a decertification election and Local 61 did not represent teachers in San Francisco until 1989.
PART 5: Joan-Marie Shelley
Joan-Marie Shelley was born into a union family on June 15, 1933. Her father was a teamster in the Bakery Wagon Drivers local who moved on to become head of the San Francisco Labor Council and the state labor federation. He was subsequently elected to the state Senate, then Congress, and finally mayor of San Francisco.
In her early years, Joan-Marie Shelley went to school in San Francisco, attending John Muir, Sherman, Commodore Sloat, and Jefferson. She then went to Lowell High, to Stanford University, and to France on a Fulbright.
Shelley started teaching in San Francisco in 1955 at Mission High, before putting down roots at Lincoln High, then transferring to Lowell.
For 15 years Shelley was a dues-paying member and took no other elected role in the union. But then her ascent was rapid. Joan leaped from member to building rep and area rep, on to strike captain (1971), then got to do that again in a second strike (1974). Next she was voted in as vice president, and in 1984 she succeeded Jim Ballard as president of the San Francisco Federation of Teachers, Local 61.
Shelley led the union defending against a challenge for the paraeducator unit, then mounted an unsuccessful attempt to take bargaining rights from the CTA, and finally, in 1989, Joan led the victorious attempt to reclaim the role as teachers' collective bargaining agent.
The collective bargaining victory created the platform on which to unite the two rival organizations — SFCTA and SFFT — and create the union we know as the United Educators of San Francisco.
The elimination of organizational rivalry meant that the UESF could finally face the administration as a unified force. This began a new era for the membership of Local 61.
PART 6: The Merger – 30 Years of Unity
A joint dinner of the Executive Boards of the SFFT (Local 61) and SFCTA was held in 1977 under the leadership of Pat King (SFCTA) and Jim Ballard (SFFT) to propose a merger of the teacher unions in San Francisco.
The effort died when the parent unions could not agree on terms for coming together. A decade of expensive and divisive collective bargaining representation elections followed with each union spending time as the teachers' collective bargaining agent.
When Local 61 won back collective bargaining rights for the teachers of San Francisco in 1989, the path was laid for merger of the competing teacher unions. The eventual merger put to rest a decade of intramural warfare. Roughly a third of the teachers were members of each organization and a third were unaffiliated. Management was able to play off one organization versus the other and it was difficult for either side to accomplish the kind of strength needed to win a good contract.
Local 61 President Joan-Marie Shelley offered merger to the SFCTA and its president, Judy Dellamonica. With the support of CTA state leadership, (President Ed Foglia and Executive Director Ralph Flynn) and CFT President Miles Myers, this olive branch was accepted and local leadership sat down to figure out | 955 |
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Two funding bills that include money to help combat the epidemic of missing, murdered and trafficked Indigenous women passed the Senate Thursday and are headed to President Trump's desk to be signed, according to a release from the office of Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
According to Murkowski's office, the investments from these funding bills will go toward preventing and prosecuting crimes against Indigenous women as well as looking into cold cases.
A 2017 report from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium says homicide was the third leading causes of death for Alaska Natives between the ages of 15 and 24 from 201<|fim_middle|>VA | 2 to 2015.
Recent cases involving the disappearances and deaths of Alaska Native women in Anchorage include a man accused of murdering Kathleen Henry and Veronica Abouchuk.
"These investments reinforce our commitment to pursuing justice for the many women and girls that have fallen victim to this epidemic and to preventing more sisters, mothers, and daughters from experiencing these horrors," Murkowski said in the release. "This bill package works to improve coordination among law enforcement and provide the necessary resources so that these families—these communities—have hope."
Included in the funding bill:
• $502.5 million for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs and money for research in remote communities underserved by law enforcement resources.
• $38 million for tribal assistance with state and local law enforcement.
• $30 million for tribal resources under the Community Oriented Policing Services program, an initiative to increase the number of police officers and ensure they are properly trained.
• $6.5 million for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take a comprehensive look at the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
The bills also direct tribal, local, state and federal law enforcement to coordinate and share data.
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Healthy stress is a natural part of life, including infancy. Adults as much as children must be challenged in order to grow and develop. However, in today's education system and in modern life, healthy stress is often replaced by toxic stress. Toxic stress happens when life's demands consistently overtake our ability to meet those demands.
/ Developing our full attention: Heightened awareness of our thoughts, emotions, feelings and the world around us.
/ Developing a full heart: The intentional development of positive mental states such as kindness and compassion.
By discussing how the practice of heightened awareness tackles stress and other problems in education, we don't want to lose sight of the fact that heightened awareness can take us away from managing symptoms to a place where we are developing the most profound capabilities of the human mind.
/ Attention: Strengthens our "mental muscle" to develop the focus to where we want, and when we want.
/ Compassion: The awareness of our own thoughts, emotions and senses increases our compassion of what other<|fim_middle|>, to see their natural transitory and to change the way in which we respond to them.
/ Calming: Breathing and other mindfulness practices relax the body and mind, giving us access to peace regardless of the external circumstances.
/ Adaptability: Being aware of our patterns allows us to gradually change our regular behaviour with wisdom.
/ Resistence: Seeing things objectively reduces the amount of narrative that we add to the natural ups and downs of the world. Giving us more balance. | people are going through.
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Pensacola, Fla. (Oct. 28, 2020) – The Pensacola Ice Flyers and head coach Rod Aldoff have announced the return of goaltender Chase Perry for the 2020-21 season that is set to being on Dec. 26.
Perry returns to Pensacola after having a solid rookie season between the pipes. He had a 13-8-7 record with a 2.49 goals against average, and a .904 save percentage. He recorded his professional shutout on Dec. 6, 2019 in a 2-0 victory over Huntsville in Pensacola.
"I am very excited to have signed back with Ice Flyers," Perry stated. "The entire Ice Flyers organization is top notch and I am happy to be a part of it for a second year."
"Having Chase back is a great thing for our team as he is a superb person and comes to the arena everyday to compete and to get better," Aldoff commented. "He played very well for us and was very consistent all year. I expect him to come in with a ton of confidence and start this year right where he left off."
The 6-foot-3, Andover, Minn. native played his collegiate hockey at NCAA Division I RPI (Rensselaer Polytech Institute). Perry was also selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the fifth round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.
"Chase is a great player to coach. He is the type of player and person we want in our dressing room," Aldoff added.
Perry finished off by stating, "I am looking forward to getting back to the gulf coast with the boys, playing in front of our great fans and competing for a championship."
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Modeling SP passenger cars — Introduction
Most of my posts about traffic, cars and operations have been about freight cars and freight trains, the area which is indeed the core of my interests. But SP's Coast Line also hosted some interesting passenger trains (in addition to the iconic Daylight). I have long worked toward modeling some of those trains, and will summarize the background in this post.
In my earlier post about Coast Line schedules (you can view it at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/01/modeling-freight-traffic-coast-line.html ), I mentioned the principal passenger trains on the Coast, and also stated that since I don't plan to model the hours of darkness, I lose out on operating the handsome Lark as well as the not so interesting Starlight (speaking just about modeling options), and also the "Overnight" black box cars of Trains 373 and 374. That really only leaves the mail train, numbers 71 and 72 in my era, in addition to the Daylight, as a scheduled passenger train. (I can always operate a passenger extra.) After 1948, the official name of 71 and 72 was merely Passenger, though employees and railfans alike generally called it the "Coast Mail."
What were the schedule times in my year, 1953, at Oceano, the nearest station to my mythical junction of Shumala? Westward, Number 71 was due at Oceano at 8:35 AM, while eastward Number 72 was due at 9:12 AM. (I make Shumala about five minutes east from Oceano.) Thus I need to operate mail trains in opposite directions in<|fim_middle|> that are readily modeled and will operate comfortably on my layout. With the ability to vary consists with express reefers and express box cars on the head end, and deadhead coaches or sleepers at the rear, the mail trains can be an interesting part of my line-up. I will address modeling of individual cars in a future post.
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Jim October 6, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Tony, looking forward to future posts in this series as the Coast Mail will definitely be on my layout.
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Modeling SP structure colors | rapid succession, about 45 minutes apart, during the morning hours of an operating session. In contrast, the Daylight trains were about a hour and twenty minutes apart at this location. I will discuss my modeling of the Daylight in a future post.
What consist should the mail have? Mail trains are an intriguing and somewhat neglected subject. I can recommend three important sources of background on this topic. First, the Introduction to the SPH&TS book, Volume 3 of Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, contains very valuable information on mail operations. This is supplemented by another SPH&TS book, The Ghost Trains of SP's Overland Route, by Randall Cape and Robert McKeen. For information specifically about the Coast Line trains, I have spent a lot of time with Dennis Ryan and Joe Shine's book, Southern Pacific Passenger Trains, Night Trains of the Coast Route (Four Ways West, La Mirada, Calif. 1986); Chapter 5 is about the "Coast Mail." It's both detailed and informative.
From those sources, and from numerous published and unpublished photos of nos. 71 and 72, it is obvious that the consist was dominated by 60-foot baggage cars, normally with a single RPO and a single rider coach. Often seen as well were 70-foot baggage cars, 80-foot baggage-horse cars, and 40-foot express box cars. At times, express reefers were included, and it was not uncommon to see deadheading passenger cars in either direction, heavyweight Pullmans, lightweight coaches, or other passenger equipment, normally on the rear end. In 1946, as shown in SP's Equipment Circular No. 14 (MHP reprint), the train normally had nine cars in its Central Coast portion of the run, including two coaches, and after 1949 only a single coach, making eight cars. I can run a full-size version of this train.
The consists shown in Equipment Circular No. 14 have the RPO behind the baggage cars and ahead of the coach, but a few photos show the RPO at the head end. Power in the 1950s was usually a 4-8-4 (including SP's handsome GS-1 class) or a 4-8-2, and occasionally a heavy Pacific. Let's look at some examples.
First, a fine Wilbur C. Whittaker shot of Number 72 at King City on July 13, 1947. The train is powered by Class Mt-1 no. 4311 and has seven cars: three 60-foot baggage cars, an 80-foot baggage-horse, the RPO, and two coaches.
Next, a dramatic Frank J. Peterson photo (from the Robert McNeel collection) of Number 71 at Gaviota Trestle on October 15, 1949, with seven cars, this time with the 80-foot baggage-horse leading, and a single coach; the second car is a 70-foot baggage. Power is Mt-3 no. 4335.
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Boxing is no doubt one of the most popular combat sports in the world. In fact, it is one of, if not the most-watched sport, today.
Featuring a rich and colorful history, with superstars and legends born between the four ring posts and ready to put it all on the line on any given night, the boxing ring has become a theater for human bravery and courage. Whether you're a casual or a hardcore fan of the sport, there's no disputing that boxing is an incredibly entertaining spectacle, especially when witnessing the absolute best go at it.
Of course, there are more than a handful of boxing stars worth watching. Let's take a look at a handful of the greatest out who are still competing actively and giving fans a great show in the ring.
Today, Evolve Daily shares the 20 best boxers of the modern boxing era you must know.
1) Canelo Alvarez
There is no doubt one of the biggest stars in boxing today is Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez. The Mexican superstar represents arguably the most boxing-crazed nation in the world at the highest levels of the sport. He is a four-division world champion, with multiple titles to his name. Nicknamed 'Canelo' which is Spanish for 'cinnamon', a reference to his reddish brown colored hair, Alvarez is a master counterpuncher with dynamite power in both fists. He currently owns a 58-2-2 professional record, with 39 knockouts.
2) Naoya Inoue
Boxing's lighter weight divisions are just as exciting as the heavier ones, and there's no bigger superstar in the sport right now than Japan's Naoya 'The Monster' Inoue. The Japanese stalwart from Kanagawa is widely considered the pound-for-pound best fighter in the sport today, and it's hard to argue against that, given his body of work. Undefeated at 24-0 with 21 knockouts, Inoue is a two-fisted marauder who has a knack for obliterating any man in front of him. 'The Monster' imposes his will inside the ring, and his foes crumble before his feet.
3) Oleksandr Usyk
Ukraine has had a tough year, but men like Oleksandr Usyk are living proof that boxers are just as tough outside of the ring as they are inside of it. Despite being called to arms to help protect his country, Usyk has also balanced his national servitude with competing as a professional boxer at the highest level – and he's certainly one of the best and most exciting fighters in the world today. His last three fights consist of wins over Derek Chisora and Anthony Joshua (twice) at heavyweight to maintain a perfect 20-0 record.
4) Terence Crawford
The United States has enjoyed a rich boxing tradition, with legends like Jack Dempsey, 'Iron' Mike Tyson, and Muhammad Ali filling the pages of history over the last century. That being said, there's no better American fighter in the world today than Terence 'Bud' Crawford. The three-division world champion is unbeaten in his career with 39 wins, including 30 knockouts. Crawford is a switch-hitting maestro, capable of fighting in a variety of different styles. He sits atop the welterweight division virtually unchallenged. In fact, the only man who could possibly give him a run for his money is the next guy on this list.
5) Errol Spence Jr.
Considered the second-best welterweight in the world, or the best depending on who you talk to, Errol 'The Truth' Spence Jr. is Crawford's fiercest rival. Also unbeaten in 28 fights, including 22 wins by knockout, Spence offers a fast-paced offensive style that has proven difficult for opponents to keep up with. The 32-year-old southpaw from New York is as exciting a fighter as they come, and he's certainly worth the price of admission. When healthy, Spence is a force to be reckoned with. Let's hope his showdown with Crawford materializes sooner rather than later.
6) Vasyl Lomachenko
When Ukrainian sensation Vasiliy Lomachenko first burst onto the scene, fans witnessed an uncanny level of athleticism that they had rarely seen in the boxing ring. Lomachenko moved like Neo from The Matrix, hence his nickname. He is extremely hard to hit, and few have ever hit him cleanly.
At 19 wins and only 2 losses, with 11 wins by knockout, Lomachenko is already a three-division world champion. The 34-year-old is getting up there in age, however, and needs to book the big fights in the latter part of his career. Fortunately for 'The Matrix', there's no shortage of interesting matchups for him at lightweight.
7) Dmitry Bivol
Russia's Dmitry Bivol is one of the most prolific light heavyweights in the world today. The 31-year-old owns an unblemished professional record of 21 wins, with 11 knockouts to his name. Towering at a lofty 6-feet, the tall and lanky WBA world champion is clinical in his approach to fighting, employing a textbook offensive and defensive style utilized to great effect. His greatest performance so far has come against none other than Canelo Alvarez himself. Bivol trumped and dominated Canelo in their May 2022 fight, winning by a shocking unanimous decision.
8) Tyson Fury
There's no division more popular in boxing than heavyweight, and Tyson Fury represents the absolute best of them. 'The Gypsy King' offers fans a very unique style, with unorthodox movement, catlike elusiveness, and devastating power. Come to think of it, there's no boxer in the world quite like Fury, and he has endeared himself to fans from all corners of the globe.
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9) Deontay Wilder
Boxers have always been an intimidating bunch, but none can hold a candle to what Deontay Wilder brings to the ring. The 6-foot-7 knockout machine can easily knock people's heads off and his 97.7% finish rate is enough nightmare fuel for anyone who dares to square up against him. Not only did he put opponents to sleep 42 times in his career, but 20 of his knockout wins also came right in the first round. 'The Bronze Bomber' is one of the greatest boxers of his generation, having compiled a record of 43-2-1 while reigning as the WBC heavyweight world champion from 2015 to 2020.
10) Josh Taylor
Europe has always carried a certain prestige in the boxing realm and Josh Taylor dutifully carried that distinction during his career. The Scottish southpaw sports a perfect 19-0 record, with 13 knockouts to his name. A slick and shifty fighter, Taylor used that style to become the undisputed super lightweight world champion in May 2021 against Jose Carlos Ramirez. Taylor is also an accomplished amateur boxer with a gold medal win in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
11) Jermell Charlo
Jermell Charlo may be one of the most polarizing boxers right now, but there's no denying the caliber of a fighter he is once he steps between the ropes. The brash American slugger boasts an impressive 35-1-1 record (19 KOs) while also holding the undisputed super welterweight world championship. His most recent fight against Brian Carlos Castaño saw him at his absolute best when he battered the Argentinian star en route to the 10th-round finish. As good as Charlo is, however, he isn't the only one in his family on this list.
12) Jermall Charlo
Just like his brother ahead of him, Jermall Charlo is undeniably one of the best pugilists of his generation. Jermall is the heavier of the twins and has reigned as the WBC middleweight world champion since June 2019 when he beat Brandon Adams via unanimous decision. Jermall has a commanding presence at middleweight and he uses his 6-foot-1 frame to physically overpower his opponents any way he wants. The Texas native possesses a unique blend of power and pace that he uses to great effect. That amazing combo has led Jermall to a perfect 32-0 record with 22 knockouts to his name.
13) Gennadiy 'GGG' Golovkin
There was a time in the 2010s when the mere repetition of a letter struck fear across the middleweight division. That may have sounded silly, but Gennady Golovkin's 'GGG' nickname was such a menace during the decade that people would immediately predict a KO win for the Kazakh star as soon as his fights were announced. Though he's gotten a little older, Golovkin remains one of the most fearsome fighters on the planet. The 40-year-old still operates at a level that belies his age and his last win against Ryota Murata was proof of that. Golovkin scored a 9th-round TKO win over Murata and added the WBA strap to his IBF and IBO middleweight world titles.
14) Artur Beterbiev
Artur Beterbiev once dominated the amateur circuit with his thunderous power, and now he's doing the same in the professional ranks. The Russian-Canadian slugger is the true definition of a knockout artist with all 18 of his wins coming by way of knockout. Beterbiev won gold in the Boxing World Cup, IBA World Championships, and European Championships before turning pro in 2013. Beterbiev then got hold of the IBF light heavyweight world title when he knocked out Enrico Koelling in the 12th round of their November 2017 bout. He's since added the WBC and WBO world titles to his collection after respective wins over Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Joe Smith Jr.
15) Devin Haney
Current boxers have often carried the burden of becoming 'The Next' great in the sport, but Devin Haney has proven that he's a fitting heir apparent to the legendary Floyd Mayweather Jr. Using a similar creative style to his mentor, Haney ran through the competition with relative ease collecting all four of boxing's major alphabet belts as well as The Ring world title in the stacked lightweight division. Haney has been an astute pupil of Mayweather's and he took his mentor's lessons to heart when he became the undisputed lightweight world champion in June 2022. The 24-year-old dominated George Kambosos for 12 rounds to become the undisputed lightweight king.
16) Gervonta Davis
Lightweight is arguably the most talented division right now in boxing and Gervonta Davis is proof of that. Davis is among the top stars in the 135-pound division along with Devin Haney, Vasiliy Lomachenko, and Ryan Garcia. While Haney has the distinction of being the undisputed lightweight world champion, Davis can claim that he holds the WBA "regular" world title in the division. 'Tank' is a powerful puncher and he's seen as one of the most vicious fighters in the lightweight division with 25 of his 27 wins coming by way of knockout.
17) Ryan Garcia
Ryan Garcia has yet to win a world title (technically, he did win the WBC interim lightweight belt), but he's already one of the most prominent young stars of the current era. With ferocious power, lightning speed, and unabashed movie star good looks, 'King Ryan' is already on the way to becoming a megastar in the sport. The 24-year-old owns a perfect 23-0 record with 19 knockouts, and his 7th-round TKO of Luke Campbell for the WBC interim lightweight world title remains the biggest win of his career. As brash as anyone in the sport, Garcia can build himself, not just between the ropes but outside of it. With unbridled charisma at his disposal, it's no wonder that the young star is already being talked about as one of the best of his division.
18) Yordenis Ugas
Yordenis Ugas was one of those boxers who were considered good but not great during his early run in the sport. Nevertheless, the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist maintained his focus and captured the vacant WBA welterweight world title after a split decision win over Abel Ramos in September 2020. The Ramos fight was the 30th professional bout in Ugas' career, but his 31st match was the one that pushed him into the stratosphere. Ugas was called in as a late-notice replacement for Errol Spence Jr. in his mega-fight against the legendary Manny Pacquiao. Although he barely had a training camp to prepare, Ugas put in a technical masterpiece for the unanimous decision win.
19) Nonito Donaire Jr.
Nonito Donaire Jr. may not be the same fighter as he was when he was younger, but he's still among the top stars of the current era. The 40-year-old continues to defy Father Time and his #3 rank in The Ring's bantamweight division speaks volumes of just how good he still is.
'The Filipino Flash' is a four-division world champion, having held gold from flyweight all the way to featherweight. He's also the oldest boxer to win a bantamweight world title when he defeated Nordine Oubaali in May 2021 for the WBC bantamweight world championship. Though he lost twice to Naoya Inoue, Donaire is considered the only man to ever put the Japanese superstar to the absolute gauntlet during their first meeting in November 2019.
20) Claressa Shields
Claressa Shields has called herself the GWOAT (Greatest Woman Of All Time) and she, arguably, fully deserves the distinction. The American star is one of the most decorated amateur boxers in US history having won gold medals once in the Pan American Games, twice in the World Championships, and twice in the Olympics.
After dominating the amateurs, Shields moved on to the professional circuit where she compiled a perfect 13-0 record. Shields was only in her fourth fight when she became a two-belt champion, knocking out Nikki Adler for the IBF and WBC super middleweight world titles. She then became the undisputed super middleweight world champion when she unified all four of the alphabet belts as well as The Ring middleweight strap after her unanimous decision win over Christina Hammer.
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Bobby Bowden dies: Legendary coach built Florida State into college football powerhouse
Jim Henry
Bobby Bowden, who built Florida State football into a national powerhouse and directed the program with a folksy, southern charm, died early Sunday morning.
On July 23, Terry Bowden – son of the Hall of Fame coach – revealed his father was suffering from pancreatic cancer. This came a day after his family released a statement through the Democrat indicating he had been diagnosed with a terminal medical condition.
Bowden was surrounded by his family — wife Ann and their six children — when he passed away peacefully at 5:08 a.m. at his Killearn Estates home, daughter Ginger Bowden told the Democrat Sunday morning.
"He passed peacefully," Ginger said. "His family was with him during the night."
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"I couldn't have asked for a better personal mentor than my father," Terry Bowden, the first-year coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, said in a statement Sunday.
"He was a wonderful husband and father, who relied on his strong Christian faith to provide the foundation for his life. I also was fortunate to be raised by a football coach who had a reputation for coaching the right way his entire career. He was admired by everyone who played for him or coached against him. As a family, we will embrace all of those wonderful memories and celebrate a life well lived."
Bowden was being treated at his Killearn Estates home by caretakers and family. Upbeat and optimistic, he also felt well enough at times during his final weeks to welcome visitors and take telephone calls.
"I feel fine but I can't do much," Bowden told the Democrat in early July.
Bowden — a devout Baptist — made his last public appearance on stage in early June as the guest speaker at the Send Luncheon, hosted by the North American Mission Board (NAMB), in Nashville.
Bowden's health had deteriorated after he tested positive for COVID-19 in October 2020. He was hospitalized in late June for five days for fatigue and additional medical tests.
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Bobby Bowden won two national championships and built FSU into a national power
Bowden arrived in Tallahassee in 1976, never to leave and becoming one of college football's most successful coaches and patriarch of a well-known football family.
Bowden posted a 316-97-4 record with two national titles (1993 and 1999) in 34 years at FSU. He had one losing season – 5-6 during his first year at the school in 1976 – and was forced into retirement following a 7-6 record in 2009.
Bowden ended his career with a 33-21 victory in the Gator Bowl over West Virginia on Jan. 1, 2010.
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Bowden boasted an overall coaching record of 377-129-4 to rank second all-time in major college football history behind Joe Paterno (409 wins). He ranks fourth all-time across all divisions in college football.
Between 1987 and 2000, Bowden guided the Seminoles to 14 consecutive 10-win seasons and top-five finishes in the Associated Press poll. That streak earned the program Dynasty status by the NCAA.
Two of his FSU players (quarterbacks Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke) won the Heisman Trophy and three (cornerback Deion Sanders, linebacker Derrick Brooks and offensive lineman Walter Jones) went onto NFL greatness and are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Twenty-six Seminoles were named consensus All-Americans under Bowden and his players also earned major awards.
When he received the inaugural Governor's Medal of Freedom from Gov. Ron DeSantis in April, Bowden was quick to share the success.
"I get the credit, the head coach gets the credit, but it's<|fim_middle|> do, each and every day. Because he helped build this place into something that is incredibly special -- with all of his heart and all of his life. And we're grateful for him."
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Bobby Bowden was married 72 years to his wife, Ann
Bowden, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, was married 72 years to childhood sweetheart Ann Estock. Bowden was 19, Ann 16 when they married at the home of the Justice of the Peace in Rising Fawn, Georgia.
They lived in the same Killearn Estates home they moved into when Bowden was hired by FSU from West Virginia 45 years ago. Bowden was such a fixture in the community that his phone number was even listed in the phone book. He also allowed fans to drop off memorabilia in his carport that he'd sign and leave for pickup.
The couple raised six children – four boys and two girls – and their family reunion at their beach home on Panama City Beach in the spring of 2020 featured more than 40 family members.
Sons Tommy, Terry and Jeff each coached at the collegiate level. Tommy was previously the head coach at Tulane and Clemson; Terry was the head coach at Salem, Samford, Auburn, North Alabama, Akron and last December was hired by Louisiana-Monroe. He left the team Friday to be with his ailing father in Tallahassee. Jeff was an assistant at FSU under his father for 13 seasons.
Steve Bowden has worked most of his career in academia. Daughter Ginger Bowden Madden is the state attorney for the First Judicial Circuit of Florida. Robyn – the oldest child – was a school teacher for many years but retired early to help her parents.
Bobby Bowden credited his success to strong Christian faith
Bowden credited his football success to his strong faith, often sharing his Christian testimony from the church pulpit over the years.
Bowden was a creature of habit – early to bed, early to rise.
He often arose at 4 a.m., reading the Bible, skimming through a book and the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper with his coffee. Bowden also loved to golf – his home is off the seventh hole at Killearn Country Club – and watch World War II documentaries. He also had a noted sweet tooth and was diagnosed later in life with Type 2 diabetes.
Bobby Bowden's late health issues included cancer, COVID
The past few years Bowden was slowed by lingering, painful back and hip issues that kept him off the golf course and from walking his neighborhood. At one time he was one of the country's most sought-after motivational speakers, sharing football stories and his faith.
Bowden's health issues were magnified in mid-September 2020, when he was hospitalized at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare for nearly 10 days with a leg infection following the removal of skin cancer spots.
Bowden was informed he tested positive for COVID-19 – the infectious disease caused by the coronavirus – on Oct. 3, two days after his release from the hospital's rehab facility.
Bowden was readmitted to the hospital for fatigue on Oct. 6. He underwent treatment for COVID-19 for 10 days before being released on Thursday, Oct. 15.
Regaining his strength proved to be a difficult challenge for Bowden during his final months, which included the announcement that he was fighting pancreatic cancer.
As family gathered by his side, an outpouring of well-wishes flooded social media and the airwaves, including from FSU football coach Mike Norvell. Norvell, 39, is entering his second season and trying build his own legacy with the Seminoles' once-mighty program.
"We're grateful for the example of Coach Bobby Bowden," Norvell said Sunday morning following practice. "And we're going to honor him in everything that we | 794 |
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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
After the discovery of a $125\;\text{GeV}$ Higgs boson, phenomenological
high-energy physics has entered a new era. The new particle fits the
expectation of the minimal Standard Model (SM). This model is thus
established as an effective field theory (EFT) that correctly
describes all current particle data (except for still missing possible
particle signals for dark matter and additional CP violation). We
know about high-energy scales where
the effective theory eventually breaks down --- the scale of neutrino
mass generation, the Planck scale --- but those are far outside the
reach of collider physics. The hierarchy between those scales and the
electroweak symmetry breaking scale, combined with the fact that all
known elementary particles are weakly interacting, puzzles us due to
the apparent
fine-tuning in perturbative renormalization. However, the hierarchy
puzzle as such has no phenomenological consequences. In principle,
the SM may provide a complete description of all present and future
collider data, limited just by our ability to do calculations.
Nevertheless, the apparent success of the SM does not imply that we
have full control over the spectrum at presently accessible energies,
say between 100 GeV as the electroweak mass scale and a few TeV.
First of all, there is the possibility of extra light weakly
interacting particles which escape detection at the LHC.
We will not consider this in the present work but investigate new
physics above the mass scale of $W$, $Z$, and Higgs.
The SM is complete as a renormalizable theory and weakly interacting.
Hence, it provides a mechanism for suppressing the impact
of new physics on observables. This fact is generally expressed by the
decoupling theorem~\cite{Appelquist:1974tg}: All heavy particles (heavy
compared to the masses of $W,Z$, Higgs) can be integrated out, and
their physical effects are suppressed by powers of $m/M$ or $E/M$,
where $E$ is the effective energy of the measured elementary
interaction, and $M$ is the mass scale associated with new physics.
The EFT approach, which has been widely adopted for precision LHC
analyses, encodes this in a Lagrangian which contains operators of
dimension six and, in some cases, eight or even
higher~\cite{Hagiwara:1993ck}. Decoupling of scalar particles in the
case of Two-Higgs doublet models (2HDM) has been considered
in~\cite{Gunion:2002zf}, as well as in~\cite{Haber:1989xc,Haber:2013mia}.
For a new particle with a mass of $1\;\text{TeV}$, the leading corrections to SM
particle properties are at the percent level and below. This is a
challenge for LHC analyses. On the other hand, in scattering
processes at the LHC, the partonic energy $E$ can easily enter the
$\text{TeV}$ range, so direct detection is favored. Various classes of
new-physics models with extended fermion and gauge sectors can be
excluded up to several $\text{TeV}$. However, the current experimental
sensitivity on details of the Higgs/Nambu-Goldstone sector is still
marginal. This is due to the fact that the effective energy available
for vector-boson scattering in LHC collisions, for instance, is
severely suppressed by steeply falling quark and $W/Z$ structure
functions.
In this paper we study new physics that is coupled to the
Higgs/Nambu-Goldstone sector and manifests itself in scattering
processes of $W$, $Z$, and Higgs particles. The Higgs particle does
not occur in the initial state and has its own experimental issues, so
we restrict the discussion to Nambu-Goldstone
bosons~\cite{Nambu:1960xd,Goldstone:1961eq,Goldstone:1962es}, which the
Nambu-Goldstone boson equivalence
theorem~\cite{Vayonakis:1976vz,Chanowitz:1985hj,Gounaris:1986cr,Yao:1988aj,Bagger:1989fc,He:1992nga,He:1993qa,He:1993yd,He:1996cm}
relates to longitudinally
polarized $W$ and $Z$ bosons. That is, we investigate processes of
the class $V^*V^*\to VV$ ($V=W^\pm,Z,H$), where the initial vector
bosons are radiated almost on-shell and collinear off initial
energetic quarks in the colliding protons.
\subsection{New effects in vector-boson scattering}
Vector-boson scattering (VBS) as a physical process in hadronic
collisions has been observed recently by the ATLAS and CMS
collaborations~\cite{Aad:2014zda,ATLAS:2014rwa,CMS:2015jaa}.
The SM prediction has been confirmed, but the initial limits on extra
interactions are still rather weak, probing an energy scale close to
the pair-production threshold of $\sim 200\;\text{GeV}$. With higher energy
and better precision becoming available at the LHC, and at future
lepton and hadron colliders, data will become much more sensitive to
new effects in this sector. There is no reason to
restrict the modelling to weak interactions. In fact, the initially
limited experimental resolution and energy reach encourages us to consider
new strong interactions, as such deviations from the SM are
experimentally most accessible.
For decades, the theory of VBS processes has been the subject of a
vast literature, first in the disguise of the low-energy
theorem~\cite{Weinberg:1966kf,Chanowitz:1987vj}, for questions of
unitarity~\cite{Lee:1977yc,Chanowitz:1985hj,Espriu:2014jya,Delgado:2015kxa}
and as a means of phenomenological
studies~\cite{Appelquist:1980vg,Longhitano:1980iz,Dicus:1990fz,Barger:1990py,Berger:1991uj,Gupta:1993tq,Appelquist:1993ka,Chanowitz:1995tn,Bagger:1995mk,Butterworth:2002tt,Eboli:2003nq,Eboli:2006wa,Distler:2006if,Han:2009em,Freitas:2012uk,Espriu:2012ih,Doroba:2012pd,Chang:2013aya,Delgado:2014ixa,Fabbrichesi:2015hsa}. A
review of recent work can be found
in~\cite{Szleper:2014xxa}. Most of those studies were
tailored to the Higgs-less case, which is by now excluded. In the
presence of a light Higgs, in the SM, all VBS processes are
perturbative and
respect unitarity at all energies. This situation changes drastically
once non-SM interactions are present.
Regarding the possible scenarios of new physics affecting VBS, there
are no significant restrictions from low-energy data or from the
absence of LHC discoveries. Asymptotically, the process is
determined by the amplitudes of Nambu-Goldstone boson scattering,
where the initial state contains an even number of Nambu-Goldstone bosons
and thus no half-integer representations of $SU(2)_L$. Any bosonic
excitation coupling to this state also has integer $SU(2)_L$ quantum numbers
and thus cannot couple left-handed with right-handed SM fermions.
In the limit of exact electroweak symmetry,
VBS processes and ordinary SM (fermionic) processes thus probe
distinct areas of new physics.
Electroweak symmetry breaking mixes those
sectors, but the mixing terms are again suppressed by the electroweak
scale (in operators, by additional factors of the Higgs doublet), and
are therefore subleading.
The only important constraint is quantum-mechanical unitarity, which
is severely violated in a perturbative calculation if we naively
insert the dimension-eight operators of the EFT. We have
discussed this fact in detail in
Ref.~\cite{Alboteanu:2008my,Kilian:2014zja} and proposed a
framework of unitarization which allows us to augment the SM in an
arbitrary way, while maintaining high-energy unitarity and
simultaneously matching the new effects to the low-energy EFT. We
will adopt this framework, the \emph{T-matrix scheme}, for the concrete
models below.
\subsection{Outline of the present paper}
Extending the work of~\cite{Kilian:2014zja}, in the present paper we
consider a wider class of scenarios beyond the SM and beyond the
electroweak mass scale. Instead of just extrapolating the EFT, which
generically leads to asymptotic saturation of amplitudes, we add new
states. The quantum numbers of the new states are chosen such that
they retain unsuppressed interactions with the VBS system in the limit
of vanishing gauge couplings. As mentioned above, this implies a certain set
of quantum-number assignments and, incidentally, suppresses their
couplings to the SM fermion sector. We may consider strongly coupled
states, which we would classify as resonances in analogy with mesons
in QCD, or weakly coupled states which we would call new elementary
particles. There is a continuous transition between these
extremes, such that we can cover all cases on equal footing.
We defer the discussion of vector resonances to a future publication,
since those states mix, after EWSB, with $W$ and $Z$ bosons and thus
exhibit a possibly different phenomenology. This limits the model to
four distinct cases, namely scalar and tensor resonances with two
different assignments of electroweak quantum numbers, respectively.
We embed these states in an extended EFT and match this to the
low-energy EFT where the resonances are integrated out. For the
high-energy limit, we apply the T-matrix scheme which keeps the model
within unitarity bounds when it eventually becomes strongly
interacting at energies above the resonance.
The case of a tensor resonance requires special considerations. While
renormalizable weakly interacting theories cannot include elementary
tensor particles, it is nevertheless possible to set up an effective
theory which contains a tensor particle and remains weakly interacting
over a considerable range of energies. This has been observed in the
context of gravity in extra
dimensions~\cite{Antoniadis:1990ew,ArkaniHamed:1998rs,Antoniadis:1998ig,Han:1998sg}, where massive tensor particles arise in the low-energy effective theory.
Massive gravitons provide a very specific pattern of couplings
to the Higgs doublet, gauge bosons and fermions. We will set up a
more generic model where such relations are absent, and construct a
Lagrangian description of St\"uckelberg type, where we can separate
the genuine tensor resonance with a controlled high-energy behavior
from unrelated higher-dimensional operators that become relevant
asymptotically. The massive-graviton model emerges as a special case.
(Massive) higher-spin fields have been discussed e.g. in~\cite{Bouatta:2004kk,Singh:1974qz,Buchbinder:2005ua,Huang:2005js}.
Given the observation that new resonances cannot necessarily be
distinguished from asymptotic saturation if the resonance energy is high and
event rates are low, we may ask the question whether the two cases
are distinguishable, i.e., whether a resonance model yields a
different prediction from a EFT extrapolation with specific
coefficients. We will discuss this issue in an exemplary way for
specific parameter sets. Furthermore, the new model allows for weakly
coupled resonances that do not leave a significant trace in the
low-energy EFT, but could nevertheless lead to a visible signal in
collider data.
To obtain numerical results, we take the unitarized model, which is
originally formulated in the gaugeless limit, re-insert gauge
couplings and continue the amplitudes off-shell along the lines
of~\cite{Kilian:2014zja}. This allows us to set up a model definition for a
Monte-Carlo integrator and event generator, which we use to generate
partonic event samples for the LHC, cross sections and physical
distributions. A more detailed elaboration of the
calculations can be found in \cite{Sekulla:2015}.
\section{Extended Effective Field Theory (EFT)}
\subsection{Low-Energy EFT}
We are going to develop models for the high-energy behavior of
scattering amplitudes of SM particles. This cannot be done without
precisely stating the assumptions that go into those models, and to
cast them into convenient notation and parameterization.
First of all, we assume that the SM is a reasonable
low-energy effective theory. That is, a weakly interacting
(Lagrangian) gauge field theory with spontaneous $SU(2)_L\times
U(1)_Y\to U(1)_{EM}$ symmetry breaking mediated by a complex Higgs
doublet, supplemented by the standard sets of quarks and leptons,
describes all particle-physics data at and below the electroweak scale
to a good approximation.
Regarding the interactions of fermions and vector bosons, this
conclusion can be drawn from the impressive success in fitting
electroweak and flavour data to the SM. We cannot yet be so sure in
the Higgs sector proper. While the Higgs boson was discovered in
accordance with the mass range that the precision analysis of
electroweak observables suggests, there is still room for sizable
deviations from the SM predictions for its couplings. In particular,
the Higgs
self-couplings have not been measured at all. Nevertheless, we will
assume that those couplings are close to their SM values, such that
deviations can be attributed to higher-dimensional terms in the EFT.
Future data from LHC and beyond will tell whether this is true. If
not, we may generalize our findings to a nonlinearly realized Higgs
sector. We have set up our parameterization such that this would
cause few modifications in the calculations.
A second assumption regards the low-energy spectrum: we assume that
there are no additional light particles, such as Higgs singlets or extra
doublets, below the EW scale. If this was not true, it would not
invalidate the extended-EFT approach, but require the low-energy EFT
to be revised in order to include extra particles as building blocks.
Again, the model extensions discussed here would remain unchanged, but
we could expect a richer phenomenology of final states that emerge
from couplings to the extra light particles.
\subsection{Including Resonances}
We want to describe massive tensor and scalar resonances as extensions
of the SM, coupled to the scattering channels accessible in VBS. We
start from the low-energy EFT, the SM with higher-dimensional
operators included, and add a resonance with appropriate spin and
gauge quantum numbers to the Lagrangian. Requiring the assumed
symmetries to be manifest, uniquely determines the form of the
couplings, again in an EFT sense, i.e.~as an power series expansion of
operators in some inverse mass scale~$\Lambda$.
It is tempting to identify $\Lambda$ with the resonance mass~$M$.
This would imply
arbitrary strong interactions at the mass scale of the resonance. The
form of couplings would be arbitrary since for $E\approx M=\Lambda$,
there is no
viable power expansion, and there are no reliable predictions. While
this is a conceivable scenario, we rather consider a more economical
setup where the resonance at mass $M$ can be separated from other
effects which are attributed to an even higher scale $\Lambda$. As we
will show below, it is possible and consistent to choose $\Lambda\gg M$,
both for scalar and tensor states. $\Lambda$ is then the appropriate
scale for all higher-dimensional operators in the extended EFT. In
the low-energy EFT, integrating out the resonance yields well-defined
higher-dimensional couplings suppressed by powers of $M$, which
combine with the undetermined $\Lambda$-suppressed coefficients
inherited from the extended EFT. Depending on their relative
magnitude, we may --- or may not --- be able to relate the operator
coefficients in the low-energy EFT to the resonance couplings of the
extended EFT.
\section{Resonances: Spin classification}
\label{sec:resonances}
\subsection{Scalar Resonances}
A new massive spin-zero state might appear as another Higgs boson.
Indeed, a new Higgs singlet $\phi$ can couple to the SM
Higgs doublet
$\mathbf{H}$ via the renormalizable
operators $\tr{\mathbf{H}^\dagger \mathbf{H}}\phi$ and $\tr{\mathbf{H}^\dagger \mathbf{H}}\phi^2$,
while a new Higgs doublet $\mathbf{H}'$ can couple via $\tr{\mathbf{H}^\dagger\mathbf{H}'}^2$ and
$\tr{\mathbf{H}^\dagger\mathbf{H}}\tr{\mathbf{H}'{}^\dagger\mathbf{H}'}$.\footnote{%
For notational conventions, cf.\ appendix~\ref{appendix:fields}.}
These terms contribute
to Higgs mixing and self-interactions, but not directly to VBS. In
the EFT formalism, the observed Higgs boson is the only light scalar
by definition, and in the renormalizable part of the Lagrangian it saturates
the vector-boson couplings. Coupling an extra scalar to VBS then
requires two Higgs-field derivatives $\mathbf{D}_\mu\mathbf{H}$ and thus introduces
an effective dimension-five operator.
In a renormalizable extension of the SM Higgs sector, after
diagonalization new Higgses may eventually appear in VBS processes.
However, we have just noted that in the EFT formalism, their couplings are
higher-dimensional and thus power-suppressed. This is an incarnation
of the Higgs decoupling theorem~\cite{{Ball:1994ve}}.
Renormalizability corresponds to the existence of special trajectories
in parameter space, where all irrelevant (i.\,e.~higher-dimensional)
operators can be removed simultaneously from the Lagrangian by a
nonlinear field redefinition. Without a good reason {\em a priori} for
allowing only points on these trajectories,
we consider the renormalizable (possibly weakly interacting) case as a
special case that is included in the general framework. This applies,
in particular, to Higgs sector extensions by singlets and doublets, as
long as the extra scalars can be considered heavy in the sense of the
EFT formalism.
For our purposes, the phenomenology of generic scalar resonances is
then very similar to tensor resonances (see below), namely
breaking the renormalizability of the SM and inducing
higher-dimensional operators both in the low-energy EFT where they are
integrated out, and in the high-energy model where they appear
explicitly in the phenomenological Lagrangian. We will have to apply
a unitarization framework in the energy range at and beyond the resonance.
\subsection{Tensor Resonances: Fierz-Pauli formalism}
\label{sec:fierz-pauli}
We now turn to massive spin-two particles, postponing spin-one for
later investigations, as stated above.
The physical particle corresponds to an irreducible
representation of the rotation group in its own rest frame and thus
consists of five component fields, mixing under rotation.
Strictly speaking, there is no reason to develop a relativistic field
theory for a generic interacting spin-two particle. If there is no UV
completion of the interacting model, it is not possible to construct a
complete Hilbert space and unitary scattering matrix. However, for
convenience of calculation, it is clearly advantageous to embed the
tensor particle in the usual relativistic field-theory context of the
EFT for the SM. We therefore introduce extra
fields, coupled to currents built from SM fields in a Lorentz- and
gauge-invariant way, in a Lagrangian formalism.
For the scalar case, this is straightforward since a spin-zero
particle is represented by a Lorentz scalar field that also has a
single component. In the tensor case, we have to deal
with the fact that the appropriate Lorentz representation has more
than five components.
In the rest frame, the Lorentz symmetry (or its universal cover
$SL(2,\mathbb{C})$) is kinematically broken down to its $SU(2)$
subgroup, the universal cover of
the rotation symmetry. The Lorentz decuplet decomposes into the
irreducible spin states
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:decomposition}
\text{symmetric tensor} \to \text{spin states}\ (2) + (1) + (0) +
(0) \quad .
\end{equation}
Looking at the symmetric rest-frame polarization tensor
$\varepsilon^{\mu\nu}$, the irreducible parts correspond to the
components $\varepsilon^{ij}$ (traceless), $\varepsilon^{0i}$,
$\varepsilon^{00}$, and $\sum\varepsilon^{ii}$ (trace), respectively. Under
the full Lorentz group, $\varepsilon^{\mu\nu}$ is also reducible and
decomposes into the traceless and trace parts. However, in the
presence of interactions it is not straightforward to maintain this
decomposition for off-shell
amplitudes~\cite{Fronsdal:1958,Weinberg:1964cn,Huang:2005js}.
Our model setup requires that, on-shell, only the pure spin-two state
propagates. If we represent the resonance by a single field, the
tensor-field propagator must reduce to the form \cite{Weinberg:1964cn}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:prop-FP}
G_f^{\mu\nu,\rho\sigma}(k) =
\frac{\mathrm{i}\sum_\lambda\bar\varepsilon_{(\lambda)}^{\mu\nu} (k,m)
\; \varepsilon_{(\lambda)}^{\rho\sigma} (k,m)}
{k^2 - m_f^2 + i\epsilon} + \text{non-resonant}
\end{equation}
Here, $\lambda$ sums over a basis of five real-symmetric, mutually
orthogonal polarization tensors that satisfy the
constraints
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:epsilon-constraints}
k_\mu \varepsilon_{(\lambda)}^{\mu\nu} (k,m) = 0,
\qquad
\varepsilon^{\;\;\;\mu}_{(\lambda)\;\mu} (k,m) = 0,
\end{equation}
as long as $k$ is an on-shell momentum vector, $k^2=m^2$.
The solution to this problem is unique up to the non-resonant part
\cite{Huang:2005js},
\begin{align}
\label{eq:propagatortensor}
G_f^{\mu_1\mu_2,\nu_1\nu_2}
&= \mathrm{i} \frac{P^{\mu_1\mu_2,\nu_1\nu_2}(k,m)}{k^2-m^2+\mathrm{i} \epsilon}
+ \text{non-resonant},
\end{align}
where the projection operator of spin-two can be written in terms of the
spin-one projection operator,
\begin{align}
P^{\mu_1\mu_2,\nu_1\nu_2}(k,m)
&=
\sum_\lambda \bar{\varepsilon}_{(\lambda)}^{\mu_1\mu_2}(k,m) \,
\varepsilon_{(\lambda)}^{\nu_1\nu_2}(k,m)
\notag \\
&=
\frac{1}{2}\biggl[ P^{\mu_1\nu<|fim_middle|>} m^2 f^\mu_{\;\mu} f^\nu_{\;\nu}
- \partial_\mu A_\nu \partial^\mu A^\nu
+ \partial_\mu A^\mu \partial_\nu A^\nu \\
& \; - 2 m f_{\mu \nu} \partial^\mu A^\nu
+ 2 m f^\mu_{\;\mu} \partial_\nu A^\nu
+ 6 m \phi \partial_\mu A^\mu \\
& \; - 2 f_{\mu \nu} \partial^\mu \partial^\nu \sigma
+ 2 f^\mu_{\;\mu} \partial^2 \sigma
- 2 f_{\mu \nu} \partial^\mu \partial^\nu \phi
+ 2 f^\mu_{\;\mu} \partial^2 \phi \\
& \; -3 \partial_\mu \phi \partial^\mu \phi
+ 6 m^2 \phi \phi
+ 3 m^2 f^\mu_{\;\mu} \phi
\\
& \; + \left ( f_{\mu \nu}+g_{\mu \nu} \phi+
\frac{2}{m}\partial_\mu A_\nu +
\frac{2}{m^2}\partial_\mu \partial_\nu \sigma
\right )J_f^{\mu \nu} \qquad .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
The scheme simplifies slightly since both scalars are related to the
original tensor, so their interactions are not independent. We can
choose the gauge
\begin{equation}
\phi = -\sigma
\end{equation}
and arrive at a minimal St\"uckelberg Lagrangian~\cite{Bonifacio:2015rea}
(adjusted by partial integration and simplified),
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
\mathcal{L} \; =
& \quad \frac{1}{2} \partial_\alpha f_{\mu\nu}\partial^\alpha f^{\mu\nu}
- \frac{1}{2} m^2 f_{\mu \nu}f^{\mu \nu} \\
& \; - \left (\partial^\alpha f_{\alpha \mu} -
\frac{1}{2} \partial_\mu f^\rho_{\;\rho}
- m A_\mu \right ) ^2 \\
& \; - \frac{1}{4} \partial_\alpha f^\mu_{\;\mu}\partial^\alpha f^\nu_{\;\nu}
+ \frac{1}{4} m^2 f^\mu_{\;\mu} f^\nu_{\;\nu}
- \partial_\mu A_\nu \partial^\mu A^\nu
+ m^2 A_\mu A^\mu\\
& \; + \left (
\partial_\mu A^\mu - 3 m \sigma + \frac{1}{2}m f^\mu_{\;\mu}
\right )^2 \\
& \; +3 \partial_\mu \sigma \partial^\mu \sigma
- 3 m^2 \sigma \sigma
\\
& \; + \left ( f_{\mu \nu} - g_{\mu \nu} \sigma +
\frac{2}{m}\partial_\mu A_\nu + \frac{2}{m^2}\partial_\mu
\partial_\nu \sigma
\right )J_f^{\mu \nu} \qquad .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
For perturbative calculations we have to fix the gauge up to
residual gauge transformations $\lambda(x)$ that decouple on-shell,
i.e.~satisfy the harmonic condition $(\partial^2+m^2)\lambda=0$. To
this end, we choose linear gauge conditions,
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
\partial_\mu A^\mu - 3 m \sigma + \frac{1}{2}m f^\mu_{\;\mu} &= 0 \\
\partial^\alpha f_{\alpha \mu} - \frac{1}{2} \partial_\mu f^\rho_{\;\rho}
- m A_\mu &= 0
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
and end with a diagonalized Lagrangian,
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
\mathcal{L} \; =
& \quad \frac{1}{2} f_{\mu\nu}\left (-\partial^2 - m^2 \right
)f^{\mu \nu} \\
& \; + \frac{1}{2} f^\mu_{\;\mu}\left (-\frac{1}{2} \left
(-\partial^2 - m^2 \right ) \right )f^\nu_{\;\nu} \\
& \; + \frac{1}{2} A_\mu \left ( -2 \left (-\partial^2 - m^2 \right )
\right) A^\mu\\
& \; +\frac{1}{2} \sigma \left ( 6 \left
( -\partial^2 - m^2 \right ) \right )\sigma
\\
& \; + \left ( f_{\mu \nu} - g_{\mu \nu} \sigma +
\frac{1}{m}\left (\partial_\mu A_\nu + \partial_\nu A_\mu \right )
+ \frac{2}{m^2} \partial_\mu \partial_\nu \sigma
\right )J_f^{\mu \nu} .
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
Next, we normalize the fields canonically
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
\mathcal{L} \; =
& \quad \frac{1}{2} f_{\mu\nu}\left (-\partial^2 - m^2 \right
)f^{\mu \nu} \\
& \; + \frac{1}{2} f^\mu_{\;\mu}\left (-\frac{1}{2} \left
(-\partial^2 - m^2 \right ) \right )f^\nu_{\;\nu} \\
& \; + \frac{1}{2} A_\mu \left ( \partial^2 + m^2 \right ) A^\mu\\
& \; +\frac{1}{2} \sigma \left ( -\partial^2 - m^2 \right ) \sigma
\\
& \; + \left ( f_{\mu \nu} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{6}} g_{\mu \nu} \sigma +
\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}m}\left (\partial_\mu A_\nu + \partial_\nu A_\mu \right )
+ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{3}m^2} \partial_\mu \partial_\nu \sigma
\right )J_f^{\mu \nu}
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
and find the canonical propagators
\begin{align}
\label{eq:proptensor}
\Delta_{\mu\nu,\rho\sigma} (f)
&= \frac{\mathrm{i}}{k^2 - m^2}
\left(\frac{1}{2} g_{\mu\rho}g_{\nu\sigma}
+\frac{1}{2}g_{\mu\sigma}g_{\nu\rho}
-\frac{1}{2} g_{\mu\nu}g_{\rho\sigma}
\right )
\\
\Delta_{\mu\nu} (A)
&= \frac{-\mathrm{i}}{k^2 - m^2} g_{\mu\nu}
\\
\Delta (\sigma)
&= \frac{\mathrm{i}}{k^2 - m^2}
\end{align}
for the resulting unconstrained tensor, vector, and scalar fields,
respectively.\footnote{%
For a complete formulation at the quantum level, the gauge-fixed
Lagrangian has to be embedded in a BRST formalism. Introducing
appropriate Faddeev-Popov ghosts and auxiliary Nakanishi-Lautrup
fields, the classical action can be rendered BRST invariant. The
quantum effective action with resonance exchange is then defined as the
solution to a Slavnov-Taylor equation, to all orders in the EW
perturbative expansion. The gauge-fixing terms become BRST
variations which do not contribute to physical amplitudes, and the
St\"uckelberg fields combine with the ghosts and auxiliary fields to
BRST representations that can be consistently eliminated from the Hilbert
space. For free fields, this procedure is detailed
in~\cite{Buchbinder:2005ua}.
}
As desired, these propagators do not contain any
momentum factors. This fact turns out to be essential for a
Monte-Carlo calculation for physical processes, where all bosons are
off-shell in a generic momentum configuration.
\subsection{Tensor Resonances: Summary}
Given this lengthy derivation, we may ask again whether the
St\"uckelberg formulation has any advantage over the original
Fierz-Pauli Lagrangian. Algebraically, both are equivalent and result
in identical on-shell amplitudes.
This should be viewed in analogy with massive vector bosons, for which
the St\"uckelberg approach reproduces the usual reformulation as a
spontaneously broken gauge theory. Again, this is mathematically
equivalent to the original model, as has been pointed out
repeatedly~\cite{Burgess:1992gz}. However, once the accessible
energy in a process exceeds the resonance mass, there is a conceptual
difference. In the gauge-theory version, there is no
higher-dimensional operator with a $1/M$ coefficient. Any additional
effects would come with a new cutoff $1/\Lambda$. Scattering
amplitudes are bounded beyond the resonance as long as $\Lambda$ is
considered large. By contrast, in the formulation with massive vector
bosons, there are $k^\mu/M$ terms in the propagator which {\em a priori}
require the inclusion of a whole series of operators with $1/M$
factors. The model is strongly interacting from the onset and has no
predictivity. If actual data show that interactions are indeed weak,
this fact would be interpreted as a fine-tuned cancellation among
terms.
Turning this argument around, \emph{if} a vector boson is observed to
interact weakly over a significant range of scales above its mass, it
is natural to describe it as a gauge boson,
which in turn determines the allowed interaction pattern.
Analogously, \emph{if} we assume that a tensor resonance interacts
weakly over a significant range of scales above its mass, it is
natural to describe it by the St\"uckelberg approach. We will
therefore adopt the St\"uckelberg Lagrangian as the basis of a
tensor-EFT with a minimum set of free parameters.
Clearly, we can always add extra interactions with further free
parameters. Those interactions take the form of higher-dimensional
operators which do not contribute on the resonance. They describe
unrelated new-physics effects.
\section{Lagrangian for the extended EFT}
We now combine the findings of the previous section in order to set up a
Lagrangian description of the resonances, as an extension of the low-energy
EFT which already (implicitly) includes the complete set of higher-dimensional
operators. Apart from the Lorentz representations as scalar or tensor, we have
to consider the representation of the internal symmetry group. As we will
argue in detail below, we take this as the Higgs-sector global symmetry
$SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R$, where only the $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ subgroup is
gauged. $SU(2)_R$ breaking terms can be systematically included, but we do
not consider those in the present work.
\subsection{Isospin}
\label{sec:multiplets}
In the literature on VBS, resonances have traditionally been
categorized in terms of weak isospin, i.e., custodial $SU(2)_C$
multiplets. This is appropriate for a Higgsless scenario, where the
actual scale of EWSB is given by its natural value $4\pi v\approx
3\;\text{TeV}$ (cf. e.g.~\cite{EWLag}). Without a light Higgs boson, VBS
scattering at the LHC would probe the physics at energies below the true EWSB
scale, so the (approximate) low-energy symmetry applies.
However, since the discovery of the Higgs boson, we know that VBS
processes probe a scale above the masses of the physical Higgs and the
electroweak gauge bosons. We have to impose the unbroken high-energy
symmetry on the theoretical description. Neglecting hypercharge, this
is $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R$. We therefore describe new resonances
coupled to the SM Higgs sector in terms of
$SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R$ multiplets.
It is not obvious that new physics coupled to the Higgs sector
actually has this symmetry. $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R$ is, first of all,
an accidental approximate symmetry of the SM EWSB sector. There are no possible
terms in the dimension-four Higgs potential that break $SU(2)_R$, so
EWSB leaves the diagonal custodial $SU(2)$ symmetry untouched.
However, hypercharge and top-quark couplings are not consistent with
$SU(2)_R$. Nevertheless,
in the gaugeless limit the hypercharge coupling vanishes,
and top quarks are irrelevant for VBS anyway, so $SU(2)_R$ remains a
good symmetry of VBS (at high $p_T$) in the SM. Beyond the SM, new
effects in VBS are transmitted only via the Higgs doublet. In the
low-energy EFT, they require higher-dimensional operators.
These would cause power corrections to the $\rho$ parameter and are therefore
constrained by the observed agreement of the measured $\rho$ parameter
with the pure SM prediction. For our purposes, we thus adopt
$SU(2)_R$ as a symmetry of new physics in the Higgs sector, to keep
things simple. We have to keep in mind that this need not be the
case, and leave the discussion of $SU(2)_R$ breaking in this context
to future work.
Resonances of even spin with unsuppressed couplings to a pair of
Higgs/Nambu-Goldstone bosons, must reside in the symmetric part of the
decomposition of the product representation of the $SU(2)_L\times
SU(2)_R$ symmetry, $(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2})\otimes
(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2})$. In the effective interaction operator,
this representation appears as a $H\otimes H^\dagger$ factor. There
are only two possibilities:
\begin{enumerate}
\item $(0,0)$: a neutral singlet (isoscalar).
\item $(1,1)$: a $3\times 3$ matrix, which contains nine components.
After EWSB, the multiplet decomposes into an isotensor (five
components), an isovector (three components), and an isoscalar (one
component). In terms of the gauged $SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y$ subgroup, the
nonet decomposes into a complex $SU(2)_L$ triplet with a doubly
charged component and a real $SU(2)_L$ triplet, as described
in~\cite{Kaplan:1983fs}. The relative mass splitting between these
states is of order $(m_W/M)^2$, where $M$ is the average resonance
mass. For our purposes where we assume $M\gg m_W$, we ignore that
splitting and thus deal with a nonet of degenerate resonance
components.
\end{enumerate}
We note that due to the existence of the light Higgs, the close
analogy between spin and isospin is broken at this point: tensor
states have just five physical degrees of freedom, but an isotensor
resonance in VBS, given the symmetry assumptions of the present paper, does not
exist in isolation. The distinction comes into play
once physical Higgs bosons are involved in a process. In VBS
amplitudes, the symmetry relates, for any given resonance multiplet,
Nambu-Goldstone pairs with Higgs pairs, i.e., $VV (V=W,Z)$ to $HH$ production.
For simplicity of notation, we will continue to denote the $(0,0)$
case as isoscalar and the $(1,1)$ as isotensor, respectively, keeping
in mind that the latter case actually is always accompanied by
isovector and isoscalar components.
For a scalar isoscalar resonance $\sigma$, we may consider couplings
of the form
\begin{subequations}
\begin{equation}
\label{sHH}
\sigma\tr{\mathbf{H}^\dagger \mathbf{H}}
\end{equation}
or
\begin{equation}
\label{sDHDH}
\sigma\tr{(\mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H})^\dagger (\mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H})}.
\end{equation}
\end{subequations}
The former operator is of lower dimension and might therefore be
considered the dominant contribution. It is part of the Higgs
potential and influences Higgs mixing and production processes. In
the present work, we assume that the scalar state has been broken down
in terms of the SM Higgs doublet and further states, which themselves
arrange as multiplets. Since the SM Higgs couplings in the
lowest-order EFT, the pure SM, saturate the Higgs couplings to SM
particles and are fixed by definition, residual mixing and potential
terms arrange into higher-dimensional operators. In particular, a
resonance coupled to Nambu-Goldstone bosons is represented by the
term~(\ref{sDHDH}), while the lower-dimensional term (\ref{sHH}) does
not enter. We therefore do not consider~(\ref{sHH}) and concentrate
on the dimension-five coupling~(\ref{sDHDH}).
This leads to a current for the scalar isoscalar resonance of the form
\begin{align}
J_{\sigma} &= F_\sigma
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}} \; .
\end{align}
\subsection{The Isotensor Representation}
While the description of an isoscalar is simple, we have to look at the
interactions of the isotensor more carefully. For simplicity, we will
first restrict ourselves to a scalar field multiplet.
A resonance with chiral $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R$ quantum numbers $(1,1)$ has
nine scalar degrees of freedoms. In the chiral representation these nine
degrees of freedom can be represented as the tensor $\Phi^{ab}$ with
the indices $a,b \in \{1,2,3\}$. Therefore, the Lagrangian
describing an isotensor resonance in the Nambu-Goldstone/Higgs
boson sector can be written as
\begin{align}
\label{eq:Lagrangian_chiraltensor}
\mathcal{L}_{\Phi}= \frac{1}{2} \partial_\mu \Phi^{ab} \partial^{\mu}\Phi^{ab}
- \frac{m_\Phi^2}{2} \Phi^{ab}\Phi^{ab}
+ J^{ab}_{\Phi}\Phi^{ab} \,
\end{align}
where the current has a $SU(2)_L$ and a $SU(2)_R$ index
\begin{align}
\label{eq:Isotensor-current}
J^{ab}_\Phi =
F_\phi \tr{\left(\mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H}\right)^\dagger \tau^a \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H} \tau^b}\, .
\end{align}
Analogously to the isoscalar case, the coupling $F_\phi$ is suppressed
by a new physics scale $\Lambda$. To expose the coupling structure to the
Nambu-Goldstone/Higgs boson sector, the current can be expanded in
the gaugeless limit
\begin{align}
\label{eq:isotensor_current_expanded}
\begin{aligned}
\tr{\left(\mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H}\right)^\dagger \tau^a \mathbf{D}_\nu \mathbf{H} \tau^b}
=& \frac{1}{2} \left(\partial_\mu h \partial_\nu h - \partial_\mu
w^i \partial_\nu w^i \right) \delta^{ab}
- \frac{1}{2}
\left (\partial_\mu w^i \partial_\nu h+\partial_\nu
w^i \partial_\mu h \right)\varepsilon^{abi} \\
&+\frac{1}{2} \left(\partial_\mu w^a \partial_\nu w^b
+ \partial_\mu w^b \partial_\nu w^a \right)
\end{aligned}
\end{align}
Here, the decomposition into isotensor, isovector and isoscalar
is already manifest. The resonance $\Phi^{ab}$ can be represented in
a basis constructed from tensor products of $SU(2)$ generators by the
Clebsch-Gordon decomposition
\begin{align}
\mathbf{1} \otimes \mathbf{1} = \mathbf{2} + \mathbf{1} + \mathbf{0} \, .
\end{align}
Using the basis in the appendix~\ref{appendix:isospin-basis},
the resonance $\Phi^{ab}$ is
rewritten into its $SU(2)_C$ components
\begin{align}
\Phi^{ab} \rightarrow \Phi_t + \Phi_v + \Phi_s
\end{align}
with
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
\Phi_t &= \phi_t^{++}\tau_t^{++}+\phi_t^{+}\tau_t^{+}+
\phi_t^{0}\tau_t^{0}+\phi_t^{-}\tau_t^{-}+\phi_t^{--}\tau_t^{--} \, ,\\
\Phi_v &= \phi_v^{+}\tau_v^{+} +
\phi_v^{0}\tau_v^{0}+\phi_v^{-}\tau_v^{-} \, ,\\
\Phi_s &= \phi_s\tau_s \, .
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
The Lagrangian~\eqref{eq:Lagrangian_chiraltensor}
can be written in terms of the $SU(2)_C$ basis
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:Lagrangian-Isotensor-full}
\begin{align}
\mathcal{L}_\phi =& \frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=s,v,t} \tr{(\partial_\mu \Phi_i)^\dagger
\partial^\mu \Phi_i
-m_\Phi^2 \Phi_i^2}
+\tr{\left(\Phi_t + \frac{1}{2}\Phi_v - \frac{2}{5}\Phi_s \right)J_\phi }\\
J_{\phi} =& F_\phi
\left (
\left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \otimes \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}
+\frac {1}{8} \tr{\left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H} }
\right ) (\tau^a\otimes \tau^a)
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
In absence of the Higgs boson, the coefficient of the second term
is chosen in such a way, that the trace of the current vanishes.
In this scenario, the isovector and isoscalar degree of freedoms
decouple from the model and only the isotensor is needed to describe
this resonance. However, including a Higgs the Lagrangian
\eqref{eq:Lagrangian-Isotensor-full} guarantees the amplitude
relation between the Higgs and Nambu-Goldstone bosons that will be
introduced in section~\ref{section:gaugeless}.
The crossing relations are manifest in the
scattering amplitudes for the Nambu-Goldstone/Higgs boson,
which can be determined most easily in the gaugeless limit.
One prominent example for such scalar isotensor resonances appears in
the context of composite Higgs models of the type Little Higgs,
particularly in the so called Littlest Higgs model~\cite{LHM}.
These resonances predominantly couple to the (electro)weak gauge sector of
the SM.
\subsection{The Tensor Current}
We now construct the effective current that is coupled to a tensor
resonance multiplet. By assumption, the resonance should be produced
in VBS processes. We have to consider independent couplings to the
gauge and Higgs/Nambu-Goldstone sectors. The gauge-sector couplings
should vanish in the gaugeless limit, so we are led to consider
the Higgs-sector coupling.
For a tensor isoscalar resonance, the
lowest-dimensional current consists of two terms,
\begin{align}
J^{\mu \nu}_f&=
F_f \left (
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H}}
- \frac{c_f}{4} g^{\mu \nu}
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\rho \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\rho \mathbf{H}}
\right) .
\end{align}
The second term actually couples to the trace of the tensor field,
which vanishes on-shell. It is therefore part of the non-resonant
continuum and can alternatively be replaced by higher-dimensional
operators in the EFT. Nevertheless, it is required if, for instance,
we want to construct a traceless current. For now, we leave the
coefficient $c_f$ undetermined.
The tensor-field coupling then reads
\begin{equation}
f_{\mu \nu}J_f^{\mu \nu}
\end{equation}
in the Fierz-Pauli formulation (section~\ref{sec:fierz-pauli}), and
\begin{equation}
f_{\mu \nu} J_f^{\mu \nu}
- \sigma {J_f}^{\mu}_{\, \mu}
- \frac{1}{m}A_\mu \partial_\nu J_f^{\mu \nu}
+ \frac{2}{m^2} \sigma \partial_\mu \partial_\nu J_f^{\mu \nu}
\end{equation}
in the St\"uckelberg formulation (section~\ref{sec:stueckelberg}). In the
second version, the momentum factors in the propagator have been
turned into derivatives that act on the current. There is also a
coupling to the trace of the current.
The formally dominant high-energy ($s\to\infty$) behavior of the
amplitude thus is given by the exchange of St\"uckelberg vector and
scalar. The contribution would vanish if the current was conserved.
Evaluating the divergence of first and second order, using
\eqref{eq:Def-FieldStrengthTensor} and \eqref{eq:eqofmotionH} in the
Appendix,
\begin{align}
\label{eq:derivative_Tensor_current}
\begin{aligned}
\partial_\mu J_f^{\mu \nu}
=&
F_f \tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}^2 \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H}}
+\frac{F_f}{4} \left ( c_f +2 \right )
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger\left [ \mathbf{D}^\mu,\mathbf{D}^\nu
\right ] \mathbf{H}} \\
&-\frac{F_f}{4} \left (c_f -2 \right )
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger\left \{ \mathbf{D}^\mu,\mathbf{D}^\nu
\right \} \mathbf{H}} \\
=&
- F_f \lambda \tr{\widehat{\mathbf{H}^\dagger \mathbf{H}}} \tr{ \mathbf{H} ^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H}} \\
&-\mathrm{i} g F_f
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger\mathbf{W}^{\mu\nu} \mathbf{H}}
-\mathrm{i} g^\prime F_f
\tr{\mathbf{H} \mathbf{B}^{\mu\nu} \left(\mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H}\right)^\dagger }\, ,
\end{aligned}
\end{align}
\begin{align}
\label{eq:2derivative_Tensor_current}
\begin{aligned}
\partial_{\nu}\partial_\mu J_f^{\mu \nu}
=& F_f \tr{ \left(\mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right)^\dagger
\left(
\mathbf{D}_\nu \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H} + \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{D}^2 \mathbf{H}
- \frac{c_f}{2} \mathbf{D}^2 \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}
\right)}\\
&+F_f \tr{ \left(\mathbf{D}^2 \mathbf{H} \right)^\dagger \mathbf{D}^2 \mathbf{H}}
+ F_f \tr{ \left(\mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{D}_\nu \mathbf{H} \right)^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}}\\
&- \frac{c_f}{2} F_f \tr{ \left(\mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{D}_\nu \mathbf{H} \right)^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H}}\\
=&
- F_f \lambda \tr{\widehat{\mathbf{H}^\dagger \mathbf{H}}} \tr{\mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H}
^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}}
- F_f \lambda \tr{\widehat{\mathbf{H}^\dagger \mathbf{H}}} \tr{ \mathbf{H} ^\dagger \mathbf{D}^2
\mathbf{H}} \\
&- 2F_f \lambda \tr{{\mathbf{H}^\dagger \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H}}} \tr{ \mathbf{H} ^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}}\\
&+\frac{g^2 F_f}{2}
\left(\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{H} \left(\mathbf{D}^{ \mu}
\mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger\mathbf{H}}
-\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \left(\mathbf{D}^{ \mu} \mathbf{H} \right )
\mathbf{H}^\dagger\mathbf{H}}
\right)\\
&+\frac{{g^\prime}^2 F_f}{2}
\left(\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{H} \left(\mathbf{D}^{ \mu}
\mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger\mathbf{H}}
-\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \left(\mathbf{D}^{ \mu} \mathbf{H} \right )
\mathbf{H}^\dagger\mathbf{H}}
\right)\\
&+\frac{ g^2 F_f}{2}
\tr{ \mathbf{H}^\dagger\mathbf{W}_{\mu\nu} \mathbf{W}^{\mu\nu} \mathbf{H}}
+\frac{ {g^\prime}^2 F_f}{2}
\tr{ \mathbf{H} \mathbf{B}_{\mu\nu} \mathbf{B}^{\mu\nu} \mathbf{H}^\dagger} \\
&+ g{g^\prime} F_f
\tr{ \mathbf{H}^\dagger \mathbf{W}_{\mu\nu} \mathbf{H} \mathbf{B}^{\mu\nu}} \\
&-\mathrm{i} g F_f
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger\mathbf{W}^{\mu\nu} \mathbf{D}_\nu \mathbf{H} }\\
&-\mathrm{i} g F_f
\tr{ \left(\mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H}\right) \mathbf{B}^{\mu\nu} \left(\mathbf{D}_\mu
\mathbf{H}\right)^\dagger } \, ,
\end{aligned}
\end{align}
we observe that the current is not conserved.
However, none of the nonvanishing
terms contributes to the $VV\to VV$ process at high energy. The
St\"uckelberg fields effectively decouple, and the high-energy
behavior can be calculated from the propagator~(\ref{eq:proptensor}).
If we take EWSB into account, we do get a nonvanishing divergence also
at the two-particle level. New terms arise that are proportional to
powers of $v$, and thus to the $W$, $Z$, and Higgs masses. The
St\"uckelberg vector transmits, via EWSB mixing, a coupling to
transversal vector bosons. In amplitudes, these factors are
accompanied by factors of $1/m$. In the limit of a heavy resonance,
the St\"uckelberg terms are thus parametrically suppressed and become
relevant only for energies significantly beyond the resonance mass.
Conversely, if the resonance mass is comparable to the electroweak
scale, the St\"uckelberg terms are significant.
The remainder of the amplitude that corresponds to the genuine tensor
propagator~\eqref{eq:proptensor} does not contain momentum factors.
Nevertheless, the interaction is of dimension five, so we expect
contributions that rise with energy. This occurs for external
longitudinally polarized vector bosons which carry a momentum factor.
We obtain a factor $s^2$ in the numerator that asymptotically cancels
with the denominator, so the effective rise is proportional to
$s/m^2$. Qualitatively, this is the same result as for the case of a
scalar resonance, or for a Higgs-less theory.
We conclude that we can unitarize the amplitude uniformly for all
spin-isospin channels, starting from the gaugeless Nambu-Goldstone boson
limit, without having to account for transversal gauge bosons or
higher powers of $s$ beyond the resonance. The algorithm can be taken
unchanged from the pure-EFT case~\cite{Kilian:2014zja}. However, we
have to restrict the allowed values of resonance masses and couplings
such that the St\"uckelberg terms discussed above remain numerically
small within some finite energy range. Outside this range, we can no
longer separate the Higgs/Nambu-Goldstone sector of the theory but are
sensitive to unknown strong interactions that involve all channels of
longitudinal, transversal, and Higgs exchange simultaneously. While
the unitarization scheme of~\cite{Kilian:2014zja} is also applicable in
that situation, it becomes technically more involved; we defer this
case to future work.
\subsection{Complete model definition}
We now list the effective Lagrangians that we consider in the
subsequent calculations. In all cases, the basic theory is the SM
EFT, i.e., the SM with the observed light Higgs boson in linear
representation, extended by higher-dimensional operators. We add
four different resonance multiplets, corresponding to all combinations
of spin and isospin 0 and 2, respectively. The Lagrangians can be
combined.
The spin-two Lagrangian is presented in the St\"uckelberg gauge.
Regarding the resonance fields, we should further select electroweak
quantum numbers, as discussed in section~\ref{sec:multiplets}, by
defining the precise form of the covariant derivative acting on the
resonance field in the kinetic operator. However, as long as we are
not interested in EW radiative corrections, we may work with a simple
partial derivative and omit the gauge couplings to $W$, $Z$, and photon.
The Lagrangian for the isoscalar-scalar $\sigma$,
the isotensor-scalar $\phi$, the isoscalar-tensor $f$
and the isotensor-tensor $X$ are given by
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:appendix_lagrangian}
\begin{align}
\mathcal{L}_\sigma =&
\frac{1}{2} \partial_\mu \sigma \partial^\mu \sigma
-\frac{1}{2} m_\sigma^2 \sigma^2
+ \sigma J_\sigma \, \\
\mathcal{L}_\phi =& \frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=s,v,t} \tr{\partial_\mu \Phi_i \partial^\mu \Phi_i
-m_\Phi^2 \Phi_i^2}
+\tr{\left(\Phi_t + \frac{1}{2}\Phi_v - \frac{2}{5}\Phi_s \right)J_\phi }\, ,\\
\mathcal{L}^{}_{f} =
& \frac{1}{2} f_{f\mu\nu}\left (-\partial^2 - m_f^2 \right )f_f^{ \mu \nu}
+ \frac{1}{2} f^{ \mu}_{f\mu}\left (-\frac{1}{2} \left (-\partial^2
- m_f^2 \right ) \right )f^{\nu}_{f\nu} \notag \\
&+ \frac{1}{2} A_{f\mu} \left ( -\partial^2 - m_f^2 \right ) A_f^\mu
+\frac{1}{2} \sigma_f \left ( -\partial^2 - m_f^2 \right ) \sigma_f
\notag \\
& + \left ( f_{f\mu \nu} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{6}} g_{\mu \nu} \sigma +
\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}m_f}\left (\partial_\mu A_\nu + \partial_\nu A_\mu \right )
+ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{3}m_f^2} \partial_\mu \partial_\nu \sigma
\right )J_f^{\mu \nu} \, , \\
\mathcal{L}^{}_{X} =
& \frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=s,v,t} \operatorname{tr} \Big[
X^{}_{i\mu\nu}\left (-\partial^2 - m_X^2 \right )X_i^{{} \mu \nu}
+ X^{{} \mu}_{i\mu}\left (-\frac{1}{2} \left (-\partial^2 - m_X^2
\right ) \right )X^{{} \nu}_{i\nu} \notag \\
& \phantom{ \frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=s,v,t} \operatorname{tr} \Big[ }
+ A_{i\mu} \left ( -\partial^2 - m_X^2 \right ) A_i^\mu
+ \sigma_i \left ( -\partial^2 - m_X^2 \right ) \sigma_i
\Big]
\notag \\
& + \operatorname{tr} \Bigg[
\left ( X^{}_{t\mu \nu} - \frac{g_{\mu \nu}}{\sqrt{6}} \sigma_t +
\frac{\partial_\mu A_{t\nu} + \partial_\nu A_{t\mu} }{\sqrt{2}m_X}
+ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{3}m_X^2} \partial_\mu
\partial_\nu \sigma_t
\right )J_X^{\mu \nu} \notag \\
&\phantom{+ \operatorname{tr} \Big[ }
+\frac{1}{2}{ \left ( X^{}_{v\mu \nu} - \frac{g_{\mu
\nu}}{\sqrt{6}} \sigma_v +
\frac{\partial_\mu A_{v\nu} + \partial_\nu A_{v\mu} }{\sqrt{2}m_X}
+ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{3}m_X^2} \partial_\mu
\partial_\nu \sigma_v
\right )J_X^{\mu \nu} } \notag \\
&\phantom{+ \operatorname{tr} \Big[ } -\frac{2}{5} { \left (
X^{}_{s\mu \nu} - \frac{g_{\mu \nu}}{\sqrt{6}} \sigma_s
+
\frac{\partial_\mu A_{s\nu} + \partial_\nu A_{s\mu} }{\sqrt{2}m_X}
+ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{3}m_X^2} \partial_\mu
\partial_\nu \sigma_s
\right )J_X^{\mu \nu} } \Bigg] \, ,
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
respectively, where the tensor resonances are formulated in the
St\"uckelberg formalism with associated fields $\sigma_f$, $A_f$ and $f_f$
denoting the scalar, vector and tensor degrees of freedom,
respectively.
The corresponding St\"uckelberg fields for the isotensor-tensor
receive extra indices $\{s,v,t\}$
which represent the isoscalar, isovector and isotensor
fields of the $SU(2)_C$ multiplet, respectively.
The couplings to the Nambu-Goldstone boson current in each
case is given by
\begin{subequations}
\begin{alignat}{2}
J_{\sigma} &= F_\sigma&&
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}} \, ,\\
J_{\phi} &= F_\phi&&
\left (
\left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \otimes \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}
+\frac {1}{8} \tr{\left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H} }
\right )\tau^{aa} \, , \\
J^{\mu \nu}_f&=
F_f &&\left (
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H}}
- \frac{c_f}{4} g^{\mu \nu}
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\rho \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\rho \mathbf{H}}
\right) \, , \\
J^{\mu \nu}_{X }&=
F_X& & \Bigg [
\frac{1}{2} \left (
\left ( \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \otimes \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H}
+ \left ( \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \otimes \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}
\right )
- \frac{c_X}{4} g^{\mu \nu}
\left ( \mathbf{D}_\rho \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \otimes \mathbf{D}^\rho \mathbf{H} \notag \\
&&&
+\frac{1}{8} \left (
\tr{\left ( \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H}}
- \frac{c_X}{4} g^{\mu \nu}
\tr{\left ( \mathbf{D}_\rho \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\rho \mathbf{H}}
\right )
\Bigg ] \tau^{aa} \, .
\end{alignat}
\end{subequations}
\section{Unitary amplitudes for VBS at the LHC}
\label{sec:amplitudes}
\subsection{Gaugeless limit}
\label{section:gaugeless}
For a first estimate of the impact of generic resonances
to vector-boson scattering processes at the LHC, we
study the on-shell Nambu-Goldstone boson scattering amplitudes.
When treating vector-boson scattering as $2 \rightarrow 2$
process of massless scalars at high energies, it is convenient to
describe kinematic dependencies using Mandelstam variables $s,t,u$.
Using custodial symmetry and crossing symmetries, the different
$2\rightarrow 2$ Nambu-Goldstone boson scattering amplitudes are
determined by the master amplitudes $\mathcal{A} \left (w^+w^-
\rightarrow zz \right )$. In the gaugeless
limit, the amplitudes for the resonance multiplets $\sigma$, $\phi$,
$f$, and $X$ are calculated in the gaugeless limit via the Feynman
rules given in appendix~\ref{appendix:Feynman_Rules}.
\subsubsection{Isoscalar-Scalar}
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:sigma_amplitudes}
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_\sigma \left (w^\pm w^\pm \rightarrow w^\pm w^\pm \right )&=
- \frac{1}{4} {F_\sigma}^2 \left(\frac{t^2}{t-m_\sigma^2}+
\frac{u^2}{u-m_\sigma^2} \right) \, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_\sigma& \left (w^\pm z \rightarrow w^\pm z \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_\sigma& \left (hw^\pm \rightarrow hw^\pm \right ) \\
\mathcal{A}_\sigma& \left (hz \rightarrow hz \right )\\
\end{aligned} \right \} &=
- \frac{1}{4} {F_\sigma}^2 \frac{t^2}{t-m_\sigma^2} \, ,\\
\mathcal{A}_\sigma \left (w^\pm w^\mp \rightarrow w^\pm w^\mp \right )&=
- \frac{1}{4} {F_\sigma}^2 \left (\frac{s^2}{s-m_\sigma^2}+ \frac{t^2}{t-m_\sigma^2} \right) \, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_\sigma& \left (w^\pm w^\mp \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_\sigma& \left (hh \rightarrow w^\pm w^\mp \right ) \\
\mathcal{A}_\sigma& \left (hh \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\end{aligned} \right \}&=
- \frac{1}{4} {F_\sigma}^2 \frac{s^2}{s-m_\sigma^2} \, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_\sigma& \left (zz \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_\sigma& \left (hh \rightarrow hh \right )
\end{aligned} \right \} &=
- \frac{1}{4} {F_\sigma}^2 \left( \frac{s^2}{s-m_\sigma^2}+ \frac{t^2}{t-m_\sigma^2} +\frac{u^2}{u-m_\sigma^2} \right) \, .
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\subsubsection{Isotensor-Scalar}
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:phi_amplitudes}
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_\phi \left (w^\pm w^\pm \rightarrow w^\pm w^\pm \right )&=
-\frac{{F_\phi}^2}{8} \left(2 \frac{s^2}{s-m_\phi^2}
+ \frac{1}{2} \frac{u^2}{u-m_\phi^2}
+ \frac{1}{2} \frac{t^2}{t-m_\phi^2} \right)\, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_\phi& \left (w^\pm z \rightarrow w^\pm z \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_\phi& \left (hw^\pm \rightarrow hw^\pm \right ) \\
\mathcal{A}_\phi& \left (hz \rightarrow hz \right )\\
\end{aligned} \right \} &=
\frac{{F_\phi}^2}{8} \left( \frac{1}{2} \frac{t^2}{t-m_\phi^2}
- \frac{u^2}{u-m_\phi^2}
- \frac{s^2}{s-m_\phi^2} \right) \, ,\\
\mathcal{A}_\phi \left (w^\pm w^\mp \rightarrow w^\pm w^\mp \right )&=
-\frac{{F_\phi}^2}{8} \left( \frac{1}{2} \frac{s^2}{s-m_\phi^2}
+ 2 \frac{u^2}{u-m_\phi^2}
+ \frac{1}{2} \frac{t^2}{t-m_\phi^2} \right) \, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_\phi& \left (w^\pm w^\mp \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_\phi& \left (hh \rightarrow w^\pm w^\mp \right ) \\
\mathcal{A}_\phi& \left (hh \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\end{aligned} \right \}&=
\frac{{F_\phi}^2}{8} \left( \frac{1}{2} \frac{s^2}{s-m_\phi^2}
- \frac{u^2}{u-m_\phi^2}
- \frac{t^2}{t-m_\phi^2} \right)\, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_\phi& \left (zz \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_\phi& \left (hh \rightarrow hh \right )
\end{aligned} \right \} &=
-\frac{3{F_\phi}^2}{16} \left( \frac{s^2}{s-m_\phi^2}
+ \frac{u^2}{u-m_\phi^2}
+ \frac{t^2}{t-m_\phi^2} \right) \, .
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\subsubsection{Isoscalar-Tensor}
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:tensor_amplitudes}
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_f \left (w^\pm w^\pm \rightarrow w^\pm w^\pm \right )=&
- \frac{1}{24} {F_f}^2 \left(\frac{t^2}{t-m_f^2}P_2(t,s,u)+ \frac{u^2}{u-m_f^2}P_2(u,s,t) \right) \, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_f& \left (w^\pm z \rightarrow w^\pm z \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_f& \left (hw^\pm \rightarrow hw^\pm \right ) \\
\mathcal{A}_f& \left (hz \rightarrow hz \right )\\
\end{aligned} \right \} =&
- \frac{1}{24} {F_f}^2 \frac{t^2}{t-m_f^2}P_2 \left(t,s,u \right) \, ,\\
\mathcal{A}_f \left (w^\pm w^\mp \rightarrow w^\pm w^\mp \right )=&
- \frac{1}{24} {F_f}^2 \left (\frac{s^2}{s-m_f^2}P_2(s,t,u)+
\frac{t^2}{t-m_f}P_2(t,s,u) \right) \, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_f& \left (w^\pm w^\mp \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_f& \left (hh \rightarrow w^\pm w^\mp \right ) \\
\mathcal{A}_f& \left (hh \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\end{aligned} \right \}=&
- \frac{1}{24} {F_f}^2 \frac{s^2}{s-m_f^2}P_2 \left(s,t,u \right) \, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_f& \left (zz \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_f& \left (hh \rightarrow hh \right )
\end{aligned} \right \} =&
- \frac{1}{24} {F_f}^2 \Bigg(
\frac{s^2}{s-m_f^2}P_2(s,t,u)
+\frac{t^2}{t-m_f^2}P_2(t,s,u)\notag\\
&\phantom{- \frac{1}{24} {F_f}^2 \Bigg(} +\frac{u^2}{u-m_f^2}P_2(u,s,t) \Bigg) \, .
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
Here and in the following, $P_2(s,t,u) = [3(t^2 + u^2) - 2
s^2]/s^2$ is the second order Legendre polynomial in terms of the
Mandelstam variables.
\subsubsection{Isotensor-Tensor}
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:isotensor_tensor_amplitudes_gaugeless}
\allowdisplaybreaks
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_X \left (w^\pm w^\pm \rightarrow w^\pm w^\pm \right )=&
-\frac{{F_X}^2}{96} \Bigg(
\frac{4s^2}{s-m_X^2}P_2 \left(s,t,u \right)
+\frac{t^2}{t-m_X^2}P_2 \left(t,s,u \right) \notag\\
&\phantom{-\frac{{F_X}^2}{96} \Bigg(}
+\frac{u^2}{u-m_X^2}P_2 \left(u,s,t \right)
\Bigg)\, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_X& \left (w^\pm z \rightarrow w^\pm z \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_X& \left (hw^\pm \rightarrow hw^\pm \right ) \\
\mathcal{A}_X& \left (hz \rightarrow hz \right )\\
\end{aligned} \right \} =&
\frac{{F_X}^2}{96} \Bigg (
-\frac{2s^2}{s-m_X^2}P_2 \left(s,t,u \right)
+\frac{t^2}{t-m_X^2}P_2 \left(t,s,u \right)\notag\\
&\phantom{\frac{{F_X}^2}{96} \Bigg (}
-\frac{2u^2}{u-m_X^2}P_2 \left(u,s,t \right)
\Bigg)\, ,
\\
\mathcal{A}_X \left (w^\pm w^\mp \rightarrow w^\pm w^\mp \right )=&
-\frac{{F_X}^2}{96} \Bigg(
\frac{s^2}{s-m_X^2}P_2 \left(s,t,u \right)
+\frac{t^2}{t-m_X^2}P_2 \left(t,s,u \right) \notag\\
&\phantom{-\frac{{F_X}^2}{96} \Bigg(}
+\frac{4u^2}{u-m_X^2}P_2 \left(u,s,t \right)
\Bigg)\,
,
\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_X& \left (w^\pm w^\mp \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_X& \left (hh \rightarrow w^\pm w^\mp \right ) \\
\mathcal{A}_X& \left (hh \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\end{aligned} \right \}=&
\frac{{F_X}^2}{96} \Bigg(
\frac{s^2}{s-m_X^2}P_2 \left(s,t,u \right)
-\frac{2t^2}{t-m_X^2}P_2 \left(t,s,u \right)\notag \\
&\phantom{\frac{{F_X}^2}{96} \Bigg(}
-\frac{2u^2}{u-m_X^2}P_2 \left(u,s,t \right)
\Bigg)\, ,\\
\left. \begin{aligned}
\mathcal{A}_X& \left (zz \rightarrow zz \right )\\
\mathcal{A}_X& \left (hh \rightarrow hh \right )
\end{aligned} \right \} =&
-\frac{1}{32} {F_X}^2 \Bigg(
\frac{s^2}{s-m_X^2}P_2 \left(s,t,u \right)
+\frac{t^2}{t-m_X^2}P_2 \left(t,s,u \right) \notag \\
&\phantom{-\frac{1}{32} {F_X}^2 \Bigg(} +
\frac{u^2}{u-m_X^2}P_2 \left(u,s,t \right)
\Bigg) \, .
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\subsection{Decomposition of eigenamplitudes}
\label{sec:IlinWHIZARD}
Since the leading-order amplitudes as listed above are unbounded both at
the pole and at high energy, we use the T-matrix
scheme~\cite{Kilian:2014zja} to restore unitarity. In order to
implement the scheme in~\cite{Kilian:2014zja}, we decompose the
amplitudes into isospin-spin eigenamplitudes (the $S$-wave, $P$-wave
and $D$-wave kinematic functions $\mathcal{S}_i$, $\mathcal{P}_i$ and
$\mathcal{D}_i$ can be found in appendix~\ref{appendix:partialwaves}):
\subsubsection{Isoscalar-Scalar}
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:isospin-spin-scalar}
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_{00}&=
F_\sigma^2
\left (
-\frac{3}{4} \frac{s^2}{s-m_\sigma^2}
-\frac{1}{2} \mathcal{S}_0
\right)
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{02}&=
-\frac{1}{2} F_\sigma^2 \mathcal{S}_2
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{11}&=
-\frac{1}{2} F_\sigma^2 \mathcal{S}_1
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{13}&=
-\frac{1}{2} F_\sigma^2 \mathcal{S}_3
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{20}&=
-\frac{1}{2} F_\sigma^2 \mathcal{S}_0
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{22}&=
-\frac{1}{2} F_\sigma^2 \mathcal{S}_2
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\subsubsection{Isotensor-Scalar}
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:isospin-spin-isotensor}
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_{00}&=
F_\phi^2
\left (
-\frac{1}{16} \frac{s^2}{s-m_\phi^2}
-\frac{7}{8} \mathcal{S}_0
\right)
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{02}&=
-\frac{7}{8} F_\phi^2 \mathcal{S}_2
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{11}&=
\frac{3}{8} F_\phi^2 \mathcal{S}_1
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{13}&=
\frac{3}{8} F_\phi^2 \mathcal{S}_3
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{20}&=
F_\phi^2
\left (
-\frac{1}{4} \frac{s^2}{s-m_\phi^2}
-\frac{1}{8} \mathcal{S}_0
\right)
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{22}&=
-\frac{1}{8} F_\phi^2 \mathcal{S}_2
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\subsubsection{Isoscalar-Tensor}
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:isospin-spin-tensor}
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_{00}&=
-\frac{1}{12}F_f^2\mathcal{D}_0
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{02}&=
-\frac{1}{40}F_f^2 \frac{s^2}{s-m_f^2}
-\frac{1}{12}F_f^2
\left (1+ 6 \frac{s}{m_f^2}+ 6 \frac{s^2}{m_f^4} \right )
\mathcal{S}_2
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{11}&=
-\frac{1}{12}F_f^2 \mathcal{D}_1
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{13}&=
-\frac{1}{12}F_f^2
\left (1+ 6 \frac{s}{m_f^2}+ 6 \frac{s^2}{m_f^4} \right )
\mathcal{S}_3
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{20}&=
-\frac{1}{12}F_f^2 \mathcal{D}_0
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{22}&=
-\frac{1}{12}F_f^2
\left (1+ 6 \frac{s}{m_f^2}+ 6 \frac{s^2}{m_f^4} \right )
\mathcal{S}_2
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\subsubsection{Isotensor-Tensor}
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:isospin-spin-isotensor-tensor}
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_{00}&=
-\frac{7}{48} F_X^2 \mathcal{D}_0
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{02}&=
-\frac{1}{480}F_X^2 \frac{s^2}{s-m_X^2}
-\frac{7}{48} F_X^2\left(1 + 6 \frac{s}{m_X^2}+ 6 \frac{s^2}{m_X^4}
\right) \mathcal{S}_2
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{11}&=
\frac{1}{16} F_X^2 \mathcal{D}_1
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{13}&=
\frac{1}{16} F_X^2 \left(1 + 6 \frac{s}{m_X^2}+ 6 \frac{s^2}{m_X^4}
\right) \mathcal{S}_3
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{20}&=
-\frac{1}{48} F_X^2 \mathcal{D}_0
,\\
\mathcal{A}_{22}&=
-\frac{1}{120}F_X^2 \frac{s^2}{s-m_X^2}
-\frac{1}{48} F_X^2\left(1 + 6 \frac{s}{m_X^2}+ 6 \frac{s^2}{m_X^4}
\right) \mathcal{S}_2 \, .
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\subsection{Width}
\label{sec:width}
As argued below in section~\ref{sec:tensor-unitary-gauge}, for the numerical
off-shell calculation of scattering processes we will need approximate
values for the resonance decay widths. If suffices to compute those
in the gaugeless limit. Contributions
proportional to the masses of the vector bosons and the Higgs boson are
assumed to be small at high resonance masses and are therefore neglected.
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:gamma_scalar}
\begin{align}
\Gamma_\sigma
&= \frac{m_\sigma^3}{32\pi}F_\sigma^2 \, ,
\\
\Gamma_\phi
&= \frac{m_\phi^3}{128\pi}F_\phi^2 \, ,
\\
\Gamma_f
&= \frac{m_f^3}{960\pi}F_f^2 \, ,
\\
\Gamma_X
&= \frac{m_X^3}{3840\pi}F_X^2 \, .
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\subsection{Matching to the low-energy EFT}
\label{sec:matching}
For later convenience, we compute the coefficients of the effective
dimension-eight operators $\mathcal{L}_{S,0}$ and $\mathcal{L}_{S,1}$~\cite{Kilian:2014zja},
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:dim8_operator_S}
\begin{alignat}{4}
\label{eq:LL-S0}
\mathcal{L}_{S,0}&=
& &F_{S,0}\ &&
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}_\nu \mathbf{H}}
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H}},
\\
\label{eq:LL-S1}
\mathcal{L}_{S,1}&=
& &F_{S,1}\ &&
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\mu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\mu \mathbf{H}}
\tr{ \left ( \mathbf{D}_\nu \mathbf{H} \right )^\dagger \mathbf{D}^\nu \mathbf{H}}.
\end{alignat}
\end{subequations}
which result
from integrating out the resonances $\sigma,\phi,f,X$, one at a time.
\begin{alignat}{2}
&& F_{S,1} &= \frac{F_\sigma^2}{2 m_\sigma^2}\, , \\
F_{S,0} &= \frac{F_\phi^2}{2m_\phi^2} \, , &\qquad F_{S,1} &=-
\frac{F_\phi^2}{8 m_\phi^2}\, ,\\
F_{S,0} &= \frac{F_f^2}{2 m_f^2}\, , &\qquad
F_{S,1} &= - \frac{F_f^2}{6 m_f^2}\, , \\
F_{S,0} &= \frac{F_X^2}{24 m_X^2} \, ,&\qquad
F_{S,1} &= - \frac{7 F_X^2}{24 m_X^2} \,.
\end{alignat}
\subsection{Tensor exchange in unitary gauge}
\label{sec:tensor-unitary-gauge}
Beyond the resonance, the Nambu-Goldstone bosons scattering amplitudes
rise proportional to powers of the
invariant mass of the scattering system. They eventually violate
unitarity at a certain energy, depending on the resonance coupling.
Computing the $w^+w^-\to zz$ amplitude in the presence of an
isoscalar tensor resonance, for instance,
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_f \left (w^+w^- \rightarrow zz \right ) =&
-\frac{F_f^2}{96}\left (c_f-2 \right )^2 \frac{s^3}{ m_f^4}
-\frac{F_f^2}{48} \left (c_f-2 \right )c_f \frac{s^2}{ m_f^2} \notag\\
& -\frac{F_f^2}{24} \left (3 \left (t^2+u^2 \right )-2s^2 \right )
\frac{1}{s-m_f^2} \, ,
\end{align}
we observe that choosing
$c_f\neq 2$ results in a high degree of divergence.
This is due to contributions of the vector and scalar degree of freedoms
in the St\"uckelberg parameterization for the tensor
coupled to the derivatives of the current \eqref{eq:derivative_Tensor_current}
and \eqref{eq:2derivative_Tensor_current}. As discussed above, such
terms can be written in a non-resonant form and should be interpreted as
coefficients of undetermined higher-dimensional local operators. Setting
thus $c_f =2$, we
obtain an amplitude $\mathcal{A}_f(s)$ which rises proportional
to $s$ beyond the resonance.
However, the scalar and
vector degree of freedoms provide additional contributions which
are not manifest in the gaugeless limit. A calculation
of the tensor scattering amplitude in the unitary
gauge is necessary. The longitudinal on-shell
$WW \rightarrow ZZ$ amplitude for $c_f=2$ is given by
\begin{align}
\label{eq:amp_wwzz_tensor-scalar}
\mathcal{A}_f \left(W_LW_L \rightarrow Z_LZ_L \right)
=&-\frac{1}{24}\frac{F_f^2}{s-m_f^2} \Bigg[
\left(P_2\left[\cos (\theta) \right] -1 \right)s^2
+12 m_W^2 m_Z^2 \notag \\
&\phantom{-\frac{1}{24}\frac{F_f^2}{s-m_f^2}}
\quad -12\frac{ m_W^2 m_Z^2}{m_f^2} \notag\\
&\phantom{-\frac{1}{24}\frac{F_f^2}{s-m_f^2}} \notag
\quad +\left(s-2 m_W^2\right) \left(s-2 m_Z^2\right) \\
&\phantom{-\frac{1}{24}\frac{F_f^2}{s-m_f^2}} \quad \notag
+4\frac{ m_W^2 m_Z^2}{m_f^4} s^2
+2\frac{\left( m_W^2+ m_Z^2 \right)s^2 -4 m_Z^2m_W^2 s}{m_f^2}
\Bigg] \, .
\end{align}
The first line represents the tensor contribution in the St\"uckelberg
parameterization. Due to its suppression by a power of $s$, the vector
part in the second line can be neglected
for the longitudinal scattering amplitude. Besides the scalar contribution
originating from the trace of the current, additional contributions
related to the double derivative of the current and its mixing
with the trace part written in the fourth line will rise with energy.
However, they are suppressed by ${m_W^2}/{m_f^2}$ or ${m_W^4}/{m_f^4}$
and can be neglected if the mass of the tensor resonance is large
in comparison to the vector boson masses. In this case,
the longitudinal amplitude of the vector bosons calculated in the
unitary gauge coincides with the amplitude in gaugeless limit.
Furthermore, due to the coupling to the derivatives of the
scalar and vector degrees of freedom, also amplitudes in channels with
transverse polarization
rise with the energy of the vector-boson scattering system.
A full list of these channels in the high-energy limit is displayed in
Table \ref{table:Tensor-Polarization}. We observe that all channels
which include at least one transversally polarized vector boson
are suppressed by ${m_W^2}/{m_f^2}$. Therefore, a calculation
within the gaugeless limit is sufficient to estimate the
high-energy behavior for high masses of the tensor resonance.
\begin{table}[tb]
\begin{subequations}
\begin{alignat*}{2}
\hline
\begin{array}{l l l l}
(+,& \hspace{0ex}+,&\hspace{0ex}+,+ &\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(+,&\hspace{0ex}+,&\hspace{0ex}-,-&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(-,&\hspace{0ex}-,&\hspace{0ex}+,+&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(-,&\hspace{0ex}-,&\hspace{0ex}-,- &\hspace{0ex})
\end{array}
& \hspace{1 cm} & &
- \frac{c_f^2m_W^2 m_Z^2}{24m_f^2} F_f^2 s \\
\hline
\begin{array}{l l l l}
(+,& \hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}0,+ &\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(0,&\hspace{0ex}+,&\hspace{0ex}+,0&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(0,&\hspace{0ex}-,&\hspace{0ex}-,0&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(-,&\hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}0,- &\hspace{0ex})
\end{array}
& \hspace{1 cm} & &
\frac{m_W m_Z}{8m_f^2} F_f^2 t \\
\hline
\begin{array}{l l l l}
(+,& \hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}+,0 &\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(0,&\hspace{0ex}+,&\hspace{0ex}0,+&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(0,&\hspace{0ex}-,&\hspace{0ex}0,-&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(-,&\hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}-,0 &\hspace{0ex})
\end{array}
& \hspace{1 cm} & &
\frac{m_W m_Z}{8m_f^2} F_f^2 u \\
\hline
\begin{array}{l l l l}
(+,& \hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}-,0 &\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(0,&\hspace{0ex}+,&\hspace{0ex}0,-&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(0,&\hspace{0ex}-,&\hspace{0ex}0,+&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(-,&\hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}+,0 &\hspace{0ex})
\end{array}
& \hspace{1 cm} & &
-\frac{m_W m_Z}{8m_f^2} F_f^2 t \\
\hline
\begin{array}{l l l l}
(+,& \hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}0,- &\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(0,&\hspace{0ex}+,&\hspace{0ex}-,0&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(0,&\hspace{0ex}-,&\hspace{0ex}+,0&\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(-,&\hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}0,+ &\hspace{0ex})
\end{array}
& \hspace{1 cm} & &
-\frac{m_W m_Z}{8m_f^2} F_f^2 u \\
\hline
\begin{array}{l l l l}
(+,& \hspace{0ex}+,&\hspace{0ex}0,0 &\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(-,&\hspace{0ex}-,&\hspace{0ex}0,0&\hspace{0ex}) \\
\end{array}
& \hspace{1 cm} & &
\begin{aligned}
&\frac{ m_f^2 + 2 m_Z^2 }{12 m_f^4} m_W^2 F_f^2 s
\end{aligned} \\
\hline
\begin{array}{l l l l}
(0,& \hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}+,+ &\hspace{0ex}) \\[-3mm]
(0,&\hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}-,-&\hspace{0ex}) \\
\end{array}
& \hspace{1 cm} & &
\begin{aligned}
&\frac{ m_f^2 +2 m_W^2 }{12 m_f^4} m_Z^2 F_f^2 s
\end{aligned} \\
\hline
\begin{array}{l l l l}
(0,& \hspace{0ex}0,&\hspace{0ex}0,0 &\hspace{0ex}) \\
\end{array}
& \hspace{1 cm} & &
\begin{aligned}
\frac{F_f^2}{24} \frac{2s^2- 3t^2 - 3u^2 }{s}
+\frac{ m_f^2 \left(m_W^2+m_Z^2 \right)
+2m_W^2m_Z^2 }{12 m_f^4} F_f^2 s
\end{aligned} \\
\hline
\end{alignat*}
\end{subequations}
\caption{High energy limit
of the $W^+W^-~\rightarrow~ZZ$ amplitude
for each polarization channel that
rises with energy due to a
isoscalar-tensor resonance ($c_f=2$).}
\label{table:Tensor-Polarization}
\end{table}
For the tensor-isotensor amplitude, the analogous result with $c_X=2$ is
\begin{align}
\mathcal{A}_X \left (W^\pm_L W^\mp_L \rightarrow Z_LZ_L \right )=&
\frac{{F_X}^2}{96} \Bigg(
\frac{s^2}{s-m_X^2}P_2 \left(s,t,u \right)
-\frac{2t^2}{t-m_X^2}P_2 \left(t,s,u \right) \notag
-\frac{2u^2}{u-m_X^2}P_2 \left(u,s,t \right)
\Big) \notag \\
&\qquad\quad+\frac{{F_X}^2}{24}\frac{m_{whz}^2}{m_X^2}
\left(\frac{s^2}{s-m_X^2}-\frac{2t^2}{t-m_X^2}-\frac{2u^2}{u-m_X^2}
\right)\notag\\
&\qquad\quad-\frac{{F_X}^2}{48}\frac{\left(m_W^2-m_Z^2\right)^2}{m_X^4}
\left(\frac{t^2}{t-m_X^2}+\frac{u^2}{u-m_X^2} \right)
+ \mathcal{O}\left(s^0 \right) \, ,
\end{align}
containing t-channel and u-channel contributions, as expected.
\subsection{Unitarized amplitudes}
The tree-level exchange amplitudes that directly result from
evaluating Feynman rules, exhibit two distinct sources of unitarity violation.
Firstly, the amplitude develops a pole at the resonance mass, on the
real axis. Secondly, terms that rise with energy asymptotically
violate unitarity bounds.
In principle, the T-matrix unitarization scheme would be sufficient to
regulate both issues simultaneously. At the pole, this boils down to
standard Dyson resummation, introducing the particle width as an
imaginary part in the denominator. It can easily be verified that
this actually happens for the on-shell scattering amplitudes of
external Nambu-Goldstone bosons. We obtain the correct value for the
resonance width in the gaugeless limit.
However, we want to evaluate the amplitudes off-shell for physical $W$
and $Z$ bosons. The simplified unitarization scheme that we describe
above is not exactly accurate as soon as we include finite corrections
due to transversal gauge bosons and finite $W/Z$ mass. As a result,
there are contributions which are not cancelled on the resonance pole,
and a narrow but unbounded peak remains.
To avoid this problem, we simply insert an {\em a priori} width in the
resonant propagator. We thus start from a \emph{complex} model
amplitude. Therefore, we take the T-matrix scheme of~\cite{Kilian:2014zja}
at face value, and drop the reference to the usual K-matrix scheme
which implies an intermediate projection onto the real axis. By
construction, in the gaugeless limit, the correct result is invariant
with respect to the introduction of this width, if it has the correct
on-shell value. For finite gauge couplings and masses, the result
acquires a subleading dependence on this initial value since the model
amplitude is neither on the real axis nor exactly on the Argand
circle. However, the amplitude after unitarization is now bounded
near the resonance pole, as required.
In the asymptotic regime, the simplified T-matrix scheme renders the
amplitude unitary at all energies, if the exchanged resonance is
scalar. This enables us to compute cross sections and generate event
samples in this model for complete processes at the LHC
(cf.~section~\ref{sec:results}).
For a tensor resonance, in the St\"uckelberg approach, the genuine
tensor exchange terms are also regulated completely by this (simplified)
scheme. The extra St\"uckelberg vector and scalar terms, however,
generate higher powers of $s$
which enter when trading Nambu-Goldstone bosons for physical vector
bosons in unitary gauge, suppressed by powers of $m_h,m_W,m_Z$.
Applying the unitarization framework for those extra terms would require a
complete diagonalization of all vector-boson helicity amplitudes in
unitary gauge. In
any case, parameter ranges where these terms play a role correspond to
a regime where all degrees of freedom of the SM interact strongly via
these couplings. We therefore stay away from this range and choose
parameters where those terms are subleading within the accessible
energy range.
Computing the scale where the St\"uckelberg vector-scalar terms violate the
relevant unitarity bounds, we obtain the energy limit
\begin{align}
\label{eq:completebound_tensor-scalar_width}
\sqrt{s} &\lesssim
\sqrt{\frac{1}{5} \frac{ m_f}{\Gamma_f}}
\frac{m_f^2}{ m_{whz} }\, ,
\end{align}
for the model which contains an isoscalar tensor, and
\begin{align}
\label{eq:completebound_isotensor-tensor-scalar_width}
\sqrt{s} \lesssim \sqrt{\frac{1}{30}\frac{m_x}{\Gamma_x}}
\frac{m_X^2}{m_{whz}} \,.
\end{align}
for the isotensor tensor multiplet. Here, $m_{whz}$ indicates the
common mass scale of electroweak bosons $W,H,Z$. Inserting the
accessible energy
for the LHC collider, we can invert those relations to extract
parameter regions where the simplified models with a tensor resonance
are valid. The numerical results in the following sections have been
obtained for parameter values that satisfy the bounds.
\section{Scenarios for VBS at the LHC}
\label{sec:results}
\subsection{Implementation}
In the previous section, we have derived the analytic expressions that
determine the on-shell VBS amplitudes in the presence of a resonance.
The amplitudes include correction terms that enforce
quantum-mechanical unitarity without altering the physical content of
the model.
Ultimately, we are interested in measurable effects in LHC data. For
a complete calculation, the unitarized amplitudes that are originally
defined for on-shell VBS processes, have to be extrapolated off-shell
in a practically meaningful way. As long as the kinematical
conditions are approximately met, we can evaluate the interactions in
unitary gauge, eliminating all explicit references to Nambu-Goldstone
bosons in favor of physical vector fields, and derive the Feynman
rules in that gauge. The effective Feynman rules for the unitarity
corrections become momentum dependent and
involve theta functions that restrict the insertions to the $s$-channel
of VBS where partial-wave projection and unitarization is defined.
In the physical processes at the LHC,
\begin{equation}
pp \to q q \to q q V V
\end{equation}
where $q$ generically denotes a quark and $V$ is either $W$ or $Z$,
the final-state quarks are detected as jets in the forward direction.
With suitable cuts, we can arrange that there is significant
contribution from the subprocess $VV\to VV$ where the initial-state
vector bosons are spacelike but approximately on-shell, in the limit
of high invariant $VV$ mass. This subprocess, i.e., the associated
off-shell amplitude, obtains contributions from resonance exchange and
is affected by unitarization.
We have implemented this prescription as a model in the Monte-Carlo
integration and event generation package
WHIZARD~\cite{Kilian:2007gr,Moretti:2001zz,Kilian:2011ka,Kilian:2012pz}. This
is a universal event generator for simulations at hadron and lepton
colliders at leading order and next-to-leading (QCD)~\cite{WHIZARD_NLO}
order. Though interfaces to automated tools for beyond the SM models
exist~\cite{Christensen:2010wz}, they cannot be used for the
implementation of unitarization projections for operators and
resonances. The reason is the global structure of the unitarization
projection. Therefore the models described in the current paper have
been manually added to the framework.
For each resonance type ($\sigma,\phi,f, X$), we can compute the relation of the
resonance width (section~\ref{sec:width}) to the operator coefficients in the
low-energy EFT (section~\ref{sec:matching}) which result when the
resonance is integrated out. These relations are listed in
Table~\ref{tab:gamma}.
\begin{table}[htb]
\centering{%
\begin{tabular}{c| M{2 cm} M{2 cm} M{2 cm} M{2 cm} N}
& $\sigma$ & $\phi$ & $f$ & $X$ & \\
\hline
$F_{S,0}$ & $\frac{1}{2}$ & $2$ & $15$& 5 &\\[4 ex]
$F_{S,1}$ & -- & -$\frac{1}{2}$ & -$5$& -35 &
\end{tabular}
}
\caption{Relation of resonance width $\Gamma$ and mass $M$ to the
corresponding $D=8$ operator coefficients in the low-energy EFT, for all
resonance types considered in this paper. The
factors listed in the table have to be multiplied by $32 \pi \Gamma/M^5$.}
\label{tab:gamma}
\end{table}
The analysis of LHC run-I data by the ATLAS
experiment~\cite{Aad:2014zda} has been cast into
bounds on the EFT parameters $F_{S,0}$ and $F_{S,1}$, namely
\begin{equation}
|F_{S,0}| < 480\;\text{TeV}^{-4}
\qquad
|F_{S,1}| < 480\;\text{TeV}^{-4} \qquad ,
\end{equation}
where only one parameter was varied at a time. This analysis covered the
same-sign leptonic decay channel of $W^+W^+$ and $W^-W^-$. It was based on
the T-matrix unitarized version of the extrapolated EFT as its reference
model, with the pure SM as the limit for vanishing parameters. A CMS
analysis can be found in~\cite{CMS:2015jaa}
\subsection{On-shell Invariant Mass Distributions}
In the following, we will present results both for on-shell $W/Z$
final states and for complete partonic final states. On-shell vector
bosons cannot be detected directly but their distributions directly
reflect the actual features of the physical model. Observable
distributions of fermions in the final state, which may be quarks
(jets), charged leptons, or neutrinos, are less directly linked to the
physical process and require detailed analysis along the lines
of~\cite{Aad:2014zda}. This concerns, in particular, the separation of
signal and background based on detector data, which is beyond the
scope of the present paper.
We show results for particular parameter sets where we add one resonance at a
time on top of the SM, namely a scalar-isoscalar, tensor-isoscalar, or
scalar-isotensor resonance, respectively. All extra higher-dimensional
operator coefficients are set to zero. By varying the resonance parameters
within reasonable limits, this gives an overview of the expected
phenomenology.
For definiteness, we choose to plot the invariant mass of the vector-boson
pair system in the final state, which is the energy scale of the actual VBS
process. The initial state is convoluted with the parton structure functions,
so the results hold for the LHC ($\sqrt{s}=14\;\text{TeV}$), and
we apply standard VBS cuts to enhance the signal. The final-state vector
bosons are taken on-shell. We show the distribution for the $W^+W^+$ and $ZZ$
final states, where the latter case as the \emph{golden channel} of VBS is
distinguished by the fact that the $ZZ$ invariant mass can be reconstructed
from the leptonic $Z$ decays. This is not possible for $W^+W^+$, but the
corresponding same-sign lepton channel is distinguished by a favorable
signal-to-background ratio. Note that in the on-shell plots, the vector-boson
decay branching ratios have not been included.
In all invariant-mass plots, we display the distribution for the unitarized
resonance model (blue curves) together with the pure SM prediction (black).
We also plot the unitarity bound for the appropriate partial wave,
extrapolated off-shell by the same algorithm, as a dashed curve (black). For
illustrative purposes, we also display, in each case, the unitarized
extrapolation of the low-energy EFT (red, solid), where we choose the operator
coefficients equal to the formal result of integrating out the resonance.
Finally, we also display numerical results for the EFT without unitarization
(red, dashed) and the resonance with correct width but no further
unitarization (blue, dashed).
\subsubsection{Isoscalar-Scalar}
The simplest case is a scalar-isoscalar resonance. This is a single isolated
resonance, as it could arise, e.g., as the extra scalar particle in a
singlet-doublet Higgs model or as a low-energy signal of a strongly
interacting Higgs sector that is neutral under the SM gauge group.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppWpWp_s_800-0_1dat_pp2}
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppZZ_s_800-0_1dat_pp2}
\\
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppZZ_s_650-0_4dat_pp2}
\caption{
Differential cross sections for isoscalar scalar
resonances. Upper plots show a weakly coupled isoscalar
scalar with $m_\sigma=800 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ and $\Gamma_\sigma=80\,
\mathrm{GeV}$, for the processes $pp\rightarrow W^+W^+jj$ (left)
and $pp\rightarrow ZZjj$ (right), respectively. In the lower plot,
there is a low lying isoscalar scalar with $m_\sigma=650 \,
\mathrm{GeV}$ and $\Gamma_\sigma=260\, \mathrm{GeV}$ for the
process $pp\rightarrow ZZjj$. Solid line: unitarized results,
dashed lines: naive result, black dashed line: Limit of saturation
of $\mathcal{A}_{20}$ $(W^+W^+)$ or $\mathcal{A}_{00}$ $(ZZ)$,
respectiveluy. Cuts: $M_{jj} > 500$ GeV;
$\Delta\eta_{jj} > 2.4$; $p^j_T > 20$ GeV;
$|\eta_j| > 4.5$. }
\label{fig:isoscalar-scalar}
\end{figure}
In Fig.~\ref{fig:isoscalar-scalar}, upper row, we have selected a
moderate mass of $800\;\text{GeV}$ and a rather narrow width of $80\;\text{GeV}$,
which corresponds to a weak coupling. The isolated resonance is
clearly visible in the $ZZ$ channel, while the $W^+W^+$ channel is
barely affected. For such weak coupling, the operator coefficient in
the EFT is small and more than one order of magnitude below the
current LHC run-I limit. We can draw the conclusion that in this case
the resonance should be detectable for sufficient luminosity, but the
EFT approximation is not useful.
Turning to a stronger coupling, we show the corresponding distribution in the
$ZZ$ channel for $m_\sigma=650\;\text{GeV}$ and $\Gamma_\sigma =260\;\text{GeV}$ in
Fig.~\ref{fig:isoscalar-scalar}, lower row.
Here, the EFT parameters are within the range that should become accessible at
LHC run II and beyond. The EFT curve (red, solid) appears correctly
as the Taylor expansion of the resonance curve (blue) for low energy.
However, the energy region where the deviation from the SM becomes
sizable, already coincides with the resonance peak region, so the EFT
considerably underestimates the event yield. Beyond the resonance,
the EFT misses the fact that the distribution falls down again,
approaching the SM prediction (black) from above.
The result also demonstrates that the additional unitarization of the scalar
resonance beyond the Breit-Wigner approximation with constant width is
essential, as is seen by comparing the blue and blue-dashed curves. The naive
EFT result without unitarization (red, dashed) grossly overshoots all
conceivable models, which should not cross the unitarity limit (black-dashed).
\subsubsection{Isoscalar-Tensor}
As can be observed from Table~\ref{tab:gamma}, a tensor resonance has a
stronger impact on the low-energy EFT than a scalar resonance of equal width.
In Fig.~\ref{fig:isoscalar-tensor}, upper row, we display the
distributions for a tensor isoscalar resonance with mass
$m_f=1000\;\text{GeV}$ and width $\Gamma_f =100\;\text{GeV}$.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppWpWp_f_1000-0_1dat_pp2}
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppZZ_f_1000-0_1dat_pp2} \\
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppZZ_f_1200-0_4dat_pp2}
\caption{
Differential cross sections of an isoscalar tensor
resonance. Upper plots show a resonance with $m_f= 1000 \,
\mathrm{GeV}$ and $\Gamma_f= 100 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ for the
processes $pp\rightarrow W^+W^+jj$ (left), and $pp\rightarrow
ZZjj$ (right), respectively. The lower plot is for a strongly
interacting isoscalar tensor with $m_f= 1200 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ and
$\Gamma_f= 480 \, \mathrm{GeV}$.
Solid line: unitarized results, dashed lines: naive result,
black dashed line: Limit of saturation of $\mathcal{A}_{22}$ $(W^+W^+)$ or
$\mathcal{A}_{02}$ $(ZZ)$, respectively.
Cuts are the same as in Fig.~\ref{fig:isoscalar-scalar}.}
\label{fig:isoscalar-tensor}
\end{figure}
The resonance visibly modifies the distribution already at low energy, such
that the EFT analysis, given sufficient sensitivity, should catch the
deviation from the SM. Nevertheless, the excess at the peak in the $ZZ$
channel is sizable. Beyond the resonance, unitarization is essential in the
tensor case. In the $W^+W^+$ final state the tensor enters only as t-channel
exchange , so there is no resonance but a broad enhancement. This enhancement
is rather well described by the corresponding unitarized
EFT~\footnote{Tensor resonances resulting in peaks in diboson spectra
to explain a recent excess in ATLAS data around 2 TeV can be found
e.g. in~\cite{Fichet:2015yia}.}.
As in the scalar case, the curves without unitarization do not provide a
useful phenomenological description.
In Fig.~\ref{fig:isoscalar-tensor}, lower row, we consider a heavy
tensor-isoscalar with strong coupling, $m_\phi=1200\;\text{GeV}$ and
$\Gamma_\phi=480\;\text{GeV}$. The resonance peak appears as a broad enhancement, which
extends to both low and high energies. The EFT approximation, with sizable
coefficients, is rather accurate in this case. The actual resonance curve
shows a nontrivial threshold structure which corresponds to the interplay of
all partial waves which are excited by s-channel and t-channel exchange
contributions. However, we should keep in mind that the prediction for such a
strong coupling is uncertain in any case and should not be taken too
seriously.
\newpage
\clearpage
\subsubsection{Isotensor-Scalar}
Turning to the isotensor case, we now get a resonance in all final states
including $W^+W^+$. This is illustrated by the plots in
Fig.~\ref{fig:isotensor-scalar} for $m_\phi=800\;\text{GeV}$ and
$\Gamma_\phi=80\;\text{GeV}$.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppWpWp_p_800-0_1dat_pp2}
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppZZ_p_800-0_1dat_pp2} \\
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppWpWp_p_650-0_4dat_pp2}
\caption{
Differential cross sections of an isotensor scalar
resonance. Upper plots show a resonance with $m_\phi=800 \,
\mathrm{GeV}$ and $\Gamma_\phi=80\, \mathrm{GeV}$ for the
processes $pp\rightarrow W^+W^+jj$ (left), and $pp\rightarrow
ZZjj$ (right), respectively. The lower plot shows a low-lying
isotensor scalar with $m_\phi=650 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ and
$\Gamma_\phi=260\, \mathrm{GeV}$ for the process $pp\rightarrow
W^+W^+jj$. Solid line: unitarized results, dashed lines: naive
result, black dashed line: Limit of saturation of
$\mathcal{A}_{20}$ $(W^+W^+)$ or $\mathcal{A}_{00}$ $(ZZ)$,
respectively. Cuts are the same as in
Fig.~\ref{fig:isoscalar-scalar}.}
\label{fig:isotensor-scalar}
\end{figure}
Due to the large number of degrees of freedom (nine states which are
degenerate in mass), the peak is rather prominent while the low-energy
EFT parameters are again small. We observe that the peak value is slightly
below ($W^+W^+$) and above ($ZZ$) the appropriate unitarity limit,
respectively. This is the effect of $t$-channel exchange which also contributes
and can have either sign.
Contrary to the weakly interacting scenario,
a non-unitarized low-lying and strongly interacting isotensor-scalar with
mass of $m_\phi= 650 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ and width
$\Gamma_\phi = 260 \, \mathrm{GeV}$
violates the $\mathcal{A}_{20}$ slightly above the resonance
as illustrated in Fig.~\ref{fig:isotensor-scalar}.
Therefore, a unitarization is needed
for this strongly interacting resonance.
The low-energy effective field theory approach
does only coincide in the unitarized case
at high energies, because
the eigenamplitudes of the isotensor-scalar
as well as the dimension-eight operators
are already saturated through the T-matrix formalism.
\newpage
\clearpage
\subsubsection{Isotensor-Tensor}
Similarly to the isotensor-scalar, every vector-boson scattering channel
receives a resonant contribution from the isotensor-tensor
multiplet. The $W^+W^+$ and $ZZ$ channel distributions of the
isotensor-tensor resonance with mass $m_X=1400 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ width
$\Gamma_X = 140 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ are plotted
in Fig.~\ref{fig:isotensor-tensor}, upper row. Due to the bound of
equation \eqref{eq:completebound_isotensor-tensor-scalar_width}, the
mass of the isotensor-tensor has to be chosen slightly higher than
the mass of the isoscalar-tensor in Fig.~\ref{fig:isoscalar-tensor}
when leaving the ratio of width and mass invariant.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppWpWp_t_1400-0_1dat_pp2}
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppZZ_t_1400-0_1dat_pp2} \\
\includegraphics[width=0.48\linewidth]{ppWpWp_t_1800-0_4dat_pp2}
\caption{
Differential cross sections of an isotensor tensor
resonance. Upper plots show a resonance with $m_X= 1400 \,
\mathrm{GeV}$ and $\Gamma_X= 140 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ for the
processes $pp\rightarrow W^+W^+jj$ (left), and $pp\rightarrow
ZZjj$ (right), respectively. The lower plot shows a strongly
interacting isotensor tensor with $m_X= 1800 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ and
$\Gamma_X= 720 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ for the process $pp\rightarrow
W^+W^+jj$. Solid line: unitarized results,
dashed lines: naive result, black dashed line: Limit of saturation of
$\mathcal{A}_{22}$ $(W^+W^+)$ or $\mathcal{A}_{02}$ $(ZZ)$,
respectively. Cuts are the same as in
Fig.~\ref{fig:isoscalar-scalar}.}
\label{fig:isotensor-tensor}
\end{figure}
The effective field theory with the dimension-eight operators
coincides with the onset of the isotensor-tensor peak.
Starting slightly below the resonance, the
resonant cross section deviates from
the effective field theory description. Analogously to the
isotensor-scalar, the very distinctive peak of the isotensor-tensor
is not captured by the dimension-eight operators.
In the $W^+W^+$- channel, even the non-unitarized
resonance contribution stays within the unitarity bound of
$\mathcal{A}_{22}$. Contrary to the isotensor-scalar, the isotensor-tensor
needs unitarization
for the $ZZ$ final state due to the large tensor contributions
in the $t$- and $u-$channel. The
non-unitarized amplitudes violate the $\mathcal{A}_{02}$ unitarity
already below the mass of the resonance.
Even the resonance peak is hardly visible.
The unitarized
resonance curve shows a peak, although it is slightly above the
unitarity bound.
In a strongly interacting scenario ($\Gamma_X = 720 \, \mathrm{GeV}$ ),
the unitarized isotensor-tensor resonance peaks
below its actual mass at $m_X = 1800 \, \mathrm{GeV}$.
This peak originates from the already saturated eigenamplitudes,
which then fall due to the parton distribution functions at high
energies. Besides the resonance peak, the low-energy effective field
theory coincides with the isotensor-tensor for both unitarized and
non-unitarized results. This is shown in the lower plot of
Fig.~\ref{fig:isotensor-tensor}.
\newpage
\clearpage
\subsection{Results for Complete Processes}
The actual analysis of LHC data will have to exploit cross sections and
distributions for the complete final state which consists of the two tagging
jets and the decay products of the vector bosons. In this paper, we only
investigate the $ZZ$ channel with its decay into four leptons, selecting the
$e^+e^-\mu^+\mu^-$ final state. This process is straightforward to analyze,
but suffers from the low leptonic branching ratio, so for our simulation we
assume the high-luminosity mode of the LHC with integrated luminosity of
$3\;\text{ab}^{-1}$. We anticipate that by including also the leptonic $WW$ final
state and hadronic final states, the results can be considerably improved.
The simulation generates event samples for the complete process with all
Feynman graphs, so there is no restriction on resonant vector bosons
as the origin of the final-state leptons. We apply standard VBS cuts and
compare, in Fig.~\ref{fig:eemmjj}, various distributions for the SM (blue),
resonance model with a single isoscalar-scalar (red), and the unitarized
low-energy EFT (purple).
\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{tabular}{c c }
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{{{VBS_ppe2mu2_f_r-0.1_1000-mww}}}
&
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{{{VBS_ppe2mu2_f_r-0.1_1000-pt}}}
\\
$m \left (Z,Z \right)$
&
$P_t$
\\
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{{{VBS_ppe2mu2_f_r-0.1_1000-phi}}}
&
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{{{VBS_ppe2mu2_f_r-0.1_1000-theta_star}}}
\\
$\Delta\phi$ & $\Theta^*$ \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{ $pp\rightarrow e^+ e^- \mu^+ \mu^- jj$ at $\sqrt{s} = 14
\, \mathrm{TeV}$ with luminosity of $3000 \, \mathrm{fb}^{-1}$
with isoscalar tensor at $m_f=1000$ GeV and $\Gamma_f $=100 GeV.
Cuts: $M_{jj} > 500$ GeV;
$\Delta\eta_{jj} > 2.4$;
$p^j_T > 20$ GeV;
$|\eta_j| > 4.5$;
$100\; \mathrm{GeV} > M_{e^+e^-} > 80\; \mathrm{GeV}$;
$100\; \mathrm{GeV} > M_{\mu^+\mu^-} > 80\; \mathrm{GeV}$.
}
\label{fig:eemmjj}
\end{figure}
The resonance with mass $m=1000\;\text{GeV}$ and width $\Gamma=100\;\text{GeV}$
appears, as expected, in the invariant mass distribution and, more
indirectly, in other plots. Clearly, this parameter set is at the
margin of observability in this single channel. The situation
obviously improves if we consider resonances with lower mass, larger
coupling, in higher representions, and add other analysis channels.
\section{Conclusions}
The Higgs sector of the SM, after the discovery of a light Higgs, is a
new field of study for the experiments at the LHC, and beyond. While
the SM yields precise predictions in accordance with the notion of a
weakly coupled theory, a thorough analysis of electroweak data
should be guided by reference simplified models which differ from the SM.
Extending the EFT by higher-dimensional operators is useful for
analyzing observables with bounded energy, but open scattering data
require enforcing unitarity and extrapolating into a region where
perturbation theory in the EFT is insufficient.
Without reference to any particular high-energy model, we have
augmented the EFT by resonances with even spin, namely scalar or
tensor. Assuming exact $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ gauge invariance and, for
simplicity, approximate custodial symmetry both in the EFT and beyond,
we can distinguish four distinct resonance multiplets with a single
free mass and coupling parameter each. This class of models includes
the decoupling limit of multi-Higgs models and certain aspects of
massive-graviton models.
The models are set up such that we need only take the interaction with
the Higgs sector into account, while couplings to the gauge and
fermion sectors occur only via mixing. This is consistent with the
symmetry assumptions and with our knowledge about electroweak
precision data, although it is clearly not guaranteed. The models
allow for arbitrary higher-dimensional operators in the EFT, unrelated
to resonance exchange, so we do not lose generality.
All amplitude calculations are meaningless unless we enforce
quantum-mechanical unitarity, since naive extrapolations yield event
rates in the high-energy region that can exceed the unitarity bounds
by orders of magnitude. We have consistently implemented the T-matrix
unitarization scheme which works on the complex scattering matrix of
the model directly, simplified for the asymptotic range where
longitudinal and transveral degrees of freedom decouple.
We have studied the case of a tensor resonance in detail. Since we do
not necessarily restrict ourselves to states that are related to
gravity, the model differs from
the various massive-graviton models and studies that can be found in
the literature. To our knowledge, the coupling of a generic tensor
resonance to the Higgs sector and the resulting predictions for the
LHC have not been considered in detail before. We find that by
employing a St\"uckelberg procedure for the implementation in the
Lagrangian, instead of the classic Fierz-Pauli approach, we are able
to set up the extended EFT for an isolated tensor resonance manifestly
separated from non-resonant effects. Scalar and tensor
resonances can be handled in close analogy. It turns out that it
is possible to extend an effective theory with an isolated tensor
resonance up to a cutoff of order $\Lambda\lesssim M^2/m_H$, where $M$
is the resonance mass, and $m_H$ is the physical Higgs mass.
We have implemented the models in the Monte-Carlo package WHIZARD and
computed exemplary distributions and simulated event samples for the
LHC. The numerical results illustrate that resonances in VBS may be
detected at the LHC within a certain range of mass and coupling
values. For a final verdict, it will be necessary to perform a
complete experimental study and analysis, based on exclusive event
samples in combination with background and detector description. We
also find that the comparison with pure-EFT results can be misleading
if resonance and background cannot be clearly separated, as it is
typical for the situation at the LHC. We conclude that data should be
analyzed on base of resonance models as well as pure-EFT simulations.
This holds, in particular, if limits or values are to be
combined between distinct final states or with data obtained at a
future lepton collider like the
ILC~\cite{Baer:2013cma,Behnke:2013lya}. There has
been a first study similar to the one presented here, investigating
resonances of spins and isospins zero, one and two in 1 TeV lepton
collisions~\cite{Beyer:2006hx}, where issues of unitarization did not
play a role.
\subsection*{Acknowledgments}
WK and JRR want to thank for the hospitality at the Institute for High Energy
Physics (IHEP) and the Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP)
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Beijing, China, where parts
of this work have been completed. MS acknowledges support
by JSPS and DAAD and thanks for the
hospitality of the KEK theory group during his stay over summer 2015.
\newpage
| _1}(k,m)P^{\mu_2\nu_2}(k,m) +
P^{\mu_1\nu_2}(k,m)P^{\mu_1\nu_2}(k,m)\biggr]
\notag \\
&\quad
\qquad\qquad - \frac{1}{3} P^{\mu_1\mu_2}(k,m)P^{\nu_1\nu_2}(k,m),
\end{align}
with
\begin{align}
P^{\mu\nu}(k,m)
&=
\sum_\lambda \bar{\varepsilon}_{(\lambda)}^{\mu}(k,m)
\varepsilon_{(\lambda)}^{\nu}(k,m)
= g^{\mu\nu}-\frac{k^\mu k^\nu}{m^2}.
\end{align}
This propagator, with vanishing non-resonant part, can be obtained from the
free Fierz-Pauli Lagrangian~\cite{Fierz:1939ix,Singh:1974qz} coupled
to a tensor source $J_f^{\mu\nu}$
\begin{align}
\label{eq:lagrangiantensor}
\mathcal{L} =&\frac{1}{2} \partial_\alpha f_{\mu\nu}\partial^\alpha f^{\mu\nu}
- \frac{1}{2} m^2 f_{\mu \nu}f^{\mu \nu} \notag\\
& \;- \partial^\alpha f_{\alpha\mu} \partial_\beta f^{\beta\mu}
- f^\alpha_{\;\alpha}\partial^\mu\partial^\nu f_{\mu\nu}
- \frac{1}{2} \partial_\alpha f^\mu_{\;\mu}\partial^\alpha f^\nu_{\;\nu}
+ \frac{1}{2} m^2 f^\mu_{\;\mu} f^\nu_{\;\nu}
+ f_{\mu\nu}J_f^{\mu\nu}.
\end{align}
In the classical theory, the Lagrangian~\eqref{eq:lagrangiantensor}
enforces the conditions
\begin{equation}
\partial_\mu f^{\mu\nu} = 0
\quad\text{and}\quad
f^\mu_{\;\mu} = 0\,.
\end{equation}
This is, in principle, a valid Lagrangian description of a tensor
resonance. However, since we have to deal with off-shell amplitudes for an
effective theory, it will be useful to investigate the role of
various terms in more detail. Returning to the
propagator~(\ref{eq:propagatortensor}), there are momentum factors
$k^\mu$ in different combinations that project out the proper spin-two
part on the pole. Going to lower energies, these factors vanish
more rapidly than the $g^{\mu\nu}$ terms and therefore reduce to
operators of higher dimension. Beyond the resonance, they will rise
more rapidly and therefore potentially provide the dominant part that
enters the unitarization prescription.
\subsection{Tensor Resonances: St\"uckelberg formulation}
\label{sec:stueckelberg}
As discussed above,
the extra momentum factors in the spin-two propagator represent the
mismatch between the $SO(3)$ little group representation of massive
on-shell particles and the full Lorentz-group off-shell
representations in a relativistic description. This is in analogy
with a massive spin-one boson, which in the relativistic case acquires an
extra zero component. In the following, we identify the extra degrees
of freedom for a propagating spin-two object and separate them for the
purpose of power-counting in an actual calculation.
To this end, inspired by the spin-one case, we will use the
so-called St\"uckelberg formulation for
tensor resonances. This has been studied in the context of effective field
theories for massive
gravity~\cite{ArkaniHamed:2002sp,ArkaniHamed:2003vb,Schwartz:2003vj},
\cite{deRham:2011rn,Hassan:2012qv} and \cite{Noller:2013yja}. The work along
these lines has been nicely reviewed in~\cite{Hinterbichler:2011tt}.
Given an arbitrary symmetric polarization tensor
$\varepsilon^{\mu\nu}$ that is not restricted by auxiliary conditions,
we can subtract terms constructed from momenta, vector and scalar
polarizations
\begin{equation}
\varepsilon^{\prime\;\mu\nu} = \varepsilon^{\mu\nu}
-
\frac1m(k^\mu\varepsilon_V^\nu + k^\nu\varepsilon_V^\mu)
-
\frac{k^\mu k^\nu}{m^2} \varepsilon_S
-
g^{\mu\nu}\varepsilon_T,
\end{equation}
and demand that (i) the Fierz-Pauli polarization tensor
$\varepsilon'{}^{\mu\nu}$ satisfies the on-shell
constraints~(\ref{eq:epsilon-constraints}), and (ii) the vector
polarization is transversal
$k_\mu\varepsilon_V^\mu=0$. The resulting vector and scalar polarizations
$\varepsilon_V$, $\varepsilon_S$, $\varepsilon_T$ can be expressed as
contractions of the original $\varepsilon^{\mu\nu}$,
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:vst-polarizations}
\begin{align}
\varepsilon_V^\mu
&=
\frac{1}{m}\left(k_\nu\varepsilon^{\mu\nu}
- \frac{1}{m^2}k^\mu k_\nu k_\rho\varepsilon^{\nu\rho}\right),
\\
\varepsilon_S
&=
\frac13\left(4\frac{k_\mu k_\nu}{m^2} - g_{\mu\nu}\right)
\varepsilon^{\mu\nu},
\\
\varepsilon_T
&=
\frac13\left(g_{\mu\nu} - \frac{k_\mu k_\nu}{m^2}\right)
\varepsilon^{\mu\nu}.
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
Formally, this subtraction removes the extra representations in the
decomposition~(\ref{eq:decomposition}). We note that this
prescription naturally extends to off-shell wave functions.
For the purpose of calculation, we can reproduce the
effect of the propagator (\ref{eq:propagatortensor}) if we remove all
$k^\mu$ factors from the tensor-field propagator but add a vector and
two scalar fields with their respective propagators. To enforce the on-shell
relations~(\ref{eq:vst-polarizations}) for their polarization (i.e.,
wave function) factors, their interactions must be prescribed
by the original tensor interactions. In field theory, such relations
can be enforced by demanding a gauge invariance. Since the momenta
have been banished from the numerators of the propagators this way, the
power-counting in the resulting Feynman rules will be explicit, in
analogy with the 't Hooft-Feynman gauge of a gauge
theory.
St\"uckelberg~\cite{Stueckelberg:1900zz,Stueckelberg:1941th,Ruegg:2003ps}
originally formulated the algorithm
that systematically introduces the compensating fields together with the
extra gauge invariance in the Lagrangian formalism. Applying the
algorithm to the massive tensor case, we start with the Fierz-Pauli
Lagrangian which corresponds to the minimal single-field propagator of
the pure spin-two tensor. After removing any explicit constraints from
the tensor field, we introduce first the St\"uckelberg vector $A^\mu$
that cancels the $f^{0\mu}$ components, by the replacement
\begin{equation}
f^{\mu \nu} \rightarrow
f^{\mu \nu} + \frac{1}{m}\partial^\mu A^\nu + \frac{1}{m}\partial^\nu A^\mu,
\end{equation}
and then cancel the extra unwanted $A^0$ components that this field
introduces, together with $f^{00}$, by a St\"uckelberg
scalar~$\sigma$,
\begin{equation}
A^\mu \rightarrow A^\mu + \frac{1}{m}\partial^\mu \sigma
\end{equation}
Finally, we introduce another St\"uckelberg scalar $\phi$ for
cancelling the trace by
\begin{equation}
f^{\mu \nu} \rightarrow f^{\mu \nu} + g^{\mu \nu} \phi
\end{equation}
This scheme guarantees that the interactions of
the new fields in the Lagrangian are correctly related to the original
interactions of the tensor field. The resulting Lagrangian exhibits
the gauge invariances that reflect the redundancy of the
St\"uckelberg fields and there is a gauge (called unitary gauge) in which
all St\"uckelberg fields vanish and the original Fierz-Pauli Lagrangian is
recovered. The new Fierz-Pauli Lagrangian with the additional scalar and
vector modes reads
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:FullStueckelberg}
\begin{aligned}
\mathcal{L} \; =
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Lately I've been reading a lot about the "bleeding woman" or the woman with the "blood problem". It's the story in the Bible about the woman who had her period for 12 years. Something that nowadays could probably be fixed with a simple surgery.
This woman sacrificed everything she owned to get treatment with no success. She spent twelve years of her life with her period. If you're a woman reading this, think about that for a minute. Seriously, think about that. Twelve years. In my opinion, a few days is too long.
This woman probably spent most of her time alone because back in those days women were considered "unclean" when they were cycling. They didn't interact with anyone during this time, it was a time for "themselves".
As someone who struggles with depression, I cannot imagine spending twelve years alone knowing no one wanted to be near me. No touching, hugging, snuggling, giggling with friends, sharing time with other women. Never having the opportunity for marriage. Or children. There are hundreds of things this woman was unable to do because of the way people viewed her. Through no fault of her own.
This woman is so<|fim_middle|>'m still working on strengthening my mercy muscle memory. | overwhelmed with her situation that she sees no other choice but to face ridicule and punishment by seeking out Jesus to heal her. She risked her life and the reputation of her family for her faith in God. She believed so strongly that Jesus was able to heal her that she risked everything.
Imagine if someone in the crowd would have recognized her and called her out. But that's not what happened.
She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. "Who touched me?" Jesus asked.
Her faith instantly healed her. And at the very second Jesus turned and asked who touched his cloak.
Instead of chastising her, He calls her "daughter". Daughter. Such a beautiful example of God's Mercy. He could have handled the situation in so many ways, but in consistent Jesus fashion, he chooses mercy.
So why do I doubt God's mercy in my own life? He so graciously hands us mercy, why are some of us unable to take it? All those things I continually "punish" myself for, God has offered mercy on each and every one. He tells every one of us "your faith has healed you", so why is it so hard to believe?
Because Satan is a liar and Satan doesn't want us to accept God's mercy. Satan wants us to live in shame and hiding. What would change in your life if you accepted God's freely given mercy? Who can you offer a bit of mercy to?
If we are truly followers of Christ, shouldn't mercy be at the forefront of our ministry. Mercy is hard sometimes, but the more you give, the easier it is to accept.
At least that's what I'm currently learning.
Thanks for sharing this, Tina. Reminder to all about what's available!!
I love how you examined this story, Tina. I hadn't considered all of the cultural losses and issues this woman must've faced. And yes, I struggle also with believing lies when I should simply cling to his garment in faith and gratitude for his mercy.
What faith that woman had to be healed suddenly and how overwhelming must Jesus' mercy been for her. This post makes me think about how short I fall in being merciful and receiving mercy.
When I was working through some hard stuff, my Christian counselor told me that "forgiveness can at first feel like you're just going through the motions but if you do it enough your heart will follow." The same goes with mercy.
Love this Tina, I | 502 |
This GCSE English Literature quiz takes a look at language in Animal Farm by George Orwell<|fim_middle|> him"
"They could no longer remember very clearly"
"Hitherto the animals had had little or no contact with Whymper on his weekly visits: now, however, a few selected animals, mostly sheep, were instructed to remark casually in his hearing that rations had been increased." The phrase "instructed to remark casually" is an example of which of the following?
"The stupidest questions of all were asked by Mollie, the white mare." In using the word "stupidest", the narrator speaks from whose viewpoint?
"Yes, it was theirs — everything that they could see was theirs! In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement. They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent." Which words convey the animals' sense of ecstasy and excitement here? | . Language choice is one of the most fascinating aspects of Animal Farm. Deceptively simple language conveys the bewildering means by which a new utopia develops into another terrifying and oppressive regime. Napoleon and his propagandist Squealer, as well as the other pig leaders, use language as a weapon by changing history and obscuring the truth. In this text, those who are less literate and therefore unable to use language with the same ease and for the same range of purposes are at a terrible disadvantage.
Visual elements of a text, such as layout, font and illustration, are important, of course, but language is the primary medium through which a reader understands a text.
Authors use language with precision. Beyond the literal meaning of each word you will find a wealth of symbolic meanings and other associations. Imagery, such as metaphor, simile and personification, and other literary effects are all created through the careful selection and combination of words. Dialogue, setting and characterisation all rely on an author's skilful use of language.
Greater understanding rewards close attention to language choices. Allow yourself time to linger over words rather than being content with the surface meaning. What does the specific use of language suggest? Are you invited to think about anything else? The author has chosen this language carefully, which means that you should devote similar time and care to your analysis, enabling you to decipher the text's deeper meanings.
"Then Napoleon stood up to reply. He said very quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that he advised nobody to vote for it, and promptly sat down again; he had spoken for barely thirty seconds, and seemed almost indifferent to the effect he produced." Considering the imminent appearance of Napoleon's private security force, the dogs, what is the effect of the description of him speaking "very quietly"?
"If they went hungry, it was not from feeding tyrannical human beings; if they worked hard, at least they worked for themselves." How could the tone of this sentence best be described?
"Napoleon ended his speech with his usual cry of 'Long live Animal Farm!' and after the singing of 'Beasts of England' the animals were dismissed." What is implied by the use of the word "dismissed"?
It hints that the animals are becoming bored with singing "Beasts of England"
"They listened in astonishment while Snowball conjured up pictures of fantastic machines which would do their work for them while they grazed at their ease in the fields or improved their minds with reading and conversation." What effect does the use of the word "conjure" have here?
"Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing?" Why is the number of chins significant here?
"Curiously enough, Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheets; but as it was there on the wall, it must have done so. And Squealer, who happened to be passing at this moment, attended by two or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter in its proper perspective." Which of the following phrases does NOT appear as reassuring?
"Attended by two or three dogs"
"On Sunday mornings Squealer, holding down a long strip of paper with his trotter, would read out to them lists of figures proving that the production of every class of foodstuff had increased by two hundred per cent, three hundred percent, or five hundred per cent, as the case might be. The animals saw no reason to disbelieve him, especially since they could no longer remember very clearly what conditions had been like before the Rebellion." Which phrase implies that the animals are suspicious of Squealer?
"As the case might be"
"The animals saw no reason to disbelieve | 780 |
A NEW DISTRICT FOR LONDON
The South Bank has been bursting with activity since the 19th century. Originally little more than marshland, the area was particularly famous for its theatrical output, while it was also a hive of industry: timber yards, printing houses and lime kilns were just some of the buildings found on its shores. But it was in the 20th century when the South Bank we know and love started to form, with the arrival of County Hall, the Imperial War Museum and the Oxo Tower amongst its iconic landmarks. Today, the South Bank is one of the most popular destinations in London, welcoming millions every year to soak up its vibrant atmosphere.
UNIQUELY SITUATED BETWEEN VIBRANT VAUXHALL AND PICTURESQUE BATTERSEA
Nine Elms has been accredited as central London's last undeveloped area on the South Bank. This unique regeneration story is a multi-billion pound, 561 acre world-class redevelopment in the making. Stretching between the landmarks of St George Wharf Tower and Battersea Power Station, this is the capital's newest and most exciting district.
<|fim_middle|> state-of-the-art destination encompassing, culture, green spaces, new schools, hospitals, industry and entertainment - transforming this pocket of the city for ever more. From District, Nine Elms' artisanal coffee club right on the doorstep to the craft beer served at the Thames-side at the tavern, to the weekly Waitrose shop, The Residence is part of a neighbourhood of great tastemakers.
INTERNATIONAL PRESTIGE
Nine Elms is set to become the new commercial hub for forward thinking corporations. With an alchemic mix of the new US Embassy and other global businesses following in its footsteps, there's a burgeoning mix of international prestige and local flavour in this dynamic new address and most exciting district with 25,000 new jobs being created.
US EMBASSY PRECINCT
The new US Embassy will be one of the first statement buildings in Nine Elms, boasting beautiful public piazzas including a dramatic landscaped garden and an impressive moated entrance. The US embassy will set the scene as a prominent destination for international investment, attracting other diplomatic establishments to the area.
APPLE AT BATTERSEA POWER STATION
To the West stand iconic chimneys of Battersea Power Station will become a new hive of industry as the UK headquarters for tech giant Apple. The company has acquired 500,000 sq ft within the development, the biggest single office deal signed in London outside the City and Docklands.
CIRCUS WEST AT BATTERSEA
The first phase of redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, Circus West will become central London's largest shopping destination, just mere moments away from The Residence. Enjoy access to the artisan Flour Power City Bakers, luxury florist Philippa Craddock and celebrity hair salon Paul Edmonds, amongst buzzing new cafés, fresh food markets and restaurants.
A NEW PARK FOR LONDON
The new Nine Elms Park will be a continuous green corridor from Battersea Power Station to Vauxhall Cross specially created to bring outside space and new public realm to the area. Creating a vibrant year-round destination with new riverside walks, cycle trails and places to stop and dwell when the sun shines. | The Residence will stand with significance, located in the heart of Nine Elms' diplomatic quarter, anchored by the new iconic US Embassy. The area will establish itself as a | 34 |
Our Yin workshops are seriously indulgent and delicious!
These 2.5 hour sessions work at reaching parts of the body that other yoga doesn't quite<|fim_middle|>At Blooming Bamboo we have regular Yin Yoga classes each week as well as monthly workshops to help you go even deeper.
Quite simply the perfect antidote to a busy, stressful or over-worked lifestyle. | manage. Despite it's chilled and relaxed appearance YIN yoga is both mentally and physically challenging BUT it in an incredibly supportive and nurturing way.
Yin poses are mainly seated or lying down and blankets, blocks & cushions are used to support the safe & comfortable opening of the body as the poses are held for several minutes.
Yin yoga works on so many levels. On a physical level it releases stiffness in the joints and muscles. It works with the meridian lines of our body to help Chi (energy) flow freely. On an emotional and spiritual level it begins to release layers of baggage and junk that we weren't able to fully process at the time.
It's a truly freeing type of yoga that I believe everyone will benefit from.
Feel the layers of suppressed emotion and excessive tightness start to unravel and release so you can EXPERIENCE YOU AGAIN.
These workshops are designed to make you feel AMAZING.
Read more about the incredible benefits of a Yin Yoga practice.
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Why build when you can move right into this magazine-worthy 4 bedroom (possible 5th), 4 full/1 half bath home with every design & finish on your wish list in The Preserve at Miller's Farm? Front foyer punctuated by wainscoting<|fim_middle|>ios & perfectly manicured & up-lighted landscaping. Planning center w/granite desk, laundry rm & half bath round out the 1st floor (9ft ceilings & engineered hardwood floors throughout except for Great room). Owner's suite w/private sitting area & en suite bath w/dbl sinks, soaking tub, tile shower & WC. 3 large bedrooms (one a suite w/full BA) & a flexible private loft space complete the spacious 2nd floor. Incredible lower level finished Nov '17 features 9 ft ceilings w/huge family rm with large egress window for great light. Full kit w/quartz counters (seats 6!), textured subway tile, maple cabinets & grey stainless appliances. Home gym w/window & full BA. 3 car garage. Revere schools. All the BEST about new construction with NONE of the stress.
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Listing information © 2019 NEOHREX Multiple Listing Service. All rights reserved. The data relating to real estate for sale on this website comes in part from the Internet Data Exchange program of NEOHREX. Real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than Howard Hanna are marked with the Internet Data Exchange logo and detailed information about them includes the name of the listing broker(s). Information Deemed Reliable But Not Guaranteed. The photos may be altered, edited, enhanced or virtually staged. Data last updated 2019-04-24T00:07:49. | , crown molding & flanked by den/office & dining room/sitting room. 2-story Great room w/floor to ceiling stone FP. Incredible kitchen with walk-in pantry, huge 4-seater granite island, double ovens, gas range & vented hood & dinette leading out to back patio. Covered back deck w/wood ceiling, recessed lighting, commercial-grade gas fireplace & is surrounded by stamped concrete pat | 87 |
Statement of DPW Chair Joe Wineke on Attorney General Van Hollen
MADISON – Democratic Party of<|fim_middle|> the Republican Party bosses trying to distract and deny voters with fear mongering, and should respect the decision of the non-partisan team of judges at the GAB."
Sep 10, 2008 News Statement of DPW Chair Joe Wineke on September 11 | Wisconsin Chair Joe Wineke today released the following statement on the lawsuit filed by Republican Attorney General JB Van Hollen against the state Government Accountability Board:
"This ploy by the Republican Attorney General is nothing more than a waste of taxpayer dollars and a cynical attempt to disenfranchise eligible voters less than two months before the November election.
"Federal law does not require the measures outlined in the Attorney General's lawsuit, and the case is without merit – there have been no allegations or instances of fraud or malfeasance. Instead, this suit would seize on technical problems and clerical errors, such as typos and slight differences in people's names, to deny tens of thousands of Wisconsin citizens of their right to vote. Even four of the GAB's six board members were recently mismatched during a test crosscheck.
"The Attorney General should listen less to the demands of | 172 |
IT was only a matter of time before thought leaders started to question whether or not the Internet of Things (IoT) required its own distinct Internet. Recently the Dutch took charge by introducing the first low range, low power network designed to support an entire nation. This<|fim_middle|> into their areas. Without reliable and consistent access to network coverage, these types of smart devices become entirely useless and turn into wasted capital for farmers or travellers to the area.
Additionally, smart devices seldom require the same amount of bandwidth as would be needed to do things like stream Netflix or listen to music. Granted, it is true that smart TV needs a stable bandwidth stream to watch a movie, but it needs a very minimal amount to power on and records something. Smart devices typically only transmit a few instructions in order to operate, adding on to a regular bandwidth is likely a waste of resources and time. This is why the Dutch introduced its lower range network, designed to support only the IoT.
It saves money and it solves a need. | Lora network has led other countries to question whether or not they should be following suit. Does the technology make sense outside of the Netherlands? We think so.
The IoT Needs its Own Internet, Here's why.
First and foremost, consider for a minute how today's 'smart devices' communicate. Regular devices are typically hardwired into a LAN or they are connected via Wi-Fi, similar to laptops and other devices. Mobile devices have the ability to connect via Wi-Fi, but they require 3G and 4G networks in order to be truly mobile.
The problem with current IoT connections comes is the limitations of cable and mobile networks – they simply cannot provide coverage everywhere. This means that mobile users, or those who might live in isolated or rural areas, run into poor or no coverage issues. That being said, the IoT has progressed beyond this, and rural locations are now seeing things like Internet-ready smart cars and farming machinery come | 189 |
Can a Detox Really Help Prevent Illness?
Eating healthy consistently is a better bet
by Rachel Nania, AARP, December 24, 2019 | Comments: 0
En español | "Pervasive" is the word Stacy Kennedy uses to describe the topic of detoxing in today's health and wellness culture.
Drinks and pills that promise to rid the body of unwanted toxins flood the internet, and books that vow to flush fat and a lifetime of bad habits fill store shelves. In some cities, juice bars are as common as coffee shops. And all of the hype has made its way into health care.
Kennedy, a nutrition<|fim_middle|> fine-tune your diet to support a particular health condition, ask your health care provider, especially if you are undergoing treatment or recovering from a serious illness.
"Don't feel shy. Even if it sounds kind of out there, we've heard it all," she says. "Bring those questions so we can talk it out and make sure you feel like you're doing everything you can to support yourself."
Flexitarian diet: How to eat less meat and hardly even notice
Is a keto diet right for you? | ist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, routinely fields questions on whether "detoxing" really works, especially when it comes to preventing or defeating a serious illness such as cancer.
The answer is both yes and no, Kennedy says. "Our bodies are always detoxing — working to keep us healthy and working to keep our systems running efficiently. So detox is something that's really happening all the time."
And while there's little proof that promoted elixirs and supplements have a magical cleansing effect, a diet packed with nutrient-dense foods can facilitate the body's natural detox process.
Dark leafy greens, such as spinach and kale, make Kennedy's superfood list. A number of fall and winter vegetables, including carrots, sweet potatoes and squash, play powerful roles in protecting the immune system.
Cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli, bok choy and cauliflower, contain compounds that "help our liver turn on more enzymes for natural detoxification," she says. And garlic, onions, scallions and leeks "have nutrients that we know are really helpful for our immune system."
The key, however, is not to eat these ingredients in isolation. A diet filled with processed foods, for example, can't be offset by the occasional bowl of blueberries or 10 days of leafy greens.
"It's all about eating a healthy, balanced diet most of the time" and eating a variety of plant-based, nutrient-dense foods, Kennedy says.
So if you want to splurge on a green juice, go for it. But that doesn't mean you can skip out on the other four recommended servings of fruits and vegetables. Repeating healthy eating habits is "really how you help to give your body the nourishment and the nutrients that our immune system needs to really do its job at its peak," she says.
And if you have any questions on how to | 383 |
Beaufort officials acknowledge horse-drawn carriages are emblematic of the city's charm and a big tourist attraction.
But the carriage tours also have been a constant source of conflict and a headache to those refereeing the squabbles.
As a result, the Beaufort City Council may consider new rules aimed at regulating operators, a proposal that is part of a wider discussion about the future of tourism in the city.
"If we decide we want to make changes to the carriage tours, then that might be the time to do it," Mayor Billy Keyserling said.
Gay and White say that has helped relations a bit, but there's room for more improvement.
White, for example, suggested the<|fim_middle|> to make sure one of the city's top industries remains alive and kicking.
"Tourism is the goose that keeps laying golden eggs in Beaufort," Gay said. "Council needs to make sure it doesn't cut its neck off."
By revisiting carriage-tour rules and reviving the tourism committee, Keyserling said the city is addressing an overarching question: "How do we use our assets to attract visitors?"
That question is answered by defining Beaufort as a product and marketing it, said Bob Moquin, executive director of the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce's Visitor and Convention Bureau. The bureau was enlisted to collect data and local input and use that to create the council's vision.
"Hospitality, friendliness of our community, infrastructure, attractions -- all of those make up the product," Moquin said.
The vision also should consider a larger downtown, which usually has been defined as Bay Street and surrounding corridors, Keyserling said.
"You're pouring every bit of your hopes and dreams and liabilities and problems into one, four-block area," city manager Scott Dadson said Tuesday. "Our thinking confines it to a spot."
Moquin said the visitor bureau will work with the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce and others that might have ideas about changes. | city only contract with one company at a time.
City officials, however, have said creating a monopoly might not be legal or in the city's best interest.
Gay doesn't support moving to a single carriage-operator system but said other changes could be made -- possibly a shorter contract for both companies.
He also has requested safety improvements, including signs to show Bay Street motorists where the carriages enter the street from the marina parking lot.
Gay wants the recently reconstituted Tourism Management Advisory Committee to meet regularly -- with well-advertised, public gatherings at least six times a year. Council plans to fill openings soon for the committee, which will advise City Council on tourism-related matters.
Gay wants | 140 |
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Kohler Workers Approve New Contract
After 32 days on the picket line, with a ratification vote of 91%, UAW Local 833 workers voted Wednesday night to adopt a new four-year contract with the Kohler company. Workers and management were able to reach an improved upon contract that brings tier workers' wages considerably closer together, offers workers better benefits and keeps health care costs more affordable.
Local 833 President Tim Tayloe stated: "We worked very hard to reach an agreement<|fim_middle|> and generously to support workers on the line. The tremendous support was essential to these brave and courageous union workers. | that addresses all of the key areas crucial to the future of our members. The agreement significantly brings one tier associate pay closer to the other, while also providing substantial wage increases in each year of the contract. All benefits have been enhanced and the modifications to the health care plans have reduced the potential for increased out-of-pocket costs to our membership."
Wisconsin solidarity works.
All across the state, the labor movement pulled together to support Kohler workers by donating toys, food, household needs, baby supplies, firewood for burn barrels and strike relief funds. Workers from unions and communities across the state joined the picket line, rallied spirits and let the brothers and sisters of UAW Local 833 know that we have their back. Wisconsin workers know that an injury to one is an injury to us all.
Kohler workers took a brave and necessary stand to protect good jobs in Wisconsin.
Picket Line and Toy Drive Update: Toy donations are still very much appreciated and can be dropped off by December 17 at the Sheboygan Labor Council or Emil Mazey Hall. All picketing has been stopped with strikers returning to work Thursday morning.
When workers stand together, workers win. Kohler workers' victory is a step forward in our march towards closing income inequality in our country and strengthening our middle class so that everyone who works hard can have a shot at the American Dream. Thank you to all who came together quickly | 287 |
Stretch into place: New Club Pilates is biggest in the area
By Stephen Montoya | Oct 28, 2019 | Business
Club Pilates Instructor Lexi Devore checks each member's form while going through routines during a 9 a.m. class at the new facility in Plaza at Enchanted Hills.
(Stephen Montoya/ Rio Rancho Observer)
A chance workout has turned into a healthy entrepreneurial endeavor for local<|fim_middle|>, I loved it."
Rule said she loved the design of the studio and the way the classes flowed.
"It just checked every box for me as a business interest, and I kept talking about it with my husband," she said.
Soon, Rule said she found herself in California doing a discovery day tour of the brand.
Since opening her first studio, Rule said, many members have shared with her and the instructors the benefits of having their mobility back after doing the exercises.
"The theme I have seen overall is that a lot of members weren't able to keep up with the routines at other places," she said. "And many of them because of this didn't feel like they fit in. In this space, they feel like they fit in and can do the workout, which is important."
Rule said she has members in their 30s doing the same exercises some of her 80-year-old members are doing and they all keep up with each other.
For more information on Club Pilates, email [email protected] or call 675-1818.
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Dutch Bros Coffee comes to Bernalillo | Club Pilates franchise owner Jessica Rule.
Rule, who is a certified pilates/yoga instructor and self-proclaimed health nut, is excited to have opened her third and biggest studio on the west side of the Plaza at Enchanted Hills.
This 3,000-square-foot facility offers several classes for different skill levels and has high-end state-of-the-art reformer benches.
"Attendance has been good," Rule said. "We had projected numbers for our soft opening and we have exceeded those."
The soft opening was in September.
Club Pilates Rio Rancho was scheduled to celebrate its grand opening this past Friday and today. The event includes donations to help ReadWest, a program designed to help adults learn how to read and speak English as a second language.
"All three of our locations are involved with local charities and non-profits because community is important to us," she said.
Another aspect of importance for Rule is fitness, a factor that brought her into the Club Pilates franchise in the first place.
(Stephen Montoya/ Rio Rancho)
"I was on a trip with my husband and I just wanted a good workout in the morning…plus I like to try different fitness modalities and Club Pilates popped up as a suggestion," she said. "After trying the class | 259 |
67 "Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word" This hymn, #261 in The Lutheran Hymnal (1941), is a prayer to the Tri-une God: Stanza 1 – to the heavenly Father; Stanza 2 – to the Son of raman spectroscopy principle and instrumentation pdf Modernised hymns Below is a list of hymns from Lutheran Hymnal (1973) (LH) which have been modernised. Some have been prepared under the auspices of the Commission on Worship of the Lutheran Church of Australia, some are as in Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II (TIS), and a few have been drawn from other non-copyright sources.
Thy Word Chords by Amy Grant. Music Videos. Praise & Worship. Audio Sermons. Outlines. Illustrations. Children. Clip Art Thy word is a lamp unto my feet G A D And a light unto my path D A D Thy word is a lamp unto my feet G A D And a light unto my path A Em Bm F#m When I feel afraid, think I've lost my way G A G D Still you're there right beside me A Em Bm<|fim_middle|> beside me.
Thy Word. Psalm 119:105 "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." PRAISE AND WORSHIP. Chorus Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet And a light unto my path. | F#m And nothing will I … law of sine word problems with solutions pdf Lyrics. Give me oil in my lamp, Keep me burning, Give me oil in my lamp I pray. Give me oil in my lamp, Keep me burning. Keep me burning 'til the break of day.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path/ Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path/ Whe I feel afraid,/ and think I've lost my way./ Still, you're there roght | 110 |
Living in Curtis Park, between Lawrence and Welton, Downing and Park Avenue, is almost like living in a suburb in the city. It actually was Denver's first "suburb", and it is the city's oldest surviving residential neighborhood. The area was developed back in the 1860s and has Denver's first public park, now called Mestizo-Curtis Park, at 31st and Curtis.
When Curtis Park came to be, the neighborhood attracted the uber wealthy along with middle<|fim_middle|> styles still offer the charm that the neighborhood has had, but they now includes some urban design as well. You will see 2013 construction with period lighting and old fashioned sidewalks lining the streets. Curtis Park is a true urban neighborhood, both architecturally and demographically, with homes ranging from the large Victorians of the 19th and 20th century to modern rowhomes, etc. The residents of Curtis Park like the true neighborhood feel that's still within walking distance of downtown Denver.
Curtis Park is now on the National Register of Historic Places and the majority of the area lies within designated historic districts. | -class workers, which resulted in a mix of mansions next to small houses and duplexes. Curtis Park architecture ranges from Victorian, Queen Anne, Italianate, and Denver Square styles, among others.
Over the years, some Denverites found Capitol Hill and some of the other "park" neighborhoods to be more appealing than Curtis Park, and many of the original homes were converted to rentals. Eventually the neighborhood became one of the city's poorest, and many of the best Curtis Park architecture homes were either neglected or completely boarded up.
The good news about current Curtis Park residents, and the residents before them, is that they care about their little neighborhood, and they care a lot. Owners are involved in design reviews for new construction, and they are constantly focusing on ensuring appropriate architectural transition between Curtis Park and its neighbors. Several of the original homes that I mentioned have been and will continue to be restored.
The newer Curtis Park architecture home | 186 |
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New Medical Writer Joint Position Statement Released by AMWA, EMWA, and ISMPP
London, United Kingdom, January 19, 2017 --(PR.com)-- The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), European Medical Writers Association (EMWA), and International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) today released a Joint Position Statement on the Role of Professional Medical Writers, which is the first unified position on the role of professional medical writers from three leading professional organizations. Yvonne Yarker, PhD, CMPPTM, Chair of ISMPP's Board of Trustees, who just announced the Joint Position Statement at the European Meeting of ISMPP, in London, stated, "The Joint Position Statement will benefit professional medical writers by helping to share best practices and confirm the value of the profession."
Building on Good Publication Practice (GPP3) guidelines and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations, the Joint Position Statement describes best practices for professional medical writers. It also provides a template for appropriately disclosing medical writing support.
The Joint Position Statement explains the value of professional medical writing to evidence-based medicine by summarizing current evidence on the professional medical writer's role in the ethical, accurate, and timely disclosure of research results. "By emphasizing that professional medical<|fim_middle|> for medical publication professionals. Since its inception in 2005, the Society has grown to more than 1,500 members, with representation from all stakeholders involved in the publication of medical research. www.ismpp.org.
Press Contact: Anna Geraci, ageraci@ismpp.org, +1-847-544-8605
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www.amwa.org | writers are appropriately qualified and follow rigorous guidelines, the Joint Position Statement seeks to strengthen the standing of the profession among journal editors, peer reviewers, and readers," said Chris Winchester, DPhil, EMWA Member.
The Joint Position Statement can be accessed on the AMWA, EMWA, and ISMPP websites.
AMWA – http://www.amwa.org/position_statement
EMWA – http://www.emwa.org
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"This Joint Position Statement describes, for the first time, a global standard for professional medical writers. This will serve as a valuable reference for ethical publication practices, worldwide," stated Art Gertel, AMWA Past-President.
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If you've been following the political news, you know the photograph of Trump and his advisors monitoring the Syrian airstrike has proven almost as sensational as the missile launch itself<|fim_middle|>eps
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One question about the photo is whether the comparison was by design. Because the photography coming out of the White House has been so dismal, I doubt it. Consistent with the inexperience and impulsivity of Team Trump (as impulsive as Trump's Syria about-face and the confusing missile strike itself), I believe the comparison with the famous image from the bin Laden mission is mostly the consequence of getting senior staff in a secure room (with a White House photographer present) after the embarrassing scene in the Mar-a-Lago dining room after the North Korea missile scare. The Twittersphere did the rest.
As easily as one sees a parallel, and as quickly as the headline writers (note, USAT and The Guardian) labeled Trump's secure Mar-a-Lago space the "situation room," the comparison — like most things Trump — starts to unravel.
Otherwise, the photo betrays the similarity in numerous ways:
The military risk, the risk to Obama's political standing and Osama bin Laden's enormous target value after eluding the Bush Pentagon for so many years was almost incalculable. The Trump operation, on the other hand, was extremely tepid.
The Obama team occupied a small room adjoining the 5,000 sq-ft., technology-laden Situation Room room on the ground floor of the West Wing. Team Trump, in accommodations that were more comfortable, occupied a secure meeting room in Trump's country club with a "Quiet Area" sign taped to the door.
In the Obama Situation Room photo, everyone is riveted. The Obama team is observing a video relay of the actual raid narrated by C.I.A. Director Panetta from agency headquarters in Virginia. According to Hillary Clinton, the session lasted between 35 and 37 minutes, the photo taken after SEAL commandos entered bin Laden's house and the gathering in the Situation Room were temporarily unable to see or hear what was going on. The Trump photo, on the other hand, was taken at 9:15 EST, almost an hour after the operation began. Most of the gathering in the room is immersed with the monitor (especially Trump, with his well documented TV passion), but several seem less so, with Kushner and Tillerson not even looking at the screen. As it turns out, the Trump team is not watching the actual operation. Instead, as reported by the White House, it is receiving a briefing, participating in a video conference call with Pence, Mattis, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dunford.
As a snapshot of this struggling and chaotic administration, there is other information to be gleaned.
Perhaps the biggest tell in the Trump photo is the fact that the only active military officer in the room is the man guarding the door. In the historic Security Room photo, the people present are strictly limited to senior or highly strategic personnel with a military, senior foreign policy or national security portfolio. The president's relation to the others might seem peripheral, especially the way Trump and the GOP are now framing his relationship to Syria. Still, the person sitting at the head of the table is the operational figure, Air Force major general, Marshall Webb, Assistant Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command. And completing the power triangle, Admiral Mullen, the Joint Chiefs Chairman, is literally standing behind the President.
The Mar-a-Lago shot, in contrast — with Ross, the Commerce Secretary; Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary; Cohen, the economic advisor; Miller, a political adviser; and Spicer, the Press Secretary, next to or near to Trump — presents an undifferentiated combination of national security players and Trump's summit entourage jumbled in a pack. Otherwise, the photo reflects what we see in most White House photos these days. That is Trump necessarily at the center while others orbits him. As elaborated in our Reading the Pictures "Key Pictures of Trump's First 100 Days" Salon on Thursday night, these scenes are more akin to a potentate, or a king and his courtiers. It suggests a dynamic in which power and importance is determined in proximity to the boss. In the grouping of red-tied bodies clustered around him, it also suggests how much those around Trump tend to mirror him.
If many were dazzled by the operation, the fact it was carried out on the fly is also a red flag. Why would Trump execute this mission while at Mar-a-Lago instead of at the White House alongside his military command? And why overlapping was was previously billed as a monumental Chinese visit? There in their evening clothes, in contrast to Team Obama's office wear, the attire documents Trump and his entourage rushing off after his dinner with President Xi for this military interlude, that after Trump informed Xi during the meal. Lost in the drama was the denigration of the summit, and the antagonizing of the superpower. With strength and impulsivity being opposite characteristics, the way this elective action was carried out on the fly is mostly puts a frame around the President's manic nature and his ADD.
Then, what about the personality and power dynamics in the Mar-a-Lago photo?
Many have pointed to Bannon, squeezed in the corner, as having something to do with him being "on the outs." But in most White House photos, Bannon is typically on the periphery. What is a lot more telling is the centrality, and the generous space taken up by Jared and his White House ally, financier Gary Cohen (with the file folder, behind McMaster). If you're handicapping the White House power struggle, especially who looks less like a clone of Trump, I'd bank on those two guys.
Far and away, though, the most striking thing about the photo is how Jared, in contrast to everyone else, is not paying attention to the screen. How much that distinction is a symbolic or a practical one doesn't makes a lot of difference. Regardless of who or what he is staring at, what the photo illustrates is how much Jared's focus, consistent with Ivanka's, is overwhelmingly self-serving. If there is really something memorable about this picture, it is how Jared, at the height of national concern, is looking the other way.
— Michael Shaw
(Photo 1: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead. caption: President Donald Trump receives a briefing on a military strike on Syria from his National Security team, including a video teleconference with Secretary of Defense, Gen. James Mattis, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, on Thursday April 6, 2017, in a secured location at Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photo 2: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. Caption: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured.
Participants – Photo 1: Left to right: Joe Hagin, White House, Jared Kushner, White House, Steve Mnuchin, treasury, Wilbur Ross, commerce, Sean Spicer, White House, Rex Tillerson, state, Steve Bannon, White House, Stephen Miller, White House, Michael Anton, national security, Diana Powell, deputy national security advisor, Gary Cohen, economics, HR McMaster, national security advisor, Reince Preibus, White House.
Participants – Photo 2: Left to right: Joe Biden, President Obama, Marshall B. Webb, United States Air Force major general. Assistant Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command. Mike Mullen (standing, wearing a tie), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the principal military advisor to the president, Tom Donilon (standing, arms folded) National Security Advisor Bill Daley (standing, with jacket) White House Chief of Staff, Denis McDonough (seated) Deputy National Security Advisor, Tony Blinken (standing, peering over Daley's shoulder) national security adviser to Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Audrey Tomason (standing, furthest in back), director for counterterrorism, John Brennan (standing, wearing gray) Homeland Security Advisor, James Clapper (standing, wearing tie) Director of National Intelligence, Robert Gates (seated) Secretary of Defense.
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While voters might blame the EU for policy failures, it is extremely difficult for them to effectively hold it to account
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European integration necessitates that there is a division of competences between the national and European levels, but how do voters assign responsibility when things go wrong? Sara Hobolt and James Tilley argue that while plenty of voters hold the EU responsible for bad outcomes, it is difficult for them to translate this blame into punishment for political actors at the ballot box. They illustrate that perceptions of responsibility are not only inaccurate, dependent as they are on poor information and existing prejudices, but that the lack of both a clear government at the EU level and a shared European vantage point dooms EU level governance to be unaccountable. This has resulted in increasing distrust of the EU institutions.
For the last few years coverage of politics has been dominated by the economic crisis and the role that the EU has played in that crisis. Who is actually responsible for economic problems is far from clear, but it matters who voters blame because democratic accountability rests on the electoral process of punishing or rewarding governments on the basis of past performance. This relies on the assumption that voters are able to correctly assign responsibility for outcomes. This is clearly complex in the EU where citizens face the additional challenge of distinguishing between the powers of multiple levels of government. This is not just complicated by formal institutions however. In fact there are three main mechanisms that produce responsibility judgements: institutions, information and individual biases.
First, people's views are shaped to some extent by real institutional divisions of power. Figure 1 shows how both political experts and the general public in countries inside and outside the Eurozone place responsibility for interest rates (on a 0-10 scale, where 0 implies the EU has no responsibility and 10 implies it has full responsibility). Clearly, experts and the public in Eurozone countries think the EU is more responsible for interest rates than experts and the public in countries with a floating currency like Britain. The differences between experts may be more pronounced, but they are similar in type to the differences between ordinary people.
Figure 1: Expert and public perception of the EU's responsibility for interest rates in EU countries
Note: The figure shows mean scores on a 0-10 scale of the perception each group (experts and the public) had of the responsibility of the EU for interest rates in their own country. A value of 10 implies the EU has full responsibility, while a value of 0 implies it has no responsibility. All countries are equally weighted within the currency groupings: Eurozone member, countries with their currency pegged to the euro, and countries outside the Eurozone with a floating currency. Source: European Election Study (EES) 2009 and political expert survey 2010.
Nonetheless for most major policy areas, such as the economy, immigration or healthcare, perceptions of EU responsibility across countries are actually very similar. One reason for this is the lack of high quality information from politicians and the media about responsibility and the EU. In particular, EU responsibilities for specific policies are rarely mentioned. The figure below shows how little media coverage of the economy involves mention of the EU. Most broadcasts and articles that mention performance mention responsibility, but very few mention that the EU is responsible.
Figure 2: Percentage of newspaper and television reports on the economy in EU states that assign responsibility to the national government, other national actors, and the EU
Note: The figure displays the percentage of stories on the economy that assigned responsibility to the national government, other national actors (political and non-political) and the EU (N = 4,822 stories). Source: EES Media Study 2009.
Given this lack of information, many people actually rely heavily on individual biases to estimate where responsibility lies. Existing views about the EU colour people's views of responsibility. Figure 3 shows data from 2011 – the height of the Eurozone crisis. People across Europe were asked who was responsible for 'current economic problems'. Those who dislike the EU project blame the EU, whereas EU enthusiasts tend to absolve the EU of blame. These are patterns that are found repeatedly across the EU. Judgements of responsibility are thus not just a product of institutional differences in responsibility, but are also used to reconcile predispositions about the EU with information about changing policy performance.
Figure 3: Attribution of responsibility for 'current economic problems' by EU opponents and EU supporters in 2011
Note: The figure displays the percentage of people in each country who say the EU is either first or second to blame for current economic problems. Source: Pew Global Attitudes Project 2011.
What are the consequences of these responsibility judgements? Democratic accountability means that voters hold politicians to account for things for which they are deemed to be responsible. This process generally functions well at the national level. National governments are punished for poor performance if they are held responsible, especially when a single party government is in place.
There is no such process happening for the dominant Europarty in the European Parliament however. It seems that just as it is more challenging for voters to hold very large coalition governments in national parliaments to account, it is close to impossible for voters to identify which parties to reward and punish at European elections. Since citizens are unable to vote for or against a 'government' in the EU, when voters hold the EU responsible for poor performance they lose trust in the EU institutions instead. Indeed, since the onset of the economic crisis in 2008, public trust in EU institutions has declined by 17 percentage points, according to the most recent Eurobarometer surveys.
All of this has important implications for the future course of the European Union. First, people often do not accurately know which level of government is responsible. Second, even if they did have accurate knowledge of EU responsibilities, they cannot hold EU level political actors to account for performance. Are there any solutions to these problems?
Unfortunately, there are no obvious easy fixes. Improving institutional clarity and levels of information, so people are able to more accurately identify responsibility within the EU, is clearly difficult. It is also unrealistic to think that a situation of Europe wide political parties competing for office, which would improve the clarity of government, is around the corner. Most fundamentally though, it is also unclear on what basis voters would evaluate any incumbent EU governing party. Europeans continue to evaluate policymakers at all levels primarily on the basis of what they have done for their nation, not for the EU as a whole. This may change in the very long term, but since Europe lacks the common identity and public sphere found in many federal states it is unlikely to change radically in the foreseeable future.
European citizens simply do not view events from a European vantage point. Until Greek voters care about unemployment across the whole of the EU, and not only in Greece<|fim_middle|>ley is a university lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He works primarily in the fields of public opinion and electoral behaviour.
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A more detailed discussion of this topic can be found in Sara Hobolt and James Tilley's recently published book Blaming Europe? Responsibility without accountability in the European Union with Oxford University Press. The book is being launched at the LSE on the 11th March 2014 with a specially convened debate on how the economic crisis has affected European democracy, see here for details.
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Sara Hobolt is Sutherland Chair in European Institutions at the LSE European Institute. She also holds an honorary professorship in political science at the University of Southern Denmark and she is associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. She has published extensively on European Union politics, elections and referendums. Her book Europe in Question: Referendums on European Integration (Oxford University Press, 2009) was awarded the Best Book prize by the European Union Studies Association in 2010.
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Stuck indoors? Well, you should know that your VR headset is way more than just a Beat Saber machine. You can actually chat, play, and watch movies with your friends, almost as if the world wasn't thrust into a global pandemic—or whatever is keeping you from going outside.
Here's a few choice apps where you can connect with friends, or meet new friends too. Either way, it sure beats FaceTime. Oh, and all of them are free too!
The OG of social VR apps is still going strong, even nearly six years after its initial release on Oculus Rift DK1 in 2014. Over time, it's created a unique culture of weird, organic memes thanks to its open avatar and world creation abilities. You can also connect with non-VR headset owning buddies here, making for an awesome meeting point for basically everyone… except PSVR owners – at least for now.
There's a lobby now where you can hang out and chat, but really the bulk of Bigscreen's draw is being able to sit down with friends or strangers and bond over its unlimited viewing capabilities. Anything you can access on your computer and display to your monitor can be shared with anyone, making Bigscreen the gold standard of social viewing platforms. You can also pay to watch movies now too, which is a nice touch if you aren't already signed up to a streaming service like Netflix or Prime Video.
Chilling and chatting is cool, and you can totally do just that in Rec Room, but this cross-platform beauty unites all of the VR headset-owning community in one vibrant, fun place. There are co-op 'quests' to go on, a battle royale shooter, and plenty of reasons to stick around and have fun outside of shooting the breeze with your mates.
NeosVR
NeosVR is like the offspring of an operating system, a game engine, and a chat room; it wants to be the metaverse. That said, it's pretty technical, but the things you can build there in-game are fantastic. It even has its own cryptocurrency, although the userbase isn't near large enough to make it functional just yet.
OrbusVR
Ok, I said all of these social apps are free, and that's still technically true with OrbusVR. arguably VR's most full-featured MMORPG. You can play for free up until level 10, and mix with the entire playerbase in the process. Play as a bard, mage, paladin, shaman, scoundrel and more as you explore the wide open world of Patraeyl.
Mozilla Hubs is a lightweight social program that isn't actually an app at all, rather a WebXR-based social experience which makes for effortless, one-click creation of virtual rooms which anyone can join—from smartphones desktop browsers to VR headsets—directly from the browser. Just put in your room code for your private chat room and join your friends on any device.
Oculus Home
Unfortunately for now it's only for Rift users, although with completely customizable spaces there's good enough reason to meet your friends in an Oculus Home space before launching off to other multiplayer games. That is until Facebook Horizons makes its way to the platform, which ought to unite all Oculus users under a single app.
No need to download anything. It's already baked into the desktop runtime.
SteamVR Home
Like Oculus Home, SteamVR Home isn't really a traditional chat room, although it has some of the best custom-made spaces out of all social spaces. Where else can you hang out with friends in a preview section of Half-Life: Alyx?
It's baked into SteamVR, although you may want to visit the Steam Workshop to browse the available user-built spaces.
vTime
vTime is a bit of a sleeper on this list, as it doesn't offer screen sharing or madcap user-generated content, but if you're at all intimidated by any of that and are just looking for a chill place to chat with minimal setup, vTime is a great place to do it. Working somewhat like a social network, you make friends and send chat invites to people, and are then seated for round-table style chat in a variety of slick locations.
Altspace VR
AltspaceVR includes live shows, meetups, classes, and is accessible on a number of VR headsets. Although it's not the most lively platform as it once was in the early days of VR, you the basic functionality is all there, and the community engagement is still impressively high. Check out all the upcoming events here.
What are your favorite social VR apps? Let us know in the comments below!
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What a busy T'Day week!
Out Monday with Robert and Eddy for their first top water rock adventure. Had a blast with several slot rock knocking the Storm Chug Bug out of the water.
Tuesday was a shop day with me and my right hand JB out to chase rock and trout. Managed a couple of nice rock with 1 tagged trout and one for the pan.
Never a day off - shop close - out today chasing trout.
Caught probably 30 fish, tagging about 20 others too small and tagging these 3 for me. Great day on the water.
How about my man Zac Bruno. Couldn't wait for me to get off the water to weigh his big catch - ALMOST a citation at 4.5 lb. Keep an eye on this guy - he's going places!!!!
Not to take away from our great trout bite bu there's a short Rock story.
Got out at daylight to try to snag a rock around local creeks shore fishing prior to opening. This 26" (coastal) fish couldn't stand the Rockin Wobble. Slammed it and no turning back - stew pot next.
This combination is deadly and sooo easy to use. No added action needed and if rock are around they are yours.
No charters first of the week but hitting water hard.
Assisted Tim Ellis Monday with trout tracking catches in local creeks Monday. Found some nice fish for him you use for his study.
Fished another creek with<|fim_middle|> be son in law Michael Tuesday PM and found good numbers and some real nice trout. It was a late bite but WOW!
What a week with cooler water temps, rain and wind!
Drop in water temperatures has sparked our fishing.
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Costa Rica La Pura Vida, Session 3
After getting off the plane in Houston, we met most of our group. We waited until they called us onto the plane that would take us to San Jose. The plane ride was long, but we were very excited for Costa Rica. After we all got off the plane we went through customs and grabbed our baggage and headed out of the airport. Once we got outside we met two other people who were also going to be on our trip and then we waited for the bus to take us to our hotel. We got on the bus and passed some snacks around and then drove to the hotel where we would spend the next two nights. When we got out of the bus, we walked through the rainy night to get to our bungalows. My bungalow overlooked a beautiful forest of banana trees and other tropical plants. After we unpacked, we went straight to bed to be ready for the adventure in the following day.
-Lily U.
I woke up early in the morning to the sound of rain on top of the bungalow. We all got ready with plenty of bug repellant. For breakfast we ate beans, rice, plantains, eggs, and toast. After breakfast we loaded two small buses that would take us to a local cheese farm run by Crisley, Global Works' country director. When we arrived at the farm we were soon taken to milk a cow. Along the way we saw lots of chickens and even saw a small white kitten named Copo de Nieve. Once we got to the cow, we each got a chance to milk it. Milking the cow was definitely an interesting experience! Then we headed back to Crisley's house to make cheese. Crisley introduced himself and gave us a lesson on the history of his farm. It turns out that this farm was actually founded by accident! It started as just providing cheese for his family, then evolved to selling to his neighbors until one day a man came through and put in a big order. This was when his family realized that this could be a full-fledged business. After a brief history lesson, our immersion group dove into some name games…we had some fun! Played Ninja and a group game of rock, paper, scissors. We also had an amazing opportunity to see and help actually make some cheese! Crisley started by pouring the milk into a machine that rotated fast to separate the milk and the cream. Soon after he pulled some cheese from the pasteurizer and we helped separate the big chunks. These chunks were then put into some water that was boiling hot! Aaah! This softened the cheese and allowed us to stretch it out into long strands. He used a knife to cut the cheese which allowed us to begin rolling the cheese into cheese balls. Mmmm yummy (: We got to try some cheese throughout this process and oof it was muy delicioso. A funny thing that I think a lot of us have noticed is that there is a lot of beans and rice (called gallo pinto here in Costa Rica!)… Our lunch was so great though. We had some salad, some chicken and of course, beans and rice. The farm was such an amazing experience, I highly recommend it! Our adventure has not finished quite yet. We come back to our hotel to some salsa dancing! Randall is a fantastic teacher and seemed to give everyone a blast! There was a lot of movement in the hips and a lot of spinning which made us a little dizzy…after our dance lesson we got to have a sweet dinner! Our hotel provided some chicken and some yummy vegetables and of course rice but, no beans this time! Overall our first day in Costa Rica was spectacular! We can't wait for the many experiences to come.
-Logan D.
¡Hola families! My name is Lily L. And I'm coming at you live from Costa Rica! Today was a day filled with adventures and forming new relationships. We started our day with a traditional Costa Rican breakfast: rice beans, eggs , toast, and plantains. After breakfast we packed our bags and said goodbye to Hotel Heliconias. Everyone loaded into the bus and we started driving to Sky Adventures for ziplining. Our drive was filled with lush green views and we even saw a pineapple farm! The drive also gave us some time for group bonding and we got to learn what life is like all around the US since we're all from different places! After an hour, we arrived and were ready to zip line. We met with friendly guides who helped us get into our zip lining and told us what to expect. It was the moment we have all been waiting for!! After standing in line, we got to the zip lines. It was so beautiful!. There were eight zip lines in total and they all had amazing views of the forest and lake that was surrounded by beautiful trees and plants. After the final zipline, we felt so accomplished and were in awe of the fantastic experience we had just had.
After ziplining, we went to a nearby restaurant where I enjoyed rice and vegetables. Our trip leaders talked to us about homestays and we got paired with a family and a house mate from our group. Tara and I received a letter form our host family and we were so happy! Finally, we got on the bus and headed towards El Refugio, where our homestay families live. Once we arrived, we were greeted by families and welcomed into the community center in the town. Tara and I are staying with a family that includes a mother, father, and six-year-old girl. We met them at the community center, as well as other families, and got to watch a pick up soccer game outside. I also played Costa Rican hand games with the younger girls. After we ate and played frisbee, Tara and I drove home to our host house and got to know our family better. We talked about where we live and even played cards. My favorite was a Coasta Rican game called "Tanto." After talking to our family for a long time, we went to our room and settled in for a good nights rest. The rain soothed us to sleep as we got ready for another day. I've had such a great time so far and can't wait for what's next. ¡Pura Vida!
We started the third full day of our trip to a breakfast of beans, rice, sausage, and milk. We were surprised to find that the milk was very sweet, and we remembered what we learned at the cheese factory: that the milk we are used to in America has none of the cream that natural milk has. After breakfast, we said thank you and goodbye to our host family and made our way to the community center. There, Randall explained the history of the center and that the town, El Refugio, means "the refuge." It was home to refugees of the Nicaraguan Civil War and families used to be packed into the building we were turning into a community center for the town. Then, we started our work: four of us mixing cement together with shovels so we could smooth out the space that used to have windows. While we waited for the cement to set so we could use it, the rest of the group and us painted parts of the wall. After several spills and thoroughly paint-splattered bodies, we managed to paint a decent amount of the wall.
When the cement was ready, the four of us started our other messy job: splattering cement at the wall and smoothing it out. By lunch time we were covered in sweat, cement, and paint. We learned the hard way that the paint didn't go away very easily. After a filling lunch we went back to work for a couple more hours until the local children came back from school. We played some soccer and then came home where we helped prepare dinner. At our homestay, Logan, Jerry and I made pancakes out of dough to make tortillas and cut up some vegetables. We then ate with our homestay mother and sister and then played cards until the long day of work caught up to us.
– Owen D.
On our second morning at our homestays we woke up to a delightful breakfast of rice, beans, cheese, and sausage. We said goodbye to our homestay families and made our way to the community center. Before starting work we shared what we did last night with others. We helped our family cook papaya chaiyote and tortillas for dinner, and in return we learned that two of the other groups went to a festival celebrating Costa Rican independence. There were people giving speeches in Spanish and a little bit of dancing at the festival. After sharing, we began our day of work. We split up into groups and started to paint the outside walls of the building white. We also removed the rust at the base of the outside pillars and then we repainted them a solid blue. Three hours of hard work later, we went back to our homestays to eat lunch. When we arrived back at the community center we finished painting the outside wall. All the work for the day finished, we took a trip to the nearby supermarket. There were many off-brand snacks, drinks, and candies. For the evening we invited our families to a bonfire at the community center. Everyone enjoyed eating s'mores and we took a beautiful group photo with all the people involved. Afterwards they invited us to watch a soccer game at the public soccer field. The field was smaller than a regular soccer field and there were only five people on each team. We enjoyed watching a hard-fought game of Costa Rican soccer before returning to our homes and settling in for the night.
-Jerry X.
Hola! This morning our host Mom Cina let us sleep in a bit and Lily L. and I had breakfast around 9:00 with our host Sister Sofi. She didn't have school today because it's a Costa Rican holiday celebrating the province of Guanacaste. After breakfast, Lily, Sofi, and I played card games like Tonto, go fish, and start it. While watching the Disney Channel, Lily and I found it pretty interesting how some movie titles were translated literally and others we could not even recognize. After a delicious lunch of pasta with vegetables and salad, Lily and I went to the old age center to meet with the rest of the group. There, we taught the elderly members of the community how to make friendship bracelets. The elderly people were really excited to learn and they asked lots of questions about where we were from and what we thought about Costa Rica. They also told us about how much they liked going to the center every day instead of just sitting at home alone. After the activities, we watched them dance and Taylor and Perri even joined it. We also met a man who is 111 years old! In the afternoon we continued our work on the community center we painted more of the outside walls and weeded around the stairs. In the evening we had dinner with our family and played Jenga. We made a Jenga tower 34 stories tall before it finally fell! For reference, the starting tower is 18 stories high. Our family loves movies, so after Jenga we watched one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, though I'm still not sure which one. We were so tired after the movie that we fell asleep right away.
-Tara B.
My day started off with an interesting breakfast, rice and beans. After our morning had kicked off, we headed to the community center. Slowly, everyone trickled in. We started by putting a base coat of white on the kitchen walls, and soon after we added a very vibrant blue. I have noticed that when we all contribute it really brings the community together. You can see kids from around the neighborhood helping day in and day out. Later this morning we worked on shoveling the mud and clay from the cracks in front of the community center. While some did this, others helped to pick up garbage around the<|fim_middle|> problem was that I didn't realize you were supposed to mix it all together so it tasted really salty at first. After dinner, we ran back to the car in the rain and drove home to get to bed.
Today was our last full day in our homestays. While it was really fun, we were also really sad to have to leave because we love our families so much. My morning started with a breakfast of waffles and delicious Costa Rican coffee. After breakfast, Tara and I headed to the community center for our final workday. We split into groups and Tara, Gabe, Owen P., and I went to play with the kids at the daycare center nearby. The kids were all really sweet and we had a great time playing with them and talking to them. When the kids left for snack, the four of us went back to the community center and I started painting a small mural. The mural said Global Works 2018 and served as a fun reminder of our time in the community. Then it was time for lunch. Tara and I walked home and our host mom prepared Rice, beans, salad, and plantains. Lunch was delicious and was followed by an awesome nap. After our nap, we went back to work at the community center and the other group went to the daycare. I worked more on the mural, with help from Owen P., and finally finished it. When the mural was done, everyone in our group signed their names next to it. Because it was our last work day, we made sure to clean up all of our supplies in the community center. When cleanup was done, we all got ready for the "Despedida" or a goodbye party. It took place in the community center and was a really wonderful gathering of the community. Tara and I gave a speech to our host family and we also gave our host mom a card and flowers for Costa Rican Mother's Day. We ate some really good food and enjoy the final night in the company of our homestays. After the despedida, we went home and packed. Finally, we went to sleep and got ready for another amazing day in Costa Rica. I miss my homestay family already. Pura vida!
-Lily L.
To some, today may have been empty. But to me the day was so full to the point it would leave those shocked or surprised.
It was full of colors. Green from the grass, the wind blown trees, then ending in the color of our bedsheets. Pink, which filled the design of the sunrise to the flower petals to the sunset. And clear gray, seen in the stormy skies to stormy eyes which cried as we said our goodbyes (to our host families).
The day was full of sounds. Sound from the goodbyes to new hellos. Sound from the laughter to chatter. Even sound when we are at the natural state of not talking at all. Sound from the stomping patter of pouring rain to the side and claps of thunder. Then, the loud hazey sound created by all the insects, frogs, and animals which blends the many voices together. Near the beach, in the jungle, we now hear them all.
The day may have been filled in unexpected ways, but no day is empty. They all have something to say.
-Amanda P.
When we woke up this morning, I could somehow excited everyone was about surfing. We all ate breakfast, then got on the bus heading for the beach. When we got there I could hear the outside break calling my name as I paddled to it. The fact that we were in Costa Rica surfing was enough to keep us happy. Overall, the surfing was a blast and we all enjoyed it very much. After lunch we all walked out to the Whale's Tail where we waded out in the water to get to the end. After, we went swimming in the ocean for a while and then hopped back on the bus to go back to the hotel where we enjoyed swimming in the pool and sitting down for a delicious dinner. Today had to be my favorite day in Costa Rica so far. We will see how the rest of it goes!
-Owen P.
Today we woke up bright and early again and I had a breakfast of toast. After that, we all got on the bus and headed to the beach. Rushed to the water and immediately started surfing. It was really fun to hang out the second day and we all started to get the hang of it, which made it even better. At around noon, we pulled ourselves out of the water and headed to lunch at the same spot as yesterday. We had rice, chicken, and salad, and then we went to the center of town to shop for souvenirs. There was some really cool stuff and almost everyone got something. It was getting late, so we went back to the hotel and chilled at the pool until a dinner of pasta and vegetables. Then did a circle of appreciation where we took turns in the middle of the circle with our eyes closed and everyone said positive things about you. We knew it was going to be a very early morning on Saturday in order to make our flight, so we all went to bed early in preparation for tomorrow night when many of us may stay up super late!
-Gabe B.
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Blog, Trip Journals | community center. Our day followed with a yummy lunch of chicken soup! Once we had finished our meal and played some cards, packed up, put our suits on and all headed over to meet the group. The group then headed over to the pool! On our walk there, we saw a toucan, parrots, and vultures. The pool was a blast! It had two huge waterslides and some cool lounge chairs in the water. Me personally I got a little chilly, but some of the others kept swimming awhile after. The pool was fun, but it had to come to an end. We headed back to the village with a quick stop at the supermarket. Jerry got some yummy wafers. We headed home once we were done at the market. After a delicious dinner of rice, beans and eggs we headed over to Gabe and Owen's house to soon be involved in an intense Jenga game. Awhile after, my homestay family hosted a fun movie night so we had Owen, Gabe, Amanda, and Lily U. come over! We watched pretty scary movies…yikes! A couple of movies in we had to head home for the night, so our friends went back to their homes and Owen, Jerry and I headed to bed and geared up for a fun and eventful workday to come.
– Logan D.
We started our day with another nice breakfast made up of…you guessed it! Rice and beans! After breakfast, we made our way to the community center to start our work. First, I got the job of power-washing the walls clean (probably one of the most satisfying things of all time) so that we could cement parts of the walls flat. The power wash got me pretty wet, but on top of that I got cement in all the wrong places. We took a lunch break after a couple of hours, where we ate with our families. We then went back to work on the cement. A couple more hours later, we came back home to shower and get ready for the tortilla party. In our house Jerry, Logan, and I showered and then blew up some balloons for the party. Our baby brother, Damien, really enjoyed babbling and playing with the balloons. When it was time, we made our way over to the community center for the party. I played frisbee for a little while with one of my Tico friends Yandel until it was time to make tortillas. In the process, I made a new kind of tortilla with the hole in the middle – the Donutilla (trademark) – as an experiment. We ate the tortillas with picadillo de papaya. The Donutilla (trademark) was especially good. We also drank some mango juice. We then watched a traditional dance and even joined in. After, we danced and hung out until all the tortillas were eaten up. Then, all of the kids came over to our house to watch a movie. We spent a while actually finding a movie, which reminded me a lot of movie night at my American home, but in the end we found a horror movie. The movie was so bad it was funny, and the only times everyone screamed was when someone would pop one of the balloons we had blown up earlier. After the movie, everyone left and we went to bed after a long day.
And now, a haiku:
Rice and beans, beans, rice
Rice and beans and beans and rice
Oh, and rice and beans
-Owen D.
Hola!! Today was our family day with our homestays. Since it was Sunday, our host parents didn't have work and we got to spend most of the day with them. In the morning, we slept in a bit and watched Cinderella with our host sister Sofi. For breakfast we had toast and eggs with cheese and rice and beans. Around noon, the whole group met at the community center for a scavenger hunt. Our families were invited also but they were very busy preparing for lunch. For the scavenger hunt, we had a list of things we had to take pictures of in our teams. The list included five dogs, four different colored houses, a person who has lived in this town "El Refugio" for more than 10 years, and a picture of us in a pyramid! We had a lot of fun running around though I think we ended up confusing a lot of the locals. After the scavenger hunt, everyone came to our family's house for burgers. We played Jenga for a while and then watched the first Incredibles movie. After that we had a piñata and ate the candy when Gabe broke it open! After all the other kids left Lily and I accidentally took a nap in the living room. When we woke up, our host mom was FaceTiming her mother to wish her a happy birthday so we all sang Happy Birthday to her in Spanish. We were also introduced to our host Mom's brother, niece, nephew, and father via FaceTime. Our host Mom's mother was really happy and started crying. Next, we went to dinner at a restaurant in town where I tried a new dish called Chifrijo. It consisted of rice, beans, tomato, and pork. It was really good. The only | 1,084 |
Recycling Plastic Bags and Wraps
By Ingrid P<|fim_middle|>appenings in this legislative season in Atlanta. | oppell - Ingridp@landings.org
One of the most widely asked question these days at The Landings Association's Recycling Center is, "Why can't we put our plastic bags and wraps into the plastics compactor?"
The Landings Association's Conservation Corner
By Kristin Peney - kristinp@landings.org
Community Programs Manager
There has been a great push for water conservation in The Landings during the past few years (which is great!), but there's a LOT more to this conservation thing than just water.
Basic Cycling Safety
By Lynn Lewis - lynnl@landings.org
Cycling is one of the United States' most popular pastimes. Many areas, like The Landings, with its moderate climate and remarkable scenery, make cycling an attractive option for both recreation and transportation all year long. However, safety is perhaps one of the least thought about topics when it comes to cycling. For this reason, we will run a series of articles on cycling. Topics will range from riding in difficult or unusual conditions, to rules of the road, to riding with children.
Take it at Face Value
By Brody Fletcher
TLA's Canine Correspondent
Some say that dogs can't, but what about people who don't? I mean, I do. Just ask my parents.
SIRC News
Courtesy of SIRC
The Skidaway Island Republican Club (SIRC) will host The State of Our State with State Senator Ben Watson and State Representative Jesse Petrea on April 24 at Plantation Club.
The legislature just passed the bill that will permit all Skidaway Island residents to vote for or against incorporation this November. They will address this subject and tell you of the happenings and non-h | 354 |
Your business survives by exchanging goods or services for money. But in order to convince people to hand over their money, you first need to get them to trust you.
There are a number of ways you can do this, but one study suggests that a good web design can actually make your website more trustworthy.
And although this is a study of health websites specifically, the findings can be applied to just about any business website.
In short, people mistrust websites because of poor design.
The study found that when describing why participants mistrusted a website, 94% of the comments were design-related while only 6% of the reasons for distrusting a website were content-related.
Complex, busy layout – Unusual layouts were cited as being less trustworthy. Participants were looking for an easy-to-read and expected layout.
Pop-up advertisements – Most people find pop-up ads annoying. And this study points out that they also hurt your website's credibility. If your company relies heavily on being trustworthy (home security, financial institutions, etc.) Avoid pop-ups.
Slow introductions to the website – Besides being clunky and slow, website intros can make web visitors hit the back button.
Small print – Content is the cornerstone of you website. It's what people are looking for. So don't hide it. Make sure the content on your website is easy to read.
When participants were asked for reasons that they mistrusted websites, design was the most-cited reason. However, when asked for aspects of websites they trusted, content factors were mentioned 83% of the time.
This seems to imply that websites with bad design will<|fim_middle|> have both! Ignoring either one can have catastrophic results.
What do you spend more time/money/energy/effort on - content or design? | be dismissed quickly, even if the content is good.
Yet, if the design is good, it goes almost unnoticed, with visitors focusing on the content, instead.
Good design is not good enough. Neither is good content. To have a truly successful business website, you must | 55 |
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