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Allan Pinkerton— Spy Master, The Original Private Eye, and Union Buster Allan Pinkerton in 1861 as he gained fame a Lincoln's protector and secret agent. Allan Pinkerton, America's first detective and the founder of the security company that still bears his name was born on August 25, 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland. Admired as a hero to some, he was despised by generations of workers as a union buster and scab herder. Pinkerton started as a class conscious working man. The son of a duty disabled policeman, he apprenticed as a cooper and participated in the Chartist movement to obtain the franchise for working men and other political reforms. Chartist "riots" were violently suppressed by troops in many cities. Newly married and deeply disappointed by the failure to achieve the vote, Pinkerton decided to immigrate to the Canada at the age of 23 in 1842. He and his wife were shipwrecked off Nova Scotia and came ashore penniless with only the clothes on their back. A friend tipped him off to a job at a Chicago brewery. He worked at his trade there for five years before relocating to rural Dundee, Illinois nearly fifty miles northwest of the city. He apparently wanted to go into business providing oak wood from the abundant local woodlots to the brewery but reportedly accidentally stumbled on a ring of counterfeiters, which he reported to local authorities. In those days when each bank issued their own paper notes, counterfeiting was a common crime. Several well organized gangs found the remote farmsteads of recently settled Kane and McHenry counties—good places to set up operations far away from police but close enough to the city to get their bad paper quickly into circulation. Pinkerton began using disguises, false identities and other tricks to track down counterfeiting gangs. He was appointed a part time deputy sheriff and later began to work on contract for the banks whose notes were being counterfeited. Pinkerton thought he had found a niche and a home. But he also supported the Underground Railway which used the rural area as a transportation path for the same reasons as it was chosen by the crooks. His known abolitionist sentiments led to a crushing electoral defeat in a run for local office. But his daring exploits chasing counterfeiters had been picked up in the popular press. He packed up his new reputation and returned to Chicago where he hired himself out as a freelance detective. Among his customers were the Treasury Department in the pursuit of more counterfeiters and the Cook County Sheriff, who hired him to locate two girls who had been kidnapped and taken to Michigan. He found the girls and shot one of the captors, making headlines for his daring do. The Sheriff hired him as a full time detective—the first such officer in any Illinois police agency. He also continued to take private clients on the side. Pinkerton's "seeing eye" became one of America's first and most recognizable company logos. In 1855 he formed his own private agency, the North-Western Police Agency, soon to become The Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Its famous logo was an All Seeing Eye with the motto "We never sleep"—thus the origin of the term private eye. Pinkerton quickly built a large operation with many operatives who were trained in surveillance and under-cover operations. He demanded his operatives keep detailed records of their cases and on all known criminals they encountered. He kept the records, including descriptions, aliases, known associates, and modes of operation of hundreds of criminals. He even became the first to use photographs to identify suspects. No other private law enforcement agency and few public ones had anything like the manpower or sophistication of Pinkerton's operations. Among the frequent customers of the new agency were the railroads, which is how Pinkerton came the attention of a railroad lawyer and politician, named Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton's steadfast support of the Republican Party didn't hurt either. Lincoln tapped Pinkerton to assist his personal friend and bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon for security as he made his way from Illinois to Washington for his inauguration. Pinkerton operatives uncovered a plot by Confederate sympathizers to kill Lincoln as he changed trains in Baltimore and allegedly foiled the attempt by sneaking the lanky Lincoln through town disguised as an old woman. Pinkerton, rear and Lincoln's friend and bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon with the goatee escorted President elect Lincoln on his perilous journey by train for the 1861 inauguration. As the Civil War erupted, Lincoln learned to his chagrin that the Army had no real intelligence service. He tapped Pinkerton to become the first head of the new Intelligence Service, forerunner of the U.S. Secret Service. Pinkerton deployed his operatives behind the lines, often disguised as Confederate soldiers and employed various tipsters. He personally went on some missions in enemy territory using the name Major E.J. Allen. He was very close to another old acquaintance from the Illinois Central Railroad, General George McClellan. Unfortunately, Pinkerton consistently overestimated the size of opposing Confederate forces by as much two times their actual numbers. That caused the cautious McClellan to avoid battle with the main Confederate forces when possible while demanding ever more men and arms for the President. Military historians agree now that had McClellan moved his vastly larger and better equipped army more quickly and with greater determination to follow up on successes, the war could have been significantly shorter. Pinkerton on horseback in George McClellan's headquarters provided disastrous over-estimates of Confederate numbers and strength which caused the cautious commanding general from taking decisive action. Eventually Lincoln grew tired of both McClellan's dithering and Pinkerton's exaggerations. Pinkerton left the Service after 1862, but his agency continued to contract with the government for numerous intelligence operations through the rest of the war. In post war years Pinkerton's agencies pursued gangs of bank and train robbers, most notoriously Missouri outlaws Frank and Jesse James. The Pinkerton Agency got a public black eye when its men threw a bomb killing a child and blowing the arm off the James boys' stepmother. After an operative who got a job working on an adjacent farm was discovered and killed, Pinkerton withdrew from the case. He considered it the biggest failure of his career. Pinkerton range detectives like these played a bloody roll in range wars between Western cattle barons and small ranchers and homesteaders accused of rustling cattle. Soon rapid post war industrialization led to growing labor unrest. Pinkerton, the former Chartist, had no trouble enlisting his men as strike breakers and spies against unions. One of the most famous early examples was the infiltration of the Molly McGuires, a secret organization of Irish miners in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal fields by Irish-born operative James McParland. Identities of Molly leaders and members were passed to local employers who employed vigilantes, who may or may not have included other Pinkerton men, to ambush and kill them and their families. McParland's testimony in court also led to the execution of six men and the destruction of the Molly McGuires. Pinkerton detective James McParland infiltrated the Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coal fields sending several to the gallows. He had a long career with the agency and years later arranged for Big Bill Haywood and Charles Moyers of the Western Federation of Miners to be kidnapped from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho on bogus charges of planting a bomb that killed a former governor. McParland was rewarded with rapid promotion through the company ranks and specialized in labor cases. Twenty years later he kidnapped Big Bill Haywood, Charles Moyers and other leaders of the Western Federation of Miners from Colorado and took them on a sealed train to Idaho where they were put on trial for the bombing murder of a former governor. Pinkerton in a Harper's Weekly illustration shortly before his death. Pinkerton died in Chicago on July 1, 1884 at the age of 64. He fell on the pavement and bit his tongue. It became infected and he died in agony. By that time a huge amount of his company's business was anti-union activity. Company agents were involved in the gun battle with striking steelworkers during the Homestead Strike of 1891, suppressing the Pullman Strike of 1894, and in the infamous Ludlow Massacre of 1914 to list only a few of the most infamous cases. The agency also was hired by foreign governments to suppress local radicals, most famously by Spain to work against nationalists in Cuba who included the abolition of slavery as one of their top goals. Dashiell Hammett, the inventor of tough guy detective fiction based his character the Continental Op on his experience as a labor spy in Butte, Montana. He may have been involved in investigations that lead to the lynching of legendary IWW organizer Frank Little. The bitter experience made him a life-long radical. Dashiell Hammett became a young Pinkerton operative before World War I and became so disillusioned by the anti-union work he was called on to do, including work that may have led up to the lynching of Industrial Workers of the Word (IWW) organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, that the famous creator of hard-boiled detective fiction dedicated much of the rest of his life to supporting radical causes. In the 1930's a Senate Committee led by Wisconsin Progressive/Republican Robert M. La Follette, Jr. investigated the Pinkerton Agency for its systematic use of spies to infiltrate labor unions. To this day Pinkerton is a curse word to unionists and the company is still used to protect scabs and harass picket lines. In 1999 the Pinkerton Agency and was acquired by the Swedish based international security firm Securitas AB. It merged with its chief rival, the William J. Burns Detective Agency, in 2001. Today it operates as an American subsidy of the Swedish firm under the name Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations. And the work goes on. Labels: Abraham Lincoln, Allan PInkerton, Chartists, Civil War, counterfeiters, Dashiell Hammet, detective, James McParland, Jesse James, McHenry County, Molly McGuires, Pinkerton Agency, scabs, Scotland, spy Very interesting, Pat. Why did he do his 180 from Chartist and abolitionist to essential union buster? Simple greed? Identification with his robber baron clients? Paul Jordan News Over the Air—A Detroit Station Did it First Texas Could Really Use Molly Ivins Now—So Could We... New Orleans Déjà vu—An Anniversary Replay Decades Later Emmett Till is Still a Victim and a ... Not Quite Indestructible—Margaret Bourke-White The New Militancy of the 1969 Women's Strike for E... Allan Pinkerton— Spy Master, The Original Private ... 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Results awaited in election that pitted incumbent against ex-wrestler and a woman in landlocked Central Asian country. Voting has closed in Mongolia's presidential election, which has pitted the incumbent against a former wrestler and a woman, amid calls for a fairer wealth distribution from a mining boom that has raised questions over the role of foreign investors. Polls closed at 10:00pm local time (1400 GMT) on Wednesday, and while results could arrive overnight, and any candidate that wins more than 50 percent of the vote will claim victory and avoid a run-off on July 10. All three candidates claim they want to ensure a fair distribution of wealth in Mongolia, a remote, landlocked nation. Recent polls suggest that President Tsakhia Elbegdorj will secure a second term to continue his policy of using foreign cash to help drive the rapid development of Mongolia's economy, which grew by 17.5 percent in 2011 and 12.3 percent last year. The expansion has been achieved after the arrival of foreign mining giants, which have moved in to exploit huge and largely untapped reserves of coal, copper and gold, especially at the southern Oyu Tolgoi mine. Concerns over rising inequality in the cities and environmental damage in the rural areas continue to dominate debate in the country's parliament. Elbegdorj's main challenger is likely to be Badmaanyambuu Bat-Erdene, a champion wrestler and candidate from the Mongolian People's Party (MPP). The third candidate, Natsag Udval, from the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), is reportedly Mongolia's first female presidential candidate. Udval is a supporter of former President Nambar Enkhbayar, who is serving a two-and-half year jail term on corruption charges. Bat-Erdene helped draw up a new environmental protection law amid concerns that the country's landscape was being damaged by industry. Both of Elbegdorj's challengers harbour policies aimed at amending Oyu Tolgoi's contract amid concerns over rampant development and inequality. A survey carried out between June 14-16 by the Ulaanbaatar-based Sant Maral Foundation, a traditional stronghold of the ruling Democratic Party, suggested that 54 percent of Mongolians will vote for Elbegdorj. The country held its first elections in 1992, signalling a transition to democracy that has been largely peaceful, although accusations of vote-rigging in 2008 parliamentary elections resulted in deadly riots.

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Generally speaking I enjoy watching drunken fools jump onto the field during a professional game, and then eventually get leveled and carted off to jail. It's entertaining. It hasn't been until this year that I ever saw someone rush the field and act like an idiot for a cause. If you frequent the 104.5 The Team website, then you are assuredly are familiar with the Jungle Bird, that crazy guy who interrupted Webb Simpson's U.S. Open celebration, and has since raided the field during a Notre Dame game and "cooed" his way through the Women's British Open trophy presentation. That fantastic fool is doing his part to spread awareness about deforestation. A worthy cause, no doubt. Well, now we also have Mark Harvey, who "streaked" his was onto the field last night during the Ravens v. Patriots primetime match-up. I put "streaked" in quotations because the guy technically wasn't naked, not that I would want him to be, I'm just saying. Anyway, Harvey, who was able to allude security for quite a long time, apparently is using is boldly irresponsible decision making to spread the word about bullying. Harvey painted his body in large lettering which said something along the lines of "don't be a bully, be a hero," a message that I hope resonated with whomever he shared a cell with last night. If you want to check out Harvey's website, you can find it here. There you will find the true message behind his madness, and some slightly uncomfortable ramblings about him being a super hero. Enjoy.

On Gorsuch decision, Casey put people before politics DESPITE HIS TENUOUS POLITICAL position as a Democrat facing reelection in a state won by Republican President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey chose his constituents over threats from a well-funded opposition. In announcing his intention to vote no on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Casey listened to constituents like myself who asked him to vote against Gorsuch—a judge with a penchant for putting corporations before people. In an age when too many politicians value their own interests more than the constituents they represent, Casey chose the people over himself. For that, he has earned my respect. Still, announcing his intention to vote against Gorsuch's nomination is politically dangerous, especially since a coalition of conservative groups led by the Judicial Crisis Network pledged to spend up to $10 million to help get Gorsuch confirmed. If such a coalition could spend that kind of money to support Gorsuch, it could also spend similar money to oppose Casey. I asked the Senator why he was willing to take such a political risk. "Politics should play no role in my duty to review an appointee to the most powerful court in the world," Casey said in an emailed response. Click here to read more on Philly.com Photo: U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. Penn State / Flickr Creative Commons Solomon Jones is an Essence bestselling author and award-winning columnist. He is the creator and editor of Solomonjones.com and morning host on 900 am WURD radio. Click here to learn more about Solomon. JD on Trump and the GOP want to steal Philly's votes and steal the presidency: "Well written." Leona Budd on Safe Injection Sites Community Forum – Complete Audio: "I listen to the topic discussion on "Safe Houses" Everyone knows we live in a racist country where blacks are…" Robert Kalalian on Not high on mixing medical marijuana and politics: "…ps. i have not followed the DA candidates positions and was wondering who you are planning to vote for…? Please…"

Briscoe's heartbreaking week ends with win DARLINGTON, S.C. — Chase Briscoe capped a heartbreaking week by winning the Xfinity Series' return to action at Darlington Raceway on Thursday. Briscoe was in the Darlington infield Tuesday awaiting the race's original start when he digitally joined wife, Marissa, for a 12-week exam for their expected baby. The couple heard the tragic news: There was no fetal heartbeat. "The worst news I could've heard," Briscoe posted on Instagram on Wednesday. Still, Briscoe was in the lineup for the series' first action since March 7 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and used two strong restarts and a quick pit stop to finish on top. He got the lead out of the pits during the final caution, then pulled away from Kyle Busch and Justin Allgaier on the subsequent restart with seven laps to go for his fourth career win and second this season. "This is the biggest day of my life after the toughest day of my life," Briscoe said. Busch seemed to have the race in hand as he took the second stage in a dominant showing. But he was called for speeding in the pits and ordered to the back of the 39-car field. But Busch was there to challenge Briscoe at the end, the cars touching off the final turn before Briscoe crossed the finish line in front by 0.08 seconds. Allgaier was third, Austin Cindric fourth and Noah Gragson, the pole sitter who won the first stage, was fifth. For Busch, it was another error that cost him a win at Darlington. In the NASCAR Cup Series race Wednesday night, he clipped Chase Elliott late to cause a spin — Elliott waited and extended his middle finger at Busch — and finished second to Joe Gibbs teammate Denny Hamlin. Busch was satisfied with his run." I had a good showing, put on a little bit of an exciting show there at the end," he said. Busch and Timmy Hill were in all three Darlington races. The two plan to run all four races at Charlotte, too. After the delay Tuesday because of rain, more storms delayed the planned noon start for another 4½ hours. Xfinity Toyota 200 Results At Darlington (S.C.) Raceway Lap length: 1.37 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (11) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 147 laps, 50 points. 2. (26) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 147, 0. 3. (10) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 147, 48. 4. (7) Austin Cindric, Ford, 147, 42. 5. (1) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 147, 50. 6. (23) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 147, 40. 7. (4) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 147, 40. 8. (9) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 147, 42. 9. (12) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 147, 28. 10. (3) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 147, 28. 11. (22) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, 147, 0. 12. (30) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 147, 26. 13. (6) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 147, 24. 14. (17) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 147, 23. 15. (13) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 147, 22. 16. (15) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 147, 21. 17. (16) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 147, 20. 18. (5) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 147, 19. 19. (36) Joe Graf Jr, Chevrolet, 147, 18. 20. (8) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 147, 17. 21. (19) Ray Black Jr, Chevrolet, 147, 16. 22. (28) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 147, 0. 23. (34) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 147, 14. 24. (24) Chad Finchum, Toyota, 147, 13. 25. (2) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 146, 20. 26. (25) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet, 146, 11. 27. (31) Colby Howard, Chevrolet, 146, 10. 28. (29) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 145, 0. 29. (20) Vinnie Miller, Chevrolet, 145, 8. 30. (33) Mason Massey, Toyota, 143, 7. 31. (32) Ronnie Bassett Jr, Chevrolet, 143, 6. 32. (21) Kody Vanderwal, Chevrolet, 142, 5. 33. (35) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, 142, 0. 34. (27) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 135, 3. 35. (14) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, 129, 2. 36. (18) Jesse Little, Chevrolet, vibration, 122, 1. 37. (39) Colin Garrett, Toyota, 111, 1. 38. (38) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, handling, 35, 1. 39. (37) Stephen Leicht, Toyota, suspension, 1, 1. Average Speed of Race Winner: 115.371 mph. Time of Race: 1 hour, 44 minutes, 26 seconds. Margin of Victory: .086 seconds. Caution Flags: 5 for 28 laps. Lead Changes: 10 among 6 drivers. Lap Leaders: N.Gragson 0-46; R.Chastain 47; K.Busch 48-91; J.Allgaier 92; B.Brown 93; J.Allgaier 94-95; C.Briscoe 96-129; J.Allgaier 130-135; C.Briscoe 136-145; K.Busch 146; C.Briscoe 147 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): N.Gragson, 1 time for 46 laps; C.Briscoe, 3 times for 45 laps; K.Busch, 2 times for 45 laps; J.Allgaier, 3 times for 9 laps; R.Chastain, 1 time for 1 lap; B.Brown, 1 time for 1 lap. Wins: C.Briscoe, 2; H.Burton, 1; N.Gragson, 1; B.Jones, 1. Top 16 in Points: 1. C.Briscoe, 223; 2. H.Burton, 204; 3. A.Cindric, 197; 4. N.Gragson, 193; 5. R.Chastain, 188; 6. J.Allgaier, 186; 7. R.Sieg, 183; 8. J.Haley, 168; 9. B.Jones, 165; 10. M.Annett, 139; 11. R.Herbst, 128; 12. B.Brown, 115; 13. A.Labbe, 107; 14. J.Williams, 104; 15. D.Hemric, 94; 16. R.Black, 92.

ICBC to fund Eastern Rail lines project in Ghana 22 May 2012 (Last Updated May 22nd, 2012 18:30) The Ghanaian government is expecting to secure $990m funding from the Investment and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for repair works on the Eastern Rail lines, which include sections between Nsawam to Accra and Achimota to Tema. China's Exim Bank is also expected to provide another $1.95bn for reconstruction works on the Nsawam to Kumasi rail lines. Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA) acting chief executive officer Emmanuel Opoku told the Ghana News Agency that $500m would be taken from the $3bn Chinese loan facility for rehabilitation works on the Western Rail line. "Currently, all three rail lines, including the western, central and eastern, are not in good shape due to bad tracks," Opoku said. "Rehabilitation works would include mainly the tracks, bridges, signals and telecommunication systems." Under the repair works, GRDA will upgrade all the gauges, from 10.67mm to 14.35mm, to enable it to connect Ghana to other Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) countries. According to GRDA, the construction of the standard gauge rail tracks will enable the country to increase the speed of the trains from 57km/h to about 180km/h. In addition, the government is also planning to extend the railway service to the northern sector and the Volta region, as the country's rail services are currently being used only by the southern sector. "The Authority had taken into consideration issues raised by the disability associations on the need for them to import coaches, which were disability-friendly, and would work to ensure that all rehabilitation works on importation of new coaches were to their assertion." The project is also expected to reduce traffic on the roads, as well as provide a safer means of transportation. In March 2012, the government had secured a loan of $600m from US-based Conti Engineering and General Electric for the rehabilitation of the Western rail lines and repairs of Accra's drainage systems. According to GRDA, about $200m of the total fund, will be used for the repair of the Western rail project. Wayside Inspection Devices Bogie Condition Monitoring and Hunting Detection for Rail Applications Halberstadt Rail Tools and Equipment for Railway Maintenance Facilities SwitchPoint Heating ORIGO Electrical Heating Systems and Equipment

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Photos / Sports Gallery / Badminton Gallery Teary-eyed Malaysian legend Lee Chong Wei announces retirement from badminton Last updated on - Jun 13, 2019 /sports/badminton/teary-eyed-malaysian-legend-lee-chong-wei-announces-retirement-from-badminton/eventshow/69771326.cms Three-time Olympic silver medallist Lee Chong Wei's 19-year-old career has come to an end - Photogallery Three-time Olympic silver medallist Lee Chong Wei's 19-year-old career has come to an end. The legendary badminton player called for a press conference where he announced his retirement. "I told the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) that I want to spend time with my family. For the sake of my health, it's not suitable for me to exert myself," Wei said as he wiped away his tears. From 2008 to 2012, the 36-year-old had secured the world no. 1 spot. The Malaysian badminton star decided to quit after battling against nose cancer for a year and later went through intensive treatment in Japan. At the conference, he thanked his fans for their undying support, "My decision to retire is a heavy one. I really love this sport. But it is a demanding sport. I thank all Malaysians for the past 19 years." Several Indian badminton players took to social media to praise Lee Chong Wei's illustrious career. Saina Nehwal posted a message on Twitter, she said, "Really loved ur performances for many years @LeeChongWei .. ur great badminton legend and it's very sad to know that ur retiring ... I wish u the best for future and pls take care of ur health." (All photos: Instagram) See more of : Lee Chong Wei Lee Chong Wei /sports/badminton/teary-eyed-malaysian-legend-lee-chong-wei-announces-retirement-from-badminton/Lee-Chong-Wei/eventshow/69771342.cms ICC World Cup 2019: Eoin Morgan hits 17 sixes agai... Teary-eyed Malaysian legend Lee Chong Wei announce... China wins big at Sudirman Cup 2019​ ​Kidambi Srikanth's absence affects India at 2019 ... Japan Open 2018: Kidambi Srikanth eliminated in qu... Vietnam Open 2018: Ajay Jayaram enters finals P.V. Sindhu Badminton World Championships 2018: Carolina defea... PV Sindhu

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\section{Introduction} The old idea that the QCD running coupling ``freezes'' at low energies has been phenomenologically successful in a wide variety of contexts. (See Refs. \cite{mat,webber} and references therein.) Theoretical evidence that ``freezing'' does occur, and for purely perturbative reasons, comes from the third-order calculation of $R_{e^+e^-}$ \cite{r2} which, when ``optimized'' with respect to renormalization scheme, yields such behaviour \cite{mat}. Pad\'e approximant methods indicate a similar conclusion \cite{eks}. Another approach is the Banks-Zaks (BZ) expansion \cite{bz,white,grun,st}, within which ``freezing'' is natural and ubiquitous. The relevance of the BZ expansion to low-energy QCD phenomenology hinges on an extrapolation in the number of (massless) flavours, $n_f$, from $16{\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{2}}}$ down to about 2. Our point in this paper is that the credibility of this extrapolation has been significantly enhanced by the recent calculation of the QCD $\beta$ function to 4 loops \cite{rit}. The BZ expansion \cite{bz}-\cite{st} is an expansion in $n_f^{\rm crit} - n_f$, where $n_f^{\rm crit}$ is the critical number of flavours at which asymptotic freedom is lost; {\it i.e.}, where the first $\beta$-function coefficient changes sign. In QCD $n_f^{\rm crit}$ is $16 {\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{2}}}$. For $n_f$ slightly less than $16 {\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{2}}}$ the $\beta$ function starts out negative, but quickly turns positive, and there is thus an infrared fixed point $a^*$ close to the origin \cite{cas,bz}. Provided the couplant $a(\mu)$ initially lies between 0 and $a^*$ (necessary for asymptotic freedom), the couplant will ``freeze'' to $a^*$ as the energy scale $\mu$ tends to zero. Thus, in the BZ expansion, ``freezing'' is natural and universal and will occur for all $n_f < 16 {\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{2}}}$, unless or until the BZ expansion breaks down. Ref. \cite{st} has suggested that the BZ expansion is qualitatively relevant to the real world where only 2 or 3 quark flavours are light compared to the QCD $\Lambda$ scale. The crucial issue is whether the expansion shows reasonable numerical convergence when $n_f \approx 2$. Assuming good behaviour, Ref \cite{st} made a prediction for a certain coefficient. As we discuss, this prediction is borne out by the recent calculation of the QCD $\beta$ function to four-loops \cite{rit}. The plan of the paper is as follows: Section 2 presents the notation and extracts the relevant coefficients. Sections 3 and 4 discuss the BZ expansion for quantities at $Q = 0$ and at general $Q$, respectively. An important role is played by $\gamma^{*}$, the slope of the $\beta$ function at the fixed point, and we discuss its coefficients (the ``universal invariants'' of Grunberg \cite{grun}) to fourth order. Sect. 5 contains concluding remarks. Appendix A summarizes the results for a general $SU(N)$ colour group. Appendix B discusses the issue of renormalization-scheme (RS) invariance and the notion of `regular' and `irregular' schemes. The Higgs-decay case, which we argue is not a good guide to infrared behaviour, is discussed in Appendix C. \section{Notation} We write the $\beta$ function in the form: \begin{equation} \label{eq: beta} \beta \left( a\right) \equiv \mu \frac{da}{d\mu} = -b a^2 \left( 1 + ca + c_{2} a^2 + c_{3} a^3 +\ldots \right) \,, \end{equation} where $a \equiv \alpha_{s}/\pi$. The coefficients, in the $\overline{\rm MS}$ scheme, are \cite{cas,c2,rit}: \begin{eqnarray} \beta_0 = 2b & \! \! = \! \!& 11 - \frac{2}{3} n_f \,, \nonumber \\ \beta_1 = 8 bc & \! \! = \! \! & 102 - \frac{38}{3} n_f \,, \nonumber \\ \beta_2 = 32 b c_2 & \! \! = \! \! & \frac{2857}{2} - \frac{5033}{18} n_f + \frac{325}{54} n_f^2 \,, \\ \beta_3 = 128 b c_3 & \! = \! & \left( \frac{149753}{6} + 3564 \zeta_3 \right) - \left( \frac{1078361}{162} + \frac{6508}{27} \zeta_3 \right) n_f \nonumber \\ & \!\!\!\!& \mbox{} + \left( \frac{50065}{162} + \frac{6472}{81} \zeta_3 \right) n_f^2 + \frac{1093}{729} n_f^3. \nonumber \end{eqnarray} Here $\zeta_s$ is the Riemann zeta-function ($\zeta_3 =1.202056903 \ldots$, $\zeta_5 = 1.036927755 \ldots$). For $n_{f}$ just below $16 {\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{2}}}$, the $\beta$ function has a zero at $a^{*} \sim -\frac{1}{c}$, and $a^*$ is asymptotically proportional to $(16 {\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{2}}} - n_{f})$. Its limiting form: \begin{equation} a_{0} \equiv \frac{8}{321}\left( 16 {\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{2}}} - n_{f}\right) \end{equation} serves as the expansion parameter for the BZ expansion \cite{st}. Because the constant of proportionality is so small, $a_0$ remains small ($\le 0.4$) even with $n_f=0$. To proceed, one re-writes all perturbative coefficients, eliminating $n_f$ in favour of $a_0$. The first two $\beta$-function coefficients, which are RS invariant, become: \begin{eqnarray} b &=& \frac{107}{8} a_{0}, \\ c &=& -\frac{1}{a_{0}} + \frac{19}{4}. \end{eqnarray} Within the class of so-called `regular' schemes \cite{grun,st}, which includes $\overline{\rm MS}$, perturbative coefficients have a polynomial dependence on $n_f$, and we may write \begin{equation} \label{ciexp} c_{i} = \frac{1}{a_{0}} \left( c_{i,-1} + c_{i,0} a_{0} + c_{i,1} a_{0}^2 + \ldots \right). \end{equation} The coefficients, in $\overline{\rm MS}$, are collected in the table below. \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|rclcr|} \hline $c_{1,0}$ &=& $\frac{19}{4}$ &=& 4.75 \\ \hline $c_{2,-1}$ &$=$& $- \left( \frac{8}{107} \right) \left( \frac{37117}{768} \right) $ &=& $-3.61$ \\ $c_{2,0}$ &=& $\frac{243}{32}$ &=& 7.59 \\ $c_{2,1}$ &=& $\left( \frac{107}{8} \right) \left( \frac{325}{192} \right) $ &=& 22.6 \\ \hline $c_{3,-1}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{8}{107} \right) \left( \frac{53981}{1152} + \frac{5335}{32}\zeta_3 \right) $ &=& 18.5 \\ $c_{3,0}$ &=& $-\frac{1544327}{13824} - \frac{16171}{288}\zeta_3$ &=& $-179$ \\ $c_{3,1}$ &=& $\left( \frac{107}{8} \right) \left( \frac{2587}{96} +\frac{809}{144}\zeta_3 \right) $ &=& 451 \\ $c_{3,2}$ &=& $ - \left( \frac{107}{8} \right)^2 \left( \frac{1093}{3456} \right) $ &=& $-56.6$ \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} The BZ expansion can be applied to any perturbatively calculable physical quantity of the form: \begin{equation} \label{eq: R} {\cal{R}} = a \left( 1 + r_{1} a + r_{2} a^2 + r_{3} a^3 + \ldots\right). \end{equation} In a `regular' scheme the coefficients $r_{i}$ are polynomials in $n_f$, and hence in $a_{0}$: \begin{equation} \label{riexp} r_i = r_{i,0} + r_{i,1} a_0 + r_{i,2} a_0^2 + \ldots . \end{equation} Note that a term $r_{i,j} a_0^p$ or $c_{i,j} a_0^p$ can be assigned a degree $i+j-p$, and all terms in any formula must have matching degree. The prototypical example is the $e^+e^-$ ratio: \begin{equation} R_{e^{+} e^{-}}(Q) \equiv \frac{\sigma_{\rm tot} \left( e^{+} e^{-} \rightarrow {\mbox{\rm hadrons}}\right)}{\sigma \left( e^{+} e^{-} \rightarrow \mu^{+} \mu^{-}\right)}, \end{equation} where, neglecting quark masses, we can write $R_{e^{+} e^{-}} \left( Q \right) = 3 \Sigma q_{i}^2 \left( 1 + {\cal R}_{e^+e^-}\right)$, where ${\cal R}_{e^+e^-}$ has the form (\ref{eq: R}). [Actually, for ${\cal R}_{e^+e^-}$ there is a problem in that $r_2$ involves a term $1.2395 (\Sigma q_{i})^2/(3 \Sigma {q_{i}}^2)$ whose $n_f$ dependence is ambiguous because it depends on the electric charges we assign to the additional, ficticious quarks. This arises because $R_{e^+e^-}$ involves not just QCD, but its coupling to electromagnetism. Fortunately, this term seems to make only a small numerical contribution. We shall ignore it henceforth.] The coefficients, in $\overline{\rm MS}$ with the renormalization scale $\mu$ equated with $Q$, are collected in the table below \cite{r2}: \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|rclcr|} \hline & & Coefficients in ${\cal R}_{e^+e^-}$. [$\overline{\rm MS}$($\mu=Q$)] & & \\ \hline $r_{1,0}$ &=& $\frac{1}{12}$ &=& 0.0833 \\ $r_{1,1}$ &=& $\left( \frac{107}{8} \right) \left( \frac{11}{4} - 2 \zeta_3 \right) $ &=& 4.63 \\ \hline $r_{2,0}$ &=& $-\frac{12521}{288} + 13 \zeta_3$ &=& $-27.85$ \\ $r_{2,1}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{107}{8} \right) \left( \frac{401}{24} - \frac{53}{3}\zeta_3 + \frac{25}{3}\zeta_5 \right) $ &=& 55.0 \\ $r_{2,2}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{107}{8} \right)^2 \left( \frac{151}{18} - \frac{19}{3}\zeta_3 - \frac{\pi^2}{12} \right) $ &=& $-8.34$ \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} Another example is the Bjorken sum rule: \begin{equation} \int_0^1 dx g_1^{\rm ep-en}(x,Q^2) = \frac{1}{3} \left| \frac{g_A}{g_V} \right| \left( 1 - {\cal R}_{\rm Bj} \right). \end{equation} (The same QCD corrections, apart from a $(\Sigma q_{i})^2/(3 \Sigma {q_{i}}^2)$ term, appear in the Gross Llewellyn-Smith sum rule.) The coefficients, from Ref. \cite{bj} are listed below. \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|rclcr|} \hline & & Coefficients in ${\cal R}_{\rm Bj}$ [$\overline{\rm MS}$($\mu=Q$)] & & \\ \hline $r_{1,0}$ &=& $- \frac{11}{12}$ &=& $-0.917$ \\ $r_{1,1}$ &=& $\frac{107}{8}$ &=& 13.38 \\ \hline $r_{2,0}$ &=& $-\frac{1385}{72} - \frac{55}{4} \zeta_3$ &=& $-35.76$ \\ $r_{2,1}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{107}{8} \right) \left( \frac{2749}{432} + \frac{61}{18} \zeta_3 - 5 \zeta_5 \right)$ &=& 70.25 \\ $r_{2,2}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{107}{8} \right)^2 \left( \frac{115}{72} \right) $ &=& 285.73 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} We mention that the same decomposition of coefficients is needed in the ``large-$b$'' approximation \cite{max}, which employs the opposite limit ($b \to \infty$, rather than $b = (107/8)a_0 \to 0$ as here). \section{BZ Expansion: Q = 0} The fixed-point condition $\beta(a^{*}) = 0$ always has a solution as a power series in $a_0$: \begin{equation} \label{astar} a^{*} = a_{0} \left[ 1 + v_1 a_{0} + v_2 a_{0}^{2} + v_3 a_{0}^{3} + \ldots \right]. \end{equation} A straightforward calculation yields: \begin{eqnarray} \label{eq: AA} v_1 &=& c_{1,0} +c_{2,-1},\nonumber \\ v_2 &=& (c_{1,0}+2c_{2,-1})(c_{1,0} +c_{2,-1})+c_{2,0}+c_{3,-1}, \\ v_3 &=& c_{1,0}^3 + 6 c_{1,0}^2 c_{2,-1} + c_{1,0}(3 c_{2,0} + 4 c_{3,-1} + 10 c_{2,-1}^2) \nonumber \\ & & {\mbox{}} + c_{2,-1}(4 c_{2,0} + 5 c_{3,-1}) + 5 c_{2,-1}^3 + c_{2,1} + c_{3,0} + c_{4,-1} \,. \nonumber \end{eqnarray} (Numerically, $v_1 =1.1366$, $v_2 =23.27$, $v_3 = c_{4,-1} - 138.6$, in the $\overline{\rm MS}$ scheme. The poor apparent convergence of the $a^*$ series need not bother us, since $a^*$ is RS dependent.) A physical quantity ${\cal R}$ will also have an infrared limit given by a power series in $a_{0}$. One simply takes the perturbative expansion of ${\cal R}$, Eq. (\ref{eq: R}); substitutes $a=a^*$, given by (\ref{eq: AA}); and re-expands in powers of $a_{0}$. This yields: \begin{equation} \label{eq: RR} {\cal R}^{*} = a_{0} \left[ 1 + w_1 a_{0} + w_2 a_{0}^{2} + w_3 a_{0}^{3} + {\cal O}(a_{0}^{4}) \right], \end{equation} where \begin{eqnarray} w_1 &=& v_1 +r_{1,0},\nonumber \\ w_2 &=& v_2 + 2r_{1,0} v_1 + r_{2,0} + r_{1,1}, \\ w_3 &=& v_3 + (2 v_2 + v_1^2) r_{1,0} + v_1 (2r_{1,1} + 3 r_{2,0}) + r_{2,1}+ r_{3,0}.\nonumber \end{eqnarray} These coefficients are RS-scheme independent (see Appendix B) and so their numerical values are significant. They should be order-1 numbers, if all is to be well. For the $e^+e^-$ case, Ref. \cite{st} obtained the value of the first coefficient, $w_1 = 1.22$, but $w_2$ could only be obtained as $-18.25 + c_{3,-1}$, since $c_{3,1}$ was then unknown. To quote Ref. \cite{st}: ``For the expansion to be credible one needs $c_{3,-1}(\overline{\rm MS})$ to be in the range, say, $+13$ to $+21$.'' This prediction is confirmed by the new $\beta$-function result \cite{rit}, which yields $c_{3,-1} = 18.5$. Therefore, $w_2$ is quite small, $0.23$, giving a respectable series: \begin{equation} \label{ree} {\cal R}_{e^+e^-}^* = a_0 \left[ 1 + 1.22 a_0 + 0.23 a_0^2 + \ldots \right]. \end{equation} The next coefficient, \begin{equation} \label{wee} w_3{\scriptstyle{(e^+e^-)}} = c_{4,-1} + r_{3,0}{\scriptstyle{(e^+e^-)}} - 164.0, \end{equation} would require calculation of both $\beta$ and ${\cal R}_{e^+e^-}$ to one more order. In the Bj-sum-rule case the corresponding result is \begin{equation} \label{rbj} {\cal R}_{\rm Bj}^* = a_0 \left[ 1 + 0.22 a_0 - 1.21 a_0^2 + \ldots \right] , \end{equation} where the coefficients are also of order unity. It is interesting that the ${\cal R}^*$ in this case is even smaller than in the $e^+e^-$ case. The next coefficient is \begin{equation} \label{wbj} w_3{\scriptstyle{({\rm Bj})}} = c_{4,-1} + r_{3,0}{\scriptstyle{({\rm Bj})}} - 203.7. \end{equation} \section{BZ Expansion: Nonzero Q} A formulation of the BZ expansion for quantities at a general $Q$ was derived in Ref. \cite{st}. We briefly review the main ingredients. First, we need a suitable form of the boundary condition for the $\beta$-function equation. Setting $\hat{\beta} \left( x \right) \equiv \beta \left( x \right) / b$, we write \begin{equation} \label{eq: int} b \ln \left( \frac{\mu}{\tilde{\Lambda}} \right) = \lim_{ \delta \rightarrow 0} \left[ \int_{\delta}^{a} \frac{dx}{\hat{\beta} \left(x\right)} + {\cal C}\left( \delta\right)\right]. \end{equation} The constant of integration \({\cal C}\left( \delta\right)\) needs to be suitably singular as $\delta \rightarrow 0$ and we choose \cite{opt,st}: \begin{eqnarray} {\cal C} \left( \delta \right) &=& \mbox{\rm P.V.} \int_{\delta}^{\infty} \frac{dx}{x^2\left(1+cx\right)} \nonumber \\ &=& \frac{1}{\delta} + c\ln\delta + c \ln \left|c\right| + {\cal O}\left(\delta\right). \end{eqnarray} Note that Cauchy's principal value (P.V.) is introduced to deal with the pole at $x = -1/c$ when $c < 0$. This choice amounts to a definition of $\tilde{\Lambda}$, within a given RS. [We use a tilde to distinguish it from the older, but still widely used, definition of the $\Lambda$ parameter \cite{bbdm}. The relation is $\ln(\Lambda/\tilde{\Lambda}) = (c/b) \ln(2 \! \mid \! c \! \mid \! /b)$. While the two definitions are not dissimilar for small $n_f$, they become infinitely different as $n_f \to 16 {\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{2}}}$. In the BZ-expansion context the use of $\tilde{\Lambda}$ is much more convenient.] As explained in Ref. \cite{st}, it is convenient to put the $\beta$ function into the form \begin{equation} \label{betaf} \frac{1}{\hat{\beta}\left(x\right)} = - \frac{1}{x^2} + \frac{c}{x} - \frac{1}{ {\hat{\gamma}}^{*} \left(a^{*} - x\right)} + H\left(x\right). \end{equation} where ${\hat{\gamma}}^{*}$ is $\gamma^{*}/b$, with $\gamma^{*}$ being the slope of the $\beta$ function at the fixed point: \begin{equation} \label{gamstar} \gamma^{*} \equiv \left. \frac{\beta\left(x\right)}{dx}\right|_{x=a^{*}} = -b a^{*} \left( 1 + 2 ca^{*} + 3 c_{2} {a^{*}}^{2}+ 4 c_{3} {a^{*}}^{3} +\ldots \right). \end{equation} As discussed below, $\hat{\gamma}^*$ can be obtained as a series in $a_0$. The remainder function $H(x)$ can be expanded as a power series, $H_0 + H_1 x + \ldots$, whose coefficients are of order $a_0$. One now inserts (\ref{betaf}) into (\ref{eq: int}) and performs the integration. One can then eliminate $a$ and $a^{*}$ in favour of ${\cal R}$ and ${\cal R}^{*}$. In fact, since the result must be RS invariant, one can --- without loss of generality --- short-cut this step by utilizing the ``effective-charge'' RS in which $a \equiv {\cal R}$. This leads to the formula \cite{st}: \begin{equation} \label{eq: YY} \rho_{1} = \frac{1}{\cal R} + \frac{1}{\hat{\gamma}^{*(n)}} \ln\left(1- \frac{{\cal R}}{{\cal R}^{*(n)}} \right) + c\ln\left(\left|c\right| {\cal R} \right) + \sum_{i=0}^{n-4} \frac{H_i^{\rm (ec)} {\cal R}^{i+1}}{i+1}. \end{equation} The last term, involving the $H_i^{\rm (ec)}$ coefficients (of the effective-charge scheme), is only relevant in fourth order and beyond. Thus, for the first three orders the equation takes the same form, just with the parameters $\hat{\gamma}^*$ and ${\cal R}^*$ approximated to the appropriate order. On the left-hand side, $\rho_1$ is the RS invariant \cite{opt} \begin{equation} \label{eq: X} \rho_{1} \equiv b\ln\left( \frac{\mu}{\tilde{\Lambda}}\right) - r_{1} \equiv b \ln\left( \frac{Q}{\tilde{\Lambda}_{\rm eff}} \right), \end{equation} where $\tilde{\Lambda}_{\rm eff}$ is a characteristic scale specific to the particular physical quantity ${\cal R}$. It is related to the $\tilde{\Lambda}$ parameter of some reference scheme (eg. $\overline{\rm MS}$) by an exactly calculable factor $\exp(r_1/b)$ involving the $r_1$ coefficient in that scheme, evaluated at $\mu=Q$. (We caution that $\rho_1$ {\it cannot} be split into ${\cal O}(1)$ and ${\cal O}(a_0)$ pieces in a RS-invariant way \cite{st}.) Numerically inverting Eq. (\ref{eq: YY}) provides ${\cal R}$ as a function of $Q$. The resulting ${\cal R}(Q)$ naturally agrees with ordinary perturbation theory to the corresponding order at large $Q$, but freezes to the value ${\cal R}^{*(n)}$ as $Q \to 0$. The BZ series expansion for ${\cal R}^{*}$ was discussed in the previous section. The BZ expansion for ${\hat{\gamma}}^*$ is obtained straightforwardly by substituting the expansion of $a^*$ (Eqs. (\ref{astar}) and (\ref{eq: AA})) into (\ref{gamstar}). This gives: \begin{equation} {\hat{\gamma}}^{*} = a_{0}\left[ 1 + g_1 a_{0} + g_2 {a_{0}}^{2} + g_3 {a_{0}}^{3} + \ldots \right] \end{equation} where, \begin{eqnarray} g_1 &=& c_{1,0},\nonumber \\ g_2 &=& {c_{1,0}}^{2} - {c_{2,-1}}^{2} -c_{3,-1} , \\ g_3 &=&{c_{1,0}}^{3} - {4c_{2,-1}}^3 - 5 {c_{1,0}}{c_{2,-1}}^{2} - 4 {c_{1,0}} c_{3,-1} \nonumber \\ & & \mbox{} - 2 c_{2,-1} c_{2,0} - 6 c_{2,-1} c_{3,-1} - c_{3,0} - 2c_{4,-1}. \nonumber \end{eqnarray} It is noteworthy that certain terms of degree $n$ are absent in $g_n$: $g_1$ does not contain $c_{2,-1}$; $g_2$ does not contain $c_{2,0}$ or $c_{2,-1} c_{1,0}$; and $g_3$ does not contain $c_{2,1}$ or $c_{2,0} c_{1,0}$ or $c_{2,-1} {c_{1,0}}^2$. The significance of $\gamma^* = b \hat{\gamma}^*$ is that it is the `critical exponent' governing how ${\cal R}$ approaches ${\cal R}^{*}$ as $Q \rightarrow 0$; asymptotically, $ {\cal R} - {\cal R}^* \propto Q^{\gamma^{*}}$. As pointed out by Grunberg, the $g_n$ coefficients are RS invariants, and are universal, in the sense that they are not specific to some particular physical quantity ${\cal R}$. (See Appendix B for discussion of some subtleties.) The new $\beta$-function result \cite{rit} enables us to determine the numerical value of the second invariant; $g_2 =-8.99$. (The exact expression, for general $N$, is given in Appendix A.) Hence the ${\hat{\gamma}}^*$ series is: \begin{equation} \label{gamser} {\hat{\gamma}}^{*} = a_{0}\left[ 1 + 4.75 a_{0} - 8.99 {a_{0}}^{2} + \ldots \right] \end{equation} Clearly, the $\hat{\gamma}^*$ series is not as well behaved as the ${\cal R}^*$ series that we saw earlier. In Fig. 1(a) we show $\gamma^*$ ($= b \hat{\gamma}^*$) as a function of $n_f$. (Fig. 1(b) shows shows the same quantity normalized by $1/(ba_0)$.) The lower and upper solid curves are the first- and second-order results, respectively, while the middle solid curve is the third-order result. The dashed curve represents the third-order result re-cast as a Pad\'e approximant: \begin{equation} \label{gampade} \hat{\gamma}^* \approx a_0 \frac{(1 + 6.64 a_0)}{(1 + 1.89 a_0)}. \end{equation} For comparison we also give, as the dotted curve, the prediction arising from an optimized-perturbation-theory analysis of the $e^+e^-$ case \cite{mat} (see comments in Appendix B). The reasonable agreement between the last three curves gives us some confidence that the extrapolation to low $n_f$ is qualitatively valid, even if the quantitative precision is not good. The next coefficient is \begin{equation} \label{g3} g_3 = 269.44 - 2c_{4,-1}. \end{equation} We therefore predict that $c_{4,-1}(\overline{\rm MS})$ will turn out to be somewhere around $135 \pm 10$. Assuming that the $w_3$ coefficients in (\ref{wee}) and (\ref{wbj}) are modest, we can expect that $r_{3,0}{\scriptstyle{(e^+e^-)}} \approx 29 \pm 10$ and $r_{3,0}{\scriptstyle{({\rm Bj})}} \approx 68 \pm 10$. Knowing $\hat{\gamma}^*$ and ${\cal R}^*$, we can numerically solve Eq. (\ref{eq: YY}) to obtain ${\cal R}(Q)$ as a function of $Q/\tilde{\Lambda}_{\rm eff}$. The result, for the $e^+e^-$ case in third order, is shown in Fig. 2 for $n_f = 14, 10, 6$ and $2$. (It may be directly compared with similar figures for first and second order in Ref. \cite{st}.) Corresponding results in the Bjorken-sum-rule case are shown in Fig. 3. Note that the $\tilde{\Lambda}_{\rm eff}$'s defining the units of $Q$ in Figs. 2 and 3 are not the same: however, they are easily converted to a common $\tilde{\Lambda}$ using Eq. (\ref{eq: X}). \section{Concluding Remarks} The result of van Ritbergen {\it et al.}'s \cite{rit} calculation of the $\beta$ function to four-loops sheds much light on the BZ expansion. It supports the idea that the expansion is relevant to the phenomenologically interesting case of only two light quark flavors. That, in turn, implies perturbatively explicable ``freezing'' of the QCD running coupling constant. We mention again the very interesting work on the ``large-$b$'' approximation (see \cite{max} and references therein) which draws on large-$n_f$ results. This is the opposite approximation to ours. It extrapolates upwards from $n_f = - \infty$ ({\it minus} infinity if the theory is to be asymptotically free) towards $n_f \approx 2$, whereas we are extrapolating down from $n_f = 16{\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{2}}}$. We think both approximations are useful; neither is very precise, but both seem to be qualitatively valid, and offer a great deal of insight into QCD. Our preliminary studies indicate that the large-$b$ approximation also predicts ``freezing,'' and we hope to report on this shortly. \vspace*{4mm} {\bf Acknowledgements}: We thank Ji\v{r}\'i Ch\'yla for correspondence, particularly regarding the issues in Appendix B. This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG05-92ER40717. \newpage \section*{Appendix A: SU($N$) generalization} The critical number of flavours is: \begin{equation} n_f^{\rm crit} = \frac{11}{2} N. \end{equation} The $\beta$-function coefficients in $\overline{\rm MS}$ are \cite{rit} \begin{eqnarray} \beta_0 = 2b & \! = \!&\frac{1}{3}(11 N - 2 n_f) \nonumber \\ \beta_1 = 8 bc & \! = \! & \frac{1}{3 N}(34 N^3 - n_f (13 N^2 - 3)) \nonumber \\ \beta_2 = 32 b c_2^{\overline{\rm MS}} & \! = \! & \frac{1}{108 N^2} \left( 5714 N^5 + n_f(-3418 N^4 + 561 N^2 + 27) + n_f^2(224 N^3 - 66 N) \right) \nonumber \\ \beta_3 = 128 b c_3^{\overline{\rm MS}} & \! = \! & \frac{1}{1944 N^3} \left( 601892 N^7 - 25920 N^5 + \zeta_3 (9504 N^7 + 684288 N^5) \right. \nonumber \\ & \!\! & \mbox{} + n_f \left[ - 485513 N^6 + 58583 N^4 - 21069 N^2 - 5589 \right. \nonumber \\ & \!\! & \mbox{} + \left. \zeta_3 (- 4320 N^6 - 118368 N^4 + 9504 N^2) \right] \nonumber \\ & \!\! & \mbox{} + n_f^2 \left[ 69232 N^5 - 19816 N^3 -22428N + \zeta_3 (18144 N^5 - 13824 N^3 + 52704N ) \right] \nonumber \\ & \!\! & \mbox{} + \left. n_f^3 [1040 N^4 - 616 N^2] \right) \end{eqnarray} The BZ expansion parameter becomes \begin{equation} a_0 = \frac{16}{3(25 N^2 -11)} (n_f^{\rm crit} - n_f) \end{equation} The invariant coefficients are \begin{eqnarray} b &\!=\!& \frac{(25 N^2-11)}{16} a_{0}, \\ c &=& -\frac{1}{a_{0}} + \frac{(13N^2-3)}{8 N}. \end{eqnarray} In $\overline{\rm MS}$ \begin{eqnarray} c_{2,-1} &\! =\! & \frac{(-1402 N^4 + 242 N^2 + 33)}{48 N (25 N^2 - 11)}, \\ c_{2,0} &\! = \! & \frac{(318N^4 + 55 N^2 -9)}{384 N^2}, \\ c_{2,1} &\! = \! & \frac{(25 N^2 -11) (112 N^2 - 33)}{3072 N} \\ c_{3,-1} &\! = \! & \frac{(14731 N^6 -30047N^4 - 58839 N^2 - 2277)} {1152 N^2(25N^2 -11)} \nonumber \\ & \! \! & \mbox{} + \frac{11}{8}\frac{(25 N^4 - 18 N^2 + 77)}{(25N^2-11)} \zeta_3 \end{eqnarray} The Grunberg invariants, the coefficients in the expansion of $\hat{\gamma}^*$ are: \begin{eqnarray} g_1 & \! \! = \! \! & \frac{(13N^2-3)}{8 N}, \\ g_2 & \! \! = \! \! & \frac{(366782 N^8 - 865400 N^6 + 1599316 N^4 - 571516 N^2 -3993)} {768 N^2 (25 N^2 - 11)^2} \nonumber \\ & \!\!\!\! & \mbox{} - \frac{11}{8} \frac{(25 N^4 - 18 N^2 + 77)}{(25 N^2 - 11)} \zeta_3. \end{eqnarray} \section*{Appendix B: Regular and Irregular Schemes} In this appendix we discuss renormalization-scheme invariance of the BZ expansion results. Since the expansion parameter $a_{0} = \frac{8}{321} (16\frac{1}{2} - n_{f})$ is an RS-invariant pure number, one expects the coefficients in the BZ expansion of a physical quantity ${\cal R}$ to be RS-invariant, but it is important to have confirmation. We first consider the fixed point results at $Q=0$ (which are independent of the $\tilde{\Lambda}$ parameter). In the text, as in Ref \cite{st}, we limited the discussion to so-called `regular schemes' in which the coefficients in ${\cal R}$ and $\beta(a)$ have a polynomial dependence on $n_f$. Such schemes are natural in diagrammatic terms, since each fermion loop gives an $n_f$ factor. They are convenient for our purposes, since the BZ-expansion coefficients are easily extracted from calculations made in those schemes. However, we emphasize that ``irregular'' schemes are not necessarily ``bad.'' They will also lead to the same BZ-expansion results, but the extraction of the BZ coefficients from calculations in those schemes will be less straightforward. An analogous situation arises, for example, with gauge invariance; a certain class of gauges may be convenient for some purposes, but inconvenient for others. It is easy to show the invariance of the BZ coefficients within the class of `regular' schemes. This was done in Ref. \cite{st} by considering the RS-invariants $\rho_2, \rho_3, \ldots$ \cite{opt} that are invariant combinations of ${\cal R}$ and $\beta(a)$ coefficients, and expanding them in powers of $a_0$. A `low-brow' version of the proof is also instructive. Consider a change of RS, $ a \mapsto a'$, where \begin{equation} \label{rstrans} a' = a\left( 1 + u_{1} a + u_{2} a^{2} + \ldots \right). \end{equation} The coefficients in the expansion of ${\cal R}$ change to \begin{eqnarray} r'_{1} &=& r_{1} - u_{1}\, , \nonumber \\ r'_{2} &=& r_{2}- u_{2} -2 u_{1}r_{1} +2u_{1}^{2} \, , \end{eqnarray} etc.. The $\beta$ function transforms to $\beta'(a') =(\partial a'/\partial a) \beta(a)$, whose coefficients are: \begin{eqnarray} c' &=& c \nonumber \\ c'_2 &=& c_2 + u_2 -u_1^2 - u_1 c, \nonumber \\ c'_3 &=& c_3 + 2 u_3 + c u_1^2 - 2 c_2 u_1 - 6 u_1 u_2 + 4 u_1^3, \end{eqnarray} etc.. If both the primed and unprimed scheme are regular, then the $c_i$, $c_i'$ and $r_i$, $r_i'$ coefficients are expandable as in Eqs. (\ref{ciexp}), (\ref{riexp}), and the $u_i$ coefficients in the scheme transformation can be expanded as: \begin{eqnarray} \label{uiexp} u_{1} &=& u_{1,0} + u_{1,1}a_0 \, , \nonumber \\ u_{2} &=& u_{2,0} + u_{2,1}a_0 + u_{2,2}a_0^{2}\, , \end{eqnarray} etc.. It is then straightforward to prove the invariance of the combinations appearing in the BZ expansion of ${\cal R}$ and $\gamma^*$. For instance, from the relations \begin{eqnarray} r'_{1,0} &=& r_{1,0} - u_{1,0} \, , \nonumber \\ c'_{2,-1} &=& c_{2,-1} + u_{1,0} \, , \nonumber \\ c'_{3,-1} &=& c_{3,-1} - u_{1,0}^2 - 2 c_{2,-1} u_{1,0}, \end{eqnarray} one sees that $r'_{1,0} + c'_{2,-1} = r_{1,0} + c_{2,-1}$, and $c'_{3,-1} + (c'_{2,-1})^2 = c_{3,-1} + (c_{2,-1})^2$, showing that these combinations are RS invariant. Extending this procedure one can prove the invariance of the higher-order $w_i$ and $g_i$ coefficients. Any scheme related to $\overline{\rm MS}(\mu=Q)$ by a transformation (\ref{rstrans}) with $u_i$'s expandable as in (\ref{uiexp}) is a `regular' scheme. [It is noteworthy that in a general, regular scheme the coefficients $c_{2,2}, c_{3,3}, \ldots$ are non-zero, while in a more restrictive class of `strictly regular' schemes, of which $\overline{\rm MS}(\mu=Q)$ is an example, these coefficients vanish. This distinction is unimportant for the BZ expansion, but matters for the large-$b$ approximation \cite{max}.] The `effective charge' (or `FAC') scheme, in which $a \equiv {\cal R}$ for some specific physical quantity, is a `regular' (but not `strictly regular') scheme. However, it is easy to construct RS's that are `irregular' simply by considering a transformation in which the $u_i$ depend on $n_f$ in a non-polynomial fashion, so that the coefficients $r'_i$ are no longer expandable in positive powers of $a_0$. There is nothing intrinsically `bad' about such schemes. They can arise quite naturally. For example, the 't Hooft scheme, in which $c_2=c_3=\ldots=0$, is `irregular' \cite{max}. [Recall that, in `regular' schemes, $c_{3,-1} + (c_{2,-1})^2$ is invariant and does not vanish.] The principle-of-minimal-sensitivity (PMS) scheme for any given physical quantity is also `irregular.' In both these cases the $r_i$ coefficients have $1/a_0$ pieces. In a `regular' scheme, obtaining the BZ expansion to $n$th order requires terms of order $n+1$ in the $\beta$ function, and of order $n$ in the physical quantity ${\cal R}$. In an `irregular' scheme the same information is distributed among higher-order coefficients as well. Starting from an `irregular' scheme, one would require some knowledge of perturbative coefficients to higher orders; maybe to all orders. However, provided one carefully kept all terms that could contribute to a given order in $a_0$, one would obtain the same BZ expansion. Finally, we discuss the finite-$Q$ case. Following Ref. \cite{st}, we have formulated the result as Eq. (\ref{eq: YY}), which is to be solved numerically to obtain ${\cal R}$ as a function of $Q$. This formula involves the RS-invariant quantities $\rho_1$,, $\hat{\gamma}^*$, ${\cal R}^*$, $c$, and $H_i^{\rm (ec)}$. The $\tilde{\Lambda}$ parameter and $Q$ appear only in $\rho_1$. The $H_i^{\rm (ec)}$ coefficients (relevant only in 4th order and beyond) are directly related to the $\tilde{\rho}_2, \tilde{\rho}_3, \ldots$ invariants of Ref. \cite{opt} which can be conveniently redefined (hence the tilde) to coincide with the $\beta$-function coefficients of the `effective charge' scheme \cite{exinv}. The RS invariance of the BZ expansion of $\hat{\gamma}^*$ \cite{grun} is verifiable by the procedure discussed above. It is expected because of the well-known result \cite{gp} that the slope of the $\beta$ function at a fixed point is an invariant. However, there is an important caveat to the last statement \cite{chyla}, which necessitates some further discussion. The quoted result follows by differentiating the $\beta$-function transformation, $\beta'(a') =(\partial a'/\partial a) \beta(a)$, to give \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \beta'}{\partial a'} = \frac{\partial a}{\partial a'} \frac{\partial^2 a'}{\partial a^2} \beta(a) + \frac{\partial \beta}{\partial a}. \end{equation} The first term vanishes at the fixed point --- provided that neither $\partial a/\partial a'$ nor $\partial^2 a'/\partial a^2$ is singular there \cite{gp}. Ch\'{y}la \cite{chyla} has pointed out that, in general, it can be quite natural for those factors to be singular (and arbitrary scheme transformation can of course make fixed points appear and disappear!). In general, then, the critical exponent $\gamma^*$ in ${\cal R} - {\cal R}^* \propto Q^{\gamma^{*}}$ as $Q \to 0$ is {\it not} the same as $\partial \beta/\partial a|_{a=a^*}$. However, these two quantities will coincide in a large class of schemes. It also seems safe to assume that they coincide in the context of the BZ expansion, where there is necessarily a fixed point at $a^* = a_0 + \ldots$. [We find that the 3rd-order PMS scheme, though `irregular,' also yields $\gamma^* = \partial \beta/\partial a|_{a=a^*}$. This requires a detailed analysis of the optimization equations \cite{opt,mat} as $Q \to 0$. The PMS results (in the $e^+e^-$ case) for $\gamma^*$ are shown as the dotted curve in Fig. 1.] \section*{Appendix C: Higgs decay} In this appendix we discuss the case of Higgs-boson decay into hadrons. This seems to be a much more problematic than the cases discussed earlier. It could be viewed as conflicting with the general picture we have presented. We shall argue, though, that the crucial role of quark masses in this quantity makes it unsuitable as a guide to the infrared behaviour of perturbative QCD. First, let us discuss the numbers. The hadronic decay width of the Higgs has the form $\Gamma_H = \frac{3G_F}{4\sqrt{2}\pi} M_H \sum_q m_q^2 \Gamma(a)$ with $\Gamma(a) = 1 + \Gamma_1 a + \ldots$, and where $m_q$ is the running quark mass evaluated at some scale. For $\Gamma_H$ there is a factorization-scheme ambiguity (how much of the radiative corrections should be absorbed into $m_q^2$, and much should be left in the explicit series $\Gamma(a)$?). However, one can define the quantity \cite{ver} \begin{equation} {\cal R}_{\rm Higgs} = -\frac{1}{2} \frac{d \ln(\Gamma_H/M_H)}{d \ln M_H^2} \end{equation} which is free of this factorization-scheme ambiguity, and is a physical quantity of the same form ${\cal R} = a(1+ r_1 a + \ldots )$ considered earlier. The coefficients, from Ref. \cite{ver} are collected in the table below. \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|rclcr|} \hline & & Coefficients in ${\cal R}_{\rm Higgs}$. [$\overline{\rm MS}$($\mu=Q$)] & & \\ \hline $r_{1,0}$ &=& $\frac{23}{12}$ &=& $1.917$ \\ $r_{1,1}$ &=& $\left( \frac{107}{8} \right) \left( \frac{11}{6} \right) $ &=& $24.52$ \\ \hline $r_{2,0}$ &=& $-\frac{503}{18} - \frac{55}{4} \zeta_3$ &=& $-44.47 $ \\ $r_{2,1}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{107}{8} \right) \left( \frac{2935}{144} - \frac{7}{4}\zeta_3 - \frac{\pi^2}{3} \right) $ &=& $200.5$ \\ $r_{2,2}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{107}{8} \right)^2 \left( \frac{275}{72} - \zeta_3 - \frac{\pi^2}{12} \right) $ &=& $321.1$ \\ \hline $r_{3,0}$ &=& $-\frac{22631621}{82944} - \frac{13939}{432} \zeta_3 + \frac{4675}{48}\zeta_5 + \frac{107}{24}\pi^2 $ &=& $-166.6 $ \\ $r_{3,1}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{107}{8} \right) \left(- \frac{208411}{3456} - \frac{20755}{288}\zeta_3 -\frac{355}{48}\zeta_5 - \frac{137}{192}\pi^2 \right) $ &=& $-2162$ \\ $r_{3,2}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{107}{8} \right)^2 \left( \frac{694303}{6912} - \frac{119}{4} \zeta_3 + \frac{25}{4}\zeta_5 - \frac{317}{96}\pi^2 \right) $ &=& $6901$ \\ $r_{3,3}$ &=& $ \left( \frac{107}{8} \right)^3 \left( \frac{985}{108} - \frac{5}{2} \zeta_3 - \frac{11}{24}\pi^2 \right) $ &=& $3808$ \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} In Ref. \cite{h3} it was observed that, at third order in the effective-charge (or `FAC') scheme, there is a fixed point with ${\cal R}^*_{\rm Higgs} \sim a^* \approx 0.15$. The authors viewed this as probably spurious. Indeed, it is odd that it is only about half the size of the frozen couplant found in the $e^+e^-$ case, and so is far from the leading-order BZ expectation that $a^* \sim a_0$. At 4th order Ref. \cite{ver} finds that this fixed point is no longer present. We have checked that the situation is much the same in optimized perturbation theory \cite{opt,kss}. The $Q=0$ BZ series in this case is: \begin{equation} {\cal R}^*_{\rm Higgs} = a_0(1 + 3.05 a_0 + 7.67 a_0^2 + \ldots ) \end{equation} whose coefficients are considerably larger than in the $e^+e^-$ or Bjorken-sum-rule cases (Eqs. (\ref{ree}), (\ref{rbj})). For a low number of flavours the ``corrections'' are as big as the leading term, and both the same sign. (The next coefficient in the expansion is $c_{4,-1}-109$ and is still unknown; our estimate (see Eq. (\ref{g3}) suggests that it is around $26 \pm 10$.) One could conclude that this is perhaps a case where the BZ expansion breaks down before $n_f=2$, so that maybe there is no freezing in this case. We believe, however, the problem is that this quantity is just not a useful indicator of massless QCD's infrared behaviour, because of the way that quark masses are involved. For exactly massless quarks the hadronic Higgs-decay rate is zero, because the Higgs-quark coupling is proportional to quark mass. (The calculations neglect quark masses in the radiative corrections but not, of course, in the overall coupling factor.) If we keep the quark masses finite when we consider, theoretically, the limit $M_H \to 0$, we will trivially get zero as soon as the decay becomes kinematically forbidden. To avoid this we would need to consider a limit in which $m_q$ tends to zero at least as fast as $M_H$; say $m_q \propto (M_H)^{\kappa}$ with $\kappa \ge 1$. But then ${\cal R}_{\rm Higgs}$ is not of the form $a(1 + r_1 a + \ldots )$, and depends on $\kappa$, making it ill-defined. These issues do not arise for ${\cal R}_{e^+e^-}$ or ${\cal R}_{\rm Bj}$, which are meaningful for massless quarks. \newpage

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Keywords Modeling, simulation and characterization of multi-junction solar cells. 2009 – Present | Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Public Engineering School, Rennes, France. Master's Degree in Materials Science and Nanotechnology engineering. 2011 - 2012 | Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA. Exchange program with INSA of Rennes in the Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering Department. 2009 | University Institute of Technology (IUT), Lannion, France. Graduated with a two-year degree in Applied Physics specializing in Materials Science. 2012 – Present | SOITEC, Solar Energy BU, Bernin, France. § Extensive work to get a better understanding of the physical functioning of the devices with the focus on performance optimization. § Study and characterization of InGaP/InGaAs/Ge triple-junctions solar cells. § Setup and characterization of a new system measuring the spectral response of solar cells. § Spectral responsivity measurements of quantum dot solar cells. § Analysis and measurement of electrical properties of III-V semiconductor materials. § Optimization of metal contacts on GaN, InGaN films. Project graduation consisting in the adaptation of a hybrid engine to a thermal miniature car. Studied and characterized state-of-the-art triple junctions solar cells incorporing nanostructures such as quantum dots/wells. Matlab; Labview; Silvaco; Quartus; Origin; PSpice; Comsol; CodeBlocks; VBA.

With the 2017-19 state budget now more than a month and a half overdue, increasing attention is being paid to the impact the delayed passage of the budget will have on schools, as evidenced by this Wisconsin State Journal article. In a recent memo to members of the Legislature's budget-writing Joint Finance Committee (JFC), the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has outlined the impact of the delay on various state school finance calculations for the 2017-18 school year, for public school districts, as well as private choice schools and independent charter schools. One of the key dates is October 15, when the DPI is required by state law to certify state general school aid amounts for public school districts. School districts rely on these amounts and other data provided by the DPI in order to set their tax levies by the November 1 deadline. The DPI indicates the 2017-19 biennial budget must be signed into law by October 3 to enable it to accurately run the October 15 General Aid Certification. The DPI plans to release these numbers to districts on Friday, October 13, because October 15 falls on a Sunday this year. Although no specific changes are proposed in the budget to the state general school aid formula (i.e., no additional aid dollars are added) in the first year of the budget, the general aid calculation has grown increasingly complex in recent years as it now incorporates a number of aid deductions related to vouchers. That calculation now includes a deduction from all school districts for the Independent Charter School Program, district-by-district aid deductions for statewide and Racine voucher programs and the special needs voucher program as well as a specific aid deduction to Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) for the Milwaukee voucher program. Because school districts have the authority to adjust their property tax levies to make up for these deductions, missing this deadline may result in insufficient state aid deductions, which the DPI indicates would increase costs to the state's general fund. Another deadline identified by the DPI is October 27. In order for school districts to set their property tax levies with an adjusted revenue limit that accurately reflects their aid deductions for resident pupils who participate in the statewide or Racine voucher programs or receive special needs vouchers, the DPI indicates the budget must be signed into law by October 27. The DPI warns that failure to meet this deadline may result in districts under-levying the revenue limit adjustment allowed for aid deductions for choice and charter programs. Districts would not have the ability to be made whole for the aid deducted from their allotment once their levies have been set as this offset comes from increasing property taxes. Under current law, per pupil payments for the various "choice" programs are indexed to the annual increase, if any, in the per pupil revenue limit adjustments and the increase in per pupil categorical aids provided to public school districts. In the absence of a signed budget bill, the DPI has no authority to increase the per pupil payment to schools in these programs above current law levels. Under the governor's original budget proposal, those per pupil payments were slated to increase by $217. It is uncertain what the actual increase will be because the budget hasn't been finalized and the status of some of the governor's proposed aid increases (e.g., Sparsity Aid–see separate blog post) is unclear. The lack of finality regarding these per pupil payments to "choice" schools will affect the amount of aid deducted from public schools, which in turn will affect those public school district's ability to adjust their revenue limits and levies to compensate for these aid deductions and set their levies. And, speaking of Sparsity Aid, the delay in passage of the budget likely means that the state's smallest and most rural school districts will not receive their Sparsity Aid payments on the same timeline as prior years. Historically, these aids have been paid in September, but the DPI memo indicates that with continued uncertainty about the amount of these payments and which districts will qualify to receive payments, these payments will likely be delayed and will not be paid out in September. Finally, districts hoping to use the low-revenue ceiling adjustment could be out of luck if the budget isn't signed into law by October 27. Whether this adjustment will be provided to low revenue districts in the 2017-18 school year remains unclear. Assuming current proposals are approved by lawmakers and the governor, the DPI will need time to adjust revenue limit worksheets to enable these adjustments and time to double check district levies to make sure districts haven't exceeded their revenue limit authority if they use the low-revenue ceiling.

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NewsOne Minute: Herman Cain Says Some People Shouldn't Vote NewsOne Staff Herman Cain: 'Stupid People Are Ruining America' Cain pointed out that only 58% of registered voter actually voted in the last presidential election. "What about the 42% that stay at home?" he asked. He's not so sure they should be voting in the first place. "I have even heard people say, 'Well, I don't vote because I don't know what's going on,'" Cain remarked. "And I say 'good!' Stupid people are ruining America and I'm glad some of a them stay home." Read more. Florida Extends 'Stand Your Ground' To Cover Warning Shots Florida Governor Rick Scott signed into law Friday an extension of the state's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law, which would cover warning shots. According to Newsy, the bill was written with the case of Marissa Alexander in mind. Alexander, 33, was found guilty of aggravated assault and sentenced to 20 years in prison after firing what her defense claimed was a warning shot at the husband during a domestic dispute. An appellate court later overturned her conviction and ordered a retrial. Read more. Florida Man Charged With Attempted Murder After Throwing Hot Grits A Florida man is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly throwing a pan of hot grits and grease on a neighbor. Edward Holley, 60, was taken into custody Wednesday at an Orange County home after allegedly flinging the hot pan's contents on Darryl Blacknell, 29,MyNews13 reported. Blacknell, who had allegedly been sitting on Holley's porch, ran off screaming in pain while suffered second- and third-degree burns on 30% of his body. Read more. Alabama Veteran Granted VA Benefits After More Than 50 Years of Denials A Korean War Veteran's 56-year struggle for Veterans Affairs benefits is finally over. Willie McCall, 85, suffers from debilitating, combat-related health issues and was essentially forgotten by the federal government. Before totally giving up on his VA benefits, McCall's nephew, Freddie Porterfield, contacted NBC affiliate WSFA. McCall says during his time as a rifleman during the Korean conflict, the weather was so cold it left him with frostbite, jungle rot and circulation issues. He walks with a cane and has special orthotic shoes. Despite multiple diagnoses, he was denied VA benefits. His denials go back to the late 1950s. Read more. NewsOne Minute: Herman Cain Says Some People Shouldn't Vote was originally published on newsone.com GOP , Herman Cain , politics , voting , voting right Also On iPower 92.1/104.1 FM: NewsOne Minute: Herman Cain Says Some People Shouldn't…

FOUNDATION FOR END-OF-LIFE CARE INC Transform dying into the final act of living well. aka Hospice Foundation for End-Of-Life Care, Inc., Vitas Hospice Charitable Fund, Caring Foundations, LLC, | Hollywood, FL | www.foundationeolc.org Mission & Vision Our goal is to provide compassionate assistance to hospice patients and their families on a nationwide basis by funding certain expenses that go beyond the hospice care benefit through our Special Needs Fund. Dr. Richard B Fife 3440 Hollywood Blvd Suite 415 Hollywood, FL 33021 USA Fundraising Contact Patricia Lauck Fundraising contact phone: (954) 272- Ext 9847 3440 Hollywood Blvd. Suite 415 Legal name of organization: Foundation for End of Life Care, Inc. Hospice (P74) Special Needs Program The Foundation works nationally with social workers from a number of hospice programs and makes grants through its Special Needs Fund to assist patients and their families with extraordinary expenses that lie outside the realm of hospice care but are critically important to the patient's comfort or peace of mind. The Foundation remains committed to working with hospice social workers nationally to help identify the patients and families they serve who lives have been changed not only by the health crisis they are facing but also by the financial crisis they face at the very same time by supporting them with financial grants to assist with everyday living expenses that are not met by the Medicare benefit. To reach out to the public via social media efforts (web page, facebook, twitter) to align with like organizations to help educate the public at large about hospice and what it means, earlier access to hospice care, as well as the available resources to the patient population. The Foundation For End-Of-Life Care is comprised of a well informed group of professionals who have made the hospice care sector their life's goal to bring about education, access, and quality care for those in need of hospice care. We are engaged in a broad stroke of social media outreach, engaging in local and national fundraising campaigns to also bring about awareness of hospice care. The Foundation, since its inception has been helping families in financial crisis who are coping with the terminal illness of a loved one. More recenlty over the past six years the Foundation for End of Life Care, Inc., granted more than 6,000 special need grants for indigent patients and their families who are experiencing financial hardship. We provided essential items such as food, clothing, overdue rent and utility payments and last-minute travel for final reunions. Comfort items such as window air conditioners, pest control services and reading glasses also were funded for needy patients. Hugh Westbrook Foundation for End of Life Care, Inc. Harold Wallace Mary McKenna Esther Colliflower Foundation For End-Of-Life Care, Inc. Richard Fife Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Not applicable Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Not applicable Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 8/2/2021, Financial trends metrics for five most recent years 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016*

You don't have to hibernate in winter—there are plenty of fun things to do in Detroit. Bundle up and get out there and enjoy Detroit! Oh, and hockey. Looks like we'll have a (shortened) season after all. 1. Free Art Friday Detroit (Facebook link) - Every Friday local artists hide art around the city for lucky "scavengers" to find and keep. This week they go global with art from around the country and world. Follow their Facebook page and the #FAFDET hashtag on Twitter for clues. Go find art! January 11th. 2. Grown in Detroit - Head to the Detroit Historical Museum to see this documentary about the Catherine Ferguson Academy, one of only 3 schools in U.S. for pregnant and parenting teens. January 12—13. 3. Wild Winter Arctic Adventure - The Detroit Zoo is open year-round and is magical in the winter. Activities this weekend include ice carving demonstrations, arctic-themed arts and crafts, games and entertainment. January 12—13. 4. Metro Jazz Voices - The Sunday Music Bar at the DIA features this Detroit group perfoming selections of the Great American Songbook in four-part harmony. January 13th. 5. Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History - It's Charter One Free Family Second Sunday at the museum and admission is free. Special showings of the Voices of the Civil War film series & more. January 13th.

Sr Pritisha Brownley is a professional paediatric nurse who has worked in neonates, general paediatrics, haematology and oncology since 1990. Pritisha qualified in paediatrics and neonatal nursing science in 1996. She worked in Saudi Arabia in 1999 in paediatric oncology/haematology and completed oncology paediatric nursing whilst there. She has been working at CMJAH since 2010. sponsored by the Carnegie Wits Diaspora Foundation. Dr Capra is a paediatric oncologist who trained as a subspecialist in the UK & Canada and now works in Dublin. He is a keen cyclist and a member of various international clinical trial and research collaborative groups. Dr Jennifer Geel is the chair of the Wits Paediatric Fund and Ministerial Advisory Committee on Cancer Control and Prevention. She is enrolled for a PhD, studying the relationship between simple blood tests and changes on PET-CT of children with Hodgkin lymphoma, hoping that more cost-effective versions of precision medicine may be possible in low and middle-income countries. Dr Kenny Govendrageloo is a private practice Paediatric Cardiologist based at Sunninghill Hospital, Johannesburg. His interests are in the area of Diagnostic echocardiography, Foetal echocardiography, Cardiac intensive care, Pulmonary Hypertension, Lysosomal Storage Disease and a keen special interest Pompe Disease. Jillian co-ordinates volunteer activities in the paediatric oncology unit at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, assisting with all non-medical activities. She also coordinates the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital volunteer programme including selection, training, support and education of all the volunteers who give up their time to support the parents and children on an in- an outpatient basis. Vanessa Hemp is a Clinical Psychologist who trained at Wits University. She was involved in forming The Day Clinic, a registered mental health clinic providing psychological services to adolescents and adults, where she currently serves as a director of adolescent services. The only bone marrow registry in Africa with World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) Qualification status. Bone marrow and stem cell transplants are used to cure children with various aggressive cancers, as well as rare and life-threatening diseases such as IPEX syndrome and inherited metabolic disorders. Based in Cape Town, the registry actively recruits and assists volunteer donors, as well as fundraising to perform international donor searches and transplants. Chantel Lowry qualified as a social worker and started her career at Life New Kensington Clinic working with brain and spinal injury patients. However, she's always had a passion for children and so jumped at the opportunity to work in the paediatric oncology unit at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre. She is currently completing her Masters' degree, focusing on the influence of cultural practices on primary caregivers' coping ability and resilience when their child is diagnosed with cancer. Dr Macaulay holds a Masters' degree in Genetic Counselling and a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology, both obtained from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She is the Genetic Counselling Manager at the National Health Laboratory Service in Johannesburg, and a lecturer in the Division of Human Genetics at Wits. Sr Pat McCusker is a paediatric nurse who has worked with children for more than 38 years. She has spent most of her time as a nurse working in the haematology/oncology unit. She loves the challenge of helping patients and the families of children with life-threatening illnesses and how to cope with treatment and associated problems. Pat is passionate about educating patients, families and nurses. Dr Ramdin works as a senior Neonatologist, specializing in care and neurodevelopment of premature infants and sick neonates, at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, one of Southern Africa's largest tertiary and academic hospitals, and is the coordinator of the National Neonatal Resuscitation program and has recently embarked on a joint neonatal resuscitation program with Zimbabwe.

Home Blogging Google to 'phase out' third-party cookies in Chrome, but not for two... Google to 'phase out' third-party cookies in Chrome, but not for two years Lawrence Sonoiya Google will join Safari and Firefox in blocking third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser. However, unlike those browsers (which have already started blocking them by default), Google intends to take a phased approach. Justin Schuh, the director at engineering for Chrome, writes that Google's "intention is to do this within two years." In those cookies' place, Google is hoping that it can institute a new set of technical solutions for various things that cookies are currently used for. To that end, it has proposed a bunch of new technologies (as have other browser makers) that may be less invasive and annoying than tracking cookies have become. These new technologies are supposed to make it easier for advertisers to target certain demographics without laser-sighting down to specific people, ensure that the infrastructure many sites use for logins don't break, and help provide some level of anonymous tracking so advertisers can know if their ads actually converted into sales. If it all came to pass, it would radically shift the way ad tracking and privacy work on the web. It could also open up entirely new vectors of tracking we have yet to imagine. The rhetoric between browser makers is getting sharper The context for Google's cookie-killing proposal is that there's a pitched battle being waged between browser makers to remake the future of privacy on the web. On the one hand are browsers like Safari and Firefox, browsers with code that increasingly take an absolutist stance against cross-site tracking. On the other is Google and Chrome, whose developers are trying to cut down on tracking without kneecapping revenue for websites. The difference between them all isn't just whether and how to implement that tech, but when. Google wants to wait a bit, Apple and Firefox believe the crisis is already too big and have already started blocking third-party cookies — perhaps before there's a viable replacement for some use cases (and in some cases, they may not want there to be one). The battle is big and the rhetoric is getting sharp. People accuse Apple of wanting to smother the web in favor of a walled-garden App Store. Others accuse Google of wanting to maintain an ad-tracking dystopia. Google worries that cutting off cookies now will encourage bad actors to switch to harder-to-stop fingerprinting methods, but then everybody notices that it's awfully convenient that Google doesn't want to stop ad tracking until later. But because these are web people, the fights are happening in places you're probably not really watching: email lists, github, and W3C panels and working groups. Compared to other tech fights, it probably looks relatively tame and — like all standards bodies — moves quite slowly. But the stakes are sky high: a huge proportion of the ads you see on the web are driven by third-party cookies and part of an infrastructure that tracks and trades on your data and even your identity. The technical replacements for cookies are complex, political, and not finished yet The specifics of the proposals get very complicated very quickly, unfortunately, and make explaining third-party cookies seem elementary by comparison. At a high level, Google wants to create a "privacy sandbox," where websites are able to gather some information but ultimately hit a wall where the browser cuts them off. Apple has proposed an API for helping retail websites track conversions that Google seems to like, but the two companies don't agree on how much information should be allowed. There are proposals for grouping people into large demographic "flocks" and replacement mechanisms for logging in with third-party services. These ideas and more are getting hashed out — and hopefully they will be, because failing to do so will mean a further fracturing of how different people experience the web. There's unlikely to be anything like 100 percent agreement, but the hope is that we'll get some kind of consensus on what should replace third-party cookies. Those cookies were never really meant to do as much work — or contain and share as much information — as they currently do. The list of things that third-party cookies do is very long and finding agreement on how (or whether!) to replace them is going to take a long time. Previous articleTime zones mess up more than just your sense of time Next articleNetflix's new take on Dracula is here to suck the life out of vampire stories Studio Ghibli films are coming to Netflix outside North America next month Open banking platform Tink raises €90M at a post-money valuation of €415M – TechCrunch Studio Ghibli films are coming to Netflix outside North America next...

Il Governo Forlani è stato il trentottesimo esecutivo della Repubblica Italiana, il terzo dell'VIII legislatura. Il governo rimase in carica dal 18 ottobre 1980 al 28 giugno 1981 per un totale di 253 giorni, ovvero 8 mesi e 10 giorni. Il governo Forlani ottiene la fiducia della Camera sabato 25 ottobre 1980 con 362 voti favorevoli (DC, PSI, PSDI, PRI, SVP, Union Valdotaine), 250 contrari (PCI, PR, PDUP, Indipendenti di Sinistra, MSI), 9 astenuti (PLI). I votanti erano 612, i presenti erano 621. La rappresentante dell'Associazione per Trieste non partecipa al voto. Il governo ottiene la fiducia del Senato mercoledì 29 ottobre con 188 voti favorevoli (DC, PSI, PSDI, PRI, SVP, Union Valdotaine) e 120 contrari (PCI, PR, Indipendenti di Sinistra, MSI). Poiché al Senato l'astensione valeva come voto contrario, i due senatori del PLI Malagodi e Fassino non partecipano al voto. Cadde a seguito dello scandalo della loggia P2. Forlani si dimise il 26 maggio 1981. Compagine di governo Sostegno parlamentare Appartenenza politica Democrazia Cristiana (DC): Presidente del Consiglio, 13 ministri, 28 sottosegretari Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI): 7 ministri, 17 sottosegretari Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (PSDI): 3 ministri, 5 sottosegretari Partito Repubblicano Italiano (PRI): 3 ministri, 4 sottosegretari Provenienza geografica La provenienza geografica dei membri del Consiglio dei Ministri si può così riassumere: Composizione del governo Note Voci correlate Governi italiani per durata Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri della Repubblica Italiana Presidenti del Consiglio dei ministri della Repubblica Italiana Altri progetti Collegamenti esterni

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Pharma production is 'too conservative' and needs to 'be bolder' in adopting nascent technologies, or be left behind by new models, suggested one MD. Last week, panellists at Pharma Integrates assessed how significant an impact developing technology could make to standard manufacturing processes in the pharma industry. Artificial Intelligence, digitisation, automation, 3D printing, and continuous manufacturing were reviewed during the 'Applying new technologies to the pharma value chain' panel discussion, which considered the validity of various approaches and urgency of adoption. For each new technology, one quote has been selected to offer the panel's perspective on what the industry could see in the years to come. 3D printing is another technology wherein the potential applications have been discussed across a range of industries, and the US Food and Drug Administration has been particularly supportive​ of those companies looking to invest in the area. One of the benefits of 3D printing in smaller batches is that tablets can be tailored to an individual patient's needs. During the discussion, Brian Henry, VP of drug product design at Pfizer, was more sceptical about its promise and posed the question of what new capabilities it brings to the table. The potential for AI to revolutionise healthcare​ is often talked about, but Nick Lynch, CTO of Pistoia Alliance, said that curbing expectations of the technology will be crucial for practical implementations. The digital revolution sweeping other industries is also having an impact on the pharma manufacturing sector​. Mike Houghton, managing director of process industry and drives at Siemens, was strident in his views that pharma needs to adopt digital processes seen in other industries, and quickly. No discussion on the future of manufacturing would be complete without continuous manufacturing. At the same conference, there was an in-depth discussion​ about what can be expected from this technology, but Henry referred to the technology as a "here and now"​ method – no longer to be talked of as the 'future' of manufacture. On the topic of automation, Houghton again brought experience from other industries to point out how the pharma industry could be working harder to keep pace with innovation.

You may have a strong, well-developed company mission, and a vision that summarizes your organization's long-term plans and values. You may also have a brilliant content-marketing strategy, capable of attracting thousands of new people to your brand and keeping your current customers engaged. But, how well do these two areas of your brand strategy mesh? My experience in working with small- to mid-sized businesses is that content-marketing strategies often get treated as separate entities, distinct from a brand's core mission and objectives. Why? Because content marketing is seen as an external platform, an advertisement, when it should be seen as both an external display and a showcase of your company's internal values. In fact, you should be using your content-marketing strategy as a platform to support your brand's mission and vision. Here's how. 1. Recognize the importance of brand consistency. Your first step should be to recognize the importance of brand consistency across all your platforms. This is the only way to build continuity with your customers. Even if you have a personal brand, or display a logo in order to visibly demonstrate that this content was written by your brand, the content isn't "you" if it deviates from your main identity. This is true no matter what medium you pursue, including social media marketing and paid advertising. Whenever a reader encounters your brand, he or she should have the same "feel," the same overall experience, which ties directly into the identity you created through your mission and objectives. 2. Draw topics from your mission and objectives. Mimicking the aesthetics and style customers associate with your overall brand is a good way to tie your identity closer to your content campaign. But don't be afraid to draw new topics as well directly from your mission and objectives, to further your association with those causes. For example, if you've explicitly stated your desire to reduce carbon emissions through the use of green technology, why not write the occasional post on how to be more environmentally friendly in the business world? If you're out to improve educational resources, why not highlight an interesting case study or news development in the educational realm? 3. Keep tone and demographics in mind. It's also important to keep your demographics and your tone in mind throughout your content campaign: Let your mission and objectives dictate your operations along those line. For example, say your mission is to help teams improve communication and bond with one another. Why not practice what you preach by writing in a more conversational, collaborative style, with ample opportunities for your readers to engage directly with you? This is a way of demonstrating your mission through your writing style, targeting exactly the types of people you sought to impress in the first place. If your company's mission or objectives relate to corporate social responsibility, you'll probably be involved in efforts related to those objectives. For example, if you're all about building the economy in your local community, you might be a speaker at an entrepreneurial summit, or your team might volunteer for reconstruction efforts in your area to encourage more business development. When you engage in these opportunities, show them off. Write a press release, or at the very least develop an on-site post covering your efforts. It makes a big impact when you put your money where your mouth is, so to speak. 5. Use images and video. Throughout your content campaign, you should use images and videos to demonstrate your capacity to follow through on your mission and objectives. This can be applied to almost any of the strategies listed above; for example, you can include photos of your team participating in your cleanup efforts, or live-stream your speech at the entrepreneurial event. Visuals make contentmore engaging, which leads to higher rates of social visibility and sharing, ultimately producing a more substantial boost for your brand. 6. Evaluate your touchpoints and customer reaction. Throughout your efforts to incorporate more of your mission and vision into your content campaign, carefully evaluate your impact, just as you would any adjustment. Post new mission-related materials only periodically, never neglecting your core content campaign. And be sure to watch how prospective and current customers react. You'll almost certainly need to make adjustments along the way. If your organization has a strong mission and vision at the center of its operations, there's no reason why your content-marketing strategy shouldn't be there to promote it and back it up. Let your customers know exactly what kind of company is behind the content they're reading, and make your values known to your readership. As you've seen, all it takes is a handful of adjustments, including a few new types of content and modifications to your current lineup: The benefits can be highly significant to your brand visibility and reputation.

Wohler will boast the only platform-based closed captioning system capable of supporting all global standards. Wohler Technologies is acquiring Europa Australia Pty Ltd, a closed captioning and data insertion company led by industry pioneer Elio Deluca. Upon completion of the deal, Wohler will boast the only platform-based closed captioning system capable of supporting all global standards. "Europa Australia is known for its ability to provide cost-effective solutions customized to the specific needs of each broadcast client," said Carl Dempsey, Wohler president and CEO. "The purchase of Europa Australia positions Wohler as a premier provider of closed-captioning and data control solutions. Through our new relationship with Elio and the Europa Australia engineering team, we will be equipped to respond to the development of closed-captioning standards in any country. This is a fantastic add-on to our existing talented engineering team. It is our ambition to be an extension of our clients' engineering resources and we can only do this is if we invest in the right talent and technology." Europa Australia was established in 1996. Its closed-captioning processing technology developed by Europa Australia is compliant with CEA-608/708, the U.S. closed-captioning standard, and with OP:47, the Australian closed-captioning standard. The Europa Australia technology is also available to other manufacturers who need to incorporate closed-captioning and extended data service solutions into their systems. Australian broadcaster, Nine Network, has installed AmberFin iCR systems for video file transcoding and audio and caption processing at its new National Playout Centre (NPC) in Sydney. Nine Network's NPC is a highly efficient, file-based, HD broadcast facility. It simplifies operations by centralizing all playout for Channel Nine's 18 channels across Australia using a single HD file format. RadiantGrid Intelligent Media Transformation Platform(TM)The Wohler RadiantGrid Intelligent Media Transformation Platform(TM) provides a consolidated, seamless software architecture that combines intensive media processing capabilities, such as transcoding, standards conversion, audio processing, caption processing, and quality control, with highly intelligent content management fabric and workflow orchestration layers. Based on an extensible service-oriented architecture, the platform integrates smoothly with editorial, archive, traffic, business process, and rights management systems.

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Q: Crystal Report Datasource remap I am working with Crystal Reports and MS SQL Server. I need to remap the crystal report to point to a different database on the same SQL Server. Is there an automated way of doing this, or do I have to remap for every single report? I am currently doing this by adding a new data connection, and then updating the stored procedure with the specified paramether to change database(catalog). Also, after remaping, the .asp that displays the report crashes like this: Active Server Pages, ASP 0115 (0x80004005) A trappable error (E06D7363) occurred in an external object. The script cannot continue running. The code is: Set mainReportTableCollection = Session("oRpt").Database.Tables For Each mnTable in mainReportTableCollection With mnTable.ConnectionProperties .Item("user ID") = "<some_login_name>" .Item("Password") = "<some_password>" .Item("DSN") = "<some_DSN>" .Item("Database") ="<some_Database>" End With Next It runs, however, if i comment out the last two assignations. Thanks in advance. Yours trully, Silviu. A: You'll find hereafter the procedure I use (I simplified it on the fly, suppressing our own objects and global variables). This procedure allows to redirect a report from an original connection used at development time to the active SQL server. It is written in VB and uses 2 main objects: * *The original report object opened through an instance of crystal report *An ADODB connection being the active connection (called P_currentConnection) to the current SQL server This function (could be also a sub) is called before viewing/printing the report object in the application. It can be used when distributing reports among replicated databases where users, depending on their location, connect to different servers/databases. Public Function connectReportToDatabase( _ P_report As CRAXDRT.Report) Dim table As CRAXDRT.DatabaseTable, _ For Each table In P_report.Database.tables If table.DllName <> "crdb_ado.dll" Then table.DllName = "crdb_ado.dll" End If table.ConnectionProperties.DeleteAll table.ConnectionProperties.Add "Provider", P_currentConnection.Provider table.ConnectionProperties.Add "Data source", P_currentConnection.Properties("Data source").Value table.ConnectionProperties.Add "Database", P_currentConnection.DefaultDatabase table.ConnectionProperties.Add "Integrated security", P_currentConnection.Properties("Integrated security").Value table.ConnectionProperties.Add "Persist Security Info", P_currentConnection.Properties("Persist Security Info").Value table.ConnectionProperties.Add "Initial Catalog", P_currentConnection.Properties("Initial Catalog").Value table.SetTableLocation table.location, "", P_currentConnection.ConnectionString table.TestConnectivity Next table It can be called with a procedure such as: Dim crystal As CRAXDRT.Application, _ m_report as CRAXDRT.report Set crystal = New CRAXDRT.Application Set m_rapport = crystal.OpenReport(nameOfTheReport & ".rpt") connectreportToDatabase(m_report) In case your report includes subreports, You might also have to redirect them to the active connection. In this case, you'll have to browse all objects in your report, check the ones that are of the report type and redirect them to the new connection. I am sure you'll have fun adding the corresponding extra lines to this original procedure. A: You can get any of the info from the current report connection info. So if your not changing servers, then set the crystalServer variable to the reports current server. 'SET REPORT CONNECTION INFO For i = 0 To rsource.ReportDocument.DataSourceConnections.Count - 1 rsource.ReportDocument.DataSourceConnections(i).SetConnection(crystalServer, crystalDB, crystalUser, crystalPassword) Next For i = 0 To rsource.ReportDocument.Subreports.Count - 1 For x = 0 To rsource.ReportDocument.Subreports(i).DataSourceConnections.Count - 1 rsource.ReportDocument.OpenSubreport(rsource.ReportDocument.Subreports(i).Name).DataSourceConnections(x).SetConnection(crystalServer, crystalDB, crystalUser, crystalPassword) Next Next

Q: Show/Hide fields on One2many tree - Odoo v8 I have some fields I'm showing in my One2many tree view: <page string="Budget Lines Planned"> <field name="account_budget_bsi_line" colspan="4" nolabel="1" attrs="{'readonly':[('state','!=','draft')]}"> <tree string="Budget Lines Planned" editable="bottom" > <field name="opening_stock"/> <field name="sales_planned" /> <field name="amount_total"/> <field name="interauxiliary_transfers_planned" /> <field name="interauxiliary_receipts_planned" /> <field name="prod_purchased_planned" /> <field name="closing_stock_planned" /> </tree> </field> </page> This is from a custom module, which has a workflow with states, ie: draft, approved, next, done etc. Suppose on next state, I want to hide opening_stock field, and show some other field. I know this can be achieved on forms by using attrs="{'readonly':[('state','!=','draft')]}" or invisible or whatever. But doesn't seem to work on One2many tree views, so, how can I achieve that in this case? A: I'm fairly sure there is no way to dynamically hide an entire column of a One2many field's tree. You can dynamically hide the column's contents per row with attrs. In the case below, if the line had a Name of "Example", then it would show as a blank cell when in a Draft state. <field name="opening_stock" attrs="{'invisible': [('state', '!=', 'draft')]}"/> If you really must show a different One2many tree view, then you can try using multiple field/tree definitions in the view and using the attrs on the One2many field itself like so: <field name="account_budget_bsi_line" attrs="{'invisible': [('state', '=', 'draft')]}"> <tree> ... <field name="opening_stock"/> ... </tree> </field> <field name="account_budget_bsi_line" attrs="{'invisible': [('state', '!=', 'draft')]}"> <tree> ... <!-- Exclude field opening_stock --> ... </tree> </field> I'm not sure if this will work for your needs, but it's the closest I can think to a solution.

Beginners Guide To Setup React Project With Parcel Tutorial is the topic. In this example, you will see how we can use Parcel as a module bundler for React.js development. Most of the time, we have used webpack as a module bundler. It is very famous right now. But to configure the webpack is tedious. You need to have some knowledge about webpack plugins and configuration. Parcel solves this problem. It arrives with Zero configuration. That is why today I am showing you how you can use Parcel for your next React.js project. If you are new to a parcel, webpack, react.js, then please check out following tutorials on this blog. First, we will start our project by creating a package.json file. Okay, now, we need to install parceljs globally in our system. In above example, I have used ES6 arrow functions. Now, include this file in the index.html file and we need to start the server. Now start the development server with the following command. Though we have not use any es6 plugin, it still compiles the ES6 version of JS to ES5, and that is the central power of Parcel that we do not need to configure the ES6 plugin for the project. It by default comes with Parceljs. To work with React.js, we need to install the following dependencies. As React.js is written in ES6; we will need a way to transpile the code. Parcel does that for you with no need for configs, all you have to do is install its presets. We do need a presets, but we do not need to configure it as we have configured in webpack. Parcel does it for us, and that is the main advantage of it. We just install the dependencies, and that is it. Create a .babelrc file and add the following code. Okay, now create a div with the id of an app. Create one folder called src. Move the app.js file inside src folder and also update the path inside an index.html file. If your server gives an error in the console, then please restart the server. Inside the src folder, create the new folder called components. In the components, make a new component called Dashboard.js. Include this component inside src >> app.js file. It will target the dom element of id app. If you got any error, please recheck this code or restart the server. Now you can see that our dashboard component is rendering inside the index.html page. Now, you can build any shape of your application structure as you want. Just keep in mind that it is scalable for a long term. For production use, we just need to run the following command. It will generate following files. They are minified and production ready files. Now, add development and production both of the scripts in the package.json file. Now, hit the following command to ready for production build. Also, for development mode, hit the following command. Finally, our Beginners Guide To Setup React Project With Parcel Tutorial is over. Thanks. Hope you will find useful.

Home Political News Telangana Verdict Plays Vital Role In AP Politics? Telangana Verdict Plays Vital Role In AP Politics? Telangana Elections are adding curiosity day-by-day. Many surveys and reports indicate a neck-and-neck between TRS and Maha Kutami in Telangana. Telangana Verdict day i.e; December 11th is a crucial day not only to Telangana but also for Andhra Pradesh. If the result of Telangana is in favour of Mahakutami, TDP can have fortunes in AP. But if the Congress-led Mahakutami fails to come to power in Telangana by any chance, it would be a death-blow to TDP in AP. The opposition parties can dominate easily in AP politics. Chandrababu Naidu is aware of this big risk and so he supported Congress even at national level. Anyhow 5 state results which will be announced on Dec 11th will decide the future of Congress and TDP. Next article'టాక్సీవాలా' ప్రమోషన్స్ లో విజయ్ కొత్త కోణం!

Q: Roman numerals not close enough together Instead of 'III' (three 'I's), I want the numbers to look more like those in the attached image. When using Computer Modern font, is it possible to just remove the horizontal space between letters? a previous post worked around this by defining a new command using /makebox, but some of the dimensions used absolute length units and therefore is not a solution for different fonts, especially when you want to use this in subscripts or superscripts. A: The following defines two macros. The first is \tighten which reduces the space between every letter of its argument by a given length (by default 0.25ex). This is intended for manual insertion of roman numerals. The second is \TightRoman which uses \tighten to set a counter with tightened Roman numbers. \documentclass[]{article} \makeatletter \newlength\tighten@stretch \newcommand*\tighten[2][0.25ex]{% \if\relax\detokenize{#2}\relax% detect empty argument \else \bgroup \tighten@stretch=#1 \expandafter\tighten@#2@% \egroup \fi} \def\tighten@#1#2{% #1% \tighten@check{#2}{% \kern-\tighten@stretch \tighten@#2 }} \def\tighten@check#1{% \ifx @#1% \expandafter\@gobble \else \expandafter\@firstofone \fi} \newcommand*\TightRoman[2][0.25ex]{% \edef\TightRoman@tmp{\Roman{#2}}% \expandafter\TightRoman@i\expandafter{\TightRoman@tmp}{#1}}% \newcommand*\TightRoman@i[2]{% \tighten[#2]{#1}} \makeatother \begin{document} \noindent \newcounter{mycounter}% \loop\ifnum\value{mycounter}<20 \stepcounter{mycounter}% \TightRoman{mycounter}\space \repeat \tighten{XII} \end{document} Results: A: You can insert a negative space between two characters: \documentclass{article} \newcommand{\joinR}{\hspace{-.1em}} \newcommand{\RomanI}{I} \newcommand{\RomanII}{\mbox{\RomanI\joinR\RomanI}} \newcommand{\RomanIII}{\mbox{\RomanI\joinR\RomanII}} \newcommand{\RomanIV}{\mbox{\RomanI\joinR\RomanV}} \newcommand{\RomanV}{V} \newcommand{\RomanVI}{\mbox{\RomanV\joinR\RomanI}} \newcommand{\RomanVII}{\mbox{\RomanV\joinR\RomanII}} \newcommand{\RomanVIII}{\mbox{\RomanV\joinR\RomanIII}} \newcommand{\RomanIX}{\mbox{\RomanI\joinR\RomanX}} \newcommand{\RomanX}{X} \begin{document} I \RomanI II \RomanII III \RomanIII IV \RomanIV V \RomanV VI \RomanVI VII \RomanVII VIII \RomanVIII IX \RomanIX X \RomanX \end{document} The above should work with all font switches (\tiny, \scriptsize, \footnotesize, ..., \Huge). You can adjust the spacing as needed, if you want them closer together/further apart. microtype's letterspace package also provides \textls that you can use (the starred version): \documentclass{article} \usepackage{letterspace} \newcommand{\ROMAN}{\textls*[-100]} \begin{document} I \ROMAN{I} II \ROMAN{II} III \ROMAN{III} IV \ROMAN{IV} V \ROMAN{V} VI \ROMAN{VI} VII \ROMAN{VII} VIII \ROMAN{VIII} IX \ROMAN{IX} X \ROMAN{X} \end{document} A: I think this post solved my problem: Enlarging tracking (= letter spacing) \usepackage[letterspace=-150]{microtype} \textls{III} gives the desired results.

"Bertha" is our StepOnePlus machine for real-time/quantitative PCR. The StepOnePlus can do both real-time runs or end-point runs. Bertha is connected to a laptop with the StepOne software. It is also possible to run Bertha as a stand-alonge system.

A long time ago - I think it was in 2015 - someone asked me why I didn't have a Facebook page. Back in those days, I shared what I was doing on my personal page and relied on people sharing. I remember it distinctly; I had just completed my first portrait of Kurt Cobain. "Why don't you have a Facebook business page for your art?" "What a great idea," I replied to the person. "Why the heck didn't I think of that before?" There was a time when I was considered to be a pretty cutting edge user of social media. The most obvious marketing move had eluded me during the first year of this journey. A Facebook page allows people to follow me wherever they are from by just clicking the LIKE button. Those likes have grown in number over the last three years. The growth happens more slowly and surely than it does quickly. That said, there have been a number of projects over the years that drew more people in than others. Because the number of people who watch my work on Facebook has grown to 5,777 (as of this morning), it is incredibly hard for me to appreciate who they all are and where they live. I know that I have great support from my home community of Fort McMurray. I owe a debt of gratitude for all the opportunities that have come my way because I live in this beautiful place full of people who our interested in my particular style. However, there is the odd occasion when I am given a sense as to how far flung the reach has become over the years. Yesterday I posted that I had a couple of prints available of my Gord Downie portrait, the one where he is wearing a poppy. People reached out to enquire about it from across Canada and several US states. Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip touched so many souls over the many years that they made music. I was particularly touched by Amy's visit, when she swung by to pick up one of the prints that I had in studio. The Tragically Hip, and particularly Gord Downie, meant a lot to her. This piece of art will be the first on the walls of her rebuilt home. She was one, among thousands, who lost everything when a wildfire devastated our community in 2016. Her positive attitude about the whole thing is really incredible. I am deeply grateful to everyone who watches my journey and shares their appreciation for what ends up on the easel. You have enabled an unexpected late career shift that is proving to be tremendous fun. Thank you.

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An appetizing Filipino fish delicacy. This gourmet "tuyo" is made from dried herrings soaked in olive oil with spices. In it's ordinary form, dried herring is usually fried and serve in breakfast with fried rice, chopped tomatoes and fried scrambled eggs. But you can make a gourmet breakfast by serving this spicy tuyo in a mixture of corn oil and olive oil. And with the regard to preparing the dried hearing, some prefer the head of the fish intact. Since it is the tastiest part of the tuyo when it is crispy fried. Preparing and cooking bottled dried herring (tuyo) in oil is easier than making bottled sardines. All you have to do is to fry the tuyo first, then remove the head and tail and remove the scales. Some people are making this delicacy are also removing the fish bones. Then heat the corn oil and olive oil mixture then fry the garlic until the garlic turns golden brown. Then add the red chili pepper and vinegar. Bring to a boil then add paprika. Pour over fried tuyo and store in a refrigerator. This gourmet "tuyo" is made from dried herrings soaked in olive oil with spices. Remove head, tail and soft parts of the tuyo. Fry in a little cooking oil and remove scales. Arrange in a large bottle or covered dish. In a casserole, heat corn oil and olive oil. Fry garlic until golden, add labuyo and vinegar. Bring to a boil and add paprika. Pour over tuyo, cool and store in the refrigerator. Serve after a few days to allow flavors to blend. When ready to serve, heat over low fire and sprinkle with toasted garlic. Hi Apple, I can't tell how long is the shelf life of gourmet tuyo since it does not contain any preservatives. But as long as you keep it in a refrigerator it will prolong the shelf life. No need to remove the "tinik"? Removing the fish bone is optional. Hi, Manny, I brought a few bags (maybe half a kilo) of dried daing. I suspect they are young bangus from the supermarket. What I really wanted to bring home was bottled daing but thought I would save myself the overweight baggage, but now can't find a recipe. Would you know what to do? Any tips? Thanks! Hi Liz, sorry I've not seen a bottled daing before nor a recipe for it. Maybe you can use this bottled tuyo recipe and substitute the tuyo with daing. Hi sir what kind of vinegar do you use? have you tried apple cider vinegar? Hi, what is the ratio of vinegar for 2kilos of tuyo? Thanks! Hi JR, as per the ingredients measurements, since in 1/2 kilo of tuyo you need 1/2 cup of vinegar, then you will multiply the amount to 4. For example, multiply 1/2 cup of vinegar to 4, you will need 2 cups of vinegar for 2 kilos of tuyo. Hello, would like to try this recipe for Christmas giftsand wondering if i could use a vegetable oil instead of corn oil? Or can i mix them like half half? Appreciate the reply. Hi Jef, yes you can use vegetable oil for making bottled tuyo. Just make sure it will not become cloudy or solidify in low temperature. Hi manny, can i use a pure olive oil instead of corn oil? Hi Lyn, yes I think it's alright to use pure olive oil instead of diluting it with corn oil. Hi can i use another dried fish? Hi Marlyn, I think you can use other kinds of dried fish. What vinegar did you use? Hi HD, you can use cane vinegar or white (palm) vinegar. Hi Sophie, pwede po ang corn oil. Pwede po bang di na lagyan ng vinegar? Or baka mapanis agad? I think you can omit the vinegar pero parang preservative din yata yun para hindi agad masira. At tsaka hindi yata masarap pag walang vinegar. Hi Maggie, I think there will be no problem regarding the taste if you will use coconut oil. But since coconut oil has high melting point temperature (24°C-25°C) the oil will cloud or solidify in low temperatures. Corn oil(-11ºC) and olive oil(-41ºC) has low melting point temperature. Hi! I have been a follower since I moved from the PH and started craving for traditional Pilipino food. Hope you can also come up with a recipe for tinapa in oil! Super love it!!! Hi Maureen, welcome to this recipe blog and thanks for patronizing it. I really appreciate it! Nice idea of making tinapa in oil. I do hope I can post it soon. Hi, im not sure about the shelf life esp/ if i put carrots? Hi Mhean, I'm also not sure if you can put carrots if you want the shelf life to be the same as if there are no carrots. Hi, can I replace corn oil with canola oil? S&R has been out of stock of corn oil lately. Hi Nina, I think you can also use canola oil since they have similar melting point temperature, meaning, they don't cloud in low temperatures. I have a simple tuyo sardines in jars using a pressure cooker. Starting from 2 kilogram of Tunsoy Tuyo, simply rehydrate them for a day replacing the water every now and then. This is to lessen the saltiness. I didn't even to cut off the heads nor taking out the scales, tails and fins. Next day, I pack them up in small jars with 1 tablespoon of sugar per jar, 1 bay leaf, some peppercorns and 1 or 2 labuyo peppers. I skip the pickles and carrots. I then fill the jar with corn oil up to the headspace. I pressure cooked them for an hour and that's it. I eat the tuyo discarding nothing hehehe… So good as Tuyo Páte with bread, for ginisang monggo, etc or even for spaghetti a la puttanesca. Hi Jack, thanks for sharing your ideas on cooking gourmet tuyo. Thanks! Hi! Can I use dried dilis with this recipe? Thanks! Hi Patricia, yes I think you can also use dried dilis for this recipe. Ive been a fan of this site po, ang dami ko na din natutunang luto dito. And sobrang thumbs up ako =). Hi Alex, thanks for sharing your feedback and the kind words of course. Regarding the sugar, siguro yung iba kaya nilagyan ng sugar baka nag experiment lang sila at nagustuhan nila lasa. Siguro nga masarap din yun parang kumakain ka ng spicy sweet fried dilis yung kulay pula na nabibili sa sari-sari store. Hello…i am interested with this tuyo gourmet but can i substitute dried pusit instead of dried fish?Thank you in advancefor yourreply. Hi Mhel, I think you can also use dried pusit instead of dried fish. Hi Rowena, I think you can omit the paprika. Hi Raquel, can't tell exactly how many bottles because it depends on the size of the bottle and how many pieces of tuyo you will put on each bottle.

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var util = require('util') , Constants = require('jsr-constants') , AbstractCommand = require('jsr-exec').DatabaseCommand; /** * Handler for the HKEYS command. */ function HashKeys() { AbstractCommand.apply(this, arguments); } util.inherits(HashKeys, AbstractCommand); module.exports = new HashKeys(Constants.MAP.hkeys);

Have you ever tried Thailand's somtam salad? Seriously, you have to have one of these! Here in Thailand, somtam salad is everywhere. They are very affordable too! With less than a dollar, you can enjoy a hefty serving of Thailand's tasty, spicy somtam salads. This dish goes well with chicken and cashew nuts, another dish I learned from Thais. To those who are not familiar with somtam, it's a papaya salad mixed nuts and dried shrimps (if you want) swimming in a sweet, salty and spicy sauce. Somtam salads are great for appetizers or a dish on its own. Here, let me show you how to make it at home. Ingredients in making somtam salad. Let's start making somtam salad. 1. Shred the papaya as seen on the image below. If you have mortar and pestle at home, pound the papaya gently so it's a bit mashed. It's how somtam salads are usually done. However, if you don't have one, that's fine too. We can still make a decent somtam salad. 3. Put this in a blender to prepare for the sauce. 4. Pour the mixture back to the bowl. 5. Add fish sauce. You can add more palm sugar or chili, depending on your tolerance for spice. 6. Add the papaya in this mix. 8. Mix them well together. 9. Serve as an appetizer. This salad has loads of fiber content that's good for your digestive health. Since papaya is a low-calorie food and chili increases body metabolism, somtam salad is also good for weight loss. Enjoy! Salad of this variety is a very healthy meal and also easy to prepare. I'm not big on papaya, but I do love the thai shrimp pomelo salad. I LOVE somtam salad! Lemme just say, that's one modern mortar and pestle! I'd love to try it too!!! But not via my own cooking though lol! Looks like a great salad for summer..light and fresh! The ingredients are easy to find and I might try this at home. But, what is a palm sugar??? Is that the same as "asukal na pula"? I'd like to give this a shot soon. Love Thai food. Keep cooking! love thai food. i hope not too spicy for me.

Q: Attempt to connect to MS SQL Server with sql alchemy throwing error that user is empty string Trying to connect to a MS SQL Server database with odbc and sqlalchemy to write a pandas.DataFrame to the database and getting an error that seems to imply that the user being used is an empty string (when one is provided the the connection string). Why would this be? The relevant code snippet is: import sqlalchemy # setup db connection server = 'myserver' database = 'mydb' table = 'mytable' username = 'username' password = 'password' cnxn_str = 'DSN=MyMSSQLServer;DATABASE='+database+';UID='+username+';PWD='+password+';MultipleActiveResultSets=True;' engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine("mssql+pyodbc:///?odbc_connect=%s" % cnxn_str) # testing connection cnxn = engine.connect() ... and the (abridged) error message thrown is: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- InterfaceError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-207-6807f223c9bb> in <module>() 15 16 #Sample select query ---> 17 cnxn = engine.connect() 18 result = connection.execute("SELECT @@version;") 19 for row in result: /home/mapr/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py in connect(self, **kwargs) 2016 """ 2017 -> 2018 return self._connection_cls(self, **kwargs) 2019 2020 def contextual_connect(self, close_with_result=False, **kwargs): ... ... /home/mapr/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/strategies.py in connect(connection_record) 95 if connection is not None: 96 return connection ---> 97 return dialect.connect(*cargs, **cparams) 98 99 creator = pop_kwarg('creator', connect) /home/mapr/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py in connect(self, *cargs, **cparams) 383 384 def connect(self, *cargs, **cparams): --> 385 return self.dbapi.connect(*cargs, **cparams) 386 387 def create_connect_args(self, url): InterfaceError: (pyodbc.InterfaceError) ('28000', u"[28000] [unixODBC][Microsoft][ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server][SQL Server]Login failed for user ''. (18456) (SQLDriverConnect)") What is also weird to me is that this same connection string works successfully earlier in the code when used to read from the same sql server, but in that case using cnxn = pyodbc.connect(cnxn_str) to establish connection (would do the same here, but according to the docs I need to use sqlalchemy if I want to write to anything other than sqlite3). Can anyone explain why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks. A: Try to do it in a more "SQL Alchemy" way: # pyodbc engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine('mssql+pyodbc://{}:{}@MyMSSQLServer'.format(username, password )) or # pymssql engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine('mssql+pymssql://{}:{}@{}:{}/{}'.format(username, password, server, port, database))

Prospect Retrospective: Mark Buehrle By John Sickels@MinorLeagueBall Apr 11, 2005, 4:15pm EDT Share All sharing options for: Prospect Retrospective: Mark Buehrle Mark Buehrle (AP photo) Mark Buehrle was drafted in the 38th round in 1998, from Jefferson Junior College in Missouri. Signed as a draft and follow, his made his pro debut in 1999 for Burlington in the Midwest League, being used as a swingman. He went 7-4 with a 4.10 ERA, with a 91/18 K/BB in 99 innings, allowing 105 hits. I did not put him in the 2000 book. Although his K/BB for Burlington was impressive, he gave up more than a hit per inning, and although I had not seen him in person, a Midwest League source told me his stuff was very mediocre. He was a Grade C prospect at that point, like a hundred other guys; not everyone of them makes the book due to space limits. Buehrle moved up rapidly in 2000. He began the year in Double-A, pitched brilliantly in 16 starts (8-4, 2.28 ERA), showing excellent command with a 68/17 K/BB ratio in 119 innings. That summer he has promoted to the White Sox to work as a swingman in the bullpen in the second half of the year. At one point late that summer, I remember a reader asked me if Buehrle was worth investing in. I'd just seen him pitch recently for the Sox and had not been impressed. "Probably not," was my answer, based on what looked to me like very mediocre stuff, plus a low strikeout ratio. Even in Double-A his K/IP was well below Southern League average, and I was convinced that the hitters would catch up with him quickly. A year later, Buehrle won 16 games, and has been a consistent and effective inning-eating starter ever since. What happened here? Is this a case of a Grade C prospect made good, or was I just flat wrong? It's a bit of both. Looking over Buehrle's track record in retrospect, the best number that stands out is his very low walk rate in the minors, giving him a sound overall K/BB. His K/IP rate was good in the Midwest League, but I was turned off by his relatively high ERA, mediocre H/IP, and "weak stuff" report from a trusted source. In Double-A, his walk rate remained very impressive, and a 2.28 ERA mark was sharp for anyone, let alone someone making the jump from the Midwest League. But his K/IP was weak, and he didn't look very good when I saw him in person. Putting all that together, he didn't look anything special to me, yet he's certainly turned out that way. Sometimes you just miss them. As for Buerhle's future, here are a list of Comparable Pitchers, based on Sim Score and PECOTA (no active pitchers). Most Similar Pitchers to Mark Buehrle through Age 25 Steve Avery Ross Grimsley John Candelaria Dave McNally Johnny Podres Scott McGregor Jim Abbott Dick Ellsworth Jimmy Key That's a list of quality pitchers.

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom urges Nigerians to sustain their faith in the unity and capacity of the country to overcome the current challenges and realize its full potential as a prosperous nation. The Governor says the grace of God has steered Nigeria out of challenges and threats to its corporate existence, and stresses that what the people need to do at this time is to draw closer to the Creator in their words and actions. He states that only sustained synergy between the Federal Government and states, as well as other stakeholders can lead to victory against terrorism and other criminal acts in parts of the country. Governor Ortom points out that the recent successful crackdown on kidnappers and armed robbers in Ushongo was a result of the effective collaboration between his administration, Benue people and security agencies. He emphasizes that there will be no hiding place for enemies of peace as he will not surrender the state to criminals. The Governor reaffirms the commitment of Benue State Government to addressing youth restiveness by developing the agriculture value chain to engage young people in rewarding ventures. He thanks Benue people for the support given to his administration and pledges to return the goodwill with greater performance in all sectors of the economy. Governor Ortom says the recent steps taken by his administration such as signing of the Pensions Law and establishment of a Pension Commission are aimed at speedily addressing the welfare of those still in service and retirees. The Governor wishes people of the state and other Nigerians peaceful Independence celebration and God's guidance. Terver Akase Chief Press Secretary September 30, 2019. September 30, 2019 By adminNews PublicationsLeave a comment Nigeria @ 59Samuel OrtomTerver Akase WE ARE WINNING THE WAR AGAINST KIDNAPPERS, ORTOM TELLS IGBO, OTHERSGOV ORTOM SYMPATHIZES WITH VICTIMS OF EGGON ACCIDENT

Kirsten tote (open top) or Kirsten/ Ingrid satchel? I'm thinking of swapping my Kirsten multi strap tote in gray for a Kirsten/ Ingrid satchel in a slightly darker gray colour. Don't get me wrong, I think the tote is a lovely bag, although I can't say how practical it is because I'm yet to use it. I just prefer it to have a zip fastening. It is also a deep bag and because I don't use purse organisers it might take a while to dig for items/ belongings. According to a description online its meant to weigh less than the satchel which is smaller in dimension. And despite being large it looks fine on my frame. The satchel looks interesting and it seems a little more young versus the tote. It also weighs less. I wonder if it would be too small for my frame and/ or if it can fit a lot. Apparently its heavier compared to the tote. Both styles look great but I'm on the fence. And this is where you guys step in. For owners of either style, what are the pros and cons? Does the satchel have a phone pocket? - Things I usually carry in my bag: Phone, sunnies (no case), reading glasses (case), continental purse, scarf, chewing gum/ mints, facial tissues, small zip purse for lippie, mirror, etc. Satchel. I ordered the Kirsten and immediately sent it back. It's not practical for me. It can't go over my upper arm, it's too long to wear in the crook of my arm w/o looking awkward, and there's no cross-body strap... all reasons it went back for me! Got an Emile instead and I love it! I own the satchel and love it.. but I'm also short and never would have looked proper with that tote. It'd probably be half my height. Anyway, I love how the satchel slouches when I hold it by the handles. Gorgeous bag either way.. go with what you feel is a better fit for you! Thanks for the opinions. I decided to go for the satchel. It seems more practical and over time it might hold its shape better.

U.K. Artist Simon Ripley art reception Presented by Mobile Art Program and VSA Texas at Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin TX Simon Ripley, a Director of the Double Elephant Print Workshop in Exeter, South West England, has been working alongside the staff of the Mobile Art Program to make art with seniors experiencing early memory loss. In the UK Simon does similar work taking printmaking into the community, working with adults with mental illness and seniors in hospital. You can see the U.K. work at this website: http://www.doubleelephant.org.uk/ Simon will be showing examples of the artwork that has been made by Simon will be showing examples of the artwork that has been made by participants over the last two weeks. He will also show his own prints. While in Texas, Simon will be printmaking at Flatbed Press in Austin to make new work in response to his workshops with Mobile Art. Simon will talk about his work in the UK and also discuss approaches to participatory work with vulnerable people. Please join us for refreshments during the reception. This project has been made possible by a collaboration with VSA Texas, AGE of Central Texas, and a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. Email: mobileart@mail.org Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78722 CONNECT WITH Mobile Art Program

Aerosmith Drummer Sues Band For Not Letting Him Play 22nd January, 2020 Aerosmith have responded to being sued by their own drummer and co-founder Joey Kramer. He's accused Aerosmith of shutting him out ahead of the band's Grammy Award performance this weekend. This is a massive event for Aerosmith, not only will they be honoured as the 2020 Person of the Year for MusiCares, a charity for musicians in critical financial need, they're celebrating their 50th anniversary by performing. Kramer hasn't been able to play with the band after copping an injury April. His drum tech, John Douglas has been filling in. Douglas will play the milestone gig, not Kramer. In a statement, Kramer said that being "removed from his "rightful place on stage to celebrate" Aerosmith's success "is just plain wrong." He continued: "Being prohibited from playing with a band that I have given 50 years of my life to supporting, is beyond devastating." "This is not about money. I am being deprived of the opportunity to be recognised along with my peers, for our collective, lifetime contributions to the music industry. Neither … [honour] can ever be repeated." It was reported that Kramer was also asked to audition to a click track to prove he was "able to play at an appropriate level" in order to rejoin band. Aerosmith responded to the allegations in a statement to People. "Joey Kramer is our brother; his well being is of paramount importance to us," it read. "However, he has not been emotionally and physically able to perform with the band, by his own admission, for the last six months. We have missed him and have encouraged him to rejoin us to play many times but apparently he has not felt ready to do so." The statement continued. "Joey has now waited until the last moment to accept our invitation, when we unfortunately have no time for necessary rehearsals during Grammys week. "We would be doing a disservice to him, to ourselves and to our fans to have him play without adequate time to prepare and rehearse. "Compounding this, he chose to file a lawsuit on the Friday night of the holiday weekend preceding the Grammys with total disregard for what is our limited window to prepare to perform these important events. "Given his decisions he is unfortunately unable to perform but of course we have invited him to be with us for both the Grammys and our MusiCares honour. We are bonded together by much more than our time on stage." Iconic Song 'Spirit In The Sky' Turns 50, Took Just 15 Minutes To Write How You Can Watch Our iHeartRadio ALTer EGO Live Spike Jonze-Directed Beastie Boys Documentary To Drop In April 96FM's Top 50 Best Road Trip Songs Of All Time

We ought to recognize two different realms: one is that of doctrine, and the other is that of revelation. Doctrine — we can learn in school through textbooks and instructors. It can be attained with a little effort, a little cleverness, and a little eloquence. Revelation — is beyond human ability. We must see that in the ministry of God's Word mean are absolutely helpless if God withholds His revelation. If God does not speak, nothing can be forced out. If God does not give revelation, nothing can be done. With revelation there is ministry; without it there is no ministry. Each time we minister we have God's present revelation as our foundation. In this realm we have to be rightly related to God, we have to be before the Lord; otherwise we cannot stand before mean. The ignorant person mistakes eloquence and cleverness as the criteria. He thinks preaching is strictly a matter of eloquence. However, the Bible shows us that prophecy is a matter of whether nor not there is revelation; it is not a matter of eloquence.

Wednesday evening roundup All clear in Deal: Suspicious package turns out to be speakers Police Sgt. Brian Egan said the duffel bag weighed about 50 lbs. and was sitting on the shoulder of the road, directly outside the synagogue. A passerby picked up the bag and put it in a white car, drove it up the street, and then called police. Several police agencies, including Deal police and emergency responders as well as the State Police bomb squad, converged on the scene. Toms River WVU student dies after fall West Virginia University Police Chief Bob Roberts said that Sean Guthrie fell roughly 20 feet from the roof of the Kappa Alpha fraternity house on North High Street. The fall seems to be an accident. Asbury Park student jumped from window to skip test The Asbury Park Police Department said the girl was taken to an area hospital to treat her injuries and undergo evaluation. Ahmad Khan Rahimi moves to NJ state prison Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 28, who was recovering from gunshot wounds he received during a shootout with Linden police officers on Sept. 19, left Newark's University Hospital and settled into a New Jersey prison on Tuesday evening, said New Jersey Department of Corrections spokesperson Matt Schuman. He would not say which prison. Popeyes bringing chicken to Route 9 in Howell The restaurant, located in what was once an Arby's on Route 9 in Howell, is in the final stages of preparing to open. A date is not yet set, but Abid Nawaz, district manager for AG Group of Restaurants, the franchisee, told What's Going There he expects it will open to the public sometime next week. Dead voters remain on NJ election rolls Thousands of the dead remain on New Jersey's active voting rolls with a handful of votes cast in their names over the years, an Asbury Park Press investigation found, but all were likely due to clerical errors rather than fraud. Clinton vs. Trump: Your guide to the final presidential debate Once upon a time, Donald Trump owned a bunch of casinos, so Las Vegas should be kind of home turf for him when he takes the stage at 9 p.m. Wednesday for the third and final presidential debate against Hillary Clinton. The debate is being hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where student attendance is being limited to undergraduates with a C average or better and graduate students with a grade average above a B. Blue Jays fight to stay alive; Cubs try to get back on fairy-tale script The Cleveland Indians get another chance to close out the ALCS when they face the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 5 Wednesday. After Edwin Encarnacion's decisive two-run single in the seventh inning Tuesday, Toronto looks to stave off elimination for a second consecutive night with hopes of sending the series back to Cleveland. At 8 p.m., the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Chicago Cubs following L.A.'s 6-0 win in Game 3 for a 2-1 NLCS lead. With the Cubs' offense evaporating, the Dodgers turn to Julio Urias who, at 20 years, 68 days, will be the youngest pitcher ever to start an MLB postseason game.

What I like about NJB Stars: "Unlike other programs I have been in, they focus on what I am good at." What I like about NJB Stars: "The attention to dribbling and ball-handling skills." What I like about NJB Stars: "There are lots of games to play. The practices are fun; yet serious at the same time." What I like about NJB Stars: "It's fun!" What I like about NJB Stars: "I like that it covers every part of the game and gets very specific on fundamentals."

Oct 23, 2015 11:31 AMPublication: The Southampton Press Candidates Spar In League Of Women Voters Debate Thursday Night The final debate of the 2015 campaign season was held on Thursday night with candidates for Suffolk County legislator, Southampton Town supervisor and Southampton Town board going head to head one last time before heading to the polls. In the at times heated county legislator debate, opponents Republican Amos Goodman and Democrat Bridget Fleming agreed that county finances need to be addressed as quickly as possible, but disagreed on pretty much everything else. According to Ms. Fleming, she is most qualified for the county position because of her experience as a Southampton Town councilwoman and her past public service work as an assistant district attorney fighting sex crimes, saying she has the knowledge and focus to handle any of the county's issues. For Mr. Goodman, he said he is most experienced in the business world and has worked on large scale budgets in the past. His experience growing businesses, he said, could be used to repair the county's floundering finances. In the supervisor debate, Republican Richard Yastrzemski and Democrat Jay Schneiderman covered several topics, including aircraft noise, Planned Development Districts, hiring a town manager, the Tuckahoe Center and water quality. Both candidates discussed the looming possibility that Community Preservation Funds will be able to be used for water quality issues, saying there is potential to make strides in the issue. For Town Board, Democrat John Bouvier, Republican Damon Hagan, Democrat Julie Lofstad and Republican Christine P. Scalera are all focusing on quality of life issues, saying that traffic, water quality, affordable housing and code enforcement are all interrelated. All four are promising to increase the quality of life for all of the town residents while preserving the rural nature of Southampton Town. The issue of affordable housing is split between the candidates, with Mr. Bouvier and Ms. Lofstad pushing creating a system matching senior citizens with extra space with younger members of the work force to provide housing. For Ms. Scalera and Mr. Hagan, the focus was on streamlining the process of getting rental permits. Ms Fleming was the lone Town of Southampton elected official to vote, NO when "The Hills" was first proposed. Therefore, she has my vote!!! Ms Scalera although pleasant enough has demonstrated by her voting record on "The Hills" that she will not have my vote. Both Ms Lofstad & Mr Bouvier appear more concerned by PDD's and they have my vote. Mr Hagan has no community involvement and I feel that he will not vote to curtail PDD's. In today's Newsday they endorse Schneiderman for ...more SHT supervisor. When both were asked about "The Hills", Yastrzemski says......the ship has sailed on preserving land at the proposed golf course/residential subdivision in East Quogue. While Mr. Schneiderman says.......preservation is still possible and also wants a moratorium on such planned development districts to give the town time to re-examine the law that allows them. I'm voting for Schneiderman who I believe might just look out for the little guy. By crusader (391), East Quogue on Oct 23, 15 1:45 PM Turkey Bridge, Dafsgirl, Earthgirl, Crabby Bridget Fleming's eloquent and passionate closing statement about public service, in contrast to the snarky cheap shots of her opponent, was a high point of the evening. Likewise Jay Schneiderman's cool, knowledgeable responses to every question were a similar contrast to his opponent's constant sniping about who lives where and who's been here longer and whose house is more appropriate. Who cares, when it's really about who can do the job better? The GOP candidates for County ...more Legislator and Supervisor just don't have much to offer, and so they resort to petty mudslinging, all of it false and none of it significant. The Town Council candidates exhibited more fitting restraint all around, and that should be the norm. But there was some illogic. Christine Scalera, defending her decision to vote against a particular development project regardless of what an upcoming traffic study says, claims that it's her "job" to take a stand, and bear the criticism. Ms. Scalera has the cart before the horse. Her "job," in the first instance, is to look at ALL the data before deciding on an application. Only then, after she's done that, should she be talking about standing up to criticism of her vote. She has it backward, because she's shirking that first part of her job, the part about looking at everything before deciding how to vote. She is not doing her job. Again, Damon Hagan failed to demonstrate, either from his record as an attorney or from what he said in the debate, that he's ready for this office. That leaves John Bouvier and Julie Lofstad, both of whom deserve election, and not just by process of elimination. Both have engineering/technical backgrounds that will be a great aid in the complicated issues facing Southampton, especially nitrogen reduction and restoring our water quality. Both have been spirited advocates for a variety of community causes. Both believe we must maintain our special character and quality of life, and if that means saying No to unbridled development and the money it brings, so be it. That's more than enough for me. By Turkey Bridge (1979), Quiogue on Oct 23, 15 3:13 PM Thou doth protest too much. Ms. Scalera truly has proven herself. She clearly knows what her job is and has done it well. You Turkey have sided with every Dem that has been up for election despite their inadequacies. All pleasant enough as you say but when it comes to looking for those with the experience, knowledge and ability to lead Ms. Scalera is head and shoulders above the rest. Mr. Hagan has a good background and demonstrated a grasp of the issues. Ms. Lofstad seemed impassioned but incapable ...more and Mr. Bouvier better fit to run as he did last cycle for Trustee. I need not say where my votes go nor need you. However, I would urge those who have not watched or attended these debates tune in. The choices will be clear to you as well. By Roughrider28 (80), southampton on Oct 23, 15 5:37 PM Frank Wheeler,Crabby Living in your girlfriends mothers house without a lease isn't legal residency. If it was the Republican not to have residency you would be crying foul. You are so transparent Turkey. By chief1 (2800), southampton on Oct 23, 15 4:22 PM Ms Scalera was a one term board member when she lived up island as she was a do-nothing, and she has been a do-nothing here. She does not deserve a second term. By Crabby (63), Southampton on Oct 24, 15 9:21 AM Didn't think it possible. You are funnier than you are crabby. Ms. Scalera's star continues to rise and shine and you can't stand it. Keep it up Ms. Scalera. Your skills and ability shine. a rubber stamp for Her Royal Highness Queen Anna our own Political Prostitute. NO VOTE FOR YOU! By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Oct 24, 15 4:57 PM

How E-waste and the Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Creating Jobs for Former Prisoners Written by Anna Rees, 30-01-2017 Californian startup Isidore Electronics Recycling is turning electronic waste recycling into employment opportunities for people coming out of the criminal justice system.  RitaE Successfully reentering society after incarceration is beset with obstacles. A 2008 report from the Urban Institute found that social service providers consider gaining employment to be the primary factor in successful reentry. Yet finding a job, and overcoming the stigma attached to having a criminal record, can be extremely difficult for former inmates. The same paper found that 37 per cent of male prisoners in Cleveland had found full time work a year after reentry. Those that do find work generally occupy low-skill positions and are paid lower rates than they earned prior to their incarceration. But what to do? Well if you're Isidore Electronics Recycling founder, Kabira Stokes, and you have a background in criminal justice reform and environmental governance, you develop an approach that makes sensible use of valuable resources, right through the supply chain. Named after Saint Isidore of Seville (the patron saint of – believe it or not – the internet, computers and computer users), the company recycles electronic waste and offers employment to people who were previously incarcerated. Employees at Isidore's recycling facilities safely take apart discarded electronic devices and remove any component or material – like gold or copper – that can be reused. Isidore Electronics Recycling works with Chrysalis Enterprises, a non-profit that specifically looks to find work opportunities for people that face certain barriers when entering the workforce, namely people with a criminal record, a history of substance abuse, who are homeless, or low-income earners. Reenter, Reuse, Recycle Electronic waste (e-waste) is the fastest growing stream of waste worldwide, with a lot of old devices ending up in landfills, posing a serious threat to the environment. In fact, although e-waste accounts for around two per cent of the waste in landfills, it is responsible for 70 per cent of the toxins found there. Customers looking to recycle their old electronics can drop them off at the company's LA facility, request a pick up (at a charge) or leave them at one of Isidore's collection events. Smaller items can recycled free of charge through the company, whereas larger items like a printer cost about 5 USD to recycle. Where possible, Isidore aims to refurbish and repair discarded electronic devices and put them back on the market. If a gadget has reached the end of its lifecycle, the company then works to extract any valuable materials so these can be repurposed into new devices. According to a video the company made with Uproxx, there are more rare earth metals (such as gold, copper and aluminium) sitting in landfills (thanks to so many electronic devices ending up there) than are left in known minable deposits. Isidore Electronics Recycling's two-pronged approach to running a company is helping to address the ever-growing e-waste problem and providing a critical second chance to people who might otherwise struggle to find gainful employment. To learn more about the company, head to their website.  freeimages.com Knowledge Electronic Waste  Fairphone News Retr3D: Building 3D-Printers From Electronic Waste  USAID Knowledge Social Entrepreneurship  David Stillman News Meet Liam, the iPhone-Chomping Robot  News A 3D Printer Direct from the Scrap Heap  Pixabay.com Knowledge The Circular Economy Support RESET This news belongs to Equal rights for all News MapSwipe: Online Volunteers Help Put Vulnerable Communities on the Map News Yalla Cooperative: Coding for Impact Between Europe and Gaza News "How can we create business that is not based on greed?" - Interview with Muhammad Yunus News vostel.de: The (Unintentional) Social Enterprise Making Volunteering Accessible to All News The Solar-Powered Super Sponge That Can Harvest Water From Thin Air Sign up to our monthly newsletter and make sure you`ll never miss the latest news on digital social and green innovations. 100% handcrafted. 0% spam. We promise!

The Routine Field construction site Monday. Photo by Tom Tolan Construction Delays Force Back Milkmen's Home Opener Tom Tolan April 9, 2019 Minor league baseball team will play first 16 home games in Indiana The home opener of the new minor-league Milwaukee Milkmen has been put off a month because of construction delays at its new stadium due to Milwaukee's recent brutal winter, the team announced Tuesday. "The Milkmen's Routine Field opener is now scheduled for Monday, June 24, against the Gary SouthShore RailCats," said the announcement from the team's owners and its league, the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. The first five scheduled home series will be played in Kokomo, Indiana, according to the announcement. The original date for the home opener was supposed to be May 24, against the Chicago Dogs, in a three-game series. "In our discussions with the Milwaukee group, it was determined that it was in the best interest of fan experience and player safety to move these games to Kokomo and allow stadium construction to progress in Franklin," the announcement quoted American Association Joshua Schaub as saying. Mike Zimmerman, CEO of ROC Ventures, which is developing the Franklin complex where the 4,000-seat Routine Field is under construction, says his group is disappointed but that "rescheduling the inaugural home game is a small price to pay." The release said a "flexible exchange policy" on tickets already purchased will allow fans "to make adjustments as needed," and those who bought season tickets will get pro-rated refunds based on 16 fewer games at Routine Field. The decision also will force the official cancellation of games scheduled for UW-Milwaukee's baseball team at Routine Field. Those games were to start late this month and run through May 18. RELATED The Oldest U.S. Curling Club is Right Here in Milwaukee The Business Journal reported in March that those games were likely to be moved to UWM's Hank Aaron Field in Lincoln Park because of the construction delays. Previous ArticleThis Bites: Dining Options at the Soon-to-Open Saint Kate Hotel Next ArticleBeer Events Brewing This Week: April 10-14 Tom Tolan Tom Tolan is managing editor at Milwaukee Magazine, where he's worked since January 2016. He spent 24 years at The Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a copy editor, assistant metro editor and reporter. He lives in Shorewood. We Know Why the Brewers Stadium Looked Like a Rave This Morning Get to Know the Two (Very Different) Sets of Brothers on the Milwaukee Bucks Milwaukee Magazine Staff December 25, 2019 How a Spellbound Australian Became Bucks Beat Reporter in Milwaukee Kane Pitman December 25, 2019 6 Things We Learned From Aaron Rodgers and Justin Vernon's Epic Conversation Matthew Prigge December 6, 2019 Here's Why We Love the Brewers' New Look Matthew Prigge November 19, 2019 'You Can Tear Me Down, But I Will Never Die!' Bradley Center Twitter Calls From the Grave Adam Rogan November 18, 2019

Vehicle driving is one of the most enjoyable moments to car owners. However, this may be more enjoyable ifa driver has some nifty features and constant connectivity to help avoid the little annoyances of the road. Here are mobile apps that most drivers or car owners should have while travelling intheir vehicles. The app is essential in that it enables in tracking the speed and location of the vehicle every five seconds. This makes it is easy to monitor the car's movement and location using this app by making the data available for exporting to a spreadsheet. The main functions of this app include monitoring teens driving habits by providing driving records for which to argue against speeding. It also provides location history and informs the car owner on the location if the phone with the app travels outside the preset location area. The app provides details of your driving styles, thus enabling one to change the accelerator and brake use to have the best fuel economy. It works by breaking down energy usage at different speeds transmitting it into the engine power, aerodynamic drag, and mechanical rolling resistance. This enables it to display energy cost in dollars oil consumption and CO2 output. This is a good app to monitor fuel costs. Due to regular route usage, TripAlyzer helps coach to get the best fuel efficiency and hence the cheapest route. It analyses the driving habits, how efficiently fuel is used, and the much spent. It announces verbally the current fuel efficiency. This app helps in displaying the 10 nearest fuel stations and their prices, derived from the same pricing service that supplies the AAA and satellite companies. The DriveSafe.ly app helps the driver get incoming message updates, Twitter, and Facebook updates. It eliminates the urge to pick the phone, or the need to press any button, in order to listen to the incoming texts. The app does everything itself and leaves the user's hands and eyes completely free for driving. The Openbay app helps car owners to get the best quotes from the nearby garage centers. The app has the ability to compare prices, telling the repair cost and time-frame. It also allows in authorizing only a certain amount on your card so that a garage cannot lift up the price unexpectedly. This app helps keep track of what is spent on all cars and gives feedback when driving. Fuel-fill records for multiple cars can also be stored. Next story What Made A Car A Muscle Car?

It was a banner day for New Jersey's first health insurance company - and one of the nation's first health insurers - as Horizon BCBSNJ unfurled a commemorative banner at its Newark Headquarters today to celebrate its 85th anniversary. A milestone eight-and-a-half decades in the making, the company's employees and officers were joined by local, state and congressional leaders in paying tribute to the company's commitment to New Jersey and serving millions of Garden State residents over several generations. Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto also praised Horizon for its "bedrock" presence in New Jersey, particularly during a changing landscape in health care. "As we see uncertainties in our nation with the Affordable Care Act, we always depend on New Jersey's insurer, and that is Horizon," he said. Other dignitaries attending today's commemorative event: State Senator Teresa Ruiz; Assemblywoman Eliana Pintor Marin; Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin; Assemblyman Jack M. Ciattarelli; Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo; Essex County Freeholders Wayne Richardson, Brendan Gill, Patricia Sebold and Deborah Davis Ford; Newark Council President Mildred Crump; and Newark Councilman Augusto Amador.

The purposes of this article are to describe the process of building, programming and testing of the microprocessor based Assmann psychrometer. Studies were conducted based on a thesis in Institute of Metrology and Bioengineering, Faculty Mechatronics of Warsaw University of Technology. The main task was to implement modern components to a conventional construction of the psychrometer, as a way to increase its functionality. Psychrometers were designed for measuring relative humidity. The measure of humidity is based on the difference of indication of two sensors – dry bulb thermometer (ambient conditions) and wet bulb thermometer (100% humidity conditions). Under the influence of air movement, water evaporates from the thermometer cooling down the surface of the wet bulb sensor. Using mathematical transformations of the temperatures and making additional measurements (air flow, atmospheric pressure), the device is now able to calculate the relative humidity. The main component in the device is a microcontroller – KAmduino Uno which is connected to two thermometers, an atmospheric pressure sensor, an universal DTH22 sensor and a LCD display. The microprocessor allows not only immediate calculation but also archiving data using a serial port monitor. Calculations are based on the Sprung and Buck models. The device monitors the presence of critical errors such as sensor disconnection or over-measuring. Finally, calibration of thermometers, tests, measurements and validation of the device were conducted.

Abstract Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are ubiquitous in galaxies with a sizable mass. It is expected that a pair of SMBHs originally in the nuclei of two merging galaxies would form a binary and eventually coalesce via a burst of gravitational waves. So far, theoretical models and simulations, focusing only on limited phases of the orbital decay of SMBHs under idealized conditions of the galaxy hosts, have been unable to directly predict the SMBH merger timescale from ab-initio galaxy formation theory. The predicted SMBH merger timescales are long, of order Gyrs, which could be problematic for future gravitational wave (GW) searches. Here, we present the first multi-scale Lambda CDM cosmological simulation that follows the orbital decay of a pair of SMBHs in a merger of two typical massive galaxies at z similar to 3, all the way to the final coalescence driven by GW emission. The two SMBHs, with masses similar to 10(8) M-circle dot, settle quickly in the nucleus of the merger remnant. The remnant is triaxial and extremely dense due to the dissipative nature of the merger and the intrinsic compactness of galaxies at high redshift. Such properties naturally allow a very efficient hardening of the SMBH binary. The SMBH merger occurs in only similar to 10 Myr after the galactic cores have merged, which is two orders of magnitude smaller than the Hubble time. GB/T 7714 Khan, Fazeel Mahmood,Fiacconi, Davide,Mayer, Lucio,et al. SWIFT COALESCENCE OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES IN COSMOLOGICAL MERGERS OF MASSIVE GALAXIES[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2016,828(2). APA Khan, Fazeel Mahmood,Fiacconi, Davide,Mayer, Lucio,Berczik, Peter,&Just, Andreas.(2016).SWIFT COALESCENCE OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES IN COSMOLOGICAL MERGERS OF MASSIVE GALAXIES.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,828(2). MLA Khan, Fazeel Mahmood,et al."SWIFT COALESCENCE OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES IN COSMOLOGICAL MERGERS OF MASSIVE GALAXIES".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 828.2(2016).

This review is taken from PN Review 161, Volume 31 Number 3, January - February 2005. A SPHERE OF ABUNDANCE KEVIN CORCORAN, New and Selected Poems (Shearsman Books) £10.95/$16.95 Kelvin Corcoran's recent work inhabits the imagination as a distinct sphere of abundance, drawn from reality as a celebration of the true scope of the mind. And the instrument of this is a written eloquence which takes in the past of poetry and of the spirit as a freshly lived condition which the self occupies at its most impassioned and most sincere. So it cannot be easy, or singular, though it is full of direct statements, simplicities and particular events. The objective is nothing less than the experienced world, as he said quite early in his career - The world is all that is the case. The world is the shrine. and that second term, of course, shifts into a different gear: the poem is not to enumerate, describe or explain the world, but to pay homage to it, which is done the only way it can be: by the self's direct experience of enhancing or healing conditions which find their voices in true thought and impassioned address, including anger and dismay. Since the early 1990s Corcoran has built the world of this poetry from the most unlikely seeming materials for a modernist poet, by adopting Greece with its history and mythology as his focus and ultimate home. As he himself quotes: 'I run to some farr countrye / where noe man shall me know.' It is not a separate issue, like a travelogue, but a great expansion of resource ...

Q: Styled Component Rendering Twice in React/Redux I've finished this project, it's just that whenever React routes, my home snapshot switch case re-renders a second time. Here is the code for Home page const Home = (props) => { const dispatch = useDispatch(); const userName = useSelector(selectUserName); let recommends = []; let newDisneys = []; let originals = []; let trending = []; useEffect(() => { db.collection("movies").onSnapshot((snapshot) => { snapshot.docs.map((doc) => { switch (doc.data().type) { case "recommend": recommends = [...recommends, { id: doc.id, ...doc.data() }]; break; case "new": newDisneys = [...newDisneys, { id: doc.id, ...doc.data() }]; break; case "original": originals = [...originals, { id: doc.id, ...doc.data() }]; break; case "trending": trending = [...trending, { id: doc.id, ...doc.data() }]; break; } }); dispatch( setMovies({ recommend: recommends, newDisney: newDisneys, original: originals, trending: trending, }) ); }); }, [userName]); return ( <Container> <ImgSlider /> <Viewers /> <Recommends /> <NewDisney /> <Originals /> <Trending /> </Container> ); } export default Home; And here is the code for the App.js : import React from 'react'; import './App.css'; import Nav from './components/Nav.jsx' import Home from './components/Home.jsx'; import { BrowserRouter as Router, Routes, Route, } from "react-router-dom"; import Detail from './components/Detail'; import Login from './components/Login'; function App() { return ( <div className="App"> <Router> <Nav /> <Routes> <Route exact path="/" element={<Login />} /> <Route path="/detail/:id" element={<Detail />} /> <Route path="/home" element={<Home />} /> </Routes> </Router> </div> ); } export default App; My Navigation page: const Nav = (props) => { const dispatch = useDispatch() const navigate = useNavigate() const userName = useSelector(selectUserName) const userPhoto = useSelector(selectUserPhoto) useEffect(() => { auth.onAuthStateChanged(async (user) => { if (user) { setUser(user) navigate("/home") } }); }, [userName]) const handleAuth = () => { if (!userName) { auth .signInWithPopup(provider) .then((result) => { setUser(result.user) }) .catch((error) => { alert(error.message) }); } else if (userName) { auth .signOut() .then(() => { dispatch(setSignOutState()) navigate("/") }) .catch((err) => alert(err.message)) } } const setUser = (user) => { dispatch( setUserLoginDetails({ name: user.displayName, email: user.email, photo: user.photoURL, }) ); }; return ( <Header> <Logo src="/images/logo.svg" alt="Disney+" /> { !userName ? (<Login onClick={handleAuth}>Login</Login>) : ( <> <NavMenu> <Link to="/home"> <img src="/images/home-icon.svg" alt="Home" /> <span>HOME</span> </Link> <Link to="/home"> <img src="/images/search-icon.svg" alt="Search" /> <span>SEARCH</span> </Link> <Link to="/home" href="Watchlist"> <img src="/images/watchlist-icon.svg" alt="Watchlist" /> <span>WATCHLIST</span> </Link> <Link to="/home"> <img src="/images/original-icon.svg" alt="Originals" /> <span>ORIGINALS</span> </Link> <Link to="/home"> <img src="/images/movie-icon.svg" alt="Movies" /> <span>MOVIES</span> </Link> <Link to="/home"> <img src="/images/series-icon.svg" alt="Series" /> <span>SERIES</span> </Link> </NavMenu> <SignOut> <UserImg src={userPhoto} alt={userName}/> <DropDown> <span onClick={handleAuth}>Sign Out</span> </DropDown> </SignOut> </> )} </Header> ); } I'm completely lost as to why it renders my , , and a second time. If I refresh the page, the second render disappears, but once I try to click on a link and use my Nav to route back to the home page, it appears again.

Home News Business Qatargas to merge with RasGas Photo for illustrative purposes only. Credit: RasGas Qatar's two largest liquified natural gas (LNG) producers will merge into one company over the next 12 months to cut costs, officials have announced. Qatar Petroleum's RasGas and Qatargas will now be joined into a single entity called QatarGas, QP's CEO said today. No immediate job cuts are expected, but may occur once the new structure is in place, Saad Al Kaabi clarified, according to Reuters. QP CEO Saad al-Kaabi. Credit: QP Speaking to reporters at a news conference this morning, the official added that the move would save "hundreds of millions of dollars" and increase competitiveness in the market. In a statement, he added that "the integration aims to create a truly unique global energy operator in terms of size, service and reliability." 'Right-sizing' Falling global oil prices have caused many of Qatar's energy companies to slash budgets and headcounts in recent years. Since November 2014, QP has laid off an estimated 3,000 staffers, and its subsidiary RasGas has also cut hundreds of jobs. Plans for a corporate restructure are understood to have begun before global oil prices took a tumble. However, as the world's largest producer and exporter of liquified natural gas (LNG), Qatar has felt the impact of the dip. Speaking about the layoffs last year, Al Kaabi said: "While we have no control over markets and prices, we do have control over our costs and expenditure. This will be a stable organization going forward." Looking to rent out your home during the Wold Cup? You'll need to get... Travel Rejan Gaafar - January 13, 2022 0

Home Career Some of Amazo... Some of Amazon's highly paid tech workers say warehouse worker conditions are 'a source of shame' Julie Bort, Business Insider US Some Amazon tech workers say they are ashamed of the working conditions of the company's warehouse workers. The tech workers are openly sharing words of encouragement to those warehouse employees, who are planning on a short strike during Amazon Prime Day. The striking workers want better pay, more reasonable work expectations, and better chances for advancement. Amazon says it already provides all of this to them. However, warehouse workers tell a different side of the story: They talk about the constant pressure to perform and how the company's automated systems track them, and can even automatically target them to get fired. A group of Amazon's tech workers are openly supporting the planned strike by Amazon warehouse workers in Shakopee, Minnesota, next week during the online retailer's Prime Day shopping event. Some of them will even be flying out to walk the picket line and give speeches during the strike, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, the employee activist group organizing this show of support, said. Others are publicly sharing letters and words of encourage to the strikers via Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, with multiple employees saying they are ashamed of the treatment of the fulfillment center workers. "The treatment of FC workers is a source of shame to me as an Amazon employee," the Amazon employee Nancy Urban wrote in a blog post shared by the activist group. "All Amazon employees should be proud to call themselves such. It is shameful that while Amazon chooses to be the industry leader in so many aspects of their employment policies, and yet continues to allow other aspects of their policies to be worthy of being called 'inhumane,'" another anonymous employee wrote in the blog post. "When I was working as an engineer in Fulfillment, I spent a few days working in the warehouses and could not even come close to meeting the individual productivity quotas. The quotas are unrealistically high for most humans. I support FC employees in Minnesota who wish to lower quotas for safer and more comfortable working conditions," Joey Siracusa wrote in that same post. Read: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels shared a powerful response to the ongoing protests of the company's involvement with ICE The bigger mission This show of support for their fellow employees was organized by a group with a primary mission to push Amazon to better combat climate change. Matt Cardy / Stringer / Getty Images They want Amazon to stop using fossil fuels in its operations entirely and become a zero-emissions company in a timeline dictated by science. Amazon does have numerous green initiatives, such as building its own solar and wind farms. It has also promised to eventually use 100% renewable energy for its global infrastructure, but it has been vague as to the timeline. Meanwhile, Prime Day, the retailer's annual shopping event, is coming next week. While Amazon customers are anticipating the bargains, these Minnesota workers are using the spotlight to push for better conditions. They want higher pay, more reasonable workloads, and better opportunities for advancement. Amazon did not immediately return a request for comment to this story, but Amazon has said in reaction to the strike that it already offers the workers what they are asking for with its $15 minimum wage and pay up to $20.80 an hour, plus benefits like healthcare, parental leave, paid education, and training. In addition, Amazon just this week announced a program to train 100,000 of its employees with new tech skills, including new programs available to warehouse workers who want to learn how to code. It will also be offering more tuition assistance to those who want to train for other high-demand occupations. Read more: This Amazon exec helped Alexa work with 60,000 devices, but says he only really understood its power when his kid came home from school But new training options don't combat the perception that the warehouse job involves inhumane expectations. The company recently endured another round of criticism when John Oliver, the host of the HBO show "Last Week Tonight," showcased the warehouse situation. His segment featured employees talking about how hard Amazon pushes them, their inability to take bathroom breaks, and showed Amazon's anti-union training video. The Amazon exec Dave Clark, the senior vice president of operations, said Oliver's portrayal of the job is untrue, adding that the company even offers tours of its warehouses. That's true, the tours are limited to specific warehouses, but the Shakopee, Minnesota, facility is among them. Still, Business Insider previously reported that the company does appear to treat its warehouse workforce like robots. It even uses an automated system that tracks warehouse workers' productivity that can automatically generate the paperwork to fire them for failing to meet expectations. One anonymous Amazon tech worker said in the blog post: "You guys are the lifeblood of Amazon! Keep raising the bar and insisting on the highest working standards! You have the support of Seattle!" Amazon strike employee activism Tech workers

Silver Spin by Luann Yetter from the rain to the sun to the dark Posted on June 14, 2019 by Luann Yetter It rained all day but let up just as we left for the concert. By the time we got settled at Thompson's Point, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. My concert mates, Ernie and Michael against a clear blue sky. It might have been the bad weather that kept fans away for the opening act. Poor Jenny Lewis hit the stage right on time and played to a crowd only about a dozen rows deep. Good for us though as we easily made our way front and center. From such a close vantage point you get to see the band dynamic: the way the bass player grins, the way the lead guitarist plays with his eyes closed. Lewis was resplendent in pink sequins, really camping it up in a mermaid style floor-length dress. For an opening act, Lewis and band played a lengthy set, worthy of her status, as she is nearly as popular as Death Cab. Not only was it nice to be able to see both these acts on the same bill, but also they have both released decent albums in recent months. About half the set from Lewis and her band came from her new album photo by Michael Johnson On the Line, the highlight being the mid-tempo opener "Heads Gonna Roll" which showcases her story-telling ability as well as her talent for the sing-along chorus. Maybe she should have saved that one for her closer after she had warmed up the crowd and the crowd had found her. Death Cab played plenty of songs from their latest Thank You for Today. A highlight was "60 & Punk," a lament to a former rock idol in the ballad style singer/songwriter Ben Gibbard does so well. "There's nothing elegant about being a drunk," Gibbard sang, eschewing an instrument and taking center stage with just a microphone for the only time all night. "There's nothing righteous being 60 and punk." Death Cab's set was long and generous, pulling from as far back as 2001's Photo Album. During the encore Gibbard even chose a song from his long ago side project Postal Service and invited Jenny Lewis back on stage to reprise "Nothing Better," prompting raised eyebrows and questioning looks from myself and my concert mates, as we all had to admit we didn't remember that the two had ever played in a band together. By encore time the sun had set on the Fore River and the twilight had faded. It felt especially fitting then for Gibbard to pull out the acoustic guitar for a quiet version of what is probably his most elegantly written song, "I Will Follow You Into the Dark." Gibbard must have been only in his twenties when he wrote this meditation on aging, death, religion and devotion, and I imagine even he is surprised that the voice of such an old soul emerged in the song. I was not the only one moved by the experience of seeing him perform this live as the whole crowd reverently sang along, promising to our own someone that "when your soul embarks/I will follow you into the dark." Posted in Music | Tagged Death Cab for Cutie, I Will Follow You Into the Dark, Jenny Lewis, Thompson's Point | 1 Comment Cold Chocolate and Pumpkin Pie Posted on April 8, 2019 by Luann Yetter Frank and I strolled over to High Street tonight for some live music at the North Church. This is a wonderful old venue right in our neighborhood, built about 150 years ago by the Unitarians. Owned now by the Farmington Historical Society, it's a rustic, cozy place, romantic enough for a wedding (indeed, son Nate and daughter-in-law Justina were married here) and charming enough for an evening of live music. The North Church, which has been beautifully restored by the Farmington Historical Society. The steeple blew off in a wind storm in the late 1940s. (Photo courtesy of the Farmington Historical Society) We treated ourselves to a pieces of pumpkin and apple pie in the basement reception area, chatted with friends and neighbors, and then strolled upstairs to take a seat in one of the long wooden pews. Tonight's offering was Cold Chocolate, a folk rock trio from Boston. These accomplished musicians rocked the old church a little harder than the usual folk artists I've seen there, and I enjoyed their energy. A memorable cover from early in their first set was Bob Dylan's "Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You," a good choice for them since their original songs fit that same mid-tempo, Americana sort of sound. Their originals were entirely new to me. I enjoyed them but will not try to review them after only one listen. I did buy a cd, however. Maybe a review, or an interview with the band, will happen in the future. Cold Chocolate at the North Church. You can listen to them here. Venue is so important to a live music experience. I like the dark, noisy, crowded atmosphere of Tuck's, our neighborhood bar, and I like the elegance and expanse of the State Theater in Portland, but there's a place too for the casual, intimate ambiance of a restored 19th century church, where ticket prices are reasonable, pie is free, kids are welcome and those who aren't much for the bar scene can feel comfortable. Cold Chocolate warmed to the venue. We were a small but appreciative audience, and we warmed to them too. Posted in Franklin County, History, Travel, Music | Tagged Cold Chocolate, Farmington Historical Society, Farmington Maine, North Church | Leave a comment Inviting the Wild In Posted on March 3, 2019 by Luann Yetter Left to right: Joe Hodgkins, Chris Goodwin, Melody Bickford, Dave Fish and D.J. Taylor I met with Dave Fish and Melody Bickford recently to talk about their band Invite the Wild, a blues rock quintet that plays local night spots from the apres ski Widowmaker to the late night Roost to my own neighborhood hangout, Tuck's Ale House. I asked them to tell me about the beginnings of the band. "The Delta Roots way back in the day, that was the beginning of it all," said Fish before launching into a rock and roll tale that included Barack Obama's inauguration, band member departures and arrivals, and three or four name changes. But we'll get back to that. In more recent history, Invite the Wild released a self-titled album last fall. It's available on all the major streaming platforms, and the band also has cds which they sell online and at shows, where sales are still brisk. The album showcases the band's bluesy style on a collection of originals, Bickford most often on lead vocals, delivering a Bonnie Rait kind of confidence to songs like "Please Find Me" and "Rearview Mirror" and showing her vocal versatility when she effortlessly tackles the more country "Goin' Down to Nashville." The band is full of songwriters. Fish contributed clever lyrics to the dynamic "Trade it In," where lines like "I don't know what I was thinkin'/I thought we were the perfect match" approach the Dylanesque. Guitarists D.J. Taylor and Joe Hodgkins show off their story-telling talents in the rags to riches to rags saga "Comin' Back from Nashville" and the ghost tale "Moses Varnum." Deft guitar work from both Taylor and Hodgkins shows off their bar band pedigrees. The work is the product of several recording sessions with Farmington native Jon Gaither at his home studio in Portland. Bickford and Fish have fond memories of the recording process which involved the band settling into Gaither's Victorian house for entire weekends and setting up in his third floor studio. "We worked 9 a.m. to midnight the whole time," said Bickford, bolstered by "lots of coffee and Chinese food." All the tracks were recorded live, not an easy feat in a small studio space, but the team found a way to make it work, with amps tucked into closets and the drums in an adjacent room. Gaither handled the technical side, recording, mixing and mastering the album. "Jon knows what he's doing. He's learning all the time," Bickford said. "Vocals got laid last most of time, but at the end of the day when we did the vocals he had the same energy and attention to detail." If Gaither seemed like a sixth member of the band on this album, it's no surprise. He was in the very first version of this group, back in 2009 when he and Fish and drummer Chris Goodwin, returning from a trip to Washington D.C. to attend the inauguration festivities for Barack Obama, decided to form a band. "Jon had a beat up old drum set, and we started playing in our living room," Fish recalled. That was the Delta Roots, who played together for several years until Gaither moved to Portland. Then Goodwin and Fish placed an ad on Craig's List only to discover their perfect fit in Melody and Joe Tinkham, a couple they had never met before, but who lived only a mile away. They called the new band Quick Fix and kept playing, that is, until Tinkham left the band. Meanwhile Fish knew D.J. from sharing gigs with the band Nigels Thornberry. "I always knew I wanted a band with Melody and D.J." said Fish. "And I was literally sitting next to D.J. when I heard Joe was quitting." The offer went out to D.J. immediately, and "a second life was breathed into our musical career." It was about this time that the band became the Usual Suspects, and they gigged together as a quartet for several years. The next iteration came when "magically we found Joe [Hodgkins], and it changed a lot," said Fish. Playing Alex Fest at Titcomb Mountain with Hodgkins was a band highlight. "It was unbelievable," said Bickford. "Beautiful weather. So much local music, so many local bands." The event was a fundraiser honoring Alex Witt who died tragically in a ski accident in 2017. "We learned Grateful Dead songs because Alex was a Dead fan," explained Bickford. "We found our songs learning those songs and playing that gig." Once the band had an album to put on music platforms they realized just how many "usual suspects" were out there and another name change was in the works. Taking inspiration from a Nikita Gill poem they decided on Invite the Wild. "The poem deals with the idea of Red Ridinghood, and what if she invited the wolf in willingly?" explains Bickford. Since the album release, Fish said, "we've been able to be a little more selective with gigs. And we play more what we want. We play a lot more originals now." Bickford agreed. "Once you lay an album, once you have that, so much pride and confidence comes from that. I feel so much more comfortable filling the set with originals." "And we always get good reactions from them," said Fish. Many of the band's covers are from the sixties and seventies and their originals are inspired by the same era. "I can't picture us playing anything else, " said Fish. "It's all any of us have loved since we were young." The band seems to agree not only on musical style but on just about everything else. "We love each other like family," said Fish. Chris and I don't communicate, we just play. He's definitely the quiet guy. The four of us, he said, referring to the rest of the band, "we don't argue or debate." "We have the only guitar players on earth who don't have egos," agreed Bickford. The camaraderie has carried over to their songwriting, and the first song on their album is a good indication of what's to come. "You Keep Me From Home" sounds like it could be an angsty love song but in reality the lyrics are about the band's relationship with music. Fish came up with the chorus and then each band member contributed a verse. "This is our solid band song," he said. Lots of songs for their next album are ready to go, all of them written as a band. They also have live shows booked into next fall. "We're happy to stay local," said Fish. "The music scene around here is really great," said Bickford. "There are a lot of places in Western Maine that support local music." Currently the band is excited about a new song they are working on called "Red," what Fish and Bickford label as a feminist anthem, drawing inspiration from "Girls of the Wild," the same poem that inspired their band name. "It's one of my favorite songs to play now," said Bickford. Bickford and Fish seem confident about the band's future, but they also said that sharing "music and life philosophy" with their bandmates has kept them in the "now." "I find myself knowing how to live in the moment so much easier," said Bickford. "And that shows in the music big time." It inspires their approach to recording, writing and playing live. "Because that moment is special," she said. "That moment is powerful." Posted in Music | Tagged Invite the Wild, Maine Entertainment | Leave a comment Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds…. Posted on December 7, 2018 by Luann Yetter by Jim Mello Cross Center Bangor Maine 10/27/18 It was raw, cold, had been snowing, was raining diagonally, and there is no real close parking, the exact opposite of Southern Cal, at least The Beach Boys mythic version. Surf wasn't up. Turned my collar to the cold and rain and made my way to the Cross Center…one hour and fifteen minutes early because last week the ticket window person said because I didn't buy the tickets direct from Ticketmaster I might "have problems" and, "somebody else might have your seat." Gave me a chance to chat with Freeman, the manager of the local Bull Moose. Silver linings. And yes, the sound system was playing muzak version of Beach Boys songs…rather bizarre…even Dylan isn't welcoming people with Sinatra covers. The couple behind me commented on it. I must confess, because of my love of Beach Boys harmonies, whether the subject matter be cars, surfing, or surfer girls; I was not too troubled by the muzak..kinda restful for the seniors among us. Kinda New Age Surf music. The guy in front of me, who is "into radio"…I was supposed to know him…but, he didn't know me, the air guitar legend. Anyway, he knew the set list: three parts: Beach Boys hits/Pet Sounds in its entirety (depends on your point of view)…and two or three encores. He said there'd be a 15 minute intermission, but that didn't happen. Not sure they could have gotten Brian in and out from behind the piano in that amount of time…besides looking lost and anxious, he was sporting a fairly large cast. They plunked him down behind the key board, and there he stayed. looking at times almost comfortable.. Brian Wilson, photo from the Los Angeles Times Then the band came on stage…10 musicians counting Brian who played piano all night…Any ten piece band catches my attention and these guys were good…a thermin (yes!), two keyboards!, two or three guitarists, depending on the song…bass, and a guy who played a huge saxophone..flutes, a clarinet?..and something that looked like an oversize harmonica…they were tight, flexible, at times jazzy…and well oiled…everything centers around Brian and whether or not he, or Al Jardine, can hit the (wonderfully harmonic) high notes. They started off with nine, yes, count 'em nine, Beach Boy hits! Only Logan and Ernie would have been moaning. The Fun Fun Fun had begun…Now, I'm not a big fan of some of the tunes, but they are in my DNA…pumped into my adolescent not-yet-finished-growing, reptilian(Pavlovian ) brain and I was dancin' in my seat, playing air guitar, harmonizing with the wino few. The 15 year old girl next to me knew all the tunes, thanks to good parenting, and me and her dad were doing the high harmonies. What I realized was this was good old Chuck Berry based rock and roll(which you don't hear very often anymore) with lyrics about living in California…cars…girls…surf…I like it , you can dance to it, its got a good beat. Ill give it a 75! It was great medicine for the melancholy mood I was in. (California Girls, I Wanna Dance, I get Around, Shut Down, Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Water, Don't Worry Baby (The Best Beach Boy song ever…so sadly romantic!), and Darlin'. The band was playful and loose and harmonically correct. Better than benzos IMHO… And, then this character (or caricature) appeared out of nowhere(backstage physically, but spiritually somewhere else), looking like a refugee from Bob Dylan's "Cowboy Band"…hair like Dylans, a semi-too-tight fitting Nudie suit…kinda like Link Wray on acid. He was Blondie Chapin, and he was like a Shaman…moving about the stage like he was in a trance, while almost everybody stayed in place, and playing the best damn blues based guitar I've heard in years.Something transcendent happened and the light show intensified and for three songs Feel Flows, Wild Honey, and Sail on Sailor… we were in a different musical space…Beach Boys on acid…for real…and, just as quickly he disappeared….only to "appear" intermittently for the rest of the show playing mostly lead tambourine (my instrument of choice)…still never stopping, banging the tambourine on his chest, anywhere…sometimes with his hands..pure intrigue. Wild Honey was just that, wild…with burning guitar…great harmonies, and psychedelic lights. Good thing I resisted the THC. All that as a warm up to Pet Sounds! Now, I'm not one to claim Pet Sounds is the album of the decade or century or whatever…it did influence The Beatles (McCartney)..and has a few lovely songs on it, including "Caroline No." Otherwise I'm ambivalent about Brian's magnum opus "adolescent symphony for God (the West Coast God?). But live! With this band! Well, it came alive and Brian's compositional skills were evident. It was a thing to be heard. A blending of jazz, rock, and classical, and Four Freshman harmony that was an aural treat. I even didn't mind "Sloop John B." Even the adolescent themes, which really are universal themes about relationships, were heard from the perspective, my perspective, of fifty years of difficulty…Brian's romanticism banging into the real time pain of relationships but always with the hope of healing and reconciliation. I was flashed back to Friday Night Legion Hall dances (Put your head on my shoulder…) and everything since…all with beautiful musical contexts (except "John B")…the sax player was great…the drummer was fantastic… Brian served as an MC kinda…announcing the song, and who would be singing lead…and then there was Blondie drifting in and out like some disembodied ghost… And, then it was encores and if you weren't ready to dance then, what can I say? The security people kept people from dancing in the aisles…but some kids broke through..the rest of us boogied in place. "Good Vibrations" especially…only the Grinch would have refused to move… then a quiet shift to "Love and Mercy", the title track from a Brian solo album…kind of his theme song…he sang the best he did all night, and almost carried the vocal himself… Love and mercy is what we need. All I can say is, Amen… Waiting for Brian Wilson or someone like him) the people drip in one by one snaking into their seats as muzaked Beach Boy songs greet them "Help Me Rhonda" shifts nostalgia into fourth gear the cold wet non SoCal Maine weather blusters outside dropping torrential rain diagonal across the street lights: the surf's not up Brian's sad saga the unsung soundtrack: a fable of hope an inspiration in darkening times until Brian appears behind the piano a literal figurehead to his ten piece band voice missing high notes covered by the well oiled band face distantly pained mind on another plane mirrored in grimaces and nervous scratches he never seems to quite be here but his music on the wings of faith and expertise soars… surrounds lifts in exquisite harmonies and musicians channeling genius bring melodies that unfold into some just discovered jazz tapestry masterpiece enveloping the audience in this adolescent Pet Sounds symphony to God as the wounds of generations lie open to a Chuck Berried salve dipped in wild honey so sorely needed these fifty years later leading us to jlm 1027/18 Visit Jim's Facebook page at Jim Mello: Writer and Poet Posted in Music | Tagged Beach Boys, Blondie Chapin, Brian Wilson, Pet Sounds | Leave a comment 1942: An Album Review Posted on November 15, 2018 by Luann Yetter Julian Saporiti has always been a masterful lyricist. His perceptive observations crafted with well-chosen words manage to convey mood and message without excess. Along with his writers' feel for language come lovely, memorable melodies that embrace every line. Back in the early 2000s Saportiti brought his songs to life with his band the Young Republic, releasing a couple of impressive albums on End of the Road records before the band broke up in 2010. You can hear their work here: And here: (Full disclosure and proud parent moment: my son was in this band!) Saporiti disappeared from the music scene for several years while he pursued studies in American history, earning a master's degree in Wyoming and landing at Brown University to pursue a PhD. Now he's back in the spotlight with a new collaboration with fellow Brown PhD candidate Erin Aoyama as the duo No No Boy and a new album called 1942. The time behind the scenes has been productive for Saporiti, and the new album glows with quiet songs of loss and longing. Inspired by his doctoral research, the songs evoke eras past from the Asian American perspective, illuminating their marginalized experiences during WWII and the Vietnam War. A major focus of 1942 is on the internment of Japanese Americans by their own government during WWII. Oddly enough, as Saporiti explores the plight of these internees, the stories blossom as love songs. In "Heart Mountain" a man looks forward to an idyllic future with his sweetheart, "with so much love that it spills and runs down in rivers past the house that we build." But meanwhile, "a daydream must do" along with stealing kisses in the laundry room and admiring her "perfect crooked tooth." In "Two Candles in the Dark," a boy is infatuated with a girl who doesn't know how to dance ("my eyes are stuck on her/her eyes don't leave her feet). And there's the "would-be Casanova walking three girls home" in "Instructions to All Persons." And yet we feel the undercurrent of despair. In "Heart Mountain" (the real name of an internment camp in Wyoming, the camp, in fact, where Aoyama's grandmother was incarcerated) the lovers lament that "over and over our hearts are rapped by the rules," And again, when the two lovers are dancing, the woman who can't dance says she's "gotta get out of this place," not the idle lament of a restless teenager, but the desperate yearning of a woman incarcerated. Casanova has received a letter that begins "Instructions to all person's of Japanese ancestry," and in the context of the album 1942, we know what that means: he is being forced to leave his home to be interned in a camp far away, simply because of his Japanese heritage. In "Ogie/Naoko" two young Japanese Americans living in Hawaii can't see each other because of the restrictions of martial law (the backstory explained in the liner notes). "Where may our loyalties end?" Ogie asks Naoko, the woman he loves. "To each other, of course, to the end," she answers. Personal bonds transcend political ones for these characters, and we love them all the more for that. Yet Saporiti doesn't back away from the political realities in these love stories. The unfair plight of these characters becomes even more poignant as we see them struggle with their bondage while at the same time experiencing the wonders of romantic love. "And he felt good, for a moment or so," Saporiti tells us in the refrain of "Instructions to all Persons." Of course he did. I would too, we think to ourselves, and in our empathy we find more disgust for the system that put these innocent people in such unfair imprisonment. Other songs are more autobiographical, as Saporiti examines his own Asian American experience. In "Boat People," a riveting tale of a doctor's perilous escape from Vietnam in an flimsy fishing boat, he reflects that "my mother came here too, forty years ago." And in "Dragon Park" he seems to be recalling his own youth as a Vietnamese-American in Nashville when he says "I know that Southern stare/not just at home but everywhere." Musically 1942 stays low key. Acoustic guitar is punctuated by well-placed strings. Piano, ukulele, and pedal steel are all used sparingly to good effect. Saporiti's voice is consistently warm and expressive while Ayoama's harmonies add clarity to the lyrics. I confess, I miss the drums and would like to hear a full rock band rendition of some of these songs, but clearly that's not what Saporiti is going for on 1942. The quiet approach allows for romance and whimsy while also lending gravity to the underlying loneliness of characters stung by the irrationality of prejudice and racism. 1942 is an album about war and incarceration. And yet, it's really quite lovely. Saporiti's musical story of the Asian-American experience is ultimately one we find ourselves humming along to as we reflect on our own stories. See also Indie Rocker or Academic? Former Young Republic leader finds a brilliant way to be both Posted in Music | Tagged Julian Saporiti, no no boy project, No-No Boy | Leave a comment Indie Rocker or Academic? Former Young Republic leader finds a brilliant way to be both Posted on October 8, 2018 by Luann Yetter A new album by Julian Saporiti is always a big event in my musical life. Julian's former band, the Young Republic, made some of the best music of the early 2000s, and I'm not just saying that because my son was in the band. Julian recorded this fall's offering, 1942, with Erin Aoyama as the duo No-No Boy. It's the product of several years of ambitious research into Asian-American history, in particular the Japanese internment camps that were part of U.S. policy in this country during World War II. The project is not only an album of new material that will appeal to a wide audience but also serves as part of Julian's PhD studies at Brown University. Recording the album was a long and collaborative process. Saporiti traveled to Illinois last summer to spend a week cutting basic guitar and vocal tracks with fellow Berklee grad Seth Boggess. "Over the course of the next year I tinkered with the album," he said. "I'd have friends layer on instruments." Those friends included recording artist Kishi Bashi who layered strings onto some of the songs. "I kind of crave feedback and collaboration," Julian told me. "I'm more open than I used to be, for sure. No-No Boy is currently touring behind the album, playing dates across the country from east coast to west and back again, culminating in a performance at New York's Lincoln Center in mid-November. Playing libraries, universities and even a Buddhist temple, the tour is far from the typical rock band tour. "This project just effortlessly has an audience," said Julian, due, he said, to "the uniqueness of the academic/historian/folk singer thing." Performances on this tour are as much presentation as concert with Julian and Erin sharing family stories and human interest stories from their research along with moving images of the Asian American experience. This tour is more befitting a performer in his thirties, said Julian, in contrast to the spartan, hand-to-mouth touring days of the Young Republic. "This time there are honorariums and food and big arts institutions with lots of money who say 'come and play,'" said Julian. Gone are the days of "KFC buffets where we stuff food in our pockets." photo by Sam Carignan Last fall Julian came to the University of Maine at Farmington not only to give his musical presentation but also to visit my classes where he talked at length about his research and aspects of the Asian American experience of which my first-year college students were unaware. They learned a lot from both the classroom visit and the performance, and Julian says that educational aspect is the main focus of this tour. Many days off from the public performances are filled with school visits and workshops, and No-No Boy is selling not only the album but also an annotated lyric book. "We've already had teachers that are using this in the classroom, along with the images," he said. Despite the academic slant, No-No Boy can play a rock club when the opportunity arises. The have opened for Kishi Bashi in more traditional rock venues. "That poor unsuspecting indie rock audience," Julian joked. But in truth, he said, those shows have gone over well. The duo can stage what Julian described as "an indie rock show with projections behind us. The material is really malleable in that way." Back when I knew Julian in the Young Republic he was firmly planted in the music business. Although now he's as much scholar as musician, he sees a link between his first band and the work he's doing now. "The foundations are with the YR," he said. "In 'Black Duck Blues' you see the theoretical principal developing. I just hadn't read a book yet in my life." Saporiti seems to be happy combining the music business with academia. He seems passionate in his desire to "illuminate the understudied past" as his promo material explains, and he knows that using his music business skills and experience can help him find an audience. "One of our videos has 5000 views," he said. "That's a lot more people than are going to read my peer-reviewed articles." 1942 is available through Bandcamp, Apple Music and other music services. A trailer for the album can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4J9avL400 Posted in Music | Tagged Julian Saporiti, No-No Boy, Young Republic | Leave a comment Mid-Week Magic: Jeremy Loops and Mt. Joy Last Tuesday Frank picked me up on campus right after I wrapped up my journalism class and we headed to Portland in the rain. This mid-week diversion was prompted by a stunning convergence of events (what my friend Mello would surely label a harmonic convergence) that resulted in two great bands playing within a couple blocks of each other in Portland on the same night. When I see a show in Portland I like to stay over, not a cheap thing to do — impossibly expensive in the summer, and pricey even now in September. So getting two shows for the price of one night in the Holiday Inn is a good deal. And there they were: Jeremy Loops, all the way from Cape Town, South Africa opening for Milky Chance at the State Theatre at 8 p.m. and Mt. Joy headlining at Port City, show starting at 9. Jeremy Loops at the State Theatre The rain was relentless, so we were dripping wet by the time we entered the State Theatre and made our way to the floor. Loops was already on stage, alone, with an acoustic guitar, and no doubt the majority in the audience were thinking at this point that he was fairly pleasant opening act. Then appeared the drummer and bass player, and the show got a little livelier. When sax player Hiram Koopman arrived on stage, audience attention kicked into high gear. Koopman, frame impossibly lean, dreadlocks wondrously long, is a South African Clarence Clemons counterpart to Loops' Springsteen showmanship. Next came Motheo Moleko adding an unexpected rap to build on the energy even more. By now the crowd was with Loops and "Squad," happy to participate in raised-hand claps, arm wavings, and sing-alongs at the band's bidding, to the point where everyone in the room seemed to forget these guys were the opening act. Jeremy Loops and band at the State Theatre Loops and band routinely headline shows around South Africa and could be found pretty high on the line-up for any number of European festivals this past summer. Songs like "Down South" showcase their sound marvelously: the African sort of chanting that Loops "loops" into a swirling overture, the unexpected saxophone and rap solos, a beat that sounds a bit Jamaican to our ears but I suspect is purely African. Someone from the crowd called for "Gold" from Loops' new album Critical as Water, and Loops seemed genuinely sorry not to launch into it. But an opening act plays under strict time constraints and far too soon the Loop Squad was taking its bows. Frank and I had plenty of time to run over to Port City, dripping all over a new venue after another dose of rain. Even when I was young I didn't like standing for shows, so Port City is not my favorite venue, unless I'm lucky enough to get a seat at the bar. This time I got lucky, and we settled back, beer in hand, for show #2. No hip hop, no saxophone, no surprises here; Mt. Joy are old school, and in all the right ways. Lead singer Matt Quinn has a strong voice with impressive range and writes quirky lyrics, stringing together vivid images in Beat poet style. A couple times during their set in the middle of one of their own numbers, the band segued into a classic rock song, the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize" at one point and Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" at another, then gracefully moved back into their own tune. I've never seen that done in concert before, but it's a great way to make a nod to some of your sources of inspiration without turning into a cover band. "Astrovan," which came fairly early in the set, was the highlight for me. "Angels smoking cigarettes on rooftops in fishnets in the morning" is as good a way as any to begin a song, and I bet Bob Dylan would agree. While the band can fit pretty neatly in a folk rock category, there is, in Quinn's voice and the arrangements, a bit of soul woven in which adds color and texture to their sound. After the high energy of Jeremy Loops, I was afraid Mt. Joy might disappoint, but they did not. In fact, they provided the perfect mid-tempo tone to the second half of the evening, and Frank and I left Port City feeling a sense of accomplishment in seeing two such memorable shows in one night. The next morning, after a quick coffee and pastry on Congress Street, we headed back to Farmington. Frank dropped me off back on campus and suddenly I found myself standing in front of a classroom full of students, and it was Wednesday afternoon. Posted in Music | Tagged Jeremy Loops, Mt. Joy | Leave a comment History, Travel

Gawrilow Possad () ist eine Kleinstadt in der Oblast Iwanowo (Russland) mit Einwohnern (Stand ). Geografie Die Stadt liegt am Ostende eines Ausläufers des Moskauer Höhenrückens etwa 85 km südwestlich der Oblasthauptstadt Iwanowo bei der Mündung des Flüsschens Woimiga in den Irmes im Flusssystem der Wolga. Gawrilow Possad ist Verwaltungszentrum des gleichnamigen Rajons. Geschichte Der Ort wurde erstmals 1434 als Dorf Gawrilowskoje urkundlich erwähnt. Möglicherweise wurde das Dorf bereits zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts gegründet und vom Wladimirer Großfürsten Wsewolod "Großes Nest" nach dem Taufnamen seines Sohnes Swjatoslaw, Gawriil, benannt. 1609 gehörte das Dorf dem Russischen Zarenhof als Gawrilowa sloboda. 1789 wurde unter dem Namen Gawrilowski Possad das Stadtrecht verliehen; die heutige Namensform bürgerte sich erst zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts ein. Im 19. Jahrhundert noch wichtiger regionaler Handelspunkt, stagnierte die Entwicklung der Stadt in Folge, verglichen mit anderen Städten des Gebietes. Bevölkerungsentwicklung Anmerkung: Volkszählungsdaten (1926 gerundet) Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten Die Stadt besitzt ein Heimatmuseum. Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur Gawrilow Possad ist Zentrum eines Landwirtschaftsgebietes. Es gibt kleinere Betriebe der Lebensmittel- und Textilindustrie. Unweit befindet sich ein Gestüt, auf welchem die Rasse Wladimirer Kaltblut (russisch Wladimirski Tjaschelowos) gezüchtet wird (siehe Stadtwappen). Die Stadt liegt an der auf diesem Abschnitt 1899 eröffneten Eisenbahnstrecke (Moskau–) Belkowo–Iwanowo (Streckenkilometer 238 ab Moskau). Weblinks Gawrilow Possad auf mojgorod.ru (russisch) Einzelnachweise Ort in der Oblast Iwanowo Ersterwähnung 1434 Stadtrechtsverleihung 1789

A Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta (anteriormente conhecida como Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta) é uma corrida de ciclismo feminina profissional de dois dias de competição espanhola que se disputa em Madrid coincidindo com o penúltimo e no mesmo dia da etapa final da Volta a Espanha em setembro. Imitando a experiência do Tour de France com seu La Course by Le Tour de France, criada em 2014, uma vez publicados os calendários os organizadores da corrida espanhola decidiram criar uma corrida feminina similar para a Volta 2015. Depois de uma primeira negativa a UCI reorganizou o calendário para localizar esta corrida a 13 de setembro (última dia da Volta masculina). Criou-se em 2015 na categoria 1.1; depois da criação do UCI World Tour Feminino em 2016 ascendeu a essa máxima categoria mundial. O traçado consiste no mesmo que umas horas depois realizam os homens da Volta a Espanha, neste caso dando 15 voltas ao circuito totalizando 85,7 km. Para não coincidir com Volta esta se realiza pela tarde enquanto a masculina entrou a dito circuito pela noite. Ao igual que La Course destaca pela quantia dos seus prêmios -os mesmos que numa etapa da Volta-. Como novidade neste ano, no dia anterior celebrar-se-á uma etapa de contra relógio por equipas em Boardilla do Monte (Madrid), passando a ser uma prova por etapas. Ao igual que a Volta a Espanha e Tour de France está organizada por Amaury Sport Organisation, de facto faz parte dos eventos relacionados com a disputa da Volta. Apesar de seu suposto sucesso, ao igual que a La Course by Le Tour de France, foi criticada nesta ocasião pela pouca repercussão e propaganda já que em sua primeira edição a única informação disponível até horas antes de seu início foi um livro de rota difundido pela Real Federação Espanhola de Ciclismo e outros sites especializados. Palmarés Outras classificações Palmarés por países Ver também Volta a Espanha La Course by Le Tour de France Referências Ligações externas Site oficial A Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta (cqranking.com) A Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta (sitiodeciclismo.net)

Paper #3268 received 23 Dec 2017; revised manuscript received 1 Mar 2018; accepted for publication 16 Mar 2015; published online 31 Mar 2018. Experimental data on the dependence of the average refractive index of rat tail tendon (RTT) on water content are reported. Using optical coherence tomography, the average group refractive index (at a wavelength of 930 nm) and cross-section area of rat tail tendon fascicle specimens during their air-drying and rehydration were monitored. The dependence of the average group refractive index of RTT (ng) on the volume fraction of water (Cw) has been found to be nonlinear and to be well approximated by the quadratic polynomial ng = 1.5713 – 0.1969Cw– 0.0328(Cw)2. The reported data are shown to be in good agreement with previously published data for bovine cornea. 17. P. Fratzl, "Collagen: structure and mechanics, an Introduction," in Collagen, Springer, New York, USA, 1-13 (2008). 28. M. Born, and E. Wolf, Principles of optics: electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1999). 29. D. J. Segelstein, The complex refractive index of water, Doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City (1981).

Ranking all 30 NHL teams based on 24/7 watchability The much-anticipated debut of HBO's 24/7: Road to the Winter Classic arrived Saturday, and reviews of the first episode were … lukewarm, at best. The consensus was that the Maple Leafs were only modestly entertaining, and the Red Wings were downright dull. That's a disappointing reception for a show that usually does a great job of making the NHL seem fascinating. Then again, the producers can only work with what they have, and for one week at least they didn't seem to have much. It was only one episode, of course, and maybe the second will be better. Hockey fans had better hope that these two teams can loosen up a bit, because we're stuck with them. After all, it's not like we can go to the bullpen for a replacement. But what if we could? What if the two spots on 24/7 weren't automatically given to whoever was playing in the Winter Classic, but instead went to the most entertaining teams, both on and off the ice, of a given moment? That sounds like the sort of question that calls for an in-depth ranking. So let's give this a shot. Here are all 30 teams, ranked based on how interesting they'd be if we swapped them into 24/7 right now. 30. Columbus Blue Jackets What would work: Do you like stories about plucky underdogs, scorned and mocked by everyone only to emerge triumphant at the end? What wouldn't work: What if we told you we couldn't swing the whole "emerge triumphant at the end" bit? Still interested? Wait, come back … Breakout star: Sergei Bobrovsky has a nice little character arc going — run out of Philadelphia, finds redemption in Columbus, wins the Vezina, then falters under the increased expectations. Plus, he backed up 24/7 legend Ilya Bryzgalov for a year, so maybe he picked up a few tips. Dominant story line: A terrible team struggles to stay near the .500 mark but still somehow remains in the playoff race. We'll just call this one "the Metro" for short. 29. Florida Panthers What would work: They're a rebuilding team that has been improving under a new coach. What wouldn't work: Let's face it, the Panthers are a bad team playing in a lousy market, and their roster isn't exactly packed with household names. On a show like 24/7, they'd probably be a disaster. If only they had some sort of wacky veteran around to make things bearable … Breakout star: Oh, hello there, Tim Thomas! Hey, remember when you used to speak your mind freely, and then everyone yelled at you so you stopped doing that? We'd like you to start again. Dominant story line: After the first few minutes of the debut episode, you set up one of these in front of your television set. 28. Detroit Red Wings What would work: They already have experience with 24/7, since they're on this year's show. What wouldn't work: Five minutes after last week's episode ended, nobody could remember a single scene involving a Red Wing. Breakout star: Based on what we've seen so far, the winner by default is Jimmy Howard doing whatever it is this is supposed to be. Wait, he's hurt now? Um, pass. Dominant story line: After an especially bad game, coach Mike Babcock skips the bag skate and instead punishes the team by making them break down tape of their own episode. >> Read the full post on Grantland Labels: 24/7, grantland I take it you don't actually watch Marc-Edouard Vlasic play much, because if you want Team Canada to win gold in Sochi, he'd best be in the lineup. Just take a look at the other left-shooting defensemen from orientation camp; you've got Keith, and then who's better than Vlasic? Bouwmeester, arguably. And Phaneuf has his better qualities, but I'd rather have Vlasic out there instead as a shut-down guy. wheres the thumbs up on this site? Weekend wrap: Do the Bruins own the East? Weekend wrap: Penguins hurt, but still hot Grab bag: Doc Emrick is bad at poetry Ranking all 30 NHL teams based on 24/7 watchabilit... The Venn Diagram of Hockey Hatred Brian Burke interviews candidates for the Flames' ... Weekend wrap: Burke returns, the Kings, the Canuck... Grab bag: "I'm just not that type of player," says... Leafs/Wings 24/7 - Who'll emerge as the star of th... Five NHL sure things that ended up being huge disa... Weekend wrap: Thornton, Neal, Islanders, Jets and ... Zone entries: What they are, and why they may be m... Grab bag: No limts A brief history of NHL coaches behaving badly Weekend wrap: The inevitable crash-and-burn of the...

Whether you are looking to buy your first home, renew your mortgage, refinance, or buy a second home, a Mortgage Agent can get you the best option for you and save you Money! So you are ready to buy your first home, now what? Your first step should definitely be to obtain a mortgage pre-approval, but don't get that confused with a "Pre-Qualification".

Chris Gooderham will join the AHDB Dairy Market Intelligence (MI) team from 28 September as a Lead Analyst. Chris has over 20 years of commercial experience within the GB dairy market and his appointment is a significant one for the development of our MI offer to dairy farmers. Chris has spent the last 15 years in various roles within First Milk, most recently as Business Development Director. Look out for Chris at MI levy payer presentations towards the end of the year.

One of the most happening places in Sofia, Sofia Live Club is a large spacious venue with a different band every night, playing anything from jazz and blues to soul and salsa. Great music is this place's selling point and many big international names have appeared here. Located on the lower ground level of the National Palace of Culture.

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The prayer focus is that God will bless the nations so that "the earth will be filled with the knowledge and glory of the Lord". (Habakkuk 2:14) Many international prayer organizations have joined forces for this event. They want to form a "canopy of prayer" above all the continents. Such a beautiful signal of unity cannot leave the Lord's heart unmoved and will have a great spiritual effect on this planet. On the day of Pentecost prayer meetings will be held simultaneously, and in some countries whole football stadiums will be taken over. In Belgium we are aiming for one prayer meeting in every town. Smaller cities can join together with others in their area and in large cities there is room for more meetings. For this to take place, we need at least one leader per town who will (1) take the initiative, (2) collaborate with other churches and (3) communicate the details to this website : overview of the local GDOP-meetings. See the document "instructions" on how to take up the initiative. In the ten days leading up to Pentecost (i.e. beginning from Ascension Day) we will set up 24hr prayer chains in as many places as possible. This follows the example of the first disciples, who spent ten days united in fervent prayer, waiting for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In Belgium we are aiming this year for one prayer chain per town (or per region). The ideal would be to have ten churches each filling 24 hours with prayer. During the 90 days after Pentecost we want to proclaim a special "time of grace" to reach out in evangelization and other activities to help those in need. Check with the overview of GDOP-meetings if the initiative has been taken up in your town/area for an evening prayer meeting. If so, then get in touch with the coordinator and join this meeting. If not, then perhaps you will have to take the initiative yourself (see "Instructions"). Please do not wait for too long, but keep your ear to the ground and get something moving in your town! Get in touch with the other churches, decide together on the place, the time and the programme, and pass this info on the list on this website. All the materials can be downloaded : a folder giving general information, a poster, a press release, the instructions on organising the prayer evening, tips on setting up a prayer chain, a list with prayer topics for the ten days, and the "Prayer for the World". A Dvd with inspiring video clips on the subject of prayer can be ordered from the e-mail address below (free gift). Spend during the Pentecost Sunday Meeting a special time of prayer of 15-20 minutes. A special "Prayer for the World" has been written, that will be read out and prayed worldwide. As many as possible should try to attend the closing prayer evening on Pentecost Sunday in your town or area (see the address & time on the overview of GDOP-meetings). Any financial support for this project will be most welcome on the following bank account : "Prayer Belgium", 979-6353088-78.

The closest airport to Mount Hagen is Mount Hagen Airport (HGU). Distance from Mount Hagen Airport to Mount Hagen is 5.0 miles / 8.0 kilometers. Mount Hagen Airport is located approximately 5.0 miles / 8.0 kilometers northeast of Mount Hagen and about 49.3 miles / 79.3 kilometers northeast of Mendi. IATA airport code is HGU. Distance from Wapenamanda Airport to Mount Hagen is 27.4 miles / 44.2 kilometers. Wapenamanda Airport is located approximately 27.4 miles / 44.2 kilometers northwest of Mount Hagen and about 38.6 miles / 62.0 kilometers northeast of Mendi. IATA airport code is WBM. Distance from Mendi Airport to Mount Hagen is 44.3 miles / 71.2 kilometers. Mendi Airport is located approximately 0.0 miles / 0.1 kilometers east of Mendi and about 44.3 miles / 71.2 kilometers southwest of Mount Hagen. IATA airport code is MDU. Distance from Chimbu Airport to Mount Hagen is 52.2 miles / 84.1 kilometers. Chimbu Airport is located approximately 28.9 miles / 46.6 kilometers west of Goroka and about 52.2 miles / 84.1 kilometers east of Mount Hagen. IATA airport code is CMU.

…you will discover here many valuable insights and tips about dealing with the challenges of planning practice from the early career stories of experienced and senior town planners. Winner of the 2017 PIA National Award for Planning Excellence in Cutting Edge Research and Teaching category, the book contains advice and reflections of many of Australia's most experienced planners on the joys and perils of being a planner. The judges were unanimous in their decision to present the Award for Excellence in the Promotion of Planning category to "Town Planning for Everyone." Available online, this initiative provides a continuous link to both the planning community and the general public. The judges felt this web based service facilitates public interaction which is a priority for planning particularly during a time of significant growth. I recommend Robin King Cullen's latest book "Mastering the Art of Planning. This book is a must read for planning students and graduates who are just embarking on their planning career. Robin uses 100 stories recounted by a number of planning practitioners who talked about the highs and lows throughout their careers. Everything is covered from developing confidence in your own ability to give advice, to dealing with ethical issues. "Mastering the Art of Planning – 100 Stories from Urban Planning Practice" is a terrific collection of reflections from planners across the country and from all walks, ages and disciplines within planning. I hope many students and individuals who may be seeking a career in planning access these reflections. Leo Jensen FPIA CPP, Principal – Leo Jensen Consulting, Vice-President, PIA (Qld) Committee 2016. 10% of all book sale profits is donated to charities supporting the homeless. © 2019 Planning Secrets. All rights reserved. Website: Noosa Websites.

If you are a designer, you'll rarely come across an FDF file. In fact, you may have never even heard of FDF, since it's not among the familiar formats that designers know and love. But there's a lot to like about FDFs: their compact nature can simplify your workflow and in some instances, save you a lot of time and effort. Read the entire article at Creative Pro.

package org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider; import org.gradle.api.Action; import org.gradle.api.internal.GradleInternal; import org.gradle.api.internal.project.ProjectInternal; import org.gradle.initialization.BuildAction; import org.gradle.initialization.BuildController; import org.gradle.initialization.ModelConfigurationListener; import org.gradle.tooling.internal.protocol.InternalBuildAction; import org.gradle.tooling.internal.protocol.InternalBuildActionFailureException; import org.gradle.tooling.internal.protocol.InternalBuildController; import java.io.Serializable; class ClientProvidedBuildAction implements BuildAction<BuildActionResult>, Serializable { private final SerializedPayload action; public ClientProvidedBuildAction(SerializedPayload action) { this.action = action; } public BuildActionResult run(final BuildController buildController) { GradleInternal gradle = buildController.getGradle(); PayloadSerializer payloadSerializer = gradle.getServices().get(PayloadSerializer.class); final InternalBuildAction<?> action = (InternalBuildAction<?>) payloadSerializer.deserialize(this.action); gradle.addListener(new ModelConfigurationListener() { public void onConfigure(final GradleInternal gradle) { // Currently need to force everything to be configured ensureAllProjectsEvaluated(gradle); } }); buildController.configure(); InternalBuildController internalBuildController = new DefaultBuildController(gradle); Object model = null; Throwable failure = null; try { model = action.execute(internalBuildController); } catch (RuntimeException e) { failure = new InternalBuildActionFailureException(e); } if (failure != null) { return new BuildActionResult(null, payloadSerializer.serialize(failure)); } return new BuildActionResult(payloadSerializer.serialize(model), null); } private void ensureAllProjectsEvaluated(GradleInternal gradle) { gradle.getRootProject().allprojects((Action) new Action<ProjectInternal>() { public void execute(ProjectInternal projectInternal) { projectInternal.evaluate(); } }); } }

October 2014: Wendys nutrition facts can be downloaded below. Wendy's is a late-comer to the Fast Food industry. Started in 1969 in Columbus Ohio by Dave Thomas, Wendy's was, from the beginning, dedicated to nutrition and fresh, quality ingredients. Dave's vision was for made-to-order hamburgers made with premium ingredients. Wendy's proudly shares their nutrition information in a nutrition pdf that is unique amongst its competitors: the pdf also shows allergen information. This added service gives the consumer peace of mind, and allows concerned customers (especially parents) the ability to make safe, informed food choices. Wendy's even breaks their sandwich and salad production down into component parts, sharing even more information with their customers. This pro-active and consumer- centric approach certainly goes above and beyond the industry norm of sharing only essential nutritional information. Wendy's menu items contain the usual hamburgers, salads and tasty fries, but it should be noted that all of these items are made to order, with fresh ingredients. While the Dave's Hot and Juicy ¾ Pound Triple burger cannot be thought of as being a good low-calorie choice (1090 calories, 29 grams of fat) at least the ingredients are farm-fresh, and the meat is not frozen. The Value Burgers (Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, Junior Cheeseburger, Junior Hamburger) all have the same ingredients, and are less than 400 calories. With the exception of the BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad (580 Calories, 29 grams of fat) the Wendy's salads are very good indeed: high protein, low calories, low fat. Wendy's also offers some very good lunch items that will fill you up without filling you out, including chili, and baked potatoes (which are fine unless they are smothered with cheese and butter). Parents will be pleased with the Wendy's Kids Meals with offer nutritionally balance choices (milk or apple juice instead of a soft drink) and low fat, burgers or chicken wraps. And, since the meals are made-to-order, a lot of tears, screaming and seat kicking can be avoided by being able to tell the cashier to leave off the mustard, but add extra pickles to your little one's burger. Looking for more Nutrition facts?

Islam, Women and Feminism ( 13 Feb 2013, NewAgeIslam.Com) Pak Girls' Band Shining Light for All-Kashmiri Girl Rock Band New Age Islam News Bureau • Indonesian Council of Ulema Warned Muslims Not To Celebrate Valentine's Day • Online Matchmaking a Hit with Saudi Couples • Filipino Women Take Lead in Resolving Muslim Insurgency • Saudi Rights Watchdog to Increase Female Membership • Haia to Enforce Ban on Men in Lingerie Shops Next Week • 3,500 Pakistani Women Screened Under 'National Breast Screening Programme' • Bad Start to the Year for Women in Indonesia • Baloch Missing Persons: A Sister's Vigil • Nigerian Mother Confesses To Murdering Infant, 40 Years On • Conference on Women's Rights in Islam Wraps up in Tehran • Watchdog Acts to Reverse Deportation Order for Nigerian, a Mother of Saudi Children • Blind Saudi Girl Nominated For Mix FM Competition • Saudi Movie 'Hurma' To Be Screened At Berlin Film Festival Photo: Pakistani girls Zebunissa Bangash and Haniya Aslam, 33-year-old cousins from Peshawar, have a music band URL: https://www.newageislam.com/islam,-women-and-feminism/new-age-islam-news-bureau/pak-girls--band-shining-light-for-all-kashmiri-girl-rock-band/d/10415 Aarish Chhabra, Hindustan Times If ever there was an example of how stereotypes are mere figments of an imagination stuck in time, this music band from Pakistan stands out. Zebunissa Bangash and Haniya Aslam ('Zeb & Haniya'), 33-year-old cousins who hail from Peshawar and are based in Islamabad, have tasted fame across borders, thanks largely to the internet and also due to their choice of music, fusing Central and South Asian melodies with Western acoustic guitar and drums, preserving and furthering a rich shared culture. It is in this culture that Haniya suggests refuge for Pragaash, the first all-Kashmiri girl rock band of three from Srinagar (Kashmir) that has decided to stop performing after rape threats online and a fatwa over their allegedly un-Islamic vocation. The Kashmiri band was banished from the Valley last week. "There shouldn't be too much importance attached to fundamentalists who just want limelight. We have a long list of inspirational female singers such as Abida Parveen and Madam Noorjehan even in Pakistan. It's part of our tradition," Haniya says matter-of-factly over the phone from Islamabad. "We have faced lots of abuse online, but the negative comments are invariably posted by anonymous users. So, I simply ignore (them). There is no need to feel scared," says Zeb, who is readying an album in Mumbai with music director Shantanu Moitra and lyricist-singer Swanand Kirkire. Though the families of Zeb and Haniya are ethnic Pashtuns native to Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the heart of the Taliban-infested region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, the US-educated girls have refused to bow to abuse and pressures, and in fact recall times when they have performed to a cheering crowd of boys and girls in Peshawar. Haniya seeks to dispel notions. "I have followed the Kashmir band story, and I can identify with the girls. Online threats are there, but we have never faced fatwas, physical threats or had to cancel shows. I'd admit that we were actually pleasantly surprised that the negative comments were outnumbered by the encouraging ones," says Haniya. Much of the apprehension of a fundamentalist backlash, she believes, stems from wrong notions about the region. And so-called leaders cash in on that. Both Zeb and Haniya find it hard to explain why they haven't faced as strong a torrent of abuse as did Pragaash, but Haniya says, "It's perhaps because we don't dress up like your typical rockstars, though none of that is a conscious decision; I don't really know, man... I've never sat down and thought, 'Hmm… I AM A MUSLIM GIRL'." For Pragaash (meaning, darkness to light) - teenagers Noma Nazir Bhatt (vocals-guitar), Farah Deeba (drums) and Aneeka Khalid, (guitar) - they have practical suggestions. "Just keep making music, even if it's in your bedroom. And wait for the limelight-seekers to ebb away," says Haniya. "Share your talent, like we did, on the internet or other like-minded forums. Who can stop that?" Zeb adds. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Pak-girls-band-shining-light-for-Pragaash/SP-Article1-1010948.aspx Indonesian Council of Ulema Warned Muslims Not To Celebrate Valentine's Day JAKARTA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) warned Muslims not to celebrate Valentine's Day here Wednesday, saying it's not in accordance with Islamic values. MUI's Chairman Umaar Shinhab told Indonesia's news portal Tempo.co that it's forbidden for Muslims to observe the "day of love" which falls on February 14 as the celebration involves religious ritual and is prone to lead to "free sex". "Love can be expressed or shown any time without bounded by a certain day," Shinhab said, adding that the young should follow the right religious teachings so as not to be affected by deviant culture. The deputy mayor of Depok has appealed Tuesday residents, especially younger people not to celebrate Valentine's Day on Thursday. In recent years, it has become customary for MUI, the highest Islamic authority in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, to issue edicts resisting Valentine's Day celebration. Edicts issued by the MUI are generally considered as a form of public guidance and carry no legal authority. http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.asp?id=125312 Online matchmaking a hit with Saudi couples RIYADH — Traditional matchmakers in the Kingdom face tough competition from blossoming marriage services on online social networks. More than 200 Twitter sites and dozens of other forums on the Internet offer services for Saudi men and women seeking spouses, angering matchmakers like Um Sami who sees it as "organized prostitution." "Social networks undermine our work and everything they offer is virtual: they use nicknames and they are not reliable," said Um Sami, an elderly woman and well-established matchmaker from Jeddah. For her, many of these websites are "fraudulent." "Marriage via online platforms is one hundred percent doomed to failure," she said, stressing that only her traditional matchmaking method can lead to a successful marriage. For matchmakers like Um Sami the business has flourished by word of mouth. Families ready to marry off their offsprings contact her with details about their children and provide pictures which she carries around with her on rounds to match candidates. But her job is not a simple one because, as she says, there are many different types of weddings that can be contracted in Saudi Arabia, from the traditional unions to unconventional ones by global standards such as the "misyar" marriage. A misyar — or "visitor's" marriage — is one in which couples live separately but can meet up when they want. It is allowed in the Kingdom but couples who choose to go that way will keep it a family secret shared only with the matchmaker. In a traditional union sealed with the help of Um Sami, the bride and groom each pay the matchmaker around SR2,000. But the fee for a misyar wedding is much higher and usually starts around SR5,000 — with the man alone having to foot the bill while his spouse continues to live in her own home. Misyar is often the marriage of choice for polygamous men as well as divorcees and widows in Saudi Arabia, where extra-marital relations are strictly banned and punishable under Islamic law. Human rights activists and intellectuals have slammed misyar marriages as a form of "legalized adultery." Offers to help seal both traditional marriages and misyars are rife on the Internet. The website khtabh.net allows men and women to post their requests. One message reads: "Misyar marriage wanted immediately in Riyadh... and the matchmaker or mediator will be offered a big reward." Candidates are also asked to give personal details, including their marital status, monthly salary, education and a brief description of who they are and what they look like. A man wanting to marry has posted a request on one such site for a "tender, quiet, good humored and plump" wife. A woman from Riyadh with special needs said she was 23, "pretty, blind, fair-skinned. Willing to marry a normal, non-smoking man even if he is polygamous as long as his first wife is informed." Both online matchmaking sites in Saudi Arabia and matchmakers frown upon more unorthodox forms of marriage such as "misfar" and "misyaf" marriages for men who travel frequently or spend each summer abroad. "There are so many offers which one finds tempting to try, but my friends have warned me against certain websites that can be traps," said 20-year-old Amjad Ismael. Many online matchmaking services ask for a deposit upfront, he said. Abu Mohammed, a 40-year-old who is already married and is looking for a second wife, said he has had a "bad experience" with online matchmakers. "They are not serious. They try to take advantage of people contacting them, especially if they are married," he said. "I have now decided to go back to the traditional matchmaker to ensure confidentiality." But younger people still prefer social networks as a tool to tie the knot "because they are an easy way to get to know each other," said sociologist Abu Bakr Baqdar. "In the past, people got to know one another through families and neighbors," he said. Young people are now looking for "less traditional means to meet away from their families' interference." http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130214153121 Dozens march in Kabul to end violence against women Kabul: Dozens of Afghan activists have marked Valentine's Day by marching in Kabul to denounce violence against women. Concern has risen after rights organisations last year found that Afghan women are frequently victims of violence — despite a law against it and increased prosecution of abusers. Rights activist Humaira Rasouli says the marchers want violence against women "to be eliminated or at least reduced in Afghanistan," but unfortunately it "is increasing day to day." Riot police stood guard as male and female activists walked from the landmark Darul Aman Palace outside of Kabul to an area near parliament. Unlike past protests that were marred by stone-throwing and insults, Thursday's march remained peaceful. The event is part of a global domestic violence awareness campaign called One Billion Rising. http://www.firstpost.com/world/dozens-march-in-kabul-to-end-violence-against-women-625492.html Filipino Women Take Lead in Resolving Muslim Insurgency Simon Tisdall The idea that a woman can mediate successfully between armed groups of hostile men, and that one of these groups comprises hard-line, Sharia-touting Islamists, might seem far-fetched to traditional western societies but not so in the Philippines, where not one but two women have taken the lead in resolving the long-running Muslim insurgency in Mindanao. Teresita Quintos Deles, below, a former teacher, women's rights advocate and anti-poverty tsar known popularly as 'Ging', was re-appointed presidential adviser on the peace process by President Benigno Aquino in July, 2010. Since then, her steady and patient hand has guided the combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and their government interlocutors towards a historic peace deal that both sides now regard as all but inevitable. Full report at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/13/filipino-women-mindanao-conflict Saudi rights watchdog to increase female membership Boost in membership related to women issues to be raised at Shura Council By Habib Toumi Manama: A Saudi human rights watchdog is planning to boost the number of women members in line with the breakthrough appointment of 30 women to the country's Shura Council. "We have plans to increase the number of women adherents and to set up new branches to handle grievances related to the status of women that are still pending at the main office," Meflah Al Qahtani, the head of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), said. A major plan includes tackling issues related to the education of women in rural and desert areas and near the borders where their schooling chances are severely limited. http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-rights-watchdog-to-increase-female-membership-1.1146167 Haia to enforce ban on men in lingerie shops next week The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) will start next week to implement an agreement, signed with the Ministry of Labor, to enforce a ban on men working at women's lingerie and accessory shops in the Kingdom. Haia Chairman Abdul Latif Al-Asheikh was quoted in a local newspaper as saying that Haia members will carry out inspections across the country. "We shall assume this task of inspecting lingerie shops starting next week," he said. http://www.arabnews.com/haia-enforce-ban-men-lingerie-shops-next-week 3,500 Pakistani Women Screened Under 'National Breast Screening Programme' ISLAMABAD: The Pink Ribbon Campaign in collaboration with cancer hospitals of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has screened more than 3,500 women for free, under the 'National Breast Screening Programme' Pink Ribbon Campaign CEO Omar Aftab said that many hospitals of the PAEC, including AEMC Cancer Hospital Karachi, KIRAN Cancer Hospital Karachi, BINO Cancer Hospital Bahawalpur, CENAR Cancer Hospital Quetta, CENUM Cancer Hospital Lahore, INMOL Cancer Hospital Lahore, IRNUM Cancer Hospital Peshawar, INOR Cancer Hospital Abbottabad, LINAR Cancer Hospital Larkana, MINAR Cancer Hospital Multan, NORI Cancer Hospital Islamabad, NIMRA Cancer Hospital Jamshoro, PINUM Cancer Hospital Faisalabad and GINUM Cancer Hospital Gujranwala have been directly working with the programme. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013\02\14\story_14-2-2013_pg11_6 Bad Start to the Year for Women in Indonesia Deanna Ramsay, Jakarta First there was RI. An 11-year-old from a family of Jakarta scavengers discovered with injuries to her genitals and a sexually transmitted disease. RI's 55-year-old father, Sunoto, who has the same disease, reportedly confessed to raping her. The girl passed away on Jan. 6 from an inflammation of the brain. Then there was NWJ, impregnated by a 39-year-old construction worker when she was 13. NWJ and the married father of two wed on Jan. 26 in a Balinese Hindu ceremony witnessed by both parties' families and officiated by the customary village chief. The 7-months-pregnant teenager went into labour on Feb. 4 and the infant did not survive. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/02/14/bad-start-year-women-indonesia.html Baloch missing persons: A sister's vigil By Mohammad Hanif KARACHI: Farzana Majeed has done her masters in biochemistry from Balochistan University, and now is enrolled in the MPhil programme. If she wasn't a Baloch she'd be either wearing a white coat and working in a lab or, like many young people her age, struggling to get a job. Or at least turning up for her M Phil classes. Instead, she has spent the last four years of her life sitting in protest camps, turning up for court hearings, speaking at political rallies. http://tribune.com.pk/story/507171/baloch-missing-persons-a-sisters-vigil/ Nigerian Mother Confesses To Murdering Infant, 40 Years On JEDDAH – A woman in her 60s has turned herself in to a police station in Jeddah's Al-Nuzlatain neighbourhood police and confessed to murdering her infant 40 years ago. She told police she was a 13-year-old Nigerian citizen when she married a Saudi citizen. When she gave birth to her boy, she said she felt annoyed by this intruder in her life. Someone suggested that she kill her infant by choking him to death, she told police. She was a child herself, and did not realize that it was a crime. Conference on women's rights in Islam wraps up in Tehran Muslim scholars from Europe, Africa, and Asia along with representatives of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation attended the first conference on women's rights in Islam held in Tehran. The final statement of second meeting of women ministers of the OIC stipulates that human rights and women's rights in particular has to be further discussed and this meeting is in line with the agreements made two years ago. http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/13/288775/conference-women-rights-islam-tehran/ Watchdog Acts to Reverse Deportation Order for Nigerian, Mother of Saudi Children Human rights group insists mother should remain with children By Habib Toumi, Bureau chief Manama: A Saudi rights watchdog is racing against time to halt administrative procedures to deport a Nigerian woman from Saudi Arabia, saying that her expulsion was "unacceptable". "We are coordinating efforts to find a solution for Zainab, the Nigerian woman married to a Saudi national and mother of Saudi children," Meflah Al Qah'tani, the head of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), said. "Her detention in a deportation facility is unacceptable and she should be released as she is the mother of Saudi children who critically need her to be with them," he said in remarks published by local news site Sabq on Wednesday. http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/watchdog-acts-to-reverse-deportation-order-for-nigerian-in-saudi-arabia-1.1146077 Blind Saudi girl nominated for Mix FM competition JEDDAH – A blind Saudi girl was nominated to win the Mix FM "Microphone Star" competition after receiving a high amount of votes from listeners, Al-Hayat reported. Ibtisam Al-Malki, a resident of Makkah, has not been discouraged by her disability and looked forward to winning the competition, which offers a job and cash prize to the winner. The competition is enjoying high ratings near its finale and the support of big stars such as Mohammed Abdu. Saudi Movie 'Hurma' To Be Screened At Berlin Film Festival JEDDAH — For the first time ever, a short Saudi movie "Hurma" will be screened at the Berlin International Film Festival that kicked off last Thursday. According to Al-Youm newspaper, "Hurma" has been made by filmmaker Ahad Kamel who is also the protagonist in the film. Kamel plays the role of a poor pregnant woman trying to save her unborn baby with limited resources.

"Péter hears cooks here often." Translation:Péter gyakran hall itt szakácsokat. Word order is flexible here. What was your answer? Maybe it was correct and the contributors just didn't add it yet. Thanks and you are right, it was more frustration on my part :) I think I put the verb 'Hall' at the end, which I'm sure can't be wrong. My problem is more with the English sentence "Péter hears cooks here often.". Would anyone ever say it like this? I just want to move "often" three places ahead. Yes the English sentence sounded strange to me too, but I thought it might have been to help with the Hungarian translated word order for the sentence, but it clearly wasn't. Péter often hears cooks here. Péter hears cooks here often. Both sound OK to me. The first one might be used when you want to emphasise that he hears cooks (and not singers) here often; the second if you want to emphasise that he hears cooks often (and not just rarely). I'm not sure what the more neutral (less marked) word order would be, but I think it might be the one with the adverb at the end, i.e. the second sentence (Duo's version). Yeah, placing "often" at the end of the sentence seems to emphasise it in English (focal emphasis, not topical) and in the Hungarian example, gyakran is right before the vowel (which is where the focus goes), so this does seem to match ... even though it took me a couple of seconds to understand the English sentence. I misinterpreted "cooks" as a verb and I was like "Peter hears cooks ... WHAT? ... oh ..." Is this order correct? "Péter gyakran itt szakácsokat hall" That's one of the few places where "itt" can't go. Unfortunately I can't explain it, but it definitely isn't natural. "Gyakran" refers to the word that follows it. It can be any of the words in this sentence, you just have to put it after "gyakran". But by doing so, this word you chose will inevitably be in the focus of the sentence. The focus of the sentence is always followed by the verb (unless the verb itself is in the focus, of course). In other words, if you want "itt" to come after "gyakran" (thus emphasising it), only the verb can follow it: "Péter gyakran itt hall szakácsokat." Péter gyakran itt hall szakácsokat. Itt hall gyakran szakácsokat Péter. I hope it was understandable. If not, tell me what's unclear, and I'll try to explain it better. Thank you @Shamarth, for your thoughtful response. So it seems to me (but I'm not sure enough to report it) that "Péter itt szakácsokat gyakran hall" might be correct? Hogy lehet szakácsokat hallani, most már tényleg. Már nem tudom hányadszor bukom el, csak azért mert hihetetlenül értelmetlen és magyartalan mondatokat raknak be. Gondoltam, ha megcsináltam az angolt, akkor megcsinálom visszafelé angolról magyarra is gyakorlásképpen, de ennek így nem sok értelme van. Glad to see magyar here. "The bus is often here." "Péter is not stupid, on the contrary! He is very smart." "Where are the young cooks?"

I had a great time finally meeting Debbie and her family. Bo & Bell were the perfect addition to the family portraits - as you know I love dogs! And Aidan - oh Aidan and those big blue eyes...so handsome!! Debbie - thanks so much for being patient with setting up your session...I hope you agree it was well worth the wait!! Enjoy your sneak peek! Sunday dinners in the Morrison family just got a little bigger! Sweet little man Kyle is one of my best friends nephews and is the fifth little boy on his Daddy's side of the family - he is cousins with Mason and Claire who I recently had the pleasure to photograph. Hana & David - thank you so much for allowing me to come and capture the memories of Kyle as a newborn. Congrats!! Enjoy your sneak peek! Megan and Eric are getting married this September and I am SO EXCITED to photograph their wedding, because from the first moment I met them at their engagement session I could just tell how much fun their wedding is going to be! They are such a fun couple...and not to mention they have a super cute doggie Taylor - who just happened to make a few appearances in their engagement photos, which you know I love. Megan and Eric lived a little while in Texas and they wanted to pay a little homage to their lives there by sporting cowboy boots for some of the session - and it couldn't have been more perfect! Such a beautiful couple...I can't wait to see how gorgeous Megan is as a bride!! Megan and Eric - thanks so much for allowing me to be a part of this special time in your lives! I couldn't decide on 5 or 6 photos for your preview...so you got a few (a lot!) more :) Enjoy your sneak peek!

There are three types of people; touchy-feely bodies who consistently hug you hello, appropriate casual huggers and those who acquisition displays of amore uncomfortable. Interestingly enough, your touchy-feely accompany may additionally be happier and healthier, as contempo analysis is alpha to analyze the hug as a applicable brainy and concrete bloom boost. How? For starters, a contempo abstraction appear in PLoS One advised whether the furnishings of a acceptable hug can allay you throughout the day — alike if you face battle afterward. Advisers begin those who were hugged were beneath afflicted by "conflict exposure," or interpersonal conflict, than those who weren't hugged. The gender of the huggers didn't matter, and neither did the ambience of the accord (romantic, familial or platonic). One of the advance authors of the study, Michael Murphy, Ph.D., post-doctoral analysis accessory at the Laboratory for the Abstraction of Stress, Immunity, and Ache in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, says it's because blow deactivates the allotment of the academician that responds to threats, and in about-face beneath hormones are appear to arresting a accent response, and your cardiovascular arrangement adventures beneath stress. "In added words, it's affiliated to beneath of a 'fight-or-flight' acknowledgment to demanding situations," Murphy explains, abacus that theorists accept interpersonal blow can attune oxytocin (a feel-good hormone additionally accepted as "the bundle chemical") and the autogenous opioid arrangement (neurons in the academician that can aftermath abatement chemicals), both of which can addition health. "Feeling safer and cared for, in turn, can accomplish us beneath acute to concrete affliction and beneath acknowledging back faced with potentially aggressive experiences, abnormally socially aggressive experiences," he says. The angle that a hug can affluence amore of the accepted algid ability assume absolutely cool — but analysis suggests otherwise. Addition abstraction from Murphy's colleagues at Carnegie Mellon advised how accent and amusing abutment impacts amnesty and susceptibility to communicable disease. Participants were apparent to a accepted algid virus and were again monitored in apprehension to appraise signs of illness. The abstraction begin that those who acquainted socially accurate and were hugged added about additionally accomplished less-severe signs of illness. Meanwhile, addition abstraction begin affectionate amore as an indicator of a child's approaching health. "Childhood affliction increases accident for brainy and concrete bloom problems in adulthood," explains abstraction columnist Judith E. Carroll, Ph.D., abettor assistant of psychiatry at UCLA. What does this accept to do with hugging? She told us, in her study, individuals who appear affecting and concrete corruption in childhood, and bound adulation and amore from a parent, were best at accident for bloom issues after in life. Oddly enough, if an alone appear corruption but additionally accustomed adulation and amore from a affectionate amount during childhood, it somehow mitigated the appulse of corruption on their health. On the cast ancillary of the age equation, a Swedish abstraction of 172 nursing home association begin association who accustomed hugs and concrete touch, affiliated with accompany and visitors, and were contrarily alive socially, had a addiction to advance added than beneath amusing residents. Like Murphy mentioned earlier, hugs assume to accumulate the cardiovascular arrangement from actuality stressed. A study, from the University of North Carolina, recruited 59 women ages 20-49 who had been active with a apron or austere accomplice for at atomic six months. At first, the women were asked to sit appropriate by their ally and anamnesis a time they acquainted decidedly aing for a few minutes, watch a adventurous video for a few minutes, allocution for addition brace of account and end with a 20-second hug. After all that, the women were afar from their ally and appropriate to adapt and almanac a accent about article that fabricated them affronted or fatigued out. Their findings? The hug accumulation had lower claret burden and affection ante during the demanding task. And the women who said they got added hugs from their ally about had college oxytocin levels at all phases of testing, abrogation the advisers to achieve that oxytocin may be a articulation amid adhering and lower claret pressure. So, the aing time one of your accompany or ancestors is stressed, go on advanced and action them a hug. "The charge to accord — and agreeable in behaviors that affect our faculty of acceptance — is allotment of our attributes as humans," says Murphy.

"A poignant and engaging mystery, Vivian Qu's feature debut plunges us into the fascinating world of state surveillance in China as it follows a digital mapping surveyor's investigation of an 'off-the-grid' hidden alley. Li Qiuming works at a digital mapping company, photographing the streets that comprise the maze of China's ever-changing cities. One day while out surveying, he sees through his viewfinder an attractive woman disappearing into a secluded alley. Unable to forget the mysterious lady who has triggered his romantic imagination, Qiuming returns to where he saw her first, only to discover that the data he collected there was never registered. Even though he stands right there in front of the street sign, Forest Lane has fallen off the map of the city, as if it never existed."—Toronto International Film Festival.

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