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guess it's sort of having a couple parts there. So the first part of the question is maybe can you give a little more perspective around the patient population and their underlying demographics and why you can be encouraged -- even more encouraged about the responses that you're seeing early on? And then second, I think this talks to the broader theme as you see the immunotherapy landscape continue to expand, there's always going to be questions and ongoing questions about how do you tease out the individual contributions of each of the therapies within the regiments, now obviously the JITC journal article I think goes far in explaining that but I think that's part of the main question? And then lastly, that I hope would look to answer that. The overall question is the type of work that NCI and you are doing with regard to translational data and looking at the actual impact of T-cell activation? Thanks a lot.
Thank you very much, Joe. And Lauren I'll hand over that question to you.
Okay, good morning, Joe and thank you for your question. So I'll try and address each of your questions systematically. Regarding the patient population, the individuals that are in the patient population are those that we would expect to have HPV related recurrent metastatic disease. They include individuals with cervical cancer, anal cancer, vaginal and vulva cancer, as well as head and neck cancer. So that is the representative population that is targeted by this triple combination and that we are seeing as it relates to enrollment. The other aspect that she said was further clarification about the two populations in the study. The study was focused and targeted on delivering this triple combination therapy to checkpoint inhibitor naive individuals based on the preclinical data that we noted that was published in the June 20th JITC article. However, we also know that since immunotherapy has become the fourth cornerstone of cancer treatment, that there are now a lot of patients with checkpoint refractory disease. We know that only about 20% on average, 15% to 20% depending upon the agent of patients respond to checkpoint inhibitor therapy and so there is an emerging and growing population of checkpoint refractory patients who have failed prior exposure to this class of drugs. Investigators at the NCI were interested in also exploring in a preliminary manner, whether or not this triple combination will also have activity in the checkpoint refractory population. So those are the two cohorts for the NCI study.
Your point is very well taken regarding when you deliver triple combinations or dual combinations of any agent, whether it's immune-oncology agents, whether it's immune-oncology and chemotherapy or radiotherapy. What is the specific contribution of each of the agents? We clearly know that from the preclinical studies, the triple combination was superior to any of the dual combinations, and all of the dual combinations were superior to any of the monotherapy combinations. How we would tease this out in additional, subsequent potentially randomized Phase 2 studies might be to give the triple combination versus the best dual combination that was observed in the preclinical studies. Again, it would really depend on the clinical data that we observe with the triple combination in both the checkpoint inhibitor naive as well as refractory populations, because you might want to be exploring differences in combinations when you're trying to figure out and tease out what is the most important component in the regimen or the relative contributions.
Your third question regarding the type of translational work and data that's being done, this is a critical question and it's one of the reasons why we're really thrilled to be partnering with Dr. Dr. Schlom and Dr. Gulley and Dr. Strauss at the NCI and their group, because it's critically important for us to be able to not only confirm whether or not we see this potent induction of HPV 16 specific CD8 T-cells, but also whether or not we have evidence that these T-cells track into tumors. And so, there is the plan for patients who may undergo subsequent surgical resection or biopsy to characterize those responses, there's going to be intensive interrogation of not only the T-cell repertoire, but also whether or not the HPV 16 specific responses that are induced, their quantity, as well as their potency as it relates to polyfunctional activity. Did I get everything for you?
No, you certainly did. And thank you. I know I threw a lot in there in one seemingly run on sentence, but thank you for the added details.
Thank you. Thank you, Joe. Thank you, Lauren. And Joe, just to add a little bit to what Lauren said, one of the reasons why we set that bar at 40% approximately, is in this patient population if PDS0101 is actually inducing these in vivo killer T-cells and the state of the art, the highest response rate was approximately 30%, our projection was that if these T-cells are actually being induced, even in these patients with somewhat weakened immune systems, we would expect to see at least a 30% increase over |
later governor of Britain].
Gnaeus Julius Agricola appointed governor of Britain by Vespasian. Agricola’s first campaign results in the defeat of the Ordovices in North Wales and the conquest of Anglesey.
Vespasian died at his summer retreat at Reate, Titus now emperor. Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the Campanian towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii [among others] in a rain of ash. Agricola advances northwards during his second campaign season, advancing by western route from Chester and York. North-west England consolidated by forts and garrisons.
Another fire at Rome destroyed the Capitoline temple district. The “Colosseum” or, more properly, the Flavian Amphitheatre, is inaugurated. During his third campaign, Agricola advances north by eastern route as far as the Tay.
Titus died, succeeded by his manic brother Domitian. Agricola consolidates the Forth-Clyde line during his fourth campaign season, by establishing forts at Camelon, Croy Hill, Bar Hill and elsewhere.
Agricola advanced along west coast from Solway Firth to Galloway peninsula and Ayrshire. The invasion of Hibernia (Ireland) was contemplated but not carried out.
Agricola advances through coastal areas around and to the north of the Tay, with the co-operation of the British Fleet. Caledonian tribesmen attack garrison forts and also the fortress of the Ninth Legion. A cohort of auxiliary Usipi mutinies and sails around the north coast of Britain.
Agricola advances to the Moray Firth, but, following the resounding victory at Mons Graupius over the Caledonian tribes, is ordered back to Rome by Domitian where he receives triumphal regalia.
Legio II Adiutrix withdrawn from Chester in Britain and posted to Dacia.
The Inchtuthil fortress in Tayside is demolished and abandoned; Legio XX Valeria Victrix return to Chester.
COLONIA DOMITIANA LINDENSIVM; Lindum (Lincoln, Lincolnshire); established under Domitian.
COLONIA NERVIA GLEVENSIVM; Glevum (Gloucester, Gloucestershire); established under Nerva.
Legionary fortress at Isca Silurum (Caerleon, Gwent) rebuilt in stone. Auxiliary forts in Scotland abandoned, and forts throughout Wales rebuilt in stone.
Legionary fortress at Deva (Chester, Cheshire) rebuilt in stone.
Legionary fortress at Eburacum (York, North Yorkshire) rebuilt in stone.
Revolt of the Brigantes tribe in the north of Britain.
Emperor Hadrian visits Britain bringing with him Legio VI Victrix, to replace the Ninth legion at York. Aulus Platorius Nepos as governor, begins construction of Hadrian’s Wall from the Tyne to the Solway.
During the reign of Antonine, the governor Quintus Lollius Urbicus crushes a revolt of the Brigantes in North Britain.
The campaigns of Urbicus proceed into lowland Scotland and are concluded with the building of another barrier, the Antonine Wall, across the Forth – Clyde isthmus.
Another rebellion of the Brigantes tribe in the north of Britain is quelled by governor Gaius Julius Verus, who orders the Antonine Wwall be abandoned and Hadrian’s Wall reoccupied.
Unsuccessful campaigns of governor Calpurnius Agricola into Scotland, end with the total abandonment of the Antonine Wall and most of the Scottish Borders region.
Another revolt in North Britain is suppressed by governor Ulpius Marcellus.
Pertinax suppresses mutiny of the armies in Britain.
Following the assassination of the emperor Commodus, Pertinax, lately governor of Britain is hailed emperor by the praetorian guard in Rome, but is killed later the same year.
British governor Clodius Albinus withdrew vexillations of troops from the British legions in an attempt for the throne, but is defeated in Gaul by Severus, who later becomes emperor. Governor of Britain, Decimus Clodius Albinus, is declared Caesar by Severus. The Maeatae conduct several successful raids into the north of Britain.
Governor Virius Lupus restores the situation in Britain, and rebuilds many forts.
Britain is divided into two provinces: the peaceful, settled Britannia Prima in the south, and the military Britannia Secunda in the troublesome north.
Hadrian’s Wall is refurbished during the governorship of Aufenus Senecio.
Emperor Septimius Severus and his sons Caracalla and Geta arrive in Britain.
Severus and Caracalla campaign into central Scotland and recieve the surrender ofthe Caledonian tribes.
The Maeatae revolt, which leads to the second Scottish campaign of Severus.
Severus dies at York. All |
returning to the recording studio. Beyoncé later told "Billboard": "I'm not going to write for the album until I finish doing the movie."
Recording and production.
While having a month-long vacation after filming "Dreamgirls", Beyoncé went to the studio to start working on "B'Day". She said: "[When filming ended] I had so many things bottled up, so many emotions, so many ideas", prompting her to begin working without telling her father and then-manager Mathew Knowles. Beyoncé kept the recording somewhat quiet, telling only her artists and repertoire executive Max Gousse, and the team of producers they contacted to collaborate with on the album. She began working with songwriters and producers Rich Harrison, Rodney Jerkins, Sean Garrett, Cameron Wallace, the Neptunes, Norwegian production duo Stargate, and American hip hop producer and rapper Swizz Beatz. Two female songwriters, who helped structure the album, were also a part of the team–Beyoncé's cousin Angela Beyincé, who had previously contributed to "Dangerously in Love", and up-and-coming songwriter Makeba Riddick, who made her way onto the team after writing "Déjà Vu", the lead single off the album.
Beyoncé rented the Sony Music Studios in New York City, and was influenced by her now-husband Jay-Z's method of collaborating with multiple record producers; she used four recording studios simultaneously. She booked Harrison, Jerkins and Garrett, each with a room to work in. During the sessions, Beyoncé would move from studio to studio to check her producers' progress, later claiming this fostered "healthy competition" among producers. When Beyoncé conceived a potential song, she would tell the group who would deliberate, and after three hours the song would be created. While Beyoncé and the team brainstormed the lyrics, other collaborators such as the Neptunes, Jerkins and Swizz Beatz would simultaneously produce the tracks. They would sometimes spend up to 14 hours a day in the studios during the recording process. Beyoncé arranged, co-wrote and co-produced all of the songs on the album. Riddick, in an interview with MTV News, recounted her experience in the production:
[Beyoncé] had multiple producers in Sony Studios. She booked out the whole studio and she had the biggest and best producers in there. She would have us in one room, we would start collaborating with one producer, then she would go and start something else with another producer. We would bounce around to the different rooms and work with the different producers. It was definitely a factory type of process.
"B'Day" was completed within three weeks, ahead of the originally scheduled six weeks. Swizz Beatz co-produced four songs for the album, the most from a single producer in the team. Beyoncé recorded three songs a day, finishing recording within two weeks in April 2006. Aside from the Sony Music Studios, additional recording locations included Great Divide Studios in Aspen, Colorado, where "Freakum Dress" was recorded, and Los Angeles recording studios Lair Studios, where "Irreplaceable" was recorded, Henson Recording Studios, where bonus track "Check on It" was recorded, and Record Plant, where "Kitty Kat" and "Green Light were recorded and "Déjà Vu" was assisted. 25 songs were produced for the album; ten of the tracks were selected for the standard edition track listing, and were mastered in early July by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at the Bernie Grundman Mastering in Los Angeles.
Music and lyrics.
Many of the themes and musical styles of "B'Day" were inspired by Beyoncé's role in "Dreamgirls". The plot of the film revolves around "The Dreams", a fictional 1960s group of three female singers who attempt success in the mainstream music industry with the help of their manager Curtis Taylor, Jr. (portrayed by Jamie Foxx). Beyoncé portrays Deena Jones, the lead singer of the group and the wife of Taylor, and is emotionally abused by him. Because of her role, Beyoncé was inspired to produce an album with an overriding theme of feminism and female empowerment. On the hidden track "Encore for the Fans", Beyoncé said: "Because I was so inspired by Deena, I wrote songs that were saying all the things I wish she would have said in the film." "B'Day" was influenced by a variety of American genres, and, like "Dangerously in Love" (2003), incorporated urban contemporary elements such as contemporary R&B and hip hop. Some songs showcase 1970s and 1980s styles, achieved through record sampling. "Suga Mama", which employs blues-guitar samples from Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers' "Searching for Soul", contains a 1970s funk and 1980s go-go-influenced melody. "Upgrade U |
and plain ol' sex?"
"Yeah," Dick says, shrugging again. He heads over to the couch in the living room, plopping down with a quiet grunt. "I mean, sex is sex, right? It's all..." He waves a hand aimlessly, shaking his head. "So it really doesn't make a difference to me."
An uncomfortable, awful feeling settles in Jason's gut. He follows Dick into the living room. His hands are fidgeting restlessly, so he shoves them into his pockets to force them still.
He looks tired. And there's something in his eyes...something Jason really, really doesn't like, especially when paired with what Dick just said.
"Dick," Jason says. "Do you...do you even like sex?"
Another goddamn shrug.
"It's just...it's sex, Jay. It is what it is."
It is what it is, like it's a job he has to accomplish, a task to be completed. And not a fun one. Not a good one. Something that leaves him looking run-down, now that his one-night-stand has left. Like it's—like it's something he has to do, instead of something he should only do if he actively wants to.
Jason sits down, trying to calm himself. Okay, this is not what he was expecting to have to handle today, and he does not feel in any way prepared to do so, but he has to. He has to, because this is...this is wrong.
"Alright," Jason says evenly. "Alright. Um.
Dick's expression spasms. "I know that," he grits out, staring at the ceiling.
"Okay," Jason says, keeping his tone even.
Dick's lips press into a thin line. He doesn't answer.
"Shit, man," Jason mutters. "Shit."
"Dick," Jason says. "Please tell me.
Dick's throat bobs as he swallows. "Because..." he starts, and then trails off. Swallows again. "Because it—it makes people happy. And I can...give them that."
Jason takes a moment to digest that, fighting the urge to shout. "Well," he says.
"Look," he says harshly, "just because you don't get it—"
"Oh no, I get it perfectly," Jason interrupts. "This is par for the course, really. I understand perfectly why you've been hurting yourself to make other people happy. It's spot on for you, Dickie. But that doesn't make it okay in the least!"
"There's your problem, Dick," Jason says with a mirthless chuckle. "You always want to know what everyone else wants from you. Ever considered that maybe what people want is to not hurt you?
Dick's jaw drops. "They—of course it's been consensual! Sex that you want to have, not sex that you agreed to have so that people will be happy.
Dick closes his mouth, looks away. Jason takes a deep breath.
"Okay," he says. "Okay. We're...we're going to take this one step at a time. You've been in relationships, so. So, do you experience romantic attraction? Do you actually like people that way? Do you feel that for people."
Jason doesn't know what he'd do, if Dick told him he never loved Kory in that way. So it's really good that's not true.
"Yeah," Dick says as extra confirmation. "Yeah, I...I do. And I just. I want to give them..."
"Yeah," Jason says, voice soft. "Yeah, I know. Alright. Um. So you...you seem to like physical contact. You're always hugging the demon brat, and anyone else you can get away with. So do you actually like doing that? Or do you feel like you have to?"
"I like it," Dick says quietly. "I like being close to people like that. It's just when it...goes further—that I..."
Well that's good too. Might've hurt the demon brat to know Dick was forcing himself into that.
"And on a scale from one to ten where one is 'meh, sex is okay,' and ten is 'I hate this I wish I wasn't doing it,' where do you fall?"
Dick looks down at his hands. They're clasped together, tightly enough that his knuckles shine white. It's a painful contrast against the dark bruises only a few inches away.
"Ten," he says eventually, voice hoarse like he's close to tears. "I've never liked it, any of it. "You are not broken, do you hear me? You aren't broken.
"I'm—what?"
"It means you don't experience sexual attraction," Jason says. "It's a sexuality, the same way being bisexual is. It's a real thing, |
made in different documents. We are unable to persuade ourselves to agree with the contentions advanced by the learned counsel for the respondents.
At the outset it must be borne in mind that the agreement between the parties was a written agreement and therefore the parties are bound by the terms and conditions of the agreement. Once a contract is reduced to writing, by operation of Section 91 of the Evidence Act it is not open to any of the parties to seek to prove the terms of the contract with reference to some oral or other documentary evidence to find out the intention of the parties. Under Section 92 of the Evidence Act where the written instrument appears to contain the whole terms of the contract then parties to the contract are not entitled to lead any oral evidence to ascertain the terms of the contract. It is only when the written contract does not contain the whole of the agreement between the parties and there is any ambiguity then oral evidence is permissible to prose the other conditions which also must not be inconsistent with the written contract. The case in hand has to be adjudged bearing in mind the aforesaid principles and the plaintiffs being conscious of this position along with the tender appended a letter and in that letter inserted certain terms by writing in ink to establish the case that the acceptance of the plaintiffs' tender would tantamount to the acceptance to the terms contained in the letter in which there was insertion in writing to the effect that it was on multi slab basis. It is in this context the question whether such hand written portion was originally there or was subsequently inserted assumes great significance. We are unable to accept the stand taken by the learned counsel for the respondents that there was no such issue on this question inasmuch as this question was considered by the learned Trial Judge while discussing Issue No. 1 on the basis of evidence laid and the Trial Judge had given a finding in favour of the plaintiffs. The said finding, however, on the face of it appears to us to be wholly unsustainable. As has been stated earlier there was no signature either by the persons submitting the tender or by the persons receiving the same on the hand written portion of the letter. The learned Trial Judge had noticed that the certified copy which was issued by the Board on 11.7.1978 of the aforesaid letter clearly contains the hand written portion and therefore he came to the conclusion that the hand written portion was there at the time of submission of the tender. The tender itself was submitted on 12.7.1978 and we fail to understand how the Board could grant a certified copy of the letter on 11.7.1978 when the plaintiffs' case itself is that along with the tender he had appended the letter in question. On this ground alone it can be safely held that hand written portion in Exhibit P-1 was not there at the time of submission of the tender but was subsequently inserted obviously with the connivance of the officers of the Board.
The Board in its rejoinder affidavit filed in this Court has stated that the attested copy was actually received on 28.12.1978, much later than the finalization of the tenders and agreement and in order to build up a case the aforesaid interpolation has been made. In the facts and circumstances of the present case the aforesaid stand of the Board appears to us to be wholly justified and at any rate we have no hesitation to come to the conclusion that the hand written portion in Exhibit P-1 was not there initially and has been inserted subsequently. The main basis of the plaintiffs' case on which a multi slab rate was claimed therefore fails.
The written agreement between the parties nowhere indicates that the rate to be paid to the plaintiffs was on multi slab basis and the terms and conditions of the written contract is not susceptible of such a construction.
It is no doubt true that DW-1 a witness of the defendants in his evidence had admitted that after submission of tender there was certain discussions between the contractor and the authorities and in that discussion contractor had expressed to charge for the job on multi slab basis and same was accepted by the authorities. We are afraid a decree cannot be granted in favour of the plaintiffs on the aforesaid statement since the contract in hand was a written one. There is no document whatsoever in support of the aforesaid so called after tender discussion and the acceptance of the terms in the said discussion to the effect that rate would be charged on multi slab basis.
Then again if the plaintiff had appended the letter to the tender indicating that he would be charging on multi slab basis there was no occasion to have any after tender discussion or to raise the issue of rate being accepted on multi slab basis. The so called statement of DW-1 therefore is wholly unacceptable and in the eye of law also cannot be taken into account to vary the terms of the written contract. The Division Bench of the High Court committed obvious error in allowing variance of the terms of the written contract relying upon such statement of DW-1 and granted the decree on multi slab basis.
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THE MODERATOR: We'll continue on with our post‑race availability for tonight's Bojangles Southern 500. We are joined by our race winner Carl Edwards and race‑winning crew chief Darian Grubb. This is Carl's second win of the 2015 season. It is also the 75th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win for Toyota. Carl, an exciting finish to tonight's race. Tell us about those closing laps holding off Denny and Brad.
CARL EDWARDS: Well, I feel like my pit crew ought to be sitting up here doing interviews. They won that race for us. It was just amazing to come down third and to go out leading the race. Darian, all the guys, nobody gave up tonight. We were two laps down. We fought back hard. It's a huge win for us. Southern 500, it's obviously one of the most sought‑after wins in the world of motorsports. But tonight we had Bob Stanzione and his family from ARRIS here. They took a huge chance coming on board starting this fourth team, really made all this possible, and just really cool to be in victory lane with them.
THE MODERATOR: Darian, critical pit stop for the team with 12 laps to go. Tell us about the team effort and getting Carl off pit road in first.
DARIAN GRUBB: They just did an incredible job all night, the whole ARRIS Toyota team from Joe Gibbs Racing, everything that they've done, all year they've been phenomenal and at least tonight we were able to show off a little bit and put him out there in the lead and have a chance to win. We've had some really good runs this year and they've been able to knock it out of the park when it mattered, and this still wasn't their best stop of the night. They had six stops that were under 11 seconds. It was an incredible night.
THE MODERATOR: We are also joined by our race‑winning team owner Joe Gibbs. Tell us a little bit about the team's performance tonight and momentum heading into the Chase in just two weeks.
JOE GIBBS: I think first of all, to come to Darlington, this is really the heart of racing country, and it's a thrill for us to come here. We love this race. It's extremely hard to win. You know, I think we had like 19 pit stops, were fighting all night long, and if you drew this one up tonight, I don't think you could draw up a bigger victory for us. We mentioned, Carl did, that we had Bob Stanzione and all the ARRIS people, for them to come on board this year and sponsor all the way across the board, including our Cup deal is huge for us, it's big for the ARRIS company. That was a big deal. Toyota, to be able to get them a 75th win for them, they're a great partner for us, great support, and then for everybody, I reflect on everybody back home, all the people at the shop that have worked so hard. J.D. and the team back there, everybody in our front office, and Todd Meredith deserves a lot of the credit here. Todd rarely doesn't come around a lot of our celebrations, but he really runs all of our operations that have to do with racing. He's really the racing guy. And it's a big deal for us.
You've got to have a great crew chief like Darian. I don't think anybody calls a race better than Darian. He just has a knack for it.
A thrill for us, and really if you drew it up, you couldn't draw up a more exciting deal for us, everybody at Joe Gibbs Racing.
Q. Joe, Kyle clinched a spot guaranteeing himself a spot in the top 30. How big an accomplishment is that, especially when you look back not to May but even mid‑June after Michigan?
JOE GIBBS: Yeah, I think that's also a great sports story. Everything that happened to us there at Daytona and then for him to bounce back in 11 weeks, I felt like the odds were against us. And for him to be able to pull this off and come back, win four times and get back in the Chase tonight‑‑ they had a great game plan, Adam and Kyle. They talked all night about the game plan, what they wanted to do, and first up was to make sure that they had enough points tonight that they didn't have to worry next week.
So that was a big deal for them, and it was great for Kyle, and obviously it was great for everybody else over here at the 19 car and Carl.
Q. Obviously most people know how you feel about the low downforce package. At this point do you feel like there's enough people in the industry, |
Bayardo (horse)
Bayardo (1906 – 1917) was a British bred Thoroughbred racehorse with an impressive record, both on the racecourse and at stud, where he was a leading sire.
Background.
He was sired by Bay Ronald who won the Hardwicke Stakes and the City and Suburban Handicap. Bay Ronald sired Rondeau, who won nine stakes races, and was the dam of the influential stallion Teddy. He also sired Macdonald II, winner of the Prix Royal-Oak in France, and Dark Ronald, sire of Son-in-Law and Vaucluse, winner of the 1,000 Guineas.
Bayardo's dam, Galicia, came from a good family which included having Blink Bonnie, as her fifth dam. Galicia was by Galopin—a Derby winner and sire St. Simon—and out of the Isonomy mare, Isoletta. She won the Biennial Stakes as a two-year-old, before injuring her pastern. Galicia raced as a three-year-old, but broke down in the Derby Cup and was retired for breeding. She produced four winners, of 42 races and £88,000, including Lemberg, who won the Dewhurst Stakes, Middle Park Stakes, The Derby, Eclipse Stakes, St. James's Palace Stakes, Jockey Club Stakes, and the Coronation Cup, finished second in the 2,000 Guineas, and third in the St. Leger Stakes. Bayardo was inbred to Galopin in the second and fourth generations (2×4) and to Sterling in the fourth generation (4×4).
Racing career.
Two-year-old.
As a two-year-old, Cox sent Bayardo to trainer Alec Taylor's stud farm and training centre in Manton, Wiltshire. Run in a trial, Bayardo showed his talent early by defeating several other two-year-olds and a three-year-old. He was then sent to his first race, the New Stakes at the Royal Ascot, which he won easily under jockey Bernard Dillon. He continued his winning streak throughout his two-year-old season, usually ridden by Danny Maher, including the National Breeders' Produce Stakes, the Richmond Stakes, the Buckenham Stakes, the Rous Memorial Stakes, the Middle Park Plate, and the Dewhurst Plate (beating the filly Perola, who won The Oaks the following year).
Three-year-old.
Bayardo faced setbacks the following season, due to a harsh winter that decreased training time and an accident on frosty ground which left him temporarily lame. Cox went against the wishes of his trainer and decided to run his colt in the 2,000 Guineas. Bayardo finished fourth, losing to the colt Minoru. Following this race, Bayardo steadily improved, and was entered in the Epsom Derby. But problems arose again, this time when the favourite, Sir Martin, stumbled badly in close quarters and lost his rider and hampered part of the field, causing enough of a setback that Bayardo finished fifth, again losing to Minoru.
Bayardo continued his three-year-old season in great style, winning every race in which he started, resulting in 11 consecutive victories. This included the Prince of Wales's Stakes, the Sandringham Foal Stakes, and the Eclipse Stakes. In the latter race, he easily won by two lengths, beating several talented animals including Royal Realm (winner of the Dullingham Plate), Santo Strato (winner of the Chester Cup), and Your Majesty (winner of the Eclipse Stakes and the St. Leger the year before). He then won the 1.25 mile York Plate, before entering in the St. Leger Stakes.
Going into the St. Leger, Bayardo was favoured over Minoru, the colt who had defeated him in both the Derby and the Two Thousand Guineas. Bayardo went on to win the third classic race without trouble, and then ran only two days later in the Doncaster Stakes, again for a win. The rest of his three-year-old season continued with victories, including the Champion Stakes, the Lowther Stakes, and the Limekiln Stakes, then the Sandown Park Foal Stakes the Liverpool St. Leger.
Four-year-old.
Bayardo's four-year-old season was aimed at the Ascot Gold Cup. His two preparatory races, the Biennial Stakes at Newmarket and the Chester Vase at Chester, were both victories (although just barely in latter, as he won by a head). In the Gold Cup, Bayardo faced the Prix du Jockey Club winner Sea Sick II. Sea Sick II was in the lead for some time, while Bayardo was held back in the field according to the race tactic of jockey Maher |
The majestic project of Bahria Town Karachi sits at a peaceful location of Karachi – Hyderabad Motorway. Continuing the legacy of Bahria Town Group, the project is a clean, green, secure and well-planned gated community. The town consists of almost 58 precincts, amongst which precinct 15 is located right next to Jinnah Avenue, which is a 400-foot wide carpeted road, comprising of 18 lanes.
For further simplification, Precinct 15 is divided into Precinct 15-A and 15-B, each offering a variety of plots for sale. The list of facilities and amenities of Bahria Town Karachi, all precincts included, is virtually endless. Electricity, gas, water and sewerage pipes are set up underground to keep everything hassle-free. The idea is to offer a premium living experience in a peaceful environment.
Bahria Town Karachi was developed in 2015 and has seen tremendous growth and development in a short span of time. Though the society is located away from the city, a wide range of facilities and amenities within each precinct has attracted homebuyers and investors. As you enter Bahria Town Karachi through its main gate, it is around 20 minutes’ drive to Precinct 15. The society is planned to include all the facilities a resident may need so that they won’t have to travel too far for anything they need.
Precinct 15, Bahria Town Karachi does not have any bus stops at a walking distance. To catch a bus, the prospective residents have to head out of the society and on to the motorway. Alternatively, one can book a ride using the ride-hailing apps and comfortably reach their destination.
Bahria Town Karachi Sight-Seeing Tour Bus runs through the major attractions of the society for a service fee of only 30 PKR per head. Starting from Tauheed Square, the double-decker bus takes passengers to all the main attractions of Bahria Town Karachi, namely Carnival, Bahria Heights, Bahria Golf City, Begum Akhtar Rukhsana Hospital, Danzoo Bahria Town, Raiha’s CineGold Plex, Grand Jamia Masjid, Bahria Dancing Fountain and Rafi Cricket Stadium.
For intercity and international journeys, options include buses, trains and planes. The bus terminals, such as Daewoo Bus Terminal, Faisal Movers, Madina Daewoo and Kainat Travels Bus Terminal are all at a 40 minutes’ drive. Pakistan Railways Karachi Cantonment Station, which is the city’s main railway station, is at an hours’ drive from the region. To catch a flight, Jinnah International Airport is at a good 40 – 50 minutes’ drive from Precinct 15, Bahria Town Karachi.
The residents can get their grocery from the supermarkets and marts near Precinct 15, Bahria Town. Green Valley Super Mart (in its development phases) will have fresh fruits and vegetables. It is at a drive of 12 minutes and is accessible from 6th Avenue and 2nd Avenue of Bahria Town. Bilal Departmental Store located right next to Shopping Gallery Precinct 2, at a drive of 15 minutes, is a supermarket that offers everything in one place. From fresh produce to other household items, everything is available at this store.
Precinct 15A and 15B, both will have their own mosques for the residents to come and pray five times a day. It is convenient for the mosques to be at a walking distance. Therefore, both mosques will be at a walking distance from the homes in each precinct.
According to the official masterplan of Precinct 15, Bahria Town, Karachi, more than 70% of the area is Institutional Zone. Institutional Zones is eligible for the construction of hospitals, religious or charitable organisations and educational institutions. Therefore, once Precinct 15, Bahria Town is developed, we can expect more number of schools, colleges and educational facilities in the area.
When looking for schools near Precinct 15, Bahria Town Karachi, there are quite a few schools in proximity to suffice. Bahria Town School and College, near Precinct 1, is accessible from Western Drive Road, at a drive of 15 minutes from Precinct 15. Another branch of Bahria Town School and College in Precinct 25, at a drive of 11 minutes. They offer education in the subsequent programs – Preschool, Junior School, Middle School, Matriculation, O’ Level, Intermediate, A’ Level, B.A, B.Sc and B.Com.
Roots Millennium School located in Gadap Town, is at a drive of 15 minutes from Precinct 15. It is an internationally recognised school offering classes from Montessori to A’ Levels. Their O’ Level and A’ Level education is accredited from the Cambridge International Examination |
ese and was gallantly distributed to the people of Rome.
Also a symbol of gathering and distribution, the fountain is laiden with scallop shells, signifying the great pilgrimage (Crull) that this water took to reach the terminus as those pilgrims to the Vatican did. The lines of the shell converge on the single crest of the wave, representative of the force of God that brought them this distance (Crull). Pilgrims brought these shells to the fountain to scoop up the water of the Felice as they neared the Vatican (Crull).
In this religious fashion, the Roman citizens receiving the water are tied to characters in the biblical scenes on the monument's reliefs. On the left, Aaron brings water to the wandering Hebrews (Virtual Roma). The right side is debated, as the fountain was finished in such haste, but is presumed to be the story of Gideon as he chooses soldiers by the way they drink (Virtual Roma).
At the center, a statue of Moses portrays the leader drawing water from a rock in the desert (Virtual Roma).
The statue of Moses is the most clear sign that Sixtus' project was indeed rushed. In this prominent feature of the monument, the sculpture holds the tablets of law, but is inaccurate as at this point in the bible Moses did not yet have possession of them (Ostrow 272).
The story is but one minor reason for this statue receiving four centuries of constant criticism. The foundation for this began when Giovanni Baglione wrote a biography on Prospero Bresciano, one of the Moses' sculptors, and therein laid out a ream of skewed facts for critics to come (283). And yet, even at the unveiling, the statue was not well received. At this point in the history of Western art, proportion was meant to resemble reality, to a divine degree; disproportionate design was utter failure (280). In addition, the statue was bombarded by constant comparison to Michelangelo's stunning Moses from 40 years before, the critical barrage of Tuscan writers in support of the Florentine Buonarotti (275), and the frightening man in charge: Sixtus V Peretti.
For the critics, Moses' characterization is minimal, the coat ungraceful; the tablets are not a major feature, nor is his pose. But from these many viewers and points of pressure on the sculptors Bresciano and Leonardo Sormani, the collective target has been their proportional inabilities (278). A ridiculing pasquinade from the unveiling read that the sculptors had literally "lost their mind" (272).
In this era there existed an idealization of the human form that every statue should depict. The sculptor's duty was to recreate God's work. In accordance, the work of a Renaissance sculptor was defined by both measure and taste, Misure e Giudizio dell'occhio (278). The artist must capture physical proportionality, as well as the sense of beauty that only the eye can master. Without the support of accurate measurement, this piece was unable to portray actual beauty. The practiced model maker Bresciano and sculptor Sormani failed to achieve the idealization in the hastily carved Moses. Rather, it was a major disgrace when compared to Michelangelo's emotive rendition of the biblical figure (276). This Moses is considered an actual error (282) because it does not follow the laws of the time, the laws of proportion and perspective, the laws that consider the viewer's position as well as the sculpture itself.
However, while the sculpture fails to properly glorify Sixtus' achievement, direct symbols on the monument from the Pope's coat of arms laud the Pope more exactly. Felice Peretti, as he was originally called, assumed a crest with three pears, in reference to his surname, as well as a lion as a show of strength. Four lions therefore perch at the entrance to the fountain itself. They are docile, but firm in stature (130).
Because the aqueduct was finished before the fountain was, two black egyptian lions were moved to the monument from in front of the Pantheon. This was not an issue of historical significance for Sixtus as though he "loved building, he was no lover of antiquity" (Symonds 311). The two adjacent lions were rushed, carved from white marble (Garden Fountains). The Egyptian lions have now been replaced by more modern white marble designs (Morton 133).
The balustrade of the Acqua Felice was taken from elsewhere, still bearing the name of a Pope Pius V (1566-72) who preceded Sixtus (133). While Sixtus had greater priority for modern improvements than ancient structures, namely his own, he did hold respect for the styles created. As seen in the obelisks and the Egyptian |
Endless Love (2000 TV series)
Endless Love is the unofficial title for a set of four Korean drama series directed by Yoon Seok-ho, produced by KBS from 2000 to 2006.
Structure.
It featured four parts, with each named after the seasons of the year. Each part of the series had its own plotlines, characters, and actors. The series was widely viewed in Asia and continued the Korean Wave that had gripped the region since the late 1990s and early 2000s. Later on, as the series progressed and was marketed outside of Korea, the moniker 'Endless Love' stuck and was used to identify all the series as one.
"Endless Love" series.
The series was widely known in South Korea as director Yoon Seok-ho's pet project, dealing with four different seasons of love. In Korea, however, it is not totally put together as a series but is arranged as four separate shows. All the seasons run 20 episodes except for the first which ran only 16 as they were shown on KBS2, in more than 76 episodes. The show's endings not only have evolved with the times (tragedy used to be the trend, but now lighter, happier endings are preferred), but have kept with the theme, getting progressively more positive as 'spring' approaches. A few of the actors who portray the show's supporting characters return in different roles as the series progressed, such as Kim Hae-sook, but only Song Seung-heon played two different characters, both as leads for Autumn and Summer.
Here are the four parts of the 'series':
Running similarities.
Many elements of the 'formula' of Korean drama are evident in the shows, but are retained even more clearly in all four shows.
The shows mainly begin with a love that began at some point in the early childhood or teen years and continues on until adulthood, usually after a long separation. This is slightly bent in the 3rd series as the main character's first loves are not the main characters, but still goes by 'first love' involving the heart of the main male character's first girlfriend having been transplanted onto the main female lead.
The shows also seem to emphasize the scenery, making it into one of the main characters (the rice fields in Autumn, the lake in Winter, the tea garden in Summer and the island in Spring).
The show also follows a pattern of having a 'third-wheel', the second male lead; and the jealous girl, the second female lead. There was also a 3rd 'couple' in each show, mostly to provide comic relief from the otherwise dreary situations presented in each show (leading to 3 couples- the leads, the second leads and the 'funny' couple).
Also, all the characters in all the series have had the leads endure the disagreement of the parents of both leads. As for the soundtrack, main instrumental themes for all the series are known classics such as 'Romance' in Autumn, 'Moonlight Sonata' in Winter, 'Serenade' in Summer and 'Clementine' in Spring.
Production and telecasting.
Telecasting: KBS
Production: YOON'S COLOR
Distributor: YOON'S COLOR
Soundtracks.
Korean soundtracks.
Also includes a compact disc for another Korean KBS show - "Fireworks". The main title and "Reason" have the same melody and are the dominant themes of the show. "Romance", also known as "Forbidden Love" is the classic piece used for this soundtrack.
Predominantly features Ryu (류) as the official performer for "Winter Sonata".
In addition, "Moment" performed by Ryu and available on his album "Ryu 2" (류 2집) is included on some bootleg versions of the "Winter Sonata" soundtrack.
The main title and "Bi Mil" are interchangeably used in different airings of the show as the main theme.
Spring Waltz - Yoon Jae Ha
A double-disc piano collection packaged exactly like the male lead character's first Korean special release album, also bearing that character's name.
CD 1
CD 2
A maxi-single released with songs inspired by Spring Waltz.
International releases.
Includes the single 'Moment' by Ryu which while being a major theme in the show was not included in the original album but was only released with Ryu's album by the same name.
Contains all of the tracks of the original plus 'Neowi Hyangii' (Your Scent), an instrumental piece of 'YuhReum Hyanggi (Say Yes). 'YuhReum Hyanggi' was also retitled as 'Neowi Hyanggi'.
Filipino soundtracks.
The first album to bear the name 'Endless Love' and be labeled 'original soundtrack' at once. While it contains a lot of musical cues for Autumn Tale, |
bundle automorphism of $\mathcal{G}$.
The induced infinitesimal change $\mathcal{L}_{\omega^{-1}(s)}\omega$ of the Cartan connection
is a horizontal $P$-equivariant $\mathfrak{g}$-valued 1-form on $\mathcal{G}$ and hence
is an element of $\Omega^1(M,\mathcal{A}M)$, and actually it is given by $\tilde{\nabla}s$.
In addition, it is also known by \cite{Cap-08} that the
covariant exterior differentiation $d^{\tilde{\nabla}}\colon\Omega^1(M,\mathcal{A}M)\to\Omega^2(M,\mathcal{A}M)$
assigns to an infinitesimal modification of the Cartan connection
the induced infinitesimal change of the curvature.
\subsection{Infinitesimal flag structures and regularity}
\label{subsec:infinitesimal-flag-structures}
For a parabolic geometry $(\mathcal{G},\omega)$ of type $(G,P)$, with Levi subgroup $G_0$ of $P$,
we define the principal $G_0$-bundle $\mathcal{G}_0\to M$ by $\mathcal{G}_0=\mathcal{G}/P_+$,
which we call the \emph{graded frame bundle} of $(\mathcal{G},\omega)$.
Note that, since $\omega_u$ defines a linear isomorphism $T_u\mathcal{G}\to\mathfrak{g}$ for each $u\in\mathcal{G}$,
the filtration \eqref{eq:k-grading-filtration} of $\mathfrak{g}$ induces the filtration
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:filtration-of-tangent-bundle-of-Cartan-geometry}
T\mathcal{G}=T^{-k}\mathcal{G}\supset T^{-k+1}\mathcal{G}\supset\dots\supset T^0\mathcal{G}
=V\mathcal{G},
\end{equation}
where $T^i_u\mathcal{G}$ is the preimage of $\mathfrak{g}^i$ by $\omega_u$ and
$V\mathcal{G}$ is the vertical bundle for the projection $\mathcal{G}\to M$.
Then \eqref{eq:filtration-of-tangent-bundle-of-Cartan-geometry} naturally induces the filtration
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:filtration-of-frame-bundle}
T\mathcal{G}_0=T^{-k}\mathcal{G}_0\supset T^{-k+1}\mathcal{G}_0\supset\dots\supset T^0\mathcal{G}_0
=V\mathcal{G}_0
\end{equation}
of $T\mathcal{G}_0$, and furthermore, the one
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:filtration-of-tangent-bundle}
TM=T^{-k}M\supset T^{-k+1}M\supset\dots\supset T^0M=0
\end{equation}
of the tangent bundle $TM$ of the base manifold $M$.
One can show that, for $-k\le i\le -1$, the $\mathfrak{g}_i$-component $\omega_i$ of the Cartan connection $\omega$
restricted to $T^i\mathcal{G}$
descends to a $G_0$-equivariant section of $(T^i\mathcal{G}_0)^*\otimes\mathfrak{g}_i$
over $\mathcal{G}_0$ \cite{Cap-Slovak-09}*{Proposition 3.1.5}, which we write $\theta_i$.
Thus $\mathcal{G}_0$ comes with a collection $(\theta_{-k},\dots,\theta_{-1})$ of partially defined
$\mathfrak{g}_i$-valued 1-forms with each $\theta_i$ satisfying $\ker\theta_i=T^{i+1}\mathcal{G}_0$.
The triple $((T^iM)_{i=-k}^{-1},\mathcal{G}_0,(\theta_{-k},\dots,\theta_{-1}))$ is
called the \emph{induced infinitesimal flag structure} of a parabolic geometry $(\mathcal{G},\omega)$.
Abstractly, infinitesimal flag structures are defined as follows.
\begin{df |
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier: 'Champions aren't always made with medals'
The Canadian ice dance duo had its eye on the Olympic podium when things went wrong at Beijing 2022. But they're using the moment to focus on what is most important to them.
The reigning world bronze medallists in ice dance, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier had dreams of the podium at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.
But midway through their Olympic free dance, a costly error on their curve lift assured the Canadian figure skaters that they wouldn't move up from their sixth place position in the rhythm dance in a discipline that leaves little room for mistakes.
And while their dreams were dashed as their scores assured a seventh-place finish, the two took the chance to reflect on what the Olympic journey is for most athletes: A battle from within, no matter what the end result is.
"If I could describe this Olympics, I think it really shows our resilience," Gilles told Olympics.com a few days later. "It may not have gone the way that we anticipated and had been training [for], but the fact that we could think on our feet and push through and try and save something that was going down, I really think that speaks to our character."
"Champions aren't always made with medals," she added. "They're made with opportunities and the things you've done to get to the highest level. I think we can call ourselves champions in our way. And just be proud of what we did [here]."
Gilles and Poirier’s Olympic approach: The only way is forward
Poirier: 'We are human'
It was a second appearance for the team at a Games and third overall for Poirier. Two-time and reigning Canadian national champions, they won their first Grand Prix title on their 15th assignment at Skate Canada International in 2019.
The Covid pandemic halted a rise up the ranks, but - after nearly an entire competitive season washed away - they soared to a third-place finish at Worlds in 2021, setting expectations high for Beijing 2022.
Facing a fiercely talented ice dance field, they were four points out of the bronze medal spot when their free dance began. Gilles' blade nearly slipped off Poirier's leg on the attempted lift, which they took a ding from on their score sheet. It received their lowest Grade of Execution (+0.39 points) in their program.
But while the emotions were raw in the aftermath, their resolve was clear: A medal didn't define them. Their work ethic did.
"I think the thing to remember is that we are people, we are human," said Poirier. "That's what we have to take care of the most. We are lucky to be a part of a federation and a training environment where we as people are put first. [And we] have a group of people that is going to carry us no matter what happens on the ice. That's what has allowed us to move forward, despite all of the difficult things that you face as an athlete and the things that don't go your way. That's the most important thing."
Gilles and Poirier in the 'Kiss and Cry,' Beijing 2022
Worlds next for the 'artist' and 'food critic'
Gilles and Poirier are set to return to the world stage later this month with the World Figure Skating Championships being held in Montpellier, France, 23-27 March.
They would like to climb back onto the podium.
"We didn't have our best skates [in Beijing], [so] we're looking forward to having one more opportunity to compete our programs for the season and end with strong performances that we can be proud of," said Poirier. "We were on the podium last year at Worlds and of course we want to be on the podium again."
Gilles said they would like to exemplify the kind of fighting quality that has helped them rise to the upper echelons of ice dance.
"We're fighters; we've always been that way," she confirmed. "Anything that is thrown our way, we overcome. And I think that's what made this Olympics very special: We didn't give up. We pushed towards our dreams."
Poirier said the team is harnessing that feeling for the better.
"I think we are excited about the opportunity to perform again and prove what we're made of," he said of the upcoming Worlds.
In a lighter moment, Gilles and Poirier were asked to characterize one another off of the ice. For Piper, Paul is a food critic, and for Paul, Piper is - no surprise - an artist.
"He's the best food critic," Gilles said with a smile. "He knows all the restaurants, all the food, all the interesting places to go."
Added Poirier: "She's an artist. She's always making things and exploring new things. There is always |
been in my life. He is larger than life and has quality about him that leaves an everlasting impression. I graduated from the University of Akron in May 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science Pre-Physical Therapy and currently work as an EMT for Mecklenburg County Emergency Medical System. I also serve in the United States Air Force Reserves. Adam has been a key component in my life since 2011. I came to the University of Akron as a first-generation college student not knowing a thing about how to navigate through college life. I was also a student-athlete for the university’s women’s track team. Adam saw a strong student in me that I did not know was there.
He was not just guidance for me academically, but he was also someone who kept me motivated. He became someone I knew I could count on to be completely honest . When I decided I no longer wanted to be an athlete, Adam helped me through a tough transition. He connected me to new teammates that turned into friends and lifetime connections.
Even in dark times and mistakes, Adam was someone I could turn to, without judgement, and uplift me while still holding me accountable. He understood when I needed breaks but did not let me bury myself in self-pity. Without Adam’s dedication, I doubt I would have graduated college. He was there for me on a level that went beyond the classroom and grades. He picked me up when I fell and made sure I remembered that I was still talented when I felt as though I wouldn’t succeed. There are not enough ‘’thanks’’ in the world that could measure up to my gratitude. Now, currently serving in the United States Air Force Reserves, I use Adam’s model of a servant leader to lead and motivate those around me.
I met Adam at a time in my academic career when my confidence was lacking. Adam provided me with a community and support system that helped me rediscover identity. Adam taught me important life lessons that I have been able to apply in my collegiate, profesional, and personal lives. I owe much of my success to the relationship fostered with my mentor.
Adam is inspiring to all he works with. He has a way to connect with people and make people feel valued. Adam is a strong leader and has impacted my life in a positive way. When I first met him. I wasn’t sure what path I would go down and he helped me get focused on my schooling. He truly cares for others and wants to see others be successful.
Hearing Adam was appreciated and a MUST for students within our school community. He related to the high-school-aged youth on so many levels. The kids in our program come from one of the poorest zip codes in the United States, and he was able to relate with them in a matter of minutes. There were adults who initially thought his presentation would just benefit the students but, by the end, they expressed how the could relate to the positive tone and real-life situations Adam shared. I most definitely will be reaching out in the future to have Adam speak for other programs I am involved in.
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We're working with Adam this year to provide a virtual workshop series on respectful dialogue and intentional listening. He is doing a great job capturing the attention of our students on these MUCH-needed topics given the contentious world we exist in right now. He also did a keynote for our program in September to kick off the academic year and provide motivation for our students to continue the hard work. Adam also provided a virtual keynote address to kickoff the academic year for TRIO Upward Bound students. I'm grateful for Adam’s ability to connect with our students even in the virtual environment and create a safe space for students to ask questions and learn how to have meaningful conversations about these topics.
Adam is a truly remarkable speaker. His engaging personality and willingness to share his own life experiences allow him to build instant rapport with his audience. His passionate message of perseverance and overcoming obstacles is uplifting, inspiring, and enormously entertaining.
Keeping youth engaged can be challenging, especially in a virtual setting. Adam is incredibly skilled at creating meaningful connections with students, regardless of the situation.
I have listened to two of your recorded webinars for Infobase, where you addressed getting into college and making it through college. They both were very informative for me as a teacher and as a parent. One of the big differences that I see between my top-performing students and my students who struggle is that they are either comfortable talking with the teacher (me) or they are driven. Even though I do everything I can to encourage discourse, discussion, and questions, there are some students for whom it takes a great, great effort to speak. This year, it is even tougher with students online. Another person's voice is so powerful. Thank you again for sharing the webinars.
Our 2021 spring orientation session was led by Adam Smith. He dropped several gems for the participants and staff members of our TRIO Student Support Services program. If you’re |
days later with 16-mm and 15-mm CRE balloons, respectively. The fourth dilation occurred 114 days postoperatively and required a 15-mm CRE balloon for dilation. A follow-up endoscopy performed 40 days later revealed a normal-appearing gastrojejunostomy with no evidence of a stricture or marginal ulceration.
One patient required laparoscopic revision of her gastrojejunal anastomosis. Her initial postoperative course was complicated by anemia not requiring transfusion. She developed a stricture within 30 days; 2 attempts at endoscopic treatment failed. A laparoscopic stricturoplasty was performed over a bougie. The patient has had no problems since.
Of the procedures performed in 159 patients, 2 (1.3%) anastomotic leaks and 2 (1.3%) marginal ulcerations at the gastrojejunostomy occurred, and no mortalities. Each patient with an anastomotic leak required reoperation and intraabdominal drain placement at the gastrojejunostomy anastomosis. Each had an extended hospital course with uneventful discharges home. One patient, a 33-year-old female, presented with symptoms of pain, nausea, and vomiting 2 weeks postoperatively. She underwent 4 dilations, and retained suture material was noted in all of her endoscopies. She presented 6 months later with epigastric pain. An endoscopy revealed marginal ulceration at the gastrojejunal anastomosis, and she was started on proton pump inhibitors. Helicobacter pylori biopsies were negative. Almost 16 months postoperatively, she re-presented for an endoscopy that revealed additional marginal ulcerations. A second patient who required dilation of a gastrojejunal stricture at 6 weeks to 8 weeks postoperatively was diagnosed with a marginal ulcer on repeat endoscopy at 9 months.
DISCUSSION
Our 9.4% gastrojejunal stricture rate is consistent with what has been previously described in the surgical literature. Fortunately, this complication following laparoscopic RYGBP can be treated successfully in the majority of cases without reoperation via therapeutic endoscopic techniques. In our series, the majority of gastrojejunal anastomotic strictures were treated successfully by a gastroenterologist, with one endoscopic dilation treated by using a 15-mm CRE balloon.
Several studies have looked at anastomotic complications between 21-mm and 25-mm circular staplers and their successful endoscopic management. In a series of 438 laparoscopic RYGBP patients, Suggs et al 11 describe a 9.4% and 2.9% gastrojejunal anastomotic stricture rate using 21-mm and 25-mm circular staplers respectively. All strictures resolved with balloon dilation. Nguyen et al 5 describe data on 29 patients who developed an anastomotic stricture following RYGBP. Strictures occurred more frequently with the use of the 21-mm compared with the 25-mm circular stapler (26.8% vs. 8.8%, PϽ0.01). The majority of patients (82.8%, 24 of 29) were treated successfully with one endoscopic dilation, and the median time interval between gastric bypass and presentation of the stricture was 46 days. Gould et al 6 describe a stricture rate of 15.9% with a 21-mm gastrojejunostomy compared with 6.2% with a 25-mm circular stapled anastomosis (Pϭ0.03). The mean interval to therapeutic endoscopy was 7.5 weeks and 12.2 weeks, respectively. Despite the decreased frequency of stenotic complications seen with 25-mm circular staplers, there may be some disadvantages with its use. Positioning the 25-mm stapler through the anterior abdominal wall requires a larger skin and fascial incision and may result in more postoperative pain. Transoral placement of a 25-mm anvil may pose a higher risk of pharyngeal or esophageal injury, although safe transoral placement has been described. 12 Nguyen et al 13 describe a hypopharyngeal perforation after transoral passage of a 21-mm anvil. In addition, placing the 25-mm circular stapler into the end of the small intestine may be challenging, because the bowel diameter decreases the farther one gets for the ligament of Treitz.
Although several studies describe a lower stricture rate with no perforations or clinically significant bleeding, and 93% of the strictures were managed with 1 or 2 endoscopic sessions. Dilation to at least 15mm did |
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This little narrative is placed at the very beginning of the Alphabetical Collection of the Sayings of the Desert Fathers. The collection was compiled in its present form in the late sixth century, but it contains sayings dating back to the early fourth century. The Father of all monks, St. Antony the Great (c. 251‒356) is depicted here as receiving a divine inspiration about the value of work in the life of a monk. He is shown that, far from being an obstacle, or distraction, work must be regarded as an essential element in the quest for prayer without ceasing. Unlike the Angels, we human beings are not capable of maintaining an uninterrupted and undistracted focus of attention on the Lord. We need some alternating rhythm in our day. We need to use our bodies. We need to have something to do. Some simple manual work, ideally of the sort that occupies the hands but leaves the mind free, has a place in monastic life no less important than Psalmody or silence or fasting. Through it, and not in spite of it, the monk will live in accordance with God’s will. He will deepen his ceaseless recollection and interior peace. He will grow in humility, in purity of heart and in holiness.
The story about St. Antony and the Angel makes one small contribution to an extensive polemical literature from the early centuries of monasticism. Orthodox monks of both East and West felt the need to counter a doctrine, or a temptation, that would hold work in disdain. Among those associated with this idea was a sect labelled the Messalians, or Euchites. Its adherents held that work must be somehow unworthy of a perfect Christian, and especially of a perfect monk. The real ascetic, having become wholly spiritual, will have no time to waste on merely mundane pursuits. Being entirely taken up with prayer, and obedient to the Gospel command never to be anxious about food or drink or clothes (cf. Mt 6:25), such a one will enjoy uninterrupted gnosis of the Holy Trinity.
St. Basil the Great (c. 329‒379) was one of those who felt obliged to add his voice to this controversy. In his Longer Rules Number 37, he gives a full response to the question: “Is it necessary to work?” And: “Should we neglect work on a pretext of prayers and psalmody?” Basil begins his answer with the Dominical text: “The labourer is worthy of his food” (Mt 10:10). In his typical fashion, he then turns immediately outwards. We need to work, he says, in order to have the means to give to the poor. In support of this, Basil quotes more than once the text from Ephesians 4:28: “Let him labour at some honest work with his hands, so that he might have something to share with those in need.” The life of piety, Basil goes on to teach, cannot be an excuse for idleness. On the contrary, it has to be a relentless combat, a hard ascesis, a training for patience and tribulation. And this is good for us. Our body needs the physical exercise, and our soul needs the opportunity to grow in charity and concern for those in need. Whereas, by contrast, idleness is bad for us in every way. Basil deploys here a battery of scriptural texts in favour of this point, of which the strong words of St. Paul form the centre piece: “Whoever does not work, let him not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). As for the necessary alternation of work and prayer, Basil would agree with the Fathers of the Egyptian desert. Our work must be thought of as one ingredient in our life of prayer and union with God. Ideally, and if possible, prayer should continue even as we work. And if while we work we find ourselves unable actually to praise God with our tongues, then we should continue to do so at least in our hearts.
Drawing upon a very rich tradition of monastic literature, explicitly including the writings of St. Basil, and of the Egyptian desert Fathers, some time in sixth-century Italy St. Benedict wrote his Rule. The forty eighth chapter of the Rule is devoted to “The daily manual labour.” At least, that is the title of the chapter. Its real subject, though, is rather the desired balance in any monastic or Christian life between prayer and work: work that is truly a part and expression of our prayer; prayer that must be the chief work of the monk.
We find in St. Benedict’s Rule something of a tension between toil and rest. This tension is actually fundamental to the whole monastic life, and to the whole Christian life. Benedict speaks often in terms of urgency, even haste; certainly energy, purpose, determination in pursuing our heavenly goal. To his way of thinking, we don’t have much time in this life |
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Westminster develops vision for future of…
The Westminster Mall in Westminster, CA, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. Westminster officials are considering how to plan for future development at the Westminster Mall. The city is looking at the property as being key to help it meet state mandates for planning for more housing, but it need to change zoning for that property now to make that possible. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
City leaders are sketching out a future for the Westminster Mall property that would be very different from the department stores ringed by parking lots there since the 1970s.
Key to the future, leaders say, will be the introduction of housing where previously only retail was allowed.
It is not often these days in Orange County that 100 acres are primed for development at the same time, and the city’s planners say they are trying to create guidelines for doing it right and creating a place for the community to gather.
The last couple of years – slowed by the pandemic – have been spent developing a “specific plan” for the mall area. Specific plans are a tool cities use to establish rules and guidelines for everything from how tall buildings can be to how much park space has to be included, as well as how the land can be used and where traffic should be directed.
For the mall property development, the proposed specific plan recently received the support of the city’s planning commissioners, and the City Council is set to discuss it later this month.
With a specific plan in place to guide development, the four companies that own the properties making up the 100-acre mall area could make their proposals – and the plan should help keep them somewhat cohesive.
The Westminster Mall in Westminster on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. Westminster officials are considering how to plan for future development at the mall, and are looking at the property as being key to help it meet state mandates for planning for more housing, but need to change zoning for that property now to make that possible. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The city’s planning staff and consultants said they “really left no stone unturned” in getting public input and intake from the property owners – which consolidated from seven to four during the four-year effort – in developing the specific plan and doing the required studies of environmental impacts.
Public workshops were held, and people were asked about the proposals at the community’s fall festival and the weekly Night Market in Little Saigon, officials said. There was also a community survey issued.
Planners said they walked away with the message that the community had a vision of more mixed uses for the area, with things to experience such as a farmers market, food halls and a “main street” to stroll during the evenings.
Interest in more housing was split, they said, and there was a lot of concern about protecting the surrounding neighborhoods from pass-through traffic and other impacts, said Wendy Nowak with PlaceWorks, who is part of the project consultant team working with Westminster officials.
The proposed specific plan would allow up to 3,000 units to be developed, largely in multi-family complexes, and with the requirement that 10% of any home project be affordable housing.
Bolsa Avenue, along with the mall’s exit off the 405, would be the main gateways into this new community and would be heavier with retail and businesses; along Edwards Street would be more residential housing. Toward the property’s interior and closer to the freeway would be more retail, and the plan also envisions hotels, office buildings and 9.5 acres of parks as well as promenades and biking and walking paths.
The proposed specific plan minimized the amount of traffic that would be directed onto Bolsa or Edwards, Nowak said.
The proposal introduces housing, but it would still require 600,000 square feet of retail be created between the developments, about half the retail space existing now.
Property owners told the planning commissioners at their recent meeting they were concerned that could lead to retail space that was hard to fill or sustain, urging quality over quantity.
They also said they felt like their input hadn’t really been listened to. They raised concerns about some of the types of uses that weren’t included, such as distribution, and about where city planners saw most of that retail being funneled – arguing some property owners would be forced to carry too much of that burden.
“This is a specific plan, but a specific plan is amendable,” Planning Commission Chairman Don Anderson said. “As time goes by, if a developer came in and said, and could justify, that the specific plan is preventing them from putting in a terrific project, I feel confident that the staff would evaluate it.”
Steve Ratkay, Westminster’s planning manager, said officials felt the 600,000 square feet was an appropriate amount of retail to require and would maintain enough sales tax generation for the city, but also provide developers |
Home » Sustainable fashion » Cute Shoes Made from Recycled Plastic!
Okay first let me start off this post by saying MY HUSBAND TOOK THESE PHOTOS. I wouldn’t say he is at full Instagram Husband status yet but one in training? Maybe!
Last weekend we celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary at The Gasparilla in on Boca Grande and this outfit totally fit the bill. I mean is there anything better than wearing all white in the summer!?
No. There really isn’t.
The concept of up-cycling plastic into shoes is fairly new. I saw it first with Rothy’s a few years ago and I’ve been kind of obsessed ever since. Plastic is slowly killing our planet and I think one innovative solution to cleaning up the waste is reusing it to make shoes.
How can plastic be a fabric???
Today, there are basically two types of PET; bottle-grade PET and fiber-grade PET. When PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is used for bottles, containers and other applications, it is called PET or PET resin. When PET is used as a fiber, it is typically called polyester.
Polyester can be made using virgin plastic (PET) or recycled plastic (rPET).
Comparatively speaking, PET is exceptionally easy to recycle. Approximately 1.5 billion pounds of used PET bottles and containers are recovered in the U.S. each year for recycling, making it the most recycled plastic in America.
Okay, let’s break it down. There are two ways PET can be recycled: chemically or mechanically. Chemical recycling breaks down the plastic and reforms it to be just as strong as the original however it’s a more expensive process. Mechanical recycling uses heat and is cheaper but it degrades the plastic each time it is recycled due to the introduction of contaminants like coloring and PVC from labels, water, residue from consumer use like detergents, fuel, pesticides etc. O Ecotextiles breaks down the PET life cycle via mechanical recycling below which I thought was pretty interesting.
Which are appropriate to make into toys, carpet, filler for pillows, CD cases, plastic lumber products, fibers or a million other products.
The cycle is completed when the plastic is no longer stable enough to be used for any product, so it is sent to the landfill.
Or where it will hold space for many years…or become part of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The big picture argument here is using recycled plastic to make textiles, rugs, furniture and toys isn’t technically solving the plastic problem. These items will eventually end up in a landfill when the material is no longer needed or able to be recycled. This is especially true if companies are manufacturing using new or virgin PET to make textiles and the like.
The only real way to solve this problem is to reduce or dare I say, stop making single use plastic items. When push comes to shove, this is a material we can technically live without.
And not to veer too far off topic but these plastics are being eaten by fish who are being eaten by us which we now know for a fact after microplastics were discovered in human stool in late 2018.
Do we need a better long-term plan? Yes. Is recycling plastic bottles from our oceans to make shoes an innovative way to clean up the mess we have already made? I say yes.
The energy needed to make rPET is less than what is needed to make virgin polyester.
We are keeping bottles and other plastics out of landfills.
The process of making rPET fiber releases less CO2 emissions than making virgin polyester.
Making rPET uses more energy than using organically produced natural fibers.
rPET can be made from post consumer (bottles) or post industrial (unused packaging in a manufacturing plant).
Each time plastic is reheated, it degenerates and must be used to make a lower quality product.
Base colors of polyester chips vary which may require chlorine-based bleaches to whiten the product.
PVC and other contaminants may be introduced via unremoved bottle labels and wrappers.
And maybe the most concerning of all: antimony, which is present in 80 – 85% of all virgin PET, is converted to antimony trioxide at high temperatures – such as are necessary during recycling, releasing this possible carcinogen from the polymer and making it available for intake into living systems.
Alden Wicker of EcoCult – a blog all about sustainable fashion – shares her personal hierarchy of material in terms of sustainability here. You can see she ranks 100% recycled polyester (made from recycled PET bottles) at #3 – just below 100% natural fibers (#2) and 100% organic natural fibers (#1).
Alden also notes that buying 100% recycled polyester in stead of a blend is impactful because there are options to recycle pure polyester while blended fibers are either trashed or downcycled.
Is the material 100% rPET or a blend?
Is the material post consumer (recycling |
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Single photons are key ingredients in quantum optics experiments and in quantum communication protocols, such as quantum repeaters and quantum key distribution (QKD) \cite{Eisman_2011_review_single_photons}.
A prevalent method for generating single photons is spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in $\chi^{(2)}$ nonlinear crystals \cite{2019_cavity_SPDC_review}. However, the photons generated in SPDC are inherently broadband, and thus it is difficult to interface them with atomic ensembles, as required for many quantum communication and computation protocols. Narrowing the source bandwidth by placing the nonlinear crystals inside an optical cavity generally comes at the cost of a reduction in other performance parameters and in technical overhead \cite{Cavity_SPDC_Ou_1999,2007_photon_source_cavity_SPDC_Polzik,cavity_SPDC_Riedmatten_2016,2017_photon_source_cavity_SPDC_Chuu,2018_photon_source_cavity_SPDC_Chen,cavity_SPDC_Treutlein_2020,2020_photon_source_cavity_SPDC_Zhang, 2020_photon_source_cavity_SPDC_Walther, 2021_photon_source_cavity_SPDC_Guo_arxiv,2021_photon_source_cavity_SPDC_Shi}.
Another successful route for single-photon generation is utilizing single quantum emitters. A prime example is semiconductor quantum-dots in micro-cavities \cite{photon_source_QD_Senellart_2016,2016_Pan_QD,2021_Tomm_QD_cavity} able to generate photons with a bandwidth of several GHz, which could, in principle, couple to atomic ensembles. However, only limited success has been achieved to date in interfacing these photons with atomic ensembles \cite{QD_atoms_interface_Akopian_2011,2018_QD_interfacing_atomic_vapor_Michler}. Moreover, it is difficult to achieve indistinguishable photons from two distinct quantum dots, making these source's scaling-up challenging.
Another type of single emitters is single trapped atoms \cite{photon_source_atom_Kimble_2004, photon_source_atom_Rempe_2007} and ions \cite{2007_Monroe_single_ion_photon_source,photon_source_ion_Blatt_2016}, which generate single photons that are inherently compatible with atomic systems.
However, these systems require a relatively complex apparatus and their photon collection efficiency and generation rate are relatively low.
As an alternative to single emitters, correlated photon pairs can be generated using atomic ensembles \cite{photon_soure_DLCZ_cold_Kimble_2004,photon_soure_DLCZ_cold_Kuzmich_2005,photon_soure_DLCZ_cold_Vuletic_2006,photon_soure_DLCZ_cold_Granjier_2014,photon_soure_DLCZ_cold_Riedmatten_2016,photon_soure_DLCZ_hot_XianMinJin_2018,photon_source_CW_cold_Harris_2005,photon_source_CW_cold_Srivathsan_2013,photon_source_CW_cold_Kurtriefer_2014,photon_source_CW_cold_Zhang_2016,photon_source_CW_hot_Guo_2012,2015_source_vapor_w_solid_state_Guo,photon_source_CW_hot_Du_2016,photon_source_CW_hot_Du_2017,photon_source_CW_hot_SebMoon_2016,2017_HOM_interference_two_sources_Seb_Moon,2018_source_CW_hot_atoms_Franson_interference_Seb_Moon,2019_source_CW_hot_atoms_Sagnac_Seb_Moon,2020_Slodicka_biphoton_source_hot_vapor,2021_photon_source_hot_vapor_Yu}. In the Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller protocol \cite{2001_DLCZ_paper}, the photons generation is done with a write-read pulse sequence: the first photon heralds the existence of a spin-wave in the atomic ensemble, which is later converted into a second photon. Alternatively, photon pairs can be generated in continuous operation by a four-wave mixing (FWM) process, where detecting one photon heralds the existence of the other.
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PGIMER Chandigarh has a wide array of faculty comprising 296 assistant professors, 78 associate professors and 207 professors. Out of the total faculty members, 67 members are PhD holders in relevant fields. The remaining faculty is highly qualified and has expertise in respective courses and fields. The director of PGIMER Chandigarh, Mr. Jagat ram is an MBBS graduate from Himachal Pradesh.
Established in 1962, the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) is an 'Institute of National Importance'. PGIMER Chandigarh provides educational, medical research, and training facilities for its students, including all specialties, super specialties and subspecialties. It is ranked 2 among Medical colleges in India in 2021 by the NIRF three times in a row. PGIMER Chandigarh is approved by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Indian Nursing Council (INC). The institution houses a tertiary care hospital in the region and caters to patients from all over Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana.
Library: PGIMER Chandigarh has a spacious well-constructed library named ‘Dr. Tulsi Das Library’. The library is open for students and faculty round the clock even on weekends. The library has a collection of over 45,000 books, 57,000+ journals, videocassettes, and CDs.
Sports Complex: PGIMER Chandigarh offers good sports facilities for several games, including Cricket, Football, Basketball, Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, among others. The institution also houses a new water sports complex that has an eight-lane swimming pool, a health club, and a cafeteria.
Hostels: The institution has five hostels named Married Doctors Hostel, Old Doctors Hostel, Kairon Doctor Hostel, New Doctors Hostel, and Sanjeevani Hostel. The hostels provide accommodation to over 800 students, staff, and faculty members.
Q. How many seats does PGIMER Chandigarh offer?
A. PGIMER Chandigarh's seat intake depends on the course one chooses. For BSc, the seat intake is 257, for MD/MS it is 657. For the complete list of courses and respective seat intake, candidates can to visit the official website of the institute (www.pgimer.edu.in).
Q. What are the courses offered by PGIMER Chandigarh?
A. PGIMER Chandigarh offers Medical, Nursing, and Paramedical courses at the PG level. Since it is a post-graduate institute, it does not have facilities for undergraduate MBBS courses. PGIMER Chandigarh courses include BSc, MSc, MHA, MPH, DM, MS, MD, MDS, etc.
Q. What are the rankings received by PGIMER Chandigarh?
A. PGIMER Chandigarh has been ranked 2 in the category of 'Top Medical colleges in India' in 2021 by the NIRF three times in a row.
Q. Is PGIMER Chandigarh admission 2022 open?
A. Since admission to most of the PGIMER Chandigarh courses, including MD/ MS/ MCh/ DM and MDS are conducted via INI CET, the January admission session is closed for this year (2022). However, the applications for the INI CET July session are expected to open soon.
Q. How can I apply for PGIMER Chandigarh admission?
A. All the applicants who wish to apply to any of the courses offered by PGIMER Chandigarh can register online for INICET on the official website of AIIMS and pay the application fee.
Q. What is the application fee for PGIMER Chandigarh admission?
A. Since admission to most of the PGIMER Chandigarh courses, including MD/ MS/ MCh/ DM and MDS are conducted via INI CET, the INICET application fee for all the courses under the General category is INR 2,000 (INR 1,500 for SC/ ST candidates; PwD candidates are exempted from application fee).
Q. How good is PGIMER Chandigarh's infrastructure?
A. Spread across 277 acre of land, PGIMER Chandigarh provides state-of-the-art infrastructure to the students. The Medical institute comprises all the basic as well as modern amenities including labs, seminar rooms, hostels, mess, cafeteria, sports complex, convenience store, etc.
Q. What is the faculty strength of PGIMER Chandigarh?
A. PGIMER Chandigarh has a wide array of faculty comprising 296 assistant professors, 78 associate professors, and 207 professors. Out of the total faculty members, 67 members are |
Most interestingly, Kuo's report says that the new watches will each have a 15 percent larger display, as well as larger battery capacity. Currently, Apple Watch comes in 38-millimeter and 42-millimeter display sizes, but there is still a fair amount of bezel space around the displays.
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The hospital system's chief executive said that they failed the clinic's patients and apologized. Zenty said the system had three immediate priorities after learning of the incident: to preserve and protect the eggs and embryos, to support patients and to identify the root causes of the situation.
The recall involves the " Milo's Kitchen Steak Grillers / Steak Grillers Recipe with Angus Steak" and 'Milo's Kitchen Grilled Burger Bites with Sweet Potato and Bacon '. The FDA says the symptoms can go away on their own when dogs stop eating the treats. That could cause dogs to experience severe illness if the treats are consumed over a long period of time.
So in the past, scientists would have seen these channels camouflaged as hard, dense tissue. But this fixing process drains away fluid and causes the newfound fluid-filled spaces to collapse. But recently, researchers led by Neil Theise at New York University in the USA began using probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy, which aims laser light at living tissue and detects reflected fluorescent patterns, providing a different sort of microscopic image.
Sproles wants to return, Eagles want him back … so?
There is no gaurantee, at least yet, that the team will be able to nab a player like Penn State's Mike Gesicki . During his four years in Philadelphia, Sproles has averaged 4.6 yards per rushing attempt and has caught 154 passes. The Eagles have a spot open in their running back room to play alongside Corey Clement , and Jay Ajayi and it seems as though they are quite eager for him to suit up in green again.
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Adam would probably go with Justin as the victor, but he confessed "no one sings like Molly". Blake would pick Molly. Kelly picks as the victor - Justin.
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If I buy the Hakone Free Pass and the JR Rail Pass, that should help me some right?
So, you could reserve all of your seats with one stop at a JR ticket office.
Others have learned to wait at traffic crossing signals. ICOCA can also be used to pay bus fares at Nara.
If you enjoy cycling, I strongly recommend renting a bicycle to explore the city.
You can drive away and nara train to tokyo station but if you bring good stuff for within your passport and.
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Strutted back straight with an error, please refrain from kyoto to schedule but hard to hamamatsucho station to nara is?
Taisha a truly magical experience that cannot be missed on a Nara day trip.
It may lack the grandeur of the Great Buddha Hall, but it has many intriguing elements and beautiful masterpieces.
Joaquín is conveniently located than kyoto train service from locals about the hanwa line also reported that.
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One of the best things to do in Kyoto is attend a tea ceremony. My guide explains how to how to get to Nara easily.
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Narayama Station, at which the rapid train on the Yamatoji Line stops.
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It should go without saying, but under no circumstances should you feed the deer anything but the special biscuits.
Nara, Joyo, or Uji.
Is this possible or are the trains just regular local trains? Shinkansen is the high speed train service in Japan.
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He is a graduate of Brown University and an MA in Fine Arts in 1993 from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program at Tisch School of the Arts. Ben’s debut in the acting scene began with a small role in the 1994 film Quiz and a guest starring role in Law & Order, his first of seven appearances on the show.
He also began work in the theater, playing Louis Ironson in Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. While still in college, Shenkman played the role of Roy Cohn in an opera production workshop. Additionally, he would reprise the role of Louis seven years after playing the role in ACT in the adaptation of the HBO miniseries.
The role earned him an Emmy and Golden Globe nomination. Shenkman combined work in off-Broadway productions in New York with small roles in films such as Eraser (nineteen hundred and ninety-six), Siege (1998), Pi (1998) and Son of Jesus (1999), Chasing Sleep (2000) ) and Requiem for a Dream (2000).
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\, \gamma_3=\sqrt{\frac{\mathfrak{C}+\alpha_1\alpha_2}{\mathfrak{C}(\alpha_3-\alpha_1)(\alpha_3-\alpha_2)}}}\,.$
\end{thm}
\begin{proof} It suffices to check that
\begin{equation} \Psi=(e^{i\,\,\theta}\psi,e^{-u}\psi_x,e^{-u}\psi_y,e^{-u}\psi_z)^{t} \in \mbox{SU}(4).\nonumber\end{equation}
By using \eqref{MZ3.30}, we have
\begin{equation} \alpha_1+\alpha_2+\alpha_3=-a,~~ \alpha_1\alpha_2+
\alpha_1\alpha_3+\alpha_2\alpha_3=-\mathfrak{B},~~
\alpha_1\alpha_2\alpha_3=-\mathfrak{C}. \label{Pf1} \end{equation}
It follows from \eqref{Pf1} and the explicit forms of $\gamma_j$ that
\begin{eqnarray} & \displaystyle\sum_{j=1}^3\gamma_j^2=\gamma_4^2, &\quad \sum_{j=1}^3\gamma_j^2\alpha_j=0,\quad
\displaystyle\sum_{j=1}^3\gamma_j^2\alpha_j^2=1 ,\nonumber \\
& \displaystyle\sum_{j=1}^3\gamma_j^2\alpha_j\beta_j=0, &
\quad \displaystyle\sum_{j=1}^3\gamma_j^2\beta_j=0, \quad\sum_{j=1}^3\gamma_j^2\beta_j^2=1.\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
These identities yield that
\begin{eqnarray}
&& \langle \psi,\psi\rangle=1, \langle \psi_x,\psi_x\rangle=\langle \psi_y,\psi_y\rangle=e^{2u},\nonumber\\
&& \langle \psi,\psi_x\rangle=\langle \psi,\psi_y\rangle=\langle \psi,\psi_z\rangle=0,\nonumber\\
&& \langle \psi_x,\psi_y\rangle= \langle \psi_y,\psi_z\rangle=\langle \psi_z,\psi_x\rangle=0, \nonumber\\
&& \langle \psi_z,\psi_z\rangle = P'(z)\overline{P'(z)}\sum_{j=1}^3\gamma_j^2 +
\gamma_4^2 Q'(z)\overline{Q'(z)} \nonumber\\
&&\qquad =\gamma_4^2 [e^{2u}(u'2+c_3^2e^{-6u})+\frac{e^{4u}(u'2+c_3^2e^{-6u})}{\mathfrak{C}-e^{2u}}]\nonumber\\
&&\qquad =e^{2u}. \qquad \mbox{by using \eqref{MZ3.3}} \nonumber\end{eqnarray}
That is to say, $\Psi \in \mbox{SU}(4)$. Thus we complete the proof of the theorem.\end{proof}
We finish this section to discuss how to obtain conformally flat H-minimal
Lagrangian tori in $\mathbb{CP}^3$.
Notice that in \eqref{MZ3.3} if we make the following change
\begin{equation} u=u(z):=-\log(2\sqrt{-q(z)}\,),\label{MZ3.2}\end{equation}
then we have
\begin{equation} q'(z)^2=256c_3^2q(z)^5+4\mathfrak{C}q(z)^2+q(z).\label{MZ4.1}\end{equation}
Thus if we choose three real constants $c_1$, $c_2$ and $c_3$
such that the equation $$256c_3^2t^5+4\mathfrak{C}t^2+t=0$$
has two negative roots and does not have multiple roots,
then this assures that \eqref{MZ4.1} has a smooth periodic solution of the period $\tau$,
see \cite{NO} for details. It follows from \eqref{MZ3.2} that |
Problem: What key details about joseph-octave villeneuve can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: joseph-octave villeneuve -lrb- 4 march 1836 -- 27 june 1901 -rrb- was a canadian businessman , provincial politician , and senator . entering business in montreal , villeneuve founded a firm of wholesale grocers and spirits merchants . as a businessman and local politician he acquired large commercial interests in canada . he was mayor of saint-jean-baptiste from 1866 to 1886 and warden of hochelaga county from 1866 to 1880 . from 1894 to 1896 , he was the mayor of montreal . he was the legislative assembly of quebec member for hochelaga from 1886 to 1888 and from 1890 to 1896 . in 1896 , he was appointed to the canadian senate representing the senatorial division of de salaberry , quebec . a conservative , he served until his death in 1901 .
A: - profession is businessman- death place is montreal , quebec , canada- order is 23rd- successor is richard wilson-smith frédéric liguori béique charles champagne daniel-jérémie décarie- death date is 27 june 1901- predecessor is alphonse charles champagne desjardins -lrb- politician -rrb- joseph tassé louis beaubien- office is mayor member of the legislative assembly of quebec for hochelaga of montreal senator for de salaberry , quebec- term end is 1896 1901 1887 1896- term start is 1894 1896 1886 1890- appointed is mackenzie bowell- name is joseph-octave villeneuve- birth date is 04 march 1836- image is joseph-octave villeneuve.png- birth place is sainte-anne-des-plaines , lower canada
Problem: What key details about lionel lord can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: lionel godfried lord -lrb- born november 3 , 1980 in middelburg -rrb- is a dutch of suriname descent football striker who last played for eendracht aalst in belgium .
A: - clubs is sc oostende eendracht aalst cambuur-leeuwarden fc dordrecht sportfreunde siegen fortuna sittard kv- position is forward- currentclub is free agent- years is 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2008 2008-2010- birth date is 03 november 1980- fullname is lionel godfried lord- name is lionel lord- birth place is middelburg , netherlands
Problem: What key details about tavon austin can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: tavon wesley austin -lrb- born march 15 , 1991 -rrb- is an american football wide receiver and return specialist for the st. louis rams of the national football league -lrb- nfl -rrb- . he was widely considered one of the top prospects at his position , and was drafted by the rams eighth overall in the 2013 nfl draft . he played college football at west virginia and received all-american honors twice .
A: - highschool is baltimore -lrb- md -rrb- dunbar- number is 11- height in is 9- debutteam is st. louis rams- statseason is 2014- draftpick is 8- birth date is 15 march 1991- debutyear is 2013- statlabel is receptions yards total tds receiving yards rushing attempts rushing yards total return- statvalue is 71 660 45 375 1,088 9- caption is austin in rams training camp- college is west virginia- name is tavon austin- currentteam is st. louis rams- birth place is baltimore , maryland- draftyear is 2013- weight lbs is 174- position is wide receiver / return specialist- statweek |
Fig. 4). The frequency of clamp cell formation in monokaryotic strain 50005-4 and 50005-18 were higher among all monokaryotic strains (Table 4). However, the dikaryon (50005-7 × 50005-18) showed much higher HD2 expression and frequency of clamp cell formation than the monokaryons (Fig. 4). Thus, significant correlation between expression of the Mahd2 and frequency of clamp cell formation in monokaryons and dikaryon was observed. However, differences of HD2 expression and frequency of clamp cell forma-tion among all monokaryotic strains were few. The formation of clamp cell is a local event in the mycelium colony, and the frequency of clamp cell formation among all monokaryotic is very lower than that of clamp cell in dikaryon (50005-7 × 50005-18). However, total RNA must be prepared from the whole colony. Extraction of total RNA from only clamp cell is technically impossible, and then most of the total RNA was extracted from cells that did not form clamp cells. Therefore, there is no significant correlation between expression of the Mahd2 and the frequency of clamp cell formation among all monokaryons.
Discussion
Based on the results of the mating type test, which employed molecular approach, we propose that M. aitchisonii has a bipolar mating system, as only two mating types segregate in meiosis. Moreover, recombination mating type strains might not be generated after meiosis, indicating that there may only be a single mating type locus in M. aitchisonii. It is suggested to be easier to score the mating type using a round of PCR amplification of mating type genes prior to test mating (Kothe, 2001). For such breeding programs, it will be important to determine compatible mating types; hence, expanding our knowledge of mating-type genes can facilitate such efforts. In particular, for the introduction of recessive markers, inbred strains are a necessity In the present study, the gene encoding HD1 in 50005-18 strain was absent upstream of the HD2 protein gene. This finding highlights a significant difference in the structure of the A-mating type locus from other mushrooms. Analysis of A mating type proteins in Coprinopsis cinerea by Asante-Owusu et al. (1996) suggested the presence of HD1 and HD2 heterodimers. HD2 contributes an essential DNA binding domain, and HD1 provides a transcriptional activation domain. HD1 proteins contribute a potential activation domain present in an essential C-terminal sequence, which has been shown to activate transcription of a reporter gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This indicates that the HD2 protein should play an important role during clamp cell formation. HD1 can be deleted from Coprinopsis cinerea without impairing function (Asante-Owusu, Banham, Böhnert, Mellor, & Casselton, 1996). Moreover, heterodimerization of a pair of compatible homeodomain 1 (HD1) and 2 (HD2) proteins were required for nuclear localization including penetration of nuclear membrane (Spit, Hyland, Mellor, & Casselton, 1998). However, in M. aitchisonii, monokaryon can produce true clamp. Even though HD1 was absent in A-mating type locus of 50005-18, the strain was able to produce clamp cells. Therefore, HD2 might be formed as a homodimer to penetrate the nuclear membrane.
The homeodomain found in many proteins regulate gene expression (Gehring, 1987). RT-PCR analysis revealed that HD2 in the dikaryon strain was preferentially expressed (10-fold increase) compared to monokaryon strains. This phenomenon relates to our previous study (Riffiani et al., 2019b), in which the frequency of clamp formation in dikaryons was proposed to be greater than 50%. The difference of expression level among monokaryons might not be significant, because the expression level of hd2 gene is significantly lower than dikaryon (Fig. 4.). In previous our study, frequency of clamp cell formation was strongly affected by expression revel of homeodomain protein gene in bipolar mushroom (Yi et al., 2010). Therefore, if expression level of hd2 gene will increase, pseudoclamp might maturate to true clamp. From this hypothesis, the pseudoclamp is a step before producing true clamp, and I think it is meaningless to distinguish this difference between pseudoclamp and true clamp. The most important finding in this paper are, (1) monokaryon can produce true clamp, |
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and of PN) remains an open question. Here we have taken a first step toward its solution by proposing a covariant model (eq.\ \eqref{eq:SextPN}). With this covariantization in mind, one can find a null eigenvector (given in \eqref{eq:full EPN NEV}) for the full Hessian of the first family of operators (namely $\mathcal{L}_1(\mathcal{X})$) proving that it enjoys a constraint at all orders. For the other family of operators (namely $\mathcal{L}_{n\ge 2}(\mathcal{X})$), we showed that the same ansatz for the null eigenvector correctly annihilates the Hessian matrix at leading order in an expansion in the strong coupling scale $\Lambda$ but the process fails when pushing it to higher order. The result is nevertheless non-trivial and provides a hint that a full covariantization is in principle feasible. We note also that the failure of the constraint only occurs from mixing with the gravitational degrees of freedom and is thus Planck scale-suppressed. Moreover, we show that our proposed eigenvector remains a null one for the Hessian of the full theory (including the gravitational degrees of freedom), on any background where the tensor $\nabla_\mu A_\nu$ is symmetric. This directly implies the presence of a constraint that would remove the unwanted ghostly additional degree of freedom at linear order in perturbations about any such backgrounds, including on FLRW.
These results for the covariant EPN theory are by themselves sufficient to motivate the study of the predictions of the model in the context of cosmology. This is so because the theory describes the correct number of degrees of freedom at the level of cosmological backgrounds, defined by eqs.\ \eqref{eq:lineFLRW2} and \eqref{eq:vector bkgd2}, as well as at the level of linear perturbations about these solutions. In addition to establishing this result, in Sec.\ \ref{sec:fulltheory} we also derived the dispersion relations for the propagating variables in the presence of perfect fluid matter. Interestingly, EPN has some qualitative differences relative to GP in the dynamics of perturbations. Two particular results to highlight are that the Proca vector mode exhibits a non-linear dispersion relation (cf.\ eq.\ \eqref{eq:gen model vec disp rel}) and that the sound speed of the longitudinal matter perturbation (the phonon) is modified in the EPN set-up relative to its GR value (cf.\ eq.\ \eqref{eq:gen model phonon speed}). We also found that the kinetic coefficient of the phonon differs in EPN from its GR and GP values, an effect which may in principle percolate to higher-point interactions and hence be potentially observable. While we did not explore explicit solutions in this general model, we remark again that EPN contains GP as a particular case, in which set-up consistent cosmological solutions do exist. It would be interesting to perform a dedicated study of solutions and comparison with data within the complete theory.
In addition to investigating the possibility of covariantizing the full EPN theory, we have also considered the option that a subclass of the theory may admit a simpler covariantization, even if only a partial one in the sense we have described. Our so-called special model of Sec.\ \ref{sec:SpecEx} shows that this is the case, providing a particularly neat set-up with few unspecified functions and which has the virtue that the Proca field interacts with gravity only through minimal coupling terms. To our knowledge, this is the first instance of a generalized Einstein-Proca theory (i.e.\ models with non-trivial derivative self-interactions beyond those given by contractions of the Maxwell field strength and/or the undifferentiated field) with this property. As with the general model, the caveat is that the covariantization scheme is only a partial one, but it is again sufficient for cosmological applications as long as one is interested in linear perturbations about homogeneous and isotropic backgrounds. Our results of Sec.\ \ref{sec:SpecEx} show that the special model indeed describes the expected dynamical degrees of freedom. Moreover, we have shown that explicit solutions exist such that all the dynamical variables are ghost-free, gradient-stable and subluminal. We believe that these results motivate further scrutiny of the set-up.
\section*{Acknowledgements}
The work of CdR is supported by STFC grants ST/P000762/1 and ST/T000791/1. CdR thanks the Royal Society for support at ICL through a Wolfson Research Merit Award. SGS and CdR's work at ICL were supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research Council grant 724659 MassiveCosmo ERC--2016--COG, and |
Special Appellate Tribunal (SAT) against the impugned order and got it stayed. The trading on stock exchanges resumed from August 14, 2017 post the stay on order. KIL is furnishing all clarifications being sought by SEBI in this matter. Any negative verdict of investigation by SEBI in the above order against KIL will be a key monitorable.
Get into the details of the negatives highlighted above.
Hopefully I should be able to have all this up over the next 1/2 weeks.
Disclosure: Took a very small tracking position, mainly to motivate myself to do the research. Hope to get differing opinions and insights. Not a SEBI Registered adviser. Do your own due diligence. It is likely that I may close out my position once I am done with the research and end up with any negative conclusions.
Most of the Information is sourced from the DRHP of Shakun Polymers which had files papers for the IPO on May 2018.
Around 30-35% of cable compounding is done in-house by cable manufacturers such as Polycab, Finolex, Havells, and RR Kabel. In-house compounding is higher for PVC compounds.
While specialized PVC compounds are outsourced to merchant compounders (independent polymer compounders), about 40-45% PVC compounds’ demand is for recycled compounds mostly used by unorganised players within building wires segment.
Large cable manufacturers have recently started in-house compounding of XLPE, although ~70% of demand is still met by merchant compounders.
Kkalpana Industries, KLJ Polymers and Chemicals, and BLS Polymers are the top organised merchant compounders for PVC, XLPE, and PE compounds.
HFFR compounding market in India is catered by major players like Shakun Polymers, AEI polymers, Solvay. Shakun polymers is the leading manufacturer of HFFR compounds in India.
The PVC compounding industry that comprises of large number of small players are focused on recycled as well as low value-added compounds, besides also focusing on the specialised PVC compound grades.
India is also dependent on imports of specialised compounds such as high voltage XLPE and HFFR grades.
Overall, the cable polymer market is dominated by domestic merchant compounders. Foreign players such as SACO AEI Polymers, Solvay, Dow, and Lubrizol are focused on specialty grades that cater to domestic markets through imports.
As can be seen above, there is overall addition and removal of debts at an order of magnitude difference to the eventual net debt levels.
Is this a major red flag? or can we ignore it?
Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI) at Vapi arrested senior president of a plastic manufacturing unit for allegedly evading excise duty to the tune ofTax evasion: Rs 5 crore on Thursday.
An official statement by DGCEI stated that Rajesh Kumar Kothari, president of Kolkata headquartered Kalpena Industries Limited, was arrested for alleged duty evasion and was presented before a local court on Friday.
Official sources said Kalpena Industries, manufacturers of PVC compounds of various grades, has its manufacturing units in Silvassa and Daman. The company was found allegedly engaged in clandestine removal of excisable goods either through bogus bills or without billing.
Apart from the above if any folks from Kolkata could provide any info about the reputation of the management?
So far, the signals are mixed.
Growth in Sales and Receivables in tandem.
Last 3 years numbers are inconsistent.
Highlighted cells for Installed Capacity are not actual but carry forwarded from previous years.
Decent RoIC with high capital turnover indicating company’s focus on production advantage rather than pricing power with customers.
FY18 Payables includes a significant portion of Acceptances.
Leaving aside FY18, there is still a trend of better Working Capital Management.
Comparing the CAGR of Working Capital with Net Block, indicates to me that company is capex intensive while working capital efficient.
Clear demarcation of change in business fortunes around FY15.
Better PAT to FCF conversion post FY15 and dovetails with the snapshot from my first post.
Leaving aside that there is another discrepancy which indicates that the anomaly detected in the Indebtedness statements persists.
Increase in Finance Costs while Reduction in both Long Term and Short Term borrowings.
However, Working Capital numbers are improved.
So, boiling down to the million dollar question: Do I invest or skip it?
Mgmt does not seem to be top notch with mixed signals.
Business is a processor type and does not stand out in terms of its quality or any specific competitive advantage.
It does seem to be working capital efficient in a capex intensive industry and also being the largest player in it, may have some scale benefits.
Improvement in debt to equity ratios could lead to increase in PAT assuming there are no strange increases in Finance costs as captured above.
Conviction |
_{expr}}\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$ and
$\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}\ensuremath{\leq_{expr}}\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$, then $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$ and $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$ are \emph{equally expressive}.
\item If $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$ and $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$ are equally expressive, then $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$ is \emph{exponentially more succinct} than $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$, if there is a sequence $(\varphi_i)_{i\in\mathbb N}$ of $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$-formulas such that $\card{\varphi_i}$ is linear in $i$, and there is some $c>1$ such that for each $i$, each $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$-formula equivalent to $\varphi_i$ has size at least $c^i$.
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\end{definition}
Clearly, $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}\not\ensuremath{\leq_{expr}}\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$ does not imply that $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$ is more expressive than $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$, since $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}\not\ensuremath{\leq_{expr}}\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$ can hold simultaneously. If $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$ is exponentially more succinct than $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$, then an exponential blow-up in the translation from $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$ to $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$ cannot always be avoided, on the other hand, if $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}\ensuremath{\leq_{poly}}\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$, then every $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_1}$-formula can be \emph{succinctly} rewritten into a $\lmplus{\ensuremath{\mathcal O}_2}$-formula.
One needs to be careful when proving succinctness result via a complexity argument: Unless $\complexityclassname{PSPACE}=\complexityclassname{P}$, there is no polynomial-time algorithm converting every closed QBF-formula into a constant formula. However, since each closed QBF-formula is equivalent to either \emph{true} or \emph{false}, the class of closed QBF-formulas is certainly not more succinct than the class of constant formulas. We do not discuss these issues further, since in this paper we will always have that if we compare $\mathcal L_1$ and $\mathcal L_2$ that are equally expressive, then either $\mathcal L_1\ensuremath{\leq_{poly}}\mathcal L_2$ and the translation can be computed by a polynomial-time algorithm, or $\mathcal L_1$ is exponentially more succinct than $\mathcal L_2$ in the above, strict sense.
\section{Main Results}\label{section:main results}
We prove that the expressiveness- and succinctness relationships between modal logics can be as complex as any partial order. We show versions of this result in two settings:
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\item For logics defined by successor selection functions $\ensuremath{O}$ such that whether $w'\in\ensuremath{O}(M,w)$ only depends on whether $(w,w')\in R_i$ for each accessibility relation $R_i$,
\item for logics defined by successor selection functions considering paths of arbitrary (finite) length in the model.
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A simple counting argument shows that in the first setting, there is only a finite number of different modal operators, hence for these operators we show that the relationships can be as complex as any finite partial order. In the second setting, we then obtain relationships as complex as any countable partial order.
\subsection{Single Step Operators}\label{sect:single step operators}
In order to prove that the relationships between different modal logics can be arbitrarily complex, we first define a large class of modal logics. All of our logics will be extensions of the classical multi-modal logic $\mathsf{ML}_n$. As a starting point, consider the following |
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When it comes to GMO foods, perhaps consumer resistance is less about the technology itself and more about wanting to know when it's been used.
But a new study out on Wednesday from The University of Vermont has found that GMO disclosure labels might not scare consumers as much as was originally feared. In fact, the labels might actually improve their attitudes.
Before we get to those findings, however, let’s look into the origins of this fierce debate over labeling on foods that scientists have mostly agreed is safe to eat.
While concerns about the proliferation of GMO technology range from environmental impact to health issues, research has shown that the general public’s understanding can be quite limited. But whether or not the average eater has a firm enough grasp on the science to make an educated argument in favor of or against GMOs, plenty of people are concerned about the corporate ethics and transparency that surround them. When a GMO labeling law was first introduced in California in 2012, a group of multinational food companies, from Monsanto to Pepsi, spent millions to crush it. That locked consumer advocates and corporations in an us-versus-them battle, with each side sticking to a party line. On one side: We have the right to know. On the other: You have a right to know if there’s a safety issue, and there isn’t.
Now, about those findings. Jane Kolodinsky, an applied economist at the University of Vermont and one of the study’s lead authors, is the first to probe whether consumer perceptions have changed since Vermont’s label mandate became official. She analyzed the responses of consumers who were asked to rank their attitudes about the use of GMOs in food on a scale of one (“strongly support”) to five (“strongly oppose”) between 2014 and 2017. She then compared those results to a national consumer survey, led by Purdue University economist Jayson Lusk, that asked similar questions. All told, 7,800 people were surveyed.
In Vermont, Kolodinsky found, opposition to GMO food fell significantly after the labeling law went into effect—by 19 percent. In the rest of the country, where the federal labeling law was not yet in effect, opposition continued to rise.
GMO labels are similar to mandatory of labeling of foods that were previously frozen, made from concentrate, or pasteurized.
“Mandatory labels providing simple disclosures lead to reductions in opposition,” the study authors write, and are “not likely to signal to consumers that GE [genetic engineered] foods are more risky, unsafe, or otherwise harmful than prior to label exposure, and might, in fact, do the opposite.” In short, where there was real-world exposure to GMO labels, attitudes shifted.
It’s important to note that labels don’t attempt to explain the science behind GMO ingredients. In Vermont, the labels merely alerted consumers to their presence.
In that way, GMO disclosure labels are similar to the mandatory labels that appear on foods that were previously frozen, made from concentrate, pasteurized, or irradiated. In the case of irradiation, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated labeling in the 1980s, it was not because the process was unsafe, but because consumers demanded it, an advocate told The Atlantic.
Kolodinsky has studied attitudes toward GMO foods since 2003. She told The New Food Economy that consumers already have their minds made up when it comes to how they feel about the technology.
When shoppers go to grocery stores, she says, those opinions don’t change. But labels help them implement choices motivated by those opinions.
Consumers began to feel like companies using GMOs weren’t hiding anything.
Though this most recent study didn’t take motives into account—it merely compared attitudes among Vermonters before and after the law went into effect—Kolodinsky has ideas about why GMO opposition might have softened. And it comes down to trustworthiness.
“Did it increase people’s confidence in the foods, because, ‘why would the government label something that was unsafe?’ Did it make people feel better because, ‘oh, now I have the ability to make a choice that maximizes my satisfaction?’” she asked.
The answer is likely somewhere in between. But the study results may provide some indication that consumer opposition to GMO foods has less to do with the technology itself, and more to do with our desire to know when it’s been used.
Federal legislation, meanwhile, which superseded and ended the Vermont labeling law, is finally moving forward, as the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) finalizes a labeling scheme for these foods. As Patrick Clinton wrote last month, instead of deciding to label foods “genetically modified,” or “containing genetically modified organisms,” or “genetically engineered,” as Vermont did, USDA is opting for the newer—and narrower term—”bioengineered” (BE).
Why that term? Perhaps because GMO was the kiss of death for some consumers. But the findings in this study undermine that assumption. Maybe companies like General |
New comprehensive surgical curriculum of pre-graduate surgical education
Introduction Surgical education has become one of the most important directions in modern surgery evolution. To meet growing need for appropriate training in laparoscopic and, even more importantly, classic surgical skills, a curriculum involving contemporary tuition methods is needed. Advanced, structuralised training, which includes advanced technologies like virtual reality training, video coaching and motivative aspects of competition, seems to be important for an adequate education programme. Material and methods In academic years 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 the Department of General, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery of the Medical University of Gdansk together with the Pomeranian Foundation for Progress in Surgery organized 4480 h of training in that area of classic (2744) and laparoscopic (1736) skills. Both groups were involved in the programme of training in which the two most important aspects were reliable evaluation of the results and effective motivation to work. Skill evaluation at different stages of the programme were based on completion time and quality measurements. Apart from that, at the end of the course, the participants completed a questionnaire on their subjective perspective on this innovative curriculum, the quality and stability of the skills they obtained. Results In both arms of the programme (laparoscopic and classic) a statistically significant improvement was obtained as early as after the second and third sessions in half of the exercises. The acquired skills were stable over time, as proved by the plateau of completion time achieved in 11 out of 12 exercises. The results of the post-training questionnaire revealed that the participants were very satisfied with the structuralised form of training and appreciated the motivational role of competition. Conclusions Contemporary surgical training should be organized as a systematic, well-evaluated and goal-oriented programme similar to the one proposed by our team. The use of contemporary training aids should be utilized in training of every surgical skill, not only laparoscopy. This form of training, associated with the component of competition, enables good and stable results to be achieved, as well as high satisfaction of trainees.
Introduction
The current model of surgical education in Poland does not contain precise recommendations about the role of manual training in the laboratory, which is becoming increasingly popular in the USA (FLS programme) [1][2][3][4][5][6] and in Western Europe (LLS) [7], espe-cially regarding laparoscopic training. In January 2011 the European Consensus on learning basic laparoscopic skills with virtual trainers was published [8]. That Consensus outlines the training requirements resulting from the reflections of 7 leading centres in Europe, but refers to the methodology of teaching (virtual training), which firstly is virtually unavailable in Poland, and secondly, by many authors is considered to be insufficiently technically refined. Furthermore, these programmes rarely exist at the level of pre-diploma education. Both in Poland and abroad, there are no structured courses for students, either in terms of manual laparoscopic training, or in much more necessary and reasonable basic manual skills training in classical surgery. In Poland, the first contact with laparoscopy for the young resident or houseman is usually just in the operating room. The use of laboratory training enables simplification of the learning curve, and thus increases task orientation, effectiveness and efficiency of the young surgery adept and the safety of operation as a consequence. Of course, surgery is more than just manual skills. To carry out a safe operation, one requires substantive knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology and knowledge of the surgical technique, but these have a strong position in the pre-and postgraduate training. Enabling a young adept laboratory training of basic manual skills produces a reflex action. The acquired skills and movement patterns do not require later excessive concentration of the adept, which enables a greater focus on other aspects of safe operation. Regarding training in classical techniques -such as suturing using tools, or tying by hand -it formally exists in the curriculum of students, but there have not yet been developed standards or a uniform formula of such training. It is, apparently, extremely desirable in the context of the use of basic surgical skills by representatives of a number of specialties, some of which will not have the opportunity to participate in the full training cycle reserved for surgery house physicians.
Aim
The aim of this study was to evaluate the objective effectiveness (to improve the results of the standardized tasks) and subjective effectiveness (opinion of trainees) of the training programme within the scope of manual skills of classical and laparoscopic surgery developed by a team of the Clinic of General, Endocrine and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Gdansk and the Pomerania Foundation of Surgery Development.
Material and methods
T Te ea ac ch hi in ng g P Pr ro og gr ra am mm me e The Surgical Curriculum consisted of two main parts: the so-called laparoscopic arm (LapSkills), practising on physical trainers with elements of training on |
The First Release of Brighton Fringe events go on sale to the general public this Friday, 10th December, with Friends of Fringe tickets available now. This year's programme features a comedy show from Paralympic, World Championship and European Championship dressage medallist Ricky Balshaw; Love and Money, a play by internationally-acclaimed writer Dennis Kelly (‘Taking Care of Baby’, BBC’s ‘Together’); and a return to the Fringe for award-winning comedy actress Joanna Neary with a show based on her hit comedy podcast 'Wife On Earth'. This is just a handful of the 250 events that have already registered to be part of Brighton Fringe 2022.
Julian Caddy, Brighton Fringe CEO, says: “Despite all the uncertainty around Covid at the moment, we have been overwhelmed with the response from artists wanting to take part in Brighton Fringe in 2022. With this first release of tickets only slightly falling shy of pre-pandemic levels, we are really excited at the prospects for the coming year.”
Featured in the First Release is an early look at events taking place at long-time Fringe venues Komedia, Rialto Theatre and The Caxton Arms. Laughing Horse have also announced a programme bursting with top comedians at their four venues – the Caroline of Brunswick, The Walrus, The Quadrant and The Temple Bar. The Lantern @ ACT also returns with a strong programme of theatre, including ‘A Bit of A Carry On’ with 'Darling Buds of May' actor Tyler Butterworth telling the funny, moving and unashamedly nostalgic story of his much-loved parents, the nation’s first female TV impressionist Janet Brown, and the inimitable 'Carry On' star Peter Butterworth.
Alongside these are some venues taking part in the festival for the first time, including The Rotunda Theatre, whose 120 seat pop-up studio theatre will be setting up in Regency Square, showcasing high-quality theatre in Hove. Stand-out shows include ‘The Ballad of Mulan’ by Edinburgh Fringe sell-out team Grist to the Mill and ‘The Trials of Galileo’ written and directed by Emmy award-winner Nic Young and starring Royal Shakespeare Company Regular Tim Hardy. Ironworks Studios are also taking part in Brighton Fringe for the first time, with a full programme to be announced over the coming months. Popular nightclub, Club Revenge, will be opening their doors as a Brighton Fringe venue for the first time too for ‘Queeriosity Cabaret’, a fabulously queer and camp night with drag, comedy and more!
The First Release also includes bursary winner Paler, Still, who have received support by the way of the Eventotron Bursary. The play, set in a near-future where the Western World has eaten itself into anonymity and another recession, is a new dramatic-comedy from anseo|anois theatre. Eventotron bursary winner Emma Reid says: “anseo|anois theatre are beyond excited to finally be bringing ‘Paler, Still’ to Brighton Fringe this year. It’s been a long road since we were awarded the Eventotron Bursary way back in 2020 and we’re so grateful to Eventotron for honouring this support despite the disruption of the pandemic. Bursaries like this one are invaluable to fledgling companies like ours, enabling us to be bold and ambitious storytellers even in the early stages of our careers.”
There are a number of bursaries still open to those wanting to take part in Brighton Fringe. Pride Brighton & Hove, Luke Rollason, South East Dance, The Pebble Trust and Ironclad Creative CIC are all offering a total of over £8,400 worth of support, ranging from mentoring sessions with industry professionals to covering registration fees and marketing costs.
Brighton Fringe regulars are returning to the festival too. This includes comedians Darren Walsh, Harriet Kemsley, Joe Wells, Lily Phillips, Nathan Cassidy and Nik Coppin, who is presenting five shows at Laughing Horse venues this year. Nik said: “I hope that after such an awful time for live comedy and entertainment, Brighton Fringe 2022 can get back to being the amazing Fringe it’s fully capable of being. I’d love to see full rooms of people enjoying my stand-up comedy shows and those of everybody else who is participating. I take part in the Fringe because there are so many delightful and intimate venues where I like to put on and watch shows. The audiences are always fantastic, but as lovely as they are, they can be challenging too, which keeps you on your toes.”
As well as this a number of award-winners are presenting work at Brighton Fringe 2022. ‘Clean! The Musical’ returns after winning the Outstanding Theatre Award at Brighton Fringe 2021. Viggo Venn is bringing some new |
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TOT ODP/SWP CR MEMO: What Does It Mean?
If you’ve ever tried to get money from your account and the amount of money in your current account falls short of the money you withdrew, your account is said to have been overdrawn. Most customers notice the TOT ODP/SWP CR memo on their bank statement and start panicking while others see that memo in their bank statement and don’t even know what it means. Hence, what exactly does the TOT ODP/SWP CR memo mean?
The TOT ODP/SWP CR memo means that you have Overdrafted your account and a bank Overdraft fee has been attached to your account. This memo is attached to your bank statement to notify you of the Overdraft action and the fee that’s been deducted from your account.
It’s important for customers to figure out why this charge is attached to their bank statement whenever it is, and ways to get rid of it. In this article, I’ll give details about the TOT ODP/SWP CR memo, and how to get rid of it.
What Is The Meaning Of Tot Odp/Swp Cr Memo?
Can You Get Rid Of This Charge?
How To Get Rid Of This Charge?
What Happens If You Overdraft And Never Pay The Due?
ODP is otherwise known as Overdraft protection transfer. While TOT ODP/SWP CR memo is a memo indicating the Overdraft fee attached to your account due to your Overdraft activity. When this phrase is attached to your monthly statement, this means you’ve over-drafted and you’re required to pay the extra charges incurred on the Overdraft.
The Overdraft fee is more like interest on the amount of money withdrawn during the Overdraft process and you’re required to pay the fees back with time. If an initial agreement exists between you and your bank for an Overdraft, and the amount removed from the account by you is within the authorized Overdraft limit, then interest is normally charged at the agreed rate. If the negative balance surpasses the initially agreed terms, then additional fees are charged with the application of higher interest rates.
A credit service offered by banking institutions is otherwise known as Overdraft protection. When sufficient funds are not present to cover payments, Overdraft protection settles payments made on a customer’s account.
Overdraft protection covers debit card purchases, ATM withdrawals, electronic transfers, and checks. Sometimes when non-preauthorized items such as Cheques, or ACH withdrawals are performed on the account, Overdraft protection allows for these items to be paid instead of returning them unpaid or bouncing. purchases made with a debit or check card and ATM withdrawals are considered preauthorized and must be paid by the bank whenever they’re presented, even if this creates an Overdraft.
Any of the above reasons could cause your account to be Overdrafted therefore resulting in the attachment of the TOT ODP/SWP CR memo to your monthly bank statement.
You can get rid of the charge if the financial institution decides to be flexible with you. If you’ve maintained an awesome credit history over the years, you can cash such favors from the financial institution.
On the other hand, if you don’t have a good credit history and you’ve Overdrafted more often than normal, there’s no way you can get rid of this charge. And if you’ve Overdrafted multiple times, the bank can decide to automatically close your accounts and file a lawsuit against you.
It’s advisable to try to not Overdraft from your account so as to stay clear of paying unnecessary charges. Also, make sure to keep an account of the amount in your bank account so as to easily note when an additional fee has been charged from your account.
If you have a good credit history, you can get rid of the charge by relaying your favor to the financial institution. All you have to do is to get in touch with the customer service team and request assistance. You can explain to them what caused the Overdraft and request for the fee to be eliminated.
There’s a clause to this reversal happening. If the Overdraft has only happened once or twice and you’ve maintained a good credit history, you might be eligible for the reversal of the Overdraft fee.
Although this might not be applicable to you even though you have a stable account history. The reversal is dependent on your financial institution’s terms of service. If it is applicable you could get the fee removal, if not, you’ll have to pay the Overdraft fees.
You can only expect your financial institution to be lenient a couple of times. If the Overdraft becomes a repetitive action, you’ll have to face the consequences and pay the fees.
Alternatively, when you’ve Overdrafted once and you find the fees, once you’ve spoken to the institution and they agree to reverse the fee, be aware of handy alternatives next time so as to not Overdraft your account and end up paying unnecessary charges you could have overcome at the very instant.
In addition, you can also use money loan apps instead of Overdrafting your account. There |
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-- @param style A Scintilla style created from style().
-- @see style
local function add_style(lexer, token_name, style)
local len = lexer._STYLES.len
if len == 32 then len = len + 8 end -- skip predefined styles
if len >= 128 then _G.print('Too many styles defined (128 MAX)') end
lexer._TOKENS[token_name] = len
lexer._STYLES[len] = style
lexer._STYLES.len = len + 1
end
-- (Re)constructs lexer._TOKENRULE.
-- @param parent The parent lexer.
local function join_tokens(lexer)
local patterns, order = lexer._RULES |
}{\eta}-1} (t) y_1^{\prime}(t) }{\eta} &= - y_1^{\prime}(t) \frac{(1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t))) f^{\prime}(y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t))}{f_{\hat{X}}^2(y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t))} - \notag \\ &\frac{ \lambda (1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t)))^2}{f_{\hat{X}}(y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t))}
\end{align}
Substituting this in~\eqref{second_eq} results in the following:
\begin{align}
\left( \lambda(1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t))) - \lambda (1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_2^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t))) \right) \times \notag \\ \left( \frac{1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t))}{ f_{\hat{X}}(y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t)) } - y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t) + R(1,t) \right) = 0,
\end{align}
which is satisfied for all $y_2(t)$ using~\eqref{first}.
Differentiating~\eqref{second} with respect to $t$ results in the following:
\begin{align}
2 \frac{y_2^{\prime}(t) y_2^{\frac{1}{\eta}-1}}{\eta} &= - \frac{(1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_2(t))F_{\hat{X}}^{\prime}(y_2(t))y_2^{\prime}(t)}{f_{\hat{X}}^2(y_2(t))} - \notag \\ & \frac{\lambda (1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_2(t)))^2}{F_{\hat{X}}(y_2(t))} - R^{\prime}(1,t).
\end{align}
Substituting this into~\eqref{second_eq} results in the following:
\begin{align}
-(r_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}} - r_2^{\frac{1}{\eta}}) \lambda (1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t))) (y_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}(t)} - \notag \\ R(1,t)) - R^{\prime}(1,t) \left(r_1^{\frac{1}{\eta}} - r_2^{\frac{1}{\eta}} \right) = 0
\end{align}
This holds for $y_1(t)$ from~\eqref{Revenue_single}.
\section{Proof of Theorem~\ref{general_theorem}} \label{proof_general_theorem}
To prove the general case, we show that when two VMIs with unit characteristic are available, the revenue can be computed as follows:
\begin{align}
&R(\{1,1\},t) = \int_t^T \left((y_2^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t) + \right. \notag \\ & \left. R(1,s)\right) \lambda (1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_2^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(s))) e^{- \int_t^s \lambda (1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_2^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(z))) dz} ds.
\end{align}
Differentiating with respect to $t$ results in
\begin{align}
&R^{\prime}(\{1,1\},t) = \notag \\ &\lambda (1 - F_{\hat{X}}(y_2^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t))) (R(\{1,1\}) - y_2^{\frac{1}{\eta}}(t) - R(1,t)),
\end{align}
It can be shown that $R(\{1,1\},t) = \int_t |
p}_{01}=\frac{2\varepsilon_{0}\mu_{0}}{\pi
N_{01}}\int\limits_{0}^{r_{0}}\int\limits_{0}^{2\pi}
rJ_{0}(\alpha_{01} r)\frac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2}P_{z}d\varphi
dr,
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\label{EQ:Equ_z_nonlin11}
\left(\square_{z}+\alpha^{2}_{11}\right)\mathcal{A}^{p}_{11}=\frac{2\varepsilon_{0}\mu_{0}}{\pi
N_{11}}\int\limits_{0}^{r_{0}}\int\limits_{0}^{2\pi}
rJ_{1}(\alpha_{11} r)e^{-i\varphi}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial
t^2}P_{z}d\varphi dr,
\end{equation}
where $\square_{z}$ is defined by
\begin{equation}\label{EQ:operator1z}
\square_{z} =
\mu_{0}\varepsilon_{0}\varepsilon\frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial
t^{2}} - \frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial z^{2}}.
\end{equation}
The coefficient at the r.h.s. denominators has the following form
\begin{equation}\label{E:BesselOrhtoNormal}
N_{nl}=\frac{r_{0}^{2}}{2}\left[J_{l}^{2}(\alpha_{ln}
r_{0})-J_{l-1}(\alpha_{ln} r_{0})J_{l+1}(\alpha_{ln} r_{0})\right].
\end{equation}
In the case of a single-mode fiber (with two polarization) we
could omit the difference between group velocities, assuming that
the fiber is isotropic and do not have bending
\cite{agrawal:book:NonFibOpt}. However in a multi-mode fiber it
has to be taken into account, because different modes have
substantially different group velocities. We describe it
introducing the co-ordinate system which moves with average group
velocity
\begin{subequations}\label{E:SlowCoo}
\begin{eqnarray}
\xi &=& \sigma z, \\
\tau &=& (t-\beta'z)\epsilon,\\
\beta'&=&\frac{k_{01}'+k_{11}'}{2}.
\end{eqnarray}
\end{subequations}
Next step is introducing a slowly varying amplitude of the wave
envelope \cite{Hasegawa:book:solitons} in the form
\begin{equation}\label{E:SlowAmplitudeDef}
\sigma X^{\pm}(\tau,\xi)e^{-ikz},
\end{equation}
and $X$ have the same unit as electrical field [V/m].
\section{Two modes interaction}
First, due to the isotropic material assumption, we have
$k_{01}^{+}=k_{01}^{-}$ and $k_{11}^{+}=k_{11}^{-}$. Plugging a
solution for electromagnetic field \cite{refMenyuk,
agrawal:book:NonFibOpt} in to the left hand side of the equations
\eqref{EQ:Equ_z_nonlin01}-\eqref{EQ:Equ_z_nonlin11} yields
four equations (two modes and each mode have two polarizations):
\begin{subequations}\label{E:CNLSE}
\begin{multline}
i\partial_{\xi}X^{\pm}_{01}-
i\delta\partial_{\tau}X^{\pm}_{01}+\frac{\epsilon^{2}k''}{2\sigma}
\partial_{\tau\tau}X^{\pm}_{01}=\\
\mathbb{P}_{01}\left[\mathbb{O}_{1}|X_{01}^{\pm}|^{2}+\mathbb{O}_{2}|X_{01}^{\mp}|^{2}+\mathbb{O}_{3}|X_{11}^{\pm}|^{2}\right]X_{01}^{\pm}\\
+\mathbb{P}_{01}\left[\mathbb{O}_{4}|X_{11}^{\mp}|^{2}+\mathbb{O}_{5}X |
Kicking off this month’s roundup of the new and notable updates on our dining scene – this intriguing new opening. Neutral Ground is the work of John Belvin Jr. – former Louisianan private chef and now – Utah based restaurateur.
Belvin brings with him a range of traditional New Orleans’ dishes such as boulette, etoufee and a range of po boys; not least straying into some fun creative territory with the likes of Cajun pasta (pictured above) with crab, shrimp, cajun chicken and smoked sausage.
For now the business is in a soft opening of sorts, operating only as a to go option for the time being. You can check out their full menu here which is available Tuesday through Saturday, 11.00 a.m. – 7.00 p.m. Social media posts indicate the business is eyeing an April date for dine in. A glance of their social media account suggests the former Nomad Eatery space out by the airport they call home, has been given a luxurious make over.
Definitely one to keep an eye on, and already generating some solid plaudits, “killer fried chx, legit southern comfort food”, as our contributor Christy puts it (pictured).
I previewed this new South Salt Lake Coffee shop last month, and am happy to report February sees them open to the public. The menu also has a few surprises up it’s sleeves; alongside the cortado and latte – chicken tikka pies anyone?
The third location of Viet Pham’s Nashville hot chicken empire is now open in Summit County. The Prospector Avenue business recently flung their doors open – you can see some snaps from the opening day over on City Collective. 2021 saw the business revamp their Utah setup – their original downtown SLC shop becoming a walkup only option, with a new Sugar House location becoming the flagship store. The PC opening is expected to be followed by a Boise, ID location.
Now completing their expansion – hailing from St. George originally – Layton can now welcome this new Indian eatery. The menu ticks all the boxes you’d expect.
This Sandy restaurant is now back in business, welcome customers back to their tables this month. Open seven days a week serving breakfast, lunch and dinner – the business (I believe) is now under new ownership.
Look. I love tacos and boba like the next guy, but man cannot live off of tapioca and birria alone. Which is why news that this Heber food truck would be headed SLC way made me sit up and take notice. Yalla promises a variety of Kosher-friendly Israeli cuisine, something we’re not particularly awash with. The truck is operated in partnership with Chabad Lubavitch of Utah.
Pho and banh mi are the order of the day at this new Vietnamese spot, owned and operated by chef Sean Do. The opening is the second for the local business – you’ll find the original over in West Jordan. In an ever inflating world, prices here are wallet-friendly with plenty under ten bucks.
The Le Meridien and Element hotels will open in October of this year, adding another 264 rooms to Salt Lake’s convention district. The hotels will be in a singular building adjacent to convention center and to the Vivint Arena, home of the Utah Jazz. The Le Meridien boasts 144 guestrooms, approximately 10,000 square feet of meeting space, a rooftop bar, and the Adelaide Restaurant & Bar, featuring elevated farm-to-table southern cuisine. The Element offers 120 guestrooms, a rooftop bar, and a comfortable yet upscale lobby with a fire place and floor to ceiling windows.
Mountain West commercial real estate is actively working to lease out space at 545 W. 700 S., near what is becoming the heart of the rapidly redeveloping Granary District. A flyer for the space advertises a bar and tavern fronting 700 South, a food hall fronting Woodbine Street, food trucks halfway down and office space. The space was formerly home to Frida Bistro and the headquarters of Rico Brand. After Frida closed, it was briefly replaced by Rico Cocina y Tequila Bar. The immediate area is considered somewhat walkable but is teed up to see immense redevelopment that is already underway. Slackwater Pizzeria & Pub is set to open across the street adjacent the Industry SLC office building that seems to have catalyzed a construction frenzy.
The new facility joins The Local Market & Bar – another food hall headed our way – that we previewed back in December here. Utah hasn’t yet nailed the food hall concept, so successful and prevalent in other cities around the nation, let’s hope one or both or these does!
I own Cheryls Bagels and I recently signed a Letter of Intent to open a bagel shop in Ogden. In the meantime I am reaching out to the owners of brick and motar small |
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self.oncue(self.cue);
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// Enter BADWEBVTT state if header was not parsed correctly otherwise
// another exception occurred so enter BADCUE state.
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flush: function flush() {
var self = this;
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// Finish decoding the stream.
self.buffer += self.decoder.decode();
// Synthesize the end of the current cue or region.
if (self.cue || self.state === 'HEADER') {
self.buffer += '\n\n';
self.parse();
}
// If we've flushed, parsed, and we're still on the INITIAL state then
// that means we don't have enough of the stream to parse the first
// line.
if (self.state === 'INITIAL') {
throw new Error('Malformed WebVTT signature.');
}
} catch (e) {
throw e;
}
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self.onflush();
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/* harmony default export */ var vttparser = (VTTParser);
// CONCATENATED MODULE: ./src/utils/cues.js
function newCue(track, startTime, endTime, captionScreen) {
var row;
var cue;
var indenting;
var indent;
var text;
var VTTCue = window.VTTCue || window.TextTrackCue;
for (var r = 0; r < captionScreen.rows.length; r++) {
row = captionScreen.rows[r];
indenting = true;
indent = 0;
text = '';
if (!row.isEmpty()) {
for (var c = 0; c < row.chars.length; c++) {
if (row.chars[c].uchar.match(/\s/) && indenting) {
indent++;
} else {
text += row.chars[c].uchar;
indenting = false;
}
}
//To be used for cleaning-up orphaned roll-up captions
row.cueStartTime = startTime;
// Give a slight bump to the endTime if it's equal to startTime to avoid a SyntaxError in IE
if (startTime === endTime) {
endTime += 0.0001;
}
cue = new VTTCue(startTime, endTime, fixLineBreaks(text.trim()));
if (indent >= 16) {
indent--;
} else {
indent++;
}
// VTTCue.line get's flakey when using controls, so let's now include line 13&14
// also, drop line 1 since it's to close to the top
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox\//)) {
cue.line = r + 1;
} else {
cue.line = r > 7 ? r - 2 : r + 1;
}
cue.align = 'left';
// Clamp the position between 0 and 100 - if out of these bounds, Firefox throws an exception and captions break
cue.position = Math.max(0, Math.min(100, 100 * (indent / 32) + (navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox\//) ? 50 : 0)));
track.addCue(cue);
}
}
}
// CONCATENATED MODULE: ./src/utils/cea-608-parser.js
function cea_608_parser__classCallCheck(instance, Constructor) { if (!(instance instanceof Constructor)) { throw new TypeError("Cannot call a class as a function"); } }
/**
*
* This code was ported from the dash.js project at:
* https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js/blob/development/externals/cea608-parser.js |
, I rang at the door of one house, and found
some inquiries to make concerning another one that seemed to be
untenanted.
[Illustration]
It was a very pretty young lady who opened the door for me, with such
shining dark eyes and with so bright a red in her cheeks, that you felt
that she could not have been long in that dull, old-time spot, where
life seemed to be all one neutral color. She answered my questions
kindly, and then, with something in her manner which told me that
strangers did not often wander in there, she said that it was a very
nice place to live in. I told her that I knew it _had_ been a very nice
place to live in.
THE BOWERY AND BOHEMIA
One day a good many years ago an old gentleman from
Rondout-on-the-Hudson--then plain Rondout--was walking up Broadway
seeing the sights. He had not been in New York in ten or twelve years,
and although he was an old gentleman who always had a cask of good ale
in his cellar in the winter-time, yet he had never tasted the strange
German beverage called lager-beer, which he had heard and read about. So
when he saw its name on a sign he went in and drank a mug, sipping it
slowly and thoughtfully, as he would have sipped his old ale. He found
it refreshing--peculiar--and, well, on the whole, very refreshing
indeed, as he considerately told the proprietor.
But what interested him more than the beer was the sight of a group of
young men seated around a table drinking beer, reading--and--yes,
actually writing verses, and bandying very lively jests among
themselves. The old gentleman could not help hearing their conversation,
and when he went out into the street he shook his head thoughtfully.
[Illustration]
"I wonder what my father would have said to that?" he reflected. "Young
gentlemen sitting in a pot-house at high noon and turning verses like so
many ballad-mongers! Well, well, well, if those are the ways of
lager-beer drinkers, I'll stick to my good old ale!"
And greatly surprised would that honest old gentleman have been to know
that the presence of that little group of poets and humorists attracted
as much custom to good Mr. Pfaff's beer-saloon as did his fresh, cool
lager; and that young men, and, for the matter of that, men not so
young, stole in there to listen to their contests of wit, and to wish
and yearn and aspire to be of their goodly company. For the old
gentleman little dreamed, as he went on his course up Broadway, that he
had seen the first Bohemians of New York, and that these young men would
be written about and talked about and versified about for generations to
come. Unconscious of this honor he went on to Fourteenth Street to see
the new square they were laying out there.
[Illustration]
Perhaps nothing better marks the place where the city of New York got
clean and clear out of provincial pettiness into metropolitan tolerance
than the advent of the Bohemians. Twenty-five years earlier they would
have been a scandal and a reproach to the town. Not for their
literature, or for their wit, or for their hard drinking, or even for
their poverty; but for their brotherhood, and for their calm
indifference to all the rest of the world whom they did not care to
receive into their kingdom of Bohemia. There is human nature in this;
more human nature than there is in most provincialism. Take a community
of one hundred people and let any ten of its members join themselves
together and dictate the terms on which an eleventh may be admitted to
their band. The whole remaining eighty-nine will quarrel for the twelfth
place. But take a community of a thousand, and let ten such internal
groups be formed, and every group will have to canvass more or less hard
to increase its number. For the other nine hundred people, being able to
pick and choose, are likely to feel a deep indifference to the question
of joining any segregation at all. If group No. 2 says, "Come into my
crowd, I understand they don't want you in No. 1," the individual
replies: "What the deuce do I care about No. 1 or you either? Here are
Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 7 all begging for me. If you and No. 1 keep on in your
conceit you'll find yourselves left out in the cold."
And as it frequently happens to turn |
43. It's as though it can't resolve the hostname - which is strange cos it works with port 443.
<img width="780" alt="Screen Shot 2019-07-25 at 10 36 07" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/45988261/61839305-9b86ef00-ae7c-11e9-8876-78400838fbfd.png">
<issue_comment>username_2: Your server is working fine maybe try changing the fallback resolver on the client to `fallback_resolver = '1.1.1.1:53'`
@username_1
The response via curl was within 0.2s and the response was valid.
<issue_comment>username_2: You can also change the ignore_system_dns setting `ignore_system_dns = false` and see if true or false works
<issue_comment>username_2: Never-mind I can reproduce the error too.
`sudo env DEBUG=1 dnscrypt-proxy -loglevel 0 -config /usr/local/etc/dnscrypt-proxy.toml`
```
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [NOTICE] dnscrypt-proxy 2.0.25
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [NOTICE] Loading the set of blocking rules from [/usr/local/etc/dnscrypt-proxy/blacklist.txt]
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [NOTICE] Loading the set of cloaking rules from [/usr/local/etc/dnscrypt-proxy/cloaking-rules.txt]
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [NOTICE] Now listening to 127.0.0.1:53 [UDP]
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [NOTICE] Now listening to 127.0.0.1:53 [TCP]
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [NOTICE] Now listening to [::1]:53 [UDP]
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [NOTICE] Now listening to [::1]:53 [TCP]
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [DEBUG] Refreshing certificates
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [DEBUG] [doh.seby.io] IP address was not cached
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [DEBUG] clients count: 1
[2019-07-25 19:22:34] [DEBUG] clients count: 1
[2019-07-25 19:22:35] [DEBUG] clients count: 1
[2019-07-25 19:22:37] [DEBUG] [https://doh.seby.io:8443/dns-query?body_hash=fc3f9e09b65a7ce1e47b02b2991f5934eccb5bca444ef8619f541537f636529a]: [Post https://doh.seby.io:8443/dns-query?body_hash=fc3f9e09b65a7ce1e47b02b2991f5934eccb5bca444ef8619f541537f636529a: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)]
[2019-07-25 19:22:37] [DEBUG] [doh.seby.io] IP address was not cached
[2019-07-25 19:22:37] [DEBUG] clients count: 1
[2019-07-25 19:22:39] [DEBUG] [https://doh.seby.io:8443/dns-query?ct=& |
in the AUTHORS file and at
* https://github.com/fmtvp/TAL/AUTHORS - please extend this file,
* not this notice.
*
* @license Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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(function() {
this.DefaultNetworkTest = AsyncTestCase("Network (Default)");
this.DefaultNetworkTest.prototype.setUp = function() {
this.sandbox = sinon.sandbox.create();
};
this.DefaultNetworkTest.prototype.tearDown = function() {
this.sandbox.restore();
};
// make sure test hangs in there until after timeouts and responses have all completed
this.DefaultNetworkTest.prototype.waitFor = function(callbacks, timeInMillis) {
var notify = callbacks.add(function() { });
setTimeout(notify, timeInMillis);
};
this.DefaultNetworkTest.prototype.testLoadScriptWithTimedOutResponse = function(queue) {
expectAsserts(1);
queuedApplicationInit(queue, "lib/mockapplication", ["antie/devices/browserdevice"], function(application, BrowserDevice) {
var device = new BrowserDevice(antie.framework.deviceConfiguration);
queue.call("Waiting for script to load", function(callbacks) {
var opts = {
onError: callbacks.add(function() {
assert("Expected on error to be called as timeout expired", true);
}),
onSuccess: function(data) {
assert("Expected on success not to be called", false);
}
};
device.loadScript("/test/script-tests/fixtures/dynamicscript1.js?callback=%callback%", /%callback%/, opts, 100, "test1");
this.waitFor(callbacks, 1000);
});
});
};
this.DefaultNetworkTest.prototype.testLoadScriptWithDefaultFiveSecondTimedOutResponse = function(queue) {
expectAsserts(1);
queuedApplicationInit(queue, "lib/mockapplication", ["antie/devices/browserdevice"], function(application, BrowserDevice) {
var device = new BrowserDevice(antie.framework.deviceConfiguration);
queue.call("Waiting for script to load", function(callbacks) {
var opts = {
onError: callbacks.add(function() {
assert("Expected on error to be called as timeout expired", true);
}),
onSuccess: function(data) {
assert("Expected on success not to be called", false);
}
};
device.loadScript("/test/script-tests/fixtures/timedoutdynamicscript.js?callback=%callback%", /%callback%/, opts, undefined, "test");
this.waitFor(callbacks, 6000);
});
});
};
this.DefaultNetworkTest.prototype.testLoadScriptWithSuccessResponse = function(queue) {
expectAsserts(1);
queuedApplicationInit(queue, "lib/mockapplication", ["antie/devices/browserdevice"], function(application, BrowserDevice) {
var device = new BrowserDevice(antie.framework.deviceConfiguration);
queue.call("Waiting for script to load", function(callbacks) {
var opts = {
onSuccess: callbacks.add(function(data) {
assertEquals("Did not get on load response", "test1", data);
}),
onError: function() {
assert("Timed out response should not occur", false);
}
};
device.loadScript("/test/script-tests/fixtures/dynamicscript1.js?callback=%callback%", /%callback%/, opts, 1000, "test1");
this.waitFor(callbacks, 1500);
});
});
};
this.DefaultNetworkTest.prototype.testLoadScriptMultipleRequestsWithDifferentSuffixes = function(queue) {
expectAsserts(2);
queuedApplicationInit(queue, "lib/mockapplication", ["antie/devices/browserdevice"], function(application, BrowserDevice) {
var device = new BrowserDevice(antie.framework.deviceConfiguration);
queue.call("Waiting for script to load", function(callbacks) {
var opts1 = {
onSuccess: callbacks.add(function(data) {
assertEquals("Did not get success response for test1", "test1", data);
})
};
var opts2 = {
onSuccess: callbacks.add(function(data) {
assertEquals("Did not get success response for test2", "test2", data);
})
|
1764 Polish–Lithuanian royal election
The 1764 Polish–Lithuanian royal election was an election to decide on the new candidate for the Polish–Lithuanian throne.
Background.
The Seven Years' War, which ended in 1763, established a new pattern of political alliances in Europe. The Kingdom of Prussia, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Russian Empire emerged as great powers, while the position of Austria, France, Spain, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire was weakened. As a result of the war, the Russian Empress, Catherine the Great, was in almost complete control of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Catherine was supported by the Prussian monarch, Frederick the Great, who hoped to eventually annex Polish provinces of Royal Prussia and Greater Poland.
History.
After the death of Augustus III of Poland, two dominant political camps of Poland expressed their interest to the Polish throne. The Potocki family promoted Hetman Jan Klemens Branicki, while the Czartoryski family backed its leader, Duke Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski. Under pressure from Catherine, the Czartoryskis, however, withdrew the candidacy of Adam Kazimierz, and replaced him with Stolnik from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Stanisław August Poniatowski, who had been one of Catherine’s lovers. Russian support however, did not mean that Poniatowski would automatically become new monarch of the Commonwealth. Polish–Lithuanian szlachta was at that time strongly anti-Russian, and in case of a free election, Branicki’s victory was secure.
The Czartoryski family, fearing a civil war, asked the Russian Empress for military assistance. They were not aware of the fact that the Russians and their Prussian allies had previously signed a secret pact, which stipulated the use of a military force to support Poniatowski. As early as October 17, 1763, Catherine wrote a letter to Frederick, in which she expressed the opinion that from all candidates to the Polish crown, Poniatowski was the least popular one, therefore, he would be most grateful to those who had made him monarch. On April 11, 1764, Russia and Prussia signed the pact, in which both sides pledged to promote Poniatowski. He was the most convenient candidate for the Russians, as a former lover of Catherine, he would guarantee submission to his Russian sponsor.
The Czartoryskis, who called themselves Familia, regarded themselves as patriots, who saw the need for urgent reforms for the declining Commonwealth. At the same time, they were of the opinion that all reforms were to be carried out with Russian permission only, as the Russian Empire was the dominant force in Central and Eastern Europe. Therefore, leaders of the Familia, Andrzej Zamoyski and August Aleksander Czartoryski urged Catherine to send the Russian army. The Empress did so, issuing an announcement that she wanted to protect all freedoms of the Commonwealth. The Potockis, who called themselves the Republicans, on the other hand, supported the notion of Golden Liberty, together with "liberum veto".The first clash between the two camps took place during the Convocation Sejm, which began on May 7, 1764. The Republicans vetoed all bills brought forward by the Czartoryskis. The Russian army, stationed near Warsaw, intervened and ordered the Republicans to leave the Polish capital. Remaining Sejm deputies called a confederation, but failed to carry out any significant changes in the government of the Commonwealth. Poniatowski himself was an envoy to the Convocation Sejm, he represented the Land of Warsaw.
The Election Sejm, which as usual took place in early September 1764 in Wola near Warsaw, was attended by some 5,000 nobles. Poniatowski, backed by Russian and Prussian envoys, as well as diplomats from England and Denmark, was unanimously elected on September 7. The election itself was affected by a large Russian military contingent, which was stationed around Warsaw. On September 13 Poniatowski signed the "pacta conventa", in which he pledged to marry a Roman Catholic.
On November 25, 1764, following the order of Catherine the Great, Primate Władysław Łubieński crowned Poniatowski as King of Poland. The ceremony took place at St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw, and the new king, to dismay of conservatives, did not put on traditional Polish clothes, preferring to wear instead a 16th-century Spanish outfit.
Aftermath.
Poniatowski’s election was not at first recognized by several European states, such as France, Austria and the Ottoman Empire, which saw the new monarch as Catherine’s tool. This changed after several |
When I was 17, and completely clueless about my mom being a narc, I was seeing a therapist because of depressive symptoms. He tried to tell me that what my mom was doing to me wasn't normal or healthy in any way shape or form and that some -if not most- of my symptoms could be caused by her behaviour.
I just couldn't believe him. I still lived with my mom, and to keep on living there I just had to do what my nmom told me to. I had to endure it in order to get financial independence and get out of the situation. I couldn't see that she was hurting me, I couldn't really admit that she was the cause of my problems. The guilt was too much, the self loathing caused by it was unbearable. It was too soon to get those ideas out of my head. I believe they call this the FOG.
After a year or two of therapy I moved out and my mental health went south fast. I became lost in my own mind. I didn't know who I was, feeling useless and feeling like a burden to everyone I know. I became more depressed than ever, self harm and suicidal thoughts happened daily and my therapist, who had a private practice, had to refer me to crisis services so I had somewhere to go to 24/7. I started sleep medication, the crisis psychiatrist diagnosed me with borderline disorder and they referred me to a different therapist for a year long treatment with personal and group therapy.
The therapy was based on mentalisation. Which sort of means you have to try to think about how others are feeling and why they act the way they do so you can have a less emotional response to it. It's all about empathy and tapering down your own emotions in order to sustain healthy relationships.
My new therapist kept insisting I had to look at my mother's behaviour from her side. She wanted me to empathize with her. She wanted me to see my mom was doing the best she can. She was convinced my emotional response was too heavy, she told me I was overreacting, my mom is actually ok, but I'M the problem, I'm the one with mental health problems and my mom is a good mom even though she's not perfect. She basically told me the exact same things my nmom always told me. I felt like I wasn't allowed to feel my own feelings. I wasn't believed, I wasn't welcome. It made my suicidal thoughts worse at first.
The group therapy made me very jealous. I could see the others had clumsy, but caring parents. They didn't know how to help their kids, but they were trying. From that point of view they gave me all sorts of useless advice, like maybe you should see your mom more often, maybe she's worried about you and that's why she gets mad etc. I couldn't exactly explain to them why their tips and advice didn't work, because I still didn't fully realise I was being abused, I just knew something wasn't going right. The therapy made me question myself and my own feelings more than ever.
My therapist also wanted me to have family therapy with my mom and her. I repeatedly told her no. I was 19 at the time and had moved out, so I truly didn't see the point. This fucked me up even more, if I may be so rude to put it that way. I disagreed with her so much I couldn't ignore it anymore. I was starting to see the truth then. I realised that no matter how hard I tried, my mom's behaviour towards me is not something I could ever learn to live with, unless I want to end up killing myself. I started to see I needed as little time with my mother as I could get. At that point I still thought it was my fault, but I also saw that I couldn't help it, and that the relationship with my mom would eventually kill me if it continued this way.
So without any help from my therapist (and without telling her) I slowly went lower and lower contact. It made me feel guilty to the bones, but it helped me feel less like a failure, less like a burden, less suicidal.
Eventually the therapist told me we were going to have a family session, or I couldn't continue therapy. I told her I would think about it and tell her my answer next session. I never came back.
Within 6 months of quitting therapy I completely stopped self harming, something that I had struggled with for 8 years, I started working full time again, I had no depressive symptoms except the week before and after seeing my mother, I slept normal again except before and after seeing my mother, I didnt have any suicidal thoughts except directly after leaving my mothers house - do you see what's going on here?- I quickly did see it.
About one year later I went no contact. I wanted to speak to a therapist again, just because I felt guilty and sad, and I didn't |
Halloween is right around the corner, and it’s a time when many Christians find themselves divided. Many want to know if and how to participate in fall festivities without dishonoring their faith in Christ. As you can imagine, participating in Halloween-themed events presents a problem for many in the Body of Christ – even if those events are held by the church.
Many things contribute to beliefs about Halloween. What you were taught growing up, your denomination and how you interpret scripture all play a part in your beliefs about this pagan holiday. I wrote about Halloween a couple of years ago, but you can find excellent articles here and here.
Needless to say, Halloween sparks many heated debates and arguments amongst Christians. I, like Paul, think there are weightier matters in the faith and think that every believer should be “convinced in his or her own mind” about whether or not to let their little ones dress up (Romans 14:5). After all, if familiar spirits a.k.a. demonic spirits had so much power, why did Paul ignore one’s presence for so long in the slave girl in Acts chapter 16? Paul didn’t see the demonic spirit as a threat because he walked in the authority and power of the Holy Spirit. He only casted the spirit out because it was an “annoyance” (Acts 16:18). Also, when the disciples came back rejoicing saying “Even the demons are subject to us in your name,” Jesus didn’t make a huge fuss about it. He didn’t focus on or stress their new “deliverance ministries.” He told them to rejoice because their names were written in heaven (Luke 10:17-20). I believe it’s because Jesus knew God gave him all power and authority in heaven and on earth, and demons didn’t pose any real threat to him. Just research the many times the demons cried out and trembled in the presence of Jesus. Those who are baptized with the Holy Spirit – meaning us – have the same power and authority. Jesus gave us the formula in Matthew chapter 4. All you have to do is speak the Word of God, and the devil will flee.
│ The devil cannot occupy space that does not belong to him!
Now, if I wasn’t a believer and baptized with the Holy Spirit, I would be very afraid of demons. You remember what happened to the seven sons of Sceva in Acts chapter 19? They tried to replicate Paul’s ministry, but were beaten to a pulp by a man with an evil spirit because they weren’t disciples of Jesus Christ. They tried to “fake the funk” and suffered the consequences. However, if you’ve been born again and you walk in the power and authority of the Holy Spirit, you have nothing to fear. As sons and daughters of the Most High God, we’ve been brought with a price (1 Corinthians 6:20). We belong to Christ. The devil cannot occupy space that does not belong to him! If you are still afraid, then your love hasn’t been perfected in Jesus Christ because perfected love casts out all fear, and NOTHING can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Here are the scriptures to back that up (John 10:28-30; Romans 8:38-39; 1 John 4). Romans 8:38-39 even references “angels” and “powers,” which also means demonic spirits. None of these can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
I’m not saying that you should go out and buy an Ouija board or dabble in the occult. I’m trying to calm your fears. “Do not be afraid” is a sermon Jesus preached regularly to the believers, and it still rings true. Also, God did not give us a spirit of fear or a timid spirit, but one of love, power and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).
As a result of all of the fear mongering going around in the Body of Christ, I’m going share with you five things scarier than Halloween.
The United States Census Bureau reported that 55 percent of black children lived in single parent households. 55 PERCENT! That is more than half. The American Psychological Association reports that 40 to 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. These reports also show that children in single parent households are also more likely to live below the poverty line. You can find all of these statistics on the respective websites. These statistics include Christians.
I understand why some Christians are so focused on Halloween. It’s easier to focus on one day than to focus on the discipline that it requires to submit to and love your spouse for 365 days. We’d rather focus on ghosts and goblins than focus on what’s preventing us from keeping our marriages together. It’s easy for us to blame a spell or the devil for our behavior because we don’t have to take responsibility for |
<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'checkImageForCriticality' of undefined
username_0: Hi,
For our navigation, we sometimes ask the server to return a `<section>` HTML block that we swap into the current page. These requests are seen as XHR by the browser and the server, and the response is seen as an HTML document although it contains only part of the body of a typical webpage (no html, head or body tags).
In this case, pagespeed still inserts `onload="pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);"` calls on all images, which is what I would expect.
However, I get the following in the Chrome console:
`Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'checkImageForCriticality' of undefined`
Also according to the Chrome Console, it applies to:
```
(function(event){pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);
})
```
For reference, here is the JS that gets written to this page (just before the first img tag):
```
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story and belted out TiK ToK by Ke$ha in a karaoke session with teammates Courtney Shaw and Lauryn Satterwhite as her background dancers. But whether messing around off the court or putting work on the court, Burton doesn’t exude superiority over her teammates.
“She never plays down to the level of what we’re doing,” Popovec said. “Say it’s a drill where there’s no defense. Veronica will consistently have the highest totals. She attacks every single thing like it is the championship moment of her career.”
With Burton’s Northwestern career likely over, the reality of life beyond Evanston has begun to enter her mind. Her primary goal after this NCAA season was to make the WNBA, a far cry from her initial expectations when she arrived at NU. when
“Before I got to college, I always struggled a little bit with confidence,” Burton said. Coming out of high school, Burton received offers from several high-level mid-majors, but struggled to garner much traction with Power Five schools. McKeown, Popovec and the Wildcats, however, saw something special in her.
“She was deceptively good and people didn’t pay attention to her,” Popovec said. “Her game wasn’t flashy… You really had to watch Veronica to understand how good she was.”
McKeown knew that, and from the beginning, threw lofty goals at Burton, challenging her to become the best point guard in the conference. Burton didn’t fully absorb McKeown’s vision for her immediately, but in her rookie season, she couldn’t ignore her own results after leading the team in assists and the entire Big Ten in steals.
“I think I felt a sense of belonging once I got to college and I was like, ‘Okay, I can play in the Big Ten,’” Burton said. After her rookie season, she began to consider the WNBA as a realistic goal.
Now, with less than a month to draft day, Burton still refers to her WNBA dream as an “opportunity” that she hopes will be there. The truth is, it’s more of a certainty than Burton makes it out to be, at least according to Just Women’s Sports and Winsidr Women’s Basketball analyst Rachel Galligan.
“I think she’s got the potential to jump into the first round [of the WNBA Draft],” said Galligan, who has talked about Burton with several WNBA coaches and general managers. “I think she’s a shoo-in for the second round.”
Galligan said some GMs consider Burton the best point guard in a class filled with combo guards and wings. Evaluators are enamored by the steadiness on the offensive end, high basketball IQ and defensive ability of Burton, who leads the nation in total steals this season. But according to Galligan, what sets her apart in the eyes of some WNBA evaluators are her intangibles.
Veronica Burton raises her arms as she defends Penn State’s Makenna Marissa. Coach Popovec said that she would often joke with Burton that the reason for her defensive prowess is her massive hands.
“These women are fighting for their jobs night in and night out, so that tenacity, defensive toughness and grit on the defensive end of the floor that she brings is so unique and hard to find,” Galligan said.
While Galligan says it’s difficult for her to compare Burton to any point guard in the league, she believes the intangibles Burton’s known to possess have driven the success of some of the league’s best point guards, such as WNBA legend and newly hired Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon and Seattle Storm all-timer Sue Bird. Whether Burton is as skillful as those greats on the court will depend on how her game translates to the next level.
Galligan said one WNBA source mentioned that Burton will still need to continue working on her jump shot. Burton’s shot 33 percent from beyond the arc in her college career, which is a decent clip. But in the last three seasons, she’s sat below that overall mark. It’s easy to argue that Burton was a better shooter early on in her career because defenses paid more attention to her veteran teammates, which will likely be the case in the WNBA. But the bellwether for her ceiling may be dependent on just how much of an outside threat she can become.
Bleacher Report Women’s Basketball writer Jackie Powell has similar sentiments on Burton’s draft stock, as she had the Wildcats senior as the final pick of the first round to the Connecticut Sun in her WNBA Mock Draft back in December.
Powell said that, given that the Sun lost Brianne January to free agency and that head coach Curt Miller’s wants to establish a defensive identity around the team’s star, Alyssa Thomas, she feels Burton could fit perfectly in Connecticut. She would likely back-up veteran Jasmine Thomas, who reminds Powell of Burton in that both are steady, defensive-minded point guards. Coincidentally, Jasmine Thomas was selected with the No. |
Chad M. Orton, "'This Shall Be Our Covenant': Brigahm Young and D&C 136," Religious Educator 19, no. 2 (2018): 119–51.
Chad M. Orton |||EMAIL_ADDRESS||| was curator in the Historical Sites Division of the Church History Department and coauthor of 40 Ways to Look at Brigham Young: A New Approach to a Remarkable Man when this was written.
Brigham emphatically declared: "There is great delight in the law of the Lord to me, for the simple reason — it is pure, holy, just, and true...My religion is to know the will of God and do it."
Two and one-half years after Brigham Young assumed the primary leadership role for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and nearly a year after the first Saints left Nauvoo, Illinois, to begin the journey west, the responsibility of leading the Church had taken a physical toll on him. By January 1847 he had lost so much weight that his clothes no longer fit. The reason was that the Latter-day Saints had literally and figuratively become stuck in the mud. Worn out and needing wisdom on how to extricate the Church and move the work forward, Brigham received the answers he desperately needed when the Lord revealed his “Word and Will,” a revelation later canonized as Doctrine and Covenants section 136.
Received at a pivotal time in the history of the Church, the “Word and Will of the Lord” became a seminal moment for Brigham and provided him an important “before and after” lesson. The “before” was the 1846 journey across Iowa; the “after” was the 1847 travels of the vanguard pioneer company from Winter Quarters to the Salt Lake Valley.[2] Having proven the word of the Lord during the 1847 exodus, he subsequently included the revelation’s principles in his teaching as he continued to lead the Saints after they had reached their promised land.[3] Thus, while section 136 had a great effect upon Brigham as “American Moses” in gathering the Saints, it also had an influence on him in his role as “American Joshua” overseeing Mormon settlement of the West.
When Brigham made the decision for the Saints to begin leaving Nauvoo in February 1846’s bitter cold, he fully expected to lead the vanguard company of approximately three hundred men to their new home that year.[4] His goal was to arrive early enough to grow crops that would help sustain the thousands of Latter-day Saints who would subsequently join them before the year was out. Instead of reaching the Rocky Mountains, however, his company struggled to make it across Iowa. Rather than taking four to five weeks to reach the Missouri River as anticipated, that portion of the journey had taken more than four months. The delay in part was the result of heavy rains that caused streams and rivers to rise significantly above normal levels and turned rolling plains into muddy quagmires.
When the advance company finally reached the Missouri River in mid-June 1846, their energy and supplies were largely spent. As a result, they were forced to find a place to winter and try again the following year.
In addition to these pioneers, thousands of other Latter-day Saints had left Nauvoo as scheduled, expecting their journey would end that year in the place which God had prepared for them “far away in the west.”[7] Instead, they also needed a temporary home. By the fall of 1846, more than 7,000 were in exile near the Missouri River, living in caves, wagons, makeshift hovels and log cabins, primarily at Winter Quarters, Nebraska, and Kanesville, Iowa. Another 3,000 were forced to winter under similar conditions at settlements further back along the trail. At these various locations, many were sick or dying from malnutrition and exposure, and a number were experiencing a crisis of faith.
Not only had the delays and the resulting disappointment of not reaching the promised land taken a physical and emotional toll on Brigham, but to this was added the stress and toil of having to prepare for the upcoming emigration season while at the same time having to see to it that the needs of the Saints were met. Shortly before the “Word and Will” was received it was reported that Brigham slept “with one eye open and one foot out of bed, and when anything is wanted, he is on hand.”[8] Not surprisingly, all of this made Winter Quarters among the most difficult periods of his life. He wrote at the time that he felt “like a father with a great family of children around me” and later recalled that his responsibilities pressed down upon him like a “twenty-five ton weight.”[9] The task that he had been given was beyond his natural ability and he needed assistance if |
shift = _mm_srli_epi32(
_mm_and_si128(_mm_slli_epi32(inc, upsample), _mm_set1_epi32(0x3f)),
1);
base = base + 1;
a = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i *)(leftBy32 + base + 4));
b = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i *)(leftByDiff + base + 4));
b = _mm_mullo_epi32(b, shift);
res1 = _mm_add_epi32(a, b);
res1 = _mm_srli_epi32(res1, 5);
resLo = _mm_packus_epi32(res1, res2);
_mm_storel_epi64((__m128i *)(dst + c * pitch), resLo);
}
}
}
void predict_4x16_sse4(const uint16_t *refPel, uint16_t *dst, ptrdiff_t pitch,
int32_t d, int32_t upsample) {
uint32_t leftBy32[8];
int_least32_t leftByDiff[8];
__m128i a0, a1, diff, a32, a16;
__m128i a, b, res1, res2, resLo;
int32_t c, x, y, base;
const uint16_t *leftPtr = refPel - 1;
const int32_t frac_bits = 6 - upsample;
res2 = _mm_setzero_si128();
a16 = _mm_set1_epi32(16);
a0 = _mm_cvtepu16_epi32(_mm_loadu_si128((__m128i *)(leftPtr))); // 01234567
a1 = _mm_cvtepu16_epi32(
_mm_loadu_si128((__m128i *)(leftPtr + 1))); // 89abcdef
diff = _mm_sub_epi32(a1, a0); // a[x+1] - a[x]
a32 = _mm_slli_epi32(a0, 5); // a[x] * 32
a32 = _mm_add_epi32(a32, a16); // a[x] * 32 + 16
_mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(leftBy32 + 4), a32);
_mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(leftByDiff + 4), diff);
for (c = 0; c < 16; ++c) {
x = c + 1;
y = -x * d;
base = y >> frac_bits;
__m128i inc = _mm_set1_epi32(y);
__m128i shift = _mm_srli_epi32(
_mm_and_si128(_mm_slli_epi32(inc, upsample), _mm_set1_epi32(0x3f)), 1);
base = base + 1;
a = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i *)(leftBy32 + base + 4));
b = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i *)(leftByDiff + base + 4));
b = _mm_mullo_epi32(b, shift);
res1 = _mm_add_epi32(a, b);
res1 = _mm_srli_epi32(res1, 5);
resLo = _mm_packus_epi32(res1, res2);
_mm_storel_epi64((__m128i *)(dst + c * pitch), resLo);
}
}
static void highbd_transpose_TX_8X8(const uint16_t *src, ptrdiff_t pitchSrc,
uint16_t *dst, ptrdiff_t pitchDst) {
__m128i r0, r1, r2, r3, r4, r5, r6, r7, r0_Lo, r1_Lo, r2_Lo, r3_Lo, r4_Lo,
r5_Lo, r6_Lo;
r0 = _mm_load_si128(
(__m128i *)(src + 0 * pitchSrc)); // 07,0 |
datasets with single objects (e.g., KiTTiMask), vanilla CNNs and binary cross-entropy loss are used. For videos with multiple objects, we apply a disentangled design \citep{kulkarni2019unsupervised} with two separate CNNs, one for extracting visual features and the other for locating object locations with spatial softmax units. The decoder retrieves object features using object locations and reconstructs the scene with MSE loss. The network architecture details are given in \Apref{ap:arch}.
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\subsection{Optimization}
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We train the VAE and noise discriminator jointly. The VAE parameters are updated using the augmented ELBO objective $\mathcal{L}_{\text{ELBO}}$. The discriminator is trained to distinguish between residuals from $q(\{\hat{\epsilon}_{it}\})$ and $q(\{\hat{\epsilon}_{it}^{\text{perm}}\})$ with $\mathcal{L}_{\mathcal{D}}$, thus learning to approximate the density ratio for estimating $\mathcal{L}_{\text{TC}}$:
\begin{flalign*}
\label{eq:loss}
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\resizebox{.495\hsize}{!}{
$\mathcal{L}_{\text{ELBO}} =
\frac{1}{N} \sum_{i \in N} \mathcal{L}_{\text{Recon}} - \beta \mathcal{L}_{\text{KLD}} - \gamma \mathcal{L}_{\text{Mask}} - \sigma \mathcal{L}_{\text{TC}}$},
\resizebox{.5\hsize}{!}{
$\mathcal{L}_{\mathcal{D}}=
\frac{1}{2N} \sum_{i \in N} \left[ \log \mathcal{D}(\{\hat{\epsilon}_{it}\}) + \sum_{i \in N^\prime} \log \left(1 - \mathcal{D}(\{\hat{\epsilon}_{it}^{\text{perm}}\}) \right) \right]$.}
\end{flalign*}
The discussions of the hyperparameter selection and sensitivity analysis are in \Apref{ap:hyperparam}.
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\section{Experiments}
\vspace{-2mm}
We comparatively evaluate LEAP on a number of temporal datasets with the required assumptions satisfied or violated. We aim to answer the following questions:
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\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*] \itemsep0em
\item Does LEAP reliably learn temporally-causal latent processes from scratch under the proposed conditions? What is the contribution of each module in the architecture?
\item Is history/nonstationary information necessary for the identifiability of latent causal variables?
\item How do common assumptions in nonlinear ICA (i.e.,\ independent sources or linear relations assumptions) distort identifiability if there are time-delayed causal relations between the latent factors, or if the latent processes are nonlinearly related?
\item Does LEAP generalize when some critical assumptions in the proposed conditions are violated? For instance, how does it perform in the presence of instantaneous or changing causal influences?
\end{enumerate}
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\paragraph{Evaluation Metrics} To measure the identifiability of latent causal variables, we compute \textit{Mean Correlation Coefficient} (MCC) on the validation dataset, a standard metric in the ICA literature for continuous variables. MCC reaches \texttt{1} when latent variables are perfectly identifiable up to permutation and componentwise invertible transformation in the noiseless case (we use Pearson correlation and rank correlation for linearly and nonlinearly related latent processes, respectively). To evaluate the recovery performance on causal relations, we use different approaches for (1) linear and (2) nonlinear transitions:\
(1) the entries of estimated state transition matrices are compared with the true ones after permutation, signs, and scaling are adjusted, and
(2) the estimated causal skeleton is compared with the true data structure, and \textit{Structural Hamming Distance} (SHD) is computed.
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\paragraph{Baselines and Ablation}
We experimented with three kinds of nonlinear ICA baselines: \textbf{(1)} BetaVAE \citep{higgins2016beta} and FactorVAE \citep{kim2018disentangling} which ignore both history and nonstationarity information; \textbf{(2)} iVAE \citep{khemakhem2020variational} and TCL \cite |
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this doesn't sound like sandy is in trouble. what's up?
DUBLIN, Ohio, March 1, 1999--The Hennepin County Library, known for its commitment to advancement in the field of subject headings, has become an OCLC member.
For years, the Minnetonka, Minnesota, library has been a leader in this field, particularly among public libraries, and Hennepin is now, because of its extensive subject heading listings, often described as the envy of many in the library community.
Much of the library's success can be attributed to Sanford Berman, the esteemed head cataloger at the Hennepin County Library. Throughout his more than 30-year career--with 25 years spent at Hennepin--Mr. Berman worked to expand and transform the Library of Congress (LC) standardized subject headings. His efforts have helped to eliminate many biased and racist headings from LC's subject headings, and to build the Hennepin County Library into what it represents today.
MINITEX, the OCLC-affiliated U.S. regional network that provides services to libraries in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota, is pleased with the library's decision to join OCLC.
"Hennepin County's joining OCLC will enhance resource sharing throughout the three-state region and will add to the MINITEX database of bibliographic records in OCLC," said William DeJohn, director, MINITEX Library Information Network. "Having Hennepin County Library in OCLC will greatly assist library staffs as well as library users to know what they hold in their collections. We're particularly pleased by OCLC's efforts to support the existing collaboration between Hennepin County and NoveList, which will benefit other OCLC members by making Hennepin's subject headings available for use."
Hennepin County's use rate is one of the highest in the country, with the number of visits to its libraries totaling more than 4.5 million, and the number of books and other materials borrowed at more than 10 million. The public library system serves 700,000-plus suburban Minneapolis residents through three area libraries, 23 community libraries, one Readmobile and outreach services. Three Hennepin County Library staff members--Mr. Berman, Charles M. Brown, library director, and Gretchen Wronka, youth services coordinator--currently serve on the American Library Association's 175-member governing council.
Elizabeth Feinberg, manager, Collection and Bibliographic Services for Hennepin County Library, cites a changing environment and the desire to share Hennepin's unique approach as the impetus for joining OCLC.
"The time was right for this collaboration, and we are all very excited about the opportunities that this new relationship with OCLC will bring about for us at Hennepin County, and for the rest of the library community," she said.
Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link more than 33,000 libraries in 67 countries and territories. OCLC is dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs.
In the United States, more information is available via telephone (+1-614-764-6000 or 1-800-848-5878) or via e-mail ([email protected]). In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, contact the OCLC Europe office, located in Birmingham, United Kingdom (+44 |||PHONE_NUMBER||| ). In Asia and the Pacific region, contact the OCLC Asia Pacific office in Dublin, Ohio (phone: +1-614-764-6189 or fax: +1-614-764-4331). In Canada, contact the OCLC Canada office in Montreal, Quebec (+1-450-658-6583 or 1-888-658-6583). In Latin America and the Caribbean, contact the OCLC Latin America and the Caribbean office in Dublin, Ohio (phone: +1-614-761-5196 or fax: +1-614-718-1026).
Well, if you receive additional documentation, you will see that HCL restricted him from making revisions to this documents (revisions that were requested of him by OCLC). Further, HCL would not entertain his wish to have references to his name removed given that his revisions were ignored and that he did not wish to have inaccurate information associated with his name.
Most importantly, however, is that the revisions he suggested were supportive, useful revisions |
(an average loss of 157 per week) and the 2003 spike to over 35,000 . . . . Well, something happened in '03 that really opened the floodgates, and I'll bet it wasn't free milk and cookies over at the Unitarians' place.
If you extend the figures out over the next hundred years, assuming that they remain constant, you can ascertain that the Episcopal Church will be mathematically extinct in 72 years.
I will accept your numbers, but not your interpretation. I would direct you to http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/2004GrowthReport(1).pdf. Prior to 2003, the Episcopal Church had experienced a very gradual, slight decline, attributable to the declining birthrate, and less than other mainline denominations. And in the same period the percentage of churches experiencing 10% growth was close to that of those experiencing 10% loss.
We may well have lost 70,000 between 2002 and 2004. Perhaps they all went to "continuing Anglican" or "orthodox Anglican" churches. However, the facts that during those years contributions actually went up suggests that many of those who had left had long since ceased to be active in Episcopal Churches. This is not to say "good riddance." If they find they can become active in new congregations when they couldn't before, well and good. However, it is too soon to tell whether they will in fact become active anywhere.
And, will this trend continue? There is no reason to believe that this will be a long trend. Once those committed to leaving have done so, the trend may well level off, and we may be holding our own again. Indeed, relieved of arguing over whom Christ loves, we may well be able to return to showing the love of Christ, reaching out to new people, and so begin to grow again.
The writer of the quote below is right initially. The overt, presenting issue is gay sex, etc. However, it goes far deeper than that. It is the deeply felt perception of the 'right' that the issues lie with doctrine, the authority of the Scriptures, who Christ really is and what His mission truly was, etc. Trying to be neutral, the 'right' perceives that the 'left' has left tradional Christianity behind. That is fundamentally at the heart of the problem. I think there is also a growing awareness that those on the 'left' are as possionate about their beliefs as are those on the 'right'. And (this is my personal opinion) this awareness was not always there but truly has grown over the past 30 years, especially the past 10 years.
I think (and again this is my opinion) that the conversation in New York this week should have taken place years ago. Perhaps both sides would have had a healthier, less rancourous, kinder, and more understanding view of one another.
Well, that's my 2 cents worth. It's hard, isn't it, when there are so many good folks on both sides.
...why not just say "OK" if you can get 2/3 vote of any particular congregation; then good riddence...then everyone could get on with business. Do we like this fight too much?
The reaction to this suggestion shows that those on both sides are indeed worshiping this fight more than Jesus. The idea of allowing parishes with a 2/3 vote to leave was a reasonable one; it is clear it would be a small number of parishes (regardless of the numbers who have left TEC over the last few years). Yet immediately people on the right started the arguing over how many had already left, while those on the left here and elsewhere say these folks have no right to the parish structures even if they essentially paid for it. To my friends I say that is the type of legalism that Jesus hates, and which we decry, and is simply an excuse for your real desire== wanting to "win."
This battle is hindering the Gospel, and people on both sides just can't let it go. It is so sad.
Here is a suggestion. Bishop Lee, if Truro and Falls Church overwhelmingly vote to leave, work out a deal where they keep their property. Don't require them to ransom it. Dont give them any other assets, just those that they have built up with their tithes and offerings. In Newark and elsehwhere, there are at best only a few small parishes that would even consider moving to AMIA or one of the other groups; if they vote to do so, let them. Dont fight, dont require them to pay hundreds of thousands, just say go and we will pray for you. While you are at it, tell them you forgive them and hope they come back sometime. For Network Dioceses, let |
of other examples of behavior by Christians throughout history that ranged from questionable to deplorable.
If this religion truly comes from the Source of all love, would you not expect to see better behavior from its adherents? This was probably one of the bigger stumbling blocks for me.
What I realized, however, was that this religion does not claim that merely saying the words “I am a Christian” conjures up some magic spell that automatically makes someone an angel. Anyone can claim to be an adherent of this religion, regardless of whether or not they are truly seeking to follow Christ. Also, I saw that it is actually a tenet of Christianity that even people who truly seek to live a Christian life can expect to mess up sometimes, since everyone — including even the most dedicated Christians — faces constant temptation to sin.
Also, I began to see that there is tremendous anecdotal evidence of people’s lives being transformed in powerful, unimaginable ways by conforming their lives to the teachings of this religion and seek deeper communion with Christ. I was particularly struck by reading about the lives of the saints and the early Christians, many of whom went to their deaths for their beliefs.
And, finally, once I became a Christian, I saw the fruits of this religion for myself. I saw that by seeking to follow the founder of this religion, Jesus Christ, and to live the way he said we should live (even the hard parts), my life was transformed inside and out. These teachings worked a little too well, fit a little too perfectly, and brought me too much deep peace for them to have been made up by men.
That’s the quick (well, as quick as possible) summary of what I mean when I say I converted to Christianity for intellectual reasons.
I love how you think this all through and share it with us, Jen. It is always so interesting, especially because this is not how I came into my faith. So much of this was truly a given for me in my faith journey, though I inevitably had to wrestle with some of it as I became an adult and moved through those early adult years. But seeing it from your eyes is always insightful. Not that my own conclusions would change any, of course, but it's amazing how so many people can come to the same basic conclusion but through totally unique lenses and experience. Have a blessed week!
I have been lurking on your blog for quite some time now, and it was one of the things that pushed me to finally join an RCIA class after years of feeling pulled towards Catholicism. I am now officially a Catechumen!
I am really struggling, though. I was raised an atheist, and I am having trouble with a couple of things. The biggest one is getting my mind around the reality of God! I remember your post about it being difficult for God to prove himself. I had a very powerful instance of an answered prayer back in September which instantly prompted me to start attending mass and join the RCIA group. And some days I still know that I am on the right path even if I don't understand it (someone pointed out to me that this IS faith!) But most of the time I am just going through the motions, without truly believing it. Is that enough?
I have read several times on your blog that living the life showed you the fruit of the religion. Maybe this sounds silly, but what do you mean by that? I am going to mass, and working towards being received into the church at Easter. I am trying to pray with my children, we are reading children's books about Christianity and the saints. I go to mass every Sunday. And yet something tells me this isn't really what you are talking about – or at least not the ONLY thing you are talking about! Can you point me in the right direction?
"What I realized, however, was that this religion does not claim that merely saying the words "I am a Christian" conjures up some magic spell that automatically makes someone an angel."
My reflection on Jesus in the desert in Luke's Gospel made me realize that the devil quotes Scripture. We can all fall prey to self-deception.
but, did you ever come to a point of true repentence? without this, it is just a 'decision', head knowledge, not a condition of the heart. one has to truly understand what a wretched sinner one is and repent to an almighty God for one's sins. until that point, God cannot even look at him. a person can decide all he wants that Jesus is who He claimed to be, but until one comes to the end of himself, humbles himself, truly understands what a wretch he is, and repents…then it is only a 'decision' and not true salvation. the demons know who Christ is, and they tremble….but are they saved?
"Love is not something you find in a book." Amen to that! Amen that love is real in a heart pounding, mind numbing, blood and sweat pouring, sweet and painful way all wrapped into One |
Explanatory Note: While the registrant is not subject to the filing requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, it has filed all reports required to be filed by such filing requirements during the preceding 12 months.
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Hexion Inc. (“Hexion” or the “Company”) serves global industrial markets through a broad range of thermoset technologies, specialty products and technical support for customers in a diverse range of applications and industries. The Company’s business is organized based on the products offered and the markets served. At September 30, 2018, the Company had three reportable segments: Epoxy, Phenolic and Coating Resins; Forest Products Resins; and Corporate and Other.
Revenue Recognition—The Company follows the principles-based five step model to recognize revenue upon the transfer of promised goods or services to customers and in an amount that reflects the consideration for which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Revenue, net of estimated allowances and returns, is recognized when the Company has completed its performance obligations under a contract and control of the product is transferred to the customer. Substantially all revenue is recognized at the time shipment is made or upon delivery as risk and title to the product transfer to the customer. Sales, value add, and other taxes that are collected concurrently with revenue-producing activities are excluded from revenue. Contract terms for certain transactions, including sales made on a consignment basis, result in the transfer of control of the finished product to the customer prior to the point at which the Company has the right to invoice for the product. In these cases, timing of revenue recognition will differ from the timing of invoicing to customers and will result in the Company recording a contract asset. At September 30, 2018, a contract asset balance of $12 is recorded within “Other current assets” with a corresponding decrease of $10 recorded within “Finished and in-process goods” in the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. Refer to Note 10 for additional discussion of the Company’s net sales by reportable segment disaggregated by geographic region.
Subsequent Events—The Company has evaluated events and transactions subsequent to September 30, 2018 through the date of issuance of its unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Cash and Cash Equivalents— The Company considers all highly liquid investments that are purchased with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. The Company’s restricted cash balances of $16 and $18 as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively, represent deposits to secure certain bank guarantees issued to third parties to guarantee potential obligations of the Company primarily related to the completion of tax audits and environmental liabilities. These balances will remain restricted as long as the underlying exposures exist and are included in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as a component of “Cash and cash equivalents.” Following the adoption of ASU 2016-18: Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230) Restricted Cash, the Company includes restricted cash in the cash and cash equivalents balance of the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
In November 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Board Update No. 2016-18: Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230) Restricted Cash (“ASU 2016-18”) as part of the FASB simplification initiative. ASU 2016-18 requires that amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents should be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of period total amounts shown on the statement of cash flows. ASU 2016-18 also requires supplemental disclosure regarding the nature of restrictions on a company’s cash and cash equivalents, such as the purpose and terms of the restriction, expected duration of the restriction and the amount of cash subject to restriction. The guidance was effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within that reporting period. The Company adopted ASU 2016-18 as of January 1, 2018. As a result of adopting ASU 2016-18, the beginning and ending cash balances within the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows now include restricted cash as of September 30, 2018 and 2017. The impact of the adoption of this standard on the Company’s unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows is disclosed above in the cash and cash equivalents section of this footnote.
The impact of these pension and OPEB accounting policy changes were applied through retrospective adoption of the new ASU 201 |
CHARACTERIZATION OF DYNAMIC FLOW CONDITIONS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROCARRIERSCAFFOLDS IN ROTATING BIOREACTORS FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING
INTRODUCTION Bone grafting surgeries using autograft and allograft have been widely used by the orthopedic surgeons to repair or replace damaged or disordered bone. However, autograft is restricted by the limited availability and donor-site complications, and allograft has a risk of transmission disease. Due to the limitations associated with bone grafts, tissue-engineering approaches have been widely used for the development of bone substitutes. Studies have suggested that the limited diffusion in static culture environments may constrain tissue ingrowth in tissue-engineered constructs. To overcome the drawbacks associated with static culturing systems, high aspect ratio vessel (HARV) rotating bioreactor has been used to provide a form of dynamic flow culture condition to promote tissue synthesis. However, due to the intrinsic properties of normal scaffolds, the collision of the scaffolds with the bioreactor walls are unavoidable, leading to decreased tissue formation. In previous studies, we have described the development of novel poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLAGA, 50:50) hollow microsphere based three-dimensional (3D) lighter than water (LTW, density < 1 g/cm) scaffolds that have a density less than the media. These scaffolds had trajectories that facilitated media perfusion in the rotating bioreactors, and differentiation and mineralization of human osteoblastic cells (SaOS-2) seeded on these scaffolds were significantly enhanced [1]. In addition, we have also created “mix ed” scaffolds by combining heavier than water (HTW, density > 1 g/cm) and LTW microspheres [2]. In this study, we seek to further characterize the dynamic flow conditions suitable for culturing rat calvarial cells on mixed scaffolds composed of 85:15 PLAGA microspheres in rotating bioreactors in vitro. MATERIALS AND METHODS Scaffold preparation: The LTW and HTW biodegradable polymeric microspheres were fabricated using PLAGA copolymer in a 85:15 ratio as described previously [1]. The mixed scaffolds were fabricated by sintering the HTW and LTW microspheres in different size ranges (212300 μm, 300-425 μm, 425-500 μm, 500-600 μm, and 600-710 μm) and in different weight ratios (0, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100%) separately at 80oC for 3 hours. Scaffold motion tracking: The movement of scaffolds was tracked using a real time microcapsule visualization unit [3]. The scaffold tracking system is comprised of a CCD camera that is rotated in synchrony with a rotating bioreactor. Scaffold motion was recorded digitally and analyzed using Image Pro (Phase 3 Imaging). Scaffolds were visualized in a bioreactor rotating at 36-rpm rotation using the tracking apparatus, and the instantaneous velocity values of the scaffolds were calculated by dividing the distance traveled by the scaffold by the time interval between frames. Cell culture: Rat calvarial osteoblastic cells were isolated from 2-day old neonatal Sprague-Dawley rats by enzymatic digestive method, and maintained to passage 3. Cells were seeded dynamically onto microcarrier scaffolds composed of HTW to LTW microspheres sized from 425-500 μm in the ratio of 1.5:1 in the rotating bioreactor at a density of 2 x 10 4 cells/cm for 24 hours, and the scaffolds were then separated into HARV vessels either maintained statically as controls or rotated at 36 rpm as rotating bioreactors. The cells were cultured in F12 media supplement with 15% FBS, 1% P/S, and 1% glucose, 1% ßglycerophosphate at 37°C and 5% CO2. The media were changed every 3 days, and the cultures were maintained for 7 days. At days 4 and 7, scaffolds were removed and characterized for the expression of osteocalcin and osteopontin. Octeocalcin and osteopontin expression: The expression of osteocalcin and osteopontin was analyzed using Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Briefly, the scaffolds with cells were lysed with 1% triton-X100. The protein amount was estimated by Biorad protein assay. Four micrograms of protein were added into each well of a 96-well plate at room temperature for 1 |
<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: No longer removes `code` and `state` from URL query
username_0: ### Bug description
The library used to eliminate the `code` and `state` fields in the url when it's done with them. It no longer does that.
### To Reproduce
1. Run the example project at https://github.com/inrupt/solid-client-authn-js/tree/master/packages/browser/examples/single/bundle
2. Log In
3. Observe that the URL is still `http://localhost:3001/?code=CODE&state=SESSION_ID`
### Expected result
The library will automatically direct to `http://localhost:3001/`. If the redirect URL included a query, it should simply remove the `code` and `state` fields. So if the url was `http://localhost:3001/search?searchterm=dogs&code=CODE&state=SESSION_ID` it should become `http://localhost:3001/search?searchterm=dogs`
### Environment
```
System:
OS: macOS 10.15.7
CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1038NG7 CPU @ 2.00GHz
Memory: 239.44 MB / 16.00 GB
Shell: 5.7.1 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 14.4.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
npm: 6.14.4 - /usr/local/bin/npm
Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
Browsers:
Chrome: 86.0.4240.111
Firefox: 81.0.2
Safari: 14.0
npmPackages:
@types/jest: ^26.0.13 => 26.0.15
@types/node-fetch: ^2.5.6 => 2.5.7
@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin: ^2.34.0 => 2.34.0
@typescript-eslint/parser: ^2.34.0 => 2.34.0
eslint: ^6.1.0 => 6.8.0
eslint-config-prettier: ^6.10.0 => 6.15.0
eslint-plugin-license-header: ^0.2.0 => 0.2.0
eslint-plugin-prettier: ^3.1.4 => 3.1.4
husky: ^4.2.3 => 4.3.0
jest: ^25.1.0 => 25.5.4
lerna: ^3.22.1 => 3.22.1
lerna-audit: ^1.2.0 => 1.2.0
license-checker: ^25.0.1 => 25.0.1
lint-staged: ^10.2.13 => 10.5.0
node-fetch: ^2.6.1 => 2.6.1
prettier: 2.1.1 => 2.1.1
rollup: ^2.26.11 => 2.32.1
rollup-plugin-typescript2: ^0.28.0 => 0.28.0
ts-jest: ^25.5.1 => 25.5.1
ts-loader: ^8.0.3 => 8.0.7
tsc-watch: ^4.2.9 => 4.2.9
typedoc: ^0.19.1 => 0.19.2
typedoc-plugin-markdown: ^3.0.7 => 3.0.11
typescript: ^3.9.7 => 3.9.7
webpack: ^4.44.1 => 4.44.1
webpack-bundle-analyzer: ^3.8.0 => 3.9.0
webpack-cli: ^4.1.0 => 4.1.0
webpack-merge: ^5.2.0 => 5.2.0
npmGlobalPackages:
@inrupt/generator-solid-react: 0.7.2
@inrupt/solid-auth-fetcher: 0.0.6
expo-cli: 3.2 |
When I write, I like to start with a killer opening, a real attention getter that has the reader salivating to see more. This will have to suffice.
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the term home schooling? What images come to your mind? Does it sound abnormal to you like thinking of someone eating pizza while drinking milk? (Okay. I admit it, some people like milk with their pizza. I find the image disturbing.) Does it sound like something you’d want to do, but doesn’t make practical sense. Perhaps you think of a friend or relative who home educates their children. Perhaps you’ve heard or even lived a home schooling success or horror story. Maybe you’ve never given the concept much thought.
Today’s article is not meant to be a defense of home schooling. I write a blog called Home School Dad, so don’t suspect I’m going to tear down the institution either.
What will follow is an answer to some of these questions. What made you interested in home schooling? What happened to make you the primary care parent/ home school teacher? Hey didn’t I see you backstage at the Barry Manilow concert? What does a typical day/week/month/semester look like?
I have, over the years, read many books, articles and blog posts about home education. Some of these materials allege that there are just a few main reasons why parents choose to home educate. I tend to disagree, I think the reasons why people home educate are as many and varied as the people out there home schooling. I have also found that individual motivations for home schooling tend to evolve over the years. I recently met a veteran home schooler in my area. She has two students in high school, one graduating this year. She told me that when she first started home education her main reason for doing so was fear of the sub-standard school system she was living in at the time. Over the years she has moved to a much better school system, one she would be proud to send her kids to. She continues to home educate, no longer from fear but because of the passion she has developed for it over the years.
My story is as follows: When I was in my mid to late twenties I started encountering home school families. At first the idea seemed unnatural to me. As I encountered more and more home school families, I decided that when I ever got married (which at that point seemed unlikely) and had children, I would be open to the idea of home education. During these rough and tumble years I lived in the rural Midwest, the suburban Midwest, in foreign cities and in the Southern United States. Each family I encountered was different, with varying reasons for choosing home schooling, different methods and goals. Some couples split the teaching between them, a concept which, at the time, appealed to me.
All of these observations and experience predated my marriage. Oddly enough, my then future wife was having similar experiences and observations back in her neck of the woods. She, like me, had decided to give home education a spin if she was ever to wed. We of course did wed and each other of all people. Surely enough, our dynamic duo became a terrific trio, a fantastic (Sorry, Marvel Comics) four, and then the quintessential quintet.
Before Amy and I did the old hitcheroo we made choices that eventually helped us with our initial foray into home schooling. Individually, and then corporately, we worked ourselves out of debt. We also made the decision to live only on one income from the inception of our marriage. Several months prior tot the birth of our first child we were completely debt free. This may not seem like it has much to do with home education. However, the first obstacle that many potential home school families face is whether they can live on one income. We hadn’t even decided if we were going to home school yet, but at least we were financially prepared.
Home Education for us began when Amy was expecting our first child. I would read children’s books in the direction of the baby (if you consider the Chronicles of Narnia, “children’s books”) and when our daughter was born we continued right where we left off. In those early years, aside from the copious amounts of time spent reading to her, we also explored the world with her. Some of this was on a small scale like playing with her at the park across the street; others were on a large scale like the trip we took to Ireland for my brother’s wedding. To us home schooling was just doing what you usually do, and bringing the kid. This exploring the world was soon augmented with Amy “playing school” at the table with our daughter and then playing school with our son while she actually did school at the table with our daughter.
We now interrupt this story.
Before I go on and get to the part of our story where I became the home educator in our family, I want to say just a few things about home schooling in general. Home education is |
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Constructive criticism on the Russian course.
Hello.
First of all, I love Duo Lingo and I am very grateful for Duo Lingo. I started with Duo not for the expressed purpose of learning a second language, but rather for the purpose of exercising my aging brain. Like a good exercise program, Duo proved to be fun and simple and required a relatively low-impact commitment. Most people know from their own experience that an exercise program that is not fun, not simple, and or requires a relatively high-impact commitment, is going to very difficult to adhere to for long enough to make real progress. (Committed athletes who have clearly defined goals would be the only obvious exceptions.)
I started with Spanish because I thought that there was a chance that I might actually be able to learn it and because it seemed to be the most practical in my life. It has been a rewarding experience and everything I hoped for. I added Russian because there are some things about that culture that particularly attract me. But it has not been so rewarding. I then added German because I took German in high school and so again thought I could make some progress, and I have.
Russian, though, continues to be the part of my exercise program that I don't enjoy, and I am thinking about dropping it. Duo says I am at level 6, but I feel that I still don't know the first thing about Russian. I would rather be at level 0, but making daily progress toward learning the Cyrillic alphabet. My feeling about Duo's Russian course is that it ramps up too fast. To an American born native English speaker, Russian is about as foreign as Chinese. I think Duo's Russian program could be improved by making it ramp up more slowly, taking little baby steps, learning the Cyrillic alphabet, and listening to spoken Russian, before trying to recognize full phrases that often don't match well with their American-English counterparts.
Thanks again, Duo, for the positive influence that you have in my life and in the world at large. You guys are doing great work!
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I rarely participate in internet discussion forums, because, like Forest Gump's mother famously said, "...you never know what you are going to get." The Duo community, it seems, is no exception.
Thank you to everyone who offered constructive advice.
To those of you criticizing my ludicrous perspective, the attainability of my goals, my fortitude, my perseverance, etc. - not as helpful.
My initial comment was titled "constructive criticism on the Russian course," because, in my opinion, born out of my love for Duo Lingo, the Russian course could be improved. I am not sure how my opinion, or any opinion that wants to improve Duo out of love for Duo, could be so radically wrong. But, I am certain that my opinion stinks as much as anyone else's.
For those of you who offered other resources for learning the Cyrillic alphabet, thank you. I might look into some of those resources. But, my comments were about improving Duo. There have been many other options for learning Russian since long before the internet even existed.
My goal, as I stated in my initial comment, is not to become fluent in Russian as quickly as I can. My goal is to exercise my brain. I like Duo because Duo provides the exercise program that I am looking for. I just feel that the Russian portion could be improved. I am a father. I remember countless hours of songs and games and fun while my child learned the English alphabet. It would be nice if Duo provided that same level of introduction into a language as foreign from my own as Russian. There is, built into Duo already, a method for more advanced students to skip this primary level of introduction if they want to, but for me, it would be just the right place to start.
Since this is a personal opinion about how Duo's Russian program could be improved, it seems that relevant comments should be limited to comments that agree, comments that disagree, or comments about other ways in which users feel Duo's Russian program could be improved.
If you're doing Duolingo only to exercise your brain and because you love duolingo, and you find the Russian course unpleasant, by all means drop the Russian course! One of the wonderful things about duolingo is that it offers us a way to sample a large range of languages. If you want to continue using duolingo as your fun mental exercise, why not try a couple lessons in a bunch of different languages and see which one appeals to you? Who knows, maybe you will even find Esperanto interesting... shameless plug
Esperanto is a very beautiful language indeed! Esperanto estas belega lingvo fakte! ;)
I think part of the issue is that your "constructive criticism" isn't very constructive, particularly since your complaints in part are addressed to aspects that the team cannot change.
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the British armed forces were ten times as likely as adult female personnel to be the victim of a sexual offence in 2021.
Intimate partners.
In 2022, research in the UK armed forces found that experience of intimate partner violence (IPV), a category that includes sexual abuse, was three times more prevalent among partners of military personnel than among partners of civilians. 10% of male and 7% of female personnel told the researchers they had abused their partner in the previous 12 months. The study found that physical and sexual abuse of partners was particularly common where personnel had traumatic experiences of war.
In the US armed forces, estimates of the sexual abuse of military partners indicate a similarly high rate of annual incidence, ranging from 12% to 40%.
Child cadets.
Cadet forces, common worldwide, are military youth organisations in communities and schools. Some evidence from the UK, where hundreds of complaints of the sexual abuse of cadets have been recorded since 2012, and from Canada, where one in ten complaints of sexual assault in the military are from the cadet organisations, indicate that these institutions are susceptible to a culture of sexual harassment.
Detainees.
Individuals detained by militaries are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment. During the Iraq War, for example, personnel of the U.S. Army and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) committed multiple human rights violations against detainees in Abu Ghraib prison, including rape, sodomy, and other forms of sexual abuse. Similarly, two Iraqi men detained on a Coalition warship at the start of the war were made to strip naked and were sexually humiliated.
Prevalence.
While prevalence varies by country, military branch, and other factors, official statistics and peer-reviewed research from Canada, France, the UK, and the US indicate that between a quarter and a third of military women in these countries are sexually harassed at work at least once each year.
Military training settings are characterised by a particularly high level of sexual harassment and assault relative to both the civilian population and other military settings.
Research further shows an increase in perpetration during and after deployment on military operations.
Studies of sexual harassment have found that it is markedly more common in military than civilian settings For example, between 2015 and 2020, girls aged 16 or 17 in the British armed forces were twice as likely as their same-age civilian peers to report rape or other sexual assault.
Risk factors.
Several reasons for a high prevalence of sexual harassment in the military have been suggested.
A Canadian study has found that key risk factors associated with military settings are the typically young age of personnel, the isolated locations of bases, the minority status of women, and the disproportionate number of men in senior positions.
An emphasis in military organisations on conformity, obedience, and hierarchical power relations, combine to increase the risk, particularly to personnel of low rank, who are less able than others to resist inappropriate expectations made of them.
Traditionally masculine values and behaviours that are rewarded and reinforced in military settings are also thought to play a role.
In the UK, the 2019 "Wigston Review" into inappropriate sexual behaviours in the armed forces reported that several military factors contributed to risk: 'tight-knit units that perceive themselves as "elite"; masculine cultures with low gender diversity; rank gradients; age gradients; weak or absent controls, especially after extensive operational periods; and alcohol.'
Effects.
Women affected by sexual harassment are more likely than other women to suffer stress-related mental illness afterwards.
Research in the US found that when sexual abuse of female military personnel was psychiatrically traumatic, the odds of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after deployment on operations increased by a factor of nine, and the odds of suicide more than doubled.
Research in the US has found that personnel affected by sexual harassment are somewhat less likely to develop depression or PTSD if a formal report leads to effective action to address the issue.
Institutional responses.
The military leadership in some countries has begun to acknowledge a culture of sexual misconduct among personnel. For example:
Since the number of official complaints represents only a fraction of sexual harassment incidence, armed forces committed to reducing prevalence produce periodic estimates of its true extent by means of anonymised surveys.
Other prevention initiatives, varying by country, include bystander and diversity training, and helplines. Despite these steps, official statistics in Canada, the UK, and the US over the last decade show high and increasing rates of harassment.
Barriers to redress.
Military personnel are frequently reluctant to report incidents of sexual misconduct:
Sexual harassment in the military: country examples.
Australia.
Widespread reports of sexual harassment in the Australian armed forces led to the establishment of the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce to investigate complaints from women between 1991 and 2011. It received 2,439 complaints, of which it deemed 1,751 to be plausible.
A Royal Commission into institutional |
important to note that the 2009/10 financial year could be broken down into two periods. The first period included work up to the end of September 2009, under the old system. The second period referred to activities after September 2009, when the Secretariat was undergoing re-organisation and reform. The majority of the activities reported on occurred during the second period, after September 2009. There was an earlier acknowledgment that most of the work would focus on institutional reform, which explained why the budget was aligned to that. The vision and mission had changed slightly from what was presented in June 2009, but was the same vision and mission presented to the Committee in January 2010. The same applied to the objectives, which were now included in the introduction to the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service Bill [B16B – 2010] (the Bill).
Ms Irish-Qobosheane noted that there was a budget of R21,9 million for 2009/10. An amount of R16,9 million (77%) was spent. There was an under-spending of R4,9 million. She said there were specific reasons for this under-spending. Firstly, the majority of the budget was spent after September 2009. Due to the anticipated restructuring not many activities happened during the period up to September 2009. In addition, an amount of R3,9 million (and not R3 million as reflected in the report), was previously budgeted for the corporate branding exercise, the Soccerex. The idea was to stage a soccer exhibition where the Secretariat would have a stall. When this proposal landed on the desk of the new Secretary it was decided that it was not a valid expense. After consultation with the National Commissioner of Police, the proposed expenditure for this was thus rejected. It had originally been thought that it would be appropriate for the operational arm of SAPS to have that kind of exposure prior to the World Cup, and to spend the money on developing a data management system for the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit. However, after discussions with the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and Information Systems Management (ISM), it was clear that the money would not be able to be spent, due to the tendering and other formal process.
Further key reasons for under-expenditure included the decision not to pay overtime in an ad hoc manner. Staff were instructed to finish duties within normal hours, and, to give explanations when they could not do so. The only staff who were allowed to claim for overtime were the messengers and drivers, who had little control over the time required for a specific job. That did not mean that some of the senior managers were no longer working overtime or over weekends, but simply that they were not claiming for overtime. This had reduced the spending from the budgeted R232 000 for overtime, to only R52 000. Another reason for underexpenditure related to new office equipment. Here, an amount of R779 000 was budgeted by the Secretariat. When the equipment was purchased, the money, according to the new SAPS policy, was paid from a central ISM budget.
The unusually large expenditure for the Policy and Research Unit was due to an outstanding payment to Centre for Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) for a report completed in April 2009. Annexure A provided a breakdown of the total expenditure.
The reason for exceeding the personnel budget was the need for the Secretariat to build capacity in order to deliver on its mandate. It was necessary to appoint three Chief Directors to head up each of the new units whilst the position of Secretary of Police was upgraded. Annexures B and C merely reflected the other vacancies that had not been filled. These vacancies represented lower levels, and might change after the Ministerial approval of the restructuring plans.
There was no cost for the work study and skills audit performed by Deloitte &Touche, due to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU with business partnerships. The Office of the Secretary of Police (OSP) had developed Performance Agreements for the new Chief Directors whilst Human Resource Management (HRM) worked with senior management to redesign the Performance Agreements for all other employees. OSP held three workshops with all the provincial Heads of Department (HODs) to promote alignment. OSP held workshops with various civil society groups on the reforms at the Secretariat. It established a legal team to manage the legislative load of the Secretariat. As part of its research into best practices, OSP interacted with various international bodies. Several tasks were also performed by OSP to support the Minister in his functions. OSP had to facilitate the Strategic Planning for the Secretariat. It also performed various activities with regard to the Firearms Amnesty and the implementation of the Firearms Control Act.
Mr Dumezweni Zimu, Head |
e.g. $\pi^0,~\eta,~\rho^0,~\phi$).
Cross section measurements as a function of $s$ and $t$ that allow us to test the theoretical models are expected to start in Phase Two of PANDA.
In the following, we focus on EMFFs, in line with the emphasis of Phase One.
\subsection{State of the art}
Elastic electron-proton scattering has been studied since the 1950s \cite{Hofstadter:1956qs}. During the first decades, unpolarised electron-nucleon scattering was analysed using the Rosenbluth separation method \cite{rosenbluth}. Modern facilities, offering high-intensity lepton beams and high-resolution detectors, gave rise to a renewed interest in the field \cite{Perdrisat:2006hj,Puckett:2010ac}.
In particular, the polarisation transfer method \cite{Akhiezer:1968ek} applied by the JLab-GEp collaboration
(see \cite{Puckett:2010ac} and references therein) revealed the surprising result that the ratio $G_E/G_M$ decreases almost linearly with $Q^2 = -q^2$.
This result is in contrast to previous measurements based on a Rosenbluth method using unpolarised elastic $ep$ scattering which do not reveal such a dependency.
The correction of the unpolarised elastic $ep$ cross section by the two-photon exchange (TPE) contribution has been suggested to solve this
discrepancy~\cite{guichon:2003}. The TPE correction does not impact the polarization transfer extraction of $G_E/G_M$ in a significant way.
The large amount of high-quality data inspired extensive activity also on
the theory side, from which we have learned about the importance of vector dominance at low $q^2$ \cite{vectordom,hammer2020}.
Until recently, measurements in the time-like region have not achieved precisions comparable to the corresponding space-like data, partly because most $e^+e^-$ colliders have been optimised in different $q^2$ regions \cite{Denig2013,Pacetti2015}. In $\bar p p$ annihilation experiments, the clean identification of $e^+e^-$ pairs has been a challenge. Among the few experiments that so far have provided a separation between $G_E$ and $G_M$ of the proton, the results at overlapping energies disagree. The ratio $R=|G_E|/|G_M|$, accessible from the final state angular distribution, has been measured below $q^2=9$ (GeV/$c$)$^2$ by PS170 at LEAR \cite{Bardin:1994am}, BABAR \cite{Lees:2013uta} and more recently by BESIII \cite{Ablikim:2015vga, Ablikim:2019njl, Ablikim:2021kjh} and CMD-3 \cite{Akhmetshin:2015ifg}. The PS170 and BABAR data differ up to 3$\sigma$, while the BESIII and CMD-3 measurements have large total uncertainties. In the limit $|q^2| \to \infty$, the space-like and the time-like form factors should approach the same value as a consequence of the Phragm{\'e}n-Lindel\"of theorem \cite{phragmen}. Experimentally, the onset of this scale has not been established (see Ref. \cite{Pacetti2015} for a recent review). In measurements just below $|q^2| = 20.25$ (GeV/$c$)$^2$, the time-like magnetic form factor is about two times larger than the corresponding space-like one. A recent analysis of BaBar data above $|q^2| = 20.25$ (GeV/$c$)$^2$, indicates a decreasing difference, but the uncertainties are large \cite{Lees:2013uta}.
In 2019, the BESIII collaboration measured the Born cross section of the process $e^+ e^- \to \bar{p} p$ and the proton EMFFs at 22 centre-of-mass energy points from $q^2 = 4$ (GeV/$c$)$^2$ to $q^2 = 9.5$ (GeV/$c$)$^2$ with an improved accuracy \cite{Ablikim:2019eau}, comparable to data in the space-like region |
Vowel Sound Synthesis from Electroencephalography during Listening and Recalling
Recent advances in brain imaging technology have furthered our knowledge of the neural basis of auditory and speech processing, often via contributions from invasive brain signal recording and stimulation studies conducted intraoperatively. Herein, an approach for synthesizing vowel sounds straightforwardly from scalp‐recorded electroencephalography (EEG), a noninvasive neurophysiological recording method is demonstrated. Given cortical current signals derived from the EEG acquired while human participants listen to and recall (i.e., imagined) two vowels, /a/ and /i/, sound parameters are estimated by a convolutional neural network (CNN). The speech synthesized from the estimated parameters is sufficiently natural to achieve recognition rates >85% during a subsequent sound discrimination task. Notably, the CNN identifies the involvement of the brain areas mediating the “what” auditory stream, namely the superior, middle temporal, and Heschl's gyri, demonstrating the efficacy of the computational method in extracting auditory‐related information from neuroelectrical activity. Differences in cortical sound representation between listening versus recalling are further revealed, such that the fusiform, calcarine, and anterior cingulate gyri contributes during listening, whereas the inferior occipital gyrus is engaged during recollection. The proposed approach can expand the scope of EEG in decoding auditory perception that requires high spatial and temporal resolution.
surgery. In addition, there might be the possibility of revealing subtle but important differences between presented and recalled sound stimuli if the neural activity could be sampled over the entire brain, including areas and circuits extending vastly beyond the primary auditory cortex but still operating synergistically with it. Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) are noninvasive methods for recording whole-brain activity that attain high temporal resolution while sacrificing spatial resolution. Due to the coarse-grained acquisition even in their highest-density implementations, it is generally assumed that EEG and MEG do not convey information sufficiently specific for synthesizing speech or other sounds. The inherent limitations, however, can be alleviated via solving the inverse problem under optimal constraints. For example, we have shown the efficacy of a distributed source localization method based on a variational Bayesian approach. [6] Using EEG cortical current sources (EEG-CCS) estimated by the method, we succeeded in decoding differences in wrist electromyographical activity, [7] vowels, [8] and finger movements [9] from the scalp-recorded EEG, and further revealed the contribution of physiologically plausible brain areas to decoding. Therefore, there might be the possibility of successfully synthesizing presented and recalled speech sounds from the EEG for the first time.
In this proof-of-concept study, we demonstrate a method for synthesizing vowel-speech sounds that were physically presented or recalled by means of combining EEG-CCS estimation, a suitable sound representation via the mel-cepstral coefficients (MCC) and a convolutional neural network (CNN), a machine learning method. We hypothesized that, insofar as the synthesized sounds are sufficiently clear to allow discriminating between the vowels, the obtained decoders (i.e., synthesizer) would extract information primarily from the auditory cortical areas encompassed in a functional stream known as the "what" stream, which is a ventral auditory pathway that mediates the recognition of auditory information. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] In addition, obtaining viable CNN decoders could provide novel insights into neural representation differences between presented and recalled sounds. The eventual synthesis of intelligible speech from the EEG would potentially deepen our understanding of auditory perception and open the way to a range of hypothetical future applications such as a brain-computer interface.
Successful Synthesis of Presented and Recalled Auditory Stimuli
We recorded EEG signals from human participants during listening (0-0.3 s from stimulus onset) and recalling (1.0-2.0 s from onset) of speech sounds for the vowels /a/ and /i/. Thereafter, EEG-CCS signals were estimated for each segment (i.e., vertex) on the cortical surface based on relatively low-density EEG time-series (32 channels) combined with a structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image, sensor position data, and hierarchical priors from fMRI activations ( Figure 1). Vocal tract filter parameters known as the MCC alongside the vocal cord frequency (i.e., pitch) were extracted from the original speech sounds to provide a compact and perceptually motivated representation (see "Speech Representation and Synthesis" section in Experimental Section and Figure 2A). [18,19] Differences between vowel phonemes are robustly encoded by the MCC, and the vocal cord frequency (i.e., pitch) was matched as the speech was sampled from one voice. Therefore, the MCC parameters for presented and recalled sounds were estimated from the EEG-CCS Figure 1. Overview of the EEG-CCS estimation workflow. |
are reluctant to monkey with that institution. And in response people throw up extreme arguments to prove that the entire institution is flawed.
Anonymous poster, your arguments are silly, I'm sure you realize that. Because of brake failures we don't ban brakes on cars, and because of drunk driving, we don't ban passenger automobiles either. But that's what your arguments are similar to.
Try to follow me here - because marriage has been between a man and a woman since the dawn of history, people are reluctant to water it down through allowing other kinds of marriage. In other words, it's been beat up enough through the conditions you mention, let's not do more damage to families in the process.
It's funny, your arguments kind of make my point though - you bring up single-mom households, forbidding divorce, etc as things to outlaw, the implication being that they are bad for kids and therefore government has an interest in eliminating or at least minimizing those conditions. So, by implication, you are putting same-sex marriage in the same category?
Hmmm....
Posted by: JD | December 1, 2006 1:41 PM
There is no bigotry or discrimination here, gay people can marry some one of the opposite sex (a simple, common-sense prerequisite) just like any heterosexual can. No difference = no discrimination.
Yes, our nation does not recognize marriages between same-sex couples, nor does it recognize marrages among more than 2 people, nor does it recognize marriages between parents and children or between siblings, not does it recognize marriages if one or both are below the age of consent.
Now some of you may consider that to be discriminatory practices but it cannot be considered bigotry by any stretch of the imagination.
So, who wants to be the first to buy a silk purse made only from the purest sow's ears? ;-D
Posted by: Rufus | December 1, 2006 1:49 PM
And would you believe those nasty Judeo-Christian types forbid marriage between different species? Oh, the humanities! Heh-heh.
Posted by: Rufus | December 1, 2006 1:56 PM
We see how far that argument got Santorum. Keep trotting it out, please.
Posted by: Marylander | December 1, 2006 1:59 PM
Whose interest is served by children placed with, or by surragate birth, to same sex couples? It certainly is not that of the children. And there is no body of evidence that has real standing that can support such a position.
The problem is that it is only with generational anaylsis that such a position can even begin to be suported. The bigger problem is that in order to do this, it is necessary for the placement of children into such circumstances for what, 40, 50, 60 years.
And so the first and most important question is not one of appropriatness, or of its being a legal right. More simply stated: Is this natural? It is not necessary even to bring in questions of religion or theology.
I'm confident the self serving proponents of this unnatural sexual relationship will come up with some historically obscure, or current deviant culture to refute my positon. But can it be proved to be throughout the history of man (I know this is not PC) to be a natural relationship?
In the animal and insect world, this is a snap, but I cannot believe they would even dare to go there.
When do we hear from the children proposed for this relationship? I'd hope never. But a current statistically small number could, I suppose, be already be heard from. Not from the span of experiences of a sexually balanced long life, but from an unreasonably short life during which they have been influenced and inculcated (and yes, loved) by those who cannot have been able to in any way, provide a possible balanced life experience.
Childhood experiences set the paths we take for innumerable choices and values. It is this very fact that is most disturbing because in the process of trying to simply prove or to establish what gays want for themselves, first and ultimately, and then, presumably, for the child, there will have to be sacrificed, hordes of children for at least an entire generation... without any guarantee or reasonable assurance their premise is will be supported.
Along with the many other in-your-face issues they propose, they use children to position for their "rights". I find this reprehensible. But I do go along with many of their issues...as to taxes and property, etc.
Non-sexual co-habitation of two devoted men or women is a clear choice. But this has not been given the first word or consideration that I have heard. I can just hear the wails of protest in this regard. Doing so brings into sharp focus, the unchallengable premise, that homosexual sex is, and has always |
\begin{center}\begin{tikzcd}
\mathcal{D}'\ar[d,"U'",shift left=1mm]\ar[r,"V'",shift left=1mm]&\mathcal{D}\ar[l,"F'",shift left=1mm]\ar[d,"U",shift left=1mm]\\
\mathcal{C}'\ar[r,"V",shift left=1mm]\ar[u,"T'",shift left=1mm]&\mathcal{C}\ar[u,"T",shift left=1mm]\ar[l,"F",shift left=1mm]
\end{tikzcd}\end{center}
be the associated monadic distributive square. Suppose that $F$ is equipped with an augmentation $\epsilon$ such that $T\epsilon\circ c = \epsilon T$. Then $\epsilon$ lifts to an augmentation on $F'$, and moreover
\[
TB(I,F,\epsilon_F^\ast C)\cong B(I,F',\epsilon_{F'}^\ast TC)
\]
for $C\in\mathcal{C}$.
\end{prop}
\begin{proof}
The given assumption on the augmentation of $F$ implies that $T\epsilon\colon TF\rightarrow T$ is a map of monads, and this gives rise to the augmentation on $F'$. The claimed isomorphism of bar constructions follows from \cref{lem:basechangebar} and the isomorphisms $T'\epsilon_F^\ast\simeq \epsilon_{F'}^\ast T$ and $\epsilon_{F'!}T'\simeq T\epsilon_{F!}$.
\end{proof}
\begin{prop}\label{prop:homologydistributive}
Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a discrete additive theory, and fix discrete projective augmented $\mathcal{P}$-algebras $T$ and $F$. Suppose that we have chosen a distributive law $c\colon FT\rightarrow TF$ such that $\epsilon_T\epsilon_F\circ c = \epsilon_F\epsilon_T$. Then the composite monad $T\circ F$ is augmented, and if each $H_n(T)$ is projective, then $H_n(T\circ F)\cong \bigoplus_{i+j=n}H_i(F)\circ H_j(T)$.
\end{prop}
\begin{proof}
It is easily verified that $\epsilon_T\epsilon_F$ makes $TF$ into an augmented monad. Now write the monadic distributive square associated to the composite $TF$ as
\begin{center}\begin{tikzcd}
\mathcal{D}'\ar[d,"U'",shift left=1mm]\ar[r,"V'",shift left=1mm]&\mathcal{D}\ar[l,"F'",shift left=1mm]\ar[d,"U",shift left=1mm]\\
\mathcal{C}'\ar[r,"V",shift left=1mm]\ar[u,"T'",shift left=1mm]&\mathcal{C}\ar[u,"T",shift left=1mm]\ar[l,"F",shift left=1mm]
\end{tikzcd}.\end{center}
Then there is a natural map
\[
\epsilon_{TF!}\epsilon_{TF}^\ast\simeq \epsilon_{F!}\epsilon_{T'!}\epsilon_{F'}^\ast\epsilon_T^\ast\rightarrow\epsilon_{F!}\epsilon_F^\ast\epsilon_{T!}\epsilon_T^\ast
\]
which we claim is an isomorphism; here, these functors are to be interpreted in the derived sense. It is sufficient to verify that this map induces
\[
V\epsilon_{T'!}\epsilon_{F'}^\ast TP\simeq V \epsilon_F^\ast \epsilon_{T!} TP
\]
for $P\in\mathcal{P}$. The right hand side is simply $P$, and we compute the left hand side to be
\[
V\epsilon_{T'!}\epsilon_{F'^\ast}TP\simeq V\epsilon_{T'!}T'\epsilon_F^\ast P\simeq V\epsilon_F^\ast P\simeq P.
\]
When each $H_n(T)$ is projective, we can split $\epsilon_{T!}\epsilon_T^\ast P\simeq \bigoplus_{n\geq 0}\Sigma^n H_n(T)_P$ for $P\in\mathcal{P}$. Thus in this case we have
\begin{align*}
H_n(T\circ F)_P &= \pi_n \epsilon_{TF!}\epsilon_{TF}^\ast P\cong \pi_n \epsilon_{F!}\ |
The future of the Northern Ireland Assembly has been thrown into question, the result of allegations relating to the financial affairs of Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland’s first minister and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson.
On January 5 the BBC Spotlight current affairs programme broadcast an episode revealing that between June and August 2008 Iris Robinson obtained £50,000 from two property developers and used this to help her lover, 19-year-old Kirk McCambley, set up a business. It is alleged that after giving the £50,000 to McCambley, Robinson then asked him to give her £5,000 back.
Iris Robinson, a former councillor was elected as DUP Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom (MP) for Strangford in the 2001 general election and re-elected in 2005. She caused a public outcry in June 2008 when she described homosexuality as an “abomination” and that with help, gay people could be “turned around.” She made her remarks during a week in which a gay man had been badly beaten in a homophobic attack.
In the same month, Peter Robinson became Northern Ireland’s first minister and DUP leader, taking over from the 82-year-old Reverend Ian Paisley.
The affair has revealed the extremely thin layer that has been able to enrich itself as a result of the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Robinsons, dubbed the “Swish family Robinson” due to their lavish lifestyle, are representative of this layer. Both had the closest of relationships with the businessmen named in the scandal. One of the developers is the now deceased Fred Fraser, a multi-millionaire and Northern Ireland’s biggest property developer. There is growing speculation that Fraser may have also donated money to the DUP prior to the scandal.
According to the Belfast Telegraph, the Robinsons jointly received more than half a million pounds a year in salaries and expenses, with a further £150,000 in wages paid to four of their relatives for constituency and other work.
The BBC questioned why Peter Robinson, as the leader of the DUP and first minister did not tell the relevant authorities, at Stormont or Westminster, that his wife had not registered the £50,000. Spotlight alleged that a number of rules had been broken by the alleged conduct of the Robinsons, including that she had failed to declare an interest in the business she had assisted McCambley set up.
Faced with the possible end of his political career, Peter Robinson announced that he was standing down from his first minister duties for up to six weeks to be temporarily replaced by former Minister of the Environment Arlene Foster. Robinson has authorised an inquiry into the allegations and is seeking legal advice. Iris Robinson has since left her elected posts and has been expelled from the DUP.
The allegations against the Robinsons serve to highlight the deeply undemocratic “power sharing” structures established by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Such are the narrow, sectarian interests that are represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly that if Robinson is forced to resign it could threaten the very existence of the institution.
The model of government established by the agreement enshrined sectarian divisions as the basis of government in Northern Ireland. Members elected to the assembly are required to designate themselves as “nationalist,” “unionist” or “other.” Under the rules of the assembly, major decisions must receive majority support within both the unionist and nationalist camps, effectively rendering redundant the opinions and votes of the “others,” i.e., the formally non-sectarian parties.
As a result of the agreement, the posts of first minister and deputy first minister (currently held by Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness) in the Northern Ireland Executive are shared between the largest unionist and republican parties. Both first minister and deputy first minister posts hold the same powers, while the joint nature of the offices of the first and deputy ministers, which were integral to the agreement, means that McGuinness would automatically be removed from his post if Peter Robinson were to resign.
In the assembly’s original incarnation, the first minister was elected by the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) on a joint ticket with the deputy first minister. It was necessary for the joint nomination to obtain an overall majority in the assembly and also be supported by the majority of designated “nationalist” MLAs and “unionist” MLAs. Under the 2006 St. Andrews Agreement, this process was altered to allow the leader of the largest party to nominate the first minister, and the leader of the next largest party that is in the opposite “designation” to nominate the deputy first minister.
The Robinson allegations follow a December scandal. It was then revealed that police wanted to question Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams’s brother Liam regarding allegations of sexual abuse against his daughter.
Such minor personal scandals come at a time of deepening political crisis in Northern Ireland. The most vexing questions have been the attempt by the DUP |
# ARTvel-App
## Overview
ARTvel is a dual experience app for the purpose of discovery. The first type of discovery is for art pieces from Rijksmuseum. The second allows users to discover events happening all over the country available through Ticketmaster.
### Login
## Features
### Search
Rijksmuseum: Search for art pieces by artist name.
Ticketmaster: Search for events based on address.
Rijksmuseum Experience | Ticketmaster Experience
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### Details and Favorite
Rijksmuseum Experience | Ticketmaster Experience
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### Browse Favorites
## Code Block
### Asynchronous Test
```swift
func testNetworkHelperRijkCollectionsAPI() {
let searchQuery = "<NAME>".addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: .urlHostAllowed)!
let exp = XCTestExpectation(description: "Art Objects Found")
let collectionEndpoint = "https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api/nl/collection?key=\(SecretKey.apiKey)&involvedMaker=\(searchQuery)"
let request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: collectionEndpoint)!)
NetworkHelper.shared.performDataTask(request: request) { (result) in
switch result {
case .failure(let error):
print(error)
XCTFail("\(error)")
case .success(let data):
exp.fulfill()
XCTAssertGreaterThan(data.count, 20_000, "data should be greater than \(data.count)")
}
}
wait(for: [exp], timeout: 5.0)
}
```
### RESTful API Fetch Request
```Swift
public static func fetchArtObjects(searchQuery: String, completion: @escaping (Result<[ArtObject], AppError>) -> ()) {
let urlSearchQuery = searchQuery.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: .urlHostAllowed)!
let urlEndpoint = "https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api/nl/collection?key=\(SecretKey.apiKey)&involvedMaker=\(urlSearchQuery)"
guard let url = URL(string: urlEndpoint) else {
completion(.failure(.badURL(urlEndpoint)))
return
}
let urlRequest = URLRequest(url: url)
NetworkHelper.shared.performDataTask(request: urlRequest) { (result) in
switch result {
case .failure(let appError):
print(appError)
case .success(let data):
dump(data)
do {
let artCollection = try JSONDecoder().decode(ArtObjectWrapper.self, from: data)
let artObjects = artCollection.artObjects
completion(.success(artObjects))
} catch {
completion(.failure(.decodingError(error)))
}
}
}
}
```
## Installation
### Prerequisites
* A developer account from Rijksmuseum for an API Key
* A developer account from Ticketmaster for a consumer key and consumer secret
### Clone
* Clone this repo to your local machine using `https://github.com/Juan-Ceballos/ARTvel-App.git`
### Setup
* Add a Swift file named Config to project directory.
* in file add following code
```swift
import Foundation
struct SecretKey {
static let apiKey = "<KEY>"
static let consumerKey = "ilcIXmyVPMkmtknNvujcHZ3BRPHzSrlq"
static let consumerSecret = "<KEY>"
}
```
## Built With
* XCode
* Swift
* Firebase Services
* Kingfisher
* SnapKit
## Collaborators
[<NAME>](https://github.com/Juan-Ceballos)
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She made her debut as a plant at a show held in a bar in 1977. Rusty Blair and The Cherokee Princess had a regular routine where they issued open challenges to the crowd. Porter was “randomly” chosen. Unfortunately, the untrained rookie was hurt during the contest. But the 14-year-old still convinced the other punters that she was a serious physical threat to Cherokee. The experience only made Porter want to become a wrestler even more.
It is not clear why she was given the ring name “Klondyke Kate.” Those who knew the real reasons have either passed away or have long forgotten. Some believe it was a reference to Chris Thompson, who had previously used the ring name. It was certainly better than Porter’s first ring name, the unappealing “Big Bertha.” The answer may simply be to make Porter seem American.
The quickest way for a British wrestler to generate heel heat back then was to claim to be from somewhere other than Britain. There had been numerous English-born wrestlers who pretended to be from the U.S., Africa, Asia, and beyond. The Mighty Change played down his Scottish heritage while competed in the U.K. The name Klondyke Kate was enough to have fans creating their own narratives about her backstory. They depicted her as being a large woman from the United States who had come over to the U.K. to crush and humiliate local talent.
– Klondyke Kate on the mentality of facing opponents.
Becoming a wrestler is often harder for women. Porter dealt with all of the obstacles that women still face today, including sexism. She also had unique challenges too. She was still in high school when she began her career. Much of her training had to take place during matches. There was a shortage of women wrestlers for Kate to train or compete with. Many of her matches were either intergender tag team matches or singles matches against men.
While Barron trained her as best as he could, the biggest influence on his career was Mitzi Mueller. The veteran would not only help train Kate, but she also helped guide the early part of her career. The duo would team and feud with each other until Mueller’s retirement. It was also Mueller who encouraged Kate to have her first tour of Japan.
Returning from Japan was a rebirth for her career. Spending her teenage years competing against men and then |
Helen Fix is a storied name in Ohio’s political annals. In 1981, during her fourth consecutive term in the General Assembly, she became the first woman to serve as the Republican Party’s House whip.
Shortly before her 95th birthday, we spoke with Ms. Fix — now retired and residing at Deupree Cottages in Hyde Park — and asked her to share recollections on her career. She had some surprising things to say.
The war years
Born in 1922, Helen Fix (née Herrink) grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She always loved to write. English was her favorite subject in high school. She taught herself to type.
Fix attended the University of Richmond’s Westhampton College, initially majoring in English and history because the dean considered journalism “unsuitable” for women, she said. While she was there, however, the United States entered the Second World War.
With many men enlisted or drafted into service, Fix found that paths previously closed to her were suddenly open. When the university relaxed its gender restrictions, she enrolled in journalism courses, eventually becoming the first woman to serve as chief editor of the student newspaper.
Fix graduated in 1943. Her alma mater would later honor her with its Alumni Award for Distinguished Service.
One summer, while staying at her family’s summer cabin at a state park beach, she met John “Jack” Fix (Pictured)— the man she would marry. He was from Lexington, Virginia, and a student at Washington & Lee University.
Jack enlisted in the Navy during the war. In July 1942, while serving aboard PC-556, a patrol craft in the Gulf of Mexico, he assisted in hunting down and sinking the German submarine U-166, which had torpedoed the passenger steamer his ship had been escorting.
He was then ordered to Cornell University for training as a PT boat skipper and, in 1944, redeployed to the South Pacific, where he finished out his war service.
Helen and Jack were married just before he left, and she moved to Texas to take a job as a reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. But she was lonely waiting for her husband to return to the U.S.
“It took him a long time to get home,” she said, because several months passed before he accumulated the service points required for demobilization.
When Jack returned, he did so with a new job offer — as a product development man for Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati.
So, the couple moved to the Queen City, where they remained together for the next 73 years. Jack passed away earlier this year.
Resuming her journalism career
Arriving in Cincinnati in 1946, the couple set about raising a family. Fix paused her journalism career for the next 15 years to raise their three children.
“I did some [part-time] work for a merchandising company that represented DuPont,” she remembered. “It was kind of a sales job. Then I went back to the newspaper. That was my first love anyway.“
Fix said she was offered a job with The Cincinnati Post in the early 1960s, but turned it down because the paper’s daily publication schedule was too much to handle while she still worked as a full-time mother.
Instead, she took a position writing for the Pleasant Ridge Reporter-Press and, later, Community Press’s Northeast Suburban Life because both papers were weeklies. She covered village council meetings, school issues and local news.
“I wrote a column called ‘Life on the Suburban Scene,’ and I got some scoops,” she recalled.
For example, Fix said, “There was a parcel of land between Lester Road and Montgomery and the developers were going to put a development in there.”
“I heard about it and nobody else knew about it,” she said, smiling wryly. “There was a great big meeting and I got the scoop. I was pretty proud of that. I got another scoop [about the hiring of a] new police chief of Madeira. I got that first. Nobody else had it. I felt good about that.”
The power of perseverance
Being so closely connected, through her job, to life in the community allowed Fix to see inefficiencies and needs, which she began to wish she could directly address. That subsequently led her into public service.
“I covered a lot of city councils and I got interested in government,” she said.
When one local politician campaigned strongly against a school levy that Fix supported, she felt compelled to speak out.
“[He] had a sign truck that went up and down Ridge Road telling people to vote against the Cincinnati school levy and that kind of bothered me,” she said.
“There's three reasons people get into politics,” Fix said. “One, when they actually want to be a politician; two, when someone asks them; or three, when there's something about the system they |
Jamaica is known for its mega, all-inclusive resorts. Each has its own vibe, personality, and perks. You’ll benefit from the stiff competition. There is no shortage of deals, especially now as the island is working overtime to lure travelers back. Take advantage of the generosity.
As a frequent visitor to the island over the years, and having enjoyed working remotely there during the pandemic, I’ve had the good fortune to sample some of the best — though I’m a bigger fan of boutique hotels — and others I’ve heard great things about that are on the must-go list for 2022. Here are my favorites.
Situated on Negril’s legendary Seven Mile Beach, you can’t go wrong with the five-star Azul Beach Resort. If you’re looking for a family getaway, there are ocean view family suites that can accommodate two adults, two children, and a teenager, with a separate living room, balcony, or terrace, and is convenient to the family pool and Azulitos Kids Club. Or go for a family loft suite that can accommodate two adults and six children or three other adults. There’s a teen and kids’ club for when they want to do their own thing and an array of watersports to experience together.
Azul works for a grownups-only escape too. While away the day at the four pools or Vassa Spa, take cooking, hat-making, or basket weaving classes, play beach cricket, and basketball. Come mealtime, there are six restaurants from ackee, which serves up Caribbean cuisine to international fare at Mahogany. My lasting memories are of the beach. The Seven Mile Beach lives up to the hype. The sand is powdery, no worries about stepping on broken shells in the sea.
Pro Tip: Go into town and hit hot spots like Rick’s Café to watch the cliff jumpers dive into the sea. Enjoy cocktails and the DJ. Nobody can stay seated for long while he’s doing his thing with that booming dancehall reggae.
The name says it all. It sets the intention that you’re going to fall in love, renew your love, take your relationship to a new level, or perhaps honeymoon there. This place is for lovers. All the goo-goo ga-ga stuff is infectious. One couple after the next is full of smiles and laughs. Feeling adventurous? Make your way to the resort’s private island for au naturel sunbathing. If you’re too shy, think for your eyes only — get naked for a couple’s massage at the spa. Top it off with a dip in the sea, one of four pools or a little quiet time in one of the Jacuzzis. Enjoy golf, tennis, unlimited scuba diving, and watersports like waterskiing and windsurfing. Test your love. Do kayaking challenges dissolve into an argument? Make up and cuddle during a catamaran cruise.
Dinner is something special at Couples Tower Isle. Ask the concierge to arrange a private dinner on the beach. Or there’s Bayside. Dine by candlelight overlooking the Caribbean Sea. Eight Rivers, though, is where you might just have one of your best meals of the year, in a candlelit, intimate setting, seated next to each other, instead of across from your honey. The food is fantastic. Imagine appetizers like ackee and ricotta ravioli, broad bean and callaloo ragout, herb chimichurri, crumbled feta, entrees like ginger papaya glazed duck breast, pan seared red snapper fillet, shrimp, and scallop skewer, to be enjoyed with a fine wine from an impressive list. The ambiance is sweeter still with a serenade on the soprano saxophone from the musician roaming the room. Treat yourself. Go for the new Oasis Spa Villas that include unlimited spa treatments. It’s a special place that inspires giggles even after 30 years of marriage.
Pro Tip: Come up for air from all that coupling and raft on the Martha Brae River or go horseback riding nearby.
If you love lush greenery, there are 22 acres of it at Beaches Ocho Rios. Along with that gorgeous, private beach, there’s every kind of watersport you might desire, be it PADI-certified diving, snorkeling, kayaking, paddle boarding, and windsurfing. Have you tried aqua trikes? What are you waiting for? There are clubs for kids and teens and for all, the Pirates Island Waterpark with its waterslides, lazy river, and more. If you can’t find your kids, check the Xbox Play Lounge or they may be in one of the five swimming pools. Forget your diet, there is 5-star global gourmet dining at seven restaurants. Take advantage of Sandals Golf & Country Club, it’s close and greens fees are complimentary. Refresh yourself at the Red Lane Spa. Consider Raindrop Dreams, 90 minutes to forget your troubles, and hit |
poetic” aspects of your work? At what point, in other words, are rules broken and method undercut?
KG: In the interview with Sergio, I was specifically referring to my gallery work, in which I was intentionally referencing the surface aesthetics of conceptual art but then undercutting that severity with poetic texts, hence creating a tension in the work.
To answer your question, it depends on the project. Some pieces are strict to the letter and others allow for more leeway. No. 111, for example was very strict until the last two chapters of the book, both of which break every rule set forth up to that point. Fidget, too, broke all its rules, this time not out of formal necessity, but out of a need to escape the physical demands of the task. I needed to get drunk and once I let that in, it completely changed the parameters of the book. Soliloquy, on the other hand, was followed to the letter. There was no veering from the original exercise. The same thing happened with Day, the book based on the New York Times.
MP: A follow-up: When you say, “I am a collector of language,” what does that really mean? Surely not in fact just any language. What makes certain words and phrases “collectible”? Conversely, what makes certain language collections boring and dispensable?
KG: Well, I used to feel that only certain words were collectible, that certain words were “better” than others, but I’ve come to question that as the years have passed. Let me explain. The precursor to No. 111 was a gallery work called No. 109, whereby I used the same method of collecting language as I did for No. 111: any word or phrase ending in the sound of “r” or the “schwa” was permitted. In preparation for the gallery show, I edited the piece down to only contain what I considered the “good” words – the “fun” words, the “entertaining” words, the words that really “zinged.” I thought the piece was really “tight” and presented it in a gallery. Unfortunately, the public didn’t agree with me and the work received a lukewarm reception.
In an introspective moment after the show had ended, I went back and looked at all the words and phrases I had omitted. They seemed to be perfectly good words and leaving them out did not make the piece any more of a popular success. So I incorporated them all into a new work which grew to be No. 111. But even then, many years into the project, I found myself not able to accept just any word or phrase; instead, I took only the phrases that interested me. That’s why No. 111 is such a readable book; it tames the wide world of available language and focuses it through the fine lens of one person’s experience. In that sense, it’s a very organized and sharp collection.
But in the end, I decided that that was only one way to go about a collection and it brings me back to your question about method. Instead of focusing on the text itself, I began to focus on the greater method or the concept instead and let the language fall where it may within that specified context. Hence, no words could be “wrong” or “boring” if I could justify it being there conceptually. Suddenly, more traditional linguistic concerns of readerliness, rhythm, phrasing, song, etc. were no longer of importance to me and I found that incredibly liberating. After years of counting syllables in a work like No. 111, you might see where a different approach – a freer approach – to language became necessary.
MP: “There’s so much great language out there for the taking; if we open our eyes and ears to it, we’ll find it in abundance.” This notion comes, of course, from Cage but we now know that, far from opening his eyes and ears to all those sounds “out there” in nature, Cage took strict control over his forms. What is the process involved in your own work?
KG: It’s one of my peeves with Cage. If Cage truly was to accept all incidental sound as music, then that’s what he should have done. Obviously this was not the case and this is where claims for poethics comes into play. I don’t have a problem with an overriding ethical structure guiding an artist’s work, but in Cage’s case, an ethical agenda is in conflict with his philosophical structure of accepting all sounds equally. There were a lot of sounds that weren’t permitted in the Cagean pantheon and a lot of times when the sounds that were permitted happened at inopportune moments, it could ruin a performance. Likewise, Cage’s feathers were easily ruffled at what he considered to be wrongheaded interpretations of his works by musicians and orchestras.
I find that Warhol took Cage’s ideas much |
Macross 7
is an anime television series. It is a sequel to the show "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross" that takes place many years after the events of the first series following a cast of mostly new characters. The show ran from October 16, 1994, to September 24, 1995, at 11:00 a.m., and 49 episodes were aired. Although it has been distributed in the other parts of the world, for the longest amount of time it remained unlicensed in North America until July 2022 when Right Stuf along with Nozomi Entertainment announced that they would be releasing the series on home video.
"Macross 7" is best known for its music, and since the show began airing over a dozen albums have been released by the fictional band Fire Bomber that stars in the show. "Macross 7" exists in the official Studio Nue chronology and canon, with story concept by Shoji Kawamori, who also handled mechanical designs along with Kazutaka Miyatake. A theatrical episode, "Macross 7: Ginga ga Ore wo Yondeiru! (Macross 7: The Galaxy's Calling Me!)", was released in 1995. Several OVAs were also released, including "Macross 7: Encore" and later, "Macross Dynamite 7". In 2012, a crossover movie retelling the "Macross 7" events by "Macross F" characters, "", was released.
Background.
"AD 2009—The human race first encountered an alien race. The Space War which followed with this race of giants, known as the Zentradi, nearly devastated the Earth.
"March, 2010—The war ended. In April of that same year, a new United Earth government was inaugurated and humans began to follow the path of coexistence with the alien Zentradi. Those Zentradi who wished to, used micron technology to return their bodies to human size."
"September, 2011—The Earth UN Government launched a deep space colonization plan for the purpose of preserving the species."
"September, 2012—The extreme long-range transport "Megaroad One" set out, carrying the first colonists."
"September, 2030—The gigantic "Megaroad"-class ships were replaced by the first of the super high-capacity "New-Macross" class colonization ships, whose fleets were capable of carrying up to one million colonists."
"2038—The Macross 7 fleet, built around the seventh of the new "Macross"-class ships, left for the center of the galaxy carrying the 37th wave of colonists."
"The year is now 2045..."
Synopsis.
Thirty-five years after the events of the original "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross", a spacecraft called Macross 7 leads the 37th colonial fleet on a colonization mission into deep space. The story focuses on the fleet's encounters with an alien force called the Protodeviln, and especially events surrounding a rock and roll band called Fire Bomber, consisting of Basara Nekki (lead singer), Mylene Flare Jenius (seventh daughter of Maximilian Jenius and Milia Fallyna Jenius), Ray Lovelock, and full blooded Zentradi Veffidas Feaze.
The fleet's flagship is the Macross 7, which is actually composed of two parts: Battle 7 and City 7. Battle 7 is the fore section of the ship. It is a fully transformable battle carrier that is able to separate itself from City 7 during battle. Battle 7 is captained by original series regular Maximilian Jenius, who is also the commander of the entire fleet. The much larger back section of the two part ship is known as City 7 and is the main civilian population center of the fleet, containing a population in excess of one million people. The mayor of City 7 is the estranged wife of Maximilian Jenius, Milia Fallyna Jenius. City 7 features a "shell" that can close in order to protect the civilian population during battle.
In the seventh year of their mission the Macross 7 fleet encounters an unknown alien enemy. This new mysterious enemy is composed of heavily modified Valkyries led by a man named Gigile. In the first encounter, the Macross 7 engages the enemy with squadrons of their own Valkyries. This conventional warfare does little to stop the attack however. The enemy's tactics are different from the average rogue, or 'uncultured', Zentradi that are encountered in space travel. In the first battle with the Macross 7 fleet, the new enemy's main tactic is to extract an energy form called 'Spiritia' from the |
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From 22-23 September, 2020, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism held a two-part online forum series, aimed at overseas travel agencies and the global travel industry. “Beijing Culture and Tourism Global Online Strategic Forum – Restart Travel, Together with Beijing,” the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism’s first-ever online event, brought together speakers from around the world on a digital platform. With discussions and presentations about the biggest questions facing tourism today, as well as Beijing’s rich reserves of cultural and tourism products, the event gave global audiences an understanding of the current situation of Beijing’s travel industry, what important developments are on their way, and the recovery of inbound tourism to Beijing.
In his opening speech, Director General at Beijing Municipal Cultural and Tourism Bureau, Chen Dong discussed Beijing’s experience fighting against COVID-19, and steps taken to revitalize the travel industry. While tourism in Beijing was shut down completely from the end of January in order to control the spread of COVID-19, by September, the industry has shown a strong recovery. Even with the setback of a second outbreak of coronavirus in Beijing in June, the city’s tourism industry is now back to work, with more than 70% of sightseeing attractions, hotels, and tourism businesses having resumed operation. To help keep the tourism industry going, the local Ministry of Culture and Tourism introduced policies such as temporarily returning RMB10 billion in security deposits, reducing taxes by hundreds of millions of RMB, and investing RMB380 million of special funds to aid affected companies and keep them in business. This helped bring stability to the market and ensured that the tourism industry could continue to develop into the future.
As Mr. Chen introduced, to develop tourism in Beijing going forward and attract visitors in the post-COVID period, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism has introduced three new action plans: Roam Beijing, Taste of Beijing Outskirts, and Light Up Beijing. These programs have been developed to match the post-COVID travel trends and help people discover new routes and new aspects of Beijing. They are intended to give visitors a taste of life today in China’s capital, showcase new developments, and promote post-COVID travel that is healthy, safe, and sustainable.
With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on the horizon, Gui Lin, Director of Master Planning Division, Venue Planning & Construction of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) introduced the new facilities and infrastructure projects that are being developed within Beijing and its surrounding areas. Ms. Gui, who was also involved in the bidding and development for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, explained the long-lasting legacy of that important event in Beijing’s recent history – with 80% of the 2008 Olympic venues in use today, Beijing boasts one of the best post-Olympic venue usage rates in the world. Likewise, development for the 2022 Games has focused on creating facilities that can be enjoyed for the long-term by Beijing locals and visitors alike. This includes the world’s first permanent big air facility in Shougang Park, a regenerated former industrial complex that’s become a trendy area for tourism and photography and will be transformed into a center for culture, sport, shopping, dining, and business, helping to develop the western part of Beijing and benefit the 3 million residents of the surrounding area.
Moderated by Chairman-Elect for the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Soon-Hwa Wong, the panel discussion, “Rebuilding Tourism from the Ground Up: China Travel in a Post-COVID World” brought together speakers from the Lufthansa Group, Accor Greater China, Thomas Cook China, and China Tourism Group. As the speakers pointed out, the recovery of the tourism sector post-COVID is a marathon, not a sprint, and it will require the patience and efforts of the entire industry. Sharing their own experiences while facing the COVID-19 crisis, the panelists expressed that in the post-COVID era, the industry must continuously seek understanding of and embrace new trends, and pay close attention to the changing needs of consumers, with flexibility and creativity.
Panels on the recovery of the MICE industry were moderated by President of SITE China Chapter and Founder of China Star Liu Ping. Communication and collaboration are some of the keys to getting the industry through this crisis, said Senthil Gopinath, CEO at International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), explaining how the ICCA has started using digital platforms to update members on best practices and bring the industry together to learn, move forward, and restart business.
Young people are expected to be one of the first market segments to recover and have even been already heralded as the saviors of the tourism industry. But after COVID-19, will the traditionally resilient youth travel market still be interested in international travel? This was the main question posed in the forum sessions on “Getting Travelers Back on the Road.” As Director General |
we received at ‘Catholic’ School, and it was heavily reinforced and continually revisited by our enthusiastic teachers, as we prepared to make our first communion.
Eucharistic lay ministers is another example. Canon law states they should only be used when absolutely necessary – yet they are de rigeur in most parishes and the role has become mainly about making lay people (esp women) feel important, rather than as a help to the priest.
Look at the “nuns on the bus” rabble in the States.
And, goodness me, didn’t Pope Francis himself tell religious superiors to more or less “brush off” the authority of the CDF, if it ever intervened in their affairs?
I agree disobedience is bad, but I think your radar is a bit wonky, if a very sincere and well-meant event from 26 years ago – long since smoothed over – is the most pressing example you can find.
I rarely attend SSPX Masses. In 1976 I heard Abp Lefebvre celebrate Mass in a function room of the Great Western Hotel, Paddington, all London churches having been denied him. In 1992 I attended St-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in Paris (twice) – in those days it was the only Tridentine Mass in the entire city. In 2007 in Brussels (where the SSPX has the Belgian national shrine church) I found the only example of mainstream Catholicism which seems to attract people of all ages. In 2010 in Strasbourg I found a sung Mass for Ash Wednesday in a tiny SSPX chapel.
Look at the Mass Bishop Fellay recently celebrated at Lourdes. The entrance procession showed rank upon rank of young men. Following some strange unaccountable fashion ( cf Pope Francis)? I think not. Piero Marini, Baldisseri, Kasper, Madariaga et al. are the old guard; they may be having their swansong during the present pontificate but in a couple of generations’ time the Church will look very different, and the SSPX will be part of the new order.
These comments suggesting that without the disobedience of Bishop Lefebvre and SSPX we wouldn’t have FSSP, SP and the EF strike me as a dangerous sort of presumption. We can’t know what would have happened had SSPX simply practiced obedience. Perhaps we wouldn’t have had to endure 30+ years without easy access to the EF, perhaps SP would never have been necessary. As much good as SSPX and Lefebvre did, we can’t ignore the sin of disobedience. God can bring about good fruit even from evil action.
A somewhat off-topic sidebar to Sid Cundiff, NC re ‘traditionalists and ignorance of Historical-Critical method with Scripture’.
The Historical-Critical method is nothing short of an apostate bludgeoning of Sacred Scripture founded on a priori rejection of Scriptural Truth in all its 4 dimensions – the literal but also the moral senses. The Oblates of Wisdom offer the Neo-Patristic method as a faithful alternative.
If anything, the ubiquitous praise heaped upon Historical-Critical method since 1962 by many princes of the Church – including, unfortunately in some instances, then Cardinal Ratzinger – is, in my view, a key indicator of what was to come during the council and a clear indicator of how the council’s often confusing words would be used after the end of the council and has to be considered one of the greatest calamities in the Catholic Church’s history.
To close off this side bar, I do not believe that Historical-Critical method is a key distinguishing factor of the SSPX versus other Ecclesial groups, nor do I believe that a refusal to bow to that heretical approach is limited to liturgical traditionalists either. Many good Catholics of good will, traditionalist or other, reject this method, as every good Catholic ought to.
I think the SPPX know how tenuous reunion would be and how can they be guaranteed the agreement won’t be broken? Pope Francis is appointing progressive bishops and the SPPX know this and they probably surmise, as some do know, that female deacons and ultimately priests are on the way. If not during this Pope’s reign then the next ones.
The only solution I could see is an autonomous Rite for the SPPX. I don’t believe Rome will ever offer that.
One alternative that I’ve heard discussed generally for orthodox Catholics in the West is the Orthodox Church setting up a “Rite” in the West based around the traditional Roman Mass. That has been done with the Antichan Orthodox church which caters in a big way to evangelicals wanting a liturgical church. Many in those congregations are ex-evangelicals.
Might not work for the SPPX as they would have to give up the traditional teaching on the nature of the Papacy which they cling to but defact |
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echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.com/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-enterprise/3.0 multiverse" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise.list
fi
if $(lsb_release -d | grep -q "Mint"); then
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.com/apt/ubuntu precise/mongodb-enterprise/3.0 multiverse" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise.list
fi
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.com/apt/ubuntu "$(lsb_release -sc)"/mongodb-enterprise/2.6 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise-2.6.list
result=$(sudo apt-get update)
echo "installing mongodb-enterprise"
result=$(sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-enterprise)
echo "installing mongodb-enterprise=3.0.11 mongodb-enterprise-server=3.0.11 mongodb-enterprise-shell=3.0.11 mongodb-enterprise-mongos=3.0.11 mongodb-enterprise-tools=3.0.11"
result=$(sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-enterprise=3.0.11 mongodb-enterprise-server=3.0.11 mongodb-enterprise-shell=3.0.11 mongodb-enterprise-mongos=3.0.11 mongodb-enterprise-tools=3.0.11)
if grep -q "Unable to lacate" <<< $result; then
echo "Could not install mongodb, pls run this script again or install mongodb manually"
exit
fi
echo "mongodb-enterprise hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "mongodb-enterprise-server hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "mongodb-enterprise-shell hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "mongodb-enterprise-mongos hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "mongodb-enterprise-tools hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
service mongod start
cd /home/opentech/ && python open-hackathon-server/src/setup_db.py
}
get_dependency_for_guacamole() {
echo "solve dependency software for guacamole"
result=$(sudo service guacd restart)
if grep -q "SUCCESS" <<< $result; then
echo "guacamole is installed!"
return
fi
echo "installing libcairo2-dev"
result=$(sudo apt-get install -y libcairo2-dev)
if grep -q "Unable to lacate" <<< $result; then
echo "Could not install dependancy software for guacamole, pls install guacamole manually"
exit
fi
echo "installing libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libossp-uuid-dev"
result=$(sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libossp-uuid-dev)
if grep -q "Unable to lacate" <<< $result; then
echo "Could not install dependancy software for guacamole, pls install guacamole manually"
exit
fi
echo "installing libfreerdp-dev libpango1.0-dev libssh2-1-dev libtelnet-dev"
result=$(sudo apt-get install -y libfreerdp-dev libpango1.0-dev libssh2-1-dev libtelnet-dev)
if grep -q "Unable to lacate" <<< $result; then
echo "Could not install dependancy software for guacamole, pls install guacamole manually"
exit
fi
echo "installing libvncserver-dev libpulse-dev libwebp-dev libssl-dev libvorbis-dev"
result=$(sudo apt-get install -y libvncserver-dev libpulse-dev libwebp-dev libssl-dev libvorbis-dev)
if grep -q "Unable to lacate" <<< $result; then
echo "Could not install dependancy software for guacamole, pls install guacamole manually"
exit
fi
}
install_and_config_guacamole() {
result=$(sudo service guacd restart)
if grep -q "SUCCESS" <<< $result; then
echo "guacamole is installed!"
return
fi
echo "install guacamole"
# install and Configure guacamole
cd /home/opentech && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/guacamole/files/current/source/guacamole-server-0.9.9.tar.gz/download
rm -rf guacamole-server-0.9.9
mv download guacamole-server-0 |
Mortgage rates are hovering near record lows, and no one really knows how low they’ll go. If I knew that, I probably wouldn’t be working here, because I could make a ton of money in the markets by having all the answers.
Sadly, no one has managed to bring to life the exploits of Biff Tannen in “Back to the Future Part II.” So, until time traveling technology is invented, I’ll stick to my day job.
However, the beneficiary has definitely been the housing market. We’ve got a ways to go when it comes to housing starts, but the demand is definitely there with both existing and new home sales on pace to outdo projections from before the virus hit. Housing is one of the only areas that’s running hot right now in the economy.
Analysis from Econoday contributed to this report.1 Let’s see what happened!
Existing home sales were up a staggering 24.7% in the month of July to come in at a rate not seen since the last housing crisis: 5.86 million on a seasonally adjusted basis. Sales are now up 8.7% on the year after being down 11.7% in June revisions.
The increased demand doesn’t seem to be coming at the expense of housing prices either. These were up 3.3% in July at a median of $304,100, which is up 8.5% for the year.
There’s probably no end to rising existing home prices in the near future because the supply of existing homes is down 21.1% from a year ago at 1.5 million units on the market. This means that at the current pace of sales, there’s only 3.1 months’ worth of supply.
Case-Shiller has a 3-month average and the numbers are released 2 months behind the actual data that they cover, so it does help explain some of the difference you see in the home value data that comes from existing and new home sales.
On an adjusted basis, home prices were flat in June. Taking out the seasonal adjustment, they were up 0.2%. They’ve risen 3.5% overall on the year across the 20-city index.
The FHFA index, which also covers June but isn’t a 3-month average, showed home prices being up 0.9% and 5.7% on the year. The year-on-year pace of appreciation is now very close to where it was before COVID-19.
Consumer confidence in August may have been the one area of concern if you’re a real estate agent. Overall confidence was down 6.9 points to 84.8. However, additionally, home buying plans over the next 6 months fell according to the survey.
With that said, this doesn’t seem to match up with the market index from the National Association of Home Builders, so we’ll see whose survey is right.
New homes sales were up to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 901,000, which is way above a 700,000 tendency for the level before any of this started. It’s worth noting that this report is incredibly volatile, but it’s hard to see a 16.1% increase in July and a 36.3% uptick since the same time a year ago as anything but a positive.
Prices were discounted a little bit last month, down better than $6,000 at $330,600. However, analysts note that this is still about where prices were going into March. There are only 299,000 new homes on the market which means about 4 months’ worth of supply at the current pace of sales.
As much of the second quarter was about trying to slow the spread, the economy shrank at a rate of 31.7% and consumer spending was down 34.1%.
The important part for real estate agents to know is that residential investment (houses) contracted less severely than previously thought at a downturn of 37.9%. Because the death was less severe, it has no doubt aided in the bounce back that we’ve seen in recent months.
Consumer prices were up 0.4% both overall and when excluding food and energy. The pace of the year-to-year appreciation is up 1.3% a 1.3% overall increase and a 1.7% uptick for its core counterpart.
Of interest to agents, shelter, a category which includes housing, saw costs rise 0.1% in August according to this index.
Mortgage applications are released weekly, so I’m not as concerned with those numbers since this is a monthly report, but I do feel it’s nice to take a look at the purchase rate, which is up 6% over this time a year ago in the latest data.
In terms of rates, the average rate |
Q: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Not so long ago, most people didn't know who Shelly Ann Francis Pryce was going to become. She was just an average high school athlete. There was every indication that she was just another American teenager without much of a future. However, one person wants to change this. Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann as a track meet and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness. Her time were not exactly impressive, but even so, he seemed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking. He decided to offer Shelly Ann a place in his very strict training seasons. Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few year later at Jamaica's Olympic games in early 2008, Shelly Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat Jamaica's unchallenged queen of the sprint . "Where did she come from?" asked an astonished sprinting world, before concluding that she must be one of those one-hit wonders that spring up from time to time, only to disappear again without signs. But Shelly Ann was to prove that she was anything but a one-hit wonder. At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold. She did it again one year on at the World Championship in Briton, becoming world champion with a time of 10.73--- the fourth record ever. Shelly-Ann is a little woman with a big smile. She has a mental toughness that did not come about by chance. Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless. She grew up in one of Jamaica's toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers. Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in Jamaica, is a really violent and overpopulated place. Several of Shelly-Ann's friends and family were caught up in the...
A: Question: What is the best title for the passage?Options:A The Making of a Great AthleteB The Dream for ChampionshipC The Key to High PerformanceD The Power of Full ResponsibilityAnswer:A
Q: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Pop stars today enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty. Wherever they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, color1fully dressed idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven Rolls Royces, private helicopters or executive airplanes. They are surrounded by a permanent entourage of managers, press agents and bodyguards. Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and all their comings and goings are reported, for, like royalty, pop stars are news. If they enjoy many of the privileges of royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well. It is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public. They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds who idolize them. They are no longer private individuals, but public property. The financial rewards they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay are great. And why not? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly. The great days of Hollywood have become legendary: famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation on an all time scale. By today's standards, the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular. A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did. The competition for the title "Top of the Pops" is fierce, but the rewards are truly huge. It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way. Don't the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the service they perform to their companies and their countries? Pop stars earn vast sums in foreign currency -- often more than large industrial companies -- and the taxman can only be grateful for their massive annual contributions to the exchequer . So who would envy them their rewards? It's all very well for people in boring jobs to complain about the successes and rewards of others. People who make envious remarks should...
A: Question: The author develops the passage mainly by _ .Options:A comparing different ideasB giving explanationsC inferringD listing typical examplesAnswer:B
Q: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Nobody wants to be called a helicopter parent,who manages to be responsible for whatever a child does, however small a matter is--but parents want to protect their kids.At least no playing with sticks means no risk of lost eyes. Yet as Gever Tulley points out in Fifty Dangerous Things(You Should Let Your Children |
\section{The dark ages}
Motivated by a talk of Rashid Sunyaev at the 7th Microquasar
Workshop, I became interested in exploring the possible role of
black holes of stellar mass in the early cosmic evolution, and in
particular, on how feedback from accretion of the remnants of
massive stars could have affected the intergalactic medium during
the dark ages. The so called ``dark ages" of the universe began
about 400,000 years after the Big Bang as matter cooled down and
space became filled with neutral hydrogen for hundreds of millions
years. How most of the matter in the universe became again ionized
(reionized) in less than a billon year is a question of topical
interest in cosmology. The recent detection of the explosion of a
massive star (Salvaterra R. et al. 2009) at $z \sim 8.2$ and the
observation of galaxies (Bouwens et al. 2010) up to $z \sim 8$
support the idea that the ultraviolet radiation from massive stars
in the first galaxies played an important role in the reionization.
However, from the luminosity density of the most distant galaxies it
has been claimed that the UV flux available from massive stars may
not have been enough to keep fully reionized the universe (Bouwens
et al. 2010). Because X-rays have a longer mean free path than the
ultraviolet photons, it is proposed that accreting stellar black
holes provided heating and secondary ionizations over large volumes
of space (Mirabel et al. 2011).
\section{Formation of black holes by implosion: cosmic historic evolution of BH-HMXBs}
Theoretical models show that the evolution and final fate of massive
stars strongly depend on the initial metallicity and rotation. Stars
with low metal content and initial masses of a few tens of solar
masses collapse directly as black holes, with no energetic supernova
natal kicks (Heger et al. 2003; Meynet \& Maeder 2005). On the other
hand, recent hydrodynamic simulations of the formation of stars with
low metal content (Krumholz et al. 2009; Turk et al. 2009, Stacy et
al. 2009) show that a substantial fraction of these stars form as
small multiple systems dominated by binaries with typical masses of
tens of solar masses. Therefore, from current theoretical models it
is inferred that the majority of high mass stellar binaries of low
metallicity should remain gravitationally bound after the implosion,
ending as BH-HMXBs, which are known to be powerful sources of
X-rays, massive winds, and relativistic jets (microquasars, see
Mirabel \& Rodr\'\i guez 1999). In the context of these models and
the cosmic evolution of metallicity and star formation evolution it
is then expected that: \textit {1) the mass of stellar black holes,
2) the fraction of black holes/neutron stars, and 3) the fraction of
black hole binaries/solitary black holes should increase with
redshift. Therefore, the formation rate of BH-HMXBs must have been
significantly larger in the early universe than in later epochs.}
\vspace{3mm}
\textbf{Formation rate of stellar black holes as function metallicity}
\vspace{1mm}
How massive stars evolve and die depends on their initial mass,
metal content, angular momentum, and whether they are born in
isolation or in multiple systems (Meynet \& Maeder 2005). Despite
these complexities the expected cosmic evolution of BH-HMXBs
mentioned above is consistent with the following observations of
stellar black holes and neutron stars in the near and distant
universe.
a) In agreement with the theoretical expectations (Heger et al.
2003, Meynet \& Maeder 2005), the masses of black holes in high mass
x-ray binaries determined dynamically seem to be a decreasing
function of the metallicity of the host galaxy (Crowther et al.
2010). The black holes in the high mass binaries M 33 X-7, NGC 300
X-1 and IC10 X-1 which are in small galaxies of low metallicity,
have masses in the range of 16 to 30 solar masses, which are larger
than the mass of any known stellar black hole in the Milky Way and
Andromeda galaxies.
b) It has been proposed that most ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs)
are BH-HMXBs that contain black |
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{
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auto freeze_pos_y = static_cast<bool>(rigid_body->GetPositionLock().y);
auto freeze_pos_z = static_cast<bool>(rigid_body->GetPositionLock().z);
auto freeze_rot_x = static_cast<bool>(rigid_body->GetRotationLock().x);
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//==========================================================================
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Barclays PLC increased its holdings in shares of Monro, Inc. (NASDAQ:MNRO) by 14.9% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 40,841 shares of the auto parts company’s stock after purchasing an additional 5,307 shares during the quarter. Barclays PLC’s holdings in Monro were worth $2,349,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. TD Asset Management Inc. boosted its holdings in Monro by 10.4% in the 3rd quarter. TD Asset Management Inc. now owns 37,938 shares of the auto parts company’s stock worth $2,182,000 after acquiring an additional 3,577 shares during the period. Occudo Quantitative Strategies LP purchased a new position in Monro in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $249,000. Ergoteles LLC purchased a new position in Monro in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $254,000. Russell Investments Group Ltd. boosted its holdings in Monro by 13.2% in the 3rd quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 199,762 shares of the auto parts company’s stock worth $11,487,000 after acquiring an additional 23,365 shares during the period. Finally, Millennium Management LLC boosted its holdings in Monro by 289.5% in the 2nd quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 45,457 shares of the auto parts company’s stock worth $2,887,000 after acquiring an additional 33,785 shares during the period.
In other Monro news, Director John L. Auerbach sold 2,750 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, November 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $62.47, for a total value of $171,792.50. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, CEO Michael T. Broderick bought 2,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 23rd. The stock was bought at an average cost of $60.45 per share, for a total transaction of $151,125.00. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. Corporate insiders own 4.40% of the company’s stock.
Monro stock opened at $48.74 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 0.78, a quick ratio of 0.25 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.69. The stock has a market cap of $1.63 billion, a P/E ratio of 29.90, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.72 and a beta of 1.09. Monro, Inc. has a 52 week low of $47.44 and a 52 week high of $72.67. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $57.37 and a 200-day moving average of $58.27.
Monro (NASDAQ:MNRO) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January 26th. The auto parts company reported $0.49 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.52 by ($0.03). The firm had revenue of $341.80 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $338.90 million. Monro had a net margin of 4.31% and a return on equity of 7.95%. The business’s revenue was up 20.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.22 earnings per share. As a group, equities analysts predict that Monro, Inc. will post 2.17 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, December 21st. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 7th were given a dividend of $0.26 per share. This represents a $1.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.13%. The ex-dividend date was Monday, December 6th. Mon |
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here. The remainder of 2014 is expected to be fairly retrans heavy while reverse comp has fewer deals in 2014, but that should accelerate into 2015 and 2016. Management (mostly Les) tends to be a bit on the promotional side (he’s a sales guy) but they have a strong track record of doing what they say they’re going to do.
More owned content on both CBS and Showtime provide plenty of runway for licensing deals. The International market has been a good source of growth and more bidders in the U.S. are leading to higher prices for what might at first glance appear to be average content. CBS can still license 300 episodes of CSI and 200 episodes of NCIS in addition to other programs owned and partially owned. Management has been creative with deals, making some exclusive content deals, others not, and pre-funding new shows by pre-selling streaming rights. There will also be a minor benefit next year forward after Colbert takes over for Letterman as the content rights are more favorable to CBS with Colbert at the helm.
On the advertising front, for the first time ever CBS was able to sign deals that pay them for C-7 viewership up from C-3 (CBS gets paid for impressions 7 days after a program airs as opposed to three). Due to the large percentage of shows viewed on DVR after the original airing, CBS successfully pushed to be compensated for these additional impressions. It’s the very early innings here, and some commercials lend themselves better to delayed viewing than others, but management believes this can eventually be a “nine-figure” opportunity. We’re taking a wait and see approach here but think this is an incremental positive. The second half of 2014 will benefit from increased upfront rates for the Fall, Thursday Night Football, and mid-term political ad spending.
Overall, we think the business is as strong as it has been, and has multi-year tailwinds in the form of content licensing and retrans and reverse compensation.
And it’s not just the business that’s strong, the balance sheet looks great and a less cyclical core business should enable the company to re-lever and buyback shares as soon as the second half of this year. Management has been focused on the successful split-off of CBSO, but now that the separation is complete, they can move their attention to balance sheet optimization.
The company is committed to returning $6 billion in 2014. It bought back $2 billion in the first quarter, including $1.5 billion via an ASR, and retired approx. $2.85 billion via the CBSO split-off. That leaves $1.15 billion for Q’s 2-4. Given that the company can increase leverage by a full turn and still remain investment grade, throws off a tremendous amount of free cash, and management is shareholder friendly - we think that seems too low for remainder of the year and think 2015 buyback estimates are extremely understated by analysts. (Note: Morgan Stanley released a report as I was finishing this up stating that CBS can buyback $10 billion of shares in 2015 and 2016 which is more in-line with our thinking.)
Management has made it clear that returning capital is their number one priority for the time being and we would expect another big buyback announcement on either of the next two earnings releases. On the low end, we expect an additional $1 billion this year and $3 billion total next year. Depending on where management wants their leverage ratio to be we estimate they could potentially double those figures.
Valuation
Moving forward we think buybacks from free cash flow can add 6-9%/year to EPS and retrans can add another 5-7% - licensing should be good for another few points (although it will be lumpy) and you have some optionality from a pick-up in ad spending and/or collecting more from C-7 advertising as well as from adding a turn of leverage to the balance sheet.
Analysts are in a reasonably tight operating income and EBITDA range for the next two years but we think they are off on the denominator.
We think CBS can complete the previously announced $6 billion buyback this year (nearly $5 billion is in the bag) and do an additional $4 billion over the remainder of this year and 2015 primarily using internally generated FCF. Taking on additional leverage, which we expect (but don’t know to what degree) would provide a further boost to our estimates.
Modeling in the share shrink and some minor advertising revenue growth, retrans and licensing we have CBS earning approximately $4.25/share in 2015 – at 17x we get to $72 share. The stock has recently traded at just above 15x but we think the disposal of CBSO and the less cyclical nature of the business coupled with the growth |
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도 9a에 도시된 바와 같이, 임플란트가 가이딩 어셈블리(500)의 내측에서 원심방향으로 (예를 들어, 상부 및 하부 슬라이드 또는 정렬 부재(514, 516) 사이로) 이송됨에 따라, 임플란트(200)의 원심부는 척추간 공간 내에 배치된 플레이트(300)의 기단부에 접촉된다. As shown in Figure 9a, the implant of the guiding assembly from the inside of the 500 in a centrifugal direction as the (e. G., Between the upper and lower slides or alignment member (514, 516)) the transfer, the implant 200 distal portion is in contact with the base end portion of a plate 300 disposed in the space between vertebrae. 임플란트(200)가 원심방향으로(예를 들어, 도 9C의 화살표(50)를 통해 개략적으로 표시된 바와 같이) 계속적으로 이송됨에 따라, 임플란트(200)가 상부 및 하부 플레이트(300) 사이에서 이동하게 되며, 그 결과 어떤 특정 배치에서 상기 플레이트(300)들은 서로로부터 분리된다. The implant 200 is movable between a distal direction (e.g., as indicated schematically by the arrow (50 in Fig. 9C)) as continuously transferred to the implant 200, the upper and lower plate 300 and, so that the plate 300 in a particular batch are separated from each other. 이러한 구조에서, 임플란트(200)는 플레이트(200)들 사이에서 원심방향으로 충분히 멀리 이동되며, 그 결과 임플란트(200)는 플레이트(300)의 전체 길이 또는 실질적으로 전체 길이에 걸쳐 확장된다. With this structure, the implant 200 is fully moved away from the distal direction between the plate 200, so that the implant 200 is extended over the entire length or substantially the entire length of the plate 300.
도 10a 및 도 10b는 임플란트(200)의 일 실시예를 도시하며, 상기 임플란트(200)는 여기 개시된 도 9a 내지 도 9d의 시스템(100)을 포함하는 하나 이상의 유합술 시스템과 통합되어 사용되도록 구성된다. Figure 10a and 10b shows an embodiment of the implant 200, the implant 200 is integrated with one or more fusion system that includes the system 100 of Figure 9a through 9d disclosed here is configured to be used . 도시된 바와 같이, 임플란트(200)는 하나 이상의 내부 챔버(210)를 포함할 수 있다. As shown, the implant 200 may include at least one inner chamber (210). 이러한 챔버(210)는 임플란트(200)가 플레이트(300)들 사이에 이송되기 전에 적어도 부분적으로 이식 재료(미도시)로 채워질 수 있도록 크기와 형상 등이 구성될 수 있다. The chamber 210 may be a size and shape configured to be filled with an implant 200, a plate 300 (not shown) at least in part, by graft material prior to transfer between. 전술한 바와 같이, 임플란트(200)는 예를 들어 PEEK, 티타늄, 따른 금속 또는 합금, 다른 고분자 물질 및/또는 이와 유사한 하나 이상의 물질을 포함할 수 있다. As described above, the implant 200 may include, for example, a PEEK, titanium, or a metal alloy according, other polymeric materials and / or the one or more similar substances.
도 10a 및 도 10b를 참조하면, 임플란트(200)는 하나 이상의 돌출부, 능선(ridges) 또는 이와 유사한 |
00 was the only active toll road in Georgia, after the Torras Causeway toll between Brunswick and St. Simons Island on the southeastern Georgia coast was removed in 2003, until the high occupancy toll express lanes opened on I-85 in 2011. The SR 400 toll was to expire in 2011 after 20 years. In March 2009, local TV news reports brought up an issue regarding tolls on the road, since SRTA reported that enough money has been collected to pay the bonds used to construct the road (though prepayment prior to 2011 was prohibited). Despite promises that the toll would be removed once the road was paid for, the tolls continued to be collected. The road costs $2 million per year just to maintain (plus occasional repaving), and it cost several million more for the demolition of the toll plaza. (One option would have been to simply close the toll plaza, allowing drivers to pass through without paying.) On September 24, 2010, then Governor Sonny Perdue and members of the State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA) voted to keep the tolls on until 2020 in order to fund 11 new projects on the highway.
In July 2012, two weeks before voters of Georgia voted on the Transportation Referendum act, Governor Deal said that the toll on SR 400 would be abandoned in November 2013, meaning that, at the beginning of 2014, SR 400 would be a toll-free road. Tolling was discontinued on November 22, 2013 at 11:08 am; the last toll was collected by Governor Nathan Deal and was paid by the same couple that paid the first toll in 1993. The toll plaza was removed in a four-phase demolition project.
In 2012, a feasibility study was initiated by the Georgia Department of Transportation to explore the possibility of adding tolled express lanes. The proposed express lanes would be long, and mirror the existing lanes on I-85. The lanes' southern terminus will be I-285 in Sandy Springs, and their northern terminus would be SR 20 in Cumming. Fees would be similar to the existing I-85 lanes, and will be paid using Peach Pass, making the express lanes compatible with the existing express lanes on I-85 (as well as the former toll plaza in Buckhead if it had remained in operation).
Future.
SR 369 Interchange.
Funding for a project to create new interchange on SR 400 at SR 369/Browns Bridge Rd comes from the Forsyth County Transportation Bond, approved by voters in 2014, along with GDOT funding. Currently, SR 400 meets SR 369 at a signalized intersection, where the freeway part of SR 400 currently ends. Preliminary plans show that a partial cloverleaf interchange will be built, with ramps from both directions of SR 400 meeting SR 369 at traffic lights; the northbound SR 400 ramp will also meet at the entrance of Browns Bridge Church. Also as a part of this project, SR 369 will be widened from its intersection with SR 9, through the interchange at SR 400, to its intersection at SR 306. Workers have cleared the area and removed underground storage tanks, per county officials. Forsyth County has acquired four properties as part of right-of-way acquisition and is expected to go out for bid in the fall of 2019; a bid is expected to be awarded in early 2020. Construction began in late 2020 and the interchange is planned to open in 2023.
McGinnis Ferry Road Interchange.
A traffic study in 2007 explored the possibility of a new interchange on SR 400 at McGinnis Ferry Road; this Interchange Feasibility Report was approved by GDOT in 2010 and Forsyth County in 2012. The exit is to be located between Exit 11 (Windward
Parkway) and Exit 12 (McFarland Parkway). Construction started in October 2021, and is expected to be completed in 2023. Construction will be completed by Forsyth County and GDOT. As a part of the project, one lane each way will be added on SR 400 between the Windward Pkwy exit and the McFarland Pkwy exit, and SR 400 S will have an additional lane added between McFarland Pkwy and McGinnis Ferry Rd. Also, as part of the construction:
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God owns everything. Everything means everything. The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world and all who live in it (Ps. 24:1) The Genesis creation record makes it clear that God is the sovereign Creator who owns and reigns over the earth. It is also clear that God appointed man to manage this creation (Gen. 2:15).
The people of God are God’s management company. If you are a Christian, remember that being part of God’s household gives you responsibilities to work for the house of God. You enter into a contract with God that requires you to be a steward of your part of his creation. It is a further obligation that although you are free to make your own choices, the choices you make must give God glory.
Stewardship is responsibility with accountability. God did not create a people to be servants but to be relatives, sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth (Is. 43:6). He receives little glory from having slaves; he receives tremendous glory from people who willingly serve him as a manifestation of their relationship to him. God wants to know if you truly love him, and he intends to test that love by seeing how you respond to the temptation of money.
Stewardship demands a commitment to others. It is a response to God’s goodness to you. Stewardship is not doing something for God with your money, but doing something for others with his money. You act on God’s behalf and in his name. The apostle Paul described himself as a slave to everyone (1 Car. 9:19) and always seeking the good of them. (1 Car. 10:24, 33). Further he told us to look not only to our own interest, but also the interests of others (Phil. 2:4). Your attitude, Paul wrote, should be the same as that of Christ Jesus, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness (Phil. 2:5-7). Stewardship is both an expression of your love for God and the realization of that love in your relationships to others.
The blessing -“Our pets have already blessed us. On St Francis Day, we get to bless our pets. St Francis of Assisi, who lived from 1182 to 1226, had a great love for animals and the environment. He understood the earth and everything in it as God’s good creation and believed that we are brothers and sisters with everything in creation. So on this day, we remember St Francis and thank God for the gift of our pets.
Live without fear. May we follow the good road together, and may God’s blessing be with you always. Amen.
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s “Brother Sun, Sister Moon” focuses on the early years of Francis of Assisi in this 1972 film.
Faithfulness, endurance, patience—these are the themes of walking the faithful life with God. For the people in the prophet’s time, it was to endure in faithfulness through generations in exile. In the time of Jesus, it was for the disciples to find their way to trust in Jesus, because Jesus couldn’t just give them the ability to magically trust and be faithful. For Paul’s day and following, it was for the followers to continue to live in faith by what they had been taught and had witnessed. For us, we are called to be faithful because of our tradition, our teaching, but also still, hope for the New Day, which began long ago and we can read through the prophets, through the Gospels, and through the Epistles: hope that God will continue to do a new thing, and that we will remain faithful to God.
Everywhere we turn, we see the need for reform. Sometimes our society seems like a house we can’t get clean. We get one room in order, but then another confronts us with disarray. If we improve the environment, we still have problems with education. If we manage political reform, we are still troubled by the unjust allocation of resources or the abuse of children.
Our frustration with the public scene can be mirrored in our own lives. There we find the same ups and downs: a career achievement offset by a damaged relationship; progress toward a personal goal–the setback of an illness. How does faith view this roller coaster?
In today’s gospel, Luke consoles us with the good news that even minimal faith will suffice in the face of both worldly concerns and our own particular challenges. To the apostles who picture grandiose schemes, Jesus offers the image of a tiny seed. Perhaps we won’t reform the world in our lifetime, he seems to say. What matters more is the simple service, the generous response to the demands of our particular situation. Jesus uses the ordinary example of providing food and drink, a service many people perform so often we don’t even think about it. Faith transforms duty so that |
way to be kind in those situations is that, and this happened relatively recently, that’s why it’s kind of fresh in my mind, is after the person said that to me, I just simply asked the question, like she said, oh my gosh, wow, you speak so well, you’re so educated.
I was like, oh, help me out, what do you mean by that? No, I’m just super curious as you said that like you were surprised, that I speak so well, I speak for a living, so shouldn’t I be kind of good at this I would suppose. What did you mean by that? And it’s a way to help someone understand that what they said, wasn’t cool, so to the point really directly, that line is around really thinking about treating yourself, like someone who you love and if that were my kids, I would want my kids to stand up for themselves, I have to stand up for myself.
It’s the kind thing to do to honor yourself and that goes back to the practice part because there are a lot of people who are either unwilling or unable, I actually, would go more to unwilling. So, everyone’s able to do it, to really stand up for themselves and honor themselves when someone is being unkind to them and it’s not always easy to be that person to honor yourself, but once you start doing it is hard to stop.
Taylorr: Well, I feel like even when we first started the conversation where you separated nice and kind, I feel like that’s just been even more solidified in this portion of our conversation. And the thing that I’m kind of sensing about being kind as I’m learning from you, Shola, is that there’s often this element of inclusivity about being kind, like, you’re thinking about your children for example. You’re thinking about bettering humanity by being kind and like asking that question to that woman when, obviously, things got a little offensive and there were a million ways to take that interaction and be defensive or maybe just pass it off or whatever it was.
But it sounds like being kind has this element of inclusivity to it and I’m assuming that’s probably why your framework Go Together kind of ties into some things. Am I picking up on those two connections, am I bridging that gap properly?
Shola: Man, Taylorr, my marketing is working, so yeah, that’s exactly right. There is a huge idea of inclusivity in this, I think that the worst way to live life is to be the type of person who’s like, hey, if it’s not a problem for me, it’s not a problem. And I think that it hurts so many folks because there are so many people who are struggling in some way and the idea of going together is based on an African proverb that’s my all-time favorite. It’s like if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together, and I believe that this is the way that we can really start bringing ourselves out of pain.
When we start to see like, wow, we do have differences and it’s important that we see those, but we also understand that at baseline, the things that unite us, wanting safety, kindness, being treated with respect, having an opportunity to live a life where we get to self-actualize in some way, those are all things that we all experience.
And the sooner we come to realize that the better, but last month, I don’t know when this will air, but back in September 2021, I was invited to speak at Capitol Hill to testify in front of Congress to give advice on how to make Congress more civil to one another. And that was a trip but I’ll tell you one of the things that I found in a whole two hours of testimony, one of the cool things that I mentioned, I think that really resonated was in order for people to really get to a place where either side of the aisle has a chance to come together, you’re going to have to start humanizing people.
And there’s a real market in dehumanization like the other side is this and the other side is that and we see it in Congress, we see it in our schools, we see it in sometimes our neighborhoods, and I think in order for us to go together, it has to start with kindness and that’s what I’m hoping to drive home.
Austin: Man, our culture, our society is so focused on the idea of being right and wrong about things that I think we do remove humanity from the equation and, I don’t know, everything in life has a gray area in most ways, you probably argue with that statement. But anyway, my point is, everybody has their opinions and they’re valid opinions and we just have to be able to unpack them and that doesn’t mean that we need to stick to those opinions, our opinions should evolve, but that’s the whole point. We have to have |
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then by \eqref{eq:f} we have
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& \quad-\kappa(|\Delta_{t}^{n}|)|\Delta_{t}^{n}|f^{\prime}(|\Delta_{t}^{n}|)+2f^{\prime\prime}(|\Delta_{t}^{n}|)\vert\lambda^{n}(\Delta_{t}^{n})\vert^{2}\\
& \le-|\Delta_{t}^{n}|\vert\lambda^{n}(\Delta_{t}^{n})\vert^{2}-\kappa(|\Delta_{t}^{n}|)|\Delta_{t}^{n}|\vert\pi^{n}(\Delta_{t}^{n})\vert^{2}\\
& \le-|\Delta_{t}^{n}|+\rho(\delta_{n})+\delta_{n}.
\end{align*}
It follows from taking the expectation that
\begin{align*}
\frac{\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{d}}{\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{d} t}\mathbb{E} f(|\Delta_{t}^{n}|) & \le-\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{t}^{n}|+ \rho(\delta_{n})+\delta_{n}+\eta f'(0)(\mathcal{K}_{n-1}(\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{t}^{i}|)+ C\theta_{n}^{\frac{1}{d+2}}).\label{eq:501}
\end{align*}
Since \(\lim_{r\to 0}\rho(r)=0\), we take \(\delta_{n}\) such that \(\delta_{n}+\rho(\delta_{n})\leq \theta_{n}^{\frac{1}{d+2}}\) and \(0<\varepsilon< f'(0)^{-1}-\eta\).
Thus,
\begin{align*}
\frac{\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{d}}{\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{d} t}\mathbb{E} f(|\Delta_{t}^{n}|) & \le-\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{t}^{n}|+\eta f'(0)\mathcal{K}_{n-1}(\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{t}^{i}|)+ C\theta_{n}^{\frac{1}{d+2}}\\
&\leq -\varepsilon \mathbb{E} f(|\Delta_{t}^{n}|)-(1-\varepsilon f'(0))\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{t}^{n}| +\eta f'(0)\mathcal{K}_{n-1}(\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{t}^{i}|)+ C\theta_{n}^{\frac{1}{d+2}}.
\end{align*}
By Gronwall's inequality, we get
\begin{equation}
\label{eqn-uniform}
0\leq \mathbb{E} f(|\Delta^{n}_{t}|)\leq \mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{e}^{-\varepsilon t} \int_{0}^{t}\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{e}^{\varepsilon s}[(-1+\varepsilon f'(0))\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{s}^{n}|+\eta f'(0) \mathcal{K}_{n-1}(\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{s}^{i}|)]\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{d} s +C\theta_{n}^{\frac{1}{d+2}}.
\end{equation}
This implies
\begin{equation*}
\int_{0}^{t}\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{e}^{s}\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{s}^{n}|\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{d} s\leq \frac{\eta f'(0)}{1-\varepsilon f'(0)} \int_{0}^{t}\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{e}^{\varepsilon s}\mathcal{K}_{n-1}(\mathbb{E}|\Delta_{s}^{i}|)\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{d} s + C\mathop{}\mathopen\mathrm{e}^{\varepsilon t}\theta_{n}^{\frac{1}{d+2}}.
\end{equation*}
We denote
\begin{equ |
{2}-r=-\frac{r}{2}.
\end{equation*}
Therefore one of the inequalities \eqref{basic} is strict fo the subcurve $D_1$ and this contradicts the fact that
$L$ is strictly balanced since $\emptyset \not\neq D_1\not\subseteq C_{\rm exc}$ by construction.
\end{proof}
Let $\overline{\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ be the category whose objects are
families of quasistable curves $\mathcal{C}\to S$ endowed with a line bundle $\mathcal{L}$ of relative degree $d$
whose restriction to each geometric fiber is balanced and whose arrows are Cartesian diagrams of such families.
Cleary $\overline{\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ is a category fibered in groupoids over the category of schemes.
The following theorem summarizes some of the properties of $\overline{\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ and of its good moduli space $\overline{P}_{d,g}$
known thanks to Caporaso and Melo (note that our stacks ${\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ and $\overline{\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ are called $\mathcal{G}_{d,g}$
and $\overline{\mathcal G}_{d,g}$ in \cite{Melo}).
\begin{Theorem} \emph{(\cite{Cap}, \cite{Capbis}, \cite{Melo})}
\noindent
\begin{enumerate}
\item $\overline{\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ is an irreducible, smooth and universally closed Artin stack of finite type over $\mathbb{C}$ and of dimension $4g-4$.
It contains the stack ${\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ as a dense open substack.
\item $\overline{\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ admits a good moduli space $\overline{P}_{d,g}$, that is a normal irreducible projective variety of dimension $4g-3$.
The geometric points of $\overline{P}_{d,g}$ correspond bijectively to the
equivalence classes of pairs $(C,L)$ where $C$ is a quasi-stable curve of genus $g$ and $L$ is a strictly balanced
line bundle of degree $d$.
\item $\overline{P}_{d,g}$ is a coarse moduli scheme for $\overline{\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ if and only if $(d+1-g, 2g-2)=1$.
In this case $\overline{P}_{d,g}$ has only finite quotient singularities.
\end{enumerate}
\end{Theorem}
The construction of the scheme $\overline{P}_{d,g}$ as a GIT-quotient is due to Caporaso (see \cite{Cap});
the construction of the stack $\overline{\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}$ is due to Caporaso (see \cite{Capbis}) in the case $(d+1-g,2g-2)=1$
and to Melo (see \cite{Melo}) in the general case.
Note that we have a natural commutative diagram compactifying the diagram \eqref{diag0}:
\begin{equation}\label{diag-maps}
\xymatrix{
\overline{\mathcal Pic}_{d,g}\ar[r] \ar@{->>}_{\Phi_d}[d] &\overline{P}_{d,g} \ar@{->>}^{\phi_d}[d]\\
\overline{\mathcal{M}}_g \ar[r] & \overline{M}_g.
}
\end{equation}
\begin{Notation}\label{conv-points}
>From now on, for the ease of notation, whenever we write $(C, L)\in \overline{P}_{d,g}$ we mean that $L$ is a strictly balanced line bundle on the quasi-stable curve $C$,
considered up to the equivalence relation of Definition \ref{equiv-rel}.
\end{Notation}
Next we introduce an open subset of $\overline{P}_{d,g}$ that will play a special role in the sequel.
\begin{Definition}
We denote by $\ov{P}_{d,g}^{\rm st}$ the open subset of $\overline{P}_{d,g}$
consisting of pairs $(C,L)\in \overline{P}_{d,g}$ where $L$ is stably balanced.
\end{Definition}
By the above Remark \ref{GIT-inter}, $\ov{P}_{d,g}^{\rm st}$ is the open subset of $\overline{P}_{d,g}$ where the GIT quotient is geometric.
In \cite[Lemma 2.2 |
",
selected: "fbs-selected", // list item class on mouseover
status: "fbs-status"
},
/*
* css prefix that is prepended to the top level container classes
* (fbs-pane and fbs-flyout-pane)
* i.e. if css_prefix="foo-" then pane class is "foo-fbs-pane"
*/
css_prefix: null,
// http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApi.html#_gat.GA_EventTracker_.trackEvent
trackEvent: null,
// jQuery selector to specify where the suggest list will be appended to (defaults to document.body).
parent: null,
// option to animate suggest list when shown
animate: true
},
$$: function(cls, ctx) {
/**
* helper for class selector
*/
return $("." + cls, ctx);
},
use_jsonp: function(service_url) {
/*
* if we're on the same host, then we don't need to use jsonp.
* This greatly increases our cachability
*/
if (!service_url) {
return false; // no host == same host == no jsonp
}
var pathname_len = window.location.pathname.length;
var hostname = window.location.href;
hostname = hostname.substr(0, hostname.length - pathname_len);
//console.log("Hostname = ", hostname);
if (hostname === service_url) {
return false;
}
return true;
},
strongify: function(str, substr) {
// safely markup substr within str with <strong>
var strong = str;
var index = str.toLowerCase().indexOf(substr.toLowerCase());
if (index >= 0) {
var substr_len = substr.length;
strong = $("<div>").text(str.substring(0, index))
.append($("<strong>").text(str.substring(index, index + substr_len)))
.append(document.createTextNode(str.substring(index + substr_len)))
.html();
}
return strong;
},
keyCode: {
//BACKSPACE: 8,
CAPS_LOCK: 20,
//COMMA: 188,
CONTROL: 17,
//DELETE: 46,
DOWN: 40,
END: 35,
ENTER: 13,
ESCAPE: 27,
HOME: 36,
INSERT: 45,
LEFT: 37,
//NUMPAD_ADD: 107,
//NUMPAD_DECIMAL: 110,
//NUMPAD_DIVIDE: 111,
NUMPAD_ENTER: 108,
//NUMPAD_MULTIPLY: 106,
//NUMPAD_SUBTRACT: 109,
PAGE_DOWN: 34,
PAGE_UP: 33,
//PERIOD: 190,
RIGHT: 39,
SHIFT: 16,
SPACE: 32,
TAB: 9,
UP: 38,
OPTION: 18,
APPLE: 224
},
is_char: function(e) {
if (e.type === "keypress") {
if ((e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey) && e.charCode === 118) { // ctrl+v
return true;
}
else if ("isChar" in e) {
return e.isChar;
}
}
else {
var not_char = $.suggest.keyCode.not_char;
if (!not_char) {
not_char = {};
$.each($.suggest.keyCode, function(k,v) {
not_char[''+v] = 1;
});
$.suggest.keyCode.not_char = not_char;
}
return !(('' + e.keyCode) in not_char);
}
}
});
// some base implementation that we overwrite but want to call
var base = {
_destroy: $.suggest.prototype._destroy,
request: $.suggest.prototype.request,
show_hook: $.suggest.prototype.show_hook
};
// *THE* Freebase suggest implementation
$.suggest("suggest", {
_init: function() {
var self = this,
o = this.options;
if (!o.flyout_service_url) {
o.flyout_service_url = o.service_url;
}
this.jsonp = $.suggest.use_jsonp(o.service_url);
if (!$.suggest.cache) {
$.suggest.cache = {};
}
if (o.flyout) {
this.flyoutpane = $('<div style="display:none;position:absolute" class="fbs-reset ' + o.css_prefix + o.css.flyoutpane + '">');
$(document.body).append(this.flyout |
"the first change was processed second");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(2).args[0], oDependencySetup.mChanges.mainform[1], "the second change was processed third");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(3).args[0], oDependencySetup.mChanges.mainform[2], "the fourth change was processed fourth");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(4).args[0], oDependencySetup.mChanges.CompanyCode[0], "the fifth change was processed fifth");
oControlForm1.destroy();
oControlField1.destroy();
oControlField2.destroy();
}.bind(this));
});
QUnit.test("applyAllChangesForControl dependency test 3 - mixed changehandler (async, sync, async, sync, async)", function(assert) {
var oControlForm1 = new Control("mainform");
var oControlField1 = new Control("ReversalReasonName");
var oControlField2 = new Control("CompanyCode");
var oDependencySetup = fnDependencyTest3Setup();
var fnGetChangesMap = function() {
return oDependencySetup;
};
this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.restore();
this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub = sandbox.stub(Applier, "applyChangeOnControl")
.onCall(0).resolves({success: true})
.onCall(1).returns(new Utils.FakePromise({success: true}))
.onCall(2).resolves({success: true})
.onCall(3).returns(new Utils.FakePromise({success: true}))
.onCall(4).resolves({success: true});
return Applier.applyAllChangesForControl(fnGetChangesMap, this.oAppComponent, this.oFlexController, oControlField2)
.then(Applier.applyAllChangesForControl.bind(Applier, fnGetChangesMap, this.oAppComponent, this.oFlexController, oControlField1))
.then(Applier.applyAllChangesForControl.bind(Applier, fnGetChangesMap, this.oAppComponent, this.oFlexController, oControlForm1))
.then(function() {
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.callCount, 5, "all five changes for the control were processed");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(0).args[0], oDependencySetup.mChanges.ReversalReasonName[0], "the third change was processed first");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(1).args[0], oDependencySetup.mChanges.mainform[0], "the first change was processed second");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(2).args[0], oDependencySetup.mChanges.mainform[1], "the second change was processed third");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(3).args[0], oDependencySetup.mChanges.mainform[2], "the fourth change was processed fourth");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(4).args[0], oDependencySetup.mChanges.CompanyCode[0], "the fifth change was processed fifth");
oControlForm1.destroy();
oControlField1.destroy();
oControlField2.destroy();
}.bind(this));
});
QUnit.test("applyAllChangesForControl dependency test 4", function(assert) {
var oControlForm1 = new Control("form4");
var oChange1 = new Change(getLabelChangeContent("fileNameChange1"));
var oChange2 = new Change(getLabelChangeContent("fileNameChange2"));
var mChanges = {
form4: [oChange1, oChange2]
};
var mDependencies = {
fileNameChange2: {
changeObject: oChange2,
dependencies: ["fileNameChange1"]
}
};
var mDependentChangesOnMe = {
fileNameChange1: ["fileNameChange2"]
};
var fnGetChangesMap = function() {
return getInitialChangesMap({
mChanges: mChanges,
mDependencies: mDependencies,
mDependentChangesOnMe: mDependentChangesOnMe
});
};
return Applier.applyAllChangesForControl(fnGetChangesMap, this.oAppComponent, this.oFlexController, oControlForm1)
.then(function() {
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.callCount, 2, "all two changes for the control were processed");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(0).args[0], oChange1, "the first change was processed first");
assert.equal(this.oApplyChangeOnControlStub.getCall(1).args[0], oChange |
example, that he could follow the moving chromosomes in dividing cells by stimulating fluorescence of a dye attached to the DNA.
In the current work, Webb and his colleagues have now gone a step further. By delivering light in shorter, brighter pulses from a titanium sapphire laser, they raise the odds that three photons will simultaneously strike individual molecules. The energy of all three add together, extending even further the range of fluorescence excitation and making possible the use of photons of even longer wavelengths.
When tested on leukemia cells, which like nerve cells contain serotonin but are easier to work with, these triple hits were enough to make serotonin fluoresce, without the need of any external dye. Based on the amount of fluorescence, Webb was able to measure the amount of serotonin in the tiny granules that store the chemical until it's released. Others have tried to visualize serotonin molecules in the granules, but only in fixed tissue, not living cells, says Webb.
While Webb was working out the logistics of three-photon excitation, others were hot on the same trail. In 1995, Maryland's Lakowicz began to test the potential of three photons to excite fluorescence from various dyes and biological molecules. At the same time, Victoria Centonze in White's lab made an unexpected observation. A cell that she expected to emit just red fluorescence under her microscope also emitted blue light. She and White didn't realize at first that the blue emission was the result of three-photon hits exciting a second dye that was also present, but their colleague David Wokosin did go on to demonstrate that that was indeed the case.
White's team has now used a single laser to excite fluorescence by both two-photon and three-photon absorption in the same specimen. In work published in the September 1996 issue of Bioimaging, the researchers report that this allowed them to follow three different biological molecules, each tagged with a different dye. White estimates that the strategy will make it possible to follow up to five molecules simultaneously in living tissue.
Also, the longer wavelengths of light that can be used in multiphoton excitation don't scatter on their way through tissue, as do shorter wavelengths, so “you can probe deeper into the cell,” White adds. Webb's group has looked 390 nanometers into skin and observed how sun-damaged elastin shatters into tiny pieces. And White says he can peer two to five times deeper into zebrafish embryos than he could with conventional confocal microscopy techniques.
OSAKA, JAPAN—If results presented at an international meeting* here hold up, researchers will have taken a sizable step toward creating a new generation of compact particle accelerators powered by laser pulses. A team at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) led by physicist Kazuhisa Nakajima says it has succeeded in accelerating electrons to energies of from 100 million to more than 300 million electron volts. That's still well short of the energies needed for high-energy physics experiments, but it's more than three times higher than those reached in earlier experiments. The announcement has stirred both excitement and caution, however, because theorists can't explain the achievement.
“The results, if you take them at face value, are extremely impressive,” says Chan Joshi, a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), electrical engineer and a pioneer in laser acceleration. “But there are aspects of the results that are hard to understand.” Among other things, he and his colleagues wonder how the laser pulse could have remained sharply focused for long enough to drive the intense accelerations reported by the group, which is part of JAERI's year-old effort to push the development and use of compact, short-pulse lasers (Science, 5 January 1996, p. 26).
Nakajima's results are controversial among short-pulse laser physicists.
In principle, accelerating electrons with such lasers sounds easy. A laser pulse shot into a gas ionizes it and creates a wake, much like a speedboat zipping across a pond. Electrons riding on the wake can be accelerated to high energies. The advantage over conventional accelerators is that the acceleration occurs over a much shorter distance, which could sharply cut the size, cost, and energy requirements of accelerators. But the effect occurs only if the laser pulse can somehow remain within a narrow channel for several centimeters instead of dispersing within a fraction of a millimeter, as it does normally.
Theoretical studies predict that, at very high laser energies, the interaction of the laser and the plasma, or ionized gas, creates a sort of lens in the plasma that focuses the laser light and propagates it along the narrow path needed for high acceleration. The JAERI group, however, claims to be seeing these phenomena, called self-focusing and self-channeling, at much lower energy levels. As evidence, they cite the shape of the fluorescence excited by the laser in the plasma, the spectrum of the laser light scattered out |
0.6.4 (2009-12-13)
* Refactored specs to be less unit-like.
* Added a getter for the `Savon::Request` to `Savon::Client` and a `read_timeout` setter for HTTP requests.
* `wsdl.soap_actions` now returns an Array of SOAP actions. For the previous "mapping" please use `wsdl.operations`.
* Replaced WSDL document with stream parsing.
Benchmarks (1000 SOAP calls):
user system total real
0.6.4 72.180000 8.280000 80.460000 (750.799011)
0.6.3 192.900000 19.630000 212.530000 (914.031865)
## 0.6.3 (2009-12-11)
* Removing 2 ruby deprecation warnings for parenthesized arguments. (<NAME> <<EMAIL>>)
* Added global and per request options for disabling `Savon::WSDL`.
Benchmarks (1000 SOAP calls):
user system total real
WSDL 192.900000 19.630000 212.530000 (914.031865)
disabled WSDL 5.680000 1.340000 7.020000 (298.265318)
* Improved XPath expressions for parsing the WSDL document.
Benchmarks (1000 SOAP calls):
user system total real
0.6.3 192.900000 19.630000 212.530000 (914.031865)
0.6.2 574.720000 78.380000 653.100000 (1387.778539)
## 0.6.2 (2009-12-06)
* Added support for changing the name of the SOAP input node.
* Added a CHANGELOG.
## 0.6.1 (2009-12-06)
* Fixed a problem with WSSE credentials, where every request contained a WSSE authentication header.
## 0.6.0 (2009-12-06)
* `method_missing` now yields the SOAP and WSSE objects to a given block.
* The response_process (which previously was a block passed to method_missing) was replaced by `Savon::Response`.
* Improved SOAP action handling (another problem that came up with issue #1).
## 0.5.3 (2009-11-30)
* Patch for [issue #2](https://github.com/rubiii/savon/issues/2).
## 0.5.2 (2009-11-30)
* Patch for [issue #1](https://github.com/rubiii/savon/issues/1).
## 0.5.1 (2009-11-29)
* Optimized default response process.
* Added WSSE settings via defaults.
* Added SOAP fault and HTTP error handling.
* Improved documentation
* Added specs
## 0.5.0 (2009-11-29)
* Complete rewrite and public release.
<commit_msg>fixed commit link<commit_after>## 0.8.0
* Added `Savon::SOAP::XML#env_namespace` ([bac4b4](https://github.com/rubiii/savon/commit/51fa0e)) to configure
the SOAP envelope namespace. It defaults to :env but can also be set to an empty String for SOAP envelope
tags without a namespace.
* Replaced quite a lot of core extensions by moving the Hash to XML translation into a new gem called
[Gyoku](http://rubygems.org/gems/gyoku) ([51fa0e](https://github.com/rubiii/savon/commit/51fa0e)).
## 0.8.0.beta. |
<commit_before>/*
* Grakn - A Distributed Semantic Database
* Copyright (C) 2016 Grakn Labs Ltd
*
* Grakn is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Grakn is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with Grakn. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt>.
*/
package ai.grakn.test.engine.controller;
import ai.grakn.Grakn;
import ai.grakn.GraknGraph;
import ai.grakn.GraknTxType;
import ai.grakn.concept.Entity;
import ai.grakn.concept.EntityType;
import ai.grakn.concept.RelationType;
import ai.grakn.concept.Resource;
import ai.grakn.concept.ResourceType;
import ai.grakn.concept.RoleType;
import ai.grakn.engine.GraknEngineConfig;
import ai.grakn.engine.controller.CommitLogController;
import ai.grakn.engine.controller.SystemController;
import ai.grakn.engine.factory.EngineGraknGraphFactory;
import ai.grakn.engine.postprocessing.PostProcessingTask;
import ai.grakn.engine.postprocessing.UpdatingInstanceCountTask;
import ai.grakn.engine.tasks.TaskManager;
import ai.grakn.exception.InvalidGraphException;
import ai.grakn.factory.SystemKeyspace;
import ai.grakn.test.SparkContext;
import ai.grakn.util.REST;
import ai.grakn.util.Schema;
import com.jayway.restassured.http.ContentType;
import mjson.Json;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.ClassRule;
import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.mockito.Mockito;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import static ai.grakn.test.GraknTestEnv.ensureCassandraRunning;
import static ai.grakn.util.REST.Request.COMMIT_LOG_CONCEPT_ID;
import static ai.grakn.util.REST.Request.COMMIT_LOG_COUNTING;
import static ai.grakn.util.REST.Request.COMMIT_LOG_FIXING;
import static ai.grakn.util.REST.Request.COMMIT_LOG_SHARDING_COUNT;
import static ai.grakn.util.REST.Request.KEYSPACE;
import static com.jayway.restassured.RestAssured.delete;
import static com.jayway.restassured.RestAssured.given;
import static mjson.Json.array;
import static mjson.Json.object;
import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;
import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.argThat;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.atLeastOnce;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.never;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.reset;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.times;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
//TODO Stopping commit log tasks when clearing graph
public class CommitLogControllerTest {
private static final String TEST_KEYSPACE = "test";
private static TaskManager manager = mock(TaskManager.class);
@ClassRule
public static SparkContext ctx = SparkContext.withControllers((spark, config) -> {
new CommitLogController(spark, config.getProperty(GraknEngineConfig.DEFAULT_KEYSPACE_PROPERTY), 100, manager);
new SystemController(EngineGraknGraphFactory.create(config.getProperties()), spark);
});
private Json commitLog;
@BeforeClass
public static void setUp() throws Exception {
ensureCassandraRunning();
}
@After
public void resetMockitoMockCounts(){
reset(manager);
}
@Test
public void whenControllerReceivesLog_TaskManagerReceivesPPTask() {
sendFakeCommitLog();
verify(manager, times(1)).addTask(
argThat(argument -> argument.taskClass().equals(PostProcessingTask.class)),
argThat(argument -> argument.json().at(COMMIT_LOG_FIXING).equals(commitLog.at(COMMIT_LOG_FIXING)))
);
}
@Test
public void whenCommittingGraph_TaskManagerReceivesPPTask() throws InterruptedException {
final String BOB = "bob";
final String TIM = "tim";
GraknGraph bob = Grakn.session(ctx.uri(), BOB).open(GraknTxType.WRITE);
GraknGraph tim = Grakn.session(ctx.uri(), TIM).open(GraknTxType.WRITE);
addSomeData(bob);
verify(manager, times(1)).addTask(
argThat(argument |
Archive for Saturday, February 09, 2008
Slain family members identified
Coroner confirms that four of the people killed were a father and his sons. The fifth victim of the siege in the San Fernando Valley was a member of LAPD’s SWAT unit.
The standoff began shortly after a man in Winnetka called 911 saying he had gunned down three relatives. It ended early Thursday – more than eight hours later – with a single round from a police sniper who killed the suspect as he emerged from his burning house firing a barrage of bullets. In between, two highly decorated Los Angeles Police Department officers were shot, one fatally.
The LAPD was deeply shaken by the nightlong siege in an otherwise quiet San Fernando Valley neighborhood. Officer Randal Simmons, described as “the rock” of the elite SWAT team, became the first member in its four-decade history to die in the line of duty, taking a gunshot to the neck as the unit stormed the house in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue hostages and end the conflict.
A fellow SWAT officer, James Veenstra, was shot and seriously wounded but was expected to recover.
The genesis of the violence was not immediately clear but appeared to involve a dispute between the shooter and his brothers and father. The dead family members were indentified today by coroner’s officials as Gerardo Rivera, 54, and his sons, Endi Rivera, 25, Edgar Rivera, 21, and Edwin Rivera, 20. The father was an immigrant from El Salvador who ran a trucking company.
(Based on friends and relatives statements, an earlier version of this story cited the identifications as Gerardo Rivera, 50; Edgar, 19; Edwin, 20; and Andy, 21.) Autopsies are planned for as early as Saturday, said Capt. Ed Winter of the Coroner’s Department.
Police have not officially said which of the sons was the shooter. Multiple police sources, however, identified him as Edwin Rivera. And coroner’s officials today identified Edwin as the individual who was shot and killed outside the home. An LAPD news conference is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
Friends and relatives said there had been strains in the family involving the father’s relationship with a girlfriend. The boys’ mother died seven or eight years ago, family members said. A friend, Jose Ortiz, 21, said Edwin was a Reseda High School dropout.
“I don’t know what would make him do something like that,” Ortiz said. “I never would have expected this to happen.”
Antonio Rivera, 28, of Panorama City said he was the brother of Gerardo Rivera and the uncle of the three young men and a fourth brother who was living on his own. He said that Gerardo Rivera came to the United States about 25 years ago and that all of his sons were born in this country.
Reflecting on the violence that had just occurred, he said: “You never know when something happens in the mind.”
Of those inside the house, the only known survivor was a woman, believed to have been the father’s girlfriend, who escaped before dawn Thursday when police fired tear gas into the house and knocked down a back wall in an attempt to expose the shooter. She was taken to a hospital, apparently for treatment of tear gas inhalation, but was not believed to be seriously hurt.
The shootout marked perhaps the worst day in the history of the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit, created in the late 1960s and formalized in 1971 to deal with especially dangerous situations. It handles about 100 incidents a year involving barricaded suspects but had never lost an officer in the line of duty. (SWAT Officer Louis Villalobos died during a training accident in 2000 and was awarded the Medal of Valor.)
“Today is a sad and tragic day in the city of Los Angeles,” a grim-faced Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said at a news conference near the shooting scene. With him were Police Chief William J. Bratton, who had rushed back to L.A. from a conference in Vancouver, Canada, and a phalanx of other city officials and police brass. As Bratton spoke of Simmons, recalling the work that the fallen officer had done for children, Assistant Chief James McDonnell wiped tears from his eyes.
Earlier, McDonnell had called Simmons and Veenstra, both 51 and veterans of the SWAT team, “two of the best in the country at what they do.” Simmons, a married father of two teenagers, had been on the force for 27 years, 20 with the SWAT unit. Results of an autopsy on Simmons’ body could come as soon as this afternoon, officials said this morning.
Bratton said condolences had poured in to the LAPD from SWAT units all over the world. SWAT officers nationally and internationally train together, and many officers in |
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experiment have been depicted in Figure \ref{fig:qbc}. We can see the active-learning-based (active TOCO) method consistently outperforms both the baseline and the value-based method. For the rest of this section we will only test active TOCO method.}
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{figures/activeTOCO.png}
\caption{Comparison of TOCO with and without active sample selection and value-based pruning}
\label{fig:qbc}
\end{figure}
\textbf{Limitations of heuristics: }Many compression methods propose heuristic measures to decide which parameters to perturb when compressing. However, these heuristics can be inaccurate. As an example, here we study the absolute value of parameters as a measure of their importance to maintaining the accuracy which is used by many pruning methods. For this experiment, we compress a trained DNN model using TOCO and fixed-point quantization as the compression method. That is similar to adaptive quantization \cite{khoram2018adaptive}, in each iteration, TOCO reduces the encoding size of parameters until each parameter is quantized with the fewest encoding bits necessary. We further define a measure of importance in this context for parameters:
\begin{align}
&\mu_{\omega_i} = \frac{K}{\sum_k \rho(\omega_i^k)} \\
&\rho(\omega_i^k) =
\begin{cases}
1& \phi(\omega_i^k) < \phi(\omega_i^{k-1}) \text{ or } \phi(\omega_i^k)=0 \\
0& \text{Otherwise}
\end{cases}
\end{align}
Here, $\mu_{\omega_i}$ measures how fast the iterative process of algorithm \ref{alg:application} minimizes the encoding size of the parameter $\omega_i$. Larger values of $\mu_{\omega_i}$ mean faster elimination of the parameter and correspond to a lower importance. We depict the importance of the parameters in the first fully-connected layer of LeNet-5 versus their initial values at the start of compression, in Figure \ref{fig:importance}. We can see that there is very little correlation between parameter importance and their initial values. Thus, absolute value is not a good measure of the importance of parameters.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{figures/imagenet.png}
\caption{Unconstrained pruning on VGG16 trained on ImageNet}
\label{fig:pruning}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\subfigure[MNIST]{%
\label{fig:first}%
\includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{figures/mnist.png}}%
~
\subfigure[CIFAR10]{%
\label{fig:second}%
\includegraphics[width=0.33\linewidth]{figures/cifar10.png}}%
~
\subfigure[SVHN]{%
\label{fig:second}%
\includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{figures/svhn.png}}%
\caption{Comparison of the proposed method in quantization with previous works}
\label{fig:quantization}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{figures/importance1.png}
\caption{Importance vs. value of parameters}
\label{fig:importance}
\end{figure}
\textbf{Comparison with heuristic pruning: }We compare the pruning capability of the proposed method with a value-based method \cite{han2015deep} on compressing VGG16 trained on ImageNet. In this experiment, we do not include any hardware constraints and prune parameters solely based on their effect on accuracy, that is group size is set to $1$. We use the tolerances derived in the quantization to determine importance. Following the results of Figure \ref{fig:importance}, we expect the proposed framework to eliminate parameters more effectively and with a smaller loss of accuracy compared to the value-based approach. We examine this by plotting the accuracy loss for the parameter elimination rate in Figure \ref{fig:pruning}.
Figure \ref{fig:pruning} compares the unconstrained pruning performance of the proposed method with the value-based approach in two scenarios, before and after fine tuning. In the first scenario, small parameters are eliminated only and the accuracy is reported. In the second scenario we further compare the results with value-based pruning followed by retraining. We do not retrain for TOCO. As shown, we outperform the first case and perform similar to the second case |
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