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The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee: What Donors Need to Know
Background Brief, August 2021
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is one of several committees that form the institutional Democratic Party. It's one of the lesser-known of these groups, lacking the brand name recognition of the DSCC, DCCC or DNC. Its work flies similarly under the radar; instead of federal races, the DLCC tries to win seats at the state legislature level, meaning it has literally thousands of low-profile contests to monitor and compete in. This focus makes it a more attractive option than other party committees for donors looking to achieve bang-for-their-buck efficiency. We recommend the DLCC to donors. And with the 2022 election season approaching, we consider giving to the DLCC to be a high priority. (Explore our methodology.)
The DLCC had a budget of $51 million in the 2020 cycle, a fraction of the funds available to the DSCC and DCCC. The races it focuses on are obscure compared to Senate and Congressional contests; studies have found that many Americans don't even know who represents them in their state's legislature. But state governments decide a lot of important policies, from abortion access to the minimum wage. Back in the 1980s, Democrats controlled most state legislative chambers, but this advantage has gradually eroded as Republicans put more resources into contesting these elections. (Some trace the GOP focus on state legislatures to the 1971 "Powell memo," which laid out a political strategy for big business.) After decades of quiet work, the GOP came to control a record 32 state legislatures in 2016; because in many states, the legislature draws district lines, this electoral advantage can be self-perpetuating, as Republican politicians gerrymander themselves favorable maps.
This brief will describe how the DLCC functions and examine its recent track record. It will also discuss the opportunity the DLCC presents for donors, and why targeting legislative races, as opposed to higher-profile elections, is a viable strategy for donors
What are its core strategies?
The DLCC divides the country into five regions, each of which is monitored by a political director. In practice, the committee focuses on states where there is a chance of flipping one or both legislative chambers, for example, Pennsylvania and Arizona in 2020. The DLCC provides support to candidates in a variety of ways:
Focusing on priority races. DLCC identifies "Spotlight Races" that are considered important and that have particularly strong candidates. These are races that get a lot of DLCC support, and donors curious about upcoming state-level campaigns to back can peruse that list and give directly through the DLCC website.
Outside spending. The DLCC makes independent expenditures to help Democrats get elected at the state level, which often take the form of ads that air encouraging voters to cast ballots for Democrats in general rather than particular candidates.
Supporting state-level staff. It provides training and sometimes salaries for campaign staff. At this level of electoral politics, candidates often have very few staffers and workers may lack experience in things like writing press releases or running a fundraising operation, making this sort of assistance valuable.
How does it spend money?
Tracking DLCC spending is difficult because it spends across so many states. But it's clear that unlike the DCCC and DSCC, it doesn't spend huge amounts on advertising. According to OpenSecrets, in 2018 the bulk of its expenditures went to staff salaries ($7 million, 23 percent of its spending) and transfers to state party organizations ($8.8 million, 30 percent). This may reflect the impracticality of trying to produce ads for thousands of races—media made up only about 1 percent of its spending that year.
Instead, the DLCC spends money providing assistance to campaigns through training sessions, data modeling, and partnerships with other organizations. This means that a lot of its money is spent directly on its own staff, though like other parts of the Democratic Party it tends to move money around to battleground states.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of those strategies?
Though the DLCC has been raising more money in the past few cycles, it can't be everywhere at once and has to divide its efforts across thousands of races. By necessity, its efforts tend to be concentrated in states where a legislative chamber could flip. But it's important for Democrats to grow power across all 50 states, and there is organizing to be done in states where winning a substantial number of seats is a distant dream. In those places, the DLCC's model makes less sense.
But the DLCC represents an opportunity for donors. In the last decade, an enormous amount of money has flowed into electoral politics, but there is probably still value to be had in donating to state-level races. These elections are decided by relatively few votes and the campaigns have relatively small budgets, so donations, especially early donations, to these candidates can provide them with a lot of help. Being able to buy mailers or coordinate door-to-door canvassing could be the difference between a victory and a defeat, and in closely divided legislatures, a couple additional victories could give Democrats much more power than they would otherwise have. The case for donating to these races, as under-the-radar as they are, is extremely strong.
A good illustration of the merit of this strategy is to consider its opposite, which would be donating to a high-profile Senate campaign late in a race, something many Decmoratic donors do as they are bombarded by fundraising and media messages about these sorts of races. With that donation, a Senate campaign will likely buy more ads, but the state will probably be saturated with political messaging and one more TV spot will probably not affect the race at all. By contrast, if you give the same amount of money to a state senate hopeful early in their race, they may be able to hire an additional staffer—a field director, say—and substantially increase their chance of winning.
These often overlooked state-level races are what make the DLCC a compelling option for donors.The committee can allocate resources to races that probably won't be top-of-mind for donors.
What is its track record of achieving its goals?
In the decade prior to 2016, the DLCC had a poor track record. During the Obama era, Democrats lost nearly 1,000 state legislative seats and Democratic-aligned operatives Blue Tent spoke with agree that the DLCC wasn't a particularly functional organization. From 2008 to 2014, Democrats lost full or partial control of legislatures in 13 states, and they continued to lose chambers on net in 2014. In 2016, they gained more chambers than they lost, but still continued to bleed seats.
The party suffered a setback in 2020, however, as it was hit by a net loss in seats, even while winning the presidency. This may have been due to unexpected Republican enthusiasm, a lack of door-knocking from Democrats during the pandemic, or ticket-splitting from swing-state moderates, all factors that have been identified by analysts in election post-mortems. The DLCC could have helped ameliorate these problems by, for instance, pressuring campaigns to do in-person door-knocking, but it didn't do so.
These losses can't be solely blamed on the DLCC, but unfortunately, the group has had basically only one positive cycle in terms of results in the last decade-plus. Still, the organization has clearly recovered from its disastrous pre-2016 slump.
Does it have strong leadership and governance?
It's nearly universally held that Jessica Post, the former DLCC employee who came back to run it in 2016, is an energetic and effective leader who has helped grow the organization. Under Post, Democrats started to reverse the decades-long trend of Republican state election dominance in 2018, when they flipped several legislative chambers. This was thanks partly to better organization from the DLCC and partly to new Democratic-aligned groups that focused on legislative campaigns.
Unlike the DSCC and DCCC, whose staffs and leadership turn over nearly every cycle, the DLCC maintains the same team through multiple cycles. This is a reflection of the more specialized nature of the DLCC's work, but it also means that the organization is more stable and less likely to change directions. An advantage the DLCC has over the DSCC and DCCC is that while the tactics of the other major committees are scrutinized by pundits and political operatives from all branches of the party, the DLCC, with its lower profile, is not subject to the same problems.
What metrics and milestones does it use to measure its success?
Like the other Democratic committees, the DLCC does not release detailed breakdowns of internal metrics, and would not share internal data with Blue Tent.
How transparent is it about its spending, results, and learning from its mistakes?
It isn't especially transparent by the standards of other organizations in the state electoral space, which tend to share detailed impact reports. The DLCC occasionally releases strategy memos, which are helpful for those interested in the Democratic Party's take on various states, but it doesn't stand out for its transparency.
Is it committed to racial and gender equity both internally and in its strategies?
The DLCC does not publish statistics on its staff, but a review of their LinkedIn profiles shows that like other party committees, the group appears mostly to be staffed at the top level by white people. (Blue Tent has asked the DLCC about its staff diversity and will update this brief when we hear back.) But the DLCC's board of directors is led by Chair New York State Senate Majority Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Vice Chair Nevada Speaker of the Assembly Jason Frierson, both of whom are Black.
The DLCC's Spotlight Races feature an array of candidates of color and LGBTQ candidates, so it is dedicated to diversifying the party through its endorsements.
Does it collaborate well and is it respected by its peers?
Since 2016, a number of state-focused organizations—including Sister District, Swing Left, and Future Now—have been founded and have attempted to boost Democrats' prospects in the states. The DLCC, to its credit, seems to have more or less welcomed this infusion of enthusiasm and has worked with many of these organizations on shared goals. Since the committee stays out of primaries there is less friction between the DLCC and progressives than there is between the DSCC/DCCC and progressives, who have clashed over endorsements and other interventions in House and Senate primaries.
Does it have clear and realistic plans for the future?
A Twitter thread from the official DLCC account in March was fairly upfront about changes Democrats should make in order to be competitive in the 2021–2022 cycle. The three things it identified were: getting donors to invest early in campaigns; running ads early in the cycle; and building infrastructure that can pay off down the road, even in states where Democrats can't currently compete.
The expansion of those operations will require money, and that means convincing Democratic donors that these races are valuable. As Post herself pointed out in a 2021 strategy memo, the DLCC's record $51 million in fundraising was dwarfed by Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath's $96 million war chest, a huge amount for a candidate most informed observers never believed had a path to victory.
In that memo, Post noted that Republicans often have more funding in these down-ballot races, adding, "Democrats must invest early. Despite talented staff, caucus campaign organizations and state legislative campaigns are often under-resourced. They need money for staff for recruitment, candidate support, and to build winning infrastructures. None of that is possible if we do not send them the money to do it."
Of all the components of the Democratic Party, the DLCC has the most obvious potential for growth; it's the only major party organ that is arguably underfunded. Donors should focus more on state-level races, and while they have a lot of options when it comes to giving in that arena—including individual campaigns and several reputable organizations that support Democratic down-ballot candidates—the DLCC has both brand-name recognition and stable, well-respected leadership.
Many major donors who wish to donate to the Democratic Party give the maximum allowable by law to the DSCC and DCCC as a way of supporting the party. But while these committees are important, the DLCC is arguably doing more to build infrastructure by winning small races and flipping state legislative chambers, which, over time, builds a bench of candidates and makes it easier for Democrats to win bigger races—if Democrats control more state governments, they can reverse gerrymandering and voting restriction laws Republicans have passed to keep themselves in power.
It is generally good advice to give to campaigns rather than party committees because individual candidates can take advantage of better ad rates, and many campaigns may know what they need more than committees. But because the DLCC is involved in the less visible but valuable business of fighting out in the states, it is definitely the best option of the major party committees for donors.
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Chersonesus, in medieval Greek contracted to Cherson is an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula. The colony was established in the 6th century BC by settlers from Heraclea Pontica, the ancient city is located on the shore of the Black Sea at the outskirts of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula, where it is referred to as Khersones. It has been nicknamed the Ukrainian Pompeii, the site is now part of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos. The name Chersonesos in Greek means peninsula, and aptly describes the site on which the colony was established and it should not be confused with the Tauric Chersonese, the name often applied to the whole of the southern Crimea. During much of the classical period Chersonesus was a democracy ruled by a group of elected archons, as time passed the government grew more oligarchic, with power concentrated in the hands of the archons. A form of oath sworn by all the citizens since the 3rd century BC has survived to the present day, in 2013, Chersonesus was listed as a World Heritage Site.
Greek colonies In the late 2nd century BC Chersonesus became a dependency of the Bosporan Kingdom and it was subject to Rome from the middle of the 1st century BC until the 370s AD, when it was captured by the Huns. It became a Byzantine possession during the Early Middle Ages and withstood a siege by the Göktürks in 581, Byzantine rule was slight, there was a small imperial garrison more for the towns protection than for its control. Among its more famous inmates were Pope Clement I and Pope Martin I, according to Theophanes the Confessor and others, Chersonesus was the residence of a Khazar governor in the late 7th century. It remained in Byzantine hands until the 980s, when it fell to Kiev. Vladimir the Great agreed to evacuate the fortress only if Basil IIs sister Anna Porphyrogeneta would be him in marriage. The demand caused a scandal in Constantinople, as a pre-condition for the marriage settlement, Vladimir was baptized here in 988, thus paving the way to the Baptism of Kievan Rus. Since this campaign is not recorded in Greek sources, historians have suggested that this account actually refers to the events of the Rus-Byzantine War and to a different Vladimir.
The Swallows Nest is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka, in the Crimean Peninsula. The Swallows Nest is one of the most popular attractions in Crimea. The building is compact in size, measuring only 20 m long by 10 m wide and its original design envisioned a foyer, guest room, stairway to the tower, and two bedrooms on two different levels within the tower. The interior of the guest room is decorated with wooden panels, an observation deck rings the building, providing a view of the sea, and Yaltas distant shoreline. The first building on the Aurora Cliff was constructed for a Russian general circa 1895, the first structure he built was a wooden cottage romantically named the Castle of Love. Later on, the ownership of the passed to A. K. Tobin. The Scots Baronial and Moorish Revival styles had been introduced in the Crimea in the 1820s by Edward Blore, in 1914, von Steingel sold the building to P. G. Shelaputin to be used as a restaurant. For a short time after the 1917 Russian Revolution, the building was used only as a tourist attraction, in 1927, the Swallows Nest survived a serious earthquake rated at 6 to 7 on the Richter scale.
A dacha is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of Russian and other post-Soviet cities. In some cases, dachas are occupied for part of the year by their owners, people in dachas are colloquially called dachniks, the term usually refers not only to presence in dacha, but to a whole distinctive lifestyle. The Russian term is said to have no exact counterpart in English. Dachas are very common in Russia, and are widespread in most parts of the former Soviet Union. It was estimated that in 1995 about 25% of Russian families living in cities had dachas. Most dachas are in colonies of dachas and garden plots near large cities, that have existed since the Soviet era and they were initially intended only as recreation getaways of city dwellers and for the purpose of growing small gardens for food. Dachas are used today for fishing and other leisure activities, dachas originated as small country estates given as a gift by the tsar, and have been popular among the upper and middle classes ever since.
During the Soviet era, many dachas were state-owned, and were given to the elite of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, state dachas continue to be owned by the government of the Russian Federation, for use by the president and other officials. In the 1980s, the rules were loosened, and since 1990, the first dachas in Russia began to appear during the 17th century, initially referring to small estates in the country that were given to loyal vassals by the tsar. In archaic Russian, the word means something given, from the verb дать - to give. During the Age of Enlightenment, Russian aristocracy used their dachas for social and cultural gatherings, by the end of the 19th century, the dacha became a favorite summer retreat for the upper and middle classes of Russian society. In the tsarist era, dachas tended to have pleasure gardens, anton Chekhov wrote a novelette entitled Dachniki, about newlywed city-dwellers living a simple summer life of walks in the countryside. Following the Russian Revolution, most dachas were nationalised, all but a few dachas remained the property of the state and the right to use them was usually revoked when a dacha occupant was dismissed or fell out of favour with the rulers of the state.
A vexillatio was a detachment of a Roman legion formed as a temporary task force created by the Roman army of the Principate. It was named from the standard carried by legionary detachments, the vexillum, although commonly associated with legions, it is likely that vexillationes included auxiliaries. The term is found in the singular, referring to a single detachment, Vexillationes were assembled ad hoc to meet a crisis on Romes extensive frontiers, to fight in a civil war, or to undertake an offensive against Romes neighbours. They varied in size and composition, but usually consisted of about 1000 infantry and/or 500 cavalry, because the Roman Army was not large enough to garrison the vast size of the empire, most of it was stationed along the frontiers. This placed the empire in a position when serious threats arose in the interior or along a remote frontier. There was no central reserve and it was possible to take a full legion, or even a major portion of one. The only logical solution was to take detachments from different legions, as soon as it was taken care of, these vexillationes were dissolved, and the detachments returned to their parent legions.
The Roman emperors had from the time of Augustus had at their unit in Italy. Over time these units would increase, Augustus created the praetorians who at the time of Domitianus constituted a force of ten cohorts, each of 1000 men strength on paper and who supplied a disputed number of horsemen. Traianus created the Imperial horseguards, the Equites Singulares Augusti formed from his proconsular horseguard he had when he was the legate of Germania Inferior of about 1000 horsemen, septimius made many changes in the Roman military. He doubled the number of the horseguards to 2000 horsemen and he filled the ranks of the Praetorians with provincial soldiers. He levied a new legion, Legio II Parthica, and for the first time in Roman history stationed it on the outskirts of Rome, whenever the emperor went on campaign these guards units stationed in the city of Rome would accompany him. Added to these came the vexillationes of the border legions, but during the Crisis of the Third Century vexillationes were shifted so rapidly from one area to another that units became hopelessly mixed up and became practically independent.
Legio prima Italica, the epithet Italica is a reference to the Italian origin of its first recruits) was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded by emperor Nero on September 22,66. There are still records of the I Italica on the Danube border at the beginning of the 5th century, the emblem of the legion was a boar. In the aftermath of the Roman–Parthian War of 58–63, Emperor Nero levied the I Italica with the name phalanx Alexandri Magni, for a campaign in Armenia, the sources mention the peculiar fact that the original legionaries were Italics, all over six feet tall. However, since the Jewish Revolt broke out a few weeks later, the governor of Gaul, Gaius Julius Vindex, rose in revolt in early 68 and I Italica was redirected there, arriving just in time to see the end of the revolt. The new emperor sent I Italica to the province of Moesia in 70 and they encamped at Novae which became the legions provincial base for centuries. The legion served on campaign during the Dacian wars of Trajan, the legion was responsible for bridge construction over the Danube.
Denarius issued in 193 by Septimius Severus, to celebrate I Italica, which supported the commander of the Pannonian legions in his fight for the purple.


Amsterdam is amazing. The city is absolutely breath-taking, clean, and quiet. With a population of roughly 700,000, relatively few cars scatter the streets bustling with bikes as far as the eye can see. While in Amsterdam for the day, we saw Dam Square, Reimbradtplein, the Red Light District, the Opera House, the canals of course, and Amsterdam Central Station. Aaron and I are embarking on a three and a half week journey across Western Europe. While we are traveling, we are using a site called couchsurfing.com to manage our stay in each city. Through this website, you meet people online and request to stay on their couches. Our host Enrico was an incredible first experience to the world of couchsurfing. We went around the whole city, laughed and shared stories of our lives, family, and friends. He helped us finalize some details for our journey in Italy and he even made us sandwiches for the road! All is well in Amsterdam.
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The cold weather has arrived in New Orleans and to stay warm all members of the lab have been keeping busy!
This semester we welcomed Ph.D. students Annelise Blanchette and Mike Ellis to the lab! Annelise comes to us from John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH, where she earned her M.S. in biology. She will be working on mockingbirds here in New Orleans, with a focus on how environmental lead may impact behavior. She is happy to escape the cold winters of the north! Mike has come back to the states from Ecuador where he works as the Director of Research for Third Millennium Alliance, a conservation non-profit. His research will be based in Ecuador and focus on avian diversity in fragmented landscapes.
We also welcomed M.S. students Rachel Cook, Akhila Gopal, Jiawen Liu, and A.J. Pate and senior undergraduate Kyu Min Huh.
We are excited to have so many new faces in the lab, and for all of the exciting research ideas being pursued.
The returning members of the lab have been very busy the past couple of months.
Zoë Diaz-Martin is continuing to work on completing her lab work and data analysis related to adaptation and gene flow in a Neotropical palm tree, Oenocarpus bataua. She submitted her first chapter for publication and presented that work at the Ecological Society of America's 2018 conference in New Orleans. Complementing her basic research, she continues to work on a community-based conservation initiative supporting local residents in creating an eco-tourism reserve at the Refugio del Gavilan in northwestern Ecuador.
John Jones returned from Papua New Guinea after successfully completing two different experiments as part of his dissertation. He is spending most of the fall semester writing grants to continue to fund his next steps in PNG as well as in Australia. John also co-authored a publication the effect of soil-based lead in New Orleans on northern mockingbird aggression.
Sarah Khalil successfully completed her second year, presenting her work linking circulating carotenoids to plumage phenotype at the American Ornithological Society (AOS) conferences in April. She was also awarded the AOS Hesse Research Award to support her work. This summer, she travelled back to her field site in Australia for her second field season, while concurrently leading this year's crew of 6 NSF IRES undergraduates. While in Australia, she presented at the Queensland Ornithological Conference in June and at the national conferences for the Australian Society for the Study of Animal Behavior. She is now back in New Orleans, spending most of her time writing and mentoring students in the lab.
Kaushik Narasimhan had an exciting field season in Ecuador field testing GPS tracking devices. This semester he has pivoted from studying seed dispersal to focusing on the mechanisms behind survival advantage of rare genotypic individuals of neotropical tree species. He is gearing up for a big field season next semester to conduct an experiment testing for rare genotypic survival advantage across multiple species. He is also spearheading a frugivory camera trapping project, which is proceeding quickly and has resulted in two grants being awarded to undergraduate participants. He has two papers in review from his master's research into Amazonian bat community ecology.
Jordan Karubian received grants from the Disney Conservation Fund for conservation work in Ecuador with FCAT, the lab's partner in-country NGO, and from the RESTORE Center of Excellence program for work on brown pelican ecology with Paul Leberg. He has published new articles in New Phytolo gist (with lab alum Luke Browne, Browne and Karubian 2018), Behavioral Ecology (with lab alum Erik Enbody, Enbody et al. 2018); Molecular Ecology (one with lab alum Luke Browne, Browne and Karubian 2018 and Browne et al. 2018), Neotropical Ornithology (with honors student Michael Mahoney and other lab members, Mahoney et al. 2018), PLoS One (Rivero-de Aguilar et al. 2018), Austral Ecology (with NSF IRES undergraduate students, Sommer et al. 2018), and Science of the Total Environment (with Stephanie McClelland and lab members, McClelland et al. 2018).

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Groundhog Day is about a month away, and yet, every day I wake up and feel like I'm dreaming - with every bit of news about the leaders of this country throwing away our values and the rule of law.
Thomas Homan, the head of ICE, speaking to Fox News, said he wants all politicians in sanctuary cities to be arrested and charged with crimes.
Let's outline what this whole sanctuary policy means - states like California enforce state law (so do cities). The federal government enforces federal law. That's why, for example, when you get caught speeding on the highway - you get pulled over by local police, not the FBI. Respecting the difference between state and federal law is a *key* feature of our entire government.
But this Administration wants to turn the rule of law on its head. What they want is for state jails to continue holding someone past their sentence, so that ICE can come and pick them up from jail. So if you got a 10 day sentence for something like a DUI well then guess what - ICE wants to extend your sentence longer - and without a hearing, judge, or attorneys being involved.
Worse, now ICE is saying that state officials who follow the law should be charged with a crime. What crime? Under what statute? He doesn't say because it is complete nonsense. If ICE is allowed to impose this on the entire U.S., then in the future, the governor of Virginia could throw the Governor of Oregon in jail for not enforcing Virginia law. It's ludicrous and has no place in our system.
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Gilchrist was born in 14th November, 1971 at Bellingen Hospital, in New South Wales. He have 3 elder brothers. He lived in Dorrigo, a part of New South Wales.
Then he moved with family to Lismore, where he start his cricket career. He captained the Kadina High School cricket team and selected for the state under-17 team and he performed well as a result he was selected to the national team.
He married his school friend Melinda. He have three sons, Harrison, Archie and Ted, and a daughter, Annie Jean.
He was an record-breaking wicket-keeper as well. He is the top wicket keeper done most number of dismissals in One Day International cricket. He is the only batsman hit 100 sixes in Test cricket. He is the person hit second fastest century (against England at Perth) in all Test cricket.
Gilchrist is one of the gentle cricketer who walks out when he considers himself to be out.
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In March 2018, NTT Security released a report detailing exclusive insight into our research and analysis regarding unauthorized cryptomining. The report focused heavily on Monero (XMR) miners, hunting them down, and detections analyzed from our detection data.
Where might the next research initiative and publication come from you might ask? Without a doubt, it is a more collaborative approach to not only combatting cryptominers but cyber threats in general through co-operative cyber intelligence sharing and research collaboration. At NTT Security, we understand the need for cooperation to defend our clients and partners. We recently joined the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), a not-for-profit consortium of security industry players committed to sharing actionable and high-quality global threat intelligence in near real time to improve the cybersecurity of our global digital ecosystem.
CTA is the industry's first formally organized group of cybersecurity practitioners that work together in good faith to share threat information and improve global defenses against advanced cyber adversaries. As a member of the CTA, we will regularly work with other leading security companies to share actionable threat intelligence at speed and scale to collaboratively disrupt malicious cyber activity globally.
In May 2018, NTT Security researchers became part of a special sub-committee meant to analyse and address the cryptojacking threat landscape both technically and strategically. The sub-committee consists of cryptojacking niched analysts from several cybersecurity companies. The report is a treasure-trove of insight into the cryptojacking landscape as of recent covering everything from blockchain technology, impacts of cryptomining, predicted evolution, best practices for combatting, and more.
Companies continue to struggle to recognize what actions they should take to address the evolving cyber threat landscape. To address today's threat landscape, we understand that there is value in collaboration and strength in numbers. To maximize our strengths and minimize our risks, we must understand that intelligence comes from within the network as well as outside it. Good information allows for earlier identification and faster response to cyber attacks, monitoring for rogue activity inside, as well as undetected external attacks. Our joining of the CTA and collaboration efforts into this report showcase not only impeccable insight into the cryptojacking threat landscape and more, but also how well professionals can nicely play together.
The official report by CTA can be found here, and is a great go-to report about the cryptojacking threat landscape.


Hi Tracy! On your website, you describe yourself as being 'slightly crazy, but in the best possible way' (that's just awesome!). Can you expand on that?
Haha! I'm so glad you approve! I try not to take myself too seriously—ever. I'm sarcastic and quirky and I sometimes think I'm funnier than I am. But I'm at a point in my life where I embrace that about myself. So, do I sometimes say things that are off the wall? Definitely. But I think the wall is cluttered anyway.
I've always journaled and written short stories. The short stories at one point may have starred The New Kids on the Block. But hey, it's still writing! I never saw myself becoming a published writer, though. Later on, I got involved in the fan fiction world. It was the feedback from those readers that gave me the confidence to come out of the writing closet.
I've never been a big fan of the typical bodice-rippers. Fabio is just not my type. But I love reading about sassy girls and the boys who make them swoon. The chick lit genre is so diverse. Some of my recent favorites have come from the YA genre but the themes are so universal that all of my friends read them and relate.
Living Backwards sounds A.M.A.Z.I.N.G? Can you tell us more about it?
Thank you! You're pretty. Well, I wanted to take the idea of time travel and spin it a bit. In most time travel stories, the protagonist is attempting to fix or improve their current situation. But it's not easy. One small change can cause a chain reaction sending you down an entirely different path. Jillian gets this. So when she's back in 1999, she knows that she needs to do everything the same way or she could wreak havoc. Again, it's not so easy. Can you make the same choices in your late twenties that you made when you were seventeen? Would I opt to get my teeth cleaned the night of my junior prom? Probably not. I'd spike the punch and photobomb starry-eyed couples all night.
Me, really. I was very shy and quiet in high school. Most of us were awkward and buying Clearasil in mass quantities. It wasn't an awesome time for everyone. So I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about how different it would be if the me I am now was part of the Class of 1992.
Other than in my house when I force them to? No. I think I'd make such a spectacle of myself, though.
My friend Liz Jaeger designed the cover. I gave her a general idea of what I was looking to do and she came back with I swear thirty different versions.
There are so many instances where I wish I could cast an actor in movie after they've already passed the appropriate age. When I was reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, I saw Jude Law circa The Talented Mr. Ripley for Finnick Odair. He'll always be Finnick in my head. It's the same situation with LIVING BACKWARDS. I always saw Ilsa Fisher for Jillian and Robert Pattinson for Luke. And I would totally pull a Stephenie Meyer and cameo as a chaperone at the prom. It looks like a good time.
It's always so nerve-wracking when a book you love is optioned for the big screen. I immediately start worrying about the casting. I'll watch Bridget Jones every time it's on TV and never get bored of it. Bridget is so flawed but you can't help but love her—even when you want to knock some sense into her. And how can you resist Colin Firth?
I adore Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins. It's one of those books you just want to curl up and crawl inside – especially since you'd be crawling into France! And Etienne makes me swoon.
Where do you write? Do you ever wish you could write elsewhere? If so, where?
I'm like a cat with a laser pointer. If I write somewhere pretty, I'm going to stare off into space and enjoy the view. So I'm very boring. No TV, no music, no view. In fact, stick me in an empty room with a case of water, a laptop and a lamp and we're in business.
When I'm not writing or being mom, I run and participate in sprint triathlons. It's nothing I ever envisioned doing but something I'm really proud of. And my face turns an amazing shade of purple.
I'd bankroll the movie myself if we can cast Tina Fey.
Top drink to make you tipsy? Arnold Palmer. Yum.
Shopaholic or shopadon't? Shopaholic. I love the smell of commerce in the morning.
Sky high heels or closer to the ground? Closer to the ground. No Loubous for this gal.
Cry baby or tough cookie? Tough cookie. Until I'm not.
Tracy Sweeney graduated with a degree in Management and Finance but prefers writing ridiculous things to crunching ridiculous numbers. She lives north of Boston, Massachusetts with her two young boys. Her short stories have appeared in Literary Juice, Solecisms and Slice of Life Magazines. Her debut novel, LIVING BACKWARDS, was published in January 2013. She is currently working on her second novel which will be equally as ridiculous.


1. What do you wear to bed?
This makes me laugh because it was the evening topic on The Men's Room the other night. The hosts maintained that anyone our age and younger would always have at least boxers on. I disagreed with them. Unless I have family in from out of town, I wear zip, nothing, zero. You know, because that could just cause some uncomfortable situations. But I just can't sleep with clothes on, I get all twisted up (see below).
Usually the side closest to the door. Unless I'm by myself in which case it's left side, right side and everywhere in between.
3. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
I'm a total blanket/sheet hog, which is weird because I'm not much of a blanket person, I'm usually too hot. I'm one of those folks that doesn't have a shortage of crazy whacked out dreams so I do a bit of moving around. This is also why wearing clothes to bed just doesn't work for me. I'm too hot already and I usually wake up twisted in the sheet like a mummy. I don't need more stuff to make me a mummy within a mummy.
Sure do, every night just before I hop in, I straighten things out and prepare to mess it up again.


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During the ceremony, he was accompanied by his wife, Maria Louise Angue Ejang de Ndong, as well as two diplomatic staff of the embassy. During the conversation, President Bolsonaro expressed interest in continuing cooperation with Equatorial Guinea and giving new dynamism to bilateral relations.
Ndong Nguema Mbengono conveyed to the President of Brazil sincere congratulations from Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on his recent election as head of state and stressed the intention of the Government of Equatorial Guinea to strengthen and develop the existing bilateral relations as CPLP member countries.
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LendInvest has now raised over £1.8bn of debt and equity from investors, making it one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the country.
The funding will allow LendInvest to expand its capacity to lend in the buy-to-let market.
It first entered the space in late 2017 after agreeing a funding line with Citigroup and has lent some £370m to date.
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Christian Faes, co-founder & CEO of LendInvest, said: "We've now raised almost £2bn in debt and equity for LendInvest, and in many respects we're just getting started.
"We have dominated in the short-term mortgage market for years, and we're now bringing our technology and growing distribution footprint, to take market share in the longer-term mortgage market.
"Securing an additional £200m of funding for our business from NAB is a great example of how the world's leading financial institutions are partnering with the world's leading Fintech businesses – and we're proud to be announcing this partnership today between NAB and LendInvest."
James Versmissen, Associate Director at National Australian Bank, added: "NAB is delighted to work together with LendInvest and play a role in achieving its growth plans.
"This new warehouse facility underlines NAB's commitment and capability to support lenders that shape the mortgage market of tomorrow."
The investment has been supported by UK's HM Treasury with Chris Philp, PPS to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, welcoming LendInvests increased role in the buy-to-let sector.
He said: "This very substantial investment from NAB into LendInvest loans is an important example of how global institutions are motivated to back not only the UK's thriving Fintech sector, but throw their weight behind the country's property sector in a long-term and meaningful way.
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Maine Startups Insider - Startup launches skincare brand using lobster glycoprotein
Two recent graduates of the University of Maine's biomedical engineering graduate program have launched a skincare company and unique flagship product, Marin Skincare, which blends lobster glycoproteins with other ingredients to treat dry skin conditions commonly associated with eczema.
Amber Boutiette and Patrick Breeding co-founded a company called Dermarus in August 2019. Marin Skincare is its first brand.
The product was a result of Boutiette's own struggles with eczema. She found the lobster glycoproteins calmed her eczema unlike other products she had tried. Glycoproteins help maintain the skin's barrier while hydrating skin, according to the company.
"Our marine glycoproteins were the only thing that worked for me. After years of suffering with dry, irritated skin we made it our mission to bring this relief to others," said Boutiette, who serves as the company's chief product officer.
Marin Skincare's flagship product, which is a "soothing hydration" cream product, blends lobster glycoproteins with skin hydrating and protecting ingredients, including hyaluronic acid, squalene, shea butter, coconut oil and Vitamin E, and is free from skin irritants including fragrances and parabens.
Patrick Breeding, who serves as CEO, said the company plans to introduce more skincare products, but that its R&D efforts have also revealed applications of the glycoproteins that would be the basis for other brands outside skincare.
Breeding and Boutiette spun Dermarus out of an existing company called Lobster Unlimited, which was founded in 2013 to develop new ways to recycle the waste from lobster processing and render it into commercially viable products. Lobster Unlimited has a small equity stake in Dermarus, Breeding said, but the latter developed its own intellectual property to launch Marin Skincare as its first product brand.
While Dermarus is focused on applying the glycoprotein for skin hydrating, barrier protecting and inflammatory properties, Lobster Unlimited is focused on anti-viral and cancer applications, Breeding told Maine Startups Insider.
Dermarus has partnered with Luke's Lobster/Cape Seafood to ethically and sustainably collect the proteins from lobster, Breeding said.
"It was amazing to discover this new ingredient, it's sustainably-sourced and naturally active," said Breeding. "We made sure to have third-party studies performed to show this product is safe and non-irritating, which is really important to people with sensitive, temperamental skin.
To jump start their business amidst the turbulence of COVID-19, Boutiette and Breeding brought on an investor and co-founding COO, Jeremy Boutot, who they met through participating in the Maine Center for Entrepreneurs' Top Gun program, though for ventures other than Dermarus (Breeding is also a co-founder of KinoTek, another promising startup founded by recent UMaine graduates).
Dermarus has also received $30,000 in grant funding from the Maine Technology Institute and Libra Foundation.
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A Duluth company has been accused of violating a federal civil rights law by firing an employee because of his "perceived disability."
Lake States Lumber, which is owned by Georgia-based BlueLinx Corp., is being sued by the the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The suit relates to a worker employed by the lumber company between August 2008 until his firing in February 2016.
The employee has a heart condition and went on leave to have heart surgery. He was cleared to return with no restrictions, but when he returned his managers placed restrictions on his ability to work and assigned him a different role.
The EEOC says that 9 days later, he was fired.
The EEOC contends that this violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prevents discrimination against workers because of a disability.
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What is the price of petrol/gasoline in your country?
Thread starter Saint
In malaysia, it was just increased to USD0.38/litre (RM1.42) this morning.
Cost of living is increasing, petrol's price will spark inflation!
Gokul43201
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That's about $1.45 per gallon....which is incredibly low !
http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/statistics/world_gasoline_prices.html [Broken]
i_wish_i_was_smart
85cents Canadian per litre, extrememly high for here
punjabi_monster
about $5.80 per gallon USD here in United Kingdom
JasonRox
Same as iwiws.
I don't really care though they should crank it up to a dollar, so the old cars can't afford to stay on the road. They stink like ass.
US$2.30 per gallon for regular grade here in California.
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chroot said:
US $1.85 per gallon for regular in Kansas, a few cents cheaper in Missouri.
Converting to USD and Gallons, about $2.47USD/Gallon here in beautiful Ontario, Canada.
I think it's about $2.80/gallon or so, for regular unleaded, in India.
selfAdjoint
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I paid $1.96 a gallon yesterday in Wisconsin. Wisconsin seems to have some kind of fair-trading law; you never see a station undercutting the others.
russ_watters
~$1.90 in Southeastern PA (though it drops off fast as you leave the city).
Evo said:
Pretty much the same as it is here in South Carolina. Man, I remember when gas used to be $0.69 a gallon.
Clausius2
Surely if I say to you it's 1 Euro/litre here, it has no meaning for you.
We should reach a settlement and post the figures in an international system units: the litre in the name of Europe, and the $$ in the name of USA.
So that, here it is 0.83 $$US / litre. But we take home a lot of less money than you every month, and prices are higher (this is the Hell).
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Saint said:
I pay $2.21 per gallon, which is a heck of a lot more. Of course its also fair to point out that average incomes are much higher here than in malaysia, but in a state where noone lives where they work and everyone commutes 30-60 minutes, gas is expensive.
Chrono said:
i remember when it it was $1.85... its 2.21 now...damn lucky midwest with their cheap gas...
franznietzsche said:
Well sure. That's because it's God's country, you know.
Mattius_
I live in Omaha it has been as high as 2.03 for regular unleaded
JasonRox said:
hold your hoeses there bud, now i own an 85 camaro V8 of course, perfect condition, it does not stick or nothing, why should people like me who love old cars be deprived of our love, just because you dont like them doesnt mean everyone shouldnt like them.
but even if it is a buck per litre i dont care i have enough money to support it anyways
Zantra
i_wish_i_was_smart said:
I have to agree that a well maintained classic is a beautiful thing. Note I said "well maintained". Driving around a rusted out S***box because you're 16 and it's all you can afford to keep it running isn't what I mean.
And I shudder that you're calling an 85 camaro a classic like it's an ancient car- my first was an 83 lynx *shakes his cane at you*
Chi Meson
Connecticut is hovering at $2/gal. IT depends on what town you are in. We can drive over to Rhode Island and save about 10 cents per, but that's out of the way.
deltabourne
About $2.00/gal in Buffalo, NY
I wasn't referring to that.
If I were in a car forum, I would have been more specific, but since I'm not I had to go with the general thought of an old car, which is rusted piece of junk.
well thx for clarifying, and Zantra i dont consider my car a classic, although by rights it is, its 20 years old, and any car over 20 is a classic, my car is well maintained, rebuilt, the engine is rebuilt, it purs like a kitten, its my pride and joy, mainly because i shed so much blood, sweat and tears in that car
the prices in the US are unbelievably low.. only $2 in california?
here in the Netherlands we pay $6.05/gallon (€1,29/liter) for the cheapest petrol, $6.25 for the higher grade and $6.39 for the good quality petrol.. anyone, try to beat those prices
Ofcourse, at the same time we should be asking how many miles a gallon of petrol is going to last.. I just asked my friend who drives an Audi TT (yes ) and he says he can drive 23.6 miles on a gallon (11 km on a liter).
Actually, I've seen him average 8,3 liters/100 km.. which would be 12km/liter = 28,4 miles/gallon.. and that for a sportscar :tongue: isn't it a pretty car? it reminds me of a black panther
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Oregon Senate passes bill limiting plastic straws
By Chris Mills Rodrigo - 04/11/19 07:04 PM EDT
Oregon's Senate passed a law Thursday to limit the use of plastic straws.
SB 90, approved by a 23-6 vote, would prohibit single-use plastic straws at restaurants unless a customer asks for one. Drive-thrus would still be able to hand out plastic straws.
In a press release, Oregon Democrats highlighted the environmental risks of plastic straws.
"We use a straw for less than an hour, but it continues to exist in nature for longer than our lifetime," said state Sen. Michael Dembrow (D), who introduced the bill on the Senate floor.
"We can use a straw, throw it away and forget about it as an inconsequential part of our lives. But that straw can easily end up in the ocean or somewhere else in nature. There, a single straw can have significant and sometimes deadly impacts on animals. The viral video of a turtle having a straw painfully removed from its nostril provides clear evidence that our seemingly inconsequential acts have significant consequences for other creatures."
Oregon's House will now have to approve the legislation.
The state would become the second after California to enact measures limiting single-use plastic straws statewide.
Several individual cities, like Seattle, New York City and Portland, have also implemented their own policies to curb plastic straw usage.
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Wisconsin dairy farmers push for immigration reform
By Rick Barrett of the Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin dairy farmers are pushing for immigration reform, saying they need a federal labor policy that guarantees they will have enough employees to maintain and expand their businesses.
By some estimates, nearly half or more of the hired help on U.S. dairy farms is immigrant labor — with a large percentage of those workers being undocumented.
Without the foreign help, some farmers say, they would be forced to quit milking cows because there aren't enough other people willing to do such physically demanding work.
"If our immigrants left, we would have to dispense of everything, I guess," said John Rosenow, a Buffalo County dairy farmer who milks 550 cows and has employees from Mexico.
Members of the Dairy Business Association, based in Green Bay, recently went to Washington, D.C., to meet with lawmakers on immigration law reforms.
"I felt it was important to attend because the immigration issue is so critical to our industry, and really to the entire country," said Elmwood dairy farmer Paul Fetzer.
Unlike immigrants who can obtain a work permit for seasonal agricultural jobs, foreign workers on dairy farms can't get the H-2A visa because the jobs are year-round rather than temporary.
Yet many dairy operations are "overwhelmingly staffed" with immigrant labor, said Erich Straub, a Milwaukee lawyer who handles immigration law cases.
"The reality is that probably 75% or more of that labor is undocumented," Straub said.
Walker's stance
Gov. Scott Walker has taken an increasingly tough stance on immigration, and earlier this year said he now opposes granting citizenship to illegal immigrants until there is greater border security and tougher enforcement of immigration laws.
Last weekend, while campaigning in Iowa for the Republican presidential nomination, Walker said that he sympathized with a girl who worried that her parents could be deported but that he believed the nation had to stick by its immigration laws.
Last year, Walker and other governors filed a lawsuit to block President Barack Obama's policy known as the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, which would spare as many as 5million people from being deported.
Farmers say it's difficult to find reliable help, even in rural areas where people were born and raised on farms, and even when the jobs pay significantly more than minimum wage.
"Society has changed, and not everybody enjoys working with animals like we do," said Shelly Mayer, a dairy farmer from Slinger and executive director of Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin.
Under one industry proposal, immigrant workers would be able to get a year-round visa specifically to work on dairy farms.
"We are looking for a program that would be run through the USDA," said Laurie Fischer of the American Dairy Coalition, based in Green Bay.
Farms, like other employers, are required to file federal employment forms when they hire someone. As part of the process, they're supposed to ask the prospective employee for a Social Security card.
Often, though, people provide the farmer with false documents, according to Straub.
"They aren't going out and stealing someone's identity to clean out a bank account. But sometimes they come forward with a Social Security number that doesn't belong to anybody or that belongs to somebody not actively using it," he said.
Farmers could be sued for discrimination if they question documents from some people but not others, Straub said.
"They simply have to look at the face of the document, and if it appears legitimate, they have to accept it," he said.
'Brutal process'
The federal government hasn't done widespread worker document audits in the dairy industry, although it has audited individual farms. It's a "particularly brutal process" for dairy operations, Straub said, because the cows still have to be milked three times a day whether or not workers are available.
Some farms use robotic milkers, so they don't need as much hired help, but that comes with its own problems, including the cost and maintenance of the equipment.
Help hard to find
In their pursuit of hired help, some farmers have placed "help wanted" ads on Facebook and Craigslist. But often they've received little or no response.
Dairy farmer Carrie Mess recently posted ads to hire someone for her 100-cow operation near Watertown. Most of the responses were from people who had never worked on a farm or had issues such as a criminal past or poor work record.
"We don't mind looking past some transgressions. But when you have a rap sheet with some serious stuff on it, and it's evident that you haven't learned any lessons, it's a problem," Mess said.
Mess said she would consider hiring an immigrant worker, although she worries that a language barrier could be difficult to overcome in a fast-moving and sometimes dangerous work environment.
"If immigrants are the ones who want to work, and they will show up and do the job, we need that. So many of us (farmers) have learned that there aren't enough willing workers," Mess said.
The dairy industry's growth went flat in the 1990s, at least partly because of a lack of hired help, according to Rosenow.
"Once we discovered immigrant labor, then the industry just took off," he said.
But now, with a shortage of immigrant workers and uncertainty around immigration law reform, growth at some farms has slowed.
Especially with a low unemployment rate, "it's just really hard to find local people" wanting to work on a dairy farm, Rosenow said.
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International cricket injury surveillance: a report of five teams competing in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
Craig Ranson1,
Roanne Hurley2,
Lorinda Rugless3,
Akshai Mansingh4,
Joe Cole2
1Cardiff School of Sport, Cardiff Metropolitan University—UWIC, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2Profiler Corporation, Dunedin, New Zealand
3International Cricket Council, Sports City, Dubai, UAE
4Department of Sports Medicine, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Correspondence to Dr Craig Ranson, Cardiff School of Sport, Cardiff Metropolitan University—UWIC, Cyncoed, Cardiff, Wales CF23 6XD, UK; cranson{at}cardiffmet.ac.uk
Background Injury surveillance is the cornerstone of effective injury management. However, to date no studies using recommended methods and involving multiple nations have been conducted within International Cricket.
Aim To conduct injury surveillance across multiple teams during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.
Methods An electronic system, based on the guidelines for injury surveillance in international cricket, was used to record all new injury episodes was used for data collection.
Results Twenty-three time-loss and 97 non-time-loss injuries were recorded. The injury incidence was 3.7/100 player-days (0.7 time-loss and 3.0 non-time-loss) with time-loss incidence being; for match injury 20.1/1000 player-days, bowling injury 3.3/100 bowling days and batting injuries 2.2/10 000 balls faced. Thigh muscle strain and medical illness were the diagnoses with the highest incidence. Fast bowlers, slow bowlers and batters all had a similar injury prevalence of approximately 5%. The bowling delivery stride was the activity that resulted in the greatest lost time.
Conclusions This is the first study to use recommended injury surveillance guidelines to reporting injury rates across multiple teams at a major cricket tournament. Non-time-loss injury incidence appears relatively high and further study of the effect on performance and progression to subsequent time-loss is required. Fast bowler injury prevalence rates are lower than reported elsewhere, however this may be due to the nature of the tournament and match format, which is likely to impose a lower relative workload. In future, data from all competing teams over all formats of the game (Twenty20, ODI and Tests) needs to be analysed to effectively inform injury prevention research and practice.
Sporting injuries
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2012-091783
Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions
Injury surveillance in cricket
John W Orchard
British Journal of Sports Medicine 2013; 47 605-606 Published Online First: 16 Feb 2013. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2012-092138
Learning from cricket other great clinical stories
Gavan L White
British Journal of Sports Medicine 2013; 47 599-599 Published Online First: 10 Jun 2013. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2013-092526


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Q: How does band gap vary with the cell volume? How does band gap vary with the cell volume? is there a relation?
If the volume is compressed, the interaction between atoms would be more, therefore the perturbation is higher hence the splitting would be more. Is my assumption right?
What is the mathematical background? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: Let's assume, you take a one-dimensional chain of atoms and compress it.
In order to investigate the bandstructure, you will need to determine the electronic wavefunctions of quantum-mechanically allowed states. If you know your wavefunctions for the initial condition, before you compress your chain of atoms, you need to also scale the solution in order to still fullfill Bloch's theorem.
Thus, the energies of your wavefunctions (and therefore also the width of forbidden regions, meaning bandgaps) will scale with your transformation of the lattice. Compression will therefore result in shorter wavelengths and therefore higher energies.
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President Museveni and Kanye West at the State House in Uganda
UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, October 15, 2018 hosted American rapper Kanye West and his reality TV star wife Kim Kardashian at State House, Kampala.
Kanye and Kim who reportedly arrived in Uganda at Entebbe Airport on Friday 12 October 2018 are in the country to shoot a part of the rapper's new video for an album to be released on November 23 or Black Friday while touring the East African nation.
Museveni welcomed them to the country and had discussions around boosting tourism before exchanging some gifts.
Kanye brought the President some white Yeezy sneakers while Museveni handed Kim a signed copy of his book, Sowing the Mustard Seed.
Ugandans were thrilled when their President shared photos of the meeting and they urged him to bring back his rapping skills and record a collabo.
Agaba Beso asked; "When are you releasing The Mpa Enkoni Remix?"
Ian Steve wrote; "Haha I heard museveni is a rapper, we need a remix. Kwezi kwezi remix."
Irumba added; "I see the main muzukulu getting a collabo… ."
I welcome American entertainment stars Kanye West and @KimKardashian to Uganda. I held fruitful discussions with the duo on how to promote Uganda's tourism and the arts. I thank Kanye for the gift of white sneakers. Enjoy your time in Uganda. It is the true Pearl of Africa. pic.twitter.com/BO0iD0sFCP
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) October 15, 2018
Meanwhile, the couple accompanied by their daughter North are booked in the exclusive Chobe Safari lodge in which he has completely taken over as other guests were asked to leave and their money refunded back to them sources say.
Kanye West and his family's visit has excited Ugandans, especially those in tourism industry who consider it a harbinger for possible influx of foreign tourists.
Chobe is located in Murchison Falls, the largest of Uganda's 10 national parks, and lies astride River Nile, the world's longest river.
Kanye and his wife Kim Kardashian and President Museveni(right)
According to Mr Stephen Asiimwe, executive director Uganda Tourism Board, both tourists are influencers with more than a combined millions of followers on social media, internet and television.
Based on the reach of their influence, particularly among the wealthiest around the world, Uganda hopes their visit will inspire many of their associates to visit and spur local tourism.
"It is going to have a ripple effect and people around the world will look out for Uganda as a place to visit. It is good for branding and visibility," Mr Asiimwe added.
Uganda earns $1.2b (Shs5 trillion) from the tourism, according to government figures, making the sector one of the country's top foreign exchange earners.


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Connections Presents Poet Jehanne Dubrow, March 1
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As part of the College of Southern Maryland's Spring Connections Series, poet Jehanne Dubrow will read from her new collection of poems "Red Army Red," beginning at 7:30 p.m., March 1, at the La Plata Campus, Center for Business and Industry (BI Building), Dr. John Sine Room BI-103.
Dubrow is the author of four poetry collections, including most recently, "Red Army Red" and "Stateside." Her first book, "The Hardship Post" won the Three Candles Press Open Book Award and her second collection, "From the Fever-World" won the Washington Writers' Publishing House Poetry Competition. Her poetry, creative fiction and book reviews have appeared in journals such as Southern Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, The New England Review, West Branch, Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Prarie Schooner, as well as Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.
Dubrow has been the recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Towson University Prize for Literature, an Individual Artist's Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and Howard Nemerov Poetry Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
Dubrow serves as the director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House and is an assistant professor in creative writing and literature at Washington College and occasionally teaches classes at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Md.
The Connections Series features award-winning contemporary writers, poets and artists who share their work with Southern Maryland residents.
Tickets are $3 advanced sale through the CSM box office and $3 at the door with a student ID. General admission at the door is $5. For information on Connections, study guides and author links visit www.csmd.edu/Connections/readings.html. Books featured are available at any CSM College Store or online at www.csmd.edu/CollegeStore.
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Advocacy for NJ Mentor Based STEAM Programs
In June, team representatives attended the FIRST National Advocacy Conference (NAC) hosted by FRC Team 27, RUSH, in Washington, D.C.. They spoke with governors, congressmen, and senators to form valuable relationships with their government officials and advocate for STEAM education legislation. Other items discussed at NAC included the positive effect of FIRST on school districts and issues teams, especially those in underserved areas, often face. NAC provided students with an inside look at issues in education policy and an opportunity to influence positive change.
The Pi-oneers were inspired by Team Rush's establishment of NAC and decided to bring the program back to New Jersey where Advocacy for New Jersey Mentor-Based STEAM Programs was established. Meetings with government officials have been conducted to promote the allocation of federal funding from the reauthorization of ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act). The funding is to be distributed to underserved schools in the state of New Jersey for after school MBSP (Mentor Based STEAM Programs). Attendees of the organizational meeting included Senior Policy Advisor Marci Green from Governor Christie's office, Assemblyman Robert Auth, New Jersey Commissioner of Education David Hespe, Assistant Commissioner of Innovation Evo Popoff, Bergen County Interim Executive Superintendent Norah Peck, as well as Pascack Valley Regional High School District Superintendent Erik Gunderson, Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Dr. Barry Bachenheimer, District Director of Science and Technology Education Dr. Aarti Mallya, Principal of Pascack Valley H.S. Tom DeMaio, and Principal of Pascack Hills H.S. Glenn DeMarrais.
The presentation was well received. The Commissioner of Education immediately stated, "Let's make this happen" and gave assignments to all the attendees. With the assistance of the Commissioner of Education's office, team members met with our targeted schools to introduce Mentor-Based STEAM Programs. The Pi-oneers spoke about creating a FIRST team, but discussed other options available including Science Olympiad.
In June of 2016, the Pi-oneers were given a grant from the New Jersey Department of Education to begin FIRST Tech Challenge teams in underserved districts in New Jersey. Receiving this grant was inspiring. The Pi-oneers traveled to the state capitol building in Trenton, New Jersey, to further our Advocacy campaign. Team members also returned to the National Advocacy Conference later that month in Washington, D.C., and spoke about our path to success and obtaining our grant. During the summer, the Pi-oneers began planning their own Advocacy Conference for the state of New Jersey. The Pi-oneers mission is to create Mentor Based STEAM Programs for underserved schools and to express the importance of STEAM education to all.
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Nowadays incredulity follows the Gonzo logo. That once stalwart mark associated with Gankutsuou and Full Metal Panic, which in its latter years branded atrocity (Dragonaut) and mediocrity (Speed Grapher) alike and culminated in the studio's unceremonious booting from the lucrative Strike Witches franchise.
It's with much surprise then that Last Exile: Fam of the Silver Wing is so good. Not just "good for Gonzo", but genuinely entertaining. Could this be the series to restore the studio's lustre and break it free from a reputation of shoddy endings?
The first series of Last Exile didn't set the world on fire like a 10th Anniversary show should, however it had a unique blend of steam-punk styling and airship fetishising that made it pleasant to watch even when haphazardly animated. With eyes on a grander narrative the purely character driven plot of the first series is mutated into something more political and imperialist.
A lot can be said for a good story well told. Ano Natsu de Matteru rockets into the romance genre with a concept that by all rights should be weary from overuse, but is instead energised by likeable characters and a story that is impassioned and dramatic with little triteness.
Not surprising really given the talent behind almost every facet: the director has past triumphs with Toradora!, Ano Hi Mita Hana and A Certain Scientific Railgun, the writer is the same person responsible for Please! Teacher and music is provided by the imitable I'VE SOUND group including opening lyrics penned by none other than alumni KOTOKO - it's like getting the band back together. The creators indelible fingerprints are everywhere, whether it's the cerulean skies and over-saturated greenery encapsulating a youthful summer or the skilful manipulation of character affections and steady meting out of drama; to say it was well produced would be doing it a disservice.
Spring 2012 is coming, attempting to wrap up Winter 2011.
This is not the Age of Aquarius. The first series of Aquarion was mediocre at best - surprising really given Yoko Kanno's duties on the soundtrack and the birth of what should have been a decent pop-star in the form of AKINO. EVOL comes after an ill-advised OVA and reboots the premise by retaining the giant robot consisting of separately piloted craft - think Getter Robo except with squeals of orgasmic delight from the female aviators - but amps up the ridiculous factor to eleven. The opening episodes are pleasing in how seriously the show doesn't take itself with a a male protagonist who floats on wings growing from his ankles when he has any naughty thoughts.


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In the Year of the Yew!
Start at the bottom of the face in between the two split boulders, both of which are off when you begin the climb. Start on jugs till small pockets and tooth-like holds. Work up and right till huge pocket. Then over the buldge (crux) to easy slab topout. Recommend a TR for this one. I did do it without a rope after working moves on TR. Probably only a one time deal. A fall bouldering this would end very BAD. Overall super solid rock with committing movement on the only rope climb in the Fraggle Area.
Fraggle Area. If your look at Fraggle from the Hangout Area, it's the tallest face on the far right end of the formation. Directly to the right of Unknown Couple.
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