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Q: Prove the zero set of a proper ideal of the ring of continuous complex-valued function on a compact space is nonempty
Prove the zero set of a proper ideal $I$ of the ring of continuous complex-valued function on a compact space $X$ is nonempty.

The above problem is from Lang' s Real and Functional analysis Chapter III, exercise 3. I know how to prove it when the ring of functions is real-valued:

Assume for the sake of contradiction that the zero set is empty, this means that given $x\in X, \exists f_x\in I$ such that $f_x(x)\neq 0$. Since $f_x$ is continuous, there exists open sets $O_x$ such that $f_x(O_x)$ is never equal to zero. By compactness of $X$, $\exists x_{1},...,x_n$ such that $O_{x_1},..., O_{x_n}$ cover $X$. Let $f=f_{x_1}^2+...+f_{x_n}^2$, then $f\in I$ and $f(x)>0$ for every $x\in X$. Thus $1=f(x)\times \frac{1}{f(x)}\in I$, implying $I=C(X)$, contradiction.

However, the above 'sum of squares' trick doesn't seem to apply to the complex case, since a sum of squares of complex numbers can be zero even if each summand is nonzero, such as $0=1^2+i^2$. How to proceed?

A: Thanks for @user10354138, I think I've got it. My proof is slightly different from his hint, but I think it yields more information.
Let $Re(I)$ be the set of all real parts of functions in $I$. Then it is easily seen that $Re(I)$ is an ideal of continuous real valued functions. Assume for the sake of contradiction that the zero set of $I$ is empty, then the zero set of $Re(I)$ must also be empty. Say if there is an $a\in X$ such that $Re [f(a)]$ is equal to zero for all $f\in I$, then $f(a)=c_f i$ for some real number $c_f$ depends on $f$. Then $if(x) \in I$ for all $f\in I $ and we have $if(a)=-c_f$. For $-c_f$ to be real and imaginary simultaneously, it must be the case that $c_f=0$ for all $f\in I$, which means $a$ is in the zero set of $I$, contrary to our assumption. That means $Re(I)$ is equal to the ring of all continuous real-valued functiosn on $X$ by our proof for the real case. The same argument applies to $Im(I)$. So $I=C(X)$, contradiction.


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One piece plastic tether
A tether that is formed from plastic resin is used for securing a captive article, e.g., a scoop to a container such as a bottle or the like. The tether comprises a ring-shaped body portion defining a collar that is constructed and dimensioned to fit around the neck of the container. An integral arcuate leash encircles the collar and is concentric exteriorly of the collar so as to at least partially surround the collar. An integral radially extending connecting ligament also formed from the same plastic resin is located between the collar and a proximal end of the leash. A fastener is provided on the free end of the leash for securing the tether to the captive article.
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1. A tether formed from plastic resin for securing a captive article to a container, said tether comprising, a ring-shaped body portion defining a collar that is constructed and dimensioned to fit around said container, an arcuate leash encircling the collar so as to be concentric exteriorly thereof for at least partially surrounding the collar, an integral plastic ligament extending between the collar and a proximal end of the leash and, a fastener at the free end of the leash for securing the tether to a captive article.
2. The tether of claim 1 wherein the leash, the collar and the connecting ligament are composed flat sheet plastic material and are formed coplanar with each other.
3. The tether of claim 1 wherein a handle extends from the tether as an aid for grasping the tether.
4. The tether of claim 3 wherein the handle is a tab that extends radially outwardly from the collar between the plastic ligament and the fastener.
5. A tether formed from plastic resin for securing an article to a container, said tether comprising, a ring-shaped body portion that is formed from plastic resin and defines a collar for attachment to said container, an arcuate leash that is constructed to curve toward the collar, said leash being integrally connected to said collar at a proximal end of said leash and the free end of the leash being adapted to be attached to a captive article.
6. The tether of claim 5 wherein the leash and the collar are each formed as a flat plastic sheet of material and are coplanar with each other.
7. The leash of claim 5 wherein a handle extends from the tether as an aid for grasping the tether.
8. The tether of claim 5 wherein the handle extends radially outwardly from the collar adjacent a proximal end of the leash.
9. The tether of claim 5 wherein the tether is formed from injection molded plastic resin.
10. A one-piece tether formed from flat of plastic resinous strip material comprising, a centrally located ring defining a collar portion, a leash that is formed coplanar with the collar and exteriorly encircles the collar, a proximal end of the leash is integrally connected to the collar and a fastener is located at a free end of the leash for securing the tether to a captive article.
11. The tether of claim 10 wherein the fastener comprises a flattened enlargement in the form of an arrowhead for facilitating the insertion of the free end of the leash into an opening in said article.
12. The tether of claim 10 wherein a handle comprising a tab extends radially outwardly from the collar.
13. The tether of claim 5 in combination with a bottle that extends through the collar and a scoop attached to the free end of the leash.
14. The device of claim 13 and a fastener at the free end of the leash connected to the scoop.
This invention relates to plastic items and more particularly to a plastic tether for securing an article to a container or other object.
Many devices have been produced for connecting articles to one another. U.S. Pat. No. 5,593,026, for example, describes a carrier formed from flat plastic sheet stock with six openings for carrying bottles. U.S. Pat. No. 3,504,790 shows another plastic carrier holding six bottles. It includes an upper carrier with six openings and a lower carrier with six openings so as to encircle the bottles at two levels. U.S. Pat. No. 2,970,729 describes a carrier that includes thongs, each consisting of a flat plastic strip with identical ears at each end. Each ear has an eye that is centered so that the strip can be formed into a loop or noose 14 for placement around the neck of a bottle. The noose must be formed by hand which is time consuming and labor intensive.
In view of these and other shortcomings of the prior art, it is one object of the present invention to provide a tether that can be attached to a container, e.g., by placing it over the neck of a bottle with a single movement and without requiring the tether to be manipulated in order to attach it to the bottle.
Another object of the invention is to provide a tether that is formed from a single piece of plastic material.
Still another object is to provide a tether that can be used for securing a captive article such as a scoop to a container, e.g., a bottle in a manner that will help the scoop to enter a carton as the bottle is placed therein.
A more specific object of the invention is to provide a tether that is preformed so as to automatically hold an article in close proximity with a container to facilitate packaging the container and article.
Another object is to enable a scoop to be used for removing material from a bottle while remaining attached by the tether.
These and other more detailed and specific objects of the present invention will be better understood by reference to the following figures and detailed description which illustrate by way of example but a few of the various forms of the invention within the scope of the appended claims.
A tether that is formed from plastic resin is provided for securing a captive article, e.g., a scoop to a container such as a bottle or the like. The tether comprises a ring-shaped body portion defining a collar that is constructed and dimensioned to fit around the neck of the container. An integral arcuate leash encircles the collar and is concentric exteriorly of the collar so as to at least partially surround the collar. An integral radially extending connecting ligament also formed from the same plastic resin is located between the collar and a proximal end of the leash. A fastener is provided on the free end of the leash for securing the tether to the captive article.
THE FIGURES
FIG. 1 is a plan view of one preferred form of tether according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the tether of FIG. 1 on a slightly smaller scale.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the tether as it appears while in use for securing a spoon to a bottle just before being placed into a carton.
As shown in the Figures, the invention comprises a tether indicated generally by the numeral 10. The tether includes a ring-shaped body portion 12 which defines a collar that is constructed and dimensioned to fit around the neck of a container such as a bottle 14 (FIG. 3). The entire tether 10 is formed from flat plastic strip material, e.g., injection molded polyethylene which can be, for example, 0.02 inches thickness. The body portion 12 is typically about ⅛ of an inch in width. In one application the body 12 had an internal diameter of 1.42 inches and can be placed around the neck of a bottle 14 with a single downward movement, i.e., without requiring manipulation of the tether 10 as it is snapped onto the bottle.
An integral arcuate leash 16 encircles the collar and is concentric with the collar 12 exteriorly thereof. The leash 16 at least partially encircles the collar 12 and typically extends around the entire circumference of the collar 12. The leash can, for example, have a thickness of about 0.02 inches and a width of about 0.093 inches. The collar and the leash 16 are connected by means of an integral radially extending plastic ligament 18 best shown in FIG. 1 at the proximal end of the leash 16. At the free end of the leash 16 is a fastener, in this case an arrowhead 18 for securing the tether 10 to a captive article such as a measuring scoop 20 (FIG. 3). Attachment can be easily accomplished by inserting the arrowhead through a hole in the handle of the scoop 20. The fastener 18 can have other shapes if desired. For example, it could comprise a knob or a hook or other configuration. An arrowhead is highly preferred because it was found to be secure and can be quickly attached.
It can be seen in FIGS. 1 and 2 that the leash 16 completely encircles the collar 12 and is coplanar therewith in a flat plane 17. Both the body 12 and the leash 16 are flat flexible strips of plastic material which when formed, i.e., before use lie in plane 17. It was found that providing the leash with a preformed arcuate shape helped to hold the scoop 20 close to the wall of a container 12 so that the leash itself would naturally tend to lie close to the outside surface of the container 14. This facilitates insertion of the bottle 14 and scoop 20 into a shipping carton 21 or other package.
Integral with the collar 12 and extending outwardly therefrom is a flat tab or handle 22. The handle is positioned between the ligament 18 and the fastener 19 and extends from the tether 10 as an aid for grasping the tether when it is to be snapped over the neck of the bottle 14.
In a commercial application, the invention proved to be inexpensive, easy to mount, and rugged in construction. In addition, the fastener 19 allowed the leash 16 to be quickly connected to an article such as the scoop 20 by placing the arrow-shaped fastener 19 through an opening at the end of the scoop. Once attached to the bottle, the preformed curved configuration of the leash 16 automatically placed the leash in a position encircling the bottle and thus held it close to the outer surface of the bottle so as to facilitate placing the bottle 14 and the scoop 20 into the carton 21.
Many variations of the present invention within the scope of the appended claims will be apparent to those skilled in the art once the principles described herein are understood.
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What is music sampling?
It might be a fresh new way to listen to your favourite tunes.
Matthaeus Choo
Published: 5 October 2021, 5:31 PM
Ever listened to a song and thought it sounded a little too familiar? Or wanted to find out how your favourite songs may be directly influenced by the music of yesteryear?
Music sampling is when musicians borrow a specific part of an existing song for their songs.
One recent example from popular music comes with Nicki Minaj's provocative hit Anaconda, which youths above the 30 might unfortunately be able to recognise the main melody and hook as deriving from 1990s rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot's Baby Got Back.
Another timely example comes from Megan Thee Stallion's Girls in the Hood, which sparked a dance trend on TikTok last year, and, similarly, samples from 1990s rapper Eazy-E's Boys in the Hood.
Indeed, for being the first genres to use the technique, music sampling is most prevalent in rap and hip-hop. However, given the meteoric rise in popularity for these two genres, music sampling has steadily seeped into the mainstream over the past years.
Pop punk band Fall Out Boy may be a notable surprise, given how they might seem as far away from being hip-hop as being Asian. Two of their chart toppers, Centuries and Uma Thurman, both feature music sampling: Centuries from folk singer Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner, and Uma Thurman from the theme song of American sitcom The Munsters.
Even BTS, the biggest boy band in the world today, samples a lot of their hits — ranging from movie soundtracks and soundbites from ancient viral videos.
So, is music sampling simply recycling and 'ripping off' old music? Well, not quite.
Music samples do have to be cleared by the original artists and be paid for to be used. There are definitely arguably lazy usages of music sampling, where not much is changed and the sampling song seems to be piggy-backing on the popularity of the original melody. Pitbull's Feel This Moment and its prominent use of A-ha's Take On Me is one example.
The art of music sampling truly shines through is with sample flipping — when they are recontextualised, rearranged, or have their pitch or speed altered to fit the context of the song.
Eminem's Stan comes to mind as a popular example. The rap song is about an obsessive fanboy who ignores and abuses his pregnant girlfriend, with her point of view seemingly vocalised by the track's chorus, sampled from Dido's Thank You. Dido's original song is a soft, thankful ballad to her lover and through its contrasting use in Stan brings new interpretations to both songs.
Sample flipping can also amaze with how creatively original melodies are rearranged. Music sampling can reach ridiculous heights of artistry. Australian electronic music duo The Avalanches famously spent over eighteen months reassembling over 3500 samples from obscure TV shows, voice recordings and songs for their seminal album Since I Left You.
Noticing music samples is, admittedly, a niche interest. However, diving into it can lead to countless new discoveries of otherwise forgotten music. For how music sampling is all about criss-crossing genres, finding out their sources can also serve as introductions to popular artistes from other genres. It's an artform that definitely tickles the imagination.
Give your favourite artists a search on whosampled.com and you might be amazed by the results!
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President Donald Trump has finally accomplished something noteworthy in his more than 400 days in office: He's spent 100 days at one of his own golf clubs.
According to CNN, Trump has visited four golf clubs he owns while serving as president: the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, FL; the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, FL; the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, VA; and the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ. And he's done so on 25% of his days in office.
"Trump's golf habit has drawn incredible scrutiny in his first year in office, with watchdog groups raising questions about whether his endorsement of his own properties violates federal law, and reporters standing outside the gates of his courses hoping to confirm that Trump is hitting the links," CNN stated.
For years, Trump vociferously attacked former President Barack Obama on Twitter on the issue of golf. "Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Worse than Carter," Trump tweeted in October 2014.
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Drake's Toosie Slide music video pays subtle tribute to Kobe Bryant
George Fenwick
3 April 2020, 4:12 am ·1-min read
Drake has released the music video for his new song Toosie Slide and the visuals pay subtle tribute to the late basketballer Kobe Bryant.
The video turns the song into a self-isolation soundtrack and features Drake dancing around his enormous Toronto mansion while wearing gloves and a face mask.
As Drake performs the 'Toosie Slide' around his house - which features a swimming pool and a grand piano - the camera pans past two LA Lakers jerseys, no. 8 and no. 24, in honour of Bryant.
The jerseys can be spotted around the 0:56 mark.
Drake is an avid NBA fan, being the global ambassador for his home team, the Toronto Raptors.
The rapper paid tribute to Bryant following his death in a helicopter crash in January, which also claimed the lives of his daughter Gianna and seven others.
Kobe Bryant (AFP via Getty Images)
"It can't be," wrote Drake, sharing an illustration of Bryant.
Drake's visual for Toosie Slide also pays tribute to Toronto in lockdown, opening with shots of the city's empty streets.
The video ends with Drake letting off a fireworks display outside his home.
The track has already inspired a challenge on TikTok, with other musicians such as Tinashe posting their own versions of the dance that Drake instructs in the song.
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Joyce Gerald experienced conversion to the Christian faith during her early teens. She gave her life to Christ after the death of her grandmother. She wanted to be in heaven with her grandmother. She had no knowledge of God's grace and or how much He loved His people, outside of the fact that Jesus came and suffered a horrendous death just for her. It gave her the opportunity to become a child of God. Her understanding of the coming of Christ and its implications for her life was limited. On the advice of her pastor, she started a study into the book of Proverbs. She read the book of Revelation and realized that a life devoid of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit would be a life without the faith, trust, and hope in God. A life that would be unconnected to God was not for her. Like Samuel Logan, she had a burning desire to experience the Joy of the Lord. She wanted the peace that came with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. This desire led her to join a church that believed in the laying on of hands after baptism to receive the Holy Spirit. She became a new person in Christ.
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One more appeal, from Maryland, is still delaying the Trump administration from fully enacting its ban on new enlistments from people who identify as transgender, Stars and Stripes reported this week.
Capt. Jennifer Peace is one of an estimated 15,000 transgender people who serve in the active-duty military. She's speaking out in the hopes of helping people understand transgender men and women.
The Rand Corp. in June 2016 released a study that concluded fewer than 6,630 transgender people serve in the military, that only a fraction of them seek gender-related medical treatments and that their gender-transition health costs would be "relatively low" at less than $8.4 million a year.
Ash Carter, President Obama's defense secretary, argued that allowing troops who are transgender to serve openly would ensure that anyone who was "able and willing to serve" would have had an opportunity join the military.
He said at least two transgender airmen serve in the California National Guard. He said more transgender people might serve in the California National Guard, but the agency does not count them.
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Borussia Dortmund, the Bundesliga team has reached an agreement with FC Barcelona - depending on the definition of the last details - with respect to one-year loan of Paco Alcacer (24), until June 30, 2019. The Spanish midfielder passed today the compulsory medical monitoring at the Westphalia Clinic and he must wear the number 9 on his shirt.
Borussia Dortmund has also secured the purchase option, through which the player can be linked with the club for four more years.
"We are very happy, that Paco Alcácer has decided for Borussia Dortmund and we are convinced that this type of player is ideal for our style of play," said Michael Zorc, sports director of the BVB and added: "Paco showed his quality during his youth with FC Valencia, he scored many goals and at his 22 years of age he received a special recognition, as he was granted the position of captain. In Barcelona he worked daily with some of the best players in the world, due to the extreme competition in the offensive positions of the club, it was decided to take a new turn after two years. "
"I'm very happy to play in the Bundesliga soon. It's one of the best leagues in the world, and the BVB with its incredible fans and the famous south stand (Südtribüne) has something magical for any player," said Paco Alcácer.
The 24-year-old has the experience of 151 matches in the Spanish league "La Liga" (43 goals, 22 assists), 21 matches in Copa del Rey (11 goals, 2 assists), 13 appearances in the Europa-League ( 7 goals, 1 assist) and 10 in the Champions League (1 goal, 1 assist). For the selected Spanish A, he scored in 13 matches six goals and made an assist. Paco Alcácer, who arrived to Barcelona from FC Valencia in the summer of 2016, is a forward who dominates both feet, dynamic and highly technical.
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Ablation on a component to modify its surface is carried out using a fiber laser beam that scans the surface of the component. Contrary to traditional methods of heating using a furnace or a flame, this is a much cleaner process with far greater accuracy. The use of a fiber laser beam to heat the surface of a component also results in reduced time taken to complete the job. The automotive industry has embraced fiber lasers for surface modification, keeping in mind these considerations.
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Stanford has long been considered one of the best universities in terms of teaching, quality of faculty and the content they teach. With the recent boom in the machine learning field, Stanford's ML courses have generated a lot of interest (you can find videos on YouTube if you haven't done so already).
Each year, Stanford releases a list of projects that it's students have worked on and recently, in that same regard, has released a list of course projects for it's Natural Language Processing (NLP) course. And wow, is it impressive.
Students were given two options for the project – either choose your own topic (called 'Custom Project') or take part in the 'Default Project', which was building Question Answering models based on the SQuAD challenge. "Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) is a new reading comprehension dataset, consisting of questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to every question is a segment of text, or span, from the corresponding reading passage." Remember we covered this on AVBytes – Alibaba and Microsoft's models had the bests scores on this dataset, which have since been eclipsed.
Some of the papers submitted will undoubtedly impress you. The winner of the 'Custom Project' did a project on Speech Synthesis in which the text-to-speech synthesis model produces audio from a sequence of input characters. They also demonstrated how to build a convolutional sequence to sequence model with a natural voice and pronunciation from scratch in well under $75!
There was a project on machine translation of the Eskimo language which also won a prize. The students built a sequence to sequence neural machine translation model that translates the Eskimo language into English. Incredible!
Another project that caught the eye was 'Generating SQL queries from Natural Language'. The students developed a model for generating SQL query from from natural language question.
There was even a project on creating memes – 'Dank Learning: Generating Memes using Deep Neural Networks', which produces a humorous caption given any image.
Check out Stanford's page here which lists each project.
I like that Stanford opens these projects up to the community so all aspiring data scientists and practitioners can read about the different (and sometimes unique) approaches taken. I highly recommend going through this list and choosing the papers you find interesting. This will be a great learning for you in the NLP field.
One of my favourites, and this will undoubtedly interest data scientists, was based on generating SQL queries from natural language. Check it out!
Which project caught your eye? Let me know in the comments section below.
I think NL to SparQL would be the much more interesting approach, and the latter easily translated into SQL or any other data retrieval method.


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Q: delete error in vector of vector I'm confused using a vector of vector of int: after I remove an integer, it is still there!
#include "stdafx.h"

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>

int main(){
    //everything works fine with a vector of integer:
    std::vector<int> vi;
    vi.push_back(42);
    std::vector<int>::iterator intIter = std::find(vi.begin(), vi.end(), 42);
    if (intIter != vi.end())
        vi.erase(intIter);
    std::cout << "VI  content: ";
    for (auto l : vi)
        std::cout << l << " ";
    std::cout << "." << std::endl;

    //but not with a vector of vector of integer:
    std::vector< std::vector<int>> vvi;
    std::vector<int> viTemp;
    viTemp.push_back(42);
    vvi.push_back(viTemp);
    for (auto viIter : vvi) {
        std::vector<int>::iterator intIter = std::find(viIter.begin(), viIter.end(), 42);
        if (intIter != viIter.end())
            viIter.erase(intIter);
    }
    std::cout << "VVI content: ";
    for (auto viIter2 : vvi) {
        for (auto intIter2 : viIter2)
            std::cout << intIter2 << " ";
        std::cout << ";";
    }
    std::cout << "." << std::endl;
}

After running, the result shows:
VI  content: .
VVI content: 42 ;.

so the vector of integers, vi, got content removed; however, the vector of vector of integer, vvi, still has 42!
Where is my mistake?

A: When you're declaring the auto variable in your loop it creates a vector<int> variable, so bascially you're removing the value on a copy of the vector
 for (auto viIter : vvi) {

Instead do this:
for (auto &viIter : vvi) {

now the auto variable is a reference and you're removing the value on the vector itself instead of on a copy.

A: Unlike in Java, Python, or C#, when you store a vector in a vector in C++, you store it by value, i.e., it is copied.
If you want to modify the vector inside the vector, you need to use a & reference:
std::vector<std::vector<int>> vectorOfVectors;
vector<int> &referenceToVector = vectorOfvectors.at(index);
referenceTovector.push_back(value);

Now, the vector inside the vector is changed.
But be careful about the & reference. Do not store it, make sure that you don't use it after maybe the vector it references does not exist anymore, &c., because it actually is a raw pointer in disguise :)
P.S. .at(index) is the safe way to say [index] because .at() is range checked, while [] is not.

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Scientists have known for years that paper money can become contaminated with cocaine during drug deals and directly through drug use, such as snorting cocaine through rolled bills.
Traces of cocaine taint up to 90 percent of paper money in the United States, a new study finds. A group of scientists tested banknotes from more than 30 cities in five countries, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, China, and Japan, and found "alarming" evidence of cocaine use in many areas.
U.S. and Canadian currency had the highest levels, with an average contamination rate of between 85 and 90 percent, while Chinese and Japanese currency had the lowest, between 12 and 20 percent contamination.
The findings were presented yesterday at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. Study leader Yuegang Zuo of the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth said that the high percentage of contaminated U.S. currency observed in the current study represents nearly a 20 percent jump in comparison to a similar study he conducted two years ago.
"To my surprise, we're finding more and more cocaine in banknotes," Zuo said.
Scientists have known for years that paper money can become contaminated with cocaine during drug deals and directly through drug use, such as snorting cocaine through rolled bills. Contamination can also spread to banknotes not involved in the illicit drug culture, because bills are processed in banks' currency-counting machines.
"I'm not sure why we've seen this apparent increase, but it could be related to the economic downturn, with stressed people turning to cocaine," Zuo said.
Such studies are useful, he noted, because the data can help law enforcement agencies and forensic specialists identify patterns of drug use in a community.
Previous studies that have reported on cocaine traces on money have had several drawbacks, Zuo said. Some only sampled a small number of bills, while others destroyed the money in the process of testing.
Zuo and his colleagues used a modified instrument that allowed for faster, simpler and more accurate measurement of cocaine contamination than other methods, without destroying the currency.
The amounts of cocaine found on U.S. bills ranged from .006 micrograms (several thousands of times smaller than a single grain of sand) to more than 1,240 micrograms of cocaine per banknote (about 50 grains of sand).
The scientists found that larger cities like Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit had among the highest average cocaine levels. Washington, D.C., ranked above the average, with 95 percent of the banknotes sampled contaminated with the drug. The lowest average cocaine levels in U.S. currency appeared on bills collected from Salt Lake City.
Despite the high percentage of cocaine-contaminated banknotes, Zuo points out that the amount of cocaine found on most notes was so small that consumers should not have any health or legal concerns about handling paper money.
"For the most part, you can't get high by sniffing a regular banknote, unless it was used directly in drug uptake or during a drug exchange," Zuo said. "It also won't affect your health and is unlikely to interfere with blood and urine tests used for drug detection.


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Florence (not her real name) escaped expulsion thanks to religious asylum. The Afghan national, about 40 years old with long brunette hair and light eyes, enjoyed the protection of the Church of the Holy Cross in the Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg for a year and a half.
"They boarded, lodged and cared for me," she says, sitting in the café in the hall of this red-brick church.
Sitting beside her, Ute Gniewoss, pastor of this Protestant community, confirms this. "Florence is one of seven persons whom we have granted religious asylum over the past two years," she says. "It's a decision we take collectively, and in the case of Florence, we were touched by her story."
Florence, who is from Kabul, arrived in Berlin in 2016 with her brother, an engineer threatened by the Taliban because he worked for the Americans.
In Germany, he obtained a residence permit, but Florence didn't. She was expelled to Hungary, her first country of entry into Europe.
However, she fled back to Berlin, where by dint of persuasion, she obtained the support of this parish.
"Going back to Afghanistan is impossible for a single woman without a family there," Ute Gniewoss explains.
Rooted in Christian tradition, religious asylum has been tolerated by the German authorities for close to 40 years now.
"It's the last resort, for the toughest cases," explains Bernhard Fricke, pastor of the city of Potsdam, where he is a household name in the provision of support to migrants.
"Religious asylum is also a means of guaranteeing the quality of decisions handed down by the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (Bamf), and detecting errors," he says.
In 95 percent of cases, the applicants receive a residence permit.
However, this practice, which is specific to Germany, occupies a grey area in law, despite a 2015 agreement between the churches and the Bamf.
"These people do not disappear from circulation," Bernhard Fricke explains. "We give them an address that is known to the authorities, until a solution is found. In exchange, the police do not intervene."
Religion has little importance here. "We do not ask the question," he explains.
At the Church of the Holy Cross in Berlin, Ute Gniewoss receives countless requests for religious asylum.
"It's always a decision heavy with meaning that requires a strong commitment from the community," the pastor explains. "To support the applications, frequent medical and psychological tests, which are costly and take time, need to be done."
A pioneer in the area of religious asylum, the Church of the Holy Cross is lucky to receive help on a voluntary basis from a psychiatrist.
As the German Government's migration policy hardens, the practice of religious asylum is becoming more complicated.
In June, the interior ministers of 16 German Länder (states) increased by a year the period within which people seeking religious asylum can be sent back to the countries where they first entered Europe.
"The extended deadline increases the pressure on the religious communities, which now have to consider helping these persons for 18 months and no longer six, as was the case before," Pastor Bernhard Fricke regrets. "That's really expensive and it limits the number of people we can help."
This pressure is also reflected by an increase in lawsuits against the churches and the police have even intervened on a few occasions in certain parishes, something almost unheard of before.
For Bernhard Fricke, the debate on religious asylum is overblown. "Religious asylum is a drop in the ocean, compared to the total number of refugees," he says.
While the number of cases of religious asylum may have increased, they amounted to a mere 1,189 last year, whereas the country received 186,000 new applications for political asylum in the same period.
For her part, Florence has just left her religious asylum. The authorities have given her a six-month residence permit which she hopes to have extended so she can really start a new life in Berlin.


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Hearing on fare changes adjourns after 165 or so public speakers
A public speaker at the Metro Board's fare hearing held in late March for fare changes proposed to go into effect later in the year. Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro.
Click on a photo to see larger. Photos by Steve Hymon/Metro
The hearing adjourned about 2:15 p.m. after more than four hours that included a brief staff presentation on the fares, about 165 public speakers and a brief disruption near the end of the meeting that resulted in two arrests for disturbing the peace. One of the people arrested may also face a charge of assaulting a peace officer. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TWO FARE CHANGE OPTIONS.
Order was quickly restored at the urging of both Metro Board Members and members of the public who wanted the chance to testify before the Board. A vote on the fare changes is scheduled for the Board's May 22 meeting — and before the meeting ended many Board Members indicated they will have plenty of questions between now and then about the fare proposal and Metro's finances.
Metro staff explained the fare changes, which are designed to prevent Metro from facing future deficits and to prevent service cuts. As staff explained, the changes would raise the base Metro fare but include transfers for 90 minutes — presently passengers must pay a full fare to transfer, even for a short ride.
As for the public testimony, it's hard to summarize the views of 165 different people. While the Bus Riders Union was certainly present at the meeting, others appeared to be everyday riders who had something to say about the fare change proposal.
A few things I heard from speakers more than once:
•Bus service in some parts of Los Angeles County is not frequent enough or good enough to warrant a fare increase. Trips involving multiple bus legs, a few speakers said, can take several hours.
•There was no support for the second fare option which would have different fares for peak and off-peak hours.
•Several people complained fares should not be raised until the agency clamps down on fare evasion; during their presentation, agency staff said that work on reducing fare evasion is already underway.
•The most common complaint: affordability — many people said they make too little money to spend any extra on transit. "Some of you are lucky enough to have gotten an education. Think about the people you representing," said one woman.
Some audio and video from today's fare proposal hearing
Pictorial part 2: the public speaks at today's fare change hearing
Public hearing on Metro's proposed fare changes is underway
A look at what some riders and readers are saying about Metro's fare proposals
Categories: Policy & Funding
Tagged as: fare changes, fare hearing, fare increases, Metro Board of Directors
Some audio and video from today's public hearing on fare changes
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Patrick Trevino says:
Yes,there should not be a fare increase. Why? For the following reasons: The most important is fare evasion, I've seen some riders sneak in through the rear exit then the buses make a stop, and the bus operators don't do a thing. I have also seen when buses are late, the operator blocks or covers the fare box and just waves the people in without stopping them. There needs to be better fare boxes, too many break down. Furthermore, the bus operators allow too many riders to get with stuff, such as loud music, eating, drinking (especially alcohol in the back of the bus,) drug dealing,rowdy people,littering and other violations of the code of conduct.
Want to help the short fall of funds? How about cutting the size of the Broad and cutting their pay. Instead of trying to balance it on the back of the people. Since I don't have a car ( which I would rather use than the bus) I'm a prisoner of this terrible system.
Will these comments reach the people in charge of making the fare change?
Patrick Trevino (A rider off and on for about 30 yrs.)
republicanangeleno says:
I was there the whole time. And all the comments by the BRU flash mob were amazing! AMAZINGLY STUPID that is! They frequently went over the time limits, the tactics they played, the ruckus and especially the commotion at the end which lead up to an arrest was exactly the kind of behavior that I expect from these people – no manners, no civility, and no common sense.
This is the kind of unrest and disorder that happens when you give out too many handouts. They want free food. They want free shelter. They want free clothing. And now they want free transportation. They wanted fare enforcement to be done away with, they wanted to ban cars, they even called for 100% free public transportation! Everything has a cost. When you use it, you have to pay for it. It's common sense. It's honesty. Yet these people don't want to play by the rules. And their actions at this fare hike meeting showed exactly what they were.
And who pays for these handouts? Us, the taxpayers. Yes, we the taxpayers have to foot the bill to these left wing socialists.
Compared to these folks, those who were for the option 1 fare increase and the several of those who asked to look into an option 3 for distance based fare pricing were far more well mannered. They followed the rules, they kept their statements brief and to the point, kept it under 1 minute rule, and they all made excellent arguments instead of resorting to chaos, feel sorry for me sob stories, and violence.
I think the politicians should throw out all the arguments made by the BRU socialists. . They need to learn manners first and act like civilized people. The only good ones that I heard today were the option 1 folks and the option 3 distance based arguments today.
The comments about fare evasion are valid points. Why should we pay more when so many people are paying nothing?
Also valid is the comment about long trips on the train or bus. To get from Azuza to Fairfax/ Wishire (on of my frequent destinations takes more than two hours and two trains and a bus. This is ridiculous and not worth increased fare. Likewise a trip from Azuza to long beach, another of my frequent destinations takes almost three hours.
ng says:
It has to be by far and away the cheapest in the country! The BRU tried a hunger strike for the increase from 1.25 to 1.50, which is a bit much. The fare increase must go through or if these people they are being cheated by the price for an trip on MTA, see what a trip on SFMUNI, BART, MARTA, or NYMTA would cost them.
"Bus service in some parts of Los Angeles County is not frequent enough or good enough to warrant a fare increase. Trips involving multiple bus legs can take several hours."
^ Why the free transfer period should be among the longest—if not THE longest—nationwide. If Minneapolis can do 2.5 hours, LA should do 3.
"Several people complained fares should not be raised until the agency clamps down on fare evasion."
^ Main reason for revenue deficit #1: rather than randomly harassing everyone exiting train stations, let's improve and monitor payment terminals to, y'know, catch fare evasion when it happens.
"The most common complaint: affordability — many people said they make too little money to spend any extra on transit."
^ Main reason for revenue deficit #2: Metro needs to focus on attracting more middle- and upper-class customers via continued improvement, expansion, and proper marketing. They, not low-income people, are the ones with the money that you seek (and need).
Jason Morris says:
When Metro get the people who fal to pay the fare then there should be no fare increase. When the Pacific Electric ran in the Los Angeles area they only raised the fare three times in the company running from 1899 to 1953. We need better ways to get around in LA and Metro is not it. maybe Pacific Electric should come back and be better.
Bus operators are not responsible to ensure people pay and act civilized and not commit crimes. They are not police nor sheriffs. Bus operators are trained to not confront, aprehend or question unruly patrons and put up any sort of fight. Does you job require you to fight crime as part of the job description? Thought so. And no I'm not a bus operators, just stating obvious points.
LAX Frequent Flyer says:
It would be helpful if Metro is able to list all the board members that were present at this hearing.
Steve Hymon says:
Hi LAX Frequent Flyer;
The following Board Members were at the hearing: Board Chair Diane DuBois, Board Vice Chair Eric Garcetti, Gloria Molina, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Zev Yaroslavsky, Mike Bonin, Jackie Dupont-Walker, John Fasana, Ara Najarian, Paul Krekorian and Pam O'Connor.
Steve Hymon
Editor, The Source
Dana Gabbard says:
And nearly all the Board members attending stuck around for the entire 4+ hours. That impressed me. And as the photos show, they were paying attention.
Emmanuel Hernandez says:
Fare evasion is the main point here to be implemented. I use metro practically every day and every time I got to Union Station I saw many people evading to tap their cars to go in. They do not care all those police agents there. Metro should implement a system that will not allow a single person to use metro rail without tapping a valid tapcard.
ISTJ04 says:
No fare increase should be even "proposed" unti: 1.) there is ZERO FARE EVASION occurring, 2.) MTA executives have had their salaries reduced to that made by the average MTA rider, and 3.) an AUDIT is done of the MTA by the "Joint Legislative Audit Committee" that can account for WHY so much of the MTA money DOES NOT GO FOR TRANSIT OPERATIONS, when it should (P.S. developing a parking garage-with collapsing roofs in construction, "Master Planning" Union Station, and "redeveloping" a North Hollywood train depot are NOT "transit operations"!).
stickergirl says:
@Emmanuel – that's the plan, isn't it? I know on the Red / Purple Lines, you have to tap a valid tapcard to right (is gate latching on the Green Line finished yet?). But it's easy to get around it through the handicap entry (which is not a turnstile) – people either slide through sideways or they walk through as people are exiting.
Ryan K. says:
Public transportation is paid through taxes and should be free, as a public good, to the end-user. It made sense to charge a fare back in the day when mass transportation was privatized – because operating agencies weren't receiving the kind of subsidization that public agencies receive. Now, our mass transit is run as a public service.
There is no reason that public transit can not be free. If just a fraction of U.S. military spending were diverted to public services, riding the bus could be free for anyone. That will never happen if everyone pushing for fare evasion continues to place the blame on low-income riders.
Finally, if you are going to make a comment targeting fare evaders, I think it is only fair to disclose your income. According to the LA Times, "More than 80% of bus and rail riders are minorities and their average household income is less than $20,000, according to Metro data." The amounts that Metro charges for passes are very difficult to accommodate at that income – and it is unacceptable to not account for that. The world is what we imagine it and make of it – and it is shocking to see so many people on this site who believe in a world where faregates and fare increases are the solutions to a deficit. You'll never get better if you don't want anything better.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0330-mta-hearing-20140330,0,2667192.story#ixzz2xcFBdmuQ
Ted Chen says:
Ryan K.
You comments are absurd. If public services should be free, then should we also have free electricity and water services because the LADWP is also a public agency? Should we have free sanitation services because the LA Bureau of Sanitation is also a public agency?
When you go get a birth certificate, get a marriage license, obtain a passport, apply for a drivers license, or send out mail, should all those services be free too?
There is a cost to everything. Nothing is free.


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West Madison succeeds in reaching $26,000 fundraising goal
West Madison students work on crafts last school year. (CONTRIBUTED)
MADISON – West Madison Elementary School successfully met its $26,000 fundraising goal, thanks to diligence of students and their families, faculty and administrators.
"For the smallest school in Madison City Schools to raise and meet our goal of $26,000 is awesome," PTA President Angie Enderton said. "We're grateful and thankful for everyone involved."
Each year, West Madison conducts one major fundraiser. "With the help of Boosterthon, our chairperson and the volunteers, as well as staff, faculty, students and their families, we did meet our goal," Enderton said. "We had some awesome sponsors, too."
"As PTA President, I could not have done this alone or take any credit for anything," Enderton said. "Without the team I have and the amazing volunteers, this would not have been possible."
Enderton acknowledged fundraising chairperson Ben Schwartz and his team of volunteers for "an absolutely amazing job."
Other PTA officers at West Madison are vice president of volunteers Michele Gay, vice president of programs Suzanne Richards, treasurer Ricki Schwartz and secretary Ashley Peeden.
The PTA as a team — not just a board — votes and agrees on a fundraiser. The PTA sometimes sends out a survey to parents to gather opinions about the type of fundraiser that they prefer.
"Then, we propose the idea to our principal, Dr. Daphne Jah, and she gets the final say. If Dr. Jah doesn't like the idea, we come up with another idea," Enderton said.
PTA members determine what measures can help them raise the funds to help their school. "Each year, we focus on what needs to be improved and from there determine how much we need to raise," Enderton said.
"We have the best principal, Dr. Daphne Jah, and assistant principal, Kathy Miller, ever," Enderton said. "They sure know how to get the students excited and motivated for our fundraiser and (demonstrate) great spirit."
Anyone can join PTA, which includes parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and other relatives, she said.
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