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In Praise of Donald Trump
It is one of my life beliefs that it is morally wrong to criticize something that you do not understand, or have not made an effort to get all the facts about (can you imagine a world where both sides would patiently listen until the other side was satisfied that we understood things from their point of view?). So though I do not plan to vote for Trump because of his obvious corruptions, that does not mean I cannot praise the many policy points which I can objectively praise and genuinely say I and others benefit from:
1.Trump is one of the few politicians in history that not only adeptly shuns that title, but truly makes many Americans feel that they have an ally in "the machine", an anti-establishment "maverick" that says what the common man or woman has on their mind rather than being "politically correct" in the face of contrary lived experience.
2. Trump actually gave adequate discourse to an issue that was ignored by "rank and file" politicians for decades, namely a completely broken immigration system.
3. Trump has appointed two conservative, Pro-life supreme court Justices, and hundreds of conservative Federal judges concerned with protecting the dignity of life and other conservative causes as well as other pro-life advocates in various other posts.
4. Trump is the only sitting president to give remarks in person at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.
5. Trump's administration has issued a ruling reforming Title X family planning funds preventing them from funding entities that provide abortions, favored legislation to end late term abortions, and reinstated and expanded policies prohibiting international aid from funding oversees abortions.[1]
6. Under Trump the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest producer of crude oil.
7. Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
8. Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.
9. Trump signed the "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act" (FOSTA), which includes the "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
10. Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms.
11. Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
12. He signed a bill allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.
13. In 2018, President Trump signed the First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.
14. Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
15. Through Trump's Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.
16. Trump's OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.
17. Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.
18. Trump's Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.
19. The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.
20. The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.
21. Trump's and the Board Of Prisons launched a new "Ready to Work Initiative" to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
22. The Pledge to America's Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
23. Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
24. Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
25. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.
26. Though a strong argument can be made for the distinction between causation and correlation (and Trump himself has said that a president should not get credit for things that 'happen to occur' under their watch), it is nevertheless true that (at least before Covid):
27. Violent crime has fallen every year he's been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected.
28. The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers.
29. New single-family home sales were up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to the previous year.
30. Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.
31. ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.
32. Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.
33. Stock Market had reached record highs.
34. Median household income had hit highest level ever recorded.
35. African-American unemployment was at an all-time low.
36. Hispanic-American unemployment was at an all-time low.
37. Asian-American unemployment was at an all-time low.
38. Women's unemployment rate was at a 65-year low.
39. Youth unemployment was at a 50-year low.
40. We had the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded (again, briefly, pre-covid).
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-is-devoted-to-protecting-american-freedoms-and-promoting-american-values/


No-Fault Divorce Retrenchment: Trend or Fluke?
It seems like only yesterday that New York became the last state in the USA to allow no-fault divorce. But it was actually 2010.
One of the more surprising recent events in the always-evolving universe of divorce and child custody law is unfolding right now in the state of Texas.
After decades of no-fault divorce, the Texas legislature is considering restricting – not abolishing though – the availability of no-fault divorce.
The bill has been debated and refined over several months. The original bill was more expansive.
As currently constituted, the proposed legislation restricting divorce to fault-based grounds would come into play only in marriages where there are minor children and only if one of the spouses opposes the divorce. So, if there are no children of the marriage or if both spouses agree to getting a divorce, proof of fault would not be required.
Interestingly, to all appearances, the proposal has gained considerable traction in the state. And adoption into law is not unlikely in due course.
The reasons behind the bill are the same policies that kept no-fault divorce (and before that, divorce of any stripe) at bay for so long in so many places: a desire to protect children and strengthen the structure of the family unit.
If adopted, some divorces in Texas will almost certainly take longer and cost more. And some simply won't happen. Good, bad or indifferent.
What – if anything – does this proposed legislation in Texas possibly portend for Florida and other states in the US?
this [Austin] kxan-TV NBC article: Texas bill making divorce harder gets early movement .


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Museveni rewards heroic Commonwealth team with houses, monthly stipend
By Charity Wanja For Citizen Digital Published on: April 23, 2018 04:16 (EAT)
What kind of a gift does one deserve for bringing honour and glory to a country?
Well, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni thinks that bequeathing his country's athletes – the Gold Coast heroes and heroines – with beautiful homes is the perfect nostrum.
In a series of tweets on his official twitter handle, the domineering Head-of-State has promised to build houses for Joshua Cheptigei and Sheila Chesang who both bagged gold medals at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
A seemingly excited Museveni further promised to put all the five medalists – at Gold Coast 2018 – on a monthly salary depending on one's medal won.
Likewise, I will build a house for Cheptegei and Chesang who won gold medals, like I have done for previous gold medalists. The other issues raised by the Sebei community will be attended to; the schools, safe water provision and construction of an airstrip to promote tourism. pic.twitter.com/moGu6sAoSa
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) April 22, 2018
The Gold Coast stars will also get a monthly salary of Ushs.5m (Ksh. 134,927.10) for gold winners, Ushs 3m (Ksh. 80,956.26, silver) and Ushs.1m (Ksh 26,985.42) for bronze.
I made a promise that whoever wins a gold medal at an international competition would get a monthly salary of Shs5m, silver Shs3m and Shs1m for bronze. The 5 medalists today will get onto the payroll. I have also been told of some arrears to other athletes, they will be cleared. pic.twitter.com/BEfU6B0AQT
Coming with the goodies, is a pledge to better the sports infrastructure in the country, as the land-locked east African nation aim to rise from decades of under-achievement at global competitions.
In total, Uganda claimed six medals at the Games – three gold, silver and two bronze, challenging Kenya's hitertho dominance on long distance. In fact, they beat Kenya in both men and women's 10,000m and the men's 5,000m.
The President also promised to review the taxes on sports equipment. Museveni's handsome pledges are a stark contrast to Kenya where State promises take months, at time years to be fulfilled.
Cheptigei who won two gold medals was also promoted from a Police Constable to Inspector of Police in addition to a token of Ush 10 million.
Cheptigei earns a rank award after sterling Commonwealth Games performance/PHOTOS/COURTESY
Prior to the Commonwealth Games, Kenyan athletes had threatened not to honour the Games unless their outstanding bonuses and allowances were met, prompting President Uhuru Kenyatta to intervene during a State House luncheon.
His terse warning, it seems, played a part as for the first time, the Commonwealth team got their bonuses on time.
Though for others, who competed at events, as early as 2010, the bonuses have not been forthcoming.

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Pretty much everything in this game was created by the talented Gasara. You can find more fabulous dress up games in her deviantArt gallery.
I wish this game had more draggies :( It's too good to be without!
Id also love to see an update of this game, its stunning!
I love the art, its absolutely beautiful. The only thing is, there is a very limited amount of options. It would make my day if this game was updated!
I was staring at the model, admiring the way I'd dressed her...... then she blinked and I fell out of my seat.
It would be SO awesome if this game could get an update.
Alphonse mucha has really pretty art. I looked him up on google, and now i wish this game had more stuff!


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Televisión Camagüey o tvcamaguey es el canal de televisión regional de la Provincia Camagüey, cuya denominación nacional es Telecentro aunque puede ser comparado con un canal de TV comunitario. Se encarga de divulgar información del acontecer nacional e internacional, pero principalmente local.

Toda la programación de Televisión Camagüey es creada en sus instalaciones, con excepción de la mayoría de los videoclips, y algunos materiales como cortos o eventos políticos y deportivos nacionales que se trasmiten de forma esporádica.

La Televisión en Cuba es de carácter público.

Historia

Television Camagüey puede considerarse el canal de televisión regional más antiguo de Cuba, pues la historia de Televisión Camagüey tiene dos etapas. La primera tempotada o etapa fue la del año 1959, cuando se funda la primera estación de televisión fuera de la capital cubana, se le llamó Television Camagüey su dueño principal y fundador fue Don Pancho, celebre personaje de los medios de comunicación en el Camagüey de esos anos. Television Camagüey transmitía por la frecuencia del canal 11 y lo hacía durante más de 11 horas diarias, tenía su propio noticiero, así como materiales filmicos, programación en vivo con parogramas de variedades y religiosos. Entre sus fundadores se encuentran José Luis Cadenas, Michel Wlicox Portell, que se mantuvo en activo hasta hace poco tiempo en la televisión camagueyana. En aquel entonces el equipamiento tecnológico con que contaba Television Camagüey eran de los más modernos en el país y a los pocos anos fueron desmontados para emplearlos en la Televisión nacional y en la creación de Telerebelde en Santiago de Cuba, como dice el dicho desvistieron un santo para vestir el otro. (Continuara....)
El 24 de junio de 1984 volvió a salir la señal de Televisión Camagüey, ahora por la frecuencia de Telerebelde (canal 4), su primer director en la segunda temporada fue José Luis Cadenas, le siguieron Giraldo Obregon (cuadro del Partido), Mirtha Padrón, Evidio Gil, Rebeca Buron Marin y por último Veranes (cuadro del Partido sin conocimiento alguno del medio)

Canales

Radio

Nacionales

 Radio Cubana

Internacionales

Provinciales

Televisión

Las cadenas de ámbito nacional

 Cubavisión (conocida como CMQ hasta 1962 y como Canal 6 hasta 1988)

Cada provincia tiene un Canal Provincial (Comunitario), en algunos municipios también hay canales regionales y varias corresponsalías que, aparte de tributar para la televisión nacional cubana y los canales provinciales, también trasmiten una hora semanal en sus propios canales comunitarios.

Canales de Televisión provinciales

 Televisión Camagüey (Televisión Camagüey Conocida también como tvcamaguey trasmite por el Canal 4 y el 49 pero su origen se remonta al año 1959 cuando se inauguró el Canal 11, fue el primer canal de televisión fuera de la capital cubana, se conocía también como el Canal de Don Pancho. TV Camagüey reinició sus transmisiones el 24 de junio de 1984 como uno de los primeros cinco telecentros creados por las Revolución. Tiene programación variada y es uno de los más importantes de Cuba.

Otros canales provinciales similares a tvcamaguey

 Canal Habana (canal de televisión de La Habana)
 Centrovisión Yayabo (canal de televisión en La Habana de Sancti Spíritus)
 Tele Cubanacan (canal de televisión en La Habana de Santa Clara)
 Perla Vision (canal de televisión en Cienfuegos)
 Isla Vision (canal de televisión en la Isla de la Juventud)
 TV Yumurí (canal de televisión en Matanzas)
 CNCTV (canal de televisión en Granma)
 Visión Tunera (canal de televisión en Las Tunas)
 Sol Vision (canal de televisión en Guantánamo)
 TV Ávila (canal de televisión en Ciego de Ávila)
 TV Santiago (canal de televisión en Santiago de Cuba)
 Al Día (canal de televisión en Holguín)
 Tele Pinar (canal de televisión en Pinar del Río)

Logotipos del ICRT

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Programación y noticias de la televisión camagüeyana en Internet
 Portal de la Radio cubana
 Portal de la Televisión cubana

Cultura de Cuba
Empresas públicas de radiodifusión
Canales de televisión de Cuba
Cadenas de televisión de Cuba

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Sometimes all a hero needs is a cape.
Notable NYC: 5/14–5/20
By Ian MacAllen
Saturday 5/14: Félicia Atkinson, Bartolomé Sanson, Kristen Mueller, and Rachel Valinsky discuss Outside and After with Shelter Press. Motto Distribution/Wendy's Subway, 7 p.m., free.
David Brazil, Jasmine Ginson, and Oki Sogumi join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Sunday 5/15: Mishka Shubaly presents I Swear I'll Make it Up to You along with Tim Kreider and Zack Lipez. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
Robert Burke Warren presents his novel Perfectly Broken. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Stephanie Laterza and Rachel Voss celebrate the Queens Writes weekend with a closing reading. Terraza 7, 7 p.m., $5.
Monday 5/16: John Corey Whaley presents Highly Illogical Behavior. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
Garrard Conley discusses his memoir Boy Erased with Maud Newton. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 5/17: Elyssa East, Erica Wright, and Alex Segura discuss writing in multiple genres with moderator Ricardo Maldonado of Guernica magazine. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Jenny Zhang, Mychal Denzel Smith, Doreen St. Félix, and Amy Rose Spiegel celebrate the launch of Spiegel's Action. Housing Works, 7 p.m., free.
Pamela Erens and Elisa Albert discusses Eleven Hours, a novel about childbirth. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Ben Fama, Sophia Le Fraga, Lucy Ives, and Rachel Levitsky join CLMP for Poets Read Fiction. Berl's Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Adrien Bosc presents Constellation about an airplane that crashes. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Kate Garber, Hal Hlavinka, and Becky Kraemer join the Bridge series to discuss bookselling. Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 5/18: Lindy West presents Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman. WORD Brooklyn, 7 p.m., free.
Charles Bernstein launches Pitch of Poetry, a guide to modernist poets. McNally Jackson Books, 8 p.m., free.
Oki Sogumi, Lara Mimosa Montes, Aldrin Valdez, and Kate Schapira read poetry. Berl's Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free.
Adrien Bosc and David Samuels discuss Constellation, Bosc's debut novel about a plane crash. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Robin Wasserman discusses her new novel Girl on Fire with Leslie Jamison. Powerhouse Arena, 7 p.m., free.
Camille Perri talks with Vol 1 Brooklyn about The Assistants, her debut novel about personal assistants embezzling money to pay off student debt. Community Bookstore, 7 p.m., free.
Benjamin Hale reads The Fat Artist, a collection of stories. Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m., free.
Thursday 5/19: Jon Corcoran and Hirsh Sawhney discuss their new books. Corcoran's story collection The Rope Swing looks at life in rural West Virginia. WORD Jersey City, 7:30 p.m., free.
Matthew Neill Null discusses his short story collection Allegheny Front with Sam Lipsyte. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free.
Frank Bures discusses The Geography of Madness with Richard Beck. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.
Boris Kachka, Books Editor at Vulture, talks with Cynthia D'Aprix, author of The Nest. The Strand, 7:30 p.m., $15.
Rob Spillman, Lori Jakiela, and Daniel Nester join Pete's Reading Series. Pete's Candy Store, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 5/20: Pearl Gabel, Maria Dahvana Headley, Alice Sola Kim, and Julienne Grey join guest curator Nancy Hightower for Here Be Dragons for H.I.P. Lit's latest Hideaway series. Be Electric, 9 p.m., free.
Cressida Leyshon leads the discussion "New Norwegian Literature after Knausgaard" with Maja Lunde, Helga Flatland, and Johan Harstad as part of the Norwegian-American Literary Festival, presented by the Paris Review. 192 Books, 7 p.m., free.
Anne Carson, László Krasznahorkai, Rivka Galchen, John Keene, Bernadette Mayer, and Eliot Weinberger celebrate New Directions. Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30 p.m., free.
Rae Leone Allen, Rachel Bennett, Yana Calou, Joseph Cuillier, Anna Gurton-Wachter, Zakia Henderson-Brown, Candice Iloh, Citron Kelly, Ben Krusling, Kyla Marshell, Montana Ray, MJ Santiago, Chris Slaughter, Marina Weiss, and Candace Williams celebreate the latest issue of No, Dear. Over the Eight, 8 p.m., free.
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Ian MacAllen's fiction has appeared in 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Joyland Magazine, and elsewhere and nonfiction has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, The Negatives, Electric Literature, Fiction Advocate, and elsewhere. He is the Deputy Editor of The Rumpus, holds an MA in English from Rutgers University, tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com. More from this author →
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Plant Talk 12: Missing Families from Botany in a Day and recent events around CA.
Below are some recent happenings in my world botanically. This update comes from a Californian perspective.
Wild Foods with Alicia Funk www.wendyvanwagner.com/classes/
On October 19th i was privileged to teach with local food activist Alicia Funk. She is the co-author of the book Living Wild (2011). Alicia served up various creations from wild items including Chocolate Truffles with "Oak Nut" flour and Manzanita Ice Cream. She also led people in processing acorns which she calls "oak nuts" for their own holiday preparations.
i brought a presentation on brewing using local ingredients. Beverages covered included Ales, Meads, and Liqueurs. I brought quite a survey of local plant Material from Dancing Pines Farm for people to look at and take home. Daniel Madrone the steward of Dancing Pines is the person who set me up with Alicia and he donated a Kit Kit Dizze (Chamaebatia foliolosa) Reishi (Ganoderma sp.) ale and a Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) ale for people to sample.
Turtle donated a Marion Berry (Rubus sp.), Passionflower (Passiflora sp.), Skullcap (Scuttelaria), Ashwaganda (Withania somniferum), Cali poppy (Escholtzia califonicum), St J's (Hypericum sp.) mead for the cause. i brought some of the mead made at Rucker Lake, which has been mentioned in previous classes and a brew made by Frank Cook called Pearl Harbor Porter.
One of my favorite preparations lately is the creation of local liqueurs. My Sierra Liqueur contains Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa), Gray Pine (Pinus sabiniana), Incense Ceder (Calocedrus decurrens), Rose Hips (Rosa spp.), Kit Kit Dizze, Douglas's Artemisia (Artemisia douglasiana), and Osha (Ligusticum grayii, L. porteri). Soda making has been a fun occupation lately as well. i recently made some soda on 11/1/11 for a friend's birthday party on 11/11/11 of the above ingredients minus Osha. It was a big hit even with the kiddos.
HAALo conference www.ncherbandtea.com
The HAALo conference was a tremendous opportunity for the local Nevada County community. Many of the best teachers of the area including Kathi Keville, Candice Cantin, Pam Caldwell, Heather Luna Catesby, Marza Miller, and Daniel Madrone presented on topics of Nervous System, Digestive System, Herbs for Pregancy/Birth/Postpartum, Nutrition, Shamanism and Brewing respectively. i was honored to present a cross comparison of Western and Eastern medicinal plant families. A good time was had by all including delicious food featuring local items.
Workshop at Dancing Pines home of Daniel Nicholson
Today i am helping facilitate a multi-part workshop. First we will host a Plant/Mushroom walk focusing on harvesting roots like Yellow Dock (Rumex sp.), Yampah (Perideridia sp.) and aerial parts like Doug fir (Pseudotsuga menzesii) and Douglas's mugwort (Artemisia douglasiana) leaves and Manzanita (Arctostapyhlos sp.), Toyon fruits (Heteromeles arbutifolia).
We will have a wild food lunch featuring Wild greens Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) tabouleh, Wild Mushroom (Boletus spp.) frittata, Acorn Ginger Bliss bites and Doug Fir tea. Other offerings are sure to appear of which i will inform you later.
The afternoon will focus on fermenting. We will feature local abundance as we taste various preparations and prepare a mead, a Sierra Soda and herbal liqueur all described in more detail under recent events above.
Missing Plants from Botany in a Day
Now the focus shifts to some of the families that are not covered in Botany in a Day. Frank Cook took note of several families that were missing in his copy including Aquifoliaceae (Holly), Calycanthaceae (Sweetshrub), Cannaceae (Canna Lily), Celastraceae (Bittersweet/Euonymous/Khat), Myrtaceae (Myrtle), Phytolaccaceae (Poke), Rutaceae (Rue/Citrus), Styracaceae (Styrax), Theaceae (Tea, Cammelia, Stewartia, Franklin Tree. (Elpel & Cook, 2006).
i have taken note of several others which include Clethraceae (Clethra), Ebenaceae (Ebony), Paulowniaceae (Paulownia), Phyrmaceae (Lopseed/Mimulus), Platanaceae (Sycamore), Plumbaginaceae (Leadwort/Statice), Schisandraceae (Schisandra), and Symplocaceae (Horse Sugar) are treated below.
The mostly tropical families of Acanthaceae (Bear's Breeches), Annonaceae (, Bignoniaceae (Trumpet Creeper), Myrtaceae, Rutaceae, and the order Zingiberales including the Cannaceae, Heliconiaceae (Heliconia), Marantaceae (Arrowroot/Prayer Plant), Musaceae (Banana), Strelitziaceae (Bird of Paradise) will be treated in the next class.
Families below come from a diverse number of orders. More tropical/small members of the Ericales, Lamiales and Austrobayliales are particularly missing from Botany in a Day 5th ed. i have treated each family with a short monographic style. The main aspects of ethnobotanical usage and taxonomy are pointed out for some families more than others. My hope is to steadily increase these through incremental personal efforts and those of others over time.
Aquifoliaceae / Holly Family / Aquifoliales
The most famous member of this family now is probably Yerba Mate (Ilex paraguariensis). Some research i came across recently alludes that yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria) may have less caffeine than Yerba Mate (1/2 to 1/3) and Dahoon Holly (Ilex cassine) less still (Edwards & Bennett, 2005; Marx, Janssens, Urfer, & Scherer, 2003). However, Yaupon and Dahoon represent the only native caffeine sources that i know of in North America. Guayusa (I. guayusa) also has significant amounts of caffeine (Wink & Van Wyk, 2008). Guayusa is from Ecuador and used in Ayhuasca traditions there in combination with the traditional plants the Ayuhuasca vine itself (Banisteriopsis capii) and Chakruna (Phycotria viridis). Hollies have male and female plants so you will need both to get fruits. The Holly collection at the Royal Gardens of Kew in London England are astounding amongst many other things there http://www.kew.org.
Holly fruits are often considered poisonous but do not seem to have a large toxicity (Frohne & Pfander, 2005). A special honey is made from the flowers of the Gallberry (Ilex glabra) in the SE U.S. (Lovell, 1977).
Ancient Angiosperms
Many members of these ancient angiosperms break the dicot rule and often have flower parts in multiples of 3's. They also tend to be more tropical in distribution.
Illiciaceae / Star Anise Family / Austrobaileyales
This order and the four families within are not covered in Botany in a Day. It is thought to be ancestral to every other flowering plant group other than the Water Lily and Amborella in the Amborellaceae and Amborellales and Cholranthaceae (Spears, 2006).
A few special plants occur in this family in Florida and a bit further north including Florida Anise Tree (Illicium floridanum) and Yellow Anise Tree (Illicium parviflorum).
Schisandra Family / Schisandraceae / Austrobaileyales
The Schisandra family is not covered in Botany in a Day. This family is most known for the Adaptogenic medicinal (Schisandra chinensis) (Winston & Maimes, 2007). However, a native species occurs in Eastern American (Schisandra glabra). Some have wondered at the potential to use the native species as an analog to the Asian one. However, it is not a common plant and would probably need to be cultivated. The Schisandraceae is sometimes included in the Illiaceae (Judd, Campbell, Kellog, Stevens, & Donahue, 2008).
Calycanthaceae / Sweetshrub Family / Laurales
This is a very special small family. Calycanthus occurs in Appalachia, California and Eastern Asia. The plant Wintersweet (Chimonanthus) is also in this family. Calycanthus is known as sweet bubby in Appalachia and was traditionally used as a perfume for ladies. Another name is Carolina Allspice (Calycanthus floridus) or California Allspice (Calycanthus occidentalis) and it has been used traditionally for cooking like cinnamon as a spice (Couplan, 1998). However, seeds contain a toxic substance (calycanthine) similar to strychnine (Couplan, 1998). The plants are very ornamental with tropical looking foliage aromatic showy flowers and pretty leaves in the fall. One species occurs only in Georgia (Calycanthus brockianus) (USDA, n.d.).
Clethraceae / Sweetpepper Bush Family / Ericales
Appalachian native (Clethra alnifolia) has beautiful exfoliating bark. A wide variety of butterflies are attracted to it including Silver-spotted skippers and Swallowtails (Lewis, 1995). Also known as Summersweet Clethra it is often planted landscape shrub and is very fragrant (Dirr, 1997).
Ebenaceae / Ebony Family / Ericales
Besides its namesake (Diospyros ebenum) it is home to one very special genus. Dios (God's) Pyros (Pear) the Persimmon! In the East we have a native Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana). In Asia they have a type often considered more delectable (Diospyros kaki). However an even more amazing type known as the Black Sapote (Diospyros digyna) grows in Central America and Florida. It tastes something like cinnamon pudding (Rollins, 2006). Native Persimmon supports the larva of the hickory horned devil and hosts the Luna moth (Actias luna) (Tallamy, 2009). The wood is hard but can be beautiful for carving even in other species than ebony.
Styracaceae / Silverbell Family / Ericales
The Silverbells (Halesia diptera and Halesia tetraptera) are very special showy little Appalachian trees that only occur in a few fertile locales. Carolina Silverbell (H. carolina) provides food for the Promethea moth larva (Tallamy, 2009). Very much an underutilized native small tree for the landscape.
Theaceae / Tea Family / Ericales
Many very special woody species including one that is extinct in the wild are in this family. The famous Tea (Camellia sinensis) is known world round and was one of the most sought after early trade items. Other Camelias like the Sansqua (Camellia sasanqua) and Japanese Camellia (Camellia japonica) are ornamental. Crosses between the two and other species have led to thousands of cultivars (Hogan, 2003). Many plants in this family have beautiful exfoliating bark.
The father and son botany team of John and William Bartram first found and then collected the seeds of the Franklin tree (Franklinia alatamaha) which they named after their friend Ben Franklin. The tree which is thought to be from a small area near the Alatamaha river in Georgia subsequently went extinct in the wild. However like many special plants it has been spread all over the world where it lives on ex situ in Botanical Gardens. i have seen a particularly gorgeous specimen the Harvard Arboretum. Stewartia is another stunning small ornamental tree. The University of North Carolina Asheville has a great Theaceae collection around the main quad.
Other assorted familes…
Phytolaccaceae / Poke Family / Caryophyllales
We only have one genus and one species north of the frost belt. Poke Weed (Phytolacca americana) is one of the most famous wild food plants of Appalachia. Yet it is also the source of many poisonings! Only eat young shoots which are green after cooking in multiple changes of water. Stay ahead of the red!
The fruits are fun to play with as a non-permanent dye. This plant is often mentioned in modern books about cuisine. A tree form (Phytolacca dioca) grows in South America and has been planted in Spain for ornament. Rouge plant (Rivina humilis) grows beneath the frost belt.
Plumbaginaceae / Lead Plant Family / Caryophyllales
This family has the Statice (Limonium leptostachyum) plant, which is one of my favorite plants for fresh or dried cut flowers. The Lavender thrift (Limonium carolinianum) and the California thrift (Limonium californicum) live out in the western U.S.
This family also attracts several butterflies including the Clouded Sulphur and Painted Lady (Lewis, 1995). The False Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) attracts Painted Lady, Red Admiral, Viceroy, Blue and Sulphur butterflies (Lewis, 1995). Leadworts (Plumbago spp.) often have attractive blue flowers.
Platanaceae / Sycamore Family / Proteales
This ancient family is not covered by Elpel and only contains one genus. It is mostly known for the stunning Sycamore tree. Three major species occur including Eastern American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), Californian Sycamore (Platanus racemosa) and Eurasian Sycamore (Platanus orientalis). The Sycamores of parks are often the hybrid Platanus x hispanica. Another Sycamore occurs only in Arizona and New Mexico (Platanus wrightii) (USDA, n.d.).The sap of Platanus spp. can be drunk like water and contains a mild amount of sweetness (Couplan, 1998).
Flowers are unisexual and wind pollinated whereas the fruits are wind dispersed and secondarily spread by water (Judd et al., 2008). However, the Eastern Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) is host to the White-marked tussock moth (Orgyia leucotigma) (Tallamy, 2009). This family is sometimes included in the Proteaceae (Judd et al., 2008).
Phrymaceae / Lopseed Family / Lamiales
Monkeyflower (Mimulus) is most often put into the Scrophulariaceae family. However, some have supported its placement here (Judd et al., 2008; Spears, 2006). According to the USDA site http://plants.usda.gov many plants formerly in the genus Mimulus are now in the Bush Monkeyflower genus (Diplacus).
Mimulus cardinalis attracts several butterflies including Checkerspots, Ringlets, Painted Lady, Cabbage White, and Checkered White (Lewis, 1995). Sticky Monkey flower (Diplacus aurantiacus ssp. aurantiacus syn M. aurantiacus) which is native to Southern California is a larval food plant for Common Buckeye and Chalcedon Checkerspot (Lewis, 1995).
Paulowniaceae / Empress tree Family / Lamiales
The Royal Paulownia/Empress tree (Paulownia tomentosa) is normally put in the Scrophulariaceae which always seemed weird to me. There is now some strong support for giving it a separate family (Judd et al., 2008; Spears, 2006). It is a very distinct Ornamental/Exotic Invasive in Appalachia. The Flowers are a gorgeous purple color in the spring and the wood is apparently of rather high value in Asia.
For the next class we will cover Tropical families not included by Elpel and it will be posted around the 26th of November.
Below are items to think about/comment on. Please write me directly at marc@botanyeveryday.com or leave information in the commentary under this class. Save your comment in some form before submitting if possible. Sometimes our spam filter seems to reject them. The problem seems to be connected to how much time you take to submit. I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!!!
- Plan to go to a conservatory at a place near you and meet some tropical plants.
- Discover what area of the world your house plants come from.
- Write a list of tropical plants that you consumed for food and where they originated and are currently produced.
Praises to all that have donated to the cause. i encourage everyone reading this to donate as they are able financially, commentarialy, or energetically... Your contributions greatly help me continue this crucial work of ethnobotanical research and education. Please let me know your thoughts in general and any way i can help this class serve you best.
Dirr, M. A. (1997). Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs an Illustrated Encyclopedia. Portland, OR: Timber Press.
Edwards, A. L., & Bennett, B. C. (2005). Diversity of Methylxanthine Content in Ilex cassine L. and Ilex vomitoria Ait.: Assessing Sources of the North American Stimulant Cassina. Economic Botany, 59(3), 275-285. doi:10.1663/0013-0001(2005)059[0275:DOMCII]2.0.CO;2
Elpel, T. J., & Cook, F. (2006). Botany in a Day: The Patterns method of Plant Identification (Frank Cook personal copy.). Pony, MT: HOPS Press.
Hogan, S. (Ed.). (2003). Flora (Vols. 1-2). Portland, OR: Timber Press, Inc.
Lewis, A. (Ed.). (1995). Butterfly Gardens. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Lovell, H. B. (1977). Honey Plants. (L. R. Goltz, Ed.) (Rev ed.). Medina, OH: Gleanings in Bee Culture.
Marx, F., Janssens, M. J. J., Urfer, P., & Scherer, R. (2003). Caffeine and theobromine composition of mate (Ilex paraguariensis) leaves in five plantations of Misiones, Argentina. Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, 58(3), 1-8. doi:10.1023/B:QUAL.0000041144.28025.fc
Rollins, C. (2006). The Fruit and Spice Park. (L. Bohorquez, Ed.). Lawrenceburg, IN: The Creative Company.
Tallamy, D. (2009). Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants (Updated Ed.). Portland, OR: Timber Press.
USDA. (n.d.). The PLANTS Database | USDA PLANTS. Retrieved March 10, 2009, from http://plants.usda.gov/
Winston, D., & Maimes, S. (2007). Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press.


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What i want to do is to insert "content1" underneat "link1", "content2" underneat "link2" and so on. I want to do this by using jQuery. Can anyone help?

A: You can use the jQuery function (usually aliased as $) to select the anchor you want to add after, and then use after to insert content after it. You'll need a CSS selector for the anchor. We can't give you one that's guaranteed to work from the small markup given, but it'll be something like:
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...where "blah blah" gives us a bit more context, so we're not adding that text after the first anchor in every paragraph, which I'm guessing you wouldn't want. :-)
If there's no context you can use other than the content of the links, you could use the :contains selector:
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...but beware that it will match any anchor that contains the text "link1" anywhere within it, and the selector may not be provided by the underlying browser which means jQuery would have to do the search internally, which is a bit slower.

A: You can also try a $.each() if you want to change all of them
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Sharon Mazingaizo
Arts & Culture, Community Matters
mbira, Mbira month, Zimbabwe Mbira Festival
September was Mbira month. Mbira Month was founded by mbira maestro Albert Chimedza to create awareness and appreciation of mbira in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Mbira Festival is the flagship event of Mbira Month and this year it was held at Prince Edward School under the theme "Mbira and Education."
The Zimbabwe Mbira Festival celebrates the mbira instrument and highlights its national significance to the general public. The two-day festival featured a variety of events which included renditions of popular traditional mbira songs, seminars, workshops, film screenings, and competitions. This year, eleven primary schools and a variety of secondary and missionary schools from all over the country took part. The Harare Polytechnic and Midlands State University students also came through.
Festival director Albert Chimedza said, "We have had mbira in Zimbabwe for about a thousand years. It appeals to people all over the world and has great potential for contributing to education, income generation, employment and Zimbabwean cultural diplomacy. As Zimbabweans, we grossly underestimate the degree to which mbira can financially, culturally and intellectually contribute to Zimbabwe's well-being. If we continue to have this attitude, other countries will invest in the mbira and reap the benefits."
The festival was also open to professional mbira players who performed in non-competition. Dr. Tafataona Mahoso and the Chihota Mbira Group were some of the participants who delighted the crowd.
Harare News spoke to Tendai Mavengeni, a form three pupil at Mabelreign Girls High who was part of the festival. Mavengeni is the youngest mbira recording artist in Zimbabwe. "The festival is such a unique experience. It's given me an opportunity to interact with other young mbira players. I got a chance to perform with Prince Edward School students and we explored other things that we had not done before in playing mbira."
This year's winner of Best Mbira Ensemble was St. Martin's Convent School. "From mbira the education system and school children learn about music and their culture. They can develop psychomotor and analytical skills which can be transferred to other areas of their lives. They also learn teamwork, collaboration and gain self-confidence by becoming used to performing in front of audiences," said Chimedza.
Every year the festival is free and open to all schools, colleges and universities. The festival also included tournaments for traditional games like nhodo, pada and tsoro.
Image: Mbira players young and old came together for the annual Mbira Festival.
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In mathematics, the injective tensor product of two topological vector spaces (TVSs) was introduced by Alexander Grothendieck and was used by him to define nuclear spaces.  An injective tensor product is in general not necessarily complete, so its completion is called the . Injective tensor products have applications outside of nuclear spaces. In particular, as described below, up to TVS-isomorphism, many TVSs that are defined for real or complex valued functions, for instance, the Schwartz space or the space of continuously differentiable functions, can be immediately extended to functions valued in a Hausdorff locally convex TVS  with any need to extend definitions (such as "differentiable at a point") from real/complex-valued functions to -valued functions.

Preliminaries and notation
Throughout let  and  be topological vector spaces and  be a linear map.

  is a topological homomorphism or homomorphism, if it is linear, continuous, and  is an open map, where  has the subspace topology induced by
 If  is a subspace of  then both the quotient map  and the canonical injection  are homomorphisms. In particular, any linear map  can be canonically decomposed as follows:  where  defines a bijection.
 The set of continuous linear maps  (resp. continuous bilinear maps ) will be denoted by  (resp. ) where if  is the scalar field then we may instead write  (resp. ).
 The set of separately continuous bilinear maps  (that is, continuous in each variable when the other variable is fixed) will be denoted by  where if  is the scalar field then we may instead write
 We will denote the continuous dual space of  by  or  and the algebraic dual space (which is the vector space of all linear functionals on  whether continuous or not) by
 To increase the clarity of the exposition, we use the common convention of writing elements of  with a prime following the symbol (for example,  denotes an element of  and not, say, a derivative and the variables  and  need not be related in any way).

Notation for topologies

  denotes the coarsest topology on  making every map in  continuous and  or  denotes  endowed with this topology.
  denotes weak-* topology on  and  or  denotes  endowed with this topology.
 Note that every  induces a map  defined by   is the coarsest topology on X′ making all such maps continuous.
  denotes the topology of bounded convergence on  and  or  denotes  endowed with this topology.
  denotes the topology of bounded convergence on  or the strong dual topology on  and  or  denotes  endowed with this topology.
 As usual, if  is considered as a topological vector space but it has not been made clear what topology it is endowed with, then the topology will be assumed to be
  denotes the Mackey topology on  or the topology of uniform convergence on the convex balanced weakly compact subsets of  and  or  denotes  endowed with this topology.  is the finest locally convex TVS topology on  whose continuous dual space is equal to
  denotes the Mackey topology on  or the topology of uniform convergence on the convex balanced weakly compact subsets of  and  or   denotes  endowed with this topology.
 Note that
  denotes the topology of uniform convergence on equicontinuous subsets of  and  or   denotes  endowed with this topology.
 If  is a set of linear mappings  then  is equicontinuous if and only if it is equicontinuous at the origin; that is, if and only if for every neighborhood  of the origin in  there exists a neighborhood  of the origin in  such that  for every
 A set  of linear maps from  to  is called equicontinuous if for every neighborhood  of the origin in  there exists a neighborhood  of the origin in  such that  for all

Definition

Throughout let  and  be topological vector spaces with continuous dual spaces  and  Note that almost all results described are independent of whether these vector spaces are over  or  but to simplify the exposition we will assume that they are over the field

Continuous bilinear maps as a tensor product

Although the question of whether or not one vector space is a tensor product of two other vector spaces is a purely algebraic one (that is, the answer does not depend on the topologies of  or ), nevertheless the vector space  of continuous bilinear functionals is always a tensor product of  and  as is now described.

For every  we now define a bilinear form, denoted by the symbol  from  into the underlying field (that is, ) by

This induces a canonical map

defined by sending  to the bilinear form
The span of the range of this map is
The following theorem may be used to verify that  together with the above map  is a tensor product of  and

Topology

Henceforth, all topological vector spaces considered will be assumed to be locally convex.
If  is any locally convex topological vector space, then for any equicontinuous subsets  and  and any neighborhood  in  define

Every set  is bounded, which is necessary and sufficient for the collection of all such  to form a locally convex TVS topology on  called the -topology.
The inclusions

always hold and whenever any one of these vector spaces is endowed with the -topology then this will be indicated by placing  as a subscript before the opening parenthesis. For example,  endowed with the -topology will be denoted by

In particular, when  is the underlying scalar field then since  the topological vector space  will be denoted by  which is called the injective tensor product of  and  This TVS is not necessarily complete so its completion will be denoted by  The space  is complete if and only if both  and  are complete, in which case the completion of  is a subvector space, denoted by  of
If  and  are normed then so is  And  is a Banach space if and only if both  and  are Banach spaces.

Equicontinuous sets

One reason for converging on equicontinuous subsets (of all possibilities) is the following important fact:

A set of continuous linear functionals  on a TVS  is equicontinuous if and only if it is contained in the polar of some neighborhood  of  in ; that is,

A TVS's topology is completely determined by the open neighborhoods of the origin. This fact together with the bipolar theorem means that via the operation of taking the polar of a subset, the collection of all equicontinuous subsets of  "encodes" all information about 's given topology. Specifically, distinct LCTVS topologies on  produce distinct collections of equicontinuous subsets and conversely, given any such collection of equicontinuous sets, the TVS's original topology can be recovered by taking the polar of every (equicontinuous) set in the collection. Thus through this identification, uniform convergence on the collection of equicontinuous subsets is essentially uniform convergence on the very topology of the TVS; this allows one to directly relate the injective topology with the given topologies of  and
Furthermore, the topology of a locally convex Hausdorff space  is identical to the topology of uniform convergence on the equicontinuous subsets of

For this reason, the article now lists some properties of equicontinuous sets that are relevant for dealing with the injective tensor product. Throughout  and  are arbitrary TVSs and  is a collection of linear maps from  into

 If  is equicontinuous then the subspace topologies that  inherits from the following topologies on  are identical:
the topology of precompact convergence;
the topology of compact convergence;
the topology of pointwise convergence;
the topology of pointwise convergence on a given dense subset of
 An equicontinuous set  is bounded in the topology of bounded convergence (that is, bounded in ). So in particular,  will also bounded in every TVS topology that is coarser than the topology of bounded convergence.
 If  is a barrelled space and  is locally convex then for any subset  the following are equivalent:
 is equicontinuous;
 is bounded in the topology of pointwise convergence (that is, bounded in );
 is bounded in the topology of bounded convergence (that is, bounded in ).
In particular, to show that a set  is equicontinuous it suffices to show that it is bounded in the topology of pointwise converge.
 If  is a Baire space then any subset  that is bounded in  is necessarily equicontinuous.
 If  is separable,  is metrizable, and  is a dense subset of  then the topology of pointwise convergence on  makes  metrizable so that in particular, the subspace topology that any equicontinuous subset  inherits from  is metrizable.

For equicontinuous subsets of the continuous dual space  (where  is now the underlying scalar field of ), the following hold:
 The weak closure of an equicontinuous set of linear functionals on  is a compact subspace of
 If  is separable then every weakly closed equicontinuous subset of  is a metrizable compact space when it is given the weak topology (that is, the subspace topology inherited from ).
 If  is a normable space then a subset  is equicontinuous if and only if it is strongly bounded (that is, bounded in ).
 If  is a barrelled space then for any subset  the following are equivalent:
 is equicontinuous;
 is relatively compact in the weak dual topology;
 is weakly bounded;
 is strongly bounded.

We mention some additional important basic properties relevant to the injective tensor product:
 Suppose that  is a bilinear map where  is a Fréchet space,  is metrizable, and  is locally convex. If  is separately continuous then it is continuous.

Canonical identification of separately continuous bilinear maps with linear maps

The set equality  always holds; that is, if  is a linear map, then  is continuous if and only if  is continuous, where here  has its original topology.

There also exists a canonical vector space isomorphism

To define it, for every separately continuous bilinear form  defined on  and every  let  be defined by

Because  is canonically vector space-isomorphic to  (via the canonical map  value at ),  will be identified as an element of  which will be denoted by
This defines a map  given by  and so the canonical isomorphism is of course defined by

When  is given the topology of uniform convergence on equicontinous subsets of  the canonical map becomes a TVS-isomorphism

In particular,  can be canonically TVS-embedded into ; furthermore the image in  of  under the canonical map  consists exactly of the space of continuous linear maps  whose image is finite dimensional.

The inclusion  always holds. If  is normed then  is in fact a topological vector subspace of  And if in addition  is Banach then so is  (even if  is not complete).

Properties

The canonical map  is always continuous and the ε-topology is always finer than the π-topology and coarser than the inductive topology (which is the finest locally convex TVS topology making  separately continuous).
The space  is Hausdorff if and only if both  and  are Hausdorff.

If  and  are normed then  is normable in which case for all

Suppose that  and  are two linear maps between locally convex spaces. If both  and  are continuous then so is their tensor product  Moreover:
 If  and  are both TVS-embeddings then so is
 If  (resp. ) is a linear subspace of  (resp. ) then  is canonically isomorphic to a linear subspace of  and  is canonically isomorphic to a linear subspace of
 There are examples of  and  such that both  and  are surjective homomorphisms but  is  a homomorphism.
 If all four spaces are normed then

Relation to projective tensor product and nuclear spaces

The strongest locally convex topology on  making the canonical map  (defined by sending  to the bilinear form ) continuous is called the projective topology or the -topology. When  is endowed with this topology then it will be denoted by  and called the projective tensor product of  and

The following definition was used by Grothendieck to define nuclear spaces.

Definition 0: Let  be a locally convex topological vector space. Then  is nuclear if for any locally convex space  the canonical vector space embedding  is an embedding of TVSs whose image is dense in the codomain.

Canonical identifications of bilinear and linear maps
In this section we describe canonical identifications between spaces of bilinear and linear maps. These identifications will be used to define important subspaces and topologies (particularly those that relate to nuclear operators and nuclear spaces).

Dual spaces of the injective tensor product and its completion
Suppose that

denotes the TVS-embedding of  into its completion and let

be its transpose, which is a vector space-isomorphism. This identifies the continuous dual space of  as being identical to the continuous dual space of

The identity map

is continuous (by definition of the π-topology) so there exists a unique continuous linear extension

If  and  are Hilbert spaces then  is injective and the dual of  is canonically isometrically isomorphic to the vector space  of nuclear operators from  into  (with the trace norm).

Injective tensor product of Hilbert spaces

There is a canonical map

that sends  to the linear map  defined by

where it may be shown that the definition of  does not depend on the particular choice of representation  of  The map

is continuous and when  is complete, it has a continuous extension

When  and  are Hilbert spaces then  is a TVS-embedding and isometry (when the spaces are given their usual norms) whose range is the space of all compact linear operators from  into  (which is a closed vector subspace of  Hence  is identical to space of compact operators from  into  (note the prime on ). The space of compact linear operators between any two Banach spaces (which includes Hilbert spaces)  and  is a closed subset of

Furthermore, the canonical map  is injective when  and  are Hilbert spaces.

Integral forms and operators

Integral bilinear forms

Denote the identity map by

and let

denote its transpose, which is a continuous injection. Recall that  is canonically identified with  the space of continuous bilinear maps on  In this way, the continuous dual space of  can be canonically identified as a subvector space of  denoted by  The elements of  are called integral (bilinear) forms on  The following theorem justifies the word .

Integral linear operators

Given a linear map  one can define a canonical bilinear form  called the associated bilinear form on  by

A continuous map  is called integral if its associated bilinear form is an integral bilinear form. An integral map  is of the form, for every  and

for suitable weakly closed and equicontinuous subsets  and  of  and  respectively, and some positive Radon measure  of total mass

Canonical map into L(X; Y)

There is a canonical map  that sends  to the linear map  defined by  where it may be shown that the definition of  does not depend on the particular choice of representation  of

Examples

Space of summable families

Throughout this section we fix some arbitrary (possibly uncountable) set  a TVS  and we let  be the directed set of all finite subsets of  directed by inclusion

Let  be a family of elements in a TVS  and for every finite subset  let  We call  summable in  if the limit  of the net  converges in  to some element (any such element is called its sum). The set of all such summable families is a vector subspace of  denoted by

We now define a topology on  in a very natural way. This topology turns out to be the injective topology taken from  and transferred to  via a canonical vector space isomorphism (the obvious one). This is a common occurrence when studying the injective and projective tensor products of function/sequence spaces and TVSs: the "natural way" in which one would define (from scratch) a topology on such a tensor product is frequently equivalent to the injective or projective tensor product topology.

Let  denote a base of convex balanced neighborhoods of 0 in  and for each  let  denote its Minkowski functional. For any such  and any  let

where  defines a seminorm on  The family of seminorms  generates a topology making  into a locally convex space. The vector space  endowed with this topology will be denoted by  The special case where  is the scalar field will be denoted by

There is a canonical embedding of vector spaces  defined by linearizing the bilinear map  defined by

Space of continuously differentiable vector-valued functions

Throughout, let  be an open subset of  where  is an integer and let  be a locally convex topological vector space (TVS).

Definition Suppose  and  is a function such that  with  a limit point of  Say that  is differentiable at  if there exist  vectors  in  called the partial derivatives of , such that

where

One may naturally extend the notion of  to -valued functions defined on
For any  let  denote the vector space of all  -valued maps defined on  and let  denote the vector subspace of  consisting of all maps in  that have compact support.

One may then define topologies on  and  in the same manner as the topologies on  and  are defined for the space of distributions and test functions (see the article: Differentiable vector-valued functions from Euclidean space).
All of this work in extending the definition of differentiability and various topologies turns out to be exactly equivalent to simply taking the completed injective tensor product:

Spaces of continuous maps from a compact space

If  is a normed space and if  is a compact set, then the -norm on  is equal to
If  and  are two compact spaces, then  where this canonical map is an isomorphism of Banach spaces.

Spaces of sequences converging to 0

If  is a normed space, then let  denote the space of all sequences  in  that converge to the origin and give this space the norm
Let  denote
Then for any Banach space   is canonically isometrically isomorphic to

Schwartz space of functions

We will now generalize the Schwartz space to functions valued in a TVS.
Let  be the space of all  such that for all pairs of polynomials  and  in  variables,  is a bounded subset of
To generalize the topology of the Schwartz space to  we give  the topology of uniform convergence over  of the functions  as  and  vary over all possible pairs of polynomials in  variables.

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Zanu-PF slams Maimane over ICC threat
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Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party has slammed South Africa's main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane over his threats to engage the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe the alleged crimes against humanity by the Zimbabwean government.
Zimbabwe has lately been embroiled in a deadly political crisis in which State forces cracked down on protesters opposing the government's recent fuel price hike. At least 12 people died while 78 were shot at and about 1,000 including children were detained.
Last week Maimane warned to seek ICC's legal intervention if South African President Cyril Ramaphosa failed to engage his Harare counterpart, Emmerson Mnangagwa, on the alleged citizen torture. He also urged Ramaphosa to halt his "quiet diplomacy" on Zimbabwe's crisis.
Reacting to Maimane's remarks on South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) this week, Zanu-PF's spokesperson Simon Moyo accused Maimane of assuming aggression when Harare "has an open door policy to citizens and the international community".
Zimbabwe, the United States (US) and a few other countries are not signatories of the Rome Statute – a global treaty that established the ICC and was activated in 2002 – are not obligated to cooperate with the court.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has urged the international community to intervene on the crisis in Zimbabwe.
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The cat is out …Wilderness has interest in Air Botswana
After seven months of denying that a company with links to President Ian Khama, Wilderness Holdings Limited, has intention of making a bid for the privatisation of Air Botswana, the entity this week confirmed that it had made an expression of interest in response to a public invitation by government.
Wilderness Holdings, which owns Wilderness Safaris has interests in the wildlife rich Okavango Delta and Chobe Districts. Khama has beneficial interests in Linyanti Investment, a subsidiary of Wilderness Safaris.
Responding to Sunday Standard queries in October last year, Wilderness Safaris Chief Executive Officer Keith Vincent said they "have no intention of making a bid".
Vincent was also responding to claims that Wilderness Air (a subsidiary of Wilderness Holdings), formerly Sefofane Air had made an unsolicited bid for Air Botswana a few years ago.
"Thank you for your questions which you want to print a story on a Wilderness Air potential bid for Air Botswana. Firstly, we have never made a bid for Air Botswana, and have no intention of making a bid," Vincent told Sunday Standard in October last year.
This week the company confirmed in its latest financial results (ended February 28, 2017) that: "The Group has submitted an Expression of Interest in the privatisation of Air Botswana in response to a public invitation from government in February but there has been no further progress in the matter."
The report added that: "Investors will be kept advised in the normal manner should there be any further concrete developments in this regard."
This is in stark contrast to what Vincent told Sunday Standard last year. He said they "have no intention of making a bid".
Sunday Standard this week, through a questionnaire, sought to establish if Vincent still stood by his statement that they "have no intention of making a bid". Sunday Standard also sought to establish what could have necessitated Wilderness Safaris' decision to climb down from its earlier position of "no intention of making a bid".
Replying, Commercial Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at Wilderness Holdings Limited, Derek de la Harpe said: "The questions directed to Mr Vincent this afternoon refer. Kindly refer to the announcement of the Group's year end results published on the Botswana Stock Exchange's website today in which is contained a clarification of this matter in regard to recent press reports."
Last year, Vincent also rubbished claims that "there has been no interaction at any level between any of our Executive and any individual in Air Botswana and therefore any government individuals."
Still last year, there were claims that the unsolicited bid was first handled by Minister of Transport and Communications Kitso Mokaila's office while he was still Minister of Environment, Tourism and Wildlife (as it was then) and the Office of the President through the then Vice President Lt Gen Mompati Merafhe.
Contacted this week, Mokaila was non-committal and referred this publication to a press release that his Ministry issued recently "regarding Air Botswana".
"That is the only story that is," Mokaila said.
Sunday Standard sought to establish whether Mokaila was still involved in the negotiations; if not, at what stage did he cease being part of the negotiations.
This publication also wanted to find out when he passed the Ministry to Minister Tshekedi Khama, did he also inherit the case and as Minister of Transport Communications which is responsible for Air Botswana, has the Wilderness Air Botswana come back to his desk.
The release that Mokaila was making reference to, states that an Expression of Interest (EOI) was issued in February with a view to determining sustainable market driven and supported possibilities such as joint ventures.
The Ministry said it was looking for suitable entities, companies, consortiums, or service providers capable of offering efficient and reliable air services to the needs of Botswana's business and tourism sectors through Air Botswana.
The EOI was also aimed at determining new equity partners, franchising, concession arrangements or any other arrangement that may be economically realisable.
The release said the EOI is one of the initial processes undertaken to inform the way forward and at this stage its results are under consideration.
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The Untold Truth Of Soylent Meal Replacement Drinks
By Debra Kelly/April 23, 2019 3:05 pm EST
It's no secret that no matter who you are or what you do, life is busy. It's tough to fit everything in to the fairly limited hours in the day, so shortcuts and life hacks are always welcome — especially when they work. But what about all the time you spend doing food-related activities?
That's not just eating, that's also cooking, grocery shopping, planning meals, putting food away, packaging up leftovers, packing lunches, washing dishes... it adds up to a lot of time. Soylent meal replacement shakes were designed to skip all that, and give your body everything it needs to thrive: no more, no less, and all in a convenient shake that takes no time at all to prep and drink.
The wave of the future, maybe, but here's the question: are we talking about an ultra-healthy utopia, or an ultra-repetitive, dull, dystopia? Does it depend on the person? It's fascinating to think about whether or not food — and all the social aspects that surround it — will be replaced by a super-practical drink. That's a discussion the world is going to have to have at some point, but in the meantime, let's take a look at the truth behind Soylent drinks.
What exactly is in them?
Soylent, they say, was formulated to provide all necessary nutrition in an easy-to-consume format. What does that mean, exactly? And what are you drinking when you chug one?
Healthline took a closer look at the contents of the drink, and found that one of the major components is something pretty common: soy protein isolate. It's a complete protein — which means it has all the essential amino acids you need — and since it's plant-based, it's popular among vegetarians and vegans. There have been a ton of studies done on just how effective the protein is, and Healthline says there are a lot of good things about it. It can help you build muscle, and lose weight, but it's not entirely perfect. It can potentially decrease your body's ability to absorb minerals, and it's possible it could negatively impact thyroid function for some (although studies aren't conclusive).
Another main ingredient is high oleic sunflower oil, which has been linked to lowering risk factors for heart disease, and isomaltulose, which is essentially a carbohydrate made up of two sugars that absorbs slowly into the body. It's then fortified with vitamins and minerals (like vitamin B6 and B12, iodine, zinc, copper, and riboflavin) so that every drink contains 20 percent of what you need to remain a functional human being.
It was all about the chemical components
The mastermind behinding Soylent is Rob Rhinehart, and he's not a nutritional guru — he's a tech guy who thought there had to be a better, more affordable way to get all the nutrition he needed without the pesky hassle that went along with food.
That's when he started looking at food like it was something to be engineered. "You need amino acids and lipids, not milk itself," he told The New Yorker. "You need carbohydrates, not bread. ... It just seemed like a system that's too complex and too expensive and too fragile."
So, started hitting the books and the internet to figure out exactly what base nutrients humans need to survive. From there, he ordered powders and pills, mixed them into a slurry, and starting consuming only this new creation he called Soylent.
It took a little experimentation, and Rhinehart was the guinea pig — but soon he became a walking advertisement for it, writing, "I feel like the six million dollar man. My physique has noticeably improved, my skin is clearer, my teeth whiter, my hair thicker and my dandruff gone. ... I haven't eaten a bite of food in thirty days, and it's changed my life."
The name has been used before
If the name Soylent sounds familiar, there's a good reason for that. It was perhaps most famous for being the form of sustenance in the movie Soylent Green, which starred Charlton Heston and ended with (spoiler alert) the horrifying reveal that the wafers were actually made from human remains.
That's not exactly where the name came from, and Rhinehart told The New Yorker that he had actually chosen it because of the book the film was based on. Make Room! Make Room! was, indeed, the tale of overpopulation in a dystopian future, but the Soylent in the book was simply made from soybeans and lentils.
And yes, Rhinehart has said that many, many people — from investors to media to mothers — suggested calling the product pretty much anything but Soylent. But he didn't, saying he liked the way it had a sort of anti-foodie connotation that took a jab at what most of us think is food.
Here's why Soylent's creator thinks it's uber healthy
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Soylent's creator has some very non-traditional ideas about food. He told The Atlantic that he started to think the whole idea of food was a little odd when he was around 6 years old, and realized his mother was serving the same things that grew on trees outside. "It seemed a little primitive — like something an animal would do," he said.
The belief system Soylent was based on is one that's fairly opposite to what most food-eaters believe, and that's the idea that "Natural isn't always best." Rhinehart says it starts from birth, and firmly believes that formula is a better option than breast milk, because of "safety control and completeness" reasons.
He says we mostly like natural and unprocessed foods because of "an emotional attachment to culture and tradition", and has a whole list of reasons Soylent is better than other types of what he calls "recreational food" (i.e., anything that isn't Soylent). Fresh food, for example, isn't nearly as good as you might think (Rhinehart says). "... nutritionally speaking, canned vegetables are better than fresh ones because fresh ones are decaying. ... So it seems kind of backwards, I think, actually, to go for fresh. Why are these foods seen as healthy?"
Instead of being grown in a ground potentially contaminated by things like lead and arsenic, his reasoning goes, Soylent comes perfectly prepared from a lab — and that makes it better.
So, what about the taste?
Soylent comes in a few flavors, as of April 2019: Original, Strawberry, Vanilla, and Cacao (as well as the Soylent Cafe varieties that we'll talk about later). How on earth is Vanilla not the same as Original, you might be asking, and what does Original taste like, then? According to The New Yorker, it's been described mainly as a variation of "Cream of Wheat" to "my grandpa's Metamucil." Not a glowing recommendation by any means, and certainly one that doesn't sound like it's going to replace your Friday night pizza.
But Soylent is meant to replace entire meals for days on end, so what does that do to your taste buds?
Wired's Katia Moskvitch tried switching to meal replacement drinks Soylent and UK-based competitor Huel for an entire month, and described the feeling as "taste fatigue." After just a few weeks, Moskvitch wrote: "I just couldn't take it anymore."
And she wasn't alone, either. The sheer monotony of nothing but the taste and texture of Soylent is enough to make people obsess over real food. When one reporter for The Independent tried living on Soylent for just a single week, she found herself craving actual food, to the point where it was difficult to think of anything else. She also said it was completely a texture thing, and that she was surprised how much she missed actually chewing.
Yes, there are side effects
When a reporter for The Independent tried to go Soylent-only for just a week, she found there were some side effects, both physical and mental. Not only did she miss the physical act of eating, but she found herself missing out on the social aspects of it, too. When friends and coworkers went out for lunch, she had her drink. When appetizers were served at a black-tie event, she was left just to look at them... and crave solid food. At first, finding other things to do with friends aside from going out to eat was a bonus, but it got old very, very quickly.
Choice? Gone. Enjoying a meal? Gone.
But what about physical side effects? There are those, too — and those include gastrointestinal distress, diarrhea, and flatulence that's described by some people as extreme. According to Healthline, Soylent is still new enough that evidence of side effects — that also include a significant decrease in bowel movement frequency — is anecdotal. For some of those who have tried it, they say it's not.
Why some nutritionists don't recommend it
So, how about Soylent's claims to contain everything anyone needs to be a functional human being, all in one bottle? Nutritionists are cautious.
London-based nutrition expert Fiona Lawson told Wired that anyone wanting to have that kind of control over their food was better off making their own smoothies, for one simple reason: it included actual food. "We don't yet know all the vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and other substances that make up whole, natural food — so how can we possibly create it?"
And it's a valid point that Berkeley Wellness agrees with. Just because we know what vitamins we need, that doesn't mean we know how they work once we take them.
Other nutritionists, like Daniel O'Shaughnessy from the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine, say that while Soylent might contain all the minerals and nutrients your body needs, that doesn't mean they're in a form you can easily absorb. Stacey Lockyer from the British Nutrition Foundation suggests the only real, safe way to consume it is if you're using as an alternative to high-sugar, high-fat snacks.
But it's still better than what most Americans eat
While nutritionists might hesitate at the idea of replacing real food with Soylent, The Atlantic says there's something else that needs to be taken into consideration: Soylent, for all its flaws and questions, is still better than the standard diet of a normal American.
The amount of added sugar most Americans eat is astronomical. Healthline says the average person has 76.7 grams of sugar per day, which is about 19 teaspoons. That's way more than the recommended amounts: 37.5 grams for men, 25 grams for women. Eating so much junk food and empty calories has created a bizarre phenomenon, and that's the fact that many, many people are both overweight and malnourished.
So, it goes to reason that if you're eating a lot of garbage, switching to Soylent might do some real good. But does that mean that Soylent is amazing, or that the everyday diets of the majority of Americans is so horrible, it's doing untold damage?
The lack of color is a big deal
Everyone loves the look of a colorful plate of food. We might think first of posting on social media or Instagram, but those colors are actually extremely important — and that means it's a problem that Soylent isn't just lacking in color, but in all the benefits that go along with the rainbow of food.
Take tomatoes. Their red color comes from something called lycopene, which doesn't just make them red, but it's also been linked to lowering the chances of developing prostate cancer. You can say the same of blueberries. They're blue because of flavonoid compounds, and those same compounds have been found to lower your risk of developing diabetes.
When The New Yorker pointed this out to Rhinehart, he scoffed. He had looked into the evidence and had considered adding some of these phytochemicals, but thought the research wasn't conclusive enough to justify adding them to the recipe. After all, he asked: "How many humans in history were even getting broccoli and tomatoes?"
It was banned in Canada
According to The Globe and Mail, Soylent hit shelves in Canada in June 2015. However, by October 2017, they were reporting that Soylent would no longer be for sale.
Why? According to a letter from Rhinehart, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency had determined that Soylent didn't meet all the nutritional guidelines put in place for a product to be considered a "meal replacement" in Canada. Details were vague, but there were promises to share more in the future.
The letter wasn't updated, but according to The Globe and Mail, there was no recall in place and nothing was deemed a health risk. They also said the CFIA wasn't able to share just how Soylent deviated from their guidelines, but they also noted that — shockingly — those guidelines hadn't been updated since the 1990s. Nutritionists suggested it would probably be a good idea for those guidelines to go under review, but whether or not that would have changed the ruling on Soylent, it's impossible to say.
It's made people violently ill
There are side effects... and then there are side effects on the scale of full-blown food poisoning. It was that latter that had people suffering in 2016, when The Guardian reported a huge number of people were getting violently ill after eating Soylent's 250-calorie food bars that had been released just a few months prior. For some, the food poisoning-grade illness was so bad they ended up going to the hospital, and it was widespread enough that the company issued a statement telling people to throw away any of the bars that remained uneaten. Sales stopped, and they tried to figure out what had gone wrong.
Soylent sent an official statement to Gizmodo, saying that not only had they received complaints on less than .03 percent of the bars sold, but that microbiological testing had come back clean, and they had personally eaten plenty of the bars in the batches reported to have been making people sick without suffering any ill effects themselves.
Their suggestion? The people who got sick likely had "an allergy, intolerance, or sensitivity to ingredients" and should get in touch with their doctor before eating more of the product.
Then, there's Coffiest
There's Soylent and then there's Soylent Coffiest, a drink with both caffeine and something called L-theanine. What's L-theanine? According to Soylent, it's a compound found in tea leaves that boosts the effectiveness of caffeine at the same time it lessens some of caffeine's more undesirable side effects.
Sounds great, but does it work?
Medical News Today is cautious, saying there are studies out there that have supported the idea L-theanine helps boost mental focus, improve sleep quality, improve brain function, boost the immune system, lower blood pressure, and aid in weight loss. There's a big "but" here, and that's basically that a lot of that evidence comes from studies done on animals, not on humans. They also say that results in humans are likely to vary, and add that L-theanine has the potential to interact with some medications, particularly those taken for blood pressure regulation and the treatment of ADHD. That's an important detail, and they recommend speaking with a doctor before taking anything with L-theanine.
It's not that different from other meal replacement drinks
Soylent might have a reputation for being futuristic, cutting edge, and somehow better because it's right out of Silicon Valley, but when Lifehacker compared it to some of the other meal replacement drinks out there, they found that it's not too much different.
Take Ensure. Ensure actually has more vitamins and minerals, but it also has about twice the sugar — and that's where Soylent has a massive advantage. But there are other options out there that are also sugar-free, like Light Fuel. Athlete Fuel has a whole list of defining features, and like Soylent, it's also vegan. Then, there's Schmilk, which is made from oat flour instead of soy.
Bottom line? They're all a little different, and there are plenty of choices out there if you're looking to go the meal replacement drink route for at least some of your meals. But the science is still out on whether or not replacing every meal with a drink is a good idea... or if it should just be left in the pages of science fiction.