This will create a folder by the same name on your desktop.
Forgot, you shoulf dowblaod the file to the destyop so it's easier to locate.
Ok well I had to download on another computer and then transfer it to my other one. If I tried to download it on the one with the problem I would grow old and tired. I got it on there and really don't know what to do with it now. what do I do now that its on there?
Its just weird that in safe mode the internet runs great, Normal mode its terrible. The question is, what is loading in normal mode that would slow it down that doesn't run in safe mode.
I was also going to call microsoft since I just bought and installed it, but they will charge to to contact tech support because I haven't activated the product yet. When I try to activate it, it times out because of the speed.
Right-click on the .exe file yuo downloaded and on the right-click menu, you'll see an enytry named UniExtract Files. Choose this and it will unpack the files to a folder of the same name .
Then look for an .inf file.
In the start menu search for "Network Connections" and click on the first link under "Control Panel".
From here right click on your adapter and select "Properties" and then click the "Configure..." button.
On the Advanced tab of the window you now see will be the options for your adapter.
Ok, I know how to get to that as stated in one of the post above, However, after that point is where I get confused. What option do I choose or modify? There was no 802.11n mode only to disable?
Go to Control Panel > Device Manager, click on the Network Adapter s nd tell us what's listed there.
Are you sure your adapter supports 802.11N?
It may also be listed as "Draft-N 2.0" or similar.
As far as supporting 802.11N I have no idea. All I know is that on vista internet was fine, after installing windows 7 everything went to crap.
OK. 802.11G means it doesn't support N mode.
Which eliminates my preliminary thoughts.
What program/site are you using to test your speed?
Well I cant really get on the internet to try it because it takes too long. Most of the time when I do try it doesn't load the test itself, but only the advertising.
I know ive said this a few times but is it significant that everything works fine in safe mode?
Maybe you should try running a malware test..
if possible go to Malwarebytes.org and download malware bytes anti-malware. install and do a quick scan.
You can download in safe mode and install in normal mode.
Try gointo Start > Ru, and type cmd, ZNow type ping google,cim.
My resonse time is a biyt 45ms, Whats tiurs?
Did the page load faster?
It did find one infected file which I removed with no change in the internet speed.
It did ping google but only 75% of the time. I did it a few times and averaged about 65ms. I typed in the 24.28.192.9 and it gave me a webpage cannot be found message.
I also have seen something else that might help. Every time I restart the computer, I connect to the network but with limited access. I have to run the troubleshooter to fix the problem. After running it it tells them the problem is "problem with wireless adapter or access point" and it was fixed. But I have to do it again every time I restart the computer.
That seems that that is the same anti spyware that Mitchell told me to download.
Did you download and use it?
Yeah, Thats how I knew I had one infected file. Should I be able to get some help from microsoft since I just bought this upgrade?
Upgrade? You did an upgrade?
you should ALWAYS do a clean install.
I know the free upgrade to Windows 7 you get from manufacturers is upgrade only.
You may have to go and buy a full edition of Windows 7.


Lots of entrepreneurs get trapped in that unhealthy cycle. In fact, it took Arianna Huffington's collapse from exhaustion in her office, during which she broke her cheekbone, to prompt that media mogul to start extolling the virtues of a balanced life.
On a good day, we all know that taking a good night's rest is essential. And, if you're an entrepreneur who is extremely passionate about your business and keeping it afloat, you'll surely agree that having a good night's sleep is as vital as breathing.
In one test by the Sleep Foundation, subjects restricted to six hours of sleep a night for 14 consecutive days performed as poorly on cognitive and motor tasks as test subjects who'd gone without sleep for two nights in a row. So sleeping "just a few hours" isn't a good alternative to no sleep.
If you're an entrepreneur, it's basically impossible to effectively run a business when you're not functioning properly, inside. And, to be frank, you need to stay alive to actually run the business. Going days with barely a blink of sleep takes a toll on your body, and pretty soon you'll collapse. So will your business.
In fact, a report from Deloitte Access Economics showed that 394 out of 3017 people in Australia who'd lost their lives between 2016 and 2017 did so as a result of falling asleep at the wheel of a car or being involved in a sleep-related industrial accident.
There's this misconception a lot of people have about work, that spending more time at work means you're getting work done. However, it's not just how much work you do that brings you success; the quality of your work plays an important role too.
Lack of sleep negatively affects your moods, ability to focus and make good decisions. Bill Clinton once said that the mistakes he'd made in life could be connected to the fact that he was too tired.


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American director George A. Romero was making films from the age of 14 -- like most teen movie enthusiasts, with an 8 mm camera. Matriculating into the industrial-film business in Pittsburgh, Romero accrued enough capital to make his first feature-length film in 1968, a graphically gruesome zombie picture entitled Night of the Living Dead. Barely making back its cost on its initial release, the movie received some welcome, if adverse, publicity when Reader's Digest devoted an article to it. The magazine was appalled at the scenes of cannibalism and similar horrors, going so far as to insist that a movement be started to have the picture banned. Naturally, this made the movie more popular than ever, much more so than if Reader's Digest had simply ignored it. And the subsequent profits of Night of the Living Dead enabled Romero to finance several more low-budget scare pictures before he broke into the mainstream with Dawn of the Dead in 1978, a semi-comic sequel to his first film. Day of the Dead (1985), the third of the Dead Trilogy, was more elaborate than his earlier productions, but also more disappointing. Still, Romero could point with pride to such films as Creepshow (1980), Martin (1978), and his weekly TV terror anthology Tales From the Darkside (1984-1986), which belied its tiny budget with excellent writing, first-rate actors (Barnard Hughes, Fritz Weaver, Jerry Stiller, Eddie Bracken, et al.) and bone-chilling makeup effects. Although remaining in the realm of B-movies by choice, Romero has exerted considerable influence on an entire school of higher-budget horror directors, notably John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and especially Brian De Palma. Romero is married to actress and long-time collaborator Christine Forrest.
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International Arbitration and Global Governance: Contending Theories and Evidence
Edited by Walter Mattli (Professor of International Political Economy, Fellow of St. John's College, Professor of International Political Economy, Fellow of St. John's College, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University), Thomas Dietz (Assistant Professor in Politics and Law, Assistant Professor in Politics and Law, University of Muenster).
International Arbitration and Global Governance is the first book offering a wide-ranging and up-to-date analytical overview of arguments in a vigorous nascent interdisciplinary debate about international arbitration courts and their exercise of private governance power.
Most literature on international arbitration is practice-oriented, technical, and promotional. It is by arbitrators and largely for arbitrators and their clients. Outside analyses by non-participants are still very rare. This book boldly steps away from this tradition of scholarship to reflect analytically on international arbitration as a form of global governance. It thus contributes to a rapidly growing literature that describes the profound economic, legal, and political transformation in which key governance functions are increasingly exercised by a new constellation that include actors other than national public authorities. The book brings together leading scholars from law and the social sciences to assess and critically reflect on the significance and implications of international arbitration as a new locus of global private authority. The views predictably diverge. Some see the evolution of these private courts positively as a significant element of an emerging transnational private legal system that gradually evolves according to the needs of market actors without much state interference. Others fear that private courts allow transnational actors to circumvent state regulation and create an illegitimate judicial system that is driven by powerful transnational companies at the expense of collective public interests. Still others accept that these contrasting views serve as useful starting points of an analysis but are too simplistic to adequately understand the complex governance structures that international arbitration courts have been developing over the last two decades. In sum, this book offers a wide-ranging and up-to-date analytical overview of arguments in a vigorous nascent interdisciplinary debate about arbitration courts and their exercise of private governance power in the transnational realm. This debate is generating fascinating new insights into such central topics as legitimacy, constitutional order and justice beyond classical nation state institutions.
1: Walter Mattli and Thomas Dietz: Mapping and Assessing the Rise of International Commercial Arbitration in the Globalization Era: An Introduction 2: Alec Stone Sweet and Florian Grisel: The Evolution of International Arbitration: Delegation, Judicialization, Governance 3: Ralf Michaels: Roles and Role Perceptions of International Arbitrators 4: Joshua Karton: International Arbitration Culture and Global Governance 5: Moritz Renner: Private Justice, Public Policy: The Constitutionalisation of International Commercial Arbitration 6: Claire Cutler: International Commercial Arbitration, Transnational Governance, and the New Constitutionalism 7: Thomas Dietz: Does International Commercial Arbitration Provide Efficient Contract Enforcement Institutions for Global Commerce? 8: Thomas Hale: What is the Effect of Commercial Arbitration on Trade? 9: Horatia Muir Watt: The Contested Legitimacy of Investment Arbitration and the Human Rights Ordeal: the Missing Link


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First and most important, the Supreme Court. For anyone concerned about the Bill of Rights — free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment — the Court hangs in the balance. I have spent my professional career fighting before the Court to defend the Constitution. We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices. We know, without a doubt, that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue. Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices "in the mold of Scalia." For some time, I have been seeking greater specificity on this issue, and today the Trump campaign provided that, releasing a very strong list of potential Supreme Court nominees — including Sen. Mike Lee, who would make an extraordinary justice — and making an explicit commitment to nominate only from that list. This commitment matters, and it provides a serious reason for voters to choose to support Trump.
To sum up, Cruz re-iterated that he has always been #NeverHillary and at this point, there is only one thing standing in her way – Trump. He later said that both he, and his family, have forgiven Trump and are moving on without any ill feelings or malice.
Cruz's position seems to be that the time is too dire for personal vendettas. For the sake of the country, we need to vote for the candidate with the strongest chance of stopping Hillary. Cruz has taken flack from some of his die-hard supporters, but his case begs careful scrutiny. He's taken a patriotic position over a petty one.
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Senate Asks IGP To Investigate, Prosecute Foreigners Maltreating Nigerians
By Josephine Isaac
The Senate has called on the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to investigate and prosecute foreigners who maltreat Nigerians in various parts of the country.
They made the call in reaction to a motion by Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo during Tuesday's plenary in the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.
Senator Degi-Eremienyo raised the motion for the urgent need to check the alarming trend of inhuman treatment and torture of Nigerian citizens by foreign nationals
He referred to a case of brutality meted against one Friday Ndubuisi who works with a security company, and two others, including a Chadian, attached to another security outfit in the Gudu District of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
According to the lawmaker, the trio were seriously brutalised over an allegation that they stole iron rods, which led to the death of the Chadian national.
He explained that a Lebanese national who works with one of the companies ordered and carried out the torture in a bid to get a confession from them.
The Lebanese was said to have ordered some of his Nigerian subordinates to gag Ndubuisi and the late Chadian's mouths with rags to stifle any noise from them.
They were also beaten mercilessly with iron rods, tied to a car, and driven around the premises while the Lebanese loosened his dog to attack the victims.
In his contribution to the motion, Senator Isah Jibrin informed his colleagues that several cases of such have occurred.
"But they (the cases) are never reported because of fear of further victimisation," he said. "I, on this note, second the motion."
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A file photo of lawmakers during plenary in the Senate.
The Senators made the call in reaction to a motion by Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo during Tuesday's plenary in the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.
Senator Degi-Eremienyo raised the motion for the urgent need to check the alarming trend of inhuman treatment and torture of Nigerian citizens by foreign nationals.
In its resolutions, the Senate condemned the acts committed against the victims in strong terms, saying it was the height of man's inhumanity to his fellow being.
It asked the police boss to thoroughly investigate the said acts of the Lebanese, his dog, and similar infractions by other foreign nationals acting by themselves or in collusion with Nigerians or police personnel.
"Upon conclusion of investigations, those found culpable should be prosecuted in accordance with our laws to serve as a deterrent to others," the lawmakers stated.
They also want the Ministry of Labour and Employment, as well as relevant Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to take adequate steps to address the labour-related issues in respect of the incident and similar cases to curb the trend.
The Senate Committee on Police Affairs was directed to follow up on the case and report to the lawmakers periodically on the progress and the final result.


"For a starter or a dinner, this risotto is light, filling and easy to make."
This recipe can be used as a starter, main meal or even a light lunch. It's very easy to make and the pancetta can be replaces with ham or a vegetarian substitute like tofu and you can use chicken stock instead of vegetable stock depending on your personal preferences.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Get a large frying pan and heat up the olive oil and butter on a medium heat. Finely chop the celery and onion and put in the frying pan, cooking until soft but not brown. This should take around ten minutes.
Add the Arborio rice and vermouth to the frying pan and keep the ingredients moving. At this point, put the ricotta in the oven.
Add ¾ of the stock a ladle at a time, stirring it into the rice mixture in between to allow the rice to absorb the stock. This will take around 10-15 minutes and the mixture needs to be constantly moved so the rice, celery and onions don't burn. Once the mixture has absorbed the stock, take off the heat and move into a large saucepan.
In a separate frying pan, heat olive oil and fry the pancetta until crispy. Once cooked move onto a plate covered in kitchen towel to absorb any excess fat and oil.
Put the saucepan of rice onto a medium heat and ladle in the last of the stock, allowing it to be absorbed into the rice. Check the rice- it should be soft with a slight crunch in the middle. Add more stock if required.
Crumble the pancetta into small pieces and add this and the peas to the rice. Stir for around 5 minutes before taking off the heat.
Add the parmesan, ricotta and torn up basil leaves to the risotto and stir until thoroughly mixed together.
Serve, adding the whole basil leaves, a drizzle of olive oil and parmesan to taste.
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France 3 Occitanie est l'une des 13 directions régionales et territoriales de France 3 (groupe France Télévisions). Elle regroupe deux antennes de proximité en Occitanie : France 3 Languedoc-Roussillon et France 3 Midi-Pyrénées.

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Pour se conformer au nouveau découpage administratif, issu de la réforme territoriale de 2014, et afin de doubler le temps d'antenne des programmes régionaux, la direction de France Télévisions annonce, le , une réorganisation de son réseau régional pour . Les  de gouvernance, provenant du découpage de 2009, sont abandonnés au profit de  régionales, correspondant aux limites administratives des régions de la réforme territoriale de 2014. Les  de proximité sont maintenues au sein des  régionales.

En , la direction régionale de France 3 Occitanie est créée, qui regroupe les antennes de proximité France 3 Languedoc-Roussillon et France 3 Midi-Pyrénées.

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Occitanie
Chaîne de télévision numérique terrestre en France
Chaîne de télévision numéro 3
Chaîne ou station de télévision fondée en 2017
Chaîne de télévision locale en région Occitanie

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The Believe Digital U.S. office is happy to announce a CMJ Music Marathon showcase headlined by France's Télépopmusik (Splendid Music). Believe is partnering with Cameo Gallery and Free Williamsburg (a local Brooklyn, NY blog) to curate the show on October 19 that also includes French electronic act Dream Koala (also on Splendid Music) and Télépopmusik collaborator Betty Black (Kid Recordings).
It will be Télépopmusik's first gig in the U.S. since the group's latest release this past June.
The showcase will kick off at midnight on October 19, the last night of CMJ Music Marathon.


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Final in the tunnel boring machine competition – FFH.de
The time has come on Sunday: Then ten mechanical engineering students, three of whom are from Fulda, could officially have built the fastest tunnel boring machine in the world. Because then in Las Vegas the final of a tunneling competition of Tesla boss Elon Musk, in which the students take part.
Team leader Adrian Fleck: "I think we have good chances in the final."
The "Dirt Torpedo", as the tunnel boring machine developed by the students is called, will then show what it can do and have to assert itself against the other eleven finalists. Team leader Adrian Fleck said in an FFH interview that he thinks the Dirt Torpedo will have a good chance in the final. "We have built a very robust machine that works reliably even at very high temperatures. Our machine eats its way through the rock and concretes the tunnel right behind it. I think that the other finalists, especially with the adverse conditions in the desert of Las Vegas will have problems – our Dirt Torpedo will not. "
Dream almost failed because of the USA's entry rules
The ten students have been in Las Vegas for several days and are preparing for the finals. There were some problems beforehand – because of the currently strict entry rules in the USA, the students almost couldn't have traveled to Las Vegas. In the end everything worked out – and the Dirt Torpedo also arrived safely in the Las Vegas desert.
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Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway is a writer and broadcaster who was Bishop of Edinburgh from 1986 to 2000 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1992 to 2000. He has written extensively on complex ethical issues such as sexuality, drugs and bioethics and is the author of more than twenty books, including his critically acclaimed memoir Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt.
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Busy and deeply absorbed in all the complexity of life, Ruth Scott's packed diary suddenly had to be cleared when she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. She said, 'Discovering that life might be shorter than expected or hoped for...
The Only Problem
Hardback | Pub: 02 Aug 2018
Wealthy Canadian scholar Harvey Gotham lives in splendid isolation in France and is working on a book about Job. He loves his wife, Effie, dearly but she has taken to planting bombs in supermarkets and has joined an anarchist group. Here, Spark...


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Wow that is one hell of a good looking avatar! The movements are impressive. I can't wait to try out Cobal/Croquet. Is there any way to try out the technology?
About time, too. The funky Black guy looks great!, lol. It's hard for people to look beyond the surface when all you have is the Alice rabbit.


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Home General History The Crazy Start to the Monon Bell Classic
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Game program for the 1943 Monon Bell Classic at Blackstock Stadium.
Anything involving DePauw and Wabash will be competitive—even their history.
They can't even agree on what to call the game. For DePauw, located in Greencastle, it's Monon. For Wabash, located in Crawfordsville, it's The Bell Game. Whatever the name, the rivalry game between the two colleges, which will meet for the 126th time on November 16, holds something special.
The same is true of its history—and even that is competitive. Both schools believe their squad was the first to play a football game. On October 25, 1884, the Wabash Little Giants played Butler University's football team at Indianapolis Baseball Park, in what the school claims was the first intercollegiate football game played in Indiana. DePauw records show a game of its own in the spring of 1884, with the Tigers also taking on Butler.
Game action from the 1939 Monon Bell Classic in Crawfordsville. DePauw won the game 7–0.
Regardless of who played the first game, DePauw and Wabash squared off as opponents for the first time in 1890.
Separated by twenty-eight miles, the two schools became instant rivals. DePauw won the first game 34–5, and the two teams played every year for the next six seasons.
Eventually, the Monon Railroad, which in part connected the two Indiana campuses in Greencastle and Crawfordsville, donated a three hundred-pound locomotive bell from one of its steam-engine trains to award to the winner of the annual football game between the two schools.
A sight to be seen only on DePauw's campus: female students ringing the Monon Bell.
Before that, though, the rivalry took a few breaks. Sometimes the reasons for a hiatus were far bigger than sports. In 1903, the DePauw team refused to leave the locker room upon hearing that the Wabash lineup included African American player Sam Gordon. Wabash legend says Lew Wallace, a former Civil War general who also wrote Ben Hur, played a role in coaxing the DePauw team to play. Wabash won the game by a 14–0 score, but the teams didn't play the following year because Wabash used another African American player, William Cantrell.
In 1910, the DePauw-Wabash rivalry was interrupted again. The Little Giants played four games to start the season, accumulating a 4–0 record and a 118–0 aggregate advantage. But in the fourth game, freshman Ralph "Sap" Wilson suffered a head injury. Tackling a St. Louis University ball carrier, Wilson took a knee to his skull. Hours after the game, Wilson died as the result of a skull fracture.
The rest of the 1910 season was cancelled, wiping out the game against the Greencastle foes.
The rivalry was renewed in 1911 and has remained an annual tradition in every year that's followed.
Each of those games has been marked by the kind of passion that Wilson played with. His tombstone, in Crawfordsville's Oak Hill cemetery, has itself become apart of Indiana football lore. On it, after his name and year of death, are Wilson's final words: "Did Wabash win?"
A head injury in a game against St. Louis University led to the death of Wabash player Ralph "Sap" Wilson in 1910. Before passing away, Wilson's last words were, "Did Wabash win?"
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"Three-Dimensional MicroCT Analysis of the Ediacara Fossil Pteridinium " by Mike Meyer, David Elliott et al.
Ediacara fossils often exhibit enigmatic taphonomy that complicates morphological characterization and ecological and phylogenetic interpretation; such is the case with Pteridinium simplex from the late Ediacaran Aar Member in southern Namibia. P. simplex is often preserved as three-dimensional (3D) casts and molds in coarse-grained quartzites, making detailed morphological characterization difficult. In addition, P. simplex is often transported, distorted, and embedded in gutter fills or channel deposits, further obscuring its morphologies. By utilizing microfocus X-ray computed tomography (microCT) techniques, we are able to trace individual specimens and their vanes in order to digitally restore the 3D morphology of this enigmatic fossil. Our analysis shows that P. simplex has a very flexible integument that can be bent, folded, twisted, stretched, and torn, indicating a certain degree of elasticity. In the analyzed specimens, we find no evidence for vane identity change or penetrative growth that were previously used as evidence to support a fully endobenthic lifestyle of P. simplex; instead, evidence is consistent with the traditional interpretation of a semi-endobenthic or epibenthic lifestyle. This interpretation needs to be further tested through microCT analysis of P. simplex specimens preserved in situ rather than transported ones. The elastic integument of P. simplex is inconsistent with a phylogenetic affinity with xenophyophore protists; instead, its physical property is consistent with the presence of collagen, chitin, and cellulose, an inference that would provide constraints on the phylogenetic affinity of P. simplex. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Meyer, Mike; Elliott, David; Wood, Andrew D.; Polys, Nicholas F.; Colbert, Matthew; Maisano, Jessica A.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Hall, Michael; Hoffman, Karl H.; Schneider, Gabi; and Xiao, Shuhai. "Three-Dimensional MicroCT Analysis of the Ediacara Fossil Pteridinium Simplex Sheds New Light on its Ecology and Phylogenetic Affinity." Precambrian Research (2014) : 79-87.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Management.Automation;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Utilities.Common;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Utilities.DocumentDb;

namespace Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.DocumentDb
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Gets a DocumentDb Collection/s
    /// </summary>
    [Cmdlet(VerbsCommon.Get, "AzureDocumentDbCollection"), OutputType(typeof(List<ExtendedDocumentDbCollection>), typeof(ExtendedDocumentDbCollection))]
    public class GetAzureDocumentDbCollectionCommand : AzurePSCmdlet
    {
        internal IDocumentDbClientExtensions DocumentDbClient { get; set; }

        [Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = true, HelpMessage = "The Service Endpoint Url of the DocumentDb account")]
        public string ServiceEndpoint { get; set; }

        [Parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = true, HelpMessage = "The Authorization Key to use to access the DocumentDb account")]
        public string AuthKey { get; set; }

        [Parameter(Position = 2, Mandatory = true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = true, HelpMessage = "The CollectionsLink from the referencing DocumentDb Database")]
        public string CollectionsLink { get; set; }

        [Parameter(Position = 3, Mandatory = false, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = true, HelpMessage = "The Id of the Collection")]
        public string Id { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Executes the cmdlet.
        /// </summary>
        public override void ExecuteCmdlet()
        {
            DocumentDbClient = DocumentDbClient ?? new DocumentDbClientExtensions(ServiceEndpoint, AuthKey);

            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(Id))
            {
                WriteObject(DocumentDbClient.GetDocumentCollections(CollectionsLink), true);
            }
            else
            {
                var collection = DocumentDbClient.GetDocumentCollection(CollectionsLink, Id);

                if (collection == null)
                    WriteWarning(String.Format("Could not locate DocumentDb Document Collection with the CollectionsLink '{0}' and Id '{1}'", CollectionsLink, Id));
                else
                    WriteObject(collection);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Q: Unable to match IP regex in JavaScript Following is my code I am trying to validate IP addresses in front end, but somehow this Regex is not working -
var patt = /[0-255]\.[0-255]\.[0-255]\.[0-255]/;
var str = "90.89.99.90";

if(str.match(patt))
  console.log("Valid IP");
else
  console.log("Invalid IP");

It should output - Valid IP
while these kind of IPs should return - Invalid IP

"fd.45.67.90", "256.67.67.89", "@@.45.67.90" etc

Let me know what I am doing wrong with regex.

A: Regex ranges don't do what you think they do. A [x-y] range contains all characters in ascii from x to y.
Therefore [0-255] matches characters from 0 to 2 (aka 0, 1 and 2) and 5 or in short - [0125].

To match a number from 0 to 255, you could do:
\d\d?|1\d\d|2([0-4]\d|5[0-5])

The idea:

*

*\d\d? - one or two digit numbers

*1\d\d - numbers from 100 to 199

*2[0-4]\d - numbers from 200 to 249.

*25[0-5] - numbers from 250 to 255

To match an entire IP, you could do:
^((\d\d?|1\d\d|2([0-4]\d|5[0-5]))\.){3}(\d\d?|1\d\d|2([0-4]\d|5[0-5]))$

A: [...] denotes a "character class" meaning that it lists characters that should match there; it matches any single character from what you list. So your regex is checking each segment for a single character which is any of 0, 1, 2, or 5 (0-2 gives us 0, 1, and 2; then 5 gives us 5, and the second 5 is ignored). It should be checking for digits (\d), and 1-3 of them ({1,3}):
var patt = /\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}/;

You might also want ^ (start of input) and $ (end of input), so that foo123.123.123.123bar doesn't match:
var patt = /^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}/$;

This is, of course, not sufficient to check that the IP is valid. It just checks that there are numbers where expected; it would happily call 891.262.999.42 valid.
If you want to properly validate it (e.g., that the numbers are in the valid ranges, filtering out invalid combinations of segments, etc), you could extract the IP part of this comprehensive URL validation regex (since URLs can contain IP addresses, it covers that). Thankfully, Diego and the other authors have nicely commented it, clearly identifying which bits do what:
//
// Regular Expression for URL validation
//
// Author: Diego Perini
// Updated: 2010/12/05
// License: MIT
//
// Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Diego Perini (http://www.iport.it)
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
// obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
// files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
// restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
// copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
// Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
// conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
// included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
// EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
// OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
// NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
// HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
// WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
// FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
// OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
//
// the regular expression composed & commented
// could be easily tweaked for RFC compliance,
// it was expressly modified to fit & satisfy
// these test for an URL shortener:
//
//   http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex
//
// Notes on possible differences from a standard/generic validation:
//
// - utf-8 char class take in consideration the full Unicode range
// - TLDs have been made mandatory so single names like "localhost" fails
// - protocols have been restricted to ftp, http and https only as requested
//
// Changes:
//
// - IP address dotted notation validation, range: 1.0.0.0 - 223.255.255.255
//   first and last IP address of each class is considered invalid
//   (since they are broadcast/network addresses)
//
// - Added exclusion of private, reserved and/or local networks ranges
//
// - Made starting path slash optional (http://example.com?foo=bar)
//
// - Allow a dot (.) at the end of hostnames (http://example.com.)
//
// Compressed one-line versions:
//
// Javascript version
//
// /^(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/)(?:\S+(?::\S*)?@)?(?:(?!(?:10|127)(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})(?!(?:169\.254|192\.168)(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?!172\.(?:1[6-9]|2\d|3[0-1])(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[01]\d|22[0-3])(?:\.(?:1?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])){2}(?:\.(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-4]))|(?:(?:[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]-*)*[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]+)(?:\.(?:[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]-*)*[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]+)*(?:\.(?:[a-z\u00a1-\uffff]{2,}))\.?)(?::\d{2,5})?(?:[/?#]\S*)?$/i
//
// PHP version
//
// _^(?:(?:https?|ftp)://)(?:\S+(?::\S*)?@)?(?:(?!(?:10|127)(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})(?!(?:169\.254|192\.168)(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?!172\.(?:1[6-9]|2\d|3[0-1])(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[01]\d|22[0-3])(?:\.(?:1?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])){2}(?:\.(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-4]))|(?:(?:[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]-*)*[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+)(?:\.(?:[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]-*)*[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+)*(?:\.(?:[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}]{2,}))\.?)(?::\d{2,5})?(?:[/?#]\S*)?$_iuS
//
var re_weburl = new RegExp(
  "^" +
    // protocol identifier
    "(?:(?:https?|ftp)://)" +
    // user:pass authentication
    "(?:\\S+(?::\\S*)?@)?" +
    "(?:" +
      // IP address exclusion
      // private & local networks
      "(?!(?:10|127)(?:\\.\\d{1,3}){3})" +
      "(?!(?:169\\.254|192\\.168)(?:\\.\\d{1,3}){2})" +
      "(?!172\\.(?:1[6-9]|2\\d|3[0-1])(?:\\.\\d{1,3}){2})" +
      // IP address dotted notation octets
      // excludes loopback network 0.0.0.0
      // excludes reserved space >= 224.0.0.0
      // excludes network & broacast addresses
      // (first & last IP address of each class)
      "(?:[1-9]\\d?|1\\d\\d|2[01]\\d|22[0-3])" +
      "(?:\\.(?:1?\\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])){2}" +
      "(?:\\.(?:[1-9]\\d?|1\\d\\d|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-4]))" +
    "|" +
      // host name
      "(?:(?:[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff0-9]-*)*[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff0-9]+)" +
      // domain name
      "(?:\\.(?:[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff0-9]-*)*[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff0-9]+)*" +
      // TLD identifier
      "(?:\\.(?:[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff]{2,}))" +
      // TLD may end with dot
      "\\.?" +
    ")" +
    // port number
    "(?::\\d{2,5})?" +
    // resource path
    "(?:[/?#]\\S*)?" +
  "$", "i"
);

A: Here is a regex variation (based on ndn's answer above) that will check if the entire input text is a valid IP:
^(?:(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))\.){3}(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))$

See regex demo
Here is a solution that can be used to extract valid IPs from larger text:
\b(?:(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))\.){3}(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))\b

See another demo
Explanation:

*

*^ - start of string (replace with \b word boundary if you need not match at the beginning of string only)

*(?:(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))\.){3} - 3 occurrences of

*

*(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5])) - 1- or 2-digit sequence, or a 1xx number (1\d{2}) or a range of integer numbers in-between 200-255 range (thanks to 2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))

*\. - a literal period

*(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5])) - see above (just the last part of the IP address)

*$ - end of string (replace with \b if you just need a whole word match).

NOTE: In JS, you can use the literal notation to declare these regexps, e.g.:
/\b(?:(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))\.){3}(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))\b/g
/^(?:(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))\.){3}(?:\d{1,2}|1\d{2}|2(?:[0-4]\d|5[0-5]))$/

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Guide and Reference to the Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America (North of Mexico)
R. D. Bartlett and Patricia P. Bartlett
Paper ISBN 13: 9780813029504 - Pub Date: 11/5/2006 Details: 312 pages, 6x9 Subject(s): Natural History
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Devoted solely to amphibians, this authoritative and user-friendly guide will appeal to a broad range of users, from hobbyists and amateur naturalists wanting to quickly identify neighborhood frogs to biologists and herpetologists seeking a focused, well-organized and detailed, fully illustrated field guide.
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Year : 1992 | Volume : 40 | Issue : 2 | Page : 59--60
Spontaneous extrusion of cysticercosis : Report of three cases
RK Bansal, Amod Gupta, SPS Grewal, Kanwar Mohan
Department of Ophthalmology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh-160 012, India
R K Bansal
Department of Ophthalmology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh-160 012
We report three cases of spontaneous extrusion of cysticercosis. In two cases, it got extruded from the orbit and in one case from the subconjunctival space. Extrusion of cysticercosis was associated with improvement in clinical signs and symptoms.
Bansal R K, Gupta A, Grewal S, Mohan K. Spontaneous extrusion of cysticercosis : Report of three cases.Indian J Ophthalmol 1992;40:59-60
Bansal R K, Gupta A, Grewal S, Mohan K. Spontaneous extrusion of cysticercosis : Report of three cases. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 1992 [cited 2023 Jan 31 ];40:59-60
Available from: https://www.ijo.in/text.asp?1992/40/2/59/24401
Ocular involvement in cysticercosis occurs in about 13 - 46% of the patients [1],[2],[3].Subconjunctival form of cysticercosis has been reported more commonly from India [1],[4],[5],[6] in contrast to intravitreal and subretinal forms of cysticercosis that have been reported more commonly from Western countries [1],[2],[10],[11]
Spontaneous extrusion of the cysticercosis from the subconjunctival space and orbit is rare [6],[9],[12]. We report three cases where cysticercosis got extruded spontaneously.
A 28 years old female presented with the history of recurrent attacks of pain and redness on the medial aspect of the left eye for the last six months. The last episode of pain and redness was associated with diplopia in the left lateral gaze. Examination showed a visual acuity of 6/6 in both eyes. The abduction was limited in the left eye. Conjunctival congestion was present over the insertion of the medial rectus muscle. A, CT scan showed a cystic mass in the medial rectus muscle near its insertion [Figure 1]. Two weeks later, the cyst got extruded spontaneously from the medial aspect of the left eye leaving a gap in the overlying conjunctiva which healed spontaneously within ten days. The diplopia disappeared and ocular movements improved. Histopathology of the cyst confirmed the diagnosis of cysticercosis.
CASE NO 2
A 15 year old female presented with the history of pain and redness in her left eye for the last one month. She had noticed a swelling in the lower part of the left eye about 15 days back. This was associated with diplopia in upgaze. Examination showed a visual acuity of 6/6 in both eyes. Elevation was limited in the left eye. A cystic mass was present near the insertion of the inferior rectus muscle with hyperaemia of the overlying conjunctiva [Figure 2]. Three days later, the cyst got extruded spontaneously leaving a small rent in the conjunctiva which healed within one week. The ocular movements improved and diplopia disappeared. Histopathology of the cyst confirmed the diagnosis of cysticercosis.
A 12 year old male boy presented with the history of diplopia for the last 15 days. The diplopia was more in dextro elevation. Examination revealed a visual acuity of 6/6 in both eyes. There was mild proptosis and ptosis of right upper lid. The eye ball was pushed a little down. Ocular movements were normal except for limited elevation. A cystic swelling was noted in the upper fornix near the insertion of the superior rectus muscle with congestion of the overlying conjunctiva. Computerised tomography showed a cystic mass in relation to the superior rectus muscle [Figure 3]. A diagnosis of orbital pseudo tumour was considered but showed no response to a course of systemic prednisolone. Nine months later, he reported back with history of pus and discharge from the right upper fornix with extrusion of a small rounded cystic mass. He became asymptomatic after cyst extrusion. Now four months after the cyst extrusion, he has a minimum diplopia in dextroelevation. Ocular movements are normal. Repeat CT scan is normal.
Ocular cysticercosis is not uncommon in North India[1],[7],[8], Majority of the cases reported from India had subconjunctival form of cysticercosis [1],[4],[6] though one report from North India found intraocular cysticercosis to be more common [7]. Since 1970, there are only three case reports of spontaneous extrusion of cysticercosis from the subconjunctival space[6],[9],[12] We report three such cases. In one of our patients (Case No 1), the cyst was located within the medial rectus muscle, in the second case, in the subconjunctival space and in the third case in the superior orbit from where they got extruded.
In orbital and subconjunctival cysticercosis, the cyst is usually attached to the muscle sheath [1],[5], where it induces inflammatory reaction and because of its constant motility it erodes through the conjunctiva and comes out leaving a rent in the conjunctiva which ultimately heals within a short period.
1 Malik SRK. Gupta AK. Chaudhary S Ocular cysticercosis Am J Ophthalmol 66 1168-1171 1968
2 Kruger Leite E, Jalkh AE, Quiroz H Scheppens; CL Intraocular cysticercosis Arn J Ophthalmol 99: 252-257 1985
3 Spencer WH Ophthalmic Pathology 3rd ,ed WB Saunders 764.1985
4 Reddy PS. Satyendran OM Ocular cysticercosis in India Am J Ophthalmol 57 664-666.1994.
5 Son DK. Mathur RN Thomas A Ocular cysticercosis, in India Brit J Ophthalmol 51-630-632-1967
6 Reddy MV. Satvendran OM Sivaramakrishna K Spontaneous extrusion of subconjunctival cysticercosis; Acta Ophthalmalogica 48:321-324. 1970
7 Jain IS. Dhir SP Chattopadhyay et al Ocu!ar cysticercosis Indian J. Ophlhalmol 77'54-561. 1976)
8 Sen DK Cysticercosis cellulosae in the lacrimal gland. orbit end eye lid Acta Ophthalmalogica : 58: 144-147, 1980)
9 Baskararajan G. Srinivasan A. Sivarama Zuleramanian P. Thivagarajan S Case of cysticercosis; presenting with persisiten diplopia and spontaneous extrusion Indian J Ophthalmal 28.219-220.1981
10 Bartholomew PS Subretinal cysticercosis Am J Ophthalmol 79: 670-673: 1975.
11 Hutton WL Vaiser A. Svnder WB Pars plana vitrectomy for removal of intravitreous cysticercosis Am J Ophthalmol 81:571-573.1976
12 Sud RN, Grewal SS Spontaneous expulsion of subconjunctival cysticercosis cellulose, Afro Asian J Ophthalmology 82-83. 1982


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Belfountain Salamander Festival Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary
Media Release, News Room / Things to Do / Wednesday, September 14, 2016 Tuesday, February 9, 2021
September 14, 2016 – The Belfountain Salamander Festival is celebrating its 20th year on Saturday, September 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in partnership with Credit Valley Conservation (CVC), the Belfountain Community Organization and community partners. The festival features an artisans' market, live music and live animals with Creature Quest.
"For the past 20 years, this festival has been entertaining and educating the community," said Shawn Verge, Operations Manager, south zone at CVC. "It's a great opportunity for family time, while supporting the local community and enjoying the fall season at the park."
The festival takes its name from the Jefferson salamander, a native amphibian in Ontario. It is found primarily in the Niagara Escarpment, which runs through Belfountain. The Jefferson salamander is a protected species under the Ontario Endangered Species Act. It was listed as an endangered species in 2011. Each year visitors to the Belfountain Salamander Festival have an opportunity to learn about CVC's efforts to protect green space and native species, such as the Jefferson salamander.
Activities take place in the Village of Belfountain and Belfountain Conservation Area. Activities include:
The Village of Belfountain
Artisans market
Live entertainment, including Kewl Fusion, Melyssa Kerr and Angelina Vaccaro from the Toronto Police Pipe Band
Delicious local food featuring the Belfountain Inn's squash soup
Belfountain Conservation Area
Live salamanders
Kids Eco Zone Activity Centre
Real river critters and live animals with Creature Quest from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Admission to the festival is free. Limited parking is available for this event. Please consider carpooling.
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Conservation authorities are a provincial/municipal partnership. For over 60 years, Credit Valley Conservation has worked with its partners to support a thriving environment that protects, connects and sustains us. Credit Valley Conservation gratefully acknowledges financial support from our member municipalities for facilities, programs and services: the Regions of Peel and Halton; the Cities of Mississauga and Brampton; the Towns of Caledon, Erin, Halton Hills, Mono, Oakville and Orangeville; and the Townships of Amaranth and East Garafraxa. CVC is a member of Conservation Ontario.
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Will Smith - Defensive End - Ohio State
#18 Overall Pick: Will Smith
Defensive End - Ohio State
6-3 - 265 pounds - 4.7 40
430-pound bench press … 585-pound squat … 325-pound power clean … 33-inch vertical jump … 9-foot-6 broad jump … 4.05 in the 20-yard shuttle.
Masterful pass rusher from Ohio State and arguably the top defensive end prospect in the draft. USC's Kenechi Udeze went two picks later at #20 and contended with Smith for the top rating.
Smith, a criminology major from Utica, New York, had 30 tackles, 20 tackles for losses and 10.5 sacks as a senior. Had 8 tackles for the Buckeyes in the 2002 college national championship game against Miami. Finished fifth in Ohio State history in career sacks. An extremely active player despite facing the double team all season long, Smith also had four pass defenses and two forced fumbles. Will be a liability versus the run in the pros unless he becomes stronger.
One of the top players available overall, Smith also fills a need for the Saints because he gives them leverage in the Darren Howard negotiations. Howard is currently the locked into a one-year contract by the franchise tag and negotiations for a long-term pick have not progressed well.
Smith is a high-motor pass-rush specialist and at 265 pounds should be able to serve as a pass-rush specialist in passing downs as a rookie. Bolsters the Saints' defensive line depth and provides a possible starter down the road. Provides a core member of the Saints' defensive line rotation and in passing downs, the Saints will move Darren Howard or Charles Grant inside and allow Smith to rush from the outside.
In a 3-4 defense, Smith could be an outside linebacker but in the Saints' 4-3 scheme will be a nickel and dime-package pass rusher. There is even thought that Smith could play inside linebacker, but Smith's strengths obviously lie in the edge pass rush.
"A high-character guy, a good player," according to Saints general manager Mickey Loomis. "Obviously we like him as a player and as a person as well."
Saints Director of Player Personnel Rick Mueller: "As a senior he was playing specials teams. He's doing the kind of things you want a guy to do. A guy we had high up on our board and was kind of on our wish list in a way. I don't know if we realistically thought we'd get him. At this point in our draft, it was a no-brainer for us. I don't want to put in the Deuce McAllister area, it wasn't something he was realistically thought we'd be able to do. We feel pretty good about where we got Will Smith."
When asked by WWL and NOPF's Kenny Wilkerson about Miami DT Vince Wilfork, Rick Mueller: "Completely different kind of players. This kid's really athlete and he's got a lot of speed. You can never have enough pass rushers. We all thought it was the best thing for us."
Rick Mueller: "We were sure we wanted this guy. We didn't solicit any calls to move back, we had a couple calls but we really never got to the point where we knew what they would give us... This was a guy you looked at in the fall and knew he had special ability."
Haslett: "We had them all [other available prospects] rated around the same. We got a number of calls and we made a number of calls to try to move around. We knew we were going to get one of those five guys. Coach Belichek called and asked if we wanted to move around, we said we were going to take our pick. He said that he was our number two guy on the board, so we got a great pick... I think he has more speed than Udeze. Will's quicker, turns the edge faster, kind of slithers around. Udeze plays a lot like Darren Howard. Smith plays a lot more like a combination of Charles Grant and Joe Johnson, moves around well, moves his hips well, has a lot of power."
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Tried this one today and it filled the house with a lovely smell. We had visitors and they all gave positive comments about it too. It is so easy when the wood burner is lit just to keep topping it up. The smell circulates around the house and fills the air with natural fragrance that doesn't make me sneeze!


American architect and artist Vito Acconci has died at the age of 77 as the result of a stroke. A visionary performance and installation artist in his early career, Acconci turned to architecture and furniture design in the 1980s, subscribing to the belief that to truly make an impact on society, one needed to be designing objects that were ?part of the world.?


Yes, you still can. There is an increasing number of travel insurance companies that provide insurance protection for those who are over 80.
While once it was next to impossible to get insurance for people of this age, it is now a recognized fact that those over 80 can still enjoy traveling and actually do. Pensioners can readily afford paying for their travel, as well as travel insurance. That is why some (but not all) travel insurance companies also now provide travel insurance plans for those over 80 and the plans are designed to meet the needs of traveling pensioners.
And we highly recommend that you get travel insurance, so that when an unfortunate circumstance happens while you are on holiday, you won't have to shoulder all of the unexpected expenditures.
With travel insurance for over 80s, you can enjoy the standard benefits provided by travel insurance policies including baggage insurance, personal possessions insurance, legal costs, trip cancellation and trip curtailment. However, pre-existing conditions are particularly excluded.
At this age, the premiums will be the highest in the bracket (although it was not as expensive as it used to be). This is because insurance companies feel that the risks involved with someone over 80 falling sick and needing hospitalization or claiming against their benefits due to illness is high.
A good travel insurance plan for octogenarians provides comprehensive protection so that you are covered for almost all eventualities. It is wiser to do this than to buy the standard travel insurance you have previously bought. It will also come cheaper if you buy coverage for only for the duration of your trip, and not buy annual travel insurance. Although annual multi-trip travel insurance for this age is very rare to find. Single trip travel insurance for those over 80 would provide a more targeted coverage, as the company already knows where you are going and can fashion the product according to your needs.
When applying for the travel insurance, be sure to declare the medical conditions you already have or are awaiting diagnosis for.
> Can I have the basic travel insurance benefits, as I am over 80?


Oehrle, Elizabeth. 1999. "MUSICS OF THE WORLD'S CULTURES: A SOURCE BOOK FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS, Editors: Barbara Lundquist and C.K. Szego With Bruno Nettl, Ramon Santos and Einar Solbu, Published by the Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education (CIRCME) for the International Society for Music Education (ISME), 1998. 234 Pp.". African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music 7 (4), 189-90. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v7i4.2007.


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Sharjah Art Foundation's (SAF) Annual Art Book Fair FOCAL POINT Features More Than 120 Publishers, Magazines, Artists, Editors, Authors and Makers from the UAE and MEASA region
The 2021 Edition Opens with a Day-Long Talks Programme and Book Launches
2021 Winners of FOCAL POINT Publishing Grant to be Announced at the fair, and Past Cycles Winners to Present their Publication Projects
9–11 December 2021
Talks Programme: The Flying Saucer
10:00 am–4:00 pm, 9 December
Art Book Fair: Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square
4:00 pm–10:00 pm, 9–11 December
Free admission, booking is required.
Sharjah Art Foundation announces the programme and exhibitors for FOCAL POINT, the region's largest and most diverse art book fair. Returning for its fourth edition, the fair brings together printed matter from the MEASA (Middle East, Africa, South Asia) region, including artist books, academic volumes and journals, zines and other non-traditional and experimental publications from more than 120 publishers, magazines, artists, editors, authors and makers from the UAE and MEASA region. FOCAL POINT takes place from 9 to 11 December 2021 in Sharjah Art Foundation's Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square.
For the first time this year, FOCAL POINT will feature a day-long talks programme at the iconic Flying Saucer about new books released from the Foundation, The Africa Institute and publications supported and made possible by the FOCAL POINT Publishing Grant. The event will bring together publishers, distributors, art professionals, knowledge producers, graphic designers, writers, journalists and editors to learn about these publications.
FOCAL POINT's public programme extends throughout the art book fair with children and community workshops, music events and more.
A number of major publications and artist monographs will launch during FOCAL POINT 2021. These include:
Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination, published by Sharjah Art Foundation, The Africa Institute and Skira, a significant monograph discussing the places, people, texts, ideas and materials that have shaped the unique practice of the New York–based Egyptian artist Ahmed Morsi.
Creating Dangerously: A Postscript to Sharjah Biennial 14, a collection of essays, poems and thoughts representing an extension of the SB14 platform, Making New Time, edited by Omar Kholeif, Director of Collections and Senior Curator, Sharjah Art Foundation.
The second edition of Beirut Bereft: The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict, a collaborative publication and exhibition project by Rasha Salti and Ziad Antar, which was originally commissioned, published and produced for Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009).
Corniche 3, a SAF Community publication project which brings together artists specialised in comics and illustrations based in the UAE and broader region.
The Africa Institute will launch Selene Wendt's latest book Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories through Contemporary Art which explores the legacies of colonialism in contemporary art as well as the memoirs of Ibrahim El-Salahi, At Home in the World, tracing his life and career from Khartoum to Doha to São Paulo to New York.
FOCAL POINT 2021 Exhibitors
The art book fair brings together more than 120 publishers, magazines, artists, editors, authors and makers from the UAE and MEASA region and includes over 500 titles sourced from a variety of cultural partners and collaborators including art book fairs in Singapore and Tehran; independent, critical and arts-focused publishers from Lebanon, South Africa, Morocco, Pakistan and Palestine; as well as a selection of new magazines, zines, art and photography books, prints and other ephemera from the MEASA region.
The fair also brings together the publishing work of art and cultural organisations from the United Arab Emirates, including a selection of catalogues, artist books and other published matter produced locally and by artists from around the world who are represented by UAE galleries. FOCAL POINT will also exhibit a range of young and emerging UAE creatives, illustrators, zine makers, cartoonists and product designers.
2021 Exhibitors include:
Afterall, Al Mutwasit, Al Nahda Al Arabiya, Al Qasimi publications, Alia & Maitha Damithan, Alia Al Hammadi, Alireza Mohammadi, Ameerah Mousa, Arman Golestaneh, Art Africa magazine, Art Jameel, Asai, Atelier HOKO, Ayesha Bin Haider, Barakunan, Barjeel Art Foundation, Barthelemy Toguo, Beirut Concept Store, Black Dog Press, Blaft Publications, Bloomsbury Publishing, Book Depository, Cat Hu, Catsdraws, Chimurenga, Combined Academic Publishers, Contemporary Image Collective, Daniel Kotter, Dar Al Saqi, Dar Al Tawheed, Darat Al Funun, Department of Culture Sharjah, Dima Bittard, Editions Snoubar Bayrout, Emirates Fine Art Society, Errant Journal, Esraa Artist, Fa9la.ae, Famous Ilavbare, Fana' Collective, Fanzeen comics, Farside Collective, Fehras Publishing Practices, Galerie Clementine, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, GINGKO, Golara Jahanian, Green Art Gallery, Gulf Photo, Plus, Hadeel Ahmed, Hedieh Ahmadi, Hessa Al Zarooni, In Plain Words, IRTHI, Jabal Amman Publishers, Juliana Tan, Kalimat foundation, Kalimat Group, Kaph Books, Kawkab ElRasameen, Kayfa Ta, Khatt Books, Khawla AlMarzooqi, KULTE, La Decouverte, Lai Yu Tong, Lawrie Shabibi, Locale, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Maamoul Press, Maha Al Mazrouei, Mahmoud Safwat, Makan Magazine, Maraya Art Centre – 1971 Design Space, Mariaam's store, Mediabus, Mizna, Mophradat, Mouza Al Hamrani, Nang Magazine, Nope Fun, Nora Zeid, NYU Abu Dhabi, Paper monument, Penpowder, Plant Press, Qamise, Rafiqi, Rasamett, Rimal Books, Sadjad Ghoroqi, Salon für Kunstbuch, Samuel Nja Kwa, Sana Haroon, Saqi, Sara AlDhubaib, Sara AlKhayyal, Shabahang Tayyari, Shadah.ae, Shadda.ae, Sharjah Institute for Heritage, Sharjah Museums, Shiva Sherveh, Swalif Collective, Tara Books, Tashkeel, Temporary Press, The Africa Institute, The Funambulist, The Institute of Critical Zoologists, The Marg Foundation, The Palestinian Museum, The Third Line, TokTok Magazine, UAE Ministry of Culture and Youth, Valiz, Yaarbal Books, YaHala Studio Archive, Zaghlool Socks, Zaman Books, ZAT magazine and 3losh Store.
FOCAL POINT Talks Programme
On December 9 2021, the FOCAL POINT 2021 Talks Programme will bring together publishers, distributors, art professionals, knowledge producers, graphic designers, writers, journalists and editors from the UAE at Sharjah Art Foundation's Flying Saucer.
Sessions will include presentations of Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara's recently released monograph by artist and editor Ala Younis; a session by SAF's Director of Collections and Senior Curator Omar Kholeif about Creating Dangerously: A Postscript to Sharjah Biennial 14; a conversation about The Africa Institute's publications with Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation and President of The Africa Institute; Noora Al Mualla, Director of Learning and Research at Sharjah Art Foundation; Salah M. Hassan, Director of The Africa Institute; Edoardo Ghizzoni, International Publications Manager, Skira; Sherine Morsi, Custodian and Administrator, Ahmed Morsi Estate; and Selene Wendt, Art Historian, Curator and Writer. The second round of talks will focus on FOCAL POINT Publishing Grant supported projects with participation from past cycles awardees Ma3azef, SHFRA and Barzakh (Mansour Aziz, Nour Ezz El Dine and Bara'a Faruq Moh'd Al-Hara), Ali Essafi, hākārā journal (Noopur Desai and Ashutosh Potdar), Ridha Moumni and Gabriella Nugent.
For more information about FOCAL POINT Talks Programme, click here.
FOCAL POINT Publishing Grant
The 2021 edition of the FOCAL POINT Publishing Grant extends the Foundation's mission to provide opportunities that contribute to interdisciplinary publishing practices in the region. The grant is conceived as a means to support projects that contribute to the production of original ideas and critical thinking, and that offer experimental and innovative approaches to publishing in art and culture.
This year the Foundation will award a total of USD 30,000 to multiple grantees and provide publishing and distribution support in three categories: long-form essays, reproduction of small publications and experimental publications.
The 2021 grant awardees will be announced on 9 December 2021 at the Talks Programme held in the Foundation's Flying Saucer.
About FOCAL POINT and SAF Publishing
Launched in 2018, FOCAL POINT is an annual art book fair held in Sharjah by the Foundation to support, catalyse and promote interdisciplinary publishing practices as part of the arts ecology. Since its establishment in 2009, Sharjah Art Foundation has published a variety of books on modern and contemporary art, including artist books, exhibition catalogues and critical essays. The Foundation supports the research-based efforts of visiting artists, curators and scholars year-round and publishes catalogues for biennials and curated exhibitions available to the public.
Established in 2009 to expand programmes beyond the Sharjah Biennial, which launched in 1993, the Foundation is a critical resource for artists and cultural organisations in the Gulf and a conduit for local, regional and international developments in contemporary art. The Foundation's deep commitment to developing and sustaining the cultural life and heritage of Sharjah is reflected through year-round exhibitions, performances, screenings and educational programmes in the city of Sharjah and across the Emirate, often hosted in historic buildings that have been repurposed as cultural and community centres. A growing collection reflects the Foundation's support of contemporary artists in the realisation of new work and its recognition of the contributions made by pioneering modern artists from the region and around the world. Sharjah Art Foundation is a legally independent public body established by Emiri Decree and supported by government funding, grants from national and international non-profits and cultural organisations, corporate sponsors and individual patrons. All exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.
Sharjah is the third-largest of the seven United Arab Emirates, and the only one bridging the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Reflecting the deep commitment to the arts, architectural preservation and cultural education embraced by its ruler, Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Sharjah is home to more than 20 museums and has long been known as the cultural hub of the United Arab Emirates. In 1998, it was named UNESCO's 'Arab Capital of Culture' and was designated the UNESCO 'World Book Capital' for the year 2019.
Alyazeyah Al Marri, alyazeyah@sharjahart.org, +971(0)65444113


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'We deserve to be heard': Man on mission to make voting accessible to Americans with disabilities
Posted: Oct 28, 2020 / 06:54 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 28, 2020 / 06:55 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Voting during a global pandemic can be scary as it is. But for those with disabilities, it can be even scarier.
Approximately 35 million Americans who are living with disabilities are eligible to vote in this year's election. Quinn Bradlee, who has learning disabilities, is working to make sure every vote counts.
"This election I've never been as confused because everything is so controversial," Bradlee said.
But that didn't stop him from getting to the polls this week for early voting in Washington, D.C.
"I just decided to do it the old-fashioned way," he added.
As someone with a disability, Bradlee learned in previous elections the importance of asking for help.
"He always said 'Mom, I walk into the polling place and everybody there looks like they know what they're doing,'" Bradlee's mother Sally Quinn said.
Only about half of Americans with disabilities voted in 2016. This year, Bradlee is working to change that.
He started the "Our Time Our Vote" campaign with the nonpartisan National Center for Learning Disabilities to make voting more accessible for everyone. He's interviewed celebrities and politicians on both sides of the aisle to highlight that people with learning disabilities can make their vote count too.
"To give them the confidence, the self-confidence they need, to go out and vote," he said.
Bradlee noted it's important to be prepared and not go alone. This year, Bradlee's wife Fabiola was by his side.
"A second set of eyes," Fabiola Bradlee said.
Now, with his ballot cast, Bradlee hopes millions more Americans with disabilities get the same feeling he has.
"We deserve to be heard and all of our stories deserve to be heard," he said.
Federal law mandates that people with disabilities have the right to bring someone with them to the polls.
You can learn more about Bradlee's initiative on the "Our Time Our Vote" website.
Rep. Reed attending Biden inauguration
(WSYR) — Congressman Tom Reed with New York State's 23rd Congressional District says he will be attending President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday.
The representative encourages a smooth transition of office.


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\section{Introduction}

The classification of Ulrich bundles on projective varieties has been of interest recently. Casanellas and Hartshorne classified stable Ulrich bundles by their first Chern class over a cubic surface in \cite{CH12}. They give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of stable Ulrich bundles on a cubic surface in terms of the rank and the first Chern class. In \cite{CKM12-K3}, Coskun, Kulkarni and Mustopa proved the existence of simple Ulrich bundles of rank 2 with $c_1=3H$ on every smooth quartic surface in projective 3-space. In this note, we prove the existence of a stable Ulrich bundle of every even rank on a smooth quartic surface $X \subset \mathbb{P}^3$ with Picard number 1. By simple degree considerations, no Ulrich bundle of odd rank can exist on $X$.

We use Casanellas and Hartshorne's method, used in \cite{CH12}. First, we prove the existence of \emph{simple} Ulrich bundles of a given even rank. We will then compute the dimension of the modular family of simple Ulrich bundles with this rank. We will finally prove that the strictly semistable Ulrich bundles are parametrized by a space of strictly smaller dimension. This will then prove the existence of stable Ulrich bundles.

\subsection{Conventions}
\begin{itemize}
 \item We work over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0.
 \item $X \subset \mathbb{P}^3$ denotes a smooth quartic surface with Picard number 1.
 \item All sheaves, and all cohomology groups, are over $X$.
 \item Let $\mathcal{E}$ be a vector bundle. We denote $\mathcal{E} \otimes \mathcal{O}_{X}(H)^{\otimes t}$ by $\mathcal{E}(t)$ for $t \in \mathbb{Z}$.
 \item Stability and semistability are defined in the sense of Gieseker.
 \item We denote the various cohomology groups in capital letters, e.g. $\mbox{H}^1(\mathcal{E})$ and $\mbox{Ext}^1(\mathcal{E},\mathcal{F})$; and their dimensions in lowercase letters, e.g. $\mbox{h}^1(\mathcal{E})$ and $\mbox{ext}^1(\mathcal{E},\mathcal{F})$.
\end{itemize}
\section{Generalities}
$X$ is a K3 surface, hence its canonical bundle $K_X$ is trivial. Recall that the Picard group of $X$ is free abelian of rank 1, generated by the hyperplane class $H$.

We start with the definition of an Ulrich bundle.
\begin{defn}
A vector bundle $\mathcal{E}$ of rank $r$ is called an \emph{Ulrich bundle} if for a linear projection $\pi: X \to \mathbb{P}^2$ we have $\pi_* \mathcal{E} \cong \mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^2}^{4r}$.
\end{defn}

This condition is often impractical to use. Therefore, we will give an equivalent condition for a vector bundle $\mathcal{E}$ to be Ulrich. We first give a definition.
\begin{defn}
A vector bundle $\mathcal{E}$ is called \emph{arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay (ACM)} if for every $t \in \mathbb{Z}$ we have $H^1(\mathcal{E}(t))=0$.
\end{defn}

\begin{prop}\label{prop-ulrich}
A vector bundle $\mathcal{E}$ of rank $r$ is Ulrich if and only if $\mathcal{E}$ is ACM and its Hilbert polynomial is $P(t)=2r(t+2)(t+1)$.
\end{prop}
\begin{proof}
See \cite[Proposition 2.8]{CKM12-ternary}.
\end{proof}
\begin{rem}
This proposition shows that the definition of an Ulrich bundle is independent of the linear projection $\pi:X \to \mathbb{P}^2$.
\end{rem}

The following proposition gives the stability properties of Ulrich bundles.
\begin{prop}\label{prop-destabilize}
An Ulrich bundle $\mathcal{E}$ is semistable. If $\mathcal{E}$ is strictly semistable, then it is destabilized by an Ulrich subbundle. For an Ulrich bundle, stability and $\mu$-stability are equivalent.
\end{prop}
\begin{proof}
See \cite[Proposition 2.14 and Lemma 2.15]{CKM12-K3}. The last statement follows from \cite[Theorem 2.9 (c)]{CH12}.
\end{proof}

\begin{prop}\label{prop-23}
In the short exact sequence $0 \to \mathcal{E} \to \mathcal{F} \to \mathcal{G} \to 0$ of coherent sheaves, if any two of $\mathcal{E}$, $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$ are Ulrich bundles, then so is the third.
\end{prop}
\begin{proof}
See \cite[Proposition 2.14]{CKM12-ternary}.
\end{proof}

\begin{rem}
The above two propositions imply the following result. Any strictly se\-mi\-stable Ulrich bundle is obtained from lower rank stable Ulrich bundles by consecutive extensions. We will use this fact in the proof of the theorem.
\end{rem}

We end this section by some numerical results.
\begin{prop}\label{prop-degree}
The degree of an Ulrich bundle of rank $r$ is $6r$.
\end{prop}
\begin{proof}
This follows from \cite[Proposition 2.10]{CKM13-delPezzo}.
\end{proof}
\begin{rem}
The \emph{slope} of a vector bundle is defined to be the degree divided by the rank. Hence, the slope of an Ulrich bundle is 6.
\end{rem}

\begin{cor}\label{cor-no_odd_rank}
On $X$, there exist no Ulrich bundles of odd rank. Therefore, any rank 2 Ulrich bundle on $X$ is stable.
\end{cor}
\begin{proof}
Indeed, the hyperplane class $H$ has degree 4. The first assertion follows from the fact that no odd multiple of 6 can be divisible by 4. The second assertion follows since any rank 2 Ulrich bundle which is not stable would have to contain an Ulrich subbundle of rank 1 by Proposition \ref{prop-destabilize}.
\end{proof}

The following result will be crucial in computing dimensions of various parameter spaces.
\begin{prop}\label{prop-chi}
Let $\mathcal{E}$ and $\mathcal{F}$ be Ulrich bundles of ranks $r$ and $s$ respectively, and with first Chern classes $C$ and $D$ respectively. Then
\begin{equation}\label{eqn-1}
 \chi(\mathcal{E}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{F}) = -C.D+6rs.
\end{equation}
\end{prop}
\begin{proof}
See \cite[Proposition 2.12]{CH12}.
\end{proof}
\section{The Proof of the Main Result}

\begin{thm}
There exist stable Ulrich bundles on $X$ of every even rank $2k$.
\end{thm}
\begin{rem}
Note that by Proposition \ref{prop-degree}, for an Ulrich bundle of rank $2k$, the only possibility for the first Chern class is $3kH$.
\end{rem}
\begin{proof}
We use the method of Casanellas-Hartshorne as used in \cite{CH12}. We proceed by induction on $k$. The case $k=1$ follows from \cite[Theorem 1.1]{CKM12-K3} and Corollary \ref{cor-no_odd_rank}.

Suppose that the theorem is proved for all ranks smaller than $2k$. Choose a stable Ulrich bundle $\mathcal{F}_1$ of rank $2k-2$ and another stable Ulrich bundle $\mathcal{F}_2$ of rank 2, such that $\mathcal{F}_1 \ncong \mathcal{F}_2$ if $k=2$. (We note that this is possible since the moduli space of stable rank-2 Ulrich bundles is 14-dimensional by \cite[Theorem 1.1]{CKM12-K3}.) By Equation (\ref{eqn-1}), $\mbox{ext}^1(\mathcal{F}_1,\mathcal{F}_2)=12(k-1) > 0$ and we can choose a non-split extension of $\mathcal{F}_1$ by $\mathcal{F}_2$. Therefore, by \cite[Lemma 4.2]{CH12}, this extension is simple; and by Proposition \ref{prop-23}, it is Ulrich. Hence there exist \emph{simple} Ulrich bundles of rank $2k$ with first Chern class $3kH$.

We now compute the dimension of the modular family of simple Ulrich bundles of rank $2k$. We recall that this dimension is equal to $\mbox{h}^1(\mathcal{E}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{E})$ for a simple Ulrich bundle $\mathcal{E}$ of rank $2k$. We have $\mbox{h}^0(\mathcal{E}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{E})=\mbox{hom}(\mathcal{E}, \mathcal{E})=1$ and $\mbox{h}^2(\mathcal{E}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{E})=\mbox{h}^0(\mathcal{E}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{E})=1$ by Serre duality. Hence by Equation (\ref{eqn-1}), we get
\begin{align*}
 \mbox{h}^1(\mathcal{E}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{E}) &= 2-\chi(\mathcal{E}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{E}) \\
 &= 2-(-(3kH)^2+6(2k)^2) \\
 &= 12k^2+2.
\end{align*}

The next step is to consider consecutive extensions of stable Ulrich bundles. Consider stable Ulrich bundles $\mathcal{E}_1, \ldots, \mathcal{E}_n$ with ranks $2k_1, \ldots, 2k_n$, such that $\mathcal{E}_i \ncong \mathcal{E}_j$ if $i \neq j$. For each $\mathcal{E}_i$, the associated moduli space has dimension $12k_i^2+2$ by the calculation above; and hence the dimension of the moduli space parametrizing the choices of $\mathcal{E}_1,\ldots,\mathcal{E}_n$ is $(12k_1^2+2)+\cdots+(12k_n^2+2)$. We consider strictly semistable Ulrich bundles $\mathcal{E}$ of rank $2k$ constructed from $a_i$ copies of $\mathcal{E}_i$, $i=1,\ldots,n$, by subsequent extensions. Then we have $k=a_1 k_1 + \cdots + a_n k_n$. Write $m=a_1+\cdots+a_n$ for the total number of bundles used. We also write $l_1,\ldots,l_m$ for the sequence of the $k_i$s, where each $k_i$ is taken $a_i$ times. We denote this collection of stable Ulrich bundles by $\mathcal{C}$.

By Equation (\ref{eqn-1}), for any two Ulrich bundles $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$ of ranks $2f$ and $2g$, we get
\begin{align*}
 \mbox{ext}^1(\mathcal{F},\mathcal{G}) &= \mbox{h}^1(\mathcal{F}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{G}) \\
 &= \mbox{h}^0(\mathcal{F}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{G}) + \mbox{h}^2(\mathcal{F}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{G}) - \chi(\mathcal{F}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{G}) \\
 &= \mbox{h}^0(\mathcal{F}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{G}) + \mbox{h}^2(\mathcal{F}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{G}) + 12 fg.
\end{align*}
Now consider a collection of $a$ copies of $\mathcal{E}_i$ for some fixed $1 \leq i \leq n$, and $b$ copies of $\mathcal{E}_j$ for some fixed $1 \leq j \leq n$, with $i \neq j$ and $a + b \geq 2$. We can form an Ulrich bundle $\mathcal{F}$ by extending a member of this collection with another member, and by extending the result with another member of the collection, and so on. In other words, we can construct a strictly semistable Ulrich bundle $\mathcal{F}$ whose Jordan-H\"older factors (which are stable) are precisely this collection of $a$ copies of $\mathcal{E}_i$ and $b$ copies of $\mathcal{E}_j$. We then have $\mbox{h}^0(\mathcal{F}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{E}_i) \leq a$ and $\mbox{h}^0(\mathcal{E}_i^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{F}) \leq a$, and by Serre duality $\mbox{h}^2(\mathcal{F}^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{E}_i) \leq a$ and $\mbox{h}^2(\mathcal{E}_i^{\vee} \otimes \mathcal{F}) \leq a$. Using these bounds we obtain that, for Ulrich bundles $\mathcal{E}$ obtained from subsequent extensions of all the $\mathcal{E}_i$s in the collection $\mathcal{C}$, the moduli space parametrizing them has dimension at most
\begin{align*}
 (12k_1^2+2)+\cdots+(12k_n^2+2) + 12 \sum_{i<j} l_i l_j -(m-1)+\sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i(a_i-1).
\end{align*}

Let us explain the count above. The terms $12k_i^2+2$ for $1 \leq i \leq n$ are given by the moduli count for the $\mathcal{E}_i$. The other terms arise after considering the fact that the isomorphism classes of extensions of a vector bundle $\mathcal{E}$ by $\mathcal{F}$ are parametrized by $\mathbb{P}(\mbox{Ext}^1(\mathcal{E}, \mathcal{F}))$. The dimension $\mbox{ext}^1(\mathcal{F},\mathcal{G})$ for Ulrich bundles $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$ of ranks $2f$ and $2g$ was computed above. Subtracting 1 and taking the sum, we obtain the last three terms in the above dimension count.

After writing $k=a_1 k_1 + \cdots + a_n k_n$ and expanding $k^2$, it can be shown that the moduli count above is smaller than $12k^2+2$, which is equal to the dimension of the moduli space of simple Ulrich bundles of rank $2k$. Hence, there must exist a simple Ulrich bundle of rank $2k$ which is not strictly semistable. It follows that this Ulrich bundle is stable of rank $2k$.
\end{proof}

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