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Dundee Science Centre – SLI
Project Category: Interiors
The Science Learning Institute brief was to accommodate a series of spaces into an existing first floor void within Dundee Science Centre. Equally an exercise in services alterations as well ergonomics, the spaces were carefully slotted between existing structure and ventilation to provide additional office, meeting, education and seminar rooms. A meeting nest and breakout cell are perched above the café and exhibition areas respectively.
New offices provide bespoke work group zones and break out areas as well as staff room and toilet facilities. A small education space is also perched overlooking the exhibition areas. A large seminar space can be split into two smaller spaces if required.
The interior theme references biology and medical science with pixelated human cells and red and white blood cell abstract artwork wrapping around several spaces complimenting with amoeba-like lighting and cellular carpet finishes.
Byzantium Restaurant Dundee
Byzantium restaurant signifies the completion of a mixed-use development that has created a prominent feature on the edge of Dundee's Cultural Quarter. Aim were also appointed Architects for the host multi-storey mixed development which enabled a holistic approach to the interior to be adopted. Aim carried themes used on the building design externally into the restaurant's interior. The zinc clad curved wall continues from outside to inside bisecting the entire building continuing into the restaurant as a strategy for spatial organisation.
A warm palette of chocolate and wine materials creates a comfortable environment, while the large areas of glazing and open kitchen ensure a feeling of involvement, whether in the hustle and bustle of the restaurant, or the cultural quarter itself. On its re-opening, Byzantium quickly re-established and surpassed the reputation built from the original restaurant, with the current location remaining a popular mainstay in Dundee's culinary offering and recently re-emerging as Rishi's restaurant.
"Aim have delivered an open and warm interior that has become the leading Restaurant in Dundee. The feature kitchen and panorama are always commented on positively by our customers" - Phillip Richie, Director
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Blackadders Aberdeen
Having worked with Blackadders to successfully develop their property shop in Dundee, Aim were appointed to redesign the layout and aesthetic of their recently acquired Aberdeen office.
The primary access to the Grade-B listed building opens into the main reception where clients are met and enquiries are made. To the rear a second entrance affords access to the property shop. These two entrances are brought together around a hub of meeting rooms and ancillary facilities.
In the main reception, a new glazed meeting area opens up the space, creating an airy space for more informal appointments. The Blackadders branding has been used throughout the project, maintaining a crisp, modern feel that is now a familiar feature of Blackadders' identity.
"Aim's innovative and cutting edge design has become the benchmark for all of our Firm's marketing" - Lindsay Darroch, Partner - Blackadders
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Discovery Point Exhibition
Aim were commissioned by Dundee Heritage Trust to upgrade Discovery Point's existing award-winning exhibition introduction and education spaces on the ground floor, including a refurbishment and expansion of their function & event spaces on the first floor.
In close cooperation with the team at Discovery Point, and on a limited budget, Aim re-organised the first floor events area to maximise use introducing additional meeting and refurbished/remodelled event rooms.
The ground floor exhibition was also upgraded. A series of points for strategic intervention within the existing exhibition were identified. The redesign included a new introduction experience including a leader movie; creation of an education zone and dress-up station as well as replacing a number of the more dated exhibits with exciting new features which effectively complement and enhance the existing exhibition.
Aim designed and coordinated construction, interior and graphic design, creative direction of AV, display of star objects and continued on-site management throughout the works to completion.
The project was recognised at the DIA awards, winning the Best Interior Design award.
Dundee Science Centre – CONNECT
Aim Design worked alongside Dundee Science Centre to develop a new Stage I visitor experience, café and reception concept focusing on young people and families with accessibility and community integration at the heart of the design brief. A series of alterations and additions have been designed including reception / retail experiences, a science café and extensive exhibition areas.
The primary areas of design development focused on the transformation of the centre into a fully immersive, inspiring and accessible science learning environment. The development of the learning outcomes were driven by and developed in collaboration with regional community groups. The space includes: an under-7 zone; sensory room; design it, make it, test it workshop; interactive walls and science presentation spaces. The exhibition interactives are intentionally low-tech, mainly object-based to encourage group participation and minimise barriers between the various user groups. Interactives include: wall puzzles and tests; science booth interactives; sensory water experiments as well as mechanical and kinetic challenges.
A large prism void space is repurposed as a multi-use science activity area hosting the café. This area also incorporates science events that facilitating small booth-based events and large gatherings / group events. The entire prism includes a kinetic kaleidoscope feature suspended throughout the prism void changing in reaction to the temperature and light within the space.
McIntyres Union Street
McIntyres' Union Street project brought a previously run down corner building back into use. Originally consisting of 4 separate units, the core was removed and a new steel frame installed to provide accommodation across three levels.
The design of the interior provides a bright, spacious reception area where customers can be greeted and consultations can take place. Salon areas are treated similarly and are characterised by clean lines, crisp detailing, and minimal clutter. Feature lighting is used to enhance the minimalist spaces and continue the theme which has been set by the illuminated signage on the facade.
The McIntyres projects, including the Perth Road and Second Phase developments, have received a number of accolades including a Scottish Regeneration Award, Civic Trust Award, Dundee City Council Award, Scottish Design Award, National Salon Design Award, and a Dundee Institute of Architects' Award.
"Our designers have moved with our taste over a period of some 13 years producing bold and timeless complimentary design solutions. As with our other salon the design retains a vibrancy and does not age" - John O' Rourke
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Hutchisons Technologies New Headquarters
As part of an ongoing relationship with Hutchison Technologies LTD, Aim were commissioned to develop a design for their new headquarters in Dundee's technology park. Working within an existing split office/warehouse, the proposal strips back the current building, introducing offices, meeting and workshops over two new floors, a feature entrance vestibule, and new facade enhancements including curtain walling and wall panels.
Internally, Aim were responsible for a highly detailed design which includes architectural, interior, and graphic/branding design. Accommodation comprises: a reception area; high-spec office space; gym; breakout space; kitchen; boardroom and an array of workshop, warehouse, and other service spaces. The aesthetic blend of industrial contemporary and more controlled classic is achieved with a palette of rustic timbers, rough brick, and concrete, balanced against solid surface materials and glass to achieve a chic and warm corporate identity that resonates and compliments the innovative and modern nature of Aim's client's business.
MacRoberts Office
Consolidating their legal presence north of the central belt, MacRoberts' offices provide a series of contemporary, open plan spaces with symbolic reference to Dundee's maritime heritage. Naval architecture, nautical graphics and quotations provide subtle character to each of the two boardrooms, depicting a time when conquering the oceans and Antarctica was at the extreme of human endeavour.
The HMS Unicorn and RRS Discovery boardrooms command a prospect across the Tay estuary and are complimented by a reception and core office space completed in subtle dark wood-grain, reminiscent of tarred timber hulls and the pastel blue-greys colours of our planet's formidable oceans.
The use of pale hues and subtle geometries reflects the MacRoberts corporate brand. A blend of natural wood, glass screens and simple contemporary fittings has created a warm and welcoming place to visit and work that retains the professional appearance required of a leading solicitor's office.
"Working with Aim was a simple process. The team was open to incorporating design elements from our current offices and successfully incorporated these with their own to come up with something that truly enhances the MacRoberts' brand." - David Milne - MacRoberts
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"Aim were able to assess our current operations and facilities in order to create an office in-keeping with our corporate brand. Our new office not only fits with the MacRoberts' ethos but incorporates elements of local history that really give it a sense of place and stability; I know this is something that our clients value.'' - David Milne - MacRoberts
Tullibardine Visitor Centre
Aim completed phase one works for single malt whisky specialists Tullibardine including a £1.8M refurbishment of the distillery bonds, offices and laboratory spaces increasing the distillery maturation bond capacity by 300% and production line bottling and packaging by 90%.
Aim commenced and completed phase II works, a new £1M visitor experience, to complete the upgrade of existing visitor facilities and the distillery site overall. The project included a new whisky trail throughout the distillery, specialist tasting rooms, a cafe, offices and merchandising area.
Brand development and maximising the distillery's impact were key objectives to increasing market awareness of the product and to consolidate the Tullibardine brand within the craft whisky market. The new experience concentrates on the elite whisky brand's 'craft-whisky' appeal introducing a mix of modern chic and rustic environments to enrich the visitor experience and enhance the brand appeal.
Product display was a crucial and sensitive element of the concept proposal. Dark oak finishes and greys integrate with the core branding with subtle gold highlighting to interlace the brand and link the full product range.
Phase III works are due to commence early next year.
"Aim's visitor experience merges seamlessly with the brand development and is not over designed." John Torrance - Distillery Manager
Tullibardine Testimonial 2
"Phase I has had quite an impact. We are delighted with the brand enhancements developed by Aim. Communication and strength of brand is key in our industry if you are to be successful." John Torrance - Distillery Manager
DUSA Floor 5 Bar
With an extremely tight budget of £35k to spread over some 300m2 of interior, Aim focused on priority features in this redesign of Dundee University Students' Association's Level 5. The scheme introduces a combination of burgundy 'lounge' booth seating, finishes of flock wallpaper, and rustic brick. Baroque feature frames, neon captions, and wall motifs contrast with the industrial bulkhead and LED lighting to completely transform the space into an 'industrial chic' interior.
The strategically positioned neon sign was located within the entrance area in order to create an attractive focal point, drawing customers up the stair and into the now very popular venue at the top floor of the building.
"Our expectations were exceeded when we saw the design proposals submitted by Aim. The end result is a complete transformation that has enhanced the status of the bar as a destination and has had an immediate impact on turnover.'' - Chris Clarke - DUSA
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"Aim have worked closely with our promotions team to develop and enhance our ideas. The use of light, pattern and texture throughout the space has created a feel of restrained luxury that we had no idea could be achieved on our modest budget." - Tammy Fox - DUSA
"Aberdeen Science Centre have very much appreciated the thoughtful approach taken by Aim Design to create a display which captures the true essence of current energy issues." - Aberdeen Science Centre
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This North Carolina sign is probably the most understated historical marker in America [photographs and film]
Written by Donna R Causey on in Uncategorized
Do you remember what you were doing on the evening of January 23, 1961? Probably not. If you lived in North Carolina, or for that matter on anyway on the eastern seaboard you were probably not aware of the catastrophe taking place in the skies above your head and the site is marked by the most understated historical marker in America.
If CNN or FOX news had been around at the time, we would have heard more about this major news event.
John F. Kennedy's inauguration
To take you back in time, this was three days after John F. Kennedy was inaugurated president and the United States was in the midst of the Cold War. Because of this threat, American bombers, as part of the Strategic Air Command mission, were kept airborne at all times so they could defend our country if attacked. Feature news stories were still focusing on Kennedy's election at the time.
Something went terribly wrong with the plane
A B-52 Strotofortress, carrying a pair of Mark 39 nuclear bombs, each of which were 260 times more powerful than the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, took off from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base near Goldsboro, North Carolina on that day. The bomber and had been in the air for some hours when something went terribly wrong.
Fuel was gushing out of a leak in the plane. Nineteen tons of fuel was lost in only two minutes. The pilot attempted to make it back to Goldsboro, but the right wing suddenly sheered from the plane and the bomber plunged into a tailspin. As it began to break up, six of the crewmen ejected before the plane crashed. Five of the men who were ejected parachuted to safety, one was killed. The other crewmen were killed in the plane crash.
Two nuclear bombs broke loose over North Carolina
As the plane continued to spiraled to earth, the bombs broke loose and plunged to earth as well. A local farmer reported "I heard the whine of an airplane about to land, then there was a big explosion. It almost knocked me out of bed. I got up and ran to the window and saw my whole field on fire," Witnesses said the plane spun through the sky "like a roman candle," finally hitting somewhere near Musgrave's Crossroads, between Patetown and Eureka."
Lieutenant William R. Wilson, one of the survivors, told of his experience parachuting into the surrounding swampland: "I don't know how it happened. I know when I landed in the field I felt awfully good. I felt like running. I went to a house and a fellow got his wife up and they fixed some coffee. They thought at first I was a prowler when I told them I had jumped out of an airplane. I must have been bad looking." The co-pilot, Major Richard Rardin, also gave his account of the crash: "I could see three or four other chutes against the glow of the wreckage. The plane hit ten or twelve seconds after bail out. I hit some trees. I had a fix on some lights and started walking. My biggest difficulty getting back was the various and sundry dogs I encountered on the road."
One bomb found
When responders arrived at the crash scene fifteen miles from Goldsboro, they found one of the nuclear weapons in a field with its parachute deployed and tangled in the branches of a tree. However, the second bomb was entombed in mud where it had struck the ground at nearly 700 miles per hour.
EOD personnel work to recover the buried Mk. 39 thermonuclear bomb that fell into a Faro, NC field in 1961.
The Greensboro Record reported "Jet Carrying A-Weapons Crashes" as a headline, the military kept secret just how close the accident came to causing a nuclear catastrophe. The Pentagon claimed at the time that there was no chance of an explosion and that two arming mechanisms had not activated. A newly declassified document obtained by the Freedom of Information Act by Eric Schlosser as part of the research for his new book, "Command and Control," reveals the danger.
Secret document written in 1969
First published by the Guardian, the secret two-page document was written in 1969 by Parker F. Jones, the supervisor of the nuclear weapons safety department at Sandia National Laboratories. "While the nuclear devices that fell near Goldsboro were equipped with safety devices to prevent accidental explosions, much as revolvers have safety catches, Jones reported that three of the four safety mechanisms in the bomb that had deployed its parachute had become unlocked during its plunge to the ground. Two were rendered ineffective by the breakup of the aircraft, and a third was set off by the fall. Fortunately, the last failsafe, a low-voltage switch, worked. In 2013, ReVelle recalled the moment the second bomb's switch was found. "Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, 'Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch.' And I said, 'Great.' He said, 'Not great. It's on arm.'"
Air Force personnel working in an underground pit to recover parts of an MK-39 nuclear bomb.
According to the Guardian, "When the bomb hit the ground, a firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device, and it was only that final, highly vulnerable switch that averted calamity. One simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe," Jones wrote. Nuclear experts estimate that the blast would have instantly killed everything within an 8.5-mile radius. Lethal radiation fallout could have traveled up the Atlantic seaboard and stretched as far north as New York.
Came close to having a Bay of North Carolina
ReVelle, speaking to a writer in 2011 of the bomb that he said nearly detonated: "As far as I'm concerned we came damn close to having a Bay of North Carolina. The nuclear explosion would have completely changed the Eastern seaboard if it had gone off." He also said the size of each bomb was more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, and large enough to have a 100% kill zone of seventeen miles. Each bomb would exceed the yield of all munitions (outside of testing) ever detonated in the history of the world by TNT, gunpowder, conventional bombs, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts combined. Thankfully, the near-disaster resulted in more stringent safeguards being placed on America's nuclear arsenal.
Bomb had broken into several pieces
"More alarming information about the crash was revealed later. In 1992, Congress released a summary of the Goldsboro accident indicating that, according to investigators, upon impact the parachute-less bomb had broken into several pieces, one of which was never found. The missing piece contained uranium, and it was believed that it may have struck the ground so hard that it sank deep into the soft, swampy earth. Crews excavated the surrounding farmland to a depth of fifty feet, but were unable to recover the missing piece. Two days after the accident, officials at nearby Seymour Johnson Air Force Base asked that all visitors to the crash site return any aircraft parts they may have removed.
The officials claimed that these parts were needed to assess the cause of the accident, though they made no mention of the missing portion of the bomb. The Air Force eventually purchased an easement to the area surrounding the crash site, in order to prevent any land use or digging. Radiation tests have been conducted on the crash site and surrounding area over the years, though no harmful substances have been detected.
July 2012 a historical road marker erected
In July 2012, the state of North Carolina erected probably the most understated historical road marker ever in the town of Eureka, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the crash site, commemorating the crash under the title "Nuclear Mishap." The memorial lists the names of three aircrew who died in the accident: Sergeant Francis Roger Barnish (35), Major Eugene Holcombe Richards (42), and Major Eugene Shelton (41).
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Javier Enrique Caso Ravelo (born 20 March 1986) is a former Mexican football player who last played for Zacatepec.  He suffered a broken jaw in a game in September 2011.

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Presented at the Third Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS 93) in Victoria, British Columbia October 1993.
in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, A.S.P. Conference Series, Vol. 61, 1994, Dennis R. Crabtree, R.J. Hanisch, and Jeannette Barnes, eds., p. 191.
The information contained in the two CDROMs of the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog has been condensed into a series of all-sky maps. The magnitudes of Guide Stars of the northern and southern hemispheres, which were taken on different types of plates have been calibrated to produce a statistically accurate V-filter flux map of the Milky Way galaxy. Individual object fluxes cannot be calibrated accurately, but by using a large number (16,000 for the first pass, 180,000 for the second) of sources near the equator which were measured on both Palomar and SERC plates, an average calibration can be fit. An intermediate step in the calibration produced a catalog of 180,524 objects in the GSC for which measurements at two colors exist. A catalog binning program, SKYPIC, developed from SKYMAP was used to produce two-dimensional FITS images from the Guide Star Catalog. Maps of source density, as well as flux maps of sources flagged as non-stellar, show excesses at the edges of plates.
The Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog (described by Lasker, et al. 1990, Sturch, et al. 1990, and Jenkner, et al. 1990, and Space Telescope Science Institute 1992) is a valuable resource for astronomers. In addition to helping to point the Hubble Space Telescope, it can be used to aid earth-based observations. A program, SKYMAP, has been developed to search the catalog and make finder charts for astronomical observation (Mink, 1992). Software was also developed to create images from flux points for the Spacelab 2 Infrared Telescope (Kent, et al. 1992). It was a logical step to combine these programs and make all-sky flux images of the Guide Star Catalog. The resulting SKYPIC program adds the improved map projection and catalog access features of SKYMAP to the flux-binning capabilities of the Spacelab 2 IRT software to produce flux images from any point source catalog.
To make an image from a typical star catalog, the first step is to turn the magnitudes in the catalog into energy flux, which is proportional to 10 to the -2.5V power. For the Guide Star Catalog, the "V" magnitude from the Northern Hemisphere Quick V Palomar plates was use as the standard, and a scale factor was chosen such that the smallest non-zero bin value was one.
Each sky position was then projected into an image array. For all-sky maps, the Aitoff projection was used, using the same algorithm algorithm as the IRAS All-Sky survey plates (IRAS Explanatory Supplement 1988). For the first pass, a 30-arcminute pixel size was used, giving an image with 720 pixels in longitude and 360 pixels in latitude. Positions and magnitudes for selected sources were read from the Guide Star Catalog CDROMs. For objects with multiple entries, error-weighted mean positions and magnitudes were used. The image levels are scaled so that the faintest star gives one count. For the first attempt, all magnitudes were assumed to be at the same bandpass. Figure 1 shows the result, scaled using SAOIMAGE's histogram method to bring out low flux levels without diminishing bright pixels. The brightness demarcation at the equator shows that magnitudes from the SERC-J plates in the Southern Hemisphere do not mean the same thing as those on the PAL-V Northern Hemisphere plates.
There are 180,524 Guide Star sources which appear on both SERC-J and PAL-V. Since an image of the whole sky is being created, only statistical colors matter, not colors of individual sources. A second-order polynomial, chosen to speed the millions of evalutations needed, was fit to the plate magnitudes of the two-color sources as shown in Figure 2. An upper magnitude limit of Mag(PAL) + Mag(SERC) less than 29.5 was chosen to keep magnitude limit difference between the two plate types from biasing the fit. To eliminate misidentifications, sources whose positions differed by more than one arcsecond were also ignored. The fit was used to convert SERC-J magnitudes to PAL-V magnitudes.
Figure 3 shows the calibrated image with 15-arcminute bins bringing out more structural detail. Note that there is some faint structure following plate edges. This excess flux may be due to unidentified duplication of sources due to errors in astrometry near plate edges.
Figure 4 shows only sources flagged as non-stellar in the Guide Star Catalog. The structure is more pronounced, indicating that there is more flux from nonstellar sources in plate overlap regions, especially in the northern hemisphere (on the upper left). Fuzzy images at plate edges may cause an excess number of nonstellar sources. There may be multiple entries for the same sources due to bad plate solutions near the edges of Schmidt plates.
"Guide Star Catalog Version 1.1", 1992, CD-ROM, Baltimore: Space Telescope Science Institute.
"IRAS Explanatory Supplement", 1988, eds. G. Neugebauer, H. Habing, P. Clegg, and T. Chester. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
Jenkner, H., Lasker, B., Sturch, C., McLean, B., Shara, M., and Russell, J. 1990, Astronomical Journal 99, 2081.
Kent, S.M., Mink, D., Fazio, G., Koch, D., Melnick, G., Tardiff, A., Maxson, C. Astrophysical Journal Supplement 78, 403.
Lasker, b., Sturch, C., McLean, b., Russell, J., Jenkner, H., and Shara, M. 1990, Astronomical Journal, 99, 2019.
Mink, D.J. 1993, in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems II, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 52, eds. R.J. Hanisch, J.V. Brissenden, and J. Barnes, 499.
Russell, J., Lasker, B., McLean, B., Sturch, C., and Jenkner, H. 1990, Astronomical Journal, 99, 2059.


The stylish and sophisticated Susanna's Secret (Il segreto di Susanna), is a comedy opera built on marital misunderstanding, full of fun and frothiness. A man suspects his wife is having an affair when he smells cigarette smoke from her clothes, and strives to discover her secret with hilarious consequences. OTC OPERA HUB artists Rachel Croash (soprano) and Rory Musgrave (baritone) star in Wolf-Ferrari's opera, which is wryly observant about the secrets that couples keep. Tom Creed (DEEP, KAF 2014) directs, with Andrew Synnott conducting the OTC touring ensemble. Sung in English, in a new translation by Tom Swift, this is a rare opportunity for opera lovers to see this classic short work, and a perfect introduction to opera for newcomers.
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\section*{Supplementary Material}

To supplement our discussion in the main text of the nature of the putative gapless QSL phase
in proximity to the boundary between the FM and incommensurate spin spiral phases,
we here provide six supplemental plots with additional numerical data which are referred to in the main text.

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\section{Representative pf-FRG flows}

As a technical supplement to our pf-FRG calculations used to determine the phase diagram in Fig.~\ref{fig:PD_summary}
of the main manuscript and to identify suppressed magnetic ordering scales in Fig.~\ref{fig:FM_Heisenberg}, we present
typical FRG flows of the magnetic structure factor in Fig.~\ref{fig:flow_examples}.
Magnetic ordering is indicated in these flows by a breakdown of a smooth flow/curve.
Such a breakdown is easily identifiable if a sharp peak forms in the flow;
in such cases, we identify the critical scale $\Lambda_c$ (plotted in Fig.~\ref{fig:FM_Heisenberg} of the main text)
as the last data point before that peak.
In more subtle cases, where only a weak shoulder-like feature emerges in the flow,
we define the local minimum in the second derivative of the flow as the breakdown point.
The signature of the flow breakdown in the IC phase [$(J_2, J_3) = (0.5, -0.2)$ in the figure] is subtle in the structure factor flow
but becomes clearer in the scaling behavior of on-site correlation $\Delta\chi_{ii}$,
as shown in the inset of Fig~\ref{fig:flow_examples}.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{Figures/flow_examples.pdf}
\caption{
{\bf Structure factor flows from pf-FRG} for various coupling parameters/phases.
Flow breakdowns, marked by triangles, indicate the formation of magnetic ordering.
The inset shows differences in on-site spin-spin correlation flow
between different lattice sizes, i.e.,
$\Delta\chi_{ii}\equiv |\chi^{L=15}_{ii} - \chi_{ii}^{L=11}/\chi_{ii}^{L=11}|$.
}
\label{fig:flow_examples}
\end{figure}

Of particular technical interest to pf-FRG practitioners might be the fact that our pf-FRG simulations
for the anisotropic model indeed allows to see the formation of $zz$-ordering in a system that only
exhibits XY couplings. This is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:supp4} where the magnetic $zz$ structure factor
shows a clearly discernible breakdown in this XY model.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{Figures/zz_ordering_2.pdf}
\caption{
{\bf pf-FRG flows in the Ising ordered phase.}
The main panel shows the structure factor flow for its $xx$ and $zz$ components,
with the dominant wave vectors $\vec{Q}^\star$ chosen independently for the two components.
The inset shows the structure factor at $\Lambda_c$ for the two components (from which $\vec{Q}^\star$ is chosen).
}
\label{fig:supp4}
\end{figure}

\section{Stability of quantum spin liquid phase} \label{sec:Stability}

To demonstrate the stability of the spin liquid forming along the boundary of the ferromagnetic phase,
we here present a number of additional line cuts through the phase diagram of Fig.~\ref{fig:PD_summary}
in the main text. Figure \ref{fig:supp1} shows a horizontal cut (varying $J_2$) for antiferromagnetic and
ferromagnetic $J_3$ in the left/right panels of Fig.~\ref{fig:supp1}, respectively.
Similar to the $J_3=0$ scan of Fig.~\ref{fig:ED_results} in the main text an intermediate phase with a collapsing energy
spectrum is clearly discernible, flanked by clear signatures in the second derivative of the ground-state energy.

\begin{figure}[!t]
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{Figures/N32vsN24_finite_J3_v2.pdf}
\caption{
{\bf Stability of the QSL phase for finite $J_3$}.
Shown are the energy-spectrum and ground state energy, calculated by ED for (a) $N = 24$ and (b) $N = 32$ sites,
along a horizontal cut of varying $J_2$.
}
\label{fig:supp1}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=.9\columnwidth]{Figures/J2cut_v4.pdf}
\caption{
{\bf Stability of the QSL phase for a vertical $J_3$ cut} for fixed $J_2 = 0.25$.
The upper panels show the energy-spectrum, ground state energy (and its second derivative)
as well as spin-spin correlation functions for varying distances (indicated by the color shading).
In addition, we show the static structure $S(\bm{q})$ for three values of $J_3$, corresponding
to the ferromagnetic ($J_3=-0.2$), spin liquid ($J_3=-0.1$), and zig-zag phases ($J_3=0.1$).
Note that in contrast to the classical and pf-FRG calculations the ring-like feature in the structure
factor survives in the spin liquid regime for these ED calculations.
All data were calculated by ED for the $N = 24$ cluster with periodic boundary conditions.
}
\label{fig:J2_cut}
\end{figure}

A vertical cut (varying $J_3$ for fixed $J_2$) is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:J2_cut}, with again similar signatures in the
spectrum and ground-state energy. Of particular interest here, might be the spin-spin correlations. In real space, they exhibit
a strong suppression on the level of second and third neighbor spins (where they almost exactly vanish in the
spin liquid regime along this cut), while further neighbor spin-spin correlations are non-negligible. When we look at the spin structure factor in momentum space, we see a ring-like
feature for small momenta -- a feature which is, of course, reminiscent of the spin spiral ring of the classical model.
We note that this feature is not stable for any finite $J_3$ in the classical model nor in our pf-FRG calculations
pointing to strong quantum fluctuations as the source of this feature.

\section{Energy level spectroscopy}

The quantum disordered nature of the spin liquid phase can also be revealed by looking at energy level spectroscopy \cite{Wietek2017}.
In Fig.~\ref{fig:tos} we plot  the energy spectrum, obtained in our ED calculations, against the spin quantum number $S\cdot(S+1)$
of the respective eigenstates. The lower panel shows data for the magnetically ordered, stripy phase. Here one can clearly discern
a {\em tower of states} \cite{Wietek2017}, as indicated by the black solid line -- a hierarchy of magnetic excitations expected for any
magnetically ordered state. In contrast, the upper panel shows the energy level spectroscopy for the spin liquid regime. No tower
of states is discernible in this data, and the overall energy scale is suppressed by two orders of magnitude in comparison the magnetically
ordered state in the lower panel (while the coupling strengths differ only by an order of magnitude in the two panels).

\begin{figure}[h!]
\includegraphics[width=.9\columnwidth]{Figures/tos_v2.pdf}
\caption{
{\bf Energy level spectroscopy} for ED data of $N=24$ system.
The stripy phase (lower panel) shows a clear tower of states \cite{Wietek2017}  indicated by the black line,
while such a structure is absent in the spin liquid phase (upper panel). Note also the significant difference in the energy scales on the vertical axes between the two phases.
}
\label{fig:tos}
\end{figure}

\section{Dimer-dimer correlations}

In the main text, we discuss that one key distinction between anti- and ferromagnetic nearest neighbor interactions is the tendency
of such couplings to favor/disfavor the formation of local singlet dimers. While for the antiferromagnetic case one finds a quantum disordered
regime in which a plaquette valence bond crystal forms (indicated by the purple region in the insets of Fig.~\ref{fig:PD_summary},
no such phase exists for ferromagnetic nearest neighbor couplings.
This can easily be seen by the absence of any appreciable dimer-dimer correlations as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:supp3}.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=.9\columnwidth]{Figures/dd_correlation.pdf}
\caption{
{\bf Dimer-dimer correlations in the QSL phase.}
Shown are results from ED calculations for the $N = 24$ site cluster with periodic boundary conditions.
}
\label{fig:supp3}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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THE BENJAMIN CHEF CONCIERGE JOINS RANKS OF PRESTIGIOUS LES CLEFS D'OR USA
NEW YORK (July 6, 2011) – The Benjamin, a boutique luxury hotel centrally located on Lexington Avenue and 50th Street,
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Q: Minikube mount fails with input/output error Kinda what it says on the tin. I try doing minikube mount /some/dir:/home/docker/other_dir &, and it fails with the following error:
Mounting /some/dir into /home/docker/other_dir on the minikube VM
This daemon process needs to stay alive for the mount to still be accessible...
ufs starting
ssh command error:
command :
sudo mkdir -p /home/docker/other_dir || true;
sudo mount -t 9p -o trans=tcp,port=38902,dfltuid=1001,dfltgid=1001,version=9p2000.u,msize=262144 192.168.99.1 /home/docker/other_dir;
sudo chmod 775 /home/docker/other_dir;
err     : exit status 1
output  : chmod: changing permissions of '/home/docker/other_dir': Input/output error

Then, when I do a minikube ssh and ls -l inside /home/docker, I get this:
$ ls -l
ls: cannot access 'other_dir': Input/output error
total 0
d????????? ? ?   ?   ?            ? other_dir

UPDATE:
After some experimenting, it looks like the problem arises when /some/dir has a user other than the current user. Why this is the case is unclear.

A: which version of minikube are you running ? It' working for me on minikube version v0.20.0.

minikube mount /tmp/moun/:/home/docker/pk
Mounting /tmp/moun/ into /home/docker/pk on the minikube VM
This daemon process needs to stay alive for the mount to still be accessible...
ufs starting

It's working good and I can create file too,

$ touch /tmp/moun/cool

we can check file at,

$ minikube ssh
$ ls /home/docker/pk
cool

A: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/1822
You'll need to run the minikube mount command as that user if you want to mount a folder owned by that user.

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Waylon Jennings' Classic Hit "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way"
The century-old debate of whether "real country music is dying" is not new in the music industry. Even back then, the echoes of "old traditional country music isdying" had always been heard. Especially when Waylon Jennings, a country legend, voiced his opinion back in 1975.
He had strong feelings about it to the point that he had to record a song. This was of course inspired by the great artist, Hank Williams which he mentioned in the title. The song was the first song under his album Dreaming my Dreams.
Waylon Jennings via CTD
Waylon Jennings Shares His Sentiments
Just when we thought that "Murder on Music Row" was one of the first to criticize the dying spirit of country music, we discovered that Waylon already voiced it back in 1975. Waylon released the song to pay his tribute to Hank Williams and at the same time, criticize the way country music has changed.
He questioned if the remaining country artists can do what Williams did. With the focus on shiny suits and shiny cars, is the quality of music consistent? Or is there a shift towards aesthetics being more prioritized than the authenticity and raw emotions of a song? Hank Williams, who recently topped the list of 100 Most influential country artists made by the Rolling Stone was, of course, a trailblazer in the industry. Waylon perfectly described what he felt in his lyrics:
Lord it's the same old tune, fiddle, and guitar
Where do we take it from here?
Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars
It's been the same way for years
We need a change
Country fans sure do agree with Waylon's sentiment. This was the singer's fourth record to hit No.1 in the country charts. With it staying for 16 weeks in the country charts, it sure made a lot of buzz among the country fans. The song was also covered by prominent figures such as Alabama for their Waylon Jennings tribute album. It was covered by Hank Williams Jr, and other names such as Jack Ingram, Pat Green, Cory Morrow, and Robert Earl Keen.
Listen to Waylon Jennings' song here:
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M. S. Subbulakshmi
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often considered Asia's Nobel Prize, in 1974 with the citation reading "Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the carnatic tradition of South India. She was the First Indian who performed in United Nations General Assembly in 1966."
Subbulakshmi (Kunjamma to her family) was born on 16 September 1916 in Madurai, Madras Presidency, India to veena player Shanmukavadiver Ammal and Subramania Iyer. Her grandmother Akkammal was a violinist.
She started learning Carnatic music at an early age and trained in Carnatic music under the tutelage of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and subsequently in Hindustani music under Pandit Narayanrao Vyas.
Her mother, from the devadasi community, was a music exponent and a regular stage performer, and Subbulakshmi grew up in an environment very conducive to musical learning. Her musical interests were also shaped by regular interactions with Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer, Mazhavarayanendal Subbarama Bhagavathar and Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar.
Subbulakshmi gave her first public performance, at the age of eleven, in the year 1927, in the 100 pillar hall inside the Rockfort Temple, Tiruchirappalli; with Mysore Chowdiah on the violin and Dakshinamurthy Pillai on the mridangam. This was organised by the Tiruchirappalli-based Indian National Congress leader F. G. Natesa Iyer.
Move to Madras
In 1936 Subbulakshmi moved to Madras (now Chennai). She also made her film debut in Sevasadan in 1938. Her debut to the world of cinema was again opposite F. G. Natesa Iyer.
Musical Style and Performance
M.S. Subbulakshmi (left) with S. Varalakshmi in Sevasadhanam (1938)
Singing career
M.S. Subbulakshmi began her Carnatic classical music training under her mother Shanmugavadivu; and later in Hindustani classical training under Pandit Narayan Rao Vyas. Subbulakshmi first recording was released when she was 10 years old.
Subbulakshmi gave her first performance at the prestigious Madras Music Academy in 1929, when she was 13 years old . The performance consisted of singing bhajans (Hindu hymns). The academy was known for its discriminating selection process, and they broke tradition by inviting a young girl as a key performer. Her performance was described as spellbinding and earned her many admirers and the moniker of musical genius from critics. Soon after her debut performances, Subbulakshmi became one of the leading Carnatic vocalists.
By the age of seventeen, Subbulakshmi was giving concerts on her own, including major performances at the Madras Music Academy.
She travelled to London, New York, Canada, the Far East, and other places as India's cultural ambassador. Her concerts at
Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama in 1963 2. Carnegie Hall, New York; the UN General Assembly on UN day in 1966 3. Royal Albert Hall, London in 1982 4. Festival of India in Moscow in 1987
were significant landmarks in her career. In 1969 she was accompanied by Indian Railways Advisor SN Venkata Rao to Rameswaram, where she sang several songs in front of each idol in the Rameswaram temple.
She shared a very cordial relation with Sree Ramaseva Mandali Bengaluru for whom she performed 36 concerts.
After the death of her husband Kalki Sadasivam in 1997, she stopped all her public performances.
M.S. also acted in a few Tamil films in her youth. Her first movie, Sevasadanam, was released on 2 May 1938. F.G. Natesa Iyer was the lead actor, opposite Subbulakshmi, in this film, directed by K. Subramanyam. It was a critical and commercial success.Ananda Vikatan favourably reviewed the film on 8 May 1938:
We should always expect something from Subramaniam's direction – for instance depiction of social ills. If we have to say only two words about this talkie based on Premchand's story it is – Go see (it).
Sevasadanam is one of the early Tamil films to be set in a contemporary social setting and to advocate reformist social policies.The film is an adapted version of Premchand's novel Bazaar-e-Husn.The veteran Marxist leader N. Sankaraiah, has described Sevasadanam as an "unusual film" for choosing the subject of marriages between young girls and old men (which had social sanction). According to him, the film successfully broughtout the "sufferings of the girl" (acted by M.S.) and the "mental agony of the aged husband".(acted by F.G.Natesa Iyer).Tamil film critic and historian Aranthai Narayanan observes in his bookThamizh Cinemavin Kathai (The Story of Tamil Cinema) that "Seva Sadhanam proved a turning point in the history of Tamil cinema. In the climax, the aged husband, now a totally changed man, was shown as casting aside with utter contempt his 'sacred thread', which symbolises his Brahmin superiority. It came as a stunning blow to the then Brahmin orthodoxy."
MS Subbulakshmi also played the male role of Narada in Savitri (1941) to raise money for launching Kalki, her husband's nationalist Tamil weekly. Her title role of the Rajasthani saint-poetess Meera in the eponymous 1945 film gave her national prominence. This movie was re-made in Hindi in 1947.
YearFilmLanguageRoleCo-StarDirectorMusicBanner1938SevasadanamTamilSumathiF. G. Natesa IyerK. SubramanyamPapanasam SivanMadras United Artists Corporation1940SakuntalaiTamilShakunthalaG. N. Balasubramaniam, Radha ViswanathanEllis R. DunganThuraiyur Rajagopala Sarma & Kamaldas Gupta1941SavithiriTamilSaint NaradaY. V. Rao, Shanta ApteY. V. RaoPapanasam SivanRoyal Talkie Distributors1945Meera TamilMeerabaiChittor V. NagaiahEllis R. DunganS. V. VenkatramanChandraprabha Cinetone1947 MeerabaiHindiMeerabaiChittor V. NagaiahEllis R. DunganS. V. VenkatramanChandraprabha Cinetone19471000 Thalai Vaangi Apoorva ChinthamaniTamilDancerV. N. JanakiT. R. SundaramG. RamanathanModern Theatres
M. S. Subbulakshmi wearing saree of a colour which has become synonymous to her name – MS Blue.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had this to say about M.S. Subbulakshmi- "Who am I, a mere Prime Minister before a Queen, a Queen of Music". While Lata Mangeshkar called her Tapaswini (the Renunciate), Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan termed her Suswaralakshmi (the goddess of the perfect note), and Kishori Amonkar labelled her the ultimate eighth note or Aathuvaan Sur, which is above the seven notes basic to all music. The great national leader and poet Sarojini Naidu called her "Nightingale of India". Her many famous renditions of bhajans include the chanting of Bhaja Govindam, Vishnu sahasranama (1000 names of Vishnu), Hari Tuma Haro and the Venkateswara Suprabhatam (musical hymns to awaken Lord Balaji early in the morning).
She was widely honoured, praised and awarded. Some of the popular ones include:
Padma Bhushan in 1954
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1956
Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1968
Ramon Magsaysay award (often considered Asia's Nobel Prize) in 1974
Padma Vibhushan in 1975
Sangeetha Kalasikhamani in 1975 by The Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai
Kalidas Samman in 1988
Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration in 1990
Bharat Ratna in 1998
She was honoured as a resident artist of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams. Tirupati Urban Development Authority (TUDA) has installed a bronze statue of M.S. Subbulakshmi at the Poornakumbham circle in the temple town. It was unveiled by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy on 28 May 2006.
The Kancheepuram Saree shade known as MS Blue was named after her by the well known Congress party member and philanthropist, Sri Muthu Chettiyar when they met at the residence of Sri R. Aiyadurai and Smt. Thangam Aiyadurai at Lady Desikachari Road, Madras, who were close friends of MS and Sadasivam.
A commemorative postage stamp on her was issued on 18-December-2005.United Nations decided to issue stamp to mark birth centenary M.S. Subbulakshmi,She was bestowed with enormous prize moneys with these awards, most of which she donated to charity. She has given more than 200 charity concerts and raised well over Rs. 10,000,000. She was awarded honorary degrees from several Universities. She was an ardent devotee of Kanchi Mahaswamigal and she rendered his composition Maithreem Bhajatha (O World! Cultivate peace) in her concert at the UN in 1966. She made a 20-minute recording of Venkatesa Suprabhatam for HMV, the royalty from which goes to the Veda Patasala run by the Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam. She donated many of the royalties on several best sold records to many charity organisations.


The temp is below zero. Your nose freezes shut when you go outside. Roads are narrow with snow. We take happy pills or drink wine to get through the dark days. Sometimes we gather in coffeehouses, windows steamy; to argue about the Governor, healthcare reform, or the best snowblower.
We dream of sun and beaches. Green things.
I chop and toss the ice mountains in my yard, trying to make room for the next big dump of snow. I gaze with incomprehension at snowblowers in the stores. So shiny, all lined up from cheapest ($189) to deluxe ($1589). My neighbors all have them: greasy, roaring, gassy monsters.
I'm low-tech: I scoop and shovel.
Yesterday I bought a roof rake ($39.40). I assembled it with difficulty: the directions were pictures of bolts, nuts, and pipes. I snowshoed around my house and garage, raking snow and ice from the roofs. When a nut fell off and the rake started to fall apart, I repaired it with duct tape. I knocked off icicles and abandoned wasp nests. It was fun.
I have 4 studded snow tires on my car. The tires look like they are full of nails. Pretty good in the snow.
We've had long dark days. More snow predicted. A January thaw would be good about now.
Here's an idea for all you inventors and engineers.... how about putting solar panels on cell phones so we can recharge them in a sunny window? Yeah! How about that?
Reading about this miracle man from Brazil: John of God.
The visitors to his healing compound wear white. Spirit physicians work through him. He sometimes operates with a table knife. He speaks Portuguese.
So I was thinking that AMI and CMI are separate, discrete processes. Nope. You can have both!
I'm talking about the human immune response. AMI is antibody-mediated immunity and CMI is cell-mediated immunity. The chemical messengers are cytokines, histamines, prostaglandins, and leukotriennes. (Spell check doesn't like prostaglandins and thinks perhaps I mean prostitution. And for leukotriennes perhaps I really meant to say crestfallenness.) Anyway. I thought AMI led to certain conditions and CMI to others.
Today I was reading about RA (rheumatoid arthritis) and trying to figure it all out. See, RA starts out as an AMI process, then CMI jumps in.
RA starts with some unknown, unidentified, and probably variable antigen. The body makes an antibody for that mysterious antigen, and this antibody is called RF, rheumatoid factor. They can do a lab test to check for RF in your blood; that helps the physician diagnose the condition. So far this is AMI.
Then the RF antibody gloms onto the antigen, they get into a wrestling match and fall down into the synovial tissue of your joint. Now this isn't just one antigen-antibody wrestling match, oh no, it's happening in joints all over your body.
When the antigen and antibody hook up, this is called an immune complex. The immune complex, like I just said, falls into the synovial tissue. Let's say it jabs into the tissue. This causes inflammation. Now the cells of the CMI system run over and start multiplying. T cells and cytokines jump in and try to quell the inflammation, but they actually just make things worse.
When the T cells attack the immune complexes, it just causes more inflammation and more damage. Tissue erodes. Fluids, connective tissue, and even bone are eaten away by these inflammatory processes. You can see the damage in the fingers, you know, when someone has RA.... their fingers splay out crookedly and their knuckles are all swollen. That's the inflammatory process gone postal.
So. RA. AMI and CMI. Too many firefighters at the fire. They get too excited and chop down the house.
So yesterday I listened to 5 hours of lectures on Buddhism from Berkeley.
Was inspired by lecturer's techniques and information.
re Buddhism. If you want want want something and you get it, you won't be satisfied. You have to release the wanting and just be.
Example. You want a new electronic gadget because you've been feeling blue. You get the gadget. It isn't enough. You're still blue.
hmmm.... Maybe if you upgrade?
Yes, it was sunny. Ten degrees F (12 degrees C) but warm enough. I thought of what Pierre said. Pierre is from West Africa: Benin and Togo. He said, "Anyone can live in Maine. They just have to have the right clothes." I picture him fairly bundled up as he said this.
I was wearing 3 shirts, snowpants and jacket, wool and silk hijab scarf, boots, hat, thick gloves, and snowshoes. All quiet and no one else on the mountain. The snow was soft and dry.
So I snowshoed up, Fluff following happily in the windblown areas, more reluctantly where the snow was deep. I could see sled tracks and beer cans at the bottom; the students are back from Christmas break. We got above the tree line; the granite top was bare.
Sirens rang around the base of the mountain. I saw fire trucks. I started thinking about cytokines.
See, I taught inflammation and the immune response this week. A 5-hour lecture. Cytokines are messengers of the immune cascade. They're like fire alarms. They start the whole process of inflammation: the cascade of histamine, arachidonic acid, prostaglandins, and leukotriennes.
The cytokines have to get it right. Is it a 1-alarm fire or a 5-alarm fire? If the cytokines don't call enough fire-fighters, then the house burns down. The infection takes over, the person goes septic: they could die. They call in too many fire-fighters? The fire-fighters soak the house with water, chop holes everywhere, the house collapses. Too much of an immune response leads to autoimmune diseases like ulcerative colitis, ankylosing spondylitis, multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthritis. The body attacks itself.
So cytokines have to get it just right. The right number of fire-fighters, with the right skills, and the house is saved. People go back in, the house hums with life.
Anyway. Those were my thoughts on top of Mt David this morning.
Here's a link to an article, Positive Energy.
Planning to snowshoe up Mt David this weekend. We got over a foot of snow on Wednesday, and it might rain next week, so this weekend is the time to go.
So what's up with the birds and fishes? Seems like every day there are mass quantities of them showing up dramatically dead.
Is this a terribly sad manifestation of man? Is it something we humans have done to the environment, to Mother Earth? Is it pollution, noise, or manipulation of energies? Maybe it's microwaves, energy as a weapon, or the shifting of the poles.
Or maybe it's The Great Shift. Maybe communities of animals, insects, plants, etc are transcending to another dimension. Maybe Earth is splitting like an atom and populations of birds and fishes are splitting too. Make like a tree and leave.
Firecrackers: that's the official explanation.
And what about the bees and bats; let's not forget them. They too are having survival issues.
My response: reiki. It's all I know to do. Just send reiki to the birds, bees, bats, and fishes. Send reiki to Mother Earth. Wishing you all a very reiki day.
So those are the fastest rising google searches. What about reiki? Spiritual path, enlightenment, Earth-splitting transcendence and all of that?
Reiki is amazing. Our clients don't just participate in chakra cleansing, obstruction clearing, and energy uploads: oh no. They embark on a spiritual path that takes them... who knows where?
One thing I really like about reiki is this: reiki practitioners laugh. Isn't that the best medicine? When I get together with my practitioners we laugh. Clients too. Laugh and cry, just like a good movie. Connect thru laughter today.
Who's invented the laughter icon? "lol" is so overused.
OK, just had a very reiki 48 hours. Taught a reiki class with people with cancer, did reiki sessions with people with cancer, and did a reiki share with practitioners. It has been very reiki.
The best part? I got to do reiki with Kathi. She is a gifted intuitive; she sees so much. She works well with people to help them see.
One client today had an amazing life-changing vision while on the table. She met her spirit guide, who gave her advice. She said she felt like she was gone for days. It isn't just reiki, it's a spiritual journey for some of our clients.
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Tiny bubbles are good in Hawaii, but no good in your syringe. See below.
So today it was fun with needles. I instructed nursing students on the proper technique for administering subcutaneous and intra-muscular medications. SQ and IM, in nurse talk.
We discussed locating anatomical landmarks, selecting the proper gauge and length of the needle, selecting the appropriate syringe, the volume and viscosity of medications, assessing the adipose tissue of the client, Insulin, Lovenox, the 8 rights of injecting medications, the angle of approach, medication packaging systems, the physics of surface tension in drawing from an ampule, how not to lose a finger when playing with EpiPens, tiny bubbles are good in Hawaii but no good in the hospital, and safety features to prevent needlesticks. Tomorrow they will be tested.
PS: I would prefer to be on the business end of the needle.
Happy New Year! 1-1-11. The dog & I snowshoed to the top of Mt David, here in Lewiston. Sunny and 52 degrees. The snow was slushy, deep in places. We went up through the woods. Saw lots of footprints, no people. The view from the top was amazing. I could see many LA landmarks: the green onion domes of the Kora Temple, Saints Peter & Paul Basilica, Bates campus, and Home Depot at the foot of Mt Auburn.
I could hear traffic and sirens from the city below. Heard crows and saw them circling above. I enjoyed the fresh air and good energy. Nice spot, a little bit wild in the middle of the city.
According to mountainzone.com, "Mount David is a mountain summit in Androscoggin County in the state of Maine (ME). Mount David climbs to 354 feet (107.90 meters) above sea level. Mount David is located at latitude - longitude coordinates ... of N 44.10674 and W -70.20811."


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using UnityEngine;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reflection;

using jsval = JSApi.jsval;

public class JSB_UnityEngine_GUI_GroupScope
{

////////////////////// GroupScope ///////////////////////////////////////
// constructors

static bool GroupScope_GroupScope1(JSVCall vc, int argc)
{
    int _this = JSApi.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
    JSApi.attachFinalizerObject(_this);
    --argc;

    int len = argc;
    if (len == 1)
    {
        UnityEngine.Rect arg0 = (UnityEngine.Rect)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        JSMgr.addJSCSRel(_this, new UnityEngine.GUI.GroupScope(arg0));
    }

    return true;
}

static bool GroupScope_GroupScope2(JSVCall vc, int argc)
{
    int _this = JSApi.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
    JSApi.attachFinalizerObject(_this);
    --argc;

    int len = argc;
    if (len == 2)
    {
        UnityEngine.Rect arg0 = (UnityEngine.Rect)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        System.String arg1 = (System.String)JSApi.getStringS((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        JSMgr.addJSCSRel(_this, new UnityEngine.GUI.GroupScope(arg0, arg1));
    }

    return true;
}

static bool GroupScope_GroupScope3(JSVCall vc, int argc)
{
    int _this = JSApi.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
    JSApi.attachFinalizerObject(_this);
    --argc;

    int len = argc;
    if (len == 2)
    {
        UnityEngine.Rect arg0 = (UnityEngine.Rect)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        UnityEngine.Texture arg1 = (UnityEngine.Texture)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        JSMgr.addJSCSRel(_this, new UnityEngine.GUI.GroupScope(arg0, arg1));
    }

    return true;
}

static bool GroupScope_GroupScope4(JSVCall vc, int argc)
{
    int _this = JSApi.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
    JSApi.attachFinalizerObject(_this);
    --argc;

    int len = argc;
    if (len == 2)
    {
        UnityEngine.Rect arg0 = (UnityEngine.Rect)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        UnityEngine.GUIContent arg1 = (UnityEngine.GUIContent)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        JSMgr.addJSCSRel(_this, new UnityEngine.GUI.GroupScope(arg0, arg1));
    }

    return true;
}

static bool GroupScope_GroupScope5(JSVCall vc, int argc)
{
    int _this = JSApi.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
    JSApi.attachFinalizerObject(_this);
    --argc;

    int len = argc;
    if (len == 2)
    {
        UnityEngine.Rect arg0 = (UnityEngine.Rect)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        UnityEngine.GUIStyle arg1 = (UnityEngine.GUIStyle)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        JSMgr.addJSCSRel(_this, new UnityEngine.GUI.GroupScope(arg0, arg1));
    }

    return true;
}

static bool GroupScope_GroupScope6(JSVCall vc, int argc)
{
    int _this = JSApi.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
    JSApi.attachFinalizerObject(_this);
    --argc;

    int len = argc;
    if (len == 3)
    {
        UnityEngine.Rect arg0 = (UnityEngine.Rect)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        System.String arg1 = (System.String)JSApi.getStringS((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        UnityEngine.GUIStyle arg2 = (UnityEngine.GUIStyle)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        JSMgr.addJSCSRel(_this, new UnityEngine.GUI.GroupScope(arg0, arg1, arg2));
    }

    return true;
}

static bool GroupScope_GroupScope7(JSVCall vc, int argc)
{
    int _this = JSApi.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
    JSApi.attachFinalizerObject(_this);
    --argc;

    int len = argc;
    if (len == 3)
    {
        UnityEngine.Rect arg0 = (UnityEngine.Rect)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        UnityEngine.Texture arg1 = (UnityEngine.Texture)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        UnityEngine.GUIStyle arg2 = (UnityEngine.GUIStyle)JSMgr.datax.getObject((int)JSApi.GetType.Arg);
        JSMgr.addJSCSRel(_this, new UnityEngine.GUI.GroupScope(arg0, arg1, arg2));
    }

    return true;
}

// fields

// properties

// methods

//register

public static void __Register()
{
    JSMgr.CallbackInfo ci = new JSMgr.CallbackInfo();
    ci.type = typeof(UnityEngine.GUI.GroupScope);
    ci.fields = new JSMgr.CSCallbackField[]
    {

    };
    ci.properties = new JSMgr.CSCallbackProperty[]
    {

    };
    ci.constructors = new JSMgr.MethodCallBackInfo[]
    {
        new JSMgr.MethodCallBackInfo(GroupScope_GroupScope1, ".ctor"),
        new JSMgr.MethodCallBackInfo(GroupScope_GroupScope2, ".ctor"),
        new JSMgr.MethodCallBackInfo(GroupScope_GroupScope3, ".ctor"),
        new JSMgr.MethodCallBackInfo(GroupScope_GroupScope4, ".ctor"),
        new JSMgr.MethodCallBackInfo(GroupScope_GroupScope5, ".ctor"),
        new JSMgr.MethodCallBackInfo(GroupScope_GroupScope6, ".ctor"),
        new JSMgr.MethodCallBackInfo(GroupScope_GroupScope7, ".ctor"),

    };
    ci.methods = new JSMgr.MethodCallBackInfo[]
    {

    };
    JSMgr.allCallbackInfo.Add(ci);
}

}

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Houghton and Wyton June 2008 Pottery Report
Houghton and Wyton June 2008 Test Pit Location Map
Houghton and Wyton July 2008 Pottery Report
Houghton and Wyton July 2008 Test Pit Location Map
Eighteen test pits were excavated in 2008 in the now-conjoined villages of Houghton and Wyton, bringing the total number of test pits excavated to thirty-seven. An area of Iron Age activity with pottery spanning the middle and late Iron Age was identified between the two present villages and the more evidence was found for a linear spread of material of Roman date between the edge of the flood plain and the Huntingdon Road. A single sherd of early/middle Saxon ware dating to 6th-8th century AD hinted at the possibility that the earliest post-Roman settlement lay in the area immediately south-west of the present site of Houghton church. Settlement in Houghton in the 9th to 11th centuries appears to have been focused further to the north, between the church and Huntingdon Road, and seems to have been of a reasonable size, larger or more intensively occupied, it appears on current evidence, than Wyton.


It is past time to shed the illusion that talks with the Afghan Taliban can result in a grand bargain that somehow resolves the Afghan conflict. The belief that there is, after all, nothing to lose in trying to bring the insurgents to the negotiating table is misguided. Three years of continuing American attempts to get talks going have had consequences that are anything but benign. These efforts have diverted attention from needed domestic reforms; undermined confidence in the critical economic, political, and security transitions underway with the departure of U.S. and other NATO forces; and harmed prospects for a viable Afghan state after 2014.
The damage accruing from mostly wishful thinking about reaching a comprehensive settlement with the insurgents is widely evident. It has planted doubts about American intentions and further strained Washington's testy relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Karzai and his close advisors have interpreted American diplomatic initiatives as deliberately sidelining the Kabul government's participation in negotiations. Fears that the United States and Pakistan are working in tandem to strike a deal with the Taliban that would divide up Afghanistan have also worsened Kabul's already acrimonious relations with Islamabad. The Karzai government's own peace initiatives have also intensified differences with Pakistan, which is accused of blocking Taliban participation in talks. Karzai's recent visit with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while cordial, is unlikely to end those suspicions.
But the most destructive fallout from the ill-founded prospect of a negotiated peace with the insurgency has been its effect on the Afghan people, only a minor fraction of who support the Taliban's return. The possibility that the Taliban might once again wield power has exacerbated ethnic tensions within Afghanistan. In particular, the country's northerners detect what they believe to be a Pakistani solution that cedes the south and east to the Taliban, who are then thought certain to make a bid for power over the entire country.
Overall, the possibility of a Taliban return to power has spread confusion among Afghans and intensified hedging strategies beyond those already occasioned by the withdrawal of foreign forces. Local and foreign economic investment has dried up, and the flight of human and physical capital has accelerated. Afghans in the provinces and districts, many ambivalent in their loyalties, have greater reason to distance themselves from Kabul. While Afghan leaders keep pursuing a political outcome, the country's security forces are being asked to take greater risks against the insurgency.
The allure of a political settlement in Afghanistan for the United States and others is, perhaps, understandable. With an outright military victory against the Taliban unlikely in the foreseeable future and an insurgency that faces great difficulty in overrunning the country, it is tempting to conclude that both sides are ready for a negotiated peace. A power-sharing agreement would presumably avoid further conflict and the high probability of a protracted civil war. Talks hold out the promise that with the Taliban and its allies joining a political process, a stable, inclusive Afghan government could emerge. Necessary compromises might shift the country in a more conservative religious direction, but an agreement, it would be hoped, could preserve the core of the Afghan constitution and protect the social and economic gains of the last 12 years. Certainly the Afghan people are anxious to see an end to 35 years of almost continuous warfare.
For departing coalition forces, a political solution would avoid testing the ability of the Afghan security forces to fend off the insurgency. By fostering an agreement, the United States and its allies could be absolved of the criticism that they will desert the Afghan people. Despite all they have failed to accomplish, these countries could say that the years of military involvement were justified by having laid the groundwork for a durable peace.
Afghanistan's neighbors also see the attractions of a political outcome as they all fear the uncertainties of a civil war that might follow the withdrawal of foreign troops. None would welcome an outright Taliban military victory that might spill extremist ideas and militants across their borders. Even Pakistan recognizes the possible gains from a political accord, albeit one that promotes its interests. Although it firmly backed Taliban efforts to wrest full power in Afghanistan until 2001, that was before Pakistan had to contend with a radical Islamic insurgency of its own.
Yet all of the various back channels employed by the United States to get the Taliban to start negotiating have only revealed that they have no strong incentive to stop fighting. The more tireless the U.S. efforts to get a peace process going, the seemingly more convinced the insurgents are of American desperation, and the more they believe their current strategies are working. While those in the West may doubt that there is a military solution, the insurgents apparently still believe in one.
Supposedly among an increasingly divided Taliban leadership there are those who favor holding peace talks, but even these alleged pragmatists offer little hope for serious negotiations. Privately they have made it clear that their side will not agree to a ceasefire and disarming, or accede to many of the basic principles of the constitution. The Taliban have shown no interest in negotiating directly with the Karzai government, and it is doubtful that they would accept the presence of any foreign military personnel in the country post 2014. The Taliban representatives who opened a political office in Doha proved to be mainly interested in winning the release of the group's prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and in gaining legitimacy for the insurgency.
It is high time that the United States and its partners stop believing that there exists a shortcut to ending the Afghan conflict and a clear path for a graceful exit. The United States should instead concentrate its remaining resources and influence in the country on working with the Afghan government to improve its governance, development, and security forces. There may indeed be a political outcome in Afghanistan, but only when elements of the insurgency, seeing that the state is here to stay, conclude that time is not on their side and their grievances are best addressed within the system. Such a peace is likely to be realized through the gradual reintegration of insurgents in hundreds of small agreements across the country, not around a negotiating table in Doha or anywhere else.


In the most basic and simple sense, order fulfillment means the complete process of transacting business – you sell a product, and you deliver it to the purchaser. Customer orders as well as any forwarding requests they may have can be easily handled. If you're looking at transactions that would entail delivery of products to the United States, a US mailing address as well as remailingservices are ideal for purchasers who transact with businesses that cater to persons within the United States. Being a seller, you don't have to put up a physical office and hire extra personnel in the United States for you to do business there. As a matter of fact, if you have a US mailing address, you can send as well as deliver products in and around the United States through third party services that are reliable and efficient at forwarding products and getting them there on time. This way, you can save on operational expenses by outsourcing your deliveries to third parties that are focused primarily on logistics services. Because of this, you can concentrate on your core business as well as boost profits. This is an ideal business model for you primarily because you will be saving hundreds and thousands of dollars that you can use to expand your production capacity, or ramp up your marketing campaign. By using a forwarding address, you will keep your customers happy as well as a healthier balance sheet where you can boost profits and keep expenses at a minimum.
Postal mail forwarding doesn't have to be difficult. You just have to avail the services of a trusted and reputable forwarding company.


• Electrocardiogram (ECG). This first test done to diagnose a heart attack records the electrical activity of your heart via electrodes attached to your skin. Impulses are recorded as waves displayed on a monitor or printed on paper. Because injured heart muscle doesn't conduct electrical impulses normally, the ECG may show that a heart attack has occurred or is in progress.
• Blood tests. Certain heart enzymes slowly leak out into your blood if your heart has been damaged by a heart attack. Emergency room doctors will take samples of your blood to test for the presence of these enzymes.
• Chest X-ray. An X-ray image of your chest allows your doctor to check the size of your heart and its blood vessels and to look for fluid in your lungs.
• Echocardiogram. An echocardiogram can help identify whether an area of your heart has been damaged by a heart attack and isn't pumping normally or at peak capacity.
• Coronary catheterization (angiogram). A liquid dye is injected into the arteries of your heart through a long, thin tube (catheter) that's fed through an artery, usually in your leg or groin, to the arteries in your heart. The dye makes the arteries visible on X-ray, revealing areas of blockage.
• Exercise stress test. Stress tests measure how your heart and blood vessels respond to exertion. Your doctor may also order a nuclear stress test, which is similar to an exercise stress test, but uses an injected dye and special imaging techniques to produce detailed images of your heart while you're exercising. These tests can help determine your long-term treatment.
• Cardiac computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These tests can be used to diagnose heart problems, including the extent of damage from heart attacks.
• Aspirin. Aspirin reduces blood clotting, thus helping maintain blood flow through a narrowed artery.
• Thrombolytics. These drugs, also called clot busters, help dissolve a blood clot that's blocking blood flow to your heart. The earlier you receive a thrombolytic drug after a heart attack, the greater the chance you'll survive and with less heart damage.
• Other blood-thinning medications. You'll likely be given other medications, such as heparin, to make your blood less "sticky" and less likely to form clots. Heparin is given intravenously or by an injection under your skin.
• Nitroglycerin. This medication, used to treat chest pain (angina), can help improve blood flow to the heart by widening (dilating) the blood vessels.
• Beta blockers. These medications help relax your heart muscle, slow your heartbeat and decrease blood pressure, making your heart's job easier.
• ACE inhibitors. These drugs lower blood pressure and reduce stress on the heart.
• Coronary angioplasty and stenting. Doctors insert a long, thin tube (catheter) that's passed through an artery, usually in your leg or groin, to a blocked artery in your heart. If you've had a heart attack, this procedure is often done immediately after a cardiac catheterization, a procedure used to locate blockages.


Muntinlupa City will have a special non-working day holiday this coming March 1. The said city in southern Metro Manila will be marking its 18th anniversary of its charter on the said day. Residents of Muntinlupa City will effectively enjoy a three-day weekend since this holiday falls on a Friday.
This particular holiday is stipulated in Republic Act 9191 which was signed by then-President Fidel V. Ramos back in 1998. Read the full text of RA 9191 here. Muntinlupa's formal conversion from being a municipality into a highly urbanized city happened during the time of Ramos. RA 7926, otherwise known as the Charter of the City of Muntinlupa, came into effect in 1995. Access RA 7926 here, and know more about the pay rules set by the Labor Department for special non-working holidays here.


Most people want to believe that they can stand by their marriage vows no matter what happens. However, some people may discover that the new Mr. or Mrs. has a severe mental illness. In other cases, you or your spouse may develop a mental illness later in life. Many people will stand by their husband or wife "in sickness," but time may bring greater and greater stress to the marriage with no respite in sight. If you or your spouse has a mental disorder that is breaking down the marriage, is there an exit ramp?
Can I Divorce My Spouse If They are Mentally Ill?
Generally, an individual has capacity to divorce if that individual understands the nature of a divorce and the legal and financial consequences of being divorced. A mental illness may impair mental or emotional function, but as long as the person understands what a divorce is and how it will affect his or legal and financial status, the person can still divorce or be divorced.
Example #1 – A spouse with bipolar disorder may go through "manic" episodes where the person stays up all night and spends thousands of dollars in a month and then pivots to extreme depression where the person refuses to get out of bed and might physically hurt themselves if they do. Legally, it would be possible to obtain a divorce, even if doing so might trigger a depression episode.
Example #2 – A spouse is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and believes that an old employer is blackmailing his wife and the family court judge into divorcing him. Legally, it would be possible for the wife to obtain a divorce, although a guardian might be appointed to manage the husband's interests (for example, to prevent the husband from filing a frivolous appeal which would further exhaust his financial resources).
Example #3 – A spouse with Alzheimer's Disease forgets that she was married and cannot remember she jointly owns a vacation home and two joint bank accounts with her husband. In this case, a court could rule that the spouse lacks capacity to divorce and the ruling would likely be affirmed on appeal.
Note that these are only examples and that courts determine capacity on a case by case basis. Consult an attorney to determine whether you or your spouse has capacity to marry or divorce.
Is It Moral to Divorce My Spouse If They're Ill?
Some parties may worry about the moral or social effects of divorcing a spouse with mental illness. After all, marriage vows state that couples will support each other "in sickness or in health." Many divorcees may feel guilty about leaving a lover in his or her time of need.
Moral considerations are ultimately up to each individual. However, if a mentally ill spouse is draining you for years on end, it may be imperative to your own health and mental/emotional well-being to at least separate from the other spouse, at least for a little while.
Just as a party must have capacity to divorce, parties must have capacity to marry before getting married in the first place. Capacity to marry is similar to the capacity to divorce: an individual has capacity as long as he or she understands what a marriage is and how marriage would impact his or her legal and financial standing.
In some cases, it may be easier for a newly married couple to file for annulment due to mental incapacity to marry instead of trying to go through a divorce. If one of the parties didn't understand that he or she was getting married, annulment will be a valid option.
On the other hand, annulment will be more difficult to prove. Unlike divorce, the party seeking annulment must actually prove that one of the parties lacked capacity to marry, while divorces today are typically no-fault divorces and no offer of proof is required.
Although a spouse with a mental illness may have the capacity to be divorced, the mental illness may present obstacles to child custody. The Court will have two competing obligations. In all child custody cases, a judge must act in the child's best interests. A judge must put the well-being of the children ahead of any other considerations. On the other hand, federal law requires that courts reframe from discriminating against mentally disabled individuals.
The compromise against these two competing interests is to determine whether a mentally disabled individual would be able to care for the children without endangering them. Judges cannot assume that a parent is unfit merely because he or she has a disorder. Parties must actually prove that the parent with mental disorder is unable to serve as a parent. And even if a disability might interfere with a parent's ability to care for children, certain accommodations such as medication or supervision should be considered before visitation is reduced or custody removed.


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Windhill Realty was looking for a way to reach new potential customers in their local area, but in a very focused and cost-effective way. The traditional true search campaign in place did well, but they were looking to expand while still maintaining a modest budget.
Matter built out a Google Display Network campaign targeting topical publications and event blog websites in their market. Image ads and messaging featured on their site was leveraged to boost relevance and likelihood of being displayed on chosen sites.
Overall impressions for the account grew by 511% month over month, along with an increased customer base. Brand awareness is at an all-time high, according to internal client data and is expected to increase as the campaign continues to run.


Tuesday, November 13 at 7:00 PM, Norway House's Minnesota Peace Initiative presents a free, open-to-the-public program, "The Degeneration of Democracy." This topic is timely, as current democracies--including the United States--continue to face challenges both from within and abroad. With the belief that a well-informed public is critical to an effective democracy, the Minnesota Peace Initiative hopes this forum will provide an opportunity for thoughtful discussion of current events.