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Is my car allowed for Lyft? What model vehicle do I need to drive for Lyft? Can I drive for Lyft with my 10 year old car?
Looking to drive for Lyft? Your first step would be checking if your vehicle meets Lyft's minimum requirements. Lyft has created guidelines for what types of cars are eligible within each Lyft service and we have gathered these guidelines and the accepted makes and models below.
First, for all Lyft services there is a standard set of mimimum vehicle requirements, listed below.
Minimum Requirements for all Lyft Services
Meet your city's vehicle age requirement (This varies but in most places if your car is less than 15 years old, it should meet the Lyft vehicle requirements for your state or market)
Have at least four doors, not including jump doors
Offer five to eight seats, including the driver's (No full-sized vans such as 12 or 15-passenger vans like Ford Transit and E-Series, GMC Savana)
Good condition with no significant cosmetic damage
No salvage or rebuilt title
No commercial branding
Additional Requirements for Lyft Plus, Premier, and Lux
In addition to the above criteria, Lyft Plus, Premier, and Lux vehicles have some further requirements.
Lyft Plus
Lyft Plus is the service designed for larger groups.
Vehicle must seat at least 6 passengers
It is important to note that Lyft Plus drivers receive requests for both Plus and regular rides. In other words, you can't be a Lyft Plus only driver.
Lyft Premier
Lyft Premier is a higher-end Lyft service for customers who are willing to pay more to get a ride in a nicer vehicle.
Luxury vehicles from these brands: Acura, Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Infiniti, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz
Lyft Lux
Lyft Lux is Lyft's highest-end service.
Premium interior: Leather or leather-like material only. No cloth interiors.
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Lastly, see the specific makes and models that Lyft allows for each service below. If you do not see your car listed but believe your vehicle meets all of the above criteria contact Lyft directly as they may make an exception.
Eligible Models by Vehicles
While there's no publicly available list of vehicles for Lyft and Lyft Plus, we assume the approved vehicles list is similar to the UberX and UberXL car lists.
Acura ILX, MDX, RDX, RL, RLX, TL, TLX
Audi A4, A4 Allroad, A6, A7, A8, Q3, Q5, Q7, RS4, RS7, S4, S6, S7, S8, SQ5
Bentley Continental Flying Spur, Mulsanne
BMW 3 Series, 5 Series, 4 Series Gran Coupe, 6 Series Gran Coupe, 7 Series, ActiveHybrid 5, ActiveHybrid 7, ActiveHybrid X6, ALPINA B6 Gran Coupe, ALPINA B7, M5, M6 Gran Coupe, X1, X3, X4, X5, X6
Buick Enclave, Envision, LaCrosse, Regal, Regal Sportback
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Chevrolet Suburban, Tahoe
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Genesis G80, G90
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Hyundai Equus, Genesis
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Translating research ideas into products and services
For research to progress, new ideas need to be translated into new products, protocols or treatments that can benefit patients.
This can be split into four types of outputs generated throughout the translation process:
Protection and licensing of intellectual property
Spin out companies
Medical products and interventions
Software and technical products
3% of the awards generated 224 registered, protected and licensed intellectual properties
0.7% of the awards generated 39 spin out companies
5% of the awards generated 397 medical products and interventions
1% of the awards generated 102 software and technical products
Protecting and licensing intellectual property
Translating research can lead to the creation of intellectual property; an idea, design or invention owned by the person who created it. Researchers can register and protect their intellectual property to prevent theft or copying by registering for copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks. They can also license it by partnering with another person or business to authorise their partner to use the intellectual property in exchange for an agreed payment.
3% (164) of 5,287 awards generated 250 registered, protected and licensed intellectual properties. 224 of these were unique [1]
The majority (68%) of intellectual properties were not yet formally licensed, with almost 60% in the process of being applied for
Case study: Sparks
Researchers developed and patented a gas delivery-ventilator system to help protect long term brain function in babies starved of oxygen at birth
A variety of complications during birth can lead to babies being starved of oxygen, a condition known as asphyxia. Approximately two in 1000 babies born at full term in the UK develop brain dysfunction due to birth asphyxia. Left untreated 66 per cent of babies starved of oxygen will die or be left severely disabled due to brain injuries. The first effective treatment for reducing brain injury in oxygen starved infants – cooling to 33.5˚C for 72 hours – was established following international clinical trials, one of which took place in St Michael's Hospital, University of Bristol, led by Professor Marianne Thoresen. It was adopted as the standard treatment throughout the developed world and globally saves 1,500 babies from being disabled each year. Following this, Sparks funded Professor Thoresen and her team to investigate whether combining cooling with the administration of Xenon gas could reduce the risk of severe disability even further.
The researchers showed that Xenon combined with cooling protected the brain better than cooling alone in animal models of asphyxia but they needed to develop a safe and cost-effective delivery system for the rare and expensive gas. In collaboration with Dr John Dingley from Swansea University (AOX Ltd), the team successfully patented a new ventilator system that achieved this. The system is now being used in a human phase II clinical trial of Xenon in birth asphyxia being run by Professor Thoresen's team at the University of Bristol. If further trials are successful, the team would have developed a combination therapy that improves the outcome and reduces the severity of disability for thousands of babies who suffer birth asphyxia worldwide each year.
Translating research can result in the creation of spin out companies to commercialise the new product or process. In addition to ultimately helping patients, these companies contribute to the growth of the UK's economy and generate further jobs in our thriving life sciences sector.
0.7% (36) of 5,287 awards generated 42 spin out companies, 39 of these were unique [1:1]
Case study: Pancreatic Cancer UK
New immunotherapies for cancer are being driven to market by a researcher-led spin out company.
In the UK, pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of all the 21 most common cancers, with just five per cent of people living for five years or more after diagnosis. There has been growing interest in a new treatment for pancreatic cancer, immunotherapy, which uses the immune system to fight against cancer cells.
When you have an infection, T cells in your blood attack and kill the infected cells. They recognise which cells to kill because infected cells display specific protein fragments on their surface that are absent from healthy cells. Cancerous cells also often display proteins on their surface that aren't present on healthy cells but T cells do not recognise these naturally.
Pancreatic Cancer UK funded researchers, led by Dr John Maher at King's College London have been developing a cutting edge treatment known as CAR-T therapy, which involves engineering a patient's immune cells to recognise a protein (αvβ6 integrin) expressed on tumour cells and subsequently attack and eliminate the cells.
King's College London formed a spin out company called Leucid Bio, to enable the research team to put the infrastructure in place to develop the therapy, get extra investment and start clinical trials. In 2015, the team began a CAR-T therapy trial in head and neck cancer patients that will give the first indication of the safety of their CAR-T system. Leucid Bio aims to begin clinical trials of CAR-T therapy for pancreatic cancer within the next few years.
Translating research can lead to the creation of medical products and interventions which can be tested via clinical trials.
5% (282) of 5,287 awards generated 434 developed and tested medical products and interventions, 397 of these were unique [1:2]
Types of medical products and interventions generated:
The majority were drugs, followed by non-imaging and imaging diagnostic tools
Figure 8. Top 5 types of medical products and interventions generated
Support Tool - For Fundamental Research 3%
Therapeutic Intervention - Physical 3%
Therapeutic Intervention - Radiotherapy 3%
Support Tool - For Medical Intervention 3%
Therapeutic Intervention - Psychological/Behavioural 3%
Management of Diseases and Conditions 2%
Therapeutic Intervention - Vaccines 2%
Preventative Intervention - Behavioural risk modification 2%
Therapeutic Intervention - Surgery 2%
Preventative Intervention - Nutrition and Chemoprevention 1%
Preventative Intervention - Physical/Biological risk modification 1%
Health and Social Care Services 0%
Products with applications outside of medicine 0%
Therapeutic Intervention - Complementary 0%
Figure 9. Other types of medical products and interventions generated
Case study: Fight for Sight
A diagnostic tool that screens 176 genes at once has improved the accuracy and speed of diagnosis in patients with retinal dystrophy.
Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRD) are a group of conditions that deteriorate the sight of one in 2,500 people. IRD can be caused by changes in over 200 different genes, meaning patients have very varied ages of onset and levels of severity. This makes diagnosing the condition extremely challenging and leads to uncertainties for management and treatment.
Fight for Sight funded a five year programme ('Regard' - REsearching Genetics And Retinal Dystrophy) to help improve healthcare provision for patients with IRD. At the time screening for genetic causes of IRD was possible only for a minority of patients because it was done on a gene by gene basis.
Regard researchers were able to develop a diagnostic tool that allowed genetic testing to become more thorough and widely available. The tool is capable of testing multiple genes at the same time to identify the cause of disease. The project also provided the NHS with evidence of the value of a consistent approach to genetic testing and patient care in IRD.
This test is now available throughout the NHS to patients and families of those with IRD. The test uses just one sample from a patient to screen all ~180 genes minimising the number of times patients need to see healthcare professionals before diagnosis and reduces the time taken to receive the results. The results provide an accurate, definitive diagnosis, which helps medical professionals assess risk for the patient and family members, and plan appropriate counselling.
Medical research can result in the creation of software and technical products that have the potential to help patients.
1% (69) of 5,287 awards generated 111 software and technical products, 102 of these were unique [1:3]
Types of software and technical products generated:
Most were software or webtools/applications.
A third of the products were open source – meaning the product source codes were made freely available
Figure 10. Types of software and technical products generated
Other types of Software or Technical Products
Detection Devices 3%
New Material/Compound 2%
Physical Model/Kit 1%
Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering 1%
Case study: Stroke Association
Intervention delivered in an online virtual island designed to help people with aphasia practice everyday speech has been shown to improve functional communication
250,000 people are living with aphasia in the UK. It is caused by damage to the regions of the brain that control language, usually as a result of stroke. Aphasia can eliminate or reduce the use of speech, with associated problems in reading, writing and speech comprehension. The consequences for a person's life are profound and feelings of social isolation are common.
EVA Park is an online virtual island designed to help people with aphasia practice their conversation skills and enhance their social connectedness. It was co-designed by a team led by Professor Jane Marshall and people with aphasia. Users including speech therapists and those with aphasia are represented in the world by personalised avatars and communicate via speech in real time, using a head set and microphone. In an initial trial of the system, 20 participants had five weeks' access to EVA Park. Participants made significant gains on an assessment of functional communication.
EVA Park was presented at numerous scientific conferences, published in the journal Plos One, and covered in multiple features in the mainstream media. It also received a prestigious TechforGood 2015 People's Award, and leveraged £224,000 in further funding. The team aims to develop EVA Park into a mainstream therapy resource widely available for people with aphasia.
Paula Smejka, whose husband John lives with aphasia, commented: "The last day of John's time in EVA Park coincided with the end of school term and as usual we all went out for tea - that day was the first day in almost three years that John ordered his own dinner in a restaurant. That was a massive step back to normality for our family."
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Gorgeous views on these Heritage Roads will make you feel like you're not in S'pore
Mothership.SG·2018-01-21 16:40
If you ever get tired of the hustle and bustle of our city, there are some old roads in Singapore that will transport you to a different time and place.
These roads are certainly worth that slow drive down on a lazy weekend.
Most of us are familiar with the idea of conserving heritage buildings and heritage areas, such as Chinatown, Kampong Glam, and Little India in Singapore.
But it is probably not very well-known that we actually have heritage roads that are conserved.
Back in 2001 the government adopted the Garden City Action Committee's (GCAC) proposal for a Heritage Road Scheme to conserve some of our island's historic tree-lined roads.
The GCAC is a government committee that ensures that greenery is factored into Singapore's development.
Some roads in Singapore are flanked by mature trees — those that have been growing for several decades, some for more than 40 years.
Screenshot of NParks' video
These trees create a unique ambience, making a road scenic, unique, significant, and worthy of conservation under the Heritage Road Scheme.
Roads that are gazetted under the scheme are required to have 10 metres of green buffer on both sides of the road to preserve their unique tree-scapes. Any removal of trees or plants along them is prohibited.
The scheme, which really is to protect the trees than the roads themselves, gives an element of permanence to the landscape and contributes to our sense of place, history, continuity, and identity.
In 2006, five roads were gazetted as Heritage Roads.
And the views along them are breathtaking.
1. Arcadia Road
Arcadia Road located off Adam Road just before the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) is a scenic avenue away from the general hustle and bustle of the city.
Screenshot from Google Maps
The 918-metre long road is lined with majestic rain trees that create a green tunnel of breath-taking foliage along it.
Entrance to Arcadia Road from Adam Road. Screenshot from NParks' video.
Screenshot from NParks' video
Screenshot from NParks' video.
You can see more of Arcadia Road in this video by NParks.
2. Mount Pleasant Road
A 1,353-metre stretch of Mount Pleasant Road, beginning from the junction of Denham Road to the PIE Sliproad has been gazetted as a Heritage Road.
The road is flanked by mature saga trees, which are well-known for the saga seeds that they produce.
Travelling down the road reminds one of Singapore's kampong days.
Along the historic road are also black-and-white bungalows from Singapore's colonial past which are fronted by wild sown trees, such as cinnamon, palms and figs.
You gotta admit that there's a rustic quality to it.
Screenshot of Google Street View
Screenshot from Google Street View
You can find out more of Mount Pleasant Road in this video.
3. Mandai Road
Built in 1855 as a link between Woodlands and Upper Thomson, Mandai Road is one of the oldest roads in Singapore.
A 1,084-metre portion of the road from opposite the car park at Upper Seletar Reservoir to the junction of Mandai Avenue was gazetted for its mature rain trees and lush green vegetation.
Along the route are also gorgeous views of Upper Seletar Reservoir on one side and lush greenery on the other.
4. South Buona Vista Road
Known for its hairpin curves winding through the ridges of Kent Ridge Park, the gazetted portion of South Buona Vista Road is 1,066m long, starting from before the junction at Stockport Road and ending at the junction of Vigilante Drive.
The ridges were the site of the Battle of Pasir Panjang, which saw the Malay Regiment battling the invading Japanese forces.
It is a picturesque route flanked by forest edges of trees, such as the Silver Backs, Acacia, Tembusu, Tiup Tiup, and Yellow Flames, which form a green tunnel.
However, drivers along the route will have little opportunity to admire the the scenery, due to the road's many curves.
5. Lim Chu Kang Road
From the junction of Sungei Gedong Road to the Junction of Ama Keng Road, the 1,780.5-metre gazetted portion of Lim Chu Kang Road was built before the 1900s to serve the gambier, pepper, and rubber plantations in the area.
Screenshot of Google Maps
Lining the heritage road are angsana, broad leaf mahogany, and rubber trees which, along with the thick shrubbery of simpoh ayer, and common sendudok, gives it lush greenery.
The thick vegetation on both sides of the road gives the impression that one is not in Singapore.
Thanks to these Heritage Roads, we have places that give a small reprieve from the hectic city life.
Top image screenshot from NParks' video.
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The practical value of digitalization for decommissioning projects, including 3D simulations, visualization, virtual and augmented reality, were presented during a side event at the 65th IAEA General Conference. (Photo: A. Tarhi/IAEA)
Digitalization plays an important role in advancing nuclear decommissioning projects by enabling experts to improve their planning and implementation. An event held today on the side lines of the 65th IAEA General Conference highlighted the practical value of 3D modelling and simulations, visualization, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other similar applications in the planning and implementation of nuclear decommissioning.
Although many nuclear power reactors are undergoing life extensions, considerable decommissioning work is also underway and is expected to take place as power plants reach the end of useful and economical operations. According to IAEA projections, between 12 per cent and 25 per cent of the 2020 nuclear electrical generating capacity is expected to be retired by 2030. Effective management of decommissioning is vital to the sustainability of nuclear power.
"Innovative digital technologies can provide crucial insights for the planning and implementation of decommissioning projects. They can provide support in decommissioning situations that are difficult or dangerous for human workers and can help ensure that projects are executed safely and effectively," Mikhail Chudakov, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy, said in his opening remarks for the event.
Decommissioning is a multi-disciplinary process, which includes activities such as physical and radiological characterization of the site and its vicinity, and decontamination and dismantling of plant and building structures, eventually leading to the reuse of the site for some other purpose. Decommissioning may take from several years to several decades, especially in the case of deferred dismantling, and experts anticipate that digital technologies will improve planning and shorten the time period required for this complex procedure to be completed.
Digital twins of nuclear facilities, which recreate a facility's technology and structures, are increasingly used to support effective design, operation and maintenance. Digital twins can be used as "as-built records", detailing how exactly a nuclear facility was constructed and maintained during its operation, to support the planning and implementation of decommissioning. Digitization also helps to enhance safety: It enables the analysis of different dismantling scenarios in terms of radiation exposure of workers, so that the safest one can be selected.
So far, a total of 189 nuclear power reactors have been shut down for decommissioning globally, with 17 of them fully decommissioned. In addition, 130 fuel cycle facilities have been decommissioned as well as about 440 research reactors.
More than 80 people attended the event online to hear experts present practical examples of how digital technologies have been applied in decommissioning projects.
"Benefits of using digital information models include significant increase of work quality and productivity thanks to improved planning, simulation of deployment of different types of equipment and the possibility of promptly changing project parameters," said Daria Daubaraite, Decommissioning Project Manager at Rosatom/TVEL in Russia.
3D modelling and simulations can be used in the planning stages of nuclear facility dismantling. Italy's Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management Company (SOGIN) has used 3D models and simulations to facilitate preparation of the dismantling of different types of power reactors as well as for IT-supported management of generated waste streams.
In 2019, SOGIN was designated as an IAEA Collaborating Centre, strengthening cooperation between the two organizations, including on digitalization, to promote knowledge management, knowledge transfer and training in nuclear decommissioning.
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"3D modelling and simulations of dismantling interventions significantly contribute to the planning accuracy of the decommissioning process and facilitate our discussions with the regulators," said Tibor Kukan of JAVYS. "Moreover, simulations are an effective tool for supporting communication with the public."
Advanced data science has been successfully used to support decommissioning and environmental remediation. Leo Lagos, Director of Research at Florida International University, discussed how this is currently being done at US Department of Energy sites.
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Discover Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon
Drive the mountain roads of Snowdonia
Wander the streets of medieval York
Cross the moors of the Peak District
Visit elegant Chatsworth House
Stroll along the River Cam in dreamy Cambridge
See the imposing fortress of Conwy Castle
Marvel at the mighty York Minster
Discover the Heart of England on a scenic 5-day tour that also crosses the border into North Wales, where you'll see the magnificent mountains of Snowdonia. Visit some of England's oldest cities, including the cathedral city of York, the university city of Cambridge, and the medieval town of Chester. Go to Shakespeare's birthplace, and vist Anne Hathaway's tudor cottage.
Travel by small minicoach, with accommodations in characterful bed and breakfasts for a more intimate experience.
Depart London and head north to Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare and home to the Tudor thatched cottage and gardens of his wife, Anne Hathaway. There will be time to explore the quaint town center, and enjoy lunch at leisure, before driving to the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge close to the Welsh border. Set in a stunning gorge of the River Severn, the historic valley boasts the world's first bridge made of iron, as well as a host of other attractions.
Then, travel to the beautiful town of Shrewsbury to check in to your accommodation for the next 2 nights.
Today, you will head into the heart of North Wales and visit the picture book castle of Conwy, built by Edward I in the late 13th century. Marvel at the mountain scenery of Snowdonia National Park, including the huge Dinorwic slate quarries and the dramatic Pass of Llanberis in the shadows of the highest mountain peak in Wales. Hear tales of Owain Glyndwr and the Welsh struggles for independence before traveling back through the borderlands into England.
Leave Shrewsbury and drive to the hills of the Peak District National Park, where you will discover a mix of beautiful villages and rolling moors. Take a scenic route through the park to the village of Castleton. In the afternoon, visit the famous grouds and mansion house of Chatsworth, home to the Duke of Devonshire and often named the UK's favourite country house. Inside, you'll find one of the finest collections of furniture and paintings by Old Masters, as well as Neoclassical sculptures. Continue to the historic City of York, your base for the next 2 nights.
Today you have the option to spend the day at leisure exploring the medieval heart of York. Wander the streets of a city with a rich history that dates back to the time of the Romans, Vikings, and Normans. Visit some of York's fascinating museums, and the stunning York Minster, or just lose yourself in the maze of narrow streets. Alternatively, join your guide on a half-day excursion into the Yorkshire Dales to visit the pretty market towns of Knaresborough or Ripon. Continue your scenic drive of the remote valleys and rugged scenery of the Eastern Dales, before returning to York for a free afternoon.
Leaving York for the return journey to London, stopping en route at Stamford, with its fine collection of stone buildings. Continue to the university City of Cambridge, where you can stroll the medieval streets in the shadow of the dreamy spires of historic colleges, including the famous Kings College Chapel. Walk along the banks of the River Cam, where you might see punters out for the day. Continue to London for an estimated arrival time of approximately 19:30.
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The Community Council, responding to the modern needs of today and in the context of its efforts to improve the way of living for the village's inhabitants, has already completed several infrastructure projects and is programming the onset of new ones.
The projects completed are:
A service for the collection of garbage and their transfer to a government-approved dump was created.
Transfer of water to the community from Agia Paraskevi and change of the entire water-supply system.
Asphalt paving of all the streets.
Creation of a community playground.
Expansion of residential structures.
Step-up of the primary school for its conversion to a permanent regional school.
TV broadcasting for the coverage of the entire community.
Maintenance of the teacher's residence.
Operation of the multi-purpose cultural centre that includes a medical office, the offices of the Community Council, and a large hall for cultural events.
Beautification of the Chrysogalousa church with placement of flagstones, walls, and a fountain.
Creation of a large community park north of the community's built-up area and other facilities.
Monuments for the people of the community that gave their lives for the freedom of Cyprus.
Continuation of our effort, which started three years ago along with the district's administration, for the preservation, renovation or demolition of the old buildings of the community
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PARKLAND, Fla. – Student activists with the March for Our Lives movement are rallying around a new hashtag, "Road to Change," as they embark on a summer road trip to help register young voters and promote stricter gun laws. The students fighting to eliminate gun violence in America announced t
"Ending the Silence" Program Expands in Response to Parkland Shooting
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – May is Mental Health Month across the country. As a response to the Parkland school shooting, the National Alliance on Mental Illness or NAMI is raising funds to ramp up its mental health awareness efforts in middle and high schools in Florida. Alisa LaPolt, NAMI Florida'
Increased Youth Activism May Not Correspond to Voter Turnout
TALLAHASSEE, Fla – The eight young Floridians suing Gov. Rick Scott and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam are riding the wave of youth activism with multiple press conferences focused on the environment. The students are suing the state for what they say is a violation of their constitution
Statewide Campaign Launched to Improve FL Children's Well-Being
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Children's advocates in Florida say state officials need to put just as much effort into improving the lives of families, as they do promoting tourism or the state's business climate. They say that lack of focus is one reason Florida ranks in the bottom 10 states for child
FL Students Compete in National Science and Math Competition
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — While many high school students are still learning how to properly fold laundry, 40 of the smartest students in the nation are in Washington, D.C., this week to show off their achievements and compete in science and math. The Regeneron Science Talent Search is one of the
Grieving Parkland Parents Urge Nation to Follow Florida's Lead
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Even though the National Rifle Association sued the state of Florida just after Gov. Rick Scott signed a new gun control bill Friday afternoon, parents of the victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are calling on other states to follow Florida's lead. SB 7026 rai
FL Senate Removes Plan to Arm Teachers, Keeps Option for Staff
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Results from The Sunday Times Scottish Poll (Elections)
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Fieldwork dates:24 March 2011 - 28 March 2011
Weighting: All the results were weighted by age, sex, household tenure and SEG. The voting intention tables were further analysed in two ways:
Respondents who voted in 2007 were weighted back to the actual 2007 result (separately for constituency and regional).
Respondents who did not vote in 2007 but who said they were very likely to vote this time (8-10 on a 10 point scale) were added to the people who did vote, to produce the final results.


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Congestion Games with Variable Demands
Tobias Harks and Max Klimm
congestion games, variable demand, Cournot games, game theory, existence of pure Nash equilibria
We initiate the study of congestion games with variable demands where the (variable) demand has to be assigned to exactly one subset of resources. Each player's incentive to use higher demands is stimulated by a non-decreasing and concave utility function. The payoff for a player is defined as the difference between the utility of the demand and the associated congestion cost on the used resources. Although this basic class of non-cooperative games captures many elements of real-world applications, it has not been studied, to our knowledge, in the past.
We study the existence of pure Nash equilibria (PNE for short) in congestion games with variable demands subject to the cost functions of the resources. We call a set of cost functions C consistent if every congestion game with variable demands and cost functions in C possesses a PNE. We say that C is FIP-consistent if every such game possesses the alpha-Finite Improvement Property for every alpha > 0. Our main results are structural characterizations of consistency and FIP-consistency for twice continuously differentiable cost functions: 1. If C is consistent then C contains either affine functions or exponential functions. 2. Affine functions are both consistent and FIP-consistent. 3. Homogeneously exponential functions (c(x) = a exp(px) ) are consistent, but not FIP-consistent. 4. Inhomogeneously exponential functions (c(x) = a exp(px) + b, b >= a) are neither consistent nor FIP-consistent. Our results provide an almost complete characterization of consistency of cost functions leaving only a small gap for the case of inhomogeneously exponential functions c(x) = a exp(px) + b with b < a. The gained insights reveal structural differences to congestion games with fixed demands (weighted congestion games) where in the latter even inhomogeneously exponential functions are FIP-consistent.
Finally, we study consistency and FIP-consistency of cost functions in a slightly different class of games, where every player experiences the same cost on a resource (uniform cost model). We prove that homogeneously exponential functions are consistent. Most surprisingly, these games need not possess a PNE, if costs are affine.
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Gettysburg. My husband and I had a dear, dear friend who once upon a time had been a Protestant minister. He felt a deep spiritual connection to Gettysburg and he went there each year with a group of friends who all were ministers or had been at one time. It was a spiritual retreat of sorts. They all knew their Civil War history, but it was more than that. They hiked that battlefield over and over again. They felt deeply connected to humanity there. Just like your little one, they felt deeply for the soldiers. And so when Tim died so unexpectedly about 7 years ago now, his wife carried his ashes to Gettysburg and spread them there on that hallowed ground where so many men had died way before their time.
Living history … there's something about standing on the very spot where historic events took place. That little guy will never read his history textbook the same way again. Friends who've been to Israel tell me that they look at scripture in a whole different way after standing on that soil.
Wonderful and so hopeful tale from the road. Here the "next generation" is listening, reading and speaking words of wisdom from previous generations. The foundation laid for future words that will be written and wisdom created to lead us all to a more inclusive and better world.
everyone needs a good family road-trip-to-d.c.-by-way-of-gettysburg story for the scrapbook. we have one too that involved a bus tour. a lengthy one that wasn't enough for my dad (but plenty long for my sisters and me). so, we got in the car and did the whole loop again just so my dad could stand in those places and bask in the moment longer than the tour allowed. teddy is too grown up…i can hardly believe it.
such a sweet story. and he's getting so tall!
I saw your article on this in the Chicago Tribune. What a guy you've got there. Not sure where you're from, but if you haven't been to the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL, you should go. I've been there 3 times and sit each time for several minutes in front of the wall map that shows the advancement of troops and change of control of the land in the Civil War. As the red and blue (north and south) lines shift, a running total of the war dead goes up and up and up. Really makes you think.
Two things: First, your kid nailed it. I think that most of us lose sight of the purpose of that speech, while focusing on its eloquence. Second, the last line stresses "people," not "of," "by" or "for." Read that in an interview of a guy who heard it. Of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, and for the PEOPLE.
I think there are ghosts in places like Gettysburg – the spirits of those who died there – and I think your son felt them in a very powerful way that he'll probably never forget. Glad the Trib printed this too. This is the kind of story that deserves a broad audience.
bam, I searched for this online to send to someone who has just been to Gettysburg and needed to read it, and sent him the link, so there will be another person soon at the table. This is the story that brought me to you, and I will remember it until my rememberer no longer remembers. Love to you there at your table in Cambridge; you are near in thought and heart.


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The Great American Welfare Lab
Wisconsin has cut its rolls by half. Many former recipients are working, but where have the rest of them gone?
By Adam Cohen/Milwaukee
(TIME, April 21) -- Something startling has been happening every day at the Department of Human Services building at 12th and Vliet in downtown Milwaukee. Large numbers of poor people who qualify for welfare grants are deciding they don't want them. Under Wisconsin's welfare reforms, new applicants are told they will need to put in 60 hours looking for a job before they can receive their first check and that to stay on the rolls they will need to perform 30 to 35 hours of work assignments a week. "We probably get an average of one or two people a day who stand up and walk out at that point, saying, 'Forget it, you can keep it,'" says David Liners, until recently the office's supervisor. By the time all the new conditions are explained to them, almost one-third leave without signing up for welfare at all. "Many people decide when they hear about all the strings attached that they want to give work another shot," he says.
Welfare experts call it "diversion"--turning people off welfare before they get on--and it has been one of the centerpieces of Wisconsin's ambitious welfare reforms. The new rules, which include perhaps the toughest work requirements of any state, have produced dramatic results. Welfare cases have fallen more than 55% in the past decade, the steepest drop in the nation, and almost a third of the state's counties have cut their rolls 80% or more. But if Wisconsin is leading the nation in welfare reform, it has also become ground zero in a fiercely partisan debate over who is helped and who is hurt by the changes. The right-leaning Heritage Foundation recently issued a report titled "Wisconsin's Welfare Miracle," whose author, Robert Rector, argues that the reforms have been so effective that they have rewritten the rules of welfare policy permanently. Wisconsin's advocates for the poor, for their part, contend the reforms have pushed many indigent people, particularly children, deeper into poverty.
At the heart of the debate is a central question: Where have they gone, the 55% of families that have left Wisconsin's welfare rolls? Welfare officials say the vast majority are gainfully employed in the private sector. Critics contend that many of the missing families do not have jobs and that a good number are ending up in homeless shelters. The debate thrives because the reforms are still in their early stages, and because neither side has conducted a rigorous study to find out what happens to families after they leave the rolls. The incomplete evidence at hand suggests that the new rules are, for the most part, a success, accomplishing their overall goal of moving poor people into the private work force. But the sweeping changes are also having a variety of unintended consequences, both good and bad.
The driving force behind the reforms, which are in a transitional phase, is a nearly universal requirement that recipients work for their benefits. Under the new rules, welfare offices first attempt to divert applicants by requiring them to make a private-sector job search, and barring benefits to anyone who turns down a job. If applicants are approved for welfare, they are required to earn their benefits through a work assignment, or a "transitional" placement for those unable to perform regular work. Welfare checks are reduced for every hour missed. Mothers must go back to work when their youngest child is 12 weeks old. The effect of the reforms is to turn welfare, once a relatively no-strings source of income, into a low-paying job. "They have put a cost onto receiving welfare," says the Heritage Foundation's senior welfare analyst Rector. "That makes welfare less desirable, and fewer people are taking it." A further inducement to work: the new rules include a five-year lifetime limit on benefits. Many applicants redouble their efforts to find work when they learn of the limit, Liners says, because they want to save their five years of eligibility until they really need it.
Missing Faces In The Private Sector?
The state estimates that fully three-quarters of the missing caseload is now employed in private jobs. While that is a soft number that may err on the high side, there is anecdotal evidence that a significant portion of Wisconsin's welfare families have indeed found work. Welfare recipients who successfully make the transition to private-sector jobs are the missing faces of welfare reform; few want to dwell publicly on their former status. But the roster at the New Hope Project, a Milwaukee jobs program working with poor residents of two inner-city zip codes, is full of lives turned around. New Hope, which works with poor people on and off welfare and adds some incentives the state does not, has seen almost 60% of its participants move into full-time jobs. Among its proudest successes are former welfare recipients like Beronica Garcia, who spent two years on the rolls before leaving for a receptionist job with the Wisconsin Correctional Service. "It makes me a better role model for my five-year-old son," she says. "And I enjoy coming to work." Individual welfare workers, like the staff in rural Marquette County, also talk of personally directing applicants to available jobs rather than signing them up for welfare--a process made easier by the fact that Wisconsin has an unemployment rate of only 3.5%.
However, many of the families gone from the rolls fit into different profiles. Perhaps as much as 15% of Wisconsin's pre-reform welfare population were working in jobs they kept secret from welfare bureaucrats, says John Pawasarat, a welfare researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. When work requirements began, many probably had to leave the rolls because they couldn't show up for their new welfare work assignments while continuing at their unreported jobs. This is a group that does not fit neatly into any side's account of welfare reform. These people are committing fraud, even if the end result for some is still a barely livable income, so welfare advocates do not like to talk about them. But they also cannot be counted as newly entering the private work force. If these nonreporting workers were in fact 15% of the pre-reform rolls, they could account for a substantial part of the missing welfare caseload.
Other welfare recipients gone from the rolls have decided to "double up," moving in with family or friends, rather than work for their benefits. "Many families rely on a quiltwork of sources of income," says Pawasarat. "Uncle Joe might get disability, mother might get Social Security, someone else in the family might get public housing, child support or foster care, or have earned income." Should society be encouraging doubling up? That's a point of debate: critics see it as forcing already poor families to scrape by with even less money, while others say it is a rational choice by people who would rather turn to their personal network for support than earn a living. But it is undoubtedly another fraction of the 55% who have left Wisconsin welfare but not turned up in the workplace.
Welfare or Work: Messing Up Has Consequences
Another significant part of the reduction in welfare payments and caseload is the result of "sanctions," or penalties, for not meeting work requirements. A University of Wisconsin study found that in a five-month period, on average, more than 10% of the state welfare caseload was being sanctioned at any given time. Some families that are sanctioned lose their benefits entirely. Welfare officials say this is how the system should work: messing up on welfare has consequences, just as it does on the job. "We are trying to introduce the real world into the welfare system, and part of the real world is rewards and punishments," says welfare program spokesman David Blaska. Supporters of the reforms say that without punishment in the form of reduced benefits, welfare recipients will never learn the self-determination they need to make the most of themselves.
But lawyers for the poor say sanctions, which can be imposed for minor violations like missing appointments or failing to respond to notices, often result from the welfare system's own mistakes and computer errors. Alesha Nicholson, a former welfare recipient who now works for an advocacy group called Welfare Warriors, says her welfare and food stamps were cut off in December and January when her welfare office could not locate her "monthly reports," the paperwork she submitted certifying she had not earned any income that month. Nicholson, who was reduced to getting groceries from food pantries and feared being evicted, had to send her three-year-old daughter to stay with an aunt in Arkansas. Erroneous sanctions are so common that Legal Action of Wisconsin is winning 90% of its appeals, says staff attorney Pat DeLessio.
Even sanctions imposed according to the rules present the troubling prospect of an entire family's livelihood being withheld because of a parent's failure to perform--necessary if the work rules are to have real teeth, perhaps, but undeniably harsh. Stacey Green, a Milwaukee mother, concedes that she "missed appointments" with welfare officials. And she admits that when she was assigned to a skills-training program that consisted of stacking game pieces into neat piles, which were then emptied into a bin to be stacked all over again, she left early because it "was a waste of my time." The sanctions imposed for her lapses caused her to fall $300 behind in rent, and a disagreement with her landlord over back rent put her and her three children in a downtown Milwaukee shelter for the homeless earlier this year. Supporters of the reforms might argue that Green's difficulties taught her a much-needed lesson in personal responsibility. But even if they did, this was a lesson that came at a cost: along the way, Green and her children became homeless. The Green family's experience with sanctions is a reminder that even when welfare reform works well, it does not work painlessly.
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Corsair, Thermaltake, & Be Quiet! Battle on Camera over Best Case
Published June 01, 2016 at 9:56 pm
Vendor Battles are our newest form of lighthearted, fun, but informational content. We conducted our first Vendor Battle at PAX East 2016, starring EVGA, MSI, and PNY. Now, at Computex, we turned to the case manufacturers: "You have one minute. Tell me why I should buy your case and not the next manufacturer's."
It was a fun battle, particularly because all the case teams seem to know each other. George Makris of Corsair opened, followed by Shannon Robb of Thermaltake, and then Christoph Katzer of Be Quiet! All three well-known companies in the space.
Here's the showdown video – direct quotes below.
NZXT Factory Tour in China – Start-to-Finish Case Manufacturing
Published May 27, 2016 at 8:30 am
NZXT's manufacturing birthplace is in Shenzhen, China, but the company moved to a new, high-end facility in 2000. The company now works with Godspeed Casing, a factory that NZXT is largely responsible for 'raising' from the ground-up. Over 1200 employees work at the factory, working with tens of millions of dollars of equipment on a daily basis. One of the largest, most impressive machines in the factory is the SAG-600, which can apply upwards of 600 metric tonnes of downward force to create case paneling. That machine alone costs $2 million (USD) and towers a few times over its operator.
This NZXT factory tour is part of our Asia trip, and marks the second stop in our extended "How Cases are Made" coverage. In-Win was the first factory we visited, based in Taoyuen, Taiwan, and we've now spent a day in China for NZXT's facilities. We'll soon be back in Taipei for further Computex and local factory coverage.
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Inside a Case Factory – In-Win Tour in Taiwan
Published May 24, 2016 at 8:20 pm
Just as we made it into Taiwan, we're already packing to fly to Shenzhen, China for more factory and HQ tours. During the first leg of our three-part Asia trip, the GN team traveled to Taoyuen, Taiwan – about an hour outside of Taipei – to visit the In-Win case & paint factories. In-Win is best-known for fronting insane projects at tradeshows, like the Transformer-inspired H-Tower and 805 Infinity, and all of those cases get made in the factories we visited.
Touring the In-Win case-making factory gave a look into how PC cases are made; we saw injection-molding machines, automated powder coat booths, giant sanding and CNC machines, 3D coordinate projection validators, and more.
Take-Aways From Our 1080 Hybrid Experiment – Voltage, Power, Thermals
Had investigators walked into our Thermal-Lab-And-Video-Set Conglomerate, they'd have been greeted with a horror show worthy of a police report: Two video cards fully dissected – one methodically, the other brutally – with parts blazoned in escalating dismemberment across the anti-static mat.
Judging by some of the comments, you'd think we'd committed a crime by taking apart a new GTX 1080 – but that's the job. Frankly, it didn't really matter if the thing died in the process. We're here to make content and test products for points of failure and success, not to preserve them.
DIY GTX 1080 'Hybrid' Results – Higher Stable Clock, 68% Lower Thermals
The test results are in from our post-review DIY project, which started here. Our goal was a simple one: As a bit of a decompression project after our 9000-word analysis of nVidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition, we decided to tear-down the GTX 1080, look underneath, and throw a liquid block onto the exposed die. The "Founders Edition" of the GTX 1080 is effectively a reference model, and as such, it'll quickly be outranked by AIB partner cards with regard to cooling and OC potential. The GTX 1080 overclocks reasonably well – we were hitting ~2025-2050MHz with the FE model – but it still feels limited. That limitation is a mix of power limit and thermal throttling.
Our testing discovered that thermal throttles occur at precisely 82C. Each time the card hits 82C absolute, the clock-rate dips and produces a marginal impact to frametimes and framerate. We also encountered clock-rate stability issues over long burn-in periods, and would have had to further step-down the OC to accommodate the 82C threshold. Even when configuring the VRM blower fan to 100% speed, limitations were encountered – but it did perform better, just with the noise levels of a server fan (~60dB, in our tests). That's not really acceptable for a real-world use case. Liquid will bring down noise levels, help sustain higher clock-rates at those noise levels, and keep thermals well under control.
The video (Part 3) is below. This article will cover the results of our DIY liquid-cooled GTX 1080 'Hybrid' vs. the Founders Edition card, including temperatures, VRM fan RPM, overclocking, stability, and FPS. Our clocks vs. time charts are the most interesting.
Complete Disassembly of GTX 1080 – The Road to DIY 1080 Hybrid
Published May 18, 2016 at 11:49 am
We're building our own GTX 1080 Hybrid. We're impatient, and the potential for further improved clock-rate stability – not that the 1080 isn't already impressively stable – has drawn us toward a DIY solution. For this GTX 1080 liquid cooling mod, we're tearing apart $1300 worth of video cards: (1) the EVGA GTX 980 Ti Hybrid, which long held our Best of Bench award, is being sacrificed to the Pascal gods, and (2) the GTX 1080 Founders Edition shall be torn asunder, subjected to the whims of screwdrivers and liquid cooling.
Here's the deal: We ran a thermal throttle analysis in our 9000-word review of the GTX 1080 (read it!). We discovered that, like Maxwell before it, consumer Pascal seems to throttle its frequency as temperatures reach and exceed ~82C. Each hit at 82C triggered a frequency fluctuation of ~30~70MHz, enough to create a marginal hit to frametimes. This only happened a few times through our first endurance test, but we've conducted more – this time with overclocks applied – to see if there's ever a point at which the throttling goes from "welcomed safety check" to something less desirable.
Turns out, the thermal throttling impacts our overclocks, and it's limited the potential of a GPU that's otherwise a strong overclocker. And so begins Part 1 of our DIY GTX 1080 build log – disassembly; we're taking apart the GTX 1080, tearing it down to the bones for a closer look inside.
GPU Rendering & Game Graphics Pipeline Explained with nVidia
A frame's arrival on the display is predicated on an unseen pipeline of command processing within the GPU. The game's engine calls the shots and dictates what's happening instant-to-instant, and the GPU is tasked with drawing the triangles and geometry, textures, rendering lighting, post-processing effects, and dispatching the packaged frame to the display.
The process repeats dozens of times per second – ideally 60 or higher, as in 60 FPS – and is only feasible by joint efforts by GPU vendors (IHVs) and engine, tools, and game developers (ISVs). The canonical view of game graphics rendering can be thought of as starting with the geometry pipeline, where the 3-dimensional model is created. Eventually, lighting gets applied to the scene, textures and post-processing is applied, and the scene is compiled and "shipped" for the gamer's viewing. We'll walk through the GPU rendering and game graphics pipeline in this "how it works" article, with detailed information provided by nVidia Director of Technical Marketing Tom Petersen.
NVIDIA Pascal GP100 Architecture Deep-Dive
The Order of 10 puzzle preempted a forthcoming event that we'll be covering, publicly disclosed as occurring on May 6 at 9PM EST. Although nVidia has not technically, officially laid claim to the "#OrderOf10" puzzle, the countdown timer happens to expire precisely when nVidia's yet-undetailed Twitch.tv streaming event will kick-off. UPDATE: View our GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 coverage here.
And that full day of decoding mysteries led us to brush-up on nVidia's "Pascal" architecture, revealed years ago and announced at this year's GTC as hitting volume production. The first Pascal chip publicly known to enter production is the GP100, found on the Tesla P100 scientific and computational accelerator card. GP100 is the "Big GPU" for this generation of nVidia devices, measuring in at an intimidating 610mm^2 die size, and stands as the trailhead for imminent derivatives of the GPU architecture. Those derivatives will invariably include gaming-targeted devices – something for which the P100 is not remotely targeted – in the GeForce GTX lineup.
This article dives deep into NVIDIA's new Pascal architecture. We'll talk streaming multiprocessor layout, memory subsystems and HBM1 vs. HBM2, L1 & L2 Cache, unified memory, GDMA, and more.
As for the live-streamed event tonight, we're hoping that it'll offer us some official names for the rumored "GTX 1000" series (e.g. GTX 1080, GTX 1070, GTX 1060 Ti), but we really don't know for certain what's being unveiled. We will be covering that event tonight in full detail, whatever it may involve. Be sure to check the site and YouTube channel for updates as they're released live.
MSI Aegis Unbuild, Initial Analysis, & Tear-Down
Published April 28, 2016 at 6:56 pm
A show floor crawling with tens of thousands of people is an interesting environment for a PC tear-down – certainly more chaotic than in our labs. Still, whenever we've got an opportunity to take something apart during an unveil, we take it. MSI's recently unveiled Aegis (video below) fancies itself a barebones machine that borders on a display unit, mounted atop a power-supply enshrining pedestal that resembles Hermes' winged shoes.
While at PAX East, we weaponized our camera toolkit to disassemble MSI's Aegis barebones gaming PC, which includes a custom case, motherboard, and unique CPU cooler. Side panels came off, the video card was removed, and we more closely examined the custom cooler that MSI's packed into its compact enclosure.
Broadwell-E: Buy or Wait? i7-6950X vs. i7-5960X Speculation
By Patrick Stone
To Broadwell-E or not to Broadwell-E. That is the question!
If you're an enthusiast and that Nehalem or Sandy Bridge setup you built years ago is ready for a replacement, you might be considering an X99 motherboard build. The operative question then becomes, "should I wait for Broadwell-E or just buy Haswell-E and be done with it?" After a weekend at PAX East talking to several SIs, Intel employees, and all the other hardware vendors, we were able to get a few bits and pieces of information that may help you make your decision, but first, let's look at some numbers.
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Modern romantic comedies are no match for Big Love. The play, scripted by American playwright Charles Mee, adapts Aeschylus' ancient Greek play The Suppliants in a striking, avant-garde, 21st-century fashion.
Foreshadowing of the often confused, exaggerated realism to come, Lydia, played by senior Bridget Saracino, opens the play sitting naked in a tub that she thinks is part of an Italian hotel.
Bella, played by Sarah K. Chalmers of the Actors' Equity Assn., the mother of the house that Olympia ignorantly entered, finds her there and, without a beat, proceeds to describe her 13 sons with the convincing personality of an Italian mother to whoever is listening.
During this soliloquy, Lydia's sisters enter the stage in wedding gowns and haphazardly throw plates and themselves around the stage in anger.
These sisters are three of 50 brides who fled from Greece to avoid marrying their 50 cousins. Big Love offers an amusing, unconventional commentary about deceit, betrayal and arranged marriage.
The three sisters are each dramatically different from each other. Thyona, played by senior Sharisse Taylor, portrays an angry man-loather. Olympia personifies the opposite, a feminine woman who simply wants a man to care for her. Lydia, played by senior Bridget Saracino, plays the role of the quiet girl with views somewhere between her divided sisters.
Taylor stands out as the dramatic ultra-stereotypical feminist, loudly and forcefully depicting her views with a vengeance, successfully persuading her sisters into her plots.
Symbolism, both in speech and action, plays a key role in the play. In conversation, when one of the women says a key word, the three of them voice it together in unison to highlight it. In addition, characters forcefully throw themselves on the stage throughout the play to depict anger and discontent.
Inevitably, the grooms show up to the house where the girls are staying soon after and try to force their brides into marriage.
Piero, played by David Studwell of the Actors' Equity Assn., intermediates between the grooms and the brides as he is the father of the house. After initially being dumbfounded by these foreign brides asking him to take care of them, Piero quickly takes his position as the head of household in stride and ambitiously tries to make sense of it all.
The entire play has a rough, erratic feel to it — while there is a general plot progression, the play often switches between long elegant monologues and scenes of brute fighting without aim.
Yet, interactions between individual characters allow for some unity. While the grooms have never formally courted the brides, Nikos, played by junior James Miller, reveals his feelings for Lydia in an awkwardly authentic scene.
The two characters, seemingly unaware of how to show feelings for one another, bumble around for words naively as Nikos chases after Lydia across the stage in one of the few true moments of love in the play.
Giuliano, played by senior Myles Rowland, also offers a genuine look into the human character — he portrays the gay, confused, second favorite grandson of Bella. He often shows up to scenes unaware of the circumstances, hoping to enjoy the company of others.
Irony characterizes all of Big Love in one fell swoop, as misunderstandings and miscommunications let the play touch on many different subjects, eventually leading to a ninja-like death scene.
In true comedic fashion, the intensity of the plot is contrasted with the ending, in which the only bride who gets what she wants, Lydia, is the only one who doesn't cause trouble throughout the play. Bella gets her chance to throw a wedding, Lydia and Nikos are betrothed and the other two brides are happily unhappy.
Big Love may not depict lots of love, but it captivates an audience with its emphasis on disorder, elaborate fighting and comedic interactions.
Correction: The original article incorrectly conflated the characters of Olympia and Lydia, and incorrectly identified Giuliano as Bella's son.


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Lifelong Linearity: Picasso at the Menil
Devon Britt-Darby November 8, 2016
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Pablo Picasso Study (detail) for "Les demoiselles d'Avignon" (Étude pour "Les demoiselles d'Avignon"), May 1907
Charcoal on paper 18 3/4 × 25 1/16 in. (47.6 × 63.7 cm)
Frame: 26 5/8 × 32 1/2 × 1 1/16 in. (67.7 × 82.6 × 2.7 cm)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Department of Prints and Drawings, (1984.494),
Gift of Douglas Cooper, Paris, 1984.
Pablo Picasso, Self-portrait (Autoportrait), 1918
Charcoal and graphite on paper
25 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (64.2 × 49.5 cm)
Frame: 35 7/16 × 29 1/2 × 1 3/16 in. (90 × 75 × 3 cm)
Musée national Picasso-Paris.
The ghost of 19th-century French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres casts a long shadow over the Museum District these days, with both his greatest heirs basking in surveys curated by world-renowned experts. One, Degas: A New Vision at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is sprawling and comprehensive; the other, Picasso The Line at the Menil Collection, spans every period of the Spanish artist's long career but focuses on "Linear Picasso" as played out in about 100 works on paper—mostly drawings.
On view through Jan. 8, the Menil exhibition comes just a few years after the MFAH hosted the Guggenheim Museum's Picasso Black and White—the curator's acknowledgements in the catalog say it was Gary Tinterow's "first commitment" as MFAH director—and seems to have been triggered by that occasion. Guest curator Carmen Giménez not only curated both exhibitions but was invited by former Menil Collection director Josef Helfenstein to organize Picasso The Line as they chatted after the MFAH's Picasso Black and White opening.
As such, the Menil show is both a follow-up to the monochrome survey—which spanned media and "brought the importance of form, and especially of line, to the foreground," as Giménez writes— and a distillation of its most elemental threads. How much this excites you may depend on whether you felt a black-and-white Picasso survey wasn't already stripped down enough—and on how much, in the end, there is to be learned from slicing and dicing his seemingly infinite production yet another way.
Didn't we already know that, as Giménez writes, "the linear in its various interpretations remained a constant across all Picasso's periods, styles, and experiments until the end of his life"? Might not any number of selections from such a prolific artist's vast trove of works on paper—he never stopped drawing compulsively between the ages of 12 and 91—have demonstrated his "linearity"?
Pablo Picasso, Guitar (Guitare), December 1912
18 1/2 × 24 3/8 in. (47 × 61.9 cm)
Frame: 28 1/8 × 33 5/8 × 1 3/8 in. (71.4 × 85.4 × 3.5 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gift of Donald B. Marron, 1985.
The theme excludes too much by detaching Picasso's line from his innovations in paint and sculpture, yet remains too broad for the kind of deep dive the Kimbell Art Museum has taken—tellingly, with far fewer works drawn from a mere decade—in Monet: The Early Years, which manages to make another seemingly overexposed artist look incredibly fresh. (The Monet catalog is also a heavier scholarly lift than the equally beautiful Picasso book; the former has more essays and contributors, plus a chronology and individual entries for each painting.)
None of this is to say that Picasso The Line isn't a beautiful show, with beautiful works beautifully installed in Renzo Piano's beautiful spaces. I've gone three times and will probably go again. The best defense of this exhibition's stripped-down look and feel is how nicely it pairs with the quietude so many of us go to the Menil to find. There's little of the violence and agitation that ran through Picasso Black and White. This is a quieter, more contemplative Picasso, as well as a downsized one; the largest work is about 26-by-20 inches. Broadly speaking, Picasso The Line delivers everything you expect from a Menil exhibition except, perhaps, enough of the unexpected.
Pablo Picasso, Study for "Les demoiselles d'Avignon" (Étude pour "Les demoiselles d'Avignon"), May 1907
Gift of Douglas Cooper, Paris, 1984
Still, the exceptions are more than enough to justify a visit. The most powerful wall, off which a riveting 1918 self-portrait seems to float, flanked by equally beguiling 1920 portraits of his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, and of composer Igor Stravinsky, shows Picasso at his Ingres-iest and will stop you in your tracks every time. Self-Portrait, in particular, is a contradictory miracle of sensuality and terseness, of ferocity and vulnerability, of tension and openness, of anxiety and ease. All that from precious few charcoal strokes laid down across areas of graphite and bare paper. Face to face with this Picasso, the above reservations have a way of receding into the ether.
—DEVON BRITT-DARBY
Devon Britt-Darby is a Houston-based writer and artist.
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composites as well as direct and indirect restorations.
Dental amalgam is a stable alloy made by combining elemental mercury, silver, tin, copper and possibly other metallic elements. Although dental amalgam continues to be a safe, commonly used restorative material, some concern has been raised because of its mercury content. However, the mercury in amalgam combines with other metals to render it stable and safe for use in filling teeth. You will get more mercury from eating shellfish or tuna than from a solidified dental filling.


Upon closer examination, however, the appellate court may have not only affected this practice area, but also in certain cases, made it extremely, extremely (yes, I want to emphasize the point) difficult.
On Dec. 4, the Dist. I court issued Montalvo v. U.S. Title and Closing Services, 2012AP102, affirming an order by Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge John Siefert.
The case involves Gustavo Montalvo and Carmen Rodriguez, who in 1995 purchased a home in Wisconsin. They were unmarried at the time, but the property was titled in both names. In 1999, they married. In 2003, Rodriguez filed for divorce.
At a default divorce hearing, Rodriguez told the court she attempted to serve Montalvo but the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department was unable to locate him in Milwaukee County. She then issued a publication summons.
The court explained that because service upon Montalvo was only by publication, it couldn't change the title on the home to make Rodriguez the sole owner. The court characterized them as tenants in common and made no additional orders regarding the real estate. The divorcement judgment, however, awarded Rodriguez the home, but it was never recorded.
In 2007, Montalvo emerged and was not amused to learn that not only was he divorced, but also that his wife had refinanced the house with his name somehow appearing on a quit-claim deed prepared by U.S. Title and Closing Services transferring title to her. She later sold the property.
He brought a motion against her in family court under Wis. Stat. §806.07 to modify the divorce judgment to reflect his continued ownership in the home.
Apparently unconcerned with the requirement that an action under §806.07 has to be brought within a reasonable time after judgment, Montalvo prevailed because he hadn't been personally served in the divorce proceedings. The judgment was amended, awarding him half the proceeds of the house sale.
Montalvo then brought a separate action against Rodriguez, the title company and others. A jury found that the title company engaged in a conspiracy to intentionally harm his ownership in the home, and assessed actual and punitive damages. The title company appealed.
The Court of Appeals held that the court lacked the appropriate jurisdiction to transfer Montalvo's interests in the property because he wasn't personally served in the divorce action and didn't appear in any proceedings pertaining to the divorce.
Despite service by publication, the record didn't contain any facts from which the appellate court could conclude that the court also obtained personal jurisdiction over Montalvo. Personal jurisdiction in fact, in addition to statutorily-accepted service, are conditions precedent to the exercise of jurisdiction in rem or quasi in rem upon a status or upon a property.
Under §801.07, to affect the status of a defendant or property a summons must be served upon the defendant pursuant to §801.12. Under that statute, if the defendant is known (and, of course, the husband was "known"), he has to be served with a summons per §801.11. Under §801.11(1)(c), service may be made by publication if the defendant cannot be served with reasonable diligence. That is exactly what was done in this case.
Montalvo clearly had sufficient contact with Wisconsin to satisfy the requirements of due process.
Specifically, Montalvo lived in the Wisconsin home with Rodriguez from 1995 until February 2002. She filed for divorce in 2003. Therefore, Montalvo resided in Wisconsin in a marital relationship with the petitioner for more than six consecutive months within the six years preceding the commencement of the action, a ground for personal jurisdiction under §801.05(11).
Under §801.11, once a court has subject-matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction under §801.05, it may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant by publication if, after exercising due diligence, personal service has failed.
Inexplicably, the Court of Appeals didn't reference §801.05(11), which is a clear basis for personal jurisdiction over the husband. Once personal jurisdiction exists, the court can order the house awarded to the wife, even if the husband was served by publication (assuming he couldn't be found for personal service).
The Court of Appeals was clearly unhappy with the title company's "disingenuous at best" argument that the divorce judgment itself divested Montalvo of his interest in the home, since the record demonstrated that the company's own document listed him as a co-owner.
"The lack of candor with the circuit court and this court which the argument demonstrates is at the very least unfortunate," the decision reads.
But perhaps more unfortunate is the unintended problem the opinion creates for future family-law litigants – and it's a huge one.
Namely, if there's a house in joint names and one of the parties cannot be found for personal service, under the Court of Appeals' decision, the house can never be refinanced and can never be sold. Cue the music for Rod Serling standing in the corner. If personal service is required and the other spouse has disappeared, ownership is permanent.
Admittedly, this is not a common situation, since few spouses totally disappear and those who do, don't usually own real estate. But, it can and does happen. And, if the Court of Appeals' analysis is correct, it leads to an absurd result.


Orbital ATK, a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, recently completed an important qualification test of the avionics system for the solid rocket boosters the company has developed and is now manufacturing for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). Completion of this milestone is an important step toward preparing the SLS and Orion spacecraft for their first flight in 2019.
A test version of the CST-100 Starliner — Boeing's Crew Space Transportation vehicle — will soon begin a series of "hot fire" tests at NASA's White Sand Facility in New Mexico. Boeing is building the Starliner for NASA to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station, with a first crewed flight test scheduled for next year.
CU Boulder researchers have developed an advanced drone "swarming" technology that allows a single operator to control multiple unmanned aircraft for a variety of tasks, which could include searching for lost hikers or studying wildlife.
Earth Networks, the leading provider of weather intelligence solutions today announced Sferic DroneFlight – a new advanced predictive weather offering specifically designed for rapidly growing commercial drone markets within construction, insurance, oil and gas, agriculture, and public safety. The announcement was made ahead of InterDrone, one of the world's largest annual conferences focused on innovation in the drone industry.
There are still spaces available for Adams State University Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Saturdays. These free interactive sessions will stimulate imagination and curiosity of students. The Exploring Infectious Disease with Molecular Tools scheduled for September 16, is open to grades 9 through 12. Earlier promotional materials had the wrong age group listed.
The ESA's Rosetta mission, which ended in September 2016, found that organic matter made up 40% (by mass) of the nucleus of comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a.k.a. Chury. Organic compounds, combining carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, are building blocks of life on Earth. Yet, according to Jean-Loup Bertaux and Rosine Lallement–from the Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (CNRS / UPMC / Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) and the Galaxies, Étoiles, Physique et Instrumentation department of the Paris Observatory (Observatoire de Paris / CNRS / Université Paris Diderot), respectively–these organic molecules were produced in interstellar space, well before the formation of the Solar System.
As Florida braces for a hurricane expected to make landfall this weekend, the U.S. Air Force and SpaceX still hope to launch the X-37B reusable spaceplane before the storm hits.
Planners have mapped out a 400-million-yuan ($61 million) development plan to turn a red rock basin in China into a Mars scientific research base and eco-tourism site.
President Donald J. Trump spoke with NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer who just returned to Earth after lengthy stays aboard the International Space Station.
The National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security have designated Pueblo Community College a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE2Y) for its cyber security program.
The sun emitted two significant solar flares on the morning of Sept. 6, 2017. The first peaked at 5:10 a.m. EDT and the second, larger flare, peaked at 8:02 a.m. EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of both events.
NASA's call for proposals for its Director's Discretionary Early Release Science (ERS) program for the James Webb Space Telescope garnered worldwide participation, with scientists from 38 countries submitting a total of 106 scientific proposals.
The investment comes despite uncertainty clouding federal space budgets.


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Q: Why is this assembly a temporary asp.net dll? I have precompiled my web site project into a single dll for the whole site. When I run a page and look at:
Assembly.GetAssembly(this.GetType())

It is resolving as : App_Web_qgqyxtge
But when I make a call to:
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()

This resolves to :

Upload, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

I'm struggling to see why the assembly of the page I am looking at looks like a temporary asp.net dll and not the compiled dll that seems to be executing the current code?

A: That's probably because you are using a Web Site project in contrast to Web Application project and all classes stored in your App_Code folder will automatically be compiled into temporary assemblies.

A: Are you running the page in debug mode when you print out that message.
The compilation model is different between release and debug.
In deug there is on assembly pr page, so I would guess your page is called "Upload.aspx"

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Kindergarten and elementary school teachers instruct young students in basic subjects, such as math and reading. Middle school teachers help students build on the fundamentals they learned in elementary school and prepare them for the more difficult curriculum they will face in high school. High school teachers help prepare students for life after graduation. They teach academic lessons and various skills that students will need to attend college and to enter the job market.
School teachers work in public and private schools. They generally work school hours when students are present and use nights and weekends to prepare lessons and grade papers.
Communication skills: Teachers need to discuss students' needs with parents and administrators. They also need to be able to communicate the subject content to students in a manner in which they will understand.
Patience: Working with students of different abilities and backgrounds can be difficult. Teachers must respond with patience when students struggle with material.
Physical stamina: Working with students can be tiring. Teachers need to be able to physically, mentally, and emotionally keep up with the students.
Resourcefulness: Teachers need to be able to explain difficult concepts in terms that students can understand. In addition, they must be able to get students engaged in learning and adapt their lessons to meet students' needs.
The average pay for K-12 school teachers in the United States ranges from $34,840 to $95,380.
Overall employment of school teachers is projected to grow 7 to 8 percent from 2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations.
Rising student enrollment should increase demand for teachers, but employment growth will vary by region.
All states require K-12 public school teachers to have at least a bachelor's degree. Private schools typically have the same requirement. Some states also require public school teachers to major in a content area, such as math or science. In addition, public school teachers must have a state-issued certification or license.
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Tetracha cribrata is a species of tiger beetle that was described by Steinheil in 1875. The species can be found in Meta and Cundinamarca of Colombia, as well as in Apure, Yaracui, and Carabobo of Venezuela.

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Cicindelidae
Beetles described in 1875
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