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Tatiana (The world)
Economy & Industry
Trivia & Assorted
Tatiana is one of the 'Warmaster' systems, which also consists of the neighboring Anisa and Nataria systems and form the core backbone of the empire. The Tatiana system houses one gas giant, two barren rock worlds, and Tatiana the planet. It is a fairly empty system; however it makes up for this with Tatiana, one of the crown jewels of the empire and known galaxy.
As both a Warmaster and key populated world of the empire, defense is an important factor. This is secured primarily by orbital defense, in the form of Yamataian defense satellites and No-H1-1a - Kante Border Monitoring Station as well as reaction forces from the nearby fleets stationed in Yamatai and other core worlds. After being founded, Legion VII was semi-permanently stationed on the planet for defense and policing purposes. They are based on the two Star Army Spires on planet - One nestled in the center of one of the cities and another overlooking the settled region from mountain top, ominously.
Communications are provided by a network of Emrys Satellites put into orbit in YE 34. Tatiana was first colonized in YE 23, occupied by the NMX in YE 31 before being reclaimed after the war in YE 34. Due to the planet Yamatai's pressure of influence and a agreement with the planet's surrender, the world did not suffer harshly during the occupation.
Tatiana is one of the 'Warmaster' worlds, named after the general 'Tatiana', and the most populated and developed of the three worlds. Terraformed between YE 23 and YE 26 Tatiana possesses an extremely vibrant, though relatively temperate, global eco-system, lush forests, plains, and even a few jungles around the equator. It possesses plants and animals from all over the Empire, using only those that are capable of living in a sustainable fashion, turning the world into a bit of a safari world.
The ruling body of Tatiana is highly concerned for the environment and the penalties for damaging it are almost draconian. All cities on the world are heavily planned, privately built new construction being almost impossible to be approved and taxed heavily. Sustainability is extremely important to them, and all of their agricultural industry and living tends to conform to this, though refusal to mine makes more conventional industry impossible. In YE 34, Saiga Tokiko was appointed governor following the system's reconquest from Mishhuvurthyar hands.
That being said, Tatiana is a lovely place to live, given the co-existence of nature and civilization, with beautiful and graceful gardens, trees and flowers adorning every pavement and walkway. There are a huge number of leisure activities to take part in, and for a peaceful retirement, or a holiday, there are few places better than Tatiana. In fact, it is so popular that houses and living spaces are at a bit of a premium, and the homeless commonly shipped off world to one of Yamatai's other blossoming colonies.
Tatiana in particular is a hotspot for immigrants coming to the empire, be it from Neplesia, the former United Outer Colonies or otherwise. As a result, the population of the world is predominantly "human," with Nekos being notable low in number. This causes Tatiana to stand out in the empire, as well as cause it to be the usual hotbed for tensions between "meats and synths."
While the planet was terraformed, its general geography was kept intact. Like most colonized worlds of the empire, a significant portion of the planet is made up of the oceans and seas, though not as much as the landmasses - Only 40% of the world's surface is water. The landmasses are split up into several continents, broken up in by multiple seas with plenty of tiny islands. Much of the world is fairly flat, in particularly the one settled continent consists of a gigantic, shallow bowl valley of sorts. The few mountains that do exist tend to be either wide, shallow things or a handful of truly massive outcroppings of long since dormant volcanoes.
The overall climate of the world is similar to Earth in a way; however the planet is all around a bit colder and solidly falls into temperate climates, with warmer jungles in the equator and colder tundras at the poles. In contrast to the relatively low amount of surface water, much of the world is rather moist. Much of the coastlines at the equator are swamps with thick, sprawling deltas which soon turn into rainforests. There are no deserts on Tatiana, even prior to terraforming efforts - The driest thing are the sprawling plains.
Tatiana doesn't really have seasons, or at least as wide effecting ones as some other worlds; the year and a half orbit is fairly spherical, only varying enough for the tundras to begin to spread for the winter months and the temperate to slightly dip. Without any moons or a varying orbit, the weather remains rather gentle; while there are more normal weather elements such as rain, snow and thunder, more fierce disasters such as tornadoes and hurricanes are unheard of.
With the empire seeding the world with a large variety of creatures from around the universe, the wild life of Tatiana is extremely vast, as suited for a "safari world". Most of the animals, especially the dangerous ones, are spread among the many continents of the world other than the settled one and are closely monitored by relevant authorities. The civilized continent, on the other hand, mostly has smaller creatures, such as rodents. It also has birds especially, escaping from their various land predators and dominating around the cities in feathery displays. Sea creatures are equally vast, though curiously the Yamatai treasure of dolphins and whales are purposefully missing.
The majority of animals seeded in Tatiana belong in plains, forests or swamps of some sort, with some of them adapting to survive in the small tundras in the caps.
Unfortunately, even after Mishhuvurthyar occupation of Tatiana was over, remnants of the occupiers exist. There have been sightings of both crab and parasite Mishhuvurthyar around, praying on the wildlife of the unsettled continents. It is extremely rare, though a known danger, for a parasite to make it to a city and make a zombie host. Curiously, however, they seem to have no agenda or organization, being somewhat feral.
Not only was the fauna seeded, but so was the flora. Tatiana sports a wealth of different, competing and monitored types of trees for its overall temperate climate. Not only that, but smaller plants; the many plains are known to house various shrubs and flowers, for example, while the bottoms of the forest floor are teeming with all sorts of small-scale plant-life. The cities themselves also host plenty of gardens about the walkways for cosmetic purposes.
In addition, Tatiana has its own farms, operating on a self-sustainable farming philosophy.
On a planet as snugly populated as Tatiana, government is a relatively easy process to identify with; everything within a city falls under individual municipal department head or mayor, while everything beyond that falls under the world's governor, who resides in the Valhalla's spire building and directly oversees the mayors. The Governor, of course, heeds then the empire.
Tatiana is an extremely planned colony, taking great steps to ensure it remains a beautiful utopia of a planet. This is at the cost of private construction as well as general time and management. All cities of the plant reside on the same settled continent and are universally the same; Large, disc-like cities that are fairly dense and are a mass of walk ways and light and heavy rail services. These urban centers are zoned and constructed in advance, with those who move into the buildings able to gently modify the construction as needed. One overriding characteristic of the cities, though, is the height of the buildings; buildings in the disc city begin to grow in height universally to the center, where a much more grand structure is placed and forms the pinnacle point of the city in question. (This is usually some corporate super structure, though in the case of the capital city, uncreatively named Valhalla, it is the Governor's "Palace" spire. In another, newer city made up of largely Yugumo cluster refugees, it happens to be one of the Legion spires.) This building edict gives the unique quality to allow citizens to simply go onto the roof of their homes and be able to look out from the city and see the lush country side, from anywhere they live.
The cities themselves have developed a somewhat cramped and noisy characteristic due to crowds of pedestrians, offsetting the more utopian, naturalist desires. This is on account of the cities themselves being very well populated and busy: there is a lot of people in a relatively small space! In reality the cities themselves retain the very clean, pollution-less desires and brim with life and beauty, such as flower beds and miniature parks.
Life outside of the cities, however, is very different. Nearly all of civilization on Tatiana is in these cities, with the rare few homes outside it heavily taxed. The country side has its fair share of facilities, though other than the massive planetary star port, solar farms and agricultural centers there is very little else, the rest of it all centered somewhere in the jungle-like cities.
There are, however, other centers of civilization on planet, largely illegal. Hostile Refugees, bandits, pirates, organized Mishhu remnants and so forth. With the heavy, planet-wide tree cover it isn't to difficult for these groups to remain hidden with a excruciatingly, and somewhat harmlessly, low profile.
One of Tatiana's many qualities if very evident the moment you arrive; there is no cars. There is no roads. All forms of transport are either foot traffic in the form of the many foot paths in the cities, light-rail transport in the city in the form of hanging trams over the aforementioned paths of heavy, speedy rail trains between cities and facilities. Past the variety of trains, the most you see out of a land vehicle are small wagons of some sort, wheeled or hovering, though these are moderated by the government and usually small, guided by a single person pushing or pulling it along the streets.
It should be noted that all form of rail transport is free, paid and run for by the planetary government, though businesses do pay a small tax to help fund the heavy rail services.
Air travel on Tatiana is almost non-existent and, in many circumstances, illegal. The massive star port moderates space craft in a small entry and exit window in the atmosphere, with other privately owned aerospace vehicles being severely taxed and largely only owned by people who already live out of the cities at great expense. Most of the few privately owned air vehicles are fishing vehicles, which are taxed lighter but heavily moderated. Another notable series of vehicles are worldly tour buses, which are similarly taxed slightly lighter.
However, government air vehicles are relatively common, though only in the form of emergency vehicles; aero-ambulances and police paddy wagons, for example. They are only used as needed, however, keeping the skies clear and untouched.
Sea travel is virtually unheard of; there are no cities on the coasts, nor is there very many with a river running through it. Any form of tourism is usually done by aerospace vehicles of some fashion. As a rule, sea travel is used on Tatiana by illegals for faster travel without as much risk of detection as the air has.
Tatiana is part of the PAINT mass transportation system and has a terminal operated by the Star Army of Yamatai. It has a flight to Amatsu-Yamatai, Planet Yamatai every two hours.
Civilian cargo shipping is primarily provided by Trinary Star Shipping, which has storefronts in all of the planet's major cities.
Tatiana has a very vivid and diverse population, filled with all sorts of creatures. While the vast majority of the population are of the "human" variety (Such as; Nepleslian, Human, Minkan, Jiyuuian and, to a much lesser extent, Nekovalkyrja, Elysian, Abwehran and Separa'Shan.) a few examples of every sort of species known to the empire can be found - They are not legally restricted, though life and culture is more comfortable for the mainstays of "humanity". (The most radioactive Freespacers are barred on the spot, though.)
Being such an attractive, premium world, it is a common place for people to attempt to go to. Once the Mishhu occupation had subsided Tatiana's population swelled from a variety of refugees from the war, particularly Yugumo cluster refugees who found familiarity in the Nekovalkyrjian dislike common among the people. So much so, in fact, that the governor had to start turning people away and even deporting the homeless to other, grow worlds while Tatiana begin to build additional cities - A painstakingly slow process.
While Tatiana wasn't founded to long ago, it has continued several deep, cultural histories from its many different immigrants. If it exists out there in the known universe, it may very well have an established ghetto somewhere on Tatiana.
An alarmingly common ideology among the Tatiana people is dislike for Nekovalkyrians of all sorts, with Yamataians and Minkans getting a slight, though substantially less, sense of distrust with association. Seeing the Neko as little more as war machines wiping out any form of cultural identify humanity had, it is uncommon but not unheard of to see bullying and slurs thrown at Nekos. As a result, it isn't considered a very safe place to live for them over somewhere such as Yamatai, though notably this doesn't stop more aggressive Neko who tend to respond in kind and perpetuate the problem. The current governor, Saiga Tokiko, has made it a pinnacle issue to put a stop to this, or at least temper it. Time will tell how effective this is, especially given the many new post-war occupants.
Post-occupation Tatiana also has a minor faction of people who have developed an anti-empire attitude for both causing their occupation as well as only saving them out of it once the Mishhu retreated. This has especially fostered given the Mishhu's rather humane treatment of Tatiana, though this is a rather unique for the world. However, this level of dissent has never moved to anything physical beyond outspoken civilians and somewhat harmless grumbling.
Tatiana strives on one important thing; Independence; to be able to be self-sufficient and its own world, especially during and after the Mishhu occupation.
It fails.
While the world has a massive commercial and (self-sustainable-only) agricultural backbone, with the former able to fuel the better part of a empire's needed office workers and other sorts of bureaucracy, the draconian laws and regulations against pollution and construction mean that heavy industry is almost unheard of on Tatiana. Industry instead takes the form of minor workhouses and light factories within cities at best. This means the world relies on trade for its heavier goods and resources, though does otherwise manage pretty well for itself.
In particular, post-occupation with the destruction of empire assets all around, Tatiana boomed in to a commercial power-house for all sorts of corporations and business assets. With plenty of accommodating zoning and even more eager workers, it was a easy match.
Due to this, as well as the planet's general very mixed, diverse population, it is among one of the planets in the empire that universally adopts a actual paying economy, paying for both goods and services instead of a more simplistic bartering, lifestyle or favor based one like much of the empire, the planet Yamatai in particular, has developed. It gives the planet a very different feel over its neighboring cousins - not that it isn't rife with its own unique qualities and issues.
The police force of the world is massive, with plenty of officers wandering the many path ways of the city. The crimes that do happen tend to be swiftly apprehended by sheer police volume and presence. However, this sense of safety is only really true within the cities and the star port - The illegals outside of the city generally go unmolested. This has begun to change with the Legion's post-occupation deployment on Tatiana, however.
Of note, Tatiana is not powered based on aether since after a Mishhu enforced edict to dismantle the generators during the occupation. Instead, they operate sprawling solar farms, easily powering the small civilization's needs. Post-occupation, the planet's aether generators were reinstalled, though they remain unused except when absolutely required, such as critical emergencies or the like. The solar power works just fine, after all.
While Tatiana was occupied rather early on in the Second Mishhuvurthyar War, it didn't suffer much of a ill fate unlike other, similarly occupied worlds. While the planet was bombarded during the invasion, the civil center was quick to surrender after the military fleet assets were destroyed. Due to the neighboring closeness of Yamataian strongholds, Mishhu could never safely commit troops to land and enslave the planet's occupants, instead giving them a curiously unmolested life style. While helpless and forced by the ominous floating figures in the sky to follow Mishhu desires, the acting governor had struck a deal to provide food and other simple services for safety. The deal stuck. For the most part - Parasites and other Mishhu creatures are still found on Tatiana today.
This page was last updated as of March, 2013. It was approved by Wes on 2013/03/16 at 23:59 EST
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Appointment of Robert Cook is "coup" for Macdonald Hotels
20 May 2015 by Janet Harmer
Robert Cook, who previously headed up hotels for Malmaison, Hotel du Vin and De Vere, has been appointed commercial director of Macdonald Hotels & Resorts.
Group chairman Donald Macdonald, who added the responsibility of chief executive to his role last year following the departure of David Guile, said Cook's appointment was "a significant coup" for the company.
Overseeing the group's food and beverage, leisure, spa and golf offers, Cook will report to Donald Macdonald will work alongside deputy chairman and finance director Gordon Fraser and deputy chief executive Ruaridh Macdonald. He will also contribute as a board member to the overall strategy of the group.
Cook's new role will reunite him with Keith Shearer who was appointed group executive chef of Macdonald Hotels & Resorts two months ago. Cook and Shearer previously worked together at Malmaison and Hotel du Vin and then later at De Vere Hotels and De Vere Village Urban Resorts, where they both joined in 2012. They were among four executives who made redundant in March 2014 prior to the sale of the De Vere portfolio.
Cook has recently been working in a consultancy capacity with Macdonald Hotels, which has over 50 properties in the UK, Spain and Portugal, in the run up to the confirmation of permanent role.
"From the last few months working with the team here, it's abundantly clear that the culture of the group is a very special one, where quality, teamwork and customer service are integral to the considerable success the business has already enjoyed," he said.
"I firmly believe that the business has enormous potential for future growth, thanks not only to its superb assets, but also to the enthusiasm and ambition of the many, many talented people I've encountered at all levels of the company."
Donald Macdonald said that Cook shares the board's excitement and ambition for the group's future plans.
"He has quickly established very strong relationships with our senior management team and his insight, vision and experience are already paying dividends as we focus on an ambitious programme of future growth.
"Having recently agreed the sale of land at our Botley Park hotel in Southampton for just under £60m, with hotel operating profits up £4.3m last year and with our first quarter this year already £1.4m ahead of forecast, we've built up a very strong market position and are currently examining a range of new and exciting opportunities which will continue our upwards growth trend."
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Home :From Europe to Australia (1881-1900)
Ellen White Visits Europe
For some time the General Conference had been asking Mrs. White and her son, W. C. White, to visit the European missions. As she prepared for the journey, it seemed to those close to her that her physical condition would make the trip impossible. Obedient, however, to what seemed duty, she embarked on the journey, was given the necessary health, and spent the time from the fall of 1885 to the summer of 1887 in the European countries.
From Basel, Switzerland, then the headquarters of the church's European work, Mrs. White made trips to England, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Of particular interest to her were two trips to the Waldensian valleys in Italy, where she visited places she had seen in vision in connection with the Dark Ages and the Reformation. Both in Basel, Switzerland, and Christiana (now Oslo), Norway, Ellen White recognized the printing presses as those shown her in the vision of January 3, 1875, when she saw many presses operating in lands outside North America. The counsel given by Ellen White to European church workers meant much in the establishment of right policies and plans.
The Great Controversy and Patriarchs and Prophets
Because The Spirit of Prophecy, volume 4, was called for in the European languages, Ellen White felt she must write out more fully the controversy scenes involving places in Europe. The result was the book known today as The Great Controversy, first published in 1888.
Back again in the United States, Ellen White made her home at Healdsburg, California, but attended the General Conference session of 1888 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the following months she traveled and preached, seeking to unify the church on the doctrine of righteousness by faith. During this same period she worked on Patriarchs and Prophets, which appeared in the year 1890.
Called to Australia
At the General Conference session of 1891, Mrs. White was presented with an urgent call to visit Australia to give counsel and assist in church work in that pioneer region. Responding to this appeal, she reached Australia in December, 1891, accompanied by her son, Elder W. C. White, and several of her assistants. Her presence in Australia was much appreciated by the new believers, and her messages of counsel regarding the developing work contributed much to firmly establishing denominational interests in this southern continent. Here again, on her visit to the church's publishing house, Mrs. White recognized printing presses as among those shown her in vision in January, 1875.
Not long after her arrival Ellen White saw clearly the urgent need for an institution of learning in Australia, that Seventh-day Adventist youth might be educated in a Christian environment, and thus workers be trained for service at home and in the island fields. In response to her many strong appeals, a Bible school was opened in the city of Melbourne, Australia, in 1892. The school operated in rented quarters for two years, but during this time earnest written and oral appeals from Mrs. White pointed out that God's plan called for the school to be located in a rural environment.
The Avondale School
When God clearly indicated His approval of the property, the Avondale Estate was secured. Then, to give encouragement to those in this pioneer enterprise, Mrs. White purchased a good-sized lot nearby and made her home near the new school. This school, God indicated, was to be a pattern of what Adventist educational work should be.
In order that the developing work in Australia might be properly administered, in 1894 the territory was organized into a union conference, the first union conference in Seventh-day Adventist history. One who had a part in the administrative work in the newly organized union conference was Elder A. G. Daniells, who, with his wife, had been sent to New Zealand in 1886 as a missionary. His association with Mrs. White, and his adherence to her counsels as he met the growing administrative problems of the field, helped to prepare him for the greater work entrusted to him when, after the General Conference session of 1901, he was chosen president of the General Conference.
Medical Work Begun
As soon as the educational work was well begun at Avondale, appeals were made for establishing a medical missionary program. To this Ellen White not only gave strong moral support but contributed liberally of her limited means to help make a sanitarium possible. In fact, almost every church built and every line of endeavor inaugurated during the nine years of Mrs. White's residence in Australia benefited from her financial encouragement.
In addition to her many interests in the local work of this pioneer field, Mrs. White found time to write thousands of pages of timely counsel that crossed the seas and guided denominational leaders. She also furnished articles weekly for the Review, Signs,and Instructor. This heavy program greatly delayed her book work, and it was not until 1898 that The Desire of Ages was brought to completion and made its appearance. Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing preceded it by two years, and Christ's Object Lessons and Testimonies for the Church, volume 6, followed in 1900.
In 1891 Ellen White appealed to church leaders to begin educational and evangelistic work on behalf of the Black race in America's South. Three years later, one of her sons, James Edson White, built a Mississippi River steamboat and used it for about a decade as a floating mission for Blacks in Mississippi and Tennessee. In 1895 and 1896 she wrote articles in the "Review and Herald" continuing to urge that efforts be made for Blacks in the South, and from time to time she sent messages of counsel and encouragement to workers in that field. She gave strong support to the establishment of Oakwood College, in Huntsville, Alabama, which was founded for the purpose of educating young African-Americans. In 1904 she gave a speech to its students and teachers, declaring, "It was God's purpose that the school should be placed here." Throughout the remaining years of her life, she maintained a deep interest and concern for the church work among Blacks in the southern States.
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We are here for a purpose. God has given us His plan for our life, and He desires us to reach the highest standard of development. (FLB 167)


It is wrong to think God's love for the nations began only with Jesus and the Great Commission. Remember Jonah's preaching to save Israel's great enemy, Nineveh? Remember the precious story of Ruth, a foreigner grafted into the lineage of King David and ultimately Jesus the Messiah? God loves all people and wants them to come to share in his grace. As Christians, we are his salt and light. We are here to touch all the peoples of the world and beckon them to come back to the one Father who truly loves them.
Holy God, stir in my heart a greater passion to share your love with the world. May my life, my money, and my concern be used to do more of your work throughout the world. Please bless the efforts of all those who share the Gospel of Jesus in a culture other than their own. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.


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WorldNetDaily, Sep. 12
U.S. borders have become more porous following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks and the incorporation of immigration enforcement agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, according to an in-depth report in today's edition of Time magazine.
According to the cover story, illegal immigration into the U.S. has accelerate in the last year, since President Bush proposed a temporary worker program that amounts to a limited amnesty program that would allow millions to remain in the U.S. legally.
This year, according to the report, some 3 million more illegal aliens will enter the country—"enough to fill 22,000 Boeing 737-700 airliners, or 60 flights every day for a year."
It's the largest wave of illegal immigration into the country since 2001, according to the report, and illegal immigration now represents triple the number of immigrants who enter the country legally.
"The next time you pass through an airport and have to produce a photo ID to establish who you are and then must remove your shoes, take off your belt, empty your pockets, prove your laptop is not an explosive device and send your briefcase or purse through a machine to determine whether it holds weapons, think about this: In a single day, more than 4,000 illegal aliens will walk across the busiest unlawful gateway into the U.S., the 375-mile border between Arizona and Mexico," begins the report, "Who Left the Door Open?" "No searches for weapons. No shoe removal. No photo-ID checks. Before long, many will obtain phony identification papers, including bogus Social Security numbers, to conceal their true identities and mask their unlawful presence."
While the vast majority of these illegal immigrants are Mexicans, a growing number come from other countries, including those with large populations hostile to America, reports Time.
From Oct. 1, 2003, to Aug. 25 of this year, the Border Patrol estimates that it apprehended 55,890 people who fall into the category described officially as "other than Mexicans," or OTMs.
"With five weeks remaining in the fiscal year, the number is nearly double the 28,048 apprehended in all of 2002," says the report. "But that's just how many were caught."
Interviews with local law-enforcement officers and residents report encounters with immigrants from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran and Iraq.
"Law-enforcement authorities believe the mass movement of illegals, wherever they are from, offers the perfect cover for terrorists seeking to enter the U.S., especially since tighter controls have been imposed at airports," reports Time.
The report notes Americans overwhelmingly want to crack down on illegal immigration, but the government doesn't seem to want to fix the problem.
"Bush has reaffirmed his pledge for an immigration policy that would provide worker's permits for aliens who find jobs, and John Kerry has promised to propose legislation that would lead to permanent residence for many illegal-alien workers," reports Time. "Neither candidate has called for imposing serious fines on the people who encourage illegal immigration: corporate employers."
Even those caught violating the border multiple times are not punished, according to the report.
"When the crowds cross the ranches along and near the border, they discard backpacks, empty Gatorade and water bottles and soiled clothes," reports Time. "They turn the land into a vast latrine, leaving behind revolting mounds of personal refuse and enough discarded plastic bags to stock a Wal-Mart. Night after night, they cut fences intended to hold in cattle and horses. Cows that eat the bags must often be killed because the plastic becomes lodged between the first and second stomachs. The immigrants steal vehicles and saddles. They poison dogs to quiet them. The illegal traffic is so heavy that some ranchers, because of the disruptions and noise, get very little sleep at night."
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A new kind of atomic clock is more precise than any yet built, with the ability to tick smoothly for a thousand times the lifetime of the universe. In addition to being the best timekeeper to date, the new so-called quantum gas clock might one day offer insights into new physics.
Researchers at JILA (formerly also referred to as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) used a combination of strontium atoms and an array of laser beams to create a clock so precise it might be able to measure the interaction of gravity at smaller scales than ever before. In doing so, it might shed light on the nature of its relationship to other fundamental forces, a mystery that has baffled physicists for decades.
To get that kind of precision, the team chilled strontium atoms to keep them from moving around and bumping into one another — something that can throw off their vibrations. First, they hit the atoms with lasers. When hit by the photons in the lasers, the atoms absorbed their energy and re-emitted a photon, losing kinetic energy and getting colder. But that didn't cool them enough. So to get them even colder, the team relied on evaporative cooling, allowing some of the strontium atoms to evaporate and accept yet more energy. They were left with between 10,000 and 100,000 atoms, at a temperature of only 10 to 60 billionths of a degree above absolute zero, or minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 273 degrees Celsius).
The cold atoms were trapped by a 3D arrangement of lasers. The beams were set up to interfere with each other. As they did so, they created regions of low and high potential energy, called potential wells. The wells act like stacked egg cartons, and each one holds a strontium atom.
At this point, the clock was ready to start keeping time: The researchers hit the atoms with a laser, exciting one of the electrons orbiting the strontium's nucleus. Because electrons are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, one can't say what energy level the electron is in once it is excited, and can only say that it has a probability of being in one or another. To measure the electron, after 10 seconds, they fired another laser at the atom. That laser measures where the electron is located around the nucleus, as a photon from the laser gets re-emitted by the atom — and how many times it oscillated in that period (the 10 seconds).
Averaging this measurement over thousands of atoms is what gives this atomic clock its precision, just as averaging the beats of thousands of identical pendulums will give one a more precise idea of what the period of that pendulum should be.
Until now, atomic clocks had only single "strings" of atoms as opposed to a 3D lattice, so they could not take as many measurements as this one did, Ye said.
"It's like comparing watches," Ye said. "Using that analogy, the laser pulse on the atoms kicks off a coherent oscillation. Ten seconds later we turn on the pulse again and ask the electron, 'Where are you?'" That measurement is averaged over thousands of atoms.
Keeping electrons in that in-between state is difficult, Ye said, and that's another reason the atoms need to be so cold, so that the electrons don't accidentally touch anything else.
The clock can essentially measure seconds down to 1 part in trillions. This ability makes more than a really good timekeeper; it might aid in searches for phenomena such as dark matter, Ye said. For example, one could set up an experiment in space using such an accurate timer to see if atoms behave differently from what conventional theories predict.


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Studying is a necessity as we know but it is still something that people regularly struggle with. They know its importance but still at times can find it difficult to focus fully on it. With so many distractions in today's world, procrastination is rife and it is important for students to be diligent and disciplined with their study approaches.
It is however, important to note that one study routine might suit one person but not suit the next. One person might feel that they study better in a group while another person may feel that they study better alone in a quiet space. It is all about figuring out what gets you the best results and achieves the highest efficiency in terms of topics covered.
Try to create a study schedule throughout the academic year so that you are not left cramming towards the exams. If you have kept to your study schedule, you will find yourself with less anxiety and a resolve to do a better exam.
The Study Smart Infographic from Study Medicine Europe in the UK is a helpful guide on how to get the most from your study efforts. It breaks things down in terms of the science of study and memory and also gives some tips on approaching study for different stages. Use it in conjunction with the Study Tips app which has sections on reading, memory, test taking, etc. plus all tips are research based and written in 140 characters or less.


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Microsoft CEO search twists and turns have cost Ballmer, Gates billions
With Ford CEO, Alan Mulally, out of the picture, Microsoft's stock will continue to slide, predict Wall Street analysts
Current Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, has watched $US1.1 billion evaporate from the value of his company stock as the selection process for a successor has dragged on and investors have expressed disappointment in the firm's apparent turn toward an internal candidate.
Since the December 4 high for the stock, shares have fallen almost 9 per cent, lowering the paper value of Ballmer's holdings by $US1.1 billion, to $US11.8 billion as of mid-day Thursday. Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates, who owns slightly more shares than Ballmer, "lost" $US1.2 billion in his portfolio's value.
It's possible that the two will be hit even harder in the days and weeks to come.
On Thursday, MKM Partners analysts Israel Hernandez and Tyler Radke predicted that Microsoft's price will drop into the low $US30-range because the company will probably select its new CEO from the pool of current company executives.
The forecast was a repeat of one Hernandez made in early December when he said Microsoft's share price would fall if Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford Motor, wasn't selected by the Microsoft board to replace Ballmer.
Mulally took himself out of the race on Tuesday when he told the Associated Press that he wanted "to end the Microsoft speculation because I have no other plans to do anything other than serve Ford."
Investors had believed that Mulally, as an outsider and someone who had cut costs and sold off divisions to turn around Ford's fortunes, would be the most likely CEO to rid Microsoft of its unprofitable or marginally-profitable pieces, like the Bing search operation and Xbox game console business. That, investors believed, would in the short term improve the bottom line and boost share price.
"A large proportion of the stock's move in 2013 was driven by speculation that Mulally would come in and return cash to shareholders, cut costs and attack sacred cows such as Bing and Xbox," wrote the MKM analysts in a note (subscription required) published on Barron's today.
Microsoft's stock price climbed by more than a third during 2013, but most of that increase came after Ballmer's abrupt retirement announcement: Between August 21 and December 4, shares rose 23.2 per cent, but began to fall again when talk circulated that Mulally and other outsiders were probably out of the running.
The December 4 high-water mark preceded rumorus that Microsoft was considering Qualcomm COO Steve Mollenkopf. When Qualcomm quickly said Mollenkopf would become CEO, effective March 2014, Microsoft's stock began dropping.
As Mulally's prospects waned throughout December and into January, investors continued to drive down the stock.
Hernandez and Radke today also said, "We believe it is increasingly likely that an internal candidate will be promoted to CEO," echoing other reports, including from the Wall Street Journal, that said current executives Satya Nadella and Tony Bates, and Nokia's former CEO, Stephen Elop, who was once at Microsoft, are now the leading choices.
Investors have largely believed an outsider would be a better pick, seeing an insider as much more likely to continue the strategic pivot that Ballmer announced in 2012, which many believe to be misguided.
An internal candidate would also demonstrate that Gates, and to a lesser extent, Ballmer, will continue to call the shots from the board, anathema to those investors who see the pair as part of the problem with Microsoft's inability to make headway on mobile.
Gates and others have hinted that the new CEO would have to have technical chops, which pointed toward someone already inside the firm or an outsider with engineering experience in device hardware or software.
At Microsoft's November shareholder meeting, Gates said the next CEO needed "a lot of comfort in leading a highly technical organization and have an ability to work with our top technical talent." And when John Thompson, the director leading the search committee, announced in December that the new CEO would be announced in early 2014, he cited also Gates' criteria nearly word for word.
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I am honored to have spent the previous four years at Harvard. Having the opportunity to attend a school where everyone is the best at what they do is extremely inspiring. I take pride in the women's basketball program and will always remember how it felt to compete with the Harvard name on the front of my jersey. Not having our last names on the back of our jerseys symbolizes the selflessness and solidarity of Harvard women's basketball. Although we are all from different corners of the world, with different backgrounds and interests, we are unified by the love for the sport and have the opportunity to play for the name on the front of our jersey, not the back. That is what Harvard Athletics means to me.
The saying, "teams that play together win together," is missing the phrase "and lose together." The basketball season is extremely long and our schedule consists of over thirty games a season. It is inevitable that every year will be filled with times of triumph and defeat. Those triumphs following defeat, like completing the extra sprint you were not able to do the week before or beating a team that you lost to earlier in the season, are filled with much more gratification than if you were able to succeed all of the time. Riding this emotional rollercoaster with my teammates enlightened me as to why rollercoasters offer such a thrill. At the end of my senior season, when the ride came to a complete stop, I realized that all of the ups and downs were worth the risk I took when I agreed to go on the ride. The rollercoaster ride comes to an end and you cannot help but to think, "wow, I really did that?" As a senior, I cannot help but look back and smile in amazement at the massive rollercoaster that I rode with my teammates, one filled with slow ups, fast drops, and crazy turns.
Before coming to Harvard I did not have any sisters. Now, I have 25. I have learned that sisters support you throughout all of the ups and downs, see you at your best and your worst, and support you through your entire journey. I wanted to become a better person, basketball player, and teammate for these incredible women. It was not just my love for basketball that got me through my four years at Harvard, but it was mainly my love for the team. The memories that we created on and off the court will remain with me for the rest of my life (hopefully, Saturday morning conditioning memories will fade). During our HWBB reunions, we will not talk about our tallies of wins and losses. Instead, we will reminisce on experiences that cannot be measured in statistics: song wars on the bus, team late meals, Kathy's verbal slip-ups, and impossible workouts with Frazier. We will sit around, sharing hilarious stories and laughing until our stomachs hurt.
Four years ago, after receiving my acceptance letter to Harvard, the joke "oh, Harvard has sports?" seemed to follow me everywhere. Several classmates, family friends, and even strangers assumed that Harvard did not boast competitive athletic programs, let alone sports at all. Someone went so far to ask, "They have a women's basketball team there?" Four years later, at the end of my rollercoaster, I am proud to respond that yes, indeed, they do – and it's a damn good one.


The MassMutual Center (originally known as the Springfield Civic Center) is an alternate arena used by the UMass Minutemen basketball team. It is located in the nearby city of Springfield, Massachusetts.
UMass has been a frequent visitor to the building since its opening in 1972, as the Springfield Civic Center. In 8 seasons (1972-73 through 1979-80), UMass played there 24 times, going 13-11. After a 4-season hiatus, UMass took up residency for the entire 1984-85 season, as the Curry Hicks Cage went through renovations, going 7-5.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, UMass played in several "holiday classic" games, then took another hiatus, this time for 5 seasons. After a few scattered games in the early 2000s, UMass has played thru the building's upgrades and name change to the MassMutual Center. The 2010s saw UMass play seven games organized by the nearby Basketball Hall of Fame.
1/17/1974 - Providence (#7) escapes with a 77-76 win, as Massachusetts nearly won their first game against a Top 10 opponent.
1/17/1976 - Jack Leaman and the Minutemen defeat Hawaii, 80-72. Former Massachusetts player Rick Pitino serves as an assistant coach for Hawaii.
1/6/1977 - UMass and Duquesne score a combined 207 points, as the Minutemen win 110-97.
3/10/1977 - UMass defeats Seton Hall, 86-85, to advance in the NIT.
1/25/1978 - UMass again narrowly misses a chance to beat a Top 10 team, also against Providence (#9), 50-49.
1/4/1992 - UMass gets their second win over a ranked team, in a 86-73 victory over Oklahoma (#14).
1/7/1993 - Cincinnati's Nick Van Exel scores 27 as the 16th-ranked Bearcats defeat the 22nd-ranked Minutemen, 64-53.
11/25/1994 - Lou Roe takes over and leads the #3 Minutemen over defending national champ and #1-ranked Arkansas, 104-80.
11/27/2001 - The future looks bright for new UMass coach Steve Lappas, as the Minutemen beat Oregon 62-58. Lappas starts his tenure 3-0 with the win.
12/7/2013 - UMass and BYU light up the scoreboard in the Minutemen's 105-96 win.
1/17/1976 Hawaii W 80-72 Rick Pitino an assistant coach for Hawaii.
12/28/1993 Hartford W 91-62 Abdow's Holiday Classic. UMass #9.
12/29/1993 Maryland W 94-80 Abdow's Holiday Classic. UMass #9.
11/25/1994 Arkansas W 104-80 Starter Tip-Off Classic. Arkansas #1, UMass #3.
1/3/1995 West Virginia W 95-65 Abdow's Holiday Classic. UMass #4.
12/9/2011 Siena W 82-78 Hall of Fame Holiday Showcase. Considered neutral site game.
12/15/2012 Elon W 78-73 (OT) Hall of Fame Holiday Showcase. Considered neutral site game.
12/7/2013 Brigham Young (BYU) W 105-96 Hall of Fame Holiday Showcase. Considered neutral site game. UMass #21.
12/7/2014 Florida Gulf Coast L 84-75 Hall of Fame Holiday Showcase. Considered neutral site game.
12/5/2015 Mississippi L 74-64 Hall of Fame Holiday Showcase. Considered neutral site game.


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Ever wondered what legal rights and responsibilities arise from being in a common law relationship? Iven K.S. Tse discusses what it means to be in a common law relationship in this interview on VTV (now CTV) Breakfast Television, including entitlements to division of assets and spousal support and how a cohabitation agreement can help.


The QR code raises eyebrows when its name is spoken – largely out of favour, it is seen as old-fashioned, obscure, ugly and inconvenient. However, despite having one foot in the grave, it remains a simple tool to bridge the gap between the real world and the digital. The British Museum recently took a critical eye to QR codes used in two new galleries to see what could be learned from visitor behaviour around them in 2018. Using a holistic approach, we brought together information about various kinds of visitor behaviour beyond the QR codes themselves, both qualitative and quantitative, and from that tried to build an understanding of why behaviour around QR codes has been as it is, and whether they can be made to work even when they have otherwise failed to meet so many of their expectations as a well-used mobile-friendly hook from the real world into online content.
In 2018 the British Museum added QR codes to two of its recently refurbished galleries, the Hotung Gallery of China and Southeast Asia and the Albukhary Gallery of the Islamic World. There two projects were quite different; in the China and Southeast Asia gallery there was an impetus to make interpretative material available to Chinese-reading audiences, while in the Islamic Galleries there was the need to communicate a set of audio recordings which brought the commentary of community voices to the gallery.
Using these two galleries as case studies, this talk will explore how the data from QR codes was interpreted and what it means for our understanding of the value of these codes.


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RENDERED March 11, 1988
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: An attorney may not act as special appeals prosecutor for a city while simultaneously representing criminal defendants on appeals from the city court.
The Ethics Committee of the Mississippi State Bar has been requested to render an opinion concerning the following situation:
City A is the prosecutor for the crime of driving under the influence within the city limits. Due to the penalty imposed on conviction, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of appeals from the City Court to the County Court. The City Prosecutor of City A is unable to handle the large number of appeals which require trials de novo. City A has authorized the employment of additional attorneys to act as special prosecutors to prosecute these appeals and relieve the crowded appeals docket.
Lawyer B would like to accept employment as one of the special prosecutors for City A. However, Lawyer B presently represents at least one client whose DUI conviction is on appeal from the A City Court to the County Court. The regular city prosecutor has agreed that none of Lawyer B's appeals would be set for trial during the time Lawyer B would be serving as a special prosecutor.
Under the circumstances, may Lawyer B accept employment as a special prosecutor for City A?
In Ethics Opinion No. 63 (1981) it was held that a lawyer who represents a municipality may not represent or be appointed to represent a criminal defendant where the charges against the client originated and were pursued by the law enforcement agencies of the city. This opinion was reaffirmed in Opinion No. 116 (1986), which held that a city attorney could represent criminal defendants in the county and circuit courts only where the charges were solely for violations of state law, no city police officers were involved, and the city was not otherwise involved, directly or indirectly. See, also, Opinion No. 103 (1985) (An attorney whose firmrepresents a corporate client in pending litigation may not simultaneously accept employment to prosecute a claim against the corporation in an unrelated matter.)
While not the "official" municipal attorney, by accepting the proffered employment Attorney B accepts the same duties, and therefore, the same restrictions. Since the charges to be prosecuted by Attorney B as special prosecutor arose within the municipality, were investigated by city police offices, and were initially prosecuted and decided in the City Court of City A, as were the cases that Attorney B is simultaneously defending on appeal, it would be a clear and forbidden conflict of interest for Attorney B to accept employment as a special prosecutor for City A in the same county court.


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Bike and Scooter Sharing Company Lime to Enter Israel
Lime is looking to hire an operations manager that will lead the company's entry into the Israeli market
Tofi Stoler 12:1517.09.18
Smart-Mobility
San Mateo, California-headquartered smart-mobility company Lime is looking to enter the Israeli market. In a job listing posted last month on LinkedIn, the company announced it is looking to hire an operations manager to lead a team of between four and 20 people in Tel Aviv, that will work to introduce the company's scooter and bike fleets to the local community.
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Founded in 2017 and incorporated as Neutron Holdings Inc., Lime offers dockless on-demand bicycles and scooters that can be unlocked and paid for through a mobile app. The service is available in dozens of cities across the U.S. and in several locations in Europe, including Paris, Berlin, and Madrid.
Lime e-scooters. Photo: Bloomberg
According to Pitchbook data, Lime has raised $467.1 million to date from investors including Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz LLC, GV, the corporate venture capital arm of Google owner Alphabet Inc., and ride-sharing company Uber.
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In Israel, Lime will face competition from Chinese bike-sharing company Beijing Mobike Technology Co. Ltd., Los Angeles-headquartered electric scooter-sharing company Bird Rides Inc., and several smaller local operators. In June, Beijing-based bike-sharing service Ofo discontinued its service in Israel after just two months of activity.
Update, September 20: Responding to Calcalist's request for comment, Lime's Israeli press representative declined to comment in an email sent Thursday.