Will Buying Adwords Improve Organic Search Engine Ranking? Will Buying Adwords Improve Organic Search Engine Ranking?
Wondering if buying Adwords is a good idea and will actually help improve your website's organic search engine rankings? A lot of people seem to think so believing that Google provides some kind of special treatment in return. So is this really the case?
As show in the video above, the answer to the question concerned is a big No. SEO and online marketing presents a level playing field for business and Google try its hardest to keep it that way. If you are counting on it to provide you with a significant boost in search engine marketing results then you certainly have it wrong.
Google provides no favors, no advantages and no boosts in organic search results for Adwords buyers. If that is the reason behind your decision to purchase Adwords then it is highly recommended that you rethink such a move. You would be better off investing that money on creating good and high quality content that users are likely to appreciate and link to. Of course effective use and management of Adwords will certainly help but simply purchasing them is not to get you anywhere.


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Last week I was installing new VoIP equipment in my home office when I became extremely frustrated with the massive size of modern power adapters. I was out of available slots on my powerstrips and still had several things to plug in. Sitting there in utter frustration I recalled a Macworld article that addressed the very dilemma I was experiencing. I got up, quickly found the article, and decided it was time for action. Within minutes I had purchased a few PowerSquid's.
The PowerSquid is not unlike normal powerstrips in that it protects precious electronics from power surges. Where it differs is in its design. Dangling from the body of the squid are 6 power tentacles (depending on the model) that move freely and accommodate up to 6 gargantuan power adapters. You can plug your phone lines and coax connections into the PowerSquid as well. Plus, it just looks darn cool! While certainly not cheap, my sanity - and available power slots - have returned and that was worth the price of admission.
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Fairy Tales (1978)
Starring Don Sparks, Sy Richardson, Robert Staats, Brenda Fogarty, Linnea Quigley, Irwin Corey, Robert Harris, Simmy Bow, Martha Reeves, Frank Ray Perilli, Angelo Rossitto, Bob Leslie, Jeff Doucette, Lindsay Freeman, Nai Bonet, Angela Aames, Anne Gaybis, Lee Arries
Directed by Harry Hurwitz
Expectations: Fairly high, after how surprisingly enjoyable Cinderella was.
On the general scale:
On the B-movie scale:
Hot off the heels of Cinderella and her snapping pussy, Charles Band was eager to recapture the audience that craved erotic musicals based on fairy tales. But instead of picking just one and running with it, he decided to lump a whole bunch into one movie. For me, this makes Fairy Tales a far less successful film as the narrative has no drive other than to take us from one scene of nudity to the next, but I guess that's kinda the whole point in a movie like this.
The poster and the trailer proudly display what type of movie Fairy Tales is, but as the stately opening credits played I imagined a couple of clueless parents bringing their kids along for an old-fashioned good time. "Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and this one's going to be a lot of fun, kiddos!" I know this type of movie wouldn't have played a general cinema in the '70s, but just imagine! They'd storm out in a huff during the first scene when the royal doctors experts sex-perts sing the flaccid prince a song of how he must rise to the occasion and get to producing an heir by Thursday or he'll lose his kingdom. The first nudity comes just six minutes in, but our imaginary family would be long gone by then, with lyrics ushering them out the door like, "They only make semen white and urine yellow so that you know whether you're comin' or goin'."
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1978, Angela Aames, Angelo Rossitto, Anne Gaybis, Bob Leslie, Brenda Fogarty, Charles Band, Don Sparks, Frank Ray Perilli, Harry Hurwitz, Irwin Corey, Jeff Doucette, Lee Arries, Lindsay Freeman, Linnea Quigley, Martha Reeves, Nai Bonet, Robert Harris, Robert Staats, Simmy Bow, Softcore, Sy Richardson
AKA Cinderella: The Movie, The Other Cinderella
Starring Cheryl Smith, Yana Nirvana, Marilyn Corwin, Jennifer Doyle, Sy Richardson, Brett Smiley, Kirk Scott, Boris Moris, Pamela Stonebrook
Directed by Michael Pataki
Expectations: Very low.
[As a slight disclaimer to those who might be interested in seeking this one out and laughing at its absurdity fresh and untainted: I suggest doing so before reading the review. This movie is such that I found it hard not to reveal many of the ways it takes license with the classic tale, and that's pretty much the whole enchilada with this one. So you've been warned!]
Against all odds, Cinderella, the '70s softcore version of the fairy tale produced by Charles Band, is a memorable, enjoyable experience. I've purposefully held back on reviewing this and a few other films in the Band lineup, thinking that they'd be hard to get through (or perhaps impenetrable, to use a dick joke in the spirit of this movie). I also couldn't imagine the idea that a softcore musical would be any good, but now I see the error in my thinking. Not only was it good, it was a "snapping" good time. And up front I should mention that "good" is most definitely a subjective term here, as I imagine most people would find this largely stupid and pointless.
May 7, 2013 - 5:20 Will 1970s, Comedy, Fantasy, Good Trash, Movie Reviews, NoAd, Rating: 1.5 Stars, Rating: 3 Stars, Romance, Will's Reviews
1977, Boris Moris, Brett Smiley, Cheryl Smith, Full Moon, Jennifer Doyle, Kirk Scott, Marilyn Corwin, Michael Pataki, Pamela Stonebrook, Softcore, Sy Richardson, Yana Nirvana

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Solomon introduces legislation for veterans and individuals with disabilities
Rep. Jared G. Solomon August 9, 2022 | 2:30 PM
HARRISBURG, Aug. 9 – State Rep. Jared Solomon, D-Phila., will introduce legislation that would alleviate parking issues for veterans and people with disabilities.
"This commonsense proposal will ensure that individuals and veterans with disabilities have guaranteed parking that is close to their house, which improves their quality of life – especially in cities where parking is difficult. You serve our country with honor, and you are living with a disability; let's make sure we provide a dedicated parking spot for you – and only you – outside your home." Solomon said.
Currently, state law does not require municipalities to reserve parking spots near their home for people with placards and registration plates that designate a disability. Solomon's legislation would require municipalities to do so upon request from a person with a disability.
Solomon, Kenyatta introduce legislation to require elected officials convicted of felonies to resign (Jan 13, 2023)
Philadelphia House Delegation salutes Mayor Kenney's critical priorities for the city as his mandate comes to an end this year (Jan 11, 2023)
Solomon introduces legislation to form Gun Violence Task Force (Jan 11, 2023)
Solomon announces grant for his district (Jan 11, 2023)
Kenyatta, Solomon, Street to introduce legislation making 2024 presidential primary in Pa. earlier (Jan 10, 2023)
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Kotobukiya has opened up pre-orders for their upcoming X-Men 1992 Cartoon – Beast and Cyclops ARTFX+ Statue 2-Pack. This set, which will be joined by a Jubilee and Wolverine Set, is based on the classic 1990's cartoon series. These are 1/10 scale statues, which would make them roughly 7″ stall (depending on pose). The set is priced at $84.99 with a release set for September. Check out details below and photos after the jump. You can pre-order the set by Clicking Here.
The classic X-Men series has garnered a lot of attention recently due to success Fox's television series The Gifted and the upcoming New Mutants film. Now, Kotobukiya presents a line of highly collectible ARTFX+ figures inspired by the golden age of the X-Men series! These retro-style figures feature characters from the 90s X-Men Blue and Gold Teams.
This X-Men line takes full advantage of the ARTFX+ line's collectible nature, bringing you two statues for the price of one! This time's two pack features the leader of the Blue Team—who has appeared in countless comics, animations, and even video games—Cyclops in his classic blue and yellow costume, and the brains of the blue team, Beast, complete with removable glasses. The statues were crafted with the utmost attention to detail, and their bold and simplistic paint design make them look as if they've jumped straight out of an animation cell for the 90s X-Men animated series. The perfect combination of 90s nostalgia and expert craftsmanship, Kotobukiya's classic X-Men series is one you won't want to miss!
I want that exact Beast in figure form.
I'm sure we'll get him soon enough. These are neat, but the sculpts look super soft to me.
In the mid-1990s, when the X-Men cartoon was first-run, there was a series of PVC figurines, probably in 2-inch scale, that you could find in comics shops, including the one I worked in. These statues look just like those figurines, if slightly more detailed; they're even posed pretty much the same. For some reason I can't find pictures online, but I'l keep trying.
The series included Rogue in a seated position looking like those chrome mudflap "babes". I think I still have that one someplace.
okay, I still haven't found pictures of the exact Beast and Cyclops I remember, but if anyone cares the figurines were made by Applause -- a company that appears to be defunct -- and were about 2.5 inches tall (or so).


As you all probably know the original polo shirt was designed by French tennis pro René Lacoste in the 1920s, as an upgrade on the long-sleeved button-downs that contemporary tastes somehow thought appropriate for charging round a court. Since then polos have emerged a big trend and became an essential summer must-buy item in every man's wardrobe. This summer polos are more then a trend, they are a stylish radar. Here are the coolest polo shirts for your summer vacations.
We think that it would be very unfair to chart the best of the polos without including Lacoste that started it all on the first place.
Symmetry lines are modernly combined with asymmetry graphics with flashes Cubic colours that Beymen Club is standing for this summer in polos.
Since lemon yellow is a key colour of this season Camicissima decides to create a polo shirt reminding us about Limoncello taste, somewhere over the rainbows in Tuscany.
When it comes to summer time a must-buy colour for all occasions is definitely snow white that Guess finishes accurately with a tiny collar.
The 60's pastel mint green tones are having a huge impact on menswear polos that Mudo embraces this summer.


EUROPEAN FEDERALIST PARTY » EFP Newsletter – March 2012. Results of the 1st European Federalist Convention!
EFP Newsletter – March 2012. Results of the 1st European Federalist Convention!
European Federalist Party Newsletter: A stronger European Party closer to you!
Thanks to the work carried out by Bengt Beier and the other former Presidents, the Party has grown significantly throughout the past few years, focusing on achieving tangible results and bringing real value for you and for each and every European citizen.
The successes represented by the "Europeans for Fair Roaming campaign" and the "Sign Now! campaign" pushing President Vaclav Klaus to sing the Lisbon Treaty are just two examples. Since last November, when the Parti Fédéraliste and Europe United joined forces to create the European Federalist Party, we have made a step further in the political life of the Party. Hélène Feo, vice-President of the EFP is running for President on occasion of the French Presidential elections, and we aim to do the same for future elections in other European Countries. This will allow us to prepare ourselves for the coming European Parliament elections to be held in 2014, when we also aim at presenting our candidates.
We are therefore working to strengthen our presence on the ground as we cannot achieve anything without your active support! Today the EFP has sections in Austria, France, Germany, Spain, UK as well as local representatives in Belgium, Italy, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Macedonia, Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden. We are now working on the establishment of two new sections in Belgium and Italy, and we are about to launch the first-ever non-European section in Asia, where some very active European federalist are currently based. The latter will allow us to increase our visibility globally and reinforce our network.
A strong party needs committed members able to share their opinions and ideas. For this reason a new website and a forum have been recently set up. These are the central places for communicating with you and the public. We therefore kindly invite you to check them regularly to keep up to date on the work of the Party and to get involved in the discussions and debates on the future of our party. Please also check our Facebook pages: we have a "European page" as well as several national pages.
Finally, I wish to remind you that at the bottom of this Newsletter you will find the information on how to renew your membership!
I wish to thank you for your continuous support, and I look forward to working with all of you!
Foundation of the European Federalist Party.
Hélène Feo for French Presidential Elections.
State of play of our Europe-wide Campaigns.
After about one and a half years since its launch on occasion of the Salzburg convention in 2010, the Fair Roaming campaign against mobile roaming charges in the EU has grown into an extraordinary success: our call has been endorsed by 12 members of the European Parliament, thousands of individuals and 14 organisations representing nearly 150,000 people. We had the opportunity to meet and discuss with Commission officials, MEPs and high-level stakeholders and were able to successfully lobby for a new EU regulation reducing roaming charges. This campaign has given us access to key policy makers and improved our visibility in Brussels and worldwide. In fact, we have recently been mentioned for the second time in the New York Times. Follow this campaign on Facebook.
With the Eat Greener campaign, calling for more support for regionally produced organic fruit, we managed to get in touch with important stakeholders in the agricultural sector and gain valuable experience in the planning and preparation of pan-European campaigning. Just a few weeks ago, the European Commission presented new proposals for the European agricultural policy that include some of our goals.
The European Federalist Party also supported calls for a European right of association as a member of the EASEA network. Together with many other organisations and hundreds of MEPs we successfully lobbied for the European Parliament to vote in favour of a European Association statute. This has yet to be followed up by legislation of EU institutions.
Finally, we keep supporting the call for the creation of a transnational list to elect Members of the European Parliament on occasion of the next European Elections in 2014.
Thanks to our activities, we were able to successfully expand our network of partner organisations and engage in fruitful cooperation with many other NGOs, stakeholders, and politicians across Europe. This includes close and constant contact with likeminded groups such as JEF, UEF, Democracy International and consumer and citizens' representations as well as countless government and EU officials. In addition, we took part in several dozen conferences and meetings on issues of relevance for the future of Europe (more info on the website).
J ust this past week on March 1st, we took part in an extraordinary meeting in Brussels to discuss the creation of a Constitutional Convention for a European federal state. Organized by the Forum of European Civil Society, it involved debating over the main principles underlying a Constitution, as well as the democratic framework of the federal state. The meeting counted with several high profile participants, including MEPs Andrew Duff (Liberal Democrat and UEF President), Monica Frassoni (Greens), and Philippe Maystadt (Belgian Minister of State and former EIB President). You can find most of the questions covered here. There will be a follow-up mass citizen gathering in Brussels on June 28th-29th, 2012, so be sure to stay tuned for further information on that event!
5) RENEW Your Membership & DONATE! Help us to help Europe!
If you wish to have a more active role in the EFP through national or local sections, please write an e-mail to Pietro De Matteis, EFP co-President (e-mail: pietrodematteis@gmail.com).


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Shut out from the Horizon Europe
By Benjamin Fox | EURACTIV.com
In a report published on Monday (25 October), MPs on the European Scrutiny Committee said that UK research programmes "will not be able to recover these lost opportunities". [EPA / OLIVIER HOSLET]
UK lawmakers have complained that the UK remains shut out of projects related to the EU's "Horizon Europe" research fund because of the long-running dispute with Brussels over the Northern Ireland protocol.
In a report published on Monday (25 October), MPs on the European Scrutiny Committee said that UK research programmes "will not be able to recover these lost opportunities".
In December, the EU provisionally agreed to the UK participating in its new research programmes, including "Horizon Europe" research fund and the Copernicus earth observation programme, in return for an estimated £2.1 billion contribution to the programme's funding. However, UK organisations cannot bid for funding because the EU's approval for the UK's participation is tied to the outcome of Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations, EU research commissioner Mariya Gabriel has said.
Talks between EU and UK officials to resolve disagreements over the protocol are ongoing after both sides submitted proposals.
(Benjamin Fox | EURACTIV.com)
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Get the money back this is a scam period! silly to join when you get nothing.


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You should always assume an inflation rate of 10% when planning for your child's education several years down the line. As a result, you should have clearly defined goals, i.e. when you will require the funds. The timelines for paying off course fees and other costs are important since you can plan out your finances accordingly for meeting specific targets. You should start off as early as possible in order to prepare well for your child's higher educational needs. You can benefit from the power of compounding only if you start early enough. You can also invest in equity which gives better returns with a marginal level of risk. Starting early also gives you ample scope with regard to tackling other unforeseen situations like medical emergencies and employment troubles that may require dipping into additional funds.
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TV Shows You Forgot Were Spin-Offs
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Your Favorite TV Shows You Forgot Were Spin-Offs
Kathryn Lindsay
PHOTO: DEAN BUSCHER/THE CW.
When a show announces a spin-off, it's easy to be skeptical. Is it necessary? Will it really have the same magic? Will it end up just ruining the show I already loved? The next time you find yourself asking these very questions, I want this list to remind you of a little-known fact: most of the shows you love and watch every day are secretly spin-offs of shows that came before.
When you create a show, you create a universe, and sometimes that universe is filled with more than just one opportunity for TV. In the case of most of these shows, the spin-off taps into potential that would have gone to waste had creators not decided to take a small piece from the original and run with it.
Of course, there are spin-offs that are pretty obvious. Fuller House comes from, you guessed it, Full House. Young Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. Girl Meets World from Boy Meets World. Instead, this list is all about the shows we already love on their own, and that only the most dedicated fans would know actually stem from a much bigger universe.
This, of course, is the magic of TV. It reuses and interchanges characters, plots, and places in order to give us infinite thrilling and hilarious combinations that have becomes staples in our Netflix queues. While I can't speak for the die-hard TV buff, for the rest of us regular people, ahead are all the favorite TV shows you had no idea were actually spin-offs.
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Trying something new is always fun and exciting. Sometimes we wait until we are on holidays to actually have some fun. Sydney is amazing with water everywhere. Did you know, there are a lot of people, who focus on each day and how to make the most of it and Sydney's world class landscape.
It can be very hard with life commitments, but it is time you tried something new and let yourself have some fun. Learning something new or refining your skills, keeps your mind active and engaged and helps you stay motivated increasing happiness. SUPing is a great sport for this.
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Justice Laurie Zelon to Retire from Second Appellate District
Jurist known for her intelligence, skill, and tireless commitment to expanding access to justice
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Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, chair of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, announced that the commission today confirmed six appointments by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. to the Courts of Appeal.
Court of Appeal, First Appellate District
News Release - July 30, 2018
Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, chair of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, announced that the commission today confirmed Judge Gail Ruderman Feuer to the Second Appellate District.
Chief Justice Designates Elwood G. Lui as Administrative Presiding Justice of Second Appellate District
Lui becomes California's first Asian-American administrative presiding justice.
Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, Chair of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, announced that the commission today confirmed three appointees to the Courts of Appeal.
Second Appellate District to Launch Mandatory E-Filing Oct. 30
The court will host an e-filing webinar next month to help attorneys and the public use the new system.
Commission Confirms Six Appointments to Courts of Appeal
Six appointments were confirmed to the First and Second Appellate Districts.
Court of Appeal to Hold Education Program for High School Students
The Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Two, will host its educational outreach program, Appellate Court Experience (ACE), for students at Roosevelt High School and Los Altos High School.
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School shootings are events that no one wishes to occur. Yet, we are facing a tragedy, and need a solution. However, the weeks of media coverage only bring incessant gun control rhetoric. Even before all of the facts and details of the case are investigated and released by authorities, supporters of both stances on the issue pounce upon the story and exploit it for political gain. Prime-time news coverage is filled with leftists who openly advocate for infringements upon our inalienable right to own and use firearms.
Even worse, however, are the never-ending calls for large scale gun confiscation and bans on assault weapons. These claims contradict clear evidence that shows how the programs have not worked in other countries.
Proponents of gun control measures often point to Australia's National Firearms Agreement of 1996 as a model for US policy. The act increased control of semi and fully automatic weapons, making it so only licensed people could use them for a short list of purposes. Personal protection did not make the list. The act also included a gun buyback program. The graph below shows the rates of various violent crimes between 1996 and 2010. Since the legislation was enacted, only one of five categories, robbery, has fallen. On the contrary, assault has risen dramatically.
The data clearly indicates that the goal of the policy instituted was not met. So, why would it work in a country with greater levels of gang violence and organized crime?
The issue with large scale gun confiscation is more than just a pragmatic one. The restricting of someone's right to bear arms limits their ability to defend their own life. It is our natural right to defend ourselves against aggressors, and when the state makes it more difficult to do so, they are infringing upon natural rights.
So, how do we protect those the most vulnerable and defenseless, young children in schools without infringing upon natural rights? The solution is to allow school districts to hire private, armed security to stand guard at schools.
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas recently unveiled his plan to address school safety, which would include hiring and arming veterans to guard schools from active shooters. The Governor's plan is a step in the right direction, as it recognizes that criminals will get their hands on guns and commit horrible crimes, no matter what laws are in place. However, increasing the amount of armed, trained officials within schools decreases the response time to an active shooter situation. A plan such as this may have saved lives in Parkland, where police took several crucial minutes too arrive at and act on the scene.
Reducing the decision to hire armed private security to defend schools down to the local level allows the community to come together and decide if that is something they are comfortable with having within their schools. Many parents and students may have strong feelings either way about the proposal, and they should be given the chance to have their opinions heard. The community must also decide if it is something they are willing to fund, as it would take significant cash to be able to finance such a plan.
Hiring private security to defend schools against active shooter threats is the most logical way to protect the most vulnerable, our young children, while also not infringing upon our natural right to bear arms.


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MILWAUKEE — Thousands of people are expected to gather in Wisconsin this weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Deere Corp.'s lawn-and-garden tractor. The celebration will be held at the Ho.
WASHINGTON – Deere & Co is recalling John Deere lawn tractors because a brake arm can fail, making them a crash hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday. The recall by the M.
Trading up to a riding mower can be a daunting proposition if you're used to a walk-behind mower. They're much bigger and pricier than your walk-behind mower, and the myriad controls might look confus.
Helpful information and resources on John Deere tractors from SSB Tractor, a leading provider of tractor parts, manuals, implements and toys
John Deere offers a complete line of lawn and garden equipment to meet all of your maintenance needs. Explore mowers, utility vehicles, generators, and more.
Updated March 1, 2017! There are over 250 U.S made Lawn Tractors and Zero Turn Mowers available to you and the task of figuring out which is the best one for you can be an almost impossible task.
Thousands of lawn tractors are being recalled. There are concerns the transmission can fail which means there's a risk of the tractor crashing. The recall affects the John Deere model D105 lawn tracto.
The lawsuit does not specify the injuries allegedly suffered by Owen but does say Deere & Company employees were aware "the John Deere Lawn Tractor was capable of amputating hands and feet and causing.
Despite claims that big box stores sell inferior products, Home Depot is insisting its John Deere lawn tractors and other name brand merchandise are identical to those available at small retail and sp.
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The game numbers of the shooter Battlefield 2042 are in the dive. While the start of 100,000 Steam players on the battlefields were on the battlefields, this number has meanwhile dropped to 4,000.
The low game numbers now ensure that Battlefield 2042 is confronted in some parts of the world with a new problem. Since the lack of matching players the normal matchmaking takes a long time, only players with bad connection finds or does not work, players from South Africa must dodge the portal mode.
Since the portal servers are revised by players, the manufacturer has the full admin rights and can thus determine who can play in the region Battlefield 2042 and who are not.
On Reddit, the user Vandiedakaf describes the situation in South Africa as follows:
"For about a week you can only find a game in South Africa if you are looking for playing in portal. It is pretty much the principle: who comes first, first grind. There is simply not enough players to occupy multiple servers, so the first person who hosts a server for the evening has pretty much control over the game and the rest of the players in the region. "
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Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
By: Tim Madigan
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Categories: History, Americas
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof
By: J. A. Rogers
Narrated by: John Riddle
First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers' columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the look of Ripley's popular Believe It or Not, the multiple vignettes in each episode recount short items from Rogers' research. The feature began in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1934 and ran through the 1960s.
Tulsa 1921
Reporting a Massacre
By: Randy Krehbiel
Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
In 1921, Tulsa's Greenwood District - known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street" - was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young black man had attempted to rape a white teenage girl, invaded Greenwood. By the end of the following day, thousands of homes and businesses lay in ashes, and perhaps, as many as 300 people were dead.
By: Donald Ray Pollock
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Willard is a tormented veteran who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log'. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. The spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick are running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.
All roads lead to a sad depressing ending.
By Tarunih on 13-08-20
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth
By: Tom Burgis
Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, The Looting Machine explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. Africa: the world's poorest continent and arguably its richest. While accounting for just 2 percent of global GDP, it is home to 15 percent of the planet's crude oil, 40 percent of its gold, and 80 percent of its platinum. A third of the Earth's mineral deposits lie beneath its soil. But far from being a salvation, this buried treasure has been a curse.
By Mark H on 18-02-16
The Lies That Divide Us
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilisations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste.
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As Told to Alex Haley
By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it's performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
By: Matt Ruff
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Chicago, 1954. When his father, Montrose, goes missing, 22-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his uncle George - publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide - and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite - heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus' ancestors - they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.
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Black and British
A Forgotten History
By: David Olusoga
Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
David Olusoga's Black and British is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello.
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The Room Where It Happened
A White House Memoir
By: John Bolton
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, John Bolton - epilogue
As President Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is one of the few White House memoirs to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the president, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.
I did everything right..says Bolton. don't bother!
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
By: Mary L. Trump PhD
Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up.
Too much and never detached
By Anon on 16-07-20
By: Barack Obama
Narrated by: Barack Obama
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
Dropping a classic
By jesse on 17-11-20
Chernobyl Prayer
Voices from Chernobyl
By: Svetlana Alexievich, Anna Gunin - translator, Arch Tait - translator
Narrated by: Sasha Alexis, Andrew Byron
In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky, and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years collecting testimonies from survivors - clean-up workers, residents, firefighters, resettlers, widows, orphans - crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love.
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community were reduced to smoldering rubble.
And now, 80 years later, the death toll of what is known as the Tulsa Race Riot is more difficult to pinpoint. Conservative estimates put the number of dead at about 100 (75 percent of the victims are believed to have been black), but the actual number of casualties could be triple that. The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, has recommended that restitution to the historic Greenwood Community would be good public policy and do much to repair the emotional as well as physical scars of this most terrible incident in our shared past.
With chilling details, humanity, and the narrative thrust of compelling fiction, The Burning will recreate the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explore the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white population, narrate events leading up to and including Greenwood's annihilation, and document the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy.
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Hard to listen to, but should be.
A friend of mine mentioned this forgotten chapter of American history to me and I was shocked that in all my years I had never heard anything -not a word- about it. Unreal how even some of the personalities mentioned in the book had no idea of the occurrence. Again, difficult to listen to, hard to say you will enjoy the book, but important to hear and process.
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Great Narrative On America's 1st African American Wall Street!
A hard to swallow pill, but absolutely excellent and necessary introduction to this period of American history post WWI, which is inextricably African American history in this country in its truthfulness! Would highly recommend to every American, it's important we know our history, embrace it, learn from it, & dump the tragedy of fraudulent revisionist tactics in teaching American history.
Hard to listen to, but a must read.
This book was incredibly eye opening and heart wrenching. I definitely cried while listening to this book. Only by understanding the past can we hope to make a better future, I believe that this book is an important part of understanding the past.
One of the many historical secrets of America
This is a great read! This book came alive for me when I visited the Greenwood area in Tulsa, Ok.
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Powerful Book
I'm glad I came across this great, it's a wonderful account of black history and American history.
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So informative!
This is a must read about such an important time in our state and national history.
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Missing in History
I had no idea about the event. This should be taught in schools and studied. This is still being seen around our country.


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Why the entire board of Seattle's ACT Theatre just stepped down
A Contemporary Theatre — Seattle's ACT company — has announced that its entire board of trustees has voluntarily stepped down.
The only exceptions are three positions required by law — the chair, secretary, and treasurer.
This board overhaul is the result of three months of "deliberation and difficult conversations," according to ACT's Artistic Director John Langs. He said the changes are meant to bring the board more in line with the goals of the theatre.
The change was sparked when board members read an article in American Theatre Magazine by Michael Bobbitt titled "Boards are broken, so let's break and remake them." Bobbit was the artistic director at the New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, Massachusetts when he wrote the article.
In the article, Bobbitt argues that nonprofit boards are broken, and need to be dismantled and rebuilt. He notes that most boards don't represent the communities they serve, and points out the tension between creative vision and fiduciary responsibility. That further raises questions around who should direct a theatre's creative vision — board members or artistic staff?
Langs said ACT board members then decided to reevaluate their hierarchal structure and dissect inequalities within the board.
"The question we asked most pointedly was: 'If you can do this all over again, what would you have done differently?'" Langs said. "And from there, we prepared a roadmap through a committee of governance and a couple other key board members and staff members collectively to talk about what we could do. And the outcome of that meeting was: We have to disrupt the status quo."
Now that the Board has voted, and members have resigned their positions, ACT is ready to rebuild the board from the ground up. Langs said a new committee comprised of executive leadership, representatives selected by staff, representatives selected by artists, and the three remaining trustees will lead the new selection process.
ACT plans on creating a new board with 12-15 members. This group will not use the former "committee" structure. Instead, all trustees will be involved in all aspects of board responsibilities to provide fiduciary oversight, strategic guidance, and risk management.
Once a new board is in place, the three remaining trustees will step down and re-apply for appointments if they wish to resume their positions.
"What is happening at ACT is the result of unprecedented collaboration between the ACT Trustees and ACT's world-class staff leadership over multiple years," Dr. Eric Bennet, board chair, said in a statement. "Given that there's no blueprint for this type of organizational equity and change to draw from, this has meant answering fundamental questions together to chart our path forward. The ACT Board's restructuring is about trusting that, through equity, we'll be a more vibrant, thriving theatre and able to bring audiences the most authentic contemporary work."
Editors Note: This story was updated to reflect Michael Bobbit's position at the time he wrote the article
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The Albemarle condominium project was a partnership between Equitable Property Company President, Land Deleot, and real estate veteran Crews Johnston (under the name Albemarle, LLC). The partnership renovated 21 1920's apartment units, adding central heat and air, redoing kitchens and bathrooms, and updating common areas. Within two years, the partnership completed the renovation and sold each unit.


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'Casino Royale' best Bond film in 40 years
Ben Raymond
In an age when Bond movies contain more explosions than espionage and more apocalyptic madness than sober villainy, the franchise and avid Bond junkies like myself are in dire need of a classic. "Casino Royale" provides just that. Heart-pounding, arresting and cathartically enthralling, the film unfolds more like a Shakespearian drama than your run-of-the-mill action flick. Reinvigorated, refined and polished from top
to bottom, 007 returns to former glory in a spellbinding opera of entertainment.
Gone are the days when Bond leapt from one rocketing conveyance to the next in pursuit of every evil-eyed egomaniac with a cockamamie scheme for world domination. "Casino Royale" possesses an austere gravity, a sense of pertinence that has been absent from the shallow, aimless manure that has recently been shoveled to audiences. This Bond falls, loses, bleeds and even falls in love.
"Casino Royale" depicts the advent of James Bond's career as 007 as he embarks on his first mission for Her Majesty's secret service. Le Chiffre (portrayed craftily by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen) is the financier for the world's most dangerous rebel militias and terrorist syndicates. After squandering away his clients' money, he arranges a
high-stakes poker tournament to regain the lost funds. To combat the financing of terrorism, MI6 stakes Bond in the game to prevent Le Chiffre from regaining the capital.
Opening uncharacteristically in stark, grainy black and white, we see a further venture from typical 007 form as Bond achieves his first kill by savagely beating and drowning a target in a bathroom sink. The water fills his lungs; the man kicks and writhes in agony as Bond grimaces with an almost barbarous satisfaction. Is this the Bond
moviegoers have come to expect? No. But it is the one that creator Ian Fleming intended.
Daniel Craig ("Road to Perdition," "Munich") embodies Fleming's vision of 007 with a completeness previous Bonds could only dream of. Craig is cold, pensive and even vulnerable, both shaken and stirred. He maintains the suaveness and cool of Bond with incomparable mastery while conveying a sense of fallibility that brings 007 out of the
clouds and makes him accessible. Craig's Bond owns a buoyant debonairness that contrasts powerfully with an undercurrent of rooted sadism to make his performance the single greatest in the history of the franchise.
Bond's love interest, the ever-enigmatic Vesper Lynd, is played by the scandalously beautiful Eva Green. The classically-trained Swedish-Algerian actress best known for, and most scantily clad in, Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" establishes herself as one of cinema's flourishing tours de force in a supporting performance that is nothing
less than spectacular. With matchless poise, Green's uniquely sensual deportment and bitingly licentious delivery vaults her to the highest echelons of Bond-girldom. Her disarming elegance and unparalleled command of the screen universally impresses.
Martin Campbell ("Golden Eye") deserves more than a healthy round of applause and a pat on the back for his adroit, savvy direction. The foot chase in Madagascar is an awe-inspiring mélange of impossible stunt work and cogent, inventive choreography. The airport pursuit is a super-satisfying slugfest that torques the tension to the brink.
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade weave a brilliantly-scripted tapestry of sharp dialogue, constant intrigue and stirring plot twists into a fabulous screenplay.
"Casino Royale" is a masterful achievement in every facet of filmmaking. Bond has never been more entertaining or more complete. Women want him; men want to be him. I am not a woman, nor do I want him, but I can unequivocally say that I have never wanted more to be him.
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Home Local County reports 87 new COVID-19 cases
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The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department reported 87 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the county's active case total to 414 infections. Officials reported 44 new cases in Santa Maria, 15 new cases in Santa Barbara and seven new cases in Orcutt. Four new cases were reported in the South Coast unincorporated areas and the City of Carpinteria, four were reported in the north county unincorporated areas, three were reported in Lompoc and three were reported in Goleta. Elsewhere, officials reported two cases in the Santa Ynez Valley and one case in both Isla Vista and the unincorporated Goleta Valley and Gaviota. Three were pending a location assignment on Friday. The department reported that 49 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Friday, and 14 of those patients were recovering in the ICU. According to the county's latest vaccination data, 76.2% of eligible 12 and older residents are partially vaccinated, and 68% of that same population is fully vaccinated. Of the entire county population, 57.5% of people are fully vaccinated.
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\section{Introduction}

The term ``amorphous solids" refer to glasses, foams, emulsions, colloidal suspensions, granular media etc., when their constituents are packed densely enough either by mechanical forces or due to low temperatures. They are amorphous since they do not have long range order, and they are solids since they have shear and bulk moduli that appear to dictate their response to external strains \cite{89Lutsko}. It is therefore tempting to assume that classical elasticity theory should apply to such solids, and that, given the knowledge of the elastic moduli, one can predict the displacement field that is associated with any mechanical strain \cite{Landau}. In fact, recent research indicates that this may not be the case. Firstly, in contradistinction with perfect crystalline solids, in amorphous solids {\em plastic responses} appear instantaneously for any amount of strain \cite{10KLP}. Secondly, it was shown that {\em nonlinear}  elastic
moduli of amorphous solids have unbounded sample-to-sample fluctuations in the thermodynamic limit \cite{11HKLP}. Moreover, at least in frictional amorphous solids, one observes stress correlations that are not consistent with classical elasticity theory \cite{21LMPR,21LMPRWZ}. Under large strains amorphous solids can show yield regimes in which stress does not increase when strain does, indicating clearly that elasticity theory in its present classical form cannot describe satisfactorily important examples of mechanical responses of amorphous solids. Indeed, recent theory indicates that plastic events that abound in amorphous solids can screen the mechanical fields, resulting in possible strong renormalization of the elastic moduli and in mechanical

\begin{figure}[htb!]
	\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{glassformerfig1.eps}
	\caption{Examples of quasi-elastic responses associated with inflation of the inner disk
		at $r_\text{in}$ for the inverse power-law potential. These examples correspond with panels (a) and (b) of Fig.~\ref{radialIPL1}. The parameters associated with these examples are $T_m=0.4$ and 0.3 respectively, $d_0=0.15$ and 0.18, $r_\text{in}=0.72$ and 0.8, and $r_\text{out} =76$ for both. }
	\label{dispIPL1}
\end{figure}
responses that deviate significantly from the predictions of classical elasticity theory \cite{21LMMPRS,21MMPRSZ,22BMP}. The basic screening theory  was presented in a recent paper \cite{21LMMPRS}. Attention was given to the plastic responses, which typically appear as quadrupolar (Eshelby-like) irreversible responses \cite{54Esh,99ML,06ML}. When the density of these quadrupoles is low, they act only to renormalize the elastic moduli, but they do not change the form of the theory. This is reminiscent the role of dipoles in dielectrics, where the dielectric constant is dressed, but the structure of electrostatic theory remains intact \cite{84LL}. On the other hand, when the density of quadrupoles is high, the gradients of their density cannot be
ignored, and these are acting effectively as dipoles, analogous to dislocations in crystalline matter. Dipole-dipole and dipole-displacement interaction become crucial, and these change the structure of the screening-theory and the resulting mechanical responses.  A short summary of the theory is presented in Sect.~\ref{review}.

\begin{figure}[tb!]
	\includegraphics[width=0.29\textwidth]{glassformerfig2.eps}
	\caption{Examples of ``anomalous" displacement fields associated with an inflation
		of the inner disk at $r_\text{in}$. The color codes is the same as in the previous figure. The examples shown here correspond to panels (a)-(d) in Fig.~\ref{radialIPL2}. }
	\label{dispIPL2}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[htb!]
	\includegraphics[width=0.28\textwidth]{glassformerfig3.eps}
	\caption{Typical quasi-elastic angle-averaged displacement field. }
	\label{radialIPL1}
\end{figure}

The screening theory of amorphous solids is based on a Lagrangian constructed from symmetry arguments, without referring to microscopic interactions.  Nevertheless, until the present time the predictions of the novel theory were examined only in the
context of granular matter, in both simulations and experiments \cite{21LMMPRS,21MMPRSZ}. Due to the general importance of the issues involved, it is advisable to test and examine the relevance of the theory to as many different types of amorphous solids as possible. The aim of this paper is to do so with classical models of glass formers, especially those that have been used extensively to shed light on the physics of glasses.
These models employ point particles with binary interactions. We examine here two classes or models, one with inverse power-law interactions, and thus having only repulsive forces, and one with Lennard-Jones interactions, having both repulsive and an attractive forces depending on the distance between the particles. We find results that are in accord with the novel theory of screened elasticity, where displacement fields can deviate strongly from the expectations of elasticity theory.

In Sect.~\ref{review} we present a short summary of the theory. Rather than discussing
the theory in complete generality we concentrate on glasses in radial geometry where
the equations and the predictions take a particularly simple form. This will help us
to discuss the results of numerical simulations that are presented in Sects.~\ref{Inverse} and \ref{LJ}. Models with inverse power-law interactions are discussed in Sect.~\ref{Inverse} whereas Lennard-Jones potentials are the subject of Sect.~\ref{LJ}. In Sect.~\ref{corr} we link the degree of deviation from quasi-elastic response to the amount of energy dissipated in plastic events.  In Sect.~\ref{summary} we offer a summary and discussion.

\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width=0.40\textwidth]{glassformerfig4.eps}
	\caption{Typical anomalous angle-averaged displacement fields. The parameters of the simulation and the value of the ``anmoaly parameter" $\kappa$ are presented in table~\ref{table1}.}
	\label{radialIPL2}
\end{figure}

\section{Brief review of the theory}
\label{review}

To introduce the theory in its simplest form
we focus here on 2-dimensional systems with radial geometry. We construct below amorphous configurations of $N$ point particles in an annulus, confined between two disks, and
examine the displacement fields that result from an inflation of the inner disk. This geometry was found very useful before in the context of assemblies of frictionless and frictional disk.
Details of these simulations and experiments can be found in Refs.~\cite{21LMMPRS,21MMPRSZ}. We thus consider an annulus of radii $r_\text{in}$ and $r_\text{out}$, $r_\text{in}\ll r_\text{out}$, with an imposed displacement $\mathbf{d}(r_\text{in}) = d_0 \hat{r}$ and $\mathbf{d}(r_\text{out}) = 0$. The polar symmetry of the problem implies that $\mathbf{d}(r) =d_r(r) \hat{r}$. Whenever normal elasticity applies, this radial displacement field satisfies the equation
\begin{equation}
	\Delta {\mathbf{d}}=	d_r'' +\frac{d_r'}{r}  -\frac{d_r}{r^2}=0 \ .
	\label{usual}
\end{equation}
This differential equation is readily solved, and to satisfy the boundary conditions we write
\begin{equation}
	d^{\rm el}_r(r)=d_0 \frac{r^2 - r_\text{out}^2}{r_\text{in}^2 - r_\text{out}^2}\frac{r_\text{in}}{r} \ .
	\label{renelas}
\end{equation}
One should note that the solution (\ref{renelas}) is a positive monotonically decreasing function of $r$ as is expected in standard elasticity theory. It was shown \cite{21LMMPRS} that this form of the displacement field is expected to
remain valid also when there exists a low (or uniform) density of screening plastic events.  We  refer to this situation as weekly screened, or ``quasi-elastic" since the elastic moduli tend to get renormalized without changing the qualitative elastic response.

When the density of plastic events gains sizeable gradients, these act as dipole sources \cite{21LMMPRS} and the theory changes qualitatively. The screening caused by dipoles modify Eq.~(\ref{renelas}) to read
\begin{equation}
	d_r'' +\frac{d_r'}{r}  -\frac{d_r}{r^2}= -\kappa^2 d_r  \,
	\label{new}
\end{equation}
with $\kappa$ being an emergent constant that is evaluated and discussed below. We refer to $\kappa$ as the ``screening parameter". Eq.~(\ref{new}) is equivalent to the Bessel equation whose solution,
satisfying $d_r(r_{\rm in})=d_0$, $d_r(r_{\rm out})=0$, reads
\begin{equation}
	d_r(r)  = d_0 \frac{ Y_1(r \, \kappa ) J_1(r_\text{out} \kappa )-J_1(r \, \kappa ) Y_1(r_\text{out} \kappa )}{Y_1( r_\text{in} \kappa ) J_1(r_\text{out} \kappa )-J_1(r_\text{in} \kappa ) Y_1(r_\text{out} \kappa )} \ .
	\label{amazing}
\end{equation}
Here $J_1$ and $Y_1$ are the Bessel functions of the first and second kind respectively. For very small values of $\kappa$ the solution reduces back to \eqref{renelas}. Importantly, depending on the precise value of $\kappa$, Eq.~(\ref{amazing}) may be non monotonic, negative, and even oscillatory. We refer to situations that agree
with the solution Eq.~(\ref{amazing}) and are either non-monotonic or oscillating as ``anomalous elasticity". In the rest of this paper we demonstrate the relevance of anomalous elasticity to the mechanical responses of classical glass formers.

\section{Glass formers with inverse power-law forces}
\label{Inverse}

\subsection{Construction of the simulation}

To conform with the theory described in Sect.~\ref{review} we construct an annulus
with two rigid walls, with an inner radius $r_\text{in}$ and outer radius $r_\text{out}$. The annulus is then filled up with $N$ point particles put in random positions in the area $A=\pi (r_\text{out}^2-r_\text{in}^2)$. The number of particles is chosen such that the density of the equilibrated glass (as described below) is a chosen value $\rho=N/A$. In this section
we use  a standard poly-dispersed model of $N$ particles of mass $m=1$ \cite{17NBC,19BFFSS}. The binary interactions are
\begin{eqnarray}
	&&\phi(r_{ij}) = \epsilon\left(\frac{\sigma_{ij}}{r_{ij}}\right)^{12} +C_0 +C_2\left(\frac{r_{ij}}{\sigma_{ij}}\right)^2+C_4\left(\frac{r_{ij}}{\sigma_{ij}}\right)^4\nonumber \\&& \epsilon\!=1, C_0\!=\!-1.92415, C_2\!=\!2.11106, C_4\!=\!-0.591097 \ . \label{IPL}
\end{eqnarray}
The unit of energy is $\epsilon$ and Boltzmann's constant is unity.
The interaction length was drawn from a probability distribution $P(\sigma)
\sim 1/\sigma^3$ in a range between $\sigma_{\rm min}$ and $\sigma_{\rm max}$ such that the mean $\bar \sigma=1$:
\begin{eqnarray}
	&&\sigma_{ij} =\frac{\sigma_i+\sigma_j}{2}\Big[1-0.2\Big|\sigma_i-\sigma_j\Big|\Big],\nonumber\\
	&&\sigma_{\rm max} =1.45/0.9\ , \sigma_{\rm min}=\sigma_{\rm max}/2.219 \ .
\end{eqnarray}
The units of mass and length are $m$ and $\bar \sigma$ (the average $\sigma$). The parameters are chosen to avoid crystallization. The system is thermalized at some ``mother temperature" $T_m$ using Swap Monte Carlo and then
cooled down to $T=0$ using conjugate gradient methods. The interaction between the point particles and the two walls are of the same form Eq.~(\ref{IPL}), where $r_{ij}$ and $\sigma_{ij}$ are replaced by the distance to the wall and by $\sigma_i$.

Once the system is mechanically equilibrated with the total force on each particle smaller than $10^{-8}$, we inflate the inner radius $r_\text{in}$ by some percentage as
reported below. After inflation we equilibrate the system again by the conjugate gradients, and then measure the displacement field $\B d$, comparing the two equilibrated configuration before and after inflation. To compare with the theory we then compute the angle-averaged radial component of the displacement field $d_r(r)$.

\subsection{results of simulations}

In Fig.~\ref{dispIPL1} and \ref{dispIPL2} we show typical results for the total displacement fields after inflation. The color code designates the absolute magnitude of the vector displacement field. We note that sometimes the displacement fields are concentrated around the origin, and sometimes they are spread out in the system, implying the importance of quadrupole gradients. To test the theory we compare the angle-averaged radial displacement with the predicted fields. We should add here that there can be also higher order responses that are not captured by angle averaging. The discussion of higher order modes is deferred to a followup paper.

The first type of responses (cf. Fig.~\ref{dispIPL1})  agrees  with the quasi-elastic result Eq.~(\ref{renelas}); in the other case (Fig.~\ref{dispIPL2}) the measured radial components conform with
Eq.~(\ref{amazing}). Below we rationalize these finding, relating the degree of anomaly in the response with the amount of energy lost to plastic events.
Typical angle-averaged displacement are shown in Figs.~\ref{radialIPL1} and \ref{radialIPL2}.
\begin{table}
	\begin{center}
		\begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c|c|c}
				panel & $T_m$ & $r_\text{in}$&$r_\text{out}$&$d_0$&$\kappa$ \\
			\hline
			(a) & 2.0 & 0.65 & 80&0.101&0.051  \\ \hline
			(b)& 0.2 & 0.5 & 80 &0.05 & 0.229 \\ \hline
			(c)& 0.3 & 0.65 & 80 &0.10 & 0.054 \\ \hline
			(d)& 0.5 & 0.5 & 78 &0.09 & 0.109 \\ \hline
			(e)& 0.4 & 0.5 & 72 &0.07 & 0.082 \\ \hline
			(f)& 0.2 & 0.7 & 80 &0.1 & 0.042 \\ \hline
			\label{table}
		\end{tabular}
	\end{center}
	\caption{The parameters associated with the radial component of the displacement field shown in Fig.~\ref{radialIPL2}.}
	\label{table1}
\end{table}
While Eq.~(\ref{renelas}) provides the correct functional form that fits the measured displacement fields in Fig.~\ref{radialIPL1}, all the examples shown in Fig.~\ref{radialIPL2}
are in accord with the solutions (\ref{amazing}) with different values of $d_0$ and $\kappa$.
We stress that the functional fits in Figs.~\ref{radialIPL1} and \ref{radialIPL2} are performed using the actual values of $r_\text{in}$ and $r_\text{out}$ and $d_0$ and only $\kappa$ is fitted. We observe that the functional forms in Fig.~\ref{radialIPL2} vary considerably,
with one broad minimum, one or more oscillations, etc. None of these examples can be fitted
to the functional form (\ref{renelas}). The parameters of the simulations
and of values of the screening parameter $\kappa$ are collected in
table~\ref{table1}, in correspondence with the panels of Fig.~\ref{radialIPL2}.

\section{Glass formers with Lennard-Jones potential}
\label{LJ}

\subsection{Construction of the simulation}

In this section, we study a two-dimensional poly-dispersed model
of point particles having equal mass $m=1$, with interaction given by shifted and smoothed Lennard-Jones (LJ) potentials, $u_{}(r)$,
\begin{equation}
	u_{ij}(r) = \begin{cases} u^{LJ}_{ij}+A_{ij} +B_{ij}r+C_{ij}r^2, & \mbox{if } r \leq R^{cut}_{ij}
		\\ 0, & \mbox{if } r > R^{cut}_{ij}, \end{cases}
	\label{Usmooth}
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
	u^{LJ}_{ij} = 4\epsilon_{ij}\left[\left(\frac{\sigma_{ij}}{r}\right)^{12} - \left(\frac{\sigma_{ij}}{r}\right)^6\right].
	\label{ULJ}
\end{equation}
The smoothing  of potentials in Eq.~(\ref{Usmooth}) is such that they vainsh with
two zero derivatives at distances $R^{cut}_{ij} = 2.5\sigma_{ij}$ \cite{09LP}. The interaction lengths $\sigma_{ij}$ are chosen as in Sect.~\ref{Inverse} from the probability distribution $P(\sigma)$.
The parameters for smoothing the LJ potentials in Eq. (\ref{Usmooth}) and
for $i$ and $j$ particle interactions in Eq.(\ref{ULJ}) are as follows: $A_{ij}=0.4526\epsilon_{ij}$, $B_{ij}=-0.3100\epsilon_{ij}/\sigma{ij}$, $C_{ij}=0.0542\epsilon_{ij}/\sigma{ij}^2$.
The reduced units for mass, length, energy and time have been taken as $m$,
$\bar \sigma$, $\epsilon_{ij}=1$ and $\bar\sigma\sqrt{m/\epsilon_{ij}}$ respectively.

The system preparation protocol is identical to the one described above for the power-law interaction. The inflation of the central disk and the calculation of the displacement field follows accordingly.

\subsection{Results of simulations}

As for the inverse power-law potential, also configurations with Lennard-Jones potential can exhibit quasi-elastic and anomalous displacement fields. Example of each type of response are shown in Fig.~\ref{LJQ} and \ref{LJan}.
\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width=0.36\textwidth]{glassformerfig5.eps}
	\caption{Examples of quasi-elastic responses associated with inflation of the inner disk
		at $r_\text{in}$ for the Lennard-Jones potential. These examples correspond with panels (a) and (b) of Fig.~\ref{radialIPL1}. The parameters associated with these examples are $T_m=0.9$ and 0.5 respectively, $d_0=0.1$ and 0.15, $r_\text{in}=0.6$ and 0.75, and $r_\text{out} =77$ and 80. }
	\label{LJQ}
\end{figure}
In Fig.~\ref{LJan} we show the angle-averaged displacement field associated with the examples shown in Fig.~\ref{LJQ}.
\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width=0.30\textwidth]{glassformerfig6.eps}
	\caption{Typical quasi-elastic angle-averaged displacement field for configurations shown in Fig.~\ref{LJQ}. }
	\label{LJan}
\end{figure}

Anomalous responses for the Lennard-Jones case are shown in Fig.~\ref{LJmaps}
\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width=0.38\textwidth]{glassformerfig7.eps}
	\caption{Examples of ``anomalous" displacement fields associated with an inflation
		of the inner disk at $r_\text{in}$. The color code here is identical to the one used in Fig.~\ref{LJQ}. The examples shown here correspond to panels (a)-(d) in Fig.~\ref{radialLJ2}. }
	\label{LJmaps}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{glassformerfig8.eps}
	\caption{Typical anomalous angle-averaged displacement fields. The parameters of the simulation and the value of the ``screening parameter" $\kappa$ are presented in table~\ref{table2}.}
	\label{radialLJ2}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}
	\begin{center}
		\begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c|c|c}
			panel & $T_m$ & $r_\text{in}$&$r_\text{out}$&$d_0$&$\kappa$ \\
			\hline
			(a) & 1.0 & 0.6 & 80&0.15&0.058  \\ \hline
			(b)& 0.9 & 0.7 & 80 &0.13 & 0.055 \\ \hline
			(c)& 1.0 & 0.72 & 80 &0.06 & 0.042 \\ \hline
			(d)& 1.0 & 0.75 &80 &0.11 & 0.076 \\ \hline
			(e)& 0.9 & 0.63 & 80 &0.1 & 0.105 \\ \hline
			(f)& 0.9 & 0.75 & 80 &0.12 & 0.11 \\ \hline
			\label{table}
		\end{tabular}
	\end{center}
	\caption{The parameters associated with the radial component of the displacement field shown in Fig.~\ref{radialLJ2}.}
	\label{table2}
\end{table}
The associated angle-averaged displacement fields are presented in Fig.~\ref{radialLJ2}, with corresponding panels. The parameters of the simulations and of the values of $\kappa$ for each panel are presented in table~\ref{table2}.

\section{Correlation between plasticity and screening}
\label{corr}
At this point we should raise the obvious question: when do we expect quasi-elastic responses, and when is screening sufficient to alter the situation and cause anomalous responses. Equivalently we can ask what determines the value of the screening parameter $\kappa$. Since we expect screened elasticity when the density of quadrupoles is high, it is tempting to correlated the value of $\kappa$ with the amount of energy lost to dissipation. To quantify the amount of dissipation we note that before inflation of the central disk the total energy of the system is given as $E_0$. After inflation and
equilibration the energy is $E$, and the energy difference is $\Delta E\equiv E-E_0$.  Obviously, if there is no plasticity involved in the inflation and equilibration, $\Delta E$ is maximal and positive, and $\kappa=0$. Plastic dissipation is consistent with negative $\Delta E$.
Examining our displacement fields for a given configuration with different $d_0$, and the fitted values of $\kappa$, we plot $\Delta E$ vs. $\kappa$ and find that (up to expected
fluctuations) there is a clear functional dependence between the two, cf. Fig.~\ref{kapE}.
The higher is the dissipation (as seen by a more negative $\Delta E$),
the higher is the value of $\kappa$
\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{glassformerfig9.eps}
	\caption{The correlation between the amount of energy dissipation due to the plasticity and the numerical value of the screening parameter $\kappa$}
	\label{kapE}
\end{figure}

One can introduce a direct measure of the degree of deviation from the quasi-elastic response Eq.~(\ref{renelas}), using the norm of deviation $M$:
\begin{equation}
	M \equiv \frac{1}{r_{out}-r_{in}}\int_{r_\text{in}}^{r_\text{out}} \Big|\frac{	d^{\rm el}_r(r) -d_r(r)}{	d^{\rm el}_r(r)}\Big|	\ .
	\label{defM}
\end{equation}
When the actual angle averaged displacement field $d_r(r)$ equals the quasi-elastic one, $M=0$. When $M$ differs from zero, it means that plastic screening is at play.

The dependence of $M$ on the screening parameter $\kappa$ is not necessarily monotonic. To exemplify this we consider anomalous
displacement fields for a system with given $r_\text{in}$, $r_\text{out}$ and $d_0$, as a function of $\kappa$. This functional dependence is shown in Fig.~\ref{Mkappa}.
\begin{figure}[htb!]
	\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{glassformerfig10.eps}
	\caption{The dependence of $M$ on $\kappa$ for a L-J system with given $r_\text{in}$, $r_\text{out}$ and $d_0$}
	\label{Mkappa}
\end{figure}
We observe an oscillatory dependence with increasing negative values for
$M$ as $\kappa$ increases.

On the other hand, for the same protocol used in Fig.~\ref{kapE}, the observed value of $M$ is monotonic in the amount
of plastic dissipation. To see this one needs to consider again a given
initial configuration with a given  $r_\text{in}$ and $r_\text{out}$,
for different values of $d_0$.
We find that $M$ is a smooth function of $\Delta E$ as is exemplified in Fig.~\ref{ME}.

\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{glassformerfig11.eps}
	\caption{An example of the dependence of $M$ on $\Delta E$ for a L-J system prepared from $T_m=1$, with given $r_\text{in}=0.72$, $r_\text{out}=80$ and variable $d_0$ in the range $[10\%-40\%]$. }
	\label{ME}
\end{figure}
With $\Delta E$ progressively negative, meaning more plastic dissipation, also $M$ becomes progressively negative, indicating larger deviation from the quasi-elastic response.

It should be stressed that the monotonic dependence shown in Fig.~\ref{ME} is observed by fixing a given glassy configuration. Different configurations suffer from the usual sample-to-sample fluctuations that typify amorphous solids. In other words, different configurations with the same $r_\text{in}$, $r_\text{out}$, and  $d_0$ can show different values of $M$ and $\kappa$. Only for a given configuration one can present a monotonic dependence of the degree of deviation from elasticity and plastic dissipation.

\section{summary and discussion}
\label{summary}

The results of this paper extend the degree of genericity of anomalous elasticity through screening by plastic quadrupoles and dipoles. In previous papers the discussion was limited to granular material with and without friction. In the present paper we examined classical glass formers of point particles with purely repulsive interactions and with L-J force laws that combine repulsion and attraction. Generally speaking all these examples of amorphous solids support the assessment that anomalous elasticity is generic and needs to be taken into account in studying the mechanical responses of amorphous solids to non-uniform strains.

A new ingredient in the present paper is the direct relation of the degree of deviation of the radial displacement from the quasi-elastic counterpart. Besides the obvious meaning of the screening parameter $\kappa$, we proposed a measure of this deviation, the quantity $M$ of Eq.~(\ref{defM}), and showed that it has a functional dependence on the amount of plastic dissipation, cf.~Fig.~\ref{ME}.

It should be stressed that the screening theory that was presented so far is linear, in the sense that the Lagrangian taken to represent the state of the system is developed up to quadratic order in the quadrupolar and dipolar fields.  In future work we will develop the nonlinear theory as well,
to be able to describe also responses that occur at larger values
of strains, including shear bands, steady plastic flow and material
failure. Another direction for the immediate future is the extension
of the analysis to 3-dimensional systems, in which the nature of screening may be different from the presently understood 2-dimensional examples. Finally, the nonlinear extension of the theory will allow us to investigate the excitation of higher order angular modes by the  isotropic expansion of a single particle.

{\bf Acknowledgments}: This work had been supported in part by a collaborative grant of the Israel Science Foundation and China, grant \# 714173. Additional funds were presented by the Minerva Foundation and the Minerva Center for ``Aging, from physical materials to human tissues" at the Weizmann Institute.  MM acknowledges support from the Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 1441/19).

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