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"Google Tax" Threatens Spain's News Aggregators
Translation posted 27 February 2014 18:06 GMT
The Minister of Culture with the president and CEO of AEDE. Photo from eldiario.es, under the CC BY SA 3.0 license.
A draft law that would amend Spain's Intellectual Property Law — also known as the Sinde Law — was brought before Parliament on February 14. The bill aims to combat Internet piracy, restricting in passing the use of links and citations of publications by imposing a so-called "Google tax" on websites that use them.
The bill would amend Article 32.2 of the current law, establishing an obligation of paying a "compensation" to the media for utilizing fragments of its content. As 20minutos.es [es] reports:
El proyecto aprobado este viernes autoriza con carácter general "el uso de fragmentos no significativos" de noticias, artículos de opinión o de contenidos de entretenimiento sin autorización por parte de los titulares de derechos pero concede a los autores "un derecho irrenunciable" de compensación.
The bill passed this Friday authorizes "the use of insignificant fragments" of news, opinion articles, or entertainment content without authorization on behalf of the right holders, but grants the authors "an inalienable right" to compensation.
This measure would initially affect aggregators of news like Google News, Menéame [es], or Flipboard. The tax would be collected by CEDRO, a copyright management entity whose main partners are the most important communications groups in the country, such as Prisa, Zeta, and Planeta, and would then distribute the money equally among its members. According to David Maetzu's blog, Del derecho y las normas [es], this fee would apply:
(…) no sólo a los contenidos que ponen en las webs los medios de comunicación "tradicionales" (prensa, radio, televisión) si no a cualquier "sitio web de actualización periódica".
Esto debe incluir cualquier blog, revista electrónica, etc, que se actualice con contenidos nuevos. (…) Por lo tanto, cualquier blogger tendría derecho a cobrar de la web a la que sea agregado.
Y es un derecho irrenunciable (…) por lo que aunque uses una licencia Creative Commons el sitio que te agrega tendrá que pagar a la entidad de gestión en tu nombre. (…) aunque no estés asociado y lógicamente, al no estar asociado no te pagará nada y lo repartirá entre sus otros socios.
(…) not only to the content that "traditional" media (press, radio, television) puts on the web, but rather any "website that is periodically updated."
This includes any blog, e-magazine, etc. that is updated with new content. Therefore, any blogger would have the right to charge the website to which they are added.
And it is an inalienable right (…) meaning even if you use a Creative Commons license, the website that adds you will have to pay the management company in your name. (…) even though you are not associated and logically, upon not being associated, you will not be paid anything and this money will be allocated amongst its other partners.
The representatives of the major media groups have been very satisfied with the measure, which they view as a just compensation for the loss of readers and money that they have been experiencing in recent years. In a statement, the president of the AEDE – the association that brings together the country's leading media, the same ones that make up the CEDRO management entity – said [es],
La modificación de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, que incluye el derecho de compensación por parte de los agregadores, es el paso más importante que ha dado un gobierno en España para la protección de la prensa. Estoy seguro de que este camino que se acaba de abrir será seguido por el resto de países de Europa.
The amendment to the Intellectual Property Law, which includes the right to compensation from the aggregators, is the most important step that a government in Spain has taken to protect the press. I am sure that this path that just opened will be followed by other European countries.
Nonetheless, the vast majority of online media, bloggers, and Internet users are of the opinion that with this measure, traditional media is "biting the hand that feeds them," given that an important segment of traffic to their sites comes from news aggregators. Ignacio Escolar, the director of eldiario.es, says in his blog [es]:
Estar en Google es opcional. Poner en tu periódico los botones de Twitter, o de Facebook, o de Menéame, también es voluntario. Nadie obliga a ningún diario a ser "robado" por un agregador de noticias o un buscador que enlace a sus artículos. Al contrario: es bastante sencillo desaparecer de Google, pero ninguno de los medios de comunicación que estos días celebran el nuevo canon digital querría salir de allí.
Being on Google is optional. Putting buttons for Twitter, Facebook of Menéame on your news publication is also voluntary. No one is forcing any newspaper to be "robbed" by a news aggregator or a search engine that links to its articles. On the contrary: it is quite simple to disappear from Google, but none of the media that celebrates the new digital fee these days would want to get out of there.
In fact, all of the media that defends the Google tax have social media sharing buttons on their pages so that the reader can send the links for different social networks and aggregators. In the screenshot below of the newspaper El Mundo, published by Carlos Herrero in his blog [es], readers can look at a text that criticizes "the absolute impunity with which news aggregators are being enriched at the expense of the labor of others," right next to the aforementioned buttons:
Blogger J.R. Mora writes [es]:
Nunca se ha leído, comentado, debatido y difundido tanto lo que se publica en los medios como ahora, la prensa en internet está viviendo una nueva juventud gracias a redes sociales, blogs y agregadores, y se arriesgan a que esto cambie y también lo pierdan. (…) Otro rescate, ahora a la industria de los medios.
That which is published in the media has never been read, commented on, debated, or shared as much as it is now, the online press is experiencing a new life thanks to social networks, blogs, and aggregators, and now this is at risk of changing and being lost. (…) Another bailout, now of the media industry.
Enrique Dans, professor at the IE Business School and a PhD in Information Systems, goes even further on his blog [es], and believes that with this measure, the government wants to buy the submission of the mainstream media:
[El] gobierno, obsesionado con el tratamiento de los medios de comunicación y preocupado por las próximas citas electorales, ha decidido tomar por asalto las posiciones que no controlaba: mediante el reparto de la jugosa tarta de la publicidad institucional y poniendo encima de la mesa la citada modificación de la ley, ha conseguido ya modificaciones en las cúpulas de los principales diarios que le habían resultado hostiles: tras los cambios en la dirección de La Vanguardia y El Mundo, suena ahora el relevo en El País, completando un movimiento en las cabeceras tradicionales que estaba en realidad planificado desde antes incluso de que el Partido Popular llegase al poder.
The AEDE website, inoperative as a result of a DoS attack from Anonymous, which posted a message on its homepage calling the "Online Boycott of AEDE media." Photo from alt1040.com under the CC BY-NC 2.5 license.
[The] government, obsessed with the treatment of the media and worried about the next elections, has decided to take the positions it didn't control by assault: by sharing the juicy pie of institutional advertising and putting this change in the law on the table, it has already achieved changes in the leadership of the major newspapers that have ended up hostile: following the changes in the direction of La Vanguardia and El Mundo, now we see the reveal at El País, completing a movement in traditional news sources that was actually planned before the People's Party even came to power.
Menéame, the main aggregator harmed by the new law, has issued a statement [es] in which they express their opposition of the tax, review the traffic that they provide to the mainstream media, and affirm that upon passing the law, they will have to choose between "blocking links to local newspapers, leaving Spain, or shutting down." Meanwhile, users of the aggregator have begun their own "war" against the AEDE media [es], scoring their news negatively to remove them from the top positions, while Anonymous hacked the AEDE website.
The draft law has also failed to receive support from popular online newspapers like 20minutos.es and eldiario.es, which has been particularly critical of the tax [es]. Similar legislation has already been unsuccessfully attempted to be put in place in other countries like Germany, France, and Belgium [es], where traditional media was "punished" with not appearing on Google for six years until they resigned to charging the fee.
Written byLourdes Sada
Translated byMarianna Breytman
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Q: AndEngine Physics Box2D - the AnimatedSprite images moves even without any sensor change I have an AnimatedSprite as a player, and I'm using IAccelerometerListener to move to the player to and fro.
Problem is that even when the device is rested on table without any movement, my player moves upward or toward right.
Can anyone point what I have missed. Below is my code.
public Scene onLoadScene() {
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physicsWorld = new PhysicsWorld(new Vector2(0, SensorManager.GRAVITY_EARTH), false);

    /** for POTRAIT */
    final Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
    int cameraWidth = display.getWidth();
    int cameraHeight = display.getHeight();
    final Shape ground = new Rectangle(0,cameraHeight, CAMERA_WIDTH,0);
    final Shape roof = new Rectangle(0,cameraHeight - (player.getHeight() * 2)  , CAMERA_WIDTH, player.getHeight() / 2);
    final Shape left = new Rectangle(0,0, 2,cameraHeight);
    final Shape right = new Rectangle(cameraWidth , 0, 2, cameraHeight);

    final FixtureDef wallFixtureDef = PhysicsFactory.createFixtureDef(0, 0, 1);
    PhysicsFactory.createBoxBody(this.physicsWorld, ground, BodyType.StaticBody, wallFixtureDef);
    PhysicsFactory.createBoxBody(this.physicsWorld, roof, BodyType.StaticBody, wallFixtureDef);
    PhysicsFactory.createBoxBody(this.physicsWorld, left, BodyType.StaticBody, wallFixtureDef);
    PhysicsFactory.createBoxBody(this.physicsWorld, right, BodyType.StaticBody, wallFixtureDef);

    this.mMainScene.attachChild(ground);
    this.mMainScene.attachChild(roof);
    this.mMainScene.attachChild(left);
    this.mMainScene.attachChild(right);

    mMainScene.registerUpdateHandler(physicsWorld);
    final Body grd = PhysicsFactory.createBoxBody(physicsWorld, player, BodyType.DynamicBody, FIXTURE_DEF);

    this.mMainScene.attachChild(player);
    physicsWorld.registerPhysicsConnector(new PhysicsConnector(player,grd, true, true));

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A: You can set a threshold value and check in onAccelerationChanged method if the x and y values are greater than that threshold, then update your sprite otherwise ignore that update step.
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That's according to the findings of independent assessments into the two October events, which also showed more people flocked to Renfrewshire from across Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Inspired by the town's dark and deathly witch history and against the backdrop of the 850-year-old Abbey, Paisley's Halloween Festival welcomed 34,000 people for two nights of ghoulish goings-on, up by 8000 on 2017.
Thirty-percent of attendees were aged 26 and under - reflecting the popularity of the key date on Scotland's Year of Young People 2018 celebrations.
Paisley Halloween Festival was supported by the Year of Young People 2018 event fund managed by EventScotland, part of VisitScotland's Events Directorate.
There was a 30% rise recorded in visitors from the rest of the UK and growing numbers staying overnight, while the festival attracted almost 13,000 Scots from outside Renfrewshire.
This led to a 300% increase in visitor spend to £907,031 and a phenomenal total £1.96million injection into the economy, with traders' tills swelling from an average spend of almost £60 per visitor on food and drink, entertainment and shopping over the two-day programme.
The numbers also add up from The Spree, with a £434,702 total economic boost from the 10-day music, arts and cultural festival, up by £311,000 on 2017, and an average spectator spend up by 50% coming as music to the ears of Renfrewshire businesses.
This year saw record ticket sales as almost 11,000 people - including 2000 from outside Renfrewshire - enjoyed the festival which featured Motown legend Martha Reeves and Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi.
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Satisfaction levels soared at both events and attendance surveys also showed the events reached a new audience and attracted people to return in equal measure.
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In the nine months I've been here, Thailand has given me countless lessons in letting go.
You have no control over what you'll get for dinner when you point to a picture of soup on a street stall and hope it's chicken. (It was pork, but the dumplings were delicious!) You have no control over your cab driver deciding to act out a scene from Fast & Furious 6 as you squeeze your eyes closed and try to remember the word for "slow down." And you have no control when the main road to Bangkok's Sky Train floods to "let's build an ark" proportions and you spend an hour literally floating in traffic.
A lot of my lessons in giving up control have come from getting lost. Bangkok's maze of small winding streets and addresses with countless slashes make it nearly impossible to find what you're looking for the first time. But whether I'm wandering around a street in Bangkok for an hour, hoping to find a good coffee shop or speeding into the darkness on a rickety ferry, hoping it will take me to the right pier, a lot of the most thrilling and challenging experiences I've had have happened in these uncomfortable moments.
Some of these uncontrollable situations can be frustrating and even scary. I don't like not knowing whether the dog down the street will let me walk by or chase me down an alley. And it's frustrating to run to the nearest bathroom, deeply regretting that curry that seemed so wonderful a few hours ago, to find a squat toilet.
But overall, this has been pretty liberating for a girl who has mapped out most of her life in Moleskin planners and post-it notes. When you don't speak the language or fully understand the culture, you're forced to throw your hands in the air, veer from your original plan, and say, "So what?" You would drive yourself crazy with worry if you didn't. I'm choosing to shrug my shoulders, soak it all in, and even laugh at things I would have panicked about in the U.S. Maybe that's a product of Thai culture, travel in general, or both; either way, I'm liking it. It's best to take a nod from the Thai way of life and simply go with the flow– even if that means patiently listening to water rush down the street as my cab stalls in traffic.


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Q: Is it possible to enable TRIM for an external SSD? I have an iMac from 2011, Mac OS X 10.6.8, and an SDD in a FW800/USB3 case.
Which interface can let me enable TRIM: USB2, USB3, FW800 or Thunderbolt ?

A: According to OS X Daily, TRIM is enabled for all Apple SSDs, but not for third party drives. The article claims that a third party utility, Trim Enabler, turns on TRIM for third party drives as well. More details can be found on the developer's page. Note that this utility isn't officially supported by Apple, so you should back up before installing the utility.
The interface of the external drive shouldn't matter for TRIM support (USB 2, FW800, or Thunderbolt). However, please note that Macs did not begin to natively support USB 3  until June 2012- with your 2011 iMac you'd be using USB 2 with one of those drives.

A: Yes, you can enable TRIM on an external SSD. I own a Lacie Rugged USB/Thunderbolt 128 GB drive and I enabled it with TRIM Enabler. I am using it as a boot drive.
I do not know if it is smart to enable TRIM but I could not find any posts where it would stand that TRIM can harm your external SSD.
But for any case, I have multiple backups of my SSD drive.

A: I realize this question is over 4 years old, but I'm adding a comment because this page was the first hit for a Google search on the subject and some of the comments are outdated whereas others were plain wrong.
Apple added native TRIM support in OS X 10.6.8 but only for Apple OEM SSDs. To get around that restriction, software such as Cindori's TRIM Enabler allowed TRIM to be used on 3rd party SSDs. Later, OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) introduced a security requirement called kext signing which prevented TRIM Enabler from working without completely turning off kext signing. Then in OS X 10.10.4, Apple introduced a "trimforce" command which enabled TRIM on 3rd party SSDs without turning off kext signing. (I have sources but Stack Exchange won't let me post more than 2 links)
Contrary to many of the comments here, the interface DOES matter. The vast majority of USB enclosures do not support TRIM, but allegedly there are some that support it such as the JMS 578 USB bridge controller (source: http://bbs.pceva.com.cn/thread-125643-1-1.html). All five of the USB 3 enclosures / docks I have support it. Firewire supposedly supports TRIM, but I haven't tested it. Most Thunderbolt enclosures should support TRIM, and I currently have TRIM enabled on a SanDisk Extreme SSD in an Akitio Thunderbolt 2 enclosure. I used the trimforce command in terminal to enable it.
In order to check if your enclosure supports TRIM, you'll want to go to Apple > About This Mac > System Report > Hardware > SATA/SATA Express > and look for "TRIM Support" under the enclosure specs. If TRIM Support is not listed, your enclosure most likely does not support TRIM. If it is listed but says "No", you can try turning TRIM on by using the trimforce command in terminal. Just open Terminal and type "sudo trimforce enable". Once your computer restarts, check System Report again to see if TRIM Support changed to Yes.
Finally, TRIM does matter, even for modern SSDs with sophisticated garbage collection. I experienced this firsthand when my SanDisk SSD started slowing down as it got older before enabling TRIM on it. There's a good, but somewhat outdated article about it here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/ask-ars-my-ssd-does-garbage-collection-so-i-dont-need-trim-right/

A: I have a Crucial 960gb m500 ssd that I put into a G drive thunderbolt/usb chassis a couple of years ago for time machine and random manual file backup.
It seems to have started slowing down recently with "preparing backup" msg that last for a couple of hours before doing the backup. I ran trim force with the drive attached via thunderbolt, My osx system report now says that trim is enabled
for this device. I'm waiting and seeing if it makes a difference!


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forecasts of a steady deterioration in profit at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley (MS.N), Wells Fargo Advisors and UBS Wealth Management Americas are highly exaggerated, analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co declared in a new report on Friday.
The brokerage giants have lost market share to smaller firms and independent advisers due to reputational damage to their parent banks during the financial crisis, but they still dominate and much of the slippage may have been strategic.
The wirehouses, as they are known, have dumped brokers who generate subpar revenue and are focusing on those who serve clients with investable assets of $1 million or more. Those affluent clients and the products they buy generate much higher profit than typical brokerage clients with $100,000 or more to invest.
The Bernstein analysts also debunked studies and press reports that cite the impending retirements of older clients and wirehouse brokers - the average age of top advisers based on assets they oversee is 60, Bernstein says - as reasons for a new generation of investors to bolt to smaller competitors.
The report comes amid a flow of studies over the last two years that track a small but growing number of wirehouse advisers leaving for independent brokerage firms such as LPL Financial Holdings. The smaller firms give them fewer services but a higher percentage of the revenue they produce. The studies also show more clients trusting their money to registered investment advisers, individuals who are usually paid a percentage of client assets they help oversee rather than commissions for sales of stocks, bonds and financial services.
A study released on Thursday, for example, showed that mutual fund and exchange-traded fund assets at independent brokers and RIAs grew 8.5 percent during the first quarter to $3.1 trillion compared to a 6.5 percent jump to $1.4 trillion at wirehouses. The totals exclude low-yielding money-market funds.
Hintz said in an email that numbers don't tell the whole story.
According to the report, the wealth management industry is on the rebound from a long slough that began in the financial crisis, and the biggest part of the growth is occurring among the wealthiest individuals.
Profit across all wealth industry channels, including discount brokers such as Charles Schwab (SCHW.N) and TD Ameritrade AMTD.N, will grow at a compound annual rate of 7 percent beginning this year, according to the Bernstein analysts. The wirehouses should prosper because they are selling "complex, higher margin products like alternative investment vehicles and structured products, giving them a significant profitability advantage over firms in other channels," it said.
Brokers at wirehouses and RIAs, on average, oversee more than $100 million of client assets, compared with about $65 million per broker at regional brokerage firms and $25 million at independent firms, according to the study.
Measured by client assets under custody, wirehouses overwhelm its competitors with about 34 percent of the market, followed by 13 percent to 14 percent in the other sales channels, according to the Bernstein study.


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Brexit: Bar voices commitment to support UK restructure
Representatives of the Bar have voiced their commitment to support the UK as it restructures its relationship with the EU following the Brexit vote and have declared their faith in London as a leading centre for international dispute resolution.
52% of UK voters chose to leave the EU in the referendum. Prime Minister David Cameron resigned following the "Leave" vote.
The Chairman of the Bar, Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC, says: "The Bar of England and Wales is ready to assist in an achieving an orderly restructuring of the UK's relationship with the EU in the coming months and beyond. The long-term effect of Brexit on the legal services sector's contribution to the UK economy will depend significantly on the nature and terms of the post-Brexit relationship with the EU. Despite all the turbulence, however, I am confident that London will remain a leading centre for international dispute resolution. The reputation of barristers and our judiciary overseas, beyond the EU, is very high and I expect it will remain so in the years to come. We shall continue to work closely with our partners in European Bar Associations. "
The Chairman of the Young Barristers' Committee, Louisa Nye, says: "I am currently attending the European Young Bar Association's AGM in Dusseldorf, and this reflects the Young Bar's commitment to maintaining a good working relationship with the European market. The Young Bar is committed to engaging with other European lawyers regarding the changes that will be taking place. The Young Barristers' Committee is confident that the quality of advocacy and legal service provision in the jurisdiction will not be undermined by today's results, and London will remain a leading centre for international dispute resolution."
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Dada to Surrealism: Continuity Speaker: Martin Gaughan, writer and former Head of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff .This talk traces some of the issues which informed work in the different Dada centres, establishing their origins and concerns, and considering how the relationships between the different moments can be characterized.
Steve Edwards, USSR in Construction Speaker: Steve Edwards, Research Lecturer in History of Art at The Open University. This talk looks at Russian art from just before World War 1 until the middle of the 1930s, considering the relation between Constructivist art and the politics of the period. In the wake of the 1917 revolution many avant-garde artists identified with the aims of the Bolshevik regime. Some artists took up teaching or administrative roles in the new state and many tried to find appropriate ways to respond to the transformation of social relations.
Gail Day, Theories of the Avant-Garde Speaker: Gail Day, Senior Lecturer in art theory and history at Wimbledon School of Art and an editor of the Oxford Art Journal.This talk sets up the day's discussions by considering the interrelated concepts of the 'avant-garde' and 'neo-avant-garde'.
Contemporary Art and Globalisation
Steve Edwards, Mohini Chandra, Marcus Verhagen and Dominic Willsdon, Discussion 2 This video recording from the Contemporary Art and Globalisation Study Day features a panel discussion between speakers.
Marcus Verhagen and Dominic Willsdon, The Rise and Rise of the Biennial Over the last 20 years a number of new biennials have been established and the older biennials have, by all accounts, played an increasingly important role in sanctioning tendencies, entrenching reputations and directing debate in the art world. This trend has not always been well received.
Mohini Chandra and Dominic Willsdon, Travels in a New World In exploring the nature of diaspora and visual culture, through installation based art work, texts and other publications, Chandra's practice involves a multiplicity of cross-cultural dialogues with disciplines such as history, anthropology and geography, suggesting new ways of mapping cultural experience through personal memory.
Steve Edwards and Dominic Willsdon, Photography and Social Space In an era of increasingly global capitalist production, photographers have become more and more preoccupied with documenting social spaces. Steve Edwards' talk considers the work that has emerged from both the documentary tradition and the legacy of conceptual art.
Suman Gupta, Sonia Boyce, Paul Wood, Dominic Willsdon, Discussion 1 This video recording from the Contemporary Art and Globalisation Study Day features a panel discussion between speakers.
Sonia Boyce and Dominic Willsdon, Glocal: somewhere between the local and the global Many contemporary artists reject the idea of their work as 'political', as if such a label prohibits it from also being poetic. Sonia Boyce rejects this distinction and discusses how circumstances have conspired to ensure her politicisation. She reflects on why she increasingly falls back on the old feminist adage 'the personal is political' to consider the question of the local in relation to the global, and how these two states intertwine.
Suman Gupta, The Evolution of 'Globalization' Suman Gupta's presentation gives a brief history of the evolving connotations of the term 'globalization' from the late 1970s onwards. It ponders some of the early uses of the term, as it emerged to replace 'internationalization' from three linked directions: alluding to extensions of American sociology; denoting a programme of instituting uniformities within and across nation states; and, most importantly, connoting the character of advanced capitalism.


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Timothy Gaines states Stryper bass position was always more about image first and talent second
Posted on October 31, 2017 by Olivier in Uncategorized // 0 Comments
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With Stryper announcing their new bassist Perry Richardson yesterday, former Stryper bassist Timothy Gaines couldn't resist a few choice comments including that the bass position in Stryper was always more about image first and talent second, and the Stryper songs aren't that hard and any second year bass player can play them.
The following message was posted on Timothy Gaines' Facebook page about an hour ago:
"Hey Folks. Please be nice and welcome Perry into the flock. Geez, I feel for the guy. He has some big shoes to fill. (Not saying I am great) – but lots of demands and expectations placed upon him by fans. The bass position in Stryper was always about IMAGE first, and talent second. The songs aren't that hard and any 2nd year bass student can play them. The comments about hair is somewhat the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever seen. I mean seriously, I was attacked for many years because I cut my hair and no longer fit that 80s image that so many of the fat and balding 40 something crowd demands of an 80s band. But hey… I remember a time when you all looked hot too. So give it a break, and welcome the "new guy" into the flock. He didn't do anything wrong other than join Stryper."
Wikipedia states the following in part about new Stryper bassist Perry Richardson (with slight edits):
"Perry Richardson (born on July 7, 1963) is the former bassist of rock band FireHouse until 1999, and is the current bass player for Stryper, announced on October 30, 2017.
Richardson met C. J. Snare in North Carolina and started a band called Max Warrior. Eventually they met with Bill Leverty and Michael Foster (who were playing with a band called White Heat). The four got together in Charlotte and started FireHouse in 1988.
FireHouse enjoyed success in the U.S. and Japan and won an American Music Award in 1991. Richardson quit the band in 2000. He is currently playing with Country Music star Craig Morgan. He also worked with country musician Trace Adkins during a several month break with Craig Morgan. He returned to Craig Morgan and can be seen playing on Good Morning America on their May 21, 2016 episode."
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Містить (%): Ni — 17,5; Fe — 21,15; Co — 6,61; S — 53,7. Сингонія кубічна. Твердість 5.5—6. Густина 4.62. Колір сіро-сталевий. Блиск металічний.

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package com.google.devtools.j2objc.translate;

import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.ArrayAccess;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.ArrayCreation;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.ArrayInitializer;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.Assignment;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.CompilationUnit;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.Expression;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.FieldAccess;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.FunctionInvocation;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.InstanceofExpression;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.MethodInvocation;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.NumberLiteral;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.PrefixExpression;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.QualifiedName;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.SimpleName;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.TreeUtil;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.TypeLiteral;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.ast.UnitTreeVisitor;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.types.ExecutablePair;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.types.FunctionElement;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.types.GeneratedExecutableElement;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.types.GeneratedVariableElement;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.types.PointerType;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.util.ElementUtil;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.util.TranslationUtil;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.util.TypeUtil;
import com.google.devtools.j2objc.util.UnicodeUtils;
import java.util.List;
import javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement;
import javax.lang.model.element.Modifier;
import javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement;
import javax.lang.model.element.VariableElement;
import javax.lang.model.type.ArrayType;
import javax.lang.model.type.TypeMirror;

/**
 * Rewrites array creation into a method invocation on an IOSArray class.
 *
 * @author Keith Stanger
 */
public class ArrayRewriter extends UnitTreeVisitor {

  public ArrayRewriter(CompilationUnit unit) {
    super(unit);
  }

  @Override
  public void endVisit(ArrayCreation node) {
    node.replaceWith(createInvocation(node));
  }

  private MethodInvocation createInvocation(ArrayCreation node) {
    ArrayType arrayType = node.getTypeMirror();
    boolean retainedResult = node.hasRetainedResult() || options.useARC();
    ArrayInitializer initializer = node.getInitializer();
    if (initializer != null) {
      return newInitializedArrayInvocation(arrayType, initializer.getExpressions(), retainedResult);
    } else {
      List<Expression> dimensions = node.getDimensions();
      if (dimensions.size() == 1) {
        return newSingleDimensionArrayInvocation(arrayType, dimensions.get(0), retainedResult);
      } else {
        return newMultiDimensionArrayInvocation(arrayType, dimensions, retainedResult);
      }
    }
  }

  private MethodInvocation newInitializedArrayInvocation(
      ArrayType arrayType, List<Expression> elements, boolean retainedResult) {
    TypeMirror componentType = arrayType.getComponentType();
    TypeElement iosArrayElement = typeUtil.getIosArray(componentType);

    GeneratedExecutableElement methodElement = GeneratedExecutableElement.newMethodWithSelector(
        getInitializeSelector(componentType, retainedResult), iosArrayElement.asType(),
        iosArrayElement)
        .addModifiers(Modifier.PUBLIC, Modifier.STATIC);
    methodElement.addParameter(GeneratedVariableElement.newParameter(
        "values", new PointerType(componentType), methodElement));
    methodElement.addParameter(GeneratedVariableElement.newParameter(
        "count", typeUtil.getInt(), methodElement));
    if (!componentType.getKind().isPrimitive()) {
      methodElement.addParameter(GeneratedVariableElement.newParameter(
          "type", TypeUtil.IOS_CLASS.asType(), methodElement));
    }
    MethodInvocation invocation = new MethodInvocation(
        new ExecutablePair(methodElement), arrayType, new SimpleName(iosArrayElement));

    // Create the array initializer and add it as the first parameter.
    ArrayInitializer arrayInit = new ArrayInitializer(arrayType);
    for (Expression element : elements) {
      arrayInit.addExpression(element.copy());
    }
    invocation.addArgument(arrayInit);

    // Add the array size parameter.
    invocation.addArgument(
        NumberLiteral.newIntLiteral(arrayInit.getExpressions().size(), typeUtil));

    // Add the type argument for object arrays.
    if (!componentType.getKind().isPrimitive()) {
      invocation.addArgument(new TypeLiteral(componentType, typeUtil));
    }

    return invocation;
  }

  private String paramNameForPrimitive(TypeMirror t) {
    switch (t.getKind()) {
      case BOOLEAN: return "Booleans";
      case BYTE: return "Bytes";
      case CHAR: return "Chars";
      case DOUBLE: return "Doubles";
      case FLOAT: return "Floats";
      case INT: return "Ints";
      case LONG: return "Longs";
      case SHORT: return "Shorts";
      default: throw new AssertionError("Not a  primitive type: " + t);
    }
  }

  private String getInitializeSelector(TypeMirror componentType, boolean retainedResult) {
    String selectorFmt = "arrayWith%s:count:";
    if (retainedResult) {
      selectorFmt = "newArrayWith%s:count:";
    }
    String paramName;
    if (componentType.getKind().isPrimitive()) {
      paramName = paramNameForPrimitive(componentType);
    } else {
      paramName = "Objects";
      selectorFmt += "type:";
    }
    return UnicodeUtils.format(selectorFmt, paramName);
  }

  private MethodInvocation newSingleDimensionArrayInvocation(
      ArrayType arrayType, Expression dimensionExpr, boolean retainedResult) {
    TypeMirror componentType = arrayType.getComponentType();
    TypeElement iosArrayElement = typeUtil.getIosArray(componentType);
    boolean isPrimitive = componentType.getKind().isPrimitive();

    String selector = (retainedResult ? "newArray" : "array") + "WithLength:"
        + (isPrimitive ? "" : "type:");
    GeneratedExecutableElement methodElement = GeneratedExecutableElement.newMethodWithSelector(
        selector, iosArrayElement.asType(), iosArrayElement)
        .addModifiers(Modifier.PUBLIC, Modifier.STATIC);
    methodElement.addParameter(GeneratedVariableElement.newParameter(
        "length", typeUtil.getInt(), methodElement));
    if (!isPrimitive) {
      methodElement.addParameter(GeneratedVariableElement.newParameter(
          "type", TypeUtil.IOS_CLASS.asType(), methodElement));
    }
    MethodInvocation invocation = new MethodInvocation(
        new ExecutablePair(methodElement), arrayType, new SimpleName(iosArrayElement));

    // Add the array length argument.
    invocation.addArgument(dimensionExpr.copy());

    // Add the type argument for object arrays.
    if (!isPrimitive) {
      invocation.addArgument(new TypeLiteral(componentType, typeUtil));
    }

    return invocation;
  }

  private MethodInvocation newMultiDimensionArrayInvocation(
      ArrayType arrayType, List<Expression> dimensions, boolean retainedResult) {
    assert dimensions.size() > 1;
    TypeMirror componentType = arrayType;
    for (int i = 0; i < dimensions.size(); i++) {
      assert TypeUtil.isArray(componentType);
      componentType = ((ArrayType) componentType).getComponentType();
    }
    TypeElement iosArrayElement = typeUtil.getIosArray(componentType);

    ExecutableElement methodElement =
        getMultiDimensionMethod(componentType, iosArrayElement, retainedResult);
    MethodInvocation invocation = new MethodInvocation(
        new ExecutablePair(methodElement), arrayType, new SimpleName(iosArrayElement));

    // Add the dimension count argument.
    invocation.addArgument(NumberLiteral.newIntLiteral(dimensions.size(), typeUtil));

    // Create the dimensions array.
    ArrayInitializer dimensionsArg = new ArrayInitializer(typeUtil.getArrayType(typeUtil.getInt()));
    for (Expression e : dimensions) {
      dimensionsArg.addExpression(e.copy());
    }
    invocation.addArgument(dimensionsArg);

    if (!componentType.getKind().isPrimitive()) {
      invocation.addArgument(new TypeLiteral(componentType, typeUtil));
    }

    return invocation;
  }

  private ExecutableElement getMultiDimensionMethod(
      TypeMirror componentType, TypeElement iosArrayType, boolean retainedResult) {
    boolean isPrimitive = componentType.getKind().isPrimitive();
    String selector = (retainedResult ? "newArray" : "array") + "WithDimensions:lengths:"
        + (isPrimitive ? "" : "type:");
    GeneratedExecutableElement element = GeneratedExecutableElement.newMethodWithSelector(
        selector, TypeUtil.IOS_OBJECT_ARRAY.asType(), iosArrayType)
        .addModifiers(Modifier.PUBLIC, Modifier.STATIC);
    TypeMirror intType = typeUtil.getInt();
    element.addParameter(GeneratedVariableElement.newParameter("dimensions", intType, element));
    element.addParameter(GeneratedVariableElement.newParameter(
        "dimensionLengths", new PointerType(intType), element));
    if (!isPrimitive) {
      element.addParameter(GeneratedVariableElement.newParameter(
          "type", TypeUtil.IOS_CLASS.asType(), element));
    }
    return element;
  }

  // We must handle object array assignment before its children because if the
  // rhs is an array creation, we can optimize with "SetAndConsume".
  @Override
  public boolean visit(Assignment node) {
    Expression lhs = node.getLeftHandSide();
    TypeMirror lhsType = lhs.getTypeMirror();
    if (lhs instanceof ArrayAccess && !lhsType.getKind().isPrimitive()) {
      FunctionInvocation newAssignment = newArrayAssignment(node, (ArrayAccess) lhs, lhsType);
      node.replaceWith(newAssignment);
      newAssignment.accept(this);
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

  @Override
  public void endVisit(ArrayAccess node) {
    TypeMirror componentType = node.getTypeMirror();
    TypeElement iosArrayElement = typeUtil.getIosArray(componentType);

    node.replaceWith(newArrayAccess(
        node, componentType, iosArrayElement, TranslationUtil.isAssigned(node)));
  }

  private Expression newArrayAccess(
      ArrayAccess arrayAccessNode, TypeMirror componentType, TypeElement iosArrayElement,
      boolean assignable) {
    String funcName = ElementUtil.getName(iosArrayElement) + "_Get";
    TypeMirror returnType = componentType;
    TypeMirror declaredReturnType =
        componentType.getKind().isPrimitive() ? componentType : TypeUtil.ID_TYPE;
    if (assignable) {
      funcName += "Ref";
      returnType = declaredReturnType = new PointerType(componentType);
    }
    FunctionElement element = new FunctionElement(funcName, declaredReturnType, iosArrayElement)
        .addParameters(iosArrayElement.asType(), typeUtil.getInt());
    FunctionInvocation invocation = new FunctionInvocation(element, returnType);
    invocation.addArgument(arrayAccessNode.getArray().copy());
    invocation.addArgument(arrayAccessNode.getIndex().copy());
    if (assignable) {
      return new PrefixExpression(componentType, PrefixExpression.Operator.DEREFERENCE, invocation);
    }
    return invocation;
  }

  private FunctionInvocation newArrayAssignment(
      Assignment assignmentNode, ArrayAccess arrayAccessNode, TypeMirror componentType) {
    Assignment.Operator op = assignmentNode.getOperator();
    assert !componentType.getKind().isPrimitive();
    assert op == Assignment.Operator.ASSIGN;

    Expression value = TreeUtil.remove(assignmentNode.getRightHandSide());
    Expression retainedValue = TranslationUtil.retainResult(value);
    String funcName = "IOSObjectArray_Set";
    if (retainedValue != null) {
      funcName = "IOSObjectArray_SetAndConsume";
      value = retainedValue;
    }
    TypeElement objArrayType = TypeUtil.IOS_OBJECT_ARRAY;
    TypeMirror idType = TypeUtil.ID_TYPE;
    FunctionElement element = new FunctionElement(funcName, idType, objArrayType)
        .addParameters(objArrayType.asType(), typeUtil.getInt(), idType);
    FunctionInvocation invocation = new FunctionInvocation(element, componentType);
    List<Expression> args = invocation.getArguments();
    args.add(TreeUtil.remove(arrayAccessNode.getArray()));
    args.add(TreeUtil.remove(arrayAccessNode.getIndex()));
    args.add(value);
    return invocation;
  }

  @Override
  public void endVisit(FieldAccess node) {
    maybeRewriteArrayLength(node, node.getName(), node.getExpression());
  }

  @Override
  public void endVisit(QualifiedName node) {
    maybeRewriteArrayLength(node, node.getName(), node.getQualifier());
  }

  private void maybeRewriteArrayLength(Expression node, SimpleName name, Expression expr) {
    TypeMirror exprType = expr.getTypeMirror();
    if (name.getIdentifier().equals("length") && TypeUtil.isArray(exprType)) {
      VariableElement sizeField = GeneratedVariableElement.newField(
          "size", typeUtil.getInt(),
          typeUtil.getIosArray(((ArrayType) exprType).getComponentType()));
      node.replaceWith(new FieldAccess(sizeField, TreeUtil.remove(expr)));
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void endVisit(InstanceofExpression node) {
    TypeMirror type = node.getRightOperand().getTypeMirror();
    if (!TypeUtil.isArray(type) || ((ArrayType) type).getComponentType().getKind().isPrimitive()) {
      return;
    }
    GeneratedExecutableElement element = GeneratedExecutableElement.newMethodWithSelector(
        "isInstance", typeUtil.getBoolean(), TypeUtil.IOS_CLASS);
    element.addParameter(
        GeneratedVariableElement.newParameter("object", TypeUtil.ID_TYPE, element));
    MethodInvocation invocation =
        new MethodInvocation(new ExecutablePair(element), new TypeLiteral(type, typeUtil));
    invocation.addArgument(TreeUtil.remove(node.getLeftOperand()));
    node.replaceWith(invocation);
  }
}


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What Documents Should I Bring to a Florida Child Support Hearing?
Have you been summoned to court for a Florida Child Support Hearing? Have you asked yourself and others the following question, "What Documents Should I Bring to a Florida Child Support Hearing?" Many respondents (a respondent is the party the Department of Revenue has summoned to court on behalf of the State of Florida, the petitioner, and the minor child(ren)) are unaware of what documents to bring to the child support hearing.
Sometimes, in advance of a Florida Child Support Hearing, the petitioner and/or the Department of Revenue will make a request for production of documents. This request will clearly state the documents you shall/must bring to the hearing. In the absence of such a request, many respondents ask the above question, "What Documents Should I Bring to a Florida Child Support Hearing?" As a matter of practicality, it is recommended you bring a copy of your Financial Affidavit (short form for under $50,000 in income and long form for incomes greater than $50,000), your six mots recent pay stubs, your last 3 years of tax returns, and any other documents that may provide the DOR with your true and accurate income. If you have recently been terminated from your employment, bring a notice of termination. If you have daycare expenses and medical expenses for your child(ren) and medical expenses for yourself, furnish those records to the hearing officer or the DOR attorney if you wish to have those records considered in the child support calculations. Also bring records of any child support payments you have already made to the petitioner, as you will likely be credited for those payments. This is a non-exhaustive list of the documents you should consider bringing to a Florida Child Support Hearing.
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KBC 12's third crorepati Anupa Das: People's attitude towards me has changed for the better
KBC 12's third crorepati Anupa Das: People's attitude towards me has changed for the better
Anupa Das, who hails from Jagdalpur, Bastar in Chhattisgarh, is a teacher by profession.
Written by Sana Farzeen | Mumbai | Updated: November 26, 2020 3:08:48 pm
Anupa Das won Rs 1 crore on Kaun Banega Crorepati 12. (Photo: PR Handout)
On Wednesday, Anupa Das became the third contestant to take home Rs 1 crore from Kaun Banega Crorepati 12. She is also the third woman after Nazia Nasim and Mohita Sharma to achieve the feat in the latest season of the Amitabh Bachchan show.
Anupa Das, who hails from Jagdalpur, Bastar in Chhattisgarh, is a teacher by profession. Big B was left highly impressed by the 42-year-old's confidence, humility and zeal to win while on the hot seat. He even called her performance an "extraordinary" one.
Post her win, Das shared that she never dreamt of achieving this huge feat on KBC. She had been trying her luck for 20 years, and now being called a "crorepati" seemed unreal to her. "I am coming to terms with it. Being on the show has completely changed my life. People's attitude towards me and every little thing around me has changed, for the better. I am actually at a loss of words to explain this indescribable feeling," she said.
Anupa Das got emotional after winning Rs 1 crore. (Photo: PR)
On the episode, Anupa Das had opened up about her life. Having been divorced after just a month of marriage, she has been living with her parents. Her two younger sisters are married, and she claims that her brothers-in-law are more like siblings to her. Last year, Das faced a setback when her mother was diagnosed with stage three cancer. She moved along with her mother to Mumbai for treatment and now wants to utilise her prize money for the same.
Anupa Das said, "My family and I have had a really hard time as majority of the money was spent in hospitals. Now, all that I have is theirs. Everything that I have earned on the show is going to go towards supporting my family. By god's grace, we finally have the resources to give my mother the best possible treatment."
The teacher dedicated her win to her family, especially her parents. She shared that it was because of their unconditional love and support that she managed to reach the hot seat of KBC 12.
While Anupa Das couldn't win the jackpot amount of Rs 7 crore, she guessed the right answer after quitting the game. However, Das doesn't regret her decision as she felt that it would have been a huge risk to lose all that she won by taking a guess. "The question was based on sports, and since it's not my strength, I did panic a little. One wrong answer would have taken away a huge sum, which we, as a family, need right now. Thus I decided to let it go. However, post the game, when Amit ji announced that I had chosen the correct answer, I was astounded. Nonetheless, I am very happy and proud of what I achieved on the show," concluded the third crorepati of KBC 12.
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V.A.Y. acknowledges support by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Grant No. 3.5397.2017/BY.

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\caption{One-loop self-energy correction to the bound-electron $g$ factor for the $1s$ and $2s$ states of H-like ions,
multiplied by $10^6$. The value of the fine-structure constant used in the calculation is $\alpha^{-1} = 137.036$. \label{tab:results}}
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 \multicolumn{1}{c}{$Z$}   & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\delta g_{\rm ir}$}  & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\delta g_{\rm vr}^{(0)}$}  & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\delta g_{\rm vr}^{(1)}$}  & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\delta g_{\rm vr}^{(2+)}$}  & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Total}  & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$H(\Za)$} \\
\hline\\[-5pt]
 \multicolumn{1}{c}{$1s$}\\[2pt]
  4 & 17.216\,x132\,6 & 2\,300.99x7\,357\,2 & 4.459\,x445\,1 & 0.502\,5x85\,3\,(2)  & 2\,323.175\,x520\,1\,(2) & 22.48x7\,(4) \\
  6 & 34.064\,x668\,1 & 2\,280.73x7\,822\,5 & 7.795\,x347\,6 & 1.074\,5x84\,5\,(4)  & 2\,323.672\,x422\,7\,(4) & 22.16x6\,(1) \\
  8 & 54.781\,x703\,2 & 2\,256.69x7\,710\,8 & 11.165\,x707\,2 & 1.797\,0x02\,1\,(7) & 2\,324.442\,x123\,2\,(7) & 21.86x1\,4\,(5) \\
 10 & 78.743\,x788\,6 & 2\,229.82x6\,130\,5 & 14.349\,x045\,7 & 2.617\,5x42\,(1)    & 2\,325.536\,x507\,(1) & 21.56x6\,3\,(2) \\
 12 & 105.511\,x685\,3 & 2\,200.79x8\,139\,6 & 17.216\,x228\,5 & 3.483\,7x62\,(2)   & 2\,327.009\,x815\,(2) & 21.27x9\,5\,(1) \\
 14 & 134.760\,x370\,(3) & 2\,170.11x9\,540\,6 & 19.693\,x048\,7 & 4.344\,5x33\,(2) & 2\,328.917\,x492\,(4) & 21.00x0\,5\,(1) \\
 16 & 166.242\,x092\,(3) & 2\,138.18x2\,197\,1 & 21.740\,x396\,0 & 5.150\,8x96\,(3) & 2\,331.315\,x581\,(4) & 20.72x9\,03\,(8) \\
 18 & 199.764\,x465\,(3) & 2\,105.29x6\,890\,3 & 23.342\,x539\,0 & 5.856\,5x57\,(3) & 2\,334.260\,x452\,(5) & 20.46x5\,04\,(5) \\
 20 & 235.176\,x430\,(4) & 2\,071.71x4\,411\,8 & 24.499\,x708\,2 & 6.418\,1x72\,(4) & 2\,337.808\,x723\,(6) & 20.20x8\,29\,(4) \\[2pt]
\hline\\[-5pt]
 \multicolumn{1}{c}{$2s$}\\   [2pt]
  4 &  5.053\,x860\,6 & 2\,315.98x8\,700\,0 & 1.337\,x877\,4 & 0.524\,6x54\,7\,(3) & 2\,322.905\,x092\,6\,(3) & 22.78x\,(4) \\
  6 & 10.186\,x275\,6 & 2\,309.23x0\,319\,4 & 2.428\,x638\,8 & 1.173\,1x19\,8\,(4) & 2\,323.018\,x353\,7\,(4) & 22.48x\,(1) \\
  8 & 16.629\,x185\,2 & 2\,300.88x5\,484\,0 & 3.600\,x384\,8 & 2.070\,6x36\,5\,(7) & 2\,323.185\,x690\,5\,(7) & 22.22x1\,(4) \\
 10 & 24.208\,x822\,9 & 2\,291.21x6\,226\,1 & 4.777\,x844\,0 & 3.210\,2x48\,(1)    & 2\,323.413\,x141\,(1) & 21.97x2\,(2) \\
 12 & 32.796\,x260\,4 & 2\,280.41x6\,694\,2 & 5.909\,x016\,2 & 4.584\,9x79\,(2)    & 2\,323.706\,x950\,(2) & 21.72x7\,(1) \\
 14 & 42.290\,x335\,(2) & 2\,268.63x8\,681\,0 & 6.956\,x360\,9 & 6.188\,0x74\,(2)  & 2\,324.073\,x450\,(3) & 21.48x6\,(1) \\
 16 & 52.608\,x698\,(2) & 2\,256.00x5\,047\,5 & 7.892\,x134\,5 & 8.013\,1x44\,(3)  & 2\,324.519\,x024\,(4) & 21.25x0\,5\,(6) \\
 18 & 63.682\,x502\,(3) & 2\,242.61x7\,687\,9 & 8.695\,x612\,8 & 10.054\,2x80\,(4) & 2\,325.050\,x083\,(5) & 21.02x0\,3\,(4) \\
 20 & 75.453\,x014\,(4) & 2\,228.56x2\,653\,6 & 9.351\,x303\,3 & 12.306\,1x20\,(5) & 2\,325.673\,x091\,(6) & 20.79x4\,9\,(3) \\
\end{tabular}
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\end{table*}

\begin{table}
\caption{The higher-order remainder $H(\Za)$ for the $1s$ and $2s$ states of H-like carbon ($Z = 6$), in different calculations. \label{tab:comp}}
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\begin{tabular}{lll}
\multicolumn{1}{c}{$H_{1s}(6\alpha)$}   & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$H_{2s}(6\alpha)$} & Ref.  \\ \hline\\[-5pt]
22.166\,(1) & 22.48\,(1)  & This work \\
22.18\,(9)  & 22.5\,(1.3) & \cite{yerokhin:10:sehfs} \\
22.16\,(1)  &              & \cite{pachucki:04:prl}$^a$ \\
22.2\,(2)   & 18.(13.)    & \cite{yerokhin:02:prl,yerokhin:04} \\
22.\,(2.)   &              & \cite{beier:00:pra}\\
\end{tabular}
$^a$ extrapolation of the numerical data from \cite{yerokhin:02:prl}.
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\begin{table}
\caption{Extrapolated values of the higher-order remainder $H(\Za)$ for small $Z$. \label{tab:extr}}
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\begin{tabular}{lll}
 \multicolumn{1}{c}{$Z$}   & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$H_{1s}$}  & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$H_{2s}-H_{1s}$}\\
\hline\\[-5pt]
0 & 23.6\,(5)  & 0.12\,(5) \\
1 & 23.08\,(9) & 0.16\,(3) \\
2 & 22.85\,(3) & 0.20\,(2) \\
\end{tabular}
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In most second grade classrooms, singing and dancing would not be a part of the syllabus. But in Michael Bonner's class, it's becoming routine.
After his second graders failed an exam last year, Bonner knew he had to change the way he was reaching them. He offered them a deal: Pass the test, and they would shoot a music video.
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For Bonner and his students at South Greenville Elementary in Greenville, North Carolina, music is their secret weapon. The school has a high poverty rate, and some of Bonner's students are reading at the kindergarten level. In order to engage them more fully in the curriculum, he knew he needed to motivate them.
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Mangareva is the central and largest island of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. It is surrounded by smaller islands: Taravai in the southwest, Aukena and Akamaru in the southeast, and islands in the north. Mangareva has a permanent population of 1,239 (2012) and the largest village on the island, Rikitea, is the chief town of the Gambier Islands.

The island is approximately  long and, at , it comprises about 56% of the land area of the whole Gambier group.  Mangareva has a high central ridge which runs the length of the island. The highest point in the Gambiers is Mount Duff, on Mangareva, rising to  along the island's south coast. The island has a large lagoon  in diameter containing reefs whose fish and shellfish helped ancient islanders survive much more successfully than on nearby islands with no reefs.

History
Mangareva was first settled by Polynesians in the first millennium CE. While carbon dating has so far only dated settlements to 1160-1220, there is evidence from the Pitcairn Islands of trade with Mangareva from 1000 CE, and it is likely settlement dates to around 800 CE. The island was once heavily forested and supported a large population that traded with other islands via canoes. However, excessive logging by the islanders between the 10th and 15th centuries resulted in deforestation of the island, with disastrous results for both its environment and its economy (see Gambier Islands for more details).

The first European to visit Mangareva was a British captain, James Wilson, who arrived in 1797 on the ship Duff. Wilson named the island group in honour of Admiral James Gambier, who had helped him to equip his vessel.

Mangareva and its dependencies in the Gambier Islands were ruled by a line of kings – and, later, regents – until the French formally annexed the islands. King  Maputeoa requested a French protectorate on 16 February 1844, but the French government never ratified it. On 4 February 1870, the Mangarevan government and its prince regent, Arone Teikatoara, formally withdrew the protectorate request and asked the French not to intervene in the kingdom's affairs. However, after Father Honoré Laval was removed to Tahiti, the native government changed its stance: On 30 November 1871, Prince Regent Arone and the French colonial authority in Tahiti signed an agreement reaffirming the islands' protectorate status. The Gambier Islands were finally annexed on 21 February 1881 under Prince Regent Bernardo Putairi, and the annexation was approved by the President of France on 30 January 1882.

In the 20th  century, in July 1966, the Mangareviens were exposed to radioactive fallout due to the French military's nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa. Military officials were aware of the doses received by the island and their effects, but kept them secret. The information was made public in 1998 by journalist Vincent Jauvert, and acknowledged by the French government in 2006.

Geography

Climate
Mangareva has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af). The average annual temperature in Mangareva is . The average annual rainfall is  with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in March, at around , and lowest in August, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Mangareva was  on 6 March 2016; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 27 August 1992.

Transportation

Mangareva is reached by boat from the nearby airport across the lagoon.

Mangareva is an important travel link to Pitcairn Island. Practically the only way a traveler can reach Pitcairn Island is to fly to Tahiti, then to Mangareva.  From there, a 32-hour boat ride will take the traveler to the island. Some reach Pitcairn by commercial shipping traffic, but that is uncommon, because shipping lanes do not typically pass close to Pitcairn.

Culture and fiction
Painter and author Robert Lee Eskridge's book Manga Reva: The Forgotten Islands (Bobbs Merrill; 1931) offers first-hand observations of the environment, peoples, and traditions of Mangareva. It includes original illustrations and photographs by the author. In 1962, the adventure-fiction writer Garland Roark acknowledged Eskridge's work in a foreword to his novel, The Witch of Manga Reva. Eskridge also wrote and illustrated a children's book about his visit to Mangareva: South Sea Playmates (Bobbs Merrill; 1933).
Sailor and author W. I. B. (Bill) Crealock describes in his book Cloud of Islands a visit to Mangareva, which he considered the ideal island, on the yacht Arthur Rogers,
in the company of Diana and Tom Hepworth, whose lives were later recounted in the book Faraway by Lucy Irvine.

Binary counting system
The Mangarevan people developed a binary number system centuries ahead of Europeans. In 2013, the islanders were discovered to have developed a novel binary system that allowed them to reduce the number of digits involved in binary counting: for example, representing 150 requires eight digits in binary (10010110) but only four in the Mangarevan system (VTPK, where V (varu) means 80, T (tataua) is 40, P (paua) is 20, and K (takau) is 10). As binary counting is unknown in other Polynesian societies, it most likely developed after Mangareva was settled (which was sometime between 1060 and 1360 AD). Since Gottfried Leibniz would not invent the modern binary number system until 1689, the Mangarevan binary steps prefigured the European invention of binary by as many as 300 to 600 years.

In 2020, Mangarevan binary counting was shown to be an extension of a traditional Polynesian method of counting. Polynesian societies are known to count specific types of objects differently, and they count objects both singly (one by one) and collectively (by twos, fours, or eights). In each case, counting remains decimal (one, two, three...), though the unit counted varies (one, two, four, or eight). In Mangareva, counting collective items decimally produced productive terms for ten (takau or ten singles), twenty (paua or ten pairs), forty (tataua or ten groups of four), and eighty (varu or ten groups of eight). Given the availability of these terms and their associated numerical values, binary counting was then a simple adaptation of traditional Polynesian counting, which set aside every tenth item to mark ten of the items being counted (in New Zealand, this method was misunderstood by Europeans as undecimal or base-11 counting). In the traditional method, the pile of set-asides would then be counted the same way, with every tenth item marking a hundred (second round), thousand (third round), ten thousand items (fourth round), and so on. In Mangarevan binary, in the first round items were counted as before, but in the second round and thereafter they were grouped into eights (varu) and then fours (tataua), twos (paua), and singles (takau). Once counting had shifted to binary units in the second and subsequent rounds, the method was no longer decimal, suggesting an explanation for the upper limit of 800 (for items counted singly) observed for the counting system.

Mythology
Mangarevan mythology includes deities and gods commonly found across the Polynesian triangle. For instance, traditionally, in Mangareva, the most important god was named Tu, whereas in New Zealand and Hawai'i, the god of war was similarly named Kū. Other commonalities amongst the islands of the Polynesian triangle include the goddess Haumea, who is said to have been responsible for the creation of the world, and the demi-god Māui, who is said to have fished up the islands from the bottom of the sea.

Gallery

See also
 List of volcanoes in French Polynesia

References

External links

 Mangareva, Tahiti – Death of a People
 Mangareva

Islands of the Gambier Islands


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After playfully recreating the Beatles' historic 1964 television debut earlier in the week, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has shared a bonus performance of their Ed Sheeran collaboration "Make it Right."
The K-pop group took a relaxed approach for the performance, lounging on stools while delivering the delicate song, which appears on their latest album, Map of the Soul: Persona. Earlier in the week, BTS lit up Colbert's stage playing their new track "Boy With Luv," featuring Halsey.
BTS paid tribute to the Fab Four on the Late Show Wednesday (May 15) with a brief black-and-white skit and performing their favorite Beatles song, "Hey Jude." The group also sat down for a chat with Colbert to discuss Map of the Soul: Persona, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in April. The group is currently touring stadiums to promote the new release.
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Task force to end communist armed conflict launched in Palawan
Oct 2, 2019 Celeste Anna Formoso
WESCOM commander Vice Adm. Rene Medina (left) and Palawan provincial legal officer Atty. Teodoro Jose Matta during a press conference on Tuesday to inform about the formation of the PTF-ELCAC to end the local insurgency. Serving as their backdrop is the signed Manifesto of Support to EO 70.
Military, police and local government authorities launched here Tuesday the Provincial Task Force on Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) to pursue "focused development initiatives" and to harmonize the delivery of inclusive social services in conflict-affected and vulnerable areas in Palawan.
PTF-ELCAC was set in motion by members of the Provincial Development Council (PDC) and the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) who also signed a "manifesto of support" condemning the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and other line agencies, around 13 municipal mayors, other local government unit (LGU) representatives, and concerned stakeholders.
Provincial legal officer Atty. Teodoro Jose Matta, who represented Governor Jose Alvarez, said the joint PDC and PPOC meeting is pursuant to Executive Order (EO) No. 70 issued by President Rodrigo Duterte in 2018 institutionalizing the "Whole-of-Nation Approach" to attain inclusive development and lasting peace.
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"The two councils acting jointly adopted the directive of the president and implemented this to form a local task force which was basically designed for a long-term and final solution to the communist-terrorist threat. The community as a whole, together with the mayors and national government agencies and our partners in the security sector, committed ourselves to the local task force and produced a manifesto against the communist-terrorist group (CTGs)," he said during a media conference also Tuesday.
Matta said October 1 was a "momentous day" because for so long, everyone has been looking for a holistic approach against the leftist movement.
Just like the national framework, the provincial task force will initiate principles, plans, policies, and programs that will bring inclusive and sustainable peace.
The framework shall make available localized peace negotiations that will follow national guidance.
Among the functions of the PTF-ELCAC is the implementation of programs and projects that are whole-of-nation approach driven on strategic communication, capacity building, the delivery basic social services, and peace constituency initiatives.
Conflict-affected and vulnerable areas
Western Command (WESCOM) commander Vice Adm. Rene Medina said they have identified 69 conflict-affected barangays in 11 municipalities in Palawan and in Puerto Princesa City.
Based on the data Medina provided, these municipalities are Sofronio Española, Quezon, Brooke's Point, Rizal, and Bataraza in southern Palawan, and Coron, Araceli, Taytay, Dumaran, San Vicente, and Roxas in the northern area.
Of all municipalities, Taytay has the most number of vulnerable barangays or 14 out of 31.
"As presented, we have identified — based on the MIMAROPA way of identifying them — 69 priority areas in Palawan. We have already identified their primary and secondary issues. With this and the convergence of the two councils, we can further carry out our efforts holistically. Ibig sabihin, hindi lahat ng munisipyo at barangay ay pare-pareho, it depends on the program of the provincial government based on our data on what are those barangays that should be prioritized," Medina said.
The members of the Provincial Development Council (PDC) and the Provincial Peace and Order Council with municipal mayors, line agency heads, and other stakeholders.
To start rolling the task force, he said they have proposed 12 clusters out of the total number of vulnerable areas and those in southern Palawan are now doing their activities while others are in their organizational stages.
In the following weeks, Medina said these clusters will already be functional with the guidance of the PTF-ELCAC that is chaired by Governor Alvarez.
"We are hoping that with the data we have, we can focus our efforts on eradicating those [primary and secondary] issues that were used by the CTGs in arousing support from the people and some sectors in Palawan. We are hoping that the creation of the provincial task force using a local government-centered approach will become an effective way in addressing the insurgency problem," Medina said.
He said the approach will no longer just be "military-centered" but with now the participation of all concerned stakeholders.
PTF-ELCAC on addressing issues
Matta said some of the issues and concerns they have identified from the grassroots are land grabbing, lack of environmental protection, absence of employment opportunities, lack of educational services, no basic services, among others.
"What are the CTGs? What is the CPP-NPA-NDF? What is it in essence? It is a violent extremist movement so what does violent extremism usually feed on? They feed on certain social issues — injustices, which they use in order to motivate their recruits or their support communities. These actors are now infiltrating certain communities and sectors trying to feed them with local issues for residents to be sympathetic with them," Matta added.
He said these things need to be addressed by achieving the implementation of "holistic solutions".
Matta said "addressing" means going down to municipalities and to the identified conflict areas to address their particular needs.
"Hindi ibig sabihin na pababayaan 'yong ibang areas, but we will have a better focus on these 69 areas because ito ang may problema ngayon na na-translate to provide support to the CTGs," he said.
Persona non grata declaration, unmasking rebel supporters
Matta said there is also a need for other municipal governments to follow the steps of the six municipalities that have earlier declared the CPP-NPA-NDF and its members as persona non grata and denounced their atrocities.
Earlier this year, the towns of Brooke's Point, Taytay, Araceli, Dumaran, Coron, Aborlan, approved personal non grata declarations against the rebel movement.
"The LGUs are at the forefront of the battle against CTGs. As local chief executives, whether municipal or barangay level, they should be the ones implementing the law against the CTGs. And the armed forces, the law enforcement, and security services are [going] to be there to support them," he said.
On the other hand, municipalities and their chief executives that and who have not declared the leftist movement unwanted should be assessed based on the merits of their cases.
He said it cannot be "generalized" that they are supportive of the CPP-NPA-NDF based on non-declaration.
"I think that will depend on the merits of each case. That's our stand; we cannot generalize these things na o porke't hindi lang nag-declare ng persona non grata ay ka-ally na. There are other merits, especially the WESCOM in the field that needs to be addressed," Matta said.
Medina said during the meeting of the task force, he said WESCOM explained to them the importance of the persona non grata declaration.
He said it is important to show support to the task force and EO 70 knowing that the CPP-NPA-NDF "playing ground" is in the barangay level.
"We are hoping that with our presentation, they will be able to pass these resolutions," Medina said on why there is a need to denounce the leftist group.
"We need to ensure that the enemies of the state are not welcome in these municipalities in Palawan," he added.The denouncement also matters, he said, for the whole-of-nation approach to move forward, particularly in the municipalities where there are conflict-areas.
He said that in the following days, they will be exposing the supporters and members of the CPP-NPA-NDF in Palawan, including posting their photos in strategic public areas.
Medina said they have identified that some rebels are not from Palawan but come because the province is "their source of finances and their rest and recreation areas".
He said most major members of the rebel group in the province are from Mindoro and the Panay Islands.
"Most of the major players of the CTGs are not from Palawan. Those militia ng bayan who are returnees, who are also victims of their promises — that's why we are also working closely with the Southern Luzon Command — because mostly they came from Mindoro and Panay so, hindi lang alam talaga ng Palawan na most of their meetings ay in Palawan," he said.
"In the following days, we will not only provide names and pictures of the NPA but we will also be providing names and pictures of those supporting CTGs in Palawan — 'yong mga legal fronts nila. We will have to unmask them in the next few months. But, of course, unmasking will be evidence-based," Medina added. (with reports from Jayra Joyce Taboada)
Tags: Atty. Teodoro Jose Matta, Communist-Terrorist Groups, CPP-NPA, CPP-NPA-NDF, ELCAC, Insurgency, National Democratic Front, New People's Army, Palawan, Palawan News, Provincial Task Force on Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC), Puerto Princesa City, Vice Adm. Rene Medina, wescom, Western Command
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