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Alcohol dependence usually has a profound impact on many aspects of an individual's life as well as those around them. Given its complexity, it is interesting that alcohol treatment programs are multidisciplinary to meet the patient's diverse needs (social, psychological, professional and even legal aspects, while being more effective in changing behavior patterns such as cognitive processes and social functioning.
Patient assessment may involve several health professionals, such as clinicians and psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, physical educators, social workers and nurses. When diagnosed, it should be followed up long term to ensure treatment success, which varies according to the progression and severity of the disease.
Abstinence should be the goal of treatment, but for many reasons this may not be achieved at the beginning or even over time. Despite this, the individual can still have benefits of remaining in the process, with minimization of psychosocial impairments, treatment of clinical and psychiatric comorbidity, and other addiction-related conditions. It is also noted that the greater the number of people involved in the process (family, friends, teachers, co-workers), the greater the chances of adherence to treatment and recovery.
The family in particular is a key player both in preventing the harmful use of alcohol and in cases where the problem is already in place. In fact, it is not often that treatment starts with the family, mainly because the alcohol user does not accept their problem and may not recognize that the use of alcohol brings negative consequences or is unmotivated to seek help.
Systemic therapy: it is aimed at the interdependent nature of the family relationship and how these relationships influence (positively or negatively) the illness, from the perspective of the family as a system. The focus of alcohol treatment programs is to intervene in the complex patterns of relationships between family members to the point of generating positive changes for the whole core.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (family and couple): considering that behaviors associated with alcohol misuse can be reinforced through family interactions, this approach presents a main objective to change behaviors that act as a trigger for alcohol use, to improve communication of family members and strengthen and expand social skills.
It is worth noting that often the family suffers with the dependent – a phenomenon called codependency. In general terms, it is described as a dysfunctional relationship between the patient and the relative, in which the relative becomes more concerned with the dependent than with himself, feeling dominated by his needs and desires. Over time, this pattern of thinking and behavior can become compulsive and harmful. In these cases, the psychotherapy approaches mentioned above may help the family; however, there are specific mutual aid groups for family members.
In short, the family plays an important role in the treatment of alcohol dependency, since it helps in the adherence and overcoming difficulties arising from the process and in establishing a new lifestyle without the use of alcohol.


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J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Partita No. 2
Daniel Lozakovich
Classical · 2018
Editors' Notes In 2016, at just 15 years old, Daniel Lozakovich was signed to the eminent Deutsche Grammophon roster. Not since Anne-Sophie Mutter had the label signed a young violinist so clearly destined for great things. Slightly unfashionably for a non-period-instrument player, he opts to make his debut in the music of J.S. Bach, and the gamble pays off splendidly. His neat, trim, and stylish playing is perfect for this music—whether solo in the elegantly done Second Partita, or in the concertos where he plays with great energy and terrific style.
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042: I. Allegro
By Johann Sebastian Bach Daniel Lozakovich, Kammerorchester des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Radoslaw Szulc, Olga Watts
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042: II. Adagio
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042: III. Allegro assai
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041: I. Allegro moderato
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041: III. Allegro assai
Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemande
Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: II. Courante
Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: III. Sarabande
Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: IV. Gigue
Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne
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Comprehensive English Learner District Plan
Each LEA in Alabama must develop and implement a Comprehensive EL District Plan, in accordance with Section 3116 of Title III of the No Child Left Behind Act of`2001, for serving students who are limited-English proficient and immigrant students, where one or more students are determined to need support. The LEA is required to have a Comprehensive EL District Plan whether or not the LEA currently has ELs enrolled and regardless of Title III eligibility.
The Comprehensive EL District Plan should address each aspect of the LEA's program for all ELs, at all grade levels, and in all schools in the school system. The Comprehensive EL District Plan should contain sufficient detail and specificity so that each staff person can understand how the plan is to be implemented and should contain the procedural guidance and forms used to carry out responsibilities under the plan.
To facilitate LEA compliance and the Alabama State Department of Education (SDE) review of the plan, LEAs will develop the Comprehensive EL District Plan using the template included at the end of the checklist. LEAs are encouraged to use the
EL Policy and Procedures Manual when developing and revising the plan for a clear understanding of the requirements for serving ELs. The EL Policy and Procedures Manual was developed by the Alabama State Department of Education and is available for downloading at www.alex.state.al.us/ell/
The Muscle Shoals City School System recognizes the difficulty of students who find themselves speaking a native language while they are living and being educated in another. It is our desire to meet those specific language needs to the highest degree achievable for each student. As students are identified in need of English Learner (EL) assistance, immediate action will be taken to ensure the successful bridging of languages and the subsequent education of the student.
We are committed to providing all students equal opportunity to benefit from educational programs and services as well as to supporting scientifically research-based and effective appropriate programs, practices, training, and accountability so that all students can become proficient in English and can achieve the state's academic content and student academic achievement standards.
The goals of the Muscle Shoals City Schools English Learner (EL) Program are as follows:
To identify students with limited-English proficiency
To help these students develop English proficiency
To help these students effectively participate in the total academic program of the school
To help these students meet their highest academic potential
Click here to access the district EL Plan.


Slovakia entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994. Despite of other new countries which regularly participate, Slovakia is only showing up from time to time. Since 1994, Slovakia participated five times only. Even this year's participation was not confirmed until the end, it may due to different reasons like a lack of interest and budget issues. The neighbor country Czech Republic joined even 13 years later and only took part three times, not even this year. Some countries may underestimate the effect of the ESC in general, good ESC songs do enter the European charts and that means money as well. Hosting the event costs a lot of money, but with good sponsors and good promotions the money will return, furthermore it will have a very positive image for the country and city in Europe and even beyond, like last year's event in Oslo. For many people that was the show of the year. Even though there were quite nice songs from Slovakia so far: "Molidba" by Katarína Hasprová (#21) in 1998 and "Horehronie" by Kristina (#16 in the semi final) in 2010.


Home » Educators/Parents, Students » Garden-based nutrition education affects fruit and vegetable consumption in sixth-grade adolescents.
Schoolyard gardens are emerging as a nutrition education tool in academic settings. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of garden-based nutrition education on adolescents' fruit and vegetable consumption using a nonequivalent control group design. Sixth-grade students (n=99) at three different elementary schools made up a control and two treatment groups. Students in the treatment groups participated in a 12-week nutrition education program, and one treatment group also participated in garden-based activities. Students in all three groups completed three 24-hour food-recall workbooks before and after the intervention. A repeated-measures analysis of variance showed that adolescents who participated in the garden-based nutrition intervention increased their servings of fruits and vegetables more than students in the two other groups. Significant increases were also found in vitamin A, vitamin C, and fiber intake. Although further research is needed, the results of this study seem to indicate the efficacy of using garden-based nutrition education to increase adolescents' consumption of fruits and vegetables.


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Federal government gives major green light to Central Link light rail project
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today gave Sound Transit permission to complete Final Design of the revised portions of the Central Link light rail alignment and released $50 million in federal funding for construction of the initial segment of the system. Sound Transit Board Chair Ron Sims received the good news from U.S. Senator Patty Murray this afternoon.
"This is a crystal clear signal from the federal government that Sound Transit is on track for building Central Link light rail. It means we're ready to put our federal tax dollars to work on transportation solutions here at home," Sims said. "Senator Murray has done an incredible job bringing necessary federal funding back to our region."
The appropriation was approved for FY2001 but was placed on hold after the U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General recommended that it should be held pending answers to questions about the project's viability. The $50 million appropriation, which requires no further authorizing actions, was released following Sound Transit's work with the FTA to demonstrate that it has met federal requirements.
"The release of this appropriation means that Sound Transit has done its due diligence in reaching out to the community and making sure we have a light rail project that works for this region," Sims said. "We'll continue to work with our Congressional delegation and the FTA to secure the full $500 million grant for this project."
In early July Sound Transit submitted its draft application to the FTA for a $500 million grant that will make up about one-quarter of the $2.07 billion capital cost of the initial light rail segment, with local revenues covering the remainder. Final Design authority for the entire initial segment of Central Link is a prerequisite for the full federal grant.
Over the next several weeks, Sound Transit will continue working with the local (Region X) FTA office to refine the grant application. The U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Congress will also review the project.
The initial segment of Central Link light rail will connect with local and regional bus service and with Sounder commuter rail service. The line, which is projected to carry approximately 42,500 riders daily by 2020, will run from downtown Seattle to S. 154th in Tukwila with shuttle service to SeaTac Airport. It is the first part of a light rail system that should eventually carry nearly 150,000 riders a day along the I-5 corridor between north Seattle and SeaTac, the most congested stretch of highway in the state.
Sound Transit plans, builds and operates regional transit systems and services to improve mobility for Central Puget Sound.


1. Saving time:Just as TiVo lets you watch TV more efficiently, RSS feeds do the same for the Web. It lets you speed-read the Net.
2. Convenience: By collecting headlines from dozens of sources on a single screen, RSS (rich site summary) -- a combination of push and pull technology -- enables users to see at a glance when a site or blog has been updated without having to keep revisiting the site. RSS cuts to the chase: no pop-up ads (at this point, anyway), and you can set your news reader to allow or disallow photos and graphics.
3. Access to a richer pool of material. By building an ad hoc online network of friends, experts and news sources, you cast your net over a wider range of material, expanding the range of news topics tracked.
4. Zero in on the info you want. RSS parses news and information on the subjects you want. The result is a targeted or personalized news experience, giving you greater ability to tailor your consumption of niche and micro-niche topics. A sports junkie could subscribe to a feed for the Tour de France or a favorite baseball team. A job-hunter could subscribe to a feed for openings in digital media. A medical editor or relative of someone with MS could receive RSS updates published to a health database.
5. RSS can serve as an alert service. Instead of using e-mail, you might want to customize your news reader to deliver news on an important subject every 15 minutes.
6. RSS levels the playing field. By flattening out authority, RSS puts micro-publishers and friends on the same footing as major news sites in your news reader.
7. RSS drives conversation. Feeds are a chief mechanism driving timely interactions and can be conducive to an ongoing dialogue.
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FREE-RIDE is a rock band based Prague, Czech Republic founded by Italian guitar player Dario S and American singer Brynn Stephens in 2011.
The band is made up of professional musicians living in Prague who toured in the past with Cheap Trick, Great White, Doro, Apocaliptyca, etc. currently playing in clubs, company parties, festivals across the Czech Republic (headliner for DrevoRockFest, VecnaJizda biker fest, American Day, Hradecka V8, etc.).
FREE-RIDE is playing a mix of rock classic covers and originals, their style is a mix of blues, hard rock and funk, playing songs from Free, Bachman Turner Overdrive, ZZ Top, Grand Funk Railroad, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc.
The band took their name from the classic Edgar Winter song. So everyone..... come on and take a FREE-RIDE!


The panto is one of the most iconic shapes in the history of glasses designing. For their upcoming men's collection INVU took this shape and made own versions of the classic style that was once worn by personalities like J.F.Kennedy and James Dean.
The men's collection 2016 is now available at selected retailers.


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Jennifer Joly is the Director of the Oregon Municipal Electric Utility Association.
A native of the Pacific Northwest, Jennifer has more than 20 years of legal and policy experience in state and local government. Prior to joining OMEU, she served as Government Relations Director for Pierce County and as Chair of the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, a bipartisan citizen commission with jurisdiction over campaign finance and lobbying. Jennifer also served as House Counsel to the Washington State Legislature and as Legislative Director and General Counsel to Governor Gary Locke.
A member of the Oregon and Washington State Bar Associations, Jennifer is a graduate of the University of Washington and holds a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law.
She resides in Lake Oswego with her children and husband, Jason.
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Home Adulting 10 Signs You're Becoming The Person You're Supposed To Be
10 Signs You're Becoming The Person You're Supposed To Be
Rayi Noormega
More often than not, our twenties are confusing; life has no guidelines and we don't know whether we're doing okay or otherwise. One day, when I felt that something's wrong with me, I went to my counselor and talked about the setbacks I've had in my college life.
At first, I thought that I had a mental health problem, but then, she said that not every bad feeling is the signs that we are incapable of being a fully-functioning person. So, here are the uncomfortable signs that are actually normal and can transform you into someone that you want to be:
1. You do everything by yourself and feel isolated from others.
The more mature you are, the more you can handle everything by yourself and it feels like you don't want to be anyone's burden. You've even always said, "I've got this," to those who are sincerely willing to help you. More often than not, you feel lonely and isolated, but you feel proud of yourself on being strong and independent at the same time.
2. You realize that you have some issues with yourself.
You know exactly that you have issues to overcome; whether it's about your anxiety, mood swings, trust issues, or her issues which disturb your well-being. You will acknowledge when, how, and in what condition those issues will appear and you'll give your best efforts to overcome them.
3. You have a strong desire to cut off some unnecessary relationships.
As time goes by, you will feel that you have a lot of acquaintances, but few friends. You begin to question your relationships with other people; you start to realize who's real and who's not, who wants to stay or vice versa. You'll feel disappointed, guilty, and sad towards losing some friends that you loved, but you're brave enough to leave the relationships which were toxic and emotionally abused your inner self.
4. It's hard for you to trust people.
Not only because you're being selective about your friends, but also because you won't easily buy people's bullshit. You've been disappointed a lot of times by betrayals and broken promises; you know exactly how the real world works. But, once you believe in some people, you will be loyal to them and you will do anything to maintain that relationship.
5. You always feel that your life is boring.
It's hard for you to feel satisfied with your life; there's always something more you would like to achieve. The same routines and work will bore you to death and you'll always be thinking, "What's next?" which makes you always want to strive more. Moreover, your life is "boring" because you have less unnecessary drama in your life- which is something to be proud of.
6. You are too familiar with the feeling of sadness.
For you, life has no sugar coats; there are days when you feel hopeful, but there are also times when you feel like you're at the lowest point of your life. You are able to accept the broken hearts, failures, disappointment, and the feeling of sadness. You acknowledge that life is not always about being happy. But even though you feel the pain, you are able to bounce back again and realize that there were lessons from everything that happened.
7. You always feel like you're running out of time.
More often than not, you feel that 24 hours a day are not enough. You barely have enough sleep and you always find yourself in busy situations. It's a struggle for you to spare time for yourself and your loved ones. There will always be something you have to do and sometimes you are too hard on yourself in doing things. This means that you have a strong determination to be successful.
8. You regret the mistakes you've made in the past.
It's easy for you to blame yourself for any mistakes that you made in the past. You acknowledge that you've made some bad decisions and sometimes you want everything to go back to how it used to be. But, you realize that regret will take you nowhere and the only thing that you can do is to not repeat the same mistakes you've done.
9. You always miss your childhood, family, and your loved ones.
Growing up sucks and you always find yourself looking back to your old life when everything was according to its place. You live on your own and being separated with your family and loved ones is not easy at all. But, deep down inside you don't want to give up; you're fully aware that all the struggles and success will be the best gift for all the people that you love.
10. You feel lost, confused, and anxious about your future.
You appear to be bold and strong, but most of the time you feel extremely insecure about your own life. You've always questioned yourself regarding what you really need and what your life purpose is. You don't exactly know how life supposed to be, simply because many unexpected things happen. But, despite all the confusions and fears, you can manage yourself to always finish your responsibilities and work.
At the end of the day, as long as you can stay productive and transform your uncomfortable feelings into something positive, you are totally normal and you're doing okay. Always remember that you have to always do things one day at a time and fully understand that everything will happen according to your own time zone.
Originally published on Thought Catalog.
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Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo Is Biden's Commerce Secretary Pick
By Hansi Lo Wang
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Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo was named Thursday as President-elect Joe Biden's intended nominee for secretary of the U.S. Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau.
Updated Friday at 7:40 p.m. ET
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, the first woman to lead the country's smallest state, has been named President-elect Joe Biden's intended nominee for commerce secretary.
If confirmed by the Senate, Raimondo, a Democrat who is serving her second term as governor and was previously the state's treasurer, would oversee the U.S. Commerce Department's eclectic portfolio of federal agencies, including some that have been thrown into political hot waters during the Trump administration — most notably the Census Bureau.
The federal government's largest statistical agency has been scrambling to prepare the release of the first set of 2020 census results, which was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic and last-minute schedule changes by Trump administration officials.
The state population counts that determine each state's share of congressional seats and Electoral College votes for the next decade are not expected to be out until February at the earliest, the Trump administration said this week. Depending on the timing of that release and Raimondo's potential confirmation by the Senate, she could play a key role in the handoff of those numbers, which are ultimately certified by the clerk of the House of Representatives.
As commerce secretary, Raimondo would take over the position from Wilbur Ross, a Trump appointee who has been found in contempt of Congress by the House for defying a subpoena to turn over documents about the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to census forms.
Raimondo denounced the administration's push for the now-blocked question as "reckless" shortly after it was announced in 2018.
"This policy is wrongheaded [and] will lead to an inaccurate count, which will ultimately hurt Rhode Islanders in the form of less federal aid, as well as potentially less representation in Washington," Raimondo said during a press conference in Central Falls, R.I.
But speaking on Friday for the first time since Biden named her as his pick for commerce secretary, Raimondo didn't make a single reference to the national head count or the Census Bureau, which makes up the bulk of the Commerce Department's annual budget, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"The mission of the Commerce Department is a very simple one — to help spur good-paying jobs, to empower entrepreneurs to innovate and grow, to come together with working families and American businesses to create new opportunities for all of us," Raimondo said at The Queen, a theater in Wilmington, Del., during a speech that did not include any mentions of the department's bread and butter — survey data and weather forecasts.
Don Graves, Biden's intended nominee for deputy commerce secretary and a longtime adviser to the president-elect, also did not talk about the census at Friday's event where he and Raimondo were introduced by Biden.
The governor's press secretary, Audrey Lucas, referred a request for comment to the Biden transition team, which did not immediately respond to NPR's inquiry.
Still, both of Rhode Island's senators have voiced their support for Raimondo.
"Commerce Department employees are getting a terrific new boss who will listen to them, support them, lead from the trenches, and get the very best out of them by holding them to the same high standards she holds herself," said Democratic Sen. Jack Reed, who is a member of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds the Census Bureau and who was once Raimondo's summer house neighbor, in a statement. "And Congress will be getting a partner who is an honest broker of unquestioned integrity."
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Yes, lasagna! Diabetics whose blood sugar is controlled can usually have lasagna. Just be sure you use whole-grain lasagna noodles and not the regular ones. Read the label and use spaghetti sauce with no sugar or very little sugar in it. Do not try to save a little money by using less than the 1 pound of ground meat. You need the protein to counteract the carbs! Skip the garlic bread (tears here, too!) and enjoy with a healthy green salad or some steamed broccoli. Having said that, ENJOY!
Brown the meat and onions in a large nonstick skillet until meat is not longer pink; stirring often to crumble the meat.
Meanwhile, mix the Neufchatel cheese, cottage cheese, 1 1/2 cups of the mozzarella cheese, 1/4 cup of the Parmesan cheese, and the egg together in a mixing bowl until well blended; set aside.
Drain the meat well and return to the skillet that you have wiped out with a paper towel to get any excess fat. Stir in the spaghetti sauce, tomatoes, and oregano; simmer together for 5 minutes. Remove skillet from the heat. Spoon 1 cup of the mixture into the bottom of a 9 x 13-inch baking pan or dish. Top with layers as follows; layer of 3 lasagna noodles, layer of 1 cup of the cheese mixture, and a layer of 1 cup of the meat sauce. Repeat the layers two more times. Top with the remaining noodles, meat sauce, mozzarella and Parmesan. Cover the lasagna with foil.
Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until heated through. Remove the foil after 40 minutes.
Allow lasagna to stand for 10 minutes before cutting to serve.
*You may substitute your choice of a low carb pasta.


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KCFG, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 32), was an America One-affiliated television station licensed to Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. The station was owned by Skokie, Illinois-based KM Communications. KCFG's transmitter was located atop Mormon Mountain, about  south of Flagstaff in the Coconino National Forest.

History
KCFG began with an original construction permit granted to KM Communications on February 10, 1997 to transmit from Mount Elden north of Flagstaff. Although KCFG was to be a full-service station, environmental restrictions at the transmitter site limited it to 1 kW ERP. The station went on-air December 20, 2000 and was licensed July 18, 2001. Immediately, KCFG applied to move their transmitter site to Mormon Mountain south of Flagstaff, intending to build both full 316 kW analog and 1,000 kW digital facilities there. However, the construction permit wasn't granted until nearly two years later and the analog facilities went unbuilt.

KCFG had originally elected to remain on channel 32 after the DTV transition in February 2009, but has since applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move to VHF digital channel 9.

On November 6, 2012, the license assigned to KCFG was canceled and the call letters were deleted, due to the station's signal being silent since September 6, 2011.

FCC rule violations
The FCC proposed a $10,000 fine against KCFG in March 2006 because the station did not keep adequate records on commercial limits in children's TV programs. On March 9, 2007, the fine was reduced to $8,000 on the basis that the station had "a history of overall compliance with the Commission's rules". The FCC eventually waived the fine on KCFG, but instead, KM was admonished "for its willful and repeated violation".

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February Week 2 Topic: The Fall was part of God's plan.
To begin sharing time, show the primary children a picture of the spirit world. Invite two primary children to come up and place the boy and girl cut outs onto the spirit world picture. Explain to the primary children that we lived with Heavenly Father in the spirit world.
Heavenly Father presented His plan to us and under the direction of Heavenly Father, Jesus created the world we would come to.
Place the picture of the world on the board.
Show the primary children the picture of Adam and Eve. Explain that Adam and Eve were the first people to come to earth and receive their bodies. Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden. In the Garden of Eden they were tempted by Satan. Heavenly Father had commanded them, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but remember that I forbid it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Moses 3:16–17).
Satan tempted them and they transgressed Heavenly Father's commandment and they partook of the fruit. Because they partook of the fruit, they now would have knowledge of good and evil. They also were cast out of the garden of Eden.
Show the primary children the week's theme poster and invite them to repeat, "The Fall was part of God's plan."
Because Adam and Eve partook of the fruit we were able to come to this earth to gain bodies. Invite two primary children to come up and move the two boy and girl cut outs onto the picture of the Earth.
The fall was a part of our Heavenly Father's plan, his plan included us to come to earth and gain bodies, and to experience opposition and be test and tried.
Let's play a fun matching game that explains the importance of the fall in God's plan and some of the blessing we have received because of it.
On the board place the printables from the download below. face down. Invite a primary child to come up and choose two of the pictures. Turn them over and see if they match. If they do not match turn them back over. If they do match, keep them turned over and discuss them with the primary. Invite another primary child to come up and continue until all of the cards have been matched.
Close by sharing your testimony on the fall and that it was a part of God's plan.
Gain Bodies: We were able to come to earth to gain bodies like our Heavenly Father's. Our bodies help us to experience things we couldn't experience as just spirits. It's part of our progression.
Families: Heavenly Father has given us families, to help us become as He wants us to be. Our families help us and support us. We have the opportunity to be together for ever, even for eternity with our families.
Choices between good and evil: We have our agency, which allows us to choose between good and evil. We can choose, but must remember that there are consequences for our choices.
Opportunities to learn: One reason for us coming to earth is for us to gain knowledge and experience. We can learn from the scriptures and prophets, we can gain an education and we can develop talents and skills.
Health and sickness: In this life we will expedience health and sickness. There is opposition in all things. The opposition helps us to know of and appreciate the good. Our Heavenly Father has asked us to take care of our bodies.
Happiness and sadness: There will be times when we are happy and times when we are sad. When we are sad we can turn to our Heavenly Father and Savior. The Savior has atoned for our sadness and can send the Holy Ghost to comfort us. Happiness comes as we live the gospel and focus on our Savior.
Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope that these ideas were helpful. Below are the other topics for the months as well as more ideas and resources. I'd love for you to check out my Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest pages and see if there's anything on there you like!
2018 Primary Sharing Time Ideas for February Week 1: Jesus Christ created the earth under the direction of Heavenly Father.
Thank you so much for these cute printables! I'm part of a new Primary Presidency and will be teaching this lesson as my first-ever Sharing Time lesson. Your free printables will help so much!
This is amazing! I was struggling trying to come up with a cute matching game idea and this is just right. Thank you so much.
I'm so glad that you can use them :) Thanks!!
I am so thankful for your website! It is so helpful and goes right in line with the official Sharing Time outline which I am grateful for. Thank you so much!!
Yes, I love that you keep in line with the Sharing Time Outline!
Thanks so much!!!! So helpful. Just new in the presidency and have to teach this one this coming Sunday.
Thank you so much, you are a life saver!
Loved it so much. Thank you!
Your ideas are so helpful in putting together sharing time lessons. Thank you so much for being willing to share them! Our primary children are certainly benefitting from it.
This makes me so happy!! I am so glad that they are useful :) Thanks so much!
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Thank You for sharing the printables.
I can't get it to print! I have tried, but it doesn't recognize pages 2-10... they just come up blank. Help!
I couldn't get the download to work either. Glad to know it wasn't just me!
Are you trying to print from a mobile device or Computer?? Usually, there have only been problems from trying to print from a mobile device, it's a Google doc thing. But when people try it from a computer it works just fine. Let me know. Also, there has been a huge volume of people on at one time, over 1300, trying to print. So keep trying :) Thanks!!
I have been trying for an hour to download but it won't work, do you have any idea what the problem might be?
Good luck with your sharing time!!
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still can't get it to print, such a great sharing time.
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A must for Duchamp devotees everywhere!
This little introduction to the life and works of Marcel Duchamp was originally published to accompany a Duchamp retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Modelled on a children's book it contains 12 dead-pan full-page colour illustrations of events in Duchamp's life with an equally tongue-in-cheek, and entirely accurate, biography. The book was much admired at the time (Andy Warhol being an enthusiast, among others), this is its first appearance in English.


text:
\section{Introduction}
It is now widely accepted that black holes are formed as a result of gravitational collapse of stars. The masses of resultant black holes are \textcolor{black}{larger than the} solar mass. In the early Universe, black holes of significantly smaller masses could have been formed through a variety of mechanisms (\textcolor{black}{see Ref. \cite{Carr:2009jm} and references therein}), some of which will be mentioned in this paper. Interestingly, the mass of a black hole decreases due to Hawking radiation \cite{Hawking:1974sw}, which is particularly important for such small black holes.

The Hawking radiation is derived by treating matter fields quantum mechanically, while treating the space-time metric classically. When the mass of an evaporating black hole becomes comparable to the Planck scale, such a treatment would breakdown, and quantum gravitational effects would become relevant. Hence, the \textcolor{black}{final} state of Hawking evaporation is unknown, and stable Planck-mass relics may be left over (see \cite{Chen:2014jwq} for a review). \textcolor{black}{Torres et al. \cite{Torres:2013kda} argued} that imposing energy conservation alone could be sufficient to prevent complete evaporation. Such remnants could even be white holes \cite{Bianchi:2018mml,Rovelli:2018hbk}.
A sufficient amount of these remnants can account for the cold dark matter \cite{MacGibbon:1987my}. A pre-inflationary phase dominated by black hole remnants is discussed in Ref. \cite{Scardigli:2010gm}. Black hole remnants which possibly arose before inflation \textcolor{black}{(see \cite{Sato:2015dga} for a review)}
were likely to have been substantially diluted and hence they would not account for the entire dark matter \cite{Chen:2002tu}.

The properties and hence formation of black holes can be significantly altered if spatial extra dimensions are present, which were introduced to solve the hierarchy problem in Ref. \cite{ArkaniHamed:1998rs}. Astrophysical as well as cosmological limits on such a framework are subsequently discussed in Ref. \cite{ArkaniHamed:1998nn}. The properties of black holes and limits on primordial black holes in this context are discussed in Ref. \cite{Argyres:1998qn}. See also Ref. \cite{Majumdar:2005ba} for black hole geometries and evolution of primordial black holes in a brane world cosmology. The phenomenology of large, warped, and universal extra dimensions is reviewed in \cite{Kribs:2006mq}.

In such a framework, the fundamental gravity scale can be significantly smaller than the usual Planck energy. \textcolor{black}{Then} black holes could be formed at collider experiments, and this topic has been extensively discussed in the literature. See Refs. \cite{Gingrich:2006hm,Kanti:2008eq,Park:2012fe} for reviews of black holes at the Large Hadron Collider. Hypothetical stable micro black hole production
at a future 100 TeV collider is discussed in Ref. \cite{Sokolov:2016lba}.

Black \textcolor{black}{hole} formation due to high-energy particle collisions is expected to have been efficient in the early Universe \cite{Conley:2006jg,Saini:2017tsz}. We explore \textcolor{black}{the} possibility that such micro black holes survive today, as opposed to fully evaporating, to account for the entire cold dark matter. We also consider cases with extra dimensions. See also Refs. \cite{Barrau:2005zb,Suranyi:2010yt} for relevant discussions.

\section{Micro Black holes formed in the early Universe}

As mentioned above, black hole formation from high-energy particle collisions has been extensively discussed in the literature.
See \textcolor{black}{also} Ref. \cite{Choptuik:2009ww} for a numerical simulation, and Ref. \cite{Yoshino:2005hi} for an analysis based on a superposition of two boosted Schwarzschild metrics. The formation depends on the properties of colliding particles such as charge \cite{Yoshino:2006dp} or spin \cite{Yoshino:2007ph}. First let us estimate the production rate assuming no extra dimensions. In the following, for a simple and crude estimation, we assume that a black hole is formed if two particles both with kinetic energy larger than the Planck energy collide with an impact parameter less than the Planck length $l_P$.

The number density of particles with kinetic energy above the Planck energy $E_P$ when the Universe is in thermal equilibrium at temperature $T$ is
\begin{equation}
n\sim T^3\int_{x_P}^\infty x^2e^{-x}dx\sim T^3 x_P^2e^{-x_P}\sim l_P^{-3}\frac{T}{T_P}\exp\left(-\frac{E_P}{kT}\right),
\end{equation}
where $x=E/kT$, $x_P=E_P/kT$ and $T_P\textcolor{black}{=E_P/k}$ is the Planck temperature, \textcolor{black}{with $k$ being the Boltzmann constant}.
The probability $\Gamma$ of a particle colliding with another particle with kinetic energy above $E_P$ per unit time is $\Gamma=n\sigma v\sim t_P^{-1}(T/T_P)\exp(-E_P/kT)$, where we have assumed $\sigma\sim l_P^2$ for the cross section, $v\sim c$ for the relative velocity and $t_P$ is the Planck time. The energy density $\rho$ of radiation is $\rho= \textcolor{black}{(\pi^2g_*/30)}E_Pl_P^{-3}(kT/E_P)^4$, and the Hubble parameter is $H\textcolor{black}{=(4\pi^3g_*/45)^{1/2}} t_P^{-1}(kT/E_P)^2$. \textcolor{black}{Here, $g_*$ denotes the effective number of relativistic degrees.} The energy density of relics which arise during the Hubble time at the reheating is $\rho_{\mathrm{rel}}\sim E_P n H^{-1} \Gamma$, and let us introduce $\beta\equiv \rho_{\mathrm{rel}}/\rho$. Neglecting the decrease in relativistic degrees of freedom for simplicity \cite{Nakama:2016enz}, which would not affect the following conclusions much, $\beta$ roughly grows in proportion to $T^{-1}$ by the matter-radiation equality:
\begin{equation}
\beta_{\mathrm{eq}}\sim \frac{T}{T_{\mathrm{eq}}}\beta\sim \textcolor{black}{\frac{30}{\pi^2g_*}\left(\frac{45}{4\pi^3g_*}\right)^{1/2}}\frac{kT/E_P}{kT_{\mathrm{eq}}/E_P}\left(\frac{kT}{E_P}\right)^{-4}\exp\left(-\frac{2E_P}{kT}\right).\label{betaeq}
\end{equation}
If the maximum temperature of the radiation-dominated Universe reached $kT\sim 0.01 E_P$, then $\beta_{\mathrm{eq}}\sim 1$, that is, Planck mass relics can account for the entire dark matter. Or, one may regard this temperature as a new upper limit on the reheating temperature \textcolor{black}{in this scenario}.

\begin{comment}
The probability of a particle colliding with another particle with energy above $M_p$ per unit time is $\Gamma=n\sigma v$, where $n$ is the number density of particles with kinetic energy above $M_p$, and $\sigma$ is the cross section and $v$ is the relative velocity of colliding particles. Note that $n\sim e^{-1/T}$ in Planck units. Note that the difference between the Bose-Einstein distribution and the Fermi-Dirac distribution is not important as long as $T\lesssim 1$. Since $\sigma,v\sim 1$, we have $\Gamma\sim e^{-1/T}$. Then the energy density of black holes formed during a Hubble time is $\rho\sim nH^{-1}\Gamma\sim T^2e^{-2/T}$. Let us introduce the ratio $\beta\simeq \rho/\rho_r\sim T^{-2}e^{-2/T}$. Assuming Planck mass relics are left over at the end of Hawking evaporation, $\rho$ evolves as $a^{-3}$, and $\rho_r$ as $a^{-4}$ neglecting change in relativistic degrees of freedom $g_*$ for simplicity \cite{Nakama:2016enz}, since $\beta$ grows in proportion to the scale factor. The ratio $\beta$ at the matter-radiation equality $T_{eq}\sim 1\mathrm{eV}$ is $\beta_{eq}\simeq (T/T_{eq})\beta$, again neglecting change in
$g_*$. The condition that Planck mass relics gives the totality of cold dark matter is $\beta_{eq}=1$. This can be solved for $T$ as $T\simeq 0.03$.
\end{comment}

This mechanism may be similar to Planckian interacting dark matter of Refs. \cite{Garny:2015sjg,Garny:2018grs}. As mentioned there the current observational bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio \cite{Array:2015xqh,Ade:2015lrj} translates into an upper \textcolor{black}{bound} on the Hubble parameter of $H\simeq 6.6\times 10^{-6}M_P$. Assuming instantaneous reheating, this corresponds to the reheating temperature of $5.7\times 10^{-4}M_P$ for the effective relativistic degrees of freedom $g_*=106.75$.
Though our estimations above are admittedly crude, the above mechanism of dark matter creation \textcolor{black}{is ruled out by} this upper limit. However, \textcolor{black}{the story would be different if we} generalize the above argument to theories with spatial extra dimensions.

\section{Generalization to theories with extra dimensions}

Let us generalize Eq. (\ref{betaeq}) to cases with extra dimensions as follows. The Planck units can be constructed from $G_D$, $\hbar$ and $c$, where $G_D$ is the generalized gravitational constant in $D$ dimensions (see Ref. \cite{Park:2012fe} for details). The reaction rate is \textcolor{black}{$\Gamma=K t_D^{-1}(T/T_D)\exp(-E_D/kT)$} assuming \textcolor{black}{$\sigma= K l_D^2$} \textcolor{black}{with $K$ being a constant} and \textcolor{black}{$v= c$}, and the radiation energy density is $\rho= \textcolor{black}{(\pi^2g_*/30)}E_Dl_D^{-3}(kT/E_D)^4$. Let us further assume $H^2\textcolor{black}{
=8\pi G\rho/3c^2}$, where $G$ is the usual, 4-dimensional gravitational constant. Note that this relation may be modified before the big bang nucleosynthesis in a model-dependent way in theories with extra dimensions \cite{ArkaniHamed:1998nn}. Then
\begin{equation}
H\textcolor{black}{=\left(\frac{4\pi^3g_*}{45}\right)^{1/2}} t_P^{-1}\left(\frac{E_D}{E_P}\right)^2\left(\frac{kT}{E_D}\right)^2
\textcolor{black}{=\left(\frac{4\pi^3g_*}{45}\right)^{1/2}}t_D^{-1}\left(\frac{E_D}{E_P}\right)\left(\frac{kT}{E_D}\right)^2,
\end{equation}
where $t_DM_D=\hbar c^{-2}=t_PM_P$ was used. Hence we find
\begin{equation}
\beta_{\mathrm{eq}}=\textcolor{black}{\frac{30K}{\pi^2g_*}\left(\frac{45}{4\pi^3g_*}\right)^{1/2}}\frac{kT/E_D}{kT_{eq}/E_P}\left(\frac{kT}{E_D}\right)^{-4}\exp\left(-\frac{2E_D}{kT}\right).
\end{equation}
Note that replacing $kT/E_D\rightarrow kT/E_P$, we recover Eq. (\ref{betaeq}). Hence, also in this case, $\beta_{\mathrm{eq}}\sim 1$ is realized if the reheating temperature is $kT\sim 0.01 E_D$. In order for relics to serve as dark matter, they have to be confined to the brane, which is the case \cite{Park:2012fe} for black holes in the scenario of Ref. \cite{Randall:1999ee}. Again, this temperature can also be regarded as a new upper limit on the reheating temperature, under the assumption that relics are left over and they stay on the brane.

\textcolor{black}{So far we} have assumed \textcolor{black}{the} instantaneous reheating \textcolor{black}{after} inflation, but our discussions can be generalized to \textcolor{black}{the case the Universe is dominated by the inflaton field oscillation}
before the radiation-dominated epoch. The energy density of relics created by a moment $t$ during the oscillation phase is
\begin{equation}
a^3(t)\rho(t)=\int n E_D\Gamma(t')a^3(t')dt'=\frac{KE_D}{l_D^3}\int\left(\frac{T}{T_D}\right)^2\exp\left(-\frac{2E_D}{kT}\right)a^3(t')\frac{dt'}{t_D}.
\end{equation}
The energy density of radiation created by the decay of the inflaton with the decay rate $\Gamma_\phi$ is \textcolor{black}{\cite{Yokoyama:2004pf}} $\rho_r\sim \textcolor{black}{(2/5)}\Gamma_\phi H^{-1}(H/H_i)^2\rho_i$, where $H_i$ is the Hubble parameter during inflation and $\rho_i$ is the energy density of the inflaton at the beginning of the oscillation phase, which we assume to be $\rho_i\sim \textcolor{black}{(3/8\pi)}M_P^2H_i^2=\textcolor{black}{(3/8\pi)}(t_PH_i)^2E_Pl_P^{-3}.$ Assuming instantaneous thermalization, the above $\rho_r$ can be equated with $\rho_r\sim \textcolor{black}{(\pi^2g_*/30)}E_Dl_D^{-3}(T/T_D)^4$ to obtain the relation $t\sim \textcolor{black}{(3/\pi^3g_*)}\Gamma_\phi t_P^2\rho_P/\rho_D(T/T_D)^{-4}$, where $\rho_{P,D}=E_{P,D}l_{P,D}^{-3}.$ Then the above integration over time $t$ can be rewritten as an integration over temperature $T$, and the energy density of relics at the reheating is
\begin{equation}
\rho(t_R)=\textcolor{black}{\frac{12K}{\pi^3g_*}}\rho_D\frac{t_P^2}{\Gamma_\phi^{-1}t_D}\frac{\rho_P}{\rho_D}\left(\frac{T_R}{T_D}\right)^8\int_{T_R}^{T_{\mathrm{max}}}\exp\left(-\frac{2E_D}{kT}\right)\frac{T_D^{10}dT}{T^{11}}.
\end{equation}
Introducing $x\equiv E_D/kT$ and assuming $1\ll x_{\mathrm{max}}\ll x_R$, the above integration can be approximated as $\int_{x_{\mathrm{max}}}^{x_R}\exp(-2x)x^9dx\sim \textcolor{black}{2^{-1}}x_{\mathrm{max}}^9\exp(-2x_{\mathrm{max}})$. Noting that $\beta$ starts to decay as $a^{-1}$ at the reheating, $\beta_{\mathrm{eq}}$ in this case turns out to be
\begin{equation}
\beta_{\mathrm{eq}}=\textcolor{black}{\frac{180K}{\pi^5g_*^2}}\frac{T_R}{T_{\mathrm{eq}}}\frac{t_P^2}{\Gamma_\phi^{-1}t_D}\frac{\rho_P}{\rho_D}\left(\frac{T_R}{T_D}\right)^4\left(\frac{E_D}{kT_{\mathrm{max}}}\right)^9\exp\left(-\frac{2E_D}{kT_{\mathrm{max}}}\right).
\end{equation}
Note that in this case, the abundance of relics is mostly determined by how close $T_{\mathrm{max}}$ is to $T_D$, \textcolor{black}{with a much weaker dependence on} $T_R$. The reheating may be defined as the moment when $H^2\textcolor{black}{=(8\pi/3)} G\rho_r\textcolor{black}{=A} t_D^{-2}(E_D/E_P)^2(T_R/T_D)^4=\Gamma_\phi^2$, \textcolor{black}{where} $\textcolor{black}{A=4\pi^3g_*/45},$ and this leads to $T_R=\textcolor{black}{A^{-1/4}}(\gamma H_it_D)^{1/2}(E_P/E_D)^{1/2}T_D$, where $\gamma$ was defined by writing $\Gamma_\phi=\gamma H_i$. On the other hand, $T_{\mathrm{max}}= (\textcolor{black}{B}\gamma H_i^2t_P^2\rho_P/\rho_D)^{1/4}T_D$, $\textcolor{black}{B=9/2\pi^3g_*}$. Using these relations, one may find
\textcolor{black}{
\begin{align}
\!\!\!\!&\!\!\!\!\!\beta_{\mathrm{eq}}=\frac{180K}{\pi^5g_*^2} A^{-1/4}\left(\gamma H_it_D\frac{E_P}{E_D}\right)^{1/2}\frac{T_P}{T_{\mathrm{eq}}}\gamma H_i\frac{t_P^2}{t_D}\frac{\rho_P}{\rho_D}\left(\gamma H_it_D\frac{E_P}{E_D}\right)^2A^{-1}\left(B\gamma H_i^2t_P^2\frac{\rho_P}{\rho_D}\right)^{-9/4}\exp\left[-2\left(B\gamma H_i^2t_P^2\frac{\rho_P}{\rho_D}\right)^{-1/4}\right]\nonumber\\
&=\frac{180K}{\pi^5g_*^2}\left(\frac{4}{10}\right)^{-5/4}\frac{2\pi^3g_*}{9}\gamma^{5/4}(t_DH_i)^{-1}\frac{T_D}{T_{\mathrm{eq}}}\left(\frac{E_P}{E_D}\right)^{5/2}\left(\frac{t_P}{t_D}\right)^{-5/2}\left(\frac{\rho_P}{\rho_D}\right)^{-5/4}\exp\left[-2\left(B\gamma H_i^2t_D^2\frac{t_P^2}{t_D^2}\frac{\rho_P}{\rho_D}\right)^{-1/4}\right],
\end{align}
}
\textcolor{black}{so that}
\begin{equation}
\beta_{\mathrm{eq}}= \textcolor{black}{C}\gamma^{5/4}(t_DH_i)^{-1}\frac{T_D}{T_{\mathrm{eq}}}\exp
\left\{
-2\textcolor{black}{(B\gamma)}^{-1/4}\left(
\frac{E_P}{E_D}t_DH_i
\right)^{-1/2}
\right\}, \quad\textcolor{black}{C=\frac{10\cdot 2^{7/4}5^{9/4}K}{\pi^2g_*}}.
\end{equation}
Then the condition for $\beta_{\mathrm{eq}}=1$ gives
\begin{equation}
\frac{H_i}{M_D}= 4\textcolor{black}{(B\gamma)}^{-1/2}\frac{E_D}{E_P}\left[\textcolor{black}{\ln C+}\frac{5}{4}\ln\gamma +\textcolor{black}{\ln\left(\frac{H_i}{M_D}\right)^{-1}}+\ln\left(\frac{T_D}{T_{\mathrm{eq}}}\right)\right]^{-2}.\label{condition}
\end{equation}

\begin{comment}
The temperature $T$ of the radiation created by the decay of the oscillating inflaton at the end of inflation is, assuming instantaneous thermalization, $T\sim (\Gamma_\phi H)^{1/4}E_P^{1/2}$ \cite{Yokoyama:2004pf}, where $H$ is the Hubble parameter during inflation and $\Gamma_\phi$ is the decay rate of the inflation. This can be rewritten as $T/T_P\sim \gamma^{1/4}(H/E_P)^{1/2}$, where $\gamma=\Gamma_\phi/H$. On the other hand, the reheating temperature $T_R$ is $T_R\sim \gamma^{1/2}\sqrt{HM_P}$, and hence $T_R/T\sim \gamma^{1/4}$. In this case, $\beta$ is constant during the oscillation phase, and it starts decaying only after the reheating. Hence, Eq. (\ref{betaeq}) in this case is modified as
\begin{align}
\beta_{eq}
\sim \frac{T_R}{T_{eq}}\beta
&\sim\frac{T_R}{T}\frac{kT/E_P}{kT_{eq}/E_P}\left(\frac{kT}{E_P}\right)^{-4}\exp\left(-\frac{2E_P}{kT}\right)\\\nonumber
&\sim\left(\frac{kT_{eq}}{E_P}\right)^{-1}\gamma^{-3/4}\left(\frac{H}{E_P}\right)^{-3/2}\exp\left[
-2\gamma^{-1/4}\left(\frac{H}{E_P}\right)^{-1/2}\right].
\end{align}
The condition $\beta_{eq}=1$ is reached when $H\sim 4\gamma^{-1/2}E_P\left(\log E_P/kT_{eq}\right)^{-2}$. This yields $H\sim 10^{-4}E_P$ when $\gamma=0.1$, and $H$ needs to be higher when $\gamma$ is smaller. This value is also in tension with the limit from CMB polarizations mentioned before, without spatial extra dimensions.
\end{comment}
\textcolor{black}{If we require $T_{\mathrm{max}}<T_D$, we find $H_i/M_D<M_D/\sqrt{B\gamma}M_P\simeq 27\gamma^{-1/2}M_D/M_P$, hence this constraint is more stringent than the requirement $H_i/M_D<1$, if one considers $M_D\ll M_P$. From the above equation one gets $H_i/M_D<Ce^2\gamma^{5/4}T_D/T_{\mathrm{eq}}$, which \textcolor{black}{would not put any} additional constraint since normally the right hand side here would be larger than unity. Though we may consider $M_D\ll M_P$, if $M_D$ is too small, we find $H_i$ to be too small if we are to create the dark matter by this mechanism, which may be problematic, as discussed in \cite{Kaloper:1998sw}.
The situation is summarized in Fig. 1, which shows that the above condition for dark matter creation is compatible with both requirements $T_{\mathrm{max}}<M_D$ and $H_i<M_D$. However, one may ensure sufficiently large $H_i$, say, $1$TeV, then we need $10^{12}\mathrm{GeV}<M_D$ from the figure.
}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=8cm,angle=0,clip]{plot4.eps}
\caption{The thick line corresponds to Eq. (\ref{condition}), with $\gamma=1$ \textcolor{black}{and also $K=1$}. The dashed line is simply $H_i=M_D$. The dotted line is $H_i/M_D=M_D/\sqrt{B\gamma}M_P$ (or $T_{\mathrm{max}}=T_D$, see the texts). \textcolor{black}{The lower shaded region corresponds to $H_i<1$TeV, shown for } illustration. }
\label{fig1}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

In models investigated in \textcolor{black}{Refs. \cite{Giudice:2002vh,Frolov:2002qm}}, the amplitude of tensor perturbations was shown to be written as $k^{3/2}h_k=H/M_{P,\mathrm{eff}}$, where $M_{P,\mathrm{eff}}$ is the effective Planck mass during inflation, which may be different from the current Planck mass.
 Hence, measurements of B-mode polarizations in the CMB would require that
 $H$ be sufficiently small relative to the $M_{P,\mathrm{eff}}$, but \textcolor{black}{$M_D$} can in general be smaller than $M_{P,\mathrm{eff}}$. The amplitudes of gravitational waves may change after inflation due to varying $M_{P,\mathrm{eff}}$ \cite{Frolov:2002qm}. \textcolor{black}{See Refs. \cite{Hiramatsu:2003iz,Hiramatsu:2004aa} for evolution of gravitational waves from inflationary brane world. }

 In models considered in Ref. \cite{Im:2017eju}, the upper limit on the reheating temperature was obtained from the condition to avoid strongly coupled gravity. The upper limit thus obtained can be comparable to the 5D gravity scale in examples mentioned there. See also Ref. \cite{ArkaniHamed:1998nn} for several arguments placing the upper limits on the reheating temperature in theories with extra dimensions, but in their models created micro black holes are expected to leave the brane \cite{Park:2012fe}.

\section{Discussion}
There are also other mechanisms of micro black hole formation at high temperatures, which may give contributions similar to the estimations above. One of these is quantum gravitational tunneling of Ref. \cite{Gross:1982cv} (see also Refs. \cite{Kapusta:1984yh} and \cite{Scardigli:2010gm} for a heuristic derivation and Ref. \cite{Hayward:1989jq} for its cosmological implications). The formula for nucleation rate needs to be somewhat modified when relics are left over \cite{Barrow:1992hq}.
Black holes can also arise from thermal fluctuations \cite{PiranWald}, and the efficiency was noted to be less than the above mechanism of quantum gravitational tunneling.
There is also an analogous process of black hole creation during a de-Sitter phase, with the rate $\sim e^{-T_P^2/12\pi T_{\mathrm{dS}}^2}$ \cite{Ginsparg:1982rs}, with $T_{\mathrm{dS}}=H/2\pi$. Black holes created near the end of inflation would not have experienced substantial dilution.
It would be interesting to consider micro black hole formation in other modified theories of gravity, as in Refs. \cite{Paul:2005wb,Dialektopoulos:2017pgo}. \textcolor{black}{Recently it was pointed out that black hole remnants may exist if Starobinsky inflation occurred \cite{anderson}.

Micro black holes generated by high-energy collisions might lose part of its mass by Hawking radiation before fully reaching the mass of stable relics, and this Hawking radiation could be related to baryogenesis \cite{Alexander:2007gj}.

One of the interesting implications of Planck mass relics as cold dark matter formed in the early Universe would be a relatively small minimum mass of dark matter halos, which we estimate as follows, \textcolor{black}{based on} Ref. \cite{Schneider:2013ria}. The comoving free streaming scale at the matter-radiation equality $t_{eq}$ is
\begin{equation}
\lambda_{\mathrm{fs}}=\int_{t_R}^{t_{\mathrm{eq}}}\frac{v(t)dt}{a(t)}\sim \frac{2ct_{\mathrm{eq}}T_{\mathrm{eq}}}{a_{\mathrm{eq}}T_R}\ln\frac{T_R}{T_{\mathrm{eq}}},
\end{equation}
assuming the initial velocity of relics at $t_R$ is of the order of the speed of light, and the velocity subsequently decays as $a^{-1}$. Then the minimum mass of halos is $M_{\mathrm{min}}\sim \lambda_{\mathrm{fs}}^3\Omega_m\rho_{\mathrm{cr}}$. For $T_R=1$TeV, $M_{\mathrm{min}}\sim 10^{-15}M_\odot$, and it is even smaller for larger reheating temperature. Hence, the mass function of dark matter halos is expected to continue down to very small masses, which may be observationally tested by methods such as precise pulsar timing measurements in future \cite{Kashiyama:2018gsh}.

\begin{acknowledgments}
TN was partially supported by
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad. The work of JY was supported by JSPS
KAKENHI, Grant JP15H02082 and Grant on Innovative Areas JP15H05888.
\end{acknowledgments}

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While investors do not always want to invest in the debt funds, they are a safe bet in the falling interest rates cycle. Dynamic bond funds are debt mutual funds that alter allocations between short-term and long-term bonds. This helps them take advantage of changing interest rates. In this article, we will cover everything you need to know about dynamic bond funds.
Who should invest in dynamic bonds?
The dynamic bond schemes, as the name suggests, are dynamic in terms of the composition and maturity profile. The objective of a dynamic bond fund is to deliver 'optimal' returns in both rising and falling market scenarios. It all depends on the fund manager's decisions and portfolio management. These funds generally have huge assets under management (aum), running to a portfolio worth several thousand crores.
Sometimes, there could be a long pause in between interest rate changes. This can take a hit on the income of bond investors. Therefore, dynamic bond funds is an excellent alternative for those who wish to play to the interest rate cycle. Here, fund managers 'dynamically' trade instruments of different maturity periods as per the anticipated change in rates. For instance, during a falling interest rate scenario, a fund manager increases the holdings in long-term instruments like gilts.
2. Who can invest in Dynamic Bond Funds?
The dynamic bond funds are ideal for investors who might not take the best calls based on interest movement. Investors with a moderate risk appetite and investment horizon of 3-5 years should invest in the dynamic bond funds.
An SIP (Systematic Investment Plan) approach will work better by giving you an opportunity to capture the volatility. However, one should always remember that the returns in dynamic bond funds are tied to the interest rates.
Fund manager's view of interest rate is extremely crucial. As seen with many funds during early 2017, if RBI takes a step contrary to the expectation of the fund manager, profits could be significantly impacted.
Factors like oil prices, fiscal deficit, and new government policies could all impact the returns from the dynamic bond funds. One should always stay invested for longer periods to minimize the short-term risks.
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International climate and environment agreements have a flaw which may jeopardize attempts to curb global warming quickly: they do not highlight the role trees play in creating rainfall and cooling the earth's surface, 22 scientists said on Tuesday.
Traditionally, international agreements have focused on how trees affect carbon levels in the atmosphere — living trees absorb carbon dioxide and deforestation releases carbon.
While that is important, it should not be the priority, the scientists said, while presenting results of their research at a virtual forestry symposium.
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Tree help with formation of clouds
Trees bring moisture to the air, and release chemicals that can lead to the formation of clouds, Meine van Noordwijk, chief science advisor at the World Agroforestry Center, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Considering only their carbon storage "means we miss a huge opportunity," van Noordwijk said, particularly as more erratic rainfall brings droughts and other problems around the world.
Countries are under pressure to curb emissions fast enough to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, as agreed under the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
But viewing trees as carbon stores alone is not enough to mobilize governments and the public to ramp up forest protection or grow more trees as fast as they need to, they said.
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The group of scientists called for a "significant revision" of national and regional strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.
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"The energy saving that can come from having the air conditioning of trees is gradually becoming better known," van Noordwijk said, adding that some cities have begun recognizing the role trees can play.
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by Alice | October 16, 2010 · 1:00 am
Horror is everywhere (2)
Jumping off from last week's post about horror's influence across genres, national boundaries, and levels of respectability, I'm going to look at a very specific subset of horror-related images. If you saw my special announcement last night, you'll know that I have a personal interest in the connection between femininity and monstrosity. And that's just what I've got for you! Culled from the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? list of the 1,000 most critically acclaimed films, here are female monsters in established classics from around the globe…
Rashomon (1950) – TSPDT ranking: #18
OK, so maybe the medium from Rashomon isn't technically a "monster," but this is still a terrifying moment. In order to extract testimony from a dead samurai, the court interviews a medium channeling his spirit, and his voice emanates from her like Mercedes McCambridge speaking through Linda Blair. The way she writhes and contorts just compounds the creepiness. As you'll see later in this list, 1950s jidai-geki (samurai movies) are often informed by medieval Japanese mythology; witches and ghosts frequently intrude on secular affairs. And, although it was inspired by Shakespeare's very scary Macbeth, similar horror motifs also show up in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957).
Sunset Blvd. (1950) – TSPDT ranking: #31
Besides being easily one of the greatest films ever made, Billy Wilder's bitter paean to tinseltown is also a brilliant genre hybrid, mixing black comedy, film noir, and horror. All three are visible in the image above, as faded movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) sinks deeper into delusion. By the end of the film, her tics and grandiose gestures have consumed her, and she looks grotesquely vampiric as she gazes into that mirror – teeth bared, nostrils flared, and face tilted upward. Swanson's makeup exaggerates her facial features, turning her visage into a monstrous mask, and she completes the transformation with her unhinged, incomparable performance. Earlier in the film, Cecil B. DeMille (playing himself) remarks, "A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit." Norma is the monster; Hollywood's publicity machine (aided by Erich von Stroheim as Max, the servant/ex-lover) is Dr. Frankenstein.
(For the "Sunset Blvd. as horror" argument, it's worth remembering that the film contains a monkey in a casket.)
Persona (1966) – TSPDT ranking: #42
Let me put it this way: in Ingmar Bergman's Persona, Elisabet (Liv Ullmanm) is a fucking vampire. OK, maybe she doesn't literally suck the blood of her nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson), but she's still an emotional vampire. She listens to Alma pour her heart out about past affairs, insecurities, etc., and says absolutely nothing, pretty much draining her of identity. With such an ambiguous, atmospheric movie, it's hard to put it all into concrete terms, but believe me: she's a vampire. During this scene, she sneaks into Alma's room while she's sleeping and they have a very weird, sensual, late-night interlude together. It's never clear exactly what Elisabet's doing, but in his own artful way, Bergman is definitely borrowing from the visual language of horror movies. He may have only made one or two "real" horror movies in his career, but the genre was always lurking right under the surface of his austere, spiritual experiments.
Ugetsu Monogatari – TSPDT ranking: #47
To be blunt about it, Kenji Mizoguchi's lyrical masterpiece is one long ghost story, complete with a twist ending (and emotional sucker punch) that anticipated The Sixth Sense by half a century. Like Rashomon and Onibaba, it takes place against a backdrop of warfare and its collateral damage in medieval Japan. Here, an ambitious potter forgets his wife and son when he's entranced by a beautiful noblewoman, Lady Wakasa (Machiko Kyo, the wife from Rashomon). Granted, she's a conniving, undead femme fatale with her fair share of ulterior motives, but Kyo also imbues her with a slightly tragic, pathetic quality. Also, note how the Buddhist prayers scrawled on the potter's body would be repeated a decade later in the Citizen Kane of Japanese horror movies, Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1964).
The Wizard of Oz (1939) – TSPDT ranking: #66
This is perhaps the classic example of kindertrauma-inflicting nightmare fuel. Every little kid is told about Dorothy and Toto and the Emerald City, and how they're going to love this fun, cute movie… and then this green-faced harridan lunges out of a cloud of smoke, and the little kids start wetting themselves. This isn't the worst of it, either; just wait till later on, when she's flinging balls of flame and ordering around an army of flying monkeys. Margaret Hamilton is perfectly cast as the pointy-nosed old lady everybody loves to hate. She's just so evil – and garish, and histrionic, and anti-fun – and she wields black magic to enforce her dictatorial reign over Oz. She's many a child's first worst nightmare.
Vampires, ghosts, and witches are all over the place, in Hollywood classics and art film masterpieces. I'll be back with more "Horror is everywhere" next week!
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by Alice | July 29, 2010 · 11:41 pm
Billy Loves Stu and the Meme of Horror!
We here at Pussy Goes Grrr love community-building. We also love telling our reading audience about our selves and our opinions. And Pax Romano over at the delightfully queer horror blog Billy Loves Stu has provided an outlet for doing just that: it's The First Ever Billy Loves Stu Meme for Horror Bloggers. (Even though we're not a horror blog per se, this whole place is infused with the spirit of horror. So STFU.) So, without further ado, here's our response (us being Ashley & Andreas) to this getting-to-know-you FAQ/survey/meme…
1: In Ten Words or Less, Describe Your Blog:
Angry feminism meets culture-analyzing acumen and horror movie love.
2: During What Cinematic Era Where you Born?
A: The Classic Horror Era (late 30's to 40's)
B: The Atomic Monster/Nuclear Angst Era (the late 40's through 50's)
C: The Psycho Era ( Early 60's)
D: The Rosemary's Baby Era (Mid to Late 60's)
E: The Exorcism Era (Early to mid 70's)
F: The Halloween Era (Late 70's to Early 80's)
G: The Slasher Era (Mid to late 80's) (Ashley)
H: The Self Referential/Post Modern Era (1990 to 1999) (Andreas)
[We both have some issues with these chronological breakdowns, however, primarily in the later years: e.g., wouldn't the "Halloween Era" just be the part of the "Slasher Era"?]
3: The Carrie Compatibility Question:
(gay men and straight women – make your choice from section A)
A: Billy Nolan or Tommy Ross, who would you take to the prom?
(straight guys and lesbians – make your choice from section B)
B: Sue Snell or Chris Hargensen, who would you take to the prom?
Same answer for both us: Sissy Spacek and only Sissy Spacek.
4: You have been given an ungodly amount of money, and total control of a major motion picture studio – what would your dream Horror project be?
Andreas: If that "ungodly amount of money" can be used to fund the resurrection of the dead, I say we zombify the corpse of F.W. Murnau, give him whatever money's left over, and watch him go. That's my dream horror project.
Ashley: Due to massive amounts of genetic tampering in local chickens, one chicken mutates into the dreaded CHICKENCLIT! It's a clit! It's a chicken! It's 50 STORIES TALL! This movie would be a beautiful abomination and would tank miserably before going on to become a cult classic 20 years later.
5: What horror film "franchise" that others have embraced, left you cold?
Andreas: I'm not really a "franchise" sort of guy – I'm pretty insistent on quality over quantity, and rarely find myself watching sequels beyond "II." By way of example, I didn't much care for Friday the 13th Part I, and am in no hurry to see anything past that.
Ashley: All of Scream and all of Friday the 13th. FUCK THOSE MOVIES.
6: Is Michael Bay the Antichrist?
Michael Bay sucks. Damien is the Antichrist.
7: Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Frankenstein Monster – which one of these classic villains scares you, and why?
Andreas: They're all scary, each in their own special way. But whereas the Monster is more pitiful and Dracula's more aristocratic, the Wolf Man can tear your fucking throat out and wake up the next morning, as if from a drunken binge, with no memory of the event. Poor, poor Larry Talbot.
Ashley: Lord Summerisle, fersure. He may not be classic, but he's retro! Also, Billy. He will fuck your Christmas all up.
8: Tell me about a scene from a NON HORROR Film that scares the crap out of you:
Ashley: The rape scenes in Rashomon (1950) and The Virgin Spring (1960). The brutality experienced by the female characters in both films is very scary. On a lighter note, Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is one scary motherfucker, and not just when he turns into the murderous, demon-eyed toon.
9: Baby Jane Hudson invites you over to her house for lunch. What do you bring?
As long as she's got enough dead rats and pet birds for both of us, there's no reason to turn this into a potluck.
10: So, between you and me, do you have any ulterior motives for blogging? Come, on you can tell me, it will be our little secret, I won't tell a soul.
Andreas: I've never told anyone this before, but… I have an earnest desire to share my thoughts about film with the world, and to read the opinions of others. Now shhhh! We can't let this get out.
11: What would you have brought to Rosemary Woodhouse's baby shower?
Do they sell infant contact lenses?
12: Godzilla vs The Cloverfield Monster, who wins?
Neither of us have seen Cloverfield, but I'm just going to take a guess and say that Godzilla wins. Because you know what? Godzilla wins pretty much everything, from Godzilla vs. Megalon to the Japanese version of King Kong vs. Godzilla. Plus, he's got half a century of experience.
13: If you found out that Rob Zombie was reading your blog, what would you post in hopes that he read it?
Ashley: Rob Zombie, if he just happened to be a long-time reader, would already be pissed off about me calling him an asshole for remaking films that don't need to be remade here.
14: What is your favorite NON HORROR FILM, and why?
Andreas: Favorite, schmavorite; I can never narrow my preferences down to absolutes. But, uh, I'm very fond of The Third Man, Johnny Guitar, and anything by Fassbinder.
Ashley: A lot of my all-time favorite films ARE horror films e.g. Repulsion and Let the Right One In. These movies hold their own next to any other movie of any other genre. But if I had to choose some favorite non-horror, I love Miyazaki's films (and even some of them have slight touches of creepiness) and lots of other animated films (like the aforementioned Roger Rabbit). Double Indemnity is one of my favorite films and so is Gaslight (which also has touches of horror) and I love, love, love Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
15: If blogging technology did not exist, what would you be doing
Andreas: Pursuing my college education without distraction. Jesus, how boring would that be?
Ashley: Since I don't spend ALL of my time blogging, I'd probably just spend (even more) time perusing the interwebz.
I hope you enjoyed this intimate look into our creepy little minds. Thanks to Billy Loves Stu for the meme; go check it out!
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Bakauma—! B-Kyū Gourmet Survival!! film to open on April 20
The Cinema Today website began streaming the full trailer for Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Bakauma—! B-Kyū Gourmet Survival!!, the next Crayon Shin-chan film which will open on April 20. The trailer features the theme song "RPG" by the band Sekai no Owari.
In the story, B-grade cuisine is in danger of being wiped out without a special sauce, and it is up to the mischievous kindergartener Shin-chan to ferry the sauce to safety.
Masakazu Hashimoto (Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, Tari Tari) is directing his first Crayon Shin-chan movie after storyboarding 2008's Crayon Shin-chan: Chō Arashi o Yobu Kinpoko no Yūsha and 2011's Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi o Yobu Ōgon no Spy Daisakusen. Yoshio Urasawa (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Fushigi Yugi) and Kimiko Ueno (Kuromajyo-san ga Tōru!!) wrote the screenplay.
The American publisher DC Comics' CMX Manga imprint released the first 11 volumes of the late Yoshito Usui's original Crayon Shin-Chan manga in North America before the imprint was closed in July 2010. One Peace Books reissued the first three volumes in October. Funimation adapted the television anime into dubbed English, and America's Adult Swim network previously ran episodes every Sunday morning.
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Bingham Wins AT4, Grand Finals Seedings Set
March 8, 2014 March 8, 2014 matt2745 Asian Tour, Players Tour Championship
Congratulations to Stuart Bingham who has today defeated Liang Wenbo 4-1 to win the Asian Tour Four event in Dongguan, his first title of the season and third Asian Tour event overall since their introduction in 2012. The victory means that Stuart will take home the top prize of £10,000, as well as a special gift from the sponsors as he has tweeted earlier today.
Aside from Stuart's success, the end of this end also marks the end of the 2013/14 Asian Tour, now confirming who has qualified for the Players Championship Grand Finals later this month and which four player will earn a tour-year tour card from the list.
Click below for more on the various ranking implications from this tournament…
Click here to view the final results from AT4
Click here to view the latest projected seedings
Click here to view the latest provisional money list
Click here to view the final Asian Tour Order of Merit
Click here to view the final European Tour Order of Merit
As regulars of the blog will be aware, as well as the individual titles on offer during the Asian Tour, the money earned from the four events staged this season all contribute to a final Asian Tour Order of Merit.
From that Order of Merit, there are four main tour places, as well as eight spots in the Players Championship Grand Finals on offer as I shall now explain…
Main Tour Places
The four highest players on the Asian Tour Order of Merit, not already qualified for the main tour next season by finishing inside of the top 64 on main two-year money list following this year's World Championship, will earn a two-year tour card for the 2014/15 & 2015/16 seasons.
At present these players are as follows:
Ju Reti
Lu Chenwei
Zhou Yuelong
Of these players, Ju Reti was the winner of the second Asian Tour event of the season, while current professional Liu Chuang, currently down in 76th place on the money list, will also retain his card despite not entering this week's final Asian Tour event.
Fourth placed Zhou Yuelong's name is not highlighted however, because he already looks to be qualified by virtue of his victory at the 2013 IBSF World Championship back in Latvia last December. This could potentially open up the door for Rouzi Maimaiti, who is the next eligible man on the Asian list to take the final spot.
Players Championship Grand Finals
The eight highest players on the Asian Tour Order of Merit also qualify for the Players Championship Grand Finals in Preston later this month.
Liang Wenbo
Stuart Bingham
Lyu Haotian
Michael Holt
Scott Donaldson
There are however a couple of points to clarify, due to both Stuart Bingham and Mark Selby 'double qualifying' having also finished inside of the top 24 on the European Tour Order of Merit.
In Bingham's case, due to him finishing higher on the Asian list (third as opposed to 17th), he takes his spot from that list and the extra place on the European Order of Merit goes to 25th placed Barry Hawkins.
Conversely, Mark Selby finished higher on the European list, which means that his spot from the Asian Order of Merit will go to ninth placed Yu Delu.
What this means is that we now know not only the 32 confirmed players who will be in action in Preston from 25th March 2014, but also how they will be seeded, in accordance with a combined Order of Merit, made up of all money earned from both the European and Asian Tour events staged this season:
Mark Allen – £45,250
Mark Selby – £42,716
Ronnie O'Sullivan – £38,616
Mark Williams – £30,683
Shaun Murphy – £29,499
John Higgins – £27,550
Ricky Walden – £25,100
Stuart Bingham – £22,983
Ding Junhui – £20,933
Liang Wenbo – £20,483
Judd Trump – £20,249
Fergal O'Brien – £17,199
Sam Baird – £16,351
Joe Perry – £15,682
Marco Fu – £15,300
Stephen Maguire – £14,766
Neil Robertson – £14,083
Gerard Greene – £13,383
Jamie Jones – £13,300
Gary Wilson – £13,232
Ben Woollaston – £12,916
David Gilbert – £12,883
Ju Reti – £12,200
Ryan Day – £11,550
Scott Donaldson – £11,399
Michael Holt – £11,215
Jimmy Robertson – £10,716
Mark Davis – £10,650
Anthony Hamilton – £10,234
Barry Hawkins – £9,683
Yu Delu – £6,000
Lyu Haotian – £5,600
The top 16 in bold will therefore be seeded, therefore avoiding each other in the opening round. Hopefully the full draw will be published by World Snooker over the coming days.
Race to the Crucible
For those of you following the World Championship seedings race on the latest projected seedings list, I have today updated the list to add in the minimum points earned by those who have qualified for the PC Grand Finals via the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
Perhaps the most important consequence of this is the additional cushion given to Joe Perry in his battle for an automatic place at the Crucible, while Scott Donaldson also moves up to 64th place, which if he can remain there will mean that he will have to win one less match if he is to make it as far as the Crucible this year.
A more in depth post will follow on the battle for Crucible spots during the next week at the Haikou World Open in due course.
Joe Perry Ju Reti Liang Wenbo Liu Chuang Lu Chenwei Lyu Haotian Mark Selby Michael Holt Scott Donaldson Stuart Bingham Yu Delu Zhou Yuelong
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It's worth noting that Scott Donaldson could yet take one of the four tour cards from the Asian OOM, although with the money from the PC finals he now looks likely to finish the season in the top 64 of the money list.
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