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MOSCOW — Russia's Ministry of Defense said Tuesday it had shown the country's new Avangard nuclear missile system to US inspectors for the first time, a move Moscow said showed a key arms control treaty was still effective.
Russia is due to deploy next month the Avangard system, a hypersonic glide vehicle designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile, one of several new types of weapons touted by President Vladimir Putin as ahead of their time.
The Defense Ministry said a group of visiting US arms inspectors had been shown the Avangard system from Nov. 24 to 26 under the auspices of the New START treaty, which went into effect in 2011.
The treaty limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads the world's two biggest nuclear powers can deploy to no more than 1,550 each.
The Avangard hypersonic vehicle maneuvering to bypass missile defenses en route to targetAP
The treaty, which is due to expire in 2021, also curbs the number of nuclear launchers and deployed land- and submarine-based missiles and nuclear-capable bombers they can have.
Putin has said Moscow is ready to extend the pact, but has complained about what he sees as Washington's lack of interest.
President Donald Trump, who told Putin in 2017 he thought it was a bad deal for the United States, will only decide next year whether to extend the treaty, US officials have said.
It was signed by Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama, with Russia in 2010.
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Two quantum properties teleported together for first time
ByPhysics World2016-05-23 14:36:00
The values of two inherent properties of one photon – its spin and its orbital angular momentum – have been transferred via quantum teleportation onto another photon for the first time by physicists in China. Previous experiments have managed to teleport a single property, but scaling that up to two properties proved to be a difficult task, which has only now been achieved. The team's work is a crucial step forward in improving our understanding of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and the result could also play an important role in the development of quantum communications and quantum computers.
Quantum teleportation first appeared in the early 1990s after four researchers, including Charles Bennett of IBM in New York, developed a basic quantum teleportation protocol. To successfully teleport a quantum state, you must make a precise initial measurement of a system, transmit the measurement information to a receiving destination and then reconstruct a perfect copy of the original state. The "no-cloning" theorem of quantum mechanics dictates that it is impossible to make a perfect copy of a quantum particle. But researchers found a way around this via teleportation, which allows a flawless copy of a property of a particle to be made. This occurs thanks to what is ultimately a complete transfer (rather than an actual copy) of the property onto another particle such that the first particle loses all of the properties that are teleported.
The protocol has an observer, Alice, send information about an unknown quantum state (or property) to another observer, Bob, via the exchange of classical information. Both Alice and Bob are first given one half of an additional pair of entangled particles that act as the "quantum channel" via which the teleportation will ultimately take place. Alice would then interact the unknown quantum state with her half of the entangled particle, measure the combined quantum state and send the result through a classical channel to Bob. The act of the measurement itself alters the state of Bob's half of the entangled pair and this, combined with the result of Alice's measurement, allows Bob to reconstruct the unknown quantum state. The first experimentation teleportation of the spin (or polarization) of a photon took place in 1997. Since then, the states of atomic spins, coherent light fields, nuclear spins and trapped ions have all been teleported.
But any quantum particle has more than one given state or property – they possess various "degrees of freedom", many of which are related. Even the simple photon has various properties such as frequency, momentum, spin and orbital angular momentum (OAM), which are inherently linked.
Teleporting more than one state simultaneously is essential to fully describe a quantum particle and achieving this would be a tentative step towards teleporting something larger than a quantum particle, which could be very useful in the exchange of quantum information. Now, Chaoyang Lu and Jian-Wei Pan, along with colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, have taken the first step in simultaneously teleporting multiple properties of a single photon.
In the experiment, the team teleports the composite quantum states of a single photon encoded in both its spin and OAM. To transfer the two properties requires not only an extra entangled set of particles (the quantum channel), but a "hyper-entangled" set – where the two particles are simultaneously entangled in both their spin and their OAM. The researchers shine a strong ultraviolet pulsed laser on three nonlinear crystals to generate three entangled pairs of photons – one pair is hyper-entangled and is used as the "quantum channel", a second entangled pair is used to carry out an intermediate "non-destructive" measurement, while the third pair is used to prepare the two-property state of a single photon that will eventually be teleported.
The image above represents Pan's double-teleportation protocol – A is the single photon whose spin and OAM will eventually be teleported to C (one half of the hyper-entangled quantum channel). This occurs via the other particle in the channel – B. As B and C are hyper-entangled, we know that their spin and OAM are strongly correlated, but we do not actually know what their values are – i.e. whether they are horizontally, vertically or orthogonally polarized. So to actually transfer A's polarization and OAM onto C, the researchers make a "comparative measurements" (referred to as CM-P and CM-OAM in the image) with B. In other words, instead of revealing B's properties, they detect how A's polarization and OAM differ from B. If the difference is zero, we can tell that A and B have the same polarization or OAM, and since B and C are correlated, that C now has the same properties that A had before the comparison measurement.
On the other hand, if the comparative measurement showed that A's polarization as compared with B differed by 90° (i.e. A and B are orthogonally polarized), then we would rotate C's field by 90° with respect to that of A to make a perfect transfer once more. Simply put, making two comparative measurements, followed by a well-defined rotation of the still-unknown polarization or OAM, would allow us to teleport A's properties to C.
One of the most challenging steps for the researchers was to link together the two comparative measurements. Referring to the "joint measurements" box in the image above, we begin with the comparative measurement of A and B's polarization (CM-P). From here, either one of three scenarios can take place – one photon travels along path 1 to the middle box (labelled "non-destructive photon-number measurement"); no photons enter the middle box along path 1; or two single photons enter the middle box along path 1.
The middle box itself contains the second set of entangled photons mentioned previously (not shown in figure) and one of these two entangled photons is jointly measured with the incoming photons from path 1. But the researcher's condition is that if either no photons or two photons enter the middle box via path 1, then the measurement would fail. Indeed, what the middle box ultimately shows is that exactly one photon existed in path 1, and so exactly one photon existed in path 2, given that two photons (A and B) entered CM-P. To show that indeed one photon existed in path two required the third and final set of entangled photons in the CP-OAM box (not shown), where the OAM's of A and B undergo a comparative measurement.
The measurements ultimately result in the transfer or teleportation of A's properties onto C – although it may require rotating C's (as yet unknown) polarization and OAM depending on the outcomes of the comparative measurements, but the researchers did not actually implement the rotations in their current experiment. The team's work has been published in the journal Nature this week. Pan tellsphysicsworld.com that the team verified that "the teleportation works for both spin-orbit product state and hybrid entangled state, achieving an overall fidelity that well exceeds the classical limit". He says that these "methods can, in principle, be generalized to more [properties], for instance, involving the photon's momentum, time and frequency".
Physicist Wolfgang Tittel from the University of Calgary, who was not involved in the current work (but wrote an accompanying "News and Views" article in Nature) explains that the team verified that the teleportation had indeed occurred by measuring the properties of C after the teleportation. "Of course, the no-cloning theorem does not allow them to do this perfectly. But it is possible to repeat the teleportation of the properties of photon A, prepared every time in the same way, many times. Making measurements on photon C (one per repetition) allows reconstructing its properties." He points out that although the rotations were not ultimately implemented by the researchers, they found that "the properties of C differed from those of A almost exactly by the amount predicted by the outcomes of the comparative measurements. They repeated this large number of measurements for different preparations of A, always finding the properties of C close to those expected. This suffices to claim quantum teleportation".
While it is technically possible to extend Pan's method to teleport more than two properties simultaneously, this is increasingly difficult because the probability of a successful comparative measurement decreases with each added property. "I think with the scheme demonstrated by [the researchers], the limit is three properties. But this does not mean that other approaches, either other schemes based on photons, or approaches using other particles (e.g. trapped ions), can't do better," says Tittel.
Pan says that to teleport three properties, their scheme "needs the experimental ability to control 10 photons. So far, our record is eight photon entanglement. We are currently working on two parallel lines to get more photon entanglement." Indeed, he says that the team's next goal is to experimentally create "the largest hyper-entangled state so far: a six-photon 18-qubit Schrödinger cat state, entangled in three degrees-of-freedom, polarization, orbital angular momentum, and spatial mode. To do this would provide us with an advanced platform for quantum communication and computation protocols".
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POTTSVILLE, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man accused of stabbing someone in the street on April 12, 2021, has been found guilty of aggravated assault and other related charges. The jury decided he is not guilty of homicide.
After nine and a half hours of deliberation Thursday, officials say the jury is in for Tamiir Whitted, the man accused of stabbing 38-year-old George Marcincin in the street at 2:00 p.m. on April 12, 2021.
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According to court officials, Whitted was found not guilty of homicide.
A representative for the Schuylkill County District Attorney's Office said Whitted was found guilty of aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a weapon, possession of an instrument of crime, and other related charges.
Officials tell Eyewitness News the jury was "hung" on three charges, third-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, and resisting arrest.
The district attorney's office said they could not provide a statement at this time as the case is still pending.


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The price of gasoline has gone up by 7 cents in the last month to a statewide average of $2.65, the Northern California branch of the American Automobile Association announced today.
Reduced production associated with refinery maintenance in preparation for high demand in the summer driving season may be a factor in the rising gas prices, as well as ongoing labor negotiations with the United Steelworkers union, according to AAA.
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San Francisco and San Rafael currently have some of the highest gas prices in the Bay Area, with an average cost of $2.75 per gallon.
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Here is the piece I wrote for the February issue of The Wire.
I am posting two versions: the first is the longer, with the musician's quotes intact; the second is the version published in The Wire.
Thanks, as always, for reading.
The heading is a quote from composer Michael Pisaro – Music is far more complex than anything we can produce with sound.
In Clive Bell's 2003 Wire piece on the Tokyo-based improvised music scene coalescing around a small venue called Off Site, he quotes Toshimaru Nakamura's observation about guitarist Taku Sugimoto: "Sugimoto is like a cat…pouncing when excited. Then when he doesn't like something, he's off, never says goodbye."
In the decade since Sugimoto, Nakamura and others formed their ongoing, five year series of performances at Off Site [a scene generally described by the ambiguous placeholder onkyo], Sugimoto has indeed taken off without a goodbye. His indifference to the sort of improvisation he was an integral part of creating for a brief but catalytic period was clear by at least 2001. That was the year Sugimoto inaugurated a composed music series at the venue, dubbing Off Site "a tiny academy of the onkyo order", and the year he experienced an epiphany while attending a performance of Wandelweiser composer Antoine Beuger's five hour, silence-laden calme entendue (Spinoza). It would be several years before Sugimoto articulated the "bizarre sensation" he experienced as a unitive one, a sense that the Wandelweiser composer had integrated musical form, structure and materials in a way that made the onkyo aesthetic seem, by contrast, stagnant and self-referential.
While Sugimoto gradually shifted the distillation of his musical concerns from the realm of improvisation to composition, he has retained some old fashioned values. "I have a different idea than Keith Rowe. The guitar must be a guitar for me. I never lay the guitar down, because the guitar has a history." This retention of the guitar qua guitar is heard to lovely effect on b minor, the only piece on which the duo engages in an old-fashioned guitar duet [if you count the nuanced integration of sine tones and e-bows as old-fashioned]. The pair further confound expectations of the avant-garde by basing their collaboration on such radical notions as pulse and pitch.
Composer Michael Pisaro, a long time Wandelweiser mainstay, had concurrently developed an approach to composition that privileged within his musical structures sine tones, noise, silence, and the performer making choices about specifics as essential as pitch and instrumentation. In the same year Sugimoto called free improvisation a "grave," Pisaro was saying "Notation is not a form of communication, but an incitement to action [or non-action]." On the core value of music-making that unified the Wandelweiser and onkyo approaches, silence, they were completely simpatico. "There is almost no distinction between improvisation and composition in accepting silence", Sugimoto wrote in 2003. Two years earlier, Pisaro had written, "silence is [for me, anyway] far more complex than anything we can produce with sound."
You might expect, then, that the three pieces co-composed by Sugimoto and Pisaro will have a preponderance of extended silences and compositional gravitas. Upon learning that the pieces were created without the pair hearing each other's contributions, each adhering to a few basic ground rules [they would work independently and combine the results later, they would each write three 20 minute pieces organized around the concepts of pulse, pitch and wave], you might further imagine another work in which the concept trumps the musical results.
Instead, Pisaro and Sugimoto have, by dint of their aleatoric method and whatever magic obtains, created three pieces that integrate the best aspects of their respective last decades of shedding the extraneous and drilling down to the essential. As Taku Unami, one of Sugimoto's collaborators who has himself shape-shifted since the early days of onkyo said, "I am interested in saying, this is the only kind of sound I could have made." Exacting, but hardly prescriptive; the three pieces are as distinct from one another as one could hope for.
There is an improbable aura of minimalist suspense akin to Sugimoto's duo with Malfatti [2 seconds], an updating of the embryonic guitar tones and astonishing melodic and harmonic beauty both musicians have offered in previous works [b minor], and the knitting together of samples, sines and steady-state drones [wave] characteristic of Pisaro's finest releases of the past couple of years, July Mountain and a wave and waves.
What magic does obtain in a process of collaboration in which neither of the guitarists could hear their partner's contribution? The fruition of Cage's life-long exhortation that musicians and listeners alike risk trusting chance processes; Pisaro and Sugimoto's trust that the listener will hear for themselves whether the pair reached each other across an enforced silence, distance and personal history; and as I have elaborated above, that the musicians years ago planted their work as much in silence and emptiness, as sound; and perhaps, for this listener, a willing suspension of that reflex that opposes the elegance of flux, to grasp after explanation.
Every sound counts to these two. At the conclusion of b minor, a deceptively simple, naive chord progression Sugimoto repeats for the piece's 20 minute duration, he resolves the dark, minor-keyed exercise with a major chord. An aleatory second after, Pisaro hangs a pure, dissonant note in the air to decay. As much as any music I have heard in a long while, this is a perfect moment that resists explanation.
In Clive Bell's 2003 piece for The Wire on the Tokyo improvised music scene coalescing around the venue Off Site, he quotes Toshimaru Nakamura's observation about guitarist Taku Sugimoto: "Sugimoto is like a cat…pouncing when excited. Then when he doesn't like something, he's off, never says goodbye."
In the decade since Sugimoto, Nakamura and others formed their ongoing series of performances at Off Site (a scene generally described by the ambiguous placeholder 'onkyo'), Sugimoto has indeed taken off without a goodbye. His indifference to the sort of improvisation he was an integral part of creating was clear by 2001. That was the year Sugimoto inaugurated a composed music series at the venue, dubbing Off Site "a tiny academy of the onkyo order", and the year he experienced an epiphany while attending a performance of Wandelweiser composer Antoine Beuger's five hour, silence-laden calme entendue (Spinoza), which integrated musical form, structure and materials in a way that made the onkyo aesthetic seem by comparison stagnant and self-referential.
Composer Michael Pisaro, a long time Wandelweiser mainstay, had concurrently developed an approach to composition that privileged sine tones, noise, silence, and the performer making choices about specifics as essential as pitch and instrumentation. On the core value of music-making that unified the Wandelweiser and onkyo approaches, silence, they were completely simpatico. "There is almost no distinction between improvisation and composition in accepting silence", Sugimoto wrote in 2003. Two years earlier, Pisaro had written, "silence is [for me, anyway] far more complex than anything we can produce with sound."
You might expect, then, that these three pieces co-composed by Sugimoto and Pisaro will have a preponderance of extended silences and compositional gravitas. Upon learning that the pieces were created without the pair hearing each other's contributions, each writing three 20 minute pieces organized around the concepts of pulse, pitch and wave, working independently and combining the results later, you might further imagine another work in which the concept trumps the musical results. Instead, Pisaro and Sugimoto have, by dint of their aleatoric method and whatever magic obtains, created three pieces that integrate the best aspects of their respective last decades of shedding the extraneous and drilling down to the essential. The aesthetic is exacting, but hardly prescriptive; the three pieces are as distinct from one another as one could hope for. 2 seconds carries an improbable aura of minimalist suspense; b minor updates the embryonic guitar tones and melodic and harmonic beauty both musicians have offered in previous works, and wave knits together samples, sines and steady-state drones in the manner of of Pisaro's finest releases of the past couple of years.
What magic does obtain in a process of collaboration in which neither of the guitarists could hear their partner's contribution? The fruition of Cage's life-long exhortation that musicians and listeners alike risk trusting chance processes; Pisaro and Sugimoto's trust that the listener will hear for themselves whether the pair reached each other across an enforced silence, distance and personal history; and perhaps, for this listener, a willing suspension of that reflex that opposes the elegance of flux, to grasp after explanation.
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Why does prenatal alcohol exposure increase the likelihood of addiction?
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"The end result is that the dopamine neurons in the brain become more sensitive to a drug of abuse's effect. So, later in life, a person needs much less drug use to become addicted."
Roh-Yu Shen, senior research scientist, Research Institute on Addictions
BUFFALO, N.Y. – One of the many negative consequences when fetuses are exposed to alcohol in the womb is an increased risk for drug addiction later in life. Neuroscientists in the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions are discovering why.
Through a research grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Senior Research Scientist Roh-Yu Shen, PhD, is studying how prenatal alcohol exposure alters the reward system in the brain and how this change continues through adulthood.
The key appears to lie with endocannabinoids, cannabis-like chemicals that are produced by the brain itself.
"By understanding the role endocannabinoids play in increasing the brain's susceptibility to addiction, we can start developing drug therapies or other interventions to combat that effect and, perhaps, other negative consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure," Shen says.
Prenatal alcohol exposure is the leading preventable cause of birth defects and neurodevelopmental abnormalities in the United States. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) cause cognitive and behavioral problems. In addition to increased vulnerability of alcohol and other substance use disorders, FASD can lead to other mental health issues including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression, anxiety and problems with impulse control.
"After the prenatal brain is exposed to alcohol, the endocannabinoids have a different effect on certain dopamine neurons which are involved in addicted behaviors than when brain is not exposed to alcohol," Shen says. "The end result is that the dopamine neurons in the brain become more sensitive to a drug of abuse's effect. So, later in life, a person needs much less drug use to become addicted."
Specifically, in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain, endocannabinoids play a significant role in weakening the excitatory synapses onto dopamine neurons. The VTA is the part of the brain implicated in addiction, attention and reward processes. However, in a brain prenatally exposed to alcohol, the effect of the endocannabinoids is reduced due to a decreased function of endocannabinoid receptors. As a result, the excitatory synapses lose the ability to be weakened and continue to strengthen, which Shen believes is a critical brain mechanism for increased addiction risk.
Shen's research appears in the latest issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Kathryn Hausknecht, RIA research assistant, was the lead author of the article, with Ying-Ling Shen, PhD, former postdoctoral fellow, Rui-Xiang Wang, PhD candidate, UB Department of Psychology, Samir Haj-Dahmane, PhD, RIA senior research scientist and co-investigator, and Shen as co-authors.
RIA is a research center of the University at Buffalo and a national leader in the study of alcohol and substance abuse issues. RIA's research programs, most of which have multiple-year funding, are supported by federal, state and private foundation grants. Located on UB's Downtown Campus, RIA is a member of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and a key contributor to UB's reputation for research excellence. To learn more, visit buffalo.edu/ria.
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Isolation protocol adapts to rising COVID-19 cases
By Aura Carlson
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Full house: Students isolate in a Freeport hotel.
As students finish week two of classes and workloads begin to increase, so has the number of COVID-19 cases. According to current manager of isolation housing and Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Assistant to the Dean for Student Affairs Katie Toro-Ferrari, there are 30 students in isolation as of Friday morning. In contrast to last spring, when students were required to isolate in Bowdoin housing, the College's primary isolation housing is now in a Freeport hotel. Students are permitted to isolate elsewhere, as long as their isolation space follows the College's and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.
"We are making this accommodation for students who can get home safely without endangering public health (i.e., driving, not flying), have access to a dedicated bedroom and bathroom in their homes and are sharing a roof with fully-vaccinated individuals ([while] we are discouraging students from isolating at home if they have any immunocompromised or unvaccinated family members)," Toro-Ferrari wrote in an email to the Orient.
As of Thursday evening, there are 12 students in the Freeport hotel and 18 isolating elsewhere. While students who chose to isolate elsewhere are in charge of their own transportation and food arrangements, those in Freeport were escorted to the hotel by The Office of Safety and Security and are provided with breakfast, lunch and dinner from Bowdoin Dining Services.
The College is following United States CDC guidelines, according to Toro-Ferrari.
"Students are isolated for ten days from symptom onset and a recent corroborating viral test," Toro-Ferrari wrote. "If they have no symptoms, then they are isolated for ten days from the date of the test. If students still have symptoms after ten days or if there is a significant lag in days between the onset of symptoms and their confirmatory test, then an antigen test may be offered before the tenth day of isolation to help determine infectiousness."
As a recurrence of illness is unlikely for several months due to COVID-19 antibodies, these students are not required to undergo the College's testing protocol for 90 days after the last date of isolation.
Although cases have spiked in the past week, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Director of Residential and Student Life Mike Ranen is not worried about running out of isolation space.
"In the last week we've secured some additional housing," Ranen said. "Just in case the hotel in Freeport ever fills up, we have the empty Maine State Music Theater apartment buildings in the town of Brunswick that we're able to use, which we've actually used before when we had to have overflow housing."
Ranen emphasized that students who are not isolating in Freeport will still receive support from their deans and Health Services as needed.
"If they have somewhere else that may be more comfortable, they are more than welcome as long as they can safely get there," Ranen said. "So if a student can say go home or go somewhere else to do their isolation, they can and we will still support them with check-ins and telehealth appointments."
Blythe Peterson '23, who is isolating at a friend's house in Vermont, appreciated the calm and patient approach Health Services took when she and fellow students tested positive.
"Because we all tested positive first, we were all freaking out," Peterson said. "But they put us in one room and told us what was happening and our options and gave us time to figure it out. It was never rushed and the nurses and the doctors were very supportive and kind."
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Dinner to go: Bowdoin staff hand-deliver meals to students in isolation.
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For the first several days in isolation, students both symptomatic and asymptomatic attended telehealth appointments with Health Services. For the remainder of isolation, they could opt to either continue the daily appointments or communicate with Health Services via text.
While some students had little to no COVID-19 symptoms, others such as Meredith Stetter '23, who has asthma, reported experiencing intense feelings of sickness in their initial days of isolation.
"I was knocked down," Stetter said. "I was coughing heavily, had tightness in my chest, a high fever of 102 degrees, coughing, sneezing, stuffy nose, headache, fatigue—the whole lot of it."
Rachel Potoker '23 not only felt fatigue and cold-like symptoms but also lost her sense of taste and smell.
"At first I was like, whatever it's only your smell and your taste, but then shit gets to you—it's not fun not being able to taste things," Potoker said. "My favorite food is bread, but I don't even like eating muffins anymore because the texture just isn't there."
Regardless of the presence of symptoms, students have had a challenging time remotely navigating in-person classes and handling the workload of a full course schedule.
"By the time the symptoms really hit me, I couldn't do any schoolwork," Stetter said.
Despite experiencing the majority of her symptoms in the first couple of days after testing positive, Peterson's fatigue has been consistent throughout the duration of her isolation.
"Everyone feels tired at like 6:00 p.m.," Peterson said. "I can't really do work late at night, and I can't even imagine trying to exercise. I think my chest would hurt too bad."
On the other hand, George Rowe '23, who is immunocompromised and asymptomatic, is isolating at home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He acknowledged the difficulties which professors face in facilitating a hybrid classroom for isolated students.
"Our professors don't quite have the right tools from the College in order to send us a video of their class, or a live classroom," Rowe said. "It's one thing to do a Zoom where everyone is on Zoom, but it's a whole other beast when you have 90 percent [or more] of the class there in-person."
Juggling varying levels of resources and class structures, professors have full discretion in the way they choose to teach students in isolation.
"Every year there are people who have a family emergency where they need to leave for a week, have a concussion or are really sick and can't go [into class] for a week," Ranen said. "It's not new that professors work with students with missing [longer] amounts of class, and I think each different professor has different methods around that."
While some students plan to meet in person with professors after isolation, others are able to attend Zoom sessions during class or spectate from a camera in the back of the classroom.
Zach Ennis '23, who isolated in Freeport and experienced mild fever-like symptoms, found ways to embrace remote learning and approach "Zooming in" with a sense of humor.
"I'm kind of just a face on a laptop or an iPad," Ennis said. "I [could] still be part of my group in one of my classes, so they just [spun] me around and they pass me around to say 'hi.'"
Some professors, on the other hand, have utilized recorded
lectures from the 2020-2021 academic year. Although this approach is helpful to professors whose class structure is less conducive to Zoom, Stetter pointed to the downside of students consequently having to spend more time on screens.
"My professors aren't really [having me] Zoom into classes," Stetter said. "I'm just watching old recorded lectures from last semester, which takes absolutely forever, so basically I spend all day staring at the computer screen with no social breaks or anything besides FaceTime, which is just more time looking at a screen."
According to Toro-Ferrari, students isolating in Freeport were initially not allowed to leave their rooms or go outside, but after hearing student feedback the College worked with the hotel to allow students limited outdoor access every day.
"Thanks to some negotiation between Bowdoin and the hotel, students are now able to take thirty minutes of outdoor time every day—a small concession but something I know has a tremendous impact on reducing the difficulties of isolation," Toro-Ferrari said.
To go outside, students must notify the front desk and are then escorted by a hotel employee through the backdoor to the parking lot.
"[Going outside] is actually kind of fun," Stetter said. "We can all sit out there with our masks on in this little corner of the parking lot next to the highway."
Living in Vermont at a friend's house, Peterson is grateful to go outside as much as she pleases.
"I try to be outside because I am able to," she said. "I brought my hammock here, so I try to sit in that and call my family, watch TV, or do school work."
Gerardo Hernandez '23, who tested positive along with
all of his roommates, has been isolating by himself in his Coles Tower suite and has not been outside once since beginning isolation. However, he has found ways to maintain a sense of human connection.
"Sometimes my friends stand outside and wave at me when I'm looking out the window," Hernandez said. "At first, [isolation] was kind of depressing, but I started doing yoga, downloading games on my phone, and calling friends… I've been learning how to be comfortable with myself alone."
Like Hernandez, the students in Freeport have found ways to cope with isolation by creating a group chat to communicate and commiserate. Whenever a new student enters the hotel, Ennis describes how the group chat becomes active and students rush to their doors.
"When new people are coming in, you can hear when they first get in the hallway," Ennis said. "Then we wait and we listen and when we hear sounds we all run and look and yell to newcomers through our peep holes."
Although students have found ways to stay positive, Ranen acknowledged that isolation is not ideal.
"We don't want to pretend that isolation is fun," Ranen said. "We're trying to meet the needs that [students] have, in a way where they're still being isolated because we need to stop the spread."
Toro-Ferrari added that the College is still learning and working to create the most effective and livable ways to isolate students.
"We have learned a lot in the past ten days, and that knowledge builds on top of the nine months of experience we had in the trenches last year," Toro-Ferrari said.
"I work with a team of dedicated and skilled individuals—from student affairs, to security, to dining and housekeeping—who are plugging away on nights and weekends to keep our campus and local communities safe and to care for our students in isolation. We know how to control the spread of COVID-19 on our campus, and I am confident we will get there even if this isn't the start to the semester we had hoped for."
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Putin's Former Filmmaker Arrested for Underwear Protest Outside the FSB Headquarters
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The public display of men's boxer shorts has become a protest symbol across Russia after claims that the FSB poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny's underwear.
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Published Dec. 22, 2020 10:09AM ET
Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky has been detained in front of the Russian secret service agency FSB for waving a pair of blue boxer shorts in protest at the alleged poisoning by the agency of Alexei Navalny. The Russian opposition leader was nearly fatally poisoned on a flight to Moscow with the lethal nerve agent Novichok reportedly planted in his underwear, according to a joint investigation by CNN and Bellingcat.
Mansky, whose unprecedented access to Russian president Vladimir Putin gave the first real look at his dictatorial dreams, was heard saying, "It's so that they're clean. I think that everything should be clean—clean conscience, clean underwear—this is my civic position" before police stopped him.
In a video clip released December 21, Navalny appeared to catch the FSB confessing to the assassination attempt. He posed as an agent discussing the poisoning with an FSB officer who appears to admit where the nerve agent was planted. It had been previously thought that Navalny was poisoned when someone slipped the drug into his tea. But it was actually sprinkled on his underwear, according to the confession.
The Kremlin has denied any involvement in Navalny's poisoning and dismissed the video as "fake" and a "provocation aimed at discrediting the agency." The FSB said that the phone conversation Navalny is shown having with the agent "would not have been possible without the support of foreign intelligence services."
Mansky, 57, founded the film festival ArtDocFest and is the director of the film Putin's Witnesses. Producing the movie, which used previously unseen footage from inside the Kremlin, was a huge risk for Mansky who had previously been employed to make pro-Putin propaganda films.
In 2018, Mansky told The Daily Beast that he had moved out of Russia to try and reduce his exposure to retaliation, but he said he was aware that he could one day be targeted by Putin's FSB thugs. "I try to expel or get rid of this question completely—not to think about it," he said.
With his one-man protest on Tuesday, the former Putin propagandist apparently decided that he's remained in the shadows long enough.


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Young workers need to be aware of workplace dangers regardless of the season. That said, winter adds a whole other layer to the situation: Snow. And ice. And cold. Below are several areas worth discussing with your young worker.
Frostbite. Most of us associate frostbite with isolated mountainside crash landings and climbing mishaps. The fact is, on days that may not appear terribly cold and that have a high wind-chill factor, frostbite can set in, and in as little as thirty minutes. They need to know that the first sign of frostbite is frostnip. It's the first stage of frostbite when skin becomes numb and white. This is the time to take action before it gets any worse. They need to get out of the cold immediately to reverse this condition.
If this happens to them at work when they've been asked to perform a task outdoors, they need to know they can exercise their worker rights; to approach their supervisors, tell them of their concerns and get out of the cold, even temporarily.
Dehydration. That's right. While we associate hot weather season as the time we're most predisposed to hydration that is not the case. If one is working outdoors doing strenuous work while wearing layers of warm clothing, working up a sweat doesn't take long. Without drinking fluids regularly, the results are virtually identical to those we may succumb to on a scorching hot summer day. These include dizziness, cramping, extreme fatigue and sometimes fainting. If operating any kind of equipment this can lead to a variety of very bad outcomes. Just like hockey players getting off the ice and reaching for their water bottles, our children must know that they need to do the same on a regular basis.
Icy work surfaces. While it sounds obvious, young workers just don't have the experience to know that the scaffold they mounted with confidence all summer is now frozen and a slip hazard waiting to happen. This is a time of year in which they must personally inspect any areas that they are expected to walk on, especially so if they are working at heights or other hazardous places.
So what can you do as a parent? The first thing you can do is ask questions. And listen. Has the cold weather affected their work conditions? Are there any spots that are particularly icy? If those spots are at heights is there anything that can be done to make them safer? Do they ever get hot at work? Do they take regular breaks and hydrate with something to drink? If they feel dizzy do they try to work through it or do they take a break? Do they have to work outdoors in extreme weather? Do they understand what frostbite is and how to recognize that they need to take action and get out of the cold? All of these of course apply on and off the job.
Finally, do they understand that they don't have to work in dangerous situations? It is important that we as parents and adult influencers of young workers let them know that they have a right to safe working conditions; that the law is on their side and so are we. That we will support them every step of the way so they come home from work – possibly chilly – but healthy and safe.


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MAD Magazine is coming off newsstands after a 67-year run.
The famed satirical magazine featuring the freckled face of Alfred E. Neuman will stop publishing new material outside of its end-of-year specials, owner DC said in an email.
In a few weeks, the bi-monthly publications will only feature vintage MAD content and be sold at comic stores. The magazines will still be mailed to subscribers, and DC will continue to publish MAD books and special collections.
"Working at MAD was a childhood dream come true. MAD is an institution with such a rich history," former editor Allie Goertz wrote on Twitter. "It informed just about every comedian and writer I (and probably you) look up to."
It was one of the last satirical rags left in print. Spy, a monthly founded and edited by Graydon Carter and Kurt Anderson, closed in 1998. The Onion stopped printing in 2013, though it continues to entertain online and on social media.
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President Donald Trump unfavorably compared Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to geeky, gap-toothed Neuman in a May interview with Politico. In perhaps a sign of the magazine's fading relevance, the 37-year old mayor said he had no idea what Trump was talking about.
"I'll be honest, I had to Google that," he said. "I guess it's just a generational thing. I didn't get the reference."
MAD Magazine tweeted in response: "Who's Pete Buttigieg? Must be a generational thing."
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Toshiba's deadline for winning the Chinese antitrust approval concerning its $18 billion chip sale is today
Japan's Toshiba Corp faces a Friday deadline to win Chinese antitrust approval to sell its prized $18 billion memory-chip business by end-March, raising the possibility the deadline may be missed and that it will seek alternatives such as an IPO.
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There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help motivate positive social behavior, inhibit aggression, and provide the affective and motivational bases for moral development; it is a necessary component of psychotherapy and patient-physician interactions. This volume covers a wide range of topics in empathy theory, research, and applications, helping to integrate perspectives as varied as anthropology and neuroscience. The contributors discuss the evolution of empathy within the mammalian brain and the development of empathy in infants and children; the relationships among empathy, social behavior, compassion, and altruism; the neural underpinnings of empathy; cognitive versus emotional empathy in clinical practice; and the cost of empathy.
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This is who I am. Is that so hard to accept?
I don't kill, I don't hurt others, I may not like being in crowds, but that doesn't mean I don't love people. I love animals, I love to walk, I love to dream, I love to write, I love to read, I love to stay still. I'm not a doctor, I'm not a CEO, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not an Engineer. I'm an artist, and that's who I am. Is that so hard to accept?
"You should be," is what I've heard so many times. But, how about who I want to be? Why can't some people accept who I really am? If I'm not self-destructing or hurting others, if what I do makes me happy, why can't they accept it? I'm not going to succumb to peer pressure and follow what others think I should do. I never have and I don't plan to do it any time for the rest of my life. I'm going to follow my dreams and leave the legacy I was born to pass on. Money isn't everything. Money isn't going to buy me immortality, but my dreams are going to grant me everlasting happiness. Whenever my time comes, I want to close my eyes and smile knowing I achieved my happiness and inspired others.
I have two choices, let others rule my life and become the woman I shouldn't be, or realize my dreams and become the woman I was born to be. I choose the latter.
[ Smiles ] You are a lovely person who is supposed to live your life the way you want it and not fall into the trap of what others want for you.
[ Smiles ] You are welcome!
That's a beautiful image at the top of your post. It invites mystery and wonder and adventure. Others may stick to the sidewalk, but you are choosing to god own this wondrous path, even though you are not sure where it will go.


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Flower Petal # 5
Type Categories Useful Parts
Caprifoliaceae Family
Weigela Genus
Other Names for this Plant
Weigela, Old-Fashioned Weigela, Rose Weigela, Cardinal Shrub
Origin & Range: Native of eastern Asia. China and Korea
Weigela bushes grow to a height of 6-10 feet with a similar spread. Their arching branches produce pink, white, or red flowers in late spring to early summer. The flowers of weigela are trumpet-shaped, and their color may be more intense when they first bloom.
The leaves are 5-15 cm long, ovate-oblong with an acuminate tip, and with a serrated margin. The flowers are 2-4 cm long, with a five-lobed white, pink, or red (rarely yellow) corolla, produced in small corymbs of several together in early summer. The fruit is a dry capsule containing numerous small winged seeds.
Thirsty Order (Teasel)
Euasterids II
Real Stars Group Two
Asteridae
Class of Stars (Daisies)
Weigela species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail. Attracts Hummingbirds with the trumpet shaped flowers. In addition to attracting hummingbirds, weigela shrubs are effective for attracting butterflies.
An easily grown plant, succeeding in most fertile soils. Prefers a moist well-drained soil in sun or partial shade. Tolerates atmospheric pollution. Hardy to about -20°c. Plants are very floriferous and can exhaust themselves, literally flowering themselves to death. The flowers are borne in the leaf nodes of the previous years growth and any pruning is therefore best done as soon as the plant has finished flowering
All members of the genus are native to East Asia, where W. florida was discovered and brought to Europe in 1845 by Robert Fortune. When Fortune brought W. florida to Europe, the horticulturalists there took to it immediately, because of its form and flowers, toughness, and dependability. By the 1860s the attributes of the species had been enhanced through careful breeding. Today, there are more than 170 named cultivars, most bred in Europe and Canada. Weigela was once considered something of a bore because of its one-season show—its trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of red, pink, rose, and white were admittedly spectacular in the spring but when they faded, the shrub offered little but nondescript leaves on tangled twigs during summer and fall. But varieties of Weigela are now available with fabulous foliage, whether clear green, purple to nearly black, or yellow-tinged and variegated. Stems are in great demand by the floral trade for use in arrangements. The leaves are that attractive
Leaves & Flowers
Unopened Buds
Comment: Red Prince Weigela, Weigela florida
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The Family of Patrick Murray and Mary Rourke
The Murray Family resided in the Old Parish of Abby; which today forms the present day Parish of New Quay in County Clare, Ireland. The earliest known Murray family members are Patrick Murray and Mary Rourke. Only two children, Mary and James, are listed in the church register for this couple; however, there were gaps in the church register and other children have been reported.
Mary Roarke Murray, courtesy of Dennis Meehan
Children of Patrick Murray and Mary Rourke
Mary Murray was baptized on January 6, 1838. She was born in the Parish of New-Quay, Townland of Ballyvelaghan, Co. Clare Ireland It is assumed that this child died as another Mary Murray with a later birth day is also reported to be the child of Patrick Murray and Mary Rourke.
Sarah Mis
Mary Murray, also the child of Patrick Murray and Mary Rourke, later became a nun, Sister Bethlehem, born Mary Murray in 1850, entered Notre Dame du lac in Notre Dame, Indiana as a Novitiate in 1877. She served as pharmacist as a charge for the student infirmary, and a charge of St. Vincent's infirmary and pharmacy. During the last few years of her life, her service was recorded as "hose mending." She was listed as a patient during the years 1923 to 1925. Mary Murray's birth date is recorded as January 6, 1838 in the Parish of Abby (New Quay). On her Record of Apostolic Service, her birth date is recorded as only 1850. It is possible that Mary did not know her year of birth, but this is a significant discrepancy. As there was a gap in the register of the Parish of Abby after 1838 and both Mary's sisters, Bridget and Sarah, were not recorded, it is also possible that a second Mary (Sister Bethlehem) was born after 1838 and not registered in the parish records. In Irish families, a younger child was often given the same name as an older child after the death of the older child. She is buried at Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Picture courtesy of Mary Fahey, 1999
Bridget Murray is said to be a child of Patrick Murray and Mary Rourke and assumed to have been born in County Clare. She married Thomas Fahey on February 4, 1856. The witnesses at the marriage were Pat Fahey and Sally Rourke. After their marriage the couple resided in the townland of Mortyclough where the birth of there children John, Mary, Martin, Mary, and Margaret are recorded.
Sarah Murray is also said to be a child of Patrick Murray and Mary Rourke. Sarah married Patrick Cassidy after immigrating to Iowa. A Murray descendant wrote, "My great-grandmother, Mary Murray, was the oldest of 11 children and came to Iowa age 16 under the sponsorship of her aunt who already lived here, Sarah Murray Cassidy."
James Murray was born on November 01, 1851 in the Parish of New-Quay, Townland of Ballyvelaghan, Co. Clare Ireland, and died sometime after 1921. He married Cecelia Linane. She was born in Ballinderrin, County Galway, Ireland I have seen Cecelia's name spelled Celia, Cecelia, and Cecilia.
Click on the links below to see additional Quinn - Murray Family Pages
Quinn - Murray Family Page
More about William J. Quinn and Susanna Murray
Quinn Family Outline of Descendants
The Family of James Quinn and Catherine Fahy
The Family of William Quinn and Bridget Brannelly
The Family of Andrew Quinn and Margaret Flanagan
Murray Family Outline of Descendants
The Family of James Murray and Cecilia Linane
Quinn-Murray Photographs
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90 letters in 90 days: The courtship of Lady Bird and LBJ
February 14, 2013 by hparkins, posted in Presidents
"I do believe before the day was over he did ask me to marry him and I thought he was just out of his mind." Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor
LBJ sent this photo to Lady Bird during their courtship. The caption reads "For Bird--A lovely girl with ideals, principles, intelligence, and refinement from her sincere admirer, Lyndon" (Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library)
Two teenagers in love might exchange hundreds of texts on their phones. But during their two-and-a-half month courtship, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor were each writing a letter—and sometimes even two—every day in a constant overlapping correspondence between Washington, DC, and Karnack, Texas.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library is releasing love letters between the future President and the First Lady. Most of the letters have not been seen before by the public, and they offer a glimpse into the feelings and thoughts of the couple during this intense courtship.
It was a whirlwind romance. LBJ was 26, and Lady Bird was just 22 years old. They met in the office of a mutual friend in Austin, Texas, in September of 1934. Although LBJ had a date that night, he asked Lady Bird to meet him for breakfast. The breakfast date turned into a day-long affair as the pair drove around Austin.
LBJ even proposed! In an oral history interview, Lady Bird recalled, "I do believe before the day was over he did ask me to marry him and I thought he was just out of his mind. It was very—I'm a slow, considered sort generally, and certainly not given to quick conclusions or much rash behavior."
Undeterred by her refusal, he introduced her to his family the next day. And when he had to drive home to Washington, DC, where he worked as a congressional aide, he dropped Lady Bird off in her hometown of Karnack, Texas, and met her father.
While Lady Bird remained hesitant at the speed of the courtship, her father seemed to approve of her suitor. According to Lady Bird, her father remarked: "You've brought a lot of boys home, and this time you've brought a man."
Although she was more cautious—she wrote to LBJ that she wanted to wait six months before getting married—Lady Bird was certainly interested. Many years later in an oral history interview, she recalled that "The only thing I knew I didn't want to do was to say good-bye to him and put him out of my life; that much I was sure of."
A 1934 photograph of Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor. In the corner, the inscription reads "With much love, Bird." (Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library)
LBJ returned to Washington, and the flurry of letters began. In less than three months, they had sent more than 90 letters, including pictures and books (even a congressional cookbook from LBJ). Despite this pace, the letters were not as immediate as texts. A letter sent from DC to Karnack took about two days, but a letter sent from Karnack to DC could take four. According to archivist Claudia Anderson, LBJ sometimes sent his letters by air mail or special delivery.
Anderson calls the letters during this courtship "ardent" rather than romantic. For her, the letters are fascinating for the glimpse they give into the future First Couple. "The letters show LBJ being really passionate about his job, and about helping people," she says, noting that Lady Bird's letter also reveal a love of flowers that that would become her well-known devotion to nature and beautification projects as First Lady.
But where Lady Bird was cautious, LBJ was determined to move ahead—or on without her. "Tell me just how you feel—give me some reassurance if you can and if you can't let's understand each other now," he writes on September 15, just days after their first meeting. "I'm lonesome. I'm disappointed but what of it. Do you care?"
But Lady Bird could not be immediately persuaded. In her letter of November 8, she tries to explain her reluctance: "Darling, darling the reason I talk and act the way I do is because everybody is so constantly urging me to 'wait two or three months,' 'wait-wait,' 'two months isn't long enough to have known the man you're to marry,' 'if he loves you he' ll wait for you'—and so on until my head aches."
But on November 17, 1934, Johnson and Lady Bird drove to San Antonio to "commit matrimony" as she would later describe it. Although LBJ had given her an engagement ring, they had no wedding bands picked out. Dan Quill, friend and Postmaster of San Antonio, bought a wedding band at the nearby Sears Roebuck for $2.50. And although she still had not made up her mind on the drive to San Antonio, Lady Bird decided to do it. They were married in front of a small group of LBJ's friends at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio.
The marriage lasted far longer than the engagement. LBJ and Lady Bird were married for 39 years until LBJ passed away in 1973. You can now read the letters on the LBJ Presidential Library web site.
Newlyweds Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson pose in a boat on the Floating Gardens in Xochimilco, Mexico, during their honeymoon, November 1934. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library)
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Q: Holomorphic function with given boundary values I have a complex valued function on the boundary of a set, and want to know if it has a holomorphic extension to the entire set (holomorphic in interior, continuous up to the boundary).
In other words: Given a smooth open subset $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{C}$, and a smooth complex-valued function $f:\partial\Omega \to \mathbb{C}$, when does there exist a function $u \in C(\bar{\Omega})$ which is holomorphic in the interior and such that $u(z)=f(z)$ for any $z \in \partial\Omega$?
This came up in research.  I'm studying a free boundary problem on the region $\{(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^2|y\leq h(x)\}$ (assume $h$ smooth to keep things simple) and have a vector field $(x,h(x)) \mapsto [1,h'(x)]$ which is tangent to the free surface.  It would be very helpful if I could extend that vector field to the entire domain (or at least some subdomain, e.g. $\{(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^2|y\in (h(x)-\varepsilon,h(x)]\}$) while satisfying the Cauchy-Riemann equations.  Unfortunately I haven't thought about complex analysis in about a decade.


Well that was something special. Last night Beck was joined on The Late Late Show with James Corden by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a live performance of "Tarantula," inspired by the Oscar nominated film "Roma." And on backing vocals, you may have recognized Feist, Alex Lilly, Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan, and the Bird And The Bee's Inara George.
A really beautiful break from the "average" late night tv show performance....way to class it up, Beck!
Watch the performance in full, below.


I'm already working on this, as it affects me directly.
dlindner added a comment - 2008-09-18 02:13 I'm already working on this, as it affects me directly.
The fix is in the repository.
This change will be included in the next release.
dlindner added a comment - 2008-09-18 04:58 The fix is in the repository. This change will be included in the next release.


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Deborah Lee-Germain
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Pepperdine School of Law, J.D., 1990
Pepperdine Law Review, Note and Comment Editor
San Diego State University, B.A., Political Science, 1987
Ms. Lee-Germain is Of Counsel to Olivarez Madruga Law Organization LLP and has participated in civil litigation disputes involving, among other matters, general liability, personal injury, employment, product liability, pharmaceutical and medical devices, the Unfair Business Practices Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Information Practices Act and the Fair Housing and Employment Act.
She has participated in many cases designated as Multi-District Litigation relating to various pharmaceutical and medical device products.
Ms. Lee-Germain has been responsible for the managing and handling of all aspects of litigation, including preparation and practice involving pleadings, written discovery, deposition discovery including experts, procedural and dispositive pre-trial motions, as well as trial, settlement conferences, mediations, administrative and appellate proceedings.
Ms. Lee-Germain is also an NFLPA Certified Contract Advisor and is able to represent NFL players in all aspects of the NFL draft including the negotiation their contractors with NFL teams.
Selected Representative Matters
Lopez v. City of Inglewood. Defended City and four police officers in a wrongful death/civil rights (42 U.S.C. § 1983) / battery action in the death of a suspect under the influence of Methamphetamine involving allegations of restraint and positional asphyxiation. The case settled after seven days of trial.
Belser v. City of Inglewood. Obtained summary judgment for the City in this action where Plaintiff's finger was amputated. Plaintiff, a minor, alleged that a swing-set at the City's park constituted a dangerous condition in violation of Gov. Code § 835 when her finger was caught in the link and was amputated when she dismounted. Affirmed on appeal.
Carter v. Inglewood Unified School District, et al. Defended District in a breach of settlement action involving allegations of defamation and due process violations against District administrators. Obtained favorable settlement and resolution.
Thompson v. Inglewood Unified School District, et al. Defended District in a breach of settlement action involving allegations of defamation, due process violations against District administrators. Motion for Anti-SLAPP granted and affirmed on appeal.
Austin v. City of Inglewood. Defended City in a personal injury matter where plaintiff alleged injuries from tripping and falling on City sidewalk. Motion for Summary Judgment granted.
McPherson v. Las Virgenes Municipal Water District. Defended District in an employment action where former employee alleged disability discrimination. Favorable settlement reached.
Monti v. Montebello Unified School District. Defended District in an employment action brought by certificated employee alleging discrimination and retaliation. Motion for Summary Judgment granted and affirmed on appeal.
L-Tryptophan Multi-District Litigation. Defended manufacturer of supplement in a national product liability action where multiple plaintiffs from around the country alleged that their use of L-Tryptophan resulted in injury.
Havner v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Defended pharmaceutical manufacturer in a products liability action where plaintiff alleged that her birth defects resulted from her mother's ingestion of Bendectin during pregnancy.
Wilson v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Defended pharmaceutical manufacturer in a products liability action where plaintiff alleged that her birth defects were caused by her mother's ingestion of Bendectin during pregnancy.
Gandy v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Defended pharmaceutical manufacturer in a products liability action where plaintiff alleged that his birth defects were caused by his mother's use of Clomid during pregnancy.
Lust v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Defended pharmaceutical manufacturer in a products liability action where plaintiff alleged that his birth defects were caused by his mother's use of Clomid during pregnancy.
Cowart v. Smith & Nephew Richards. Defended medical device manufacturer where plaintiff alleges that his hip implant was defective.
Martin v. Baxter Healthcare. Defended medical device manufacturer where plaintiff alleged defendant's heart valve was defective.
Solomon v. Marion Merrell Dow. Defended pharmaceutical manufacturer where plaintiff alleged her injuries were caused by her use of defendant's product.
Wenzel v. Marion Merrell Dow, County of Los Angeles & Harbor UCLA Research Institute. Represented pharmaceutical manufacturer and hospital in an action involving a clinical trial where plaintiff, a participant in the trial, alleged injury by the tested pharmaceutical.
Wilson v. California Clinical Trials, Upjohn. Represented pharmaceutical manufacturer in an action where plaintiff alleged she was injured during a clinical trial for defendant's new drug application.
Aldaz v. Nestle Food Corp. Represented manufacturer in a products liability action where plaintiffs claimed that defendant's food product contained PCP, which was ingested by them.
Villarreal v. Robert E. McKee, Inc. Represented general contractor in a personal injury matter where one of its subcontractor's employees was injured on the project site in a scaffolding accident.
Ho Yun Ho v. Robert E. McKee, Inc. Represented general contractor in a personal injury matter where an employee of the owner was injured in a slip and fall.
Parker v. Robert E. McKee, Inc. Represented the general contractor in a personal injury matter where an employee of the owner was injured in a slip and fall.
Kobelt v. GTE Corp, Plastic Services and Products. Represented the manufacturer of PVC piping where plaintiff was injured in a construction accident.
Evans v. Proctor and Gamble. Represented manufacturer of a product in a Business and Professions Code § 17200 false and misleading advertising/deceptive Business Practices Act matter.
In re TMJ Litigation. Represented a manufacturer of Teflon, a bulk supplier, where plaintiffs alleged that they were injured by co-defendant's TMJ implant.
In re Toyota Litigation. Participated in discovery process, specifically depositions of OSI, involving similar incidents of people who had acceleration issues with their Toyotas and Lexuses.
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Foreign Deposition Hazards, National Law Journal, November 1994
Thomas M. Madruga and Deborah Lee-Germain Obtain Favorable Settlement After Seven Day Trial
Congratulations to Thomas M. Madruga and Deborah Lee-Germain who argued successfully for Settlement in the matter of Gabrielle G. Lopez v. City of Inglewood.... Read More


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Appdated is a series of links I will post from time to time about apps I like that has been updated. It's for when I got what to say about an update but it's not enough for a long review.
One of my favorite apps, Launch Center Pro by Contrast got updated for iOS 7 on October 10. Federico Viticci wrote everything I have to say about it. Launch Center Pro is 2.99$ on the App Store.
I really like the new iPhoto. It's 4.99$ on the App Store and free when you purchase a new iOS device.
Here's Federico Viticci's review of it.
The best journaling app is now ready for iOS 7 and also supports journaling music and daily step count from my iPhone 5s. Here's what Federico Viticci had to say. Day One is 4.99$ on the App Store.
Tweetbot 3 was released as a separate app in October 24. It's a solid update that brings the app to iOS 7. On November 12, Tweetbot 3.1 was released with support for viewing links in the timeline view restored and support for setting your own text size. Tweetbot 3.2 was recently released with Night theme that can be activated with a two fingers swipe gesture (similar to the one in Riposte) and quick account switching feature (you can also sort your accounts now with drag and drop). Here is what Federico Viticci had to say about it and Shawn Blanc's Review.
Pythonista is now ready for iOS 7 and also have support for iOS Contacts and Open In. Here is what Federico Viticci wrote about it. Pythonista is 6.99$ on the App Store.
My favorite translations app is now universal, iOS 7 ready and with support for speaking Hebrew words to translate them. iTranslate is free on the App Store.


Discussion in 'PC Tricks, Tutorials, Softwares And Solutions' started by Steve_tk, Dec 7, 2010.
@Threadowner, pls give us download link, i need it badly.
Search bunmiano's thread he already posted this topic and i did drop a download link for the runAsDate application.
Nice One..! Run as date, dem die 2day.
Please, i need applicatio dat i can use to recover my files and able to access d files. I have used some applications like RECUVA it works bt i could not open any file even pix. Pls, anybody with FULL version application aside of RECUVA should pls help me out OR anybody that knows TRICKs i can use to OPEN those recoverad files shuld pls, post d solution.