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Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries
Isa Leshko
University of Chicago Press, 2019
Library of Congress HV4757.L47 2019 | Dewey Decimal 179.30973
There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet—a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usually slaughtered before their first birthday. We never stop to think about it, but the typical images we see of cows, chickens, pigs, and the like are of young animals. What would we see if they were allowed to grow old?
Isa Leshko shows us, brilliantly, with this collection of portraits. To create these portraits, she spent hours with her subjects, gaining their trust and putting them at ease. The resulting images reveal the unique personality of each animal. It's impossible to look away from the animals in these images as they unforgettably meet our gaze, simultaneously calm and challenging. In these photographs we see the cumulative effects of the hardships of industrialized farm life, but also the healing that time can bring, and the dignity that can emerge when farm animals are allowed to age on their own terms.
Each portrait is accompanied by a brief biographical note about its subject, and the book is rounded out with essays that explore the history of animal photography, the place of beauty in activist art, and much more. Open this book to any page. Meet Teresa, a thirteen-year-old Yorkshire Pig, or Melvin, an eleven-year-old Angora Goat, or Tom, a seven-year-old Broad Breasted White Turkey. You'll never forget them.
The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
Tobias Menely
Library of Congress PR555.A52M46 2015 | Dewey Decimal 821.509362
During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws like Martin's Act of 1822, which provided protections for livestock. In The Animal Claim, Tobias Menely links this poetics of sensibility with Enlightenment political philosophy, the rise of the humanitarian public, and the fate of sentimentality, as well as longstanding theoretical questions about voice as a medium of communication.
In the Restoration and eighteenth century, philosophers emphasized the role of sympathy in collective life and began regarding the passionate expression humans share with animals, rather than the spoken or written word, as the elemental medium of community. Menely shows how poetry came to represent this creaturely voice and, by virtue of this advocacy, facilitated the development of a viable discourse of animal rights in the emerging public sphere. Placing sensibility in dialogue with classical and early-modern antecedents as well as contemporary animal studies, The Animal Claim uncovers crucial connections between eighteenth-century poetry; theories of communication; and post-absolutist, rights-based politics.
Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Reflections on Redecorating Nature
Marc Bekoff, foreword by Jane Goodall
Temple University Press, 2005
Library of Congress QL785.B36 2006 | Dewey Decimal 591.56
What is it really like to be a dog? Do animals experience emotions like pleasure, joy, and grief? Marc Bekoff's work draws world-wide attention for its originality and its probing into what animals think about and know as well as what they feel, what physical and mental skills they use to live successfully within their social community. Bekoff's work, whether addressed to scientists or the general public, demonstrates that investigations into animal thought, emotions, self-awareness, behavioral ecology, and conservation biology can be compassionate as well as scientifically rigorous.In Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues, Bekoff brings together essays on his own ground-breaking research and on what scientists know about the remarkable range and flexibility of animal behavior. His fascinating and often amusing observations of dogs, wolves, coyotes, prairie dogs, elephants, and other animals playing, leaving and detecting scent-marks ("yellow snow"), solving problems, and forming friendships challenge the idea that science and the ethical treatment of animals are incompatible.
Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800
Hilda Kean
Reaktion Books, 1998
In the late twentieth century animals are news. Parliamentary debates, protests against fox hunting and television programs like AnimalHospital all focus on the way in which we treat animals and on what that says about our own humanity. As vegetarianism becomes ever more popular, and animal experimentation more controversial, it is time to trace the background to contemporary debates and to situate them in a broader historical context.
Hilda Kean looks at the cultural and social role of animals from 1800 to the present – at the way in which visual images and myths captured the popular imagination and encouraged sympathy for animals and outrage at their exploitation. From early campaigns against the beating of cattle and ill-treatment of horses to concern for dogs in war and cats in laboratories, she explores the relationship between popular images and public debate and action. She also illustrates how interest in animal rights and welfare was closely aligned with campaigns for political and social reform by feminists, radicals and socialists.
"A thoughtful, effective and well-written book"—The Scotsman
"It could hardly be more timely, and its wonderful material is bound to provoke ... reflection"—The Independent
"A work of great interest"—Sunday Telegraph
"Lively, impressively researched, and well-written ... a book that is timely and valuable"—Times Literary Supplement
"A pleasing balance of anecdote and analysis"—Times Higher Educational Supplement
Animal Theology
Andrew Linzey
University of Illinois Press, 1995
Library of Congress BT746.L56 1995 | Dewey Decimal 241.693
Animals Property & The Law
Gary Francione
Library of Congress KF3841.F73 1995 | Dewey Decimal 346.73046954
"Pain is pain, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the victim," states William Kunstler in his foreword. This moral concern for the suffering of animals and their legal status is the basis for Gary L. Francione's profound book, which asks, Why has the law failed to protect animals from exploitation?
Francione argues that the current legal standard of animal welfare does not and cannot establish fights for animals. As long as they are viewed as property, animals will be subject to suffering for the social and economic benefit of human beings.
Exploring every facet of this heated issue, Francione discusses the history of the treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, the Federal Animal Welfare Act, and specific cases such as the controversial injury of anaesthetized baboons at the University of Pennsylvania. He thoroughly documents the paradoxical gap between our professed concern with humane treatment of animals and the overriding practice of abuse permitted by U.S. law.
Babies and Beasts: THE ARGUMENT FROM MARGINAL CASES
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Library of Congress HV4708.D65 1997 | Dewey Decimal 179.3
Both its defenders and detractors
have described the argument from marginal cases as the most important
to date in defense of animal rights. Hotly debated among philosophers
for some twenty years, the argument concludes that no morally relevant
characteristic distinguishes human beings–including infants, the
severely retarded, the comatose, and other "marginal cases"--from
any other animals.
Babies and Beasts presents
the first book-length exploration of the broad range of views relating
to the argument from marginal cases and sorts out and evaluates its various
uses and abuses.
Daniel Dombrowski analyzes
the views of many who are prominent in the debate--
Peter Singer, Thomas Regan, H. J. McCloskey, Jan Narveson, John Rawls,
R. G. Frey, Peter Carruthers, Michael Leahy, Robert Nozick, and James
Rachels are included--in a volume that will be essential to philosophers,
animal rights activists, those who work in clinical settings, and others
who must sometimes deal with "marginal cases."
The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights
William F. Schulz
Harvard University Press, 2020
Library of Congress K460.S388 2020 | Dewey Decimal 342.085
Two authors with decades of experience promoting human rights argue that, as the world changes around us, rights hardly imaginable today will come into being. A rights revolution is under way. Today the range of nonhuman entities thought to deserve rights is exploding—not just animals but ecosystems and even robots. Changes in norms and circumstances require the expansion of rights: What new rights, for example, are needed if we understand gender to be nonbinary? Does living in a corrupt state violate our rights? And emerging technologies demand that we think about old rights in new ways: When biotechnology is used to change genetic code, whose rights might be violated? What rights, if any, protect our privacy from the intrusions of sophisticated surveillance techniques? Drawing on their vast experience as human rights advocates, William Schulz and Sushma Raman challenge us to think hard about how rights evolve with changing circumstances, and what rights will look like ten, twenty, or fifty years from now. Against those who hold that rights are static and immutable, Schulz and Raman argue that rights must adapt to new realities or risk being consigned to irrelevance. To preserve and promote the good society—one that protects its members' dignity and fosters an environment in which people will want to live—we must at times rethink the meanings of familiar rights and consider the introduction of entirely new rights. Now is one of those times. The Coming Good Society details the many frontiers of rights today and the debates surrounding them. Schulz and Raman equip us with the tools to engage the present and future of rights so that we understand their importance and know where we stand.
Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body
Ralph R. Acampora
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014
Library of Congress HV4708.A24 2006 | Dewey Decimal 179.3
Most approaches to animal ethics ground the moral standing of nonhumans in some appeal to their capacities for intelligent autonomy or mental sentience. Corporal Compassion emphasizes the phenomenal and somatic commonality of living beings; a philosophy of body that seeks to displace any notion of anthropomorphic empathy in viewing the moral experiences of nonhuman living beings. Ralph R. Acampora employs phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism and deconstruction to connect and contest analytic treatments of animal rights and liberation theory. In doing so, he focuses on issues of being and value, and posits a felt nexus of bodily being, termed symphysis, to devise an interspecies ethos. Acampora uses this broad-based bioethic to engage in dialogue with other strains of environmental ethics and ecophilosophy.
Corporal Compassion examines the practical applications of the somatic ethos in contexts such as laboratory experimentation and zoological exhibition and challenges practitioners to move past recent reforms and look to a future beyond exploitation or total noninterference--a posthumanist culture that advocates caring in a participatory approach.
Critical Terms for Animal Studies
Edited by Lori Gruen
Library of Congress QL85.C75 2018 | Dewey Decimal 591.5
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and
other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies to explore these multi-faceted relationships in order to help us understand the ways in which other animals figure in our lives and we in theirs.
Bringing together the work of a group of internationally distinguished scholars, the contribution in Critical Terms for Animal Studies offers distinct voices and diverse perspectives, exploring significant concepts and asking important questions. How do we take non-human animals seriously, not simply as metaphors for human endeavors, but as subjects themselves? What do we mean by anthropocentrism, captivity, empathy, sanctuary, and vulnerability, and what work do these and other critical terms do in Animal Studies?
Sure to become an indispensable reference for the field, Critical Terms for Animal Studies not only provides a framework for thinking about animals as subjects of their own experiences, but also serves as a touchstone to help us think differently about our conceptions of what it means to be human, and the impact human activities have on the more than human world.
From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion
Andrei S. Markovits and Katherine N. Crosby
University of Michigan Press, 2014
Library of Congress HV4708.M356 2014 | Dewey Decimal 179.3
In the wake of the considerable cultural changes and social shifts that the United States and all advanced industrial democracies have experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s, social discourse around the disempowered has changed in demonstrable ways. In From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion, Andrei Markovits and Katherine Crosby describe a "discourse of compassion" that actually alters the way we treat persons and ideas once scorned by the social mainstream. This "culture turn" has also affected our treatment of animals inaugurating an accompanying "animal turn". In the case of dogs, this shift has increasingly transformed the discursive category of the animal from human companion to human family member. One of the new institutions created by this attitudinal and behavioral change towards dogs has been the breed specific canine rescue organization, examples of which have arisen all over the United States beginning in the early 1980s and massively proliferating in the 1990s and subsequent years. While the growing scholarship on the changed dimension of the human-animal relationship attests to its social, political, moral and intellectual salience to our contemporary world, the work presented in Markovits and Crosby's book constitutes the first academic research on the particularly important institution of breed specific dog rescue.
Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
Library of Congress HM671.N87 2006 | Dewey Decimal 320.011
Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent problems of social justice neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms and everyday life, Martha Nussbaum seeks a theory of social justice that can guide us to a richer, more responsive approach to social cooperation. The idea of the social contract—especially as developed in the work of John Rawls—is one of the most powerful approaches to social justice in the Western tradition. But as Nussbaum demonstrates, even Rawls's theory, suggesting a contract for mutual advantage among approximate equals, cannot address questions of social justice posed by unequal parties. How, for instance, can we extend the equal rights of citizenship—education, health care, political rights and liberties—to those with physical and mental disabilities? How can we extend justice and dignified life conditions to all citizens of the world? And how, finally, can we bring our treatment of nonhuman animals into our notions of social justice? Exploring the limitations of the social contract in these three areas, Nussbaum devises an alternative theory based on the idea of "capabilities." She helps us to think more clearly about the purposes of political cooperation and the nature of political principles—and to look to a future of greater justice for all.
In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain
Katarzyna Beilin
The Ohio State University Press, 2015
Library of Congress GV1108.7.M67B45 2015 | Dewey Decimal 791.82
In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain by Katarzyna Olga Beilin takes readers on a journey through the history of alternative thought that challenges mainstream understandings of the relations between the human and nonhuman realms. Weaving through the works of Mariano José de Larra, Eugenio Noel, Luis Buñuel, Luis Martín-Santos, Pedro Almodóvar, Pablo Bérguer, Juan Mayorga, and Rosa Montero, Beilin convincingly demonstrates that "the question of the animal" has long been of particular significance for Spanish culture.
Analyses of the synergy of press debates on bullfighting and the War on Terror, as well as media debates on King Juan Carlos's hunt in Botswana and his resignation, reveal how the concepts structuring human/animal relations condition national biopolitics. Beilin traces a main principle, where sacrifice of some lives is deemed necessary for the sake of others, from bullfighting, through environmental destruction and immigration policies, to bioeconomy. Ultimately, In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics argues that to address ever-increasing threats of global warming and future catastrophes, we urgently need to redefine concepts structuring the human and the nonhuman realms.
Interspecies Politics: Nature, Borders, States
Rafi Youatt
Library of Congress HV4708.Y75 2020 | Dewey Decimal 179.3
This book explores the ways that international politics is a form of interspecies politics, one that involves the interactions, ideas, and practices of multiple species, both human and nonhuman, to generate differences and create commonalities. While we frequently think of having an international politics "of" the environment, a deep and thoroughgoing anthropocentrism guides our idea of what political life can be, which prevents us from thinking about a politics "with" the environment. This anthropocentric assumption about politics drives both ecological degradation and deep forms of interhuman injustice and hierarchy.
Interspecies Politics challenges that assumption, arguing that a truly ecological account of interstate life requires us to think about politics as an activity that crosses species lines. It therefore explores a postanthropocentric account of international politics, focusing on a series of cases and interspecies practices in the American borderlands, ranging from the US-Mexico border in southern Texas, to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, to Isle Royale, near the US-Canadian border. The book draws on international relations, environmental political theory, anthropology, and animal studies, to show how key international dimensions of states—sovereignty, territory, security, rights—are better understood as forms of interspecies assemblage that both generate new forms of multispecies inclusion, and structure forms of violence and hierarchy against human and nonhuman alike.
J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual
Jane Poyner
Ohio University Press, 2006
Library of Congress PR9369.3.C58Z54 2006 | Dewey Decimal 823.914
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In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the contribution Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies.
Taking the author's ethical writing as its theme, the volume is an important addition to understanding Coetzee's fiction and critical thinking. While taking stock of Coetzee's singular, modernist response to the apartheid and postapartheid situations in his early fiction, the volume is the first to engage at length with the later works, Disgrace, The Lives of Animals, and Elizabeth Costello.
J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual explores Coetzee's roles as a South African intellectual and a novelist; his stance on matters of allegory and his evasion of the apartheid censor; his tacit critique of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; his performance of public lectures of his alter ego, Elizabeth Costello; and his explorations into ecofeminism and animal rights. The essays collected here, which include an interview with the Nobel Laureate, provide new vantages from which to consider Coetzee's writing.
Just a Dog: Animal Cruelty, Self, and Society
Arnold Arluke
Library of Congress HV4708.A756 2006 | Dewey Decimal 179.3
Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behaviors. In Just a Dog, Arnold Arluke argues that our current constructs of animal cruelty are decontextualized—imposed without regard to the experience of the groups committing the act. Yet those who engage in animal cruelty have their own understandings of their actions and of themselves as actors. In this fascinating book, Arluke probes those understandings and reveals the surprising complexities of our relationships with animals. Just a Dog draws from interviews with more than 250 people, including humane agents who enforce cruelty laws, college students who tell stories of childhood abuse of animals, hoarders who chronically neglect the welfare of many animals, shelter workers who cope with the ethics of euthanizing animals, and public relations experts who use incidents of animal cruelty for fundraising purposes. Through these case studies, Arluke shows how the meaning of "cruelty" reflects and helps to create identities and ideologies.
The New Ecological Order
Luc Ferry
Library of Congress GF21.F4813 1995 | Dewey Decimal 304.2
Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that Fascism was in the 30s, or Communism under Stalin? In The New Ecological Order, Luc Ferry offers a penetrating critique of the ideological roots of the "Deep Ecology" movement spreading throughout Germany, France, and the United States.
Traditional ecological movements, or "democratic ecology," seek to protect the environment of human societies; they are pragmatic and reformist. But another movement has become the refuge both of nostalgic counterrevolutionaries and of leftist illusions. This is "deep ecology." Its followers go beyond practical critiques of human greed and waste: they call into question the very possibility of human coexistence with nature. The human species is no longer at the center of the world, but subject to a new god called Nature. For these purists, man can only soil the harmony of the universe. In order to secure natural equilibrium, the only solution is to grant rights to animals, to trees, and to rocks.
Ferry launches his critique by examining early European legal cases concerning the status and rights of animals, including a few notorious cases where animals were brought to trial, found guilty, and publicly hanged. He then demonstrates that German Romanticism embraced certain key ideas of the deep ecology movement concerning the protection of animals and the environment. Later adopted by the Nazis, many of these ideas point to a profoundly antihumanistic component of deep ecology that is compatible with totalitarianism.
Ferry shows how deep ecology casts aside all the gains of human autonomy since the Enlightenment. He deciphers the philosophical and political assumptions of a movement that threatens to infantalize human society by preying on the fear of the authority of a new theological-political order. Far from denying our "duty in relation to nature," The New Ecological Order offers a bracing caution—against the dangers of environmental claims and, more important, against the threat to democracy contained in the deep ecology doctrine when pushed to its extreme.
"A book of intellectual power, full of insights, invention, and not without temerity, from one of the best political philosophers today."—Le Figaro
"Few books have analyzed in depth this phenomenon of the ecological movement as the most recent book by Luc Ferry has done. . . . It is a book that absolutely must be read."—Le Point
The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America
Susan J. Pearson
Library of Congress HV741.P437 2011 | Dewey Decimal 362.7097309034
In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in the welfare of both humans and animals. In The Rights of the Defenseless, Susan J. Pearson seeks to understand the institutional, cultural, legal, and political significance of the perceived bond between these two kinds of helpless creatures, and the attempts made to protect them.
Unlike many of today's humane organizations, those Pearson follows were delegated police powers to make arrests and bring cases of cruelty to animals and children before local magistrates. Those whom they prosecuted were subject to fines, jail time, and the removal of either animal or child from their possession. Pearson explores the limits of and motivation behind this power and argues that while these reformers claimed nothing more than sympathy with the helpless and a desire to protect their rights, they turned "cruelty" into a social problem, stretched government resources, and expanded the state through private associations. The first book to explore these dual organizations and their storied history, The Rights of the Defenseless will appeal broadly to reform-minded historians and social theorists alike.
Unleashing Rights: Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement
Helena Silverstein
Library of Congress HV4708.S555 1996 | Dewey Decimal 179.3
Unleashing Rights is a study of the animal rights movement's efforts to advance social reform through the deployment of legal language and practices. The study looks at how prevailing understandings of rights language have shaped the attempt to put forth the idea that animals have rights, and how this attempt, in turn, offers the opportunity to reconstruct the meaning of rights. The book also examines the way litigation has influenced the movement's activities and opportunities for success.
Presented here is an investigation of the legal system through a decentered, cultural approach. Legal languages and practices are viewed as a part of everyday life--constructed, used, and interpreted not only by those who run official legal institutions but also by everyday people with a legal consciousness. Using this approach, the book questions whether the deployment of rights and litigation by animal rights advocates has challenged prevailing legal meaning.
Looking to both the constitutive and instrumental aspects of law, and to how each informs the other, Unleashing Rights finds that the resort to rights and litigation has advanced movement goals and contributed to alternative constructions of legal meaning. The study concludes that despite their many constraints, both rights talk and litigation are powerful resources for those who seek change, especially when used by strategically minded activists.
Unleashing Rights is a book that illustrates the relationship between law, social movement activism, and social change. The book joins the ongoing debate within public law scholarship that is concerned with the effectiveness of legal strategies and languages. The book also speaks to those interested in the general study of social movements and in the particular study of the animal rights movement. With its cultural approach focused on rights language and the construction of meaning, the work will be of interest to the disciplines of law and political science, as well as those who study sociology, anthropology, and philosophy.
Helena Silverstein is F. M. Kirby Assistant Professor of Government and Law, Lafayette College.
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Allowed to Grow Old
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Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues
Reflections on Redecorating Nature
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Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
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Coming from the central-south of Chile, this band surprised me with one of the best albums ever made. Emotions, Melancholy in its purest form created by two individuals who succeeded in letting me feel inner emotions and feelings I never felt before. Since the first day I heard there album 'Sounds of Pain'? I'm addicted to it, seldom an album made so much impact on me as this one did. The loneliness of Uarals music is surrounded by an unique beauty of desperateness and hope embracing each other. I felt very honoured when both members, Aciago and Caudal agreed with doing an interview with me, they answered it in their own style full of poetry. Listen their music and understand its wisdom.
Can you please introduce Uaral.
Uaral is the logical consequence of the need of musical expression, shaped from personal and familiar experiences, and our Chilean country-field.
About a half year ago I heard your debut album 'Sounds of Pain' for the first time. Immediately I was totally into it. The music on this album is just amazing, long acoustic parts with lots of traditional Chilean folk elements mixed with doom metal. All played in a very convincing way. Did it take a long time to write and record the 8 songs on this album?
Uaral remained slept for a long time, since our childhood, only amending the day we met face to face, staring at the field, the guitar and our sorrow. To immortalize it required trust, but at the end, time made us grow up young, at that moment 'Sounds Of Pain' gave us life….
All songs on 'Sounds of Pain' sounds like they come direct from your heart and soul. It?'s played and sang with so much emotion, it must have been very intensive for you guys to record this music, wasn?t it?
It was one of the most intense moments of our lives, were we gave our souls, and were we sadly smiling looked how time was running out and Uaral didn't satiate its hunger for rage and pain.
What does the name Uaral means? And what does this mean to you?
Once, when we were kids, and lost on a hill, under the disconsolate cry of the rain and the thrilling singing of the Queltehue, we went down to an apple-tree field and found a shortcut through an acacio. There was an old man with a baroque guitar, with his name tattooed on it. That name was Uaral. Our blood was reflected in his vein, he was older than time, he was a farmer, a worker of the fields, old, wise, a world traveller. In his voice there was a lonely breath shining on. The moments we spent with he taught us the reasons why. For a long time we spoke, we unloaded our hopelessness for an unknown destiny. Touched by the honesty of our cry, he told us 'I see in both of you the mirror of my childhood'. There started a relationship full of emotions and learning, were Uaral told us his stories of life and death, stories of solitude and hope, of resignation and perseverance. He showed us the gentle face of our evicted and offended country-field on his guitar and in his songs. We saw how introverted feelings were moulded in our personalities, which became identified with his poems and music. Since then we started to wander into paths of desolation and madness. With time, we added the anger of the pain, the melancholy of the cry. And one day, without even notice, the feeling of our land and the need of relief in the loneliness of the hill made Aciago play with the hands of Uaral all the harmonies of an evicted farmer and ordered Caudal take care of the vocal expression of fury and cry that Uaral lived through his ancestry. That day, Uaral showed us the pain made family… the pain made music. All our expressions are his feelings, and our feelings are the reflection of the mature desolation that Uaral carried and expressed, that's the reason why the strings have an old sounding, Uaral is playing it, his tears are immortal… for us Uaral is the life.
Uaral is a band of only 2 persons, Aciago (responsible for all music) and Caudal (responsible for the vocals). I think you guys must be soul mates/ best friends of each other, to create such an intense and emotional music together, is this correct?
We wandered a long time carrying the grief and pain of solitude on our shoulders. The day of the shortcut through the acacio, Uaral showed us that relief was in the family… and that was music.
On most parts on the album we only hear a acoustic guitar, yet it's full of melancholy and emotions, in a way that gives me gooseflesh all over, even after hearing your music a thousand times, I can't get enough of it. Especially during these acoustic guitar parts the music of Uaral is on it's best. It's very difficult to create with so less instruments such an amazing result.
Once pain became family it was born and raised up, no one knew where it came from. It is just the reflection of a dying Chile.
In the beginning of the song 'La Vaga Esperanza del ser' there's a lady who's singing a little song. You (Caudal) told me that lady is your grandmother. What kind of song is she singing, is it a traditional song?
You're playing all the instruments on the album; which are (when I hear it correctly) acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, drums, piano, keyboard and flute. All is played in a very skilful way. How did you learn playing all those instruments?
I remember the day when I first looked at my father's Epitaph guitar, with the eyes of an abandoned and sad kid. Between tears and silence I opened the empty, yet filled with his loneliness, room. I?ve found a coffin and opened with my sight, looked at its writings and wondered: Why can?t I find out about his art and bitterness? So I went deeper into his being… the very first thing I saw was the music, checking out his notes I found my heritage, the cry of a guitar, guitar stained with a loneliness which buried him down. Daylight reminded me about my and his sadness every moment, which still makes me company. Since that day the string are running into my veins, and with its wonderful resonance that burns inside of me with soft whips… thanks to the heritage, the way to represent Uaral was born.
I guess you are practicing all instruments, especially the guitar, a lot each day, is this correctly?
Days and night next to her, oh! My guitar 'Maria Elena', she is used not to smile since the very first day she met me. She reminds me to Uaral at every moment, at every arpeggio, at every melody, it's born so sincerely from her that sometimes I can express what she recites me, however , she understands me more than anyone and teaches me to live and feel the pain. Her singing-mates follow her wherever she goes.
What is for you the main source of inspiration during the writing process of a new song?
My eternal pain with the company of my family and the land. I just close my eyes and listen to the guitar, she feels much more than I do.
What's your favourite Uaral song, and why?
You're responsible for all vocals on the album. During the song we can hear you screaming, grunting, singing with a clean voice, speaking, whispering and even crying. Is it hard for you to translate your inner emotions into a special kind of singing?
Are you also responsible for all lyrics on the album, actually it aren't lyrics, it are poems. What?s for you the main source of inspiration during the writing process of a new poem?
All the poetry of Uaral is mutual and the ancient taste of its feelings. Feelings are the shelter of our essence. When my eyelids fall, I enter deep inside of myself, this is the place where I will find the precious solitude and calm that sometimes run away because of my cry… then I can see clearly with eyes of my soul. I'm getting old, trying to calm down the brutal anger for relief, that tortures me everyday. And then, when I open my eyes, surrendered by the light, my book dressed up with mourning and teaches me to write with perfect words about the pain….
Some poems are in the Spanish Language, others in English. Is it harder for you to translate your emotions to English words than translate it into Spanish words (which is your native language)?
Is not a problem to me, English makes it more understandable for the universe of dialect. In the need to explore new horizons, there was no time for pride.
You told me that during the recordings of the album you where in a very bad period of your life, some very heart rending things happened in your private life. Did those thing also helped you by creating such an emotional, yet beautiful album?
The chronically depression that I carry because of the legacy of my losses, gives my feeling a beautiful and bitter touch. Sometimes as drops of hope, but always with storms of suffering. In loneliness I tried for years to handle the wounds of my soul. But when the country-land and my blood showed me their melodies, I spread as slopes the desperate melancholy of my feelings, and when the sounds took shape… the pain understood my cry… the land receives my seeds…. and my tears waters the cultivated field. When the sound translate its pale and decadent brightness, Uaral transforms my expressions in a Caudal of emotions….
Questions for both of you.
Since the beginning of Uaral in 1996 you've released 2 demos. Are there lots of musical differences between those 2 demos and the Sound of Pain album?
Although there are some doom metal parts on a few songs, I think Uaral isn't a metal band. How do you see this, do you see Uaral as a metal band, as a folk band, or as what? And why?
Both of you are coming from the southern part of Chile, where traditional music is still quite popular. Was it important to add influences of traditional music into the music of Uaral?
Actually , from the centre-south part of Chile, in the mountain-chains zone of Curico.
Including traditional music was something natural, it is impossible not to express ourselves this way, we were born and raise next to the Cueca, the Paya, The Rayuela and the Piden getting lost in the Canal spreading its hate and bitterness in a sad song. Uaral digged down the land, in the farmer surrendered to his Azadon, that Azadon that tear his hand apart, as the sun tattoos the wounds of time on his back… Uaral belongs to the land as we said before… No!, the land belongs to Uaral!
Are you guys listen a lot to traditional music yourself?
When we were kids we smiled with it, it taught us to dream, to work in the fields with joy, it taught us to help the grandpa to earn the bread with the sunset. It is beautiful to go out at night and find yourself with the Rayuela and its singers, they give us their wisdom and wine, and with their humble smile they make rimes to the life, making laugh to all the personages in the game, and with their arms raised high scream 'VIVA CHILE MIERDA', and they finish the wine from their cups.
There are many singers who thought like we do, they rescue many times the happiness of our folklore, but in their chests is the knowledge that life in the country is a very bitter drink, as the heat of the fire surrender to the dying ashes and sorrow….
On your website I found this sentence: 'The Most Horrible way of representing Beauty', I think this is the best summary of the music Uaral creates. It really tells what to expect while listening your album. Do you agree with this?
What does the 'Potrero Grande' river means to you guys? Is it important in your life?
You're both from Chile, do you think you where able to create the same music as you make now, when you both where born in a complete different place on earth?
Since some months you do have a website online. The site looks beautiful. Do you think it's important to have a website?
Uaral deserves it, the website is a mirror where we are pleased to watch our faces.
Is Uaral also playing live shows? I can imagine your music will be very beautiful and intense at a lonely/cold night with only vocals and an acoustic guitar in front of a fire at the river side with silhouettes of mountains on the background.
The only direct musical contact with other people is with our family and closer friends.
Will Uaral always be you guys, Aciago and Caudal, or would it be possible that someone else will join you guys in the future?
The last words are for you guys.
Alrededor de dos meses atrás, escuché su álbum debut Sounds of Pain por primera vez e inmediatamente me interesó. La música en su álbum es simplemente increíble: largas fases acústicas con elementos folclóricos chilenos. Todo esto mezclado con Doom metal y tocado de forma muy convincente. ¿Les tomó mucho tiempo componer y grabar los 8 temas que contiene el álbum?
Uaral había dormido desde antaño en nuestra niñez, solamente emano el día en que nos encontramos frente a frente, mirando el campo, la guitarra y nuestra pena. Inmortalizarlo, nos costo confianza, pero al llegar la hora, el tiempo nos hizo madurar jóvenes, en ese momento Sounds of Pain nos regaló la vida.
Todas las canciones de Sounds of Pain suenan como sí vinieran directamente desde su alma y su corazón. Están cantadas y tocadas con tal emoción que debe haber sido muy intenso para ustedes grabarlas. ¿Fue así?
Fue el momento más intenso de nuestras vidas, donde entregamos el alma y donde penosamente sonriendo veíamos como el tiempo se terminaba yUaral no saciaba su hambre de ira y dolor.
¿Qué significa Uaral (como concepto)? Y ¿Qué significa Uaral para ustedes?
Uaral es una banda conformada por solo dos personas: Aciago, responsable de toda la música, y Caudal, responsable de las voces. Personalmente creo que deben ser amigos o compañeros del alma para crear y compartir tan intensa y emocional música. ¿Es correcto?
Vagamos mucho tiempo llevando en los hombros el desconsuelo y dolor de la soledad, ese día del atajo en el Acacio, Uaral nos mostró que en la familia estaba el desahogo… Eso se hizo música.
En muchas partes del álbum, escuchamos solamente una guitarra acústica llena de melancolía y emoción. Esto me eriza la piel de tal forma incluso después de escucharla miles de veces; nunca me harto de ella especialmente en estas partes que para mí son las mejores. Es muy difícil crear con tan pocos instrumentos tan increíble resultado. ¿Lo habían pensado antes? ¿Están de acuerdo conmigo?
Cuando el dolor se hizo familia, nació y se creó, nadie sabe como se hizo, sólo es el reflejo de un Chile moribundo.
Sounds of Pain es, a mis ojos, un viaje real por los más hermosos fantasmas del recuerdo y a la vez por los más desolados momentos que he experimentado durante toda mi vida. El álbum es una conjunción de opuestos: en sentimientos, belleza y soledad; en música, suavidad y rudeza, modestia y agresividad; en voces, susurros y gritos… en general en todo.En el comienzo de la canción "La Vaga Esperanza del Ser," hay una señora cantando una corta canción. Caudal me dijo que esa señora es su abuela. ¿Qué tipo de canción está cantando? ¿Es una canción tradicional de Chile?
Tú tocas todos los instrumentos del álbum que son—si escuché bien—guitarra acústica, bajo, guitarra eléctrica, batería, piano, teclado y flauta. Todos estos instrumentos están tocados muy virtuosamente. ¿Cómo aprendiste a tocarlos?
Creo que practicas los instrumentos que ya te mencioné mucho cada día—especialmente la guitarra. ¿Es correcto?
Días y noches junto a ella, OH! Mi guitarra "Maria Elena", se acostumbró a no sonreír desde que me conoció, ella me recuerda a Uaral a cada instante, a cada arpegio, a cada melodía, nace tan sinceramente de ella que a veces no logro traspasar lo que ella me recita, eso sí, me entiende mas que nadie y me enseña a vivir y a sentir el dolor… Sus compañeros de canto la siguen donde ella quiera.
¿Cuál es tu principal fuente de inspiración durante el proceso de escribir una nueva canción?
¿Cuál es tu canción favorita de Uaral y por qué?
Todo árbol quiere por igual a sus ramas, pero si alguna de ellas se quiebra, vienen cientos de hachazos del Huaso tratando de abatir al tronco.
Tú eres el responsable de las voces del álbum. Durante una canción, te escuchamos gritando, grujiendo, cantando con voz limpia, hablando, susurrando e incluso llorando. ¿Es difícil para ti trasladar tus emociones a alguna forma especial de canto?
La cordillera de emociones que están en mi pecho invernó por muchos años, pense que estas mas pronto que tarde me traerían la muerte, pero aquel día del atajo en el Acacio, Uaral escuchó mis lamentos y le expresé mi sinceridad, mis miedos, mi resignación, mi furia… mi soledad. La dificultad no fue un obstáculo, yo nací para eso.
Tú eres el responsable de las letras del álbum, de hecho no son letras sino poemas. ¿Cuál es tu mayor fuente de inspiración cuando escribes un poema?
Algunospoemas están en Españolmientrasque otros en Inglés. ¿Es difícil parati trasladar tus emociones al inglés siendo que tu lengua materna es el español?
No es un problema para mí… eso lo hace más entendible para el universo del dialecto. En la necesidad de explorar nuevos horizontes, no quedo tiempo para el orgullo.
Me contaste que durante la grabación del álbum estabas en un periodo muy triste de tu vida; asuntos muy difíciles ocurrieron en tu vida privada en ese entonces. ¿Estos asuntos ayudaron a crear este álbum tan hermoso y cargado de sentimientos?
Tengo la sensación de que los llantos en el outro de Sounds of Pain y en la canción Uaral son de verdad estabas llorando y no fingiendo que lo hacías. ¿Es verdad?
Desde el principio de Uaral en 1996, han realizado dos demos. ¿Hay muchas diferencias entre estos demos y el álbum Sounds of Pain?
Aunque hay mucho de doom metal en algunas canciones, yo no creo que Uaral sea una banda de metal. ¿Cómo lo ven ustedes: creen que Uaral es una banda de metal, una banda de folclore o una banda de qué? Y ¿por qué?
En nuestros internos hay demasiada música, cada una de ellas representa un sentimiento, escogimos sin querer los mejores estilos de la música, el mejor arado del campo, la Callana mas tibia con la cual, sacio de harina tostada mi vino, escogimos la sinceridad de la hermosa gente que nos conoce desde niños… e aquí el nombre de nuestro estilo: "Agonic Doom Metal Campesino".
Los dos vienen del sur de Chile donde la música tradicional del país es aún muy popular. ¿Fue importante incluir influencias de su música tradicional en la música de Uaral?
Más bien de la zona cordillerana Centro Sur (Curicó). Incluir la música tradicional fue algo natural, es imposible no expresarse así, nacimos y nos criamos junto a la Cueca, a la Paya, la Rayuela, junto al Pidén perdiéndose en el canal derrochando su odio y amargura en un canto triste… Uaral indagó en la tierra, en el campesino resignado a su Azadón, aquel azadón que rompe sus manos, mientas, el sol tatúa las heridas del tiempo en su espalda… Uaral pertenece a la tierra como antes se dijo, No! La tierra pertenece a Uaral.
¿Escuchan mucha música de su país?
En su web site, encontré esta frase: "…the most horrible way of representing beauty," creo que es la mejor forma de resumir la música de Uaral; realmente dice que esperar al momento de escuchar el álbum. ¿Están de acuerdo? Completamente… Salud!!!
¿Qué significa el río Potrero Grande para ustedes? ¿Es importante en su vida?
Sí los dos son de Chile, ¿Creen que habrían sido capaces de crear la misma música que hacen hoy sí hubiesen nacido en una parte completamente diferente del planeta?
¿Uaral hace presentaciones en vivo? Me imagino escuchando su música en una hermosa e intensa fría noche con solo voces y guitarras acústicas en frente de una chimenea al lado de un río con las siluetas de las montañas en el fondo.
El único contacto musical directo con personas es con nuestra familia y gente cercana a nosotros.
¿Uaral será siempre Aciago y caudal, o sería posible incluir a alguien más en el futuro?
Claramente a nadie, aunque se sabe que existen grandes músicos, pero ellos no han vivido ni sienten nuestras realidades… nosotros llevamos la misma sangre en las venas, aquel día del atajo en el Acacio, se sentenció el futuro de Aciago y Caudal, en un complemento perfecto, por la eternidad… Salud!!!.
Estas fueron mis preguntas; las últimas palabras son para ustedes: ¡escriban lo que ustedes quieran!


Finally, we have 2 viewings lined up this Saturday. One is for the 1969 Yellow Boler, and the second a 1987 BigFoot.
Assuming they are both of equal condition (good frame, etc) I wouldn't mind people's opinion's on this - experience goes a long way.
I'm torn b/c I love the lines of the boler (wheel well etc.) h/e the Bigfoot is newer.
I just talked with the owner of the Bigfoot and he says the price is 'low' (4400) b/c he found water damage to the plywood sub-floor. He indicated the floor has fiberglass, then plywood on top with carpet covering. He's removed one section of wood and replaced it, but says there's another section that's water-stained. The BF has sat for 2 years and the owner didn't know if things worked (this is the second one) I can't imagine not knowing if my appliances worked, or putting something for sale without ensuring lights etc were in working order. Anyway, he thinks it may be the door seal that has caused the water 'damage' but isn't sure. I figure the worst case scenario would be new window and door seals, but I'm not sure what that would run.
The BF has sat for 2 years and the owner didn't know if things worked (this is the second one) I can't imagine not knowing if my appliances worked, or putting something for sale without ensuring lights etc were in working order.
If it's sat for 2 years, the "owner" may not be intimately interested in the trailer itself, just the value that could be realized from it. Some sellers are less motivated than others. I personally would be more interested in the Bigfoot, because it has a more "upscale" all wood interior, with "cushier" upholstery, wall covering, and window treatments. That large side window is a plus. I would be wary of odors/stains that might indicate water damage behind the insulation/wall covering.
I can not give an opinion on the Bigfoot but I do have a Boler and I just love that little yellow fellow you are interested in.If ya don't buy it let us all know where it is.I am not very handy nor is my hubby.When we were looking for a trailer we were willing to pay a bit more to ensure that what we bought would only need minimal fixing up.Things we could do ourselves.Any water damage was a No No.Even being as thorough as we were when viewing trailers we still had a few problems that had to be delt with by someone more savy than us in the electrical system.Paying to have the work done by someone is not cheap.I would be sure you are able to handle any repairs.Parts for the older trailers are also hard to come by,at least in the area we live in.Good luck and happy camping.
I've visited many older trailers that were in much better shape than newer ones. Care/maintenance is everything. So I would visit many trailers and take them on a case-by-case basis and not pay too much attention to the year, especially for 20+ year old units.
Driving on parkways and parking in driveways.
Thanks for the feedback. I've learned that the yellow Boler's frame has been reinforced. Does anyone see this as being a problem? and is this common with these trailers (or of this 'vintage')?
Also, the 1969 has a 'large water bottle' vs a tank. Does anyone know if this is common with the 69? Or has the tank been removed over the years. Would it be possible to add an aftermarket water tank.
Or has the tank been removed over the years.
I can't comment on the frame question, but I think you should expect most trailers from that era to have been altered in one way or another. Water tanks are probably one of the most likely things to have been replaced, or sometimes removed altogether to gain storage space. You should be able to put in a new one if that's what you want to do, or there are other things you can do as well - you should find some ideas on this forum.
Finding a forty year old trailer that's completely stock and original is going to be a.... challenge. Plastic (pipe, containers, vent covers, hatches) deteriorate over time and will need to be replace/have been replaced or are flat not there anymore. If it were me, and it's not, I'm just want to make sure all the changes/modifications were done using professional products and professional techniques. There's certainly nothing wrong with a trailer that's been updated and modified... if done well.
Personally, I like the Bigfoot... love that big window!
It sounds like you havn't seen either trailer yet. After you get a look at both I would be very surprised if you choose the Boler, unless the water damage scares you. Someone already mentioned the wood cabinets(more overhead storage), 18 years improvements in construction, 18 yrs less wear and tear on the Bigfoot . The Bigfoot should have a screen door as well.
The Boler hinges are .... different. If they work, I suppose it would be fine, but I wouldn't call them the most aesthetically pleasing mod. The belly band on the Boler looks like it's either been repair or replaced. I think I see a joint on the right hand side of the picture... and doesn't the band look "round" rather than square or rectangle? Of course the rack on top isn't original either. Unless there has been some modification done on the inside... like roof ribs, I wouldn't put a whole lot of weight up there.
On edit. The door has been fixed too... there's at least six rivets(?) that I can see that weren't original. Wonder if there's magazine rack on the inside now? Looks like it was well done, the door fits from what I can see in this one picture.
I think I remember that the door had a cable/turnbuckle affair on it that I felt was not very attractive.
Bill, thanks for your input - the Bigfoot does have the screen door. You're right, and the large window/storage is a plus. From what I've learned, it also has a water tank which the Boler doesn't have (I learned today that it has a water 'jug' - although I'm not exactly sure what this means). I picture the typical blue camping jug for water.
As for the water damage - this doesn't concern me too much. The wood can be skill-sawed out as it's only the subfloor, and of course, the seals can be replaced.
It's good to get other people's feedback.
Donna: I see what you mean RE the belly band, and good point about the roof rack if it hasn't been reinforced. I hadn't considered that. The hinges and door hasp are clearly aftermarket (more pics in the '1969 Boler' thread).
Fred: Good call on doing the sniff test for mold or the like behind the walls.
I think what has me torn is the fact that the Boler is...well, a Boler and that it just looks good. The yellow wouldn't be my first choice in color, but it looks 'polished' if you follow.
If the BigFoot were painted I think it would have the same appeal - I'm a graphics guy, visually motivated, and I think this explains my fondness for the Boler. Again the lines on the wheelwells are great too.
Anyway, seeing them will clear things up. I'm not afraid of some work. We've been renovating our home for the past 3 years, floor to cieling. Anything in either trailer will be small in comparison (and more of a hobby) - heck a guy's gotta stay busy with a toy of some sort.
Thanks again for the opinions and insights everyone.


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\section{Introduction}

Memristors have been proposed as new electronic devices with promising analog/digital and neuromorphic applications
\cite{shin2010memristor,zidan2014compensated,fouda2019spiking,wu2019enhanced,karimi2019novel,fouda2014memristor}. Their characteristic behavior is a pinched hysteresis loop in the current-voltage plane \cite{ascoli2015nonlinear}. Many circuits (known as emulators) have been introduced to mimic the memristor's behavior  \cite{ranjan2018high,petrovic2019tunable,elwakil2013simple,alharbi2017electrical,fouda2014simple}. Although this behavior has been shown to exist in other nonlinear devices such as a non-linear inductor or a non-linear capacitor \cite{fouda2015pinched,corinto2012memristive,sadecki2019analysis}, and that its appearance is linked to satisfying the necessary conditions of the theory of Lissajous figures  \cite{maundy2019correlation, maundy2018simple, weilnhammer2016perceptual}, it is still mistakenly attributed  to memristors only. There are actually doubts about the uniqueness of the memristor as a fundamental device which have been raised by several researchers (see \cite{abraham2018case} and the references therein) but there is no doubt that it is a dynamic and nonlinear device \cite{riaza2014comment,elwakil2013simple, non}. Without being nonlinear, the frequency-doubling mechanism mandated by the theory of Lissajous figures, which is essential to create a pinched loop (as explained in detail in \cite{maundy2019correlation} and most recently in \cite{MAJZOUB}) cannot be obtained. It is important to note that even if the memristor was not a fundamental device, it may still be a useful nonlinear device. Therefore, semi-conductor devices labeled as memristors continue to be fabricated in different technologies and materials \cite{babacan2018fabrication, bio} and are now commercially available from some vendors (see for example www.knowm.com).

Any memristive system is generally defined as
\cite{chua1976memristive,radwan2015mathematical}

\begin{align}
y=g(x,u,t)u \nonumber\\
\dot{x}=f(x,u,t) \nonumber
\end{align}
where $u$ and $y$ are the input and output of the system and $x$ is the state variable. To identify a device as a memristor, it has to have three fingerprints
\cite{adhikari2013three,radwan2015mathematical}
: 1) a pinched loop  in current-voltage plane with
2)  a loop area that decreases monotonically with increasing frequency and 3) shrink to a single-valued function when the frequency tends to infinity. This  does not mean that pinched hysteresis loops cannot be observed in other devices or circuits (with increasing or decreasing loop area).

In this paper, we provide  two examples of  simple fundamental circuits, namely  nonlinear series and parallel resonators, that can exhibit the pinched hysteresis loop behavior. Mathematical models are derived and numerically validated with a diode-type asymmetric switching nonlinearity and also with an odd-symmetric nonlinearity formed of two anti-parallel diodes. Experimental results are  provided and confirm the theory. The formation of a pinched loop from these circuits confirms our previous assertions \cite{fouda2015pinched,maundy2019correlation} that:
\begin{enumerate}
\item pinched hystersis is not a finger-print of memristors only,
\item  pinched loops with lobe area widening (rather than declining) with increased frequency are possible and
\item the existence of a nonlinearity is essential for generating this behavior. This is because the theory of Lissajous figures necessitates the generation of a second harmonic frequency in the electrical current $i(t)$ when the applied voltage on the device $v(t)$ has only one fundamental frequency (see \cite{MAJZOUB} for a more detailed explanation).
\end{enumerate}

We further demonstrate the use of the generated pinched loop behavior in realizing digital logic AND/OR gates. With this, we aim to show that research in the possible applications of pinched loops \cite{app1, app2} can be conducted without restricting this behavior to memristors.

\section{Nonlinear resonators}

\subsection{Series RLC Resonator}

A simple nonlinear resonator circuit is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:sercit} composed of a series RLC resonance circuit interrupted by a voltage-controlled switching nonlinearity (denoted $f(x)$) placed across the capacitor. The circuit is excited by a sinusoidal signal $v_{in}(t)=V_{DC}+V_A\sin(\omega t)$. In its simplest form, the switching device can be a single diode and in this case the circuit is described by the equation set

\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
C\frac{dv_{C}}{dt}=i_{L}-i_{f},\\
L\frac{di_{L}}{dt}=v_{in} -Ri_{L}-v_{C}
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
where $v_C$ and $i_L$ are respectively the voltage and current across the capacitor and in the inductor while $i_f$ is the nonlinear device current given by

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering{\includegraphics[width=60mm]{Schematic.pdf}}
\caption{Nonlinear series resonator circuit with diode-based nonlinear switches.}
\label{fig:sercit}
\end{figure}

\begin{equation}
i_f=i_{D}=\left\{ \begin{array}{cc}
(v_{C}-v_{\gamma})/R_{D} & \:\:v_{C}\geq v_{\gamma}\\
0 & \:\:v_{C}<v_{\gamma}
\end{array}\right.
\end{equation}
where $R_D$ is the diode switch-on resistance while $v_{\gamma}$ is the switch-on voltage (approximately $0.6 V$ for silicon devices). Introducing the dimensionless variables: $x=v_{C}/v_{\gamma},y=Ri_{L}/v_{\gamma},a=R/R_{D},b=R^2C/L, A=V_{DC}/v_{\gamma}, B=V_A/v_{\gamma}$, a normalized frequency $\omega_n=\omega RC$ and a normalized time $t_n=t/RC$, the above equations transform into
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
\frac{dx}{dt_n}=y-f(x),\\
\frac{dy}{dt_n}=b\left(g(t_n )-y-x\right)
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
with $g(t_n)=A+B\sin(\omega_n t_n)$  being the sinusoidal excitation and $f(x)$ being the nonlinearity. In the case of the switching-diode, $f(x)$ is asymmetric and  given by

\begin{equation}
f(x)=\left\{ \begin{array}{cc}
a(x-1) & \;x\geq1\\
0 & \;x<1
\end{array}\right.
\end{equation}
Numerical simulations of this model were performed using the ode45 solver in MATLAB with $A=1,b=0.2,B=2$ for different values of $a$ and $\omega_n$ as shown in Figs. \ref{fig:serNum}(a) and 2(b) which plot the observed pinched loop in the $g(t_n)-y(t_n)$ plane; i.e.  in the $v_i-i_L$ plane of the circuit. Therefore, this pinched-loop represents an impedance analogous to the "memristance". It is noted from these simulations that the lobe area increases with increasing the value of the parameter $a$  and also with increasing the frequency $\omega_n$. Note that $\omega_n$ can also be written as $\omega_n=\omega\cdot BW/\omega_{r}^{2}$ where $\omega_r=1/\sqrt{LC}$ is the resonance frequency and $BW=R/L$ is the resonance bandwidth. Hence, satisfying a certain value of $\omega_n$ is achieved not only by changing the applied excitation signal frequency $\omega$ but also by adjusting the resonance bandwidth and resonance frequency.

\begin{figure}[h]
 \centering{\includegraphics[width=130mm]{Different.pdf}}
 \caption{Numerical simulation results of the nonlinear model of the series resonator circuit with (a), (b) a single diode-nonlinearity  and (c), (d) with two anti-parallel diodes.  The effect of  different values of parameter $a$ at $\omega_n=0.1$ are shown in  (a) and (c) and the effect of different values of $\omega_n$ at $a=1$ are shown in  (b) and (d)}
\label{fig:serNum}
\end{figure}

Based on the detailed analysis and explanation of \cite{maundy2019correlation}, the appearance of the pinched loop in this nonlinear resonator is a result of satisfying the conditions of the theory of Lissajous figures. In particular, the nonlinearity $f(x)$ is responsible for generating a strong second-harmonic  in the current signal $y(t)$ with a normalized frequency $2\omega_n$. The existence of this harmonic can easily be verified from the  FFT of $y(t)$. So long as the phase shift between this harmonic and the fundamental frequency component remains less than $\pi/2$,  the pinched-loop will be observable \cite{maundy2019correlation}. The location of the pinch point can be found  using the general equations derived in \cite{maundy2019correlation}.  When the diode-type nonlinearity is replaced with an odd-symmetric one, such as a cubic-type nonlinearity  or the nonlinearity resulting from two anti-parallel diodes given by (5) (see appendix), two pinched-points are obtained in this case as shown in Figs. \ref{fig:serNum}(c) and (d)  for the parameter values $A=0,b=0.2$  and $B=2$.A pure sinusoid  is used in this case for excitation ($A=0$).

\begin{equation}
f(x)=\left\{ \begin{array}{cc}
a(x-1) & \;x\geq1\\
0 & \;-1<x<1\\
a(x+1) & \;x\leq -1
\end{array}\right.
\end{equation}

Shaping of the pinched-loop is thus clearly related to the choice of the  function $f(x)$. In particular, the odd-symmetric nonlinearity generates a third-order harmonic from the applied fundamental frequency of the excitation voltage. The total number of pinch points in a Lissajous figure formed from two sinusoids with frequencies $p \cdot \omega$ and $q \cdot \omega$ is known to equal $q(p-1)+p(q-1)$ which is equal to 2 when $p=1$ and $q=3$.

\subsection{ Parallel RLC Resonator}

Another  nonlinear resonator circuit is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:parcit} composed of a parallel RLC resonance circuit interrupted by nonlinearity placed in series  with the inductor. $C_p$ is a parasitic capacitor that must be included in the analysis since the non-linearity is voltage-controlled. In this case the circuit is described by the equation set

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering{\includegraphics[width=45mm]{par.JPG}}
\caption{Nonlinear parallel resonator circuit}
\label{fig:parcit}
\end{figure}

\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
RC\frac{dv_{C}}{dt}=v_{in}-v_C-i_L R, \\
L \frac{di_L}{dt}=v_c-v_{c_p},\\
C_p \frac{v_{c_p}}{dt}=i_L-i_f
 \end{align}
\end{subequations}

With the same dimensionless variables introduced in the previous subsection, the above equations can be written as

\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
\frac{dx}{dt_n}=g(t_n )-x-y, \\
\frac{dy}{dt_n}={b}(x-z)\\
\epsilon \frac{dz}{dt_n}=y-f(z)
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
where $z=i_D R/v_\gamma$, $\epsilon=C_p/C$ and $f(z)$ is the switching nonlinearity function given by (4) or (5). When $\epsilon$ tends to zero, (7c) yields $y=f(z)$.

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering{\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{Different_parallel}}
\caption{Numerical simulation results of the nonlinear model of the parallel resonator circuit with a single diode-nonlinearity and with two anti-parallel diodes: (a), (c) at $\omega_n=0.1$ for different values of $a$ and (b), (d) {at $a=1$ } for different values of $\omega_n$}
\label{fig:parNum}
\end{figure}

Figure \ref{fig:parNum} shows the numerical simulation of (7) with $A=1,b=0.2,B=2$  and $\epsilon=0.01$. The area enclosed inside the lobes increases with increasing the frequency $\omega_n$ but decreases with increasing the value of parameter $a$.

\section{Experimental results}
The nonlinear series resonator circuit was experimentally tested with discrete components $L=1mH$, $C=5.6 nF$, $R=10k \Omega$ and using a 1N914 diode. Figure \ref{fig:serexp} shows the observed pinched loop when the excitation voltage has an offset voltage $V_{DC}=1V$, an amplitude of $V_A=2V$ and at different frequencies. The current in the resistor was measured using a differential probe.\\
At $100Hz$ (see Fig. \ref{fig:serexp}(a)) it is seen that the $v_i-i_L$ portrait resembles the diode characteristics as expected. As frequency increases, the pinched loop formation is observed in Figs. \ref{fig:serexp}(b), (c) and (d). The voltage and current  waveforms corresponding to the portrait of Fig. \ref{fig:serexp}(d) are shown in Fig. \ref{fig:serexptime}. Adding another diode with opposite polarity in parallel to the diode in the circuit, a loop with two pinch points is seen in Fig. \ref{fig:serexpfft}(a) as predicted numerically. The applied voltage in this case  had no offset value ($V_{DC}=0V$), an amplitude of $V_A=7V$ and a $1kHz$ frequency. The corresponding power spectrum of the current signal $i_L$ is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:serexpfft}(b) from which it is visible that strong odd harmonics have been generated. However, the two pinched points are created because the phase angle between the fundamental  signal at $1kHz$ and the generated third-order harmonic at $3kHz$ is less than $\pi/2$ satisfying the Lissajous conditions \cite{maundy2019correlation}. The remaining harmonics contribute to the shape of the loop but not to the creation of the pinch-points.

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering{\includegraphics[width=70mm]{serexp}}
\caption{Results from an experimental setup: (a)-(d) formation of the pinched loop at different frequencies (Xaxis $v_{i}(t)$: 0.6V/div, Yaxis: $i_{L}(t)$: 0.3V/div).}
\label{fig:serexp}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering{\includegraphics[width=60mm]{serexptime}}
\caption{Time domain waveforms at $1.5kHz$}
\label{fig:serexptime}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering{\includegraphics[width=85mm]{2-diodes.pdf}}
\caption{Experimental results using anti-parallel diodes: (a) loop with two pinch points  (Xaxis $v_{i}(t)$: 2V/div, Yaxis: $i_{L}(t)$: 0.65V/div). (b) power spectrum of $i_L(t)$ (Xaxis: 1.25kHz/div, Yaxis: 10dB/div)}
\label{fig:serexpfft}
\end{figure}

\section{Application and Comparison with a Commercial Memristor Device}
Digital application of AND/OR gates are used to compare their functionality with pinched loops created (i) from the series resonator described above and (ii) from a KNOWM commercial memristor device using their discovery kit \cite{knowm}. The gates are built using two memristor devices, as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:OrAND}, driving a capacitive load (C = 10nF).  Figure \ref{fig:OrANDexp} shows the waveform on the capacitor for both the AND/OR gates after using the experimental memristance data of the pinched loop obtained from the nonlinear resonator circuit and that obtained from  a commercial memristor device \cite{knowm}. It is clear from the figure that similar responses are obtained in both cases. Therefore, from an application point of view, what matters is the existence of the pinched loop rather than its origin. On the other hand, resonators are easily realizable on the micro and nano scales \cite{res1, res2} which paves the way for possibly easier implementations of memristors based on the technique presented here. In terms of the non-volatility of these circuits, a procedure to dis-connect the ground terminal connection should be devised in order to maintain the states of the state variables (inductor current and capacitor voltage) un-changed. It is important to mention, that the non-volatility of memristors is not related to  whether they are fundamental  devices or not.

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering{\includegraphics[width=70mm]{ANDOR}}
\caption{Realization of AND/OR gates using two memristors}
\label{fig:OrAND}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering{\includegraphics[width=80mm]{MemristorANDOR}}
\caption{Comparison of the AND/OR gate responses using the pinched loop data from the nonlinear series resonator circuit versus the data from a commercial memristor}
\label{fig:OrANDexp}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion}
We have verified numerically and experimentally the existence of a dynamic pinched-loop behavior in a simple nonlinear resonator circuits. The key behind generating such a loop is to produce in the electrical current a second-order harmonic (for a single pinch point case) or third-order harmonic (for a two pinch point case) from the applied fundamental frequency of the excitation voltage. When these harmonics have proper phase and amplitude relations with respect to the fundamental \cite{maundy2019correlation}, pinched loops appear. The circuits presented here rely on the  diode nonlinearity as opposed to MOS transistor quadratic nonlinearity \cite{maundy2018simple, babacan2018fabrication} or multiplier-type nonlinearity \cite{elwakil2013simple, complexity}. The proposed systems represent  second-order and third-order dynamical systems which is not the case of  memrisitve systems as defined in \cite{chua1976memristive}.

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Roland Asch (born 12 October 1950 in Altingen, West Germany) is a race car driver from Ammerbuch, near Stuttgart. Asch was a distinctive figure on the German motor racing scene in the 1990s.

Racing career

Asch's career started in 1973 with slalom before moving to hillclimbing to become German Champion in 1981. After racing on circuits in the lower Trophy division of the Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft, he made his Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) début at age 34 in 1985. From 1985 to 1994 Asch drove for Mercedes in DTM, moving to the German Supertouring Championship (STW) in 1995 for four years when the DTM faltered.

Apart from touring car racing, Asch was also busy in Porsche series. He won the German Porsche 944 Turbo Cup twice, in 1988 and 1989, before winning the German Porsche Carrera Cup in 1991.

In his 50s, Asch returned to the German Porsche Carrera Cup, where he raced until 2003, bar a one-off race during the 2004 season. In 2004 he also drove races in the European Touring Car Championship for RS-Line Ford, the brand he runs a dealership for at Ammerbuch.

From 1999 until 2005 Asch raced the 24 Hours Nürburgring, aboard the Nissan Skyline GT-R entry of Japanese team Falken every year as their lead driver. He last appeared on the race in 2010, in a project made by German magazine Sport auto (Germany) and Porsche test driver Walter Röhrl, who did not take part due to health reasons.

Currently, he is supporting his son Sebastian Asch, who is racing in the SEAT León Cup.

Incidents
In 1994, Asch was involved in a controversial incident in DTM at the Alemannenring. Alessandro Nannini, racing for rivals Alfa Romeo, was running directly ahead of an already lapped Asch. While closing on a car in front, Nannini momentarily locked his rear wheels on the entry to the hairpin. He then regained control and took the racing line into the corner. Asch intentionally plowed into the side of Nannini, spinning him and damaging his car. As a result of this, Asch's Mercedes teammate Klaus Ludwig won the championship. After entering the pits, Nannini rejoined behind Asch and intentionally rammed him off the track in revenge at the same hairpin.

At the end of the 1999 and final STW season at the Nürburgring, Asch was again accused by some of hitting an opponent intentionally to support his Opel teammate Uwe Alzen. Asch was called into the pits for a jump start penalty, but later stated that his radio had failed. On the last lap, he was driving behind championship contenders and race leaders Alzen and Christian Abt, who were about to lap Abt's teammate Kris Nissen. With the championship already going Abt's way as per the running order, Nissen tangled with Alzen on the second-to-last corner, causing heavy damage to Alzen's car. Asch then hit the Audi of Abt in the last corner, handing the cup to Alzen, who came home second with his damaged car. While this incident was initially considered a race accident, Asch was punished for ignoring the penalty. Alzen celebrated immediately after the race, but the championship was given to Abt in November after Asch's move on him in the last corner was considered deliberate action by a DMSB court of appeal, based on video evidence.

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Jun 15, 2020 - Health
Surprise medical bills in the coronavirus era
Caitlin Owens, author of Vitals
A health care worker tests a woman waiting in a car. Photo: J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images
Rep. Katie Porter recently received an explanation of benefits from her insurer saying that, in addition to the $20 co-pay she paid when she got her coronavirus test, she may be on the hook for an additional $56.60.
The catch: The law requires insurers to cover coronavirus testing without cost-sharing. Porter knows that because she voted for it.
Why it matters: Containing the coronavirus depends on knowing who has it, and it's going to be much harder to get people to get tested if they think they'll have to pay for it. But it's becoming increasingly clear that patients may be vulnerable to surprise coronavirus bills.
Between the lines: Porter, who received a coronavirus test on March 23, has insurance through UnitedHealthcare and shared her explanation of benefits with Axios. Congress has required both the test itself and the associated care to be covered without cost-sharing.
In a statement, UnitedHealth Group said it has waived member cost-sharing for coronavirus testing and treatment.
"Some members received bills early on when there were not yet specific COVID-19 billing codes and during a period in which code adoption was first taking place," the company said, adding that it's waiving those charges and evaluating claims from earlier this year to make sure they were handled correctly.
"We are not authorized to talk about [Porter's] specific situation without permission, however, what likely occurred is that her provider used the wrong billing code for the visit. To confirm if that's the case and have it corrected, we encourage Rep. Porter to contact us so we can clarify with her directly."
Yes, but: There's a huge question of who should have to pay for coronavirus testing as it becomes more prolific, and many insurers — United included — have said that they'll only cover tests that are "medically necessary," at least without cost-sharing. It's unclear who will pay for tests that aren't deemed medically necessary.
The federal government hasn't said who should pay for testing when, whether it be insurers, employers or the government itself. Insurers are questioning whether they should be on the hook for the hundreds of thousands of tests of asymptomatic people that public health experts say will need to be conducted every day.
Even though Congress has tried to resolve payment disputes between insurers and out-of-network labs, there's a loophole that would allow patients to receive balance bills from out-of-network labs in some circumstances.
If a patient sees an out-of-network doctor for a coronavirus test, they're vulnerable to receiving a surprise medical bill from this provider — just as they are under normal, non-coronavirus conditions, said Loren Adler, associate director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.
What they're saying: "We will not be able to truly reopen and rebuild if Americans rightly fear costly medical bills for visiting their health care providers for coronavirus tests," Porter writes in a letter to top Health and Human Services officials being sent today, asking the administration to implement the law more forcefully.
She also asked for "formal, explicit guidance for insurers, providers, employers like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and testing companies, as well as all 50 states...to ensure patients and workers are not asked to pay any costs."
Margaret Talev
Axios-Ipsos poll: Vaccine resistance grows
Data: Axios/Ipsos surveys. 1,100 U.S adults surveyed Aug. 28-31, 2020, and 1,008 U.S. adults surveyed Sept. 18-21,2020; Chart: Axios Visuals
The share of Americans eager to try a first-generation coronavirus vaccine dropped significantly in the latest installment of the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index, as President Trump hyped suggestions that one could be ready before the election.
Why it matters: As the U.S. reaches a milestone of 200,000 deaths, this underscores the risks of politicizing the virus and its treatments.
Updated Oct 7, 2020 - Health
World coronavirus updates
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Data: The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins; Map: Axios Visuals
New Zealand now has active no coronavirus cases in the community after the final six people linked to the Auckland cluster recovered, the country's Health Ministry confirmed in an email Wednesday.
The big picture: The country's second outbreak won't officially be declared closed until there have been "no new cases for two incubation periods," the ministry said. Auckland will join the rest of NZ in enjoying no domestic restrictions from late Wednesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, declaring that NZ had "beat the virus again."
Marisa Fernandez
Hospitals want more time to repay pandemic loans
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
Hospitals are approaching the deadline to repay coronavirus relief loans from the federal government, but their finances are still suffering as the pandemic drags on, Kaiser Health News reports.
The big picture: Hospitals — especially rural hospitals that were suffering before the pandemic — are hoping Congress will grant them an extension.

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I took some time to record another airport design in W.E.D, this time Cal Black Memorial in Utah. The audio works well in this one all the way through, and I talk through how to add AI traffic and taxiways as well. Thanks for watching, and get out there and design some scenery!
You have inspired me to create a xplane airport! I'm working on St. Thomas Municipal Airport(CYQS). It was a little overwhelming at first but once you learn the tools it's not bad. Now I just have to learn not to be to much of perfectionist 🙂 Thanks for creating the video!
Great for you! I look forward to seeing it.
So after having watched this video, I jumped into KRNC, repositioned the runway, moved the taxiway (it was on the wrong side of the runway!) and did a handful of other little things. Then I say, "Why stop there?" So, I've learned how to model objects in SketchUp, create tiles from photos and aerial maps (there's a very specific format for that) and have inserted my first few custom hangars and a little volunteer fire station, in X-Plane. Quite the rabbit hole I've fallen down. Lol!
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New home donated to Army veteran, a single mom
Sgt. Kristina Arnold served eight years in the Army
Updated: 9:35 PM EDT Jun 3, 2016
A U.S. Army veteran and her kids are in their new Columbia, Lancaster County home Friday, thanks to a generous donation.Sgt. Kristina Arnold served eight years in the Army.She served in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.The Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals donated the house to Arnold, who's a single mother of two.It was all in honor of her military service.Bank of America also made the donation possible.
COLUMBIA, Pa. —
A U.S. Army veteran and her kids are in their new Columbia, Lancaster County home Friday, thanks to a generous donation.
Sgt. Kristina Arnold served eight years in the Army.
She served in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals donated the house to Arnold, who's a single mother of two.
It was all in honor of her military service.
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How does one best go about finding a reputable, good plastic surgeon, specialising in faces. I would like a full face and neck lift but am very nervous to just go to anybody.
Your best bet is usually to ask a doctor whom you trust, or good friends and family.


Food lovers rejoice! From 22 to 30 March, 2013, Shamiana at The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai, is hosting the Canadian Food Festival.
Whipping up a feast is Chef Louis Charest, the award-winning Executive Chef of Canada's Governor General. Charest has cooked for heads of state and other visiting dignitaries including the Queen and her son, The Prince of Wales.
You can expect some of the Canada's most popular fare (and a lot of maple-based dishes) including split pea soup, poutine, tourtière, maple baked ham and of course, a variety of maple desserts. The food festival will also offer some of Canada's finest catch, including lobster, scallops, crab and halibut. There will also be wine from some of Canada's finest vineyards.


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Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating challenges in a changing school district—and in their lives.
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When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of three very different women converge: Camille Gray—the wife of an executive, mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman and champion fundraiser—faced with a shocking discovery that threatens to tear her picture-perfect world apart at the seams. Jen Covington, the career nurse whose long, painful journey to motherhood finally resulted in adoption but she is struggling with a happily-ever-after so much harder than she anticipated. Twenty-two-year-old Anaya Jones—the first woman in her family to graduate college and a brand new teacher at Crystal Ridge's top elementary school, unprepared for the powder-keg situation she's stepped into. Tensions rise within and without, culminating in an unforeseen event that impacts them all. This story explores the implicit biases impacting American society, and asks the ultimate question: What does it mean to be human? Why are we so quick to put labels on each other and categorize people as "this" or "that", when such complexity exists in each person?


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Could the next iPhone have a curved screen?
Apple has just been awarded a patent for a curved touch screen manufacturing process, stoking rumors about what the company could be planning for its next generation of tablets and handsets.
The US patent, No. 8,603,574, awarded on Tuesday, is for a manufacturing process that would enable a screen to remain responsive to touch despite the effects of curving or shaping.
As part of the initial filing made in 2010, Apple specifically provides examples of its use in displays, touch pads and even mice. It also explains that current methods for curving a display result in a less sensitive and responsive screen; the process creates 'dead' areas.
Apple's approach uses a film that is applied to a screen or surface before it is shaped, which would ensure that its whole surface remains touch-sensitive once curved.
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Q: Default Spring bean when profile is not present I'm using Spring MVC controllers, and I'd like to make some extra request-mapped methods available during development. I can do this using Spring profiles:
@Controller
@Profile("!dev")
public class DefaultController {

}

@Controller
@Profile("dev")
public class DevController extends DefaultController {

}

But ideally, I'd rather not pollute the production classes' code with annotations referring to the 'dev' profile.
I think maybe it's possible using Primary annotation, but I can't get it to work.
This post seems to say that this should work:
@Controller
public class DefaultController {

}

@Controller
@Profile("dev")
@Primary
public class DevController extends DefaultController {

}

But when I do that, Spring tries to load both controllers when it starts up under the 'dev' profile, and fails with
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping#0'
...
There is already 'defaultController' bean method

Is what I want to do possible? If so, how can I do it?

A: The problem here is that your class DevController inherits from DefaultController. Keep classes separate. Don't extend DevController with DefaultController even if the contents are same.

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