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\section{Motivation}

	A first principles approach to access the hadron spectra, which has been advancing since the beginning of the eighties from last century \cite{Ishikawa:1982tb},
	is lattice QCD. In a typical lattice QCD computation of the bound state mass, an appropriate two point correlation function is evaluated and, from its large time decay behaviour and the associated slope, the ground state mass is estimated \cite{Montvay:1994cy}.

	We discuss an alternative way of accessing the particle masses: via the computation of the K\"all\'en-Lehmann spectral
	representation associated with the momentum space particle propagator \cite{Peskin:1995ev}.
	A possible advantage of using spectral representations compared to a conventional lattice calculation is that it does not necessarily require the use of smearing, or other techniques, to improve the Monte Carlo signal to noise ratio, see e.g.
	\cite{Blossier:2009kd,Athenodorou:2020ani} and references therein.

	In the current work we focus on the SU(2) glueball with quantum numbers  $J^{PC} = 0^{++}$,  i.e.~the scalar glueball. More details can be found in the preprint \cite{Dudal:2021gif} on which this talk was based.

\section{Setup}
	Let us describe our procedure to access the K\"all\'en-Lehmann spectral representation $\rho(\omega)$ from a two point correlation function $G(p)$.
	The relation between these two functions reads
		\begin{equation}
		G(p) = \int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{2 \omega \rho(\omega) \dd{\omega}}{\omega^2 + p^2} \label{eq:propagator_gl}
		= \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{\rho(\omega) \dd{\omega}}{\omega - i p}  \ .\notag
	\end{equation}
Depending on the dimensionality of the involved quantum operators, proper subtractions are needed to guarantee finite results \cite{Weinberg:1995mt}. This corresponds to adding appropriate contact counterterms, or polynomials in momentum space. In general, one has
		\begin{align}
		G(p^2)
		&= \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} a_{k} (p^2-\bar{p}^2)^{k} +  (- p^2 + \bar{p}^2)^{n} \int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{2 \omega \tilde{\rho}(\omega) \dd{\omega}}{\omega^2 + p^2} \label{eq:expanded_propagator}\\
		&=  \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} a_{k} (p^2-\bar{p}^2)^{k} +  (- p^2 + \bar{p}^2)^{n} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{\tilde{\rho}(\omega) \dd{\omega}}{\omega - ip} \notag
	\end{align}
	with
		\begin{align}
		a_{n} &= \frac{1}{n!} \pdv[n]{G(p^2)}{(p^2)}\Bigg\vert_{p^2=\bar{p}^2}, \label{eq:taylor_coeff}\qquad
		\tilde{\rho}(\omega)~=~\frac{\rho(\omega)}{(\omega^2 + \bar{p}^2)^n},
	\end{align}
	and $\bar{p}^2$ is a reference momentum scale at which the subtraction is done. Unfortunately, performing subtractions on numerical data is extremely sensitive to the choice of $\bar{p}$ and results in relative rapid 	variation of $\{ a_k \}$ with the subtraction point \cite{Oliveira:2012eu}.  An elegant way to perform the subtractions, without actually having to do these, is by considering the Fourier transform of $G(p)$ and look at the Schwinger function defined as
		\begin{equation}
		C(\tau) = \F{G(p)}(\tau) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} G(p^2) \bigg\vert_{\vec{p} = 0, p_4 \neq 0} ~ e^{-i p_4 \tau} \dd{p_4}.
		\label{Eq:Schwinger}
	\end{equation}
	For $\bar{p} = 0$, we get
		\begin{align}
		C(\tau) &= \F{G(p)}(\tau) \\
		&\hspace{-0.7cm}= \mathcal{L}\left\{ \rho(\omega) \right\}(|\tau|) + 2 \pi \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} a_{k} (-1)^k \delta^{(2k)}(\tau)  + 4 \pi (-1)^{n+1} \sum_{k=2}^{n} \delta^{(2(n-k)+2)}(\tau) \int_{0}^{\infty} \dd{\omega} \omega^{2k-3} \tilde{\rho}(\omega). \notag
	\end{align}
	The important observation however, is that $C(\tau) = \mathcal{L}\left\{ \rho(\omega) \right\}(|\tau|)$ when $\tau~\neq~0$, and equal to a sum of (derivatives of) Dirac delta functions when $\tau = 0$.
	Therefore, $\rho(\omega)$ can be recovered by taking $C(\tau)$ for $\tau>0$, and inverting the Laplace transformation.

	Because the inverse Laplace transform is an ill-defined numerical problem, regularization is necessary in order to perform the
	inversion. We shall use Tikhonov regularization, similar to \cite{Dudal:2013yva,Dudal:2019gvn}. However,
	because glueballs are observable particles, their spectral density $\rho(\omega)$ is non-negative. Therefore we shall implement Tikhonov
	regularization using Non-Negative Least Squares (NNLS) \cite{Lawson1995}, to ensure
	a positive spectral function $\rho(\omega) \geq 0$.

 The most widely used approach for spectral function extraction from numerical data is based on the maximum entropy method \cite{Asakawa:2000tr}. We will compare our outcome with the latter.

	\section{The Numerical Method}\label{sec:method}

	In a lattice simulation the propagator $G(p_n)$
	is computed on a finite set of evenly spaced momenta $p_n$.
	Given a data set $\{ G(p_n) \} := \{ G(p_0), \ldots, G(p_{N-1}) \}$, the Schwinger function is computed using DFFT, resulting in
	a data set $\{ C(\tau_k) \}$, where
		\[ C(\tau_k) = \sum_{n=0}^{N-1} G(p_n) e^{- i 2 \pi k n / N}. \]
	The Laplace transformation to access the spectral function
		\begin{align}
		C(\tau_k) = \mathcal{L}\left\{ \rho(\omega) \right\}(\tau_k) = \int_0^\infty e^{- \omega \tau_k} \rho(\omega) \dd{\omega},
	\end{align}
	can be written as a matrix equation
		\begin{equation*}
		\boldsymbol{C} = \boldsymbol{K} \boldsymbol{\rho},
	\end{equation*}
	with the elements of $\boldsymbol{K}$ defined as
		\begin{equation*}
		\boldsymbol{K}_{k\ell} :=  e^{- \omega_\ell \tau_k} \Delta \omega.
	\end{equation*}
	Since $\boldsymbol{\rho}$ needs to be obtained, and a direct solution is impossible due to the near zero singular values of $\mathbf{K}$, the original
	problem is replaced by the minimisation of the Tikhonov regularizing functional
		\begin{equation}
		J_\alpha = \norm{\boldsymbol{K} \boldsymbol{\rho} - \boldsymbol{C}}_2^2 + \alpha^2 \norm{\boldsymbol{\rho} - \boldsymbol{\rho}^*}_2^2
		\label{eq:tikhonov}
	\end{equation}
	where $\alpha^2 > 0$ is the Tikhonov parameter and $\boldsymbol{\rho}^*$ is a prior estimate for $\boldsymbol{\rho}$. In order to impose the constraint $\boldsymbol{\rho} \geq 0$, define
		\begin{align}
		\boldsymbol{A} = \mqty(\boldsymbol{K} \\ \alpha \mathbb{1} ),\quad \boldsymbol{b} = \mqty(\boldsymbol{C} \\ \alpha \boldsymbol{\rho}^*),
	\end{align}
	and rewrite $J_\alpha$ as
		\begin{equation}
		J_\alpha = \norm{\boldsymbol{A} \boldsymbol{\rho} - \boldsymbol{b}}_2^2.
		\label{eq:tikhonov_lsq}
	\end{equation}
	The formulation of the problem
	using Eq. \eqref{eq:tikhonov_lsq} can be solved with a non-negative least squares (NNLS) solver such that $\boldsymbol{\rho} \geq 0$ is guaranteed \cite{Lawson1995}.

The regularization parameter $\alpha$, in essence, provides a soft threshold to the singular values of $\boldsymbol{K}$, such that the smallest singular values no longer cause numerical issues. 	Choosing $\alpha$ is a delicate affair, since setting it too small means the problem remains ill-defined, whereas setting it too large destroys a lot of the information contained in the data. We rely on the Morozov discrepancy principle \cite{Dudal:2019gvn}, which states that $\alpha^2$ should be chosen such that
		\begin{equation}
		\norm{\boldsymbol{K} \boldsymbol{\rho} - \boldsymbol{C}}_2^2 = \sum_i \sigma_i^2,
		\label{eq:morozov_gl}
	\end{equation}
	where $\sum_i \sigma_i^2$ is the total variance in the data. The $\alpha^2$ obeying \cref{eq:morozov_gl} is guaranteed to be unique \cite{Kirsch:1996:IMT:236740}, and means that the quality of the reconstruction is identical to the quality of the data.

	We sample $\omega$ evenly in logarithmic space from $[10^{-5}, 10^5]$ \SI{}{\GeV} in $N_\omega$ steps.

	\subsection{Test: Meson toy-model}\label{sec:results_meson}

	\begin{figure}[hbt]
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,trim={0.5in 0.4in 0.5in 0.5in},clip]{toy_model_rho_3x3.pdf}
		\caption{Reconstruction the toy-model spectral density function for various $d$ and $N$. The dashed black line is the original spectral function, while the blue full curve is the reconstructed spectral function as given by the Tikhonov regularized NNLS method.}
		\label{fig:toymodel}
	\end{figure}

	In order to investigate the reliability of the method we consider a realistic toy-model, based on a vector-meson model decay into hadrons,
	as used before in \cite{Asakawa:2000tr}. This particular model needs  a single subtraction, and therefore provides an excellent test of the method.
	To allow comparison of our results to those of \cite{Asakawa:2000tr}, we shall use the exact same process to generate the mock data.
	The meson spectral density function is given by

	\begin{equation}
		\rho(\omega) = \frac{2}{\pi}  \bqty{F^2_{\rho} \frac{\Gamma_\rho m_\rho }{(\omega^2 - m_\rho^2)^2 + \Gamma_\rho^2 m_\rho^2} + \frac{1}{8 \pi} \pqty{1 + \frac{\alpha_s}{\pi}} \frac{1}{1 + e^{(\omega_0 - \omega) / \delta}}},
	\end{equation}
	with an energy-dependent width

	\begin{equation}
		\Gamma_\rho(\omega) = \frac{g_{\rho\pi\pi}^2}{48 \pi} m_\rho \pqty{1 - \frac{4 m_\pi^2}{\omega^2}}^{3/2} \theta\pqty{\omega - 2 m_\pi}.
	\end{equation}
	The empirical values of the parameters are
		\begin{equation}
		m_\rho = 0.77 \text{ GeV}\,, m_\pi = 0.14 \text{ GeV}\,,
		g_{\rho\pi\pi} = 5.45\,, F_\rho = \frac{m_\rho}{g_{\rho\pi\pi}}\,,
		\omega_0 = 1.3 \text{ GeV}\,,\delta = 0.2 \text{ GeV}.
	\end{equation}
    As $\omega \to \infty$, this model behaves like $\rho(\omega \to \infty) = (1 / 4 \pi^2) (1 + \alpha_s/\pi)$. Therefore the integral \cref{eq:propagator_gl} does not converge, and a single subtraction has to be performed, that means $n=1$ in the notation used in \cref{eq:taylor_coeff}.

    Assuming $\alpha_s = 0.3$, the value $(1 / 4 \pi^2) (1 + \alpha_s/\pi) = 0.0277$ can be used as the prior, but identical to \cite{Asakawa:2000tr} we shall use the slightly smaller value $\rho_\text{prior}~=~0.0257$.
    In order to generate mock data, we compute $C_\text{orig}(\tau_k)$ as the Laplace transform of $\rho(\omega)$, on $N$ points $\tau_k$ spaced by $\Delta \tau = 0.085 \text{ fm} = 0.43078 \text{ GeV}^{-1}$.
    The standard deviation of the noise is chosen as

    \[ \sigma(\tau_k) = d \, C_\text{orig}(\tau_k) \frac{\tau_k}{\Delta \tau}, \]
    where $d$ is a parameter which controls the noise level, identical to that of \cite{Asakawa:2000tr}. The mock data set is then generated as

    \[ C(\tau_k) = \mathcal{N}(\mu=C_\text{orig}(\tau_k), \sigma^2=\sigma\pqty{\tau_k}^2). \]
    These mock data sets were then inverted, ignoring $C(\tau_0)$, for various values of $N$ and $d$, using the method of \cref{sec:method}, to test the robustness of the method. No inversions without positivity constraints were performed, as significant positivity violations were observed in initial trials.  Here we used $N_\omega = 1000$ in the construction of $\boldsymbol{K}$. The results are shown in \cref{fig:toymodel}.
    Both more data-points, or less noise, are found to improve the quality of the reconstruction.
    Interestingly, more data-points do lead to a greater variance in the reconstructions, though their quality is improved with the number of data-points.
    A direct comparison with \cite[Figure 4]{Asakawa:2000tr} is complicated by the absence of uncertainties on that Figure, but the performance of the methods seems comparable using the naked eye.

	\section{Test: SU(2) $0^{++}$ Glueball}\label{sec:results_glueball}

	We depart from the Schwinger functions for the scalar SU(2) pure Yang-Mills glueballs as extracted from the data of \cite{Yamanaka:2019yek}, using lattice simulations for $\beta =$ 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5. The Schwinger functions were computed using the raw data, that is, without any smearing applied. The lattice volumes, the number of configurations, the number of Schwinger function time slices $N$, and the uncertainties in each data set, are shown in \cref{tab:configs}.

	These simulations of \cite{Yamanaka:2019yek} relied on large ensembles of configurations, resulting in data sets with very low statistical uncertainties. This makes the results of the Tikhonov regularized inversion reliable, as seen in \cref{sec:results_meson}. Additionally, the number of Schwinger function time slices $N$ for these data sets is $7$, $9$, or $13$, meaning the variance in the inversion will be small, as was observed in \cref{sec:results_meson}.
	\begin{table}[tb]
		\centering
		\resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{
			\begin{tabular}{l|l c r c c c} \hline
				$\beta$ & Volume & Configurations & $N$ & $\max(C(\tau)) / \expval{\sigma_C(\tau)}$ & $a \sqrt{\sigma}$ & $a[\Lambda^{-1}]$ \\
				\hline
				$2.1$ & $10^3 \times 12$ & 1,000,000 & 7 & $3.28 \times 10^{-4}$ & $0.608(16)$ & $0.356(27)$ \\
				$2.2$ & $12^4$           & 9,999,990 & 7 & $1.04 \times 10^{-4}$ & $0.467(10)$ & $0.273(20)$ \\
				$2.3$ & $14^3 \times 16$ & 4.100,000 & 9 & $1.38 \times 10^{-4}$ & $0.3687(22)$ & $0.216(15)$ \\
				$2.4$ & $16^3 \times 24$ & 2,030,000 & 13 & $1.55 \times 10^{-4}$ & $0.2660(21)$ & $0.156(11)$ \\
				$2.5$ & $20^3 \times 24$ & 520,000 & 13 & $3.04 \times 10^{-4}$ & $0.1881(28)$ & $0.110(8)$ \\
				\hline
			\end{tabular}
		}
		\caption{The glueball data sets of \cite{Yamanaka:2019yek}. Selection of information taken from \cite[Table~I, Table~II]{Yamanaka:2019yek}.}
		\label{tab:configs}
	\end{table}
	\begin{figure}[tb]
		\centering
		\begin{floatrow}
			\floatbox{figure}[.45\columnwidth][\FBheight][b]
			{\caption{$C(\tau)/C(\tau_1)$ for all data sets.
				}\label{fig:C_all}}
			{\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth,trim=0.1in 0.1in 0.1in 0.1in ,clip]{C_all_lin_normalized}}
			\floatbox{figure}[.45\columnwidth][\FBheight][b]
			{\caption{$\rho(\omega)$ for all data sets, using the $ip$-method. The $y$-axis has been normalized to give the last peak an intensity of 1. Clearly positivity constraints should be imposed.
				}
				\label{fig:rho_all_ip}}
			{\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth,trim=0.1in 0.1in 0.1in 0.1in ,clip]{rho_all_lin_ip.pdf}}
		\end{floatrow}
	\end{figure}

	The Schwinger functions for the various simulations can be seen in \cref{fig:C_all}, whereas \cref{fig:rho_all_ip} shows the spectral density functions as obtained without any constraints on $\rho(\omega)$, using the $ip$-method published in \cite{Dudal:2019gvn}.

	As \cref{fig:rho_all_ip} illustrates, there are significant positivity violations and rapid oscillations when positivity is not enforced,
	especially for small $\omega$, a tell-tale sign of overfitting. On the other hand, when positivity is imposed, the resulting spectral
	functions in \cref{fig:rho_all} all display a clear mass gap that correspond to a ground state mass of \SI{\sim 1.4}{ \GeV}. Moreover, the infrared oscillations are gone.

	The estimated (central value) mass values are given in \cref{tab:glueballmass}, which lists the $0^{++}$ ground state mass as obtained from the spectral density function, as well as those
	calculated by Yamanaka et al.~\cite{Yamanaka:2019yek}. For an error analysis, we refer to \cite{Dudal:2021gif}.

	\begin{figure}[htb]
		\centering
		\begin{floatrow}
			\floatbox{figure}[\FBwidth][\FBheight][t]
			{\caption{$\rho(\omega)$ for all datasets, subject to $\rho(\omega)~\geq~0$. The $y$-axis has been normalized to give the maximum an intensity of 1.}
				\label{fig:rho_all}}
			{\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth,trim=0.1in 0.1in 0.1in 0.1in ,clip]{rho_all_lin.pdf}}
			%
			\floatbox{table}[\FBwidth][\FBheight][t]
			{\caption{Maxima of \cref{fig:rho_all} in order of increasing $\omega$\SI{}{/\GeV}, with corresponding left and right Half Width at Half Maximum (HWHM).}\label{tab:states}}
			{
				\small
				\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
					\hline
					$\beta$ & $\omega \pm \text{HWHM} \; / \text{GeV}$ \\
					\hline
					2.1 & $1.382 + 0.049 - 0.041$ \\
					& $3.712 + 1.048 - 0.486$ \\
					\hline
					2.2 & $1.444 \pm 0.003$ \\
					& $3.354 + 0.023 - 0.031$ \\
					\hline
					2.3 & $1.401 + 0.241 - 0.138$ \\
					& $3.941 + 1.929 - 1.106$ \\
					\hline
					2.4 & $1.505 + 0.085 - 0.064$ \\
					& $2.670 + 0.431 - 0.307$ \\
					& $6.118 + 2.644 - 1.520$ \\
					\hline
					2.5 & $1.392 + 0.103 - 0.079$ \\
					& $3.798 + 1.833 - 0.950$ \\
					\hline
				\end{tabular}
			}
		\end{floatrow}
	\end{figure}

	\begin{table}[ht]
		\centering
		\begin{tabular}{l|lll|lll}
			& \multicolumn{3}{c}{Traditional \cite{Yamanaka:2019yek}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Spectral representation} \\
			\hline
			$\beta$ & $a m_\phi$ & $m_\phi[\Lambda]$  & $m_\phi$ /GeV & $a m_\phi$ & $m_\phi[\Lambda]$  & $m_\phi$ /GeV \\
			\hline
			2.1 & 1.853 & 5.21 & 1.34 & 1.910 & 5.364 & 1.382 \\
			2.2 & 1.517 & 5.55 & 1.43 & 1.532 & 5.613 & 1.444  \\
			2.3 & 1.241 & 5.75 & 1.48 & 1.174 & 5.436 & 1.401  \\
			2.4 & 0.924 & 5.93 & 1.53 & 0.910 & 5.832 & 1.505 \\
			2.5 & 0.696 & 6.32 & 1.63 & 0.595 & 5.408 & 1.392
		\end{tabular}
		\caption{The central values of the $0^{++}$ glueball masses as presented in Table 3 of \cite{Yamanaka:2019yek} compared with the spectral representation method. The physical units were calculated assuming $\sqrt{\sigma} = 0.44$ GeV.}
		\label{tab:glueballmass}
	\end{table}

	The values of $a \sqrt{\sigma}$ and $a[\Lambda^{-1}]$ are given in \cref{tab:configs}. A string tension $\sqrt{\sigma}$ of $\SI{0.44}{\GeV}$ was assumed to convert to physical units.

	The scalar glueball masses as obtained by \cite{Yamanaka:2019yek}, and those extracted using the spectral density method, agree quite well, despite the fact that we based ourselves on the unsmeared data, whilst the mass esimates from \cite{Yamanaka:2019yek} were obtained after smearing, which usually improves the ground state signal.

	In addition to the ground state, the spectra presented in \cref{fig:rho_all} also show hints of an excited state, though its position shows much greater variance with $\beta$ than that of the ground state. \Cref{tab:states} lists the $\omega / \text{GeV}$ values of all the local maxima in \cref{fig:rho_all}, and the left and right Half Width at Half Maximum (HWHM) values of each local maximum.

Except for $\beta = 2.4$, all conditions indicate a single excited state at $3.3-3.9$ \SI{}{\GeV}. The only exception is $\beta=2.4$, which has a second maximum at \SI{2.670(25)}{\GeV} and a third one at \SI{6.118(57)}{\GeV}. The relatively wide peaks for the excited states indicate that we might need a better signal, as there are in principle no decay channels open for these 1st excited states in pure gluodynamics, not even to the $0^{++}$ ground state.  Needless to say, one must be careful to interpret these values, as due to the finite lattice spacing, there is natural UV cut-off in the system. This will be discussed in more detail elsewhere.

	\section*{Acknowledgements}
	The authors are indebted to N.~Yamanaka, H.~Iida, A.~Nakamura and M.~Wakayama for sharing the Schwinger function estimates based on their data of \cite{Yamanaka:2019yek}.
	O.O.~was partly supported by the FCT – Funda\c{c}\~ao para a Ci\^encia e a Tecnologia, I.P., under project numbers UIDB/04564/2020 and UIDP/04564/2020, while the work of D.D.~and M.R.~was supported by KU Leuven IF project C14/16/067.

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3 years ago Van Faust-Stephenson
3 min read It is now the year of the Dog, and Radford, along with many Asian families from the area, is celebrating the new year. Every year, for eighteen years now, Dr. I-Ping Fu and the Chinese Culture Club at Radford have collaborated to organize a show for both Radford students and Asian families of the New River Valley.
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It is now the year of the Dog, and Radford, along with many Asian families from the area, is celebrating the new year.
Every year, for eighteen years now, Dr. I-Ping Fu and the Chinese Culture Club at Radford have collaborated to organize a show for both Radford students and Asian families of the New River Valley.
Radford President Brian Hemphill was there to begin the show with a speech about how Radford has long been a place for Asian communities to feel at home.
Covington was lovingly decorated to the stylings of old Chinese traditions. Paper lanterns lined the walls, doors donned red banners and the performers dressed in bright and colorful outfits for their routines. The most distinct outfits were those of the "Happy" dancers. They wore bright yellow dresses that danced around them as they twirled to more modern Chinese music.
Due to some technical issues, Dr. Fu herself described to the audience the story of how the Zodiac came to be. The Chinese calendar is separated into twelve cyclical years that each year represents a different animal.
The order of the animals was determined by a race where the placement of each animal would correspond to their location in the cycle. The highlight of the story was the explanation for how the mouse was first, for apparently the mouse kicked the cat into the river they were crossing, and as a result, the mouse and cat are enemies to this day.
There was a martial arts demonstration from the Dragon Tiger Eagle Wushu Kung Fu school. Grand Master Chi-Chung Kwong has been in the New River Valley for decades and has been instructing Kung Fu since the 70s. Many of his students are Radford graduates. Martial artists both young and old showed off their skills with hand-to-hand combat and traditional Chinese weaponry. The action-packed segment culminated with the master himself appearing to show his students how it is done.
The Blacksburg Senior Group did several performances during the show. They did a choir, a Tai Chi demonstration, and a song and dance called Huangmei, a story of a princess and a farmer falling in love. The man who played the farmer, Renhua Wang, has been practicing that song for twenty years.
Dr. Fu told me a story about how in the past that she had people tell her not to mention the senior performers' age. She would have none of that, however, as an older age is something to be proud of in Asian cultures. Elders are central figures of families and are much respected by their communities. The Chinese New Year festival is a way for the oldest of the community to pass their traditions to the youngest.
This was foremost a festival for the children. The first performance was of a hip-hop routine by several young kids. Two kids would later don the Lion outfit and perform the traditional Lion Dance. Towards the end, every child in the audience was invited up on stage to participate in the "fireworks" which, for safety's sake, were just several rolls of bubble wrap to stomp on.
Both the performers and the organizers being amateurs, the show was imperfect, but that does not matter.
This show is representative of something great. It was the passing of traditions to newer generations that was especially moving to me.
China has one of the most vibrant cultures in the world, and it is remarkable that these families can engage in these practices even so far from their original home.
This may have just been a new year celebration, but it is also proof that these people have somewhere they can feel at home, and a place where they can share their culture amongst a campus such as Radford.
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South Carolina State's Corey Fields Jr. plays with guardian angels on his wrists
The redshirt sophomore quarterback has #LLOM and #LLDP on his wrist tape to honor his late father and brother
By Mia Berry December 15, 2021
South Carolina State Bulldogs quarterback Corey Fields Jr. delivers a pass during a game against the South Florida Bulls on Sept. 14, 2019, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Mark LoMoglio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
South Carolina State quarterback Corey Fields Jr. keeps the memory of his late father and brother close to his heart.
Before every game, Fields takes a permanent marker to inscribe #LLOM and #LLDP on his wrist tape. One wrist honors his father, Corey Fields Sr., who died in December 2017. His other wrist honors his brother, Deon Smalls, who died in an all-terrain vehicle accident in February.
"When I lost my brother, it was kind of tough for me. I had my little moments because in my senior [year of high school] I lost my dad," Fields said. "So losing my brother was like losing a piece of me, definitely. I didn't know who I was at that point in time. Mentally, I had my days when I was up and down because I was saying, 'Man, they're not here.' So I have my little mental days, but how to get through it at the end of the day? I gotta do what I came here for."
Leading up to S.C. State's spring season opener against Alabama A&M, Fields remained with the team and played a day after burying his brother. His rationale was simply to honor his brother and help his team.
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"I'd rather be around my teammates just knowing that we're one big family. When we go on the field, just leaving it all out on the field as a way to get away from everything," the redshirt sophomore quarterback said. "On the field, it's just football. I don't have to think about nothing else other than what I'm doing right then and there."
Like most brotherly relationships, Fields' admiration for his older brother ran deep. Wherever Smalls went, Fields followed without question. His fondest memories were playing basketball together and tossing the football around.
Both Smalls and his late father were instrumental in Fields' transition to football. The younger Fields was a dual-sport athlete who loved basketball more than football, but football would assume the first position when his father became his coach in the sixth grade. His dad allowed him to play quarterback, a position Fields Sr. had been training his son to play for nearly two years.
"Just him being there to help me focus on my skills. I knew I could throw the football since I was a little kid. It was just the small things of knowing what you got to do, the footwork, and you got to do this and that," Fields said. "My dad played a part in that. He sat here and watched film. I was 8 years old learning how to play quarterback and trying to do better each and every week."
Fields misses the verbal affirmations from his father and brother when he's playing well, as well as the corrective, "You have to be better than this" when things are rough.
Fields sustained an AC joint sprain on his non-throwing shoulder during S.C. State's loss to North Carolina A&T on Nov. 13. Sophomore Quincy Hill finished the game for the Bulldogs, but with Norfolk State suffering a loss the same weekend, S.C. State clinched the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) title and a spot in the Cricket Celebration Bowl. Fields was still committed to playing despite being at only about 70%.
"I just know at the end of the day, it's not about me, it's about the team. The injury, yeah, it happened, but it's over with," Fields said. "It was just about us having the best chance to win."
Fields threw for 250 yards and three touchdown strikes to wide receiver Shaquan Davis in the regular-season finale against Norfolk State, as the Bulldogs (6-5, 5-0 MEAC) finished undefeated in conference play.
"He's tough [and] smart as all get out, so you put those two elements together [and] the fact that he's hard-nosed. He's got a good feel for things [and] he knows the offense inside and out, we've got a chance to go far," said Oliver "Buddy" Pough, S.C. State's head football coach. "We had to do some stuff to him to give him an opportunity to be able to play [against Norfolk State]. I'm excited as I can be about him starting to play well again, and I think I'm excited as I can be about us understanding a little bit better what this offense can be.
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"I think we've got to lean more on him and what he can do and the people around him, so I'm looking forward to seeing where we can go for the future with him in the position."
Fields led the Bulldog offense this season, passing for 2,144 yards, 14 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, earning third-team All-MEAC honors. Only Norfolk State's Juwan Carter and Howard's Quinton Williams passed for more yards in the conference.
"He filled the shoes of all the previous quarterbacks that came in. He's an outstanding player," said graduate defensive back Decobie Durant. "I think he was freshman player of the year in the conference. Fields is going to have a great career."
By finishing the regular season a week earlier than the Southwestern Athletic Conference, Fields had the opportunity to travel home for Thanksgiving to heal and regroup following an extended season.
Fields is from Hollywood, South Carolina, a small town of 5,000 people, an hour and a half outside of Orangeburg. Fields played at Baptist Hill High School, against 1A competition in South Carolina High School League's division for smaller schools, and led the team to a state title his senior year in 2017.
"It's a great feeling because not too many people know about South Carolina kids. Hollywood is one street that probably goes 5 miles," Fields said with a laugh. "Just the support from the community. No matter what happens, the good and bad, they're always there. So I try to do my best to show that anybody can do it."
The Bulldogs resumed practice last week following Thanksgiving break and are fine-tuning some things while hoping to maintain their finish-games attitude. Four of their wins this season occurred in single-possession games. The nitty-gritty toughness Fields learned from his upbringing and the chip on his shoulder to prove 1A kids can play at bigger institutions have helped propel S.C. State to the Cricket Celebration Bowl on Dec. 18.
"It was a great feeling for me. Some of the guys who've been here [haven't had] a chance to go there. So it's great to see them have a smile on their face knowing that [we're] going to the Celebration Bowl and ending it right [and] in a positive way," Fields said. "Everyone knows our main goal at the end of the year [was] to be in Atlanta, and go there and win. We know no matter how the game starts, just finish. No matter how you start, it's about how you finish first through the game. Our team, we just know how to finish."
The Bulldogs' trip to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium to play Jackson State coincides with two important anniversaries for Fields, which adds more motivation for him to leave Atlanta with a trophy. It's his brother's first heavenly birthday on Dec. 20 and the fourth anniversary of his dad's death on Dec. 22. Despite those dates looming in the back of his mind, Fields' focus is to move forward and play his best football.
"I know my brother and my dad. They may not be here, but I know at the end of the day, they would be here pushing me to get better every day, no matter the circumstances," Fields said.
"I'm [going to] just keep pushing no matter what."
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New Britain Bees infielder heads to Triple-A Sacramento
(New Britain, Conn., August 11, 2018) – New Britain Bees team officials have announced that infielder Brock Stassi has had his contract purchased by the San Francisco Giants organization. He will report to Triple-A Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League.
"Brock has been an impact player in the Atlantic League since joining our team in June," says Bees General Manager Brad Smith. "It's great for him to receive this opportunity and wish him the best of luck in his journey going forward."
This season for the Bees, Stassi has appeared in 40 games, collecting a .361 batting average with five home runs, four triples, 11 doubles, 36 RBI, 32 runs scored, and a .458 on-base percentage.
The 29-year-old began his professional career with the Philadelphia Phillies after being selected in the 33rd round of the 2011 amateur draft. Prior to this season, he spent his entire professional career in the Phillies organization, reaching the Major Leagues in 2017. The slugger appeared in 51 games during his big league career, collecting two home runs, seven RBI, six runs scored, and drawing 12 walks. His most impressive minor league campaign came in 2015 with Double-A Reading (Phillies), where in 133 games he posted a .300 batting average with 15 home runs, 32 doubles, 90 RBI, 76 runs scored, and a .394 on-base percentage. Over the course of 663 career minor league games, Brock has comprised a .260 batting average with 48 home runs, 103 doubles, 307 RBI, and 278 runs scored.
Stassi is the fifth Bees player to have his contract purchased during the 2018 season.
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SGPC elections delared; Govt. in admin overdrive, Amrinder Target Badal, says Badal's hands are smeared with blood
July 29, 2011 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau
Chandigarh/Patiala (July 28, 2011): The election for the general house of Shiromani Gurudwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC), considered to be mini-Parliament of Sikhs, will be held on September 18 this year, reports various media sources.
Harcharan Singh Brar, head of Gurudwara Election Commissioner announced the poll schedule today and said that the model code of conduct has come into immediate effect.
Filing of nomination will start on August 4 and 10,000 booths will be set up in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pardesh and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. The elections are held every five years. The SGPC comprises 170 elected members and 15 nominated members. Five priests of as many takhats and the head priest of the Golden temple are ex-officio members.
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Chandigarh: Some other media reports says that months away from the assembly elections, the Punjab government is in an overdrive mode announcing schemes and en mass transfers of officials.
The government issued some 35 notifications, including the transfers of some deputy commissioners and the senior superintendents of police, in last two days, in anticipation of the model code of conduct, which came in force on Thursday following notification of the as SGPC.
Amrinder says, Badal's hands are smeared with blood
Patiala: With the declaration of SGPC elections political heat is on the rise in Punjab. Asserting that Parkash Singh Badal was squarely responsible for the Operation Bluestar and the subsequent sequence of tragic events in the state, the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President and former Chief Minister of Punjab, Capt Amarinder Singh Friday said, his hands were smeared in blood of innocent Punjabis. He said, Badal always exploited events and situations to his personal advantage at the cost of country's interest.
Replying to questions during a press conference on Badal's allegations against him, Capt Amarinder said, he was not answerable to him ( Badal) as people of Punjab already knew about his role during that period and afterwards. He said, Badal should be ashamed of his own role which is full of intrigue, betrayals and backstabbing. "He conspired with Gurcharan Singh Tohra to betray Sant Harchand Singh Longowal and later betrayed even Tohra also to have full control over Akali Dal", he pointed out.
Posing a counter question to Badal, Capt Amarinder asked him to explain what was his role during those days and explain it to the people of Punjab. "Badal would always put up morchas, get himself arrested to hide in the safe havens of government rest houses, get people killed and come out to assume leadership and become Chief Minister", the PCC President said, while asserting that Mr Badal had no moral authority to comment or question anybody's role.
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A ceremonial groundbreaking in Grand Chute had a unique twist on Tuesday.
A ceremonial groundbreaking in Grand Chute had a unique twist on Tuesday. Leaders used hockey sticks instead of shovels to celebrate construction of the Fox Cities Champion Center on McCarthy Road. The center will have everything from basketball and volleyball courts to ice rinks to host tournaments, clinics, open gym and more.
"I think it's going to be a great amenity for local users to be active year round and it's also going to bring a lot of dollars, a lot of visitor spending to the Fox Cities to help out those local businesses. These visitors are staying at the hotels, eating at restaurants or shopping," said Matt Ten Haken, Director of Sports Marketing for the Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Leaders said they expect visitor spending to hit $8 million in just the first year.
The 164-thousand square foot center is slated to open next October. Ten communities are using funds from the hotel tax to finance the project.


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Dr. Rodney Zimmermann MD, FRCPC, FACC, FESC, FCCS Faculty, Department of Medicine - Cardiology
About Dr. Rodney Zimmermann
Dr. Rodney Zimmermann is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus. He is the Head, Section of Cardiology and also Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in the Regina Qu'Appelle Heath District and also has a Visiting Consultant appointment at the South Central Health District in Saskatchewan. He is a general and interventional cardiologist with his practice based at the Regina General Hospital, Regina, Saskatchewan where he also serves as Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. His interests include clinical and interventional cardiology and he is involved in numerous research projects both locally and as part of multi-center clinical trials, and has had and been involved in multiple publications.
Dr. Zimmermann received his MD from the University of Saskatchewan in 1988, graduating with Great Distinction. He completed his internship at the Saint Thomas Medical Center in Akron, Ohio, USA from 1988 to 1989. He did his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Calgary, Alberta between 1989 and 1992. He subsequently completed his residency in Cardiology and his Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology from 1992 to 1995 at the University of Calgary. He has been in private practice in Regina, Saskatchewan since that time.
Dr. Zimmermann has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Internal Medicine (FRCPC) since 1993 and received his Certificate of Specialty in Cardiology in 1994. He has been a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) since 1997. He is a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) since 2015. He became a fellow of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (FCCS) in the first year of its availability in 2016. He is former chair of the Specialty Committee for Cardiology in Canada for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and remains on the committee. He is an active member of the Examination Board for Cardiology for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He currently is a member of both the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (and has previously served a term on Council) and the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology. He currently serves on the National Executive as Treasurer for the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. He is a former member of the National Executive of the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology and former President of the Regina Cardiac Society. He is a former ACC Governor for the Prairie Provinces, Board of Governors for the American College of Cardiology, based in Washington, DC.


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After weeks of travel and business and holidays Paul and DJ are back behind the microphones – they kick off the show by talking about everyones favourite topic WOODEN BOATS!
The Geelong Wooden Boat festival.
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This session will include a demonstration shoot, a return to Atkins for lunch whilst the film is processed, then a review of what was shot. Mark and Dan will show you their process, their work, and why this works for them.
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Paul shares the Gavin Blake's Immaculate Projections exhibition at the Light Gallery.
Head over and see if it's still on at the Light Gallery here.
DJ & Paul then talk about the MASSIVE WPPI convention that has just been on….
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And the boys wrap up the show with a discussion about a real life situation in weather to use FLICKR or GOOGLE PHOTOS for your everyday every person general back up.
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Record of the Week: S.H.I.T.: Complete S.H.I.T. 12"
by Daniel Lupton June 07, 2018
S.H.I.T.: Complete Shit 12" (La Vida Es Un Mus) Discography-to-date from this great Toronto band, bringing together their demo, previous four 7" EPs, and their contribution to the Hardcore Gimme Some More compilation. It's funny, I think that I do this all the time, but I'll go for a while without listening to a band and then they come out with something new and I think to myself (and, consequently, write in one of these descriptions) "man, they've really stepped things up with this release." I remember thinking (and possibly writing) the same thing about the last S.H.I.T. 7", which was one of my favorite records of 2017 (though I had actually picked up an earlier cassette version at Damaged City 2016). However, listening back to all of the band's previous releases on this LP I realize that S.H.I.T. were pretty incredible right from the start. When they first started releasing stuff I remember thinking that they had quite a lot in common with the New York bands of the time (particularly Dawn of Humans), but listening to it now you hear plenty of what made that last 7" so great. It's easy to describe S.H.I.T.'s general framework—simple pogo beats and heavily reverbed/delayed vocals—but that description glosses over what is perhaps the best part of the band, which is the riffs. I don't really know how to describe it except to say that the band is an absolute riff machine, and nearly everything they write is insanely catchy and memorable without feeling derivative in the slightest (seriously, where do these riffs even come from?). Further, they have a knack for arranging songs in a way that highlights that obvious strength… the drums are generally pretty minimal and leave a lot of space for the riffs to breathe, and the songs tend to be structured as vamps on a central riff rather than developing or evolving harmonically over the course of the track. The band generally just works out what they can do with a particular riff, simplifying it or adding onto it, layering noise over top of it, adding stops and pauses in the middle… often they give off the vibe that they're just kind of jamming, though the music way well be meticulously composed and arranged for all I know. It sounds kind of simple and boneheaded when you describe it like that, but if you've ever been privileged enough to see S.H.I.T. live you know they can get a pit going like very few others, and unlike many bands they're extremely adept at capturing that power on their recordings. If you missed any of these releases the first time around then this collection is really a no-brainer, but honestly this material is strong enough when compiled together that it also makes a great place to start if you aren't familiar with the band. The only way that I wouldn't recommend picking this up is if you have every single one of the releases that it compiles and you really, really like flipping over 7" records.
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Q: SQL Server - add efficiency to this stored procedure I inherited the following stored procedure from my company's former DBA - it is meant to write records from a holding table (Transfer.CaptureSync) to a Production table (Data.Capture) based on certain conditions:
USE [Production_Search]
GO

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SyncDataFromHolding]
AS
BEGIN

DECLARE @taskSourceId bigint,
    @syncBatch uniqueidentifier = newid()

DECLARE curSources cursor
FOR
SELECT TaskSourceId
FROM [Transfer].CaptureSync
GROUP BY TaskSourceId

OPEN curSources

fetch next from curSources
into @taskSourceId

while @@fetch_status = 0
begin

-- insert the rows into capture table, but do not flag as active
INSERT INTO [Data].Capture (
    [TaskSourceId]
    ,[Url]
    ,[Identify]
    ,[Name]
    ,[Entity]
    ,[Sources]
    ,[CaptureBatch]
    ,[IsActive]
    ,[CaptureDateTime]
    ,[SyncBatchId]
    )
SELECT [TaskSourceId]
    ,[Url]
    ,[Identify]
    ,[Name]
    ,[Entity]
    ,[Sources]
    ,[CaptureBatch]
    ,0 -- isActive
    ,[CaptureDateTime]
    ,@syncBatch -- SyncBatchId
FROM [Transfer].CaptureSync
WHERE TaskSourceId = @taskSourceId

-- flag the new rows as active
UPDATE [Data].Capture
SET IsActive = 1
WHERE TaskSourceId = @taskSourceId
    AND SyncBatchId = @syncBatch

-- remove the existing rows
DELETE [Data].Capture
WHERE TaskSourceId = @taskSourceId
    AND SyncBatchId != @syncBatch

-- get the next source
fetch next from curSources
into @taskSourceId

end -- end of the cursor

close curSources
deallocate curSources

END
GO

We run this every 24 hours.  The issue is that it takes almost 12 hours for this stored procedure to complete execution.  The daily number of records written approximate 1 million.
Is there a more efficient way to achieve this kind of insert so we can greatly reduce the amount of time it takes this to complete?  I read that SSIS packages are much faster than Inserts via stored procedures, but I don't know that an SSIS package could actually accomplish what this stored procedure is doing.

A: Probably the biggest issue is that you are then performing separate queries for each individual TaskSourceId.
You are using this cursor to iterate through your CaptureSync table.
DECLARE curSources cursor
FOR
SELECT TaskSourceId
FROM [Transfer].CaptureSync
GROUP BY TaskSourceId

You are then performing separate queries for each individual row in those results, by doing this:
fetch next from curSources
into @taskSourceId

You could gain quite a bit of efficiency here if instead you used some logic to process the whole batch in just one go without using the cursor.
For example, for the first insert, you could just do:
INSERT INTO [Data].Capture (
   ... fields ....
SELECT [TaskSourceId],
   ... etc ....
FROM [Transfer].CaptureSync
WHERE TaskSourceId IS NOT NULL

This will actually insert all rows in CaptureSync into Capture which seems to be the intended behaviour of your logic, right?
(I added the condition to check that TaskSourceId is not null just in case there are some since I think those rows would not have been processed by your current logic)
You should then see how you could update the data (and delete old rows) also in one go.
For example, if your @syncBatch does not repeat, you could use just that value to identify the new rows, like so:
-- flag the new rows as active
UPDATE [Data].Capture
SET IsActive = 1
WHERE SyncBatchId = @syncBatch

And then:
-- remove the existing rows
DELETE [Data].Capture
WHERE SyncBatchId != @syncBatch

Basically, you should try to run this as just one bulk instead of iterating each row individually, that should speed this up dramatically.

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Three months ago I put together a general introduction to my bikes for Drive Electric Vermont, the state agency responsible for implementing electric vehicle infrastructure and getting EV info out to people. It was an overall view, with just a small amount of tech details to help people put the ideas into context. Last month I repeated it for the Norman Williams public library in Woodstock, so I've decided to post a written version here for people to refer to. These slides have a lot of info (you can click on them to expand them for reading), but I've added captions to help explain them.
Around 2010 I decided that I seriously wanted to use my car less, and in my rural area a bike seemed like the best alternative. However I needed to cover distance while carrying loads, there are many hills, and I am only in average physical shape. I built the first two solar electric cargo bikes shown above, and it became a large experiment that I shared with people around me as I participated in my town energy committee and Sierra Club activities. Building is relatively easy for me as I've been doing it all my life- I grew up on an apple orchard and when I was nine I put a lawn mower engine on my sister's bike using scrap equipment parts. Fortunately electric drives have become very good since then.
The first two bikes have worked quite well, and since the presentation 3 months ago have traveled several hundred miles and a few dozen test rides more than shown in the slide above. I'm now building a third bike with a mid cargo box and mid motor, which should arrange the motor and battery layout nicely. It will also be able to shift down for hill climbing, and it will have a lower seating position. A fourth bike is being planned with more bodywork for both weather protection and fitting more solar power.
This slide shows some examples of electric cargo bikes in use. My Longtail is shown in the upper left with a 92 pound load, that I rode 11 miles to home using 4 cents worth of electricity. I've also often ridden 45 to 50 miles (round trip) in street clothes to meetings on it without sweating. In the upper center, the German utility company E.ON has a fleet of 6 eBikes for use, and they came out with a couple of Bakfiets with solar panels on the top a month or two after mine, so I like to joke that they copied me. Upper right- I loaned the Bakfiets to the Bellows Falls Community Bike Project for a couple weeks last summer, and Bonnie took a day trip picking blueberries and visiting local farms, she simply put a large foam cooler inside the cargo box for keeping the food cool. The lower left shows a mailman for the German postal service- they have several versions of eBikes. UPS, Fedex, and DHL also all have cargo trikes for delivery in urban European locations, which are often faster than a delivery van driving through traffic. In the lower middle is a family with kid's stuff in the pannier bags, and lower right is a vending bike for a craft beer company.
The rider on the E.ON Bakfiets is probably in good condition, but for all the rest of the riders the electric assist makes the difference between using a bike to carry heavy loads or not.
The table across the top of this slide shows the basic types of motors. From left to right- my Longtail has a direct drive hub motor (the motor case is the wheel hub), which is best suited for faster speeds and can regenerate electricity for recharging the battery when braking. My Bakfiets has a geared hub, (with a smaller motor inside the hub that spins fast and uses gears to slow down the speed to connect to the wheel), which is slightly better (10% - 20%) for hill climbing than the direct drive hub, but can not do regeneration because of the slip clutch necessary for the gears. All in one or add on wheels like the Flykly and Copenhagen wheel are geared hubs, and in general are weaker versions because the motor and batteries are all packed in the hub so they have to be smaller. Their motor strength and heat dissipation will most likely be a problem on hills in my area, the all in one hubs are better suited for commuter runs in flatter terrain. The last type of motor is connected to the chain, not the wheel, and this allows down shifting the bike for climbing hills, as well as getting by with a smaller motor (many European countries have a 250W motor limit). It also allows fitting outrageously big motors for racing, but these usually have to be connected to the rear wheel with a separate left side chain, because the standard bicycle chain and derailleurs can handle only 500W to 1000W before they start to wear out quickly.
Having said that direct drive hubs are better for speed and geared hubs are better for hill climbing, I'll contradict that by saying I've ridden my longtail with direct drive up Mt Washington- but it wasn't easy! (left lower picture). A direct drive was also the fastest bike up Pikes Peak a year ago In this instance they dumped a lot of energy through the motor, and since the motor case is the hub it could dissipate the heat and not burn up, which is more of a problem with a geared hub motor that is sealed inside the hub.
The solar panel output on the bikes varies widely depending on weather, trees along the route, how long I park in sunny parking lots while stopped, etc, but it has generally been running from 25% to 40% of the energy needed during a trip. In contrast I've been getting 1% to 6% back from regen. I also sometimes leave the bike out in the driveway for the rest of the day when I get home, and find the battery is often fully charged when I bring it in.
The lower right photo is around the fourth version of Luke "Live for Physics" "Death Bike", which can run through a standing start quarter mile in 11.5 seconds at 110.6 mph. Speed is not a problem for an eBike, but there is a trade off between speed and range. Luke's bike is fast, but probably cannot travel more than a mile or two at speed. This is a mid motor setup, and has the separate chain for connecting the motor to the rear wheel. A mid motor can allow special gearing, unusual motor sizes (Luke is probably feeding 100 kW through this motor for a few seconds), and better cooling than a hub. The name "Death Bike" is from the earlier versions, which had a tendency to launch unwary riders air born. The rider in the photo is actually Stephane Melancon, who rode his electric motorcycle from Montreal to Mt Washington, where I had the chance to talk with him a bit.
On the left in this slide are the two types of controls used on eBikes. Some bikes use a hand control such as a thumb switch or grip that twists to turn on the motor, others are connected to pedal switches, known as Pedelec systems. The Pedelec comes in two varieties- a sensor that looks for rotation of the pedals (cadence or motion sensor), or a sensor that monitors the pressure on the pedals. I slightly prefer the hand control because it makes starting with a load much easier to balance, but the Pedelec is legally required by most European countries. The pedelec pressure system is almost as good as a hand control, but the rotation sensor method often takes one half to two pedal rotations before it will turn on.
On the right of this slide- often times dealers will list a battery as "7 Amp hours", but Ah isn't the whole story for battery capacity. You are looking for Watt hours when comparing systems, which is Amp hours times the battery Voltage. For current eBikes a small battery is around 7 Ah x 36 V = 252 Wh, or about 1/4 of a kiloWatt hour (the same unit as on your home electric bill). A large battery might be 20 Ah x 48 V = 960 Wh, or about one kWh. Batteries are made of many smaller cells, with the round 18650 cell (18 mm diameter by 65 mm long) being more common because they are made by the billions for laptops and power tools, and are less expensive ($290 per kWh average price in 2014). I'm using the flat pouch prismatic (rectangular form) cells in my bikes because they pack better, I'm not concerned about cooling because the battery is oversized (to allow me long distance riding), and the safer LiFePO4 chemistry that I like is common in pouch cells. However each time I've ordered a battery (from China), it's been about $475 per kWh, and it disappears into China post for about 15 weeks and then shows up looking like the box was rolled and crushed, The batteries have worked fine, but if Tesla makes their cells from the new Nevada factory available to builders like me, I'd gladly switch to paying $185 per kWh less and a 2 week delivery.
Our culture is built around the car, and our highway budgets are mostly car dollars. Besides the general public test rides and talks I've been giving, I think it's important to reach out to planners and government people also. Dave Cohen in Brattleboro has been trying to build a fleet of Cargo eBikes that can be loaned out to energy committees and bike shops around the state, (see www.vbikesolutions.org), but establishing the need for them, planning for biking systems, and funding are the usual problems. To prepare for this my Longtail is currently (June 2015) up in Montpelier in a 30 day pilot study for the VT AOT program Go!Vermont. This slide is a screenshot of data from a test ride I took through the capitol on February 4 for the study, (during very bad weather with 3" of snow on the road- the bike was a slush ball at the end). My bikes have Cycle Analyst data recorders that measure electrical use and GPS location so that it can be analyzed. You can see the trip was 4.27 miles and took 16 minutes and 45 seconds, or basically just like a car. It had an unusually high energy consumption of 20.8 Watt hours (Wh) per mile, (which I think was primarily due to the snow and slush, and second to the temperature of 14 F), which gives a total of 89 Wh (or 1.5 cents) of electricity for the trip. (Using a plug in charger that is 85% efficient instead of the built in solar panel, the electricity needed is about 110 Wh, or 1.8 cents.) I've positioned the cursor at one of the peak speeds on the graph for reading the other selected measurements at that moment. You can see that my average speed was 15.29 mph, and peak was 27.5 mph.
I've found 99% of Vermont drivers to be considerate of me on the road, with some of them going way out of their way to give me space on the road. (I think this is because after a few winters here, you learn that if you think of the road as a race track you can get in big trouble.) However the way our roads were built was meant for cars, and it is hard to create new traffic flow habits. In all the major cities in Vermont I've found it easier to ride in the car lane at the 25 mph speed limit, then to try to ride slower next to parked cars and causing a traffic block. Burlington is a special case because they have installed some bike lanes, and using them (even going uphill) I found biking to be faster than the cars. Despite these results, the general reaction by a car driver to my bike is to try to pass. (One example that stands out was a pathetic small sedan in Brattleboro going uphill, the driver was flogging the car for all it was worth.) Rutland also tried to install bike lanes along Route 4 going east, but the merchant push back grew into a nasty political battle and they had to be removed, despite several studies that have shown increased business volume resulting from bike lanes.
-Training- riders and drivers need to know their space on the road and how to act, as it is a public commons.
-We really need to spend more dollars on bike (and pedestrian) infrastructure and less on cars, such as wider road shoulders in rural areas, and Intermodal transportation systems that can carry bikes easily.
-Appropriate speed, since just like cars, bikes can travel too fast and get in trouble.
-Critical mass is when enough bikes are on the road that they are common and drivers expect them.
-Riders should stay aware, since riding a bike is so much fun that it is easy to get blissed out.
-Other programs- two of the main supporters of the Complete Streets legislation during it's passage into VT law a few years ago were AARP and parts of the VT Department of Health, but not so much transportation people. There are known health benefits to biking and walking- it has been shown that the benefit of biking to a person's health is about 20 times greater than the risk. These benefits should be promoted, as well as programs that enable people to bike or walk.
-Vision Zero is a program that started in Sweden, and has been taken up by NYC and California. It is about using the design of roads to prevent accidents, with the goal that no one should get hurt just from traveling from point A to point B.
Since eBikes can be built to travel at motorcycle speeds, it's necessary to artificially set the maximum speed. Some of the guidelines I'm using to build my bikes are shown in this slide. For context I would like to point out that in real life it is difficult to enforce these rules, not just because many bikes lack speedometers, but also because regular bikes are capable of 25 to 30 mph with only human power (the human powered bike record is 83 mph), and I've reached 46 mph coasting downhill (with no motor power) on both of my bikes.
The most universal rule is the Federal limit of 20 mph under test conditions, but it is a Consumer Product Safety Act, and applies only to the first sale, i.e. from a manufacturer to first purchaser. The state laws are a little more explicit, with a maximum speed around 20 to 30 mph, but some details such as motor only, or motor and pedaling together, are often missing. Sometimes the vehicle classification is vague too, for example the NYC bike messengers did such a bad job of using electric bikes that they got them banned (although vendors and delivery bikes still seem to be using them), and this spilled over to a legal quandary for the rest of the state that needs an act of the legislature to assign a vehicle category to eBikes. Vermont is generous with a 30 mph and 2 HP limit, but it is my guess that this law is from the 1960's when putting a small 2 cycle gas engine on your bike was popular. Some interpretations of VT law use this rule to find that a license is required, others treat eBikes as bikes and it is not. My bikes are set up for the Federal 20 mph under motor power only rule, but they do not turn the motor off when pedaling above that speed (such as California requires). I think this is a good compromise, because I can fairly easily reach 25 mph to make it practical to travel between towns, or flow with downtown traffic. Justin Lemire-Elmore (eBike innovator) has also stated that 40 kph (24.9 mph) is a comfortable cruising speed.
At the bottom is a typical graph of the physical limits I've also considered, the bike/ped curve is on the left in red. This is of fatality risk versus collision speed, and you can see that up to about 15 mph the human body survives well, (which makes sense because we can run that fast). Between 20 to 25 mph is a threshold where the risk starts to increase sharply, and I've set my design line just above that. This keeps the eBike speeds mostly within normal bike range for infrastructure compatibility, and combined with bike component strength limits, car driver expectations, the practical need to cover distance, and enough power for hill climbing, seems a reasonable limit.
The League of American Bicyclists commissioned a survey to find out what most people think of eBikes. In some areas, such as residential communities with bike paths, or National Parks with mountain bike single track trails, the speed of an eBike has shown up as a conflict between different users. The first four bikes on this chart look normal and have lower power, and most people felt they were a bike. (As Luke "Live for Physics" has said, "If it looks like a bike and it acts like a bike, then it is a bike.") However starting with the large enclosed trike, and including a 40 mph and 50 mph bike (i.e. motor power only on level road), as well as the eScooter with minimally functioning pedals, most people felt they were not bicycles. These opinions fit well with most bicycle infrastructure goals, however there is an obvious problem with urban delivery bicycles and trikes.
While there is a fairly vocal faction of bicycle purists that have been calling for eBikes to be banned from paths or MTB trails, this does not represent a larger group of people with physical impairments, for whom eBikes would make the path or trail accessible.
To sum up the benefits of an electric cargo bike, the main benefits would be better health, connection to the world around you, saving money, and much better for the environment than a car. The graph shown above is from a Drive Electric Vermont presentation by Dave Roberts, and illustrates the amount of energy used by different vehicles, bicycles are the tiny bar at the bottom.
-If you have a small battery, don't pedal, and drive fast, it would be 250 Wh divided by 25 Wh/m, or 10 miles.
-If you have a large battery and pedal along slowly, it would be 960 Wh divided by 10.5 Wh/m, or 90 miles.
I know many people can not imagine biking in the winter, so I've added the pictures on the right. At the top is Eric Larsen riding around the Artic, next is a Bakfiets being used to haul ski boards around a ski area for classes, then another Bakfiets pulling the kids along a snow covered street, and at the bottom is Maria Leijerstam on her trike at the South Pole. Vermont has a very strong winter sports culture, and it is only a small step to include biking.
This last slide is from the Bicycling Without Ages program, which is in many cities around the world. This is from Oslo, Norway, a climate known more for cold than being tropical, but where biking is still common. If you look close at the four trikes that are carrying seniors, you can see battery packs under the rear racks and a motor in the rear wheel. (There are also perhaps 20 other bike riders following them.) Bicycles are very valid solution for many purposes, and the main problem we have with them here in the U.S. car culture is that we have forgotten how to use them. Electric bikes with better bike infrastructure are a serious car substitute.


It looks like the people posting the terrible reviews didn't manage to figure out how to progress in the game. That is not the game's fault, but the user's fault, and in my eyes is the equivalent of someone calling a book terrible, because they can't figure out how to open the cover and get to the pages. If you require your hand constantly held through your games, and big flashing arrows pointing which way to go and what to do next, this game isn't for you. If you like an atmospheric, charming, exploration game that will provide you with an amazing experience, give it a try! I found it a very satisfying and relaxing experience, and on my second play through noticed things I hadn't previously, and was greeted with a new landscape to explore. I highly recommend this "relax-em up" (not sure what else to call it!) to anyone who wants a new experience and wants to get lost in an interesting world.
Pretty and relaxing. Don't expect a great game or a hard game or an exciting game, expect a nice little relaxer. Good to play before going to sleep. There are actually a fair few secrets and puzzles to this game, so if you want to play it game-y, that's something you can do, too.
Proteus is very beautiful, and very original. That being said, I don't recommend spending money on it. I found that it had no replay value. The first time you play, it's quite magical, and relaxing, and I can understand the appeal, and I can see why this game has received good reviews. But the second play through was so much like the first, that I lost interest rather quickly. Yes, you get a different island to explore each time you start, but each island has the same things on it, just laid out differently. There are some cool things that happen, but it's the same cool things every time. If you're really keen to check it out, play your friend's copy. I can't recommend spending even the low price of 10 dollars on a game that only offers an hour or two of original gameplay. The "Interactive sound track" doesn't resemble music. It's more like noise, albeit noise that you have some control over. I could see Proteus being really enthralling for someone on psychedelics, but if that's not your cup of tea, you probably won't play it more than twice.
I played games like Journey and Unfinished Swan. I liked them a lot. But this is an entirely other beast. It is too slow for its own good, it's just boring and aimless. You're just there. wandering around. I appreciate that developers want to try something different, but this time spend your money and your time on something else.
This is not a game. No gameplay, "beep-boop" level music, patheticly bad graphics, pretending to be "minimalist". Pretencious crap. Wouldn't pay 1 cent for it, let alone 12$. Avoid like a plague. If you want an exploration game with actual gameplay and story buy "flower" or "journey" instead.


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Lieven Bauwens  (Gent, 14 juni 1769 – Parijs, 17 maart 1822) was een Zuid-Nederlands ondernemer en industrieel spion. Hij bracht de Engelse katoentechnologie naar Europa.

Jeugd
Bauwens werd geboren in de Waaistraat in Gent als zoon van George Jean Bauwens en Jeanne van Peteghem, leden van de gegoede Gentse burgerij, die een leerlooierij en wijnhandel dreven. De jongen was al vroeg bezeten van machines. Op dertienjarige leeftijd ging hij van school af om het vak van het leerlooien aan te leren. Op zijn zeventiende werd hij door zijn vader naar Groot-Brittannië gestuurd, waar hij zich gedurende drie jaar in de nieuwste leerlooitechnieken bekwaamde bij Undershell en Fox. Na zijn terugkeer in 1789 begon hij een nieuwe modelfabriek met 550 looikuipen in de lokalen van een opgeheven klooster op het Nieuwland. De kwaliteit van de afgeleverde producten was zo hoog dat hij zelfs kon uitvoeren en concurreren op de Engelse markt. Na de dood van vader Bauwens werden de zaken overgenomen door Lieven, zijn moeder, en François, de zoon van George Jean uit een eerder huwelijk.

Revolutie
Na de bezetting en de aanhechting van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden bij Frankrijk schopte de firma het tot hofleverancier van het Franse leger. Schoenen, leer en textiel voor uniformen kwamen niet enkel uit de eigen fabriek. De Compagnie Bauwens-Beths handelde in opgeëist kerkzilver, Franse waardepapieren en groeide exponentieel. Bauwens zag de gevaren in. Om het vermogen veilig te stellen kochten de gebroeders Bauwens in 1796 het Hôtel de Richelieu in Parijs en het opgeheven klooster van de minderbroeders in Passy om er een leerlooierij in te richten.

Bauwens wilde diversifiëren en kreeg het idee om in Passy naast de leerlooierij een katoenspinnerij en -weverij op te richten. De markt in katoenen stoffen werd toen gemonopoliseerd door Groot-Brittannië, waar de Mule Jenny (een spinmachine) in 1779 was uitgevonden. In plaats van de op het continent bekende technologie te perfectioneren besloot hij echter de technologische kennis die Groot-Brittannië ter zake bezat te importeren. Dit was niet zonder risico, aangezien de Engelsen hun technologische voorsprong in de katoenindustrie bewaakten als een zaak van nationaal belang. Daarenboven heerste dan nog een staat van oorlog tussen Groot-Brittannië en Frankrijk.

Onder de dekmantel van een handel in koloniale waren smokkelde Bauwens in de periode 1797-1798 gedurende 32 reizen de onderdelen van een Mule Jenny en andere machines voor de katoennijverheid, verborgen in kisten suiker of balen, via Hamburg het continent in. Hij had hiervoor een atelierchef uit Manchester, Kenyon, omgekocht. Bij het smokkelen van gekwalificeerd personeel uit Engeland liep het echter bijna fout. Enkele van de reeds in Hamburg aangekomen vaklui, aan wie de eindbestemming niet was meegedeeld, lichtten de Britse afgezant in over de samenzwering. Daardoor konden de Britten het volgende contingent onderscheppen te Gravesend. Lammens, Harding en Smallbone werden aangehouden en veroordeeld. Bauwens kreeg bij verstek de doodstraf en zijn goederen werden verbeurd verklaard. Op verscheidene pleinen in Londen werden poppen naar zijn gelijkenis opgehangen.

Terug in Frankrijk slaagden Bauwens en zijn broer erin de spinmachines te monteren, te analyseren en op grote schaal te kopiëren. Ze begonnen hiermee in Passy (december 1798), vanwege zijn impopulariteit als collaborateur in zijn thuisstad en de onzekere situatie door de Boerenkrijg. Weldra was het niet meer nodig om gekwalificeerd personeel uit Engeland aan te trekken.

Terug in Gent
In 1800 keerde Bauwens terug naar Gent. Hij had er in 1798 al het Kartuizerklooster gekocht om er wolweverijen en vlasspinnerijen in te richten. Hij begon er de nieuwe machines te bouwen nadat hij in januari 1801 toestemming had gekregen om gevangenenarbeid in te schakelen, wat hem uiteraard goedkope arbeidskrachten opleverde. Daklozen, werklozen en bedelaars liet hij oppakken om in het 'correctiehuis' in de Rasphuisstraat te laten werken. Het aantal gevangenen steeg op een bepaald moment van 600 naar 1000. In 1805 verwierf hij ook de Norbertijnerabdij van Drongen. Zowel in Gent als in Drongen had hij nu een constructie-atelier voor de bouw van katoenspinmachines, en vervolgens een katoenspinnerij. Hij sloot vennootschappen met al dan niet aangetrouwde industriëlen, waarbij Bauwens de technologie inbracht, en zijn compagnons het bedrijfskapitaal. Gent groeide snel uit tot een "tweede Manchester."

Op 10 juli 1800 was Bauwens benoemd tot "maire" (burgemeester) van Gent, maar hij nam nog geen jaar later ontslag, op 28 april 1801.

Op 22 mei 1805 kreeg hij een gouden medaille van de stad. Hij werd door Napoleon op 9 mei 1810 gedecoreerd met het kruis van het Legioen van Eer. Hij was lid van de algemene raad van het Scheldedepartement en luitenant-kolonel van de Erewacht te paard.

In 1804 liet Bauwens zijn belangen in de fabrieken te Passy, Valençay en Dinant over aan zijn stiefbroer François.

Ondergang
Bauwens stond echter financieel zwak. Vanaf 1811 deden de gevolgen van de continentale blokkade zich gevoelen. De val van het Franse Keizerrijk sleepte Bauwens mee. Hij werd failliet verklaard en op 2 november 1814 werden zijn bezittingen, met de fabrieken in het kartuizersklooster en in Drongen, openbaar verkocht.

Daarna ging hij zich toeleggen op het verwerken van vlas en vlokzijde, maar zijn voorstellen over de textielindustrie die hij richtte aan de Spaanse, Nederlandse en Franse overheden kregen geen gehoor.

Hij trok zich terug in Parijs en stierf er op 52-jarige leeftijd. Hij werd begraven op het kerkhof Père Lachaise. De familie was te berooid om hem een eeuwige vergunning en een grafmonument te bezorgen, en hij werd bijgezet in een bescheiden graftombe, die na enkele jaren verdween.

Standbeeld
Reeds in 1849 dacht men er aan hem een standbeeld te geven. In 1866 plaatste men een ontwerp in pleisterkalk op de huidige plaats (het Lieven Bauwensplein). Uiteindelijk kwam het huidige bronzen standbeeld, van de hand van Pieter De Vigne, er in 1885.

Literatuur
 L. HEBBELINCK, Biographie de Liévin Bauwens, recueil des particularités qui concernent la vie et les travaux de ce grand industriel, Uitg. Hebbelinck, Gent, 1853.
 Baron DE SAINT-GENOIS, Liévin Bauwens, in: Biographie nationale de Belgique, T. II, Brussel, 1868.
 Prosper CLAEYS, Liévin Bauwens, in: Pages d'histoire locale, T. II, Vuylsteke, Gent, 1885.
 Odilon PERIER, Lieven Bauwens en de opkomst der katoennijverheid in Vlaanderen, Hoste, Gent, 1885.
 Joseph Henri VAN DEN DAELE, Lieven Bauwens, Uitg. Vuylsteke en Willemsfonds, Gent, 1885, 57. blz.
 Napoleon DE PAUW, Liévin Bauwens, son expédition en Angleterre et son procès à Londres (1798-1799), in: La Flandre judiciaire van 21 oktober 1903, uitg. Hoste, Gent, 1903.
 Anne DESPRECHINS, Liévin Bauwens et sa famille, Tablettes des Flandres, Brugge, 1954.
 Anna-Magdalena SUETENS, "Lieven Bauwens - Mythe en werkelijkheid", in: Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent, XXVIII, 1974, blz. 77-104.
 Eline CHALMET, Lieven Bauwens, Gent, MIAT, 2012, 27 blz.
 Bart D'HONDT, Lieven Bauwens in: Van Andriesschool tot Zondernaamstraat, Gids door 150 jaar liberaal leven te Gent, Uitgeverij Snoeck en Liberaal Archief, Gent, 2014.
 Pieter DE REU, 1801: Lieven Bauwens op de drempel van handelskapitalisme naar industrieel kapitalisme. Vlaams textiel kleurt de hele wereld'' in: Wereldgeschiedenis van Vlaanderen, Uitgeverij Polis, Kalmthout, 2018, blz. 276-282.

Zie ook
 Mule Jenny

Externe link
 Biografie van Lieven Bauwens (p.238) op de website van Liberas

Bronnen en noten

Zuid-Nederlands ingenieur (voor 1830)
Zuid-Nederlands ondernemer (voor 1830)
Zuid-Nederlands burgemeester (voor 1830)
Burgemeester van Gent
Geschiedenis van de textielindustrie
Textielondernemer

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