September 24th, 2018, will be another day BTS makes history. It has been announced that the septet is set to deliver a speech at the UN. The speech will be three minutes long. They will be speaking for the launch ceremony of "Generation Unlimited", and global partnership by the UNICEF.
UNICEF will work with different groups of partnerships for General Unlimited. The new campaign will "expand young people as the transition from adolescence to adulthood". People from the ages 10 – 18 will be the center of attention for this new campaign. BTS had joined this campaign in 2017, to establish Love Myself in hopes to end violence towards the youth. The sales the boy group acquire will all be donated to the campaign. It has been reported that they have already raised roughly more than $1 million.
During the three minute speech, leaders and diplomats from south korea (as well as the rest of the world) will be present. It has been said that the First Lady of South Korea Kim Jung Sook will be present as well.
On this day, BTS will continue breaking records and creating history. August of 2018, the group had broken the record set by Taylor Swift, with more than 45 million views on Youtube. In May of 2018, BTS' album topped the Billboard 200 Chart, making them the first k-pop group to achieve this feat. Now, on the 24th of September, BTS will be the first K-Pop group to speak to the UN.


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Hedges: For Parkway's May, becoming a head football coach a dream come true
To be a head football coach has always been Neil May's dream, but family has always come first.
He's had opportunities in his 16-year career as an assistant. But it would have meant uprooting his family — wife Erin, daughter Bailey and son Peyton — from South Bossier, a community he's been part of for 20 years.
Well, sometimes opportunity presents itself when you least expect it.
May or anyone else didn't expect there to be an opening for a head football coach at Parkway High School six weeks ago — certainly not when the coach in place, David Feaster, had averaged 10 wins over six seasons.
Yes, Feaster has been known for making moves throughout his career. Anything was possible. But with a potential powerhouse team coming back in 2017, that seemed unlikely.
Sometimes things happen, though. In this case, Feaster was relieved of his coaching duties by principal Waylon Bates on Feb. 17.
The reasons for his dismissal have been well-documented — and hotly debated. There's no need to rehash them here.
May, who turns 40 on March 24, served as Feaster's defensive coordinator for all six seasons and two years before that under Chris Hill and Jim Gatlin. He often said Feaster was a "good guy" in defending him from critics.
He also understands the popularity of Feaster among the current players and South Bossier community.
In six years, Feaster, with help from May and other assistants, had made Parkway, never known for its football success, into a state powerhouse.
But here was an opportunity that May couldn't pass up. So he applied for the job along with approximately 24 others, including more than one with a state championship on their resumes.
And on March 14, May's dream was realized when Bates told him he would be Parkway's next head coach.
"This has been my dream for a long time," May said at a March 15 press conference introducing him. "My family taught me how to be a leader. The people that I've been associated with my whole life taught me how to lead.
"I think there are leaders and I think there are servant leaders, and I think you have to be a servant leader before you're a leader and that's what I've tried to do my whole career. If I told you I'd never wanted to be a head coach I'd be lying to you. I've always had this dream of being a head coach. But I never pressed it. … So you know I think God's timing is good. If it took coach May 17 years to be in this position, that's just what it took. So here I am."
Parkway quarterback Justin Rogers, who will be a senior this fall, was among the players who let it be known through social media they weren't happy about the decision to let Feaster go.
But May's hiring has alleviated some of his concerns.
"It was a big thing, kind of like the situation at LSU with Coach O (head coach Ed Orgeron)," Rogers said at the press conference. "That's how the team approached the situation. We felt like it was the right thing to do to bring in someone who is already a part and knew how things were going."
The team found out May was going to be the head coach on the same day he did. The players were told by Bates at a meeting attended by the assistant principals and coaching staff.
"It was actually pretty special," May said. "The kids were excited. They were ecstatic. They were jumping up and down and hollering. I think that meant a lot to them to look up and see a familiar face."
Rogers, the Offensive MVP on the 2016 All-Parish team, and wide receiver Terrace Marshall Jr. are among the nation's top college prospects in the Class of 2018 at their positions.
May is certainly smart enough to know you don't change things that are working, which certainly describes Parkway's offense.
"We're going to throw it," he said. "We're going to sling it. That's what we do. That's what the people of South Bossier love, and that's what us as coaches love to do. That was a big question that the kids had. We've got a front-loaded schedule this next year. It couldn't be any tougher.
"Offensively, I feel like what we need to do, we need to continue with what we've been doing to some extent because our skill position kids are all going to be seniors. I think it would be foolish of us to put in a brand-new spanking offense and expect those guys to be good at it Week 1.
"Obviously the kids on defense know coach May the best. But I feel like once the guys on offense really get to know coach May they're going to understand real quick that I love them and I care about them and we're in this thing together."
That doesn't mean a few changes aren't in store.
"We're absolutely going to tweak some things," said May, who was an assistant coach at Captain Shreve for eight years before coming to Parkway.
While he wouldn't mention names, May said there will be some additions to the coaching staff. Obviously, he will still have significant input as to how the defense is run, but it can't be his sole responsibility anymore.
"I do feel like there's something to when the head coach is just the head coach because that would allow me to build the culture throughout the whole team and not be stuck with only half the team," he said.
"But at the same time I've got to get it right. I can't afford to make a wrong move when it come to bringing a coach onto this staff — not only because of Xs and Os and this and that but because this is where I live.
"We have a certain way of doing things around here in how we raise our kids and I can't just bring someone that's potentially not going to be a good role model and such so I've got to be careful, but that's something that I'm looking at."
Because of Parkway's success on the football field over the last decade, the head coaching job brings with it a certain amount of pressure.
This is obviously not a rebuilding situation. That's fine with May, who has helped create the pressure and culture of success. Parkway has won 82 games and lost only 17 during his time at the school.
"The kids that we have, they win," he said. "They know how to win. They know what it takes to win. And that's a culture that we've built here no matter who's the head coach."
May has experience in that kind of culture as player, too. He was a starter on Evangel Christian Academy's first two state championship teams in 1993 and 1994.
May has been Parkway's head softball coach the past eight seasons and he plans to continue that through this season, which is about half over.
Spring football practice doesn't officially begin until after the season the over. Of course, there are always things for a head coach to do and the double duty will keep him busy.
If there was one thing May wanted to get across in the first meetings with his football team, it was this.
"I said, 'Guys, I'm not coach Feaster. I'm coach May, and all I can do as coach May is do what I believe in.' I think that it is going to help that I'm a guy they're familiar with but at the same time every coach is different. I think that transition is going go smooth because I'm a guy they know."
While that, of course, remains to be seen, it does appear the Neil May era at Parkway is off to a good start.
Russell Hedges is Sports Editor of the Bossier Press-Tribune. He may be reached at rhedges@bossierpress.com

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Americans burdened with medical debt — the government needs to step up
by Neale Mahoney, opinion contributor - 08/20/21 2:00 PM ET
The U.S. health care system aims to heal and comfort. At the same time, it has crippled Americans with $140 billion in medical debt.
That amount, which we uncovered in recent research just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is substantially more than the prior $81 billion estimate.
Here's how that breaks down: Nearly one in five Americans have some medical debt on their credit report and those with medical debt owe more than $2,400 on average. Over the last decade, medical debt has grown to account for more than half of all debt in collections, exceeding debt in collections from credit cards, personal loans, utilities and phone bills combined. If you have a debt collector calling you up or knocking on your door, more often than not it's because of an unpaid medical bill.
But the news isn't all bleak. In many parts of the country, medical debt is actually declining thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The law encouraged states to expand their Medicaid programs to cover low-income adults. To date, 38 states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid. Twelve states — mostly in the South — have not.
State governments have a new window of opportunity to deliver for their people. The American Rescue Plan provides temporary additional incentives for states to expand Medicaid. There are discussions of additional carrots for holdout states in the budget negotiations now underway in Congress.
These Medicaid expansions have had huge impacts on medical debt. In states that expanded coverage, medical debt levels declined by 44 percent versus only 10 percent in states that did not expand Medicaid. Trends for non-medical debt were almost identical across expansion versus non-expansion states, indicating that the declines were caused by the insurance expansions and not other factors.
Moreover, the Medicaid expansions provided the most help to those in greatest need. Because the Medicaid expansions targeted the poor — who were often also uninsured — states that expanded Medicaid saw the largest reductions in medical debt in the lowest income communities. Worryingly, in states that did not expand Medicaid, medical debt levels increased the most in the communities with the lowest income.
I'm a professor at Stanford University and a health economist. I teach my students about how health insurance can increase access to medical care and improve health — including new rock-solid evidence on how the ACA's Medicaid expansions and subsidized coverage saved lives, particularly among older enrollees.
While the impacts on health are paramount, I also teach my students that health insurance is a financial product and that its impact on household finances should not be ignored. An emerging body of evidence shows how financial shocks can ripple through a household budget. Although exact estimates vary, extreme medical bills can force families into bankruptcy.
Researchers still have much to learn about the full toll of medical debt — and the benefits of policies that could be used to reduce its burden. Together with my colleagues, we are working with our nonprofit partner RIP Medical Debt to study the impacts of medical debt on stress and anxiety. We're working with Kaiser Permanente to study how financial relief programs — which eliminate medical debt accrued from prior medical bills — can encourage follow-up health care.
Medicaid expansions have been a highly partisan issue — Democrats want it, Republicans don't (generally speaking). I'm not an expert at reading the political currents, but it seems like the tide may be starting to turn.
Over the last 10 years, the number of Americans who think that the federal government should make sure that all Americans have health care has increased from 47 to 56 percent. In the last few years, voters in Idaho, Missouri, Nebraska and Utah — by no means hotbeds of progressive activism — have voted in ballot initiatives to expand Medicaid. During the pandemic, enrollments in Medicaid shot up by 10 million people or 14 percent, indicating broad-based demand.
So, with the American Rescue Plan putting money on the table to help expand Medicaid, now is the time for action.
If policymakers take no action, in the coming months and years households will continue to receive letters and phone calls from debt collectors, pressing for payments for often staggeringly large medical bills. The pandemic has also imposed a tremendous burden on households across the country — and underscored the view that we're all in it together when it comes to health. Now is the time for governments to step up and protect their citizens from the burden of medical debt.
Neale Mahoney is a professor of economics and George P. Shultz Fellow at SIEPR, Stanford University.
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Q: Exponential Equation with different bases and a constant Anyone know how one could algebraically solve an exponential equation with form:
$$0=a(b^x)+(c^{x-1})+d$$
My specific example is:
$0=33.1(1.04^n)+(0.75^{n-1})-37.5$
I tried getting rid of the "$n-1$" for:
$0=24.825(1.04^n)+(0.75^n)-26.775$
But I'm still stuck from there.
I know what the answer should be for graphing it, but I can't use a graphing calculator on the test.
Thank you very much! (Have spent about 3 futile research hours tying to figure it out!)

A: First of all, I think that you made a small mistake since you should have arrived at
$$24.825\, (1.04)^n+(0.75)^n-\color{red}{28.125}=0$$
Now, the problem is that you will not be able to get an anlytical solution of this equation and you will need a numerical method to find the zero of function
$$f(n)=24.825\, (1.04)^n+(0.75)^n-28.125$$
By inspection, you should find that the solution is between $n=2$ (since $f(2)=-0.712$) and $n=3$ (since $f(3)=0.222$). At this point, you have all elements to start either bisection method or Newton method.
Using Newton method and using $n_0=2.5$, you should get the following iterates
$$\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
k & n_k \\
 0 & 2.50000 \\
 1 & 2.77349 \\
 2 & 2.77030 \\
 3 & 2.77030
\end{array}
\right)$$

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\section{Introduction}

The actual nature of the dark matter particle remains unknown but the standard cosmological model relies on a candidate belonging to the WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle) category \cite{WIMP}. In this acronynm ``massive'' means such particles are heavy, with masses $O(GeV)$, i.e., they were non-relativistic at freeze-out. As a consequence, since this ensemble of cold dark matter (CDM) particles presents a very low velocity dispersion the pressure of this component is assumed to be irrelevant for the background expansion, i.e., $p_{c}=0$.

Lighter particles $m \sim O(keV)$ would have decoupled still in the non-relativistic regime and represent the basis of the Warm Dark Matter (WDM) \cite{WDM}. Consequently, their relativistic free-streaming is able to prevent structure formation below the dwarf galaxy scale and since they have a non-negligible thermal velocity there exists a positive pressure contribution. Such pressure can play a role at both the background expansion level and the perturbative sector since it leads to a effective speed of sound. This contribution is sometimes parametrized by a constant equation of state parameter $w_{w}=p_{w}/\rho_{w}$\footnote{In our notation, the subscript $c$ refers to CDM while the subscript $w$ to WDM.}. Current constraints limit the darm matter equation of state to the range $\left|w_{w} \right|\lesssim 10^{-3}$ values \cite{EoSDM}.

The prevailing view for the dark matter sector also states that these particles should interact weakly. This means that they have very small cross-sections in scattering processes. However, on large scales, dark matter could eventually transfer energy-momentum to the dark energy sector whose nature is still not known. The simplest DE candidate is a cosmological constant, but barotropic fluids and dynamical fields have been also associated to the accelerated cosmic expansion. The suggestion of a possible energy-momentum transfer between DM and DE gave rise to interacting/coupled cosmological models \cite{Int} (see a recent review in \cite{IntReview}). In this scenario, the densities of DM and DE are somehow connected leading to a possible way out for the cosmic coincidence problem (see \cite{rodrigo} and references therein).

Some cosmological observations are capable to probe the expansion rate of the universe $H$. A remarkable example is the Supernovae type Ia data. From Friedmann's equation however we know that $H$ is determined by the sum of all cosmic components. Then, we are not able to distinguish the nature of each single cosmic fluid or different cosmologies which lead to the same $H$. Moreover, a similar situation can also happen when studying the evolution of first order matter density perturbations which give us a direct understanding of how structures grow. If some set of observations are indeed unable to distinguish the actual physics behind that observable then we are left with the so called cosmic degeneracy problem (see for example related discussion in Refs. \cite{kunz, avilez, saulo}).

Wei et al \cite{wei} have proposed a possible equivalence between three distinct cosmological models:

\begin{itemize}
\item A) WDM which does not interact to dark energy in the form of a cosmological constant $\Lambda$;
\item B) CDM coupled to a scalar dark energy field;
\item C) A CDM model driven by a modified gravity theory parametrized in terms of an effective gravitational coupling $G_{eff}$.
\end{itemize}

In comparison to the minimal standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, both models have one additional degree of freedom. Namely, model A has the constant equation of state parameter of WDM $w_{w}$, model B has the coupling $Q$ between dark matter and the scalar field dark energy, and model C has the constant effective gravitational coupling $G_{eff}$.
Ref. \cite{wei} argues that by setting the same background expansion $H$ and the same density contrast $\delta$ in such models, then one can find a exact mapping between quantities in both models. Therefore, once one satisfies such mapping, cosmological data for the background expansion and the growth history would not be able to differentiate specific signatures of either WDM particles, dark matter-dark energy coupling or modified gravity. Such claim has also motivated further investigations \cite{citewei}.

We do not focus here on the possible degeneracy involving modified gravity scenarios since this discussion also relies on screening mechanisms to recover the success of general relativity in local tests. In any case, we follow recent literature and we support the ideia that modified gravity models can be distinguishable from other cosmologies, more specifically, interacting cosmologies \cite{MGsign,koyamaMGinter}.

The purpose of this work is twofold: 1) to extend the analysis of Ref. \cite{wei} and to enrich the discussion on the degeneracy between $\Lambda$WDM and coupled CDM scenarios and 2) to identify specific cosmological signatures which are able to break such degeneracy. We anticipate that the proposed degeneracy breaks down at linear and non-linear levels.

In the next section we review the basic dynamics presented in Ref. \cite{wei} as long as their main outcomes. In section III we present in each subsection one argument advocating that the models A and B can be in fact distinguishable. In section IV, we also provide an analysis concerning the non-linear clustering to reinforce our viewpoint. We conclude in the final section.

\section{Warm dark matter and coupled dark matter: Dynamics}

Let us introduce a more general dynamics associated to model A in which the universe contains only WDM and dark energy. Hence, the Friedmann equation reads
\begin{equation}
3H^2=\kappa^2 (\rho_{w} + \rho_{de}),
\end{equation}
where $\kappa^2=8\pi G$. Since there is no interaction between such components
\begin{eqnarray}
\dot{\rho}_w+3H(\rho_{w}+p_{w})&=&0\\
\dot{\rho}_{de}+3H(\rho_{de}+p_{de})&=&0,
\end{eqnarray}
where the equation of state parameter of a fluid $w = p / \rho$ can even be a function of time. However, in standard cosmology one has for CDM $w_{c}=0$ while for relativistic fluids $w_{r}=1/3$. Restricting to model A, $w_{w}$ will be a free constant and $w_{de}=-1$.

At first order, sub-horizon density perturbations $\delta=\delta \rho / \rho$ in the matter fluid obeys to
\begin{eqnarray}\label{deltawdm}
\delta^{\prime \prime}_w + \left[2-3(2w_{w}-c^2_{ad})+\frac{H^{\prime}}{H}\right]\delta^{\prime}_w\\ \nonumber
= \frac{3}{2}\Omega_{w} \delta_w \left(1-6c^2_{ad} + 8 w_{w} -3 w^2_{w}+\frac{k^2 c^2_{eff}}{a^2 H^2}\right).
\end{eqnarray}
where the symbol $^{\prime}$ (prime) means derivative with respect to ln $a$. The effective speed of sound has been defined as $c^2_{eff}=\delta p / \delta \rho$. For adiabatic fluids this quantity reads $c^2_{eff}=c^2_{ad}= p^{\prime}/\rho^{\prime}$. In model A, $c^2_{eff}=w_w$. We have also defined the fractionary energy density such as $\Omega_{w}=\kappa^2 \rho_{w} / 3H^2$.

Now we describe model B with more details. For the scalar field dynamics $\phi$, its energy density and pressure are, respectively,
\begin{equation}
\hat{\rho}_{\phi}=\frac{\dot{\phi}^2}{2}+V(\phi) \hspace{0.4cm}{\rm and}\hspace{0.4cm}
\hat{p}_{\phi}=\frac{\dot{\phi}^2}{2}-V(\phi),
\end{equation}
where the symbol `` $\hat{}$ '' (hat) refers to quantities belonging to model B. A specific scalar field dynamics corresponds to a choice of the potential $V(\phi)$. Then, the corresponding Friedmann's equations reads
\begin{equation}
3\hat{H}^2=\kappa^2 (\hat{\rho}_c+\hat{\rho}_{\phi}).
\end{equation}
An interaction between dark matter and dark energy corresponds to a source terms in their energy conservation equations. More specifically, and for the purposes of our work, we present here the coupling adopted by Amendola \cite{amendola} which was used in \cite{wei}
\begin{eqnarray}
\dot{\hat{\rho}}_c+3H(\hat{\rho}_c+p_c)&=&-\kappa Q \hat{\rho}_c\dot{\phi},\\
\dot{\hat{\rho}}_{\phi}+3H(\hat{\rho}_{\phi}+p_{\phi})&=&\kappa Q \hat{\rho}_c\dot{\phi}.
\end{eqnarray}
The new degree of freedom of the model is encoded in the dimensionless arbitrary function $Q\equiv Q(\phi)$.

The dynamics of the coupled scalar field to CDM is therefore determined by
\begin{equation}
\ddot{\phi}+3\hat{H}\dot{\hat{\phi}}+\frac{d V}{d\phi}=\kappa Q \hat{\rho}_c.
\end{equation}

For the sub-horizon ($k/H \gg 1$) perturbative dynamics of the coupled CDM component we have \cite{amendolatv}
\begin{equation}\label{deltacoupled}
\hat{\delta}^{\prime\prime}_c+\left(2+\frac{\hat{H}^{\prime}}{H}-\kappa Q \phi^{\prime}\right)\hat{\delta}^{\prime}_c=\frac{3}{2}(1+2Q^2)\hat{\Omega}_c\hat{\delta}_c.
\end{equation}

Let us review the results of Ref. \cite{wei} which are related to the equivalence between a $\Lambda$WDM scenario and the coupled CDM described in the last section. The $\Lambda$WDM model has been assumed to possess the parameters $\Omega_{w0}=0.28$, $w_{w}=const$ and, of course, $w_{de}=-1$.

The main argument of Wei et al is that by demanding the same background expansion and structure growth history, i.e.,
\begin{equation}
H=\hat{H}\, \hspace{1cm} {\rm and} \hspace{1cm}\delta_w=\hat{\delta}_c,
\end{equation}
there is a exact mapping between the quantities in both models. From adopting that $H=\hat{H}$ they found
\begin{eqnarray}
(\kappa \phi^{\prime})^2 &=& -3 \hat{\Omega}_c-2\frac{\hat{H}^\prime}{\hat{H}}\\
\kappa Q \phi^{\prime}&=&-3-2 \frac{\hat{H}^{\prime}}{\hat{H}}-\frac{\hat{\Omega}^{\prime}_c}{\hat{\Omega}_c},
\end{eqnarray}
which combined produce an expression for $Q$. The function $\hat{\Omega}_c$ is not yet know and should be in general different from the WDM density $\Omega_{w}$. Then, by assuming $\delta=\hat{\delta}_c$ it is possible to find a first order differential equation for $\hat{\Omega}_{c}$ (Eq. (32) of \cite{wei}). According to Ref. \cite{wei}, by comparing (\ref{deltawdm}) and (\ref{deltacoupled}), and taking the sub-horizon limit ($k/H\gg 1$) of the the former, one finds

\begin{eqnarray} \label{Omegahat}
&&\left[3(2 w_w -c^2_{ad})+3+2 \frac{\hat{H}^{\prime}}{\hat{H}}+\frac{\hat{\Omega}^{\prime}_c}{\hat{\Omega}_c}\right] \delta^{\prime}_w =\\ \nonumber
&&\frac{3}{2}\delta_w \left[\hat{\Omega}_c(1+2Q^2)-\Omega_w (1-6c^2_{ad}+8w_w-3w^2_w)\right].
\end{eqnarray}

Notice that if $w_w$ and $\Omega_{w0}$ are specified we can obtain $\delta_w$ from Eq. (\ref{deltawdm}) and therefore $\hat{\Omega}_c$ is found after integration of the above equation.

Here we point out a drawback in the analysis of Ref. \cite{wei}. Since WDM has a non-negligible $c^2_{eff}$ the $k^2$-dependence in Eq. (\ref{deltawdm}) can not be eliminated as it was claimed. Equation (\ref{Omegahat}) is therefore formally wrong because of the missing $c^2_{eff} k^2$ term which should be indeed present in the sub-horizon limit of (\ref{deltawdm}) .

\section{Distinguishing coupled quintessence-CDM from $\Lambda$WDM}

We have show in the last section that the determination of $\hat{\Omega}_c$ according to (\ref{Omegahat}) is inconsistent within the sub-horizon limit. However, let us assume that the freedom in choosing $w_{w}$ allows one to make it as small as necessary in order to make $c^2_{eff} k^2/a^2H^2 \ll 1$ for any wavenumber, i.e., taking the CDM limit. With this we are temporarily relying that $\hat{\Omega}_c$ is well determined from (\ref{Omegahat}).

In the next subsections we will discuss how to distinguish models A and B even
keeping this ``mislead'' assumption.

\subsection{Implications of $\Omega_w \neq \hat{\Omega}_c$}

Part of the statistics of the matter field clustering is encoded in the power spectrum $P(k)= \delta^2_k$. One observable which is affected by the evolution of the matter density is the turnover scale $k_{eq}$ in the matter power spectrum. This scale is set by the equality time between matter and radiation, i.e, when $\Omega_{r}(z_{eq})=\Omega_{m}(z_{eq})$. For the standard $\Lambda$CDM this happens around $z_{eq}\sim 3200$. Modes which enter the horizon during the radiation epoch can not grow due to the Hubble drag caused by the radiative background. Only after $z_{eq}$, when the background is dominated by the matter component, perturbations grow according to $\delta \sim a$ (this is also know as the Meszaros effect). If galaxy surveys are able to probe very large volumes then $k_{eq}$ can be used to constrain cosmological models. Unfortunately, we have so far only moderate bounds on the turnover scale provided by the WiggleZ survey $k_{eq}=0.0160^{+0.0035}_{-0.0041} h$ Mpc$^{-1}$ \cite{wigZ}.

Therefore, since we have in general $\Omega_w \neq \hat{\Omega}_c$ we expect that the $k_{eq}$ will differ in both models.

In the specific example given in \cite{wei} $\hat{\Omega}_c$ is found from integration of Eq. (\ref{Omegahat}) since some arbitrary initial condition for $\hat{\Omega}_c$ is provided. We will also show here that this choice play a crucial role.

Let us assume two sub-models for the coupled scenario,

\begin{itemize}
\item Model AI: $\hat{\Omega}_c (z_i)=0.995$ at a redshift $z_i=1000$;
\item Model AII: $\hat{\Omega}_c (z_i)=0.28$ at a redshift $z_i=0$.
\end{itemize}

Reference \cite{wei} adopted model AI while we model AII should be---see (\ref{deltacoupled})---even more similar to the $\Lambda$WDM scenario (model B).

In model AI we find $\hat{\Omega}_{c0}=0.16$. During this procedure it has also been assumed $h=0.7$ and $w_{w}=0.003$ for the WDM. We have estimated the corresponding turnover scale in this specific coupled CDM example as $k_{eq}=0.0145 h$ Mpc$^{-1}$ ($z_{eq}=3265$). The latter result is the same for AI and AII. On the other hand, the supposed degenerated $\Lambda$WDM cosmology presents $k_{eq}=0.0148 h$ Mpc$^{-1}$ ($z_{eq}=3180$). Although we have shown that there is indeed a difference between the models, it is unfortunately very tiny in light of current precision in determining the turnover scale.

\subsection{Matter power spectrum on small scales}

Since the free-streaming of WDM particles with masses $\sim$keV leads to a cut-off in $P(k)$ on small scales one can wonder whether the absence such feature in CDM coupled models could be used to distinguish models A and B.
In practice, this suppression is implemented via the power spectrum definition $P_{w} (k)=T^2_{lin}(k) P_c (k)$ where the suppression effects are encoded in the {\it ad hoc} function $T^2_{lin}(k)$ which in fact also depends on the WDM particle mass $m_{w}$ \cite{VielT2}. Current constraints from Lyman-$\alpha$ observations place a bound $m_{\rm WDM} \geq 3.3$ keV ($2\sigma$) \cite{wdm33}. Moreover, the WDM signature on the HI 21cm power spectrum measured in the future by SKA \cite{SKA} has been discussed in \cite{WDM21cm}.

Now, let us provide a qualitative comparison between the $\Lambda$WDM and coupled CDM cosmologies concerning the $P(k)$ construction. The matter power spectrum in coupled CDM cosmologies has been also widely studied assuming many different coupling functions \cite{PkCoupled}. One remarkable fact is that one does not observe a sharp suppression on small scales as in WDM case. This already provides a hint to differentiating models A and B.

Another important remark here is related to the numerical simulations outcomes. In general, the standard $\Lambda$CDM model is plagued with the prediction of the large number of satellites and the cusp density profile of halos. In this sense, successful cosmologies should avoid the same CDM clustering patterns. Numerical results for coupled cosmologies usually identify specific signatures which are absent in uncoupled cases  \cite{CoupledSimu1, CoupledSimu2}. But in general, both coupled cosmologies and WDM seem to converge to similar predictions. However, available results for numerical simulations do not allow us the make clear statements on such distinguishability since different research groups have their own numerical suites which differ in aspects like initial conditions and merging assumptions, for instance. So far we are aware of, a direct comparison between coupled CDM and $\Lambda$WDM cosmologies has not yet been performed by the same group. Then, this strategy would lead to a clear picture on the indistinguishability of such models.

\subsection{The redshift space distortions signature of coupled/interacting models}

We calculate here in details the predictions for the redshift space distortions (RSD) in models A and B. In measuring the RSD the key physical quantity is the galaxies peculiar velocities $\vec{v}$ which quantifies how anisotropic the galactic clustering is. The derived quantity $(f \sigma_8)$ which has been widely used for constraining cosmologies captures information from both the expansion growth rate via the definition $f =d {\rm ln} \delta / d {\rm ln}a$ as well as the variance of the density field $\sigma_8$.

In the $\Lambda$WDM scenario we can project the WDM energy momentum tensor $T^{\mu \nu}_{w ;\mu}=0$ parallel to its four-velocity $u^{\mu}_{w}$ such that
\begin{equation}
aH \delta^{\prime}_w+(1+w)\Theta=0
\end{equation}
where $\Theta/aH = \nabla \cdot \vec{v}$. Therefore, we find that
\begin{equation}\label{RSDw}
-\frac{\Theta}{aH}=\left(\frac{f}{1+w}\right)\delta_w.
\end{equation}

For the coupled cosmology, however, we should start from
\begin{equation}
T^{\mu \nu}_{c ; \mu}=Q^{\nu}.
\end{equation}
The projection of the above equation into $u^{\mu}_{c}$ leads to
\begin{equation}
a \hat{H} \hat{\delta}^{\prime}_c +\frac{a \hat{Q}}{\hat{\rho}_{c}}\delta_c +\hat{\Theta}=0.
\end{equation}
The corresponding velocity divergence in coupled CDM models will be then \cite{WandsRSDCoupled}
\begin{equation}\label{RSDcoupled1}
-\frac{\hat{\Theta}}{a\hat{H}}=\left(\hat{f} + \frac{Q}{\hat{\rho}_c \hat{H}}\right)\hat{\delta}_c.
\end{equation}

It is worth noting that the condition $\delta=\hat{\delta}$ means $f=\hat{f}$ and therefore (\ref{RSDcoupled1}) provides a clear distinguished prediction for the RSD measurements than the $\Lambda$WDM case. Clearly, we have $\hat{\Theta}/\Theta \neq 1$ and therefore the degeneracy is broken at linear level.

In order to quantity whether or not the interacting term leads to a sizable effect in the RSD measurements we calculate the ratio between Eqs. (\ref{RSDcoupled1}) and (\ref{RSDw}),
\begin{equation}\label{RSDratio}
\frac{\hat{\Theta}}{\Theta}=\left(1-\frac{\kappa Q \phi^{\prime}}{H^2 f}\right) (1+w_{w}),
\end{equation}
and plot it in Fig. \ref{fig1}. This shows that the configuration adopted by Wei et al. (AI) leads indeed to a large discrepancy in comparison to the $\Lambda$WDM model. However, the magnitude of this effect depends on the choice of the integration constant for $\hat{\Omega}_c$ since the dashed curve (AII) leads to differences of order $\lesssim 1\%$. Such sensitivity is not reached by RSD surveys and therefore in practice the degeneracy can persist.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.44\textwidth]{QhatQ.eps}\\
\caption{Ratio of the RSD predictions between the coupled CDM and the $\Lambda$WDM models (\ref{RSDratio}). }
\label{fig1}
\end{figure}

\section{Distinguishability at the non-linear level}\label{secnonlinear}
Differences between WDM and CDM during the final process of clustering where effects like dynamical friction, tidal stripping, and tidal heating takes place are expected \cite{NONWDMSIMU}, but such details should be investigated via numerical techniques.

The consequences at nonlinear level of possible interactions in the dark sector have been received considereable attention from cosmologists in the last years \cite{baldi,casas}. In these works the authors analyse the impacts of the interacting dark energy on small scales, gravitational bias between baryons and cold dark matter, halo mass function and the full nonlinear matter power spectrum obtained from simulations, comparing with a fiducial $\Lambda$CDM framework. In this context, recently some authors succeeded to find new fitting functions that reproduce the nonlinear power spectrum provided by the N-body simulations \cite{casas}. Likewise, similar investigations looking for a potential signature of a WDM model on the nonlinear power spectrum evolution and other nonlinearity effects can be found in \cite{VielT2,wdm33}.

In order to reinforce our claim we extend our investigation to the nonlinear ambit, by adopting the spherical collapse mechanism. Let us notice that our line of reasoning had so far the Fourier space as standpoint, thus a glance at the nonlinear regime enriches our analysis allowing us to check the distinguishability of the both models also in the real space. For sake of simplicty we work within a neo-newtonian fluid description and consider the top-hat profile for the spherical overdensity.
In models satisfying this condition the perturbed physical quantities are assumed to be homogeneous throughout the collapse, so that the gradients both of the density and pressure perturbations are neglected. Our aim is to show that also within this framework the equivalence between $\Lambda$WDM and coupled $\phi$CDM models claimed by Wei {\it et al} is not fulfilled.
So let us now look at the dynamical equations describing the time evolution of the matter perturbation in these models. For the $\Lambda$WDM model the clustering component is the WDM whose equation of state is constant. In this case the spherical collapse predicts the following perturbative equation \cite{pace}
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{wdm}
&&\ddot{\delta}_w+2H\dot{\delta}_w-\frac{3}{2}\Omega_w(1+3w_{w})(1+w_{w})\delta_w \\&=&\frac{3}{2}\Omega_w(1+3w_{w})(1+w_{w})\delta^2_w+\frac{(4+3w_{w})}{3(1+w_{w})}\frac{\dot{\delta}^2_w}{(1+\delta_w)}\nonumber ,
\end{eqnarray}
whereas for the interacting $\phi$CDM the analogue equation comprises (which can be compared with the equation (17) of the reference \cite{devi})
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{phicdm}
&&\ddot{\hat{\delta}}+(2H-\kappa Q\dot{\phi})\dot{\hat{\delta}}-\left[2H\kappa Q\dot{\phi}+\frac{d}{dt}(\kappa Q\dot{\phi})+\frac{3}{2}H^2\hat{\Omega}_{c}\right]\hat{\delta}\nonumber\\&=&\frac{3}{2}H^2\hat{\Omega}_{c}\hat{\delta}^2+\frac{1}{3(1+\hat{\delta})}\left[4\dot{\hat{\delta}}^2-5\kappa Q\dot{\phi}\dot{\hat{\delta}}\delta+(\kappa Q\dot{\phi})^2\hat{\delta}^2\right]\ ,
\end{eqnarray}

For the purpose of giving the reader a proper idea about the role played by the nonlinear terms in both models we separate them out the linear ones by displaying them at the right side of each corresponding equation. The breaking of the alleged equivalence claimed by Wei {\it et al}, at linear level, becomes even clear when we observe the full nonlinear equations above. By using the condition $\delta=\hat{\delta}$ and $H=\hat{H}$ a straightforward comparison between these dynamical equation is impossible. The nonlinear increments appearing in (\ref{wdm}) are proportional to $\dot{\delta}^2(1+\delta)^{-1}$ and $\delta^2$, whilst in the equation (\ref{phicdm})
the nonlinearity effects contribute with the terms $\dot{\hat{\delta}}^2(1+\hat{\delta})^{-1}$, $\hat{\delta}^2$, $\dot{\hat{\delta}}\hat{\delta}(1+\hat{\delta})^{-1}$ and $\hat{\delta}^2(1+\hat{\delta})^{-1}$. It is important to notice that unlike the former two terms the latter two ones don't have any counterparts in the equation (\ref{wdm}). Furthermore these additional terms arise as direct contributions coming from the interaction assumption at nonlinear level, since they vanish automatically when the interaction is switched off ($\phi$=const.), and the $\Lambda$CDM model is recovered. This feature allows us to interpret the terms $\dot{\hat{\delta}}\hat{\delta}(1+\hat{\delta})^{-1}$ and $\hat{\delta}^2(1+\hat{\delta})^{-1}$ in the equation (\ref{phicdm}) as a sign of the existence of the interactions in the dark sector and since it is expected that these contributions become more and more important as the collapse reaches its final stages, we can infer that these terms can leave imprints on the estimate of abundance of collapsed objects which shall be different from the predictions coming from $\Lambda$WDM. Therefore this difference seems to be crucial to prevent the direct mapping between both models.

In fact it is possible to confirm the non-equivalence between these two scenarios and verify that the spherical collapse is indeed affected diferently in the both models. In order to provide an estimation on the magnitude of such difference we have solved numerically Eqs. (\ref{wdm}) and (\ref{phicdm}) adopting model AII for comparison.
Using the same initial condition for both overdensities we found that $\delta^{NL}_{w}(z=0)$ and $\hat{\delta}^{NL}_{c} (z=0)$ differ at the $22\%$ level.
For sake of comparison, from Fig. 1 we can infer that $\hat{\Theta}$ and $\Theta$ calculated at $z=0$ differ only at the $1 \%$ level. Therefore, the nonlinear analysis seems to be more effective in differentiating these cosmologies.

As is well known the abundance of collapsed objects in a given cosmological scenario can be appraised using the linear overdensity evaluated at the collapse redshift $\delta_{crit}\equiv\delta_{linear}(z=z_{collapse})$, the so-called {\it threshold}.
The collapse time means the instant at which the nonlinear density enhancement blows up which in general has a strong dependence upon the amplitude of the initial overdensity: the huger (tinier) the initial density contrast is, earlier (later) the collapse occurs. Thus, the values of $\delta^{NL}_{w}(z=0)$ and $\hat{\delta}^{NL}_{c} (z=0)$ reported above could be arbitrarily amplified by adjusting the initial conditions until the collapse (divergent nonlinear overdensity) is reached.
Thus by aiming to verify how the degeneracy breaking of the models influences the corresponding threshold values, we computed such parameter for each model at a specific time $z_{c}$. We pursued the same redshift collapse for each perturbative equations and adjusted it to $z_{c}\sim0$ by means of a meticulous choice of the initial conditions. For the $\Lambda$WDM model we set $\delta_w(z_i=1000)=3.4467\times10^{-3}$ and $\delta'_w(z_i=1000)=6.43943\times 10^{-8}$, whereas for the coupled model we have $\delta_c(z_i=1000)=3.779\times 10^{-3}$ and $\delta'_c(z_i=1000)=10^{-8}$. The both cases provide redshift collapse values at the order $z_{c}\sim10^{-5}$, and both values are approximately the same differing just in the ninth decimal place. We observed that the discrepancy in the both threshold values at $z_c$ corresponds to a $\sim2.2\%$ level. Although quite small, the distinguishabiliy appears again through a difference between the corresponding $\delta_{crit}$ for each aforesaid scenario. This tell us that investigating the amount of bound objects over a certain range of mass, following for instance the Press-Schechter formalism or Sheth-Tormen fitting, indicates a possible way to disrupt the supposed degeneracy between the both models.

\section{Final Remarks}
We have discussed about the possible indistinguishability at background and linear order between coupled CDM-quintessence and $\Lambda$WDM scenarios presented in \cite{wei}. Such situation is indeed quite intriguing since most of the available observational data would be unable to differentiate cosmological models.

Assuming the strategy of \cite{wei} such that the scale dependence of equation (\ref{deltawdm}) is eliminated then, even so we were able to show that differences between such models persist. In this case the question becomes actually how sizable are such differences and whether or not observations of the structure growth history can distinguish them.

In particular the expression for the redshift space distortions in the coupled cosmology (\ref{RSDcoupled1}) has a clear signature of the interaction $Q$.

Finally, we have also shown in section \ref{secnonlinear} that the nonlinear density evolution of such models is indeed different.

\textbf{Acknowledgement}: We acknowledge enlightening conversations with Marco Bruni, Federico Piazza, Valentina Salvatelli and David Wands. We thank CNPq for financial support. HV also thanks the A*MIDEX Foundation under Contract ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02 and HB thanks Fapesb.

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Marta Bianchi (born 25 October 1943) is an Argentine comic-dramatic actress of cinema, theater and television.

Biography
Bianchi is an actress who was characterized by her versatility and professionalism with which she performed her interpretations in film, theater and television. She is a graduate of the "National School of Dramatic Art".

In 1974, she received threats together with her then husband, the actor Luis Brandoni by Triple A. After being exiled for a time in Mexico, they returned to the country. On 9 July 1976, when they left the theater, together with Spanish actor Miguel Gila, a task force coordinated by Aníbal Gordon was waiting for them to take them to the clandestine center Automotores Orletti, where they remained for about five hours, until they were released. Gila spoke to Emilio Alfaro, and convinced Army General Arturo Corbetta to release them.

Career

Television
On the small screen Bianchi made her debut in 1963 with the company of Narciso Ibáñez Menta. She worked with greats such as Luisina Brando, Bárbara Mujica, Miguel Ángel Solá, Julio de Grazia, Brandoni, Ricardo Darín, Rodolfo Ranni, María Valenzuela, Mirta Busnelli, Selva Alemán, Marta González, Virginia Lago, Hilda Bernard and Erika Wallner.

Film
In cinema, Bianchi has a long career in which she shared scenes with actors of the stature of Héctor Alterio, Soledad Silveyra, Brandoni, Alicia Bruzzo, Graciela Borges, Lautaro Murúa, Enzo Viena, Arturo García Buhr, Ulises Dumont, Moria Casán, Thelma Stefani, Antonio Gasalla, Carlos Perciavalle, Pepe Soriano, Arturo Bonín and Patricio Contreras, among many others.

Stage
Bianchi worked in numerous theatrical works in places such as the Teatro Abierto, Teatro General San Martín, Teatro Argentino, Teatro Payro and Teatro Universal.

Personal life
Bianchi was married for more than 20 years to actor Luis Brandoni with whom she had her daughters Florencia and Micaela.

Filmography

1963: El sátiro (TV Mini Series, 5 episodes)
1963: Racconto
1965: Show Rambler (TV Movie)
1967: La muchacha del cuerpo de oro
1968: Chúmbale
1969: Sátiro (TV Mini Series, 15 episodes)
1970: Uno entre nosotros (TV Series, 19 episodes)
1970: Gran teatro universal (TV Series, 1 episode)
1970: Años de amor y coraje (TV Series, 19 episodes)
1971: Teatro 13 (TV Series, 1 episode)
1971: Cuatro hombres para Eva (TV Series, 29 episodes)
1970-1971: Alta comedia (TV Series, 2 episodes)
1972: Basuras humanas
1972: Autocine mon amour
1973: Piel de pueblo (TV Series, 3 episodes)
1973: José María y María José: Una pareja de hoy
1974: Clínica con música
1976: Alone
1980: Hombres en pugna (TV Movie)
1981: Los especiales de ATC (TV Series, 1 episode)
1982: El mundo del espectáculo (TV Series, 1 episode)
1982: El ciclo de Guillermo Bredeston y Nora Cárpena (TV Series, 1 episode)
1984: Los gringos (TV Mini Series, 19 episodes)
1984: La rosales
1984: Murder in the Senate
1985: There's Some Guys Downstairs
1987: Made in Argentina
1988: De fulanas y menganas (TV Series)
1990: La bonita página (TV Series, 1 episode)
1993-1996: Mi cuñado (TV Series, 248 episodes)
1996: Como pan caliente (TV Series, 39 episodes)
1996: A Casa de Açúcar
1999: Champions of Life (TV Series)
2001: Las amantes (TV Series, 19 episodes)
2004: Cuentos clásicos de terror (TV Series 2004, 1 episode)
2008: Killer Women (TV Series, 1 episode)
2008: Oportunidades (TV Movie)
2009: Campo Cerezo
2010: It's Your Fault
2012: El Tabarís, lleno de estrellas (TV Movie)

References

External links

1943 births
Living people
Actresses from Buenos Aires
Argentine film actresses
Argentine stage actresses
Argentine television actresses

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Break Out of the Box
Ryan Phillippe used to think he had it all figured out. But a lesson from Clint Eastwood taught him that whenever you start to feel comfortable, it's time to change things up.
By Anthony Mandler and Marshall Heyman
The paparazzi. God, Ryan Phillippe hates the paparazzi. That swarm of hungry, greedy eyes, tracking everyday moments as if they're news: Ryan eating, Ryan shopping with his kids. It infuriates him. He used to tense up, go red, shout them off. He wanted to protect the children. But then he discovered that Ava, 10, and Deacon, 6, weren't all that upset by the photographers. They were really rattled, though, when their dad was angry.
"If it's something we have to live with, then we have to find ways to make it more healthy," he says now. "I'll turn it into a game: 'Let's go ask the guy at the shop if we can sneak out the back,' or 'Let's go down the stairwell.' "
Bad situations, he has decided, are what you make of them. You have the power to turn things in your favor once you realize that you can't control everything around you—but that you can control your response.
Phillippe's been thinking about that a lot lately, because the past few years have been rough. There was the collapse of his 7-year marriage to Reese Witherspoon in 2006, the very public allegations of his affair with Australian actress Abbie Cornish (the couple split this past winter), and the string of box-office underperformers that included Stop Loss and Breach. He felt drained at times—not a good thing in an industry that demands on-call excitement.
"I thought the more experience you had, the more certain you would be about life," the 35-year-old star says. "But I'm finding the opposite, man. I'm more in wonder and confusion than I was in my 20s."
So how does a guy like Phillippe put all this—his career, his personal life, his self-image—back on track? For starters, he knows what doesn't work: stagnancy and repetition. It didn't work with the paparazzi, and it doesn't work with much else.
"I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce," he says. "But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress—to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again, a better friend, a better actor. My goals are to improve in all areas of life."
Which, oddly, is what led him to star in the film MacGruber this month. It's a silly spoof that lampoons the sort of sober roles Phillippe made his name playing. To appear in the film, he had to make a conscious split with his past. And that makes the role the perfect one for him now.
Phillippe grew up in a poor, conservative area of Delaware, the kind of place where guys grow up and stay put. His school offered next to nothing in the way of drama and arts. But he had ambitions, so his mother started driving him to New York City for auditions. At 17, he landed a socially disastrous gig: playing a gay teenager on the soap opera One Life to Live.
"I would worry, What will the people at school think? " And they fully shunned me in a lot of ways," Phillippe recalls. "But it ended up being an incredible experience and such a time of growth for me."
People across the country wrote to him, saying his portrayal of the character had made a difference in their lives. He knew he'd done the right thing, and it taught him that risk was good. Fear may stop other men from taking chances, but he resolved to ignore temporary problems. He'd look past them.
Emboldened, Phillippe moved to Los Angeles. By age 20, he'd crystallized exactly what he planned to do with his career: "I wanted to do only the most hard-core stories, and push people's buttons," he says.
It was a lofty goal in a town based on matinee idol status and box-office mojo, and that was good, in a way. It gave him passion and direction and led to memorable roles like that of a young cop in the Oscar-winning film Crash. But eventually that focused determination boxed him in.
Phillippe didn't fully realize that until 2006, when he worked with Clint Eastwood on Flags of Our Fathers. Eastwood is 80 and still evolving. He's changed his politics. He's made a career out of challenging projects, and courting challenge is the reason for his success. "He's in the latter part of his experience on the planet, and he's still growing. He's open to new ideas and he's changing the way he sees things," says Phillippe. "It's something I want to encourage in myself: Don't close off."
True enough, but how'd that lead to MacGruber? Phillippe doesn't seem to fit. The film is ridiculous, and he's not. And come on, now—a full-length movie built off a one-joke Saturday Night Live character? When was the last time one of those succeeded? But when Phillippe read the script, he loved it. More important, he wanted to break the cycle of how he usually picked roles. Try something new, even if it wasn't comfortable. The young, idealistic, naive Ryan probably would have scoffed at MacGruber. But the new, weathered, experienced Ryan sees how useful it is.
"If you're fearful and you're closing yourself off from potentially wonderful or beautiful additions to your life, that's not going to lead anywhere positive," says Phillippe. "And there's a maturation that takes place once you have children and have to put food on the table. You don't cling to those ideals of your youth so much, because that can trap you on a hard road."
Immediately after joining the MacGruber crew in New Mexico, Phillippe knew he'd made the right decision. The set bore no resemblance to the serious, deliberate sets he'd been on before. He watched costars Will Forte and Kristin Wiig throw ideas (and themselves) around with abandon. He saw Forte rip his clothes off for the camera, without embarrassment. It seemed reckless, and yet it allowed them to thrive.
"I tend to internalize and analyze, but with them, there's none of that. There was no edit, no judgment. It was just a really free atmosphere," he says. "It made me feel like I shouldn't be so serious or self-important. Why shouldn't I have fun?"
Even better question: Why should it take any man that long to ask that question?
Off the screen, Phillippe continues to fine-tune, and lately he's spent a lot of time fine-tuning his body. It's for a familiar reason: to avoid stagnation. "I like feeling strong," he says. "I want to throw my kids up in the air and wrestle them. Working out has become about functionality. I want my head clearer, I want to relieve the stress, and I want to feel capable and strong."
It's also why he's paying a lot of attention to nutrition. He eats well and feeds his kids well. When doctors told him he has trouble digesting wheat, he had a choice: modify his diet and ditch things he loves (like beer on football Sundays), or eat the same foods as before and deal with the consequences. He's broken down and had the occasional Sunday brew, but it doesn't go down well. So now he knows: You eat badly, you suffer.
"You just learn," says Phillippe. "Do you want the enjoyment but then have to deal with the reaction from your body?" (And wheat intolerance isn't so bad: He can still drink potato vodka and red wine.)
So just as Phillippe has learned to deal with the paparazzi, he's recognized that he can make a situation better by taking a different route, by controlling what he can. Can't eat wheat? Learn to cook and thrive within your restrictions, just like a guy on a belly-flattening diet. And he sees the example he's setting for his children. Instead of buying easy takeout dinners, he makes homecooked meals. "There's something about the kids knowing the parent is making the food for them with love," he says. "It's worth it to me to do that extra work whenever possible, because I see the benefit it has. My kids think I'm an amazing cook, and that's all that matters."
And after a good meal and some downtime, he puts the kids to bed and hits the lights himself. He's up at 6 a.m. making them breakfast. He loves it: What better reminder that he can no longer retreat into his own habits, that he has to stop and think about the importance of everything he does? People rely on him: his kids, his colleagues, the women he dates. It's all connected.
"I'm not living this idyllic catered-to life. Nor do I want to," he says. "The human experience is about so much more than that."
Ryan Phillippe's Full-body Plan
Ryan Phillippe has worked with the same trainer for 10 years and is as consistent in the gym as anyone you'll find. The simple key to maintaining that kind of focus: "Variety, so he isn't bored," says his trainer, Happy Hill. Here, Phillippe blends cardio work with heavy weights and adds plyometrics for a comprehensive challenge.
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2-mile run, followed by Swiss-ball crunches (3 sets of 20 reps)
Dumbbell bench press 15 reps Plyometric pushup (try a pushup with a clap) 15 reps Barbell squat 15 reps Squat jump 15 reps Hanging leg raise 1 set of 20 reps Repeat circuit once
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In the firstdraw to be held this month, a total of 5,000 have been invited through the federal Express Entry system on April 1, 2021.
This was another of the program-specific draws by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada [IRCC]. Only candidates that were eligible for the Canadian Experience Class [CEC] were considered for the latest round of Express Entry invitations.
Those invited can now proceed to applying to IRCC for their permanent residence in Canada.
An Overview of Express Entry Draw #181
Date and Time of round April 1, 2021 at 11:04:53 UTC
Number of invitations issued 5,000
Candidate invited from Canadian Experience Class [CEC]
Minimum CRS cut-off 432
Tie-breaking rule applied February 16, 2021 at 09:51:22 UTC
Invitations issued by date [April 1] 22,600 [in 2020] | 49,124 [in 2021]
*CRS: Comprehensive Ranking System, score allotted out of a maximum of 1,200 points while in the Express Entry pool.
The minimum CRS cut-off registered a drop from that in the previous federal draw – Express Entry Draw #180 – with a CRS 778 as the score of the lowest-ranked candidate invited.
As the previous Express Entry draw was exclusively for those with a nomination under the Provincial Nominee Program [PNP], the CRS was on the higher side. A PNP nomination in itself fetches CRS 600 points for an Express Entry candidate.
IRCC applied a tie-breaking rule of February 16, 2021 at 09:51:22 UTC in the latest Express Entry draw. Applicable only to profiles that have the minimum CRS cut-off, a tie-breaking rule grants precedence to profile created earlier as against those created at a later point in time.
Hence, CEC candidates that had a CRS score of 432 and above received Invitations to Apply [ITAs] by IRCC on April 1, provided they had created their profile before the data and time specified in the tie-break.
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One of the three economic programs managed by IRCC through the federal Express Entry System, the CEC is a Canadian permanent residence category specifically for individuals that possess skilled work experience in Canada.
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As per Canada's National Occupational Classification [NOC] matrix, by "skilled work experience" is meant experience of working in either Skill Level 0 [zero], Skill type A, or Skill Type B.
With the latest round of invitations, Canada has invited a total of 49,124 so far in 2021. By the same time in 2020, IRCC had issued 22,600 ITAs.
The 49,124 invitations within the first quarter in 2021 is by far the greatest number of ITAs by IRCC in a quarter since the launch of the Express Entry system in 2015.
Express Entry Draws in 2021
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ITAs issued so far: 49,124
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1 #171 PNP January 6, 2021 14:39:02 UTC CRS 813 250 November 2, 2020 at 11:11:52 UTC Canada holds first Express Entry draw of 2021
2 #172 CEC January 7, 2021 14:15:32 UTC CRS 461 4,750 September 12, 2020 at 20:46:32 UTC Express Entry: 4,750 invited with Canadian experience
3 #173 PNP January 20, 2021 14:13:12 UTC CRS 741 374 September 5, 2020 at 19:39:04 UTC Express Entry: 374 invited with a PNP nomination
4 #174 CEC January 21, 2021 14:22:20 UTC CRS 454 4,626 July 23, 2020 at 17:32:00 UTC Canada holds second Express Entry draw within 2 days
5 #175 PNP February 10, 2021 14:31:18 UTC CRS 720 654 August 14, 2020 at 06:51:00 UTC Express Entry: 654 PNP candidates invited in the latest draw
6 #176 CEC February 13, 2021 11:56:56 UTC CRS 75 27,332 September 12, 2020 at 15:31:40 UTC Express Entry: A historic 27,332 invited in a single draw
7 #177 PNP March 08, 2021 13:53:21 UTC CRS 739 671 February 16, 2021 at 19:10:25 UTC Canada invites 671 PNP candidates in latest EE draw
8 #178 PNP March 17, 2021 11:49:48 UTC CRS 682 183 March 04, 2021 at 16:56:20 UTC Express Entry: 183 ITAs issued in latest draw by IRCC
9 #179 CEC March 18, 2021 11:30:56 UTC CRS 449 5,000 February 19, 2021 at 15:59:57 UTC Express Entry: Another draw held in 2 days, CEC invited
10 #180 PNP March 31, 2021 11:21:22 UTC CRS 778 284 March 16, 2021 at 16:09:32 UTC Express Entry: 284 PNP candidates invited in 4th draw of March
11 #181 CEC April 1, 2021 11:04:53 UTC CRS 432 5,000 February 16, 2021 at 09:51:22 UTC —
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Top 10 travel tips - Hidden Gems Around England
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Hidden Gems Around England
Randomly stick a pin into a map of the England and chances are you will hit on somewhere, or something of interest. Our little Island nation is steeped in history and choc-full of treasures. Here are 10 hidden gems from our personal favourites list.
LARK HILL PLACE: Salford, Lancashire.
Not too far from Media City - Manchester's waterfront setting for the digital age - you can step back in time and stroll down the cobbles of a typical northern street during Victorian times. A nostalgic recreation allows visitors to peek into shops and houses, pubs and parlors, to find out more about Victorian life - from the use of leeches as a cure all to the roll of a 'knocker-upper' - add in a printing press, chemist, forge and a victorian music shop, and you have a gas-light glimpse into northern life light years away from the metro link and state of the art film studios.
SAINT GILES: Cheadle, Staffordshire.
Fans of 19th century Gothic Revival are in for a treat at this jewel of a church by renowned architect and designer Augustus Pugin. Enter through the west doors at the base of the tower into a decorated delight. Magnificent arches, piers and entire walls are covered with layers of stenciling, and corbels - in the shape of angels - support scissor roof trusses adorned with intricate silver lamps. Stained glass, elaborate ironwork and floor tiles by Minton complete the picture. Pugin, largely responsible for the interiors of the Houses of Parliament, referred to St Giles Church as his 'little gem'. Be sure to take a10p coins to turn on the lights.
BRONZE AGE BOAT: Dover, Kent.
Tucked off the market square in a custom glass showcase, lies the worlds's oldest known seagoing boat. The Dover Bronze Boat, discovered by a construction crew in 1992, is now thought to date back some 4,000 years. Made from oak planks sewn together with yew lashings, Dover Museum devotes an entire floor to all things bronze age - and, offers a short video that takes visitors through unearthing the boat, how it was built and how it was preserved by the Mary Rose Trust - there's even a small scale replica.
JANE AUSTEN'S HOME: Chawton, Hampshire.
One of England's most celebrated authors, Austen's work appears in print, on the silver screen and even features on Royal Mail postage stamps. The pretty red brick house where Jane spent the last years of her life presents an interesting collection, from her writing table overlooking the street, to family jewelry, needlework and a controversial portrait of Jane. No need to wear your best bonnet, or carry a ruffled umbrella when you visit, the atmosphere is relaxed and visitors are invited to play
the period piano in the sitting room - you can round-off your trip with a visit to the lovely village pub across the way.
TITHE BARN: Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire.
Down a narrow country lane, on the edge of the picturesque market town, survives England's best example of a14th century monastic stone barn - with a massive cruck roof, that's worth craning your neck to see. Extend your visit by taking a short river walk and then wander back into the unspoilt town, over the old stone bridge spanning the river Avon, call in at the single cell jail before exploring the narrow streets lined with shops, cafe's, and restaurants, bob your head into the saxon church and pick up supplies at the sunday farmers market.
SULGRAVE MANOR: Sulgrave, Oxfordshire.
A warm welcome awaits at the home of George Washington's English ancestors. Nestled in a pretty village of stone cottages and thatched roofs, the manor house was built at the time of Henry V111. With authentic Tudor furniture, Elizabethan embroideries and a Georgian kitchen, your visit is a walk through the ages - with links to America woven throughout - including a familiar portrait of the U.S. President depicted on the U.S. Dollar Bill - and the coat of arms carved above the entrance door comprising of stars and stripes is said to have formed the design of the American lag.
TURVILLE: Buckinghamshire.
Quaint brick and flint cottages, half timbered homes, a 13th century church, 15th century pub, and windmills on the hillside - this sleepy village tucked in the Chiltern hills is a picture perfect location for filming - from Midsomer Murders, The Vicar of Dibley and Little Britain, to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Goodnight Mr Tom and an old classic, Went the Day Well. Break-out your hiking boots and head out on the Chiltern Way that runs at the back of the aptly named Sleepy Cottage, or relax over a pub lunch and savor the picturesque setting.
GAINSBOROUGH'S HOUSE: Sudbury, Suffolk.
The childhood home of one of England's greatest painters displays a large collection of his work and memorabilia. A favorite of royalty and celebs of the day, the artist was known for working quickly and producing paintings in the style of Van Dyke. The market-town collection displays many of his best loved work, from oils on canvass to sketches on paper - plus personal items including his pocket-watch,
taken by Highwaymen and returned in 1775. The small walled garden is ideal for taking tea and reflecting on the highlights or, contemplating Gainsborough's dying words "Van Dyke was right"
MAYFLOWER TIMBERS: Jordans Buckinghamshire.
Most school children in England and America know something about the Pilgrims voyage aboard the Mayflower. At the Quaker Meeting House, set on the edge of this rural village, an exhibition sheds light on the settlers and their adventure to the new world. Grave stones mark the place where William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and his family are buried - and a small path leads to the Mayflower Barn - a private home said to be built with the timbers of the very ship that carried settlers to a new
life in America.
LAYCOCK: Wiltshire.
The pretty living village on the southern edge of the Cotswolds dates from the 13th century, owned and maintained by the National Trust. A delightful mix of half-timbered buildings, stone cottages, thatched roofs... and a refreshing lack of TV aerials and yellow road markings - it is frequently used as a backdrop by film crews - the BBC's Pride & Predudice, Cranford and a Harry Potter movie to name a few. Add an Abbey founded in the reign of King John, a medieval church, 14th century tithe barn and a 15th century Inn with a resident ghost... and it's easy to understand why Lacock is so popular with visitors from home and abroad.
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Building a Platform for Your Work When You're Unpublished
January 21, 2019 by Michael Warner 16 Comments
Today's guest post is by Michael Warner, author of A Lyle Saxon Reader.
After spending thirty years in other fields, I've recently embarked on a career as a writer. And what I've found is that great how-to advice—from sources like Jane Friedman, Writer's Digest, and kboards—actually seems to work.
My first career spanned 1981–1997 as a research chemist, and from 1998 until today I've been an attorney. But in my spare time, I've worked on a biography, Palette and Pen: Charles Whitfield Richards and his Circle.
Richards was a journalist and artist active from the 1920s until his death in 1992. He made New Orleans, Louisiana, his base for much of his artistic career, and that's where I met him in the 1980s. Over the course of several years, he told me about his interesting life and eventually I had nearly twenty hours of recorded conversations with him. Since then, I have spent a lot of time further researching and writing about his life and of those who knew him.
Born in 1906, Richards was raised in the Mississippi Delta until his family moved to Memphis. But soon, a wanderlust caused him to drop out of school, and he began a series of adventures as he worked for a circus, studied art in Jazz Age Paris, and served as a merchant seaman. Later, Richards reported for newspapers in New Orleans, Houston, and New York, for which he illustrated his stories with wry sketches of his subjects.
Despite his itinerant lifestyle, Richards made New Orleans his base. In 1945, anxiety attacks and deadline pressures forced Richards to give up journalism and turn to fine art full time. During his career, he was close to figures important to Southern history, including Morris Henry Hobbs, Noel Rockmore, Larry Borenstein, Jeanne deLavigne, Gov. Sam Houston Jones, Enrique Alferez, Eugene Loving, and others.
The first draft of Palette and Pen came together about a year ago and I then studied how to get it published. Websites advised: platform, platform, platform. But I thought that I had little background relevant to the biography.
To address this, I decided to publish another book first, and use it as a loss leader. In marketing, a loss leader is any product that is sold below its cost, with the goal of stimulating customer interest in other products or services. But I needed a topic for this other book.
Another name from 1920s–1940s New Orleans is author Lyle Saxon, nicknamed the historian-laureate of the city. He published several books that are important as home-grown New Orleans literature, and he still has a broad fan base. But his earliest works as a features reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper have just now come off copyright and few of them have ever been re-published.
So I put together a 55,000-word anthology from these public domain stories: A Lyle Saxon Reader: Lost Stories of the French Quarter and Buried Treasure.
It took about six months to find and edit the stories—sifting through endless old newspapers online and at the public library—and to research Saxon's life and write an introduction. Through the magic of modern databases, a couple of new tidbits surfaced that his biographers could not have accessed. Then I made a half-hearted attempt to find a traditional publisher, but I really wanted to experience publishing it myself. I decided to learn how.
My day job is general counsel for a startup biotech in the San Francisco area, so I am aware of federal tax rules. The Internal Revenue Service is most likely to take a venture seriously if it is organized as a corporation or a limited liability company (an LLC). If income and losses from a book are just accrued under the author's name, the IRS may consider it a mere hobby and disallow tax deductions and other benefits. So I created Cultured Oak Press LLC to publish A Lyle Saxon Reader. An LLC is often easier for a small company to manage than is a corporation, because it permits flow-through accounting and simplified operations. (Note to readers: this is not legal advice because I'm just telling you what my experience was. Your situation may differ and you should seek the advice of your attorney.)
Over the next three months, I learned how to use Vellum and other software for interior and cover design, to get feedback from beta readers, to publish it through IngramSpark, and to figure out some rudimentary marketing. I found an art major who gave guidance on the dust jacket for free—which she can now put on her resume. In June, I launched a website for which email sign-ups have been gradually snowballing. Still small and nothing to brag about, but growing, and there's more interest every time I send out a tweet.
The book launched on September 28, 2018, and received a fair amount of press—all of it good. Sales have been moderate, but it is a niche history market in a single metropolitan area. And that wasn't the point. I'll never make back the money that I invested in it; this book's purpose is to build platform. The anthology is not self-published; after all, I'm not the author. Some old guy who's been dead since 1946 is the author. But I am the editor and wrote the introduction, so I hoped this would get me some credit.
To my surprise, the strategy is working. I found the book in each of three New Orleans independent bookstores that I visited recently. One reviewer called me a historian (!). Shoofly Magazine, a news and features blog prominent on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, just ran a story about Cultured Oak, and the owner of that blog has suggested a content share between our sites. An online magazine that will launch in New Orleans next May (the French Quarter Journal) has asked me to be a regular columnist. I have feelers out for other, living authors to publish books with Cultured Oak Press.
Now that I have at least a tiny speck of a platform, I feel more comfortable submitting my Richards biography to publishers. It's still a niche market, of course, but it's broader than for A Lyle Saxon Reader. Hopefully, I will find a traditional publisher. For the next step, I've started writing a novel based in 1920s New Orleans that may have more than niche appeal. All that in one year!
Will I become a rich, famous author? The Magic 8-Ball says, "Cannot predict now." But my goal is more modest: one hundred years from now, will my work still be seen as interesting and relevant? I'll never know the answer, but I'll enjoy setting it up.
Michael Warner
A native New Orleanian, Michael now travels between Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, San Mateo, California and St. Louis, Missouri. He writes and blogs about art, culture and food along the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. Michael is a practicing attorney with a background in organic chemistry and biotechnology. His recent project is an anthology of early short stories by New Orleans author and bon vivant Lyle Saxon (published by the Cultured Oak Press and now available in bookstores and online). Currently he's working on a biography of New Orleans artist Charles Richards.
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Raleigh seeks to shed elitist tag
Raleigh International is bidding to shake off its elitist image and make gap-year recruits' experience more relevant to the world of work.
The 21-year-old adventure charity sends paying young people – often in their gap year before university – to work on projects in the developing world.
But the formula is also used by a number of other charitable and non-charitable competitors, and Raleigh International is keen to expand its appeal.
Recruitment co-ordinator Madoc Threipland said the charity was in talks with organisations such as consultancy Accenture to run
partnership schemes with Raleigh that could be used as incentives for recruits.
The campaign comes in the wake of chief executive Steve McCall's decision last week to refocus the group's marketing, after research found it to be perceived as geared towards the 'pre-university elite'.
Raleigh is keen to promote itself as the only group of its kind to cater for all demographics, 'from Prince William to young people from at-risk backgrounds'.
It will concentrate on highlighting career benefits that can be gained by working on projects in a developing country, rather than simply extolling the beauty of its destinations.
'We will use testimonials from big recruiters explaining the life-experience benefits of a Raleigh adventure,' said Threipland.
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William and Kate front 'Mental health minute' roadblock across all UK radio stations
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Udo Ulfkotte (Lippstadt, 1960. január 20. – 2017. január 13.) német újságíró, politológus.

Életpályája
Jogot és politikatudományt tanult Freiburgban és Londonban. 1986 és 1998 között többnyire Közel-Keleten élt (Irak, Irán, Afganisztán, Szaúd-Arábia, Omán, Egyesült Arab Emírségek, Egyiptom, Jordánia). 1986 és 2003 között a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung szerkesztője volt. 1999 és 2003 között a Konrad Adenauer Alapítvány vezetőségi tagja volt.

Amikor Közel-Keleten élt, áttért az iszlám vallásra, majd később visszatért a keresztény hitre. Heves bírálója volt országa migránspolitikájának és a német sajtónak. Több könyve jelent meg ezekben a témákban, amelyeket több nyelvre is lefordítottak. Többször felkerült a Spiegel bestseller-listájára. Két könyve magyarul is megjelent: Megvásárolt újságírók és A menekültipar.

Könyvei (válogatás)
 Kontinuität und Wandel amerikanischer und sowjetischer Politik in Nah- und Mittelost 1967 bis 1980 (= Historische Forschungen, Band 22), Schäuble, Rheinfelden 1988,  (Universität Freiburg im Breisgau 1987, 442 p. disszertáció).
 SOS Abendland. Die schleichende Islamisierung Europas. 2008, .
 Vorsicht Bürgerkrieg! Was lange gärt, wird endlich Wut. 2009, .
 Kein Schwarz. Kein Rot. Kein Gold. Armut für alle im "Lustigen Migrantenstadl". 2010, .
 Albtraum Zuwanderung. Lügen, Wortbruch, Volksverdummung. 2011, .
 Gekaufte Journalisten. Wie Politiker, Geheimdienste und Hochfinanz Deutschlands Massenmedien lenken. 2014,  (magyarul: Megvásárolt újságírók – Miként irányítják a politikusok, a titkosszolgálatok és a nagytőke a német tömegmédiát, Patmos Records Kiadó, 2015)
 Mekka Deutschland: Die stille Islamisierung. 2015, .
 Die Asyl-Industrie. Wie Politiker, Journalisten und Sozialverbände von der Flüchtlingswelle profitieren. 2015,  (magyarul: A menekültipar – Hogyan profitálnak politikusok, újságírók és civilszervezetek a menekülthullámból?, Patmos Records Kiadó, Budapest, 2016)
 Volkspädagogen. Wie uns die Massenmedien politisch korrekt erziehen wollen. 2016, .
 Grenzenlos Kriminell. Was Politik und Massenmedien über die Straftaten von Migranten verschweigen. Kopp, Rottenburg 2016, . szerzőtárs: Stefan Schubert, (magyarul: Határtalan bűnözés, Amit a politika és a tömegmédia a migránsok bűncselekményeiről elhallgat előlünk, Pesti Srácok 2018)

Magyarul
Megvásárolt újságírók; ford. Csipke Tamás, Rimaszombati Andrea, Paulinusz Viktória; Patmos Records, Bp., 2015
A menekültipar. Hogyan profitálnak politikusok, újságírók és civilszervezetek a menekülthullámból?; ford. Rimaszombati Andrea; Patmos Records, Bp., 2016
"Népnevelők". Akik miatt Németország utat tévesztett; ford. Filep Éva Zsuzsanna, Farkasfalvi Orsolya, Szakács Sandra; Püski, Bp., 2017
Udo Ulfkotte–Stefan Schubert: Határtalan bűnözés. Amit a politika és a tömegmédia a migránsok bűncselekményeiről elhallgat előlünk; Pesti Srácok.hu–GerillaPresS, Bp., 2018

Fordítás

Jegyzetek

Források
 Meghalt egy "nagyon kényelmetlen" újságíró, itthon.ma, 2017. január 15.
 Meghalt Udo Ulfkotte , mno.hu, 2017. január 14.
 Elhunyt Udo Ulfkotte, magyaridok.hu, 2017. január 14.
 Meghalt Udo Ulfkotte, 444.hu, 2017. január 14.

1960-ban született személyek
2017-ben elhunyt személyek
Német újságírók
Politológusok
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Newest Cyber Range Hub located at Northern Michigan U
Posted on May 2, 2019 by Matt Roush
MARQUETTE—Northern Michigan University, Merit Network Inc. and the Michigan Defense Center unveiled the latest addition to the Michigan Cyber Range Network this week at the NMU Cyber Hub Grand Opening.
This event included a tour of the new cyber range and a live, virtual Capture the Flag exercise with IT professionals.
"The Upper Peninsula Cybersecurity Institute is going to be a game-changer not only for NMU and area high school students, but also for those switching careers and those looking to advance their careers throughout the U.P.," said Steve VandenAvond, vice president of extended learning and community engagement at NMU. "We are confident that the teaching, training and testing offerings that the institute provides in partnership with the Merit Network and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation will cultivate U.P. participation in the new economy and foster economic development throughout the region. With the increasing demand for cybersecurity experts nationwide, the ability to earn industry credentials online through the institute and the expanding opportunities for cybersecurity professionals to work remotely, we will be able to develop cybersecurity talent throughout the U.P. and keep people living and working here."
Cyber Range Hubs host cybersecurity events, exercises and training classes. They operate as a physical extension of the Michigan Cyber Range, the nation's largest unclassified cyber range. The hubs offer more than 40 industry-recognized certifications, exercises and workshops aimed at qualifying individuals for positions and contracts in cybersecurity fields.
"Northern Michigan University has been a key partner of the Michigan Defense Center and MEDC in the statewide Protect & Grow initiative," said Sean Carlson, executive director of the Michigan Defense Center. "They have brought strong representation for the Upper Peninsula and have played a critical role in developing the defense industry. Today's Cyber Hub is an important new asset that will support the development of the defense industry in northern Michigan and more importantly be key to creating good paying jobs for those that live in the U.P."
The expansion of the Michigan Cyber Range, powered by Merit, is a critical strategy included in the 2015 Michigan Cyber Initiative spearheaded by state government. As a state-run test program that hones security software and cyber defense skills, the Michigan Cyber Range offers cyber exercises, product testing, digital forensics and more than 40 professional certifications based on the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) framework.
"The Cyber Range Hub at NMU gives its students and the community access to world class, hands-on cybersecurity education," said Merit Network's vice president of research and cybersecurity, Joe Adams. "Cyber Range Hubs serve as a magnet site for the cybersecurity ecosystem. This partnership is a great opportunity for Merit, Michigan, and the people of the Upper Peninsula, and I'm sure it will have an immediate positive impact on these students and the area's workforce."
The Michigan Defense Center is an operation of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. focused on the support, protection and growth of Michigan's defense and homeland security missions and the Michigan businesses that support our nation's security and our military's safety. Since 2015, the Michigan Defense Center has provided funding for cyber ranges in Battle Creek, the Macomb-Oakland University Incubator in Sterling Heights, Pinckney Community High School, Wayne State University, and the West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology in Grand Rapids.
Merit Network was established by the Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University in 1966 to connect the three schools' mainframe computers. Since its formation, Merit has evolved to own and operate America's longest-running regional research and education network, providing services to universities, colleges, K-12 schools, libraries, state government, health care and other nonprofit institutions. More at www.merit.edu.
Founded in 1899 as a teacher training institution, NMU now offers liberal arts and science programs at the undergraduate and master's degree levels to about 7,000 students. It is the Upper Peninsula's largest university. More at www.nmu.edu.
Posted in Cyber Security, Higher Education, Workforce DevelopmentTagged Cybersecurity, featured, Merit Network, Michigan Cyber Range, Northern Michigan University


A refreshing colorway of the Nike Air Solstice running shoe will drop this month as a limited release. Featuring a court blue upper, made of suede, mesh, canvas and perforated leather, accents are set in yellow leather. The premium leather lining allows for sock-less wear this summer.
Kasina will be stocking the sneakers in the near future.


MineralsAndRocks, brings you, the collector, rocks enthusiast, or decorator, a lot of quality minerals for sale.
The Minerals and Rocks we have to offer are mostly ex-pieces from our own collection. They range from low cost, items, ideal for the budget conscious collector (or starting a collection), to some of the finest pieces. We collect minerals for many years and are still traveling around trying to find or buy beautiful and rare specimens for our own collection. Please look around to find the minerals for sale that speak to you, or to find some unique gifts to thrill someone special. Don't miss your chance of owning a few of the pieces we offer.
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Sony Halves Development Kit Costs
Sony has nearly halved the cost of its PlayStation 3 hardware development kits to $10,250/€7,500, while also announcing new integration with existing SN Systems software development tools, including ProDG, into the standard PS3 SDK.
Sony has nearly halved the cost of its PlayStation 3 hardware development kits to $10,250/€7,500, while also announcing a new integration of existing SN Systems software development tools, including ProDG, into the standard software development kit. The PlayStation 3 Reference Tool will drop to $10,250 in North America, ¥950,000 in Japan and €7,500 in Europe, effective immediately and excluding tax. Although the price cut may be seen as a reaction to the console's continued low sales worldwide, the drop is in line with similar cuts made to PlayStation 2 development hardware a year after its launch. As well as the hardware price drop, Sony will also integrate SN Systems (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.) tools into the standard PS3 Software Development Kit (SDK). This will include the core ProDG programming tool, which can now be used on both the PS3 Reference Tool hardware and the Debugging Station. Other SN Systems tools now included in the SDK include the SN Distributed Build System (SN-DBS) for reducing compiling times, the SN LINKER used to link compiled programs and the SN Compiler (SNC) which will be released in beta form from mid December. Sony will also enable the Debugging Station for PS3 to be used in the programming process, assisting development on the Reference Tool hardware – instead of only being used as a quality assurance system for games under development. In detailing the price cuts and new SDK a Sony press release also promised that, "As more and more new titles are developed for the PS3 format, SCEI will significantly reduce the price of the Reference Tool in order to contribute to the cost saving measures of the development community."


Can I run Tangerine on a mobile phone?
Yes, as long as the device meets the hardware and software requirements we recommend (Android version 4.2 or higher, 1 Ghz Processor, sufficient memory for app installation and data storage). A tablet is recommended though, because the larger screen significantly improves usability. In some cases, depending on your Tangerine instruments' content and your phone's screen size, undesirable screen scrolling may be necessary to use Tangerine properly.


Style and sport. That's a winning combination, especially from the audio titans at Bang & Olufsen. The company has released its wireless H5 earbuds to the masses and at a price that isn't jaw dropping. $249 will secure you a pair of the wireless earbuds before Apple hauls off and kills the audio jack on the iPhone (still a maybe).
The H5s are undeniable stylish, but it's clear the company wanted to offer quality sound to the active set. A braided textile borrows design influences from sneakers, while the housing of the earbuds is a rubber and polymer mix resistant to moisture and sweat. Not waterproof, but if you sweat a ton, it can handle it.
Need to tweak the sound profile? It wouldn't be 2016 without an app. Download Beoplay from Bang Olufsen to tweak the sound via the ToneTouch interface. Yeah, I know. Another app. At some point, we are going to need an app to manage all of the various product apps.
The $249 is a pre-release price with shipping set for July 11.