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Nobody has any Doubts that the Gardai have done Trojan work trying to locate person(s) who murdered so many young women "The Triangle", and have spent thousands of hours following up on Leads and Tip Offs, but this is a small country, and people out there know, all they have to do, is make a call, Families have suffered enough, make that call?
Garda cold cases unit boss says he spends every waking moment thinking about solving crimes and it's 'impossible not to become emotionally attached'
'You're always searching and there's always something there'
(Image: Colin Keegan/Collins)
The head of the Gardacold case unit has revealed he spends every waking moment thinking about how to solve crimes so he can give the victims' families closure.
Detective Superintendent Desmond McTiernan, who is in command of the Serious Crime Review Team, says it's "impossible not to become emotionally attached".
The seasoned officer admitted he often spends time at home contemplating of ways to approach cases – including six high-profile missing women files – and solve them.
He told the Irish Sunday Mirror: "We are all very committed here. I know myself that I am constantly thinking about different things, ways to do something, ways you should approach somebody, ways you should apply a certain science and, of course, you bring it home with you.
Garda Supr. William Carolan and Det. Insp. Des McTiernan of Finglas Station at a media briefing in 2017 (Image: Colin Keegan/Collins)
Dad of cold case murder victim Ken Fetherston urges people with info on 'cowardly' killers to come forward
Missing Trevor Deely's parents say they'll never give up hope their son is alive on 19th anniversary of last sighting
"When you're sitting looking out the window, or whatever, the human condition is to always think about the things you could have done better.
"You're always searching and there's always something there."
Det Supt McTiernan said his highly experienced unit is hoping to one day solve the cases of six women who disappeared presumed murdered.
Deirdre Jacob, Fiona Pender, Jo Jo Dullard, Fiona Sinnott, Ciara Breen and American tourist Annie McCarrick all went missing from the Leinster area between 1993 and 1998.
Jo Jo Dullard
Fiona Sinnott
Fiona Pender
Ciara Breen
Deirdre Jacob was 18 years old when she disappeared on July 28th 1998
Annie McCarrick
Family's relief as they confirm final resting place of missing Wicklow man Conor Whooley
Brother of Trevor Deely says he still harbours hope missing Kildare man is alive
Speaking about the work his team carries out from their base at Harcourt Square in Dublin, the officer said they will never stop trying to get justice for the women's families.
He explained: "We are absolutely committed to these six women and to their families.
"We would have an open outlook in relation to them, in other words none of these cases are closed nor will they ever be until they are solved.
"They come under Operation Trace and the Serious Crime Review Team have ownership of that operation.
"We are responsible for all intelligence and new leads that is generated in relation to them."
A file is currently with the Director of Public Prosecutions on a prime suspect in the case of Deirdre Jacob, a student teacher who disappeared without trace at the age of 18.
Det Supt McTiernan added: "There is a huge emotional attachment to that case, as there is to all these cases, by the guards. That's how invested we get, it's hard not to become emotionally attached because they are such sad, tragic cases.
Co Kilkenny priest 'handed' letter which may offer more details on disappearance of Jo Jo Dullard
Former cold case detective says witnesses may hold vital clues to abduction of Jo Jo Dullard
"Their bodies have never been found so even to get a body back… it's not the be all and end all, as in they are not getting justice per se but if they got the body back there is a grave they can at least visit.
"Families want justice but they also want their loved ones back. In the cases of the missing women we are very committed, relentlessly, to finding those bodies."
The team is concentrating its efforts on several investigations. Among them are the unsolved murders of Willie Maughan, 34, and his 20-year-old girlfriend Ana Varslavane whose bodies have never been recovered.
Missing couple William Maughan and Anna Varslavane
Calls for Cold Case Unit to be set up to deal with unsolved murders in Limerick
Top US lawyer who worked on Annie McCarrick disappearance says case 'haunts' him
Mr Maughan's family believe the couple, who were last seen in Gormanston, Co Meath, on the afternoon of Sunday, April 14, 2015, were killed because they knew too much about a gangland murder.
Det Supt McTiernan revealed: "At the moment we are working on and actively pursuing the Kerry babies case that goes back to April 14, 1984.
"We are also working on the murder of Kenneth Fetherston which goes back to September 22, 2009 as well as a more current one, the Hawe murder/suicide.
"They are the main ones at the moment. We can't do them all, we try and get to them as quickly as we possibly can."
Kenneth Fetherston
Alan Hawe with his wife Clodagh and their children Liam, 13, Niall, 11 and Ryan, six (Image: PA)
Gardai travel to UK to quiz chief suspect Larry Murphy in connection with disappearance of Deirdre Jacob
Sister of Marie Tierney claims tragic Irish mum is 'finally at peace' after her remains are re-buried
The expert officer also said it could be particularly hard when dealing with cases involving children such as that of the Hawe familicide.
Stephen Hawe murdered his wife Clodagh and three children Liam, 13, Niall, 11, and six-year-old Ryan in August 2016 before taking his own life.
The officer explained: "Certainly the families involved in the Hawe review, they are very, very upset naturally and we are very committed to them in endeavouring to bring that matter to some form of closure for them.
"If anyone has anything to offer, information or anything at all… the biggest problem we have is that people think 'Ah sure it wouldn't be important' or 'I'm not going to tell the guards that because it's silly'. Let us make that decision.
"We would welcome anything. Investigations, including old ones going back to the 80s or 90s, they were all done to a very high standard.
"The one thing that the guards do well in this country is we as an organisation take ownership of these kind of investigations and we want to bring them to a successful conclusion."
Gardai believe publicity about murdered Deirdre Jacob will convince key witness to come forward
Jo Jo Dullard missing: Mystery letter writer urged to get in touch with family
Det Supt McTiernan added: "With the advances in science, plus technical advances by way of phone examinations and CCTV footage, we can apply those new advancements to old cases or even new ones. Also, going back 20, 30 years, witnesses and people might not have felt they could come forward at the time for whatever reason.
"With the passage of time loyalties change and I have seen that where someone has been under the influence of somebody else and that somebody else passes on or moves away which frees up that individual to get this weight off their chest and they'll talk about things that happened.
"The one thing I would say – and some people would find this hard to get – is the success rate of a serious crime or cold case review is very low.
"The reason being that there is nothing new you can do to progress it.
"The work done at the time was so intense and comprehensive that nothing more can be done. But you do look at it with fresh eyes in the hope of trying to develop something else."
Haunted by 'Vanishing Triangle'
Ireland is still trying to come to terms with the number of cases involving missing women in the 90s.
They disappeared within the so-called Vanishing Triangle and their cases have never been solved.
In 2001, sex beast Larry Murphy was convicted of kidnapping, repeatedly raping and attempting to murder a young Carlow woman in the Wicklow Mountains.
Although only convicted of this particular crime, he is regarded as being the prime suspect in the disappearance of a number of young women in the mid to late 1990s in the Leinster area, when he was known to have been living in the region.
In October 1995, Josephine 'Jo Jo' Dullard went missing without trace. when she was last seen making a phone call from a telephone box in the Co Kildare village of Moone,
Jo Jo was last heard telling a friend on the phone that a car had just pulled up to near to the phone box. She was never seen again, and no trace of Jo Jo has ever been found.
Just two years previous in 1993, American-born Annie McCarrick left her apartment in Dublin, Ireland so that she could go to the Wicklow Mountains for the day and was never seen again.
That same year Eva Brennan, 39, of Rathgar, Co. Dublin, went missing after leaving a family lunch at her parents' house in Rathgar.
In 1996, Ireland was hit with another chilling case when Fiona Pender who was seven months pregnant disappeared. It's believed her body may be buried in the Slieve Bloom mountains near the Laois/Offaly border.
And the following year Ciara Breen, 17, of Dundalk, Co. Louth, went missing on February 13, 1997 without a trace while 19-year-old Fiona Sinnott went missing from her Wexford home just a year later.
In the Name of Deocracy, how can a FG Government thrown out by the People, last February 8th, be making massive Decisions, which includes our Rights, our Freedom. Are we in the process of entering a Dangerous Police State? Leo/ Tonto, loves his PR Spins, he leads the way. Sorry Leo, Dr Tony Holohan is at present leading this country. By the way FF and Martin, are likes a Lonely Ant on a Elephants Arse. Martin will destroy FF, because of his Bitterness towards Sinn Fein, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BIGGEST CRISIS SINCE THE FAMINE and that i is COVID 19.
Gerry Ryan is no Icon, he was a very Flawed nasty piece of Work, a Coke Head. I feel sorry for his family, but RTE must stop this Nonsense, hundreds of lives lost in the Drug Feuds, and RTE want the people of Ireland to pay Homage to a Cocaine Idiot, allegedly snorting on Air, many knew in RTE and the Cowards said nothing. Same with the Paedophile Craven.

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The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that they have expanded the error reporting to include less serious errors, which are now called "warnings."
If Google finds "minor problems in a sitemap," they will call it a "warning." If Google finds a more serious problems, they call those "errors." A warning is something that may contain "confusing or inaccurate" information in your sitemap. But an "error" may be an issue that makes your "sitemap completely unreadable."
The new set of warnings includes many problems that we had previously classified as errors, including the "incorrect namespace" and "invalid date" examples shown in the screenshot above. We also crawl a sample of the URLs listed in your sitemap and report warnings if the Googlebot runs into any trouble with them.
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If you're looking for something a little more energetically sinister, you'll not want to escape The Chaos Engine's ferocity… a pounding combination of industrialectronics with various rock stylings, seeming to reflect both "new" and early metal (but maybe that's because lead screecher Lee H O'Chaos has got a bit of an early-Ozzy timbre sometimes, like in the hard-rawking title track…). Semi-ambient moments exist, briefly, in the 0:48 glimmer/glare of Atomised (and a few later experimental interludes), which is immediately followed by the danceable assault of introspective Nerve Opera and the alternately thundering then (somewhat) subdued Rebellion Lite and later, by relatively mellow/melodic Naphephilia.Raging electrons stir through Custom Built For Anger with vocals counterplayed by twinkling synthleads. Ruffly weirdness of The First Law of Averages (0:12) continues into The Second Law of Averages, a short vocal deconstruction-and-arrhythmic-noise piece. Sick, Broken, Happy manages to keep up a buoyant beatiness that lives up to the latter part of its title. Go Offline (4:59) concludes with an anti-computer-life rant. Way off my usual radar screen, but a pleasantly jolting (64.5-minute/23 track) diversion with more-than-expected intelligence; rated a B as such. Buzz over to the Wasp Factory hive.


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Arachnis martina är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Druce 1897. Arachnis martina ingår i släktet Arachnis och familjen björnspinnare. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Love Live got his own TCG!
The new Love Live idols are coming!
1 pack contains 1 card + 1 sleeve.
Unlike ordinary TCGs, Love Live! School Idol Collection will feature a double-sided artwork with the front and back side of the cards. This means that both sides may be used in the game, unlike most TCGs which only show one side of the card.


Note: The following was submitted without attribution.
Note: Even though all family notes give James' name as James MOMAN Venable, I'm sure that Moorman is the correct name, according to the genealogy.
1832 - His father Robert R. Venable dies in Jackson CO, GA. Charles Venable, his grandfather dies in Perryville, MO.. James, according to Mary Jane, his daughter, rode a big mule from GA to MO for the hearing of the will.
Jan 18, 1845 - Granting of Guardianship of Sanford and Richard Venable, minors to James M. Venable.
1845 - Lives in Jackson CO, & Shady Grove, Forsyth CO Census shows him living with his mother, Isabella in Forsyth CO.
1848 - Family notes say he married Martha Welch this year. The marriage record is in Book B. Forsyth County Marriages, Page 100 (The Probate Court told me on 1/29/01 that they do not have Book B records, microfilmed or not, but that the Archives in Atlanta "may have something")(Ora, his granddaughter said she was told by her mother that James fell in love with Martha Welch because she sang "Annie Laurie" so beautifully.
On the 21st of December, 1849 James bought 3 lots in the town of Shady Grove, Forsyth Co. (The Town of Shady Grove in the mid 1830's was later called Sheltonville and now is referred to as the Shake Rag Community.
First of Sept 1850 U. S. Forsythe Co census shows James living with his mother in Forsyth Co It shows the property they are living on as valued at $6,000.
1850 - His son, James Stephens Venable is born in Spring Place, Murray CO, GA..
Feb 19, 1854 - His daughter, Mary Jane is born in Spring Place.
1857 Fannie Venable, his second daughter, is born in Spring Place.
1858 - His account at the Hawkins and Durham Store at Rock Creek for the year 1858 is interesting. (The Durham owning this store was later to become the 2nd husband of James' wife, Martha Venable after James died in 1862). During this year his account came to $64.51, and included 2 plugs of tobacco at .25 each, a spelling book for.10, a saddle at $22.00, a bridle for $3.00, 1800 bricks for $9.00 and one pair of ladies shoes for $1.50.
1860 - Isabella is born in Spring Place.
1860 - James is listed in the Murray CO, Ga Slave Schedule He owned one black girl age 14. September 1862 - James dies at Spring Place of Dysentery (according to family notes) Buried on property.
Venable Cemetery On east side of road on Bouckaert Farms near cedar tree.
Boy Scout Troop 372 spent a day recalling history on the Venable Plantation at the Bouckaert Farm in lower Murray County. The work of this group of young men was a remarkable case of the present meeting the past. Much of the land which now comprises the Bouckaert Farm was once part of the Venable Plantation. Years before the War Between The States, James M. Venable and his wife, the former Martha Welch of Lumpkin County, accumulated many acres and operated an extensive plantation with slave labor. Their family increased in size, but they suffered the loss as two children died early and were buried in a cedar grove on a hill across from their home.
During the War, Venable was briefly a Purchasing Agent for the Confederacy, but became ill, died and was buried beside his little ones on the plantation.
Mrs. Venable later married another Confederate soldier-businessman, Charles D. Durham, a relative of the Durhams of NC. The Venable Plantation became known as the Durham Farm and continued to operate until Mrs. Durham's death in 1929. Their son, C. F. Durham sold the farm to a relative and moved away. For most of the next six decades, the area became known as the Berry Bennett Place. Mary Jane, the daughter of James M. Venable had moved away after marrying Richard Bramblett.
A few years ago, Jackie Gray, their granddaughter of California contacted the Whitfield-Murray Historical Society to inquire about the existence of the Venable cemetery. She and members of the Society put together the family story. They learned that numerous relatives of the Welch and Bramblett lines still live in Murray County. Direct descendants are scattered across the West.
Another interesting bit of information brought to light was that two former slaves, Isaac and Patience Venable also lived in Spring Place where they are the only blacks buried in the Spring Place cemetery.
The Venable cemetery - long overgrown and forgotten- has recently been cleaned and beautified by the Scouts. Under the auspices of Scout Leader David Stone, their work will be long appreciated by the family and the Historical Society. Mr. Venable and Martha would be pleased that their farm is once again a productive farm.
Father: Robert R Venable b: ABT 1798 in Jackson CO, GA Mother: Isabella Montgomery b: 1795 in GA.
Marriage 1 Martha Welch b: 14 APR 1830 in Edgefield CO, SC Married: 21 JUN 1848/1849 in Forsyth Co, GA, Children 1. James Stephen Venable b: 17 MAR 1853 in Spring Place, Murray CO, GA 2.
Mary Jane Venable b: 19 FEB 1854 in Spring Place, Murray, GA..
Robert Toombs Venable b: 29 DEC 1856 in Spring Place, Murray CO, GA.
Fannie Venable b: 1857 in Spring Place Murray, GA.. Martha Isabella Venable b: 1 OCT 1860 in Spring Place, Murray, CO, Ga.


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\section{Introduction}

Interacting particles occupying topologically non-trivial band structures have been a topic of high interest in recent years due to the exotic many-body states they can form.
Such exotic topological phases can be realized as lattice analogs~\cite{Kol1993,Moeller2009,Scaffidi2012,Moeller2015} of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states~\cite{Tsui1982,Laughlin1983}, now understood to be first examples of a wider class of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in general topological band structures \cite{Tang2011,Sun2011,Sheng2011,Neupert2011a,Regnault2011,Bergholtz2013,Moeller2009,Moeller2015}.
Despite being very well characterized theoretically, FCIs have not yet been realized experimentally. Ultracold atoms in optical lattices are among the most promising candidate systems to detect these topologically ordered states~\cite{Sorensen2005,Hafezi2007,Palmer2006,Palmer2008}. As a more concrete direction, two experimental groups~\cite{Miyake2013,Aidelsburger2013} have implemented an optical lattice setup in which bosons are governed by the Harper-Hofstadter Hamiltonian~\cite{Harper1955,Hofstadter1976}, which features a considerably flat lowest band with nonzero Chern number, favoring the occurrence of an FCI state. While the aforementioned experiments focused on single-particle properties, the study of interacting particles in ladder systems described by this Hamiltonian has been reported~\cite{Tai2017} as a first step to observe many-body physics in these setups.

The preparation of exotic many-body states in these systems poses two main challenges. Firstly, in order to engineer complex hopping matrix elements in the optical lattices, the system has to be subject to a constant periodic drive~\cite{Jaksch2003,Mueller2004,Dalibard2011}. An expansion of the periodically time-dependent Hamiltonian in the inverse driving frequency~\cite{Rahav2003,Goldman2014,Eckardt2015} leads to an effective time-independent Floquet Hamiltonian that has the desired topologically non-trivial properties~\cite{Oka2009,Lindner2011,Grushin2014,Bukov2015,Eckardt2017}. This constant driving will, at some time scale, lead to energy absorption which would destroy a topological state and in the long term drive the system to a featureless infinite temperature state~\cite{Dalessio2014,Lazarides2014}. To remedy this problem, it has been argued that this behavior may be preceded by a prethermalization region during which the system is indeed governed by an effective time-independent Hamiltonian and which extends to a time that is exponentially long in the driving frequency~\cite{Abanin2015a,Abanin2015,Kuwahara2016,Mori2016,Bukov2016,Abanin2017,Else2017}.
The second challenge is that ultracold atoms in an optical lattice typically represent an isolated quantum system which prevents the system from being cooled down in contact with an external bath to reach its ground state. One way to eliminate this problem is a (quasi-)adiabatic preparation scheme~\cite{Popp2004,Sorensen2010,He2017}. It consists of a protocol by which a state of the system that may be more easily prepared (e.g. a condensate) is guided into the final topologically ordered state by changing the properties of the optical lattice, i.e. tuning parameters in the Hamiltonian describing the system.
In order to ensure that the final state after this (quasi-)adiabatic evolution is indeed the ground state of the final Hamiltonian, it is favorable that any phase transitions crossed during the evolution are continuous~\cite{Schuetzhold2006,Barkeshli2015}. At a first-order transition, the system might otherwise stay in a metastable initial state impeding the evolution into the topologically ordered ground state.

In this work, we focus on the second challenge, i.e., if it is possible to find a path in parameter space that leads from a realistically preparable, trivial state into an FCI state while only crossing continuous phase transitions. We study a model Hamiltonian at $1/2$ filling of the lowest band motivated by the optical lattice setup of Aidelsburger \textit{et al.}~reported in~\cite{Aidelsburger2015}. While we find a first-order transition into the FCI state when increasing a parameter from the original work~\cite{Aidelsburger2015} that turns the band structure trivial if sufficiently large, we propose  an additional parameter in the model which allows reaching the FCI phase upon crossing a continuous transition. This modification introduces an additional chemical potential in form of a superlattice. We perform explicit time-dependent simulations for the adiabatic tuning of the system from a trivial into the FCI state where we show that the preparation scheme works for a path crossing the continuous transition while it is not possible when traversing the first-order transition. To study the model, we rely on density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) computations on infinite cylinders of finite circumference~\cite{White1992,McCulloch2008,Zaletel2015}.

This paper is organized as follows. We introduce the model and employed method in Sec.~\ref{sec:model} and demonstrate the appearance of an FCI state for the Hamiltonian in Sec.~\ref{sec:FCI}. In Sec.~\ref{sec:PD}, we study the phase diagram of the model and present the time-dependent calculations in Sec.~\ref{sec:time}.

\section{Model and method \label{sec:model}}

\begin{figure}[t]
 \includegraphics[width=8cm]{model.pdf}
 \caption{Harper-Hofstadter model considered in this study. The model has a four site unit cell containing sites with energy offset $-\delta, 0$ and $\delta$ and the hopping in {$y$-direction} is renormalized according to $J(1+f_{x,y})$ \eqref{eq:fmn}. We chose $\phi_0 = 0$ to obtain the hopping amplitude in this illustration as used throughout this work. We also omit the phases of the hopping in this depiction, each square plaquette is pierced by a flux of $\pi/2$. \label{fig:model}}
\end{figure}

In this section, we introduce the model under consideration.
The Hamiltonian on the square lattice reads
\begin{align}
 H = &-J \sum_{x,y}  \{ \hat a_{x+1,y}^\dag \hat a_{x,y}^\phd e^{i[\pi/2(x+y)-\phi_0]} + \mathrm{h.c.} \nonumber \\
 & \hspace{13.5mm} + (1+f_{x,y}) \hat a_{x,y+1}^\dag \hat a_{x,y}^\phd + \mathrm{h.c.} \} \nonumber \\
 &+ \frac{\delta}{2} \sum_{x,y} [(-1)^x + (-1)^y] \hat n_{x,y} \nonumber \\
 &+ M \sum_{x,y} (-1)^{p_x+p_y} \hat n_{x,y} \label{eq:model}
\end{align}
with $\hat a_{x,y}^\dag ( \hat a_{x,y}^\phd)$ creating (annihilating) a boson on site $(x,y)$.
We assume that the onsite interaction between particles is much larger than the hopping $J$ and work in the limit of hardcore bosons restricting the occupation number to $\hat n_{x,y} = 0,1$.
The parameters $f_{x,y}$ and $p_i$ are given by
\begin{equation}
 f_{x,y} = - \frac12 \left( \frac{\kappa}{\hbar \omega} \right)^2 \{ 1 - (-1)^{x+y}\cos(2 \phi_0) \} \label{eq:fmn},
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
 p_i =
 \begin{cases}
  0, \quad \text{if} \quad i \in 4\mathbb{N} \text{ or } i \in 4\mathbb{N}+1 \\
  1, \quad \text{if} \quad i \in 4\mathbb{N}+2 \text{ or } i \in 4\mathbb{N}+3 \\
 \end{cases}
\end{equation}
Let us first focus on the terms with prefactors $J$ and $\delta$ which represent the effective Hamiltonian describing the experiment in~\cite{Aidelsburger2015}.
The hopping part describes the Hofstadter model on a square lattice with a flux of $\phi = \pi / 2$ per plaquette as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:model} and the hopping in $y$-direction is renormalized in second-order Floquet theory by the site-dependent parameter $f_{x,y}$ given in \eqref{eq:fmn}. We chose $\kappa (\hbar \omega) = 0.58 $ as in the experiment in~\cite{Aidelsburger2015}.
At the single-particle level, the energy splits up into four bands and the term proportional to the parameter $\delta$ introduces a staggered potential along the $x$- and $y$-direction which can be used to tune the band structure from a topological to a trivial one.
A phase transition occurs at $\delta \approx 1.7$ when the Chern number of the lowest band changes from $C=1$ for $\delta \lesssim 1.7$ to $C=0$ for $\delta \gtrsim 1.7$~\cite{Aidelsburger2015}.
In addition to the effective Hamiltonian from \cite{Aidelsburger2015}, we introduce a term that generates an overall energy offset between neighboring unit cells in the last line of Eq.~\eqref{eq:model}.
A schematic depiction is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:model_M}.
\begin{figure}[t]
 \includegraphics[width=5cm]{model_M.pdf}
 \caption{Additional energy offset between neighboring four-fsite plaquettes generated by the last term in Eq.~\eqref{eq:model}. Compare to Fig.~\ref{fig:model}. \label{fig:model_M}}
\end{figure}

We investigate the phase diagram of Hamiltonian~\eqref{eq:model} using the DMRG algorithm~\cite{White1992,McCulloch2008,Schollwoeck2011}, on an infinite cylinder geometry~\cite{He2017}. This method allows us to variationally determine the exact ground state  for large system sizes. Most of the computations in this work are performed on a cylinder with a circumference of $L_y=8$ sites.

\section{FCI state at $\delta=M=0$ \label{sec:FCI}}
One of the clearest signatures of the FCI state is the quantization of the Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}$ to fractional values. Here, we determine the $\sigma_{xy}$ by numerically conducting a Laughlin-like charge pumping experiment~\cite{Laughlin1981}. We cut the cylinder into two semi-infinite halves and monitor the charge $\langle q_L \rangle$ of the left half as we adiabatically insert flux into the cylinder. Figure~\ref{fig:flux} shows a Hall conductivity of $1/2$ in accordance with a Laughlin state at filling $\nu=1/2$~\cite{He2017,Gerster2017}.

\begin{figure}[t]
 \includegraphics[width=8cm]{pump.pdf}
 \caption{Charge $ \langle q_L \rangle$ of the left half of the system vs.~inserted flux for a cylinder of circumference $L_y=8$. After two flux quanta ($4 \pi$) have been inserted, one elementary charge is pumped across the cut indicating a Hall conductivity of $\sigma_{xy} = 1/2$.  \label{fig:flux}}
\end{figure}

\section{Phase diagram \label{sec:PD}}

\begin{figure*}[t]
 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{S_xi_E_cross.pdf}
 \caption{Correlation length $\xi$ (a) and entanglement entropy $S$ (b) as a function of $\delta$ for increasing DMRG bond dimensions $\chi$. The discontinuity in both quantities at the phase boundary of FCI and SF indicates a first-order transition. (c) Ground state energy per site around the transition between FCI and SF state. The crossing of the energy levels further corroborates the first-order nature of the transition. \label{fig:S_xi_E}}
\end{figure*}

After having established the emergence of the FCI state for $\delta=M=0$, we now investigate the phase diagram of the model \eqref{eq:model}. We first focus on $\delta > 0$, $M=0$ and then turn to the case of finite $M$.

\subsection{$\delta > 0, M = 0$}

The simplest way to tune our model into a non-topological state is increasing $\delta$. At a finite value of $\delta>0$, the band structure becomes trivial which will not permit an FCI state to occur in this model. However, the nonzero Chern number of the lowest band is merely a necessary condition for the FCI and its stability might break down even before the band structure becomes trivial. We therefore investigate the state of the system for increasing $\delta$. Let us first consider a perturbative picture of the ground state for large $\delta$. In this limit, three of the sites in the unit cell, namely the ones with energy offset $+\delta$ and $0$, are not part of the low energy subspace of the Hilbert space. The particles will prefer to occupy the sites with energy offset $-\delta$ due to the large energy penalty on the remaining three sites. For large, but finite $\delta$, we can therefore write down an effective Hamiltonian in the low energy subspace which expanded up to second order in $J$ reads
\begin{equation}
 H_{\rm low} \approx - J^2/\delta \sum_{\langle ij \rangle, i,j \in \Lambda_{-\delta}} a_i^{\dag} a_j\phd \label{eq:H_eff},
\end{equation}
where we have neglected a constant energy offset per site. Here,  $\Lambda_{-\delta}$ denotes the set of lattice sites with chemical potential $-\delta$ and the Hamiltonian describes a regular hopping model of hardcore bosons on the square lattice formed by the ``$-\delta$ sites.'' Note that the complex phases in the hopping may be gauged away since the flux through each square plaquette surrounded by the remaining sites $\Lambda_{-\delta}$ is $2 \pi$. The total filling factor of $1/8$ leads to a half-filling of the effective low-energy subspace and the ground state of this Bose-Hubbard model is well known to be superfluid, spontaneously breaking the $U(1)$ particle number conservation symmetry~\cite{Fisher1989}.

In the following, we study the stability of the FCI state in model \eqref{eq:model} identified in Sec.~\ref{sec:FCI} for increasing $\delta$ towards this superfluid state and possible competing phases.
We detect phase transitions by studying the behavior of the entanglement entropy, the correlation length or, in case of a first-order transition, the energy of the ground state~\cite{Motruk2015}. The entanglement entropy $S$ is defined as
\begin{equation}
 S = -\mathrm{Tr} \rho_L \log \rho_L,
\end{equation}
where $\rho_L = \mathrm{Tr}_R \ket{\psi}\bra{\psi}$ is the reduced density matrix of the left half $L$ of the cylinder.
In Figs.~\ref{fig:S_xi_E}(a) and \ref{fig:S_xi_E}(b), we show $S$ and the correlation length $\xi$ for increasing delta and observe that the FCI state at $\delta=0$ is stable in a finite region for $\delta > 0$.
The clear discontinuities in $\xi$ and $S$ indicate a first-order transition which is further confirmed by the behavior of $E$ depicted in Fig.~\ref{fig:S_xi_E}(b). At the transition point, we observe a crossing of the energy of the low and high $\delta$ ground states. The blue dots show the ground state energy of the FCI state while the yellow dots indicate the neighboring state. The data points at values of $\delta$ at which the respective phase is not the ground state of the system where obtained by initializing the algorithm with the state of the respective phase and converging to the local energy minimum in the Hilbert space. This energy data clearly demonstrates a transition at $\delta_c \approx 0.06$. We do not observe any sign of a phase transition for $\delta > \delta_c$ up to values of $\delta \gg J$ which represent the regime in which the system is described by the effective Hamiltonian of Eq.~\eqref{eq:H_eff}.

\subsection{$\delta > 0, M > 0$ \label{sec:M}}

Since we identified the finite-$\delta$ transition for $M=0$ to be of first order, tuning into the FCI state from the superfluid phase for large $\delta$ along a path in parameter space decreasing delta is not a favorable strategy. The likelihood for the occurrence of a second order transition might be enhanced if the state neighboring the FCI does not spontaneously break any symmetries. Motivated by this intuition, we introduce the term $\propto M$ in the Hamiltonian \eqref{eq:model} which generates an alternating additional chemical potential on every four-site unit cell of the original Hamiltonian of the experiment.

\begin{figure}[b]
 \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{corr_M.pdf}
 \caption{Correlation length $\xi$ for $\delta = 0$ and finite $M$. The peak in $\xi$ and its increase towards higher bond dimensions suggests a continuous transition between the large $M$ and the FCI state. We also checked the Hall conductivity which is quantized to $\sigma_{xy}=1$ below the value of $M$ at which the system is entering the critical regime, e.g., for $M < 0.1$ for $\chi = 400$. Inset: Scaling of $M_{\rm peak}$, the position of the peak in $\xi$ vs.\ $1 / \chi$ to determine the transition point for $\chi \rightarrow \infty$.  \label{fig:corr_M}}
\end{figure}

Let us again consider the limit in which $\delta, M \gg J$. By adding the above term to the Hamiltonian, we obtain one site with energy offset $-\delta-M$ per each eight sites in the system (the green sites in the green squares in Fig.~\ref{fig:model_M}). The number of these sites is hence exactly the number of particles and all other sites are at least $\delta$ or $2M$ higher in energy, whichever of these numbers is smaller. In the limit of $\delta, M \rightarrow \infty$, these sites will therefore each be occupied by exactly one particle. Upon decreasing $\delta$, the particles will be allowed to hop around a four-site plaquette, but will still be localized and form a Mott insulating (MI) phase. This phase does not spontaneously break any symmetry and therefore constitutes a phase which might feature a continuous transition into the FCI state.

\begin{figure}[b]
 \includegraphics[width=8cm]{phase_diagram.pdf}
 \caption{Phase diagram in the $\delta$-$M$ plane. The FCI state is stable in a finite region in the phase diagram. The first-order transition between FCI and superfluid is depicted by a solid line, dashed lines denote continuous transitions. \label{fig:pd}}
\end{figure}

In Fig.~\ref{fig:corr_M}, we plot the correlation length $\xi$ of the ground state for $\delta = 0$ and finite $M$. We observe a peak in $\xi$ at $M \approx 0.13$, but no discontinuity as in the transition between SF and FCI. The behavior in $\xi$ indeed points to a continuous transition between the two phases. The peak in $\xi$ signals a critical point. In the region around the point, the state cannot be faithfully represented with finite DMRG bond dimension $\chi$ anymore and the correlation length still grows with increasing $\chi$. This entrance into the critical region is as well reflected in the Hall conductivity which is not quantized anymore when approaching the transition from the FCI side~\cite{Gerster2017}.

\begin{figure*}[t]
 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{time_evol.pdf}
 \caption{Overlap (per site) of the time-evolved state $\ket{\psi(t)}$ with the actual ground state $\ket{\psi_0}$ at the respective parameter when tuning the Hamiltonian. (a) Fixing $\delta=0$ and tuning $M$ from $M_0 = 0.25$ to $0$ for an infinite cylinder of circumference $L_y = 8$. Note that $M$ decreases to the right which means time increases. The overlap per site $\left\langle \psi(t) \right| \left. \psi_0 \right\rangle$ increases for slower evolution and reaches $\sim 0.9999$ for $TJ=200$ at $M=0$. (b) Tuning the parameter $\delta$ from $\delta_0 = 0.2$ to $0$ with $M=0$ through the first-order transition on an infinite cylinder. The overlap per site sharply decreases when crossing the phase transition and cannot be increased by a slower evolution. (c) Time evolution of the state on a finite square geometry of $L_x \times L_y = 8 \times 8$ sites for the same path in parameter space as in (a). The overlap per site of the final state is significantly lower ($\sim 0.973$ for $TJ = 200$) than in the case of the infinite system, but approaches unity for longer evolution times. In all calculations, the bond dimension $\chi$ is chosen such that the value of the overlap has converged in $\chi$.
 \label{fig:overlap}}
\end{figure*}

We map out the full phase diagram of the model \eqref{eq:model} in the $\delta$-$M$ parameter plane shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:pd}. The FCI region proves to be stable in a finite parameter region and is separated by a second order transition from the Mott insulating (MI) state without a spontaneously broken symmetry. We observe a similar behavior of the correlation length as in Fig.~\ref{fig:corr_M} at the transition between FCI and MI for finite $\delta$. The transition into the superfluid with spontaneously broken $U(1)$ symmetry is of first order.

While the simulations presented in this work were conducted for hardcore bosons, an experimental realization of the model will have finite interactions.  When releasing the hardcore constraint, a sufficiently strong on-site repulsion is required to stabilize the FCI phase. If the interactions are strong enough, the transition between MI and FCI remains continuous as indicated by numerical simulations (not shown).

\section{Adiabatic tuning \label{sec:time}}

The continuous transition in the model from a trivial insulating to an FCI state harbors the potential for an adiabatic preparation of the topological state. To further corroborate this possibility, we simulate the preparation scheme along the line $\delta = 0$ in the phase diagram by means of time-dependent DMRG calculations. We use the method introduced by Zaletel \textit{et al.}~\cite{Zaletel2015} which allows us to treat the effective long-range interactions that occur in a 2D DMRG setup~\cite{Stoudenmire2012}.

\subsection{Infinite cylinder}

We first study the system in the infinite cylinder geometry as before and time-evolve from an initial state $\ket{\psi_I}$ to a final state $\ket{\psi_F}$ under Hamiltonian~\eqref{eq:model}
with the time-dependent parameter
\begin{equation}
 M(t) = M_0 (1-t/T), \quad 0 \leq t \leq T.
\end{equation}
We start the evolution with the ground state at $M_0 = 0.25$ which is well separated from the transition into the MI phase. In Fig.~\ref{fig:overlap}(a), we plot the overlap (per site) of the time-evolved state with the actual ground state at the respective parameter value. We observe a high overlap which steadily increases for longer ramp times. This indicates that the adiabatic evolution may be performed successfully for sufficiently long times.

In order to demonstrate the importance of crossing a continuous rather than a first-order phase transition in the adiabatic preparation, we also calculate the time evolution for a path from the superfluid phase to the FCI phase traversing the first-order transition. We therefore set $M=0$ and evolve $\delta$ from $\delta_0 = 0.2$ to $0$ as
\begin{equation}
 \delta(t) = \delta_0 (1-t/T).
\end{equation}
The results are presented in Fig.~\ref{fig:overlap}(b). We clearly observe that the adiabatic preparation is not successful along this path in the phase diagram. The overlap significantly decreases at the transition point and it is not possible to remedy this behavior by choosing a longer ramp time. Instead, the overlap even decreases for longer times. The jump in the overlap may be explained by the nature of the first-order transition. As depicted in Fig.~\ref{fig:S_xi_E}(c), the energy levels of SF and FCI cross at the transition. When (quasi-)adiabatically tuning the Hamiltonian parameters from the SF side across the transition, the system then tries to follow the (metastable) SF state and does not evolve into a state with high overlap to the actual FCI ground state. This scenario is further confirmed by the larger decrease in overlap for longer ramp times, indicating that the state follows the initial SF state better for slower evolution. Since we show the overlap per site, the total overlap for a system of $N$ sites would amount to $\sim 0.9^N$ so that the final state would be far from the desired FCI state.

\subsection{Finite square geometry}

We also simulate the preparation protocol on a finite square geometry of $8 \times 8$ sites in order to be closer to a potential experimental setup with edges. The results are depicted in Fig.~\ref{fig:overlap}(c). The overlap of the final state with the actual ground state is much less than in the infinite cylinder geometry. This behavior can be explained by the presence of gapless --or low energy for finite system size-- edge modes and is consistent with what has been observed in Ref.~\cite{He2017}. However, our results indicate that the FCI may still be prepared for sufficiently long ramp times.

\section{Conclusion}

We have investigated the Harper-Hofstadter Hamiltonian describing the cold atom experiment by Aidelsburger et al.~\cite{Aidelsburger2015} at half filling of the lowest band for hardcore bosons. For the pure hopping Hamiltonian, we find a topologically ordered fractional Chern insulator state which remains stable for a finite staggered chemical potential term with parameter $\delta$ which is present in the original model. The increasing of this potential tunes the band structure from topological to trivial. However, the FCI state proves to be unstable at a potential of $\delta_c \approx 0.06$ much below the value when the underlying band structure becomes non-topological $(\delta \approx 1.7)$ and the system undergoes a first-order phase transition into a superfluid state.
In addition to the staggered potential from the original experiment, we introduce another periodic chemical potential term with parameter $M$ which tunes the system into a trivial Mott insulator. We map out the phase diagram as a function of $\delta$ and $M$ and find that the transition from the Mott insulator into the FCI state is of second order providing a path along which the FCI state may be adiabatically prepared.

To demonstrate this adiabatic preparation scheme, we explicitly simulate the time evolution of a trivial initial state to the FCI state when slowly tuning the parameters of the Hamiltonian. On an infinite cylinder, we find an overlap per site of $\sim 0.9999$ of the time-evolved state with the FCI ground state for a ramp time of $T=200/J$ which may be further improved by increasing the time. When considering a finite square geometry, the final overlap reduces to $\sim 0.973$ for otherwise equal parameters, but a sufficiently slow tuning in an experiment should still guarantee a topologically ordered final state. Our protocol requires only a rather small modification of the one already implemented experimentally.

\section*{Acknowledgments}

We thank Adolfo Grushin, Michael Kolodrubetz and Gunnar M\"oller for comments on the manuscript. JM acknowledges funding by TIMES at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, under Contract No.\ DE-AC02-76SF00515. This work was supported in parts by the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the
Collaborative Research Center SFB 1143 and Research Unit FOR 1807 through grants no.\ PO 1370/2-1.

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Some call it grace, some call it love, some call it bliss. For me, it is the most kind, safe, reassuring state of being I have ever experienced. Like when a child surrenders into its mother's hug. Time doesn't exist for you when you are taken care of. You don't have to hold your guards simply because you don't have any. It is like when someone offers you a hand at the very exact moment when you need it the most. Only now you are being held in that hand constantly. Not because you're incapable or in need, but because you are supported. You are supported only because you are being you.
We are used to micro-focus on life with our ideas and beliefs about life, this creates a constant level of stress, not the kind you would necessarily notice on a daily basis, but still, it is there. It is there in everything you put your attention on. Your partner, your work, your boss, a stranger. A grown-up person has already developed ideas and beliefs about everything that he or she encountered and experienced in life. We are forced into creating opinions, taking sides, knowing the meaning of the things that our lives revolve around. We do it because we don't want to be left out, we don't want to miss out, we don't want to be perceived as ignorant, indifferent, we want to be in, accepted and appreciated.
Those ideas that we hold in our minds about everything are there even when we don't notice them, mentally we no longer manage them but they are there emotionally. The sides and points of view we have chosen to adopt as our own are deeply embedded in our beliefs and doesn't require maintenance. However, everything we have an opinion about can be felt energetically. Some energies are felt as a tension which is there on a daily basis just because when we wake up in the morning we are reminded energetically of our beliefs by our surroundings.
Suddenly we wake up and feel bad, before anything happens, and before we've talked to anyone. We hold energetical ties to everything in our being. When we chose to have a judging opinion or a point of view, it turns to a subconscious form, it turns to belief. We're not aware of it but we feel its tension, its energetical pull.
Everything is surrounded by beauty, made out from bliss, already perfect. But all these subtle negative energies are keeping us from seeing this bliss, this kindness, this grace that we're in.
When you ask to be free, to be at peace, to be loved, protected, taken care of, you are distancing yourself from all those things simply by requesting to receive what you believe you don't have. You validate to yourself that you are not free, not loved, not at peace, not, protected, not taken care of. And then you wait, and wait and wait some more. You wait for the things that you've decided that you don't have to come to you. No one can blame you. Your vision and senses are preventing you from seeing the truth. This is where the path to awakening begins and it can take quite some time because we are convinced in the idea that one must walk a path towards enlightenment.
The idea itself is a false one and as long as we're convinced in this truth, we postpone our awakening to a later date. We might taste it but then we get back to our old ways of being.
The one that drops all assuming is immediately awakened to the truth of its own being. There is no need to transcend, to replace, to change anything. Everything is included in the truth of your being. Everything is loved. Even hate is loved. If you relax into hate by letting it live, it will dissolve into nothingness from which it came from. Respond to hate, and you'll draw more of it. Practicing being without assumptions will allow you to see your peace, kindness, and bliss.
You don't need to believe me, this is not spiritual teaching, that I want you to follow. This is my experienced truth of being. As it happens it is the truth of many others, and among them are spiritual teachers and healers. Don't assume that this is the truth, don't say – IF. Don't say you'll try it just so you can find out if this is true. Coming from doubt will bring more doubt and the search for proof will be endless because of it. Do it because you're curious, to see and experience the truth of your being first hand. Because you're tired if relying on beliefs that are not yours, to begin with.
Just allow yourself to be with your experience, observe your thoughts and emotions go beyond the point that you've ever allowed yourself to be with your thoughts and emotions. Be curious about what happens not by assuming that you know what will happen. Be curious from a place that wants to find out on its own, to experience what is it like first hand, wouldn't you like to find out?


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"If advertising is so great, why the hell is it broken right now online?" This is the question that TED curator Chris Anderson is trying to answer with TED's Ads Worth Spreading challenge.
"If advertising is so great, why the hell is it broken right now online?" This is the question that TED curator Chris Anderson is trying to answer with TED's Ads Worth Spreading challenge, an initiative designed to inspire advertisers to think outside of the box and create passionate ads that people actually want to watch.
We covered the Ads Worth Spreading challenge back in September when it was first launched. Since our report, the contest submission deadline has been pushed back to February 7, 2011 and TED has also teamed up with YouTube to give Ads Worth Spreading even more coverage. Anderson posted a message, along with a great video, on the YouTube blog in order to let spread the word.
Online ads are not adding anything to our web surfing experience. Rather, they are annoying us, boring us, and even enraging us.
If you are thinking of submitting an ad to the TED challenge then first and foremost you should concern yourself with passion. In the video below, Anderson explains that passion is key because you don't want to annoy, interrupt or ambush the community that you are trying to promote too. Rather, you want to add to the passion by becoming a member of the community your self. Anderson says that successful advertisers don't ambush passion. They amplify it.
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text:
'use strict';

var assert = require('assert');

var health = require('../health_check/health');

var health_messages = require('../health_check/v1/health_pb');

var ServingStatus = health_messages.HealthCheckResponse.ServingStatus;

var grpc = require('../');

describe('Health Checking', function() {
  var statusMap = {
    '': ServingStatus.SERVING,
    'grpc.test.TestServiceNotServing': ServingStatus.NOT_SERVING,
    'grpc.test.TestServiceServing': ServingStatus.SERVING
  };
  var healthServer;
  var healthImpl;
  var healthClient;
  before(function() {
    healthServer = new grpc.Server();
    healthImpl = new health.Implementation(statusMap);
    healthServer.addService(health.service, healthImpl);
    var port_num = healthServer.bind('0.0.0.0:0',
                                     grpc.ServerCredentials.createInsecure());
    healthServer.start();
    healthClient = new health.Client('localhost:' + port_num,
                                     grpc.credentials.createInsecure());
  });
  after(function() {
    healthServer.forceShutdown();
  });
  it('should say an enabled service is SERVING', function(done) {
    var request = new health_messages.HealthCheckRequest();
    request.setService('');
    healthClient.check(request, function(err, response) {
      assert.ifError(err);
      assert.strictEqual(response.getStatus(), ServingStatus.SERVING);
      done();
    });
  });
  it('should say that a disabled service is NOT_SERVING', function(done) {
    var request = new health_messages.HealthCheckRequest();
    request.setService('grpc.test.TestServiceNotServing');
    healthClient.check(request, function(err, response) {
      assert.ifError(err);
      assert.strictEqual(response.getStatus(), ServingStatus.NOT_SERVING);
      done();
    });
  });
  it('should say that an enabled service is SERVING', function(done) {
    var request = new health_messages.HealthCheckRequest();
    request.setService('grpc.test.TestServiceServing');
    healthClient.check(request, function(err, response) {
      assert.ifError(err);
      assert.strictEqual(response.getStatus(), ServingStatus.SERVING);
      done();
    });
  });
  it('should get NOT_FOUND if the service is not registered', function(done) {
    var request = new health_messages.HealthCheckRequest();
    request.setService('not_registered');
    healthClient.check(request, function(err, response) {
      assert(err);
      assert.strictEqual(err.code, grpc.status.NOT_FOUND);
      done();
    });
  });
  it('should get a different response if the status changes', function(done) {
    var request = new health_messages.HealthCheckRequest();
    request.setService('transient');
    healthClient.check(request, function(err, response) {
      assert(err);
      assert.strictEqual(err.code, grpc.status.NOT_FOUND);
      healthImpl.setStatus('transient', ServingStatus.SERVING);
      healthClient.check(request, function(err, response) {
        assert.ifError(err);
        assert.strictEqual(response.getStatus(), ServingStatus.SERVING);
        done();
      });
    });
  });
});

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// <copyright file="EntityConfigurationBehaviour.cs" company="Slash Games">
//   Copyright (c) Slash Games. All rights reserved.
// </copyright>
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace Slash.Unity.Common.ECS
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;

    using Slash.Collections.AttributeTables;
    using Slash.ECS;
    using Slash.ECS.Events;

    using UnityEngine;

    /// <summary>
    ///   Creates a game entity from the specified configuration.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    ///   Note that this behaviour currently does not support prefabs.
    ///   If you attach this behaviour to a prefab, all instances will always
    ///   have their configurations reset to the prefab values.
    /// </remarks>
    public class EntityConfigurationBehaviour : MonoBehaviour, ISerializationCallbackReceiver
    {
        #region Fields

        /// <summary>
        ///   Blueprint id of the entity to create.
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        [HideInInspector]
        public string BlueprintId;

        /// <summary>
        ///   Configuration of the entity to create.
        /// </summary>
        [HideInInspector]
        public AttributeTable Configuration;

        /// <summary>
        ///   Configuration keys as serialized by Unity.
        /// </summary>
        [SerializeField]
        [HideInInspector]
        public List<string> SerializedConfigurationKeys;

        /// <summary>
        ///   Configuration value types as serialized by Unity.
        /// </summary>
        [SerializeField]
        [HideInInspector]
        public List<string> SerializedConfigurationTypes;

        /// <summary>
        ///   Configuration values as serialized by Unity.
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        [HideInInspector]
        public List<string> SerializedConfigurationValues;

        /// <summary>
        ///   Game behaviour holding the reference to the game the entity belongs to.
        /// </summary>
        private GameBehaviour gameBehaviour;

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        #region Public Properties

        /// <summary>
        ///   Id of the entity created with this configuration.
        /// </summary>
        public int EntityId { get; private set; }

        #endregion

        #region Public Methods and Operators

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        ///   Deserializes this entity configuration.
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        public void OnAfterDeserialize()
        {
            this.Configuration = new AttributeTable();

            for (int i = 0; i < this.SerializedConfigurationKeys.Count; i++)
            {
                var valueType = Type.GetType(this.SerializedConfigurationTypes[i]);
                var attributeKey = this.SerializedConfigurationKeys[i];
                var attributeValue = Convert.ChangeType(this.SerializedConfigurationValues[i], valueType);

                this.Configuration.Add(attributeKey, attributeValue);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///   Prepares this entity configuration for serialization by Unity.
        /// </summary>
        public void OnBeforeSerialize()
        {
            this.SerializedConfigurationKeys = new List<string>();
            this.SerializedConfigurationValues = new List<string>();
            this.SerializedConfigurationTypes = new List<string>();

            IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<object, object>> attributes = this.Configuration;

            foreach (var attribute in attributes)
            {
                this.SerializedConfigurationKeys.Add(attribute.Key.ToString());
                this.SerializedConfigurationValues.Add(attribute.Value.ToString());
                this.SerializedConfigurationTypes.Add(attribute.Value.GetType().ToString());
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        #region Methods

        private void Awake()
        {
            this.gameBehaviour = GameBehaviour.Instance;

            this.gameBehaviour.GameChanged += this.OnGameChanged;
        }

        private void OnEntityRemoved(GameEvent e)
        {
            var entityId = (int)e.EventData;
            if (entityId == this.EntityId)
            {
                Destroy(this.gameObject);
            }
        }

        private void OnGameChanged(Game newGame, Game oldGame)
        {
            if (oldGame != null)
            {
                oldGame.EventManager.RemoveListener(FrameworkEvent.EntityRemoved, this.OnEntityRemoved);
            }

            if (newGame != null)
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College student accused of impersonating a doctor at California hospitals for months
Posted 12:27 pm, August 31, 2018, by Tribune Media Wire
IRVINE, Calif. – A former college student is facing charges after allegedly pretending to be a doctor at several California hospitals for months, according to KTLA.
Ariya Ouskouian, a 23-year-old student at the University of California, Irvine, was charged with a felony count of providing medical diagnosis while impersonating a doctor and eight misdemeanor counts of misrepresenting oneself as a licensed medical practitioner, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office.
Officials accused him of claiming to be a doctor while diagnosing a male patient about a growth on his neck at a consult room at UC Irvine on May 3. He was also suspected of impersonating a doctor at the Children's Hospital of Orange County on at least seven instances between April 23 to June 4.
In each of those occasions, Ouskouian claimed to have misplaced his hospital badge to security before requesting a temporary one, the District's Attorney's Office said.
When hospital staffers asked for verification of his status as a doctor, the man allegedly provided the name of a UC Irvine personnel.
"The defendant is further accused of convincing the UCI personnel of his alleged doctor status. The UCI personnel then verified Ouskouian to CHOC," the District Attorney's Office said.
The hospital alerted Orange police, which investigated the case.
He was arrested on Tuesday and released on Wednesday afternoon after posting bond, O.C. Sheriff Department records showed.
Authorities provided no further information about Ouskouian.
If convicted as charged, he could face three years in state prison and eight years in Orange County Jail, officials said. His next court appearance has not been scheduled.
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During this year's Medicare Open Enrollment Period, your clients might want your help. That's because each year Medicare health and drug plans change their products, including costs, what's covered, and what pharmacies and providers are in their network.
Even if you don't directly offer health insurance or Medicare plans, as an advisor doing retirement planning you should have a working knowledge about the basics, because most Medicare premiums are deducted out of a retiree's Social Security check.
During open enrollment from October 15 through December 7, individuals can join a Medicare Prescription Drug (Part D) Plan, switch Part D plans or drop their Part D coverage altogether. They can also switch from Original Medicare to a Medicare Advantage plan, and vice versa, or change Medicare Advantage plans.
But because of the wide variety of costs and new coverage options between plans—particularly for prescription drug coverage—it may be worthwhile for clients to examine what's under the hood of their current plan, if that plan has made any changes for 2019 and what, if any, other options from another provider would make sense.
Thanks to the budget deal agreed by Congress and signed by President Trump in February, participants will pay 25% of their out-of-pocket costs for brand-name drugs in the coverage gap, down from 35%. They will continue to pay 37% for generic drugs in the coverage gap until 2020 when that percentage is also reduced to 25%.
"Because Medicare isn't negotiating prices on our behalf, there's no consistency in drug pricing among Medicare Part D drug plans," said Mary Johnson, a Medicare policy analyst for The Senior Citizens League, who performed the comparisons using the Medicare website's Plan Finder.
In addition, people aged 65 and over may be taking more than one prescription drug. "To get the lowest-cost and best plan, people need to compare plans based on all the drugs they actually take," Johnson said.
Disenroll from their Medicare Advantage Plan and return to Original Medicare, with the ability to join a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan.
1"An adviser's guide to Medicare open enrollment," Investment News, September 28, 2018 https://www.investmentnews.com/article/20180928/free/180929913/an-advisers-guide-to-medicare-open-enrollment (accessed October 8, 2018).
2"Closing the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap: Trends, Recent Changes, and What's Ahead," Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, August 21, 2018. https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/closing-the-medicare-part-d-coverage-gap-trends-recent-changes-and-whats-ahead/ (accessed October 8, 2018).
3"Why You Should Compare Medicare Drug Plans ─ Comparison of Drug Prices Finds Extreme Variation in Costs, According to Analysis Released by The Senior Citizens League," The Senior Citizens League, September 27, 2018. https://bit.ly/2RyBIx7 (accessed October 8, 2018).
4"Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period," Medicare.gov, The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare https://www.medicare.gov/index.php/node/33581 (accessed October 8, 2018).


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The Pros and Cons of Online Protest
By: Thomas Muller - Updated: 10 May 2016 | *Discuss
The ease with which we can rally people through online social media may be changing the way we protest, but can it replace more traditional offline methods?
Digital Protest
Protesting is traditionally associated with marching through urban centres armed with homemade banners and megaphones, but is this method now out of step with modern society? After all when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of London, Belfast and Glasgow in 2003 to oppose the Iraq War it was an unprecedented display of public opposition towards the actions of its government - yet it made no difference whatsoever. The pro-hunting march of 2002 was one of umpteen other high-profile street protests that had no discernible effect.
As communication moves into the digital realm is the future of protest not in the streets but on the web? By protesting online organisers can attract much larger and wider support, are better able to organise people and can be clearer and better defined in their objectives.
Online Success
The scrapping of the government's mooted plans to introduce a road pricing scheme in 2007 was largely the result of an online petition that had managed to amass 1.8 million signatures and in doing so compellingly demonstrate the British public's vehement opposition to the policy.
It was online campaigners that successfully led the fight to stop the Freedom of Information Act being changed to conceal MPs expenses. With the web helping to organise and facilitate the campaign, the 2009 scandal proved to not only be a victory for people power but a triumph for online protest.
As part of the campaign, 7000 people joined a dedicated Facebook group and sent thousands of emails to a large majority of the nation's MPs, while hundreds of thousands more were awakened to the story through TheyWorkForYou.com - a charity run website aimed informing people what MPs and parliament are up to on their behalf - email alerts and their Facebook and Twitter feeds.
Too Easy to Complain, too Easy to Dismiss
It's ease is one of the chief advantages of online protest, but it's also one of its major drawbacks. It can be too easy to both generate and pledge support.
Through using email, Twitter and Facebook to invite and incite people to complain, protest, sign a petition, join a pressure group, an online protest can quickly build up considerable support. There are now thousands of active e-petitions and Facebook groups for subjects that veer wildly from the potentially life changing to the utterly banal, and many, sometimes regardless of worth, have attracted thousands of supporters and 'signatures'.
But how much of that support are truly committed to the cause? How many of those people happy to give up ten seconds to sign an online petition would willingly take to the streets for the same cause?
The ease with which anyone can pledge their support reduces the time actually spent thinking about how they really feel about the issue. What's more when it becomes too easy to complain it becomes too easy to dismiss.
Online Supporting Role
E-petitions can play an important role but rather than lead the charge they generally need to be supporting more direct action undertaken by a more committed, persistent and imaginative heart to the campaign.
When Peter Roberts first posted his road pricing petition on the 10 Downing Street website he didn't just sit back and wait for the signatures to roll in, he emailed as many driving related websites and publications he could find, and then encouraged all recipients to forward on his email and promote his protest.
His campaign didn't stop there. Having secured 40,000 names, it then moved offline when various media outlets took an interest in the story and, in doing so, gave the issue a much wider exposure, kick-starting a national debate.
The Power of the Media
The case highlights how successful protest is often the result of a combination of online and offline tactics. For instance, while street action shows a visible strength of feeling, online action facilitates quick, broad and virulent communication.
The example also stresses that, like with street protest, the media can often play a pivotal role.
The problem with relying on the media is that they want a story that is interesting and fresh. Roberts' e-petition campaign was novel at the time, and a news story in itself, but it isn't anymore. Campaigners must always be thinking of new ways of attracting people's attention whether online or not.
Online and Offline United
Whether online or offline or both together, successful protests ultimately need individuals with ideas who are committed towards taking action and are willing to use a variety of means to achieve their desired result.
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Undercovered: Nigeria's kidnapped schoolgirls
In the video above, CNN's Vladimir Duthiers joins Brian Stelter from Lagos, Nigeria to discuss the relative dearth of media coverage of a mass kidnapping in Nigeria.
Here's some of what Duthiers said:
Remember that, when people are attuned to an image or attuned to a story, for example, the South Korea ferry disaster or the Malaysia Air 370 disaster, there are images.
There is video. You have a dramatic rescue at sea. You have the tilting ship. You have family members that are crying and talking to the reporters, wanting to get the word out as to what they're going through, what they're experiencing.
And when that happens, people around the world can relate. They see those images, they hear those voices, and they are there. They are there with the reporters learning about the story as the reporters learn about it.
In Nigeria - in Africa, but specifically in Nigeria - there are a lot of challenges when it comes to reporting a story like this. This has happened in a part of the country that is very remote. There are challenges in getting signals there.
We, as journalists, cannot go to this area. The area where this occurred is considered a Boko Haram stronghold. Boko Haram is this Islamist terror group that has been accused of kidnapping these girls. To go into that part of Nigeria is very risky, indeed.
So we can't bring images of the parents talking about their daughters. We can't bring images even of the young girls that have gone missing, because the government has been very, very... close-guarded when it comes to releasing the names or images of these young girls.
So there's nothing for people to grasp onto. And print reporters have been doing this story, The New York Times, the U.K. Guardian, but, still, when you are not able to talk to those people, when you don't have those voices, we don't have those images, it's just hard for people to relate.
I think now, as the social media campaign has begun, the story really is simple. You don't really need all those images. You just have to imagine you are a parent. You send your kid to school. In the middle of the night, in their dormitory, they are abducted, and you never hear from them - or you haven't heard from them in two weeks. Any mother, any parent, anybody with a heart listening to that story will now start to understand what it is that these people are going through.
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The Toronto Star to be sold, taken private
TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Star and its Torstar Corp newspaper chain said Wednesday it has agreed to be sold for $52 million (US$38 million).
The transaction will see the Toronto-based media company taken off the public stock market by NordStar, a firm run by businessmen Paul Rivett and Jordan Bitove.
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Torstar says the deal was recommended by a special committee and has the support of the majority of its shareholders and its largest indepcoolendent shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.
Rivett recently retired from his role as president of Fairfax Financial Holdings, while Bitove is best known for helping found the Toronto Raptors basketball team. Torstar holds an investment in The Canadian Press as part of a joint agreement with subsidiaries of the Globe and Mail and Montreal's La Presse.


During Baselworld 2018, one of the releases we wrote about was the Tissot Antimagnetic Heritage, based on a 1943 model which was part of the brand's very successful Antimagnétique collection that they launched in the 1930s.
As mentioned in March, the original on which it was based was in a nickel-chromium alloy case with a small seconds, and 27mm sized movement, but this new model, although sticking to the original's functions and look, has upgraded the size and material. In terms of antimagnetism, this is one aspect that Tissot have kept historical, with the approx 64 Gauss in line with the original watch on which this 2018 model is based.
This new model is now available in Australia, with the one I saw having just arrived the previous day (last week) at authorised retailer Vintage Watch Co. (aka Sydney Vintage Watches) in the Strand Arcade.
The 42mm stainless steel case has a domed dial, silver and vertically brushed with the Tissot logo of the period, sapphire glass rather than acrylic, leaf-shaped hands, and it comes on a black or brown leather strap with butterfly folding clasp with a Heritage logo. Visually, it has a vintage look, with a white/ silver dial, black Arabic numerals, and a small sub seconds.
For some, 42mm is bigger than their preferred size for a dress watch, and to see 'in the metal', the Antimagnetic Heritage does look every bit its 42mm. When I picked it up, I did have a moment's thought about how it would look in 40mm instead, but once you have it on the wrist, the size feels fine and looks fine.
In the metal, the watch is as good looking as it appears in photos. It's clean and not 'too shiny' so to speak for a heritage-inspired piece, and an attractive dress watch.
Tissot have used a manual-wind movement for this Heritage collection piece in the form of the ETA 6498, which you can see through the case back. As I said back in March, I like that they have chosen to make this a manually wound watch, but now after having handled it, if there's one thing I'd change, it would be to a solid caseback.
The Australian RRP is $1,425 and it is now available from authorised retailers.