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Today's tide charts show that the first high Tide will be at 03:36 am with a water level of 5.77 ft. It is then followed by a low tide at 09:56 am with a maximum water level of 1.18 ft. The next high Tide will be at 04:04 pm with a predicted level of 5.35 ft and the last low Tide for today will be at 10:08 pm with water at the 1.35 ft mark.
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December 30th was an awesome day of training with Captain Ray. With his guidance I successfully pulled the boat from our dock AND docked her safely back into the slip! Hooray! In addition, this was the first day I had dolphins swimming in the wake of my bow. It was a truly thrilling experience.
We spent the following two weeks with last minute preparations for traveling to the Bahamas. We had people aboard almost every day from 7a-7p, all trying to finish last minute upgrades. I spent hours driving to different places to purchase random boat parts. I also spent way too much time at the grocery store stocking the boat with more than just Peanut Butter and Jelly! I'm not quite sure WHY I did that, as Scott won't cook anything except microwave popcorn! HaHa! Well at least I will have staples in the pantry for my return to TR in February.
Once again I am in trouble with Paula for not posting.
Finally left "B Dock" Sunset Bay Marina Stuart, Florida. The Floridians thought I was never going to leave. It was time to take the first baby step towards our adventure. However, we will miss our new friends at "B Dock".
We chose a route to Marsh Harbor not traveled by most. Go figure?!? Smart people take the route from Stuart through the center (Kinda) of the Bahamas by Memory Rock, Mangoes, etc. Key word is smart. Our route took us north and along the east side of the Abacos and into Marsh Harbor from the east. And yes we passed through part of the Bermuda Triangle. We saw multicolored bright lights, 2 UFO's, and Elvis. OK, maybe not. Anyway, we made good time at 22 hours 45 minutes and had to wait for daylight to go into the harbor. Local Marsh authorities were very impressed by our route and speed for a slow trawler. Left handed compliment? Maybe….
The purpose of this route was to give us our first overnight trip and chance to experience some blue water cruising on our new boat. At one point we were in 2700 plus feet of water (Deep to me). Most of the trip was fairly mild but we did go through some rough seas on the northeast side. Sorry Paula. I had the midnight to 3am shift. We had bad weather before and after my shift. But, on my shift the clouds opened up with a full moon and stars galore. Absolutely gorgeous.
So now I have been here 13 days, less a 2.5 day trip to Seattle to get training with Bob Senter on diesel engines/generators. It was an excellent day and I learned a great deal.
Weather here? Simply amazing. Every sensational sunset is accompanied by boaters blowing Conch Shells. A tradition here for decades. Pretty cool. As explained to me, an excellent excuse for boaters to socialize in the evening with cocktails. With the exception of the Conch Shells, kinda like B Dock in Stuart!
So what have I been doing with the rest of my time? Working diligently on my new hobby. The quest to find the best Tiki Bar in the world. In the past few days I have been to Treasure Cay, Guana Cay, Elbow Cay, and Marsh Harbor on my quest. Sounds easy but not so much. During my journey I have managed to launch my dingy without the drain plug being in, crunched a side rail with the davit, two hats went over board, and lost one flip flop during refueling. A tough job but I will remain steadfast on my quest.


To introduce you to the world of social science research and the ways that social scientists investigate and analyse the relationship between people, society and culture in the context of healthcare. Over the course of the next three years you will tackle a range of topics from the perspective of different social science disciplines including; Psychology, Sociology, Politics, Law, Demography and Economics. Each of these disciplines offers a unique approach to understanding aspects of the social world. They differ in their focus of enquiry, the questions that they ask, the ways in which they seek to understand truth and consequently the research methods that they use. Yet at the same time they interlink and overlap, blurring at their boundaries with one another. During this unit we will explore these social science disciplines and the relationships between them by considering how they have attempted to understand questions surrounding health, illness and the delivery of healthcare.
Demonstrate an understanding of how social science approaches can co-contribute to an understanding of selected contemporary issues in healthcare including the ethical issues inherent in these contexts.
You should also have acquired basic skills in using libraries and in accessing different sources of information and should be able to display basic skills of communication.
An important theme, which runs throughout this module, draws attention to the importance in the social sciences of how we define problems to be investigated and how we produce 'knowledge' about them through the interactions of theories, methods and research. Whilst we have common sense assumptions about many aspects of health, illness and the delivery of healthcare, the complexity of understanding these concepts is only revealed and explored through social scientific understanding. This kind of understanding frequently challenges 'common sense' thinking, knowledge and assumptions. Over the course of the module we will discuss some of the research evidence that provides the support for social science understanding in relation to healthcare issues. The module will begin with a consideration of social science and its place in relation to "normal" science. We will move on to consider the complexity of studying social systems focusing on issues such as multiple causation and levels of analysis. From this starting point we will go onto consider how to think like a social scientist engaging in practical activities that will help you develop your skills in thinking critically. We will then move on to introduce you to different social science perspectives and draw on examples of where they have contributed to our understanding of healthcare system design and delivery. Each week a disciplinary expert from fields such as psychology, sociology, economics, law, anthropology and health policy will come to talk to you about their discipline and how that perspective can help us to understand the complexities surrounding health, illness and healthcare. Towards the end of the module we will then start to think about how these disciplines interrelate in terms of their contribution to understand specific issues in contemporary healthcare delivery.
This module will involve a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops. Lectures will introduce you to the social sciences in general and to the individual disciplines more specifically. This module will draw together senior researchers from different parts of the University including the School of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Business and Law, as well as staff within Health Sciences. Seminars will be used to help you develop your skill in thinking like a social scientist through the use of discussions around key readings and participation in practical activities. The workshops will be used to get you to think about specific problems in healthcare and the ways in which the different social science traditions might contribute to their resolution. Formative feedback from the tutor and peers will be a key component of the learning environment to ensure that you can move forward in your learning.
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Pettigrew, T.F. (1996). How to think like a social scientist.
Governability Framework for the Evaluation and Implementation of Complex Public Health Functions. ,36 , pp. 303-319.
Steuer, M. (2004). The scientific study of society.
Pool, R. and Geissler, W. (2006). Medical Anthropology (Understanding Public Health).
Guarding the gates of St Peter: life, death and law making. ,31 , pp. 644-666.
Pescosolido, B.A.; Martin, J.K.; McLeod, J.D.; Rogers, A. (Eds.). (2011). Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing A Blueprint for the 21st Century.Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing A Blueprint for the 21st Century. Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research.
Morrison, Val and Bennett, Paul (2012). Introduction to Health Psychology.
Formative Assessment Formative assessment activities and subsequent feedback will be a key component of lectures, seminars and workshops. This might involve presenting your ideas verbally or in written form, either as an individual or in a group. This formative assessment is not compulsory but is designed to ensure that you can move forward in your learning and so support the successful completion of your summative assessments. Summative Assessments These assessments are compulsory and linked to whether you pass this module and to your progression on the degree programme.


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IBU Moves Forward on Building Equity
by Jason AlbertGeneral, News, US Biathlon June 20, 2019
Participants at the IBU's Gender Equality in Sports Leadership Seminar in Warsaw, Poland. (Photo: IBU/Michał Ostrowski)
The numbers speak the truth when it comes to leadership in Olympic sport. Let's take International Technical Officials (ITOs), the people responsible for a range of duties like enforcing rules and race timing protocol during competition. Across four Olympics, including summer and winter Games from 2010-2014, women constituted no greater than 30 percent of ITOs.
On the coaching side, the numbers were starker. Between 2010 and 2014, female accredited coaches at the Olympics never rose above 11 percent. The irony in snow sports is that according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), among active athletes at the 2018 Games, 40 percent of alpine skiers were women, whereas 49 percent were in biathlon. Massive gaps remain when considering on-snow athletic opportunities and coaching those same sports at the Olympic level.
(Data from the IOC Gender Equality Review. Double click image to enlarge.)
As part of its attempt to evolve and remain relevant, the IOC released a report titled the IOC Gender Equality Review. The report is a comprehensive document prescribing steps to shift cultural norms, values, and practices to empower women. In total, it details 25 concrete actions. Those 25 "gender equality recommendations" are an attempt to bring change across all aspects of Olympic sport and include funding models, governance, employment, and athlete participation.
The IOC Gender Equality Review was the impetus for the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Equality in Sports Leadership seminar in Warsaw, Poland from May 24-26. According to the IBU, the seminar aimed to, "ensure better visibility of female role models across all areas of biathlon – Executive Boards, National Federations, Organising Committees, and teams, promote women and sport leadership networks, involve mentors and experts to advise women on career progression."
U.S. Biathlon's sport program coordinator Danika Frisbie attended.
"We actually believe we have a great amount of equality in terms of athletes rights in biathlon: we have similar prize money for athletes, the same prize money for men and women," Frisbie said in a call. "We have the same race formats, the same number of events for men and women, we have the same viewership for men and women and equal exposure time on TV. So from an athlete's perspective, there is a lot of equality as far as sporting goes. But women are not represented in coaching staff or in leadership or in committee positions across governing bodies and at the IBU level."
Dagmara Garismyk from Poland, who sits on the IBU Executive Committee, was the event's brainchild. According to Frisbie, Garismyk is a driver for equity in the IBU.
The newest additions to US Biathlon's coaching and sport-development staff (from left to right): Michael Greis, Tim Burke, Armin Auchentaller, and Danika Frisbie as seen on May 1, 2018, outside the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y. (Photo: US Biathlon)
"This is a passion of hers," said Frisbie. "She loves working with men and women together and approaches leadership just from such an open, curious, inclusive standpoint and that is why everyone loves working with her and believes in what she does. She is so open in bringing people together always and pushing for the greater good within IBU especially at a critical time."
Frisbie explained the tone of the conference was about bringing people together, not the airing of grievances pitting one gender against another.
"It was more about recognizing that we are better when we work together in a way that is more representative of the population and there are unconscious biases and systems in place that prevent women from being a part of those conversations naturally," Frisbie explained.
Shifting cultural norms is a slow process. Presenters at the conference explained that teams and organizations with a mix of 50/50 men and women are more productive and innovative and better at adapting to change.
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"They produce better results," said Frisbie. "Apart from their being a gender rights issue, this is also just a performance initiative that if you invest in making sure that women are eventually more represented on technical committees and in leadership positions, we actually will have better results as an international governing body and better results in our national federations, and better development better growth of our sport."
Some of the changes discussed were mandates. Things like stipulating that an equal number of men and women are sent to coaching seminars. Other methods were geared towards building a culture of equity.
"It centered a lot around looking at the facts behind this issue and just doing education with teams, men and women on the unconscious bias that we have," said Frisbie.
Frisbie found her time in Poland also focused on meeting other women in biathlon who desire to be leaders. She described a poignant moment when IBU President Olle Dahlin asked the conference attendees to raise their hands if they aspired to be on a technical committee or in a leadership position. Frisbie said every woman in attendance raised her hand.
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ATK and Lockheed Martin battle back for STS-120
written by Chris Bergin July 18, 2007
Two NASA contractors have managed to avert a potential delay to STS-120, following a major modification effort by Lockheed Martin engineers at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF), and a recovery from a train crash by ATK.
Stacking of Discovery's STS-120 boosters – of which some segments were involved in the February train crash – begins Wednesday, while ET-120 will finally be completed for shipping at the end of the week.
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The ATK train, which crashed in Alabama, was carrying segments involved were the six remaining RSRM (Reusable Solid Rocket Motor) 98 center and forward segments (STS-120) and RSRM 99 aft segments (STS-122). Thankfully, only a couple of segments were slightly damaged, while the majority survived the crash.
Following a clear up of the crash site, most of the segments were moved to the 'suspect' siding at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), with a couple of segments belonging to STS-122 believed to have returned to ATK in Utah.
Now, with the start of STS-120 build up inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), the timeline for Discovery's LON-320 (Launch On Need) and primary mission STS-120 have not been affected by the incident. The boosters will begin build up on Wednesday.
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In all, both motors, along with two segments from each booster, are at KSC, ready to be built up, with two forward segments awaiting to be offloaded from the holding siding.
'The forward segments are at Suspect Siding,' noted ATK information, before claiming those two segments will be offloaded over the coming days. 'RH (Right Hand) forward offload is planned on July 17/18th. The LH (Left Hand) offload is scheduled on July 20/24th.'
Meanwhile, ET-120 – the tank that will fly on STS-120's mission to install Node 2 'Harmony' module to the International Space Station (ISS) – is about to be completed. The tank was one of four ETs that were sent back to MAF in New Orleans from KSC for modifications, following the loss of Columbia.
ET-120 was originally set to fly on Discovery's RTF (Return To Flight) mission STS-114, until it was replaced by ET-121 – following ECO (Engine Cut Off) sensor problems during tanking.
The tank was also at the center of the NASA decision to remove the PAL ramps from all ETs ahead of STS-121, after visible cracks were observed on ET-120's foam surface. The PAL ramps came into focus following a liberation event during STS-114, where a chunk of the ramp came loose during ascent.
The tank was manifested to arrive at KSC in May. However, this was delayed due to 'non-recurring verification and validation driving the late completion,' which forced that date to slip several times. Ironically, the hail damage to ET-124 – which resulted in a launch slip for STS-117 – gave MAF the time to complete ET-120 in time for scheduled mating operations for Discovery's mission.
Now that battle to complete the tank in New Orleans, within the processing flow of STS-120 (LON-320), has been won, with the shipping of the tank set to start by the end of this week.
'Scheduled to complete ET-120 this week. Foam processing completed. Have been reinstalling hardware and checking it out. Cable trays are down, and pressurization lines are in place,' noted Shuttle information this week. 'Remaining critical path involves leak checks in tubing installed in cable trays, putting covers back on, working on internal shake-down on intertank.
'Best time to run trough this work is six days, but took challenge to get out by July 20. External shakedown is other critical path and is in work with no issues. Had independent review of ET-120 last week (including a few NESC and Lockheed Martin persons). They concurred with proceeding through shipment and identified open work associated only with planned work.'
Discovery herself remains on schedule for rollover at the end of August, with two SSMEs (Space Shuttle Main Engines – 1 and 2) both installed over the weekend. SSME 3 will be installed around July 26.
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Light and Color: Can You Benefit from Chromotherapy in your Walk In Tub?
Nothing is as soothing and relaxing as soaking in a bathtub following a long, hectic day. However, most seniors and those with mobility issues are incapable of enjoying this form of luxury.
Fortunately, walk-in-tubs provide an easy solution. These unique enclosures come equipped with doors that close and open on the side or front of the bathtub.
A walk in bathtub aims to provide utmost independence and safety within a comfortable bathing experience. The simplicity and easy accessibility of this enclosure enable individuals to enjoy luxurious bathing while preventing slipping.
Walk in tubs come with unique therapeutic features that make users feel renewed and refreshed. Some models enable chromotherapy, an exciting feature that provides remarkable health benefits.
Chromotherapy or color therapy is a form of holistic healing that utilizes color to provoke an emotional response in an attempt to obtain optimal health.
According to experts, certain colors have considerable physiological and psychological effects. For instance, blue provides soothing effects while red stimulates physical energy and increases circulation. Therefore, when every color enters the body, the subsequent vibrations and distinct frequencies activate hormones, enabling the body to heal.
Certain colors have an association with the body's power centers called chakras. These energy fields are associated with certain organs. Every chakra has its frequency and wavelength, and a particular color governs every chakra.
Chakra therapies are especially beneficial in the treatment of disorders that originate from malfunctioning organs. Research indicates that the color can play a role in people's thoughts, mood, and capacity to relax. Color therapy, therefore, benefits your mental well being through stress and anxiety reduction.
This form of therapy aims to develop changes in people's physical and mental state through multi-color systems. These changes influence a person's emotional condition, balancing his or her body's energies and restoring general health.
When the body lacks energy balance, regardless of whether it is emotionally, mentally or physically, chromotherapy offers treatment.
A walk in tub that has chromotherapy features uses different colors of light and lighting features that provide soothing benefits. Tubs with this feature have multicolored lights that illuminate the water thereby enhancing the bathing experience and offering therapeutic benefits.
Chromotherapy tubs permit a deeper relaxation throughout your bathing experience. Such tubs further aid in alleviating aches and stresses. With a constant water flow cascading over the basin's sides, these tubs provide whole-body immersion as color therapy surrounds the user with soothing colored lights.
These bathing systems typically have effervescence ports that emit countless tiny bubbles, forming a luxurious experience. Although color therapy has existed for thousands of years, it is currently becoming mainstream.
With its roots in ancient cultures, chromotherapy has gained increasing popularity with numerous homeowners, naturopathic clinics, and leading spas.
Medical professionals are currently using the technique along with other approaches as a noninvasive method of treating ailments for instance mood disorders and migraine headaches. Studies reveal that employing this therapy could further help keep you physically and emotionally healthy for life.


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\section{Introduction}

The possibility of electromagnetic cloaking, or, in other words,
the reduction of an object's total scattering cross section, has
intrigued researchers for a long time. Already in the 1960s and
1970s a few publications considered this
possibility.\cite{Dolin,Kerker} But it was not until a few years
ago when the topic became widely studied among the
electromagnetics and physics communities after the publication of
papers [3--6]. Several methods can be used to achieve
electromagnetic cloaking, all of them having their own benefits
and drawbacks as can be concluded from recently published review
papers on this topic.\cite{Alu_review,Alitalo_review} As has been
previously concluded,\cite{Alitalo_review} some cloaking methods
suffer from inherently strong dispersion that will unavoidably not
only limit the cloaking bandwidth but also distort a pulse when it
travels through the cloak. In this paper we make a comparative
study of cloaking of a metal object from an electromagnetic pulse.

We study three cloaking methods: The coordinate-transformation
(CT) cloak,\cite{Pendry2006,Schurig2006} the transmission-line
(TL)
cloak,\cite{Alitalo_TLcloakTAP,Alitalo_TLcloakAPL,Alitalo_TLcloakAPS2009,Alitalo_TLcloakMOTL}
and the metal-plate (MP)
cloak.\cite{Alitalo_PPWGcloakMETA,Tretyakov_PPWGcloakPRL} Due to
the moderate dispersion in the TL and MP cloaks, we expect that
the cloaking bandwidth is wider and pulse distortion is mitigated
in these cloaks, as compared to the CT cloak. The cloaked object
is limited in shape when using the TL cloak (a transmission-line
network must fit inside the cloaked object) whereas the MP cloak
and the CT cloak can be used to ``hide'' bulk objects, such as
solid metal cylinders in this case.

For the study of pulse propagation in case of the TL and MP cloaks
we use transmission data measured in a waveguide with a cloak and
a cloaked object
inside.\cite{Alitalo_TLcloakAPL,Tretyakov_PPWGcloakPRL} In case of
the CT cloak, we rely on numerical simulations of an idealized
cloak having a radially varying permeability\cite{Schurig2006}
$\mu$ and inserted inside a similar waveguide as the other cloaks.
To have physically sound values for $\mu$ as a function of the
frequency, we assume that $\mu$ has the Lorentzian type dispersion
characteristics. Pulse propagation through CT cloaks that are
placed in free space and are impinged on by plane waves has been
studied analytically and numerically in several
papers.\cite{Zhang1,Chen,Zhang2,Argyropoulos} Since in this study
the cloaks are placed inside a waveguide with input and output
ports, the distortion of the pulse travelling through the cloaks
is very easy to illustrate and compare to the case of the empty
waveguide.

\section{Studied cloaking devices}
\label{studied_cloaks}

\subsection{Transmission-line cloak}

The transmission-line cloak consists of layered two-dimensional
networks of parallel-strip transmission
lines.\cite{Alitalo_TLcloakAPL} The cloak's outer diameter is
approximately 71~mm while the cloaked object consists of 21 metal
rods having the diameter 2~mm and the array period 5~mm. The
largest outer dimension of the array in the $xy$-plane is 24.5~mm.
It is obvious that due to the periodicity of the network an
electrically large solid object cannot be cloaked with this
method.

Here we use the measured data obtained with a rectangular
waveguide having a passband around 3~GHz and the TL cloak
enclosing the metal rod array placed inside the
waveguide.\cite{Alitalo_TLcloakAPL} The cloak is made by etching
thin sheets composed of an alloy of bronze and beryllium. See
Fig.~\ref{cloaks}a for an illustration of the measurement setup.
The width and height of the waveguide are 86.36~mm and 36.8~mm,
respectively and the distance between ports 1 and 2 is 389~mm.

Although the cloaked object in this case is a two-dimensional
array of metal rods, it should be noted that with the same cloak
also a more complicated three-dimensional object can be
cloaked.\cite{Alitalo_review,Alitalo_TLcloakAPS2009,Alitalo_TLcloakMOTL}

\subsection{Metal-plate cloak}

The metal-plate cloak consists of layered cylindrical metal plates
that have a circular hole cut inside them (the volume which is
cloaked).\cite{Alitalo_PPWGcloakMETA,Tretyakov_PPWGcloakPRL} Due
to the fact that the height of these waveguide plates decreases
radially as moving from the outer surface of the cloak towards the
inside, the electric field which is polarized orthogonally to the
metal plates travels inside these waveguides around the cloaked
region. At the inner surface of the cloak the fields cannot couple
into the cloaked region since the fields are concentrated in a
very small volume due to the small height of the
waveguides.\cite{Tretyakov_PPWGcloakPRL} Note that this cloak
operates for $z$-polarized electric fields in contrast to a
similar cloak geometry which is based on a different design
concept.\cite{Shalaev}

The inner and outer diameters of the MP cloak are 32~mm and 70~mm,
respectively, whereas the diameter of the cloaked cylinder is
30~mm. The plates of the cloak are made of copper and the cloaked
cylinder is made of steel. The measurement data for the MP cloak
is obtained with the same waveguide as for the TL
cloak.\cite{Tretyakov_PPWGcloakPRL} See Fig.~\ref{cloaks}b for an
illustration of the measurement setup.

\subsection{Coordinate-transformation cloak}

The coordinate-transformation cloak is formed of an anisotropic
material layer, the material parameters of which are designed with
the well-known cloak design equations that were used to design the
first experimental demonstration of a cloak of this
type.\cite{Schurig2006} To obtain the needed values for $\mu$ we
design the cloak to have a radially dependent component of the
permeability ($\mu_{\rho}$) having the optimal values at the
design frequency of 3~GHz. See Fig.~\ref{cloaks}c for an
illustration of the simulated structure. Suitable material
parameters at the design frequency of 3~GHz are found to
be\cite{Schurig2006}

\begin{equation}
\epsilon_z = \left(\frac{b}{b-a}\right)^2
-j0.002, \l{epsilon_z}
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
\mu_\varphi = 1, \l{mu_phi}
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
\mu_{\rho}(\rho) = \left(\frac{\rho-a}{\rho}\right)^2 - j0.006,
\l{mu_rho_c}
\end{equation} where $\rho$ is the distance from the center of the cloaked object and $a$ and $b$ are the inner and outer radius of the cloak, respectively. The losses are modelled according to the experimental setup.\cite{Schurig2006}

In a realization of such a cloak device, the parameters
$\epsilon_z$ and $\mu_\varphi$ are constant, but the radial
component of the permeability $\mu_\rho$ must be dispersive
(otherwise such values of $\mu_\rho$ cannot be realized with a
passive medium). Here we assume that $\mu_\rho$ has the Lorentzian
dispersion:

\begin{equation}
\mu_\rho(\rho,f) = 1- \frac{f_p^2}{f^2-f_0^2-jff_d},
\end{equation} where $f_p$ is the effective plasma frequency, $f_0$ the
resonance frequency, and $f_d$ the damping frequency.

This is a dispersion model typical for an artificial permeability
realized with split-ring-resonators. To enable good operation of
the cloak and mitigate the effect of dispersion, we position the
resonance frequency $f_0$ at a much lower frequency than the
operation frequency of the cloak. Note that this may not be
possible in practical designs due to too large inclusion
dimensions.

To satisfy the cloaking condition at the operating frequency of
$f_c=3$~GHz, we demand according to~\r{mu_rho_c} that

\begin{equation}
\mu_\rho(\rho,f_c) = \mu_{\rho,f_c}'-j\mu_{\rho,f_c}'' =
\left(\frac{\rho-a}{\rho}\right)^2 -j0.006,
\end{equation} from which it follows

\begin{equation}
f_d =
\frac{\mu_{\rho,f_c}''}{(1-\mu_{\rho,f_c}')f_c}(f_c^2-f_0^2),
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
f_p^2 = \frac{\mu_{\rho,f_c}''}{f_c f_d}\left[(f_c^2-f_0^2)^2 +
f_c^2f_d^2\right]. \l{f_p}
\end{equation}

To have a fair comparison with the other cloaks, here we use the
same inner and outer dimensions as for the MP cloak, i.e.,
$a=16$~mm (inner radius of the cloak) and $b=35$~mm (outer radius
of the cloak). The diameter of the cloaked perfectly conducting
cylinder is also the same as for the MP cloak, i.e., 30~mm. With
$f_c=3$~GHz and $f_0=1$~GHz and using~\r{mu_rho_c}--\r{f_p} we can
find the values for the function $\mu_{\rho}(\rho,f)$ and assign
these values to be continuous in the simulation model of
Fig.~\ref{cloaks}c. See Fig.~\ref{CTcloak_parameters} for the
values of the real and imaginary parts of $\mu_{\rho}$ as a
function of the frequency for three different values of $\rho$
inside the cloak. According to~\r{epsilon_z} $\varepsilon_z\approx
3.39 -j0.002$.

\section{Numerical verification of cloaking with the studied devices}

Before studying pulse propagation with the waveguide and cloak
systems shown  in Fig.~\ref{cloaks}, let us compare the cloaking
capabilities of the studied devices using frequency domain
simulations where the cloaks are placed in free space. We take the
cloaks (and cloaked objects) described in
Section~\ref{studied_cloaks} and model them numerically in free
space. The cloaks are modelled as being infinitely periodic along
the vertical ($z$) direction. By illuminating the cloaks with
plane waves having the electric field parallel to the $z$-axis we
can compute the total scattering cross sections of the cloaked and
uncloaked objects.\cite{Alitalo_TLcloakAPL}

The results for the TL cloak and the MP cloak have been already
reported\cite{Alitalo_TLcloakAPL,Tretyakov_PPWGcloakPRL} and here
we compare these with the results for the CT cloak. From
Fig.~\ref{SCStot} it is obvious that the CT cloak has a much
narrower bandwidth as compared to the two other cloaks. This is an
expected consequence of the dispersive nature of the permeability
in the CT cloak, even though the resonance frequency of the
permeability was chosen to be far away from the design frequency
of 3~GHz. The minimum of the normalized total scattering cross
section (SCS) occurs at 3.04~GHz for the CT cloak.

\section{Measured and simulated transmission data}
\label{data}

The experiments and the transmission measurements for the empty
waveguide and the TL and MP cloaks shown in Fig.~\ref{cloaks}a,b
have been already
reported,\cite{Alitalo_TLcloakAPL,Alitalo_TLcloakAPS2009,Tretyakov_PPWGcloakPRL}
demonstrating good transmission properties around 3~GHz. Here we
compare these experimental results with the numerical results
obtained for the CT cloak of the same dimension. The measured
transmission magnitude and phase for the TL cloak and the MP cloak
are presented in Fig.~\ref{s21_meas} and the simulated
transmission magnitude and phase for the CT cloak are presented in
Fig.~\ref{s21_sim}. The simulations of the waveguide with the CT
cloak inside are conducted with COMSOL Multiphysics.\cite{Comsol}

The transmission magnitude for the CT cloak has several maxima.
The maximum at 3~GHz relates to the designed optimal cloaking
frequency, and the other maxima result from resonances inside the
cloak. From the simulated field distributions (e.g., animating the
time-harmonic electric field as a function of the phase) this is
obvious since at 3~GHz the electromagnetic wave that hits the
cloak travels inside the cloak, whereas at the frequencies
corresponding to the other maxima, the field oscillates inside the
cloak. While the transmitted amplitude is close to 0~dB at the
frequencies corresponding to these resonant maxima, the phase of
the transmitted wave strongly deviates from the empty-waveguide
case as shown in Fig.~\ref{s21_sim}b.

The transmission phase difference between the cloaked and empty
cases for various cloaks can be compared. For the TL cloak the
phase lags as compared to the empty waveguide and this lag is
growing with increasing frequency. This is expected since the
wavenumber of waves travelling inside the TL cloak is not equal to
the free-space wavenumber.\cite{Alitalo_review,Alitalo_TLcloakTAP}
In contrast, for the MP cloak at around 3~GHz the transmission
phases for cloaked and empty cases are almost identical. Below and
above this frequency the phase in the MP cloak has a small lead
and lag, respectively.

For the CT cloak we would expect to have identical phase shift
for cloaked and empty cases at the design frequency of 3~GHz.
However, the matching of the transmission phase occurs at
approximately 3.1~GHz. This can be a result of the simplification
of the cloak's material parameters\cite{Schurig2006} or the
influence of losses.

When comparing Figs.~\ref{s21_meas}b and~\ref{s21_sim}b it should
noted that the electrical lengths from port~1 to port~2 are
different in the two figures. This is because the measured results
include the feed probes whereas the simulated results do not, see
Fig.~\ref{cloaks}.

\section{Pulse distortion}

Next we study pulse propagation inside the
waveguides enclosing the different cloaks. This can be
investigated analytically by using the frequency-domain transmission data.
First we choose the center frequency of a Gaussian
pulse ($f_{c,G}$) that we want to transmit through the waveguide and
apply a Gaussian filter to create a time-domain signal $y(t)$

\begin{equation}
y(t)=\sin(2\pi f_{c,G}t)e^{-\frac{t^2}{2\sigma^2}},
\end{equation} where $\sigma$ is the standard deviation and the
center of the pulse corresponds to time $t=0$. For $f_{c,G}=3$~GHz
and $\sigma=7.07\cdot 10^{-10}$ the pulse looks in the frequency
and time domains as shown in Fig.~\ref{orig_pulse}.

We apply the Fourier transform to the time-domain pulse and
multiply each frequency component by the complex transmission
coefficients presented in Section~\ref{data}. Then by applying the
inverse Fourier transform we find the time-domain signal at the
output of the waveguide section (at port~2). Fig.~\ref{pulses}
presents these time-domain signals for all studied cloaks together
with the signals at the output of an empty waveguide when using
the input pulse of Fig.~\ref{orig_pulse}.

From Fig.~\ref{pulses} we can conclude that for the TL cloak and
the MP cloak the pulse shape reasonably well corresponds to the
pulse at the output port of an empty waveguide. For the CT cloak,
however, the pulse is clearly distorted and there is a
considerable ``tail'' because the energy inside the cloak travels
slower than in free space (the slower the closer to the inner part
of the cloak\cite{Alitalo_review,Chen}).

From the time-domain results in Fig.~\ref{pulses} it is difficult
to define a numerical measure on how well or bad the cloaks work.
Therefore, we calculate the correlation coefficients between the
pulse which goes through the empty waveguide and the pulses which
go through the cloaks. See Fig.~\ref{corr1} for the results as a
function of the inverse of the standard deviation while
$f_{c,G}=3$~GHz is kept constant. Small values of $1/\sigma$
correspond to pulses which are wide in the time-domain and narrow
in the frequency domain, whereas large values of $1/\sigma$
correspond to pulses which are narrow in the time-domain and wide
in the frequency domain.

All the cloaks work well for pulses which are narrow in the
frequency domain. As the pulse bandwidth increases, the CT cloak's
operation deteriorates much faster than the operation of the other
cloaks. This is expected since the CT cloak has a narrow bandwidth
(see Fig.~\ref{SCStot}) and stronger dispersion as compared to the
other cloaks.

Another interesting issue is to study how the choice of the center
frequency of the pulse ($f_{c,G}$) affects the results. Here we
use a constant standard deviation of $\sigma=7.07\cdot 10^{-10}$
and plot the correlation coefficients as functions of $f_{c,G}$,
see Fig.~\ref{corr2}. We see that the TL cloak works better for
pulses for which the center frequency is significantly lower than
the design frequency of 3~GHz while the MP cloak works best when
the center frequency is approximately 2.9~GHz. This can be
explained by Fig.~\ref{s21_meas}b which shows that the optimal
matching of the transmission phases of the empty waveguide and the
TL cloak occurs at around 2.6~GHz while for the MP cloak the
optimal frequency is approximately 2.9~GHz.

The CT cloak appears to work better for pulses with $f_{c,G}$ at
frequencies slightly higher than the design frequency of 3~GHz.
Again, this can be partly explained by the transmission phase
shown in Fig.~\ref{s21_sim}b according to which the optimal
matching of the transmission phases for the empty waveguide and
the CT cloak occurs at 3.1~GHz. Also the blueshift
effect\cite{Zhang1} may cause the cloak to work better for pulses
above the design frequency.

\section{Conclusions}

Three different cloak designs have been studied and their
operation compared with each other: The transmission-line cloak,
the metal-plate cloak, and the coordinate-transformation cloak.
The cloaking capabilities of these devices are first studied with
numerical frequency-domain simulations of the cloaks in free space
with plane waves illuminating the cloaks. This type of comparison
enables the study of the reduction of the total scattering cross
sections, but it does not give information about distortion of
time-domain pulses.

To compare the cloaks' operation for time-domain signals we use
measured and simulated data for the transmission coefficients of
rectangular waveguides with the cloaks (and cloaked objects)
inside. With this transmission data we can analytically study how
time-domain signals travel through the waveguides. It is shown
that the transmission-line cloak and the metal-plate cloak work
better than the coordinate-transformation cloak for pulses which
are narrow in the time-domain. For pulses which are wide in
time-domain (or, in other words, which are narrow in frequency
domain) all the cloaks offer reasonably good performance.

\section*{Acknowledgement}

\noindent
This work has been partially funded by the Academy of
Finland through the Center-of-Excellence program.

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Социология театра — это область социологии искусства, изучающая взаимосвязь и взаимодействие между обществом и театром.

Она возникла на стыке социологии, социальной психологии, истории театра и теории театра и, более конкретно, изучает роль театра в определенных общественных условиях, а также то, как отражена в театре социальная действительность.

Признается, что театральный процесс невозможно рассматривать вне контекста общественной жизни. По словам исследователя В. Н. Дмитриевского, «взаимосвязь технического прогресса и культуры определенным образом обуславливает и развитие театрального процесса: его взаимоотношения с другими видами искусства и, конечно, отношения театра и публики».

История
Увеличение интенсивности художественной жизни в XX веке и развитие художественных форм в системе средств массовой коммуникации способствовали росту интереса к социологии искусства в целом, в том числе и социологии театра.

Социология театра в западных странах находит свое отражение в работах таких социологов, как Макс Герман, Георг Зиммель, Фрэнсис Фергюсон, Жан Дювиньо, Ирвинг Гофман.

Макс Герман внес огромный вклад в становление становления зарубежной социологии театра в начале прошлого века: «Ряд его работ посвящен сопоставлению так называемого театрального пространства-события, то есть "агентивного" художественного пространства, и реального предназначенного для зрителей пространства театра. Такой анализ, по мнению ученого, позволяет выявить как сходство, так и различия в исторических эпохах, в социальном контексте которых создавалось то или иное театральное представление».

Жан Дювиньо, основатель французской традиции социологии театра, исследовал социальную роль театра, а также такие аспекты, как воображение, сценическая игра и роль актера не только в представлении, но и в социуме (основные труды: «Социология театра» 1965 г., «Социология искусства» 1969 г.)

Позднее развитию социологии театра способствовали исследования Ирвинга Гофмана, который разработал концепцию «социальной драматургии» и считал, что любая человеческая активность представляет собой «индивидуальный спектакль» и способ «самопрезентации личности».

Социология театра в России
Первые социологические исследования театра в России начали проводиться в 70-х годах XIX века. В Москве в этот период А. Д. Ярцев исследовал зрителей народных театров при Трехгорной мануфактуре, фабрик Цинделя и Тили; также данные о социологических исследованиях театральной публики данной эпохи можно найти в труде Ю. У. Фохт-Бабушкина «Публика театра в России — социологические свидетельства 1890—1930».

После революции 1917 г. театральные исследования становятся более систематичными и приобретают прагматичный характер, и в это время учащаются опросы театральных зрителей о творчестве таких театральных деятелей, как А. Я. Таиров, Е. Б. Вахтангов и В. Э. Мейерхольд.

Далее в 30—50-х годах социология театра была запрещена по идеологическим причинам, и новые масштабные исследования появляются на свет в 60—70-х годах, такие как «Социологическое изучение репертуара драматических театров СССР 1960—1970-х годов», «Театр в духовной жизни современного молодого человека» и «Зритель в театре». Они были выполнены научно-исследовательской группой «Социология и театр» при Ленинградском отделении Всероссийского театрального общества. Группа заостряла внимание на социальном функционировании театра, формировании театрального репертуара, на мотивах и стимулах поведения зрительской аудитории.

Применение
На современном этапе в главных направлениях социологии театра специалисты выделяют: изучение особенностей взаимодействия театральных коллективов с аудиторией, роль театра как «живого» средства художественного общения по сравнению с телевидением и кинематографом, а также изучение новых тенденций в театральной сфере. Примером таких новых тенденций может служить иммерсивный театр, который основывается на эффекте полного погружения зрителей в действие спектакля:

«Почти с порога посетитель иммерсивного театра становится участником происходящего: ему предоставляется возможность бродить по специально подготовленным залам, взаимодействовать с актерами, "помогая" им в процессе перформанса и "развивая" предложенную сюжетную линию».

Это максимально сближает публику и театральное представление и является тем самым удобным объектом изучения эффекта театра на социум.

Изучая содержание и основные тенденции театрального репертуара, можно заметить в них проявление социально-исторических закономерностей, а также отражение настоящих социальных ценностей. К примеру, советскими исследователями (членами группы «Социология и театр») при социологических исследованиях театральных представлений постановки категорировались с точки зрения реализации в них четырех групп социальных ценностей: актуальные общественные ценности, общезначимые человеческие ценности, ценности художественной культуры и ценности массового восприятия.

Обсуждение
Признается, что в условиях общества, которое все больше и больше глобализируется и в котором формируется новый тип зрителя, социологическое изучение кино и театра приобретает особую актуальность.

Также делается акцент на том, что при социологическом подходе к изучению театральных постановок необходимо учитывать не только искусствоведческие оценки произведения:

«Они, как правило, не учитывают особенности функционирования произведении в массовой аудитории, частично или односторонне отражают характер этого функционирования. Приступая к разработке социологического метода анализа театрального потока, необходимо иметь в виду, что театральный спектакль должен рассматриваться как некий феномен, содержащий в себе уникальность художественного произведения, и как предмет, культурного потребления широких зрительских масс».

Примечания

Литература

 Театр и публика: Опыт социологического исследования 1960—1970-х годов — Отв. ред. В. Н. Дмитриевский — М.: Государственный институт искусствознания, «Канон+» РООИ «Реабилитация», 2013. — 400 с. — (Социология и экономика искусства: научное наследие). — ISBN 978-5-88373-336-8
 Философия: Энциклопедический словарь. / Под ред. А. А. Ивина. — Москва: Гардарики, 2014. — 1072 с. — ISBN 5-8297-0050-6 (в пер.).

Разделы социологии
Театр

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Issues List, which might involve some revision in the code assignments.
then it might be reasonable to consider a sort of "firewall"
to specify in the protocol design that it can't be forwarded.
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American Heritage Assesses
Elvis Presley's Musical Legacy
"Elvis Today: The King lives on—but he's not who you always thought he was." That was the title of an article by Will Friedwald that appeared in the February/March issue of American Heritage magazine. The essay deserves serious consideration, not only because it appeared in a prestigious publication, but also because it assesses Elvis's musical legacy from an unusual point of view.
Most Elvis fans today fit into one of two categories. The first includes those who became Presley fans early in their lives, while Elvis was still alive. I'm a member of that group. We followed his career, mourned his death, and have remained loyal to his memory through the decades. The other group includes younger fans, most of whom were toddlers or not even born when Elvis died. The majority of these Elvis fans seem to have inherited their love of Elvis from their parents.
Will Friedwald falls into neither category. In fact, I would categorize him as an Elvis "appreciator" rather than as an Elvis "fan." A note at the end of his article identifies him as "the jazz reviewer for the New York Sun and the author of seven books on music and popular culture." So, he certainly has the credentials to comment on Elvis's musical legacy.
"My father was born the same year as Elvis," Friedwald explains, "and I came along a season or so after the King returned from the Army. My dad was slightly too old to be part of the demographic that made Elvis a superstar, and I was too young to get it."
• As a teenager, writer didn't know what to make of Elvis
Friedwald first became interested in popular music as a teenager in the 1970s. He recalls, "One thing that I did have in common with most rock fans of my generation was that none of us knew what to make of Elvis Presley. By the time of his death he was a joke to high school kids born in the sixties."
After ignoring Elvis for decades, Friedwald finally gave into the prodding of two fellow music writers and looked into what the Presley mystique was all about. In 2004 he got all of RCA's Essential Masters Elvis box sets. "By the time I finished listening to them, I was completely hooked," he confessed. "I was amazed by what I heard. After a lifetime of not getting it, I finally experienced my very own Elvis epiphany, and the mystery of why he is considered one of the great pop performers of all time was revealed to me."
That sounds like Friedwald suddenly became a devout Elvis fan, but the fact is that he was a music historian who appreciated many kinds of music. And so his perspective was different from most newcomers to Presley's music. For example, he rejects the commonly held notion that Elvis represented the beginning of a music trend. ("Before Elvis, there was nothing," John Lennon had said.) "It's plain that both rhythm and blues (and black artists in general) and country and western had been making significant inroads into the pop mainstream long before the Presley explosion of 1956," Friedwald reminds us. In fact, back in 1956 Elvis himself often explained that he had not created rock 'n' roll, and that his kind of music had been around for a long time. Still, we Elvis fans like to feel that somehow the whole thing started with our guy.
• Elvis not first white man to sound black, says Friedwald
As for Elvis being the first white pop singer who sounded like a black man, Friedwald contends that other singers (he gives Frankie Lane and Johnny Ray as examples) had already achieved success by patterning themselves after black rhythm and blues singers.
And Friedwald also contends that Elvis was not the first pop singer to capitalize on the growing popularity of country and western music. He gives two examples. "Patti Page was best known in her day for straddling both the pop and country charts, and her 'Tennessee Waltz' was a blockbuster because it appealed to New Yorkers and Okies alike. There was also Guy Mitchell, who had a vaguely Western sound and made hits out of manufactured folk songs."
The notion that Elvis had anything in common back then with the likes of Patti Page and Guy Mitchell is heresy to most Elvis fans (me included). In fact, Friedwald seemingly spends the first half of his article debunking all claims of Presley's originality in the 1950s. Reading on, however, the author's apparent objective was only to clear up some historical misconceptions before discussing Elvis's true contributions to popular music in the second half of his article.
"Presley's innovation wasn't that he sounded either black or like a hillbilly;" Friedwald explained, "it was the brilliant way he drew on all three strains of pop music: blues, country, and traditional 'classic' pop (that of the crooners, big bands, and Broadway shows)."
• From Bing Crosby through Dean Martin to Elvis
It's amusing how Friedwald makes the connection between Elvis and crooners Bing Crosby and Dean Martin. "If you start with Crosby," he theorizes, "and you add occasional Italian curse words and mannerisms intended to suggest states of inebriation, then you've got Dean Martin. Take away those Neapolitanisms, replace with a whole lot o' shakin', and essentially you've got Elvis."
For those who like to see Elvis as a clear break from the past in popular music, Friedwald does allow that Presley represents one clear point of demarcation in the field. It was the sudden shift in marketing pop music away from adults and toward teenagers. Presley's first recordings on the Sun label were meant to appeal to a wide range of age groups, according to Friedwald, but as soon as RCA realized Elvis was selling millions of records to teenagers, they began dumbing down Elvis's material to appeal to adolescents alone. Friedwald names songs like "Teddy Bear," "The Girl of My Best Friend," and "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" as representative of the "most forgettable aspect of his legacy."
As for Elvis, Friedwald believes that he never considered himself a rebel. "Far from wanting to antagonize grownups," Friedwald explains, "he addressed everybody older than he was as 'mister' and 'ma'am.' He was a sweet-natured, levelheaded boy … and he deported himself more like Perry Como than like Jim Morrison."
• Elvis broadened his horizons in the sixties
The writer's sense was that when Elvis emerged from the Army he was tired of rehashing his old rock 'n' roll hits and began broadening his horizons. "He continued to grow as an artist after 1960, and to my ears his post-Army work continued to get better and better." Friedwald points to Elvis's branching out into adaptations of Italian tunes ("It's Now or Never"), Hawiian music ("Blue Hawaii") samba and bossa nova ("Viva Las Vegas") and gospel music. The latter represented Presley's "greatest work," judged the writer.
Friedwald ends his article with a twist on the nature of Elvis's musical legacy. It challenges the long-held belief that Presley's most influential work was done in the fifties. Still, it's a conclusion that most Elvis fans can agree with.
"His death obviously left a gap that no one has been able to fill. And after all these years it seems clear that Elvis Presley was not he beginning of something but the end. John Lennon had it the wrong way around: After Elvis, there was nothing." | Alan Hanson (October 2008)
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"Presley's innovation wasn't that he sounded either black or like a hillbilly; it was the brilliant way he drew on all three strains of pop music: blues, country, and traditional 'classic' pop."


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His voice quavering at an unexpected news conference Alex Burmistrov Jersey , Sandy Alderson revealed what he had just told his team moments before.
His cancer has returned, he's taking a leave of absence – and his up-and-down tenure as New York Mets general manager is essentially over.
With the team in a massive tailspin, chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon and the 70-year-old Alderson made the announcement before Tuesday night's game against Pittsburgh.
"With respect to the future, I would say two things: One is, notwithstanding the good prognosis, my health is an uncertainty going forward," said Alderson, who agreed to a contract extension in December. "And secondly, if I were to look at it on the merits, I'm not sure coming back is warranted."
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Assistant general manager John Ricco and special assistants J.P. Ricciardi and Omar Minaya will run the club's baseball operations in Alderson's absence. Minaya preceded Alderson as Mets general manager, and Ricciardi was GM of the Toronto Blue Jays from 2001-09.
Alderson was hired by the Mets after the 2010 season. He was diagnosed with cancer at the end of the 2015 season and had surgery, but stayed on the job. He reduced his work schedule at times but remained in a full-time role while undergoing chemotherapy treatments.
"One difference between then and now is that that took place in the offseason," Alderson said. "I had a surgery in the offseason, I had some chemo in the offseason. Much easier to manage that with offseason activity. I had the decision-making authority basically at that time. I will not have the decision-making authority going forward. If people want to call me, they're welcome to do so. But at the same time, I don't expect to be involved in day-to-day activity."
Ricciardi, Minaya and first-year manager Mickey Callaway were all in the interview room at Citi Field when Alderson and Wilpon made the announcement.
Wilpon said Alderson informed him of his decision Sunday.
"It is paramount to all of us that care greatly for Sandy that he makes this a priority for him and his family," Wilpon said, later adding: "The wear and tear on Sandy, I've seen up close and personal. I talked to him a couple times about maybe taking a leave, maybe stepping away a little bit, and I had sort of forgotten about it because so much has been going on."
According to players, Alderson broke down a bit as he spoke to his teary-eyed team in the clubhouse before addressing the media.
"It definitely puts life in perspective," said outfielder Brandon Nimmo, who was Alderson's first amateur draft pick in 2011. "Just very somber news that we received. Our heart's broken for him. He's been through this battle before. He knows what's in store."
Mets captain David Wright, sidelined by injuries for more than two years, said players stood and gave Alderson a round of applause.
"I think there was a lot of jaws hitting the floor," Wright recalled. "I think we had a bit of an emotional talk. It wasn't long, but at the end we certainly wanted to pay him respect."
Alderson said a recurrence of his cancer was detected around late April or early May and he's been receiving treatment since.
"I expect that the treatment will continue, expect to have surgery later this summer. My prognosis is actually good. But in the meantime Bo Horvat Jersey , the chemotherapy, the surgery, all take their toll," Alderson said.
He said the treatment affects his energy level and leads to other side effects, explaining why he hasn't been traveling on road trips lately.
"Which makes it difficult to stay up with sort of the pace, the tempo of the every day," Alderson said. "Operations continue, the game continues, we have a season to play. So I think in the best interests of the Mets and for my health, this is the right result.
"I feel badly that we've had the season that we have had to date. I feel personally responsible for the results that we've had," he added. "At the same time, I have confidence in our manager, our coaching staff, our players, that this will change. John, Omar, J.P., I'm sure will take a hard look at where we are, maybe take a fresh look at where we are and I have every confidence that they will serve the franchise well over the next few months through the end of the season."
Alderson's departure comes at a pivotal time for the Mets ahead of the July 31 trade deadline. Needing an infusion of young talent, they will likely look to sell off pending free agents such as closer Jeurys Familia, second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera and outfielder Jose Bautista. But ace pitchers Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard could command a huge return, and the front office must decide whether to embark on such a significant overhaul.
New York reached the 2015 World Series after rebuilding under Alderson and made it back to the playoffs the following year, but injuries and underperformance have decimated the team since.
After going 70-92 last year, the Mets replaced manager Terry Collins with Callaway and spent nearly $90 million to fill holes in free agency. They jumped out to an 11-1 start this season, but a 6-24 slide left them 31-45 with the fewest wins in the National League going into Tuesday night's game.
"It's been incredibly difficult," Alderson said. "And I'm reall Louisville officials are not happy with the NCAA's decision that mandates the school vacate its 2013 men's basketball championship in the wake of an embarrassing sex scandal, and interim President Greg Postel did not hide his disappointment.
It's the first time a Division 1 men's basketball program has been stripped of a national title. While acknowledging the scandal was unacceptable, Postel believes the school's cooperation with the NCAA should have counted for more than it did.
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Louisville announced that an NCAA appeals panel had upheld sanctions against the men's program. As a result, the Cardinals have to vacate not only the championship, but 122 other victories and return about $600,000 in conference revenue from the 2012-15 NCAA Tournaments.
DALLAS (AP) – The Dallas Mavericks have hired outside counsel to investigate allegations of inappropriate conduct by former team president Terdema Ussery in a Sports Illustrated report that described a hostile workplace for women.
Ussery was accused of making sexually suggestive remarks to several women. He spent 18 years with the team before going to the sports apparel company Under Armour in 2015. Ussery http://www.cardinalsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-josh-rosen-jersey , who was investigated by the team over similar claims in 1998, denied the allegations in a statement to SI.
The report said team website reporter Earl Sneed was twice accused of domestic assault while working for the Mavericks, including a guilty plea in a case that was dismissed when he met the conditions of the agreement.
The team said Sneed had been fired, and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told SI that he fired human resources director Buddy Pittman after learning details of the magazine's report. Pittman and Sneed declined to comment to SI.
MIAMI (AP) – The Miami Dolphins decided receiver Jarvis Landry is worth any headaches he causes, even if the cost is $16 million.
Landry was given a non-exclusive franchise tag after leading the NFL with 112 catches in 2017. The move by the Dolphins came on the first day that teams could assign franchise tags.
The tag's value is expected to be about $16 million. Landry made $894,000 last season.
Landry has said he wanted to remain with the Dolphins, and they said they wanted him back. But his volatile personality has been cause for a concern – especially on a team that went 6-10 last year in part because of poor discipline.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Andrew Luck delivered some good news to Indianapolis Colts fans.
He feels better. He ruled out additional surgery. And he's eager to play football after spending the last 13 months rehabbing from shoulder surgery. If all goes well, the three-time Pro Bowl quarterback might even return in time for the start of April's offseason workouts.
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Injured Pittsburgh Steelers Ryan Shazier doesn't just plan to play again following a spinal injury. He says he wants to make it all the way to the Hall of Fame.
Shazier opened up to teammate Roosevelt Nix on Nix's podcast, Shazier's first public comments since injuring his spine in a victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 4.
Shazier told Nix, who released the podcast on Tuesday night, that he plans to walk again on his own and return to a career that was on the verge of stardom before the injury, one that required spinal stabilization surgery and left him in the hospital for two months.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennessee Titans kicker Ryan Succop has agreed to terms on a multiyear contract extension.
Succop scored a career-high 136 points in 2017 to tie Al Del Greco's 1998 franchise record. His 35 field goals and 42 field-goal attempts were both career highs. He went 31 of 33 on extra-point attempts.
During the 2017 season, Succop set the NFL record for most consecutive successful field-goal attempts from inside 50 yards. His streak, which began in 2014, lasted 56 attempts to break the mark of 46 that Matt Bryant had set from 2013-15.
HOUSTON (AP) – The Houston Texans have released veteran linebacker Brian Cushing.
Cushing, who was a first-round pick in 2009, is the franchise's all-time leader in tackles with 664, but his career has been marked by two suspensions for violating the league's policy on performance enhancers.
Cushing has had several major injuries in his career and played 12 games combined in 2012 and 2013 because of knee injuries and a broken leg. He missed three games in 2016 because of a sprained knee ligament and sustained a concussion in Houston's season opener against the Jaguars last season.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) – The Arizona Diamondbacks sent infielder Brandon Drury to the New York Yankees and received outfielder Steven Souza Jr. from the Tampa Bay Rays in a three-team trade that included five players plus two to be named later.
The deal was announced one day after former Diamondbacks slugger J.D. Martinez agreed to a $110 million, five-year contract with Boston, pending a physical. Arizona has moved quickly to fill that hole in the outfield, signing speedy Jarrod Dyson to a $7.5 million, two-year contract on Monday before trading for Souza.
Souza will be the starter at one corner outfield position, with Dyson subbing at all three spots.
Drury gives the Yankees a new option at third base or second base, where New York was projected to start a pair of rookies.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Washington Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy isn't sure his surgically repaired right knee will be ready in time for opening day.
Murphy underwent an operation to repair cartilage shortly after last season, a procedure than included micro-fracture surgery.
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using DailySoccer.Shared.DAC;
using DailySoccer.Shared.Facades;
using DailySoccer.Shared.Models;
using Moq;
using System;
using TechTalk.SpecFlow;

namespace DailySoccer.Specs.Steps
{
    [Binding]
    public class SetFavoriteTeamSteps
    {
        [When(@"ผู้ใช้ UserId: '(.*)' เลือกทีมที่ชอบเป็น SelectedTeamId: '(.*)'")]
        public void WhenผใชUserIdเลอกทมทชอบเปนSelectedTeamId(string userId, int selectedTeamId)
        {
            var mockAccountDac = ScenarioContext.Current.Get<Moq.Mock<IAccountDataAccess>>();
            mockAccountDac.Setup(dac => dac.SetFavoriteTeam(It.IsAny<SetFavoriteTeamRequest>()));

            FacadeRepository.Instance.AccountFacade.SetFavoriteTeam(new Shared.Models.SetFavoriteTeamRequest
            {
                UserId = userId,
                SelectedTeamId = selectedTeamId
            });
        }

        [Then(@"ระบบทำการบันทึกข้อมูลทีมที่ชอบ ผู้ใช้ UserId: '(.*)' เลือกทีมที่ชอบเป็น SelectedTeamId: '(.*)'")]
        public void ThenระบบทำการบนทกขอมลทมทชอบผใชUserIdเลอกทมทชอบเปนSelectedTeamId(string userId, int selectedTeamId)
        {
            var mockAccountDac = ScenarioContext.Current.Get<Moq.Mock<IAccountDataAccess>>();
            mockAccountDac.Verify(dac => dac.SetFavoriteTeam(It.Is<SetFavoriteTeamRequest>(
                it => it.UserId.Equals(userId, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)
                && it.SelectedTeamId == selectedTeamId
                )), Times.Once());
        }

        [Then(@"ระบบไม่ทำการบันทึกข้อมูลทีมที่ชอบ")]
        public void Thenระบบไมทำการบนทกขอมลทมทชอบ()
        {
            var mockAccountDac = ScenarioContext.Current.Get<Moq.Mock<IAccountDataAccess>>();
            mockAccountDac.Verify(dac => dac.SetFavoriteTeam(It.IsAny<SetFavoriteTeamRequest>()), Times.Never());
        }

    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The championship roster is here. Congratulations to all who made the team! The alternates can be found here – please make sure that if you are a relay alternate that you check out with Laura, Lisa, or one of the coaches before you leave the pool.
Team bowling! We will meet at Sunset Lanes (6540 W. Broad) Monday 1-3pm. The cost is $7 per bowler, please pay Lisa Hart with cash. Bowling past 3pm will cost extra. Arrive 10 min early to get your shoes.
The meet entries are found here.
The practice schedule is outlined elsewhere on the website. Friday (July 20) will be open to everyone and will occur at the normal times, but Saturday (July 21) is the first practice that is restricted to the championship squad. Mites and midgets practice 8-9:15, and swimmers aged 11 and older practice 8:45 – 10:00. It is very important that you arrive on time.


It's often said, and I agree, that most high schools look as much like prisons as they do anything else. The fact that many high school students feel like they're in prison is ironic.
It's typical high school administrative control; make a rule so loose and vague, and make it dependent on any adult-in-authority's snap judgment, and you render invalid upon inception any student dispute. How prison-like. This helps to explain why there is a "lottery" to get into the small school each year, with many times as many applicants as there are spots.
Ah, but away from my anarchistic tendencies and on to graduation.
Most high school students in Ann Arbor spend huge amounts of their home and social life interfaced with cell phones, PDAs, computer, digital cameras, and iPods. They are well-connected to each other in the virtual world. Mostly, that gets stripped away when they go to school. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe if it weren't, it would be too easy to direct comparisons with what the students brought in with them, and what there is – or, mostly is not – already there in the prison. I mean school.
When I graduated from high school in 1965, the only ways we had to communicate outside of face-to-face once my friends and I scattered to college campuses all over the place and later to Vietnam, were (expensive) long-distance phone calls, snail-mail, and Western Union.
Since I moved away and have never really been back except for an occasional holiday, I've completely lost touch with my high school friends. The graduates of today, including my daughter, maybe don't realize how wonderful it is, but they have the ability to maintain close contact with their current friends and acquaintances throughout their entire lives. I envy that, and of course they don't realize it. They already take their IT as a part of the world that has always been there for them.
I wonder what it means for their lives and the new friends and acquaintances they will make in college, work, and beyond. Will their lives be enriched by keeping a close circle of friends, decade after decade? If so, will that close contact satisfy their friendship needs and thus reduce their inclination to make new friends? Wasn't there a study once that claimed you could only keep fairly close to a total of about 100 friends and acquaintances?
Judging from the experience so far of my oldest daughter, who has now graduated from college and is in the work world, all of this IT will enrich their early friendships and will not reduce their inclination to make new friends. In fact, old friends and new can mix and learn to know each other in ways that would have been flatly impossible a decade ago or more ago.
I envy that. I didn't really enjoy high school and don't miss that crowd very much – even though my alma mater has the most comprehensive alumni organization in the U.S. However, I would love to still be in touch with my college, graduate school, and law school friends and I am convinced that I would be – if the Internet had happened a decade or two earlier. Darn it.
I'm starting to enjoy MySpace, also. I get alerts when my oldest daughter posts a blog, and earlier this week she actually posted my last column for IT Trends in her blog, for her friends. And some of her friends are now my "friends" in MySpace, even though I've never met them.
My mother is up from eastern Ohio for this graduation. This will be her third graduation ceremony at Community High School, and she enjoys them a lot. Every graduating senior gets a moment to speak. The students wear whatever they wish to the ceremony. At the last one we attended with her, the young woman who won the award for "personifying the spirit of Community High School" received it wearing a large, orange and black, six-legged costume.
My mother and I don't really know each other very well anymore, even though we are similar in many respects. I've been away too long and she's got something like 25 grandkids and great-grandkids nearby to keep her busy. But I now anticipate that distance will not happen between my children and me. We'll be able to be close, no matter where they go. And they will keep their old friends and gain new ones. That's just wonderful.


i wonder how well it would work with a helmet.
i miss my militia assault rifle... and my std assault hmg.. and my glorious 512.5 hps reps blaster maddy. most of all.
i almost never had a 1v1 engagement. it was always me fighting against 3 or more at the same time. and yet i still found victory in most of those encounters.
star wars battlefront 1 and 2. the ones that rnt made by ea. although after seeing the ea battlefront 2 gameplay.. i suddenly found myself wanting to get a ps4.. i feel like if i were playing id be crushing the separatists like my good ole days..
hell im still playing my ps2. and my ps3. dust may be gone. but at least i have other games to combat boredom with!.
lets see when was dust first available for download on the psn store? it was some where around that time when i started playing. however i consider myself a militia vet since i used militia gear almost exclusively and did well with it.


Munich Airport's T2-Satellite celebrated its first birthday in April 2017 and the results to date are impressive: in the first year, the midfield terminal – the first to be built at a German airport – has handled roughly 9 million passengers on more than 74,000 flights!
Extremely popular: the Lufthansa First Class, Senator and Business Lounges with approximately 590,000 guests as well as the extensive shopping options. International brands and traditional German retailers ranging from Victoria's Secret, Lufthansa World Shop and Picard to Van Laack, Hallhuber and Steiff together with three duty free stores on an area of 7,000 square meters offer a unique shopping experience for travelers of all kind.
The central marketplace in the heart of the Terminal 2-Satellite surrounding the apron tower was especially popular among travelers with appreciation for Bavarian specialties, who consumed more than 251,000 pretzels, 22,000 kg of Leberkäse and 1,600 kg of the creamy cheese specialty known as Obazda.
And to top it all: Terminal 2 including the new T2-Satellite facility was honored as the world's number one terminal by the London-based Skytrax Institute – what a compliment!


The Stanley Cup playoffs are a funny thing. You take all the stats and records from the regular season, go over them with a fine tooth comb, then throw them all out. They don't mean a thing in the post season. Teams take it to another level, and coaches are able to really concentrate on how to play against 1 team. Some teams thrive in the playoffs, others seem to have a weight on their shoulders that drag them down. So, how have my predictions fared?
Not much to say, but so far I've been pretty bad with the predictions. Sharks will need at least 6 to close out their series after that terrible first period they couldn't overcome last night. The good news is they didn't look horrible after that, and had us hoping for another comeback like the stunning one in game 3. Game 6 is Monday in LA. Beat LA! The Blackhawks have shown some resiliency against the Canucks, and the Canucks haven't really performed. Maybe there is a President's Trophy curse. I don't know if Detroit broke a sweat in dispensing Phoenix in 4, and the Ducks are the only team in the West that could fulfill my predictions, though they face elimination down 3 games to 2 against the Predators.
In the East the Capitals took a game less than I thought to beat the Rangers. Alex Ovechkin really shined in that last game yesterday. The Flyers are having goalie problems against the Sabres and are facing elimination today. My Boston Bruins had a great game yesterday and are looking to fulfill my prediction to win their series in 6 on Monday. And, to round up the prediction failures, the Penguins look to finish off Tampa tomorrow.
Do I care that I was really wrong? No, not really. I enjoy watching good hockey and this year's playoffs have provided some epic games, and as the commercials go, history will be made. And on that note, I leave you with my favorite history will be made commercial, though I might be biased.


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Boeing is expected to announced 1,000 job cuts at its El Segundo, Calif., satellite manufacturing operations, the Los Angeles Times reported, due to a slump in the telecommunications industry. A later round of layoffs could involve a similar number of jobs, the paper said. Chicago-based Boeing is the world's leading aerospace and commercial jet company. A slowdown in that industry in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks already has prompted it to cut 30,000 jobs.
Another 800 to 900 jobs will be cut by year's end at Verio Inc., the Englewood, Colo.-based Internet service provider owned by NTT Communications Corp. of Japan, the latter announced. NTT, which is restructuring amid the global communications slump, also said it would close all but 10 of Verio's 46 data centers. NTT previously said it was cutting 650 jobs at Verio.
After a failed two-year effort to restructure its operations, textilemaker Guilford Mills Inc. is hoping to work out a prepackaged bankruptcy deal with creditors, reports said. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it was offering lenders an ownership stake in exchange for refinancing its debts. A $275 million debt payment had been due today. Guilford Mills produces fabrics used for auto upholstery and womenswear. It already has sold off a division that made curtains and bed linens. The company is based in Greensboro, N.C.
In a deal valued at $2.5 billion, the natural resources group Xstrata PLC said it would buy its No. 1 shareholder's coal mines in South Africa and Australia. The seller, Glencore International, is a leading commodities trader. Both companies are based in Zug, Switzerland.
Stocks nudge upward after tepid jobs report
Caesars Entertainment has filed for bankruptcy
Why Ralph Lauren will cut 1,000 jobs, spend $400 million to restructure


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Provided you service the vehicle in accordance with any such requirements, the manufacturer's warranty will remain valid.
While manufacturers may recommend using authorised dealers to service the vehicles, this is not always a requirement under a manufacturer's warranty. It is therefore important that you check the terms of any manufacturer's warranty for your vehicle before servicing.
Extended warranties: These extend the coverage provided under the original manufacturer's warranty and the Consumer Guarantees Act. Dealers sometimes offer their own extended warranties on new vehicles on the condition that the vehicle must be serviced by the dealer offering the warranty. Imposing this requirement on the owner is permissible. If this is a requirement of a dealer's warranty, an independent repairer is likely to void the extended warranty if they service the vehicle. It is therefore important that you check the terms of any extended warranty for your vehicle before servicing.
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Zingo är en svensk komedifilm från 1998 i regi av Christjan Wegner och med Björn Kjellman i titelrollen. Filmen premiärvisades 20 november 1998.

Om filmen
Protagonisten Zingo tröttnar på att langa droger och vill bli en "Svensson". På krogen träffar han sin kusin, tillika filmregissören Mos. De träffar Mos producent Benno som lovar att se till att, med hjälp av tyska pengar, finansiera en älgporrfilm som Zingo ska regissera. Zingo samlar ihop ett filmteam bestående av hans flickvän Baby, kåkfararen Jocke, den erkände skådespelaren Ken Karlsson, samt Mos och Zingo, och åker till landet. Intrigerna trappas upp när Ken tror att det är ett stillsamt drama som ska spelas in, samtidigt som Jocke bara tänker vara med om det är en 'fet actionrulle' som ska spelas in.

Rollista i urval
Björn Kjellman - Zingo, Filip Singstedt
Helena af Sandeberg - "Baby", Barbro, skådespelerska
Per Morberg - Mos, porrfilmsregissör, Zingos kusin
Tommy Andersson - Joakim, "Jocke"
Thomas Hellberg - Ken Karlsson
Jarmo Mäkinen - Puda
Madeleine Elfstrand - Bittan
Hans Henriksson - Benno Hanrell, porrfilmsproducent
Catherine Hansson - Margareta, Babys mamma
Matthew Allen - Wolfgang, tysk finansiär
Kjell Lennartsson - Zingos pappa
Maria Lindström - Tina
Niklas Falk - Rune, Babys pappa
Martin Forsström - såpastjärna

Musik i filmen
Rescue Me, kompositör och text Carl Smith och Raynard Miner, framförs av Fontella Bass
Oh What a Night, kompositör och text Marvin Junior och John Funches
Can I Have My Money Back, kompositör och text Gerry Rafferty, sång Gerry Rafferty
Out on the Street Again, kompositör Trevor Lawrence, text Trevor Lawrence och Gabriel Mekler, sång Etta James
 I Just Want To Make Love to You, kompositör och text Willie Dixon, sång Muddy Waters
It's All Right!, kompositör och text Curtis Mayfield
Aztec, kompositör och text Ellas McDaniel, sång Bo Diddley
One, Two, Three, kompositör och text John Madara, David White, Leonard Borisoff, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier och Eddie Holland, framförs av Ramsey Lewis
Afro Harping, kompositör Dorothy Ashby och Phil Upchurch, framförs på harpa av Dorothy Ashby
Mighty High, kompositör Milt Bruckner, framförs av Milt Bruckner
Monday Monday, kompositör och text John Phillips
Astral Travelling, kompositör Lonnie Liston Smith, framförs av Pharoah Sanders
Rev. Harp, kompositör Charles Hampton, framförs av Buck Clark
Dream a Little Dream of Me, kompositör Wilbur Schwandt och Fabian Andre, text Gus Kahn, sång Mama Cass (alternativnamn)
Good Times, kompositör och text Edie Brickell, sång Edie Brickell
Abstraction, kompositör Milt Bruckner, framförs av Milt Bruckner
Soul Vibrations, kompositör Richard Lee Evans, framförs av Dorothy Ashby
Summertime, kompositör George Gershwin, text DuBose Heyward, sång Billy Stewart
Mama, kompositör Mats Westling och Johan Strömberg
Helan går, sång Björn Kjellman, Helena af Sandeberg, Per Morberg, Tommy Andersson, Thomas Hellberg och Madeleine Elfstrand

Externa länkar

Svenska filmer 1998
Svenska komedifilmer
Svenska 1990-talsfilmer