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Canadiens Game Day: Habs' playoff hopes take another big blow
'Tomorrow it's a do-or-die game,' Ilya Kovalchuk says about Thursday's game in Philadelphia after a 4-1 loss to Blackhawks at Bell Centre.
Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette
"Carey will face the Flyers. They're a team in our conference. That's why Lindgren will be in goal tonight."
That's how Canadiens coach Claude Julien explained his decision to start Charlie Lindgren against the Chicago Blackhawks Wednesday night at the Bell Centre and save Carey Price for Thursday's game in Philadelphia against the Flyers (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM).
Price, the Canadiens' $84-Million Man, has won his last two starts while stopping 72 of 73 shots, but Julien decided to go with his backup instead in the first game of the back-to-back set.
That decision hurt the team early in Wednesday night's game and Thursday's game is now a huge one after a 4-1 loss to Chicago with Lindgren making 24 saves as the Canadiens outshot the Blackhawks 33-28.
The Canadiens now have a 20-21-7 record — including 9-12-4 at home — and trail the Flyers by nine points for the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Flyers beat the Blues 4-3 in overtime Wednesday night in St. Louis for a one-two punch to the Habs' hopes.
"To me, it's the worst game we've played probably in our last 10," Julien said after the loss. "It happens from time to time. That doesn't mean it's acceptable and I'm accepting it; I'm extremely disappointed with our performance tonight. We didn't show up. And it's not always the same guys; we had some key players who weren't sharp, and it snowballed."
Said Ilya Kovalchuk, who picked up an assist on Phillip Danault's goal and now has 1-4-5 totals in six games since joining the Canadiens: "Overall, I think that was our worst game when I'm here, I say for myself. It's unacceptable. Especially we need those points right now so … I'm disappointed.
"Tomorrow it's a do-or-die game for us because now we're, I think, nine points behind," Kovalchuk added. "Tomorrow it's a huge game. So we just need to regroup a little bit. Like I said, it's unacceptable the way we played tonight.
The good news for the Canadiens is that the game was officially a sellout of 21,302.
Bad start for Lindgren
The Blackhawks' first goal at 5:42 of the first period came short-handed and it was ugly.
Lindgren went behind the net to stop the puck and then there was confusion between the goalie and Tomas Tatar about who would take it.
Neither of them took the puck and the Blackhawks' Drake Caggiula happily picked it up and fed Zack Smith in front of an empty net for the goal.
"Just miscommunication," Lindgren said after the game. "It's unfortunate just because it's such a preventable goal. That shouldn't happen. It sucks that it did and then it puts them up 1-0 and it's not the way you want to start a hockey game."
Was it hard for the goalie to refocus after that?
"I've let in a lot of goals in my career and a lot of weird goals, too," Lindgren said. "You just got to kind of forget about it and move on. Obviously, I wasn't happy right away with it, but take some deep breaths and get back at it."
Lindgren now has an 0-3-0 record this season with the Canadiens, along with a 3.40 goals-against average and a .892 save percentage.
🚨 Zack Smith SH 1-0 #Blackhawks pic.twitter.com/MM5X7lIu66
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Costly penalty
The Canadiens' Max Domi took a really bad roughing penalty at 10:52 of the second period and 35 seconds later Alex DeBrincat scored a power-play goal to put the Blackhawks up 3-1.
Domi was benched for the rest of the period.
"I did what I had to do … simple as that," Julien said after the game when asked about the benching. "I don't have to explain it more. It's not the first time he's taken a bad penalty. There's consequences and sometimes those messages go a lot longer than the situation right there."
The Canadiens got a power play at 15:24 of the second period when Caggiula took a high-sticking penalty, but Domi remained on the bench while Jordan Weal and Nick Cousins — who have five goals each this season — headed out on the power play.
"It doesn't matter who you put on instead of Max," Julien said when asked about that decision. "Max is not the guy that's going to score goals all the time here. The power play is a five-man unit, simple as that."
DeBrincat scored his power-play goal after Lindgren had lost his blocker and his stick during a scramble and was playing with a bare left hand.
"During that play my thigh and hip were tightening up, so I was more kind of focused on that," said Lindgren, who was tended to by a team trainer after the goal. "I knew if I put my hand behind my back that I probably wasn't going to get hit. But that was kind of a cluster there and I don't even remember how I lost my blocker and stick there. Everything happened quick, so getting injured wasn't really on my radar."
Here was #Habs Max Domi's penalty that lead to the #Blackhawks taking a 3-1 lead on the PP.
He never saw ice time again in the 2nd after this. pic.twitter.com/75T6sohXhB
Domi accepts blame
Domi wasn't looking for excuses after the game and was waiting in his locker to answer questions about his penalty.
"You watch the replay, it's obviously a penalty," he said. "But in real time I didn't realize I had his head. I'd be the first one to tell you that I was trying to gad him or something. There was no interaction. I hit him … hit him again and as I kind of turned around grabbed him a little too high and then pulled him down to the ground. It's a penalty. Don't get me wrong, it's a penalty. But I certainly was not trying to do that."
Did Julien say anything when Domi got back to the bench after the power-play goal was scored?
"He didn't say anything to me," Domi said. "But when you take a penalty and the team scores you can't do that. It's a coach's decision. You got to respect that, he's the boss. I was just waiting for my name to be called and if I had the chance to go back out there I was going to try and do my best to make up for that one."
Domi got back on the ice in the first minute of the third period.
"Obviously, you want to get that next goal," he said about his thinking after getting benched. "They played well tonight. They were strong on their sticks, they won a lot of puck battles and they outworked us. I think we just got to find a way here. Got to find a way to stick with it and be better."
🚨 Alex DeBrincat PP 3-1 #Blackhawks pic.twitter.com/ugauJa8Dn0
Power play 'a disaster'
The Canadiens went 0-for-3 on the power play and gave up the short-handed goal. The Canadiens are now 2-for-29 on the power play in their last nine games.
"You have to be sharp on the power play," Kovalchuk said. "Our power play is a disaster right now. We got to see the puck and be simple. We try to do those cute passes between the sticks, skates, it didn't work.
"I can speak for myself, the puck was jumping all over the place," Kovalchuk added. "Poor decisions by me. You know the coach trusts us that he puts us out there to make a difference and today we didn't. So we have to regroup and it's a huge game tomorrow."
Kovalchuk logged 20:57 of ice time, the most of any Canadiens forward.
"We've got to find a way to find our identity again."#GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/NEBtRpN6CW
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) January 16, 2020
The Hawks' hometown kid
The Blackhawks' Corey Crawford, who grew up in Châteauguay on Montreal's South Shore, became a goalie because of Patrick Roy.
"Patrick Roy is pretty much the reason why I wanted to be a goalie," Crawford, who was 8 when St. Patrick led the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup in 1993, told The Gazette a few years ago in an interview. "He was the man back in the day and I wanted to be like him."
Crawford certainly plays like Roy when the Blackhawks come to the Bell Centre.
The Howard S. Billings High School graduate made 31 saves Wednesday night for his sixth straight win at the Bell Centre, during which he has an 0.75 goals-against average and a .979 save percentage.
Crawford, who won a Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks in 2013, improved his record this season to 8-13-2 with a 3.00 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage.
The Captain and Crow 🥺#Blackhawks pic.twitter.com/MEdGfg3EqY
Armia and Gallagher sit out
Joel Armia and Brendan Gallagher weren't in the lineup for the Canadiens against the Blackhawks.
On Tuesday, Armia took part in his first full practice with the team since suffering a hand injury in a 6-2 win over the Jets in Winnipeg on Dec. 23. Armia, who also took part in Wednesday's optional morning skate, missed his 11th straight game, but there's a chance he could play Thursday night in Philadelphia.
Gallagher missed his third straight game after suffering from headaches. Gallagher earlier missed four games with a concussion, returned to play in a 4-2 loss to the Oilers on Jan. 9, and then experienced headaches and was shut down again.
"(Gallagher) doesn't really have a headache right now, but he's at rest," Julien said after Wednesday morning's optional skate in Brossard. "As you know, these things (concussions) can be sometimes hard to diagnose and all I'm gonna say is (the team doctors) don't think it has anything to do with the first concussion. But is it a bit of a setback? We don't know that. So all we do know, as an organization and as a medical staff, is that he needs to be rested. We need to make sure that's taken care of before we put him back into action.
"There's nothing more to clarify, guys," Julien added. "It's unknown. Yes, he's here … he's here every day and he's feeling good, no more headaches. That's where he's at, guys, and I can't tell you more. There's a lot of unknown when it comes to those kind of things."
Go inside the locker room after Corey Crawford and the #Blackhawks defeated the Canadiens in Montreal.#CHIvsMTL pic.twitter.com/R8pvWSwRQ0
The Canadiens flew to Philadelphia after the game and will play the Flyers Thursday night (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM). The Canadiens have a practice scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard and will then face the Vegas Golden Knights Saturday at the Bell Centre (7 p.m., SNE, CITY, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM) in their final game before a bye week in the schedule. Their next game after that will be on Monday, Jan. 27 at the Bell Centre against the Washington Capitals (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM).
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We will present experimental and theoretical results on the neuromimetic dynamics of a micropillar laser with integrated saturable absorber. This microlaser has been shown to display ultrafast excitable (spiking) behaviour with an absolute and a relative refractory period, similarly to biological neurons but with at least 6 orders of magnitude faster response. We show basic computational functionalities with a single neuron such as temporal summation and memory operation. These results pave the way to the realization of more complex building blocks for integrated processing with neuro-inspired optical systems.
Neural network inspired computational architectures have been inspired by the physical structure of the human brain. There, a large number of nonlinear nodes are connected inside a large scale network, and learning is generally interpreted via modifications to the networks connectivity structure. Yet, implementations of neural networks are typically based on their emulation within serial and binary logic computers. Recently, Reservoir Computing (RC) has been demonstrated with various levels of hardware implementations inside nonlinear networks implemented in a delay system. I will demonstrate how the same scheme can be realized in a photonic networks of 1600 nonlinear oscillators. Furthermore, I will report on first results of a full implementation of hardware-based learning. Our system therefore presents a large step to a full physical implementation of the originally envisioned neuromorphic computing systems.
Excitability is a property that is shared by many different systems, from biology to chemistry to laser systems. It is defined as the possibility to respond to an external perturbation by either producing an excitable response (e.g. a spike) if the perturbation is over a certain threshold, or otherwise relaxing to its stable state. The feasibility of producing an excitable event using a laser with injected signal was already suggested several years ago , where the phase dynamics of these events can be basically described by the Adler equation. An observation of such events was realized in , while a control of their generation was obtained in .
Our work is also focused on the generation of excitable pulses using a laser system with optical injection, where the perturbation used to generate the excitable events consists of two narrow pulses of a duration of 0.12 ns, separated by a variable time-delay, from a minimum of 0.08 ns to a maximum of 1.05 ns. What we unexpectedly find is that there is a particular delay, around 0.10 ns, where there is a higher efficiency of generating a single response. This means that the system has a preferred frequency to which it will respond: this is called a resonator property. We also observed multipulse excitability, that is, the possibility of producing two or more responses for a single perturbation. Both of these properties cannot be explained by the simple Adler model.
Similar features of resonator property, multipulse excitability and refractory period  can already be found in the case of neurons, which are the most typical example of excitable system. Guided by this observation we started to investigate the connections between these two words, the laser word and the neuroscience word. Using tools from Singolar Pertubation theory we study the theoretical model of a class B laser, and we try to describe the behavior of our system going beyond the Adler equation. We also investigate the connections between our system and the dynamics of neuronal models that better fit our physical data. The long term goal we have in mind is to exploit the neuron-like properties of our system for optical data processing and to provide possible insight about complex solitons interactions in forced oscillatory media .
We investigate the modes of oscillation of a large network of spiking neurons arranged in a one dimensional ring. Perturbations of the equilibrium state with a particular wave number produce standing waves with a specific frequency, in a similar fashion as in a tense string. In the neuronal network, the equilibrium state corresponds to a spatially homogeneous, asynchronous state. Perturbations of this state excite the network's oscillatory modes, reflecting episodes of spike synchrony of the spatially distributed neuronal ensembles and excitatory-inhibitory spatial interactions. In the thermodynamic limit, a low-dimensional neural field model describing the macroscopic dynamics of the ring network is exactly derived. This allows us to analytically obtain the spectrum of the normal modes of oscillation of the network. We find that the frequency of each mode only depends on the corresponding Fourier coefficient of the synaptic pattern of connectivity; the decay rate, instead, is exactly the same for all oscillation modes. We finally show that the spectrum of spatially inhomogeneous solutions has a continuous part off the real axis, indicating that similar oscillatory modes operate in neural bump states as well.
E. Montbrió, D. Pazó and A. Roxin, Macroscopic Description for Networks of Spiking Neurons Phys Rev X. 06/2015 5(2).
We investigate the processing of correlated synaptic input in neurons equipped with active dendrite. We discovered that these neurons can process correlation in the very different way than the single-compartmental neurons and the neurons with passive dendrite. We use three types of models in our study: biophysical FitzHugh-Nagumo model, multi-compartmental AdEx model and discrete state model.
Synaptic plasticity refers to a change of neuron's morphology, sensitivity and reactivity. Such a plastic behaviour is thought to be at the basis of memory formation which makes it particularly interesting. Nowadays, popular plasticity models are based on Spike-Timing-Dependent-Plasticity (STDP) rules. In STDP models spikes timings are central, but current works showed that firing rate, membrane potential, neuromodulators and many other factors affect synaptic plasticity. These numerous perturbations partially explain the stochastic behaviour of neurons and plasticity. Another important remark about plasticity is the presence of different time scales. Indeed, long term plasticity time scale ranges from minutes to more than one hour. On the other hand, a spike lasts for 1 millisecond. Thus, there is a need to understand how to bridge this time scale gap at the synapse level and how it interplays with noise.
Here, we would like to present a new model of stochastic plasticity in networks of spiking neurons described by 2 states Markov chains. The non-plastic network is rich enough to be realistic: it reproduces phenomena which have been widely observed by biologists. For example, spontaneous oscillations, bi-stability and different time scales. In addition, it is simple enough to be mathematically analyzed and numerically simulated. The most original point of our study concerns the introduction of a new STDP rule which we implement in the well-known stochastic Wilson-Cowan model of spiking neurons. More precisely, because of the plasticity rule, our model is a piecewise deterministic Markov process. In the context of long term plasticity, synaptic weights dynamic is much slower than the network one, a time scale analysis enables us to remove the neurons dynamics from the equations. Indeed, this allows us to derive an equation, for the slow weight dynamic alone, in which neurons dynamics are replaced by their stationary distributions. Thereby, we don't need to simulate the dynamics of thousands fast neurons any more and we get an equation much simpler to analyze. We then discuss the implications of such derivation for learning and adaptation in neural networks.
Photonic techniques emulating the brain powerful computational capabilities are the subject of increasing research interest as these offer excellent prospects for ultrafast neuro-inspired information processing systems going beyond classical digital modules. One of these approaches considers the use of semiconductor lasers, as these devices can undergo a rich variety of dynamical responses similar to those observed in neurons; yet, remarkably these are obtained at speeds up to 9 orders of magnitude faster than the millisecond timescales of biological neurons. Amongst semiconductor lasers, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) are ideal for use in neuromorphic photonics as they possess important inherent advantages, e.g. low fabrication costs, ease to integrate in 2- and 3-Dimensional arrays, high coupling efficiency to optical fibres, etc.
In this talk, we will review our recent progress on the achievement of controllable and reproducible spiking patterns in VCSELs with ultrafast speed resolution. Specifically, we will show that a wide variety of spiking regimes, e.g. single and multiple spiking and bursting patterns can be controllably activated and inhibited in these devices in response to external perturbations. Additionally, we will introduce our recent results demonstrating the successful communication of spiking photonic signals between two interconnected VCSELs. Moreover, the activation, inhibition and propagation of the aforementioned spiking regimes are all obtained at sub-nanosecond speeds, thus offering high potentials for novel ultrafast non-traditional information processing capabilities with these laser sources. Also, our results, obtained with off-the-shelf inexpensive components operating at the most relevant wavelengths in present optical fibre networks (1300 and 1550 nm), make our approach fully compatible with optical communication technologies.
In summary, the reproducible and controllable activation, suppression and propagation of spiking photonic signals at high speeds in VCSELs operating at telecom wavelengths offer great potential for the use of these devices in excitatory and inhibitory photonic neuronal models for future neuromorphic photonic information processing systems.
We investigate a photonic regenerative memory based upon a neuromorphic oscillator with a delayed self-feedback (autaptic) connection. We disclose the existence of an unique temporal response characteristic of localized structures enabling an ideal support for bits in an optical buffer memory for storage and reshaping of data information. We link our experimental implementation, based upon a nanoscale nonlinear resonant tunneling diode driving a laser, to the paradigm of neuronal activity, the FitzHugh-Nagumo model with delayed feedback. This proof-of-concept photonic re-generative memory might constitute a building block for a new class of neuron-inspired photonic memories that can handle high bit-rate optical signals.
Inspired by the importance of bursting activities in neural computation, we investigate the bursting oscillations of an optically injected quantum dot laser. We find experimentally that the laser periodically switches between two distinct operating states with distinct optical frequencies exhibiting either fast oscillatory or nearly steady state evolutions: two-colour bursting oscillations. The conditions for the emergence and control of the bursts are analysed by systematic simulations of laser rate equations. By projecting the bursting solution onto the bifurcation diagram of a fast subsystem, we show how a specific hysteresis phenomenon explains the transitions between active and silent phases.
Nonlinear delay dynamics have attracted lots of interest from their autonomous operation, being capable for various, complex and beautiful behaviors, from period doubling cascade to high dimensional chaos among others. They were also recognized to be relevant models for many practical situations, from physiology to optics through mechanics. In a more applied perspective as for example in photonic, they were used to develop novel encryption schemes that are hiding bit streams into chaotic waveform, decryption being achieved after chaos synchronization ; One also used their extremely long temporal memory provided by large delay to dramatically decrease the phase diffusion constant in microwave oscillators, thus providing high performance (ultra-low phase noise) microwave optoelectronic oscillators for Radar applications. More recently the high dimensional phase space of delay systems and their known analogy with spatio-temporal dynamics, have been used as a technologically feasible and efficient way to emulate a network of neurons, through which novel brain-inspired computing (Reservoir Computing) concepts can be implemented.
In this contribution, we will particularly emphasize on how nonlinear delay dynamics, moreover photonic ones, can be regarded as a kind of recurrent neural network with which spatio-temporal information processing is fully expanded in the time domain through basic signal theory principles. We will show how this description can be used in programming physically classification tasks performed with the bandwidth of Telecom devices, thus reaching record speed up to 1 million words recognized per second with a dedicated photonic hardware.
In my talk I discuss seemingly complex spontaneous spike statistics of some sensory neurons, that arises due to correlated fluctuations and adaptation mechanisms. I sketch novel analytical methods to deal with the associated non-Markovian first-passage-time problems. I furthermore show that such correlated (colored) noise also emerges in an autonomous fashion in recurrent neural networks and leads to similar features in the spike statistics of cortical cells. Fluctuations do not only lead to interesting spontaneous neural activity but also shape the way in which neurons encode information about time-dependent stimuli. I elucidate in particular mechanisms of information filtering in single neurons and neural populations.
How much is it possible to perturb a mean-field interaction ?
A convenient framework for the study of synchronization of interacting individuals is to consider systems of exchangeable particles interacting on the complete graph. This assumption allows for a rigorous analysis of the behavior of the system in the limit of large population, at least on a bounded time interval. From a practical point of view (e.g. simulations), a crucial question is how to derive from this formalism the behavior of the system on a longer time scale (that is dependent on the size of the population). I will first discuss this issue on the particular case of the Kuramoto model. And what if the graph of interaction is no longer the complete graph? Informally, in a situation where each particle has "enough" neighbors to interact with, it is natural to expect a similar mean-field behavior. The second point of the talk will be to show that this statement holds for a large class of (possibly inhomogeneous and sparse) random graphs of interaction, at least on a bounded time interval.
This is joint works with Christophe Poquet (Lyon 1) and Giambattista Giacomin and Sylvain Delattre (Paris 7).
A comprehensive investigation of the excitable behavior of a semiconductor laser with long delayed feedback is reported. Starting with the characterization of the solitary laser, we show how the addition of long-delay feedback produces a dynamics similar to spatio-temporal excitable systems, with propagation and noise-induced creation and destruction of excitable pulses in the pseudo time. A phenomenological model well describes the system and allows for a comparison of the observed regimes with the measurements. The addition of a variable quantity of noise leads to the occurrence of a phenomenon that we term "transient coherence resonance" evidenced in the experiment and in the numerical model. A simple stochastic process is also introduced and allows us to explain the features observed in terms of the key dynamical ingredients of the physical systems.
We study numerically the dynamics of two mutually coupled neurons using the well-known stochastic FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) model. We analyze how the coupling parameters affect the detection and transmission of a periodic weak signal that is applied to only one of the neurons. In a recent work  it was shown that, in a single FHN neuron, the interplay of noise and periodic subthreshold modulation induced the emergence of relative temporal ordering in the timing of the spikes. Different types of relative temporal order were found, in the form of preferred and infrequent ordinal patterns  that depended on both, the strength of the noise and the period of the input signal. A resonance-like behavior was also found, as the probability of the preferred (infrequent) pattern was maximum (minimum) for certain periods of the input signal and noise strengths. Here we analyze under which conditions the coupling to a second neuron, which is assumed to be linear and instantaneous, can further enhance the temporal ordering in the spike sequence of the first neuron, improving the encoding of the external signal. As in  we apply the symbolic method of ordinal analysis  to the output sequence of inter-spike intervals (ISIs). We find that for certain periods and amplitudes of the external signal, the coupling to the second neuron changes the preferred (and also the infrequent) ordinal patterns. A detailed study of how the ordinal probabilities vary with the coupling strength is performed. In a second step, we consider the situation in which the external signal is applied to both neurons. We discuss under which conditions mutual coupling enhances (or degrades) the encoding of the signal in the neuronal spike sequences.
Acknowledgments: This work was supported in part by Spanish MINECO/FEDER (FIS2015-66503- C3-2-P) and ICREA ACADEMIA, Generalitat de Catalunya.
 J. A. Reinoso, M. C. Torrent and C. Masoller, Emergence of spike correlations in periodically forced excitable systems, Phys. Rev. E. 94, 032218 (2016).
 C. Bandt and B. Pompe, Permutation entropy: a natural complexity measure for time series, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 174102 (2002).
In semiconductor lasers optical feedback induces a wide range of dynamical regimes. In this talk I will focus on the low frequency fluctuations (LFFs) regime, in which the laser emits optical spikes that resemble the spikes of biological neurons. In this regime, semiconductor lasers have potential to act as ultra-fast photonic neurons, which can be building blocks of novel information processing systems , inspired in the way biological neurons process information. In order to use the laser as a basic, neuro-inspired information processing unit, we first need to understand how an input signal can be encoded in the output sequence of optical spikes [2-4], and then compare with neuronal encoding. Single biological neurons may encode information in the spike rate ("rate coding") or in the relative timing of the spikes ("temporal coding"). In a recent work  we have analyzed the well-known FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) single-neuron model and we have shown that the interplay of noise and a weak (subthreshold) periodic input signal induced temporal ordering in the timing of the spikes (i.e., induced temporal correlations among several inter-spike-intervals, ISIs), in the form of more/less frequently expressed patterns, which depend of the period of the input signal. Our results suggested that single neurons in noisy environments encode information about the period of a subthreshold periodic input in the relative timing of the spikes.
In this talk I will present an experimental study of the laser dynamics in the LFF regime under weak pump current sinusoidal modulation and I will compare the statistical properties of optical spikes with those of synthetic neuronal spikes . In spite of the fact that the laser with feedback is a high dimensional system (due to the feedback delay time) while the FHN model is a low dimensional system, in general a good qualitative agreement is found; however some relevant differences will also be discussed.
 P. R. Prucnal, B. J. Shastri, T. F. de Lima, M. A. Nahmias, and A. N. Tait, "Recent progress in semiconductor excitable lasers for photonic spike processing", Advances in Optics and Photonics 8, 228 (2016).
 T. Sorrentino, C. Quintero-Quiroz, A. Aragoneses, M. C. Torrent, and C. Masoller, "The effects of periodic forcing on the temporally correlated spikes of a semiconductor laser with feedback", Optics Express 23, 5571 (2015).
 C. Quintero-Quiroz, J. Tiana-Alsina, J. Roma, M. C. Torrent, and C. Masoller, "Characterizing how complex optical signals emerge from noisy intensity fluctuations", Sci. Rep. 6 37510 (2016).
 A. Aragoneses, S. Perrone, T. Sorrentino, M. C. Torrent and C. Masoller, "Unveiling the complex organization of recurrent patterns in spiking dynamical systems", Sci. Rep. 4, 4696 (2014).
 J. A. Reinoso, M. C. Torrent and C. Masoller, "Emergence of spike correlations in periodically forced excitable systems", Phys. Rev. E. 94, 032218 (2016).
There are a range of chemical, physical and biological excitable media that support spiral wave vortices. Examples include the Belousov-Zhabotinsky redox reaction, the chemotaxis of slime mould and action potentials in cardiac tissue. Usually spatio-temporal three-dimensional interacting vortex strings, e.g. superfluid vortices [Kleckner16], are prone to reconnection and untying. However, it appears that there are types of reaction-diffusion equations - for example the so-called FitzHugh-Nagumo equations which constitute the simplest mathematical model of cardiac tissue as an excitable medium - that may give rise to strong short-ranged repulsive interactions between vortex strings. The latter may lead to a preservation of topology of vortex strings [Winfree84,Sutcliffe03]. We use a Biot-Savart construction to initialize a given knot as a vortex string in the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations. We show, that the evolution can be used to untangle knotted vortex strings [Maucher16]. Furthermore, the evolution yields a well-defined minimal length for a range of knots that is comparable to the ropelength of ideal knots [Maucher17]. We highlight the role of the medium boundary in stabilizing the length of the knot and discuss the implications beyond torus knots. By applying Moffatt's test we show that there is not a unique attractor within a given knot topology.
In this presentation, we clarify the mechanisms underlying a general phenomenon present in pulse-coupled heterogeneous inhibitory networks: inhibition can induce not only suppression of the neural activity, as expected, but it can also promote neural reactivation. In particular, for globally coupled systems, the number of firing neurons monotonically reduces upon increasing the strength of inhibition (neurons' death). However, the random pruning of the connections is able to reverse the action of inhibition, i.e. in a sparse network a sufficiently strong synaptic strength can surprisingly promote, rather than depress, the activity of the neurons (neurons' rebirth). Thus the number of firing neurons reveals a minimum at some intermediate synaptic strength. We show that this minimum signals a transition from a regime dominated by the neurons with higher firing activity to a phase where all neurons are effectively sub-threshold and their irregular firing is driven by current fluctuations. We explain the origin of the transition by deriving an analytic mean field formulation of the problem able to provide the fraction of active neurons as well as the first two moments of their firing statistics. The introduction of a synaptic time scale does not modify the main aspects of the reported phenomenon. However, for sufficiently slow synapses the transition becomes dramatic, the system passes from a perfectly regular evolution to an irregular bursting dynamics. In this latter regime the model provides predictions consistent with experimental findings for a specific class of neurons, namely the medium spiny neurons in the striatum.
Excitability has been shown not to be an exclusive property of neuronal cells; it can also be observed in lasers. The results of a numerical study about the synchronization properties in a population of coupled semiconductor lasers with saturable absorber is presented [A. M. Perego and M. Lamperti Physical Review A 94, 033839 (2016)]. It is shown that the coupling between the lasers enable to achieve temporal and intensity synchronization while the cooperative dynamics results in an array-enhanced coherence resonance and synchronization. Further effects such as the possibility of excitability localization will be discussed too.
Synchronization is an important phenomenon in neuroscience and some people think that this kind of dependency between neurons activities may play an important role in the neural code, that is how the brain codes information. But before entering this debate, there is another more mathematical /statistical question to answer: how do we detect such phenomenon in a set-up where the observations are scarce, noisy and always fluctuating ? I will start by describing Unitary Events methods (first introduced by Grün in the 90's) which makes rigorous the distinction between synchronization and pure coincidence and how statistical testing procedure can distinguish both. Then I will explain how to mimic distributions under independence to find out detection threshold for synchronization.
Many phenomena in the natural and biological sciences reflect the collective behavior of large numbers of interacting dynamical units. Insight into such phenomena can therefore by gleaned by studying idealized systems in which the dynamics of the individual units are taken to be as simple as possible, while still retaining the most salient features for the physical system of interest. A well-known example is the Kuramoto model, a canonical example of collective synchronization. In the field of neuroscience, the individual unit is the neuron and the collective behavior of interest is often the response of the neuronal network to external inputs. Here, as opposed to the Kuramoto model, the parameter order of interest is not necessarily the degree of synchronization, but rather the average number of electrical impulses or "spikes" generated by the network per unit of time, known as the "firing rate".
Here I will discuss the derivation of an exact mean-field model for a large network of coupled, heterogeneous model neurons [Montbrio15]. The neural model, that is the individual element, is the "quadratic integrate-and-fire" neuron, a canonical model which approximates how spikes are emitted in a large class of more realistic neuronal models. We find that the relevant macroscopic variables are the mean firing rate as well as the mean voltage drop across the cellular membrane of neurons in the network; the collective dynamics are described by a system of two coupled ODEs. Interestingly, we can show that there is a deep connection between this neuronal description of collective behavior, and the more traditional Kuramoto order parameter which measures collective synchronization. Specifically, the conformal transformations which map between the unit circle and the positive half plane allow us to switch between these two descriptions and tie our work to the so-called Ott-Antonsen ansatz [Ott08], which provides an exact solution to the Kuramoto model.
[Montbrio15] E. Montbrió, D. Pazó, and A. Roxin. Macroscopic description for networks of spiking neurons. , 5, 2015.
[Ott08] E. Ott and T. M. Antonsen. Low-dimensional behavior of large systems of globally coupled oscillators. , 18:037113, 2008.
How fast is the self-pulsation in a laser diode with optical feedback?
When subject to optical feedback, a laser diode exhibits a large variety of nonlinear dynamics including self-pulsation, period-doubling bifurcations, intermittent pulsating dynamics and chaos. In the past forty years these dynamics have been scrutinized both theoretically and experimentally, paving the way towards innovative applications such as in chaos-based cryptography, physical sources of entropy, or, recently, neuromorphic computing .
A crucial question is how fast can self-pulsation occur. As in any system with time-delayed feedback, competition may occur between the natural time-scale of the damped nonlinear oscillator and the time-delay. Within the framework of a rate equation model one can easily demonstrate that when increasing the amount of optical feedback, a laser diode bifurcates from a steady-state to self-pulsation (Hopf bifurcation) with a frequency either close to the relaxation oscillation frequency of the free-running laser diode (internal, natural frequency of the nonlinear damped oscillator), or, close to the inverse of the time-delay . Integrating a passive feedback section into an active laser medium therefore leads to a short time-delay enabling several tens of GHz self-pulsation from a laser diode .
A slightly different situation was analyzed in the early 1980s, in which the optical feedback does not occur from a conventional mirror but from a phase-conjugate mirror. In that situation, summarized as "phase-conjugate feedback (PCF)", self-pulsation at frequencies being harmonic of the inverse of time-delay have been theoretically predicted . Recently we have found these dynamics experimentally  and analyzed how they get stabilized and bifurcate when varying the feedback strength and/or time-delay . We will summarize our latest conclusions on the PCF configuration and shall highlight the important role played by the filtering effect in the phase-conjugate mirror on the high-speed self-pulsating dynamics . For a relatively long nonlinear mirror, the dynamics get close to those observed in a laser diode with optical injection .
We have proposed the use of sparse identification method for optical systems, or SINO. This new approach determines the optimum number of variables in the transmission system required for adaptive mitigation of effects (nonlinearities in fibre optic cable) that limit the throughput of standard optical fibre. Demand for data is high with today's online culture and the introduction of 8K TV, the Internet of Things and the ever-increasing use of streaming services mean that this demand could outstrip network capacity. Novel techniques, such as SINO, could help to future-proof our broadband infrastructure. The SINO method is significantly less complex than other similar compensation techniques. This bodes well for future commercial deployment. SINO is particularly useful for flexible smart-grid networks, as it does not require a knowledge of system parameters and is scalable to difference power levels. Such networks are more sustainable and more reliable, considering the needs of modern society.
Sorokina M., Sygletos S. & Turitsyn S., Sparse identification for nonlinear optical communication systems: SINO method, Opt. Express 24, 30433-30443 (2016).
The concept of delay-based reservoir computing, using only a single nonlinear node with delayed feedback instead of a very big random network, was introduced some years ago as a means of limiting hardware complexity in photonic systems. In essence, the idea of delay line reservoir computing constitutes an exchange between space and time: what is normally done spatially with many nonlinear nodes, is now done in a single node that is multiplexed in time. A virtual network configuration is created through the inertia of the system. After the first mixed analog/digital implementations in electronics, high processing speeds have been demonstrated based on the transient response to optical data injection in nonlinear optical systems such as semiconductor lasers. While previous efforts have focused on signal bandwidths limited by the semiconductor laser's relaxation oscillation frequency, we have demonstrated numerically that the much faster optical phase response makes significantly higher processing speeds attainable. Using complex nonlinear interactions between optical field and material, we demonstrate that it is possible to reduce the delay time to within lengths that can be integrated on chip. Relying on these unique nonlinear optics properties, we show that multiple optical modes can be used to either process in parallel several independent computational tasks or use them in conjunction to work on the same problem. We will illustrate our approach on a single-longitudinal mode semiconductor ring laser with optical feedback and on a semiconductor laser with multiple longitudinal modes. Finally, we have further developed the structure of delay-based reservoir computing to accommodate a cascade of several reservoir computers. In electronics, we have already demonstrated that such a cascade can perform several complex audio-processing tasks without the need for any audio-related pre-processing. With integrated delay-based reservoir computers, such a scheme could be achieved in optics.


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Mechanical Ventilation Simulator from Ken Tegtmeyer of the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota.
Interactive Respiratory, Vascular and Oxygenation Simulation Models by Dr. Dave Sainsbury of the Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, Women's & Children's Hospital, South Australia. These sophisticated programs require 200 Mhz machines with 64 Meg RAM -- but they are well worth it.
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The Confident and Concise Phrasing of Freddie King's "Yonder Wall"
There's some great takeaways, that are applicable to all styles, that you can gather from the great blues players. In this Freddie King solo, the supreme confidence, specific bends, and rhythmic restraint stand out to me as great things to focus on when improvising.
The first time through the changes is the solo off the record, and then I did my own thing for the second go round. Mostly thinking pentatonic fills in C#m while keeping the chord changes going. Good stuff to work on!


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Louisiana Ranks No. 10 In Site Selection Economic Development Rating
State's economic development efforts result in Prosperity Cup Top 10 ranking
BATON ROUGE, La. — Site Selection magazine has rated Louisiana's economic development efforts among the Top 10 in the U.S. in its Prosperity Cup rankings for 2017. In its evaluation of economic development performance by each of the 50 states, the magazine ranked Louisiana No. 10, citing its record of new and expanded facilities, high capital investment and substantial job creation.
This is Louisiana's seventh Top 10 showing in the past nine years in the Prosperity Cup, which formerly was known as the Top Competitive States rankings. Louisiana ranked No. 11 in 2016.
"Louisiana is a top-tier state for business," Gov. John Bel Edwards said. "This Top 10 showing in the Prosperity Cup rankings is a recognition of our hard work to create and sustain a healthy business climate in Louisiana. We will continue to attract new industries and businesses and encourage business expansions to provide the best jobs and economic opportunities for our citizens."
Since 2012, Louisiana has attracted more than $125 billion in active capital investment projects, with $65 billion of that investment now under construction or in the engineering and permitting phases.
"We are proud of the strong emphasis we place on economic development across the board, from small business services to major industrial projects," Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson said. "We announced several major new projects across Louisiana in the past year and saw progress on numerous projects already underway. Our industrial base remains strong, and we are expanding our information technology sector in locations throughout the state as we continue to grow our 21st century economy."
The Site Selection rankings calculate the total points a state-level economic development agency receives primarily based on the number of significant new and expanded facility announcements. Louisiana made the Top 10 for 2017 with a score of 347. The No. 1 state in the rankings, North Carolina, had 410 points. Louisiana also ranked fourth among eight states in the highly competitive South Central Region.
"Locations throughout the U.S. and in every region of the world compete aggressively for direct investment at home and from abroad," Site Selection Editor in Chief Mark Arend said. "Those appearing on these rankings have demonstrated with actual project numbers and other measures that they have the location attributes most in demand by capital investors."
Louisiana currently places among the Top 10 states in several business climate rankings. In March, the annual Governor's Cup rankings by Site Selection placed Louisiana No. 4 in the U.S. for states that announced the most new and expanded corporate facilities on a per capita basis in 2016. Southern Business & Development ranked Louisiana No. 1 among Southern states for attracting the most significant capital investment and job-creation projects per capita for the seventh year in a row. Area Development ranked Louisiana No. 5 in its annual Top States for Doing Business report, and Louisiana was ranked No. 7 in the Site Selection Best States for Business report, its seventh consecutive year in the Top 10.
Additionally, Business Facilities has named LED FastStart® the nation's best workforce training program for the past seven consecutive years, describing the program as "the gold standard for workforce training solutions."
About Site Selection
Site Selection magazine, published by Conway Inc., delivers expansion planning information to 45,000 executives of fast-growing firms. It is the senior publication in the development field. Read more about the Site Selection Prosperity Cup Awards at SiteSelection.com.

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The Center for the Book has also formed a national network of more than 80 reading promotion partners to help it fulfill its mission. These partners collaborate with the Center and with each other to maximize their efforts. They also meet annually at the Library of Congress to exchange ideas on how best to promote reading.


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b8ta Completes Acquisition of Re:store to Expand Fashion & Lifestyle Retail-as-a-Service Portfolio
By MTS Staff Writer	 On Nov 3, 2020
b8ta announced that it has acquired Re:store, a 1 year old startup that brings retail-as-a-service to online fashion brands at Maiden Lane in San Francisco. With this acquisition, b8ta marks a bold expansion in fashion & lifestyle as the industry looks for innovation.
Launched in August 2019, Re:store was founded by Selene Cruz after she bootstrapped her fashion brand out of her studio apartment. Seeing firsthand the need to get discovered and build community, she turned her studio into a shared showroom. Re:store went on to raise $1.7M in pre-seed funding led by Sequoia and SPC, one of the few Latinas raising venture funding in the Valley. The company has quickly become a go-to experiential retail partner for Instagram famous brands like Sezane, H&M's & Other Stories, Nasty Gal, Storets as well as DTC startups experimenting with physical retail including Thinx, 11 Honore, MM La Fleur, and Sleepy Jones. Re:store innovated IRL distribution with their retail-as-a-service model that provided turnkey placement with a proprietary dashboard, giving real-time visibility to automate merchandising, buying & logistics. Following their mission of building community within retail, their third floor was dedicated to events & coworking, helping launch local brands and host cult influencers like Jessica Alizzi, Alyssa Coscarelli, Karla Deras, and Vivid Wu.
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b8ta already operates the largest experiential retail footprint in the world with some two dozen outlets across the United States, Dubai, and Japan. To date, b8ta's retail footprint has seen over 50 million product engagements and launched more than 1,000 brands. In addition, b8ta licenses its store operations technology and works with premier partners such as Made by Google and Market @ Macy's. They made headlines last year for bringing back Toys 'R' Us during the holiday season. b8ta has raised over $88.5M in funding and is part-owned by Macy's, Inc. In Fall 2019, b8ta launched its inaugural Forum by b8ta store in West Hollywood, CA with a keen eye toward entering the fashion and lifestyle market.
"The future of retail is discovery," said Vibhu Norby, co-founder and CEO of b8ta. "I am a huge fan of what Selene built at Re:store, and we're incredibly excited to add their Maiden Lane location to our portfolio." The acquisition was a mixed offering of cash, equity, and contingent consideration, with Re:store maintaining licensing rights while handing off the business dealings to b8ta. Existing brand partners will see Maiden Lane rebranded under Forum by b8ta, and now be able to expand into West Hollywood, NYC's Hudson Yards, and future unannounced locations in b8ta's lifestyle pipeline. They will also have immediate access to Forum by b8ta's online marketplace. Selene Cruz will stay on in an advisory role with b8ta to support brand curation and community experience.
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"The b8ta team has been an inspiration since the beginning. This acquisition is a big win in our mission to create a true fashion-meets-tech platform. We're excited to finally be able to tap into our waitlist of brands and give them access to omni retail beyond Maiden Lane. Between b8ta's massive network of stores and strong execution performance in such a short time, and our thoughtful approach to curation, storytelling and customer experience, we're excited to work with their team to push for a new future of retail." – Selene Cruz.
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Home // Topics // Successes // How long does it take to get a sculpture of a black woman in a Chicago park? Two Lifetimes
How long does it take to get a sculpture of a black woman in a Chicago park? Two Lifetimes
Why are there no sculptures of women in Chicago? In a city built by women, in a city that produced no less than Jane Addams and Florence Perkins, why is there not a single image of a woman in a public park anywhere in this great and expansive city?
Yes, there is that sculpture of Dorothy, from the Wizard of Oz, in Oz Park. But she's a character, and a child.
Yes, there is the "fountain girl" near the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park — though had you drunk the water back when it was a drinking fountain, you'd have gotten Typhoid.
And yes, there are countless allegories across the city, Lady Justice, Lady Liberty, the allegory of labor and even the water. But no real, flesh and blood women, who lived and have stories to tell and who contributed to this city and inspired those who came after her.
That changes on June 7, 2018.
A bust of the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, one hand to the side of her face, in thought, her wise face in an expression of wonderment, has been cast in bronze and will be installed in Brooks Park in the Bronzeville neighborhood, on Chicago's south side.
An additional casting of the sculpture will be poured in a resin that has a bronze look to it, and will be on display at the Oak Park Art League in May 2018, as part of a show on fair housing. Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, has worked hard to remain an integrated town and this show, "Art for Social Change: Sanctuary" highlights that history.
Sculptor Margot McMahon, who has sculpted many portraits in the 37 years of her practice as an artist, spent nearly a year immersed in the life and writings of Gwendolyn Brooks, reading her poetry, meeting in person with Brooks' daughter, Nora Brooks Blakely.
Only after this immersive getting to know Brooks, through her family and writings, did she begin to draw and paint and then sculpt. This is the hidden part of the artistic process, the thinking, the mulling over. But the results are visible.
"What I did with the sculpting was to have these areas that are really expressive. And then other areas are very fine tuned and I used different tools," McMahon explains. Brooks' sleeves in the sculpture show energy and movement, while the shirt collar is more still. The gestures in the sleeves show Brooks' energy. "But then you get to the collar and it's very crisp and clean and in detail," like Brooks as an editor.
Every texture in the piece has a meaning, even seemingly small details are there for a reason, and add up to a visual story of Brooks, so that the piece is more than a physical representation.
Whenever McMahon sculpts someone she searches for that spark, that gleam of their personality and then translates it into sculpture. She says, "I've gotta get that gleam and find it in the clay."
She began sculpting in July of 2017 and around that time she met film maker Rana Segal, who documented the the process from sculpting to the molten metal pour.
While on the surface, it may seem odd for a white woman from Oak Park to sculpt the African American poet; Gwendolyn Brooks and the artist's father (also an artist) were friends, and Brooks wrote an acknowledgment to her father, Franklin McMahon in her final book. This is a fact McMahon only discovered in the past year, and it was a delightful surprise to her.
"I knew they were friends, my mother talked about her and what they were doing together," but she didn't know about the acknowledgement in the book until she had already been working on the sculpture project for a year.
As a child, McMahon participated in an unusual exchange student program, where she spend two weeks living in Bronzeville with a young girl named Vanessa and her family, and then Vanessa came to stay with them for two weeks in Oak Park. In each case, the kids took each other around and showed the other how they spent their time.
The not-for-profit organization behind the idea of this sculpture is the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, into which Gwendolyn Brooks was inducted in 2010 and in 2017, the year in which Brooks would have been 100, they celebrated the Year of "Our Miss Brooks 100." Their mission was to make sure that everyone in Chicago knows about Gwendolyn Brooks, who was the first African American person to win a Pulitzer Prize, and was poet laureate of Illinois from 1968 until her death.
The installation will include not only the sculpture of Gwendolyn Brooks, but also a re-creation of her childhood back porch, that her mother gave to her as her own space for writing. The idea is that young people in the neighborhood can come to Brooks Park, go there and write. And then they can publish their writing right away, but posting on a sharing wall that's part of the installation.
A stone path, with each stone engraved with an excerpt from Brooks' writing, will lead visitors from the porch over to the sculpture.
Support garnered for the costs of the sculpture's creation to date includes a grant from the Poetry Foundation, support from the Chicago Park District, in the form of permission for the installation for a period of five years, as well as support for the day of the event, as part of their series, Night out in the Parks and printed posters and materials.
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame continues to fundraise with an Indiegogo campaign, but one way or another, the sculpture will go in this June and Chicago will have it's very first public sculpture of real woman, who lived and breathed and wrote, made an impact and inspired so many writers who came after her.
All photos courtesy of the artist. All artwork depicted is Copyright Margot McMahon.
Molding and Casting Process of the Gwendolyn Brooks Sculpture by Margot McMahon | Creating the flexible mold of the original clay sculpture of Gwendolyn Brooks by Margot McMahon
Removing the flexible mold from the original sculpture in clay of Gwendolyn Brooks by Margot McMahon | Removing the flexible mold from the original sculpture in clay of Gwendolyn Brooks by Margot McMahon
Beginning to fill the mold with wax. | Beginning to fill the mold with wax.
Gwendolyn Brooks sculpture cast in wax, in preparation for being cast in bronze. The hand will be cast separately. | Gwendolyn Brooks sculpture cast in wax, in preparation for being cast in bronze. The hand will be cast separately.
Ceramic molds prepared for melting out the wax. | Ceramic molds prepared for melting out the wax.
Ceramic mold of Gwendolyn Brooks sculpture in the furnace to burn out the wax. | Ceramic mold of Gwendolyn Brooks sculpture in the furnace to burn out the wax.
Video Still of the Bronze Pour | Video Still of the Bronze Pour of the Gwendolyn Brooks Sculpture by Margot McMahon
Breaking off the ceramic shell after casting the sculpture in bronze. | Breaking off the ceramic shell after casting the sculpture in bronze.
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The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris (Paperback)
By Marc Petitjean, Adriana Hunter (Translated by)
This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene.
In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of all his affair with her beloved younger sister, Cristina, in 1934. In early 1939, anxious and adrift, Kahlo traveled from the United States to France—her only trip to Europe, and the beginning of a unique period of her life when she was enjoying success on her own.
Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo spends her days alongside luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Dora Maar, and Marcel Duchamp.
Using Kahlo's whirlwind romance with the author's father, Michel Petitjean, as a jumping-off point, The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris provides a striking portrait of the artist and an inside look at the history of one of her most powerful, enigmatic paintings.
Marc Petitjean is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer. He has directed several documentaries, including From Hiroshima to Fukushima, on Dr. Shuntaro Hida, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; Living Treasure, about Japanese kimono painter Kunihiko Moriguchi; and Zones grises, on his own search for information about the life of his father, Michel Petitjean, after his death.
Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than eighty books, including Véronique Olmi's Bakhita and Hervé Le Tellier's Eléctrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.
"Compelling…[Petitjean] captures the pop and fizz of artistic circles in Paris during the interwar years…The Heart is a distinctively intimate undertaking, which is no small feat considering its well-known cast of characters…an unconventional and deeply personal biography." —Washington Post
"An intimate portrait of the artist and her time in the lively 1930s surrealist scene." —New York Times Book Review
"This crisp, concise, radiant gem of a book is a delight all the way through, whether you see it as a yarn of multigenerational heartbreak and longing, a beautiful and unlikely father-son chronicle, a classic artist-muse love story, or a cautionary tale about the most obsessively rendered city on earth." —Bookforum
"Petitjean's unique, frank, and intriguing account details with precision and wonder a rarely examined chapter in Kahlo's extraordinary life." —Booklist (starred review)
"An intimate, unforgettable portrait of a brief but transformative time in Kahlo's life and of the turbulent beginnings of France's Surrealist Movement." —Foreword Reviews (starred review)
"[A] captivating biography…a perceptive portrait of an artist finding herself and learning to love and paint again. Fans of Kahlo's art and of the surrealist movement will want to give this thoughtful and illuminating work a look." —Publishers Weekly
"A breezy bit of art history about a 1939 affair between the author's father and Frida Kahlo in Paris…the story is transportive and dreamy." —Kirkus Reviews
"Marc Petitjean grew up in Paris with a haunting picture by Frida Kahlo on the walls of his family's modest apartment. Decades later, a stranger asked him about his father's love affair with Frida. This revelation, out of the blue, spurred him to investigate what had happened between them. The result is an intimate portrait, beautifully written, not only of the two lovers, but of bohemian Paris, and its most influential figures, at a turning point in history: the eve of war, in 1939. The Heart beats suspensefully with real life." —Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
"This book gives a poignant picture—part imagined and part true—of Frida Kahlo's days in Paris among other surrealists during a show of her paintings. It's told by the son of a French lover to whom she gave her powerful painting, The Heart, who was searching to understand his father better." —Laurie Lisle, author of Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe and Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life
"Incredibly lively and sensitive…a book that takes an important place in the bibliography of this modern Mexican heroine." —Connaissance des Arts
"Superb…[Petitjean] enables us to discover the artistic Paris of the interwar period." —La Presse de la Manche
"[Petitjean] paints a portrait as personal as it is perceptive of the intrepid Mexican [artist], while reviving the colors of the ebullient interwar art scene. Captivating." —Paris Match
Publisher: Other Press
Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
Art / Women Artists
Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Kobo eBook (April 28th, 2020): $13.99
Hardcover (April 9th, 2020): $25.00


Previously, I would be able to insert use cases without issue. It seems a coworker of mine has somehow changed my Cameo (version 18.5) so that every time I insert a Use Case, it now has an ID associated with it (1, 2, etc..) and tells me the ID conflicts with Use Cases he created. Now I have to go into the Specification and remove the Use Case ID for every use case. How do I undo this?
Do you want to turn off the UseCase numbering completely or just number correct?
What i expect happened, user loaded "UseCase Description Profile". So if you don't use it, you can remove it from project and numbering will disappear.
You can turn off numbering by going to menu "Options->Project->General->Numbering" and turn off option "Use Element Auto-numbering". All numbering will be turned off for entire project.
If you want to number from correct numbers, you would need to call numbering dialog, expand it with "Details" option. Then select "Update Last ID" and click ok. That should update id order.


Illinois sophomore guard Crandall Head has left the team and will transfer, coach Bruce Weber announced Tuesday.
CHAMPAIGN -- Illinois sophomore guard Crandall Head has left the team and will transfer, coach Bruce Weber announced Tuesday.
Head averaged 1 point and 9.2 minutes this season, and ESPN reported that he will transfer to UNLV.
Illinois plays Minnesota on Tuesday night in the Big Ten Conference opener.


Smithfield man died Tuesday morning in a single car crash in Chesapeake. Police have identified the man.
George West, 52, of Smithfield, died at the scene in Chesapeake around 8 a.m. after he lost control of his pickup truck and crashed into a tree.
Dorienne Boykin, spokeswoman for Chesapeake police, said investigators determined that West was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.


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Press Release: Online recruitment portal opens for teachers considering return to Ireland
Web-based pilot set up by the Post Primary Schools' Management Bodies and NAPD to match school vacancies with candidates
Minister McHugh welcomes initiative to promote opportunities at home
The Post Primary Schools' Management Bodies and NAPD have today (Friday, June 7) announced an online portal to help streamline teacher recruitment.
Under the banner of turasabhaile.com the recruitment initiative will focus on connecting schools with teachers who are working overseas, making it easier to match vacancies with prospective candidates.
The online platform is being supported by the Association of Community and Comprehensive Schools (ACCS), the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD), ETBI, and JMB – Secretariat of Secondary Schools.
John Irwin, ACCS General Secretary, on behalf of the post primary management bodies, said: "The beauty of this new online portal is its simplicity. We are adopting a very simple recruitment tool to enable potential candidates to be matched with schools which have vacancies. Teachers are being given the chance to express an interest in returning home and applying for a job.
"It is the first step in adopting a more digitally focused approach to recruitment. It will also help to assess demand for jobs while at the same time identify opportunities for qualified applicants."
Clive Byrne, Director of NAPD, said: "Turasabhaile.com provides a platform for us to build on. This portal provides the opportunity to connect with teachers who are overseas with job opportunities at home. We will continue discussions to widen the scale of the portal."
Joe McHugh, Minister for Education and Skills and Donegal T.D., said: "Many thousands of our highly skilled and dedicated teachers are working overseas, some of whom are considering returning to Ireland. Initiatives like this will make it easier.
"I'd like to thank the post primary schools' management bodies and NAPD for seizing the initiative here and responding to the need for management bodies and schools to be more proactive in trying to source the best candidates.
"I am also delighted to hear about schools and management bodies promoting the next step in offering initial interviews on web-based video links, for those teachers' resident outside the state"
Teachers will be given the opportunity to email contact details, a CV, preferred employment location and specialist subjects to the turasabhaile.com website. Schools will be able to confirm vacancies and forward current school application forms for teachers.
Administrators will process personal details and match potential candidates with schools which have vacancies, based on their geographic and subject preferences.
Standard job application criteria and recruitment procedures and circulars will apply in order for a potential candidate to qualify for an interview with a school.
Schools linking to turasabhaile.com will also be encouraged to provide initial interviews over video link, Skype or similar platforms.
Nessa White, General Secretary ETBI, said: "I welcome the opportunity to work with management body colleagues and NAPD to develop such an important tool which supports teachers in their journey home to the teaching profession in Ireland".
Mr Irwin added: "The management bodies and NAPD are grateful for the support of Minister McHugh and the Department of Education and Skills."
The new portal – turasabhaile.com – will be promoted among teachers and schools on social media platforms, while the website also includes links to tips and advice for teachers who are considering returning home.
Minister McHugh added: "Our teachers who go overseas play a tremendous role as ambassadors of our country and our education system, building on a strong educational legacy and reputation.
"Some of these teachers only intend to spend a number of years abroad, others take longer and some may never return. They all contribute so much to education and inspire younger generations at home and abroad and we should continue to work on initiatives to support them if they wish to return."


The coloured photographs are of the Wakefield Inn, Sechelt, taken by the archivist and Ivor Watson in September and November 2005 just prior to its demolition. The first owner of the Wakefield Inn was Major T. Sutherland, said to have been a tea planter in Ceylon/Sri Lanka, who came to the Sunshine Coast after serving in WWI. He bought the general store in Egmont, sold it in 1921 and in 1926 was listed in the Sechelt directory as a broker. In 1926, married to Rena Nickson, he had a log house, known as Wakefield House, built by Hector McDonald, in which they lived until WWII. Major Sutherland became a game constable for the Provincial Police and a full police constable in the 1930s. By 1940 he had sold his home and left the Sunshine Coast to serve in WWII. He never returned and died in 1946. His former home, renamed The Wakefield Inn, became a beer parlour and remained a popular place for Sechelt residents until it was torn down in 2006. W.J. Wakefield was listed in the Sechelt section of the B.C. Directory from 1902 until 1923 as farmer, rancher and logger. He kept a mixed farm on the banks of the creek named after him and just west of Wakefield Inn, also named after him.


Did you know 78% of pediatric prescriptions are for attention issues? Let's make a change together, by providing our children with an integrative approach to treating ADD and ADHD.
PANDAS is short for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections. PANDAS describes children who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or tic disorders, whose symptoms of these conditions get worse after a Strep Throat infection or Scarlet Fever.
PANS is short for Pediatric Acute Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome, and is used to describe a more generalized population of all OCD cases.
PANDAS requires a clinical diagnosis after a comprehensive integrative work up and review of a patient's health history. In patients who are diagnosed, the history will reveal an acute onset of OCD or tics, or a worsening of previous symptoms noticed, since having a strep infection.


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Spot, The Loony
More out-of-nowhere stuff: This time Action Lab brings us another new canine superhero in Spot On Adventure: Ready For Takeoff! "Join the action-adventurer Spot as he embarks on the mission of a lifetime! Saddled with the brand new partner that he never wanted, Golly-G the robot that wants to be real, Spot is hired to rescue a princess from the clutches of the bad guys. All the while being tracked by the notorious bounty hunter, the Moe Moe Blaster… an assorted allotment of various other bounty hunters… the Galactic Space police… a Space Ninja named Konuichi… as well as the biggest fish named Fluffy you've ever seen!" Got all that? This 96-page full-color graphic novel for all ages (written by Franco and illustrated by Scoot) is available now at MyComicShop.com.
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My Man!
Much of the discussion about the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (Out of the Shadows) has centered on what a welcome addition to the film Bebop and Rocksteady have been. They have always been fan-favorite characters after all. Well now, for the month of June IDW have given the boar and rhino their own comic book line — and a time machine. Be very, very afraid as Bebop and Rocksteady Destroy Everything in a new 5-issue full-color mini-series. According to Comics Alliance, "…the eternal misfits of the TMNT franchise find themselves bouncing around through time itself courtesy of writers Dustin Weaver and Ben Bates, with a cast of artists that includes Nick Pitarra, Sophie Campbell, Giannis Milonogiannis, and Ryan Browne. And if that wasn't enough, they're bringing a few old friends along for the ride, too!" In an unusual (but probably appropriate for these guys) move, IDW is releasing a new issue of the mini-series every week through June — so get yourself caught up!
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Stanley the Animated TV Star
More from Animation World Network: "UK and LA-based family and entertainment production company, Komixx Media Group, announced it has secured the worldwide rights to stylish children's author and illustrator William Bee's colorful series Stanley. Komixx will create an animation series that will follow the adventures of Stanley the hard-working hamster and his furry friends. The lovable series [Stanley the Builder, Stanley the Farmer, and so forth — Ye Ed-Otter] comes from the British-born author and illustrator Ian Bilbey, who writes under the name William Bee. Komixx Entertainment has brought Bilbey on-board as its art director to develop Stanley into a much-loved animation character for preschoolers." According to Andrew Cole-Bulgin, joint CEO and Head of Film & TV for Komixx Media Group, "Stanley is an independent, paws-on hamster who's used to running the show… It's going to be a lot of fun for Stanley, Hattie, Myrtle, Little Woo, and all their furry friends." The show goes into production in 2017, then of course it will be looking for world-wide markets.
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Reigning Cats and Dogs
Jun 23rd, 2016
(Sorry: We didn't come up with that one!) Legend is a new full-color science fiction series from Z2 Comics. "What if a biological terror agent wiped out most of humanity, and our domesticated animals were left in charge? How would our dogs and cats set about ruling and rebuilding the world? Ransom, the leader of the Dog Tribe, has been murdered by a creature known as the Endark. An English Pointer named Legend reluctantly rises to lead in his place, vowing to kill the monster once and for all. From acclaimed novelist Samuel Sattin and award-winning illustrator Chris Koehler comes Legend, where cat technology rules, dogs partner with hawks, and humans may be the most beastly creatures of all. " According to Bleeding Cool, the first run of issue #1 has already sold out and gone to a second printing. My, people like their post-apocalyptic pets, don't they? Check out the article for a preview trailer created by Z2 as well.
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Welcome Back to Transylvania!
Some good news coming our way thanks to Cartoon Brew: After initially bowing out of directing the Hotel Transylvania movie series after the second (very successful!) film, Genndy Tartakovsky had a change of heart and will in fact return to direct Part 3. "Acknowledging the surprising turn of events, Tartakovsky said in a statement, 'I thought I was done exploring the world of Hotel Transylvania after the first two films, but while I was away from the franchise finishing my TV show Samurai Jack, an idea sparked that I got really excited about and made it irresistible to return and helm myself this third adventure.' Michelle Murdocca will produce the film again, and Adam Sandler will executive produce and return as the voice of Dracula. Michael McCullers (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Boss Baby) is writing the screenplay, and Selena Gomez and Andy Samberg will revive their roles as Mavis and Johnny, respectively. Sony has slated the third installment of Hotel Transylvania for September 21, 2018. " Maybe then we'll find out more about the relationship of half-vampire Dennis and all-werewolf Winnie. (They zing'd, after all!). The article at Cartoon Brew also mentions other upcoming Sony Pictures animated projects, including The Star (formerly The Lamb — a faith-based feature that follows a young donkey who helps to bring about the very first Christmas).
image c. 2016 Sony Pictures Animation
A Wiggle in Time
Future-Worm! is a new 2D animated TV series coming to Disney XD this August. According to the Deadline: "Created and executive-produced by Emmy-winning director Ryan Quincy (South Park), Future-Worm! centers on Danny, played by Andy Milonakis, an optimistic 12-year-old who creates a time machine lunch box, and then meets and befriends a fearless worm (James Adomian) from the future (with titanium-enforced abs). The comedy follows Danny and Future Worm as they embark on adventures through space, time, and study hall. The characters were introduced last year in a popular Future-Worm! short-form series …on Disney XD's YouTube Channel." Which you can find right here.
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Llamas On Netflix
We got this from Animation World Network: "Genius Brands International, Inc. (GBI) announced that Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV network, will premiere GBI's new original preschool series, Llama Llama, to members worldwide in 2017. Currently in production on 15 half-hour episodes, Llama Llama, based on the award-winning and bestselling book series by author and illustrator Anna Dewdney, is led by an all-star team of creators, including Oscar-winning director Rob Minkoff (The Lion King), director Saul Blinkoff (Doc McStuffins, Barbie's Dreamtopia, Winnie the Pooh), Emmy winning writer Joe Purdy(Arthur), legendary Disney art director Ruben Aquino (Frozen, The Lion King, Aladdin, Mulan) and Emmy-award winning producers Jane Startz and Andy Heyward… Llama Llama is an animated series about childhood moments and adventures, as well as the special connections between the lead character, Llama, his parents, grandparents and best friends. Llama Llama tells heart-warming tales of life in a safe, friendly town seen through the eyes of Llama as he interacts with the amazing world around him." We'll keep you informed of the exact release date.
image c. 2016 GBI
But Do They Surf?
A new collection of questionable biology, courtesy of Toon Books. What else can you say about A Goofy Guide To Penguins? "How can you tell penguins apart? By the color of their mittens, of course! But do penguins really play hide-and-seek, carry pink umbrellas, and shower on the backs of whales? In this wild guide, twin brothers Jean-Luc Coudray and Philippe Coudray (Philippe is beloved for the bestselling Benjamin Bear series) bring us all the less-than-true truths and not-so-factual facts about the South Pole's silliest birds." We introduced you to Benjamin Bear previously. Now you can order this new hardcover book directly from the publisher, as well as other fine book outlets.
image c. 2016 Toon Books
Tiger Burning Bright
You might have heard before, but here's a reminder about Klaw, a popular full-color comic written by Antoine Ozanam and illustrated by animation and gaming-design legend Joël Jurion. "Teenager Angel Tomassini has been hiding a dark and scary secret: when threatened he involuntarily turns into a violent and vicious were-tiger. He doesn't know why, how, or what to do, because when he transforms, he loses control and people end up badly hurt. As if this isn't enough for a kid to deal with, Angel is slowly learning his father is one of the biggest organized crime leaders in the city. And there are more were-animals like Angel and different creatures too. The high school changes Angel Tomassini experiences are unlike anything his peers can identify with!" Now Magnetic Press have released Klaw for the first time in North America, now as a hardcover graphic novel. Check out the preview pages and more.
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When did the Berlin Airlift first start?
The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
What happened April 1948 Germany?
Berlin blockade, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.
Was the Berlin Airlift in 1948 successful?
The Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. Without firing a shot, the Americans foiled the Soviet plan to hold West Berlin hostage, while simultaneously demonstrating to the world the "Yankee ingenuity" for which their nation was famous.
What happened in the Berlin blockade and airlift of 1948?
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. A 1948 map detailing the Berlin Blockade, one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
Why did the US initiate the Berlin Airlift in 1948 what were the effects of this move?
Why did the U. S. initiate the Berlin Airlift in 1948? What were the effects of this move? Stalin blocked off Russia's section of Berlin making it impossible to reach the city by car. The people of the city were starving and needed supplies so the only way to do this was to initiate the Berlin Airlift.
Where was the Berlin Airlift?
West Berlin
Berlin Blockade/Location
What was the result of breaking the Berlin blockade in 1948 49?
What was a result of breaking the Berlin blockade in 1948-49? 11. It paved the way for the creation of two separate German states in 1949: the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), aligned with the US, and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), aligned with the USSR.
How many pilots died during the Berlin Airlift?
There were 101 fatalities recorded during the Airlift. The number includes 40 British and 31 American servicemen. The majority died as a result of accidents resulting from hazardous weather conditions or mechanical failures.
How many pilots died in the Berlin Airlift?
101 fatalities
A total of 101 fatalities were recorded as a result of the Air Lift operations, which included 40 Britons and 31 Americans. Seventeen American and eight British aircraft crashed during the operation causing most of the deaths.
Why did the Berlin Airlift happen?
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. The Soviet action was in response to the refusal of American and British officials to allow Russia more say in the economic future of Germany.
How often did planes land in the Berlin Airlift?
every 30 seconds
During the Berlin airlift, an Allied supply plane took off or landed in West Berlin every 30 seconds. The planes made nearly 300,000 flights in all.


Duke freshman forward RJ Barrett has announced that he will enter his name in the 2019 NBA Draft.
"It was unbelievable to play for Coach K, play for the brotherhood", Barrett said in a video posted to his Twitter and Instagram accounts. "I'm looking forward to coming back and supporting the Blue Devils in any way I can".
In many mock drafts, R.J. Barrett is projected as the No. 2 or No. 3 pick in June's NBA Draft.
In a lot of ways, this was the worst kept secret in the world. For players, it is also a time of evaluation on whether or not to return to college or test the NBA Draft waters.
This is what the "one-and-done" has wrought college basketball, superstar talent that plays only one season of college ball, and then immediately turn pro.
Over on Nintendo 3DS you can find 33% discounts on games including The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D and New Super Mario Bros. The Nintendo Labo VR Kit is available now, and with it, players can make their own Switch-powered VR headsets out of cardboard.
"I really just want to thank the Crazies, thank the whole Duke community for everything you've given me", Barrett said.
"It was incredible to play for Coach K, play for the brotherhood", Barrett said on Twitter and Instagram.
The freshman averaged 7.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists and recorded just the program's fourth triple double with 21 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists against NC State on February 16.
Williamson and classmate Cam Reddish have not yet announced their plans for next season.
It didn't take long for others to notice the 6-7 freshman as he put up 33 points in 32 minutes during Duke's first game of the season against Kentucky, breaking the record for most points made by a freshman in his debut. The deadline to pull out of the draft is May 29. The NBA's fast-paced game fits in perfectly with Barrett's skillset as the young Canadian excels at attacking the basket. The Blue Devils bested Florida State to win the ACC Tournament and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, where they were defeated by Michigan State.


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Paluh Kemiri is een bestuurslaag in het regentschap Deli Serdang van de provincie Noord-Sumatra, Indonesië. Paluh Kemiri telt 2663 inwoners (volkstelling 2010).

Plaats in Noord-Sumatra

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Crime and Disorder Statement
All organisations that register to become a Secured Environment will need to complete a Crime and Disorder Statement. The purpose of the statement is to demonstrate an understanding of crime in the local area and how this impacts on site security. The standard format is described below. Alternative formats may be considered for multi-site organisations and for organisations where the local Police Designing Out Crime Officer (DOCO) is unable to assist. This will be determined on a case by case basis and advice should be sought from the team.
The statement will include information on the local area, the site itself and situational security recommendations from a local police expert. The organisation will then have to create an action plan to respond to the recommendations. The following section explains the process.
Once registered for the accreditation organisations will be given the contact details for their local Police DOCO who will be able to assist the organisation to complete its Crime and Disorder Statement. Depending on the contribution the DOCO deems to be necessary a site survey may be conducted and/or the DOCO may read/amend/contribute to the statement drafted by the organisation. The Statement consists of four parts:
This section will provide relevant information relating to the surrounding area, premises, estates, offenders, and victims and will paint a picture to inform crime risk for a Secured Environments applicant. This will be completed using publicly accessible data sources or making a request to a police force under the freedom of information act.
This section will be an appraisal of reported, recorded crime and disorder relating directly to the site including statistical data. This will be completed using company records or publicly accessible data sources or making a request to a police force under the freedom of information act.
Situational Security Recommendations
This section will be completed by the DOCO (or by the applicant based on feedback received from the DOCO) and will provide the organisation with appropriate, realistic and cost commensurate situational security recommendations informed by the local context, site appraisal and site survey. It is important to note however, that it is recognised that management of security and the presence of and adherence to appropriate processes and procedures can reduce the need for overt physical security measures in some cases. It will be for the applicant to justify how it mitigates against the DOCO recommended physical security standards, in the action plan that is developed.
In response to the recommendations organisations will be required to create an action plan. The action plan will include people, process and situational improvement. It should include a timeline for action, and current progress against each action e.g. 'completed' or 'working towards'.


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Tadeusz Kentzer (ur. 24 sierpnia 1882 w Mąkowarsku, zm. 27 maja 1940 w Sachsenhausen) – działacz plebiscytowy na Warmii, działacz społeczny na Pomorzu, wicestarosta toruński.

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Z wykształcenia farmaceuta, właściciel majątku Tęguty w pow. olsztyńskim. Od roku 1918 był członkiem Polskiej Rady Ludowej dla Warmii. Po przegranym plebiscycie na Warmii i Mazurach, szykanowany przez władze niemieckie, przeniósł się na Pomorze, gdzie do wybuchu wojny prowadził w Lipniczkach k. Torunia wzorcowe gospodarstwo rolniczo-hodowlane (10 medali na Powszechnej Wystawie Krajowej w Poznaniu w roku 1929). W tym samym czasie brał czynny udział w życiu społecznym i samorządowym (m.in. pełnił obowiązki wiceprezesa Pomorskiego Towarzystwa Rolniczego w Toruniu). Po wkroczeniu hitlerowców na Pomorze aresztowany i 16 kwietnia 1940 przewieziony do obozu koncentracyjnego Sachsenhausen, gdzie został zamordowany 27 maja 1940.

Synowie: por. kaw. Jerzy Kentzer, poległ 17 września 1939 w Puszczy Kampinoskiej, Adam Kentzer - zamordowany w 1942 w Sachsenhausen.

Ordery i odznaczenia
 Złoty Krzyż Zasługi (24 lutego 1928)

Przypisy

Odznaczeni Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi (II Rzeczpospolita)
Ofiary Intelligenzaktion na Pomorzu
Ofiary KL Sachsenhausen
Polscy działacze plebiscytowi na Warmii i Mazurach
Polscy farmaceuci
Polskie ofiary niemieckich obozów koncentracyjnych
Urodzeni w 1882
Wicestarostowie grodzcy II Rzeczypospolitej
Zmarli w 1940


"Evaluation of the 1996 Beef Cattle NRC Model Predictions of Intake and" by Trey Patterson, Terry J. Klopfenstein et al.
Data from feeding 54 diets in seven previous beef cattle growing studies were used to evaluate the 1996 NRC model for the accuracy of intake and gain predictions. Calf weights and diets were inputs into the model, and actual intakes were used to calculate predicted gain and actual gains were used to calculate predicted intakes. The model over-predicted calf intakes on low quality diets and under-predicted intakes on high quality diets. The model over-predicted gains on high quality diets and under-predicted gains on low quality diets. The NRC model did not accurately predict performance of cattle on low quality roughage diets.