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Council boss calls on Prime Minister for A&E talk
Photo KEVIN McGUINNESS'Accident and Emergency, Chorley Hospital
The chief executive of Lancashire County Council is seeking an urgent meeting with the Prime Minister and Health Secretary to discuss the closure of Chorley A&E.
Jo Turton has made the move after a motion seeking the action was passed by full council on Thursday.
Steve Holgate
County Council Steve Holgate, chairman of the council's health scrutiny committee, proposed the motion.
He believes the situation in Chorley, where there are not enough specialists to continue running an A&E department safetly, is "an early symptom of an emerging national problem in the NHS."
He wants to see the Government to rethink recruitment policies.
He said: "I think Chorley has been unfortunate in that a series of issues have come together at the same time, but I believe its one of many, many A&Es across the country that are on the verge of toppling over the edge.
"The NHS is struggling to recruit and retain staff, which is related to the number of training places being reduced.
"If there aren't enough staff in the NHS our next step is to go to Europe, but a lot of their training doesn't fit in with our A&E culture and very often they don't stay.
"The third and final resort is to go places like the Indian sub continent, Canada and Australia, typically former colonies where the culture of training and A&E is embedded.
"We need a conversation that in the short term we need to be looking more at these people and stop our reliance on locums. They only have to give a few days notice and how can you organise a roster on that basis?"
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1868-1940 French Edouard Vuillard Galleries Jean-Edouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saone-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father\'s death, in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to continue his education. In the Lycee Condorcet Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (also a future painter and Vuillard\'s future brother in law), Maurice Denis, musician Pierre Hermant, writer Pierre Veber and Lugne-Poe. On Roussel\'s advice he refused a military career and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Pierre Bonnard. In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycee Condorcet and joined his closest friend Roussel at the studio of painter Diogene Maillart. There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. Related Paintings of Edouard Vuillard :. | Maid cleaning the room | Claude Bernheim de Villers | women in the garden | The lady and their children | Ms. wearing blue clothes and children |
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was an Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer. He was born in Graz on 29 October 1797. He studied at the Vienna Academy with Joseph Mössmer and also went on study tours through the Austrian Alpine regions. From 1835 to 1836 he lived in Vienna, and as of 1846 he sojourned in Rome. He then moved to Kiel, where he worked as a drawing teacher at the university as of 1863 and where he also died on 9 May 1890. In his pictures he emphasized light and color in order to loosen up his painting, as well as to harmonize and unite the details.
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How To Build A Successful Startup – With Edward Aten
Are you interested in getting involved in the startup movement and creating your own company?
Ed started in the advertising world and built an online social network for music. He is the co-founder of Merchbar, a commerce marketplace dedicated to connecting die hard music fans with merchandise. Ed has also worked with juggernaut companies like RedBull, been featured on Gigaom, TechCrunch along with countless others.
Ed is one of the hardest working hustlers in the tech scene and knows firsthand how easy it is to get obsessed with work and lose relationships, personal health, and even a job.
In this post, we will breakdown some of the key fundamentals to creating a startup, the power of apps with any business, partnerships, and strategies for building a team.
Ed will be among one of the many startup success stories and resources you can meet in person at our upcoming Bluecloud Summit live event.
Building A Successful and Fun Business
After college, Ed took a trip with his dad to visit Stanford, San Francisco, and tech giants like Apple and Google that have settled in the Bay area. He immediately fell in love with the energy and the history of the tech scene in SF and began creating his own business.
Like Ed, many of us have hundreds of ideas and our hands full with too many projects. How do we know which projects have the most potential and will be the most fun to work on?
Below are the 6 steps to growing a successful and fun business:
Build something simple to show people
Get their feedback
Use the feedback to get a better understanding of what's going on in the market
Get to a place where you have proof it will work
Create a business structure
Set specific goals
Finally, ask yourself:
"If this grows, will I like it?"
Problems can grow as fast as revenue. If the problems you face in your business multiply by 10X, would you still be fired up about the work you're doing? The problems your business will face have to be worth it for you to grow your business.
The Power of Apps in a Business
"I think about desktop as an afterthought. We purposely write everything not as click through rate, but as tap through rate."
Ed put his cards all-in mobile and it paid off. The Marchbar app was launched on the front page of the App Store and has been featured over 40 times.
More exposure – By creating an app, Merchbar was able to get exposure through a whole new marketplace. 85% of Merchbar's visitors come from mobile.
Powerful features – The tools that are provided with apps are also powerful. As a commerce app, Apple Pay has increased conversions for Mobilebar by 2X.
Better user experience – Mobile apps often provide a more intuitive and higher quality experience than other platforms like desktop.
Partnering with 100 Million Users
Connecting with partners and influencers brings in greater outreach and more revenue.
To get Merchbar in the hands of the most users possible, Ed partnered with Spotify and their 100 million users.
By connecting with Spotify, Merchbar is able to reach more consumers, learn more about the consumer demand and have a clear channel to listen to the consumer behavior.
On the supplier side, more companies are reaching out to be listed on Spotify and Merchbar. A clear win for both parties.
"Teach yourself to get out of the loop when you're used to being in the loop on everything."
As a CEO or founder of a company, it's hard to remove yourself from certain sectors of a business when you're used to having your hands in everything.
From the beginning, look for people and build a team that you don't have to worry about and check-in on.
The 3 core jobs of a CEO:
Deploy capital
Set direction
Communicate vision
As a team of 1, you have to do everything in the company including the above. As you begin to grow, you need to do less individual tasks and leverage more of the team.
Know what you don't know. It's also imperative to challenge the people on your team about the things they don't know. The level of uncertainty people have about the unknown limits their power and ability. This effects your business and their personal growth. There are so many tools, practices, meditations, incantations that we don't utilize enough to better ourselves.
Click the link above to listen to the Bluecloud Podcast and learn more about Ed's story and Merchbar.
In this 60 minute session, you'll hear:
What brought Ed to San Francisco
The 6 steps to grow a successful and fun business
The power of apps in business
The 3 core jobs of a CEO
Merchbar – the best place to buy merch and vinyl
Apple Pay – a mobile payment and digital wallet service
Spotify – music app
Download this podcast episode on iTunes
Please share this post with someone who you think would be inspired by this story! And don't forget to download the Merchbar app available in the App Store now.
To learn more about Merchbar, visit merchbar.com or contact Ed on Twtter at @aten and Facebook/edwardaten
If you want to get started with apps (or at least learn about the business), download our free app "Cheat Sheet" here.
Catch you guys later,
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What Do We Know About 'The Flash's' Mystery Girl After Last Night's Reveal?
By James Sainte-Claire May 3, 2018
I'm going to be honest with you, I haven't been a huge fan of The Thinker as a villain on CW's The Flash this season. Clifford DeVoe has been a pretty boring villain and he doesn't have the sort of emotional resonance as Reverse Flash had in season one or Deathstroke had on Arrow's second season. DeVoe is basically the Kanye West of Arrowverse villains; he's convinced he's smarter than everyone else, that he's the only person who sees the real truth, and he's come to the dumbest possible conclusion from that. Even killing fan-favorite supporting character Ralph Dibney and living inside his body wasn't enough to make DeVoe feel like a villain on the same level as Eobard Thawne who was as smart, if not smarter than DeVoe, and had super speed and a serious emotional connection with Team Flash.
So while last night's episode was all about DeVoe's backstory (spoiler: he was a jerk who treated his wife like crap even before the particle accelerator explosion), the only part of the episode that ended up being that compelling was another visit from the Mystery Girl, who first showed up at Barry and Iris's wedding during the Crisis on Earth-X crossover. This time, Mystery Girl, played by Jessica Parker Kennedy, showed up at Cecile's baby shower with a gift and accidentally blurted out the day Joe and Cecile's baby would be born, which just happens to be the day the season finale is going to air.
But then something happened when Mystery Girl saw Iris West-Allen. She bolted before Iris could see her. And by bolted, I mean she ran off using super speed that left purple and yellow lightning in her wake.
This has lead to a lot of speculation that she's either Iris and Barry's daughter or Joe and Cecile's daughter, the later presumably because who knows anyone's birthday but their own offhand?
Here's what we've seen of Mystery Girl so far. In her first appearance, she was at Barry and Iris's wedding as a caterer who had a brief scene with Barry where she seemed just a little too enthusiastic to see two random strangers get married. When we next see her, she buys Ralph and Cisco coffee and rambles for a full minute about karma and helping people, before she sits and writes in a journal using the same strange symbols Barry was writing with when he emerged from the Speed Force in the season premiere. She shows up again at CC Jitters to bump into Harry and Caitlin, who she only talks to for a second but she was apparently there to meet them.
In that same episode, "Enter Flashtime," Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth Three, mentions he's mentoring his replacement, who he mentions is a girl. I'm pretty sure that wasn't an offhanded line either, it seems pretty obvious that Mystery Girl is being trained by Jay to become the next Flash of Earth Three. But who is she?
The most accepted theory on social media is that she's Dawn Allen, Barry and Iris's daughter. I'm not entirely convinced, because Dawn Allen has a twin brother who has been nowhere to be seen. And Mystery Girl seems to have knowledge of future events, which points to her being a time traveler.
There is a character in the Flash mythos from the future with super speed and a ponytail who leaves a purple and yellow streak behind he when she runs, but it's not Dawn Allen, it's her daughter, Barry's granddaughter, Jenny Ognats, also known as XS.
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And that language she and Barry were writing in? It isn't Interlac, the language used by The Legion of Super-Heroes (who have had a season-long arc on Supergirl this year) in XS's timeline, but it shares some similarities with that language. Probably enough that it could be a changed version of Interlac to avoid spoiling the reveal in the season premiere. I'm putting my money on Mystery Girl being XS, or at least some combination of XS and Dawn Allen into a single character, the way Mia Dearden became Oliver's sister Thea Dearden Queen on Arrow.
Whoever she is, Todd Helbing told EW that we'd find out her identity in the season finale, and that she's been showing up to foreshadow the plot of season five.
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"Within the space of a few years a culture sometimes ceases to think as it has been thinking up till then," writes philosopher Michel Foucault, "and begins to think other things in a new way." 1
In 2015, Sophie Howe became the first Future Generations Commissioner for Wales and her team are radically deconstructing political policy and the current culture around that, reimagining policy to create a country where a sustainable future is at the heart of everything.
A sustainable tomorrow means creating a society where social, environmental, economic and cultural well-being are on equal footing. Howe aims to make decisions in a way that recognizes the connections between health, wealth and well-being. The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act became law in 2015 and has gathered attention worldwide, Nikhil Seth, Head of Sustainable Development at the United Nations, "What Wales is doing today we hope the world will do tomorrow".
The Act itself changes the political landscape. It positions government decision-making – focusing on well-being and the things that make life worthwhile. Howe believes the best way to plan for the future is to go out and create it. But, a plan only goes so far, and new ways to communicate are the catalyst for radical social change, a wider cultural change is required. In the interview below with MAIM researcher Katherine Simpson, Howe discusses the future of intelligence not in terms of cognitive intelligence (IQ) but emotional intelligence (EQ) or as Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba says love intelligence (LQ). This mode of empathetic communication will be critical in the future of decision-making and policy.
Katherine Simpson: I'm fascinated by this pioneering act, let's start by describing your role in a sentence and you can be as honest, literal or novel as you feel fits best?
Sophie Howe: I'm going go back to what it says in the legislation because it's as good as anything, "The guardian of the interest of future Generations"'
Katherine Simpson: The Guardian! How important is the Future Generations Act for developing an ethical progressive future do you think?
Sophie Howe: I think It's really important, because in my opinion we're recasting the way that we think about policy and the things that we do here in Wales. For a start it's putting social, environmental and economic and cultural well-being on an equal footing. For a long-time, it's started from the economy as being the most important thing and there's been this presumption that jobs, and growth are more important than the environment and sustainability and that it's fine to have an environmental impact because of the benefits of jobs and growth. There's also been this assumption that if you have jobs and growth there is a sort of trickle-down effect in terms of society and culture and so on and that's just not the case because we know that GDP can go up and lots of people are still living in extreme poverty or relative poverty and so growth isn't equal. What this is actually doing is recasting the way that we think about those things – and putting that on a legislative footing is incredibly powerful. Of course, it's not going to change the world or change Wales overnight but putting in this structural footing is a very strong message to send.
Kath: I'll come back to some of those thoughts later, but I just wanted to get a sense of your background. Could you tell me a little bit about yourself and how the role came about and why you took it? You previously were the Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales tackling violence against women and girls, how have those past experiences influenced you now?
Sophie Howe: My personal background, I grew up in a place called Ely, in Cardiff which was always in the top 10 and not for positive reasons – in the Welsh Index for deprivation, it was one of those quite challenging areas. My mum was a secretary. My dad was a diesel fitter. It was quite unusual in a way because they both worked. I grew up there in the 1980s which was the height of the Thatcher government and mass unemployment and Ely was one of those areas that was hit particularly hard with that. However, because both my parents worked I was looked after a lot by my grandparents who lived on the other side of Cardiff which couldn't be more different. Even now the stats in terms of life expectancy from the area of Cardiff that I grew up in compared to the area of Cardiff where my grandparents lived, where I actually went to school is like a 10-year difference in life expectancy.
Kath: Oh my god, 10 years?
Sophie Howe: Yeah! Within a couple of miles. And, that's about poverty and deprivation. I suppose I came from a very deprived area but actually went to school in a very affluent area because my grandparents used to pick me up after school. So, I could very much see that divide. Which has definitely influenced me because I suppose sometimes you grow up in an area and that's your world and that's kind of what you see – I grew up in that world but then I saw this other world and I suppose that informed my thinking. My dad was a political activist and I was involved in that from a toddler and stuff that he was doing around political activism. That understanding of a broader social policy context – obviously not that I defined it like that as a three-year-old but – that kind of understanding about that broader social policy context of which we operate in, and a sense of fairness in the world, that was really important for me. Another big influence was my mum who was quite a strong feminist really and she worked as a secretary in television and I could see that in lots of ways she was far smarter than the men. She was actually doing most of the work the men were taking the credit for. So, I guess I'd say I was quite a feisty kid growing up. I was quite streetwise, but then again, I was also in this kind of school with lots of middle-class kids. I was the feisty one in situations and I challenged things that I thought were wrong. I remember when I was about 11 years old leading a campaign to get the school to allow girls to wear trousers in the winter.
Kath Simpson: I can really start to see the connections between you background and becoming 'the guardian' which is a big part of the discourse of the Act. It's amazing to see a woman in this position. Is there anything else you wanted add about your move into politics?
Sophie Howe: Yeah, because of my interest in politics I was the first of my family to go to university and there was a brilliant female candidate, Julie Morgan, in the area where I lived, and I volunteered in my first year of University to help on her election campaign. Julie was a strong influence on me, she led campaigns for twinning [adjacent Labour constituencies would choose a man and a woman]. So we had the first National Assembly for Wales, where all of the seats that should be elected should be equal and that achieved the first gender balanced assembly. She basically encouraged me as part of this movement to stand to be a local councillor, which I did at the age of 21, but then I found out that I was pregnant and I was in my final year of Uni. It was an unplanned pregnancy and it was all a bit of a disaster at the time and that's been another significant impact on my career because I was told at that point, "Well that's it your life's over now, you'll be like all the other girls from Ely". And, that basically made me more determined to prove myself. When I stood for election, the opposition said, "Don't vote for that pregnant schoolgirl". This just made me more determined and more passionate about fighting inequality, particularly gender equality. I think my passion about domestic abuse comes from that because I think it's one of the most endemic issues in our society, which is no matter what we say it, still hidden and not tackled in the way that it should be. The thing that I'm completely passionate about and putting into a broader context is equality and how we tackle diversity.
Katherine Simpson: Tackling diversity and equality is the crux of the Future Generations Act and well-being is the pivot to achieve that. I actually teach yoga and over the last couple of years there has been a massive well-being movement, but I find it quite a loaded term and also quite conceptual to communicate. If we're re-thinking well-being what does it mean to you and the Act?
Sophie Howe: What it means to me, is probably in the same ballpark as a lot of people. It's the things I always talk about – it's the things that make life worthwhile. So, I don't know if you've seen any of Michael Marmot's work on the Social Determinants of Health. Basically the things that impact on your health are not whether we have a good NHS or any of those things. The social determinants of Health are about relationships, whether we have access to decent work, not just work, but decent work is really important. It's about the quality of the areas that we live in. Why is it that more kids in deprived areas play in poisonous playgrounds because of air pollution? Why should that be?
Whereas now I'm pretty fortunate to be able to live in quite a nice area where you can walk out and you could be in parkland within a couple of minutes, the kids can go to a good school. I've got good public transport links. I've got all my family around me. Those are the things that is well-being for me. Whereas for other people, they almost don't even get to this little comfort as well-being, because their basic needs are not being met or there's too much focus purely on meeting their basic needs. The way public services do business is too focused just on basic needs and not looking at a person holistically. You can have your basic needs met, but that still doesn't mean that it's going to contribute to your well-being. An analogy would be how our benefit system operates. OK, arguably the benefit system meets your basic needs, although there are some arguments that it perhaps doesn't even do that these days. So you might be able to put food on the table but the way in which that's constructed the meaning of well-being is very process-focused – for example
you've got to apply for x number of jobs each week even if they're not of any relevance to you and so on. It's not looking at that person holistically and it's not looking at how that person is potentially giving back to a community. I think this is the case of women in particular. I've met women in the South Wales valleys, who are not in work, but they are actually looking after their next-door neighbour. They're taking a meal every night to their elderly father and they're picking up the grandkids from school. They are doing all of those things which are absolutely fundamental not just to their own well-being but the well-being of the wider Community and that's not valued at all and that's the real issue. Why is it that we focus on particular things like, you must have a job, or you must live in a house like this – it's all about material things. When actually we need to be valuing more the things that make life worthwhile and the contribution that many people are making along those lines which just isn't recognized.
Katherine Simpson: With all the things that you're doing now within your work, how does it play out into your life and your family. Do you feel a sense of responsibility to practice what you preach?
Sophie Howe: Oh, I definitely do. When you talk about sustainability which is a key part of the legislation you immediately think about environmental sustainability – I'd say the average person on the street tends to think about environmental sustainability. I was as bad as everyone else. In my last job, my office was 10 miles away. I'd get in my car, outside my house and drive to work, walk three steps into my office and sit at my desk all day. The same thing that many people do. What I recognize now, because of this job, is the interconnections between all of these things and the smaller simple changes that you can make in your life to actually promote that wider well-being. I haven't driven my car to work I don't know how long for now. I get on the bus or sometimes get a lift from my husband but before I do that I let the kids scoot or ride to school and I actually really enjoy doing that. And I think about getting off the bus a stop earlier because I actually enjoy walking and I value nature. Before, probably like lots of people, I took it for granted. I think it's having that sense of the basic things – I've lost weight since coming into this job, not because I felt like doing anything different but because I've been doing those simple things in my life, like walking a lot more, like being a bit more focused on the food that we eat and things like that. Even though I work long hours, that's okay because I enjoy doing what I do. It's not actually been that difficult to make those changes. I haven't noticed them as something hard to do. All I've noticed are the positive benefits that those changes have brought and that's really positive. We have lots of really good workplace policies in my team that the rest of my staff are taking on board as well, but we probably don't have enough time to get into all of that.
Katherine Simpson: I think it's somehow expected and that well-being is like a package deal. It's not just for the Act, it's about being holistic in every sense.
Sophie Howe: Yeah.
Katherine Simpson: What about the concept of 'time' and how you have short-term and long-term goals for future generations. In the reality of what the world is looking like now, how does time influence the way you make decisions?
Sophie Howe: I think that's really interesting because generally what we do is we plan on the basis on the here and now and that's understandable. On a personal level it's very difficult to anticipate ourselves in the future. That's why we're so bad at pensions and making decisions now about any potential long-term care needs you might need or looking after our health. Generally, I feel we're quite bad at that and that mirrors how we do public policy. We plan on the basis of the here and now, if we're lucky we might set a longer-term plan, so the next 10 years is as long as it ever gets. What we need to be doing is getting much better at fore-sighting. I know you can't predict the future but there are certain things that we know for certain, like we're going to have an ageing population, climate changes is here and it ain't going anywhere unless we do something about it. Like the fact that our economic model at the moment doesn't work – the rich could be getting richer the poor could be getting poorer. So, there are certain things that we know pretty much as a fact and we need to be planning ahead to tackle them.
What's also important is back-casting. We don't just say that "Oh well we'll try to make plans for the future, but we don't know what the future is going to be". It's this concept that the best way to create a plan for the future is to go out and create it. You've got to have a vision of what you want the future to look like and then cast-back from that, taking into account the trends and scenarios as far as you can. That's not saying that the way to achieve that is linear, of course it's not because you have disruptive things that come along like Brexit. But at least you've set the vision for the future that you want rather than just saying, "Okay, well we'll deal with the here and now and we'll try and plan for the medium term without taking into account any of the things that we know are coming our way".
Katherine Simpson: Disruption introduces uncertainties, we can only act on the here and now and the data and predictions that have been gathered.
Sophie Howe: Yeah, but I`m thinking that if your long-term plan is to get X, Y or Z. Okay, you might not know how you're necessarily going to get from here to there but if you've got some sort of aim you might have to go around the houses a bit but you're still heading in the right direction. If you don't have a long-term vision you haven't got a clue where you're going, and you're just taken off by whatever happens to happen.
Katherine Simpson: Maybe one of the ways it could happen is something that you talked about at the symposium at Central St Martins where you talked about cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and LQ this 'love intelligence'. How do these modes of communicating or strategy effect the future?
Sophie Howe: I think it's really significant. My first meeting this morning was talking with someone leading a review on automation and the impact on jobs and skills in Wales. If you look at it in a narrow, traditional way, which is, "Oh god we're all worried about jobs for the future". But if that's what presses your buttons, emotional intelligence and the Love Quotient that Jack Ma talks about is going to be crucially important because automation and artificial intelligence is here and is only going to grow, so we need to focus on the things that keep us human. If we just focus on traditional ideas of knowledge we're never going to be able to keep up with robots. But where you have scenarios where robots and artificial intelligence are working alongside empathy that emotional intelligence which only humans can do, that's where you potentially get something quite beautiful. For example imagine a doctor whose primary focus of their training wasn't being really clever at diagnosing all these different conditions, but actually the focus of that doctor might be to look at this person holistically. Yes, the patient might have a respiratory disease which a robot has been able to diagnose far more effectively. But what if the human doctor could spend time with that person, understanding what goes on in their lives, considering what measures we could put in place to help improve that condition in terms of lifestyle and overall well-being. If doctors were able to focus on that rather than the very technical diagnostics and treatment because that's what robots and AI were able to do I think we'd have a completely different approach to keeping people well and dealing with health conditions. That's just one example in one sector, what if teachers focused on the same sort of thing, so they were able to spend more time not just imparting knowledge but instead were able to focus on a child's well-being. More of a focus on what's going on at home for that child, on particular types of learning styles and what's impacting on the child's ability to learn or not – rather than just teaching a lesson. It's that bigger focus on well-being. Those are the things we should focus on, humans doing human stuff could be incredibly powerful in the future. We're still too focused on educating on the basis of knowledge rather than general life skills, well-being and emotional intelligence for the future.
Katherine Simpson: In that regard, have you ever thought about a utopian or dystopian future where the Act plays out in 20 years and not limited to Wales?
Sophie Howe: Yeah, well we did do some work a year or so back which looks at a couple of vignettes – looking at what Wales could look like. It was building in some of the future trends and scenarios we were trying to play out, exploring if we've got the Act right what that could look like for Wales. It was things like; decent jobs closer to home because we had taken the decision to invest in local start-up companies. Alongside that we had a big focus on volunteering and community activities, so we had people doing the walking bus to school and the teachers were focused as much on physical activity and well-being as they were on teaching. I'm trying to think, there was also a number of families that the ethnic mix in the area was much greater because there was a big inward migration, and we were using that as an opportunity to embrace all the different skills that brought in to Wales. There was a range of different things like that where we were building on these future trends but using them in a way in which we steer the policy as you would be required to under Future Generations Act to make those positive things, rather than negative. So, like the aging population the vignette included a number of older people working in schools, providing emotional resilience to children in schools. There's loads of things that you could do to envisage this future, building on future trends, but it means that at a decision-making level now hundreds of different decisions have got to be taken in the right way, which is going to help to build that, and that's quite complex to achieve.
Katherine Simpson: Yes, it's so complex! I take my hat off to you. I think it's an amazing Act and it's an exciting time for the future of policy. So, the role is for seven years and you've got six years left in this role.
Sophie Howe: Well, five years left.
Katherine Simpson: What happens after seven years?
Sophie Howe: They'll appoint a new commissioner and I think I'll ride off into the sunset and focus on my well-being. [Laughs]. Who knows what I'll do?
Katherine Simpson: Is it part of the cycle that there has to be a new person, is that part of the strategy that the role needs new blood?
Sophie Howe: Well, it doesn't have to be, so in theory I could be newly appointed, but we have four commissioners in Wales doing different things, we've got a children's commissioner, old people's commissioner and a Welsh language commissioner. I've got the longest term out of any of them, the rest of them are four years. They did recognize the challenges ahead in the future Generations Act and should therefore have a longer term. But, my gut instinct is probably that they need some fresh blood coming in after a seven-year period, who knows what might have changed by then. I count myself lucky that I had the opportunity and the challenge to lay the groundwork, getting this right, which is going to be a long-term mission and that's as much as I can do. Try and lay the right groundwork to pass on the next person who hopefully will start to see some of the results coming from the legislation.
Katherine Simpson: It's funny you say that about luck, I love the Louis Pasteur quote, "Luck favours the prepared mind". I see it as it wasn't really luck that you're in this position, it's that you're prepared for the position, so you became it.
Sophie Howe: Yeah, it's a good phrase that.
Katherine Simpson: Thank you so much, Sophie.
Sophie Howe: You're welcome.
Schirato, T., Danaher, G. & Webb, J. (2012) 'Questions of Method', in Schirato, T., Danaher, G. & Webb, J. Understanding Foucault. A Critical Introduction, 2nd edn. London: Sage, pp. 1–41.
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Q: database normalization do I need it I've read a lot about normalization and I still can't fully understand it/I'm not sure how to normalize this. This is how my database currently looks, does it even need to be normalized? If so, where do I even start?
http://i.imgur.com/L43fHS6.png this is what it currently looks like

A: You will want to have 1 row per user_ID so you can easily access all the data.
e.g. for your gameID 5002947 (row11) this needs to be split into the following:
id       setup_id   user_ID
5002947  997        563749
5002947  997        500243
5002947  997        536271
...

You have two options. Create a complex SQL query that will handle this (I can't supply this unfortunately but I'm sure others could) or use php.
PHP method
Select all rows and explode the userID into an array.
loop through this array and insert back into the database.
Depending on the number of rows and userIDs you have this may take a while to execute.
e.g.
$mysqli = new mysqli(HOST, USER, PASSWORD, DATABASE);
$query = 'SELECT * FROM table';
$data = mysqli_query($mysqli, $query);
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($data))
{
    $data[] = array("gameid"=>$row['game_ID'], "setupid"=>$row['setup_ID'],"userid"=>str_getcsv($row['user_ID'])); /*And all your other information*/
}

for($i=0; $i<count($data); $i++) {
    $gameid = $data[$i]['gameid'];
    $setupid = $data[$i]['setupid'];
    /*Other info you need*/

    for ($x=0; $x<count($data[$i]['userid']);$x++) {
        $userid = $data[$i]['userid'][$x];
        if ($stmt = $mysqli->prepare("INSERT INTO newtable (game_ID, setup_ID, user_ID) VALUES (?, ?, ?)")) {
            $stmt->bind_param('iii', $gameid ,$setupid ,$userid);
            if (!$stmt->execute()) {
                $stmt->close();
            }
        }

    }
}

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You may know that chiropractic care can help with any musculoskeletal as well as internal health issues, but did you know that chiropractic care along with Applied Kinesiology can help children and adults that have been diagnosed with learning disabilities such as ADD and ADHD? Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder can be characterized by constant and excessive movement, aggression, unpredictability, impatience, a short attention span, poor coordination, poor sleep habits, and more. Most people are given stimulant medications such as Adderal or Ritalin which come along with many side effects and may suppress the children of their imagination, creativity, and enthusiasm. Thankfully, there is an alternative to these medications and it comes with chiropractic and AK. Neurologic disorganization, or "Switching", as we commonly call it, is something I check for with every patient at every visit. Switching is basically a confusion of the messages within our body and its nervous system. A good example is when I tell you to lay on your stomach and you lay on your back Or when you say right when you mean left, etc. Switching creates learning problems but can be treated successfully via the cranial-sacral system of the body along with releasing dural torque in the spine, oftentimes through chiropractic adjustments and AK work. Blood sugar handling stress is another factor with learning disabilities. The brain is very dependent on stable blood sugar to perform properly. I check for dietary sensitivities as well as the functioning of the glands of the body that help regulate blood sugar. With dietary changes and treatment of the blood sugar system, a more balanced blood sugar can be attained. Food and chemical sensitivities play a huge part in mood, behavior, and cognition and all dietary stressors should be found and eliminated. The good news is, with chiropractic and AK, this is all possible. For most of those who come in for treatment, the work that is done in-office combined with at-home lifestyle changes makes a world of difference! Children and adults alike are able to get off of their medications and live a happy, healthy life. Do you know anyone suffering from learning or behavioral problems who want a new, holistic approach? Try Chiropractic Applied Kinesiology.


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The Department of Ophthalmology offers the MSc and PhD in Medical Sciences (Ophthalmology) degrees (see Medical Sciences ) either as part of a postgraduate training program for post-MD applicants or as an independent degree program for those proceeding from a BSc. Research may be carried out in a variety of ophthalmology-related disciplines for which staff in the Department have active research programs. Major research initiatives are in the areas of electrophysiology of vision, models of retinal degeneration and therapies, ocular anatomy and ocular genetics. Inquiries should be directed to the Graduate Program Assistant in the Department of Ophthalmology.
The Department's normal requirements for admission of graduate students are those of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research but stipulating a minimum GPA of 3.3 or equivalent during each of the previous two years of university and proof of English language proficiency, where applicable (see English Language Requirement ).
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Q: How do I split a Wordpress title at the – in PHP? I am working on my Wordpress blog and its required to get the title of a post and split it at the "-". Thing is, its not working, because in the source its &ndash and when I look at the result on the website, its a "long minus" (–). Copying and pasting this long minus into some editor makes it a normal minus (-). I cant split at "-" nor at &ndash, but somehow it must be possible. When I created the article, I just typed "-" (minus), but somewhere it gets converted to – automatically.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

A: I think I found it. I remember that I have meet the similar problem that when I paste code in my post the quote mark transform to an em-quad one when display to readers.
I found that is in /wp-include/formatting.php line 56 (wordpress ver 3.3.1), it defined some characters need to replace
$static_characters = array_merge( array('---', ' -- ', '--', ' - ', 'xn–', '...', '``', '\'\'', ' (tm)'), $cockney );
$static_replacements = array_merge( array($em_dash, ' ' . $em_dash . ' ', $en_dash, ' ' . $en_dash . ' ', 'xn--', '…', $opening_quote, $closing_quote, ' ™'), $cockneyreplace );

and in line 85 it make an replacement
// This is not a tag, nor is the texturization disabled static strings
$curl = str_replace($static_characters, $static_replacements, $curl);

A: If you want to split a string at the "-" character, basically you must replace "-" with a space.
Try this:
$string_to_be_stripped = "my-word-test";
$chars = array('-');
$new_string = str_replace($chars, ' ', $string_to_be_stripped);
echo $new_string;

These lines splits the string at the "-". For example, if you have my-word-test, it will echo "my word test". I hope it helps.
For more information about the str_replace function click here.
If you want to do this in a WordPress style, try using filters. I suggest placing these lines in your functions.php file:
add_filter('the_title', function($title) {

$string_to_be_stripped = $title;
$chars = array('-');
$new_string = str_replace($chars, ' ', $string_to_be_stripped);
return $new_string;

})

Now, everytime you use the_title in a loop, the title will be escaped.


USDA – Compared to last period, trade active on good demand for feed grade corn, trading 30 cents lower than two week's ago and 68 cents higher than a year ago. The bulk of activity was on forward contracting, mainly for Q4 2018 and Q1 2019. Yields reported are higher than expected.
Trade activity and demand moderate on feed grade soybeans. No comparable trades to trend, but steady undertones noted and prices received are 45 cents higher than a year ago.
Feed wheat trade too limited to trend, but firm undertones noted. Trade activity and demand moderate for soybean meal and oil. No comparable trades to trend, but mostly steady undertones noted.
Trade inactive on all other organic grains. Corn and soybean harvest delayed in many states due to heavy rain.


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Intonation for String Players
2002 by Stefan Hersh
Intonation is a vexing problem for string players. In fact it is so much so that often one of the distinctions between the most sought-after string performers and ensembles from their professional colleagues less in demand is the quality and consistency of their intonation. The notion of "in tune" as a goal, however laudable, is simplistic. In order to achieve satisfying and consistent-sounding intonation, it is critical to have a concept for tuning, based on certain acoustical realities, and based on the context in which you are working.
Any discussion of intonation in the modern era begins with an understanding of the system of equal temperament. With equal temperament, by adjusting every interval to the same degree in the scale, two problems of tuning chords are dealt with via compromise: octave displacement, and the effect of the qualities of different intervals of the triad in different keys. In the equal-tempered system, music sounds relatively in tune (or out of tune) to the same degree in every key. A keyboard tuned to equal temperament frees a composer to write pieces containing any and every possible modulation. Because of this advantage, equal temperament has become the most universally used tuning system for keyboard instruments. J. S. Bach was one of the first musicians and composers to fully exploit the virtues of the system of equal temperament. The great keyboard sonatas of the classical and romantic eras, and most of the repertoire written in the years since would have been impossible without the equal-tempered system. In the modern era, the equal tempered system also provides a convenient base line for tuning all non-keyboard instruments in a manner that requires no specific knowledge of the harmonic context of a situation. Modern orchestras typically conceive of tuning in equal temperament. Electronic tuning machines generally use equal temperament as their default setting partly for this reason.
However practical it may be as a compromise, for non-fixed-pitch instruments, equal temperament is not a means to the most beautiful or satisfying intonation in either harmonic or melodic contexts. There are situations where equal temperament makes sense for non-fixed-pitch instruments. In the modern orchestra, for instance, any large deviance from equal temperament can leave a player sounding less unified with the group. There are situations in chamber music settings as well, where equal temperament is the most exigent solution to a conflict of acoustical and technical realities.
In certain repertoire, even with fixed-pitch (keyboard and fretted) instruments, there are tuning choices to consider besides equal temperament, depending on the degree to which a piece modulates, and depending on the actual keys to which the piece modulates. Early music practitioners, especially keyboard players, must incorporate an understanding of temperament as essential among the tools they bring to the problems of performance. There are thousands of possible temperaments for tuning, and at various points in history, prior to the widespread adoption of equal temperament as a universal tuning system, various temperaments have informed composers and vice-versa.
The best non fixed-pitch instrumental performers invariably employ intonation based on the harmonic, melodic, and instrumental contexts in which they are playing, even if they don't always know they are doing so. When playing with piano, string players are most often relegated to a modified version of equal temperament. In some instances we can cheat and deviate from the temperament of the piano, but many times such deviance will leave a string player sounding out of tune with the piano. Other than the instrumental context of playing with piano, there are two other common contexts that present tuning problems: octave displacement and harmonic-versus-melodic. String players need to consider these problems, both intellectually and intuitively in order to develop satisfying and consistent style of intonation.
To understand octave displacement one need only experiment at the keyboard. In the upper-most octave of the piano, sound one single note. Then play the same pitch in the lowest octave. If the piano is well in tune, the notes will sound too close together when played separately, and too far apart when played together. In other words, when played separately the upper note sounds sharp and the lower note flat. When played together just the opposite is true. This is because of the inherent conflict between the overtone series that the true notes produce. In order to achieve consonance between the overtone series in the two notes, they must be pulled together. But the point at which the overtone series line up leaves the notes sounding hopelessly out of tune in any melodic context. The farther apart the octaves are, the more acute the problem. This is the reason why chords built on a wide tessitura are particularly problematic to tune. Equal temperament is a compromise system that theoretically, leaves both pitches acceptably in (or out of) tune for either context.
To understand harmonic and melodic context as it relates to tuning, one can experiment with any string instrument. Cello reveals the issues most acutely because the relationship of intervals in the lower range is broader and the pitch issues are more clearly audible. If you play an F natural on the D string of the cello against the open A string, your ear will naturally perceive the basis of an F major triad. This will cause you to place the F on the high side, in order to leave the third of the chord, in this case the open A string, sounding sweet and low, where the overtone series line up and "ring" in a major chord. That same F rendered against the open G string and perceived as a seventh in a G 7 chord will sound hopelessly sharp. A lower placement of the F will be necessary to arrive at a lined up set of overtones in this context, and achieve the ringing sound of the lowered seventh in the G 7 Chord. The same F, as the third degree in a melodic passage in D flat major, will once again sound sweeter on the high side, as long as it doesn't have to resonate against the D-flat major triad in the same register. The reality that the third degree of the scale sounds more satisfying higher in a melodic context, and sweeter lower in a harmonic context is a problem with which all non fixed-pitch instrumentalists must contend.
Arguably, intonation in a string quartet raises some of the most problematic tuning issues in music. Modern instrumental training generally doesn't stress an understanding of temperament, octave displacement, and harmonic and melodic contexts for tuning. This deficiency in training leaves many string players ill equipped for sorting out the issues of tuning in a string quartet. The nature of the repertoire, and the possibility of a totally blended sonority, along with the high standards continually being set by active rehearsing groups, all conspire to highlight intonation deficiencies for groups that fail to meet the highest standards. The attainment of a high standard for intonation in a string quartet is a labor intensive project. It requires that the members spend enough rehearsal time to become familiar with the harmonic role each line serves in a chord, and it demands that the members agree on a shared concept for intonation and pitch temperament in the group.
One example of a tuning problem from the string quartet repertoire is in the beginning of the second movement of Mozart's Quartet, K. 465, marked Andante Cantabile. The movement is in F major. The opening melodic note in the first violin part is a C natural, one octave above middle C. The second violin plays an A that corresponds with the open A string. If either violinist tunes their note to their open A string, the first violin will be tempted to push the C natural high, in an attempt to achieve a ringing chord with a sweet and low third, in this case A natural. This will ultimately push the whole group sharp to their open strings and the group will lose the sympathetic ring of the open strings. The resulting blended quartet sound will have a deadened quality similar to what one experiences in keys with many flats such as D flat major. In practice there are several possible compromises that will yield a more satisfying result: In one system, both of the violinists must adjust slightly low to their sympathetic open A and E strings in the opening chord, depending upon what the group can agree sounds best. With the first violin adjusting downward slightly, the C natural will sound just a bit low to both the open E and open A strings. The second violin will also compromise, with a note that is neither as low as a "beatless" third, nor as high as the open A string. This type of adjusted temperament is just one example of the complexity involved in bringing a satisfying of intonation to a string quartet. Frequently the quickest path to resolving intonation conflicts in string quartet work is to adopt equal temperament as the goal when such problems arise.
With regard to octave displacement in a string quartet, it is necessary for the group to be mindful of the problem when tuning their individual instruments, as well as when tuning chords. Generally, the outer extremes of range need to be brought together, as in the earlier example of the piano. This will avoid one or the other end of the group having to make an extreme and odd sounding adjustment in a particularly widely spaced chord. I recommend that a group tune as follows:
First the cello should find an A that the group can all agree on. The cello should then tune the tightest possible fifths that still ring. By the time the C is tuned it should be relatively high, possibly even as measured against equal temperament.
The remaining instruments should line up their A string with the cello one at a time (using open strings, not harmonics) and then proceed to tune the tightest possible fifths.
Then the players should each check their G strings (the viola should check the C as well) against the cello's C string and against the cello's D string. Some adjustment of the upper players' G strings is likely to be necessary in order to have all of the fifths line up.
By starting from the same tight temperament in the open fifths the group has the best possible chance to sound ringing and in tune in a wide range of contexts.
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New Lobster in Paradise—A crispy coconut Maine lobster tail, paired with Maine lobster meat and shrimp in a Caribbean pineapple beurre blanc, and a chili-ginger grilled jumbo shrimp skewer. Served with rice and choice of side.
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And everyone knows a summer getaway is not complete without a delicious fruit-based cocktail, like the new Lobster Lover's Punch or new Tropical White Sangria. The Lobsterfest menu also features a variety of exciting new offerings for lobster fanatics, like the new Ultimate Lobsterfest Surf and Turf.
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Revenue Retrievin' or Road to Retirement?
A down-n-dirty Interview with Hyphy legend E-40
By Andrew Phillips Posted in Interviews, Writing on September 7, 2020 0 Comments 6 min read
The unwavering consistency in E-40′s music over time has earned him one of the most loyal fan bases in hip-hop. While he's considered by many to be a West Coast rapper, numbers don't lie: in the internet age, 56 million MySpace plays makes you an international artist.
Twenty years after he laid the blueprint for independent rap artists, selling tens of thousands of tapes out of the trunk of his car, E-40 has finally returned to the indie game. After years spent at Jive and Warner, his new twin albums Revenue Retreievin: Day Shift and Night Shift, are out on an indie imprint. Does this 180-degree journey to the indie ranks mean E-40 is considering retirement? Did the hyphy movement fail because Bay Area radio doesn't support its own artists? MOG's Dell Frost asked E-40 all these questions and more…
MOG: Revenue Retrievin' [was] released independently, but you were signed to Jive Records for over 10 years. What made you go the indie route this time around?
E-40: It was just time, I did ten years with Jive, then I did four years with Warner Bros. and it was just time to switch up and do the indie thing. Because with my connections and my networking abilities, and my knowledge. I feel like I can do just as much as the majors do, so I cut out the liaison, the middle man, you smell me?
MOG: For years now, you've been talking about a collaboration album with Too Short called The History Channel but the project never materialized. What happened?
E-40.
E-40: Aww man, you know how it is… we were going to do it through Jive Records at the time but Jive were going through their "pop" thing with NSYNC and Backstreet Boys and Britney and all that good stuff, so it didn't jump off. But to this day, me and Too Short do a lot of work together, and as a matter of fact, he's on 2 or 3 songs on my new album. We have a whole bunch of songs we've been working on, songs that are already in the can ready to be put out there. So we're definitely still working on The History Channel.
MOG: I've seen you do a bunch of national interviews with big outlets, and they seem to only focus on the fact that you create slang. Do you think people zero in on the slang thing too much?
E-40: Yeah I think that they do, but I can't get mad at them because that's the main thing that pokes out to them. But at the same time, yeah I do wonder why that's all they talk about. It's more than just my slang with me, I rap about some serious issues and I think I'm one of the coldest emcees to ever touch a microphone man, I'm in my own lane, I'm in my own world… it's deep game involved.
MOG: Okay, so with that said do you feel you're under-appreciated from the world of hip-hop as a whole?
E-40: Definitely. People I call game goofy, tardy, truant, and square dancers… they think I'm wack. But the real hood muthafuckas where it counts? The cats behind the bars, and behind the walls, the real muthafuckas in my culture that count? They think I'm one of the best to ever touch a microphone. I rap about things they can relate to, it ain't about brag rapping… I just spit, I talk all kind of angles and after 23 years I've covered all areas of the game, I should have been ran out of gas.
MOG: Do you ever think about retiring at this point?
E-40: You know what? It's really never crossed my mind. My mind, body, and fan base are telling me to keep going. You don't hear R&B singers retiring, they stay at it… I take off to the pioneers before me, but I wish they would have kept going and stayed consistent. What I'm doing now is I'm making it better for the young generation, so when they get my age and become a seasoned vet they gonna feel like they can still rap. They're gonna say "Well E-40 did it and he was one of the greats".
MOG: Are we ever going to see another album from The Click?
E-40: Yes sir, be on the lookout for our album, Respect and Recognition.
MOG: Throughout your career you've collaborated with underground artists more-so than the mainstream guys, why is that?
E-40: I fuck with some mainstream artists, but a lot of mainstream artists are Hollywood. Their noses are in the air and they don't understand that you can be here one minute and gone the next. The underground artists, I try to teach them "hey man, stay humble, we're gonna stay at this". I try to give them game and there's a mutual respect.
MOG: Speaking of younger artists, what went wrong with The Hyphy Movement? At one point it was one of the biggest things in the country but it kind of faded away and nobody from the Bay Area blew up. So where did it go wrong?
E-40: There were some artists that blew up, but it didn't work out the way they wanted it to work out. Some artists got major deals from that movement and a lot of people benefited as far as concert promoters, marketing people, and the rappers from the Bay Area made money from doing songs with artists from other regions. I wasn't the only one who benefited from The Hyphy Movement, but I was the only one who had a built-in fan base to add with that. The movement still exists, but a lot of people want to be number one in The Bay Area and we're our own worst enemies but we're getting it straight.
MOG: Ok, one more: How did you hook up with The Lonely Island from Saturday Night Live for the song "Santana DVX"?
E-40: They're fans because they're from Berkeley, Ca… so I was down with it. They're fans of my music, those guys are funny as hell.
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\section{Solvability of (23)}

When $0$ is an eigenvalue of $L-2\gamma\alpha_0$, then (\ref{PDE_L}) cannot be solved uniquely. If $u_0$ and its normal derivatives can be measured on $\partial \Omega$, then we can alternatively solve the problem (which we can prove by unique continuation admits a unique solution)
\begin{eqnarray}
&&(L-2\gamma\alpha_0)^* (L-2\gamma\alpha_0) u_0 = -(L-2\gamma\alpha_0)^* \frac Hv \quad {\rm in } \quad \Omega \ , \\
&&u_0=g_0  \ , \quad \frac{\partial u_0}{\partial n}=j_0  \quad {\rm on } \quad\partial\Omega \ .
\end{eqnarray}
Once $u_0$ is known, then we can calculate $S_0$ as before. Standard elliptic estimates (see e.g. \cite{bal_2013_b}) combined with \eqref{eq:sfromu} show that errors in $H$, $g_0$ and $j_0$ propagate to errors in $S_0$ as
\begin{equation}
  \|S_0-S_0'\|_{L^2(\Omega)} \leq C \Big(\|H-H' \|_{L^2(\Omega)} + \|g_0- g_0' \|_{H^{\frac32}(\partial\Omega)} + \|j_0- j_0'\|_{H^{\frac12}(\partial\Omega)}\Big) \ ,
\end{equation}
for a fixed constant $C$.

\section{Proof of the stability estimate (26)}

The estimate can be derived as follows:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:sfromu}
\nonumber
&&\|S_0-S_0' \|_{L^2(\Omega)} \leq \|\alpha_0(u_0-u_0')\|_{L^2(\Omega)} +
\|\div D_0 \nabla (u_0 -u_0') \|_{L^2(\Omega)} \\
\nonumber
&&\leq \|\alpha_0\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}\|u_0-u_0'\|_{L^2(\Omega)}
+  \|\nabla D_0\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}\|\nabla (u_0-u_0')\|_{L^2(\Omega)} + \|D_0\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}\|\nabla^{2}(u_0-u_0')\|_{L^2(\Omega)}
 \\
&&\leq C \|u_0-u_0'\|_{H^2(\Omega)}  \ ,
\end{eqnarray}
for a suitable constant $C$. Since $L-2\gamma\alpha_0$ is smoothing by two orders, we obtain the required result.

\section{Proof that  $(\nabla v_j,v_j)$ forms a basis}

In the case that $D_0$ and $\alpha_0$ are constant, then $v$ is a solution of $-\Delta v + \frac{\alpha_0}{ D_0} v=0$. Let is introduce the quantity $\beta=\sqrt{\alpha_0/D_0}$. Then we find that
\begin{equation}
  v_j({\bf x}) = e^{\beta {\bf x}_j}\ ,\qquad \nabla v_j({\bf x}) = \beta e_j v_j({\bf x}) \ ,\qquad 1\leq j\leq 3
\end{equation}
are solutions of the above equation. Next we define
\begin{equation}
 v_4({\bf x}) = x_1 e^{\beta x_2}\ , \qquad \nabla v_4({\bf x}) =   (e_1+x_1\alpha e_2) e^{\beta x_2} \ ,
\end{equation}
which is also easily verified to be a solution of the above equation. Now let $B$ be the $4\times 4$ matrix defined by
\begin{equation}
B = \left(\begin{matrix}
v_1 & v_2 & v_3 & v_4 \\  \nabla v_1 & \nabla v_2 & \nabla v_3 &  \nabla v_4
\end{matrix}\right) \ .
\end{equation}
We find that for $\phi({\bf x})=e^{\beta(x_1+2x_2+x_3)}$,
\begin{equation}
 {\rm det} B = \phi({\bf x}) {\rm det} \left(\begin{matrix}
  1 & 1 & 1 & x_1 \\ \beta e_1 & \beta e_2 & \beta e_3 & (e_1+x_1\beta e_2)
\end{matrix}\right)=\phi({\bf x}) {\rm det} \left(\begin{matrix}
  1 & 1 & 1 & 0 \\ \beta e_1 & \beta e_2 & \beta e_3 & e_1
\end{matrix}\right)=\beta^2 \phi({\bf x}).
\end{equation}
We see that $\det B$ does not vanish and hence the four solutions so constructed are linearly independent. By continuity, any family of solutions with boundary conditions $f_j$ close to the restrictions of the $v_j$ to $\partial \Omega$ will generate a family of functions $\{v_j\}$ such that $\{(\nabla v_j,v_j)\}_{1\leq j\leq 4}$ forms a basis of ${\mathbb R}^4$ at every point ${\bf x}\in{\mathbb R}^3$.
It is important to note that the above solutions do not extend to arbitrary (positive) non-constant coefficients. In such a setting we can use the  techniques of complex geometrical optics and Runge approximation developed, for example, in \cite{bal_2012_a,bal_2013}.

We now consider solutions of the form $u=e^{\boldsymbol\rho\cdot {\bf x}}$, where $\boldsymbol\rho=\boldsymbol\rho_r+i\boldsymbol\rho_i$ is a complex-valued vector in ${\mathbb C}^n$ such that $\boldsymbol\rho_r\cdot\boldsymbol\rho_i=0$ and $\rho_r^2=\rho_i^2$. This implies that $\boldsymbol\rho\cdot\boldsymbol\rho=0$ and hence  $\Delta e^{\boldsymbol\rho\cdot {\bf x}}=0$. For $|\boldsymbol\rho|$ fixed, we define four such vectors
\begin{equation}
\boldsymbol\rho_1=|\boldsymbol\rho|(e_1+ie_2),\quad \boldsymbol\rho_2=|\boldsymbol\rho|(e_1-ie_2),\quad \boldsymbol\rho_3=2|\boldsymbol\rho|(e_1+ie_3),\quad \boldsymbol\rho_4=2|\boldsymbol\rho|(e_1-ie_3),
\end{equation}
as well as the four harmonic solutions $u_j=e^{\boldsymbol\rho_j\cdot {\bf x}}$ for $1\leq j\leq 4$. These solutions are complex-valued, but we can define the real-valued harmonic functions $v_1=\Re u_1$,  $v_2=\Im u_1$,  $v_3=\Re u_3$,  $v_4=\Im u_3$, so that $u_1=v_1+iv_2$, $u_2=v_1-iv_2$, and so on, and realize that the matrix $B$ is invertible if and only if
\begin{equation}
\tilde B = \left(\begin{matrix}
u_1 & u_2 & u_3 & u_4 \\  \nabla u_1 & \nabla u_2 & \nabla u_3 &  \nabla u_4
\end{matrix}\right) \ .
\end{equation}
is invertible.
Then we find that
\begin{equation}
\dfrac{{\rm det} B}{u_1u_2u_3u_4} = \det \left(\begin{matrix}
  1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\ \rho_1 & \rho_2 & \rho_3 & \rho_4
\end{matrix}\right)=|\rho|^4 \det \left(\begin{matrix}
  1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\ e_1 & -2ie_2 & 2e_1 & -4ie_3
\end{matrix}\right)=-8|\rho|^4.
\end{equation}
Thus we conclude that the family $\{(\nabla v_j,v_j)\}_{1\leq j\leq 4}$  forms a basis of ${\mathbb R}^4$ and that the inverse of the matrix $B$ is bounded uniformly on a bounded domain. It remains to consider the case of non-constant coefficients. The theory developed in \cite{bal_2010,bal_2012_a} shows that we can construct solutions of $-\nabla\cdot D_0({\bf x})\nabla u+\alpha_0({\bf x}) u=0$ of the form
\begin{equation}
   u_j({\bf x}) = \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{D_0(x)}}e^{\boldsymbol\rho_j\cdot {\bf x}} (1+ \psi_j({\bf x})) \ ,
\end{equation}
with $\rho_j$ as above and $\psi_j$ arbitrarily small  for $|\boldsymbol\rho|$ sufficiently large. Thus choosing $|\boldsymbol\rho|$ sufficiently large, $\tilde B$ is invertible, as is the corresponding matrix based on the solutions of the elliptic equation $v_1=\Re u_1$,  $v_2=\Im u_1$,  $v_3=\Re u_3$,  $v_4=\Im u_3$ (since the coefficients are real-valued). Now, this property remains true if the boundary conditions $\{f_j\}$ are chosen to be sufficiently close to the restrictions of the above solutions $u_j$ on $\partial \Omega$. Such conditions are, however, not explicitly known, but the above theory shows that an open set of such conditions exists.

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I've always been a fan of Valentines Day, even when I was young my Mum and Dad would buy us little boxes of love hearts and other Valentines chocolates, it was always just a little bit of fun. As I went through school I still loved to celebrate, before I was into boys and all that jazz I would always do something with my girls. For a few years before any of us had boyfriends we would all go to one persons house for a Valentines dinner and do the Valentines equivalent of 'secret santa'.
Its easy to get overwhelmed with Valentines Day when every store is pushing pink fluffy toys and stacks of cards plastered in red hearts, which is why it's a great opportunity to reflect on the people in your life that you love – especially your girlfriends. It's a chance to celebrate those friends that always have your back and will be there for you when you need them. Unfortunately, now that we are all away at university and have boyfriends, this tradition has slowly faded away, but I thought I would write this post for anyone looking for something else to do this Valentines Day.
So, if you're thinking of doing something like this, set a budget with everyone taking part, pick names at random and scroll down for some Galentines gift inspiration.
Jewellery is the perfect little gift if you don't want to spend too much, you can also make it really personal by getting initials, star signs and chakra signs, which make the gift extra special for the person receiving it. Personally, I love everything with an Aries on it, literally stick it on a mug, jewellery, notebook, anything and I'll buy it.
Cosmetics are an easy go to for small budget gifts, but you can get items that are still great quality but on a budget. Avon is a prime example of this, I've been using their nail wear for years, and when I say years I literally mean it's been about seven or eight years that I've been buying from them. These colours make such a lovely Galentines Day gift, in the shades Mauve (left) and Rosie Gold (right), available online. The Body Shop is also a favourite of mine for little gifts, as near the tills they sell minis of some of their most popular products, hand creams and lip balms for under £10.
Stationary is always a winner among myself and my friends, there's something so satisfying about pretty stationary I swear. I never tend to buy fancy pens and notebooks for myself so I know how nice it is to receive these as a gift instead. My favourite place to get stationary gifts is Paperchase and Homesense. Also if its rose gold or has aesthetic calligraphy in it, its bound to go down well with my friends.
The bright pink packaging of Soap and Glory products fits right in with the Valentines colour scheme, making them great little gifts for your Galentine. The Righteous Butter is one of my absolute favourite body butters, I am stocked up with large tubs of it so I know that these minis would make a good filler gift for one of the girls. Also face masks are an inexpensive gift if you are on a budget, and as well as being a nice thing to receive, it encourages that person to take some time to relax and pamper themselves.
Last but definitely not least, Valentines chocolates, sweets and well doughnuts, always go down a treat. I picked these up in Krispy Kreme, they have a whole Valentines range on for a limited time, available in gift boxes, always useful if you need to pick up a last minute gift on Tuesday morning!
I hope this has inspired some of you to get involved in Galentines Day and have a bit of fun with it! Does anyone else celebrate Valentines Day with their friends like this already? Let me know in the comments!


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The Hortus botanicus Leiden has received an inheritance of 5 million Euro. This is a gift from the estate of Carla van Steijn, who was a loyal visitor to the Hortus during her lifetime. In accordance with her wishes, the gift will be used for new activities and to optimize accessibility for less-able-bodied visitors.
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PhD candidate Izai Kikuchi nominated for Janneke Fruin-Helb scholarship 2018
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