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\section{Introduction}
In the standard model (SM), the gauge, Yukawa and quartic scalar couplings run
logarithmically with the energy scale. Although the gauge couplings do not all
meet at a point, they tend to unify near $10^{15}$ GeV. Such a high scale is
beyond the reach of any present or future experiments. Extra dimensions
accessible to SM fields have the virtue, thanks to the couplings' power law
running, of bringing the unification scale down to an explorable range. Higher
dimensional theories, with radii of compactification around an inverse TeV,
have been investigated from the perspective of high energy experiments,
phenomenology, string theory, cosmology, and astrophysics. Such TeV scale
extra-dimensional scenarios could lead to a new mechanism of supersymmetry
breaking \cite{antoniadis1}, address the issue of fermion mass hierarchy from
a different angle \cite{Arkani-Hamed:1999dc}, provide a cosmologically viable
dark matter candidate \cite{Servant:2002aq}, interpret the Higgs as a quark
composite leading to a successful electroweak symmetry breaking without the
necessity of a fundamental Yukawa interaction \cite{Arkani-Hamed:2000hv}, and,
as mentioned before and what constitutes the central issue of our present
study, lower the unification scale down to a few TeV
\cite{dienes,dienes2}. Our concern here is a specific framework, called the
Universal Extra Dimension (UED) scenario, where there is a single flat extra
dimension, compactified on an $S_1 /Z_2$ orbifold, which is accessed by all
the SM particles \cite{acd}. From a 4-dimensional viewpoint, every field will
then have an infinite tower of Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes, the zero modes being
identified as the SM states.  We examine the cumulative contribution of these
KK states to the renormalisation group (RG) evolution of the gauge, Yukawa and
quartic scalar couplings. Our motive is to extract any subtle features that
emerge due to the KK tower induced power law running of these couplings in
contrast to the usual logarithmic running of the standard 4-dimensional
theories, and whether they set any limit on parameters for the sake of
theoretical and experimental consistency.  Before we illustrate the RG
calculational details, we take a stock of the existing constraints on the UED
scenario, and we comment on what does RG evolution technically mean in the
context of {\em hitherto} non-renormalisable higher dimensional theories.

The key feature of UED is that the momentum in the universal fifth direction
is conserved. From a 4-dimensional perspective this implies KK number
conservation. Strictly speaking, what actually remains conserved is the KK
parity $(-1)^n$, where $n$ is the KK number. As a result, the lightest KK
particle is stable. Also, KK modes cannot affect electroweak processes
at the tree level. They do however contribute to higher order electroweak
processes. In spite of the infinite multiplicity of the KK states, the KK
parity ensures that all electroweak observables are finite (up to
one-loop)\footnote{The observables start showing cutoff sensitivity of various
degree as one goes beyond one-loop or considers more than one extra
dimension.}, and comparison of the observable predictions with experimental
data yields bounds on $R$.  Constraints on the UED scenario from $g-2$ of the
muon \cite{nath}, flavour changing neutral currents \cite{chk,buras,desh}, $Z
\to b\bar{b}$ decay \cite{santa}, the $\rho$ parameter \cite{acd,appel-yee},
several other electroweak precision tests \cite{ewued} and implications from
hadron collider studies \cite{collued}, all conclude that $R^{-1}~\gtap~300$
GeV.

We now come to the technical meaning of RG running in a higher
dimensional context. This has been extensively clarified in
\cite{dienes} in a general context, and here we merely reiterate it to
put our specific calculations into perspective. Like all other
extra-dimensional models, from a 4-dimensional point of view, the UED
scenario too is non-renormalisable due to the infinite multiplicity of
the KK states\footnote{For a study of ultraviolet cutoff sensitivity
in different kinds of TeV scale extra-dimensional models, see
\cite{db}.}. So `running' of couplings as a function of the energy scale $\mu$
ceases to make sense. What we should say is that the couplings receive finite
quantum corrections whose size depend on some explicit
cutoff\footnote{The beta functions are coefficients of the
divergence $1/\epsilon$ in a 4-dimensional theory. Here, a second
kind of divergence appears when the finite beta functions get
corrections from each layer of KK states which are summed over.
This summation is truncated at a scale $\Lambda$.} $\Lambda$. The
corrections originate from the $\Lambda R$ number of KK states
which lie between the scale $R^{-1}$ where the first KK states
are excited and the cutoff scale $\Lambda$. The couplings will
have a power law dependence on $\Lambda$ as a result of the KK
summation.  This cutoff is interpreted as the scale where a
paradigm shift occurs when some new renormalisable physics
underlying our effective non-renormalisable framework surfaces.

\section{Universal Extra Dimension}
The extra dimension is compactified on a circle of radius $R$ with a $Z_2$
orbifolding identifying $y \to -y$, where $y$ denotes the fifth compactified
coordinate. The orbifolding is crucial in generating
{\em chiral} zero modes for fermions. After integrating out the compactified
dimension, the 4-dimensional Lagrangian can be written involving the zero mode
and the KK modes.  To appreciate the contributions of the KK towers into the
so-called RG evolutions, it is instructive to have a glance at the KK mode
expansions of these fields. Each component of a 5-dimensional field must be
either even or odd under the orbifold projection. The KK expansions are given
by,
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{fourier}
A_{\mu}(x,y)&=&\frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{2\pi
R}}A_{\mu}^{(0)}(x)+\frac{2}{\sqrt{2\pi
R}}\sum^{\infty}_{n=1}A_{\mu}^{(n)}(x)\cos\frac{ny}{R},~~~~
A_5(x,y) = \frac{2}{\sqrt{2\pi
R}}\sum^{\infty}_{n=1}A_5^{(n)}(x)\sin\frac{ny}{R}, \nonumber\\
\phi(x,y)&=&\frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{2\pi
R}}\phi^{(0)}(x)+\frac{2}{\sqrt{2\pi
R}}\sum^{\infty}_{n=1}\phi^{(n)}(x)\cos\frac{ny}{R}, \nonumber \\
\mathcal{Q}_{i}(x,y)&=&\frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{2\pi
R}}\bigg[{\pmatrix{u_i\cr d_i}}_{L}(x)+\sqrt{2}\sum^{\infty}_{n=1}\Big[
\mathcal{Q}^{(n)}_{iL}(x)\cos\frac{ny}{R}+
\mathcal{Q}^{(n)}_{iR}(x)\sin\frac{ny}{R}\Big]\bigg], \\
\mathcal{U}_{i}(x,y)&=&\frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{2\pi
R}}\bigg[u_{iR}(x)+\sqrt{2}\sum^{\infty}_{n=1}\Big[
\mathcal{U}^{(n)}_{iR}(x)\cos\frac{ny}{R}+
\mathcal{U}^{(n)}_{iL}(x)\sin\frac{ny}{R}\Big]\bigg], \nonumber\\
\mathcal{D}_{i}(x,y)&=&\frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{2\pi
R}}\bigg[d_{iR}(x)+\sqrt{2}\sum^{\infty}_{n=1}\Big[
\mathcal{D}^{(n)}_{iR}(x)\cos\frac{ny}{R}+
\mathcal{D}^{(n)}_{iL}(x)\sin\frac{ny}{R}\Big]\bigg], \nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where $i=1,2,3$ are generation indices. Above, $x (\equiv x^{\mu})$ denotes
the first four coordinates, and as mentioned before, $y$ is the compactified
coordinate. The complex scalar field $\phi (x,y)$ and the gauge boson
$A_\mu(x,y)$ are $Z_2$ even fields with their zero modes identified with the
SM scalar doublet and a SM gauge boson respectively. On the contrary, the
field $A_5(x,y)$, which is a real scalar transforming in the adjoint
representation of the gauge group, does not have any zero mode. The fields
$\mathcal{Q}$, $\mathcal{U}$, and $\mathcal{D}$ describe the 5-dimensional
quark doublet and singlet states, respectively, whose zero modes are
identified with the 4-dimensional chiral SM quark states. The KK expansions of
the weak-doublet and -singlet leptons will be likewise and are not shown for
brevity.

\section{Renormalisation Group Equations}
We now lay out the strategy followed to compute the RG correction
to the couplings from the KK modes. The first step is obviously
the calculation of the contribution from a given KK level which
has both $Z_2$-even and -odd states. Three points are noteworthy
and should be taken into consideration during this step:
\begin{enumerate}
\item While the zero mode fermions are chiral as a result of
orbifolding, the KK quarks and leptons at a given level are
vector-like.
\item The fifth compotent of the gauge bosons are ($Z_2$ odd)
scalars\footnote{The coupling of the $A_5^{(n)}$ states to
fermions involve $\gamma_5$ and so, strictly, they are pseudoscalars.}, but in
the adjoint representation of the gauge group. Such states are not encountered
in the SM context.
\item The KK index $n$ is conserved at each tree level vertex.
\end{enumerate}
The first step KK excitation occurs at the scale $R^{-1}$ (modulo the zero
mode mass). Up to this scale the RG evolution is logarithmic, controlled by
the SM beta functions. Between $R^{-1}$ and $2 R^{-1}$, the running is still
logarithmic but with beta functions modified due to the first KK level
excitations, and so on. Every time a KK threshold is crossed, new resonances
are sparked into life, and new sets of beta functions rule till the next
threshold arrives. The beta function contributions are the same for each of
the $\Lambda R$ KK levels, which, in effect, can be summed. After this, the
scale dependence is not logarithmic any more, it shows power law behaviour, as
illustrated by Dienes {\em et al} in \cite{dienes2}. This illustration shows
that if $\Lambda R \gg 1$, then to a very good accuracy the calculation
basically boils down to computing the number of KK states up to the cutoff
scale. For one extra dimension up to the energy scale $E$ this number is $S =
ER$, and $E^{\rm max} = \Lambda$. Then if $\beta^{\rm SM}$ is a generic SM
beta function valid during the logarithmic running up to $R^{-1}$, beyond that
scale one should replace it as\footnote{We refer the readers to Eqs.~(2.15)
and (2.21) of Ref.~\cite{dienes2}, and the subtleties leading to these
equations in the context of gauge couplings, to have a feel for our
Eq.~(\ref{master}).}
\begin{equation}
\label{master}
\beta^{\rm SM} \to \beta^{\rm SM} + (S - 1) \tilde{\beta},
\end{equation}
where $\tilde{\beta}$ is a generic contribution from a single KK
level. Irrespective of whether we deal with the `running' of gauge, Yukawa, or
quartic scalar couplings, the structure of Eq.~(\ref{master}) would continue
to hold. Clearly, the $S$ dependence reflects power law running. How this
master formula (\ref{master}) enters diagram by diagram into the evolution of
the above couplings in the UED scenario constitutes the main part of
calculation in the present paper.

\subsection{Gauge couplings}
While considering the evolution of the gauge couplings, we first write
$\tilde{\beta}_i^g = \tilde{b}_i g_i^3$. The calculation of $\tilde{b}_i^g$
would proceed via the same set of Feynman graphs which give the SM
contributions $b_i^{\rm SM}$ but now containing the KK internal lines.  The
key points to remember are the presence of adjoint scalars and doubling of KK
quark and lepton states due to their vectorial nature.

\begin{center}
\begin{figure}[thb]
\hspace*{2cm}\psfig{figure=gauge.ps,width=12cm,height=8cm,angle=270}
\caption{\sf \small {Evolution of gauge couplings for UED with $R^{-1}$ = 1,
5, and 20 TeV. For each of the three couplings, $\alpha_g \equiv g^2/4\pi$.}}
\label{f:gunif}
\end{figure}
\end{center}

We obtain
\begin{equation}
\tilde{b}_1 = \frac{81}{10}, ~~ \tilde{b}_2 = \frac{7}{6}, ~~
\tilde{b}_3 = - \frac{5}{2},
\label{ued}
\end{equation}
where the U(1) beta function is appropriately normalised. Just to
recall, the corresponding SM numbers are 41/10, $-$19/6, $-$7,
respectively. We have plotted the evolution of gauge couplings in UED
for $R^{-1} =$ 1, 5, and 20 TeV in Fig.~\ref{f:gunif}. The running is
fast, as expected, and the couplings nearly meet around\footnote{The
issue of proton stability in such low scale unification scenarios has
been dealt in \cite{pdecay}.}  30, 138 and 525 TeV,
respectively.  It is not hard to provide an intuitive argument for
such low unification scales and how they vary with $R$: roughly
speaking, $\Lambda R$ is order $\ln (M_{\rm GUT}/M_W) \sim
\ln(10^{15})$, where $M_{\rm GUT}$ is the 4-dimensional GUT scale,
i.e. the effect of a slow logarithmic running over a large scale is
roughly reproduced by a fast power law sprint over a short track.  The
other striking feature reflected in Fig.~\ref{f:gunif} is that the
SU(2) gauge coupling ceases to be asymptotically free: the dominance
of the KK matter sector over the gauge part in $\tilde{b}_2$ severely
challenges the SU(2) asymptotic freedom.  In contrast, the negative
sign of $\tilde{b}_3$ causes a precipitous drop in the SU(3) gauge
coupling with energy.

\subsection{Yukawa couplings}
\begin{center}
\begin{figure}[thb]
\hspace*{2cm}\psfig{figure=yukawa.eps,width=12cm,height=10cm,angle=0}
\caption{\sf \small {Diagrams contributing to Yukawa coupling
evolution in the Landau gauge. Solid (broken) lines correspond to
fermions (SM scalars), while wavy lines (wavy+solid lines) represent
ordinary gauge bosons (fifth components of gauge bosons).}}
\label{f:yuk}
\end{figure}
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\begin{figure}[thb]
\hskip 1.50cm
\psfig{figure=ued_top.ps,width=6.2cm,height=6.2cm,angle=270}
\vskip -6.23cm
\hskip 8.0cm
\psfig{figure=sm_top.ps,width=6.2cm,height=6.2cm,angle=270}
\caption{\sf \small {Evolution of the top quark Yukawa coupling in the UED
scenario (left panel) and (b) the SM (right panel). UED evolution is shown for
three different values of $R^{-1}$ and the curves are terminated at the
corresponding unification scales.}}
\label{f:tyuk}
\end{figure}
\end{center}
The Feynman diagrams that contribute to the power law evolution of
Yukawa couplings (in Landau gauge) are shown in Fig.~\ref{f:yuk}.  The
contributions come from the pure SM states, their KK towers, and from
the adjoint representation scalars\footnote{A subtle feature is worth
noticing. In four dimensions, the calculational advantage of working
in Landau gauge is that some diagrams give vanishing
contributions. The argument breaks down in a higher dimensional
context. More explicitly, consider the Figs.~\ref{f:yuk}h and
\ref{f:yuk}i. These graphs proceed through the exchange of adjoint
$A_5$ scalars and yield non-vanishing contributions. The corresponding
figures with $A_\mu$ exchange are absent because they give null
results in the Landau gauge.}.  The last two contributions, as the
master formula (\ref{master}) indicates, have an overall
proportionality factor $(S-1)$. As we examine contributions from
individual KK states, we see that due to the argument of fermion
chirality, not in all diagrams do the cosine and sine mode states both
{\em simultaneously} contribute.  This accounts for a relative factor
of 2 between the two types of diagrams.  For example, in
Fig.~\ref{f:yuk}a the fermionic KK modes can only come from cosine
expansions, whereas in Fig.~\ref{f:yuk}d both cosine and sine fermion
modes contribute. This is why Fig.~\ref{f:yuk}a has a multiplicating
factor $(S-1)$, while for Fig.~\ref{f:yuk}d the factor is $2(S-1)$.
Whereever $A_5$ is involved as an internal line, the associated KK
internal fermions necessarily come from sine expansion, e.g. in
Figs.~2g, 2h and 2i.  The above book-keeping has been done for
individual graphs and the proportionality factors have been mentioned
for each diagram in Fig.~\ref{f:yuk}. The Yukawa RG equations (beyond
the threshold $R^{-1}$) can be written as ($t = \ln E$):
\begin{equation}
16 \pi^2 \frac{dy_f}{dt} = \beta^{\rm SM}_{y_f} +   \beta^{\rm UED}_{y_f},
\label{eq:gen}
\end{equation}
where $f$ generically stands for the up/down quarks or leptons. The SM
beta functions $\beta^{\rm SM}_{y_f}$ can be found e.g. in
\cite{sumathi}.  The UED contributions to the beta functions
$\beta^{\rm UED}_{y_{l,u,d}}$ are given by:
\vbox{
\begin{eqnarray}
\beta^{\rm UED}_{y_{l}} &=& (S -
1)\;\left[-(\frac{21}{8}g_2^2 +\frac{129}{40}g_1^2 )
  +\frac{3}{2} y_l^2 \right]\;y_l + 2(S -
1)\;\left[Y_l + 3 Y_u + 3 Y_d \right]\;y_l ,\nonumber \\
\beta^{\rm UED}_{y_{u}} &=& (S - 1)\;\left[-(12 g_3^2 +
  \frac{21}{8}g_2^2 +\frac{9}{8}g_1^2 ) + \frac{3}{2}(y_u^2 -
  y_d^2)\right]\;y_u + 2(S -
1)\;\left[Y_l + 3 Y_u + 3 Y_d \right]\;y_u ,   \\
\beta^{\rm UED}_{y_{d}} &=& (S - 1)\;\left[-(12 g_3^2 +
  \frac{21}{8}g_2^2 + \frac{9}{40}g_1^2 ) + \frac{3}{2}(y_d^2 -
  y_u^2)\right]\;y_d + 2(S - 1)\;\left[Y_l + 3 Y_u + 3 Y_d \right]\;
y_d , \nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
}
with $Y_l = \sum_{l} y_l^2$, $Y_d = \sum_{d} y_d^2$, and $Y_u =
\sum_{u} y_u^2$.
To illustrate how the power law dependence of Yukawa couplings quantitatively
compares and contrasts with their 4-dimensional logarithmic running, we have
exhibited in Fig.~\ref{f:tyuk} the behaviour of the top-quark Yukawa
coupling in the two cases.

Another consequence of unification in many models is a prediction
of the low energy value of $m_b/m_\tau$. This ratio, unity at
the unification scale, at low energies takes the values 4.7, 4.2,
and 3.9 for $1/R$ = 1, 5, and 20 TeV, respectively. Admittedly,  $m_b$ is
on the high side; a limitation which perhaps may be attributable
to the one-loop level of the calculation.

\begin{center}
\begin{figure}[thb]
\hspace*{3cm}\psfig{figure=quartic.eps,width=10cm,height=8cm,angle=0}
\caption{\sf \small {Diagrams contributing to quartic scalar
coupling evolution. The conventions are the same as in Fig. \ref{f:yuk}.}}
\label{f:lamb}
\end{figure}
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\begin{figure}[thb]
\hspace*{2cm}\psfig{figure=higgs.ps,width=14cm,height=10cm,angle=270}
\caption{\sf \small {Bounds on the Higgs mass at the electroweak scale in the
UED scenario from the triviality and vacuum stability conditions for $R^{-1}$
= 1, 5, and 20 TeV. See text for details.}}
\label{f:higgs}
\end{figure}
\end{center}
\subsection{Quartic scalar coupling and the Higgs mass}
The one-loop diagrams through which the KK modes contribute to the power law
running of the quartic scalar coupling $\lambda$ (in Landau gauge) are shown
in Fig.~\ref{f:lamb}.  As clarified before in the case of Yukawa running, the
extra factor of 2 in front of $(S - 1)$ for some graphs indicates that
cosine and sine KK modes {\em both} contribute only to those graphs. The
evolution equation can be written as
\begin{equation}
16 \pi^2 \frac{d\lambda}{dt} = \beta^{\rm SM}_{\lambda} +
\beta^{\rm UED}_{\lambda}
\end{equation}

The expressions for $\beta^{\rm SM}_{\lambda}$ can be found e.g.~in
\cite{chengli}.  The UED beta functions are given by
\vbox{
\begin{eqnarray}
\beta^{\rm UED}_{\lambda} &=&
(S - 1)\left[ 3 g_2^4 + \frac{6}{5}g_2^2 g_1^2 + \frac{9}{25}
g_1^4 -3 \lambda (3 g_2^2 +
\frac{3}{5}g_1^2) + 12 \lambda^2 \right] \nonumber \\
&+& 2(S - 1)\left[  4 \left(Y_l + 3 Y_u +
    3 Y_d \right) \lambda -4\sum_{l,u,d}\left(y_l^4 + 3 y_u^4 + 3 y_d^4
  \right) \right].
\end{eqnarray}
} The evolution of $\lambda$ has interesting bearings on the Higgs mass. In
the standard 4-dimensional context, bounds on the Higgs mass have been placed
on the grounds of `triviality' and `vacuum stability' \cite{trivia}. What do
they imply in the UED context? The `triviality' argument requires that
$\lambda$ stays away from the Landau pole, i.e. remains finite, all the way to
the cutoff scale $\Lambda$. The condition that $1/\lambda(\Lambda) > 0$ can be
translated to an upper bound on the Higgs mass ($m_H$) at the electroweak
scale when the cutoff of the theory is $\Lambda$. This has been plotted in
Fig.~\ref{f:higgs} (the upper curves) for three different values of $R$.  A
given point on that curve (for a given $R$) corresponds to a maximum allowed
$m_H$ at the weak scale; for a larger $m_H$ the coupling $\lambda$ becomes
infinite at some scale less than $\Lambda$ and the theory ceases to be
perturbative.  Clearly, this $m_H^{\rm max}$ varies as we vary the cutoff
$\Lambda$ . The argument of `vacuum stability' relies on the requirement that
the scalar potential be always bounded from below, i.e. $\lambda (\Lambda) >
0$. This can be translated to a lower bound $m_H^{\rm min}$ at the weak
scale. The lower set of curves in Fig.~\ref{f:higgs} (for three values of
$R^{-1}$) represent the `vacuum stability' limits, the region below the curve
for a given $R$ being ruled out. Recalling that the cutoff is where the gauge
couplings tend to unify, we observe that the Higgs mass is limited in the
narrow zone
\begin{equation}
148 ~ \ltap~ m_H ~\ltap~ 186 ~{\rm GeV}
\label{higgsued}
\end{equation}
in all the three cases, for a zero mode top quark mass of 174.2
GeV. Admittedly, our limits are based on one-loop corrections
only. That the upper and lower limits are insensitive to the choice of
$R$ is not difficult to understand, as what really counts is the
number of KK states, given by the product $\Lambda R$, which, as
mentioned before, is nearly constant, order $\ln (10^{15})$.  The
limits in Eq.~(\ref{higgsued}) are very close to what we obtain in the
SM at the one-loop level, namely $147 ~\ltap ~ m_H^{\rm SM} ~
\ltap 189$ GeV (see also \cite{Kielanowski:2003jg}, where one-loop SM results
have been derived\footnote{The SM two-loop limits are \cite{trivia}: $145
~\ltap ~ m_H^{\rm SM} ~ \ltap~ 168$ GeV for $m_t = 174.2$ GeV.}).

\subsection{Supersymmetric UED}
What happens if we take the supersymmetric (SUSY) version of UED?  A
5-dimensional $N=1$ supersymmetry when perceived from a 4-dimensional context
contains two different $N=1$ multiplets forming one $N=2$ supermultiplet.  For
a comprehensive analysis, we refer the readers to \cite{dienes}.  There are
two issues that immediately concern our analysis. First, unlike in the
non-SUSY case, the Higgs scalar in a chiral multiplet will now have both even
and odd $Z_2$ modes on account of degrees of freedom counting consistent with
supersymmetry. Also, there will be two such $N=2$ chiral supermultiplets to
meet the requirement of supersymmetry. Second, in the RG evolution two energy
scales will come into play. The first of these is the supersymmetry scale,
called $M_S$, which we take to be 1 TeV. Beyond $M_S$, supersymmetric
particles get excited and their contributions must be included in the RG
evolution. The second scale is that of the compactified extra dimension $1/R$,
which we take to be larger than $M_S$.

The gauge coupling evolution must now be specified for three
different regions. The first of these is when $E < M_S$ where the
SM with the additional scalar doublet\footnote{SUSY requires two
complex scalar doublets.}  beta functions are in control. In this region:
\begin{equation}
{b}_{1o} = \frac{21}{5}, ~~ {b}_{2o} = -\frac{10}{3}, ~~
{b}_{3o} = -7 .
\label{smplus}
\end{equation}
Once $M_S$ is crossed and up until $1/R$, we also have the superpartners of
the SM particles pitching in with their effects. The contributions of the SM
particles and their superpartners together are given by:
\begin{equation}
{b}_{1s} = \frac{33}{5}, ~~ {b}_{2s} = 1, ~~
{b}_{3s} = -3 .
\label{susy1}
\end{equation}
Finally, when the KK-modes are excited ($E > 1/R$) one has
further contributions from the individual modes:
\begin{equation}
\tilde{b}_1 = \frac{66}{5}, ~~ \tilde{b}_2 = 10, ~~
\tilde{b}_3 = 6 .
\label{susy2}
\end{equation}
Thus, beyond $1/R$, the total contribution is given by
\begin{equation}
b_i^{\rm tot} = b_{io}  + \Theta (E-M_S) ~(b_{is} - b_{i0}) + \Theta (E-
\frac{1}{R}) ~(S - 1)  ~\tilde{b}_i,
\end{equation}

Not unexpectedly, for the SUSY UED case, gauge unification is possible.  We
observe that the introduction of this plethora of KK excitations of the SM
particles and their superpartners radically changes the beta functions; so
much so, that the gauge couplings tend to become non-perturbative before
unification is achieved. For clarity, we make the argument more explicit
below. First, from Eqs.~(\ref{susy1}) and (\ref{susy2}) we note that the
dominance of the KK matter over the KK gauge parts is so overwhelming that the
SU(3) beta function ($\tilde{b}_3$) beyond the first KK threshold ceases to be
negative any longer. The other two gauge beta functions, which were already
positive with contributions from zero mode particles plus their superpartners,
become even more positive. So the curves for all the three gauge couplings
would have the same sign slopes once the KK modes are excited. As a result,
with increasing energy the three curves for $\alpha_g^{-1}$ would dip with a
power law scaling fast into a region where the couplings themselves become too
large at the time they meet.  Therefore, in order that all of them remain
perturbative during the entire RG evolution, the onset of the KK dynamics has
to be sufficiently delayed. This requirement imposes $R^{-1}~\gtap~5.0 \times
10^{10}$ GeV.  In effect, this implies that the twin requirements of a
SUSY-UED framework as well as perturbative gauge coupling unification pushes
the detectability of the KK excitations well beyond the realm of the LHC.

\section{Conclusions and Outlook}
As the LHC is getting all set to roar in 2007, expectations are
mounting as we prepare ourselves to get a glimpse of new and
unexplored territory. New physics of different incarnations,
especially supersymmetry and/or extra dimensions, are crying out for
verification. How does the landscape beyond the electroweak scale
confront the evolution of the gauge, Yukawa and scalar quartic
couplings? Will there be a long logarithmic march through the desert
all the way to $10^{(16-17)}$ GeV, or is a power law sprint
awaiting us with a stamp of extra dimensions? In which way does the
latter quantitatively differ from the former has been the subject of
our investigation in the present paper. We observe the following
landmarks that characterise the extra-dimensional running:
\begin{enumerate}
\item
The orbifolding renders some subtle features to the RG running in UED.  Due to
the conservation of KK number at tree level vertices, the $Z_2$ even and odd
KK states selectively contribute to different diagrams. While some diagrams
are forbidden, there are new diagrams originating from adjoint scalar
exchanges. In the present article we have performed a diagram by
diagram book-keeping leading to the evolution equations.

\item Low gauge coupling unification scales can be achieved without
introducing non-perturbative gauge couplings. The unification scale depends on
$R$, and is approximately given by $\Lambda \sim (25-30)/R$.

\item The `triviality' and `vacuum stability' bounds on the Higgs mass have
  been studied in the context of power law evolution. This limits the
  Higgs mass in the range $148 ~ \ltap m_H ~\ltap 186$ GeV at the
  one-loop level. The corresponding SM limits at the one-loop level
  are not very different.

\item If low energy SUSY is realised in Nature, then the requirement of
  perturbative gauge coupling unification pushes the inverse radius of
  compactification all the way up to $\sim 10^{10}$ GeV. Thus if
  superpartners of the SM particles are observed at the LHC, the
  nearest KK states within the UED framework are predicted to lie
  beyond the boundary of any observational relevance.
\end{enumerate}

It should be admitted that even if TeV scale extra dimensional theories are
established, the spectrum might be more complicated than what UED
predicts. The confusion is expected to clear up at least when the low-lying KK
states face appointment with destiny within the first few years of the LHC
run. Our intention in the present article has been to choose a simple
framework to study power law evolution.  Flat extra dimensional models are
particularly handy as they provide equispaced KK states which allow an elegant
handling of internal KK summation in the loops. UED is an ideal
test-bed to conduct this study as it has been motivated from various angles
and subjected to different phenomenological tests.

\vskip 5pt

\noindent {\bf{Acknowledgements:}}~
We thank E.~Dudas for useful correspondences.  G.~B. thanks CFTP,
Instituto Superior T\'ecnico (Lisbon) and ICTP (Trieste) for
hospitality at different stages of the work.

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A second birthday is a real milestone in the life of a tiny charity, so we thought we would use it to say a huge THANK YOU to those people who have ensured we have got this far and achieved so much. And it's a fabulous excuse to celebrate, so we did.
Our wonderful pro-bono lawyers Travers Smith hosted the party at their London offices and everything was donated – nothing came from our charitable funds.
In our December newsletter, we asked hosts and home visitors to say if they wanted to join us for a party to mark two years of being us- and quite a few of you came along.
It was a great opportunity for an almost wholly virtual organization to actually see what each other looks like. There was a lot of hugging of total strangers!
Our thanks to Anna Hindocha, of WarmGlow photos, who took the pics.
We are just working out how to sell the extra bags- They are going to be a must-have accessory! Watch this space.
Lots of lovely people have done fund-raising for us recently – from an amazing concert raising over £4,000 to a school cake sale. Two couples have asked for donations instead of wedding gifts – how lovely is that as a way to start married life?
People are running and walking, selling biscuits and making marmalade. We particularly like the last idea as it was Paddington's favourite food and, as he was a hosted migrant to the UK, very apt for fund-raising.
We would love to hear about any ideas for fundraising, which you want to organise. If you need some badges or posters, we can supply them. If you want a speaker, we may manage that too.
Inspiration? We would appreciate it.
And does anyone want to join the grant-application team? There are three applications underway at the moment, but the man and woman-power could do with enhancing. Do just email: info@refugeesathome.org.
Lots of placements recently. And some interesting new facts too. We have made more than 930 placements in the last couple of years – or well over 1,000 if you count all the people placed separately. We've now hosted for about 62,000 individual person nights. And – new fact – we have helped over 550 people from 54 different nationalities.
Our guests' top countries of origin are Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan and Ethiopia. And the proportion of women has increased a little too – we now host about 28% women – so it's still clear why we pine for hosts who will take men.
We have used our new method for checking-up whether home visits have happened for a couple of months now and think it's helping – of course a few people who didn't need them have had reminders. But we think more visits are getting done a little quicker, which has to help.
Some Home Visitors don't think we communicate enough about "your" hosts. So we are going to start copying you into admin team enquiries about placements which are due to end soon. Sometimes the Home Visitor knows more about progress in the hosting than the core admin team, so we hope this will help everyone feel more informed.
Do please tell us if you can't do a visit you thought you could, we can always change it. Just let us know.
Could we make a plea – when a guest leaves you, do please email info@refugeesathome.org and let us know. We can't guess – and sometimes they go quickly or unexpectedly. If we don't know, we can't stay up to date and we feel all woolly and uncertain. It doesn't take a minute.
What's more, Shoshana and Faraj are due to take part in a TED talk salon in London in April.
We just hope it will raise the profile of hosting and help us find more potential hosts who know that hosting can enhance the lives of both host and guest alike.


And I successfully used up some leftovers in the fridge to make a decent fettuccine dish for supper. These are both successes. And I realized that something I thought I had to get done in three days was actually something I don't have to get done for 9 days. That's lagniappe.
I also listened to a lot of Joe Hisaishi music. And now I'm going to bed, knowing I don't have to get up early in the morning. That's the best part.
No, perhaps tomorrow will be the best part.
I'm heading to bed, because I think I'm getting a head cold. I'll try to catch up with everyone tomorrow.
I made a mashed cauliflower casserole for supper. Yes, I know it sounds horrible; it wasn't. It was reasonably good. Unfortunately, cooking the cauliflower in water in order to make it soft enough to mash brought out all the odors that roasting cauliflower doesn't. Urgh. Maybe I should be glad my nose is starting to plug up.
Actually, I don't have a recipe for making the coming week better, so that's a rather misleading headline. But I want to make the week better. So, lack of recipe notwithstanding, how do I do it?
Over the past week, I've noted that Chicago weather has been tremendously unsettled; the old joke that's usually ascribed to whatever location the teller is in - as mentioned above - was bewilderingly accurate. For the last six days, we've had 15 minutes of sun, followed by 15 minutes of extreme thunderstorm, followed by more sun, followed by high winds and scudding clouds, followed by sun, followed by dark grey overcast, followed by, yes, more sun. And it's left me unsettled; I like having weather that's easy to predict. That's just how I roll.
And today was weird enough to get noticed by more than me, at least judging by Twitter; blowing snow, followed by sun, followed by a full-fledged 15-minute snowstorm, followed by blue, blue skies and sun, followed by yet another snowstorm, followed by wind and scudding cloud, followed by sun ... lather, rinse, repeat.
So, rather than focus rather unhealthily on the weather (really, kaffyr , it's weather), I decided to salvage whatever salvageable tomatoes from amongst the many unsalvageable ones slowly decaying in the vegetable crisper (and was there ever a more misleading name?) bin in the bottom of my refrigerator.
The end result was pretty decent, although I had to augment my tiny bit of sauce with a can of diced tomatoes, so it's not completely from scratch. I was surprised and disappointed that I didn't find a single recipe for making tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes in any of my recipe books. Not even Joy of Cooking, for heaven's sake! All the recipes made use of canned tomatoes. That ought to tell you something about the evolution of Western cooking ... So I just winged it. It's been years since I actually made a basic tomato sauce, as opposed to many of the other sauce-y things I make, but I'm pleased. Dehydrated onions, ground celery (as opposed to celery salt), salt, garlic, pepper, Italian seasoning and fresh-ground fennel, they all go together so well.
What's that you say? That I was supposed to be writing today?
Well, actually, I did do some editing of existing words and paragraphs. Does that count? And I think I managed to move our heroes further along their way.
Yeah, I got nuthin. Maybe better tomorrow?
Current Music: Paul Whiteman Orchestra, "Sweet Sue"
*With the help of my beloved sous-chef. At 8:30 at night.
The result is that, while it baked, filling the house with a perfectly wonderful aroma, I exercised, and then we had an excellent supper of leftovers, and the cake came out just as we finished supper. We will have cake and ice cream after the first hour of anime watching.
And the idea of monologueing about the end of the Anthropocene just flew out the window. At least for now.
mack_the_spoon tagged me with this meme, and though I'm not normally very good at memes, or indeed all that interested in them, this one attracted me because it's simple - I am a simple creature - and it was a very positive sort of thing. I do love many things, so let's see if I can tell you about five things that make me happy.
1. BB. He is, quite simply, the best thing in my life. It may seem disrespectful to call him the best thing, but what I mean by that is that he does so much for me, and has taught me so much, and has been there so often for me ... he is my best friend; he's my voice of reason when I need one, and that's oh, so often; he's the one who kills the cockroaches, he's the one who tells me I look good when I know I'm looking seedy, he's the one who knows I need a hug. He's the one who tells me, who convinces me, that things are going to be alright. He's the one who introduced me to jazz (and truly nurtured my inherent love of music in general), and Firesign Theater, and martinis. He knows my sense of humor, and puts up with my lack of humor when I'm in particularly dour moods. He is the best.
2. Personal letters that come by mail. Whether they're handwritten or typed up, getting a real letter in the mail takes me back to the days when getting news from friends who lived far away was a special treat. The days you'd wait between the time you mailed your own letter - which you'd carefully written with as much news, thoughts, meanderings, worries and joys as you could possibly do before your fingers tired or your typewriter jammed - and the time you got an answer, with any luck as jammed packed in answer, were interminable. And the day the letter arrived, oh, it was wonderful!
3. Music. I grew up with music; my Nana and my mother sang, and sang beautifully. I had piano lessons for years, and have always regretted giving them up. I love almost every kind of music, although rock and roll gets my blood flowing the most, and jazz talks to my head and heart almost as much as I've grown older. Even music I thought I didn't like, like various iterations of country, or were bored by, like whatever folk is, I learned to appreciate. Music is language I can share with everyone, and it's a language BB helped me get better at. Without music, my inner life would be an echoing, empty chamber.
4. Cooking and writing. Yes, definitely cheating here by putting both things in the same boat, but they are both ways I can create, and I love that. Cooking is a way I can carry on my Nana's traditions in the kitchen, and those of my mother's too, so that's one reason. It's creation with short term gratification, but with challenges (as anyone who has ever wrestled with making a good pie crust can tell you.) It's also tied in with the joy of feeding family and friends, which of course is also tied in to ego gratification, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Writing is far more difficult for me, whether it's news and feature writing, or fiction writing. But I could no more stop writing, as slow as I am, than I could stop walking or talking. This happiness comes from my fiction writing, and it comes at least in part from knowing that I'm good at it, and that I can create stories that people love. I doubt that I will ever return to writing original fiction, but writing fan fiction makes me more happy than I've ever been when writing other things.
5. Fandom. By that, I mean many things. I mean the traditional science fiction fandom that I discovered in 1977 when I went to my first World Science Fiction Convention, and which led me to a circle of music-oriented fans in Minneapolis in the 1980s and early 1990s. Traditional fandom was my first real intellectual and emotional home apart from my family. It was the place where I discovered that other people really loved the books I loved, and who didn't think I was weird, mockable, or bullyable, because of it. (Even my family, who indulged my reading, looked at it askance). Bless traditional fandom forever. And now, I am a part of online fandom, which is a child of traditional fandom, but who, like all children, has grown into a creature all its own. I have friends, and friendly acquaintances, all across this globe, people who helped me hang on to happiness, who encouraged my writing, who challenged my mind, who have been wonderful to read and to interact with for the past nine-plus years. You are all part of my life, and you enrich it so much. Thank you!
And let's see, I should tag people, although it's definitely a voluntary thing, especially if you've done this before. So ... a_phoenixdragon , penlessej , elisi , jjpor , and ljgeoff - tag, you're it!
Honorable mentions: Doctor Who, especially Nine, Eleven, and River; Japanese curry and croquettes; Chicago; anime.
In the meantime, while the bread is sadly, not rising, I'm making peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips, whilst sipping on a lovely chilled champagne tulip of asola prosecco. It's the last day of my mental-and-physical-health vacation, and the sun is shining outside. Afro-Caribbean Latin music is filling the house with very danceable rhythms, and a tulip of frosty prosecco is definitely called for.
Oh, and later, we'll enjoy more of a very nice chicken and biscuit stew I made yesterday, before enjoying (for very skewed values of "enjoying," I'm willing to acknowledge) the final few episodes of Attack on Titan, and perhaps something else.
I'm enjoying AoT far more than I expected to; then again, I enjoyed Kill la Kill more than I expected to. I think it presses a couple of specific buttons I have. One is the button of "living in the shadow of imminent war," specifically "living in the shadow of imminent war in which I, as an active combatant, stand a better than 50 percent chance of dying." I often have dreams about such scenarios. I have no idea why, but I've had them for years. They are not positive dreams, and it's not a positive button, at least not positive in the commonly-held way. But it's a very intense thing, a very alive thing.
The other button is Zombies! Mindless Zombies! Mindelss Zombies With Beatific Smiles! Fourteen-meter Tall Mindless Zombies With Beatific Smiles .. Who Eat People Because They Like To, Not Because They Need To! Did I Mention Mindless? Zombies With No Brains? Yesssssss!
It's a button that's key to a roiling stew of complicated fear and attraction to scenario that takes my Zombie Button reactions, force feeds them steroids and yeast, then puts them in an oven to watch them grow like the unholy beasts they are.
Put the two buttons together - and then introduce Intelligent Fourteen Meter Tall Zombies Who Might Be The Cure For The Other Ones ... yeah, I'm hooked.
Now I need to get back to the peanut butter cookies, and back to getting the pans ready for the not really buoyant bread-to-be.
All in all, not a bad way to head into the working week.
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Yesterday I kept meaning to sit down and post, because I had exciting news to tell you (well, for various pedestrian powers of exciting.) Remember my tale of pedal woe regarding winter boots, and the supposed loss of the one that didn't need to be fixed, just after I got the other boot fixed? Well, I found the other boot, hiding in a dusty corner of our rear stairwell. You have no idea the amount of rejoicing this engendered. Or perhaps you do, if you know my ability to be chuffed with the slightest positive happening.
In more fannish news, we watched more Korra last night.
We're in the middle of the third season; both BB and I are wondering at the lack of closure from the end of Season 2 ... strike that. Argh: just discovered that we didn't watch the last episode of Season 2 because we somehow didn't acquire it. That explains a lot. How embarrassing.
And now it's back to the kitchen, although I'm going to move my laptop to the dining room so that I can post throughout the day. And I hope to trawl through my friends' list to find out what y'all have been doing.
Not compared to the mugging Mother Nature performed on the East Coast just a few days ago, but Chicago and the rest of Illinois are making a valiant come-from-behind effort. We've got 13" 16" on the ground, with more than five hours to go before the blizzard warning is lifted, and we just hit white-out conditions in sections of Cook County. Chicago's apparently the center of this weather system. And also the epicenter. Yay, us!
Have you ever had a situation in which you've been gearing up, nerving up, for some task that, for whatever reason, intimidated you? And you finally get up the nerve to do it - and then you find out that the task can't be done; not because you were incapable of doing it, but because something else interferes?
I've had one of those days.
So there I was, all geared up to do something I was a little nervous about doing - and unable to do anything. Frustration? You damn betcha.
The entire day felt a little like that to me: two steps forward, one step back, or attempting to take a few steps, only to discover I was blocked.
Still, there were some unambiguously good things that happened today. We checked our snail mail, and discovered, via a final paper check, that the ST did indeed pay me all the vacation accrual I was due, plus enough more that it was clear they'd finally switched us to a calendar year ... I will not bore you with the minutia, but this means that we need to let the HR people at the Trib know that they can switch us over to a calendar year, because they think we're still on an anniversary year. (All of which probably reads like Cyrillic to you; just ignore. Heh.) This was good. It also means I have enough money to take vacation this year.
And the curry was even better on the second day, so I decided to provide a link to both the recipes I used, so anyone who wants to can try them. Here's the curry roux recipe, And here's the beef curry recipe. I'd love to hear from any of you who decide to try one or both of them, to hear what you think, good or bad. I put much more cayenne in the recipe than she calls for, by the way.
We watched two more Korra episodes, and I hope to devour a few more tonight. I'm also thinking I should hunt down some episodes of The Librarians, since a lot of people seem to like it, and I think it would be up my alley.
Ah, I see I'm beginning to ramble, so I'll cut this one off.
I Can Haz Japanese Curry!
Which I made myself, with home-made Japanese curry roux that took about 25 minutes to properly make (butter and flour cooked very slowly, constantly stirring, over low heat for about 22 minutes, and then curry, garam masala and cayenne pepper dumped in and mixed in. I can see why Japanese cooks make extensive use of ready-made curry roux (and I've used it myself), because making it from scratch is time consuming. But I've done it, and I know how to do it now, and that makes me very happy.
Hmmm. Also, in non anime news, BB and I have started watching Legend of Korra. We are greatly impressed, and FB tells me it just keeps getting better. Woo-hoo!
Much of the necessary head work for Chapter 23 is now done.
I haven't been fired. I saw two more robins today. I have cats to pat. My husband loves me, and I love him. And it's spring, now and finally.
Hmm. This was a rather scattered post, wasn't it?
I didn't manage big numbers today, but I got another 300 or so words completed, and noted in doing so that one of my characters has undergone yet another physical blow. This means I need to work fast to get that character some help. All in all, I think we're still on track. Go, us! Er .. me. I meant me. I certainly wouldn't be speaking on behalf of imaginary characters.
And I have found my way back - yes, I remembered what I was writing about, despite the quite lovely digression into scones and sponge cake - with questions on my mind. And I turn to you, oh Internet friends and acquaintances, because you are all, every last one of you, intelligent and creative and possessed of great ideas and perhaps loads of secret knowledge.
Poll #14179 What Should kaffyr Get With Her Gift Card?
As always, give reasons for your answers, and suggestions beyond the buttons.
And thanks for putting up with me tonight. I feel rather as daft as the poll.


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All Souls' Day 2020 Photo Gallery
Good News for All Souls' Day Mass
Pray with us at Mass on All Souls' Day
Father Hugh's Parable
Mausoleum Building IV Makes Its Debut
Changing of the Chaplaincy
Farewell, Father Charles Leke
Prayer and Patriotism Aplenty on Memorial Day
The Month's Mind Mass Family
Thank Our Veterans in Prayer on Memorial Day
The Bells of Calvary Catholic Cemetery
All Souls' Day Mass 2015 Photo Gallery
Bishop Robert N. Lynch bows in reverence toward the altar at the beginning of Mass on All Souls' Day, November 2, 2015.
It was perhaps one of the warmest November days of record at Calvary Catholic Cemetery, but that did not deter those who attended the 55th Annual Mass on All Souls' Day. Nearly 300 of the faithful gathered beneath the shade of heritage oak trees and canvas canopies to praise God for the lives of deceased loved ones and pray for souls.
We were especially blessed that the celebrant, Bishop Robert N. Lynch, included a request for a breeze in his morning prayers. For indeed there were gentle winds at times as the bishop and five priests celebrated Mass at the outdoor altar.
Mass is celebrated at Calvary Catholic Cemetery twice each year at the outdoor altar on Memorial Day and All Souls' Day. And a Month's Mind Mass is celebrated on the last Thursday of every month in the Chapel of the Resurrection at 12:15 p.m.
Alessandra Flanagan holds a flowerpot of mums that Franciscan Sister Rose Behrnard, asked her to place on the grave of her longtime friend, Father Roch Coogan, OFM. Father Coogan, who passed away on August 1, 2013, was a retired Air Force Chaplain and also was a chaplain at St. Anthony Hospital.
The faithful join in the Opening Prayer at Mass on All Souls' Day.
Jo Greene, Assistant Music Director at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle, leads the Psalm Response at Mass on All Souls' Day at Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
Carol Abate and Richard Phares listen to the reading of the Gospel during Mass on All Souls' Day at Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
While joining in the Prayer of the Faithful, Rose Stalikas holds a lone red rose she brought to place on the grave of her sister, Angela Stalikes, who passed away on July 27, 2015.
The faithful pray the Lord's Prayer at Mass on All Souls's Day.
Father Ralph Argentino, Director of Cemeteries for the Diocese of St. Petersburg, distributes the Eucharist.
Bishop Robert N. Lynch and clergy pause for prayer at the graves of the priests who are buried alongside of the altar at Calvary Catholic Cemetery after Mass on All Souls' Day.
Aelred and Linda Lauth pause for prayer at the graves of some of the priests who are buried alongside of the outdoor altar at Calvary Catholic Cemetery. Father John Colgan was a friend of the Lauths, who have been parishioners at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle for nearly 40 years.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let your perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Photographs: Copyright 2015 Ed Foster Jr.

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Will the Kron Ring Test Track (https://ets2.lt/en/kron-ring-test-track-v-1-3/)work with ProMods?
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The one and only industry which is trending and updating on a daily and sometimes an hourly basis is inexplicably the Digital marketing industry. Trends that keep updating on the digital marketing space are numerous. Someone comes up with an idea which clicks, sometimes intentionally and sometimes accidentally. Once that happens, the idea is improvised, replicated or simply copied and used by other digital marketers.
However, among the many trends, here are 4 such unique marketing initiatives on the digital media front that have given great outputs. Often, the many best digital marketing agencies in Hyderabad, including us are using these 4 features to its extent to yield the best results.
a. They gather the initial information of the leads that are very crucial yet sometimes missed by humans – name, contact details, the purpose of the chat.
b. Post-chat, depending on the kind of query or purpose for the chat, they auto segregate and pass on the chat to the concerned executives of the tech support team.
c. Also, the chatbots otherwise channelize the lead funnel and eliminate the unworthy leads while highlighting the quality ones.
This feature has become a trend so viral that everyone uses it as a norm. It was designed initially to make the search easier even when you are on the ride. But, now no matter what you are doing or where you are, if you need to search, voice search it is. Google searches are the key factor that designs the entire structure and flow of digital marketing. Even if we are not the number 1 result in the search, our campaign might pop-up second or third. As the voice search took over, the challenge to come up first has raised because this search feature only gives you the top best-related results. Only a very few succeed and have secured the title of the best digital marketing agency in Hyderabad.
a. It's cost effective – a social media influencer wouldn't charge you as much as a celebrity movie star would.
b. You can track the results – Not every time a strategy works. Unlike the TV advertisements or hoardings, here you know how many have visited the influencer and if the results were as effective as anticipated or not.
c. You don't have to stick to only one. There are so many people out there with maximum reach to an audience on the digital platform that you don't have to depend on only one influencer. In fact, our personal experience has told us that, creating a digital buzz on social media at the same time by many influencers all over the place, the impact is humongous. With these 4 exceptional features trending in the digital media, the internet marketers have got an opportunity to explore, exploit and to extract much more benefits than before. For how long will these trends continue to perform and give results is yet to be known, however. Moreover, keeping these trends as the basis, many new aspects and features are anticipated to come forth.
If you are into digital marketing, the expectation is to come up with a strategy that becomes a trend, but not to replicate one.
Just in case, we are 3DM – Hyderabad's leading Digital Marketing Agency.


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China-Based Hacking of 760 Companies Shows Cyber Cold War
Discussion in 'other security issues & news' started by MrBrian, Dec 22, 2011.
MrBrian Registered Member
From http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...ies-reflects-undeclared-global-cyber-war.html:
The networks of at least 760 companies, research universities, Internet service providers and government agencies were hit over the last decade by the same elite group of China-based cyber spies.
MrBrian, Dec 22, 2011
Based on what is known of attacks from China, Russia and other countries, a declassified estimate of the value of the blueprints, chemical formulas and other material stolen from U.S. corporate computers in the last year reached almost $500 billion, said Rogers, a former agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
That's quite a few bucks.
cm1971 Registered Member
Yes, that is quite a haul they made.
cm1971, Dec 22, 2011
Baserk Registered Member
AmstelodamUM
Economic espionage has been common even long before the X-mass man was born but the current scale is something new. (And the article only mentions a declassified estimate, there is likely also a still classified estimate).
I wonder how long it will take before this backfires for China.
Probably when the economical backlash, due to the hacking-enabled 'transfer of wealth', becomes too great, sanctions and boycotts against certain Chinese economic sectors will be the starting point.
Problematic might be that it's being done not just because the Beijing communist politburo orders these hacking schemes/organizations but because it's by and large organized by the Chinese military who actually own large parts of different economical sectors.
The current military leaders don't mind offending even their own political 'leaders', remember the embarrassed reaction by Chinese president Hu Jintao when the first Chinese stealth fighter was showed during the visit of US defence secretary Gates.
It's a vast 'state' hacking scheme out of almost anyone's control, that's making it so nasty.
All imao of a layman of course.
Baserk, Dec 23, 2011


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Film Preview: Lucky Grandma (2020)
From IMDb: "Set in New York City's Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck – and in the middle of a gang war."
Poster Rating: C
Review: There's nothing in this design that should appeal to casual moviegoers. The concept of the film might be more interesting, but it's not adequately conveyed in this design.
Review: What this film intends to do with itself isn't quite understandable with the trailer. There are elements that look like they are meant as comedy, but they aren't funny. There are moments that look like it's a heist thriller, but it doesn't look very thrilling.


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Q: Chrome extension, XMLHttpRequest Content Security Policy error I have a Chrome extension that makes a POST request to my website from the extension's background script. I get the following error (shown in Chrome's extension manager):
Refused to connect to 'https://my.website.com/path/' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "default-src 'none'". Note that 'connect-src' was not explicitly set, so 'default-src' is used as a fallback.
It's honestly not even clear to me if I need to change something in the js code or server-side.
background.js:
var xmlHttp;

function makerequest(){
    xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
    xmlHttp.open("POST", "https://my.website.com/path/",true);
    xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = got_response;
    var formData = new FormData();
    xmlHttp.send(formData);
}

function got_response(){
    if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4){
         alert(xmlHttp.responseText);
    }
}

The manifest includes:
"permissions": ["activeTab", "*://my.website.com/*","contextMenus"],

"background": {
    "scripts": ["background.js"],
    "persistent": false
  },

"content_security_policy":"connect-src 'self' https://my.website.com/*",

I have seen that there are other related question/answers. However, they are either trying to access someone else's website (not one I control) or there is an issue with using inline code, which doesn't seem to be the issue here since the code is in background.js (or if it is, please explain!). If you suggest another answer, or vote to close, please please actually checks that the other answer answers THIS question.

A: You need to remove the trailing asterisk from your CSP string. Asterisks are not interpreted as wildcard characters in the path part of a source identifier in CSP strings. Your current CSP string only allows connections to the literal URL https://my.website.com/*.
Content Security Policy Level 2 specification explicitly says:

The rules for matching source expressions that contain paths are
  simpler than they look: paths that end with the '/' character match
  all files in a directory and its subdirectories. Paths that do not end
  with the '/' character match only one specific file.

Apart from that, the CSP string in the manifest should limit script-src and object-src (either explicitly or using default-src). If it doesn't do that, Chrome displays warnings on the extension details page.
The CSP line in your manifest should therefore look like this:
"content_security_policy":"default-src 'self'; connect-src 'self' https://my.website.com/",

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Sark Migs is a WordPress plugin that enables MIGS payment gateway support for your WooCommerce powered sites. It Allows you to use MasterCard Internet Gateway Service or any other bank that uses MIGS ( like HSBC, Bendigo Bank, Axis Bank … ) with the WooCommerce plugin.
Just upload the plugin into your plugin's folder and activate it. Configure your Merchant ID, Access Code and Secure Secret Hash using the plugin's settings page and save that's it.
Ensure you have latest version of WooCommerce plugin installed ( 2.2 or above ).
how to pass customer email parameter in the vpc_OrderInfo.
Hi! First of all, thank you for creating this plugin. It really helped me out.
One question though, do you know how I can print the MIGS order reference ID on the Woocommerce thank you page?
however it would be great if you release an update.
Order reference ID does not appear in MIGS merchant panel.
it used to appear in magento migs plugin, but not this one..
any idea how to fix this will also be great.


It's hardly a secret that when it comes to protagonists in video games, there isn't exactly an over abundance of women. As a woman that grew up playing videogames, I often found myself wishing for more of a choice when it came to choosing my protagonist; playing the original Pokemon games, I didn't get to play as a female trainer until the release of Pokemon Crystal in 2001. Though being forced to play as a male trainer wasn't enough to stop me playing the games, it always made my training journey feel less personal, less satisfying. For young gamers, seeing themselves represented as the hero is important and there should be no doubt that the worlds they're playing in are for them.
Knowing this, one dad has decided to make sure his daughter can enjoy playing the classics feeling the same level of inclusion he did, by hacking The Legend of Zelda to make Link gender neutral.
By making the game gender neutral, the creator hasn't just made it for his daughter, he's made it for everyone and he's showing that by making it freely available to download. Of course you see the usual comments that ask "why?" and "what's the point?" but the easiest response to that is "why not?" This is a completely harmless change to the game that you don't have to play that in no way ruins the story or the gameplay, it just means that anyone can feel like the hero.
My favourite objection by far, though, is the one that claims to have had no complaints about playing as Lara Croft. I congratulate you for playing a game with a female protagonist and retaining a sense of your masculinity, but it's really not the same, is it? You played a game with a female protagonist when almost every other game you play has a male protagonist to identify with; the sense of otherness is not comparable. If every game you played starred some variation of Lara Croft and someone finally offered you a game that didn't you'd breathe a sigh of relief and say "finally, someone kind of like me!" The best thing about this objection is that the change to the game isn't even making Link female, which further highlights to me that the problem isn't with changing much-loved games at all, the problem is with women in gaming generally.
Hats off to this dad, we hope your daughter loves her game.


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Q: Method with Interface Parameters with Mockito Argument Capture I've one simple question. I've got two classes
XMessage and YMessage. These two classes are the sub class of ZClass.
These messages are published from a PublisherService with method
public void publish(ZClass message, Properties props){
     // some lowlevel stuff.
     // note that method is taking ZClass as an arg.
}

According to my logic XMessage is sent many times while YMessage is sent only once in one test.
Let's say XMessage is supposed to be sent 4 times where YMessage is sent 1 time. I would assume below code would work.
        ArgumentCaptor<XMessage> xCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(XMessage.class);

        verify(publisherService, times(4)).sendMessage(isA(XMessage.class),any());
        verify(publisherService, times(1)).sendMessage(isA(YMessage.class),any());
        verify(publisherService, times(4)).sendMessage(xCaptor,any());

However it fails with captor and the captor has 5 values.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

A: This is a known issue in Mockito. The issue is that ArgumentCaptor is not type aware.
See https://github.com/mockito/mockito/issues/565
This is open from 2016 and still not fully fixed so I would just did some workaround around it.
You can capture all of the arguments and then instanceof just the ones you need.
ArgumentCaptor<ZClass> zCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(ZClass.class);

Mockito.verify(publisherService, times(5)).publish(zCaptor.capture(), ArgumentMatchers.<Properties>any());

List<XMessage> xMessages = zCaptor.getAllValues()
                                  .stream()
                                  .filter(arg -> arg instanceof XMessage)
                                  .map(arg -> (XMessage) arg)
                                  .collect(Collectors.toList());


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Q: Iterate inner objects using lodash Here is my JSON object:
{
"id": 2,
"full_name": "Karan Kumar",
"user_skills": [
   {
      "skill_id": 1,
      "skill": {
          "skill_name": "Angular 8"
       }
   },
   {
      "skill_id": 3,
      "skill": {
          "skill_name": "Java Spring"
       }
    }
],
"resource_allocateds": [
  {
     "project_id": 1,
     "end_date": "2019-06-20",
     "project": {
         "project_name": "Inventory System"
      }
  },
  {
      "project_id": 2,
      "end_date": "2020-01-15",
      "project": {
           "project_name": "Hospital Management System"
       }
    }
  ]
}

I want to pick certain properties from the above JSON and I want to have it something like this:
{
    "id": 1,
    "full_name": "Karan Kumar",
    "skills": [{
        "skill_id": 1,
        "skill_name": "Angular 8"
    },
    {
        "skill_id": 3,
       "skill_name": "Java Spring"
    }],
    "resource_allocateds": [{
        "project_id": 1,
        "end_date": "2019-06-20",
        "project_name": "Inventory System"
    },
    {
        "project_id": 2,
        "end_date": "2020-01-15",
        "project_name": "Hospital Management System"
    }]
}

I tried using Lodash's partialRight, but it seems it doesn't work on iterable objects and also tried flatMap, but didn't work. It would be great if somebody helps me to solve this. Thanks in advance!

A: you can use vanilla javascript instead of Lodash to do that. Look for ES6 methods like map/reduce/filter. Example :
const input = {
"id": 2,
"full_name": "Karan Kumar",
"user_skills": [
   {
      "skill_id": 1,
      "skill": {
          "skill_name": "Angular 8"
       }
   },
   {
      "skill_id": 3,
      "skill": {
          "skill_name": "Java Spring"
       }
    }
],
"resource_allocateds": [
  {
     "project_id": 1,
     "end_date": "2019-06-20",
     "project": {
         "project_name": "Inventory System"
      }
  },
  {
      "project_id": 2,
      "end_date": "2020-01-15",
      "project": {
           "project_name": "Hospital Management System"
       }
    }
  ]
};

const { id, full_name, user_skills, resource_allocateds } = input;

const output = {
  id,
  full_name,
  skills: user_skills.map(item => ({
      skill_id: item.skill_id,
      skill_name: item.skill.skill_name
    })),
  resource_allocateds: resource_allocateds.map(item => ({
      project_id: item.project_id,
      end_date: item.end_date,
      project_name: item.project.project_name
    })),
}

A: You can use toArray and mapValues like shown below:

const jsonData = {
  "id": 2,
  "full_name": "Karan Kumar",
  "user_skills": [
     {
        "skill_id": 1,
        "skill": {
            "skill_name": "Angular 8"
         }
     },
     {
        "skill_id": 3,
        "skill": {
            "skill_name": "Java Spring"
         }
      }
  ],
  "resource_allocateds": [
    {
       "project_id": 1,
       "end_date": "2019-06-20",
       "project": {
           "project_name": "Inventory System"
        }
    },
    {
        "project_id": 2,
        "end_date": "2020-01-15",
        "project": {
             "project_name": "Hospital Management System"
         }
    }
  ]
};

const transformedJson = {...jsonData};
transformedJson.user_skills = _.toArray(_.mapValues(transformedJson.user_skills, ({ skill_id, skill }) => {
  return {
    skill_id,
    skill_name: skill.skill_name
  };
}));
transformedJson.resource_allocateds = _.toArray(_.mapValues(transformedJson.resource_allocateds, ({ project_id, project }) => {
  return {
    project_id,
    project_name: project.project_name
  };
}));

document.getElementById('jsonResults').innerHTML = JSON.stringify(transformedJson, null, 2);


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SAFE Credit Union needs YOU
If you love SAFE Credit Union and have business experience, we invite you to consider joining our volunteer Board of Directors (Board).
Our Board works with SAFE's executive management to ensure every decision is made with our members' financial well-being in mind and in a manner that complies with all credit union bylaws and government regulations. Board members are active members in the community, helping share the credit union mission and SAFE's commitment to helping our region thrive. SAFE champions and is committed to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workplaces and in our community.
We invite you to consider applying for a Board position (Director) if you have expertise in any of the following areas:
Economic, financial, and business matters
Marketing, branding, customer/membership cultivation
Information technology, cybersecurity, and digital-based delivery methods
Customer/member service, product development and delivery efficiency
Any SAFE member in good standing and at least 18 years of age is eligible to serve on the Board. Refer to the Personal Characteristics, Experience, and Education section for other desirable factors the Nominating Committee seeks when evaluating candidates.
Board Functions
The Board oversees the credit union's business and affairs, including overseeing management regarding a broad range of subjects, such as strategies and operating plans, capital structure, financial and risk management policies, compensation philosophies, and other matters. As part of its oversight role, the Board considers some of its primary functions to include the following, which are discharged either directly by the Board or through its committees:
Ensuring a succession of strong, vital, and meaningful management for the Credit Union
Approving and monitoring a comprehensive long-term business strategy
Overseeing management in addressing significant external and internal issues facing SAFE
Overseeing SAFE's corporate governance policies, codes of conduct, and legal and regulatory compliance policies
Overseeing fundamental financial, business, and risk management strategies and policies, and approving significant corporate actions
Providing oversight to SAFE's financial reporting process and the adequacy of accounting, financial, and internal controls
Reviewing SAFE's executive compensation programs, their effectiveness at both linking executive pay to performance, and aligning the interests of the credit union's executives with SAFE's long-term business strategy, and overseeing an entity-wide executive compensation risk assessment
Personal Characteristics, Experience, and Education
Director candidates should be intellectually and emotionally resilient, able to participate and offer critical review of business matters and have a good understanding of director fiduciary duties. Candidates should be skilled at encouraging open and collegial dialogue with their fellow Board members while building solid working relationships with company management. SAFE recognizes the value of diversity on the board, including gender, race, and ethnicity, and endeavors to promote diversity in nominating candidates for the Board. Additionally, candidates should possess and demonstrate the following attributes/experience, and education background:
Highest ethical standards and integrity
Willingness to act on and be accountable for Board decisions
Able to provide wise, thoughtful counsel on a range of issues
A history of achievements reflecting high standards, experiences relevant to challenges currently faced by the company, and willingness to leverage these assets to help shape and advance the company's strategic goals
Forward thinking and strategic, pragmatic and operationally strong, with a commitment to building long-term value
Able to take tough positions while being a team player, fostering candor and constructive collaboration
Analytical and able to evaluate strategy, business plans, financial issues, and people in a constructive manner
Proven leadership skills and credibility with a variety of constituencies
Willingness to devote sufficient time to carrying out Director duties and responsibilities effectively, and committed to serve on the Board for the full term
Executive, C-suite, or business ownership experience
Undergraduate, Master of Business Administration, Juris Doctorate, or other relevant advanced degree
Benefits of Serving on the Board of Directors
Serving on our Board provides opportunities to network, grow your personal brand, support initiatives that resonate with you while serving our members. It is an opportunity to learn more about governance and leadership. These experiences will help you advance in your career and life. Our Directors are invited to bring their diverse skills and experience to contribute to the overall success of SAFE Credit Union, a low-income designated credit union that focuses on serving all members of our community, including underrepresented populations. Directors receive ongoing education about credit union guidelines, regulations, and other relevant topics to ensure they are equipped with the most up-to-date information needed to put their leadership and management abilities to their best use for our members.
Nomination and Election Process
The SAFE Director nomination process commences in August, and the deadline for members to submit nominations is generally within 90 days of SAFE's Annual Meeting of the Members. Individuals who qualify for credit union Board seats and desire to be placed on the election ballot can be self-nominated through the petition process and must obtain the requisite number of signatures from SAFE members, or may be nominated by members of the current Board. Board elections are held at SAFE's Annual Meeting of Members.
The Board has eight scheduled hybrid, in-person or virtual, meetings each year in January, March, April, June, July, September, October, and December. The meetings are held in Folsom, CA, or virtually generally on the fourth Thursday of these months (with adjustments made to the schedule for Memorial Day and Thanksgiving holidays). Committee meetings are also held as hybrid meetings, as needed, between regularly scheduled Board meetings.
SAFE Directors are elected for three-year terms and are eligible to be re-nominated for subsequent three-year terms.
Submit a letter of interest and qualifications to the chairperson of the Nominating Committee asking to be considered for a Board position. Include a full description of your background, qualifications, and experience.
Submit your information no later than January 31, 2022 by:
Attn: Board of Directors Nominating Committee
Folsom, CA, 95630
For those seeking nomination by the petition process, email or mail the Board at the addresses above to request the petition instructions.
Terrance (Terry) Tremelling
Volunteer since 2006
SAFE member since 1985
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SAFE Board service: Chairperson since 2017. Also served as 2nd Vice Chairperson and Director.
Professional and executive experience: Vice President of Corporate Services for Raley's (retired).
Other board service: Former board member of Northern California Grocers Credit Union (1983-1985); the Regional Advisory Council for ByDesign; and IMCO General Construction.
Education: Bachelor's degree from California State University, Sacramento; graduate of the USC executive food management class.
Community involvement: Habitat for Humanity and Building Together. Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2020 from the California Credit Union League.
Robert (Rob) E. Logue III
1st Vice Chairperson
SAFE Board service: 1st Vice Chairperson since 2018. Also has served as 2nd Vice Chairperson, Director Pro Tem, and Director.
Professional and executive experience: Director of Business Operations for DST Output LLC (Cable Data USCS. Inc.) (retired)
Other board service: Former Chairperson of the Board for American River HealthPro Credit Union (2001-2003 and 2006-2009; Board Member of El Dorado Business Park.
Education: Attended Advanced Management College and Finance Course at Stanford University; Six Sigma Champion.
Community involvement: Board member of Big Brothers/Big Sisters.
Rick Blumenfeld
SAFE Board service: Treasurer since 2018. Also served as Director.
Professional and executive experience: Regional Managing Partner with Arthur Anderson LLP (retired); independent Certified Public Accountant. Adjunct instructor at Sierra College and principal of a real estate consulting practice. Served on the faculty of CSU San Francisco, CSU Sacramento, UC Davis School of Management, and Sierra College.
Other board service: Former Board Member and Treasurer of United Way California Capital Region; founding Board Member and Treasurer of Eureka Schools Foundation; former Board Member and Treasurer of the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Education: B.S. in Accounting from Southern Illinois University.
Community involvement: Blue and Gold Officer for the United States Naval Academy Admissions Group.
James Jefferson
SAFE Board service: Secretary since 2004. Chairperson of the Board Policy Committee.
Also served as 1st Assistant Secretary and Director.
Professional and executive experience: Various management positions at McClellan Air Force Base, including senior enlisted adviser (now titled command chief master sergeant) to the center commander. He retired from the Air Force after 30 years of active duty.
Other board service: Member of Advisory Board for the Sacramento Chapter of InfraGard.
Education: 3.5 years of college
Community involvement: Financial Services Sector Chief of the Sacramento Infragard Member Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States.
Jody Porter
2nd Vice Chairperson
SAFE Board service: 2nd Vice Chairperson since 2020. Member of the Audit Committee since 2018 and Chairperson of the Audit Committee since 2020. Also served as Director Pro Tem.
Professional and executive experience: Chief Financial Officer for mechanical engineering and construction firm Frank M. Booth Inc. He also has extensive experience in financial management and strategic planning for HD Supply in Roseville, General Electric, and Ernst & Young in Philadelphia.
Other board service: Board member for Frank M. Booth Inc. and Granite Bay Rotary Club.
Education: CPA and CGMA designations
Community involvement: Serves as director of football and volunteer coach for Granite Bay Jr. Grizzlies Organization.
Brian Bedford
SAFE Board service: Director since 2018.
Professional and executive experience: Dean of the Elk Grove Center, a campus in the Los Rios Community District. CSU Sacramento Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives. Founding president and CEO of Align Capital Region. Tenured business professor. Former professional football player.
Other board service: Board member of Lincoln Law School and Asian Resources Inc. Former board member of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Align Capital Region.
Education: Bachelor's degree, juris doctorate, and a master's degree in business administration.
James W. Hopp
SAFE Board service: Served as Director Pro Tem, Director, and Director Emeritus.
Professional and executive experience: U.S. Air Force general officer (retired). Vice commander of the Sacramento Air Logistics Center and the commander of the Ogden Air Logistics Center.
Other board service: President of the Aerospace Museum of California Foundation Board.
Education: Bachelor's degree in business administration, an MBA from USC, and a master's degree in aerospace management. Graduate of the Senior Management Program of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the National War College.
Community involvement: Director of the California Capital Air show Board of Directors; Board Chairperson of the Volunteer Center of Sacramento. Permanent Deacon of the Catholic Church.
Herb Long
Professional and executive experience: President and CEO of California Community Credit Union (retired). Air Force (retired).
Other board service: Member of the Board of Governors of the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Credit Union League, and Chapter President in 1991 and 2007.
Education: Bachelor's degree from Chaminade University in Honolulu and an MBA from Golden Gate University.
Community Involvement: Member of the Roseville Personnel Board and board treasurer of the Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers.
Ronald J. Seaman
SAFE Board service: Director from 1986-1996. Chairman from 1996-2016.
Professional and executive experience: Deputy Director of specialized management, McClellan Air Force Base (retired).
Other board service: Member of the California Credit Union League Board of Directors, 2003-2012.
Education: Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Clarkson University and a
master's degree in public administration from Auburn University.
Community involvement: Holds a certified credit union volunteer designation. Awarded the California Credit Union League Volunteer of the year award. Designated CUES Director of the Year by the Credit Union Executive Society presented in 2013.
Donald Ball
SAFE Board service: Director since 2020
Professional and executive experience: Former Chief Financial Officer of Foster Poultry Farms LLC. Former Chief Financial Officer of VSP Global. Former SVP and CFO of Raley's grocery stores. Former Senior Executive and Chief Financial Officer of IKEA North America.
Other board service: Member of Crystal Creamery-Foster Farms' Dairy Board of Directors. Former representative of the VSP Global Board of Directors, Finance, Retirement, Public Policy, and Audit committees. Former board member of IKEA North America.
Education: Bachelor's degree from Marist College and an MBA from Pace University in New York City.
Community involvement: Former board member of Make-A-Wish Foundation Sacramento and Northern California, frequent guest lecturer at CSU Sacramento.
Sonia Lewis
SAFE Board experience: Director since 2020
Professional and executive experience: Human Resources Director, Intel. Manager and Senior Consultant for Accenture. Member of Intel's Black Leadership Council and its Black Network of Executive Women.
Other board service: Board Vice Chair for an education nonprofit and chair of the Strategic Planning Committee.
Education: Bachelor's in Economics/Business from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating Phi Beta Kappa with Honors. Master's in Business with concentrations in Finance & Management from Johns Hopkins University.
Phillip A. Meserve
Director Emeritus
SAFE Board service: 1st Vice Chairperson 1996-2019; also served on the Governance and Nominating Committee, Finance Committee, and as a 401(k) trustee.
Professional and executive experience: Comptroller of the Sacramento Air Logistics Center, McClellan Air Force Base (retired Colonel). Former Director of Accounting and Finance at Hq Air Force Logistics Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Director of Cost Analysis at Hq Military Airlift Command, Scott AFB, Illinois.
Other board service: Member of the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Credit Union League and president in 2006/2007.
Education: Bachelor's degree in business and industrial management from San Jose State University. Master's degree in management from Webster University, St. Louis.
Community involvement: Member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Greater Sacramento area 1988-1995. Recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Volunteer Award from the California Credit Union League.
Trish Rodriquez
Professional and executive experience: Currently Senior Vice President – Area Manager and Hospital Administrator for Kaiser Permanente in South Sacramento and Elk Grove. Former Chief Operating Officer of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Northern California Region. Former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Hawaii Region.
Other board service: Past chairperson for the American Heart Association and the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
Education: Master's degree in Public Health from the University of Hawaii; bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada. She also attended the Executive Leadership Program at the Harvard Business School.
Community involvement: Currently serves on the executive committee of Valley Vision and is a board member for The Crocker Art Museum.
Ryan Larkin
Board position/title: Associate Director
Professional and executive experience: Currently Chief Operating Officer for MDstaffers, responsible for firm-wide financial and operational performance, including P&L. Previously served as Vice President of Service Delivery for MDstaffers, leading growth, technology, planning, and delivery.
Other board service: Board Trustee for an emergency communications nonprofit
Education: American Military University
Community involvement: U.S. Army veteran
Bernadette Austin
Associate Board Member
SAFE Board service: Associate Board Member
Professional and executive experience: Executive Director of the Center for Regional Change at the University of California, Davis, serving as a lead on multidisciplinary research projects, including developing tools to support affordable housing, understanding megaregion migration, supporting transportation equity, and advancing carbon neutrality. Member of the Faculty Executive Committee for the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Founder of Bernadette Austin Consulting Services. Held leadership positions at Domus Development, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, California Capital, Breast Cancer Network of Strength, formerly Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, and New Connections. Her projects include Sacramento's first true transit-oriented development, West Sacramento's first urban farm stand, and the first project in the country to implement a program combining housing vouchers and health services for disabled adults. Bernadette has been recognized as a notable woman leader by Sacramento Magazine and Comstock's Magazine, and the Sacramento Business Journal include her on their list of 40 Under 40.
Other board service: Board member for Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, Alchemist Community Development Corporation, and Sacramento ENRICHES. She also served as President of the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Coalition for Parent Participation Nursery Schools.
Education: Master of Science in Community Development from U.C. Davis and a Bachelor of Science in Community Health from St. Mary's College of California.
Community involvement: Bernadette has served in leadership roles for a variety of professional organizations in land use and real estate development, including the Urban Land Institute, Lambda Alpha International, American Planning Association, and California Planning Roundtable. Bernadette serves as co-leader for the Sacramento Area Chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network. Bernadette was an appointed official for the City of West Sacramento for 13 years, including seven years on the Parks and Community Services Commission and six years on the Planning Commission. Volunteers with Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Amigos de las Americas, and Wonder, a mentorship program of Stanford Sierra Youth and Families.


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