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Viber finally commit to supporting BlackBerry 10
It looks like Viber have decided to support BlackBerry 10 at last, thanks to them replying to a Twitter user with the news. Whether it will be native BlackBerry 10 or the Android port remains a mystery, but I'd expect that if they were going to officially port the Android version they would have done so already.
It's odd how big name apps such as Viber take so long to make up their minds on whether to join in the BlackBerry 10 party. We got Skype eventually, although the Android version, but at least it's there.
With Viber committed to team BlackBerry let's see if any of the other big names that are still missing from BlackBerry World show up.
Hopefully we don't have to wait too long for Viber to pull their finger out. You could always tweet them a reminder! In the meantime you can grab the Android version from third party apps such as Snap. If you've not installed Android apps since BlackBerry 10.2.1. was released we have a full set of instructions.
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I have been to Modesto, it's a decent size town. And ULC7 could have their headquarters in the Modesto bus station.
Long ago and far away, I had a similar situation with Oregon. At that time (This was right after Kirby Hensley's passing) there was a feisty ULC minister in Arizona. (Now retired) Anyway he worked out an agreement. Oregon agreed I was a legal minister qualified to perform marriages. I have a letter attesting to that filed away. In return, the man in AZ agreed that he would not sue Oregon halfway to Mars. For every problem there is a solution.
You have a congregation, the couples who requested you marry them makes 4 people in your congregation. You have a church, you meet in your home, their home, the local Starbucks. Very few states have laws regulating a minimum size of congregations, nor do they require meetings be in a formal church building. Doing so would be a violation of your rights and this has been through the courts many times. I went through this with Oregon many years ago. May your congregation be blessed.
I can relate to that. I'm taking Culinary Classes at local college. (No school on Good Friday.) Any other good jokes relating to Culinary school?
I was one of the earlier ones ordained. I used to work in construction with my father. One time I saw my dad talking to a guy who looked like he might be related. Looked similar from the back I thought it was an uncle or a cousin. My dad came from a large family. It was Kirby Hensley. All my father said was "That's the first time I ever heard a preacher cuss" I visited family in Europe last year, I found the D.D. works wonders with people in Europe. I was politely addressed as "Doctor" a lot of places. My grandfather never mastered English, I never mastered German.
I have a folk guitar (nylon strings) a Dreadnaught guitar,(Martin D28, a big one) a 5string banjo, a 4 string banjo, a banjolele a baritone ukelele, a plastic uke I bought on Ebay for $1.50, an upright acoustic piano and a couple of other little things like a mandolin and a couple of harmonicas. I had pictures stored in a phone that my (now) ex shoved down the garbage disposal. Need to take some more. Thought about getting some kind of group started, then I laid motorcycle down and broke some legs and fingers. Learning to walk and use fingers all over again.
I was in Netherlands and down to Stuttgart Germany for a job interview last year. I remember Rammstein got a lot of radio play. Visited a lady I know in Eindhoven Netherlands. Like most Dutch, her only transportation besides public, is her bicycle. Like most Dutch, she just leans it against the front of her house. I told her if she did that in USA the bike would be gone before she got into her house. Outside of Amsterdam, the crime rate there is close to Zero.
From news stories I have read, the major problem with proclaiming oneself a Christian Minister in a Muslim country is that while it may be officially OK, unofficially, one could find oneself beheaded in the night.
A possibility: A group of ULC Ministers refer to themselves as "Missionaries" Baptise and/or ordain some in a sufficient number to constitute a "Congregation." Find a building or premises suitable for a church, whatever the requirements may be, make certain the real estate person(s) in charge is agreeable, and make your application on the basis that it is a "Church Planting." I'm not certain of all of the legal niceties involved, but I am aware that this seems to work for Mormons and several Asian churches. If one of the congregation, an ordained minister of course, were to place some chairs and a pulpit in his garage, which would not otherwise be used because said person does not own an auto, would this qualify under the above ruling? Blessings.
More information: Note that this church, headed by Andre Hensley is active, and has been active and flourishing since Kirby Hensley founded it in 1962.
What shift do you work? I thought Programmers were the only ones up now.
PayPal requires a financial statement and a faxed copy of your 501 ©3. About 3-4 months ago they sent me a request for all that crap and I just pulled the "Donate" button. I figure if somebody wants to donate they can mail a check.
I think the point was that California is one of the growing list of states that recognize religious degrees as legitimate. Many archaic state laws treat degrees from religious schools and/or non-traditional schools under "Diploma Mill" laws where mere possession of a degree from an unaccredited institution as a felony under the Statute of Frauds. For example, in Oregon, an Attorney licensed by another state who earned his law degree from a "non-accredited" i.e. mail-order/online school but passed (for example)the California Bar Exam could be prosecuted by the state of Oregon for having his degree in his luggage. (This has happened) This gives recognition to the concept that online degrees are as valid as a degree earned by sitting in a classroom all day. In other words "Online is as good as in person" Sound familiar? We need a ULC logo smiley.
Maybe they put in two boxes for cases like this: http://dailycontributor.com/mayors-skimpy-outfit-draws-complaints/6307/ Be sure to check the link.
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Plan on having at least 2 or 3 gazillion dollars in liability insurance and a big name law firm on retainer.
Have you tried a tall Scotch & Soda?
Have you talked to your friendly local banker? There is a form available in some states where it is a simple registration with the state (Fee $6.50 in OR, $24.50 in WA) and your checks would show "Church Of Discordiansism" on one line with "Reverend Smeg the Kilted" or "<your name here>" under it, address on next line, city, state et al. If you talk to a KNOWLEDGEABLE bank official i.e. Manager, Business account rep, etc you will find that you are far from the first to have this question and he/she will gladly walk you through the process. (Been There, Done That... Wanna see my T-shirt?) If you apply for 501© (3) incorporation (Federal) which is not really necessary if you are just a straight church, do not get enthusiastic about incoming funds as the fees are apparently on some sort of sliding scale. It looks like you are pretty realistic on this, just a reminder. May your Ministry be blessed.
Technical question: Does the congregation have to be located in Las Vegas or can it be anywhere in Clark County? (Henderson, Pahrump, Searchlight etc. The idea is out of the high rent area. The missus used to live in Vegas,(before I met her) remembers what rent was like while trying to live on min wage+tips.
Bourbon . . .Straight outta the bottle. I didn't know there was any other way to drink it until I left Kentucky.


As a Canadian, I share your frustration that MagicBands can't be shipped internationally. The good news is that you'll either be able to pick up a complimentary set (one for each member of your party) when you check in for your stay at a Walt Disney World Resort hotel.
If you aren't staying "on property", however, don't worry! You can either purchase a choice of solid colour MagicBands directly at Guest Relations when you pick up your Theme Park Tickets, or you can purchase really cool character MagicBands at several merchandise locations in the Theme Parks or Disney Springs. The Cast Member at that merchandise location will then be able to link your band to your My Disney Experience account and, voila! Your little one will be good to go.
I hope my answer helps you plan your upcoming Disney Parks vacation. Depending on your son's needs, be sure to check out the Services for Guests with Disabilities page for more information about how to make your visit to Walt Disney World Resort wonderful for the entire family.
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Despite Being Hit Hard by Pandemic, New Pew Study Says Optimism Is Growing Among US Latinos
By: Juanita Ramos Ardila
Pedestrians wearing protective masks wait in line for food donations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in the Corona neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Despite being one of the groups hardest hit by the pandemic, Latinos in the United States are optimistic about the direction of the country, according to a study released on Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
"About half (49%) say they are satisfied with the nation's direction, up from June 2020, when 20% said the same. This is the most satisfied Latinos have been with the nation's direction since 2012, when 51% said so," the Pew report noted.
The positive perception of Latinos who identify with the Democratic Party also increased. The view that things in the country could get worse fell from 47% in December 2019 to 25% in March 2021. Meanwhile, Latinos who identify as Republicans said things have gotten worse in the past year by 30%, up from 26% in 2019.
This optimism comes after U.S. Latinos were also among those who experienced the most job losses and COVID-19 infections. The survey found that 54% of Latinos who had to work away from home during the peak of the pandemic experienced job loss, compared to 35% who were able to continue working from home.
"Hispanics living in households where someone has lost a job or wages are more than twice as likely to say they have had trouble paying bills than those in households without a job or wage loss (51% vs. 20%)," the Pew report said.
While U.S. Latinos were experiencing these economic problems, they also faced becoming infected or losing family members due to COVID-19. The report noted that about half (52%) of U.S. Latino adults had a family member or close friend living in the U.S. or in another country who was hospitalized or died from COVID-19.
Fifty-six percent of Latino immigrants said a family member or close relative had been hospitalized or died from the virus, compared with 48% of those who are U.S.-born.
Child Care and Schooling
For Latino parents who had to work outside the home, caring for their children under the age of 12 was considered difficult (71%) compared to those who were able to work at home (55%).
"A majority of Latino parents with younger children say they've had a harder time with childcare during the pandemic. And this is true among mothers and fathers. However, mothers are more likely than fathers to say it's been very difficult handling childcare duties. And work arrangements may play a role in this. Latino parents are more likely than the U.S. public to say their children have received online instruction rather than in-person instruction", Pew senior writer and editor Jens Manuel Krogstad told Latino Rebels.
Only 10% of parents of K-12 students surveyed said they are not "concerned at all" about their children falling behind because of online education. Meanwhile, 42% said they are very concerned that their children are not keeping up with their classes.
That concern increased to 46% when focused on Latino immigrant parents, compared to 34% of U.S.-born Latino parents.
Support networks among family, friends and neighbors were key for U.S. Latinos to survive the crisis.
A majority (58%) say they have helped relatives or close friends in several ways—by delivering groceries, running errands or caring for their children (39%), sending or loaning money to family or friends in another country (28%), or sending or loaning money to family or friends in the U.S. (26%)," the report said.
The data collection field period for this survey was March 15 to March 28, 2021. It surveyed 3,375 U.S. Latino adults. The margin of error for the full sample of respondents is +/-2.8 percentage points.
Juanita Ramos Ardila is a Colombian journalist who has written for El Tiempo and ColPrensa. An M.A. Journalism candidate at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Juanita is also Latino Rebels' 2021 Summer Correspondent. Twitter: @JuanitaRamosA.
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CNN Goes "Full Retard" Trying To Blame Baton Rouge Terrorist's Actions on PTSD
By adminPosted on August 9, 2016
From the very beginning, CNN has been deeply invested in crafting the fictional narratives driving the Black Lives Matter movement. Now that domestic terrorists aligned with the movement have carried out murderous ambushes of police officers in Dallas, Baton Rouge, and at at least a half-dozen other cities in recent weeks, the cable news channel is clearly looking to provide a smokescreen for their political allies.
CNN's Chris Cuomo and Joshua Berlinger are clearly desperate to exonerate Black Lives Matter, and have attempted to concoct a laughable defense of Black Lives Matter terrorism as they flippantly damn generations of honorable combat veterans.
G___ L___*, the man who shot six law enforcement officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — killing three — suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, a source involved in the investigation told CNN's Chris Cuomo.
Long joined the Marine Corps in 2005 and worked as a data network specialist, according to the U.S. military.
Ladies and gentlemen, this Black Lives Matter terrorist in Baton Rouge was a military computer geek. While he did serve a brief stint in Iraq, he never went on a single combat patrol, and never saw the horrors of war. Those who served would recognize him as a "fobbit." He never saw anything remotely approaching combat.
What did he do in the Marines? This:
Cyber Network Operator is the latest term for what the Marine Corps formerly called data network specialists. These marines are responsible for the installation, configuration, and management of data network or cyber systems in both a stand-alone and client-server environments, including MS Exchange, Defense Message Systems, and other authorized data network systems.
There I was, configuring email systems. The things I've seen…
I'm not going to say Coumo and Berlinger are lying about their source, but let's be honest: journalists can find anonymous sources and "experts" of dubious credibility to provide quotes to fit any predetermined narratives, something that CNN knows quite well.
After all, that's how they generated the fiction that attempted cop killer Michael Brown was shot in the back running away, when he was shot in the hand attempting to kill Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson with Wilson's gun in an unprovoked attack, and who finally fell at Wilson's feet with a shot to the top of his head as he was bull-rushing the officer.
Here's your reality check.
The Black Lives Matter domestic terrorist* who murdered three Baton Rouge police officers and wounded three more Sunday morning left behind an amazing body of work that revealed the inner workings of his mind in both video and print forms.
His Twitter feed routinely referenced and conversed with radical black nationalists and promoted violence against law enforcement. His YouTube channel is a stunning mix of New Age mumbo jumbo, paranoia, African supremacy rhetoric, and disdain for other races and for the police. He even published several bizarre self-help books.
The terrorists who stalked and killed Dallas and Baton Rouge police officers was clearly spurred on by reporting in the mainstream media that dishonestly asserted that Baton Rouge resident Alton Sterling was "just selling CDs" when police officers attacked him as he "did nothing" and then "executed him for no reason."
The emerging reality, of course, was that serial felon Sterling had threatened a homeless man with a handgun that he illegally acquired just the night before, and the Baton Rouge police responded to that homeless man's call for help after he was threatened with that revolver from the 300+ pound Sterling. 24 hours after the "execution" narrative was pushed by cable and network television news channels that have made hundreds of millions of dollars pushing an anti-cop narrative, a high resolution video emerged that showed Sterling—a sex offender with a long history of arrests for violence and weapons charges—was struggling with officers when his gun was discovered, and that Sterling was shot after attempting to buck off an officer trying to control him while reaching towards the revolver in his right front pocket.
This apparent reality has been downplayed. Telling the truth instead of stoking the narrative with outrage doesn't drive ratings and pay salaries.
Like the fictional narratives that an innocent Trayvon Martin was "stalked" by George Zimmerman, and that Michael Brown was shot in the back as he ran away with his hands up from Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the story of Alston Sterling being "executed" appears to be an abject lie.
None of that matters to a national news media drunk on the money they're making selling the lie that law enforcement officers execute minorities merely because of the color of their skin. None of that matters to those viewers who already hate police and are simply looking for an excuse to commit violence against them.
CNN's biased coverage helped create the Black Lives Matter movement. The cable news network made tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars selling dishonest racial narratives that divided a nation and targeted those who dedicate their lives to defending people of all races from crimes both petty and incredibly violent.
Chris Cuomo and Joshua Berlinger aren't looking to find what drove these domestic terrorists. What drove them is self-evident.
All these CNN "journalists" are doing is providing coverage for their network, their political allies, and maybe blame-shift away any guilt they feel for helping create such monsters.
Asserting that PTSD is to blame—and slurring the good names of hundreds of thousands to millions of combat veterans who actually do suffer the effects of coping with the actual horrors of war beyond working with Microsoft products—is reprehensible, but not unexpected.
After all, "this is CNN."
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As a neighbour, you can help by writing down the date and time when you see or hear violence, so that you can testify in future if necessary.
Ask the woman and any children how they are when you meet them.
If you hear arguments or screaming in your neighbour's apartment, you can call the disturbance hotline. Tell them what you've seen and heard.
In an emergency, call the police on 112!
Calling the police may feel uncomfortable, but it may mean that you are protecting someone from being subjected to violence.
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In acute cases after 16.00 and on weekends and public holidays, call the emergency social services on 112.
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Brick Attacker Gets 25 Years
N E W YORK, Dec. 13, 2000 -- A New York man was sentenced
today to the maximum of 25 years in prison for bashing a
Texas woman in the head with a pavement brick in broad daylight
in midtown Manhattan last year.
Paris Drake, 36, was convicted last month of assault andweapons possession for attacking Nicole Barrett, 28, with asix-pound brick on Nov. 16, 1999. The attack led to a crackdownon the homeless by crime-fighting New York City Mayor RudolphGiuliani after Drake was initially incorrectly described byauthorities as homeless.
Victim Suffered from Brain Injuries
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Laura Visitacion-Lewis saidin imposing the maximum sentence for the conviction that theattack on Barrett, "left the city stunned and was so brazen andunprovoked that it not only shattered her physical being buther hopes and dreams for her entire life."
Drake's defense counsel maintained during last month'strial that he was not the assailant and had been the victim ofmistaken identity and overzealous police eager to close a highprofile case.
Barrett, who was working and living in New York at the timeof the attack but has returned to her home town Athens, Texas,was prevented by inclement weather from traveling totoday's sentencing, but she had a statement read in court.
"Your action should have killed me and I want you to beaccountable for it," said the statement by Barrett, whosuffered severe brain injuries. "You called me a rich, whitebitch. I am white and I can be bitchy. But you should have doneyour homework because I'm not rich."
Barrett said that all the money she had with her the day ofthe attack was $1.86. "I really wanted to be here to give it toyou. Paris, you almost murdered me for $1.86 and now I want youto have it," she said in her statement, which was read by JoanIlluzzi-Orbon, the assistant district attorney who prosecutedthe case.


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\section{Introduction}

The modification of electron spectra and of the optical absorption of
semiconductor heterostructures by strong electric fields applied parallel
to the growth direction (see band diagram in Fig.1) has important applications
in infrared optical modulators and tunable photodetectors. Although the
basic physics of these phenomena is related to the quantum confined Stark
effect, their rigorous examination should take into account the complex band
structure of the materials under investigation, especially in the case
of interband optical transitions. The electric-field effect on electron
spectra and optical absorption in quantum wells has been studied for a
wide class of the materials: AlInAs/GaInAs$^{1}$, Si/Ge$^{2}$, and
narrow-gap CdTe/HgTe$^{3}$ and InAs/AlGaSb$^4$
systems. The use of narrow-gap materials is especially important in
connection with an increasing interest in the optics of mid- and
far-infrared regions. For this reason, heterostructures based on
narrow-gap lead salt alloys$^{5}$ may become promising.

The electron spectrum of the lead salt alloys at the L-points
of the Brillouin zone is described by an anisotropic two-band Dirac-like
Hamiltonian and the energy gap strongly depends on the alloy composition.
The most extensively investigated alloy, Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$Te, becomes a
gapless material at $x \simeq 0.47$. Electronic properties including
energy spectrum, optical transitions and electron transport of multilayer
heterostructures based upon Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$Te materials, have been
studied in Refs. 6-8. Theoretical investigations of the electron energy
spectrum of a single PbSnTe quantum well are summarized in Ref. 9, and
interband optical transitions in such quantum wells have been studied
in Ref. 10. The effect of weak electric fields on the energy spectrum
and optical absorption has been studied in Ref. 11, where approximate
analytical solutions of the eigenvalue problem have been found by
perturbation theory. In that case, the Stark shifts of the levels
are quadratic in the electric field and comparable to the spin
splitting energies due to field-induced asymmetry of the confining
potential.

In this paper we study theoretically  the influence of a strong
electric field on the energy spectrum, density of states and optical
absorption of quantum wells made from narrow-gap lead salt alloys. Our
investigation is motivated as follows. From the point of view of fundamental
physics it is important to study the eigenvalue problem for the quantum well
in the strong-field regime, when the drop of the electrostatic potential
energy across the well becomes comparable to both the size-quantized energies
and the energy gap of the quantum-well material. As we show below, the
electron spectrum in such conditions has   a
pronounced spin splitting and an anticrossing of two-dimensional (2D)
conduction- and valence-band states as they are shifted towards each
other by the electric field. As a result, a nearly gapless 2D electron
system is formed. The spectra of both spin-up and spin-down states become
non-monotonic, the positions of the 2D subband extrema in the momentum space
are moved by the electric field so that the density of states acquires
inverse-square-root divergencies near its edges. These properties are also
important from the point of view of applied physics because an application
of a strong electric field allows one to vary the energy gap between
conduction and valence subbands in a wide range, sweeping the energy of
fundamental optical transitions across the entire far-infrared region.
Moreover, due to the described peculiarity of the density of states,
the optical absorption is strongly enhanced in the frequency regions
corresponding to the optical transitions of electrons near the subband
extrema.

The paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II we present the basic
formalism for the calculation of the spectrum, the wave functions, and the
density of states in the narrow-gap quantum wells. In Sec. III we show the
results of a numerical calculation of the electron spectrum and of the
density of states associated with the ground-state conduction and valence
subbands, discuss their properties in strong fields, and support our
discussion by analytical considerations. In Sec. IV we calculate the
infrared optical absorption coefficient and its field dependence
(electrooptic effect) for different polarizations of the incident
radiation and discuss the characteristic features of the absorption.
In Sec. V we make concluding remarks. The Appendix contains general
expressions for the wave functions of the two-band model in terms
of standard special functions.

\section{General formalism}

Within the ${\bf k} \cdot {\bf p}$ -formalism, the electron
states near the L-points of the Brillouin zone in lead salt alloys are
described by an anisotropic two-band Hamiltonian. Below we assume
that the heterostructure containing a quantum well is grown along the
(111) crystallographic direction and consider the states belonging to
those two valleys whose large-effective-mass axis is (111). The states
belonging to the other six valleys are characterized by a considerably
smaller effective mass in the growth direction and, as a result, have
higher size-quantization energies$^{12}$. Since we are interested in
the ground valence- and conduction-band states, we remove these
high-energy states from consideration. Thus, the columnar eigenstates
$\Psi =(\varphi, \chi)$ in the region inside the quantum well ($-d/2
< z < d/2$) satisfy the matrix equation $(\hat{H}-\varepsilon) \Psi=0$
written explicitly as (in all equations or formulas we put
$e=\hbar=1$)

\begin{equation}
\left( \begin{array}{cc}
\frac{\Delta}{2} + F z -\varepsilon & P_{||}
\frac{\partial}{\partial z} + P_{\bot} \sigma k \\
-P_{||} \frac{\partial}{\partial z} + P_{\bot} \sigma k &
-\frac{\Delta}{2} + F z -\varepsilon
\end{array} \right)
\left( \begin{array}{c}
\varphi (z) \\ \chi (z)
\end{array} \right)=0~.
\label{1}
\end{equation}
Here $\Delta$ is the energy gap of the material inside the
quantum well, $F$ is the magnitude of the applied electric
field, $\sigma=\pm 1$ is the spin quantum number, $k$ is the
absolute value of 2D momentum (here and below the 2D momentum
is counted
from the L-point), and $P_{||}$ and $P_{\bot}$
are the matrix elements of velocity operators in the directions
parallel and perpendicular to (111) axis. The energy $\varepsilon$
is counted from the middle point of the band gap. A general solution
of Eq. (1) can be expressed in terms of the special functions, see
Appendix for details.

Equation (1) represents a set of two first-order differential equations.
The most general boundary conditions for such a set have the form
\begin{equation}
\chi (-d/2)= \alpha_l \varphi (-d/2),~~\chi (d/2)= \alpha_r
\varphi (d/2)~,
\end{equation}
where the coeffecients $\alpha_l$ and $\alpha_r$ characterize the left
and right boundaries. If the barriers of the quantum-well
heterostructure are made from a material which is also described
by a two-band Hamiltonian, cf. Fig. 1, an explicit form of these
coefficients can be derived from the requirement of continuity of
both $\varphi (z)$ and $\chi (z)$ across the boundaries. A simple
calculation, done under the assumption that $P_{||}$ and $P_{\bot}$
do not change across the interfaces, gives

\begin{eqnarray}
\alpha_r= \sqrt{u_c^+/u_v^- + (P_{\bot}k/u_v^-)^2 } + P_{\bot} \sigma k/u_v^-
\\
\alpha_l=-\sqrt{u_c^-/u_v^+ + (P_{\bot}k/u_v^+)^2 } + P_{\bot} \sigma k/u_v^+
\end{eqnarray}
where $u_c^{\pm}=U_c +\Delta/2 \pm Fd/2 -\varepsilon$ and $u_v^{\pm}=
U_v +\Delta/2 \pm Fd/2 +\varepsilon$, and $U_c$ and $U_v$ are the conduction-
and valence-band offsets defined in Fig. 1. If the barriers are high enough
to neglect $\Delta$, $Fd$, $\varepsilon$ and $P_{\bot} k$ in comparison to
$U_c$ and $U_v$, Eqs. (3) and (4) take a simple form$^{11}$ $\alpha_{r,l}= \pm
\sqrt{U_c/U_v}$.

If $F=0$, Eq. (1) with boundary conditions (2) is solved exactly,
see also Ref. 9. The wave functions take the form $\varphi= c_1
e^{i q z} + c_2 e^{-i q z}$ and $\chi= c_3 e^{i q z} + c_4
e^{-i q z}$, where $q =\sqrt{\varepsilon^2-\Delta^2/4
- P_{\bot}^2 k^2 }/P_{||} $. An application of the boundary
conditions leads to the dispersion relation
$$
\tan(q d) = \frac{(\alpha_r-\alpha_l) P_{||} q }{(1+\alpha_l \alpha_r)
\varepsilon-(1-\alpha_l \alpha_r) \Delta/2 - (\alpha_l+\alpha_r)
P_{\bot} \sigma k}
$$
describing a set of nonparabolic 2D subbands. Even if the quantum well
is formed by a gapless semiconductor ($\Delta=0$), the size quantization
effect always produces a finite energy gap between the valence- and
conduction-band states.

Equation (1) has an important symmetry property. It is
invariant with respect to the transformations $\varepsilon
\rightarrow - \varepsilon$, $z \rightarrow -z$, $\varphi (z)
\rightarrow \chi (-z)$, and $\chi (z) \rightarrow -\varphi
(-z)$. This means that the energy spectrum of electrons
is symmetric with respect to $\varepsilon =0$ if the
boundary conditions allow the above-described transformation
of the wave function. Therefore, the symmetry of the spectrum exists for

\begin{equation}
\alpha_l (\varepsilon) \alpha_r (-\varepsilon) = -1 .
\end{equation}
If the boundary coefficients are given by Eqs. (3) and
(4), Eq. (5) is equivalent to $U_c=U_v$. The symmetry of
the spectra in such conditions is evident from a qualitative
point of view.

Another important property is the removal of the spin degeneracy
by the electric field $F$. If $\alpha_l (\varepsilon)= -
\alpha_r (\varepsilon)$, i.e., if the left and right boundary
potentials are equal,
and $F=0$, the spectra of the states with different spin numbers
are the same. Applying an   electric field introduces
an asymmetric potential and renders the spectra of $\sigma=1$ and
$\sigma=-1$ states different. This removal of spin degeneracy is
a consequence of the spin-orbit interaction and it is typical
for asymmetric  heterostructures$^{13}$.

If the electron energy spectrum $\varepsilon_{n \sigma}(k)$ of
the Hamiltonian of Eq. (1)  is known, one can find the density of electron
states
$\rho(\varepsilon)$ according to

\begin{equation}
\rho(\varepsilon)=\sum_{n \sigma} \int_0^{\infty} \frac{k dk}{2 \pi}
\delta (\varepsilon - \varepsilon_{n \sigma}(k) ).
\end{equation}
Using the well-known identity $\partial \varepsilon_{n \sigma} (k)/
\partial k = \left< \Psi_{n \sigma k} | \partial\hat{H}/\partial k
| \Psi_{n \sigma k} \right>$, and taking   advantage of
$\partial\hat{H}/\partial k = \sigma P_{\bot} \hat{\sigma}_x$, where
$\hat{\sigma}_x$ is a Pauli matrix, we can rewrite Eq. (6) as

\begin{equation}
\rho(\varepsilon)=\sum_{n \sigma i}
\frac{k_i}{4 \pi P_{\bot}} \left| \int d z \varphi_{n \sigma k_i}(z)
\chi_{n \sigma k_i}(z) \right|^{-1},
\end{equation}
where $k_i$ are the roots of the equation $\varepsilon =
\varepsilon_{n \sigma}(k)$.

\section{Energy spectrum and density of states}

As shown in the Appendix the general solution of Eq. (1) can be
expressed in terms of the parabolic cylinder functions. However,
the analysis of the results becomes more difficult than a direct
numerical solution of Eqs.  (1) and (2). Below we describe the
results of such a direct solution based on the application of the 4th order
Runge-Kutta procedure to Eq. (1) and subsequent determination of
the energies which satisfy Eq. (2). In all calculations we use
interband velocities taken from Ref. 6: $\hbar P_{||}=0.14$ eV nm and
$\hbar P_{\bot} = 0.47$ eV nm.
Figures 2 and 3 show the evolution of the spectrum and
of the density of states for two ground-state 2D subbands with the
increase of the electric field $F$ at $d=12$ nm, $\alpha_l=-1$, and
$\alpha_r=1$.  The chosen boundary conditions may correspond to a
symmetric heterostructure with infinitely large but equal conduction-
and valence-band offsets.  For the sake of convenience $\varepsilon_{n
\sigma}(k)$ is plotted as a function of $\sigma k$ so that the left
sides of Figs.  2 (a) and 3 (a) describe the states with $\sigma=-1$,
while the right sides describe those with $\sigma=1$.  Regardless of
the gap widths, the electric field introduces similar qualitative
changes to the spectrum.

First we see Stark shifts and spin splitting. The 2D subband extrema for
the $\sigma=-1$ states are shifted away from $k=0$. Further, this shift
becomes
more pronounced and it is accompanied with a substantial decrease of the
gap between the 2D subbands. When the field is stronger than 2 $\times$
10$^5$ V/cm, the gap becomes very small, typically 1-2 meV, and the subband
dispersion in the vicinity of the gap becomes linear. The position of the
energy extrema in  momentum space is given by a characteristic momentum
$k_{-}$, which increases almost linearly with the increase of the field.
This shift is accompanied with an exponentially fast decrease of the gap.
At higher fields, this kind of behavior repeats itself for the $\sigma=1$
states. Even at weak fields there exists a shift of the subband extrema
away from $k=0$. It produces an inverse-square-root divergence of the
density of states at the edge. At stronger fields, when the electron
dispersion for both spin-up and spin-down states becomes non-monotonic,
similar divergences also appear near the extrema points above the edges
so that the density of states becomes rather complex. Figures 2 (b) and 3
(b) also show bump-like features of the density of states for the energies
corresponding to zero momentum because the states with different spins
give different contributions to the density of states above and below
these energies. A similar calculation for narrower wells demonstrates
all the features explained above. However, they appear at higher fields
than for wider wells.

For an explanation of the small gaps and linear energy spectra near the extrema
points in strong electric fields, it is instructive to take a look at the
wave functions $(\varphi, \chi)$ for conduction and valence subbands at
$k=k_{-}$, see Fig. 4. The electron density is high near the interfaces
and low near the center of the well. In other words, the strong electric
field makes the electron states at $k \sim k_{-}$ localized in narrow regions
near the interfaces. An analysis of Eq. (1) leads to the same conclusion.
For more clarity we suppose that the condition (5) is fulfilled so it is
sufficient for our purposes to consider small-energy solutions, $\varepsilon
\ll Fd$. Let us consider the region near the left boundary and introduce
$z=-d/2 + d y$, where $y \ll 1$. Then, expressing $\chi$ through $\varphi$ we
reduce Eq. (1) to

\begin{equation}
-\frac{\partial^2}{\partial y^2} \varphi(y) + \left[
\left(\frac{Fd^2}{P_{||}}\right)^2 y - \lambda \right] \varphi(y)=0,
\end{equation}
where

\begin{equation}
\lambda = R(\sigma k,\varepsilon) \equiv \left( \frac{Fd^2}{2P_{||}}
\right)^2 -
\left( \frac{P_{\bot}dk}{P_{||}} \right)^2 -\left( \frac{\Delta d}{2P_{||}}
\right)^2 - 2 \frac{P_{\bot}d \sigma k}{P_{||}(1+\Delta/Fd)} +
\frac{Fd^3}{P_{||}^2} \varepsilon,
\end{equation}
while the boundary condition for $\varphi(y)$ at $y=0$ ($z=-d/2$)
becomes

\begin{equation}
\left[ \left. \frac{\partial }{\partial y} + \alpha_l \frac{Fd^2}{2 P_{||}}
\left(1+\frac{\Delta}{Fd} \right) - \frac{P_{\bot}d \sigma k}{P_{||}} \right]
\varphi(y) \right|_{y=0}=0.
\end{equation}
Equation (8) is valid for $y \ll 1$. To make a characteristic
spatial scale of its solutions small in comparison to unity,
we should also impose the requirement $(Fd^2/P_{||})^{2/3} \gg 1$,
which is fulfilled for $d \sim 10$ nm and $F > 10^5$ eV/cm.
We also assume that $Fd > \Delta$.

Equation (8) with the boundary condition (10) describes a one-dimensional
quantum-mechanical problem for the spectrum and eigenfunctions of a particle
localized in a triangular potential well formed by a barrier at $y=0$
and uniform field at $y > 0$. It has discrete solutions $\lambda=
\lambda_{n \sigma}(k)$, from which we take the ground-state solutions
$\lambda_{0 \sigma}(k)$ corresponding to the nodeless wave functions
$\varphi_{0 \sigma k}(y)$. If we solve the equation $\lambda_{0
\sigma}(k)= R(\sigma k,\varepsilon)$ for small energies, we obtain
a linear spectrum $\varepsilon_{\sigma}(k) = A_{\sigma}(k -k_{\sigma})$,
where the characteristic velocities $A_{\sigma}$ are of the order of
$P_{\bot}$ and the characteristic momenta $k_{\sigma}$, corresponding to
$\varepsilon_{\sigma}(k)=0$, are of the order of $Fd/P_{\bot}$. A similar
consideration can be done for the right boundary by introducing
  $z=d/2-d y$. Due to the symmetry of the problem, the equations
for the right boundary are simply obtained  from Eqs. (8)-(10) by  replacing
 $\varphi $
 by $ \chi$ and $\varepsilon$
by $-\varepsilon$ only. The second replacement is significant, because
it leads to $\varepsilon_{\sigma}(k) = - A_{\sigma}(k -k_{\sigma})$.
Thus, for each spin number we have two linear branches intersecting
each other at $\varepsilon=0$ and $k = k_{\sigma}$. This description
would be completely correct if there were no overlap between the
states localized near each boundary. Really, such an overlap always
exists, and it produces an anticrossing near $\varepsilon=0$. As a
result, a small but finite energy gap appears. This gap becomes
progressively smaller with the increase of the electric field. From a
qualitative point of view, the described effect can be explained as
a result of the anticrossing of the conduction and valence subbands
as they are shifted towards each other by the electric field.

Figure 2 demonstrates another remarkable feature, namely that
the energy spectra of a zero-gap quantum well at $k=0$
are independent of the
electric field, see Fig. 2 (a). This property can be rigorously
proved because Eq. (1) is exactly solvable at $\Delta=0$
and $k=0$, regardless of the strength of the electric field. In these
conditions Eq. (1) is diagonalized by the unitary transformation
$\varphi = (\tilde{ \varphi}+ i \tilde{ \chi})/\sqrt{2}$ and
$\chi = (\tilde{ \chi}+ i \tilde{ \varphi})/\sqrt{2}$; we then
obtain the equations
\begin{eqnarray}
\left[i P_{||} \frac{\partial}{\partial z} + F z -
\varepsilon \right] \tilde{ \varphi}=0, \\
\nonumber
\ \\
\left[-i P_{||} \frac{\partial}{\partial z} + F z -
\varepsilon \right] \tilde{ \chi}=0,
\end{eqnarray}
whose solutions are straightforward. We have
\begin{equation}
\varphi= C_1 \cos \psi_z + C_2 \sin \psi_z,~
\chi= C_2 \cos \psi_z - C_1 \sin \psi_z~,
\end{equation}
where $\psi_z=(Fz^2/2-\varepsilon z)/P_{||}$. Applying
the boundary conditions gives the dispersion relation
\begin{equation}
\tan \left(\frac{\varepsilon d}{P_{||}} \right)= \frac{\alpha_r -
\alpha_l}{1+\alpha_l \alpha_r}.
\end{equation}
Thus, the quantization energies described by Eq. (14) are independent
of the electric field if the boundary coefficients are field-independent.
If $\alpha_l$ and $\alpha_r$ are energy-independent, Eq. (14) describes
a ladder of equally spaced levels. Further, if Eq. (5) is fulfilled,
the spectrum at $k=0$ is always field-independent. It is given by
$\varepsilon = (n+1/2)(\pi P_{||}/d)$, where $n$ is an integer.

The electric fields required for  the anticrossing are rather
strong and the change of the electrostatic potentials across the well are
comparable to the band offsets $U_c$ and $U_v$ of PbSnTe heterostructure.
To demonstrate that the effects still exist for realistic band offsets,
we have done a calculation of the spectrum and density of states for a
quantum well made of a gapless Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$Te alloy layer enclosed
by SnTe layers. For such a system, we used the parameters
$U_c=0.25$ eV and $U_v=0.08$ eV, taken from Ref. 6, and employed the
boundary conditions (3) and (4). The calculated energy spectrum for a
12 nm wide quantum well is shown in Fig. 5. Since Eq. (5) is no longer
valid in this case, both the spectrum and the density of states are
not symmetric with respect to $\varepsilon=0$. For this reason, we plot
the density of states for both   conduction and   valence subbands. Due to
the dependence of the boundary conditions on the energy, momentum, and
electric field, discrete solutions do not always exist. For example,
at $F=1.5 \times$ 10$^{5}$ V/cm the region of their existence becomes
rather narrow. Nevertheless, the salient features shown in Figs. 2 and 3
are reproduced in Fig. 5.

The divergences of the density of states arising near the extrema
of the electron energy spectra can be studied by different means,
including measurements of the thermodynamic quantities such as specific
heat and capacitance, optical transmission and absorption  measurements, and
by transport measurements. Considering possible applications of the biased
narrow-gap quantum wells to optical detectors and modulators, in the next
section we evaluate the spectral and field dependence of the far-infrared
optical absorption coefficient and show how the special features of the
spectrum manifest themselves in the optical transitions.

\section{Far-infrared optical transitions}

In the dipole approximation, the optical absorption coefficient
$\xi$ is given by$^{13}$

\begin{equation}
\xi=\frac{2 \pi e^2}{\omega \hbar^2 c \sqrt{\kappa} }
\sum_{n n',\sigma \sigma'}
\int_0^{\infty} k dk |M_{n \sigma, n' \sigma'}(k) |^2 \delta(
\varepsilon_{n \sigma}(k) - \varepsilon_{n' \sigma'}(k) + \hbar \omega),
\end{equation}
where $\omega$ is the frequency of the infrared radiation,
$\kappa$ the dielectric permittivity, and $M_{n \sigma,
n' \sigma'}(k)$ the matrix elements for transitions between the
occupied subband states of the valence band and the empty subband states
of the conduction band ($n$ and $n'$ are the subband numbers):

\begin{eqnarray}
|M_{n \sigma, n' \sigma'}(k) |^2&=& \delta_{\sigma \sigma'} \left[
({\bf e} \cdot {\bf z})^2 P_{||}^2 \Phi_{n\sigma,n'\sigma'}^{(-)~2}(k)
+ (1/2) [{\bf e} \times {\bf z}]^2 P_{\bot}^2 \Phi_{n \sigma, n'
\sigma'}^{(+)~2}(k) \right] \nonumber \\
&&+(1/2) (1-\delta_{\sigma \sigma'}) [{\bf e} \times {\bf z}]^2
P_{\bot}^2 \Phi_{n \sigma, n' \sigma'}^{(+)~2}(k).
\end{eqnarray}
Here ${\bf e}$ is the unit vector of polarization of the infrared
radiation, ${\bf z}$ is the unit vector in the direction perpendicular
to the 2D plane, and
\begin{equation}
\Phi_{n\sigma,n'\sigma'}^{(\pm)}(k)
=\int_{-d/2}^{d/2} dz \left[ \varphi_{n
\sigma k}(z) \chi_{n' \sigma' k}(z) \pm  \chi_{n \sigma k}(z)
\varphi_{n' \sigma' k}(z) \right]
\end{equation}
are the overlap integrals. By taking the limits from $-d/2$ to
$d/2$, we neglect the barrier penetration of the wave functions,
i.e., we assume that the main part of the electron density remains
inside the well. The wave functions, therefore, should be normalized
according to
\begin{equation}
\int_{-d/2}^{d/2} dz \left[ \varphi_{n \sigma k}^2(z)+
\chi_{n \sigma k}^2(z) \right] = 1.
\end{equation}

Below we express the polarization-dependent absorption coeffecient as $\xi=
\xi_{\bot} [{\bf e} \times {\bf z}]^2 + \xi_{||} ({\bf e} \cdot {\bf z})$ and
calculate $\xi_{\bot}$ and $\xi_{||}$. In the case of normally incident
radiation one has $\xi= \xi_{\bot}$, regardless of the polarization. Only
two 2D levels, $n'=c$ and $n=v$, corresponding to the ground conduction- and
valence-band states, are involved in the calculation. Taking into account that
the energy levels of realistic physical systems are always broadened by
 disorder, we also introduce a finite broadening by replacing
the $\delta$-function in Eq. (15) by a Gaussian with a halfwidth of
1 meV. In this way we also avoid non-physical divergences of the optical
absorption coefficient.

Figure 6 shows the frequency dependence of the absorption coefficients
$\xi_{\bot}$ and $\xi_{||}$ for the quantum well described in Fig. 5.
Due to the small ratio of $(P_{||}/P_{\bot})^2$, it appears that $\xi_{||}$
is approximately ten times smaller than $\xi_{\bot}$. In zero field both
$\xi_{\bot}$ and $\xi_{||}$ show a step-like behavior at the fundamental
absorption edge$^{10}$, which is typical for 2D systems. In non-zero field,
when the densities of states for both valence and conduction subbands have
inverse-square-root divergences near the subband extrema, the absorption
shows sharp maxima near the threshold. This kind of behavior is typical
for 1D systems. Even after the introduction of a 1 meV broadening, the
absorption near the edge still remains considerably larger than the
zero-field absorption. It is important to note a qualitative difference
between the frequency dependences of $\xi_{\bot}$ and $\xi_{||}$ caused
by the fact that spin-flip transitions contribute to the first one
but   not to the second one. That is why $\xi_{\bot}$ shows jumps at
the frequencies corresponding to transitions with $k=0$, while $\xi_{||}$,
roughly following the density of states, shows bump-like features at
these frequencies.

Although the calculation according to Eq. (15) is done
under the assumption that the Fermi level remains in the gap, it is not
difficult to extend the formalism to the cases when the Fermi level remains
inside the valence or conduction band. A result of the calculation of
$\xi_{\bot}$ and $\xi_{||}$ at $F=10^5$ V/cm for a $n$-type structure with
$n=10^{11}$ cm$^{-2}$ is also shown in Fig. 6. Due to the Pauli exclusion
principle the maximum of the absorption at the threshold is suppressed.
Moreover, due to a considerable asymmetry of the spectra with respect to
their extrema points, cf. Fig 5. (a), there are actually two thresholds for
direct optical transitions in a $n$-type quantum well. The first one,
corresponding  approximately to $\hbar \omega = 11$ meV, signals a
transition with $k$ above the extremum point, while the second one,
corresponding approximately to $\hbar \omega = 17$ meV, signals a
transition with $k$ below the extremum point. For this reason
$\xi_{||}$ has two steps. On the other hand, the second step is not visible
in the frequency dependence of $\xi_{\bot}$. This is not
surprising because the overlap integrals (17) for $\xi_{||}$ and $\xi_{\bot}$
are different and it appears that transitions with $k$ below the extremum
point have a minor contribution to $\xi_{\bot}$ near the threshold.

Figure 7 shows the field dependence of the absorption of the same quantum
well at $\hbar \omega = 12$ meV. The absorption near the edge is very
sensitive to the electric field. This fact is important in connection
with possible applications of the biased narrow-gap quantum wells to
optical modulators. With the importance and high sensitivity of
differential spectroscopic measurements in mind, we also plot the
derivatives $d\xi_{\bot} /d F$ and $d\xi_{||} /d F$ in this figure.

We emphasize that the optical absorption coefficients calculated above
correspond to a single valley. Since in (111) grown
lead salt quantum wells there are two equivalent valleys described
by Eq. (1), both $\xi_{\bot}$ and $\xi_{||}$ should be multiplied
by a factor of 2.

\section{Conclusions}

We investigated the effect of a strong electric field on the energy spectrum
and the infrared optical properties of narrow-gap quantum wells described
by a two-band Dirac-like Hamiltonian. The corresponding eigenvalue problem
was solved numerically. Apart from an examination of an electric-field
control of the energy gap between the 2D states due to the Stark effect,
we established that a strong electric field transforms any narrow-gap
quantum well to a nearly gapless 2D system  with an electron energy
spectrum near the subband extrema   described by linear dispersion
laws. The physical reason for this behavior is described in terms of
an anticrossing of the conduction- and valence-subband spectra and
of the localization of the electron states near the well boundaries.
In general, the energy spectrum is dramatically modified by the
electric field, and the density of states, in addition to the
anticipated inverse-square-root divergency at the edges, has
similar divergences above the edges. The behavior of the density
of states manifests itself in the interband optical absorption.

In connection with the interest in far-infrared optics, we emphasize
the most important properties of the lead salt quantum wells caused by
an application of a strong electric field: (i) a possibility to control
the gap in a wide range including the far-infrared region, (ii) an
enchancement of the optical absorption near the fundamental edge,
and (iii) a high sensitivity of the absorption near the edge to the
electric field. Due to the Pauli exclusion principle, the enchancement
of the optical absorption would be suppressed in $n$ and $p$-type
quantum wells, where the Fermi level remains inside the conduction
or valence subbands.
The position of the Fermi level is not determined only
by the properties of the quantum well itself. Other factors, such as the
geometry
of the entire heterostructure and the remote doping profiles, are essential
as well. Therefore, by proper choice of parameters, one can achieve the
favorable conditions when the Fermi level is in the gap. However, the
question of a possible electric-field induced shift of the Fermi level
outside the gap still remains open.

Below we comment briefly on the approximations made in this paper.
In the description of the eigenvalue problem for narrow-gap lead salts
we restricted ourselves to the simple two-band Hamiltonian, neglecting
higher-band contributions, which in principle could be accounted for
with a set of Dimmock parameters$^5$. We neglected strain effects,
which introduce additional contributions$^6$ to the Hamiltonian.
We did not account for the difference between the velocities
$P_{||}$ and $P_{\bot}$ in the wells and barriers. Such a difference
would modify the boundary conditions, but if it is sufficiently small
it can be neglected. We considered homogeneous electric fields only
and neglected screening effects which may appear due to a redistribution
of the electron density in the wells. However, due to the high static
dielectric permittivity of the PbSnTe alloys, these effects should be
considerably less important than in GaAs-based structures.
Due to this high  dielectric permittivity we were also able to neglect the
Coulomb effects which otherwise would soften the sharp maxima of the
(pair-) density of states.
Further, we
considered (111)-grown heterostructures only. This choice is justified
because the lead salt heterostructures are typically grown on (111)
cleaved BaF$_2$ substrates$^{14}$. Finally, we neglected the broadening
of the subband levels due to escape of electrons from the wells by
field-assisted tunneling. Because of the small band offsets in
PbTe/SnTe systems, this effect is important and it essentially
restricts the range of the electric fields which can be applied
to the heterostructure. Nevertheless,
the use of PbSnTe quantum wells,
directly grown on BaF$_2$ or GaAs$^{15}$ substrates, would help to
extend this range to higher fields.

In conclusion, we have described profound modifications of the electron
energy spectra and density of states due to the anticrossing of 2D subbands
under strong electric fields.
The results were obtained by a direct numerical solution of Eq. (1) and,
to our knowledge have not been published before although the analytical solution
of Eq. (1), given in the Appendix, is known.
Similar modifications are possible not
only for lead salt quantum wells but also for systems
based  on other narrow-gap materials, for example, CdTe/HgTe and
InAs/GaSb heterostructures. Apart from their influence on the far-infrared
optical properties studied in this paper, the modifications of the spectra
must have a substantial effect on transport and equilibrium properties
of the narrow-gap low-dimensional electron systems.

\acknowledgements

This work was supported by le Minist\'{e}re de l' Education du
Qu\'{e}bec and by the Canadian NSERC Grant No. OGP0121756.

{\center {\bf APPENDIX\\}}

The general solution of Eq. (1) is expressed through the parabolic
cylinder functions$^{16}$ $D_j(x)$. With the definitions $\varphi
= (\tilde{ \varphi}+ i \tilde{ \chi})/\sqrt{2}$ and $\chi =
(\tilde{ \chi}+ i \tilde{ \varphi})/\sqrt{2}$ we have
$$
\tilde{ \varphi} = C_1 D_{i \beta -1} (\sqrt{i} s)
+ C_2 D_{i \beta -1} (-\sqrt{i} s),
\eqno (A1)
$$
$$
\tilde{ \chi} = (-\sqrt{i} \mu/\beta) \left[ C_1 D_{i \beta}
(\sqrt{i} s) - C_2 D_{i \beta} (-\sqrt{i} s) \right]
\eqno (A2)
$$
where $s=\sqrt{2 F/P_{||}}(z-\varepsilon/F)$, $\sqrt{i}=(1+i)
/\sqrt{2}$,
$
\beta=\left(\Delta^2/4 + P_{\bot}^2 k^2\right)/2 P_{||} F$, and
$\mu=\left(\sqrt{\Delta^2/4 + P_{\bot}^2 k^2}\right) / \left(- \Delta/2 +
i P_{\bot} \sigma k \right).
$
An application of the boundary conditions (2) to Eqs. (A1) and
(A2) allows to get an implicit equation describing the electron
spectrum. However, its analysis is more difficult than the direct
numerical solution of Eqs. (1) and (2) which we followed in
this paper.

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The Allotment for Ephraim and Manasseh
16 The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel. 2 Then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites. 3 Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.
4 The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.
5 The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon, 6 and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is Michmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah, 7 then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan. 8 From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans, 9 together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages. 10 However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.
Joshua 16:1 : ch. 8:15; 18:12
Joshua 16:2 : [ch. 18:13; Gen. 28:19; Judg. 1:23, 26]
Joshua 16:3 : See ch. 10:10
Joshua 16:4 : [ch. 17:14]
Joshua 16:7 : 1 Chr. 7:28
Joshua 16:8 : ch. 17:8, 9
Joshua 16:9 : [See ver. 8 above]; ch. 17:8, 9
Joshua 16:10 : Judg. 1:29; 1 Kgs. 9:16
Joshua 16:10 : ch. 17:13; Gen. 49:15
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Home > ADVENTURE > ALIAS MARY SMITH - 1932 - JOHN DARROW - RARE DVD
ALIAS MARY SMITH - 1932 - JOHN DARROW - RARE DVD
In some parts of the world today it is thought that children should not learn how to 'lose' . . . sports games end in a planned tie, everyone is a winner, everyone gets a trophy. Unfortunately in real life and the business of making ones way through life, there are winners and there are losers. Ralph M. Like was a pioneer in the science of adding sound to motion pictures and always had a good day job with movie companies, but he wanted more. Mr. Like had a passion to become a wealthy and famous motion picture producer and using his earnings from his day job he bought several small but struggling motion picture companies with the dream of becoming the head of a major motion picture company. Over the years he bought or started at least five motion picture studios and churned out crime dramas and action pictures during the 1930's, many featuring his pretty brunette wife Blanche Mehaffey, who stars in this crime adventure. He used the same pool of actors that we see in many of the films from the larger studios, his plots had as much interesting dialogue as many other movies, but none of his pictures hit a home run . . . for some reason every time he took a stab at the brass ring he wound up broke and out of business. Fortunately he never gave up his day work as a sound engineer, but as a motion picture producer . . . he won a place in motion picture history with 32 movies to his producing credit, but he never earned enough money from them to leave his day job at the bigger studios. In this crime adventure his real-life wife Blanche Mehaffey is the sister of a fellow that died in the electric chair after being framed for murder by a gangster and she is trying to clear her brother's name and get the goods on the gangster, but he frames her for murder, and she may face the electric chair just like her brother did! Pop a big bowl of white kernel popcorn with plenty of warm melted butter on it and enjoy the show.
Director: E. Mason Hopper
Stars: Blanche Mehaffey, John Darrow, Raymond Hatton


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A Stream of Living History
By Erika A. Hewitt
This ritual entails having an empty vase on the altar, and cut flowers. It's especially meaningful to have founders or other "pillars" of the congregation have flowers with them in the service, and to have the congregation's children bring those flowers forward and put them in the vase (perhaps supervised by an adult).
This ceremony is but a moment in the life of our congregation, which is a stream of living history. Our strength—our current vitality and joy—comes in part from our roots: those who gave life to the congregation from its founding [number of years] ago up until today.
[At an installation or ordination service: Before we call upon the authority of the Fellowship's members in this ceremony,] we place flowers on the altar to remember those people—living and dead, clergy and lay*—who shaped the congregation that we call our spiritual home.
Please come forward now if you have a flower, or hold your flower up for a child to bring it forward.
Leader reads a list of congregational founders, or pillars. If they have died, their flower could be brought forward by someone who has a connection to them (such as a surviving spouse). If they're alive, they can bring forward their own flower!
When those names have been read, and flowers placed:
Lend your memories to our honor; please call out the names of past members who form the cloud of witnesses celebrating with us today.
More flowers are placed for these names.
As we balance between our past and future—the roots that gave this congregation life, and the story we have yet to write—may we know ourselves not only as a people of joy and gratitude, but also as a people of memory, and a people of honor.
*"Clergy and lay" is appropriate to include on occasions that celebrate professional ministry, such as ordinations and installations. On those occasions, this could be led by a founder or other "pillar" of the congregation.
Erika A. Hewitt
Erika Hewitt is the UUA's Minister of Worship Arts and Editor of Braver/Wiser, a weekly spirituality series. In addition to serving the UUA half-time, Erika also serves as a wedding officiant in Maine....
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Sarasota Wednesday, Jul. 3, 2019 1 week ago
City cools on ice cream proposal
A city advisory board rejected a pitch to place an ice cream sandwich vendor in a downtown park.
by: David Conway Deputy Managing Editor
Would an 18-foot trailer stand out in Paul Thorpe Jr. Park, located near the intersection of Lemon and Pineapple avenues?
That was a crucial question as the city considered a proposal from Christian Nye, owner of Nye's Cream Sandwiches. He approached officials with a concept: opening an ice cream sandwich sales business inside the park and selling his product out of a nonpermanent structure placed on the city-owned property.
Both city staff and the Parks, Recreation and Environmental Protection Board were skeptical about the idea, with the latter voting 5-2 to reject the concept at its June 20 meeting. Although Nye attempted to argue the proposal would help bring activity to an underused public space, city representatives called the business a bad fit.
"It will be an obvious, out-of-character addition to the park," said John Tuccillo, a parks advisory board member.
City regulations allow private vendors in three parks: Paul Thorpe Jr. Park, Five Points Park and Centennial Park. The city has previously expressed interest in partnering with a business to draw more people to downtown parks. In 2015, city administration issued a temporary permit to the Baltimore Snowball Factory to operate at Five Points Park, though the business owner ended his sales there after just three weeks and cited a lack of activity.
Jerry Fogle, the city's parks and recreation director, thought the ice cream sandwich business was not the right size for the smaller downtown park. He said the city wasn't opposed to setting up vendors on park land, but he said Nye's proposal was unusual because it was privately initiated.
Fogle said the city would likely be more comfortable with putting a business in a park if it was a response to public demand.
Not all parks board members were opposed to the idea. Maryellin Kirkwood and Jerry Wells both said they thought ice cream sales could be an effective way to enliven the park.
"I would like to see children and families come use that park," Kirkwood said.
Despite his concerns about the scale, Fogle said city staff had been open to Nye's proposal and would consider future vending options on a case-by-case basis.
"There's really nothing off the table," Fogle said.
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Citizen board endorses new tree regulations


Former Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek has praised the job current boss Ange Postecoglou is doing with the national team.
Verbeek, who was at the helm of the Socceroos from 2007 right through until after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, backed Postecoglou for having a clear plan in place and sticking to it.
"I think Ange is doing a good job," Verbeek said in a column for the AFC Asian Cup website.
"I know the results haven't been great, but sometimes this is what happens when you make the decision to regenerate the team and the only way to give new players the experience they need is to give them a go.
"I was at the game against Belgium in Liege in September and for the first 25 minutes they played well against a very good team; that was a great test and they should take some confidence from that and some of their other performances.
Verbeek was impressed by the way the inexperienced Socceroos squad performed at the World Cup in Brazil but believes the side now "has to deliver" in next year's Asian Cup on home soil.
For his part, Postecoglou was less complimentary about his predecessors this week.
"There's a reason previous coaches didn't do what I'm doing. Because they kind of knew this was going to happen and wanted to avoid it," he told Fox Sports . "I'm not going to avoid it.
"I go back to why I was initially appointed. It's not just about me. The organisation (Football Federation Australia) needed us to regenerate and change the style of football. I'm going to fulfil that mission as long I'm in charge."
Verbeek added there would be huge pressure on Australia at the Asian Cup, but he held some hope.
"In Tim Cahill they have a player who remains truly world class and who still scores great goals while Mile Jedinak has become very important to them, too.
The Socceroos begin their Asian Cup tilt on January 9 in Melbourne with a clash against Kuwait before further group games against Oman in Sydney and Korea Republic in Brisbane.


As of March 31, 2000, US value stocks had underperformed growth stocks by 5.61% per year for the previous 10 years. How many years did it take for value stocks to make up for these 10 years of underperformance?
From January 1995 to December 1999, the annualized size premium was negative by approximately 963 basis points (bps), amounting to a cumulative total return difference of approximately 113%. Within the next 18 months, the entire cumulative difference had been made up.
From January 1995 to December 2001, the annualized size premium was positive by approximately 157 bps.


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Q: Incompatible pointer types initializing 'Method *' C I'm using this method to log the instance variables of a given class. And I have an array that contains all the classes in Apples API and I'm using that array in this method as the given class. But I keep getting a warning(the warning below) which I think is whats causing it to log nothing under the instance section in the console. I have another method almost identical to this that logs the methods of a given class that works great.
Method:
    NSArray *BNRInstanceVariables(Class cls) {
    const char instanceCount = 0;

    Method *instanceList = class_getInstanceVariable(cls, &instanceCount);

    NSMutableArray *instanceArray = [NSMutableArray array];

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Result:
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Answer to problem:
I figured it out!!! Here is the updated code. Thanks to nkongara I changed the Method class_getInstanceVariable to an Ivar* class_copyIvarList and it fixed it but had another problem with my Method currentMethod line so I changed Method to Ivar and again solved but came up with another problem so last but not least I changed SEL line to a const char* ivar_getName().
NSArray *BNRInstanceVariables(Class cls) {

    unsigned int instanceCount = 0;

    Ivar* ivars = class_copyIvarList(cls, &instanceCount);

    NSMutableArray *instanceArray = [NSMutableArray array];

    for (int j = 0; j < instanceCount; j++) {

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A: class_getInstanceVariable only returns the instance variable for the given name
You should use Ivar * class_copyIvarList(Class cls, unsigned int *outCount)   for retrieving the instance variables of a class.
Following code prints all ivars in a class.
unsigned int count;
Ivar* ivars = class_copyIvarList(cls, &count);
for(unsigned int i = 0; i < count; ++i)
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Register Log In Piano World Home Page Forums Piano Forum 10K Uprights: Used Steinway K-52, New Seiler Konsole, Or?
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BTW, there is only one size for the Seiler Konsole: 122 cm = 48 in +/-. Their Konzert is 132 cm = 52" +/-, but several K more expensive.
So far, I have been able to locate a dealer with Schulze Pollman and CR Walter locally. I think I also saw Petrov. I would love to try out some of the others just to educate my ear and fingers more...any ideas of dealers in the midwest (near Minneapolis best)?
You could then save the leftover money for your next grand.
Oooh, Axtremus, you had me right there with you until you brought up the BM's (interesting acronym). Pianos I am a know nothing, food, on the other hand, I've had a great deal of experience with. I have to say you undermined your argument with that one! (Lotsa smiles goin' on here.) Have to agree with AKindWord re "world class" definition, and concern about McDonald's meat for that matter.
(If you visit NYC, try Bouley...haven't been there in a while but the three best meals I ever had were prepared by David Bouley and co., used to have prix-fixe meal at lunch that was a steal).
That's OK. I just don't think I should throw a term like "world class" around without stating the criteria to qualify. We certainly don't have to agree on the criteria, but that sure beats talking "world class" in the dark without knowing that we fundamentally disagree on the underlying criteria for "world class."
If you reference Penny's list of pianos, with the exception of Mason and Hamlin, Pleyel, and Bohenia uprights, I'd very comfortably compare Yamaha U-series favorably to the uprights bearing all the other names she listed. That is my honest opinion based on the pianos I've played. (And there will be disagreement as there always are here.) The reason Mason and Hamlin upright is excepted because I think it plays better than the rest. The Pleyel and Bohemia uprights are excepted because I have never played them.
As for Grotrian and Bechstein uprights that Penny also mentioned, I have not played them either -- and they very likely fall in a completely different PRICE class altogether.
As for whether bringing up the Big Mac undermined my own argument -- perhaps. But having sampled burgers from various cafes, restaurants, burgerstands, and other franchises, I think my estimate of only 1 in 5 of these cafes/restaurants/burgerstands/franchises make a better burger than the Big Mac is a good one. That's kind of the way I think of Yamaha U-series -- if you take a look at the whole picture, it's quite probable that the U-series are better than 95% of all uprights produced. You can certainly turn your nose up at the U-series and pursue the top 0.5%, but I think being in the top 5%-ile is pretty darn good.
Good luck with your piano quest.
I have tried Yamahas, and IMHO (very very humble here) thought they sounded a bit brassy maybe? I might not be using the right word. I think I might prefer a warmer tone. I have no idea which models I've tried so maybe I should got back and give them another go.
Here is link to Bouley...I know that he's gone through a couple of restaurants lately, but his latest incarnation is supposed to be a return to the one I love.
Sorry sorry sorry if I am breaking any rules here.
Karen.... my opinion again... just as a player who loves trying pianos..
the Charles Walter consoles are incredible.
Funny how people like Horowitz, are quoted saying things like " My concert piano has a rich bright sound"
Adjectives like bright, warm, dark,are in the "ear" of the beholder.
independent piano salesman selling most major piano brands from time to time around the country.
I just went out and tried the Schulze Pollman and Charles Walter. While the SP looked beautiful, I actually liked the tone of the Charles Walter better (just like you Apple!). The tech said that he could adjust the tone for brightness to get a more personalized sound?!
Guess I'm still eager to try the Seiler!
Thanks everyone for all your comments!
What's nice about the Walters is that the keys are weighted nicely and play like a grand.
Bouley is ~400 feet from my job. He rides a Ducati last I saw.
Yes I recall reading that he liked his motorcycles, and he used to date Bernadette Peters...quite the dashing man last I saw him (admittedly quite some time ago).
Have you been there, isn't it a great restaurant?
Axtremus - Hope you make it there! And I hope it's as good as I recall.
Apple - yes, I'll be revisiting Walters if I'm not in love with the Seiler.
No, too costly for my paper-bag lunch mentality, too far from my home (it's nearly a 10 minute drive off peak) for restaurant hopping. I'm very Brooklyn-centric lately.
Sorry I am piggy backing to this thread because I just joined this forum and cannot find a way to post a new post. Please forgive me.
I am in the market for an upright. I'd prefer to spend less than 10K but am willing to go up to 15K if necessary.
The reason for the upright - we live in a small townhouse in Philadelphia. Our living room and dining room is one room measuring roughly 13 feet by 35 feet long. The plan is to buy an used upright and once we have time and money to dig down our basement (and find that it is still dry) we will buy a used grand costing no more than 30K.
The reason for the piano - our daughter in third grade will likely attend the local conservatory in the next two years. And just so I don't sound like a tiger mom, when she started her first lesson two years ago at six and half years old she had already spent three years asking me to take her to a violin teacher. I had a negative experience being pushed by my parents to be a classical pianist as a child and refused to pursue a musical career because I hated how my parents was using me as a bragging tool. Luckily this now allows me to practice with my daughter when she works on her violin sonatas and concertos. Our daughter practices on a violin (on loan from one of her teachers) and my 800- dollar key board so we hope to get a better sounding piano. This April she will acquire a violin at auction that will be purchased between 40K to 100K. Before jokes start, this is somewhat of a finance hardship for us but we've chose to keep out kids in public school because we knew we could either do private school or pay for things such as this. We make enough to qualify for no aide but not enough to do both.
My daughter will stay home while attending the conservatory six blocks away.
I'd like to buy the piano from Cunningham as I remember it fondly from twenty years back when I was in high school. But I wonder if I should look outside of my city for a non upright that isn't Steinway.
I would love to have a Steinbrager or Bosendorfer but I don't think I can find a good one used less than 15K.
My question - should I try to cinch our belt a little more and spend what it takes to get a used Steinbrager or Bosendorfer? You are all experts out there, would you recommend something I should buy?
Thank you so very much for your time in responding.
>>But for $12K you have a lot of great verticals to choose from besides the Seiler.
Steve, talk about leaving me hanging!!! I am a know nothing, can you fill me in a bit?
I thought Larry Fine put vertical Steinway in the top bracket. They're reviled?
"Reviled" is way too strong IMO. The fact they they may be difficult to tune(I think the recent PB's say much of this problem no longer exists) is not much of a concern to the buyer unless they plan to do the tuning.


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Hope you can help. I am from the UK and my younger brother has just messed up his gearbox.
The car will not work in 2nd gear or reverse but works in the rest of the gears.
His civic is a 1994 1.6 vti vtec eg6 engine-b16a.
He has been offered a gearbox from a 1.6 vti ef9 engine-b16a 1988-1991.
Will it work? can we use the gearbox from the older engine in the one he has? I have been told that the gear ratio's are different and the mounts may also be different. Can anyone direct us on the right path please?
Apologies if this is int he wrong section but need urgent feedback.
Thanks again for yur time.
no. the mounts and gears are fine, but the clutch on his car is hydraulic, and the one on the older trans is cable-actuated, so you have to buy a somewhat expensive conversion adapter to make it work. hes better off getting the correct transmission.
Will locate a 92+ gearbox due to the differences in the clutch.


Tim Hortons HR department has uploaded a very inspiring 2-minute video called "Our Neighbourhood." It's very inspiring and entices those seeking employment to send in their resume to the closest Timmies.
There could be many reasons Tim Hortons is seeking to bump up its staff — possibly ramping up for the 5-years in business, competition from other coffee chains, or even the government crackdown of temporary workers. Regardless, it's a beautiful add and takes you through what it's really like at a Tim Hortons.
There is a Tim Hortons that everyone knows.
The friendly familiar place down the road.
The first stop on the road trip.
Where we go to celebrate life's wins. Not just the big one's, but the small one's, too.
But beyond the tables, the pots of fresh coffee, and the warm baked goods is something truly special.
An exceptional place with exceptional people.
Where going the extra mile makes a true difference.
Where challenges are met head on and paying it forward pays off.
Where the opportunity to grow is just around the corner.
Looking to do more and striving to bring more to the table.
Because what we do is part of something bigger and we're proud of it.
Proud to call our team members friends and our guests neighbours.
After all, Tim Hortons isn't just in the neighbourhood. It's a part of it.
And everything we do helps serve it. One cup at a time.


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Q: Related tags recommendation gone rogue? I took a screenshot as I'm not sure how long this tag page is going to last :-)
https://stackoverflow.com/tags/pileofshite/info

I just don't understand how both php and wordpress have been suggested as related tags. Almost looks like a joke to me ;)
No offence taken here btw but I thought it was worth mentioning this.

A: Because there is exactly one question in that tag, and it also has both of the other tags. Therefore, it establishes a relation between them.

...I've removed the tag, BTW.


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Coating immune cells in nanoparticles helps seek and destroy rogue cancer cells
One of the main reasons cancer is hard to beat is because it spreads through the body. But now researchers from Vanderbilt University have developed a new technique that uses nanoparticles to enhance immune cells, helping them hunt down cancer cells migrating through the bloodstream.
Pig lungs live and breathe outside the body for 36 hours in organ transplant breakthrough
Transplanting any organ is a complicated process, but lungs are particularly vulnerable to damage. Now, researchers have developed a way to repair that damage, keeping the lungs of pigs alive outside the body for up to 36 hours and allowing them to bring the organ up to a transplantable quality.
Brainy prosthetic ankle knows what its user is up to
Ordinarily, prosthetic legs have ankle joints that are passive, moving only in response to pressure exerted by the user. As a result, walking up stairs or over uneven ground can be difficult. A new "smart" prosthetic ankle, however, adjusts its foot angle according to what the user is doing.
Self-curing resin may make wind turbines more eco-friendly
Although wind turbines may seem like the epitome of "green" energy, scientists from Vanderbilt University are working on making them even greener. They're looking at a resin that could save energy when turbine blades are being created, and that might make those blades more recyclable.
Why is our universe three dimensional? Cosmic knots could untangle the mystery
Next time you're untangling your earbuds, remember that knots may have played a crucial part in kickstarting our universe, and without them we wouldn't live in 3D. That's the strange story pitched by physicists in a new paper, to help plug a few plot holes in the origin story of the universe.
New superbug-fighting antibiotics found in human breast milk
With the rise of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs," we need new treatments to keep us from returning to a dark age of medicine. Now, researchers from Vanderbilt University have found a new class of antibiotic hiding in plain sight: human breast milk.
CRISPR-modified ants go "space cadet" without a sense of smell
A pair of independent studies from two teams used CRISPR technology to genetically alter ants to remove their ability to "smell," which resulted in their inability to interact with normal ants and produced changes in their brains.
Electric outfit gives your back a break
Karl Zelik says that he's "sick of Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne being the only ones with performance-boosting supersuits." That's why he teamed up with Erik Lamers to create a mechanized undergarment. While it doesn't allow the wearer to fly, it could keep them from putting their back out.
Ultra-thin material turns minor movements into electricity
In the future, we might overcome anxiety about a dying phone battery by doing a few star jumps. Researchers are developing an ultra-thin device that can generate electricity from motions as subtle as sitting down, opening up possibilities of clothes that charge phones or light up like an LCD screen.
Stay warm: These electronics will self-destruct at room temperature
The machine used to spin up cotton candy may also be the answer to a new generation of self-destructing electronics. A new form of electrical circuitry made of a spinable polymer must be kept above a temperature of 32° C (89.6° F) or it dissolves in water.
Sensor sounds alert when elephants are shot at
Many wild elephants already wear GPS-equipped collars, which let wildlife officials track their whereabouts. An upgrade to those collars, however, could soon allow those officials to instantly know when poachers are shooting at the elephants.
Frozen phone? Cosmic rays could be to blame
Next time your smartphone freezes, the culprit might actually be the cosmic rays that are constantly raining down on us from outer space. A new study has examined how modern consumer electronics are becoming more vulnerable to cosmic interference, and suggests ways to build better chips.


Heuer Autavia 1163 "Jo Siffert"
Automatic Version of the Autavia 1163, the so called "Jo Siffert" in outstanding condition. The supersharp case has clearly readbale numbers. Beautiful dial with still all original lumedots there, matching lumepatina in the original handset. The caliber 11 has been tested by our watchmaker and runs perfectly in all functions. It comes on a very nice greyblue leatherstrap.


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Mariyah Cobb Staircase Understairs, 2018-10-13 22:03:44. Shopping on the Internet can be a great place to start. Just remember that if you are ordering the parts of a staircase online it may cost a lot for them to ship the items to you. It can be a good idea to check with your local home builder to see if they can give you any recommendations about which products you use.
Harlow Cruz Staircase Understairs, 2018-10-12 05:33:56. One concept for space saving stairs is to keep the stair flight straight so as to minimize the space they take up. In general, this is quite true. Stairs that have turns in them and unnecessary landings as the stairs rise do result in a lot of wasted space below and behind the stairs that you can do nothing with. The exception, however, is the spiral staircase that can look quite elegant, is easy to install, and uses the minimum of space. Detracting from this is the inability for disabled stair-lifts to be fitted - or, at least, I haven't come across one yet. It is also more of a chore to take furniture up and downstairs when the need for moving your furniture becomes apparent - as in moving house.