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St. Alexius Medical Center provides retired adults senior living apartments in Burleigh county, North Dakota. With a total capacity of 19 private and shared apartments, St. Alexius Medical Center will be at the top of your list when it comes to senior living in Bismarck. This senior living complex, located at 900 E Broadway in the 58506 zip code area of Bismarck, North Dakota provides amenities like skilled nursing, customized social activities, housekeeping services and trips to museums and art galleries.
When 55 and over adults are searching for senior living residences in Jamestown, North Dakota that offer chaplain services, they should consider Edgewood Jamestown located in Burleigh county in the 58501 zip code area. Edgewood Jamestown excels at providing multiple levels of senior care and offers services such as caregivers and staff members 24/7, secure entry, personally tailored care plans, encouraged communication with family members, social and activity programs and 3 delicious meals daily. Its total capacity is 24 senior living residences.
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The Local-Global Novel
There are certain events, John Tomlinson (1999) argues, such as the fallout in Chernobyl, the fall of the Berlin wall, the collapse of the communist world, the creation of the European Union, global summits on climate change, wars in Beirut, the Gulf, Somalia, or Bosnia, that "may add to the extension of the individual's 'phenomenal world'". Such is the case for the characters in Michel Laub's trilogy of novels: Diário da queda (2011), A maçã envenenada (2013), and O tribunal da quinta-feira (2016). In these novels, global catastrophes (the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the A.I.D.S epidemic) are juxtaposed, both formally and narratively, with the personal tragedies suffered by their protagonists, thus creating an analogous relationship with the local/global dialectic. This paper studies Laub's trilogy as global novels, seeking to subvert the market term by adding the "local" modifier, in an attempt to understand the nature of world literature in the twenty-first century. The Local-Global Novel, of the kind produced by Laub, complicates Anderson's (1983) notion of nations as imagined communities by adopting the world as a community in which individuals, and their narratives, can be seen as singular-plural (NANCY, 1996).
Literatura Mundial; o Romance Global; Ficção no Século XXI
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However all discussion and serious topics here seem to be politically based. There seems to be no room to introduce science (for example climate change is a scientific issue and not a political issue) or technology.
Would that be for the off topic section only? I am loathed to bring scientific issues into a political forum.
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Why not a topic in 'Other Political Discussion?
Climate change is not a political issue? You think so?
If it wasn't for Brexit and Trump, surely climate change would be storming the political hit parade, no?
It's a political issue when it should not be. The only thing that matters, with regards to climate science, is what the peer reviewed scientific journals say.
Sadly I heard a climate change political advocate getting it all wrong on the radio last week. Her heart was in the right place but science would not back up what she was saying.
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The Great Airship of 1897: A Provocative look at the most mysterious aviation event in history
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We normally assume that the modern era of ufology began with Kenneth Arnold's sighting of mysterious objects—later dubbed "flying saucers" by the press—over Mount Rainier, Washington in 1947. As such, many are surprised to learn that it actually began much earlier than that—during the time of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to be exact—with the "great airship flap" of 1896-97, an event which has remains as big a mystery today as it was over a century ago.
For those unfamiliar with this event, it all started on the evening of November 17, 1896, when a bright light suddenly appeared over Sacramento, California, silently making its way over the city (and against the wind) before disappearing into the dark rain clouds as suddenly as it had first appeared. It was seen by literally hundreds of witnesses, and though most described it as simply a bright, slow moving light, others maintained that this light was being suspended beneath a massive, "cigar shaped" vessel of considerable size. A few even claimed to spot what appeared to be oversized propellers and rudders on its undercarriage, with one man even describing it as having wheels on its side like those on "Fulton's old steam boat." After making several repeat appearances other both Sacramento and San Francisco (once appearing over both cities on the same evening!) within a few weeks the reports abruptly ceased, suggesting that the mysterious visitor had departed as mysteriously as it had first arrived. Its absence was to prove short-lived, however, when in early February the same mysterious light/craft began being seen across the prairie states of the Midwest, apparently making its way eastward at a slow but steady pace.
This fanciful drawing of the Sacramento airship appeared in the November 22, 1896, edition of the San Francisco Call newspaper.
Reports of the craft continued to be made with some regularity throughout the spring of 1897 before once again abruptly vanishing—this time apparently for good. What was the strange light that was seen over California that autumn of 1896, and later over much of the Midwest the next spring? No one knows. Debunkers, of course, maintain that the whole incident was nothing more than a hoax—a product of "yellow journalism" of the era designed to boost newspaper sales—mixed with naiveté and a type of mass hysteria in which people imagined any light in the sky (there is speculation to the possibility that it was an especially bright appearance of the planet Venus) to be the rogue "airship." I suspect, however, such a premise to be highly presumptuous. First, there is no evidence that people living a century ago were any more likely to mistake the planet Venus for an airship than people are today; in fact, it might even be maintained that those living in final years of the nineteenth century had a knowledge of a considerably darker night sky that was often superior to that of the casual star gazer of today. Second, it fails to account for why reports of the ship tended to move from west to east, or why they would began and cease so abruptly. Even if we assume the majority of reports were spurious or mistaken, it is curious how "mass hysteria" is capable of effecting only people living along a particular path. Further, it is uncertain how many Midwesterners would have been aware of the earlier California sightings and so be inclined to imagine that the mysterious "airship" was headed their way; newspapers rarely picked up general interest stories from other parts of the country, preferring instead to stick with national headlines and stories of local interest. In this case, however, media coverage of the sightings tended to follow the appearances, not precede them as would be the expected norm if the media was simply priming the country for more stories. And, finally, would some of the largest and most influential papers of the day be so willing to compromise their journalistic integrity—and with it, their political clout—all in some feeble effort to sell a few more papers? Clearly, the mass hysteria/yellow journalism theory leaves us with as many questions as it answers.
Then there is the extraterrestrial theory so popular in some quarters today. Could the lights have been evidence of alien visitation, as some maintain? Obviously, in the era before manned flight, any light traveling through the sky was significant, making the prospect that they were not something from this world plausible. But if we are to take the many eyewitness accounts seriously (or, at least, the most reliable among them) how do we account for the fact that many witnesses described the craft as possessing propellers, wings, rudders, and undercarriages—all appendages unlikely to be seen on an extraterrestrial vehicle? And why did it move in a slow, ponderous fashion so in contrast to the stunning aerial feats modern UFOs seem to be capable of performing today? The craft sounds a bit too prosaic to be evidence of alien technology, even by nineteenth century standards.
But if we assume the craft to be neither imaginary nor extraterrestrial, what is left? Only one possibility remains, and that is that the vessel seen in the skies over much of the United States in the winter of 1896-97 was a powered balloon or, more accurately, a dirigible, possibly being put through its paces by some intrepid inventor intent on bringing lighter-than-air flight to humanity.
It's an intriguing possibility that is rarely considered by most skeptics today, who tend to dismiss the notion outright, confident in their assumption that such an explanation is inconsistent with the technological capabilities of the time. The world was still in its industrial infancy, they argue, and while many remarkable inventions had been introduced by then, most people still lived much as their forefathers did, using candles and kerosene lamps to light their homes and making their way about via carriages or on horseback. Yes, there were trains transiting the continent and steamships capable of crossing the Atlantic in a week, but in 1896 the Wright brothers were still seven years away from putting their tiny airplane into the air, and practical, reliable travel by air was still decades in the future. Even Von Zeppelin had not yet begun experimenting on his behemoth airships yet, so the idea that anyone could have constructed and flown a practical airship in 1896 must remain in the realm of science fiction—or so one would think.
But how accurate is this assessment of our ancestor's technical acumen? Can we really be so certain that the technology to build an airship—even a fairly substantial one—was truly beyond the capabilities of a late nineteenth century inventor? A quick look into the history books will demonstrate how presumptuous this belief is.
The fact is that steerable airships had been constructed and successfully flown decades before the dawn of the twentieth century. Perhaps the first to do it was a Frenchman named Henri Giffard who, in 1852, built and flew an airship nearly 27 kilometers between Paris and Trappes, France at the remarkable speed at the time of ten kilometers per mile. In the 1880s, Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs built an electric powered vessel named Le France that made several successful flights, and in 1897 a Serbian timber merchant named David Schwarz built the first true dirigible, successfully test flying it over Templehoff airfield in Berlin on November 3, 1897. So considering that airships had been under development in Europe prior to the airship flap of 1896-97, what are the chances that an American might not have been among the first to have succeeded in creating a practical and long-range example in America—the product of which would become the source of six months of sensationalism and rumor?
David Schwarz's ground breaking aluminum foil covered airship of 1896.
But what of the technological hurdles such a premise presents? While it is assumed that many of the materials and technologies needed to construct a practical airship were unavailable in 1896, the facts speak otherwise. First, the new light-weight metal, aluminum—essential in constructing the craft's airframe—was available in commercial quantities in the 1890's. Second, all the power-plants we know of today—steam, the internal combustion engine and the diesel, as well as electric motors—were all available in 1896 and, while still in their infancy and underpowered by modern standards, with a bit of ingenuity, any of them might have been refined enough to push even a fairly substantial craft through the air at a decent speed for several hours at a time. Difficult, I admit, but not impossible. With proof of concept already having been demonstrated decades earlier, the prospect of building a viable airship was simply a matter of acquiring the proper materials—certainly something within the capabilities of an 1896 inventor with adequate resources—and a building large enough to house the vessel.
In fact, I explore this very possibility in some detail in my book, The Great Airship of 1897, in which I lay out the case that it is entirely conceivable that someone—or, more likely, a small consortium of individuals with the resources to build a financially viable airship—may have been responsible for the whole affair. It would have taken some deep pockets and the services of a cutting-edge inventor or engineer—along with the facilities to house the whole affair in some secret locale—to make it all work, but it was certainly within the realm of possibility. How this might have been done and, more importantly, who might have done it, is purely speculative of course, but the idea is an intriguing one to consider.
Of course, the prospect does present a few problems of its own. For example, if some intrepid inventor did go through the trouble of procuring the elements required to make his airship a reality, why don't we know about it? After all, aviation pioneers of the era where known for their public exhibitions, and the size of such an enterprise would be difficult to keep secret for long in any case, so why no evidence of airship manufacturing on the West Coast in the 1890's?
While at first this appears to be a valid consideration, it becomes less inexplicable once we consider the circumstances. The last half of the nineteenth century was a time not only of remarkable technological advances, but of tremendous competition as well, especially among inventors. The drive to be the first to the patent office was almost cut-throat in nature, with stolen ideas and even sabotage not unheard of. Additionally, they had to deal with pressure from investors eager to see a quick return on their money and, finally, they had the press—who could always be counted on to prematurely proclaim each new gadget a success or failure—to deal with. Considering that a single crash could easily scare away the necessary capital needed to continue working, it is understandable why this consortium would have wanted to work in secret.
And if that was the case, then California would have been the perfect place to work: it was still remote enough to guarantee privacy and yet it was near enough to rail lines and a major seaport to make it ideal. Further, in that San Francisco boasted the largest number of millionaires of any city west of the Mississippi at the time, it was also a perfect locale from which to secure investors. As such, it isn't difficult to imagine that a reclusive and possibly even eccentric inventor might have been able to not only find the required investment capital to build and operate an airship, but secure locales where the necessary facilities could be constructed and operated in complete secrecy. Certainly, doing so should have been no more difficult to accomplish than it would have been for Bell or Edison—contemporaries of the era. It was simply a matter of having the necessary equipment shipped from the east coast to San Francisco, where it could be assembled in privacy and be kept hidden from the general public and the media among the barren hills of central California.
But if this mysterious inventor wished to work in secret, why then compromise that secrecy by flying over the largest cities in California and appearing to thousands of witnesses? Simple: the craft not only needed to be test flown over long distances—making the chances of it being seen by multiple witnesses almost guaranteed—but its appearance was designed to send a message to the vessel's investor(s) that the ship was coming along quite nicely. Clearly, at some point the craft was going to need to be unveiled to the general public; perhaps the sightings of November and December of 1896 then were just a sneak preview.
But then how do we account for the shift in locale? If the craft was built and flown in California, how does it end up being seen over the Midwest a few months later? I always found it especially interesting that there was a two-month break between the California sightings in 1896 and the sightings in the Midwest that following spring. Isn't it possible that after initial test flights were completed, the inventor was ready to unveil his new airship in the most spectacular fashion imaginable by over-flying America? Of course, he couldn't have flown it over the Rocky Mountains, especially in winter, but couldn't he have had the craft dismantled, transported by train over the treacherous Rocky Mountains, and then reassembled in Nebraska to continue its mission of over-flying the country? Consider how the growing attention of the public would have made acquiring new investors simple once the craft landed on the east coast in front of a stunned media.
If that's the case, however, then what happened? Why no landing in New York or Washington to demonstrate to the entire world that the age of the airship had arrived? It's uncertain. Perhaps the craft came to an ignoble end or tragedy struck; a Kalamazoo paper did, after all, report in an April, 1897 edition that the craft was seen to explode nearby and since it was likely filled with highly flammable hydrogen, such a possibility can not be ruled out.
In any case, whatever became of the remarkable craft and its crew remain an unsolvable mystery, but it should be enough to demonstrate that our knowledge of the past may be less complete than we assume. Perhaps there are many such failures strewn across the sands of time we are unaware of, and in that may be the most intriguing part of the entire mystery. And who knows, perhaps one day, one of them may be accidentally discovered to demonstrate to the world that technological genius is not confined to our era, but may have been a constant in humanities' march towards the stars, and that we once have our very own Archimedes under our very noses—or, in this case, over our very heads—but we just failed to notice him.
Copyright by J. Allan Danelek
Presented with permission of the author
Note: The above article is an introduction to The Great Airship of 1897: A Provocative Look at the Most Mysterious Aviation Event in History
Researcher/author J. (Jeffrey) Allan Danelek has been writing on the paranormal and Fortean subjects such as Bigfoot, UFOs and things that go bump in the night since 2000. The author of five non-fiction books and several works of fiction, he has been a frequent guest on numerous radio shows, including Coast to Coast with George Noory, Dreamland with Whitley Strieber, and many others. He currently resides with his wife, Carol, and two sons in Lakewood, Colorado.
He can be contacted through his website at
www.ourcuriousworld.com
His books are also available from Llewellyn.com
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by J. Allan Danelek (Author)
In November of 1896 residents of California watched a mysterious bright light-often described as being suspended beneath a "cigar shaped" craft of considerable size-pass slowly over their cities on several occasions, sparking a media frenzy. A few months later, what appeared to be the same craft was seen in the skies over the sparsely populated prairie states of the Midwest making its way methodically eastward and appearing to literally hundreds-if not thousands-of witnesses.
Then, as suddenly as the reports began, they abruptly ended, leaving a mystery that has never been satisfactorily explained by either science or historians to this day. Was it evidence of a nascent technology, appearing a full decade before Von Zeppelin began building the first of his behemoths in Germany, or was it all merely a media hoax generated by the yellow journalism of the time in an effort to increase sales? Or, most provocative of all, was it a visitor from outer space, making an early appearance? Each theory is examined in turn before J. Allan Danelek finally presents his provocative theory that the mysterious vessel was a terrestrial craft years ahead of its time that may have been destroyed just as it was on the verge of being publicly acknowledged. Admittedly controversial, the hypothesis leaves it for the reader to decide for themselves whether the history of aviation is complete as we know it or if it's merely waiting for the final chapter to be written.
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What happens after we die? What is the purpose of reincarnation? How does it work? What is the role in this mysterious process of the soul, free will, karma, soul mates, and God? Paranormal investigator J. Allan Danelek presents a compelling exploration of reincarnation that sheds light on both the mechanics of rebirth and its spiritual purpose. Addressing all aspects of reincarnation—including how the next physical life is chosen, the influence of past lives, the difference between the soul and personality, the necessity of evil, and what happens between lives—Danelek illuminates this transcendent yet practical mode for perfecting the soul. The Case for Reincarnation presents a fascinating, thought-provoking examination of reincarnation and the elements involved: The Divine • The eternal soul • Spiritual lessons • The link between the spiritual and physical worlds • Linear time • Past-life memories • Karma • Choosing our next incarnation • What happens to souls drawn to evil • Ghosts
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What if you found out that the life you're living today is not the only one you'll ever live, but just one of many? How would it change the way you look at the world around you and the people in it? In this objective and balanced look at one of the great mysteries of our age, you'll not only explore reincarnation's western roots and examine the compelling evidence to support it—as well as examine the chief objections to it offered by the scientific and religious communities—but explore the mechanics of reincarnation as well: how it works on a practical level, what it's trying to do on a spiritual level, and what it all means to you as you go about your day-to-day life. It's sure to not only get you thinking about your past, but will force you to consider your present and future in ways you never imagined possible before.
The Case for Ghosts: An Objective Look at the Paranormal
When an author claims to make a "case for ghosts," the reader expects documentation--lots of it. One expects case histories of documented occurrences, statistical analyses of representative events, and a rational, good-faith attempt to find both normal and paranormal explanations for these events. Unfortunately, Danelek's book fails in each of these expectations. More a philosophical and phenomenological treatise, Danelek expounds on why ghosts might exist and how they might be documented. A seemingly reasonable explanation for a phenomenon is not proof that the phenomenon actually occurs, as Carl Jung pointed out 100 years ago. Jung studied poltergeists, yet Danelek never even mentions him-nor does he cite the near-death experience scholarship of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Raymond Moody (Life After Life), which may represent the best evidence so far for the survival of souls after death. The book contains a few anecdotes, but none of these are documented. To add insult, Danelek's writing style is frustratingly roundabout-why use two words when eight will confuse the reader even further? Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Atlantis: Lessons from the Lost Continent
The lost civilization of Atlantis—whether mythical or historical—offers possible clues about our past and holds important lessons for our future. Join author J. Allan Danelek on a compelling journey of discovery as he attempts to answer questions surrounding the controversial twelve-thousand-year-old legend: Was it a real place or did Plato invent the story? If it did exist, what could have led to the widespread destruction of an entire civilization? And are we heading down the same road to self-annihilation? Fact or Fiction?
Bringing new life to Plato's dialogues on Atlantis, Danelek offers original theories about the lost world's culture and downfall. This engaging exploration covers all aspects of Atlantean lore, from historical maps and geological sciences to popular theories both traditional and contemporary. At the heart of every story lies an ultimate truth and timeless lesson. What can Atlantis teach us about the fate of humanity?
UFOs: The Great Debate: An Objective Look at Extraterrestrials, Government Cover-Ups, and the Prospect of First Contact by J. Allan Danelek (Author)
Do UFOs really exist? Are we alone in the universe? Is the government hiding the truth from us? With his signature objective and balanced approach, J. Allan Danelek explores the controversial questions surrounding extraterrestrials that have raged for years. This wide-ranging and captivating book begins with a historical overview of the decades-long debate, followed by an incisive look at the case for and against extraterrestrial intelligence. Danelek presents scientific evidence supporting UFOs and other life-sustaining planets, examines hoaxes, and raises practical objections based on radar findings and satellite observations. Next, he delves into government conspiracies and cover-ups—including Roswell, alien visitation, and alien technology. There's also intriguing speculation about the alien agenda—crop circles, alien abductions—and suggestions of possible scenarios, both benign and malevolent, for first contact with an alien race.
2012: Extinction or Utopia? Doomsday Prophecies Explored
Is 2012 the end of the world as we know it? From 2012 to global warming to worldwide pandemics, doomsday scenarios play an increasingly large role in our lives. Do any of these apocalyptic scenarios pose a real, urgent risk? Why does our modern culture continue to embrace these bleak beliefs, and how are they affecting our world?
Separating hype from truth, J. Allan Danelek scrutinizes the ancient Mayan calendar's end date of 2012 and takes a hard look at whether it spells the end of the world--or a new beginning. Danelek also delves into other doomsday beliefs past and present, from biblical end-times prophecies to biological warfare, and discusses the predictions of world-famous prophets such as Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce.
With piercing logic, Danelek objectively explores the apocalyptic threats that have captured our imagination . . . and reveals startling insights about what kind of future--dire or dazzling--awaits humanity.
The Song Of The Greys by Nigel Kerner.
Of all the humanoid alien types that feature in reports of sightings and abductions, the most common is "the Grey" - smooth and sallow-skinned, small in stature, spindly and thin. Who are they? Where do they come from? What do they want from us?
They have programmed in to their intercepted lines of mankind all the mechanisms necessary to keep their experiments intact and functioning. Racism and tribalism are a case in point. What better way to keep experimental groups separate in order to avoid one experiment leaking into another and affecting the final result, than to programme separatism and tribal identity into the experimental subjects.
Source: An Interview with Kerner
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The Conspiracy to Genetically Tamper with Humanity
by Nigel Kerner
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Dan Aykroyd is the first celebrity ever to apply brains and wit to disclose the real UFO phenomenon to the world in his new film, "Dan Aykroyd, Unplugged on UFOs." In this film, Aykroyd is backed up by many credible military personnel. Paul Hellyer, former Defense Minister of Canada, whom at 82,went public at the University of Toronto in 2005 to say, "UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head.... That is my unequivocal conclusion." Many top military witnesses have come forward to testify before their deaths, such as NASA Astronaut Gordon Cooper, Colonel Phillip Corso, on the Roswell Incident, Paul Hellyer, Minister of Defense Canada, President Reagan, and more. The truth is finally disclosed.
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When Ezekiel saw a wheel, 'way in the middle of the air, did he really see a pinwheeling spacecraft? Is there, hidden in some secret government warehouse, wreckage from a flying saucer that crashed over 30 years ago in New Mexico? Is our planet an alien-breeding colony? Have people been kidnapped by E.T.s? Or are UFOs just science fiction? This thought-provoking program unravels the fantasy and fact behind reported close encounters of every kind with beings who may be from another galaxy - even another dimension.
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Ufo Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth
by Curt Sutherly
Covers a great deal of ground while presenting a well-balanced documentation of UFO controversies and general weirdness.
...an interesting look at key elements of the UFO field over the past half-century by a qualified author...
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by Branton
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The UFO Book is actually an abridgment of the much larger, two volume work, The UFO Encyclopedia (2nd Edition) published in the fall of 1997. Clark makes it very clear in the introduction that, "Except in those instances where good reason exists to doubt an informant's sincerity, The UFO Book operates on the assumption that intellectual agnosticism...". True to his word, The UFO Book is clear, in-depth, cross-referenced and user friendly and goes to extremes to stand above any hint of opinion regarding the wealth of information contained in this book. The UFO Book includes a historical overview of UFO phenomenon, an overview of its terminology roots, and in-depth information regarding resources in print an other forms of media. Every subject, whether a discussion of a specific topic or a specific incident is organized alphabetically with painstakingly clear cross referencing throughout. The UFO Book is engrossing reading that can fill a few minutes, an hour, or more. It has the authoritative backbone that brings this incredibly diverse and far reaching subject to light in a meticulously objective manner. Clark has put into one volume an incredible amount of research that is a must read for anyone mildly curious about UFO's and extra- terrestrials.
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Because sightings of anomalous craft are on the rise, in these end-times, it's vital to know the bible's identity of so-called UFOs. Other books raise more questions than they answer. This book has your answers.
And Yet... They Fly!
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http://www.csicop.org/si/9507/roswell.html
Institute for UFO Research (IUR)
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http://www.think-aboutit.com/Omega/files/
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Q: Keep MigLayout components from spacing out I have this SSCCE:
public class FiltersPanel extends JPanel {

    public FiltersPanel() {
        init();
    }

    class Filter {
        String name;
        FilterType type;

        public Filter(String name, FilterType type) {
            this.name = name;
            this.type = type;
        }
    }

    enum FilterType {
        Money("$"),
        Percent("%"),
        Integer("#");
        String sign;

        private FilterType(String sign) {
            this.sign = sign;
        }
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    LinkedHashSet<Filter> filters;

    void addFilter(Filter filter) {

        JCheckBox checkBox_min = new JCheckBox(filter.name + " Min (" + filter.type.sign + ")");
        JTextField textField_min = new JTextField();
        JCheckBox checkBox_max = new JCheckBox(filter.name + " Max (" + filter.type.sign + ")");
        JTextField textField_max = new JTextField();
        add(checkBox_min, "growx");
        add(textField_min, "growx");
        add(checkBox_max, "growx");
        add(textField_max, "growx, span");
    }

    void init() {
        setLayout(new MigLayout(new LC().fill()));

        JCheckBox date_min_checkBox = new JCheckBox("Date Min:");
        JDateChooser date_min_dateChooser = new JDateChooser();
        JCheckBox date_max_checkBox = new JCheckBox("Date Max:");
        JDateChooser date_max_dateChooser = new JDateChooser();

        int row = 0;
        add(date_min_checkBox, "growx");
        add(date_min_dateChooser, "growx");
        add(date_max_checkBox, "growx");
        add(date_max_dateChooser, "growx, span");

        addFilter(new Filter("Sales Amt", FilterType.Money));
        addFilter(new Filter("Sales Qty", FilterType.Integer));
        addFilter(new Filter("SO Count", FilterType.Integer));

        addFilter(new Filter("Quotes Amt", FilterType.Money));
        addFilter(new Filter("Quotes Qty", FilterType.Integer));
        addFilter(new Filter("CQ Count", FilterType.Integer));

        addFilter(new Filter("Profit Margin", FilterType.Percent));
        addFilter(new Filter("Profit Total", FilterType.Money));
        addFilter(new Filter("Price", FilterType.Money));
        addFilter(new Filter("STQ Ratio", FilterType.Percent));

        addFilter(new Filter("QTY", FilterType.Integer));
        addFilter(new Filter("Inv Cost", FilterType.Money));

        JCheckBox pn_checkBox = new JCheckBox("Part #");
        pn_checkBox.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.yellow));
        pn_checkBox.setBorderPainted(true);
        JRadioButton startsWith_button = new JRadioButton("Starts With");
        startsWith_button.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.yellow));
        startsWith_button.setBorderPainted(true);
        JRadioButton contains_button = new JRadioButton("Contains");
        contains_button.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.yellow));
        contains_button.setBorderPainted(true);
        ButtonGroup buttonGroup = new ButtonGroup();
        buttonGroup.add(startsWith_button);
        buttonGroup.add(contains_button);
        JTextField pn_textField = new JTextField();
        pn_textField.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.yellow));
        add(pn_checkBox, "newline, growx 0");
        add(startsWith_button, "growx 0");
        add(contains_button, "growx 0");
        add(pn_textField, "spanx, growx 100");

        JCheckBox conditions_checkBox = new JCheckBox("Conditions:");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.add(new FiltersPanel());
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    }
}

Which produces this:

I am trying to get the components in yellow to not have the gap between them and to have the last JTextField span the rest of the row.
This is the code I'm focusing on:
add(pn_checkBox, "newline, growx 0");
add(startsWith_button, "growx 0");
add(contains_button, "growx 0");
add(pn_textField, "spanx, growx 100");

The goal here was to say growx 0 for all the components except the JTextField (and that is growx 100).
Also tried this:
add(pn_checkBox, "newline, align left, push, growx 0");
add(startsWith_button, "align left, push, growx 0");
add(contains_button, "align left, push, growx 0");
add(pn_textField, "spanx, growx 100");

Nothin doin'
How would you do this?

A: As per the MigLayout Quick Start Guide you have to split and span your cells:
add(pn_checkBox, "newline, split 3");
add(startsWith_button);
add(contains_button);
add(pn_textField, "span 3, grow");

Explanation: Splitting the first cell means that the next two components are added into the same cell. This means there are still three cells left in the row, so you have to span the text field over these cells.


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Kochs' Intelligence Agency Gets A Boost With Pompeo At The CIA
Donald Trump has tapped Congressman Mike Pompeo to head the CIA for his administration. Trump isn't the only one who's happy with his pick though. The Kochs must be thrilled to have one of their own running the country's spy agency — just the latest addition to their own personal "intelligence agency."
The president-elect may see Pompeo as a Trump loyalist now, but he's been a Koch puppet for years. Pompeo earned himself the nickname "the Congressman from Koch" after Koch Industries invested in his company Thayer Aerospace. During his 2014 re-election campaign, the Koch brothers and their employees poured more than $100,000 into the race in addition to $10,000 from Koch PAC.
Since his first day in Washington, he's been a Koch man through and through. According to the Huffington Post, Pompeo's work to undermine and hamper the EPA showed "the height of irresponsibility — sacrificing public safety […]
Using Another Boilerplate, Kochs Spread More Misinformation About ACA
Another week, another spate of formulaic, inaccurate op-eds disseminating from the Koch network.
The Kochs have a well-documented history of pushing boilerplate-style op-eds and letters to the editor to deceive readers into the belief that local, grassroots support exists for Koch policies. The Koch network has previously used this tactic to attack occupational licensing–a campaign which saw editorials in 36 states–and earlier this month used the same tactic in an attempt to undermine carbon regulations.
No longer content limiting its scope to funneling millions into far-right groups and causes, the Koch's are now deploying Freedom Partners to manipulate opinion more directly. Nathan Nascimento, Director Of State Initiatives at Freedom Partners, has penned nearly identical criticisms of the Affordable Care Act in major publications targeting voters in eight states.
The Koch Network continued to endanger the lives of Americans by launching a series of copy-and-paste op-eds to spread misinformation about the ACA under such […]


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Де́нь працівника́ податко́вої та ми́тної спра́ви Украї́ни — професійне свято в Україні, яке відзначалося щороку 18 березня у 2014—2020 роках.

Свято встановлено указом Президента України В. Ф. Януковича від 11 жовтня 2013 року ураховуючи значну роль органів доходів і зборів у забезпеченні єдності та цілісності податкової і митної політики держави, на підтримку ініціативи Міністерства доходів і зборів України.

Нове свято встановлене на заміну Дня митної служби України (25 червня) та Дня працівника державної податкової служби України (2 липня).

Скасоване 25 червня 2020 р. у зв'язку зі встановленням Дня податківця України та Дня митника України

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To build effective links, you need to first build relationships. Building your professional network is very vital and you should always look out for new contacts. The best place to start is in online communities related to your niche. Check out forums, social network pages and blogs that are relevant to your niche. Join threads and post comments and try to add value to the discussion.
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Last year I tried to give her a nice big onion but she wasn't having any of it. :confused: The year before, I had nothing in the house. And I mean nothing. On her way back from terrorising the neighbourhood, she brought me stuff because she felt sorry for me.
So this year, I was thinking I might bake something - I should have enough time. Suggestions welcome - nothing too tricky please.
P.S. They don't like onions, apparently.
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If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
I'm friends with many witchesand I don't know where this dont like onions thing comes from? I sense there is something you are not telling us in this post. Is it a neighbourhood child trick or treater?
Make fairy cakes and melt white and milk chocolate and decorate them with cobwebs on top.
How about Mars Bar/ Rice Krispy cakes? Melt several large Mars Bars( low power in Microwave..stir every now and then), mix with Rice Krispys in a big bowl, flatten mixture into greased tin (we use a flat bottomed roasting tin or square cake tin). Melt some milk chocolate using the Microwave and pour over the top. Chill in fridge and cut into squares, wrap a couple of squares in cellophane, or make them in bun cases.
Sorry I can't put quantities on but we just sort of keep adding the Rice Krispies till the mixture is covered but not too sloppy. You could decorate them with Jelly spiders etc.
I'd love to make some little cookies or something for our visiting scaries, but I'm not sure whether parent's would be ok with it? I've bought sweeties that are all wrapped individually because I know some people don't like the thought of unwrapped candies, I'm sure it'd probably be even worse with homemade treats. Or is it just me being paranoid?
im going to have a go at these but cut them in the shape of pumkins, for the local monster's.
Like Jess I think some sort of chocolate krispie cakes would fit the bill as they are easy peasy to make and universally popular.
I buy big bags of coloured popcorn and fill clear plasic gloves with it then tie at the wrist with some wool.
ohhhh! how does he make candy floss?!
Witches like burnt cakes! Well they did in the story book I read to the children for years @ halloween.
I have done diffrent things over several years, when they say trick or treat I shouted TRICK and squarted water on them before handing out the sweets! poor things!!!!
Invited kids into the hallway to bob for an apple in a bowl of water and then given out the sweets for a prize.
This year they are getting Dora books or sponge bob pencel cases -I so happen to be given a pile of after a promotion demo. So free mse style.
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Spring begins on 21st March.
I couldn't get the link to work, but the site's got some good ideas, thanks. I'm thinking these are more the sort of things I'm after, and might even be within my capabilities.
Trust me, the look on the small witch's face when I presented her with an onion suggested that I'd better not try that again if I know what's good for me.
We have a prima candy floss maker that we bought years ago for when our two were little.
I made chocolate crispies last year using milk and white chocolate (for two types) but having read this thread I'm going to try jessbrown's Mars bar versions. I'll also make them in a baking tray and cut into squares as they'll be easier to wrap.
Last year I was surprised how many of the trick-or-treaters liked getting cakes instead of sweets, even the teenage ones!


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Has the era of the antihero come to an end?
In 1994, the closest things we had to reality TV were The Real World and O.J. Simpson. The criticism that the genre imposes coherent dramatic narratives onto a world that is often lacking them—and thus hardly qualifies as "reality"—is as old as reality TV itself, but both the fictionalized world of the long-running MTV show and the live broadcasting of the O.J. trial revealed something of the world that gave them birth. We're defined by the stories we tell, and both were sensational, almost pornographic in their gleeful depictions of just how bad things can get; 1994 was the year of Puck, after all.
In 2016 we were confronted with heavy doses of reality from TV shows both fictional and non-. But for the first time in years, our best shows have largely avoided the temptation to lionize bad men (horses are another story altogether); even Vince Gilligan is more interested in the decay of his protagonist's goodness than he is in the depths of his badness these days.
That's a minor difference of perspective, to be sure, but it nevertheless changes the tone of the story being told. And it's the guiding force behind the shows that were most successful this year. It's far more interesting—and suddenly more necessary—to examine the effects of evil on the people who are subject to it than it is to plot evil's rise. That's true whether the evil in question emanates from long-gestating social sins, devious planning, or, yes, politics.
There was plenty of reality in our TV in 2016, as there has always been. Which is why, despite the great darkness that gathered over almost all of these shows, there was also plenty of hope.


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EXTRA TIME: Bongani Zungu ecstatic after reaching first major Cup final in Europe
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12:32 am AEST 6/4/17
South Africa international Bongani Zungu was ecstatic after helping Vitória de Guimarães reach the 2016/17 Taça de Portugal final
The former Mamelodi Sundowns central midfielder then took to Instagram to express his delight at his latest accomplishment in Portugal.
Guimarães lost 3-1 to Chaves in the semi-final second-leg match with Zungu being introduced in the 54th minute in Chaves on Tuesday night.
The tie ended in a 3-3 draw, but Zungu's side won on the away goals rule as they had beaten Chaves 2-0 in the first-leg clash at home a month ago.
Zungu has established himself as one of Guimarães' key players since making his competitive debut for the club in December 2016.
Since then the 24-year-old player has received three man of the match accolades and he has made 17 appearances in all competitions thus far.
The winner between Portuguese giants Benfica and Estoril will face Guimarães in this season's final at the Estádio Nacional on the 28th of May 2017.
We are in the Finals!!!! God is great! Taca de Portugal. God is great! Forca Vitoria. #Europa league football!!! @vitoriasc_oficial
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Andrei A. Fedorenko
Laboratoire de Physique
46 allée d'Italie
E-mail: andrey.fedorenko@ens-lyon.fr
Date and place of birth: August 13, 1975, Omsk (Russia)
(since 2009) CNRS researcher (CR1) at Laboratoire de Physique d l'ENS, Lyon (France)
(2009-2009) PostDoc at University of Cologne, Cologne (Germany)
(2008-2009) PostDoc at Laboratoire de Physique d l'ENS, Lyon (France)
(2006-2008) PostDoc at LPT, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (France)
(2001-2006) PostDoc at FB Physik, Martin-Luther-Universitat, Halle (Germany)
(1998-2001) Lecturer at Physics Department of Omsk State University (Russia)
Ph.D. in theoretical physics, 1999, Omsk State University.
M.Sc. (Diploma in Physics with honour), 1997, Omsk State University.
High school graduation, 1992, Omsk Phys&math school N64.
Research Interests:
Topological and relativistic phases in condensed matter.
Mesoscopic physics: quantum transport in disordered electronic systems.
Disordered systems: random fields, spin glasses, elastic objects in disordered media, domain walls, charge density waves, vortex matter.
Random walks: random walks in random environments, loop-erased random walks.
Systems far from equilibrium: out-of-equilibrium critical behavior, aging, surface growth, sandpiles, depinning.
42nd conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO42). https://meco42.sciencesconf.org/
E. Brillaux, D. Carpentier, A.A. Fedorenko, and L. Savary, Analytical renormalization group approach to competing orders at charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene, Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033168 (2022). arXiv:2008.05041
E. Brillaux and A.A. Fedorenko, Fermi arcs and surface criticality in dirty Dirac materials, Phys. Rev. B 103, L081405 (2021). arXiv:2009.12138
D. Shapoval, M. Dudka, A.A. Fedorenko, and Yu. Holovatch, Possibility of a continuous phase transition in random-anisotropy magnets with a generic random-axis distribution, Phys. Rev. B 101, 064402 (2020). arXiv:1910.14461
K.J. Wiese and A. A. Fedorenko, Depinning transition of charge-density waves: mapping onto O(n) symmetric phi4 theory with n=-2 and loop-erased random walks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197601 (2019). arXiv:1908.11721
E. Brillaux, D. Carpentier, and A.A. Fedorenko, Multifractality at the Weyl semimetal-diffusive metal transition for generic disorder, Phys. Rev. B 100, 134204 (2019). arXiv:1905.01182
K.J. Wiese and A. A. Fedorenko, Field theories for loop-erased random walks, Nucl. Phys. B 946, 114696 (2019). arXiv:1802.08830
I. Balog, D. Carpentier, and A. A. Fedorenko, Disorder-driven quantum transition in relativistic semimetals: functional renormalization via the porous medium equation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 166402 (2018). arXiv:1710.07932
G.M. Falco, A.A. Fedorenko, and I.A. Gruzberg, Wave function correlations and the AC conductivity of disordered wires beyond the Mott-Berezinskii law, EPL 120, 37004 (2017). arXiv:1708.07163
G.M. Falco, A.A. Fedorenko, and I.A. Gruzberg, On functional determinants of matrix differential operators with multiple zero modes, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50, 485201 (2017). arXiv:1703.07329
M. Dudka and A.A. Fedorenko, Emergent universal critical behavior of the 2D N-color Ashkin-Teller model in the presence of correlated disorder, Critical behavior of the 2D Ising model with long-range correlated disorder, Condens. Matter Phys. 20, 13603 (2017). arXiv:1702.04340
T. Louvet, D. Carpentier, and A.A. Fedorenko, New quantum transition in Weyl semimetals with correlated disorder, Phys. Rev. B 95, 014204 (2017). arXiv:1609.08368
T. Louvet, D. Carpentier, and A.A. Fedorenko, On the disorder-driven quantum transition in 3D relativistic metals, Phys. Rev. B 94, 220201(R) (2016). arXiv:1605.02009
M. Dudka, A.A. Fedorenko, V.Blavatska, and Yu. Holovatch, Critical behavior of the 2D Ising model with long-range correlated disorder, Phys. Rev. B 93, 224422 (2016). arXiv:1602.07229
G.M. Falco and A.A. Fedorenko, Instanton theory for bosons in disordered speckle potential, Phys. Rev. A 92, 023412 (2015). arXiv:1505.01671
T. Louvet, P. Delplace, A.A. Fedorenko, and D. Carpentier, On the origin of minimal conductivity at a band crossing, Phys. Rev. B 92, 155116 (2015). arXiv:1503.04185
A. Andreanov and A.A. Fedorenko, Localization of spin-waves in disordered quantum rotors, Phys. Rev. B 90, 014205 (2014). arXiv:1403.5529
A.A. Fedorenko, P. Le Doussal, and K.J. Wiese, Non-Gaussian effects and multifractality in the Bragg glass, EPL 105, 16002 (2014). arXiv:1309.6529
A.A. Fedorenko, Surface criticality in random field systems with continuous symmetry, Mathematical Structures and Modeling 27, 14 (2013).
D. Carpentier, A.A. Fedorenko, and E. Orignac, Effect of disorder on 2D topological merging transition from a Dirac semi-metal to a normal insulator, EPL 102, 67010 (2013). arXiv:1303.4320
A.A. Fedorenko, P. Le Doussal, and K.J. Wiese, Functional renormalization-group approach to decaying turbulence, J. Stat. Mech., P04014 (2013). arXiv:1212.2117
A.A. Fedorenko, Random field and random anisotropy O(N) spin systems with a free surface, Phys. Rev. E 86, 021131 (2012). arXiv:1205.1338
A.A. Fedorenko, D. Carpentier, and E. Orignac, Two dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of long-range correlated disorder, Phys. Rev. B 85, 125437 (2012). arXiv:1112.2743
A.A. Fedorenko, Commentary on Anisotropic finite-size scaling of an elastic string at the depinning threshold in a random-periodic medium, Papers in Physics 2, 020009 (2010).
G.M. Falco, A.A. Fedorenko, J. Giacomelli, and M. Modugno, Density of states in an optical speckle potential, Phys. Rev. A 82, 053405 (2010). arXiv:1008.0589
A.A.Fedorenko and D. Carpentier, Magnetic dephasing in a mesoscopic spin glass, EPL 88, 57009 (2009). arXiv:0904.1011
A.A.Fedorenko, P. Le Doussal, and K.J. Wiese, Field theory conjecture for loop-erased random walks, J. Stat. Phys. 133, 805 (2008). arXiv:0803.2357
A.A.Fedorenko Elastic systems with correlated disorder: Response to tilt and application to surface growth, Phys. Rev. B 77, 094203 (2008). arXiv:0712.0801
A.A.Fedorenko, A functional renormalization group approach to s ystems with long-range correlated disorder, in proceedings of "Path Integrals - New Trends and Perspectives", edited by Wolfhard Janke and Axel Pelster, World Scientific (2008). arXiv:0803.1587
A.A.Fedorenko and F. Kühnel, Long-range correlated random field and random anisotropy O(N) models: A functional renormalization group study, Phys. Rev. B 75, 174206 (2007). arXiv:0701256
A.A.Fedorenko, P. Le Doussal, and K.J. Wiese, Statics and dynamics of elastic manifolds in media with long-range correlated disorder, Phys. Rev. E 74, 061109 (2006). arXiv:0609234
A.A.Fedorenko, P. Le Doussal, and K.J. Wiese,Universal distribution of threshold forces at the depinning transition, Phys. Rev. E 74, 041110 (2006). arXiv:0607229
S. Stepanow and A.A.Fedorenko, On the surface segregation of conformationally asymmetric polymer blends, Phys. Rev. E 73, 031801 (2006). cond-mat/0509639
A.A.Fedorenko and S. Trimper, Critical aging of a ferromagnetic system from a completely ordered state, Europhys. Lett., 74, 89-95 (2006). cond-mat/0507112
A.A.Fedorenko and S. Stepanow, Interfaces in disordered media, energy distribution and ac response, Phase Transitions, 78, 817 (2005).
A.A.Fedorenko, Nonequilibrium critical relaxation in the presence of extended defects, Phys. Rev. B, 69, 134301 (2004).
A.A.Fedorenko, V. Mueller, and S.Stepanow, Dielectric response due to stochastic motion of pinned domain walls, Phys. Rev. B, 70, 224104 (2004).
A.A.Fedorenko and S.Stepanow, Universal energy distribution for interfaces in a random field environment, Phys. Rev. E 68, 056115 (2003).
A.A.Fedorenko and S.Stepanow, Depinning transition at the upper critical dimension, Phys. Rev. E 67, 057104 (2003).
A.A.Fedorenko, Replicon modes and stability of critical behavior of disordered systems with respect to the continuous replica symmetry breaking, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 36, N5, 1239-1247 (2003).
A.A.Fedorenko and S.Trimper, Random walks in random environment with long-range correlated drift force, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, 16, N24, 3561-3566 (2002).
A.A.Fedorenko and S.Stepanow, Localization of a Gaussian polymer in a weak periodic surface potential disturbed by a single defect, Eur. Phys. J. B, 28, 209-215 (2002).
S.Stepanow and A.A.Fedorenko, Adsorption of a Gaussian polymer in a periodic surface potential, Europhys. Lett., 58, N3, 368-374 (2002).
V.V. Prudnikov, P.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Stability of the critical behavior of weakly disordered systems with respect to the introduction of an interaction potential breaking replica symmetry. Phys. Solid State, 43, №9, 1759-1764 (2001).
V.V. Prudnikov, P.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, ; Stability of critical behaviour of weakly disordered systems with respect to the replica symmetry breaking. Phys. Rev. B, 63, 184201 (2001).
V.V. Prudnikov, P.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Stability of critical behaviour of weakly disordered systems to introduction of potentials with replica symmetry breaking, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 34, №12, L145-L152 (2001).
V.V. Prudnikov, P.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Stability of the critical behavior of weakly disordered systems against replica symmetry breaking, JETP Letters, 73, №3, 135-140 (2001).
V.V. Prudnikov, P.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Field-theory approach to critical behavior of systems with long-range correlated defects, Phys. Rev. B, 62, №13, 8777-8786 (2000).
V.V. Prudnikov, P.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Multicritical behaviour of disordered systems with two order parameters, Phys. Solid State, 42, №1, 165-169 (2000).
V.V. Prudnikov, P.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Static and dynamic critical properties of 3D systems with long-range correlated quenched defects, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 32, №49, 8587-8600 (1999).
V.V. Prudnikov and A.A. Fedorenko, Critical behaviour of 3D systems with long-range correlated quenched defects, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 32, №36, L399-L405 (1999).
V.V. Prudnikov, P.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Multicritical behaviour of weakly disordered systems with two order parameters, JETP, 89, №2, 325-330 (1999).
V.V. Prudnikov, P.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Field - theoretic description of the multicritical behaviour of systems with two order parameters, JETP Letters, 68, №12, 900-905 (1998).
V.V. Prudnikov, S.V. Belim, A.V. Ivanov, E.V. Osintsev, and A.A. Fedorenko, Critical dynamics of slightly disordered spin systems, JETP, 87, №3(9), 527-533 (1998).
V.V. Prudnikov, S.V. Belim, E.V. Osintsev, and A.A. Fedorenko, Critical dynamics of disordered magnets in the three-loop approximation, Phys. Solid State, 40, №8, 1383-1388 (1998).
V.V. Prudnikov, A.V. Ivanov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Critical dynamics of spin systems in the four-loop approximation, JETP Letters, 66, №12, 835-840 (1997).
A.V. Ivanov, V.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Calculation of dynamic critical exponent and resummation of asymptotic series, Communications of Omsk University, 4, 27-29 (1997).
A.V. Ivanov, V.V. Prudnikov, and A.A. Fedorenko, Critical dynamics of magnetic systems, Communications of Omsk University, 3, 27-29 (1997).
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Start with our Deep Dish Website Design Part 1 and now further improve your website to please customers that go online.
An effective website design is crucial to your company's digital branding and effective internet marketing strategy. Today's website acts as an online hub, providing visitors from all channels with the valuable information, credibility, branding, positioning, and persuasive messaging that is crucial to driving more traffic, leads, and sales. How can you know if your website is just limping along or if it is a lead-generating competitive tool to engage with prospects?
In part 2 of Deep Dish Website Design, I want to cover the different areas where a website may be looking thin or exhibiting deeper problems. While some of the website design changes are relatively easy to make, others require a deep dish redesign.
Each page of my product copy is longer than two scrolls (clicks).
I have more than two animations on my home page.
I waste a key content block on my home page for a company overview.
I don't provide my company address on my Contact Us page.
I have different website designs in different areas of my website, due to acquisitions, and mixed platforms.
My text blocks are wider than 500 pixels, causing eye strain.
My search bar doesn't offer advanced search options to filter results.
I launched my website without conducting at least a rudimentary usability study.
My information architecture replicates the organization hierarchy of my company.
My navigation is riddled with cliché categories, such as Products, Services, Support and About Us.
My link styles for active, hover, and visited are not evident to the average web visitor.
I have important information buried three levels deep.
I don't use breadcrumbs on interior pages to provide people with a visual navigation trail.
My secondary navigation appears in different places on different pages.
My web visitors have to search to find downloadable content.
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My website content is not tailored to my audience segments.
I don't have a place on my website where visitors can self-identify themselves according to their job function, company size, or product interest.
My website design isn't consistent with my branding.
My website design doesn't accommodate an automatic feed for my social media posts.
It's difficult for people to share my blog posts, content offers, and news releases.
My website visitors can't easily tell which social media channels my company supports.
My company pushes information out through social media channels but doesn't listen.
My forms don't automatically redirect to thank-you pages.
I don't automatically send confirmation emails to administrators or prospects.
My landing pages ask for too much information from first-time visitors.
I don't have calls to action at the bottom of every page.
I can't track leads from phone calls.
My website forms send me contact names as emails instead of populating my CRM database.
I don't know when someone fills out a form for the 2nd time.
I can't prepopulate forms with information I already have.
I don't use progressive profiling to gather more information about prospects.
My landing pages are not optimized with compelling calls to action, keywords or attractive, relevant visuals.
I don't use A/B testing to test alternate headlines, copy, offers, and images on critical landing pages.
I stuff my footer with keywords.
My website copy is flawed with multiple H1 heads, or no H1 heads on important pages of my website.
I have not submitted an updated .xml site map to Google and Bing.
My site is not optimized for key search terms.
My website content doesn't provide links to interior pages, or to outside URLs.
My content is written for search engines rather than web visitors.
I don't have nearly enough inbound links.
My website takes more than 20 seconds to load.
I can't play videos on my website.
I can't protect valuable downloadable content from prying eyes.
My website design doesn't look good on mobile phones.
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package itunes

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"strconv"
)

type Playlist struct {
	persistentID string

	name string
}

func createPlaylist(values []string) (*Playlist, error) {
	persistentID := values[0]

	count := len(values)
	var name string

	switch {
	case count > 1:
		name = values[1]
	}

	p := &Playlist{
		persistentID: persistentID,

		name: name,
	}

	return p, nil
}

// for compatibility
func (p *Playlist) Close() {
}

func (p *Playlist) TrackCount() (int, error) {
	columns, err := getColumnsByJS(fmt.Sprintf(`p(findPlaylistByPersistentId("%v").tracks.length);`, p.persistentID))
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}
	if len(columns) == 0 {
		return 0, errors.New("TrackCound is nil.")
	}

	count, err := strconv.ParseInt(columns[0], 10, 32)
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}

	return int(count), nil
}

func (p *Playlist) GetTrack(index int) (t *Track, err error) {
	columns, err := getColumnsByJS(fmt.Sprintf(`logTrack(findPlaylistByPersistentId("%v").tracks[%v]());`, p.persistentID, index))
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	return createTrack(columns)
}
func (p *Playlist) GetTracks() (chan *Track, error) {
	log.Println(p.GetTrack(0))
	o, err := execJS(fmt.Sprintf(`findPlaylistByPersistentId("%v").tracks().forEach(logTrack);`, p.persistentID))
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	result := make(chan *Track)
	go func() {
		defer close(result)
		for line := range o {
			columns, err := validateResult(line)
			if err != nil {
				log.Println(err)
				return
			}

			track, err := createTrack(columns)
			if err != nil {
				log.Println(err)
				return
			}

			result <- track
		}
	}()

	return result, nil
}

func (p *Playlist) PersistentID() string {
	return p.persistentID
}

func (p *Playlist) PlayFirstTrack() error {
	_, err := getColumnsByJS(fmt.Sprintf(`findPlaylistByPersistentId("%v")`, p.persistentID))
	return err
}

func (p *Playlist) SetShuffle(isShuffle bool) error {
	return errors.New("SetShuffle is not support on OSX.")
}

func (p *Playlist) Shuffle() (bool, error) {
	return false, errors.New("Shuffle is not support on OSX.")
}

func (p *Playlist) AddTrack(t *Track) (result *Track, err error) {
	columns, err := getColumnsByAS(fmt.Sprintf(`P(AddTrackToPlaylist("%v", "%v"))`, t.persistentID, p.persistentID))
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	if len(columns) == 0 {
		return nil, errors.New("AddTrackToPlaylist is failed.")
	}

	return findTrackByPersistentID(columns[0])
}

func (p *Playlist) Delete() error {
	_, err := getColumnsByJS(fmt.Sprintf(`findPlaylistByPersistentId("%v").delete()`, p.persistentID))

	return err
}

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