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The Royal Navy Rugby Union Women's Development Squad final fixture of 2021 against Plymstock Albion Oaks has become a victim of Storm Barra as it blows through the UK this week. The match which was due to be played at Keyham Sports Ground on the 8th of December has been cancelled.
It is of course a disappointment that the weather has brought an abrupt end to the Royal Navy Rugby Union Women's Development Squad fixtures for 2021 but it has by no means brought about an end to the future of the Development Squad as they have flourished this year.
Whilst the pandemic has had a significant impact on people's abilities to play sport and for teams to recruit new players, the Women's Development Squad went from strength to strength in 2021. Recruitment of players, a mixture of those who had never touched a ball and those who had played prior to joining the Royal Navy, was strong and this resulted in the largest attendance of players at Women's Development Squad fixtures since the creation of the squad in 2017.
The fixtures also allowed already capped RN players to return to full contact post pandemic without the added pressure of pulling on a representative shirt. The integration of both development and capped players resulted in three hugely successful wins for the Women's Development Squad against Havant RFC, Bath RFC 2XV and Portsmouth Valkyries. This has set a huge (and amazing) challenge for the Women's Development Squad coaches when it comes to selection for Inter Services 2022.
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Funky piper, electric violinist, whistler and composer auditioned for The Music School way back in the 1980s. Stunning the panel with his bagpipe playing even though he could not read or write a note of music, Martyn was warmly welcomed and his unique creative talent developed quickly along with his interest and love of Scottish music. After his time at The Music School, he studied at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.
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Martyn often took time out of his busy schedule to give workshops at the Music School and was commissioned to write Mackay's Memoirs for the Music School Chamber Orchestra to play at the opening of the New Scottish Parliament in Princes Street Gardens. After several other performances (including the opening of the 2004 National Mod) the piece was recorded and the CD is available from the School and local record shops.
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(RINF) – The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn't rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats, Russians, space aliens, or voters. It was rigged by the owners of television networks who believed that giving one candidate far more coverage than others was good for their ratings. The CEO of CBS Leslie Moonves said of this decision: "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." Justifying that choice based on polling gets the chronology backwards, ignores Moonves' actual motivation, and avoids the problem, which is that there ought to be fair coverage for all qualified candidates (and a democratic way to determine who is qualified).
The debates are rigged by a private entity with no official status that calls itself the Commission on Presidential Debates and transforms open debates among multiple candidates into exclusively bipartisan joint appearances with many large and fine points negotiated beforehand.
Actual governance of the United States is rigged. Congress plans to attempt to ram through a number of intensely unpopular measures just after the election, including a supplemental spending bill for more wars and including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The hope is that most people will have tuned out after the election circus, and that most of them will forget what happened 2 or 4 years later.
The demonization of Vladimir Putin is rigged. Nobody has seen evidence that he or his government did us the favor of informing us of the DNC's corruption. He proposed a ban on cyber "war" that was rejected by the United States, for goodness sake. There's no evidence that Russia shot down an airplane in Ukraine or invaded Ukraine or seized Crimea or plotted attacks on the United States. The United States pulled out of the ABM treaty, expanded NATO to Russia's border, built missile bases, arranged military "exercises," facilitated a Ukrainian coup, and pushed a string of hostile lies. Russia has shown even more restraint than your typical U.S. voter (who usually sits home and does not vote, especially in primaries).
Military spending is rigged. Nobody knows it amounts to over half of U.S. discretionary spending. Nobody knows it's as much in the U.S. as in the rest of the world (allies and otherwise) combined. Nobody pays attention to the bribes from war profiteers, or to the threats held over Congress members to pull weapons jobs out of districts or states. Supporters of both big candidates claim their candidate plans to cut military spending. Both candidates have said the exact opposite. The debates and interviews steer clear of the whole topic.
Voter registration is rigged. A handful of states have now made it automatic, as most states have long-since done for military draft registration. In the rest of the country, thousands of young people run around registering voters, imagining they are engaged in "activism." Meanwhile, the right to vote can be denied to anyone by claiming they aren't registered.
People's names are stripped from voting rolls through a so-called justice system that brands them as felons, and through the careful rigging of those rolls by corrupt and partisan state governments that intentionally strip out people likely to vote for a particular party. This includes racial profiling. Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, Greg Palast and others have reported extensively on these practices.
Election day is rigged as well. It's not a holiday. Most people have to work. Poor districts and racial minority districts tend to have fewer machines and longer lines. ID requirements are used to deny people the right to vote. Intimidation and racial profiling by partisan activists serve the same function of rigging the election. The myths and lies about the virtually nonexistent phenomenon of "voter fraud" also serve to rig the election.
The election machines are also rigged. That is to say: instead of verifiable paper ballots publicly hand-counted in front of observers from all interested parties in each polling place, we have a faith-based system of voting on black-box machines that can never, even in theory, be checked for accuracy. These machines have been very easily hacked in demonstrations. These machines have visibly flipped votes before the eyes (and cameras) of countless voters. These machines have almost certainly played a key role in flipping the results of numerous elections.
Now, the wider the margin of victory, the less likely an electronic flipping. And the fact that machines can easily be used to steal an election does not mean that they always will be. But it was very odd during the late summer of 2016 to watch the U.S. media announce that these machines were totally unreliable — just what many of us had been saying for years. But the media said this in order to accuse Russia of planning to sabotage the coming U.S. election, or in order to accuse Russia of exactly what these media reports themselves did: plant seeds of doubt in U.S. minds.
Those doubts should be there. People should watch for visible problems with machines and with partisan and racist intimidators, and report all such to 1-866-OUR-VOTE, to county clerks, to secretaries of state, and to corporate and independent media. Then we should work for necessary reforms, including a respectful cessation of the U.S. government's routine practice of interfering in elections and overthrowing governments in other people's countries — a practice that has clearly resulted in the U.S. media projecting such behavior on others.
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Solid Edge ST10 Converges Modeling
by Ralph Grabowski
It seems to me that big advances in MCAD arrive every ten years or so. 1986 saw PTC introducing history-based parametric MCAD, and just about everyone made that the standard way to model in 3D. A decade later, Solidworks 95 brought MCAD to Windows, and competitors rushed to Windows to mimic the success of the self-funded startup. A little more than a decade further along, SpaceClaim in 2007 rocked the world by revitalizing direct modeling, forcing competitors to acknowledge this old technology, and so we got Creo from PTC, Fusion from Autodesk, and Synchronous Technology from Siemens PLM Software.
(I am not disregarding other tsunamis in tech, but things like the Internet, 64-bit CPUs, and cloud computing apply equally to all software, not specifically to MCAD.)
The most recent innovation in MCAD arrived in 2015 and in a rather quiet manner. It tries to solve a hard problem: how to merge the editing operations on single 3D body made of meshes and solid models.
Mesh models tend to come from data external to the MCAD software, such as 3D laser scans, reverse engineering, and generative designs. Solid models tend to come from inside MCAD software, either built from scratch natively or imported from other MCAD packages. A common example we see is making a 3D scan of a patient's knee, and then modeling the custom knee joint as a 3D solid.
If, in the past, you wanted to work with both, you needed to convert one into the other: either meshes into solids, or shell solids into meshes. This isn't ideal, as surface data can get lost in the conversion, and you might end up with a creepy looking result. In any case, meshes generated from 3D scans tend to be huge and complex-looking, and so are unsuitable to be represented by solids.
Hybrid Modeling
Until recently, it was best to keep organic mesh data separate from 3D solid models. But now we have hybrid modeling. A typical editing operation involves carving out some of that knee's mesh model to make room for the solid joint; similarly, the solid joint can be edited to adjust to the surface of the knee's mesh model. Or a mesh-based turbine part edited with a solid part. See figure 1.
Figure 1: Spatial's Polyhedral editing solids (left) and mesh parts (right)
It turns out it's a tough job to figure out the editing on both kinds of 3D bodies at the same time. The Spatial division of Dassault Systemes has been revealing a few advances each year. This year, for instance, they added just two functions to its Polyhedra hybrid editing API [application programming interface]: stitch (to directly combine meshes and solids into one body) and move (to manipulate solid faces in a hybrid body).
Note that Polyhedra is not end-user software, but an API that MCAD vendors implement in their software through Spatial's ACIS or CGM kernels. Spatial calls the imported 3D scans the "polygonal" model, and the 3D solid the "precise" model. See www.spatial.com/products/cgm_polyhedra.
Siemens Convergent Modeling
In the kernel world, the arch competitor to Spatial is Siemens PLM Software. So it is not surprising that Siemens revealed recently that it too is working on hybrid modeling for its Parasolid kernel. Siemens calls its technology "convergent" modeling, because it converges meshes (which it calls "facet models ") and solids (or "classic b-reps') into a single model. See www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en/products.
The two competitors take pot shots at each other. Siemens boasts that its technology is integrated into Parasolid, and so has "no delegation to an add-on modeling component," in the way that Polyhedral is an add-on to the ACIS and CGM kernels. In an interview with me, however, Spatial accused Siemens of holding both representations separately internally, rather than truly converging them. Both, ironically, use the same example of a knee joint.
For this year's releases of Solid Edge and NX, Siemens added convergent modeling to its MCAD systems, because it owns all three. The company will continue to develop the technology in the coming years -- just as Spatial is doing.
What's New in Solid Edge ST10
When it came up with Synchronous Technology for mixed direct and history editing, Siemens emphasized the technology's big deal by restarting Solid Edge's numbering system: what would have been Solid Edge 21 became Solid Edge ST -- the dawn of a new era in design. Except it wasn't. Much was missing from that first release, and even in subsequent releases of ST. A decade's worth of updates later, users still can find it difficult to work in with ST.
This summer's release of Solid Edge is ST10, the tenth anniversary of synch tech, but Siemens has a new master plan: its MCAD programs will encompass the entire design process -- from reverse engineering, through design, and finally output to 3D printing. (See figure 1, above.) Siemens calls it "next-generation design" but didn't change Solid Edge's numbering system, sadly; Solid Edge NG would've been cool.
Next-generation design encompasses reverse engineering, convergent modeling, generative design, and 3D printing. See figure 2.
Figure 2: Siemens'Next Generation Design master plan for Solid Edge
Reverse Engineering. When drawings don't exist for parts, we could draw them from scratch. Or we could use scanners to do it more quickly. A scanner uses a laser to find the position and distance (x,y and z) of thousands of points on the part. Software connects every three points with edges, creating a 3D mesh model from the triangles.
Designers then clean up the mesh model by removing facets, filling holes, and smoothing the mesh in Solid Edge. Once clean, parts of the mesh can be turned into surfaces native to Solid Edge with its Identify Regions tool.
Convergent Modeling. To work with meshes and solid models, Siemens provides convergent modeling, as I described above. (See figure 3.) Commands that were formerly only for b-rep modeling now also work on faceted geometry, with no need to convert one 3D representation to the other. (B-rep is short for boundary representation, and is the part of the solid model that we see, such as the exterior faces, edges, and vertices.)
Figure 3: Convergent modeling removing green solid from mesh
Operations that convergent modeling can do include Booleans, sectioning, hole-filling, imprinting, extrusions, mass properties, clash detection, and others. To learn more, check out www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en/products.
Generative Design. Engineers like to over-design parts to make sure they don't fail, but for fields like aerospace and for considerations like cost or weight or space, it's preferable that parts have the least amount of material necessary. Generative design, also known as "topology optimization," auto-magically reworks a part, removing material that is not needed for strength (see figure 4). The result often is strange looking, something that might be designed by aliens.
Figure 4: Generative modeling reduced weight of red sewing machine frame
To use generative design, we tell Solid Edge the material, the constraints (like bolt holes), the loads, and a weight we'd like the part to weigh. The software automatically computes the geometric solution. This technology is not new, but has tended to reside in specialty software external to mainstream MCAD.
3D Printing. Siemens is making a big, big push towards 3D printing, also called additive manufacturing. This is no surprise, given that the company manufactures everything from tiny medical devices to entire railroad trains. It now wants its design software to also be making the parts.
But an interface is needed between the 3D model and the printed part. The part we model might have walls that are too thin for the 3D printer's resolution; it might have empty areas large enough to collapse; it might not even be able to stand upright on the 3D printer's table. The software checks for these and other flaws, and then lets us adjust how the model will be printed. See figure 5.
Figure 5: Solid Edge warning that your model probably won't print successfully
Once the part is ready for printing, Solid Edge converts it to the original STL or new Microsoft 3MF formats, or outputs it directly to Microsoft's 3D Builder app, or uploads it to an online 3D printing service.
So there you have it: a design sequence that runs from reverse engineering through to 3D printing.
What Ralph Grabowski Thinks
Next Generation Design is a big vision from Siemens that encompasses the design process end-to-end. I consider it a spectacular addition to Solid Edge, but core Solid Edge users will probably consider it only peripheral. They continue to be concerned primarily with 3D modeling, 2D drawings, and updating designs -- as are most CAD users, no matter which package they embrace.
On a side note, the big Solid Edge University that occurred each October is no more. It's been regionalized into dozens of events throughout the year in individual cities and countries. I am not surprised, given that only about 500 enthusiasts ever showed up at the annual event, a tiny number compared to the half-million users claimed by Siemens.
Nevertheless, the addition of Next Generation Design and continuing development in other areas of Solid Edge is heartening, because it proves Siemens is serious about supporting Solid Edge into the future. Over time, I feel certain that hybrid modeling will seep into all forms of MCAD, just as direct editing did a decade ago. www.solidedge.com
Translating Between Competitors
Spatial and Siemens use different words that mean the same thing. Here is a guide:
Spatial Siemens
Editor's name: Polyhedra Convergent modeler
Works with: ACIS and CGM Parasolid
Meshes are called: Polygonal models Facets
Solids are called: Precise models Classic b-reps
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3D printing company New Matter is shutting down at the end of this month. techcrunch.com/2018/02/18/
No surprise at this news: Ray Kurzweil delays the singularity from 2030 to 2045.
AMC Bridge now integrates ZWCAD (for 2D drafting) with PTC's Windchill PLM [product lifecycle management]. www.zwsoft.com/zwcad/press-release
Public service reminder: AI is blackbox. If we don't know how it works, we shan't trust the result. "Missing data hindering replication of AI studies as survey of 400 algorithms presented at major conferences finds just 6% included code, 30% included test data." www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/
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Re: Extending the C3D File Format
@BlackBox_CAD: I don't know what the 'Civil3D File Format' is, but I can't wait -- especially as the only improvement to speeding up the reading of large models is the new-ish use of external MMS files for large surfaces in 2017-2018, which can bite you: autode.sk/2irfdxk
@SteveJohnsonCAD: C3D /= Civil 3D. fileinfo.com/extension/c3d
@upFronteZine: C3D Labs makes a geometric kernel, so no relation to Civil 3D.
@BlackBox_CAD: Never heard of them before; thanks for clarifying. Any idea why they used the same name/abbreviation? I thought it was a poor choice for Autodesk to use Bentley colors; this seems just as poor of a choice, even if it's a good product. Perhaps someone @C3Dlabs knows?
@savagemen: C3D came from Core 3D. It is a project name of the 3D engine that lies in the basis of MCAD software, KOMPAS-3D, the very popular product in Russia and CIS. As about Civil 3D, so C3D is only a useful shortcut. The native file format of AutoCAD is DWG.
Nowadays, C3D is the commercially available engine for everyone who wants to develop new 3D software. Perhaps you never heard it before because you are not a software developer. Find out more about C3D at www.c3dlabs.com
@BlackBox_CAD: Thanks for clarifying. I'm aware of the Autodesk side of things, as I use their products (namely Civil3D) daily, which is why your abbreviation of C3D is so confusing, despite sounding like a great development engine.
@savagemen: If interested, there are plenty of geometric kernels worldwide, some of them available to third parties for implementing in CAD/CAM/CAE and other types of 3D software. Recently, C3Dlabs presented a C# wrapper for the C3D Solver and C3D Vision components -- parts of C3D Toolkit.
@BlackBox_CAD: Me a developer? Nope. I just code C# for fun & sell small apps for Autodesk products in +/- 70 Countries. Much to my surprise, I make too much being a designer to warrant more developer time, and I don't sell my best productivity apps. Ha ha
Glad to meet you; the good part about being ignorant to things on the other side of the world, is that you can learn if someone is kind enough to teach you what you don't know. Thankfully for me, you're kind, and I learn quickly! Cheers #SemperGumby
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If you have a simple drawing -- typically a 2D .dwg file -- you can save it as AutoCAD R13 DWG and it will be "true DWG", because the true DWG signature was invented in R14.
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That takes me back a few when I ran VersaCAD and one AutoCAD station just to translate the DXFs to DWGs. We also did it with LT and full blown AutoCAD for the one or two commands which LT did not have. Those were the days.
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Q: Analogues of Jacobsthal's function EDIT: Gerhard Paseman has given some wonderful answers to this question below. Thank you. This is an attempt to revisit this to hopefully make the question more rigorous with some notation and try to provide motivation from the context of the Bateman-Horn conjecture, and ask whether this is fruitful or not. (It seems not. I'd love to get the opinion of anyone interested, even privately if you prefer.) Gerhard has mentioned other applications of Jacobsthal's function, and those certainly sound very interesting.
"Disclaimer": Everything here is redundant. There is probably nothing written here that has not been expressed in better form in the language of sieve theory, in
J. B. Friedlander, H. Iwaniec, Opera De Cribo
or Terry Tao's blog post "254B, Notes 7, Sieving and Expanders".
Therefore, the purpose of writing this is only to provide "closure" to the original question and to answer Gerhard's question of "why Jacobsthal's function interests me". First define: A "Jacobsthal-type function for polynomials":
Let $f\in \mathbb{Z}[x]$. Define $g_f(n)$ to be the length of the shortest interval so that there always exists an $m$ in that interval with $(f(m),n)=1$. When $f(x)=x$, we recover the original Jacobsthal's function. Let's now set up some notation:
$f$ has degree $d$. $C_k$ is the set of primes for which $f$ has $k$ roots mod $p$. These all have some density from Chebotarev's density theorem. Let
$$
P_{x,f}=\prod_{k > 0}\left(\prod_{\substack{p \in C_k\\2 \leq p \leq x^{d/2}}}p\right).
$$
Let $A \subset \mathbb{Z}$ be defined by $m\in A$ iff $(f(m),P_{x,f})=1$.
The Bateman-Horn conjecture says that for irreducible $f\in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ where the gcd of all its values is $1$, we should expect:
$$
\sum_{\substack{n \leq x\\f(n) \in \mathbb{P}}}1 \sim \mathfrak{S}(f)\frac{x}{d\log x},
$$
where $\mathfrak{S}(f)$ is a constant depending on $f$. The question is as follows: The Bateman-Horn conjecture implies that for sufficiently large $x$, we should expect that
$$
A \cap (x^{1/2},x) \not= \emptyset.
$$
From
R.C. Vaughan, On the order of magnitude of Jacobsthal's function, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc., 20, pp329--331,
we learn that the original Jacobsthal's function, $g(n)$, is believed to satisfy an upper bound of the form
$$
g(n) \ll \omega(n)^{1+\epsilon}.
$$
This is believed but stronger than what has been proven. Consider the functions $g_f(n)$. In line with what Gerhard Paseman described in a previous answer to the original question, perhaps $g_f(n)$ will satisfy analogous upper bounds, but now the upper bound must be able to combine the
$$
\omega\left(\prod_{\substack{p|n\\p\in C_k}}p\right)
$$
in some way that also involves $k$. In any case, in order to achieve the intersection of $(x^{1/2},x)$ with $A$ via the route of using only $g_f(n)$, we would require $g_f(P_{x,f})$ to be majorized by $x-x^{1/2}$. But the number of primes dividing $P_{x,f}$ has order of magnitude $\asymp x^{d/2}/\log x$, so this doesn't seem likely for general $f$. As a formality, and also to hopefully learn any perspectives on this, here are some questions anyway.
Firstly, what's a good conjectural, in terms of strongest possible belief, upper bound on $g_f(n)$ that accounts for $f$ having possibly a different number of roots for different primes (hence reflecting the information in the $C_k$), and is also able to show that irreducible polynomials of the form, for instance, $f(x)=x^5-x+5r$ will simply have $g_f(P_{x,f})$ infinite? (Cases like irreducible instances of $f(x)=x^5-x+5r$ have a prime $p$ for which $k=p$.)
Secondly, in the context of Bateman-Horn, would even the strongest possible beliefs concerning $g_f(P_{x,f})$ be insufficient to get $A$ to intersect $(x^{1/2},x)$? (From Bateman-Horn, it seems like any interval $(a,a+x)$ of length $\sim x$ should be expected to intersect $A$ when $a$ is not too large relative to $x$.) For $f(x)=x$ with $d=1$, it seems that the beliefs about $g(n)$ do give $g_f(P_{x,f}) \ll (x^{1/2}/\log x)^{1+\epsilon} \ll x-x^{1/2}$ and thus one can use beliefs concerning $g(n)$ to get a prime in $(x^{1/2},x)$. This is really a question on this approach not seeming to extend to general $f$. Perhaps it could be converted to a question on relating beliefs about $g_f(n)$ to representation of numbers with at most n_f prime factors by $f$, for some $n_f$ depending on $f$, but there already exist ways to deal with this. Example: Exercise 5 of Terry Tao's blog post, "254B, Notes 7: Sieving and Expanders".
Thank you very much!
Original Question:
Hello,
Jacobsthal's function, $j(n)$, is defined to be the longest sequence of consecutive integers such that all integers in the sequence are not relatively prime to $n$. H. Iwaniec has shown that
$$
j(n) \ll (\log n)^2.
$$
So this is like saying that if you take a sequence longer than that upper bound, it will definitely intersect $(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})^{*}$. Now here's where the analogue comes in. (Let's suppose that $n$ is squarefree.) $(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})^{*}$ is not just any subset of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$, it is constructed as the cartesian product of $(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})^{*}$ over each $p|n$.
I would like to replace $(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})^{*}$ here by some other subset of $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ formed by deleting other congruence classes modulo $p$ (not necessarily $p\mathbb{Z}$). But let's say that for each $p$, the number of congruence classes deleted is bounded by a constant. Then take the cartesian product over $p|n$ to obtain the subset, say, $A(n)$, of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ for which we want an upper bound for a function analogous to $j(n)$. So that any sufficiently long string of consecutive integers will intersect $A(n)$.
Since these sets $A(n)$ don't seem too different from $(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})^{*}$, should one expect that a power of $\log n$ is reasonable as an upper bound to the function analogous to $j(n)$? Gerhard Paseman, perhaps you've well thought through all this already!
I will link to the question Gerhard Paseman asked on sieves, since it could be relevant. Link: Erik Westzynthius's cool upper bound argument: update?

A: I will register a lengthy opinion here, which represents my feelings
on the subject.  I have no proofs to offer at this time.
I have not taken the perspective of viewing the set of numbers coprime to
a squarefree integer $m$ as the Cartesian product of smaller sets.  This
perspective may be useful, but it is hard for me to translate this into
finding long regions which avoid this set.  It is easy for me to view this
as a collection of short intervals of integers, each of which is coprime to $m$,
but computing how many of each length and where they are positioned and how
far apart they are when laid out on a number line, in short, linearizing
the set and looking at its distribution that way, is a challenge I have yet
to tackle, and I do not see what general results I can glean from this
approach.  I think understanding the distribution is important, and hope
this perspective will yield insight.
As an exercise, try using this perspective to show that if all the
primes dividing $m$ are greater than $n$, with $n$ being the number of distinct
prime factors of $m$, then $j(m) = n+1$.  A failure to do so should not been
taken as a sign that this is a bad perspective; it should be taken as a
sign of how radical a shift one must make in one's thinking about Jacobsthal's
function.  If you succeed in this exercise, try deriving some other simple
results, for example, what should $j(m)$ be roughly if the smallest prime factor is at least $2n/3$.  At this writing, I do not know how to try either problem with this perspective.
I believe (and it should be easily confirmed), that if one were to take just one
different residue class other than 0 for each prime $p$ dividing $m$, that the
Chinese Remainder Theorem shows you are just considering the same problem with
a different offset.  So you might standardize things by always removing the
0 class along with whatever other residue classes you might consider removing.
I too would expect some power of $\log m$ to be an upper bound for the maximum
length of an interval of consecutive integers which happen to lie in the
union of the removed classes.  However, I would look at data using small numbers first, with $n$ the number of distinct prime factors of $m$ being slowly ramped up, and seeing how much of a role the sizes of the prime factors with respect to $n$ play in the
analogous function.  You will need to give an exact definition in order to play with it,
but I imagine an argument like that of Stevens combined with an aggressive attitude
of error control that I brought to the argument should give you an upper bound for your analogous function like $O(2^{C\log n \log\log n})$, which is worse than Iwaniec's but is easily made explicit.  My feeling is that C will be proportional to the bound you put
on the number of classes removed for each prime $p$.  You may have to treat $p=2$
separately or ignore that prime in your studies to get more manageable proofs.
Jacobsthal's function currently has uses in proofs regarding billiards, regular languages, visibility problems, and lower bounds for prime gaps, among others.
Your analogues may prove similarly useful, but it would be nice to have a
motivating example.  Perhaps you could tell us why this version interests you.
Gerhard "Also Considering Jacobsthal Function Variations" Paseman, 2012.02.12

A: In looking for some simple bounds on Jacobsthal's function, I came across an argument
which can be viewed as a slight modification of an argument of Kanold in his 1967 paper
in Math. Annalen 170. (It could be viewed as a recombination of Hilfsatz 4 and Saetze 2,3,
and 4.)  However, Kanold's wording does not reflect the perspective above offered by
Timothy Foo, and I want to suggest a technique that he might apply to his analogues.
Kanold shows an upper bound on $g(nm)$ with $n$ coprime to $m$ as the smaller of
two expressions, one slightly smaller than $ng(m)$ and the other slightly smaller than
$mg(n)$.  A key fact is that the coprimality with respect to $n$ of members of an arithmetic
progression AP with difference $m$ are not severely altered by multiplication mod $n$ by $f$,
the inverse of $m$.  Now AP$f$ looks mod $n$ like a sequence of
common difference 1, so any $g(n)$ consecutive members of AP$f$ (and thus of AP) will have a
member coprime to $n$.
The perspective here is that there is a map which preserves both coprimality status and
enough order to get results mod $n$.  What brings it home is if we use Timothy's perspective,
we take an integer $N=nm$ and view it as a Cartesian product, then we can use a kind of
(limited order, limited coprimality)-preserving transformation to get results like those of
Jacobshal and Kanold.  At present they will not be as good as Iwaniec's techniques, but
for the original problem I am finding results which improve on those of Kanold, and I suspect Timothy
can use them for his analogues, once he finds the right maps.
For those who might prefer a revised take on Kanold's Hilfsatz 4, here is the key idea: for
squarefree $n$ and nice divisor $d$ of $n$, let's write $f=n/d$, note that $f$ and $d$ are
coprime, and finally that any $g(d)$ consecutive members of the sequence $1+tf$ as $t$
ranges over the integers have at least one member coprime to $d$ as well as coprime to
$f$. This immediately leads to $g(n)\leq fg(d)$.
I will follow up elsewhere with how nicely this can be used, as wells as remarks on a
recent arXiv preprint which helped inspire this post.
Gerhard "Ask Me About Jacobsthal's Function" Paseman, 2012.10.22

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Q: How can I configure different customProperties in postcss.config.js for different Webpack entry points? I am using Webpack 4.
I have two entry points in my webpack.config.js, for each of which I am generating a separate CSS file using mini-css-extract-plugin.
const webpack = require('webpack')
const path = require('path')
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin')

module.exports = {
    mode: 'development',
    entry: {
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I am also using postcss-cssnext.
In my postcss.config.js file in my root folder I am defining a number of CSS variables in customProperties, like this:
module.exports = {
    plugins: {
        'postcss-cssnext': {
            features: {
                customProperties: {
                    variables: {
                        color1: '#333',
                        color2: '#53565A',
                        baseFont: 'Helvetica, sans-serif'
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

If I wanted my CSS variables to have different values for each of my two entry points, how would I go about doing this?
For instance, let's say in foo.css I want var(--color1) to equal #333, but in bar.css I want it to equal #860000.

A: I figured this out. Here's how I solved it.
I switched my webpack.config file to have multiple configurations, one for each entry point. I also configured postcss-loader to pass the entry point as context to postcss.config.js.
webpack.config.js
const webpack = require('webpack')
const path = require('path')
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin')

const entryPoints = ['foo', 'bar']

const config = entry => ({
  mode: 'development',
  entry: `./${entry}.js`,
  output: {
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/'),
    filename: `js/${entry}.js`
  },
  plugins: [
    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
      filename: `css/${entry}.css`
    })
  ],
  module: {
    rules: [
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        exclude: /node_modules/,
        use: {
          loader: 'babel-loader'
        }
      },
      {
        test: /\.css$/,
        use: [
          {
            loader: MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader
          },
          'css-loader',
          {
            loader: 'postcss-loader',
            options: {
              config: {
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              }
            }
          },
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
})

module.exports = entryPoints.map(entry => config(entry))

My postcss.config.js file can then be conditionally configured based on the entry point. In this example I define styles inline, but these could be pulled in from an external module via a require.
postcss.config.js
module.exports = ({ options }) => ({
  plugins: {
    'postcss-cssnext': {
      features: {
        customProperties: {
          variables:
            options.entry === 'foo' ?
              {
                color1: '#333',
                color2: '#53565A',
                baseFont: 'Helvetica, sans-serif'
              } :
              {
                color1: '#860000',
                color2: '#555',
                baseFont: 'Arial, sans-serif'
              }
        }
      }
    }
  }
})

A: Finally, solution is webpack layers...
const Path = require('path');
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');

module.exports = (env, options) => {
    return {
        entry : {
            desktop : { import : './desktop.js', layer : 'desktop' },
            mobile : { import : './mobile.js', layer : 'mobile' },
        },
        module : {
            rules : [
                {
                    test : /\.js$/,
                    exclude : /node_modules/,
                    loader : 'babel-loader',
                    options : {
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                    test : /\.css$/,
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                        {
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                            use : [
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                            ],
                        },
                        {
                            issuerLayer: 'mobile',
                            use : [
                                { loader : 'another-loader', options : { } },
                            ],
                        },
                    ]
                },
            ],
        },
        output : {
            path : Path.resolve(__dirname, 'public'),
            filename : '[name].js',
        },
        plugins : [
            new MiniCssExtractPlugin({ filename : '[name].css' }),
        ],
        experiments: {
            layers : true,
        },
    };
};

See repo example: https://github.com/nolimitdev/webpack-layer-example

A: you can also try env.file.basename in postcss.config.js:
module.exports = (env, args) => ({
    plugins: {
        'postcss-cssnext': {
            features: {
              customProperties: {
                variables:
                    env.file.basename === 'foo' ?
                    {
                      color1: '#333',
                      color2: '#53565A',
                      baseFont: 'Helvetica, sans-serif'
                    } :
                    {
                      color1: '#860000',
                      color2: '#555',
                      baseFont: 'Arial, sans-serif'
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
})


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The deadline for submitting partial reports to the GAČR is January 18, 2021 (EXPRO until February 1, 2021), please send messages for inspection continuously to email dkomar6KJNfNCrP@fiWKKeL1tZZ.muniR8Mx6Tps4.cz , no later than Tuesday 12 January at 9 am Insert the final version of the report into ISEP by 15 January 2021 at 9 am. The deadline for the final reports of GAČR is February 1, 2021, please send an e-mail to check dkomarTspB4l8uJ@fi1gJqtygLy.muniZRCPRYxke.cz no later than 26 January 2021 by 9 am , please enter the final version in ISEP no later than Thursday 28 January. within 9 hours. After inserting the final message into ISEP, please give it an e-mail. authorize. On the GACR website - FAQ you will find more information on reporting. For each report, it is necessary to follow the rules according to the tender documentation at the time of the start of the project.
The Grant Agency has published measures to address projects related to the epidemic. More information can be found on the website GACR.
GA CR has an open call LA grants CEUS (based on the principle of evaluation "Lead agency", where GA CR acts as a partner organization) , ongoing Call with the Austrian agency FWF. Competition deadline from 22 February to 15 December 2020 - the deadline has been extended to the end of the year. The call focuses on international cooperation in the field of basic research and is intended for proposers at any stage of their scientific career. You can find more detailed information on the website GACR . Please info for dept. v / v FI, if you are considering submitting a proposal to that call.
GA CR has a newly opened call, which concerns projects in cooperation with the Polish agency NCN within the CEUS initiative. In this call, the Polish agency NCN acts as the Lead Agency. The Czech part of the application can be submitted no later than December 22, 2020 (Polish side by December 15). The call is addressed to international scientific teams, which may submit a joint bilateral to trilateral project proposal, always together with a Polish scientific team and possibly also a scientific team from Austria or Slovenia. You can find more detailed information on the website GACR . Please info for dept. v / v FI, if you are considering submitting a proposal to that call.
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Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR)
The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic has updated the schedule of calls for 2021, which you will find here . More detailed information, including preliminary parameters of competitions, news and changes in regulations, can be found on the website TAČRu .
Interim reports on projects of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic are submitted by 30 January 2021. The reports are filled in electronically into ISTA and after closing the report, an Confirmation of el. submission of a message to ISTA, which must be sent by data box to TACR. Send messages to check by email dkomarBanoz9Nfd@fi2m27JNRV7.muniZ3z1r6xSI.cz no later than Friday 22 January 2021 by 9 am , please enter the final version in ISEP no later than Tuesday 27 January within 9 hours. After inserting the final message into ISEP, please give it an e-mail. approve, after el. approval, you can close the report in ISTA and generate a confirmation of the report. Please enter this confirmation in ISEP by Friday 29.1. by 9 am, then I will send it by data box to TAČR.
The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic now has open international calls ERA-NET Cofund , which are focused on the digitalisation of energy, nanomedicine and information technology. Detailed information about the program can be found on the website TAČRu .
MU projects
CTT MU
Faculty of Informatics MU - Student research and development projects (Program of the Dean of FI)
The Dean of FI MU has announced a new call for the Student Research and Development Projects competition. Proposals can be submitted until 26 November 2020 . Proposals are submitted only electronically via ISEP - more information can be found on the page Student research and development projects (FI Dean's Program) . Among other things, it is necessary to clearly specify in the proposal how the whole project will succeed in the current closed state.
MU Development Fund (FRMU)
MU Grant Agency (GAMU)
GAMU has an open call HORIZONS - Support for the preparation of international grants. Applications for support are submitted continuously. The support is intended for costs associated with the preparation of extremely prestigious and important projects of international providers (eg programs of the European Commission). See page for more information GAMU - HORIZONS .
GAMU has an open call INTERDISCIPLINARY - Interdisciplinary research projects Applications for support are submitted by 30 November 2020 via ISEP. The support is intended for research teams composed of academics and researchers covering the topic across at least two scientific domains out of three possible: Physical Sciences and Computer Science, Life Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. Expect FI overheads for 2021 at 16.95%. See page for more information GAMU - INTERDISCIPLINARY .
GAMU has an open call MASH - MUNI Award in Science and Humanities Applications for support are submitted by 31 December 2020. The main goal of MASH is to bring excellent and successful external scientists to MU and offer them such conditions that they have the motivation to stay, work for MU and to generate exceptionally high-quality scientific results in the long term. See page for more information GAMU - MASH .
GAMU has opened a new call MASH JUNIOR - MUNI Award in Science and Humanities JUNIOR . Applications for support are submitted by 31 December 2020 . The main goal of MASH JUNIOR is to create conditions for the timely achievement of autonomy in research by extremely promising researchers shortly after Ph.D .; accelerating the career progression of talented scientists; facilitating the preparation of prestigious grants, strengthening the "brain circulation". See page for more information GAMU- MASH JUNIOR .
GAMU has opened a new call CAREER RESTART - Supporting the integration of researchers after a career break . Applications for support are submitted by 31 October 2020 via ISEP. The aim is to create conditions for the inclusion of researchers after a career break, for example as a result of parental leave, in research teams at MU. See page for more information GAMU - CAREER RESTART .
MU Internal Grant Agency - IGA MU
IGA MU is a new competition that, in the form of student grants, supports the improvement of the quality of teaching associated with research in students of accredited doctoral study programs. Proposals must be approved by ISEP by 30 October 2020. The deadline for submitting a project proposal via ISEP at FI MU is 25 October 2020 . See page for more information IGA MU , or contact the department. v / v FI MU - Ms. Nazarejová.
Specific university research
NE reports for 2020 are filled in in ISEP by 3.2.2021 . The final opposition procedure will take place online during February, the date will be published here in advance.
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Q: Replay of tests with different locators I would compare the robustness of different locator strategies proposed by Katalon (and I have added some custom locator strategies, too).
The html output of Katalon Recorder includes both the custom locator and the default locators but only the first locator is used to locate the objects in the page.
Is there an automatic method to generate and/or replay different versions of the tests with different locator strategies?
It appears that only a manual solution involving manual modification of test cases, reload and replay of modified test cases is possible.

A: I think that you can use the Smart XPath plugin :
https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/auto-healing-smart-xpath.html#create-test-objects-by-recordingspying


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Climate of talks improve…rest of world still waiting
The UN negotiations on climate change that took place in Copenhagen last year were acrimonious — riven by distrust, dispute, mismanagement and secrecy. The result – which was not even fully agreed — was only secured by heads of state getting involved in line-by-line text drafting and ministers negotiating through the night and well into the next day.
Now, just over 6 months later, the first really substantive resumption of talks on climate change is taking place in Bonn, Germany and things are both very different and oddly the same.
The tone of negotiations is much improved — country negotiators are listening to each other, responding to new ideas, accepting suggestions for moving the process forward and generally the atmosphere is one of cooperation and progress. The backroom intrigues of Copenhagen are a distant memory.
But the gulf between different countries' positions is as big as ever. Much of the constructive engagement is on relatively minor issues — leaving the major areas of difference untouched.
Progress from here will rely on a number of things — but most importantly movement must be seen on rich countries providing genuinely new money to compensate poor countries for the damage that climate change is already causing, and to allow them to transform their economies. A difficult ask in today's economic context, but a necessary one if the millions of poor people affected by climate change are to see a reasonable future.
Many countries — including the UK — have already played down the chances for sealing a new climate change deal this year.
This may be a fair reflection of political realities and the gap between different country positions. But Save the Children has estimated that around 250,000 children die every year from climate change. Action cannot happen too soon.
Eliot Whittington


There is a huge difference between being a conduit through which God's redeeming grace can flow to the lost and becoming, as Paul describes, unequally yoked with them. It was Paul's desire that the Corinthians would be gracious and loving to all, but he feared that they would turn the love of God into tolerance and His graciousness into an inappropriate excuse to associate with the ungodly. Paul had already witnessed their unacceptable handling of the man in their congregation who had been having an affair with his stepmother. Rather than mourning over this man's immoral behavior, they had arrogantly approved of it, allowing him to remain a part of their fellowship. But Paul had read them the riot act, boldly stating, "You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst." (1 Corinthians 5:2 NLT). Paul's concern is that the Corinthians would see his appeal to grace as meaning that they should accept anyone and everyone, regardless of their behavior or lifestyle. Paul knew that we must meet people where they are in order to share the gospel, but that the power of the gospel would not allow them to remain in that same state, unchanged. The good news of Jesus Christ is transformative and life-changing.
Associating with the lost is necessary in order to share with them the hope available to them through faith in Jesus Christ. But Paul differentiates between casual acquaintances and unhealthy associations. The issue here is one of a believer being in a close relationship with an unbeliever. Most often, this passage gets applied to marriage, and rightfully so. But it has more far-reaching application, covering everything from business partnerships and even close friendships. The imagery Paul uses is that of a yoke. It was a common farming implement that teamed two animals together in order for them to jointly pull a plow. The idea of being unequally yoked had to do with putting two different animals with two different temperaments in the yoke together, such as an ox and a donkey. These two different animals have different physical characteristics and personalities. They would not naturally associate with one another. So in putting them in a yoke together, they would pull at different speeds and actually fight against one another, making the process of the work inefficient and unacceptable to the farmer. Their efforts would be wasted and the farmer's goal of plowing the field, thwarted.
This is what Paul has in mind when he tells the Corinthians not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. That kind of partnership is unacceptable. He compares it to light and darkness, righteousness and lawlessness. Unbelievers, by virtue of their unredeemed state, are under the control of Satan. So why would a follower of Christ willingly align themselves with child of Satan? Yes, that sounds harsh, but the apostle John reminds us of its reality.
But he is warning about developing or maintaining unhealthy alliances with the lost. To do so is counterproductive and puts us in a position where our allegiance to Christ will be strained and hampered. Paul reminds the Corinthians that they are the temple of God. Then he uses a variety of Old Testament texts to drive home his point. Just as God had chosen the people of Israel to be His people, believers had been hand-picked by God to be members of His family. They had been separated by and consecrated to God. So God expected them to disassociate themselves from the other nations that surrounded them. "Therefore, come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord" (2 Corinthians 6:17 NLT). As Peter points out, we are to live as aliens and strangers on this earth, as if we don't belong here, because our real home is in heaven. We are Kingdom citizens. We have a different homeland and answer to a different King. And while we are on this earth, we are to operate as His ambassadors, accomplishing His will by doing His work. And that will become increasingly more difficult, if not impossible, if we align ourselves with those who do not share our allegiance to Him. As Paul wrote to the Corinthians in his first letter: "But people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others" (1 Corinthians 2:14-15 NLT).
As children of God, we are to constantly submit ourselves to the will of God. We are to serve Him at all times. But if we allow ourselves to become unequally yoked to a non-believer, either through marriage, friendship or a business partnership, we will find ourselves in constant conflict. We will discover that our "plowing partner" has a different agenda. Rather than working together, we will fight one another, accomplishing little when it comes to God's Kingdom work. It is one thing to share the gospel with a lost individual. It is another thing to share life with them. We must love the lost and be willing to share the hope of Christ with them. But we are never to forget that in their unredeemed state, they are still enemies of God, living in rebellion against Him. Our goal for them should be their salvation. Our purpose in associating with them is that they might know the love of God and be set free from their slavery to sin and death. But ignoring their sin in order to enjoy their friendship is dangerous for us and, ultimately, a sign of a serious lack of love for them.
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Born: 25th June 1889, Dudley Port, Staffordshire
Died: 11th August 1971, Blackpool aged 82
Positions whilst with England: Inside Left
Clubs (and caps) whilst with England: Bolton Wanderers (5)
Debut: v Ireland (HC) on 15th February 1913 aged 23 years, 7 months, 20 days
Last Cap: v Wales (HC) on 15th March 1920 aged 30 years, 8 months, 20 days
First Goal: v Wales (HC) on 16th March 1914 aged 24 years, 8 months, 21 days
Starts: 5
Full Games: 5
Inside Left
Bob Crompton
Harry Hampton
Bobby McNeal
Charlie Buchan
Jesse Pennington
Tim Williamson
1 Match
Sid Bowser
WAL, 1 - 2, 15th Mar 1920 (HC)
IRE, 1 - 1, 25th Oct 1919 (FR)
IRE, 1 - 2, 15th Feb 1913 (HC)


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CASPCA celebrates highest number of adoptions since becoming no-kill shelter
Puppies at the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA (Source: WVIR)
By Carly Kempler | January 14, 2020 at 3:31 PM EST - Updated January 14 at 3:31 PM
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - The Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA is celebrating its highest rate of adoptions since becoming a no-kill shelter.
CASPCA says 2019 marked the highest live-release rate on record, which was 97-percent. It also marked the second-highest annual adoption record.
Dog at the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA (Source: WVIR)
The shelter took in about 4,100 animals last year, and adopted more than 3,300 of them into new homes. That includes more than 1,100 animals transferred from other places where they were in danger of euthanasia.
01/14/2020 Release from the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA:
In 2019, the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA had the highest rate of adoptions they have had since becoming no-kill in 2006. Additionally, 2019 is the highest live release rate on record and they drastically increased the number of animals that spent time in foster homes before they were adopted.
Of the 4,126 animals (excluding wildlife) that the SPCA took in last year, 1,166 were animals transferred in who were at risk of euthanasia due to overcrowding in their home shelters. They adopted 3,336 animals into new homes, the highest rate of adoptions the SPCA has seen since becoming no-kill in 2006 and the second-highest number of annual adoptions on record. They returned 570 animals back to their owners, and they increased the number of animals going into foster care by 25% compared to 2018, with 601 animals being adopted straight from foster. Of the animals that went into foster care in 2019, they sent over 234 more adult animals out than in 2018, giving them much needed breaks from the shelter and improving their chances of adoption.
Their clinic was very busy in 2019. They spayed or neutered 6,493 pets last year, almost 1,000 more animals than in 2018. In 2019, 1,071 pets received lifesaving surgeries, 980 more pets than in 2018. They implanted microchips in 3,753 pets in 2019, ensuring that they will always be able to be returned to their owners. The SPCA's Compassionate Care Clinics provide an opportunity for community members to bring pets to the shelter for low-cost veterinary exams and more. Last year, 264 animals from 193 families were seen at clinics, which includes animals seen at their first ever off-site clinic at Southwood Community Center. That is almost 120 more pets receiving care than in 2018. The SPCA held ten Microchip and Rabies Clinics in 2019, serving 583 animals from 416 families, an increase of 170 pets served. The SPCA's Community Cat Program resulted in 557 more community cats being spayed and neutered in 2019 (1,576) compared to 2018 (1,019).
"I am happy to report that in 2019 the SPCA's live release rate was 97%, the highest it's ever been. We pushed ourselves as an organization to increase adoptions, transports and pet retention, and all of our hard work paid off. Thank you to everyone that supported our endeavors last year," says Angie Gunter, Chief Executive Officer of the SPCA.
Carly Kempler
Carly Kempler joined NBC29 as a reporter in June 2018 after graduating with a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland.
Charlottesville Parks & Rec Advisory Board to propose names for new park lands
Charlottesville has gained quite a bit of park land over the past decade, and now an advisory board wants your input for what to name these new properties.
Kasey Hott
Town of Orange conducting cell service survey


My friends call me Ake and I am a software design engineer in MS CRM. I work primarily in the programmability area (web service Sdk and call out). Before joining programmability team, I worked on the Scheduling engine, or service scheduling as you see in CRM V3.
I came from Thailand, land of smile, beautiful beaches, and lots other good stuff. I am now happily living in Bellevue, Washington with my beautiful wife. I enjoy reading, biking, and traveling in his free time.
My personal blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/akezyt.


Punk-pop husband and wife duo the Dollyrots release new video for the song "Just Because I'm Blonde," backed-up by a super fun "Just Because I'm Blonde" Stage-it performance this Sunday, November 12 at 1pm pst.
"Just Because I'm Blonde" is from the duos latest album release Whiplash Splash available on deluxe digipack CD with exclusive poster insert, limited-edition aqua blue vinyl, and digitally on the bands very own Arrest Youth Label with distribution via MVD Entertainment Group. Whiplash Splash is focused, sharp and completely fan-funded. That said, a raw vitality courses through each track. With production by the band and longtime Producer John Fields [All Time Low, Jimmy Eat World, Busted] The Dollyrots' signature sound shines through in melodic guitar riffs, irresistible hooks, and punked-out woah-ohs.
The band has partnered with Patreon in order to give their most enthusiastic fans a chance to access rarities, exclusives, & non-album material that may never see public release, plus exclusive access to their daily happenings via a video diary. With the basic $2 Pledge, as a Dollyrots VIP member, you'll receive at least one unreleased track every month, and possibly more goodies along with it, might be a vintage demo or non-album track from the vaults, brand new unreleased single, or B-side, etc, as well as a exclusive bi-weekly video blog to keep you up to date on all things in the Dollyrots world.
Next Florida Psych Folk Outfit, Someday River, Debut New Single "Over The Weather"!


Junior BOY racers must be 16-19 years of age. Racing age is the age you are on DEC 31st of 2018.
Junior girls must be ages 16-19.
4 Person Open - all 4 racers can be any age, gender, and ability.
All racers must do minimum of 1 lap to be eligible for results.
Only 1 gear on your race bike. This is an open category for all racers.
This is an open category for teams of 6-10 racers. Non competitive category, non championship! Super fun for teams!


Ambarella chipset is one of the top chipsets in the HD vision industry, combined with OV4689 sensor together, the new Aoni 237 car DVR shows the excellent vision for you. Record greater scene details even in poor lighting conditions. Produce clearer, quick moving, action videos with backlight.
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H.L. Cromartie III, P.C., is a personal injury lawyer located in Rome, Georgia. The practice specializes in a number of areas, including personal injury, workers' compensation and wrongful death. They can also handle medical malpractice, pharmacy malpractice and issues involving negligence in day cares and nursing homes.
His high level of familiarity with the Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation can allow him to handle the entire process from the initial application, and he represents workers in all types of occupations.
The firm offers straightforward and ethical legal advice and is prepared to handle both settlements and trials. Mr. Cromartie offers a free initial consultation. They are located next to the Floyd County Courthouse in downtown Rome, convenient to much of northwest Georgia and not that far from Atlanta.
He serves clients throughout the area, including Floyd and Chattooga counties. Call his office at 706-622-4853 local or 866-752-9643 toll free — or email him today to find out what he can do to get you the compensation you deserve.
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Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War All Maps Revealed
Avhinandan Chakraborty
Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War Multiplayer reveal took place just minutes ago, and a lot has been revealed. The show was hosted by Treyarch's Studio Design Director, David Vonderhaar.
Furthermore, a lot of other devs joined in for the event. There was not a single moment during the stream that did not give out loads of information. Moreover, Treyarch promises that Cold War will be the most immersive gameplay experience ever for Call of Duty fans.
For a solid immersive experience, the maps and locales of the game are very important. The better the maps look and feel, the more grounded to reality it is. And Cold War is set in 1984, during the notorious time in history that brought the world to the brink of another World War.
In the reveal, all the new maps in the upcoming Black Ops title were revealed and shown with cinematic gameplay. Treyarch has stated all the maps are inspired by history but forgotten by the history books.
Five maps were selected and broadcasted from the range of Multiplayer maps on 'Deniable Ops'. Read on to know each of the five maps and a bit about their background.
READ MORE- Call Of Duty Black Ops Cold War Multiplayer: Scorestreaks, New Combat System, Operators, and Warzone
Five Maps to feature in Black Ops: Cold War
"An American recon satellite has lost power and crashed in the deserts of Angola."
Satellite is a desert map set in Angola in Central Africa. Unfortunately, the desert cinematics in the trailer for Cold War were not from a new Warzone map but this new Multiplayer map.
The best part about Satellite is the crash site in between. It sits like a king on his throne, and it is elevated than the rest of the map. To secure the crash site, everyone has to run towards it.
That is when the sparks start to fly. Satellite allows for both aggressive and dormant gameplay. Players can run and gun or flank their opponents through the natural desert corridors in a much more sly manner.
"This is going to be one of those classic Black Ops maps that the world knows and love for how quickly engagements fire up."
"Inspired by a real-life event, Project Azorian, CIA-JSOC and Soviet forces converge to recover a sunken prototype nuclear Soviet submarine."
Armada will definitely be the most exciting map to play Multiplayer on in Cold War. There are no lanes or land on this map. Every part of the map is on the ocean floor with massive naval vehicles staying afloat to support the operators fighting for the control of the submarine.
Zip-lines connect the ships together, and players can use them to travel back and forth. Engagements will take place on the ship's decks, in the water, and with vehicles like Wakerunners and gunboats.
"A hidden safehouse has been discovered right in the heart of the USSR, in the shadow of Moscow's opulent train station."
Set in the center of Moscow in the '80s, this map will find players on the streets, with a bunch of cars and tall buildings around them. It is also a three-lane map where you can expect people to jump into your line of fire as soon as the game begins.
Furthermore, the metro station will be a great place to set yourself up with an AR to stop enemy ranks from pushing in.
"January 17th, 1984. This location is heavily influenced by Miami's famous or perhaps infamous, Ocean Drive."
A night map unlike anything seen ever before, the Miami map has everything to make the Call of Duty experience worthwhile. Firstly, there are shadow lanes to sneak up on enemies. You can play from the beach or even out in the ocean.
Furthermore, players can dive in the water and swim to the other side for an unexpected flank. The streets are filled with neon lights that give the map a high adrenaline feel close to what is found in gangster games.
The open streets are a treat to the snipers while the SMGs will rule the dark alleyways. Expect blaring groovy numbers from the '80s club scene in the background while playing on this map.
"In Crossroads, NATO has learned a large Soviet missile convoy is on its way to the border. Special forces dispatch alongside MI6 to ambush the convoy and secure the weapons before all hell breaks loose."
It is one of the more cinematic maps from the selection. The look and feel of the map make it seem like it has been pulled out of the campaign missions. Infantry combat is not sidelined in this map.
Teams will want to move to the center quickly and take control of the tank over the frozen lake. Natural terrain and foliage can be used to mask the movements of the players. Snowmobiles are available at spawn and they can be used to mow down players.
Lastly, Crossroads is one of the bigger maps in Black Ops: Cold War allowing players to adapt to their own play style and innovate to dominate.
Watch this space for more Call Of Duty Black Ops: Cold War content.
Tags: Call of Duty WarzoneTreyarch Studios


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Casualties of the Opioid Crisis are Not Just the Victims Themselves
Tags: Stop the Stigma
The painstaking list of casualties being swallowed up and spit out by the opioid epidemic is long, and growing.
The list begins with the once star athlete prescribed Vicodin for his high school football injuries. His Vicodin fix turned prescription painkiller addiction has morphed him into a slave to heroin.
His high school sweetheart turned wife also falls victim as she's having a harder time caring for her drug-addicted husband than their young children.
It's the doctor whose intentions where wholesome prescribing pain medication to a seemingly levelheaded athlete who's practice is now labeled a pill mill.
It's the EMT who's already short staffed and overworked going on countless opioid overdose calls… per night. Sometimes equipped with the lifesaving opioid reversal narcotic, and sometimes not due to funding and availability.
It's the hospital workers who are already tired, overworked and badgered by patients who have to administer yet another dose of Narcan to an addict who cares less about his or her own life than they do.
It's the court system who means well by upholding strict punitive standards, but instead of being able to help addicts get into treatment, they make it more difficult for people to get their life back on track.
It's the Drug Enforcement Administration officials who have an important and tireless job to perform, but are many times handcuffed by the ineptness of their own judicial system.
It's the federal administration, this one and the ones preceding, who desire to do more, but most of the time turn up on the losing side of the drug war. Take Ronald Reagan's signing of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act that promised to help users and punish dealers, but instead turned America into the world's leading jailer.
It's the cemeteries being filled. The lives lost. The hearts broken. The families shattered. It's the nation who stands in mourning with little hope of fixing the health crisis of modern day.
Tana Ganeva, writes in The Intercept, a riveting account of the opioid paradigm — a true life story that's far more fascinating than any director could dream up for the movie screens.
In the article, Ganeva quotes Art Way, a senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance: "All we know how to do is to be punitive. We should be getting people treatment, without having them going into the criminal justice system."
Through her hoards of research and thesis-level writing, Ganeva concludes that "a more sustainable strategy would also include easy access to medicines like Suboxone, supervised injection facilities, and public education campaigns and treatment programs not based entirely on abstinence."
New Season Treatment Centers offer a proven and long-term solution to the recovery from opioid abuse. Contact us today for help.
And when you get around to it, read Ganeva's masterful presentation of journalism. It will open your eyes, and may even open up your heart.