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Stateside: All Anna Nicole, All The Time
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12:36 am
Opinion: Rosalea Barker
Stateside With Rosalea Barker
All Anna Nicole, All The Time
::Anna Nicole in '08!::
While wishing no disrespect to the human being known as Anna Nicole Smith who died last week, I do think that the "media icon" she was turned into has a good shot at being elected President of the United States in 2008. And it makes such good sense!
No need to drag out the Dirty Laundry Brigade to go sifting through trash to find emails to publish--Anna Nicole was only too happy to wash her dirty laundry in public. No need to hunt down some disgruntled family member, sexually-harrassed former staffer, or inheritance rival willing to call her a gold-digger--all those disputes and court records have already been made public.
::Anna Nicole expert in 2012!::
At the very least, that cheerful chappy on NBC's Access Hollywood who's now doing the rounds of all the network talkshows and morning shows to talk about Anna Nicole should run for President now that he has such a high profile. But, no, he wouldn't, would he? Not if this 2004 report from his college magazine is anything to go by:
'Of course, with a surname like his, one might be expected to go far in the nation's capital. But Bush has done everything within his power to downplay the fact that he's the nephew of the elder President Bush and first cousin to the Bush now in the White House. In 2001, when Billy Bush was invited to make his first TV appearance--as a guest on the entertainment magazine show Extra--it wasn't until he saw the episode that he learned the producers had decided to introduce him as the president's cousin. "I realized, 'Oh! They're using me. It's not that they think I'm funny on the radio.'" Here his normally jovial voice gets unusually somber. "I told them I'd never do their show again."'
Colby magazine, Winter 2004
http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/win04/bush/page1.html
::Is Obama the Democrats' Anna Nicole?::
Despite--or perhaps because of--his carefully planned adult life and grooming for political office, Obama's stirring speech outside the state legislature in Illinois on Saturday morning did not make the front page of the Sunday edition of the Oakland Tribune. A vox pop about it did get a spot above the fold of the Metro section, but even on that page an item about an attempted rape and a photo of a community beautification scheme were far more prominent.
I watched his speech on MSNBC online and was struck by the staging and speechwriting. The skin tones of his face almost melted into the stonework of the building, lending him an air of permanence and wisdom, and he kept repeating the phrase "Let us be the generation" and "We can do this", which lent an air of youth and energy.
But, ultimately, he's a figment of the Democrats' imagination, a fantasy candidate whose real achievements in the communities he's lived in will be always overlooked because of the whiff of studied self-creation that surrounds him. That particular perfume might be a an irresistible pheromone for a celebrity like Anna Nicole, but it's a definite turn-off for voters.
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2007/02/anna_nicole_smi.php
::The United States IS Anna Nicole!::
Come to think of it, The Celebrity That is Anna Nicole is a great metaphor for the US political system. Starting with ordinary material, the Founding Fathers decided an ideal structure of government was possible and set about creating it via the Constitution. Somewhere along the way, various forms of plastic surgery were used to make the US more in the image of something desirable, manageable, and steerable by just a few people.
A nice little bit of gerrymandering here, some tinkering with the voter registration laws there, an insertion of vote implants in the right places, plus the constant use of media circuses to keep the voters' attention distracted, and Voila!
It doesn't seem to matter how grotesque the results of the manipulation are, just so long as there are enough political stylists to skew public opinion in favour of the fantasy US that so many people in this country believe they're living in. At least Anna Nicole's fans had the gumption to face ugly reality when it presented itself to them.
http://www.askmen.com/women/models/59_anna_nicole_smith.html
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\section{Introduction}
	Let $A$ be an $n$ by $n$ matrix with \textit{numerical range} $W(A) := \{ q^{*}Aq : q \in \mathbb{C}^n , ~\| q \|_2 = 1 \}$. M. Crouzeix conjectured that the ratio,
	\begin{equation}\label{ratio}
		\sup_{f}\dfrac{||f(A)||_2}{\max_{z\in W(A)}|f(z)|},
	\end{equation}
	referred to here as the \textit{Crouzeix ratio}, is always less than or equal to 2\cite{CROUZEIX2007668}, and he proved that it is always less than or equal to 11.08. Later M. Crouzeix and C. Palencia  reduced this bound to $1+\sqrt{2}$\cite{doi:10.1137/17M1116672}, but the conjectured bound of 2 still has not been established. The supremum in (\ref{ratio}) is over all functions $f$ analytic in the interior of $W(A)$ and continuous on the boundary, and $||\cdot||_2$ denotes the matrix norm induced by the vector 2-norm; that is, the largest singular value. Many numerical experiments support Crouzeix's conjecture. See \cite{GREENBAUM2018225}, for instance, where a numerical optimization code was used to try to minimize the inverse of the ratio in (\ref{ratio}).

	It is known from Pick-Nevanlinna theory\cite{Crouzeix2004} that there are \textit{extremal} functions $\hat{f}$ that attain the supremum in (\ref{ratio}) and that such functions are of the form $ \mu B\circ\phi$, where $\mu$ is a nonzero scalar, $\phi$ is any conformal mapping from the interior of $W(A)$ to the unit disk $\mathbb{D}$, extended to be continuous on the boundary, and $B$ is a Blaschke product of degree at most $n-1$:
	\begin{equation}
		B(z)=\exp(i\gamma)\prod_{j=1}^{m}\dfrac{z-\alpha_j}{1-\bar{\alpha_j}z}, ~~m \leq n-1,~ |\alpha_j| < 1.
	\end{equation}
	Without loss of generality, we may assume that $\hat{f}$ has ${\cal H}^{\infty}$-norm $1$ on $W(A)$ and then $\mu = 1$ and $\hat{f}$ is a function of the form $B \circ \phi$ that satisfies
	\begin{equation}
		\hat{f} = \arg \max \{ \| f(A) \|_2 : f \in {\cal H}^{\infty} (W(A)) ,~\| f \|_{\infty} = 1 \} .
		\label{fhat}
	\end{equation}
	It is not known if a function $\hat{f}$ that satisfies (\ref{fhat}) is unique, up to multiplication by a scalar of modulus 1. Note that if $\hat{f}:=\hat{B}\circ\phi$ is one such function and if $\psi$ is a different conformal mapping from the interior of $W(A)$ to $\mathbb{D}$ (mapping a different point to the origin), then $\phi=B_1\circ\psi$ for some degree 1 Blaschke product $B_1$, so that $\hat{f}$ can be written in the form ($\hat{B}\circ B_1$)$\circ\psi$, where $\hat{B}\circ B_1$ is another Blaschke product of the same degree as $\hat{B}$. Thus, to study the uniqueness of $\hat{f}$, we can fix a conformal mapping $\phi$ and ask whether the Blaschke product $\hat{B}$ associated with $\phi$ is unique (where we always mean up to multiplication by a scalar of modulus $1$).

	In the following sections we show that  for $2\times 2$ matrices and for Jordan blocks, an \textit{extremal Blaschke product} (i.e., a Blaschke product $\hat{B}$ such that $\hat{f}:=\hat{B}\circ\phi$ satisfies (\ref{fhat}), for a given conformal mapping $\phi$) is unique, but we give examples of some $3\times 3$ matrices with elliptical numerical range for which two different Blaschke products of different degrees both satisfy (\ref{fhat}). Since we show a range of parameters for which the extremal Blaschke product has degree $1$ instead of $2$, this result supports numerical observations that the extremal Blaschke product $\hat{B}$ sometimes appears to have degree strictly less than $n-1$ \cite{Discussions}.

	\section{Examples of Uniqueness}
	\subsection{2 by 2 Nonnormal Matrices}
	For any 2 by 2 matrix $W(A)$ is an ellipse, and Crouzeix \cite{Crouzeix2004} proved that an exact expression for the supremum in (\ref{ratio}) is
	$$C(W(A),2)=2\exp\left(-\displaystyle\sum_{n\ge 1}\dfrac{(-1)^{n+1}}{n}\dfrac{2}{1+\rho^{n}}\right),$$ where
	$$~\rho=\dfrac{1+\sqrt{1-\epsilon^2}}{\epsilon},$$
	and $\epsilon$ is eccentricity of the ellipse $W(A)$. Here we give an equivalent expression for the bound $C(W(A),2)$ and prove that $\hat{B}$ (or $\hat{f}$) is unique.

	It can be shown that, after a proper translation and rotation, any $2\times 2$ matrix $A\ne cI$ (trivial case) is unitarily similar to a matrix of the form
	$$\left[\begin{matrix}0 &a\\ d &0 \end{matrix}\right],$$
	where $a>0,d \ge 0$. If $a<d$, it is equivalent to consider $A^T$, so without loss of generality we can assume $a\ge d\ge 0$. The matrix $A$ is normal if and only if $a=d$, and in this case $||f(A)||_2\le\max_{z\in W(A)}|f(z)|$; otherwise, $W(A)$ is an ellipse. G. Szeg\"{o}\cite{Szego} showed that the conformal mapping of the interior of an ellipse with foci points $\pm 1$ onto $\mathbb{D}$, with the origin mapping to itself, is
	\begin{equation}\label{confm}
		\phi_0(z)=\sqrt{k}~\text{sn}\left(\dfrac{2K}{\pi}\sin^{-1}z\right) .
	\end{equation}
	Here $\text{sn}(z)$ is one kind of Jacobi elliptical function, $k$ is the elliptical modulus and $K$ is the quarter period.
	We can multiply $A$ by the scalar $\sqrt{k/(ad)}$ and write
	$$A=\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &\sqrt{\dfrac{k}{b}}\\
	\sqrt{kb}  &0\\
	\end{matrix}\right],$$
	where $0\le b=\frac{d}{a}\le 1$ and $0 < k= k( b^2 ) < 1$, and then, the conformal mapping maps $A$ to itself, since it maps the eigenvalues of $A$, $\pm\sqrt{k}$, to themselves.
	$$\phi(A)=A=\left[\begin{matrix}
	1 &0 \\
	0 &\sqrt{\dfrac{k}{b}}
	\end{matrix}\right]^{-1}\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &1\\
	k &0
	\end{matrix}\right]\left[\begin{matrix}
	1 &0\\
	0 &\sqrt{kb}
	\end{matrix}\right]=V^{-1}TV.$$
	Since $||T||_2=1$ and $\kappa(V)=\sqrt{k/b}$, for any Blaschke product $B$
	$$||B(\phi(A))||_2\le \sqrt{\dfrac{k}{b}}$$
	by von Neumann's inequality\cite{Neumann}, and the equality holds when
	$$\hat{B}(z)=z.$$
	See Figure \ref{fig1.3.1}.

	Further, the extremal $B$ is unique if $A$ is nonnormal ($a>d$ or $b<1$). Suppose an extremal $B$ is of the form
	$$B(z)=\dfrac{z - \alpha} {1 - \bar{\alpha} z},~|\alpha|\le 1,$$
	We will show that $\alpha$ must be 0.

	From Theorem 5.1 in \cite{caldwell2017extensions}, an extremal Blaschke product $B$ satisfies
	$$B(\phi(A))v_1=||B(\phi(A))||_2u_1,$$
	and
	$$u_1^*v_1=0,$$
	where $u_1$ and $v_1$ are the first left and right singular vectors of  $B(\phi(A))$. Taking
	$$V=[v_1 ~v_2]=[v_1 ~u_1],$$
	we have
	$$V^*V=VV^*=I,$$
	and the diagonal elements of $V^*B(\phi(A))V$ are $0$, i.e., the eigenvalues of $V^*B(\phi(A))V$ or $B(\phi(A))$ are of the form $\pm\lambda$; i.e.,
	$$\dfrac{\sqrt{k}-\alpha}{1-\bar{\alpha}\sqrt{k}}=-\dfrac{-\sqrt{k}-\alpha}{1+\bar{\alpha}\sqrt{k}},~0<{k}\le 1,$$
	which gives us
	$$\alpha = \bar{\alpha}k.$$
	When $0<b<1$, we know $0<k<1$ and $$\alpha=0;$$
	when $b=1$, we know $k=1$ and matrix A is normal.
	\begin{figure}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=12cm]{1-3-1.eps}
		\caption{$||\hat{B}(\phi(A))||_2=\sqrt{\frac{k}{b}}$ vs. $b$}
		\label{fig1.3.1}
	\end{figure}

	\subsection{Jordan Blocks}
	We know that for the $n$ by $n$ Jordan block
	$$J = \left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &1 &0 &\cdots &0 \\ 0 &0 &1 &\cdots &0 \\
	0 &0 &0 &\ddots &0 \\ 0 &0 &0 &\cdots  &1\\
	0 &0 &0 &\cdots &0
	\end{matrix}\right]_{n\times n},$$
	$W(J)$ is a disk centered at the origin of radius $\cos(\frac{\pi}{n+1})$, and the conformal mapping $\phi$ that maps $W(J)$ to the unit disk $D$ is
	$$\phi(z)=\dfrac{1}{\cos(\frac{\pi}{n+1})}z=cz,~c=\dfrac{1}{\cos(\frac{\pi}{n+1})}>1.$$
	We can rewrite
	$$\phi(J)=D^{-1}JD,$$
	where
	$$D=\left[\begin{matrix}
	1 & & & \\  &c & & \\
	& &\ddots & \\  & & &c^{n-1}
	\end{matrix}\right]_{n\times n}.$$
	Since $||J||_2=1$, by von Neumann's inequality,
	$$||B(J)||_2\le 1,$$
	and we know for any Blaschke product $B$
	$$B(\phi(J))=D^{-1}B(J)D,$$
	and
	$$||B(\phi(J))||_2\le \kappa(D)||B(J)||_2=c^{n-1}||B(J)||_2\le c^{n-1}.$$

	One extremal Blaschke product is
	$$\hat{B}(z)=z^{n-1},$$
	since
	$$||\hat{B}(\phi(J))||_2=c^{n-1}.$$

	To prove uniqueness, suppose the extremal $B(z)$ takes the form
	$$B(z)=\prod_{j=1}^{n-1}\dfrac{z-\alpha_j}{1-\bar{\alpha_j}z},~\alpha_j\in\mathbb{C},\text{ and }|\alpha_j|\le 1,$$
	then
	$$B(J)=p_0I+p_1J+\cdots+p_{n-1}J^{n-1},$$
	or
	$$P=B(J)=\left[\begin{matrix}
	p_0 &p_1 &\cdots &p_{n-2} & p_{n-1} \\
	0 &p_0 &p_1 &\cdots &p_{n-2}\\
	0 &0 &\ddots &\ddots &\vdots\\
	0 &0 &\cdots &p_0 &p_1 \\
	0 &0 &\cdots &0 &p_0 \\
	\end{matrix}\right],$$
	since $J^{n}=0$. Here $p_j$ is $1 / j!$ times the $j^{th}$ derivative of $B(z)$ and can be expressed in terms of $\alpha_j$'s:
	$$p_0=(-1)^{n-1}\prod_{j=1}^{n-1}\alpha_j,$$
	$$p_1=(-1)^{n-2}\sum_{j=1}^{n-1}\left(\left(\prod_{k\ne j}\alpha_k\right)(1-|\alpha_j|^2)\right),$$
	$$\vdots$$
	We know that the $p_j$'s satisfy
	$$||P||_2\le 1,$$
	and
	\begin{equation} \label{EQUAL}
		||B(\phi(J))||_2=||D^{-1}PD||_2\le||D^{-1}||_2||P||_2||D||_2\le c^{n-1},
	\end{equation}
	with equality in both places if $B$ is extremal.
	Suppose that the first right and left singular vectors of $D^{-1}PD$ are $v_1$ and $u_1$ respectively, i.e.,
	$$u_1^*D^{-1}PDv_1=c^{n-1},~||v_1||_2=||u_1||_2=1.$$
	Then equality holds in (\ref{EQUAL}) only when $||P||_2=1$, $u_1$ is parallel to the first right singular vector of $D^{-T}=D^{-1}$, that is $e_1$ ( $e_j$'s are the standard basis), $v_1$ is parallel to the first right singular of $D$ (i.e., $e_n$), $D^{-1}u_1$ is parallel to the first left singular vector of $P$, and $Dv_1$ is parallel to the first right singular vector of $P$. Thus, we have
	$$|p_{n-1}|=1,$$
	and
	$$||[p_0~p_1\cdots p_{n-1}]^T||_2=\left(\displaystyle\sum_{j=0}^{n-1}|p_j|^2\right)^{\frac{1}{2}}\le||P||_2=1$$
	gives us
	$$p_{j}=0,~j=0,1,\cdots,n-2.$$
	Further, $p_0=0$ means $B(0)=0$, from which we get some $\alpha_{j}=0$. Without loss of generality, take $\alpha_1=0$. Then
	$$B(z)=z\prod_{j=2}^{n-1}\dfrac{z-\alpha_j}{1-\bar{\alpha_j}z},~\alpha_j\in\mathbb{C},\text{ and }|\alpha_j|\le 1,$$
	differentiating $B(z)$ we can see $B'(0) = 0$ (i.e., $p_1=0$), which implies that one of the remaining ${\alpha}$'s is 0, i.e.,
	$$B(z)=z^2\prod_{j=3}^{n-1}\dfrac{z-\alpha_j}{1-\bar{\alpha_j}z},~\alpha_j\in\mathbb{C},\text{ and }|\alpha_j|\le 1.$$
	Do this step by step, and finally we get
	$$\alpha_1=\alpha_2=\cdots=\alpha_{n-1}=0.$$
	That is, $\hat{B}(z)=z^{n-1}$ is the only extremal Blaschke product.

	\subsection{3 by 3 elliptical case with one parameter}
	Since $W(J_3)$ is a disk, we can construct a matrix $A$
	$$A = J_{3}+bJ_{3}^*,$$
	and from the previous discussion $W(A)$ is an ellipse. C. Glader, M. Kurula, and M. Lindström argued that Courzeix's conjecture holds in this case\cite{doi:10.1137/17M1110663}. We give the exact upper bound and prove uniqueness here.

	Scale $A$ by the factor $\dfrac{1}{2\sqrt{b}\cos(\frac{\pi}{4})}$, thus
	$$A=\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2b}}\left[\begin{matrix}
	0&1&0\\ b&0&1\\ 0&b &0
	\end{matrix}\right],~ b\in(0,1].$$
	The eigenvalues of $A$ are 0 and the two foci of $W(A)$, $\pm 1$. The conformal mapping $\phi$ is the same as equation (\ref{confm}), i.e.,
	$$\phi(A)=cA,$$
	where $c=\phi(1)=k^{1/2}$. We can rewrite
	$$\phi(A)=\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &\sqrt{\dfrac{k}{2b}} &0\\
	\sqrt{\dfrac{kb}{2}} &0 &\sqrt{\dfrac{k}{2b}}\\
	0 &\sqrt{\dfrac{kb}{2}} &0
	\end{matrix}\right]=V^{-1}TV,$$
	where $$V = \left[\begin{matrix}
	1 &0 &0\\
	0 &\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{t}} &0\\
	0 &0 &\dfrac{1}{t}
	\end{matrix}\right],$$
	$$T=\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &\sqrt{\dfrac{kt}{2b}} &0\\
	\sqrt{\dfrac{kb}{2t}} &0 &\sqrt{\dfrac{kt}{2b}}\\
	0 &\sqrt{\dfrac{kb}{2t}} &0
	\end{matrix}\right],$$
	and
	$$t=\dfrac{b(1+\sqrt{1-k^2})}{k}.$$
	We can check that
	$$||T||_2=1,$$
	and
	$$\dfrac{1}{2}< t\le 1,\text{ if }b\in(0,1].$$
	When $b\rightarrow 0$, $t\rightarrow \dfrac{1}{2}$, i.e., $b=0$ is a removable singularity of $t$.

	By von Neumann's inequality, for any Blaschke product we have
	$$||B(\phi(A))||_2=||V^{-1} B(T)V||_2\le ||V^{-1}||_2||B(T)||_2||V||_2\le 1\cdot 1\cdot \dfrac{1}{t}=\dfrac{k}{b(1+\sqrt{1-k^2})}.$$

	Taking
	$$\hat{B}(z)=\dfrac{z^2-\alpha^2}{1-\bar{\alpha}^2z^2},$$
	where
	$$\alpha=\phi(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}})=\sqrt{\frac{k}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}}},$$
	we can achieve the extremal Blaschke product. That is, for this class of matrix
	$$\hat{B}(T)=\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 & 0 &1 \\ 0 &\dfrac{k}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}} &0\\
	\dfrac{1-\sqrt{1-k^2}}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}} &0&0
	\end{matrix}\right],$$
	$$\hat{B}(\phi(A))=\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &0 &\dfrac{1}{t}\\ 0 &\dfrac{k}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}} &0\\
	\dfrac{1-\sqrt{1-k^2}}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}}t &0&0
	\end{matrix}\right],$$
	$$||\hat{B}(\phi(A))||_2=\dfrac{1}{t}=\dfrac{k}{b(1+\sqrt{1-k^2})}.$$

	\begin{figure}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=12cm]{2-2-2.eps}
		\caption{$||\hat{B}(\phi(A))||_2=\frac{1}{t}$ vs. $b$}
		\label{fig2.2.2}
	\end{figure}

	To prove uniqueness, assume the extremal Blaschke product is in the form
	$$B(z)=\dfrac{z-\alpha_1}{1-\bar{\alpha_1}z}\dfrac{z-\alpha_2}{1-\bar{\alpha_2}z}.$$
	Since the minimum polynomial of $T$ is
	$$T^3-kT=0,$$
	we have
	$$B(T)=p_0I+p_1T+p_2T^2,$$
	where
	\begin{equation}\label{p0p1p2}
	\left\{\begin{aligned}
	p_0&=\alpha_1\alpha_2 \\
	p_1&=-\alpha_1\dfrac{1-|\alpha_2|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_2}^2k}-\alpha_2\dfrac{1-|\alpha_1|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_1}^2k}+k(\bar{\alpha_1}+\bar{\alpha_2})\dfrac{1-|\alpha_1|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_1}^2k}\dfrac{1-|\alpha_2|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_2}^2k}\\
	p_2&= -\alpha_1\bar{\alpha_2}\dfrac{1-|\alpha_2|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_2}^2k}-\bar{\alpha_1}\alpha_2\dfrac{1-|\alpha_1|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_1}^2k}+(1+k\bar{\alpha_1}\bar{\alpha_2})\dfrac{1-|\alpha_1|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_1}^2k}\dfrac{1-|\alpha_2|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_2}^2k}
	\end{aligned}\right. .
	\end{equation}
	On the other hand,
	$$||B(\phi(A))||_2\le ||V^{-1}||_2||B(T)||_2||V||_2\le\dfrac{1}{t},$$
	with equality in both places if and only if $B$ is extremal. Then, we must have
	$$||B(T)||_2=1,$$
	and $e_1$ and $e_3$ must be parallel to the first left and right singular vectors of $B(\phi(A))$ (or $B(T)$), respectively. Thus, we have
	$$B(T)=\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &0 &x_{13} \\ x_{21} &x_{22} &0\\ x_{31} &x_{32} &0
	\end{matrix}\right],$$
	and
	$$1=|x_{13}|=||B(T)||_2.$$
	Without loss of generality, taking $x_{13}=1$, we can obtain
	$$\left\{\begin{aligned}
	p_0&=-\dfrac{k}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}} \\
	p_1&=0 \\
	p_2&= \dfrac{2}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}}\end{aligned}\right. ,$$
	and
	$$B(T)=\hat{B}(T).$$
	Combining with expressions (\ref{p0p1p2}) for $p_0$ and $p_1$ in terms of $\alpha_1$ and $\alpha_2$, we have
	$$\alpha_1=-\alpha_2=\sqrt{\dfrac{k}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}}}\text{ or }\alpha_1=-\alpha_2=-\sqrt{\dfrac{k}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}}}.$$
	One can double check that the expression (\ref{p0p1p2}) for $p_2$
	$$\dfrac{2}{1+\sqrt{1-k^2}}=p_2=-\alpha_1\bar{\alpha_2}\dfrac{1-|\alpha_2|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_2}^2k}-\bar{\alpha_1}\alpha_2\dfrac{1-|\alpha_1|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_1}^2k}+(1+k\bar{\alpha_1}\bar{\alpha_2})\dfrac{1-|\alpha_1|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_1}^2k}\dfrac{1-|\alpha_2|^2}{1-\bar{\alpha_2}^2k}$$
	is also satisfied. In sum, the extremal Blaschke product is unique
	$$B(z)=\hat{B}(z).$$

	Further, we can find the relation of Figure \ref{fig2.2.2} with Figure \ref{fig1.3.1} by showing the equality of $k(q^2)$ and $k(q)$
	$$\sqrt{k(q^2)}=\dfrac{k(q)}{1+\sqrt{1-k(q)^2}},~q\in [0,1].$$
	\begin{proof}
		We know that the Jacobi theta functions satisfy
		\begin{equation} \label{JacobiTheta}
		\theta_3(q)^4 = \theta_2(q)^4+\theta_4(q)^4,
		\end{equation}
		and we can rewrite them in terms of the Dedekind eta function
		$$\theta_2(q)=\dfrac{2\eta(2\tau)^2}{\eta(\tau)},$$
		$$\theta_3(q)=\dfrac{\eta(\tau)^5}{\eta(2\tau)^2\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^2},$$
		$$\theta_4(q)=\dfrac{\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^2}{\eta(\tau)},$$
		where $q=\exp(\pi i \tau)$.
		Substituting all $\theta_j$ into equality (\ref{JacobiTheta}), we find
		$$\eta(\tau)^{24}=\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^8\eta(2\tau)^8(16\eta(2\tau)^8+\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^8).$$
		It follows that
		$$\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^8=\dfrac{-8\eta(2\tau)^{12}+\sqrt{64\eta(2\tau)^{24}+\eta(\tau)^{24} }}{\eta(2\tau)^4},$$
		$$\eta(2\tau)^8=\dfrac{-\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^{12}+\sqrt{64\eta(\tau)^{24}+\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^{24} }}{32\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^4},$$
		or
		$$\eta(4\tau)^8=\dfrac{-\eta(\tau)^{12}+\sqrt{64\eta(2\tau)^{24}+\eta(\tau)^{24} }}{32\eta(\tau)^4}.$$
		Expressing $\eta(4\tau)$ and $\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})$ in terms of $\eta(\tau)$ and $\eta(2\tau)$ on the left hand side, we have an identity
		$$\eta(\tau)^2\eta(4\tau)^4\left(\eta(\tau)^{12}+\eta(2\tau)^4\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^8\right)=2\eta(2\tau)^{14}\eta(\frac{\tau}{2})^4.$$
		This can be written in terms of $\theta_j$,
		$$\theta_2(q^2)\left(\theta_3(q)^2+\theta_4(q)^2\right)=\theta_2(q)^2\theta_3(q^2),$$
		which is equivalent to the equality
		$$\sqrt{k(q^2)}=\dfrac{k(q)}{1+\sqrt{1-k(q)^2}}.$$
	\end{proof}

	Figure \ref{fig2.2.2} and Figure \ref{fig1.3.1} match the functions $\sqrt{\dfrac{k(b^4)}{b^2}}$ and $\sqrt{\dfrac{k(b^2)}{b}}$ respectively.

	\section{One Example of Nonuniqueness}
	Let
	$$A=\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &1 &0\\ 0 &0 &1-t\\0 &0 &0
	\end{matrix}\right],~t\in[0,\sqrt{3}-1].$$
	$W(A)$ is a disk centered at the origin with radius
	$$r=\dfrac{\sqrt{(1+(1-t)^2)}}{2}\le 1.$$
	The conformal mapping $\phi$ that maps $W(A)$ to the unit disk $\mathbb{D}$ is
	$$\phi(z)=\dfrac{1}{r}z,$$
	which gives
	$$\phi(A)=\dfrac{1}{r}A=\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &\frac{1}{r} &0\\0 &0 &\frac{1-t}{r} \\ 0&0 &0
	\end{matrix}\right]=D\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &1 &0\\ 0&0 &1 \\0 &0 &0
	\end{matrix}\right]D^{-1}=DJ_3D^{-1},$$
	where
	$$D=\left[\begin{matrix}
	1 &0 &0\\ 0&r &0\\ 0&0&\dfrac{r^2}{1-t}
	\end{matrix}\right], ~J_3=\left[\begin{matrix}
	0 &1 &0\\ 0&0 &1 \\0 &0 &0
	\end{matrix}\right].$$

	Since $0\le t\le\sqrt{3}-1$, we get
	$$\dfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}}\le r\le \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}},$$
	and
	$$\dfrac{1}{2}\le \dfrac{r^2}{1-t}\le 1.$$
	Then, for any Blaschke product $B$ we can obtain
	$$B(\phi(A))=DB(J_3)D^{-1},$$
	and
	$$||B(\phi(A))||_2\le||D||_2||B(J_3)||_2||D^{-1}||_2=1\times 1\times ||D^{-1}||_2=\max(\dfrac{1-t}{r^2},\dfrac{1}{r}).$$
	Taking $B_1(z)=z$, we find
	$$||B_1(\phi(A))||_2=\dfrac{1}{r},$$
	and taking $B_2(z)=z^2$, we find
	$$||B_2(\phi(A))||_2=\dfrac{1-t}{r^2}.$$
	In addition, on the interval $[0,\sqrt{3}-1]$, the function
	$h(t)=\dfrac{1-t}{r}=\dfrac{2}{\sqrt{1+\frac{1}{(1-t)^2}}}$
	decreases monotonically as $t$ increases, and we find the point $t_0$ where $||B_1(\phi(A))||_2$ starts to exceed $||B_2(\phi(A))||_2$ by solving
	$$\dfrac{1}{r}=\dfrac{1-t_0}{r^2}$$
	or
	$$h(t_0)=1,$$
	which gives us
	$$t_0=1-\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{3}}.$$
	When $t\le t_0$, the extremal Blaschke product is $z^2$; when $t\ge t_0$, it is $z$; at the point $t_0$, both Blaschke products ($z$ and $z^2$) give us the same extremal result
	$$||B(\phi(A))||_2=\sqrt{3}.$$
	\begin{figure}[htbp]
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=12cm]{2-2-1.eps}
		\caption{$||\hat{B}(\phi(J_t))||_2$ vs. $t$. Blue is $\hat{B}(z)=z^2$, and red is $\hat{B}(z)=z$.}
		\label{fig2.2.1}
	\end{figure}
	Figure \ref{fig2.2.1} shows a plot of $\max_{B}||B(\phi(A))||_2=\max{||B_1{\phi(A)}||_2,||B_2{\phi(A)}||_2}$ as $t$ ranges between $0$ and $\sqrt{3}-1$. In addition to showing nonuniqueness, the extremal Blaschke product has degree less than the maximal degree $n-1$. This has been observed in numerical experiments, and we have now proved it for this class of matrices when $1-1/\sqrt{3} <t<\sqrt{3}-1$.

	At the point $t=t_0=1-\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}$, we have
	$$\phi(A) = \left[\begin{matrix}
	0 & \sqrt{3} & 0\\
	0 & 0 & 1\\
	0 & 0 & 0
	\end{matrix}\right]\text{ and }
	D=\left[\begin{matrix}
	1 & 0 & 0\\
	0 & \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} & 0\\
	0 & 0 & \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}
	\end{matrix}\right].$$
	Suppose that the first right and left singular vectors of $DB(J_3)D^{-1}$ are $v_1$ and $u_1$ respectively, i.e.,
	$$u_1^*DB(J_3)D^{-1}v_1=\sqrt{3},~||v_1||_2=||u_1||_2=1.$$
	We can see that $u_1$ must be parallel to the first right singular vector of $D^{T}=D$ (i.e., $e_1$), $v_1$ should be parallel to the first right singular vector of $D^{-1}$ (i.e., $e_2$ or $e_3$). In fact, the choices of $v_1$ ($v_1=e_2$ or $v_1=e_3$) correspond to different extremal Blachke products $z$ and $z^2$, respectively.

	\section{Conclusion}
	In the discussion above, we focused on decomposing the conformal mapping of matrix $A$,
	$$\phi (A) = D C D^{-1},$$
	where the condition number of $D$, $\kappa(D)$, is no more than 2 and $C$ is a contraction ($||C||_2\le 1$), and using von Neumann's inequality to argue that for any Blaschke product $B$, we have
	$$\| B( \phi (A)) \|_2 \leq
	\kappa (D)\le 2,$$
	since $\| B(C) \|_2 \leq 1$. The construction of matrix $D$ is the key to argue the exact bound, the extremal Blaschke product and its uniqueness. We may extend
	this decomposition to more general cases in the future.

	\bibliographystyle{plain}

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I don't know what kind of view is better to use: is it better to use a ListView with a dynamic layout using LayoutInflater or should i use a TableLayout as if it was a html page?

A: You can either go with Gridlayout that would be with more ease or go with TableLayout.
Using a TableLayout provide more structured and user specific look then ListView, you can make modification as per your need. like adding separators with rows, images ot arrows on the different TableRows. so best will be either Girdview or TableLayout.

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Mineralogical Magazine (6)
Synthesis of Fe-deficient eudialyte analogues: Relationships between the composition of the reaction system and crystal-chemical features of the products
Tatiana N. Kovalskaya, Vera N. Ermolaeva, Nikita V. Chukanov, Dmitry A. Varlamov, Georgy A. Kovalskiy, Egor S. Zakharchenko, Georgy M. Kalinin, Korney D. Chaichuk
Journal: Mineralogical Magazine / Accepted manuscript
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2023, pp. 1-17
Selsurtite, (H3O)12Na3(Ca3Mn3)(Na2Fe)Zr3□Si[Si24O69(OH)3](OH)Cl⋅H2O, a new eudialyte-group mineral from the Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula
Nikita V. Chukanov, Sergey M. Aksenov, Olga N. Kazheva, Igor V. Pekov, Dmitry A. Varlamov, Marina F. Vigasina, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, Svetlana A. Vozchikova, Sergey N. Britvin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2022, pp. 1-32
Sapozhnikovite, Na8(Al6Si6O24)(HS)2, a new sodalite-group mineral from the Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula
Nikita V. Chukanov, Natalia V. Zubkova, Igor V. Pekov, Roman Yu. Shendrik, Dmitry A. Varlamov, Marina F. Vigasina, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, Sergey N. Britvin, Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt, Dmitry Yu. Pushcharovsky
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2021, pp. 49-59
The new sodalite-group mineral sapozhnikovite, ideally Na8(Al6Si6O24)(HS)2, was discovered in a hydrothermally altered urtite-like rock at Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. The associated minerals are nepheline, aegirine, potassic feldspar, albite, kyanoxalite, natrolite, fluorapatite, fluorcaphite, lomonosovite (partially or completely altered to murmanite) and loparite-(Ce). Sapozhnikovite forms isolated colourless to pale greyish anhedral equant grains up to 5 mm across. The streak is white and the lustre is vitreous. Strong orange fluorescence under longwave UV radiation (λ = 330 nm) and weak yellow-orange fluorescence under shortwave UV radiation (λ = 245 nm) is observed. Sapozhnikovite is brittle, with a Mohs hardness of 5½. Cleavage is imperfect on (110). Density measured by flotation in heavy liquids is equal to 2.25(1) g⋅cm–3. The calculated density is 2.255 g⋅cm–3. Sapozhnikovite is characterised by infrared, Raman, electron spin resonance, NIR-Vis-UV absorption, and photoluminescence spectroscopy. The chemical composition is (wt.%, electron microprobe, H2O determined by gas chromatography of ignition products): Na2O 25.05, Al2O3 32.44, SiO2 37.58, HS 4.33, Cl 2.22, H2O 0.30, –O≡(Cl,HS) –1.55, total 100.37. The empirical formula is Na7.73Al6.08Si5.97O24(HS)1.25Cl0.60⋅0.16H2O. The crystal structure was determined using single-crystal X-ray diffraction data and refined to R1 = 1.62%. Sapozhnikovite is cubic, P$\bar{4}$ 3n, with a = 8.9146(1) Å, V = 708.45(2) Å3 and Z = 1. The new mineral is isostructural with sodalite. The strongest lines of the powder X-ray diffraction pattern [d, Å (I, %) (hkl)] are: 6.30 (37) (110), 3.638 (100) (211), 2.821 (14) (310), 2.572 (18) (222), 2.382 (16) (321) and 2.101 (29) (411). The mineral is named in honour of the Russian mineralogist and crystallographer Dr. Anatoly Nikolaevich Sapozhnikov (b. 1946).
Oberwolfachite, SrFe3+3(AsO4)(SO4)(OH)6, a new alunite-supergroup mineral from the Clara mine, Schwarzwald, Germany and Monterniers mine, Rhône, France
Nikita V. Chukanov, Gerhard Möhn, Fabrice Dal Bo, Natalia V. Zubkova, Dmitry A. Varlamov, Igor V. Pekov, Laurent Jouffret, Jean-Marc Henot, Pascal Chollet, Yannick Vessely, Henrik Friis, Dmitry A. Ksenofontov, Atali A. Agakhanov, Sergey N. Britvin, Joy Desor, Natalia N. Koshlyakova, Dmitry Yu. Pushcharovsky
Journal: Mineralogical Magazine / Volume 85 / Issue 5 / October 2021
The new beudantite-group mineral oberwolfachite, ideally SrFe3+3(AsO4)(SO4)(OH)6, was discovered in two localities: Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (holotype) and Monterniers mine, Lantignié, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (cotype). The associated minerals are quartz, baryte, hematite, illite, goethite, beudantite and dussertite (Clara) and arsenogoyazite, jarosite, graulichite-(Ce), goethite and hematite (Monterniers). Oberwolfachite forms yellow to brown platy crystals up to 1 mm across or thick outer zones of mixed (oberwolfachite–beudantite) crystals up to 3 mm across. The lustre is adamantine and the streak is yellow. A distinct cleavage on {0001} is observed. Calculated density is 3.874 g⋅cm–3. The infrared spectra are given. The chemical composition of the holotype/cotype samples are (wt.%, b.d.l. = below detection limit): K2O 1.25/1.86, SrO 6.41/11.15, BaO 8.13/0.45, PbO 2.18/b.d.l., Al2O3 0.16/0.23, Fe2O3 38.99/39.98, La2O3 1.68/not determined, Ce2O3 1.28/2.06, P2O5 0.12/b.d.l., As2O5 17.55/16.55, SO3 12.86/14.99, H2O (calculated) 8.72/9.05, total 99.33/96.62. The empirical formula of the holotype sample is (Sr0.38Ba0.33K0.16Pb0.06La0.06Ce0.05)Σ1.04(Fe3+3.03Al0.02)Σ3.05[(SO4)1.00(AsO4)0.95(PO4)0.01](O6.16H6.00). The crystal structures of both samples were determined using single-crystal X-ray diffraction data and refined to R = 3.13% (holotype, 293 K) and 2.65% (cotype, 170 K). Oberwolfachite is trigonal, R${\bar 3}$ m, with a = 7.3270(3) Å, c = 17.0931(9) Å and V = 794.70(8) Å3 (holotype), and a = 7.298(2) Å, c = 16.908(3) Å and V = 779.8(4) Å3 (cotype); Z = 3. The strongest lines of the powder X-ray diffraction pattern of holotype [d, Å (I, %)(hkl)] are: 5.95 (56)(101), 3.664 (37)(110), 3.117 (16)(021), 3.082 (100)(113), 2.548 (15)(024), 2.280 (22)(107), 1.983 (26)(303) and 1.832 (19)(220).
Platinum-group minerals from the Malaya Kamenushka River placer, Middle Urals, Russia
Roman S. Palamarchuk, Sergey Yu. Stepanov, Aleksandr V. Kozlov, Dmitry A. Khanin, Dmitry A. Varlamov, Andrey A. Zolotarev, Daria V. Kiseleva, Vladimir V. Shilovskikh
Journal: Mineralogical Magazine / Volume 84 / Issue 6 / December 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2020, pp. 900-912
This work presents a detailed study of platinum-group mineral (PGM) assemblages from the Malaya Kamenushka River placer, whose formation is associated with the weathering of the Kamenushensky Uralian–Alaskan type massif, Middle Urals, Russian Federation. The deposit is characterised by the dominance of isoferroplatinum, together with significant numbers of inclusions of Os–Ir–Ru alloys and platinum-group element (PGE) sulfides. A study of the Os–Ir–Ru alloys permitted recognition of two types of iridium with different morphology and composition. The similarity of the PGM assemblages from the Malaya Kamenushka River placer and the lode mineralisation of the Kamenushensky massif is demonstrated. A comparison of PGM assemblages from the Malaya Kamenushka River placer with other placers and massifs of the Ural platinum belt demonstrates significant differences in the number of Os–Ir–Ru inclusions. Such differences for minerals of refractory elements cannot be explained by the vertical zoning of the lode mineralisation. Most probably this is associated with the enrichment of the primary substrate with Os, Ir and Ru and/or the degree of melting, depending on the chosen model of formation of the Uralian–Alaskan type massifs.
Nickeltsumcorite, Pb(Ni,Fe3+)2(AsO4)2 (H2O,OH)2, a new tsumcorite-group mineral from Lavrion, Greece
Igor V. Pekov, Nikita V. Chukanov, Dmitry A. Varlamov, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, Anna G. Turchkova, Panagiotis Voudouris, Athanassios Katerinopoulos, Andreas Magganas
Journal: Mineralogical Magazine / Volume 80 / Issue 2 / April 2016
A new tsumcorite-group mineral, nickeltsumcorite, Pb(Ni,Fe3+)2(AsO4)2(H2O,OH)2, the Ni-dominant analogue of tsumcorite and cobalttsumcorite, was found in the oxidation zone of a hydrothermal orebody containing gersdorffite and galena at the Km-3 mine, Lavrion, Attikí Prefecture, Greece. It is associated with annabergite, nickellotharmeyerite, nickelaustinite, gaspéite, calcite, dolomite, aragonite, quartz, goethite, cerussite, arseniosiderite, mimetite, oxyplumboroméite and Mn oxides/hydroxides. Nickeltsumcorite occurs as open-work aggregates and interrupted crusts up to 3 mm × 5 mm in area and up to 0.2 mm thick. They typically consist of coarse radial spherulites or dense concentric nodules up to 0.15 mm in diameter. Bunches or hemispherical clusters of crude individuals and separate imperfect, elongated crystals (up to 0.02 mm long) are also observed. Nickeltsumcorite is yellow, brownish-yellow, light brown or brown, with a yellow streak and a vitreous lustre. The Mohs hardness is ∼4. The mineral is brittle; one direction of distinct cleavage is observed under the microscope. D(calc.) = 5.02 g cm–3. Nickeltsumcorite is optically biaxial (–), α = 1.82(2), β = 1.87(1), γ = 1.90(1), 2V(obs.) is large. The chemical composition (wt.%, electron-microprobe data, H2O by difference) is CaO 2.79, PbO 28.12, MgO 0.30, CoO 0.15, NiO 17.39, ZnO 0.76, Mn2O3 0.57, Fe2O3 6.83, As2O5 38.17, H2O 4.92, total 100.00. The empirical formula, calculated based on 10 O apfu, is (Pb0.76Ca0.30)∑1.06(Ni1.39Fe3+0.51Zn0.06Mn3+0.04 Mg0.04Co0.01)∑2.05As1.99O7.97[(H2O)1.25(OH)0.78]. The strongest reflections in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern [d,Å(I)(hkl)] are 4.64 (100) (1̄11), 4.47 (41)(2̄01), 3.238 (82)(1̄12), 3.008(60)(201), 2.859(41)(021), 2.545(79)(3̄12, 112), 2.545 (79)(3̄12, 112) and 2.505 (61)(220, 2̄03). The cation composition, powder Xray diffraction data and IR spectrum show that nickeltsumcorite belongs to the tsumcorite structure type. The new mineral is monoclinic, space group C2/m, a = 9.124(8), b = 6.339(3), c = 7.567(7) Å, β = 115.19(6)°, V = 396.0(7) Å3 and Z = 2. Nickeltsumcorite forms a solid-solution series with nickellotharmeyerite.


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Q: How JWT actually works with Spring MVC to create token and validate token? I am actually looking to get more and clear understanding over the JWT concept and how it works with Spring MVC. I found link https://github.com/nielsutrecht/jwt-angular-spring, whose program works absolutely fine. But I wonder how it creates token and then how user gets login into the application. I need some clarification / answer how it works? Please do needful.
My understanding: It appears to me that when you launch the application, GenericFilterBean implementation class will be called which will generate the JWT token and send it to UI in local storage (not sure though) and then this token will come in header with request and then it will get validated and access will be given to user ?
I would like to put some code snippet for reference (even you can look for code from link mentioned)
AuthenticationTokenProcessingFilter.java
public class AuthenticationTokenProcessingFilter extends GenericFilterBean {

    private final UserDetailsService userService;

    public AuthenticationTokenProcessingFilter(UserDetailsService userService){
        this.userService = userService;
    }

    @Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException,ServletException{
        HttpServletRequest httpRequest = this.getAsHttpRequest(request);

        String authToken = this.extractAuthTokenFromRequest(httpRequest);
        String userName = TokenUtils.getUserNameFromToken(authToken);

        if (userName != null) {

            UserDetails userDetails = this.userService.loadUserByUsername(userName);

            if (TokenUtils.validateToken(authToken, userDetails)) {

                UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken authentication =
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                authentication.setDetails(new WebAuthenticationDetailsSource().buildDetails(httpRequest));
                SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(authentication);
            }
        }

        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    }

    private HttpServletRequest getAsHttpRequest(ServletRequest request){
        if (!(request instanceof HttpServletRequest)) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Expecting an HTTP request");
        }

        return (HttpServletRequest) request;
    }

    private String extractAuthTokenFromRequest(HttpServletRequest httpRequest){
        /* Get token from header */
        String authToken = httpRequest.getHeader("X-Auth-Token");
        System.out.println("AUTH TOKEN : "+authToken);

        /* If token not found get it from request parameter */
        if (authToken == null) {
            authToken = httpRequest.getParameter("token");
        }
        return authToken;
    }
}

TokenUtils.java
public class TokenUtils{
    public static final String MAGIC_KEY = "obfuscate";

    public static String createToken(UserDetails userDetails){
        System.out.println(" ----- Create Token ------");
        /* Expires in one hour */
        long expires = System.currentTimeMillis() + 1000L * 60 * 60;

        StringBuilder tokenBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        tokenBuilder.append(userDetails.getUsername());
        tokenBuilder.append(":");
        tokenBuilder.append(expires);
        tokenBuilder.append(":");
        tokenBuilder.append(TokenUtils.computeSignature(userDetails, expires));

        return tokenBuilder.toString();
    }

    public static String computeSignature(UserDetails userDetails, long expires){
        System.out.println("------ Compute Signature ------");
        StringBuilder signatureBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        signatureBuilder.append(userDetails.getUsername());
        signatureBuilder.append(":");
        signatureBuilder.append(expires);
        signatureBuilder.append(":");
        signatureBuilder.append(userDetails.getPassword());
        signatureBuilder.append(":");
        signatureBuilder.append(TokenUtils.MAGIC_KEY);

        MessageDigest digest;
        try {
            digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
        } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("No MD5 algorithm available!");
        }
        System.out.println(new String(Hex.encode(digest.digest(signatureBuilder.toString().getBytes()))));
        return new String(Hex.encode(digest.digest(signatureBuilder.toString().getBytes())));
    }

    public static String getUserNameFromToken(String authToken){
        System.out.println("----- Get Username From TOken ----");
        if (null == authToken) {
            return null;
        }

        String[] parts = authToken.split(":");
        return parts[0];
    }

    public static boolean validateToken(String authToken, UserDetails userDetails)  {
        System.out.println("=== Validate Token ===");
        String[] parts = authToken.split(":");
        long expires = Long.parseLong(parts[1]);
        String signature = parts[2];

        if (expires < System.currentTimeMillis()) {
            return false;
        }
        System.out.println(signature.equals(TokenUtils.computeSignature(userDetails, expires)));
        return signature.equals(TokenUtils.computeSignature(userDetails, expires));
    }
}

Context.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">

    <context:annotation-config />

    <bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="locations">
            <list>
                <value>classpath:database.properties</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <!-- MySQL DataSource -->
    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
        <property name="username" value="${jdbc.user}" />
        <property name="password" value="${jdbc.pass}" />
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
        <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
    </bean>

    <!-- Entity Manager Factory -->
    <bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="examplePU" />
        <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
            <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
                <property name="generateDdl" value="true" />
                <property name="showSql" value="true" />
            </bean>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <!-- Transaction Manager -->
    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
        <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="newsEntryDao" class="net.dontdrinkandroot.dao.newsentry.JpaNewsEntryDao" />

    <bean id="userDao" class="net.dontdrinkandroot.dao.user.JpaUserDao" />

    <bean id="dataBaseInitializer" class="net.dontdrinkandroot.dao.DataBaseInitializer" init-method="initDataBase">
        <constructor-arg ref="userDao" />
        <constructor-arg ref="newsEntryDao" />
        <constructor-arg ref="passwordEncoder" />
    </bean>

    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />

    <!-- =======================
        INIT REST COMPONENTS
         ======================= -->

    <context:component-scan base-package="net.dontdrinkandroot.resources" />

    <bean id="objectMapper" class="org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper" />

    <!-- ======================================
        SPRING SECURITY SETUP
         ====================================== -->

    <bean id="passwordEncoder" class="org.springframework.security.crypto.password.StandardPasswordEncoder">
        <constructor-arg value="ThisIsASecretSoChangeMe" />
    </bean>

    <security:authentication-manager id="authenticationManager">
        <security:authentication-provider user-service-ref="userDao">
            <security:password-encoder ref="passwordEncoder"></security:password-encoder>
        </security:authentication-provider>
    </security:authentication-manager>

    <security:http
            realm="Protected API"
            use-expressions="true"
            auto-config="false"
            create-session="stateless"
            entry-point-ref="unauthorizedEntryPoint"
            authentication-manager-ref="authenticationManager">
        <security:custom-filter ref="authenticationTokenProcessingFilter" position="FORM_LOGIN_FILTER" />
        <security:intercept-url pattern="/rest/user/authenticate" access="permitAll" />
        <security:intercept-url method="GET" pattern="/rest/news/**" access="hasRole('user')" />
        <security:intercept-url method="PUT" pattern="/rest/news/**" access="hasRole('admin')" />
        <security:intercept-url method="POST" pattern="/rest/news/**" access="hasRole('admin')" />
        <security:intercept-url method="DELETE" pattern="/rest/news/**" access="hasRole('admin')" />
    </security:http>

    <bean id="unauthorizedEntryPoint" class="net.dontdrinkandroot.rest.UnauthorizedEntryPoint" />

    <bean id="authenticationTokenProcessingFilter" class="net.dontdrinkandroot.rest.AuthenticationTokenProcessingFilter" >
        <constructor-arg ref="userDao" />
    </bean>

</beans>

EDIT-1:
AUTH TOKEN : null
----- Get Username From Token ----
Jan 01, 2016 2:35:01 AM com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent filterFormParameters
WARNING: A servlet request, to the URI http://localhost:8080/angular-rest-security/rest/user/authenticate, contains form parameters in the request body but the request body has been consumed by the servlet or a servlet filter accessing the request parameters. Only resource methods using @FormParam will work as expected. Resource methods consuming the request body by other means will not work as expected.
Hibernate: select user0_.id as id1_1_, user0_.name as name2_1_, user0_.password as password3_1_ from User user0_ where user0_.name=?
Hibernate: select roles0_.User_id as User_id1_1_0_, roles0_.roles as roles2_2_0_ from User_roles roles0_ where roles0_.User_id=?
Hibernate: select user0_.id as id1_1_, user0_.name as name2_1_, user0_.password as password3_1_ from User user0_ where user0_.name=?
Hibernate: select roles0_.User_id as User_id1_1_0_, roles0_.roles as roles2_2_0_ from User_roles roles0_ where roles0_.User_id=?
 ----- Create Token ------
------ Compute Signature ------
525b8e635bb234684d2a02b99f38d687
AUTH TOKEN : null
----- Get Username From Token ----
Jan 01, 2016 2:36:27 AM com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent filterFormParameters
WARNING: A servlet request, to the URI http://localhost:8080/angular-rest-security/rest/user/authenticate, contains form parameters in the request body but the request body has been consumed by the servlet or a servlet filter accessing the request parameters. Only resource methods using @FormParam will work as expected. Resource methods consuming the request body by other means will not work as expected.
AUTH TOKEN : admin:1451599569652:525b8e635bb234684d2a02b99f38d687
----- Get Username From Token ----
Hibernate: select user0_.id as id1_1_, user0_.name as name2_1_, user0_.password as password3_1_ from User user0_ where user0_.name=?
Hibernate: select roles0_.User_id as User_id1_1_0_, roles0_.roles as roles2_2_0_ from User_roles roles0_ where roles0_.User_id=?
Hibernate: select user0_.id as id1_1_, user0_.name as name2_1_, user0_.password as password3_1_ from User user0_ where user0_.name=?
Hibernate: select roles0_.User_id as User_id1_1_0_, roles0_.roles as roles2_2_0_ from User_roles roles0_ where roles0_.User_id=?
=== Validate Token ===
------ Compute Signature ------
525b8e635bb234684d2a02b99f38d687
true
------ Compute Signature ------
525b8e635bb234684d2a02b99f38d687
Hibernate: select user0_.id as id1_1_, user0_.name as name2_1_, user0_.password as password3_1_ from User user0_ where user0_.name=?
Hibernate: select roles0_.User_id as User_id1_1_0_, roles0_.roles as roles2_2_0_ from User_roles roles0_ where roles0_.User_id=?
 ----- Create Token ------
------ Compute Signature ------
b6238344022f3f4dd3787f0f8fa99b44
AUTH TOKEN : null
----- Get Username From Token ----
AUTH TOKEN : admin:1451599596826:b6238344022f3f4dd3787f0f8fa99b44
----- Get Username From Token ----
Hibernate: select user0_.id as id1_1_, user0_.name as name2_1_, user0_.password as password3_1_ from User user0_ where user0_.name=?
Hibernate: select roles0_.User_id as User_id1_1_0_, roles0_.roles as roles2_2_0_ from User_roles roles0_ where roles0_.User_id=?
=== Validate Token ===
------ Compute Signature ------
b6238344022f3f4dd3787f0f8fa99b44
true
------ Compute Signature ------
b6238344022f3f4dd3787f0f8fa99b44
AUTH TOKEN : admin:1451599596826:b6238344022f3f4dd3787f0f8fa99b44
----- Get Username From Token ----
Hibernate: select user0_.id as id1_1_, user0_.name as name2_1_, user0_.password as password3_1_ from User user0_ where user0_.name=?
Hibernate: select roles0_.User_id as User_id1_1_0_, roles0_.roles as roles2_2_0_ from User_roles roles0_ where roles0_.User_id=?
=== Validate Token ===
------ Compute Signature ------
b6238344022f3f4dd3787f0f8fa99b44
true
------ Compute Signature ------
b6238344022f3f4dd3787f0f8fa99b44
02:36:38,728 INFO NewsEntryResource.list():49 - list()
Hibernate: select newsentry0_.id as id1_0_, newsentry0_.content as content2_0_, newsentry0_.date as date3_0_ from NewsEntry newsentry0_ order by newsentry0_.date desc
AUTH TOKEN : null
----- Get Username From Token ----

A: I'm the author of the link (https://github.com/nielsutrecht/jwt-angular-spring) you gave.
The example application uses the Jjwt library to create and decrypt the JSON web tokens. In my example application the token is created when a person manages to log in successfully. This happens in the login() method in UserController.java. A successful login (the example application doesn't deal with silly stuff like passwords for simplicity) returns a LoginResponse with this token. The angular application than sets this as a default header that gets sent with every request. You can store this in local storage or a cookie if you don't want to have them log in again after hitting F5. Again; it's an example that keeps stuff as simple as possible; I left these kinds of things out on purpose.
The header gets read by the JwtFilter class and stored in the request context. That way any path can access this information without having to decrypt the header itself.
Although everything is explained pretty in-depth in the corresponding blog post: let me know if there's anything you don't understand.

A: When you perform login, you send username and password via HTTP post request. Java web service responds with token if credentials are correct. Frontend AngularJS application stores token into a LocalStorage or as a Cookie. Upon each next request you make, token is sent as a value of Authorization header. Java web service will intercept requests and check for existence and validity of token.
You can take a look at this demo application I made too.


As most people know, there are four main groups of Singaporeans: ethnic Chinese, ethnic Malay, Indian, and expat/other foreign residents. English is an official language, but so are Malay, Chinese - Mandarin, and Tamil, representing Singapore's main ethnic groups. Many signs on trains, in public places, etc. are written in all four languages.
Nearly all education is in English, but policy is to allow teaching of a second language in schools, which is one of the other ethnic languages. With Chinese, the promotion of Mandarin as the official language in Chinese schools has caused the number of Chinese speakers proficient other languages/dialects to decrease, as young people are not exposed to them outside the home. The most common Chinese languages besides Mandarin found in Singapore are 'Min Nan': Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka, and Cantonese. Hokkien (from Fujian Province and Taiwan) is especially common, with several hundred thousand native speakers. A relatively small percent of Indians speak a mother tongue other than Tamil. the most common being Hindi and Panjabi (about 10,000 each).
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Like Singapore, various southern Chinese languages and Tamil are widely spoken by these ethnic groups in West Malaysia. Less common languages of West Malaysia include Semai, Jakun and Temuan.
In Sarawak and Sabah, a large number of native languages are still spoken, but with the popularity of English and teaching of Malaysian in schools, many are dying out and most are less widely spoken than in the past.
In Sabah, languages include West Coast.Bajaw, Banjar (around Tawau), Bisaya Sabah, Dusun-Kadasan, Idaan, Kimaragang, Tambunan, Murut, Rungus, Iranun, Suluk, Sungai, Ubian, and Bugis (from Sulawesi, Indonesia). There are also several hundred thousand ethnic Javanese living and working in Sabah.


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With little time left, Japan does not appear ready for concessions that would make the TPP viable.
Japan and the U.S. have been pushing forward with negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership since late last week, as the two allies seek to find agreement on the key sticking points of trade barriers in the agricultural and automotive industries before the prospective group's year-end negotiation deadline. While the TPP involves 12 Pacific Ocean nations, the resolution of Japan's protection of these two domestic industries with its largest trade partner in the bloc would dramatically improve the chances of an overall agreement. The strong political and security alliance between the U.S. and Japan should also improve their chances of successfully negotiating economic issues. Nonetheless, Japan does not appear willing to completely remove the high tariffs on its five "sacred" agricultural industries.
Last week during negotiations in Washington, the two sides said they were in "the final phase" of TPP-related auto industry trade talks. Yet Japan's ambassador in charge of economic diplomacy, Takeo Mori, somewhat muddied the waters when he said that it was desirable to reach an agreement on auto industry and agricultural trade at the same time, according to the Jiji Press. Minister of TPP Affairs Akira Amari also said he hoped both issues could be resolved by early October through ministerial level talks with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman. However, on Tuesday during bilateral farm industry trade talks, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koya Nishikawa requested concessions from the U.S. in its key industries. He told a press conference that "If economic cooperation progresses without causing pains to the agriculture, fishery and forestry industry, it would be better to conclude an agreement early," and that "I hope the United States will take a step" toward an agreement giving concessions to Japanese import restrictions and tariffs.
The U.S. for its part is seeking to get Japan to agree to the lowest possible trade barriers, with Japanese government sources saying the U.S. might arrange a state visit to Washington for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss trade and security issues with President Barack Obama in January. However, the meeting would likely only happen if TPP negotiations were successfully concluded beforehand. According to the source that spoke with the Kyodo News, both sides believe the APEC summit in Beijing on November 10 and 11 is likely the deadline for a successful conclusion of negotiations. However, with the U.S. mid-term elections occurring earlier in the month, the likelihood that the U.S. and Japan will reach a meaningful compromise is slim.
To give an example of the scale of Japanese agricultural tariffs, and thus the barriers to a TPP deal, beef industry negotiations are instructive. Japan recently concluded a FTA agreement with Australia in April. Under the rules of this agreement, Japan's 38.5 percent tariff on beef would be reduced to 19.5 percent for the frozen variety of this product. That reduction would take 18 years to be fully implemented and would still be subject to higher tariffs if imports exceeded a prearranged amount. If a reduction to 19.5 percent over 18 years constitutes bilateral free trade for Japan, it will be very difficult for Tokyo to negotiate lower tariffs with a much larger group of countries, across several other equally sensitive agricultural sectors.
Japan is seeking to improve its agricultural efficiency, and thus vulnerability to cheaper imports. Large portions of Japan's arable land are lying fallow as farmers grow too old to work or move away from rural areas. The Nikkei estimates that some 400,000 hectares of farmland, or an area roughly the size of Shiga prefecture, goes unused. The government is attempting to address this by doubling or tripling the small current tax on fallow farms, yet it would eliminate the tax for farmers who allow land banks to sublet their fields to other farmers or groups looking to expand. However, like many of the government's other plans to improve Japan's agriculture, this policy would only be effective long after the current TPP negotiations.
The chances that Japan will be able to reduce its trade barriers low enough to satisfy the U.S., let alone the other prospective TPP members, by the end of this year are becoming increasingly remote. Japan's request for U.S. concessions speaks to that. Conversely, were Japan's Pacific trade partners to weaken the restrictions on tariff reform enough to accommodate Japan's protected industries, the effectiveness and utility of the entire agreement would likely be compromised. As negotiations stand right now there is little chance of the TPP being finalized by the end of the year, and quite possibly for much longer.
Japan Holds Off US Auto Tariffs. But at What Cost to Farmers?
In an effort to spare Japan's auto industry from U.S. tariffs, Abe launched bilateral trade negotiations with Trump in New York.


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Relationships and Connecting: The Early Years Last Forever
When child psychiatrist Dr. Jean Clinton starts talking you always know that before long you'll hear words like relationships and connecting. And you'll hear them again and again.
Witness the following lovely and memorable little quotes from Jean's keynote address at this year's (virtual) Self-Reg Summer Symposium, entitled: The Early Years Last Forever.
"Relationships are the active ingredient in children's development."
"Who we are is the product of experiences and relationships."
"The brain is a social organ. We are wired to be 'felt' by others."
"Babies have a drive to energetically connect with us." Jean borrowed that one from Dan Seigel, author of, The Developing Mind: How relationships and the brain interact to shape who we are.
Just one more.
"I have a concept of how change happens: through relationships and connection."
Would you say you're getting Jean's drift?
On one hand, you might say Dr. Clinton is simply reminding us of ideas that have been around for a long time, at least since the days when John Bowlby was expounding about attachment theory and Donald Winnicott famously wrote, " There is no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone." (Love that quote!)
It's easy to adore and embrace such statements. But I think we need to reflect on why someone like Dr. Jean feels the need to keep reminding us of the importance of relationships in child development. For one thing, it might be that there is so much stuff out there to draw our minds away from the importance of relationships in children's brain development.
First of all there are products, like Baby Einstein videos, specially designed toys that teach kids about animals and colours, or other products and programs that claim to build children's brains (but don't really).
Then there's the fact that parents' and educators' time and energy is constantly occupied with lots of stuff we have to do to get through the day with children. We're supposed to keep them safe and clean, get them to bed on time, feed them well, teach them to be well-behaved, and, if you're an educator, get through those curriculum expectations. Sure, we can connect with kids during those activities, but usually, when we're doing task-oriented things with kids, the relationship is not the uppermost thing on our minds.
The thing is, whatever it is that we plan and do to care for, raise and teach children—whatever techniques, programs or props we use—it will go better in the context of trusting and supportive relationships. That also applies Self-Reg, which is why we say, "Self-Reg starts with a relationship."
The strategies we use in guiding and teaching kids are never more important than the relationships we have with them. That might be why you'll never get Dr. Jean to stop reminding us about connecting with kids.
One of Jean's tools to help us stay on track with our prime directive to connect is the carpenter/gardener analogy. An ECE or parent who focuses on the role of carpenter has a set idea of how kids should turn out and is trying to make it happen. A gardener is "cultivating the soil for the child to growth and to thrive." It's not an either or equation, but a continuum, says Jean. " A lot of people intend to be a gardener, but you have to be a builder sometimes to get things done."
So, when we're reflecting on this gardener /carpenter balance, Jean advises us to "think about how much time you spend connecting [with your child] as opposed to directing and correcting." Obviously, we do have to direct and correct. But it's so easy to get totally caught up in that. So it's good to be reminded of the foundational importance of relationships in child development.
Here's the thing. Sometimes relationships with kids are relatively easy to develop, maintain and repair. But not always.
This is one of the key reasons Self-Reg has so much to offer. Because, scratch a troubled adult-child relationship you'll usually find excess stress. So rather than focus mostly on teaching parents and educators to be "sensitive and responsive," we need to enable them to be sensitive and responsive. And we do that by helping them tune into and address the stress that often gets in the way of the relationships that both children and their caring adults need.
Jean understands that. I was impressed by her response to a fairly alarming finding from the Zero to Three Parent Survey. Almost half of surveyed parents believe that little ones can control their emotions by the age of two. (Even more think kids can exercise self-control by age three!) Yikes! My initial reaction to those factoids was horror.
But rather than judge, Dr. Jean asked us to reframe these parents' beliefs. "How we can see parents differently when they have unrealistic expectations about children's emotional development? How do we approach this in a way that opens the doors and supports rather than judges parents?" she asked. "We need to go on a journey to help parents be curious rather than certain about their child's behaviour and to help them feel safe enough to ask why they resort to control-based measures in tough moments."
Although she didn't say so explicitly, Dr. Jean clearly understands that relationships and connection are also central in parents' learning and well-being, including relationships between parents and the various people who try to support them and help them solve problems. That's a prime directive we should all remember as we engage with families, and as we work to support early childhood educators who, Stuart Shanker says, have one of the most important jobs on earth.
John has had three distinct careers that have blended together at times: roots musician, stay-at-home father and freelance writer. A former long-time columnist and feature writer for Today's Parent, John now specializes in knowledge translation, blogging and writing for non-profit organizations like The MEHRIT Centre, The Psychology Foundation of Canada and Dad Central Ontario.


What can you do around the Salou area?
Barcelona is one of the main tourist destinations in Europe. There is a bus stop for buses going to Barcelona right in front of Apartaments CYE Salou.
Once in the city we recommend visiting Parque Güell, the Sagrada Familia, strolling along the famous Ramblas, the Gothic District or Paseo de Gracia with its spectacular modernist buildings. If you are travelling with children, they will love Barcelona Zoo, the Aquarium or Tibidabo Park.
If you are a culture lover, you can take the Cistercian Route that lies inland from the Costa Daurada, a route that covers three Cistercian monasteries, authentic gems from the Middle Ages: Poblet Monastery, Santes Creus Monastery and Vallbona de les Monges Monastery.
The Cistercian Route also offers guided visits through the region and there are cultural and leisure events like gastronomic days, concert cycles, exhibitions and much more.
Visiting Tarragona's Roman Tarraco is another essential cultural route on the Costa Daurada. Tarragona is home to one of the best Roman archaeological ensembles in the world. It is therefore not surprising that the UNESCO declared it a World Heritage site in the year 2000.
Don't miss the guided visits to the amphitheatre, the forum, the circus, the necropolis or Tarragona's National Archaeological Museum. Stroll through the backstreets skirted by Roman walls and, if you are travelling in May, go to the Tarraco Viva festival with its many activities and re-enactments about ancient Rome.
In the south of the Costa Dorada we find the Delta del Ebro with its amazing Natural Park. There you will be able to visit different fishing villages like Camarles or l'Ampolla, ride a bike and catch sight of the bird species that inhabit the Delta, embark on a boat to sail down the mouth of the river or have a swim in the spectacular beaches with their long dunes, and round off the day with an exquisite shellfish lunch in any of the restaurants here.
Moreover, in l'Atmella de Mar, you can go on an open sea excursion and end up swimming with shoals of tuna fish!
It is said that Reus is the cradle of Modernism in Catalonia. In fact, this is where the famous artist Antonio Gaudí was born.
The marks left by both Gaudí and Modernism can be felt throughout the city. We recommend you to take one of the guided visits offered by Reus City Hall in order to really discover the city's Modernist gems. And to round it off, there is the must-do visit to the Gaudi Centre, an interpretation centre where you can delve into the life and works of the artist.


TE has been working together with FIBA for a long time. At the 100th anniversary of Ferenc Hepp's birth, we have named together the auditorium of the university's main building after the well-known Hungarian basketball diplomat.
The Research Center for Sport Economy and Decision Sciences has recently prepared two researches for FIBA Europe, one about home grown regulations and the other about the drop-out effect. We are currently working together in the EU Time-Out project in the field of dual careers.


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Jesse Livermore died long before John Paulson was born.
But these investment savants are united by a common impulse to short assets they thought would fall heavily in value.
Livermore reaped millions of dollars from shorting stocks ahead of the Panics of 1907 and the market crash of 1929. And Paulson made billions of dollars in 2007 betting that the bid-up subprime-housing industry was too good to be true.
The book, which arose out of an article that the 25-year-old Veneziani wrote for Business Insider in 2009, discusses the reputation-making trades of other investment pros including George Soros, John Templeton, Jim Chanos, and Paul Tudor Jones II.
He also attempts, with varying degrees of success, to discuss what investors today can learn from these investment giants and their biggest trades.
This is the first book by a young writer and it shows. Much of the prose is workman-like and lacks the detail and even excitement one would expect from a book covering the greatest trades ever. One only wonders what veteran nonfiction writers like Ron Chernow or Michael Lewis could do with such a meaty topic.
Still, Veneziani, who currently is content manager for Markets Media, a financial publisher, is to be credited for tackling a subject that should be of interest to anyone who has ever placed a bigger-than-average wager on a security.
Barrons.com recently talked to Veneziani about some of the lessons he's learned from communing with the best minds in investment history.
Q: First off, what kind of trading do you do?
A: I basically trade on the side with family money. I started with stocks, then got into stock options, equity futures, and exchange-traded funds."
Q: You use the word "trading" rather than "investing." Are you a day trader?
A: I would rather not be pigeonholed. Sometimes I will hold stuff for several months.
Q: Of all the trades you've looked at for the book, what's the greatest in your mind?
A: It is so hard to pick one but I'm impressed with how John Paulson bet correctly on the decline of the economy and the housing market and then when prices were down, he basically bought both bank stocks and gold. Until recently, that was a very good trade. The idea of riding something all the way to the bottom and making a boatload of money, but then riding it back up to a good extent.
Q: You attempt in the book to kind of distill lessons that will benefit everyday investors. But all the examples in the book are of men who have researched investments for a living. Should part-time investors lbe risking large chunks of their capital on a single risky idea?
A: Absolutely not. It's just not prudent to do anything like that. I think that they will look at some of the ideas there in the book and say well, you know now is not the time but maybe in the future if a similar opportunity arises, here is how I can do it and maybe this will help me.
Q: You offer up easy alternatives for investors to short housing, such as shorting a home builders exchanged-fund trade.
A: I don't see a problem with that as long as they understand what they are getting into. It is important that somebody examines the underlying basket of stocks or the underlying index and what it is composed of, and makes sure that they can understand the risks involved and then realize what their potential loss could be.
Q: Your chapter on John Templeton, who famously bought stocks during the late 1930s when most Depression-era investors were still shunning them, is interesting. He is famous for buying at times when most investors are deeply pessimistic about markets, whether in the U.S. or abroad. Do you think Templeton would be looking at the troubled stock market of today as an opportunity?
A: I don't think today's market really holds the ingredients for that kind of investment and trade. There is volatility coming back to the market, which is good for some traders. But with the Dow [at 10,700] that's not low enough. You have got to be able to wait. I think that is one of the more important parts of Templeton when you go and you do that kind of trade where you are buying at the bottom.
Q: How has learning from these traders affected the way you yourself buy and sell stocks?
It's taught me to be patient and wait for the right price and not try to be something I'm not. I'm not J. Kyle Bass. I don't know how to create exotic derivatives to make trades happen. If we both think Greece will default, I will try to find a Greek bank that I can short or buy some puts.
A: Thanks for your time.


Who causes more destruction in superhero movies: villain or hero?
To paraphrase one classic line, with great power comes a great chance of annihilating a major city, inadvertently killing thousands of innocent people in the process.
As superhero films have grown increasingly darker, with body counts rising faster than flashbacks to slain parents, more and more our goodies are overstepping rules to take out their man. Normally taking the skirmish to the streets of a busy metropolis, if there's a Geneva Convention Act for folk who can fly, they don't read it.
Not that it's escaped the studios either. The main plot device for the warring stars of Zack Snyder's forthcoming slug-fest Batman Vs Superman will stem from the finale of 2013's Man Of Steel, whereby Henry Cavill's Superman demolished entire skyscrapers in his mid-air ruckus with General Zod. One belonging to Wayne Enterprises.
So where do you stand? Are superheroes taking liberties or merely sacrificing the few to save the many?
This ace infographic from mortgage specialist Home Advisor ranks the destruction between good and evil in a few recent superhero movies, and might even make you think twice about who you're rooting for.