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State legislators seek to block any new federal gun laws
Gun rights advocates protest gun control laws in New Jersey. Legislators in some states are proposing bills that would aim to block enforcement of any new federal restrictions on firearms.
(Mel Evans / Associated Press)
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — In Alaska, state House Speaker Mike Chenault says he's heard complaints from all over the state about the federal government "trampling" on gun owners' 2nd Amendment rights.
In Pennsylvania, state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe declares that gun control advocates have "gone far enough." And in North Dakota, state Rep. Roscoe Streyle says, "We know what's right for our citizens."
They are among a wave of lawmakers in at least 20 states who are pushing back against the Obama administration's drive to pass tougher gun laws after the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. They seek to exempt their states from any new federal regulations.
Even before Congress votes on new gun laws, some state legislators are intent on promoting bills like the Firearms Freedom Act — introduced in Alabama, Michigan and Oklahoma, among other states — based on a theory that guns and ammunition made and kept within state borders do not involve interstate commerce and are out of Washington's reach.
Other bills — such as Pennsylvania's proposed Right to Bear Arms Protection Act — would make it a felony, punishable by up to seven years in prison for government officials to attempt to enforce new federal gun restrictions in their states. A Tennessee bill declares that any federal action seeking to restrict gun ownership in the state "shall be deemed an intentional violation of state sovereignty and shall be unenforceable within the borders of Tennessee."
Wyoming's Republican-controlled House has sent to the state Senate, on a 46-13 vote, a measure declaring unenforceable any future federal ban on semiautomatic weapons or limits on the size of ammunition magazines that remain exclusively in the state.
President Obama has called for background checks for all gun sales and reinstatement of bans that expired in 2004 on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Obama alluded to those proposals in his State of the Union address Tuesday, calling on Congress to bring them up for a vote.
A White House spokesman declined to comment on the wave of state legislation.
The spate of proposed state laws reflects the national schism of opinion on gun control.
While lawmakers in a number of states fight the Obama administration's efforts, New York recently passed a tougher gun law. California is also considering strengthening its laws, including requiring background checks for anyone who buys bullets. Maryland is weighing new limits, including licensing for handgun buyers.
A group of Colorado Democrats is quickly moving forward with legislation to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines, expand background checks and hold gun makers and sellers liable for damage caused by their weapons, though that could conflict with a 2005 federal law shielding the industry from certain lawsuits.
Some legal experts said the states' proposals to limit gun control would be unlikely to withstand a constitutional challenge. And it's uncertain whether any will be signed into law.
A spokesman for Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, a Republican, said the governor believed there were "plenty of ways for Wyoming to send a message voicing concern about infringements on the 2nd Amendment, but he is concerned about creating an unenforceable law."
In Virginia, a GOP-sponsored measure to prohibit local and state officials from assisting federal authorities in enforcing any new gun restrictions ran into trouble after lawmakers raised concerns that it could cost the state federal aid.
A number of the gun rights measures are patterned after a 2009 Montana law. Its constitutionality is before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, with oral arguments set to begin in March.
Legal experts cite a 2005 Supreme Court ruling upholding federal restrictions on homegrown marijuana in California as the precedent that stands to doom the spate of gun exemption laws. The court ruled that because marijuana moved in a national market, the federal government could regulate its use, even if it were grown and used only in California.
"There's apparently some people out there who have yet to read the Constitution," said Ladd Everitt of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
But the bills are also designed to sway federal lawmakers. "It is time to send a message to those in Washington, D.C., that we will not stand for the continual erosion of our rights and freedoms," Nebraska state Sen. Charlie Janssen said in an Internet message seeking support for his bill.
Metcalfe, a Republican who is the chief sponsor of the Pennsylvania Right to Bear Arms Protection Act, said the measure had generated more public reaction than any bill he had sponsored in 15 years in office.
The disparate state responses underscore the difficulty of reaching a political consensus on an issue that often divides lawmakers not just by party affiliation but also geography.
Indeed, after New York acted to tighten gun laws, Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott ran an Internet ad inviting New Yorkers to keep their guns and come to the Lone Star State.
richard.simon@latimes.com
Richard Simon
Richard Simon is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times.


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The U.S. Has Banned All Flights to Venezuela Due to Civil Unrest
By Andrea Romano
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The U.S. government has now issued a travel ban to Venezuela due to recent violence and unrest, Reuters reported. The U.S. Department of Transportation issued an order on Wednesday that all commercial passenger and cargo flights to the South American country have been suspended.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said in a DHS statement that "conditions in Venezuela threaten the safety and security of passengers, aircraft, and crew."
Many airlines, including American, United, Delta, Air Canada, Luthansa, and AeroMexico had halted flights to Venezuela before the ban took effect. While the country has had civil and political unrest for years, the Venezuelan government has been experiencing increasingly dangerous protests, primarily due to issues with food, power, water, and medicine shortages, Fox News reported.
On top of the travel ban, the U.S. government has ordered non-essential U.S. Embassy employees currently in Venezuela to leave the country within 72 hours.
The new ban, effective immediately, could put more economic pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The Trump administration has already put oil, defense and security sanctions on the country since Maduro was elected in 2018. Only a few airlines, including Laser Airlines and Copa Airlines, still fly between the U.S. and Venezuela via layovers in other countries, Reuters reported.
The ban currently has no end date. The DHS statement said, "If and when the conditions in Venezuela change, and if in the public interest, the Secretaries will revisit this determination. Until then, the flight suspension will remain in effect indefinitely."
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Within the Future Cities Project (www.futurecities.up.pt) – an European project that is building a 'living lab' in Porto – the University of Aveiro, University of Porto, and industrial partners developed the largest vehicular network in the world. More than 400 city buses are now interconnected.
In order to present and discuss the testbed, as well as providing different examples around the world regarding vehicular networks, the Future Cities Project has held the Workshop on Vehicular Networks and Sustainable Mobility Testbed.
On the last April 24, several experts gathered at the Municipality of Porto to debate themes related to vehicular communications, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and sustainable mobility, showcasing the Porto Living Lab as an example of the improvement of mobility in the cities.
The opening of the workshop has been performed by Susana Sargento from the University of Aveiro and Institute of Telecommunications, and a member of the Future Cities Project.
Katrin Sjöberg – an ITS research engineer from Volvo Group Trucks Technology in Sweden and a connected vehicle technology specialist – was the keynote speaker. She addressed the issues of connected vehicles, Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), standardization and road traffic safety.
The workshop also included the participation of several partners and institutions involved in the testbed, such as Rui Costa from Veniam, Alexandre Sousa from Porto Digital, Bruno Eugénio from the Municipality of Porto, and Tânia Calçada from the Future Cities Project.
If you haven't had the chance to join us, you can check the presentations and some photos of the event.


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Q: Principal minors and semi-definiteness And a positive semidefinite matrix has all principal minors $\geq 0$.
We were asked in class to come up with an example of a square, symmetric matrix that has all leading principal minors $\geq 0$, but is NOT positive semi-definite.
I was trying to come up with a $2 \times 2$ matrix, but I have tried for a while and can't do it. Is it that hard or am I missing something?

A: Consider $\pmatrix{0&0\\ 0&-1}$ for instance. In general, for any $n\ge2$, every diagonal matrix $\operatorname{diag}(0,d_2,\ldots,d_n)$ with some $d_i<0$ can serve as a counterexample.
There are even counterexamples without any zero entry. For every $n\ge3$, let $A$ be the all-one matrix. Now modify the bottom right entry of $A$ to $-1$. E.g. when $n=3$, the modified $A$ is
$$
\pmatrix{1&1&1\\ 1&1&1\\ 1&1&-1}.
$$
Then all leading principal minors of $A$ of size $2$ or larger are zero (hence nonnegative), because the first two rows of $A$ are identical. The leading principal $1\times1$ minor ($=1$) is also clearly nonnegative. But $A$ isn't positive semidefinite because it has a negative (though not leading principal) minor $-1$.
This counterexample can be modified to become entrywise positive when $n\ge4$. E.g. consider
$$
\pmatrix{1&1&1&1\\ 1&1&1&1\\ 1&1&1&2\\ 1&1&2&1}.
$$

A: I was able to get another answer, so I thought I'd add that as well:
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\pmatrix{0&0&1\\ 0&0&1\\ 1&1&0}.
$

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Grease a 9" round cake pan with some of the softened butter. Cut out a parchment paper circle to fit inside the pan, nestle it into the bottom, and grease the paper with the remaining softened butter. Set the prepared pan aside.
In a 2-quart saucepan, bring the milk to a boil, whisking occasionally, over high heat. While whisking, pour in the cornmeal in a steady stream. Whisk vigorously to incorporate the cornmeal, for about 1 minute. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside to let the cornmeal mixture cool to room temperature.
Heat oven to 350°. Transfer the cornmeal mixture to the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Add the remaining butter, baking powder, salt, and eggs and mix on medium speed until uniform and aerated, about 15 minutes.
Heat oven to 375°. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl. Add butter to the flour mixture and use your fingers to break apart butter pieces, while working them into the flour mixture, until pea-size pieces form.
In a small bowl, whisk together the buttermilk and half and half. Pour the buttermilk mixture over the flour mixture and, using a rubber spatula, mix together the ingredients until just combined. Turn the dough out onto a well-floured surface.
Pat the dough into a single mass and gently press it into a 1"-thick disk. Gently roll the dough once with a rolling pin to create a smooth surface. Using a 2 3/4" round cookie cutter, cut out biscuits and transfer them to a parchment paper–lined baking pan.
Arrange the biscuits in the center of the pan so that their edges touch; this will help to keep them moist. Reroll the scraps and cut out more biscuits until all the dough is used. Bake until golden brown, 30–35 minutes. Transfer the baking sheet to a rack; let cool for 5 minutes before serving. Makes 15 large biscuits.
In a small skillet, saute onion and green pepper in oil until tender; set aside. In a large bowl, whisk the flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt, oregano, baking powder, cumin, egg and milk just until combined. Fold in the corn, pimientos and onion mixture.
Heat a large skillet coated with cooking spray; drop batter by 1/4 cupfuls into skillet. Cook for 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Serve with salsa. Makes 4 servings.
Scald milk by heating in a small saucepan over medium heat until bubbles appear around inside edge of pan and milk is about to boil. Pour scalded milk into a large mixing bowl.
Add shortening, sugar, and salt, stir until sugar dissolves, then set aside to cool until lukewarm, about 2 minutes. Meanwhile, dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water in a small bowl and set aside until foamy, about 10 minutes.
Add eggs and yeast mixture to milk mixture in bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until well combined. Gradually add flour, stirring until dough comes together. Turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth, about 10 minutes.
Shape dough into a ball and lightly dust with flour. Transfer dough to a large clean bowl, cover with a clean, damp kitchen towel or plastic wrap, and set in a warm spot to let rise until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
Lightly grease two baking sheets with some of the butter and set aside. Turn dough out onto a clean surface, divide in half, then shape each piece of dough into a ball. Roll dough balls out into 14" circles, then brush each with melted butter, and cut each circle into sixteenths, making 32 wedges in all.
Starting with rounded edge and working toward pointed end, roll up each wedge. Arrange rolled dough wedges, pointed-end side facing down to keep wedge from unrolling, on prepared baking sheets about 2" apart.
Brush tops and sides with some of the remaining butter, loosely cover with a clean, damp kitchen towel or plastic wrap, and set aside in a warm spot to let rise for 45 minutes.
Dissolve yeast and sugar in 1/4 cup warm water; set aside until foamy. Meanwhile, grease two 6-cup loaf pans and a large bowl with oil; set aside. Mix 2 tbsp. of the goat cheese and 1/4 cup of the gruyère in a small bowl; set aside.
Combine 5 cups of the flour and salt in a large bowl. Stir in yeast mixture, 1 1/2 cups warm water, butter, and Tabasco. Turn dough out onto a work surface dusted with remaining flour and knead until almost smooth, 15–20 minutes. Transfer dough to greased bowl; turn to coat. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm spot to let dough rise until doubled in bulk, about 1 1/2 hours.
Knead remaining cheeses into dough on a lightly floured surface. Halve dough, shape into balls, and let rest for 10 minutes. Roll out balls with a rolling pin into 6" × 11" rectangles and let rest for 3 minutes.
Starting with a short end of each rectangle, roll up each into a tight cylinder. Transfer doughs, seam side down, to prepared pans and flatten slightly. Cover pans with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm spot to let doughs rise until doubled in bulk, 1–1 1/2 hours. Preheat oven to 375°.
Preheat oven to 500°. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Using a pastry cutter, 2 table knives, or your fingers, work butter and shortening into flour mixture until it resembles coarse meal.
Add 2 1/4 cups of buttermilk and gently stir with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon until a stiff, slightly tacky dough forms, adding a little more buttermilk if dough is too dry.
Transfer dough to a floured surface and quickly knead 2-3 times. Roll dough to a 1" thickness. Using a 2 1/2" round cookie cutter, cut out biscuits and set aside. Gather dough scraps together and repeat process, making 20 biscuits in all.
Combine white corn meal, sugar and salt in a large mixing bowl. Gradually add 1-2 cups boiling water, stirring with a wooden spoon, until batter holds together- it will be very sticky, so grease your hands with a little vegetable oil, then pat batter into rounds about 1" thick and 4" in diameter.
Combine milk, shortening, sugar, and salt in a saucepan and cook, stirring, over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat; set aside to cool. Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup lukewarm water in a large bowl; set aside until foamy, about 10 minutes.
Pour milk mixture into yeast. Stir in eggs and gradually add flour. Stir with a wooden spoon until dough gets stiff, then use your hands (dough will be sticky, so grease your hands with a little butter).
Brush a small amount of butter on the inside of a large bowl and on one side of a sheet of waxed paper. Place dough in bowl, cover with buttered wax paper, and lay a damp dishcloth on top. Set aside to rise until doubled in bulk, at least 3 hours.
Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface. Knead until elastic, then roll out to 1/2" thickness. Cut dough with a 3" biscuit cutter, dip each round into melted butter, and fold in half.
In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Gradually beat in milk. Beat in the egg substitute, butter, salt, nutmeg and pepper until blended.
Stir in corn and cream-style corn. Stir in corn bread mix just until moistened. Pour into a greased 3-qt. slow cooker. Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours or until center is almost set. Makes 8 servings.
In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the milk, oil, sugar and egg and 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky). Do not knead. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Punch dough down. Turn onto a floured surface; roll into a 16-in. x 12-in. rectangle. Cut into 2-in. squares. In an electric skillet or deep-fat fryer, heat oil to 375°. Fry squares, a few at a time, until golden brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels. Roll warm beignets in confectioners' sugar. Makes 4 dozen.
Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk.
Place sugar and butter in a large bowl, and beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 1 minute). Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add banana, yogurt, and vanilla; beat until blended. Add flour mixture; beat at low speed just until moist.
Dissolve yeast in warm water in a large bowl; let stand 5 minutes. Lightly spoon whole wheat flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Add whole wheat flour, honey, oil, molasses, and salt to yeast mixture, stirring well to combine. Cover and let stand at room temperature 1 hour to create a sponge.
Add wheat germ and cornmeal to sponge. Lightly spoon bread flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Add 1 cup flour to sponge; stir until a soft dough forms. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic (about 8 minutes); add enough of remaining flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, to prevent dough from sticking to hands (dough will feel tacky). Knead in sunflower seeds and blueberries.
Punch dough down. Cover and let rest 5 minutes. Roll into a 14 x 7-inch rectangle on a floured surface. Roll up tightly, starting with a short edge, pressing firmly to eliminate air pockets; pinch seam and ends to seal. Place roll, seam side down, in an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Coat dough with cooking spray. Cover and let rise 45 minutes or until doubled in size.
Combine buttermilk cornbread mix, cheese, and chopped green onions in a large bowl; set aside. Heat butter in an 8-inch baking pan in a 450° oven 3 to 4 minutes or until melted and lightly browned. Tilt pan to coat bottom with melted butter.
In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in water and extracts. Stir in peaches. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Stir in pecans.
Pour into a greased 9-in. x 5-in. loaf pan. Combine topping ingredients; sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350° for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool or 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Makes 1 loaf.
Preheat oven to 350°. Pierce potato with a fork; place on a paper towel in microwave oven. Microwave at high 7 minutes, turning after 4 minutes. Wrap potato in paper towel; let stand 5 minutes. Peel potato; mash to measure 1 cup.
Place butter in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at medium 20 seconds or until soft. Stir in pecans and 2 tablespoons sugar.
Lightly spoon flours into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine all-purpose flour and next 6 ingredients (all-purpose flour through nutmeg) in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk. Add mashed sweet potato, juice, oil, and egg, stirring until well blended.
Spoon batter into an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Drop pecan mixture by spoonfuls over top of loaf; gently press into batter.
Dissolve yeast in warm water in a large bowl; let stand 5 minutes. Stir in yogurt. Lightly spoon flours into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Add 1/2 cup bread flour and whole wheat flour to yeast mixture; stir with a whisk until smooth. Cover and let rise in a warm place (85°), free from drafts, 2 hours (batter will be bubbly, lacy, and weblike).
Stir in salt and oil. Add 1 1/2 cups bread flour (1/2 cup at a time); stir with a wooden spoon (dough will become very difficult to stir).
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes); add enough of remaining bread flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, to prevent dough from sticking to hands (dough will feel tacky).
Place pizza stone on the bottom rack in oven. Preheat oven to 500°. Punch dough down; turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Cover and let rest 5 minutes.
Divide dough into 8 equal portions. Working with 1 portion at a time, (cover remaining dough to keep from drying), stretch each portion into a 6-inch oval. Cover and let rest 5 minutes. Make indentations in top of dough portions using the handle of a wooden spoon or your fingertips; cover and let rise 20 minutes.
In a large bowl, beat eggs until foamy; gradually add sugar. Blend in oil and vanilla. Combine flour, salt and baking soda; add to egg mixture. Stir in apples and pecans. Pour into a greased 10-in. tube pan; bake at 350° for 1-1/4 hours or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate.
In a small saucepan, combine topping ingredients. Bring to a boil; boil 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Slowly pour over warm cake (some topping will run down onto the serving plate.) Makes 12-16 servings.
Drain peaches, reserving 1/2 cup syrup (discard remaining syrup or save for another use). Chop peaches; set aside. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, cloves and salt. Cut in butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
In a bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Beat until blended. Spread on one side of each slice of bread and place on ungreased baking sheets. Broil 4 in. from the heat for 3 minutes or until cheese is melted and lightly browned. Makes 8-10 servings.
In a saucepan, combine water, butter and 1 cup sugar; cook over medium heat until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved. Set aside.
Unroll crescent dough into one long rectangle; seal seams and perforations. Combine the apples, apple pie spice and remaining sugar; sprinkle over dough to within 1 in. of edges. Roll up, jelly-roll style, starting with a long side.
Cut into 1-in. rolls; place in a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Pour reserved syrup over rolls. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. Makes 2 dozen.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream.
Beat just until combined. Pour half of the batter into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Combine pie filling and peaches; spread over batter. Drop remaining batter by tablespoonfuls over filling.
For topping, combine the brown sugar, flour, oats and cinnamon in a bowl. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350° for 70-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Combine glaze ingredients; drizzle over coffee cake. Makes 12 servings.
Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk.
Place chocolate chips in a medium microwave-safe bowl, and microwave at high 1 minute or until almost melted, stirring until smooth. Cool slightly. Add 1 cup batter to chocolate, stirring until well combined.
In a bowl, sprinkle yeast over 6 tablespoons warm (about 110°) water; let stand until soft, about 5 minutes. Add sugar, 1 egg yolk, 6 tablespoons butter (cut into small pieces), and 1 1/2 cups flour; stir until evenly moistened.
To knead with a dough hook, beat at medium speed until dough pulls cleanly from bowl, about 5 minutes. To knead by hand, scrape dough onto a lightly floured board and knead until smooth, about 10 minutes, adding flour (as little as possible) if necessary to prevent sticking; return to bowl.
Cover dough with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until it's puffy enough to hold an impression when pressed with a finger (dough won't double in volume), about 1 hour.
With dough hook or your hands, punch air out of dough; lift dough from bowl and shape into a smooth ball. Set on the center of a floured pastry cloth or clean, smooth-textured dish towel. Pat dough flat; with a floured rolling pin, roll into a 14- to 15-inch square.
Spread or evenly dot Almond Filling over dough to within 1 inch of edges. Lift cloth from one side to roll dough into a compact loaf. Gently lift loaf and lay seam down on a buttered 12- by 17-inch baking sheet. Pinch ends to seal, then fold under. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let stand in a warm place until dough is slightly puffy, about 45 minutes.
In a small bowl, mix remaining egg yolk with milk. Brush loaf with yolk mixture; discard any remaining. Bake loaf on the center rack in a 325° regular or convection oven until rich golden brown, about 45 minutes. Transfer to a rack and let cool at least 1 hour. Serve at room temperature. Cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
Almond Filling: In a food processor, whirl 1 cup unblanched almonds to fine meal. In a 10- to 12-inch nonstick frying pan, combine almonds, 3/4 cup raisins, 3/4 cup sugar, 3/4 cup milk, and 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel.
In the bowl of a standing mixer or another large bowl, sprinkle yeast over 1 cup warm water; let stand until foamy, about 10 minutes.
Add 1 1/4 cups cold water, biga, 3 cups bread flour, whole-wheat flour, and salt to yeast mixture. Beat with paddle attachment on low speed, or stir with a heavy spoon, until well blended. Gradually beat or stir in 2 more cups bread flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until mixture forms a soft dough.
Switch to a dough hook and beat on medium speed until dough is smooth and elastic and pulls cleanly from sides of bowl but is still slightly sticky, 6 to 8 minutes; or scrape dough onto a lightly floured board and knead by hand until smooth and elastic but still slightly sticky, 7 to 10 minutes.
Add leeks, nuts, and oregano and beat in with dough hook or knead in by hand just until incorporated (after mixing in by hand, place dough in a bowl).
Cover bowl with plastic wrap; let dough rise at room temperature until doubled, 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Punch down with your hand to expel air. Re-cover dough with plastic wrap and let rise again until doubled, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Or for a slow rise, chill at least 8 and up to 12 hours; let come to room temperature, about 3 hours.
Scrape dough onto a well-floured board and knead briefly to expel air. Divide in half. With lightly floured hands, gather each half into a ball, then stretch and tuck edges under to shape into a smooth oval with slightly tapered ends (about 8 in. long and 4 in. wide in the center).
Place loaves on a well-floured surface, dust lightly with flour, cover loosely with plastic wrap, and let rise at room temperature until they're slightly puffy and hold the imprint of a finger when lightly pressed, about 1 1/2 hours.
Sprinkle a 13- by 17-inch baking sheet generously with cornmeal. Transfer loaves, one at a time, to sheet, spacing 2 to 3 inches apart. With a sharp knife, make three diagonal slashes 1 inch deep and 1 to 2 inches apart across loaf tops. Place sheet on rack in lower third of a 450° regular or convection oven.
Or, if using a baking stone, gently slide edge of cornmeal-covered baking sheet under one loaf and lift it onto end of sheet. Slash as directed above, then gently slide loaf onto one side of stone in oven, leaving room for second loaf. Repeat to slash and transfer second loaf.
Spray 3 to 4 squirts of water on floor or sides of oven, taking care not to spray near heating element or lightbulb, then quickly close door.
Bake bread, spraying twice more at 5-minute intervals during the first 10 minutes of baking, until crust is well browned, 35 to 45 minutes total.
Transfer loaves to a rack to cool for at least 1 hour. Store in paper bags at room temperature up to 2 days. To recrisp the crust, place loaves directly on a rack in a 400° oven and bake for about 5 minutes.
Biga: In a bowl, sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon active dry yeast over 1/4 cup warm water. Let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. Add 1/2 cup cold water.


Hennaing a woman after she gives birth was a traditional way to deter what were believed to be malevolent spirits that cause disease, depression, and poor bonding with her infant. The action of applying henna to a mother after childbirth, particularly to her feet, keeps her from getting up to resume housework. A woman who has henna paste on her feet must let a friend or relative help her care for older children, tend the baby, cook, and clean. This allows her to regain her strength and bond with her new baby. She is also comforted by having friends who care about her well-being, and is helped to feel pretty again. The countries that have these henna traditions have very low rates of postpartum depression.
There is more than one way to wash your hair with our shampoo bars. In this short video, Liz, a member of our Customer Service team, demonstrates two easy ways to do it.
One of the great things about working for Mehandi is that we, as employees, really do love the products. We use them at home every day. Nearly all of us use Ancient Sunrise® Henna for Hair products to dye and/or condition our hair. We use Ancient Sunrise® hair care and body care products in our daily routines. Many of us use Becoming Moonlight® body art products. Several Mehandi employees are licensed cosmetologists and/or body artists who use the products professionally. We also love to recommend products to our friends and family, and sometimes to complete strangers.
Para-phenyelenediamine (PPD) is one of the most common allergens in cosmetics. While genetics can increase chances of allergy, anyone can develop a PPD allergy. High concentrations and repeated exposure increase the likelihood of becoming sensitized. Basic information about PPD is covered in an earlier article, "What You Need to Know About Para-Phenylenediamine.".


I've suspected for some time that the reason names of people elude me, even as I picture the people and provide details of their lives, is that I know too much. Each year, I have to find room in my brain for more and more people: friends and acquaintances, athletes and actors, musicians and artists, authors and journalists. It never ends. I succeed, for the most part, but recovering their names on demand is one task too many.
Because it is believed that cognitive abilities wither over the course of adulthood, population aging is thought to pose a serious threat to the world's economic well-being (Watkins et al., 2005): As the proportion of cognitively impaired adults in the population increases, it is feared they will impose an ever-larger burden on the ever-smaller proportion of society still in full command of its cognitive faculties. Given this uncertain scenario, understanding the way our minds age could be considered the most significant matter that the psychological and brain sciences address.
In what follows, we consider the question of whether one might reasonably expect that performance on any measure of cognitive performance could or should be expected to be age- or, more specifically, experience-invariant. We shall suggest that, since the answer to this question is no, many of the assumptions scientists currently make about "cognitive decline" are seriously flawed and, for the most part, formally invalid. We will show that the patterns of response change that are typically taken as evidence for (and measures of) cognitive decline arise out of basic principles of learning and emerge naturally in learning models as they acquire more knowledge. These models, which are supported by a wealth of psychological and neuroscientific evidence (for reviews see Schultz, 2006; Siegel & Allan, 1996; Ramscar, Dye, & Klein, 2013a), also correctly identify greater variation in the cognitive performance of older adults, and successfully predict that older adults will exhibit greater sensitivity to the fine-grained properties of test items than younger adults. Given that the models run (and can be rerun) on computers, the possibility that any differences in their performance are due to aging hardware can be eliminated; instead, their patterns of performance reflect the information-processing costs that must inevitably be incurred as knowledge is acquired. Once the cost of processing this extra information is controlled for in studies of human performance, findings that are usually taken to suggest declining cognitive capacities can be seen instead to support little more than the unsurprising idea that choosing between or recalling items becomes more difficult as their numbers increase.
Aha! See, I'm not declining cognitively. I just know too much, as a result of which I also have greater sensitivity to fine-grained properties than you do. Cool!
After reading the first third of Theresa Levitt's A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse and writing about it two weeks ago, I proceeded to put it aside for over a week. The opening portion about Fresnel's scientific career and his development of lighthouse technology in early nineteenth-century France was fascinating, but then I got bogged down as Levitt traced Fresnel's successors and France's successful effort by mid-century to light its coast.
Eager to get on with other books, I returned to A Short Bright Flash a few days ago, finishing it yesterday morning. After treating France and Britain, Levitt turns to the United States. In a long chapter, she lays out the harm done by Stephen Pleasonton, head of the US Lighthouse Establishment, over decades in refusing to introduce Fresnel's technology. Finally, in 1847, Congress approved the construction of new lighthouses in five locations, the first to be completed being our very favorite lighthouse, Nantucket's Sankaty Head. (Though the one we love is not the original.) Things picked up from there, only for the Civil War to bring the systematic destruction of Fresnel lenses across the South's Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the subject of another chapter.
In this era of anti-government politics in the US, one point that emerges from the book is that the creation of a system of lighthouses in France—and later the US—depended entirely on government investment. Both because of the difficulty of manufacturing precision lenses and the scale of production required, no private company would have taken on such a project by itself. Levitt contrasts France with Britain.
The glass industry was undergoing its own transformation. In many ways, it was emblematic of the French style of industrialization, characterized by much stronger government involvement than what was seen with the English model.
Two of the features that separated French industrialization from its English counterpart were its strong contingent of scientifally trained state engineers and its lesser dependence on private investment.
I suppose I've made my point. But let me offer one more quote, from Levitt's closing assessment of Fresnel's legacy.
Fresnel's lens united the major themes of burgeoning modernity: science, industrialization, national ambition. There is a well-known phrase in French that touches on the particular mixture of glory, nationalism, and global ambitions: Faire rayonner la France, or "make France radiant." This is precisely what the Fresnel lens did, in the most literal of ways. Making their way into the remotest corners of the world, these products of France not only shed light on the seas, but also illuminated the French system of valuing pure science and providing state support for industry.
With this in mind, one might have a look at the letter that Nobel Prize laureate and National Cancer Institute director Harold Varmus wrote two days ago to NCI staff, grantees, and reviewers, the full text of which is embedded in a post by Jim Fallows earlier today. A radical segment of today's Republican Party is showing, through the shutdown, how little they value pure science. Perhaps this shouldn't be a surprise, given their propensity for denying scientific evidence.
*It turns out that Levitt's book was mentioned in the NYT last May in an article on antiques(!). The article was really three separate notes, the first of which was the source of the article's title, "The Fall of Gnomes: Tasteful to Tacky." No wonder I missed it.
How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives.
Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) shocked the scientific elite with his unique understanding of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, farther, and more efficiently. Battling the establishment, his own poor health, and the limited technology of the time, Fresnel was able to achieve his goal of illuminating the entire French coast. At first, the British sought to outdo the new Fresnel-equipped lighthouses as a matter of national pride. Americans, too, resisted abandoning their primitive lamps, but the superiority of the Fresnel lens could not be denied for long. Soon, from Dunkirk to Saigon, shores were brightened with it. The Fresnel legacy played an important role in geopolitical events, including the American Civil War. No sooner were Fresnel lenses finally installed along U.S. shores than they were drafted: the Union blockaded the Confederate coast; the Confederacy set about thwarting it by dismantling and hiding or destroying the powerful new lights.
Levitt's scientific and historical account, rich in anecdote and personality, brings to life the fascinating untold story of Augustin Fresnel and his powerful invention.
Even though I had just started another book, I was unexpectedly taken by the notion of reading lighthouse history. I downloaded the book Monday night and began reading. I'm a little past the one-third point now. Fresnel is rolling out lighthouses with the new lenses the length of the French coast, the primary obstacle being the difficulty of finding glassmakers able to manufacture the lenses to suitable tolerances.
sought to explain light through a similar [to Newtonian gravity] inverse square force acting on particles of light, and he gave several students … the task of exploring optical phenomena within that framework. The particle theory of light thus underlay his broader vision for a triumphant Newtonian worldview, making Fresnel's work on diffraction deeply heretical.
It's a great story, which Levitt tells all too briefly. Of course, we now understand that Laplace and Fresnel were both right, the complementarity principle being a central tenet of quantum mechanics.
Two weeks ago I wrote about Paul Elie's Reinventing Bach, which I was only partway into. I finished it Tuesday night. What a puzzling marvel of a book, bubbling over with stories and ideas, narrated polyphonically (by design, though it takes a while to catch on, as characters are introduced briefly, then dropped for 50 pages, only to return more boldly). I was tempted to start in next on Elie's first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, his 2004 study of Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy. On further reflection, I decided I need a break.
What next? I looked over my growing backlog of novels, the most recent addition being Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue. And my history backlog. I tried out Amazon samples of a few books. Last night, on seeing Amanda Foreman's review of the new J.K. Rowling novel in tomorrow's edition of the NYT Sunday book review, I was reminded that I've been wanting to read Foreman's A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War, which the NYT had on its list of ten best books of 2011. Foreman is apparently quite the storyteller. But it's such a long book.
From there I went over to the online version of today's WSJ and came upon astronomer Mike Brown's review of Michael Lemonick's new book, Mirror Earth: The Search for our Planet's Twin. I hadn't imagined I was in the market for a popular science book, but Brown made me curious.
Mr. Lemonick's interactions with these scientists is the overwhelming strength of this very human story, but he also clearly explains the diverse tactics astronomers are using to try to find Earth twins. Some stare at 100,000 stars all at once hoping to pick out a fleeting dip in brightness as a perfectly aligned planet passes in front of its host star. Others carefully monitor individual stars for the minuscule push and pull that an Earthlike planet would exert. A few shift the entire focus to stars much smaller than the sun, where the visible effects of a planet would be correspondingly larger.
I read the free Amazon sample. I bought the book. I continued reading, and by early this morning, I was two-fifths through.
It's easy reading. And fascinating. Plus, I even know two of the featured astronomers. I'll soon have to decide whether to tackle A World on Fire. Or maybe Peter Englund's The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War. Meanwhile, I'm having fun exploring the universe with Lemonick.
Five weeks ago, I wrote about Rebecca Stott's new book Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution, which had received strong reviews in the WSJ (by historian of science Laura Snyder) and the Sunday NYT (by anthropologist Hugh Raffles). Although I was only a chapter into the book, I was enjoying it so far.
Assorted events intervened, bringing book reading to a halt for a few weeks. When my reading resumed, I moved on to two other books, Michael Sandel's philosophical examination of recent trends in capitalism, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, and Martin Walker's crime novel of rural France, The Devil's Cave (newly out in the UK but not yet available here). Tuesday night I returned to Darwin's Ghosts, finding it even more engaging than I remembered and finishing it Friday night.
The opening chapter of Darwin's Ghosts treats Darwin's concern about identifying and giving proper credit to earlier scholars who in some way anticipated the ideas he published in 1859 in On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection. Each of the eleven chapters that follow focuses on one or a small handful of such people, ones Stott has chosen to tell us about, not necessarily those whom Darwin had identified. We start with Aristotle 2200 years earlier, jump 1100 years to the Islamic scholar Jahiz, who lived in Basra and later Baghdad and wrote the Book of Living Things. Another jump takes us to Renaissance Italy and France, after which the pace slows down and we focus on a series of scholars in France and Britain. These include Darwin's grandfather Erasmus; the great French trio of Cuvier, Lamarck, and Geoffroy; the Scot Robert Chambers; and finally, inevitably, Alfred Wallace.
Each chapter functions as an independent piece, the book resembling a linked collection of short stories. And indeed, each chapter has the narrative drive of a short story, with the historical setting and secondary characters economically yet marvelously sketched. One on-going theme is the importance for all of Darwin's predecessors of close study of animals and fossils. Only through detailed empirical examination could they gain new insight. In this way, the chapters double as case studies on the development of scientific method.
What emerges as well is the enormous value of collections, not as a random assortment of curiosities, but as the source of new knowledge. The Cuvier-Lamarck-Geoffroy chapter is especially informative on this point, conveying the significance of Paris' Jardin des Plantes and the establishment within, by the revolutionary government in 1793, of the Museum of Natural History. This is a good reminder, today as well, that beyond the exhibits one sees when one visits such museums lie vast collections that form the basis of fundamental scientific research.
It perhaps goes without saying — but I'll say it — that another continuing theme is the ever-present and complicating role of religion, as both encourager of the study of animal anatomy, physiology, and species differentiation as a means of appreciating God's wonders and discourager of new ideas that point toward the long history of the earth and the continual appearance (seemingly obvious once one looks at the data) of new species.
Coincidentally, just after I finished Darwin's Ghosts, the NYT published excerpts from an interview with Rebecca Stott. Here are three of the questions and her answers.
Q. The very first sentence of your book is: "I grew up in a creationist household." How much did that drive your interest in Darwin?
A. Darwin was described as the mouthpiece of Satan in the fundamentalist Christian community in which I was raised. His ideas were censored, and of course censorship can act as a kind of provocation to curiosity. The school library had a good encyclopedia with several pages on Darwin. I can't say I understood much of his ideas back then, but I understood enough to be mute with fascination. It was extraordinarily different from the biblical version of how things had come to be – but no less strange.
Q. Aside from Wallace, who came closest to scientifically (as opposed to metaphorically) figuring out natural selection before Darwin?
A. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was one of the first men of science to have access to enough fossil and living animal specimens and bones to really gather the weight of evidence that would be needed to understand the ways in which species evolve. Lamarck worked in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, which in 1800 had the most remarkable collection of natural history specimens in the world – Napoleon Bonaparte had stolen hundreds of famous European natural history collections during the Napoleonic Wars and brought them all to Paris.
Q. You start in 344 B.C. Then you hop forward to A.D. 850. And then to the late 15th century. What accounts for such large gaps between periods of progress in this subject?
A. I wish I knew. Perhaps certain thinkers or schools of thought have been lost to history. Perhaps in the West it was due to the dominance of Christianity, and particularly Catholicism, over intellectual inquiry. Some of the periods of acceleration in the history of evolutionary thought were caused by material changes – the development of the printing press or of the microscope, growth in literacy rates, the gradual opening up of libraries and natural history collections to the public – but it always strikes me as salutary that one of the greatest periods of acceleration in evolutionary speculation took place in post-Revolutionary Paris between 1790 and 1815, when the priests had been banished and the professors had been given license to pursue any question they liked. That's when evolutionary ideas really came into their own.


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Paul Manafort may have left the Trump campaign, but Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn't. The KGB/FSB is still doing opposition research for Donald Trump, and Julian Assange and Wikileaks is their preferred distribution channel.
Putin and Assange are known to share a desire to defeat Hillary Clinton, and the Russian leader thinks Trump, with his business ties to Russia, would be a malleable ally in the White House, easily susceptible to flattery.
Trump has indicated he would defer to Moscow for leadership on the Syrian civil war and other issues in that region. "I'm all for Russia going in and knocking and dropping bombs on ISIS. As far as I'm concerned, we don't have to have exclusivity on that," he told ABC This Week.
U.S. intelligence officials say Trump's vow to work with Putin against ISIS would only further Russia's goal of undermining American efforts to end the civil war and replace Assad.
Trump's criticism of NATO, questioning its value and hinting that he'd only selectively honor charter obligations, had to be music to Putin's ears, and it has America's allies worried.
No ally should be more worried by Trump's talk of weakening NATO and letting Putin take the lead in Syria than Israel. Russia is there to protect its client, Assad, along with his allies, Iran and Hezbollah, Israel's mortal enemies.
Another cause for concern in Jerusalem is Trump's assertion that more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia, something certain to spark a region nuclear arms race.
Only after these comments sparked a firestorm of criticism did he claim he was only being sarcastic.
The candidate has said he has "zero investments in Russia," but apparently not for lack of trying. There is no way of knowing for sure because he refuses to open his records. Also, that statement dodges the question of his financial ties to Russian interests outside of that country, including major Russian investments in Trump projects in the United States and elsewhere.
"There is strong evidence that Trump's businesses have received significant funding from Russian investors," according to the Washington Post.
For many years, Donald Trump sought to build a Trump Tower near Red Square with his Russian partners. He even went to Moscow hoping to meet Putin, but the meeting was cancelled at the last minute.
Trump boasted on MSNBC, "I do have a relationship" with Putin, and later said he "spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin," but he subsequently confessed none of that was true.
Manafort left the campaign under a cloud of federal investigation into millions of dollars paid him by his Russian and Ukrainian clients, payments apparently not reported to the Justice Department as required.
While running Trump's campaign, he reportedly was able to remove from the GOP platform references to arming Ukraine to fight pro-Russian rebels backed by Putin.
It is unclear whether Manafort was still on the Ukrainian payroll while working for Trump and shaping the GOP platform, and how much Trump knew about those ties.
For someone who has called for "extreme vetting" of immigrants, Trump seems to have done a poor job of that when it comes to people running his presidential campaign.
Manafort left behind a team of advisers with financial and other ties to Russia that he had brought into the campaign.
Former CIA director Michael Morell has called Trump an unwitting agent of Putin. "Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security." He said Putin, a former top intelligence official, "played upon Mr. Trump's vulnerabilities" by "calculated" flattery.
"In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation," Morell said.
Trump's Russia connection has American intelligence officials, leaders in both parties, and our allies worried, and the GOP candidate either doesn't understand the problem or just doesn't care.


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function [distance,branch] = breadth(CIJ,source)
%BREADTH        Auxiliary function for breadthdist.m
%
%   [distance,branch] = breadth(CIJ,source);
%
%   Implementation of breadth-first search.
%
%   Input:      CIJ,        binary (directed/undirected) connection matrix
%               source,     source vertex
%
%   Outputs:    distance,   distance between 'source' and i'th vertex
%                           (0 for source vertex)
%               branch,     vertex that precedes i in the breadth-first search tree
%                           (-1 for source vertex)
%
%   Notes: Breadth-first search tree does not contain all paths (or all
%   shortest paths), but allows the determination of at least one path with
%   minimum distance. The entire graph is explored, starting from source
%   vertex 'source'.
%
%
%   Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, 2002/2007/2008

N = size(CIJ,1);

% colors: white, gray, black
white = 0;
gray = 1;
black = 2;

% initialize colors
color = zeros(1,N);
% initialize distances
distance = inf*ones(1,N);
% initialize branches
branch = zeros(1,N);

% start on vertex 'source'
color(source) = gray;
distance(source) = 0;
branch(source) = -1;
Q = source;

% keep going until the entire graph is explored
while ~isempty(Q)
   u = Q(1);
   ns = find(CIJ(u,:));
   for v=ns
% this allows the 'source' distance to itself to be recorded
      if (distance(v)==0)
         distance(v) = distance(u)+1;
      end;
      if (color(v)==white)
         color(v) = gray;
         distance(v) = distance(u)+1;
         branch(v) = u;
         Q = [Q v];
      end;
   end;
   Q = Q(2:length(Q));
   color(u) = black;
end

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Our Space & Vision
ROKU Atelier was created to be a space to bring together a community with a love for creating real, physical objects of beauty in the form of art. People who believe in the value of disconnecting from the digital, to be more mindful of the moment, of human connections, of every touch of the brush on canvas.
We're not for everyone, but we're excited to have a small group of people who identify with our vision, and we know you're out there. We don't feed you a standard way of creating art, we teach the skills and help you find your own style. What you do with it is your freedom of expression.
Our peaceful and well-lit studio is a hidden gem on a rooftop garden in the North of Singapore, near neighbouring housing estates. We have designed the best possible environment for art-making, where everyone feels comfortable and at home. This is the perfect spot to spend your relaxing weekends and evenings. When you step through the door, leave everything behind.
Max Shen
Max is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. Prior to starting ROKU Atelier, he worked at Asif Khan and Haptic Architects in London and graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL with honours.
He has previously won awards at the prestigious UOB Painting of the Year and the Singapore Airlines Art Competition. One of his collaborations includes a pop-up exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.
His recent professional work includes designing the office interior for a legal consultant at the newly refurbished Maxwell Chambers Suites in Singapore, among other design projects.
In 2017, his project 'City Farm of the Future' was awarded the 1st prize at the Shelter International Architectural Design Competition at the final jury at the Tokyo International Forum. The judging panel was chaired by architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow. The project was also featured in the February 2018 edition of Shinkenchiku.
Max's practice ranges from art to interior and furniture design to architectural visualisation, modelmaking and illustration.
ROKU Atelier
Mega@Woodlands
39 Woodlands Close
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(Visits by appointment only)
Saturday and Sundays 10am- 6pm
(Workshop hours may vary)
For all enquiries, including venue hire:
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Carriera

Calciatore

Club
Cresciuto nelle giovanili del Wacker Vienna, esordisce in prima squadra nel 1946 e l'anno successivo fa parte della squadra che vince campionato e coppa d'Austria, ottenendo il double. Per ben quattro volte, nelle stagioni 1947-1948, 1950-1951, 1952-1953 e 1955-1956 raggiunge la piazza d'onore in campionato. Nel 1951 disputa la finale di Coppa Mitropa contro il Rapid Vienna.

Chiuse la sua esperienza nella capitale nel 1958, trasferendosi allo Stickstoff Linz ed infine, nella stagione 1963-1964, giocò per il Wacker Innsbruck.

Nazionale
Esordisce in Nazionale il 10 novembre 1946, a Berna contro la  in una partita persa 1-0. Veste la maglia della Nazionale in 46 partite, segnando 22 reti, più un altro gol in una partita non ufficiale.
Il 5 novembre 1950, in un'amichevole contro la  a Vienna, mette a segno una tripletta in soli 27 minuti.
Nel 1954 partecipa alla Coppa del Mondo in Svizzera, aiutando l'Austria a raggiungere il terzo posto, miglior risultato di sempre. Nella cosiddetta "battaglia di Losanna", quarto di finale contro i padroni di casa, segna una tripletta nel 7-5 finale. Dichiarerà, nell'afa e nel caldo della Pontaise (45 °C), di aver perso cinque kg e mezzo di peso.

Allenatore
La carriera da allenatore di Wagner si esaurisce nello spazio di una sola stagione, il 1964-1965. Allena il Wacker Vienna che retrocede in Regionalliga Ost, dopo una sola stagione in Nationalliga.

In seguito al ritiro lavorò in un negozio di scarpe a Vienna, nella Meidlinger Hauptstraße, fino al 1998.

Palmarès

Wacker Vienna: 1946-1947

Wacker Vienna: 1946-1947

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale austriaca

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Directed by: Albert Maysles
2014 | USA | 83 min | PG-13
Iris pairs legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a fashion film, the documentary is a story about creativity and how, even in Iris' dotage, a soaring free spirit continues to inspire. Iris portrays a singular woman whose enthusiasm for fashion, art and people are life's sustenance and reminds us that dressing, and indeed life, is nothing but an experiment.


According to an online 2016 report by Bought By Many, London saw a great boom in cycling popularity with an increase of 110% since 2000 which means that the news of the high cycling death rates may be concerning to the seemingly popular increase in cycling.
Newspapers have reported that these high cycling injuries and deaths have increased the call for councils to attend this problem. Many see that local councils are spending these relevant budgets on adult social care. The government has responded in various ways. The Department of Transport has claimed that the government will be putting a "record" 23 billion into UK road maintenance in order to alleviate the rising issue.
Naming and Shaming Local Councils for Cycling Injuries?
It was reported that ministers were intent on naming and shaming those local councils who have not maintained the roads. This as well as deny them government funding access. Although according to This is Money, the group Fill That Hole has a different perspective saying, "And this isn't about pointing the finger at local authorities or accusing them of not doing their jobs properly. "
This is Money went on to report the top 10 list of councils with the most unfilled reported potholes. Essex County Council comes in fourth. Hertfordshire council follows in 3rd with 3124 unfilled potholes. Surrey County Council comes in first with 6733 potholes.
Have you experienced a serious injury due to third party negligence? Are you making a claim after an accident? Then you should go to the solicitor portal.


Letter to the Editor, The Forum, Fargo, N.D.
Mr. Fredricks' objection to the dress code is not that there is one, but how the dress code is written. There are some sections which provide mostly objective, gender-neutral prohibitions such as banning ads for substances illegal for minors to use, coats in class, and so on. But the section he wants to address lists items most likely to be worn by girls and carries an implicit shaming message regarding girls' bodies. It also includes reference to "any item deemed inappropriate by administration" which also creates a subjective standard.
The code contains no references to clothing that might be inappropriate but more likely to be worn by boys rather than girls. The catch-all section regarding any clothing considered "distracting" also leaves enforcement wide open to subjective interpretation.
Model dress codes have been developed, ranging in degree of what clothing is permitted (e.g. some school districts are OK with exposing the midriff, others are not), which are much more objective and avoid the gender-implicit language and application of dress codes such as the one Fredricks opposes. They also objectively define what is too short, too tight, too loose. Such codes have been established in many schools and are worth considering by the district.


This Special Session will highlight advancements in astrophysics in the low frequency gravitational waveband and will feature a mix of invited and contributed oral presentations and posters. Galaxy mergers are key to galaxy assembly and dynamics, as large galaxies in the local Universe are thought to undergo multiple mergers during their development. It is also established that most, if not all, large galaxies in the local Universe host a supermassive black hole (SMBH). During a merger SMBHs sink, through dynamical friction, to the center of the merger product; this simple dynamical evolution model can replicate a variety of galaxy and quasar properties, including the M_BH-sigma relation, the quasar luminosity function, and the central brightness of galaxies. The two SMBHs will form a bound binary when their separation is of order 10 pc. Further interactions with stars in the central region, and possibly gas interactions, may drive the binary to a point at which gravitational wave emission dominates its dynamics. The nanohertz gravitational waves emitted by a binary SMBH should be detectable by precise timing of radio pulsars. The sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays has now breached the strength of gravitational-wave signals expected from the known population of merging galaxies.
(iii) Binaries could evolve rapidly through the nanohertz regime because they couple strongly to the galactic environment.
This session will review what is known about the SMBH mass function, black hole-host relations, the galaxy merger process, and the influence of these on the expected gravitational wave signals. We will explore potential resolutions of the emerging mismatch between observed galaxy mergers and their not-yet-detected gravitational waves.


Our problems are often slightly different from problems in other parts of the world. First World Problems. Don't we all have them? But how do we get rid of them? Together with advertising agency Sue Amsterdam we created an identity for the First World Problem Store, a store initiated by the AIDS Fund where you can buy pills to solve your first world problems. And if you do, you'll instantly support the Aids Fonds, a foundation that makes HIV and AIDS medicines accessible to everyone, everywhere.


So far, I've reported on Firestone's Trustee Board meeting, now it's Longmont's turn. Unfortunately, there wasn't a whole lot said about Firestone's comments, but I suspect there will be as Firestone just approved the Firelight Park annexation.
In it, Longmont City Councilmember Sean McCoy rips into Firestone's Mayor Mike Simone over his comment " LifeBridge was forced to "walk away" by the election of an anti-religious faction to the LongmontCity Council". He also took offense to the " immoral" description of Longmont made by Trustee Steve Curtis. He said he found it " very unethical on this individuals part", meaning Mayor Simone. He basically threatened a lawsuit for slander.
I've been to ONE Firestone board meeting, and I'm not an elected official or anything, but even I know that they are a Board of Trustee's, NOT a City Council. Members are called Trustee's, NOT Councilmembers. I'm starting to agree with several people who have mentioned to me this constant habit of getting peoples names wrong (and I guess titles now) and how it shows a total lack of respect. In this case, it's Firestone's leaders. In other cases, well, you listen for it yourself.
) and replace Boulder with Longmont, and Longmont with Firestone in the appropriate places and context. I know some of you hate it when I point out total hypocrisy like this, but it speaks for itself here.
Then this outrage over the " anti-religious" comment. Here's the problem: On 1/8/08( http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Blogs/News-Politics/Commentary/Blog~412831.aspx), Mr. McCoy made the point of his detachment from the Lifebridge issue as he said he and the other new members of council didn't vote on Lifebridge. So in essence, he's saying the new council had nothing to do with what happened to Lifebridge. If that's the case, then why would he take offense to Mayor Simone's inference that an anti-religious faction was to blame when THEY HADN'T EVEN BEEN ELECTED YET AND OBVIOUSLY COULDN'T VOTE ON IT, as Mr. McCoy himself made clear as his closing point on 1/8/08?
Mr. McCoy tried to make the case that other factors caused Lifebridge to pull out (remember the " 600% of Longmont residents" nonsense?). He must not have believed that nonsense himself, most people I know didn't buy it, and obviously the Firestone Board of Trustee's didn't swallow that line either. His anger over this comment revealed that his 1/8/08 comments were a whitewash, otherwise why would this sting so much?
To be fair, is it possible Mr. McCoy was truly outraged over being called " anti-religious" ? Absolutely. I assume most public officials are concerned with the image they put out. They wouldn't want to be publicly called " anti-religious", true or not, for fear of alienating over half of their constituents. Then again, insulting constituents is getting to be a regular occurrence for Mr. McCoy. Let's now add leaders from other cities and the press to the list, the same press ( Times-Call) he bought ad space from during his campaign. Very consistent and principled, not.
What's the point of all this? I know I won't be popular holding these officials accountable in this fashion when it needs to be done, and I find no joy in doing it. But these are our elected representatives. They should avoid embarrassing themselves, and the rest of us, and I'm hoping they might look at and listen to themselves, and learn from it in the future. And you wonder why so many people (not just in Longmont) are apathetic to the issues and these officials? I'm trying to get more people involved, this doesn't help.
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As usual I am hitting the annual gratitude a bit late. However, I have a fair excuse. More about that another day.
For today, I am grateful for today's snowfall, because I do love the snow.
I am also grateful nobody I know fell very badly today, because many people at work were running around the city and there were some falls, but so far as I know no major injuries. Especially broken bones. Not on my watch.


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Syracuse march: We can't breathe!
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University main quad
Join SU and community members as we fight for justice and peace in our streets! Students, faculty, staff, community leaders, activists, and all others are invited to stand in solidarity against all forms of oppression and exploitation.
Our protest will begin at 4:00pm at Hendricks Chapel. Around 4:30pm, we will head to Schine Student Center where we will stage a die-in for 4.5 minutes to represent the four and a half hours that Mike Brown's lifeless body sat in the streets of Ferguson. From there, we will regather and make our way to the so-called "Justice" Center and Public Safety Building of Syracuse where we will demand justice for local victims of brutality at the hands of the police and jailers.
Please bring signs, noise-makers, but most importantly, bring your voices, your cries, and your concerns


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Les Jumeaux du bout du monde est une série télévisée d'animation franco-australienne créée par Jean Chalopin, coproduite par ABC Australie et diffusée en France à partir du  dans le Club Dorothée, puis en 2005 sur NT1, sur AB1 en 2007 et sur Mangas depuis 2011. Elle est également disponible en intégralité sur la chaîne YouTube TeamKids depuis le 21 décembre 2017.

Synopsis

Jules et Julie sont nés le même jour de 1895 au même endroit à Shanghai, mais de parents différents. Selon une prophétie de Lao-Tseu, ils sont les « Jumeaux du destin », enfants de la Lune, qui doivent amener la paix dans l'Empire chinois en mettant un terme à la dynastie impériale.

L'impératrice douairière Cixi, avertie par son astrologue, ordonne donc le meurtre de ces bébés susceptibles d'ébranler son pouvoir. Mais une organisation secrète, les « combattants de la liberté », au courant depuis toujours de la prophétie, sauve les jumeaux et organise leur transfert en France, loin des foudres de l'impératrice, où les jumeaux vivent en compagnie de leur père adoptif, le capitaine Tournier.

Douze ans ont passé. Tandis que le capitaine Tournier meurt d'une crise cardiaque, les eunuques de l'impératrice douairière retrouvent finalement la trace des jumeaux à Paris. Avec l'aide des combattants de la liberté, dirigés par Shou Cow, et de nombreux amis rencontrés au cours de leurs voyages, comme Martin Garçon, Paulette, ou encore le professeur Ledoux, les jumeaux, après bien des aventures, retournent en Chine accomplir leur destin.

Distribution
 Edgar Givry : Martin Garçon
 Évelyne Grandjean : impératrice douairière chinoise Cixi, Paulette
 Hervé Rey : Jules
 Barbara Tissier : Julie
 Michel Vigné : Po Dong (le bras droit de l'imératrice)
 Marc Cassot : Paul-Henri Tournier (le capitaine)
 Gérard Surugue : Le presque-grand Sabatier
 Michel Clainchy : Chaoko (le professeur), Léopold Ledoux
 Serge Bourrier : Le Dr Gounaud, Grand pétre O-Sheng
 Gérard Dessalles : Narrateur, O-Han, Giovan

 Version française

 Société de Doublage : SOFI

 Directeur artistique : Albert Lenoir

Épisodes

 01. La Naissance
 02. La Mort sur la mer
 03. Une nouvelle vie
 04. Le Voyage à Paris
 05. La Découverte
 06. L'Ennemi arrive
 07. L'attaque
 08. Nouveau foyer, nouveaux déboires
 09. Le Piège
 10. Pris au piège
 11. Ami ou Ennemi ?
 12. Danger dans la nuit
 13. Un ami de feu
 14. La Route du danger
 15. Piéger un héros
 16. On vend les jumeaux
 17. Au cœur des ténèbres
 18. Les Lapins du destin
 19. Le Voyage continue
 20. Chassés-croisés
 21. Les enfants de la déesse Lune
 22. Adieu à un ami
 23. Belle rivière, dangereuse rivière
 24. Croire
 25. Aventure en Avignon
 26. Enfin Marseille
 27. La Maison du désespoir
 28. Une lumière dans la nuit
 29. Il faut partir
 30. Traversée dangereuse
 31. Dans l'œil de la tempête
 32. Sains et saufs
 33. Le Retour des mafiosi
 34. Mer cruelle, douce mer
 35. Changement de cap
 36. La Bataille navale
 37. Les Bons et les Méchants
 38. Une femme grecque
 39. Adieu, l'île du chagrin
 40. Une nuit en Grèce
 41. Athènes la nuit
 42. Le Pays de tous les dangers
 43. Dangereux désert
 44. Aventure dans le désert
 45. Le piège se referme
 46. Dans les montagnes
 47. Contre vents et marées
 48. Lutte pour les parchemins
 49. Réunion
 50. À l'assaut de la cité interdite
 51. Le Temple de l'harmonie céleste
 52. La Bataille finale

Liens externes

Série télévisée créée en 1991
Série télévisée française des années 1990
Série d'animation de TF1
Série d'animation française
Programme diffusé dans le Club Dorothée
Série télévisée d'AB Productions
Série télévisée pour la jeunesse


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The third fall lecture of The New York Democracy Forum, featuring Anwar Ibrahim.
Anwar Ibrahim - Speaker
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
Anwar Ibrahim, formerly the deputy prime minister of Malaysia and vice president of the United Malays National Organization, Ibrahim started in 1971 the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM), the first mass-based NGO in the country to raise social and political awareness and emphasize social justice and human rights. Together with the late Prof. Ismail al-Faruqi and Dr. Taha Jabir al-Awani, Ibrahim founded the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in 1981 and later set up the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Ashburn, Virginia. His criticism of corruption and abuse of power within the Malaysian government and his vocal demand for reform resulted in his arrest and imprisonment in September 1998. Ibrahim, who led a new democratic movement in Malaysia from his prison cell, was released in September 2004.


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Benefits of IoT
November 29, 2022 February 22, 2021 by exponenta.io
Communication is the backbone of accessible and effective communication. The IoT helps in relaying information across devices. The internet of things is flooding the market in different ranges, right from fit-bit watches to smart homes. Besides, this sector's growth breaks boundaries where the most popular tech giants have been taking a leading role. But do you know where the IoT started? Well, we shall explore the history and the benefits of IoT technology in this article.
Internet of things history
What is internet of things history? Long-distance communication started in the 1800s. In 1832, there was an innovation of the first electromagnetic telegraph. Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message to the public in 1844. After a long existence of the telephone, Alexander Bell received the first patent in 1876 in the U.S. Advances and developments in this technology continued in the 1900s, where connectivity continued to be on the rise.
Edward Throp constructed the first wearable computer in 1955, while AT & T created the first commercial modem in 1962. Another milestone occurred in 1965 where two communication devices could communicate with one another. Theodore Paraskevakos created the first communication across machines in 1968 and later invented electric meters that supported communication with electric grids.
In 1973, there was an innovation of the first mobile phone by Martin Cooper while he was working on Motorola. The invention introduced the cellular data technology that has become an important part of the IoT across different dimensions.
Interestingly, John Romkey created the first IoT device in 1991, which was a toaster. The toaster could be controlled from the internet. Further innovation followed in 1991 with the creation of the first sim card to support wireless communication across networks. In 1999, Kevin Ashton innovated the IoT while working on the Procter & Gamble during an RFID presentation. From this time onwards, the industry players have been working to improve the connectivity across devices with one another.
The Benefits of IoT
The IoT provides improved business opportunities by ensuring the business collect data from the network for use in advanced analysis to unveil new opportunities and insights for the business. The collected data is also useful in the optimization of the costs.
Secondly, the IoT provides businesses with new opportunities for taking appropriate actions and actions. Businesses should be able to predict needs before taking action to improve precision. However, this is only possible with the effective use of the IoT.
The IoT can also help an enterprise improve its monitoring capabilities. The IoT has smart devices and sensors that improve the ability to manage a network comprising several physical objects. Again, this is possible because of the enhanced data collection capabilities supported through the IoT. The main benefits of iot include:
Increased customer dialogue.
Fin-tuning products and services delivery.
Innovation and creation of new streams for generating revenues.
Improving the business's ability to control its operational processes.
The IoT Trends
The following are some of the leading IoT trends in 2021:
Security is among the major concerns with the IoT.
The SaaS is gaining popularity and becoming part of the IoT technology much faster.
Edge computing is increasing efficiency by cost reduction, making enterprises to become more powerful.
Businesses have higher data processing capabilities and collection because of integrating the IoT successfully.
The IoT is improving and supporting the global reach concept, given that businesses can now connect with one another with enhanced ease.
Also gaining application in other industries such as healthcare and creating smart homes and smart cities.
The IoT chain coinmarketcap
The IoT chain coinmarketcap operates on the Ethereum platform as an IoT. Today, it has a value of $0.108556 following a trading volume of 24 hours. It does not have a maximum supply but trades at ITC coins worth 87,214,657. The IoT chain exchanges include OKEx, Huobi Global, DragonEX, and KuCoin.
The IoT is among the leading technological breakthrough. It has enhanced capabilities for businesses largely through enhanced communication. Besides, IoT improves efficiency and business capabilities far much than years before. This is why its applications and acceptability are widely popular in the business world today. The technology's history promises a greater future because more innovations are still underway. Also, internet of things is related to AI, but about this – in the next article.
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