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Posted on September 26, 2020 by Mike Glyer
(1) TIME 100. Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020 includes a sff writer and two astronauts.
Tomi Adeyemi was praised by actor John Boyega.
When someone told me about Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone, describing it as a cross between Harry Potter, the Chronicles of Narnia and Yoruba gods, I was shocked. It sounded like the best combination ever: How had I not heard of it? I read it, then I read it again, then I listened to the audiobook. I was being introduced to a world I couldn't have imagined before. The characters were larger than life but with very human problems and issues. And the novel spoke to my self-identity and culture as a Nigerian, in its social commentary and in its depiction of both magic and oppression.
It's so important to have representation within books like this. In school, I realized that only when my teacher considered my point of view did learning become easier. When my kids are growing up, they're going to have these new classic heroes from an environment they know….
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir were written up by Mae Jemison.
In October 2019, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir exited the International Space Station and replaced a controller regulating the batteries that store the station's solar power. But the two astronauts accomplished much more than fixing the space station. They completed the first all-female spacewalk, shifting who we see as strong, brave, competent, and who's on the team pushing the boundaries of exploration.
Yes, as Koch and Meir said, they were just doing their jobs. All astronauts say that, because being in space is our job. Yet two women executing intellectually and physically demanding work in one of the most challenging circumstances in which humans operate – orbital altitude of 250 miles, velocity of 17,500 m.p.h. – is an important event. Not because these women proved what we, women, could do; that was never in doubt. Rather because the whole world saw it, including the gatekeepers (frequently men) who determine who has access to these opportunities….
(2) ALGORITHM AND BLUES. The latest Future Tense story is "The State Machine" by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. Tagline: "A new short story imagines a government run entirely by machines."
The author says:
This is my attempt to explore the cracks and boundaries of AI governance that doesn't fall into the tired Skynet tropes, Machine-Priest dreamings or one-reclusive-programmer-creates-life nonsense. How might a benevolent system actually come to be?
S.B. Divya, "an expert on machine learning", has written a response essay "Under the Gaze of Big Mother".
The world of software has a long-held, pernicious myth that a system built from digital logic cannot have biases. A piece of code functions as an object of pure reason, devoid of emotion and all the messiness that entails. From this thesis flows an idea that has gained increasing traction in the worlds of both technology and science fiction: a perfectly rational system of governance built upon artificial intelligence. If software can't lie, and data can't inherently be wrong, then what could be more equitable and efficient than the rule of a machine-driven system?
In "The State Machine," Yudhanjaya Wijeratne explores a possible future where this concept has become reality. He takes the idea of A.I. government a step further by making it highly dynamic, with regular changes to the constitution and legal framework. Given how much of our lives are now in the hands of massive software applications – communications, banking, health care – I can see large swaths of humanity choosing to live under an A.I.-based government, rather than under human politicians, in hopes of more equitable treatment under the law and less overall corruption. It could happen incrementally, as it does in this story, so we go along with it, until one day a sizable portion of the world's population finds itself living this way. You have only to look at Facebook, which now has 2.7 billion monthly active users (more than one-third of the world!), for a very real example….
(3) PACKED INSIDE. Clarke Award judge Alasdair Stuart included praise for the 2020 winner in "The Full Lid 25th September 2020".
…And The Old Drift is the story of the stories that make up a country and a history, across the personal, national and societal levels. Comedy, romance, horror, crime, science fiction. It's almost a fire hose worth of concepts, conceits and glittering moments of invention and prose that approach overwhelming even as they impress.
But in Serpell's hands, each of these stories and genre shifts presents more like the progression of a elaborate, interwoven symphony. The tale starts with a simple melody: a Victorian photographer entranced in equal proportion by the brave new worlds of his profession and of his newly chosen home. He's cheery and unconcerned with the complexities of life in a way that's both profoundly familiar (David Copperfield as science fiction Chosen One) and deeply unsettling and annoying. This isn't his land, even though as time goes by he treats it like exactly that. That subtlest of cuts, that differentiation between character and reader is what Serpell uses to expand the novel out into a swelling crescendo across decades and genres….
(4) TENTACLE TIME. The Kitschies Award team announced they are taking submissions until January 8, 2021.
The Kitschies, literature's most tentacular prize, are pleased to announce that they are open to submissions for books published in the UK in 2020.
The Kitschies rewards the year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining books that contain elements of the speculative and fantastic. Winners receive a total of £2,500 in prize money, as well as one of the prize's iconic hand-crafted Tentacle trophies.
The judges for the Red and Golden Tentacles are M.R. Carey, Mahvesh Murad, Daphne Lao Tonge and Kaiya Shang. Inky Tentacle judges are Fleur Clarke, James Spackman, Emily McGovern and Clare Richardson.
(5) MEDIA ANNIVERSARY.
Twenty years ago, Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Published by Roc, Tamsin is the story of ghosts and cats set on an English country estate. It never had a British edition though it had a German one. The last print edition was on Firebird Books, the imprint edited by Sharyn November, fourteen years ago. There was a cassette only release of Peter narrating the novel though I don't see it available currently. It is available from the usual digital suspects. (CE)
(6) TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge and John Hertz.]
Born September 26, 1867 – Winsor McCay. Pioneer in comic strips and animation. Little Nemo in Slumberland remains astonishing. Among much else WM drew Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (alas, the joke is "Welsh rabbit" = melted cheese, but never mind that now) and political cartoons. In one version of Gertie the Dinosaur for vaudeville, WM appeared to interact with her. A Little Nemo short film took 4,000 drawings; The Sinking of the "Lusitania" took 25,000. (Died 1934) [JH]
Born September 26, 1872 — Max Erhmann. Best remembered for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" which I have a framed copy hanging here in my work area. Yeah big fan. Genre connection? Well calling it "Spock Thoughts", Nimoy recited the poem on Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, his 1968 album. (Died 1945.) (CE)
Born September 26, 1918 – John Rankine. Forty novels, some for Space:1999; three dozen shorter stories; some e.g. From Carthage Then I Came under another name. Friend of Anthony Burgess while both at Univ. Manchester. JR is in five volumes of New Writings in SF. (Died 2013) [JH]
Born September 26, 1941 — Martine Beswick, 79. Although she auditioned for Dr. No, she was instead cast in From Russia with Love as Zora. She also appeared as Paula Caplan in Thunderball. She would appear in One Million Years B.C. opposite Raquel Welch. She made several Hammer Studio films including Prehistoric Women and Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde. (CE)
Born September 26, 1942 – James Christensen. Three dozen covers, five dozen interiors. Here is Lyonesse. Here is Spectrum 4. Here is Voyage of the "Basset". Artbook A Journey of the Imagination. (Died 2017) [JH]
Born September 26, 1945 – Denny Lien, 75. Served as an officer of Minn-Stf and editor of Einblatt. Co-author of Midwest Side Story. In various apas e.g. Minneapa, ANZAPA. Guest of Honor at Minicon 21. Letters, reviews in F&SF, Interzone, Locus, NY Review of SF, SF Commentary, SF Review. [JH]
Born September 26, 1948 — Olivia Newton-John, 72. She was Kira in Xanadu which is partly responsible for the creation of the Golden Raspberry Awards. (Can't Stop the Music was the other film responsible.) It should be noted that Xanadu currently gets a 23% rating among audience reviewers at Rotten Tomatoes. (CE)
Born September 26, 1957 — Tanya Huff, 63. Her now-concluded Confederation of Valor Universe series is highly recommended by me. And I also give a strong recommendation to her Gale Family series. I've not read her other series, so I'll ask y'all what you'd recommend. (CE)
Born September 26, 1957 – Roger MacBride Allen, 63. A score of novels (three in the Star Wars universe, three with Asimov's positronic robots), half as many shorter stories. Two books of history with his father, historian Thomas B. Allen. [JH]
Born September 26, 1968 — Jim Caviezel, 52. John Reese on Person of Interest which CBS describes as a "crime drama". Huh. He was also Detective John Sullivan in Frequency, and Kainan in Outlander. And yes he played Number Six in the rather unfortunate reboot of The Prisoner. (CE)
Born September 26, 1974 – Sonny Liew, 46. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye was an Amazon and NY Times Best Seller, a first for a Singaporean graphic novel; it and SL won three Eisners, also a Ping Prize as Best Int'l Comic (Denmark). Here is SL's cover for The Infinite Library. SL's Malinky Robot won a Xeric Award, and Comic Album of the Year at the Utopiales Int'l SF Festival. [JH]
Born September 26, 1985 — Talulah Riley, 35. Miss Evangelista in "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead", two most excellent Tenth Doctor stories. She also portrays Angela in the Westworld series, and she shows up in Thor: The Dark World as an Asgardian nurse. And she's Gina Gartison in Bloodshot, the Vin Diesel-fronted Valiant Comics superhero film. Anyone seen the latter? (CE)
(7) COMICS SECTION.
Marmaduke changes up a common moviegoers' remark.
Scandinavia and the World says "I, for one…."
(8) BOOK HEAVEN. A photo of the original site of Toronto's Bakka bookstore was tweeted by Retrontario. That's where it was when I visited in 1973.
Bakka ("the weeper who mourns for all mankind") when it was a SF/Comic book Mecca on Queen Street West. Bought lots of original Target Dr. Who books here in the 80s ?? pic.twitter.com/gV38aJtper
— Retrontario ??? (@retrontario) September 25, 2020
(9) CASTING TINKERBELL. "Yara Shahidi will be 1st Black woman to play Tinkerbell in new 'Peter Pan' movie" – Yahoo! News has the story.
Yara Shahidi is getting her wings.
The actor is set to play Tinkerbell in Disney's "Peter Pan and Wendy," the studio's latest live-action adaptation. Shahidi joins a cast that features Jude Law as Captain Hook, with Alexander Molony as Peter Pan and newcomer Ever Anderson as Wendy.
(10) WORKING AWAY FROM HOME. NPR tells how a "NASA Astronaut Will Vote From Space". I hope that ballot doesn't burn up on re-entry! Oh – never mind.
On Election Day, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will be more than 200 miles above her nearest polling place. But she's still planning to vote – from space.
"It's critical to participate in our democracy," Rubins told The Associated Press. "We consider it an honor to be able to vote from space."
Rubins, who has a doctorate in cancer biology from Stanford and was the first person to sequence DNA in space, is currently training for her upcoming six-month mission on the International Space Station.
Voting from the space station is similar to voting absentee from anyplace on the planet – except instead of relying on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the ballot, Rubins will get hers forwarded electronically from Mission Control in Houston.
(11) STORY REVIEWS. Adri Joy goes "Questing in Shorts: September 2020" at Nerds of a Feather.
… I'm behind with my Uncanny reading – in fact, it's possible my subscription has lapsed without me noticing, because those are the kind of times we live in now, folks – and some of the stories in this next-most-recent (I think?) issue worked better for me than others. Firmly on the "yay" side of that equation was "The Inaccessibility of Heaven" by Aliette de Bodard, a story of fallen angels and the humans who live alongside them (I'm not sure if this is in the same universe as The Dominion of the Fallen, though it definitely doesn't feel the same or contain any characters I recognise). It's a tight, intriguing murder mystery that puts its human protagonist in the centre of magical happenings which the Fallen in their life would prefer they stayed out of. …
(12) A FASHION SHOW FOR 2020. "From Jeremy Scott at Moschino, a Celebration of the Magic, Whimsy, and Fantasy of Fashion in 40 Puppet-Sized Looks" – Vogue sets the frame.
The vigilant spectator would watch the elaborate puppet show Jeremy Scott created for Moschino this season and wonder: Was this the designer painting a picture of our turbulent times through metaphors of political puppeteering, 'strings attached,' and questions of real vs. fake? Were his designs – couture-level garments that revealed their own construction – an image of much-needed truth in the public forum? "You're totally reading into it," he said on a video call from his home in Los Angeles as we both burst out in laughter. "The best thing I could do for everyone who's stressed about the election, the pandemic, social unrest, and the future was to give the gift of fantasy and take us away from all of it for a few minutes; let us enjoy this little fashion world of ours."
(13) RELUCTANT CRITIC. Andrew Mather at The Quill To Live says don't make him review this book! "The Trouble With Peace – A Delicious Dark Book For A Troubled Year".
I didn't really want to review The Trouble With Peace by Joe Abercrombie, because I don't want to draw your attention to it. As I have said before, Abercrombie is best enjoyed with no expectations and as little knowledge as possible. If you have read him, you likely are going to read this book. If you haven't heard of him, and want a really intense fantasy series, go check out his first book in this world: The Blade Itself. So if I can't really talk about the book, and I don't want to talk about the book, and no one really needs to hear about the book, why am I writing a review of it you ask? Well, because The Trouble With Peace is a contender for my best book of the year and it would feel unprofessional to say nothing about it.
The thing that makes The Trouble With Peace, and all Abercrombie books, great is the characters….
(14) MAKING DEMANDS. [Item by Mike Kennedy.] A researcher hacked a smart coffee maker. He not only gained full control of the functions (which he could misuse in devious ways like beeping incessantly & spewing hot water) but also flashed a ransom message on the display. "When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed" at Ars Technica.
With the name Smarter, you might expect a network-connected kitchen appliance maker to be, well, smarter than companies selling conventional appliances. But in the case of the Smarter's Internet-of-things coffee maker, you'd be wrong.
As a thought experiment, Martin Hron, a researcher at security company Avast, reverse engineered one of the $250 devices to see what kinds of hacks he could do. After just a week of effort, the unqualified answer was: quite a lot…
… The next step was to create modified firmware that did something less innocuous.
"Originally, we wanted to prove the fact that this device could mine cryptocurrency," Hron wrote. "Considering the CPU and architecture, it is certainly doable, but at a speed of 8MHz, it doesn't make any sense as the produced value of such a miner would be negligible."…
(15) ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. Paul Weimer's "Microreview: In the Black by Patrick Tomlinson" at Nerds of a Feather doesn't seem too micro at all!
…. But it is the nuts and bolts of the Military SF that the novel really focuses on, and where for the most part it shines brilliantly. The FTL is the Alcubierre drive, frame dragging FTL with interesting limitations and restrictions. There is no Ansible (which means that the transmission of information between solar systems has to be by ship, which proves to be something that parts of the plot turns on) There is a definite sense of a cold war arms building up and testing on both sides. Like the 1970's and 1980s as America and the USSR developed better weapon systems of various kinds, a Balance of Terror, there is a corporate cast to the weapons development, making profit motives an interesting tweak to how the Military tech development and execution proceed. There is plenty of space action as the opposite sides square off, and Tomlinson delivers what Mil-SF readers are looking for in terms of well described action and adventure.
[Thanks to N., James Davis Nicoll, Martin Morse Wooster, JJ. Michael Toman, John Hertz, Cat Eldridge, Mike Kennedy, John King Tarpinian, Lise Andreasen, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day PJ Evans.]
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21 thoughts on "Pixel Scroll 9/26/20 The File Goes Around The Scroll, The Scroll Goes Around The Pixel: It All Goes Around"
Andrew (not Werdna) on September 26, 2020 at 6:22 pm said:
(6) Roger McBride Allen has a publishing house, too, Foxfire Press.
"Person of Interest" involves AIs competing for the future of humanity (and the men and women who fight for them) – of course it's SF.
James Davis Nicoll on September 26, 2020 at 6:35 pm said:
An… interesting angle to the Tomlison is that he has an obsessive stalker who does their best to flood any review with negative and offensive comments. I had to turn comments to moderated only for a while after reviewing his books and when I mentioned it in tor, the moderators worked overtime to deal with the trolls.
Lis Carey on September 26, 2020 at 6:36 pm said:
Tired, achy, but reading Murder on Cold Street, by Sherry Thomas, the fifth in the Lady Sherlock series. Charlotte Holmes invented Sherlock because nobody takes young women seriously, and (originally, in the first book, A Study in Scarlet Women), she needed to be able to investigate the murders her father and sister were accused of.
I remember finding A Study in Scarlet Women kind of fun but not more than that. I haven't read any of the intervening volumes, and didn't initially recognize the author name or the basic set-up when I was offered the ARC, Which is good, because I might have said no, and I'm really enjoying it. It will be published in early October.
Cat Eldridge on September 26, 2020 at 6:52 pm said:
Im getting a replacement knee immobliser fitted here on Monday as I've worn this one out. It turns out they're not really designed to be worn 24/7 for months on end as the foam that covers the metal hinges afound the knee wears thin which is not a Good Thing. I've now been wearing it since the seventh of May taking having it off only for the second surgery and when I shower.
Soon Lee on September 26, 2020 at 7:06 pm said:
Best wishes for a well-fitted replacement Cat.
Rob Thornton on September 26, 2020 at 7:15 pm said:
14) Interesting that ransomware was seemingly missed by the genre. Someone holding your data for ransom via encryption? Who knew?
@ Cat: Good luck out there.
Soon Lee says Best wishes for a well-fitted replacement Cat.
I hope so. Per the approval of the surgeon, I've several hours twice a week walking at The Mall per-surgery starting that afternoon and a properly fitted new immobilizer is a must for that activity. I doubt I'll be allowed to do that activity for a month or so after the third surgery on the 12th of May.
Eli on September 26, 2020 at 7:25 pm said:
@Andrew (not Werdna): That's an accurate description of what Person of Interest eventually turns into, but it starts out as a much more generic-looking cop/spy procedural with techno-thriller aspects, using the tech idea as a plot generator. Anyone who gave up on it during that part, as I suspect that reviewer did and I almost did, would've in effect seen a different show.
David Shallcross on September 26, 2020 at 7:48 pm said:
10) I hope they've put some serious thought about ensuring the secrecy of such orbital votes. In the current world, government employees like astronauts can be particularly concerned about keeping their votes private.
And I'm sure I've seen ransomware in SF, maybe by Stephenson or Stross, but that might have been after it started showing up in real life.
gottacook on September 26, 2020 at 8:19 pm said:
(8) That car, for anyone who's interested, is a 1976 Pontiac Catalina sedan – representing the final year of the huge, indifferently built 1971-76 GM full-size cars. In the summer of 1982 I co-drove one from Philadelphia to Milwaukee, then hitchhiked to Minneapolis in short order.
Camestros Felapton on September 26, 2020 at 9:18 pm said:
Reamde by Neal Stephenson has a plot involving ransomware
David Langford on September 27, 2020 at 12:55 am said:
Not sure whether this has been mentioned before: I wanted to confirm something in the Retro Hugo statistics, clicked the link on my own Ansible page, and got a 404 error from the CoNZealand site. The PDF voting breakdowns for both Hugos and Retros have been removed, along with the posts announcing the winners. Both PDFs are still available via early-August CoNZealand site snapshots at the Internet Archive, though they'd gone before the next crawl on 25 August.
ETA: Happily the Hugo Awards site has the documents.
Rob Thornton on September 27, 2020 at 4:00 am said:
@ Camestros Felapton
According to Wikipedia, active ransomware appeared on the Net in 2005 and Reamde was published in 2011. Guess I was trying to say that no one predicted ransomware before it existed.
Andrew (not Werdna) on September 27, 2020 at 11:02 am said:
@Eli: You're right, of course. It was a while before the show moved firmly into the SF territory.
Jon DeCles on September 27, 2020 at 11:30 am said:
Having found myself talked into appearing as a model in a fashion show in 2019, and discovering what a weird, fierce, hard-to-do thing modeling could be, I was delighted to see Moschino's collection with puppets. At first it gave the impression that he had too much gold cloth left over from a previous year, but it progressed along nicely, and I could just hear him sighing in relief that he did not have to deal with live human personalities back stage.
Models are not dumb, have an unbelievable competitive spirit, and often work the same long hours to get a precise movement as actors do.
And they have to dodge the bullets when two designers go at it like battling Wagnerian sopranos. (My robot wants to change the designer's name to 'cheetos,' which is really a comment on the discussion of AI intrusions which follows the fashion show on your page.)
Jim Janney on September 27, 2020 at 8:15 pm said:
(5) Cats and ghosts are both commonplace in fantasy, but this is the only ghost cat that I can recall.
Randall M on September 27, 2020 at 8:55 pm said:
Cat, in terms of reading Huff I would honestly say just about any book by her is worth reading (ironically, I found the Gale family series not so good so maybe you shouldn't trust me). If you want a series, consider the Keeper series — starts with Summon the Keeper and is available in an omnibus edition. Kinda like the Gales, only more humorous.
Rose Embolism on September 27, 2020 at 10:02 pm said:
2) interesting this is coming out at the same time there's discussion of inherent bias in Twitter's image processing algorithm. A program is only as unbiased as its programming and data sets allow it to be.
Soon Lee on September 27, 2020 at 11:30 pm said:
@David Langford,
Was poised to comment that they are still available at the Hugo Awards site and then I got to your ETA…
Kevin Standlee on September 28, 2020 at 6:44 am said:
@David Langford:
This is why I am such a pest to Hugo Award administrators about getting that information at the earliest possible opportunity for posting to TheHugoAwards.org.
Paul Weimer on September 28, 2020 at 4:56 pm said:
Good luck for the knee, Cat


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There are two different COX enzymes, known as COX1 and COX2. Aspirin inhibits both enzymes at similar concentrations, and the well-known adverse effects of aspirin, such as gastric bleeding, have been shown to be due to inhibition of COX1.
The market release of selective COX2 inhibitors (rofecoxib – brand name Vioxx and celecoxib – Celebrex) in the late 1990s promised pain relief without gastric bleeding, but rofecoxib (Vioxx) was withdrawn in 2004 after clinical trials on its gastrointestinal effects showed as much as double the risk of increased blood pressure and heart attacks. The increased cardiovascular risk occurred after six to 18 months of treatment. And it was greater in older patients with existing cardiovascular risk factors, who were taking higher rofecoxib (Vioxx) doses.
A summary of all known studies has now been completed to estimate the relative cardiovascular risk of commonly used NSAIDs, especially at low doses as in non-prescription use, over short time periods and in low-risk populations. The research looked at results from community-based controlled studies with NSAIDs that reported on cardiovascular risk. It evaluated 30 case-control studies, which included 184,946 cardiovascular events resulting from all causes. It also looked at data from 21 cohort studies of over 2.7 million individuals taking NSAIDs, doubling the current statistical basis.
Considering only those NSAIDs that have been widely studied, the highest risk of cardiovascular events was shown with rofecoxib (Vioxx), diclofenac (Voltaren) and indomethacin (Indocid). Rofecoxib was withdrawn in 2004 and indomethacin is not commonly used, so the important result is the increased risk with diclofenac, which is available for non-prescription use.
The overall increase in risk with diclofenac (Voltaren) was about 40%, compared with 9% increase with naproxen (Naprosyn), 18% with ibuprofen and 45% with the already-withdrawn rofecoxib. The risk increase with diclofenac (Voltaren) was dose-dependent – 22% at low doses and double that at high doses.
Most studies found that the risk was increased within 30 days of starting on the painkillers. In contrast, naproxen did not produce a significant increase in risk at low or high doses, and there was also no increased risk with ibuprofen at low doses.
This study didn't evaluate non-prescription use of these NSAIDs, but notes that maximal recommended doses of naproxen (750 mg/day) and ibuprofen (1200 mg/day) show minimal, if any, increases in cardiovascular risk. In contrast, the maximal recommended non-prescription dose of diclofenac (75 mg/day) is similar to the doses increasing cardiovascular risk.
Prescribing must rely on clear clinical evidence, such as that provided in this study, and it's not just all bad news for people with arthritis. There are effective drugs and doses that need not increase the risk of a heart attack, and patients with existing cardiovascular disease should be more closely monitored when they start on new drugs.


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Joe List, Jan. 11, 7:45 p.m., Fairfield Theatre Company, 70 Sanford St., Fairfield. Tickets: $29. Info: fairfieldtheatre.org.
Judy Moody & Stink, Jan. 12, 1 and 4 p.m., Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Ct., Westport. Tickets: $20. Book collection for Read to Grow, Inc. Info: westportplayhouse.org.
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Piff the Magic Dragon, Jan. 18, 5 and 8 p.m., The Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 East Ridge Rd., Ridgefield. Tickets: $40-$65. Info: ridgefieldplayhouse.org.
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Amazing Max, Jan. 26, 3 p.m., The Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford. Interactive magic show with Max Darwin. Tickets: $12.50 Info: palacestamford.org.
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Flip Flop Circus with Liz Bolick and Therese Schorn, Feb. 9, 3 p.m., The Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford. Tickets: $12.50. Info: palacestamford.org.
Ron White, Feb. 13, 8 p.m., The Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford. Tickets: $40-$235. Info: palacestamford.org.
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The Spinning Tales of Peter Pan & Cinderella on Ice, Feb. 29, 3 and 7 p.m., The Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford. Tickets: $25-$45. Info: palacestamford.org.


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In Phnom Penh alone, around 10 million plastic bags are used on a daily basis, according to United Nations Development Programme. Most of these are used and distributed by different people, from food vendors to clothing retailers, due to their affordability and ubiquitous presence.
In a report by the non-profit organisation, Plastics Ocean International, it was found that over 300 million tonnes of plastic are used every year, half of which is utilised for single-use purposes. The figures are astounding when considering a report by the Our World in Data publication which said that it takes at least 450 years for plastic bottle to decompose.
To safeguard the future of the environment, several people banded together to create the "Sramol Fashion & Creative", which seeks to use recyclable waste to its limit, effectively reducing waste disposal.
One man's waste could be Another man's fashion.
Korn Sokheng, graphic designer and digital marketing officer of Sramol, explained that the group's name means "shadow" when translated in English. He said this means that the team will always be alongside their followers to help them lead a zero-waste lifestyle. He said this green initiative was created in 2019 with a mere group of six, with them choosing to utilise fashion design as a tool to recreate recyclable waste.
For Sramol, his designs usually revolve on women's night dresses.
"Everyone in our team has the same passion for fashion design. Although we are not experts, our passion has led us to who we are and what we have today," Sokheng said, adding that Sramol has first run a fashion show at a Royal Phnom Penh University charity event in 2019.
Sokheng said a goal of the team is to create an impact to society by influencing them to use more recyclables, which are generally sent to the dumpsites. He said by reducing these, it will lessen the amount of waste in dumpsites and help the environment, as well as those who live around the area.
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\section{Introduction}
The bent-core (BC) liquid crystals captivated the interest of many scientists as they continue to exhibit new and interesting physical properties compared to the conventional calamitic liquid crystals made of rod-like molecules~\cite{Takezoe2006,Antal}. For example, bent-core  nematic liquid crystals exhibit negative bend-splay elastic anisotropy ~\cite{sathya1,sathya5,Gortz,Tadapatri,Majumdar,Kaur,Avci} \emph{i.e.} $\delta K=K_{33}-K_{11}<0$, giant flexoelectricity~\cite{Harden,sathya6,Le}, large rotational viscosity~\cite{sathya2,sathya4,sathya5,Dorjgotov}, and induced~\cite{Olivares}, spontaneous biaxiality~\cite{Acharya,Madsen,Jang,Xiang,Lehmann,Yoon,Sluckin}. Since the free rotation of the  molecules around the bow axis is hindered, the BC molecules have strong tendency to form nano-sized smectic clusters, known as cybotactic clusters~\cite{sathya1,sathya3,Tschierske,Dong,Keith,Francescangeli,Domenici}. The unusual properties, some of them reported above have been attributed to the effect of these clusters.  The size of the stable smectic clusters have been measured experimentally using Cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM)~\cite{Zhang}. These smectic clusters are expected to offer both bending modulus and layer compressional modulus that would impact on the complex shear modulus of the nematic phase. However, measurements using conventional  rheological techniques, involving bulk sample would smear out their effect.  Therefore, microrheological techniques, involving a very small amount of sample (typically few microlitres) are important and hitherto unexplored. In this paper, we measure flow viscosities and complex shear modulus and corroborate the results with splay and bend elastic constants of two asymmetric bent-core liquid crystals. Out study shows that microrheological measurements, using self-diffusing microparticles is a sensitive technique to investigate the smectic clusters in bent-core nematic liquid crystals.

\section{Materials and Methods}
\subsection{Materials}

Two homologous bent-core compounds, namely \ce{8OCH3}  and \ce{16OCH3} with non-polar (\ce{-OCH3}) moieties were synthesized in our laboratory, where 8 and 16 represents the length of hydrocarbon  chain \ce{R} (see figure~\ref{fig1}). The details of synthesis was reported previously by us~\cite{Kaur1}. The chemical structure of the molecules and the phase transition temperatures of the compounds are shown in figure~\ref{fig1}. They exhibit following phase transitions in cooling: \ce{8OCH3}: I 150.1 $^\circ$C N  66.7 $^\circ$C Cr and \ce{16OCH3}: I 126.7 $^\circ$C N 97.7 $^\circ$C SmA 73.4 $^\circ$C Cr, respectively.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figure1.pdf
\caption{\label{fig1} Chemical structure of the asymmetric bent-core molecules and phase transition temperatures.}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Experimental}

\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figure2.pdf
\caption{\label{fig2} [a] Schematic diagram of the experimental setup for measuring birefringence, splay and bend elastic constants. [b] Setup for microrheology studies. [c] Trajectories and time evolution of MSDs of micro-particles at 99 $^\circ$C and 110 $^\circ$C of compound  \ce{16OCH3}. The diffusion coefficients $D_\parallel,~D_\perp$ at 110 $^\circ$C and 99 $^\circ$C (in 10$^\text{-15}~ m^2/s$) are 1.90, 1.46  and 0.32, 0.48 respectively.}
\end{figure}

The experimental cells for aligning the sample were prepared with two patterned indium-tin-oxide (ITO) coated glass plates. The ITO plates were spin coated with polyimide, AL1254 and baked at 180 $^\circ$C for 1 $\mathrm{h}$. AL1254 coated glass plates were then rubbed with a rubbing machine and assembled in antiparallel way to ensure uniform planar alignment. The glass plates were glued together with UV-curable adhesive (NOA65 - Norland Products, Inc) with silica beads as spacers. The thickness of the cells ($d$) were measured with interferometric method using Ocean Optics (USB4000) spectrometer and the typical cell thickness  used in the study was 8~$\mu$m.

The dielectric constant, as a function of voltage ($0.02-20~\mathrm{V}$) at different temperatures in the nematic phase, was measured at 4.111 kHz with Agilent 4980A LCR meter. The perpendicular component of dielectric constant ($\epsilon_\perp$) was obtained from the measurement below the Freedericksz threshold voltage ($\mathrm{V}_\mathrm{th}$) and the parallel component ($\epsilon_\parallel$) was obtained by extrapolating the voltage dependent dielectric constant to $\mathrm{V}\rightarrow\infty$, \emph{i.e.}, $1/\mathrm{V}\rightarrow0$. Simultaneously, the voltage dependent optical retardation was measured with the help of a home built electrooptic setup, consisting of a photo-elastic modulator (Hinds Instruments) and a lock-in amplifier (SRS-830). The experimental diagram of the setup is shown in figure~\ref{fig2}[a].
From the Freedericksz threshold voltage ($\text{V}_\text{th}$) of the retardation measurement, the splay elastic constant ($K_{11}$) was measured, using the relation, $K_{11}=\epsilon_0\Delta\epsilon(\mathrm{V}_\mathrm{th}/\pi)^2$, where $\Delta\epsilon=\epsilon_\parallel-\epsilon_\perp$ is dielectric anisotropy. The bend elastic constant ($K_{33}$) was obtained by fitting the voltage dependent optical retardation, following the method described in Refs.~\cite{deuling,Gruler,Barbero}. The accuracy in the measurement of elastic constant is within 6\%.

The flow viscosities parallel ($\eta_\parallel $) and perpendicular ($\eta_\perp$) to the director were measured by measuring self-diffusion of a silica particle of diameter  3~$\mu$m~\cite{Loudet, Stark}. Before dispersing in LCs, the particles were treated with octadecyldimethyl (3-trimethoxysilylpropyl) ammonium chloride (DMOAP), which align the director normal to the surface~\cite{Skarabot}.  Normal anchoring induces a point defect and stabilises a dipolar director field surrounding the particles as a result of which the particles are levitated in the bulk due to elastic repulsion from the surface~\cite{Pishnyak}. This is advantageous as the data collection is required for longer duration.  The dynamics of the Brownian motion of an isolated silica particle in LCs was recorded through a 60X water immersion objective using a CCD camera (iDs-UI) connected to an Nikon inverted microscope with a frame rate of 20 fps~\cite{Crocker}. The diagram of the experimental setup is shown in the figure~\ref{fig2}[b]. The trajectories of particles are extracted from recorded sequence of images using Python routine, known as Trackpy~\cite{trackpy}. The mean square displacements (MSD) along parallel and perpendicular to the director were measured. The diffusion coefficients parallel ($\mathrm{D}_\parallel$) and perpendicular ($\mathrm{D}_\perp$) to the director were measured from the respective MSDs as a function of the lag time $\tau$, using the equations $<x(\tau)-x(0)^2>=2D_\parallel\tau$ and $<y(\tau)-y(0)^2>=2D_\perp\tau$.  The corresponding viscosities are calculated, using the Stokes-Einstein equation, $\eta_{\parallel,\perp}=k_BT/6\pi R\mathrm{D}_{\parallel,\perp}$, where $k_B$ is the Boltzmann constant, $T$ is the absolute temperature and $R$ is the radius of the microparticle~\cite{Skarabot}.

The complex viscoelastic shear modulus $G^*(\omega)=G'(\omega)+iG''(\omega)$, where $G'$ is storage modulus and $G''$ is loss modulus in frequency ($\omega$) domain, was calculated using the Generalized Stokes-Einstein Equation (GSER)~\cite{Mason}. The GSER in the Fourier domain can be expressed as:
\begin{equation}
G^*(\omega)=G'(\omega)+iG''(\omega)=\frac{k_BT}{\pi Ri\omega\mathcal{F}\{<\Delta{r}^2(t)\} }
\label{eqn:g}
\end{equation}
 The parallel ($G^*_\parallel(\omega)$) and perpendicular components ($G^*_\perp(\omega)$) of the complex shear modulus $G^{*}(\omega)$ were obtained from the MSD along parallel and perpendicular to the nematic director by the equations; $G^*_\parallel(\omega)=\frac{k_BT}{2\pi Ri\omega\mathcal{F}\{<\Delta{x}^2(t)\} }$ and $G^*_\perp(\omega)=\frac{k_BT}{2\pi Ri\omega\mathcal{F}\{<\Delta{y}^2(t)\}}$, respectively~\cite{He}.

\section{Results and discussion}
\subsection{Splay and bend elastic constants}

\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figure3.pdf
\caption{\label{fig3} [a] Temperature dependent splay ($K_{11}$) and bend ($K_{33}$) elastic constants of \ce{8OCH3}. (inset) $K_{ii}$ as a function of order parameter $S$.  [b] Temperature dependent ($K_{11}$) and ($K_{33}$) of \ce{16OCH3}.(inset) $K_{ii}$ as a function of order parameter $S$. Continuous lines are theoretical fits to equation~\ref{eqn:KvsS}. }
\end{figure}

We begin with the discussion of splay ($K_{11}$) and bend ($K_{33}$) elastic constants of the compounds. Both the compounds exhibit positive birefringence ($\Delta n$) and dielectric anisotropy ($\Delta\epsilon$) (see Supplementary Information).
 The temperature dependence of $K_{11}$ and $K_{33}$  of both the compounds is shown in figure~\ref{fig3}[a] and 3[b].
  The bend-splay anisotropy ($\delta K_{31}=K_{33}-K_{11}$) of the compound \ce{8OCH3} is negative in the entire nematic range and it's magnitude continue to increase with decreasing temperature. Similar negative anisotropy has been reported in many symmetric and asymmetric bent-core nematic liquid crystals ~\cite{kundu,sathya4,Kaur,Avci}. The negative anisotropy is attributed to the coupling of the bent-shape of the molecules with the bend distortion~\cite{sathya1}. For most liquid crystals made of rod-like molecules, $K_{ii}\propto S^2$, where $S$ is the orientational order parameter. To see how $K_{ii}$ of these compounds depend on the order parameter,  we plot $K_{ii}$ as a function of $S$ and show in the inset of figure~\ref{fig3}[a].  The order parameter $S$  was obtained from the temperature dependent birefringence (Supplementary Information). It is noticed that $K_{33}$ shows antagonistic dependence on the order parameter and simply can not be fitted to the second-order on $S$. In particular, $K_{33}$ of \ce{16OCH3} tends to decrease after a pronounced maximum.  The dependence of $K_{ii}$ on $S$ could be better explained using more detailed mean-field calculations given by Berreman and Meiboom~\cite{Berreman}. It introduces a third-order dependence on $S$ and given by:

 \begin{equation}
    K_{ii}=K_i^{(2)}S^2+K_i^{(3)}S^3+K_i^{(4)}\frac{S^4}{(1-S)^2}
    \label{eqn:KvsS}
\end{equation}
where $K_i^{n}$, $n=2,3,4$ are fitting parameters. The continuous line in the insets of figure~\ref{fig3}[a] is a theoretical fit to the equation~\ref{eqn:KvsS}. Considering $K^{(2)-(4)}_{i}$'s are temperature independent, the fitting parameters (measured in pN) are found to be $K_1^{(2)}=14.3\pm1.1$, $K_1^{(3)}=13.7\pm1.2$, $K_1^{(4)}=0.7\pm0.1$, and  $K_3^{(2)}=6.4\pm1.1$, $K_3^{(3)}=17.2\pm1.2$, $K_3^{(4)}=-1.8\pm0.1$.

Temperature dependence of $K_{11}$ and $K_{33}$ of the compound \ce{16OCH3}  is shown in figure~\ref{fig3}[b]. In this compound, the bend-splay anisotropy, $\delta K_{31}=K_{33}-K_{11}$ is also negative, except very close to the N-SmA phase transition temperature. In particular, as the N-SmA transition is approached,  $\delta K_{31}$ tends to change sign from negative to positive.
This feature is explained by the strong pre-transitional divergence of $K_{33}$ as bend deformations are incompatible with the equidistance of smectic layers. The dependence of $K_{ii}$ on $S$ is shown in the inset of figure~\ref{fig3}[b]. The excellent fits are obtained with the fit-parameters; $K_1^{(2)}=46.5\pm1.1$, $K_1^{(3)}=-67.5\pm1.2$, $K_1^{(4)}=26.3\pm0.1$ and  $K_3^{(2)}=30.9\pm1.1$, $K_3^{(3)}=-48.1\pm1.2$, $K_3^{(4)}=10.8\pm0.1$).

\subsection{Flow viscosities}
In what follows we measure the flow viscosities of these compounds from the self-diffusion of microparticles following the technique discussed in the experimental section. The measurements are restricted only in the nematic phase as the particles tend to sediment quickly in the isotropic phase. Some representative trajectories of a microparticle and corresponding MSDs at two temperatures, namely 99 $^\circ$C and 110 $^\circ$C for the compound  \ce{16OCH3} are shown in figure~\ref{fig2}[c]. It is found that  at 110 $^\circ$C, $D_{||}/D_{\perp}\simeq1.3$ whereas at 99 $^\circ$C, which is very close to the N-SmA transition temperature, $D_{||}/D_{\perp}\simeq0.7$.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figure4.pdf
\caption{\label{fig4} Temperature dependent flow viscosities coefficients parallel ($\eta_{||}$) and perpendicular ($\eta_{\perp}$) to the director of \ce{16OCH3}. (inset) Temperature dependent ($\eta_{||}$) and perpendicular ($\eta_{\perp}$) of \ce{8OCH3}. $T_{NI}$ indicates isotropic to nematic phase transition temperature.}
\end{figure}
The temperature dependent viscosities parallel and perpendicular to the director, namely $\eta_\parallel$, $\eta_\perp$ of the  compound \ce{8OCH3}, below the isotropic to nematic transition temperature ($T_{NI}$) are shown in the inset of figure~\ref{fig4}. Both increase with decreasing temperature as expected. It is noticed that in the entire nematic range  $\eta_\perp>\eta_\parallel$, thus viscosity anisotropy ($\delta\eta=\eta_\perp -\eta_\parallel$) is positive. For example, at the lowest temperature ($T=70~^{\circ}$C),  $\delta\eta=\eta_\perp -\eta_\parallel\simeq 100$ mPas.

The temperature dependent viscosities of  compound \ce{16OCH3} in the nematic phase are shown in the figure~\ref{fig4}.
Both $\eta_\parallel$ and $\eta_\perp$ increase with decreasing temperature as expected. Interestingly, it is found that below  $T\approx104~^{\circ}$C, $\delta\eta$ changes sign from positive to negative. For example, at $T=114~^{\circ}$C, $\delta\eta\simeq40$ mPas whereas at $T=98~^{\circ}$C,
$\delta\eta\simeq-110$ mPas.
This result can be explained as follows. The compound \ce{16OCH3} has cybotactic clusters in the nematic phase. These clusters are stable compared to the unstable clusters in  liquid crystals with rod-like molecules as the free rotation of the former around the bow axis is reduced sufficiently due to the steric hindrance. Moreover,  the size and volume fraction of these clusters near the N to SmA transition are expected to grow.  The resulting smectic planes of the clusters are orient perpendicular to the director in a planar cell. These  clusters effectively reduces the self-diffusion of the microparticle along the director (perpendicular to the smectic planes) compared to the perpendicular direction (parallel to the smectic planes), resulting negative viscosity anisotropy.

\subsection{Complex shear modulus}

\begin{figure}[ht]
 \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{figure5.pdf}
 \caption{Frequency dependent storage ($G^{'}(\omega)$) and loss modulus ($G^{''}(\omega)$) of \ce{8OCH3}. The subscripts $||$ and $\perp$ denote the components parallel and perpendicular to the director at (a) 130 $^\circ$C and (b) 90 $^\circ$C. {\large \textcircled{\small 1}} and {\large \textcircled{\small 2}} represents the exponents of $\omega$ corresponding to loss and storage moduli, respectively in  Maxwell-fluid model.}
 \label{fig5}
\end{figure}

 The temperature dependent elastic constants and flow viscosities demonstrated the presence of stable cybotactic clusters in the nematic phase of  compound \ce{16OCH3} that contributes greatly to these properties, specially near the N to SmA phase transition. As a next step, we investigate the effect of these clusters on the complex shear modulus $G^{*}(\omega)$. Figure~\ref{fig5} and \ref{fig6} shows the frequency dependence of storage ($G^{'}_{||}(\omega)$ and $G^{'}_{\perp}(\omega)$) and loss modulus ($G^{''}_{||}(\omega)$ and $G^{''}_{\perp}(\omega)$)  along parallel and perpendicular to the nematic director at two different temperatures. Overall, both parallel and perpendicular components exhibit fluid-like behaviour: storage modulus lower than the corresponding loss modulus below a critical frequency. In the low frequency range one observes a behaviour typical of a Maxwell-fluid: $G^{''}_{||,\perp}(\omega)\propto\omega$ and $G^{'}_{||,\perp}(\omega)\propto\omega^2$ (see figure~\ref{fig5}[a] and figure~\ref{fig6}[a]).

\begin{figure}[ht]
 \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{figure6.pdf}
 \caption{Frequency dependent storage ($G^{'}(\omega)$) and loss modulus ($G^{''}(\omega)$) of \ce{16OCH3}. The subscripts $||$ and $\perp$ denote the components parallel and perpendicular to the director at (a) 120 $^\circ$C and (b) 100 $^\circ$C. {\large \textcircled{\small 1}} and {\large \textcircled{\small 2}} represents the exponents of $\omega$ corresponding to loss and storage moduli, respectively in  Maxwell-fluid model.}
 \label{fig6}
\end{figure}

 In the nematic phase the perpendicular components are greater than the corresponding parallel components. \emph{i.e.}, $G^{'}_{\perp}(\omega)>G^{'}_{||}(\omega)$ and  $G^{''}_{\perp}(\omega)>G^{''}_{||}(\omega)$ (see figure~\ref{fig5}[a],[b]). Similar behaviour is also seen in compound \ce{16OCH3} at $T=120~^{\circ}$C (figure~\ref{fig6}[a]). However, at lower temperature ($T=100~^{\circ}$C), just above the N-SmA transition temperature, the trend is quite opposite when the relative magnitudes of the parallel and perpendicular components are compared. In particular, $G^{'}_{||}(\omega)>G^{'}_{\perp}(\omega)$ and also $G^{''}_{||}(\omega)>G^{''}_{\perp}(\omega)$ (see figure~\ref{fig6}[b]), which is just opposite to the behaviour seen at higher temperature ($T=120~^{\circ}$C). In addition, the  magnitudes of the directional moduli at $T=100~^{\circ}$C are almost one order of magnitude larger than that measured at $T=120~^{\circ}$C. To bring out the contrasting behaviour we show the ratios $G^{'}_\parallel(\omega)/G^{'}_\perp(\omega)$  and $G^{''}_\parallel(\omega)/G^{''}_\perp(\omega)$ at a fixed $\omega$ in Table-\ref{tbl3:G} and Table-\ref{tbl4:G}. In compound  \ce{8OCH3},  at two different temperatures $G^{'}_\parallel(\omega)/G^{'}_\perp(\omega)<1$  and $G^{''}_\parallel(\omega)/G^{''}_\perp(\omega)<1$ (Table-\ref{tbl3:G}). For compound \ce{16OCH3} at higher temperature ($T=120~^{\circ}$C), both the ratios are also less than 1 (Table-\ref{tbl4:G}). However, at lower temperature ($T=100~^{\circ}$C), $G^{'}_\parallel(\omega)/G^{'}_\perp(\omega)>1$  and $G^{''}_\parallel(\omega)/G^{''}_\perp(\omega)>1$, which is opposite to the feature observed at $T=120~^{\circ}$C.
Thus, parallel components of complex viscoelastic shear modulus of \ce{16OCH3}  exceeds the perpendicular components just above the N-SmA phase transition temperature.

 \begin{table}[ht]
\small
  \begin{tabular*}{0.48\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}lll}
    \toprule
     Temp [$^\circ$C] & $G'_\parallel(\omega)/G'_\perp(\omega)$  & $G''_\parallel(\omega)/G''_\perp(\omega)$  \\
    \hline
     130 & 0.5 & 0.6  \\
     090 & 0.3 & 0.6  \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular*}
  \caption{Ratios of real and imaginary components along parallel and perpendicular to the director of compound \ce{8OCH3} at $\omega$ = 2 sec$^{-1}$.}
  \label{tbl3:G}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[ht]
\small
  \begin{tabular*}{0.48\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}lll}
    \toprule
     Temp [$^\circ$C] & $G'_\parallel(\omega)/G'_\perp(\omega)$ & $G''_\parallel(\omega)/G''_\perp(\omega)$  \\
    \hline
  	120 & 0.1 & 0.6  \\
	100 & 1.5 & 1.3  \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular*}
  \caption{Ratios of real and imaginary components along parallel and perpendicular to the director of compound \ce{16OCH3} at $\omega$ = 2 sec$^{-1}$. }
  \label{tbl4:G}
\end{table}

This distinct feature in the nematic phase can be explained considering the contribution of stable cybotactic clusters.
 In analogy with smectic droplets, the storage modulus of the clusters can be written as  $G^{'}=C\sqrt{(KB/L)}$ where $K$ is the bending modulus, $B$ is the layer compressional modulus,  $L$ is the cluster size and $C$ is a constant~\cite{Panizza,Fujii}. At higher temperature (near NI transition), naturally the clusters are unstable, consequently the contribution due to the layer compressional modulus $B$ is negligible. As the temperature is reduced towards the N-SmA transition, the clusters become stable and their size and the volume fraction increases~\cite{Yuri} as a result of which  $G^{'}$ is enhanced.
Taking $G^{'}=2$ Pa (figure~\ref{fig6}[b]), $K=5$ pN (figure~\ref{fig3}[b]), $C\approx0.2$~\cite{Fujii} and assuming a typical layer compressional modulus $B\approx 10^{6}$ Pa~\cite{Benzekri}, the calculated  cluster size $L\approx 50$ nm, which is very close to the  size measured by Cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) in similar bent-core liquid crystals~\cite{Zhang}.

\section{Conclusions}
 We studied elastic properties, flow viscosities and directional shear modulus of two bent-core liquid crystals. The bend-splay anisotropy ($\delta K=K_{33}-K_{11}$) of compound \ce{8OCH3} is negative at all temperatures, whereas in \ce{16OCH3}, $\delta K$ tends to change sign just above the N-SmA transition temperature. In compound \ce{8OCH3}, the flow viscosity anisotropy $\delta\eta=(\eta_{\perp}-\eta_{||})>0$, at all temperatures. In case of \ce{16OCH3} it changes sign just above the N-SmA phase transition temperature. The parallel components of complex shear modulus of compound \ce{16OCH3} exceeds the perpendicular components, just above the N-SmA phase transition temperature. This feature is explained considering the contribution of layer compressional modulus of stable smectic clusters in the nematic phase.  Our microrheological studies provided an approximate estimate of smectic clusters size. This technique requires a few microlitres of sample and can be used for probing the effect of nanoscale heterogeneity due to short-range order in liquid crystals and in other soft materials.\\

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Q: Play framework empty session Could somebody please explain how session works in Play Framework? Yes-yes, I've already read the official documentation and couldn't find what the problem was.
Within a controller I have two action methods. In the first action I put a variable into the session and expect it there during the second request (which is AJAX) to another action. But it's not there :(
I have it something like this:
public class MyController extends Controller {
    private static final String SESSION_VAR_NAME = "SESSION_VAR_NAME";

    public CompletionStage<Result> action1() {
        // Store session variable
        session(SESSION_VAR_NAME, "SomeVal");
    }

    public Result action2() {
        // Expect "SomeVal" but get null instead
        String sessionVal = session(SESSION_VAR_NAME);
    }
}

What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.

A: The solution was quite simple. It was just a bug in Play 2.6.0. Upgrading to 2.6.2 solved the issue.

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Q: Colour line plot by categorical data in MATLAB I have a matrix with 24 samples and 10,000 datapoints x each with different intensities y which I am able to plot in a line plot doing plot(x,y), however I have a third variable z (24x1) which is categorical. I am trying to plot this such that each sample in the same category is the same colour, but is yet to work.
An example of what z looks like is (A, B, C, A, C, B, ...).
So far, I have tried
plot(x, y, 'color', z)

but I get a warning:
 Error using plot
 Color value must be a 3 element vector

All guides I have found online give similar methods, none of which work.
I know that in R I would be able to just do something of the form
matplot(x, y, color = z)

but I have no experience with matlab, hence the confusion.
The expected outcome is a plot, where each sample of the same group in z is the same colour. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Edit:
Here is some example data. X can just be the column number
Sample    1.    2.    3.    4.    5.    Group
1         5     6     6     7     3     A
2.        4     4     6     5     2     B
3.        7     5     4     6     4     A
4.        5     6     3     4     3     C

So, sample 1 and 3 should be the same colour

A: One way is to plot the data group for group, MATLAB will automatically assign a different color in that case:
samples = [ ...
    5     6     6     7     3
    4     4     6     5     2
    7     5     4     6     4
    5     6     3     4     3];

groups = {...
    'A'
    'B'
    'A'
    'C' };

% generate x-values
x  = repmat(1:size(samples,2), size(samples,1), 1);

axes(figure);
hold on;
handles = {};

for group = unique(groups')
    idx = (strcmp(groups, group{1}));
    xplot = x(idx,:);
    splot = samples(idx,:);
    handles{end+1} = plot(xplot(:), splot(:),'o');
end

To access the Line object and change its properties, use for example:
handles{3}.MarkerFaceColor = 'r';

A: You need to scan the category column (your z variable) and find the indices of the lines which belong to each category. Once you have that, you plot the lines by groups (belonging to the same category) and assign their reserved color.
One way of doing it:
%% Sample input data
Y = [   5     6     6     7     3
        4     4     6     5     2
        7     5     4     6     4
        5     6     3     4     3 ];

z = {...
    'A'
    'B'
    'A'
    'C' };

x = 1:size(Y,2) ; % just defined to be able to use the notation "plot(x,Y)"
Y = Y.' ;         % Matlab is column major so transposed the matrix to have
                  % it the natural style (also can use "plot(x,Y)" this way)

%% Assign color for each category
% define any color you want for each category
categories_and_colors = { ...
    'A' , [1 0 0] ; % 'Red'     for category 'A'
    'B' , [0 1 0] ; % 'Green'   for category 'B'
    'C' , [0 0 1]   % 'Blue'    for category 'C'
    } ;

%% Find indices of vectors for each category
ncat = size(categories_and_colors,1) ;

plotcat = cell(ncat,1) ;
for k=1:ncat
    thisCategory    = categories_and_colors{k,1} ;
    idxThisCategory = strcmpi( thisCategory , z ) ;
    plotcat{k}      = idxThisCategory ;
end
% the variable [plotcat] is a cell array which contains a cell per
% category. Each cell contains the logical indices of the matrix lines
% belonging to this category

%% Plot
figure
hold on
for k=1:ncat
    plot( x , Y(:,plotcat{k}) , 'Color' , categories_and_colors{k,2} ) ;
end

Of course the code can be compacted once you understand the main flow.
This will yield:

A: This code should work
[~,~,types] = unique(category);
colormap jet
cmap = colormap;
con_min = 0;
con_max = max(types);
ind_c = round((size(cmap,1)-1)*types/(con_max-con_min))+1;
set(gca,'ColorOrder',cmap(ind_c,:),'NextPlot','replacechildren');
plot (x, y);


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The 3210 was one of the first mobile phones to feature an internal antenna, distinguishing the handset from others which featured external antennae. Reception, although poorer than that of its predecessor, the 3110, was still very good.
The 3210 was the first device that came preloaded with Nokia's Composer software, which allowed users to manually 'compose' monotone ringtones.
Picture messages sent via the SMS texting service were implemented in the handset, allowing users to send preinstalled pictures to one another. These included a "Happy Birthday" picture amongst others.
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The handset was competitively priced and aimed specifically at teenagers and young professionals. This was at a time when few young people had access to a mobile phone, being generally identified with older professionals and business people.
The 3210 was originally designed with a vibrate alert function. Nokia decided not to implement this feature on some handsets within certain jurisdictions. A few months after its UK release, some mobile phone repair shops offered customers a handset upgrade to the vibrate function for a small fee.
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July 31, 2020 Analytical articles
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
New report says virus is overwhelming Afghanistan's healthcare system, with one-third of the population in a crisis.
More than 36,500 people have been infected with the new coronavirus in Afghanistan
The coronavirus pandemic is pushing millions more Afghans into poverty, overwhelming the country's basic healthcare system and causing food shortages, a US watchdog has said.
In its quarterly report (PDF) published on Thursday, the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) warned that Afghanistan, racked by years of fighting, was "headed for a humanitarian disaster" as the virus continues to spread.
"The economic shock of the pandemic, including increased unemployment, food-supply disruptions due to border closures, and rising food prices, has exacerbated Afghans' food insecurity, already impacted by the ongoing conflict and high poverty levels," said SIGAR, which collates expert and media reports and conducts its own analysis.
As of Friday, Afghanistan has registered more than 36,500 coronavirus cases and 1,271 related deaths, according to data collected by the Johns Hopkins University. But the true toll of the virus is believed to be much higher, SIGAR said, pointing to research showing up to 90 percent of possible cases are not being tested.
Most of the cases are in urban areas, with the capital, Kabul, becoming the epicentre of the known infections.
Aid organisations say the country's health system was already stretched even before the arrival of the novel coronavirus, with limited coverage in conflict-affected areas and poor specialised healthcare – and now, the pandemic is putting a further strain on resources.
"Afghanistan lacks the medical equipment necessary to treat patients diagnosed with COVID-19", the SIGAR report said, noting only 300 ventilators were currently available across the country, with a severe shortage of oxygen supply in the capital.
SIGAR said Afghanistan had likely entered a recession because of the pandemic, with the economy projected to shrink by up to 10 percent in 2020.
About one-third of the country's estimated 32.2 million people were either in a crisis or an emergency state of food insecurity, it added.
"Experts predict that an additional eight million people will fall into poverty, pushing the poverty rate from 55 percent to 80 percent," the report stated.
Meanwhile, attacks and violence have continued across the country.
On Thursday, at least 17 people were killed in a car bomb explosion in Logar province, hours before a three-day ceasefire was to begin in the country for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, officials said.
According to the United Nations, almost 1,300 civilians, including hundreds of children, have been killed in Afghanistan in the first six months of the year.
The Taliban has been running a bloody armed rebellion since it was toppled from power in a US-led invasion in 2001.
In February, the United States and the armed group signed an agreement in Qatar's capital, Doha, laying out plans for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan in exchange for security guarantees from the group.
The US-Taliban deal also paves the way for intra-Afghan peace talks, including an exchange of prisoners between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
On Friday, President Ashraf Ghani ordered the release of 500 Taliban prisoners as a goodwill gesture in response to Taliban's Eid al-Adha ceasefire.
During a televised speech, Ghani said he had now released 4,600 Taliban prisoners out of the 5,000 pledged in the Doha agreement
"The fate of the remaining prisoners will be discussed and finalised during the negotiations," Ghani added.
Ghani and the Taliban have both signalled that peace talks could begin straight after Eid, and there are widespread calls for the warring parties to extend the ceasefire.
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5/31/2009 – After trailing 1:3 from their first four games Czech GM David Navara came out fighting in round five, dominating his opponent for most of the game and then playing a nice ending to take the full point. In game six Vassily Ivanchuk fought back, outplaying his opponent to maintain his commanding lead. The President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus attended the event. Pictorial report.
The eight-game match in rapid chess, with the best Czech player David Navara playing against grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk, who belongs to the absolute world chess top, is taking place between 27th to 31st May 2009 at the Best Western Kampa hotel in Prague.
Forty-year-old Vassily Ivanchuk has been among the world's top players for the last twenty years. In the January 1st 2009 ratings he was third in the world.
The match of grandmasters Navara vs Ivanchuk is the main attraction of the chess festival ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009, which is held by a civic association Prague Chess Society. All games will be commented on for the audience by the Czech-American grandmaster Lubomír Kaválek. All games will be shown on-line. The match will be complemented by a chess simul and by lectures by grandmasters Lubomír Kaválek, Vlastimil Hort and Ján Plachetka.
The chess festival ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009 is being held in a partnership with the capital city Prague.
Trailing 1:3 from their first four games Czech GM David Navara came out fighting in round five, dominating his opponent for most of the game and then playing a nice ending to take the full point.
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.d4 Bg7 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nb6 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.e3 0-0 9.0-0 Re8 10.Re1 e5 11.d5 Na5 12.e4 c6 13.b3 cxd5 14.exd5 Bg4 15.Ba3 e4 16.Nxe4 Nxd5 17.Rc1 Nc6 18.Nd6 Rxe1+ 19.Qxe1 Rb8 20.Nxb7 Rxb7 21.Rxc6 Rd7 22.h3 Nc3 23.Kh2 Bxf3 24.Bxf3 Nb5 25.Qc1 Qe8 26.Rc8 Rd8 27.Bc6 Rxc8 28.Bxe8 Rxc1 29.Bxc1 Nc3 30.a3 Bd4 31.Kg2 Kf8 32.Bc6 Nd1 33.f4 Be3 34.Bxe3 Nxe3+ 35.Kf2 Nc2 36.Be4 Nxa3 37.Bd3 Ke7 38.Ke3 Kd6 39.Kd4 f6?! 40.g4 Kc6 41.g5 fxg5 42.fxg5 a5?
Things looked grim for Ivanchuk already, but the last move sealed his fate. 43.Ke5 Kc5 44.h4 Nb5 45.Kf6 [45.Bxb5 also wins: 45...Kxb5 46.Kf6 Kb4 47.Kg7 Kxb3 48.Kxh7 a4 49.h5 gxh5 50.g6 a3 51.g7 a2 52.g8Q+] 45...Nd6 46.Bxg6 hxg6 47.Kxg6 Kd5 48.h5 Ke6 49.h6 Nf7 50.h7 Ke7 51.Kg7 1-0.
In the second game of the day Ukraine's top player Vassily Ivanchuk struck back.
This time it was Navara who was comprehensively outplayed by his Ukrainian opponent. 1-0.
are the sisters of young Karin, who drew her game against the GM.
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Alternate Names: Les Corbeaux d'Odin, Odins Raben
Each morning Odin sends the ravens Hugin and Munin to race over the world of Midgard and report back what they have seen. The first to return wins Odin's favor, but any cunning corvid has a few tricks in store and these are the two most brilliant birds in Middle Earth.
In the two-player card game Odin's Ravens, two ravens race across separate tracks, the tracks being comprised of domino-style landscape cards that feature different types of land. Each player has their own deck of cards, which they use to match the land type in front of their raven in order to advance the raven toward the end of the flight path. Odin (Loki in Osprey Edition) cards allow a player to take special actions, such as rearranging the track of landscape cards or impeding the other player's raven.
In the first edition of Odin's Ravens, each player can create a personal auxiliary stack during play, playing cards from the hand now to set up plays in the future. The game lasts multiple rounds, with a round ending when a raven reaches the end of the flight path; that raven's player scores points equal to the distance separating the two ravens. There is also an Odin token that can slow down whichever raven it is in front of.
In addition, whoever has played more cards to the "Magic Way" during the round - a separate playing area in which players may play a particular type of card - wins three points. Once a player has accumulated twelve or more points, that player wins.
The second edition of Odin's Ravens transforms the game into a single race across a longer landscape, with players drawing a limited number of cards each turn from either the Odin deck or the land deck and playing as many cards as they desire. Whoever reaches the end of the world first wins.
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Every morning, Odin, the Allfather of the Norse Gods, sends his two ravens, Huginn and Muninn out into Midgard to watch over the land. Each player will take a raven and use their flight cards to move them across the different landscapes of the world which we know as Earth.
After thousands of years of taking this trip every day, the ravens have turned it into a race! They will head in opposite directions around the world, and the first one who returns to the starting point will be the winner. They can also ask for help from Loki, god of tricks and mischief, to make their path easier or the other raven's path trickier! …
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About SLT
Trabeculectomy is a surgical procedure used in the treatment of glaucoma to relieve intraocular pressure (IOP) by removing part of the eye's trabecular meshwork.
Professor Gazzard may recommend a trabeculectomy if your IOP is unresponsive to standard glaucoma treatments such as laser trabeculoplasty or eye-drops..
The surgery takes place in hospital, using either local or general anaesthesia. Professor Gazzard makes a small hole in the eye wall (sclera) which is then covered by a thin trap-door in the sclera. The fluid inside the eye (the aqueous humour), drains through the trap-door to a small reservoir or bleb just under the surface of the eye behind the eyelid.
This restores the eye's ability to drain fluid and reduces the pressure on the optic nerve. It won't cure any glaucoma-related vision loss experienced before the procedure, but it may help to slow or stop progressive vision loss in the future.
If you'd like to know more about this and other treatments available for Glaucoma, or think that you may benefit from a consultation, please get in touch here.
Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty (SLT)
Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery MIGS
Hydrus microstent
Trabectome
iStent
PreserFlo MicroShunt
Aqueous Shunt
Laser Peripheral Iridotomy (LPI)
Trifocal Intraocular Lens
Moorfields Eye Hospital Private Clinic
9 —11 Bath Street
London EC1V 9LF
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The Claremont Clinic London
50-52 New Cavendish Street
London, W1G 8TL
www.londonclaremontclinic.co.uk
King Edward VII's Hospital
5-10 Beaumont Street, Marylebone,
London, W1G 6AA
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In college football's marquee matchup Saturday, two SEC West schools will clash at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX. The opening line in Vegas had the Texas A&M Aggies giving 14.5 points to Arkansas, which certainly raised some eyebrows. Sure, Kevin Sumlin's A&M squad ranks second in the country in scoring through the first four weeks with 55.3 points per game , but Bret Bielema's Razorbacks aren't strangers to the end zone either. Arkansas is averaging over 48 points per game, which ranks just behind the Aggies for third in the country. The shootout is on.
With regards to venue, this isn't your average neutral site game. Texas A&M is listed as the home team, and College Station sits under 3 hours away from Dallas, so expect some rabid fans to make the trip. However, Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, and AT&T Stadium, is an Arkansas alum, so you better believe there will be an expansive Razorback presence down in the heart of Texas on Saturday afternoon. Taking those factors into play, the line started moving. By Friday morning, it dropped all the way to Texas A&M (-9). Still, we know that all the public money swinging to Arkansas plays right into Vegas' hands.
There's one reason, and one reason only that the line opened so high to begin with: Kenny "Trill" Hill. Texas A&M's explosive offense is led by the sophomore QB, who has already looked better at running Kevin Sumlin's spread passing attack than Johnny Manziel ever did. Hill went out in his first start and broke Johnny Football's single-game A&M passing record, throwing for 511 yards against a strong SEC foe in South Carolina. He's carved up lesser football schools in Lamar, Rice and Southern Methodist in subsequent weeks, but don't worry, Hill is no one-week wonder. He'll be letting it fly on Saturday.
Let's make one thing clear though: the Razorbacks, under head coach Bret Bielema, are a force to be reckoned with on the ground. No, they probably can't hang with the likes of Alabama, LSU, Auburn, or Texas A&M for that matter, but he's definitely instilled a hard-nosed brand of football in Fayetteville. Bielema's Wisconsin teams always prided themselves on running the ball, and these Razorbacks are no different. They're averaging 324 yards per game on the ground through the first month. Bruising backs Jonathan Williams and Alex Collins provide a one-two power punch that's unmatched in FBS right now. Expect them to do everything possible to chew up clock and keep the ball out of Kenny Hill's hands.
So, Saturday's clash-of-styles matchup will very simply come down to which school's defense can slow down the opposing offensive attack. For starters, Arkansas has had trouble developing any pass rush so far this season. If they figure to stop Hill and the Aggies, that will have to change in a hurry. Reggie White is not walking through that door. Coach Bielema may be forced to send regular blitzes at Kenny Hill, forcing him to get the ball out of his hands quickly, thwarting long plays down-field.
Unfortunately for Arkansas, this Texas A&M offense has weapons all over the field, so they won't be afraid to mix up the play-calling. If the Razorbacks don't disguise their blitz packages, the Aggies could gash them by running the ball right past the extra pressure, leaving nobody to take down the ball carrier. Kevin Sumlin runs the ball on 40% of standard downs and on 38% of "passing downs," so this isn't a foreign strategy for A&M. Long story short, the Aggies will be scoring in droves, one way or another.
With Texas A&M piling on points, how long can Arkansas rely on their own ground game? Expect the Razorbacks to pound away with the run early on in an effort to shorten the game. At some point though, they'll be playing from behind, and the comeback will be put on junior QB Brandon Allen's shoulders. He hasn't been forced to make many big plays this season, tossing for a meager 552 yards across four games, so it would be asking too much of him to come in and lead Arkansas back from a sizable deficit. To make matters worse, this Aggie defense, which was one of the worst in the SEC last season, is much improved now. The Razorbacks will have to earn every point if they want to keep up. They must cash in on their redzone trips, and put up 7s instead of 3s, because A&M will be crossing the goal-line more often than not. You always have to be wary of a backdoor cover with a 9 point spread, but feel confident in taking Texas A&M giving the points.
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A new smartphone by LG in its Q series dubbed the LG Q9 One has been launched in Korea. To recall, the smartphone was unveiled as the LG G7 One back at IFA 2018.
The main highlight of the LG Q9 One is that it falls under Google's Android One initiative and comes with pure Android 9.0 Pie.
The smartphone comes with a 6.1-inch QHD FullVision display with an aspect ratio rated at 19:5:9. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, coupled with 4GB of RAM.
The device comes equipped with 64GB of inbuilt storage, which can be further expanded up to 2TB via a memory card.
In the camera department, there is a 16MP rear camera with OIS and LED flash while the front-facing snapper stands at 8MP with an 80-degree wide-angle lens.
The smartphone is backed by a 3,000mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 tech and is accompanied by various connectivity options such as 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth v5.0, GPS, NFC, USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm audio jack.
Additionally, the LG Q9 One comes with support for a fingerprint sensor at the back, IP68 certification for water and dust resistance, and MIL-STD 810G certification.
The LG Q9 One is priced at 5,99,500 won and will be available for purchase, starting February 15 in Korea.


Malene Haxholdt has 15+ years of experience applying advanced analytics across multiple business domains and industries. She currently holds an enterprise position at MetLife with the responsibility of accelerating the use of analytics to drive business results. This includes the responsibility for global IT shared services within Business Intelligence, Data Visualization and Advanced Analytics. Haxholdt is also responsible for the global MetLife Analytics Center of Excellence, formalized knowledge repository as well as the data science community.
Educated from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, with a Master's degree in Statistics.


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