When you look at a problem from different angles, you increase your chances of finding solutions. Staring fixedly at a problem may get you stuck in a rut. This spread, based on the "heart" (the first two cards) of the Celtic Cross, might help you get unstuck. The cards are read: problem + challenge, solution 1, then problem + challenge, solution 2.
The two problem + challenge groups are two ways of looking at the same problem; they don't present either / or descriptions of the problem. Both are true, you are just moving around the problem to get a different view.
This technique requires a specific question, rather than the vague "What do I need to know about …" question. The question for this exercise is "How can I better manage my time?" I used the Secret Tarot by Jane Lyle.
The Five of Wands is a card of competition and conflict. The card is reversed, which could indicate inner tension rather than conflict in the outer world.
So, conflicting desires, too many focus areas competing for my time and attention. When I counted my various priorities, I found five work-related ones and five personal ones!
The Five of Cups denotes sorrow, but things are perhaps not as bad as they seem: although three of the cups are empty, two are still upright.
The challenge is to decide which of the projects to concentrate on. The problem and challenge cards are both Fives, indicative of disruption and tumult. The one represents work and career matters, the other emotions and creativity. Although the suit of Wands also concerns creativity, the emphasis is on the creative spark, inspiration and new ideas rather than creative projects.
The Cups card suggests that I have an emotional stake in all my priorities, but warns that I might regret my inability to focus. The challenge is to balance what needs to be done in business with creative output and emotional investment in my projects. Too much activity can stifle creativity. The fire of the Five of Wands is being extinguished by the Cups in the covering (challenge) card.
The grouping suggests that there is tension between ideas and enthusiasm on the one hand, and creative output on the other. Enthusiastically coming up with ideas and projects has its place, but the result is competing interests and smothered creativity.
The King of Cups denotes mastery of emotions, tempering emotions with calm thinking, and emotional energy well managed.
He affirms my reading of the first two cards: it is time to end the conflict among my interests. The time for enthusiastically embracing all ideas (Five of Wands) is over. Instead of rushing around trying to do everything, I should concentrate on one or two projects that would most benefit me emotionally and creatively. I might also try some self-compassion, instead of beating myself over the head with all those wands!
The two Cups cards in the first group suggest that I listen to my emotions and intuition to prioritize, not overloading my "to do" list with all the things I believe I "should" do.
The King is immersed in his element—water (emotions, creativity)—but focusing on one cup.
Another way to look at the problem is that there is much work involved if I'm to make a success of my business.
The Eight of Pentacles represents skilled work and attention to detail. Some projects need close attention and dedication, but there are a number projects to work on. Furthermore, the Eight of Pentacles is often seen as a card of apprenticeship, of mastering a craft. Several of the projects are new to me, and require time and dedication.
Another Five, suggesting change and upheaval. The Five of Swords is associated with hostility, dishonour, and defeat. Reversed, the card could mean aggression towards the self, perhaps self-sabotage and thoughts of failure, undercutting the industry represented by the Eight of Pentacles. Further possibilities include fragmented thinking and scattered thoughts. Instead of pulling ideas together, my thoughts are confused and conflicting, making it difficult to concentrate on my work.
The suit of Pentacles is a grounded, practical suit. The Eight of Pentacles might suggest stagnation; careful and conscientious industry, but no emotional involvement and little creativity. Perhaps close attention to detail is not what is needed. The Five of Swords is a violent response to painstaking work; it is both defeatist and aggressive. By immersing myself in the details, I am in danger of losing the vision I had in the beginning. I am frantically busy, but no longer creative. The swords are an attempt to cut through the busy-ness, but are not, in themselves, a useful solution.
What a gentle card, especially after the Five of Swords! Six could indicate progression from Five, but the progression involves calm feelings and productive creativity, rather than the analytical thinking of Swords.
The Six of Cups often denotes the past and nostalgia. This card, however, shows an adult holding the hand of a child in a protective and tender way. This suggests to me that I should nurse and encourage my creative projects, not fight them. Much has been achieved and mastered (the adult), which can serve as foundation for building new skills and tackling new projects. The important thing is to choose one project to focus on at a time. The other projects (the cups surrounding the figures in the Six of Cups) are present and not ignored, but not the centre of attention.
Like the King of Cups, this card recommends that I let intuition and emotion guide me in choosing the projects to focus on. Now is not the time for analysis and logical planning, but neither is it time to focus on the details of my many projects. The King is concentrating on one cup; the adult figure in the Six of Swords is nurturing one child.
In contrast to the careful concentration of the Eight of Cups, the Six of Cups suggests that the inner child is yearning to be free. In order to regain my creativity, I should put detailed work and rational analysis aside for a moment, to have fun.


Many students are tired of the renowned library cafe and the free baked potatoes you can get with yoyo points. However, there's plenty of options nearby that will definitely satisfy the most innate hunger.
Usually, for lunch, it's either Go or Dozo. Dozo is usually quite full with long waiting times, plus you can't sit down until all of your party has arrived. Then Go it the choice. I have never needed to wait for Go, and it's definitely one of the tastiest restaurants on the list.
Additionally, you may have noticed a Spanish place near South Kensington that looks super high class and expensive – fret not, they have a baguette with Spanish ham (jammon) which I got hooked onto because of my girlfriend. (She's Spanish). Tell them you're a student, and they will kick the price down to 4 pounds from the original 6.
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Harry G. Seltzer, a Hamburg native, was named U.S. consul to Breslau, Germany, on June 19, 1914, according to a report in the Reading Times on June 23, 1914.
President Woodrow Wilson made the appointment just over a month before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary on July 28, 1914, the event that triggered the start of World War I.
Seltzer apparently did not arrive in Germany until autumn of 1914.
The Reading Times ran a story on Sept. 2, 1914, referring to a letter Seltzer had written aboard the armored cruiser North Carolina near Falmouth, England, on his way to the assignment.
He would serve as one of America's foremost observers of the war in Europe for nearly three years, being recalled when the U.S. entered the war on April 6, 1917.
World War I was also known as the Great War, and the War to End All Wars.
About 2.8 million American soldiers served overseas in World War I. About 116,500 were killed or died from disease, and about 200,000 were wounded.
World War I ended with an armistice on Nov. 11, 1918, 100 years ago this year.
In a letter to the editor published in the Reading Times shortly after his appointment, Seltzer described his politics.
"Politically, I have always been a Democrat," he wrote, "and an admirer of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and President Wilson."
Seltzer wrote that he was a "campaign orator" for Bryan when he ran for president in 1900. A Democratic committeeman from Hamburg's South Ward at the time, at age 22 Seltzer was the youngest member of the party's standing committee.
He indicated that businessmen in Reading and Hamburg, and the "able cooperation" of Congressman John Hoover Rothermel of Berks County, had aided in his appointment as diplomat.
A story in the Reading Times on Aug. 7, 1914, gave insight into the frenzy in Washington at the time of Seltzer's appointment.
"Berks Boy Into The Thick Of Fight," the Times headlined. "Harry Seltzer of Hamburg must get to German consulship at once."
The story continued: "Breslau being right in the heart of the struggle has thus become the center of attraction. Mr. Seltzer has been ordered to proceed to the post as soon as safe passage can be secured."
On a visit to Hamburg in 1916, Seltzer provided a glimpse of the worsening situation in Europe.
Food shortages were acute, he said, but not mainly due to an embargo or blockade of ports. A scarcity of labor to till the soil and operate industry were at the heart of the shortages, he reported.
There was a strong anti-American feeling in Germany. More troubling, though, was the anti-American feeling among the people of France and England, U.S. allies.
"These nations feel that the United States should have declared war on Germany because of her submarine policy," Seltzer said.
He was a bit off the mark in his prediction about the outcome of the war.
"He is of the opinion the European war will not be settled by arms, and that there will be no decisive victory on the battlefield on either side," the Times reported on June 29, 1916. "His idea is that economic reasons alone will bring about peace."
After being recalled, Seltzer embarked on a Chautauqua lecture tour through New England and the Carolinas, where he spoke on "My Experience with Kaiserism."
Seltzer graduated from Hamburg High School in 1893 and Keystone State Normal School in Kutztown in 1896.
A resident of Kutztown, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress and state senator. He died at age 60 in June 1938, He's buried in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading.
Ron Devlin's History Book is a weekly feature highlighting people, places and topics from Berks County's past. Is there something that you're curious about? Pose the question to Ron Devlin at 610-371-5030 or rdevlin@readingeagle.com.
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City had been aiming to complete a €56 million (£50m) deal to sign Jorginho, with De Laurentiis confirming he has accepted an offer from the Premier League champions.
However, City have yet to get the deal over the line and it now appears that Jorginho could instead follow his former Napoli coach Sarri to Chelsea, who are set to pay a combined fee of €58m (£51.3m) plus €7m (£6m) in add-ons for the pair.
"I accepted Manchester City's offer 15 days ago, but I have to apologise to them," said De Laurentiis at a press conference to present Ancelotti as Napoli's new coach.
Brazil-born Jorginho had been left out of Napoli's pre-season training camp, while the club have already signed Spanish midfielder Fabian Ruiz in a reported €30m (£26.5m) deal from Real Betis to replace him.
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By Arcnama,
September 8, 2014 in PC Bugs
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Recently, and suddenly, my ability to host void missions has suddenly been compromised. Every time I'd get a team going and start the mission, the game will attempt to load, only to result in the following:
- Game loads, then claims "Connection to host has been lost", and reloads back into the Liset.
- Game loads, then abrubtly loads back into the Liset, sometimes with or without my comrades.
- Game almost loads, then the background of the mission progress/mission complete would suddenly appear, sometimes playing the "mission failure" sound effect, implying the mission was lost, then would load back to the Liset. At this point, I can no longer move, operate the text region, or access any menus.
I'm not sure if this is my fault, the game's, or a mixture of both. If there is a thread already about this, then feel free to link me to it and remove this thread. Keep in mind that this all happens before the actual game starts (its all in the loading screen). I have had the game crash once when I actually got in with my party, shortly after loading. Unusual.
This seems to effect Survival missions in particular, as it's sheer luck and chance for it to work. Other mission types may have behaved like this, but were far less common. I think this is also the case with Derelict missions, but I may have only had this occur once or twice with said missions.
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Ancient Temple in Kyoto Inspires Speake-Marin's Latest Timepiece
Kyoto's 800-year old Kennin-Ji temple serves as inspiration for this bespoke timepiece by Speake-Marin that's decorated with a pair of hand-engraved dragons on the dial, case and movement.
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Independent watchmaker Speake-Marin collaborated with a trio of artisans of different specialties to create the Kennin-Ji Temple Masters Project wristwatch. Commissioned by a collector, the timepiece is a one of a kind creation decorated with relief engraving of twin dragons, based on the ceiling mural of the Kennin-Ji temple in Kyoto.
Possibly the oldest Zen temple in Kyoto, once the imperial capital of Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate, Kennin-Ji was founded in 1202 and celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2002. On that occasion, a monumental ceiling painting measuring some 175 sq. m was commissioned for the temple. Painting by Japanese artist Koizumi Junsaku, the ceiling depicts twin dragons, a motif reproduced on the Kennin-Ji Temple Masters Project.
The 42mm case and dial are both white gold, with the dragon motif on the dial continuing onto the case. Even the lugs have been shaped like claws of a dragon.
Dutch engraver Kees Engelbarts was responsible for the decoration on the case and dial, while the movement was engraved by Eddy Jaquet, a Swiss engraver whose work includes the Master 7 Decimal Repeater by Voutilainen.
The twin dragon motif is repeated on the embossed leather of the presentation case, which was done by Swiss leatherworker Christophe Seewer.
And the movement is the calibre SM2, Speake-Marin's top of the line in-house movement that has German silver bridges. As a unique piece ordered by a client, the Kennin-Ji Temple Masters Project has been spoken for. Speake-Marin, however, does custom watches frequently, with other examples including the Shimoda Majestic Monkey and the more recent Only Watch piece.
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Early Cultures - Asia
Geta - Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
Geta (GAY-tah) are the traditional footwear of all kimono-wearers in modern and traditional Japan. They are raised clogs (shoes with a heavy, often wooden sole) and are closely related to the low, wedge-shaped sandals called zori.
Geta are usually made of plain wood with a V-shaped padded fabric thong into which the wearer slips his or her foot, inserting the point of the V between the big toe and the next toe. They are raised off the ground by two wooden pieces under the sole, their height depending upon the weather and the use of the geta.
A young boy wearing geta, raised clogs that are the traditional footwear of all kimono-wearers in modern and traditional Japan. Reproduced by permission of © .
The design of geta and zori are in keeping with the practice of removing the footwear at the entrance of all buildings. They are easily slipped on and off and are protective of the tabis, or fabric socks, that are worn indoors. The height of geta also take into account the fact that kimonos often have trailing hemlines and that road conditions are not necessarily good for walking.
Special geta for ceremonial wear by dancers, Kabuki (traditional Japanese theater) actors, and geishas (professional hostesses or entertainers) are brightly lacquered and painted and contain, hidden inside of their soles, bells to make a tinkling sound while the wearer walks or dances. Like the kimono, geta were developed in coordination with Buddhist Japan's lack of interest in using animal skins, particularly leather, as a material for clothing because of their religion's warnings against killing animals.
Dalby, Liza Crihfield. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. Reprint, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001.
Minnich, Helen Benton. Japanese Costume and the Makers of Its Elegant Tradition. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1963.
[ See also Volume 2, Early Asian Cultures: Kimono ; Volume 2, Early Asian Cultures: Zori ]
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I adore photographing children. I may be bitten by 32 mosquitos in 10 minutes or covered in leaves & dirt by the end but photo sessions with families are TOTALLY my jam. There is something so innocent and playful about photographing kiddos. That sweet childhood spirit deserves to be documented.
I ask parents not to correct little ones during our time together-I want them to feel 100% free to be themselves. Demands like, "Sit up straight and smile!" steal that genuine smile away. It's all in our approach and preparation. It is VERY possible to capture gorgeous images of a child that doesn't enjoy being photographed. The more of a relaxed approach, and increased encouragement we offer, the better expressions we'll capture for your images! Tell your kiddos that they're "Going to meet Jessica and that she's going to be SO MUCH fun! She told me she wants to play games with you and take your picture!" Note what games they assume we'll be playing and send me a text, give me a call or send me an email and clue me in! :) Prep them days in advance for a playdate with someone that is just dying to meet them-it's true!!!
Resist the urge to strong-arm them with ice cream or a treat after the session. "If you're good & smile, we can get ice cream later!" essentially suggests, "This experience is going to be scarring but if you hang in there, I'll give you a reward!" I aim that the experience itself be fun and uplifting for the child.
I avoid candy as a bribe during a session as it rarely yields real, genuinely happy smiles. Chewing doesn't offer a great facial expression & when the treats run out, there are usually tears. Bribes won't offer authentic, "you can see it in their eyes" kind of smiles or joyful expressions, which is what I emphasize while creating a timeless visual legacy for your family.
I let the preschoolers take the lead in establishing session flow. If their demeanor is outgoing & energetic from the get go, we'll go for it with fun activities & games to create great candid pictures. If they're feeling shy and introverted, we'll take things slow & gentle to start out until they feel comfortable. If they advise they've had enough, we'll stop immediately, or at least transition to a new location & activity.
Wardrobe is a KEY component to consider while planning for your family photo shoot. Choose a palette of 2-3 colors and add splashes of detail with accessories like scarves, jewelry, belts and even hats. Avoid having the entire family wearing only the same two colors. - coordinated outfits work well but only when you're not exactly matching. I am happy to provide feedback and resources to ensure your family looks their best!


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Q: Disable all dates except a list of specific dates using MultiDatesPicker I'm using MultiDatesPicker for jQuery UI.
I have a list of dates and I want to enable only those dates and disable all others.
var a = ['11.11.11', '11.12.12', '11.12.13'];

$('.dates').multiDatesPicker({
    dateFormat: "dd.mm.y",
    beforeShowDay: function(a){
        _.each(a, function(date){
            return date ? [true, ''] : [false, '']
        })
    },
    separator: '.',
    maxPicks: 1,
});

This is not working. How can I accomplished this?

A: Did you tried the example in the doc ?
http://dubrox.github.io/Multiple-Dates-Picker-for-jQuery-UI/#demo-disable-dates
It seems that you have to pass an array of dates and not an array of strings.

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The Sun, 6 March 2017: Cop who nabbed wedding day rapist 11 years ago slams his early release after he attacked stranger hours before wedding to Harry Kane's cousin
Cop who nabbed wedding day rapist 11 years ago slams his early release after he attacked stranger hours before wedding to Harry Kane's cousin
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THE cop who arrested a wedding day rapist freed early to strike again has said the sex attacker should have been jailed for 20 years.
Det Sgt Paul Lofts nabbed Derry McCann when he was 17 for a sick knife point sex attack on a 30 year old woman in 2006.
The Sun revealed his life sentence was commuted to nine years on appeal and he was released in 2015 only to pounce again in January just hours before his wedding to Harry Kane's cousin which we also exclusively told. […]
Peter Cuthbertson, of the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: "At 17 someone can be married, serve in the armed forces and drive a car – so treating that as a reason to be lenient towards serious crimes is ridiculous.
"There should be proper scrutiny of the parole board members who made this decision to release him as soon as possible, and how they got it so wrong."
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The Thommanon is a small temple just a short distance outside the eastern "Victory" gate to Angkor Thom. It is one of a pair of temples more or less identical in plan on opposite sides of the road. The temple on the south of the road is Chau Say Tevoda, which although more 'complete' in plan, is much more deteriorated.
Although the Thommanon was once enclosed in a boundary wall, only the foundations of it remains. The buildings that do remain are all in a line, save for a lone library on the south side of the main east-west axis. The first structure on the eastern side is a large entry gate (gopura). Immediately behind this is a large hall, followed by the central sanctuary. These structures are more or less connected. Separate from them is the western gopura.
What makes the Thommanon worth a stop are the intricate carvings found both inside and out on the central sanctuary. There are finely carved lintels over each of the doorways, as well as on the inner, false doors of the sanctuary, as well as on the exterior of the sanctuary.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using GlacialComponents.Controls;
namespace BASeBlock
{
    public partial class frmUpdates : Form
    {

        private class DrawItemData
        {
            public String StringDraw;
            public Exception DownloadError;
            public long ByteSpeed;

            public DrawItemData(String pStringDraw, Exception pDownloadError)
            {
                StringDraw=pStringDraw;
                DownloadError=pDownloadError;

            }

        }

        private int musegameID=-1;
        public frmUpdates(int gameID)
        {
            musegameID = gameID;

        }

        public frmUpdates()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void frmUpdates_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            fraavailupdates.Location = new Point(ClientRectangle.Left, ClientRectangle.Top);

                panLower.Location = new Point(0, ClientSize.Height - panLower.Height);
                fraavailupdates.Size = new Size(ClientSize.Width, panLower.Top-fraavailupdates.Top);

        }
        BCUpdate updateobj;
        Dictionary<BCUpdate.UpdateInfo, ListViewItem> lookupinfo = new Dictionary<BCUpdate.UpdateInfo, ListViewItem>();
        private void frmUpdates_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //load all updates.
            tryagain:
            updateobj = new BCUpdate();
            lvwUpdates.Items.Clear();
            lvwUpdates.Columns.Clear();
            lvwUpdates.Columns.Add("NAME", "Name");
            lvwUpdates.Columns.Add("VERSION", "Version");
            lvwUpdates.Columns.Add("PROGRESS", "Download Progress",256);
            lookupinfo.Clear();
            try
            {
                foreach (BCUpdate.UpdateInfo loopupdate in updateobj.LoadedUpdates)
                {
                    loopupdate.Tag = new DrawItemData("", null);
                    string[] createdstrings = new string[] { loopupdate.DlName, loopupdate.UpdateVersion, "0" };

                    ListViewItem newitem = new ListViewItem(createdstrings);

                    newitem.Tag = loopupdate;

                    lookupinfo.Add(loopupdate, newitem);
                    lvwUpdates.Items.Add(newitem);
                }
            }
            catch(Exception except)
            {
                switch (MessageBox.Show("The Following Exception occured trying to retrieve update information:\n" + except.Message, "Unexpected Error", MessageBoxButtons.RetryCancel, MessageBoxIcon.Error))
                {
                    case DialogResult.Retry:
                        goto tryagain;
                        break;
                    case DialogResult.Cancel:
                        Close();
                        break;

                }

            }

        }

        private void cmdClose_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Close();
        }
        private long lastBytesreceived = 0;
        private void updateprogressforitem(ListViewItem UpdateItem, DownloadProgressChangedEventArgs args)
        {
            int percentage = args.ProgressPercentage;
            //long bytespeed = args.BytesReceived - lastBytesreceived;
            //UpdateItem.ProgressEvent = args;
            UpdateItem.SubItems[2].Text = percentage.ToString();
            DrawItemData itemdraw=((DrawItemData)((BCUpdate.UpdateInfo)UpdateItem.Tag).Tag);
            long currspeed = args.BytesReceived - lastBytesreceived;
            if(currspeed>0)
                itemdraw.ByteSpeed=currspeed;
            lastBytesreceived = args.BytesReceived;
            if(0<args.ProgressPercentage& args.ProgressPercentage<100)
                itemdraw.StringDraw = String.Format("{0}% ({1}KB/s)", args.ProgressPercentage,itemdraw.ByteSpeed);
            else if (args.ProgressPercentage == 100)
            {
                //complete
                if (itemdraw.DownloadError == null)
                {
                    itemdraw.StringDraw = "Ready to Install";

                }
                else
                {
                    itemdraw.StringDraw = "Error";
                    UpdateItem.ToolTipText = "Error:" + itemdraw.DownloadError.Message;
                }

            }
            //((BCUpdate.UpdateInfo)UpdateItem.Tag).Tag = new DrawItemData(

        }

        private void progressroutine(BCUpdate.UpdateInfo updateobject, DownloadProgressChangedEventArgs args)
        {
            ListViewItem upobj = lookupinfo[updateobject];

            updateprogressforitem(upobj, args);

        }
        List<BCUpdate.UpdateInfo> completeddownloads = new List<BCUpdate.UpdateInfo>();
        private void completionroutine(BCUpdate.UpdateInfo updateobject, AsyncCompletedEventArgs args)
        {
            ListViewItem upobj = lookupinfo[updateobject];
            Debug.Print("Completed download of " + updateobject.DlName);
            if (args.Error != null)
                ((DrawItemData)updateobject.Tag).DownloadError = args.Error;

            {
                completeddownloads.Add(updateobject);
            }
            alldownloads--;
            upobj.Checked = false;

            if (alldownloads == 0)
            {
                Debug.Print("All Downloads Finished.");

                InstallDownloaded_Thread();

            }

        }
        private void ZipInstall(String installfile)
        {

        }

        /// <summary>
        /// installs all downloaded updates.
        /// EXE and MSI files will be run directly; .ZIP files will be handled specially (via ZipInstall() which starts out as a stub)
        /// </summary>
        private void InstallDownloaded()
        {
            foreach (BCUpdate.UpdateInfo loopdownloaded in completeddownloads)
            {

                String installfile = loopdownloaded.DownloadedFilename;
                String grabextension = Path.GetExtension(installfile).ToUpper();
                DrawItemData updatedrawdata = (DrawItemData)loopdownloaded.Tag;
                if (grabextension == ".EXE" || grabextension == ".MSI")
                {
                    Debug.Print("Running external Program:" + installfile);
                    try
                    {

                    Process executableProgram = Process.Start(installfile);
                    //wait for it to complete.

                    updatedrawdata.StringDraw = "Installing...";
                    while (!executableProgram.HasExited)
                    {
                        Thread.Sleep(0);
                    }
                    if (executableProgram.ExitCode != 0)
                    {
                        updatedrawdata.StringDraw="Install Error" + executableProgram.ExitCode.ToString();

                    }
                    }
                    catch (Exception ex)
                    {

                        updatedrawdata.StringDraw = "Exec Error:" + ex.Message;
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The tricky thing about potential is that it doesn't really matter in itself; what really matters is what it actually becomes. Potential is only truly appreciated once it has grown, transformed from something nascent and inchoate into a splendidness that inspires.
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Blanchard and Williams say the restaurant has been well-received. Along with their staff of 20, they are welcoming guests from all over city. "This bar is unlike any other bar in the city. It brings in a very diverse crowd; different backgrounds," says Blanchard. From the well-heeled patrons of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which is just around the corner from Rodin, to a younger late-night crowd, Rodin is as comfortable hosting fine dinners as it is a hip dance party.
Rodin, which is in the famed Park Shelton Building – a historic high-rise residential building with ground floor retail – had its beginnings in the fall of 2010. "I started in September 2010 with just the idea and securing the space. There were no investors. I thought it would be easy to get investors. Pulling together the resources to build out the space took longer than I expected, but most projects like this do."
Blanchard and Williams credit their family with supporting them financially. They also received loans and grants from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC). Midtown Inc., the local community organization, was also crucial in providing technical support during the building permitting and coding process and the restaurant build-out phase.
With the pieces finally coming together to start Rodin, Blanchard was introduced to Chef Williams, an experienced culinary professional who was returning back to the area to start her own restaurant after working in New York and Chicago.
Blanchard says Chef Williams was an essential part of the development process. "Chef Kate, who is the Executive Chef, is the managing partner; (a) partner in crime. She is the one that oversaw all the construction stuff, who designed the kitchen, problem solved … she is an integral part of the whole process."
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Like Blanchard, Williams is also clear about the kind of customer experience they wanted to provide their patrons. She says, "We wanted to do something fun, different and approachable. When I was putting together the menu I thought it was important to include things that were new."
The happy hour crowd is about to start coming in. Williams flicks on the OPEN sign and readies to return to the kitchen. Blanchard is flicking through some restaurant documents, examining them in between phone calls to check in on her other restaurant and giving her staff tips on accentuating their work attire. Then she speaks about the power of daring, describing it in a way only she can, as she stares intently from behind her black thick-rimmed glasses. The simplicity and directness of her message is enough to make a believer even out of the most ardent doubter. She says, "Good Girls Go to Paris and Rodin gave me the idea that I could bend reality; how did I open this bar out of nothing? I make my reality my reality, and everyone has that power to do so but how much are you willing to do to make it so? I cashed out my 401(k) for the crepes." When soon all the irony is emptied from the tagline "Detroit, the Paris of the Midwest," we will all have Blanchard to thank for bending reality our way.
Photograph by Marvin Shaouni Photography.
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\section{Introduction}
A long-sought goal in hadron physics is to find a simple analytic first approximation to QCD analogous to the Schr\"odinger-Coulomb equation of atomic physics.  This problem is particularly challenging since the formalism must be relativistic, color-confining, and consistent with chiral symmetry.

We have recently shown that  the combination of Anti-de Sitter  space (AdS) methods with light-front (LF) holography leads to a remarkably accurate first approximation for the spectra and wavefunctions of meson and baryon light-quark  bound states. The resulting equation for the mesonic $q \bar q$ bound states at fixed light-front time $\tau= t +z/c$ , the time marked by the
front of a light wave,~\cite{Dirac:1949cp}  has the form of a relativistic Lorentz invariant  Schr\"odinger equation
\begin{equation} \label{eq:QCDLFWE}
\left(-\frac{d^2}{d\zeta^2}
- \frac{1 - 4L^2}{4\zeta^2} + U(\zeta) \right)
\phi(\zeta) = \mathcal{M}^2 \phi(\zeta),
\end{equation}
where the confining potential is $ U(\zeta) = \kappa^4 \zeta^2 + 2 \kappa^2(L+S-1)$
in a soft dilaton modified background.
There is only one parameter, the mass scale $\kappa \sim 1/2$ GeV, which enters the confinement potential. Here $S=0,1$ is the spin of the $q $ and $ \bar q $, $L$ is their relative orbital angular momentum as determined in the light-front formalism and $\zeta = \sqrt{x(1-x) {\bf b}^2_\perp}$ is a Lorentz invariant coordinate which measures
the distance between the quark and antiquark; it is analogous to the radial coordinate $r$ in the Schr\"odinger equation.   In effect $\zeta$ represents the off-light-front energy shell or invariant mass dependence of the bound state; it  allows the separation of the dynamics of quark and gluon binding from
the kinematics of constituent spin and internal orbital angular momentum.~\cite{deTeramond:2008ht}

We thus obtain  a  single-variable LF relativistic Schr\"odinger
equation  which determines the spectra and light-front wavefunctions
(LFWFs) of hadrons for general spin and orbital angular momentum. This
LF wave equation serves as a semiclassical first approximation to QCD,
and it is equivalent to the equations of motion which describe the
propagation of spin-$J$ modes in  AdS space.  Light-front holography
thus provides a remarkable connection between the description of
hadronic modes in AdS space and the Hamiltonian formulation of QCD in
physical space-time quantized on the light-front  at fixed LF
time $\tau.$

\section{Mesons in Light-Front AdS/QCD}

The meson spectrum predicted by  Eq. \ref{eq:QCDLFWE} has a string-theory Regge form
${\cal M}^2 = 4 \kappa^2(n+ L+S/2)$; {\it i.e.}, the square of the eigenmasses are linear in both $L$ and $n$, where $n$ counts the number of nodes  of the wavefunction in the radial variable $\zeta$.  This is illustrated for the pseudoscalar and vector meson spectra in Figs. \ref{pion} and \ref{VM},
where the data are from Ref.~\cite{Amsler:2008xx}
The pion ($S=0, n=0, L=0$) is massless for zero quark mass, consistent with the chiral invariance of massless QCD.  Thus one can compute the hadron spectrum by simply adding  $4 \kappa^2$ for a unit change in the radial quantum number, $4 \kappa^2$ for a change in one unit in the orbital quantum number  $L$ and $2 \kappa^2$ for a change of one unit of spin $S$. Remarkably, the same rule holds for three-quark baryons as we shall show below.

\begin{center}
\includegraphics[angle=0,width=8cm]{8796A05.pdf}
\figcaption{\label{pion}Parent and daughter Regge trajectories for the $\pi$-meson family for
$\kappa= 0.6$ GeV.}
\end{center}

\begin{center}
\includegraphics[angle=0,width=8cm]{8796A01.pdf}
\figcaption{\label{VM} Parent and daughter Regge Regge trajectories for the  $I\!=\!1$ $\rho$-meson
 and the $I\!=\!0$  $\omega$-meson families for $\kappa= 0.54$ GeV.}
\end{center}

The LFWFs of bound states in QCD are relativistic generalizations of the Schr\"odinger wavefunctions of atomic physics, but they are determined
at fixed light-cone time $\tau  = t +z/c$ -- the ``front form'' introduced by Dirac~\cite{Dirac:1949cp} -- rather than at fixed ordinary time
$t.$ It is natural to set boundary conditions at fixed $\tau$ and then evolve the system using the light-front (LF) Hamiltonian $P^-  \!= \!
P^0-P^3 = i {d/d \tau}$.  The invariant Hamiltonian $H_{LF} = P^+ P^- \! - P^2_\perp$ then has eigenvalues $\mathcal{M}^2$ where $\mathcal{M}$
is the physical mass.   Its eigenfunctions are the light-front eigenstates whose Fock state projections define the light-front wavefunctions.
The eigensolutions of  Eq. \ref{eq:QCDLFWE} provide the light-front wavefunctions of the valence Fock state of the hadrons $\psi(x,
\bf{b}_\perp)$  as illustrated for the pion in Fig. \ref{LFWF} for the soft and hard wall models.   The resulting distribution amplitude has a
broad form $\phi_\pi(x) \sim \sqrt{x(1-x)}$ which is compatible with moments determined from lattice gauge theory. One can then immediately
compute observables such as hadronic form factors (overlaps of LFWFs), structure functions (squares of LFWFS), as well as the generalized parton
distributions and distribution amplitudes which underly hard exclusive reactions. For example, hadronic form factors can be predicted from the
overlap of LFWFs, as in the Drell-Yan West formula. The prediction for the space-like pion form factor is shown in Fig.  \ref{PionFFSL}. The
pion form factor and the vector meson poles residing in the dressed current in the soft wall model require choosing  a value of $\kappa$ smaller
by a factor of $1/\sqrt 2$  than the canonical value of  $\kappa$ which determines the mass scale of the hadronic spectra.  This shift is
apparently due to the fact that the transverse current in $e^+ e^- \to q \bar q$ creates a quark pair with $L^z= \pm 1$ instead of the $L^z=0$
$q \bar q$ composition of the vector mesons in the spectrum.

\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=6.8cm]{8755A01.pdf}
 \figcaption{\label{LFWF} Pion LF wavefunction $\psi_\pi(x, \bf{b}_\perp$) for the  AdS/QCD (a) hard-wall ($\Lambda_{QCD} = 0.32$ GeV) and (b) soft-wall  ($\kappa = 0.375$ GeV)  models.}
\end{center}

\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=6.8cm]{8755A02.pdf}
\figcaption{ \label{PionFFSL} Space-like scaling behavior for $Q^2 F_\pi(Q^2).$ The continuous line is the prediction of the soft-wall model for
$\kappa = 0.375$ GeV.  The dashed line is the prediction of the hard-wall model for $\Lambda_{\rm QCD} = 0.22$ GeV. The triangles are the data
compilation of Baldini }
\end{center}

In the standard applications of  AdS/CFT methods, one begins with Maldacena's duality between  the conformal supersymmetric $SO(4,2)$
 gauge theory and a semiclassical supergravity string theory defined in a 10 dimension
 AdS$_5 \times S^5$
 space-time.~\cite{Maldacena:1997re} The essential mathematical tool underlying Maldacena's observation is the fact that the effects of scale transformations in a conformal theory can be mapped to the $z$ dependence of amplitudes in AdS$_5$ space.
QCD is not conformal but  there is in fact much empirical evidence from lattice, Dyson Schwinger theory and effective charges
that the QCD $\beta$ function vanishes in the infrared.~\cite{Deur:2008rf}  The QCD infrared fixed point arises since the propagators of the confined quarks and gluons in the  loop integrals contributing to the $\beta$ function have a maximal wavelength.~\cite{Brodsky:2008be} The decoupling of quantum loops in the infrared is analogous to QED where vacuum polarization corrections to the photon propagator decouple at $Q^2 \to 0$.

We thus begin with a conformal approximation to QCD to model an effective dual gravity description in AdS space. One uses the  five-dimensional AdS$_5$ geometrical representation of the conformal group to represent scale transformations within the conformal window. Confinement can be
effectively introduced with a sharp cut-off in the infrared region of AdS space, the ``hard-wall" model,~\cite{Polchinski:2001tt}
 or, more successfully,  using a dilaton background in the fifth dimension which produces a smooth cutoff and linear Regge trajectories,
the ``soft-wall" model.~\cite{Karch:2006pv}
The soft-wall AdS/CFT model with a positive-sign dilaton-modified AdS space leads to the
 potential $U(z) = \kappa^4 z^2 + 2 \kappa^2(L+S-1),$~\cite{deTeramond:2009xx}
 We assume a dilaton profile $\exp(+\kappa^2 z^2)$~\cite{deTeramond:2009xx, Andreev:2006ct, Zuo:2009dz}, with  opposite sign  to that of Ref.~\cite{Karch:2006pv}.

Glazek and Schaden~\cite{Glazek:1987ic} have shown that a  harmonic oscillator confining potential naturally arises as an effective potential between heavy quark states when one stochastically eliminates higher gluonic Fock states. Also, Hoyer~\cite{Hoyer:2009ep} has argued that the Coulomb  and  a linear  potentials are uniquely allowed in the Dirac equation at the classical level. The linear potential  becomes a harmonic oscillator potential in the corresponding Klein-Gordon equation.

Individual hadrons in AdS/QCD are identified by matching the power behavior of the hadronic amplitude at the AdS boundary at small $z$ to the twist of its interpolating operator at short distances $x^2 \to 0$, as required by the AdS/CFT dictionary. The twist corresponds to the dimension of fields appearing in chiral super-multiplets;~\cite{Craig:2009rk}
thus the twist of a hadron equals the number of constituents plus the relative orbital angular momentum.
We  then apply light-front holography to relate the amplitude eigensolutions  in the fifth dimension coordinate $z$  to the LF wavefunctions in the physical spacetime variable  $\zeta$.
Light-Front Holography can
be derived by observing the correspondence between matrix elements obtained in AdS/CFT~\cite{Polchinski:2002jw} with the corresponding formula using the LF
representation.~\cite{Brodsky:2006uqa, Brodsky:2007hb}   Identical results are obtained from the mapping of the QCD gravitational form factor
with the expression for the hadronic gravitational form factor in AdS space,~\cite{Brodsky:2008pf, Abidin:2008ku} a nontrivial test of consistency.

Equation (\ref{eq:QCDLFWE}) was derived by taking the LF bound-state Hamiltonian equation of motion as the starting
point.~\cite{deTeramond:2008ht} The term $L^2/ \zeta^2$  in the  LF equation of motion  (\ref{eq:QCDLFWE})
is derived from  the reduction of the LF kinetic energy when one transforms to the radial $\zeta$  and angular coordinate
$\varphi$, in analogy to the $\ell(\ell+1)/ r^2$ Casimir term in Schr\"odinger theory.  One thus establishes the interpretation of $L$ in the AdS equations of motion.
The interaction terms build confinement and correspond to
truncation of AdS space~\cite{deTeramond:2008ht} in an effective dual gravity  approximation.
The duality between these two methods provides a direct
connection between the description of hadronic modes in AdS space and
the Hamiltonian formulation of QCD in physical space-time quantized
on the light-front  at fixed LF time $\tau.$

The identification of orbital angular momentum of the constituents is a key element in the description of the internal structure of hadrons using holographic principles. In our approach  quark and gluon degrees of freedom are explicitly introduced in the gauge/gravity correspondence,~\cite{Brodsky:2003px} in contrast with the usual
AdS/QCD framework~\cite{Erlich:2005qh,DaRold:2005zs} where axial and vector currents become the primary entities as in effective chiral theory.

Unlike the top-down string theory approach,  one is not limited to hadrons of maximum spin
$J \le 2$, and one can study baryons with finite color $N_C=3.$   Higher spin modes follow from shifting dimensions in the AdS wave equations.
In the soft-wall
model the usual Regge behavior is found $\mathcal{M}^2 \sim n +
L$, predicting the same multiplicity of states for mesons
and baryons as observed experimentally.~\cite{Klempt:2007cp}
It is possible to extend the model to hadrons with heavy quark constituents
by introducing nonzero quark masses and short-range Coulomb
corrections.  For other
recent calculations of the hadronic spectrum based on AdS/QCD, see Refs.~\cite{Boschi-Filho:2002vd,   BoschiFilho:2005yh, Evans:2006ea, Hong:2006ta, Colangelo:2007pt, Forkel:2007ru, Vega:2008af, Nawa:2008xr, dePaula:2008fp,  Colangelo:2008us, Forkel:2008un, Ahn:2009px, Sui:2009xe}. Other recent computations of the pion form factor are given in
Refs.~\cite{Kwee:2007dd, Grigoryan:2007wn}.

\section{Baryons in Light-Front AdS/QCD}

For baryons, the light-front wave equation is a linear equation
determined by the LF transformation properties of spin 1/2 states. A linear confining potential
$U(\zeta) \sim \kappa^2 \zeta$ in the LF Dirac
equation leads to linear Regge trajectories.~\cite{Brodsky:2008pg}   For fermionic modes the light-front matrix
Hamiltonian eigenvalue equation $D_{LF} \vert \psi \rangle = \mathcal{M} \vert \psi \rangle$, $H_{LF} = D_{LF}^2$,
in a $2 \times 2$ spinor  component
representation is equivalent to the system of coupled linear equations
\begin{eqnarray} \label{eq:LFDirac} \nonumber
- \frac{d}{d\zeta} \psi_- -\frac{\nu+{1\over 2}}{\zeta}\psi_-
- \kappa^2 \zeta \psi_-&=&
\mathcal{M} \psi_+, \\ \label{eq:cD2k}
  \frac{d}{d\zeta} \psi_+ -\frac{\nu+{1\over 2}}{\zeta}\psi_+
- \kappa^2 \zeta \psi_+ &=&
\mathcal{M} \psi_-.
\end{eqnarray}
with eigenfunctions
\begin{eqnarray} \nonumber
\psi_+(\zeta) &\sim& z^{\frac{1}{2} + \nu} e^{-\kappa^2 \zeta^2/2}
  L_n^\nu(\kappa^2 \zeta^2) ,\\
\psi_-(\zeta) &\sim&  z^{\frac{3}{2} + \nu} e^{-\kappa^2 \zeta^2/2}
 L_n^{\nu+1}(\kappa^2 \zeta^2),
\end{eqnarray}
and  eigenvalues
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{M}^2 = 4 \kappa^2 (n + \nu + 1) .
\end{equation}

\begin{center}
\includegraphics[angle=0,width=8.0cm]{8796A02.pdf}
\figcaption{\label{Baryons}{{\bf 56} Regge trajectories for  the  $N$ and $\Delta$ baryon families for $\kappa= 0.5$ GeV}
}
\end{center}

The baryon interpolating operator
$ \mathcal{O}_{3 + L} =  \psi D_{\{\ell_1} \dots
 D_{\ell_q } \psi D_{\ell_{q+1}} \dots
 D_{\ell_m\}} \psi$,  $L = \sum_{i=1}^m \ell_i$ is a twist 3,  dimension $9/2 + L$ with scaling behavior given by its
 twist-dimension $3 + L$. We thus require $\nu = L+1$ to match the short distance scaling behavior. Higher spin fermionic modes are obtained by shifting dimensions for the fields as in the bosonic case.
Thus, as in the meson sector,  the increase  in the
mass squared for  higher baryonic state is
$\Delta n = 4 \kappa^2$, $\Delta L = 4 \kappa^2$ and $\Delta S = 2 \kappa^2,$
relative to the lowest ground state,  the proton.

The predictions for the $\bf 56$-plet of light baryons under the $SU(6)$  flavor group are shown in Fig. \ref{Baryons}.
As for the predictions for mesons in Fig. \ref{VM}, only confirmed PDG~\cite{Amsler:2008xx} states are shown.
The Roper state $N(1440)$ and the $N(1710)$ are well accounted for in this model as the first  and second radial
states. Likewise the $\Delta(1660)$ corresponds to the first radial state of the $\Delta$ family. The model is  successful in explaining the important parity degeneracy observed in the light baryon spectrum, such as the $L\! =\!2$, $N(1680)\!-\!N(1720)$ degenerate pair and the $L=2$, $\Delta(1905), \Delta(1910), \Delta(1920), \Delta(1950)$ states which are degenerate
within error bars.~\cite{note1} Parity degeneracy of baryons is also a property of the hard wall model, but radial states are not well described in this model.~\cite{deTeramond:2005su}

\begin{center}
\includegraphics[angle=0,width=8.0cm]{8757A02.pdf}
\includegraphics[angle=0,width=7.8cm]{8757A01.pdf}
\figcaption{
Predictions for $Q^4 F_1^p(Q^2)$ and $Q^4 F_1^n(Q^2)$ in the
soft wall model for $\kappa =  0.424$ GeV. }
 \label{fig:nucleonFF}
\end{center}

As an example  of the scaling behavior of a twist $\tau = 3$ hadron, we compute the spin non-flip
nucleon form factor in the soft wall model.~\cite{Brodsky:2008pg} The proton and neutron Dirac
form factors are given by
\begin{equation}
F_1^p(Q^2) =  \! \int  d \zeta \, J(Q, \zeta) \,
  \vert \psi_+(\zeta)\vert^2 ,
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
F_1^n(Q^2) =  - \frac{1}{3}  \! \int  d \zeta  \,  J(Q, \zeta)
 \left[\vert \psi_+(\zeta)\vert^2 - \vert\psi_-(\zeta)\vert^2\right],
 \end{equation}
where $F_1^p(0) = 1$,~ $F_1^n(0) = 0$. The non-normalizable mode
 $J(Q,z)$ is the solution of the
AdS wave equation for the external electromagnetic current in presence of a dilaton
background and the $\exp(\pm \kappa^2 z^2)$.~\cite{Brodsky:2007hb, Grigoryan:2007my}
Plus and minus components of the twist 3 nucleon LFWF are
\begin{equation} \label{eq:PhipiSW}
\psi_+(\zeta) \!=\! \sqrt{2} \kappa^2 \, \zeta^{3/2}  e^{-\kappa^2 \zeta^2/2},  ~
\Psi_-(\zeta) \!=\!  \kappa^3 \, \zeta^{5/2}  e^{-\kappa^2 \zeta^2/2}.
\end{equation}
The results for $Q^4 F_1^p(Q^2)$ and $Q^4 F_1^n(Q^2)$   and are shown in
Fig. \ref{fig:nucleonFF}.~\cite{note3}

\section{Novel Applications of Light-Front Holography}

\begin{itemize}

\item The AdS/QCD  model
does not account for particle
creation and absorption, and thus it will break down at short distances
where hard gluon exchange and quantum corrections become important.
This semi-classical first approximation to QCD can be systematically improved  by using the complete orthonormal solutions of Eq. \ref{eq:QCDLFWE} to diagonalize the QCD light-front Hamiltonian~\cite{Vary:2009gt}  or by applying the Lippmann-Schwinger method to systematically include the QCD interaction terms, together with a variational principle. In either case, the result is the full Fock state structure of the hadron eigensolution.

\item One can model
heavy-light
and heavy hadrons by including non-zero quark masses in the LF kinetic energy
$\sum_i ({k^2_{\perp  i}+ m^2_i)/x_i}$
 as well as the effects of the one-gluon exchange potential.

\item Given
the LFWFs one can compute jet hadronization at the amplitude level from first principles.~\cite{Brodsky:2008tk}.  LF quantization also provides a distinction between static  (the absolute square of LFWFs) structure functions versus non-universal dynamic structure functions,  such as the Sivers single-spin correlation and distributions measured in diffractive deep inelastic scattering which involve final state interactions.  The origin of nuclear shadowing and process independent anti-shadowing also becomes explicit.

\item  Light-front holographic mapping of  effective classical gravity in AdS space, modified by a positive-sign dilaton background $\exp{(+ \kappa^2 z^2)}$, can be used to identify~\cite{BDT} a
 non-perturbative effective coupling $\alpha_s^{AdS}(Q^2)$ and $\beta$-functions which are in agreement with available data
 extracted from different observables and with the predictions of a class of  models with built-in confinement and lattice simulations.  The AdS/QCD  $\beta$-function shows  the transition from  perturbative to non-perturbative conformal regimes  at a momentum scale $Q \sim 1$ GeV, thus giving further support to the application of the gauge/gravity duality to the confining dynamics of strongly coupled QCD.
There are many phenomenological applications where detailed knowledge of the QCD coupling and the renormalized gluon propagator at relatively soft momentum transfer is essential.
This includes the rescattering (final-state and initial-state interactions) which
create the leading-twist Sivers single-spin correlations in
semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering,~\cite{Brodsky:2002cx, Collins:2002kn} the Boer-Mulders functions which lead to anomalous  $\cos 2 \phi$  contributions to the lepton pair angular distribution in the unpolarized Drell-Yan reaction~\cite{Boer:2002ju} and the Sommerfeld-Sakharov-Schwinger correction to heavy quark production at threshold.~\cite{Brodsky:1995ds}
The confining AdS/QCD coupling can thus lead to a
quantitative understanding of this factorization-breaking physics.~\cite{Collins:2007nk}

\item AdS/QCD  provides  a description of chiral symmetry breaking by
using the propagation of a scalar field $X(z)$
to represent the dynamical running quark mass. The AdS
solution has the form~\cite{Erlich:2005qh,DaRold:2005zs} $X(z) = a_1 z+ a_2 z^3$, where $a_1$ is
proportional to the current-quark mass. The coefficient $a_2$ scales as
$\Lambda^3_{QCD}$ and is the analog of $\langle \bar q q \rangle$;  however,
since the quark is a color nonsinglet, the propagation of $X(z),$ and thus the
domain of the quark condensate, is limited to the region of color confinement.
Furthermore the effect of the $a_2$ term
varies within the hadron, as characteristic of an ``in-hadron" condensate.
A similar solution is found in the soft wall model in presence of a positive sign dilaton.~\cite{Zuo:2009dz}
A new perspective on the nature of quark and gluon condensates in
quantum chromodynamics is thus obtained:~\cite{Brodsky:2008be, Brodsky:2008xm, Brodsky:2008xu}  the spatial support of QCD condensates
is restricted to the interior of hadrons, since they arise due to the
interactions of confined quarks and gluons.  In  LF theory, the condensate physics is replaced by the dynamics of higher non-valence Fock states as shown by Casher and Susskind.~\cite{Casher:1974xd}  In particular, chiral symmetry is broken in a limited domain of size $1/ m_\pi$,  in analogy to the limited physical extent of superconductor phases.  This novel description  of chiral symmetry breaking  in terms of  in-hadron condensates has also been observed in Bethe-Salpeter studies.~\cite{Maris:1997hd,Maris:1997tm}
This picture also explains the
results of recent studies~\cite{Ioffe:2002be,Davier:2007ym,Davier:2008sk} which find no significant signal for the vacuum gluon
condensate. The $45$ orders of magnitude conflict of QCD with the observed value of the cosmological condensate can thus be explained.~\cite{Brodsky:2008xu}

\end{itemize}

\section{Conclusions}

We have derived a connection between a semiclassical first approximation to QCD, quantized on the light-front,
and hadronic modes propagating on a fixed AdS background. This
leads to an effective relativistic Schr\"odinger-like equation in the AdS fifth dimension coordinate $z$ (\ref{eq:QCDLFWE}).
We have show how this AdS wave equation can be derived in physical space-time as an effective equation for valence quarks in light-front quantized theory, where one identifies the AdS fifth dimension coordinate $z$ with the LF coordinate $\zeta$.

We originally derived the light-front holographic  correspondence from the identity of electromagnetic and gravitational form factors computed in AdS and LF theory.~\cite{Brodsky:2006uqa,Brodsky:2007hb,Brodsky:2008pf} Our derivation shows that the
fifth-dimensional mass $\mu$ in the AdS equation of motion
is directly related to orbital angular momentum $L$ in physical space-time. The result is physically compelling and phenomenologically successful.
The resulting Schr\"odinger-like light-front  AdS/QCD equation provides successful predictions for the light-quark meson and baryon spectra as function of hadron spin, quark angular momentum, and radial quantum number . The pion is massless for zero mass quarks in agreement with chiral invariance arguments.
The predictions for form factors are also successful. The predicted power law fall-off of hard exclusive amplitudes agrees with dimensional counting rules as required by conformal invariance at small $z$.~\cite{Brodsky:2007hb,Brodsky:2008pg}
The AdS/QCD holographic model model can be systematically improved  by using its complete orthonormal solutions to diagonalize the full QCD light-front Hamiltonian or by applying the Lippmann-Schwinger method in order to systematically include the QCD interaction terms.
We have also outlined many new applications of this formalism.

\acknowledgments{ Presented by SJB at the Fifth International Conference On Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP09), 21-26 Sep 2009, Beijing, China. We thank Carl Carlson,  Alexandre Deur, Josh Erlich, Stan Glazek, Hans-Guenter Dosch, Paul Hoyer,  Dae Sung Hwang, Eberhard Klempt, Mariana Kirchbach, Craig Roberts, Ivan Schmidt, Robert Shrock,  James Vary, and Fen Zuo  for helpful conversations and collaborations.
}

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I talked about modeling the October 2006 Buffalo Snowstorm in my last blog entry. I just wanted to follow-up with the results. Here is an image showing the final poster.
I presented the poster at the National Weather Association's Annual Meeting held in Tucson, AZ this past October. The poster session was about an hour and a half if I remember correctly, and during that time I had a chance to talk about the project with a lot of people. It was fun to discuss the outcome from all the work I did on the project. A few weeks later, I was pleasantly surprised to hear I had won the Best Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation award!
In the end, all the time and effort I put into it was well worth the results. I'm not sure if/when I will do this again, but I've learned a lot about what is involved in meteorology research, and have found that I rather enjoy it.


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Dr Death and Nuremburg
Dr Death Dies
Jack Kevorkian, the man known as 'Dr Death' for helping more than 100 people end their lives through assisted suicide, died early on Friday after a short illness.
- News Report, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2011
The above announcement and a recollection of some earlier reading about Jack Kevorkian raised a conundrum in my mind, which I will come to later.
Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (1928 – 2011) was born in the US of Armenian parents. He became a doctor in 1952 and became a physician consultant in death counseling in 1987. From 1990 he became involved in public assisted suicides and he was tried a number of times for murder. Convictions were not secured in that Kevorkian, who maintained that "dying is not a crime", did not actually cause the death. Instead, he provided patients a means of suicide - a machine he called a Thanatron (death machine) and another called a Mercitron (mercy machine) – which delivered fatal doses of drugs when activated by the patient.
This was controversial, especially in that there were reports that more than half of the patients who had committed suicide were not terminally ill, that there was inadequate counseling and consideration of alternatives, that there was inadequate referral to pain specialists and that ins some cases medical records were incomplete. Kevorkian denied allegations of inadequate consideration, counseling and treatment, and of hasty termination. In response to the assertion that not all the suicides were terminally ill, he responded "What difference does it make if someone is terminal? We are all terminal." His view was that a patient could be assisted with suicide not if they were terminally ill but that they were suffering, saying that he rejected 4 out of every 5 requests.
In 1998 Kevorkian departed from his past practice. Instead of providing the means of suicide, he gave Thomas Youk, 52, a lethal injection. Youk was in the final stages of Lou Gehrig's Disease, a fatal degenerative motor neuron disease. A tape of Kevorkian giving the injection was broadcast on Sixty Minutes . On the tape, Kevorkian dared the authorities to try to convict him or stop him from carrying out mercy killings.
Kevorkian had already lost his licence to practice medicine in 1991. In 1999 he was charged with second degree murder and the delivery of a controlled substance, the lethal injection, the controlled substance being unlawful for him to have and use without a medical licence. He was convicted and sentenced to serve 10–25 years in prison, the Judge Jessica Cooper saying:
"You were on bond to another judge when you committed this offence, you were not licensed to practice medicine when you committed this offence and you hadn't been licensed for eight years. And you had the audacity to go on national television, show the world what you did and dare the legal system to stop you. Well, sir, consider yourself stopped."
Kevorkian was repeatedly refused parole until, having spent more than 8 years in jail, he was paroled in 2007 on condition that he would not offer suicide advice to anyone, would not help anyone else die and would not provide care for anyone older than 62 or disabled. On his release he lectured on not only euthanasia but also on tyranny, politics and the criminal justice system. A 2010 telemovie, You Don't Know Jack, earned Al Pacino an Emmy and a Golden Globe for portraying him.
Kevorkian died of liver cancer. According to his attorney, there were no artificial attempts to keep him alive and he died without pain. He was 83.
Now here is where it gets a bit complicated.
At the trial that sent him to prison, Judge Jessica Cooper said:
"Well, we are a nation of laws, and we are a nation that tolerates differences of opinion because we have a civilized and a nonviolent way of resolving our conflicts that weighs the law and adheres to the law. We have the means and the methods to protest the laws with which we disagree. You can criticize the law, you can write or lecture about the law, you can speak to the media or petition the voters. But you must always stay within the limits provided by the law. You may not break the law. You may not take the law into your own hands. . .
This trial was not about the political or moral correctness of euthanasia. It was all about you, sir. It was about lawlessness. It was about disrespect for a society that exists and flourishes because of the strength of the legal system.
No one, sir, is above the law. No one."
In contrast, Judge Thomas Jackson, who presided over Kevorkian's first murder trial in 1994, stated on Kevorkian's death that the 1994 case had been "under a badly written law aimed at him. . . . I tried to give him the best trial possible, I want to express sorrow at his passing."
In 1945-1946, the Allies brought various members of the political, military an economic leadership of Nazi Germany to trial as war criminals. In so doing, the International Law Commission of the United nations formulated a set of principles, known as the Nuremburg Principles (the trials being held in Nuremburg) as the guidelines underlying the trials. Many of the principles deal with breaches of international law.
Principle IV states that "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him". This principle has been paraphrased as "It is not an acceptable excuse to say 'I was just following my superior's orders'" and has been variously dubbed as the Nuremburg Defence, Superior Orders and Lawful Orders.
The Nuremburg Defence was not accepted as a defence at the military trials. In legal parlance, it was not a defence but was a matter in mitigation, that is, to lessen punishment.
Since Nuremburg, however, the Nuremburg Defence has been accepted in some cases, rejected in others.
There may be principles of international law and constitutional law that apply, but I am not an international or constitutional lawyer.
My conundra (?) are as follows:
How does an individual determine what is, and what is not a bad law?
What if a majority of people feel it is not a bad law, does that mean the individual should follow it?
History shows that laws change. At one time witches were burned at the stake. Will we in future allow euthanasia? Was Jack Kevorkian wrong to follow what he believed to be right?
Don't look to me for the answers, as I said, I am puzzled.
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