These wonderful words are given by the Spirit for our encouragement. The value of His work and the grace of the Person of our Lord Jesus Christ are made known to us, so that we may boldly draw nigh to God by them "having boldness by the blood of Jesus," and "having a great Priest over the house of God" (Heb. 10:19-21, N.Tr.), we can approach with the fullest confidence.
The offering made on the Cross to God was such that He can say of those who come to Him, "Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more," and the One who made that offering for us is so pleasing in God's sight that He is now sitting at God's right hand. As regards the sacrifice He has "sat down in perpetuity": there is to be no repetition of it. And then, as regards those for whom He made that perfect offering, it is said, "By one offering He has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified." The sacrifice is perfect and the result also. The worshippers once purged can be before a holy God, having no longer any conscience of sins; and they honour the work of Christ thus, and show their faith in what God says as to it.
1. "There remaineth no more sacrifice for sins" (v. 26).
2. "There is no more offering for sin" (v. 18).
4. "Once purged . . . no more conscience of sins" (v. 2).
The second and third show that Christ has to make no further sacrifice for sin, and that God's memory holds nothing against us now; while the first and fourth show there is no other sacrifice to turn to, and that the worshipper can now be in God's presence happily. And, along with this, having such a great Priest over the house of God as Jesus, we may indeed approach with holy boldness by Him, and allow our rejoicing hearts to overflow in thanksgiving and praise to our God and Father.
1. "Judgment must begin at the house of God" (1 Pet. 4:17).
2. "A great Priest over the house of God" (Heb. 10:21).
3. "How to behave thyself in the house of God" (1 Tim. 3:15).
Now the first sends us back to Ezekiel 9 for instruction. There we read the words, "Begin at My sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house" (v. 6). Began what? Began to execute judgment! Why? "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah was exceeding great," and they said, "The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not." All manner of idolatrous practices and abominations consequently were carried on in the courts and chambers of God's house. "Therefore," He said, "will I also deal in fury: Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I pity" (8:18).
He had not forsaken the earth! His presence was still in the house. Ezekiel, meaning "strengthened of God," was empowered to see this! Jeremiah, too, had said, "Thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by Thy Name; leave us not" (14:9); but they were incurably corrupt, and He would remain no longer. This caused Jeremiah great consternation, but Ezekiel was not allowed to mourn. Slowly the glory of the Lord withdrew, first to "the threshold of the house"; and even then "the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory" (10:4), whether any but Ezekiel had eyes to see it or not. Afterwards "the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the house" (v. 18), and finally it "went up from the midst of the city" (11:23).
The holiness of God's house had to be vindicated; therefore, as we have said, judgment began there. Nevertheless, the executors of the judgment who stood by "the brazen altar"—the place of sacrifice—were told not to come "near any upon whom is the mark" (9. 6)—"the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done" (v. 4). This illustrates what is said in 1 Peter 4. The righteous are saved, though it be with difficulty, because of the false state of religious profession all about them, Christ has borne their judgment. At "the brazen altar"—the Cross in type—He once suffered for their sins and brought them to God. Moreover, they have "the mark"—the Spirit of God; and though they feel the dishonour of, the corruptions around, they have what those in Ezekiel's day had not—"the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God" resting upon them (1 Pet. 4:14); and, though reproached they could rejoice with exceeding joy.
Both the tabernacle and the temple were called the house, and both were desolated. That, however, which is built up in Christ as the Head of the corner today will abide and shine forth in glory soon. The right way, therefore, to learn from the tabernacle and the temple now is to see what the Spirit teaches concerning Christ in their wonderful details.
At the beginning of Ezekiel we see the glory of the Lord lingering before it departs from the house and city of His Name, but at the end we see the same glory returning in brightness and splendour!—"The earth shined with His glory" and "The glory of the Lord filled the house" (43:1-5). That will take place when the kingdom of the Son of Man is set up on earth, and the new house is built at Jerusalem. Look, however, at the heavenly city, the holy Jerusalem, at the end of Revelation. There is no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple (21:22). No longer hidden behind a veil, our God, fully revealed in Jesus, is there.
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Let us learn again from Ezekiel. When the judgment fell, and the glory was departing, the Lord said, "Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the Lord: unto us is this land given in possession. Therefore say, Thus saith THE LORD GOD: Although I have cast them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them for a little Sanctuary [Or, rather " a Sanctuary for a little while"] in the countries where they shall come" (11:15-16). Those who held the right place, the place of Jehovah's Name, were in a hardened state, and thrust the real aside; but "THE LORD GOD" would not fail them.
Full assurance of faith is needed for this. To draw near by any man-appointed leader or priest is to ignore the priesthood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Even if the priest were of the family of Aaron (the only earthly family appointed to this of God) it could not be Divinely owned, for God has set this order of priesthood aside; and Jesus (after another order, the order of Melchisedec) having gone into heaven, is now the one and only High Priest Divinely provided for us. He was of the tribe of Judah as Man. If, therefore, "He were on earth He would not be a priest" (Heb. 8:4). He was not of the priestly tribe or family, but He has gone on high for us, "a Son perfected for ever," "Jesus, made an High Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec" (6:20), and "Such an High Priest became us" (7:26). The earthly system of priesthood organized in Christendom sets this aside and does not become us. Truly all who are living stones in the spiritual house of which Christ is the Corner-stone, are also "a holy priesthood." He has washed them from their sins in His blood and made them "priests to His God and Father" (Rev. 1:6), but there is no other High Priest but Himself.
We saw that He had opened the way for us to draw nigh, through the veil, "His flesh." Now in the third Scripture (1 Tim. 3:15-16), we read, "God was manifest in the flesh"; and again we read, "Behold He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him . . . I am Alpha and Omega, saith the LORD GOD" (Rev. 1:7-8, N.Tr.). Israel will exclaim when He comes to her, "Lo, this is our God . . . this is the Lord, we have waited for Him." When He showed Thomas His hands and His side, he said to Him, "My Lord and My God." It is "THE LORD GOD" who says, in Ezekiel 11, I will be "A SANCTUARY." He has been manifest in flesh. He has tabernacled on earth. The fulness dwells in Christ on high, but "through the veil, that is to say, His flesh," He has dedicated for us "the new and living way," so that we may come into the presence of God with holy boldness and fulness of joy.
To this question of the two disciples Jesus replied, "Come and see" (John 1:39). And is He not saying the same today to those who desire to be near to Himself, to be in His presence? God is known in Him and He brings us to know God in the presence of God. And the final ministry of the Spirit is given that "your joy may be full" (1 John 1:4).
The priests of Israel failed. Our Great Priest never fails. Christendom which professes His Name may become corrupt and apostate, but He remains in unchangeable perfection and faithfulness. Nothing, therefore, need be allowed to rob our hearts of their true portion. The Spirit has told us that men would make shipwreck as to faith, that some would depart from the faith to spiritism and satanic teachings, that the love of money would cause others to wander from the faith, that the profession of false-named science would also cause some to miss the faith, that difficult times should be present in the last days, that men should be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God though they have a form of godliness at the same time, that men corrupted in mind would be worthless as regards the faith, that evil men and seducers should wax worse and worse, that some would turn the grace of God into lasciviousness and deny the only LORD GOD, nevertheless the same Spirit of Truth, the Comforter, has given us full instruction, that those who have been called by God's grace according to His purpose, may be preserved in Christ Jesus, as the beloved of God the Father; that, abiding in the love of God, they may build themselves up on their most holy faith and look forward to the coming again of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying meanwhile in the Holy Ghost.
Because of the corruptions we have named judgment indeed begins at (or from) the house of God as we have seen. The Great Priest over the house of God nevertheless succours, sustains, and completely saves those who are all of one with Himself, those He is "not ashamed to call brethren," those who approach by Him who "worship by the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh" (Phil. 3:3). Moreover, we are shown how to conduct ourselves in that house where God's presence is known and where the truth is represented and upheld.
The first epistle to Timothy was written that one might "know how to conduct oneself in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth. And confessedly the mystery of piety is great, GOD HAS BEEN MANIFESTED IN FLESH, has been justified in the Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among the nations, has been believed on in the world, has been RECEIVED UP IN GLORY" (1 Tim. 3:15-16, N.Tr.). All our behaviour is to be ordered in reference to the presence of God. What is pleasing in His sight is to characterize us until we, too, are received up in glory. Then, when the holy city shines forth in Divine splendour, everything will be ordered in practical perfection in reference to the immediate presence of God, for THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE LAMB ARE THE TEMPLE THEREOF.
Meanwhile the present ministry on high of our Lord Jesus Christ as the great Priest over the house of God avails to maintain us in the present good of the presence of God. His finished work on the Cross gives us boldness to draw near, and His unfinished work, His present priestly service, enables us with confidence to be before our God and Father as glad worshippers so that even now by Him our offerings of praise may be more and more abundant though the darkness deepens in Christendom; and, preserved in Him, we may value more highly the privilege of being in nearness to Himself, and thus yield to Him a return for His exceeding grace and His unchanging love.


The BMA may be unable to alter the speed of the Government's NHS reforms, but there are still areas where it can wring out concessions for GPs.
It was third time lucky. Twice BMA Council had voted down proposals for a Special Representative Meeting, but last week its members relented in the face of mounting pressure. Even GPs who support health secretary Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms wanted the opportunity to debate them.
The BMA may come to regret delaying, as ministers race to embed their reforms in the run-up to the March meeting. This Government is expert at keeping opponents off balance through the hyperactive pace of its policy making. Still, the SRM may be overdue, but BMA leaders are determined it will not be toothless. Dr Steve Hajioff, chair of the BMA's representative body, insists 'absolutely everything' is on the table, including strike action.
A few months ago, a vote among GPs on the NHS reforms would have been hard to call – but Pulse's tracking polls have showed hardening opposition. This week, the RCGP released the largest test of GP opinion since the white paper, with 1,800 members providing resounding support for chair Dr Clare Gerada's sceptical stance. More than 60% of GPs opposed the main thrust of the health bill, with many believing the reforms, which will cost up to £1.45bn, would bring no benefits for patient care. If those concerns are mirrored at the SRM, expect it to deliver Mr Lansley one almighty bloody nose.
Dr Hajioff has suggested nine potential areas for the SRM to debate. Essentially, though, they can be condensed to two touchstone issues. The first surrounds the Government's expansion of the NHS market. The second is GP commissioning itself – not because of a lack of desire to lead the NHS, but because of concern doing so as commissioners could be inherently compromising to the GP role.
There are sound reasons to oppose the NHS market as Mr Lansley proposes. In a true open market, GP commissioners would not be allowed to work co-operatively with specialists. The BMA fears any willing provider will fragment care, by splintering GP referrals across a multitude of small providers. And there's evidence price competition will indeed send prices, but also quality, tumbling down. The BMA will surely set down its opposition, but must also recognise the limits of its power. The NHS market is big-ticket stuff, decided not at BMA meetings but general elections, and both coalition parties supported it in their manifestos. Doctors' leaders must focus on pragmatic adjustments to the policy, particularly to ensure GPs can continue working with specialists as colleagues.
But there is an equally important point of principle on GP commissioning itself.
Mr Lansley, in his health bill, sets out why he believes it will work – by allying 'financial and clinical accountability'. Yet it is this that leaves GPs so horribly exposed, responsible for rationing, but torn between conflicting loyalties to budget and patient. The BMA must demand GPs get a helping hand. At the very least, it must insist on restoration of the rationing powers of NICE.


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Appeals court blocks Hillary Clinton deposition on private email server
By Harper Neidig - 08/14/20 01:41 PM EDT
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked a judge's order that Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - Democrats see victory in a voting rights defeat Left laughs off floated changes to 2024 ticket A year into his presidency, Biden is polling at an all-time low MORE be deposed as part of a conservative group's lawsuit for records related to the private email server she used while serving as secretary of State.
A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch did not merit the level of legal inquiry that would require Clinton to sit for a deposition.
Judicial Watch had filed its lawsuit in 2014, initially seeking records about comments Susan Rice Susan RiceKey member of White House immigration team retiring: report Gun control advocates express disappointment with Biden An unquestioning press promotes Rep. Adam Schiff's book based on Russia fiction MORE had made as ambassador to the United Nations regarding the 2012 attacks on U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya.
"Here, the District Court ordered Secretary Clinton's deposition primarily to probe her motives for using a private email server and her understanding of the State Department's records-management obligations," Judge Robert Wilkins, who was appointed by former President Obama, wrote in the panel's decision.
"However, neither of these topics is relevant to the only outstanding issue in this FOIA litigation — whether the State Department has conducted an adequate search for talking points provided to Ambassador Rice following the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi, or for any communications or records related to those specific talking points."
Wilkins was joined in the panel decision by Judges Cornelia Pillard, another Obama appointee, and Thomas Griffith, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush.
"We're disappointed by the decision and considering our options," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
When asked for comment on the ruling, David Kendall, Clinton's attorney, told The Hill in an email, "The Court's opinion speaks for itself."
District Judge Royce Lamberth, who was appointed by former President Reagan, ruled in March that Clinton and her former State Department aide Cheryl Mills would have to sit for depositions in the case as part of an inquiry into whether the private email server was intended to evade FOIA requests.
The circuit court decision on Friday did not block Mills from being deposed, but the panel noted that she had other ways of appealing her deposition that Clinton did not.
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NNPC pays N128.4 bn into federation account
The Nigerians National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it transferred the sum of N128.40billion into the federation account in August.
The Corporation disclosed this in its monthly Financial and Operational report released in Abuja on Wednesday.
It said that between August 2017 and August 2018, the federation and joint ventures (JV) received the sum of N879.02billion and N651.4billion respectively.
The NNPC explained that the Federation Crude Oil and Gas Revenue, Federation Crude Oil and Gas lifting, were classified into Equity Export and Domestic crude.
It explained that this crude were lifted and marketed by corporation and the proceeds remitted into the Federation Account.
It noted that Equity Export receipts, after adjusting for Joint Venture Cash Calls, were paid directly into the Federation Account domiciled in Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The corporation explained that domestic crude oil of 445,000 bpd was allocated for refining to meet domestic products supply, and payments were effected to the Federation Account by NNPC.
This, it said was done after adjusting crude and product losses and pipeline repairs and management costs incurred during the period.
On the crude oil and gas export sales, the report noted that sales for the month of August stood at 470 million dollars.
According to the report, the sales indicate an upsurge of about 78million dollars in relation to July oil and gas export figures of 391.91million dollars.
It further indicated that crude oil export sales contributed 337.62million dollars which represented 71.83 per cent of the dollar transactions compared with 283.43million dollars contribution in the previous month.
"Export gas sales during the period amounted to 132.38million dollars.
"The August 2017 to August 2018 crude oil and gas transactions involved crude oil and gas export worth 5.26billion dollars," it said.
The report explained that based on the above sales figures, a total export receipt of 450.24million dollars was recorded in August 2018 as receipt against 382.65million dollars in July 2018.
"Contribution from crude oil during the period, amounted to 336.43 million dollars, while gas and miscellaneous receipt stood at 101.33million dollars and 12.48million dollars respectively," the report noted.
A further breakdown of the figures showed that out of the export receipts, 142.31million dollars was remitted to the Federation Account.
The sum of 307.93million dollars was remitted to fund the JV cost recovery for the month of August, 2018 to guarantee current and future production.
"Total export crude oil and gas receipt for the period August 2017 to August 2018 stood at 5.23billion dollars out of which 3.74 billion dollars was transferred to JV Cash Call as first line charge and the balance of 1.49 billion dollars paid into the Federation Account," it added.


Eating food outside the home is an experience that is made fast and easy through the use of single serve packaging, plastic utensils, and disposible containers.
Revolutionary new product replaces standard LDPE coated folding carton, plastic and Styrofoam options.
Delta is delighted to announce its new association with P4CK (Packaging Brands).
Rawlings exhibiting at the Source Trade show in Exeter.
8th and 9th of February at the Westpoint Exhibition Centre in Exeter.
Macpac to focus on bespoke and food related products at Packaging Innovations 2016 in Birmingham.
Rapid Action Packaging continue to be recognised for simple, clever, food packaging solutions.


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There are two ways to view the sakura, the small, delicate pink flowers often associated with Japan, as explained by Ash, one of the members of MNL48.
One is that it signifies the fleeting nature of life --a reminder that our existence are tragically short-lived. Another is to take it as a symbol for hope, that the future is beautiful if viewed through wide-eyed optimism because it's bursting with possibilities.
The new music video for MNL48, for a song that puts sakura front and center as its theme, focuses on the latter --that is to say, it features the group's members beaming with smiles and having fun.
A few reporters and bloggers got to watch the music video ahead of its official release tomorrow, Saturday, on MYX Philippines.
It starts off with a pensive mood, with all three of the group's top girls (decided by votes) Sheki, Abby, and Sela all absorbed in their own thoughts. But something changes when they begin to sing.
Sheki, the group's 'center girl,' starts off a little pensive in their new music video.
The mood of the music video gets progressively happier and lighter in the latter half.
Their cheerfulness is driven by their unified ambition, shared with the other MNL48 members, to become a successful idol group in the Philippines --a country which have yet to see one based on the Japanese model rise to the very top.
It then cuts to them, together onstage, performing in sync a dance the first generation of AKB48 --the Japanese idol group where MNL48 is based on-- popularized.
For context, the song "Talulot ng Sakura" is a Tagalog version of AKB48's first-ever single "Sakura No Hanabiratachi."
Being an official sister group of AKB48, MNL48 can only release covers from their Japanese counterpart.
The music video for "Talulot ng Sakura" is MNL48's second, with the first being the one for "Aitakatta - Gustong Makita."
While MNL48's debut music video focused on more personal stories of friendship and heartbreak, their sophomore effort is an ode to teamwork and the significance of having friends who tirelessly motivate one another.
Going back to the exact copy of the shot in the original "Sakura No Hanabiratachi" video, it can be viewed that MNL48 is alluding to the time when the primary selling point of AKB48 was that it's a group of amateurish girls helping each other reach the top.
The MNL8 girls pay tribute to their sister group in their video for 'Talulot ng Sakura' by performing the same dance in the original.
The message is essentially the same: that if MNL48 were to become a hit, it's important that no one gets left behind.
The music video will be launched on MYX Philippines Saturday, October 27. It is directed by Japanese director Tetsuya Hashi, and was mostly shot at the La Mesa Eco Park in Quezon City.


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Conceptual writing
Conceptual Writing Paragraphs on Conceptual Writing by Kenneth Goldsmith The delves into the main concept or idea involved in conceptual writing. In this regard, he states that it is an intuitive type of writing that is purposeless and concerned with engagement of all mental functions. Furthermore, it entails a prior planning and decision making process before writing.
What Me Was Conceptual? (1982) by Charles Bernstein
The article is a conceptual piece of writing that delves into the justification increased cardiac output among young people that are habitual smokers. In this regard, the article examines the systemic blood pressure and heart rate among eight test subjects.
Conceptual Literature in the Wild by Christian Bok
The article describes the precints of conceptual literature from a poetic point of view. In this regard, the author states that it is writing that alludes towards a parapoetic occurrence at the heart of meaning itself and exhibiting the extent to which language discovers its individual artistic latent.
Conceptual Writing: A worldview by Kenneth Goldsmith
Goldsmith explores the worldview that has taken root in relation to conceptual writing. In this regard, he narrates the international following accredited to conceptual writing by various poets in areas such as the United States, Canada, UK, Scandinavia, and South America. The author seeks to narrate the application, practitioners, and proliferation of conceptual writing in various parts of the world.
Generals and Globetrotters by Joshua Clover
The author seeks to explore the relationship between conceptual writing and flarf poetry. In this regard, he highlights the shared characteristics and also the eminent differences. These include things such as the dependence on found text, and the impoetic language.
Conceptual Writing (verb, repeat) and Silence by Mark Nowak
The author credits his understanding of conceptual writing to Kenneth Goldsmith. In this regard, he reiterates that is understanding is driven by the repetitive application of the sentence 'conceptual writing (verb).
A review of I'll Drown My book: Conceptual Writing by Women. By Cecilia Corrigan
In the review of the writing, the author states that it does not provide the reader to answers pertaining to Conceptual writing. On the contrary, it offers an interesting avenue for discussion in its opposition to Conceptualism objectives as having no meaning.
Poetry Is Dead, I Killed It: an Essay by Vanessa Place
According to the author, the justification of any decline of Conceptualism is a direct result of the 'death' or demise of poetry. Furthermore, she asserts that conceptual writing is annoying due to its present inert writing style that is in contrast to the former utilitarian style. Consequently, it represents a deformed and aesthetic object. This attributes have been largely borrowed from poetry.
A review of Vanessa Place's 'Statement of Facts' by Steven Zultanski
The author conducts a review of the article from a contextual point of view, relativist's position, and the moralist's position, the realist's position and the anti-context. In this regard, he states that that it will be viewed positively by realists due to it semblance of reportage. On the other hand, relativists appreciate it due to its inquisition of facts.
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A lovely lady I know is retiring, and she sent out a slideshow of pretty pictures and advice as a parting gift to colleagues. I wanted to share with friends on Facebook, but they don't allow uploads — only links — of PowerPoint presentations. Drat it. So I'm posting here and linking to it there! It has some nice calming music in the background too.
And the grammar noodge in me has to say I'd love to have the original file to do a little editing here and tweaking there — but it's still a worthwhile experience to see this!


Cooperative buying can provide lower prices and better quality for school districts. Region 5 Education Service Center acts as the coordinator for this cooperative and facilitates the process needed for it to be successful.
The Board of Trustees for a cooperating district approves a resolution to join and the district provides the service center with the necessary data on products and amounts to be purchased. All district requests are combined in order to bid the products in large volume, thus encouraging a lower unit price. At this time, specific food service supplies are bid on an annual basis.
Mission: The primary focus of the Region 5 ESC Food Service Cooperative is to provide regional school districts the opportunity to administer a fiscally sound school food service operation while providing appealing, nutritious meals for the school population.
Lessen school district staff responsibilities associated with the bidding process.
Act as a liaison between districts and vendors/brokers.
Assist districts in the implementation of the dietary guidelines with healthy menu planning strategies.
Provide required data to districts with regard to regulatory compliance purchasing issues.
Rely on district input on products and services to be offered.
Provide individualized customer service to districts.


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Coastguard report on yesterday evening's search
Thursday 29th of October 2020 03:43:28 PM
Categorised in: B and B, community, Informed
From Bude Coastguard:
Bude Coastguard Rescue Team members were paged at 17:59 yesterday evening (October 28th) by Falmouth Coastguard Operations Centre, following the report of an adult male walking into the sea at Summerleaze Beach.
Once the Rescue Team had met at the RV outside Life's a Beach restaurant, two search teams were formed, with all Rescue Officers wearing either water rescue jackets or lifejackets, with one team searching the foreshore and tideline on Summerleaze Beach, and the other searching from the cliffs towards Crooklets Beach.
Facing extremely challenging conditions and a heavily surging sea, the first team performed a thorough search of the beach, tideline and part of the river, which itself was seeing surging tidal flows of up to 5ft in height. Once this area had been covered, the team made their way out to the Breakwater, checking the surrounding rocks and inlets, with no sign of anyone found.
As the search teams were returning to the Rescue Vehicle for further search instructions, officers from Devon & Cornwall Police arrived on scene, liaising with the Coastguard Officer-in-Charge.
Taking over command of the incident, Devon & Cornwall Police then decided to call in further help. Bude Fire Brigade were subsequently paged, with a request to attend the incident with their mobile FLIR imaging equipment (FLIR stands for Forward Looking Infrared, and is a thermographic imaging camera that senses infrared radiation).
Through the Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre, the police also requested the attendance of Rescue 924, the Coastguard Rescue Helicopter based at St Mawgan, which itself has a powerful FLIR camera, night vision capabilities, and high illumination lighting technology. Meanwhile, HM Coastguard's regional Coastal Operations Area Commander was also making his way to the incident.
Whilst awaiting the arrival of further emergency responders, the Rescue Team performed further searches in and around Bude Sea Pool, and across the rocks and base of the cliffs towards Crooklets Beach, before again returning to the command point.
With the Fire Service now on scene, eight Firefighters made their way onto the beach with the FLIR camera, and performed a further shoreline search, with nothing found. Shortly afterward, Rescue 924 arrived overhead, and then began a comprehensive and lengthy search of the shoreline and the raging inshore waters beyond.
With no sign of any casualty found, despite thorough searches by all involved, all rescue assets were subsequently stood down.
Should you have any information which might relate to this incident, please contact Devon & Cornwall Police.


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Problem 1325. Special matrix
Submitted on 15 Mar 2013 by trekker
%% x = 3; y_correct = [1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1]; assert(isequal(your_fcn_name(x),y_correct))
%% x = 4; y_correct = [ 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1]; assert(isequal(your_fcn_name(x),y_correct))
%% x = 5; y_correct = [ 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1]; assert(isequal(your_fcn_name(x),y_correct))
%% x = 6; y_correct = [ 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1]; assert(isequal(your_fcn_name(x),y_correct))
%% x = 18; y_correct = [ 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1]; assert(isequal(your_fcn_name(x),y_correct))
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Saturday, May 23, 2009 ... / /
Shocks in mathematics and physics
Edward Witten recently posted a written version of his talk on the 2008 Raoul Bott celebration.
Its goal is to explain the mathematical audiences why the Langlands duality becomes a pretty much inevitable - if not obvious - a fact in the context of field-theoretical limits of string theory.
That's a good opportunity to say a few words about the large differences between mathematicians and physicists in their appraisal of surprise.
The Langlands duality relates, among other things, properties of the root lattice of one group and the weight lattice of another group. It implies the existence of lots of "independent" relationships between various mathematical structures whose "a priori" probability to hold would be essentially zero. So they're very shocking.
But are they? Well, it depends how you calculate the probabilities. Once you show that all these statements are consequences of one unifying principle, it follows that they're not really independent. Because they're not independent, you can't show that their probability to simultaneously hold is a large power of a small number: it's just one small number - which is not too small. We have encountered this issue in a recent discussion about confidence levels in physics initiated by David Berenstein.
And indeed, the Langlands duality is a reflection of one principle, the S-duality in field theory.
One can give all the mathematical quantities in the Langlands duality a physical interpretation. Once it is done, all the statements follow from the so-called S-duality, the statement that one gauge theory with the coupling constant "g" is equivalent to another gauge theory (or the same one) with the coupling "1/g". They are really one gauge theory, in the physical sense.
The S-duality is a generalization of the electromagnetic duality in four dimensions. Equations of electromagnetism can be written in the relativistic form, using the antisymmetric tensor "F_{mn}". In four dimensions, it is possible to reshuffle this tensor into its dual, "F*_{mn}", by summing it with the antisymmetric tensor "epsilon_{mnpq}". If we allow the magnetic monopole density and currents to be nonzero, the equations of electromagnetism exhibit a symmetry between electricity and magnetism: the form of the equations is pretty much identical if "F_{mn}" and "F*_{mn}" are interchanged, together with the electric and magnetic currents.
To show this symmetry for ordinary electromagnetism is trivial: we are only reshuffling the components of a tensor, after all. However, this symmetry has generalizations in the non-Abelian, Yang-Mills case, where it must be accompanied by an appropriate modification of the gauge group. While "SU(N)" is pretty much mapped to the same "SU(N)" (the "A_{l}" algebras are self-dual), up to discrete subtleties, "O(2N+1)" is mapped to "USp(2N)" ("B_{l}" is switched with "C_{l}"), and so on.
These observations can be argued to hold and one can arguably construct a full proof using one of many available strategies. S-duality reduces the huge number of a priori independent statements about the Langlands duality into a much smaller set of independent statements. This smaller set may still look too large. Can we keep on going and unify it?
Yes, we can. S-duality of 4D gauge theories results from the very existence of some 6D local quantum field theories.
In the middle-to-late 1990s, string theorists realized that local, finite, interacting quantum field theories exist above four dimensions. Before that, it was generally believed that because no superficially renormalizable interactions can be added to the Lagrangians above "d=4", interacting theories above this threshold must inevitably be sick.
It turned out that the assumption was incorrect. If we want to obtain local field theories from string theory, we must get rid of gravity because gravity always brings some degree of non-locality (think e.g. about the tunneling of information from the black hole interiors). We say that "gravity must be decoupled".
If you study dynamics of D3-branes in type IIB string theory, you may take the limit in which gravity and massive string states are decoupled. What you're left with is N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. We can write it in the Lagrangian form, too.
However, M-theory contains M5-branes and one can still take a similar limit of "N" coincident M5-branes (complicated dynamics!) and decouple gravity. Because analogous proofs still exist, assuming well-known general properties of objects in string theory, the result of this limiting procedure must be a 6-dimensional local quantum field theory.
It has a stress-energy tensor and other local operators that have correlators much like the N=4 d=4 Yang-Mills theory's operators do. But the six-dimensional theory has no classical, Lorentz-invariant Lagrangian. Despite this difference, much like the N=4 gauge theory in d=4, it exists and it has 16 supercharges. The minimal spinor in 5+1 dimensions has 8 real components, so this supersymmetry has 2 minimal units of supersymmetry. In 5+1 dimensions, the left-handed and right-handed components of SUSY can be added independently, not being the CPT conjugates of each other, so with 16 supercharges, we must still distinguish (1,1) and (2,0) supersymmetry. The new field theories in "d=6" happen to be (2,0) theories. That's also the SUSY algebra of type IIA (i.e. (1,1) SUSY in d=10) NS5-branes - the M5-branes can be obtained as a limit of these IIA NS5-branes - while the SUSY algebra in type IIB (i.e. (2,0) SUSY in d=10) is of the (1,1) form.
These exotic six-dimensional theories have their holographic, AdS_{7} duals, they appear as matrix models for M-theory on T^5, and they have many other important applications. Clearly, we want to discuss another important application - their ability to explain S-duality.
If you compactify a (2,0) theory on a tiny two-torus with shape (complex structure) given by a complex number, "tau", you obtain a "d=4" supersymmetric gauge theory whose complexified coupling constant is "tau". Because different values of "tau", the shape of the torus, are physically identical if they are related by SL(2,Z) modular transformations, you can immediately see that four-dimensional maximally supersymmetric gauge theories have an SL(2,Z) S-duality - a duality identifying theories with different values of the coupling "tau".
With the existence of the (2,0) theory taken as a fact, the S-duality of gauge theories become trivial. Now, you may obviously keep on climbing "up" in the explanatory ladder. The (2,0) theories exist because string/M-theory does and because the latter has certain basic properties. Even in mathematics, string/M-theory is the ultimate primordial explanatory "idea" behind a majority of important propositions.
By the way, you could also say that D3-branes in type IIB string theory are objects in a 12-dimensional "F-theory" (in the 12D sense) that is compactified on a similar two-torus, and the SL(2,Z) action on the two-torus would be equally manifest. However, F-theory, while a more "fundamental" starting point, is more formal and probably harder to prove to exist than the (2,0) theory is. It also contains many objects and phenomena that are unnecessary if you're only interested in S-dualities of d=4 gauge theories.
More generally, we can ask: Does string/M-theory with the basic desired properties exist? Can you prove it? Well, everything indicates that it does exist but there is no "fully rigorous proof" of the existence of the entire structure with all the desired properties. On the other hand, its existence looks virtually unquestionable, given the available circumstantial evidence. It is not "much less likely" than the validity of any of the partial, modest statements about the Langlands duality. And it is vastly more powerful.
I find it obvious that if there are two facts, they seem equally likely or maybe even equally provable, but one of them is incomparably more powerful, it is more interesting and should be more intensely studied.
Mathematicians often disagree with this viewpoint. The primary reason is that they really distinguish "p=0", "0<p<1", and "p=1". They don't divide the intermediate group finely.
What do I mean? If mathematicians prove or disprove something, things become settled. But if they don't, the issue is completely uncertain for them. In other words, mathematicians don't like to collect partial evidence. They hate it. They only love complete proofs. It also means that all "unifying structures" remain "heuristic speculations" for them until they are proven or disproven.
Scientists can't possibly operate in this way because almost every proposition they have ever studied has the probability to hold somewhere between 0 and 1 - and it is very important how close to 0 or 1 it actually is. If they decide that the probability of XY is "p=0.9999", arguments based on the assumption that XY holds are not called "heuristic". Instead, they're "very solid scientific arguments".
I find it obvious that the scientific treatment - with different values of "p" which actually influence which things we study and how - is the superior operational strategy to reach the right answers to many questions. The mathematicians must know so. But for some reason, their goal is really not to find the right opinions about as many questions as possible. They are only interested in finding answers they can be 100% certain about. It's a somewhat dogmatic attitude, especially if you realize that mathematicians are fallible, too.
Note that this dogmatic attitude is largely independent of the fact that mathematicians study an artificial world of invented concepts rather than the real world. Even if you study artificially invented concepts, you could still adopt the scientists' approach and carefully distinguish different degrees of probability. In the context of mathematics, this approach is called "heuristic mathematics". For some reasons, it is pursued by a very small number of professionals.
There are two "major" groups - scientists who carefully distinguish different confidence levels, and mathematicians who don't. In the previous paragraph, we mentioned that mathematicians could also distinguish different confidence levels. Finally, there also exists the fourth group, scientists who only care about rigorous results. That's a somewhat inconsistent combination because statements about the real, messy world can't ever be "quite certain". The people calling themselves "mathematical physicists" are perhaps the closest thinkers to this description. However, the price they pay for their rigor is that the objects they study are often just inspired by physics: they're not full-fledged physical systems per se.
There is one more fact that should be mentioned: probabilities that hugely general, powerful propositions hold are nonzero in general.
If you find four positive integers "x,y,z,n" such that
xn + yn = zn,
you will notice that "n=1" or "n=2". It will hold for the first 500 examples you find. Will you try to look for more examples? You may also lose your patience and decide that it is hopeless to look for any counterexamples where "n" is greater than two.
In fact, you should better your patience before it's too late. ;-)
As you know very well, there are no counterexamples with "n" greater than two. This bold claim is nothing else than Fermat's Last Theorem that has already been proven. Let's psychologically return to those years before it was proven. How would we estimate the probability that a counterexample would be found?
The theorem had been proved for individual exponents (and, automatically, for all of their multiples, simply because y^{pq} = (y^p)^{q}) for several centuries. It had been known that no counterexample could have existed for "n=3", "n=4" (the simplest proof!), and so on. The statement was known to hold for "n" equal to hundreds. But couldn't there exist a counterexample?
If you decided that the validity of the partial Fermat's Last Theorem for each prime exponent were an independent question, it would be clear that you would have to view its validity for "n=3", "n=4", "n=5", "n=7" etc. as unlikely and independent miracles. They wouldn't change anything about the possibility that the theorem could break down e.g. for "n=2^{43,112,609}-1", the largest known prime. A counterexample could exist.
You could also take the attitude that if 100 exponents were verified to obey Fermat's Last Theorem, the probability that a random prime exponent violates it is comparable to 1%. You could think that about 100 additional exponents would obey the theorem and then, a counterexample would probably be found.
But you must realize that among those 100 exponents, there had been no counterexample, so the naively calculated probability was still 0/100=0. The "measured" probability that a random exponent violates the theorem was between 0% and 1%, if you wish.
Now, imagine that Fermat's Last Theorem is reinterpreted as a question in natural sciences - or that you find an analogous situation in science.
Many people around physics who like to ignore mathematics often believe that the probability must strictly be greater than zero because no fully certain, "p=0" or "p=1" propositions exist in science.
Except that they do. It is always possible that a finite but large number of "hints" that something holds generally actually implies that the things holds generally. If you wish, the probabilistic distributions for probabilities of scientific propositions (and it's no mistake that there are two probabilistic words embedded into each other here!) can always have a "Bose-Einstein condensate" or a "delta-function component" located at "p=0" or "p=1". So "p=0" or "p=1" can appear with a nonzero probability.
That's a consequence of the fact that no related or adjacent objects in mathematics or science can ever be thought of as being "completely independent" or "completely unrelated". Everyone and everything has a "common ancestor", in some very general sense. Consequently, probabilities of assertions about them can never be thought of as "quite independent", either. It is a priori completely unknown whether two confusing propositions are "completely unrelated" or "relatively unrelated" or "virtually equivalent".
If a general scientific or mathematical statement seems to be supported by very many pieces of evidence, we should always admit the possibility that the statement actually holds in the full generality and accuracy - unless we have strong rational evidence (referring to the technical features of the given situation, not some completely general or vague philosophical preconceptions) that it is not the case.
Theorems often exist. General propositions often hold. And if they do, it is often (or always) the case that a proof must exist. And if a proof exists, humans have a chance to find it at some point. They have already found many proofs in the past.
I feel that this basic ability to generalize - and the modest requirement that people accept at least the possibility that certain principles and propositions can hold generally and completely accurately - is largely absent among the public, including parts of the scientific public.
This sociological observation seems to be demonstrated by the unwillingness of so many people to accept the very possibility that the quantum mechanical postulates hold exactly, much like the local rules of special relativity. That's just too bad because these people, in effect, believe in the dogma saying that "there are no laws in Nature" and "no amount of evidence can ever change that". I am sure that they are profoundly wrong.
And that's the memo.
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma - childhood
Late effects
Late effects of treatments for childhood non-Hodgkin lymphoma
See topics
Childhood non-Hodgkin lymphoma
What is childhood non-Hodgkin lymphoma
If cancer spreads
Prognosis and survival
Recovering from childhood non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and adjusting to life after treatment is different for each child. Recovery can depend on the type of NHL, the stage and risk group, the type and dose of treatment, the child's age at time of treatment and many other factors. The end of cancer treatment may bring mixed emotions. Even though treatment has ended, there may be other issues to deal with, such as coping with long-term side effects.
Your child's healthcare team will watch for late side effects and can help prepare you for what to expect. They can also suggest ways to help your child.
Learning problems can develop in children treated with high-dose chemotherapy, intrathecal chemotherapy with methotrexate or cytarabine (Cytosar) or radiation therapy to the brain. Generally, learning difficulties are mild and do not cause any major disability. Children who are under the age of 5 during treatment may be at higher risk for learning problems.
Find out more about learning difficulties.
Some chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy to the head or neck can cause oral and dental problems. These problems may include increased risk for cavities, white or discoloured patches on the teeth, shortening or thinning of the roots of the teeth or absence of teeth or roots. Oral and dental problems can develop many years after treatment is finished.
Find out more about dental problems.
Children who receive radiation therapy to the neck area have a higher risk of developing hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism and thyroid nodules. Hypothyroidism is lowered thyroid function. Hyperthyroidism is increased thyroid function. Thyroid nodules are growths on the thyroid that can sometimes cause hyperthyroidism.
Find out more about thyroid problems.
Radiation therapy to the chest can have late effects on the heart. Certain chemotherapy drugs used to treat NHL, such as doxorubicin (Adriamycin), can also affect the heart. Heart problems can include:
inflammation or scarring of the protective covering of the heart (called pericarditis)
hardening or narrowing of the heart arteries (called coronary artery disease)
scarring or weakening of the heart muscle (called cardiomyopathy)
abnormal heartbeat (called arrhythmia)
inability of the heart to pump blood properly (called congestive heart failure)
Find out more about heart problems.
Pneumonitis is the most common lung problem that can develop after treatment with certain chemotherapy drugs, such as doxorubicin. Pneumonitis is inflammation of the lungs. It can develop into pulmonary fibrosis, which is the formation of scar tissue in the lungs.
Radiation therapy to the chest can also cause pneumonitis and pulmonary fibrosis.
Find out more about lung problems.
Certain chemotherapy drugs, such as vincristine (Oncovin), can cause liver problems. The liver may become enlarged (called hepatomegaly). If the liver damage gets worse, the liver may become hard (called fibrosis) and scarred (called cirrhosis).
Find out more about liver problems.
Bone and muscle problems
Children treated with radiation therapy for NHL have a higher risk of developing problems with their bones and muscles. Radiation therapy to the spine can result in a shorter overall height. Radiation therapy to the chest and neck area can cause narrow shoulders, a narrow neck and a poorly developed chest.
Treatment with steroids, such as prednisone or dexamethasone (Decadron, Dexasone), can also increase the risk of problems such as osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a condition in which bones lose mass (density) and the bone tissue breaks down.
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Peripheral nervous system problems
Weakness and sensation changes related to chemotherapy drugs such as vincristine and vinblastine may improve over time, but some children have more permanent changes. Follow-up with physiotherapy is recommended.
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Some chemotherapy drugs used to treat NHL can cause reproductive system problems. These problems include early or delayed puberty in boys and girls. Children treated for NHL may be infertile when they are adults. Girls treated with alkylating agents may have premature menopause as women. The higher the total dose of chemotherapy, the greater the risk of damage. High doses of chemotherapy used in preparation for a stem cell transplant increase the risk of reproductive system problems.
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Second cancers
NHL survivors have a higher risk of developing a second cancer. This risk may be due to treatments, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Children treated for cancer today have a lower risk of developing a second cancer than they did in the past. New chemotherapy combinations, lower doses of chemotherapy and lower doses of radiation that more accurately target the tumour have lowered the risk of a second cancer.
Chemotherapy with alkylating agents and etoposide (Vepesid, VP-16) can raise the risk of developing acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) or a myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Secondary leukemia is most commonly diagnosed 5 to 10 years after treatment.
The risk of developing NHL again may also be higher in children treated for NHL. This may be because both the disease and its treatments can weaken the immune system.
Children treated for NHL also have a higher risk of developing solid tumours, such as cancers of the breast or thyroid. The risks of secondary solid tumours vary depending on the treatment given. They are mostly related to radiation therapy, and the risk may be higher if chemotherapy is given with radiation therapy.
The Children's Oncology Group (COG) follow-up guidelines recommend that children with NHL have early screening for secondary cancer as part of their supportive care. For example, the COG recommends that girls who received radiation to the chest have mammograms 8 years after their treatment or by the age of 25, whichever is later.
Find out more about second cancers.
Expert review and references
American Cancer Society. After Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment. 2017.
American Society of Clinical Oncology. Lymphoma - Non-Hodgkin - Childhood. 2017.
Gross TG & Perkins SL . Malignant non-Hodgkin lymphomas in children. Pizzo, P. A. & Poplack, D. G. (Eds.). Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology. 6th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2011: 23:pp. 663-682.
Hendershot, E . Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Kline, N. E. (Ed.). Essentials of Pediatric Oncology Nursing: A Core Curriculum. 2nd ed. Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses; 2004: 2.2: pp.30-35.
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Q: Totally bounded space Suppose $M=\left \{ f\in L^1([0,1])\, |\, 0<f(x)<\frac 1{\sqrt x}   \text{almost everywhere on} \, (0,1) \right\}$.
Is it true or not, that $M$ is totally bounded?

A: It is not totally bounded.
For an abstract reason why not, note that $M$ contains a ball of the $L^\infty$ norm.  If $M$ were totally bounded then the inclusion $L^\infty([0,1]) \hookrightarrow L^1([0,1])$ would be compact.  But it isn't.
We can use the example given there to make a concrete proof.  Let $e_n(x) = \sin(2 \pi n x)$.  It's well known, and simple to check, that the $e_n$ are orthogonal in $L^2([0,1])$,  i.e. $\int_0^1 e_n(x) e_m(x)\,dx = 0$ for $n \ne m$.  We also have $\int_0^1 e_n(x)^2\,dx = \frac{1}{2}$.  We can then observe that, for $n \ne m$, $\int_0^1 (e_n(x) - e_m(x))^2\,dx = 1$.
Now, noting that $\frac{1}{2}|e_n - e_m| \le 1$, we have $\frac{1}{2}|e_n - e_m| \ge \frac{1}{4}|e_n - e_m|^2$.  Thus, for $n \ne m$, we have
$$\frac{1}{2} \int_0^1 |e_n(x) - e_m(x)|\,dx \ge \frac{1}{4} \int_0^1 (e_n(x)-e_m(x))^2 \,dx = \frac{1}{4}.$$
So we have shown $\lVert e_n - e_m \rVert_1 \ge 1/2$.
Set $f_n = \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{4} e_n$.  Then $\frac{1}{4} \le f_n \le \frac{3}{4}$ so $f_n \in M$, and we have $\lVert f_n - f_m \rVert_1 \ge \frac{1}{8}$ for all $n \ne m$.  Thus if we have any cover of $M$ by balls of some radius $\epsilon < \frac{1}{16}$, each ball can contain at most one of the $f_n$, and hence the cover is not finite.

A: Another useful set of functions in $M$ are the 'square waves'. Let $f_1$ be the indicator function of $\cup_{i=0}^{\infty} [i, i+\frac{1}{2}]$, and define $f_{n+1}(x) = f(2^n x)$. It is simple to show that $||f_n - f_m|| = \frac{1}{4}$ as long as $m\neq n$.

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From what little that's been seen so far, I like the direction the series is expected to take. More importantly to me I like the art style. What do you think. Will Samurai 8 live up to the hype? Will it be successful as the current shonen series? Can it surpass Naruto?
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In the current debate about the economic crisis affecting Europe, limited attention has been devoted to regional aspects. The national dimension has attracted most of the interest of the political debate, while the intra-national effects of the crisis have been neglected. While there are major claims for a more "European Union (EU)-driven" intervention to better coordinate efforts across member states, the regional and local dimensions of the crisis have been left behind. In this regard, the EU Commission has proposed a significant reform of the EU Cohesion Policy for the programming period 2014–2020, addressing the crisis using a place-based approach, but the current political debate does not seem to have fully understood this opportunity.
In this framework, we want to highlight the risk determined by a 'hidden' challenge: Since the beginning of the crisis, member states have re-centralized policies, weakening the possibility for a policy intervention adapted across different territories. Our objective is to argue in favor of a place-based policy to address the current crisis considering regional and local specificities, based on the recognition that the EU already has a policy in place that is able to provide a significant contribution to recover from the crisis.
On the one hand, the debate on the current crisis in Europe is broad and very animated, and this is not surprising. On the other hand, at least three major elements seem to be missing from the whole debate: the prevalence of the national perspective, the underestimation of the EU Cohesion Policy as a tool to recover from the crisis, and the absence of a territorial perspective.
Both political and scientific debates on the crisis have assumed the national scale as the predominant one, if not the only one. This is determined by the prevalence of a nation-state perspective, but its implications have not really been considered. All of the strategies have been implemented by national governments – from tax reforms and improved social protection to labor market reforms and business supports. While the effectiveness of these measures seems far from being able to end the crisis, other levels of policy-making have been largely neglected.
There have been questions regarding the role of the EU, or lack thereof. In the political debate, much has been said about the possibility of the EU breaking up as a result of delays in intervention, its indecision, and the structural limits of its governance. While we do not wish to enter into a debate on the EU's effectiveness in solving the crisis (mainly in terms of Eurozone and the banking union), we would like to draw attention to the limited discussion on the EU Cohesion Policy as a tool to recover from the crisis. The interest for this policy is determined by the fact that an EU-wide investment policy is already in place, with its governance, mechanism, and rationale that could be immediately used to address the crisis.
Finally, the territorial dimensions are the third topic missing from the general debate on the crisis. The focus, which has been limited to the national perspective, has given little attention to the effects within each member state, while it can be easily shown that even in the short-term impact of the crisis (2008–2010), regional differences in terms of per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and unemployment are very significant (see Figure 1). Looking within national borders, we can observe a patchwork of regional trends, most of them negative indeed. The crisis has determined differentiated regional impacts, and these differences claim for interventions adapted to differentiated territorial contexts.
In order to promote a public intervention, the EU Cohesion Policy is an already established tool that can contribute to solving the current crisis. Nevertheless, it is necessary to understand the policy's rationale to fully benefit.
Since the 1970s, all European countries have been interested in a process of institutional decentralization, which has been moving in two directions. On the one hand, the process of European integration has been supported by the establishment of supranational institutions, and not only by international agreements. The creation of the EU is a sign of this process of supranational political integration, with multiple effects such as the EU law and the creation of EU policies (the CAP, the Cohesion Policy and the Framework Programme/Horizon 2020 are the three most significant examples). Despite all of the limitations in this process, the EU has become a benchmark worldwide (e.g., MERCOSUR in Latin America). On the other hand, all the European countries have been interested in a process of decentralization with growing powers for sub-national tiers of governments, mainly regions. Even though each country has followed a different path that takes into account national specificities, this general trend aims to improve the effectiveness of policies by tailoring interventions to each region.
In this regard, the EU Cohesion Policy has provided a significant contribution in terms of increasing resources for regional governments and explicitly involving them in the design of regional development programs. Specifically, the Cohesion Policy has pushed member states to differentiate policy interventions across regions in order to tailor interventions according to territorial specificities. Nonetheless, this is possible only if regional governments have the resources to do it.
In this context of differentiated regional impacts determined by the crisis, the EU Cohesion Policy is a significant tool to promote investments adapted to differentiated regional needs. However, we have observed very different adaptation strategies across member states in terms of balance between central and regional interventions as well as capacity to promote capital investments (see Figure 2 and Figure 3).
The general trend is a re-centralization of public investments at the national level, with two dangerous effects. The first effect is the centralization of intervention risks to undermine the possibility for policies adapted to regional specificities. Even though the crisis is common all over Europe, regional differentiations cannot be neglected, as shown in Figure 1. Second, since the EU Cohesion Policy relies on the resources of regional governments, if national governments reduce their transfer, regions cannot fully benefit from this policy exploiting EU resources. This criterion called 'additionality' is a fundamental characteristic of the EU Cohesion Policy and aims to create synergies between European and national resources coordinating public investments' strategies. Yet, if regions do not have these resources, this coordination cannot be implemented.
In this article we have explored a hidden challenge in the EU Cohesion Policy. The reduction in transfer in favor of regional governments has resulted in a re-centralization of policy interventions in order to face the crisis, which in turn has resulted in two risks: the limited adaptation of interventions to regional specificities and the weakening of regional capacities to exploit the EU Cohesion Policy. In this regard, we would like to open the discussion to approaches that can be used to overcome these risks. A first contribution has been recently published based on the "territorial capital" approach, but the debate is still open, since the crisis does not seem to be over and the EU needs further contributions.
Nicola Francesco Dotti is a post-doc in Economic Geography at Cosmopolis, Centre for Urban Research of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He did a PhD on the territorial impact assessment of the EU Cohesion Policy based on the territorial capital theory. His current research interest is in the European research geography, and how research can support territorial policy innovations.
Rocco Luigi Bubbico is a Policy Analyst at the Directorate-General Regional and Urban Policy (DG-Regio) of the EU Commission. He has been working on regional public investment and the integration of EU regional policy and economic governance. He holds a PhD in planning at University of Manchester.
This paper represents solely the views of its authors and cannot, under any circumstances, be regarded as the official position of the EU Commission.
* Map provided by ESPON: <http://www.espon.eu/main/Menu_Publications/Menu_MapsOfTheMonth/map1103.html>. Texts and maps stemming from research projects under the ESPON programme presented in this report do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the ESPON Monitoring Committee.
** Graphs first published in Nicola Francesco Dotti and Rocco Luigi Bubbico, "New Challenges for Structural Funds: The New Territorial Capital Approach in the Perspective of the Evolution of the EU Regional Policy" European Structural and Investment Funds Journal 2, no. 2 (2014): 89–100, available at <www.lexxion.de/en/verlagsprogramm-shop/details/4599/391/estif/estif-2/2014/new-challenges-for-structural-funds>.
 Nicola Francesco Dotti and Rocco Luigi Bubbico, "New Challenges for Structural Funds: The New Territorial Capital Approach in the Perspective of the Evolution of the EU Regional Policy" European Structural and Investment Funds Journal 2, no. 2 (2014): 89–100, available at <www.lexxion.de/en/verlagsprogramm-shop/details/4599/391/estif/estif-2/2014/new-challenges-for-structural-funds>.


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Young Entrepreneurs: These Bright Thinkers Started as Daydreamers
by Christina Garibay
in Business Wisdom
The ones that pretend to be young entrepreneurs never assumes that he or she must wait a few years before starting an enterprise, and this is true even if the person in question has no business background at all! This article features some of those people bright thinkers with unique ideas who are passionate about making money while addressing needs in our society.
List of young entrepreneurs with their young entrepreneur stories
Entrepreneur: Matt Mullenweg (25 years old)
Matt Mullenweg is one of young entrepreneurs the creator of WordPress , a software that has become one of the most popular blog tools in history. In recent months he had been offered to sell his company and intellectual property for $250 million but turned it down.
Entrepreneur: Pete Cashmore (24 years old)
Pete Cashmore is an internet entrepreneur who has successfully competed against other popular websites in order to gain the best traffic. His work with how people use social media, blogs and podcasts have given him 1.6 million followers on Twitter alone and 300,000 RSS readers that can't wait to see what he's going do next. He also writes a blog of his own which details everything you need know about new technology trends because it changes so quickly!
Pete Cashmore the best of teen entrepreneurs is one of those men on top: A self-made multimillionaire thanks to his website Mashable (which provides news about web culture) as well as others like Twitpic (a site for sharing photos).
Entrepreneur: David Karp (22 years old)
David Karp part of youth entrepreneurs group was determined to create an easy-to-use, user friendly platform for blogging. He invested his own money and sought $5.25 million from investors in order to launch Tumbler.com which quickly gained users who found the site simple as well as customizable. Two of these major contributors were instrumental in launching Twitter!
Entrepreneur: Sean Belnick (23 years old)
Sean's Belnick part of famous young entrepreneurs with a story that is an example of why you should never give up hope. At the age of 14, he had a great idea to sell furniture and now earns more than $50 million each year! Other young people are inspired by his success story as well – it shows that all your hard work pays off in the end.
Entrepreneur: Matt Mickiewicz (25 years old)
SitePoint.com is the ultimate destination for anybody who's ever tried to build a great website, but had no idea how do it themselves! You'll find all sorts of invaluable advice about everything from web design strategies that will draw visitors in like bees to books on creating and selling your own site or hiring an expert social media background designer. Created by Matt Mickiewicz part of successful young entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneur: Noah Everett (24 years old)
TwitPic.com is an impressive website with a Alexa ranking in the top 200, which allows users to upload images that can be viewed on Twitter from your home office! Millions of web pages are handled by Noah Everett's one of the best young successful entrepreneurs servers each day for this amazing site!
Entrepreneur: Ryan Allis (25 years old)
With the advent of email marketing, business leaders are able to reach out on a consistent basis and create sustainable growth for their company. This is done through innovative campaigns that utilize email as well as other tools such as social media. As Ryan Allis's IContact has shown, this can be lucrative with annual income $25 million and limitless potentials for creative strategies in reaching customers who use technology every day. Ryan Allis from the youngest entrepreneur group
Entrepreneur: Jon Wheatley (22 years old)
John Wheatley, a successful entrepreneur with an eye for innovation and creative problem-solving skills has made it his mission to take the ordinary challenges of daily life that we all face (like taking photos) and make them extraordinary. With one million dollars in funding since its founding DailyBooth com started with this simple idea: "What if you could create videos from your photo stream?" Jon Wheatley part of the group successful entrepreneurs under 25
Entrepreneur: Kieran O'Neill (22 years old)
Kiran O'Neill the one from successful teenage entrepreneurs is a social media genius. When he was 19 years old, Kiran sold his first website for $1.25 million and has created multiple online successes in the gaming industry with PlayStation- being one of them where as part of young entrepreneurship, you can use their ideas to reach out globally to fans all around the world. Kiran O'Neill is in top ten young entrepreneurs in this list.
Entrepreneur: Blake Ross (24 years old)
Blake Ross is a visionary and one of the youngest entrepreneur in the world who refused to be shut out of the marketplace by giants like Microsoft. His browser, Mozilla Firefox, was downloaded over 100 million times in its first year and has helped make it one formidable competitor for users' attention spans online. Blake Ross is one of the 10 successful young entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneur: Shama Kabani (24 years old)
Web marketing is a very important part of any company that wants to be competitive in the digital age. Shama Kabani from the youngest entrepreneurs has her own vision for Click to Client, and it includes being every client's full service web marketing firm. She spends much of her time traveling around the world speaking at internet marketing conferences where she shares some powerful secrets with other business owners who want their companies' success stories told as well!
Entrepreneur: Juliette Brindak (20 years old)
If you want to know about young entrepreneur business than Juliette Brindak is one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the world, the author of "The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business", had a great idea at age 10. In 2006 she wrote her first book and in less than 2 years it sold 120 thousand copies! Juliette from young entrepreneurs in the world now reaches out to millions of girls around the world through websites that have become extremely popular amongst successful entrepreneurs. Her website is one of the best young entrepreneurs website.
Entrepreneur: Ashley Qualls (20 years old)
When a young entrepreneur like Ashley Qualls creates an online business, she ignores the limitations of age. At 14 years old when WhatEverLife was created, this site is directed toward females and at its peak draws 250 thousand visitors per day with nearly 60% coming from Google Adsense ads strategically placed on the website.
Entrepreneur: Richard Ludlow (22 years old)
Successful entrepreneurs find new ways of doing things that might change the way people do business. Academic Earth was founded with a goal to provide every person on earth with access to education from world-class universities and in January 2012, Ampush Media acquired it. Another non-profit example is Richard Ludlow's the one from recent successful entrepreneurs with the idea that represent one of the most successful teenage entrepreneurs stories for providing full video courses by leading colleges through technology. He wanted this because so many students don't have sufficient funds or time to attend college when they are at home during summer breaks or before starting their career and work schedules restrict them from attending classes while working regular jobs outside school hours.
Entrepreneur: Kristopher Tate (21 years old)
Zooomr is the ultimate way to share your life with friends and family and is created by the idea from one of the famous teen entrepreneurs. With this photo-sharing site he has become one of the best stories of young entrepreneurs, you can tag people in each picture so that others may see only what's given permission. Privacy settings allow for a certain view or all pictures if wanted before visiting again! Kristopher Tate is a young entrepreneur .
Conclusion from young famous entrepreneurs
We had this list of young entrepreneurs names and based on that we made a conclusion if you want to be part of new young entrepreneurs in USA or all over the world. If you will work hard soon you will be on the top 10 young entrepreneurs
You never know what you're capable of until someone offers a challenge and tells you to go for it so you can have the chance to be in the list of teenage entrepreneur success stories. There are opportunities to be one of the best success stories of young entrepreneurs out there.
The market demands that companies compete year after year to give the best solutions possible in order to become successful themselves. The person with an idea has always had their chance at making something happen and becoming one of the most successful teenage entrepreneurs. All they need is drive and creativity to create young entrepreneurs business; this young generation proves those 2 qualities exist within each one of us ready for our opportunity when needed most."
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package android.os;

/*-[
#include "android/system/ErrnoException.h"

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/sysctl.h>
]-*/

/**
 * Core timekeeping facilities.
 *
 *
 Three different clocks are available, and they should not be confused:
 *
 *

 *

 {@link System#currentTimeMillis System.currentTimeMillis()}
 *     is the standard "wall" clock (time and date) expressing milliseconds
 *     since the epoch.  The wall clock can be set by the user or the phone
 *     network (see {@link #setCurrentTimeMillis}), so the time may jump
 *     backwards or forwards unpredictably.  This clock should only be used
 *     when correspondence with real-world dates and times is important, such
 *     as in a calendar or alarm clock application.  Interval or elapsed
 *     time measurements should use a different clock.
 *
 *

 {@link #uptimeMillis} is counted in milliseconds since the
 *     system was booted.  This clock stops when the system enters deep
 *     sleep (CPU off, display dark, device waiting for external input),
 *     but is not affected by clock scaling, idle, or other power saving
 *     mechanisms.  This is the basis for most interval timing
 *     such as {@link Thread#sleep(long) Thread.sleep(millls)},
 *     {@link Object#wait(long) Object.wait(millis)}, and
 *     {@link System#nanoTime System.nanoTime()}.  This clock is guaranteed
 *     to be monotonic, and is suitable for interval timing when the
 *     interval does not span device sleep.  Most methods that accept a
 *     timestamp value currently expect the {@link #uptimeMillis} clock.
 *
 *

 {@link #elapsedRealtime} and {@link #elapsedRealtimeNanos}
 *     return the time since the system was booted, and include deep sleep.
 *     This clock is guaranteed to be monotonic, and continues to tick even
 *     when the CPU is in power saving modes, so is the recommend basis
 *     for general purpose interval timing.
 *
 *

 *
 * There are several mechanisms for controlling the timing of events:
 *
 *

 *

 Standard functions like {@link Thread#sleep(long)
 *     Thread.sleep(millis)} and {@link Object#wait(long) Object.wait(millis)}
 *     are always available.  These functions use the {@link #uptimeMillis}
 *     clock; if the device enters sleep, the remainder of the time will be
 *     postponed until the device wakes up.  These synchronous functions may
 *     be interrupted with {@link Thread#interrupt Thread.interrupt()}, and
 *     you must handle {@link InterruptedException}.
 *
 *

 {@link #sleep SystemClock.sleep(millis)} is a utility function
 *     very similar to {@link Thread#sleep(long) Thread.sleep(millis)}, but it
 *     ignores {@link InterruptedException}.  Use this function for delays if
 *     you do not use {@link Thread#interrupt Thread.interrupt()}, as it will
 *     preserve the interrupted state of the thread.
 *

 */
public final class SystemClock {
  private static final String TAG = "SystemClock";

    /**
     * This class is uninstantiable.
     */
    private SystemClock() {
        // This space intentionally left blank.
    }

    /**
     * Waits a given number of milliseconds (of uptimeMillis) before returning.
     * Similar to {@link java.lang.Thread#sleep(long)}, but does not throw
     * {@link InterruptedException}; {@link Thread#interrupt()} events are
     * deferred until the next interruptible operation.  Does not return until
     * at least the specified number of milliseconds has elapsed.
     *
     * @param ms to sleep before returning, in milliseconds of uptime.
     */
    public static void sleep(long ms)
    {
        long start = uptimeMillis();
        long duration = ms;
        boolean interrupted = false;
        do {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(duration);
            }
            catch (InterruptedException e) {
                interrupted = true;
            }
            duration = start + ms - uptimeMillis();
        } while (duration > 0);

        if (interrupted) {
            // Important: we don't want to quietly eat an interrupt() event,
            // so we make sure to re-interrupt the thread so that the next
            // call to Thread.sleep() or Object.wait() will be interrupted.
            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Sets the current wall time, in milliseconds.  Requires the calling
     * process to have appropriate permissions.
     *
     * @return if the clock was successfully set to the specified time.
     */
    public static boolean setCurrentTimeMillis(long millis) {
        // TODO(tball): implement on iOS only if any customers need it.
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Returns milliseconds since boot, not counting time spent in deep sleep.
     *
     * @return milliseconds of non-sleep uptime since boot.
     */
    public static long uptimeMillis() {
      return elapsedRealtime();  // Not aware of any iOS API to track deep sleep time.
    }

    /*-[
    static long long boottime_usec() {
      // MIB = Management Information Base (man sysctl).
      #define MIB_SIZE 2
      int mib[MIB_SIZE];
      size_t size;
      struct timeval boottime;

      mib[0] = CTL_KERN;
      mib[1] = KERN_BOOTTIME;
      size = sizeof(boottime);
      if (sysctl(mib, MIB_SIZE, &boottime, &size, NULL, 0) == -1) {
        @throw AUTORELEASE([[AndroidSystemErrnoException alloc]
                            initWithNSString:@"sysctl" withInt:errno]);
      }
      return ((long long) boottime.tv_sec) * 1.e6 + boottime.tv_usec;
    }

    static long long uptime_usec() {
      // source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/40497811
      long long before_now;
      long long after_now;
      struct timeval now;

      after_now = boottime_usec();
      do {
        before_now = after_now;
        gettimeofday(&now, NULL);
        after_now = boottime_usec();
      } while (after_now != before_now);
      return ((long long) now.tv_sec) * 1.e6 + now.tv_usec - before_now;
    }
    ]-*/

    /**
     * Returns milliseconds since boot, including time spent in sleep.
     *
     * @return elapsed milliseconds since boot.
     */
    public native static long elapsedRealtime() /*-[
      return (long long)(uptime_usec() / 1000.0);
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     *
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    /**
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    /**
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     * @hide
     *
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    */
}

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Q: Relay inbound email through Lotus server 6.5 I have a Lotus server 6.5 that has a domain d1.com that recevies mail in the lotus directory I am trying to add a second domain d2.com to lotus and setup lotus in a way that mail receved for this domain is routed to a local zimbra mail server.
I have added a foreign SMTP domain on the Lotus server to point to the local zimbra server but the Lotus server isn't routing the incoming email
I receve this error whan trying to send to the zimbra email from gmail:

The error that the other server returned was: 554 Relay rejected for
  policy reasons.

A: First of all you need to make your Domino accept emails for this domain. By default a Domino server only accepts mails for external domains that are listed in its Global Domain Document(s).
You can edit several fields in the configuration document of your server. If there is only a small number of hosts (e.g. Firewall, mailsweeper, etc), that send mails to your domino for this domain, you could Add that hosts to the Allow messages only from the following Internet hosts to be sent to external Internet domains field.
If you want to generally allow this domain you could edit Allow messages to be sent only to the following external Internet domains field. Please check the domino administration help for description of the fields. You find them here: Configuration Settings document - Router/SMTP - Restrictions and Controls - SMTP Inbound Controls tab


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/**
 * PhoneRenderer
 *
 * Phone renderer provides the functionality
 * for rendering phone inputs.
 */
class PhoneRenderer extends AbstractRenderer
{
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     * Provide
     *
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    {
        $field = $this->config->getField();
        $table = $this->config->getTable();

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            'value' => $data,
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            'attributes' => $attributes,
            'placeholder' => (!empty($options['placeholder']) ? $options['placeholder'] : ''),
            'help' => (!empty($options['help']) ? $options['help'] : ''),
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        $defaultElement = 'CsvMigrations.FieldHandlers/BaseFieldHandler/input';
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}


When she's not doing yoga, hiking around in the mountains searching for new creeks, or working as a farm hand, Greta loves to write acoustic soul/folk music with her guitar and banjo.
She grew up in Jackson, Wyoming, and Billings, Montana, so don't be surprised if it gets a little country sometimes!
She has spent many years of her life living abroad and traveling the world. She spent her senior year of high school in Uruguay, South America. She spent two of her college years in Lyon, France, and she speaks both Spanish and French and loves to weave those languages into her music.
She is also a practicing yogini, and much of her music is inspired by yoga philosophy, the earth, and Sanskrit mantra.
Her past projects include an Ashland, Oregon, based rock band called Lost Maven where her roles were singing, songwriting, playing rhythm guitar, keys, and bass.
She was also a member of an Applegate, Oregon, based live electronic jam band called Organik Time Machine. Her roles were, vocals, live bass, synth bass, and percussion.
Greta's music is an eclectic mix of her life travels, languages, and wide range of genres that she plays with. However, she is best summed up as acoustic soul/folk.