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The relationships between rugby union, and health and well-being: a scoping review
Clear in our claims: The mental health promotion conundrum facing rugby union
Adam J White, Joe Piggin and Alan Pearce
Published on: 14 December 2020
Adam J White, Dr Oxford Brookes University, UK
Other Contributors:
Joe Piggin, Dr
Alan Pearce, Dr
Considerable attention has focused on the risks of contact sports like rugby union (1), yet the benefits, rewards and opportunities have received less robust analysis. It is for that reason, Griffin et al.'s recent scoping review is a welcome preliminary contribution to our understanding of risk in rugby. There are, however, some concerns that deserve discussion to ensure that cursory readers are not unintentionally misguided by inaccurate claims.
Claims on mental health and wellbeing
In their paper, Griffin and colleagues examine the evidence for three contexts of rugby; Contact, non-contact and wheelchair. For mental health, Griffin et al. have stated:
There is a generally positive relationship between most (emphasis added) forms of rugby union and both (emphasis added) mental health and wellbeing, especially in wheelchair rugby, though further research is required outside of the wheelchair rugby setting.
They also assert, "Despite relatively fewer studies, the relationship between rugby union and both mental health and well-being is generally positive, especially in non-professional settings" (emphasis added).
For the contact rugby context, Griffin et al. cite three studies (3, 4, 5). Each of which evidences elevated levels of common mental health disorders for contact rugby participants in the elite game. No evidence is presented for sevens at any level, the adult amateur community game or youth contact game....
For the contact rugby context, Griffin et al. cite three studies (3, 4, 5). Each of which evidences elevated levels of common mental health disorders for contact rugby participants in the elite game. No evidence is presented for sevens at any level, the adult amateur community game or youth contact game.
For non-contact rugby there is no evidence found or presented. For wheelchair rugby, one study found participation in wheelchair rugby for those with tetraplegia is a positive impact on mental health.
Therefore, there is insufficient evidence to claim that most forms of rugby have a generally positive relationship to mental health. The evidence in this scoping review suggests that based on one study, wheelchair rugby has a positive relationship to mental health. Furthermore, contact rugby, based on limited evidence of the professional context, has a detrimental impact on mental health.
The authors also claim that "any form of rugby union can involve moderate-to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), which … confers a wide range of physical, mental and social well-being benefits". However, rugby's high concussion rate needs to be accounted for before accepting any such claim, particularly with the deleterious mental health effects associated with concussion. In a study published in 2020 of 416 New Zealand high school rugby players "69% of players had sustained [at least one] suspected concussion" (7) during their rugby playing at school. So, any MVPA-related mental health benefits derived from rugby would need to be placed in context with the recent finding about brain injuries to school children (and possible mental health consequences), including
The implications
This is particularly important given the widespread dissemination of this article's findings, including to the general public via blogs, infographics and animations; sometimes with the BJSM Approved logo. Indeed, Griffin et al recognise the importance of this work for informed decision making, commenting "A wide range of stakeholders as well as existing and potential participants can use this information to make a more informed decision about participating in and promoting rugby union as a health-enhancing activity" (2).
As examples, some of these pieces include statements such as, "Those who play any form of rugby (outside of the professional setting) could benefit from a range of mental health and wellbeing benefits...". Another claim on an infographic states "Data suggests that participating in rugby union has beneficial effects on numerous proxy measures for mental health and wellbeing, especially in wheelchair and non-professional settings". Given the importance a scoping review like this is for allowing people to make informed and balanced decisions on participation, it is vital that the statements accurately portray not only the benefits (evidenced and perceived) but also the uncertainties and known risks of participation.
In this instance, the authors of the paper should look to moderate their claims to be more reflective of the evidence within their scoping review. They should also, as responsible members of the sports medicine community, make every effort to ensure their work is not misrepresented to the public, which may include retracting and amending the various dissemination tools currently being promoted.
1. Pollock, A. M., White, A. J., & Kirkwood, G. (2017). Evidence in support of the call to ban the tackle and harmful contact in school rugby: a response to World Rugby. British journal of sports medicine, 51(15), 1113-1117.
Griffin, S. A., Perera, N. K. P., Murray, A., Hartley, C., Fawkner, S. G., Kemp, S. P., ... & Kelly, P. (2020). The relationships between rugby union, and health and well-being: a scoping review. British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Gouttebarge V, Kerkhoffs G, Lambert M. Prevalence and determinants of symptoms of common mental disorders in retired professional rugby union players. Eur J Sport Sci 2016;16:595–602 PubMed .
Gouttebarge V, Hopley P, Kerkhoffs G, et al. Symptoms of common mental disorders in professional rugby: an international observational descriptive study. Int J Sports Med 2017;38:864–70 PubMed .
Gouttebarge V, Hopley P, Kerkhoffs G, et al. A 12-month prospective cohort study of symptoms of common mental disorders among professional rugby players. Eur J Sport Sci 2018;18:1004–12 PubMed .
Silveira SL, Ledoux T, Cottingham M, et al. Association among practice frequency on depression and stress among competitive US male wheelchair rugby athletes with tetraplegia. Spinal Cord 2017;55:957–62 PubMed .
Salmon, D. M., Mcgowan, J., Sullivan, S. J., Murphy, I., Walters, S., Whatman, C., ... & Romanchuk, J. (2020). What they know and who they are telling: Concussion knowledge and disclosure behaviour in New Zealand adolescent rugby union players. Journal of sports sciences, 1-10.
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Zachary Hogan "Zach" Braxton (Minneapolis, Minnesota, ) es un baloncestista estadounidense que pertenece a la plantilla del ECE Bulls Kapfenberg de la ÖBB, la primera división del baloncesto austriaco. Con 2,06 metros de estatura, juega en la posición de ala-pívot.

Trayectoria deportiva

Universidad
Jugó cuatro temporadas con los Wildcats de la Universidad Estatal de Weber, en las que promedió 9,7 puntos y 6,1 rebotes por partido. En 2018 fue incluido en el tercer mejor quinteto de la Big Sky Conference.

Profesional
Tras no ser elegido en el Draft de la NBA de 2019, firmó su primer contrato profesional con el ECE Bulls Kapfenberg de la ÖBB, la primera división del baloncesto austriaco. en su primera temporada en el equipo, y hasta el parón por el coronavirus promedió 9,3 puntos y 5,5 rebotes por partido.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Bio en weberstatesports.com
 Ficha en Realgm.com
 Estadísticas en la NCAA

Baloncestistas de Minnesota
Baloncestistas de los Weber State Wildcats
Baloncestistas del ECE Bulls Kapfenberg

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Dentsu Aegis Network Expands Dynamic Digital Out-of-Home Arm Capability in Asia Pacific
Published on: 24th September 2018
Dentsu Aegis Network's Out-of-Home agency – Posterscope, is pleased to announce the expansion of its dynamic digital content arm, Liveposter, in Asia Pacific today. Liveposter is a web-based platform that helps brands create dynamic content for digital out of home that are increasingly becoming more relevant, engaging and effective. It has been launched in Posterscope's offices in the UK, US and Australia and now from Singapore serving Southeast Asia.
The platform puts focus on context and relevance to gain and retain customer attention. With the strategic use of data, the platform creates, changes and schedules messages and advertisements that change over the course of a day, a week or an ongoing campaign. In doing so, brand communication remains relevant, guaranteeing appeal and effectiveness.
Anchoring its footprint in the region, the launch of Liveposter also marks the first campaign for Ninja Van – Southeast Asia's fastest growing last-mile logistics company, in Thailand. In collaboration with Dentsu Aegis Network's sister agencies – Vizeum and gyro, the campaign will showcase the flexible qualities DOOH provides via multiple creatives on digital billboards, targeted with specific data overlays such as time of day and weather triggers such as rain.
The deployment of targeted digital OOH will help potential customers understand the range of benefits within Ninja Van's services and demonstrate these services to consumers at the right moment in time. The campaign was launched last week and will run till the end of October in Bangkok.
Virachai Chusakulporn, Country Head of Ninja Van Thailand, said "As a tech-enabled logistics company, Ninja Van is committed to innovation. For the launch of our Next Day Guaranteed Delivery service we needed an innovative Out-of-Home advertising solution to communicate our added value to sellers and precise delivery date for shoppers. Liveposter gives us an innovative way to communicate with our customers that Ninja Van will do whatever it takes to guarantee deliveries, just when they most care about it, such as in the morning rush hour or when bad weather strikes."
"Dynamic Out-of-Home is changing the way brands communicate with consumers on the move in real time. While traditional Out-of-Home is forecast to show steady growth in the Asia Pacific region, ahead of global, digital OOH is forecast to outpace all media growth in the region with 17.3% annual growth. Liveposter delivers opportunities for our clients to create greater relevance through dynamic content, linked to multiple envirnonmental triggers. We're looking to further deploy this strategically in the work that we do across the region," said Sean O'Brien, CEO of Posterscope Asia Pacific.
Pei Xuan Lim
Regional Communications Associate Director, APAC
E: PeiXuan.Lim@dentsuaegis.com
Part of Dentsu Inc., Dentsu Aegis Network is made up of ten global network brands - Carat, Dentsu, dentsu X, iProspect, Isobar, mcgarrybowen, Merkle, MKTG, Posterscope and Vizeum and supported by its specialist/multi-market brands. Dentsu Aegis Network is Innovating the Way Brands Are Built for its clients through its best-in-class expertise and capabilities in media, digital and creative communications services. Offering a distinctive and innovative range of products and services, Dentsu Aegis Network is headquartered in London and operates in 145 countries worldwide with more than 40,000 dedicated specialists. www.dentsuaegisnetwork.com
About Posterscope
Posterscope is the world's leading location-based marketing specialist. We have a deep understanding of what people think, feel and do out of the home, making us experts in reaching and influencing audiences in the physical world. We combine insight, data, technology and smart people to create compelling, creative and quantifiable solutions which make a meaningful difference to businesses and brands. We enable brands to navigate the complex, location-based marketing landscape with ease, to develop dynamic and integrated communications and to build rewarding customer relationships.
– Posterscope has over 1,200 people in 61 offices located in 35 countries worldwide.
– Globally, Posterscope book over 30,000 OOH campaigns every year and its billings are in excess of $3 billion.
– PSI is Posterscope's industry-leading international and travel specialist. It has an unparalleled knowledge of the international traveller, and the airport audience, environment and media, around the world.

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We are Truman Films, we are a production company that creates emotive social content in the UK and Australia. We are working on our first production in New Zealand and we are in search of camera crew who are local to Auckland to work on this project.
Rehearsal day 23rd March, shoot day 24th March. Rehearsal will be filmed as well.
We are seeking competent camera operators who are comfortable with Sony FS7, A7SII and GoPros. We may also have Panasonic EVA1, which is very similar to FS7.
This is a hidden camera shoot and we'll need 6 camera operators to operate different cameras from hidden positions.


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US Navy contracts Harris for IDECM programme's jammer system
Harris Corporation has secured a contract from the US Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon System Support (NAVSUP WSS) to deliver repair services for the navy's integrated defensive electronic countermeasures (IDECM) programme's jammer system.
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Harris Corporation has secured a contract from the US Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon System Support (NAVSUP WSS) to deliver repair services for the navy's integrated defensive electronic countermeasures (IDECM) programme's jammer system.
Under the five-year $28m ceiling, single-award IDIQ contract, the company will repair weapons replaceable assemblies (WRA) on an order-by-order basis to be incorporated into IDECM fleet infrastructure.
The contract aims to help ensure that naval aviators can rely on electronic warfare technology for safety and mission success.
The contract aims to help ensure that naval aviators can rely on electronic warfare technology for safety and mission success
The IDECM is deployed onto the carrier-based F/A-18C/D/E/F Hornet / Super Hornet aircraft series to protect the aircraft from any potential radar-guided surface-to-air and air-to-air missile systems attacks.
The ALQ-214 system is an on-board jammer, which generates complex waveform radar and blending sensitive receivers and active countermeasures to form an electronic shield for the aircraft to defeat advanced threat systems.
Harris is said to have been offering its support to the US Navy's IDECM Program over the past 18 years by enhancing and overhauling the AN/ALQ-214's capabilities to boost ability to combat airborne electronic warfare threat.
In August 2015, the company secured a $97m contract to supply the US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) with self protection jammers, ALQ-214 radio frequency integrated countermeasure system.
Additionally, US Naval Sea SystemsCommand (NAVSEA) awarded a $113m contract to Harris to modernise its primary defence radar AN/SPS-48E installed on-board US Navy aircraft carriers, large deck amphibious assault ships in December 2015.
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JavaScript's `eval()` function is potentially dangerous and is often misused. Using `eval()` on untrusted code can open a program up to several different injection attacks. The of `eval()` in most contexts can be substituted for a better, alternative approach to a problem.

```js
var obj = { x: "foo" },
    key = "x",
    value = eval("obj." + key);
```

Additionally, there are some other methods that act similar to `eval()`. Both `setTimeout()` and `setInterval()` allow the first argument to be a string, which evaluates the string in the global scope, such as:

```js
setTimeout("count = 5", 10);
setInterval("foo = bar", 10);
```

These are considered implied `eval()` and it's typically recommended to use functions for the first argument instead of a string.

## Rule Details

This rule is aimed at preventing potentially dangerous, unnecessary, and slow code by disallowing the use of the `eval()` function. As such, it will warn whenever the `eval()` function is used or when either `setTimeout()` or `setInterval()` are used with a string argument.

The following patterns are considered warnings:

```js
var obj = { x: "foo" },
    key = "x",
    value = eval("obj." + key);

setTimeout("count = 5", 10);
setInterval("foo = bar", 10);
window.setTimeout("count = 5", 10);
window.setInterval("foo = bar", 10);
```

The following patterns are not considered warnings:

```js
var obj = { x: "foo" },
    key = "x",
    value = obj[key];

setTimeout(function() {
    count = 5;
}, 10);

setInterval(function() {
    foo = bar;
}, 10);

```

## Further Reading

* [Eval is Evil, Part One](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2003/11/01/53329.aspx)
* [How evil is eval](http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/how-evil-is-eval/)

## Related Rules

* [no-implied-eval](no-implied-eval.md)

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Many times companies have a new technology, idea or concept that is long in vision, and short on operational history. For companies at this stage, there is often a lack of professional financial support, leaving senior management to seek traditional financing solutions on their own.
Tunstall works with these companies to develop innovative strategies (operating and financing) that result in lower risk profiles to potential investors and less dilution to the companies.
The original operating model for the Company was to sell a $500,000 installed software solution, resulting in a long sales cycle and wide variability in revenues. The Company was losing money and looking for an investor to help absorb some of its losses when it came to Tunstall.
Tunstall challenged management to develop a less risky sales alternative for its clients and transform the offering to an application service provider (ASP) model and charge a monthly fee for its use. In addition, Tunstall assisted in the $9 million acquisition of a competitor so that the Company would have the only solution in the market. Tunstall raised $20 million of equity financing for the acquisition and the implementation of the new operating model.
By converting to a service/fee based model, the Company immediately increased customer penetration, eliminated long sales cycles and created a steady, predictable earnings stream based on usage rather than relying on the original model. These factors increased the Company's attractiveness to financing sources.
The Company had developed a new product offering, but needed additional production facilities and a distribution team to roll out the product.
Rather than build a new facility, Tunstall helped the Company identify an acquisition target with the infrastructure and international distribution capabilities the Company needed. Tunstall helped management secure $6 million of equity financing for the acquisition, which immediately resulted in dramatically increased sales and profitability. The Company filed for an IPO shortly thereafter, which provided additional capital to continue on its growth path.
By overlaying a new product or service on top of an existing business, operating infrastructure or technology, a company can immediately expedite its growth, reduce the perceived business risk, and sometimes eliminate a competitor.


As a festive island week comes to an end, SanibelSusan has little real estate action to report, though there was lots of activity at the office yesterday while the Independence Day parade passed by. After several days and nights of off-and-on showers, the weather cleared perfectly in the morning for the 9:30 a.m. event.
The Sanibel parade always displays the island's small town spirit at its best. Clients and friends know that SanibelSusan Realty is the perfect vantage point for parade-watching.
Yesterday was no exception. Local organizations and businesses were decorated for the theme, "Hometown Pride", spectators dressed in red/white/blue were waving flags, and kiddos on the sidelines collected so many throws that they left smiling!
With the holiday falling on a Thursday, the Sanibel and Captiva Islands Association of Realtors® had no bi-weekly caravan meeting yesterday. But, following a few news items is a report of the new activity posted in the local Multiple Listing Service over the last seven days.
Now that the year is past the half-way mark, here is a summary of the real estate activity on Sanibel and Captiva compared to the total sales last year. More good evidence of the island market stabilizing and, in some cases, rebounding!
It was in the local papers this week that like last year, JN "Ding" Darling Wildlife Refuge will conduct a series of prescribed burns during the summer. The exact day and time of the prescribed burns depend on the weather, but the target start date is Monday, July 8.
Officials announced that there will be three areas where these controlled burns will occur: 100 acres on The Bailey Tract, 135 acres at the Refuge near the Legion curve (from just after the Rec Center to the area opposite the entrance to Seaspray), and 100 acres in the Refuge along Sanibel-Captiva Road (beginning shortly after the entrance to Tarpon Bay). According to Refuge officials, these burns can prevent the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires and help preserve the national ecology of the area, including improving the habitat of several native species like the gopher tortoise, eastern indigo snake, and Sanibel rice rat.
Trimming dead palm fronds and branches from trees.
Trimming tall grasses near a home.
Pruning large leafy hardwood trees so the lowest branches are 6-10′ high.
Removing combustible materials such as gasoline containers, firewood, & building supplies from under or around a home.
Keeping mulch & other landscape materials well watered.
Old-timers like me remember the early days of the "Taste of the Islands" when this annual fund-raiser for CROW (Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife) was held at The Dunes Golf & Tennis Club. It was announced this week, that this year, it is returning to its original location.
If you enjoy this event, it is not too early to mark your calendars for the 32nd Taste of the Islands on Sunday, November 10, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. where you can sample a wide variety of food samples from more than 20 local restaurants.
The event includes live entertainment, a silent auction, T-shirts, and more for sale from the CROW gift shop. It is always a lot of fun, plus for such a terrific cause!
Representatives from CROW and The Dunes have agreed to a minimum 3-year plan for the event to return to its original site.
Those of us living on the west coast of Florida often remark at how different life is on the other coast. This press release posted Monday by PRWeb.com on the on-line "Digital Journal" is a fun read and well illustrates the diversity.
"In 1868, Miami Beach real estate sold for just 35 cents an acre. The buyer was John Lum who wanted to build a coconut plantation. Today, instead of coconut plantations, the South Florida Gold Coast is booming with some of the most expensive and upscale condominium projects in the world. The Miami Beach to Fort Lauderdale strip has cruised past its condo bust years and has launched into a real estate stratosphere that no one would have predicted a few years ago. If you have the money, it seems that there is a new project somewhere in South Florida that is offering something new, unique and very pricey.
"How about a sparkling, new Florida highrise where you will be able to take your car with you up to your living room? Even the penthouse? Porsche Design Group has begun construction of a 132 unit tower in Sunny Isles Beach, near Miami Beach, that will be the world's first condominium complex with an elevator and sky garages that will take cars directly to owners' condos. Units are priced from $4.7 to $13 million and are already over 50 percent sold out. In addition to convenient parking up to 57 stories, the building also offers plunge pools, a golf simulator, summer kitchens, a ballroom, a 4-car virtual race simulator, and a 10,000 square foot oceanfront display space for car collectors. Expected completion date is 2015.
"Or, skip the car lift and take to the sky with a roof helicopter pad and a private helicopter lounge at One Thousand Museum in Miami. Construction starts next year on a 32 unit, ultra-contemporary building designed by Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize. Zaha is famous for her futuristic designs that many people say are "works of art." She also won Stirling Prizes in 2010 for the MAXXI Museum of the Arts in Rome and London's Evelyn Grace School in 2011. Although the building won't be finished until 2017, it is already 50 percent reserved. Half and full-floor residences range from $4.3 to $12.25 million.
"Another Sunny Isles project under construction claims that it will have the "world's finest penthouse." Built by the Trump Group (not Donald, but an unrelated Trump family that started in South Africa), the Mansions at Acqualina feature a $55 million penthouse with retractable glass walls overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, a 25-foot water fall and glass pool, leather walls, six bedrooms, sky garden and an indoor-outdoor theater. Mansion condo prices start at $8 million.
"Back where it all started in Miami Beach, the Related Company is using a premier location at the southern tip of South Beach, flashy building design, ocean views and expensive major art works to attract buyers looking for the South Beach life style of celebrities, models and professional athletes. One Ocean is under construction with 46 condos, four ocean villas, a zen park and a private beach club priced from $2 million to $10 million.
Are The Rising Prices Tempting More Home Owners?
"With rising home prices, more home owners are finding they can sell without fear that their mortgage is worth more than their house. The number of sellers coming onto the market is serving as a relief to home buyers who were becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of inventory and increased bidding wars, the Associated Press reports.
"From January to March, about 19.8% of homes nationwide with a mortgage are considered "underwater" — that's a drop from 23.7% a year earlier. The largest percentage of underwater homes in the nation are often found in the markets with the lowest supply of homes for sale, according to CoreLogic. Tampa Bay, FL, and Miami have the highest number of underwater mortgages of metro areas at 41.1% and 40.7%, respectively.
"Housing inventories remain constrained in many markets. As of May, there's a 5.2-month supply of existing homes for sale nationwide, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. One year earlier, the supply of homes stood at 6.4 months.
2 new listings: Sanibel Siesta #701 2/2 $525K, Sundial #O307 2/2 $975K.
2 price changes: Loggerhead Cay #411 2/2 now $539K, Sanddollar #B104 2/2 now $859K.
4 new sales: Cottage Colony West #128 1/1 listed for $549K, Surfside 12 #C4 3/2 listed for $775K, Gulfside Place #103 2/2 listed for $939K, Plantation Village #212 3/2 listed for $1.085M.
4 closed sales: Blind Pass #E201 2/2 $375K, Lighthouse Point #318 3/2 $415K, Loggerhead Cay #133 2/2 $600K, White Pelican #111 2/2 $792K.
1 new listing: 1073 Sand Castle Rd 3/2 $589K.
3 price changes: 1644 Atlanta Plaza Dr 2/2 now $497K, 776 Conch Ct 3/2 now $649K (short sale), 1203 Isabel Dr 2/3 now $1.395M.
3 new sales: 1409 Sandpiper Cir 2/2 half-duplex listed for $304K, 691 Cardium St 4/3 listed for 949K, 1249 Par View Dr 4/4.5 listed for $1.395M.
5 closed sales: 4458 Waters Edge Ln 3/2 $780K, 657 Birdie View Pt 3/3 $797.5K, 912 Almas Ct 3/2.5 $937.5K, 1743 Venus Dr 4/3.5 $1.3M, 4164 West Gulf Dr 4/4 $1.725M.
1 new listing: 2403 Blue Crab Ct $499K.
1 closed sale: 2494 Blind Pass Ct $625K.
1 closed sale: Sunset Beach Villas #2328 2/2 $572K.
1 price change: 15631 Captiva Dr 5/4.5 now $2.1M.
Until next week, here's hoping that you & yours continue to enjoy your Independence Day holiday!
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Maria Pallante
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RE: Notice of Inquiry, Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Copyright Protection for Certain Visual Works (Docket No. 2015-01)
Dear Ms. Pallante and the Copyright Office Staff:
Thank you for this special Notice of Inquiry. We deeply appreciate the opportunity you've afforded all artists to respond individually to the challenges we face as working professionals. In the interest of brevity, we'll confine these comments to your question #5. We trust that our previous comments have already covered questions 1- 4, and as those comments are posted on the Copyright Office website, we'll simply add links to them at the end of this letter.
5. What other issues or challenges should the Office be aware of regarding photographs, graphic artworks, and/or illustrations under the Copyright Act?
Because Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution grants authors the exclusive rights to their work, it is our understanding that those rights cannot be abridged without a constitutional amendment. While we're sure that the orphan works proposals the Copyright Office has recommended to Congress are well-meaning, in the rough and tumble business world where we work, they would effectively abridge those rights. That's because no author (or citizen, for that matter) could ever again enjoy the exclusive right to any work he or she creates if any other US citizen anywhere is allowed to exploit those same works at any time, for any reason (except fair use), without the authors' knowledge or consent. The orphan works proposals under consideration would redefine millions of copyrighted works as orphans on the premise that some might be. Yet difficulty on the part of some user to find some author should be insufficient grounds for abridging the Constitutional rights of any US citizen.
In addition to being a Constitutional right, copyright law is a business law. This is self-evident from the language of the Three-Step Test. As you know, Article 9.2 of the Berne Convention places strict limits on the scope and reach of a member country's exceptions to an author's exclusive right. Those exceptions must be limited to certain special cases where the reproduction does not conflict with the author's normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the author's legitimate interests. Orphan works infringements would nullify millions of private business contracts between authors and the clients they've licensed work to. This would not only cause economic harm to the authors, but to their clients as well. How many private parties will end up suing each other for breach of contract in hopes of making the other party pay for their loss simply because the government itself had passed a private property law breaching their contracts?
When individuals knowingly interfere with the contracts or business affairs of others, it's called tortious interference. "Tortious interference is a common law tort allowing a claim for damages against a defendant who wrongfully interferes with the plaintiff's contractual or business relationships." (1) So in effect, the government would appear to be proposing a grant of blanket amnesty in advance to any infringer who interferes with the contractual or business relationships of millions of authors, small business owners and private parties, so long as the infringer believes he or she is acting in "good faith." Legislative immunity may exempt lawmakers from lawsuits for tortious interference. But by what right can they permit members of the public to interfere en masse with the contractual business affairs of each other on the slender premise that certain infringers may be ignorant of the economic or personal harm they're causing to strangers?
The work any citizen creates is that citizen's private property. Article 1, Section 8 has established that. And the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution states that a citizen's private property "shall" not be taken by the government without "just compensation." Legal theories aside, it makes little difference in the real world that orphan works recommendations would permit infringed authors to "come forward" after the fact in an effort to locate their infringers, track them down and either ask for payment or file a lawsuit. Once a work has been infringed, no author can successfully bargain for more money than the infringer is willing or able to pay. This moots the entire issue of "just compensation." But if government lacks the right to confiscate an individual's property without just compensation, by what mandate can it grant that right en masse to the public?
The Copyright Office says that for purposes of orphan works infringement, "there should be no distinction as to whether a work is currently being exploited [by the author], or whether it was created decades ago." No difference, perhaps, except to those working artists who rely on the licensing of their work – past and present – to make a living. Furthermore, since 1978, all authors (and citizens) have relied on the protections afforded them by the 1976 Copyright Act. That law provided each author automatic copyright protection for his or her work from the moment the work was created. Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution states that "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed" by Congress. Therefore any ex post facto legislation that permits the infringement of work created since 1978 would seem to be abridging yet another Constitutional right.
The Copyright Office has proposed that corporate interests be permitted to mass digitize the world's copyrighted work, so long as it is limited to "non-profit educational or research purposes." On its face, this would appear to be a charitable exception to Article 1, Section 8. But what provision in the Constitution permits the government to make the public a gift of certain citizens' private property, even for charitable purposes? If this would not actually be a Bill of Attainder it would have the same effect. In addition, there is no guarantee that if mass digitization is permitted even on such narrow grounds, that certain special interests might not soon begin to lobby for a redefinition of what constitutes "education" and "research." Nor does it account for the likelihood that various commercial entities will re-organize themselves as legal non-profits for the specific purpose of infringing. Claiming that you are only supplying content for educational or research purposes could be a vast umbrella for sheltering a multitude of abuses.
In addition to these risks, mass digitization risks harm to the authors whose work would be its target. Many of these artists have had to acquire specialized education and develop specialized skills through years of dedicated study and work. Medical, architectural, historical and general science illustrators, aviation artists and others are all required to produce work that not only meets high artistic standards, but is technically accurate as well. To make their work free to others on the premise that it serves educational or non-profit interests would rob them of the return on their investment of time, money, education and experience. And by permitting others to make use of their work as "derivatives," government risks having the technical aspects of that work distorted, and with it, the true educational purposes it would purport to further.
Yet slippery-slope issues aside, in the real world we all know that many of the non-profit educational and research organizations are among the best-endowed and most profitable institutions in the world. A college education is not free. The heads and staffs of these institutions rarely work pro bono. Nor are their independent suppliers legally obligated to supply their goods and services at their own expense. So why should the creators of intellectual property, many of whom are independent contractors with no other source of income, be targeted as exceptions? As with the broader aspects of the orphan works proposals, we're afraid that mass digitization, even on these narrow grounds, would abridge the basic Constitutional protections cited here and would work against the mandate in Article 1, Section 8 for government to "promote [the] useful arts."
Mass digitization would violate every step of the Three-Step Test. By definition it would NOT limit exceptions to "certain special cases." The Copyright Office has already acknowledged that. But by violating the first step, it would, by extension, violate the other two. There is simply no conceivable way to mass digitize even a narrow segment of the world's intellectual property without prejudicing the economic and legitimate interests of at least some rightsholders. Are we to assume, then, that a law has passed muster if it only harms some innocent parties and not others? And finally, "[t]he three-step test may prove to be extremely important if any nations attempt to reduce the scope of copyright law, because unless the [World Trade Organization] decides that their modifications comply with the test, such states are likely to face trade sanctions." (2)
The possibility of trade sanctions by foreign governments would be particularly acute in this case because the US proposals would permit the infringement of foreign work by American infringers. This would not only oblige non-US artists to file their entire lives' work with American for-profit registries or see it potentially orphaned in the US; it would compel them to file lawsuits in American courts over infringements that would not be legal anywhere else in the world.
We doubt that many foreign artists will be any more able to comply with the registration and enforcement provisions proposed for this legislation than would most American artists. And it's unlikely that many of our country's WTO trading partners would look the other way as their citizens are challenged to comply with a law unique to the US; especially if that law harms their economic interests in contradiction of Berne. These countries would be much more likely to retaliate.
If this were to happen, it is not US lawmakers who would suffer the loss of money and rights, nor the corporate lawyers and legal scholars who have lobbied for these changes in the law. The victims would be the authors and private citizens whose creative work, both professional and private, would have slipped beyond their control and into the public domain where it could circulate in various permutations, perhaps forever, with an American orphaned work symbol still attached to it.
A decade ago, when orphan works legislation was first proposed, we were told that it was necessary so that libraries and museums could digitize their collections of old work by unknown authors. We were told this was needed for archival and preservation purposes. But last year, at the Copyright Office Roundtables, attorneys for these institutions said that recent court decisions expanding the scope of fair use had virtually obviated the need for such legislation. (3) So if that's the case, then the original justification for orphan works legislation has vanished, and the terms of the Shawn Bentley Act would seem to serve no other purpose now than to permit the commercial infringement of work by living artists. And since that would abridge the Constitutional rights of authors guaranteed in Article 1, Section 8, we're left to wonder what possible benefits accrue to society by incentivizing infringement at the expense of creation.
Our position on this subject has not changed since 2006, when we testified before the Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee:
"We believe the orphan works problem can be and should be handled with carefully crafted, specific limited exemptions. A limited exemption could be tailored to solve family photo restoration and reproduction issues without otherwise gutting artists' and photographers' copyrights. Usage for genealogy research is probably already covered by fair use, but could rate an exemption if necessary. Limited exemptions could be designed for documentary filmmakers as well. Libraries and archives already have generous exemptions for their missions. If their missions are changing, they should abide by commercial usage of copyrights, instead of forcing authors to subsidize their for-profit ventures." (4)
Once again we thank the Copyright Office for issuing this special Notice of Inquiry; and we ask you to please recommend to Congress that the House Judiciary Subcommittee conduct further hearings to take the direct testimony of artists, both visual artists and others, regarding the challenges that all creative authors face in the digital era.
Brad Holland, on behalf of my colleagues and of any visual artist who shares the concerns expressed here.
Our responses to questions 1-4 are embodied in these previous comments:
Remedies for Copyright Small Claims January 17, 2012:
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/smallclaims/comments/27_ipa.pdf
Orphan Works and Mass Digitization, Initial Comments February 3, 2013: http://copyright.gov/orphan/comments/noi_10222012/Illustrators-Partnership-America.pdf
Orphan Works and Mass Digitization, Reply Comments March 6, 2013: http://copyright.gov/orphan/comments/noi_11302012/IPA.pdf
Orphan Works and Mass Digitization, Additional Comments, May 21, 2014: http://copyright.gov/orphan/comments/Docket2012_12/American-Society-of-Illustrators-Partnership%28ASIP%29.pdf
1. The Legal Information Institute of the Cornell University Law School
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/tortious_interference
2. Entertainment Law Outline, Prof. John Kettle, Rutgers University, Newark, p.11
http://www.outlinedepot.com/schooloutlines.aspx?schoolid=182
3. Comments of Jonathan Band, Library Copyright Alliance; and David Hansen, Digital Library Copyright Project, University of California, Berkley School of Law & Law Library, University of North Carolina School of Law; Transcript of the Orphan Works and Mass Digitization Roundtables; Session 1: "The Need for Legislation in Light of Recent Legal and Technological Developments"; March 10, 2014.
Mr. Band: "[O]ur view for the library community…[is] that the fair use jurisprudence as it has evolved over the past 5 to 10 years, certainly since the last [2005] roundtable, has really diminished the need for orphan works legislation.
"We've always seen the problem largely as a gatekeeper problem, that the kinds of uses we wanted to make have always been fair use, that it was simply a matter of convincing our gatekeepers that it was fair use. But now with these recent cases, it's a lot easier to do that.
"And it's not just the fair use cases, it's the combination of the fair use cases plus the eBay decision in the Supreme Court concerning the standards for injunctive relief as now it is being applied. That was, of course, a patent case. Now its being applied in the copyright context. And so that reduces the problem of injunctive relief. And so from that perspective we think that the status quo is a pretty good place." (pp.16-17)
Mr. Hansen "[O]ver the course of the last year we've gone around and worked with and had conversations with over 150 different libraries and archives of all different varieties, large academic libraries, small local public libraries, small historical societies.
"And the general sense that we've got from every group that we met with is that there's increasing comfort with relying on fair use as a means of making orphan works available…we've heard the same rationale from all of those groups that Jonathan just talked about. There's a strong sense that those uses that libraries and archives are making are transformative. And then for orphan works in particular within the collections there's a strong argument that there's very little market harm." (pp. 19-21)
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/transcript/0310LOC.pdf
4. Senate Testimony of Brad Holland, Illustrators' Partnership of America, April 6, 2006.
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Holland%20Testimony%20040606.pdf
The Return of Orphan Works Part 1: The Next Great Copyright ActArtists Rights, Copyright, Copyright Act, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Office, Copyright Office Orphan Works, Copyright Reform, Orphan Works


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Big play helps Mustangs take down LaGrange, 24-13
By Teddy RenoisSports Correspondent
NAPOLEONVILLE – In a game where big plays were at a minimum, Assumption High School got a much-needed big play to seal its playoff win over the LaGrange Gators on Friday.
For the first 45 minutes of the Class 4A first-round game between the Mustangs and Gators, it was the defenses that dictated to each team's offense.
However, with 3 minutes left both offenses came up with a big play that brought the fans at Mustang Stadium to the edge of their seats.
Trailing by 11 points and with a backup quarterback in the game, LaGrange grabbed the momentum when Dekovon Perrodin found a streaking Jaden Johnson on a 76-yard scoring pass.
When Johnson caught the ball, it looked like two Mustang defenders had an angle, but Johnson just blew by the secondary on his way to the end zone with 2:48 left to play in the game.
Up to that point in the game, Assumption had only three plays that went for 20 yards or more, but in need of an answer the Mustangs found one. Quarterback Sage Rivere threw 10-yard out to Ra'Shaun Jarvis on a second-down play. LaGrange defensive back Cree Joshua tried to undercut the pass to pick it off but was a hair late as Jarvis got both hands on the ball. When Jarvis pivoted, he had nothing but green in front of him scoring on the 51-yard reception with 2:26 remaining. The play sealed the win for No. 7 Assumption as it went on to defeat No. 26 LaGrange 24-13 and will face Westgate at home in a second-round playoff game next week.
While he was happy advancing in the playoffs to face No. 10 Westgate next week, Assumption coach Anthony Paine felt his team left points out on the field which kept the Mustangs from putting the game away much sooner.
"We left some points out on the field which is uncharacteristic of us. We were inside the 5 and the 3, but that is a credit to LaGrange. We saw on film that they were coached up and played with great effort," Paine said. "It seems the closer you get to Texas, the harder those kids play. There is something about it and I knew it was a different squad than we expected. They played in close games, but we did enough to win and it is on to the next round."
LaGrange did play well defensively especially in the first quarter as Assumption (302 total yards) didn't have a first down in the opening 12 minutes.
The Gators (4-6 overall) struggled on their first offensive possession of the game but found a rhythm the second time they had the ball. Behind the running of Chad Victorian (18 carries, 85 yards), LaGrange (259 total yards) went on a 10-play 61-yard drive that ended on a 3-yard run from Quintorus Jones for a 7-0 lead with 4:51 left in the first quarter.
The Mustangs (10-1 overall) were forced to punt on their next possession and a low snap led to a blocked punt with LaGrange recovering the ball at the Mustangs 14. However, Assumption's defensive stiffened and didn't let the Gators gain a yard on four plays to end the threat. That defensive stand help Assumption settle into the game as the Mustangs scored twice in the second quarter.
Assumption's first score came on a 6-yard pass from Rivere to Jaden Tyler that ended a 10-play 72-yard drive. However, the Mustangs still trailed as the extra point hit an upright leaving it a 7-6 score with 7:55 left before halftime.
After forcing a three and out on LaGrange's next possession, Assumption came up with a blocked punt of its own as Jarius Holmes got a hand on the ball. The Mustangs didn't recover the ball but tackled the punter at the Gators 29 and one play later, Tyran Cassie (24 carries 124 yards, 1 TD) scored on a 29-yard run for a 12-7 lead. The pass on a two-point try was batted down.
For the remainder of the second quarter and much of the third the game was defensive slugfest with neither offense finding much success. However, it was Assumption's defense that made a big play setting up the Mustangs third score with 6:34 left in the third quarter.
Facing a third-and-21 from its own 17, LaGrange tried a swing pass to the flat, but Assumption's William Clark came up fast and separated the ball from the receiver. Defensive lineman Tra'Mond Williams (two fumble recoveries) recovered the fumble at the 20 giving Assumption's offense a short field.
On the sixth play off the possession, Rivere found Jarvis (seven catches, 82 yards, 2 TDs) on an 8-yard scoring pass for an 18-7 lead.
Once again, the game settled into a defensive battle until the final 3 minutes with both teams scoring on a big play, but with the Mustangs coming up with the final one to seal the win.
"The best team won. They are a good team, good win and best of luck to them next week," LaGrange coach Marico Wilson said. "We didn't do what it took to win the ball game, but they did and congratulations to them."
While the Mustangs celebrated the win, Pain knows his teams needs to play better going into the next round of the postseason.
"Defensively, in the first half we gave up that one drive. We had three busts on that drive and that was uncharacteristic of us. Late in the game, we relaxed and had a bust on the coverage and we didn't get to where we were supposed to be and gave up that big play," Paine said. "We got to get those things fixed and move on to get ready for next week. We have a great opportunity and I'm sure we will have a formidable opponent."


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Dame Helen Mirren leaves theatre to scold noisy street band
DAME HELEN MIRREN stunned onlookers when she stormed out of a London theatre on Saturday (04May13) to scold noisy street performers while in her costume as QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
Published 6th May 2013
The 67-year-old star flew into a rage when the first half of her production The Audience was interrupted by a band of 25 drummers playing outside the Gielgud Theatre.
Mirren, who plays the Queen in The Audience, proceeded to march outside dressed as the monarch during the interval and shouted at the group to "shut the f**k up".
Explaining the incident, she tells the Daily Telegraph, "I'm afraid there were a few 'thespian' words used. They got a very stern royal ticking off but I have to say they were very sweet and they stopped immediately.
"I would love to track them down and invite them to see the play. I felt rotten but on the other hand they were destroying our performance so something had to be done. The drumming just slowly got louder and louder and then settled right outside the stage door. There was just a thin wall between drumming and the theatre so it was unbelievably loud on stage. (Co-star) Paul Ritter and I could hardly hear each other speak and the audience couldn't hear us speak at all."
The actress, who won an Olivier Award for her role as Her Majesty last week (ends05May13), apologised to the audience for the disruption, and was given a standing ovation for her foul-mouthed rant.
Theatre-goer Ben Scotchbrook says, "She laughed as she said she'd told them 'not too politely to go away'. She got a standing ovation at the end."


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Q: Up and down infinite moving platform javascript html css I'm trying to realise an infinite up and down move of the platform . How can I modify the code to get this thing ? I have only managed to have just one un-down movement . I know that I could do this with CSS animations but I would like to modify my code .

var n = 0;
var grid = document.querySelector('.grid');

function move() {
  const pixels = [200, 196, 192, 188, 184, 180, 176, 172, 168, 164, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 180];
  const style = grid.style.bottom
  const computedStyle = window.getComputedStyle(grid)
  console.log('bottom from computed style', computedStyle.bottom)
  grid.style.bottom = pixels[n] + 'px';
  n++;
}

move();
setInterval(move, 90);
.grid {
  background-color: blue;
  height: 20px;
  width: 100px;
  left: 100px;
  bottom: 200px;
  position: absolute;
}

A: The function is not looping because you are not resetting n - after the first up down movement, n goes out of bounds, grid.style.bottom = pixels[n] + 'px'; tries to set the stile to undefined +'px' and fails, and the bar stays where it is.
I added n = n % pixels.length; to reset n once it goes out of bounds.

var n = 0;
var grid = document.querySelector('.grid');

function move() {
  const pixels = [200, 196, 192, 188, 184, 180, 176, 172, 168, 164, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 180];
  const style = grid.style.bottom
  const computedStyle = window.getComputedStyle(grid)
  console.log('bottom from computed style', computedStyle.bottom)
  n = n % pixels.length;
  grid.style.bottom = pixels[n] + 'px';
  n++;
}

move();
setInterval(move, 90);
.grid {
  background-color: blue;
  height: 20px;
  width: 100px;
  left: 100px;
  bottom: 200px;
  position: absolute;
}

A: You can have a Boolean checking once you get at the end of your array and once you do you start to decrement your n variable. This way it will go from 200px -> 180px -> 200px

let grid = document.querySelector(".grid");
let n = 0;
let bool = true

function move() {
  const pixels = [200, 196, 192, 188, 184, 180, 176, 172, 168, 164, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 180]
  const style = grid.style.bottom;
  const computedStyle = window.getComputedStyle(grid);
  console.log("bottom from computed style", computedStyle.bottom);
  grid.style.bottom = pixels[n] + "px";

  if(n === pixels.length - 1 ){
    bool = false
  } else if(n === 0){
    bool = true
  }
  bool ? n++ : n--
}

move();
setInterval(move, 90);
.grid {
  background-color: blue;
  height: 20px;
  width: 100px;
  left: 100px;
  bottom: 200px;
  position: absolute;
}

A: Instead of incrementing in an interval, better compute the position based on the time passed since start.
According to your pixels array and your interval, you move 40px up/down every 900ms. (10 steps of 4px / 90ms)
const start = Date.now()

function move(){
  const time = Date.now() - start;

  let t = time / 900; // the time passed in terms of up/down strokes

  // t = t % 1;   // turns this into a sawtooth pattern, just up-strokes
  // not what we want, we want every other stroke to be a down-stroke.

  t = t&1 ? // every other stroke
    (1 - t%1) : // move down
    (t%1); // otherwise mode up

  // now we have out position as a percentage value 0..1;
  // let's compute the pixels.

  const pos = 200 - 40*t; // start at 200px and travel a fraction of 40px down.

  grid.style.bottom = pos + "px";

  // rAF is way smoother than your 90ms interval.
  requestAnimationFrame(move);
}

move();

const DURATION = 900;
const grid = document.querySelector('.grid');
const start = 0;

function move() {
  let t = (Date.now() - start) / 900;
  t = t&1 ? 1-t%1 : t%1;  // zig-zag
  //t = t%1;  // sawtooth; try this instead of the zig-zag and see/understand the difference.

  //add some easing; try it.
  //t = t*t*(3-2*t);

  grid.style.bottom = 200 - 40*t + "px";

  requestAnimationFrame(move);
}

move();
.grid {
  background-color: blue;
  height: 20px;
  width: 100px;
  left: 100px;
  bottom: 200px;
  position: absolute;
}

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While blacks constitute 12 percent of the population in 2012, they made up 35.4 percent of abortions. In New York City, more black babies are aborted than born. Watson was referring to Margaret Sanger, a racist and eugenicist who formed Planned Parenthood 100 years ago. In recent years Planned Parenthood has also been caught willing to accept donations to abort black babies.
Planned Parenthood has been talking up their voter registration campaign, "My Vote, My Voice." Ironically, the organization has been speaking out against so-called voter "suppression" laws for their effect on minority communities. The new campaign is also meant "to engage historically disenfranchised communities," their manager of youth organizing said.
Watson had written a book about race, Under Our Skin, which is further discussed throughout the interview.
Watson also spoke out against Planned Parenthood and abortion last summer.


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Q: Verification for a block-determinant evaluation, and some further thoughts First, I want some verification for the validity of my approach for this det evaluation question:

If $A,B\in M_n(K)$, $K$ is a number field (in the sense that $\Bbb Q$ is the smallest possible one), and $AB=BA$, prove this determinat equality
  $$
\begin{vmatrix}
A & -B \\ B & A
\end{vmatrix}
=|A^2+B^2|
$$

My approach:
Case 1: when $A=(a_{ij})$ is non-singular
Consider
$$
\begin{bmatrix}
  I & O \\ -B & A
\end{bmatrix}
\begin{bmatrix}
  A & -B \\ B & A
\end{bmatrix}=
\begin{bmatrix}
  A & -B \\ O & A^2+B^2
\end{bmatrix}
$$
therefore
$$
\det \begin{bmatrix}
  I & O \\ -B & A
\end{bmatrix}
\det \begin{bmatrix}
  A & -B \\ B & A
\end{bmatrix}=
\det \begin{bmatrix}
  A & -B \\ O & A^2+B^2
\end{bmatrix}
$$
by Laplace expansion, it is clear that
$$
\begin{vmatrix}
A & -B \\ B & A
\end{vmatrix}=\frac1{|A|}\cdot|A|\cdot |A^2+B^2|=|A^2+B^2|
$$
Case 2: when $A$ is singular
Consider $\require{cancel} A(t)\xcancel{=(a_{ij}+t)}=A+It$, since $A$ is singular, we have $A(0)=0$. That's to say, $0$ is a root of $A(t)$, which we regard now as a (non-zero) polynomial w.r.t. the parameter $t$. Since any non-zero polynomial has only finitely many roots in $\Bbb C$, it is clear that there exists a positive $\delta$ such that $t\in (-\delta,0)\cup(0,\delta)$ implies $A(t)\ne 0$, otherwise there would be an infinite sequence consisting of $A(t)$'s roots that converges to $0$. So if we pick any $t\in (-\delta,0)\cup(0,\delta)$ and replace $A$ by $A(t)$ in case 1, we'll obtain
$$
\begin{vmatrix}
A(t) & -B \\ B & A(t)
\end{vmatrix}=|A^2(t)+B^2|
$$
However, this is also a real polynomial function and therefore continuous at $t=0$, hence
$$
\begin{vmatrix}
A & -B \\ B & A
\end{vmatrix}=
\lim_{t\to 0}\begin{vmatrix}
A(t) & -B \\ B & A(t)
\end{vmatrix}=
|A^2(0)+B^2|=|A^2+B^2|
$$

Second, if my previous deduction is sound, will it be also proper to extend similar convert-singular-to-non-singular tricks elsewhere (except when the underlying field $K$ is not a number field in the usual sense, say, $K$ is a finite field)? For instance, there is an exercise marked as "difficult" in my textbook

For $n\times n$ matrices $A,B$, prove
  $$(AB)^*=B^*A^*$$
  $(A^*)$ denotes the adjoint matrix (transpose of the cofactor matrix) of $A$.

I know that it is marked as "difficult" because of the possibility that $A$ or $B$ can be singular, for if they are both non-singular, the proof will be extremely easy. However, if I apply my previous tricks here -- like making some $A(u),B(v)$ stuff, and noticing that every entry of $(AB)^*$ is continuously dependent on all the entries of $A(u),B(v)$, which are respectively continuously dependent on $u$ and $v$ due to the way I construct $A(u),B(v)$ -- will it not be extremely easy to extend the "non-singular" case to the "singular" case and thus complete the whole proof?
Further yet, if we have successfully proven a matrix/det equality for a bunch of non-singular matrices like $A,B,C\cdots$, and this equality only involves things (like $\det$, but not $\text{rank}$ of course) that are continuously dependent on each entry of these matrices, will it be natural to extend the result to all cases, whether the involved matrices are singular or not?
Any rectification/inspiration/clarification on my thoughts is welcomed. Best regards!

EIDT
@user1551 has pointed out that in my approach if $A(t)\equiv 0$ there'd be a fallacy, and has suggested that it can be fixed if I replace my $A(t)$ by $A+It$, which will in no case be a 0 polynomial.

EDIT
Or, is there any such matrix equations (both sides only include matrix addition and multiplication but not there inverses)  where invertibility makes all the difference?

A: Your attempt in case 2 is wrong, because you have mistakenly assumed that $\det(a_{ij}+t)$ is a nonzero polynomial. Consider, e.g. $A=\pmatrix{1&1\\ 1&1}$. Then $(a_{ij}+t)=\pmatrix{1+t&1+t\\ 1+t&1+t}$ is always singular, whatever $t$ is.
There is an easy fix to your proof, though: simply replace $(a_{ij}+t)$ by $A+tI$. When $t\ne0$ is sufficiently small, $A+tI$ is invertible.


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Q: how to make self updating clock label in kivy? I want to make a Label which acts as a clock and gets updated every second just as in making-a-clock-in-kivy link but in the status bar.
I want the label in status.kv file with id: _tnd to act as a clock.
The print statement in the update function (test_gui.py) does work and prints the date and time in the console after every second, but the label is not getting updated. I am pretty much confused right now!. It might be a silly mistake, but How do I do it?
I have 3 files

*

*test_gui.py

*test.kv

*status.kv

test_gui.py file
import time
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.clock import Clock
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty
from kivy.properties import StringProperty

Builder.load_file('status.kv')

class Status(BoxLayout):
    _change = StringProperty()
    _tnd = ObjectProperty(None)
    def update(self,*args):
        self.time = time.asctime()
        self._change = str(self.time)
        self._tnd.text = str(self.time)
        print self._change

class C(BoxLayout):
    pass

class TimeApp(App):
    def build(self):
        self.load_kv('test.kv')
        crudeclock = Status()
        Clock.schedule_interval(crudeclock.update, 1)
        return C()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    TimeApp().run()

test.kv file
    <C>:
    BoxLayout:
        orientation: 'vertical'
        BoxLayout:
            Button:
                text: "Button"
            Label:
                text: "Label"
        Status:

status.kv file
    <Status>:
    size_hint: 1,.1
    _tnd: _tnd
    canvas.before:
        Color:
            rgba: 0,0,0,1
        Rectangle:
            pos: self.pos
            size: self.size
    Label:
        text:'Current Date and Time:'
    Label:
        id: _tnd
        text: root._change +' time'

A: There are a few issues with your code.  The biggest is in your build(self) function:
def build(self):
    self.load_kv('test.kv')
    crudeclock = Status()
    Clock.schedule_interval(crudeclock.update, 1)
    return C()

You are creating a Status object and setting up a clock to call it's update function, but it is not part of your display.  It is a separate, independent instance of Status that is not attached to your widget tree.  When you return C(), it creates the widget tree defined in test.kv with its own, internal Status instance that is not being updated.
The second issue is that you are binding the Label's text field to a property in the .kv file, and then also manually changing it in the callback.  I'm guessing you tried one and then the other to see if either worked.  Both will work if you are using the right object, but you only want to use one.
As far as accessing the right Status object, the simplest way to fix your code is to tag it in test.kv, then access it in build(self):
<C>:
    BoxLayout:
        orientation: 'vertical'
        BoxLayout:
            Button:
                text: "Button"
            Label:
                text: "Label"
        Status:
            id: stat

and:
def build(self):
    self.load_kv('test.kv')
    c = C()
    stat = c.ids.stat  # this is the right object
    Clock.schedule_interval(stat.update, 1)
    return c

An alternative, since you really only need to keep time once for your whole app, is to put the property in your app class and bind to it in the kv file:
    time = StringProperty()

    def update(self, *args):
        self.time = str(time.asctime()) # + 'time'?

    def build(self):
        self.load_kv('test.kv')
        Clock.schedule_interval(self.update, 1)
        return C()

and
<Status>:
    size_hint: 1,.1
    canvas.before:
        Color:
            rgba: 0,0,0,1
        Rectangle:
            pos: self.pos
            size: self.size
    Label:
        text:'Current Date and Time:'
    Label:
        text: app.time

Which looks a little cleaner.


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Clinton Doubles Down against Guns, Electability
You heard it here first. This was Hillary Clinton's first and second reaction to the shooting in Charleston last month:
"We have to face hard truths about race, violence, guns, and division." She asked, "How many innocent people in our country, from little children to church members to movie theater attendees, how many people do we need to see cut down before we act?"
"Act" how, exactly? In an interview later the same day, she was more blunt: "Let's just cut to the chase – it's guns."
At Hot Air, Jazz Shaw observes that Clinton is sticking with this tack, which may be her only option if she wants to maneuver to the left of Bernie Sanders. The liberal Washington Post reports,
In her standard stump speech, Hillary Rodham Clinton talks about fighting income inequality, celebrating court rulings on gay marriage and health care, and, since the Emanuel AME Church massacre, toughening the nation's gun laws.
That last component marks an important evolution in presidential politics. For at least the past several decades, Democrats seeking national office have often been timid on the issue of guns for fear of alienating firearms owners. . . .
But in a sign that the political environment on guns has shifted in the wake of recent mass shootings — and of Clinton's determination to stake out liberal ground in her primary race against insurgent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — Clinton is not only initiating a debate about gun control but also vowing to fight the National Rifle Association.
"We've been down this road before with the Clintons," LaPierre said through a spokesman. "She needs to read her husband's book."
In his memoir, "My Life," former president Bill Clinton suggested that his vice president, Al Gore, lost the 2000 presidential election in part because of backlash in states such as Arkansas and Tennessee over the Clinton administration's 1995 ban on assault weapons, which has since expired. Many Democratic lawmakers also lost their elections after gun-control votes.
Jazz Shaw agrees:
The trend on this subject has been consistently going in one direction, particularly since the world has been becoming an increasingly dangerous place. Starting last year, there were clear majorities, rather than just pluralities, indicating that protecting gun rights was more important than any new gun control measures. Not only global events such as the rise of ISIS, (and their recruiting efforts here in America) but the riots in the streets in so many major cities seem to be pushing people to realize that they may have to protect themselves. It's one of the few positive trends to come out of the current era of change.
Hillary Clinton has apparently decided that this is the field where she will meet and fight Bernie Sanders. I would say good for her, but actually it's good for the GOP. Liberals tend to love to invoke phrases about their opponents being on the wrong side of history. Well, when it comes to the Second Amendment rights of Americans, Hillary just found herself on the losing end of that argument.
Or, as I put it last month:
Ah, more gun control. We'll get right on that.
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Effectiveness of lumbar facet joint blocks and predictive value before radiofrequency denervation the Facet Treatment Study (FACTS), a randomized, controlled clinical trial
Steven P. Cohen, Tina L. Doshi, Octav C. Constantinescu, Zirong Zhao, Connie Kurihara, Thomas M. Larkin, Scott R. Griffith, Michael B. Jacobs, William J. Kroski, Timothy C. Dawson, Ian M. Fowler, Ronald L. White, Aubrey J. Verdun, David E. Jamison, Mirinda Anderson-White, Stephanie E. Shank, Paul F. Pasquina
Background: With facet interventions under scrutiny, the authors' objectives were to determine the effectiveness of different lumbar facet blocks and their ability to predict radiofrequency ablation outcomes. Methods: A total of 229 participants were randomized in a 2:2:1 ratio to receive intraarticular facet injections with bupivacaine and steroid, medial branch blocks, or saline. Those with a positive 1-month outcome (a 2-point or more reduction in average pain score) and score higher than 3 (positive satisfaction) on a 5-point satisfaction scale were followed up to 6 months. Participants in the intraarticular and medial branch block groups with a positive diagnostic block (50% or more relief ) who experienced a negative outcome proceeded to the second phase and underwent radiofrequency ablation, while all saline group individuals underwent ablation. Coprimary outcome measures were average reduction in numerical rating scale pain score 1 month after the facet or saline blocks, and average numerical rating scale pain score 3 months after ablation. Results: Mean reduction in average numerical rating scale pain score at 1 month was 0.7 ± 1.6 in the intraarticular group, 0.7 ± 1.8 in the medial branch block group, and 0.7 ± 1.5 in the placebo group; P = 0.993. The proportions of positive blocks were higher in the intraarticular (54%) and medial branch (55%) groups than in the placebo group (30%; P = 0.01). Radiofrequency ablation was performed on 135 patients (45, 48, and 42 patients from the intraarticular, medial branch, and saline groups, respectively). The average numerical rating scale pain score at 3 months was 3.0 ± 2.0 in the intraarticular, 3.2 ± 2.5 in the medial branch, and 3.5 ± 1.9 in the control group (P = 0.493). At 3 months, the proportions of positive responders in the intraarticular, medial branch block, and placebo groups were 51%, 56%, and 24% for the intraarticular, medial branch, and placebo groups, respectively (P = 0.005). Conclusions: This study establishes that facet blocks are not therapeutic. The higher responder rates in the treatment groups suggest a hypothesis that facet blocks might provide prognostic value before radiofrequency ablation.
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Zygapophyseal Joint Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Denervation Medicine & Life Sciences 82%
Radiofrequency Ablation Medicine & Life Sciences 67%
Pain Medicine & Life Sciences 44%
Intra-Articular Injections Medicine & Life Sciences 19%
Bupivacaine Medicine & Life Sciences 17%
Cohen, S. P., Doshi, T. L., Constantinescu, O. C., Zhao, Z., Kurihara, C., Larkin, T. M., Griffith, S. R., Jacobs, M. B., Kroski, W. J., Dawson, T. C., Fowler, I. M., White, R. L., Verdun, A. J., Jamison, D. E., Anderson-White, M., Shank, S. E., & Pasquina, P. F. (2018). Effectiveness of lumbar facet joint blocks and predictive value before radiofrequency denervation the Facet Treatment Study (FACTS), a randomized, controlled clinical trial. Anesthesiology, 129(3), 517-535. https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000002274
Effectiveness of lumbar facet joint blocks and predictive value before radiofrequency denervation the Facet Treatment Study (FACTS), a randomized, controlled clinical trial. / Cohen, Steven P.; Doshi, Tina L.; Constantinescu, Octav C. et al.
In: Anesthesiology, Vol. 129, No. 3, 2018, p. 517-535.
Cohen, SP, Doshi, TL, Constantinescu, OC, Zhao, Z, Kurihara, C, Larkin, TM, Griffith, SR, Jacobs, MB, Kroski, WJ, Dawson, TC, Fowler, IM, White, RL, Verdun, AJ, Jamison, DE, Anderson-White, M, Shank, SE & Pasquina, PF 2018, 'Effectiveness of lumbar facet joint blocks and predictive value before radiofrequency denervation the Facet Treatment Study (FACTS), a randomized, controlled clinical trial', Anesthesiology, vol. 129, no. 3, pp. 517-535. https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000002274
Cohen SP, Doshi TL, Constantinescu OC, Zhao Z, Kurihara C, Larkin TM et al. Effectiveness of lumbar facet joint blocks and predictive value before radiofrequency denervation the Facet Treatment Study (FACTS), a randomized, controlled clinical trial. Anesthesiology. 2018;129(3):517-535. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000002274
Cohen, Steven P. ; Doshi, Tina L. ; Constantinescu, Octav C. et al. / Effectiveness of lumbar facet joint blocks and predictive value before radiofrequency denervation the Facet Treatment Study (FACTS), a randomized, controlled clinical trial. In: Anesthesiology. 2018 ; Vol. 129, No. 3. pp. 517-535.
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import os
import tinctest
from tinctest.lib import local_path
from mpp.lib.PSQL import PSQL
from mpp.lib.gpfilespace import Gpfilespace
from mpp.lib.config import GPDBConfig
from mpp.lib.filerep_util import Filerepe2e_Util
from mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.lib.common_utils import copy_files_to_segments, copy_files_to_master
from tinctest.models.scenario import ScenarioTestCase
from mpp.models import MPPTestCase

class PgtwoPhaseTestCase(ScenarioTestCase, MPPTestCase):
    ''' Testing state of prepared transactions upon crash-recovery'''

    def __init__(self, methodName):
        self.gpfile = Gpfilespace()
        self.filereputil = Filerepe2e_Util()
        super(PgtwoPhaseTestCase,self).__init__(methodName)

    def setUp(self):
        '''Create filespace '''
        self.gpfile.create_filespace('filespace_test_a')
        super(PgtwoPhaseTestCase,self).setUp()

    def tearDown(self):
        ''' Cleanup up the filespace created , reset skip chekpoint fault'''
        self.gpfile.drop_filespace('filespace_test_a')
        port = os.getenv('PGPORT')
        self.filereputil.inject_fault(f='checkpoint', y='reset', r='primary', o='0', p=port)
        super(PgtwoPhaseTestCase,self).tearDown()

    def execute_split_sqls(self, skip_state, cluster_state, ddl_type, fault_type, crash_type):
        '''
        @param skip_state : skip/noskip checkpoint
        @param cluster_state : sync/change_tracking/resync
        @param ddl_type : create/drop
        @fault_type : commit/abort . Uses the same parameter to pass in 'end_prepare_two_phase_sleep'
        @crash_type : gpstop_i/gpstop_a/failover_to_primary/failover_to_mirror
        @description: Test the state of prepared transactions upon crash-recovery.
                      Faults are used to suspend the transactions before segments flush commit/abort to xlog.
                      Different types of crash followed by recovery are performed to evaluate the transaction state
            Steps:
                0. Check the state of the cluster before proceeding the test execution
                1. Run any faults before pre_sqls depending on the clsuter_state
                2. Run pre_sqls if any
                3. Run any faults required before the trigger_sqls based on the fault_type as well as cluster_state
                4. Run trigger_sqls - these are the transactions which will be suspended
                5. Crash and recover. Resume suspended faults if needed
                6. Run post_sqls to validate whether the transactions at step 4 are commited/ aborted as expected
                7. Recover the cluster in case if neeed
                8. Validate using gpcheckcat and gpcheckmirrorseg

        '''
        if fault_type == 'end_prepare_two_phase_sleep':
            test_dir = '%s_%s_tests' % ('abort', ddl_type)
        else:
            test_dir = '%s_%s_tests' % (fault_type, ddl_type)

        tinctest.logger.info('fault_type %s test_dir %s ddl_type %s' % (fault_type, test_dir, ddl_type))
        test_case_list0 = []
        test_case_list0.append('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.lib.dbstate.DbStateClass.check_system')
        self.test_case_scenario.append(test_case_list0)

        test_case_list1 = []
        test_case_list1.append(('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.pg_twophase.PgtwoPhaseClass.run_faults_before_pre', [cluster_state]))
        self.test_case_scenario.append(test_case_list1)

        test_case_list2 = []
        test_case_list2.append('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.pg_twophase.%s.pre_sql.test_presqls.TestPreSQLClass' % test_dir)
        self.test_case_scenario.append(test_case_list2)

        test_case_list3 = []
        test_case_list3.append(('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.pg_twophase.PgtwoPhaseClass.run_faults_before_trigger', [skip_state, cluster_state, fault_type]))
        self.test_case_scenario.append(test_case_list3)

        test_case_list4 = []
        test_case_list4.append('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.pg_twophase.%s.trigger_sql.test_triggersqls.TestTriggerSQLClass' % test_dir)
        test_case_list4.append(('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.pg_twophase.PgtwoPhaseClass.run_crash_and_recover', [crash_type, fault_type, test_dir, cluster_state, skip_state]))
        self.test_case_scenario.append(test_case_list4)

        test_case_list5 = []
        test_case_list5.append('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.pg_twophase.%s.post_sql.test_postsqls.TestPostSQLClass' % test_dir)
        self.test_case_scenario.append(test_case_list5)

        test_case_list6 = []
        test_case_list6.append(('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.pg_twophase.PgtwoPhaseClass.run_gprecover', [crash_type, cluster_state]))
        self.test_case_scenario.append(test_case_list6)

        test_case_list7 = []
        test_case_list7.append('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.lib.dbstate.DbStateClass.run_validation')
        self.test_case_scenario.append(test_case_list7)

        test_case_list8 = []
        test_case_list8.append('mpp.gpdb.tests.storage.pg_twophase.PgtwoPhaseClass.cleanup_dangling_processes')
        self.test_case_scenario.append(test_case_list8)


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