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Formula One: Hamilton calls for more consistency after Leclerc controversial move
MONZA, Italy (AFP) – A disappointed Lewis Hamilton called for greater consistency and fairness from stewards' decisions after missing out on winning Sunday's (Sept 8) Italian Grand Prix.
The series leader and defending five-time world champion believed he was the victim of a controversial move during the closely-fought race when triumphant Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc blocked him without leaving a car's width of space.
The incident resulted in the victorious 21-year-old Monegasque driver being shown a black-and-white flag, signalling a caution but without a penalty.
Hamilton recalled similar incidents in past seasons have resulted in time penalties and suggested the current generation of younger drivers are being allowed to race under different rules.
In 2018, Max Verstappen was handed a time penalty for blocking Valtteri Bottas at the chicane in the Italian Grand Prix, in a move almost identical to that of Leclerc on Sunday.
"That's just racing, I guess," he said.
"I had to avoid colliding with him a couple of times and that's how it is, racing, today."
Hamilton, who was within two seconds of Leclerc for most of the race, said earlier he did not want to talk about the incidents which he had said were dangerous.
"It doesn't really matter what I think," said the Briton.
"I have nothing to say about it. It is pointless to bring it up.
"I had to avoid collisions and then I tried to race hard again and get back. This new generation get away with more than we did in the past.
"I'd just like to see consistency."
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EPA Advisor Wrote 'Independent' Review Of Gold King Mine Spill
Left to right: REUTERS/Gary Cameron, REUTERS/EPA/Handout, REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Michael Bastasch and Ethan Barton Contributor
An independent investigation was formed to determine how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) caused the Gold King Mine spill, but a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found the federal department conducting the examination may not have been so independent.
The Department of the Interior (DOI) released its Technical Evaluation report in October, which outlined how the EPA spilled three million gallons of wastewater into crucial western rivers. But the report omitted critical details, possibly due to conflicts of interest.
DOI was involved with numerous aspects of the work going on at Gold King Mine before and after the spill, and the mine engineering expert tasked with reviewing the department's report had serious misgivings about the integrity of the investigation.
A Peer Reviewer Was Furious With DOI's Report
Army Corps of Engineers peer reviewer Richard Olsen – the only peer-reviewer employed outside DOI – had serious problems with the scope of the department's report. Olsen also pressed DOI on possible political machinations aimed at keeping federal investigators from digging too deep into the EPA-caused mine blowout.
"The actual cause of failure is some combination of issues related to EPA internal communications, administrative authorities, and/or a break in the decision path," Olsen wrote in his official comments on the DOI's technical report on the spill.
Olsen also criticized DOI for failing to investigate the EPA's negligence and decision-making process surrounding the agency's Gold King Mine work and spill.
"The report discusses field observations by EPA (and why they continued digging), but does not describe why a change in EPA field coordinators caused the urgency to start digging out the plug rather than wait for [Bureau of Reclamation] technical input as prescribed by the EPA project leader," Olsen wrote.
Outside of Olsen's comments, "the scope of the Technical Evaluation appears to have been carefully crafted to avoid asking the most important questions about EPA's decision and actions," the House Committee on Natural Resources wrote in a recent report that detailed the "shifting accounts" offered by government officials about the cause of the mine blowout.
Likewise, internal emails reviewed by TheDCNF show DOI likely only included Olsen's comments out of fear he would withhold his signature from the review were the comments omitted.
The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) – the DOI agency commissioned for the Gold King Mine report – was secretly ordered to "stay clear" of such aspects in its investigation, internal emails reveal.
Olsen's questions on who issued that command were ignored by DOI officials looking to get him to sign off on their technical review of the spill. Those emails were only disclosed after DOI withheld them for months.
Yet, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told the Natural Resources committee that DOI would, in fact, investigate her agency for negligence and that the EPA wasn't "defining the scope of work."
DOI Secretary Sally Jewell told the committee the report "did exactly what the agreement with the EPA was," after the review was released.
Why Did the EPA Select DOI?
EPA selected DOI to conduct an independent review of the blowout, even though it was involved with numerous aspects of the Gold King Mine project, both before and after the spill.
DOI "never should have been selected to conduct an independent review of the disaster, because nearly every branch of DOI was either involved in the Gold King Mine project or affected by the blowout, or both," the Natural Resources committee report said.
DOI branches involved include BOR, which "received thousands of dollars from EPA" for projects related to Gold King Mine, and later released water from a dam to dilute contamination from the blowout, according to the committee report.
[dcquiz] The DOI review's lead author, Michael Gobla, "had conflicts of interest that should have precluded [his] participation in any 'independent' review of the spill," the committee added.
Gobla even described his own involvement with the Gold King Mine project within the independent report he was writing. He was also at the site just days after the blowout, but before being selected to lead the review.
"His involvement in EPA's Gold King Mine project prior to the disaster and his on-site role assisting EPA with its response to the disaster … unquestionably should have disqualified him from participating in DOI's Technical Evaluation," the Natural Resources committee report said.
This is the fourth in TheDCNF's investigation of the Gold King Mine disaster. TheDCNF previously reported that the incident was not an accident, reported on the mistakes the EPA could have prevented, and reported the inconsistencies in the agency's explanation following the spill.
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The program flagged the writings of several emergent authors with labels which advised readers to exercise caution and "extra discernment" when reading particular books.
The labels provided the address to a website to learn more about the work or author; the website has since been disabled.
The program recently came under attack in a blog post from Christian musician Shaun Groves, who was upset that LifeWay was willing to warn customers about a book but still continued to sell it.
LifeWay, the official publisher and book store of the Southern Baptist Convention, downplayed the program and the decision to end it, saying the labels were not warnings but rather an attempt to provide customers with more information.
But some authors of the marked books, including popular authors Rob Bell, Donald Miller, Brian McLaren and William Young, were happy with the decision to terminate the program.
McLaren, a sometimes controversial emergent author whose books were flagged, said a decision to censor writings by another Christian went against the Baptist tradition of personal conscience.
Young, who wrote the New York Times best-seller The Shack, said he wasn't bothered by the program, but still thought that LifeWay made "a good move" in ending it.
When Young heard his book had been labeled, he shared a laugh with his family and friends. "Like most people are saying, 'Put it on every book, or you put it on no book,'" Young said.
Young feels, however, that LifeWay had good motives and understands the difficulty of their situation.
"LifeWay has a tough job, they have to figure out how to be a part of a world in which ideas are larger than their community, but still maintain their allegiance to their denomination," Young said.


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By Brandon Jones On Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
Judd Apatow's 'The King of Staten Island' with SNL's Pete Davidson set for VOD in June
Over his storied career, Judd Apatow has elevated a series of promising young comedy talents to their first major big-screen performance, including Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, More...
By Brandon Jones On Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
Kumail Nanjiani explains the Bollywood dance number in 'Eternals'
Collider visited CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil, and screened footage of Marvel's upcoming Eternals. Among the many details noted was star Kumail Nanjiani "decked out in colorful garb and makeup, dancing, surrounded More...
By Brandon Jones On Thursday, January 16th, 2020
Robert Downey Jr can't make 'Dolittle' interesting
Universal tapped into Robert Downey Jr. to develop a Doctor Dolittle project with high-priced visual effects and a talented cast of actors to voice Dolittle's menagerie of critters. The result; however, is More...
By Brandon Jones On Wednesday, December 4th, 2019
MARVEL MOVIE NEWS: Black Widow trailer, GOTG 3 details
Just a look ahead a the new several Marvel films which have updates,rumors or news: Guardians of the Galaxy 3 rumors, Black Widow trailer and Kevin Feige talking The Eternals. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Some rumors, More...
By Brandon Jones On Saturday, August 24th, 2019
MOVIE NEWS UPDATES: Michael Rooker joins 'Furious 9,' Eza Miller confirms Flash, Kit Harington set for 'Eternals'
Just an array of movie updates: Michael Rooker joins the new Fast & Furious 9, Ezra Miller confirming that the Flash movie will happen and lastly, new update from D23 on The Eternals: Kit Harrington. MICHAEL More...
By Brandon Jones On Friday, April 12th, 2019
Marvel News: 'Doctor Strange 2' release date, 'The Eternals' cast, 'Black Widow' villain
Looking ahead to Marvel's phase four of films, here's a few updates/rumors for Doctor Strange 2, The Eternals and Marvel has set three release dates in 2021, including February 12th, May 7th, and November More...
By Red Diogenes On Monday, January 21st, 2019
'Men in Black International' details and photos: more aliens, plot details and the twins, Laurent and Larry Bourgeois
The upcoming Men in Black International, a half-sequel, half-reboot of the comic book franchise that started over 21 years ago, will forego the legacy of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, who made the series memorable, More...
By Brandon Jones On Sunday, October 7th, 2018
Support and Disdain for Kavanaugh's confirmation: Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Jon Favreau, Kathy Griffin
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released the following statement in support of Judge Brett Kavanaugh prior to the vote: "Having looked at the totality of Brett Kavanaugh's life and career, I am persuaded to vote More...
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Jackie Chan, Dave Franco, Michael Pena headlines 'LEGO Ninjago' cast, synopsis revealed
After The LEGO Movie hit theaters to rave reviews and a big box office draw so the studio has fast tracked other spin-offs: The LEGO Batman Movie and the Ninjago movie, a film based on the "Ninjago: Masters More...


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Q: Android Calendar Content Provider query keeps crashing I have a PhoneGap Application and I want to access the Android Calendar via the Content Provider. My PhoneGap JavaScript function can successfully call and return Java functions however I just haven't been able to get Content Provider calls to work. The app compiles without issues and run, but as soon as I call the related Content Provider function it hangs for a while and crashes. Below is a modified version of a Content Provider function I found:
    package com.george.myapp;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.TimeZone;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;

public class EventsInCalender extends Activity {
    //@Override
    public void onCreate() {
    //public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        //super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        //setContentView(R.layout.event);
    }

    public String getCal()
    {
        String cal_name = "createdstring";
        Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(Uri.parse("content://com.android.calendar/calendars"),new String[] { "_id", "displayName" }, "selected=1", null, null);
        if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
             String[] calNames = new String[cursor.getCount()];
             int[] calIds = new int[cursor.getCount()];
             for (int i = 0; i < calNames.length; i++) {
                  // retrieve the calendar names and ids
                  calIds[i] = cursor.getInt(0);
                  calNames[i] = cursor.getString(1);
                  cursor.moveToNext();
              }
              cal_name = calNames[0];
              cursor.close();
        }
        return cal_name;
    }
}

A: I would follow this official documentation to handle Calendar Content Provider in Android: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/calendar-provider.html

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*Query calendars

*Choose a calendar

*Query events

A: Looks like Context was the problem, needed to come from the main activity, think Android only grants the permissions to that activity

A: You must add permission READ_CALENDAR to AndroidManifest.xml file.

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The lyrics of the fast-paced song that reflects the world view of the anime were written by one of the group's members, Sota Hanamura.
By adding Japanese elements to it, I think we were able to make it into a Japanese rock song that only Da-iCE can make."
The official YouTube channel for the five-member Japanese male vocal and dance group Da-iCE has released a four-minute lyric video for their new song "Break out," which will be used as the OP theme for the winter 2022 TV anime ORIENT.
Da-iCE / 「Break out」Lyric Video


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\section{\normalsize\bf Introduction}
Scalar fields in General Relativity has been a topic of great
interest in the latest years, mainly because the scalar field
dynamics allows to investigate
the detailed features of the early Universe. Without
the need of a specific equation of state, a Universe filled by
a phenomenological scalar field leads to an accelerated phase of
expansion, the inflation, in almost any kind of self-interaction
potential. As it has been shown in chaotic models of inflation\bib{LIN},
the accelerated phase, either power-law\bib{LM} or quasi-exponential, is
a phase-space attractor for most of the initial conditions, and
this result also extends to a large class of inhomogeneous and
anisotropic space-times\bib{WM}. The class of successful models has been
enlarged to scalar fields with a nonminimal coupling (NMC) to
the curvature scalar $R$ in the gravity Lagrangian\bib{KFM},
 commonly in the form
of a term $\sqrt{-g}f(\phi) R$, where $f(\phi)$ is a function of the
scalar field $\phi$. The motivations for
this step are manyfold: the idea that the fundamental
constants are not constant, the ``machian'' theory of gravitation
embodied in the Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory\bib{JBD},
 the renormalizing term arising in quantum field theory in curved
space\bib{BD},
the possibility to have gravity as a
spontaneous symmetry-breaking effect\bib{ZA}, the Kaluza-Klein
compactification scheme\bib{KT}, the  low-energy limit
of the superstring theory\bib{SS}.
Moreover, the
NMC term has been employed to produce an oscillating Universe,\bib{MM}
to reconcile cosmic strings production with inflation,\bib{YOK} to generate
a modified Newtonian dynamics able to model flat  rotation curves
in galaxies.\bib{BM} Last but not least,
an NMC term allows to solve the ``graceful exit'' problem of the old inflation
by slowing the false-vacuum expansion, as in extended inflation\bib{LS}.
Recently, the NMC models have been generalized in various directions:
models with different coupling functions\bib{SA}, with generalized coupling
to the inflaton sector\bib{HK}, with fourth-order gravity\bib{ACLO},
and with a coupling to a dark matter sector\bib{DGG}.

In this Letter we wish to further explore the influence of
nonminimal couplings in cosmology by introducing the nonminimal
derivative coupling (NMDC) to gravity. In this class of models, the
coupling function is also function of the derivatives of $\phi$:
$f=f(\phi,\phi_{;\mu}}  \def\udemu{^{;\mu},\phi_{;\mu\nu},...)$. Derivative couplings,
although rares, are not a novelty in physics: the field
theory of scalar quantum electro-dynamics includes derivative
couplings between the electro-magnetic vector $A_{\mu}$ and the
scalar field $\phi$; this kind of interaction is indeed
required by the $U(1)$ gauge-invariance of the theory.
In addition, if the idea underlying the
nonminimal coupling theory is that the Newton
constant $G$ itself depends on the gravitational field source mass,
it seems more natural to couple the curvature to the
energy-momentum tensor of the matter, introducing the
terms $TR$ and $T_{\mu\nu} R^{\mu\nu}$, which in fact contain derivative
couplings. The NMDC model can be thought of as the scalar field
formulation of the hypothesis that $G=G(\rho)$, where $\rho$ is
the energy density of the gravitational field source.

One of the aims of this
Letter is to see whether the presence of NMDCs allows to find  inflationary
attractors in models where otherwise they are not present.
We studied a large class of NMC models in Ref. (\ref{ABO}). For future
reference, let us summarize the main results of Ref. (\ref{ABO}).
Hereinafter, we will use $f=f(\phi)$ referring to the non-derivative terms
coupled to the curvature scalar,
and $f_1=f_1(\phi,\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha})$ when we
refer to all the terms, including the
derivative terms, coupled to the curvature scalar.
In Ref. (\ref{ABO}) the coupling function $f(\phi)$ is left as general
as possible, and the
potential is assumed to be $V=\lam f^M$. It is also assumed that
$f(\phi)$ is semi-positive definite and that, for large $|\phi|$,
it grows monotonically faster than $\phi^2$. The case $f\sim\phi^2$ is
the standard choice, and has been extensively treated in
the literature\bib{KFM}.
 The relation between the potential and the coupling function
assumed in Ref. (\ref{ABO})
allows to determine the class of models with successful inflationary
attractors; here ``successful'' means that the inflation eventually stops
and a Friedmann stage begins. In Ref. (\ref{ABO}) and in the present work the
inflationary attractors are all asymptotic, in the limit of large
$|\phi|$; in this limit the influence of the coupling is clearly larger.
Moreover, the spirit of chaotic inflation is that whatever the initial
conditions of the Universe are, the dynamical trajectory
falls onto an inflationary attractor. This is verified only if the attractor
itself extends to very large values of the field variables, until the
classical description loses meaning (i.e. near the Planck boundary).
In Ref. (\ref{ABO}) it is shown that such asymptotic attractors exist only
if $2\le M<2+\sqrt{3}$, whatever functional form of $f(\phi)$
is considered. In this range, it is found for the cosmic scale factor $a(t)$
a power-law inflation $a\sim t^p$ with exponent
\begin{equation}\label{NMC}
p={3+(M-2)^3\over (M-2)^2(M-1)}\,.
\end{equation}
In the conformally rescaled frame the power-law exponent has
a much simpler form, $\tilde p= 3/(M-2)^2$. If
$M=2$ a deSitter exponential inflation is found. Further, in the cases
in which a successful inflation exists, the spectrum of primordial
fluctuations is independent of $f(\phi)$ and depends on
the wavenumber $k$ according to the power-law
$k^{1/(1-\tilde p)}$. Finally, in Ref. (\ref{ABO}) it is shown that the
fluctuations have a Gaussian distribution.
In the present work we extend some of the cited results to
derivative couplings. We assume as in Ref. (\ref{ABO}) that $V=\lam f^M$,
but now we will freeze the functional form of $f(\phi)$ to a power-law,
$f(\phi)=\phi^{2m}$. We will show that the narrow range in which
the parameter $M$ is confined in NMC models is greatly expanded when
one includes a derivative coupling.

It rises natural the question
of whether the conformal
transformation\bib{W}, which allows one to put complicated unconventional
gravity theory in pure Einsteinian form with one
or more scalar fields, works also when derivative couplings are
present. We will show schematically that a conformal
rescaling $\tilde g_{\mu\nu}=e^{2\omega} g_{\mu\nu}$ cannot recast
our theory in Einsteinian form. In order to recover
the Einstein field equations
the metric transformation should be generalized to a Legendre
transformation, as in Ref. (\ref{MFF}). This would introduce in
the equations additional tensor fields, instead
of additional scalar fields as in non-derivative cases.
Due to this reason, we avoided here the use of metric transformations.

The plan of this paper is as follows: in the next section we introduce
the derivative couplings, in Sect. 3 we
derive the equations of motion for the fields,
in Sect. 4 we perform the second-order approximation,
in Sect. 5 we discuss the phase space of some models
and finally in Sect. 6 we present
the conclusions.

\section{\normalsize\bf Derivative couplings}
Terms with NMDCs generalize the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian.
The most general gravity Lagrangian linear in the curvature scalar
$R$, quadratic in $\phi$, containing terms with four
derivatives includes all of the following terms:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{terms}
L_1&=&\mu\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}\phi\udea R\,;\quad L_2 = \tau\phi\udea\phi\udeb R_{\alpha\beta};
 \quad L_3=\eta\phi\Box\phi R \,;\nonumber\\
L_4 &=&\theta \phi\phi^{;\alpha\beta} R_{\alpha\beta}\,;\quad
L_5= \nu\phi\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha} R\udea; \quad L_6 =\sigma\phi^2 \Box R\,.
\end{eqnarray}
The constants $\mu,\tau,...$ have the same dimensions in natural units
as the Newton constant $G$, namely $~mass^{-2}$.
Here and in the following the conventions are:
signature $\,(+---)\,$; units $\, 8\pi G=c=1\,.$
Due to the following relations
\begin{eqnarray}\label{div}
0&=&\int d^4x\,\sqrt{-g} \Box(\phi^2 R)=\int d^4x\,\sqrt{-g}\left[2\phi\Box\phi R+ 2\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}\phi\udea
R+\phi^2\Box R\right]\,,\nonumber\\
0&=&\int d^4x\,\sqrt{-g}\nabla_{\mu}(R\nabla^{\mu}\phi^2)=\int d^4x\,\sqrt{-g}\left[2\phi\phi\udea R_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}+
2\phi\Box\phi R+2\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}\phi\udea R\right]\,,\nonumber\\
0&=&\int d^4x\,\sqrt{-g}\nabla_{\mu}(\phi\phi_{;\nu}}  \def\udenu{^{;\nu} R^{\mu\nu})=\int d^4x\,\sqrt{-g}\left[\phi_{;\mu}}  \def\udemu{^{;\mu}\phi_{;\nu}}  \def\udenu{^{;\nu}
R^{\mu\nu}+\phi\phi_{;\mu\nu} R^{\mu\nu}+\phi\phi_{;\nu}}  \def\udenu{^{;\nu} R^{\mu\nu}_{;\mu}}  \def\udemu{^{;\mu}\right],
\end{eqnarray}
three of the six terms $L_1-L_6$ can be neglected (also taking into
account the Bianchi identities). Other total divergences,
like $(\phi^2 R^{\mu\nu}_{;\nu}}  \def\udenu{^{;\nu})_{;\mu}}  \def\udemu{^{;\mu}$ and $(\phi^2 R^{\mu\nu})_{;\mu\nu}$
are linear combinations of Eqs. (\ref{div}).
Nevertheless, the
equations remain hopelessly complicated. We take here a first step.
We keep only the derivative term $L_1$, together with
the NMC correction $L_0=\xi f(\phi) R$. This particular choice
turns out to be the simplest one. Moreover, the terms studied here
are those appearing in the simplest ``natural'' coupling, namely $TR$.
In this way we
may draw an useful comparison between Ref. (\ref{ABO}), where
$L_0$ was the only correction to Einstein gravity, and the present
work.
We are then left with the following Lagrangian density
\begin{eqnarray}\label{lagr1}
L&=&-R+f_1(\phi,\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}) R+\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}\phi\udea-2 V(\phi)\,,\nonumber\\
f_1(\phi,\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}) &=& \xi f(\phi)+\mu\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}\phi\udea\,.
\end{eqnarray}

\def_{1;\mu\nu}{_{1;\mu\nu}}
\section{\normalsize\bf Field equations }
The set of equations derived from (\ref{lagr1}) is
\begin{eqnarray}\label{einst}
G_{\mu\nu} (1-f_1) &=& g_{\mu\nu}\Box f_1-f_{1;\mu\nu}+
\mu\phi_{;\mu}}  \def\udemu{^{;\mu}\phi_{;\nu}}  \def\udenu{^{;\nu} R+T_{\mu\nu}\,,\nonumber\\
T_{\mu\nu} &=&\phi_{;\mu}}  \def\udemu{^{;\mu}\phi_{;\nu}}  \def\udenu{^{;\nu}-\frac{1}{2} g_{\mu\nu}\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}\phi\udea
+V(\phi) g_{\mu\nu}\,,
\end{eqnarray}
while the scalar field equation is
\begin{equation}\label{phi}
\Box\phi(1+\mu R)+\mu
\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha} R\udea-\xi f' R/2+V'=0\,.
\end{equation}
It can already be seen that, even if the new terms introduced by
the derivative coupling (let us call them $\mu$-terms) do not determine
the critical points of the theory, they do contribute to the asymptotic
dynamical properties of Eq. (\ref{phi}). Indeed we will see that
 in the limit of large $R$ and $R_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}$ (in other words, in the
early Universe), the $\mu$-terms will
sensibly modify the behavior of the non-derivative theory.

The trace of Eqs. (\ref{einst}) reads simply
\begin{equation}\label{ricci}
 R(\xi f-1)= T+3\Box f_1\,,
\end{equation}
where $T=-\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}\phi\udea+4V$.
The derivative of the Ricci scalar, to be used in Eq.  (\ref{phi}), is
\begin{equation}\label{riccider}
R_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}={1\over\xi f-1}\left[T_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}+3\Box f_{1,\alpha}-\xi f'\phi_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}
R\right]\,.
\end{equation}
In a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spatially flat
metric with scale factor $a(t)$,
the ($0,0$) component of (\ref{einst}) is
\begin{equation}\label{00}
H^2(1-f_1)=H\dot f_1+{\mu\over 3}R\dot\phi^2+
{1\over 3}\left(\frac{1}{2}\dot\phi^2+V\right)\,,
\end{equation}
where $H=\dot a/a$ and
where our conventions are such that $R=-6\dot H-12 H^2$. From now on,
we confine ourselves to a FRW spatially flat metric.
The system (\ref{phi}-\ref{00}) is closed. We have
five degrees of freedom $H,\phi,\dot\phi,\ddot \phi,\phi^{III}$
and indeed we have one equations of fourth order in $\phi$
[Eq. (\ref{phi})] and one of first order in $H$ [Eq. (\ref{00})].
The solution of this system appears very difficult. In the next
section we will make use of a second-order approximation
to derive the asymptotic properties of our model and to sketch its
phase space.

Let us conclude this section showing how a conformal
transformation operates on the NMDC theory.
Ordinary NMC theories are recast in Einstein form by
the metric rescaling\bib{W}
$\tilde g_{\mu\nu}=e^{2\ome}g_{\mu\nu}$, with
\begin{equation}\label{cf}
e^{2\ome}=|\partial L/\partial R|\,.
\end{equation}
Adopting the same formula, in our case we get $e^{2\ome}=|1-f_1|$.
Now, we have that the Einstein tensor $G_{\mu\nu}=R_{\mu\nu}
-Rg_{\mu\nu}/2$ trasforms according to
\begin{equation}\label{g}
G_{\mu\nu}=\tilde G_{\mu\nu}-2\left[\ome_{;\mu}}  \def\udemu{^{;\mu}\ome_{;\nu}}  \def\udenu{^{;\nu}+\frac{1}{2} g_{\mu\nu}\ome_{;\alpha}}  \def\udea{^{;\alpha}
\ome\udea+g_{\mu\nu}\Box\ome-\ome_{;\mu\nu}\right]\,.
\end{equation}
Inserting (\ref{g}) into (\ref{einst}), with the choice (\ref{cf}), one has
\begin{equation}\label{einsttc}
\tilde G_{\mu\nu}=3 e^{-4\ome}\left( f_{1;\mu} f_{1;\nu}-\frac{1}{2} g_{\mu\nu}
f_{1;\alpha} f_1\udea\right)+\mu e^{-2\ome}\phi_{;\mu}}  \def\udemu{^{;\mu}\phi_{;\nu}}  \def\udenu{^{;\nu} R
+e^{-2\ome}T_{\mu\nu}
\,,\end{equation}
which is {\it not} in Einsteinian form.
Any other choice of the conformal factor would not cancel the
second derivatives of $f_1$ which are present in (\ref{einst}).
Then, the right-hand-side of (\ref{einsttc}) could not be
written as a scalar field energy-momentum tensor.
Notice that $R$ at the right-hand-side is  not
trasformed. If one also
trasforms $R$ in (\ref{einsttc}), additional terms like $(\Box\ome)\phi_{;\mu}}  \def\udemu{^{;\mu}
\phi_{;\nu}}  \def\udenu{^{;\nu}$ arise.

\section{\normalsize\bf Second-order approximation}
In slow-rolling motion one neglects all terms with more than one time
derivative in the field equations. In this section we are more general, and
we examine the field equations by neglecting all terms of order
higher than the second one. This gives us three advantages: the
equations are notably simplified, we can calculate analytically some
inflationary solutions, and we can plot the phase-space portrait
of the model. Neglecting all terms higher than second order in (\ref{phi})
we have
\begin{equation}\label{phis}
\Box\phi(1+\mu R^{(0)})+\mu
\dot\phi \dot R^{(1)}-\xi f' R^{(2)}/2+V'=0\,.
\end{equation}
The indexes in parentheses denote the order to which $R$ and $\dot R$
are to be calculated. From Eqs. (\ref{ricci},\ref{riccider})
 and for $\xi f\gg 1$ we have
\begin{eqnarray}\label{ricci2}
R^{(0)} &=& {4V\over \xi f}\,,\\
R^{(2)} &=& {1\over \xi f}\left[-\dot\phi^2+4V
+3\xi\Box f)\right]\,,\\
\dot R^{(1)} &=& {4\dot\phi\over \xi f^2}\left[V'f-Vf'\right]\,.
\end{eqnarray}
We now explicitely adopt the functional relation $V=\lam f^M$. This
will simplify our equations. Eq. (\ref{phis}) then writes
\begin{eqnarray}\label{inse}
&&\Box\phi\left[f+{4\mu\lam\over\xi}f^M-{3\over 2}\xi f'^2\right]
+f'\dot\phi^2\left[{4\mu\lam\over\xi}f^{M-1}(M-1)+\frac{1}{2} (1-3\xi f'')\right]
\nonumber\\
&&+\lam f' f^M (M-2)=0\,.
\end{eqnarray}
Let us call $A$ the coefficient of $\Box\phi$ and $B$ the coefficient of
$f'\dot\phi^2$. In order to avoid singularities in Eq. (\ref{inse})
one should have a nonvanishing coefficient $A$ for $\xi f\gg 1$
(in the opposite limit the equations reduce to the minimally coupled
model and the regularity follows automatically).
A sufficient
condition, although not a necessary one, is that $\xi,\mu\le 0$,
along with the already imposed condition $f\ge0$.
This assumption greatly simplifies the investigation
of the dynamical properties of the model under study and will
be adopted in the following. It also makes clearer the comparison with
previous work in ordinary NMC theories, where the condition
$\xi<0$ is often adopted to get a regular metric rescaling.
Notice that $\xi,\mu\le0$ ensures the positivity of the effective
Newton constant in the Lagrangian density (\ref{lagr1}).

The d'Alambertian operator reads $\Box\phi=\ddot\phi+3H\dot\phi$
in FRW metric, where the Hubble function $H$ is to
be taken from Eq. (\ref{00}) (to the first order):
\begin{equation}\label{00con}
\xi H^2 f+\xi H\dot f+{4\mu V\over3\xi f}\dot\phi^2+
{1\over 3}\left(\frac{1}{2}\dot\phi^2+V\right)=0\,.
\end{equation}

The asymptotic behavior of Eq. (\ref{inse}) can be now easily discussed in
the limit in which some of the terms in $A$ and $B$ can be neglected.
A first consideration is however immediate: for $M<2$ the second
derivative of the effective potential in Eq. (\ref{inse}) is
negative, in the hypothesis that $f$ grows monotonically with
$|\phi|$. As a consequence, any attractor solution of Eq. (\ref{inse})
leads to ever growing $f$; the Friedmann behavior cannot
be reached. Let us make an example.
If we assume $f(\phi)\to \phi^{2m}$ for large $|\phi|$, it turns out
that if $M<2-1/m$ one has that $f'^2$ dominates in $A$ and $f''$ in $B$. Then
Eq. (\ref{inse}) simplifies to
\begin{equation}\label{fcase}
\Box f-[2\lam (M-2)/3\xi] f^M=0
\end{equation}
(where $\Box f=f'\Box \phi+f''\dot\phi^2$). In this case the influence of
the $\mu$-terms disappears; the model reduces to the ordinary NMC theory,
already discussed in Ref. (\ref{ABO}). There it was found that for $M<2$ no
successful inflation was allowed. Indeed, in Eq. (\ref{fcase}) the
effective potential derivative is negative definite (since $\xi<0$ and $M<2$).
As already discussed, the attractor solutions of  Eq. (\ref{fcase}) are
directed
toward increasing $f$; the Friedmann behavior will never be recovered.
The same conclusion holds
for any $f(\phi)$, provided that $f'^2\gg f^M,f$.

In the special case $M=2$ one sees
that $\ddot\phi=\dot\phi=0$ is a solution of
(\ref{inse}). One has then an asymptotic deSitter inflation, analogously
to what occurs in NMC models. We will not give details of
this case, since the dynamics depends on
the behavior of $V$ and $f$ at small $\phi$, while here we are
interested mainly in the asymptotic properties.

Let us come to the third, more interesting, case, namely $M> 2$.
Now $f^M$ dominates in $A$ and $f^{M-1}$ in $B$. Eq. (\ref{inse}) then reads
\begin{equation}\label{scase}
\Box\phi+{f'\over f}\dot\phi^2 (M-1)+{\xi\over 4\mu}f'(M-2)=0\,.
\end{equation}
It worths remarking that the effective potential is
$U(\phi)=\xi (M-2) (4\mu)^{-1} f(\phi)$; the
coupling function $f(\phi)$ reveals itself as an effective potential
for the theory. Notice also that, contrary to the
previous case, the constant $\mu$ plays here an important role.
Let us put now
$f(\phi)=x^m$, where $x\equiv\phi^2$. It then follows
\begin{equation}\label{ics}
\Box x-{\dot x^2\over 2x}[1-2N-2m]+ {\xi N\over \mu}x^m=0\,,
\end{equation}
where $N=m(M-2)$,
for $x\ge 0$. To have a positive-definite potential derivative is
sufficient to have $M>2$ (provided that $\xi/\mu>0$) .

To find explicit solutions to Eq. (\ref{ics}) we need also
$H=H(\phi,\dot\phi)$. From Eq. (\ref{00con}), neglecting all terms higher
than first order and in the limit $\xi f\gg 1$, we get for
$M>2-1/m$ (i.e. $N>-1$)
\begin{equation}\label{h2}
[H^{(1)}]^2= {\lam\over 3|\xi|} x^{N-1}
\left[ {3\mu\over\xi} \dot x^2+x^{m+1}\right]\,.
\end{equation}
Let us put a trial solution $\dot x=b x^p$ in (\ref{ics}) and
(\ref{h2}). In the limit of large $x$ we find the  attractor
\begin{eqnarray}\label{attr}
p &=& (m-N)/2\,,\nonumber\\
b &=& -{N\over \sqrt{3}}\left({\xi^3\over\lam \mu}\right)^{1/2}\,.
\end{eqnarray}
It can be easily proved that this really is an attractor; a
graphic evidence is provided by our phase-space portraits,
Figs (\ref{f1},\ref{f2}).
Along the
solution (\ref{attr}) the term $\ddot x$ is negligible; this justifies
the second order approximation previously performed. Integrating
$\dot x=bx^p$ one gets
\begin{equation}\label{icst}
x=x_0(1+t/\tau)^{1/(1-p)}\,,
\end{equation}
where $\tau^{-1}=b(1-p)x_0^{p-1}$ and  $x(t=0)=x_0$. For
$p<1$ the time constant $\tau$ is negative; clearly our approximations
break down for $t\to \tau$. The inflationary regime we will find also
breaks for $t\to\tau$.
Along the attractor we have the Hubble function
\begin{equation}\label{hattr}
H=\left(\lam/3|\xi|\right)^{1/2} x^{(N+m)/2}\,,
\end{equation}
and the cosmic scale factor
\begin{equation}\label{adit}
a(t)=a_0\exp\left\{E \left[1- (1+t/\tau)^k\right]\right\}\,,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}\label{ef}
E={3(|\mu/\xi|) x_0^{N+1}\over N(N+1)}\,,\qquad
k={2(N+1)\over 2+N-m}\,.
\end{equation}
The scale factor expansion
is {\it always} inflationary for $t< \tau$.
For $t\ll \tau$ the expansion follows the deSitter law
$a\sim \exp [(E|k/\tau|)t]$, ($k/\tau$ is always negative).
The constant $E$ sets the total number of $e$-foldings of the
inflationary stage. If, for instance,
$\xi$ and $\mu$ are approximatively equal,
values of $\phi_0=x_0^{1/2}$ around unity in Planck units are
required to have $E>60$, the same requirement commonly found
in chaotic inflation.
This kind of behavior  is often called quasi-deSitter inflation.
The narrow
range in which viable inflation is found in NMC theories\bib{ABO},
 $2\le M<2 +\sqrt{3}$, is here expanded to $M\ge 2$, {\it
without upper bound}. The effect of including a derivative coupling is then
to substantially enlarge the class of viable inflationary models. This is
the main result of this paper.

It can be checked
that $H(t)$ and $x(t)$ decrease as the time increases.
As $|\phi|$ decreases, the solution crosses to
the NMC region, where the derivative coupling is negligible compared
to the non-derivative one.
In particular, the attractor enters the NMC region for
\begin{equation}\label{crit}
x < x_1= \left[{3\xi^2 m^2\over 2 |\mu|\lam}\right]^{1/(N+1)}\,.
\end{equation}
As $|\phi|$ further decreases, $\xi f(\phi)$ becomes smaller than unity
for  $x<x_2=\xi^{-1/m}$  and the attractor enters the minimally
coupled central region. For instance, in a model in which
$|\mu|\lam=3/2$ and $M=3, m=1$, one has $x_1=\xi$ and $x_2=1/\xi$.
If $x_2>x_1$ the NMC phase disappears.

In Figs. (\ref{f1},\ref{f2}) we show the numerical phase space of the
model for some parameter values. The plots are obtained integrating
Eq. (\ref{inse}) for several initial conditions, and then performing
a Poincar\'e projection onto the unitary circle. For any trajectory
we can identify four
stages, or cosmological epochs. All trajectories start
ideally from the initial singularity at $\phi,\dot\phi\to \infty$, and
they fall after a short transient on the inflationary attractors. In this
first stage the higher-order terms that we are
neglecting in this section can be important. The second stage
is represented by the outer part of the attractors, where  the $\mu$-terms
are dominant; now the trajectories follow Eq. (\ref{attr}), and the cosmic
expansion is given by (\ref{adit}). The third stage begins
when $x< x_1$, where the attractors
enter the NMC region. Now the behavior will be as described in
the introduction, with the  power-law expansion (\ref{NMC}) (inflationary
if $2\le M<2+\sqrt{3}$). Finally, the coupling terms become negligible
(for $x<x_2$) and the theory reduces to ordinary gravity.
The details of this last stage depend on the specific form of $V(\phi)$ for
small $\phi$, but eventually (perhaps after
a last quasi-deSitter inflationary episode) the mass term will dominate, and
a series of damped oscillations around the potential ground state
will occur. A Friedmannian expansion then takes place.
 The basin of attraction of the attractors
extends to almost all of the phase space, and all
initial conditions lead to the central Friedmann region. Since the
higher-order terms do not introduce new critical points in the model, the
qualitative picture given here should be of general validity.
Notice that Fig. (\ref{f2}) displays a model with $M=4$,
outside the successful range in
NMC models, but inflationary in the NMDC model.

\section{\normalsize\bf Conclusions}
We have shown that nonminimal derivative couplings are an
interesting source of new cosmological dynamics. Generally
speaking, their presence allows inflationary attractors where
otherwise they would be absent. The quite narrow range
of parameters that allows a viable inflation in NMC theories is
here expanded to a semi-infinite range. Let us remark that the succession
of different inflationary epochs may be used to break the
scale-invariance of inflationary perturbation spectra\bib{ST2}. In the
model effectively considered, three inflationary phases (quasi-deSitter,
power-law, quasi-deSitter) may occur, depending on the
parameter. This realizes a scenario of double (or triple)
inflation\bib{ST2} without the need to introduce more fields.

Before concluding, let us comment on another possible
consequence of a NMDC cosmology.
The inflationary attractors found in the previous section can be
used to implement a model of primordial phase transition
along the scheme of extended inflation. Suppose a second scalar field
$\psi$ with double-well self-interaction potential $V_2(\psi)$ is
present in the theory. During the inflationary stage driven by $\phi$
the new field may perform a first-order phase transition from
the more energetic false-vacuum state to the less energetic true
vacuum. The transition proceeds through quantum
and thermal nucleation of true-vacuum bubbles, whose surface energy
density contains the ``latent heat'' of the process. The bubbles
grow converting the background false-vacuum energy density into surface
``kinetic energy''
and eventually coalesce and percolate, unless the false-vacuum inflationary
expansion is too rapid. If $\Gam$ is the nucleation rate, the
(not normalized) probability
that a point is still in the false-vacuum state at the time $t$ is\bib{WEIN}
\begin{equation}\label{prob}
p_{FV}(t)=a^3(t) e^{-I(t)}\,,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}\label{I}
I(t)={4\pi/3}\int_0^t dt' \Gam a^3(t') \left[\int_{t'}^t {du\over
a(u)}\right]^3
\,,\end{equation}
where $t=0$ is the instant in which the nucleation begins.
(Let us remark that $p_{FV}$ should be calculated in an Einstein frame;
for what concerns the following discussion this precisation is of
secundary importance.)
If $p_{FV}\to 0$ the transition is completed. It is well known
that in old inflation, where the expansion is exponential,
the transition can never be completed; extended inflation cures this
``graceful exit'' problem by slowing down the inflation to a power-law.
In our model the scale factor expands according to Eq. (\ref{adit})
during the NMDC phase (the second stage) and according to Eq. (\ref{NMC})
during the NMC phase (the third stage). It is the
latter phase to be crucial.
During the quasi-deSitter NMDC expansion the false vacuum grows so fast
that the bubbles nucleated are rapidly diluted before they can coalesce,
unless $\Gam$ is unrealistically large. This is the same problem one has
in old inflation. However, during the subsequent NMC epoch the false vacuum
slows down to a power-law expansion (it does not matter here whether
inflationary
or not) and the phase transition can find a natural exit, just as one
has in extended inflation. One should also ensure that the possible last
inflationary phase in the minimally coupled regime, which depends on the
details for $|\phi|\to 0$ of $V(\phi)$, be negligible. In this scenario,
the transition occurs almost entirely during the NMC epoch, when the
scale factor expands slowly  enough. Also the bubble nucleation will take place
mostly in the NMC epoch. Depending on the relative duration of the
NMDC inflationary phase and the NMC phase one
can have different bubble spectra. If the quasi-deSitter
NMDC phase lasts for a large
fraction of the 60 or so $e$-foldings one needs for
the inflation to be successful,
the bubbles produced during the subsequent power-law NMC phase are very small,
they rapidly thermalizes (perhaps with a production of gravitational waves
\bib{KTW})
 and do not affect neither the large scale structure, nor the cosmic
microwave background\bib{TUR}. If, on the contrary, the NMC phase takes, say,
55 $e$-foldings, then the bubbles would be today very large and hardly
thermalized. The cosmic microwave background measurements
and the primordial nucleosynthesis would put very
stringent limits on the model, but the intriguing possibility that the
primordial bubbles do
participate in the large-scale structure formation arises\bib{LA}.

\vspace{.2in}
\centerline  {ACKNOWLEDGMENTS}

The author thanks A. A. Starobinsky, H.-J. Schmidt
and G. Pollifrone for thoughtful comments on the manuscript.

\newpage
\centerline  {\bf Figure Caption}
\begin{enumerate}
\item\label{f1}
Poincar\'e phase space for a model with $m=1, M=3, \xi=\mu=-1, \lam=3/2$.
The inflationary attractors are clearly seen. The trajectories start
at $t=0$ from the ``north'' and ``south'' poles and rapidly reach the
attractors. Eventually, all trajectories fall onto the global stability
point at $\dot\phi=\phi=0$,
after a number of damped oscillations. The discrete symmetry $\phi,\dot\phi\to
-\phi,-\dot\phi$, also evident in the Lagrangian, shows up.
\item\label{f2}
Poincar\'e phase space for a model similar to the precedent,
but with $M=4$. In a NMC theory this model
would not be inflationary.
\end {enumerate}

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Do you have an interest in the great outdoors? Do you enjoy wildlife and want to learn more? In this course, students will begin by exploring the forestry industry and conservation practices of the 21st Century and finish by exploring wildlife of Wisconsin.
Labs include: Forestry skills, Tree and shrub identification, habitat analysis and improvement, wildlife identification, chainsaw maintenance and use, energy production and alternative energy, land measurement, soil fertility and taxidermy.


What I have come to realize in my thirty-five years on this earth is that this proverbial "normal" that we all think everyone else is, does not exist. If you are messed up, congratulations, you are normal. Everyone one has problems, everyone has things they have to work through. Everyone.
If we are in Christ, we really are a new creation. We will still have troubles, we will still sin, but our heart will be different. Christians, is this true for you?
Before I was a new creation, I thought I was. I believed that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins so according to my pastor at the time, that made me a new creation in Christ. There was just one not-so-small problem. I was exactly the same as I was before. For those of you who are new to the blog, my "before" was filled with vulgarity, dishonesty, addiction, and a pathetic longing for approval that I was willing to get at any cost. I was this way before I was a Christian…and after.
Why? Because though I believed in God and believed that Christ died for my sins, I did not know the depth of my sin and just how much Christ had saved me from. I never really read the Bible but I listened to sermons telling me how to live my best life, I read Bible verses encouraging my endeavors and made sure to have a quiet time with a feel-good devotional and a prayer asking God to bless me. Other than that, I was perfectly fine with dressing and talking provocatively, "accidentally" drinking until drunk, and gossiping was my absolute favorite pastime. Seriously! The new creation in Christ must just be that once we believe we don't go to hell because of how terrible we are.
NO! That's not it! AND YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS!!!
I had postpartum depression and anxiety after both of my pregnancies but the worst was after my second. I was overwhelmed with the constant thoughts that something awful happening to my son. No matter what I did, the thoughts came back. Night and day I worried. I felt like I was walking around in a constant nightmare. I was always scared, I was always sad. I cannot stress to you the constant terror that I felt. But this was good.
It was only when I was hit with the worry of something happening to my son that I finally opened to the Bible to see what God had to say about my plight. I decided to start in Genesis and read until I felt better.
I did not feel better. Not at all. I felt much, much worse.
As I read through the Old Testament, my eyes were opened to just how much God hates sin. The things that I brushed off daily because "everyone does it" were absolutely disgusting in the eyes of God. As a professing Christian, my heart loved the world. And as a professing Christian, my heart was repulsive in the eyes of God. If the terrible feelings I was having were God telling me that I was about to be punished severely, I certainly deserved it.
My eyes were now open to the fact that the punishment for sin really is death. Christians, have you ever stopped to think about that? What we actually deserve. I grew up in the 90's and early 2000's. "I deserve it!" was practically our anthem! But no, what we deserve is something really awful. Awful, just like our hears.
Needless to say, I had never been more thankful for the words of the New Testament. For Jesus! When I finally got to the New Testament, I loved every single thing I read about the Lord. He is God. The one who hates my sin. He came to earth, He lived a life without sin, and then took the punishment that I am now fully aware that I deserve.
I will never forget reading about the woman who washed Jesus's feet with perfume. My attention was caught when I read that she lived a sinful life.
That was me! I had lived a sinful life. A very sinful life. More sinful than I even knew! And I knew a good bit.
Your sins are forgiven! Go in PEACE!
I cried. After a life of spitting in His face, He did not repay me with what I deserve. He blessed me. Who loves like this? No one, but our Lord.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
I tell you all of this because I know there are many out there like I was, saying you are a Christian but living like the world. You have to know that when we are a new creation in Christ, we really are different. You don't even have to try, you just change. Of course, I still sin but I am changed. The desires of my heart are nothing at all like they were and I'm telling you that is a miracle. I am so thankful for what Christ has done and I want to live my life in a way pleasing to him because of how thankful I am. He truly saved my life!
Be honest with yourself today. Are you sure you are a new creation now that you are in Christ? If you are, the desires of your heart will agree.
Has this happened to you? Please please share!!!


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Formally known as the IWAS World Junior Games, the youth Games help the development of young athletes with a physical impairment worldwide, promoting their growth in the different pathways in the Paralympic movement.
The unique Games environment, hosted in nations across the globe on an alternate yearly basis, gives young athletes a wider knowledge of team work and sporting experience as well as a taste of the challenges and discipline required for the Paralympic Games.
All IWAS World Games are individually tailored to each Local Organising Committee objectives and resources and can include all or a selection of the traditional Games sports: Archery, Athletics, Powerlifting, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Wheelchair fencing, Wheelchair rugby, Table Tennis and Volleyball.
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WarnerMedia is the new name for what was previously Time Warner, adopted following completion of its acquisition in 2018 by AT&T. Time Warner surrendered its role as the world's biggest media group during 2009, spinning off two of what it had come to consider as non-core properties in order to refocus as a content business. The first to go was Time Warner Cable, demerged as an independent business that year although it continued to carry the company name until 2016. Far more significant in many ways was the year-end spin-off of AOL. That company joined the group in 2000 in a deal which came to symbolize the madness of the first dotcom era. Back then, friends and enemies alike promised that the combination of an internet company and a traditional entertainment creator would have a far-reaching effect on the way consumers accessed news, music and filmed entertainment. They were eventually proved correct of course, but not for another 15 or more years. That was too late for AOL and Time Warner. The combined giant failed spectacularly to live up to all the rhetoric, and in early 2003 AOL Time Warner recorded the biggest loss in US corporate history, almost $100bn, when it wrote off the value of its over-inflated assets, primarily America Online itself. AOL's contribution to the group continued to steadily decline, and Time Warner finally spun off the business in 2009 as a separate company. Magazine publisher Time Inc left the group in 2014. Instead, the slimmed-down former giant focused its attention solely on the the Turner and HBO cable networks and movie studio Warner Bros. By 2016, the time was finally right for a merger of content and internet-based delivery: Time Warner accepted an offer to be acquired for $85bn by AT&T. However the deal was opposed by the new Trump administration, for reasons that are not entirely clear, and became the subject of a bitter court battle. The judge found in the companies' favour and the deal went ahead as planned in June 2018.
Adbrands Daily Update 16th Apr 2019: AT&T sold its near-10% stake in Hulu for $1.4bn, almost three times the $583m Time Warner originally paid for the shares three years ago. The acquiror was Hulu itself, which is expected to reallocate the shares to its two remaining shareholders Walt Disney, with around 60%, and Comcast with 30%. The sale values Hulu at $15bn, a good price, but still only a 10th of Netflix's $150bn valuation. AT&T sold the shares to avoid any conflict of interest when it launches its own OTT streaming service later this year.
Adbrands Daily Update 4th Mar 2019: AT&T was quick to announce a full overhaul of WarnerMedia's operating structure. As expected, HBO and most of the Turner cable division was merged under the banner of Warner Entertainment. This unit will also house the group's planned move into direct-to-consmer streaming. Robert Greenblatt, the recently departed chairman of NBC Entertainment, was named as divisional chairman. Turner's sports assets are being combined with CNN as Warner News & Sport under Jeff Zucker. Turner's animation strands Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, as well as the TCM cable channel, transfer to Warner Bros under Kevin Tsujihara. Turner's current international chief Gerhard Zeiler becomes chief revenue officer in charge of distribution and advertising.
Adbrands Daily Update 26th Feb 2019: A US court of appeal upheld last year's ruling in favour of the merger of AT&T and Time Warner. The three-judge panel said that the Justice Department's claims that the deal would encourage price rises for consumers were "unpersuasive" especially in light of AT&T's pledge not to block rival distributors from accessing content created by what is now WarnerMedia for at least seven years. AT&T will now proceed with closer integration of WarnerMedia into its existing structure - it had kept the two entities apart pending the latest appeal. The first move is expected to be a merger of WarnerMedia's HBO and Turner units, whose respective CEOs Richard Plepler and David Levy both announced their departure following the appeal decision.
Adbrands Weekly Update 15th Nov 2018: CNN filed a lawsuit against President Trump and several members of his administration after they suspended the press credentials of reporter Jim Acosta over an alleged "assault" on a White House intern who attempted to take back his microphone during a heated press conference. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attempted to justify the decision by tweeting a version of the footage which had been doctored to make Acosta's interaction with the intern appear more aggressive than it was. CNN is accusing the White House of violating Acosta's rights under the First and Fifth Amendments, and demands the return of his credentials. In a notable development, Fox News was one of the many other news organisations that weighed in on CNN's behalf. Fox News president Jay Wallace said the company "supports CNN in its legal efforts to regain" Acosta's credentials. "While we don't condone the growing antagonistic tone of both the president and the press at recent media avails, we do support a free press, access and open exchanges". However, celebrated journalist Bob Woodward warned that the lawsuit may actually be playing into Trump's hands. "I think Trump would sit around and look at this and say, 'This is great'. Nixon effectively made the conduct of the media the issue, rather than his conduct. Trump has adopted that strategy, he's refined it. It's very effective, and so when we engage in it, we're taking his bait, in my view." [UPDATED] First round went to CNN: a US judge originally appointed by Trump restored Acosta's pass on a temporary basis while the case continued. The White House eventually backed down and restored full credentials to Acosta. As a result, the lawsuit was dropped.
Adbrands Weekly Update 18th Oct 2018: The week's biggest account assignment was won by Omnicom's Hearts & Science media agency, which will take over consolidated US media for AT&T's WarnerMedia (formerly Time Warner). The Turner and HBO cable businesses and Warner Bros Entertainment will all transfer. The main losers are independent Horizon Media and Dentsu Aegis-owned Merkle.
Free for all users | see full profile for current activities: [See Warner Bros profile for the history of Time and Warner separately] The creation of AOL Time Warner was first made public in January 2000, when AOL announced it would acquire media giant Time Warner for what was then $190bn in stock. The deal created a business with a market value, also in 2000 prices, of over $350bn. (By early 2003, the group's value had plummeted to around one-sixth of that sum). Much coverage was given to the apparent implications of such a mammoth deal, combining the world's biggest online service with its biggest media company and America's leading cable operator. The deal, said commentators, would have a far-reaching effect on the way in which consumers accessed news, music and filmed entertainment. Equally undoubted was the fact that it would probably take longer than both sides would like to get these new delivery systems into play. However the scale of those problems only became apparent very much later.
In the meantime, the announcement of the deal raised a storm of protest from other internet service providers and media groups, who claimed the merger would create a virtual monopoly. Despite the best efforts of several companies, not least Disney, to derail the merger, the business was cleared to proceed in December 2000. AOL's founder Steve Case became chairman of the merged AOL Time Warner. Time Warner boss Gerry Levin became CEO, with Richard Parsons and Robert Pittman respectively taking the roles of COO for the Time Warner and AOL businesses. AOL Time Warner officially began trading in January 2001.
Almost immediately, problems began to emerge. The group had set itself an ambitious target of increasing combined revenues in its first year from $36bn to $40bn. However this was hampered by an economic downturn in the internet and media sectors. In the end the group's revenues fell short at $38bn. Meanwhile, it appears that the relationship between Case and Levin began to fray as the duo argued over the level of spending on convergence between online and offline media. At the same time, AOL's reputation was severely dented by a series of horrendous financial developments. First, in accordance with a deal struck at the height of the internet boom, the group was obliged to pay more than three times market value to buy back the shares in AOL Europe controlled by former partner Bertelsmann. AOL Time Warner's shareholders were even more dismayed by the $600m loss reported by AOL Europe for the year. Meanwhile internet advertising revenues were plummeting and subscriber growth was slowing at an alarming speed. Writing off value related to the online business caused AOL Time Warner to report a staggering $54bn loss for just the first quarter of 2002, then the biggest ever corporate deficit.
With problems at AOL growing, the group's share price plummeted. By July 2002, the stock was down almost 80% from where it stood when the merger was announced. Amid increasing resentment from former Time Warner managers at the apparent damage done to their businesses, Gerry Levin stepped down as CEO in favour of Richard Parsons, who announced a complete management reshuffle later that year. This led to Time Warner executives taking all the group's senior positions except that of chairman Steve Case. Despite negative comment from analysts, Parsons continued to argue that the merger could be made to work, and denied the benefits of a demerger. Later that year, however, the group was forced to declare that it had discovered accounting regularities at AOL. After further investigation it was revealed that AOL had overstated both its revenues and profits by $200m and $100m respectively in the period since late 2000. More problems emerged when the group was sued by one of America's largest pension funds. The lawsuit alleged that AOL employees had contributed to a $193m accounting fraud by online real estate company Homestore.com by participating in bogus advertising scams designed to inflate the dot.com's revenues. In a bid finally to draw a line under the financial bad news, Richard Parsons, pushed through a further mammoth charge for goodwill write-offs, and announced a through-the-line review of the America Online unit. In the meantime the SEC mounted a full investigation into the group's accounting policies.
A series of huge write-offs of goodwill relating to acquisitions during the course of 2002 were capped by a final charge of $45bn. As a result AOL Time Warner reported a full-year loss of $99bn, an almost inconceivable sum in eroded value. Yet this staggering loss, largely an accounting adjustment, masked what had otherwise been a generally satisfactory year for the group's main media divisions.
With virtually all of the group's senior management positions now occupied by former Time Warner staffers, Steve Case was the last remaining AOL team member in a position of power. He avoided an initial call to oust him at a shareholders' meeting in September 2002, but finally succumbed to pressure in May 2003, although he remained a director of the group until November 2005. Ted Turner, formerly the group's vice chairman and its single largest shareholder, as well as an outspoken critic of the AOL business unit, also resigned in early 2003.
Following Steve Case's departure, AOL Time Warner called a truce in the long-running legal skirmish between AOL and Microsoft. This related to the so-called browser wars of the 1990s, in which the Netscape browser later acquired by AOL was steadily crushed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Just a year earlier, the group had reheated its complaint by seeking damages from Microsoft. In June 2003, the software company conceded a payment of $750m and the two sides agreed to abandon their differences and instead work together to broaden access to digital content online. In September 2003, seeking to deflect some of the negative media attention focused on the group as a result of AOL, the board approved a suggestion to drop the AOL tag from the group name, once again becoming Time Warner.


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September 2017: New History of Jesuits and Italian Universities
Paul Grendler, professor of history emeritus at the University of Toronto, has published a new history of Jesuits and Italian universities, from 1548 until the papal suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773. According to Catholic University of America Press, The Jesuits and Italian Universities 1548-1773 charts the successes and failures of Jesuit attempts, "from Turin in the north to Messina in Sicily, to found new universities or to become professors in existing universities." Grendler finds resistance from lay professors and local civil governments, "denunciations," he argues, that "reveal profound differences about what universities should be." On one hand, Italian universities stressed the study of law, while on the other Jesuits "emphasized the humanities and theology."
Grendler has previously published a historiographical essay on Jesuit schools in Europe and a historical essay on the culture of a Jesuit teacher before the suppression. Both essays appeared in the Journal of Jesuit Studies and are available in Open Access.


Following the last post (if you just landed on this article, we suggest you read the previous one first), the rest of the checklist of issues related to choosing the best possible OSP is as below.
In the previous post we covered the questions to ask the OSP regarding background on the country the OSP works from, finding out more about the OSP, and finding out more about the OSP Staff.
In part 2 we look at issues with respect to the work itself, physical security, logical security, and legal issues. We round this out with doing a bit of online sleuthing to have a look at their digital footprint.
In part 1 we covered the people doing the work, and the office in which they work. Next is important to check more about the work, which is the final product.
Part of evaluation of the work, includes the delivery of work.
How does the work progress through the OSP?
Are there fixed fees? This is important as a fixed price job enables the OSP to ensure workers perform at agreed levels, versus the problems of providing unqualified offshore staff.
Are there fixed levels of work? This relates more to the provision of unqualified offshore staff.
What is the capacity of the OSP? Can it provide work on an ongoing basis?
What are the turnaround times on the work sent? Consider busy seasons. Ask when is the better time to send work over, and adjust your own firm's processes to maximize the OSP offering.
What job functions are you going to outsource? e.g. data entry, bookkeeping, tax, financial planning etc.
Are there any activities which are inappropriate to be outsourced? For example: Debt recovery where offshore staff are communicating with Australian individuals who may be in difficult situations.
Consider the methods of communication and document responsibilities for building and maintaining communication platforms e.g. VOIP phone, software tools, database management tools, workflow management tools, screen sharing tools etc.
Does the OSP share their office with any other firm?
Does the OSP perform any other work apart from accounting?
Are USB's disabled or restricted?
Are there security cameras in the office?
IT security is probably more likely to be missed than physical security, as the IT security is a logical construct, and not easily viewed. As recent stories in the Australian news have shown, many Australian businesses do not have sufficient protection for their data.
If cloud technology is deployed, what are the security procedures implemented by the OSP?
Does the OSP's accountants have full control of confidential data at all points in time?
Does the OSP have external IT support or any other external service providers who can access data?
How does the OSP ensure legal security?
Is the OSP legally required to comply with any legislation?
What might be implementation issues?
Are specific job descriptions and well documented workflows in place for all job functions to be outsourced?
Are staff working out of serviced offices or other locations (e.g. home)?
Have you considered incorporating your own entity in an offshore jurisdiction?
Have you considered the software to be used? Including online management tools and workflow management tools.
The legal issues are probably just as important as any other part of the due diligence. More so if you consider that the legal issues are only really need when things go pear shaped.
Are there any client disclosure requirements e.g. engagement letters ?
What is privacy legislation the OSP operates under?
What are the legislation, standards and requirements of government bodies, regulators and professional bodies?
How is client confidentiality treated?
This is your opportunity to conduct a decent digital review. We've seen some amazing misrepresentations come from OSP's e.g. showing photos of the building how it was 30 years ago when the building housed banks, where as now the building has a supermarket on the ground floor and is next to a car wash!
Search online about the OSP, its principal and executive officers. Have any of them appeared in Australian or local news in a positive or negative light.
Look at social media deployed by the OSP. Regular postings showing employee well being is a good sign the OSP cares about their staff, and recognizes the importance of staff well being to their business.
Check the quality of the OSP website – its articles, blogs and testimonials.
Check other services the OSP provides by searching online, make sure they aren't running a tour company on the side!
You should take all of the items into consideration to make sure that your resultant decision brings the best possible benefits to your firm.
The right OSP will assist you with the short-term activities as well as stay in line with your long-term business strategies.


I asked the gentleman walking by, "Are you the manager?" He replied in the affirmative.
The manager was young, but probably old enough to know how to apologize. He doesn't know me. No one there knows me, even though I take my son to the movies almost every Friday night.
"In The Lost Art of Closing, Anthony proves that the final commitment can actually be one of the easiest parts of the sales process—if you've set it up properly with other commitments that have to happen long before the close. The key is to lead customers through a series of necessary steps designed to prevent a purchase stall."


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Terror On the Trail
ANCHORAGE — A teenage girl riding in an all-night mountain bike race was badly injured early Sunday morning when a bear attacked her on a trail in Far North Bicentennial Park.
Police officers with shotguns escorted medics into dark woods to retrieve the girl, who underwent surgery at Providence Alaska Medical Center. The girl is expected to survive, Anchorage Fire Department spokeswoman Cleo Hill said.
Authorities wouldn't identify the girl and wouldn't discuss the nature of her injuries except to say they were extensive.
"One of the EMS supervisors on the scene said that in his 24 years of doing this, these were the most extensively traumatic injuries he'd seen," Hill said.
The bear is believed to be a grizzly, state biologist Rick Sinnott said. It's possible it's the same sow who charged a pair of joggers two weekends ago on a nearby trail, he said.
Peter Basinger, a cyclist competing in the race, encountered the injured girl on a trail called Rover's Run shortly after the attack happened around 1:30 a.m.
The trail parallels the south fork of Campbell Creek, a stream stocked with salmon by the state and fished frequently by grizzlies.
The girl mumbled the word "bear" but was unable to say more, Basinger said.
Basinger waited with the girl for about 25 minutes until medics arrived.
Emergency responders had to hike about half a mile from the South Bivouac trail head off Campbell Airstrip Road to reach the girl, Hill said. They carried her on a stretcher across the same route to reach an ambulance waiting on the road.
TICKING 'TIME BOMB'
Matt Novakovich of Anchorage, who routinely rides and races bicycles in the park, thinks it was merely a matter of time before someone had a bear encounter in that part of the park.
"That area's getting more and more dangerous with the bears," he said. "It's frustrating, because at what point are they going to thin them out? It's like a hidden time bomb in the forest. It kind of scares me."
The girl was among about 60 participants in a 24-hour race sponsored by the Arctic Bicycle Club. The race began at noon Saturday and was to end at noon Sunday, but organizers canceled it after the attack.
"We're all shattered," said race director Greg Matyas, a longtime Anchorage skier and bicyclist.
A prerace safety meeting specifically mentioned bears and moose, he said.
"The first rule was no headphones, and the reason for that was (to be able to listen for) the bear and the moose," Matyas said.
The girl's bike was equipped with bear bells, he said, and she had two lights — one on her helmet, another on her bike.
The 24-hour race is usually held at Kincaid Park but was moved to the Hillside this year because of construction at Kincaid, Matyas said. It was held on an 8.6-mile loop.
The victim had just come off the Gasline Trail north of Hilltop ski area and was entering Rover's Run when the bear attacked.
The bear ripped off the girl's helmet and flung it in the woods, Basinger said. Sinnott said it was pocked with the bear's teeth marks. Hill said it probably saved the girl from further injury.
Bears frequently walk on Rover's Run, Sinnott said. Most likely, Sinnott said, this bear was fishing for salmon in the creek and might not have heard the cyclist coming due to noise from the creek and from strong winds roaring through the forest.
Warning signs are posted in the area, although the city has not officially closed the trails. Sinnott said he'll talk to city parks officials today about closing the trails, although a true closure is impractical.
"Any trail head will get you in there and there's, what, 20-plus trail heads?" he said. "I would certainly recommend not riding a bike or running on those trails."
RECREATION GOES ON
Signs posted at trail heads two weeks ago warned users of bear activity. On June 14, a sow with two cubs charged a pair of joggers on the Double Bubble trail, which is near Rover's Run but doesn't parallel the creek.
On Sunday, Sinnott updated those warnings with news of the mauling.
Even so, dozens of bikers and hikers used the trails, fully aware of the overnight attack.
"It's not going to stop me from going out of the house and enjoying the short summer," said RadaNordstrand, who was out for a bike ride with a friend. "But I'm thinking we should buy some bear spray."
Hendrik Van Hemert and Connor McCoy knew about the attack before they left the Hilltop parking lot for a bike ride up Prospect Heights.
"I thought a lot about the young woman as I was riding," Van Hemert said. "When I was out there it was easy to see exactly the balance between risk and enjoyment anyone who (goes) outdoors must face. There is an artificial sense of safety when you are doing something you not only love but have done countless times before.
"There are hundreds of mountain bikers in Anchorage that could have found themselves in the exact same position."
Sinnott said it's not unheard of for a bear to charge someone moving by on a bicycle. In fact, the motion combined with surprise could trigger what was an "unintentionally provoked" attack, he said.
Sinnott said he didn't arrive in time to see the victim before she was taken to the hospital, but he learned from emergency responders that the bear bit her on the head, torso and thigh. She also had a "sucking chest wound" caused by a puncture to the lung cavity, he said.
It was close to 3 a.m. when Sinnott and two police officers emerged from the spooky near-solstice night to the South Bivouac Trailhead parking lot on Campbell Airstrip Road. Sinnott carried a 12-gauge shotgun.
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WHAT ARE STATE PRISONS?
State prisons in Connecticut are operated by the State Department of Correction.
There are three main types of prisons:
Correctional Institutions:
Correctional institutions confine sentenced males, with the exception of the York Correctional Institution in Niantic, which processes and confines all of Connecticut's sentenced and unsentenced females.
Correctional Centers
Correctional centers in Bridgeport, Hartford, Uncasville and New Haven serve as jails (incarceration facilities for unsentenced males). Correctional facilities may also process and confine convicted inmates with sentences of less than two years.
Youth Institutions
Manson Youth Institution admits and confines sentenced males between the ages of 14 and 21.
SECURITY LEVELS
Four corresponding security levels have been established for correctional facilities and inmates:
Level 5 – Maximum security
Level 4 – High security
Level 3 – Medium security
Level 2 – Low security
Level 1 – Inmates have been conditionally released into the community but remain under the supervision of the Department of Corrections.
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Globalworth Group appoints Dimitris Raptis as Chief Executive Officer
Globalworth has appointed Dimitris Raptis sole CEO after Ioannis Papalekas stepped down as the group's CEO. Dimitris will lead Globalworth's excellent management team of seasoned professionals, many of whom have grown within the organisation and have been largely responsible both for the company's success so far as well as for how well the company has fared during the last several turbulent months.
"I am delighted to take on the sole CEO role and look forward to cementing Globalworth's market-leading position in CEE. I am very confident that we will address the challenges that may lie ahead in 2021 and beyond and achieve new levels of success. I have worked alongside Ioannis since Globalworth's creation in 2012. He has been the visionary leader and driving force behind Globalworth's outstanding success and transformation from a small Romania-focused office developer into the largest office investor and landlord in the wider region. The values of respect, commitment, drive to excel, client-centric focus and giving back to the wider community will continue to be the pillars of Globalworth's culture and strategy. I would also like to add my personal thanks to Ioannis for his friendship, counsel and trust over the years and wish him all the very best for the future," says Dimitris Raptis, Globalworth Group CEO.
"Founding and leading Globalworth has been my life's work and greatest professional achievement. It has been challenging but at the same time very fulfilling, professionally, and personally. I am very proud that after so many years of hard work together we have created a pioneering real estate player in the region, ready for the next stage of its development. I am also grateful to the entire Globalworth community for its tremendous support and commitment, without which such an achievement would not have been possible. I am convinced that Dimitris, with whom we started the Globalworth journey together, is the right person to drive the company' future growth and success", commented Ioannis Papalekas.
Dimitris Raptis (45) is a seasoned business leader with 25 years of experience in the financial services and real estate industries. He has been Globalworth's Co-CEO since March 2020. He joined the Group when it was founded in 2012 as Deputy CEO and Chief Investment Officer. In this role, he was involved in most of the Company's activities, with primary responsibility for Globalworth's investment and capital raising initiatives, and since 2017, Globalworth Poland, the Group's Polish business. During this period, he oversaw acquisitions and developments worth of €2.7 billion (including the acquisition of the portfolio company that became Globalworth Poland in a take-private transaction) as well as the raising of €5 billion of equity capital and debt capital transactions which propelled Globalworth from an asset base of €53 million when it was listed in London's AIM market exchange in 2013 to over €3 billion today, becoming the largest office investor and landlord in the CEE region. His appointment as CEO is part of the Group's evolution through the years and its gradual transition from a successful Romania-based office developer to a highly recognised and reputable multinational institutional office investor and asset manager.
Before joining Globalworth, Dimitris Raptis spent 16 years in Deutsche Bank, most of them as a senior member of the real estate investment management group of Deutsche Bank's Asset and Wealth Management division ("RREEF"). From 2008 to 2012, he was Managing Director and European Head of Portfolio Management for RREEF Opportunistic Investments, the real estate private equity division of Deutsche Bank.
Dimitris Raptis has a First Class (HONS) BSc in Banking and International Finance from Cass Business School, London.