For those new to sharing the road with hundreds of other cyclists of varying skill and ability, you will want to work on your pack riding (or group riding) skills before Obliteride. These skills are often overlooked by people training for a century/charity ride because they don't plan to spend the whole day in a pace line trying to set Strava records. Often people end up doing all of their training solo or with a few friends of similar fitness and pace. This training strategy is great for the majority of your training time. You will learn which friends you can ride close to, who you can draft and who you never want to ride behind nor beside.
During a long charity event like Obliteride, you may encounter more than your fair share of the latter. Unfortunately, many of these folks start as early as possible. Depending on your pace, you may end up behind many of them, wanting to pass. On the other hand, some may pass you at a speed which seems perfect for you to tag along at and cut your work by up to 20% if you are skilled at drafting. (Drafting is riding behind someone else so they block the wind and decrease the effort required for you to ride at any given speed).
For all of these reasons, it is important to get comfortable riding in a group. Even if you have no interest in riding that close to others, they may ride that close to you at times. For everyone's safety, it is useful to learn some basic group riding skills.
Following are some suggestions for gaining confidence—and ensuring safety—while riding in a large group.
1. Spend some of your training time riding in a big group. If you are new to pack riding, start out small. Ride with a friend or two who has pack experience and practice riding behind them.
Looking ahead is the key to drafting Look at the person's shoulders or beyond. You don't need to look at their wheel or bike as you will be able to see this in your peripheral vision. You would never drive staring at the bumper in front of you. If you try it you will see why! Looking up will give you more time to react (not overreact) when something happens up ahead.
Avoid sudden movements. Don't grab your brakes and squeeze unless the person in front of you comes to a sudden stop. This will cause a chain reaction and put everyone behind you at risk. Touch your brakes lightly, as if driving/riding on ice. Minimize turning your handlebar, and instead lean your bike to turn. This is much smoother and safer.
Gradually decrease the space between you and the person in front of you as you become more comfortable riding close.
Even when you think you are at the back of the group or you are riding solo and no one is behind you, there are likely hundreds of people you never even knew existed back there. Don't stop in the middle of the road or lane. If you need to check something or if you drop something, signal to the right, look before you turn then ride to the side of the road before stopping.
2. Take a bike handling skills class. There are many classes available around Seattle through Cycle U, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Cascade Bicycle, etc. This will make you feel more comfortable and efficient in your riding. It will also make all of your training even more productive. People who are tense and nervous riding around big groups waste a lot of energy and are more likely to crash or cause a crash.
3. Join an Obliteride training ride. Once you are comfortable with small groups and have learned a few basic skills, it would be a good idea to go on one of the Obliteride training rides. These group rides will give you an opportunity to experience riding with a small contingent of the people who will be joining you in August.
Dr. Preller practices at Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash. Her achievements on the bike include the Washington state road women's category 1-2 champion in 2006; gold and silver medals at Master's National track racing in 2005 and 2006; Master's World's silver medalist in track racing in 2005; and Master's World's silver medalists in road racing in 2006. Dr. Preller currently co-manages the Fischer Plumbing Women's cycling team.
The legal stuff: The views and opinions expressed here are the author's own and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.


Your mylot screen name,what does it stand for and mean? Well,for mine,i guess you can go figure what it stands for.I know alot of people could think of some $hit on what it would mean.But to tell you the truth, the meaning isn't all what you may think that it means. The meaning is more less this way, "Satanicwitch means to me that i am a witch definately, but,i don't follow no rules,no laws,no nothing. If i want to cast a bad spell on someone,than in my heart i know that i don't believe in karma.Karma will only hurt you if you believe in it.It is sort of like you believe in something,than it will happen. That's the same with the "Satanicwitch" screen name. I don't believe in the devil,nor do i believe in any other religion.I'm my own religion.I create what i want done in my religion. So,that's what my screen name represents. What does yours stand for?
cool nic.thanks for responding zenmachado.
I like how you explained your screen name. The first time I saw it, I honestly mistook it for something related to devil worshipers or something like that. I like the way you see it. You being your own religion and not conforming to what society wants you to. Sure, it might make a lot of people hate you, but that's just because they are jealous. Jealous that you are brave enough to go with it. My screen name is actually pretty simple. While I was filling up the sign up form here, I was eating this pack of chips called piatos. That is where I got it from and the number was added because I like that number. Nothing great about my screen name.
Wow. I just read your comment and I have to say, you are probably the nicest, sweetest and most sincere person I have ever met here. It's true what they say about appearances being deceptive. It's nice to know that I misunderstood your screen name. I actually watched an episode on Criminal Minds about something similar to your situation. It was a small town and there were this group of kids who the other townspeople thought were devil worshipers because of the symbols they use and the way they acted. But turns out that they just want to live their own lives without someone dictating what and when they can do something. They are harmless. People are just afraid of what's different. If someone gives you a hard time on here, even though I know you can handle it since you're doing pretty good from the looks of it, don't hesitate to call on me to help out, okay? Have a great week!
hey ubuntujason, how are ya tonight?Thanks for responding to my post. your screen name sounds interesting IMO. I like that.
yeah,it is isn't it?I like that where you can learn about different ppl all over the world.
My screename represents Steven Bochco the television producer. Some of the first t.v. shows I watched when I was younger were created by him (NYPD Blue, L.A. Law), and that's when I started to embrace tv and movies, and still do to this day.
hi bochco, i've got to say,but who is Steven Bochco?I know that he's a tv producer from your post,but i've never heard of him,seriously.
lol! At first, I thought it was since I knew who he was, it was representative of our ages (knowing who Steven Bochco was...). However, I then did the quick little research to checkout both of your profiles. If you are both reporting your correct ages, it just shows a difference in tastes? I've loved the law-type shows since a young age... but "bochco"... where did you see LA Law? That was so long ago, and you are so young! and... SATANICWITCH... kudos to you for just being straight controversial. Your name alone makes one curious (due to our over-stereotypical society), and thanks for the explanation to my curious nature. Mwaa!
Yeah some of my friends don't know how/why I like/know about older shows because of my age.I actually caught re-runs when they used to air on A&E after school. I was just flipping through the channels one day, came across it, and then started watching everyday after school.
lol my name was just a aspare of the moment thought. but it still makes me giggle when i read it on serious discussions. Why did i pick it, um because im full of good advice.
This one made me seriously laugh! Good one!
My screen name is fairly simple. My name. My frist and middle name initials. Huff is first four letters of my last name. Well actually my maiden name. 12 is my favorite number. My school bus number going to school and my number playing in Soccer my whole life.
Lol That's pretty cool story mlhuff12. Thanks for sharing with me the meaning of your screen name.
When I created this profile 5 months ago, I wanted to use a very generic name. I am in Canada (London, Ontario to be specific), and I'm a "gal". lol. So CanadaGal I will continue to be on here. My previous alias on here was "Queen Karen". That name came about as a bit of a joke. My usual online alias names weren't being accepted when my lover invited me to join, so as a joke I tried Queen Karen.. and tada! It worked! I've used it for all sorts of other sites since. Not because I think I'm "all that", but because of the memories associated with the creation of the name in the first place.
StarAngel is just what I've been going by for so long. I use to be a witch, and I went by Aradia, sometimes Athena. but, i stopped practicing all that. I thought of a new name of something i really liked....Stars and Angels.
i like that.But mind me asking why did you stop doing the Craft?The Craft is a wonderful spiritual practice. we can do however we want.But let me tell you that i'm no Pagan,nor Wiccan.I'm just ME.I walk my own path. I carry my own spiritual path under my hat.
Well, several people have said I move and act like a sloth. Nothing rattles me, and I am very calm, even in a riot situation, and I'm a girl. I also live in Washington State, by Mt Rainier, where it is rainy and cloudy so much I even feel like I have moss growing on me sometimes!!
that's cool.That's a cool nic anyway.
Wanna know something funny? I actually have no clue what my screen name stands for. My husband created the account and it is his screen name he uses on a lot of things. But honestly, I don't even think he knows what it means lol.
lol that's too funny santau.
exactly jormins, karma can be real in your life if you make it. karma exists only if you want it to. and btw,i love your screen name.always have since you requesteed to be my friend here. i like Michael Jordon when he did play for Chicago. There'll never be special days like that again with Michael Jordon on the court.He was the greatest! Thanks for responding friend!
That's a good representation, being what you are is the best way to show to others why chose that name here!;) As for me, I chose raijin since it came from one of my favorite rpg game on Play Station. Since I love the game, I decided to use one of the character's name here. But I also have other names used on other social sites, I go by the name thor_mentor which obviously can be interpreted to other meanings..
thanks raijin for that compliment.I respect your thoughts on my screen name.
I worked graveyard for years and after coming off of it I feel a bit like a zombie. I got to thinking about this and decided that if I were a zombie I wouldn't want to eat people and I'd probably just end up hugging them instead. ChibiZombie is the result.
I chose my name because I wanted something about myself to be reflected in the name. I am a potter but I didn't want to use "potter" in any form because I thought it was unoriginal. I enjoy making pots with clay, thus makingpots was born.
Vulgar: I have a bit of a potty mouth. I guess it comes from growing up with alot of swearing in my house, and occasioanlly, directed at me. Little: I'm five feet tall exactly. Princess: I look like a picture perfect innocent angel. No one would suspect I could ever do anything bad. My friend called me a vulgar little princess one day and it kinda stuck with me.
mine is a mixup of my name....i think it is better to use because of its uniqueness....great name you got there....do you also believe in satan????
well mine is alittle coded. hollywood : i've always loved hollywood. and i'll soon be moving there. barbi : its sort of an ironic thing, im nothing like barbi. im 5", over weights and short hair. but i still call myself barbi. so your a which? hmm i've been trying to learn about paganism and wicca. do you pratice spells or antying like that?
My screen name is who I am....Its actually a nickname given to me several yrs back because I'm his "raven haired lady" and I'm much like the Raven AND his lady LOL The "J" is the first letter of my real name..


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Rihanna emerges national hero as Barbados Island becomes republic
By Ekaete Bassey On Nov 30, 2021
Grammy award-winning Barbadian singer, Rihanna has received a high honour from her home country
The 33-year-old billionaire, according to Forbes, was named a National Hero by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley in a ceremony marking the country's split from the United Kingdom to become a republic.
The event took place in Rihanna's hometown, the country's capital, Bridgetown on Monday night.
In a video of the ceremony, Rihanna was called up before the crowd as she walked up to Mottley to accept her new title, wearing an orange silk dress, strappy heels and a black face mask.
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The Prime Minister said to Rihana: "On behalf of a grateful nation, but an even prouder people, we, therefore, present to you, the designee, for the national hero of Barbados, Ambassador Robyn Rihanna Fenty."
"May you continue to shine like a diamond and continue to bring honour to your nation by your words, by your actions, and to do credit wherever you shall go," Mottley added, referring to Rihanna's 2012 chart-topping single "Diamonds".
The honour has only been given to 11 people, and the "Umbrella" singer is the second woman to receive it.
She was previously named Ambassador to Barbados in 2018.
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Q: jq return all arrays that match one field I am trying to grab all the arrays that match an element but am having trouble returning everything.
Data
cat testerr.json | jq .''

{
  "circuitIdNum": 1226,
  "description": "9287-customer:vpn-2001226-(R1-Loopback0)",
  "interfaceId": "1040",
  "ipv4": {
    "aclEgress": "rot-out",
    "addr": "55.44.53.191/31",
    "bgpNeighbor": "33.567.53.190"
  },
  "loadInterval": 30,
  "remoteRouter": "R1-Loopback0",
  "shortName": "rot",
  "tunnel": {
    "destination": "94.252.78.14",
    "source": "66.52.5.4"
  }
}
{
  "circuitIdNum": 1227,
  "description": "9287-customer:vpn-2001227-(R2-Loopback0)",
  "interfaceId": "1041",
  "ipv4": {
    "aclEgress": "rot-out",
    "addr": "23.77.175.253/31",
    "bgpNeighbor": "21.44.175.252"
  },
  "loadInterval": 30,
  "remoteRouter": "R2-Loopback0",
  "shortName": "rot",
  "tunnel": {
    "destination": "22.22.18.15",
    "source": "1.5.55.5"
  }
}

This kind of works but only provides Destination and Source.
cat testerr.json | jq .'tunnel | select(.source | contains ("1.5.55."))'

{
  "destination": "22.22.18.15",
  "source": "1.5.55.5"
}

Instead of only reply the tunnel section I want it to return the full array.
{
  "circuitIdNum": 1227,
  "description": "9287-customer:vpn-2001227-(R2-Loopback0)",
  "interfaceId": "1041",
  "ipv4": {
    "aclEgress": "rot-out",
    "addr": "23.77.175.253/31",
    "bgpNeighbor": "21.44.175.252"
  },
  "loadInterval": 30,
  "remoteRouter": "R2-Loopback0",
  "shortName": "rot",
  "tunnel": {
    "destination": "22.22.18.15",
    "source": "1.5.55.5"
  }
}

My attempts are all over the place atm. Im not sure how to call the top level and search elements a few levels in. Thanks

A: Simply have your select() refer to the nested field, that will return the whole top-level element.
$ cat testerr.json | jq 'select(.tunnel.source | contains ("1.5.55."))'
{
  "circuitIdNum": 1227,
  "description": "9287-customer:vpn-2001227-(R2-Loopback0)",
  "interfaceId": "1041",
  "ipv4": {
    "aclEgress": "rot-out",
    "addr": "23.77.175.253/31",
    "bgpNeighbor": "21.44.175.252"
  },
  "loadInterval": 30,
  "remoteRouter": "R2-Loopback0",
  "shortName": "rot",
  "tunnel": {
    "destination": "22.22.18.15",
    "source": "1.5.55.5"
  }
}

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We all know what it feels like. That feeling that there's a secret that's lurking in our bodies. That dread that what can't be seen or felt or known is hiding inside of us. It's inescapable. The fear of the unknown.
I went for my three month checkup with my oncologist last week. This was the longest separation I had experienced from her since the year and half I was diagnosed. It was a routine appointment without incident. I had questions about some side effects of the new medication I would be starting. But my last question was about recurrence.
"How will I know if it comes back before I'm symptomatic?" I asked because at my cancer center, they do not do blood tests for cancer markers.
Her answer was, "Well, we won't know until you show symptoms like a cough without a cold or a persistent headache that won't go away. Then we'll do some tests." And that's it. That's all they can do.
I understand and even agree with the reason why they don't do blood tests for cancer markers at my hospital. My oncologist said that it hasn't been the recommendation since 2006 and she and the hospital fully support that recommendation. She said that this test creates too many false positives. False positives result in testing which contain radiation. Why would we want to subject our bodies to more radiation than is necessary? Then, if there's a false positive and we don't see anything, we have to test again to see if anything changes in the next few months. Then, how are we spending the next few months? We are spending it filled with anxiety and fear over what might be happening in our bodies. And that's no way to live.
"But what if something is growing? Don't we want to know about it sooner rather than later," I asked?
"It doesn't matter if we catch it when it is small or when it has caused symptoms. We don't treat any differently. You get the same treatment. And early detection at stage four has not shown to affect or alter the length of survival," she informed me.
So, what that means is, I could have a small dot in my brain and if we catch it early, we could treat it and I could die in a year. Or not. But if we catch later, I'd get the same treatment and I could still die in a year. Or not.
I spoke to my therapist about this recently. I described it as like having a piano hanging over my head ready to plummet at any time. It may never drop or it might snap after the slightest breeze. Anything can happen. We can never predict or know for sure.
But this is it. This is how I live the rest of my life. This is the gift that cancer has presented me. A life of uncertainty. I fear not knowing what is happening in my body. The fear of not knowing what the next day will bring. Because I understand that life can change in an instant. So I live afraid. I live fearing the unknown.
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#pragma once
#include <aws/migration-hub-refactor-spaces/MigrationHubRefactorSpaces_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/DateTime.h>
#include <aws/migration-hub-refactor-spaces/model/RouteType.h>
#include <aws/migration-hub-refactor-spaces/model/RouteState.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSMap.h>
#include <aws/migration-hub-refactor-spaces/model/UriPathRouteInput.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
template<typename RESULT_TYPE>
class AmazonWebServiceResult;

namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
  class JsonValue;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace MigrationHubRefactorSpaces
{
namespace Model
{
  class AWS_MIGRATIONHUBREFACTORSPACES_API CreateRouteResult
  {
  public:
    CreateRouteResult();
    CreateRouteResult(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);
    CreateRouteResult& operator=(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);

    /**
     *
The ID of the application in which the route is created.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetApplicationId() const{ return m_applicationId; }

    /**
     *
The ID of the application in which the route is created.

     */
    inline void SetApplicationId(const Aws::String& value) { m_applicationId = value; }

    /**
     *
The ID of the application in which the route is created.

     */
    inline void SetApplicationId(Aws::String&& value) { m_applicationId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The ID of the application in which the route is created.

     */
    inline void SetApplicationId(const char* value) { m_applicationId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The ID of the application in which the route is created.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithApplicationId(const Aws::String& value) { SetApplicationId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The ID of the application in which the route is created.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithApplicationId(Aws::String&& value) { SetApplicationId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The ID of the application in which the route is created.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithApplicationId(const char* value) { SetApplicationId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the route. The format for this ARN is
     * arn:aws:refactor-spaces:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id
     * . For more information about ARNs, see
     * Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General
     * Reference.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetArn() const{ return m_arn; }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the route. The format for this ARN is
     * arn:aws:refactor-spaces:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id
     * . For more information about ARNs, see
     * Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General
     * Reference.

     */
    inline void SetArn(const Aws::String& value) { m_arn = value; }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the route. The format for this ARN is
     * arn:aws:refactor-spaces:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id
     * . For more information about ARNs, see
     * Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General
     * Reference.

     */
    inline void SetArn(Aws::String&& value) { m_arn = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the route. The format for this ARN is
     * arn:aws:refactor-spaces:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id
     * . For more information about ARNs, see
     * Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General
     * Reference.

     */
    inline void SetArn(const char* value) { m_arn.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the route. The format for this ARN is
     * arn:aws:refactor-spaces:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id
     * . For more information about ARNs, see
     * Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General
     * Reference.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithArn(const Aws::String& value) { SetArn(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the route. The format for this ARN is
     * arn:aws:refactor-spaces:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id
     * . For more information about ARNs, see
     * Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General
     * Reference.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithArn(Aws::String&& value) { SetArn(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the route. The format for this ARN is
     * arn:aws:refactor-spaces:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id
     * . For more information about ARNs, see
     * Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General
     * Reference.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithArn(const char* value) { SetArn(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route creator.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetCreatedByAccountId() const{ return m_createdByAccountId; }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route creator.

     */
    inline void SetCreatedByAccountId(const Aws::String& value) { m_createdByAccountId = value; }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route creator.

     */
    inline void SetCreatedByAccountId(Aws::String&& value) { m_createdByAccountId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route creator.

     */
    inline void SetCreatedByAccountId(const char* value) { m_createdByAccountId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route creator.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithCreatedByAccountId(const Aws::String& value) { SetCreatedByAccountId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route creator.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithCreatedByAccountId(Aws::String&& value) { SetCreatedByAccountId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route creator.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithCreatedByAccountId(const char* value) { SetCreatedByAccountId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route is created.

     */
    inline const Aws::Utils::DateTime& GetCreatedTime() const{ return m_createdTime; }

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route is created.

     */
    inline void SetCreatedTime(const Aws::Utils::DateTime& value) { m_createdTime = value; }

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route is created.

     */
    inline void SetCreatedTime(Aws::Utils::DateTime&& value) { m_createdTime = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route is created.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithCreatedTime(const Aws::Utils::DateTime& value) { SetCreatedTime(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route is created.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithCreatedTime(Aws::Utils::DateTime&& value) { SetCreatedTime(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route was last updated.

     */
    inline const Aws::Utils::DateTime& GetLastUpdatedTime() const{ return m_lastUpdatedTime; }

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route was last updated.

     */
    inline void SetLastUpdatedTime(const Aws::Utils::DateTime& value) { m_lastUpdatedTime = value; }

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route was last updated.

     */
    inline void SetLastUpdatedTime(Aws::Utils::DateTime&& value) { m_lastUpdatedTime = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route was last updated.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithLastUpdatedTime(const Aws::Utils::DateTime& value) { SetLastUpdatedTime(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A timestamp that indicates when the route was last updated.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithLastUpdatedTime(Aws::Utils::DateTime&& value) { SetLastUpdatedTime(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route owner.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetOwnerAccountId() const{ return m_ownerAccountId; }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route owner.

     */
    inline void SetOwnerAccountId(const Aws::String& value) { m_ownerAccountId = value; }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route owner.

     */
    inline void SetOwnerAccountId(Aws::String&& value) { m_ownerAccountId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route owner.

     */
    inline void SetOwnerAccountId(const char* value) { m_ownerAccountId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route owner.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithOwnerAccountId(const Aws::String& value) { SetOwnerAccountId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route owner.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithOwnerAccountId(Aws::String&& value) { SetOwnerAccountId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the route owner.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithOwnerAccountId(const char* value) { SetOwnerAccountId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The unique identifier of the route.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetRouteId() const{ return m_routeId; }

    /**
     *
The unique identifier of the route.

     */
    inline void SetRouteId(const Aws::String& value) { m_routeId = value; }

    /**
     *
The unique identifier of the route.

     */
    inline void SetRouteId(Aws::String&& value) { m_routeId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The unique identifier of the route.

     */
    inline void SetRouteId(const char* value) { m_routeId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The unique identifier of the route.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithRouteId(const Aws::String& value) { SetRouteId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The unique identifier of the route.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithRouteId(Aws::String&& value) { SetRouteId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The unique identifier of the route.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithRouteId(const char* value) { SetRouteId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The route type of the route.

     */
    inline const RouteType& GetRouteType() const{ return m_routeType; }

    /**
     *
The route type of the route.

     */
    inline void SetRouteType(const RouteType& value) { m_routeType = value; }

    /**
     *
The route type of the route.

     */
    inline void SetRouteType(RouteType&& value) { m_routeType = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The route type of the route.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithRouteType(const RouteType& value) { SetRouteType(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The route type of the route.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithRouteType(RouteType&& value) { SetRouteType(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The ID of service in which the route is created. Traffic that matches this
     * route is forwarded to this service.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetServiceId() const{ return m_serviceId; }

    /**
     *
The ID of service in which the route is created. Traffic that matches this
     * route is forwarded to this service.

     */
    inline void SetServiceId(const Aws::String& value) { m_serviceId = value; }

    /**
     *
The ID of service in which the route is created. Traffic that matches this
     * route is forwarded to this service.

     */
    inline void SetServiceId(Aws::String&& value) { m_serviceId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The ID of service in which the route is created. Traffic that matches this
     * route is forwarded to this service.

     */
    inline void SetServiceId(const char* value) { m_serviceId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The ID of service in which the route is created. Traffic that matches this
     * route is forwarded to this service.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithServiceId(const Aws::String& value) { SetServiceId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The ID of service in which the route is created. Traffic that matches this
     * route is forwarded to this service.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithServiceId(Aws::String&& value) { SetServiceId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The ID of service in which the route is created. Traffic that matches this
     * route is forwarded to this service.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithServiceId(const char* value) { SetServiceId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The current state of the route.

     */
    inline const RouteState& GetState() const{ return m_state; }

    /**
     *
The current state of the route.

     */
    inline void SetState(const RouteState& value) { m_state = value; }

    /**
     *
The current state of the route.

     */
    inline void SetState(RouteState&& value) { m_state = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The current state of the route.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithState(const RouteState& value) { SetState(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The current state of the route.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithState(RouteState&& value) { SetState(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline const Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>& GetTags() const{ return m_tags; }

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline void SetTags(const Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>& value) { m_tags = value; }

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline void SetTags(Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>&& value) { m_tags = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithTags(const Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>& value) { SetTags(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithTags(Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>&& value) { SetTags(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& AddTags(const Aws::String& key, const Aws::String& value) { m_tags.emplace(key, value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& AddTags(Aws::String&& key, const Aws::String& value) { m_tags.emplace(std::move(key), value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& AddTags(const Aws::String& key, Aws::String&& value) { m_tags.emplace(key, std::move(value)); return *this; }

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& AddTags(Aws::String&& key, Aws::String&& value) { m_tags.emplace(std::move(key), std::move(value)); return *this; }

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& AddTags(const char* key, Aws::String&& value) { m_tags.emplace(key, std::move(value)); return *this; }

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& AddTags(Aws::String&& key, const char* value) { m_tags.emplace(std::move(key), value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
The tags assigned to the created route. A tag is a label that you assign to
     * an Amazon Web Services resource. Each tag consists of a key-value pair.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& AddTags(const char* key, const char* value) { m_tags.emplace(key, value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
onfiguration for the URI path route type.

     */
    inline const UriPathRouteInput& GetUriPathRoute() const{ return m_uriPathRoute; }

    /**
     *
onfiguration for the URI path route type.

     */
    inline void SetUriPathRoute(const UriPathRouteInput& value) { m_uriPathRoute = value; }

    /**
     *
onfiguration for the URI path route type.

     */
    inline void SetUriPathRoute(UriPathRouteInput&& value) { m_uriPathRoute = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
onfiguration for the URI path route type.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithUriPathRoute(const UriPathRouteInput& value) { SetUriPathRoute(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
onfiguration for the URI path route type.

     */
    inline CreateRouteResult& WithUriPathRoute(UriPathRouteInput&& value) { SetUriPathRoute(std::move(value)); return *this;}

  private:

    Aws::String m_applicationId;

    Aws::String m_arn;

    Aws::String m_createdByAccountId;

    Aws::Utils::DateTime m_createdTime;

    Aws::Utils::DateTime m_lastUpdatedTime;

    Aws::String m_ownerAccountId;

    Aws::String m_routeId;

    RouteType m_routeType;

    Aws::String m_serviceId;

    RouteState m_state;

    Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String> m_tags;

    UriPathRouteInput m_uriPathRoute;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace MigrationHubRefactorSpaces
} // namespace Aws

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I've been making cheese for about a year, and I'm starting to feel confident in my technique and equipment. I decided to write up this post to help others who are starting out. It's a collection of equipment that I built or bought and how I use them to make my own cheeses at home. Using this equipment, I've successfully made cheeses like Colby, Gouda, and Camembert, and I think I could make many more cheeses without any further investment.
When I started cheesemaking, I wanted to avoid feeling "gouged" by buying specialty equipment. I didn't want to spend $300 on a pre-fab cheese press, or $20 on a single shaping form when I could make those at home for cheap or free, respectively. Sure, my cheeses might not be precisely the traditional diameter or height or exact shape of the cheeses made in France, but whatever, I'm eating it, not staring at it. Below is a list of equipment and techniques that work for me. Give it a read, use what you like, and decide for yourself what you don't like.
First I want to throw out a huge shout-out to the folks at Cheesemaking.com. They have a huge collection of educational articles about cheesemaking, right from the start through to advanced cheeses and techniques. If you want to do home cheesemaking, just go to their website and read absolutely everything you can find. You should understand what the bacteria is doing, what rennet does, what cooking the curd does, why you press cheese, how waxing works, what an aging environment should be like, the role of bacteria as the cheese ages, and more. Cheesemaking doesn't have many hard techniques, but it requires precision, attention, and time. Do your research and you'll be rewarded with a successful batch, every time.
Cheesemaking.com also has a huge collection of recipes written by Jim, one of their staff members. Most of the recipes, especially the more recent ones, are incredibly detailed with pictures and temperatures, times and quantities down to the last detail. While I've begun adapting my own techniques for cheeses I've made more than once, Jim's recipes are a fantastic starting point for your first try at a cheese. Pick out a recipe and read the instructions for it ten times before you start the process. If you don't know what you want to make, the first recipes I followed were Colby, Gouda, and Sage Derby.
While I'm recommending Cheesemaking.com, I also buy most of my ingredients from them. I find their website so helpful, I want to support their business by giving them my patronage. I use their liquid animal rennet, though when I run out I'll probably try the liquid vegetable rennet and see how well that works. I've been warned against tablet rennet from someplace online. I also buy my bacteria cultures and molds from them. For example, I've bought their mesophilic culture, geotrichum, and penicillum. All have worked great, no complaints. They seem to source at least some of their cultures from Danisco/Choozit, but I want to support Cheesemaking.com and I feel more confident that I'm ordering the right thing in appropriate quantities, so I just order from them.
I also buy my wax from them. I shopped around trying to find a good source for cheese wax, but again, the best I could find that gave me confidence was Cheesemaking.com's offerings. I opted for the red wax, because I think it looks the most striking, but my understanding is they're all interchangeable. I ordered five pounds, and that seems to be a good quantity for occasional home cheesemaking. It fills my wax pot about halfway (more on this later), which gives plenty for dipping wheels into. I'll probably have to order more in another year or so, so I think ten pounds would have been overkill for my setup.
One thing you'll figure out quickly while researching is the importance of quality milk. I'm really lucky to have a farm just a couple hours south of the Twin Cities that sells high quality milk in my local grocery store. I buy their non-homogenized ("cream line"), pasteurized milk. They sell in half-gallon, glass bottles, pictured below. I usually buy four bottles and do two-gallon batches. I have bought the non-local milk in plastic bottles, and it works, but since finding this brand I haven't tried anything else. You should go out of your way to find the highest quality milk you can. Even though the milk I buy is high quality, I still buff it up with calcium chloride.
On a cheesemaking day, I'll start by sanitizing my equipment. Equipment I use includes a whisk; a long spoon; a large ladle for soft curd cheeses; a long, serrated bread knife for curd cutting; and a few measuring spoons and cups. Nothing you don't already have. A more specialist piece of equipment is a (very) large colander for draining curds. For sanitizing, I use 1-Step No Rinse sanitizer. I just dunk every tool in some lukewarm water with 1-Step in it, then cover them lightly with a towel so they dry while I'm bringing the milk up to temp.
One critically important piece of cheesemaking equipment, that you really should spend the money on, is a quality thermometer. I use a Thermoworks Thermapen. Yes, it's expensive. It's recommended by lots of home cooks, including the incorruptible Alton Brown, and it obviously has lots of other uses around the kitchen than cheesemaking. Just get the Thermapen, you won't regret it.
Some day I might buy a pH meter to take some guesswork out, but I haven't needed it yet.
There are different techniques for bringing the milk up to inoculation temp. I don't have the room to do a water bath, so I just heat it directly on the stove. I use a medium heat, stirring every five or so minutes. The important things are to avoid scalding, and avoid overshooting your target temperature. It took a few batches to find the ideal stove setting on my stovetop to avoid scalding without taking hours to heat up. At the setting I use, it takes 15-30 minutes to bring the milk up to temp.
I bought some cheesecloth off of Amazon back when I started, and I still have more than half of the roll left. You do want to make sure you get a fine grade cloth. Some stuff sold as "cheesecloth" has holes around 1/8″! This will pass much of your curd straight through and down the drain. The cloth I use is grade 60, called "very fine." When I run out and buy again, I'll probably try to find some "butter muslin," which I think is even finer. Shop around and see what you can find. I do hand-wash and re-use my cheesecloths for several batches. Eventually it gets kinda chunky or discolored, and then I toss it and cut a new length.
For waxing, I found a pot at Goodwill to sacrifice to the wax. After using, I just let the wax cool in the pot (pictured) and put it away for storage. I tried to find tall, narrow pot as I wanted the wax to be deep so I could dip the wheel in without hitting the bottom of the pot.
I call these "forms" because the word "mold" is overloaded in a cheesemaking context. You can buy expensive, perfect, thick plastic forms online for $$$. But I'm cheap, so I just use old plastic takeout containers. One thing that is important to me, is that everything that touches the cheese must be food-safe. Plastic containers that sold food are food-safe. Perfect.
What I do is find a plastic container about 4 inches in diameter and 4-6 inches tall. One was a container from Chinese takeout. Another held shredded meat from my local butcher shop. After eating the takeout/shredded meat, I give it a very good wash and grab my scissors and cut off the bottom just above where it curves. This is now my "follower," which is used in the press on the top of the cheese. Because of the curve of the follower, I sometimes trim off the rim that forms after pressing to keep the top edge square.
Next I grab a long nail, about 1/8″ in diameter, and a blow torch (I use my girlfriend's culinary torch, don't tell her), and a pair of pliers. Heat up the nail with the torch and press it through the plastic to make drainage holes. I found it works best to push from the inside out, as this will leave the rough edge on the outside where the cheesecloth won't get caught as much. Make a hole every 3/4″ or so, all around the form.
Making Camembert. The right sheetpan is ready to receive the flip.
You can buy a pre-fab cheese press online for $$$$$$. Or you can build your own out of a cutting board and some stuff from the hardware store for under $50. Again, every surface that touches the cheese should be food-safe. In this case, that just means the cutting board. I followed this guide by spike3579 on Instructables, but it's pretty trivial. Cut a couple holes in your cutting board, use a long, threaded rod and some nuts. Grab some springs, cut some wall studs to length, and put it all together.
Some tricky parts to find were the springs and circular followers, which the hardware store didn't have. I got lucky here. There's a wacky local chain called Ax-Man Surplus that sells all sorts of crazy crap like misspelled pint glasses, random electrical items, mannequins, whatever. They happened to have some stiff-ish springs and some wooden circles for a few cents apiece. Bingo.
I use a half sheetpan to catch the whey drainage. The cheese press has rubber feet in the four corners to keep it out of the drained whey. Occasionally I'll have to drain the whey into the sink.
Speaking of drainage, when I started making Camembert, which drains under its own weight, I needed some draining mats to allow the whey to flow off. I could have bought some mats online for five bucks apiece, but instead I went to a home goods store and bought a roll of flexible shelf liner, which I cut squares out of. Works a treat, and I got many yards for the price of a single drainage mat.
Once you've made your cheese, you'll need someplace to age it. I got an unused wine fridge from my girlfriend's parents. People are selling these for a dime-a-dozen on Craigslist. They work great because they're cheap, small (cheap to cool), and have a thermostat built in. Mine only goes down to 50 degrees, which is a little warm for some cheeses, but it's good enough.
To keep the humidity up, I use a sponge in a plastic container that I keep a little water in. This keeps it around 70-80%RH. For cheeses like Camembert that need 90+%RH, I use a tupperware with a loose lid and stick a wet paper towel in there. I bought a Thermoworks hygrometer/thermometer and leave it in the "aging cave" to monitor actual temp and humidity. I open the door as infrequently as possible to avoid fluctuations.
I hope you find this helpful in getting started and saving some money. If you've got some feedback or even your own ideas, please feel free to leave a comment below.


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Watch a Young Steve Jobs Get Nervous About Being on TV
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This is a clip of a young Steve Jobs appearing on a local TV show, it's probably one of the first times he appeared on TV and it's just awesome. But I can't figure out what I like most about the video. Is it the lovely 70's facial hair? The shock on his face and all around newbness about being on TV? Or maybe his constant glances at himself when he's on the monitor (I love that). But really, it's the honest glimpse we get of a bright young man who was about to do some amazing things. Steve Jobs, he was once just like us!
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SUPERCUT: Every time Kevin James has fallen down
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Considering a search through my archives for "Kevin James" and "falling down" yields no less than 25 separate FilmDrunk posts, I'm a little upset that this new Supercut of every time Kevin James falls down in a movie didn't come from us. But in the end, I'm just happy that someone made it (specifically, the folks at videojamb).
I enjoy slapstick done well, but something about the way Kevin James falls down seems… I don't know, needy? Obviously the rational part of me understands that all pratfalls inherently involve someone desperate for attention and that's sort of the comedic act in a nutshell, but someone like, say, Chris Farley would do them so violently that I was legitimately worried he was going to hurt himself. Thus there was a sort of Jackass-ian thrill to it, where you knew it was a stunt, but the stunt itself was still impressive. It was almost more like performance art than comedy. Whereas Kevin James never makes me forget how hammy he's being. But then, maybe that's the trade off for not being a self-destructive drug addict who dies at 33. Anyway, that's my pedantic comparison of fat comedians falling down for the day.
I'm just glad the editor included Grilled. That would've been an easy oversight.
Yes, this was a real movie. Just barely.
I still hold out hope for our idea of a "Paul Blart Presents" franchise. Paul Blart: Meat Salesman. Paul Blart: Riverboat Surgeon. Paul Blart: Unlikely Bobsledder. Etc. Basically, this supercut could use a lot more farts.
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\section{Introduction}
 Orbital angular momentum (OAM),  a remarkable photonic freedom that inherently has multiple dimensions, can enhance the information capacity in communications. The pioneering work in 1992\cite{Allen1992} of Allen \emph{et al}. demonstrated that light beams with azimuthal phase dependence of exp($iL\phi$) can carry OAM of $L\hbar$. {\color{Revise2}{These vortex beams have interesting characteristics that have stimulated major research interest in several fields, including optical manipulation and trapping\cite{Padgett2011,Paterson2001,Yao2011}, high-capacity communications\cite{Wang2012,Willner2015}, spiral imaging, and high-precision optical measurements\cite{Chen2014,Torner2005,Zhou2014}.}} In quantum information fields, photons can be encoded in the OAM space because of the basis of OAM with its infinite dimensions in Hilbert space, which can then generate high-dimensional entanglement states\cite{Dada2011, Mair2001} and can be used to build OAM quantum memory for high-dimensional communication networks (HDCN)\cite{Vallone2014,Ding2013,Nicolas2014,Ding2015}. To date, most atom-based quantum repeaters operate in the visible spectrum. However, fiber-based quantum communication networks generally work in the telecommunications band, which lies within the low-loss communication windows \cite{Duan2001,simon2003robust,Bussieres2014}. Therefore, a coherent frequency bridge is required to connect the two spectra. In 1990, Kumar \emph{et al.} first proposed the concept of a quantum frequency converter using second-order nonlinearity to change the frequency of the quantum state while maintaining other quantum properties\cite{kumar1990quantum}. Subsequently, many quantum frequency converters have been constructed to connect different systems\cite{Huang1992,Albota2004,Rakher2010,Zaske2012,vollmer2014quantum}.
 Two reversible processes are usually required to realize the interface between visible and telecommunications-band photons: quantum frequency up-conversion (QFUC) and quantum frequency down-conversion (QFDC).  QFUC, which is based on sum frequency generation (SFG), can convert infrared photons into visible photons. Many previous researchers have realized QFUC experimentally on the single photon level in different material systems, including periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) and potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) nonlinear crystals and PPLN waveguides\cite{Albota2004,Rakher2010,Ramelow2012,Rutz2017,zhou2017super}.
 In contrast to up-conversion, the reverse process of QFDC, which is based on difference frequency generation, has been rapidly developed in recent years \cite{Goldberg1995,curtz2010coherent,takesue2010single,Zaske2012,ikuta2011wide}.
There are two possible configurations for frequency conversion of OAM modes: one is the single pass configuration; the other is the cavity-enhanced single resonance scheme. In the first configuration, the two input fields make single passes through the crystal. Shao \emph{et al}. presented a theoretical model and a simulation of OAM frequency conversion using a quasi-phase-matching (QPM) crystal\cite{shao2013nonlinear}. Later, Li \emph{et al}. provided an analytical expression for frequency conversion in the SFG process\cite{Li2015}.  Steinlechner \emph{et al.} proposed an SFG-based conversion scheme to convert structured light from the near infrared (803 nm) to the visible range (527 nm) \cite{steinlechner2016frequency}, although the power conversion efficiency achieved was low (0.09\% for L=1). The second cavity-enhanced configuration can increase the conversion efficiency obviously when compared with the first scheme, where the basic Gaussian pump beam is resonant with the cavity and the input photons make single passes through the crystal. Using the second setup, Zhou \emph{et al}. realized frequency up-conversion of OAM modes from the infrared to the visible band based on SFG\cite{Zhou2016}, in which the maximum conversion efficiency of the OAM photon for topological charge 1 was 8.3\%. However, down-conversion of OAM modes has not been reported to date. Additionally, because superconducting detectors have near-unity quantum efficiency at 1550 nm, the down-conversion process has the potential to become much more useful.

In this work, we present the first demonstration of down-conversion for the OAM mode from a visible laser operating at 525 nm to an infrared laser beam at 1550 nm using a strong pump beam at 794 nm. Based on the nonlinear coupling equation, we propose an analytical expression to describe the conversion efficiency of the OAM down-conversion frequency bridge. The single-pass efficiencies realized for conversion from visible to infrared are 1.6\%, 0.52\%, and 0.4\% for L=0, 1, and 2, respectively, and the corresponding maximum quantum conversion efficiencies are 36\%, 15\%, and 7.8\%, respectively. {\color{Revise2}{In order to test the coherence of the converted OAM photons}}, we analyze the density matrix of the infrared OAM photons using quantum tomography\cite{James2001}. The average output OAM photon fidelity for topological charge 1 is 96.18\%. The high fidelity and high conversion efficiency indicate that the OAM down-conversion frequency bridge is both reliable and useful, which will pave the way for use of this bridge at the interface between two high-dimensional quantum systems with different spectra.

\section{Principle}
Difference frequency generation (DFG), which is based on a second-order nonlinearity, involves mixing of three waves such that they interact in a quasi-phase-matching periodically {\color{Revise2}{poled}} nonlinear crystal. During this process, the energy $(\omega_v-\omega_p=\omega_i)$, momentum $(k_v-k_p-k_i-2\pi/\Lambda=0)$, and OAM $(L_v-L_p-L_i=0)$ must be conserved, regardless of the forms of the interacting fields. Here, $k_v, k_p,$ and $k_i$ represent the properties of the input fundamental visible laser, the strong pump laser and the output infrared laser, respectively. In the DFG-based down-conversion experiment, the basic strong pump laser $P_p$ has a Gaussian beam, and the output infrared laser $P_i$ is dependent on the profile of the input visible beam $P_v$. By ignoring the time components of the strong Gaussian field, the spatial field can be written as\cite{Broyer1985}:
\begin{equation}\label{1}
  E_p(r,z)=\sqrt{\frac{P_p}{\pi\epsilon_0n_pc}
}\frac{1}{w_{0p}(1+i\tau_p)}exp\left(-\frac{r^2}{w_{0p}^2(1+i\tau_p)}\right)
\end{equation}
Here, $w_{0p}$ is the beam waist; $\tau_{p} (=2z/b_p)$ is a variable related to the propagation distance; $b_p (=k_pw_{0p}^2)$ is the confocal parameter of the Gaussian beam; and $n_p$ is the refractive index of the pump laser.  The input visible OAM beam has a similar expression with the exception of the topological charge L\cite{Zhou2016}:
\begin{equation}\label{2}
  E_v(r,z,L)=\sqrt{\frac{P_v}{\pi\epsilon_0n_vcL!}
}\frac{\left(\sqrt2r\right)^2}{w_{0v}(1+i\tau_v)}exp\left(-\frac{r^2}{w_{0v}^2(1+i\tau_v)}+iL\phi\right)
\end{equation}
   Based on the nonlinear coupled equation, the evolution of the output fields can be written as\cite{boyd1968parametric}:
\begin{equation}\label{3}
  \frac{dE_i}{dz}=K_iE_p^{*}E_ve^{-i\Delta kz}
\end{equation}
where $K_i (=2id_{eff}\omega_i/n_ic)$ is the coupling coefficient of the infrared laser. $d_{eff}$ is the effective nonlinear efficiency of the crystal. The two beams are assumed to be focused at the crystal$'$s center at $z=0$. On the output surface of the crystal, we obtain the output power as follows:
\begin{equation}\label{4}
  P_i(L/2)=2\epsilon_0cn_i\int E_iE_i^{*}ds=\frac{16\pi^2d_{eff}^2l2^L}{\epsilon_0cn_vn_i\lambda_i^2\lambda_p}
  h(\alpha,\beta,\xi,\sigma)\cdot P_pP_v
\end{equation}
where $n_v$ and $n_i$ are the refractive indices of the visible ($\lambda_v$) and infrared laser ($\lambda_i$) in crystal, respectively; $l$ is the length of the crystal; and $h(\alpha,\beta,\xi,\sigma)$ is the focusing function that is determined based on the waist ratio of the two beams:
\begin{equation}\label{5}
  h=\frac{1}{\xi}\int_{-\xi}^{\xi}\int_{-\xi}^{\xi}\frac{(1-ix)^{-1}(1+iy)^{-1}e^{-i\sigma(x-y)}}{(\alpha\beta^2(\beta+ix)(\beta-iy)(\frac{1}{1-ix}+\frac{1}{1+iy})
  +\beta^3(2\beta-iy+ix))^{L+1}}dxdy
\end{equation}
  Here, $\alpha (=w_{0v}^2/w_{0p}^2)$ and $\beta (=b_v/b_p)$ are the ratio of the squares of the beam waist and confocal parameters, respectively; and $\xi (=l/b_p)$ and $\sigma (=\Delta kb_p/2)$ are the pump focusing and spatial phase-mismatching parameters, respectively. When the passive transmission loss and the crystal's absorption $\delta(=T_{in}^vexp(-\alpha _Ll)T_{out}^i)$\cite{roussev2004periodically} are considered, Eq. (4) can be simplified to read:
\begin{equation}\label{6}
  P_i=K_Lh\delta\cdot P_pP_v
\end{equation}
Here, $K_L$ represents a constant with the topological charge and the parameters of the crystal that were used in Eq. (4). Based on Eq. (6), the single pass conversion efficiency (SPCE), the quantum conversion efficiency (QCE) and the maximum power of the strong pump power ($P_{p\_Max}$) for unit one conversion  can be calculated. The QCE from the visible spectrum to the infrared is defined as\cite{Albota2004}:
\begin{equation}\label{7}
  \eta=N_i/N_v=sin(\pi/2\sqrt{P_p/P_{p\_Max}})
\end{equation}
where $P_{p\_Max} (=\lambda_v/\lambda_iK_Lh(\alpha,\beta,\xi,\sigma)\delta)$ is the maximum pump power. Because of the high divergence angle for the higher-order OAM mode\cite{padgett2015divergence}, we increase the pump power for a higher conversion efficiency. In this down-conversion experiment, a resonant cavity is used, as shown in Fig. 1(a). When the cavity length is locked to the master laser, the circulating power can then be written approximately as $P_{circ}=F/2\pi\cdot P_p$, where F is the {\color{Revise2}{finesse}} of the cavity. In Fig. 1(b), we plot the theoretical SPCE and $P_{p\_Max}$ for the different input topological charges L. Here, the x-axis represents L, ranging from 0 to 10, and the left and right y-axes are the SPCE and $P_{p\_Max}$ with logarithmic scales, respectively. In our calculations, the waist sizes of the two beams are $w_p=60\ \mu m$ and $w_v (=50\times \sqrt{L+1}\ \mu m)$. The crystal used is a bulk PPLN crystal, for which the passive loss $\delta=0.95^3$. From Fig. 1(b), we find that the relationships of t he SPCE and $P_{p\_Max}$ with L are both approximately quadratic. For L=0 (Gaussian beam), L=1, and L=2, $P_{p\_Max}$ has values of 20 W, 50 W, and 166 W, respectively. For higher-order OAM modes, the values of $P_{p\_Max}$ are numerous.
\begin{figure}[!htbp]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=12.0cm]{SPCE_Max2.pdf}
  \caption{OAM coherent frequency bridge and theory model. (a) Simple setup for quantum frequency down-conversion (QFDC), where $P_p$, $P_v$, and $P_i$ are the pump, visible and infrared laser beam powers, respectively. $P_{circ}$ is the intra-cavity power. (b) Relationships of the SPCE (left y-axis) and $P_{p\_Max}$ (right y-axis) with the topological charge L of the input visible fields. The y-axis scales are logarithmic.}\label{1}
\end{figure}
\section{Experiment}
The design and testing of the coherent OAM down-frequency bridge are introduced in this section, including the {\color{Revise2}{detailed}} experimental setup and the conversion results.
\subsection{Experimental setup}
 A detailed schematic of the {\color{Revise2}{difference frequency generation (DFG)}} process is shown in Fig. 2. There are four modules: the photon source, state preparation, state conversion and state tomography modules.
 \begin{figure}[!htbp]
   \centering
   \includegraphics[width=12cm]{experiment.pdf}
   \caption{Setup for DFG-based OAM down-conversion. LD: diode laser (Toptica, predesigned ,1520 nm-1590 nm); EDFA: Er-doped fiber amplifier (1540 nm-1560 nm); Ti: sapphire laser (Coherent, MBR110); HWP: half-wave plate; QWP: quarter-wave plate; PBS\_B(C): polarizing beam splitter; VPP: vortex phase plate; Filter: long pass filter; SLM: infrared spatial light modulator; P\_M: power meter; F\_M: fiber power meter; PPKTP: (Raycol QPM crystals ; period of 9.375 $\mu m$); PPLN: {\color{Revise2}{(HCP, periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) chip SFVIS-MA; period of 7.3 $\mu m$)}}.}\label{2}
 \end{figure}

 The first setup shown in Fig. 2 is that of the photon source. The 794 nm laser beam comes from a Ti: sapphire laser, which is resonant with the cavity to produce strong pump power. The seeded 1550 nm infrared laser, which comes from a diode laser, is amplified via the EDFA and a single pass through the PPKTP crystal. When the quasi-phase-matching (QPM) condition is satisfied for the two fundamental laser beams in PPKTP, a high-quality 525 nm Gaussian beam is generated.

 The next part shows the state preparation structure. A modified Sagnac interferometer is used to produce an arbitrary OAM state, and includes a vortex phase plate, wave plates (H1, Q), and a polarizing beam splitter. After the interferometer, the two beams acquire the opposite and equal spatial vortex phases $exp({iL\phi})$, and the superposition state generated can be written as\cite{Zhou2016}:
 \begin{equation}\label{8}
   \ket{\phi}=1/\sqrt{2}\cdot(\ket{h,L}+e^{i\theta}\ket{v,-L})
 \end{equation}
  where $h,v$ represent the horizontal and vertical polarizations of the input state, respectively. In particular, when the optical axes of H2 are rotated by $22.5^{\circ}$ along the horizontal direction, the preparation state can be expressed as:
 \begin{equation}\label{9}
 \ket{\phi}_{pre}=1/2\cdot((\ket{L}+e^{i\theta}\ket{-L})\ket{h}+(\ket{L}+e^{i(\theta+\pi)}\ket{-L})\ket{v})
 \end{equation}

 The next section is the state down-conversion design, which is crucial to realization of down-conversion of the OAM mode from a {\color{Revise2}{visible laser (VL) beam to an infrared laser (IL) beam}}. This section consists of a single resonant cavity and a nonlinear crystal. The cavity parameters are optimized based on the theory of Boyd and Kleinman \cite{boyd1968parametric}. We select the focusing parameters $\xi=0.93,\mu=0.66$, and the corresponding beam waist of the 794 nm pump beam is 56 $\mu m$ at the center of the PPLN. {\color{Revise2}{The PPLN that was used in this experiment with a type-0 (e+e->e) quasi-phase-matching (QPM) condition for DFG has a cross-section of 50$\times$7.9$\times$0.5 $ mm^3$ (L$\times$ W$\times$ T), and was placed within a homemade oven. The selected period of the PPLN is 7.30 $\mu m$.}} The ring cavity has four mirrors, where M1 is the input mirror with 97\% reflection at 794 nm, and the plane mirror M2 and the two curved mirrors M3 and M4, with their 80 $mm$ radius of curvature , have high-reflection($>99.8\%$) coating for 794 nm. The crystal surface and the two curved mirrors have anti-reflection ($<1\%$) coating for the two laser beams. By measuring the leaked power after M2, we can then estimate the power that is circulating in the cavity.

   In order to test the coherence of the output infrared OAM state, we use two strategies. On the one hand, the shapes and the power of the infrared fields are observed using an infrared charge-coupled device (CCD) and a power meter. On the other hand, we calculate the density matrix and its fidelity using quantum state tomography\cite{James2001,Nicolas2015,zhou2016orbital}. The infrared light is filtered using a long pass filter, projected onto the spatial light modulator (SLM), and then collected into the fiber using collimators. The four projections selected on the basis of the SLM are $\ket{R}$, $\ket{L}$, $\ket{H}$,and $\ket{A}$, where $\ket{R}$ and $\ket{L}$ represent the eigenstates in self-representation for the OAM, and $\ket{H}=1/\sqrt{2}\cdot(\ket{R}+\ket{L})$ and $\ket{A}=1/\sqrt{2}\cdot(\ket{R}-i\ket{L})$
 are the supposition state.
 \subsection{DFG-based OAM quantum-frequency down-conversion}
 \begin{figure}[!htbp]
   \centering
   \includegraphics[width=12cm]{SPCE_QCE.pdf
   \caption{{\color{Revise2}{Single pass conversion efficiency (SPCE) and quantum conversion efficiency (QCE)}} of the OAM frequency bridge. (a) SPCE of the OAM state. The green bar and the red error bars represent the experimental and error values, respectively. The input fields are the Gaussian field ($\ket{0}$), a pure LG state  ($\ket{1},\ket{2}$), and the supposition state ($\ket{1}+\ket{-1}$, $\ket{2}+\ket{-2}$). (b) QCE for conversion from visible to infrared for L=0, 1, and 2 in the ring cavity. The x-axis represents the measured intra-cavity pump power.
   }\label{3}
 \end{figure}
 First, we measured the single pass conversion efficiency (SPCE) from the visible range to the infrared in frequency down-conversion of the OAM mode, where the two laser beams make a single pass through the PPLN. The pump laser waist is approximately 60 $\mu m$, and the input laser is different green OAM state. The optimal temperature is $29.50^{\circ } C$. The main results are shown in Fig. 3(a), where the x-axis represents the input fields, including the Gaussian ($\ket{0}$), the pure OAM state ($\ket{1}, \ket{2}$, as shown in Eq. (8)), and the supposition state ($\ket{1}+\ket{-1}$, $\ket{2}+\ket{-2}$, as shown in Eq. (9)). The y-axis is the measured SPCE. The green bars are the measured average values of the SPCE. In this process, the visible power is fixed at 40 mW, and the pump power is increased linearly from 50 mW to 500 mW. Because of system jitter, error bars must be inserted on top of the data, {\color{Revise2}{and these error bars represent the standard deviation in a group of measurements}}. {\color{Revise1}{Because of the type-0(e+e->) quasi-phase-matching condition, the conversion efficiency of the supposition state ($\ket{1}+\ket{-1}$;$\ket{2}+\ket{-2}$) is half of that of the corresponding pure state ($\ket{1}$;$\ket{2}$), based on Eq. (9)}}. The conversion efficiency is lower than the theoretically predicted figure shown in Fig. 1(b), which is based on the uncertainty of the beam waist and the imperfect mode overlap. From Fig. 3(a),  we find that the conversion efficiency for higher-order OAM modes is very weak in the single-pass configuration. To obtain high conversion efficiency, we place the crystal within a single resonant ring cavity.

 Second, we present the main results of the cavity-enhanced configuration in Fig. 3(b), which shows that the intra-cavity power is a function of the circulated pump power. Here, the x-axis represents the measured intra-cavity power, and the y-axis is the intra-cavity {\color{Revise2}{quantum conversion efficiency (QCE)}}. The data represented by blue asterisks, red circles, and green diamonds are the QCEs for L=0, L=1, and L=2, respectively, and the three corresponding lines are the fitting results based on the least squares method. To estimate the intra-cavity QCE, linear attenuation factors of approximately $92\%$ are taken into account. Here, the {\color{Revise2}{finesse}} of the cavity for the pump laser is 85, and thus the enhanced factor is approximately 14 when the cavity is locked onto the master laser. Under lower pump powers, the relationship between the QCE and circulated power show good linearity. For the Gaussian beam, unit conversion efficiency can be reached when the intra-cavity power increases by three times with respect to the current maximum power, which is the same as the theoretical prediction given in Fig. 1(b).
 \begin{figure}[!htbp]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=10cm]{tomo_image2.pdf}
  \caption{Density matrix and intensity profiles. (a) Input state and density matrix of the output state. The input row describes the intensity and the phase of the input fields; the lists of $Re(\rho)$ and $Im(\rho)$ are the real and imaginary parts of the density matrix for the output fields determined using quantum state tomography. (b) Intensity profiles of the input {\color{Revise2}{visible laser (VL) and the output infrared laser (IL)}} beams determined using visible and infrared CCDs.}
  \end{figure}

 Finally, we test the fidelity of the output infrared OAM-mode. The 3D graph shown in Fig. 4(a) represents the density matrix of the infrared output state for topological charge 1 that are determined by quantum state tomography, where the components on the left are the intensities and phase distributions of the input infrared OAM fields, and the components on the right are the corresponding density matrices. In this process, the input states are $\ket{R}$, $\ket{L}$, $\ket{V}$, and  $\ket{D}$. For each input state, the four corresponding projection bases that are loaded on the measured SLM are $(\ket{R}, \ket{L}, \ket{A},$ and $\ket{H})$. The average fidelities $\bra{\phi}\rho\ket{\phi}$ of $\ket{R}$, $\ket{L}$, $\ket{V}$, and $\ket{D}$ are 98.01\%, 98.82\%, 97.01\% and 92.23\%, respectively. The fidelity of $\ket{D}$ is lower than that of the other input fields, which represents the imperfect preparation of the input state and the deflected positions of the projection {\color{Revise2}{bases}} in the SLM. Nevertheless, the high fidelity and the high conversion efficiency for down-conversion of the OAM mode indicate the reliable performance of the method. Without generality, we show the intensity profiles of the two fields in Fig. 4(b), as measured using visible and infrared CCDs. The colorized graphs shown on the left of Fig. 4(b) are the input pure or superposition states $\ket{1}$, $\ket{1}+\ket{-1}$, $\ket{2}$, and $\ket{2}+\ket{-2}$, and the corresponding gray graphs on the right are the corresponding infrared OAM modes. It can been seen that the intensity profiles of the input and output fields are highly similar. Based on observation of the interference of the superposition state, we can also determine that the topological charge of the output state is equal to that of the input state, i.e., the OAM is conserved in this process.
\section{Conclusion}
In summary, we have demonstrated coherent OAM frequency down-conversion from the visible range to the infrared based on difference frequency generation in a single resonant cavity. We first propose a theoretical model to describe the OAM frequency down-conversion process. Then, we demonstrate OAM frequency down-conversion experimentally for different OAM modes. The maximum quantum conversion efficiencies that were obtained for OAM modes with topological charges of 0, 1, and 2 were 36\%, 15\%, and 7.8\%, respectively. Using quantum state tomography, the average fidelity achieved was determined to be 96.5\%. We also showed that the OAM is conserved and that the coherent property is preserved during the DFG process. The high fidelity and high QCE values obtained show that our OAM frequency-down converter is reliable and has potential applications in construction of high-dimensional quantum networks. When compared with recently reported results in OAM frequency up-conversion, our OAM frequency down-conversion process has shown higher conversion efficiencies\cite{Li2015,steinlechner2016frequency,zhou2016orbital}.

 The remaining problem that must be solved is further enhancement of the quantum conversion efficiency for the higher-order modes. Use of strong pump laser is one possible way, but the best method would involve realization of mode-independent conversion efficiency for the higher-order modes with a fixed pump power. This issue will be investigated in our future research. When this mode-independent conversion efficiency is realized, frequency conversion of higher-dimensional OAM states would then be feasible. We will study frequency down-conversion of the single photon OAM states, two-dimensional OAM entangled states and high-dimensional OAM-entanglement states in the near future. Because of the near optimal quantum detection efficiency of superconducting detectors operating at 1550 nm, this frequency conversion process will be very useful in the frequency conversion detection of visible, mid-infrared and far infrared light beams \cite{ikuta2011wide,mancinelli2017mid}.

\section{Acknowledgments}
We would like to thank Yu Zhang of Hangzhou Normal University for help with the experiments.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (11174271, 11604322, 61275115, 61435011, 61525504, 61605194); China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016M590570); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. We thank David MacDonald, MSc, from Liwen Bianji, Edanz Group China (www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.
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Introduced to landscape painting through his cousin Pau de Saint-Martin (q.v.), Rousseau entered the studio of Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (1795-1875) in 1826 and was later taught by history painter Guillaume Lethière (1760-1832). The young artist copied the works of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) and Dutch seventeenth-century landscape painters at the Louvre, and he was intrigued by contemporary painters such as Constable (q.v.) and Bonington (q.v.). His foremost interest, however, was the study of nature. In 1830 he traveled extensively through the Auvergne and was much inspired by the wilderness of this region. Scheffer (q.v.), who admired Rousseau's nature studies from this period, introduced him to the Paris art circles of Charles Baudelaire and Delacroix (q.v.). In the early 1830s Rousseau also met Corot (q.v.) and became very close friends with Dupré (q.v.). Rousseau exhibited at the Salons of 1831 and 1833-35. After 1836 he began to travel extensively throughout France, notably to the forest of Fontainebleau and to Barbizon, where he would return every year and become the leader of the group of romantic-naturalist artists, the so-called Barbizon School. In the 1850s he also became increasingly involved in the movement to preserve the forest of Fontainebleau from industrialization. From 1836 until 1841 all of Rousseau's works were refused at the Salon because the jury advocated a more classicizing landscape painting. As he was also often passed over for official honors, the artist became known as "le grand refusé" and abstained from showing his work at the Salon most of the 1840s. After the 1848 revolution, the new regime under Napoleon III rated his work more favorably, even granting him a first-class medal at the 1849 Salon, so he no longer had to submit his work to the jury. Yet Rousseau had not been awarded the Legion of Honor, an even stronger insult when Dupré received it. In the early 1850s Rousseau befriended Millet (q.v.), and the two often worked together in Barbizon. Rousseau's international breakthrough occurred at the 1855 Exposition Universelle, where his work was exhibited in a gallery that he shared with Decamps (q.v.). Throughout his career, however, the sale of his work was unstable, partly because not showing regularly at the Salon limited his exposure. The artist therefore even had to organize two auctions (1850, 1861) of his works in order to make money, but the results were disappointing. Rousseau exhibited thirteen paintings at the Exposition Universelle of 1867 and figured as president of the jury. Yet because of his animosity with Comte de Nieuwerkerke, directeur-général des musées impériaux, the artist only received a grand medal and not the anticipated highest rank, Officer of the Legion of Honor. The lesser medal was awarded only after heavy protest from Rousseau's friends, five months before his death, and Nieuwerkerke had the last word, refusing to honor the artist with a posthumous retrospective as would have been expected. Although Barbizon painters such as Rousseau are noted for their study from nature, many worked on their larger canvases in the studio. And even though his art was still rooted in a romantic spirit, Rousseau's plein-air studies and his preoccupation with the rendering of specific light effects were instrumental for the development of impressionism.
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French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).
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35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
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3. The producers of the films selected for award consideration (or their
designees) shall be requested to provide the committee with:
(a) written descliptions explaining the procedures used to create the effects,
(b) film excerpts from composite release prints - not to exceed fifteen
minutes (1,350 feet) in total running time - showing the effects described
(c) the names and titles of the primary individuals - not to exceed four in
number - directly involved with, and prinCipally responsible for, the
visual effects achieved and a description of their contributions. Additional
names will not be considered. The Visual Effects Award is a craft award.
Producers, coordinators and other executives are not eligible for this award
unless they are also craftpeople with plimary creative responsibility for the
4. Visual Effects, as an achievement or a craft, shall be determined by the Visual
Effects Branch Executive Committee. Eligibility of the contributor(s) to the
achievement, for nomination purposes, shall be determined by the Visual Effects
Branch Executive Committee.
5. Qualified active members of the Visual Effects Branch will be eligible to serve
on the Visual Effects Award Nominating Committee and shall attend a meeting to
view the film excerpts and vote upon the achievements. Written descliptions of the
effects shall be sent to the committee plior to the meeting.
6. The producers (or their designees) may attend the meeting of the nominating
committee, however, only the potential nominees will be allowed to address the
nominating committee.
7. FollOwing the running of film excerpts and discussion relative to the achievements,
voting shall be conducted as follows:
(a) A ballot shall be cast by all members of the Visual Effects Nominating
Committee present, who shall vote in the order of their preference for
not more than three of the seven productions.
(b) The three productions receiving the highest number of votes shall become
the nominations for final voting for the Visual Effects Award.
(c) Final voting for the Visual Effects Award shall be restricted to active and
life Academy members.
8. Such other rules or procedures necessalY for the proper conduct of this award
shall be adopted by the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee, subject to the
approval of the Academy Board of Governors.
Title Rules, 1998 (71st) Academy Awards
Award Year 1998 71st Academy Awards
Full text 3. The producers of the films selected for award consideration (or their designees) shall be requested to provide the committee with: (a) written descliptions explaining the procedures used to create the effects, (b) film excerpts from composite release prints - not to exceed fifteen minutes (1,350 feet) in total running time - showing the effects described and (c) the names and titles of the primary individuals - not to exceed four in number - directly involved with, and prinCipally responsible for, the visual effects achieved and a description of their contributions. Additional names will not be considered. The Visual Effects Award is a craft award. Producers, coordinators and other executives are not eligible for this award unless they are also craftpeople with plimary creative responsibility for the achievement. 4. Visual Effects, as an achievement or a craft, shall be determined by the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee. Eligibility of the contributor(s) to the achievement, for nomination purposes, shall be determined by the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee. 5. Qualified active members of the Visual Effects Branch will be eligible to serve on the Visual Effects Award Nominating Committee and shall attend a meeting to view the film excerpts and vote upon the achievements. Written descliptions of the effects shall be sent to the committee plior to the meeting. 6. The producers (or their designees) may attend the meeting of the nominating committee, however, only the potential nominees will be allowed to address the nominating committee. 7. FollOwing the running of film excerpts and discussion relative to the achievements, voting shall be conducted as follows: (a) A ballot shall be cast by all members of the Visual Effects Nominating Committee present, who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than three of the seven productions. (b) The three productions receiving the highest number of votes shall become the nominations for final voting for the Visual Effects Award. (c) Final voting for the Visual Effects Award shall be restricted to active and life Academy members. 8. Such other rules or procedures necessalY for the proper conduct of this award shall be adopted by the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee, subject to the approval of the Academy Board of Governors. Page 26


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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a White House Opioid Summit March 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump delivered brief remarks at the conclusion of the summit aimed at addressing the opioid addiction problems in the U.S. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump promised Tuesday his proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum will be applied in a "very loving way."
Trump said the measures were necessary to balance global trade deficits.
"The United States has been taken advantage of by other countries, both friendly and not so friendly," Trump said during a news conference with his Swedish counterpart.
The President said he didn't blame individual countries but instead past presidents for allowing trade deficits to balloon.
"I don't blame the countries," he said. "I blame our leadership for allowing it to happen."
He singled out the European Union in particular, saying barriers on trade made it difficult for US goods to enter the bloc.
"The European Union has been particularly tough on the US. they make it almost impossible for us to do business with them," he said.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump attempted to rebut claims that his West Wing is rattled with disorder and low morale. But his message on Twitter only heightened speculation that some aides may soon depart the White House.
"The new Fake News narrative is that there is CHAOS in the White House. Wrong!" Trump wrote. "People will always come & go, and I want strong dialogue before making a final decision. I still have some people that I want to change (always seeking perfection). There is no Chaos, only great Energy!"
The news conference also provided Trump an opportunity to weigh in on upcoming talks between North and South Korea, which were announced Tuesday. Trump has said talks between the US and North Korea must only begin after Pyongyang agrees to denuclearization.
Unlike the United States, Sweden has a diplomatic relationship with North Korea. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has offered to assist the United States in its efforts to end the nuclear crisis there.
Löfven is the first European leader to visit the White House since Trump announced he would slap stiff new tariffs on steel and aluminum last week. The European Union has vowed to take reciprocal action, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker discussed the matter with Löfven before he arrived in Washington, according to Swedish news agencies.
Trump hit back at the EU on Saturday during closed-press remarks to donors at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
"I will tell you the European Union -- brutal. They've been brutal to us," Trump said.
He wrote on Twitter later that if the EU increases tariffs on US goods "we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!"
The remark alarmed European automakers, including Sweden's Volvo.
Final details of the tariff plan aren't yet known, and foreign allies have been lobbying Trump over the phone to narrow the scope of his trade decision. Trump will meet with Swedish business representatives midday Tuesday before his news conference.