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A raft of proposals aimed at clarifying the role of superintendent and responsible pharmacists has been set out by the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) programme board tasked with "rebalancing" medicines legislation and pharmacy regulation.
I have been a member of the rebalancing board since its inception and represent Superintendent Pharmacists and the broader views of community pharmacy in the discussions. Yesterday I had the pleasure of running a workshop with a colleague Board member, David Gallier-Harris a Pharmacist Manager with Asda, on what the proposals will mean in practise to Superintendent Pharmacists and Responsible Pharmacists.
The event was a Partners Forum held by the DH at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Headquarters in London. The Forum is an important opportunity for a wider stakeholder group to input into the discussions. With a wide range of organisations represented and in attendance – the 4 Chief Pharmacists, Pharmacy Regulators, Medicine Regulators, PDA, Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician professional bodies and patient and public representatives, I had anticipated a lively and spirited debate – I was not disappointed.
The work of the Board has been, at times difficult, with delays being imposed by General Elections, Scottish Referendum, EU Referendum and various ministerial changes. However I was pleased that recently we were able to see an important, and long awaited change get over the line – New legislation to protect community pharmacists from prosecution over dispensing errors has been signed into law, and is now in force. It is intended to encourage a more open culture of error reporting by reducing the fear of criminal prosecution, thereby allowing for pharmacy teams to learn from mistakes. Fostering a culture where health professionals feel able to report errors and learn from their mistakes will support a safer and better service for patients.
The proposals seek to clarify the role of the Superintendent Pharmacist as responsible for the overarching system of clinical governance in an organisation and the Responsible Pharmacist as responsible for day to day governance in an individual pharmacy. In the spirit of the work of rebalancing much of what currently sits in the law and is under ministerial control will pass to professional standards and the pharmacy regulator ( GPhC ). For example if a Responsible Pharmacist fails to make an entry in the RP log, they commit a criminal offence…. This is clearly disproportionate and far better to have sensible professional standards around this area.
Overall we should view these changes as positive and part of a broader suite of changes which are coming to enable pharmacy to be more agile in its response to a changing health care environment. The proposals clearly define the duties for the SP and RP, with reduced legislative burden on Responsible Pharmacists and greater regulation of Superintendents. Ultimately though they are moving us towards a more patient-centred model of regulation and pharmacy practice.


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Africa, Domains
ICANN to host its regional talkshop in Nairobi next month
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to host a talkshop next month. Why do I call it a talkshop? Because ICANN hasn't held such a meeting to address key issues affecting Africa stake holders, they just dance around issues of Internet Governance.
If you are new to ICANN, you can read more about it here
Let us first look at some of the issues the conference will be addressing next month. Here is what I got from their comms department.
"We will be hosting a panel on "Sustaining the power of Global Internet for transformative economic growth" based on the findings of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report commissioned by us on sources of e-Friction for the internet economy. The meeting will focus on two main subject matters:
Introduce ICANN to the two business groups invited and display the different avenues for participating in ICANN and possibly IG going forward
Highlight the DNS industry as a business and motivate new and potential registrars be seek ICANN accreditation
Present will be a mixture of stakeholders from private business sectors, government officials and media, where avenues of collaboration and participation will be discussed. Invitations are yet to be sent out. I hope you can make it. The main speaker will be Chris Mondini, VP Stakeholder Engagement in N. America & Global Business, and will be joined by leading company executives to be announced at a later time. "
Now, for those who may know Africa's issues at ICANN, you will know that relegation of African domains is one of the key issues and has been dragging for ages. Redelegation is the process where a country gets back the operations of its country code Top Level Domain, like the way KENIC is in charge of .ke.
So, before we get to issues of Internet Governance, what is the status of redelegations?
"Re delegations have been a concern for close to 10 African countries in the last three years. We did have successful relegation in a few of them so far, including : Mali, Botswana; Gabon;..Currently pending are Togo, Uganda, Guinea Bissau,Mauritius, Namibia (the worst scenario so far) , Zambia, and Cameroon.Some of the delay is due to incomplete submission of request or an ignorance of the IANA procedures by some requestors."
So, for years, ICANN has known that countries have a problem or are ignorant on IANA rules, so, why not hold a conference on how to deal with IANA or address some of their problems? Why is it so easy to discuss IGF matters while for years, you can't deal with relegation or at least pretend to care and hold a panel on how to answer those IANA questions. First, that IANA website can be a maze.
Most of the operational registries are manual
It is no contest that when it comes to tech, Africa adopts last. That is why the domain name business is still lagging behind. That is why you wonder, if most registries are stymied by manual operations, why are they discussing IGF matters, shouldn't the priority be those ICANN experts to help with this? Yes, countries have a right to help, but if ICANN is to act like it cares about Africa, then let it do a better job at it.
There will be an argument that there is the annual DNS forum and the current training on DNSSEC, if the operations are manual, how does this help? It is like going to talk cyber security and benefits of e-commerce to a community that has no access to computers or the internet, what is priority?
ICANN even has a training scheduled on root zone signing, in a continent struggling with redelegations and manual operations. Here is what they have to say:
"One of the flagship projects in the Africa Strategy is Promoting DNSSEC adoption in Africa and to this effect we have already conducted 8 DNSSEC trainings in 8 countries in Africa, Kenya Included. In FY15, we have budgeted for another 5 countries. So, the DNSSEC Roadshow is about capacity building on the DNS security which include 1)awareness building at country (cctld) level, 2) Training on DNS security an 3) Country root zone signing."
L-root copies in Africa
If there is one thing about ICANN that has somehow worked, I think its the L-root copies. Maybe its because they partnered with AFRINIC, or maybe its because the L-root doesn't require the country to have an IXP, just the telco is enough. I say somehow because if you ask me, most telcos in Africa should have it but again, the legal department at ICANN takes its time.
"As of today we are processing a number of L-Root requests (4) to add to the ones we have in Africa (9) ; Some of the delay depends on the necessary due diligence to be conducted by Legal department."
For a continent where telcos are the major ISPs, the copies should be much more. Root server copies contribute to the resilience of the internet in a country. I will probably get a chance with AFRINIC to understand the actual hold up for these process.
So, do you still think our priorities are in IGF issues? Yes, when it comes to politics between ICANN and the ITU, ICANN will need countries on its side.
But does ICANN seriously have the issues of the continent at heart? Do they understand the priorities? Do we understand what ICANN means with its Africa Strategy?
Can you imagine if the current merry-go round about .africa happened to .EU or .asia? Or any domain that China or Russia have an interest in? Do you think ICANN would hide under their rules the way they are doing now?
Somehow I thought Fadi Chehade would be different as ICANN president, I remember listening to him talk about Africa when he was appointed and I thought, "this guy is too good to be true" years later I am looking at it and thinking, "this guy maybe all about talk, policy papers and nothing practical."
He still has time to deliver whatever but if you are going to be concerned about Africa, start with the priorities!
Govt should centralise to improve security
Kenic has a new CEO….. 7th in 7 years…
ICANN cancels morocco meeting
Africa.com selling domains at $20 to registrars
South Africa Government Snubs ICANN

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\section{Introduction}

Since the birth of modern cosmology the theoretical framework used to describe the evolution of the observed Universe has been
based on the Einstein equations applied to a perfectly homogeneous and isotropic model filled with various types of
fluid components.
It is universally believed, since the Universe on large scales looks almost homogeneous, that the assumption of homogeneity is a good zeroth order approximation
for describing our Universe, and on top of this one usually adds linear fluctuations (with initial amplitude of order $10^{-5}$, as measured by CMB experiments) in order to describe the
growth of density perturbations and the formation of structures. Some steps beyond this paradigm have been made
for describing
late time behaviour of small scale density perturbations (which at late times become non-linear) and more recently
in the second order relativistic perturbation theory to catch new effects (as non-gaussianities in the spectrum of primordial perturbations).

However, few efforts have been made to understand how reliable is the assumption of homogeneity.
Of course there are corrections to this description due to perturbations: the nonlinearity of Einstein equations implies that the presence of perturbations modifies the background. The usual way of thinking implies that these corrections should be small: since they are nonlinear, the effect should appear as a second order effect, so they should be of order $10^{-10}$.

However this reasoning is too naive, because it does not take into account the fact that perturbations grow during the matter era.

Also, in recent years the exploration of the universe at redshifts of order unity has
provided information about the time evolution of the expansion rate of the
universe.   Observations indicate a very unexpected fact: the universe is presently undergoing a
phase of accelerated expansion \cite{acceleratedreview}. The accelerated
expansion is usually interpreted as evidence for a negative pressure
component to the mass-energy density of this homogeneous model universe. The nature of this ``Dark Energy'' fluid is a huge mystery.

The goal of this paper is to show that this interpretation can not be trusted, since the approximation of perfect homogeneous background becomes inadequate at late times due to the growth of perturbations and it fails at sufficiently late times.
In other words the average description of our Universe using Friedmann equation at small redshift is likely to be incorrect, due to the effect of the inhomogeneities.

It is striking the fact that the Friedmann equation fails around the same epoch at which the acceleration is observed. So a Universe filled only with matter, may not necessarily be in contrast with a late time acceleration: it might just be due to the unjustified use of the Friedmann equation.
This would completely answer to the coincidence problem: at some time around structure formation the fluctuations become big enough to influence the background, even irrespectively of the initial amplitude of the fluctuations \footnote{We thank N.~Shuhmaher for pointing out this fact.}.

The fact that we are pointing out here is entirely due to subhorizon perturbations, and so it is completely different from what has been suggested in~\cite{KMNRp}. In that work it has been suggested that a large variance due to superhorizon modes can have an important effect on the observed expansion: if we live in a large void we might experience an expansion very different from the usual FRW.

We analyze here instead the mean effect of inhomogeities on the expansion rate at perturbative level (using the results of~\cite{KMNR}) and estimate the mean correction which is unavoidably present in any region of the Universe. This may be interpreted as the contribution of inhomogeneous gravitational fields to the energy content of the Universe. It is in fact a pure nonlinear effect, due to the fact that gravitational fields gravitate.\footnote{This effects are often called ``backreaction'' in previous literature.}. We will analyze the contribution of the subhorizon modes, ignoring the influence of the unknown superhorizon modes. We stress so that there are no free parameters here and in principle everything is calculable and predictable.

To be able to catch this nonlinear effect, the first non-trivial order is second order. At this level, we found
 that the mean contribution of the second order is ${\cal O}(10^{-5})$\footnote{The same result was found in \cite{lam}, as an order of magnitude estimate.}. It can also be shown that this contribution may act as an effective negative pressure component.
This gives rise to a first crucial observation: the effect is five orders of magnitude bigger than what is naively expected, and this is due to the growth of perturbations after matter-radiation equality.

We point out here that although this contribution may still appear small, one has to consider the full perturbative series. By a simple order of magnitude estimate we show that in most of the history of the Universe, the magnitude of higher orders is decreasing, and so the perturbative approach is likely to give a good description.
However, the main result of this paper is that the expansion parameter becomes of order $1$ at redshifts of order $z\lesssim 1$, and not $10^{-5}$ as one might naively think.
This tells us that all the terms in the perturbative series are going to be of the same order at late times. There is some uncertainty on what is exactly the redshift at which the expansion parameter becomes $1$, but it is certainly close to present time.
As we said, at the very same redshifts the Universe is observed to accelerate. We speculate that the acceleration might just be the result of the fact that the series diverges, and that the present $\Lambda CDM$ concordance model might just be regarded as an effective theory in which all the terms of the series have been resummed, giving rise to an effective negative pressure component.

\section{The mean effect of inhomogeneities}

We base our analysis on the results of~\cite{KMNR}, and we recall the notations used there.
We consider a Universe filled only by irrotational dust and choose the
coordinates of an observer at rest with the dust ({\it i.e.,} comoving
coordinates), and with the same time coordinate for every point of the
spatial hypersurface ({\it i.e.,} synchronous coordinates). This
system of coordinates can be chosen if the Universe is filled by a
single pressureless component.

Our approach is to start with a flat matter dominated Universe (so with an initial matter energy density fraction $\Omega_M\equiv \frac{\rho_M}{\rho_C}\equiv\frac{8 \pi G \rho_M}{3 H^2}=1$, where $\rho_M$ is the matter energy density, $\rho_C$ is the critical energy density, $G$ is the Newton constant and $H$ is the Hubble parameter), and compute perturbatively the correction. However we are speculating that the correction itself drives the critical density $\rho_C$ away from $\rho_M$ due to the fact that $H$ does not evolve as in a matter dominated homogeneous universe, at late times. So, when using the expression of the matter power spectrum (shape factor and normalization) for estimating the effect, we will not use as a present value $\Omega_M^{(0)}=1$\footnote{With the superscript $^{(0)}$ we always mean present time.}, but a smaller value, as measured by observations on the turnover point of the matter power spectrum.
On the other hand, when solving Einstein equations and getting the time evolution of the growth function for density perturbations we assume, in a perturbatively consistent way, matter domination, and this will be valid until the breakdown of the approximation (that is $z$ of order 1).

We will call $\tau$ the (conformal) time in this gauge, and $x^i$ the
spatial coordinates, so that the metric has the form
\begin{equation}
ds^2=a^2(\tau) \left[ -d \tau^2 + \gamma_{i j}(\tau,x^i) dx^i dx^j  \right]
\label{metric}
\end{equation}
A prime will denote derivatives with respect to conformal time. We also introduce a proper time by $dt=a d\tau$.
The metric will be expanded perturbatively (\cite{MMB}) expressing all the metric variables as a function of a single initial condition , given by the function $\varphi(x)$, which is constant in time and related to $\delta^{(1)}$, the
first-order density perturbation, by the Poisson equation,
\begin{equation}
\nabla^2\varphi = \frac{\kappa^2}{2} a^2\rho_M^{(0)}\delta^{(1)} .
\label{nabla2varphi}
\end{equation}
We assume initial conditions as given by inflation, neglecting initial vector and tensor modes (\cite{bartolo}).

Then we will be interested in the local expansion rate $\theta\equiv D_{\mu} u^{\mu}$ as seen by a comoving observer. We are going to average this quantity over a finite region of size $R$ at fixed time $\tau$ with the following prescription:
\begin{equation}
\langle {\cal O}\rangle(\tau)
\equiv \frac{\int d^3\!x \, \sqrt{\gamma(\tau,x^i)} \,
{\cal O}(\tau,x^i)}{\int d^3\!x \, \sqrt{\gamma(\tau,x^i)}} ,
\label{average}
\end{equation}
After having computed $\langle \theta \rangle$, we compare this with the naive expectation ($3\sqrt{\kappa^2 \frac{\langle \rho \rangle}{3}}\equiv 3H\equiv\langle \theta \rangle-\langle \delta\theta \rangle $) that an observer would have measuring the average energy density $\langle \rho \rangle$ and applying the homogeneous Friedmann equations. So what we want to estimate is the quantity:
$$
\frac{\langle\delta\theta\rangle}{3H} \equiv
\frac{\langle\theta\rangle-3\sqrt{\frac{\kappa^2 \langle \rho \rangle}{3}}}{3H}
$$

Also, we stress that here we are interested just in the mean corrections, which means that these are effects that are present in any realization of the region of radius $R$. So this means that the extension of the region $R$ is irrelevant for this discussion. As we found in~\cite{KMNR} the mean correction is due to modes which are subhorizon, and in fact the main contribution comes from wavelenghts of ${\cal O}(20-50)$ Mpc, and it is insensitive to the infrared and to the ultraviolet. These variances around this mean values are also interesting, as they seem to depend on superhorizon modes (see \cite{KMNR},\cite{KMNRp}), but we do not discuss them here and simply assume they are negligible (this is certainly true for example if fluctuations with wavelenght bigger than the present Hubble radius are negligible).

 The result that we found consistently at second order in~\cite{KMNR} was:
\begin{eqnarray}
\hspace{-2mm}
\frac{\langle\delta\theta\rangle}{3H} & = & \frac{1}{a^2H^2} \left[
- \frac{5}{9} \left\langle\nabla^2\varphi\right\rangle_1
+ \frac{5}{3} \left( \left\langle\varphi\nabla^2\varphi\right\rangle
+ \frac{13}{18}\left\langle\varphi_{,i}\varphi^{,i}\right\rangle \right)
+\right. \nonumber\\
&& \left.+ \frac{\tau^2}{27}\left(\left\langle\left(\nabla^2\varphi\right)^2
\right\rangle -\left\langle\varphi^{,ij}\varphi_{,ij}\right\rangle\right)
\right . \nonumber \\
& & \left. - \frac{25}{9}\left\langle\varphi\right\rangle_1
\left\langle\nabla^2\varphi\right\rangle_1
- \frac{23\tau^2}{216}\left\langle\nabla^2\varphi\right\rangle_1
\left\langle\nabla^2\varphi\right\rangle_1 \right]  \, ,
\label{risultatoWithBt}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\langle ... \rangle_1\equiv \int (...) d^3x / (\int d^3x)$.
Let us comment on the various terms that are present here.
First, note the absence of terms that go as $\varphi^2$, without gradients.
\footnote{This was found first in~\cite{gesh}, where the expansion (without gradients) was computed in the longitudinal gauge, going then back to the comoving coordinates.}

Then, as long as we are interested only in the statistical mean, many terms are irrelevant.
Indeed the first order term has obviously zero mean, and the terms in the last line are small if we perform the spatial averages on sufficiently large scales (for example at horizon scales, they are completely irrelevant).

So, only two types of terms are potentially important: the terms with two spatial derivatives  $\left\langle\varphi\nabla^2\varphi\right\rangle
+ \frac{13}{18}\left\langle\varphi_{,i}\varphi^{,i}\right\rangle$, and the terms with four spatial derivatives.

As already noted in~\cite{Rasanen}, a term with four derivatives would give a correction of order 1 to the expansion at present times, already at second order. In fact, as we are going to show again, the presence of gradients boosts the corrections: the more gradients we have, the bigger is the correction. However, an important property to keep in mind is that the mean of a total spatial gradient is zero (this can be easily verified going to Fourier space (following~\cite{KMNR}) )
In other words, as long as we are interested only in the mean, we are allowed to derive by parts our expression.

So, doing that, we immediately see that the four derivative terms gives zero, and that the result can be written as:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\overline{\langle\delta\theta\rangle}}{3H}  = - \frac{25}{54}   \frac{1}{a^2H^2}
\overline{\left\langle\varphi_{,i}\varphi^{,i}\right\rangle}  \, .
\label{resultMean}
\end{equation}

Now let us comment on the two derivative term. Symbolically we will call it $k^2\varphi^2$ term.
This contribution was found to be of order $10^{-5}$. We stress now that this is {\it not} a small correction, in the sense that naively one could expect a second order term to be of order $10^{-10}$.
This is the crucial point: the presence of the two powers of $k$ boosts the contribution of five orders of magnitude approximatively at the present epoch. The reason for this is that the scales $k_0$ which have had more time to grow are scales much smaller than the horizon, and so a factor $(k_0/H)^2$ gives a big boost.
We are going to show in detail why this happens, and show that this signals the breakdown of the perturbative expansion.
In fact,
extending the estimates to analoguous terms that will appear at higher order in perturbation theory, we find that the expansion parameter is of order 1 at late times.

Let us have a look at higher order terms.
Of course, being interested only in the mean, and assuming the variable $\varphi$ gaussianly distributed, only the even orders of perturbation are relevant.
So the next relevant order is the fourth order. For each order the maximum number of spatial derivatives grows by two. As we said the more derivatives we have the bigger is the contribution to the mean.
So at fourth order the highest derivative term is $k^8 \varphi^4$.
As we will show, it is possible to see that such a term again yields a order $1$ possible correction.
At this point one might be tempted to speculate that at fourth order this may not be zero (as in~\cite{Rasanen}). However, the fact that the highest derivative term is a total spatial gradient at second order may not be accidental, and one might expect that at any order in perturbation theory the term with the highest number of derivatives always appear as a spatial gradient.
So, in order to be conservative, we will not rely on this speculation, and assume that all the terms with the highest number of derivatives are zero at any order.
Also, as we discuss in section~\ref{Newton}, the highest derivative terms are the newtonian terms and it is expected to get zero mean corrections at the newtonian level.

Now, the next term at fourth order is $k^6 \varphi^4$, and by analogy with the second order term $k^2 \varphi^2$, we expect it to be nonzero.
So, generically at order $n$, we assume terms like $k^{2n}\varphi^{n}$ to be zero, while we keep terms like $k^{2n-2}\varphi^{n}$.

For comparison with~\cite{Rasanen}, we stress again that here we are not relying on effects due to UV divergencies (that is to non linear structures), since our considerations involve effects due to scales which are still linear today.  And we do not rely on newtonian terms, but our effect is purely relativistic (see section~\ref{Newton}).

\section{The expansion parameter}

So let us analyze the magnitude of the $k^2\varphi^2$ term.
Assuming the usual flat spectrum for $\varphi$, its value is given by (\cite{KMNR}):
\begin{equation}
\overline{k^2 \varphi^2}=A^2 \frac{a}{a_0} \left( \frac{H \, \Gamma }{h Mpc^{-1}} \right)^2
\int_0^{\infty} dq \, q \, T^2(q)  \label{k^2}
\end{equation}
where $A$ is the amplitude of the spectrum of $\varphi$ and it is given by
$1.9 \times 10^{-5} /\Omega_M^{(0)}$, where we took into account of the present value of $\Omega_M$ in the normalization~(\cite{Bunn}). Then, $T(q)$ is the Bardeen, Bond,
Kaiser, Szalay (BBKS) transfer
function \cite{BBKS}:
\begin{eqnarray}
T(q)& =& \frac{\ln\left(1+2.34q\right)}{2.34q}\times \nonumber \\
 && \hspace{-11mm} \times \left[
1+ 3.89q + (16.1q)^2 + (5.84q)^3 +(6.71q)^4\right]^{-\frac{1}{4}} .
\end{eqnarray}
which describes the stagnation effect of the small scale perturbations that entered the horizon during the radiation era.
Of course at small $q$, $T^2(q)\rightarrow 1$, while at large $q$,
$T^2(q)\rightarrow q^{-4}\ln^2\!q$. The integral receives the biggest contribution from the scale at which the integrand has a maximum, which corresponds to ${\cal O}(20-50)$ Mpc.
Here $\Gamma$ is the shape factor, defined for a flat universe in
terms of the baryon fraction $\Omega_B$ and the total value of
$\Omega_M^{(0)}$ as $\Gamma=\Omega_M^{(0)} h
\exp(-\Omega_B-\sqrt{2}h\Omega_B/\Omega_M^{(0)})$. $\Gamma$ is sensitive especially to the value of $\Omega_M^{(0)} h$ and it is decreasing as $\Omega_M^{(0)} h$ increases.
Finally, the integral in eq.(\ref{k^2}) has the numerical value of $2.3\times 10^{-2}$.

For comparison we may estimate a $k^4\varphi^2$ term (although as we said it is not present in the result given by eq.(\ref{resultMean})):
\begin{equation}
\overline{k^4 \varphi^2}=A^2 \left(\frac{a}{a_0}\right)^2 \left( \frac{H \, \Gamma }{h Mpc^{-1}} \right)^4
\int_0^{\infty} dq \, q^3 \, T^2(q)
\end{equation}
Such a result would imply a big correction already at second order. In fact the factor $\left( \frac{H \, \Gamma }{h Mpc^{-1}} \right)^4$ is as large as ten or eleven orders of magnitude (depending on the value of cosmological parameters). In addition, the integral is even logaritmically divergent in the ultraviolet, and so gets its main contribution from the small scales. Even putting a cutoff at the nonlinear scales, the integral results in a ${\cal O}(1)$ factor. And finally this correction increases with time twice as fast as the $k^2\varphi^2$ term, becoming big at late times.

Now let us go to estimate the higher orders.
As we said, going to fourth order, we safely assume that the leading term is $k^6\varphi^4$. This is estimated as follows:
$$
\overline{k^6 \varphi^4}=A^4  \left(\frac{a}{a_0}\right)^3 \left( \frac{H \Gamma}{h Mpc^{-1}} \right)^6
\times Int^3
$$
Here the term $Int^3$ stands for one or more integrals in $dq$. Depending on what is the precise structure of the contraction of indices in the $k^6\varphi^4$ term, it may contain also ultraviolet divergent integrals which would give a larger contribution than the integral that we found at second order, and might be sensitive to the small scales. However, in order to make a conservative estimate we do not rely on such speculations and we just assume the minimal value
$$Int \simeq \int_0^{\infty} dq \, q \, T^2(q) \approx 2.3\times 10^{-2} .$$

At the generic order $n$ (where $n$ is even) so we have:
$$
\overline{k^{2n-2} \varphi^{n}} \simeq  A  \epsilon^{n-1}\approx 10^{-5}\epsilon^{n-1}
$$
where $\epsilon$ is the expansion parameter:
$$
\epsilon \equiv \frac{A}{1+z}\left( \frac{H_0 \Gamma}{h Mpc^{-1}} \right)^2 \times Int
$$
The crucial fact is that this expansion parameter becomes of order 1 for small $z$ (the value depends on uncertainties on the cosmological parameters, mainly $\Omega_M$ through $\Gamma$):
\begin{equation}
\epsilon \approx \frac{4 \Gamma^2}{\Omega_M (1+z)} \, ,
\end{equation}
while already for $z\gtrsim 1$, the terms of the series start decreasing, so one may assume that the series converges. The expansion parameter is plotted in fig.\ref{figuraCDM}, for different values of the cosmological parameters.

In a similar way one can also see that the highest $k$ terms (that we set to zero) are of the same order of $k^4\varphi^2$ at small redshifts.

\section{Inhomogeneities and Acceleration}

Now, we may speculate that the fact that the expansion parameter is of order $1$ just around $z\approx 1$ is related to the appearance of acceleration in the observed Universe. If this is the case, this fully solves the coincidence problem.
Even more: one can see that the time at which $\epsilon$ is of order $1$ depends on the amplitude of the initial fluctuations, so it may appear a coincidence that the initial value of $10^{-5}$ is such that the expansion breaks down right today.
However for any initial amplitude the time at which the series breaks down is always around the time of structure formation, and since we can only live around that time, there is no coincidence at all.

At this point, so, let us assume that the Universe starts accelerating as a result of the divergence of the series. This, in turn, stops the growth of the density perturbations, and so the expansion parameter itself is prevented to grow and it stabilizes around the value that it takes when the effect starts to be important (as one can see in fig.~(\ref{figuraLCDM})).

It has been pointed out in~\cite{Seljak} and~\cite{Flanagan} that a deceleration parameter defined in terms of a local expansion rate can never become negative in absence of vorticity and in absence of negative pressure fluids. However this result does not apply here, since the expansion we are considering is not $\theta$, but is $\langle \theta \rangle$. When trying to derive the same result to this quantity, one can see that new negative terms appear due to the time derivative of the $\sqrt{\gamma}$, which is present in the definition of the spatial average.

In order to show this explicitly we need to introduce the expansion tensor, which reads
\begin{equation}
\theta_{\phantom{i} j}^{i}=\frac{1}{2 a^2} \gamma^{ik} \frac{d}{dt}(a^2 \gamma_{kj})  \label{thetaij} \, .
\end{equation}
This can be also decomposed into its trace (which is $\theta\equiv \theta_{\phantom{i} i}^{i}$) and a traceless tensor (the shear tensor):
\begin{equation}
\theta_{\phantom{i} j}^{i}\equiv \frac{1}{3}\theta \delta_{\phantom{i} j}^{i}+\sigma_{\phantom{i} j}^{i} \label{sigma}  \, .
\end{equation}

Once we have defined the expansion rate as $\langle \theta \rangle/3$, its deceleration parameter is given by:
\begin{equation}
q\equiv -1-3\frac{\frac{d}{dt}\langle \theta \rangle}{\langle \theta \rangle^2}
\end{equation}

The
Raychaudhuri equation gives:
\begin{equation}
\frac{d \theta} {d t}=-\frac{\theta^2}{3}-\sigma^2
-4\pi G (\rho+3p)
\end{equation}
where $\sigma^2 \equiv\sigma_{\phantom{i} j}^{i} \sigma_{\phantom{i} i}^{j}$. And where we assumed zero pressure and zero vorticity.
Another useful relation is obtained taking the determinant of eqs.~(\ref{sigma}) and~(\ref{thetaij}), which gives $\frac{1}{2 \gamma} \frac{d\gamma}{dt}=\frac{\theta}{3}+\sigma$.

Using these relations it is straightforward to obtain the following:
\begin{eqnarray}
q &=& 3
\frac{ \langle \sigma^2 \rangle }{ \langle \theta \rangle^2}  +
12 \pi G \frac{\langle\rho\rangle}{\langle \theta \rangle^2} + \nonumber  \\
&-& \frac{1}{2}\left( \frac{\langle \theta^2 \rangle-\langle \theta \rangle^2}{\langle \theta \rangle^2} \right)-
\frac{3}{2}\left( \frac{\langle \theta \sigma \rangle-\langle \theta \rangle\langle \sigma \rangle }{\langle \theta \rangle^2} \right) ,
\end{eqnarray}
which is an exact equation, valid in general.
The first line corresponds to what was derived in \cite{Seljak}, while the second line arises due to the presence of $\sqrt{\gamma}$ in the averages.

This clearly shows that there are negative contributions and so
 when the corrections overcome the background value, the deceleration parameter can change sign.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{figuraCDM.eps}
\caption{\label{figuraCDM}\em
The expansion parameter $\epsilon$ as a function of the redshift, for different values of the parameters ($h=0.72\pm0.05,\, \Omega_M h^2=0.14\pm0.02,\, \Omega_b h^2=0.024\pm0.001,\, A/\Omega_M=1.9\pm 0.2$, as taken from WMAP only(\cite{WMAP})). The grey dashed line corresponds to the central value, while the red solid lines to $2\sigma$ ranges. Here we used the growth factor as in matter domination. For comparison the green dotted line corresponds to $\Omega_M=1$. The perturbative series breaks down at small $z$ when $\epsilon$ becomes of order 1 (we also extended the plot up to negative $z$ in order to show that at some point the series badly diverges unavoidably.)}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{figuraLCDM.eps}
\caption{\label{figuraLCDM}\em
The expansion parameter $\epsilon$ as a function of the redshift, for different values of the parameters ($h=0.72\pm0.05,\, \Omega_M h^2=0.14\pm0.02,\, \Omega_b h^2=0.024\pm0.001,\, A/\Omega_M=1.9\pm 0.2$, as taken from WMAP only(\cite{WMAP})). The grey dashed line corresponds to the central value, while the red solid lines to $2\sigma$ ranges. Here we used the growth factor for density perturbations of a $\Lambda CDM$ model~{\cite{Carroll}}, in order to show that $\epsilon$ is prevented to grow and it stabilizes at late times, if the Universe starts accelerating.}
\end{figure}

\section{Newtonian and Post-Newtonian terms} \label{Newton}

It is very interesting to note that (see~\cite{MatTerr}) the highest $k$ terms (that we neglected) are also the terms with the highest power of $a\propto \tau^2$ (we are using here the simple growth factor and background evolution of a pure matter dominated Universe). Now, in an expansion in powers of the speed of light $c$, each power of $\tau$ is accompanied by a power of $c$. So the highest $k$ terms are the  newtonian terms (\cite{MatTerr}).

We stress instead that the terms that we considered here, instead, are the post-newtonian ones.

The following example is quite illuminating in order to understand why the highest $k$ terms should give zero effect. Consider a homogeneous universe filled with many spherical inhomogeneous regions: outside these regions matter is uniformly distributed with energy density $\rho_0$, and inside these regions matter density is inhomogeneously distributed (but still maintaining the spherical symmetry and in such a way that the total amount of matter inside a sphere is equal to the amount of a same-sized sphere with homogeneous matter density $\rho_0$)\footnote{We thank N.Afshordi for pointing out this example.}.

Now, in newtonian gravity, we can use the superposition principle and consider separately the effect of a single sphere. By Gauss' theorem the only thing that matters is the total amount of matter inside the sphere, so the average expansion rate over a region that contains spheres is the same one of a perfectly homogenous universe with matter density $\rho_0$.

The only way in order to guarantee that the effect is zero in this example is that the Newtonian terms be total spatial gradients. In fact in this case one can rewrite the spatial average as a flux of a vector field over a surface. Taking the surface in such a way that it does not intersect any sphere, this gives zero because the vector field in the homogeneous region is zero.

This shows that Newtonian terms have to be surface terms, and in order to have an effect one has to consider the purely relativistic terms (and the post-newtonian approximation should be accurate enough).

So, what we are claiming is that the series (in an expansion in the smallness of the metric elements) of all the post-newtonian terms is diverging, and we may speculate that the resummation of all these terms may give rise to an accelerating Universe. Or in other words it may give rise to an effective theory in which the Friedmann equations are still valid, but with an effective $\Lambda$ term. In order to prove this kind of ``phase transition'' at redshift of order 1, so, one needs a treatment of the postnewtonian terms, which does not assume that the metric elements are small.

\section{Conclusions}

We have shown that, even being very conservative, the contribution of the inhomogeneities to the average expansion rate becomes perturbatively out of control at low redshifts. This leads to the conclusion that the usual Friedmann equation cannot be trusted at late time.

So, instead of using the naive homogeneous model to fit the data, one should to take a nonperturbative approach to Einstein equations in a inhomogeneous Universe, before talking of Dark Energy.

We suggest that the failure of this equation might be the reason why we need to introduce mysterious components in order to fit the data. We speculate that the resummation of the terms of the diverging series (which may act as a negative pressure component) might lead to an effective Friedmann equation in which the series is resummed, giving an effective ``Dark Energy''.
Once this effect is taken into account, the perturbations themselves stop growing (as happens in a $\Lambda CDM$ model), and we speculate that the effect itself may be stabilized, reaching a fixed point, in which it might even be possible to predict the effective $\Omega_M\approx0.3$.

\medskip

\section*{Acknowledgments}
We would like to thank Rocky Kolb, Sabino Matarrese and Toni Riotto for previous work and discussions on the subject. It is a pleasure to thank also  Niayesh Afshordi, Thorsten Battefeld, Robert Brandenberger, Paul Chouha, Fabrizio Di Marco, Balaji Katlai, Natalia Shuhmaher and Alberto Vallinotto for useful comments and discussions.

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Today, the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) said that last week, the number of dengue fever cases in the city decreased by 24.2 percent compared to the average of 4 weeks ago; however, it is still high compared to the same period of the years. Worse, 29 people succumbed to the fatal disease.
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Substantial rise in HFMD amongst children
Dengue, HFMD cases up in Ho Chi Minh City
People should eliminate mosquito breeding sites
Specifically, the city recorded 1,080 dengue cases last week, a decrease of 24.2 percent compared to the average of four weeks ago, the number of inpatients decreased by 37.8 percent and the number of outpatients decreased by 9.7 percent. During the week, no deaths were recorded.
Since the beginning of the year until now, the city has recorded 77,378 dengue cases, an increase of nearly 7 times compared to the same period in 2021. Amongst 77,378 dengue cases, roughly 1,873 are serious cases; generally, the ratio of severe cases to the total number of dengue cases was 2.42 percent, an increase of more than 3.2 percent over the same period in 2021. The total number of deaths from dengue since the beginning of the year so far is 29 cases, an increase of 23 cases over the same period last year.
In the past week, the city recorded 62 new dengue outbreaks in 49 wards and communes in 15/22 districts and Thu Duc City, a decrease of 15 new outbreaks compared to the previous week. Medical workers sprayed chemicals in 143 outbreaks to kill mosquitoes in a week.
According to the HCDC, although dengue cases tend to decrease substantially, medical workers advised people to be cautious because of unpredictable weather. People should continue to take measures to eliminate mosquito breeding sites weekly at work and in residence.
Regarding the development of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), the southern largest city recorded 225 more cases of hand-foot-and-mouth in the past week, an increase of 90.4 percent compared to the average of the previous 4 weeks. Since the beginning of the year, the city has recorded 18,591 cases of HFMD. The cumulative number of hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak up to week 49 in 2022 is 88.
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Can't imagine being Hailey Bieber and to be honest, wouldn't want to be. It's nothing against her. Sure that she's great. It's the pressure of the world that would kill me – everyone staring and passing judgement. Everyone having something to say.
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Lord Orme asked Her Majesty's Government:
What plans they have to revise motorcycle licensing rules following the safer motorcycling consultation exercise undertaken by the Driving Standards Agency last year.[HL1314]
Lord Whitty: The document Tomorrow's roads--Safer for everyone, which is published today, sets out the broad context for how we propose to deliver road safety improvements for motorcyclists. A detailed report of the decisions taken in response to the consultation exercise has also been issued today, and I shall place copies in the Library of the House.
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What discussions they have had with Sport England regarding the decision taken by the New South Wales Government to ban Linford Christie from using state-owned training facilities in connection with his work as a coach to a squad of British athletes.[HL1116]
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: UK Sport has primary responsibility for anti-doping policy and procedures within the UK, but the Government have had no discussions with it about this issue. The decision to ban an athlete suspended by his international federation, in this case the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), arises from the federal and state legislation in Australia and New South Wales.
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Lord Eames asked Her Majesty's Government:
Why representatives of the main Churches in Northern Ireland and representatives of other world faiths were not included in the curriculum review by the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment in the Province despite the spiritual and ethical considerations involved; and[HL1160]
Whether representatives of the Churches will be consulted by the Council for the Curriculum,
Examinations and Assessment in Northern Ireland in the process of curriculum review, thus ensuring the government commitment to the creation of a fully inclusive society is honoured.[HL1161]
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton: I can assure the noble Lord that the council will include the Churches in the consultation process for the curriculum review. Two major periods of consultation are due to take place covering the curriculum framework and the revised programmes of study. On the present timescale of operations these are due to take place between April and June 2000 and between April and June 2001.
RUC: Criminal Injuries Compensation
Whether, in the light of the Patten report on policing in Northern Ireland, they will review the scales of compensation and support paid to widows and families of Royal Ulster Constabulary officers killed on active service.[HL1162]
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton: Pursuant to the answer given by my noble friend Lord Dubs on 9 November 1999 (Official Report, columns 141-42), the Government are currently considering their response to the report of the review of criminal injuries compensation in Northern Ireland which includes recommendations on the scales of compensation.
The Patten report recommends that a substantial fund be set up to support widows, injured police officers, injured retired officers and their families and that the Widows Association be supplied with an office and a regular source of finance to run their organisation. The Government fully accept these recommendations and are currently working on their implementation.
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It plans to invest Rs 13.5 crore ($3 million) in Gurgaon-based DC Foodiebay Online Services Pvt Ltd, which runs the restaurant directory site Zomato.com and Rs 20 crore ($4.3 million) in New Delhi-based Applect Learning Systems Pvt Ltd, which runs Meritnation.com – a portal offering learning solutions in the K-12 segment. The Zomato deal is an all-cash one while the Applect deal is a mix of equity and convertible preference shares.
Info Edge has invested a total of Rs 11.5 crore in Applect in two rounds of funding – Rs 6.5 crore for 40 per cent stake in 2008 and a follow-up of Rs 5 crore in May 2010. Applect is a subsidiary of Info Edge and offers content development services for the education sector. It also runs Meritnation.com, that currently has 18 lakh registered users, of which 85-90 per cent are active. The funds will be used for furthering the company's content development, hiring, marketing as well as new product development. Pavan Chauhan, co-founder of Applect told Techcircle.in that these products were still in the conceptualisation stage. So far, Applect has been involved in increasing the depth and breadth of its educational content covering classes K-12, all subjects and syllabi of key educational boards. Applect employs 160 in one office, and is adding 50-60 people in next quarter.
"We are quite happy with the product, the team, the content they have built and the interest from publishers in their solutions," said Sanjeev Bhikhchandani, Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Info Edge. Other subsidiaries include Naukri Internet Services Pvt Ltd and Jeevansathi Internet Services Pvt Ltd, (which own the domain names for Naukri.com and Jeevansathi.com respectively, as well as related trademarks, while operations are under the parent company), Allcheckdeals.com, Info Edge (India) Mauritius Ltd (set up to make overseas investments) and Info Edge USA Inc.
With these two announcements, Info Edge's investment activity in start-ups continues to build momentum. It had already invested Rs 9 crore in Mydala.com, run by Delhi-based Kinobeo Software Pvt Ltd, and Rs 10 crore in Policybazaar.com, which is a part of Etechaces Marketing and Consulting Pvt Ltd. In May 2011, the company announced an investment of $3.5 million in online private sales portal 99labels.com. It had also invested up to Rs 1 crore ($250,000) in Noida-based Nogle Technologies Pvt Ltd and is now looking for domestic mobile apps start-ups.
Info Edge had witnessed 4.7 per cent fall in standalone net profit sequentially to Rs 25.61 crore for the three-month period ended on June 30, as an exceptional item that propped earnings in the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2011, was missing. However, net profit rose 48.3 per cent, compared to the first quarter of the last fiscal, led by impressive revenue growth. The Internet company had recorded a net profit of Rs 26.89 crore in the previous quarter and Rs 17.26 crore in the same quarter last fiscal.
This is Info Edge's second round of investment in Zomato. In August 2010, it had invested Rs 4.7 crore ($1 million) in what was Zomato's first round of funding. The capital was used to fund the start-up's product development, sales and marketing efforts. The fresh round of funding will be used to ramp up its employee base and open more offices. However, the promoters continue to hold a majority share in the company.
"Zomato.com is one of India's fastest-growing consumer Internet portals. The satisfaction levels on both sides of the value chain (consumer and merchant) are very high – a testimony to the great product made for the consumers and the value seen by the merchants. We see immense potential in their current model, in their future plans and in the capability of the team to execute it well," said Bhikhchandani.
Over the past year, the company has grown its reach from 7,000 restaurants in five cities to 18,000 eateries across 10 cities – Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Chandigarh. Compared to last year, Zomato has seen a rise in traffic from 1.5 lakh to over 10 lakh monthly visitors, of which over one lakh are registered users. In the first quarter of the year, it launched mobile apps and recently introduced an events sub-site Zomato.com/Events.
From a team of 22 last year, the company has now scaled up to 85 people and it will reach 300 by September this year. By March 2012, it expects to have 500 people on board, according to Deepinder Goyal, c0-founder and CEO of Zomato.com.
Zomato is now ramping up fast, adding five employees per week. Most of the new hires are primarily in sales as the company expands its operations to more cities. It has offices in Gurgaon, Bangalore and Mumbai, and has recently set up operations in Pune and Hyderabad. The company is also opening offices in Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kolkata, Chennai, Goa, Kochi, Surat and Indore. This reflects a renewed focus on tier II cities and reaching out to more towns, instead of its earlier strategy of pursuing international markets.
Explaining the shift in strategy, Goyal said, "We had to make a choice of either going international or plunging into events in the local market. We decided to capture events first and continue to grow locally. We will then take the step of launching internationally."
According to Goyal, Zomato is now aggressively focusing on its events section. Initially launched to target Delhi, Mumbai and Pune, the events section will reach out to four more cities by end of this month.
The start-up is also working on adding online booking features to its site. "We are planning to make a discovery and ticketing platform for events and will also be working with partners to run table reservations and online orders," he added.


Quick, name the motorcycle brand least likely to build an electric vehicle. Until last week, you would have said "Ural" — a company previously known only for its throwback sidecar rigs, with DNA dating back to World War II.
And yet, I recently found myself on a winding road through the woods just east of Seattle, trying out the company's latest project: the batteries, controller, and motor from a Zero S, grafted into Ural CT sidecar outfit. Anyone who stops a Ural in a public place is familiar with something Ural owners call UDF, for Ural Delay Factor, because of the attention they draw. But this one also includes an additional WTF factor.
Ural EV prototype. Ural photo.
Ural hasn't given this version a name, calling it only an "all electric prototype." In truth, even the word "prototype" might be too strong; It's more like a well-dressed proof-of-concept. It's not the first Ural EV, either; Ural's CEO, Ilya Khait, told me that a couple of years ago, they delivered a rolling chassis to a Moscow company that was in the business of converting old diesel buses to electric drive.
Ilya must have liked the idea of a twist-and-go EV. Part of the appeal, for him is that, despite being a trained engineer, he's never mastered the intricacies of a clutch and gearshift! When he heard that Zero was interested in partnering with other companies that could use its powertrain technology, he asked them to convert a sidehack.
On Zero's advice, Ural brought in a high-end vehicle design studio, ICG, to help with packaging and styling. That explains why the rig you see here looks so finished (at least, when seen from the left side). ICG's stylists created that snazzy alloy side panel and came up with the very cute idea of concealing the charging port inside the stock fuel tank, under a stock fuel cap.
The conversion is based on Ural's CT model, which is configured for road use. The CT differs from Ural's more popular Gear Up model in several ways: The CT is a conventional sidehack, which is to say it's driven by the motorcycle's rear wheel only; the Gear Up's sidecar has a driven wheel.
No, I never did sit in the electric chair. Photo by Mark Gardiner.
The CT also has a wider stance and carries the sidecar lower on 18-inch wheels, which reduces the tendency to "fly the chair" in right-hand turns. Since sidecars actually benefit from ballast to reduce that instability, battery weight was not an issue. Ural and Zero took advantage of that fact to run two Zero battery packs, a lighter ZF6.5 battery in the main chassis, and a heavier ZF13.0 battery under the seat in the sidecar.
The dash appears to be a standard Zero item. The fuel filler cap cleverly conceals the charge port. Ural photo.
The dash and motor controller are Zero items, too. Users get to choose between three modes: Sport for maximum torque; Eco for maximum regeneration and range; and Custom. A Zero owner could personalize that Custom setting from her phone using the Zero app. In the case of this one prototype, the setting was configured to optimize performance and range for a vehicle that has more battery capacity but also, of course, weighs 2.5 times as much as any Zero!
Zero's had more experience than most e-moto companies, with the result that their motor controllers are conspicuously good. "Throttle" response is smooth and intuitive. The power's fed to a Z-Force 75-7 brushless DC motor that produces almost twice the torque of Ural's current 750 cc internal-combustion twin.
As a result, the electric Ural was downright sprightly... for a Ural. During the two days I spent at Ural HQ in Redmond, Washington, I had the occasion to follow the electric rig in a conventional Gear Up, and the gasoline-powered one was no match climbing hills. Most of the time, I was on wet roads, where the electric rig would readily spin the rear 4.00x18 Heidenau away from a stop.
Riding a motorcycle with a sidecar is an entirely different experience. Plus, most of the time, I was on wet roads. The combination may have also dampened my enthusiasm for testing the performance envelope. Photo by Mark Gardiner.
As usual with an EV 'cycle, the Ural gets underway with a quiet hum. When I last rode a Zero, I noticed the final drive and tire noise. The Ural has a driveshaft that's virtually silent, but those heavily treaded tires produce a little more sound.
Frankly, driving a sidecar is a little, um, "involving." All that weight dangling off one side means that on acceleration, it steers quite hard to the right and under braking, it steers left. Considering the roads I was on, I didn't feel compelled to verify Ural's claim of an 88 mph top speed for the prototype. But, I have no reason to doubt it.
The prototype's built on a standard CT chassis. The frame and bodywork are still manufactured in Russia, but the rest of the running gear is from all over. It has a single four-pot Brembo brake on the front wheel, operated the normal way with a lever on the right handlebar. A Hayes single-piston brake on the rear wheel is linked to a Brembo two-piston caliper on the sidecar wheel. The leading link fork is Russian, but all the shocks (there are six in total between the front fork, rear swingarm, and the chair) are made by Sachs. The rims, hubs, and axles are from Taiwan.
According to Ural, the electric outfit weighs 122 pounds more than the gasoline-powered CT. Since I only weigh 140 pounds and had no passenger on board, the GVW as tested was well within the approved range. In spite of that, the one time I found myself braking hard, the brakes and suspension were up to the task but between the chair wanting to come around and some, uh, "interesting" suspension action, I immediately let discretion get the better part of valor and increased my following distance!
This toggle switch engages reverse. Photo by Mark Gardiner.
Although there's a heavy battery in the sidecar, it's concealed under the seat. Neither the passenger seating area nor the useful trunk are impeded. In fact, the only reason you'd even know about the outboard battery is that there's a massive cable bundle running between the sidecar and the right side of the 'cycle. That's an area that definitely still looks "prototype."
The Zero motor would normally spin in the same plane and direction as the wheels, with a belt drive on the left side of the bike. So the motor, a squat cylinder, sits centered in a Zero chassis. In the case of the shaft-driven Ural, however, the motor's been turned 90 degrees and offset, to allow the driveshaft to connect to the motor output shaft.
The motor is rotated 90 degrees and offset so the output shaft can be connected to the driveshaft with a simple U-joint. Ural photo.
You see why I say a caution sticker would be redundant. Photo by Mark Gardiner.
So, as a proof-of-concept, does it seem viable?
The electric Ural works. The Zero power pack, controller, and motor are proven, and the rolling chassis has been in development since about 1939. The combination of a vehicle that is light enough to rely on that motor, but heavy enough to carry a lot more battery capacity, almost makes sense. And it's fun in its own way. You could use it to get groceries or take Fido to the dog park.
The trunk is handy. Ural photo.
That said, Ural's official position is that it has "no immediate plans to manufacture an all-electric model at this time." Building this one bike was an exercise in market research.
Whether there's a market for an electric Ural remains to be seen. It is, after all, a brand built largely on nostalgia. The company will start to answer that question when it's displayed at the IMS show in Long Beach this weekend. After that, Ural will tour with it, bringing it to dealers where people can try this new/old mashup for themselves.
Ilya Khait is Ural's CEO. He lives in the Seattle area, because more than half of all Urals are sold in the U.S. market (and also, because Seattle is a much nicer place to raise your kids than Siberia). Photo by Mark Gardiner.
If there's enough demand — and by "enough" I mean, if dealers think they can sell even a few dozen — there's a good chance Ural will manufacture an electric outfit. The company says it would probably take about two years to bring it to production.
Even if there isn't enough demand to support production, all is not lost. When I was at Ural HQ, Madina Merzhoeva was pretty forthright in admitting that Ural — which is too small a company to support a big advertising or marketing effort — uses special projects to get press. They recently announced a limited run of Gear Up outfits equipped with a drone. That story was picked up by media outlets around the world. Whether the drone bikes are really profitable in their own right or not, they were featured on web sites, and in newspapers and magazines around the world.
Even if Ural never builds an EV, this weird prototype's already generating plenty of buzz.


text:
#!/bin/sh
exec scala "$0" "$@"
!#

/*
 * This script converts java source files that define tag classes into
 * scala files that can be used to generate scaladocs.
 *
 * The resulting scala files won't work for actually running code, but
 * they're close enough to get into the scaladocs.
 *
 * The script rewrites five files in src/main/java/org/scalatest:
 *
 *   DoNotDiscover.java
 *   Ignore.java
 *   Finders.java
 *   TagAnnotation.java
 *   WrapWith.java
 *
 * It copies them into target/docsrc/org/scalatest, removing java annotations
 * and converting them into similar scala code and preserving their header
 * comments so those make it into the scaladocs.
 *
 * This script aborts if any unexpected files are found in the java
 * directory, in order to make it obvious that something changed that
 * needs to be looked at.  If it's a new tag file, try adding it to the
 * filenames set and see if it works.  Otherwise, modify this script as
 * needed to get things working again.
 */

import java.io.File
import java.io.PrintWriter
import java.util.regex.Pattern
import scala.io.Source

val srcDir    = "src/main/java/org/scalatest"
val docsrcDir = "target/docsrc/org/scalatest"

//
// Splits java file's contents into two pieces: a top and body.
// The top contains everything up through the declared class's name, and
// the body contains the following curly braces and their contents.
//
def parseContents(className: String, text: String): (String, String) = {

  val pat = Pattern.compile("""(?sm)(.*? @interface """ + className +
                            """) *(\{.*\})""")
  val matcher = pat.matcher(text)

  matcher.find()
  (matcher.group(1), matcher.group(2))
}

//
// Constructs a modified class body where the java declaration of the value()
// method, where present, is replaced by a scala version.
//
def genNewBody(body: String): String = {
  val matcher =
    Pattern.compile("""(?m)^\s*(.*?) *value\(\);""").matcher(body)

  if (matcher.find()) {
    val valueType = matcher.group(1)

    val newValueType =
      valueType match {
        case "Class<? extends Suite>" => "Class[_ <: Suite]"
        case "String"                 => "String"
        case "String[]"                 => "Array[String]"
        case _ =>
          throw new RuntimeException("unexpected valueType [" +
                                     valueType + "]")
    }

    val buf = new StringBuffer
    matcher.appendReplacement(buf, " def value(): "+ newValueType)
    matcher.appendTail(buf)

    buf.toString
  }
  else ""
}

def main() {
  println("docjavatags.scala: porting java tag files to scala")

  val filenames = Set("DoNotDiscover.java",
                      "Ignore.java",
                      "Finders.java",
                      "TagAnnotation.java",
                      "WrapWith.java")

  for (file <- (new File(srcDir)).list; if file.endsWith(".java")) {
    if (!filenames.contains(file))
      throw new RuntimeException("found unexpected java file [" + file + "]")

    val contents  = Source.fromFile(srcDir +"/"+ file).mkString
    val className = file.replaceFirst("""\.java$""", "")

    val (top, body) = parseContents(className, contents)

    val newBody = genNewBody(body)

    val newContents =
      top
        .replaceAll("""@Retention\(.*?\)""",  "")
        .replaceAll("""@Target\(.*?\)""",     "")
        .replaceAll("""@TagAnnotation""",     "")
        .replaceAll("""@Inherited""",         "")
        .replaceAll("""public *@interface""", "")
        .replaceAll("""(?m)^import.*$""",     "")
        .replaceAll(className + "$",
                    "trait "+ className +
                    " extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation "+ newBody +"\n")

     val newFile = new PrintWriter(docsrcDir +"/"+ className +".scala")
     newFile.print(newContents)
     newFile.close()
  }
}

main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


On the evening of Tuesday 29th October at The Ship Inn, Kingswear, there was literally standing room only for a unique quiz.
Previously, Kingswear Bonfire & Fireworks treasurer Peter Burr had mentioned in the bar one evening that the funds were getting a tad low, so landlord Colin Lang suggested doing a special fundraising quiz night and charged Mike Goodearl with putting together an all-music fun quiz. Mike produced the standard, pub-quiz format 72 questions but consisting, this time, of 12 sections of different genres of music including pop, jazz, classical, country, folk, Latin American etc etc.
The quiz contestants enjoyed a delicious free supper courtesy of The Ship Inn who also supplied the first prize of a bottle of bubbly.
£300 plus (nearer £330) was raised from the entrance fees and from the collecting tins thanks to Colin and his staff at The Ship Inn and the generosity and support of Kingswear residents (plus a few from the Darkside!).
The fireworks display and bonfire were superb this year, possibly the best fireworks in Kingswear ever, despite the utterly dreadful weather. The poor souls who braved the elements had to shelter in The Ship afterwards to warm their cockles - and there's nothing like warm cockles. Well done to all indeed and especially to the decent chaps and chapesses who built the fire on Sunday morning. Please note that unless we can get another coordinator this excellent evening could be Kingswear's last bonfire night. Someone? Pretty please?
It's that roof again, well, the hole in it to be more exact. On November 2nd the members of FroST (Friends of St Thomas's) held a splendid quiz to raise money for church repairs. There were some tense moments, displays of consummate quizmanship, and a general good time was had by one and all. Thank you the organisers.
The October meeting enjoyed a talk by Alan Forster, a local retired teacher, whose subject was 'The Greenway Frieze'. For those who have been to Greenway House, Agatha Christie's summer home and the home of the Gilbert family for centuries before her, you will be aware that one of the American officers who was billeted there in WW11 painted a fine frieze in the library. This now historic artwork tells the story of the American troops from their USA homes to the horrific action on the D-Day landing beaches and more besides.
Alan Forster had put together the marvelously illustrated and very well thought through story of the American involvement in that dreadful war and managed, with great skill, dedicated hard work and some sound imagination to create a very cogent version of that series of events which rocked the western world in the early closing stages of WWII. He had his audience completely in thrall. Many thanks to Alan for his hard work. It was an evening that Kingswear Historians will remember for a long time, especially since Alan succeeded in linking together all those bits of information, which many of us knew from different sources, and presenting them in a well-organised manner.
Kingswear WI had a delicious meeting in October when Stuart Dowles from Quickes Traditional Cheeses came to give a talk on his journey from shepherd to marketing manager for this well known family business and distribute samples of varieties of cheddar cheese.
At the next meeting on November 29th Lucy Patrick will encourage members to become enthusiastic devotees of Homeopathy and the Christmas Fair will take place in the Village Hall on Saturday November 23rd.
The programme of speakers at the WI is always varied and interesting. The meetings take place in The Sarah Roope Trust Room on the 3rd Wednesday of each month and visitors are always made extremely welcome.
Tapas Night at Manna from Devon.
In spite of being extremely busy with the arrangements for the recent highly successful Food Festival Holly and David Jones opened their home to 20 members of Kingswomen on October 13th and gave a superb and succulent demonstration of Spanish Tapas which were consumed with enthusiasm and (of course) wine. These ladies know how to enjoy themselves.
A theatre visit to see Blood Brothers in Paignton has been arranged for November 28th and the Christmas Party is due to take place on December 5th when posh frocks will come out of the closet and a good time will be had by all (we hope!).


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text:
Italian mystery writer Andrea Camilleri keeps Montalbano on the case
By Sebastian Rotella
Feb. 3, 2009 12 AM PT
ROME —
Americans have Philip Marlowe and Raymond Chandler. Britons have Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. And Italians have Salvo Montalbano and Andrea Camilleri.
Camilleri, a bespectacled, gravel-voiced 83-year-old, has become a national character as beloved as his Montalbano, a shrewd, resolutely Sicilian police commander who solves crimes in the fictional town of Vigata.
Remarkably, Camilleri's career didn't take off until he was nearly 70, when he retired as a playwright and screenwriter. Since then, he has published an astonishing 40-plus books and sold 20 million copies internationally, inspiring a series of made-for-TV movies and, in Sicily, guided tours and a statue of his sleuth.
It's not unusual for Camilleri to have two or three titles atop European bestseller lists at once. In addition to the Montalbano mysteries, he writes works of historical fiction full of humor and a virtuoso command of dialect.
At an age when most people tend to focus on scheduling medical visits, he gets up every day at 6 a.m. in his comfortable apartment here, showers, dresses and gets to work. And enjoys himself enormously.
"I spent 30 years in television, theater, where you must have great physical energy," he says in a study decorated by images of comic-strip hoodlums. "In theater it's a 24-hour day. . . . I am accustomed to this kind of rhythm. In fact, writing relaxes me."
Craggy features, a bald dome and a longish fringe of white hair give the author the look of an ancient eagle. His speech and movements are jovial and deliberate. He's a chain-smoker, a habit he describes as "imbecilic."
"On the other hand, I have made it to 83," he says. "Maybe if I quit cigarettes today, I would drop dead."
Camilleri, the son of a coast guard officer, was born in Porto Empedocle in southwestern Sicily, near the ruins of the Greek temples of Agrigento.
Sicily's legacy
Despite stereotypes of the island, more than half of the best Italian writers of the last 120 years have been Sicilian, says Stephen Sartarelli, an American poet who is Camilleri's translator. They have included Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, a playwright, and Leonardo Sciascia, a cerebral, politically engaged novelist.
This is the result of a cultivated intellectual class, a folk-tale tradition and a dark reality that, as in Latin America or Russia, lend themselves to fiction, Sartarelli says.
"When you live in more violent surroundings, you have more moral decisions to make," he says. "The Russians lived that in the 19th century. Moral dilemmas create the most interesting literature."
But a sense of humor comes with the territory as well. Camilleri has a playwright's ear for the language of subcultures, regions and historical periods. He delights in the "verbal inventiveness" of early Italian immigrants in the United States who said "backahouse" for outhouse and "robbachoos" for galoshes.
His approach does not seem a prototype for mainstream success. He writes not in standard Italian but a pastiche of Sicilian dialects, a language of his own concoction.
"It's a difficult kind of Italian because it's very much my own language," he says. "And it's even sometimes not very comprehensible for my own Sicilian countrymen. . . . I confess there are also invented words."
Only half in jest, Camilleri says the stardom of his sleuth mystifies him. The middle-aged Montalbano is no action hero. Resentful of authority but slow to violence, gruff but sentimental, he commands a station-house ensemble featuring Catarella, an endearingly bumbling front-desk officer, and Mimi Augello, a skirt-chasing deputy commander.
Rather than cop-show realism, Camilleri lingers on details of place, personality and meals, which are near-religious experiences for Montalbano.
"I wanted a character who one could invite tranquilly to dinner knowing that he would not talk about a case unless you asked him about it," he said. "A person you can trust, who respects his word in friendship. With his private troubles, but nothing exceptional. Maybe it was this lack of the exceptional that struck a chord in Italy."
Tapped in
And what a chord. Except for a few young crime writers who complain that his world lacks grit, Italians can't get enough of Montalbano, on the page or on the screen.
It's hard to imagine an American mystery writer with comparable influence. In 2001, Italy's center-right government withstood an uproar about alleged police brutality against protesters at a Group of 8 summit in Genoa. Later, the leftist Camilleri published a novel in which the Genoa incidents angered Montalbano so much that he considered quitting the force.
Some Italian police officers agreed with Camilleri; others thought Montalbano's reaction rang false. The upshot: Two police unions invited the author to a lengthy discussion with 600 officers.
Nonetheless, Camilleri prefers the meticulous research and intricate construction of his historical novels, which ride Montalbano's commercial coattails. "I have more fun writing these," he says. "First of all, because I can do linguistic experiments. That would be a problem for readers in the mysteries. In 'The Brewer of Preston,' I had great fun. I had seven Italian dialects in there."
Like the mysteries, the historical novels are set in Vigata and are based on real events because, he grumbles, "I'm not capable of making up anything."
"The Telephone Concession" is one of the best. Set in 1891, it recounts a sneaky businessman's attempt to install a telephone in Vigata. The initiative deteriorates into a delirium of political skulduggery, extortion and, that Sicilian obsession chronicled by Camilleri and many others, adultery.
Camilleri's vision of his island recalls the imaginary microcosms of Gabriel García Márquez's Colombia or the American South of William Faulkner, the Sicilian's idol.
"I remembered Dostoevsky's phrase: 'Tell the story of your village. If you tell it well, you will have told the story of the world,' " he said. "I have created this imaginary town, Vigata, the way so many writers have imagined: García Márquez with Macondo, Faulkner with his county. My Macondo is Vigata."
His writing habits
Most non-Italians associate Sicily primarily with the Mafia. Gangsters appear in Camilleri's fiction but remain only part of the landscape.
"When you write a novel about the Mafia, it's inevitable that the Mafioso becomes a somehow sympathetic character," he said. "If you think of the film ' The Godfather,' Marlon Brando's performance makes you forget that he's a killer, a bandit. . . . That's why I keep Mafiosi to a second level, so to speak."
Another constant: the influence of his wife, Rosetta. He reads manuscripts to her; she makes him rewrite entire pages.
"When I did theater, the evening of the premiere I didn't fear the big critics of the time," he said. "I feared my wife. She's pitiless."
A final farewell
Camilleri has plenty of ideas and a dozen manuscripts in the pipeline. The last installment of the Montalbano series is ready for publication upon the author's demise or incapacitation.
Camilleri wrote it as the result of a conversation in Paris years ago with two fellow mystery writers: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán of Spain and Jean-Claude Izzo of France. The three old friends amused themselves discussing how they would do away with their sleuths one day. Vázquez Montalbán and Izzo have since passed away.
"They both died before their characters, so that made me think how I get rid of mine," he said. "I do have a bit of a Sicilian thing, superstition let's say, so I invented a solution. . . . I sent it immediately to [my publisher] and said, 'Here, keep it.' This is irreversible and there's no going back. It's not like Conan Doyle, who had Sherlock Holmes fall into the abyss and then revived him. This is a literary character, and he vanishes."
rotella@latimes.com


1989 Mustang 5.0 LX hatchback with a new 302 long block V8 GT40 crate motor from Ford racing, rated at 320 Horse Power. This mustang has its original LX packaged styled road wheels.
1989 Mustang 5.0 LX hatchback with an added fiberglass Mach 1 hood and pins.
1989 Mustang 5.0 LX hatchback with rear spoiler.
This Almond 1989 Mustang LX hatchback is owned by James and Lisa Gram of Washington and was our Attitude Of The Week for the week starting August 1, 2010. I saw this unusual almond-yellow factory painted color from a long distance away at the 2010 Mustang Round-up car show in Bellevue, Washington. Lisa says its been a great car and drives it every day to work.
Rear right view of James and Lisa's almond-yellow 1989 Mustang LX hatchback. This car is an everyday driver, so its not perfect; but it is still a very good looking car. You can see a bit of the yellow coming through on the rear bumper. All the original front and rear bumpers were molded with a yellow fiberglass material, so if you see this color under the paint, its a sign that the bumpers are original.
View of a 1989, Ford, Mustang, A-code, 140 cubic inch (2.3 liter), single-overhead cam, 4-cylinder engine originally rated at 90 horsepower (at 3800rpm). Lisa and James keeps this engine very clean!
Bright Red 1989 Mustang GT with a 225 hp (at 4200 rpm), 302 cubic inch, 5.0 liter, electronic fuel injected, high output, V8 engine.
Bright Red 1989 Mustang GT, right front view showing off its ten spoke "turbine" style wheels which came standard on all 1989 GT models.
Bright Red 1989 Mustang GT, rear right view.
Left rear view of a Bright Red 1989 Mustang GT.
1989 Mustang GT in Bright Red, left side view.
View of the 1989 GT 225 hp (at 4200 rpm), 302 cubic inch, 5.0 liter, electronic fuel injected, high output, V8 engine.
Interior view of the 1989 Mustang GT.
Door tag of Bright Red 1989 Mustang GT showing the Bright Red color code of 2I and 61B hatchback body style code.
Oxford White 1989 Mustang GT convertible owned by Alex from San Jose, California. It has a 302ci (5.0L) V8 engine with some modifications like an Edelbrock manifold. It has a salvage title due to an accident which caused the front bumper, radiator, and driver door damage. It has 76K miles on the clock.
Here you can see the damage to the driver side door. The black convertible top is down in this shot.
Oxford White 1989 Mustang GT convertible, left rear view.
Dark Shadow Blue 1989 Mustang LX convertible with larger of the two engines offered in 1989 a 225hp (at 4200rpm), 302 cubic inch (5.0 liter), electronic fuel injected, high output V8 engine. This car has aftermarket cobra wheels.
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