Programs & Services | Valley Rural Electric Cooperative Inc.
Listed below are some of the programs and services available through Valley REC. For more information on these and other programs and services, please contact the Member Services Department, or send an e-mail to Member Services.
A system of new automated meters now sends meter readings over the power lines to the cooperative's computer system.
Co-op consumers as well as members of the general public may bring their spent compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) to any Valley REC office, and co-op personnel will ensure that the bulbs are properly disposed of (compact spirals only, please). CFLs contain a very small amount of mercury sealed within the glass tubing – an average of 5 milligrams (roughly equivalent to the tip of a ballpoint pen). Like paint, batteries, thermostats, and other hazardous household items, CFLs should be disposed of properly. Do not throw CFLs away in your household garbage if better disposal options exist. Energy Star-qualified CFLs have a two-year warranty. If the bulb fails within that period, return it to your retailer.
To see how much energy and money you can save by switching from incandescent bulbs to CFLs, click the Lighting Calculator button.
Please note that the lighting calculator (by EnergyStar.gov) will open in a new browser window or tab. Valley Rural Electric Cooperative is not responsible for the content of that page.
Valley REC makes grants available in three categories: energy assistance, civic and community programs, and education. Grants of $500 to $1,000 are available. The program offers funds to members experiencing financial hardship, to service organizations such as fire and ambulance companies, and to educators who need support materials to teach blocks of instruction related to electricity or the cooperative business model. Visit the Community Service Grant Program page for more information and applications.
This discount card program benefits cooperative members by offering valuable discounts from participating local and national businesses.
This is a coordinated, state-wide system that reduces energy use during peak demand periods, cutting wholesale power costs for the cooperative. For more information about how you can help reduce demand, read this one page article at the link below.
Valley offers presentations about electrical safety, energy conservation, and environmental issues.
Valley REC offers evaluations of household energy use and potential energy loss with suggestions for improving the energy efficiency of your household.
This voluntary, consumer-funded program is designed to provide financial assistance to Valley REC consumers unable to pay their electric bills due to economic hardship. Visit the Members Helping Members page for more information and applications.
Manual transfer switches for backup generators are available at cost to cooperative members.
Valley REC offers the Brighter Future Scholarship Program to both high school students and high school graduates pursuing accredited post-secondary education. The Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association offers two different scholarship programs. Visit the Scholarships page for more information and applications.
The cooperative sells high-quality "smart" surge protectors to its members at a cost of $39 plus tax for homes or businesses. These devices can protect sensitive electronic equipment and appliances from power surges and spikes. The Smart Strips can also reduce standby energy loss, the electricity that electronics and appliances continue to draw even when they are in sleep mode or powered off.
You may purchase the devices at any of Valley's offices. You may also mail order the Smart Strips (with shipping costs added to the final total). For more information, review the brochure available at the link below.
A rebate of $2 per gallon (for tanks from 50 to 79 gallons) or $3 per gallon (for tanks that hold 80 gallons or more) is available to members who purchase a new electric water heater. The tank's energy factor must be 0.9 or higher, and the member must agree to participate in demand response.
Members can purchase at cost from the co-op Marathon® electric storage water heaters made by Rheem®. Available sizes range from 15 gallons to 105 gallons. Members who purchase units 50 gallons or larger and agree to participate in the co-op's demand response program qualify for the co-op's rebate program.
For more details, visit the Water Heater Rebates and Sales page.
This competitive program is designed to educate high school students about rural electric cooperatives and cooperative business principles while visiting Washington, DC. For more information about this exciting and informative opportunity, visit the Youth Tour page.


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Chattanooga housing cheaper than US average, but rising costs force more young adults to live with parents
December 4, 2019 at 9:18 p.m. | Updated December 5, 2019 at 4:40 a.m.
by Dave Flessner
Staff photo by Erin O. Smith / Bert Ingram, a carpenter with Antidote PC, cuts pieces of wood while constructing a porch on a North Chattanooga home last year.
More than one in five young adults are still in their parents' home, reflecting changing living patterns and difficulties for many student debt-burdened persons trying to afford the rising cost of homeownership, a top housing economist said Wednesday.
Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, told local home builders and Realtors that the price and availability of new housing remains a challenge to many first-time home buyers, although homes are more affordable in Chattanooga than in most of the country.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Census, the share of persons age 25 to 34 years old living with their parents grew from 13% in 2005 to an estimated 22% in 2017.
Contributed photo / Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Home Builders Association
"If you go back 20 years ago, about one in 10 people age 25 to 34 years old lived with their parents, but today it is more than one of every five," Dietz told the Greater Chattanooga Realtors and the Home Builders Association of Chattanooga during the groups' annual economic outlook luncheon. "If you have a young adult child who is basically a tenant in your home, you are not alone - there are millions of others such persons and a lot more multi-generational households today. This appears to be a fundamental change in how we live because we have continued to see this increase even as economic conditions have improved."
As a result, the U.S. homeownership rate, which reached a peak of 69.2% in 2004, fell to just over 63% by 2016 and is now estimated at 64.8%.
Dietz said the homeownership rate in Chattanooga remains above the U.S. rate and is now estimated at 67.6%.
"This is one of the faster growing parts of the United States, but like other more rapidly growing areas there are relative housing affordability challenges," Dietz said. "We in the housing industry often celebrate rising home prices, which certainly helps builders' profit margins and is good for homeowners. But when home price growth is faster than income growth, it's a sign of lack of supply, lack of inventory and ultimately declining housing affordability."
Dietz said increases in student debt and automobile loans play an important role in young adults' decisions to stay with their parents. In the past decade, the volume of student debt has more than doubled while auto loans are up 63%. Mortgage and credit card debt is up only 3 % since 2009, according to data compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Economic impact of home building
The economic gains from the 1,479 homes built in metro Chattanooga this year:* 2,243 jobs, including 1,650 in construction, 297 in wholesale and retail trade and 158 in business and professional services* $15.2 million in local taxes* $116.5 million in local wages* $176.8 million in total local incomeSource: National Association of Home Builders estimates for first year impact from 1,479 homes built this year in metro Chattanooga
A study this year by the Urban Institute found that the most prominent trend among young adults is a delay of their first marriage.
"Because single adult children are more likely to live with their parents than those who are married, this is the single largest explanatory factor in the increase of adult children living with their parents," said Jung Choi of the Urban Institute.
The median age of Americans at first marriage has increased steadily for the past four decades, and the marriage rate dropped from 59.4% in 1990 to 40.2% in 2017 and is likely to decline even more. Those who never married increased by almost 25 percentage points, from 29% to 53.4%.
Although adults are delaying marriage and families, Dietz said most Americans still want to ultimately own their own home.
"We make a huge mistake if we confuse the lack of means with the lack of wants," he said. "The underlying demand for homeownership remains in place. The idea that all people just want to stay with their parents or live in apartments in just wrong."
From the previous peak price levels reached a decade ago before the Great Recession, Chattanooga home prices are up 25%, outpacing the U.S. growth of 17% in average home prices in the same period, Dietz said. Such home price increases outpaced income gains, although the average Realtor-assisted home sale in Chattanooga is still priced nearly 30% below the national average price.
"Whatever regulatory issues or lack of available land concerns that may exist, the fact that those home prices are growing as fast as they are is a sign of the need for additional inventory," Dietz said, estimating that Chattanooga home builders will add 1,479 more houses in the metro area in 2019.
Dietz estimates that for the average U.S. home, regulatory costs from building codes, land use policies, environmental rules and other regulations boost the cost of a typical home by 24.3%, including 14.6% during development and another 9.7 during construction. The NAHB estimates that regulatory costs for home building rose 29% from 2011 to 2016 and Dietz said additional regulations continue to add on to the costs of home development and building.
In Chattanooga, the Home Builders Association is fighting plans for new steep slope regulations in the city of Chattanooga, where 54% of the vacant land is located on sites with a slope of 25% or more.
Economic impact of home building in Chattanooga
Dietz said lumber prices jumped 63% in 2017 and 2018, although they have dropped by 14% since January 2018, reflecting the impact of trade wars, building activity and currency changes.
Land to build new homes is also becoming more expensive, rising to a median price of $49,500 for single-family lots in 2018 across the U.S. as a whole even as the average lot size has shrunk by 6% in the past decade, according to NAHB estimate.
Home buyers are benefiting by lower mortgage rates and rising wages, however. The current 30-year fixed rate mortgage averages 3.69%, down from 4.87% in November 2018. New home inventory in September (the most recent month available) is at a 5.5-month level, compared with 7.4 months of sales supply at the end of last year.
Mortgage interest rates may ease back up a bit in 2020 and 2021 and the rate of economic growth is likely to fall in the next couple of years, Dietz said. But the NAHB economist puts the chances of a recession next year at no more than one in three and he expects GDP growth of another 2.1% in 2020 and 2% in 2021.
The economic expansion, now in its 127th month, is now the longest period of sustained economic growth in modern history.
Contact Dave Flessner at dflessner@timesfreepress.com or at 757-6340.

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The role of ageing and diabetic complications on autonomic modulation in geriatric population
K. Kishan, R. S. Bindiya, C. Ramaswamy, Sheila R. Pai, Prashanth N. Dixit, K. M. Damodara Gowda, Y. P. Ragavendra Babu, H. N. Harsha Kumar
Department of Physiology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
The geriatric population belongs to the age group 70 years and encounter debilitating changes in almost all the system of the body. This study was aimed to record and asses the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in elderly population involved, to predict and prevent further deterioration by assessing the cardiac function with respect to the cardiac regulatory mechanisms.To assess the autonomic changes, in this study different parameters of HRV were recorded in the people of age above 70yrs and compared with normal individuals belongs to the age less than 70years during normal(N),deep breathing(DB) and cold pressor test(CPT) conditions. Showed that the SDANN, Time domain HRV was decreased as age advances in all the conditions except the CPT condition. This study showed that as age advances the autonomic activity decreases, the degree of decrease is more in sympathetic part than parasympathetic.
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Kishan, K., Bindiya, R. S., Ramaswamy, C., Pai, S. R., Dixit, P. N., Damodara Gowda, K. M., ... Harsha Kumar, H. N. (2011). The role of ageing and diabetic complications on autonomic modulation in geriatric population. Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences, 2(2), 7-12.
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Justia Patents Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
Process for the preparation of enantiomerically pure 3-hydroxyoctanedioic acid diesters by asymmetric catalytic hydrogenation
Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of the general formula I in which R1 and R2 are identical or different and are a C1-C20-alkyl group, C3-C12-cycloalkyl group, C7-C12-aralkyl group or a mono- or binuclear aryl group, in which a ketone of the formula III or IV in which R1 and R2 have the above meaning, is asymmetrically hydrogenated.
Assignee: ASTA Medica Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors: Rainer Gewald, Gunter Laban
Acceleration sensor and process for the production thereof
Abstract: A single crystal silicon substrate (1) is bonded through an SiO2 film (9) to a single crystal silicon substrate (8), and the single crystal silicon substrate (1) is made into a thin film. A cantilever (13) is formed on the single crystal silicon substrate (1), and the thickness of the cantilever (13) in a direction parallel to the surface of the single crystal silicon substrate (1) is made smaller than the thickness of the cantilever in the direction of the depth of the single crystal silicon substrate (1), and movable in a direction parallel to the substrate surface. In addition, the surface of the cantilever (13) and the part of the single crystal silicon substrate (1), opposing the cantilever (13), are, respectively, coated with an SiO2 film (5), so that an electrode short circuit is prevented in a capacity-type sensor. In addition, a signal-processing circuit (10) is formed on the single crystal silicon substrate (1), so that signal processing is performed as the cantilever (13) moves.
Assignee: Denso Corporation
Inventor: Tetsuo Fujii
Detection of speech channel back-looping
Abstract: In some call-switching systems, transmitted speech samples may be sent back (back-looping) to the sender from a telephone switching center if the switching center is unable to send the speech samples forward. When supplementary information is sent with the speech sample, back-looping may cause a problem if the sending device interprets the signal as originating from another device. To avoid this problem, transmitted samples are subjected to a check value calucation such as a checksum or a cyclic redundancy check. The check value is stored in memory and any received samples are subjected to a check value calculation and compared to the stored samples. If the comparison yields a match, then the device will know that the received samples originated from itself and can be properly handled.
Assignee: Nokia Communications Oy
Inventor: Jyri Suvanen
Semiconductor mechanical sensor and method of manufacture
Abstract: A semiconductor mechanical sensor having a new structure in which a S/N ratio is improved. In the central portion of a silicon substrate 1, a recess portion 2 is formed which includes a beam structure. A weight is formed at the tip of the beam, and in the bottom surface of the weight in the bottom surface of the recess portion 2 facing the same, an electrode 5 is formed. An alternating current electric power is applied between the weight portion 4 and the electrode 5 so that static electricity is created and the weight is excited by the static electricity. In an axial direction which is perpendicular to the direction of the excitation of the weight, an electrode 6 is disposed to face one surface of the weight and a wall surface of the substrate which faces the same. A change in a capacitance between the facing electrodes is electrically detected, and therefore, a change in a physical force acting in the same direction is detected.
Assignee: Nippondense Co., Ltd.
Inventors: Tetsuo Fujii, Masahito Imai
Flat panel display unit and display method of the same
Abstract: There is provided a display method of a flat display unit arranged so as to prevent an abnormality of a screen which is otherwise caused by coupling by inhibiting homo-polar video signals from being sampled within a sample and hold circuit having two circuits. Positive and negative polar video signals are sampled always alternately in A and B circuits of the respective sample and hold circuits of a signal line driving section by keeping the polarity of a video signal voltage before non-displaying timing same with that of the non-displaying timing, by stopping to switch the two systems of the sample and hold circuits and to output a signal when the non-displaying timing.
Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Inventor: Koji Shigehiro
Capillary immunoassay and device therefor comprising mobilizable particulate labelled reagents
Abstract: An analytical test device useful for example in pregnancy testing, comprises a hollow casing (500) constructed of moisture-impervious solid material, such as plastics materials, containing a dry porous carrier (510) which communicates indirectly with the exterior of the casing via a bibulous sample receiving member (506) which protrudes from the casing such that a liquid test sample can be applied to the receiving member and permeate therefrom to the porous carrier, the carrier containing in a first zone a labelled specific binding reagent is freely mobile within the porous carrier when in the moist state, and in a second zone spatially distinct from the first zone unlabelled specific binding reagent for the same analyte which unlabelled reagent is permanently immobilized on the carrier material and is therefore not mobile in the moist state, the two zones being arranged such that liquid sample applied to the porous carrier can permeate via the first zone into the second zone, and the device incorporating mea
Assignee: Conopco Inc.
Inventors: Keith May, Michael Evans Prior, Ian Richards
Method for controlling temperature of mold for injection molding
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling the temperature of a mold for injection molding. The temperature of a front surface portion of an upper mold neighbored a gate which is connected to a spool to which the melted resin is injected through a runner, is controlled as 65-75° C. The temperature of a side surface portion of the upper mold between the front surface portion and a parting line, is controlled as 45-55° C. Then, a cavity portion corresponding to the upper mold is formed. The temperature of a core portion which is positioned at a concave portion of a mould product, is controlled as 35-45° C. The generation of a weld line or a chromic aberration can be restrained.
Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Jae Eon Chang
Flash memory card including CIS information
Abstract: A flash memory card includes one or a plurality of flash memories and a controller having an interface connected to a host computer to store card attribute information to be presented to the host computer at a predetermined storage position in the flash memory.
Assignee: Tokyo Electron Device Limited
Inventor: Shuichi Kikuchi
Method for performance monitoring of data transparent communication links
Abstract: A method for performance monitoring of data transparent communication links, including a method wherein each symbol in an incoming data symbol stream is sampled at the center of each bit period to create a main line data bit stream, and concurrently sampled at a time instant displaced from the center of each bit period to create a second line data bit stream. During each bit period, the digital value of the second line data stream is compared with the digital value for the corresponding bit period in the main line. If the main line and second line digital values are the same, no error is indicated. If they are different, i.e. if, for example, the main line is bit "1" and the second line is bit zero, an error called a pseudo error is entered on a counter. The number of errors counted per number of bits or time is indicated as a pseudo error rate for each point of time displacement in the user-defined set.
Assignee: LuxN, Inc.
Inventor: Madabusi Govindarajan
Inhibitors of protein isoprenyl transferases
Abstract: Compounds having the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein R1 is (a) hydrogen, (b) loweralkyl, (c) alkenyl, (d) alkoxy, (e) thioalkoxy, (f) halo, (g) haloalkyl, (h) aryl-L2—, and (i) heterocyclic-L2—; R2 is selected from (a) (b) —C(O)NH—CH(R14)—C(O)OR15, (d) —C(O)NH—CH(R14)—C(O)NHSO2R16, (e) —C(O)NH—CH(R14)-tetrazolyl, (f) —C(O)NH-heterocyclic, and (g) —C(O)NH—CH(R14)—C(O)NR17R18; R3 is substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic or aryl, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl, and —P(W)RR3RR3′; R4 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, haloalkyl, halogen, aryl, arylakyl, heterocyclic, or (heterocyclic)alkyl; L1 is absent or is selected from (a) —L4—N(R5)—L5—, (b) —L4—O—L5—, (c) —L4—S(O)n—L5—(d) —L4—L6—C(W)—N(R5)&md
Assignee: University of Pittsburgh
Inventors: Said M. Sebti, Andrew D. Hamilton, Kenneth J. Barr, Stephen A. Fakhoury, Stephen J. O'Connor, Saul H. Rosenberg, Wang Shen, Bryan K. Sorensen, Gerard M. Sullivan, James T. Wasicak, Kenneth J. Henry, Le Wang
Method for improving the reliability of underfill process for a chip
Abstract: A hole is generated in a substrate. A chip is connected to the substrate by using the chip receiving area of the substrate by using flip chip assembly. The hole is aligned to the chip receiving area of the substrate. Then, a underfill process is performed such that the space between the chip and the substrate will be encapsulated using liquid capsulated material. The liquid capsulated material is injected into the hole from the back side surface of the substrate to the front side surface of the substrate.
Assignee: Apack Technologies Inc.
Inventors: Chong-Ren Maa, Albert Lin, Jin-Chyuan Biar
Process for esterification of amino
Abstract: A process is disclosed for the esterification of an amino acid or peptide in which the amino acid or peptide is converted into the corresponding ester in the presence of a hydrosulphate have the general formula ROSO3H, where R represents an alkyl group, with the hydrosulphate being prepared, in the presence of the amino acid or peptide, from chlorosulphonic acid and an alcohol having the general formula ROH, where R has the same meaning as above. The chlorosulphonic acid to amino acid or peptide molar ratio preferably is between 0.8 and 2.0, in particular between 1.0 and 1.3. A primary alcohol, in particular methanol, is preferably used as alcohol. The amino acid used may be for example an &agr;-amino acid chosen from the group comprising p-hydroxyphenylglycine, phenylglycine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, proline and valine; L-alanyl-L-proline or an ester of L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine, for example, may be used as peptide.
Assignee: DSM NV
Inventors: Wilhelmus H. J. Boesten, Peter J. L. M. Quaedflieg
Underwater burial apparatus
Abstract: Apparatus for locally disturbing an underwater bed to enable the burial of an elongate member (39) comprises a mounting (30,31), resilient means (88-93) such as brush filaments coupled to the mounting, and means (9) for moving the resilient means with respect to the mounting. The resilient means is constructed such that on moving the mounting along the line of the elongate member while moving the resilient means with respect to the mounting, the underwater bed is disturbed by the resilient means to enable the elongate member to be buried.
Assignee: Cable & Wireless PLC
Inventors: Andrew Stuart Ollason, Graham Peter Wallace, Kevin Clyde Peterson
Pharmaceutically active carotenoids
Abstract: The carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin are disclosed for pharmaceutical use in the treatment of advanced macular degeneration. High dosages are deployed to produce the high serum carotenoid levels needed to cause take-up by the macula.
Assignee: The Howard Foundation
Inventors: Alan N Howard, John T Landrum, Richard A Bone
Mounting body
Abstract: A mounting body (10) for mounting a flow generator assembly (13) within an external housing. The body (10) is formed from a compliant material and is adapted to be fixed with respect to the housing. The body (10) also includes a recess of substantially complementary shape to the flow generator assembly (13) to receive and locate same. Also disclosed is an apparatus for providing breathable gas to a patient. The apparatus includes an external apparatus housing, the flow generator assembly (13) and the mounting body (10).
Assignee: ResMed Limited
Inventors: Barton John Kenyon, Alexander Virr, Marek Tomasz Sapula, Philip Rodney Kwok, Peter John Deacon Wickham
Human cyclin I and genes encoding same
Abstract: This invention relates to a novel protein having a high degree of homology to the amino acid sequence of the so-called cyclin box which is characteristic of cyclins: they are herein referred to as "human cyclin I" or "human cyclin I protein." Further, the invention relates to a gene encoding their amino acid sequences and the protein: the gene is referred to as "gene encoding human cyclin I" or "human cyclin I gene." Also, the invention relates to expression vector into which the human cyclin I gene is incorporated as well as to a transformant into which the vector is introduced. Still further, the invention relates to a recombinant protein obtained by growing the transformant. In addition, the invention relates to a novel neuron-marking method using an anitisense nucleotide of the gene as probe. Furthermore, the invention relates to method for screening cancer cell using the human cyclin I gene.
Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Inventor: Takeshi Nakamura
Telemetric measuring of a mobile telephone network
Abstract: A method of measuring radio path quality values (SQ) in a digital mobile telephone network (PLMN) comprising at least one mobile station (MS). In the method, co-ordinates (XY) of a measuring point are determined and transmitted to the mobile telephone network (PLMN). A mobile test device (TS) measures the radio path quality values (SQ) from a downlink transmission path. The mobile telephone network (PLMN) measures the radio path quality values (SQ) from an uplink transmission path. According to the invention, the mobile test device (TS) sends the results from said measurements to the mobile telephone network (PLMN) essentially without delay. The mobile telephone network (PLMN) receives the measurement results (SQ) sent by the mobile test device (TS) and combines them with its own measurement results (SQ) and with the co-ordinates (XY) of the measuring point essentially without delay.
Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy
Inventor: Jari Suutarinen
3-phenyl-7-[4-(tetrahydrofurfuryloxy)phenyl]-1,5-dioxa-s-indacene-2,6-dione
Abstract: A compound, 3-phenyl-7-[4-(tetrahydrofurfuryloxy)phenyl]-1,5-dioxa-s-indacene-2,6-dione, which has a structure of crystals exhibiting the strongest peak at an angle of diffraction, 2&thgr;, of 4.7°, among peaks appearing within the range of not smaller than 3° of 2&thgr;, in an X-ray diffraction using a Cu-K&agr;-ray. The compound gives dyed or printed products having deep and brilliant tint of colors with excellent fastnesses, when applied to hydrophobic fiber materials, particularly, polyester fiber materials.
Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
Inventors: Junichi Sekihachi, Jun Yamamoto, Yasuyoshi Ueda
Ocular optics system having at least four reflections occurring between curved surfaces
Patent number: RE37169
Abstract: The invention relates to an ocular optics system which forms no intermediate image, is reduced in terms of size and weight with well-corrected aberrations, and is best suited for use on face- or head-mounted image display devices, and provides an ocular optics system 7 comprising three juxtaposed optical surfaces 3, 4 and 5, wherein a space defined by three optical surfaces 3, 4, and 5 is filled with a transparent medium having a refractive index greater than 1, at least two optical surfaces 3 and 4 of these three optical surfaces are defined by curved surfaces concave on a pupil position side of the optics system, and at least four reflections occur between curved surfaces 3 and 4.
Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Takayoshi Togino
Image display apparatus
Abstract: An image display apparatus which enables observation of a clear image at a wide field angle with substantially no reduction in the brightness of the image, and which is extremely small in size and light in weight and hence unlikely to cause the observer to be fatigued. The apparatus includes an image display device (6) and an ocular optical system (9) for leading an image of the display device (6) to an observer's eyeball (1). The ocular optical system (9) has a first optical element (7) and a second optical element (8). The first optical element (7) has three surfaces, and a space formed by the surfaces is filled with a medium having a refractive index larger than 1.
Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., LTD
Inventor: Koichi Takahashi
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True human integrity is not a given, it is a conquest. We are not born one, but multiple. And most people, throughout their lives, continue to manifest various traits of character, often contradictory or in any case disparate, mal-unified. Integrity is the virtue of the one who has made and continues to make the effort to be coherent, and to harmonize one's tendencies into a whole whose purity is close to what Nietzsche called the self as a work of art: a personal symphony.
Sometimes we speak of a person of integrity as someone a little rigid and privileging morality at the detriment of personal pleasure. There's something of Clint Eastwood's character in the person of integrity. Hence the difficulty of most cheap enjoyers, open to easy gratification, to imagine themselves honest. The Latin root of the word integrity suggests a person or thing that has not been tampered with, that has remained intact, pure. But true integrity does not follow a Puritan morality imposed from the outside: it is rather a respect and desire for oneself, a conformity of oneself to oneself, a dynamic of integration of our existential drafts in successive and more homogeneous versions of ourselves. It is sometimes said that it must be boring to be a person of integrity. But what is more boring: the conquering pain of worthy maturation or spending days stumbling over multiple versions of oneself bickering to take the reins of the ego? By dint of wanting to be a little everything and everywhere, we are rarely grandiose and finally we do not enjoy life as much as we expected. One might wake up one day, late, filled with holes, stained by mediocrity and self-denial, with a taste of old chewing gum in the mouth.
The idea of integrity and the ethical idea of adulthood have much in common, if we accept the fact that being an adult is not only a question of age but of heroism. To become one and powerfully serene, it is necessary to give away certain aspects that we had identified as personal. Most people cultivate too many contradictory tendencies without privileging a dominant facet. Becoming one without becoming dull is an art of virtuosity that goes through some pain, but a chosen pain, sublime, and in fact joyful. It is of course important not to feel guilty about our contradictions, nor to try to overcome them too quickly or too violently: they are natural – after all we are the children of the Creal, the multiple and the possible. But it is also profitable for an admirable life to eliminate as many conflicting tendencies as possible. The question then is: What facet of my personal experience should I choose to be a person of integrity? Who am I?
Too many people, without renouncing integrity, tend to postpone becoming one, for fear of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. They would like to be more coherent, more faithful to themselves, but have no idea of the principles of this higher self. Integrity begins with the desire to be honest. Becoming oneself is every day discovering a territory that expands, with trees that we had not imagined, unexpected creatures, activities that we would not have thought we would embrace, and other concretizations of our fidelity to values or beliefs that one embodies better — that is to say durably — if one becomes aware of them.
Integrity is a puzzle of principles, with a centerpiece in the center, the principle of principles drawn by the sum of the secondary principles. It is rare to find directly the principle of principles that governs the highest version of oneself. But we can sketch its figure little by little, keeping the pieces of the puzzle that seem right, harmonious with our intuitive music. Integrity is not only difficult to achieve because we do not have enough pieces to make the right puzzle: it is complex because we have too many pieces, and we spend too much time trying indolently to make a puzzle from pieces that never interlock.
To create is also to eliminate. Richness will later return, more persistent, more unheard of, more intense, after a phase of voluntary — firm but loving — depletion.
The paragraphs below are excerpted from the manuscript of my forthcoming book, The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps (Edinburgh University Press). This is a draft, especially the English translation of Bergson's quotations, which I am working on at the moment.
Bergson seemed to present here a synthesis of the ideas of authors like Durkheim, Tarde, Palante, or Terraillon: esprit de corps was a tribal process of collective self-glorification. But Bergson's use of inverted commas was probably connected to the fact that for him, this 'feeling of honour' was not true or natural, but rather a necessary fiction, a 'fabulation'.
In Latin, fabulari meant to speak and invent a story. Bergson suggested that language, ideology and storytelling could help to create a mindset, a second nature, that simulated animal instinct to a certain extent. Esprit de corps was a form of collective hallucination, a contagious social fiction, a more or less permanent altered state of consciousness. This would justify the use of the term esprit as a form of spiritual possession. The apparent paradox here was that freedom and intelligence were interlaced with illusion and insect-like instinct. How could one be free and at the same time hallucinating? How could one be intelligent and model one's conduct on a fable?
In other words, esprit de caste and antagonism between groups was inevitable. But a more creative form of esprit de corps existed, if ephemerally; one that was about love and openness for mankind rather than agonism.
The mystical hero, a mutant of sorts, was the key to the evolution of humanity. Nature is antagonistic and closed, while life is openness to a spiritual dimension, deeper and freer than instinct. Universalism and particularism, love and war, were for Bergson a process of dialectical humanism that slowly aspired towards a cosmopolitan form of solidarity, even if it was constantly limited by specific manifestations and norms. The pression of basic instinct was slowly overflowed by the aspiration of life, a virtual instinct that was more plastic, not completely solid or automatic, but rather carrying the energy of life as cosmic creative flow. This energy was incarnated by rare role-model figures that kept re-inventing humanity.
For Bergson, not unlike Durkheim or Palante, esprit de corps was not only a societal notion but also a biological one: 'Any morality, of pressure or aspiration, is of biological essence.' But Bergson's biology was holistic rather than reductionist. For him the flow of life was a spiritual creative flow, a dilation, an expansive aspiration towards the creation of new forms of society and intelligence, a movement that was regularly obstructed but never stopped by matter, reality contracted into the robustness, solidity and solidarity of collective niches, but never totally rigidified because of the underground momentum of life. Our existence is driven by this double dynamic movement of, on the one hand, 'dilatation' and springing (inspiration, esprit), and 'contraction', solidification by ordering (incorporation, corps) on the other hand. Esprit de corps is for Bergson the very dialectic of life, reflecting the original cosmic dynamic duality between the multiple and One, creation and unification.
There is such a dialectic at work in human social processes: one movement is of creation and aspiration towards freedom, the other regulates the preservation of individuals into safer cohesive groups. To achieve the latter, a simulated instinct was often more efficient than intelligence: 'Intelligence would be an obstacle to serenity.' The reduction of the unpredictable was the practical aim of esprit de corps as second nature: it had to somewhat contradict the impetus of creative evolution.
'Si l'on admet […] une 'mentalité primitive', on y verra le respect de soi coïncider avec le sentiment d'une telle solidarité entre l'individu et le groupe que le groupe reste présent à l'individu isolé, le surveille, l'encourage ou le menace, exige enfin d'être consulté et obéi […]. La pression du moi social s'exerce avec toutes ces énergies accumulées. L'individu n'obéit d'ailleurs pas seulement par habitude de la discipline ou par crainte du châtiment : le groupe auquel il appartient se met nécessairement au-dessus des autres, […] et la conscience de cette supériorité de force lui assure […] toutes les jouissances de l'orgueil. […] Il suffit d'observer ce qui se passe sous nos yeux dans les petites sociétés qui se constituent au sein de la grande, quand des hommes se trouvent rapprochés les uns des autres par quelque marque distinctive qui souligne une supériorité réelle ou apparente, et qui les met à part. […] Tous les membres du groupe 'se tiennent' ; on voit naître un 'sentiment de l'honneur' qui ne fait qu'un avec l'esprit de corps.' Bergson, Les deux sources, p. 66–7.
'C'est de l'instinct virtuel, entendant par là qu'à l'extrémité d'une autre ligne d'évolution, dans les sociétés d'insectes, nous voyons l'instinct provoquer mécaniquement une conduite comparable, pour son utilité, à celle que suggèrent à l'homme, intelligent et libre, des images quasi hallucinatoires.' Ibid., p. 114.
'Fabuler', Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales, <www.cnrlt.fr>.
'Entre la société où nous vivons et l'humanité en général il y a […] le même contraste qu'entre le clos et l'ouvert. […] Qui ne voit que la cohésion sociale est due, en grande partie, à la nécessité pour une société de se défendre contre d'autres, et que c'est d'abord contre tous les autres hommes qu'on aime les hommes avec lesquels on vit ?' Ibid., p. 27.
Bergson, L'évolution créatrice(Paris, Alcan, 1907).
'société mystique qui engloberait l'humanité entière' Ibid.,p. 85.
'Des âmes privilégiées ont surgi qui se sentaient apparentées à toutes les âmes et qui, au lieu de rester dans les limites du groupe et de s'en tenir à la solidarité établie par la nature, se portaient vers l'humanité en général dans un élan d'amour. L'apparition de chacune d'elles était comme la création d'une espèce nouvelle composée d'un individu unique, la poussée vitale aboutissant de loin en loin, dans un homme déterminé, à un résultat qui n'eût pu être obtenu tout d'un coup pour l'ensemble de l'humanité.' Ibid., p. 97.
'Toute morale, pression ou aspiration, est d'essence biologique.'Bergson,Les deux sources, p. 103.
Bergson, L'évolution créatrice, pp. 46–149.
'L'intelligence serait un obstacle à la sérénité.' Bergson,Les deux sources, p. 219.
'Des exercices continuellement répétés sont nécessaires, comme ceux dont l'automatisme finit par fixer dans le corps du soldat l'assurance morale dont il aura besoin au jour du danger.' Ibid., p. 212.
There is a relationship between physicalism and anticipation, according to Burgers (1975). Physicalist descriptions usually follow the causality principle. Causality is a certain discourse according to which "objective facts" from the past affect an objective present state of affairs. "It is in this way that the 'past'—that is, those aspects of past phenomena which are amenable to measurement—has come to appear as the 'cause' of the present. It is a concise statement summarizing the accumulated experience obtained by observing the behavior of nonliving bodies and systems, collected since the beginning of modern science." (p. 194) To be fair, science does not claim to be able to predict all facts from the past and future: it claims less ambitiously that in order to predict certain physical states of material objects, we can look at some anterior similar properties of the system.
Causality is not the only mode of transmission between two realities. Moreover, humans apply metaphors of causality on a daily basis to their subjective experience: "She left him because he did not love her" is a sentence that seems to express a causal relation. Yet if we compare it to a sentence like: "The ball fell because she did not catch it", we exemplify that causality itself is always far more complex than intended. The very idea of causality might have evolutionarily emerged from the mind's desire to reduce complexity. In other words, there is a desire for clarity and actuality that causes causal explanations as operational narratives. If we focus on the material patterns that explain processes, we forget the original intention to understand, clarify and anticipate, which nevertheless was the motivation for a causal discourse.
Let's consider the desire to eliminate uncertainty and reduce complexity. That desire itself is probably complex, enmeshed in a series of micro-desires—as in Leibniz's micro-perceptions. Burgers notes that the fact that feelings and desires are usually left apart in physical and biological explanations is unsatisfactory. Living beings make "extrapolations", not only about the future but also about the present and the past. This might be because the ultimate "motivation" of a living being is to generate "extensions of potentialities for action." The problem with such an explanation is that is seems to presuppose innumerable forms of local will at work, cognitive if unconscious intentionalities constantly negotiating with each other. But if such a thing as will exists in the universe, how can it be quantitatively divided into subjective wills, your will, my will, the cat's will, without being negated? The fact that ego can happen to be the negation of will is a paradox often debated in the history of psychoanalysis. If will emerges from individual beings, we would have to explain how localized matter can generate will, and in the end, we would probably need to presuppose a form of universal will if we don't want to claim something problematic like: "This particular assemblage of atoms started to have a will as a part of their system." Here we could look at Spinoza's pantheism for further exploration.
I don't believe we need to put too much emphasis on will. Burgers cannot imagine that determinism and what he calls "freedom"—which he equates with choice—can be one and the same aspect of the same process. But if we accept the hypothesis according to which "extensions of potentialities" is the state by default of the universe, that the primum mobile or first cause of all material causalities and realities is a creative and desiring Real, a Creal, an infinite and continuously dynamic soup of potentialities, then there cannot be such thing as zero potentialities for action apart as an idea. Even a dead body contains numerous potentialities for actualization, decomposition and recomposition, although these actions might not be perceived by the consciousness that once occupied the body. An actuality for a given reality is a potentiality for a not yet given reality.
The feeling of anticipation is the feeling of the Creal: potentialities that call for actualizations. Subjective wills are local manifestations of a universal will which is not really a will, rather an aspiration generated in all microcosms by their participation to the Creal hypercosm—and its double, the One. The dynamic and asymptotic horizon of a realm of potentialities is Unity, because Oneness is the primal condition for actualization. The dynamic and asymptotic horizon of a realm of actualities is Multiplicity, because Disparateness is the primal condition for potentiality.
Burgers, J. M. (1975). Causality and Anticipation. Science, vol. 189, No. 4198, pp. 194-198.
Human existence, as possibility and ongoing project (Sartre, 1956), is the anticipation, the expectation, the sentiment of what will be. The future is our fundamental existential dimension (Heidegger, 1962). Existence is always stretched out towards the possible of a horizon that death renders elastic. To attempt to escape the anguish felt before the power of a future that is our responsibility, we tend to apply a form of bad faith that transforms the future into an object, a determined thing that is happening without our consent. Today a dominant figure of this objectified future is Artificial Intelligence, a.k.a AI.
An ironical mise en abyme makes this moment of our technological destiny particularly significant: as an industrial tool, artificial intelligence is itself more and more used as a predictive, prescriptive and anticipatory media. AI is not only the fetishized future that allows us to surrender our responsibility, but it is also an objectifying tool itself, transforming uncertainty into probabilities and patterns into certainties. In anticipating an automated future, humans are attempting to automate anticipation itself. Rather than simply distinguishing what is fairer or less chocking in terms of choice between several objectified futures, the ethics of automation must question our nihilism, the subject's "passion of abolition" or "great disgust" (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987).
The disgust or discouragement of being human is one of the blind spots of our ethics of machine intelligence. Appeals to a human-centric and more humane technology are today unanimous, leaving a taboo in its shade in the form of murmured questions: are we humans, so much better than machines? Are machines not our other, because of our tendency to act in autopilot mode evidenced by psychology (Raichle et al, 2001). Worse, are machines not better than us? They don't lie, they don't kill, they don't betray, they don't get sick, and technology itself never gets old or vulnerable (only its applications do) since it is today the realm of the new. To cure ourselves from such nihilistic temptations, we need understand anew that being human-centric should not amount to a list of objective qualities that humans would have, because if any quality could be objectified then it could possibly be quantified, simulated or automated. Being human-centric can only mean, in the existentialist sense: open to the conscious subject as pure possibility of creation. Open to the Creal.
What the ethics of automation are about is this revelation and actualization of the subject as openness to creation, responsibility and freedom as personal initiative rather than choice between objectified and quantified options. In this sense, extensive automation, as the one permitted by AI can in fact be a global existential opportunity for humanity.
By revealing our future illiteracy (Miller, 2018) and vulnerability to objectification in terms of future predictions and data analysis, anticipatory media also puts us in front of the responsibility of our freedom, by suggesting we question once more the notion of personal initiative. Hyper-prediction and artificial anticipatory intelligence could mean the end of personal initiative, if automatic decisions and analytic prescriptions become part of our everyday experience. But precisely by placing the phenomenon of personal initiative under high pressure and menace, artificial intelligence might liberate human active intelligence at last. In the 21st century, humanity will need to choose between a) achieving total smoothness as in any dystopian novel in the manner of Brave New World (Huxley, 1932) and b) preserving roughness (Wittgenstein, 1953). Artificial intelligence and automation are very good at smoothing the world, eliminating complications, noise, favoring flow, effectivity, and creating user-friendly experiences: "We have got on to slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk, so we need friction. Back to the rough ground." (Wittgenstein, 1953, §107).
Delegating the care for the future to machines in the form of analytic prediction and data-based prescription is tempting, but in the end it manifests the illusion of a non-mediated existence, one of pure smoothness: a world of inertia.
Heidegger, M. (1962) Being and Time. New York: Harper & Row.
Miller, R. (2018), Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the 21st century. London: Routledge.
Raichle, M. E. (2001), et al. "A Default Mode of Brain Function", in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 98 (2).
Sartre, J.-P. (1956). Being and nothingness. Oxford, England: Philosophical Library.


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Q: Multivariable Multiindex Leibniz Rule Question states:
"Let $f,g: \Bbb R^n \to \Bbb R$ be of class $C^{\infty}$ and let $\alpha \in \Bbb N_0^n$ be a multiindex. Show that
$$\partial^\alpha(fg) = \sum_{\beta+\gamma=\alpha}\frac{\alpha!}{\beta!\gamma!}(\partial^\beta f)(\partial^\gamma g)".$$
I tried solving this using induction. I first proved the case for $\lvert \alpha \rvert = 1$ (or, equivalently, when $\alpha$ has only $1$ in an arbitrary position and all other terms are $0$). However, I couldn't really deduce that if the case is true for $\lvert \alpha \rvert = k$, then $\lvert \alpha \rvert = k+1$ is true. Any help? Also, if there is other any to prove this statement that would be welcome.

A: When $|\alpha| = k + 1$, write $\alpha = (\alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_n)$ and choose some $1 \leq i \leq n$ with $\alpha_i > 0$. Split $\alpha = \beta + \gamma$ where
$$ \beta = (\alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_{i-1}, \alpha_i - 1, \alpha_{i+1}, \dots, \alpha_n),\\ \gamma = (0, \dots, 0, 1, 0, \dots, 0). $$
Then
$$ \partial^{\alpha}(fg) = \partial^{\gamma + \beta}(fg) = \frac{\partial}{\partial x_i} \left( \partial^{\beta} (fg) \right) $$
and you can apply the induction hypothesis to the $\partial^{\beta}(fg)$ term and then use linearity and apply $\frac{\partial}{\partial x^i}$ to each of the resulting terms (you know what should be the result as this is the base case for the induction).

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British Touring Car Championship leader Adam Morgan and Stockport engine guru Ric Wood claimed a race victory apiece, gunning the latter's sensational-sounding Ford Capri round Thruxton's super-fast 2.356 miles as the Historic Touring Car Challenge and Tony Dron Trophy Group 1 contenders made their venue debuts at the Hampshire airfield circuit's 50th Anniversary Celebration event on June 2-3.
Neither Morgan nor Wood had things entirely his own way, however, for watched by a sizeable and appreciative audience, basking in warm summer sunshine on the banking and in the grandstands at the chicane, BTCC Volvo racer James Hanson demonstrated the potential of invitee Paul Pochciol's newly rebuilt Jaguar XJ12C – a replica of the spectacular but unsuccessful Broadspeed cars of the 1970s – by leading the mighty Capri in half-hour races on both days.
Making it three engine configurations in the podium places, the rumbling V8 Chevrolet Camaros of Dron set pacesetter Oliver Bryant and Alex Thistlethwayte chased Morgan home in Saturday's opener. Bryant, flinging the Simoniz-liveried late-model Group 1 car round superbly, also split Wood and Hanson/Pochciol in Sunday's half-hour, in which TDT Capri dicers Patrick Watts and John Spiers enjoyed a cracking battle.
A bunch of late withdrawals post-Donington regrettably included the fire-breathing Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 of Mark Wright and local ace Dave Coyne, Thruxton's outright lap record-holder in 1991 at a staggering 1m03.66s (133.23mph), at the wheel of a high-downforce Formula 3000 Reynard 90D single-seater. The enthusiastic takers nonetheless numbered 16, including George Pochciol, son of Paul, who joined the party late with his Capri in Esso warpaint.
Just a fortnight after the BTCC's annual visit – in which he bolstered his points tally with a race three victory in the Mac Tools with Cicely Motorsport Mercedes-Benz A-Class – Morgan and former Modsaloon man Wood were quickly into their stride in the sonorous crossover-injected three-litre Weslake powered Capri, sidelined at Donington by what transpired to be a minor crank pulley failure to Ric's relief. He left most of the Q-session to Morgan who duly topped the qualifying timesheets with a 1m26.993s (an average speed of 97.49mph), 1.853s quicker than Hanson's best in the Jag, which proved a real handful.
Bryant, no stranger to Thruxton's sweeps – he won the 2005 British GT Championship round with Keith Ahlers in a Morgan Aero 8, and set fastest lap in a V10 Dodge Viper in '08 – gridded an outstanding third in the Richard Lloyd 350ci (5.7-litre) Camaro Z28, his 1:29.101 (95.19mph) shod on old Dunlop Post-Historic treaded rubber heading the Dron field. His closest rival was BTCC veteran Watts (Frank & Jeans LEVIS Capri 3.0S) on a very solid 1:30.730, albeit two rows back in seventh overall.
Between them on Saturday's grid sat American Fred Wakeman in the gruff Rover SD1 originally supplied by Dave Price Racing to Eloff Leyland in South Africa. Like Wakeman, team-mate Patrick Blakeney-Edwards was a Thruxton rookie who warmed to its challenges. Having achieved a stout 1:29.418, they planned a solo race apiece, since Fred was heading back to the US on business after his sortie. Also inside the psychological 1:30 mark was invitee Thistlethwayte in his very handsome '67-shaped Ovaltine Camaro, also with a 350ci V8 under its hood.
Hotfoot from Charade in France's mountainous Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, where he'd raced a 1960 F1 Cooper T53 brilliantly the previous weekend, Will Nuthall sped Tony Hart's Renault 5 GT Turbo round in 1:30.698 to pip Watts's class-leading Capri. Alongside Patrick on row four would line-up Martin 'Fireball' Overington's meaty-looking Rover, in which Guy Stevens was soloing. Spiers' Hermetite Capri 3.0S was only a fraction of a second adrift of the burly SD1, despite only putting in four laps of practice.
Invitee Mark Burnett's Mini 1275GT – Essex rolling road specialist Jon Mowatt's 1980 British Saloon Car Championship racer – cut an impressive 1:34.158, chased by Ben Short in Nick Riley's Historic Cooper S. Split by Paul Chase Gardener's Motorcraft/Autocar Capri 3.0S, a trio of Alfa Romeos propped up the qualifiers. Quickest of these was Wolverhampton marque dealer Ian Guest's rorty 2.5-litre Boule d'Or GTV6 shared with son Frank, chased by the eyecatching Group 1 spec Alpilatte version of Paul Clayson and preparer Darren Roberts in Glynn Allen's earlier Bertone 105-shaped two-litre. Pochciol Jr was allowed to join the fun despite missing the morning session.
Steeling himself for the challenge, Hanson mustered the bravado to jump Morgan at Saturday's start, leading for a couple of laps before the five-time BTCC race winner had the tail-happy Capri's slick tyres up to temperature and howled past. James boldly outbraked Adam into the Club chicane on lap four, but two circuits later the status quo was effectively settled with the Liqui Moly oil treatment/Nigrin polish tribute-liveried Ford ahead.
Bryant and Thistlethwayte led the chase in their big Chevvies, Olly on treaded tyres gradually shaking off the hotter example. After a feisty start by Hart, who had the Renault up to fifth initially, Wakeman bustled his raucous Rover past, leaving the sizzling turbocar exposed to the Capris of Watts – first of the quicker cars to make its mandatory pitstop – and Spiers, battling with Burnett's plucky Mini.
Yorkshireman Hanson had lost half a minute to Lancastrian Morgan when he stopped at half-distance, the end of lap 10, as did Nuthall, Burnett and Spiers. "I'm knackered, my arms are ready to fall off," puffed James, clearly by the effort. If the wayward Jaguar had spooked the former 'pro,' how was its owner going to get on? Pochciol was sixth at the end of his out lap, with leader Morgan now in the pit phase and little prospect of great improvement.
Bryant stopped from the lead after 12 laps, with Thistlethwayte just 1.75s behind at the timing line, therefore Wakeman – last of the pit visitors – enjoyed a lap in the lead. While the green and white Rover sat dormant outside the Blakeney Motorsport garage on the pit apron Morgan went back ahead with Bryant and Thistlethwayte, having rejoined nose-to-tail, still together almost 20 seconds adrift. Pochciol ran fourth at this point but, lapping six to eight seconds off hotshoe Hanson's early pace, fell prey to Wakeman, going increasingly quickly, five laps from home.
A lap down at the chequered flag, Watts snared a class-winning sixth – second in the overall Tony Dron Trophy classification – chased by Burnett and Spiers who was ambushed by the Mini two laps from home. Nuthall, who briefly nipped the Renault ahead of the Capri, was ninth ahead of Stevens' ailing Rover (the diff on which failed) and the Guest family's Alfa. Chase-Gardener, Clayson, George Pochciol and Roberts all completed 18 laps. Only the Short/Riley Cooper S fell by the wayside.
Sunday morning's race saw Ric Wood soloing in his Capri while different tyres had "transformed" the Jaguar according to Hanson, who stormed into the lead from the rolling start. Having set the weekend's fastest HTTC lap at 1:24.921s (99.87mph, tantalisingly close to the 'magic ton'), James extended a 20 second advantage over Ric by the time he peeled the XJ12 into the pits 11 laps in. "We threw it away at the pitstop. The guys couldn't get the steering wheel off, so we lost a lot of time [more than 20 seconds to Wood]," rued James.
Pochciol was unable to stave off Bryant in the closing stages, thus Olly claimed a splendid runner-up spot, almost 10 seconds clear at the chequer, throwing his Camaro sideways at the chicane last time round in celebration. "That was fantastic. Trying to stay with the cars on slicks put me in tyre survival mode early on. Three of my tyres were like slicks at the end, but second was unexpected," he enthused. Thistlethwayte finished an excellent fourth, pursued by Blakeney-Edwards who worked down to within a second of Wakeman's Saturday times on a hotter day.
Sixth overall, Spiers finished second of the Dron Trophy set and top of his class, his heady scrap with Watts' similar Capri defused when Patrick's V6 coughed, dry of fuel, on the penultimate lap. The rapid Burnett, Pochciol and the Guests also finished a lap down on the leaders, the last pair's Alfa having shaken off Chase-Gardener and Clayson after a protracted tussle. The Renault 5, slowing ("it had about 75 horsepower after it lost its turbo," said Nuthall) struggled home 10th, just ahead of PC-G's Capri. Riley's Mini was retired when it lapsed onto three cylinders.


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Thanks to a well drafted screenplay, Parmanu holds its ground towards the climax. Here's our review of John Abraham's film.
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Rohit Vats
John Abraham's Parmanu is inspired by Pokhran II tests carried out by India in the 90s.
Cast: John Abraham, Diana Penty
Director: Abhishek Sharma
On a scorching May afternoon, an American spy, while sitting at an urbane cafe in Jaisalmer, advises his bosses to be careful about some suspicious activities near the nuclear site in Pokhran. He begs to be taken seriously, but the in-charge back home is very confident of the state-of-the-art Lacrosse satellites America uses for surveillance. He believes technology more than the intuition of the on-field agent. It turns out to be one of the biggest intelligence failures in the history of the CIA.
The first draft of India's nuclear bomb explosion was written in the year 1995, but a tactical mistake leaked the information to the west, and the plan was abandoned under severe diplomatic pressure.
Parmanu The Story of Pokhran begins with Research And Test Wing's Ashwat Raina (John Abraham), who is still ruing over the apathy displayed by the Prime Minister's Office, PMO, during crucial moments. He had proposed the idea of nuclear test at a high-level meeting where the PM's representative looked more interested in the snacks than the strategy.
Watch: The real story behind Parmanu The Story Of Pokhran
Life has come a full circle for Ashwat, and he is called back by the PMO to re-launch the nuclear programme. It's a shaky start with actors trying to adjust to their non-melodramatic characters. The writers mean business and thus nobody is allowed to take extra-long pauses. Important information about satellites, code-words and blast site are conveyed in a matter-of-fact tone.
Initially, it appears over simplified. Is it really this easy to dodge the world's most efficient surveillance system? But this simplicity also makes the plan believable. One step at a time, characters begin to fit into the story.
The director, Abhishek Sharma, shows restrain and doesn't hurry into the matter. He lets the plan sink in into the minds of the viewers. They know what to expect.
Parmanu movie review: John Abraham's film has a thrilling climax
It's a tricky situation. Parmanu is a film based on a real event not long ago. You can easily predict the direction of the wind. A structure is already developed. The only way to stop the audiences from losing interest is by keeping them thrilled.
Sub plots are introduced and they serve their purpose. In fact, the film doesn't lose its sheen and engagement value because of the two spies introduced mid-way. Played by Mark Bennington and Abhiroy Singh, they add sleekness to Parmanu, usually non-existent in Hindi films.
There is also an attempt to introduce dark humour. It works, especially during an emotionally charged scene between John Abraham and Anuja Sathe, his wife in the film.
Parmanu revolves around John Abraham's persona. There are dark edges and the writers dare to touch them. Maybe unintentional, but their idea of a headstrong and nationalist government servant sometimes looks like a plea for war. Thankfully, they control it in time and let the theme take over.
Sharma has judiciously used real footage. That take the focus away from uncertain actors and breaks the monotony of shooting at the same location.
John Abraham's deadpan expressions are a hindrance but he somehow manages to hold his ground. Other actors follow his footsteps. It's the writing that saves the day for Abraham and Parmanu.
Actually, the best moments of Parmanu arrive towards the end, just when they are needed. A film that was slowly progressing towards a definite end in the first half starts to gather steam 20 minutes into the second half.
Suddenly, the events begin to unfold at a better pace. Small spoiler here, but the intercutting between the blast site and the PMO adds to the tension mostly absent in the first half. In fact, urgency is the word that defines Parmanu to a large extent. Had they shown more of it in the first half, it would have been a much better film!
Climax saves Parmanu from drowning in the dust of Pokhran. It picks up the pace at the right juncture, and gives audiences the choice to overlook some sketchy acting. At 129-minute duration, Parmanu keeps you hooked once you let the dull opening scenes pass.
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Q: How to set pool size for MySQLDataSource? I am a JavaSE user, writing a standalone web server not using Tomcat or Glassfish.
MySQL Connector/J(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/en/connector-j-overview.html) does not seem to offer an example.
Thanks in advance.

A: Finally I switched to Apache DBCP, its example code is not informative, so I leave my code here for future reference.
ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = new DriverManagerConnectionFactory(
            String.format("jdbc:mysql://%s:%d/%s", host, port, db), null);
PoolableConnectionFactory poolableConnectionFactory = new PoolableConnectionFactory(
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GenericObjectPoolConfig poolConfig = new GenericObjectPoolConfig();
poolConfig.setMaxTotal(100);
ObjectPool<PoolableConnection> connectionPool = new GenericObjectPool<>(
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poolableConnectionFactory.setPool(connectionPool);
PoolingDataSource<PoolableConnection> dataSource = new PoolingDataSource<>(
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return dataSource;

DBCP test code is more informative than its example(https://github.com/apache/commons-dbcp/blob/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/dbcp2/TestPoolingDriver.java)


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Q: Prove the given identity using the shortest method possible
Prove the given identity.
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Please provide the shortest method possible. I didn't get any idea to start the solution


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Darksiders Genesis
From the dawn of creation, THE COUNCIL has maintained the Balance across existence. Carrying out their orders are THE HORSEMEN, Nephilim (powerful beings spawned from the unnatural union of angels and demons) who have pledged themselves to the Council and been granted immense power. However, this power came at a tragic cost: the Horsemen were ordered to use their newfound strength to wipe out the rest of their kind. What followed was a bloody battle on Eden where the Horsemen, obeying the will of the Council, annihilated the Nephilim.
Still reeling from the events on Eden, WAR and STRIFE have been given a new assignment — LUCIFER, the enigmatic and deceptive demon king, has been plotting to upset the Balance by granting power to master demons throughout Hell. War and Strife must hunt down these masters, gather information, and ultimately fight their way through a tangled, demonic conspiracy that threatens to forever upset the Balance and unravel all of creation.
DARKSIDERS: GENESIS is an action/adventure game that tears its way through hordes of demons, angels, and everything in-between on its way to Hell and back with guns blazing and swords swinging. Genesis gives players their first look at the world of DARKSIDERS before the events of the original game. Furthermore, it introduces the fourth and last horseman STRIFE, as well as Co-op gameplay for the first time in the history of the franchise.
Blast angels and demons as the gunslinging Horseman Strife, playable for the first time
Swap between the powerful swordsman War and Strife instantly in frenetic, single-player gameplay
Explore the epic world of Darksiders and wreak havoc with a friend in two-player cooperative mode
Experience a brand new story campaign that takes place before the original Darksiders, exploring the origin of the Seven Seals
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Game Title: Darksiders Genesis
Metacritic: https://www.metacritic.com/search/game/darksiders-genesis/results/
Genres: Action, Adventure
Developers: Airship Syndicate
Publisher: THQ Nordic
Release Date: 5 Dec 2019
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Queen Rania Chairs a Discussion with Entrepreneurs from INJAZ
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah met today with a group of INJAZ Al-Arab alumni and entrepreneurs during a session celebrating the organization's 10th anniversary.
The meeting, which was also attended by Sean Rush, President and CEO of US-based Junior Achievement Worldwide (JAW); INJAZ's parent organization, Soraya Salti, MENA Regional Director of INJAZ Al-Arab and Akef Aqrabawi, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of INJAZ Al-Arab, showcased success stories of 14 young entrepreneurs from different countries including Jordan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, KSA, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Yemen and Oman.
Queen Rania praised the role of INJAZ and stressed the importance of its programs in providing youth with various job opportunities, which is considered to be one of the biggest challenges Arab youth face today.
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Aqrabawi also said that "Our students represent the spirit of experimentation and leadership in the Arab world, which is not only essential in creating jobs and offering entrepreneurial opportunities for our youth, this spirit is at the core of a youth-led economic renaissance."
INJAZ Al-Arab & Junior Achievement Worldwide
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La Peugeot 3008 DKR è un'autovettura da competizione prodotta dalla casa automobilistica francese Peugeot dal 2017 per competere nella Coppa del Mondo Cross Country Rally, vincendo il Rally Dakar nel 2017 e nel 2018.

Sviluppo

La vettura è stata progettata in modo conforme alla normativa tecnica FIA Coppa del Mondo Cross Country Rally Gruppo T1 classe 4, che comprende i cosiddetti "fuoristrada prototipi", a due ruote motrici spinti da un motore Diesel e privi di correlazione con la produzione di serie, con telaio, componenti meccanici e carrozzeria costruiti appositamente per questo tipo di corse. Della Peugeot 3008 stradale riprende solo in parte il nome e qualche vago elemento stilistico per scopi di marketing, ma tecnicamente non deriva da quest'ultima.

Rispetto alla 2008 DKR da cui deriva, la 3008 è stata realizzata con un budget inferiore rispetto alle iniziale previsione della casa francese.

La versione definitiva della 3008 DKR è stata presentata a settembre 2016 in evento a Parigi. Esteticamente cambia la livrea che è costituita dai loghi e colori dei tre principali sponsor del team (Red Bull, Total e BF Goodrich).

Tecnica
La 3008 è dotata della stessa unità della 2008 DKR, ossia un motore V6 bi-turbodiesel di 3 litri di cilindrata, ma dalla potenza ridotta di circa 20 CV, che scende a 340 CV con 800 Nm di coppia motrice. La riduzione di potenza è stata causata dai nuovi regolamenti in vigore dalla stagione 2017, che obbligano le vetture ad essere dotate di una flangia al motore che passa dai 39 mm della 2008 ai 38 mm della 3008 DKR. Gli pneumatici sono dei BF Goodrich rispetto ai Michelin della 2008 DKR. Inoltre la 3008 DKR dispone della sola trazione posteriore, in quanto la Peugeot ha optato per la classe T1.4 del regolamento FIA (fuoristrada prototipi due ruote motrici), che a fronte di una minore trazione rispetto alle 4X4 consente però di avere un peso ridotto, la possibilità di montare pneumatici di diametro maggiore e sospensioni con un'escursione superiore.

Il telaio è in acciaio a tralicci di tubi. La carrozzeria in fibra di carbonio è stata rivista, in special modo all'anteriore dove sono presenti nuove geometrie delle sospensioni, che permettono di ottenere una maggiore penetrazione aerodinamica e una velocità di punta superiore nelle sezioni più veloci del rally. Per incrementare l'efficienza, le sospensioni posteriori sono state montate in blocco alla scatola del cambio, in modo simile a quanto avviene nelle monoposto di Formula 1. Varie modifiche sono state fatte anche agli ammortizzatori, per assorbire meglio le asperità del terreno sabbioso tipico della Dakar. Poi per la prima volta viene montato un climatizzatore per l'abitacolo.

3008 DKR Maxi
Per la stagione 2018, sono state apportate alcune significative modifiche alla vettura, cambiando la denominazione in 3008 DKR Maxi. Esternamente la vettura è stata allarga di 200 mm per poter montare delle nuove sospensioni che incrementano la stabilità e migliorare la dinamica di guida.

La vettura ha debuttato nel luglio 2017 al Silk Way Rally con alla guida Sebastian Loeb.

Attività sportiva
Per la partecipazione al raid della stagione 2017 e 2018, sono stati ingaggiati i piloti francesi Cyril Despres, Sébastien Loeb, Stéphane Peterhansel e lo spagnolo Carlos Sainz. La vettura ha vinto entrambe le edizioni.

Palmarès

 2017

  nel Rally Dakar con Stéphane Peterhansel

 2018

  nel Rally Dakar con Carlos Sainz

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Peugeot 3008 DKR

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