Huge collection of Marble effect Ink Textures and Backgrounds is here. This pack was created by technique of painting on water surface by ink and gathering this abstract flows by dropping paper into. Then all of this papers was scanned, edited and saved as a high resolution textures.
Generally speaking, textures are graphic effects that recreate a some object or finish. For example, we see lots of folded paper and wood plank textures in various designs. Cement, skin or stone ones are also widely used. Textures usually consist of patterns yet they look like they are unique and accidental. The effective use of texture vectors is not tied to making backgrounds, their qualities can be employed in any design element. By adding textures, we can easily make an illusion of certain physical qualities, form depth, and add accents.
Precisely what a design pattern is?
The pattern can be described as visual composition you can observe just about everywhere and each and every day. Even your place is packed with patterns, for example, on the wallpaper that dress the walls of your living room. The pattern is an element of the image that is predictably repeated on and on to make a larger, symmetrical and geometric image.
Both the patterns and textures happen to be widely used in artwork. Website designers like to utilize them because patterns and textures certainly are a great backdrop for a webpage – they do not sidetrack the guest but underline the actual essence of the webpage. It is too costly to purchase them on an individual basis, which means that frequently they are offered in bundles.
The bundle is actually a set or selection of design items. They are accumulated to a single "box" and are advertised collectively, as one solution. Sometimes, there's certain topic or purpose which combines the items within a design bundle, but that's not really required. The time, as the bundle is available, could be very small (as many as 5 days) and that's why the price for it is less than those design items would cost when marketed individually. Deals are very cost-effective and make it possible for developers to save some good money.
So why the patterns & textures quality is so essential?
What if the package deal doesn't contain all the items I need?
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Does MasterBundles.com distribute any other alternative bundles?
Each of the bundles you come across on the Master Bundles are created by professional designers and have passed in-depth QC. The bundles feature typefaces, graphics, themes for WordPress, icons, PSD templates, , social media themes. You can also find stock images, illustrations, presentations and CVs, logos and indesign deals. There are sets that cost less than 5 dollars and holiday web themes units.
MasterBundles project is a major market place, promoting bundles of different web items. Anything you may want to set up a design job or a website is sold here and you can buy it for a lower price. There's also a blog, where you can get relevant info and latest news. The life span of a design bundle is rather limited, so to stay in touch and not overlook the particular package deal you need – subscribe for a newsletter and receive announcements about all the releases.


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Comedian James Corden Responds to Online Bully Who Wished Cancer on His Son as 'a Joke'
Tiffani Credle May 15, 2019
Online bullying can be particularly upsetting even for our favorite celebrities. Recently, comedian James Corden had to hit back at a troll when he was a target of cyberbullying.
He told a fan to play nice online after he made a vicious comment about his child.
As reported by Dearly, it's hard to confront a person bullying behind a computer screen, but that didn't stop the host of "The Late Late Show" from responding to a fan who wished cancer on his son, Max.
Some people weren't happy when Corden made a joke about a "Game of Thrones" spoiler.
Don't worry, everyone! President Trump knows exactly how to get out of this trade war with China… pic.twitter.com/B0LBrxQEbW
— The Late Late Show with James Corden (@latelateshow) May 14, 2019
As reported by the Blast, someone on Twitter went as far as saying they hoped his "kid gets cancer" after Corden revealed a plot twist. The commenter wrote in a since-deleted tweet:
It's f**ked up you can't even watch TV without a fat f**k spoiling something … Luckily I got to see it before this, but seriously I hope his kid gets cancer.
The Carpool Karaoke King, who shares daughters Carey, 4, and Charlotte, 17 months, alongside Max, 8, with his wife Julia, said he was deeply offended by the comment.
That is, without question, the single most upsetting thing I think you could ever say about me or my family. Please take a minute and think about what you just wrote and whether you want to be a person who publicly says such things.I believe you're better than that x
— James Corden (@JKCorden) May 14, 2019
The 40-year-old responded to the fan:
The person then replied that the comment was "a joke, you know like this segment was," according to People.
Corden went on to handle the cruel comment with grace and class.
Well I saw your hope for my https://t.co/sXNdumvMFm hope for yours is that they never get to read that their mother or father would wish cancer on any child as 'a joke'.Because however you defend it to them,they'll never be able to understand how you could do such a thing.Night x
He tweeted:
Well, I saw your hope for my son. My hope for yours is that they never get to read that their mother or father would wish cancer on any child as 'a joke.' Because however, you defend it to them, they'll never be able to understand how you could do such a thing. Night x
The Twitter account for the anonymous fan has since been suspended.
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Tiffani Credle
Tiffani is a writer for Dearly. She is from New York City. Prior to working for Dearly she covered fashion news and managed social media for various digital media outlets.
Mom Has to Face Her Kids After They Catch Her Having Sex. Her Mind Goes to One Thing…
"…what were you doing to Mummy?"
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"She begins to scream and then I see it."
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Autumn is here in New York once again. I always look forward to the cool air and the changing leaves. This season really brings forth the flavors of breakfast. Something salty something smokey something sweet. This morning, with the aroma of fresh apples in the air, I figured I would take a couple of macintosh apples, grate them down, add some batter, and see if I could get some fritters cooking.
So, with about a half an inch of light canola oil in my cast iron skillet, I mixed pancake batter and four medium-sized apples. I took a spoonful and placed it on a sheet of waxed paper and patted it flat with the spatula. Once I had three of these I transfered them to the hot oil and let then cook for about two minutes before flipping them over and cooking the other side.
Now while this is going on I have another small frying pan over a light flame cooking a couple of rashers of bacon. I like mine cooked but not crispy. Nice and chewy does it for me.
So, as the fritters finish cooking I scoop them out and place then on paper towels to drain off some of the oil.
As the bacon finishes, I transfer that to the plates, with a couple of fritters and pour on a nice drizzle of pure New York grade A maple syrup from a little place just outside of Middleburg.
Yes, the personal pizza at IL Cantone is really good. Fresh ingredients all chewy and gooey straight from the oven.
I think I've mentioned that the Cherry Valley market near me sells this fantastic Italian bread, two loaves for a dollar fifty. A bargain I dont often pass up especially on Fridays when I often make pasta. What's pasta without a loaf of garlic bread… But that's a story for another day. Today I'm focusing on what to do with the left over loaf. And that's where a lazy Saturday morning comes in handy when I make these mini french toast from the loaf left out to harden a little.
Start by warming up your skillet. In a large shallow bowl beat the egg and milk together. Whisk in a slash of amaretto. Soak the slices of bread in the egg mixture and place them on the skillet. It only take a few minutes to brown each side. When they are done transfer them to the plate, lightly butter them and dust with cinnamon sugar.
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C&L's Sat Nite Chiller Theater: 'House On Haunted Hill' (1959)
This movie was huge hit for horror icon, William Castle.
By John Amato
People forget that Vincent Price was cast as a heartthrob in the excellent 1940's film noir, Laura, but most of us remember him for his horror movies.
One of his bigger hits was a William Castle production called 'House on Haunted Hill.' Castle was an incredible promoter and came up wth some whacky ideas to get people into the movie theaters, but it was this film that influenced Alfred Hitchcock to make Psycho.
The film is perhaps best known for a famous promotional gimmick used in the film's original theatrical release called "Emergo." In some theaters that showed the film, William Castle placed an elaborate pulley system in the theater itself, which allowed a plastic skeleton to be flown over the audience at the appropriate time.[2] In August and September 2010, the Film Forum in New York City had a revival of the film (along with several other Castle pictures) that included the original gimmicks. This was the first time since the late 1980s Film Forum had done this.
Thanks in part to Castle's gimmickry, the film was a huge success. Alfred Hitchcock took notice of the low-budget film's performance at the box office, and set out to make his own low-budget horror film, which became the critically acclaimed hit Psycho (1960).[3]
The reason I picked this feature tonight was because when I was about four years old, I saw this movie in a darkened apartment by myself (my parents were next door) and when Leona Anderson popped out, it scared the hell out of me for the first time in my life.
But instead of recoiling from scary movies after it, I became a huge fan of them.
What does that say about me?
UPDATE: Please add to this thread, what your scariest moment at a movie was...
Chiller Theater
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The Tribe () is a 2018 Spanish comedy film directed by Fernando Colomo and written by Fernando Colomo and Yolanda García Serrano. The film is a MOD Producciones and Atresmedia Cine production, and it had the participation of Movistar+.

Premise
The Tribe revolves around how the human resources director of a massive corporation, Fidel García Ruiz (Paco León), becomes a viral sensation when he and an underling are caught on video having sex in his office. The video of the two of them being wheeled out of the office circulates, and becomes the basis of a mega-popular dance hit.

Cast

Release
Distributed by Hispano Foxfilm, The Tribe was theatrically released on March 16, 2018 in Spain.

See also
 List of Spanish films of 2018

References

External links

2018 films
2018 comedy films
Spanish comedy films
2010s Spanish-language films
MOD Producciones films
Atresmedia Cine films
2010s Spanish films
Films directed by Fernando Colomo

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Organizations Overconfident About Data Security
By: Arieanna Schweber | 11/19/2015
Statistics show that almost half of all organizations suffered at least one serious security incident / data breach in the past 12 months, a figure which grows year-to-year. Some estimates place the figure higher, closer to three-quarters of all organizations. In healthcare, the percentage of organizations who have suffered a significant data breach or security incident ranges from 68% of organizations in the past year to 91% in the past two years. With this in mind, one would assume that organizations would be hesitant to declare themselves "confident" in preventing a data breach. Unfortunately, new data reveals that organizations are overconfident in their security posture, a position that is likely to open them up to unnecessary risk.
According to the Breach Confidence Index released by Ilex International, conducted by YouGov, 83% of organizations claimed to be "fairly" or "very" confident that their business was secure against a data breach. The report, based on 530 IT decision-makers in the UK, showed that 51% of organizations believed that they had suffered a data breach, a number well-below average. As the survey notes, this number does not reflect a better security posture, but rather the underreported figures are likely attributed to a lack of awareness that a security incident has occurred, since reporting of security breaches is (currently) not required.
"With the UK being a leading economic centre and a major target for cyberattacks, the high confidence level is worrying and completely misplaced. The Breach Confidence Index shows that businesses have a false sense of security which could result in an increase in security breaches," noted Thierry Bettini, Director of International Strategy at Ilex International.
Just as fear can cause an organization to make irrational security responses, the lack of fear (this overconfidence) can cause organizations to be complacent in their security preparedness. We see this same overconfidence when organizations assume that "compliant" is the same thing as "protected," which it is not.
It's critical that organizations realize that data breaches can never be completely avoided, even with the best security posture, but the impact of a data breach can be minimized with preparedness. From proactive monitoring and reporting, to detection and response procedures, deploying a layered approach to security that extends beyond "good-enough" protection is the most effective strategy to keep sensitive information private and ultimately avoid legal and financial recourse. Learn more about how Absolute can provide the adaptive endpoint security your organization needs to always stay in control of devices and the data they contain.
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Arieanna Schweber
Arieanna Schweber has been a part of the Absolute writing team since 2007. Arieanna was Canada's first female professional blogger and has been professionally blogging since 2006 and has spoken at leading blogging conferences including BlogHer and Northern Voice. Arieanna has a joint degree in Business and Communications from Simon Fraser University and continues to build communities for Vancouver-based clients.
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How Donald Trump Invests
The Republican presidential candidate's campaign filings show he loves junk bonds, shuns overseas investments and sure likes to dabble.
By Steven Goldberg
When it comes to investing in the capital markets, Donald Trump takes big risks with bonds. With stocks, not so much. Regardless, his investments could use some work.
Best Stocks for a Donald Trump Presidency
Wading through Trump's latest financial-disclosure report, I found a surprisingly scattershot approach to his investments in individual stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and hedge funds, worth about $114 million in all. All presidential candidates must file annual financial-disclosure reports with the Federal Election Commission.
Trump, who says he's worth more than $10 billion (though experts say his net worth is likely smaller), makes the lion's share of his fortune from real estate, licensing of the Trump brand and other private ventures. His 104-page disclosure report lists more than 550 ventures, ranging from hotels to travel agencies to an ice skating rink.
But 20 pages of that report are devoted to investments in hedge funds, as well as ordinary stocks, bonds, mutual funds and ETFs. The report requires that candidates list holdings by a range in value, say $1,001 to $10,000. In each case, I've used the midpoint value to estimate how much Trump has in a particular investment. For instance, Trump reports owning shares of TJX Companies (symbol TJX (opens in new tab)) worth between $50,001 and $100,000, so I've valued his holding of the apparel retailer at $75,000.
Trump is a big fan of hedge funds — lightly regulated investment pools that give their managers a lot of leeway — and particularly hedge funds that invest in risky corners of the bond market, including junk bonds and distressed debt (debt of companies near or currently going through bankruptcy). In all, he has about $58.5 million in eight hedge funds.
Information about hedge funds is notoriously difficult to obtain. I've relied on a variety of sources, all of whom declined to speak for the record, to cobble together how Trump's hedge fund holdings invest.
To approximate how the hedge funds affect Trump's overall investments, I've incorporated returns from mutual funds and ETFs that invest similarly to, albeit generally much more conservatively than, the hedge funds. For instance, in place of Blackrock Obsidian, a hedge fund, I've used returns for SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (JNK (opens in new tab)), which tracks an index of junk bonds.
By entering this data, along with Trump's holdings in publicly traded securities, into Morningstar Office, a portfolio-management program, I was able to obtain a rough approximation of his portfolio.
How has Trump done? Assuming no trades in the portfolio, it would have returned 1.2% over the one-year period that ended June 30 and an annualized 4.9% and 5.8% over the three-year and five-year periods that ended June 30. That would have lagged Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by 2.8 percentage points over one year and by an average of 6.8 and 6.3 percentage points per year over three and five years. But the Trump portfolio exhibited just over half the volatility of the S&P 500 over the past three and five years. We also compared Trump's portfolio with a customized benchmark that reflected weightings of 45% in a junk bond index, 15% in the Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index (considered a proxy for domestic high-grade bonds), 20% in the S&P 500 and 20% in cash. Against that bogey, Trump trailed by 1.3 percentage points over one year but prevailed by a smidgen over the longer periods — 0.1 point per year over three years and 0.2 point per year over five.
Still, the portfolio has plenty of flaws, starting with the sheer number of securities he owns. Trump has 151 positions in stocks, including numerous stocks held in more than one brokerage account. He holds 101 positions in mutual funds and ETFs, again including many held in more than one account, and 85 individual bonds.
Owning so many securities doesn't make sense. What's more, 45 of the positions are worth less than $1,000, and another 35 are worth between $1,001 and $10,000. The sum of those 80 holdings can't amount to so much as a rounding error in Trump's net worth. He should clean out his closets.
It's hard to imagine any stock or fund investment of less than $1 million making sense for someone with a portfolio as large as Trump's. But Trump has only 11 positions worth more than $1 million, and only two of them appear to be individual stocks: Royal Bank of Canada (RY (opens in new tab)) and PepsiCo (PEP (opens in new tab)).
Next, he has accounts with four different brokerages: Barclays, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and Oppenheimer. Many people hire multiple brokerages because they think it improves diversification. Maybe, maybe not. What it certainly does is to keep each money manager in the dark about what the others are doing, which can lead to poor results.
Investing as he has, Trump ends up with 61% of his assets in bonds — about three-quarters of which are in junk bonds and other risky corners of the bond market—plus 21% in cash and a meager 18% in stocks. That Trump invests so heavily in junk bonds is understandable. As a real estate mogul who throughout his career has borrowed liberally, Trump is investing in something he knows about. Four of his companies have gone through bankruptcy reorganizations, and he calls himself the "king of debt." Trump's large cash hoard, which totals $24 million, makes sense given how illiquid most of his ventures are.
At the same time, by largely forsaking stocks, he's missing out on an opportunity to diversify his investments. Stocks and commercial real estate tend to follow different cycles of feast and famine. Owning more stocks could smooth out Trump's financial results.
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The report shows heavy weightings in technology and financial-services stocks. Trump has roughly 26% of his stock money in tech, compared with 18% in the S&P. Most of his tech holdings are through a $3 million investment in a hedge fund called Advantage Advisors Xanthus Fund. But he also owns some $900,000 worth of Apple (AAPL (opens in new tab)) and $450,000 worth of Microsoft (MSFT (opens in new tab)).
Trump has 23% of his stock money in financial companies, a sector that accounts for just 14% of the S&P. His biggest holdings include Citigroup (C (opens in new tab)) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM (opens in new tab)).
The disclosure report includes three Trump family trusts worth a total of $1.5 million. The trusts are invested mainly in a mix of stocks, mutual funds and ETFs, including some Kiplinger favorites. The trusts have $109,000 in SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY (opens in new tab)), an ETF that tracks the S&P 500 index; about $100,000 is invested in both Primecap Odyssey Stock (POSKX (opens in new tab)) and iShares Russell Mid-cap ETF (IWR (opens in new tab)). Slightly smaller investments are in the institutional share class of JPMorgan Mid Cap Value (FLMVX (opens in new tab)) and DoubleLine Total Return (DBLTX (opens in new tab)), as well as in FMI Large Cap (FMIHX (opens in new tab)) and Dodge & Cox International Stock (DODFX (opens in new tab)).
Trump's stock and mutual fund investments are true to his "Make America Great" theme. Less than 4% of his investments are in foreign stocks, excluding his hedge funds, for which such statistics are impossible to obtain. Emerging-markets stocks account for less than 0.5% of his stock money.
One change from his 2015 report: Trump has apparently sold 10 Baron mutual funds holding about $20 million. Ron Baron, the head of his eponymous fund company, had no comment. When I looked at Trump's disclosure a year ago, I was puzzled by the Baron holdings because Trump mostly owned the funds' retail shares. He certainly had enough invested with Baron to qualify for the lower-cost institutional shares.
Almost all of the risky debt that Trump holds is in hedge funds. His biggest investment, worth about $37.5 million, is in Blackrock's Obsidian, a hedge fund that seeks to return about 10% annually by investing in junk bonds and distressed debt and making other unspecified bets on the bond market.
Trump also has about $6 million invested in two hedge funds run by Angelo, Gordon & Co., a firm that specializes in alternative investments: AG Diversified Credit Strategies and AG Eleven Partners. Likewise, Midocean Credit Opportunity, a $3 million holding, is a hedge fund that invests in, among other things, distressed loans.
Trump has another $9 million in three hedge funds run by John Paulson, who made much of his fortune by correctly betting that securities built on risky subprime mortgages would collapse if housing prices fell, as they did in the second half of the last decade. Paulson is described as primarily an "event-driven" manager, meaning he invests in companies going through mergers, bankruptcies or other corporate changes. But he also invests in risky debt. Paulson's record has been inconsistent since his success during the financial crisis.
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Contributing Columnist, Kiplinger.com
Steve has been writing for Kiplinger's for more than 25 years. As an associate editor and then senior associate editor, he covered mutual funds for Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine from 1994-2006. He also authored a book, But Which Mutual Funds? In 2006 he joined with Jerry Tweddell, one of his best sources on investing, to form Tweddell Goldberg Investment Management to manage money for individual investors. Steve continues to write a regular column for Kiplinger.com and enjoys hearing investing questions from readers. You can contact Steve at 301.650.6567 or sgoldberg@kiplinger.com.
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Highlights of RSA 2014 : Some of the highlights at this year at RSA was cloud security, mobile security ( specially for enterprise), more companies providing SIEM solutions and lot of new companies building security solutions on the public cloud and Big Data. With billions of investments done by huge corporations like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a lot more, the push will be more on Big Data security in the coming few years. Financial corporations consider cloud as threatening but after speaking to a lot of folks I realized that cloud has invaded the financial sector already. Its just a matter of time before things change as vendors start introducing more cloud based solutions which are regulatory complaint.
1.Future of Appliance based Security : Security solutions have been appliance oriented in the past couple of years, not that it is incorrect. For every security problem, providing appliance based solution has been a one stop enterprise solution. The overhead to maintain these appliances and labor can become very expensive and the current solutions that are available in the market are not helping for scalability point of view. C level executives at various corporations are facing the same challenges and looking for alternatives.
Many vendor companies are planning to change this by integrating multiple platforms & services to a single platform in solving this problem. Private clouds with strong security built in will play significant role in solving this issue. These will be regulatory compliant which of-course is the primary concern of most financial firms.
2. Future of Security : We all talk about modern computing age of inter-connected devices to provide single user experience, but current state of security devices still not there yet (are not inter-connected so far). Firewalls, proxy, mail servers, Anti-spam engine, endpoint protection and many more do not share intelligence with each other thereby act independently to issues. We use data from all such devices and use SIEM products to correlate for appropriate alerting, making it an intelligence provider in most large enterprises. Again the bottleneck of intelligence is as strong as rules are and product limits are. This is the existing state of technology's weakest implementation point and there is no turnaround for that.
Companies like Symantec are working on this areas to see how integration and intelligence can be unified as a single product. Visionaries are already thinking about such scenarios and working towards it. I found this as a very cool concept and hope to see it in action. Stephen Trilling, VP of Intelligence at Symantec explained something similar in his talk in detail and I have a link to the talk below.
3.Internet of Things Era: Most us have already heard of IoT. The future of the world will be surrounded around IoT and this will create a huge challenge in the Security world. One of Cisco's executive Padmashree Warrior mentioned "Every company becomes a technology company and every technology company will have security" potentially will change the way we operate things today. The world as we see has been changing rapidly in the world of interconnected devices and this will continue to change with the advancement in processing power. Hence based on these, there will be a tremendous shortage of Security minded professionals.
Great write-up on RSA. Thank you !
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The sink is a bit funky. Whether you've had a sink that's backed up or not, knowing a few of these excellent habits for preventing plumbing problems in the very first place can save you plenty of time, money and headaches later on! It is going to also go through what you should and shouldn't put off your sink to make sure this type of problem isn't allowed to occur again. After you have a handle on the causes you're able to start to go about fixing a clogged sink.
The gap might need to be cleaned, or the drain line beneath the sink might be plugged. The air gap is found on the cover of the sink usually near your faucet and is employed as a backflow prevention device for your dishwasher. If you've got an air gap, it's likely located on the cap of the sink, beside the faucet to reduce backflow from your dishwasher.
The clogs have a tendency to involve hair, which can be extremely challenging to eliminate. More intense clogs may expect a bottle brush, but this can be bought from your regional hardware shop. Fortunately, it's very rare for these clogs to be sudden and you'll usually see slow draining for weeks before you get to a vital stage. A sewer drain clog is an incredibly considerable problem that may be considered a plumbing emergency and a distinct wellness problem. A sewer drain clog is a significant issue and can even be regarded as a plumbing emergency in some specific circumstances. If you suspect you have a sewer drain clog, it is crucial to confirm this and clear it whenever possible. If you suspect you have a sewer drain clog, start with checking different fixtures in the house.
You can buy a drain snake for cheap from your regional hardware shop. There are an assortment of snakes that you are able to get to use to repair a common clogged sink. If these steps don't get the job done, you'll likely have to use a sink snake.
Common sense says to make sure it's clean, or be ready to do an extremely excellent job cleaning your sink since there are probably some undesirable bacteria on a toilet plunger. One of the greatest things you can do following a clogged sink is to attempt to block it from happening in the first location. If you believe this could possibly be the issue, check to determine whether the drain plug is still intactif it is, remove it.
After the dishwasher is discharging water, a great deal of water floods from the air gap. If your dishwasher has an integrated disposal, it might not be running properly, allowing big particles to slip by. Read on to find out more about why water from your dishwasher flows into your sink and that which you can do in order to repair the problem today.
Water heaters normally have a lifespan of 10 to 15 decades. At least a little bit of water will drain in the bucket. Typically, no water ought to be coming up the clean-out pipe.


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It Remains the Same Astonishing View, 20 Years Later
Your favorite editr shooting a video with a tiny camera from McAfee's Knob.
Pretty yellow wildflowers.
Early-season blackberries
Your choice: Appalachian Trail (left), fire trail (right).
Left turn off the fire trail.
McAfee's Knob presents two distinct challenges, depending on how you choose to hike it. I chose easy up, hard down today.
From the parking lot at the top of Catawba Mountain on Virginia 311, you have to make the choice: Appalachian Trail all the way to the top or fire trail for the first 2.5 miles, then a 1.6-mile hike to the knob. The difference is enormous.
The fire-trail/AT route is as easy as a city greenway walk, except for the last few hundred yards, which are steep. The alternative all-AT route is as difficult as hikes get on the Appalachian Trail, I'd venture. The all-AT route is slightly longer, but immeasurably more difficult, tricky, dangerous, steep, rocky and wearing on these old legs.
It has been more than 20 years since I've walked to the Knob and, frankly, on the way up I was wondering what happened to the trail. I remembered it being at least slightly difficult and it wasn't. I talked to another hiker on the way up--a guy 35 years younger than me--and he remembered the hike from his college days as being much steeper and harder.
My son Evan and me 25 years ago on the point.
On the way down, I decided to do the AT route--against my better judgement. It pushed me to my physical limit and there was as much uphill on this downhill run as there was going up in the first place. It's almost unfair to have to go up coming down.
BUT, there's that view. The view we all know, have all seen thousands of times in photos, the view that never changes, never gets old, always takes my breath when I walk out of the woods and into the sunlight. It is simply astonishing, no matter the time of day, year or your life.
Hike the trail. If you're in very good shape and are sure-footed, take the AT route. If not, walk the fire road. It doesn't make any difference how you get there. Just go.
(Brand new Virginia Tech grad Chris Driscoll took the photo of me. I made the stupid error of climbing all the way to the top with a camera battery in my Canon that was nearly exhausted. I got five pix on the top before the battery died, and I really appreciate Chris for taking four of them.)
Newt May 31, 2014 at 10:19 PM
As I recall, the last segment of the trail, essentially from the upper shelter to the top, was re-routed a few years ago. The new route is MUCH easier, especially around the power line cut. When I come down, I usually take the fire road all the way down from the top. It's a unique and seldom used stretch from the boulder field to the AT/ fire road junction. Also, on the power cut at the top of the mountain, there is the coolest white rock. You can see it from I-581.
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Off to the front they must go
17 July, 2015 By Queensland State Archives
In war, governments face the challenge of having to move large numbers of troops to the battlefield quickly and safely, usually under a shroud of national secrecy. And it was no different when Australian and New Zealand troops entered the First World War.
In this post we consider the information available from our records that relate to the sending of troops to the front.
With the German cruiser Emden prowling the Indian Ocean, the departure of the large contingent of Australian Imperial Forces and New Zealand Expeditionary Forces from Albany in Western Australia was not made public until after the event. The convoy of ships included the A.25 Anglo-Egyptian, A.5 Omrah, A.22 Rangatira and A.15 Star of England ('A' referring to the transport number) which had left Pinkenba, Queensland in September 1914. The Queensland ships assembled with transports from Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand in late October at Princess Royal Harbour and King George Sound. Under a complete media blackout, on 1 November 1914 the convoy with more than 30,000 troops set sail for Egypt and Europe.
In the early years of the war many of the Australian and New Zealand troops – including light horsemen and infantry men- shipped to Egypt and received further training as artillerymen. One of these soldiers was Major-General Chauvel of the Light Horse Brigade, who had previously served with distinction in the Boer War in South Africa, as documented in our Boer War records.
During the First World War suitable sea vessels were often requisitioned for the war effort as a means of reducing the costs of purchasing troop and freight ships. These vessels were 'fitted out' for the purpose of conveying tens of thousands of men, horses and supplies to the war, details of which you can find in letters written in 1914 to the Premier of Queensland and to the Chief Secretary's Office. Of specific ships requisitioned there are also correspondence files with names and numbers of transport vessels.
Excerpt from a letter to Chief Secretary's Office listing additional sea vessels
After their initial training, many of the men from Queensland caught trains to get to the troop carriers. The following letter records the planned stop at the border town of Wallangarra to 'dip' the horses of the 5th Light Horse Regiment.
Timetable from Commonwealth Military Forces for five trains departing Newmarket, Brisbane, destined for Liverpool, New South Wales
On the QSA website you can find these and a wealth of other records that reflect the government's response to the outbreak of the First World War, and the ensuing years.
Stories from the archivesAustralian Imperial Force, First World War, Queensland Govt
We would like to thank one of our readers who offered further detail on the movement of troops discussed in this post. In particular that the ships spent some time in Melbourne prior to moving onward to Albany and that the entire fleet encompassed approximately 38 ships and two more from Western Australia.
Your feedback as always is genuinely appreciated.
Reply 30 November, 2015 at 11:55 am
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\section{Introduction}
The fractional Langevin equation (FLE) is a special, and important, type of the generalized (non-Markovian) Langevin equation~\cite{Zwanzig} for a dynamical variable $A$ coupled to a thermal bath,
\begin{eqnarray}
\dot A(t)=-\int_0^t K(t-\tau) \,A(\tau)\,d\tau +F(t),
\label{GLE}
\end{eqnarray}
with the algebraically decaying memory kernel $K(t)$.
We shall focus on kernels with
the decay exponent $\alpha$
being less than one,
\begin{eqnarray}
K(t)=K_0 \,t^{-\alpha}, \qquad 0<\alpha<1,
\label{FLE}
\end{eqnarray}
in which case  the FLE describes  subdiffusion~\cite{Porra,Hansen}.
The term $F(t)$ in (\ref{GLE}) is a zero-centered stationary  noise, which is related to the kernel by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem
$\langle F(t)F(t')\rangle=k_BT K(t-t')$ where
$T$ is temperature.
If an external force is also applied (not considered here), it is assumed
not to modify the kernel.
Equation (\ref{GLE}) with kernel (\ref{FLE}) is called "fractional" because if $A=\dot a$ then
the nonlocal term in (\ref{GLE}) is proportional to the Caputo fractional derivative
$\frac{d^\alpha}{dt^\alpha} \,a(t)=
\frac{1}{\Gamma(1-\alpha)}\,\int_0^t (t-\tau)^{-\alpha}\,\dot a(\tau)\, d\tau$.
Although writing the FLE in terms of the fractional derivative may be insightful~\cite{Lutz},
the equation can be, and often is,
exploited  with no tools specific to fractional calculus.

Among other types of generalized Langevin equations, the FLE is distinguished by the diverging integral
$\gamma=\int_0^\infty K(t)\, dt$, which in other cases gives the friction constant $\gamma$
in  the  Markovian approximation.
Therefore, there is no Markovian approximation for the FLE.
A physical consequence of this mathematical property, as was noticed above, is
anomalous diffusion:
If $A$ stands for the velocity $\dot x$ of a Brownian object, then
the FLE predicts subdiffusion, i.e. the mean-square displacement $\langle x^2(t)\rangle$ increasing sublinearly, namely as $t^{\alpha}$~\cite{Porra,Hansen}. Another peculiarity is that stochastic processes governed by the FLE exhibit nontrivial ergodic properties~\cite{Deng}.

As a matter of fact, the aforementioned unique features of the FLE still hold if the power-law dependence (\ref{FLE}) takes place not for the entire time domain, but only asymptotically at long times,
\begin{eqnarray}
K(t)\sim t^{-\alpha},\qquad 0<\alpha<1,
\qquad \mbox {as}\quad t\to\infty.
\label{FLE2}
\end{eqnarray}
One may call equations
with  kernels (\ref{FLE2})   asymptotically fractional, but we prefer to keep to the established term FLE for such equations
as well, even though in that case the nonlocal term in (\ref{GLE}) may lose the meaning of a fractional derivative.

The FLE was first introduced on a phenomenological basis to describe
anomalous diffusion in geometrically disordered
and fractally organized
systems like percolation clusters~\cite{Nakanishi}.
The existence of a dynamical theory giving rise to the FLE is far from obvious and was explicitly doubted~\cite{Mazo}.
Later studies, however, suggested that
the origin of the FLE in many phenomena, particularly protein  conformational transitions, may be purely dynamical~\cite{Kneller,Xie}.
Is there a specific feature of inherent dynamics in complex systems characteristic of  subdiffusion and emergence of the FLE?

A standard model to formally derive
a generalized Langevin equation with a memory kernel of {\it any} assigned form is that  of
a Brownian particle linearly
coupled to the bath
comprised of independent harmonic
oscillators~\cite{Zwanzig,Weiss}.
In such a setting, the memory kernel can be  expressed as a Fourier transform of a certain function $C(\omega)$, describing
spectral properties of the bath
and bath's coupling to a system (see below).
Assuming that
\begin{eqnarray}
C(\omega)=C_0\,\omega^{\beta}, \qquad -1<\beta<0,
\label{condition_0}
\end{eqnarray}
 one recovers the fractional kernel (\ref{FLE}) with the exponent $\alpha=1+\beta$~\cite{Kup}.
Other approaches to derive the FLE  were considered in~\cite{Weiss,Lizana,Taloni}.

In this paper we show that with additional dissipative forces acting on the bath oscillators
the aforementioned
standard model leads to the FLE
under a much less restrictive condition. It still
has the form (\ref{condition_0}), but for  a larger range of $\beta$, namely $ -1<\beta<1$. For the
the fractional exponent our model  predicts $\alpha=(1+\beta)/2$ instead of $\alpha=1+\beta$ for the standard model.
More importantly, the power-law  dependence of the spectral function $C(\omega)$ is
required not for the entire frequency range (as in the standard model), but only asymptotically
in the limit $\omega\to 0$, see Eq. (\ref{condition}) below.  We argue that a rather relaxed character of this condition may explain the omnipresence of fractional stochastic dynamics in a wide range of complex systems.

We start with an observation that
in many systems exhibiting fractional stochastic dynamics
the thermal bath involves two groups of dynamical variables evolving on  well-separated timescales.
The separation of timescales for a system of interest on the one hand, and for the bath variables on the other hand is, of course, a common feature in many statistical mechanical models. In contrast, a specific assumption of the presented  model is that the separation of timescales takes place for the bath alone. For brevity, we shall refer to the parts of the bath
comprising slow and fast variables as
the slow and fast baths, respectively, assuming that both baths have the same temperature.
For a macromolecule in a solvent~\cite{Xie,Kneller},
the slow bath refers to slowly evolving degrees of freedom of the macromolecule itself, while
the fast bath is  comprises molecules of the solvent as well as fast degrees of of freedom of the macromolecule.
Schematically, the model with such a
double hierarchy of the bath is depicted in Fig. 1.

We shall assume that: (1) the slow bath has no characteristic timescale except the lower cut-off value  $t_0$ (corresponding to the highest-frequency mode~\cite{Weiss}), and
(2) a characteristic time $t_1$ of the fast bath does exist and is  much shorter than $t_0$, $t_1\ll t_0$.
It is not required
that the two baths are
independent. On the contrary, the coupling of the slow bath variables to the fast bath will be shown to be
essential for the emergence of the fractional dynamics.
On the other hand, we shall assume that
the influence of the slow bath on dynamics of the fast one is negligible.
Under these  assumptions it is
natural to describe the dynamics of slow and fast baths in different manners. Namely, the dynamics of
slow bath variables will be taken into account explicitly, while
effects  of the fast bath will be modeled implicitly
by adding Markovian Langevin forces,
i.e. in the same way as in the Rouse model used in polymer physics.

We describe the slow bath as a set of $N$ independent oscillators, linearly coupled to a system of interest, which we shall call the "particle".  The Hamiltonian of the particle and the slow bath we choose to be of  the Caldeira-Leggett form~\cite{Zwanzig,Weiss}
\begin{eqnarray}
H&=&\frac{1}{2M}\,P^2+H_b,\label{H}\\
H_b&=&\sum_{i=1}^N \left\{
\frac{1}{2}\,p_i^2+\frac{\omega_i^2}{2}
\left(
q_i-\frac{\gamma_i}{\omega_i^2}\,Q
\right)^2
\right\}.
\label{H_b}
\end{eqnarray}
Here $(Q, P)$
and $\{q_i, p_i\}$
are the coordinates and momenta of the particle and
slow bath oscillators, respectively, $\omega_j$  oscillators frequencies, $\gamma_i$ coupling constants, $M$ the mass of the particle, and the masses of all oscillators are set equal to one. A physically plausible interpretation of this  Hamiltonian
suggests that
the independent oscillators  represents collective normal modes of the slow bath rather than the bath's individual constituents.

The equations of motion corresponding to the above Hamiltonian read
\begin{eqnarray}
\dot P&=&\sum_{i=1}^N \gamma_i \left(
q_i-\frac{\gamma_i}{\omega_i^2}\, Q\right),
\label{eom_system}\\
\dot p_i&=&-\omega_i^2\,q_i+\gamma_i\, Q.
\label{eom_bath}
\end{eqnarray}
These equations are identical to those of the standard oscillator bath model~\cite{Zwanzig,Weiss}  and yet do not take into account the presence  of the fast bath. The effects of the latter we describe by adding time-local Langevin forces
\begin{eqnarray}
f_i=-2\lambda\, p_i+\xi_i,
\label{L_force}
\end{eqnarray}
acting on $i$-th oscillator of the slow bath.
Here the white noise forces $\xi_i(t)$ are zero-centered and related to the
damping coefficient $\lambda$ (assumed to be the same for all oscillators)
by the fluctuation-dissipation relations
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle \xi_i(t)\,\xi_{i'}(t')
\rangle=
4 \lambda\,k_BT\,\delta(t-t')\,\delta_{ii'}.
\label{fdt}
\end{eqnarray}
Here the Kronecker symbol $\delta_{ii'}$ implies that stochastic forces $\xi_i$ acting on different oscillators are uncorrelated.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[height=3.8cm]{figure1.eps}
\caption{The idealized scheme of the model:
A systems of interest (the large central circle) is directly coupled to
oscillators of the slow bath (medium-size inner circles), which
in turn are  coupled to particles of the fast bath  (small outer circles). The latter are taken into
account implicitly
\`a la Langevin.
}
\end{figure}

With the Langevin forces added, the equations of motions for the slow bath oscillators (\ref{eom_bath}) take the form
\begin{eqnarray}
\dot p_i=-\omega_i^2q_i+\gamma_i\, Q -2\lambda\,p_i+\xi_i.
\end{eqnarray}
Replacing momenta by  velocities, $p_i=\dot q_i$, one can re-write this as equations for $q_i$,
\begin{eqnarray}
\ddot q_i+2\lambda\,\dot q_i+\omega_i^2 q_i=\gamma_i\, Q +\xi_i.
\label{eom_bath2}
\end{eqnarray}
In our model, these are  equations of motion of the slow bath oscillators coupled to the particle and  to the fast bath.

We shall assume that
an equation of motion for the particle still has the form (\ref{eom_system}), i.e.
the particle is directly coupled to the slow bath only (as depicted in Fig. 1). This assumption is not essential:  a
coupling of the particle to the fast bath
can be easily taken into account as well, but
it would have a trivial effect
of an additional delta-function contribution
in the final expression for the memory kernel,
which does not affect the asymptotic long-time properties of the model.

Solving Eqs. (\ref{eom_bath2}), for instance by the method of Laplace transforms,  one finds
\begin{eqnarray}
\!q_i(t)\!=\!q_i^0(t)\!+\!\int_0^t\! b_i(t\!-\!\tau)\,\Big(\gamma_i\,Q(\tau)+
\xi_i(\tau)\Big)\,d\tau.
\label{q_solution}
\end{eqnarray}
Here  $q_i^0(t)$ is a solution of the corresponding homogeneous equation
$\ddot q_i+2\lambda\,\dot q_i+\omega_i^2 q_i=0$,
which we write as
\begin{eqnarray}
q_i^0(t)&=&a_i(t)\,q_i(0)+b_i(t)\,\dot q_i(0),
\end{eqnarray}
where the functions $a_i(t)$ and $b_i(t)$ are
\begin{eqnarray}
&&a_i(t)=e^{-\lambda t}\,\left(
\cosh\Omega_i t+\frac{\lambda}{\Omega_i}\,
\sinh\Omega_i t
\right),
\label{a}
\\
&&b_i(t)=\frac{e^{-\lambda t}}{\Omega_i}\,\sinh\Omega_i t.
\label{b}
\end{eqnarray}
In these expressions,  the frequency-like parameter
\begin{eqnarray}
\Omega_i=\sqrt{\lambda^2-\omega_j^2}
\label{Omega}
\end{eqnarray}
is real for overdamped ($\omega_i<\lambda$) and imaginary for  underdamped
($\omega_i>\lambda$) oscillators, yet
in both cases the functions
 $a_i(t)$ and $b_i(t)$ are real-valued.

Expression (\ref{q_solution}) for $q_i(t)$ is intended to be substituted into the equation of motion (\ref{eom_system}) in order to bring the latter
into a Langevin form. To this end, the standard trick is to integrate
the term with $Q$ in  (\ref{q_solution}) by parts.
Taking into account that an  anti-derivative of $b_i(t)$ equals
\begin{eqnarray}
B_i(t)=\int_0^t\!b_i(\tau)\, d\tau=\frac{1}{\omega_j^2}\Big(
1-a_i(t)\Big),
\end{eqnarray}
one brings expression (\ref{q_solution})
into  the form
\begin{eqnarray}
q_i(t)\!\!&=&\!\!q_i^0(t)
\!-\!\frac{\gamma_i}{\omega_i^2}\int_0^t\!\! a_i(t\!-\!\tau) \dot Q(\tau)\,d\tau\!+\!\frac{\gamma_i}{\omega_i^2}\,Q(t)
\nonumber\\
&-&\!\!\frac{\gamma_i}{\omega_i^2}\, a_i(t)\,Q(0)+
\int_0^t \!\! b_i(t\!-\!\tau)\,\xi_i(\tau)\, d\tau.
\end{eqnarray}
Substitution of this expression into the particle's equation of motion (\ref{eom_system})
yields
the generalized Langevin equation
\begin{eqnarray}
\dot P(t)=-\int_0^t K(t-\tau)\,P(\tau)\, d\tau+F(t),
\end{eqnarray}
with the memory kernel
\begin{eqnarray}
K(t)=\frac{1}{M} \sum_{i=1}^N \left(
\frac{\gamma_i}{\omega_i}
\right)^2 a_i(t)
\label{kernel1}
\end{eqnarray}
and the noise force
\begin{eqnarray}
F(t)\!=\!\sum_{i=1}^N \gamma_i\left\{
q_i^0(t)\!-\!
\frac{\gamma_i}{\omega_i^2}\,a_i(t) Q(0)
\!+\!\!\int_0^t\!\! b_i(t\!-\!\tau)\xi_i(\tau)d\tau
\right\}.\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
If there is no fast bath, then $(\lambda,\, \xi_i)\to 0$, and the above expressions coincide with that for the standard oscillator bath model~\cite{Zwanzig,Weiss}.    Suppose the initial state of the slow bath is described by a canonical ensemble with the Hamiltonian $H_b$ given by (\ref{H_b}), then
one can show that
the noise $F(t)$ is zero-centered, $\langle F(t)\rangle=0$, and the fluctuation-dissipation relation between $F(t)$ and $K(t)$ can be readily
established.

Next, we make a usual assumption that in the limit $N\to\infty$
the spectrum of the slow bath becomes continuous, $\{\omega_i\}\to \omega$, and
the sums over $i$ can be replaced by integrals,  $\sum_i\to\int_0^\infty d\omega\,g(\omega)(\cdots)$, where $g(\omega)$ is the density of the slow bath states~\cite{Zwanzig,Weiss,Mazur}.
Replacing the coupling constants and functions $a_i(t)$ of individual oscillators by smooth functions of frequency,
\begin{eqnarray}
\gamma_i\to \gamma(\omega),\qquad
a_i(t)\to a(t,\omega),
\end{eqnarray}
the memory kernel (\ref{kernel1})
can be written in the form
\begin{eqnarray}
K(t)=\frac{1}{M}\,\int_0^\infty \!\!d\omega\,g(\omega)\,\frac{\gamma(\omega)^2}{\omega^2}\, a(t,\omega).
\label{kernel2}
\end{eqnarray}
We re-write this more compactly  as
\begin{eqnarray}
K(t)=\int_0^\infty \!\!d\omega\, C(\omega)\, a(t, \omega)
\label{kernel3}
\end{eqnarray}
defining the function
\begin{eqnarray}
C(\omega)=
\frac{1}{M}\,g(\omega)\,\frac{\gamma(\omega)^2}{\omega^2}
\label{C}
\end{eqnarray}
which accumulates the spectral properties of the slow bath.

As follows from (\ref{a}) and (\ref{kernel3}), the Laplace transform of the kernel $\tilde K(s)=\int_0^\infty e^{-st} K(t)\, dt$ reads
\begin{eqnarray}
\tilde K(s)=\int_0^\infty \!\!d\omega\,C(\omega)\,
\frac{s+2\lambda}{s^2+2\lambda s+\omega^2}.
\label{kernel4}
\end{eqnarray}
According to a Tauberian theorem~\cite{Feller},
the long-time behavior of the kernel $K(t)$
is determined by the behavior of its Laplace transform $\tilde K(s)$
at small $s$ as follows:
\begin{eqnarray}
\!\!\!\!\!\!
\tilde K(s)\sim s^{-\gamma}\,\,\mbox{as}\,\,\, s\to 0
\,\,\,\,
\Rightarrow
\,\,\,\,
K(t)\sim t^{\gamma-1}\,\,\, \mbox{as}\,\,\, t\to\infty.
\label{Tauberian}
\end{eqnarray}
In order to find an asymptotic form of $\tilde K(s)$ for small s, one can neglect
$s$ in the numerator and $s^2$ in the denominator of the integrand of (\ref{kernel4}). Then it can be written as
\begin{eqnarray}
\tilde K(s)\!=\!\pi\sqrt{\frac{2\,\lambda}{s}}
\int_0^\infty\!\!\! d\omega\,C(\omega)\, L\left(\omega,\sqrt{2\lambda s}\right),
\label{kernel5}
\end{eqnarray}
where $L(\omega,\Gamma)$ is the zero-centered Lorentzian (or Cauchy) distribution
\begin{eqnarray}
L(\omega,\Gamma)=\frac{1}{\pi}\,\frac{\Gamma}{\omega^2+\Gamma^2}.
\end{eqnarray}
Since $L\left(\omega,\Gamma\right)$ tends to the delta-function $\delta(\omega)$ as $\Gamma\to 0$,  it is intuitively clear that, unless the function
$C(\omega)$ increases too fast,
only the low-frequency behavior of $C(\omega)$ is matter
for the asymptotic evaluation of integral
(\ref{kernel5}) as $s\to 0$.

Consider the spectral function of the asymptotic form
\begin{eqnarray}
C(\omega)\sim \omega^\beta, \quad -1<\beta<1, \qquad \mbox{as}\,\,\,\omega\to 0.
\label{condition}
\end{eqnarray}
The only condition we impose on $C(\omega)$  at
nonsmall frequencies is the convergence of integral
(\ref{kernel5}). For such $C(\omega)$ the integrand $D(\omega)=C(\omega) L(\omega, \sqrt{2\lambda s})$  of (\ref{kernel5}) behaves differently for  the two subintervals of $\beta$:

(a) $-1<\beta<0$:  $D(\omega)$
has an integrable singularity at the lower integration limit $\omega=0$;

(b) $0<\beta<1$: $D(\omega)$
has a maximum at $\omega_m>0$.

\noindent These two types of behavior of $D(\omega)$ actually become qualitatively similar for small $s$ because for case (b) the position of the maximum  $\omega_m$ approaches  zero
and the maximum value diverges
as $s\to 0$, see Fig. 2.

One can show that in both cases the main contribution to the integral (\ref{kernel5}) comes from a neighborhood of $\omega=0$ and has the asymptotic form
\begin{eqnarray}
\tilde K(s)\sim s^{-\gamma},
\quad
\gamma=\frac{1}{2}(1-\beta)
\label{kernel6}
\end{eqnarray}
as $s\to 0$. If the power law  (\ref{condition})
with $0<\beta<1$, case (b),
holds for the entire frequency range, than the result (\ref{kernel6})
can be verified directly substituting
$C(\omega)=C_0\,\omega^\beta$ into (\ref{kernel5}).

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[height=5.1cm]{figure2.eps}
\caption{The integrand function
$D(\omega)=C(\omega)\,L(\omega, \sqrt{2\lambda s})$  of the kernel (\ref{kernel5}) for  $C(\omega)=\omega^{\beta}$ with $\beta=0.7$ and several values of the Laplace variable $s$ (arb. units).}
\end{figure}

In a far more general and interesting case when the power dependence  of $C(\omega)$ holds only asymptotically for small $\omega$,
as condition (\ref{condition}) requires, the result (\ref{kernel6}) can be justified,
for both cases
(a) and (b), as follows. Let us
split the integral (\ref{kernel5})
into two parts, with the integration ranges $(0,\epsilon)$ and $(\epsilon, \infty)$.
For large $\omega$ the factor $L(\omega,
\sqrt{2\lambda s})/\sqrt{s}$ in (\ref{kernel5})
depends  on $s$ only weakly.
It is therefore natural to assume that the second part, involving integration over  $(\epsilon, \infty)$, gives a contribution which is bounded for $s\to 0$.
Then for an arbitrary small but
fixed $\epsilon$ and for $s\to 0$ the kernel
$\tilde K(s)$ is determined by the first part,
diverging for small $s$,
\begin{gather}
\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!
\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!
\tilde K(s)\approx
\pi\sqrt{\frac{2\lambda}{s}}
\int_0^\epsilon C(\omega)\, L\left(\omega,\sqrt{2\lambda s}\right)\,d\omega\nonumber\\
\qquad\propto{}_2F_1\left(1,\frac{1+\beta}{2};\frac{3+\beta}{2}; -\frac{\epsilon^2}{2\lambda s}\right)\, \frac{\epsilon^{1+\beta}}{(1+\beta)\,s}.
\label{hyper}
\end{gather}
Taking into account asymptotic properties of the Gauss hypergeometric function  ${}_2F_1(a,b;c;z)$ at large $z$~\cite{Temme},
one recovers from (\ref{hyper})
the power-law asymptotic behavior (\ref{kernel6}).

Finally,  using the Tauberian
theorem (\ref{Tauberian}), one finds
from (\ref{kernel6}) that in the time domain
the kernel has a fractional asymptotic form,
\begin{eqnarray}
K(t)\sim t^{-\alpha},
\quad
\alpha=1-\gamma=\frac{1}{2}(1+\beta).
\label{kernel7}
\end{eqnarray}
Since we assume $-1<\beta<1$,
then
$0<\alpha<1$.

The above asymptotic arguments can be illustrated with specific spectral functions
defined for the entire frequency range.
As an example consider
\begin{eqnarray}
C(\omega)=\frac{C_0}{1+\tau^2\,\omega^2}.
\label{example1}
\end{eqnarray}
In the standard oscillator bath model, the memory kernel is a Fourier transform of $C(\omega)$,
$K(t)=\int_0^\infty \!d\omega \,C(\omega)\, \cos(\omega t)$, and for the spectral function (\ref{example1}) takes the exponential form $K(t)=K_0\,e^{-|t|/\tau}$~\cite{Weiss}.
Instead, in the present model
the corresponding kernel is fractional
and its dependence on $\tau$ disappears:
since $C(\omega)\sim \omega^0$ as $\omega\to 0$,  then $\beta=0$, and Eq. (\ref{kernel7}) predicts
$K(t)\sim t^{-1/2}$.
The exact evaluation of the kernel by substituting
$C(\omega)$ of the form (\ref{example1}) into (\ref{kernel5})
confirms this result.

Another example is the spectral function $C(\omega)=C_0\,\omega^\beta\, e^{-\tau \omega}$ with $-1<\beta<1$.
Again, the direct evaluation of the kernel using (\ref{kernel5}) confirms the asymptotic kernel's behavior  (\ref{kernel7}).

In the above examples, the emergence of  fractional
kernel (\ref{kernel7})
depends neither on $\tau$, nor on $\lambda$
(the parameters
characterizing the slow and fast baths, respectively), but only on low-frequency
spectral properties of the slow bath. This illustrates
the robustness  of fractional dynamics in the presented model.

In conclusion, the presented model shows that the fractional Langevin  dynamics may emerge
under much broader conditions than some earlier models suggested.
The conditions concern the bath's asymptotic  low-frequency properties only.
Although modeling of the slow bath as a set of independent oscillators may appear on first glance unrealistic, it is in fact physically well-motivated and relevant for systems like lattices and networks,  whose Hamiltonian can be diagonalized, exactly or approximately,  into a sum of contributions from independent collective normal modes. As a simple illustration one may  point to
the familiar problem of
a tagged particle, or an isotope, in an otherwise uniform one-dimensional harmonic lattice immersed in a fluid,
The problem can be mapped into
the model discussed in this paper
with the chain's normal modes serving
as independent oscillators of the
slow bath, and the fluid as a fast Langevin bath.
For the linear harmonic chain  the explicit expressions for
the normal mode $g(\omega)$ and coupling $\gamma(\omega)$ distributions are well-known~\cite{Mazur}. Then
for the spectral function (\ref{C})
one finds the asymptotic dependence $C(\omega)\sim\omega^0$ as $\omega\to 0$. Accordingly $\beta=0$,
and for the tagged particle's momentum our model predicts the FLE with the fractional exponent $\alpha=(1+\beta)/2=1/2$.
For an over-damped chain this is a
well-known result~\cite{Lizana}, but here we get it for an arbitrary level of damping.

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As a working mom, life gets pretty busy. I am constantly trying to find the balance between #momlife, #wifelife, and #melife. So in this blog post I am focusing on, yep you guessed it, me. Me and my girlfriends, to be more specific, and enjoying a little time away from momming, diapers, and boogers. And what better way than brunch! Right in the middle of your hectic Sunday morning, and hopefully extending well into naptime.
As everyone knows, San Diego is a huge city and the neighborhoods are very spread out. You can easily drive an hour to get to your friend's house on the other side of town, or in North County like myself. My girlfriend group is spread out, so picking a central brunch spot can be tricky. Instead, we go on a "tour de San Diego" and try some of the best and most fun spots in town! And they are not family friendly for us at least.
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Back in 2005, Mr Hampson was seriously injured whilst playing rugby. As a result, he has had to redevelop his home to cater for his special needs. As part of his rehabilitation, Matt spends many hours each week in his specially designed hydrotherapy poolroom. The hydrotherapy helps, but it can get a bit boring. So Matt gave us a call.
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Benedict T. Casnocha is an American author, entrepreneur, and investor, based in San Francisco, California.

He is currently the co-founder and partner at the venture capital firm Village Global.

At 14 he founded Comcate Inc., an e-government technology firm, and is the author of three books, including the New York Times bestseller The Start-Up of You.

He is a keynote speaker at many business events and conventions. He has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show and is a commentator on NPR's Marketplace and in Newsweek. He has also written for the American Enterprise Institute and the U.S. State Department. He has been a mentor at startup incubator Techstars.

In 2006, BusinessWeek named Casnocha one of America's best young entrepreneurs. Politics Online named him one of the "25 most influential people in the world of internet and politics."

In 2017, A member of Product Hunt 's founding team and a veteran from LinkedIn are teaming up to invest in companies at the early stage. For a new investment fund Erik Torenberg and Ben Casnocha are investing $50 million.

Books

My Start-Up Life
My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on his Journey Through Silicon Valley was published on May 25, 2007, by Jossey-Bass. It recounts Casnocha's founding of an e-government technology firm, Comcate.

The Start-Up of You
The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest In Yourself and Transform Your Career is Casnocha's second book. It is co-authored with Reid Hoffman, co-founder and Executive Chairman of professional social networking website LinkedIn and was released in the United States on February 14, 2012.

The Alliance
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age is Casnocha's third book. It is co-authored with investor Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman and was released in the United States on July 8, 2014.

References

External links

Interview with Ben Casnocha on Notebook on Cities and Culture

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Living people
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Baba decided to build His first HoPE Town in Manilla (Philippines) in Bagong Silang, a slum inhabited with over 1 mllion people.
Here is a look at some of the families and their homes in Bagong Silang.
You can also take the HoPE Town Photo Tour and see what the HoPE Town site looked like before by clicking HERE: HoPE Town Photo Tour!
This hole in the ground was actually a community toilet shared by 12 families!
Dr Pillai (Baba)'s charity organisation, the Tripura Foundation, decided to build 30 homes for 30 families from donations collected from Dr Pillai's students and devotees globally. The Tripura Foundation partnered with Gawad Kalinga, a Philippines NGO that has been building homes for the poor for the last 15 years.
Each home cost an amazing US$2,000 only! Donors contributed money specifically for a house or any amount towards helping build a home.
During Guru Purnima 2009, Dr Pillai (Baba)'s community in Singapore (with contributions from Baba's Malaysian and Philippines devotees also) gave with their hearts and collectively, we raised US$30,000 towards HoPE Town in just a few short weeks .
The Tripura Foundation held the ground-breaking ceremony for Dr Pillai (Baba)'s HoPE Town in August 2009.
A few of us, together with Baba's devotees from the Philippines and the UK, visited Manila to attend the ground-breaking ceremony at Bagong Silang.
This is what a HoPE Town House will look like!
These children are the future of Baba's vision of Heaven on Earth. Although the children of Bagong Silang live in a slum, these sweet souls were friendly, playful and had a cheerful optimism that shone from their hearts!
After 1 year of construction, Baba's HoPE Town Manila is finally ready and the beneficiaries have already moved in to their new homes!
Join me in Part 3 as we unveil the houses that you helped build with your generous donations.
I will also share with you the heart-warming letters of gratitude from some of the beneficiaries whose destinies (and that of their succeeding generations) have been transformed with your simple gift of a house to them.


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App Helps Restaurants Hire Workers on The Spot
Ian A. de Leoz considers himself a "journeyman chef." Calls arrive from friends in the industry—often panicked—asking for last-minute kitchen help. Perhaps a cook called in sick. Or maybe someone simply decided not to show up. De Leoz, who plans to reopen his popular Pop Sandwich at some point, has been around long enough to ignore labor complications in this business. He simply jumps in and fills whatever gaps pop up. But how many people like de Leoz exist in the marketplace? And, more pressing, how can operators locate the 11th-hour life vest before it's too late?
De Leoz and James LaLonde, the executive chef at Bocadillos in San Francisco, sat at both sides of this spectrum when they began brainstorming a solution. Unlike many available apps that work to ease the hiring hurdle, de Leoz says their CVR4ME platform was born out of a unique perspective. "We're not tech guys, we're restaurant people," de Leoz explains. LaLonde often calls on de Leoz to assist in his restaurant, and when he can't, finds himself paying $75 to post Craig's List ads that often go unanswered. Even when they are, LaLonde says it's like playing labor roulette when it comes to who actually walks in the door. Will they be skilled enough to truly help? In those situations, LaLonde admits he doesn't really have time to care. "Basically, we knew there had to be a better way," LaLonde says. "I was finding a hard time getting people in here and all my friends were saying the same thing."
CVR4ME was developed to connect restaurants with potential hires. That can range from a day-of need to a long-term position. The fee is $25, but restaurants only pay if they actually hire a capable replacement. Also, a rating system will help foster a network of capable professionals. "[The employee] is responsible for what kind of job they do," LaLonde says. "This way, some of those people who aren't doing a great job, they can kind of get weeded out."
The idea reached serious ground in February 2015. De Leoz's brother in law is a web developer, which helped with logistics. Then came investors, lawyers, design work, and more challenges than he could recall.
"Everyone thinks, 'I'm going to build this app. It's going to be so easy. I'm going to be a millionaire.' That's not how it works," de Leoz says. "That's something that we learned through the process. We're not making this to become millionaires, we're making this to help our industry."
The app is currently available on the iOS marketplace, with Android development in the works. It's also downloadable in every state across the U.S. Anyone with a cell phone can begin posting—or accepting—positions on CVR4ME. On the service side, there are categories to fill in, such as job position, skill set, resume, and availability that quicken the decision process for both parties.
"It was built out of necessity," de Leoz says. "Even to this day we're still experiencing these same issues that we were almost a year ago. I'm continuously getting calls to work in other places; James is looking for help; other chefs that I know are looking for help. What you're seeing a lot now in the restaurant community is young cooks don't want to work full-time jobs anymore. When we were younger, and in the line-cooking thing, you would stay at a place for a year, maybe two years. Now, you're seeing people jump around from month to month. That's the issue that we're trying to tackle here: a way for everybody to be happy."
Along that logic, De Leoz says there are other benefits to mention. For those freelance chefs, who perhaps are trying to work other jobs or are enrolled in college, it allows them the opportunity to rolodex contacts in some of the best kitchens around—jobs they would have never been exposed to otherwise. On that level, a chef can network and climb the culinary ladder through direct, and otherwise unattainable, experience. It also helps a restaurant employee supplement income if needed. "Maybe you have a birthday or a vacation coming up, and you want to pick up some extra shifts, why not go ahead and do that?" de Leoz says. "Some restaurants won't allow you to get overtime or extra days, so if you can find another place to work for a day or two during the week, maybe for a few weeks, why not?"
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In The Clash Between US Intelligence Agencies And Russia, Fox's Tucker Carlson Picks Russia
Published 12/13/16 10:17 AM EST
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has repeatedly downplayed the claims that Russia was involved in interfering in the 2016 presidential election, and in several interviews over the last week he attacked those supporting reports from the government agencies that found Russia played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. But Carlson's personal effort to spin away the Russian interference in the American political system downplays its severity and runs counter to the warnings issued by American and international intelligence experts.
On the December 7 edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson hosted Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, to discuss Russian interference in the presidential election. Throughout the contentious interview, Carlson downplayed the U.S. intelligence community's allegations that Russian intelligence services interfered in the American election, claiming the reports were made "without any evidence." He also chastised Schiff for providing his evaluation of the classified evidence, saying, "I just think if you're going to make a serious allegation about an actual country with an actual government, you ought to know what you're talking about. And you don't."
Since his interview with Schiff, Carlson has hosted two Democratic strategists on his show to relitigate the Schiff interview, prefacing the segments with a clip from the combative discussion earlier in the week. In both segments, Carlson downplayed the significance of a foreign power intervening in our election, suggesting that the reaction to the findings has been "disingenuous" because, as Carlson admitted, "There's almost no institution in Washington that hasn't been hacked, probably in some cases by the Russians. Also the Chinese. And yet, you haven't seen any kind of response like this." Carlson also argued that because "bad intelligence" led the United States into Iraq in 2003, he is correct to be skeptical.
During Carlson's appearance on the December 12 edition of Fox & Friends -- his first since The Washington Post reported that "Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman" -- he argued that the cyberattacks actually provided a public benefit because "voters got more information than they would have had otherwise." He also again acknowledged Russian interference by saying the Russians have been hacking Americans "for years" and "so have the Chinese." Later that day on his own show, Carlson hosted Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and asked him indignantly why he should trust the intelligence community "that missed the fall of the Soviet Union," adding, "It's pretty lame if that's your job and you miss like, everything."
Given Carlson's previous praise for Putin and his ongoing failure to acknowledge Russia's confirmed role in the presidential election, his most recent unwillingness to accept the findings of the American intelligence community is not surprising. Carlson has made a point of repeatedly and unequivocally insisting that the U.S. intelligence community was pushing "an utterly unsubstantiated claim from the Clinton campaign that" the cyberattacks on American political institutions are "a Russian propaganda effort." But considering the intelligence community's findings since the election, Carlson's repeated denials of the severity of Russia's involvement in the 2016 election seem to be getting more and more desperate.
While Carlson fails to accept the CIA's conclusions, the allegations of Russian hacking have been corroborated by intelligence agencies in the United States and internationally. The Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement on election security stating that the "U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations." And the intelligence services of various American allies also allege that Russian cyberattacks "represent a fundamental threat to … sovereignty" and "should be a concern to all those who share democratic values." Even Republican senators on Capitol Hill have issued warnings and called for investigations into the matter, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who stated that the Russians "are not our friends."
While many have rallied around the idea that Russia's role in the election requires investigation, at least Carlson will have one ally in his opposition. Earlier this year, like Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the hack was "important" because the "content [of the hacked emails] was given to the public." Considering Carlson's role as a prime-time TV news host, his failure to inform his viewers of the seriousness of the intelligence community's evaluations on Russian interference in the 2016 election -- and his defense of Russia and echoing of the Russian president -- are especially problematic. And they provide the Russian government with a major defender in American media.


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Transport, Cruises
Norway Is Building the World's First Ship Tunnel to Bypass Dangerous Seas
Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press
- Apr 08, 2017 2:00 pm
Norway is becoming ever more popular as a cruise destination, but this tunnel won't accommodate more than the smallest of passenger ships.
— Hannah Sampson
Norway plans to build the world's first tunnel for ships, a 1,700-meter (5,610-feet) passageway burrowed through a piece of rocky peninsula that will allow vessels to avoid a treacherous part of sea.
Construction of the Stad Ship Tunnel, which would be able to accommodate cruise and freight ships weighing up to 16,000 tons, is expected to open in 2023.
It will be 36 meters (118 feet) wide and 49 meters (162 feet) tall and is estimated to cost at least 2.7 billion kroner ($314 million).
Norwegian Transportation Minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen had said Wednesday that sea currents and underwater topography in this part of the country's southwestern coast "result in particularly complex wave conditions."
"We are pleased that the ship tunnel now becomes reality," Solvik-Olsen said, adding that travel time between Norwegian cities and towns in the area would be reduced. Over the years, plans for a ship tunnel in Stad had been floated but now a project with a financing is ready, he said.
The tunnel is expected to be located at the narrowest point of the Stadlandet peninsula and the weather has for decades been considered an obstacle for shipping.
Project manager Terje Andreassen said engineers will have to blast out an estimated eight million tons of rock to build the tunnel. Construction is expected to start at the earliest in 2019.
Under the plan, passenger traffic will be given priority but leisure boats and other vessels can also use the tunnel. It will be free of charge for vessels measuring less than 70 meters (230 feet), and vessels longer than that would have to be led.
Vessels sailing through the tunnel likely will get slot times from a traffic center — like planes at an airport — to avoid congestion.
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Rohit set to replace Mayank
Agencies / Updated: Jan 6, 2021, 06:00 IST
Rohit Sharma is set to play in the third Test against Australia
Selectors will, however, find it tough to choose between Shardul, Saini and Natarajan as India look to ride the momentum in Sydney amid pandemic pressures
A test series featuring moments of high drama on and off the field will lurch forward under the threat of COVID-19 on Thursday, with India's bowlers aiming to strike a decisive blow as Australia's misfiring batsmen attempt to regroup.
With a coronavirus outbreak still smouldering in Australia's largest city, the Sydney Cricket Ground will host a socially distanced crowd capped at 10,000 per day for what would usually be a packed New Year's test.
The series is level at 1-1, but India head into the third instalment with momentum after dampening Australia's Christmas cheer with a dominant eight-wicket win in Melbourne.
Victory would ensure India retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy contested between the nations, two years after their breakthrough 2-1 win in the 2018/19 series.
Not all is well with the India camp, though, and the strains of a long, "biosecure" tour have started to show.
Five of India's players are under the microscope for allegedly breaching health protocols when out for a meal.
Media reports have said the tourists might boycott the fourth and final test in Brisbane if forced into more stringent quarantine.
The team has declined to hose down the speculation, leaving the Australian cricket board to affirm India's support for the tour.
A rising injury count has also created headaches, forcing Ajinkya Rahane's side to tweak its pace attack for a third successive match.
Shardul Thakur is expected to replace Umesh Yadav but the uncapped left-armer T. Natarajan, called up after Umesh's calf strain, sent social media abuzz on Tuesday by tweeting a picture of himself in test whites.
Batsman Lokesh Rahul's wrist injury has also robbed India of a potential replacement for struggling opener Mayank Agarwal, though experienced batsman Rohit Sharma is available after recovering from a hamstring injury.
Australia have more serious batting problems, having failed to surpass 200 runs in the series.
They are likely to be bolstered by the inclusion of opener David Warner, badly missed while sidelined with a groin strain and set to replace the dropped Joe Burns.
The selectors must also decide whether to risk the uncapped and recently concussed Will Pucovski at the top of the order or persist with the makeshift option of Matthew Wade.
The form of master batsman Steve Smith, battling through his worst ever run of test scores with a combined 10 runs for the series, will also be under scrutiny as he faces nemesis Ravichandran Ashwin.
With 10 wickets, Ashwin leads the series bowling with Pat Cummins, and has so far upstaged Australia's spinner Nathan Lyon. , needing only two victims to bring up his 400th test wicket, will hope to turn the tables at the SCG, traditionally the country's most spin-friendly pitch.
KL Rahul out with sprained left wrist
KL Rahul was on Tuesday ruled out of the remaining two Tests against Australia after sustaining a wrist injury during training in Melbourne, the BCCI said.
Rahul had not played any match of the ongoing series in which the third Test starts on Thursday here.
"KL Rahul sprained his left wrist while batting in the nets at the MCG during Team India's practice session on Saturday," the BCCI said in a statement.
"The wicketkeeper-batsman will not be available for the remaining two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as he will need about three weeks time to recover completely and regain full strength," it added.
It has been learnt that the stylish right-hander suffered a sprain while facing one of the three throwdown specialists at the nets and had to call off his training session. AGENCIES


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Q: libGDX: Changing visibility of a 3d model Imagine I have a model of a human with some accessory like sunglasses, a hat, a chain and so on. Is there any way to switch the visibility of those items inside my libGDX application, by writing something like:
 modelInstance.getNode("sunglasses").setVisible(false)

A: You can set a blending attibute to its material:
blendingAttribute = new BlendingAttribute(GL10.GL_ALPHA, GL10.GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
material = modelinstance.materials.get(0);
material.set(blendingAttribute);

Then you can set its opacity like this:
blendingAttribute.opacity = 0.5F; //0-1

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Le Nokia 7600 est un téléphone de l'entreprise Nokia. Il est monobloc avec un design avant-gardiste.

Caractéristiques
 Système d'exploitation Symbian OS
 GSM/WCDMA
  pour 123 grammes
 Écran  de 128 × 160 pixels avec 65 536 couleurs
 Appareil photo numérique : 640 × 480
 Vibreur
 DAS : .

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Nokia
 Symbian OS
 Téléphonie mobile

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Илимдиг — река в России, протекает в Вачском и Навашинском районах Нижегородской области. Устье реки находится в 11 км по правому берегу реки Серёжа. Длина реки составляет 24 км, площадь бассейна — 91 км².

Исток реки северо-восточнее села Берёзовка. Верхнее течение проходит по Вачскому району, нижнее — по Навашинскому. Генеральное направление течения — юг, русло сильно извилистое. Приток — Мерсеть (левый). В верховьях протекает через село Берёзовка, затем входит в обширный ненаселённый лесной массив по которому течёт вплоть до впадения в Серёжу. Устье находится напротив деревни Левино.

Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Окскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — Тёша от истока и до устья, речной подбассейн реки — Бассейны притоков Оки от Мокши до впадения в Волгу. Речной бассейн реки — Ока.

По данным геоинформационной системы водохозяйственного районирования территории РФ, подготовленной Федеральным агентством водных ресурсов:
 Код водного объекта в государственном водном реестре — 09010300212110000030861
 Код по гидрологической изученности (ГИ) — 110003086
 Код бассейна — 09.01.03.002
 Номер тома по ГИ — 10
 Выпуск по ГИ — 0

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Реки Вачского района
Реки городского округа Навашинский
Бассейн Тёши


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VR Commerce Metaverse SPACE Hires Talent From Call Of Duty, CD Projekt Red & Dash Pay
in Metaverse Blockchain
— January 07, 2022
by CryptoDaily
SPACE is getting fresh impetus to speed up the evolution of its "commerce metaverse" with the addition of three new key team members who bring extensive experience in the areas of video game development and blockchain
The idea of the Metaverse really hit the mainstream in 2021 as people began to embrace the idea of living within interconnected virtual worlds where they can meet and interact with other uses. With its commerce metaverse, SPACE wants to be the "economic glue" that connects these various worlds in the sphere of social commerce.
SPACE is building a project where users can design and build their own virtual commerce spaces and sell art, fashion items, music, games and more. It provides all the tools necessary for users to create a shop, gallery or music venue, for example, where they can display virtual goods they wish to sell. Point of sale tools are delivered by Stripe.
Once a space has been created, users can enter them using a virtual reality headset or through SPACE's desktop and mobile apps. One of its best features is spatial audio, allowing users to see and hear other users while browsing through the various venues. People represent themselves through avatars
SPACE launched its Early Access Alpha last year and already counts more than 15,000 users. A number of existing spaces can be accessed, including amphitheaters, concert halls, aircraft hangars, motor shows, art rooms and music rooms.
SPACE's new hires include Call of Duty co-founder Chance Glasco, who will be tasked with directing its product strategy, and Antonio Molina, who was previously associated with the games developer CD Projekt RED and will act as SPACE's project lead. Also joining the team is Felix Mago, the co-founder of Dash NEXT, who has been hired as the company's new Blockchain lead.
SPACE founder and Chief Executive Batis Samadian welcomed the new hires, saying they'll add their skills in blockchain and games development to the original team's experience in crypto, e-commerce and VR.
The new hires underscore the rising convergence between commerce and gaming within the Metaverse, and will enable SPACE to deliver a higher quality product, the company added.
The new team members join SPACE just weeks after it closed on a $7 million funding round that saw participation from investors including Animoca Brands, Coinfund, Dapper Labs, Digital Currency Group, LD Capital, Ghaf Investments and HOF Capital.
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