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Corr group | Functional nanomaterials at Sheffield
Design, synthesis and evaluation of functional inorganic materials for applications in energy and the environment
Materials for energy storage
Nanostructured material design
Strongly correlated materials
Nanomaterials for conservation
Professor Serena Corr
Serena obtained her BA (2002) and PhD (2007) in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin. She completed her PhD work on New Magnetic Nanostructured Materials with Professor Yurii Gun'ko, where she developed new magnetic materials for biomedical applications. In 2007, she began working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Materials Research Laboratory with Professor Ram Seshadri at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she studied metal-insulator transitions in vanadates. After a lectureship at the University of Kent, Serena joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in Physical Chemistry in 2013, was promoted to Reader in 2016 and made Professor and Chair of Energy Materials in 2018. In October 2018, she joined the University of Sheffield as Professor and Chair in Functional Nanomaterials, as a joint appointment between the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of functional nanomaterials in particular for applications in energy storage, with an emphasis on understanding their intimate structure-property interplay. She is associate editor of the RSC journals Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, IOP journal Progress in Energy and sits on the editorial boards of Chemistry of Materials and Nanoscale Horizons. She was Theme Coordinator for Energy Conversion and Storage for the Scottish Energy Technology Partnership until 2018 and is a member of the Supergen Energy Storage Hub and Science board. Serena also serves on the scientific and organising committees for a number of conferences (including the UK Energy Storage conference 2016; ISACS: Challenges in Inorganic Chemistry 2017; 16th European Solid State meeting 2017). Serena was appointed to the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Committee in 2017, a post she will hold for three years. She has published over 50 refereed publications, including five invited book chapters. She was awarded the 2017 Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. She is married to Eddie and they are parents to two boys.
Dr Samuel Booth
Sam obtained his master's degree in chemistry from the University of Manchester (2013), where he continued to complete his PhD with Professor Robert Dryfe (2017). The focus of his PhD was on the electrochemical deposition and growth of metal nanoparticles at liquid/liquid interfaces, utilising X-ray spectroscopy to develop mechanistic insights. Sam went on to his first postdoc at the University of Liverpool to work with Professor Mathias Brust on applications of gold nanoparticles before joining Professor Serena Corr's group at the University of Glasgow in 2018. The initial focus of this work was on the microwave synthesis of lithium ion cathode materials. Following the group's move to Sheffield, he is currently involved on the FutureCat project to develop next generation lithium ion cathodes. Away from the lab Sam enjoys rugby, climbing and travelling.
Dr Manik Bhosale
Manik received his PhD degree in chemical science from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (India) under the supervision of Dr. Kothandam Krishnamoorthy in August 2016. During his PhD, he focused on the synthesis of organic small molecules and microporous polymers as an electrode material for rechargeable batteries. After this, Manik has finished his first postdoc from the Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon (South Korea) with Prof. Jae-Young Choi, where he designed and synthesis of mesoporous metal oxides and metal-doped carbon materials for energy storage and conversion devices. In his free time, he enjoys playing a cricket and spending time with family and friends.
Dr Hany El-Shinawi
Hany completed his PhD in solid state chemistry at the University of Birmingham with Prof Colin Greaves in July 2010. His PhD studies focused on the synthesis and characterization of perovskite-related materials and their possible use as cathode materials in SOFCs. After this, Hany joined Prof Jürgen Janek's group (Giessen, Germany), as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, in 2011 working on potential electrode materials for lithium batteries. Hany has employed sol-gel synthesis to develop and enhance the performance of several anode/cathode/solid-electrolyte materials for lithium battery applications. After a short lectureship at Mansoura University (Egypt), he joined Serena's group as a research associate. In his free time, Hany enjoys reading and spending time with family.
Dr Naresh Gollapally
Naresh obtained his master's degree from NIT Warangal (India) in 2010 and Ph.D. in solid state chemistry from IIT Roorkee (India) under the guidance of Dr. Tapas Kumar Mandal in 2016. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the "Development of New Layered Oxide and Oxyhalide Titanates for Solar Photocatalysis". Then, he carried out one and half year postdoctoral research on "Facet-Dependent Optical and Photocatalytic Properties of Nanocrystals" with Prof. Michael H. Huang at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently, he is a Research Associate in University of Sheffield with Prof. Serena Corr and his present research interests is "Development of NMC Materials for Li-ion Batteries". Naresh enjoys travelling, reading, drawing, cooking, running and workouts in gym.
Dr Enrique Sanchez Perez
Enrique obtained a bachelor degree in Chemistry at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 2013, during which he held an Erasmus Scholarship in Lund University Sweden in 2012. After working for one year in electrochemical biosensors and nanomaterials at UCM, Enrique moved to Grenoble and completed a Masters degree in Nanotechnology and Nanochemistry in Université Joseph Fourier in 2015. After completing his PhD with the Corr group on magnetic nanocomposites for artefact conservation, Enrique remained in Sheffield to take up a postdoctoral position. During his free time, Enrique enjoys rock and ice climbing, biking and travelling.
Beth Johnston
Beth obtained her undergraduate masters degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Glasgow in 2016, achieving a first class honours and was also awarded the Archibald MCauley Memorial Prize for most distinguished combined physics student. She undertook an industrial placement year at De La Rue (England) during her fourth year, working on novel security features for banknotes. Beth's PhD focuses on synthesis of electrode materials for high voltage Li-ion batteries – continuing where she left off from her final year masters project at Glasgow. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Trust PhD Scholarship. In her free time, she enjoys reading, driving and visiting historical sites.
Lianne Jordan
Lianne graduated from the University of Manchester in 2016 with an integrated masters degree in Chemistry with industrial experience. Her third year was spent with Imerys Minerals Ltd. working on improving the strength and rheological properties of a cellulose based product through the addition of natural polymers. During the last year of her degree, Lianne undertook a masters project on sub-micron patterning of polymer brushes using super inkjet printing. In her free time Lianne enjoys playing the piano, surfing and visiting museums.
Innes McClelland
Innes completed his BsC undergraduate degree in Chemical Physics at the University of Glasgow in 2018, undertaking a final year project on high voltage cathode synthesis and characterisation, and a work placement testing and modelling thermal batteries at MSB, Coatbridge. Innes' PhD focuses on the development of the muon spectroscopy technique towards operando ionic diffusion measurements and the studies of novel solid state electrolyte materials, as a facility development studentship with the ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility. In his free time, he enjoys travelling, playing sports, and music.
Tom Entwistle
Tom completed his MEng undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering with energy at the University of Sheffield in 2018 with first class honours and winning the Moorside Energy prize for Chemical Engineering. His PhD will be working on developing a new process to mass produce Li-ion battery materials using microwaves. His Master's research project on the remote monitoring of solar cells was partnered with Mahanakorn University of Technology in Bangkok. During his free time, Tom plays guitar and is a keen orienteer and fell runner, having a top-150 UK orienteering ranking.
Jethro Pryke
Jethro graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in Aerospace engineering with a year in industry in 2017. The year in industry was spent at the Nuclear AMRC, working with Sellafield engineers to optimise automated welding of containers for long term storage of nuclear waste. For his final year project, Jethro worked to improve the understanding of the mechanisms that effect fracture toughness in amine cured epoxy resins. Jethro's PhD focuses on developing cathode materials for magnesium batteries. He is a keen caver and also enjoys canyoning, climbing and cycling
Aysen Zerey
Aysen received her BA in Chemical Engineering at Ataturk University in Turkey. After this, she undertook a placement at Gebze Technical University, working on the synthesis of carbon-based materials for Na-ion batteries using biomass via hydrothermal carbonization. She completed an MSc in Electrochemistry at the University of Southampton in 2018. During her master's, she worked on the sol-gel synthesis of mesoporous TiO2 as a negative electrode for the aqueous aluminium-ion battery. She joined the Corr group in 2019, where her PhD focuses on the design and characterization of high energy next generation lithium-ion battery electrodes. In her free time, she enjoys playing ukulele and recording voice.
Former group members and visitors
Dr Ester Rani Aluri was a postdoc with our group for three years, working on developing magnetic nanocomposites for conservation. She went on to take up a postdoctoral position with Prof Dermot Brougham at UCD
Dr Marco Amores completed his PhD in our group before taking a position at NPL. He was awarded a prestigious JSPS Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Tokyo and NIMS.
Dr Josefa Vidal Laveda completed her PhD in the Corr group and is now a postdoctoral researcher at EMPA, Switzerland working on battery materials.
Akansha Goyal, visiting Erasmus project student from Leiden University, who is working on the synthesis of high voltage metal oxide nanostructures for Li-ion batteries
Christian Arenas, Research student, who worked on solid electrolytes for energy storage.
Dr Thomas Ashton completed his PhD in the Corr group and went on to postdoctoral work with Prof Jawwad Darr at UCL.
Max Terban, Columbia-Glasgow research exchange scholarship from Columbia University to work on nanoparticle conservation strategies for the Mary Rose.
Dr Marc Williams, who completed his PhD in the Corr group on magnetic nanocomposite materials. Went on to postdoctoral work at University of Kent.
Dr Parthiban Ramasamy, RSC Mobility Fellow, Kongju National University, South Korea, worked on new routes to anode materials for Li-ion batteries.
Vibhuti Chandhok, Postgraduate taught masters project student, worked on new routes to magnetic nanocomposite materials. Went on to PhD at University of Florida.
Larissa Caminhas, Science without Borders student, visited from Brazil and worked on perovskite nanoparticles for hyperthermia applications.
Paula Lins, Science without Borders student, visited from Brazil and worked on iron oxide nanoparticles for imaging applications.
Michael Hills, Nuffield summer student, worked on Li-ion batteries.
David Hevia , visiting Erasmus student from the Universitat de Barcelona
Áine Laughlin , final year chemistry student at Glasgow University, now working for Charles River.
Cheryl O'Connor , final year chemistry student at Glasgow University, now working for Charles River.
Chris Kennedy, MSci Chemical Physics student who spent the summer in our lab on an EPSRC Vacation scholarship working on vanadate nanomaterials.
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Swapnil B. Ambade says:
Dear Prof. Serena Corr,
This is Swapnil from Chonbuk National University, South Korea!
I am a Doctorate student working in the areas of Inverted Organic Solar cells wherein my work typically involves designing oxidic n-buffers.
This is to Congratulate you for your appointment as a new associate editor for Nanoscale.
Wish you great success for your future endeavors.
Swapnil B. Ambade
Zhang says:
Dear Prof. Corr,
This is Zhang from Hokkaido University, Japan. Congratulations for becoming a new associate editor for Nanoscale. Best wishes!
JAISANKAR, S. N. says:
Hello Dr Serena Corr,
My hearty Congratulations to you for your new assignments as a new associate editor, NANAOSCALE. Hope you may add more laurels to the RSC.
Dr Jaisankar
Jie Song says:
Dear Dr. Corr,
This is Jie from Emory University, Atlanta, USA. Glad to know your new appointment as the associate editor for Nanoscale and it would be a new stage for your academic career. Congratulations for your new achievement!
Jie Song Ph.D.
Arvind Prakash says:
This is Arvind Prakash Research Scholar from IIT(BHU), Varanasi, INDIA. Congratulation for new designation as the associate editor for nanoscale. I am writing my thesis This time and i search and find your book chapter on metal oxide nano particles. it is beneficiary for me. I will be highly oblige you, if you send me this book chapter.
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The Administration's Latest Blow to International Students and How Universities Can Respond
Seth Grossman Chief of Staff and Counselor to the President of American University; Washington, DC ACS Lawyer Chapter Leader
Amid the ongoing health and safety challenges posed by COVID-19, colleges and universities across the country have been planning for the fall semester on the assumption that, whether they offered classes entirely online or through a hybrid approach with both online and in-person classes, their international students would be able to continue their studies while living in the United States.
This assumption seemed reasonable under guidance that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued in March suspending its typical restriction for international students studying on an F-1 visa – the primary visa for international students studying full-time at universities in the United States – of only a single course (or its equivalent) online in a term. ICE's guidance at the time stated this revised policy would be "in effect for the duration of the emergency," so universities fully expected it would continue to apply in the fall given the current course of the pandemic.
All that changed on July 6, when ICE reversed its spring guidance through a news release, a somewhat more detailed message to schools, and a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document. This new policy, issued without any advance notice or opportunity for affected parties to comment, prohibits international students from remaining in the United States if their university will offer courses exclusively online for the fall semester. International students may remain in the United States, or enter the United States, only if they are taking a portion of their course load for the fall semester in person and their school certifies they are taking no more online classes than necessary to make normal progress in their program. In the announcement, ICE indicated it would issue a temporary final rule codifying this new policy, although it gave no timetable for doing so beyond the "near future".
Making a bad situation even worse, the ICE directive provides schools little time to comply with its various requirements. Universities which plan to offer their instruction entirely online must notify ICE by July 15, less than 10 days after the new directive was announced. While universities that plan to offer hybrid instruction have until August 4 to notify ICE, they must submit a new compliance form for each international student by that date. As an official at Indiana University explained, reissuing the new forms to all international students is "not trivial … [i]t's an all-hands-on-deck exercise." It also may be impossible for some schools, as the deadline for students to register for fall classes is after August 4th at several universities.
Under ICE's new policy, international students in programs that are entirely online for the fall face several difficult options. They can, as ICE suggests, try to transfer to a university offering some in-person education – though that will be difficult to do so close to the beginning of the semester. Or they can depart the United States and try to continue their studies online while living abroad.
This is easier said than done, as leaving the United States presents serious financial, health, and educational challenges for many international students. Last-minute international travel is often expensive, and many countries are maintaining travel restrictions that will make it difficult or impossible for international students arriving from the United States to enter. These students may also face significant expenses for breaking leases or other commitments they made when they planned to study in the United States during the coming year. Travel during the pandemic itself also presents well-known health risks. And once in another country, students may have limited access to the internet or may have to navigate the challenges posed by living in a much different time zone from where their classes are being offered. Yet if international students are in an all-online program and do not leave the United States, ICE has made clear they will face deportation and potentially other immigration consequences.
It is not only universities that plan to offer instruction exclusively online that are affected by ICE's abrupt reversal. Even at schools offering a hybrid of in-person and online classes, some students still will not be able to enroll in the limited number of in-person courses that will be offered. Any international students in this position will be out of compliance with the new ICE guidance, as it includes essentially no flexibility on the requirement to take at least one class face-to-face to maintain their visa status. Moreover, the ICE directive states that if schools offering hybrid programs shift to all online instruction mid-semester due to health and safety concerns, the international students will still be subject to the same restrictions as those at schools that offered all online programs from the outset of the semester – they will need to transfer to a school that offers in-person classes or depart the United States.
From virtually every perspective – health, educational, and financial – this new approach makes little sense, particularly given that COVID-19 cases continue to increase in many parts of the country. The true motivation for the policy may actually be an effort to force universities to abandon plans for online only instruction in the fall or to exploit the COVID-19 crisis to achieve the current administration's objectives to reduce legal immigration.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, university leaders widely denounced the policy, emphasizing the central role that international students play as part of their communities and vowing to do whatever they could to reverse the policy or limit its effects.
So, what can universities do to support their international students in light of this new policy? They have three main paths:
Adjust their plans for the fall to create targeted in-person opportunities for international students. For schools that are planning to offer instruction entirely online in the fall, it is likely they will need to provide targeted opportunities for international students to take some of their courses in person. ICE has failed to make clear how much in-person instruction is necessary for international students to maintain their status, but many believe that a single in-person class, or even a single hybrid class, will be enough. Several schools have indicated they will create new in-person courses or adapt existing courses to provide a face-to-face component for international students. Others have announced their faculty will provide one-on-one independent study for international students as needed for them to maintain their status. Some faculty members have taken to social media to let international students know they are willing to offer them independent study, although others have cautioned against offering that as an option until there is clear guidance from ICE on whether independent study will count as sufficient in-person education under the new directive. Students at some schools started a spreadsheet to help non-international students swap slots in face-to-face classes with their international classmates.
For schools that are planning to offer hybrid instruction, they will need to work with international students individually to make sure they have a qualifying in-person course. One way to do this at schools where students have not completed registration for fall classes is to offer international students priority registration for spaces in in-person courses. This and other support for international students will be critical, and it is already underway: Some universities in this group have informed their international students they will reach out directly to them to develop a plan, and others have offered them one-on-one immigration advising to help them navigate the new policy.
Engage in advocacy to encourage ICE to reverse this policy. The best course of action – in terms of minimizing the economic, health, and educational costs that will result from ICE's directive – would simply be for ICE to reverse this policy. At the same time that universities are working to support their international students, they can also press ICE to change course. Some universities have said they are starting this advocacy directly and through higher education associations. As part of this work, universities can also enlist allies to advocate for reversing the policy to expand the voices raising concerns about the negative impact of the new directive not just on universities but on a diverse array of communities and the economy more broadly. Some allies have already stepped up. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for instance, has already declared that it will consider pursuing legislative (and legal options) if the administration does not reverse the policy.
Pursue litigation to halt the policy. Harvard and MIT, which had announced plans to offer most of their instruction online for the fall semester, filed the first lawsuit challenging the new ICE policy only a few short days after it was issued. Their lawsuit claims that "increasing the number of in-person sessions beyond those currently planned would increase the risk to faculty, staff, and students of contracting COVID-19." It asserts that ICE's action violates the rules of the Administrative Procedure Act – a claim that has proven successful in challenging other immigration policies of the current administration, including the effort to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order to prevent the enforcement of the policy while the litigation is ongoing. Other universities are supporting this challenge. Additional lawsuits are expected in the coming days. However, even if just one of these lawsuits succeed in halting the policy in lower courts, it is a good bet that the administration will seek an emergency stay by the Supreme Court of any injunction.
Universities, students, and their allies may yet succeed in mitigating or invalidating this policy through one or all of these paths. But it is difficult to overstate the impact of ICE's new directive on international students, on universities and their communities, and on businesses and the economy if it remains in effect— yet another cruel attempt by the current administration to target immigrants and close off America from the world.
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The Saints will be looking to put an opening round loss behind them but it will not be easy against an Eagles side that head in as firm favourite's at their home ground.
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West Coast burst out of the blocks in Round 1, running out impressive 43-point winners over North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
At the same venue the day before, St Kilda's run against Melbourne came to an end, going down to the Demons by 30 points.
The Eagles return to their happy hunting ground of Domain Stadium and have been posted as $1.15 fancies in the head-to-head betting. They have thrashed St Kilda at this venue in the past two years.
Josh Kennedy looms as a danger player for St Kilda, while the likes of Mark LeCras, Patrick Cripps and Elliot Yeo will also need to be contained by the Saints. That quartet combined for 16 goals against the Roos last weekend.
After struggling interstate last season, St Kilda has made performing on the road a priority. But without the injured Nick Riewoldt, the Saints will need their other leaders to stand up, including Jack Steven, David Armitage and Leigh Montagna. Armitage was quiet against Melbourne in Round 1, while Montagna missed with injury.
In the middle of the ground, West Coast should have too many guns. Former Hawthorn champion, Sam Mitchell, made his mark for the club last weekend and with Matt Priddis, Andrew Gaff and Luke Shuey to help out, the Eagles should dominate at the stoppages.
West Coast will be without Drew Petrie after the big man broke his hand in the first quarter of the season last weekend. Jonathan Giles is expected to be named as his replacement.
St Kilda lose Nick Riewoldt for up to two weeks but are expected to regain Paddy McCartin, who was a late withdrawal out of the Melbourne game. Leigh Montagna is also expected to return from injury.
West Coast have won their past seven against St Kilda by an average margin of 49 points. The last two games have both been at Domain Stadium with the Eagles prevailing by 103 points in Round 8 last year and by 95 points in Round 23 of 2015.


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Private information can be inferred from public data.
Alphas are found by examining their effective migration strategies.
I lay down 5 rules for finding alphas.
You only make alpha when you correctly recognize something well ahead of others. When you execute correctly. When you have methodologies that can reliably peer over the horizon.
You are not part of the rat-pack. Forget about analysts' prognostications, they are about betas.
Companies are rational group-think. This group-think is substantially governed by their business context. Or companies at least have a system of logic and materials by which they make decisions, which you are not privy to. This is private information. You have access to public information which companies publish to influence your decision-making. That is, there is an asymmetric information between internal staff and outside investors and even between internal staff themselves.
How can we peer over the horizon to find the big winners? To make better investment decisions? To do better due diligence? Noting that the purpose of due diligence is to reduce information asymmetry, while GAAP regulations and the Law try to minimize distortions to this information asymmetry.
As outsiders, can we penetrate this asymmetric information veil to infer private information from public data? We can. If we understand a company's logic, we can parse this public information to infer private information, with the goal of sifting through the alphas and the betas.
Another example closer to home. You want to buy a car and are at a car dealership. The salesperson's job is to maximize gross profits, but he does not know what the maximum you are willing to pay. It is his job to get you to pay the highest amount for the car and accessories. The customer, on the other hand, does not know what the lowest price the salesperson will be authorized to sell the car and accessories at. It is in customer's interest to get the car and accessories at the lowest price possible. These are the two information asymmetries at work here. It was immense fun. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose.
Disclosure: To get first-hand experiential knowledge of these information asymmetries, I spent 2 years (2016-2018) as a Honda salesperson doing "hand-to-hand combat" (yes, it really is) in Southern California, the most competitive automotive market in the US. It was an experience I am ever so grateful for and will never forget. It was a source of immense personal growth (not what I was expecting) and I would recommend a car sales job at a reputable car dealership for anyone who wants to achieve personal growth. This I will say, the logic of the business, the physical construction of a dealership, is designed to maximize revenue and gross profits.
About 20 years ago I finally invented a new class of solutions and coined the term Asymmetric Information Resolution (AIR). This class of solutions was 20 years in development and based on manufacturing business logic. I believe that manufacturing business logic is the foundation for all other business logic. It is based on my background of my first 20 years of work with Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN), Coopers & Lybrand Management Consultants (now PwC), Unilever (NYSE:UL), Westport, and many other companies.
In 1995, I was Head of Corporate Planning at Westport, Malaysia, then a $1 billion port infrastructure project, and laid the strategy for it to become the 6th largest container port in the world by 2006. The Port Authority of Singapore (PSA) was its main and only competitor, deriving 35% of its business from Malaysia. That is, PSA was substantially dependent on a single customer, Malaysia. The strategy I implemented was to change Westport's hinterland definition (and for that matter any port's) from a 30-mile radius to a 7-hour radius. With that, all of Peninsula Malaysia became Westport's hinterland and repositioned it from Niche to Scale Economies. With Singapore at the southern tip of Peninsula Malaysia, PSA could not compete as the northern part of Peninsula Malaysia was 18 hours away. That is, Westport now had a physical geographical barrier to its wealth erosion from PSA.
My purpose for AIR models was to infer private information from public data to enhance my management consulting services, now Competitive Dynamiques LLC.
Since then, for the fun of it, I developed a dating AIR model. A fairly prominent lady emailed me back saying that my description of her was "spot on." I have not met her but used photographs of her available on the Internet. Okay, a sample size of one is not much to gloat about and I haven't tested this any further. Consumer advertisers don't bug me. That is the power of this class of solutions if built correctly.
AIR models are the opposite of data mining. Data mining searches through gigantic quantities of data to find a previously unrecognized trend or characteristic. What if that data does not exist? AIR models, on the other hand, state the logical structure of a (business) context and then show what is possible and what is not. These are insight-seeking class of solutions as opposed to a data-seeking class of solutions.
Coming back to Henry Miles and his article. Recall Peter Lynch's due diligence? I would also ask the question, how do you test anecdotal information or observations for validity? The AIR models can. The AIR models I developed to test strategy, operations, etc. and business anecdotal information are the Holistic Business Model, the Financial AIR model and the Competitive AIR model. With these you can peer into companies to see if their public information is consistent with their private information.
In this article I will introduce you to the Holistic Business Model (HBM). This is an operations and strategy AIR model. The HBM is capable of handling millions of variations in businesses, unlike Porter's Five Forces model which essentially has a few strategies, Differentiation, Innovation, Niche, Low Cost Producer, Economies of Scale & Scope.
The HBM consists of 4 maps, (I) Fig. 1, The Operations Map, (II) Fig. 2, The Revenue Transaction Map, (III) Fig. 3, The Structural Strategy Map, and (IV) Fig. 4, Migration Strategy Map. (III) and (IV) are the same maps but it gets too crowded to put all the information on the same map.
As the text in the figures can be too small to read, I have made the (Google Drive) PowerPoint of this HBM AIR model freely available to use either in part or in whole for non-commercial uses, provided my copyright is clearly stated.
Each map consists of a box or a framework at the top, and 4 frameworks. The top box/framework summarizes the insight derived from or in conjunction with the analysis of the respective frameworks. For example, in Fig. 1, The Operations Map, it would be a high-level flow chart or network diagram of the business process. In Fig. 2, The Revenue Transaction Map, this top framework summaries how similar any two companies are and therefore provides an assessment of the intensity of the rivalry between them. In Fig. 3, The Structural Strategy Map, and Fig. 4, Migration Strategy Evaluation Map, the top framework summaries how companies create wealth.
Each framework consists of 4 quadrants and each quadrant depicts the outcome of this structure and supporting logic. For example, in Fig. 1, the Organization framework quadrant labels are Coordination, Relationship, Event and Activity, with their logic labels of Matrix & Project Organization, Entrepreneurial Organization, Network & Process Organization, and Hierarchical Organization, respectively.
Each quadrant is bound on its inner sides by barriers to entry. For example, Coordination is bound by Consensus Drives the Organization, on the right, and Milestones Define Goals at the bottom.
Each framework is constructed from two sets of factors. For example, the Coordination framework's two factors are Cohesion Between Organization Sub-Units and Cohesion Within Organization Sub-Units. These are the primal factors. The dual factors are depicted within the framework, and in this framework are Functional versus Multi-Skilled Teams, and Empowerment Driven versus Leadership Driven, respectively.
For this article, the comparisons between Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and Ford (NYSE:F) are presented here, done using anecdotal news reports without looking at their financial statements. This is to prove that it is possible to infer private information from public anecdotal reports. Beware, however, as your assessment of a situation may be different from others and to sharpen this analysis you should verify and adjust using available financial statements. AIR models are forgiving of uncertainty.
When Ford Shuffles Roles for Two Top Executives it is seeking to reposition its top management to a more Event (Organization Framework, Fig. 1) based structure to more quickly respond to changes in the mobility business environment. Therefore, I infer that CEO Jim Hackett has either Hierarchical or Entrepreneurial (Organization Framework, Fig. 1) management's style. (See Fig. 1, blue stars). Having worked in automotive sales I would guess his style is Hierarchical.
Automotive industry is Assembly Line (Process Framework, Fig. 1) with Pull Scheduling (Scheduling Management Framework, Fig. 1), unless you are a specialty car maker then, your Process Framework would be Job Shop, and Scheduling Management, Reactive Scheduling. The business' Availability (Framework) quadrant is Channel Replenishment at the dealership, but it could be Quick Response at manufacturing. Compare this with Tesla's Made-To-Order (see Fig. 1 red stars) or at least the attempt to.
Scheduling Management (Framework) in the semiconductor industry is Multiple Objective at wafer fabs and Push at Assembly-Test. In the late 1980s, I proved that Push and Pull are Primal-Dual problems and therefore give similar if not identical schedules. Therefore, which you use, Push or Pull, is dependent on your business context.
In the Format Framework, auto sales (Ford, blue stars) is Contact based as customer ownership is the key driver, as opposed to Involvement, Timing or Perception. Operations (Competency Framework) is key as evidenced by Tesla's (red stars) recent production problems. Tesla has not mastered its Operations competency and it is still in the Product quadrant of Competency Framework.
In the Transaction Framework, Ford is Outlets Based while Tesla is still testing Virtual Business. Tesla needs to migrate to Outlets-based (Transaction Framework) but it can only get there by first migrating to Premised Business as it is not big enough to migrate to Saturation Business.
The apparent production delays combined with store closures indicate a Hierarchical Organization (see Fig. 1) that is usually incompatible with Innovation Market Advantage (see Fig. 3). Maybe Elon Musk should step down and be replaced by someone who is a relationship builder.
Since Tesla and Ford are not close in the Industry Rivalry Framework (top framework of Fig. 2) there is not much rivalry between the two. Thus, cooperation between the two is possible.
I have moved away from Porter's Five Forces model. The next 2 maps lay out strategy. Note, however, not only can you only move horizontally and vertically as with the previous Maps, but you have to stay in the same columns and rows (column & row restrictions) as the neighboring Frameworks.
In this HBM AIR model there are two types of strategies. (I) Structural Strategy (see Fig. 3) depicted by their quadrant labels. And (II) Migration Strategy (see Fig. 4), which is the strategy to repositioning from one Structural Strategy to its neighboring quadrant's Structural Strategy.
When working with the HBM you don't have to start with the first framework. If you are not sure of all your information, start with what you know. The column & row restriction will show you what is possible and what is not.
Note, companies that are occupying all 4 inner quadrants, demarked by the red box, are in their death spirals, and should be avoided unless you are in the turnaround business. These companies need turnaround CEOs and depending on the business context these CEO management styles may fall into any of that in the Organization framework (Fig. 1).
This strategy model recognizes additional market forces, auction behavior (Market & Resource Bidding) in the market, economic game theory (Optimum Location and Win-Win/Zero Sum) and Markov Chains (Transition State Probabilities). Transition State Probabilities inform of repeat buyers. If these forces change, it will force a company's quadrant changes. That is, external market forces can evict a company from its current quadrant.
The top framework, Market Wealth Creation Framework, shows that there are only 4 approaches to creating wealth, Intangibles, Inputs, Expertise and Barriers. Barriers, to preventing wealth erosion, is the ultimate goal of any business. Think, Microsoft and its huge Windows & Office product acceptance. Using HBM, that is an amazing story.
Let's look at Tesla in comparison to Ford. Ford's Market Advantage (Fig. 3) Structural Strategy is Differentiation as its product structure is wide, SUVs, multiple categories of cars, and trucks; and premium priced compared to Kia and Hyundai. Tesla's is Innovation/Niche. Tesla has a narrow product range and is premium priced. It has unique know-how to deliver process and product attributes (electric versus gasoline).
If you take the view that Tesla is just another car company, then Tesla's Market State (Fig. 3) is Clarity as it is a small player and comparatively its market looks fragmented. Its customers clearly know what they want (electric, as opposed to non-fossil fuel) or don't want (gasoline or diesel engines). Ford's is Mop Up as it is a major market player and offers a range of trims and accessories for each of its many models.
Ford's market growth relative to Tesla's is higher. Therefore, its Market Economics is Equity Game i.e. building balance sheet equity. It cannot be in the Variable Cost Game as its Market State is Mop Up. Should Ford's market growth contract, it will shift to Unit Cost Game, and that may cause its Market Sustainability to shift to Status Quo. Further contraction of growth would lead to Viability Drains Profits.
Tesla is in the Endurance Game as it is struggling with production problems and cannot realize its revenue potential. It cannot be Unit Cost Game as that is not in the same row as Clarity. However, the introduction of other types of power-trains, such as the fuel-cell (I used to sell the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell) could shake up the market and push Tesla from Clarity to Uncertainty, and Differentiation (Market Advantage) not Innovation/Niche becomes the only Structural Strategy available to Tesla.
If you take the view that Tesla is a giant player in the electric vehicle segment of the automotive market, then Tesla's Market State is Consolidation, and its Market Economics is Unit Cost Game. That is, Tesla has a dire need to get its production up and running without hiccups. That is its first and only priority in the short term.
With the successful introduction of alternative power-trains, the market would force Tesla's Structural Strategy to migrate from Consolidation to Mop Up. Would Tesla be prepared? This scenario is still many years away. Similarly, alternative power-trains could force Ford to Uncertainty, and thus moving it to the Variable Cost Game quadrant of Market Economics. Then it would have to rebuild its brand to get back to Mop Up or migrate to Clarity by clearly defining the value benefits (VB) it is offering.
If you think about Tesla is just beginning to migrate from Consolidate (Market State) of the smaller electric-vehicle market segment to Clarity of the much larger auto market, amid prospects who are fed up with the production delays turn to other makers of vehicles, this should show up in the Transition State Probabilities.
With either Market Economics, the low profitability, combined with production problems, leaves Tesla's Market Sustainability in the Viability Drains Profits, while Ford's higher profitability leaves it in the Self-Sustained Growth quadrant. Ford is unlikely to go to the public markets for funds, but Tesla may.
Therefore, Tesla's Market Wealth Creation is derived from Intangibles, while Ford's is Barriers.
Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 show that Elon Musk's only option to profitability is Cost Restructuring (Market Sustainability Framework) not cost cutting, to get to Status Quo and then migrate to Self-Sustained Growth. However, Fig.2 shows Tesla's Format (Framework) is Presentation as public perception has been key to Tesla's success, but the automotive business is Contact (Format Framework), therefore cutting stores will handicap its revenue growth. In my opinion Tesla will eventually have to move away from its Virtual Business (Transaction Framework) to Outlets (Fig. 2). If Elon Musk does step down, then Tesla is a buy, however, having worked in multinational corporations, I know production problems can and will be solved. Thus, with its share price drop, Tesla is a potential alpha.
I have presented a rigorous method to doing due diligence for anecdotal information. This should be accompanied with the corresponding financial analysis.
The HBM can be used to compare a company with its competitors, like I have done with Ford and Tesla. From the comparisons you can then determine who a company's competitors are, that are a threat to its profitability and growth and analyze them similarly. You can also conduct what-if scenarios to determine the impact of a likely threat from over the horizon.
Companies in the red box are dead beats but dead beats can become alphas with turnarounds. All other companies are betas.
Structural Strategy: Potential alphas are companies that are in the lower half of Market Sustainability Framework that can successfully migrate to the upper half. In addition, good alphas migrate from the lower half of Market Advantage Framework to the upper half. Their wealth creation is then protected by Barriers.
Migration Strategy: Therefore, the key to finding alphas is to track the effectiveness of migration strategies of companies that occupy Viability Drains Profits and Growth Drains Profits quadrants (Market Sustainability Framework). If they cannot migrate, they won't be alphas.
Non-Mature Companies: That means that mature companies are unlikely to be alphas. I believe, but have not tested, that alphas provide abnormally high net profits for their total assets.
Non-News Worthy Alphas: However, the weakness in using anecdotal reports is that you are only looking for alphas that are in the news.
False Alphas: Note, that as this HBM AIR model becomes well-known, management will claim to effect HBM strategies to provide the perception of being an alpha, so make sure your due diligence is better.


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Sprinkle fish steaks with salt to taste the day before baking (you will probably want to reduce the salt a little because soy sauce is very salty).
The next day, about an hour before baking, drizzle fish with wine and lemon juice.
While oven is heating, slice garlic, ginger and green onions. Green onions can be sliced into 2 inch segments.
Prepare soy sauce mixture by mixing it with brown sugar and hot sauce.
When ready to bake, line a Pyrex baking dish with foil and line it with about 1/4 of your ginger, green onions and ginger. Place fish steaks on top and place remaining ingredients on top of fish. Pour soy sauce over top and make a sealed pouch using foil.
Bake fish in sealed pouch for about 15 minutes.
Open pouch and bake uncovered for about 10 more minutes or until done. Be careful not to over-bake.
Please note that the ingredients in this recipe do not have to be exact measurements. If you use less or more than the specified amount, everything will turn out just fine.
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THE best pool players from across Camden and Islington left their cues and chalk at home on Saturday as they turned out at the Boston Arms pub in Tufnell Park for a night of silverware, celebration and even a spot of dancing.
Top potters from the Chalk Farm Pool League came together at the glitzy do in recognition of their success at the table, and to mark the end of the league's 40th season.
Among the triumphant teams collecting their prizes were Division One champions Sir Robert Peel, Division Two table-toppers Peckwater Playboys and Division Three winners Cousins Night Walkers. The King's Cross Assassins also got their hands on some silverware after seeing off their rivals to win the Liam Tarrant Cup – the league's answer to the FA Cup.
Some of the individual stars also pocketed trophies following their efforts in what was a highly competitive campaign. They included King's Cross Gunner Ursula Lulla, who won the Ladies' Singles Championship, and Sir Robert Peel's premier potter Chris Heim, who yet again won the men's singles title.
There was also special Lifetime Achievement Awards for former league chairman Dave Hempstead and league secretary Mick Gilligan.
League chairman Shaun Pollard said: "We have some tremendous talent in Camden and Islington, which is driving up the standard we're seeing at the table each and every season.
"Each of our three divisions strengthened again this season, producing tight and competitive matches, while in the men's singles event we saw 140 entries battle it out for the number one spot.


RURAL OHIO – It starts somewhere.
When you see on the news something that is supposed to be disturbing, it's good to stop and think.
There has been lots of news lately about the human caravan of people coming into the United States from the southern borders.
This is news.It's not fake news.
It is part of the history of this country that folks want to come here, to live here and nurture a family.
When I see that kind of news, I think of people in every corner of that equation.
Border patrol people have a thankless job. They must be vigilant to do jobs required of them. They also must be understanding, aware of the trauma many people have endured to get as far as the border between Mexico and the United States.
Right now, people from Guatemala and Honduras are trying to get here.
Still time to get early tickets for Saturday's Bellville/Bryan game.
In my Washington business, I employed Americans and people from El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala.
One unfortunate, but probably descriptive event in my tenure as owner of Takoma Kitchens, involved a family of three Cifuentes brothers.
I had a large, new commercial kitchen, set up to bake anything I chose. I supplied accounts, like Costco, plus numerous farmers' markets.
A short, burly man named Marco Cifuentes found me by scouting out my kitchen. He, at one point, had rented space from a bakery in Langley Park, not far from my place in Hyattsville.
It's a pretty common thing for people coming into this country to find someone — anyone — who will do them a favor.
I had been approached many times by wannabe bakers, food purveyors, because they saw I had a fully-licensed, inspected commercial kitchen. That is not an easy commodity to have in Washington, D.C. But if you have the wherewithal to put money into a commercial kitchen, people will find you.
I would be approached by someone who thought she had the best chocolate chip cookie recipe. My question to her would be: How much time do you want to spend doing this? How good are you at lifting and carrying 100 pound bags of flour and sugar?
When Marco approached me, I was at a point where I wished to be elsewhere. I had a farm in Ohio. I loved growing and selling there.
My business was sufficiently advanced that others could do the work, carry out the duties. My husband John helped with that, but also handled his job as head of an investigative journalism group.
So Marco, accompanied by two brothers, moved into my space. Of course, financial arrangements were made. His crew could work after mine.
Reality, however, was a bit rough.
Marco, one brother who had been in law enforcement, and another, (background never determined), moved in. They brought in racks and racks to store their goods.
The baked goods coming from these guys were all small, very small. One woman, Dinora, did the majority of the tedious, back-breaking work.
Marco loved being in the space and was proud of the fact he had a desk, a bookshelf I had loaned him.
At one point, Marco allowed an unnamed, unknown baker to work. This person was not familiar with large commercial ovens. I had a high capacity Revent oven, placed by the gurus from Hobart. This baker tried to take out an oven rack by turning it the wrong way and broke the central shaft of this very expensive, $30,000 oven.
You couldn't just call and order another Revent oven to be delivered tomorrow. These had to be ordered, and it took time. I contacted the Hobart rep, and amazingly he said someone had a Revent, but was not going to get it. I could get that one, but of course, to the tune of another $30,000.
I — ever the mediator in difficult situations — conferred with Marco and told him without a replacement oven, there would be no business. If he wanted to be involved, he would have to pull together his share in advance. And give it to me.
You can say many things about people new to this country. Many have business sense that guarantees a cash flow. Marco got the cash. The business continued.
As business owner, I sponsored several of my employees who could get legal here by getting a labor certification. This was a time-consuming legal process. It allowed one phenomenal woman, Roxana Martinez, to become legal. She ended up being honored for her work at the bakery at the University of Maryland.
Other employees were not so remarkable.
There was a lure about my place because I also catered. Leftover items would be stored in the walk-in. Two young women found shrimp, and ate them all.
Once, I found a note written by Marco's brother, scribbled on a page of a telephone book on my desk. I couldn't decipher it, but it looked very much like a threat.
The bottom line? You get the good with the bad.
For my part, I am second generation immigrant with family from the Schwarzwald region in Germany. My grandfather Christian Schwarzwalder came here. So did my grandfather William Barden, on my mother's side.
Christian Schwarzwaldet papers he received upon arriving from Germany.
https://www.thebellvillestar.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2018/11/web1_Christian-Schwarzwalder.jpgChristian Schwarzwaldet papers he received upon arriving from Germany.
Ellis Island papers received by my grandfather William Harden upon arriving in the United States.
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Gears Reloaded / OMI IN A HELLCAT IPTV Raid: Eye Witnesses Appear on TV
Posted on November 28, 2019 Author TDUK	Comment(0)
Last week, the founder of pirate IPTV service Gears Reloaded, known on YouTube as OMI IN A HELLCAT claimed that he'd been raided by the FBI and the IRS who "took everything". Until now, however, we've only had his word for it. That changed during the past few hours when a OMI's neighbors appeared on local TV revealing that they saw the drama unfold.
If US-based anti-piracy groups needed a recognizable local icon to rival the flamboyance of Kim Dotcom, last week they appeared to get one.
Omar Carrasquillo – better known by his YouTube name OMI IN A HELLCAT – is the founder of 'pirate' IPTV service Gears Reloaded. Unlike his counterparts behind similar platforms, however, OMI never hid the fact that he was running one of the most recognizable brands in the business.
OMI's wealth, which included a huge house, the most blingy of jewelry, and a supercar collection to die for, was paraded all over his YouTube channel for everyone to see. But last week it came to an abrupt end. Gears Reloaded unexpectedly closed down and hours later OMI claimed he'd been raided by the FBI and IRS, allegedly for copyright infringement and tax offenses.
When compared to any of OMI's previous videos, his demeanor made it clear that something catastrophic had happened. Nevertheless, in the absence of any confirmation by the FBI, some people complained that the whole thing was an elaborate fake designed to generate clicks.
Today, following a TV report from Fox 29, any notion that the raid existed only in OMI's imagination has been dispelled. In the segment, a Fox 29 reporter is seen knocking on OMI's front door, a home that was previously owned by former Philadelphia Phillies shortstop, Jimmy Rollins.
While the TV crew appears to have received no answer, the channel did manage to speak with some of OMI's neighbors who confirmed what the YouTuber had been saying all along.
"[The FBI] had like bullet-proof vests on and they had guns drawn and they were very slowly approaching the house next door," said neighbor Liz Ware.
In respect of OMI's supercar collection, which some doubters claimed were either still sitting outside or had even been moved by OMI for effect, another neighbor who saw the whole thing recalled what happened.
"They loaded them off one by one through the course of about four or five hours," said witness John Ware, who appears to be OMI's next-door neighbor. "They took all the cars. Probably thirty of them."
Other than OMI's claims, that the case against him revolves around Gears Reloaded and tax issues, there is still no official confirmation of the allegations against him.
Last week the FBI refused to confirm or deny any operation and after prompting by Fox 29 yesterday, still declined to comment. It's believed, however, that OMI is yet to be charged.
Interestingly, in a video posted to YouTube a few hours ago by OMI himself, which shows part of the Fox 29 report, the YouTuber said that just a few weeks ago his people asked the IRS "if they were after him" and he was told they were not. However, he's certainly not happy with the way his accounts were prepared by his tax advisor.
"Back in September when I prepared my taxes, it just didn't look right. I'm a 100% sure of this, I have 100% proof. I'm not just saying it, it just didn't look right. My CPA [Certified Public Accountant] …she had access to all my bank accounts. She was only filing the 1099 [forms] that I received and shit didn't look right," OMI says.
"I [said] 'i'm making more money than what you're filing'. Thank God I didn't sign them because that would've been hiding money, that would've been way worse, way worse. We contacted the IRS to see if they were after me, the IRS sent back a letter to my CPA and said no, they weren't after me."
OMI says that if he hadn't been raided last week, there would be a payment plan in place by now, with around $2 million paid upfront in taxes and the rest paid in installments. Clearly, however, time had already run out and according to OMI, the assessment that streaming is something that won't be acted on probably doesn't stand anymore.
"To all the other streaming services out there, this is proof that this is not considered a great area," he adds.
Many thanks to TorrentFreak for the breaking news.
Tagged Eye, Gears, HELLCAT, iptv, OMI, Raid, Reloaded, Witnesses
DISH and Bell IPTV 'Pirates' Pressed to Settle Or Face Legal Action
Posted on June 12, 2019 Author TDUK
NagraStar, a join venture between DISH Network and Kudelski Group, is going after people who use pirate IPTV services to access DISH and Bell TV programming. The company is demanding $3,500 settlements and cautions that those who don't cooperate can expect legal action. Traditional file-sharing pirates are no stranger to settlement demands from copyright holders. […]
UK 'Pirate' IPTV Users' Favorite Channels "Are Free-to-Air"
Posted on September 15, 2019 Author TDUK
TV viewers in the UK are blessed with a wealth of channels provided free-to-air, such as the world-famous BBC and ITV selections. Interestingly, however, the operator of a 'pirate' IPTV service says that people are increasingly turning to platforms like his to access the same channels due to a better viewing experience. While the TV […]
DISH to Subpoena Google, Facebook, PayPal & Twitter to Identify 'Pirate' IPTV Operators
Back in August, DISH Networks filed a $10 million lawsuit against IPTV provider Easybox IPTV. The broadcasting company has now been given permission by the court to identify the IPTV service's currently-unknown operators, using information held by some the world's largest Internet companies – and more. DISH Networks' efforts to disrupt, take down, or obtain […]
Telegram Faces Anti-Piracy Referral to US Over Cryptocurrency Plans
Pirate IPTV Services Generate Nearly €1 Billion Per Year, EU Study Shows


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New Coast Guard center to study impact of oil spills in freshwater
Tess Ware
In 2018, Michigan Senator Gary Peters passed legislation into law establishing the Great Lakes Coast Guard Center of Expertise, headquartered in Michigan.
The center will study impacts of oil spills in freshwater environments and will be partnering with Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, which will be the location of the center and home to its supervisor, the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.
The goal of the work is to study how oil spills impact freshwater environments and help develop effective responses, as current oil spill response technologies are primarily designed for saltwater environments.
"Lake Superior State University is honored for many important reasons to be chosen as the hub for the U.S. Coast Guard National Center of Expertise for the Great Lakes and as the home to its supervisor," LSSU President Rodney Hanley said in an October press release.
"This opportunity will provide important real-world, hands-on teaching and learning for students, faculty, and staff in our School of Natural Resources and Environment and, as importantly, underwrite several research positions at our cutting-edge $14 million Richard and Theresa Barch Center for Freshwater Research and Education facility (which opened in December 2021)."
The center will focus on different aspects of the Coast Guard's marine safety mission, including liquefied natural gas transport, the outer continental shelf, towing vessels, and investigations, among others.
It is also responsible for:
Identifying gaps in Great Lakes oil spill research, including providing assessments of major scientific or technological deficiencies in responses to past spills in the Great Lakes and other freshwater bodies — and seeking to fill those gaps — as well as monitoring and assessing the current state of knowledge regarding freshwater oil spill response technologies
Conducting research, development, testing and evaluation for freshwater oil spill response equipment, technologies and techniques to mitigate and respond to oil spills in the Great Lakes
Helping train first responders on the federal, state and local level on the incident command structure system and response technologies and strategies
Working with academic and the private sector to develop and standardize maritime oil spill response training.
For Great Lakes advocates in the region, the center is good news. Jennifer McKay, policy director for Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, serves on the Northern Michigan Area Committee, which is co-led by the Coast Guard and Environmental Protection Agency and serves to address emergency response for the northern area.
McKay said the majority of oil spills have happened in saltwater environments, which is why research on the impacts of an oil spill in freshwater environments is lacking. The expertise center aims to understand the impacts before a major oil spill occurs.
"It's particularly critical because all along, the Coast Guard has acknowledged that we do not have the appropriate capabilities to address oil spills in open waters like the Great Lakes," she said. "That is not only from Line 5, but also from other events such as oil spills from the freighters and barges that pass through the Great Lakes. We also learned that lesson firsthand with the Line 6B spill that happened in Kalamazoo that we were not prepared for."
More:Enbridge to pay $61M penalty for 2010 Michigan oil spill
Due to COVID-19, the Coast Guard had to delay a decision on site location and formal establishment of the center, until recently when a location was determined as a result of support from Peters.
"The Great Lakes are more than just an economic engine and ecological treasure: they are simply in our DNA as Michiganders. An oil spill in the Great Lakes would be catastrophic for Michigan and the country — that's why we must do everything possible to protect them for future generations and improve our preparedness," Peters, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said in a February press release.
"I worked to establish the Center of Expertise to better prepare against any potential oil spill in freshwater environments, and I'm pleased that it will be based in Michigan," he said. "The Center of Expertise will lead the way on the research and testing of freshwater oil spill response technology and I will continue working to ensure we have the resources to help keep the Great Lakes safe from disaster."


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The May Sinclair Society was contacted last year by a Lionel Guilbert, of Florida, who was in the process of renovating a 1930s Rolls Royce, and wondered if the 'Mrs May Sinclair', of 16 Cavendish Street London who was named in the Rolls Royce archives as the first owner could possibly be our 'Miss May Sinclair, novelist'.
The order receipt, with the name of the first owner: 'Mrs' May Sinclair.
Was this May Sinclair's car?
In 1934, Sinclair was living at Pembroke Cottage, Little Tingewick, in Buckinghamshire, with her maid and companion, Florence Bartrop. She moved to the Gables, 96, Burcott Lane, Bierton in 1936, where she died in 1946. She first acquired a car in 1919 and continued to own one until her death in 1946. May Sinclair loved being driven around by her chauffeur, Ernest Williams, and she, Florence and Ernest took at least three extended trips in the 1930s, one around Wales, one around Yorkshire, and one to the Isle of Wight. May Sinclair's particular pleasure was to be driven very fast, because, according to her doctor, the shaking of a speeding car made her less aware of the tremor caused by her Parkinson's disease. She also liked the feeling that she owned the road: her first biographer, Theophilus M. Boll, recounts how she would beg Ernest to overtake any vehicles they saw in front of them.
We have so little information about Sinclair's life after her retreat from the literary spotlight that it is impossible to say for sure, but it does seem likely that this Rolls Royce did indeed belong to her.
Lionel says:
"Tom lived in Rochester, NY when he bought the car in 1974 after seeing it, driving by a gas station on his way to get ice cream. It was for sale in Montauk, Long Island, NY. He contacted the owner, a NY doctor, and flew back to Long Island to pick-up the car and drive it back to Rochester, at night, in the rain. He told me that was a challenge, as the wipers on older cars are not the most efficient ones . . .
This was the first car to his current collection of about 25 cars, including 2 other Rolls, one Bentley, three Ferraris, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Corvettes and others. He showed the car at various shows in the NE but never had the time to restore it fully, only giving it a new paint. It was in a pretty rough shape, its original folding leather roof having been replaced with a permanent plywood roof, and its interior leather and carpet in poor condition. One thing Tom keeps mentioning however is how reliable the engine has always been, and to this day, it starts on the first crank.
As Tom moved to Florida in the late 1980s, he left the car in upstate NY inside a friend's barn, The car stayed there for over 20 years, where moths and mice proceeded to eat away at the wool carpet and horse hair used in the seat cushions. We moved the car to FL in 2001 and kept it in a climate controlled garage since then. We started the restoration last March, in prevision for the US' Rolls Royce Owner's Club annual meet that takes place in Orlando, FL nest week. The car is ready. We worked on the engine and chassis mechanicals first, then began the cleaning process to remove 80 years of accumulated dirt and grease. We removed the fake roof and commissioned a wood worker to re-create the rotted wood frame for the original roof line, and refinish the delicate interior wood dash and door trims. Some interior items like turn signal system, side windows cranking mechanism, seat tracks, tool trays, floor boards and trunk compartment were worked on prior to taking the car to the upholstery shop where it remained 4 months. I redid some parts of the paint on the body, repainted the complete undercarriage, engine and engine accessories, polished the aluminum and chrome parts, installed new tires and exhaust system, and re-created the folding front roof support frame and hinges, and a myriad of other small details.
The doctor in NY owned the car for several years prior to Tom. Over the years people told him they remembered seen this Rolls in NY City many times. The doctor used to tow his small boat on Long Island with the car as well. The doctor bought the car from Scotland, where it is believed the roof got replaced, and one more owner had custody of the Rolls between the doctor and May Sinclair. Factory and Rolls Royce historical records show that May bought the car new in 1934 and kept it until 1938. The whereabouts of the car during WWII are unknown, until the doctor brought it from Scotland to the US. The car is in good hands now and in good company".
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Q: Is `CreateProcess` really thread safe? Lets suppose situation when we have multithreaded application that has to run some external executable on Windows. The best example if Apache that calls CGI script on multiple threads.
CreateProcess documentation doesn't contain any information about its usage limits. So, it is supposed to be thread safe.
Lets create program that will use CreateProcess to run cl.exe command in multiple threads. The only job the program does is creation of 100 threads, and each thread runs cl.exe and sleeps for 1 second. I run this program for 10 minutes, so it run cl.exe 600 * 100 = 60000 times. Usually cl.exe runs good, however, 25 times CreateProcess returned 0 and GetLastError returned 8. From Microsoft, 8 = ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY. It is impossible, because my system has 24 GB of memory and uses 40% of this memory only. So, the error looks wrong.
OK, now I run the same process on 1000 threads, and now almost all CreateProcess call results in fake ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY.
This problem disappears if we ensure that we call CreateProcess in single thread at each moment of time (I do it with std::mutex).
Does anyone know is CreateProcess supposed to be thread safe and is there more effective way to create child process in multithreaded application that using mutex to call CreateProcess on single thread only?

A: You're mistakenly assuming all bytes in memory are alike, i.e. they form one big pool. This is simply incorrect on Windows.
The main division is paged pool versus non-paged pool. Paged pool stores code and data which can be paged to disk if necessary. Non-paged pool can't be paged to disk. For instance, essential parts of the OS that handle paging can't be paged to disk - how would you page them back in? Here, one pool can be empty while the other still has space.
Another limited resource is the RAM used for mappings between physical and virtual memory. Obviously, with all your processes, you're going to be using a lot of that. Each process has its own address space. Let's assume it's a 32 bits cl process; it has 4GB address space in the form of a million pages. Your 60K processes together take 60 billion pages of address space. And while quite a few of these pages are just shared copies of cl.exe, each of those pages needs a 64 bits pointer to physical RAM.
What you see here is a bit funny: you can have 60000*8 = 480.000 bytes of pointers to a single 4096 byte page. That's the sort of unusual situation that can cause simple memory statistics to be extra misleading. If you just count the 4096 bytes of actual content, you're underestimating the memory needed by about a factor of 100.

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The Bofors 25 mm M/32 was a Swedish designed and built light anti-aircraft gun that was used aboard ships of the Swedish Navy during the Second World War.

History
The development of Bofors first automatic weapons began in 1925 when the Navy requested the development of a 20 mm anti-aircraft gun. In 1928 the Navy requested a new 40 mm AA gun and a 25 mm AA gun which was produced in parallel and known as the M/32.

Design

The M/32 was designed with a barrel 64 calibers in length, fired a  25×205mmR cartridge, at 160–180 rpm and with a muzzle velocity of 850 m/s. Later a shorter version firing a 25×187mmR cartridge was produced in limited numbers. The M/32 looked similar to its larger 40 mm sibling and used the same long-recoil operating system and hydro-spring recoil mechanism. Its feed mechanism consisted of 6-round clips which were held in a vertical frame above the gun breech. Two clips were mounted side by side so that continuous fire could be maintained without the need to pause and change magazines. The clips were in two halves, which split and fell away as the cartridges entered the frames.

The gun was available in fixed single mount, fixed twin mount or on a mobile four-wheeled carriage with twin collapsible outriggers. In addition to fixed pedestal mounts, a retractable gun mount was designed for submarine use.  Although available in land mounts it was primarily a naval weapon.  At first the 40 mm gun was considered to be too heavy, so preference was given to single and twin mounts of the M/32 aboard ships of the Swedish navy.

Gallery

See also
25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun
25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940 (72-K)
Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun

Notes

Bibliography
 Gander, T 1990, The 40mm Bofors Gun, 2nd edn, Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, Eng.

External links
 http://www.quarryhs.co.uk/Bofors.htm
 http://www.quarryhs.co.uk/ammotable3.html

25 mm artillery
World War II anti-aircraft guns
Naval guns of Sweden
World War II naval weapons
Anti-aircraft guns of Sweden
Bofors
Autocannon

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TPR Hamilton | Hamilton's Civic Affairs News Site (https://thepublicrecord.ca/2020/06/hamiltons-rural-cannabis-growing-150-metre-separation-rule-now-in-effect/)
Hamilton's Rural Cannabis Growing 150-Metre Separation Rule Now in Effect
By Joey Coleman, Editor | June 5, 2020
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Hamilton City Hall west face
Hamilton City Council passed a by-law in September 2018 requiring all new or expanding cannabis growing operations in the rural area to have a 150 metre setback from neighbouring properties.
The by-law was appealed by three cannabis growers. Two withdrew their appeals after reaching agreements with the City of Hamilton. Red Hill Cannabis Inc was the only remaining appeal remaining after the settlements, and last week the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal dismissed their appeal as abandoned after RHC failed to respond to requests for filings and did not attend hearing.
With the dismissal, the 150-Metre separation distance requirement of By-Law 18-266 is now in force and effect.
Red Hill Cannabis operated the infamous growing operation at 286-288 Green Mountain Road in Upper Stoney Creek. The site vented nauseous smells which forced people to close their windows, the smell penetrated into homes away, and in 2017, a series of shootings occurred in proximity to the growing facility. This facility was the poster child cited by politicians and City staff in passing the requirement to keep rural growing operations away from neighbouring properties.
The facility is no longer in operation.
Ward 11 Councillor Brenda Johnson, who represented the area prior to ward boundary changes in 2018, says she is "thrilled" the appeal is dismissed.
"I hope this decision sends a strong message to those who are considering growing large amount of cannabis plants that they ensure the greenhouse is built using 2020 standards and is located at least 150 metres from neighbouring homes."
Ward 9 Councillor Brad Clark, who now represents the area, says "it is my hope that the 150 meter radial separation for Grow-ops will prevent any future situations where residents become prisoners in their own homes due to the over-powering cannabis odours".
Both Councillors say the City must be diligent to ensure the by-law is obeyed and a situation such as what the residents of this Upper Stoney Creek neighbourhood endured never happens again.
First published: June 5, 2020
Last edited: June 5, 2020
0 thoughts on "Hamilton's Rural Cannabis Growing 150-Metre Separation Rule Now in Effect"
gerry e young on June 6, 2020 at 09:27 said:
It sounds comparable to living next door to a slaughter house, where the reek of decaying animal flesh could be nauseating. Can't grow-up use a filtering device?
Brett on June 7, 2020 at 05:42 said:
I agree. I live downwind of a slaughterhouse and I would trade anything to smell marijuana rather than rotten flesh!
Walter on June 6, 2020 at 22:47 said:
Yes they should be using charcoal canister type filers , they come in various sizes and are excellent for masking the smell of marijuana. I don't understand why they would not be using this very important piece of equipmet.


With the March 15 Illinois primary election approaching, we can expect to be inundated with political polls. While generally reliable, not all election polls are created equal, according to NIU political scientist Matt Streb.
In the accompanying NIU Newsroom video, Streb explains why it's getting harder for pollsters to get solid samples in our modern age.
Streb serves as chair of the NIU Department of Political Science, conducts research on polling and is a frequent expert source in the news media on all things political.


Desktop management and virtualisation software company Citrix has purchased IT-asset-monitoring service provider Paglo.
Paglo offers inventory management capabilities as a service. A crawler with log-in credentials collects performance and configuration information about the servers, routers and desktop computers on a network, conveying the data to Paglo's data centre. Users can then log into a web portal to find the information aggregated and summarised in various forms, said Brian de Haaff, who was the CEO of Paglo.


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About this time last year, Fisherman's Diary, produced by Kang Quintus and directed by Enah Johnscott brought excitement to movie lovers when it was selected for the 93rd Academy Awards, the OSCARS. Here comes another Cameroonian movie, making its way to the OSCARS. The cast and crew of HIDDEN DREAMS will join me on radio at 8am EST (2pm gmt+1) to talk about this latest achievement. The show starts at the top of the next hour.
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"My Facebook show comes up every Monday at 12 pm easter time and teaches followers how to become entrepreneurs by kick-starting with zero capital," Flavine started, as she explained how a rare day without social media access looked like. She went on: "The show attracts up to three thousand instant and active viewers and is every follower's Monday schedule." "Missing it today is a herculean task to digest and I feel terribly frustrated." "This has never happened, and it is strange"
When this writer confirmed after fruitless attempts to access WhatsApp and Facebook, that the apps, including Instagram were down due to crashed servers, the immediate reaction was to seek users' reactions. This should be a normal reflex for a keen observer of social media fans who have travelled a long way with this new form of communication to finally becoming fiercely addicted to it. And yes, social media is addictive.
Next phone call – Celyne in Dallas, Taxas. How are you coping without WhatsApp? "Ernest, I'm not coping." "Can you imagine how boring it could be without those memes, coming in?" Celyne juggles her ball 24/7 on WhatsApp status. "That's where I catch my fun, it is my life and I just cannot go a whole day with WhatsApp status, never!"
To Kelsie, reached on phone at 3:15pm eastern time, it was a dark day. "I'm feeling like the world is coming down without Facey and Whassy, it's not funny," he said. "These are my biggest sources of information and I believe in them." "Do you have an idea when the problem will be fixed?" Without assuming it was a rhetoric, this writer played fair to respond by joking it could last really long. "Man, don't say that I would be in a terribly bad shape if this thing is not resolved in the next couple of hours." Kelsie affectionately calls Facebook Facey and WhatsApp Whassy.
George did not wait to be called. He rang first. "What is going on with Facebook, and are you able to communicate on WhatsApp?" When this writer confirmed Facebook servers had crashed, George crashed. George is a soft blogger who writes highlighted comments and jokes that attract thousands of likes each time they drop. He drops them regularly and has developed an irresistible pleasure doing this over the years. He is popular and enjoys this fame on Facebook. "This is bad business for me my brother," he regretted. "Hope this doesn't drag on."
Upon return, users have been recounting their day's experience without one of the the most addictive social media platform. "It's been a dark day," writes one. "I'm sure most 237 people went to the psychiatric ward today for the time that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down," blogger Mbole Ekane of The Hotjem wrote. "The world was normal for a while," another Facebook user joked, perhaps, insinuating that the app drives people mad. "Online CEOs were temporarily out of business today," yet another user. The highlighted comments are aplenty.
The umbrella reaction has been the assuring one from the young founder of Facebook himself. Mark Zuckerberg wrote: "Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today - I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about."
What a day it was! Perhaps, it was a day set aside to demonstrate the power of the three social media handles, run by Facebook.
Welcome back the Facebook family!
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Between 2005 and 2013 (may fall short of exactitude), Solange Yijika's face did justice to Cameroonian movies. Not only was this actress every producer's dream, but she was also the first to appear on their casting sheet. It was easily so, thanks to her irresistible performance on set. Yijika possessed a firm grip of her script and would hold her directors spellbound upon delivery. "She makes me eager to jump on set and do this thing," an aspiring onlooker had mentioned on the set of her movies in 2007.
Yijika had been discovered at the rehearsals of TRIALS OF PASSION II, a series on CRTV. That was in 2004. The film was later shot in 2005 and projected either that year or in 2006. Yijika shined in it and other movies in which she starred in the years that followed.
Disturbingly, other imperatives have always whisked the talented actress off the movie set. Even when Yijika has made frantic efforts to be around, it has clearly been a challenge. This long absence of the lead in many movies of yesteryears, including Neba Lawrence's LAND OF SHADOWS (2008) and TROUBLED KINGDOM (2012), respectively produced by Agbor Gilbert Ebot and Fred Keyanti, has costed the industry a new generation of movie lovers who have little or no knowledge about the one-time screen goddess.
But hey, Yijika is re-emerging. She is back on Neba Lawrence's set - the director with whom the actress has done the highest number of her jobs. "I saw that coming," one Yijika fan commented, reacting to the casting of the actress in Neba's upcoming AGAINST THE WIND, set to be filmed. "This had taken too long to come, but I'm glad and excited that Lawrence brought my favorite back on set."
Scores of other movie lovers would react in like manner. The actress and her performance had been missed, especially during these years of digital wonders in film production, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix exultation. Yijika and other names of yesteryears will be rolled on the credits of AGAINST THE WIND, including Yimbu Emmanuel, Moma Pascal aka Bob, Quinta Eyong Ashu and Magdaleine Agbor.
Solange Yijika starred in other movies such as MARK OF THE ABSOLUTE (2007), produced and directed by Asaba Ferdinand aka Penda, ROYAL DESTINY (2009), produced by Ayi Chatou Inoua and directed by Neba Lawrence, GREAT PAIN (2009), directed by Neba Lawrence, etc. Anxiety grows as the film community awaits this new movie.
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If the youths of today must lead and be better leaders tomorrow, they must be empowered. Youth empowerment specialists and promoters have sorted out education as one of the strongest and most value tools youths need to have, to be able to face tomorrow's potentially challenging world. Quan Angelic Abazie comes from this background, where preparing today's youth, is the surest route to a successful tomorrow. The multi-disciplinary youth empoweree, recently named as member of the International Board for Empowering Our Youth Foundation, is geared at outreaching to places around the world, including Ghana and Nigeria, to not only deposit resources to young people and youth organizations, but to impact the leaders of tomorrow through her mentorship. This Thursday, September 23, 2021 on Apex 1 Radio, Quan, who is a Master's degree holder in Education and author of an upcoming book YOU HAVE THE VICTORY, explains her interest in developing young people as well as her newest assignment with the Empower Our Youth Foundation. She will be protagonist on APEX SNAPSHOT, starting at 6pm EST.
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Africans in the diaspora are increasingly translating stories into books, many of which provide great life's lessons. In her transformational lifestyle book titled MY 29 MAY: WHAT IT TAKES TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE IN 24 HOURS, Jenneh Kamara motivates readers on the possibility of making good out of life. The Holy Spirit is also largely known for making this happen, a similar message gospel music artist, Corazon is sending across in her latest tract, LEAD ME HOLY SPIRIT, released on September 6, 2021. The release of Corazon's new track comes five days before Tonya Kelly takes to the rostrum to speak at the 2021 KIDZ IN BIZ EXPO. The Columbus, Ohio-based educator who doubles as a Journalist, will be discussing youth empowerment at the exhibition, an event that resembles the ones Promise Akanteh would normally cover and report on CULTURAL VIBES, one of the leading radio shows in Yaounde. The show covers all areas in art and culture, including music and musicians such as Dyonce, the young, yet so talented rapper. These women of valor, making great strides in their respective domains, will be joining us on radio this Saturday to tell their stories. They form the team of guests on the 184th edition of AFRICAN FIESTA. The show comes up this Saturday beginning at 10 am EST (3pm gmt+1).
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Home/Music News/Doobie Brothers memoir co-written by band mates Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons due out in July 2022
Doobie Brothers memoir co-written by band mates Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons due out in July 2022
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Co-founding Doobie Brothers singer/guitarists Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons have joined forces to write a new memoir about their famous band titled Long Train Runnin': Our Story of The Doobie Brothers that's scheduled to be published on July 26, 2022.
The book features Johnston and Simmons telling the story of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band's history in their own words.
Long Train Runnin' follows The Doobie Brothers from their Northern California origins in the late 1960s, through their emergence in the early-to-mid 1970s as a popular roots-influenced hard-rock band led by Johnston, to their transformation into a soulful pop-rock group when singer/keyboardist Michael McDonald took over frontman duties later in the '70s, to the band's early-'80s breakup and eventual reformation with Tom back in the fold, and beyond.
Tom and Pat co-wrote the book with Chris Epting, whose previous projects include memoirs co-written with and about Hall & Oates' John Oates, Def Leppard's Phil Collen and Tesla's Brian Wheat.
Long Train Runnin': Our Story of The Doobie Brothers can be pre-ordered now. Special bundles featuring the book packaged with such merch as a t-shirt, a mug and a tote bag are available at the band's official online store.
Meanwhile, The Doobie Brothers wrapped up the 2021 portion of their 50th anniversary tour in late October. A 2022 leg is scheduled to kick off on June 22 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Visit TheDoobieBrothers.com to check out the group's full schedule.
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I rjust finished solving my issue through online chat with Optus. I also requested a transcript of my chat to be sent to my email. I assume that this doesn't take too long but it has yet to arrive. Does anyone know how to obtain transccripts in a timely matter?
There has been a few complaints about the chat transcript not coming through and I guess Optus could argue the email address was keyed incorrectly. I don't know who you could speak to about that. I do screen captures if its important.
Hey @mh2908 - sorry to hear you've had issues getting the transcript here! Has it been emailed through to you since requesting? If not, as the chat was recent, we should be able to obtain a copy for you. Can you please confirm with me your account number, full name & DOB via PM? We'll also need the date of the chat, approximate time, what was discussed and any account numbers you provided the chat representative.


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Q: Prove that if $f: A→B$ and $g: B→C$ are continuous, then so is $g\circ f: A→C$. I wanted to start by using the definition of continuity.
But my definition is only for $f: A→R$, so I'm unsure as how to write  $\lim_{x\to a}f(x) = f(a)$ for $f: A→B$ and $g: B→C$.
Would it be something like $\lim_{b\to a}f(b) = f(a)$ and $\lim_{c\to b}f(c) = f(b)$
Please let me know if there's a better way to go about this proof
Thank you!
Edit: Changed  $f\circ g: A→C$ to $g\circ f: A→C$

A: First assume that $U$ is open in $C$ and then show that $(g \circ f)^{-1}(U)$ is open in $A$. Use basic set theory to prove that $(g \circ f)^{-1}(U) = f^{-1}(g^{-1}(U))$. Then $U$ being an open subset of $C$ implies $g^{-1}(U)$ is an open subset of $B$ and furthermore that $f^{-1}(g^{-1}(U)) = (g \circ f)^{-1}(U)$ is an open subset of $A$.

A: Hint: Show that if $f$ is continuous, the preimage of an open set is open, and vice versa.
If open sets are not allowed instead you can use the definition of continuity. Let $a \in A$, then
$$ \lim_{x \to a} g\circ f(x) = g(\lim_{x \to a} f(y)) = g(f(a))
$$


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