My husband, was one of the 8 inductees of the 3rd Recognition of high scholastic achievements for the Beta Gamma Sigma, Robert Morris University chapter. We were suppose to go with him during that day but I wasn't feeling well so we just stayed home.
He received this tassel, a pin, a certificate, and other stuff. He would be using this tassel during his graduation to show that he is a bonafide member of BGS.
You worked very hard for this, Congrats!!!!
Wow! Congratulations to John. I know to gain this honor he had a bunch to studying to do.
Happy Blue Monday, John (and to Rose too).
aw...he looks so handsome. congrats to your husband and your family. My MYM is up here.
He looks handsome. Congrats to him.
hayay! Congratulations ni Hubbz mo, Rose! How exciting, you are going to put on the medal on him during his Graduation day dba? Wow! visiting from Mellow Yellow.
visiting back sis, from Blue Monday :) Happy St. Jo's day!
how cool! congratulations to John!
Congratulations to your hubby and hope you are on the mend!
congrats to your hubby Sis :-) he looks very sharp too :-) visiting from Ruby Tuesday 2, hope that you can return your red visit too.
Congratulations to your husband. That is a wonderful honor.
Congratulations to your hubs. I know this is a proud achievement for your family.


Definition at line 119 of file common_nav.c.
Computes squared distance to the HOME waypoint.
Definition at line 50 of file common_nav.c.
References dist2_to_home, get_dist2_to_waypoint(), max_dist2_from_home, stateGetPositionEnu_f(), too_far_from_home, point::x, EnuCoor_f::x, point::y, and EnuCoor_f::y.
Move a waypoint to given UTM coordinates.
[in] alt Altitude above MSL.
Definition at line 129 of file common_nav.c.
References point::a, UtmCoor_f::alt, max_dist_from_home, nav_utm_east0, nav_utm_north0, nb_waypoint, point::x, and point::y.
Definition at line 100 of file common_nav.c.
References UtmCoor_f::alt, ground_alt, ins_reset_altitude_ref(), previous_ground_alt, state, and State::utm_origin_f.
Definition at line 83 of file common_nav.c.
References UtmCoor_f::alt, UtmCoor_f::east, ground_alt, ins_reset_local_origin(), nav_utm_east0, nav_utm_north0, nav_utm_zone0, UtmCoor_f::north, previous_ground_alt, state, State::utm_origin_f, and UtmCoor_f::zone.
Reset the UTM zone to current GPS fix.
Definition at line 65 of file common_nav.c.
References UtmCoor_f::alt, UtmCoor_f::east, ground_alt, ins_reset_utm_zone(), nav_utm_east0, nav_utm_north0, nav_utm_zone0, UtmCoor_f::north, and UtmCoor_f::zone.
Definition at line 111 of file common_nav.c.
References point::a, ground_alt, and previous_ground_alt.
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Referenced by baro_cb(), baro_ets_read_event(), baro_MS5534A_event(), cam_segment_periodic(), cam_waypoint_target(), formation_flight(), ins_init(), nav_cube_run(), nav_follow(), nav_home(), nav_init(), nav_reset_alt(), nav_reset_reference(), nav_reset_utm_zone(), nav_update_waypoints_alt(), and vPoint().
Definition at line 45 of file common_nav.c.
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Referenced by dl_parse_msg(), ins_init(), mission_point_of_lla(), nav_move_waypoint(), nav_reset_reference(), nav_reset_utm_zone(), parse_dl_move_wp(), and vPoint().
Definition at line 43 of file common_nav.c.
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Referenced by dl_parse_msg(), gps_feed_value(), gps_mtk_read_message(), gps_parse(), gps_skytraq_read_message(), gps_ubx_read_message(), ins_init(), ins_update_gps(), mission_point_of_lla(), nav_reset_reference(), nav_reset_utm_zone(), parse_dl_move_wp(), parse_gps_datalink(), parse_ins_msg(), parse_nmea_GPGGA(), sim_use_gps_pos(), and sirf_parse_41().
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Referenced by nav_reset_alt(), nav_reset_reference(), and nav_update_waypoints_alt().
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Open City New York: an update by Matt Cooperrider
October 24, 2009 No Comment Michel Bauwens read
Below is a response from Matt Cooperrider, organizer of the Open Government NYC meetup group to a previous article about open cities.
"While Mayor Bloomberg's recent initiatives are innovative and forward-looking, perhaps his most valuable role for the openness movement in New York CIty has been as a foil. This is a mayor so strong that he steamrolled the City Council into approving a term limits extension so that he could run for a third term, and then made the 2009 mayoral race a formality by massively outspending his opponents. He has consolidated executive power at the top of one the most arcane and entrenched municipal governments in the United States. In a way, this has been beneficial to the open government and open data movements, as it forces them to make a strong case and build real political support.
Often, the work of New York City activists takes hold in other cities before it feeds back home. Outsiders watch our story unfold, borrow our tactics and message, and convince their more progressive officials to adopt early. New York officials get to watch and wait, and implement selectively based on successes elsewhere.
This summer, City Councilmember Gale Brewer, Chair of the Committee on Technology in Government, introduced legislation mandating an open data policy across all city agencies. Bloomberg has fought the bill partly on cost, but his team's core argument has been that they take a "customer-focused approach" and will release data streams selectively as customers demand them. (The New York Observer's Future Initiative blog has tracked the entire story here under its "open data" tag.) So, even though Brewer's legislation might create an innovation ecology that far surpasses anything that Bloomberg's corporate-model government could produce, we have not as a movement made a sufficient case. Meanwhile, cities like San Francisco and Portland are aggressively releasing their municipal data.
The Open Planning Project (TOPP), one of the organizations mentioned in Ms. Chen's article, has been a major driver of the open data movement. They have produced useful one-off applications, such as FixCity.org, which crowdsources potential locations for new bike racks thus speeding their installation. They have also acted as stewards of open standards in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) community and, more recently, the Open 311 community. Mayor Bloomberg pioneered the 311 non-emergency telephone-based citizen information service, but has been slow to open up the data for mashups by eager civic hackers. Washington D.C. was the first to move on this, and TOPP is now stewarding the effort at Open311.org to create a standard for all Open311 APIs in any city.
As part of this effort, TOPP is hosting an Open311 DevCamp at their home office in New York, where officials from more than 7 cities from across the Americas will gather to develop best practices. It wasn't until late last week, however, after so many other cities got on board, that NYC officials bothered to acknowledge and RSVP for an innovative event in their own backyard.
Another telling example can be found in Ms. Chen's article. Tom Lowenhaupt has been fighting for almost ten years to bring the .nyc top-level domain to New York City. His vision has been to use the revenue generated from this civic resource to provide digital literacy and civic education through neighborhood-oriented online community spaces. In that time, Tom has built a knowledge base (within a TOPP wiki) that has become a common reference point for City TLD initiatives globally. It contains a wide range of information, including arguments for why a TLD needs to be as carefully planned as city streets, and the potential civic benefits that can accrue through such planning. Tom has worked with parallel initiatives in global cities such as Paris and Barcelona to develop international standards for City TLDs, ensuring that non-English speakers can easily access the city's resources.
Recently, city officials announced their intention to apply for the .nyc TLD. They issued an RFP, seeking vendors who are qualified to manage this resource. The key criterion for choosing the winner? Who can produce the most revenue for the city in the next five years. There is no mention of appropriate planning for the allocation of domain names, or synergies with other global cities. While other cities may benefit from Tom's grassroots efforts, New York is looking to make a short term profit from a TLD "landrush", and will soon find themselves lagging behind more forward-thinking cities that have benefitted from better digital planning.
In the .nyc case, there is still time for the usual pattern to unfold. Perhaps officials will look beyond the short-term revenue potential (a difficult thing to do in this economy) and learn from other cities some lessons that they, ironically, learned in the first place from a determined New Yorker. There is incredible civic innovation in NYC, in some ways strengthened by the resistance it faces. But we don't always reap what we sow, and when we do we are often served last."
The Planning of the Meltdown
October 24, 2009 0 Comment Michel Bauwens read
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Michel Bauwens is the founder and president of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Bauwens travels extensively giving workshops and lectures on P2P and the Commons as emergent paradigms and the opportunities they present to move towards a post-capitalist world. In the first semester of 2014, Bauwens was research director of the floksociety.org which produced the first integrated Commons Transition Plan for the government of Ecuador, in order to create policies for a 'social knowledge economy'. In January 2015 CommonsTransition.org was launched. Commons Transition builds on the work of the FLOK Society and features newly revised and updated, non-region specific versions of these policy documents. Commons Transition aims toward a society of the Commons that would enable a more egalitarian, just, and environmentally stable world. He is a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, who have organised major global conferences on the commons and economics.
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QNCC is a member of Qatar Foundation. It aims to support Qatar on its journey from a carbon-based economy to a knowledge-based economy by unlocking human potential. It was established in 1995 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. His wife, Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, is Qatar Foundation's chairperson.
The building is located on Qatar Foundation's 2.500-acre campus (masterplanned by Arata Isozaki), which hosts faculties from world-renowned universities to home-grown research centers. QNCC was conveived with a focus on sustainability. The Centre was built according to US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) gold-certification standards.
It featured a 4.000-seat conference hall, a 2.300-seat theatre, three auditoria and a total of 52 flexible meeting rooms to accommodate a wide range of events. It also houses 40.000 sq.m. of exhibition space over nine halls, and is adaptable to seat 10.000 for a conference or banquet.
The tree-like structure is a reference to Sidrat al-Muntaha, a holy Islamic tree. The architect noted: "The tree is a beacon of learning and comfort in the desert and a haven for poets and scholars who gather beneath its branches to share knowledge". The Centre opened in 2011.
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Interesting Facts About Shimla That Nobody Knows- Ngtraveller
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The capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh is called the 'Queen of the Hills' due to its scenic beauty and beautiful surroundings. It is also the most populous city in Himachal Pradesh. Shimla's serene beauty attracts many tourists from all over the world. The lush green hills and snowy peaks provide an unforgettable experience for people visiting Shimla. Let's explore some interesting and unknown facts about Shimla that nobody knows
Shimla is located on seven hills.
This beautiful hill station is built on seven different hills which are Inverarm Hill, Bantony Hill, Inverarm Hill, Observatory Hill, Prospect Hill, Summer Hill and Jakhu Hill. The highest point in Shimla is Jakhu Hill.
Prospect Hill
Prospect Hill is west of Shimlas and on top is the Kamna Devi Temple.
Summer hill
The beautiful summer hill contains the campus of the University of Himachal Pradesh, and its elevation is about 2,100 meters above sea level.
Observatory Hill
Coming up the Ridge from Summer Hill, the next hill in line is Observatory Hill.
Inverarm Hill
If you are interested in museums, Inverarm Hill is the perfect place to visit as it is home to the Himachal State Museum, a quiet and relaxing place.
Bantony Hill
Bantony is located in the center of Shimla, just before Scandal Point.
Jakhu hill
Jakhu Hill is the highest peak in Shimla. It offers beautiful views of nature. It also has the famous 'Jakhu Temple', the Jakhu Temple which is an ancient temple in Shimla dedicated to the Hindu deity Hanuman. Here every year a big Dussehra festival takes place, you can go to this temple by walking from the ridge or rent a horse, there are also taxis available here, there is a giant 108 foot statue of Hanuman at Jakhu temple overlooking the whole city. Believers say that the Jakhu temple bears the footprints of Lord Hanuman.
MTB Himalayas ,the biggest Biking race in south east Asia was hosted by Shimla.
The Himalaya MTB, an annual cycling race takes place in Himachal Pradesh. Started in 2005, the race covers almost 500km in a period of 8 days and is one of the toughest MTB races in the world, the race is sponsored by Hero Cycles India, the race starts in Shimla and ends in Shimla. It passes through the Shimla, Kullu and Mandi districts and is one of the most important facts about Shimla.
The only natural Ice Skating Rink of India.
Shimla also offers fun and adventure along with breathtaking scenery. If you want to add more fun and adventure to your trip to Shimla, you can try your hand at ice skating. Shimla has the largest ice skating rink in India and attracts many tourists and locals who enjoy ice skating.
World Heritage site ,Kalka Shimla Railway
The Kalka Shimla Railway has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The railway line was built to connect Shimla during the period of British rule with the Indian railway system. The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Achievements recorded the "Kalka-Shimla Railway as the largest narrow gauge engineering in India".
Antique booksellers Maria Brothers.
Maria Brothers is an antique bookstore on Mall Road that has a unique collection of antique book treasures. Some of the books in the collection include the "Arya Ashta Sahasrikas Prajna Paramita" from the 16th to 17th century collection in Tibetan script, which is actually written in gold and silver ink. Paradise Lost and Paradise by John Milton has recovered 10 volumes of KathaSaritsagara and many precious books.
Chudail Boudi
The "chudail baudi" is located between part of the Shimla Expressway from Navbahar to Chota Shimla. It is the place where your car decelerates automatically, no matter how fast you drive or how hard you are pressing the accelerator pedal.
Many people have seen a lady with long black hair covering her face and wearing a white sari. She requires an elevator for people who travel especially at night. And even if she doesn't stop offering the lift, she seems like she's been sitting in the backseat of her car for quite some time. Some people even have an accident due to this distraction.
Shimla is birth place of many famous people
place is birth place of many famous actor and actress like Anupam kher ,Yami Gupta ,Prem chopra, Kangna Ranaut, Preity Zinta .It is also birth place of Ruskin Bond famous writer.
Shimla has oldest boarding school of Asia called BCS
BCS (Bishop Cotton School) is the oldest boarding school, founded on July 28, 1859 by Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, the school has produced many military officers, ambassadors, judges, ministers, and politicians.
Nathuram Godse trial in Peterhoff
Peterhoff was a building that housed no less than seven vice-kings and governor-general during the British rule. It was built in typical Tudor style - and all framed in wood. After the independence of India from the British Empire, the building served as the High Court of Punjab. It was in Peterhof that the trial of Naturam Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948-49, took place. In 1971, when Himachal Pradesh became a full-fledged state, Peterhof served as Raj Bhavan (governor's residence). The building was destroyed in a fire on the night of January 12, 1981, after which Raj Bhavan was transferred to the Barnes Courthouse. Peterhoff Hotel was rebuilt to a new design as a luxury hotel in 1991. It has 34 suites and is among the most interesting facts about Shimla.
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Justin Robertson is something of a polymath, working as a Dj, record producer, radio broadcaster and artist, as well as putting the finishing touches to his debut novel and a collection of supernatural tales. Having completed a degree in Philosophy at Manchester University, Justin immersed himself in the nascent Acid House scene, where he quickly gained a reputation for his mercurial musical selection, his dynamic approach to DJ-ing has led to play in some of the most seminal clubs in the world. Justin's production cv is no less impressive, having remixed everyone from Bryan Ferry and Bjork to underground heroes Justice and Andrew Weatherall, whilst, at the same time, scoring a number of hits with his band Lionrock (including an appearance on Top of the Pops). In recent years Justin has continued his explorations on the cutting edge with his Deadstock 33s moniker.
Justin also works as a visual artist, showing four major collections of paintings in the last few years in London, Leeds, Manchester and Stockholm. This wealth of experience in the creative world has led him to be an in-demand panelist and interviewee, discussing everything from philosophy, the politics of dancing to the creative process. Justin has taken part in salons at Soho house, in conversation at the Royal exchange in Manchester and a host of discussions around the world. He has also been on the other side of the microphone, interviewing the likes of Irvine Welsh, Markus Gabriel (Professor of Philosophy at the university of Bonn), Rob Newman and Tim Burgess at a number of festivals and has contributed to Television documentaries and films, where his incisive insights and thoughtful approach can be valuable additions to any conversation. Justin also finds time to host his popular trip through the esoteric world of psychedelic music; 'The Temple of Wonders' on Soho radio and is a regular contributor to the Ransom Note online magazine, where he writes about some contemporary philosophical issues.
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Gor Mahia want Posta Rangers coach Omollo as their full-time coach
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The 51-year-old helped K'Ogalo to the next round of Africa's elite competition after a 4-3 aggregate win
Gor Mahia are desperately keen on winning the services of Sammy Omollo on a permanent basis.
The Posta Rangers man was acquired as a strand-in coach to guide K'Ogalo in the first preliminary round of the Caf Champions League against APR Rwanda. The Confederation of African Football (Caf) banned current coach Roberto Oliveira Goncalves for not having Caf A coaching qualification papers.
The 51-year-old has since helped K'Ogalo safely seal a passage to the second preliminary round after a 4-3 aggregate win over the Rwandan champions.
"The Gor Mahia management was impressed with the way Omollo helped the team in the two games," a source close to the club and coach told Goal on Tuesday.
"They have approached the coach hoping to convince him to stay but the problem is his contract with Posta Rangers. Remember there was an agreement between the two clubs and not the club and the coach."
When reached for comment, the former Kenya international defender explained how the situation is.
"Gor Mahia would have loved me to continue serving them, unfortunately, I have a binding contract with my team Posta Rangers," Omollo told Goal.
"I came to help Gor Mahia because it was a gentleman's agreement between the two chairmen [John Tonui and Ambrose Rachier].
"Whether I will be in charge in the next preliminary round of the competition or not depends on my team and Gor Mahia of course."
After eliminating the Army, K'Ogalo will play Algerian side CR Belouizdad.
The North Africa side reached the next round after a 4-0 aggregate win against Al Nasr of Libya. The Algerian champions won the first leg away in Tripoli 2-0 and returned home to complete the job with another 2-0 win.
According to the Confederation of African Football (Caf), the first leg will be played on December 22 or 23 in Algeria, with the return leg planned for January 5 or 6, 2021 in Nairobi.
The last time Gor Mahia played against an Algerian opponent was in 2019 when they were drawn to face USM Alger in the same competition.
USM Alger came to Nairobi and beat K'Ogalo 4-1 and returned home in Algiers to win the return leg 2-0 and advanced to the next round with a 6-1 aggregate scoreline.
The two teams also met in the Confederation Cup in the 2018 season with the first leg staged in Kenya ending in a 0-0 draw before USM Alger won the return leg 2-1 at home to advance 2-1 on aggregate.


We are entering almost the 2econd third of this wonderful CDHK month full of classic haiku written by the ''big-five'' and today we encounter the second haiku by Chiyo-Ni, the most known female haiku poetess of the classic Japanese history.
Kaga no Chiyo, considered one of the foremost women haiku poets, began writing at the age of seven. She studied under two haiku masters who had themselves apprenticed with the great poet, Basho.... In 1755, Chiyo became a Buddhist nun -- not, she said, in order to renounce the world, but as a way 'to teach her heart to be like the clear water which flows night and day'. From that moment on she is known as Chiyo-Ni (Ni means nun).
Chiyo-Ni is known for her wonderful Morning Glorie's haiku, but today we don't have a haiku on Morning Glories by her. We have another haiku written by her, not so wellknown I think, but a strong one. It's an autumn haiku.
What a wonderful poems don't you think so too? It will not be an easy task to write another haiku in the spirit of Chiyo-Ni, but I have to try.
Well .... I hope you did like this post and I hope that it will inspire you all to write new haiku or senryu. This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until July 10th at noon (CET). I will try to post our next episode, our 2nd Ghost Writer post of this CDHK-month, later on.
her work is beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration!
Carpe Diem #527 Shiki (5), "a departed soul"
Carpe Diem #526 Issa (5), "New Year's Writing"
Carpe Diem #525 Buson (5), "a glimpse of dawn"
Carpe Diem #522 Shiki (4), "the cuckoo's cry"
Carpe Diem #521 Issa (4), ''O cooling melons!"
Carpe Diem #520 Buson (4), "flowers of the plum"
Carpe Diem #517 Shiki (3), "reeds tremble"
Carpe Diem #516 Issa (3), "skylight!"
Carpe Diem #515 Buson (3), "on the shortcut path"


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Libyan commander wanted by ICC released after protests
Maj. Mahmoud al-Werfalli PHOTO: Aljazeera
A Libyan commander wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over a series of summary executions was released on Thursday, a day after handing himself in to military authorities in eastern Libya, a military source said.
Supporters of the commander, Mahmoud al-Werfalli, had demonstrated in the eastern city of Benghazi late on Wednesday against any legal action being taken against him, closing roads and burning tires.
Some held signs reading "We are all Maj. Mahmoud al-Werfalli".
Werfalli is a commander in an elite unit attached to the Libyan National Army (LNA), the dominant force in eastern Libya.
It rejects the internationally recognised government in Tripoli and is aligned with a separate government based in the east.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Werfalli in August 2017, accusing him of a role in the summary killings of 33 people between June 2016 and July 2017, as the LNA neared the completion of its campaign to take control of Benghazi.
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The ICC's chief prosecutor reiterated her call for the LNA's top commander Khalifa Haftar to hand over Werfalli after a video purportedly showed him shooting dead 10 blindfolded prisoners at the site of a car bombing in Benghazi in February.
A military source said Werfalli had returned to Benghazi overnight "after the completion of investigative procedures concerning the case of the International Criminal Court".
There was no official comment on his release.
By Thursday morning, the protests had subsided and roads in Benghazi had reopened.
LNA leader Haftar is a likely candidate in elections that the UN says it is hoping to hold by the end of the year in an effort to help unify Libya.
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World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg to make 2020 debut Sunday
by: HOWARD FENDRICH, Associated Press
Posted: Aug 7, 2020 / 03:07 PM EDT / Updated: Aug 7, 2020 / 03:07 PM EDT
Washington Nationals' Stephen Strasburg (37) watches from the stands during the first inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Tuesday, July 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
WASHINGTON (AP) — World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg is scheduled to make his season debut for the Washington Nationals on Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles after being sidelined by a nerve problem in his pitching hand.
Strasburg missed what would have been his first two appearances of 2020 after making all 33 starts last year and then becoming the first pitcher to finish a postseason with a 5-0 record.
"The tingling in his thumb is gone, and that's a good sign. We watched him and he's throwing some really good bullpens. That was the big thing for me: Nothing in his mechanics has changed. Everything's good," manager Dave Martinez said Friday before Washington's series opener against visiting Baltimore.
"So based on a conversation with him, he feels good," Martinez added. "He wants to pitch. He's ready to pitch on Sunday."
For how long is another question.
"We're going to watch him. If he gives us 75-80 pitches, that'd be awesome," Martinez said. "But we'll keep an eye on him."
The 32-year-old Strasburg led the NL with 209 innings and 18 wins in 2019.
The status of another one of Martinez's aces, three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, was less clear when the manager spoke to reporters. Scherzer left his start in Wednesday's 3-1 loss to the New York Mets after just one inning because of a right hamstring issue.
Scherzer said that night he didn't think it was a big deal. He was going to test the leg by throwing on flat ground Friday afternoon.
"I'll touch base with him after and see how he feels," Martinez said. "He's going to be day-to-day."
If Scherzer is fine, his next turn in the rotation would be Tuesday at the Mets.
The right-hander first felt something wrong with the hamstring before his previous start, six days earlier against Toronto. But Scherzer pitched anyway in that one and ended up throwing an MLB season-high 112 pitches across 7 1/3 scoreless innings.
The leg acted up again when Scherzer was doing his usual sprinting a day before Wednesday's game.
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By Arnel Leyva
Social media practitioners, whom I occasionally refer to as "socialistas," attended SMX Advanced in droves this month. Normally, the majority of attendees at the annual gathering in Seattle are the more inward-looking search engine optimization "wizards." Because these two groups are so culturally different (which I explored in a recent blog post), one wouldn't have expected this mix.
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\section{Introduction}

The Skyrme model \cite{skyrme} is a nonlinear theory where the fields take values in a Riemannian  manifold, typically a Lie group. Originaly conceived in the context of high energy physics the model provided a framework where baryons emerged as topologically protected solitons, called skyrmions. Although the relevant field quantities consisted of just $\pi$-meson clouds the fermionic nucleon was obtained as a specific finite-energy, particle-like and stable configuration of the bosonic fields (see \cite{manton} for details). Later, it was realized that the model appears in the low energy effective field theory of quantum chromodynamics in the limit in which the number-of-colours is large \cite{witten}. Recently, apart from nuclear physics, the model proved to be useful in various condensed matter systems, string theory and holographic QCD \cite{multi}, \cite{holo}.

Generically, the associated Euler-Lagrange equations are quasi-linear \cite{tan}-\cite{LAX} and subtle issues arise: i)  wave velocities are not given a priori, but change as functions of initial data, directions of propagation and wave polarization; ii) it is rather usual that the resulting system does not admit solutions which can be continuously extended from the smooth initial configuration: often they tend after a finite time to discontinuous or singular states;  iii) not all initial data are mathematically admissible since for a large class of them the Cauchy problem is ill-posed; iv) there exist the possibility of domains with non-hyperbolic regimes despite the fact that the energy momentum-tensor satisfies the dominant energy condition.

Systematic treatment on these topics have proven to be difficult and efforts to apply finite difference methods in simulations discovered numerical instabilities. Although general results have been obtained for semilinear wave maps, they do not generalize directly to the quasi-linear regime \cite{shatah}-\cite{tao}. Quite recently, a local well-posedness result was provided by Wong \cite{wong}, sharpening some previous conclusions of Crutchfield \cite{crutch} and Gibbons \cite{gib}.  Unfortunaly, most of the results concerning the time evolution of Skyrme fields depend on numerics or approximation schemes and some of them lack satisfactory analytical explanation.

To gain some intuition into the dynamics of the theory it is convenient to obtain an effective metric description of the linearized waves. This is because the effective metrics uniquely determine the causal structure providing at the same time the natural language to treat the well-posedness of the initial-boundary value problem. As a consequence, they may help in the identification of pathological solutions when they exist and why instabillities appear in some situations involving collisions/scattering of solitons. Among other developments, the effective metric led to the construction of analog models of gravity, which imitate the kinematical properties of gravitational fields, and to insights into the evolutionary properties of hyperbolic PDE's (see \cite{Viss} for a review).

The point of this note is to investigate the causal structure of the baby Skyrme model using the appropriate geometrical tools. The model is a (2+1)-dimensional analogue of the original model with the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{2}$ as a target \cite{piette}-\cite{piette2}. Due to the lesser number of dimensions the baby version serves as a toy model for the full theory where some ideas and methods can be tested. They also have physical significance on their own, having applications in some condensed matter systems such as the fractional quantum Hall effect \cite{hall}. In particular, we'll derive a fouth order Fresnel-like equation for the high frequency waves and show that it factorizes into two quadratic characteristic polynomials. It follows that the causal structure of the theory is governed by a duplicity of effective geometries which depend explicitly on the pulled-back geometry for the map. As a consequence, background solutions of the equations behave as a birefringent medium for the linearized waves. We next show that the model admits signature transitions as well, possibly yielding an elliptic regime for the PDE's. In the last section we evaluate the effective metric for some well known solutions such as kinks and baby-skyrmions and show that a wave interacting with the solitons have drastic modifications on its propagation properties.

\section{Baby Skyrme Models: general remarks}

The model is based on a smooth map $\phi^A:M\rightarrow N$ from spacetime $M$ to a target manifold $N$. Here, $(M, \eta)$ is equal to $\mathbb{R}^{1+2}$ equipped with a Minkowski metric $diag(+--)$ and $(N,h)$ is the two-dimensional unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{2}$ endowed with a positive definite metric $h_{AB}(\phi)$. The lagrangian is constructed from the $(1,1)$ pulled-back tensor $\textbf{L}:= h_{AB}(\phi)\partial^{a}\phi^{A}\partial_{b}\phi^{B}$ and the action is provided by \cite{piette}-\cite{piette2}
\begin{equation}\label{1}
S=\int \frac{1}{2}Tr(\textbf{L})+\frac{\kappa^2}{4}\left[Tr((\textbf{L})^{2})-(Tr(\textbf{L}))^{2}\right]-V(\phi)\ d^{3}x
\end{equation}
where $\kappa^2$ is a parameter controlling the strength of the nonlinearity. The first term in the lagrangian reproduces the classical O(3) sigma model while the second is the three-dimensional analogue of the Skyrme term. While in $(3+1)$ the potential $V(\phi)$ is optional, its presence in the $(2+1)$ model is necessary for the stability of the solitonic solutions\footnote{See \cite{super} for supersymmetric extensions of the model supporting BPS solutions}.

In what follows we use the conventions: i) capital latin indices, A, stand for the target space quantities and lower latin indices,
a, stand for space-time tensors; ii) $(a,b)=ab+ba$ and $[ab]=ab-ba$ for symetrization and antisymetrization, repectively; iii) $h_{ABPQ}(\phi)\equiv h_{A[P}h_{BQ]}=h_{[AP}h_{B]Q}$. Variation with respect to $\phi^{A}$ yields a system of second order quasi-linear PDE's which can be written in the compact form
\begin{equation}\label{1}
\left(H_{AB}\partial^{a}\phi^{B}\right)_{||C}\partial_{a}\phi^{C}+V_{,A}=0,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
H_{AB}(\phi,\partial\phi)\equiv h_{AB}-\kappa^{2} h_{APBQ}\partial^{a}\phi^{P}\partial_{a}\phi^{Q}
\end{equation}
and $||$ represents the covariant derivative with respect to $h_{AB}$, i.e. $h_{AB||C}=0$. In terms of the target connection $\Gamma^{A}_{\phantom a BC}$, (\ref{1}) can be written as
\begin{equation}\label{bse}
\partial_{a}\left(H_{AB}\partial^{a}\phi^{B}\right)-\Gamma^{D}_{\phantom a AC}H_{DB}\partial^{a}\phi^{B}\partial_{a}\phi^{C}+V_{,A}=0,
\end{equation}
which reveals that the equation of motion consists of various types of self-interactions arrising from the non-standard kinetic terms, the potential and the target geometry. Nevertheless, quasi-linearity implies that the system is linear with respect to higher order derivatives of the dependent field variables. Generically, it is possible to express the equations as
\begin{equation}\label{L}
M^{ab}_{\phantom a\phantom a  AB}(\phi,\partial\phi)\ \partial_{a}\partial_{b}\phi^{B}+J_{A}(\phi,\partial\phi)=0,
\end{equation}
where $J_{A}$ stands for semilinear terms in $\phi^{A}$ (lower order derivatives) and the principal symbol is given by
\begin{equation}\label{M}
M^{ab}_{\phantom a\phantom a AB}=\left\{\eta^{ab}h_{AB}+\frac{\kappa^2}{2} h_{APBQ}\left(\partial^{a}\phi^{(Q}\partial^{b}\phi^{P)}-2\eta^{ab}\partial^{c}\phi^{P}\partial_{c}\phi^{Q}\right) \right\}.
\end{equation}

As it is well known, the highest-order terms in derivatives almost completely controls the qualitative behavior of solutions of a partial differential equation. We note that, in this case, the principal symbol $M$ is symmetric with respect to $ab$ and $AB$ i.e. $M^{[ab]}_{\phantom a\phantom a  AB}=M^{ab}_{\phantom a\phantom a  [AB]}=0$. Also, in the limit of $\kappa^2\rightarrow 0$, (\ref{1}) reduces to a semilinear equation
\begin{equation}
\square\phi^{A}+\Gamma^{A}_{\phantom a BC}\partial_{a}\phi^{B}\partial^{a}\phi^{C}=0,
\end{equation}
which repreduces the well-known classical $O(3)$ sigma-model in flat spacetime.

\section{Causal Structure}

It has been known for some time that the propagation of the excitations of nonlinear field theories in a given background is governed by an effective metric that depends on the background field configuration and on the details of the non-linear dynamics (see \cite{Viss} for a  review). These propagation features can be analysed by means of the eikonal approximation i.e. the regime of small-amplitude/high-frequency waves propagating on top of a smooth solution $\phi^{A}_{0}(x)$. Formally, we consider a one-parameter family of solutions of the form
\begin{equation}
\phi^{A}(x)=\phi^{A}_{0}(x)+\alpha\varphi^{A}(x)exp\left(i\Sigma(x)/\alpha\right),
\end{equation}
and let the real parameter $\alpha\rightarrow 0$. In this limit, only the higher order derivative terms contribute to the propagation laws for the waves. In other words, we can discard source terms $J_{A}$ in (\ref{L}) and consider only the principal part term contributions.

Defining the wave covector $k_{a}\equiv \partial_{a}\Sigma$, the equation of motion reduces to the eigenvalue equation
\begin{equation}\label{eigenvalue}
\left[M^{ab}_{\phantom a\phantom a AB}(\phi_{0})k_{a}k_{b}\right]\varphi^{B}=0.
\end{equation}
For a general $k_{a}\in T_{x}^{*}M$ we define the symmetric matrix $M_{AB}(\phi_{0},k)\equiv M^{ab}_{\phantom a\phantom a AB}(\phi_{0})k_{a}k_{b}$. It follows that (\ref{eigenvalue}) can be solved only if $k_{a}$ satisfy the algebraic conditions
\begin{equation}
F_{x}(\phi_{0},k)\equiv det(M_{AB}(\phi_{0},k))=0.
\end{equation}
As a consequence, at a given spacetime point, the wave normals are characterized by the roots of a multivariate polynomial of fourth order in $k_{a}$ in the cotangent space. The resulting algebraic variety changes from point to point in a way completely prescribed by the background solution $\phi^{A}_{0}$ and the nonlinearities of the baby Skyrme theory. In general, it will consist at most of two nested sheets, each with the topology of a convex cone.

The general form of $F_{x}$ is given by a homogeneous polynomial of the form
\begin{equation}\label{fresnel}
F_{x}=det(h_{AB})G^{abcd}(\phi_{0})k_{a}k_{b}k_{c}k_{d}
\end{equation}
with $G^{abcd}$ a completely symmetric quantity. The latter can be written solely in terms of the spacetime metric and the pulled-back geometry. Thus, the vanishing sets of (\ref{fresnel}) constitue the baby-skyrmionic analogues of the Fresnel equation encountered in optics (see \cite{Volker} and references therein for a similar derivation in the context of electrodynamics). They play the role of a fourth order space-time dispersion relation (at least up to a conformal factor).

Now, the algebraic structure of $G^{abcd}$ reveals that the quartic equation factorizes, yielding the generic birefringence effect, i.e. the characteristic polynomial reduces to a product of two simpler quadratic terms satisfying
\begin{equation}\label{z}
[\eta^{ab}k_{a}k_{b}][(h^{-1})^{cd}k_{c}k_{d}]=0,
\end{equation}
with $h^{-1}$ a reciprocal quadratic form in the cotangent space given by
\begin{equation}\label{E}
(h^{-1})^{ab}\equiv(1-2\kappa^2\mathcal{L}_{s})\eta^{ab}+\left[\kappa^2(1-\kappa^2 Tr(\textbf{L}))L^{ab}+\kappa^{4}L^{ac}L_{c}^{\phantom a b}\right],
\end{equation}
with $\mathcal{L}_{s}$ denoting the lagrangian of the model without the potential term.

Thus, the wave fronts are not arbitrarily given but satisfy some relations completely prescribed by the pull-back.  In general, $\Sigma(x)$ will solve one quadratic polynomial or the other, although it is possible that there exist some directions where the vanishing sets coincide. Consequently, the model admits two different types of waves. One wave travels with the velocity of light while the other travels with a velocity wich depends implicitly on the solution.

If the quantity $(h^{-1})^{ab}$ is non-degenerate it is possible to define its inverse $h_{ab}$ such that $(h^{-1})^{ac}h_{cb}=\delta^{a}_{\phantom a b}$. The explicit form of $h_{ab}$ may be easily calculated applying the Cayley-Hamilton theorem to the matrix $\textbf{L}$. Because $det(\textbf{L})=0$, it results the matrix relation
\begin{equation}
\textbf{L}^{3}=Tr(\textbf{L})\textbf{L}^{2}+\frac{1}{2}\left[Tr((\textbf{L})^{2})-(Tr(\textbf{L}))^{2}\right]\textbf{L},
\end{equation}
and we obtain
\begin{equation}\label{F}
h_{ab}=(1-2\kappa^2\mathcal{L}_{S})^{-1}\left[\eta_{ab}-\kappa^2 L_{ab}\right].
\end{equation}

In general, the \textit{effective metric} $h_{ab}$ characterizes a Lorentzian metric on spacetime, the null cones of which are the effective ``sound cones" of the theory. The ray vectors associated to the wave fronts are defined as
\begin{eqnarray*}
q^{a}\equiv\eta^{ab}k_{b} \quad &\mbox{if}&\quad \eta^{ab}k_{a}k_{b}=0\\
q^{a}\equiv (h^{-1})^{ab}k_{b} \quad &\mbox{if}& \quad (h^{-1})^{ab}k_{a}k_{b}=0
\end{eqnarray*}
It follows from (\ref{z}) that $q^{a}$ are the vanishing sets of the dual polynomial $G_{x}$, i.e.
\begin{equation}\label{w}
G_{x}(\phi_{0},q)\equiv [\eta_{ab}q^{a}q^{b}][h_{ab}q^{a}q^{b}]=0
\end{equation}
As is well known, these cones completely characterize the causal structure of the theory once a solution is given. Note, however, that (\ref{E}) and (\ref{F}) are defined only up to a conformal transformation $\tilde{h}_{ab}\rightarrow \Omega^{2}(x)h_{ab}$. For the sake of simplicity we assume that $\Omega^{2}=(1-2\kappa^2\mathcal{L}_{S})$ and adopt the reescaled effective structure
\begin{equation}\label{tilde}
\tilde{h}_{ab}=\eta_{ab}-\kappa^2 L_{ab}\quad\quad\quad (\tilde{h}^{-1})^{ab}=\Omega^{-2}h^{ab}.
\end{equation}

The result that the high-energy perturbations of some nonlinear theories propagate along geodesics that are not null in the background geometry but in an effective spacetime has been obtained several times in the literature \cite{ngeo}. This is also true for the baby Skyrme model. Indeed, defining the effective covariant derivative ; such that $\tilde{h}_{ab;c}=0$ it follows that if $\tilde{h}_{ab}q^{a}q^{b}=0$, then
\begin{equation}
q^{a}_{\phantom a ;b}q^{b}=0,
\end{equation}
which is the equation of a null geodesic. For an arbitrary smooth solution $\phi_{0}$ the quadratic form $\tilde{h}$ is generally curved. Note, however, that it becomes flat in the limit $\kappa^{2}\rightarrow 0$.  Note also that, although different choices $V(\phi)$ may lead to qualitatively different theories, its particular form does not appear explictly in the expression of $\tilde{h}_{ab}$.

\subsection{Signature transitions and breakdowns}

 As $\tilde{h}_{ab}$ is a field dependent quantity we cannot guarantee that all roots of $G_{x}$ are automatically real. This will be the case only if the background fields satisfy certain conditions. A direct calculation yields the condition
\begin{equation}
 det(\tilde{h})_{ab}/det(\eta_{ab})=(1-2\kappa^2\mathcal{L}_{S})>0,
\end{equation}
which means that, in order to guarantee that the effective metric has the correct signature $(+--)$, the lagrangian has to satisfy an algebraic constraint. Note that the constraint is the same for all possible potentials.

Following Manton \cite{MAN} we suppose that $L_{ab}$ can be diagonalized relative to $\eta_{ab}$. It is clear that its eigenvalues are necessarily non-negative so we write them as $L_{ab}=\mbox{diag}(\lambda^{2}_{0},\lambda^{2}_{1},\lambda^{2}_{2})$. A direct calculation yields the components
\begin{equation}\label{decomp}
\tilde{h}_{00}=(1-\kappa^2\lambda_{0}^{2}),\quad\quad\quad \tilde{h}_{11}=-(1+\kappa^2\lambda_{1}^{2}),\quad\quad\quad \tilde{h}_{22}=-(1+\kappa^2\lambda_{2}^{2}).
\end{equation}
It follows that the $00$ component of the effective metric is not always positive, as it should. For sufficiently small values of $\lambda_{0}$, $\tilde{h}$ defines a metric with hyperbolic signature. In this regime, all roots of $\tilde{F}$ and $\tilde{G}$ are real and we have a well defined causal structure. Nevertheless, for large values of $\lambda_{0}$ it is possible to envisage a situation where the effective metric changes its signature. The new regime is characterized by a spacetime region where the equations are of the elliptic type (+,+,+): \textit{instabilities arise}. The two distinct regions are generally separeted by a two-dimensional membrane where the metric is singular.

One concludes that the physical validity of the baby Skyrme model is constrained by the inequality $\lambda_{0}^{2}<\kappa^{-2}$. For static fields, this is always the case since $\lambda_{0}=0$. For time-dependent fields it is important to keep in mind that a signature transition may occur. If this is case, the system of quasi-linear PDE's looses its physical predictability. This danger is particularly important during violent processes involving the colision of solitons and antisolitons \cite{ANTI}. Therefore, it might be illuminating to calculate the effective metric during numerics as a diagnostic tool.

\section{Examples}

We shall illustrate the formalism described above with examples coming from well known solutions to the baby Skyrme model. In order to explore these aspects, it is convenient to parametrize the fields with spherical coordinates $\phi^{A}=(f,\psi)$ in the target and metric $h_{AB}=\mbox{diag}(1,sin^{2}f)$. From now on we'll work with the so called \textit{old model} potential \cite{broken} which explicitly violates the O(3)-rotational iso-invariance of the theory\footnote{Other possibilites include the \textit{holomorphic} potential and the so called \textit{new model} potential \cite{new}}
\begin{equation}
V(f)=\mu^{2}(1-cosf),
\end{equation}
where $\mu^{2}$ is a mass parameter which we set equal to 1. This potential is analogous to the pion mass term in the $(3 + 1)$ dimensional Skyrme model and is generally associated to external fields in the context of magnetic systems.

\subsection{Sine-Gordon-like solutions}

As shown in \cite{nontop}, any solution of the Sine-Gordon model is also a solution of the baby Skyrme
model. Indeed, in the case of a map with constant azymuthal field ($\partial_{a}\psi=0$) the equation of motion (\ref{bse}) becomes
\begin{equation}\label{sg}
\partial_{a}\partial^{a}f+sinf=0
\end{equation}
which, of course, is the Sine-Gordon equation. Thus, all known solutions of (\ref{sg}) such as kinks, anti-kinks and breathers automatically satisfy the baby Skyrme model equations. Note that, for these types of maps the parameter $\kappa^{2}$ does not appear in the equations. Despite of this fact, the effective metric controlling the causal structure is given by
\begin{equation}
\tilde{h}_{ab}=\eta_{ab}-\kappa^2\partial_{a}f\partial_{b}f.
\end{equation}
We analyzed the causal structure associated to a static kink, a collision of kinks and a collision of kink and anti-kink. The results are illustrated below
\subsubsection{Static Kink}
The kink represents a localized solitary wave, travelling at a velocity $|c|<1$. It is characterized by a solution of the form
\begin{equation}
f(x,t)=4\mbox{arctan}\left(\mbox{exp}\left(\pm\frac{x-x_{0}-ct}{\sqrt{1-c^2}}\right)\right),
\end{equation}
where the $\pm$ signs correspond to localized structures which are called kink and antikink,
respectively. In a reference frame comoving with the solution, we can set $x_{0}=c=0$. A direct calculation yields a diagonal effective geometry of the form
\begin{equation}\label{effg}
\tilde{h}_{00}=1,\quad\quad\tilde{h}_{11}=-(1+4sech^{2}(x)),\quad\quad\tilde{h}_{22}=-1.
\end{equation}
Note that Eqs. (\ref{effg}) are the same for the kink or the antikink solutions, which means that high frequency excitations interact with both solutions in the same way. Obviously, this metric has a Lorentzian signature for all spacetime points.

Fig. 1 shows the lightcones evaluated with the effective metric in the $t-x$ plane. It is seen that the cones concide with those of the Minkowskian geometry far from the kink (antikink), and get thinner inside it, signaling that high-energy perturbations propagate sub-luminally there. We also see that the propagation in the direction $y$ is not affected by the kink (antikink), in accordance with) Eqs. (\ref{effg}). The time spent by a given perturbation inside the localized solution depends on the parameters $\kappa$ and $\mu$, but the solution cannot trap the high-energy perturbations.
\begin{figure}[1]
       \centering
       \includegraphics[scale=.4]{1.jpg}
       \caption{Causal structure of the kink (antikink) solution in the $t-x$ plane. The colors represent the behavior of the function $\sqrt{-\tilde{h}}$ with parameters $\kappa^{2}=1$ and $\mu=1$. In this case it is well defined for all possible spacetime events. Note, however, that it only varies significantly near the kink (antikink), yielding the usual cone for distant excitations.}
       \label{dynamic}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[2]
       \centering
       \includegraphics[scale=0.7]{2.jpg}
       \caption{Color diagram representing the function $\sqrt{-\tilde{h}}$ for the kink-kink collision in the $t-x$ plane for $0.1\leq c\leq 0.9$. Note that the function is real for all values of the parameter.}
       \label{dynamic}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[H]
       \centering
       \includegraphics[scale=.6]{3.jpg}
       \caption{Causal structure associated to the kink-kink collision in the $t-x$ plane for $c=0.7$. Note that the velocities of propagation are drastically modified near the collision.}
       \label{dynamic}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[4]
       \centering
       \includegraphics[scale=0.6]{4.jpg}
       \caption{Causal structure of the kink-antikink collision in the $t-x$ plane for $ c= 0.5$. The colors represent the function $\sqrt{-\tilde{h}}$. Note that there exist a region where it vanishes. The white hole in the middle of the figure represents a region with elliptic signature.}
       \label{dynamic}
\end{figure}

\subsubsection{Kink-Kink Collision}

Although there are no static solutions describing multi-solitons in the Sine-Gordon scheme, there are time dependent solutions, which describe the scattering/collisions of two or more kinks \cite{manton}. It is perhaps in the collisions of solitons that the effective geometry may help us in understanding better when instabilities arise and when the solutions are nonphysical. Rather unusually, some of these solutions can be written in analytical form. The kink-kink solution is given by
\begin{equation}
f(x,t)=4\mbox{arctan}\left(\frac{c\ \mbox{sinh}(\frac{x}{\sqrt{1-c^2}})}{\mbox{cosh}(\frac{ct}{\sqrt{1-c^2}})}\right),
\end{equation}
and describes the collision between two kinks with respective velocities $c$ and $-c$ and approaching the origin from $t\rightarrow -\infty$ and moving away from it with velocities $\pm c$ for $t\rightarrow +\infty$.

It is well known that there is a repulsive force between two kinks, so, they scatter backwards after the collision. This behavior is reflected in the causal structure of this solution. In Fig. 2 it is ilustrated the behavior of $\sqrt{-\tilde{h}}$ in the $x-t$ plane for different values of the velocity parameter $c$. Again, it is possible to show that the signature of the effective metric is Lorentzian for all possible events, implying that the high frequency limit is well defined. Far away from the kinks, the metric becomes nearly flat and $\tilde{h}\approx 1$. Nevertheless, near the collision, this quantity is considerably modified leading to nontrivial interactions between the waves and the solution. Fig. 3  shows the behavior of the cones for a particular value of $c$.

\subsubsection{Kink-Antikink Collision}
The kink-antikink collision solution is
\begin{equation}
f(x,t)=4\mbox{arctan}\left(\frac{\mbox{sinh}(\frac{ct}{\sqrt{1-c^2}})}{c\ \mbox{cosh}(\frac{x}{\sqrt{1-c^2}})}\right)
\end{equation}
 with $\pm c$ again describing the velicities of the solitons. As is well known, unlike most topological solitons
which are annihilated by antisolitons into radiation,
the kink and antikink scatter elastically.

From the physical point of view it seems that there is nothing wrong with the kink-antikink collision. Nevertheless, a direct inspection in the effective metric reveals a hidden pathology in the solution. Indeed, the effective metric is not Lorentzian everywhere and becomes singular in a large bidimensional surface in spacetime. This membrane separates the hyperbolic region from a region where the baby Skyrme equations become elliptic (see Fig. 4). Thus, the PDE's are actually mixed in this regime. There is a good chance that the instabilities reported in numerical simulations involving collisions are associated to this signature transition.

\subsection{Hedgehog solutions}

It is well-known that the baby-skyrme model has soliton-like topologically stable static solutions (called baby-skyrmions) and that these solitons can form bound states. To construct these solutions, one must use a radially symmetric ansatz (hedgehog configuration) and reduce the quasi-linear PDE (\ref{bse}) to ordinary differential equations. Adopting polar coordinates $(r,\theta)$  in the spacetime $x-y$ plane,  we consider the class of static solutions of the form
\begin{equation}\label{profile}
 f_{n}=f_{n}(r),\quad\quad\quad \psi=n\theta
\end{equation}
where $f_{n}(r)$ is the so-called profile function and $n\in Z$. We assume also the supplementary conditions $ f_{n}(0)=m\pi$, $(m\in Z)$ and $\lim_{r \to +\infty}f_{n}=0$ to guarantee that the solutions are localized in space and that the total energy is finite.  In analogy with the $(3+1)$ case, the domain of this model is compactified to $\mathbb{S}^2$, yielding the topology required for the classification of its field configurations into homotopy classes $\pi_{2}(\mathbb{S}^{2})=\mathbb{Z}$.
The above ansatz implies that the profile functions $f_{n}$ satisfy the nonlinear ODE\\
\begin{equation}\label{ode}
\left(r+\frac{n^{2}sin^{2}f}{r}\right)f^{''}+\left(1-\frac{n^{2}sin^{2}f}{r^{2}}+\frac{n^{2}f^{'}sinfcosf}{r}\right)f^{'}-\frac{n^{2}sinfcosf}{r}-rsin f=0.
\end{equation}\\
with $f'=df/dr$. Unfortunately, there are no analytic solutions for this model and the baby skyrmion solutions have to be computed numerically. Nevertheless, we may readilly compute the form of the effective geometry. It follows that the causal structure associated to the baby-skyrmions is given by null intervals $\tilde{h}_{ab}dx^{a}dx^{b}=0$ satisfying:\\
\begin{equation}
 dt^2-(1+f_{n}^{'2})dr^2-(r^{2}+n^{2}sin^{2}f_{n})d\theta^2=0,
\end{equation}\\
Note that the effective geometry carries with it the topological degree of the map $n$. In Fig. 5 it is shown the velocity of propagation $v^{2}=dr^{2}/dt^{2}$ as a funtion of the coordinate $r$ for $n=1$ and $n=2$. It would be an interesting task to calculate the effective metrics in simulations of collisions of baby-skyrmions.

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Living Room line-up will impress all guests
Monday 15 October 2012, 10:28AM
By Auckland Council
The city centre will soon be alive with an impressive line-up of freestyle riders, go-go dancers, tappers, acrobats and more when the Living Room festival kicks off for 2012.
This year, the free annual public art and performance festival running from 26 October to 4 November has a more exciting programme than ever before, including:
New Zealand's premier BMX freestyle riders choreographed to classical music and Pacific drum beats
Hip hop fused with digital visual art
A medley of dance offering fresh twists on everything from kapa haka, to go-go dancing and marching girls
Tappers and acrobats who perform circus stunts, tricks and visual slights of hand
Living Room is funded by Waitematā Local Board with support from the British Council, and is curated by renowned choreographer MaryJane O'Reilly.
"The theme for Living Room 2012 is 'Transformation' and features live performances, video installations and soundscapes that will turn Aotea Square into a living and breathing artistic hub," says Ms O'Reilly.
Waitemata Local Board chair Shale Chambers says the festival will showcase outstanding local and international talent in one of the city centre's prime open spaces.
"We are committed to supporting vibrant events that boast a diverse range of interesting and impressive talent. Living Room 2012, with free lunchtime and evening performances, fits the bill admirably," he says.
Aotea Square will be the main performance venue, with other events taking place close by.
These include 'Boxed' by UK-based Susanne Thomas – a unique solo dance performance in the Smith & Caughey's store window – and 'Back of the Bus' by Dunedin's Java Dance Company, an unforgettable ride around town leaving from Q Theatre.
The Living Room festival is another fantastic event on Auckland Council's arts and culture calendar, sitting alongside Artweek and the month-long Southside Arts Festival.
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Q: Command is giving the bot role I'm trying to make a command that gives a user a role. It was working before, but not it just gives the bot a role.
module.exports = {
  name: "addevent",
  description: "Add the event ping role to a user",

  async run(client, message, args) {

    const { member } = message;

    if (message.member.roles.cache.has('793222158981529621')) {
      const { member } = message;
      message.channel.send(`${member} You already have this role.`)
    }

    if (message.channel.id !== '793224633759432755') return;

    member.roles.add('793222158981529621')

    message.channel.send(`${member} Added the event ping role.`)
  }
}

This is also happening to my level command that's supposed to check a user's level. It checks the bot's level, not the user's.

A:     let role = message.guild.roles.cache.find(r => r.name === "Role Name Here");

    if (message.channel.id !== 'Channel ID Here') return;

    if (message.member.roles.cache.has(role.id)) {
      return message.channel.send(`${message.member} You already have this role.`)
    }

    message.member.roles.add(role);
    message.channel.send(`${message.member} Added the event ping role.`);

My example has a variable called role which finds the role by its name, so you have to provide the name of the role there. Your if-statement with the message.channel.id was understandable and is a nice way to get the role in only one channel. The second if-statement just asks if a user already has that role (dont forget: in .has() you have to provide an ID, in this case it is easily done with role.id). Anyways if the user has that role it will send a message and return. Otherwise it will add the role to the user and also send a message.

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Credit: Hellenic National Defence General Staff
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"A message that reminds everyone that Democracy and Freedom are ideals that will triumph as long as there are immortal Greek souls. Souls bold beyond their strengths, adventurous in their knowledge and optimistic despite difficulties. Happy National Day Greece," the pilot said.
Greece marks the 80th anniversary of the heroic OXI Day without the annual military parade which traditionally takes place in Thessaloniki, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As cases of the virus skyrocketed over recent weeks, all mass events to commemorate the thousands of Greeks who gave their lives for freedom in 1940, have been cancelled, including the school parades that took place on October 27 in every corner of the country.
On Tuesday evening, the Municipality of Athens illuminated the Omonia Square fountain in blue and white to commemorate October 28, 1940, OXI Day.
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"In the colours of Greece", he wrote.
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Home » Odia Cinema » Manmohan Mahapatra was awarded an honorary doctorate degree (Degree of Honoris Causa) from Utkal University of Culture
EMInient Film Director coferred with Honarary Doctrate By Utkal University Of Culture
Manmohan Mahapatra was awarded an honorary doctorate degree (Degree of Honoris Causa) from Utkal University of Culture
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Bhubaneswar:6/4/17(ONT Bureau) Utkal .Universityof Culture Chancellor Governer S C Jamiir coferred Honarary Doctrote Degree to Eminent persons from the fields of art, culture and literature.This year Father of Odia New wave Cinema Manmohan Mahapatra was awarded an honorary doctorate degree (Degree of Honoris Causa) from Utkal University of Culture (UUC) in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha state, India.Manmohan MahapatraBorn on 10th November 1951 in Khordha, Odisha, he joined the film and Television Institute of India, Poona. After completing his studies in FII, he made his first feature film, "Seeta Raati" in 1976, which could not be completed till 1980, due to financial problems. This film won the 'Rajat Kamal' in the National Film Awards in 1982, it also happens to be the first Odia film to be selected for the prestigious 'Indian Panorama' section of the International Film Festival of India, New Delhi.
He has made twelve feature films, out of which eleven are in Odia language. He has been considered by critics to be a pioneer in the 'New Wave' movement of Odia cinema, single mindely persuing his effort for good cinema. His films have survived the 'ravages of consumerism' devouring Odia cinema for the last three decades. He has also directed telefilms, teleserials and documentaries. His films have won nine (9) National Awards and also many major State Film Awards. It may be mentioned that one of his films has won the first technical National award (Best Cinematography [B/W]) in he context of Odia Cinema. Some of his film have been screened in the 'Indian Panorama' section of the IFFI in the respective years as well as being shown abroad in festivals at USA, Italy and Germany.
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Natural sounds or the powerful effects of silence', he further writes, the most
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most notable among his works are, "Seeta Raati", "Neeraba Jhada", "Klanta Aparanha" among others. Another important aspect of his works are that it is not only acclaim awards, but his relentless effort in continuing to work for the cause of meaningful and significant films in the realm of Odia cinema. Rightly he has been conferred with the "Jayadev Award", the highest state honour in films for one's contribution to Odia cinema.
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Ede and Sten Tamkivi – fearlessly breaking stereotypes
Both women and men, entrepreneurs and employees in startups and large corporations, are trying to find and improve work-life balance. Although society has become more modern and open-minded, and strict gender roles have begun to disappear, or at least the boundaries have blurred, statistics show that we still have a long way to go. What are these outdated stereotypes, how do they affect people's daily lives, and what could be done differently?
These questions will be discussed in the sTARTUp Day podcast over the next five months with Estonian startup heroes and their partners. Ede and Sten Tamkivi – spouses, entrepreneurs, and parents of four children – are the first to share their experiences of balancing work and family life.
Highlights in work and family life
Ede and Sten recall that the births of their children have often coincided with the beginning of some work-related challenge. "The first child was born when I had just joined Skype," explains Sten. "The third child was born when I last started a business, and with the arrival of the fourth child, Ede prepared to dive into working life by joining Vabamu." Before, Ede had stayed home with the children. With the fourth child, they decided to switch the roles. "With the first three children, we followed this traditional family model, but now Sten decided to stay home with the child," says Ede.
In 2019, 44,129 people went on parental leave in Estonia, of whom only 1,506 or 3% were men. Compared to ten years ago, the number of men staying home with a child has tripled, but the difference is still huge.
Ede and Sten admit that experience and self-confidence certainly play an important part, but at the same time, Sten had reached the right stage in life. "Men are often rebuked for not taking the initiative to stay home with a child, but on the other hand, we as mothers do not give them that opportunity to take the initiative," says Ede. "It takes courage on both sides."
Reactions filled with surprise
They also talked about surprising family-related questions from friends and colleagues, embellishing and hiding the truth. Ede said that she has never had to hide anything about her family. But she gave an example of how she sometimes consciously plays a mind game of not mentioning that she has many children. "If it comes out later in a conversation, people are often very shocked, but it is rather positive."
Based on Sten's experience, he is sometimes expected to hide something. "A fairly common reaction is that when a father stays home with his child, he is asked, "What you are actually doing?". It is expected to be a smokescreen to start a new business or something like that." This gives rise to the stereotypical notion that mothers always stay at home with their children, and if done differently, it is a signal that something is wrong.
According to Statistics Estonia, 43% of fathers used paternity leave in 2008, but in 2019 already 58% used it. Before, it was possible to take ten working days of paternity leave, but from 1 July 2020 fathers are entitled to 30 days of paternity leave!
Such a reaction from society and historical stereotypes create the precondition that women have to stay at home, and as a result, they (sub)consciously choose safer jobs, which is why the pay gap is higher. "Women simply accept roles with historically lower incomes, such as social and educational backgrounds, and it's hard to break out of it," says Ede.
Complications in the ICT sector
There is a recent trend for women to leave the ICT sector. According to a European Commission study, the annual productivity loss for the European economy of women leaving their digital jobs to become inactive is calculated to be about EUR 16.2 billion. And while female-owned startups are more likely to be successful, there is a decrease in participation, leadership, and investment in the entrepreneurial digital sector. According to Startup Estonia, only 15% of the founders of startups in Estonia are women.
To break out of outdated concepts and promote diversity, it is important to talk openly about these issues and accentuate good examples. "There are two main approaches here: positive examples must be highlighted, and initiatives with an undertone of slight positive discrimination, such as the Unicorn Squad initiated by Taavi Kotka, will certainly help," explains Ede. Sten adds that there are always those who criticize such initiatives, but he doesn't understand such an approach. "The more smart entrepreneurs we have in society who can realize their position, the stronger society will become as a whole. And it's not a zero-sum game, that if a girl succeeds in business, it doesn't mean that a boy will lose something. The world is big enough for both to succeed."
Cover photo by Elina Kostabi
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On a film set in Manhattan's West Village a month ago, Catalina Sandino Moreno (from "Maria Full of Grace") was bouncing on her toes just off-camera. "Action!" went the call, and the Colombian actress—in retro...
by Fan Zhong
On a film set in Manhattan's West Village a month ago, Catalina Sandino Moreno (from "Maria Full of Grace") was bouncing on her toes just off-camera. "Action!" went the call, and the Colombian actress—in retro Shark attire from West Side Story—sprinted around a chain-link fence, burst through a crowd, bent over the prone body of her slain love, and looked up, her eyes shaded despairingly, toward the camera.
The recreation of the musical's climactic scene took all of 10, maybe 11 seconds. Yet when it debuts as one segment of photographer David Michalek's many-chaptered large-scale video installation Portraits in Dramatic Time tonight in Lincoln Center, seconds will become—in ultra slow-motion—many minutes of excruciating drama.
"I remember trying to explain to this Indonesian actor what we wanted to do," Michalek told me over the phone later. "And his translator said he was very concerned that I wanted him to bring him to New York for five minutes." He laughed. "I said, 'No—I actually want him to come for five seconds.'"
Michalek, who led a former life as a fashion photographer (he started out working for Herb Ritts), didn't really have much trouble convincing actors to participate in the project—in addition to Moreno, Liev Schreiber, Holly Hunter, Ludivine Sagnier, William H. Macy, Alan Rickman, and Alison Pill are among the many who shot their own slo-mo segments, as well as some lesser-known Eastern acts like the Thai Likay Street Theatre company.
In a way, Portraits is an elaboration on his highly successful Slow Dancing installation at Lincoln Center from 2007, which featured dancers of international renown shot at 3,000 frames per second but viewed performing at a similarly sub-glacial pace. (Michalek is married to Wendy Whelan, a principal dancer with the NYC Ballet.) "This project was even tougher," said Michalek. "It requires an extra level of focus from the audience. With Slow Dancing, spectators could enter and exit the scene at any time. Here, if you're not paying attention, you might miss the arch of the story."
The point is that five or 10 seconds is all you need to tell an entire narrative—you just really have to pay attention. "This project allows people to really see, for the first time in their lives, the full development of human emotion," Michalek said. "I think the actors had to appreciate that if they were not being true in their emotional expression at any moment, it would be revealed. There's no lying here."
Portraits in Dramatic Time runs nightly from 8:45 to 11:45pm through July 31 as part of the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival.
Photos: Mark Stephen Kornbluth


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