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Angus "Mac" MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the TV series MacGyver. He is played by Richard Dean Anderson in the 1985 original series. Lucas Till portrays a younger version of MacGyver in the 2016 reboot.
In both portrayals MacGyver is shown to possess a genius-level intellect, proficiency in multiple languages, superb engineering skills, excellent knowledge of applied physics, military training in bomb disposal techniques, and a preference for non-lethal resolutions to conflicts. MacGyver works for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles, which in the original series was an independent think-tank, and in the 2016 reboot is a clandestine government organization using the cover of a think-tank. In addition to his scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items, he always carries a Swiss Army knife and refuses to carry a gun.
Release date: February 7, 2020 at 8pm
Network: CBS
Cast: Lucas Till, George Eads, Sandrine Holt, Tristin Mays, Justin Hires, Meredith Eaton, Isabel Lucas
MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series developed by Peter M. Lenkov and starring Lucas Till as the title character. It is a reboot of the ABC series of the same name created by Lee David Zlotoff, which aired from 1985 to 1992. The series premiered on September 23, 2016, on CBS.
In April 2018, CBS renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on September 28, 2018. In May 2019, the series was renewed for a fourth season by CBS, which is set to premiere February 7, 2020.
Angus "Mac" MacGyver is an operative of a secret U.S. government organization where he uses his extraordinary talent for problem solving and his extensive knowledge of science to save lives. "With skills that are only limited by his creativity, Mac saves the day using paper clips instead of pistols, birthday candles instead of bombs, and gum instead of guns."
Lucas Till as Angus "Mac" MacGyver: A highly intelligent and incredibly resourceful U.S. operative who works for the Phoenix Foundation, a covert agency operating under the guise of a think tank. Trained as an EOD technician for the Army, Mac prefers to use non-lethal means to stop his enemies; he is never without his trusty Swiss Army knife and uses anything in his environment to his advantage. At the end of Season 2, Mac leaves the Phoenix due to his lack of trust in its leadership, but eventually returns when he realises how much his skillset is needed.
George Eads as Jack Dalton (seasons 1–3): Mac's partner in the field and a former Delta Force operator. Jack's history with Mac goes back to his days in the Army and unlike Mac, he is not afraid to use guns in the field. He also has history with Riley, because he was once in a relationship with her mother and had an altercation with her abusive father. While mostly easy-going and laid-back, Jack can get serious when the situation calls for it and often calls upon his special forces training to help the team get out of a tight spot. At the end of "Father + Bride + Betrayal", Jack leaves the Phoenix to track a terrorist thought to have been killed years earlier.
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Holy cow. A few months ago, World War Z was headed towards Heaven's Gate territory in Hollywood lore. At the pace it was on, there were going to be entire books written about its infamous production debacle. Supposedly legendary budget overruns, script re-writes, reshoots, release date changes, on-set calamities in foreign countries, everything and anything that could go wrong did, short of having a panicky or tempestuous star at the center. Critics and bloggers were sharpening their knives, with all signs pointing to a nightmare opening, another example of Hollywood excess gone bad. Instead, the opposite has happened. Reviews have been largely supportive, star Brad Pitt has enjoyed the biggest box office opening of his career and the once-doomed World War Z looks to have secured a sequel with a healthy $66 million opening weekend.
Well, this kind of turnaround only happens when someone is committed to making it happen. And, in this case, the person being credited is producer and star Pitt himself. What's interesting here is that Pitt has been in (and survived) bombs before (Troy, Seven Years in Tibet), but he wasn't a producer then, so not only does he have more on the line here professionally, but he seems to take his producing role very seriously personally now. He takes great pride in making good movies and word around town is he is quite the perfectionist and is committed to never making a bad movie. So far, so good. Some of his credits as a producer include The Departed, Moneyball and The Tree of Life—not too shabby. So when Pitt's Plan B production company bought the rights to Max Brooks' bestselling novel World War Z (outbidding Leonardo DiCaprio, among others), I have to assume he never wrote it off as a summer popcorn money machine throwaway picture because that's just not his style.
But still, he had to have been tempted by what this movie, if done right, could mean for his career. Not only are zombies the hot thing now and the geopolitical elements in the novel would be beneficial to worldwide marketing, but this would be Pitt's first real shot at an action franchise (what movie star doesn't want one). He's getting older, time is running out and Pitt, for all his movie star-ness and worldwide celebrity, still isn't really known as a box office blockbuster draw. So he may have needed this more than we knew. So when things started to go south with the production and the script, Pitt stepped in. No matter how much he may have wanted an action franchise or to make a blockbuster to call his own, it had to be done right—or not at all. Word is it was Pitt who brought in Damon Lindelof, of Lost fame, to fix the biggest problem the movie had—the ending. Lindelof has become somewhat of a legend in Hollywood lately for swooping into projects to save them, often to mixed results, but there's no question that his efforts here save the movie from the dustbin of history and turn it from what could easily have been a laughable mess to a much more coherent and entertaining summer thriller. And they say writers don't do anything.
As for the movie itself, World War Z is marketed as a zombie movie, but it is more of a worldwide disaster movie like Contagion or Outbreak, but without the slow, depressing parts. Pitt plays Gerry Lane, a UN employee whose job we aren't quite sure of, but we figure out quickly that he's really important as he is whisked away from scenes of zombie panic in downtown Philadelphia, along with his wife, played by Mireille Enos, and two young daughters. Gerry is convinced by others that he, and only he, can track down the source of the virus/plague that is sweeping the planet, so he sets off to root it out in order to save mankind. Yeah, it sounds a little Michael Bay Armageddon-y, but Pitt is able to bring the humanity and that all-important thing that always seems to be missing from these types of movies: soul. He does this in and around fast-moving scenes of people running and jumping, but he's still really good at it. There's something about the grounded nature of Brad Pitt, in his chaotic surroundings that is peaceful and calming. Why hasn't this guy been an action hero before (unless Mr. & Mrs. Smith counts).
Then there are the big action set pieces that realllllly stretch the imagination and push all boundaries of believability, but you just go with it and let the final act play out, where the movie gets rescued. Its intimacy is such a nice change from the pace of the first two-thirds of the movie and director Marc Forster is able to show off his skills in these quiet, tense scenes that are harrowing and well done.
Oh, and about those zombies? Let me set the record straight here. This is not a zombie movie. Until the last section of the movie, if you blink, you will literally miss them. The result here is special effect overload. True zombie fun (and fear) comes from close interaction with zombies and there is little of that. Mass hysteria rules the day in World War Z and much of it is poorly executed, sometimes even silly.
Look, this movie is far from perfect. Anybody looking for zombie-killing will be sorely disappointed, as filmmakers are totally committed to their PG-13 rating, which means no gore (sorry, Walking Dead fans), and the special effects are actually more distracting than they are compelling. But I was happily surprised by a story with substance and it ended up playing less like a mindless action movie and more like an investigative horror movie with a detective who's easy to root for. I'm not sure that's really what they were going for, but oh well. They all get an A for effort. Especially Brad Pitt, without whom this movie would have failed miserably, on every possible level.
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Philippe Isidore d'Etchégoyen est un homme politique français né le  à Dax (Landes) et mort à Beychac-et-Caillau (Gironde) le .

Biographie

Philippe Isidore Dibarrart d'Etchegoyen est issu de la famille basque des Dibarrart (ou d'Ibarrart), qui tire son nom d'Etchegoyen d'une propriété située à Ustaritz.

Propriétaire, il est député des Landes de 1835 à 1848, siégeant dans la majorité conservatrice soutenant les gouvernements de la Monarchie de Juillet.

D'un premier mariage, avec Zoé d'Etchegoyen, il a eu un fils, Gaston. En 1837, il épouse en secondes noces Mlle de Louvencourt, avec laquelle il a trois autres enfants, dont Maurice (1839-1911), père d'Olivier d'Etchegoyen, et Frédéric (1841-19..), préfet.

Il meurt au château de Villepreux, à Beychac-et-Caillau, le .

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Député des Landes
Député de la Monarchie de Juillet
Naissance à Dax
Naissance en  mai 1800
Décès en novembre 1891
Décès à 91 ans

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Inside The Headset: Joshua Eargle [PODCAST]
On this week's episode of Inside the Headset we speak with Joshua Eargle, offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for Austin Peay State University. We discuss his diverse coaching background, the importance of establishing a winning program culture, the turnaround at Austin Peay, and how he balances coaching and family.
Coach Eargle began his career as a graduate assistant at the University of Southern Mississippi (2003-2004) before getting his first full-time position at Ouachita Baptist University as an offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator (2005). He returned to Southern Mississippi as an assistant offensive line coach (2006) before coaching the offensive line at Nicholls State University (2007-2008) and Louisiana State University (2009), In 2010, fe was named the offensive coordinator at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Eargle crossed over to the other side of the ball when he accepted the defensive coordinator position at Hallsville (Texas) High School in 2011 and served in the same position at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in 2012. In 2013, he was named the head coach at East Texas Baptist University and helped lead a turnaround that culminated with a conference championship in 2015. Eargle joined the staff at Austin Peay in 2016 as the offensive line coach and was promoted to offensive coordinator during the 2018 season.
[1:24] Start of interview
[1:36] Diverse coaching background
[3:33] Advantages of being on both sides of the ball
[6:55] Defensive success at Southeastern Oklahoma State
[8:16] Establishing a winning culture
[11:45] Confidence to hire Coach Scotty Walden
[14:13] Snapping Austin Peay's 29-game losing streak
[18:31] The turnaround at Austin Peay
[21:29] Seniors' roles in changing the culture of Austin Peay
[27:05] Happy wife, happy life
You can follow Joshua Eargle on Twitter. A GoFundMe page was started in August 2018 to help his family with medical bills for his daughter Landrey, and you can read more about her story on Kristen Eargle's blog.
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import java.util.Map;

import org.joda.beans.BeanBuilder;
import org.joda.beans.BeanDefinition;
import org.joda.beans.JodaBeanUtils;
import org.joda.beans.MetaProperty;
import org.joda.beans.impl.direct.DirectBeanBuilder;
import org.joda.beans.impl.direct.DirectMetaPropertyMap;

import com.opengamma.master.holiday.HolidayMaster;
import com.opengamma.master.holiday.impl.DataHolidayMasterResource;
import com.opengamma.master.holiday.impl.DataTrackingHolidayMaster;
import com.opengamma.master.holiday.impl.RemoteHolidayMaster;
import com.opengamma.masterdb.holiday.DbHolidayMaster;
import com.opengamma.util.metric.OpenGammaMetricRegistry;
import com.opengamma.util.rest.AbstractDataResource;

/**
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public class DbHolidayMasterComponentFactory extends AbstractDocumentDbMasterComponentFactory<HolidayMaster, DbHolidayMaster> {

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  @Override
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    return new DataHolidayMasterResource(postProcessedMaster);
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  @Override
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  }

  //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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    return JodaBeanUtils.cloneAlways(this);
  }

  @Override
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    if (obj == this) {
      return true;
    }
    if (obj != null && obj.getClass() == this.getClass()) {
      return super.equals(obj);
    }
    return false;
  }

  @Override
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    int hash = 7;
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  }

  @Override
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    StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder(32);
    buf.append("DbHolidayMasterComponentFactory{");
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  }

  @Override
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    super.toString(buf);
  }

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   * The meta-bean for {@code DbHolidayMasterComponentFactory}.
   */
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     */
    static final Meta INSTANCE = new Meta();

    /**
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    /**
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    }

    @Override
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    }

    @Override
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    @Override
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2020 General Municipal Election
The City of Arcata will hold a general municipal election on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The official notice of election can be viewed here.
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City Council Candidates
The City Council adopts laws and sets policies to guide the City Manager and City staff in City operations. City Council members attend two regular City Council meetings each month in addition to other special meetings and study sessions, and other monthly meetings of various regional agency partners.
Three seats on the Arcata City Council are up for election in the November 2020 General Election. These seats have full terms of 4 years, and will expire in November 2024.
Notice is hereby given that ten candidates have been nominated for the three City Council seats that will become vacant in December 2020. The official notice of candidates can be found here.
The order in which candidate's names appear on the ballot is decided by a randomized alphabetical drawing conducted at the California Secretary of State's office in Sacramento. The drawing was completed on August 13, 2020, and the following list of candidates, certified to be nominees for the Arcata City Council, are shown in the order they will appear on the general municipal election ballot in November.
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The Write-In Candidacy period for the Tuesday, November 3, 2020 election runs beginning Tuesday, September 8 until Tuesday, October 20, 2020. Those with interest in Write-In Candidacy should review the City's Write-In Candidate's Guide.
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Measure A gives voters the opportunity to approve an annual parcel tax of $37 in order to fund the improvement and maintenance of Arcata's City parks, trails and open spaces.
Resolution 190-68: Measure A
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To protect and preserve natural open space areas for future generations by: improving and maintaining parks, open spaces and trails; protecting land around creeks, rivers and streams to prevent pollution and improve water quality; protecting redwood forests, wildlife habitat, working lands, scenic hillsides and agricultural land; expanding public access and trail systems; shall the City of Arcata levy a special tax of $37 annually per parcel providing approximately $175,000 annually until ended by voters, with citizen oversight and all funds benefitting local open space as set forth in City Council Resolution 190-68?
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Shall private and public entities be authorized to develop, construct, or acquire up to 7.5% of the total number of housing units in the City of Arcata for elderly, disabled and alter-abled, and low-income households, pursuant to Article XXXIV of the California Constitution? An affirmative vote on this measure has no fiscal impact, nor does it grant approval for any specific project. If approved, this measure would rescind and replace the 1992 Measure I, which authorized a limit of 5%.
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Nikolas Dances With Elegance
Former Pennsylvania Ballet dancer, Barbara Sandonato performs a basic foot position on the main stage at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pa. Thursday, November 29, 2018. 2018 is the 50th anniversary of Pennsylvania Ballet dancing Nutcracker. The first person who danced Marie/Clara was Barbara Sandonato – who also was the first dancer in the company and its first principal dancer.JOSE F. MORENO / Staff Photographer
Peter Schlachte
Hayden Graser also contributed to this article.
On an unspecified date in an unspecified location, Hayden Graser and Peter Schlachte had the opportunity to watch a Wake Forest ballet class practice the movements that they had perfected over the course of a semester. We were especially taken with the poetry-in-motion of a student named Nikolas, and we have spent weeks analyzing his efforts and digging into his history. These are our conclusions:
Rumors have it that Nikolas is not human but angel personified, descended from higher powers to revitalize this shattered planet. We thought these statements might be hyperbole, but upon entering the classroom, we witnessed what professional critics have called divine: Nikolas moving through his natural habitat with incomparable grace and elegance, paralleled only by his reflection in his studio's large mirrored wall.
Nikolas may be a student in name, but his true essence is that of a dancer who has reached the pinnacle of his discipline. It was early afternoon on a sultry Friday when Hayden and Peter had the privilege of witnessing Nikolas craft his spatial art during a Wake Forest dance class. To compare Nikolas' movements to a gazelle elegantly prancing in a meadow would be a disservice to his mastery of ballet. He has the focus of a tiger or an astronaut, pouncing on the event horizon of our souls.
He wears pointe shoes, gym shorts and an unassuming white tee with a hole in the right armpit. While his humble nature requires that he avoid drawing attention to himself, his overwhelming presence permeates the studio. He is the star around which all celestial bodies revolve — stare too long and you too will be blinded by his brilliance. As he practices his echappé, it becomes clear that each of his movements are painstakingly calculated and rehearsed, reminiscent of the gentle flow of a mountain stream untouched by man. Even his professor often appears dumbfounded and speechless at the sight of Nikolas cavorting across the room. At one point, emphasizing Nikolas' precision, his professor addresses the rest of the classroom: "if you move this much," he signals with his fingers, "it's over for you." For Nikolas, however, it is never over. His success lies on a razor thin edge, but he never falters. Indeed, most evenings, Nikolas, under moonlight streaming through his window, practices his Temps Levé and his Développé to perfection — his only audience the white-as-pearl guinea pig whom he calls his closest friend.
In our minds, a singular moment captures the essence of Nikolas. It occurs as he performs his Grand Jeté across the classroom's wooden expanse. His grace — dare we say, his perfection — is embodied in the silence of his footsteps as he touches the floor, his feet soft as petals from a rose drifting to this silk blanket that we call the ground. It would not be hyperbole to call Nikolas' mastery of ballet the single greatest feat of humanity in the 21st century.
As stunning as Nikolas' mastery was, in all honesty, it was a pleasure and an honor to watch all the dancers in this class practice and perform some amazing and challenging pieces. We thank each and every one of them deeply for the opportunity to watch as they worked.
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"""Utility for tracking runtime."""

import time

class Stopwatch:
  """Stopwatch for tracking runtime."""

  def __init__(self):
    self._start = time.time()

  def delta(self) -> float:
    """Time passed since this Stopwatch was created, in seconds."""
    return time.time() - self._start


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\section{Introduction}

At high temperatures, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) exhibits a deconfined state of matter
known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP).\cite{Busza:2018rrf,Shuryak:2014zxa}
The nature of the degrees of freedom of the QGP, however, remains largely unknown.
By studying this state, we seek to understand how complex behaviors arise from QCD,
including how strongly-coupled systems and their bulk properties emerge from quantum field theory.

Jets provide a compelling tool to pursue these questions.
Depending on their transverse momentum (\ensuremath{p_{\mathrm{T}}}{}) and substructure,
jets can probe from the smallest medium scales to the largest medium scales,
and jet evolution can be computed from first principles.
Accordingly, a major experimental and theoretical jet physics program has developed
over the last two decades at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where ultrarelativistic heavy-ion
collisions create short-lived droplets of QGP.\cite{Qin:2015srf,Majumder:2010qh}

This jet quenching program faces two major challenges.
Firstly, jet evolution in heavy-ion collisions involves multiple stages of
physics that are not known from first principles, such as the initial state of the collision,
the hydrodynamic evolution of the medium, and the hadronization phase.
This can be addressed by global analyses that fit phenomenological models to a wide range
of experimental data, and has recently been solved to a
large extent.\cite{Everett:2020xug,Bernhard:2016tnd,Bernhard:2015hxa,Pratt:2015zsa,Nijs:2020roc}
A second challenge, however, is that jet evolution in the QGP,
even for a perfectly characterized medium, involves
numerous theoretical unknowns, from
the strength of coupling of the jet-medium interaction to the role of factorization breaking
and color coherence. No (known) golden observable exists to disentangle these open questions
about the jet-medium interaction.
This necessitates global analyses of multiple jet observables.
Such global analyses provide a viable path not only to
disentangle various theoretical approaches describing the jet-medium interaction
but also to precisely determine medium properties from experimental measurements --
the ultimate goal of studying the QGP.

In this work, we focus on the medium property known as the
jet transverse momentum diffusion coefficient, \ensuremath{\hat{q}},
which describes the average transverse momentum, $\langle \ensuremath{k_{\perp}} \rangle$,
acquired by a parton as it traverses a given length $L$ of QGP.
This transport coefficient is agnostic to the microscopic interactions that generate
the transverse diffusion, but rather characterizes the overall accumulated transverse momentum.
The transport coefficient \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{} has been calculated
under certain approximations,\cite{Baier:1996sk,Zakharov:1997uu,Liou:2013qya,Blaizot:2014bha,Wu:2014nca,Arnold:2020uzm,Bianchi:2017wpt,Liu:2006ug} but in general involves nonperturbative
contributions that must be either computed on a lattice\cite{Majumder:2012sh,Kumar:2020wvb} or
extracted from experimental measurements.\cite{Burke:2013yra,Andres:2016iys,Chen:2010te,Ke:2020clc}

We present a proof-of-principle determination of $\hat{q}$
using Bayesian parameter estimation -- the first such
extraction using Bayesian techniques -- laying the groundwork to extract additional
properties of the quark-gluon plasma from jet measurements in heavy-ion collisions.\cite{Cao:2021keo}

\section{Analysis}

We perform an extraction of \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{} using a selection of inclusive hadron \ensuremath{R_{\mathrm{AA}}}{} data at
RHIC and the LHC.\cite{Adare:2012wg,CMS:2012aa,Aad:2015wga}
We consider both central and semi-central data, shown in Fig. \ref{fig:posterior-raa}.
In order to properly assess the uncertainty correlations within and between the experimental measurements,
we decompose the overall experimental covariance matrix into several sources,
according to the varying degree of information reported by the experiments.\cite{Cao:2021keo}

\begin{figure*}[!b]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{Figure_DesignLBT.pdf} \\
\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{Figure_PosteriorLBT.pdf}
\caption[]{Inclusive hadron \ensuremath{R_{\mathrm{AA}}}{} for the three measured datasets,\cite{Adare:2012wg,CMS:2012aa,Aad:2015wga}
together with prior calculations (top) and posterior distributions (bottom) from the LBT model.
Inner error bars on experimental data points are statistical errors; outer error bars are the quadrature sum
of statistical error and systematic uncertainty.\cite{Cao:2021keo}}
\label{fig:posterior-raa}
\end{figure*}

We model the jet evolution using the JETSCAPE event generator framework\cite{Putschke:2019yrg,Cao:2017zih}
with the MATTER\cite{Majumder:2013re,Cao:2017qpx} and LBT\cite{Cao:2016gvr} jet quenching models.
MATTER is hypothesized to be valid in the high-virtuality, radiation-dominated regime,
whereas LBT is hypothesized to be valid in the low-virtuality, scattering-dominated regime.
We additionally consider a multi-stage model in which high-virtuality partons evolve according to MATTER,
and low-virtuality partons evolve according to LBT, which we denote ``MATTER+LBT''.
Within these models, we parameterize \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{} as a function of the medium temperature, $T$,
and parton energy, $E$, with an ansatz consisting of a sum of a high-virtuality,
$T$-independent term, and a low-virtuality, elastic scattering term:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:1}
\frac{\ensuremath{\hat{q}}\left(E,T\right) |_{\theta=\{A,B,C,D\}}}{T^3}=42C_R\frac{\zeta(3)}{\pi}\left(\frac{4\pi}{9}\right)^2\left\{\frac{A\left[\ln\left(\frac{E}{\Lambda}\right)-\ln(B)\right]}{\left[\ln\left(\frac{E}{\Lambda}\right)\right]^2}+\frac{C\left[\ln\left(\frac{E}{T}\right)-\ln(D)\right]}{\left[\ln\left(\frac{ET}{\Lambda^2}\right)\right]^2}\right\},
\end{equation}
where $\theta\equiv\{A,B,C,D\}$ are parameters that will be determined from the experimental data using Bayesian parameter estimation.\cite{Kennedy_2001}
For the multi-stage MATTER+LBT model, we consider two adaptations of this parameterization
in which an additional parameter characterizing the virtuality switching scale between
the two models is included.\cite{Cao:2021keo}

Starting with broad prior distributions of $\theta$, we use Bayesian parameter estimation
to produce posterior probability distributions of $\theta$,
and thereby $\ensuremath{\hat{q}}\left(E,T\right)$.
To do so, we employ Gaussian Process Emulators to interpolate our computationally expensive
event generator across $\theta$-space, and at each explored $\theta$ evaluate the likelihood
to observe the experimental data given the model results at that particular $\theta$.
The posterior distributions are sampled using Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
By using Bayesian parameter estimation, this procedure improves upon previous extractions of \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{}
due to its rigorous statistical approach and quantification of uncertainties on
the extracted \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{}.
Further details can be found in a recently submitted article.\cite{Cao:2021keo}

\begin{figure*}[!b]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figure_ScatterMatterLBT.pdf}
\caption[]{Posterior distributions of the $\theta\equiv\{A,B,C,D\}$ space for \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{}
when MATTER and LBT are applied separately.
Off-diagonal panels show correlations of posterior distributions for LBT (lower left, red)
and MATTER (upper right, blue).\cite{Cao:2021keo}}
\label{fig:posterior-theta}
\end{figure*}

\section{Results}

We perform separate extractions of \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{} using either MATTER, LBT, or MATTER+LBT.
Figure \ref{fig:posterior-raa} shows an example of the explored \ensuremath{R_{\mathrm{AA}}}{} values before (top)
and after (bottom) constraining the model to the experimental data.
We find that LBT describes the data reasonably well, with some small systematic deviations,
as does MATTER, albeit with slightly larger deviations.
For MATTER+LBT, we find no evidence that the multi-stage model improves the description of the
experimental data, suggesting that further theoretical work is needed.

The posterior distributions of $\theta\equiv\{A,B,C,D\}$ are shown in Fig. \ref{fig:posterior-theta}
for both LBT and MATTER.
We find that the extracted parameters are substantially different for LBT compared to MATTER.
In particular, LBT exhibits a preference for smaller values of $A$ and larger values of $C$,
whereas MATTER exhibits a preference for larger values of $A$ and smaller values of $C$.
This is in fact consistent with the original motivation of the \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{} parameterization
ansatz in Eq. \ref{eq:1}: The first additive term, associated with high-virtuality physics, has
overall coefficient $A$ -- and is preferred by the radiation-dominated MATTER model --
while the second additive term, associated with elastic scattering off of a thermal medium,
has overall coefficient $C$ -- and is preferred by the scattering-dominated LBT model.

From these parameter posterior distributions, we plot the extracted $\ensuremath{\hat{q}}/T^3$
as a function of the medium temperature $T$ and parton momentum $p$ in Fig. \ref{fig:posterior-qhat}.
We plot the the prior distributions of $\ensuremath{\hat{q}}/T^3$ in the insets of Fig. \ref{fig:posterior-qhat},
which demonstrate that the data provide considerable constraints on the value of \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{}.
We find a generally weak dependence on both $T$ and $p$,
consistent with earlier work by the JET Collaboration.\cite{Burke:2013yra}
The values of \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{} are similar between the different models considered, although
with notably smaller central values in the multi-stage MATTER+LBT model,
due to the fact that quenching is performed over a wider range of parton virtualities
in the multi-stage model than in MATTER or LBT alone.

\begin{figure*}[!b]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.39]{Figure_QHatMatterLBT1T.pdf}
\includegraphics[scale=0.39]{Figure_QHatMatterLBT1P.pdf}
\caption[]{The (quark) jet transport coefficient \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{} from Bayesian parameter extraction using
MATTER and LBT separately as well as MATTER+LBT: (a) as function of the medium temperature, and (b) as function of quark momentum.
The lines at the center of the bands indicate their median values.\cite{Cao:2021keo}}
\label{fig:posterior-qhat}
\end{figure*}

Bayesian parameter estimation can also be used to study the impact of particular observables
on the precision of the extracted quantities.
Figure \ref{fig:posterior-rhic-lhc} shows the impact of RHIC vs. LHC data by separately
extracting \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{} with each collider dataset.
We find that the posterior distributions are dominated by the LHC data.
This can be partially attributed to the impressive precision and scope of the LHC measurements,
but we also note that it is impacted by our choice of input data, which for this analysis
we limited to $\ensuremath{p_{\mathrm{T}}} > 8 \;\ensuremath{\mathrm{GeV}\kern-0.05em/\kern-0.02em c}$, thus intrinsically disfavoring RHIC data.
This calls for future study, and highlights the important role that Bayesian parameter
estimation can play in guiding experimental measurements.

\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.46]{Figure_ScatterMatterLBT1.pdf}
\caption[]{Posterior distribution
of $\theta\equiv\{A,B,C,D\}$ with the multi-stage MATTER+LBT model,
for separate extractions using either RHIC, LHC, or RHIC+LHC data.
Off-diagonal panels show correlations of posterior distributions for
RHIC+LHC (lower left, red) and LHC only (upper right, blue).\cite{Cao:2021keo}}
\label{fig:posterior-rhic-lhc}
\end{figure*}

\section{Summary}

We extracted the jet transverse diffusion coefficient, \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{}, of the quark-gluon plasma
as a continuous function of the medium temperature and parton momentum.
By using Bayesian parameter estimation, we improved upon previous extractions of \ensuremath{\hat{q}}{}
with rigorous statistical methods and quantification of uncertainties.
We explored several models within the JETSCAPE event generator framework:
MATTER, LBT, and a multi-stage model MATTER+LBT.
We used a set of hadron \ensuremath{R_{\mathrm{AA}}}{} measurements at RHIC and the LHC, and found
that the data provides significant constraints on the prior distributions,
with results consistent with previous extractions.

Global analysis will be key to uncovering the nature of deconfined QCD matter.
This study serves as a proof-of-principle that can be systematically
extended to include additional observables,
such as fully reconstructed jets, and extraction of
additional medium properties, such as the path-length dependence of jet quenching,
and eventually the nature of the constituents of deconfined QCD.

\section*{Acknowledgments}

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) within
the framework of the JETSCAPE collaboration, under grant number ACI-1550228.

\section*{References}
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Q: Regex to validate the alpha numeric which optionally include the hypen or space Validate the given string which includes the alphanumeric of the length either 6 or 7 (includes space or hyphen only once)
the input string length is either 6 or 7 characters if includes a hyphen or space its length should be 7.
Only one space or Hyphen is allowed as a max
Note: the Hyphen or Space is any place in the string and in the below example given few
ex:
A12B3C    -> Valid
ACB1234   -> Valid
123H67J   -> Valid
ABC-123   -> Valid
ANV 123   -> Valid
ABV-12345 -> Not Valid
ABC 1234  -> Not Valid
ABC-12    -> NOT Valid
ABC 12    -> Not Valid
ABV--35 -> Not Valid
AV- 345 -> Not Valid
AV- 124 -> Not Valid
AV- 124 -> Not Valid
AV-12 5 -> Not Valid
AV-12 5 -> Not Valid

Regex: ^(?![^0-9A-Z]*([0-9A-Z])(?:[^0-9A-Z]*\1)+[^0-9A-Z]*$)(?=.{7}$)[0-9A-Z]+(?:[- ][0-9A-Z]+)?$

failed the cases like ANV123 as its expected 7 characters

A: Here's the solution as discussed in the comments of your main post.
^[A-Z0-9]{6,7}$|(?=^.{7}$)^[A-Z0-9]+[- ]?[A-Z0-9]+$

When asking a question, please be sure to outline all of your requirements. Its very hard for people to give a correct solution to questions that they don't know the full context of.

A: From looking at your examples, it sounds like what you want is:

*

*Three alphabetic characters [A-Z]{3}

*An optional space or hyphen [ -]?

*Three or four digits [0-9]{3,4}
Which looks like this, with the beginning and end of string anchors.
^[A-Z]{3}[ -]?[0-9]{3,4}$

A: Here is functional code with test input based on your requirement to have 6 or 7 alphanumeric chars, or a pattern of 7 chars where all but one are alphanumeric chars with one interspersed space or dash. In addition, do not allow a pattern of all the same char:

const input = [
  'A12B3C',
  'ACB1234',
  '123H67J',
  'ABC-123',
  'ANV 123',
  'ABV-12345',
  'ABC 1234',
  'ABC-12',
  'ABC 12',
  'ABV--35',
  'AV- 345',
  'AV- 124',
  'AV- 124',
  'AV-12',
  'AV-12',
  'AAAAAA',
  '1111111',
  '1111-11',
  '1112-11',
  'AAAA AA'
];
const re = /^(?:(?!^(.)\1+$)[A-Za-z0-9]{6,7}|(?=^.{7}$)(?!^(.)\2*[ -]\2+$)[A-Za-z0-9]+[ -][A-Za-z0-9]+)$/;

input.forEach(str => {
  console.log(str + ' => ' + re.test(str));
});

Output:
A12B3C => true
ACB1234 => true
123H67J => true
ABC-123 => true
ANV 123 => true
ABV-12345 => false
ABC 1234 => false
ABC-12 => false
ABC 12 => false
ABV--35 => false
AV- 345 => false
AV- 124 => false
AV- 124 => false
AV-12 => false
AV-12 => false
AAAAAA => false
1111111 => false
1111-11 => false
1112-11 => true
AAAA AA => false

Explanation:

*

*^ - anchor at start

*(?: - non capture group start

*(?!^(.)\1+$) - negative lookahead for all the same char

*[A-Za-z0-9]{6,7} - expect 6 or 7 alphanumeric chars

*| - logical OR

*(?=^.{7}$) - positive lookahead for exactly 7 chars

*(?!^(.)\2*[ -]\2+$) - negative lookahead for all the same char with interspersed space or dash

*[A-Za-z0-9]+[ -][A-Za-z0-9]+ - expect 1+ alphanumeric chars, a space or dash, followed by 1+ alphanumeric chars

*) - non capture group end

*$ - anchor at end

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D-Day: The Essential Reference Guide, 1st Edition
Spencer C. Tucker Texas Christian University
DDC: 940.54
This outstanding overview of D-Day makes clear its great importance in military and world history, identifies mistakes committed on both sides, and explains all aspects of the 1944 Allied invasion of France and the Normandy Campaign that followed.
List of Primary Documents.
List of Maps.
Introduction: The Normandy Invasion (D-Day, June 6, 1944) and Campaign.
1: Airborne Forces, British and American.
2: Aircraft, Bombers.
3: Aircraft, Fighters and Fighter-Bombers.
4: Aircraft, Gliders.
5: Aircraft, Transports.
6: Air Warfare, Ground-Attack Aviation.
7: Amphibious Warfare in the European Theater.
8: Antitank Guns and Antitank Warfare.
9: Artillery and Fire Support.
10: Atlantic, Battle of the.
11: Atlantic Wall.
12: Barton, Raymond Oscar "Tubby" (1889–1963).
13: Bluecoat, Operation (July 30–August 7, 1944).
14: Bradley, Omar Nelson (1893–1981).
15: Brooke, Sir Alan Francis (First Viscount Alanbrooke) (1883–1963).
16: Caen, Battle to Secure (June 6–July 18, 1944).
17: Cemeteries, Normandy Invasion.
18: Cherbourg, Capture of (June 22–29, 1944).
19: Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874–1965).
20: Cobra, Operation (July 25–31, 1944).
21: Cole, Robert George (1915–1944).
22: Collins, Joseph Lawton "Lightning Joe" (1896–1987).
23: Command Structure, Allied.
24: Command Structure, German.
25: Coningham, Sir Arthur "Mary" (1895–1948).
26: Cota, Norman Daniel "Dutch" (1893–1971).
27: Cotentin (Cherbourg) Peninsula.
28: Crerar, Henry Duncan Graham (1888–1965).
29: Crocker, Sir John Treddinick (1896–1963).
30: Culin, Curtis Grubb, III (1915–1963).
31: de Gaulle, Charles (1890–1970).
32: Dempsey, Miles Christopher (1896–1969).
33: Dietrich, Josef "Sepp" (1892–1966).
34: Dollman, Friedrich (1882–1944).
35: Doohan, James Montgomery (1920–2005).
36: Double-Cross System.
37: Ehlers, Walter David (1921–2014).
38: Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890–1969).
39: English Channel.
40: Falaise–Argentan Pocket (August 12–24, 1944).
41: Festung Europa.
42: Films Treating the Normandy Invasion.
43: Fortitude, Operation (1944).
44: France, Campaign (June 6–September 15, 1944).
45: French Resistance.
46: Gale, Sir Richard Nelson (1896–1982).
47: Gerhardt, Charles Hunter (1895–1976).
48: Gerow, Leonard Townsend (1888–1972).
49: Geyr von Schweppenburg, Leo Dietrich Franz Freiherr (1886–1974).
50: Hand Grenades.
51: Higgins, Andrew Jackson (1886–1952).
52: Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945).
53: Hobart, Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley (1885–1957).
54: Howard, John (1912–1999).
55: Huebner, Clarence Ralph (1888–1972).
56: Jodl, Alfred (1890–1946).
57: Jubilee, Operation (Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942).
58: Kirk, Alan Goodrich (1888–1963).
59: Kluge, Günther Adolf Ferdinand von (1882–1944).
60: Krancke, Theodor (1893–1973).
61: La Fière Causeway, Battle of the (June 6–9, 1944).
62: Landing Craft.
63: Lee, John Clifford Hodges (1887–1958).
64: Leigh-Mallory, Sir Trafford (1892–1944).
65: LÜTTICH, Operation (Mortain Counteroffensive, August 7–13, 1944).
66: Lyme Bay, Battle of (April 28, 1944).
67: Machine Guns.
68: Marshall, George Catlett (1880–1959).
69: Millin, William "Piper Bill" (1922–2010).
70: Montgomery, Sir Bernard Law (First Viscount Montgomery of Alamein) (1887–1976).
71: Moon, Don Pardee (1894–1944).
72: Morgan, Frederick Edgeworth (1894–1967).
73: Mulberries.
74: Neptune, Operation (June 6–July 3, 1944).
75: Normandy.
76: Overlord, Operation, Planning for.
77: Patton, George Smith, Jr. (1885–1945).
78: Pegasus and Horsa Bridges, Battle for (June 6, 1944).
79: Pluto.
80: Pointe du Hoc, Seizure of (June 6, 1944).
81: Quesada, Elwood Richard "Pete" (1904–1993).
82: Ramsay, Sir Bertram Home (1883–1945).
83: Ridgway, Matthew Bunker (1895–1993).
84: Rifles.
85: Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen (1891–1944).
86: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882–1945).
87: Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. (1887–1944).
88: Roundup, Operation (1943).
89: Rudder, James Earl (1910–1970).
90: Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf Gerd von (1875–1953).
91: Sainte-Mère-Église.
92: Saint-Lô, Battle of (July 11–19, 1944).
93: Simonds, Guy Granville (1903–1974).
94: Sledgehammer, Operation.
95: Smith, Walter Bedell (1895–1961).
96: Stagg, James Martin (1900–1975).
97: Steele, John Marvin (1912–1969).
98: Tanks.
99: Taylor, Maxwell Davenport (1901–1987).
100: Tedder, Sir Arthur William (1st Baron Tedder) (1890–1967).
101: Tehran Conference (November 28–December 1, 1943).
102: Terrain and Tactical Problems on D-Day.
103: Todt Organization.
104: Totalize, Operation (August 7–13, 1944).
105: Tractable, Operation (August 14–21, 1944).
106: U.
107: Vian, Sir Philip Louis (1894–1968).
108: Warships, Allied.
109: Winters, Richard D. (1918–2011).
110: World War II, European Theater: Overview.
Primary Documents.
111: Allied Planning for the Normandy Invasion (July 1943).
112: Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff, Directive to Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, February 12, 1944.
113: Eisenhower's Statement in the Event the D-Day Landings Failed, June 5, 1944.
114: Order of the Day and Letter to the Troops, Supreme Commander of the Western Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 6, 1944.
115: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Remarks by Radio, June 6, 1944.
116: Forrest C. Pogue on D-Day, June 6–7, 1944.
117: General Dwight D. Eisenhower to General George C. Marshall, July 5, 1944.
118: General Erwin Rommel, Teletype Message to Hitler, July 15, 1944.
119: U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower on Sergeant Curtis G. Culin's Invention of the "Rhino" Tank Modification Preceding Operation COBRA (July 25–31, 1944).
Appendix A: Ground Forces Order of Battle on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Appendix B: Number of Troops Killed on June 6, 1944.
Appendix C: Army, Corps, and Division Units Involved in the Battle of Normandy (June 6–August 29, 1944).
Appendix D: Estimated Casualties in the Battle of Normandy (June 6–August 29, 1944).
Chronology.
Editor and Contributors.
About the Editor.


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Category Archives: Rasmussen's Super Serve
Written on October 23, 2018 by Kenneth Gregg in History Trivia, Rasmussen's Super Serve
For most Jacksonville residents, the northeast corner of California and 3rd streets has always been home to Rasmussen's Super Serve. Established by Ernest Rasmussen in 1950 as a combination gas station and car repair shop, the gas station portion has long been closed but Ernest's grandson Steve still operates the popular local repair service. However, that corner has an older history of servicing local transportation needs. David Cronemiller, a native of Pennsylvania, arrived in Jacksonville in the early 1860s, and opened a blacksmith shop on that site in competition with the successful Patrick Donegan smithy diagonally across California Street. Business must have been booming since Cronemiller's original smithy was soon replaced by a large, well-equipped blacksmith and wagon shop. He was described as "an excellent mechanic," "always kept busy by satisfied patrons." Donegan had closed shop by the late 1800s but Cronemiller continued to operate successfully until 1904 when his health began to fail. Cronemiller died in 1910, mourned by many for both his "honest and upright" nature and "his gentle forbearing ways." Cronemiller's smithy and wagon shop were torn down in 1929.
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Microsoft gives enterprises another 9 months to get off Exchange Server 2010
Though support was slated to end Jan. 14, 2020, Microsoft acknowledged that some companies haven't yet migrated Exchange Server 2010 to newer software, and will give them until mid-October 2020 to make a move.
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Microsoft today issued a support reprieve to Exchange Server 2010, saying it would continue to service the on-premises enterprise software for an extra nine months.
"After investigating and analyzing the deployment state of an extensive number of Exchange customers, we have decided to move the end of Extended Support for Exchange Server 2010 from January 14, 2020, to October 13, 2020," wrote Greg Taylor, director of product marketing for the Exchange team, in a Monday post to the group's blog.
Extended Support is the label Microsoft uses for the second half of its traditional decade of support for commercial products. Although the company declines to address non-security flaws (at least, without a paid support plan in place) or add new features during Extended Support, it does still service the software with security updates.
Microsoft launched Exchange Server 2010 in November 2009.
"Your installation of Exchange 2010 will, of course, continue to run after [Oct. 13, 2020]; however, due to the changes and potential end-of-support risks, we strongly recommend you migrate from Exchange 2010 as soon as possible," Taylor said.
Taylor implied that Microsoft had extended support because customers were having trouble meeting the original January deadline. "We recognize discontinuing support for a product that has been as popular and reliable as Exchange Server 2010 can be an adjustment," he said. "We also know that some of you are in the midst of upgrades to a newer version of Exchange Server on-premises, or more transformative migrations to the cloud with Office 365 and Exchange Online."
Exchange Server 2010 was initially slated to leave support alongside Windows 7. With the extension, it will instead accompany Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 into retirement.
Upgrade options range from keeping email on-premises to shunting everything to the cloud with Exchange Online, the Microsoft-hosted service typically obtained as a part of an Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) subscription. Alternately, enterprises can do a bit of both, ending with a hybrid solution where parts of Exchange are in-house, parts run on Microsoft's servers.
On-premises options include Exchange 2013 (which exits support April 11, 2023) and Exchange 2016 (Oct. 14, 2025); direct upgrades from Exchange Server 2010 to the latest, Exchange Server 2019 (also Oct. 14, 2025), are not possible. Microsoft's Taylor, not surprisingly, touted Exchange Online. "Clearly, we think moving to Exchange Online and Office 365 is a good idea," Taylor wrote. "It gets you out of the upgrade business."
FastTrack, a Microsoft assistance program designed to help large customers manage upgrades or on-premises to cloud migrations, may be available to those doing the latter, Taylor noted. Microsoft 365, a costly subscription package that bundles Windows 10 with Office 365, offers FastTrack, although caveats apply.
More information about Exchange Server 2010's support roadmap can be found in a series of just-updated documents on Microsoft's website.


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HomeMoroccan Jewish CultureNayef Aguerd… Tactical discipline and fighting spirit
Nayef Aguerd… Tactical discipline and fighting spirit
December 20, 2022 Adam Elbaz Moroccan Jewish Culture, Morocco News 0
Nayef Aguerd, the defender of the Moroccan national team, is one of the most successful players who attracted the attention of the world during the World Cup Qatar 2022, and the youngest of the team.
He was born on March 30, 1996 in the city of Kenitra. He grew up in a family of distinguished sportsmen. He is the son of said Aguerd, and his uncles are Majid Aguerd and Abdul Haq Aguerd, who played in the center of defense at Kenitra Athletic Club in the eighties.
His soccer career, like many sons of Moroccans, began in the back alleys of the neighborhood. He received the attention of Tonya, the former player of "KAC" and "Fath Union Sports", who was supervising the juniors of the Association of the Ministry of Justice at the Al Salam stadium in Kenitra, and who convinced his mother to allow him to join the soccer school "KAC", before joining the Kenitra Athletic Club, and then joining the Mohammed VI soccer academy, the nursery of Moroccan soccer talents.
In 2014, he will receive an offer from the coach Walid Regragui, convinced of his competence, to join the sports team Al-Fatah, an offer to which he accepted, especially after the failure of the agreement to join the Spanish team "Valencia", and he managed to be one of the architects of its history, after the team from Rabat won the Throne Cup and then the championship.
In 2016, the former coach of the Moroccan national team, Herve Renard, called him to play with the Lions, in the friendly match that brought them together with the national team of Albania, after observing his brilliance in many matches and won his confidence, and from him he joined the French team "Dijon" in 2018 before moving to the French club "Rennes", where he showed great talent in the center of the defense but he worked hard to return quickly to the stadiums and regain his physical form.
Aguerd is distinguished by great tactical discipline and the ability to push the high balls, thanks to his size and fitness, which made him one of the irreplaceable players of the Moroccan national team, except in case of injury or penalty, as it happened in the match against the French team.
The brilliant national team defender had said in a previous press interview that it was Tonya and Pogba, a former KAC youth player, who discovered him, and that it was Tonya who convinced his mother to allow him to join the KAC soccer school.
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It's been a solid season for Pat Mata'utia, as the 22-year-old made his NRL debut in Round 1 and has gone on to make 13 appearances.
While he started the year in the centres, he has since made a shift into the back row.
"It's a lot tougher than playing in the backs," he said in a press conference on Wednesday.
Mata'utia says the positional change was brought about by head coach Nathan Brown.
"I've been working really hard since Browny told me that he sees me playing somewhere in the middle," he said.
"That's where I see myself playing in the future.
Meanwhile, fellow back rower Mitch Barnett says he is as desperate as ever for a win this weekend against the St George Illawarra Dragons.
"I'd love nothing more than a win, and just for our confidence going into the preseason it would be really good," he said.
As for Korbin Sims, Saturday's final round match is about improvement for the young Knights.
"We knew from an early stage that we wouldn't be in the finals," Korbin Sims said.
"So we've just been trying to improve towards the end of the year.


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An artist talks about how to change the world.
The Story of My Life (unfinished)
albums / discography
The films and videos of Alex Sharp Cole
publications & contributions
The quest for creative "perfection" can be destructive.
The Swedish Underground
Los Angeles - South Central
Working with teens in high-crime neighborhoods of Los Angeles and a non-profit theater, Alex Sharp Cole helped them to create an original musical which was later performed in front of an audience at the Disney-owned Red Cat Theater in Hollywood, California, in the summer of 2011. The theme which the kids unanimously chose for their staged production was bullying.
On opening night. . .
. . .the audience found themselves surrounded by darkness as the children's whispers began to fill the halls. The whispers seemed to come from everywhere, emerging from hidden speakers he had instructed the sound engineers of the theater to position behind the audience, some were even under seats in the house and others placed at strategic, shadowy corners of the theater.
A near-symphony of whispers BUILDS to a crescendo.... and then!..
( flashback )
Two months earlier, during rehearsals, Alex met each child in preparation, asking the same question of each: "What is the worst thing you have ever been called?" He went around with a recorder and asked them to say a word into the microphone.
Once or twice, a child would go as far as to imitate the voice of the bully who had once taunted him or her... and the process of turning their past suffering into the creation of something was, for several, a cathartic act.
These were the same whispers the audience heard two months later in Hollywood, which filled the air in the great hall of the Disney Roy-Edna Red Cat Theater with electricity on opening night.
Teaching at The California Institute of the Arts:
"Change the World, 101"
Anthropologists theorize that music might be the key. Some of them believe music might even be something developed out of evolutionary necessity as our numbers grew greater and greater. There had to be some way to motivate, to rally, to organize and bring peace and even a sort-of instant understanding, empathy and sharing of experience between humans.
These were some of Alex Sharp Cole's influences when he taught and created his university course for The California Institute of the Arts (CALARTS) called How to Start a Cultural Revolution in Your Home Town (the Conscious Creation of Context). It drew enrollment among college students enrolled in art, music, theater and theoretical disciplines. His students came from around the world. If anyone could go back home after the course was through and begin to sew seeds of non-violent revolution of the mind it would be these art students. There were even students on the roster who hailed from places on the planet where types of artistic expression is punished if it is disliked by the dominating regime.
Spreading music and art, wherever he goes, Alex Sharp Cole makes a point of convincing everyone he meets to follow their dreams... no matter how hard it may seem, sometimes... Not only is it a good way to keep the light in your eyes alive -- and to keep from shutting yourself off completely, becoming bitter and callous -- not only, he says, is following one's true calling good for the individual -- it is, he says, the social and moral duty of every man, woman and child alive to make use of the gifts that this life has given them... and to share that with their fellow man and woman. This is because we are free, and we are alive.
Alex Sharp Cole :
Sing if you are alive -- and sing loud. Resist the silence. Find the song that's inside you.
It's never too late to be true to the voice you hear calling.
And if you've done it already, start traveling, talking, open peoples minds, spread the music, and one day -- as important as I do believe the human quest for knowledge, technology and science is to our natural destiny, it remains that no feat of engineering alone will ever stop people from fighting, no scientific discovery will ever keep two countries from starting a nuclear war.
For that, one day, we will need a feeling of collective, human, solidarity, shared understanding.
For that we will need to create a community of free agent movers, for that we will need some way... some way to spread the feeling and some way to trigger the Next Renaissance. A New Enlightenment. . .
That is the reason I believe, one day. . . music will save the world.
RESIST THE SILENCE
The Lost Songs by Alex Sharp Cole
Artistic Practice
(a few notes for art theory people)
By taking his artistic practice outside the relatively "safe" contextual environment of the art gallery or theater, Alex Sharp Cole is able to reach new audiences outside the traditional arts community. One example of this was his site-specific, performance-art piece "Cult" (2010), which he staged in a Los Angeles suburb. In this piece, the "audience" of onlookers on the street of whoever happened to be passing by became unsure of whether or not the performance was real. Much more could be said about this particular piece but, more in general, there is an acknowledgment of realistic ambiguity at the heart of Alex Sharp Cole's performance practice, which reflects his longstanding interest in "the reality of performance" -- looking into questions like: What is performance? Is anything performed? Isn't everything real, insofar as we are real humans, performing real actions in the real world? Isn't there, in physical terms, no real difference between the space that exists onstage or the space inside of any prestigious art museum and the space we live in outside of these contextual institutions?
And what justifies our profound reverence for these institutions?
The Gamlestan Apartment Recordings (extended, open process edition) by Alex Sharp Cole, Simon Berggården, Sofia (Savannah) Lilja
In Europe:
Making Music for Refugees & the Kids in Sweden Without Parents
The city of Mölndal, Sweden, asked Alex to create a music program at their teenage refugee home on the countryside. He built them a makeshift rehearsal studio out of a spare room that was being used for storage, taught electric guitar to some very eager and interested young people... and hosted summer concerts here, which helped to draw visitors from the local community.
Published at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Alex Sharp Cole has written about the modern mystery of human creativity --exploring mehtods of what it actually takes to trigger creative inspiration. He intends his thesis to be used by both experts and non-experts alike as a kind of "guidebook."
For those, curious, it could offer a gateway into their own mind's deepest, hidden creative potential.
Improvising Music
Alex Sharp Cole is occasionally working as a creative coach for established songwriters and improvising compositions in front of audiences at the theatre, GBG Impro in Gothenburg, Sweden.
DISCOGRAPHY / FILMOGRAPHY:
Albums / CDs :
Submadreamgun
Adventures in POP
Lost Songs
Cityboy: VideoLoveGunsForever!
The Gamlestan Apartment Recordings
Films / DVDs :
Light and Dark (16mm film)
CityBoy "music video" - found footage video art piece
Vera's Vision
A Song to Stop Dancing
*See IMDB page for further work / credits working for instance as a composer for film, theater and as a songwriter, sound designer. playwright and producer -- and for his own record label, Personal Recordings of Sweden, which works to help defend the rights of the artists, unseen -- and the songs, seldom played.
- music for film/TV, sound designer (see IMDB) for feature-length documentary, * Journey to the Maya Heartland* by Australia-based independent filmmaker, novelist, Jeff Cushing, and others.
Alex Sharp Cole - on Spotify
Facebook Music Page
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A "thank you" to my mentors over the years . . . the following artists, filmmakers and political activists gave me their time, personal help and criticism, which guided me in the development of my artistic process.
Jerry Aronson
Lars Nilsson