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NASA Technology May Reduce Airframe Noise During Landing
NASA has concluded a flight test series to investigate technologies that may significantly reduce airframe noise for communities near airports.
The flights, which gathered data that will be used to examine the acoustic benefits of two NASA aeronautical technologies, were completed in October at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.
The combined areas of research included NASA's Landing Gear Noise Reduction technology, or LGNR, and a flexible, twistable wing flap that has also been used to investigate improved aerodynamic efficiency. These technologies, when combined to explore their potential for reduced airframe noise, primarily during landing, are known as Acoustics Research Measurements, or ARM.
NASA conducted the flight tests by flying two Gulfstream III aircraft, one baseline and the other modified to include the flexible wing flap technology, over a 250-foot diameter microphone array developed at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. The state-of-the-art array, consisting of 185 hardened microphones and designed to withstand the harsh desert environment of Edwards, was arranged in a pattern of 12 spiral arms on the Rogers Dry Lakebed.
The array was designed to identify those components of the aircraft that produce the highest levels of airframe noise, including elements that are deployed during the aircraft's approach and landing, such as the wing flaps, main landing gear, and nose landing gear, according to NASA Langley Principal Investigator Mehdi Khorrami. "We want to reduce airport noise for communities, and for that we need to reduce airframe noise," Khorrami said. "Of all the sources that contribute to airframe noise, landing gear is one of the most prominent. To effectively reduce aircraft noise, we need to mitigate the noise being emitted by the landing gear, which travels to the ground and affects communities around airports."
Complementing the array are four individual microphones on separate stands, located around the perimeter of the array, called certification microphones. These microphones measure the total amount of noise the aircraft makes as it flies over. Researchers can compare the data from both the baseline and modified aircraft, and can thus calculate the exact amount of total noise reduction resulting from the technologies on the modified aircraft. These particular sets of data will help NASA closely follow guidelines for certification by the Federal Aviation Administration.
In order to address the noise produced by aircraft landing gear, NASA made modifications to the landing gear of a G-III research aircraft, as well as the main landing gear cavities, which are the openings in the bottom of the wing that the main landing gear normally retracts into. The concepts, shapes, and technologies for LGNR were developed at NASA Langley, where they also went through initial wind tunnel testing in 2012 and 2013.
Engineers at Langley designed and developed a landing gear fairing that is porous, meaning it has numerous small holes on its frontal face that allow air to pass through. Model testing of this fairing confirmed predictions based on previous computer simulations that this technology would result in reduced noise levels. The technology was ultimately scaled up and integrated onto NASA's Subsonic Research Aircraft Testbed G-III aircraft, or SCRAT.
In concert with this effort, NASA also examined the acoustic benefits from a flexible trailing-edge wing flap, which has also been used to study improved aerodynamic efficiency through a project called Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge, or ACTE. Built by Flexsys, Inc. of Ann Arbor, Michigan, the seamless, twistable flap was developed as a joint effort between NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory to determine whether advanced flexible wing flaps can make an aircraft more efficient in flight.
A small unmanned aircraft system was used to test and validate a microphone array, designed by NASA Langley and positioned on the Rogers Dry Lakebed near NASA Armstrong. The array, which consisted of 185 microphones, spans over 250 feet in diameter, and was designed to be able to identify which parts of an aircraft produce the most airframe noise.
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The ACTE flap was recently flown to validate its ability to reduce vortices off wing flaps at high speeds, and in May demonstrated the first ever flight of a twisted flap configuration. In addition to its aerodynamic benefits, the ACTE flap also produces lower airframe noise levels, according to project manager Kevin Weinert.
"ACTE technology also reduces noise as a byproduct that wasn't part of the original intent of that technology," explained Weinert. "ACTE testing didn't measure noise directly, but we believed that, due to the reduction in vortices off the flaps, noise would be reduced as well. So it became a synergistic benefit having ACTE flaps on the airplane during the landing gear tests."
In addition to the possibility of this noise-reducing technology being integrated into manufactured aircraft in coming years, Weinert says he believes it may be applicable to different classes and sizes of aircraft.
"I can certainly see this being something that may be integrated into aviation within the next 10 years, as reducing noise for communities around airports is a goal of aircraft manufacturers," Weinert said. "I absolutely see this technology being applicable to other classes of aircraft as well, the biggest interest being full-size transport aircraft – commercial airliners."
With the conclusion of flight tests, researchers will now analyze the data to determine how much airframe noise reduction resulted from the integrated technologies. Khorrami says initial indications look promising.
The Acoustic Research Measurement flights were conducted through the NASA's Integrated Aviation Systems Program's Flight Demonstrations and Capabilities project, under NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.
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Clients include Health Trusts, Local Authorities, Housing Associations, Property Developers and Port Authorities.
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Lexus Lewis, better known by his stage-name "Lex Luger", is an American record producer from Suffolk, Virginia. He got his start playing the drums, learning about beats, measurements and rhythm.
He is noted for using impossible-to-play drum-machine programming that utilizes the sounds of a Roland TR-808 in a fashion for which the original machine was never designed. He records for Mizay Entertainment.


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It was the middle of the night on March 27, 1964. Earlier that evening, the second-biggest earthquake ever measured at the time had hit Anchorage, Alaska. 115 people died. Some houses had been turned completely upside down while others had skidded into the sea. But that brief and catastrophic quake was just the beginning of the story.
The largest landslide in Anchorage occurred between Point Woronzof and Fish Creek
There was no light or power in the city — and for a long time, virtually no communication with the outside world. But there was one signal making it out of the devastated area. Running on backup generators and a cracked transmitter, a radio station in Anchorage continued to broadcast. Then a station in Fairbanks picked up that signal and repeated it. A man in Juneau picked up that Fairbanks station, called a radio station in Seattle and let the broadcast play over his phone. The president of that Anchorage radio station happened to be on a goodwill tour of Japan. And when he turned on a radio in Tokyo, he couldn't believe what he was hearing — it was the voice of his own "newsgirl" back home, a woman by the name of Genie Chance.
As of today, a full and compelling account of this story is available to read in book form: This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together by author Jon Mooallem was just released. Be sure to order a copy of this epic tale of unity in the face of tragedy.
"Anchorwoman" as performed at Radiotopia Live in Los Angeles via PRX
Jon Mooallem first produced a shorter spoken version of this story about reporter Genie Chance for Radiotopia Live accompanied on stage by the Frank Brink Community Players (musicians Jenny Conlee-Drizos, Jon Neufeld, Chris Funk, Nate Query and John Moen).
Radiotopia Live in The Theater at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles via PRX
Featuring 99pi host Roman Mars and Avery Trufelman (as Genie Chance), the audio piece was performed in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and San Francisco in 2016 and 2017. The live version was edited for publication as a podcast episode by Sharif Youssef and Sean Real.
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This episode also contains material from the personal collection of the Chance family and from the Genie Chance papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
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I would have appreciated at least a photo of Genie Chance, and more of her actual voice. I found the small snippets very impactful.
I would have loved to listen but the loud background music made it unbearable and largely uncomprehensible to anyone with any hearing loss.
Michael Sanchez
Is there a way for me to buy the music from the This is Chance! (Redux) episode? I would love the instrumentation sans vocals. Loved the story, but those swelling sounds make for a great running soundtrack.
The music made this unbearable to listen to :(
Lorri Spitz
I really wanted to listen to this entire episode but the music made it impossible. I gave up around the 17 minute mark. Background music should be in the background. It was too loud, at times it went on for such a long time it seemed as though you were trying to stretch the show. I have loved every show up until this episode. Truly disappointing. The story had all the intrigue wonder it was a shame to try to guide the listener with the "mood" of the music.
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Home Specialists is now HS General Contractors!
Home Specialists Inc has a new LOOK! It is the same great service you have come to know & expect from us. We have updated our LOGO and name to more appropriately reflect the growth and diversity our business has come to know since we first began in Year 2000.
Over the years the knowledge & experience of our team has grown to meet the ever expanding need of the construction industry. Home Specialists Inc has succuessfully completed numerous residential & commercial building projects. We now have the experience & knowledge base to provide our services for both your commercial & residential needs.
On this website we'll introduce ourselves and the unique aspect HS General Contractors brings to the home & commercial building and remodeling business. We will showcase examples of completed and current projects. HS General Contractors is in the business to satisfy all your building and remodeling needs. Thank you for visiting the HS General Contractors website and we look forward to hearing from you about your project.


Electricity generated by wind turbines can be used to cover on-site energy needs (interconnected behind a retail customer's meter), or it can be sold and transmitted over the electric grid.
On-site or distributed generation can displace a portion of a customer's purchases of electricity from the grid. In addition, state net metering rules sometimes allow generation in excess of on-site load on a monthly or annual basis to be sold back to the local utility (see the DSIRE website for net metering specifics).
For sales over the electricity grid, an Independent System Operator (ISO) creates and manages a wholesale market for electric energy, capacity, and ancillary services (services that support transmitting electricity to the end users). Wind generators may sell their electric energy and capacity in spot markets organized by the ISO, or they may contract with wholesale buyers to sell these products for any term to utilities or other buyers operating in the ISO marketplace.
Electric utilities and energy cooperatives may also install their own wind turbines as a way to supply renewable energy to their customers. Modern wind generators may also provide other marketable ancillary services, such as the ability to provide voltage support on weak distribution lines.
Generation attributes are performance characteristics of each unit of energy produced by a particular generator and can include the generation technology, fuel source, location of plant, time of generation, emissions (if any), and other ancillary services. Zero-emission wind generators have additional attributes reflecting indirect or derived benefits to the power system, which could include displaced emissions. These can be sold directly as Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) or tradable property rights such as emission allowances or emission reduction credits that may be created for various emissions under state or regional emission "cap-and-trade" or similar programs.
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While technology may have changed a lot since the SAS community first gathered together at SAS.ONE in 1976, the aim remains the same. As per its mission statement, SAS Global Forum champions the needs of SAS users worldwide to help them learn, connect and grow.
Even today when we can connect online 24×7 (see Myth-busting about SAS communities), there's nothing quite like an enthralling, connective, enlightening, in-person community event to woo, wow, and inspire creativity! If you're a SAS administrator, be sure to join the SAS Admin Meet & Mingle at SASGF to meet other administrators, ask questions and have discussions to help get the most our of your conference with tips to breakout sessions and super demos. The Admin Meet & Mingle is on Sunday, April 28 before the conference starts, 3:30-5:00pm in Room D171 on Level 1. Add it to your agenda NOW!
Become a twinkling SAS star!
Become a twinkling SAS star and join us on a journey of analytics discovery by registering today for SAS Global Forum (April 28 – May 1).
Metacoda is excited to be a conference sponsor once again, which means you'll find us at our stand in The Quad. The Quad is a big – think Texas BIG! – interactive space where you can meet up with fellow SAS enthusiasts to learn, network and get insights and demos. Pop in to find out more about how we can help you enhance your platform security (and to adopt your very own Texas-themed Metacoda koala, of course!).
In the SASGF 2019 mobile app, there is a photo challenge where you earn points on successful completion of activities by taking photos. Top point winners will be entered into a drawing for prizes being offered by SAS. Most of the activities are 5-10 points. If you post a photo cuddling a Metacoda koala (small clip on) in front of the Metacoda booth you'll collect 100 points!
BTW, did you know that all the previous SAS conference proceedings have been digitised right back to SAS.ONE in 1976? In preparation for your SAS Global Forum trip, why not take a venture down memory lane and flick through some of the old papers here.
See you at SASGF soon!


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Nestled in a pleasing elevated location in a popular village, the attractive three bedroom mid terrace house has been recently meticulously renovated throughout. The stunning naturally light accommodation boasts features including wood burning stove, 'Nest' central heating controls, ample of road parking, superb gardens & wonderful views of adjoining fields to the rear.
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Shortly before my reunion ten years back, I found myself strangely moved by the remarks sent in ahead of time by my high school classmates.
Among them were a Restaurant Owner, and a Sheet Rock Installer, an Engineer and a Supervisor of Accounts Receivable. They wrote that they remembered hanging out after school, pulling the fire alarm senior year, skipping gym and smoking in the girls' room.
I wanted to go to that reunion but I had been shy in high school, and way too serious. Back then, I yearned to be accepted by those same ones who skipped gym to smoke in the girls' room. I was the kind of kid who faked sick in gym class so she could sit in the stands, doing the next night's homework.
By just about this time that year, I still wasn't sure if I would go. David wouldn't be coming, we agreed. He knew almost no one in the class and I knew my reunions were a torture to him.
Then, about a week before the event, I ran into the only classmate who lives at all near me. She asked if I were going, then turned to her daughter.
"Mrs. Marotta was a nerd in high school," she said pleasantly to the child. That cinched it somehow. I'd go, all right. Plainly I had nothing to lose. I called up a couple of people and we made plans to meet there.
It was sad to see who had not come. But the ones who had were fully there, and I found myself talking to people I had hardly known before. And I couldn't help but note that there was none of the judgment or constant evaluation of earlier days, all of that having given way to something kinder.
Back in high school, I was on the chubby side and had a short curly bob. I clanked with bracelets and swaddled myself in breath-squeezing cocoons of fabric. But chubbiness ended for me when I turned 21. I grew my hair to shoulder length and have pretty much kept it there ever since.
So the night of the reunion I wore a simple black dress and hoop earrings. Now I'm not saying I looked great. No doubt I looked better back then, even batter-dipped in baby-fat as I was. But I felt… freer somehow, less encumbered, on every level.
We had all been watching the dancing, specifically the dancing of this one classmate who somebody said taught Ballroom Dance as a part-time job. Part way through the evening he came over and asked me to be his partner.
"But I don't know how to do the steps," I stammered. "Just follow," he answered, putting his hand on the small of my back.
At first I kept looking down at his feet. Eventually, I took his advice and let him lead. I closed my eyes and felt… weightless.
In the course of the evening, I think I danced with him three times.
He thanked me all three times, bowed slightly and walked away. I never even caught his name. I found it out ten years later from the other people I worked with on the committee to plan our last reunion.
His name was Tom, and he died shortly after that night.
But as I think of him now, I think of what I learned from him that night, which as I look back, seems emblematic of our human journey: The way, nervous at first, we mount the stage of our emerging life. The way, after a while, we learn to leave doubt and self-consciousness behind.
Time does the rest, for it is Dance Master Time who holds us, really. We lean back. Maybe we close our eyes. It turns out we need only follow.
I too was one of the "shy ones" in 1966 but I was told by my kids to go to that same reunion. My meeting you there and having my picture taken with you was the high point of the night which was a very enjoyable evening all around.
I am so shocked that you were so self conscious as a child because when we met you for the first time at Cal and Graces Camp Fernwood we fell in love with you and Nan and you especially were our darling cousin. So tenacious and we loved the way you looked. This was a very touching piece for this time of year when reunions are just finishing. I had to send it to a friend. It is so inconsequential, High School I mean in the long run that life gives us. I am totally ashamed of some things I did and all is forgotten when we reunite years later. We have to just let it go.
thanks – let's meet for dinner soon! November 9th?
Thanks marti … Just looking at the Viking River Cruise catalog. Paris and Normandy next spring? How about dinner someplace in New Hampshire ha ha! I'll settle for that right now!
love this. what a wonderful night of dancing and bliss that must have been.


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Members of the Cal Boxing team train in the basement of the Recreational Sports Facility. It was here, in the basement, where Jacque Garcia learned her craft from scratch, where she earned the respect of her coach and peers en route to becoming the president of Cal Boxing, and where she stewed over a semifinal defeat in the 2017 National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) national tournament. It's also where she shows off her 132-pound NCBA championship belt, her Outstanding Boxer Award and the Cal Boxing women's third-place team award she helped win the following year. (#34022)


Brimming with culture, history, great food and fashion, Rome is an incredibly vibrant and romantic city to explore. The capital city has nearly 3000 years of globally influential art and architecture on display. City breaks are perfect for couples wanting a weekend away, and sometimes a small break is much needed! So why not incentivise some city break trips – starting with Rome! Below we've added some must-sees.
1.The Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museums.
This is where the headquarters of the Roman Catholic church is located. There's so much to do and see here so I advise an early start to beat the queues – which there will be. The Sistine chapel ceiling, roman sculptures and architecture can all be found in the Vatican Museum. This is one of the worlds largest museums and can sometimes feel like a bit of an overwhelming maze. The museum started off as a collection of ancient sculptures by Pope Julius in 1503, and the collection has forever grown. It celebrates the work of Michelangelo and Raphael, Matisse and even holds a piece of the moon donated by Nixon.
St. Peter's Basilica is one of the largest churches built. Those who aren't squeamish when it comes to heights can in fact climb the 871 (small, steep) steps to the top of the Basilica's dome for the 360-degree views of the Vatican City. If you plan on visiting here, be sure to dress appropriately where you must have your knees and bare shoulders covered. St. Peter's Square fronts the Basilica and is probably one of the most famous piazza's on earth. If you're lucky enough to be visiting on a Wednesday then most weeks the Pope holds Papal Audiences at 10am, he will also recite the Angelus prayer and on Sundays he will be there giving a papal blessing.
This is the worlds most famous fountain that people visit to throw in their coins and make a wish. It was designed by architect Nicola Salvi and was finished by Giuseppe Pannini. It boasts a statute of Oceanus, two-winged sea horses and two Tritons leading the horses. Throwing coins into the fountain mean many different things to people, but the old wives tales say that you're meant to throw the coin over your left shoulder with your right hand, throwing one coin means you will return to Rome, a second coin represents love of a Roman, and the third is to represent marriage to a Roman. The fountain racks up over €3000 each week, but the coins are collected and given to a Charity that funds a supermarket for the poorer members of the community.
This elegant and vibrant square is surrounded by bright and brimming flowers which adorn the Spanish steps. Surrounded by 18th Century Buildings, the steps created by Fransesco de Sanctis consist of twelve flights of different widths, the steps lead up to the Franciscan Church of Trinita dei Monti. Surrounded by shops and cafes it's the perfect scene for a chilled day.
Piazza Navona – A square dating from 1st Century AD – Great spot for eating, drinking and street artists.
City breaks are perfect for couples wanting a weekend away, and sometimes a small break is much needed! So why not incentivise some city break trips – starting with Rome!


The Kinematic Output node lets you hook a separate element that you want to be linked to the deformation chain but not be part of the deformation, such as a hand to an arm or an arm to the body. These elements will follow the movement of the chain just like a regular cut-out character hierarchy piece without being influenced by the deformation of the arm. If you don't use the Kinematic Output, the piece's pivot will not follow the deformation.
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Allen School faculty and alumni recognized with Google Faculty Research Awards
Each year, Google invites proposals from faculty at universities around the world as part of its Google Faculty Research Awards program, which supports cutting-edge computer science research in areas of mutual interest. In the company's most recent competition, five Allen School faculty members — Magdalena Balazinska, Shyam Gollakota, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Michael Taylor, and Xi Wang — earned awards for their efforts to advance the state of the art in data management, mobile computing, natural language processing, and systems and hardware design. In addition, several members of the Allen School's extended family received awards, including adjunct faculty member Julie Kientz and collaborator Jason Yip of the UW Information School, and Ph.D. alumni Yoav Artzi and Nicola Dell.
Magdalena Balazinska
Magdalena Balazinska is a member of the Allen School's Database Group and director of the University of Washington's eScience Institute. Her research interests include data management for data science, big data systems, and cloud computing. She earned an award in the "Augmented and Virtual Reality" category to support the development of a new system for managing virtual, augmented, and mixed reality data at scale. The goal is to enable powerful new virtual reality video applications by moving beyond existing capabilities in multimedia processing. Specifically, the system provides a declarative query interface coupled with powerful underlying query optimizations. Balazinska's collaborators on the project include Allen School Ph.D. students Brandon Haynes and Amrita Mazumdar, former postdoc Armin Alaghi, and professors Luis Ceze and Alvin Cheung.
Shyam Gollakota
Shyam Gollakota, who leads the Allen School's Networks & Mobile Systems Lab and received an award in the "Mobile" category, focuses on the development of new capabilities in computer networking, user interfaces, mobile health, and ubiquitous computing. He is particularly interested in the use of backscatter to enable battery-free computation and communication. Gollakota's research has contributed to the creation of 3D-printed objects that connect to WiFi without electronics, the world's first battery-free phone, and the development of new "smart" capabilities for a variety of objects and settings, from medical devices and clothing, to agriculture and urban environments.
Hannaneh Hajishirzi
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, who will be joining the Allen School as an assistant professor this summer, received an award in the "Natural Language Processing" category. Her research aims to address the problem of open-domain question answering using maximum similarity search. Inspired by a combination of log-time document retrieval techniques used by today's search engines and the emergence of modern end-to-end trainable question-answering systems, Hajishirzi will develop practical, scalable methods for word-level question answering that reduce latency and computational costs compared to existing, more complex pipeline systems. Potential real-world applications for this work include the news media, search engines, and government. Hajishirzi is currently a research assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UW and adjunct in the Allen School.
Michael Taylor holds a joint appointment in the Allen School and Department of Electrical Engineering at the UW. He earned an award in the "Systems" category to support his work with the Bespoke Silicon Group. Taylor's research focuses on rapid hardware design. His team has been researching ASIC Clouds, a new kind of datacenter that uses specialized chips to reduce the energy of the rapidly growing class of planet-scale computations.
Xi Wang
Xi Wang is a member of the Allen School's Computer Systems Lab and Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group whose research focuses on building secure and reliable systems. He earned an award in the "Other" category to support his work on the development of provably secure operating systems using formal verification techniques.
Julie Kientz and Jason Yip
Julie Kientz, a professor in Human-Centered Design & Engineering, and iSchool professor Jason Yip earned awards in the "Human-computer Interaction" category for their work with HCDE Ph.D. student Kiley Sobel on Inclusive JME, a project exploring the design of cooperative technologies that foster productive joint media engagement (JME) among children with and without disabilities. The team plans to develop a prototype version of YouTube Kids that supports inclusive co-viewing and evaluate its potential as a model for future applications that support cooperation and learning among children of differing abilities and needs.
Yoav Artzi
Yoav Artzi earned his Ph.D. in 2015 working with Luke Zettlemoyer in the Allen School's Natural Language Processing group. Now a faculty member at Cornell University, Artzi received an award in the "Natural Language Processing" category. His research aims to advance systems for context-dependent natural language understanding, with a specific interest in learning from situated interactions.
Nicola Dell
Nicola Dell, who earned an award in the "Privacy" category, also completed her Ph.D. in 2015. She worked with the late professor Gaetano Borriello and professor Linda Shapiro as a member of the Allen School's Information & Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) Lab before joining the Cornell University faculty. Her research encompasses human-computer interaction and technologies that address the social, technical, and infrastructure challenges faced by people in low-resource settings.
Google funded a total of 152 projects out of 1,033 proposals received from faculty at more than 300 universities worldwide. The awards provide graduate student support and the opportunity for winning faculty and their students to work directly with Google researchers and engineers. Read Google's announcement here, and view the complete list of award recipients here.
Congratulations to all of the winners — and thanks to Google for supporting UW research!
Published by Kristin Osborne on March 26, 2018
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This July 7, 2015 staff file photo shows Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson meeting with the Los Angeles News Group Editorial Board at the Daily News office in Woodland Hills, Calif.
By City News Service | news@socalnews.com |
PUBLISHED: May 19, 2016 at 1:51 a.m. | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 5:06 a.m.
A frequent City Hall critic was free on bail Wednesday following his arrest for allegedly submitting a public-comment card at a committee hearing that included images of a burning cross and what appears to be a Ku Klux Klan figure holding a noose and a sign with a racial epithet directed at Council President Herb Wesson.
Los Angeles police confirmed that Wayne Spindler, 46, was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats. According to jail booking records, Spindler was arrested last Friday and his bail was set at $75,000. He was released about 10 p.m. that night.
Spindler could not be reached for comment.
He allegedly submitted a public-comment card at a May 11 meeting of the council's Rules, Elections, Intergovernmental Relations and Neighborhood Committee. The card, which is still available for viewing in a public records portion of the City Clerk's Office website, indicates it was submitted by "Wayne from ENCINO." The card also includes a drawing of a burning cross and a drawing of a tree with a person hanging from a noose.
In the middle of the card, there is a drawing of what appears to be a triangular-shaped person in a KKK hood carrying a noose and a sign that says "Herb = (N-word)."
Wesson, who is black, told the L.A. Sentinel newspaper he has become increasingly alarmed by Spindler's actions and comments at council meetings.
"Criticism comes with the job and I can usually blow it off as part of the job," he told the paper. "But the often harassing and threatening comments made by Mr. Spindler have become increasingly worse over time. It has risen to the point that I have serious concerns about my safety, my family's safety, my staff's safety and the safety of my colleagues on the city council."
Wesson is scheduled to hold a news conference at City Hall Thursday to discuss the issue of recent hate speech at City Council meetings.
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Since the beginning, Elokenz has been really close to cutting edge Research. At the beginning of the adventure, one of my co-founders had previously been working at IBM on the Watson engine. Today, I have the pleasure to disclose a collaboration that started this Summer between Elokenz and the Laboratoire d'Informatique of the University of Tours.
Though the Lab is affiliated to the city of Tours, the team we worked with is based in Blois. If you studied a little bit about France, you probably have heard about the Châteaux of the Loire Valley. Blois lies in this valley, and has an amazing architecture.
The team is part of the BDTLN group – BDTLN stands for DataBase and Natural Language Processing (in French : Base de Données et Traitement du Langage Naturel). The group focuses its research topics on big data analysis and computer-aided decision support system, including the processing of large textual data sets.
Jean-Yves Antoine was an engineer in electronics (ENSERG-INP Grenole) and computer science (ENSIMAG-INP Grenoble). He worked as a research engineer during 2 years at EADS (formely MATRA Cap Systèmes) and then prepared and obtained a PhD in computer science from INP Grenoble in 1994.
In 2006, he became a associate professor in the University of South Britany, where he directed a research team (Equipage-VALORIA) in Natural Language Processing and Human-Machine Interaction. He joined in 2004 the University François Rabelais of Tours as a full professor. He headed the Computer Science Department between 2004 and 2007 and was the vice-head of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology from 2008 to 2012.
He is currently heading the Bachelor's program in Computer Science and is the local coordinator of the ECS international BSc. program in computer science. He has directed 7 PhD Thesis and several research programs on his areas of research which extend from Spoken Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics to Human-Machine Interaction for disabled people and smart homes. From an applicative point of view, his current research interests concern NLP support for information retrieval (named entity and authorship detection, coreferece resolution, temporal analysis), assistive technologies. He is also conducting an ethical reflexion on the consequences of the increasing use of language technologies in our daily lives.
Agata Savary graduated from the University of Warsaw (Poland) with a MSc in computer science. She studied computational linguistics at the University of Munich (Germany). She received her PhD in computer science from the University Marne-la-Vallée (France).
Since 2002 she is an associate professor at the University of Tours, where she teaches computer science and natural language processing. Her research interests include natural language processing, language resources, named entity recognition, multi-word expressions, parsing and XML processing. She co-authored about 50 publications and 10 language resources and tools. She has participated in several international and national research projects on natural language processing. She is currently the chair of the IC1207 COST action PARSEME on parsing and multi-word expressions.
Nicolas Labroche graduated in 2000 with a M.S. degree in computer sciences and a M.S. degree in Biological and Medical Signal and Image Processing. He received his PhD from University of Tours in 2003 and his French Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches from the University Pierre et Marie Curie UPMC – Paris 6 in 2012.
He is currently associate professor at the Computer Science Dept. of UFRT and a member of the LI laboratory of UFRT. Between 2004 and 2014, he was associated professor at UPMC – Paris 6, member of LIP6 laboratory associated with french CNRS. He was also member of the CNRS LUTIN laboratory dedicated to usage analysis.
His research interests include clustering, machine learning, user-centric algorithms and usage analysis. He is the author of publications in international conferences and journals on these subjects, including Pattern Recognition, ECAI, ICTAI. He is well established in his community and has served as PC member in workshops / conferences in the area, including french EGC conference.
Lucie Dupin graduated this Summer from Université de Bordeaux Montaigne with a MSc. in Linguistics and Computer Science. She studied computational linguistics and information retrieval. She spent a 6 Months internship in Blois to work on Elokenz project.
She devoted her time to set up and optimize a corpus extraction process for blog pages. Her fruitful work led to the creation of the algorithm that we will soon be implementing in our engine.
Her research interests span over data extraction, semantics and linguistics. In addition she also is really active in communities actions (student and artistic associations for example).
The collaboration focused on corpus annotation for the web. I won't enter into details now since a Research paper is in preparation and since our results will be presented in 2016 conferences.
Basically, the first project we worked on was related to authorship attribution. Given a web page, can a system extract the name of the author just by using the content and without using metadata.
Our result were very promissing and they are going to be implemented in Elokenz in a near future. This will be the occasion for us to publish a new blogpost for the announcement.


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My Top Tech IPO to Buy in November
Since the start of the year, we have seen over 870 companies enter the market via an initial public offering (IPO). That figure, which excludes special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), is up over 140% from the same period in 2020.
With so many companies going public right now, you might be experiencing analysis paralysis trying to wade through the endless information that comes with so many choices. To help you along in your analysis, here is one young stock that is worth buying this month.
Helping reach the target audience
The online visibility management tool Semrush (NYSE: SEMR) is looking to help companies reach their target audience and be visible to them through digital marketing. With more time being spent by consumers online, advertising has become a cluttered and competitive endeavor, making it hard for businesses to stand out and reach their target customers effectively. Semrush provides an all-in-one solution for businesses to manage their marketing decisions by acting on data and results from their various strategies.
The company's platform has attracted brands like Tesla and Amazon, and when looking at Semrush's offerings, it's clear why. Its platform can bring to bear over 60 tools to help businesses overcome their online marketing challenges, ranging from short-term marketing strategies like paid advertisement to long-term initiatives like search engine optimization (SEO). This overarching portfolio has allowed the company to become a top choice for everything a business may need at any point in its marketing journey.
Semrush considers itself a leader in 12 of the 17 marketing tech categories it offers, so while competitors like Moz and Similarweb are competitive in specific niches, Semrush stands out with its presence across a broad spectrum of this industry. This has allowed the company to land customers and then convince them to expand their relationship with Semrush, resulting in a strong 121% net revenue retention rate in its second quarter.
Going into earnings
The company reported stellar second-quarter revenue and customer growth, as well as a nice improvement on its bottom line. Revenue was up 58% year over year and 13% sequentially to $45 million, while the number of customers increased 29% to over 76,000. Its net loss of approximately $0.3 million represented less than 1% of revenue, and on an adjusted basis, Semrush reported net income of $0.3 million.
And the company has guided for a strong showing in the latest quarter as well. With third-quarter results due on Nov. 10, Semrush is guiding for revenue of $47.5 million, which would represent about 47% year-over-year growth, and an adjusted net loss of $4.25 million. This bottom-line figure is a move in the wrong direction, but management is attributing this increase to greater investments in sales and marketing.
Semrush has beat analysts' estimates in both quarters it has reported results as a publicly-traded company, which is something I really like to see. A consistent habit of earnings outperformance is a good sign the company is executing at a high level.
What could hold it back?
The main risk to Semrush is that it faces plenty of competition from small niche providers, along with behemoths like Alphabet and Facebook. However, unlike those tech titans -- which are incentivized to promote advertising on their own platforms -- Semrush gives its customers an unbiased opinion about where they can most effectively reach their target market.
Compared to smaller, niche platforms, Semrush has a clear advantage because of its broad offering. Many enterprises want an all-in-one platform where they can go for all of their marketing needs, and Semrush is the only one in its industry that effectively provides that. For this reason, the company's expensive valuation of 19 times sales is justifiable to me.
And Semrush still has immense long-term potential. The company estimates its total addressable market will be worth $20 billion in the future, leaving plenty of room for it to expand. Putting my money where my mouth is, I plan on starting a position in this company in the near future.
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Took longer than I'd imagined. Construction, damage, reassembly after damage was inflicted due to the boxes coming apart. But, they are finally done and mounted on the hull.
The scratchbuilt mounts fit really nice and look the part, I think.
Just a little more clean up needed, which will come before the final primer coat.
Now that these are mounted up we'll see how many times I can knock 'em off again before the color goes on, lol.
Thanks for sticking in with this build... Sorry for the long time frame it's taking to complete. More coming later.


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Joel Flora grew up surrounded by art. His father, Jim, earned his living as an illustrator and painted as well. His mother, Jane, who was trained as a classical painter, also worked at her craft every day. Husband and wife shared a studio, in fact, and devoted countless hours to their respective projects. So much so that Joel and his siblings sometimes felt ignored and their Bell Island home was often in need of a good tidying up.
Still, it would be difficult to confuse the father and son, either personally or artistically. Jim, who died in 1998 at age eighty-four, was flamboyant, with a bigger-than-life persona, a "real hip cat," in the words of one admirer. Joel is more subdued, a thoughtful man who at age fifty-nine is still finding his way as an artist.
The elder Flora made his mark in the heyday of illustration, during the 1940s and 1950s. He produced jazz album covers, among other genres, for Columbia Records and RCA Victor that were so overboard and frenetic in their abstract, cartoon-style depiction of characters that in later years he would attract a cult following. (A book of Jim's work published two years ago promptly sold out. A second collection is in the works.) He also turned out illustrations for publications like Fortune, Sports Illustrated, the New York Times and the now defunct Park East.
Once, Jim donned a pink suit for an interview that aired on PBS. Joel, on the other hand, leans toward sweater vests. The second eldest of five children, he works as a graphic specialist for UBS Bank in Manhattan, fitting in his personal artwork when he can. His wife, Victoria, is a graphic artist for Reed Exhibitions in Stamford.
Joel's oil and watercolor paintings, mostly portraits, are realistic. Long intrigued by sculpture, he began to produce reliefs of human faces, cast in concrete, as lawn ornaments. In the baroque tradition, they call to mind the sculpted countenances and figures that gaze down on the bustling masses from buildings in New York and other cities.
Jim and Jane Flora met when they were students at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in the late 1930s. Jim, originally from Bellefontaine, Ohio, was still in school when he teamed with Robert Lowry, an aspiring young writer, to publish a small literary magazine called Little Man Press. Flora's woodcuts were his first commercial efforts. And though they were simple, almost childlike, they had a devious humor, foreshadowing his future offerings.
Jim spent a few years in Cincinnati after graduation, working as assistant to a muralist and as a freelance illustrator. The Floras came east in 1942, when Jim — disqualified from military service because of a lung condition — accepted a job with Columbia, then based in Bridgeport. He was the creative force behind Coda, the company's promotional magazine. And though Jim had no inkling of it at the time, his album cover designs, ecstatic in their celebration of the music — much of it his beloved jazz — would win him fans and a belated renown.
A pioneer in the field, Jim Flora began illustrating covers after the war, turning out dazzlingly colorful, nearly electric images for albums by Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, and Kid Ory and His Creole Jazz Band. And though he eventually left Columbia, packed up his family and spent fifteen months painting in Mexico, Flora returned, as a freelancer, to produce covers for Columbia and RCA Victor that were even more unhinged. Among those were albums for the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, Count Basie, Pete Jolly and Benny Goodman.
Flora, working for the most part in tempera, fed off the styles of artists like Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Joan Miró, complete with figures with distorted features, detached body parts and multiple limbs. Mexican strains also seeped in. "I was influenced by almost everybody," Flora told one interviewer, designer Angelynn Grant.
Yet Jim also brought a cartoon sensibility to his work, not only in how his characters looked, but with elements like hats flying off and bow ties unable to keep pace with the necks of their jitterbugging owners.
By 1956, Jim told Chusid, his run was over. With the growing popularity of rock 'n' roll and the rise of photography, illustrated album covers in large part fell by the wayside. Jim produced about fifty, the author says. The original art was considered of no value and was discarded. Not a single piece, apparently, remains.
Jim went on to make children's books. He wrote and illustrated seventeen in all, with titles like The Fabulous Fireworks Family, Charlie Yup and His Snip-Snap Boys and the Day the Cow Sneezed.
Jane's paintings offered subtle humor and social commentary. "One of her paintings that we have hanging on the wall, for example, is of a medieval priest with a price-tag hanging from a crown of thorns," notes Roussie.
Inspired by a world cruise that he and Jane took, Jim spent his later years painting ocean liners in acrylics, a stark contrast to his spasmodic characters from his younger days. "It's as if there were two artists who had the same name, Jim Flora," says Chusid, who, though wild about the early work, is unmoved by the later projects.
Still, Jim's paintings have the trademark Flora whimsy. He'd set the ships in strange settings. One of the boats, for instance, was depicted on its stern, alongside the Empire State Building. Another floated among the planets. And if viewers looked closely into the portholes, they discovered happenings involving the passengers, some of them unmentionable.
Jim wanted Joel to focus on an area in which he could earn a living. And though Joel obeyed his dad and majored in industrial design, his heart eventually led him back to painting and sculpture. For fifteen years the son lived in Toronto, where he did design and pasteup for typesetters. He also studied painting and taught a bit. After returning to the United States, Joel worked for a printer in Norwalk. He has been with UBS Bank, producing graphic material for presentations and events, for six years.
Joel loved painting. But two to three years ago, he took an interest in nineteenth-century sculpture, then studied that art back through the Renaissance. He eventually tried sculpting small reliefs of faces, feeling his way through the process until he was comfortable with it. Then he made bigger ones.
Typically, Joel's sculptures start with an interesting face that he comes across in a magazine or newspaper. After making some sketches, adding elements like leaves or other forms of plant life to fit its destined garden or lawn setting, Joel then shapes a clay version, working hours on end in the converted one-car garage behind his house that serves as his studio. The resulting face, in turn, is encased in a silicon mold and a plaster shell. Joel then uses everyday concrete, purchased at Home Depot, to cast the final product — from porcine garden imps to Mother Nature plant holders. Some, when placed on the ground in front of a home's gutters, spout water from their mouths. Most are reliefs, though Joel occasionally sculpts a complete head. From beginning to end, each can take several months.
Most of Joel's thirty or so sculptures can be found outside his home. Against the bark of a tree, the stones of a wall or shadows on the lawn, they blend with the landscape. A customer's children scoured the property hunting for them, counting how many they could find. One neighbor periodically brings guests by to admire them.
Although he has been gone eight years, Jim Flora is experiencing something of an artistic revival. Irwin Chusid's second collection of his work, the Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora, is scheduled to be published in January by Fantagraphics Books. Recently Chusid and the Flora family sold T-shirts with Jim's rare Mambo for Cats cover, and they plan more with other examples of his work. Dark Horse Comics, of Milwaukie, Oregon, meanwhile, sells stationery and journals bearing Jim's art.


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Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Famer, Athletic Footwear Pioneer Jerry Turner Passes Away at 84
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MOUNT PROSPECT, ILLINOIS (July 10, 2019) – Jerry Turner, a 2004 Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame inductee who fueled the growth of the athletic footwear business, passed away Tuesday at age 84 in Los Angeles. Turner died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by family members.
Turner was credited with inventing the stability running shoe category during his 21-year tenure as president of Brooks. He helped start the American Sporting Goods Corporation in 1983 with Margaret Oung and came out of retirement in 2017 to launch Turner Footwear during a career that lasted more than 60 years.
"We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Jerry Turner and we extend our sincerest condolences to his family," said NSGA President & CEO Matt Carlson. "Mr. Turner was an iconic figure and innovator in the sporting goods industry. He had an amazing career and was instrumental in the running and fitness boom that started in the 1970s and continues today."
Turner helped build Brooks into a household name during his tenure as president in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1977, the Brooks Vantage was ranked No. 1 in the annual Runner's World running guide.
In 1975, Turner introduced the first shoe to use EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate), an air-infused foam that replaced rubber and became a mainstay of running shoes throughout the industry. Two years later he introduced the varus wedge to help runners whose feet rolled too far to the inside (known as overpronation). He also introduced nylon outsoles for use on football, soccer and baseball cleats, which replaced leather soles.
Although Turner was not a runner, he was regarded as an excellent listener who understood the needs of the athlete and was not afraid to experiment and borrow from other industries to invent new solutions. A 1974 discussion with legendary distance runner Marty Liquori, who requested a better midsole material than the rubber used in running shoes at that time, led Turner to find a chemical engineer at the Monarch Rubber Company in Baltimore to help develop EVA as a lighter, waterproof, and durable alternative. EVA was introduced the next year in the Brooks Villanova shoe — named for Liquori's alma mater.
In 1983, Turner started American Sporting Goods Corporation, which developed the Turntec brand of running shoes and the Nevados line of hiking shoes. The company acquired the Avia, And1 and Ryka brands and in 2011, Turner sold it to Brown Shoe Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
Turner, who was known for 70-hour workweeks, emerged from retirement in 2017 to start Turner Footwear, a performance footwear company with the tagline "Legends Evolve."
Turner was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 10, 1935, the oldest child of Nathan and Ruth Turner and the brother of Kaye Ann Turner and Judith Myra Turner. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1957 with a degree in finance.
Turner served in the U.S. Army for two years before he earned his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1960, and then he moved to the East Coast to launch his distinguished career. Turner was inducted into the Footwear News Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Omaha Central High School Hall of Fame in 2014.
Turner is survived by his wife, Margaret Oung, his former wife Jo-Ellen Turner, and three children: Suzanne Turner (David Schulman) of Washington, D.C., K. Robert Turner (Lauren Turner) of Los Angeles, and Jonathan Turner (Anne Turner) of Charleston, South Carolina, as well as stepdaughter Camille King (Terry) of Newport Coast, California. He had six grandchildren, one step-grandchild and he is also survived by a sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew.
Funeral services for Jerry Turner will be at 10 a.m., Sunday, July 14 at Beth El Cemetery Chapel, 4700 South 84thStreet in Omaha. Turner remained dedicated to his alma maters and endowed an annual scholarship to be awarded to an Omaha Central High School graduate to attend the University of Pennsylvania. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Central High School Foundation (http://www.chsfomaha.org/.


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Stuart Miles · 5 February 2006
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Whether it's Space Harrier, Outrun or three player Golden Axe, we are loving this piece of retro gaming
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Understandably here at Pocket-lint, we are always looking to the future for our latest gadget needs, why have yesterdays model when there is always something bigger, better and more technologically advanced coming out tomorrow?
Sega, however, are hoping that we don't embrace the future too much with its latest collection of retro games.
In steps the Sega Classics Collection for the PlayStation 2 with such gems as Golden Axe, OutRun, Virtua Racing, Columns, Monaco GP, Space Harrier, Fantasy Zone and Tant R & Bonanza Bros.
The games are identical to the originals and unlike the host of plug and play titles currently available with dedicated joysticks this £20 collection can be played on your console. If that wasn't enough, the game has the advantage of allowing you to play, where possible, with more than one player using your regular controllers.
Take Golden Axe for example, for the first time since its original outing on the Sega Mega Drive you can play the platform quest with two other players as you battle the forces of evil - brilliant.
Although the complete offering is great, our three personal favourites are Outrun, Space Harrier and Golden Axe, and it was great to relive childhood memories of fast cars, the stupid pixies offering health charms and staring at a man's backside as he blasted things to pieces from 20 foot in the air.
Where the games differ from the originals is an enhancement of graphics to utilise some of the PlayStation2's graphical power over the original Sega Mega Drive versions.
The graphical changes are subtle, but the overall results are good and it certainly means that you don't have to force yourself to look at the poor graphics of the yesteryear to enjoy the gaming experience all over again.
With graphical enhancements, this thankfully isn't a reminder how much graphics have come on in recent years. That said don't expect the latest Xbox360-style action sequences - the games are still the same ones we knew and loved.
Where this collection has succeeded - well for us at least - is that rather than one or two AAA titles and a bunch of unknowns, Sega has managed to actually cram a good deal of AAA titles on the one disc offering at least one or two for most gaming fans.
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Immerse yourself in the history and modern culture of the Kulin nation with these experiences and guided Aboriginal tours right in the heart of Melbourne.
By Allie Metz
A city of incredible cultural diversity, Melbourne offers the chance for visitors to connect with people from all corners of the globe. It's also home to a strong and close-knit Aboriginal community that is eager to share its stories. Discover these unique inner-city experiences for authentic insights into the living context and legacy of Australia's First Peoples.
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens - Aboriginal Heritage Walk
Aboriginal Heritage Walk, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens, Victoria
Explore and experience Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens on this cultural tour with an Aboriginal guide. The Heritage Walk provides a unique insight into the history of both the Gardens (ancestral lands of the Kulin nation) and its Traditional Owners. The tour includes a traditional smoking ceremony, a guided walk through the gardens and discussion about the traditional uses of plants as a source of food, tools and medicine. Your tour will finish with a delicious cup of lemon myrtle tea.
Koorie Heritage Trust cultural walk
Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne, Victoria
An Aboriginal-owned and managed organisation, the Koorie Heritage Trust offers visitors to Melbourne an excellent opportunity to discover an authentic and immersive urban Aboriginal cultural experience. Start by exploring the Trust's collection of art works and artefacts on display at their location in Federation Square before joining a guide for one of the cultural walks. These historical and cultural tours will take you along the Birrarung (Yarra River) to explore beautiful art installations as well as significant sites that date back thousands of years.
Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre
Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum, Victoria
Housed inside the Melbourne Museum, Bunjilaka presents the Koorie experience in an immersive and moving permanent exhibition. Take a guided tour through the exhibit, or use the interactive features to self-guide. Be sure to visit the Millari Gardens to discover plants significant to the First Peoples of Victoria. You can also watch eels being fed in the garden pond as guides discuss the history of this important food source for local people. The art space, Birrarung Gallery, also features temporary and touring exhibitions about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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Charcoal Lane, Melbourne, Victoria
The gourmet kitchen of Charcoal Lane is also notable for its innovative apprentice and trainee program, providing hospitality training for Aboriginal and disadvantaged young people. The team focus on native ingredients in their creative dishes, including the cocktail list. While the menu is constantly evolving, you can expect to find things like kangaroo, emu and Victorian eel flavoured with traditional ingredients like wattleseed, pepperberry and lemon myrtle. There's a well-curated wine list that features mostly local wines, or opt for one of their tasty cocktails featuring native flora.
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Q: Does the path of a Wilson line in a quark-correlator matter? Consider a gauge-invariant quark correlation function nested inside an arbitrary state $|p\rangle$
$$\langle p |\bar \psi(z)_{\alpha,a}\left( W_{\Gamma}(z,0)\right)_{ab}\psi(0)_{\beta,b}|p\rangle \tag{1}$$
where $\alpha,\beta$ are spinor indices, and $a,b$ are the quarks color/gauge indices. Here $W_{\Gamma}(z,0)$ is a Wilson line connecting the points $0$ and $z$ along the path $\Gamma$.
My question is, does the path $\Gamma$ matter here? This question is quite important because when $|p\rangle$ is the state of some hadron (e.g. pion, proton, neutron), this kind of correlator is exactly what enters into parton distribution functions!
If it didn't matter, then we would have that
$$\langle p |\bar \psi(z)_{\alpha,a}\left( W_{\Gamma_1}(z,0)-W_{\Gamma_2}(z,0)\right)_{ab}\psi(0)_{\beta,b}|p\rangle=0\tag{2}$$
But to leading order in the gauge coupling, this equation tells me
$$\langle p |\bar \psi(z)_{\alpha,a}\left( \oint_{\Gamma_1+\Gamma_2}A^\mu dx_\mu\right)_{ab}\psi(0)_{\beta,b}|p\rangle=0\tag{3}$$
Now, if $A^\mu(x)$ was an external field and $|p\rangle$ some neutral hadron (or even the vacuum state!), then this would turn into
$$\left[\Phi_{\Gamma_1+\Gamma_2}\right]_{ab}\langle p |\bar \psi(z)_{\alpha,a}\psi(0)_{\beta,b}|p\rangle=0\tag{4}$$
where $\Phi_{\Gamma_1+\Gamma_2}$ is the "flux" passing through the area spanned by the paths $\Gamma_1+\Gamma_2$. Because I believe in general we cannot say that $\Phi_{\Gamma_1+\Gamma_2}=0$, we cannot say that (2) vanishes and therefore we must conclude that in general, eq. (1) depends on $\Gamma$.
But what the heck?? This doesn't seem so natural, because then the definition of a parton distribution function will depend on the path of the gauge-link/Wilson-line.

Some possible rebuttals that I see:

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*Parton distributions, as well as my general gauge-invariant correlator in eq. (1), are not physical objects. You cannot directly measure them. For example, a PDF is already regularization-scheme dependent. Therefore, who cares if eq. (1) depends on $\Gamma$.

*More to come...

I've raised this question with some smart guys, and they told me that in general yes, these kinds of correlators (which appear in parton distribution functions) do indeed depend on the choice of path $\Gamma$, up to a certain extent. Supposedly there are certain equivalence classes of paths. The equivalence classes of paths are something like:

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*Paths where the tangent vector to $n^{\mu}$ remains spacelike for the entire path.

*Paths where the tangent vector remains lightlike for the entire path.

*Paths where the tangent vector remains timelike for the entire path.

However I was not given any rigorous definitions of these classes, nor was I given any simple/comprehensible intuition for why these might indeed be equivalence classes.
Does anybody know anything about this? Or maybe it wouldn't be so hard to prove such claims?

A: Wilson lines for general gauge theories are definitely not topological, their expectation values really do depend on the path.
You can sometimes make them topological by hand. For example doing some sort of supersymmetric twisting that makes the full theory topological, so in particular the line operators. Or, if you begin with a theory that is topological from the beginning, such as Chern-Simons theories in 3d, the line operators are topological too. The classical example is Witten's seminal paper re Jone polynomials 1, where the expectation value of two Wilson loops along paths $\gamma_1,\gamma_2$ on a three-sphere was shown to be
$$
\langle W_{R_1}(\gamma_1)W_{R_2}(\gamma_2)\rangle\sim S_{R_1R_2}^{\text{Link}(\gamma_1,\gamma_2)}
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where $\text{Link}$ denotes the linking number of the paths, and $S$ is the modular matrix of an associated Kac-Moody algebra. Note that this expectation value depends on $\gamma_1,\gamma_2$ only through their topology, namely the number of times they cross each other. Wilson lines in Chern-Simons theories are topological: their expectation values only care about the global features of the paths, and not on their actual geometry.
For generic gauge theories, this is not the case. Line operators are not topological, they depend on the full path and not just its topology.
That being said, it is often the case that we care about Wilson lines over very large paths. In that limit, the leading contribution is indeed quasi-topological: it depends only on its area (or length, depending on whether the theory confines).
(Regarding classes of paths. The physical interpretation of the line changes depending on its causal structure: if you have a spacelike line connecting two quarks, it represents a glue string that connects them, and this allows you to measure the force between them; if you have a timelike line connecting two quarks, it represents the worldline of a single quark, propagating in spacetime. Not sure if this is relevant at all though.)
References.

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*E. Witten - Quantum field theory and the Jones polynomial. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01217730

A: I would say the expectation value you write down depends on the path of the Wilson loop you write down, the reason is perhaps best appreciated by considering what happens in for classical gauge fields, and then looking at the Hilbert space formulation of the quantum theory. The Hilbert space formulation of the quantum theory lacks manifest Lorentz invariance, and is therefore not oftend considered explicitly in QFT, but in this case, explains the situation quite well, I would say.
In the classical theory, consider the system state to be the field configuration $A$, which is an $\mathfrak{su}_3$ valued one form. The equation $\nabla = d + A$ defines a covariant derivative, and $W_\Gamma$ measures the parallel transport along a curve $\Gamma$. Basically, if you take a quark field configuration where the derivative term vanishes, the Wilson line measures how the colour charge of the field changes along the line. This parallel transport is independent of perturbations in the path only if the curvature $F$ of the connection, which we interpret as the field strength, vanishes. This also makes sense in the colour charge picture, the presence of a gluon field will cause the colour charge to change. For a $U(1)$ theory, this is the Aharonov-Bohm effect. This means that, for a general field configuration where the field strength is not zero, the Wilson loop will be path dependent in the classical theory.
Now, in the Hilbert space formulation of the QFT, a state $|\psi\rangle$ will correspond to a Gauge invariant functional $\psi(A)$, so that $|psi(A)|^2$ gives the probability density of finding the field configuration $A$ when the system is measured. That the wave function is a Gauge invariant functional means that these probabilities are gauge independent.
The expectation value $\langle \psi |W_\Gamma|\psi\rangle$ is then an average of the parallel transports in the classical theory over those configurations specified by the wave function. Every field configuration with non-zero $F$ will yield a non-zero contribution to the average, and it would be quite miraculous for them to cancel out. As mentioned in another answer here, for topological theories, one expects the Wilson lines to be path independent, but this gives quite a constraint on the possible wave-functions, meaning they have small phase spaces in some sense.
I am not that familiar with QCD, so I will take the word of the other answers to your question that the Wilson loops in QCD are path dependent. However, what I've outlined above is my reason for not finding this surprising.


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World Leaders Conspire To Keep Trump In The Paris Climate Agreement
Michael Bastasch March 15, 2017
European leaders are quietly building a coalition of countries to pressure the Trump administration to not withdraw from the Paris agreement and meeting with White House officials, looking for the right argument to sway the U.S. president.
A coalition led by Germany, France and Italy has reached out to "Canada and China, as well as African, Latin American and small island states," according to Politico, to form a group of "like-minded" countries to take advantage of a divided White House.
Diplomats have even spoken to White House officials, framing participation in the United Nations climate deal as a boon for jobs. White House energy adviser George David Banks has already met with European officials on the issue.
Reports suggest Banks sides with staying in the Paris agreement, echoing the stances of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. Banks recently held a closed-door meeting on plans for the Paris agreement with energy industry executives.
This group is pushing a plan to weaken Obama's climate pledge that could include subsidies to energy companies that use carbon capture and storage technology to capture emissions from coal and natural gas power plants.
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon favors ditching the Paris agreement. President Donald Trump promised to "cancel" the Paris agreement on the campaign trail and is working on executive orders to undo President Barack Obama's climate agenda.
The Paris agreement on greenhouse gas reductions went into effect in November 2016. Obama unilaterally pledged to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent by 2025, but the Senate never approved the plan.
Conservatives and skeptical climate scientists have urged Trump to not only ditch the Paris agreement, but to also withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
They argue there's little point in staying in either if Trump plans to roll back all the Obama-era regulations to meet the Paris pledge and stop funding UN global warming programs.
Ivanka and Kushner already intervened to strip language critical of the Paris agreement from a pending executive order targeting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) global warming rules.
The move came after UK officials lobbied the Trump administration to stay in the Paris deal, arguing global warming regulations would create jobs. Prime Minister Theresa May, however, did not mention Paris during her visit with Trump earlier this year.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not mention Paris during his recent visit with Trump either.
A Trump administration official told Politico Trump may speak to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the Paris agreement during her upcoming visit. Though Trump may not say where he stands on the deal to maintain leverage in diplomatic talks with Europe.
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Charity trustee prosecuted and disqualified following embezzlement: OSCR takes action
Valerie Armstrong-Surgenor Partner
OSCR, the Scottish Charity Regulator, have appointed an interim judicial factor to the Dr Robert Malcolm Trust ("the charity") to manage the charity's affairs. OSCR have taken this action as there was evident misconduct within the administration of the charity, resulting in the criminal conviction and statutory disqualification of one of the charity trustees.
The charity was set up in 1987, and was considered a charity by HMRC prior to the establishment of the Scottish Charity Register under the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005. The charity's purposes are to provide financial support via a loan, grant, bursary, prize or other means, for the education of promising UK students who had the desire to study medicine, medical science, or related disciplines, and to further the medical education of British doctors who practice medicine within the UK.
Inquiry and prosecution
OSCR started an inquiry into the charity in 2012 when they received information that the charity and its assets were at considerable risk, due to alleged failures in governance within it. OSCR's inquiry suggested that criminal conduct had occurred and, following OSCR's policies, a report was submitted to the Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
OSCR have fully cooperated with COPFS to support the prosecution of Ian Brash, a charity trustee. Brash pled guilty on 14 May to embezzling a total of £358,832 between 12 August 2010 and 10 September 2014 from Robert Malcolm Investments Limited, the charity's wholly owned trading subsidiary. Prosecutors disclosed that they are seeking the increased amount of £1,590,512.69 from Mr Brash under the Proceeds of Crime (Scotland) Act 1995 following the embezzlement, as Brash transferred the profits of the sale of a house bought using the charity's funds into a personal bank account, and the profits from the purchase of shares in companies. Brash will be sentenced on 15 July 2019.
Under section 69 of the 2005 Act, an individual will be disqualified as a charity trustee if they are convicted of a crime of dishonesty. OSCR believed that the two remaining charity trustees, Mr Brash's children, failed in their duties as trustees following the misconduct in the charity's administration.
OSCR's actions
Following the inquiry and the apparent misconduct in the charity's administration, it is necessary for OSCR to act to ensure the property of the charity is protected.
On 16 April 2019, OSCR ordered the bank not to make any payments from the charity's bank account without OSCR's consent (OSCR have the power to issue such a direction under section 31(7) of the 2005 Act).
OSCR petitioned the Court of Session to remove the two remaining trustees from the control and management of the charity, and to appoint a Judicial Factor to manage the charity's affairs. Emma Porter of Aver Chartered Accountants was appointed as the interim Judicial Factor on 9 May 2019.
It is crucial that charity trustees undertake their duties diligently. We advise a number of third sector clients in relation to their trustees' duties. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with our team if you have any queries regarding your charity.
This article was co-written by Rachel Gillan.


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This glow-in-the-dark ramen shop looks deliciously radioactive
Photo: nakamura.ke/Instagram
This ramen shop looks like a scene from your strangest post-nuclear disaster dream, but with tasty food. Nakamura-ke, a glow-in-the-dark restaurant experience, will open in Atlanta, Georgia on January 30, giving guests a surreal dining experience.
The idea for Nakamura came to its creator, Ami Sueki, in a dream three years ago. The pop-up shop is designed to tell the story of the Nakamuras, a family of supernatural beings from Japanese folklore, who serve their fluorescent ramen in the underworld.
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Nakamura-ke will be small, seating only about six guests at a time for one 30-minute meal. Guests will feel like they're inside the folktale, being served glow-in-the-dark dishes and cocktails in a space with fantastical decor populated by guests from the underworld sharing tales — it's dinner and theatre all rolled into one.
Sueki partnered with London design firm Bompas and Parr to create the luminescent food, using quinine and natural food coloring to produce the effect.
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This glow-in-the-dark dining experience will set you back $75 per person. Tickets for the Atlanta opening, which runs from January 30 to February 16, are already sold out. In the near future, Nakamura-ke expects to come to Los Angeles, London, Miami, New York City, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, and Dubai.
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The House Republicans surprised many by making no attempt whatsoever to even try and hide their real motives for voting lockstep against the workers' comp reform bill. Simply put, the proposal harmed the interests of the Illinois State Medical Society by mandating a 30 percent cut in medical reimbursement rates. Republican after Republican rose during debate to decry the proposed medical reimbursement cuts. The docs historically have given a ton of campaign cash to the House Republicans, and the HGOPs were clearly angry that the Medical Society and their own negotiators were cut out of the homestretch dealmaking. If the Dems reduced the cuts down to the Medical Society-approved 20 percent level, the Republicans more than implied, and there'd be a deal.
There are not many groups that actually support the idea of throwing out the entire system. Since I'm no longer the guessing type I'm not going to say that I'm hopeful that the nuclear option will fail as well. Either way, no one is entirely sure where we go from here.
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