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Q: How can I farm teeth? In the Extinction game mode you can unlock perks/upgrades by spending "teeth".
Some of these perks, such as the ark pistol attachment and cryptid ammo greatly improve your chances at beating a map.  Of course, these better upgrades are very expensive (100+ teeth, up to 1000 teeth I believe).
How can I farm teeth in order to get these expensive upgrades as soon as possible?

A: Relics are your best friend. Each relic you run increases the amount of teeth you get from completing a game. When I was running with decent people, I would generally run eight or nine. You can run pistols only very easily on point of contact (which is what I would recommend farming on) if you use the revolver, and never get the akimbo upgrade (demolishes your accuracy for negligible benefit at close range) or you can ditch everything but the grenade turret (all relics but the no machines relic), as the grenade turret is very OP on point of contact. As with all of these tactics though, you'll want to be playing with people that have some idea what they're doing. Playing with randoms may warrant taking off a couple of relics, depending on how skilled you are. Also there are several things you can do on a game to game basis to get more teeth, such as getting a completionist bonus by perfectly completing all challenges, and getting kills (as every few hundred kills or so you earn a tooth regardless of what point you are at in a game.)

A: If you own the DLC, I would say Mayday on solo is a pretty decent method of earning teeth.  I usually pick up approx 15 teeth by doing ALL of the challenges.  Mix this with the Point of Contact map (see other answer for more detail) to save yourself from boredom.  I suppose it depends on how many teeth you need.
Downs
On solo, you can get downed 3 times by the time you get to the final area (you seem to earn extra downs, starting at 1, by progressing through the ship).  I can get to the Kraken without a single down, although the final drill point can be close.  Remember, this applies to solo only - not playing custom alone (i.e. there is a specific solo option in the menu).
Challenges
Aiming for all of the challenges is pretty easy.  On solo I have never had a gun challenge (i.e. buy a gun and get x number of kills).  Challenges are even easier if you bring flares with you.
Flares
You should be able to pick up 2 or 3 standard flares by opening boxes (remember that you can only hold 1 at a time).  However, you can also craft sticky flares through schematics (each crafted sticky flare gives 2 flares, for which you can hold both at the same time).  A blue print is found in the starting area (left side stairs if you are facing back out to sea).
Use flares/sticky flares at the start of the challenge if you feel it will help.  Challenges like killing the marked aliens before all others are much easier if the aliens are stood still for a while.  Also, killing aliens at a minimum distance.
Sticky flares also help a lot during the gas pipes section.  Throw one down if you get into trouble (remember you only need to defend one, not all 4 pipes).
There is an exploit with regards to sticky flares.  If you pick up an item that is in your left slot (e.g. normal flare, trophy or hypno knife) and you then craft a sticky flare, it will drop the normal flare/knife etc in the spot you are standing.  You can then swap this item with your sticky flares.  You can use this method/exploit to layout a set of sticky flares ready to use (because you can then carry on crafting the next item).  The same works for venom grenades and items in the grenade slot on other maps.
Before travelling to the top deck make sure you have 2 sticky flares in your inventory and the sticky flare blue print (plus 3 red boxes if you can).  This will mean you can use 4 sticky flares in the top area.  Try to save 1 or 2 for the gas pipes section.
Venom-X
Make this schematic a priority.  It is found in the main area before you go to the upper deck.  The crafted gun will vary depending on the 3rd craft item you pick up.  I prefer the blue and orange variations, but the green variation is also effective.  I avoid the purple variation.  As long as you don't pick up the 3rd craft item (i.e. open the red box but leave it on the ground) then the next red box should offer another random 3rd item.  Use this knowledge to craft the version of the gun you want.  However, you will lose red boxes for sticky flares.
Assuming you have a blue/orange/green version of the gun, use the gun to clear out rhinos and batches of aliens.  Fire it into a group, or into their path (they take damage even seconds after you fire it into an area).  Wait a few seconds before firing it again (if you need to fire it into the same area).  Don't worry about running out of ammo, plenty of ammo drops (it is the glowing eggs dropped randomly by dead aliens, which gives you 2 shots).
The gun is much more useful in the upper deck, and in particular when you come to defending the gas pipes.
Drills
Other than all of the mandatory drill points, I also drill open the 2 doors in the first area (for red boxes) and the 2 doors in the main area (for the Venom-X and more red boxes).
Gas Pipes
I would say that this is the hardest part until you have done it a few times.  Facing the pipes, you want to be standing on the single storey building or in front of it.  Kill what you can, but don't worry about losing 2 or even 3 pipes.
A stowed riot shield helps the occasional alien behind you, as does a turret or drone (putting a turret on the bottom floor facing a pipe is effective).  Kill aliens that attack from behind quickly.  Use a flare if too many aliens appear.  Use the venom-x every so often onto a pipe for easy kills (remember, it will also kill aliens that move in a few seconds later, too).
Kraken
The key is to actually concentrate on killing aliens rather than the Kraken.  I often find cash can be more of a problem than the Kraken on this part.  Immediately run to the right hand side into the far right corner.  Standing on the red, hugging the turret, kill all the aliens that spawn.  On solo, I only ever get 2 seeders, and they are pretty much straight away.  After that, you get a mix of hunters, scouts and seekers.
Just keep killing, replacing ammo/armour with the cash you earn.  Stowed shield is not really required because you are right up in the corner anyway.  Switch guns when low on ammo so that your ammo drops are more effective (e.g. give more bullets for the cost).  During intervals the aliens will stop spawning.  Use that time to shoot the Kraken in the red dot.  When it is glowing you deal a lot more damage.
Every so often the Kraken will place his tentacles on the ship, causing the ground to glow red.  As long as you stay off the metal you will not take damage.  Less aliens spawn here so get your shots in.
When the Kraken goes under water run across to the opposite side, and again on the red (off the metal).  This opposite side seems easier to defend because aliens start spawning on the platform behind you but need to jump over to get to you.  Pick them off.
Continue the pattern of clearing aliens, keeping ammo/armour up with the cash and shooting the glowing red dot when it is safe.  I think you swap positions maybe 3 or 4 times before you kill the Kraken.
I never use the turret controls because I feel it is easier defending yourself by hiding behind the controls and shooting what gets close.
Class Setup
I don't think the class really matters, although I prefer the weapon specialist.  For 15 teeth the class has an upgrade whereby you get unlimited ammo for a short time (without needing to reload too).  This helps on the Kraken fight if you run low on cash.  You also get fast reload (good for LMG's) and 50% extra bullet damage after all of the skill points are put into the class.
For ammo I prefer incendiary because it carries on causing damage after the bullet has landed.  It isn't that expensive either, which helps you keep it stocked up.
I prefer taking the stowed shield and either a turret or drone (only really use this twice).  I also take armour.
Skill Points
Evenly spread the points over ammo, armour until around 3+ for each.  You can then use the pistol upgrades up to the point you can carry 2 primary weapons.  Bringing an LMG, Venom-X, pistols and another gun to the upper decks is recommended for an easier run.  I never spend points on the final pistol upgrade because dual wielding accuracy means you lose a lot of ammo.
By the time you reach the Kraken you should have max armour, ammo and class, and 3+ on pistols.  The rest you can waste as you wish.
Relics
I have run my method through half a dozen times without any real problems, but I haven't tried with multiple relics.  Having the relic that means you take more damage is pretty straight forward.  It doesn't appear to do any extra damage until you lose your armour.
Achievements/Trophies
If you wish to obtain the achievements/trophies associated with this DLC it is feasible to do the entire DLC in solo.  You could do the challenges and 1 relic achievement/trophy in the same run through.

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Hoth also said that two members of the northern Misseriya tribe were killed and 27 tribesmen died in a separate attack on the southern army's position near the Heglig oilfields. He said no southern soldiers were killed.
He said: "We sustained six wounded with none dead."
Hoth said that before fighting began, Misseriya representatives had asked the southern forces to move from the area, which they consider part of northern Sudan.
South Sudan gained semi-autonomous status under a 2005 peace deal that ended over two decades of civil war and paved the way for a democratic transformation including elections next year and a referendum on southern independence due in 2011.
So far, the two sides have failed to agree on a definitive line of the north-south border.
A southern official also announced on Saturday that at least 95 people had been killed and 42 wounded in tribal clashes in a sparsely populated area north of Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, on Tuesday.
Press reports say that the fighting also targeted equipment and facilities used in the country's census.
The battles broke out between two branches of the Dinka tribe after a dispute over cattle, the daily Al-Sahafa reported, adding that dozens of people had been left dead in the streets.
Tribal clashes, often provoked by cattle theft, are frequent in southern Sudan, but rarely kill so many.
Martin Manil Wol, who is supervising the census, said the attackers burned down all of the census facilities, including 12 boxes of questionnaire forms.
The census, the first in 15 years, started on Tuesday. The two-week process will prepare constituencies for national elections and confirm or adjust the wealth and power-sharing ratios in the central government.
Sudan's impoverished south has refused to be bound by the results, while those fighting the government in Darfur, a western region of Sudan, have boycotted the count.
Both accuse the Arab north of manipulating the census to maximise its control and marginalise the African majority.


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The Obama administration has ordered immigration agents to ask immigrants they encounter living in the country illegally whether they might qualify under President Barack Obama's plans to avoid deporting them, according to internal training materials obtained by The Associated Press.
Agents also have been told to review government files to identify any jailed immigrants they might be able to release under the program.
The directives from the Homeland Security Department mark an unusual change for U.S. immigration enforcement, placing the obligation on the government for identifying immigrants who might qualify for lenient treatment. Previously, it was the responsibility of immigrants or their lawyers to assert that they might qualify under rules that could keep them out of jail and inside the United States.
It's akin to the Internal Revenue Service calling taxpayers to recommend they should have used certain exemptions or deductions.
The training materials apply to agents for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They instruct agents "to immediately begin identifying persons in their custody, as well as newly encountered persons" who may be eligible for protection from deportation.
One training document includes scenarios describing encounters between agents and immigrants with guidance about how agents should proceed, with a checklist of questions to determine whether immigrants might qualify under the president's plans. ICE officials earlier began releasing immigrants who qualified for leniency from federal immigration jails.
Obama in November announced a program to allow roughly 4 million parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to apply for permission to stay in the country for up to three years and get a work permit. The program mirrors one announced in 2012 that provides protection from deportation for young immigrants brought to the country as children.
A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, Carlos Diaz, said immigrants caught crossing the border illegally remain a top priority for the agency. The training documents for border agents, he said, "provide clear guidance on immigration enforcement operations so that both time and resources are allocated appropriately."
Crystal Williams, executive director for the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, said the training will help filter people the government said should not be a priority anyway. She said the training marked the first she has heard of officers being directed to screen immigrants for potential leniency before they were arrested.
"Just because it's a change doesn't mean it's anything particularly radical," Williams said.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat and vocal supporter of Obama's immigration plans, said having CBP officers screen immigrants out of the deportation line lets the government "move criminals and recent arrivals to the front of the deportation line. The emphasis now is on who should be deported first, not just who can be deported."
A former deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, John Malcolm, said the new instructions limit immigration agents.
"Agents are being discouraged away from anything other than a cursory view" of an immigrant's status and qualification for leniency, said Malcolm, who works as a senior legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington.
Under Obama's plans, the government is focused on deporting immigrants with serious criminal records or who otherwise pose a threat to national security or public safety. For the most part, under the new policy, immigrants whose only offense is being in the country without permission aren't supposed to be a priority for immigration officers.
While the administration has estimated that as many as 4 million people will be eligible for protection from deportation, the Congressional Budget Office estimated about 2 million to 2.5 million immigrants are expected to be approved for the program by 2017. As many as 1.7 million young immigrants were estimated to be eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but since its 2012 creation only about 610,000 people have successfully signed up.
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I go out of my way to get to where I need to go; these days. Yep there is construction to and from work. It's so annoying. I am happy that in general it doesn't take me too long to get to places around here. It's not like we live in LA. It's taking twice as long to get to and from work now a days. Many people including me have decided to go down the next main street, which makes that congested as well.
Mica told me last night that he wanted all the boys in jiu-jitsu to call him, "Mikey". Isaak started it. I call Isaak, "Zeek" and "Zeeky". Now Isaak calls Mica, "Mikey". Mica likes it because Michelangelo from Teenage Mutant Turtles goes by that nickname. Do I let this nickname go? On one hand it just seems strange to have him being called something that isn't his name. On the other hand Zeek isn't Isaak's name. How do you feel about nicknames?
Mica was also excited that he gets to go to a special class yesterday. It's for the (how do I say it?) brighter kids in the class. Isaak was sad. Isaak said, "I want to be one of the smartest kids in my class!" Isaak of course is in Kindergarten. They don't even know where kids fall in anything just yet. We needed to explain to Mica that it's great to be excited, but not to brag. I was the opposite in school. I was going to special classes, but it was because I was slow.
Midterms are in two weeks - EKKK! It seems like we just started classes!
It's weird. My oldest son is Jared and I call him JD because those are his initials. I've done it since he was in my tummy. My little man is Nathan and I HATE, HATE, HATE when people call him Nate - especially when I introduce him as Nathan. If someone calls him Nate, though, he usually corrects them and tells them it's Nathan.
We don't have nicknames but I don't see anything wrong with them!
When I was pregnant with Allison, my husband said "Do we call her Ali for short?" We never did. She called herself Aussie for a bit, so we called her that for a while too, but it died off after a few years. I don't call my kids anything other than their names. Sometimes people will say Ali to Allison. She doesn't correct them. Some of Mariah's friends call her Mimi. I just can't. I like their names how they are.
i love nick names... but at the same time, i can not STAND when people call broxton "brox" it just irks me... marc does it sometimes... and I correct him... but then i just started talking to marcs mom and she calls him that... i don't know how to correct her, as i don't know how she would take it... is that weird?
To this day, my Daughter won't let anyone call her a nickname. She wants her full name or nothing.
Ugh, I hate road construction. I actually made sure to name my three kids when they were born with names that couldn't be shortened into nicknames. I wanted them to be called by the name they were born with. Of course, though, I came up with my own nicknames for them and still call them by their nicknames.


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\section{Introduction}
 The standard calculational method for the study of the symmetry
 restoring electroweak phase transition \cite{KIRLIN} is resummed
 perturbation theory \cite{CARRIN,BUFOHEWA,ARNESP}.
 The highest known order in the gauge- and scalar quartic coupling is
 $g^4,\lambda^2$, combined with a high temperature expansion
 \cite{FODHEB}.
 In the Higgs phase with broken symmetry perturbation theory is
 expected to work well for not very high Higgs boson masses, since the
 couplings are small.
 The perturbative calculations can be extended to the vicinity of the
 symmetric phase for $\lambda \ll g^2$.
 In the high temperature symmetric phase, however, the situation is
 similar to high temperature QCD.
 Therefore, irreparable infrared singularities occur which prevent
 a quantitative control of graph resummation \cite{LINDE}.
 Since the calculation of physical quantities characterizing the
 phase transition requires the knowledge of both phases, there is
 a priory no reason why perturbation theory could provide a quantitative
 treatment of the electroweak phase transition for physically relevant
 couplings.

 An obvious non-perturbative method for the study of the symmetry
 restoring phase transition is numerical simulation on the lattice.
 Omitting, for simplicity, fermions and the U(1) gauge field one is
 left with the SU(2) Higgs model describing the interaction of
 a four-component Higgs scalar field with the SU(2) gauge field.
 After pioneering works \cite{DAMHEL,EVJEKA}, recent numerical
 simulations contributed a lot to the understanding of the finite
 temperature behaviour of the SU(2) Higgs model \cite{BIKS}.
 Another line of research has also been initiated recently
 \cite{KARUSH,JAKAPA}.
 In this approach one studies the three-dimensional effective
 theory obtained by dimensional reduction in the high-temperature
 limit.

 An important issue is the order and strength of the phase transition.
 For instance, the possibility of electroweak baryogenesis
 \cite{KURUSH} requires a strong enough first order electroweak
 phase transition \cite{SHAPOSH} (for a recent review see
 \cite{COKANE}).
 Up to now the four dimensional numerical simulations \cite{BIKS} have
 been concentrated on relatively heavy Higgs boson masses,
 where the properties of the phase transition are technically
 difficult to disentangle.
 In the numerical approach based on dimensional reduction indications
 have been found that the phase transition is stronger than given by
 perturbation theory \cite{FAKARUSH}.
 In the present letter we investigate this question in the four
 dimensional SU(2) Higgs model for lighter Higgs masses, below
 50 GeV.
 Since this region of parameters of the minimal standard model is
 already excluded by experiments, our present scope is merely
 theoretical because we would like to check the validity of
 some other theoretical approximation schemes, e.g.\ resummed
 perturbation theory.
 We plan to extend this investigation to heavier Higgs boson masses
 in future papers.

 The present letter is our first short communication.
 Technical details will not be included here, but will be postponed
 to a subsequent publication with more numerical data \cite{FUTURE}.

\section{Physical parameters}
 The lattice action of the SU(2) Higgs model is conventionally
 written as
$$
S[U,\varphi] = \beta \sum_{pl}
\left( 1 - \frac{1}{2} {\rm Tr\,} U_{pl} \right)
$$
\begin{equation} \label{eq01}
+ \sum_x \left\{ \frac{1}{2}{\rm Tr\,}(\varphi_x^+\varphi_x) +
\lambda \left[ \frac{1}{2}{\rm Tr\,}(\varphi_x^+\varphi_x) - 1 \right]^2 -
\kappa\sum_{\mu=1}^4
{\rm Tr\,}(\varphi^+_{x+\hat{\mu}}U_{x\mu}\varphi_x)
\right\} \ .
\end{equation}
 Here $U_{x\mu}$ denotes the SU(2) gauge link variable and
 $\varphi_x$ is a complex $2 \otimes 2$ matrix in isospin space
 describing the Higgs scalar field and satisfying
\begin{equation} \label{eq02}
\varphi_x^+ = \tau_2\varphi_x^T\tau_2 \ .
\end{equation}
 The bare parameters in the action are $\beta \equiv 4/g^2$ for
 the gauge coupling, $\lambda$ for the scalar quartic coupling and
 $\kappa$ for the scalar hopping parameter related to the bare
 mass square $\mu_0^2$ by $\mu_0^2 = (1-2\lambda)/\kappa - 8$.

 In order to fix the physical parameters in a numerical simulation
 one has to define and compute some suitable renormalized quantities
 at zero temperature.
 The renormalized gauge coupling can be determined from the static
 potential of an external SU(2) charge pair, measured by Wilson loops.
 The physical Higgs mass $M_H$ can be extracted from correlation
 functions of quantities as the site variable
\begin{equation} \label{eq03}
R_x \equiv \frac{1}{2}{\rm Tr\,}(\varphi_x^+\varphi_x)
\equiv \rho_x^2 \ ,
\end{equation}
 or, using $\varphi_x \equiv \rho_x \alpha_x$, the link variables
\begin{equation} \label{eq04}
L_\varphi \equiv
\frac{1}{2} {\rm Tr\,}(\varphi^+_{x+\hat{\mu}}U_{x\mu}\varphi_x) \ ,
\hspace{3em}
L_\alpha \equiv
\frac{1}{2} {\rm Tr\,}(\alpha^+_{x+\hat{\mu}}U_{x\mu}\alpha_x) \ .
\end{equation}
 The W-boson mass $M_W$ can be obtained similarly from the composite
 link fields ($r,k=1,2,3$)
\begin{equation} \label{eq05}
W_{rk} \equiv
\frac{1}{2} {\rm Tr\,}(\tau_r \alpha^+_{x+\hat{k}}U_{xk}\alpha_x) \ .
\end{equation}

 Since we are interested in the study of the symmetry restoring
 phase transition on lattices with temporal extension $L_t=2$,
 we have to determine the renormalized parameters at critical
 points for the $L_t=2$ lattices.
 In order to have a renormalized gauge coupling near the physical
 value $g_R^2 \simeq 0.5$ we choose $\beta=8$ \cite{LAMOWE}.
 As stated before, we would like to have lighter Higgs boson masses
 than studied in \cite{BIKS}.
 Therefore we have chosen the two values $\lambda = 0.0001$
 (referred to as {\em low}) and $\lambda = 0.0005$ (referred to as
 {\em high}).
 In these cases the critical hopping parameters turned out to be
 near $\kappa_c^{low} = 0.1283$ and $\kappa_c^{high} = 0.1289$,
 respectively.
 For the numerical simulation of the zero temperature ($T=0$)
 system we took $12^3 \cdot 24$ lattices, which turned out to be
 large enough for the present $L_t=2$ simulations.
 (Runs on $16^3 \cdot 32$ are planned in near future \cite{FUTURE}.)

 The numerical Monte Carlo simulations have been performed on the
 Quadrics Q16 machines at DESY.
 In order to decrease autocorrelations we applied a mixture of
 heatbath and overrelaxation algorithms with an optimized ratio,
 which depends on lattice sizes and bare parameters.
 An important improvement could be achieved by an overrelaxation
 algorithm in the Higgs field length ($\rho$) variable which has been
 developed and tested by two of us \cite{FODJAN}.
 The heatbath algorithm for the gauge field can be taken over from
 pure gauge theory \cite{KENPEN}.
 For the Higgs field one can start a heatbath algorithm at our small
 $\lambda$ values by generating an optimized Gaussian part of the
 single spin distribution and then correct by an accept-reject step
 for the remaining quartic piece \cite{BUNK}.
 Away from the critical $\kappa$ such combination of updating sweeps,
 which we call "complete sweep", almost entirely removes the
 autocorrelation.
 On our $12^3 \cdot 24$ lattices the integrated autocorrelations
 for different characteristic quantities are between 2 and 20 complete
 sweeps.
 The smallest integrated autocorrelations are shown by Wilson loops,
 the largest ones by variables proportional to the length of the
 Higgs field.
 In the metastability region with tunneling between the two phases
 we still have the "supercritical slowing down", however, in the
 simulations presented here this does not play a r\^ole.
 In the two-coupling simulations of sections 3 and 4 the observed
 integrated autocorrelations were maximally of the order of 100 to 300
 complete sweeps.

 Performing 160000 complete sweeps on $12^3 \cdot 24$ lattices and
 using an exponential + constant fit for the timeslice correlations of
 the quantities in (\ref{eq03}-\ref{eq04}) one obtains the following
 masses in lattice units:
$$
aM_H^{low} = 0.236(7) \ ,
\hspace{3em}
aM_H^{high} = 0.262(9) \ ,
$$
\begin{equation} \label{eq06}
aM_W^{low} = 1.059(24) \ ,
\hspace{3em}
aM_W^{high} = 0.427(8) \ .
\end{equation}
 Here, as everywhere in this paper, statistical errors in last digits
 are given in parentheses.
 The estimates of the statistical errors always come from dividing our
 simulation data into independent subsets and performing the fits
 in these subsets in order to obtain the variance of the fit parameters.
 This procedure is particularly simple to implement on a Quadrics
 parallel computer, where in most cases several independent lattices
 are simulated.
 In our case we started L\"uscher's random number generator
 \cite{LUSCHRAN} differently on each node, leading to statistically
 independent samples on the independent lattices.

 In general we do not yet attempt to estimate our systematical errors,
 because they are presumably dominated by the present limitation to
 $L_t=2$ lattices for the high temperature simulations.
 In the continuum limit one has to consider $L_t \gg 1$, which is
 possible, but can be demanding \cite{FUTURE}.

 For the mass ratio
 $R_{HW} \equiv M_H/M_W \equiv \sqrt{8\lambda_R}/g_R$ (\ref{eq06})
 gives
\begin{equation} \label{eq07}
R_{HW}^{low} = 0.222(12) \ ,
\hspace{3em}
R_{HW}^{high} = 0.614(32) \ .
\end{equation}
 With $M_W \simeq 80$ GeV this means that the {\em low} point is at
 $M_H \simeq 18$ GeV and the {\em high} point at $M_H \simeq 49$ GeV.
 On the $L_t=2$ lattices we have $aT_c=0.5$, therefore (\ref{eq06})
 also implies
\begin{equation} \label{eq08}
T_c^{low} = 0.472(11) \cdot M_W \ ,
\hspace{3em}
T_c^{high} = 1.171(22) \cdot M_W \ .
\end{equation}

 The static potential has been extracted from $r \otimes t$ Wilson
 loops with $1 \le r \le 6$ and $1 \le t \le 12$ on $12^3 \cdot 24$.
 We determined every such Wilson loop after transforming the gauge
 configuration to temporal gauge.
 The $t$-dependence has been fitted by three exponentials in order
 to determine the large-$t$ asymptotics.
 The potential can be well fitted by a Yukawa-potential with
 lattice corrections, as discussed in \cite{LAMOWE}.
 Taking a form
\begin{equation} \label{eq09}
V(r) = -\frac{A}{r} e^{-Mr}+C+D \cdot G(M,r) \ ,
\end{equation}
 with $G(M,r)$ being the difference of lattice Yukawa-potential and
 continuum Yukawa potential, we obtained with $\chi^2$ of order one:
$$
A^{low} = 0.0336(3)   \ , \hspace{1em}
M^{low} = 1.112(15)   \ , \hspace{1em}
C^{low} = 0.066453(6) \ , \hspace{1em}
D^{low} = 0.0343(23)  \ ,
$$
\begin{equation} \label{eq10}
A^{high} = 0.03434(7)   \ , \hspace{1em}
M^{high} = 0.4272(21)   \ , \hspace{1em}
C^{high} = 0.090768(18) \ , \hspace{1em}
D^{high} = 0.0352(8)  \ .
\end{equation}

 The excellent agreement of the masses $M$ in (\ref{eq10}) with $M_W$
 in (\ref{eq06}) and the nearly equality of the fit parameters $A$ and
 $D$ show that the static potential is well understood, and can be
 used for the definition of the renormalized gauge coupling.
 One could take for a definition $g_R^2 = 16\pi A/3$, but we prefer
 here not to use a global fit.
 Instead, we adopt for the definition of the renormalized gauge
 coupling a procedure similar to the one recently proposed in pure
 gauge theory \cite{SOMMER}.
 Namely, starting from eq. (35) in ref. \cite{LAMOWE} we define
 an $r$-dependent renormalized gauge coupling, which we then interpolate
 to a distance $r = M_W^{-1}$.
 The result is, this time including also an estimate of the systematic
 errors as the last entry in parentheses:
\begin{equation} \label{eq11}
g_R^{2,low} = 0.5476(5+75+10) \ ,
\hspace{3em}
g_R^{2,high} = 0.5781(4+88+3) \ .
\end{equation}
 The first two entries are the statistical errors from the Wilson loops
 and $M_W$, respectively.
 As one can see, the errors are dominated by the statistical errors of
 $M_W$ used as input in this analysis.
 This can be easily improved by better statistics, if later on
 required.
 Otherwise the errors are quite small, and the renormalization
 compared to the bare value $g^2=0.5$ is moderate.

\section{Latent heat}
 The pressure ($P$) is continuous, therefore the latent heat
 (i.~e. the discontinuity of the energy density $\Delta\epsilon$) can
 be calculated from the discontinuity of the quantity
 $\delta \equiv \epsilon/3-P$.
 Since $\delta$ is given by \cite{MONMUN}
\begin{equation} \label{eq12}
\delta = \frac{1}{3} (TL_t)^4
\left\langle \frac{\partial\kappa}{\partial\tau} \cdot 8L_\varphi
- \frac{\partial\lambda}{\partial\tau} \cdot Q_x
- \frac{\partial\beta}{\partial\tau} \cdot 6P_U \right\rangle \ ,
\end{equation}
 where $\tau \equiv \log(aM_W)^{-1}$, and besides $L_\varphi$ in
 (\ref{eq04}) we used
\begin{equation} \label{eq13}
Q_x \equiv (\rho_x^2 - 1)^2 \ ,
\hspace{3em}
P_U \equiv 1 - \frac{1}{2} {\rm Tr\,} U_{pl} \ .
\end{equation}
 The vacuum contribution is not subtracted in (\ref{eq12}), but in
 the latent heat it cancels and we obtain
\begin{equation} \label{eq14}
\frac{\Delta\epsilon}{T_c^4} = L_t^4
\left\langle \frac{\partial\kappa}{\partial\tau} \cdot 8\Delta L_\varphi
- \frac{\partial\lambda}{\partial\tau} \cdot \Delta Q_x
- \frac{\partial\beta}{\partial\tau} \cdot 6\Delta P_U \right\rangle \ .
\end{equation}

 The partial derivatives are taken here along the {\em lines of
 constant physics} (LCP's), which can be defined by keeping constant
 the value of the mass ratio $R_{HW}$ and the renormalized gauge
 coupling $g_R$.
 For weak bare couplings one can estimate the change
 of $g^2 = 4/\beta$ and $\lambda_0 \equiv \lambda/(4\kappa^2)$
 by integrating the one-loop renormalization group equations
$$
\frac{dg^2(\tau)}{d\tau} = \frac{1}{16\pi^2} \left[
- \frac{43}{3}g^4 + O(\lambda_0^3,\lambda_0^2g^2,\lambda_0g^4,g^6)
\right] \ ,
$$
\begin{equation} \label{eq15}
\frac{d\lambda_0(\tau)}{d\tau} = \frac{1}{16\pi^2} \left[
96\lambda_0^2 + \frac{9}{32}g^4 - 9\lambda_0 g^2 +
O(\lambda_0^3,\lambda_0^2g^2,\lambda_0g^4,g^6) \right] \ .
\end{equation}
 Starting from our {\em low} or {\em high} critical point of the
 $L_t=2$ lattice one can obtain the corresponding $L_t=3,4,5,\ldots$
 points by integrating (\ref{eq15}) from $\tau=0$ to
 $\tau = \log(3/2),\log(4/2),\log(5/2),\ldots$.
 For instance, the $L_t=3$ critical point corresponding to our {\em low}
 point ($\beta=8,\lambda=0.0001,\kappa=0.12830$) comes out to be at
 ($\beta=8.147,\lambda=0.000111$) and the one corresponding to the
 {\em high} point ($\beta=8,\lambda=0.0005,\kappa=0.12887$) at
 ($\beta=8.147,\lambda=0.000507$).

 Of course, we still need another equation for the change of the
 critical $\kappa = \kappa_c$.
 The critical hopping parameter can be determined by different methods.
 We found it convenient to apply a two-coupling method: on a long
 lattice in one spatial direction (say, $z$-direction) the lattice
 is subdivided into two equal halves with two different hopping
 parameters in such a way that the first half with $\kappa_1$ is in the
 symmetric phase, the second half with $\kappa_2$ in the Higgs phase.
 This means $\kappa_1 < \kappa_c < \kappa_2$.
 To be sure that this situation is stable we require that both halves
 stay in their phases at least for 20 autocorrelation times.
 Going to larger lattices $\kappa_{1,2}$ can be chosen closer to
 $\kappa_c$ at the order of inverse lattice volume.
 From the $2 \cdot 16^2 \cdot 128$ lattice at the {\em low} point and
 $2 \cdot 32^2 \cdot 256$ lattice at the {\em high} point the best
 estimates are, respectively,
\begin{equation} \label{eq16}
\kappa_{c,L_t=2}^{low} = 0.12830(5) \ ,
\hspace{3em}
\kappa_{c,L_t=2}^{high} = 0.12887(1) \ .
\end{equation}
 These are rather well reproduced, together with the volume dependence
 on smaller lattices, by the critical $\kappa$ obtained from the one
 loop gauge invariant effective potential of the length square
 of the scalar field $V_{eff}(\rho^2)$ \cite{LUSCHPOT,BUFOHE,FUTURE}.
 Therefore one can use $V_{eff}(\rho^2)$ for an estimate of
 $\kappa_{c,L_t=3,4,5,\cdots}$.
 By a quadratic interpolation of the $L_t=2,3,4$ critical points
 one obtains the following estimates for the derivatives of $\kappa$
 along the LCP's:
\begin{equation} \label{eq17}
\frac{\partial\kappa^{low}}{\partial\tau} =-0.00064(6)           \ ,
\hspace{3em}
\frac{\partial\kappa^{high}}{\partial\tau} =-0.00111(13)         \ .
\end{equation}

 The discontinuities in (\ref{eq14}) can be determined at the {\em low}
 point on large enough lattices directly at $\kappa=\kappa_c$, because
 the metastability is very strong and the configurations stay for a
 very long time in the phase they started from.
 At the {\em high} point a linear extrapolation can be used from
 the intervals $\kappa \leq \kappa_1$ and $\kappa \geq \kappa_2$, where
 no tunnelings to the other phase occur.
 On our $2 \cdot 16^2 \cdot 128$ and $2 \cdot 32^2 \cdot 256$ lattices
 at the {\em low} and {\em high} points, respectively, the finite volume
 corrections of order $(L_xL_yL_z)^{-1}$ are already smaller than
 the indicated statistical errors:
$$
\Delta L_\varphi^{low} =-21.84(4)                 \ , \hspace{2em}
\Delta Q_x^{low} =-643(2)                         \ , \hspace{2em}
\Delta P_U^{low} = 0.010557(15)                   \ ,
$$
\begin{equation} \label{eq18}
\Delta L_\varphi^{high} =-1.026(12)                \ , \hspace{2em}
\Delta Q_x^{high} =-8.02(13)                       \ , \hspace{2em}
\Delta P_U^{high} = 0.000629(8)                    \ .
\end{equation}
 Combining this with (\ref{eq14})-(\ref{eq15}) we arrive at
\begin{equation} \label{eq19}
\left( \frac{\Delta\epsilon}{T_c^4} \right)^{low} = 1.68(17)   \ ,
\hspace{3em}
\left( \frac{\Delta\epsilon}{T_c^4} \right)^{high} = 0.125(19) \ .
\end{equation}

 These results have been obtained on $L_t=2$ lattices alone.
 In the continuum limit $L_t \to \infty$, therefore later on one has to
 improve them by simulations on finer lattices with $L_t>2$
 \cite{FUTURE}.
 For a first qualitative comparison with two-loop resummed perturbation
 theory \cite{FODHEB} see fig. 1.

\section{Interface tension}
 Besides the latent heat another important physical quantity
 characterizing the strength of the phase transition is the
 interface tension $\sigma$ between the two phases, which can be
 determined on the lattice in several different ways.
 In the present letter we concentrate on the two-coupling
 method proposed by Potvin and Rebbi \cite{POTREB}, where an
 interface pair is enforced between the two halves of the periodic
 lattice.
 Since we have three bare parameters, in principle one can choose
 any of them (or some combination of them) to be different in the
 two halves.
 As in the latent heat the contribution of the $\varphi$-link
 $L_\varphi$ dominates, we decided to split the value of $\kappa$
 multiplying $L_\varphi$ in the action.
 On an $L_t \cdot L_x \cdot L_y \cdot L_z$ lattice with
 $L_z \gg L_{x,y,t}$, and in our case $L_t=2$, $L_x=L_y$, the
 two halves in the $z$-direction have hopping parameters $\kappa_{1,2}$
 which are slightly below and above the critical one:
 $\kappa_1 < \kappa_c < \kappa_2$.
 The interface tension between the states with $\kappa_1$ and
 $\kappa_2$ is given in lattice units by
\begin{equation} \label{eq20}
a^3\sigma(\kappa_1,\kappa_2) = L_z \left\{
  \int_{\kappa_1}^{\kappa_2} d\kappa L_\varphi^{(1)}(\kappa,\kappa_2)
- \int_{\kappa_1}^{\kappa_2} d\kappa L_\varphi^{(2)}(\kappa_1,\kappa)
\right\} \ ,
\end{equation}
 where $L_\varphi^{(1,2)}(\kappa,\kappa^\prime)$ denote the expectation
 values of the $\varphi$-link in the two halves if the hopping
 parameters are $\kappa$ and $\kappa^\prime$, respectively.

 In order to obtain the physically interesting interface tension one
 has, of course, to perform the limits $L_{x,y,z} \to \infty$ and
 $\Delta\kappa \equiv \kappa_2-\kappa_c = \kappa_c-\kappa_1 \to 0$.
 For a given lattice extension, however, $\Delta\kappa$ cannot be
 arbitrarily small, because if the difference in free energy density
 becomes small tunneling into the other phase can occur and the
 interfaces disappear.
 The presence of the interfaces can, however, be monitored to ensure
 the applicability of (\ref{eq20}).
 For small $\Delta\kappa$ the integrals in (\ref{eq20}) can be well
 approximated by the average of the values of the integrand at the two
 end points.
 Besides, for equal arguments we obviously have
 $L_\varphi^{(1)}(\kappa,\kappa) = L_\varphi^{(2)}(\kappa,\kappa)$.
 This gives
\begin{equation} \label{eq21}
a^3\sigma \simeq L_z \Delta\kappa \left(
 L_\varphi^{(1)}(\kappa_1,\kappa_2) - L_\varphi^{(1)}(\kappa_1,\kappa_1)
+L_\varphi^{(2)}(\kappa_2,\kappa_2) - L_\varphi^{(2)}(\kappa_1,\kappa_2)
\right) \ .
\end{equation}
 In the limit $\Delta\kappa \to 0$ the contributions with equal
 hopping parameters in the two halves do not contribute.
 The non-zero contributions can be determined by the expansion
$$
L_\varphi^{(1)}(\kappa_1,\kappa_2) = \frac{-c_1}{\kappa_1-\kappa_c}
+ b_1 + a_1(\kappa_1-\kappa_c) + O(\kappa_1-\kappa_c)^2 \ ,
$$
\begin{equation} \label{eq22}
L_\varphi^{(2)}(\kappa_1,\kappa_2) = \frac{-c_2}{\kappa_2-\kappa_c}
+ b_2 + a_2(\kappa_2-\kappa_c) + O(\kappa_2-\kappa_c)^2 \ .
\end{equation}
 This formula replaces (\ref{eq20}) in the region where
 $\sigma(\kappa_1,\kappa_2)$ depends linearly on $\kappa_{1,2}$.
 For $\Delta\kappa \to 0$ a finite volume estimator of the interface
 tension is
\begin{equation} \label{eq23}
a^3\hat{\sigma} = L_z(c_1+c_2) \ .
\end{equation}
 The advantage compared to (\ref{eq20}) is that no numerical evaluation
 of integrals is necessary.

 In our numerical simulations several lattice sizes up to
 $2 \cdot 16^2 \cdot 128$ at the {\em low} point and up to
 $2 \cdot 32^2 \cdot 256$ at the {\em high} point were exploited.
 In fact, the very long extensions in the $z$-direction have been chosen
 just for the purpose of also determining the interface tension.
 The measured $L_\varphi^{(1,2)}$ values were fitted in a carefully
 chosen $\kappa$-interval around the critical points in (\ref{eq16})
 by the three-parameter forms in (\ref{eq22}).
 At the {\em low} point we used the intervals
 $0.1279 \le \kappa_1 \le 0.1282$ and
 $0.1284 \le \kappa_2 \le 0.1287$ with seven points each.
 At the {\em high} point we used
 $0.12880 \le \kappa_1 \le 0.12886$ and
 $0.12888 \le \kappa_2 \le 0.12894$ with seven points each.
 The number of complete sweeps for measurements with an optimized ratio
 of heatbath to overrelaxation was between 20000 and 40000 per point.
 The obtained result from the fits in different subintervals is:
\begin{equation} \label{eq24}
\left( \frac{\hat{\sigma}}{T_c^3} \right)^{low} = 0.84(16) \ ,
\hspace{3em}
\left( \frac{\hat{\sigma}}{T_c^3} \right)^{high} = 0.008(2) \ .
\end{equation}
 Here $aT_c=\frac{1}{2}$ has been used in order to convert from lattice to
 physical units.
 About half of the indicated errors come from statistics.
 The other half is a crude estimate of systematic errors, which
 is due to the choice of subintervals for $\kappa$.
 In general, choosing a subinterval closer to $\kappa_c$ gives smaller
 statistical errors and also somewhat smaller $c_{1,2}$.
 The quoted results are obtained from the more distant subintervals.

 This dependence on the chosen fit interval is a kind of rounding-off
 effect which is partly due to the interaction of the two interfaces.
 A similar dependence of $\sigma(\kappa_1,\kappa_2)$ on $\kappa_{1,2}$
 appears in (\ref{eq20}) if $\kappa_{1,2}$ are too close to $\kappa_c$.
 This $\kappa$-dependence is expected to be substantially reduced
 for $L_z \to \infty$ when the two interfaces do not interact.
 Of course, the transversal extensions $L_{x,y}$ also have to be taken
 to infinity.
 In our case comparisons to smaller lattices show in both points that
 within the given statistical errors $L_x=L_y$ are large enough.
 In principle, if $L_{x,y,z}$ are larger one can consider smaller
 $\Delta\kappa$ values, but this is beyond the scope of the present
 analysis.

 We also tried several other methods for the determination of $\sigma$.
 The results are in general qualitatively similar.
 A more detailed evaluation of the different methods will be
 included in a subsequent publication \cite{FUTURE}.
 A comparison of (\ref{eq24}) with two-loop resummed perturbation
 theory \cite{FODHEB} is shown in fig. 2.

\newpage

\section{Discussion}
 The outcome of our numerical studies on $L_t=2$ lattices is
 a qualitative agreement between two-loop resummed perturbation theory
 and four dimensional lattice simulations in the investigated range
 of Higgs boson masses, below 50 GeV.
 Note that at $M_H \simeq 18$ GeV the agreement between our data and
 perturbation theory becomes even better if, instead of $T_c$, $M_H$ is
 used to set the scale.
 Both latent heat and interface tension show that the first order
 symmetry restoring phase transition becomes substantially weaker
 for increasing Higgs boson mass (see eqs. (\ref{eq19}) and
 (\ref{eq24})).
 As it has been emphasized throughout this paper, although the $L_t=2$
 results may very well be qualitatively right, for a quantitative
 determination of the properties of the phase transition further
 numerical simulations on $L_t > 2$ lattices are necessary.

\vspace{1cm}
\large\bf Acknowledgements \normalsize\rm \newline
\vspace{3pt}

\noindent We thank our colleagues W. Buchm\"uller, A. Hebecker,
M. L\"uscher and R. Sommer for essential comments and proposals during
the course of this work.
F. Cs. and Z. F. were partially supported by Hung. Sci. Grant under
Contract No. OTKA-F1041/3-2190.

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He was appointed as Consul in Lagos on 21 July 1853 and served in this capacity until his death on 17 April 1859.

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India's new citizenship act (...)
India's new citizenship act legalizes a Hindu nation
Anil Varughese
Pays : Inde Thèmes : Autoritarisme Militarisme Mouvements réactionnaires Nationalisme Répression Source : The Conversation
India's recently passed Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 is a frontal assault on the idea of India as a secular, pluralist democracy.
For the first time, legal sanction has been given to the recasting of India as a Hindu majoritarian nation where minorities, especially Muslims, are second-class citizens. Signed into law after rushed debates in the parliament, the act is a stark regression of the trajectory of India as a mature constitutional democracy.
The new law makes religious affiliation one of the grounds for citizenship, violating the basic structure of the Indian constitution. It infringes on Articles 14 and 15, which guarantee equality before the law and non-discrimination on religious grounds.
The act targets and further marginalizes India's beleaguered Muslim minority by intentionally omitting Muslim migrants who have lived in India for decades and their India-born descendants from its scope. Muslim migrants will now have a harder time acquiring Indian citizenship. By extension, the act makes it easier for the government to terrorize, imprison and deport Muslim migrants.
A new (unequal) path to citizenship
The new act amends the Citizenship Act of India (1955). The original legislation offers essentially two grounds for citizenship : Indian origin (based on birth and descent) and long and continuous residence in India.
The 1955 law makes no reference to religion or religious affiliation as a basis for citizenship. In fact, neither the word religion nor the names of religious groups are mentioned in the act.
Despite the religiously-charged political context of post-partition years, India's founding fathers adopted a secular and inclusive constitutional framework. It was a deliberate rejection of the two-nations theory : the idea that the population inhabiting undivided India contained two distinct nations, one Hindu and one Muslim, deserving two separate homelands.
The current act is a sharp departure from that position and validates the two-nations theory. It sets up a hierarchy of rights based on religious affiliation and fundamentally alters the secular basis of India's citizenship regime.
Illegal migrants
Under the original act, "illegal migrants" are ineligible to apply for Indian citizenship. An illegal migrant is a foreigner who entered India without a valid travel document or remained in India beyond the permitted period of time.
The new amendment declares that any person belonging to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian communities and who entered India from one of three neighbouring countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan) before 2015, is not an "illegal migrant," and is eligible for fast-tracked citizenship.
This is a change from the usual provisions of the act, where citizenship begins when one receives their naturalization certificate. Non-Muslim migrants also receive immunity from ongoing legal proceedings that may adversely impact their eligibility for citizenship.
Muslim migrants looking to become citizens face a wholly different world and have a far lower chance of establishing their claim for citizenship. Excluded from the scope of the amendment, they must wait 12 years before making a citizenship application and receive no immunity from adverse legal proceedings. Poor record-keeping in rural India makes the process of document verification highly complicated and susceptible to discrimination against minorities.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government argues that the act is intended to give sanctuary to non-Muslim minorities fleeing religious persecution from Muslim-majority neighbouring countries. The act assumes every migrant of a non-Muslim persuasion from the three neighbouring countries is a refugee in need of protection.
However, the act does not require them to undergo a process to establish a fear of persecution. Nor does it consider that Muslims might fear persecution in neighbouring countries, such as the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan and Uighur Muslims in China.
While refugee protection is admittedly a noble goal, it is inexplicable why religious minorities facing persecution near India are excluded. The Sri Lankan Hindus and Bhutanese Christians are also excluded. And what of the victims of other forms of persecution beyond religious persecution ?
National Register of Citizens
The Citizenship Amendment Act is closely related to another pet project of the BJP government — the updating of the National Register of Citizens. The register aims to identify genuine Indian citizens so the government can detect and deal with illegal migrants.
In the state of Assam, where anti-migrant tensions have been long simmering, a recent drive to update the citizenship register identified close to two million residents without proper documents, putting them at risk of being stateless or deported.
Soon after the registration process was completed, it became clear that the majority of those identified as non-citizens were Hindu migrants from Bangladesh, key voters for the BJP. It put the ruling BJP in a political conundrum : How would it uphold the sanctity of the citizen's register process without dampening its electoral prospects ?
The amendment to the citizenship act is a legislative solution to this political dilemma. It allows the Hindu migrants and their India-born offspring to access expedited citizenship as refugees, while Muslim migrants remain illegal and subject to incarceration and deportation.
Vast implications
The act clearly undermines the basic tenets of India's democracy. Attaching citizenship rights to religious affiliation runs counter to the letter and spirit of India's constitution and constitutional morality.
It goes against a long and rich history of religious pluralism, secularism and defensible right to equal treatment before law. It will permanently damage India's pluralistic social fabric.
This act, along with other recent BJP government initiatives, will generate lasting mistrust among the 200 million Muslims living in India and kindle the fires of extremism, and it risks starting a vicious cycle of violence.
There is also legitimate fear that the act will change the unique ethnic make-up and Indigenous way of life in India's northeastern states. It has already thrown large sections of India into turmoil.
The constitutional order in India has successfully endured many challenges. But the current onslaught looks more perilous than anything before given the expanded mandate for the BJP government in the May 2019 election, and its unabashed agenda to turn India into a Hindu nation. The updated citizenship act is the institutional inauguration of this process.
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In architecture, form follows function.
And so it is that businesses, having become convinced of the value of teamwork, are redesigning offices to accommodate the teams.
Take Braun Inc. The small appliance manufacturer and Gillette Co. subsidiary recently celebrated its move from a traditional office building in Lynnfield, Mass. to a two-story, 38,000-square-foot site where employees meet at oases furnished with cafe-style tables and chairs, computer terminals for Internet browsing, and aquariums stocked with exotic fish.
"We wanted to change the rules and create a more open environment that would encourage communication and collaboration," said president Bruce Cleverly. "We had already restructured our business by creating cross-functional teams that allow our finance, logistics, sales, and marketing people to work together based on specific products. We needed an environment that reflected our new approach."
Braun is hardly alone. Over the last decade, International Business Machines Corp., Chrysler Corp., AT&T Co., and Ford Motor Corp. have all redesigned their office spaces with an eye toward flexibility and open communication.
Not surprising, the office-furniture industry has capitalized on the trend, aggressively marketing flexible furnishings for the flexible workspace.
One example: Personal Harbor, a Steelcase Inc. product that helps companies build their own collaborative office spaces with cabinets on wheels, screens with dual functions, and other portable furnishings.
To be sure, the much-maligned cubicle of Dilbert fame still exists, but it's undergone a transformation. At Braun, the standard cubicle now includes stylish glass openings that allow employees to see beyond their own gray walls and reflect light from the banks of windows that line the office.
Braun's Cleverly described the impetus for creating the new, open office: With company sales expected to reach the $500 million mark next year, the firm needed more space, giving it a ready-made opportunity to move to a more open floor plan.
So Braun hired architects Jung & Brennan Inc. to draw up plans for renovation of some additional leased space. Under the architects' direction, contractors tore down walls, connected two floors by way of a spiral staircase and created a meeting place in the lobby with the look and feel of a living room. Additionally, the new floor plan encouraged socializing by developing islands where the company's 170 employees could meet in small groups.
The company still uses offices, but windows diminish the isolation executives used to grapple with at the old site. And strategically placed meeting places make it possible for people to gather for impromptu or planned discussions throughout the day.
Jim Barter is a believer. The Braun product manager says the new office has encouraged brainstorming and reduced the amount of time it takes to gather information.
"It's easier to connect with the people you need and share ideas. You just walk out the office door," he said.


Its been a long time coming for undisputed Afro Pop singer CINO based in BEEHIVE (BAUCHI) after successfully winning the hearts of AFRO POP faithfuls in the state he hardly turn a stone wrong. This album is a great fusion of dope instrumentals and Lyrics which foretells the stories of daily struggles of trying to make it to the top tier. CINO showcase his great lyrical ability which is something rare in Afro pop stars of nowadays. Based on studies CINO kind of music is highly palatable in the Nigeria music scene and is only a captive of time away from making it. Don't get it twisted get ready to relieve your stress with good music.
Victor Okworie Gabriel also known as Cino wanne is a singer and song writer. An indigene of Benue state, born and raised in Bauchi state. His dad being a pastor does not support his career choice.he never got that parental support for his music in one way or the other. He started music 4 years ago but decided to drop an album 2017 to appease with the streets daily hustle and struggles with a target of going viral nationwide and even beyond the shores of Nigeria because CINO so much believe in his music.
Cino worked with artistes like BOC,C-man,Leerhymes, Stesh, Prowess, Classiq, Vicky brown, Kalito, Flamez, Trinocoaster Costa, Pedrosongs, Kammill and many more artiste. Cino worked with the following producers; C-man,Shambee puzzle, Dj harry, Josh stix, Spyzy,Samkeys,Pedrosongs,Kds,Dj ku, Scopee,Breezee black...etc.
Arico shot feeling my self video, Mr dickson gifted hands shot Sweet Sensation and Rewind, J.barka shot tonight so far CINO has 4 music videos to his credits but is yet to release sweet sensation and tonight videos officially. CINO's biggest inspiration is Fela.
Qouting CINO on how he cope without his parents support in music.
CINO WANNE: "Mehn is not easy but my strength is the love and passion i have for music which makes me stay focus and put in a lot of hard work, for the records i have worked in restaurants, Hotels as a waiter also worked in companies like Cadbury and Hammaz Communication, i sold sugar cane before, i even work as a Security Personnel before, i did all this to support my music career, coz in reality i dont get any support from my family, i believe in God and i believe in determination and hard work"


I don't know what it is going to take to convince the Republicans that they will lose if a national election takes place that motivates the bases of both parties. Their base isn't big enough to win a national election, so they can only win if the Democrats are unmotivated to go to the polls. That is a common occurrence in midterm elections, but it not going to happen in 2016 whether or not Hillary Clinton is the Democrats' nominee. It's true that Hillary will motivate the right to give money and volunteer and to show up at the polls, but that won't help them defeat her. They will lose, possibly in historic, devastating fashion.
There is really only one way that a Republican can win in 2016, and that is by not running as a movement conservative. The party has tried nominating people who aren't really part of the movement, but they have not allowed those candidates to separate themselves from the movement. Both John McCain and Mitt Romney might have won the presidency if they had been allowed to run as moderates, but they both had to sacrifice that label to win the nomination.
With each passing year, movement conservatism becomes less viable as a national ideology. But the party is firmly in control of the movement's adherents. Hillary Clinton may fire these folks up more than any conceivable alternative, but this will not help the GOP one iota.


A good reason to listen to your body.
Pain is a warning signal of the body – it notifies us that something is not right. If we respond to it in time, we can take the right steps. However, pain loses its signal function if it persists, is recurrent or lasts for a long time without the cause being able to be treated – as is the case with most forms of headache and back pain. This is a good reason for pain sufferers to listen more closely to their bodies – after all, they themselves sense what will help and relieve their own bodies. Understanding the context of the pain they experience is the first step towards coping with it.
How and why do we perceive pain?
The body is equipped with pain receptors that generate nerve impulses in response to certain stimuli like heat or injuries. These impulses are transmitted to the brain. The pain signal is transmitted via the spinal cord to the brain stem, where it triggers vegetative reactions like profuse sweating, nausea, pallor or palpitations. The brain can influence its perception of pain by producing chemical messengers, or neurotransmitters. It is assumed that pain-relieving substances can block the pain signals at the receptors in the spinal cord.
When pain affects the spirit.
People with chronic pain are under enormous psychological strain. The condition restricts their enjoyment of life, causes loss of sleep and in the worst case leads to withdrawal from friends and hobbies. Pain can also lead to fear that the disease is getting worse, as well as to depression. This is a dire situation, since psychological disorders in turn can trigger an increased sense of pain. For this reason it is very important not to let pain become chronic – for instance, by persistently ignoring it. Once the pain occurs, it is sensible to stop all behaviours and reactions that can sustain or aggravate it. It is import to avoid stress, get enough sleep, have a healthy diet, plan time out in the form of breaks and deliberate relaxation in between, avoid alcohol and nicotine, etc. Speaking to your GP about your problems can also be helpful. If necessary, your GP can recommend a specialist who can help you with psychological issues.
If you burn your hand on a hot stovetop, you retract it as soon as you sense the pain. The pain you feel after breaking a leg ensures that you move your leg as little as possible. These pains are acute and occur with little warning, since they signalise a danger or malfunction. Acute pain can usually be traced back to a precisely defined cause which can as a rule be remedied.
Another kind of pain is chronic pain. It has actually lost its warning function. Unfortunately the causes can often no longer be determined. The pain can only be treated with difficulty or in the worst case it is permanently unable to be eliminated.
Osteoporosis (= bone atrophy), etc.
What can the doctor do about pain?
There is no patent remedy for pain. Every type of pain requires a particular treatment. Since every patient responds differently to the individual methods, it is very important to speak openly with your doctor. Fortunately, these days thanks to great progress made in pain medication, your doctor has many effective medications and therapies available to treat you.
The most effective treatment methods for pain.


Delivers a realistic, skeuomorphic touch and feel instead of the basic iPhone camera.
Apple iPhone owners love the default camera app not because it offers a simple UI but because it is easy to use. With iOS 8.0 came additional manual control support for developers, which is why we have seen an explosion of camera apps on the App Store after that.
Red Dot Camera, made by Lifelike app, Inc is another camera app that delivers manual controls for your iPhone, but in a legendary, Leica way.
The app is supposed to replicate a Leica camera and its simplicity of use, by putting all the manual controls out in the open, making them accessible. Contrary to the default camera app on the iPhone, the settings are out there next to the viewfinder where you can tweak them as per your liking.
You can set your own ISO (30 to 1600), shutter speed and change your exposure on the fly without peeping into a menu. Talking about menus, there is one, but it tucks away the stuff that you will not need to tweak while shooting.
There is even a manual ring-like control, that you will even show you a focus lock preview window when setting focus.
Who is this app for? Well, it's for the enthusiast who has the patience for a long exposure shot; and the non-availability of filters (just a B & W mode), indicates that it is not for the Instagram audience. Indeed, this is one camera app that has its priorities right and comes at a Rs 190 price tag, taking you back in the days of Apple's Skeuomorphic past.


Stand out in 🌙 search results.
Tell your friends, "Here's my new site! Type this into your phone: 🌙.fm"
Forward 🌙 to your existing site / podcast / social media / Instagram / Twitter / Facebook / Etsy / Shopify!
Point your phone's camera at the screen to transfer 🌙!


(Solved) What is RFID tags and how do companies use them to improve their shipping process?
What is RFID tags and how do companies use them to improve their shipping process?
RFID tags improve the efficiency and accuracy of tracking inventory movement. With bar codes, the item or box must be positioned properly so that the bar code can be read by the scanner. Switching to an RFID tag eliminates this need to align items with scanners; instead, the tags can be read as the inventory moves throughout the warehouse. In addition, each RFID tag can store detailed information to facilitate proper storage and routing of the inventory item. For companies that handle large volumes of merchandise, such as Federal Express and UPS, RFID's ability to reduce by even a few seconds the time it takes to process each package can yield enormous cost savings.
Solved What is the difference between active and passive RFID tags?
Solved With RFID tags, a(n) ________ tag has a battery on board to energize it.
Solved What are RFID tags and why would a mass merchant such as Walmart consider using them?
Solved Shipping efficiency can often be improved by replacing RFID tags with bar codes.


HUNDREDS of would-be entrepreneurs flocked to Wrexham last month to attend more than 60 events during Wrexham Business Week.
The event was organised by Wrexham Council's Economic Development Department, supported by the Welsh Development Agency (WDA), and economic development manager, Peter Scott, said the organisers were delighted with the success of the week.
He said: 'Wrexham has an increasingly entrepreneurial culture. Many people dream of running their own businesses, but don't know where to start.
'Wrexham Business Week included a number of events which provided information for people considering becoming self-employed or setting up a new business, as well as events for people who want to develop an existing business or their own personal skills.
'Firms employing up to 49 people make up 97% of the total number of businesses in Wales and together they provide more than 45% of all jobs. It is therefore important for us to support new small businesses and encourage the growth of existing ones.
High profile speakers during the week included Falklands hero, Simon Weston, whose own experiences demonstrated what can be achieved with a positive attitude; financial guru and presenter of the BBC TV series Your Money or Your Life, Alvin Hall, who shared his experiences from growing up in a small farming community to becoming a Wall Street high flyer, and TV presenter Quentin Willson, who took his audience on a whirlwind tour of the global motor industry and shared his strong views on a range of topics.
Wrexham Businessline, based in Wrexham Library, celebrated 10 years of providing business support and advice by looking into the future of the business world with Professor Richard Scase, who predicted that large, global organisations will become less and less competitive, with small businesses becoming more and more successful.
Elsewhere, there was advice on effective websites and e-commerce, support for innovation, guidance on sourcing grants and controlling debts, tips for successful selling, maintaining personal safety, reducing stress, providing good customer service, and increasing profits.
The annual Mind Your Own Business exhibition drew the attention of BBC TV's Working Lunch team, who were impressed with the range of advice on show.
Peter Scott added: 'There was an excellent response to Wrexham Business Week this year and people are already asking what we are planning for next year's programme - at the moment we can only say it will be another mix of information, inspiration, motivation, and plenty of fun.' Information on support and advice for people considering self-employment, starting a new business or expanding an existing one is available from Wrexham Council's Economic Development Department on (01978) 366366 or e-mail business@wrexham.gov.uk.


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The European Commission's ruling on Apple and Ireland
Today the European Commission announced its (internally) final ruling, subject to appeal in the European courts, concerning Apple and Ireland. The verdict holds that Ireland gave Apple illegal tax subsidies, in the form of advance transfer pricing rulings, and that Apple must therefore pay Ireland $14.5 billion relating to a ten-year period. The EC press release is available here.
Apple has issued a press release stating what "responsible corporate citizens" they are, and condemning the EC's "unprecedented" interference into EU nations' tax autonomy. They're "proud" of their contributions to the Irish economy, mainly from providing 6,000 local jobs per year, and don't threaten to leave Ireland, but do say they'll keep on fighting in the courts.
BTW, $14.5 billion of under-taxation over 10 years, relative to a reasonably defensible transfer price, divided by 60,000 jobs (6,000 per year for 10 years), amounts to more than $240,000 per job per year. Rather a lot compared to what I presume were the average salaries. But that isn't necessarily money that Ireland voluntarily passed up, given the tax competition point (Apple could have gone elsewhere).
In any event, while I think the EC's side of this dispute has far more legal and policy merit than Apple's side, I don't believe in being overly moralistic about this. Apple was doing what one would expect it to do, given its incentives.
I have a lot more to say about this dispute and the other EU state aid cases, much of it focused on the US vs. EU aspect that featured prominently in the White Paper that the US Treasury released last week. But while I will be speaking to the press, the 30 page paper I've written on the subject is embargoed (other than for limited informal sharing on request) until Monday, September 19, when it will appear in Tax Notes. I still need to make a few small revisions to reflect the new EC ruling.
Just with regard to Apple, $14.5 billion sounds like a lot of money, even for them. And it is a lot of money, which helps explain why they and Ireland (which wants to preserve its credibility as an offeror of special deals to multinationals) will be fighting the ruling so hard. The stake is also large enough (especially when combined with amounts potentially due from other U.S. companies with lots of U.S. shareholders) to explain the U.S. Treasury's interest. It's not necessarily in our national interest for large sums of money to end up in European hands rather than our hands, simply because we are us and they are them. But that is distinct from the issue of whether we should be self-righteously fulminating about things that we probably would have wanted to do ourselves, if in their shoes.
Back to Apple, not only do they have huge cash reserves that are (metaphorically if not literally) sitting around in tax havens, but the reason for the size of the tax charge is that they shifted A LOT of profits - illegally, in the EC's view - from Ireland to tax havens during the 10-year period at issue. Ireland's tax rate is only 12.5 percent, so the $14.5B presumably reflects more than $100B of profit-shifting over the 10 years. So what's happened to Apple - rightly or wrongly, validly or improperly - is that they are ending up paying a 12.5% tax rate, rather than close to zero, on huge profit flows that they enjoyed over a 10-year period. One thus might want to un-cue the violins a bit, even if one sides with Apple in the dispute.
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Home Latest PRSummit: Millennials Want To Know How Companies Are Solving Social Problems
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PRSummit: Millennials Want To Know How Companies Are Solving Social Problems
'It's less about philanthropy and more about problem-solving.'
Paul Holmes 28 Oct 2014 // 3:00PM GMT
MIAMI—The millennial generation care less about corporate philanthropy and stories of big cash donations, and more about the ways in which corporations are solving social problems, Target vice president of global affairs Daniel Duty told an audience of industry leaders at the third Global Public Relations Summit in Miami this morning.
"It is very clear that the millennial generation is very interested in outcomes and less interested in input," said Duty. "We pledged $1 billion to education, but this new generation doesn't care about the money; they care about how much change you have made. It's less about philanthropy and more about problem-solving. We have to acknowledge that the story won't always be about great progress—sometimes it's about the obstacles to that progress—and we have to keep telling stories about the journey."
The panel was led by Michael Lustina, president and CEO, research and data insights, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, which is today releasing new research into socially-conscious consumers. The firm found a segment—about 17 percent of consumers—who want to spend money with companies that share their values.
"Those consumers have always existed," said Lustina, "but today you can identify these people and target them just as you would any other segment, and they can become part of your business strategy."
Michael McCaffrey, senior director of corporate communications, Johnson&Johnson, has been going through just that kind of exercise. The company has identified those stakeholders—from consumers to investors—and conducted qualitative one-on-one interviews to encourage them to articulate the specific behaviors they expect from the company. "It will allow us to identify where CSR is most relevant, and to develop stakeholder-specific strategies on social responsibility and other areas."
The initiative has already led to some changes.
"CSR is nothing new to Johnson&Johnson," McCaffrey said. "It's a part of our DNA and it's anchored in our credo, which states that our first responsibility we have is to the moms and the dads, the patients, the doctors and our nurses who use our products. It's something we embrace internally. It hasn't changed for us, but what has changed is our willingness to talk about it. We used to say that Johnson&Johnson 'like to be caught doing good,' but we are trying to change that, to tell our story, to be more proactive, in a way that is not boastful but is authentic."
There is an emphasis, he said, on being more evidence-based in developing a CSR strategy, and communicating it, and on being able to point to very specific outcomes in terms or reputation. The company has developed a new reputation intelligence system, with digital listening at the core, to identify where conversations are originating and who is driving those conversations.
Claudia Cortes, vice president of corporate affairs, SAP Asia-Pacific, Japan, is engaged in a similar exercise: "We have to identify those customers with whom we have common interests, and to identify their priorities."
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Chris Owen
If you told me when I was a kid that one day I be in radio, I would be ecstatic. If you said I'd be on the station I grew up with I would say no way...but here I am! I grew up in north Amherst but have lived in Hamburg and currently reside in South Buffalo. I'm engaged to the love of my life Ariel, who couldn't care less I'm on the radio...keeps me humble! My mom and dad are a huge reason I kept chasing what I wanted to do, which was always country radio. Other than family and friends, country music is my biggest passion. You'll hear me talk about fun facts and the charts a lot, so be prepared! haha. You can hear me babble during the overnights during the week. Find me on Twitter, Chris Owen (@fiddlesabre).
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"This Dance Has No End" is a dance dedicated to performance artist, drag king and gender activist Diane Torr who passed away on the 31st of May 2017. Exactly one year after her death, I stand inside a black room and dance in silence. A single shot, a single dance, a fusion of male and female energy, an improvised ode to life and death.
The instant composition is inspired by an urban traditional dance, called zeybekiko, rooted in the Middle East and originally danced only by men as solo improvisation. Here it is s danced by a hybrid manifestation of myself, a fusion of the female and male aspects that forms my identity...In silence I can still here Diane's voice speaking about owning the space: "You need to take space with all your being.
Own the space". I lift my arms and I start dancing like there is no tomorrow. The camera follows without invading my personal space. The dance is not edited in post-production because the aim is not to "please"and "excite" the eye of the viewer but to invite a collective listening and owning of the space.


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