It's 64 degrees here this morning in Bryson City and we're expected to get somewhere near 80 today for the high. I wish I could say it's pouring rain out of buckets, but that's not the case. We did receive some rain in the area last evening around dark. Some parts of the Smokies got slight amounts around Raven Fork and Straight Fork. The Tuckasegee River watershed got a little rain also. Streams in the Smokies are still low and clear. The fishing has really taken off on higher elevation streams above 2,500ft. Even though it's hot like it's Summer, the trout know fall spawning season and winter is closing in on them and they better start fattening up. We are happy to report dry fly action is really top notch right now in the park. Trout are crushing dries and terrestrials fished near fast oxygenated riffles and runs. Grab a double handful of black ants and beetles before heading into the park this weekend to fish. Due to the low water and hotter than normal temperatures we have suspended our Hazel Creek Back Country camp for next weekend. Recent scouting runs to Hazel earlier this week made us think twice about bringing anglers here at this time. Hazel Creek is low and in need of some rain. The water was warm of course on the first several miles below Bone Valley camp and in our effort to protect this valuable resource we have decided to suspended this trip. It's our fear that hook mortality could be high and that releasing fish was going to be way too much stress on the trout. If you're headed to Hazel this weekend, please keep this in mind. If you do fish there, hike up above Bone Valley and land your fish quickly and don't take them out of the water. This same rule should apply to Eagle Creek, Twenty Mile Creek, lower Forney Creek, and lower portions of Abrams Creek. Often times we will be reporting on other rivers and streams in the Smoky Mountain region. We do guide on more than just the Smokies. The Tuckasegee River is flowing very low this morning, 299cfs near Bryson City. That's about as low as I've seen Bryson City in a long time. Of course water temperatures are fairly warm, hovering around 71- 72 degrees yesterday with no generation. When generation hits that temp comes down around 63 to 64. Smallmouth Bass action on the Tuckasegee River has been good. We're catching good numbers of Smallmouth and Spotted bass with a few Walleye in the mix. Big fish love a slow easy meal. So work your offerings really slow and get them in the bottom of the deep oxygenated runs. We still have sections on the Tuckasegee River that we are running float trips on for bass. We are not fishing for trout on the Tuckasegee River at this time, only for bass. Traffic is going to be a bear in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg this weekend. The Fall Rod Run comes to town and with it hoards of traffic. Expect heavy congestion and long delays late afternoon and evenings. Use back roads or take the long way around, it's going to be much quicker this weekend. Or you can do what I do, grab a lawn chair and sit on the sidewalks of Pigeon Forge and enjoy the hot rods! We'll see you on the water!


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Q: Add a request ID to slf4j logging in Micronaut Question
When a request comes into the server I would like to interrogate the headers and see if there is a specific header, if so I want to grab that headers value and add it to the SLF4Js MDC, if it doesn't exist I will generate my own (see code below).
Issue
I'm using Micronaut (v2.5.5) for the first time, been using Spring Boot for a while. With Spring Boot I was able to add a Filter method which would add a request ID to SLF4Js MDC context, so that when elements where logged it would include that in the log message.
example

2021-07-01 19:12:57.104 LogLevel=INFO rid=3568b2d7-d8f1-4d7d-9e8d-49f2be727255, 1 --- [nio-8080-exec-8] .....

This is failing in Micronaut, I presume because requests can be handed off between threads and the MDC is thread specific.
example

2021/01/07 18:50:05.021 INFO [qtp1561347421-43] c.c.dex.css.controllers.MyEndpoint rid= - .....

Is there any mechanism in Micronaut to support this functionality without having to switch to Jaeger etc...? If so what is it?
Here is the code that I tried, which doesn't work
@Slf4j
@Filter("/v1.0/**")
public class RequestId extends OncePerRequestHttpServerFilter {
    public static final String X_REQUEST_ID = "X-REQUEST-ID";
    public static final String RID = "rid";

    @Override
    protected Publisher<MutableHttpResponse<?>> doFilterOnce(HttpRequest<?> request, ServerFilterChain chain) {
        // Was a request ID passed in, if so grab it
        String requestID = request.getHeaders().get(X_REQUEST_ID);
        if (null == requestID) {
            // no create it
            requestID = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
        }
        log.info("Storing RID in MDC and request: " + requestID);
        MDC.put(RID, requestID);
    }

I did try to put the rid in the request object (passed into doFilter), and then use that in my controller, e.g.
@Controller(value = "v1.0/")
public class XmlEndpoint {
    @Post(uri = "request")
    public MyResponse request(@NonNull @Body(value = "MyRequest") MyRequest request) {
        Optional<HttpRequest<Object>> optionalReq = ServerRequestContext.currentRequest();
            if (optionalReq.isPresent()) {
                HttpRequest<Object> curRequest = optionalReq.get();
                // Get the request ID from the request
                MDC.put(RequestId.RID, (String) curRequest.getAttribute(X_REQUEST_ID).orElse(UNKNOWN_RID));
            }
....
    }
}

In this case the log messages contain the RID, but that seems a bit convoluted.
I did a search and saw, what I thought where, several related issues, however; the answers didn't make a lot of sense (Micronaut newbie, sorry) or didn't seem to have a solution that showed what needed to be done.

*

*https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/issues/3106

*https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/issues/1669

*Others
I also looked at the doc which talked about the annotation @NewSpan, but this seem specifically for distributed tracing (Jaeger & Zipkin), so I didn't try it.

Thanks in advance

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using std::vector;

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ddDrakeWrapper::ddDrakeWrapper(QObject* parent) : QObject(parent)
{
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ddDrakeWrapper::~ddDrakeWrapper()
{
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
QVector<double> ddDrakeWrapper::resolveCenterOfPressure(const ddDrakeModel& ddModel,
    const QVector<int>& ft_frame_ids,
    const QVector<double> & ft_in,
    const QVector<double> & normal_in,
    const QVector<double> & point_on_contact_plane_in) const
{
  // Assumes size of ft_in = size of ft_frame_inds*6, in order (one wrench at a time)
  // returns a 4-vector, which is packed output of RBM resolveCOP, with vector first
  ddSharedPtr<RigidBodyManipulator> model = ddModel.getDrakeRBM();
  Vector3d normal; for (int i=0; i<normal_in.size(); i++) normal[i] = normal_in[i];
  Vector3d point_on_contact_plane; for (int i=0; i<point_on_contact_plane_in.size(); i++) point_on_contact_plane[i] = point_on_contact_plane_in[i];
  std::vector<ForceTorqueMeasurement> force_torque_measurements;
  for (int i=0; i<ft_frame_ids.size(); i++){
    ForceTorqueMeasurement ft;
    ft.frame_idx = ft_frame_ids[i];
    ft.wrench = Eigen::Matrix<double, 6, 1>();
    for (int j=0; j<6; j++) ft.wrench[j] = ft_in[i*6+j];
    force_torque_measurements.push_back(ft);
  }
  std::pair<Eigen::Vector3d, double> ret_eigen = model->resolveCenterOfPressure(force_torque_measurements, normal, point_on_contact_plane);
  QVector<double> ret; for (int i=0; i<3; i++) ret << ret_eigen.first[i];
  ret << ret_eigen.second;
  return ret;
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
double ddDrakeWrapper::drakeSignedDistanceInsideConvexHull(int num_pts, const QVector<double>& pts_in, const QVector<double> & q_in) const
{
  Matrix<double, 2, Eigen::Dynamic> pts(2, num_pts);
  for (int i=0; i<num_pts; i++){
    pts(0,i) = pts_in[i*2];
    pts(1,i) = pts_in[i*2+1];
  }
  Vector2d q; q[0] = q_in[0]; q[1] = q_in[1];
  return signedDistanceInsideConvexHull(pts, q);
}

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Then & Now: How Shasta Wielded "Mom Power" to Achieve Her Dreams
Shasta Porter never wanted to be a statistic.
Even though she was raised in the foster care system and had a rocky childhood, Shasta changed her family's trend and kept going back to education as her way out of dead-end jobs and a life of struggle, stress, and uncertainty.
"I didn't want to be broken down by that like my biological mom," Shasta said. "I wanted to get a better life and future for me and my child."
Her "before" story includes a stalled graduation and lots of frustration, but Shasta's "after" story is an inspiring victory. She shows the power of parenthood and how it propelled her to finally unlock the opportunities that came with her degree!
Shasta's Life "Then"
When Shasta was young, she never thought she would go to college. "No one pushed me to go; it was not something anyone in my family ever considered."
She did see how NOT having an education could result in stress and struggle. Her biological mom didn't have an education and had dropped out of school.
Shasta watched how her mom was broken down by the routine of dead-end jobs. The consequences were severe for Shasta and her siblings, as they grew up in the foster care system. Living in poor communities surrounded by violence, Shasta found herself in the mother role for her siblings.
One bright spot during high school was basketball. She says, "It was my only outlet for what was going on in my life."
Even though she didn't have positive role models in her family, her basketball team friends and coaches did influence her to go to college. She also received a sports scholarship, and after high school she enrolled in Copiah Lincoln Community College. She played basketball as she also earned her associate degree.
By the time she transitioned to Jackson State University to pursue her bachelor's degree, she had an academic scholarship instead of an athletic one. Her caretaking nature led her to choose to major in education in hopes that it would help her with her dream of working with students with disabilities. However, during her bachelor's degree studies she felt confused about her long-term career plans, and she switched her major several times.
Her first year at JSU also came with rough personal challenges. Her younger sisters and brothers were once again removed from their new home and put into the foster care system. Shasta was very worried about them and wished she could be there to help, so her school performance was affected.
The family stress led to a state of depression, and she lost her academic scholarship when her grades dipped. After this, school became a financial burden too, because she had to pay her own way.
Although she had a solid foundation for her bachelor's degree, making progress became much more difficult. For some periods of time, she worked warehousing jobs at night so that she could attend school during the day.
Her frustrating work situations motivated her all the more to keep working toward her degree… she saw how difficult it was to find a satisfying career without more education!
Then a higher priority came into her life: her son Sha'Vonne was born in December 2012!
A long road to graduation
When Sha'Vonne was born, Shasta needed just a few classes for her degree, and she managed to keep making progress. When her son was just a few months old, she was planning to walk in the graduation ceremony, but a month before commencement she discovered that she lacked one key class. JSU policies at the time allowed her to walk in the ceremony, but she still needed to officially finish her bachelor's degree.
Parents know how challenging it is to make progress when they're caring for small humans! Even as a single mom, Shasta continued to make attempts to finish her degree while juggling work and caring for her son.
"I felt discouraged in school, and it seemed like I kept hitting brick walls trying to get my degree," Shasta said. "It was like I was on a hamster wheel, not going anywhere. I was just doing the same thing every day and getting tired of it."
She also felt very frustrated because it was so difficult to find a good job in her chosen field without a bachelor's degree. Even though she had completed so many college classes, she still lacked the credential that so many employers required before she could even "get in the door" for valuable jobs.
Finally, about three years after her "almost graduation," Shasta felt settled into a new job working with people who had cognitive disabilities. As she felt stability in her personal life, she began to explore what it would take to go back to college and finish her degree.
She returned to JSU once again to see what it would take to finish her final class and complete her degree. That's when her financial aid advisor told her about the Complete 2 Compete (C2C) program. It was a new program that brought together all of Mississippi's 24 public community colleges and universities and offered new resources for adults who were returning to college to finish their degrees.
Shasta was able to apply immediately and was quickly connected with a C2C coach. Her coach figured out a graduation plan for Shasta, and within months, she was officially a college graduate!
Thanks to C2C, Shasta had finally finished her degree in Professional Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Secondary Education.
Shasta's Life "Now"
For Shasta, a degree is NOT "just a piece of paper." Even though she had completed almost all of the classes needed for her degree, she was still held back from the benefits of her college experience because she didn't have her degree.
Before she had her degree, she wasn't considered for job positions because she didn't have a large network of connections who could vouch for her experience. After graduating, she had more job opportunities because her degree showed her qualification for positions.
Another huge benefit of her college experience has been the inner strength that she now feels. During her early years, she was timid, but now she considers herself to be a leader with confidence to stand up for herself and others.
"I used to be shy and quiet, but now I'm outgoing and talkative," Shasta shares. "This has allowed me to build better relationships with colleagues and strengthen my network."
Now that she has her degree, she has been able to advance in her career in special education. She was able to apply for a program that allowed people with bachelor's degrees to become special ed teachers even if they had not focused specifically on teaching during their undergrad. Since Shasta had changed majors several times during her undergrad, this certificate program was a fast-track to career success.
She still works with people who have cognitive disabilities, but she is now the teacher instead of the classroom assistant. She's realizing her goals instead of slogging through repetitive tasks. "I am working with a purpose, and I have a true passion for my career," Shasta said.
Her income has also dramatically increased. Instead of working dead-end jobs and living paycheck to paycheck, she now feels energized by her work. She's so grateful to be financially independent, and she's breaking the cycle of poverty that her family experienced during her teen years.
Shasta also feels prepared to serve her students. In the past, she felt frustrated because she wanted to do more to support them, but she didn't have the education and experience to help them. Now, she feels prepared to work with anyone from any walk of life.
"Through my journey, I've gained patience, understanding, and empathy for others," Shasta said. "And I just got married! My husband is so proud of all I've accomplished."
Before college, Shasta was just trying to survive. Now she has a different checklist for the future that includes traveling with her husband, continuing to see her son grow up, and spending quality time with friends and family. She is even graduating with her master's degree this year and has plans for giving back to her community and working in higher education.
Shasta's story is also setting an example for her extended family! Her foster mom is proud of her college accomplishments, and because of her example, her sister and brother-in-law also returned to college at JSU. "We bleed blue and white," she laughs.
"Degrees are worth a whole lot. For me, it's about how you plan on living your life and what your dreams are. Even if you get your degree and you want to be an entrepreneur, you still need those skills and college is where you get those," Shasta said. "We see rappers going back to school. Wherever you're planning on going in life – even if you're not going to work a 9-5 job like me — you're going to still need a piece of paper to get you in the door," she shares from her experience.
Mom Power
Even though Shasta experienced all the challenges of accomplishing college while also being a parent, she realizes that being a mother gave her the courage and focus to persevere through the obstacles.
"My son was my motivation and strength to keep going because I didn't want him to grow up the same way I did," she shares. "God gave me him so I could flourish."
She also sees how her role as "mom" helped to advance her career. "I feel like raising my son has helped me learn how to be a better teacher," she says of her current job.
Being a mom honed her ability to prioritize. She learned how to put herself, her child, and her studies first by reminding herself of the value of long-term rewards rather than short-term gratification.
It's hard to change the trend of your family's past, but Shasta kept coming back to her college studies and has now "broken the mold" that seemed to confine her future. She sees the bright side to her struggle: "I am grateful that I sacrificed my 20s to be a mother to my son and get an education, and now I can reward myself in my 30s," she shares.
Motherhood + College?
If you're a parent, you know that it feels impossible to keep up with all the demands of life. Your time is not your own, and you're forced to make hard decisions all the time. However, like Shasta discovered, being a parent also sharpens your skills and can make you more productive and tenacious than you were before.
The Complete 2 Compete (C2C) program is a vital resource for parents who want to go back to college so they can make a better future for themselves and their families. Adults can access grant money to help pay for college. Additionally, each C2C student is connected with a coach who takes care of much of the paperwork (like credit transfers and class planning) so that students can focus on studying. Many other resources are available. To find out more, complete a quick survey to find out how C2C could help you complete a degree.
Moms deserve to reach their goals too. As Shasta shares, "It was one of the best feelings to be out of school for years and finally be able to come back and finish it. My life has flourished since getting a degree."
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{image_1}"I lift up my eyes to the hills—where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth."
Psalm 121:1–2, NIV
Take Me Out To The Ball Game!
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At 36, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by becoming the youngest player ever inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. In his short career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, this left-handed Jewish pitcher managed to earn three Cy Young Awards and was voted the World Series Most Valuable Player in 1963 and 1965, despite refusing to play in the first game of the 1965 Series because it was scheduled on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). At 71, Sandy Koufax has made baseball history again by being symbolically drafted to the Modi'in Miracle, one of six teams that make up the new Israel Baseball League (IBL).
"With an Outstretched Arm…"
{image_1}"For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come…" (Song of Songs 2:11–12a). What are the signs that Israel's long awaited spring has arrived? Are they the final passing of winter's cold, wet weather, the budding of almond trees, the joyful songs of birds, or perhaps the red poppies and cyclamen carpeting the hillsides? According to the Hebrew Scriptures (Gen.–Mal., Tanach), the coming of spring is marked by the arrival of Pesach (Passover). "Observe the month of Abib [spring], and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night" (Deut. 16:1).
Jerusalem Day–40th Anniversary of the Reunification of Jerusalem
{image_1}The liberation of Jerusalem on June 7, 1967 (Iyar 28 on the Hebrew calendar) marked the first time in thousands of years that the entire city of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism, came under Jewish sovereignty.
Yad Lakashish "Tzedakah In Action"
{image_1}The Hebrew word tzedakah is often translated as "charity." However, when understood from a Jewish viewpoint, it is much different. The root word for tzedakah is tzedak, which means righteousness, justice, or fairness. "In Judaism, giving to the poor is not viewed as a generous, magnanimous act; it is simply an act of justice and righteousness, the performance of a duty, giving the poor their due" (www.jewfaq.org). Maimonides, a 12th-century Jewish sage, organized tzedakah into eight levels, from giving begrudgingly (level one) to giving when neither party knows the other's identity (level seven). However, "the highest degree of tzedakah," said Maimonides, "is helping others help themselves."
Special Olympics Israel makes a Splash
Special Olympics Israel made a big splash when nine of its athletes traveled to California to participate in the Robert C. Placak Tiburon Mile. Athletes swim one nautical mile from San Francisco Bay's Angel Island to the shores of downtown Tiburon. This is not a Special Olympics event, but the world's biggest and most competitive open-water swim, in which Olympic and World Champion swimmers from the nations participate.
Searching for Meaning in the Holocaust
We are dedicating this center spread to Yom Hashoah or Holocaust Memorial Day, which falls this year on April 15. At a time when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is asserting that the Holocaust is a Jewish myth, we believe it is vitally important to publish the truth. Thousands will be participating in a March of the Living in Poland, walking 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from Auschwitz to Birkenau, two of Hitler's concentration camps, in remembrance of the 6 million Jews who died during the Holocaust. In Israel, at the sound of a siren, everyone will stop to observe two minutes of silence, and memorial ceremonies will take place throughout the Land.
Remembering Yuri Shtern — Founder of the Christian Allies Caucus
"Israel lost a hero when our dearly beloved Yuri Shtern passed away after a long fight with cancer. As I marched in the funeral procession with thousands of Israelis and other Christian leaders, I thought to myself, not only Israel lost a hero, not only Israel lost a great man, but the Christian world lost one of their best Israeli friends. I for one am going to mourn over the loss of this great man."
—Rebecca J. Brimmer, January 17, 2007
A Reader's Point of View
We received the following letter from a Jewish reader in Jerusalem in response to our October 2006 Israel Teaching Letter. We thought you would enjoy it as much as we did.
The Jordan River—A Political Bargaining Chip
Naaman the leper was told by Elisha to dip seven times in the Jordan River and be healed. Today Gidon Bromberg, the Israel director of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME), says the Jordan River is a health hazard because of sewage dumped into the Jordan. "Almost no fresh water is flowing down the Jordan River anymore. It's true there are springs along the way which replenish [it] a little bit, but unfortunately it has become the dumping yard of countries," said Mira Edelstein, an expert on the Jordan Valley and a spokeswoman for FoEME.
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import {Router, routes} from 'chrome://os-settings/chromeos/os_settings.js';
import {webUIListenerCallback} from 'chrome://resources/js/cr.m.js';
import {getDeepActiveElement} from 'chrome://resources/js/util.js';
import {flush} from 'chrome://resources/polymer/v3_0/polymer/polymer_bundled.min.js';
import {assertEquals, assertFalse, assertTrue} from 'chrome://webui-test/chai_assert.js';
import {waitAfterNextRender, waitBeforeNextRender} from 'chrome://webui-test/polymer_test_util.js';
import {eventToPromise, isVisible} from 'chrome://webui-test/test_util.js';

suite('AudioAndCaptionsPageTests', function() {
  let page = null;

  function initPage() {
    page = document.createElement('settings-audio-and-captions-page');
    document.body.appendChild(page);
  }

  setup(function() {
    PolymerTest.clearBody();
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  });

  teardown(function() {
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  test('no subpages are available in kiosk mode', function() {
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    });
    initPage();
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Infographic: Machine Learning Takes a Year Off Design Cycle
Imagine a world where everything moves 40,000 times faster.
Troy Rummler
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If everything moved 40,000 times faster, you could eat a fresh tomato three minutes after planting a seed. You could fly from New York to L.A. in half a second. And you'd have waited in line at airport security for that flight for 30 milliseconds.
Thanks to machine learning, designing materials for new, advanced technologies could accelerate that much.
A research team at Sandia National Laboratories has successfully used machine learning — computer algorithms that improve themselves by learning patterns in data — to complete cumbersome materials science calculations more than 40,000 times faster than normal.
Their results, published Jan. 4 in npj Computational Materials, could herald a dramatic acceleration in the creation of new technologies for optics, aerospace, energy storage and potentially medicine while simultaneously saving laboratories money on computing costs.
"We're shortening the design cycle," said David Montes de Oca Zapiain, a computational materials scientist at Sandia who helped lead the research. "The design of components grossly outpaces the design of the materials you need to build them. We want to change that. Once you design a component, we'd like to be able to design a compatible material for that component without needing to wait for years, as it happens with the current process."
The research, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences program, was conducted at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a DOE user research facility jointly operated by Sandia and Los Alamos national labs.
Machine learning speeds up computationally expensive simulations
Sandia researchers used machine learning to accelerate a computer simulation that predicts how changing a design or fabrication process, such as tweaking the amounts of metals in an alloy, will affect a material. A project might require thousands of simulations, which can take weeks, months or even years to run.
The team clocked a single, unaided simulation on a high-performance computing cluster with 128 processing cores (a typical home computer has two to six processing cores) at 12 minutes. With machine learning, the same simulation took 60 milliseconds using only 36 cores–equivalent to 42,000 times faster on equal computers. This means researchers can now learn in under 15 minutes what would normally take a year.
Sandia's new algorithm arrived at an answer that was 5% different from the standard simulation's result, a very accurate prediction for the team's purposes. Machine learning trades some accuracy for speed because it makes approximations to shortcut calculations.
"Our machine-learning framework achieves essentially the same accuracy as the high-fidelity model but at a fraction of the computational cost," said Sandia materials scientist Rémi Dingreville, who also worked on the project.
Benefits could extend beyond materials
Dingreville and Montes de Oca Zapiain are going to use their algorithm first to research ultrathin optical technologies for next-generation monitors and screens. Their research, though, could prove widely useful because the simulation they accelerated describes a common event — the change, or evolution, of a material's microscopic building blocks over time.
Machine learning previously has been used to shortcut simulations that calculate how interactions between atoms and molecules change over time. The published results, however, demonstrate the first use of machine learning to accelerate simulations of materials at relatively large, microscopic scales, which the Sandia team expects will be of greater practical value to scientists and engineers.
For instance, scientists can now quickly simulate how miniscule droplets of melted metal will glob together when they cool and solidify, or conversely, how a mixture will separate into layers of its constituent parts when it melts. Many other natural phenomena, including the formation of proteins, follow similar patterns. And while the Sandia team has not tested the machine-learning algorithm on simulations of proteins, they are interested in exploring the possibility in the future.
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For the second week in a row, Dan+Shay have the top two digital downloads on this chart with "Speechless" and "Tequila." Luke Combs has the #3 and #5 slots with "Beautiful Crazy" and "She Got The Best Of Me" while "Down From The Honkytonk" is at #4. Kelsea Ballerini's "Miss Me More" is at #6 while Chris Young has the chart's top debut with "Raised On Country," his new single from his forthcoming album. Chris Stapleton is at #8 with "Tennessee Whiskey" while #9 finds Lee Brice's fast-rising single "Rumor." The Top ten is rounded out by Dierks Bentley and Brothers Osborne's "Burning Man."
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2. This appeal arises out of the judgment dated 16.05.2013 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench in Criminal Appeal No.775 of 1981, whereby the High Court affirmed the conviction of the appellant-accused under Section 302 IPC and also sentence of imprisonment for life imposed on him.
3. Briefly stated case of the prosecution is as under:- Deceased-Chhedi Lal was running a barber shop in Kurari Khurd Market. On 18.02.1981, the appellant visited the shop of Chhedi Lal and asked for a haircut. An altercation took place between the two when appellant insisted the deceased for haircut claiming preference over other customers; but the deceased- Chhedi Lal declined his demand.
The appellant felt insulted and left the barber shop threatening the deceased. At around 5.00 p.m., deceased-Chhedi Lal closed the shop and went back home. Later at 6.00 p.m., the deceased went towards the canal lying in the western side of the village abadi to answer the nature's call. When the deceased reached near the eastern mend of the grove of Ishwari, the appellant emerged from the northern side carrying a pistol in his hand and threatened the deceased as he had insulted the appellant in the market and that he would not spare him alive.
The deceased fled towards the west to save himself and appellant fired from his pistol which hit the deceased on his left thigh and he had fallen down. The incident was witnessed by Janoo-PW2, Udan-PW3 and Muneshwar. Also father of the deceased namely Kishore-PW1 and his son-Ram Pal saw the incident when they were returning from their field. On the alarm raised by the deceased and the witnesses, the appellant fled away from the scene. The deceased was taken on a cot to his house and on the narration of incident by Kishore-the father of the deceased, the complaint was written by Shiv Pujan Singh.
Thereafter, deceased was taken to Police Station-Achal Ganj, where FIR (Ex. Ka-1) bearing Crime No.37/81 dated 18.02.1981 was registered against the appellant under Section 307 IPC. SI-Ravinder Prasad Yadav (PW-6) recorded the statement of Chhedi Lal who was lying injured on the kharkhara outside the Police Station and the deceased was sent to Achal Ganj Hospital from where he was referred to District Hospital Unnao; but the deceased died on the way to the hospital. FIR was altered from Section 307 IPC to Section 302 IPC and further investigation was taken up.
After inquest by the police, post mortem was conducted by Dr. J.N. Bajpai (PW-4) at District Hospital Unnao on 19.02.1981 at 3.30 p.m. PW-4-Dr. Bajpai noted a gunshot would of entry �" x �" on the back and inner part of left thigh and six gunshot wounds of exit each 1/3" x 1/3" in size in front and middle left thigh. Dr. J. N. Bajpai (PW-4) opined that the death was due to shock and hemorrhage due to injuries of firearm. After completion of investigation, chargesheet was filed against the appellant under Section 302 IPC. After committal of the case to the Sessions Court, charge was framed against the appellant under Section 302 IPC.
4. To bring home the guilt of the accused-appellant, prosecution has examined in all eight witnesses and exhibited the material object on record. The incriminating evidence and circumstances were put to the appellant under Section 313 Cr.P.C. and the accused denied all of them and pleaded that he was falsely implicated. Upon consideration of the evidence, the Sessions Judge, Unnao found the appellant guilty of the offence under Section 302 IPC and sentenced him to undergo imprisonment for life. Being aggrieved, the appellant preferred appeal before the High Court which was dismissed by the impugned judgment.
5. Learned counsel for the appellant Mr. Kapil Arora submitted that the prosecution could not have relied on the testimony of PWs 1, 2 and 3 as PW- 1-Kishore, father of the deceased, is an interested witness and PWs 2 and 3 are the inimical interested witnesses and the trial court was not right in basing the conviction of the appellant on the testimony PWs 1 to 3 and the High Court erred in confirming the conviction. It was further contended that the courts below failed to take note of the fact that the alleged weapon of murder 'countrymade pistol' was never recovered by the investigating officer and in the absence of clear connection of the weapon used for crime and resultant injury, the prosecution cannot be said to have proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
6. Per contra, learned counsel for the respondent-State Ms. Pragati Neekhra submitted that witnesses have consistently deposed that the appellant threatened the deceased that he would not be spared alive and thereafter fired shot from his loaded pistol and medical evidence amply corroborates the version of the eye witnesses and the courts below rightly convicted the appellant under Section 302 IPC.
7. We have carefully considered the rival contentions and perused the impugned judgment and the material on record.
8. PW-1 Kishore, PW-2 Janoo and PW-3 Udan have given consistent version about the occurrence that the appellant fired at the deceased-Chhedi Lal with 'countrymade pistol' which he was carrying in his hand. Despite the searching cross-examination, nothing substantial was elicited from the witnesses to discredit their testimony. In the context of unimpeachable oral evidence coupled with the medical evidence that deceased-Chhedi Lal met with homicidal death due to gunshot injuries, trial court rightly held that the appellant was responsible for the death of Chhedi Lal. High Court rightly agreed with the finding of the trial court that PWs 1 to 3 were reliable witnesses. Having heard the learned counsel for the parties and on going through the record, we do not find any reason to disbelieve the evidence of eye witnesses-PWs 2 and 3.
9. Learned counsel for the appellant contended that the courts below failed to take note of the fact that the alleged weapon 'countrymade pistol' was never recovered by the investigating officer and in the absence of any clear connection between the weapon used for crime and ballistic report and resultant injury, the prosecution cannot be said to have established the guilt of the appellant. In the light of unimpeachable oral evidence which is amply corroborated by the medical evidence, non-recovery of 'countrymade pistol' does not materially affect the case of the prosecution. In a case of this nature, any omission on the part of the investigating officer cannot go against the prosecution case. Story of the prosecution is to be examined dehors such omission by the investigating agency. Otherwise, it would shake the confidence of the people not merely in the law enforcing agency but also in the administration of justice.
10. Learned counsel for the appellant then contended that the gunshot injury was on the lower part of the left thigh which is a non-vital organ and it cannot be said that the appellant intended to cause the death of the deceased and therefore the conviction of the appellant under Section 302 IPC is not sustainable. In the light of the above contention, the question falling for consideration is whether the conviction of the appellant under Section 302 IPC is sustainable.
Thirdly consists of two parts. The first part is that there was an intention to inflict the injury that is found to be present and the second part that the said injury is sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature. Under the first part the prosecution has to prove from the given facts and circumstances that the intention of the accused was to cause that particular injury. Whereas the second part whether it was sufficient to cause death is an objective enquiry and it is a matter of inference or deduction from the particulars of the injury.
The language of Clause Thirdly of Section 300 speaks of intention at two places and in each the sequence is to be established by the prosecution before the case can fall in that clause. The 'intention' and 'knowledge' of the accused are subjective and invisible states of mind and their existence has to be gathered from the circumstances, such as the weapon used, the ferocity of attack, multiplicity of injuries and all other surrounding circumstances.
The framers of the Code designedly used the words 'intention' and 'knowledge' and it is accepted that the knowledge of the consequences which may result in doing an act is not the same thing as the intention that such consequences should ensue.
Firstly, when an act is done by a person, it is presumed that he must have been aware that certain specified harmful consequences would or could follow. But that knowledge is bare awareness and not the same thing as intention that such consequences should ensue. As compared to 'knowledge', 'intention' requires something more than the mere foresight of the consequences, namely the purposeful doing of a thing to achieve a particular end."
12. The emphasis in clause three of Section 300 IPC is on the sufficiency of the injury in the ordinary course of nature to cause death. The sufficiency is the high probability of death in the ordinary course of nature. When the sufficiency exists and death follows, causing of such injury is intended and causing of such offence is murder. For ascertaining the sufficiency of the injury, sometimes the nature of the weapon used, sometimes the part of the body on which the injury is caused and sometimes both are relevant. Depending on the nature of weapon used and situs of the injury, in some cases, the sufficiency of injury to cause death in the ordinary course of nature must be proved and cannot be inferred from the fact that death has, in fact, taken place.
13. Keeping in view the above principles, when we examine the facts of the present case, the deceased sustained gunshot wound of entry 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" on the back and inner part of left thigh, six gunshot wounds of exit each 1/3" x 1/3" in size in front and middle left thigh. Due to the occurrence in the morning at the barber shop of the deceased, the appellant emerged from the northern side of the grove carrying pistol in his hand and fired at the deceased. The weapon used and the manner in which attack was made and the injury was inflicted due to premeditation clearly establish that the appellant intended to cause the injury.
Once it is established that the accused intentionally inflicted the injury, then the offence would be murder, if it is sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause the death. We find substance in the contention of the learned counsel for the appellant the injury was on the inner part of left thigh, which is the non-vital organ. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case that the gunshot injury was caused in the inner part of left thigh, the sufficiency of injury to cause death must be proved and cannot be inferred from the fact that death has taken place.
But the prosecution has not elicited from the doctors that the gunshot injury on the inner part of left thigh caused rupture of any important blood vessel and that it was sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause the death. Keeping in view the situs and nature of injury and in the absence of evidence elicited from the doctor that the said injury was sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death, we are of the view that it is a fit case where the conviction of the appellant under Section 302 IPC should be under Section 304 Part 1 IPC.
14. In the result, the conviction of the appellant under Section 302 IPC is modified as conviction under Section 304 Part 1 IPC and the appellant is sentenced to undergo ten years rigorous imprisonment and the appeal is partly allowed.


Happy Spring everyone! The equinox has passed, the days are now officially longer than the nights, and that fact is heightened by daylight savings time beginning.
In addition to the artificial act of setting our clocks forward, nature's clock tells us the seasons are turning. Bulbs are sprouting in Bryant Park's flower beds, as colorful rows of crocuses, hyacinths and daffodils are brightening the park.
Gabriel, in the blue shirt on the left, leads the tours.
Another sign of spring is the return of our seasonal birding walks in Bryant Park that are timed to coincide with the fall and spring migration seasons. They are twice-weekly: Monday mornings from 8-9am and Thursday evenings from 5-6pm, to allow midtown commuters to join the walks either before or after work - they're a great way to start or end the workday, strolling the park and searching for the incredible diversity of birds that stop by during migration to rest and refuel.
The earliest migratory species are already arriving. Some of the first birds to pass through our region in Spring (usually right around the equinox) are Red-winged Blackbirds, Eastern Phoebes, and American Woodcocks. The latter species, a comical-looking relative of snipes, with a long bill designed to probe moist soil for worms, makes annual appearances in the park, most commonly in early spring. Several have already been seen, resting or walking quietly in flower beds in search of worms and a quiet spot to sleep during the day (they are nocturnal birds). Occasionally, woodcocks collide with the windows of high-rises when they are migrating through the imposing city environment. This past fall, we actually witnessed such a collision right next to the park during a walk, and were able to intercept the injured bird and bring it to a wildlife rehabilitator uptown, where it was nursed back to health and eventually released.
An Ovenbird scrambles across the bluestone.
As the season progresses, it will bring waves of different bird species to our region: after the phoebes and woodcocks come sparrows such as Chipping Sparrow and Song Sparrow (which occasionally overwinter as well), House Wrens and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and early-migrant warblers like Common Yellowthroats and Ovenbirds. Later in the Spring, many more warbler species will arrive (over 30 species of warbler have been spotted in Bryant Park to date!), as well as colorful tanagers and orioles, and more subdued vireos and thrushes. In spite of the tiny size of Bryant Park, its rows of plane trees and flower beds are often alive with an amazing diversity of bird species (121 species recorded in the park thus far).
One of my favorite aspects of the Bryant Park walks is the opportunity to observe the migration through the season, from mid-April until the end of May. I hope you will join us as well, whether on the morning walks the evening walks or both, to witness this incredible spectacle for yourself!


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Bei den VIII. Winter-Paralympics 2002 in Salt Lake City wurde ein Sledge-Eishockey-Turnier für Herren mit sechs teilnehmenden Nationen durchgeführt.

Männer

Nachdem Kanada bei der Sledge-Eishockey-WM 2000 bereits den amtierenden Olympiasieger Norwegen vom Thron gestoßen hatte, konnten sich dieses Mal die USA im Finale gegen Norwegen durchsetzen, wobei die US-Amerikaner genauso wie die Schweden im Spiel um Platz 3 das Penalty-Schießen benötigten, um sich die gewünschte Medaille zu erspielen.

Für die USA war dies der größte Erfolg im internationalen Sledge-Eishockey, während die Norweger nach der Goldmedaille 1998 und den zweiten Plätzen bei den Paralympics 1994 und der Weltmeisterschaft 2000 ihre Spitzenposition behaupteten.

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 Bester Scorer: Sylvester Flis (USA) (11 Tore, 7 Assists)
 Bester Torschütze: Sylvester Flis (USA) (11 Tore)
 Wertvollster Spieler: Sylvester Flis (USA)
 All-Star-Team (A) (gewählt von Medienvertretern)
 Torhüter: Manuel Jr. Guerra (USA)
 Rechter Flügelstürmer: Sylvester Flis (USA)
 Rechter Verteidiger: Tommy Rovelstad (NOR)
 Linker Flügelstürmer: Helge Bjoernstad (NOR)
 Linker Flügelstürmer: Joe Howard (USA)
 Rechter Flügelstürmer: Marcus Holm (SWE)
 All-Star-Team (B) (gewählt von Medienvertretern)
 Torhüter: Mits Nagase (JPN)
 Rechter Verteidiger: Brian Ruhe (USA)
 Linker Flügelstürmer: Shawn Matheson (CAN)
 Mittelstürmer: Takayuki Endo (JPN)
 Rechter Flügelstürmer: Maksim Wedernikow (EST)
 Mittelstürmer: Billy Bridges (CAN)

Sledge-Eishockey
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Eishockeyveranstaltung 2002

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Home Celebrity Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli, and Other Parents Indicted on New Bribery Charges
Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli exit the Boston Federal Courthouse
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College Admissions Scandal
Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli, and Other Parents Indicted on New Bribery Charges
The U.S. Attorney's office has made clear they won't be going easy on the college scandal-plagued families
For parents involved in the college admissions scandal, things keep getting worse. The latest twist in the ongoing saga finds 11 individuals, including Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin, indicted by a grand jury in Boston on new federal bribery charges. These charges add to the fraud and money laundering charges the parents already face.
The charge, federal program bribery, can be levied against a person who is accused of bribing an agent or employee of an organization that receives $10,000 or more in federal money and who obtains something worth at least $5,000 in return. As the Los Angeles Times reports, prosecutors argue that the parents used college consultant Rick Singer to bribe university sports coaches. The schools in question all get federal money, fulfilling the first part, and the admissions slots given to Singer's clients, the U.S. Attorneys say, have monetary values exceeding $5,000.
Coaches alleged to have accepted the bribes were also indicted, including former UCLA soccer coach Jorge Salcedo and former USC athletics administrator Donna Heinel.
Not every parent who worked with Singer is wrapped up in this most recent wave of indictments. In addition to those like Felicity Huffman who had already had already fessed up, four more parents entered pleas of guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering on Monday, in a deal to avoid the additional bribery charges.
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A year ago I completed a Master's Degree in Information Studies. I focussed on human centric design, identity, privacy, and usability.
My last paper was called 'Other' - it was on how people are classified, and the consequences of being hard to define.
Because my prof was cool, I was permitted to submit this paper as a long form comic.
I got an A, but more importantly, I was really pleased with the work.
I posted a link to the PDF Robot Hugs a while ago, but I've always wanted to make that paper into a set of comics.
So this week I'm going to be modifying the paper, and posting it here as a series of comics.
Basically, it's an overview of the subject of social classification, intended to make some abstract concepts more accessible. (Identity, Surveillance, Anonymity, Othering).
So check back tomorrow for the first installment. I hope you like it, and thanks for your patience!
NOTE: I spelled the name of my degree wrong. This doesn't inspire confidence, but in my defense, I've been drawing for about 7 hours by the time I scratched up this comic.
Trying something different this week. Let's see hot it goes! First section goes up tomorrow, with an accompanying blog post talking about the concepts I was trying to capture.


It's no secret to residents of Utah that the Beehive State is a fantastic place to live.
Fun fact: Utah is growing so rapidly that corporations and big businesses have now dubbed the entire Provo to Salt Lake City area "Silicon Slopes" due to its amount of tech savvy population, and the extreme rate of growth in businesses and pay rates.
What's making Utah grow quickly? Well, Utah is home to around 4,300 tech companies, which makes up 9% of the total Utah workforce, and provides an annual payroll of $6.9 billion. That's billion with a "B"! Here is a few of the bigger Utah-Originating Businesses: Goal Zero, eLearning Brothers, Simplicity Laser, Boostability, Black Diamond, A plethora of big Solar Companies, and much, much more. We also have a quadrant of big offices from businesses that didn't originate from Utah, like Adobe and eBay. In addition, Utah boasts the nation's youngest average population. The median age of residents in Utah is 29.6 years old. The entire state is a young, economic power, and it's quickly rising to the top.
Here is a perfect diagram showing more of the major businesses along the Silicon Slope.
Adding to the overall appeal are the affordable home prices. Home prices in the Salt Lake area average $138 per square foot - that's significantly lower than the other tech companies in the country: Boston's $463 per square foot, San Francisco is $771 per square foot, and New York City is at an astonishing $1,368 per square foot. Perhaps it's time to move to Utah?
On top of all of that, however, there is one more cherry on top to what makes Utah so great: our unemployment rate (Nov. 2016) is at a low rate of 3.1%. In comparison, the National U.S. average is 4.6%.
Utah, all in all, is a fantastic place to live, and a great place to work. However, the adventure doesn't just begin with business and tech, it could also begin in our great mountains. Whether riding in the snow or having fun in the desert, we're having fun.
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Lost Not Forgotten Archives: When Dream And Day Reunite (Live) is the 5th release in Dream Theater's archival series.
Recorded in Los Angeles, Dream Theater's original 2004 release features a full live performance of the band's debut studio album, and a reunion with former members Derek Sherinian and Charlie Dominici.
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UNMIL finances project on National Peace and Reconciliation in Liberia
Carla Andriolli Feriguetti
21 March 2018, Monrovia – The United Nation Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) funded a project to consolidate a grassroots process to define a national policy for peace and reconciliation that prioritizes local voices across Liberia which was finalized by a two-day conference under the theme: "Local Voices for Inclusive reconciliation".
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIL, Mr. Farid Zarif addressed his keynotes to the public commending Liberia for the peaceful conduct of elections, the advent of a new Government and the successful completion of the United Nations peacekeeping mandate, that all together have established a foundation for a fresh societal project to build a strong prosperous and equitable Liberia.
"Liberia has shown to the world they have matured having learned from their mistakes from the past, and that they are determined not to go back repeating them,"- said Mr. Zarif.
The six-month project started in September 2017 up to March 2018 targeting five counties: Grand Cape Mount, Lofa, Nimba, Rivercess and Sinoe to indentify the main challenges at a grassroots level and formulate solution that supports decentralized reconciliation process to combat low-levels of rural engagement thus that has put the sustainability and credibility of reconciliation in Liberia at risk.
In overall the project consisted in five County Steering Committees, 50 reconciliation dialogue sessions, 25 Town Hall meetings, 25 radio dramas, 75 roundtable programmes and a National Reconciliation Conference to formalize the Counties' Reconciliation Plans.
The project's policy alignment is based on the UN Security Council Resolution 2333, 2017 Liberia Peacebuilding Plan, Strategic Roadmap for National Healing, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation and Liberia TRC Final Report.
The project was implemented by Search for Common Ground (SFCG) in partnership with Liberia Peacebuilding Office/Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Independent National Human Rights Commission; Foundation for International Dignity (Lofa); Effective Action to Restore stability for the Masses (Nimba); Tewor Women for Peace and Development (GCM); South-eastern Women's Development Association (Sinoe); and Carefound Liberia (Rivercess).
 UNMIL countdown on the completion of its mandate
 UNMIL and UNDP encourage youth to improve community through clean-up contest around Monrovia


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Biografia
Studiò al Collegio di Carcassonne e all'età di vent'anni intraprese gli studi di giurisprudenza che gli valsero una laurea, quindi un dottorato di ricerca in diritto romano e uno in diritto francese. Nel 1830 pubblicò uno studio sul corso di filosofia di Gatien-Arnault. Quattro anni dopo, sul "Journal des connaissances utiles" scrisse un progetto di associazione per l'istruzione primaria popolare. Nella rivista politica e letteraria di Tolosa, pubblicò cinque articoli politici, economici e statistici sull'Aude. Infine, diede alle stampe un libro di memorie sul miglioramento della situazione dei lavoratori.

Nel 1837 fondò il quotidiano L'Aude Journal des Progrès con l'avvocato Théophile Marcou come redattore capo. Cros-Mayrevieille si occupava di una sezione educativa su economia, agricoltura, industria e trasporti.

Lo stesso anno pubblicò, sotto il nome di Jean-Pierre de la Croix, La vita di Félix Armand, parroco di Saint-Martin-Lis, vicino a Quillan (Aude), iniziatore dell'apertura della via di Pierre Lys che accede all'alta valle dell'Aude, comunemente chiamata " Buco del prete", vicino a Quillan.

Per undici anni, dal 1837 al 1848, fu consigliere municipale della città di Carcassonne ed entrò a far parte della Società delle arti e delle scienze. Sempre preoccupato per le condizioni dei lavoratori e della loro istruzione, votò per la creazione del primo asilo a Carcassonne.

Il "salvatore" di Carcassonne
Nel 1839, scoprì la tomba del vescovo Guillaume Radulphe nella cappella sud dell'ex Basilica di Saint-Nazaire e chiese alle autorità competenti la protezione dell'edificio come monumento storico. La sua richiesta si concluse con la classificazione della basilica. Continuò con grande perseveranza e portò all'annullamento del decreto che autorizzava la distruzione totale delle mura della città, un "vandalismo di stato" come lui diceva. Le sue ricerche storiche e archeologiche portarono in particolare, nel 1850, alla pubblicazione dedicata ai Monuments de Carcassonne.

Per ridurre le inondazioni dell'Aude, sviluppò la pianura di Mayrevieille e vi allestì degli orti e giardini. Acquisì quindi il dominio storico di Donos che era stato dato da Carlo Magno a un visigoto di nome Gomezinde.

Pubblicazioni
 Histoire du comté et de la vicomté de Carcassonne, précédée de recherches historiques sur Carcassonne et son histoire sous les Volkes, les Romains, les Wisigoths et les Sarrazins, t. 1, 1846 ; t. 2, 1896
 Les Monuments de Carcassonne, 1850
 La Méthodologie des sciences morales et politiques appliquée à la science de l'histoire, Paris et Leipzig, 1848
 Monuments de la cité et de la Ville-Basse de Carcassonne, 1835 et rééditions
 Vie de Félix Armand, curé de Saint-Martin-Lis, près de Quillan (Aude) (sous le pseudonyme de J-P de la Croix), 1837
 Personne et domicile, traité sur la liberté individuelle,1840
 Fondation de {l'Aude Journal des Progrès}, 1838
 Notice sur la chapelle de Guillaume Radulphe,1839
 De l'établissement de la classe des agriculteurs, proposition pour la reconnaissance des métiers, 1856
 Mémoire sur deux vases celtiques trouvés sur le territoire de Carsac, à Mayrevieille, 1843.

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Bibliografia
 Imaginaires et Mémoire, Jean-Pierre Cros-Mayrevieille et la Cité de Carcassonne, Aassociation des Amis de Jean-Pierre Cros-Mayrevieille, 2010
 Jean-Pierre Cros-Mayrevieille Témoin et Acteur de son temps, Association des Amis de Jean-Pierre Cros-Mayrevieille, 2011
 Actes du Colloque, Jean-Pierre Cros-Mayrevieille Celui qui sauva la Cité de Carcassonne, Archives Départementales de l'Aude/Les Amis de Jean-Pierre Cros-Mayrevieille, 2011

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 Ministero della Cultura e della Comunicazione: Jean-Pierre Cros-Mayrevieille, il primo salvatore


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It seems that my attempt at setting event.target.id was misguided as I understand now that the  type should be applied to the target, and the ID is just an attribute of said target element.


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Цинковият сулфид (ZnS) е известен като цинкова бленда. В природата се среща като минералът сфалерит - най-важната цинкова руда. Той е оцветен обикновено в сиво поради примесите, по-специално от железен сулфид. Името му произлиза от гръцката дума "сфалерос" – измамен, лъжлив, предателски, тъй като се смесва с много други минерали.

Цинковият сулфид се получава при прякото взаимодействие на елементите цинк и сяра:

Zn + S → ZnS↓
(видео ) сяра + цинк -> утаява се цинков сулфид

Наред с това може да се получи и при взаимодействие на H2S с разтвори на соли на Zn(II).ZnCl2 + H2S ↔ ZnS↓ + 2HCl

В кисела среда равновесието се измества към изходните вещества. Концентрацията на водородни катиони може да се намали с натриев ацетат СН3COONa. Най-добре е утаяването да се извърши в основна среда.

Това е неразтворимо във вода вещество с бял цвят. Кристализира в две полиморфни форми-сфалерит (кубична) и вюрцит (хексагонална). Разтворим е в минерални киселини. При престояване в матерната луга, а още по-добре при нагряване и налягане на сероводород стват структурни промени – кристализира, при което се променя способността му към разтваряне в киселини. Склонен е при утаителния процес да дава колоидни разтвори, които са доста стабилни.

Аморфният ZnS е около 10 пъти по-разтворим от кристалния ZnS. Относителното му тегло е около 4,09. При висока температура в отсъствие на въздух сублимира към 1180 °C. Стапя се към 1800-1900 °C и налягане 100-150 атм. (Тиде и Шлееде). При облъчване с ултравиолетова светлина се обагря в сив цвят поради фотохимичното му разлагане
Цинковият сулфид, примесен с бариев сулфат – BaSO4, намира приложение като минерална боя, известна под наименованието литопон.

BaS + ZnSO4 ↔ ZnS + BaSO4

Освен това поради своите полупроводникови свойства цинковият сулфид се използва в съвременната микроелектроника. Цинковият сулфид може да се активира с медни, манганови, сребърни и други метални йони, при което се получават луминофори. Това са вещества, които при облъчване с ултравиолетови лъчи излъчват светлина с различен цвят, характерен за активатора.

Полупроводникови материали
Сулфиди
Съединения на цинка
Фосфори и сцинтилатори


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Memories, Oakmont and Tiger's place in history
by The Round Table May 31, 2016 April 9, 2018
Each week we ask our panel of writers, PGA members and golf industry experts to weigh in with their views on the hot topics of the day.
Jordan Spieth won the Dean & Deluca Invitational on Sunday making six birdies on the back nine. Can we say he has recovered from his Masters meltdown now?
Frank Mastroianni, Freelance Writer: Nope. And that's not just me saying it but past PGA TOUR champions like Nick Faldo. As he said this past weekend when asked the same question, a major is a major. It will haunt Spieth until he strikes the last putt on Sunday of a major for the win. And even then, he will always have it in the back of his mind.
Jim Deeks, Fairways Magazine (@jimdeeks): Sorry, but I just refuse to believe that Jordan Spieth HAD a meltdown at Augusta. He hit one slightly bad shot on 12, and then another really bad shot. (Let he who hath not sinned cast the first stone.) He then played well coming in, but not well enough to catch Danny Willett who was himself catching on fire. I think everyone has made WAY too much out of Jordan's mishap. On Sunday, in Fort Worth, Jordan showed once again what an electrifying player he truly is, was, and ever shall be. Can we stop talking about the Masters now, please?
Dave Kaplan, Freelance Writer (@davykap): That certainly appears to be the case. Spieth had a vintage performance on Sunday and made everything he looked at on the back nine — in front of a hometown crowd to boot! That's a big monkey off the kid's back. I think he is back to a good place mentally and that should make him a very dangerous competitor at Oakmont next month.
Craig Loughry, Golf Ontario (@craigloughry): I'm not sure he really went anywhere, he had a few issues finishing for a win, but as noted earlier, it is HARD to win on Tour, very hard. But if it takes a win for others to say he's back, then yeah welcome back Jordan.
Hal Quinn, Freelance Writer, Vancouver: Nothing like rolling in a few bombs to help get over an epic collapse. As Dottie Pepper pointed out, no one else was sinking putts over 20 feet and he sank a bunch. When he's doing that he can start thinking about No. 1 again. It helps that he's just 22, but the memory of the 12th at Augusta National will always be with him.
Peter Mumford, Fairways Magazine (@FairwaysMag): Everybody who gets to the PGA Tour has loads of natural talent but the ones who excel consistently are the strongest mentally. The 2016 Masters will be one of those things that bugs Jordan Spieth off the course for the rest of his life but I doubt it ever creeps into his mind when he's playing.
Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day have all won their most recent events and appear to be peaking for the U.S. Open in a couple of weeks. Does Oakmont favour any one of the three?
Deeks: Good question! Others here at the Table may be more analytical and more perceptive, but all I can say is, Oakmont favours the guy who has the most patience… the patience to stick to the game plan, to shake off inevitable errors and bad luck, to concentrate and not get distracted. All of which, in a US Open environment, is T-U-F-F. I definitely think these three have all it takes to meet these criteria. I don't see a dark horse lurking the stable at this point.
Mumford: Oakmont is brutally long and has ridiculously slick greens on a normal day. Who knows how fast they'll be for a U.S. Open? The length and accuracy requirement should play into the hands of McIlroy while Spieth is likely the best putter on the planet. Not a bad chipper either as he showed last week. However, Day seems to be a complete combination of the two and has the hottest streak in golf going. If all three are at the top of their game, then I think Day is best equipped to handle Oakmont.
Quinn: Oakmont is a monster at 7,255 yards and a par of 70 with tight fairways and slick greens and so favours the bombers. When the Big Three are on their games, Day is the longest and straightest and number one. The way he's playing this season, he makes any course seem perfectly suited to his game. Day deserves to be the pre-tourney favourite.
Mastroianni: It pains me to say it but Oakmont probably favours Spieth the most with its crazy greens. That said, I think Spieth has no chance. A player who can't hit driver long and in the fairway (Spieth can't at the moment) won't win at Oakmont as it favours the long ball as much as it does great putters. I think the favourite of the three is Jason Day. His game has been solid all around, but Rory might sneak in there if it isn't windy and plays soft. But it doesn't matter because the winner this year is Dustin Johnson #lookout.
Kaplan: I think it favours Spieth's game the most. The Texan is an excellent lag putter and that will certainly be a huge advantage on those skating rink surfaces, as it was at Chambers Bay last year.
Loughry: Oakmont is a MONSTER. I think this track favours Jason Day a little more than the other two. He has some serious length and has an air assault game that is second to none. I'd lean to Day as a result. A close second is Spieth, simply because of his putting.
Speculation continues to swirl around the return of Tiger Woods. The longer it is delayed, the more people wonder if he'll return at all. If Tiger were to announce his retirement, where would his accomplishments rank versus other top players in the game?
Quinn: When the final chapter is written, he will definitely be ranked among the best to ever play the game, and as the most dominant player of any era. Unfortunately, his story will always have to include a footnote on the very public disclosure of his private life.
Deeks: If Tiger were to retire without ever coming back, I think his and Jack's names would always be spoken in the same sentence, the same way Jack's and Bobby Jones's were in the 70s and 80s. His story and his record are incredible, even if he will never equal or better Jack's Major record. If Tiger were to come back and be a mere shadow of his former self, however, his lustre would dim, and that would be a shame. But at that this point, I'm not sure I could say "greatest of all time" for Tiger. Greatest of HIS time, no doubt… just like Jones and Nicklaus. Let's call it a three-way tie.
Mastroianni: If Tiger were to retire right now I'd place him in the Top 5 players all time in the coveted 5th position. Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan and Bobby Jones would come before him.
Loughry: If Tiger retired today, he'd be the second best player of all time. Too few Majors to be considered the greatest ever. The guy with 18 Majors is the greatest ever – titles matter in this case.
Kaplan: That's a tough one because it's so difficult to compare players from different eras. I don't think it's fair to say that Woods was better/worse than either Nicklaus or Snead because all three players were just so dominant in their own times. That being said, I would make an argument for Woods being the most dominant player of all time. The dude won 79 PGA Tour events, 14 majors, 9 Vardon trophies, 9 Byron Nelson Awards and two FedEx Cups … and for a period of nearly ten years, Woods closed out every one of his 54-hole tournament leads. He also is the only player to ever win four consecutive majors (although they were not all in the same calendar season) and still holds the record for both the most consecutive and the most cumulative weeks atop the OWGR. In short, I think he might just get into the Hall of Fame.
Mumford: Nicklaus and Woods are almost interchangeable as 1 and 2 based on total accomplishments. To me Bobby Jones is a clear No 3 albeit over a short career. Snead and Hogan creep into the Top 5. If you could put all five players in the same group with the same equipment, playing at the top of their game, my money would be on Jones.
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The Round Table is a panel of golf writers, PGA members and industry experts.
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2 thoughts on "Memories, Oakmont and Tiger's place in history"
Dave Frantz says:
On a different topic………Tim Finchem, Liar Liar Pants on Fire
Sorry Tim……Finchem. I misspelled your last name.
Liar, Liar no matter how you spell your name.
Maybe you can put Rory on your shoulders so he can jump over the wall