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Q: LED chase using python I am using a simple while loop and an array to chase LEDs on a strip.
while True:
    for i in range(nLEDs):
        R = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
        G = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
        B = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
        intensity = [ 0 ] * nLEDs
        intensity[i] = 1
        setLEDs(R, G, B, intensity)
        time.sleep(0.05)

What would be the most elegant way to chase to the end and back repeatedly (kind of like a bouncing ball)?

A: Very simply, you can duplicate your for loop. Making it reversed the second time.
It appears that there is no need to redefine R, G, B over and over, so those could be moved out of the loop, but maybe you are planning to change those, so I left them in for now
while True:
    for i in range(nLEDs):
        R = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
        G = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
        B = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
        intensity = [ 0 ] * nLEDs
        intensity[i] = 1
        setLEDs(R, G, B, intensity)
        time.sleep(0.05)

    for i in reversed(range(nLEDs)):
        R = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
        G = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
        B = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
        intensity = [ 0 ] * nLEDs
        intensity[i] = 1
        setLEDs(R, G, B, intensity)
        time.sleep(0.05)

Ideally your API has a setLED function that you can call, Then you don't need to set the state of all of the LEDs when only 2 ever change at a time.

A: Instead of defining intensity as a list you could define it as a collections.deque and then rotate
R = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
G = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
B = [ 255 ] * nLEDs
intensity = collections.deque([ 0 ] * nLEDs)
intensity[0] = 1
while True:
    for i in range(nLEDs):
        intensity.rotate(1)
        setLEDs(R, G, B, list(intensity))
        time.sleep(0.05)

and then add in an additional for loop to go back


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from __future__ import unicode_literals

import logging
logger = logging.getLogger('lino.management.commands.dump2py')

SOURCE_VERSION = 'None'

import os
import six
from decimal import Decimal
from datetime import datetime
from datetime import time, date
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.timezone import make_aware, utc
from django.core.management import call_command
# from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
from lino.utils.dpy import create_mti_child
from lino.utils.dpy import DpyLoader
from lino.core.utils import resolve_model

if settings.USE_TZ:
    def dt(*args):
        return make_aware(datetime(*args), timezone=utc)
else:
    def dt(*args):
        return datetime(*args)

def new_content_type_id(m):
    if m is None: return m
    ct = settings.SITE.models.contenttypes.ContentType.objects.get_for_model(m)
    if ct is None: return None
    return ct.pk

def pmem():
    # Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/938733/total-memory-used-by-python-process
    process = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
    print(process.memory_info().rss)

def execfile(fn, *args):
    logger.info("Execute file %s ...", fn)
    six.exec_(compile(open(fn, "rb").read(), fn, 'exec'), *args)
    # pmem()  # requires pip install psutil

def bv2kw(fieldname, values):
    """
    Needed if `Site.languages` changed between dumpdata and loaddata
    """
    return settings.SITE.babelkw(fieldname, en=values[0],de=values[1],fr=values[2])

dumps_Foo = resolve_model("dumps.Foo")

def create_dumps_foo(id, designation, last_visit, bar):
#    if bar: bar = settings.SITE.models.dumps.Bars.get_by_value(bar)
    kw = dict()
    kw.update(id=id)
    if designation is not None: kw.update(bv2kw('designation',designation))
    kw.update(last_visit=last_visit)
    kw.update(bar=bar)
    return dumps_Foo(**kw)

def main(args):
    loader = DpyLoader(globals())
    from django.core.management import call_command
    call_command('initdb', interactive=args.interactive)
    os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))
    loader.initialize()
    args = (globals(), locals())

    execfile("dumps_foo_1.py", *args)
    execfile("dumps_foo_2.py", *args)
    loader.finalize()
    logger.info("Loaded %d objects", loader.count_objects)
    call_command('resetsequences')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import argparse
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Restore the data.')
    parser.add_argument('--noinput', dest='interactive',
        action='store_false', default=True,
        help="Don't ask for confirmation before flushing the database.")

    args = parser.parse_args()
    main(args)

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As with most other organ system in the human body, changes and loss of function is normal consequence of the ageing process. This is also true of the endocrine system, specifically the levels of testosterone production from the Leydig cells of the testicle. Accompanying the decrease in testosterone is a decrease in erections which also has a component in decrease in the blood supply to the penis making erection not as frequent and not as rigid compared with a young man's erectile function. Although these changes are in itself not life threatening, they can impact a man's relationship with his partner, and also ED may be a harbinger of other undiagnosed conditions such as coronary artery disease (CAD), hypercholesterolaemia or diabetes mellitus.6
It is estimated that up to 20 million American men frequently suffer from impotence and that it strikes up to half of all men between the ages of 40 and 70. Doctors used to think that most cases of impotence were psychological in origin, but they now recognize that, at least in older men, physical causes may play a primary role in 60% or more of all cases. In men over the age of 60, the leading cause is atherosclerosis, or narrowing of the arteries, which can restrict the flow of blood to the penis. Injury or disease of the connective tissue, such as Peyronie's disease, may prevent the corpora cavernosa from completely expanding. Damage to the nerves of the penis, from certain types of surgery or neurological conditions, such as Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis, may also cause impotence. Men with diabetes are especially at risk for impotence because of their high risk of both atherosclerosis and a nerve disease called diabetic neuropathy.
If PDE-5 inhibitors are not suitable or don't work, other therapies include injections into the base of the penis, which cause flow of blood into the penis and a fairly immediate erection that lasts around an hour. The drugs injected are alprostadil (Caverject and Erectile dysfunctionex) and Invicorp (VIP and phentolamine). Alprostadil may also be inserted as a gel into the opening of the penis. This is not suitable if your partner is pregnant.
All of these medicines work by relaxing smooth muscles and increasing blood flow in the penis during sexual stimulation. You should not take any of these medicines to treat ED if you are taking nitrates to treat a heart condition. Nitrates widen and relax your blood vessels. The combination can lead to a sudden drop in blood pressure, which may cause you to become faint or dizzy, or fall, leading to possible injuries.
Erectile dysfunction, also known as ED or impotence, is the inability to attain or maintain an erection of the penis adequate for the sexual satisfaction of both partners. It can be devastating to the self-esteem of a man and of his partner. As many as 30 million American men are afflicted on a continuing basis, and transient episodes affect nearly all adult males. But nearly all men who seek treatment find some measure of relief.
Erectile dysfunction - (ED) or impotence is sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis during sexual activity. A penile erection is the hydraulic effect of blood entering and being retained in sponge-like bodies within the penis. The process is most often initiated as a result of sexual arousal, when signals are transmitted from the brain to nerves in the penis.
While studies are limited, it has been shown that male sexual dysfunction can also negatively impact the sexual function of female partners. A study comparing the sexual function of women with partners with erectile dysfunction to those without showed that sexual arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, pain and total score were significantly lower in those who had partners with erectile dysfunction. Later in that study, a large proportion of the men with erectile dysfunction underwent treatment. Following treatment, sexual arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction and pain were all significantly increased. It was concluded that female sexual function is impacted by male erection status, which may improve following treatment of male sexual dysfunction.
A CVA can occur anywhere through the brain, midbrain, brainstem and spinal cord leading to varying degrees of SD depending on location. A decline in libido, erection and ejaculation are frequent in men who have had a CVA, with a reported prevalence of ED that varies from 17% to 48% (28,29). Right hemispheric infarcts seem to affect erections more so than left-sided ones. The exact effects of CVA on sexual function are complex and multifactorial, as disability, psychological and emotional status can affect sexual function aside from the location of the CVA.
Alprostadil self-injection. With this method, you use a fine needle to inject alprostadil (Caverject Impulse, Edex) into the base or side of your penis. In some cases, medications generally used for other conditions are used for penile injections on their own or in combination. Examples include papaverine, alprostadil and phentolamine. Often these combination medications are known as bimix (if two medications are included) or trimix (if three are included).
MSA is a neurodegenerative disease of undetermined etiology, where ED is an early prominent sign occurring in 40% of men at the time of diagnosis (46,47). ED occurs in the majority of patients and the exact cause of it is unknown (48). Like PD, MSA likely affects the dopaminergic pathways within the brain essential for arousal (49). Orthostatic hypotension (OH) as a causal factor has been refuted by evidence that sildenafil can overcome reduced filling pressures, and the ED usually precedes the development of OH (46,49,50). Similar to other neurologic disorders that lead to ED, other disease related factors such as psychosocial stress, the burden of chronic illness, changed appearance, fatigue, decreased fine motor movement of fingers, immobility and diminished self-esteem due to loss of independence may contribute as well (51).
Cosgrove et al reported a higher rate of sexual dysfunction in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than in veterans who did not develop this problem. [42] The domains on the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) questionnaire that demonstrated the most change included overall sexual satisfaction and erectile function. [43, 44] Men with PTSD should be evaluated and treated if they have sexual dysfunction.
There are risks to prosthetic surgery and patients are counselled before the procedure. If there is a post-operative infection, the implant will likely be removed. The devices are reliable, but in the case of mechanical malfunction, the device or a part of the device will need to be replaced surgically. If a penile prosthesis is removed, other non-surgical treatments may no longer work.


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For the ultimate professional applications, the YV-3710 gold tour vibraphone features an exceptional sound combined with a fully collapsible frame for easy transport.


I know a lot of you have questions about the IS, and I've got a bunch of office hours over the next couple of days to try to help.
Today you can find me between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in 2210H Grainger for drop-in office hours— my space is in the middle of the Learning Commons. Look for the J202 sign on the windows.


I have made a career out of art as a Graphic Production Artist working for a privately held company in South Florida (www.jmfieldmarketing.com). We have a wide range of projects we do and I enjoy being part of the creative art team.
Whether it's painting about my personal experiences or something I've observed or imagined, I always try to evoke spiritual energy through my work. I believe that every human being has an immense amount of spiritual energy and I try to communicate with that part of them.
The internet has been a great tool for me to help spread my artwork. After I finished designing and launching my art website, I got a major response from everyone about my work.
I actually enjoy using many mediums. Sometimes I feel a little restricted with just one medium so every now and then I mix it up a bit.
Miami is an ultra culture saturated city, a true melting pot of people from every part of the world. It's also one of the most beautiful cities in the world I think with its iconic beaches, sunny skies and palm trees.
My favorite artists are the artists that push the boundaries of art and force curators, critics and art lovers to reevaluate the true meaning of great art. My favorites are Jackson Pollock and Van Gogh.
The art scene here better in my opinion then any other city I've been too. There are tons of Art Galleries and Museums and we also get to experience Art Basel as well. I use to live in Atlanta and they have a great art scene as well but it definitely doesn't have the depth I've seen here in Miami.
You have to really, really love it and love doing it if you want to get anywhere with art.


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Studies have found that approximately 30% of all nursing home facilities in the US have been cited for committing some form of abuse against their residents. These sad occurrences can severely endanger the physical and mental health of an individual. Especially in the case of sexual abuse, a resident may be experiencing extreme pain and emotional suffering.
If you have a loved one who has been sexually abused in a nursing home, it is important to speak to a Des Moines nursing home malpractice lawyer about your rights. Compensation may be available for your pain and suffering. Contact the attorneys at LaMarca Law Group, P.C., today at (515) 225-2600 to schedule a free consultation.
The person responsible for committing sexual abuse may be facing harsh sentences for his or her crime. In addition to the accused, the nursing home's administrators may be held partially responsible for the emotional and physical damages of sexual abuse committed against residents. Poor supervision of residents is a common reason that individuals get away with the abuse of the elderly.
Nursing home abuse is happening all too often in America today. The physical and emotional toll it takes on the victims is extreme, and those responsible for these despicable actions should be punished.
The Des Moines nursing home abuse attorneys at LaMarca Law Group, P.C., would like to help you hold those responsible for abuse accountable for their acts. To learn more about your rights to compensation, contact us today at (515) 225-2600.


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Starbucks' First U.S. 'Signing Store' Will Serve Deaf Customers
Renae Reints
All the employees will wear aprons with "Starbucks" embroidered in sign language above the letters.Starbucks
Starbucks is planning to open its first U.S. store entirely dedicated to serving the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
The "Signing Store" — set to open in Washington, D.C., in October — will employee 20-25 deaf, hard-of-hearing, or hearing individuals with the requirement they all be proficient in American Sign Language (ASL), Starbucks said.
The new Starbucks will be located near Gallaudet University, the world's only university specifically designed for the education and advancement of deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The 150-year-old campus, with 1,900 students, is in northwest Washington, D.C.
"This is a historic moment in Starbucks ongoing journey to connect with the Deaf and hard of hearing community, hire and engage Deaf and hard of hearing partners, and continue to find ways to be more inclusive, accessible and welcoming to all," said Rossann Williams, Starbucks executive vice president of U.S. retail, in a statement.
The D.C. location is being modeled after Starbucks' first Signing Store, which opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2016. U.S. Starbucks employees traveled to Malaysia last July to learn about the store and brainstorm design modifications.
The U.S. Starbucks will have visual displays to announce when orders are ready (instead of baristas calling out names). All the employees will wear aprons with "Starbucks" embroidered in sign language above the letters, provided by a deaf supplier, and the store will have artwork and a mug designed by a deaf artist. Hearing employees proficient in ASL will wear pins saying, "I Sign."
All of these elements are steps toward Starbucks' broader goal of connecting with diverse communities, providing accessibility and employment opportunities for all. The move comes just a couple months after the company came under fire for an incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks, where an employee called the cops on two black men for apparently attempting to use the restroom without having ordered anything. The ordeal led Starbucks to close its 8,000 U.S. stores for an afternoon in late May for racial-bias training.
"Starbucks's first signing store can show other corporations that including deaf people is good for business and can increase its market share," Howard Rosenblum, chief executive of the National Association of the Deaf, told The Washington Post. "Hiring deaf people or people with disability should not be viewed as a charity but as a way to improve a corporation's reach across different segments of the market."


Please stay with me on this one, it's a slightly boring topic, but I'm sure if you're involved in buying, designing, maintaining or looking after IT Servers, Networks, Cloud Systems or something similar, then you'll take something of use away from this read.
The emphasis today is really on the design and structure of your network and how the future world differs to how things have been done in the past.
In years gone by, when someone wanted a new application or service, the IT team would spring into action and likely either do one of two things. They'd order a new server/deploy a virtual server to install the application and store said server within the company datacentre or server rack. In some instances, this server might be deployed in a partner datacentre that was just an extension of their network.
This worked perfectly well at the time though it did have a bunch of pros and cons. The pros were generally once an application was deployed on the network, it was easy for everyone to connect into (assuming network standards had been followed!). The downside of course, not for all networks, but for the vast majority is that the application was poorly isolated from either other applications, or from the users computers. Wrongly, the LAN was treated as a trusted area. As we know, computers aren't always doing what their users want them to, occasionally, code is ran on computers which is running with malicious intentions against your business and customers. In this design, once an attacker was on the LAN, they could happily roam around talking to other machines and exfiltrating data via other machines or gleaning more information from the wider network. Looking at things like WannaCry and other recent attacks, the idea of flat VLAN networks, or overly open networks doesn't really seem like such a great idea.
The upside of this design (there had to be one!) is that it was very flexible and allowed systems to talk at high speed and with minimal setup.
Cue the future. Like it or not, more and more services are either moving to the Cloud or a Partner Datacentre which lets traditional servers work and be accessed in a more controlled manner. In this model, the "on-premise" network starts to become little more than an Internet connection to connect into third party services or company hosted services.
This very change in usage represents a seismic shift in the way that Office networks should be designed an operated. It presents an opportunity to bolster security with minimal fuss to users.
You can start to ask questions like "If everything is hosted in the Cloud, do devices on the LAN really need to talk to each other anymore?". How about "If it's just an internet connection, what other options of connectivity do we have?", or "How should we authenticate people against our internet connection and what can they see from there onwards?".
At a fundamental level, this change is more important than ever. You might have some exceptions of course, but they can be securely designed in. For the most part however, no computers should need to cross communicate on the LAN.
What's the benefit of this? Imagine one computer gets infected with the latest Cryptolocker virus, it should only affect that computer and user which starts to minimize the amount of damage an attack can deliver. Segmenting devices be it laptops, desktops, printers or anything else with an IP Address is never going to be a bad idea. Lots of Wireless vendors support this out of the box and the same can be done easily with wired connectivity on Managed Switches. The advantage to your business is making it harder for sensitive data to leave, making it harder for hackers to have hooks into your network and making it harder for security breaches to lead to things like GDPR related fines.
Re-architecting a network in this way also has many other benefits. Imagine you cannot get physical access to your office (say a Gas Leak, Train Strike, Power Cut or other event has occurred) you immediately have some level of BCP DR by default. You've cut dependency on a physical location and you can allow your users to access the network from wherever you want.
This leads onto the other point of this article. The imminent arrival of 5G Networks. This will utterly change the world of business connectivity as we know it – and for the better!
Right now, as a business, you assess how many staff are based at a location, how important it is to the business, you assess what network access options you have and hope that you can get something better than an ADSL circuit! If you're in luck, you'll be very near an exchange and a not so expensive leased line option will be available. If you're not in luck, you'll be stuck with either poor connectivity or expensive specialist options. Either way, they'll both take considerable time and investment to get up and running.
One alternative some businesses have gone for in the short term has been 4G connectivity. The biggest limiting factor for 4G however has been its nigh on impossible to get either unlimited data plans or very high use data plans. This means at best, 4G has been either a temporary solution, or a solution with significant drawbacks due to the transfer limits.
With 5G that looks like it'll change. Imagine a world where you can order a useable 300-500Mb/s circuit to anywhere in the country and have it up and running within 24/48 hours? That really does change the world we live in and what we can do, and It's coming sooner than you might think.
The downside to this of course, is that to get the best out of a 5G network, and to make implementing that as straightforward as possible, you need to have an architecture aligned to tomorrows network rather than yesterday's network.
This change will come around relatively quickly and will greatly improve the reach and access of all your locations. In that guise, it can significantly change how you, your teams and your cloud services work. The change to the network is relatively minor, but pays off in a big way if you can get it right.
From a business perspective, more businesses will be able to compete differently from their existing physical locations due to a surge in connectivity throughput, it'll enable new industries and ways of working. Make sure you're ready to be a part of it!
At Factory Internet, we provide vendor agnostic guidance, implementation, migration and operation on Cloud, Connectivity, Computing and IT Services. If you want one of our experts to help assess how your network, cloud systems, connectivity or IT services work and direct you towards a better future, get in touch!


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We glance in and out for motivation and learning.
We create the best experience for our community - as a team.
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The School A to Z app is an essential tool for every parent of school-aged children. The School A to Z app brings together a wealth of resources to help parents to understand and support their child's homework.
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Sir William Allmond Codrington Goode  was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1957 to 1959, and Governor of North Borneo from 1960 to 1963.

Early life
Goode was born in Twickenham, Middlesex, and attended Oakham School and Worcester College, Oxford.

Career
Goode joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1931, studying law in his spare time. He was admitted to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1936. From 1936 to 1939 he served as district officer, Raub, and thereafter as assistant financial secretary of Singapore in 1939. He was appointed assistant commissioner for civil defence, Singapore in 1940, serving in the Singapore Volunteer Corps as a lance corporal during the Second World War. After the colony's capitulation in 1942, he was taken prisoner by the Japanese and sent to work in Siam on the Burma Railway from 1943 to 1945. He remained in Malaya after the war, and in 1948 became deputy economic secretary to the Federation. In 1949 he was posted to Aden as chief secretary, where he also acted as governor from 1950 to 1951. He returned to Singapore as colonial secretary in 1953 and became the colony's last British governor in 1957. In 1959, as part of transitional arrangements, he was made Yang di-Pertuan Negara of the State of Singapore from June to December, and United Kingdom Commissioner. From 1960 to 1963 he was the last governor and Commander-in-Chief of North Borneo.

Awards and honours
He was invested with Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1952 New Year Honours and Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1957.

He was knighted with Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (KStJ) in 1958.

He was made Grand Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) in the 1963 New Year Honours shortly before his retirement to Berkshire, England.

Personal life
In 1938, Goode married Mary Harding. She died in 1947 and three years later he married Ena Mary McLaren.

Goode died in Goring-on-Thames in 1986, aged 79.

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Administrators in British Singapore
Colony of Aden people
Governors of North Borneo
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1986 deaths
Burma Railway prisoners
Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Knights of the Order of St John
People educated at Oakham School
Chief Secretaries of Singapore
Governors of the Straits Settlements

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#ifndef BEACON_H
#define BEACON_H

struct ieee80211_mgmt;

void handle_probe_req(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
		      const struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt, size_t len,
		      struct hostapd_frame_info *fi);
int ieee802_11_set_beacon(struct hostapd_data *hapd);
int ieee802_11_set_beacons(struct hostapd_iface *iface);
int ieee802_11_update_beacons(struct hostapd_iface *iface);
int ieee802_11_build_ap_params(struct hostapd_data *hapd,
			       struct wpa_driver_ap_params *params);
void ieee802_11_free_ap_params(struct wpa_driver_ap_params *params);

#endif /* BEACON_H */


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City to remember D-Day
CIVIC buildings across Liverpool will be lit red, white and blue on Thursday, to mark the 75th anniversary of the 'turning of the tide' in World War Two.
The city will also pay tribute to all those men and women who took part in the Normandy Landings of June 6, 1944, with a special service of commemoration at St John's Gardens.
Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Cllr Peter Brennan, will join the Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside Mark Blundell and other civic dignitaries for the special service of remembrance at St John's Garden's on Thursday 6 June.
The D-Day landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history. A task force of nearly 160,000 people from a host of nations set sail for France in a bid to liberate Europe.
Two battalions of the Kings (Liverpool) Regiment took part in the invasion and were tasked with securing Sword and Juno beaches by providing cover for the troops and equipment coming ashore.
The city also played a pivotal part in the success of the mission by being the headquarters for the control of the Western Approaches of the UK's coastlines. Keeping the sea lanes clear enabled US troops who were to take part in the D-Day operations to land safely in Britain.
This year, the Royal British Legion is recreating the D-Day journey by taking 200 D-Day Veterans to Commemorations in the UK and France on board the MV Boudicca.
The Royal British Legion (RBL) in Liverpool has organised Thursday's commemoration event, supported by Liverpool City Council.
Bill Martin of the Liverpool Royal British Legion said: "On Thursday we will stand in awe of the achievement and salute the bravery and sacrifice. The Legion with The City of Liverpool will hold a service in St Johns Gardens at 11am. We invite any veterans or their families who have not made the trip to France and wish to commemorate their achievements to join us."
As part of the commemorations, Liverpool City Council will be lighting up Liverpool Town Hall, St George's Hall and the Cunard Building in red, white and blue colours.
Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Cllr Peter Brennan said: "This was one of the most decisive actions of the Second World War and Liverpool played no small part in its success, which ultimately led to the allied victory in Europe.
"All those of us who appreciate the values of liberty, freedom of speech, the democratic process and the ability to live our lives without persecution, owes our D-Day heroes a debt that can never be repaid. It is our privilege to honour them on the 75th anniversary of this momentous event."
The service will take place at St John's Gardens at the rear of St George's Hall from 11am onwards on Thursday 6 June.
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Luis W. Alvarez (June 13, 1911, San Francisco, California – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. The American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez (1911–1988) was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."
He was the author of 168 published papers in scientific journals, mostly in the field of physics, and was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1947 and the National Academy of Engineering in 1969. He was a member of the American Physical Society, a fellow in 1939, and served as President in 1969. He was awarded the Collier Trophy by the National Aeronautics Association in 1946. The trophy was presented by President Truman; and won the Presidential Medal for Merit in 1947. In 1960 he was named California Scientist of the Year; in 1961 he won the Albert Einstein Award. In 1963 he was presented the National Medal of Science by Lyndon B. Johnson; in 1965 the Michelson Award; in 1978 he received the University of Chicago Alumni Medal and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 1987, the US Department of Energy granted him its Enrico Fermi award.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968, and received over 40 patents, some of which proved commercially viable.
The Alvarez family was of Spanish American descent. Alvarez was the son of Walter C. Alvarez, a doctor who for a time was a researcher at the Mayo Clinic, and of Harriet Smythe, and a grandson of Luis F. Alvarez, a doctor in Hawaii who found a better method for diagnosing macular leprosy. His aunt, Mabel Alvarez, was a California artist specializing in oil painting. Alvarez married Geraldine Smithwick in 1936 and had two children, Walter and Jean. In 1958, he married Janet L. Landis and had two more children, Donald and Helen.
Alvarez was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1932, his master's degree in 1934, and his PhD in 1936. In 1932, while still a graduate student at Chicago, Alvarez constructed an apparatus of Geiger counter tubes arranged as a cosmic ray telescope, and under the aegis of his faculty advisor Arthur Compton, conducted an experiment in Mexico City to measure the so-called East–West effect of the cosmic rays. Observing more incoming radiation from the west Alvarez correctly concluded that primary cosmic rays were positively charged, a fact unknown at the time. Following the receipt of his degree he joined Ernest Lawrence's group at the Radiation Laboratory at UC Berkeley in 1936.
At the Radiation Laboratory he worked with Lawrence's experimental team and group of theoretical physicists working with Robert Oppenheimer. Of the twenty or so papers he published in these years, there are three areas of accomplishment that are particularly important. He devised a set of experiments to observe K-electron capture in radioactive nuclei, predicted by the beta decay theory but never observed. Using magnets to sweep aside the positrons and electrons emanating from his radioactive sources, he designed a special purpose Geiger counter to detect only the "soft" X-rays coming from K capture. His conclusive results were published in the Physical Review in 1938 with him as sole author.
Another achievement of Alvarez concerned nuclear reactions. When deuterium (hydrogen-2) is bombarded with deuterium, the fusion reaction yields either tritium (hydrogen-3) plus a proton or Helium-3 plus a neutron (2H + 2H → 3H + p or 3He + n). This is one of the most basic fusion reactions, and the foundation of the hydrogen bomb and the current research on controlled nuclear fusion. At that time the stability of these two reaction products was unknown, but based on existing theories it was felt that 3H would be stable and 3He unstable. Alvarez proved the reverse by using his knowledge of the details of the 60-inch cyclotron operation. He tuned the machine to accelerate doubly ionized 3He nuclei and was able to get a beam of accelerated ions, thus using the cyclotron as a kind of super mass spectrometer. As the accelerated helium came from deep gas wells where it had been for millions of years, the 3He component had to be stable. Afterwards Alvarez produced 3H using the cyclotron and the 2H + 2H reaction and measured the lifetime of the radioactive 3H.
In 1938, again using his knowledge of the cyclotron and inventing what are now known as time-of-flight techniques, Alvarez created a mono-energetic beam of thermal neutrons. With this he began a long series of experiments collaborating with Felix Bloch, to measure the magnetic moment of the neutron. Their result of μ0 = 1.93±0.02, published in 1940, was a major advancement over earlier work. Bloch continued with experimental work in an effort to measure the magnetic moment of the proton. His later work in what would come to be called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) would win him the 1968 Nobel Prize.
The Tizard mission to the United States in 1940 demonstrated to leading American scientists the successful application of the cavity magnetron to produce short wavelength pulsed radar. The National Defense Research Committee, established only months earlier by President Roosevelt, created a central national laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the purpose of developing military applications of microwave radar. Lawrence immediately recruited his best "cyclotroneers", among them Alvarez, for this new laboratory, called the Radiation Laboratory.
Alvarez would contribute to a number of radar projects at the MIT Radiation Laboratory. From early improvements to Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) radar beacons, now called transponders, to ingenious strategies for preventing enemy submarines from realizing that they had been found by the new airborne microwave radars, Alvarez quickly got up to speed in the business of developing military radar equipment.
The radar system for which Alvarez is best known and which has played a huge role in aviation, most particularly in the post war Berlin airlift, was Ground Controlled Approach (GCA). Using Alvarez's dipole antenna to achieve a very high angular resolution GCA allows ground-based radar operators watching special precision displays to guide a landing airplane to the runway by transmitting verbal commands to the pilot. The system was simple, direct, and it worked well, even with previously untrained pilots. It was so successful that the military continued to use it for many years after the war, and it is in use in some countries even today. Alvarez was awarded aviation's most prestigious award, the Collier Trophy in 1945 "for his conspicuous and outstanding initiative in the concept and development of the Ground Control Approach system for safe landing of aircraft under all weather and traffic conditions". Alvarez spent the summer of 1943 in England testing GCA at the front lines, landing planes returning from battle in bad weather, and also training the English in the use of the system. While there he encountered the young Arthur C. Clarke, who was an RAF radar technician. Clarke subsequently used his experiences at the radar research station as the basis for his novel Glide Path and a thinly-disguised version of Alvarez appears in it.
In the fall of 1943, Alvarez returned to the United States with an offer from Robert Oppenheimer to work at Los Alamos on the Manhattan project. But Oppenheimer suggested that he first spend a few months at the University of Chicago working with Enrico Fermi before coming to Los Alamos. During these months, General Leslie Groves asked Alvarez to think of a way that the US could find out if the Germans were operating any nuclear reactors, and, if so, where they were. Alvarez suggested that an airplane carrying a system to detect the radioactive gases that a reactor produces, particularly xenon 133. The equipment did fly over Germany but detected no radioactive xenon because the Germans did not succeed in building a reactor capable of a chain reaction. This was the first idea of monitoring fission products for intelligence gathering. It would become extremely important after the war.
As a result of his radar work and the few months spent with Fermi, Alvarez arrived at Los Alamos in the spring of 1944, later than many of his contemporaries. The work on Little Boy (uranium bomb) was far along so Alvarez became involved in the design of Fat Man (plutonium bomb). The technique used for Little Boy, that of forcing the two sub-critical masses together using a type of gun, would not work in Fat Man because the high level of background spontaneous neutrons would cause fissions as soon as the two parts approached each other, leading to heat and expansion forcing the system apart before much energy has been released. It was decided to use a nearly critical sphere of plutonium and compress it quickly by explosives into a much smaller and denser core, which was a technical challenge at the time.
"With modern weapons-grade uranium, the background neutron rate is so low that terrorists, if they had such material, would have a good chance of setting off a high-yield explosion simply by dropping one half of the material onto the other half. Most people seem unaware that if separated U-235 is at hand, it's a trivial job to set off a nuclear explosion, whereas if only plutonium is available, making it explode is the most difficult technical job I know."
Working with his student, Lawrence Johnston, Alvarez's last task for the Manhattan Project was to develop a set of calibrated microphone/transmitters to be parachuted from an aircraft in order to measure the strength of the blast wave from the atomic explosion. This would allow the scientists to be able to calculate the energy of the bomb. Flying in the B-29 The Great Artiste in formation with the Enola Gay, Alvarez measured the blast effect of the first bomb which fell on Hiroshima. A few days later again flying in the Great Artiste, Johnston used the same equipment to measure the strength of the Nagasaki explosion.
Returning to the University of California as a full professor, Alvarez had many ideas about how to use his wartime radar knowledge to improve particle accelerators. Though some of these were to bear fruit, the "big idea" of this time would come from Edwin McMillan with his concept of phase stability which led to the synchrocyclotron. Refining and extending this concept, the Lawrence team would build the world's then-largest proton accelerator, the Bevatron, which began operating in 1954. Though the Bevatron could produce copious amounts of interesting particles, particularly in secondary collisions, there were very few techniques up to the task of detecting these complex interactions.
Seizing upon a new development to visualize particle tracks, created by Donald Glaser and known as a bubble chamber, Alvarez immediately realized the potential of the device if only it could be made to function with liquid hydrogen. Hydrogen, comprising only protons, made the simplest and most desirable target for interactions with the particles produced by the Bevatron. He immediately began an intensive development program to build a series of small chambers, and championed the device to Ernest Lawrence.
The Glaser device was a small glass cylinder (1 cm × 2 cm) filled with ether. By suddenly reducing the pressure the liquid could be placed into a temporary superheated state which would only boil along the disturbed track of a particle passing through. Glaser was able to maintain the superheated state for a few seconds before spontaneous boiling took place. The Alvarez team quickly built chambers of 1.5 in, 2.5 in, 4 in, 10 in, and 15 in using liquid hydrogen and constructed of metal with glass windows so that the tracks could be photographed. Another breakthrough was to cycle the chamber quickly in synchronization with the accelerator beam, take the picture, and then recompress the chamber in time for the next beam cycle.
"For his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonant states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chambers and data analysis."
In yet another stunning display of his imagination together with his ability to harness this imagination to realizable experiments, Alvarez proposed in 1965 to "X-Ray" the Egyptian pyramids to search for unknown chambers. Using the naturally occurring cosmic rays his ingenious scheme was to place spark chambers, standard equipment in the high-energy particle physics of this time, beneath the second pyramid of Chephren in a known chamber. By measuring the counting rate of the cosmic rays in different directions the detector would reveal the existence of any void in the overlaying rock structure.
Alvarez assembled an international team of physicists and archeologists from both the United States and Egypt, the recording equipment was constructed and the experiment carried out, though it was interrupted by the 1967 Six-Day War. Restarted after the war the effort continued recording and analyzing the penetrating cosmic rays until 1969 when Alvarez reported to the American Physical Society that no chambers had been found in the 19% of the pyramid surveyed.
In November 1966, Life Magazine published a series of photographs from the famous film that Abraham Zapruder took of the Kennedy assassination. Alvarez, an expert in optics and photoanalysis, became intrigued by the pictures and began to delve deeply into what could be learned from the film. The result of this was that Alvarez proved conclusively both in theory and experiment that the backward snap of the President's head was completely consistent with his being shot from behind, which would have been the case if Lee Harvey Oswald were the assassin. He also investigated the timing of the gun shots and the shockwave which disturbed the camera, the speed of the camera, and pointed out a number of things which the FBI photoanalysts either overlooked or got wrong. While the results were not of enormous importance (the paper was intended as a tutorial), the pedagogical aspect of the paper, as well as its informal advice for the physicist intent on arriving at the truth is compelling.
In 1980, Alvarez unveiled a scientific finale which would bring him greater worldwide recognition than all of his previous work. Working with his son Walter Alvarez, a geologist, the father–son team "uncovered a calamity that literally shook the Earth and is one of the great discoveries about Earth's history"
Walter Alvarez was doing geological research in central Italy during the 1970s on the walls of a gorge whose limestone layers included strata both above and below the so-called K–T boundary (now K-Pg), the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary (now Paleogene) periods corresponding to a time of 65.95 million years ago (Kuiper et al., 2008). Exactly at the boundary is a layer of clay about 1 cm thick. Walter removed a small piece of the rock containing both sections of limestone and the clay layer and later showed it to his father. Walter said "This layer marks where the dinosaurs and much else went extinct. Nobody knows why. Or what the clay is about. A big mystery!", and intended to discover why from then on.
One of the first things Alvarez did was to try to figure out how long it had taken to lay down the centimeter of clay. It was not an easy question to solve considering the events happened 65 million years ago, but he thought he might be able to use the very slow deposition of certain elements, namely iridium, gradually being deposited on earth from the cosmos as a kind of clock. Elements of the platinum group, including iridium, are rare in interplanetary space, but much more abundant than on Earth. There is very little iridium in the Earth's crust, but the planet is constantly bombarded with micrometeorites which, as they burn up in the atmosphere, lightly dust the surface with iridium at a constant and known rate. Alvarez reasoned that if there were a lot of iridium in the clay layer, then it had formed over a long time, and if there was very little, then it had formed in a short time. So he went looking for iridium, but he was about to stumble upon one of great discoveries about the history of the earth.
Alvarez had access to the nuclear chemists at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and was able to work with Frank Asaro and Helen Michel. The chemists used a technique known as neutron activation analysis and were astounded to discover that exactly at the clay boundary the iridium content was enormous, but not in the limestone on either side. Whatever had caused the iridium content in the clay, it was far too high to have come from micrometeorites. Carefully checking their work, the next step was to determine if the clay from other locations contained the same level of iridium (the K-Pg clay is well known and is distributed world wide), which it did. Within a few years of the publication of their paper, more than 100 iridium-containing clay sites were found. The team, knowing of no terrestrial source which could produce and deliver so much iridium, concluded that the source had to be extraterrestrial. And in the years following their publication the clay was also found to contain soot, glassy spherules, shocked quartz crystals, and microscopic diamonds and other rare minerals formed only under conditions of great temperature and pressure.
They considered a number of possible sources for the iridium anomaly; the passage of Earth through giant nebular clouds, a nearby supernova, and other low probability scenarios. With time, effort, and subsequent experimentation, all of these were eliminated. They were at last reduced to considering a direct impact on the earth by a comet or an asteroid; this was the only hypothesis which could satisfy all of the conditions. The impact theory causing the death of the dinosaurs was born.
After the publication of their seminal paper in 1980 an outcry was heard from some members of the orthodox geological community as the impact theory was a significant challenge to conventional dogma, and an often acrimonious scientific debate ensued. Ten years after this initial proposal, evidence of a huge impact crater called Chicxulub off the coast of Mexico strongly confirmed their theory. Unfortunately for Alvarez, the finding of the crater was subsequent to his death. Other researchers would later find that the end-Cretaceous extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs may have lasted for thousands of years instead of millions of years as had previously been accepted. While some scientists believe this extinction resulted from a point event such as an extraterrestrial impact, increased volcanism and climate change continue to be valid hypotheses, and all three are subject to continued study and correlation with the fossil record.
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"I think, 'I could do this tomorrow while we're all sitting around, listening to this [Richard] Cook crap we heard today. We always get ice water in those meetings; that's something I could do to save time.' Then I think, 'No, that would be gauche.' But then I think of Luis Alvarez, the physicist. He's a guy I admire for his gutsiness and sense of humor, and I think, if Alvarez was on this commission, he would do it, and that's good enough for me."
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^ a b c d Trower, W.P. (1987). Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W.Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226813045.
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^ Heilbron, J.L., Seidel, R.W. (1989). Lawrence and His Laboratory. University of California Press. ISBN 0520064267.
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^ "Luis Walter Alvarez, 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics citation". The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 1968. http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/eng/awards/search_laureates/detail.asp?LaureateID=58&PrizeYear=1968&PrizeID=1&LanguageID=2&SubjectID=3.
^ a b Alvarez, L.W. (1964). "A Study of High Energy Interactions using a "Beam" of Primary Cosmic Ray Protons". Alvarez Physics Memo (503). http://alvarezphysicsmemos.lbl.gov/physics_pdfs/APM501-510.pdf.
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Weisstein, Eric W., Alvarez, Luis W. (1911-1988) at ScienceWorld.


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Stuart Hall Library Artist's Residency 2018
August 01, 2017 / Annabel Clarke
The Stuart Hall Library
Stuart Hall Foundation and Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) are accepting applications for the second Stuart Hall Library Artist's Residency commencing in February 2018. The residency is a funded opportunity for an artist to be in residence at Iniva's Stuart Hall Library over a three-month period from February to April 2018. The selected artist will receive a total sum of £4,500 and given support to pursue their research in the library.
Building on the distinct connections between both organisations, the residency offers a visual artist the opportunity to develop their practice by excavating the ideas contained within the library, taking the writings of Professor Stuart Hall (1932 - 2014) as a starting point.
They are particularly interested in working with an artist whose practice is informed by perspectives on politics, identity and activism; who is interested in the language of the international and ideas around diaspora; and whose methodology may relate to notions of archiving and the archival.
Deadline: 5pm, Monday 25 September 2017.
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Inua A Story in Ice and Time is a narrative-driven role-playing game where you switch between 3 different time periods, alter people's memories and thoughts, and change both the past and the future. In the far Canadian north, you meet three groups of people, apart in time but intertwined in thought, and work to save a mystical polar bear. With deep musings on the natural world and an involving story and gameplay mechanics, it's a unique and unusual game.
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillation (AED) training may be the most valuable lesson a student can learn – how to save the life of a loved one, teacher, or friend by performing the simple steps of CPR. This method can double or triple a cardiac arrest victim's chance of survival.
With this thought in mind and as a member of the Wellness Committee for the Worcester Public Schools, six years ago I asked if we could start a course in CPR/AED training. With the support of Dr. Leonard Morse, then Commissioner of Public Health, we were able to secure a grant of $15,000 from the Hoche-Scofield Foundation. The Department of Public Health partnered with the Worcester Public Schools and the Worcester Fire Department to begin a voluntary CPR/AED certification program in our secondary schools. The program was successful but later the funding disappeared.
Now I am working with the American Heart Association, the Worcester Public Schools Health and Physical Education Department and our School nurses. We are trying to initiate a CPR Hands Only training for all the students from grades 7-12. The training will take place each year during physical education classes and the students will learn about compressions and how to use the AED machine. The main obstacle is finding ways of acquiring the necessary equipment.
The committee is looking into possible grants and looking for used mannequins within the community. If anyone can assist us with the mannequins please let me know for we want this to be a community effort. according to research, CPR provided by a bystander increases a person's chance of survival, yet people who live in poverty are 50 percent less likely to receive CPR from a bystander, and they also have the lowest chances of surviving a cardiac arrest. Thus, if the schools could provide this service to the community there is a greater chance of having CPR trained individuals in all areas of our community.
The mannequins that we require are about $50.00 each and we are in need of 220 to meet the needs of all of our secondary schools. Thus, we are hoping that area Health education programs or colleges within our community or individuals willing to purchase mannequins could assist us in this most important project.
This is not about school testing but it's about educating the whole child in being an able responder within the community. As a city it would be reassuring to know that we have a small army out there with the needed skills of CPR.
Keep in mind that Heart Attacks are the leading cause of deaths in the United States. About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year–that's 1 in every 4 deaths. " Bystanders–whether in a public gathering space such as an airport or shopping mall, in a workplace or at home –play an in important role in improving the chances of survival," said Dr. Robert W. Neumar, M.D., Ph.D., who is a professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine for the University of Michigan Health Systems. In cardiac arrest, every minute counts. In addition, since 88% of cardiac arrests happen in the home, it is very likely that the life you save with CPR is the life of a loved one.
The American Heart Association designated Worcester a "HeartSafe" community in May of 2004. In response to this distinction the Division of Public Health felt an increased responsibility to build upon and work on making this community HeartSafe. During those first few years, with assistance from the summer college interns, the city established a Central Registry of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) focusing on their ready availability at key locations, supported by a response team certified in CPR and AED and offering referral for their technical maintenance.
Isn't it time that we add another dimension to our HeartSafe city by teaching our students about CPR and AED training?


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From smartphones, laptops to LED TVs, Xiaomi's list of products is pretty much endless. Now, add an internet browser, called the 'Mint Browser' to this list. Xiaomi's main purpose behind creating a browsing app is to offer a responsive experience to the owners of underpowered Android phones - especially in the developing markets.
Along with options like Chrome, Firefox, Micosoft Edge, Safari, Android users can now add one more option in the form of Mint Browser. The USP of the browser is its low memory and storage requirements.
The size of the Mint browser is only 11 MB and it is ad-free. Additionally, Mint Browser manages to pack in most features one could expect from a mobile browser. The browser offers a multi-tabbing web browsing experience alongside providing an Incognito Mode. There is also an inbuilt Dark Mode that inverts the colours of your webpages to provide you with a comfortable web browsing experience under low light.
The moment you open the Mint Browser, you are greeted with a list of pre-selected websites. These can be modified and the new ones can be easily added. There is also a search bar where you can pick the search engine you want from the options like Google, Bing etc. Mint Browser renders the web pages quickly and also has an option to minimise the data consumption.
Xiaomi has promised to keep Mint Browser as an ad-free offering but going by the company's track record, there are chances that it would introduce some form of ads at an unspecified time in the future. Meanwhile, Google Play has described the app as "one of the best web browsers for Android phones". Xiaomi has said that, with Mint Browser, it has prioritised user experience over pricey specs.


Bollywood actress, Sonam Kapoor is ready to tie the knot with her partner, Anand Ahuja, on May 8, 2018. Both of the families issued a joint statement confirming the marriage after the rumors were rife on social media of the cancellation of the wedding.
"The Kapoor and Ahuja families take great joy and pride in announcing the marriage of Sonam and Anand. The wedding will take place on May 8 in Mumbai. Since it is an intimate affair, we request you to respect the family's need for privacy. Thank you for all your blessings and love, as we celebrate this special moment in our lives," the Kapoor and Ahuja's family said in a joint statement.
Media shared the pictures of Anil Kapoor's house decorated with festive lights. Celebrities, like choreographer Farah Khan and director Karan Johar, were spotted dropping at Kapoor's house late night. Further, as per the media reports, Farah Khan is choreographing the dance function for Sonam Kapoor's wedding.
Recently, when asked about the details of the wedding, Anil Kapoor said, "Media has always been with me and my family when we began our careers. We will share everything at the right time. You all will know very soon. We won't hide these details. You will know why there is lighting outside the house." As promised, we now know.
Sonam Kapoor, too, maintained secrecy till the confirmation came from families a week ahead of marriage. She refused to answer the question of her wedding at the ceremony of a trailer launch of her movie 'Veere Di Wedding,' featuring Kareena Kapoor alongside her.
The preparations for the biggest star wedding of the year are already in full swing as the bride, Sonam Kapoor, is back home a week ahead of her big day. According to recent reports, the Mehendi ceremony will be held at Sonam's aunt's luxurious residence in Bandra on May 7, and all big celebrities – from Karan Johar to Arjun Kapoor and Janhvi Kapoor – will be seen grooving.