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Allentown Could Be Blueprint For New Development
English: City of Allentown from east side (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
ALLENTOWN, PA – Three years ago, run-down tattoo parlors and pawnshops dominated Hamilton Street, the main drag in Pennsylvania's third-largest city.
Now they're gone, replaced by high-tech firms, high-end restaurants, and a burst of construction activity. In 22 months, seven buildings of at least 10 stories have gone up along Hamilton Street, and two older buildings were rehabbed. The centerpiece is the PPL Center, a new, gleaming, 10,000-seat arena that this week opens as the new hockey home of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, the Flyers' minor league affiliate.
Bolstered by special legislation that diverts most of the state taxes on new development within a 130-acre urban zone, supporters say what's happened in Allentown could be a blueprint for other long-suffering small cities eager to shed their industrial past.
"I think we're trying to change the Allentown identity," Mayor Ed Pawlowski said over lunch Thursday at the Hamilton, one of five new downtown restaurants. "It was so jerry-rigged over the years there wasn't much of an identity left."
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20141012_Allentown_could_be_blueprint_for_new_development.html#elAVd62cIEa7dzdL.99
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton	• Tagged Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone, Allentown PA, economic development, Ed Pawlowski, J.B. Reilly, Lehigh County, Lehigh Valley, Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp, Lehigh Valley Phantoms, Mayor Ed Pawlowski, new construction, Pennsylvania Route 222, PPL Center, redevelopment, residential component, revitalization
Allentown's Americus Hotel Revitalization Suffers Major Blow
Plans to revitalize Allentown's historic Americus Hotel have suffered a major blow that could set the project back multiple years, according to the hotel owner.
Albert Abdouche said financing for the $16.5 million renovation project has fallen through due to an Allentown authority's hesitation regarding his plans.
As a result, Abdouche said he is no longer seeking to tap into the Neighborhood Improvement Zone, Allentown's 127-acre special tax district, to finance the project.
Instead, Abdouche plans to make $1 million in improvements to the first floor with private money, then perhaps return to the Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development next year to finance the rest of the hotel renovations.
Read more: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/index.ssf/2014/09/allentowns_americus_hotel_revi.html
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Politics	• Tagged Albert Abdouche, Allentown PA, Americus Hotel, Bank, developer, Ed Pawlowski, financial backing, Lehigh County, loans, Neighborhood Improvement Zone, Renovation
National Penn Bancshares Holds Grand Opening At New Allentown Headquarters
Map of Pennsylvania highlighting Lehigh County (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
For the first time in nearly 35 years, a bank has established its headquarters in the city of Allentown.
More than 500 people today attended the grand opening and ribbon-cutting of National Penn Bancshares' new headquarters in the 11-story Two City Center in the city's downtown neighborhood.
Mayor Ed Pawlowski said it was more than simply a new business moving into the city but rather a showing of confidence in the ongoing revitalization of Allentown.
"We really appreciate the confidence you've put in us, and for bringing Allentown back to a central point for being a place of commerce and activity for the entire region," Pawlowski told representatives of the bank.
Read more: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/index.ssf/2014/04/national_penn_bancshares_holds.html
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton	• Tagged Allentown PA, business, center city Allentown, corporate headquarters, economic development, Ed Pawlowski, Financial Services, Lehigh County, National Penn Bancshares, new construction, Ribbon-cutting ceremony
Allentown Mayor Announces Plans To Improve Poorest Neighborhoods
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Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski announced an initiative today to make health and safety improvements in the city's poorest neighborhoods.
The city has committed $2.5 million for such Center City improvements and has asked the business community to match or exceed that amount in donations.
Working with the Allentown School District, the city plans to focus on blight remediation, housing redevelopment, home ownership and streetscaping projects.
"I believe Allentown will become a beacon of hope and an economic model for redevelopment (that) can be replicated across the state and across the country," Pawlowski said.
Read more: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/index.ssf/2014/03/allentown_mayor_announces_plan.html
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Politics	• Tagged Allentown PA, Allentown School District, blight eradication, Center City, Center City Lehigh Valley, Community Development Block Grant, Ed Pawlowski, Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, housing, Lehigh County, neighborhood stabilization, Occupational safety and health, Politics, Poverty, public safety, Russell Mayo
Allentown's Americus Hotel Project Advances, But Concerns Remain
The revitalization of Allentown's Americus Hotel took another step toward reality today, but development officials want further assurances the project will actually be completed.
"We don't want to have a project that's going to fail," said Sy Traub, chairman of the authority that oversees development in the city's Neighborhood Improvement Zone.
"If we approve a project that goes belly up in the middle of it, and it's a project in the middle of our city that's going to sit vacant and stalled, then it's going to be a real problem," Traub said.
Developer Albert Abdouche appeared today before a Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority committee with his plans for a revamped 11-story hotel at 549 Hamilton St.
Read more: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/index.ssf/2014/02/allentowns_americus_hotel_proj.html#incart_river
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Politics	• Tagged Albert Abdouche, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, Allentown PA, Americus Hotel, economic development, Ed Pawlowski, mixed use project, Neighborhood Improvement Zone, revitalization, Sy Traub
Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski To Withdraw From Pennsylvania Governor Race, Source Says
Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski plans to drop out of the race for Pennsylvania governor, according to a source.
Pawlowski, a Democrat who had been seeking to challenge Republican incumbent Gov. Tom Corbett, will withdraw from the race Monday and endorse Treasurer Rob McCord, the source said.
Mike Fleck, Pawlowski's campaign manager, declined to comment except to say Pawlowski would hold a news conference 11 a.m. Monday to discuss the governor's race.
Pawlowski did not immediately respond to a phone call for comment tonight.
Read more: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/elections/index.ssf/2014/01/allentown_mayor_ed_pawlowski_t.html
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Pennsylvania, Politics	• Tagged Allentown PA, Allyson Schwartz, Democratic, Ed Pawlowski, Election, fundraising, governor of Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley, Mike Fleck, name recognition, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of State, Pennsylvania Municipal League, Politics, Tom Corbett, Tom Wolf, Treasurer Rob McCord
Allentown Arena Construction On Schedule, Mayor Is Pleased
Six years ago Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, his city still smarting from losing the Sands casino to Bethlehem, first suggested that an arena might make a fine consolation prize.
Pawlowski on Wednesday, standing at the city's $272 million arena complex, surrounded by dust and gravel, hard hats and heavy machines, looked downright satisfied.
With construction in full swing, steel and concrete rising from what was once a block of low-end stores and for a time just a muddy hole at Seventh and Hamilton streets, Pawlowski, media in tow, got his first tour of a project that he has been trying to make a reality for most of his time in office.
"It really is amazing when you think about going from the conceptual stage to something that is physically under construction," Pawlowski said afterward. "I wanted to show the amount of planning that has really gone into this construction process."
Read more: http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-allentown-hockey-arena-site-tour-20130424,0,2991685.story
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Entertainment, Politics, Sports	• Tagged $272 milliion, Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone, Allentown PA, arena complex, center city Allentown, construction jobs, economic development, Ed Pawlowski, Hammes Co. Sports Development, hockey, hockey arena, hotel, Lehigh Valley, Lehigh Valley Phantoms, new construction, office building, revitalization
Pawlowski To Run For Third Term As Allentown Mayor
His supporters say Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski is a visionary; a leader who has ushered unprecedented development into the city with the state-supported Neighborhood Improvement Zone.
His detractors say he's a man in isolation, unwilling to listen to an angry populace unhappy with his plan to lease one of the city's most valuable assets.
On Monday, Ed Pawlowski will announce a bid for a third term in office.
And so far, he has no opposition. Political observers on both sides say that's unlikely to change.
Read more: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-allentown-mayor-pawlowski-candidate-announcemen-20130113,0,6204569.story
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Politics	• Tagged Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone, Allentown PA, center city Allentown, Democratic, economic development, Ed Pawlowski, hockey arena, mayor, mayoral race, Politics, re-election, revitalization
Mayors Tout Jobs Growth In Lehigh Valley
As a national jobs report released Friday pointed to a surge in hiring, the mayors of four of the Lehigh Valley's largest municipalities gathered in front of the future minor league hockey arena in Allentown to tout the Valley's growth.
The mayors — Ed Pawlowski of Allentown, John Callahan of Bethlehem, Sal Panto Jr. of Easton and Ed Hozza Jr. of Whitehall Township — didn't announce a new project on the same scale as Steel Stacks or an out-of-state company bringing hundreds of jobs. Instead, they praised the creation of 40 jobs for workers who are making way for the hockey arena at Seventh and Hamilton streets.
That number, Pawlowski said, will grow to 1,000 during construction.
The mayors gathered in front of the demolition site just days after revelations that the special tax district that will help pay for the $158-million arena may divert and delay the return of the Valley's municipalities' earned income taxes.
Read more: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-allentown-hockey-arena-jobs-20120203,0,1222186.story
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Politics	• Tagged Allentown PA, Bethlehem PA, Easton PA, economic development, Ed Pawlowski, job growth, Jobs, Lehigh Valley, minor league hockey, recession, Whitehall Township PA
Allentown Wins National Award For Fighting Childhood Obesity
The future of the city's fruit-and-vegetable green cart is no longer followed by a question mark.
Allentown took home a first-place national award — and a $120,000 grant — for the program, securing its immediate future fighting childhood obesity.
Six cities were honored nationally. Allentown was the only city in Pennsylvania to win recognition for the award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the American Beverage Association.
"More than 40 percent of our kids are either overweight or obese," Mayor Ed Pawlowski said. "We are tackling that problem head-on."
Read more: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-allentown-obesity-prevention-award-20120118,0,2108514.story
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Food	• Tagged Allentown PA, American Beverage Association, childhood obesity, children, Ed Pawlowski, fruits, grant, green cart, national award, nutrition, US Conference of Mayors, vegetables
Allentown Sees 42 Firefighter Retirements
Allentown officials knew a staggering number of city firefighters would retire in 2011, it was just a matter of how many.
Fire Chief Robert Scheirer predicted months ago that some 50 firefighters would retire before the union's contract that contained a generous pension clause was set to expire Dec. 31, echoing a similar mass exodus six years ago in the police department.
Now that the paperwork has settled, city officials say 42 firefighters left in 2011 — nearly one-third of the department usually staffed with about 140 firefighters. That's by far the most firefighter retirees in one year, second only to the departure of 80 police officers six years ago.
Read more: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-allentown-pa-firefighters-retire-20120104,0,7856335.story
By Roy • Posted in Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton	• Tagged Allentown PA, arbitration, contracts, Ed Pawlowski, Firefighter, Lehigh County, pensions, public safety, retirements, Staffing, union
Pottstown Civic Activists Stage Rally Against Deadbeat Slumlords On King Street
Teri Lyn Jensen-Sellers and Katy Jackson, both neighborhood residents, organized a rally today to protest "landlord" Andrew Soule's $10,000+ in back payments for sewer/water/trash to the Borough of Pottstown and the condition of his buildings in the 400 block of King Street. Reporters from The Mercury, The Pottstown Patch and Roy's Rants were on hand to document the effort of this group to draw attention to this huge problem plaguing Pottstown. Absentee landlords with blighted properties and overdue bills are straining Pottstown's already stressed tax base.
The Borough of Pottstown is owed over $700,000 in back water/sewer/trash payments from 200 people. The top 10 people on the Pottstown Wall of Shame owe nearly $200,000. As Pottstown Borough Manager Jason Bobst has stated, "It's all the same people that we see time and time again." Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski uses the Hall of Shame tactic in Allentown very successfully. Mrs. Jackson recently attended a webinar on this subject hosted by Allentown's mayor to learn more about how other towns and cities are coping with this problem.
Mr. Soule was evidently on the scene when the first protestors appeared, but left upon their arrival. Mrs. Jensen-Sellers questioned a man but he denied being Andrew Soule. A neighbor stated it was Mr. Soule after the man departed.
Sixth Ward Councilor and Man of the People, Jody Rhoads was on the scene as the sole representative of Pottstown Borough leadership along with Gallery on High/Gallery School co-founder Cathy Paretti and Andrew Monastra, a real estate lawyer with an office in the borough. A Code Blue member was in attendance as well as other concerned borough residents.
I interviewed two former tenants of Mr. Soule, both of whom had unpleasant dealings with the landlord.
Both Mrs. Paretti and Mr. Monastra shared their feelings about doing business in Pottstown and the challenges of being a business owner here. Both see the potential Pottstown has to offer but understand that many things need to change before Pottstown can follow in Phoenixville's footsteps.
By Roy • Posted in Politics, Pottstown	• Tagged absentee landlords, Allentown PA, Andrew Monastra, Andrew Soule, blighted properties, community activism, core neighborhood, delinquent water sewer trash bills, Ed Pawlowski, Hall of Shame, Jason Bobst, Katy Jackson, King Street, landlords, Pottstown, real estate, slumlords, Teri Lyn Jensen-Sellers


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Venezuela has been a liberal / socialist sweetheart for years (Anyone else remember Sean Penn praising Chavez?).
Unfortunately, the people who praise this type of political thinking either don't have the honesty to tell the whole story or haven't taken the time to actually see the inevitable failed results of their thinking.
This kind of thing quickly deteriorates into food riots, which are also being reported in Venezuala.
We recommend that you get your BOB together and get ready move out at a moments notice. What do you think about this situation? Sound off below.
Ever since the U.S. went off the precious metals standards, it marked itself for economic destruction. Every country who tried the maneuver prior to it has collapsed economically (the most notable being the U.K. when it went off the Sterling Standard) and every country since who has tried it has experienced the same thing (Greece was only the most notable-there are at least a dozen countries other than Venezuela who are collapsing that have eschewed their precious metals standards). There is only one way to go from that point: down.


Interesting analysis, but flawed. You can't get away from the fact that Israel was founded on Socialist, liberal and universal ideals. These ideals influence all of Israel's politicians and reflect the nature of the country and many of its governmental functions. For example, Israel subsidized both Haredi and Arab families with 3 or more children (that is, virtually all of these families) for some decades.
I agree with you that MKs vote for parochial interests–their own and those of their parties–and that Israeli voters also vote for parochial reasons. And while I agree with you that "wars needed to be fought and fighters needed to be raised," I don't agree that the territories needed to be settled. Israel under Labor began settling a few select areas of the West Bank and Gaza/Northern Sinai, for defense and historical reasons. Then the Likud took over and began full bore settlement for ideological reasons.
These parochial reasons then prevent Israel from withdrawing from the West Bank or even freezing settlement. The process becomes almost irreversible.
For the reasons that you outline in this post, I believe that Israel can readily be compared with nineteenth century America or Northern Ireland with their versions of illiberal democracy. Just as the religious parties and the settlers have their "parochial interests", the South had its "particular institution" as an interest. Even today the Outpost Youth, the latest generation of settlers, are talking of secession from Israel as the extremists in the South began discussing the prospect in 1850. Whether they recognize their need for IDF protection, I don't know.
No Arab nation is judged legitimate or illegitimate on the basis of its political system. Why Israel?
Israel is whether kingdom, aristocracy, or democracy.


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Q: where we use JAAS I am learning Java Security JCE/JAAS. I am not able to get a example where we need to implement JAAS login module in real word webapplication.
Can any one please guide me where I can implement JAAS in my web application. as much i know this is authentication and authorization service.
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If my understanding is correct now, it means if there is any service(Like LDAP) is running in our webserver or any other webserver, and if  we want to consume that service then we need to implement JAAS to authenticate our application.

A: JAAS is one way of implementing login on a container. JAAS main benefits come from the facts that it is a standard framework integrated in the JRE - so you get plenty of information, samples, connectors, etc - and that it properly separates the various concerns of user authentication.
In particular, it clearly separates authentication (validating the supplied credentials) and authorization (role and permissions granted to the user).
While authentication is very often "generic" or "external", for instance using an LDAP server, authorization is often tightly coupled with you application: roles and permissions are usually specific to the business problem the application addresses.
Implementing your own JAAS module is a simple way of addressing this issue, while staying within the boundaries of a well-defined framework and without having to provide a low level implementation to inject the module with the login cycle and session management of the container.

A: You don't need to implement your own JAAS login module with standard servlet containers unless you want to modify its standard behaviour as they provide you with several standard means to achieve it.
Here you will find a tutorial showing how to use the form login with Tomcat (no need for rolling you own LoginModule):
http://www.avajava.com/tutorials/lessons/how-do-i-use-form-authentication-with-tomcat.html

A: Generally, you, as the application developer, do not implement JAAS modules.  instead, you choose which JAAS module you need to use for your application from pre-existing modules included in the app server you are using.  most application servers come with a variety of implementations which allow you to do common things like authenticate using info from a database, ldap, active directory, kerberos, etc.  you would determine which authentication source you need to use and configure your application appropriately.

A: The main advantage of JAAS is that its pam that is pluggable authentication module.. thus if an application wants to be separated from the authentication and authorization system you can use JAAS. moreover JAAS unlike java general security not only verifies the code source but also the person using the code source to access.. so thus if a web app needs pam and the authorization should be of code source as well as code handler then JAAS is better.

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Historique

Ces talons ont été intronisés dans les années 1950 en tant qu'objet de séduction pour les jeunes adolescentes. Ils ont souvent été considérés comme « talons d'entraînement » aux États-Unis indiquant que les jeunes filles s'entrainaient à marcher sur ce type de talon. Cependant, dans les années 1960, ils deviennent à la mode pour les adolescentes et pour les femmes en général depuis le déclin de la popularité des talons aiguilles. Ils réapparaissent au plus tard dans les années 1980 et deviennent une composante courante des gammes de chaussures proposées par les fabricants.

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The Federal Trade Commission has issued final rules effecting important changes to the premerger notification requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (HSR Act), as they apply to formations and acquisitions of interests in limited liability companies, partnerships and other unincorporated entities.
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Here in Canada, today is the first day of spring although it isn't very spring like here in Thunder Bay, Ontario I tell ya. Our snow was almost gone, we had days where it was warm enough that a spring jacket was all you needed, but Mother Nature was fooling with us. We got a huge dumping of snow this past Wednesday. Ugh.....enough already!!!
I used 2 different types of embossing on my card. I used an embossing folder on the background and I heat embossed the sentiment.
Thank you for popping by to see my card. I hope you will have a look at the gorgeous creations from my teammates too.
It's time for a new challenge at One Stitch At A Time. For the next 2 weeks, my teamies and I are playing with Fancy Borders. For our Challenge #257 - Anything Goes With Fancy Borders, I took the opportunity to get one of my Mother's Day cards ready.
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3) No backlinking, you project must be a new project, blogged after our challenge goes live.
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The Sponsor for this challenge is StitchyBear Digi Outlet with a $10 coupon to spend in our store.
Close-up of my fancy borders.
I hope you will join in our challenge this week. We would all love to see how you interpret our current challenge.
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It's time for a new challenge at One Stitch At A Time and it is Tic Tac Toe!
I chose to use the right-hand column for my card; Pearls, Lace and Distressing.
I will be back in a bit with the list of supplies I used and to link my card to a few challenges.
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It's Sunday morning and that means its time for another challenge to start at One Stitch At A Time. This week we have #198 - Anything Goes. One lucky entrant using one of our images, will win all the images the DT used in Challenge #196. And, one entrant with a non Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet image will win a $3.00 gift certificate to our store.
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Hi! My name is Tracey and I live in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Thanks for coming to check out my blog :) I have been happily married to my high school sweetheart for 26 years. We have 2 children; Christopher, 28 years old and Jennifer, 26 years old. We also have a 4 year old grand-daughter and 9 month old grandson. They are my pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I first caught the scrapbooking bug in 2000 and have been hopelessly addicted to it ever since. I especially love to use flowers, ribbon and lace. I am also a Close To My Heart Demonstrator, and I just love this stamping company. Thankfully, my husband is a very understanding man who encourages me to spend time working on this craft. I have also began making cards and using stamps on my projects as well as trying out some sewing on my layouts. When you have a moment, feel free to stop and say 'Hello'. See you later!
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Bradley has fainted! Call the ambulance.
As his lips got bluer, I nervously waited for the ambulance.
Who called the ambulance when the singer had a heart attack?
An ambulance arrived to take the injured people to hospital.
The siren signalled the approach of an ambulance.
How long did it take for the ambulance to arrive?
There are two ambulances in front of the hospital.
The ambulance arrived as soon it was possible.
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New York, NY – August 1, 2018 – Trilantic North America, a leading private equity firm, today announced that it has acquired a majority interest in Taymax Group Holdings, LLC ("Taymax" or the "Company"), one of the largest Planet Fitness franchisees with more than 50 club locations across the United States and Canada. Trilantic North America invested in partnership with Taymax's co-founders, including CEO Tim Kelleher, and other key members of management.
Taymax was founded in 2009 with the acquisition of one club in the San Antonio market. Since then, the Company has grown organically to 52 clubs across the greater San Antonio, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Toronto and Ottawa markets. Taymax has been recognized as the Planet Fitness system Developer of the Year in two of the last three years and Franchisee of the Year in 2018.
Planet Fitness, one of the fastest-growing health club franchises in the country, is known for providing a high-quality, low-price fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment, called the Judgement Free Zone®. As of March 31, 2018, Planet Fitness had approximately 11.8 million members and more than 1,565 stores in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, the Dominican Republic and Panama.
Harris Williams acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Taymax on the transaction and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as its legal advisor. Kirkland & Ellis LLP provided legal advice to Trilantic North America.
Trilantic Capital Management L.P. ("Trilantic North America") is a private equity firm focused on control and significant minority investments in North America. Trilantic North America's primary investment focus is in the business services, consumer, and energy sectors. Trilantic North America currently manages six private equity fund families with aggregate capital commitments of $8.4 billion. For more information, visit www.trilanticnorthamerica.com.
Founded in 2009, Taymax is one of the largest and fastest growing franchisees within the Planet Fitness system. The Company has been recognized as Planet Fitness Developer of the Year in two of the last three years and Franchisee of the Year in 2018. Taymax operates 52 Planet Fitness health clubs in the greater San Antonio, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Toronto and Ottawa regions. The Company is very active in community work in its markets, donating to organizations such as the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the San Antonio Food Bank and other important local causes.
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Johan Koren (født 6. juli 1809 i Bergen, død 3. oktober 1885 sammesteds) var en norsk zoolog.

Koren tog 1836 norsk medicinsk eksamen og var 1838—54 kompagnikirurg i Bergenske Infanteribrigade samt i en årrække fra 1851 naturhistorielærer ved flere af Bergens skoler. Ved Kristiania Universitet havde han begyndt at lægge sig efter naturvidenskaberne, især botanik, og disse studier fortsatte han, efter at han havde bosat sig i Bergen. Det blev nu især zoologiske studier og undersøgelser, han ofrede sin opmærksomhed. Han blev i slutningen af 1840'erne ansat som konservator ved Bergens Museum, til hvis samlingers forøgelse og systematiske ordning hans navn for bestandig er knyttet, idet han egentlig grundlagde museet som naturvidenskabelig institution og i mere end 40 år uegennyttig ofrede sig for dets udvikling, medens han samtidig med sin lærdom, der understøttedes af en sjælden lykkelig hukommelse, og med et sikkert og hurtigt blik for zoologiske former var som et levende leksikon for sine medarbejdere, både hvad angik litteratur og dyreformer af alle klasser.

Han fulgte med levende interesse al ny forskning, kendte derfor godt til alle ny resultater og alle nye undersøgelsesmetoder; men selv var han en ængstelig og beskeden mand, der først ved samarbejde med andre forskere kunne bringes til i videnskabelig produktion at gøre sin iagttagelsesevne og sine rige kundskaber gældende. Sine fleste arbejder har han offentliggjort sammen med sin ven Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, dels i norske og udenlandske fagjournaler eller selskabsskrifter, dels i Fauna littoralis Norvegiæ og i generalberetningen om den norske Nordhavsekspedition. I denne sidste er følgende bind af ham og Danielssen: III. Gephyrea (1881), VI. Holothurioidea (1882), XI. Asteroidea (1884), XII. Pennatulida (1884). Deres værk om Nye Alcyonider, Gorgonider og Pennatulider, tilhørende Norges Fauna (1883) findes blandt Bergens Museums skrifter.

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Isaac reached Category 1 hurricane intensity mid-day on 28 August 2012. AWIPS images of 1-km resolution visible and IR data from the VIIRS, AVHRR, and MODIS instruments (below) showed curved banding features and convective bursts with overshooting tops, along with cloud top IR brightness temperatures as cold as -86º C.
McIDAS images of 1-minute interval Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) 0.63 µm visible channel and 10.7 µm IR channel data (below) showed the detail and temporal evolution of the convective bursts that developed near the center of the circulation of Hurricane Isaac as it made landfall over the Mississippi River delta region along the southeast Louisiana coast around 23:45 UTC.
A comparison of night-time AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.8 µm Day/Night Band data with the corresponding 11.45 µm IR data (below) at 08:29 UTC (3:29 AM local time) showed some spiral banding structure within the eastern semicircle of Isaac, along with an isolated area of deep convection immediately offshore (the minimum IR brightness temperature associated with this feature was -88 C). City lights could be seen in the northwestern portion of the image, where there were breaks in the clouds or only a thin veil of high clouds covered the area.
When two tropical cyclones are within close proximity to each other, they will typically start a rotation around a common center. This interaction, called the Fujiwhara Effect, may be occurring in the image loop above. Typhoon Bolaven approaches Typhoon Tembin, and the distance between the two reaches a minimum on 23 August, after which time Tembin moves west and Bolaven moves northwest. Subsequent to Bolaven's recurvature over the Korean peninsula, Tembin moves northward into midlatitudes as well.
The CIMSS Tropical Website includes 850-mb vorticity analyses. A 10-day loop that shows the motion of Tembin and Bolaven is shown above.
The Day-Night Band on VIIRS, flying on the Suomi/NPP satellite gave an excellent view of Isaac at strong tropical storm strength in the northern Gulf of Mexico shortly after midnight on August 28 2012. VIIRS is providing something unique to forecasters: Visible imagery at night that allows easy identification of overshooting tops and cirrus blow-off, and cumulus fields in the Gulf of Mexico. The infrared window channel on VIIRS showed coldest cloud-top temperatures of -84 C, and also the effects of dry air on the tropical system. Convection is suppressed in the northern half of the storm. A zoomed-in annotated version of the above VIIRS image comparison is available here.
VIIRS data used to produce these images was acquired by the X/L band antenna here at CIMSS in Wisconsin, and was processed using the Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP).
During the first few hours after sunrise, GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) visible imagery at 1-minute intervals (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a number of convective elements around the center of Isaac's circulation. After about 14 UTC, the rotation of the low-level circulation of Isaac could be seen as a "clear slot" opened up between areas of convection.
More information on Isaac is available at the National Hurricane Center website, and at the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site. One-minute imagery of the storm from GOES-14 can downloaded in real time from this website.


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The Wild Pear Tree
Review by Matt Thrift @Matt_Cinephile
Bennu Yildirimlar Dogu Demirkol Murat Cemcir
Anticipation.
The last five films from this Turkish master took home prizes at Cannes. This one got zip.
Enjoyment.
Verbose. Riveting. Extraordinary.
In Retrospect.
Ceylan's best film? It just might be.
Turkey's foremost dramatist returns with his most imposing and impressive film to date.
Given that Nuri Bilge Ceylan is yet to celebrate his 60th birthday, it would be pre-emptive to describe The Wild Pear Tree as a late-period film in the director's career. It certainly has the feel of one though; the kind of unfashionably heavyweight work of an old master that used to turn up a couple of times a decade from the likes of the late Greek doyen of 'slow cinema', Theo Angelopoulos.
Ceylan's first films, leading up to the name-making Uzak in 2002, dissect the social and generational chasms between rural and urban lives. A modern, derivative study in romantic ennui and an exercise in genre followed with Climates and Three Monkeys, before an expansive change of tack in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and the Palme d'Or winning Winter Sleep.
These major later works take their structural cues from Ceylan's clear passion for the doorstops of Russian literature, and his latest proves no exception. If the spirit of Tolstoy lives in The Wild Pear Tree's ravishing rural vistas, and Chekhov in the gestural details of small-town life, it's the dialectical template of Dostoyevsky that's been carried through most clearly from Winter Sleep's riffs on 'The Brothers Karamazov'.
Sinan (Dogu Demirkol) is an aspiring writer, newly returned from college to the family home. He's written his first book, a "quirky auto-fiction meta-novel" that shares its name with "those gnarled, stunted trees" of the film's title. With a three-hour plus running time ahead, Ceylan appears to set the stage for a cinematic bildungsroman of self-actualisation, putting his protagonist through a series of encounters on the path to enlightenment. But Sinan's a tricky customer. Despairing of the town he'd happily "drop an atomic bomb on," most of his disdain is saved for his father (Murat Cemcir, extraordinary), the flawed gambling addict in whom Sinan glimpses his own potential future.
It's a portrait of the artist as an entitled young man. While Sinan's novel aspires to the poetry of rural living, Ceylan's film mines the tension between a romantically idealised vision of the artistic life and the subjective truths of those Sinan views as fodder for his literary pursuits.
"There is more than one reality," exclaims a successful local writer in the film's key exchange, one of the many circuitous conversations that serve as The Wild Pear Tree's structural backbone. Ceylan approaches these ideological confrontations with an elegant pragmatism, before fracturing them with poetic grace notes. Sinan is the protagonist, but Ceylan's ambiguous intrusions serve to undermine the surety of his subjective reality. These formal abstractions elucidate his romantic vanity, or in the case of a (dreamt?) chase sequence, his Kafka-esque anxieties.
"How can a writer be credible if he can't see his real self?" asks Sinan, and come the film's transcendent final sequence, the question remains. "It's like a test of your self-image," he says of writing, "Try as you may to hide it, it reveals itself somehow." Ceylan's interrogation of said artistic self-image sinuously extracts its revelations, but it's left open as to whether Sinan will ever see the wood for the wild pear trees.
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By Sophie Monks Kaufman
Much philosophically-inclined gabbing make this Palme d'Or-winning latest from Nuri Bilge Ceylan something of snooze.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's hypnotic metaphysical noir is towering, tough and very, very pretty.
By Beth Webb
Hirokazu Koreeda's Cannes storming drama paints a richly humanistic portrait of an unconventional family unit.


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'History, Memory and Migration' among CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles of 2013
As I have only just learned, the book 'History, Memory and Migration', which I co-edited with Irial Glynn and wich was published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan, was recognised as one of the 'CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles of 2013', making it one of the top 10% publications reviewed that year.
"Every year, Choice subject editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in Choice's January issue, this prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from the academic library community. The 2013 feature includes 663 titles in 54 disciplines and subsections…"
The journal Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is part of the Association of College and Research Libraries (US) and publishes around 7000 reviews of academic titles each year.
The award is based on a review that appeared in the CHOICE January 2013 issue:
"Many aspects make this book an interesting read. First, as its title shows, the book merges memory study and migrant study, two robust fields of late in academia. Second, it offers a broad scope, with case studies from around the globe. Third, it raises more questions than it provides answers, inviting more research. Most of all, the editors have done a great job of writing both the introductory and concluding chapters, which, along with Jay Winter's elegant foreword, not only provide an up-to-date historiographic review but also cogently explain how and why memory and migration deserve scholarly attention. Indeed, this book is notable because despite being an anthology, which means it inevitably contains certain loose ends, it offers as a whole an informative case study of why public memory is diverse and shifting and how migrants are a contributing cause. A few threads also help tie the book together, one of which is the editors' discussion of one's sense of "belonging." Similar to the concept of "identity," "belonging" is also plural and porous, making it a perceptive angle with which to discuss the characteristics of migrant psyche in a modern society. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."
Q. E. Wang, Rowan University
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Science Better Accelerate With The Universe
DARK ACCELERATION Of The Universe, QUASICRYSTALS: New Science. NOT ENOUGH TO AVOID COLLAPSE. Yet.
Abstract: The Accelerating Universe is one of the greatest discovery in physics for more than 70 years. It requires new physics to explain it, some sort of anti-gravitation at a very large scale. First established with supernovas, it seems to have been confirmed independently by a galactic survey. "Dark Acceleration" would be a better way to call it than "Dark Energy" (for two reasons: it expands the dark, and we don't know for sure that it is caused by "energy" in the conventional sense).
This astounding discovery of that the universe is taking off, is typical of how revolutionary science is created. Checking supernovae was just supposed to be routine, a sort of boring science anti-scientists condemn. It was supposed to confirm what the Big Bangists all knew so well: the universe was expanding less fast than in the past, as the Big Bang theory had proven it.
Helas, it was not so! We are faced with something not just unpredicted, but thoroughly unpredictable by conventional physics.
[Some embryonic theories predicted the accelerating expansion, as those I call Dimensional Leakage (they have no official name I know of) and TOW.]
Revolutionary science is all about finding out the unexpected. Revolutionary science keeps on being found, so we have faith, we the faithful, the scientists, that much more revoltuionary science has to be found. The Accelerating Universe further bolsters our faith that the present physics with its Standard Model, a noble, useful, fruitful, but naïve and feeble attempt, missed one or more dimensions in the needed logic of what is going on.
How does one find the unexpected? Well, by using the most corrosive logic, propped by the most drastic imagination, and the most careful observations.
The supernova surveys belong to the later, extreme experimental care, and so does the OPERA experiment on neutrinos, and other efforts at CERN. Lesson? All of science has to be funded, if we want to find the unexpectable. Don't just listen to the fashionable ones. Actually fashionable physics has rigorously not scored for several decades now. It's not "Not even wrong!", as physicist pointed out (Their millions of "predictions" are all over the place, so, whatever happened, they said so! Besides, none can be checked!)
Interestingly, the Nobel committee emphasized the point by offering the chemistry Nobel to an Israeli, "for the discovery of quasi-crystals".
Intelligence is the only thing which can save Israel, and its neighbors, so it is a good indication that the 62 year old nation of seven million got ten Nobel prize winners. This is all the more striking that quasiperiodic patterns are a discovery made by the Islam led civilization, which long controlled Israel and Palestine.
Surviving in this universe we created for ourselves we require us to master the unexpected. So finance the most profitable activity of the government: fundamental research.
When the regime in the USA (the monneyed Congress) cancelled the Super Conducting Super Collider, it saved less than 10% of the bonuses it paid with public money to Wall Street in the first year after the 2008 collapse of deregulated finance.
And what did the Wall Street pirates spent their money on? $40,000 Champagne bottles? Whereas the ever better telescopes use ever better technology which no other human activity requires at this point. $40,000 Champagne has no future, but the new technology used in astronomy does. It could even save our lives (two small asteroids bracketed the Earth this summer, and one of them so close it was severely deflected; the silly ones will say that it does not matter, but if the 1908 bolide had exploded over Wall Street rather than over a desolated part of the Siberian forest, there would have been no more New York).
Let alone all the medical research, say on cancer, which was not financed, because it is $40,000 Champagne which got funded instead. The Medecine Nobel Prize honored progress in immunology. One of the recipients died of pancreatic cancer before the announcement. He had been using his discovery, dentritic immune cells, to activate his own defenses against his cancer. A few days later, the artistic technology integrator of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, died of the same cancer, after 7 years of a long battle. Some claimed that Jobs got a liver transplant in 2009 that the average job seeker would never have got. So money is never far from it all. There is clearly need for more biomedical research, for those who prefer their lives and those of their loved ones. But who are they, those who care about life? Who are they relative to those, the immense majority, who prefer, by far, seeing 20 something traders buy a $40,000 Champagne bottle and then cause with it another $50,000 in damage to a restaurant? (That happened in Paris.)
EINSTEIN WAS ALL CONFUSED BY THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE:
I was a bit surprised that the physics Nobel was given for the faster-than-expected expansion of the universe. Not that the discovery was not important. Just the opposite extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. Clearly the committee decided to encourage research in the area, by making it more prestigious. Inasmuch as our leading politicians seem cowardly, unable to decide anything important, the Nobel committee has adopted the opposite strategy, bold, fully appropriate.
The Accelerating Universe is the most stunning discovery in experimental physics since, perhaps, the accidental confirmation of De Broglie's matter waves by two American experimentalists. In the case of matter waves, theory (from De Broglie, in conceptual depths never touched before or since) preceded the discovery. Same thing with antimatter (Dirac predicted it).
But the Accelerating Universe was predicted by no prominent theory. It was an experimental find completely outside of standard theory, just as it was the case with neutrinos.
Neutrinos were also very important, because they meant that there was a new interaction at work, the weak force. Before the neutrinos and their weak force, Einstein knew of only two forces: gravitation and electromagnetism. So he said lots of things about space, and time, trying to tie both of the latter, with the preceding two. As if they could have eyes only for each other. Cute. Romantic. (An integrated 5 dimensional theory, Kaluza-Klein integrated both).
However, with the discovery of the weak force, it looked as if adding one, or more, dimensions was lurking in the distance. Einstein was unable to pursue his dream, and it would be taken again, long after his death, by adding dimensions frantically, using the mathematical theory of fiber bundles.
The basic idea of the Einstein gravitational field equation is:
[Curvature of spacetime = Energy (in) spacetime].
(The idea was spawned by Riemann, a generation before Einstein's birth.) Both curvature and energy are locally defined, so this is an equation at every point, and it has to be integrated to give a geometry of the universe over a sizable bit.)
Just as it is, even in this grossest of approximations, there are a lot of problems with this would-be equation (the right hand side is not well defined, as Einstein himself remarked, and depends upon the left hand side, as I would perfidiously add).
A problem Einstein saw was that, as his equation was, the curvature would be unstable in time: it would either collapse the universe, or then the universe would have to expand. But Einstein came out at night he saw that the stars were not moving: Einstein believed that the universe was static. So Einstein added a little constant on the left hand side of his equation, the Cosmological Constant, k, to prevent the universe to move.
This was a singular example of lack of imagination, because proper motions were first demonstrated by Edmund Halley in 1718 for the three bright stars: Sirius, Aldebaran, and Arcturus. Halley compared his measurements of their positions to those made by Hipparchus of Rhodes (300 BCE). In 2000 years the motions built up to the point that they became apparent to naked eye observers.
One should have suspected galaxies also moved. Not just that, but Hubble, operating with the Hooker telescope at Mt Wilson, next to Los Angeles, then the largest in the world (until 1948, with its 2.5 meters, just 10 centimeters larger than the Hubble Space telescope), soon discovered that distant galaxies were going away from us wherever he looked, and the further they were, the faster they went. [Speed Galaxy = (Constant) (distance galaxy)].
Einstein coquettishly proclaimed his recourse to k, the cosmological constant, the "greatest blunder of his life". Because otherwise, he pointed out, he would have been able to predict what Hubble found. (I rather think that the greatest blunder of his life was to abandon his family, but that's just me.)
I am giving all these sordid details to show that scientific inventions are not always what they are cracked up to be, even from the best and brightest. It was a sort-of-a-prediction, because, in all intellectual honesty, Einstein did not know whether the cosmological constant was zero or not, one way or another.
Actually, if he had been really crafty, the way he liked to be crafty, he could have said:"It is possible, considering my cosmological constant can vary all over the place, that the universe will be found to accelerate more or less, like Hubble saw, or even shrink, on an even larger distance, here or there". So Einstein made the biggest blunder in his life, twice, with his own cosmological constant, by his own weatherwane standards, depending how the cosmic wind was blowing through his brain.
Because an Accelerating Universe was found: type 1a Supernovas at large cosmological distance flee faster and faster from us.
POSSIBLE CAUSES OF DARK ACCELERATION OF THE COSMIC EXPANSION:
Of course installing an Einstein's Cosmological Constant in Einstein gravitational equation is purely descriptive. Nobody has any certainty about its source. The Cosmological Constant depicts DARK ACCELERATION. I call expansion beyond the Hubble prediction, Dark Acceleration, because we don't know what it is due to.
People use interchangeably "Dark Energy" and what I call Dark Expansion, but the concepts are different. Dark Expansion is a fact, but it is not necessarily due to "Dark Energy".
So "Dark Energy" is an abuse of language. Actually there are at least two imaginable mechanisms where Dark Acceleration is not caused by Dark Energy.
The DARK ENERGY idea proposes that somehow energy is injected in space which allows it to expand faster. Imaginable explanations for Dark Energy could be:
VACUUM ENERGY, which has been brandished as the source of the Dark Expansion. In Quantum Field Theory, the vacuum is full of energy. Nobody knows how much. All we know is that there is some energy in the vacuum (we have some indirect theoretical-experimental proofs, and direct measurements such as the Casimir effect). Evocations of "Vacuum Energy" are generally not accompanied of suggestions for a mechanism to expand the universe with it.
What do we observe though? A faster expansion. It could be due to a weakening of gravity at large distances (interestingly, inside galaxies and galactic clusters, gathering of the mysterious Dark Matter makes gravity stronger).
A mechanism to weaken gravity has been proposed by suggesting that space has more than three dimensions, and that gravity, somehow, would be leaking in one or more of these dimensions. One could call it DIMENSIONAL LEAKAGE. Dimensional leakage has also been proposed to explain the possible supraluminal speed of the very high energy neutrinos coming out of CERN (high energy neutrinos would jump into an extra dimension which shortens their trajectory through the "bulk").
A final explanation for accelerated expansion could be TOW (Totally Objective wave), the author's pet theory. TOW rests on the idea that its (hypothetic) Quantum Interaction proceeds at absolute speed TAU (more than ten billion times the speed of light!) Even though, the Quantum Interaction is overwhelmed by large cosmological distances: when a graviton, coming from way too far, singularizes itself, it loses part of its energy. Thus, according to TOW, gravity should weaken at large distances (just as light does).
The fact that there is no ready explanation for the Dark Acceleration shows that the hubristic crowd sing-songing on the rooftops about the "end of physics" a while ago, did not have much imagination. (Feynman was told about TOW, and was very appreciative, by the way.)
VINDICATED, A RIDICULED SCIENTIST WINS NOBEL:
When Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman claimed to have stumbled upon a new type of crystalline structure that seemed to violate the then known of the laws of nature, his "peers" and some giants of chemistry (Pauling) mocked him, insulted him and exiled him from his research group ("Danny, go away!"). "I was thrown out of my research group. They said I brought shame on them with what I was saying, I never took it personally. I knew I was right and they were wrong."
Indeed, he just received the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
The lesson? "A good scientist is a humble and listening scientist and not one that is sure 100 percent in what he read in the textbooks" Shechtman said. I would add that the greater the thoughts, the fewer the peers.
The shy, 70-year-old Shechtman said he never doubted his findings and considered himself merely the latest in a long line of scientists who advanced their fields by challenging the conventional wisdom and were shunned by the establishment because of it. And the greater the idea, the greater the shunning.
In 1982, "Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry" by Dan Shechtman et al. demonstrated "Order with No Translational Symmetry", the key here. Translational symmetry is what Pauling wanted to see, because he learned it in his kindergarten, way back when. That, or no symmetry at all, namely a glass, as Shechtman had expected to find. But Shechtman had serendipitously discovered what are now called "quasicrystals" – atoms arranged in patterns that seemed forbidden by nature…
Although they were clearly authorized in Islamic art since the Middle Ages… which should have been enough of an hint: if even the Islamists allowed them, assuredly their existence could not be denied. True, at that point Islam was very open minded, and early in that "Golden Age", most of the thinkers were actually not Muslims, but Jews, Zoroastrians, with probably a vast complement of atheist Neoplatonists. Theocratic fascism, as among the Franks, would grow later (and simultaneously with the Franks, as fascists, on both sides, realized that the Bible was an inspirational celebration of holocausts and other injustices that kept on being rewarded in high places, and thus provided business opportunities).
Quasiperiodicity was recorded from an Al-Mn alloy which has been rapidly cooled after melting (which probably means the quasi periodicity is higher energy than full periodicity).
The art in Isfahan (a fantastic city I highly recommend, by the way, not just artistically speaking, but for the presence of immensely old wisdom breathing through the stupendous beauty displayed in mosques and other buildings) showed that quasicrystals were logically permissible. They preceded the work of the British mathematician Penrose by nine centuries, and, definitively constitute the original discovery.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the mere possibility of these, as exhibited in the mosques, did most of the conceptual work. And how could not chemical bonds glue all the atoms all together, once we had showed the quasiperiodic pattern was possible? It's not quasicrystals which were surprising, but how people could think they could not exist.
The discovery "fundamentally altered how chemists conceive of solid matter," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. It redefined the notion of crystal in textbooks. Previously, a crystal had "a regularly ordered, repeating three-dimensional pattern," according to the International Union of Crystallography. The new definition, adopted in 1992, states that a crystal is any solid with a "discrete diffraction diagram" — that is, something that produces patterns, whatever a pattern is, just as Shechtman saw.
Quasiperiodic tiling,
Masjid-e-Jameh, Isfahan
Since Shechtman's discovery, more quasicrystals have been found. A Swedish company found them in most durable steel, used in products such as razor blades and thin needles made specifically for eye surgery, the academy said. Quasicrystals are studied for use in new materials converting heat to electricity.
They have also been discovered in nature, in a Siberian river. As it seems obvious that they will prevent the propagation of fractures, one may expect to see plenty of quasicrystals in a future near us, except of course, if the banksters devour our civilization first, like they tried last time and the time before that, with their dangerous marionettes.
Quasi periodic structures are all over nature. They depict the subquantum world. Indeed the waves produced by dropping four or more stones into a pond always form a quasicrystal (or more exactly a quasiperiodic pattern), because there is a mathematical theorem saying this. Schechtman was aware of the theorem, and when he saw the 10 fold quasiperiodicity, he knew.
Matter waves continually interfere, creating quasi periodic existence waves all over.
SCIENCE: EVERY BODY'S BUSINESS. OR THE WORLD WILL GET OLD:
We are living in a scientific civilization, whether we like it or not, whether we are superstitious or not. The French ministry of ecology (headed by an experienced politician, a young and charging polytechnicienne who is piling up elected offices) just forbid by decree (executive order) fracking all over France (the National Assembly had already voted in that direction). The reason? Existing techniques have not demonstrated that they were ecologically sound, in the fullness of time. In other words, it was a purely scientific decision.
In the USA, fracking is practiced massively: whether the technique will lead to corruption of the aquifers is of no import, because, as Suskind's book "Confidence Men" demonstrates, corruption is of the essence, and, now that it owns the White House, it may as well own the dark underground.
The essentiality of serious science is funded by states, as there is no monetary profit in it (learn, Tea Party!). But the science we have is not enough: we will soon be using several times this planet sustainable productivity, so we need to become much more efficient. This can be achieved only by considerable scientific progress, in all domains, from plate tectonics, to material science, to the most esoteric biology, to quantum algorithms, to whatever.
I say "to whatever" because there is no telling where the scientifically and, or, socially important breakthrough will occur.
For example nobody would have guessed that surveying supernovas would smash the hubristic certainty of those prestigious scientists who recited their new religion, the Theory Of Everything, the claim that they, the glorious ones, had figured out the entire universe (just like the proverbial god, before he got to know man). Not by coincidence, the peak of their hubris was around 1998, just when the accelerating universe started to make its presence known.
We are in scientific civilization, thus those who are anti-science are actually anti civilization. This is true even in the fossil fuel industry.
Even that fossil pursuit, trying to keep the fire going, as Homo Erectus already did, a million years ago, is scientific. Ever more primitively scientific, but still scientific, and involving many scientific issues, some potentially disastrous. Hydrocarbon burning is a massive scientific bet that the recombining with oxygen in the air of much of the hydrocarbons buried over 400 million years, will have no serious adverse consequence(s).
The evolving scientific evidence is that the consequences are many, and potentially extremely cataclysmically adverse. But as too many people in the leading countries are trained for superstitious, or sport analogy reasoning rather than scientific reasoning, especially in the USA, nothing much is done: other countries cannot afford to become uncompetitive with the USA and its 10,000 Chinese factories.
Those who are not pro-science, being anticivilizational, are actually pro-world war, and pro-holocaust.
Should science not jump ahead, very soon, the coming holocaust is easy to compute: soon, on present trends, we will be using more than two sustainable earths, with eight billion people gnawing the shrinking resources (we are 7 billion now). Thus, if we do not augment our science considerably, we will have to cut the world population by half.
Let's insist on that point: we are exhausting the existing resources. For example we are well post easy-to-extract peak oil. The only reason we are not past vulgar peak oil, is that we are using increasing energetically expensive (energy is the only currency that counts by itself) and technologically expensive means.
The Romans did the same in their mines, with ever more slaves pushing ever more their primitive digging technology, to its bitter end, devastating the ecology for millennia. And they persisted, until they could not anymore. Exhausted, the mines closed for nearly 2,000 years. The Romans had no plans for that event. Nor did they have plan B.
Rome had been most technologically inventive as a republic. That's how it vanquished everybody.
Having captured a Carthaginian ship, they, those Roman peasants, reverse engineered it, and made invincible fleets of ships. However as Rome progressively degenerated in the fascist dictatorship known as the Roman empire, innovation was the first victim, as proven by the fact that the Germans and Hellenized Persians became increasingly hard to beat on the open battlefield… because they had superior weapons (in particular, composite bows the arrows of which penetrated Roman armor).
Plutocratic, fascist imperial Rome did not want to understand that it was running out of science, considering the problems it faced. Plutocracy want the people to owe them, and the last thing it wants is to owe the people, and especially ideas! The official line in Rome was just to whine that the "world was getting old". Rome was running out of resources, among other problems, its ore mines exhausted. When the Muslim army invaded, Rome needed to melt the metallic roofs of Rome to make weapons.
The master problem was of course that Rome was running out of moral, and thus intellectual, supremacy. When one treats one's engineers, and engineering, badly, one runs out of engineering badly. (Something one can observe nowadays in the USA.)
A similar shock between the demands of society and insufficient science and technology happened, roughly at the same time, to the Mayas (who confronted a dreadful drought). The Mayan ecology, construction technology, hydrology, agriculture and forestry science, although all sophisticated, and established for centuries, if not millennia, all came all too short, considering the crisis. Plutocracy got all enraged, and fought against itself, the way sharks do when they run out of food, and Mayan civilization imploded.
Science is about what really is, and why. With (more or less great) certainty. Thus science creates models and theories of great explanatory power, which can be emulated in other domains (sometimes simply as metaphors). Science transforms confusion and, or, phenomenological wealth into an harmonious explanatory whole. In other words, it can be inspirational, a leader to democracy, sociology, economy, even literature, poetry, etc.
It would be a dark future without new, really revolutionary science. Quasicrystals and the accelerating universe tell us, with certainty, that much revolutionary science is still to be discovered. Science has to pursue its dark expansion in the unknown, emulating the universe which harbors it. No choice.
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Just as Pontius Pilate washed his hands of any buy-in to Jesus' execution, the White House continually is whitewashing its connection and responsibility to the BSA.
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Just as Pontius Pilate washed his hands of any buy-in to Jesus' execution, the White House continually is whitewashing its connection and responsibility to the BSA.
Last week, I discussed a series of evidences regarding how President Barack Obama is leading the White House pack in distancing his administration from the Boy Scouts of America.
As I pointed out, the White House has delayed Eagle Scout certificate signings, denied the invitation to go to the Boy Scouts of America's 100th anniversary gala, downplayed Obama's acceptance of BSA's honorary presidency, dodged official communications about the BSA, not defended the BSA against cultural attacks, and diminished Obama's all-around role as BSA's honorary president.
And to boot, Obama's administration has followed suit, collectively believing as progressives that the BSA is behind the times or too traditional and conservative.
For example, just a week after Obama denied the invitation to attend the BSA's gala in his own backyard (Washington, D.C.), on Feb. 12 White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was forced to discuss the Boy Scouts. But even then, as you'll see, Gibbs dodged questions about White House sentiment regarding the BSA.
It all started when reporter Les Kinsolving, WorldNetDaily's correspondent at the White House, asked Gibbs what the president thought about the New York Post's report that detailed the legal victory for the Scouts' right to exclude homosexuals from membership and how it had created a backlash in New York. The report said that institutions there are abandoning the Scouts and that authorities have barred them from meeting or recruiting in public schools.
The exchange between Kinsolving and Gibbs at that press briefing went like this (watch Gibbs' political tap-dancing maneuvers, for the president and himself):
Kinsolving: As the honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America, what is the president's reaction to the New York Post report that because the Scouts have a policy similar to our armed forces, "New York institutions are barring Scouts from meeting or recruiting in all public schools"?
Gibbs: I have not seen the New York Post report and can have somebody–
Kinsolving: Well, does he think that it's fair for them to cut the Scouts out of this? How does he support — does he disagree with the Scouts or what? (Laughter.)
Gibbs: Where are you on this, Lester?
Kinsolving: Nowhere. (Laughter.)
Gibbs: Yes, I do know where.
Kinsolving: I support the Scouts. Do you support the Scouts?
Gibbs: My son is — we're constructing the Pinewood Derby car as we speak. (Laughter.)
Kinsolving: He's a Scout? Your son is a Scout?
Gibbs: He is, and I think he's going to be disappointed if his car doesn't do well, but his father tends to be constructionally challenged. Thanks, guys. (End of press briefing.)
There was no direct or indirect response to the issue raised by Kinsolving addressing either Obama's view or Gibbs' view of the BSA.
New York is not the only city in which the BSA is feeling some backlash. Since 1928, the BSA in Philadelphia has been housed in a government building rent-free. The city of Philadelphia decided to revoke this special privilege because, officials said, BSA's national policy banning gays violates the city's nondiscrimination policies. (Last week, a Philadelphia jury ruled in favor of the Boy Scouts, meaning they will not be evicted from their home or forced to pay rent, at least for now.)
One 1991 BSA position statement states: "We believe that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the requirement in the Scout Oath that a Scout be morally straight and in the Scout Law that a Scout be clean in word and deed, and that homosexuals do not provide a desirable role model for Scouts."
Wouldn't you think that with all of the cultural hot water the BSA is in in our courts and the public square, the honorary president of the organization might defend its First Amendment rights to assemble and believe as it has for 100 years?
On the other hand, it's interesting to note that atheist leaders of the Secular Student Alliance recently were bragging on their website that for the first time, they were invited to the White House to participate in a meeting on interfaith service projects on college campuses. The meeting was sponsored by the Obama administration's Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
And what about the BSA? Were its leaders invited by their honorary president to participate, as well?
Hasn't America reached a particular low in its history when the White House distances itself from the Boy Scouts of America but invites the Secular Student Alliance to participate in its faith and college missions?
President Obama became the honorary president of the BSA in March 2009, and the White House didn't even mention it. And ever since, any discussions or interactions with the Scouts have been "don't ask, don't tell." And how could they, because the president would then have to acknowledge publicly that as honorary president of BSA, he affirmed the Scouts' oath, beliefs and policies, which prohibit atheists and agnostics from membership and "avowed" homosexuals from leadership roles?
Just as Pontius Pilate washed his hands of any buy-in to Jesus' execution, the White House continually is whitewashing its connection and responsibility to the BSA. And just as Pontius Pilate's actions prompted us to question what good came from his position, President Obama has caused us to wonder what good has come from his role as honorary president of BSA. (I'll answer that specifically in the third and final part of this series, when I will compare Obama's contributions to the BSA with those of previous U.S. presidents.)
But then again, maybe I should just sit back, do nothing and simply drink the White House Kool-Aid and say, "I'm glad Robert Gibbs is spending time with his son. I wonder whether they won the Pinewood Derby?"
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A project controls manager for AECOM in New York City, Stigliano devotes time each week as lead of a team of deputy project managers that advises project managers around the metropolitan area.
ASCE recognized Stigliano's work by selecting her as one of the 2017 New Faces of Civil Engineering – Professional.
Stigliano, A.M.ASCE, grew up in a small town in southern Italy, where her father Antonio owned his own business, focused mainly on water treatment plants and reusable energy. It was during a high school art class that she connected her father's work to her own career ambitions.
Stigliano went on to study at the University of Rome La Sapienza, earning a master's degree in structural engineering. She moved to the United States four years ago and earned a second master's – in construction engineering and management at Columbia University.
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