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Message from Director – Dr. Prakash Prasad Shah
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Background and Magnitude of the problem: National Tuberculosis Control Center (NTCC) has been implementing all 6 components of WHO Stop TB Strategy since 2006. The NTP also adopted TB/HIV strategy and policy in 2009. One of the most important and challenging component is TB/HIV as it is needed to coordinate between two programs for effective…
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FBC Houston's Gregg Matte: 'When one pastor is subpoenaed, all pastors are subpoenaed'
by Kathie Platt and Vanessa Garcia Rodriguez, | 16 October, 2014
FBC Houston Pastor Gregg Matte speaks exclusively to ChristianExaminer.com about issues of religious liberty relating to the controversy which erupted after the City of Houston subpoenaed the sermons and notes of five pastors. ChristianExaminer.com
HOUSTON (ChristianExaminer.com) – At the request of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Houston's First Baptist Church hosted a conference Oct. 16, to provide a forum for the national political leader to speak in defense of religious liberty.
Cruz is a member of Houston's First Baptist, and asked to speak to the controversial action by the City of Houston to serve five area pastors and demand they produce sermons and notes mentioning Houston Mayor Annise D. Parker, homosexuality and gender identity.
Parker is the first openly lesbian mayor of Houston and was supportive of an ordinance recently passed by the city council granting privileges to transgender individuals which included giving them access to public restrooms without regard to gender—biological men in women's restrooms and vice versa.
Dozens of Houston-area pastors and local and national media attended the press conference as did hundreds of religious liberty supporters.
The subpoenas followed the move by opponents of the ordinance to file a lawsuit against the city for throwing out petitions which had been collected to add a referendum to the November ballot asking Houstonians to vote on whether to repeal the ordinance. Houston City Attorney David Feldman explained the city's decision by saying the petitions with the 50,000 or so signatures—about three times the minimum needed—included "too many documents with irregularities and problems to overlook."
None of the five pastors is a party to the lawsuit against the city.
The press conference followed an already scheduled time of prayer and fellowship.
Gregg Matte, senior pastor of Houston's First Baptist, said about two and a half months ago God placed it on the hearts of a group of area pastors to come together and pray for each other and the city.
"Pastors and community leaders already were planning to gather for prayer," he said, adding, "not for this issue, because this issue [subpoenas] didn't exist two and a half months ago.
"We had no idea then this press conference would be called on the exact same day."
As he was preparing to host the prayer meeting, he said people began trying to reach him.
"I started getting text messages from friends asking if I had been subpoenaed and I didn't know what they were talking about," Matte said. That's when he began to read links and gained an understanding of what was taking place, that subpoenas had been served to five pastors.
"And when one pastor is subpoenaed, all pastors are subpoenaed," Matte told ChristianExaminer.com.
He said the group that already was planning to gather "asked the Lord what we should do" when he received a call from Cruz asking the church to host a press conference.
"The Senator really wanted to get behind this issue and make a statement about what it means when our religious freedoms and liberties are threatened," Matte said. "What's really neat—from a Christian perspective—is that we already had the prayer meeting scheduled."
"We had about fifty pastors of all denominations from the Houston area attend the prayer meeting beforehand and the press conference afterwards."
Matte said the outpouring of interest and support was truly overwhelming, and, he is hopeful city officials will receive a wake-up call from the community action expressed today in defense of religious liberties.
"I think the city will remove the subpoenas, as they should. This isn't what you do; this isn't how you walk forward as Americans.
"We need to honor our religious freedoms. Not squelch them," he added.
Although, in the short term, Matte expects to see the withdrawal of the subpoenas, he looks forward to a greater impact from the results of the highly publicized controversy.
"This really brings into the focus whether we as Americans really believe in our religious liberties, or not. That's what it comes down to: Are we willing to stand for our religious freedoms, or not?
"Pastors don't want to be preparing their sermons each week wondering if the government approves. We left England to get away from religious oppression. And when we are challenged like this, our religious liberty is at stake."
Matte said in the end churches must be true to their purpose and emphasized that as the best possible result for those on both sides of the issue.
"As pastors, we really want everyone to know that, as the church, we love folks. We're not trying to start fights. We want to be able to walk away with Christ being honored," Matte said. "We will stand up for the things that are true in the Word of God and that are true in our nation as well—and everyone benefits."
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All My Loving è un EP dei Beatles pubblicato in Gran Bretagna il 7 febbraio 1964 dalla Parlophone (n° catal. GEP8891). L'EP contiene 2 brani dall'album Please Please me e 2 brani dall'album With the Beatles. Il disco venne pubblicato solamente in versione mono.

Tracce
 Tutti i brani sono opera di John Lennon & Paul McCartney, eccetto dove indicato.

 Lato A

 Lato B

Formazione
 George Harrison — chitarra solista, cori
 John Lennon — voce, chitarra ritmica
 Paul McCartney — voce, basso
 Ringo Starr — batteria, percussioni

Collegamenti esterni

  in Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages.

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Sunday started slowly for me because Gaylen let me sleep in late! And I was so thankful...I flew out to Seattle battling a sinus infection with a plastic baggie full of meds and lounging around Sunday morning was such a treat!
Our plan for Sunday was lunch with the West Coast Posse and then spending time in Gaylen's sewing room. When Gaylen asked me where I would like to have lunch at my answer was Mexican. I love the Mexican restaurant near her house so that's where we met up!
We were joined by Amy (Sew Well), Melizza (Pincushion Treats) who brought her beautiful mini me; Melora (birdandbicycle) and Niema (neemiebean)! It was great to spend time talking sewing, looking at patterns - hey NY Crew they bring patterns to trade at meet-ups. How comes we don't do that? And passing that adorable baby around!
One of the best parts of journeying to Seattle is meeting up with these ladies! Thanks for taking time out of your busy days to spend a couple of hours with me.
Then we (me, Gaylen and Amy) headed back to Gaylen's where I had to kick Amy out because we just kept talking and talking! She had to get home to her own precious little one!
I spent the rest of the afternoon in Gaylen's sewing room, pawing through her fabric collection, and watching her sew up this Madeleine Ponte Top by Style Arc that I've now got to own!
I later told Gaylen that every time I come to visit her I learn something new. Last year I stole her magnetic pin bowl idea and the glass head pins she uses - I have them both in the sewing cave now and love them! This year it was several new indie patterns that I wouldn't have looked at twice but did because of her interpretations.
I also brought a piece of that fabric from her collection home with me. So now I just need to get that pattern and I will be copying Gaylen!
We spent the afternoon watching the Red Carpet Arrivals. Ummm forgot that since I was on the same coast with them that they come on in the afternoon and not the evening like at home.
We made an early night of it since I had a 6am flight back to the East Coast. I had a fantastic trip and want to thank everyone who I met at Expo, the vendors who spent time with me, the sewists who came up to talk to me, my West Coast Posse and most especially Gaylen ~ the hostess with the mostest! I am so thrilled to call you friend!
I did Vicki! I had a fantastic time!
Thanks Faye - I did!
You all look so beautiful and happy!!
They are a good looking group aren't they?!
It was Beth! Makes me wish I could go out more often!
It was a lovely lunch! Always wonderful to see you!
It was so good to see you too - and we need to do it more than once a year!
It was great to see you! Both the food and the company at lunch were wonderful! I know you've now checked the Sew Expo off your bucket list, but I do hope you'll find an excuse to come back and visit.
Amy seriously you could have stayed another couple of hours with us at Gaylen's we were having that much fun! It was good to see you too!


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 La Silla Vacía, un sitio web de información de Colombia.
 La silla vacía, una película mexicana de 1982 dirigida por Fernando Curiel.


The Avalon Theatre was the place to be Thursday night as John Fogerty rocked the sold out crowd. The show featured many Creedence classics and some deeper cuts as well. Not only did Fogerty sound in great voice, he played his guitar with authority. He was enduring from the opening notes of "Travelin' Band" to the evening's final song "Proud Mary".
Backed by a solid band, Fogerty has never sounded better live. Joining him were keyboardist Bob Malone, guitarist Devon Pangle and bassist James Lomenzo. The recent college graduate Shane Fogerty also joined his dad on guitar. Last but far from least, the man Fogerty called "the best drummer in rock 'n' roll", Kenny Aronoff rounded out the band.
For the most part Fogerty stuck with the Creedence material which was a little surprising considering all the lawsuits and battles with the members of his former band. You could clearly see how much he enjoyed playing the old material. Introducing "Susie Q", Fogerty mentioned it was the first song that helped break CCR. He only played three songs from his solo albums during the ninety-minute set. Two of those received huge ovations in "Centerfield" and "The Old Man Is Down The Road". Blue Moon Swamp was represented by "Joy Of My Life" a song which he wrote about his wife.
The mega hits kept coming. Classic rock gems such as "Have You Ever Seen The Rain", "Down On The Corner" and "Fortunate Son" concluded the main set.
Returning for "Bad Moon Rising" and "Proud Mary" Fogerty sent everyone home very happy. He probably could have played another ninety minutes he was so full of energy. He said he was a man of a few words but introduced some of the songs as he told some stories related to them. He joked at the end that he had such a great time that he will come back tomorrow (Friday) and do it again.
It was an amazing night of music from a man who really seems to be enjoying playing live. There was a time when he seemed disillusioned with the music industry and went for a long period without playing live. It was so good to not only see the man play but play with such conviction. This was one show many in attendance will remember for a long time to come.


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I always wanted the forever house. My family moved five times from the time I was a baby to the time I left for college. Lake Forest, Barrington, Barrington again, Baltimore, San Francisco. We left the home my parents built for us to live in forever. The one where I got to choose my bedroom wallpaper (pink cherubs and pink clouds) and my bathroom color (periwinkle tub and periwinkle toilet.) We had an indoor pool. A in-ground trampoline and a playground that the neighborhood kids rode their bike to use.
It was around the time we moved away from the home I thought I'd get married in that I saw the Father of the Bride. Shortly after we meet George Banks and his Aston Martin, we meet the house. The shutters, the symmetry and the fence are a bonus but most of all it was the names carved in the tree. There were pitter pattering toddler feet in that house. Angsty teenage voices in that house. Weddings in that house. I decided then and there, at nine years old, that the forever house life was the only life for me. When I could put down roots, I'd dig them deep and stay anchored right there in that house until the Lord called me home.
As it stands, though, I'm starting to loosen my grip on that dream.
All of O's family is in Canada. We have a house on the water I'm committed to spending more time in to be able to deepen relationships with cousins, godparents and siblings, step away from the hustle and bustle and live slower for a while. Ideally, we'd spent part of every year there.
All of my family is in Texas. I love the heat, the southern pace, the accessibility of all our favorite things right at our fingertips and of course, the proximity to loved ones. This is where we'll do life most of the time.
On top of that, O and I are both adventurers. While I'd love nothing more than to avoid airplanes for the rest of my life, something in me is drawn to seeing the world. Greece, Egypt, The Netherlands, Germany, South Africa…I want to see it all. The beautiful part of this homeschool life is being able to pick up and go whenever we decide and expose these babies to the wonder and vast diversity of God's creation. This means part of the year will be spent exploring.
The white picket fence feels further than ever.
But the Lord feels near.
We are home when we are together.
Home is always right here.


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\section*{Introduction}

The surface phenomena, such as the growth, roughening and penetration into
the surrounding medium, as well as their modeling and efficient
control, represent long standing research topic in many branches of science and
technology. The special case is the close-to-circular growth observed
very often in biological systems, like bacterial colonies and tumors.
The growth models are usually classified into two groups,
(1) continuum, formulated through differential equations (DE),
and (2) discrete lattice models, most often represented by cellular automata (CA)
\cite{VonNeumann1966}, agent-based \cite{Mansury2002,Mansury2004b}, and Monte Carlo inspired models.
The CA models are typically constructed by {\it a priori}
(or microscopically reasoned) setting up the transition rules ({\it CA rules})
generating the desired behavior.
However, this {\it ad hoc} construction of the CA rules is,
due to high nonlinearity and multidimensionality of the CA models,
often not appropriate in the case of more complicated behaviors.
Below we propose the application of genetic algorithms
(GA) \cite{Holland1975} to retrieve the CA rules generating the growth of the clusters
revealing the desired features, such as the growth rate and fractal dimension
of the contour.
In the here presented inverse geometric approach we quantify the differences
between the properties of a CA cluster growth and the fixed desired properties
(i. e. the quality of the corresponding CA rules) by the definition of the
{\it objective function}, and use the optimization technique to set the CA
rules which minimize the objective function value.
We demonstrate that
the approach is, in general, efficient enough to retrieve the CA rules
generating the growth of the CA cluster with the desired properties.
At the end we outline its possible contribution to the cancer research.

\section*{Methods}

{\it Cellular automata}
\cite{Wolfram1983}
were originally introduced
by John von Neumann as a possible idealization of biological
systems. In the simple case they consist of a 2D
lattice of sites $i, j = 0, \ldots, L_{\rm D}$, in the states $s^{(t)}_{ij} \in \{0,1\}$,
where $t = 0,\ldots, \tau$,
is the discrete time and $L_{\rm D}$ the size of the lattice.
During the $\tau$ time steps they evolve obeying the set of local
transition rules (CA rules) $\sigma$, formally written
\begin{equation}
\begin{array}{ll}
s^{(t+1)}_{ij} = \sigma(& \!\!s^{(t)}_{i-1j-1}, s^{(t)}_{ij-1}, s^{(t)}_{i+1j-1},
s^{(t)}_{i-1j}, s^{(t)}_{ij},\\
& \!\!s^{(t)}_{i+1j}, s^{(t)}_{i-1j+1}, s^{(t)}_{ij+1}, s^{(t)}_{i+1j+1}),
\end{array}
\label{CAmapping}
\end{equation}
which defines the CA rules $\sigma$ as the mapping
\begin{equation}
\sigma: \,
\underbrace{\{0,1\}\times\{0,1\}\times\ldots\times \{0,1\}}_{9}
\rightarrow \{0,1\}\,.
\label{Mapping}
\end{equation}
The two basic update strategies are typically adopted: i) synchronous, when
the $t+1$ states (\ref{CAmapping}) of all the CA sites are computed
one by one in advance and the updates themselves are performed afterwards;
and ii) asynchronous, when a randomly chosen site is immediately updated.
The CA evolution is represented by the respective
point in $2^9$-dimensional binary space enabling, in principle,
the enormous number of $2^{512}$ possible global behaviors, predestining
the CA to be an efficient simulation and modeling tool
\cite{Toffoli1987}.
Inherent nonlinearity of the CA models is, however, a double-edged
sword. On the one hand, it enables to model a broad variety of
behaviors, from trivial to complex, on the other hand it results
in difficulty with retrieving the transition rules generating the
desired global behavior.

No well-established universal technique exists to solve the problem,
and, despite sporadic promising applications of the genetic algorithms
to solve the task \cite{Richards1990,Mitchell1994,Jimenez-Morales2002},
one typically implements the CA by intuitive ({\it ad hoc} or microscopically
reasoned) construction of the transition rules, or reduces the dimensionality
of the CA search space by incorporating a symmetry into the transition rules.
Well known are {\it totalistic} rules,
when only the number of the adjacent sites in the state 1 (or 0) affects
the future state
of the respective site. Despite the crucial simplification, they provide
very complex behavior (e. g. Conway's Game of Life).

{\it Genetic Algorithms}
\cite{Holland1975}
are general-purpose search and
optimization techniques based on the analogy with Darwinian evolution of biological
species. In this respect, the evolution of a population of individuals is viewed as
a search for an optimum (in general sense) genotype. The feedback comes as
the interaction of the resulting phenotype with environment. Formalizing
the basic evolutionary mechanisms, such as mutations, crossing-over and survival
of the fittest, the fundamental theorem of GA was derived
({\it schema theorem}) which shows that the evolution is actually
driven by multiplying and combining {\it good} (quantified by an appropriate
objective function), correlations of traits (also called schemata, or hyperplanes).
The remarkable feature resulting from the schema theorem is the
implicit parallelism stating that by evaluating a (large enough) population of
individuals, one, at the same time, obtains the information about the quality
of many more correlations of the traits.

In the following we use the GA optimization to retrieve the CA rules
producing the growth of the 2D CA cluster by the required rate as well
as fractal behavior of the {\it contour}, which is here understood
as the set of all the CA sites in the state 1 with at least one neighbor
in the state 0.

At the beginning, the chain of concentric circles ({\it learning patterns})
with randomly deformed close-to-circular contours
$p^{(t)}_{ij} \in \{0,1\},\ i, j = 0, \ldots, L_{\rm D}$,
for $t = 0,\ldots, \tau$, were generated accordingly to
\begin{equation}
\label{patterns}
p^{(t)}_{ij} =
\left\{
\begin{array}{ll}
0\,, & \mbox{for $\sqrt{i^2+j^2}>R^{(t)}+1$},\\
0\,, & \mbox{or $1$ drawn with probability \small$\frac{1}{2}$}\\
     & \mbox{for $|\sqrt{i^2+j^2}-R^{(t)}|\leq 1$},\\
1\,, & \mbox{for $\sqrt{i^2+j^2}<R^{(t)}-1$},
\end{array}
\right.
\end{equation}
with linearly increasing tumor radius
\begin{equation}
R^{(t)} = R^{(0)}+At,
\label{LinRad}
\end{equation}
where $R^{(0)}$ is the initial radius of the CA cluster and $A$ ($<1$)
the desired growth rate constant.

The first objective of the optimization task solved by the GA was
to retrieve the CA rules (\ref{Mapping}) providing the growth from
the initial pattern $\{s_{ij}^{(0)}\}$, generated by the same relation
as $\{p_{ij}^{(0)}\}$ (\ref{patterns}), through the sequence of
$\{s_{ij}^{(t)}\}$ ({\ref{CAmapping}), $t = 1,\ldots,\tau$, with the minimum mismatch
from the learning patterns $\{p_{ij}^{(t)}\}$ in the respective $t$,
quantified by the objective function
\begin{equation}
\label{objective1}
f_1(\sigma)  \equiv  \sqrt{\frac{1}{\tau}\sum^{\tau}_{t=1}
\left(\frac{\sum^{L_{\rm D}}_{i,j} p^{(t)}_{ij}+
\sum^{L_{\rm D}}_{i,j} s^{(t)}_{ij}}{1 + w_0 \sum^{L_{\rm D}}_{i,j}
p^{(t)}_{ij}\delta_{p^{(t)}_{ij} s^{(t)}_{ij}}}
\right)^2}\,,
\end{equation}
where $\delta$ is the standard Kronecker delta symbol,
$w_0$ is the weight factor, in our case $w_0 = 2$.
The above expression of the objective function (\ref{objective1})
reflects the programming issues. The larger overlap
of $\{s_{ij}^{(t)}\}$ with $\{p_{ij}^{(t)}\}$ enhances the
denominator of Eq.~(\ref{objective1}), the prefactor $p_{ij}$
in the term $p_{ij} \delta_{p_{ij} s_{ij}}$ reduces
the computational overhead by ignoring the calcul
$\delta_{p_{ij} s_{ij}}$ for $p_{ij}=0$.

The second objective to the desired growth relates to the geometric properties
of the contour. Broadly accepted invariant measure expressing the contour
irregularity is the fractal dimension, $D_{\rm F}$.
Using the box-counting method
it can be calculated as
\begin{equation}
\label{FractalDimension}
D_{\rm F} =
\lim_{\epsilon\to 0}\frac{\log M_{\rm B}(\epsilon)}{\log(1/\epsilon)},
\end{equation}
where $M_{\rm B}(\epsilon)$ is the minimum number of boxes of size $\epsilon$
required to cover the contour. Here, it has been determined as the slope in the
log-log plot of $M_{\rm B}(\epsilon)$ against $1/\epsilon$ using the standard
linear fit.
To obtain the CA rules generating
the cluster with the desired fractal dimension, $D_{\rm F}$,
the objective function (\ref{objective1})
has been multiplied by the factor
\begin{equation}
f_2(\sigma) = 1 + w_1 (D^{\tau}_{\rm F}-D_{\rm F})^2,
\label{objective2}
\end{equation}
where $D^{\tau}_{\rm F}$ is the fractal dimension of the cluster kept
after the $\tau $ steps with the CA rules $\sigma$, $w_1$ being the
weight.

Finally, the objective function is written
\begin{equation}
\label{objective}
f(\sigma) = f_1(\sigma) f_2(\sigma)\,,
\end{equation}
and the optimum CA rules, $\sigma^{\ast}$, meet the requirement
\begin{equation}
f(\sigma^{\ast}) = \min_\sigma f(\sigma)\,.
\end{equation}

\section*{Results}

If not stated otherwise, all the below CA runs started from
the pattern $\{p_{ij}^{(0)}\}$ (\ref{patterns}), with the radius
$R^{(0)} = 5$. The size of the 2D CA lattice $L_{\rm D}$ varied
form 120 to 200 (reflecting the growth constant), with the periodic
boundaries, and the length of the CA evolution $\tau = 200$ steps.
The asynchronous update has been adopted.
The canonical GA search has been applied to retrieve
the set of the optimum CA rules, $\sigma^\ast$,
which gives minimum objective function
values (\ref{objective1}, or \ref{objective}, respectively).
The size of the population was kept constant (1000 individui),
the probability of bit-flip mutation 0.001,
and the crossing over probability 1.
The ranking selection scheme was applied.
The length of the optimization was $3000$ generations.
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{growth512.eps}
\caption[]{
The comparison of the typical contours created by the CA rules
minimizing the criterion (\ref{objective1}) for the three different
required rates (mediated by the rate constant $A=0.2, 0.3, 0.4$ in the Eq.~(\ref{LinRad}))
(up, bold line) against the prescribed horizons after $t=0,50,100,150,200$
CA steps. Below are the respective average contours calculated from
100 repetitions of the growths.
The criterion (\ref{objective2}) has not been applied ($w_1 = 0$).
}
\label{growth512}
\end{figure}
Figs.~\ref{growth512}~to~\ref{w2} show the capability
of the above approach to fulfill the required objectives.
In Fig.~\ref{growth512} we present the comparison of the typical
growths created by the CA rules minimizing the criterion
(\ref{objective1}) with the respective prescribed rates (\ref{LinRad})
as well as the respective average contours
calculated from 100 repetitions for each of the growths. One can
see that in this case the CA rules preserve circular symmetry
for all the tested growth rates.
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.9]{fractdim512.eps}
\caption[]{
The comparison of the typical contours created by the CA rules
minimizing the criterion (\ref{objective}) for the four different
required fractal dimensions ($D_{\rm F}=1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4$, denoted as
A, B, C, D) (up, bold line) with the prescribed horizons after $t=0,50,100,150,200$
CA steps. In Fig.~\ref{adf512} are the respective average contours calculated
from 100 repetitions.
The criterion (\ref{objective2}) has been applied with the weight $w_1 = 10$.
The rate constant $A$ in Eq.~(\ref{LinRad}) has been kept 0.3 in
all the cases.
}
\label{fd512}
\end{figure}
Fig.~\ref{fd512} shows the growing contours created by the CA rules
minimizing both the criteria, the desired rate and fractal dimension
of the contour, as implemented in (\ref{objective}).
The respective average contours (Fig.~\ref{adf512})
shows slight deviations from the circular symmetry.
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.9]{adf512.eps}
\caption[]{
The average contours calculated from 100 repetitions for each of the
 A-D growth in Fig.~\ref{fd512}. The deviation from the circular
symmetry is obvious, especially if the lower fractal dimensions are
required during the optimization.
}
\label{adf512}
\end{figure}
The above results demonstrate that the GA optimization procedure
can be used to retrieve the CA rules generating the close-to-circular growths
by desired rates and, at the same time, fractal dimensions
of their the contours (Fig.~\ref{w2}).

\clearpage

\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.42]{w2dep.eps}

\vspace{-2mm}

\caption[]{
Comparison of the average fractal dimensions of the contours, $D_{\rm F}$,
produced by the CA rules optimized to minimize the objective function
(\ref{objective}) against the respective desired fractal dimension
($D_{\rm F} = 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, \ {\rm and} \ 1.5$).
The circles show the fractal dimensions for the respective CA rules
and time step. In all the cases $A=0.3$ and $w_1=10$ (Eqs.~\ref{LinRad} and
\ref{objective2}).
}
\label{w2}
\end{figure}

\vspace{-8mm}

\section*{Application to tumor growth modeling}

Here we present the application of the above approach in the field
of tumor modeling, enabling to study the tumor growth on the spatio-temporal
scales where the microscopic details have vanished and eventual universal
features of the growth emerge.
To understand the universal properties of the growth,
physicists have developed the {\it fractal and scaling analysis}
\cite{Barabasi1995}, enabling them to classify many growth processes
of seemingly different nature into the {\it universality classes} \cite{Odor2004}.
Led by similar motivations, the fractal and scaling methodology seems
to be potentially promising approach to study various aspects of carcinogenesis.
The morphology of growing tumor surface is the product of the interactions
of many biochemical agents, physical processes and geometrical constraints.
Pathologists have used the morphology and shapes of neoplasms to distinguish
between the malignant and benign forms as a rule of thumb.
Recently, a few papers
\cite{Landini1996,Spillman2004,Grizzi2005,Kikuchi2006,Risser2007}
have indicated
that the fractal dimension of the tumor contour, morphology or vascular
networks can be applied to distinguish between the normal and malignant tissue.
{\it In vitro} grown tumors usually form 2 (or 3) dimensional close-to-spherical
aggregations, called multicellular tumor spheroids (MTS) \cite{Delsanto2005}.
They can be viewed as the prototype of some real types of human tumors, such as
melanomas or gliomas. Allowing the strict control of nutritional and mechanical conditions,
the MTS are excellent experimental objects to test the validity
of the models of tumor growth.

The below outlined application of the inverse geometric approach
to tumor growth modeling is based on the morphometric MTS data by Bru
et al. \cite{Bru1998,Bru2003}, namely therein suggested linear increase
of the MTS mean radius, proliferation activity located at the tumor border
and the range of the fractal dimensions of the {\it in vitro} grown cell
colony contours between 1.1 and 1.4, such as HT-29 cell line (tumor type
colon adenocarcinoma, $D_{\rm F}=1.13$),
HeLa (cervix carcinoma, 1.25), Saos-2 (osteosarcoma, 1.34), etc.
Using the optimized CA models, we reproduce and interpret some of the features,
like the growth rate, response of the tumor to chemotherapy and scaling properties
of the contour.
We emphasize that in the below application the CA site does not
correspond to the only biological cell. We interpret it
as a 2D constant size window occupied by the above (or under) critical number
of tumor cells, corresponding to 2 states - 1 and 0, respectively.
Switching the state of the CA site from 0 to 1 (as well as from 1 to 0) during
the simulation simply means that the number of tumor cells in that
site has just crossed the critical value. The mechanism itself
stays out of the scope of this phenomenological approach, nevertheless
it encompasses the mean effect of proliferating activity, cells
migration, apoptosis, immune response, etc.

\subsection*{Radius increase}

The simplest mathematical models of the tumor growth assume
an exponential increase of the tumor mass \cite{Shackney1993}
(which is however plausible for the early stage of carcinogenesis).
Bru et al. \cite{Bru1998,Bru2003} have recently experimentally shown that
the MTS mass, $M^{(t)}$, actually grows linearly increasing its mean radius,
\begin{equation}
M^{(t)} = \pi(R^{(0)}+At)^2,
\label{LinearGrowth}
\end{equation}
where $R^{(0)}$ and $A$ retains their meanings (\ref{LinRad}).

Fig.~\ref{radius} shows the log-log time dependence of the radius
of the two growing CA clusters applying the different rules,
optimized to produce the clusters with the fractal dimension
of their contours, $D_{\rm F}$, equal $1.1$, and $1.5$, respectively.
Their slopes differ negligible, nevertheless both are slightly
steeper than the slope of the idealized growth accordingly to
Eq.~(\ref{LinearGrowth}).

\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.42]{radius.eps}
\caption[]{
Comparison of the growing CA cluster radius created by the two CA
rules producing the contours with the different fractal dimensions $D_{\rm F}
= 1.1$ and $1.5$, respectively, against the required case
(Eq.~\ref{LinearGrowth}). In both the cases the rate constant $A = 0.3$.
}
\label{radius}
\end{figure}

Intuitively, the assumption of the linear increase of the radius
is consistent with the observation that proliferation activity is
located at the tumor contour. Nevertheless, the results (Fig.~\ref{radius})
show slight deviations from the linear increase of the radius, which we
attribute to longer than ideally circular contour of the cluster,
giving higher chance to proliferate.
On the other hand, the fractal dimension of the contour, $D_{\rm F}$,
corresponding to the roughness of the cluster contour, does not
influence the growth rate in a simple way. We have observed that
the CA cluster enforced to grow with the fractal dimension of the
contour close to 1 very often "freeze" repeating some simple
pattern which leads to significant deviations from circularity
\cite{Wolfram1985}.
As the deviations from the circularity of the tumor contour is
the obvious experimental fact as well, we find the hypothesis
of linear increase of the cluster mean radius valid for the spatio-temporal
scales where the deviations of the contour points from circularity
is negligible in comparison to the mean radius.

\subsection*{Simulation of chemotherapy}

To outline the possible therapeutic perspective of the above
inverse geometric approach we present the simulation of the impact
of chemotherapy to MTS growth.
Most chemotherapeutic drugs effectively damage fast proliferating
cells (such as tumor cells).
Here, the chemotherapy is included into the model in a similar way as in DE models
\cite{DeVladar2004} as the term inhibiting the production of tumor cells,
regardless of the microscopic background of the process.
For our purposes, the chemotherapy is viewed as any mechanism
(additional to those already imprinted on the CA rules by the optimization
procedure) converting the CA site from 1 (i. e. occupied by the above
critical number of tumor cells) to 0 (occupied by the under critical number
of tumor cells) with non-zero probability, represented by the free parameter,
called {\it efficiency of chemotherapy} and denoted as $c$}.
In our CA simulations the above mechanism
was realized simply by switching a randomly chosen CA site (of the contour
only - by definition in the state 1) to 0 with the probability $c$,
{\it instead} of applying the respective CA rule.

\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.66]{multi.eps}

\vspace{-3mm}

\caption[]{
Simulation of the impact of chemotherapy to the CA cluster after 200
time steps of the growth. The left column shows the CA clusters grown
accordingly to the CA rules optimized to generate the clusters with
the fractal dimension of their contours, $D_{\rm F}$, equal to 1.1 (up),
and 1.4 (bottom), respectively, without chemotherapy.
The right column depicts the cases received with the respective rules,
with the chemotherapy added ($c=0.15$).

\vspace{-3mm}

}
\label{chemotherapy}
\end{figure}
Fig.~\ref{chemotherapy} shows the typical impact of the simulated
chemotherapy on the growth of the CA clusters. One CA cluster was
grown with the transition rules which had been optimized to generate
smoother contours (quantified by its fractal dimension, $D_{\rm F} = 1.1$
, upper line), one CA cluster grown with
the rules optimized to generate more rough contours ($D_{\rm F} = 1.4$,
bottom line).
In the left column we compare the sizes and shapes of
both the clusters after 200 time steps grown
in the absence of chemotherapy ($c = 0$), against
the respective cases with the chemotherapy added ($c = 0.15$, right column).
Fig.~\ref{efficiency_chemotherapy} shows the dependence of the CA cluster
growth on the efficiency of the chemotherapy for the two sets of transition
rules (generating the contours with $D_{\rm F} = 1.1$, and $1.4$,
respectively) in general.
The simulation results clearly demonstrate that the impact
of chemotherapy is more inhibiting to the CA clusters grown with
smoother contours than those growing with more rough contours.
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{chemo.eps}

\vspace{-3mm}

\caption[]{
Dependence of the impact of chemotherapy to the evolution of the CA clusters
generated by the two groups of the CA rules. The first set consists of 6 different
CA rules producing (in the absence of chemotherapy) the clusters with the fractal
dimension of their contours 1.1, the latter of 6 CA rules producing
the clusters with the fractal dimension 1.4. The CA rules
from the latter group produce the CA cluster growth less sensitive
to the chemotherapy.
}
\label{efficiency_chemotherapy}
\end{figure}

Hopefully, the above demonstrated results could motivate
researchers to search for more quantitative relation
between the fractal dimension of the tumor's contour
and the efficiency of chemotherapy.
Disposing with concrete morphometric tumor data, the above inverse
geometric approach could be used to build the corresponding
CA model to make predictions of the resistance to chemotherapy
or provide rough estimates of the therapeutic
efficiency for the respective {\it in vitro} grown tumor
cell lines.

\subsection*{Scaling behavior}

Inspired by the fractal and scaling concepts, Bru and coworkers
\cite{Bru1998,Bru2003} scrutinized the results of morphometric
experiments on a few tens different {\it in vitro} growing
tumors and cell colonies by the fractal and scaling analysis,
and suggested that the tumor reveals the basic features of Molecular
Beam Epitaxy (MBE) universality class \cite{Barabasi1995}
characterized by i)~a linear growth rate of the radius,
ii)~the proliferating activity at the outer border, and iii)~diffusion
at the tumor surface. Moreover, to characterize the tumor growth dynamics,
they determined the critical exponents \cite{Barabasi1995}, nevertheless
the issue is still under discussion \cite{Buceta2005,Bru2005}.

Here we outline the typical scaling behavior of the contours
of the growing CA clusters applying the CA rules
obtained by the above optimization approach for the respective
desired growth rate and fractal dimension. We note that no
scaling properties have been explicitly included into the
optimization procedure.

A rough interface is usually characterized by the fluctuations
of the contour points $r_{k,n}(t)$, where $k$ refers to the
$k$th point of the $n$th segment of the arc length $l$ in time $t$.
By defining the average
$\overline{r_n(t)} = (1/N_n(t))
\sum_{k=1}^{N_n(t)} r_{k,n}(t)$,
the {\it local interface width} is given by
\begin{equation}
\label{InterfaceWidth}
w(l,t) = \sqrt{\left<\frac{1}{N_n(t)}
\sum_{k=1}^{N_n(t)}
\left[ \,r_{k,n}(t)-
\overline{r_n(t)} \,
\right]^2\,\right>}\,,
\end{equation}
where $N_1(t), N_2(t), \,\ldots\,,\, N_n(t), \,\ldots$
are the numbers of contour points
along the $n$th angular segment
of the arc length $l$.
The brackets $\langle \rangle$ mean
the average over the different realizations
of the arc length $l$.

In general, the growth processes are expected to follow
the Family-Vicsek ansatz
\cite{Family1985},
\begin{equation}
\label{FamilyVicsek}
w(l,t) = t^\beta \Phi(l/\xi(t))\,,
\end{equation}
with the asymptotic behavior of the scaling function
\begin{equation}
\label{guscal1}
\Phi(u) =
\left\{
\begin{array}{lll}
u^{\alpha}           &   \mbox{if}  &    u \ll  1\\
\mbox{const}         &   \mbox{if}  &    u \gg  1,
\end{array}
\right.
\end{equation}
where $\alpha$ is the roughness exponent and characterizes
the stationary regime in which the height-height correlation length
$\xi(t)\sim t^{1/z}$ ($z$ is so called dynamic exponent)
has reached a value larger than $l$. The ratio $\beta=\alpha/z$
is called the growth exponent and characterizes the short-time
behavior of the interface.

Figs.~\ref{alfafit}~to~\ref{collapse} demonstrate the typical
scaling behavior of the growing CA cluster contours. By fitting the slope
of the $w(l,t)$ in the respective regions (\ref{guscal1}) of the log-log
plot we have determined  the values of $\alpha$ and $\beta$ exponents,
giving the value of the exponent $z = 0.79$.

\vspace{3mm}

\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.42]{5855.fitalfa.eps}

\vspace{-2mm}

\caption[]{Log-log plot of $w(l,t)$. The region with
power law behavior corresponding to the exponent $\alpha$
shows the slope $0.5$.
}
\label{alfafit}
\end{figure}

\vspace{3mm}

\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.42]{5855.fitbeta.eps}

\vspace{-2mm}

\caption[]{
Log-log plot of $w(l,t)$. The region with
power law behavior corresponding to the exponent $\beta$
shows the slope $0.63$.
}
\label{betafit}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[scale=0.42]{5855.collapse.eps}

\vspace{-2mm}

\caption[]{Scaling of $w(l,t)$ using the $\alpha$ and $z = 0.79$ exponents as provided
by the linear fits (Figs.~\ref{alfafit}~and~\ref{betafit}). Collapse of the curves for large $t$ is
obvious.
}
\label{collapse}
\end{figure}

Performing the scaling analysis of 10 CA clusters growing accordingly
to the respective CA rules optimized to fulfill different combinations
of the desired rate constants, fractal dimensions and weights $w_1$
we have observed weak dependence of the exponent $z$ on the
growth rate (Tab.~\ref{exponents}).

\vspace{3mm}

\begin{table}[!h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{| c | c |c |c|}
\hline
&$A=0.2$	&$A=0.3$ 	&$A=0.4$\\
\hline
$\alpha$	&0.5 - 0.6	&0.41 - 0.56	&0.38 - 0.53\\
$\beta$		&0.63 - 0.76	&0.6 - 0.75	&0.68 - 0.89\\
$z$		&0.79		&0.63 - 0.74	&0.55 - 0.6\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption[]
{
The dependence of the scaling exponents values on the growth rate of the
CA cluster growth.
}
\label{exponents}
\end{table}

The values of the scaling exponents differ from that presented in \cite{Bru2003}.
Nevertheless, there performed scaling analysis of the circular contours,
as well as the scaling analysis of growing circular contours in general,
is under discussion \cite{Bru2003,Buceta2005,Bru2005}.

\section*{Conclusion}

During the recent years cancer research has developed into a very
active scientific field with many concepts from other scientific
areas, such as statistical physics, applied mathematics,
nonlinear science and modeling
\cite{Baish2000,Delsanto2000,Deisboeck2001,Ferreira2002,Chignola2000,Galam2001,Gazit1995,Scalerandi2002,Sole2003}
penetrating into it.
The ultimate aim of the modeling is, in general, to provide correct
predictions for the real systems. These traditionally come from
the deep knowledge of the problem (microscopic models, {\it ab initio}
approaches) or from phenomenology (e. g. represented by
the growth laws written in the form of the first order differential equations).
The microscopic models of tumor growth are typically based on
the conceptions such as cell migration, proliferation, chemotaxis,
apoptosis, etc.
However, involving the plethora of parameters, these models often face
to conventional problems of complex systems - subjective choice of
the model parameters and their questionable measurement, both leading
to the loss of predictive power.
On the other hand, macroscopic models often miss adequacy \cite{Castorina2006}.
The way out of the obstacle could be based on the phenomenological
universalities involving phenomena like scale laws, complexity,
and nonlinearity \cite{Castorina2006}.
Here presented approach can be seen as the instance of that way
of thinking, benefiting from the demonstrated possibility to simulate
the MTS growth by the respective GA optimized CA model.
Implementing some of the features of the MTS growth into the CA model
one can eventually observe the feature(s) which has not originally been
included into the model and, consequently, try to
identify the feature(s) in the MTS growth itself.

To illustrate the future perspective of the above CA approach
in cancer research we propose the hypothesis of the existence
of the {\it saturation time} dividing the short time behavior
of the local interface width (\ref{InterfaceWidth})
from its universal, time-independent behavior, which is obvious
in the simulated CA clusters growth (Figs.~\ref{alfafit} and \ref{betafit}).
In general, during the roughening of a contour the lateral correlations
develop. At the beginning, different sites on the contour are correlated
only to the characteristic distance, the correlation length (\ref{FamilyVicsek}).
The local interface width increases as a power of time until the correlation length reaches
the size of the contour, the time is called {\it saturation time}.
After that all the sites become correlated and the local
interface width reaches a (time independent) saturation value, which
increases as a power of the system size.
However, if the system, in addition to roughening of the contour,
increases in size, the question whether
and when the saturation is reached (or lost, if started
as correlated) arises. Consequently, the following questions
emerge: Show the different tumors different saturation times (and values)
of the local interface width? Does the behavior of the local interface
width relates to malignity of tumors? Can it be purposefully affected
by the chemotherapy?
The finding of eventual relation between the malignity
(or proliferation activity) and the saturation time supported
by the experimental evidence could lead to the development
of the new therapeutic approach based on the (re)establishing
of the correlations.

The most salient feature of the above approach is that
neither microscopically based parameters in the traditional
sense, such as the cell migration, proliferation, chemotaxis, apoptosis,
etc, are required nor the relations between them are {\it a priori} built.
Both stay hidden in the transition rules, optimized to fulfill
chosen objectives, and acquire statistical (or even symbolic) meaning.
For example, the proliferation activity can be deduced only from
the increase (or decrease) of the CA cluster size, not from the local changes
of the states of individual CA sites, as on the here adopted scale
it is impossible to distinguish between the contributions
of cell proliferation, migration, apoptosis, etc.
On the other hand, some statistically modeled mechanisms
(such as the response to drugs) can be included in a quite
straightforward manner.

\newpage

{\it
The authors acknowledge financial support from VEGA, Slovak Republic
(Grants No. 1/4021/07 and 1/3033/06).
High performance computing part of this work has been performed under
the Project HPC-EUROPA (RII3-CT-2003-506079), with the support
of the European Community - Research Infrastructure Action under
the FP6 "Structuring the European Research Area" Programme.
}

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Warden Winter Break Benefits Gate
It was a short but sweet return to Hartsdown Park for Margate youngster Sidney Warden during the festive period.
Having been part of the club's Championship winning Under 23s side last season, Warden emerged into the first team before making a move to the States to study and play abroad.
With The Gate squad low in personel, Warden made a vital contribution off the bench during the 1-1 draw against Worthing.
Explaining the move to America, Warden said:
"I'm enjoying it in America a lot and had a decent first season. Now it's just training and school work but the training every-day with a good group of players and good coaching is really enjoyable."
"Ever since I came out of professional clubs, I knew that the best way to continue my education and football development was to gain a scholarship in America."
"I got involved with an agency called Pass4Soccer and they really helped the move, especially Tom Nutter. I'm doing a degree in Finance that will last four years."
Returning back home for Christmas, Warden reunited with his former team-mates and coaches.
"I love coming back to Hartsdown and it was great to see the boys, Mike and Browny again. They are a great bunch of lads that really help my development into men's football. Obviously coming on to win a penalty in front of the home crowd was the icing on the cake."
"When I was told I could sign for the game versus Worthing I knew it would be a tough game against a top of the league side. I thought the boys played really well and at times maybe deserved more than the point we got, but I definitely believe it's one point gained rather that two lost."
Warden added, "I was happy just to get the chance to be on the pitch but to be able to win the penalty for the equaliser was brilliant and I was buzzing that I could help the team get back on level terms."
Despite being hundreds of miles away, Warden revealed he keeps a keen eye on how his Dad, First Team Coach Timmy and distant team-mates are getting on.
"Despite there being a five-hour time difference, I have been keeping in touch with signings and results and all things Margate. I love the club and the fan base and have enjoyed my time here thoroughly."
"I'm back in America now but training with the boys really helped me keep in shape and hopefully next year I could do the same."
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Plans to intensify bombing and extend undersea training and testing could harm whales and dolphins, environmentalists fear.
The U.S. Navy is encouraging the public to send in comments about its plan to intensify undersea training in the western Pacific and increase bombing of a tiny uninhabited island north of Guam.
But there's relatively little known about the whales and dolphins that live in the region, and environmentalists fear the Navy is underestimating harmful effects of its use of sonar and explosives.
Marine Corps Cpl. Cristina Fuentes fires a GAU-17/A gun during an exercise over Farallon de Medinilla in September.
The public has until Sept. 15 to comment and can do so at the website for the project, which is known as the Mariana Islands Training and Testing or MITT.
The draft supplemental environmental impact statement isn't expected to be released until the fall of 2018. That's when there will be a round of public hearings and additional comments. The final document won't be out until spring 2020, with a final decision expected that summer.
David Henkin, an attorney for the nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice, said the new study makes him cautiously optimistic that the Navy is making an effort to fill information gaps and do a better job of analyzing the impact of its activities.
The notice says the proposed training and testing is "generally consistent" with what the Navy suggested in its last analysis. But one section of the Federal Register notice raises questions about whether the Navy could ramp up its training and testing in light of tensions with China and North Korea.
This map shows where the Department of Defense plans to increase training and testing in the Marianas. The locations are estimates and the plans shown aren't exhaustive. Use the buttons in the top-right corner to zoom in and out on the map, and click on the arrows in the top-left corner to make the map full screen. Click on "Map Controls" in the top-left corner to learn more about navigating the map.
The supplemental analysis will "propose changes to the tempo and types of training and testing activities, accounting for the introduction of new technologies, the evolving nature of international events, advances in war fighting doctrine and procedures, and changes in the organization of vessels, aircraft, weapon systems, and military personnel," the notice says.
The MITT is one of several military plans to increase training on and around the Marianas, a chain of 15 islands in the western Pacific made up of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
The Air Force is in the process of establishing an airfield on the island of Tinian and the Navy is preparing to create a Marine Corps base on Guam.
The Navy also wants to set up a bombing range on the island of Pagan and establish an artillery range on Tinian despite potential destruction of historic sites and damage to Tinian's aquifer.
Henkin filed a lawsuit on behalf of local community groups against the relocation of Marines to Guam and the plans to increase training on Tinian and Pagan. He said the next status conference for the case is scheduled Aug. 25, and the court may rule on the Navy's motion to dismiss.
Click here to read an in-depth series on the military's plans for the region.


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Counting the Cost: Weyerhaeuser and Judicial Deference to Agency Interpretations Under the Endangered Species Act
Decline of the Abalone in California: a Local Enforcement Perspective
Deja Vu All Over Again: Failed Reforms from the George W. Bush Administration Make a Reappearance in Trump Epa's Approach to Stationary Source Regulation
Protecting California's Disadvantaged Communities—An Examination of How the State's New Environmental Justice Laws May Affect the Ceqa Entitlement Process
Statutes and the Public Trust: the Court of Appeals Provides Some Clarity to Cloudy Waters
by Nicole Gordon*
There's nothing like the annual Yosemite Conference to remind us of the many reasons we love the Environmental Law Section. From the amazing plenary speakers, who expose us to new ideas and challenge our ways of thinking, to the incredible panels whose breadth and depth never fail to disappoint, to the outdoor activities—both formal and informal—that take us into the unparalleled splen dor of the Yosemite Valley and lead to adventures from which we return tired and ready to settle in by the fireplace, for many of us, it is a unique time to expand our minds, stretch our legs, and relax a bit, all in the company of brilliant environmental law practitioners, promising and ambitious law students, colleagues old and new, and dear friends.
This past October, we were pleased to host more than 650 conference attendees, including 41 scholarship recipients and three recipients of our Section's Summer 2018 Environmental Law Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship. We were also honored to present our annual Lifetime Achievement Award to Mary Nichols, Chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), who has been at the forefront of environmental law and policy for over 45 years, working steadfastly to improve air quality and tackle climate change. Our dinner and keynote presenter, Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., Professor of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley wowed the audience with his insightful and entertaining presentation on the role of endocrine disrupting pesticides on evolution, public health, and a global decline in amphibians. Friday morning, Dr. Courtney Bonam provided insights into the way people attribute racial stereotypes not only to personal qualities but to physical space. On Saturday, Mayor of San Jose Sam Liccardo shared initiatives that San Jose is undertaking to address legal and environmental issues facing cities statewide, and Sunday morning, The Honorable Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals provided fascinating details of the environmental legacy of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Check out #ELSYosemite2018 for photos and more! Videos of all panels and speakers will soon be available for purchase and CLE credit (including one Elimination of Bias Credit) at https://cla.inreachce.com/.
As many of you know, the Environmental Law Section is now part of the California Lawyers Association (CLA), which became the new home to all Sections of the State Bar on January 1, 2018. In 2019, CLA will be moving to new, state-of-the-art offices in Sacramento, under the direction of new Executive Director Ona Dosunmu, who joins CLA from the Brookings Institution. This transition will bring CLA to the heart of the state capitol and the judiciary, while continuing to provide the same excellent services on which all of the Sections depend. We welcome Ms. Dosunmu, and we look forward to new opportunities to collaborate with CLA and the Sections throughout the coming year. CLA's second Annual Meeting is set for October 11-13, 2019 in Monterey. Details will be posted in the coming months at www.calawyers.org.


Throughout my life I've had this burning desire to help others. It's so overwhelming when you meet people who feel the same way that you do. What is truly extraordinary to me is that I've met an entire family that feels the way I do; that family is my K-State family. As soon as I stepped foot on Kansas State University, I was greeted with a handshake and someone willing to take an extra second out of their day to help me find my way. The people I've met from that time forward are the most incredible, selfless people I know.
We all go through trials in our lives; whether it's a struggle with money, an illness, a loss of a family member, depression, or anything else. fortunately, I've been blessed not only with an absolutely amazing home life, but a K-State family that's given me beyond measure.
My time at K-State wasn't a cake walk, but I'm positive every college student was faced with some type of adversity. From struggles with school, to a battle with Swine Flu, to a broken foot, and even being attacked at my apartment. Somehow, I survived it all. But I promise you, I couldn't have made it through without my support system, my K-State family.
Here's where the focus of my story really begins; CANCER.
I hate cancer. Right now, we have two incredible little boys in our K-State family that are fighting for their lives. Kaiden Scrhoeder and Tate Reid are going through a battle that I can't even begin to comprehend. Kaiden Scroeder has been fighting Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia since May of 2009. On September 2nd of this year, Tate Reid was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia.
After being helped so much in my minor struggles at K-State, I feel it is my duty to do whatever I can to help these incredible families. This month is Childhood Cancer Awareness month. It's time to show our Wildcat "Gold" and support Tate and Kaiden.
Tate's CaringBridge– Here, you can keep up with Tate's journey by reading entries from his parent's, Amy and Eric.
You can also send words of encouragement and support to the Team Tate Facebook Page.
Kaiden's CaringBridge– Here, you can keep up with Kaiden's journey by reading journal entries from his parent's, Chris and Jenny.
Kaiden's GoFundMe– Here, you can send words of encouragement and support to Kaiden and help out with expenses.
There's nothing more heartbreaking to me than to see a child going through cancer. Let's help make it a little easier for them by providing support, encouragement, and a helping hand during their extreme time of need. This is the Wildcat Way.
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Q: Why did Pettigrew wait 13 years to return to Voldemort? Why did Pettigrew wait 13 years to return to Voldemort? Couldn't he have just magicked a rat to life, like you do birds with the Avis spell (Bird-Conjuring Charm), and put it under Imperio to copy his rat-Animagus lifestyle, in his place to pretend to be Ron's pet, while he came back to Voldemort?

A: Sirius Black puts it perfectly in "The Prisoner of Askaban", when he accuses Peter Pettigrew: "You'd want to be quite sure he [Voldemort] was the biggest bully in the playground before you went back to him, wouldn't you?".
After Voldemorts demise Peter Pettigrew needed to hide from the Deatheaters, who thought he was a double-traitor, as well as from all other wizards, who thought he was killed by Sirius Black (and only thought him innocent because of that). In short, until driven out of his hiding place by Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew had no incentive to go to his now powerless or dead master.

A: Pettigrew was a coward who wasn't loyal to the Dark Lord.
Pettigrew wasn't serving the Dark Lord out of any true loyalty to him - he was only doing it for protection and to ensure himself a more comfortable life. He wasn't going to simply choose to seek out the Dark Lord or continue being loyal to him when the Dark Lord seemed to be either dead or powerless - there was nothing in it for him then.

"There!' said Pettigrew shrilly, pointing at Hermione with his maimed hand. 'Thank you! You see, Remus? I have never hurt a hair of Harry's head! Why should I?'
'I'll tell you why,' said Black. 'Because you never did anything for anyone unless you could see what was in it for you. Voldemort's been in hiding for twelve years, they say he's half-dead. You weren't about to commit murder right under Albus Dumbledore's nose, for a wreck of a wizard who'd lost all his power, were you? You'd want to be quite sure he was the biggest bully in the playground before you went back to him, wouldn't you? Why else did you find a wizard family to take you in? Keeping an ear out for news, weren't you, Peter? Just in case your old protector regained strength, and it was safe to rejoin him …'
Pettigrew opened his mouth and closed it several times. He seemed to have lost the ability to talk." - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 19 (The Servant of Lord Voldemort)

Even after he rejoined the Dark Lord, it was only because he'd been revealed as a traitor and unregistered Animagus, meaning he'd have to go into hiding and couldn't continue to live as a pet.

"My Lord! I – I have no wish to leave you, none at all –'
'Do not lie to me!' hissed the second voice. 'I can always tell, Wormtail! You are regretting that you ever returned to me. I revolt you. I see you flinch when you look at me, feel you shudder when you touch me …'
  'No! My devotion to your Lordship –'
'Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go. How am I to survive without you, when I need feeding every few hours? Who is to milk Nagini?" - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 1 (The Riddle House)

The Dark Lord knew Pettigrew regretted returning to him, and only had returned to serve him when Pettigrew had no other options. He'd only rejoined the Dark Lord when he was driven out of hiding.

"And then, not even a year ago, when I had almost abandoned hope, it happened at last … a servant returned to me: Wormtail here, who had faked his own death to escape justice, was driven out of hiding by those he had once counted friends, and decided to return to his master." - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 33 (The Death Eaters)

He didn't attempt to rejoin the Dark Lord before then because he didn't really want to.

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In 2000, the Lebanese Government, headed at the time by Prime Mister Salim El-Hoss, formed 'The Committee of Inquiry in the Fates of the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared' under the pressure of public protests organised by the families of victims of forced disappearance. Two other commissions were formed by consecutive Governments in 2001, and in 2005 in collaboration with the Syrian Government. The commissions recognized the existence of mass graves for the first time, but did not produce any information on the fate of the missing and forcibly disappeared. Referring to the Law 434, the commissions recommended that families can declare their missing family members deceased without evidence of their death or knowing the whereabouts of their remains. The law was rejected by the families of the victims, insisting on their right to know the truth.


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Tag: Blackrock Castle Observatory
io 0.0.1 beta++: seeking performances (Europe, 2014)
io 0.0.1 beta++, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder (Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, May 26, 2010). Photo © 2010 Stephanie Hough.
Seeking performance opportunities; particularly in Europe 2014: the cyborg ensemble of interactive, semi-autonomous, technological artifact and machine musician and improviser io 0.0.1 beta++ with human musicians Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder.
See performance proposal for further information (availability, technical requirements, performers' biographies, etc.).
This quartet (or faux-quartet, if you prefer) performs demanding free improvisation calling on a range of extended techniques. Pieces of dismantled gestures, destabilizing timbres, and impressive synergy.
François Couture (Monsieur Délire)
An idea that would be pleasing to the Futurists of a century ago, a total hymn to modernity…. The completely improvised session requires a lot of attention from the listener, to be fully repaid by that which is a successful experiment.
Vittorio (MusicZoom)
We watch and listen carefully because we know we're seeing a kind of manifesto in action. What is an automaton? A sketch, a material characterization of the ideas the inventor and the inventor's culture have about some aspect of life, and how it could be. io and its kind are alternate beings born of ideas, decisions and choices. It is because io stands alone, an automaton, that the performance recorded on this CD not only is music, but is about music.
Sara Roberts (from the liner notes to SLAMCD 531)
An extraordinary meeting between human and machine improvisers. Featuring the machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ with guitarist Han-earl Park and saxophonists Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder, the performance is part critique and part playful exploration, both a boundary-breaking demonstration of socio-musical technologies and an ironic sci-fi parody.
Constructed by Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++ is a modern-day musical automaton. It is not an instrument to be played but a non-human artificial musician that performs alongside its human counterparts. io 0.0.1 beta++ representing a personal-political investigation of technology, interaction, improvisation and musicality. It whimsically evokes a 1950s B-movie robot—seemingly jerry-rigged, constructed from ad-hoc components including plumbing, kitchenware, speakers and missile switches—celebrating the material and corporeal.
The performances with this artificial musician highlights society's entanglement with technology, demonstrates alternative modes of interfacing the musical and the technological, and illuminates the creative and improvisative processes in music. The performance is a radical and playful engagement with powerful and problematic dreams (and nightmares) of the artificial; a dream as old as the anthropology of robots.
The construction of io 0.0.1 beta++ has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
The CD 'io 0.0.1 beta++' (SLAMCD 531) was released by SLAM Productions in August 2011.
Web: www.io001b.com
Contact: www.io001b.com/contact
Images: www.io001b.com/images*
Audio: www.io001b.com/samples*
* Additional audio recordings and documentation available on request.
[Full performance proposal…]
[Original post at www.io001b.com…]
11–08–12: this is a repost of a previous article: change of availability from 2013 to 2014.
Categoriesgigs TagsArts Council of Ireland, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Bruce Coates, François Couture, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++, Monsieur Délire, MusicZoom, performance, Sara Roberts, SLAM Productions, SLAMCD 531, Stephanie Hough, Vittorio
11–08–12: change of availability from 2013 to 2014. [More info…]
site update: io 0.0.1 beta++ image gallery
Press/publicity photos and images of io 0.0.1 beta++, its construction and performances, are collated at:
goo.gl/photos/FuSGqYbnU9BAhwRR8
Photographs copyright the photographers. If you use any of the images, please credit the corresponding photographer. [Additional images…].
'io 0.0.1 beta++' (SLAMCD 531) is available from SLAM Productions. [Details…]
personnel: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).
Categoriesmedia, website TagsArts Council of Ireland, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Bruce Coates, C-ALTO Labs, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++, Music Network, Ó Riada Hall, performance, photographs, SLAM Productions, SLAMCD 531, Stephanie Hough, The Castle Bar and Trattoria, UCC School of Music, website
CD available: io 0.0.1 beta++
io 0.0.1 beta++ (SLAMCD 531) © 2011 Han-earl Park
Released as part of SLAM Productions's August 2011 CD catalog: 'io 0.0.1 beta++' (SLAMCD 531) with Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder.
[Slam Productions catalog page…]
[www.io001b.com page…]
[Discography entry…]
Sara Roberts (from the liner notes)
An extraordinary meeting between human and machine improvisers. Featuring the machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ with guitarist Han-earl Park (Mathilde 253, Wadada Leo Smith) and saxophonists Bruce Coates (Birmingham Improvisers' Orchestra, Paul Dunmall) and Franziska Schroeder (FAINT, Evan Parker), the recording is part critique and part playful exploration, both a boundary-breaking demonstration of socio-musical technologies and an ironic sci-fi parody.
Constructed by Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++ is a modern-day musical automaton. It is not an instrument to be played but a non-human artificial musician that performs alongside its human counterparts. io 0.0.1 beta++ represents a personal-political investigation of technology, interaction, improvisation and musicality. It whimsically evokes a 1950s B-movie robot—seemingly jerry-rigged, constructed from ad-hoc components including plumbing, kitchenware, speakers and missile switches—celebrating the material and corporeal.
The performances with this artificial musician highlight society's entanglement with technology, demonstrate alternative modes of interfacing the musical and the technological, and illuminate the creative and improvisative processes in music. The performance is a radical and playful engagement with powerful and problematic dreams (and nightmares) of the artificial; a dream as old as the anthropology of robots.
With liner notes by the California-based interactive media artist Sara Roberts.
io 0.0.1 beta++ was constructed by Han-earl Park with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland, and with significant input and feedback from Bruce Coates, Franziska Schroeder, Murray Campbell, Sara Roberts and Phil Burk.
We would like to thank John Hough, Melanie L Marshall, Alex Fiennes, Kato Hideki, John Godfrey, Clair McSweeney, Riccardo Vallebella, Paul Everett, Mel Mercier, Kevin Terry and Stephanie Hough.
The recording preceded the performance at Blackrock Castle Observatory which was presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from Blackrock Castle Observatory, the Castle Bar and Trattoria and the UCC Department of Music.
io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself), Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone).
Pioneer: Variance (11:52); Pioneer: Dance (13:13); Ground-Based Telemetry (1:42); Discovery: Intermodulation (9:08); Discovery: Decay (5:08); 4G (0:59); Laplace: Perturbation (10:21); Laplace: Instability (3:08); Return Trajectory (8:24). Total duration: 63:57.
All music by Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder.
Tracks 1–5, 7 and 8 recorded May 25, and track 9 recorded May 26, 2010 at the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Department of Music, Cork. Track 6 recorded August 19 2010 at C-ALTO Labs, Cork.
Recorded and mixed by Han-earl Park.
io 0.0.1 beta++ whimsically evokes a 1950s B-movie robot, constructed from ad-hoc components including plumbing, kitchenware and missile switches. Its celebrates the material and corporeal; embracing the localized and embodied aspects of sociality, performance and improvisation.
io 0.0.1 beta++ is an interactive, semiautonomous technological artifact that, in partnership with its human associates, performs a deliberately amplified staging of a socio-technical network—a network in which the primary protocol is improvisation. Together the cyborg ensemble explores the performance of identities, hybrids and relationships, and highlights the social agency of artifacts, and the social dimension of improvisation. Engineered by Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++ is a descendant, and significant re-construction, of his previous machine musicians, and it builds upon the work done with, and address some of the musical and practical problems of, these previous artifacts.
Improviser, guitarist and constructor Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been working within/from/around traditions of fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, mostly open improvised musics for over fifteen years, sometimes engineering theater, sometimes inventing ritual. He feels the gravitational pull of collaborative, multi-authored contexts, and has performed in clubs, theaters, art galleries, concert halls, and (ad-hoc) alternative spaces in Austria, Denmark, Germany, England, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland and the USA.
A constructor of low- and mid-tech electronic and software devices, and an occasional score-maker, he is interested in partial, and partially frustrating, context-specific artifacts; artifacts that amplify social relations and corporeal identities and agencies, and, in some instances, objects that obscure the location of the author.
He is part of Mathilde 253 with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith, is involved in collaborations with Bruce Coates, Franziska Schroeder, Alex Fiennes and Murray Campbell. Recent performances include Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith; duo concerts with Paul Dunmall, and with Richard Barrett; trios with Matana Roberts and Mark Sanders, with Catherine Sikora and Ian Smith, and with Jin Sangtae and Jeffrey Weeter; as part of the Evan Parker-led 20-piece improvising ensemble; and the performance of Pauline Oliveros' 'Droniphonia' alongside the composer. Park has also recently performed with Lol Coxhill, Pat Thomas, Corey Mwamba, Mark Trayle, Pedro Rebelo, Alexander Hawkins, Mike Hurley, Chick Lyall, Thomas Buckner and Kato Hideki. Festival appearances include Sonorities (Belfast), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), dialogues festival (Edinburgh), VAIN Live Art (Oxford), and the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology Festival (California). His recordings have been released by labels including SLAM Productions and DUNS Limited Edition.
Park founded Stet Lab, a monthly improvised music space in Cork, Ireland, and taught improvisation at the UCC Department of Music.
Bruce Coates has been heavily involved with free jazz, free improvisation and experimental music for more than 15 years. He has collaborated and performed with a long list of some of the best-known names in these areas. He is cofounder of the Birmingham Improvisers' Orchestra, has a long standing working relationship in many different guises with guitarist Jamie Smith, a regular trio with David Ryan and bassist John Edwards and runs the monthly Birmingham FrImp night.
Recent collaborations have included regular performances with the saxophonist Paul Dunmall, appearing alongside Dunmall on his DUNS label (the only saxophonist to do so); the Paris-based Blackberry Orchestra led by Peter Corser and involving some of France's best known improvisers including Denis Charolles and Guillaume Roy; and a CD with the Amsterdam based Mount Fuji Doom Jazz Corporation released on the Ad Noiseam label in 2007. Current ensembles include SCHH with Chris Hobbs, Mike Hurley and Walt Shaw; Magtal with Mark Sanders and Jonny Marks; and the performance art oriented Mutt with Marks and Shaw. His ever-growing eclectic list of collaborators also includes Tony Oxley, Lol Coxhill, Christian Wolff (performing alongside the composer at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London), Hilary Jeffrey, Phil Gibbs, Paul Rogers, Trevor Lines, John Coxon, Misterlee, Bong Ra, Simon Picard, Tony Bianco, Han-earl Park, Tony and Miles Levin and Tony Marsh.
Franziska Schroeder is a saxophonist and theorist. She received her saxophone training in Berlin and Australia and later from Marie-Bernadette Charrier / Conservatoire Supérieure in Bordeaux.
With her trio FAINT Schroeder released a CD of improvised and electroacoustic music in 2007 with Pedro Rebelo (piano and instrumental parasites) and Steven Davis (drums), and a second CD, both on the creative source label. Schroeder has performed with many international musicians including Pauline Oliveros, Stelarc, the Avatar Orchestra, Chris Brown, John Kenny, Tom Arthurs, Nuno Rebelo and Evan Parker.
She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and has written for many international journals, including Leonardo, Organised Sound, Performance Research, Cambridge Publishing and Routledge. Her book "Re-situating Performance Within The Threshold: Performance practice understood through theories of embodiment" appeared in 2009. Schroeder also published a book on user-generated content for Cambridge Publishing Scholars in 2009.
Schroeder is on the development committee of NMSAT (Networked Music & SoundArt Timeline), and has been on the programming committee for the DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) conference since 2009. She was the Program Chair for the DRHA 2010. Schroeder has been an AHRC Research Fellow and is now a Lecturer/RCUK Fellow at the School of Music and Sonic Arts in Belfast, where she coaches 3rd year recitalists and MA performance students.
Also available from SLAM Productions: Mathilde 253 (SLAMCD 528) [details…]
Performers: Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn) plus Lol Coxhill (saxophone).
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tonight! Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010)
poster (click to download PDF…)
Tonight! (Wednesday, May 26, 2010) at 8:00pm (doors: 7:45pm): io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Han-earl Park (guitar), and Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones), plus iWife (itself) with John Godfrey and Francis Heery (diffusion) perform at Blackrock Castle Observatory (Cork, Ireland). [Details…]
Categoriesgigs TagsArts Council of Ireland, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Bruce Coates, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++, iWife, John Godfrey, Music Network, The Castle Bar and Trattoria, UCC School of Music
Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010) on RTÉ: Morning Ireland
I just did a short spot on RTÉ's Morning Ireland. Plugged the Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010) gig, and they also played a snippet of Bruce Coates with io 0.0.1 beta++ (audio recording below). I wonder how often improvised music gets on the national news 😉
beta test 05-12-09_03 [mp3″]
io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Bruce Coates (saxophone). Beta test May 12, 2009.
Categoriesaudio recordings, gigs, media TagsArts Council of Ireland, audio recordings, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Bruce Coates, Cork, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, interview, io 0.0.1 beta++, iWife, John Godfrey, Morning Ireland, Music Network, press, recordings, RTÉ, RTÉ Radio 1, The Castle Bar and Trattoria, UCC School of Music
Cork, Ireland 7:15pm Stet Lab featuring Alex Hawkins (piano).
June 18, 2010 (TBC) The Savoy Theatre
Patrick's Street
Cork, Ireland 10:00pm The Jitney Trio (Marian Murray (violin), Neil O'Loghlen (double bass) and Han-earl Park (guitar)) perform at the Mutant Cabaret as part of the Trash Culture Revue.
Admission: €5.
Categoriesdiary, gigs TagsAlex Hawkins, Arts Council of Ireland, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Bruce Coates, Cork, Francis Heery, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++, iWife, Jitney Trio, John Godfrey, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Marian Murray, Mark Sanders, Music Network, Neil O'Loghlen, Stet Lab, The Castle Bar and Trattoria, The Roundy
reminder: Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010)
On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at 8:00pm (doors: 7:45pm): io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Han-earl Park (guitar) Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones) plus iWife (itself) with John Godfrey and Francis Heery (diffusion) perform at Blackrock Castle Observatory (Cork, Ireland). [Details…]
Tickets: €16.00 (€10.00 concessions). [Get tickets…]
You are warmly invited to come along to watch / listen. The performance by / with io++ will be a culmination of three years of research, work and play by Han, Bruce and Franziska… and an ironic sci-fi parody!
Categoriesgigs TagsArts Council of Ireland, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Bruce Coates, Cork, Francis Heery, Franziska Schroeder, Han-earl Park, io 0.0.1 beta++, iWife, John Godfrey, Music Network, The Castle Bar and Trattoria, UCC School of Music
tickets available: Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010)
Tickets are now available for the Wednesday, May 26, 2010 performance at Blackrock Castle Observatory (Cork, Ireland) by io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Han-earl Park (guitar) Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones) plus iWife (itself) with John Godfrey and Francis Heery (diffusion). [Details…]