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Latina Lista: News from the Latinx perspective > Palabra Final > Politics > Political cartoon portraying Sotomayor as a piñata is insensitive but deserves no rash judgements
Political cartoon portraying Sotomayor as a piñata is insensitive but deserves no rash judgements
Jun 3, 2009, 3:51 PM
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LatinaLista — The announcement of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court has elicited a flood of insensitive and offensive remarks. Some have been so over-the-top that retractions are being made.
The most noteworthy is that of Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who earlier had Tweeted that Sotomayor was a racist — he's taking it back!
In a column today for a conservative publication, Gingrich wrote in part:
My initial reaction was strong and direct — perhaps too strong and too direct. The sentiment struck me as racist and I said so. Since then, some who want to have an open and honest consideration of Judge Sotomayor's fitness to serve on the nation's highest court have been critical of my word choice.
With these critics who want to have an honest conversation, I agree. The word "racist" should not have been applied to Judge Sotomayor as a person, even if her words themselves are unacceptable (a fact which both President Obama and his Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, have since admitted).
Yet, because the nomination of the first Latina to an institution that has been dominated by white, white-haired males is still such a novelty, and unexplored territory, in this nation, it's clear that insensitivity will continue to dominate any descriptions or references to Sotomayor — even when the intention is clearly not to ridicule.
Why this insensitivity?
For a simple reason, some people just don't know any better.
Take for example the latest political cartoon that features Sotomayor, a bunch of elephants, a sombrero-covered Obama and candy falling from Sotomayor's skirt.
The political cartoon, published in today's The Oklahoman, actually didn't come from the newspaper but was bought from the cartoon syndicate that carries freelance cartoonist Chip Bok's work.
When some people saw this cartoon with Sotomayor portrayed as a piñata with a rope around her neck, the cries of indignation could be heard across the blogosphere. In all honesty, when I saw the thumbnail reproduction, it angered me too.
It evoked memories of another politically insensitive cartoon that featured a chimpanzee.
Yet, when I saw this cartoon at its regular size and took the time to study it, I saw that while it may be somewhat insensitive, it wasn't really that offensive.
For starters, Sotomayor is depicted as a very healthy, strong individual smiling as she waits for what comes next. The noose around her neck isn't even around her neck. It doesn't cause her to hang limp or lifeless. It's pictured more as a neckline to her judicial robes.
Next, look at the faces of the elephants, a.k.a., Republicans. They have worried expressions on their faces. They're looking at each other waiting for the other to"hit" first at Sotomayor. Clearly, they are uncomfortable.
Thirdly, the cameras are off to the side of the frame but targeting the elephants. Their presence implies that the American people will be watching how the Republicans conduct themselves during the confirmation process.
Obama wearing the sombrero is meant to set the stage for the game of breaking the piñata. It alludes to how it's anticipated that Republicans will take "swings" at Sotomayor during the confirmation process.
Overall, the cartoon seems to be more in favor of Sotomayor than trying to denigrate her. What is unfortunate, and this is where the unfamiliarity with Latino culture comes in, is that the cartoon clearly depicts Mexican elements though Sotomayor is Puerto Rican.
Last I heard, sombreros weren't that big a fashion statement in Puerto Rico. Now, if the cartoonist had drawn Obama in a guayabera…
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Re: "Obama wearing the sombrero is meant to set the stage for the game of breaking the piñata."
I think the cartoon is insulting to Obama. By have him act as ring master, or facilitator, they are implying that he's complicit in her mistreatment.
hissy
What???? Where does it say that "he took it back"? I don't see a SORRY, I WAS WRONG or I TAKE IT BACK. He just softened his word choice but I don't see an apology.
I don't know that I can fully agree with your assessment. While I can see the worried looks on the Republican faces, I also see candy falling from the pinata – does that insinuate what she is made of? Pinatas are made to break. In this editoral, it appears she's already crumbling.
Chip Bok is a conservative editorialist. Is he challenging the right to not be scared of going after this "toy" of a woman? Is it the world that is watching or the right?
Insensitivity & unfamiliarity with Latino culture makes me roll my eyes – as a Latina I'm used to it. I'm sick of it, but used to it. It's why? Why these images from this known conservative mouth? What is he trying to say?
Plus, sometimes, it isn't always what you are trying to say, but what some extremist right-wing wacko hears and sees. Build the wall, break the judge…
I. Feliciano
How ignorant! Don't even know that piñatas are not generally a "Puerto Rican" tradition.
Let's not go into the Sombrero stereotype!
Is that a "hanging" or "lynching" disguised as a piñata?
So, who is…racist?????
If it can be done to Sheriff Joe it can be done to those two jokers!
How do YOU like it?
I know they have pinatas in Mexico, are they also common in Puerto Rico?
Or do all Hispanics/Latinas just look alike?
This is a stereotypical cartoon of a Hispanic as it depicts Ms. Sotomayor as having a dark complexion when in fact she does not. She doesn't appear to be Amerindian, and she has skin whiter than Horace which makes her likely to be pure Spanish.
LeaOrtiz
uglyblackjohn:
Yeah, that's it we all look alike. My name is Maria, and my husband's name is Jose. That is all you need to know.
Not only do we all look alike, but we are pretty darned good looking at that. 😉 So there!
Aside from mixing up stereotypes, and editorial cartoonists always drastically exaggerate things to make their point, I'm not finding it terribly offensive, personally, and I say it as a Puerto Rican man who has never voted Republican. If it was a white person being nominated that was somehow eliciting this same response (or Asian, Caribbean, American Indian or Pacific Islander descent), I'm betting similar imagery would have been used.
The allusion makes sense, Supreme Court nominees go through long confirmation hearings regardless of bent, and they're always attacked by members of the opposing party. The pinata imagery makes sense for it, as if she's attacked, they look racist. So they're afraid to hit something that everyone has always had no problem hitting.
The author apparently can't even get the character right. I note that the cartoon erroneously portrays Soto as having dark skin. She's as light skinned as Marisa. What's that all about, an effort to exacerbate the situation by claiming that this is injustice against Amerindians as well? If she didn't make an issue of being Latino, she could pass as an Eastern European.
RealDemocrat
1)Denying people like me my rights eh? My speech is not offensive and you can't deny me my right to free speech in a public forum like this one.
2) How would Sotomayor rule on this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxuUj6vFa4
3) It's a political cartoon for cryin' out loud….lighten up people!
Some of us are having our posts DELETED or simply not posted on this website so you are not getting some of our comments. I don't care for the cartoon much but like you said Realdemocrat..it IS a joke.
Has anyone noticed that Sotomayer actually looks Asian around the eyes?
Marisa Treviño
Another racist remark? I say racist because why does it matter what she looks like? What purpose do you have in referring to what someone looks like? This is the second comment today that I consider racist from you Cookie. I have a low tolerance for such blatant racism.
Marisa, how is it racist to make an observation about someone's looks? You have something against Asian looks? I sure don't. It has been said that it was Asians that first came thru the Bering Straits to this country. She may have inherited the Asian look. How is this a racist or deragatory observation?
When a witness to a crime is asked to describe the perpetrator, is it racist for them to make certain observations about their looks for identifying purposes? You are grasping at straws here.
Lighten up, Marisa. I'm sure that Cookie was just making an idle observation that didn't have hidden implications.
For one thing Cookie, you gave no context to your question. You just threw it out there. Usually, from my experience, when people throw out a single question with no context they want to see the response they get. Next time you wonder about someone ethnic heritage, put some context around it or save it for another forum. We're not going to debate someone's ethnicity for the sake of discussion. As far as I'm concerned, we're trying to move past all that — don't you agree?
Appalled In Orlando
Political "cartoons" have been part of America's history, so one would expect caricature and exaggeration as part of the humor.
There has to be a context to point out that someone has a certain look about them? I already explained how Soto probably acquired her Asian look IMO. Aren't we being petty and oversensitive about my observation? Are Hispanics embarrassed or ashamed that some of them have acquired the Asian look from their ancestors?
We are Puertorricans & we do not use Mexican Hats. Our culture is amazing!!!
Please be sensitive & get your culture facts in order! Not a matter of being from one Political party or anti-Obama. Its the portrayal of having her hanging!
Disgusting!!! Shame on you for calling this art, I say lack of culture on your part
Cookie, I agree with you. It is likely that if Sotomayor has Asian features, then she has some Amerindian ancestry.
I am White and Amerindian and though I am a Spanish speaker, I don't like the term Latino because it is given a racial value that it does not have.
As a New World Mongoloid, I personally feel closer to the Cherokees or even Asians than to most other Spanish speakers. We just have very little in common usually, unless we happen to come from the same country and/or have the same ancestry.
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Cusano Milanino (Cusan in dialetto locale, IPA: , Cusano fino al 1862, Cusano sul Seveso fino al 1914) è un comune italiano di  abitanti della città metropolitana di Milano in Lombardia. Il comune fa parte del territorio del Nord Milano.

Geografia fisica

Territorio
Il comune sorge nell'alta pianura lombarda, a 152 m s.l.m., lungo il corso del Seveso, il fiume che attraversa l'area occidentale della città da nord a sud. Il territorio comunale è per la quasi totalità urbanizzato, a eccezione della zona agricola a settentrione del Milanino, compresa nel Parco Grugnotorto Villoresi.

Facente parte dell'area urbana della Grande Milano, e confinante con i comuni di Bresso, Cinisello Balsamo, Cormano e Paderno Dugnano, Cusano Milanino è un comune della prima cintura urbana di Milano ed è situato a circa 10 chilometri a nord della Piazza del Duomo di Milano.

Clima
Secondo la classificazione climatica il comune è situato in "zona E", 2404 GR/G e dunque il limite massimo consentito per l'accensione dei riscaldamenti è di 14 ore giornaliere dal 15 ottobre al 15 aprile.

Situata nell'alta pianura padana, Cusano Milanino ha un clima di tipo continentale con inverni freddi e con molte giornate di gelo ed estati calde, umide e moderatamente piovose; in quest'ultimo periodo, in particolare, le temperature, possono superare i 30 °C e l'umidità che può raggiungere l'80%, causando il fenomeno dell'"afa". Come nel resto della Grande Milano, al contrario, il fenomeno della nebbia, una volta tipico del periodo autunnale e invernale, sta diventando via via sempre meno frequente.

Storia

La storia di Cusano inizia nel 337, anno in cui giunsero in questi territori dei giudici inviati dall'imperatore Gioviano: assunsero ben presto il nome di Capuani, essendo loro originari di Capua. Mandati per svolgere funzioni amministrative, ottennero ben presto la qualifica di conti. Da Cusanum, nome latino di Cusano Milanino, passava la via Mediolanum-Bellasium, che metteva in comunicazione Milano con Bellagio.

Intorno all'anno Mille, il potere sarebbe passato alla famiglia dei Cusani, alla quale la precedente aveva devoluto i propri beni. Sul finire del XV secolo il feudo fu donato dal duca di Milano Ludovico il Moro alla moglie Beatrice d'Este. Durante il periodo della dominazione spagnola fu legato amministrativamente al Feudo di Desio, di cui seguì le sorti fino al 1657, quando fu scisso e ceduto alla famiglia Omodei. Il palazzo Omodei ospita gli affreschi degli anni 1654-1655 dipinti da Carpoforo Tencalla.

Nel Catasto Lombardo Veneto risultano a Cusano i seguenti proprietari terrieri: Aliprandi, Arrighini, Maderna, Radice, Zucchi, Arconati e Asnago, Beretta, Brambilla, Colombo, Donzelli, Mariani, Oriani, Piantanida, Rusconi, Schieppati, Turati, Venini e il Convento dei Padri Ospedalieri Fatebenefratelli come piccoli proprietari.

Ai primi dell'Ottocento il Comune — retto da deputati, dei quali uno fungeva da presidente — era molto efficiente e possedeva già un archivio, i cui primi atti risalgono al 1816. Nel 1860 venne istituito il Consiglio Comunale e fu anche nominato il primo sindaco, nella persona di Giovanni Panizzoni, farmacista. Due anni dopo, Cusano divenne Cusano sul Seveso e nel 1869 vi si aggregano Cormano e Brusuglio, ma appena un anno dopo si staccarono di nuovo. Nel 1875 si acquistò il terreno per la costruzione della prima Casa Comunale, che venne terminata nel 1879.

Col Novecento si ebbero i primi momenti di vera svolta nella storia del paese, a cominciare dall'edificazione della città giardino di Milanino, la prima costruita in Italia sul modello di quelle realizzate in Inghilterra. Suo ideatore, il bresciano Luigi Buffoli, tra i primi nel mondo a capire l'importanza ed il valore sociale delle Cooperative, non solo quelle di consumo ma anche nel campo dell'edilizia, vista soprattutto come esperienza sociale. Nel 1915 nacque quindi la Cusano Milanino che oggi conosciamo.

Milanino è nato quindi per soddisfare i "bisogni abitativi" della classe media, riunitisi nella cooperativa fondata da Luigi Buffoli nel 1886: l'Unione Cooperativa,che si arricchì fra il 1909 e il 1923 di eleganti ville e villette, in stile Liberty ed eclettico, inframezzate da numerose zone a verde sia private sia pubbliche, una particolare rarità nell'urbanizzatissimo hinterland settentrionale milanese. Negli ultimi decenni, Milanino è divenuto oggetto di una specifica tutela da parte del Comune mentre la Regione Lombardia ha posto il vincolo di tutela ambientale.

Nei documenti, già nel Medioevo, il territorio dell'attuale Cusano veniva indicato come Cusanum o Cuxanum (prima fonte certa, un documento del 1689), ma non vi sono fonti specifiche che ne indichino una possibile derivazione. Rimasto fino al 1862, il toponimo Cusano, divenne poi Cusano sul Seveso. Tale richiesta, proveniente dall'ente chiese, nasceva dalla larga presenza di altri comuni del Regno d'Italia con lo stesso nome. Il regio decreto risale al 14 dicembre 1862. Lo stesso ente optò in seguito, nel 1914, ad un ulteriore mutamento del nome, divenuto Cusano Milanino, in riconoscimento anche alla costruenda città giardino. Tale altro regio decreto risale invece al 1º agosto 1915.

Simboli
L'attuale stemma del Comune di Cusano Milanino è stato approvato dal Consiglio Comunale nel 1949 e concesso con decreto del presidente della Repubblica del 30 maggio 1953.

Il leone è ripreso dallo stemma del ramo romano della famiglia Omodei, che fu feudataria di Cusano dal 1675.
Il castello d'argento è un riferimento all'antico palazzo degli Omodei, che fu poi residenza della nobile famiglia di origine spagnola dei Manriquez.
La bordura scaccata di verde e d'oro è un elemento ripreso dall'arma dei Cusani, originari della località da cui presero il nome, e il cui stemma compare nello Stemmario Trivulziano e si rappresentava a cinque punti d'oro, equipollenti a quattro di verde.

Precedentemente il comune utilizzava uno stemma differente, concesso con regio decreto del 16 febbraio 1928 e modificato dopo l'avvento della Repubblica poiché presentava simboli del regime fascista.

Il gonfalone è costituito da un drappo interzato in palo di verde, di rosso e di giallo.

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse

Le cascine

La Cascina Guarnazzola

Nel 1722 la Cascina Guarnazzola era tra i pochi edifici presenti a Cusano. Nel Catasto Teresiano figura come edificio rustico di proprietà del marchese Carlo Omodeo.
Nel XIX secolo il complesso veniva chiamato "Cascina Aliprandi".
Un ramo della nobile famiglia Aliprandi, che discende dal nobile Giulio Cesare Aliprandi, figlio di Gaspare, ammesso nel 1584, con prove di nobiltà, nel Collegio dei Nobili Giureconsulti di Milano, fratello di Luigi Aliprandi ricevuto nel 1587, con prove di nobiltà, nell'Ordine di Santo Stefano Papa e Martire, nella seconda metà del Settecento si trasferì a Cusano dove aveva possessi terrieri e una villa. Tra i suoi membri annovera il Cav. Vincenzo Aliprandi, sindaco di Cusano sul Seveso dal 1888 al 1904. La suddetta famiglia era proprietaria della "Bernasciora de chi", cascina unica, poi divisa. Il nome deriva dalla deformazione dialettale di Guarnazzola che è tuttora la via laterale alla cascina.

La parte della Cascina Guarnazzola, che si affaccia su via Guarnazzola 2, venne venduta dagli Aliprandi mentre quella che era situata in via XXIV Maggio, che è stata demolita, rimase di proprietà dei discendenti del Cav. Rag. Giosuè Aliprandi, Sindaco di Cusano, fino al 1984.

Nella Cascina Guarnazzola, nella parte che si affacciava su via XXIV Maggio, nasceva il 17 marzo 1939 Giovanni Trapattoni. A quel tempo la famiglia Trapattoni, affittuaria degli Aliprandi, viveva in una porzione della cascina, nella quale abitavano altre 11 famiglie. In fondo al cortile c'erano le stalle con le mucche.

La parte della Cascina Guarnazzola, situata in via XXIV Maggio n. 5 e costituita da fabbricati rurali con corte comune, è stata prima espropriata e poi demolita nel 1985. Gli ultimi proprietari, fra cui le sorelle Maria Aliprandi vedova Benevento e Giulia Aliprandi (nipoti del Cav. Rag. Giosuè Aliprandi Sindaco di Cusano), avevano venduto i suddetti fabbricati al Comune di Cusano Milanino nel 1984.

La Cascina Rubine detta anche "Villa Angelina"

Conosciuta anche come "Curt di Rubin", era indicata anche come "Villa Angelina" in quanto la corte era all'interno della villa padronale ed era situata in via Vallassina. Il nome deriva dal fatto che il complesso era attorniato da piante di robinie.
Era di proprietà degli Aliprandi, che erano cugini di quelli proprietari della Cascina Guarnazzola. I coniugi Giuseppe Aliprandi (nato il 14 luglio 1808 a Cusano) e Angelica Manzoni erano possidenti e domiciliati a Cusano nella Villa Angelina. Il figlio di questi, Pietro Aliprandi (nato a Cusano il 21 giugno 1842, deceduto il 16 novembre 1913 e sposato con Angela Besana), il 28 aprile 1898 ottenne dal Sindaco di Cusano sul Seveso la dichiarazione di abitabilità della porzione di fabbricato che aveva costruito alla Cascina detta "Rubinie" o "Rubine", sia per uso civile che per uso colonico. I figli dei predetti coniugi Pietro Aliprandi e Angela Besana, pur ereditando dal padre le sue proprietà, si portarono ad abitare in altre città: Gaetano, Tranquillo, Innocente e Adelaide Aliprandi a Milano e Virgilio Aliprandi a Roma. In seguito la Cascina Rubine venne demolita e si trovava nell'area corrispondente all'attuale via Sormani n. 65-67.

Società

Evoluzione demografica
 463 nel 1751
 669 nel 1771
 733 nel 1805
 annessione a Dugnano nel 1811
  nel 1853
  nel 1859

Etnie e minoranze straniere
Secondo le statistiche ISTAT al 1º gennaio 2016 la popolazione straniera residente nel comune metropolitano era di  persone, pari al 7% della popolazione.
Le nazionalità maggiormente rappresentate in base alla loro percentuale sul totale della popolazione residente erano:

 Romania 393
 Ucraina 125
 Egitto 116
 Ecuador 86
 Albania 71
 Filippine 70
 Cina 69
 Perù 66
 Moldavia 46
 Marocco 30

Cusano Milanino è, tra i comuni metropolitani del Nordmilano, quello con la minore percentuale di stranieri (il 7%, contro l'8% di Paderno Dugnano, il 9% di Cormano, l'11% di Bresso e il 17% di Cinisello Balsamo e di Sesto San Giovanni).

Infrastrutture e trasporti
Il territorio comunale è lambito a sud dall'autostrada A4 Milano-Venezia e dalla superstrada SP44 Milano-Meda.

Il comune metropolitano è servito dalla stazione ferroviaria di Cormano-Cusano Milanino, posta sulla linea Milano–Asso e gestita da FerrovieNord. La stazione, servita da collegamenti gestiti da Trenord tramite il servizio ferroviario suburbano di Milano, è stata aperta il 26 aprile 2015, contestualmente alla chiusura della vecchia stazione di Cusano Milanino, situata 200 metri più a nord.

Diverse linee di autobus, gestite da ATM e da Autoguidovie, servono il territorio comunale di Cusano Milanino e lo collegano a Milano e ai comuni limitrofi.

Lungo la Vecchia Valassina scorreva la tranvia Milano-Desio, che dal 2011 è stata sostituita da una linea gestita da ATM che copre la stessa tratta. Il ramo che attraversava il quartiere del Milanino di tale tranvia, è stato chiuso nel 1999 e di conseguenza il servizio Milano-Milanino è stato soppresso.
Fra il 1890 e il 1918 era inoltre attiva la tranvia Cusano-Cinisello-Monza.

Amministrazione

Sport
L'Unione Sportiva Gerli fu una società calcistica che raggiunse il suo culmine con il campionato di Serie C nel 1942 e 1943.

Hanno sede nel comune la società di calcio Cusano Milanino e la squadra di pallacanestro CSC basket Cusano Milanino che, come massimo risultato, ha disputato il campionato di Serie C1. Cusano Milanino è anche la città natale del noto allenatore Giovanni Trapattoni.

Note

Voci correlate
 Parco Nord Milano
 Tranvia Milano-Carate/Giussano
 Milanino
 Municipio di Cusano Milanino

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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The Fashion Industry & Body Image; Transcending the Acquisition of Thinness
Contributor: Elizabeth Bloomfield-Deal, MA, PLPC, Elizabeth is a therapist at McCallum Place Eating Disorders Center in St. Louis.
America is a culture that is inundated with images. Websites, magazines, television, and advertising have come to serve as a manual for how we should look, dress and live. The images we see attempt to show us what is desirable to the opposite sex, and how to achieve that look.
However, we are not the same. Women, especially, range dramatically in size, shape, and appearance. Throughout life, our bodies are in a constant state of change. The fashion industry in particular perpetuates the myth that we can, and should appear in a certain likeness to what we see on the page and screen.
The Shrinking Cultural Ideal
The truth is the female body exists in an infinite variety of sizes and shapes, but in fashion magazines and on the runway only one shape is represented: tall and thin. The average American woman, according to women's health expert Dr. Pamela Peeke, is 5'4" with a waist size of 34-35 inches. She weighs between 140-150 pounds, which equals a dress size of 12-14, which is drastically different than the average fashion model.
According to the New York Better Business Bureau, high fashion models need to be, "between 5'9" and 6' and weigh between 110-130 pounds, with eyes widely spaced." Let's take a moment to look at reality. If a woman is 5'9 and weighs 110 pounds, her BMI is 16.2, which is considered underweight. In 1968, the average fashion model was 8% thinner than the average woman. Today models are 23% thinner. Our cultural ideal is shrinking.
The Attempt at Maintaining an "Ideal" Body
To attempt to become and maintain an unrealistic body size and shape can be torturous. When someone deprives themselves of whole food groups by declaring them bad, they begin to experience cravings which can lead to binges, and ultimately feelings of guilt and shame about not being good enough to become the image that is desired. This is a dangerous and deadly cycle often resulting in the onset of an eating disorder.
Mary Pipher, PhD, and author of Reviving Ophelia; Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, said the following. "I think anorexia is a metaphor. It's the young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening."
This statement rings so true with the fashion industry. In ways, marketing tells us who and what to be. Our voice as women is absent. Our individuality and uniqueness is replaced by the image of a thin, emotionless and starving woman. In reality, women's bodies are soft and curvaceous. We possess hips that expand to give birth to a child, and breasts to feed our children. Even if we chose not to use our bodies for motherhood, we are born with bodies equipped for that purpose.
Restrictions Come to More than Just Food
When women starve themselves to achieve an ideal, they are not only restricting calories, but pleasure, balance and health. However, with all of the negative side effects, eating disorders do serve a function. They are effective in the short term. Eating disorders can be seen as a defense against uncomfortable feelings.
In the beginning, an eating disorder can even be exhilarating…until it is not. After running on low fuel for an extended period of time, bodies begin to break down. A malnourished brain causes one to feel anxious, depressed, confused and tired. At this time, some patients with eating disorders keep going due to motivation of a false sense of power and control.
Thin Enough Doesn't Happen
As an eating disorder therapist, it is not at all uncommon for young women to sit across from me in a therapy session or group, and declare that they will only be happy if they are thin enough. Therein lies the problem; when someone is suffering from an eating disorder, there is no such thing as thin enough.
The truth is that the thinner one becomes, the more anxious, depressed, cognitively impaired, distorted and physically weak they also become. Those who deny themselves food, and purge or fast to lose weight, will deplete their bodies of electrolytes and fluid necessary for normal heart, kidney, and liver function…rapid weight loss can mean metabolic collapse and/or sudden death (Roberto, 1993).
Someone suffering from an eating disorder is simply unable to see themselves in a realistic light.
The Fashion Industry Is a Factor, Not a Cause
It's important to state that the fashion industry is not the cause of eating disorders. We are a culmination of our life experiences. The natural stresses and losses in life mixed with our culture's notions of beauty are a toxic combination.
When women shop, whether it's online, from catalogues, or in a store, we are confronted with an onslaught of unrealistic and unsustainable body shapes that have become the cultural ideal. The images are unrelenting. Even if one chooses not subscribe to fashion magazines or watch television, the images cannot be avoided.
The Inescapable Media
Billboards, the covers of magazines in the check-out line, advertisements that pop-up on Facebook and frequently used websites are nearly impossible to escape. It's important to remind ourselves that the images we see are not always real, and certainly aren't sustainable in a healthy way.
Katherine Zerbe, psychoanalyst and author of Body Betrayed, states, "At some point we all must deal with illness, aging, and the finiteness of life itself. To prepare for this confrontation with life's vicissitudes, we must find meaning and purpose that transcend the acquisition of thinness and beauty."
Community Discussion – Share your thoughts here!
Beauty takes on many different forms, in what ways do you see beauty within yourself and within others?
Pipher, M. (1994). Reviving Ophelia; Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: Random House Press.
Roberto, L. G. (1993). Eating Disorders as Family Secrets. In Secrets in Families and Family Therapy, ed. E. Imber-Black. New York: W.W. Norton.
Zerbe, K. (1993). The Body Betrayed: Women, Eating Disorders, and Treatment. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Elizabeth Bloomfield-Deal, MA, LPC
Elizabeth is a therapist at McCallum Place Eating Disorders Center in St. Louis. She received her Bachelor of Science in English and Community health from Southern Illinois University and her Masters in Professional Counseling from Lindenwood University. She worked as a therapist at the Schiele Clinic of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and has completed the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program at the Institute.
She is a member of the American Counseling Association. Elizabeth enjoys facilitating groups such as sexuality, life narratives and family systems. Elizabeth uses psychoanalytic theory to help the patients utilize the therapeutic relationship as a place to explore the function of their eating disorder. She works to help the patients use their strengths to find balance and joy in their lives.
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For 85 years Jubilee Swimming Pool has been an importand leisure facility for our community. The Friends of Jubilee Pool (volunteers) want to save the pool for future generations by bringing it into community ownership.
That's why, last weekend, this lovely lot put on their swimming costumes and joined in a 24 hour swim relay event to raise money for the campaign.
Hundreds of swimmers, volunteers and cheerleaders joined forces with FoJP to help raise over £27,000 towards the group's bid to Save Jubilee Pool from closure.
Donations continue to flood in. If you'd like to contribute it's not too late - visit Friends of Jubilee Pool's fundraising page.
With the goal of the 24 hour fundraising relay to try and swim from Jubilee Pool in Bristol to Buckingham Palace in London, over 200 participants collectively swam a total of 14,216 lengths of Jubilee's 22m pool, smashing the original target of 10,000 lengths. With a total of 312,752m swum equating to 193 miles, swimmers not only collectively swam to Buckingham Palace but almost swam all the way BACK to Jubilee Pool too!


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Indie Labels Unite to Launch "Fair Digital Deals Declaration" Initiative
Over 700 labels team up for initiative, including Sub Pop, Domino, Secretly Canadian, Saddle Creek, XL, 4AD, Matador, and Rough Trade
Over 700 indie labels have teamed up for an initiative to ensure fair and transparent accounting of digital revenues to artists, Billboard reports. The "Fair Digital Deals Declaration" is a massive showing from the independent label community to ensure that artists are treated and compensated fairly.
Among the declaration's signatories are Sub Pop, Merge, Domino, XL, 4AD, Matador, Drag City, Epitaph, Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, Saddle Creek, Captured Tracks, Mute, Numero Group, Anti-, Brainfeeder, Ninja Tune, Asthmatic Kitty, and many others. Find the full list of labels here. The initiative was coordinated by the Worldwide Independent Network, and it will be officially launched tomorrow.
The declaration features five primary guidelines that signees must adhere to:
1. Ensure that artists' share of download and streaming revenues is clearly explained in recording agreements and royalty statements in reasonable summary form.
2. Account to artists a good-faith pro-rata share of any revenues and other compensation from digital services that stem from the monetization of recordings but are not attributed to specific recordings or performances.
3. Encourage better standards of information from digital services on the usage and monetization of music.
4. Support artists who choose to oppose, including publicly, unauthorized uses of their music.
5. Support the collective position of the global independent record company sector.
Billboard makes particular note of that second point, saying that major rights holders and some major labels receive favorable deals with digital services, including guaranteed payment amounts or equity shares. Money from these deals often don't make their way to the artist, but this rule makes it possible for artists to profit from those agreements.
In addition to the declaration, the Worldwide Independent Network also shared a "Global Independent Manifesto", which argues that indies "deserve equal market access and parity of terms with Universal, Sony and Warner, and an independent copyright should be valued and remunerated at the same level as a major company copyright."
The manifesto also argues against "further consolidation in the recorded music, publishing and radio sectors since this is bad for independent music companies, their artists and fans."
Billboard shared comments about the initiative from indie label representatives.
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Darius Van Arman, co-founder of the Secretly Group, said:
"The bedrock of trust between artists and labels is artists receiving a fair share of the revenue that is earned from their work, where labels convey financial terms transparently and comprehensibly to artists. Our signing of the Labels' 'Fair Digital Deals Declaration' demonstrates our commitment to this ideal and is an invitation to all industry participants to make the same commitment."
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*PLAYING AND EXPLORING – Children investigate and experience things and 'have a go' at new activities (you can support your child by, for example, encouraging them to try new experiences and by asking open-ended questions that stimulate curiosity).
*ACTIVE LEARNING – Children concentrate and keep trying even if they encounter difficulties, and they enjoy celebrating their achievements (allow your child to play independently – avoid leading your child's play and don't let them engage in passive activities such as watching television for too long).


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The outing didn't go so well for Martin, with the bike having more than a few problems with the elevation at Pikes Peak, but the star power of having one of the Isle of Man TT's biggest names was certainly a draw for the iconic American race.
Since then, Pikes Peak has been keen to get another top TT star back on the mountain, and it looks like for 2019 they have been successful in that attempt.
With Michael Dunlop chasing the outright TT win tally, set by his uncle Joey, it will be interesting to see how he goes at Pikes Peak….though, we should warn that Dunlop is known for his mercurial nature.
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The Madness is Back; Get Ready for the Sweet Sixteen
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The first two rounds of March Madness this past weekend have been living up to their reputation. If you couldn't watch every game, here's a quick update.
There were many upsets, as always, but it's hard to predict which upsets you'll get right. A close game was when 5th seeded Auburn managed to avoid being defeated by 12th seeded New Mexico State when the final shot was missed with 1.1 seconds left on the clock. On the other side, 12th seeded Murray State pulled off a 83-64 upset of a 5th seeded Marquette, before losing in a tough battle to Florida State to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
Some of the top-seeded teams also appear to be struggling more than expected. Duke only won by one point in the last seconds of the game to beat UCF to enter the round of sixteen. Too, UVA being a number one seed again this year came back from behind in their first-round game. It was close to being the second year in a row that a number one seed would've been upset by a 16th seed, which happened for the first time ever to UVA last year.
Duke, led by freshman Zion Williamson, is definitely a team to continue to look out for going into the round of sixteen. UNC is sweeping through the tournament, and I don't think anyone would be disappointed by a UNC v Duke rematch in the championship game. 4th seeded Florida St. is also proving themselves to be in contention, as is Auburn.
The madness is far from over.
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\section{Introduction}

A number of extraordinary  magnetotransport phenomena of irradiated two-dimensional (2D) electrons
in very high Landau levels (LLs), especially the microwave-induced resistance oscillation (MIRO)
and the zero-resistance state, has  been the focus of
intensive
experimental \cite{Zud01,Ye,Mani02,Zud03,Dor03,Yang03,Zud04,Mani04,Willett,Mani05,
Dor05,Stud,Smet05,Yang06}
and theoretical \cite{Ryz-1970,Ryz03,Shi,Durst,Lei03,Vav04,Dmitriev03,DGHO05,Torres05,
Ng05,Ina-prl05,Kashuba,Andreev03,Alicea05,Auerbach05,Mikhailov04} studies in the past few years.

Under the irradiation of a moderate microwave of frequency $\omega$, the most striking resistance
oscillations show up in the linear photoresistivity as a function of the inverse magnetic field $1/B$,
featuring the periodical appearance of peak-valley pairs around $\omega/\omega_c=1,2,3...$
($\omega_c=eB/m$ is the cyclotron frequency and $m$ the electron effective mass).
The cyclotron resonance and its harmonics are node points of peak-valley pairs,
where the photoresistivity vanishes.
In addition, secondary peak-valley pairs
were also observed in the linear resistance near certain fractional values,
$\omega/\omega_c=1/2, 1/3, 2/3$, and 3/2. These fractional microwave-induced resistance oscillations
were referred to real multiphoton participating processes.\cite{Lei06}
They were also referred to higher harmonic effect,\cite{Dor03}
the resonant series of consecutive single-photon transition,\cite{Dor07,Pech07}
or microwave-induced sidebands.\cite{Dmitriev07}
Despite different scenarios have been proposed for these fractional MIROs
of linear photoresistivity, they have so far been theoretically demonstrated to clearly appear
in a real system only within the multiphoton-assisted scattering model.\cite{Lei06}

Another notable effect recently discovered is the significant role of a dc current.
A relatively weak current alone, without microwave radiation, can also induce substantial magnetoresistance
oscillations and zero-differential resistance states.\cite{Yang02,Bykov05,WZhang07,JZhang07,
Bykov07,Lei07-1,Vav07,WZhang08,Lei08-1}
Simultaneous application of a finite dc current and a microwave radiation leads to very
interesting and complicated oscillatory behavior of resistance and
differential resistance.\cite{WZhang07-2,Lei07-2,Auerbach07,Hatke08,Lei08-2}
These facts clearly indicate that
 microwave-irradiated nonlinear magnetotransport is remarkably different from the linear one.
So far experimental and theoretical investigations on nonlinear MIROs have been carried out
in the magnetic field range lower than the cyclotron resonance and never anticipated any
anomaly elsewhere. Very recent experiments by Hatke {\it et al.} \cite{Hatke08-2} disclosed sharply distinct
nonlinear transport behavior in the subharmonic fields of the cyclotron resonance.
Particularly, they found that at the second cyclotron resonance subharmonic, $\omega/\omega_c=1/2$,
the differential resistivity oscillates as a function of the current density in the same way
as that at the cyclotron resonance, $\omega/\omega_c=1/2$, despite a factor of two difference in magnetic fields.
In other words, at $\omega/\omega_c=1/2$ the frequency of the resistivity oscillation with the
magnetic-field-normalized current-density
is twice that at the cyclotron resonance and its harmonics.
This is in vast contract with the observed behavior of the resistivity oscillations
in the magnetic field regimes of cyclotron resonance and its harmonics ($\omega/\omega_c\geq 1$).
A nonlinear theoretical analysis capable of identifying the specific mechanism responsible for fractional MIROs
and frequency doubling is highly desirable.

This paper presents such an
analysis on microwave-induced nonlinear magnetotransport in high Landau levels in GaAs-based 2D heterosystems.
With the microscopic balance-equation scheme direct controlled by the current,
we are able to constitute a unified description for both the cyclotron resonance harmonic and subharmonic regimes
of
the magnetic fields and predict the resistivity oscillations with applied current density
in excellent agreement with the experimental observation in both regimes.

\section{Formulation}

Our examination is based on a current-controlled scheme of photon-assisted transport,\cite{Lei03}
which deals with a 2D system of short thermalization time having $N_{s}$ electrons in a unit area of
the $x$-$y$ plane. These electrons, subjected to a uniform magnetic field ${\bm B}=(0,0,B)$
in the $z$ direction and scattered by random impurities and by phonons in the lattice,
perform an integrative drift motion when an incident microwave electric field ${\bm E}_{\rm is}\sin \omega t$
irradiates on and a current flows in the plane.
In terms of the center-of-mass (c.m.) momentum and coordinate defined as
${\bm P}\equiv\sum_j {\bm p}_{j\|}$
and ${\bm R}\equiv N_{s}^{-1}\sum_j {\bm r}_{j}$
with ${\bm p}_{j\|}\equiv(p_{jx},p_{jy})$ and ${\bm r}_{j}\equiv (x_j,y_j)$
being the momentum and coordinate of the $j$th electron in the 2D plane,
and the relative electron momentum and coordinate
${\bm p}_{j\|}'\equiv{\bm p}_{j\|}-{\bm P}/N_{s}$ and
${\bm r}_{j}'\equiv{\bm r}_{j}-{\bm R}$,
the Hamiltonian of this system can be written
as the sum of a c.m. part $H_{\rm c.m.}$ and
a relative electron part $H_{\rm er}$,\cite{Lei85}
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\hspace{-0.9cm}H_{\rm c.m.}=\frac 1{2N_{s}m}\big({\bm P}-N_{s}e{\bm A}({\bm
R})\big)^2-N_{s}e({\bm E_0}+{\bm E}_t)\cdot {\bm R},\\
&&\hspace{-0.5cm}H_{\rm er}=\sum_{j}\left\{\frac{1}{2m}\Big[{\bm p}_{j\|}'-e{\bm A}
({\bm r}_{j}')\Big]^{2}+\frac{p_{jz}^2}{2m_z}+V(z_j)\right\}\nonumber\\
&&\hspace{1.1cm}+\sum_{i<j}V_{\rm c}({\bm r}_{i}'-{\bm r}_{j}',z_i,z_j),\,\,\,\,\, \label{her}
\end{eqnarray}
together with electron-impurity and electron-phonon couplings $H_{\rm ei}$ and $H_{\rm ep}$.
Here ${\bm A}({\bm r})=(-By,0)$ is the in-plane component of the vector potential of the perpendicular magnetic
field,
${\bm E}_0$ and ${\bm E}_t$ are the dc and ac components of the uniform electric field inside,
$m$ and $m_z$ are, respectively, the electron effective mass parallel and perpendicular
to the plane, $V(z)$ and $V_c({\bm r}_{i}'-{\bm r}_{j}',z_i,z_j)$ stand for
the confined and Coulomb potentials.

The separation of the electron Hamiltonian into a c.m. part
and a relative electron part amounts to look at electrons
in the reference frame moving with their center of mass.
The most important feature of this separation is that a spatially uniform electric field
shows up only in $H_{\rm c.m.}$, and that $H_{\rm er}$ is the Hamiltonian of a many particle system
subject to a magnetic field {\it without the electric field}.
This enables to deal with the relative electrons in the magnetic field
{\it without tilting the Landau levels}.

We proceed with
the Heisenberg operator equations for the rate of change in the c.m. velocity
${\bm V}=-i[{\bm R},H]$: $\dot{\bm V}=-i[{\bm V},H]$, and that of the relative electron energy $H_{\rm er}$:
$\dot{H}_{\rm er}=-i[H_{\rm er},H]$.
The c.m. coordinate ${\bm R}$
and velocity ${\bm V}$ in these equations can be treated classically, i.e.,
as the time-dependent
expectation values of the c.m. coordinate and velocity,
${\bm R}(t)$ and ${\bm V}(t)$, such that ${\bm R}(t)-{\bm R}(t^{\prime})
=\int_{t^{\prime}}^t{\bm V}(s)ds$.
In the case of the steady transport
under a modest radiation of single frequency $\omega$
 it suffices to assume that the c.m.
velocity, i.e., the electron drift velocity, consists of a dc
part ${\bm v}$ and a stationary time-dependent part of the form
\begin{equation}
{\bm V}(t)={\bm v}+{\bm v}_1 \cos(\omega t)+{\bm v}_2 \sin(\omega t).
\end{equation}

For high mobility and high carrier density 2D systems at low temperatures
where effects of electron-impurity and electron-phonon scatterings are weak in comparison with
internal thermalization of this many electron system, it is a good
approximation to carry out the statistical average of the above operator equations
to leading orders in $H_{\rm ei}$ and $H_{\rm ep}$.
For this purpose we only need to know the distribution of relative electrons
without being perturbed by $H_{\rm ei}$ or $H_{\rm ep}$.
The distribution function of the system described by Hamiltonian (\ref{her}) without electric field,
is an isotropic Fermi-type with a single temperature $T_{e}$.
Such a statistical average of the above operator equations yields
the following force and energy balance equations in the steady state:
\begin{equation}
N_{s}e{\bm E}_{0}+N_{s} e ({\bm v} \times {\bm B})+
{\bm F}=0,\label{eqforce}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
N_{s}e{\bm E}_0\cdot {\bm v}+S_{p}- W=0.
\label{eqenergy}
\end{equation}
In this,
\begin{equation}
{\bm F}=\sum_{{\bm q}_\|}\left| U({\bm q}_\|)\right| ^{2}
\sum_{n=-\infty }^{\infty }{\bm q}_\|{J}_{n}^{2}(\xi ){\it \Pi}_{2}
({\bm q}_\|,\omega_0-n\omega )\label{exf0}
\end{equation}
is the time-averaged damping force against CM motion, $S_{p}$ is the time-averaged rate of the
electron energy-gain from the ac field, having an expression obtained from Eq.\,(6) by replacing
${\bm q}_{\|}$ factor by $n\omega$.
In Eq.\,(\ref{exf0}), $U({\bm q}_\|)$ is the effective impurity potential, $J_{n}(\xi )$
is the Bessel function of order $n$, ${\it \Pi}_2({\bm q}_\|,{\it \Omega})$
is the imaginary part of the electron density correlation function
at electron temperature $T_{e}$ in the presence of the magnetic field,
and $\omega_0\equiv{\bm q}_\|\cdot {\bm v}$. The argument in $J_n(\xi)$
is $\xi\equiv \sqrt{({\bm q}_\|\cdot {\bm v}_1)^2+({\bm q}_\|\cdot {\bm v}_2)^2}/\omega$.
Note that, although contributions of phonon scattering to ${\bm F}$ and $S_{p}$
are neglected here, it provides the main channel for electron energy dissipation to the lattice
with a time-averaged energy-loss rate $W$, having the expression as given in Ref.\,\onlinecite{Lei03}.

The ac components ${\bm v}_1$ and ${\bm v}_2$ of the electron drift velocity should be determined
selfconsistently from the incident ac field ${\bm E}_{\rm is}$ by the Maxwell equations
connecting both sides of the 2D system, taking account the scattering-related
damping forces ${\bm F}_s$ and ${\bm F}_c$. \cite{Lei03} However, for the high-mobility systems
at low temperatures, the effects of these scattering-related forces are much weaker than
that of radiative decay \cite{Mikhailov04} and always negligible,
hence ${\bm v}_1$ and ${\bm v}_2$ are directly determined by the setup of the 2D system
in the sample substrate.\cite{Lei03}

The effect of interparticle Coulomb interaction is included in the density correlation function
to the degree of electron level broadening and screening
(considered in the effective impurity and phonon potentials).
The remaining ${\it \Pi}_2({\bm q}_{\|}, {\it \Omega})$ function in Eqs.\,(\ref{exf0})
is that of a noninteracting  2D electron gas
in the magnetic field, which can be written in the Landau representation as \cite{Ting}
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\hspace{-0.7cm}{\it \Pi}_2({\bm q}_{\|},{\it \Omega}) =  \frac 1{2\pi
l_{B}^2}\sum_{n,n'}C_{n,n'}(l_{B}^2q_{\|}^2/2)
{\it \Pi}_2(n,n',{\it \Omega}),
\label{pi_2q}\\
&&\hspace{-0.7cm}{\it \Pi}_2(n,n',{\it \Omega})=-\frac2\pi \int d\varepsilon
\left [ f(\varepsilon )- f(\varepsilon +{\it \Omega})\right ]\nonumber\\
&&\,\hspace{2cm}\times\,\,{\rm Im}G_n(\varepsilon +{\it \Omega})\,{\rm Im}G_{n'}(\varepsilon ),
\label{pi_2ll}
\end{eqnarray}
where $l_{B}=\sqrt{1/|eB|}$ is the magnetic length,
$
C_{n,n+l}(Y)\equiv n![(n+l)!]^{-1}Y^l{\rm e}^{-Y}[L_n^l(Y)]^2
$
with $L_n^l(Y)$ the associate Laguerre polynomial, $f(\varepsilon
)=\{\exp [(\varepsilon -\mu)/T_{e}]+1\}^{-1}$ is the Fermi
function at electron temperature $T_{e}$,
and ${\rm Im}G_n(\varepsilon )$ is the density-of-states (DOS) function of the broadened Landau level $n$.

The LL broadening results from impurity, phonon and electron-electron scatterings.
In the experimental ultraclean GaAs-based 2D systems having mobility higher than $10^{3}$\,m$^{2}$/V\,s
the dominant elastic scatterings come mainly from residual impurities or defects in the background
rather than from remote donors,\cite{Umansky} and phonon and electron-electron scatterings are
generally also not long-ranged because of the screening. On the other hand, since
the microwave-induced magnetoresistance oscillations occur at low temperatures and low magnetic fields
in high electron density samples, the cyclotron radius of electrons involving
in transport is generally much larger than the correlation length or the range
of the dominant scattering potentials. In this case, the broadening of the LLs is expected
to be a Gaussian form [$\varepsilon_n=(n+\frac{1}{2})\omega_c$ is the center of the $n$th Landau
level],\cite{Raikh-1993}
\begin{equation}
{\rm Im}G_n(\varepsilon)=-(2\pi)^{\frac{1}{2}}{\it \Gamma}^{-1}
\exp[-2(\varepsilon-\varepsilon_n)^2/{\it \Gamma}^2]
\label{gauss}
\end{equation}
with a $B^{1/2}$-dependent half width expressed as
\begin{equation}
{\it \Gamma}=(2\omega_c/\pi \tau_s)^{1/2},
\label{gamma12}
\end{equation}
in which $\tau_s$, the single-particle lifetime or quantum scattering time in the zero magnetic field, depends on
impurity, phonon and electron-electron scatterings.

Expressions (\ref{gauss}) and (\ref{gamma12}) for the DOS of the $n$th level will be used
in both the separated and overlapped LL regimes.
The total DOS of a 2D system of unit area in the magnetic field,  $g(\varepsilon)=-\sum_n {\rm
Im}G_n(\varepsilon)/\pi^2 l_B^2$,
can be written as the sum of the DOS without magnetic field, $g_0$,
and a magnetic-field induced oscillatory part.
When the LL widths $2{\it \Gamma}$ are much larger than the level spacing $\omega_c$
(heavily overlapped LLs), the oscillatory part is much smaller than $g_0$
and one can keep only its fundamental harmonic component that
\begin{equation}
g(\varepsilon)\approx g_0\left[1-2\delta\cos(2\pi\varepsilon/\omega_c)\right],
\end{equation}
with $\delta=\exp(-\pi^2{\it \Gamma}^2/2\omega_c^2)=\exp(-\pi/\omega_c\tau_s)$.\cite{Coleridge-97}

A reliable evaluation of single-particle lifetime $\tau_s$ (or the LL width ${\it \Gamma}$),
which must include effects of impurity, phonon and electron-electron scatterings,
has not yet been available.  We treat it as an empirical parameter, or,
relate it to the zero-field linear mobility $\mu_0$ or the transport relaxation time $\tau_{\rm tr}$
using an empirical parameter $\alpha$ by  $1/\tau_s=4\alpha/\tau_{\rm tr}=4 \alpha e/m \mu_0$.

\section{Nonlinear resistivity and multiphoton processes}

These formulations are convenient for current-driven nonlinear magnetotransport
of any configuration.
For an isotropic system where the frictional force ${\bm F}$ is in the opposite direction of
the drift velocity ${\bm v}$
and the magnitudes of both the frictional force and the energy-loss rate depend only on
$v\equiv |{\bm v}|$, we can write ${\bm F}({\bm v})=F(v){\bm v}/v$ and
$W({\bm v})=W(v)$.
In the Hall configuration with velocity ${\bm v}$ in the $x$ direction
${\bm v}=(v,0,0)$ or the current density $J_x=J=N_{s}ev$ and $J_y=0$,
Eq.\,(\ref{eqforce}) yields
the transverse resistivity $R_{yx}=B/N_{s}e$, and the longitudinal resistivity $R_{xx}$ and
differential resistivity $r_{xx}$ at given $v$ as
\begin{eqnarray}
&&R_{xx}= -F(v)/(N_{s}^2e^2v), \label{eqrxx}\\
&&r_{xx}=-({\partial F(v)}/{\partial v})/(N_{s}^2e^2). \label{eqdr}
\end{eqnarray}

In the linear case, the resistivity $r_{xx}$ oscillations (peak-valley
pairs) result from the resonant real photon-assisted electron transitions between different
Landau levels. \cite{Lei06}
We denote a real-photon assisted process in which an electron jumps across $l$
LL spacings
with the assistance (emission or absorption) of $n$ photons as $n\omega$:$l\omega_c$,
or $n$:$l$. This process contributes,
in the $r_{xx}$--$\omega/\omega_c$ curve,
a pair structure consisting of a maximum and a minimum on both sides of $\omega/\omega_c=l/n$.

Thus, the single-photon process $1$:$1$, the two-photon process
$2$:$2$, the three-photon process $3$:$3$,...
all contribute to the maximum-minimum pair around $\omega/\omega_c=1$;
the two-photon process $2$:$1$, the four-photon process
$4$:$2$,...
all contribute to the maximum-minimum pair around $\omega/\omega_c=1/2$;
the three-photon process $3$:$1$, the six-photon process
$6$:$2$,...
all contribute to the maximum-minimum pair around $\omega/\omega_c=1/3$;
etc. The virtual photon process (zero-photon process) during which the electron may
absorb (emit) one or several photons and then emits (absorbs) them before
finishing an intra-LL transition (assuming separated LLs for convenience),
which can be denoted as $0$:$0$, gives rise to an overall resistivity suppression
without structure. \cite{Lei06}

The effects of a finite current show up as the energy (frequency) shift
$\omega_0={\bm q}_{\|}\cdot {\bm v}$
in the density-correlation function  ${\it \Pi}_2({\bm q}_{\|},{\it \Omega})$ in Eq.\,(\ref{exf0}).
This energy shift indicates that an electron, having momentum ${\bm q}_{\|}$ and participating in
the system integrative drift motion of velocity ${\bm v}$, carries an extra energy
${\bm q}_{\|}\cdot {\bm v}$ during its transition.
 In the case of low temperature
($T_{e}$ much less than the Fermi energy $\varepsilon_{F}$)
and large Landau-level filling factor ($\nu=\varepsilon_{F}/\omega_c\gg 1$),
the major contributions to the summation in Eq.\,(\ref{pi_2q})
come from terms $n\sim n'\sim \nu$, then the function $C_{n,n'}(x)$ has a sharp principal maximum
near $x=4\nu$. Therefore, as a function of the in-plane momentum $q_{\|}$,
 ${\it \Pi}_2({\bm q}_{\|},{\it \Omega})$ sharply peaks around $q_{\|} \simeq 2K_{F}$.
As the composite effect of this energy shift,
the electron possesses an extra energy
\begin{equation}
\omega_j\equiv 2K_{F}v=\sqrt{8\pi/N_{s}}J/e
\end{equation}
for its transition in addition to those provided by photons.

Therefore, the resonant condition applied in the linear case
for electron scattering across $l$ LL spacings with the assistance (emission or absorption)
of $n$ photons, $n\omega= l\omega_c$, should change to
\begin{equation}
\omega_j\pm n\omega=\pm l\omega_c\,\,\,(n=0,1,2,...,\,\,  l=0,1,2,...) \label{reson}
\end{equation}
when the system has
an integrative motion of velocity $v$, i.e., a finite current density $J=N_{s}e v$.
We can still use symbol $n$:$l$ to denote this process. We will also use symbol
$n$- to represent all the $n$-photon participating processes (electron may jump across any LL spacings).

Increase in the current density from zero reduces the rates of the scattering processes
resonant in the linear case, such as those
of zero-photon processes $0$:$0$ everywhere,
of single-photon process $1$:$1$ and two-photon process $2$:$2$ at $\omega/\omega_c=1$,
of two-photon processes $2$:$1$ and four-photon processes $4$:$2$ at $\omega/\omega_c=1/2$.
But it may increase the rates of the scattering processes originally absent or very small
in the linear case, such as those of single-photon process $1$:$1$ and three-photon process $3$:$1$ at
$\omega/\omega_c=1/2$.

At cyclotron resonance  and its harmonics $\omega/\omega_c=1,2,4,...$, the resonant condition
(\ref{reson}) can be satisfied only at
\begin{equation}
\epsilon_j\equiv\omega_j/\omega_c=0, 1, 2,...,
\end{equation}
where the scattering rate peaks and the differential resistivity exhibits maximum.
Therefore, at these magnetic fields the $r_{xx}$ oscillation with changing $\epsilon_j$ always has
a periodicity $\Delta\epsilon_j\approx 1$.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics [width=0.45\textwidth,clip=on] {fig1.eps}
\vspace*{-0.2cm}
\caption{(Color online) Magnetoresistivity $r_{xx}$ vs $\epsilon_{j}=\omega_j/\omega_c$
at $\omega/\omega_c=1,\,0.995,\,0.99,\,0.5,\,0.49$ and 0.475.}
\label{fig1}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics [width=0.45\textwidth,clip=on] {fig2.eps}
\vspace*{-0.2cm}
\caption{(Color online) Magnetoresistivity $r_{xx}$ vs $\epsilon_j$
at $\omega/\omega_c=1/3$ and 0.5. Curves with 0-, 1-, 2-, 3- and m- are separated contributions from
zero-photon, single-photon, two-photon, three-photon and  multiphoton processes.}
\label{fig2}
\end{figure}

The situation changes near subharmonic cyclotron resonant fields.
For instance, at $\omega/\omega_c=1/2$, the resonant condition (\ref{reson})
for zero-photon, two-photon, and four-photon processes ($n=0, 2$ and 4) is satisfied at $\epsilon_j=0,1,2,...$,
indicating these even-photon processes contribute resistivity maxima there.
At $\epsilon_j=0.5,1.5,...$, on the other hand, the resonant condition (\ref{reson}) is satisfied
for single-photon and three-photon processes ($n=1$ and 3), indicating these odd-photon processes contribute
resistivity maxima. Because of this, the period
of $r_{xx}$ oscillation with $\epsilon_j$ may shrink to $\Delta\epsilon_j\approx 0.5$, or
the oscillation frequency doubles, at $\omega/\omega_c=1/2$.

At the third subharmonic field, $\omega/\omega_c=1/3$, in addition to the appearance of resonant scattering
of zero-photon and three-photon processes at $\epsilon_j=0,1$ and 2, the resonance scattering can also
appear at $\epsilon_j=1/3, 4/3$ and 5/3 for two-photon processes and at $\epsilon_j=2/3, 4/3$ and 5/3
for single-photon processes, leading to possible shrinkage of the $r_{xx}$ oscillation period
to $\Delta\epsilon_j\approx 1/3$, or the frequency tripling.

These analyses are confirmed by the numerical results shown in Figs.\,1 and 2, where we plot
the differential resistivity $r_{xx}$
calculated from Eq.\,(\ref{eqdr})
as a function
of the normalized current density $\epsilon_j=\omega_j/\omega_c$
for a GaAs-based system of $N_{s}=3.7\times 10^{15}$\,m$^{-2}$ and
$\mu_0=1200$\,m$^2$/V\,s at $T=1.5$\,K, irradiated by a
 $27$\,GHz microwave having incident electric field amplitude $E_{\rm is}=3.8$\,V/cm.
The elastic scatterings are due to a mixture
of short-range and background impurities, and the broadening
 parameter $\alpha=4$, or the LL width $2{\it \Gamma}/\omega_c\simeq 0.72(\omega/\omega_c)^{1/2}$,
 in the separated LL regime for $\omega/\omega_c<1$. The predicted $r_{xx}$ behaviors
  near $\omega/\omega_c=1$ and $\omega/\omega_c=0.5$
 are in excellent agreement with recent experimental findings.\cite{Hatke08-2}
 The $r_{xx}$ oscillations at $\omega/\omega_c=1/3$ exhibit the observable frequency tripling
 under this strength of microwave irradiation.

\section{Summary}

In summary, the electron in a dc-driven system having an integrative drift velocity $v$ carries
an extra average energy $\omega_j=2K_{F}v$ in its transition between LLs,
giving rise to a current-dependent resonance condition.
The peaks of the differential resistivity $r_{xx}$ arise from resonant
multiphoton assisted scatterings of electron jumping across $l$
LL spacings.
The current-induced consecutive emergence of different resonant multi-photon processes
results in the frequency doubling and tripling of the resistance oscillations
near the 2nd and 3rd subharmonic fields.

\vspace{0.1cm}

The author is thankful to M. Zudov for helpful discussions.
This work was supported by the projects of the National Science Foundation of China,
the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Project (No. 2007CB310402),
and the Shanghai Municipal Commission
of Science and Technology (No. 06dj14008).

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Want to Be More Like Wendy's on Twitter? Here's What the Company's CMO Says to Do.
Kurt Kane says just copying Wendy's voice won't cut it.
By Andrea Hardalo October 1, 2018
Wendy's is famous for its voice on social media. Remember when the company challenged Carter Wilkinson to set a Twitter record to win free chicken nuggets for a year? That one-tweet challenge went viral, generating news coverage and landing Wilkinson on Ellen Degeneres's couch.
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From witty one liners to offering advice and homework help, Wendy's has established a social voice that is unlike any other brand. "More and more people have been discovering how we've been talking with people on Twitter, and so it's gotten bigger and bigger," Wendy's Chief Marketing Officer Kurt Kane told Entrepreneur.
A true gentleman
— Wendy's (@Wendys) October 1, 2018
According to Kane, the marketing team at Wendy's decided around three years ago that they wanted the freedom to communicate how they wanted, especially through Twitter. "The biggest thing we decided was to stop advertising to people and to start having a conversation with people," Kane said.
Related: Wendy's Amazing Social Media Team Shares The Secrets to its Success
While it doesn't take itself too seriously on Twitter, what Wendy's does take seriously is the way it talks about its food, which was instilled into the brand by its founder, Dave Thomas. "That's when you tend to see us really step forward with a very competitive tone of voice," Kane said. "Not because we're fixated on our competitors but more because we're fixated on quality."
Your dignity
— Wendy's (@Wendys) January 4, 2017
He added, "Our reality is that we're in a unique position to be able to communicate with people because of our brand history and the fact that they tend to associate the Wendy's brand with real people, [such as Thomas and his daughter]," Kane said.
The restaurant doesn't have a last name, but the person it is named after is Wendy Thomas.
So how can you be more like Wendy's on Twitter? Don't be like Wendy's. Kane said that a number of brands reach out to his team with questions about how they can be more like Wendy's on social media. "Our biggest advice to those brands has been they have to be themselves," he said. "You have to live your own brand truth. And to just try to act like Wendy's won't work."
Andrea Hardalo
Andrea Hardalo is the social media editor of Entrepreneur.com. She previously managed social for Scout Media.
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Q: How to wait for a redux thunk that executes a promise when called from another thunk in typescript I have a main thunk that gets executed when clicking a button. Inside this thunk I want to call another thunk and wait for it to complete before moving forward. The second thunk executes a promise with nested promises. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to wait for the second thunk to complete its asynchronous operations.
I have tried using the return keyword on my thunk to make the call synchronous. I can't use the async keywords since I need this to work in IE 11.
I have also tried to make my second thunk return a promise and then do something like this dispatch(secondThunk()).then(...) but then it says that my thunk doesn't actually return a promise.
Here is some of my code:
export function mainThunk(): ThunkAction<void, void, void, AnyAction> {
    return (dispatch: Dispatch<any>) => {
    ...do some stuff
    dispatch(secondThunk());
    ...do other stuff
    };
}

export function secondThunk(): ThunkAction<void, void, void, AnyAction> {
    return (dispatch: Dispatch<any>) => {
      return new Promise((resolve: any, reject: any) => {
        someAsyncFunction()
        .then((response) => {
           return Promise.all(someArray.map(someId => {
             return someOtherAsyncFunction(someId):
         }));
        })
        .then((responses) => {
           response.foreach(response => {
             dispatch(someReduxAction(response.someField));
           });
        })
        .then(() => {
          resolve();
        });
    });
    };
}

When I run my code the mainThunk is not waiting for the secondThunk to complete before executing. Can you help me figure out how to make this work?

A: You're almost there. In your mainThunk function you need to wait for the promise to resolve or reject. I've written my demo in Javascript and not Typescript. However the principles are the same. Code-sandbox here
import axios from "axios";

function mainThunk() {
  secondThunk()
    .then(data => {
      console.log("success");
      console.log(data);
    })
    .catch(e => {
      console.log("something went wrong");
      console.log(e);
    });
}

function secondThunk() {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    axios
      .get("https://swapi.co/api/people/")
      .then(people => {
        someOtherAsyncFunction().then(planets => {
          const response = {
            planets: planets,
            people: people
          };
          resolve(response);
        });
      })
      .catch(e => {
        reject(e);
      });
  });
}

function someOtherAsyncFunction() {
  return axios.get("https://swapi.co/api/planets/").then(response => {
    return response;
  });
}

mainThunk();

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Large particles of air sit on top of your skin, causing irritation and inflammation. The smaller particles actually break through the skin barrier, enter through pores and cause damage to your collagen! When you lose collagen, you lose elasticity in the skin, leaving you looking older.
So, now what do you do? How do you combat the environmental stressors on your skin? One of the biggest and most effective ways to combat air pollution is to wash your face at the end of the day! This literally washes off those large particles of pollution. Next, make sure you're getting the most out of your skincare routine. Every morning, you should use and antioxidant like Vitamin C to create a barrier between your skin the the outdoor air.
Finally, make sure to wear sunscreen every single day! This adds yet another layer of protection for your skin. More importantly, it protects your skin from UV damage as well. Know what the environment is like around you. Do you live in a city? Do you live near train tracks or the airport? All of these things can significantly change how you age.
You can always check an air pollution map to see how your area rates on air pollution. Right now, Fine Particulate Matter concentrations in Denver are expected to be in the Good to Moderate range! Not too bad, but plan ahead, wash well and apply appropriate products for protection.


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James Merlino
State Member for Monbulk
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Community Houses and Hubs
Ministerial Office
media-releases
Napthine's sham feasibility study failing Lilydale students
The Napthine Government's announcement of yet another feasibility study will not reopen the gates to Swinburne's Lilydale campus and will do nothing for the students who had to find another place to study, Shadow Education Minister and Member for Monbulk James Merlino said today.
"No one is going to be fooled by what is just another feasibility study – Denis Napthine is desperately trying to stem the tide of anger in the community in the outer east," Mr Merlino said.
"Make no mistake about it, the Liberal Government's slash and burn policy in TAFE closed down our university and TAFE campus and made it into a ghost town. Today's announcement will not reverse that.
"Most significantly, there is nothing in today's announcement that protects the university and TAFE buildings from being sold off. Once they are gone, they will be lost forever.
"This feasibility study idea is a joke – it smacks of a Government and Premier running scared from the extraordinary community anger at the disastrous plans to sell off the site.
"Box Hill TAFE has already assessed the viability of the site, but Mr Napthine won't release that report.
"Now the Premier is giving Yarra Ranges Shire Council $100,000 to replicate this work – what expertise does the Shire have in higher education? It's something Sir Humphrey would be proud of."
Mr Merlino called on the Government to rule out any rezoning or sale of education facilities at Lilydale.
"The community deserve to be treated with respect rather than this pathetic spin," Mr Merlino said.
"The Government's worst kept secret is their plan with Yarra Ranges Shire Council to rezone the land and sell off the university building to the council," he said.
"To be absolutely clear: an Andrews Labor Government will not rezone the land to allow the buildings to be sold. Labor will ensure all the buildings will remain solely for TAFE, higher and community education.
"I challenge Mr Napthine to make a similar commitment. Mr Napthine must categorically rule out his secret plans to tear down classrooms and lecture theatres and replace them with council offices.
"A reprehensible deal between the Napthine Government and council will not help the thousands of students who have lost their only opportunity to study at a local university and TAFE.
"It's time that Mr Napthine matches Labor's position."
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Q: Why isn't this Jinja2 template rendering faster than Djangos? I was curious to see how much faster Jinja2 (2.6) was than the stock Django (1.3.1) template engine.
Running it I get:
Django: 275.729 ms per iteration
Jinja2: 281.190 ms per iteration

(the smaller the better)
Here's the Django benchmark: http://hastebin.com/DyGcxEybYd.py
Here's the Jinja2 benchmark: http://hastebin.com/uorDENWrkM.py
For a reference, the same Tornado template test manages to do it in 28.127 ms per iteration which is about 10 times faster which is almost too good to be true.
Same Tornado benchmark: http://hastebin.com/F9PcqGb2sZ.py
UPDATE
Unfortunately the explanation is that OSX is unreliable to do benchmarks on. Could just be the OS or could be that I'm running a bunch of other GUI apps such as browsers with far too many tabs. Trying all of these again on a Debian server under very low load I get these numbers:
(manually rounded from having run it many times over a long period)
Django: 475 ms per iteration
Jinja2: 16 ms per iteration
Tornado: 50 ms per iteration

My work environment is OSX but servers are all Linuxy so this satisfies me.

A: I can't reproduce your results. I used your test files and generated a blank Django project with
django-admin.py startproject foo && cd foo

With Tornado 2.1.1, I get a consistent 45ms per iteration.
With Django 1.3.1, I get 480ms per iteration.
For Jinja2 I ran 4 tests. 2.5.2 and 2.6 with and without MarkupSafe:
2.5.2:

*

*w/ MarkupSafe: 19ms

*w/o: 14ms
2.6:

*

*w/: 14ms

*w/o: 15ms
It's interesting to me that MarkupSafe actually slows down 2.5.2, significantly (though still only 5ms), though that might be because I don't have the version of MarkupSafe that was contemporary with Jinja2 2.5.2.
Your test also doesn't use the Jinja2 byte-code cache, which might significantly speed it up. I'm not sure if Django has a template code cache or not--I know it has fragment caching but I'm not sure about the whole thing.

Update: I tried the built-in MemcachedBytecodeCache and it slowed down Jinja2 2.6 to 22ms, probably because on a template this simple, the network activity is worse than building it. With an in-process memory cache, it was the same 14ms.


Recent changes at the Tessmer Observatory (Pikes Peak Community College) include the installation of a Bisque Software ME II mount in their new 15 ft. diameter dome.
A new telescope will be installed (16in Meade SCT).
Previous pictures of the old 10ft. diameter dome (no longer present).
A grinding machine in action!
Click on the picture to see a movie of a grinding machine in action.
Here is an easy way to calculate the maximum and minimum size eyepiece that will work with any telescope.
Easy enough to remember, huh?
Your primary mirror is eight(8) inches wide; and it has an 80 inch focal length (pretty long!).
So, your telescope is an f-10. Your maximum useable eyepiece focal length would be 60mm (from 10x6=60). And the highest power eyepiece you should use would be a 5mm focal length (from f-10/2=5). This telescope will use a wide range of eyepieces. But, nothing less than 5mm is worth trying if the conditions are short of spectacular.
This can help you save $$ [by not buying eyepieces which won't work on your telescope] and time. Try using it for your telescope and eyepieces (maybe at a star party - using other eyepieces beyond the limit?!).
The nice part is this works for any telescope!


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Iron Eagle Series – Book Twenty-Four
by Roy A Teel Jr.
The Digital Download zip file includes the following:
.mobi file for the Amazon Kindle
.epub file for for the Barnes & Noble Nook and other eBook readers
.pdf file for eBook readers, computers, tablets, and phones
.jpg file of the cover art
The fallen, the flag, the national anthem, and America have been disrespected. It ends now!
Back Cover:
On a cool Sunday morning at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Sentinels had taken the field. In an all-too-familiar sight, superstar wide receiver Golden Madden knelt to the jeers and boos of a waning crowd as the national anthem began. Madden's previous antics included spitting on the color guard before games and yelling profanities as the anthem was sung. As the refrain echoed in the near empty stadium, a single shot pierced Madden's helmet and the skulls of two of his kneeling teammates, starting a counterrevolution. While federal and state law enforcement officials investigate, FBI Deputy Director John Swenson, aka The Iron Eagle, finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with an ethical twist. Should he stop the events from unfolding despite their aim to restore respect for God, Country, and the American flag?
From the inside flap:
As a retired veteran and the owner of the Los Angeles Sentinels football team, Aaron Clintock has had to endure the antics of his players as they disrespected law enforcement and the military under the guise of a political protest. While grieving for his son, a major in the United States Marine Corps killed in a black op the previous summer, he feels that the protests originally sparked by police brutality have become a free-for-all platform for players to say what they want when they want. With pressure from the league, the players' unions, and others, he's powerless to stop his team from spiraling out of control until one fateful Sunday when local police refuse to protect the players, and three of his athletes are gunned down on national television. As the bodies lay under tarps on the field, a quiet sense of satisfaction appears on his face. The dark secret he now carries, though, could bring him into the talons of the Iron Eagle.
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Transcontinental buys Flexstar as it builds flexible packaging business
Michael Lauzon
Don Loepp
The plant that houses Flexstar Packaging Inc. has changed hands eight times since the 1970s, but some employees have been there through multiple owners.
Transcontinental Inc. has added film extrusion as part of its thrust into plastic flexible packaging.
The Montreal company said Oct. 17 that it bought all the shares of Flexstar Packaging Inc. of Richmond, British Columbia. Transcontinental paid about C$44 million (US$33.4 million) for Flexstar, which had sales of about C$36 million (US$27.4 million) for the 12 months ending in July. Flexstar's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization were about C$6 million (US$4.56 million).
Flexstar extrudes polyethylene film and specializes in barrier films. It prints, laminates and makes pouches for cereal, confectioneries, snacks, frozen food and coffee.
Transcontinental senior vice president of finance Donald Lecavalier said in a phone interview that his company might integrate Flexstar's film production with other flexible packaging businesses it has acquired.
"We need to take a look at maximizing the synergies," explained Lecavalier.
The deal gives the Montreal printing and media conglomerate its first plant in Canada and on the west coast.
Lecavalier said Transcontinental intends to grow its packaging business.
"We will be in acquisition mode for the next few years."
Marc Bray, president and CEO of Flexstar, will remain with the company until Transcontinental ownership.
The recent deal was made only three months after Transcontinental bought Robbie Manufacturing Inc. of Lenexa, Kan. Since 2014, the company has bought Ultra Flex Packaging Corp. of New York and Capri Packaging of Clinton, Mo. The purchased companies had annual sales of about US$221 million at the time Transcontinental finalized the deals.
Transcontinental had sales of about C$2 billion (US$1.52 billion) in 2015. It recently sold small publishing and printing operations as part of its diversification strategy.
"Flexstar enables us to extend our footprint to the West Coast, providing us a coast-to-coast platform to better optimize our production," noted Transcontinental President and CEO Francois Olivier in a news release.
Flexstar was owned by investors led by Stern Partners Inc. of Vancouver. One of the investors is President and CEO Marc Bray, who will stay with the business.
"We believe our core values align very well with [Transcontinental] and are pleased to be a part of its North American packaging platform," Bray stated in a news release.