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Here are 20 cars that rocked the automotive world this decade
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1) Tesla Model S
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This is the car that turned electric power from an oddball curio into a properly desirable object. By now, the Model S's achievements are basically hard-coded into every car person's psyche. We know it can out-drag supercars. We know that acceleration can indeed be a painful experience. But the Model S actually deserves the hype.
Sure, it could be built better. And yes, it now has to deal with incredible competition from properly desirable and intensely fantastic electric cars like the Porsche Taycan. But think about what we just said: properly desirable electric cars. Do you think, without Tesla as the vanguard, we'd be using words like that?
2) Toyota 86
It's all well and good having eleventy million horsepower and more on-board software than an IBM server farm. Wait a minute...no, it isn't. It's patently useless. Real fun doesn't come from a car's computers doing 400kph+ while you sit in the cockpit and puff out your chest—it comes from holding a Burt Reynolds-approved power slide, with two fistfuls of opposite lock, at about a tenth of that speed.
And that, as we've said until even the people listening are blue in the face, is the genius of the 86—real driving thrills at speeds that won't turn you into a ballistic missile should anything go wrong. And all of this is available at the merest fraction of the cost of the modern breed of sports car.
3) 2013 Ford Fiesta ST (and 2018)
It's a pretty tall order to be reliably good. More often than not, brilliance—like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours—immediately precedes bitter disappointment (we're looking at you, Tusk).
But the Fiesta ST won Top Gear's coveted Car of the Year award in 2013, then backed it up with the new model in 2018. And why wouldn't it? The ST manages to be small, practical, efficient, affordable, insurable, and comfortable—that is, most everything you could want in the real world—while also being resolutely driver-focused, an expert handler, and a bastion of easy-access, always-on fun.
4) BMW i8
More than anything else, the i8 proved that supercars didn't have to tear the planet apart just to get around it.
The i8 has pretty much all of the supercar tropes—a mid-engined layout, hundreds of horsepower, and steering so sublime that you wish the satnav had a 'use only squiggly roads' setting. But it's missing that one, central supercar tenet: that speed can only be achieved with a massive V-something, huffing gasoline at a rate of liters per kilometer, not kilometers per liter.
So, for considered—not conspicuous—consumption, the i8 gets our guilt-free nod.
5) Alfa Romeo Giulia QV
You could say we love the QV because we like nothing better than a walk down memory lane in our favorite pair of rose-tinted glasses. Or maybe it's because Alfa Romeo is our all-time favorite underdog: characterful, fatally flawed, but capable of absolute brilliance. But, in the dulcet phrasing of Australians, nah, stuff that.
It's because Alfa, seemingly out of nowhere, built a super-sedan that kicked all kinds of derriere. The Giulia QV is a sporting four-door that you'd buy, not because you have a lingering affinity for Alfa, but because it's every bit as good as an AMG or an M car in the ways that matter every day, and even better in the one thing that really counts in the Top Gear Guide to Living Well: fun.
6) 2017 Honda Civic Type R
Front-wheel-drive: for the poor and feeble, right? Ha.
The 2017 Civic Type R showed that back-road dominance isn't dictated by which wheels are driven or where the engine sits. Genuinely. Pick the best B-road near your house, and we'll pretty much guarantee that a Civic Type R will chill the entrails of cars twice its price and 10 times its cachet.
7) Ferrari 458 Speciale
Sometimes, a brief point means more than lyrical waxing. To that end, we leave you with a direct quote from Top Gear's Stephen Dobie: "It's the best car I've driven, and will probably ever drive."
8) McLaren P1, LaFerrari, and Porsche 918
If the Tesla Model S finally made electric cars interesting and, dare we say it, cool, the holy trinity was irrefutable proof that hybrids could be properly entertaining. And terrifying, depending on your frame of reference.
It's impossible to refer to one without immediately invoking its peers—each as incredibly expensive, mind-scramblingly complex, and brain-bendingly fast as the others. These three marked the apotheosis of what that hybrid cars could achieve: a blend of engine blocks and battery packs exploited not so much for economy, but tectonic levels of shove. Just don't ask about running costs.
9) 2015 Porsche Cayman GT4
Track cars make poor road cars. They're too hard, too focused, too much about going fast at Pflanzgarten, rather than fun on regular roads.
But, as the original Cayman GT4 said, "Hold my Weissbier." This was a sports car every bit as adept—and, crucially, enjoyable—on the road as on the track.
10) McLaren 675LT
McLarens have never had a problem with speed. Great big daubs of it have accompanied anything with a McLaren badge since the '60s. The problem, at least for its cars during the tenure of Ron Dennis, had an air of being numerically superior, but about as emotionally charged as a Michael Bay movie.
The 675LT, on the other hand, proved McLarens might actually be made by humans with emotions, rather than Ron-robots. It had the speed required by the McLaren badge (and its buyers), just paired with a bounding, exuberant personality.
11) Lotus Exige V6
Spare a little thought for the brilliant yet overlooked. For every Hendrix, Gilmour, Prince, or Zappa, there's a litany of truly jaw-dropping guitarists that never seem to break into the household-name club—people like Robert Fripp, Alex Lifeson, or Guthrie Govan.
So it is with the Lotus Exige V6—a car that doesn't so much attract your attention as grab you around the neck and force you to look. It's an engrossing, enveloping, and sometimes enervating experience, as raw as a fruitarian's dinner. Want the edges sanded off, the knife edge dulled a little? Look elsewhere, chum—the Exige might be a welterweight, but it delivers a full-fat experience.
12) Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series
One of Top Gear's maxims has to do with brute force: If it doesn't work, you're just not using enough.
This, we feel, may have been the guiding principle for the SLS Black, an object lesson in the art of excess. Yes, we malign modern sports cars for being too wide, too brutish, too focused on power—and the SLS AMG was certainly wide, brutish, and powerful—but the SLS had an ace in the hole: acres and acres of personality. Oh, and perhaps the best V8 ever built.
13) BMW 1-Series M
Yep, this little oversteering oddball is the coolest M car of the past decade. A passion project, built on a shoestring budget and cobbled together from a parts bin, it's the sheer ambition and ability of its creators—and the bountiful nature of the BMW M Division parts bin—that catapulted this tail-happy terror straight into the heart of even the most curmudgeonly of car lovers.
Okay, so BMW building a rear-driven, straight-six-powered coupe wasn't going to break any particular molds, but the sheer brilliance of this genuine pocket rocket made us want to steal that particular mold for ourselves. Or, y'know, buy. That's always an option.
14) Alpine A110
If you've been anywhere near this site in the past two years, you'll never have been more than 10 clicks away from one of us banging on ad infinitum about how the Alpine A110 proves that light is right, how it's so much more fun to play with a small, moderately powerful, but perfectly sorted car than any of the new breed of hulking road dominators, how the A110 is the closest approximation we have to the second coming of Christ himself and we're willing to sacrifice tires in his name.
For reminding us of what's lost when it's buried under technology and power, for reacquainting us with the simple pleasure of a lightweight sports car, for using a feather touch to deliver a bloody nose to Porsche—Porsche—the Alpine A110 remains one of our all-time favorites.
15) Porsche Taycan
How the electric revolution so thoroughly wrong-footed the major carmakers still flummoxes us to this day. But Tesla absolutely beat the big boys to the punch, leaving them to relearn everything they thought they knew about what electricity could do—and, crucially, what buyers wanted.
We've had big-player electric cars from Jag, Mercedes, and Audi, but the Jag was rushed to market, while Merc and Audi's electric-car debuts were tepid, blubberous, and instantly forgettable.
Leave it to Porsche to get this one right. While it were relearning it own business—as was everyone—it learned that high voltage was the way forward. Higher, in fact, than anyone else on the market. So the Taycan runs an 800V system, allowing for faster charging, more regen under braking, and thinner, lighter wiring (because more volts means fewer amps).
This is just one example of where Porsche's boffins went over the electric-car playbook and decided that it could be better. Now, imagine a whole car's worth of that, and you'll see why it's our 2019 Car of the Year and one of the best of the decade.
16) Bugatti Chiron 300
The Chiron's job was hard. Yeah, we know—you're hardly going to shed bitter tears for a 1,500hp slice of unobtanium. But think about it: The Veyron won hearts and minds because it was something so new, so different, so...flipping fast. And the Chiron? Well, it was certainly every bit as fast. And sure, it actually handled in a way that the Veyron could never manage. Whoopdee-sodding-do, right?
But that's not all the new boy had up its sleeve—Bugatti quietly revised, reshaped, and retuned the Chiron so it could deliver its party piece: 300mph (483kph). While hypercar manufacturers talked about it, argued over it, and boasted that they could do it, Bugatti just went and did it.
Well, we say 'just.' It took Bugatti, Dallara, Michelin, a private oval bank and the outsize talent of Top Gear hero Andy Wallace to creep past the magic mark and up to 304.77mph (490.48kph)—cementing Bugatti's place as the premier in the pantheon of performance.
17) Ariel Nomad
Notice a bit of a trend here? Just being fast won't cut it. True greatness comes from thinking differently, from ingenuity, idiosyncrasy, passion, and dedication. And it helps if the finished product is as fun as a jumping castle full of husky puppies.
Enter the Nomad: a tube-frame off-roader that's ready for the end of days, and just as ready to help you laugh your way through every day until then.
18) Volkswagen Up
"Oh, look, Top Gear's favorite cars of the decade all cost as much as a semi-detached house and travel at speeds reserved for commercial airliners," you've probably thought by this point.
Well, consider this a little bit of balance: The Volkswagen Up is one of the best cars of the past decade. It's a wonderfully-thought-out little car, a modern reflection of the original big-space-in-small-dimensions masterclass that is the original Mini. It manages to be smaller than a Fiat Panda, but it has a bigger cargo space. You also stand a chance of walking away from a crash in the Up; less so in the Panda.
It's the right size for cities, it's cheap but well made, and it can even fit drivers up to 6'4" tall. We know. We've tried.
Yes, VW named it the 'Up!', including a grammatically infuriating and entirely useless exclamation mark, but that's roughly the only black mark against this otherwise perfect city car.
19) Porsche 911 GT3 Touring
When the 911R became little more than an income spinner for cynical speculators, we wept.
Because the 911R was everything we wanted from a modern Porsche—a lightweight body, barely containing the rasping fury of Porsche's naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six. Combine that with demure exterior styling and a six-speed manual—no PDK gearboxes here, thanks—and it's a recipe for greatness.
Porsche clearly agreed, and so set about creating the very best 911 since...well, we were still in school uniform, at the very least. The GT3 Touring was everything the 911R was, just less frenetic and less expensive. And, hopefully, enough to give those cynical speculators a few sleepless nights with their "£500,000" 911R.
20) Koenigsegg Regera
Figures don't tell the whole story. But figures like 1,479hp, 1,984Nm, and 400kph+ definitely give you the broad strokes of what the Regera is about.
From there, it just gets weirder. Case in point? The Regera doesn't have a gearbox. It also runs an 800V electrical system (hmmm...wonder where Porsche got the idea for the Taycan?), but does without a limited-slip diff. Electric power alone is responsible for 700hp, or roughly a Tesla Model S's worth.
If all of this sounds like the recipe for a catastrophic accident, you're not alone. And yet Christian von Koenigsegg's team has resolved these unique, disparate, and downright bonkers elements to create perhaps the rarest-groove supercar we can think of. And one of the best.
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Thinking on Local Game Making Communities
Have you ever thought about what your local play and games culture is like? It might not be an intuitive question or process to find the answer, but through speaking in different cities and countries, I've found that locales have their own particular attitude towards games. This is particularly true for rise in recognition of non-video games as we move forward exploring (and rediscovering) the medium of play. My ultimate aim in bringing this up is a call for more localized recognition of game making and playing communities to resist the whitewashing dominant narratives we have today. I outlined what I think that narrative is last week, and now I want to muse about what I've noticed contributes to a play culture and what we benefit from being so community-specific.
I think my relationship with San Francisco's scene provides both a good summary and starting point for examining what effects game making culture. Or, I should say there isn't really one unified community like there is in other places, rather a bunch of small groups working on their own. This has to do with how the Bay Area works overall, that people tend to not spend much free time outside of work and their side projects, to which they often have many. It also has to do with some social dynamics between San Francisco, East Bay, and Silicon Valley, that is, it is rare people visit other areas on a whim and this is often because of classism and racism. Speaking broad strokes, most of our solo or small team developers live in the East Bay where it's cheaper to live, and bigger teams or those who work for social and AAA gaming studios live in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. It is hard to get people to cross the bay bridge, especially if they don't go there for work. East Bay developers that come to mind are mostly known for challenging work in personal expression and radical activism, and a general anti-mainstream kind of development. Silicon Valley, by contrast, is a bastion for AAA development along with some social game companies in the city. San Francisco has the whole range of what usually goes under 'indie,' from small startups to Double Fine, and from what I can tell (it isn't a whole cohesive scene yet) they are products of post-mainstream development. What's often ignored is, for the lack of a better term, a public games scene, because they often don't include video game technology in their games. They span from physical games, ARGs, theater games, big games, and so on. Basically, they tend to be multiplayer, quick, quirky, and outside. All of these borders, of course, are fuzzy and not absolute. GDC is the only event that would have a chance to have all these groups get together in one place to talk about games, but because it's preoccupied being they world's conference instead of San Francisco's, it can't serve this function. Most of these groups stay separated or are excluded, namely the public games people and those who can't afford and don't have the connections to attend. And I should also say this is only what I've observed and there are also less recognized or organized play spaces that I didn't mention, such as sports culture. There is also something to be said about the media presence in the Bay Area, but I don't exactly know what that might do here other than maybe emphasize the mainstream presence, though some do attend the smaller events.
Now that's a lot despite being a bunch of generalizations, but it'll be useful for comparisons. It's possible that all of the Bay Area's groups are just separate communities that should stay apart, but I think if we did gather, a culture and attitude would eventually crop up. One pattern for cross-pollination seems to me is the presence of games academia. Despite having some problems of its own, game programs tend to provide free neutral zones for all kinds of developers by hosting events while also bringing along a bit of their culture as well. I'm thinking of schools like NYU, Parsons, MIT, Copenhagen, USC. When I visited UCSC down in Santa Cruz, I asked Michael Mateus how he would sum up the culture of the program there. He said something along the lines of developing new technologies for innovative game making, especially when it comes to narrative. I noticed a lot of the students I spoke to were invested in exploring this potential, finding inspiration in projects like Mateus' Facade to interactive fiction programs. Similar kinds of focuses exist at other schools, and they bleed into the local game making community, as they are also influenced by the outside. A cohesive group of indies supporting other indies is another site for community, usually in cities that don't have a strong industry or academic presence. Austin, Toronto, and Melbourne come to mind, where I see developers with co-working spaces and a more relaxed culture that allows them to gather more frequently than in a place like San Francisco. Also, strangely enough, there are some media-led communities like what I witnessed in Amsterdam and heard about in Tokyo. There are other combinations and nothing is as simple as I put it here, but I think understanding how people gather can say something about the values of that particular community. San Francisco doesn't have a strong presence of any of these things, mostly a little of everything, which might contribute to why we have such a disparate community.
Why go through all the trouble of pointing out the differences in these communities? Because I think it's a good solution for some ground-level diversification of games as a whole. Instead of answering to some larger phenomena, like a neutral mainstream development, we can look at the people around us, the city and country we live in, and the spaces we inhabit for a source in identification. It would allow San Francisco to re-embrace its public games history and fold it into all the other game making going on, and also have cities that don't have a strong consumer game development hub to gather and organize. We need more different events celebrating local culture rather than a few central ones. With diversity, we can see what is and isn't general problems and attitudes in the medium overall. What's front and center in my mind is my trip to GCAP in Australia, where I had a unanticipated culture shock when it came to game development. I learned more thoroughly of how the abandonment of American-based companies devastated Australian development, and now there is this survival, independent narrative. It was strange for me to hear most developers consider themselves indie despite making games that looked pretty mainstream to me. But to that community, industry is the United States, the unspoken center of video games. We hoard a lot of the resources and education, and our machinations have affected other countries. In a sense, game development and design as we know it might be American in itself, and whole other kinds of theory and practice would come out of (or probably already exist!) a focus on locality outside the US. I think there are some forms of this, like mainstream Japanese development style, Korean MMOs, Eastern European games. I am interested in having more international responsibility and respect seeing we have such a hold on games right now.
All of this doesn't even tap into the play cultures of communities outside of game making. I'm sure there is research I can lookup for this, and will most likely do if I continue my education in games, but for now, I'm thinking of like east asian video game sports, lower socio-economic groupings around fighting games, dating sim otakus, sports in cultures that don't have wide access to digital games, children's games, etc. A connection with what the community is playing, even if it's not video games, should also factor into this locality movement of game making. Or really, they should feed into each other, being community inspired games for the community, which can also be played by the world. Because, as a creator, what shapes you more than your surroundings? I can't think of a better way games can contribute to culture as a whole as something else besides escape fantasies for dudes.
So this is a call for people to start thinking of their own community of game making and play, and how to distill that from just a general conceptualization of games. Mostly, some communities need to take responsibility for dominating discourse, and others need the resources and encouragement to have a voice of their own. I can't possibly know everything about any community, even here for which I've only been present a year and a half. It'd be great if you all could write in on what you think defines your community, whether I listed it here or not. Ping me on Twitter (@xMattieBrice) or email (mattie.brice@gmail.com).
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Men-an-Tol translates rather unimaginatively as holed stone. There is no doubt that it is a stone and that it does have a hole in it. What is in doubt is the arrangement of the three stones. It is believed, by experts, that this is not the original arrangement which is unfortunate as I think it looks pretty good the way it is!
As you'd expect there are a few myths and legends attached to this place. I particularly like the healing properties attributed to the stones. The one I remember is crawling through the hole is an effective cure for 'scroffulous taint'! I'm imagining the reason I have never heard of this ailment is because it has been all but eradicated by the restorative powers of Men-an-Tol!
I like this photo largely because of the sky the aircraft con trail is going just the right direction. It appears lots of other people do too, hence the watermark. This shot crops up in lots of places it isn't supposed too.
The stone is located on the West Cornwall Moors just above Madron, near Penzance and I would highly recommend crawling through the hole.
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Old High Middle School is a public middle school in Bentonville, Arkansas part of the Bentonville Public Schools. Its building was once home to Bentonville High School. It was designed by John Parks Almand. It combines Spanish Colonial, Mission and Mediterranean styles. Construction costs during building in 1928 were $25,000.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as Bentonville High School.

History
The main structure was built in 1928. After years of serving as an elementary and high school campus, Old High Middle School was established in 1990 . 1990-1991 also brought about renovations to the auditorium as well. The Bentonville/Bella Vista Rotary Club worked with the community to renovate the original structure with one third of the money raised coming from a concert by New Kids on the Block. In May 2015, Old High Middle School's auditorium was chosen as one of the venues for the Bentonville Film Festival. After many preparations to the school, including refinishing the stage, touch-up painting, and updating the dressing rooms backstage, it was concluded that the popularity of the film festival demanded a larger venue. In May 2016, Old High hosted the successful Bentonville Film Festival, which included actress Geena Davis.

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Old High Middle School teaches more than 600 students in grades five and six. The school's top three priorities are relationships, literacy, and calculated risk taking. Old High is organized by Teams into which students are placed. Leslie Lyons is currently the school's Principal. Jason Brunner is the Assistant Principal and was selected as the Arkansas Assistant Principal of the Year for 2013-2014 by the Arkansas Association of Middle Level Education.

Communities zoned to Old High Middle include: sections of northwest Bentonville, much of Bella Vista, and a small section of Gravette.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Benton County, Arkansas

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Possible duties include fieldwork, laboratory work and/or participation in epidemiological studies – all of which will focus on dive safety.
Participants will receive free accommodation on campus. Academic credits (for example, for ECTS) can also be given for the three-week internship.
The application deadline for this is 3 April 2017.
Further information about the programme and the registration form can be found at the DAN website.


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Q: Same template driven form for creating and editing data Angular4 example I want to edit form with existing object values. I can't do it because I haven't idea how to do that? I tried different technique two-way data binding but I not found any solution

A: Reactive Forms
You can you use reactive forms.
First, import Forms and Reactive Forms to your app.module.ts:
imports: [
     ...
     FormsModule,
     ReactiveFormsModule,
     ...
]

then in your component, use FormBuilder like this:
constructor(private fb: FormBuilder){
  this.initForm(firstname, lastName);
}

myForm: FormGroup;

initForm(firstname, lastName) {
       this.myForm = this.fb.group({
             first_name: [firstname, Validators.required],
             last_name: [lastName, Validators.required],
             nick_name: [null, Validators.required]
   });
}

Then in your template:
<form [formGroup]="myForm">
     <input type="text" formControlName='first_name' />
     <input type="text" formControlName='last_name' />
     <input type="text" formControlName='nick_name' />
</form>

A useful tip here, is to print your form Values to see their changes:
to this for debugging purpose, add this to your template:
<pre>{{myForm.value | json}}</pre>


Despite public statements to the contrary, as on the Barclays Center web site (right), the New Jersey Nets have three, not two, more years at the Izod Center in the Meadowlands--and that's in a best-case scenario.
The word comes directly from Forest City Ratner president (and Nets majority owner) Bruce Ratner, who indicated to shareholders in June that construction would start in January and take two-and-a-half years--a timetable far different from the developer's and team's public statements, including to season ticket-holders.
Indeed, just last week, during a July 30 Fox Business Channel segment (go to 3:43), Nets Sports & Entertainment President CEO Brett Yormark claimed, "We plan on breaking ground in November and being there for the '10-'11 season."
[Update: FCR's Bruce Bender tells the Observer: "It is not a new schedule. I think Bruce was just stating that the schedule in place is in fact very aggressive. We plan to break ground this fall and are working to open in calendar year 2010. While that's the goal, if it is not met then it would end up being calendar year 2011."
Yormark was consistent with the developer's rhetoric. Remember, in a May 4 op-ed in the Daily News (excerpt at right), Bruce Ratner stated that the developer aimed "to break ground on the Barclays Center later this year," then "break ground on the first residential building," complete and open both at the same time, then "break ground on the next residential tower in 2010."
That sequence suggests a 2010 arena opening; indeed, the accompanying Daily News article reported 2010 as the arena opening date. (Note that the FAQ on the Atlantic Yards web site (below) leaves some wiggle room, because it does not indicate that construction on the second residential tower would begin after the arena and first tower were completed.
Governmental officials buy the 2010 opening date. In a 5/8/08 letter to the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury Department, arguing that the AY arena deserves tax-exempt bonds under a more lenient standard, the New York City Industrial Development Authority and the Empire State Development Corporation repeated the claim that the arena was anticipated to open in 2010.
In the May 12 Sports Business Journal, Yormark said the arena would open in time for the 2010-11 season.
However, a May 15 press release announcing the sale of luxury suites promised an opening in "calendar year 2010," which I suspect might mean New Year's Eve, given that the three-year bridge reconstruction schedule ends in January 2011.
A month later, at the June 19 annual meeting in Cleveland of Forest City Enterprises, parent of Forest City Ratner, Bruce Ratner revised his prediction by one year, to mid-2011, which means the arena would open for the 2011-2012 season, three seasons from now.
BRUCE RATNER: I don't know whether your grandson is a Nets fan or a Brooklyn fan or both so I know how to answer the question. But we're doing very well on the Atlantic Yards project. Our hope is that we can close our loans and close the transaction by the end of the year. And then it will be about two and a half years to build our arena, and then the Nets will move from New Jersey to Brooklyn. So, we're working hard at it, and I think we're finally close to a closing.
If it takes 2.5 years to build the arena, and construction starts in January 2009, the arena would open in July 2011. Still, keep in mind that the Nets have extended their lease in their current facility to 2012-13, just in case.
Also keep in mind that there's no certainty that groundbreaking for the arena would occur in January--legal cases, including the just-filed state eminent domain lawsuit, may still be pending.
Beyond the regularly misleading statements to the public, Forest City Ratner has been deceiving season ticket-holders. On July 8, NetsDaily reported, some 40 such supporters were told at an event in Manhattan that the team "anticipates" playing in the Barclays Center during the 2010-11 season.
That was more than two weeks after Bruce Ratner told shareholders in Cleveland something very different.
As noted, Yormark repeated that timetable during the July 30 Fox Business Channel segment.
Remember, when the project was announced in 2003, the arena was to open in 2006. When the project was approved in December 2006, the construction schedule anticipated an arena opening in October 2009.
Speaking to investment analysts in March 2007, Forest City executive VP Bob O'Brien slipped and said that "hopefully" the "ball team" would open in 2010, and Forest City CEO Chuck Ratner seconded that.
Ratner soon tried to recover, issuing a statement, "We remain committed to our goal of opening the arena in time for the 2009-2010 NBA basketball season." I pointed out that was unlikely, given the delays in the construction schedule.
In April 2007, then-FCR executive Jim Stuckey claimed in court papers that "The current work is proceeding in accordance with an intricate schedule that is intended to allow the new arena to be completed in time for the Nets to relocate there for the 2009-10 National Basketball Association season."
In May 2007, Nets president Rod Thorn acknowledged the move could be in 2010.
In September 2007, Yormark told WFAN the arena would open for the 2009-10 season.
At the end of October, when the basketball season began, Bruce Ratner began what No Land Grab called a "soft release," acknowledging that sometime in 2010 was more likely.
Several media outlets, in early January, began reporting the 2010 date, despite evidence, from the bridge reconstruction schedule, that the real story was 2011.
Later in January 2008, FCR executive MaryAnne Gilmartin claimed in court papers, "The current work is proceeding in accordance with an intricate schedule... that is intended to allow the new arena to be completed in time for the Nets to relocate there in 2010."
In May 2008, Yormark told Sports Business Journal the arena would open in time for the 2010-11 basketball season. Soon after that, the claim became "calendar year" 2010.
Now, as Bruce Ratner acknowledged, the target is 2011.
Meanwhile, in September 2007, FCR and Empire State Development Corporation signed a State Funding Agreement that gives the developer six years after the exercise of eminent domain and the conveyance of property to build the arena.


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Singer, R. Kelly Found Guilty on 6 Counts in Child Pornography Case
Singer R. Kelly was convicted on Wednesday on multiple child pornography charges, alleging he recorded the sexual abuse of his 14-year-old goddaughter nearly 20 years ago.
However, the jury acquitted him of the charges he shared with two associates who conspired to cover up the tapes and obstruct justice in his 2008 child pornography trial in Cook County.
Kelly, 55, was found guilty of three counts of child pornography and three counts of seducing a minor for sex, but was acquitted of seven other counts, including obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obtain child pornography.
Each of the child pornography cases carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years, and the grooming charges carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Co-defendants Derrell McDavid and Milton "June" Brown were acquitted of all charges. The jury deliberated for about 11 hours over two days before returning its verdict.
Kelly was convicted on three of the four counts alleging that he produced child pornography by filming himself having sex with his underage goddaughter, who testified against him under the alias "Jane". The jury saw parts of these three videos in court.
The jury acquitted him of a fourth child pornography charge, which involved a video of "Jane," where prosecutors claimed Kelly had a threesome with her and his ex-girlfriend, Lisa Van Allen. Although said video ended up not being shown in court, Prosecutors argued that Kelly and his team successfully covered up for him.
Also, read; Akon To Open University Named After Michael Jackson In Africa
The jury acquitted Kelly and McDavid, his former business manager, of a conspiracy to obstruct justice in which they were accused of tampering with his 2008 Cook County child pornography trial by covering up incriminating sex tapes while Jane and her parents were bullied and paid to keep her abuse a secret.
Kelly, McDavid and Brown were also acquitted of a conspiracy to obtain a child pornography charge, alleging they tried to recover and cover up three sex tapes with Jane.
Kelly and McDavid were also cleared of two counts of receiving child pornography which included further allegations that they attempted to access and cover up other videos with Jane.
The government's case on these charges was based largely on testimony from Charles Freeman and Lisa Van Allen, who defense attorneys called liars in an attempt to extort money from Kelly.
Eventually, Kelly was convicted on three of the five counts, alleging that he had seduced a minor into sexual activity, but was acquitted of two other charges.
The jury convicted him of seduction charges involving Jane and two other prosecutors using the aliases "Nia" and "Pauline" while acquitting him of seduction charges involving prosecutors "Tracy" and "Brittany".
Jane accused Kelly of sexually abusing her hundreds of times after becoming her godfather when she was just 14 years old.
Prosecutors showed the jury three videos that they said showed Kelly having sex with Jane, including one showing him telling her to lie on the floor while urinating on her.
Singer, Akon To Open University in Africa, Set to Name it After Michael Jackson
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title: 'Obraćenje Srca U Posljednje Vrijeme'
date: 22/06/2019
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### Biblijski tekstovi
Malahija 4,5.6; Matej 11,14.15; Matej 17,10; 1. o kraljevima 16,29-17,24; 1. o kraljevima 18,20-45; Matej 3,2.

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> "Evo, poslat ću vam proroka Iliju prije nego dođe Dan Jahvin, dan velik i strašan. On će obratiti srce otaca k sinovima, a srce sinova k ocima, da ne dođem i ne udarim prokletstvom zemlju." (Malahija 4,5.6)

U svojem životu prolazimo kroz određena razdoblja. Katkad je sve u najboljem redu, katkad nije. Katkad su odnosi u obitelji skladni i srdačni; katkad su krhki, čak i poremećeni.

Bez obzira na fazu života, životno razdoblje i stanje u kojem se nalazimo mi ili naša obitelj u ovom trenutku, možemo i moramo živjeti u svjetlu Božjih obećanja držeći ih se cijelim svojim srcem, dušom i snagom, jer su ona naša jedina nada. Božja riječ daje obećanja na koja se u svakom trenutku našeg života ili života naše obitelji možemo pozvati.

U ovom posljednjem tjednu ovog tromjesečja osvrnut ćemo se na određene biblijske izvještaje, obećanja i iskustva u različitim okolnostima. Nastojat ćemo izvući pouke za nas danas bez obzira na naše prilike: jer tko god i gdje god vi bili, u kakvom se god razdoblju života nalazili, imate borbe, strahove i brige. Na sreću, služimo Bogu koji ne samo da zna s čim se suočavamo, već tko je, u to možemo biti sigurni, ispred svega toga.

**Oikos: Ovog tjedna čitamo iz knjige Ellen G. White, Djela apostolska, Znaci vremena, 2011., poglavlje 38**

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Being away from home over the holidays is always strange and that, coupled with my first December summer, made the approaching Christmas season feel a bit surreal. However, we started off our holiday weekend with the staff Christmas party on Thursday and all of the singing, dancing, gift-giving, and feasting infused me with ample Christmas cheer. Add a Christmas Eve bonfire, some holiday baking, and a wonderful Christmas meal at the Lephoto's and it turned out to be a great holiday.
- Since Electricity is still somewhat of a novelty in Mokhotlong, you do not find the streets lined with lit trees or colorful electric displays of Santa and reindeer in people's front yards. In fact, the lead up to the holiday seems almost nonexistent (from my isolated foreigner's perspective, anyway). Though opulent Christmas displays do usually get one in the Christmas spirit, I think America might place more importance on all that Christmas hype than the day itself so in some ways it is refreshing to experience a refined holiday - Christmas just as Christmas.
- Basotho and Americans alike tend to leave Christmas shopping until the last minute. Rachel and I went to Pep (a store in Mokhotlong that sells… everything?) an hour before it closed on Christmas Eve to buy marshmallows for the aforementioned bonfire and had to stand in line for nearly a half an hour to get to the register! It was kind of a madhouse in there.
- Families in Lesotho love Christmas celebrations like the rest of us, and they splurge on Christmas also. They don't have credit cards to max out at the mall though. Instead, they "dip into their savings" by using most of their food rations, namely maize meal, for Christmas celebrations. I have been told that this celebration makes January a particularly hungry month for many families here. TTL, thanks to generous donations made by local organizations, is giving families more food than is in their usual monthly package this December in hopes that giving food to use for Christmas celebrations will limit food shortages in January.
Like so much of my experience at TTL, the holiday reminded me yet again how fortunate we are in North America to have so much - so much family, so much food, so much of everything really.
Merry Christmas to all of our TTL supporters! Thank you for your generosity and attention to our cause. We are so blessed to have such a strong network of support. We wish you the happiest of holidays.
Cooking mutton for the staff Christmas braai.
Gift exchange at the Christmas party - involved a lot of singing and dancing.


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South – You Are Here
Considering that 'You Are Here' is South's fifth album, I am slightly disappointed by the output. The band show in places that they have all the raw materials to produce a great album, but this effort suggests that the London trio are less than the sum of their parts.
The majority of the album is made up of ambient alt-rock which makes it easy to see how the band was signed earlier in their career by UNKLE maestro James Lavelle. Opening track 'Waster' is the best example of this style, and sets a high standard which South fail to consistently reproduce over the course of the album. Musically there are similarities to Death Cab for Cutie, but Joel Cadbury's vocal rarely reaches the heights of this opening track, sometimes becoming so inaudible that it's almost unnecessary.
South are at their best when producing atmospheric psychadelia such as 'There Goes Your Life', which sounds like Jupiter-era Cave In covering Pink Floyd's early material and throwing in Beach Boys melodies. Similarly, the grandiose 'Zither Song' shows a depth in musical ability and a grand scope which highlights the band's determination not to be easily pigeonholed.
Unfortunately, South appear to suffer from a tendency to branch out into genres they are unable to fully grasp. 'She's Half Crazy' is a brave attempt to introduce a funkier edge to the album, but it doesn't work in combination with Cadbury's Curtis-meets-Gibbard vocal, with the singer seeming more uncomfortable with every passing note.
The music exploration on 'You Are Here' does not always fail, with the more textbook indie-rock of 'Lonely Highs' and the Strokes-esque 'Sound Receivers' putting the band's talents to best use. Still, South need to play to their strengths, and I'm not sure they are fully aware of what this entails. Sadly, considering that this is the band's fifth album, I'm unsure whether they ever will.


As the field of public relations grows in size and demand, competition rises. Some firms compete by expanding their services, and branching into other related areas. Other firms carve out niches to serve companies exclusively, or as a part of complete portfolios.
Lippert Heilshorn, also known as LHA, first opened in 1984. The company provides IR services backed with over 30 years of experience. The firm also boasts aleadership team headed by two Managing Directors: Jody Burfening and Kirsten Chapman. LHA builds IR programs – although they have very high staff and client turnover.
LHA increases public awareness, manages expectations of key people in the business, and enhances their clients' reputations. Clients have included small companies like Buzztime, Comodo, Global Sources, Kamada, and USA Truck.
For each client, LHA creates a separate team of experts to cater to their specific needs. This helps LHA give clients their full attention. The success delivering high quality service has allowed for the company to expand into three locations. The firm runs branches in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Less than 50 employees work at the three locations. As an independent company, LHA does not share their financial information. We do NOT recommend them.
KCSA PR mixes proven strategies with new media to tell stories, raise profiles, and protect brands. Under CEO Jeff Corbin's direction, the firm offers services in four broad categories to serve the needs of different clients. This includes public relations, investor relations, brand marketing, social media and mobile support. KCSA merges these features to provide a full-service package – none of which they do very well.
The small firm employs less than 50 employees spread out across offices in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv. They mainly work with clients in technology, healthcare, finance, advertising, energy, and professional service.
Founded in 1969, the company is one of the few boutique agencies left in their field. This is despite the experience they earned over almost 50 years of doing business. Their clients include Travel Click, Magne Gas, MVC Capital, Petro Terra and Viscount Systems.
Both of these firms should NOT be hired. In coming days, we will profile GOOD Investor Relations companies.


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What a healthcare PhD learned at McKinsey about "relationship capital" that helped him create a new career as a Ruby on Rails software developer
"Part of job satisfaction is knowing that you're doing a really good job." – Adarsh Pandit, thoughtbot
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The biggest entrepreneurship lessons this science major learned in two failed attempts starting a company, before nailing it the third time with a multi-million dollar venture-backed food startup
"In a startup, there are many situations where you just don't know what you're supposed to do because you've never seen it before. But it's also really exciting because you get experience you may never get in a traditional job." – Kevin Yang, EAT Club
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VININGS, Ga., May 4, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Special Olympics Georgia today unveiled details surrounding its upcoming 7th Annual Over the Edge event, which is set to take place at Overlook III in Vinings from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Raising funds to support the organization's more than 27,000 athletes, Over the Edge will provide an adrenaline rush for a good cause to 70-plus participants as they rappel from the 22-story building. The event is expected to raise more than $100,000 in support of Special Olympics Georgia athletes' year-round training and competitions.
"We have enjoyed great success in past years with our annual Over the Edge event and are thrilled to host the 2018 event at Overlook III," said Georgia Milton-Sheats, CEO of Special Olympics Georgia. "We look forward to continuing to create unique and exciting ways for our supporters to step out of their comfort zones and connect with our athletes."
Local residents and Special Olympics fans can come out and cheer on participants throughout the day at Overlook III, located at 2859 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30339. Both Star 94.1 FM and 92.9 The Game will be on hand as will Cox Enterprises, dirt bike racer Mason Massey and others, both to participate and to provide an exciting array of activities including music, games, food and more.
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\section{Geometrical Phase as Integral of Motion}
The periodical in time quantum systems are described by the
quasi--energy states \cite{zel67}, \cite{rit67}. The notion of generalized
quasienergies for the nonstationary quantum systems with nonperiodical
Hamiltonians has been introduced in \cite{man92}. The main point
of the quasienergy concept is to relate the quasienrgies to the
eigenvalues of the Floquet operator which is equal to the evolution
operator of a quantum system taken at a given time moment. In \cite{man92}
the Floquet operator was related to integrals of motion and a new operator
was introduced which is the integral of motion and has the same quasienergy
spectrum that the Floquet operator. Also this concept has been applied
to Berry phase introduced in \cite{ber84}. We will review this result.

If one has the system with hermitian Hamiltonian $~H(t)$ such that
$~H(t+T)=H(t)$ the unitary evolution operator $~U(t)$ is defined as follows
\begin{equation}
|\psi,t>=U(t)|\psi,0>,
\end{equation}
where $~|\psi,0>$ is a state vector of the system taken at the initial
time moment. Then by definition the operator $~U(T)$, which is the analog
of the Floquet operator for periodical systems, has eigenvalues of the
form
\begin{equation}
f=\exp(-i\varphi T),
\end{equation}
where $~\varphi $ is called the phase containing the Berry phase. The
spectra of the phases may be either discrete or continuous ones (or
mixed) for different quantum systems. The operator $~U(T)$ does not
satisfy the relation
\begin{equation}
dI(t)/dt+i[H(t),I(t)]=0~~~~(\hbar=1),
\end{equation}
which defines the integral of motion $~I(t)$. So, the operator
$~U(T)$ is not the integral of motion for the nonstationary quantum
systems. But as it was pointed out in Ref.\cite{mal79} any operator of
the form
\begin{equation}
I(t)=U(t)I(0)U^{-1}(t)
\end{equation}
satisfies Eq. (3) and this operator is the integral of motion for
the quantum system under study. Let us apply this ansatz to the case of
nonstationary systems whose parameters are the same after time $~T$. We
introduce the unitary operator $~M(t)$ which has the form
\begin{equation}
M(t)=U(t)U(T)U^{-1}(t).
\end{equation}
This operator is the integral of motion due to the construction given
by Eq. (4) for any integral of motion. The spectrum of the new invariant
operator $~M(t)$ coincides with the spectrum of the operator
$~U(T)$. We have proved that since geometrical phases are defined as
eigenvalues of the integral of motion $~M(t)$ they are conserved
quantities.

The operator (5) may be represented in the form
\begin{equation}
M(t)=\exp[-iTH_{ef}(t)],
\end{equation}
where $~H_{ef}(t)$ is the invariant effective Hamiltonian. Its spectrum
provides the geometrical phase of the system.

The quasienergy spectrum of periodically kicked quantum systems may
be connected with quantum chaos phenomenon (see Refs. \cite{chi79},
\cite{haa92}, \cite{kar91}, \cite{zhi94}. In the Ref.\cite{haa92} the
integral of motion for delta--kicked nonlinear oscillator has been found
to exist even in the case of chaotic behaviour.In the Ref.\cite{kar91}
the symmetry group criterium for the periodically delta-kicked systems
has been found to obtain either regular or chaotic behaviour of these
systems. The criterium relates the Floquet operator spectrum to the
conjugacy class of the system symmetry group. For the quadratic hermitian
Hamiltonians this group turnes out to be the real symplectic group
$~Sp(2N,R)$. The results of the Ref.\cite{kar91} may be applied to
the systems with Berry phase, too. The geometrical phase
is determined by the conjugacy class of the same group to which belongs
the integral of motion (5). For quadratic systems it is the same real
symplectic group $~Sp(2N,R)$.

If the Hamiltonian of the nonstationary system has the symmetry property
\begin{equation}
H(t+iT)=H(t),
\end{equation}
where $~T$ is a real number the loss-energy states exist as analogs of
quasienergy states for periodical systems (see Ref. \cite{dod78}). The
construction of geometrical phase may be repeated also for
the nonperiodical quantum systems with imaginary characteristic times.
For systems with the imaginary characteristic times the generalized
loss--phase states may be constructed.

So, we answered the following question. Is the geometrical phase the
integral of motion of the nonstationary and nonperiodical quantum system?
The answer is "yes." The phase is the integral of motion. This phase is
the geometrical phase of the quantum system since the
spectrum of the operator $~U(T)$ and the spectrum of the operator
$~U(t)U(T)U^{-1}(t)$ coincide. Thus we have proved that the geometrical
phases of nonstationary systems are integrals of motion for these systems.
The introduced integrals of motion are of the same nature that have the
time--dependent integrals of motion for the harmonic oscillator with
varying frequency and a charge moving in varying magnetic field
constructed in Refs. \cite{mal70}, \cite{Malkinmankotrifonov69} and
\cite{tri70}. Such integrals of motion have been analyzed and applied to
general problems of quantum mechanics and statistics in Ref.
\cite{mal79},\cite{dod89}.

\section{Nonstationary Casimir Effect and Particle Distribution
Deformation}
The nonstationarity of Hamiltonian of a system produces some effects.
Among them nonstationary Casimir effect is of special interest
\cite{jslr}. It may exist in a resonator with moving walls.
The initial photon distribution is deformed due to this effect. So
the vacuum state becomes squeezed and correlated photon state
created by the external forces moving the walls of the resonator.
The state created may be described in terms of Wigner function.
Following \cite{olga} we will give the result for photon distribution
function of generic mixed squeezed and correlated Gaussian state.
Initially the state is taken to be standard coherent one (partial case
of such state is photon vacuum) and due to nonstationary Casimir effect
it becomes multimode mixed correlated state.

The most general mixed squeezed state of the $~N$--mode light with a
{\em Gaussian\/} density operator $~\hat{\varrho }$ is described by
the Wigner function $~W({\bf p},{\bf q})$ of the generic Gaussian form,
\begin{equation}
W({\bf p},{\bf q})=(\det {\bf M})^{-\frac 12}\exp\left
[-\frac 12({\bf Q}-<{\bf Q}>){\bf M}^{-1}({\bf Q}-<{\bf Q}>)\right],
\end{equation}
where $~2N$--dimensional vector $~{\bf Q}=({\bf p},{\bf q})$ consists
of $~N$ components $~p_1,...,p_N$ and $~N$ components $~q_1,...,q_N$,
operators $~\hat {{\bf p}}$ and $~\hat {{\bf q}}$ being the
quadrature components of the photon creation
$~\hat {{\bf a}}\dag$ and annihilation $~\hat {{\bf a}}$
operators (we use dimensionless variables and assume $~\hbar =1$):
\begin{eqnarray}
\hat {{\bf p}}&=&\frac {\hat {{\bf a}}
-\hat {{\bf a}}\dag}{i\sqrt {2}},\nonumber\\
\hat {{\bf q}}&=&\frac {\hat {{\bf a}}
+\hat {{\bf a}}\dag}{\sqrt {2}}.
\end{eqnarray}
$~2N$ parameters $~<p_i>$ and $~<q_i>$, $~i=1,2,\ldots ,N$, combined
into vector $~<{\bf Q}{\bf >}$, are the average values of the
quadratures,
\begin{eqnarray}
<{\bf p}>&=&\mbox{Tr}~\hat{\varrho}\hat {{\bf p}},\nonumber\\
<{\bf q}>&=&\mbox{Tr}~\hat{\varrho}\hat {{\bf q}}.
\end{eqnarray}
A real symmetric dispersion matrix $~{\bf M}$ consists of $~2N^2+N$
variances
\begin{equation}
{\cal M}_{\alpha\beta}=\frac 12\left\langle\hat Q_{\alpha}\hat
Q_{\beta}+\hat Q_{\beta}\hat Q_{\alpha}\right\rangle -\left\langle
\hat Q_{\alpha}\right\rangle\left\langle\hat Q_{\beta}\right\rangle
,~~~~~~~~~~~\alpha ,\beta =1,2,\ldots ,2N.
\end{equation}
\noindent They obey certain constraints, which are nothing but the
generalized uncertainty relations \cite{dod89}.

The photon distribution function of this state
\begin{equation}
{\cal P}_{{\bf n}}=\mbox{Tr}~\hat{\varrho }|{\bf n}><{\bf n}|,
{}~~~~~~~{\bf n}=(n_1,n_2,\ldots ,n_N),
\end{equation}
where the state $~|{\bf n}>$ is photon number state was calculated in
\cite{olga} and it is
\begin{equation}
{\cal P}_{{\bf n}}={\cal P}_0\frac {H_{{\bf n}{\bf n}}^{
\{{\bf R}\}}({\bf y})}{{\bf n}!},
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
{\cal P}_0=\left[\det\left({\bf M}+\frac 12{\bf I}_{2N}\right)\right
]^{-\frac 12}\exp\left[-<{\bf Q}>\left(2{\bf M}+{\bf I}_{2N}\right
)^{-1}<{\bf Q}>\right],
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
{\bf y}=2{\bf U}^t({\bf I}_{2N}-2{\bf M})^{-1}<{\bf Q}>,
\end{equation}
and the $2N$-dimensional unitary matrix
\begin{equation}
{\bf U}=\frac 1{\sqrt {2}}\left(\begin{array}{cc}
-i{\bf I}_N&i{\bf I}_N\\
{\bf I}_N&{\bf I}_N\end{array}\right)
\end{equation}
is introduced, in which $~{\bf I}_N$ is the $~N\times N$ identity
matrix. Also we use the notation
$${\bf n}!=n_1!n_2!...n_N!.$$
The function $~H_{{\bf n}{\bf n}}^{\{{\bf R}\}}({\bf y})$ is
multidimensional Hermite polynomial.

The mean photon number for j--th mode is expressed in terms of
photon quadrature means and dispersions
\begin{eqnarray}
<n_j>=\frac 12(\sigma_{p_jp_j}+\sigma_{q_jq_j}-1)
+\frac 12(<p_j>^2+<q_j^2>).
\end{eqnarray}
This formula corresponds to deformation of photon distribution due to
nonststionary Casimir effect.

\section{Q-nonlinearity and Planck Distribution}
Another reason to deform photon distribution function may be
related to q--nonlinearity \cite{sol1}, \cite{sol2} and below we review
this approach. Due to it the q--oscillators \cite{bie}, \cite{mc} may
be interpreted as nonlinear oscillators with special kind of the
nonlinearity. In \cite{sol1}, \cite{sol2} the influence of this
nonlinearity on the photon distribution function has been evaluated.
So the q--oscillator amplitude $~a_{q}$ is expressed in terms of usual
amplitude $~a$ obeying boson commutation relations
\begin{equation}
a_{q}=a\sqrt {\frac {\sinh \lambda a\dag a}{a\dag a \sinh \lambda }},~
{}~~~~~~~~~q=\exp \lambda.
\end{equation}
Then taking for the Hamiltonian of the classical q--oscillator the
expression
\begin{equation}
H=\frac {1}{2}(a_{q}\dag a_{q}+a_{q}a_{q}\dag ),
\end{equation}
and considering the nonlinear equation of motion for the amplitude of
photon $~a$ we have the solution of the equation of motion in the form
\begin{equation}
a(t)=a_{0}\exp [-i\omega (a_{0}\dag a_{0})t],~~~~~~~~\omega
=\frac {\lambda }{\sinh \lambda }\cosh \lambda a\dag a,
\end{equation}
which demonstrates the dependence of the frequency on the amplitude.
Calculating the partition function we have the following q--deformed
Planck distribution formula
\begin{equation}
<n>=\frac {1}{e^{\hbar \omega /kT}-1}-\lambda ^{2}\frac {\hbar \omega}
{kT}\frac {e^{3\hbar \omega /kT}+4e^{2\hbar \omega /kT}
+e^{\hbar \omega /kT}}{(e^{\hbar \omega /kT}-1)^{4}}.
\end{equation}
Thus we showed that nonstationarity (Casimir effect) and nonlinearity
deform the particle distribution finction.

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Williamsdale es un lugar designado por el censo ubicado en el condado de Butler en el estado estadounidense de Ohio. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 581 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 1.289,23 personas por km².

Geografía
Williamsdale se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Williamsdale tiene una superficie total de 0.45 km², de la cual 0.45 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0%) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 581 personas residiendo en Williamsdale. La densidad de población era de 1.289,23 hab./km². De los 581 habitantes, Williamsdale estaba compuesto por el 97.25% blancos, el 0.17% eran afroamericanos, el 0.69% eran amerindios, el 0% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 0% eran de otras razas y el 1.89% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 1.55% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Lugares designados por el censo en Ohio
Localidades del condado de Butler (Ohio)


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Up until the last 4 years of my stint in the Army, every school I attended was either planning oriented or some form of infiltration to the battlefield, which always revolved around some form of student attrition. I constantly found myself in courses where the instructors were particularly prideful in their ability to weed out individuals. Keep in mind, I'm not disagreeing with some form of hazing and or selection process. Hazing is what made me the man I am today. In fact, hazing to an extent is necessary, it helps us identify who has the intestinal fortitude to press on towards the mission at any cost. But that is not the point of this article. Until my transition to Special Operations, I had no idea what quality training looked like, or what I wanted it to be. But I was finally here a cherry qualified Special Operations Terminal Attack Controller (SOTACC) eager to make a positive impact to the organization. In order to allow me to better support the A-Teams in a direct capacity, my boss sent me to the basic SF Close Quarters Battle (CQB) School called the Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat Course (SFAUCC).
SFAUCC's origins go back to the Special Operations Training (SOT) Course (closed in the early 90s), which was stood up right after 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) shut down Blue Light (An interim counter-terrorism unit before Delta Force). Learning lessons from the famed events during Operation Gothic Serpent (depicted in the film "Blackhawk Down" ), and understanding that future conflicts would involve the need to conduct direct action operations in an urban environment, led to the birth of SFAUCC in 2000. The course is a month-long school (run at the Group level) geared toward providing the Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (SFODA) and individuals, a baseline of training in conducting advanced urban direction action. By 2009 it was officially recognized by Army Human Resources Command as an accredited course (Mil Education Code: VAB, if you're a Green Beret and didn't know that… you're welcome).
Being a product of all military courses I was deeply concerned I did not have the requisite background to be successful. To be frank, it had been over a year since I fired a handgun and the course was one week away. Panicked, I called the instructors to share my concerns, and inquire about what I should do to get ready. They simply replied, "Good, you won't have any bad habits. You won't believe how hard it is to break those with Team guys. Just show up with an open mind, and do everything we tell you." I was immediately surprised. If this were any other conventional Army course I'm certain you would have heard a different and indifferent response from the instructors. However, I was not disappointed; this course was geared toward the warfighter. The break-down of the course is rather simple: week 1 is flat range week, weeks 2 and 3 are live fire CQB and breaching, and week 4 is force on force training. Upon starting the first day the instructors had us confirm zero on our rifles and covered the fundamentals of combat marksmanship. They touched upon safety (loading-unloading procedures), touch-points (your grip from holster), to different pistol positions, and trigger prep, and your second sight picture. They stressed all the fundamentals at nauseam. Every morning began with a cold-start graded shoot. The belief behind this practice is that you will never be warmed up for your best run when a fight presents itself, so you must be tested at your worst. Throughout the week the instructors were true coaches unless there was an unsafe act, there was no screaming and or physical punishment. When I didn't know my touch points from the holster and a proper thumbs forward grip, they showed me by placing the weapon in my hands and made the instruction relatable. The team cared so much about proper instruction they had a sports psychologist on staff to help the students. This concept was completely foreign to me. They cared deeply about their students….and it showed. Week 1 ended with a series of stress shoots designed by the staff to push you to the limits of your training. I was thoroughly surprised when the staff posted the range week scores and realized I had shot my way into the top third of the class.
Weeks 2 and 3 were live fire CQB and breaching, it began with a classroom instruction block by powerpoint and a dry run. Any students that didn't meet the minimum flat range requirements would receive a blue barrel (simunitions ammo), and would continue on, but not receive a graduation certificate. The instructors then transported us to the shoothouse, where they demonstrated techniques for different types of rooms we would encounter. We then individually entered the room to live fire alone, purely as the number one man and received critique, then as the number two man, and so on, until we demonstrated a firm understanding. As training progressed, the staff incorporated the rest of the stack (or cell) into the equation allows us to complete the live fire collectively. It was clear the training was always building towards an endstate, a functional team with the confidence and competence to execute an urban raid. We continued on with different structures, hallways, stairwells, and breaching techniques as the instructors gradually added new variables forcing us to always think before we commit to a target. By the end of week 3 most of us were able to flow through any structure with confidence.
Week 4 was force on force utilizing simunitions. After all, how do you know your techniques are effective if they are untested? Force on force training teaches you a continued lesson…. the opposing force has a vote, it preaches performance on demand. Throughout this last week the course becomes married with the Sniper Locker students to bring all elements into play. We executed multiple raids, both day and night, under white light or night vision. Some missions were successful, and others not; but every engagement was followed with an After Action Review (AAR), and another raid. We conducted our last complex night raid graduating at the stroke of midnight. Tired and muddy, we received our graduation certificates or some…certificates of training if you did not meet course standards.
By course end, students were trained in advanced combat rifle and pistol marksmanship, as well as urban movement, mechanical and ballistic breaching, rappelling, FAST-roping, and to successfully take down single and multi-entry point, single and multi-story objectives. The course establishes a baseline of skill for its students, but also acknowledges that trained once does not mean trained forever. Operational teams must not only graduate this course the first time, but must either go back through periodically or conduct an SFAUC focused training event at the team level to ensure currency. This practice ensures everyone maintains the standard. The month-long school taught me so much, but also taught me that I had so much more to learn. So in essence, the big question is "Why is this important to me?…. a regular shooter." I challenge you to seek out trainers who foster your growth as a shooter, regardless of skill level. The best instructors out there are able to establish a baseline of class talent, and apply their structured learning objectives to the class in front of them. They must be coaches and mentors above all else. If you ever find yourself in a class where the instructor is demeaning without cause in order to grow their ego… it's time to pack your gear and leave.
Jonathan Fietkau is a former SOTACC from 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group, and a graduate of the Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat Course (SFAUCC). He is a combat veteran of Iraq, and other theaters of operation, with previous service in the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions.