Eric Feferberg, AFP | Former French budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, leaves the Paris' courthouse on May 15, 2018, after the hearing of his appeal trial on tax fraud and money laundering.
Former budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison, two of them suspended, for tax fraud and money laundering.
The Paris Court of Appeal also fined him €300,000 and banned him for running for office for five years.
Cahuzac, a cosmetic surgeon by trade who was made budget minister under former president Francois Hollande in 2012-13, still has the possibility to appeal.
The former budget minister was first sentenced in 2016 to three years in prison. He initially risked up to five years in prison and a €375,000 fine.
During the 2016 trial, Cahuzac told the court he had held a secret foreign bank account for about 20 years first in Switzerland and later in Singapore to maintain his family's standard of living.
In 2012, he joined François Hollande's presidential campaign team. He was given the task of handling the campaign finances.
After Hollande's election, Cahuzac was appointed budget minister on the 16th of May, 2012. He was forced to resign in March 2013 after he admitted wrongdoing.
He was also expelled from the Socialist Party, of which he been a member since the 1970s.
In the wake of the scandal, the biggest under former president Hollande, France set up an anti-corruption agency and a national office to prosecute financial crimes.


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Colwyn Bay Model Boat Club meets at Colwyn Sea Sports, 95 the Promenade, Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay, North Wales every first friday of the month at 7.30p.m. where we have speakers and film shows or evenings devoted to Model Building.
Our sailing venue is on the Model Boating Lake behind the Civic Centre, Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay. (from the A55 take the Old Colwyn exit and proceed up to Abergele Road) The lake is open from March to November seven days a week but the Club normally meets here on Sundays from 10.30a.m. Activities are Scale Steering competitions, Club 500 racing and we have just started Tug Towing. The Club also has a large number of sailing craft, mostly scratch built.


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Q: Enabling gzip compression in IIS and having it take effect We've enabled Gzip compression on the server in IIS (IIS6).  We've run iisreset.  It just doesn't want to take effect.  We had this before on another server, and after a little while, it just started working.
Is it supposed to "take" right away?  If not, how long does it take?  Is there anything that we can do to expedite this?

A: Also, by default IIS 6.0 is only configured to compress the following file types: htm, html, txt, asp, dll, exe.
So if you're browsing to some other type of file (php or aspx, for example) it won't be compressed.
You can configure additional file types to be compressed using the following commands:
for static file types...
cscript c:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/Filters/Compression/deflate/HcFileExtensions htm html txt css js
cscript c:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/Filters/Compression/gzip/HcFileExtensions htm html txt css js

for dynamic file types...
cscript c:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/Filters/Compression/deflate/HcScriptFileExtensions asp dll exe aspx asmx php
cscript c:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/Filters/Compression/gzip/HcScriptFileExtensions asp dll exe aspx asmx php

A: Here's a list of everything necessary to get IIS 6 compression enabled: http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2004/01/12/IIS-Compression-in-IIS6.0.aspx.  Double check that to ensure that you set everything.
As long as you configured it correctly and did an iisreset and nothing is cached, it will take affect immediately.

A: Are you sure the result's not being cached? You can verify the server remotely here

A: An additional note: for static files, IIS doesn't do any compression on the first request. It serves the first request for say "myfile.html" uncompressed, and then compresses the static file in the background, and sticks it in the compressed files cache. All subsequent requests for "myfile.html" will then return the compressed version.
This is a somewhat unnecessary optimization in my opinion, but I think the idea is to not make the first requester wait for compression to happen, since IIS uses very aggressive and CPU-intensive compression settings for static content by default (similar to gzip -9). All subsequent requests for the file use the highly-compressed version from cache.
The opposite is true for dynamic pages on IIS... it uses a very low compression setting by default (similar to gzip -1), and compresses every page on-the-fly.

A: Go through every step in this walk-through on IIS6 gzip compression:
http://engineering.leads360.com/post/9301650692/http-compression-gzip-on-iis-6
...and that should work for you.

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Softball shade structure ready for FSU's 2020 opener
Written by Bob Ferrante	in Women's sports
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Shade from the sun. And oversized fans to keep spectators cool.
The Florida State softball program was looking for ways to improve the fan experience and that has taken shape with a permanent shade structure over the reserved seats at JoAnne Graf Field.
Coach Lonni Alameda, FSU athletics and Seminole Boosters, Inc., worked together to raise more than $1.8 million in donations in the last 15 months – from more than 25 donors – to complete the project. The shade structure will cover the chairback seats at JoAnne Graf Field to shield fans from sun and rain, while large fans will be installed underneath to allow for airflow during games played in the Tallahassee heat. The field netting will also reach to the top of the shade structure so that foul balls will no longer be able to fall in the seating area.
The project is nearing completion and will be finished in time for the softball team's opening weekend on Feb. 7-9.
NFCA Hall of Fame Coach JoAnne Graf will throw out the first pitch prior to FSU's season opener against UNC on Friday, Feb. 7 at 3:30 p.m.
"I can't think of a better way to honor Coach Graf for all that she has done for the sport of softball in general, Florida State softball, and coaches like me over the years than to continue to give and build up the home that we are so proud to live in," Alameda said. "We are so thankful for the support of all of our fans that have joined our softball family over the years, and appreciate each and every one that have helped with this project.
"Knowing that this has been completely donor-funded shows how much people have invested and it drives all of us, from coaches to players and support staff, to give everything we can to be the best we can be. Not only will this shade structure obviously help the fans in the stands, by covering them from the heat and sun and rain, but we are sure that it will aid us on the field as all of the crowd noise, Warchants and K-Time shouts will be focused on the field and create an outstanding home-field advantage for us. Can't wait for the season to start for everyone to come see it for themselves."
Fans can continue to support the ongoing improvements and enhancements to the Seminole Softball Complex. If anyone is interested in joining the project, please reach out to Hugh Tomlinson, Director of Development and Planned Giving with Seminole Boosters, at htomlinson@fsu.edu or (850) 500-4844.
"It is so exciting to see these facilities reflect more and more the quality of the program that Coach Alameda has and continues to build at Florida State," said Tomlinson. "Not only do we enjoy a championship softball program, but a fan base that continues to be champions for our players and our softball program."
Season tickets are on sale for the upcoming season at $200 for reserved seats and $125 for general admission. Single game tickets will go on sale in February. Go to www.seminoles.com/tickets, or call (888-378-6653) for more information on tickets.
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A view of the construction on the shade structure on Tuesday. (photo by Bob Ferrante)
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#Buhari At 79: Stingy But Generous, Not Like 'Executive Extortionist' Obasanjo – Femi Adeshina
Mohammadu Adamu
Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President on Media and Publicity, has congratulated Mr. President on his celebration of birthday at 79 and described Muhammadu Buhari as a stingy but generous man.
Adeshina said Buhari does not throw money at things or allow misappropriation of public funds but knows how to give when necessary.
The media aide stated this in a statement titled "BUHARI AT 79: LESSONS WE'VE LEARNT FROM HIM."
Adesina, in the statement to celebrate Buhari's birthday, however, took a swipe at Olusegun Obasanjo.
He never mentioned the ex-president's name but dropped enough hints to nail Obasanjo.
Adesina noted that Buhari lives in a modest house in Daura, unlike Obasanjo who owns 50 bedroom hilltop mansion, presidential libraries and tried to extend his tenure as President.
Read the full statement by Femi Adesina below
When he popped out of his mother's womb 79 years ago in rustic Daura, now in Katsina State, nobody could have predicted that he would bestride the country, nay the world, like a colossus.
Who could have predicted that a honest man, Mai Gaskiya, had come forth? Who could have foretold that he would rule the country twice, first as a soldier, and later, as a civilian, a democrat? And who could have prognosticated that he would perhaps be the politician with the greatest crowd in the history of the country, for a long time to come?
But we've had all these, and more, in Muhammadu Buhari, the child of destiny, who turns 79 December 17, 2021.
This country will never forget this President, will it? And for good. He came, he saw, and he's conquering.
I'm a student of Muhammadu Buhari. I study him like a book. I plumb his depths and learn from him daily. And what are the lessons? Many. Very many.
Attaining stardom, reaching the highest rungs of the ladder in life, is not determined by the circumstances of your birth. You don't have to be born with a silver spoon. Doubtful if baby Buhari even had a wooden spoon. He grew in the plainest of all areas, and ended at the very peak of the military profession: a General. He has been round the world, as a professional, a head of state, a retiree, and a two-term elected President. The auguries didn't tell these about the baby, but it has happened. You can get anywhere, attain any height, if the divine powers are with you, irrespective of the circumstances of your birth. Vital lesson.
'Honesty is the best policy,' I can recall my father, that great educationist, drumming it into the ears of his children daily. And he lived it, showing us an example. Today, I've seen another honest man, the Mai Gaskiya. He has been everything possible, held positions which could have made him stinking rich: Governor of a territory which now covers six states. Minister of Petroleum for over three years. Head of State. Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund, with billions of naira in his care. A civilian President, running out his second term of four years each, in another 17 months. And yet he remains a man of modest means.
Let me tell you a story. Have you been to the Buhari home in Daura? Modest, modest, modest, is what the structure shouts at you, as you approach. The furnishing; modest. The locale itself; modest. The appurtenances; modest.
It is said that President Buhari had used a carpet in that house for almost 20 years. He knew every bit of furniture and fittings like the back of his hands. And then, one day, in his first term as President, he visited home, and a new carpet was in place.
Who changed my carpet? That was the first question he asked, as he stepped into the house? Imagine the President of Africa's most powerful country, the largest economy on the continent, having time to ask about a carpet that had become old and threadbare? But that is Muhammadu Buhari for you. Simple man, if ever there was one.
We know of the 50 bedroom hilltop mansion (even if slightly exaggerated) where his former colleagues live. And we know of presidential libraries and other mansions built by somebody else, through what Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, called "executive extortionism." But not all these trappings for Buhari. Scant regards for material things, what I recall my father describing as "shadows of life."
Devout. Faithful and committed to his God. That is Muhammadu Buhari. Some people, who have not attained one-third of the heights he reached, would already have their shoulders permanently up, kicking at God, saying: "Is this not the great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?" (Daniel 4: 29, 30). Godliness with contentment is great gain.
We are mere actors, playing on a stage, having our entrances and exits. "Out, out, brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow. A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It's a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," wrote William Shakespeare. You can't relate with Buhari, and not internalize that lesson.
Apart from at official hours, I often drop into the house at nights on goodwill visits. When he's at dinner table, he eats the most modest things. And his talks are interspersed with "while we are here, we will do our best." You know what that means? He knows that he's but a tenant in the Presidential Villa. He would do his bit, and one day return to his home. That is the same place some people occupy, and they try all gambit to become President for life, attempting to sit tight by changing the laws of the land that prescribes term limits. But President Buhari is fully aware of the fact that he would drop the trappings of power one day, so he wields that power with simplicity. A vital lesson. Nothing lasts forever. Not power, not position, not even life itself. That is why I often laugh delightfully, when some people think they are needling me, saying: 'you will soon be out of that place. You will come back and meet us. You will spend a maximum of eight years there, no more.'
In their vexing against the good fortunes God has bestowed on others, they keep thinking of evil. Fall, fall, fall. Fall on bad times. Or even, fall down and die. But they don't know that whatever God gives, He also preserves. And He takes His own people from one level of glory to the other. And then, when the man you work with has learnt to count his days, who are you to think like an army of occupation? We are mere pilgrims, in government, in office, wherever. A pilgrim always returns home, and joyfully, too.
Ability to overlook and ignore. That is one thing I've learned from President Buhari. Imagine all the noise in the country. On social media, traditional media, from the political opposition, separatists, everywhere. But when you are in the market, you ignore the noise, ululation of the place, and focus on the person you are transacting business with. President Buhari is an expert at that. He ignores wailers, no matter their wailings, and just focuses on the job he has been elected to do.
At one time, an issue suffused the atmosphere about his family, so much so that it could deafen anyone. So I went to see him, and raised the matter. He asked me; "Where did you hear that?"
On social media, I responded.
He swept his hand through the air, and exclaimed: "Don't mind the nuisance!"
And we laughed. Yes, we do laugh. The President enjoys his laughter, and you don't go to see him without hearing one wisecrack or the other. Very witty man. But some people don't know. They only remember the unsmiling duo of Buhari/Idiagbon days, in the 1980s. They think he's all iron and steel, no soft side. Ask me, and I'll tell you. That was why we did a documentary couple of years ago on the human, soft side of the President. Laughter is music of the soul. If the President is comfortable with you, there are no dull moments.
Ability to listen. Oh, the President has it. I know a former President who would never let you speak. He knows everything. You start a sentence, he completes it for you. And he tells his interviewers openly that they are talking rubbish. Not Buhari. He listens to you patiently, not interjecting. He lets you make your point to the end.
Can I ever forget the first day I resumed on this assignment, and he met with me privately. He said; "Adesina, please tell me the truth. You can be in this type of position, and people won't tell you the truth. Argue with me. As a General, I may not agree, but please, argue with me. If you have a superior position, I will eventually see your point."
You can argue with him. He listens, and is humble enough to change his mind and position. And he would tell you: "You are very right,", adding: "My good God!" And he laughs.
Stingy but generous. President Buhari is very thrifty. He does not throw money at things, and as his media adviser, I can tell you. He even pokes fun at himself, saying; "don't you know I'm very stingy?"
True. He doesn't waste public money. He won't misappropriate, and neither would he let you, if he knows about it. But when he needs to give, he does. I have personal experiences, which I've related before. I won't repeat them, lest some people ask me to bring part of it, as they've done before. Lol.
No bigotry. He's a Muslim who loves and respects other religions. Part of the de-marketing against him over the years is that he wants to Islamize the country. Really? Then he should start with me, and his other Christian aides. And his Vice President, a pastor. He should urge us to embrace Islam. Has it happened? Not even a whiff of it. When it is time for Christian festivals, Easter, Christmas, he's the one who tells Christians working with him: "Take some time off. Spend the season with your family." Bigot? I hear.
What of his compassion, his love for the lowly. I remember 2015, in the early days of the Administration. Someone had said at the cabinet meeting that the civil service was bloated, and it could be time to cut the size by half.
The President listened patiently and then said: "I agree with you. But times are hard enough, and if it lies in my power, I won't want to see even one person lose his or her job." And so it remains.
The lessons are plenty. The man has a mind of his own. That's why I laugh when they say a cabal is controlling him. Yes, he delegates a lot, but to abdicate responsibilities? He takes decisions, and he's not even afraid of taking tough ones.
Unflappable. Cool, calm, collected. Straight talker, no tongue-in-cheek. That's why you can't afford to spin anything on his behalf. Otherwise, he comes out one day, and tells the truth. And you become damned as a liar.
Capacity to forgive. How many times have I seen people who abused his father and mother on TV in the morning, coming to see him under cover of darkness? And he's all genial with them. He is all chummy, when they should rather have left with black eyes.
The lessons are inexhaustible. But let me say this last one. Who has the final say? Jehovah has the final say. Do you know how many doomsday prophecies we have heard about this President? They come from all angles, including embarrassingly from the pulpit. One said he would never return, when he was ill in 2017. Another said before the 2019 polls that Buhari was a goner, that God had revealed it to him. And another declared pontifically: " Get out of that place! Your time is over. Power has been taken from you." He even directed fasting and prayers against the President. But who says a thing, when God has not spoken? Heaven is with this President, and Heaven will see him through, no matter what finite man says.
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Polaroid Originals develops into new era
The Impossible Project aquires Polaroid and launches a brand-new instant film camera and films supporting vintage cameras.
By Jubenal Aguilar
Polaroid is back.
The instant film photography medium made a comeback from near-extinction with the announcement of a brand-new camera, a new generation of instant films and support for vintage Polaroid cameras. The announcement came from Polaroid Originals, the successor to The Impossible Project, Sept. 12.
The launch comes on the 80th anniversary of the legendary Polaroid brand, which was founded in 1937 by Edwin Herbert Land.
In a press release by Polaroid Originals, creative director Danny Pemberton said: "It's important to point out that Polaroid itself hasn't had a rebrand.They're still very much around. Polaroid Originals is a new chapter of the story, completely dedicated to analog instant photography and built by members of The Impossible Project."
Todd Puckett, of Dallas-based Don's Photo Equipment, said Polaroid Originals' announcement is a return to the old Polaroids of a few years ago. "It's a return more to film-based results," he said.
Polaroid Originals' major announcement was the release of a new instant film camera, the Polaroid OneStep 2, a successor to the 1977 classic Polaroid OneStep Land camera, according to PetaPixel.
"The original OneStep was the essence of instant photography – bringing the iconic white frame to a global audience with a fun, affordable and easy-to-use instant camera that was a bestseller for years," Oskar Smolokowski, Polaroid Originals CEO, said in an open letter.
According to CNET, the OneStep 2 is "a simple point-and-shoot analog instant film camera." There is nothing digital about the camera, except for the micro-USB port used for charging the internal battery.
The camera uses a fixed-focus, optical grade polycarbonate and acrylic 106-millimeter lens with a range of 60 centimeters (about 2 feet) to infinity. The camera has a custom-designed shutter system and vacuum discharge tube strobe for its flash system, according to us.polaroidoriginals.com.
"[The OneStep 2] represents the potential for analog photography to develop further as a medium, bringing people together to capture moments and create art," Smolokowski said.
"[The OneStep 2] is a simplified version fo the I-1 camera," Puckett said.
The OneStep 2 will be compatible with the new Polaroid Originals 600 and i-Type films, as well as previous 600-generation films, Puckett said.
"The old OneStep would use the 600 [film], which had the battery in the pack," Puckett said. Although the film can be used with the new camera, Puckett does not suggest it.
"You're wasting money because you could buy the [i-Type film] pack without the battery. … And that's about two to three bucks cheaper per pack."
The camera, available in white or graphite, is currently available for pre-order and is scheduled for release Oct. 16.
Along with the OneStep 2, Polaroid Originals released a new generation of instant films that are available online and in stores across the U.S., according to us.polaroidoriginals.com.
The new range of films includes the new, battery-free i-Type film, compatible with the OneStep 2 and the Impossible I-1 Instant Camera, according to the Polaroid Originals website. The latter was released by The Impossible Project in May 2016, according to The Verge.
New films for 600, SX-70 and Spectra series cameras, as well as 8×10 cameras, were also released. All films are available in color and black and white, according to us.polaroidoriginals.com.
Puckett said his first order of the new films was of 270 packs and has ordered a second batch of about 70 packs to prepare for the Instant Film Society's second annual PolaCon.
"The [new] Polaroid styles are selling at a better rate than the Impossible packs were," Puckett said.
AN IMPOSSIBLE COMEBACK
The Impossible Project acquired the Polaroid brand, as well as its intellectual property, on May 5, according to polaroid.com.
Polaroid reached its peak in the early 1990s and filed for the first of two bankruptcies in 2001, according to PetaPixel. In 2008, the company ceased production of its instant film.
According to Smolokowski, The Impossible Project was founded the same year with a simple mission – to bring Polaroid instant fim photography back. The startup leased Polaroid's last factory in Enschede, Netherlands, and purchased the remaining equipment, according to The Verge.
They then reverse engineered Polaroid's instant film to produce their own film, according to The Verge. However, European Union regulations banned some of the chemicals previously used by Polaroid. "By 2008, almost all the constituent elements, including custom dyes and polymers, had either expired, been discontinued, or been banned for environmental reasons," according to Bloomberg.
The Impossible Project team began to search for alternative methods of reproducing instant photography, including making a simpler black-and-white formula.
In the years since it began experimenting, The Impossible Project has released numerous special editions of films, including color and circular frame films and various special color chemistry films, such as duochrome films of various colors.
HONORING A LEGACY
Polaroid Originals honored the legacy of Polaroid by preserving many of the distinct characteristics that made the brand a worldwide icon. Pemberton said the team's research in Polaroid's archive in Harvard University served as the departure point for the Polaroid Originals brand.
Pemberton said Paul Giambarba was the art director for many factors of Polaroid's brand identity including the color stripes, illustrative work and typeface. Giambarba's work and process were a driving force behind Polaroid Originals' look. "A visual identity system is an important tool that helps us communicate our passion for this medium," Pemberton said.
A color was chosen for each film line to serve as a visual identifier – yellow for i-Type, blue for 600 and red for SX-70. "This color acts as a wayfinder for the customer, from the packaging, the user manuals, the brand photography, right through to the entire digital experience," Pemberton said. "It's been real exciting," Puckett said.
"It's kinda fun to see new stuff come out and it's fun seeing the customers get excited about it as well."
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NORWAY BECOMES FIRST "GROUP OF 10" COUNTRY TO RAISE INTEREST RATES
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Norges Bank, Norway's central bank, has raised its base rate from zero to 0.25 percent, citing business activity's return to pre-COVID levels, a high COVID vaccination rate, and unemployment of just 2.7 percent.
Another hike is likely in December, bank officials said, and as many as five more next year.
Norges Bank is the first central bank of an economy included among the world's 10 most-traded currencies to raise rates since the COVID War began in March 2020, the Financial Times noted.
The U.S. Federal Reserve is contemplating a rate increase in 2022; the Bank of England is likely to do the same, analysts say (see related stories).
Brazil, Russia, and South Korea have already raised rates at least once.
Sweden's Riksbank has said it will hold its rate at zero until at least late in 2024; Switzerland's bank has said nothing about lifting its current -0.75-percent rate.
"Other countries have different policy considerations," Norges Bank governor Oystein Olsen said to the FT.
"There is a strong recovery in the Norwegian economy [therefore] it's fine to start a gradual normalization of the policy rate," he said.
Norway's inflation rate has been low but is likely to begin to move toward the bank's 2-percent target because wages will grow as the economy strengthens, the FT noted.
TREND FORECAST: Norway's economy might be strengthening, but it remains connected to the rest of the world, where the economy remains less than steady. However, the oil rich nation will remain economically sound as oil prices continue to rise since it is among the global top seven exporters of crude and its oil and gas sector constitutes almost 20 percent of its Gross Domestic Product.
However, raising rates six times over the next 14 months will damage growth and destabilize the economy. We predict that Norway's central bank will not enact such an aggressive rate structure but will be forced to scale back its planned schedule of increases.


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From Red to Pink: Women's March Takes Over Washington During Inauguration Weekend
by Taylor Goebel | Jan 21, 2017 | Inauguration
(L-R) Lita Small of Boynton, Susan Gregg of North Palm Beach, Christine Jackson of Tampa, and Laura Graves of Jupiter pass the Library of Congress on their way to the Women's March Saturday. (Taylor Goebel/MNS) ,
WASHINGTON: Red Make America Great Again hats disappeared Saturday, just one day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, as hundreds of thousands of women marched down Independence Avenue to the White House, many wearing the iconic pink hats of the Women's March.
"This election struck such a cord," said Valerie Fisher, a therapist from Bradenton whose practice includes treating domestic violence offenders. "I have spent the last 21 years addressing men with a sense of entitlement. I don't want our culture to give a pass to what I've been dedicating my life to."
Women and men from Gainesville, Tampa, Miami and Bradenton were among the throngs of Floridians who traveled to Washington for the Women's March in reaction to Trump's election.
"We believe women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights," said Susan Gregg of North Palm Beach. "We feel those are in jeopardy right now, not just for women but for everyone in this country."
Marina Hodgini of Bradenton said, half-jokingly: "I think for the next four years I'm going to need an antacid."
The National Mall area and beyond was a sea of rainbow flags and pink hats with a cacophony of chats such as "black lives matter" and "we want a leader, not a creepy tweeter" as protesters called out the new administration.
Fisher and her wife, Melissa Rhoads, are board members of Prism Youth Initiative, the only organization in Manatee County dedicated to LGBTQ youth. The annual Pride festival on March 18 will help Prism continue providing acceptance and advocacy services to at-risk youth.
Mary Bode, who also volunteers for Prism, said diversity brings a more progressive attitude and sense of community to society.
"When we take a look at other cultures and are able to see them as equals, it gives us the option to take on other points of view," Bode said.
Autumn Solomon-Phillips of Sarasota marched with her 71-year-old mother, Jan Solomon, who said she decided to come despite recent knee surgery "because I want to be moving forward, not backward."
Organizers have estimated that up to half a million demonstrators showed up. Washington Metro officials reported more ridership during the Women's March than on Inauguration Day.
"I want Trump to know that American women will not be silenced," said Lynne Daniels of Miami. She is leaving Saturday night after being in D.C. for only 12 hours. Daniels said the 20-hour bus ride "involves a lot of personal discomfort but it means a lot to make a statement here."
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Wishing to prove to his wife that he loved her for more than sex, the young man bought her a lovely bouquet of roses. Despite his good intentions, however, the devoted husband received a suspicious look when he handed her the flowers. "I suppose," she said, "that now you expect me to spend the weekend on my back with my legs spread." "Why?" said the young man. "Don't we have a vase?"
Teacher: Students, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him, what virtue would I be showing? Class: "Brotherly love."
The IRS came to this mans house one day and told him to come in the next morning to talk about all the money thats been coming in and out of his bank account. So the man though maybe I need to get a lawyer. So he and his lawyer get to the IRS's office and sit down and the agent said there has been a large amount of money flowing in and out of your account and we wanted to know if you knew anything about it. The man says yes I do, I'm a gambler. The agent says you gamble with that much money. He man says yes, I'll give you an example. Alright I bet you 5,000$ that I can bite my left eye. Agent says alright deal. The man takes out his fake eye and bites it. Then the agents says that not fair. The man says I'll let you get your money back or even more, I bet you 7,500$ I can bite my right eye. He agents thinking I didn't see him come in with a guide dog or a stick so the agent says deal. The man takes out his false teeth and bites his right eye. The agent then says that's not fair. The man replies alright I have another one, your down 12,500$ I'll bet you 15,000$ if you put that waste basket on the other side of the room I can stand by your desk and piss across the room into the waste basket and not get a drop anywhere. The agent says that's impossible you've got a deal. The man starts peeing and pees all over his desk and the agent says I got you, he's laughing and happy that he final beat him, but then the lawyer has his hand on his face and the agent asked what's wrong with you and the lawyer replies the man bet me 100,000$ he could piss on your desk and you'd just love it.
Roger, who was 19 years old, was buying an expensive bracelet, to surprise his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, at a very smart jeweller's shop in Hatton Garden, London. The jeweller inquired, "Would you like your girlfriend's name engraved on it?" Roger thought for a moment, grinned, then answered, "No, instead engrave 'To my one and only love'." The jeweller smiled and said, "Yes, sir; how very romantic of you." Roger retorted with a glint in his eye, "Not exactly romantic, but very practical. This way, if we break up, I can use it again."
A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing "Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them. His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says "I'm sending out 1,000 Valentine cards signed, 'Guess who?'" "But why?" asks the man. "I'm a divorce lawyer," the man replies.
The pretty teacher was concerned with one of her eleven-year-old students. Taking him aside after class one day, she asked, "George, why has your school work been so poor lately?" "I'm in love," the boy replied. Holding back an urge to smile, she asked, "With whom?" "With you," he said. "But George," she said gently, "don't you see how silly that is? It's true that I would like a husband of my own someday. But I don't want a child." "Oh, don't worry," the boy said reassuringly, "I'll use a rubber."
A man gets the words 'I love you' tattoed to his penis. He goes home and shows his wife. His wife says, "Don't try to put words into my mouth!"
A man was invited for dinner at a friend's house. Every time the host needed something, he preceded his request to his wife by calling her "My Love", "Darling", "Sweetheart", etc., etc. His friend looked at him and said, "That's really nice after all of these years you've been married to keep saying those little pet names." The host said, "Well, honestly, I've forgotten her name."
A man and a woman are lying in bed, watching the ceiling and keep quiet. What are they thinking? The woman thinks, "He keeps quiet. He doesn't want to talk. May be he's get tired of me. He doesn't love me anymore. He's probably got someone else. I see. We'll have to separate each other." The man thinks, "A fly. A fly on the ceiling. Wow! How keep it there and don't fall?"
At the funeral of a family friend, I was chatting to June, an elderly lady I hadn't seen since I was a teenager. I was thrilled when she told me what a beautiful young woman I'd become. On the journey home, I remarked to my mother how lovely it had been to see June again. "Yes, it's such a shame that she's gone blind," she said sadly.
Today we had the best adventure ever! We started playing in the yard and doing ramps in a party van! It all started when Timmy and I were playing in the yard and a white rusty van drove up to our yard. A nice man told us to get in. We said we would love to go but our mommies wouldn't want us to go. The man said your mommies told me it was OK to come. We hopped in the back and sped away super fast! The man gave us some candy, but Timmy and I were not hungry, so we didn't eat it. We saved it for later. After a while, I was wondering where we were going. I was about to ask the man, but then there was a whooping sound and some flashing blue lights! ¨Hey they want to party with us!¨Timmy yelled over the whooping. ¨Party van!¨I yelled. Timmy and I started dancing and whooping and the van began driving faster, doing crazy race car stunts, and jumps! Then we noticed the lights and whooping were coming from some cars that were following us. The cars were black and white and said ¨P O L I C E" on the side. We started to wave to them, but then the van did a HUGE jump and we flew out of the back of the van to the side of the road into some dirt, but it didn't really hurt that much. The van drove off without us, and I was really sad. Then Timmy told me the dirt was perfect for making mud pies. I was happy again. We played in the dirt awhile, until some people dressed like firefighters found us and brought us home. And then you asked me what happened. Isn't that right mommy?
A guy and a girl meet at a bar. They get along so well that they decide to go to the girl's place. A few drinks later, the guy takes off his shirt and then washes his hands. He then takes off his pants and washes his hands. The girl watches him and says, "You must be a dentist" The guy, surprised, says "Yes…how did you figure that out?" The girl says, "Easy… you keep washing your hands." One thing led to another and they make love. After they were done, the girl says, "You must be a great dentist." The guy, now with a boosted ego says, "Yes, I sure am a great dentist. How did you figure that out?" The girl says, "Easy… I didn't feel a thing!"
Three men are outside Heaven's gates waiting to be go to through Heaven. The angel at the gate tells them "Depending on the length of time and your faithfulness to your last partner decides your way across the bridge to Heaven". The first guy says "I was with my wife for 5 years and cheated 3 times". The angel gives him an old model pick up, the second guy says "11 years and only once" and is granted a Mercedes. The last man says "20 years and not once , I loved her with all my heart" and with the angel impressed he gets a gold edition Lamborghini and sets off ahead of the other two men. Hours later the two men catch up to him crying behind the wheel and one says " I know we are dead but it could be much worse". The guy looks up and says "How! I just went past my wife on a skateboard"
A sailor drops anchor in a port and heads into the nearest pub. Everyone in the pub is whispering and pointing at him because of his odd shaped body; he has a very muscular body, but a very tiny head on his shoulders. As he orders his drink, he tells the bartender, I'll explain. I get this in every port and town I visit. I caught a mermaid and she granted me three wishes if I would release her back into the sea. So I told her I wanted a yacht and, sure enough, she came through for me. Next, I asked for a million bucks and now I am set for life. Last of all, I asked her if I could have sex with her and her response was, I don't know how you can make love to me with your type of body. So I asked her, How about a little head?
A man gets shipwrecked on a small island. After a few days wandering, he comes across a tribe of natives who have just lost their chieftan. The tribe's high priest tells the man that as he is the first outsider they have seen in twenty years, he must take three tests. If he passes al three tests, the tribe will accept him as their new chief. "Fair enough," says the man. "Just let me know what the tests are and I'll get right on them." The piest takes him to a clearing with three straw huts in it, turns to the man and explains the tests. "In the first hut, you'll find 20 gallons of our native beer. You must drink all of this to complete this test. In the second hut is a gorilla with a sore tooth. You must pull his tooth and survive to pass this test. In the third hut is the ex-chieftan's daughter. You must make love to her until she can take nomore." The man agrees to the tests and begns the first test. Three hours later, he walks out of the hut and goes toward the second hut. The priest asks if he would like to have a rest, but the man says he wants to get all the tests done before he sleeps. He goes into th second hut. After two hours he comes out covered from head to toe in blood and sctratches. He turns to the priest and says "Now lead me to the girl with the sore tooth."
Father awaits the birth of his first child. The obstetrician: "Unfortunately he has no arms". "I'll love it all the same". But the obstetrician adds: "It is also without legs, trunk, head". "I'll love it all the same". Then the obstetrician confessed to him: "I'm sorry, but only this ear was born". "I'll love it all the same". And the obstetrician: "Talk to him closer: he's deaf!".
A guy and a girl are lying in a room after just having sex. The girl lays on her side of the bed and rests. The guy goes to his side of the bed and says to himself, "Man, oh Man I finally did it! I'm no longer a virgin." The girl overhears him talking to himself and asks, "Are you saying you lost your virginity to me?" "Well," the guy explains, "I always wanted to wait until I was with the woman I love to lose my virginity." Astounded, the girl replies,"So you really love me?" "Oh God no!", the guy says."I just got sick of waiting."
I was watching my boyfriends dog while he took a shower. I started playing fetch with the him when the ball went over the balcony. He went to get it and fell 10 stories. When i looked down, he appeared to be dead. My boyfriend loved his dog and I didn't know what to do ,so feeling awful, I sat on the couch and waiting for him to come back. About three minutes later he got out of the shower. He ordered some food and went to the table to eat when I said ,"you know , your dogs been a little depressed lately…"
The two old coots were both only a year short of retirement from the assembly line, but one Monday morning that didn't keep Joe from boasting to Manny about his sexual endurance.
"Three times," gasped Manny admiringly. "How'd you do it?" "It was easy." Joe looked down modestly. "I made love to my wife, and then I rolled over and took a ten-minute nap. When I woke up again, I made love to her again and took another ten-minute nap. And then I put it to her again. Can you believe it! I woke up this morning feeling like a bull, I'll tell you." "I gotta try it," said Manny. "Lorraine won't believe it's happening." So that night he made love to his wife, took a ten-minute nap, made love to her again, took another nap, woke up and made love to her a third time, then rolled over and fell sound asleep.
He woke up feeling like a million bucks, pulled on his clothes, and ran to the factory, where he found his boss waiting outside for him. "What's up, Boss?" he asked. "I've been working for you for twenty years and never been late once. You aren't going to hold these twenty minutes against me now, are you?"
"What twenty minutes?" growled the boss. "Where were you on Tuesday and Wednesday?"
A fireman comes home from work one day and tells his wife, "We have a wonderful system at the fire station: Bell 1 rings, we put on our jackets; Bell 2 rings, we slide down the pole; Bell 3 rings, we're on the trucks. From now on, we're going to run this house the same way. When I say Bell 1, I want you to strip naked. When I say Bell 2, I want you to jump into bed. When I say Bell 3, we're going to make passionate love." The next night, the fireman comes home from work and yells, "Bell 1!" His wife takes off her clothes. "Bell 2," and his wife jumps into bed. "Bell 3," and they began to make love. After two minutes, his wife yells, "Bell 4!" "What's Bell 4?" the husband asks. "More hose," she replies, "you're nowhere near the fire!"


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Most mass murders are preventable. For God's sake, let's prevent them.
On: August 6, 2012 By: Mark
Yesterday, another pointless mass slaughtering of innocents occurred. Six people were murdered this time, plus the gunman who was shot by police, at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The assassin (no point calling him alleged, as he is dead) is Michael Page, a forty-year-old Army veteran, a member of an Army psychological unit that was never deployed. Some news sources are suggesting that Page was a white supremacist. Most likely he wasn't a very bright white supremacist for choosing Sikhs as victims. Most white supremacists are far more concerned about allegedly radical Muslims than Sikhs, who are a largely peaceful religion primarily from India that believes in one immortal being and the ten gurus. But they wear towels on their head, so that probably looked Muslim enough for Page. We'll probably never know for sure why he targeted Sikhs, but their main crime seems to be they were not Caucasians like him.
About three weeks earlier, the white Caucasian pulling the trigger was allegedly James Eagan Holmes, 26, a recent dropout from the University of Colorado's PhD neuroscience program. He killed twelve people and injured 58 others at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado with semiautomatic weapons and bullets purchased in part over the Internet. Shortly before he dropped out he was apparently receiving counseling from a psychiatrist at the university, who was so alarmed she brought his case to the attention of campus authorities. However, the campus lost interest as he had dropped out. Holmes acquired a huge lethal arsenal and over three thousand rounds of ammunition, all without a background investigation. He would have killed many more had not police discovered that he had booby-trapped his apartment.
And so it goes. On January 8, 2011 it was Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) who took a bullet to the brain at the hands of alleged assassin Jared Lee Loughner, 23, also a Caucasian white guy. Giffords was fortunate to survive, but her injury eventually meant resigning her seat in Congress and years of rehabilitation therapy that is still underway. Loughner shot 18 people, six of whom died at a Tucson Safeway. While he did not kill Giffords, he did manage to kill a federal judge. Like Holmes, Loughner had a traumatic incident in his personal life. He underwent a personality change after he was fired from a job at a local Quiznos. He was known to abuse alcohol and took hallucinogens. His firearm was purchased legally at a local Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson. Loughner is expected to plead guilty tomorrow to these shootings. He is considered mentally ill and is required to take an anti-psychotic medication.
Of course who could possibly forget the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, a shooting that killed 32 and injured 17 others? It stands as the worst mass murder by an individual in the United States. While the incident occurred in Blacksburg, Seung-Hui Cho grew up close to where I live in Northern Virginia. He attended Poplar Tree Elementary School down the street in Chantilly, and Westfield High School, also in Chantilly, where my daughter graduated the year of the incident. Cho had seen many mental health experts, had been on antidepressants and creeped out more than a few of his professors.
The United States is lucky to go a year without a mass murder episode. Some of them get little press. Four days before the Aurora shooting, twelve to 18 people were injured by gunman Nathan Van Wilkins, 44, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. If the incident made the paper, it was buried deep in the back somewhere. Maybe that no one actually died made it un-newsworthy. To pick a few recent mass shootings: 4 dead and 7 injured by Eduardo Sencion in Carson City, Nevada on September 6, 2011 and 13 killed and 4 injured in Binghamton, New York, my home town, by Jiverly Antares Wong on April 3, 2009. Wikipedia keeps a current list if you are curious. By my count the grisly total is: thirty murdered since 2010 and 82 from 2000-2009, and these are just the rampage killers. School massacres like Virginia Tech, workplace killings and hate crimes are not included.
Certain themes show up in these murderers. For the ones that tend to be most newsworthy, the perpetrators tends to be white, male, in their prime testosterone years and mentally ill. Mass murder though seems to be almost exclusively a guy thing, principally a white guy thing. Maybe women lack the crazy gene. Most of these mass murders probably were preventable. I will grant you that our loose, albeit almost nonexistent gun laws, make it difficult to impossible to keep these crazies from acquiring weapons. In the Aurora, Colorado shooting, had semi-automatic weapons been controlled, the death rate would have been markedly lower. Even I belatedly agreed that strict gun control is impossible in this country, but I would like to think that even the NRA would agree that people with severe mental illnesses should not be allowed to acquire weapons. Yes, perhaps they could get them from illicit sources, but we should not make it easy for them to get. These people should be in known databases. To alleviate the concern that regular citizens would be put in the database, perhaps getting added to the database would require the signatures of three psychiatrists.
But guns don't kill people (unless they smash their heads in with a rifle's butt), but bullets sure do. James Holmes acquired 300 rounds of ammunition and no one blinked an eye. More importantly, no one was tracking the fact that one dude in a short period of time acquired this much ammunition, or that there was something unusual about the semi-automatic weapons he acquired so quickly too. If all gun sales were in a database, it would be easy enough to search it for unusual cases, and if it were cross-indexed with a list of people with mental psychoses then the Holmes case should have stood out like a red flag. Exactly how are gun rights diminished if we were to enact laws like this? Are we really agreeing that every psychotic should have unlimited access to firearms and rounds of ammunition?
While guns and bullets allow these murders to occur easily, in most cases the catalyst is mental illness. Mental illness is at least required to be treated by health insurance plans but we still have fifty million people uninsured. There are fewer stigmas to treating mental illness these days, but we should press for even less of them. Even if you can be treated, as was true in Seung-Hui Cho's case, mentally ill adults can refuse treatment. Cho's case was truly extreme: red flags were everywhere. Particularly with cases this severe, it is reasonable for society to require these individuals stay in treatment, both for their own safety and for society's safety as well, unless a board of psychiatrists clears the person.
Our world is growing more crowded and complex. Our highly industrialized, information-centric world does affect us in ways that are hard for us to understand. Denser communities raise the number of human interactions, making trouble more likely. The Internet, while it has lots of advantages, also allows mentally ill people license to feed their psychoses. Sociologists need to study the effects of Future Shock, well underway, and it needs to be come part of a public policy discussion. Ignoring these realities simply means that more of us will die needlessly from future and preventable acts of mass violence. It also means those with these mental illnesses are less likely to keep their conditions under control.
George Santayana said that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. It's one thing to forget lessons from events that happened generations ago. It is another thing to forget events that happened last week or last month and not learn from them. It is the height of public policy stupidity.
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spleeness says:
The need for a cross-searchable database is HUGE. Well-written post, especially about such a tragic subject.


Published posthumously. King's study of Chinese, Korean and Japanese agriculture was part of his plan for the work on Soil Management. The chapter on the study of Far Eastern agriculture has been collected by Mrs. King from ten different lectures and papers which he had already prepared. While this volume is not as complete as it would have been had Professor King lived, the investigations are of such world-wide importance and of such rich practical value, that the material has been assembled in order that many of the conclusions from the work of a lifetime of one of the world's greatest soil investigators might be available in the easiest accessible form.
Time it took to scan, OCR, copycheck and format this item was . Donated (hr:min).


"Editor" object will stand for "Text::Editor::Easy" object and "line" object will stand for "Text::Editor::Easy::Line" object.
Some of the methods of the "editor" object need a "line" object as parameter or return "line" object(s). You should never call yourself the "new" method of the "line" package to create "line" objects. First, you use an "editor" method that returns "line" object(s), and you provide the second "editor" method that need a "line" object with what you have received from the first call.
Note that 'line' instances are scalar references : you can't do anything with them except calling methods of the interface. Each 'line' knows which 'editor' it belongs to.
This method does not accept any parameter.
It returns undef if the line is not displayed. When displayed, it returns the ordinate of the bottom of the line. See also "top_ord". The ordinate is the pixel number from the top with a graphical user interface but will be the line number in console mode.
This method accepts only one optional parameter which is a hash reference. The options that this hash may contain are described in 'editor display method' as the second parameter.
To display an editor, you have to take a reference which is a line of this editor. When you call display method with a line instance, this reference is contained in the caller. When you call display method with an editor instance, you have to set the line in a mandatory parameter.
In list context, it returns 'display' instances (that is Text::Editor::Easy::Display object(s)) or an empty list if the line is not visible. If wrap mode is not used, there can't be more than one 'display' instance associated to one 'line' instance. With wrap mode, it depends on the line size and on the screen width.
Called in scalar context, you just get the number of 'display' instances associated with that line : 0 if the 'line' is not visible, 1 or more if the line is visible.
Note that if wrap mode is used and the 'line' is partially visible (some 'displays' are visible, other are not) the result you get is identical as if the line was entirely visible. Lines are always displayed as a whole.
Returns the next 'line' instance or undef if it's the last.
Returns the order of the line (it's number). Note that for a given 'line' instance, this number will change according to updates ('line' creations or suppressions).
Returns the previous 'line' instance or undef if it's the first.
The interface of this method will change. At present, it's not possible to select lines that are not visible unless you force them to be visible.
This method accepts one parameter : a string that will update the 'line' content.
It returns the 'line' instance that was used to call the set.
It returns the text of the line.
It returns undef if the line is not displayed. When displayed, it returns the ordinate of the top of the line. See also "bottom_ord".
These methods shouldn't be used.
Number of "line" objects created for the thread, for all "editor" objects defined. As threre are more threads, there can be other "line" objects declared in other threads (and, why not, pointing at same the lines).
This is the only common value (it's an auto-incrementing integer chosen by 'File_manager' thread) between all threads : for a given 'editor' instance, if 2 lines (belonging to the same editor) have the same 'ref' in 2 different threads, they are pointing at the same line. But of course, as each thread has its own memory, scalar references and, then, line instances are different.
Returns the 'editor' instance the line belongs to. Should be useless (?).
Give the start position of the line in the file, 0 if there's no file associated. This position is true only at the beginning or just after a save. Positions are not updated at each change.
To save data in association to a particular line. This data is saved in the 'File_manager' thread, so it can be seen and shared by all threads thanks to 'get_info' method.
Retrieve 'info' associated to the 'line' object thanks to 'set_info' method.


Has a 390 batting average with 3 rbi's and one HR. SHould he make the starting roster?
I think he should. He can play multiple positions so he could start most nights and not take away a lot of at bats from any one person.
I agree. So far in 2018, he is really playing good baseball and hitting the ball well. He finally looks healthy after a rough season last year.
Yeah I agree. If he is healthy he is a proven championship player. He should give some of the guys who are struggling a day off.
Ben Zobrist appears to be the frontrunner for comeback player of the year for the Cubs. He was pretty injured and bad last season.
Better than 1 HR 4 RBI and a .222 avg while looking very shaky in the outfield like J-Hey has so far.
Agreed...I've never seen Heyward look out of synch defensively like the last few games.


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We present the first results of a self-consistent solution of the semiclassical Einstein field equations corresponding to a Lorentzian wormhole coupled to a quantum scalar field. The specific solution presented here represents a wormhole connecting two asymptotically spatially flat regions. In general, the diameter of the wormhole throat, in units of the Planck length, can be arbitrarily large, depending on the values of the scalar coupling ξ and the boundary values for the shape and redshift functions. In all cases we have considered, there is a fine-structure in the form of Planck-scale oscillations or ripples superimposed on the solutions.
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Self-consistent Wormhole Solutions of Semiclassical Gravity
David Hochberga,111Electronic address: , Arkadiy Popovb,222Electronic address: and Sergey V. Sushkovb,333Electronic address:
aLaboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental
Apartado 50727, 28080 Madrid, Spain
bDepartment of Mathematics, Kazan State Pedagogical University
Mezhlauk st., 1, Kazan 420021, Russia
Wormholes are topological handles in spacetime linking widely separated regions of a single universe or "bridges" joining two different spacetimes. Interest in these configurations dates back at least as far as 1916 [1] with punctuated revivals of activity following both the classic work of Einstein and Rosen in 1935 [2] and the later series of works initiated by Wheeler in 1955 [3] . More recently, a fresh interest in the topic has been rekindled by the work of Morris and Thorne [4] , leading to a flurry of activity branching off into diverse directions. A brief resumé of current work devoted to the physics of Minkowski-signature wormholes includes topics addressing fundamental features of traversable wormholes [4, 5] , explicit modelling of wormhole metrics and the corresponding classical [6] and quantum mechanical stability [7] analyses, wormholes as time machines and the problem of causality violation [8] , wormholes in higher-derivative gravity [9] , wormholes from the gravitationally squeezed vacuum [10] , possible cosmological consequences of early universe wormholes [11, 12] , and wormholes as gravitational lenses [13] . A thourough and up-to-date survey of the present status of Lorentzian wormholes may be found in the excellent monograph by Visser [14] .
There are plausible physical arguments suggesting that Lorentzian wormholes should exist at least at scales of order the Planck length. Most of what is known about them is based on detailed analyses of models, and within the literature devoted to the subject, the existence of wormholes is taken as a working hypothesis. Metrics describing wormholes with desirable traits are written down by fiat and the properties of the corresponding hypothetical stress-energy tensors needed to support the wormhole spacetime are then worked out and analyzed. In an example of an analysis of this sort, Ford and Roman [15] have derived approximate constraints on the magnitude and duration of the negative energy densities which must be observed by a timelike geodesic observer in static spherically symmetric wormhole spacetimes. More recently, Taylor, Hiscock and Anderson have argued that stress tensors for massive minimally and/or conformally coupled scalars fail to meet the requirements for maintaining five particular types of static spherically symmetric wormholes, but have not solved the backreaction problem [16] . In particular, no one up to now has succeeded in writing down a bona-fide wormhole solution of either the classical or semiclassical Einstein field equations. The reason for this state of affairs is easy to understand. In the first case, it is well known that any stress-energy that might give rise to a wormhole must violate one or more of the cherished energy conditions of classical general relativity [4, 5] . Hence wormholes cannot arise as solutions of classical relativity and matter. If they exist, they must belong to the realm of semiclassical or perhaps quantum gravity. In the realm of semiclassical gravity, one sets the Einstein tensor equal to the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor operator of the quantized fields present:
Gμν=8π⟨Tμν⟩. (1)
A primary technical difficulty in semiclassical gravity is that ⟨Tμν⟩ depends strongly on the metric and is generally difficult to calculate. Until recently, all calculations of ⟨Tμν⟩ have been performed on fixed classical backgrounds. The fixed background in turn, as its name implies, must be a solution of the classical Einstein equation. As there are no classical wormhole backgrounds, no corresponding semiclassical back-reaction problem can be set up meaningfully.
In this Letter we present and summarize the results of the first self-consistent wormhole solutions of semiclassical Einstein gravity. Prior to this, a self-consistent wormhole solution had been obtained using a phenomenological stress tensor not derived from quantum field theory [17] . The results of the present calculation may be taken as numerical evidence for the existence of Lorentzian wormholes. For the source term in (1) we employ the stress-energy tensor of Anderson, Hiscock and Samuel, which is calculated for a quantized scalar field in an arbitrary static and spherically symmetric spacetime [18] . This means that in the field equation (1), both the Einstein tensor as well as the stress tensor individually depend on two independent functions of the radial coordinate. When supplemented with the appropriate set of boundary conditions, the solutions of the resultant coupled nonlinear differential equations are therefore self-consistent because both the spacetime metric and the distribution of stress-energy are determined simultaneously and coherently. This should be contrasted clearly with, and distinguished from, the approach taken in perturbative back-reaction problems in which the (background) spacetime is fixed once and for all, and the stress tensor is supplied as an explicitly known function of that fixed background.
In the following, we set up the semiclassical field equations valid for any static and spherically symmetric spacetime containing quantized scalar matter and discuss the nature of the boundary conditions needed for solving this system of fourth-order equations. We consider the case of a conformally coupled scalar field. Results of the numerical calculations are presented graphically and we appeal to an approximate but analytic treatment to reveal the important asymptotic behavior of the solution. Further details of this and related calculations will appear in a separate paper.
The metric for a general static and spherically symmetric spacetime can be cast into the form
ds2=−f(l)dt2+dl2+r2(l)(dθ2+sin2θdϕ2), (2)
where f(l),r(l) are two independent functions of the proper distance l. This form of the metric is suitable for dealing with wormholes, or for that matter, any static and spherically symmetric spacetime which might contain a throat, i.e., r(0)>0. Following the established nomenclature, f is denoted the redshift function and r is known as the shape function [14] . In this metric, the semiclassical field equations take the form [19]
Gνμ(f(l),r(l))=8π⟨Tνμ(f(l),r(l);ξ)⟩, (3)
where ξ is the (non-minimal) scalar coupling to the metric. Note the dependence of both sides of the equation (3) on the two unknown functions. In the metric (2), the components of the Einstein tensor are given by Gtt=2r′′r+r′2r2−1r2,Gll=f′r′fr+r′2r2−1r2, and Gθθ=f′′2f+r′′r+f′r′2fr−f′24f2; the prime denotes the derivative with respect to l. An accurate analytic approximation to the exact numerically calculated scalar field stress energy tensor was developed in Ref. [18] and is expressed there as
⟨Tνμ⟩analytic=(Tνμ)0+(ξ−16)(Tνμ)1+(ξ−16)2(Tνμ)2+(Tνμ)log, (4)
where the individual factors (Tνμ)0,1,2 are written in terms of two functions of the radial coordinate. The last factor (Tνμ)log was left in terms of combinations of curvature tensors and covariant derivatives [20] . To be of practical use in the present calculation, we must work out these curvature terms and transform all the factors in (4) in terms of our two functions f(l),r(l) of the proper distance l. Carrying out these straightforward but rather lengthy steps we find that the semiclassical Einstein equations for a conformally coupled scalar (ξ=16) are as follows (K2=15760π): the tt component:
2r′′r+r′2r2−1r2=
K2[32r4+7f′4f4−24f′3r′f3r+24f′2r′2f2r2−32r′4r4+4f′2f′′f3−12f′′2f2+80f′2r′′f2r
−160f′r′r′′fr2+128r′2r′′r3−64f′′r′′fr+32r′′2r2−16f′f′′′f2+64r′f′′′fr−96f′r′′′fr−64r′r′′′r2
+16f′′′′f−64r′′′′r+lnf(16r4−49f′4f4+44f′3r′f3r+20f′2r′2f2r2−16r′4r4+16f′2f′′f3
−104f′r′f′′f2r−36f′′2f2+8f′2r′′f2r−80f′r′r′′fr2+64r′2r′′r3+16f′′r′′fr+16r′′2r2−48f′f′′′f2
+64r′f′′′fr−16f′r′′′fr−32r′r′′′r2+16f′′′′f−32r′′′′r)],
the ll component:
f′r′fr+r′2r2−1r2=
K2[f′4f4−16f′3r′f3r+64f′r′3fr3−4f′2f′′f3+64f′r′f′′f2r−64r′2f′′fr2−4f′′2f2−48f′2r′′f2r
+32f′r′r′′fr2+32f′′r′′fr+8f′f′′′f2−32r′f′′′fr−32f′r′′′fr+lnf(16r4+7f′4f4−20f′3r′f3r
−4f′2r′2f2r+32f′r′3fr3−16r′4r4−12f′2f′′f3+48f′r′f′′f2r−32r′2f′′fr2−4f′′2f2−16f′2r′′f2r
+16f′r′r′′fr2+16f′′r′′fr−16r′′2r2+8f′f′′′f2−16r′f′′′fr−16f′r′′′fr+32r′r′′′r2)],
the θθ component:
f′′2f+r′′r+f′r′2fr−f′24f2=
K2[17f′4f4−16f′3r′f3r−32f′r′3fr3−52f′2f′′f3+32f′r′f′′f2r+32r′2f′′fr2+28f′′2f2+16f′2r′′f2r
−12f′3r′f3r−8f′2r′2f2r2−16f′r′3fr3+16r′4r4−52f′2f′′f3+28f′r′f′′f2r+16r′2f′′fr2+20f′′2f2
+4f′2r′′f2r+32f′r′r′′fr2−32r′2r′′r3−16f′′r′′fr+20f′f′′′f2−24r′f′′′fr+16f′r′′′fr−8f′′′′f+16r′′′′r)].
The full expressions for the general ξ-dependent components of the Einstein equations are too lengthy to be shown here.
In order to solve the above field equations, we must supply an appropriate set of boundary conditions. Note that the tt and θθ-equations are fourth order differential equations in the two functions f and r while the ll-equation is third order. This latter equation is actually a constraint which plays the role of restricting the solutions of the coupled fourth order differential equations [21] . Since we seek wormhole solutions of (1), we shall specify the boundary data at l=0, the origin of proper distance as measured from the throat. The complete set of boundary conditions therefore requires specifying eight pieces of information, namely f(0),f′(0),f′′(0),f′′′(0) as well as r(0),r′(0),r′′(0) and r′′′(0). In particular, r(0) is the (wormhole) throat radius, and we can use the ll-equation to derive an exact relation between r(0) and just three initial conditions. In order to do so, let us recall the boundary conditions appropriate to a wormhole (or more generally, for any spacetime with a throat). If a solution of (1) is to possess a throat, then we must require that r(0)>0,r′(0)=0 and r′′(0)≥0. In other words, there must exist a sphere of minimum radius located at the origin of proper distance. So r(l) is simply a positive increasing function of l in the neighborhood of the origin. For two-way passage through the wormhole, it is judicious to avoid solutions with horizons at the throat. This is taken care of by requiring a (locally) nonvanishing redshift function: f(0)>0 (the other possibility, f(0)<0, leads to a Euclidean metric). The chain rule also provides an additional constraint: namely r′(0)=0→f′(0)=0 [22] . We may ask that the redshift be a locally increasing function: f′′(0)≥0. These constitute the minimum requirements. Beyond this, one could impose a symmetry on the solutions of the form r(l)=r(−l) and f(l)=f(−l) which automatically eliminates all the odd derivatives: r(2n+1)(0)=f(2n+1)(0)=0. In particular, one can set r′′′(0)=f′′′(0)=0. Taken together, these give the boundary conditions appropriate to a wormhole. However, one can not choose freely all the eight boundary conditions independently. This is easily seen by writing out the ll-equation (6) at the point l=0, which yields an algebraic quartic equation for the throat radius r(0):
−4(f′′(0)f(0))2[1+ln(f(0))]r(0)4 + 32(f′′(0)r′′(0)f(0))[1+12ln(f(0))]r(0)3
+ [K−2−16r′′(0)2ln(f(0))]r(0)2+16ln(f(0))=0,
where we have used only that r′(0)=f′(0)=0. Indeed, it is important to note that this constraining relation is independent of the values assigned to the third derivatives f′′′(0) and r′′′(0). With some effort, this quartic equation can be solved for r(0), though the resulting expressions are not particularly transparent. However, it suffices for our purposes to consider (8) in certain simplifying but natural cases in order to get a feeling for the allowed range in r(0). In this way, we have found that large throat radii can result even for values of f(0),f′′(0) and r′′(0) of order unity. As case in point, taking f(0)=f′′(0)=1, r′′(0)=0 and ξ=16 yields r(0)≈67lP where lP is the Planck length. Larger (and smaller) throat radii are also possible depending on the values chosen for the other boundary data and the scalar coupling constant ξ.
We now turn to our specific calculations of r(l) and f(l) subject to the above class of boundary conditions. Employing the Rugge-Kutta method, we have obtained a good numerical solution of these equations using the following boundary conditions for f(l) and r(l) at the throat l=0:
−1≤lnf(0)<0;f′(0)=0;f′′(0)=0;f′′′(0)=0; (9)
r(0)=√−16K2lnf(0);r′(0)=0;r′′(0)=0;r′′′(0)=0
The graphs which represent a particular numerical solution for lnf(0)=−23 for various length scales are displayed below. The redshift function f(l) is plotted versus proper distance in Figures 1a and 1b; both axes have been scaled by K−2. In Fig. 1b, we see that f(l) is a positive increasing function. Actually, there is a fine-structure in the form of Planck-scale "ripples" or spatial oscillations superimposed on this function; these are not numerical artifacts. These oscillations are clearly revealed in the "blow-up" graph in Fig. 1a. The wormhole's shape function r(l) is depicted in Figs. 2a and 2b. In Fig. 2a one sees the throat, of radius r(0)≈0.02lP, in the neighborhood of the origin extending out to about 10K−2 at which point the wormhole "flares" out, marking the onset of the superimposed small-scale oscillations. The graph in Fig. 2b shows the gross features of the shape function. As remarked below, the oscillations in both f(l) and r(l) are composed of two different modes. Of course, since both f and r are even functions, their graphs can be reflected through the origin: l→−l. The wormhole's embedding diagram is easily inferred from the Figures 2a and 2b.
It is important to know the asymptotic behavior of f(l) and r(l). To get at this information, we carried out an asymptotic analysis of the Einstein equations (5-7) taking into account and guided by the results of the numerical investigation. From the numerical calculations, we see that for sufficiently large l, both the redshift and shape functions can be represented as a sum of two distinct components f(l)=F(l)+ϕ(l);r(l)=R(l)+ρ(l), where F(l) and R(l) are strictly monotone increasing and ϕ(l) and ρ(l) are bounded oscillating functions.
The relative magnitudes of these components and their derivatives may be estimated straightforwardly and then used to expand consistently the coupled Einstein equations. We find that the oscillating modulation is composed of two modes with frequencies ω21=116K2 and ω22=116K2(4+3lnF), respectively, while in the limit of large l, R(l)≈l and F(l)≈(alnl−b)2 for a=5.3 and b=25.5.
From these combined numeric and analytic calculations we see that for the chosen set of boundary conditions, R(l)→l, thus our self-consistent wormhole connects two spatial regions which are asymptotically flat, modulo the Planck-scale wiggles. The redshift function however, does not approach a constant value as l→∞, so the metric as a whole is not asymptotically flat. We have found additional self-consistent solutions of (1) by taking different values for the scalar coupling and the boundary data. In this way, we have found local solutions which correspond to large throat (r(0)≈200−300lP) wormholes with horizons located far from the throat and wormholes connecting two bounded spatial regions. A full account of these calculations will appear in a separate publication.
The work of S.V.S and A.P. was supported in part by the Russian Foundation of Fundamental Research grant No. 96-02-17366a.
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[19] We use units such that ℏ=c=G=1 and our sign conventions follow those of C.W. Misner, K.S. Thorne and J.A. Wheeler, Gravitation (Freeman, San Francisco, 1973).
[20] We have also set the scalar mass and temperature to zero: m=κ=0. In this case, the arbitrary renormalization scale parameter μ appearing in (Tνμ)log can be absorbed into the definition of f.
[21] This can be checked, for example, by writing the set of three field equations as an equivalent set of (eight) coupled first-order equations plus one algebraic equation. The radial equation reduces to the algebraic transcendental equation in f and r, i.e., it is a constraint.
[22] This follows from evaluating the identity r′(l)df(r)dr=f′(l) at l=0.
Figure 1a: The redshift function on small scales
Figure 1b: The redshift function on large scales
Figure 2a: The wormhole shape function on small scales
Figure 2b: The wormhole shape function on large scales
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package controllers

import com.github.tototoshi.play2.json4s.native._
import org.demo.core.{WithPrimaryKey}
import play.api.mvc.{Action, Controller}

//import org.json4s.JsonAST.{JValue, JString}
import org.json4s._
import org.supler.{SuplerData, EmptyPath, Supler}
import org.supler.field._
import org.supler.validation._
import org.supler.field.ActionResult
abstract class APICrudController[E <: WithPrimaryKey] extends Controller with Json4s{
  import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
  import org.json4s.native.JsonMethods._
  import helpers.JsonImplicits._
  implicit val formats = DefaultFormats
  //Default instance of the entity type,`E`
  var entity:Option[E]
  //Default supler form mapping used in all API functions below
  val entityForm:org.supler.Form[E]
  //Default save supler action for the form
  val saveAction = Supler.action[E]("save") { p =>
    entity = Some(p)
    println(s"Persisted: $entity")
    ActionResult.custom(JString("Persisted: " + entity))
  }.label("Save").validateAll()
  val entityFormWithSave:org.supler.Form[E]

  def getNew = Action.async { implicit request =>
    scala.concurrent.Future {
        println("Getting fresh object..")
        import org.supler.validation._
        import spray.httpx.Json4sSupport
        val emptyEntity = entityForm.createEmpty()
        println(s"Using empty entity - $emptyEntity")
        play.api.mvc.Results.Ok(entityFormWithSave(emptyEntity).withMeta("uid","").doValidate(ValidateFilled).generateJSON)
    }
  }

  def create = Action.async(json) { implicit request =>
      scala.concurrent.Future {
        println(s"create:${request.body}")
        val newEntity = entityFormWithSave.withNewEmpty.applyJSONValues(request.body).obj
        //FIXME: In reality, save this new entity and assign the new ID
        val persistedEntityID:Option[Int] = Some(1)
        println(entityFormWithSave(newEntity).withMeta("id",persistedEntityID.getOrElse(0).toString))
        //val suplerData:SuplerData[E] = entityFormWithSave(newEntity).withMeta("id",persistedEntityID.getOrElse(0).toString).process(request.body)
        val suplerData:SuplerData[E] = entityFormWithSave(newEntity).withMeta("uid","1").process(request.body)
        println(s"SuplerData for create: ${suplerData.toString}")
        play.api.mvc.Results.Created(suplerData.generateJSON)
      }
  }

  def update(id:Int) = Action.async(json) { implicit request =>
    scala.concurrent.Future {
      println(s"update:${request.body}")
      //Entity can be saved in data storage here
      val id = entityFormWithSave.getMeta(request.body)("uid")
      println(s"uid:$id")
      //Get entity based on input ID
      //FIXME: For testing using predefined object with id - 1
      val existingEntity:Option[E] = entity
      existingEntity.map(providedEntity => {
        play.api.mvc.Results.Created(entityFormWithSave(providedEntity).process(request.body).generateJSON)
      }).getOrElse({
        play.api.mvc.Results.NotFound(s"Object not found with id - $id")
      })
    }
  }

  def get(id:Int) = Action.async { implicit request =>
      scala.concurrent.Future {
        //FIXME: Get the entity object from the data storage
        val existingEntity: Option[E] = entity
        if (existingEntity.isDefined) {
          import spray.httpx.Json4sSupport
          play.api.mvc.Results.Ok(entityFormWithSave(existingEntity.get).generateJSON)
        } else {
          play.api.mvc.Results.NotFound(s"Object not found with id - $id")
        }
      }
  }
}

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