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Moog "The finest new Moogs you've ever seen" black & white advertisement including Memorymoog, Taurus II and DSC (Digital Sequential Controller) from page 55 in the January 1982 issue of Keyboard Magazine.
Just in the process of filling in a few embarrassing holes in my early 80s Moog ads - and this is a big hole.
It all started when I woke up the other morning and was reading the Synthesizer Freaks Facebook group. Someone had posted this Moog advertisement and I got excited to add my 2 cents because I recalled that it was actually the first in a pair of ads - the second "reveal" ad appearing in the following February issue. I went to the blog and found the second ad, but oddly, that post didn't reference the first ad. When I went too find this first ad it became apparent that I NEVER POSTED IT!!! What the heck?!?!
Well, fixed that! And glad I did. I enjoy this short series of ads a lot.
First, looking at the both side by side you can see they have that Wizard of Oz thing going on - first ad in black & white - second ad in colour. Like Moog has just dropped their new products onto the Wicked Witch of the West.
Next - the descriptions for the three hidden items make me drool as much now as it probably did when I read the ad the first time. Especially the low-cost pedal synthesizer with DETACHABLE electronics. Yum.
Also, the reference librarian in me likes any advertisement that specifically references other events occurring around the time the ad is published. In this case - Winter NAMM show, Booth #409, February 5-7.
Well, happy to tie off that loose end!


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Erden Eruç achieved a human powered circumnavigation, the first self-propelled circumnavigation of the globe. By the time he returned to his starting point at Bodega Bay on 21 July 2012, 5 years 11 days had passed.
Eruç is the most experienced ocean rower alive in the world with 876 career days spent on the world's oceans. His historic achievements include being the first one to have rowed three different oceans, the first one to have rowed the complete Indian Ocean mainland to mainland, the first one to have completed a human powered ocean crossing which began in the southern hemisphere and concluded in the northern, and the longest distance by human power on the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea by 5,415 nm and 1,709 nm respectively. Erden also holds the Guinness World Record for the longest time at sea for a singlehanded rower by 312 days. His mainland to mainland crossing in 154 days from Lüderitz in Africa to Guiria in South America arriving on 11 March 2012, became the second row in history between these two continents.
In Stage 1 of the Six Summits Project, Eruç reached the summit of Mt. McKinley by human power from Seattle in May 2003. In Stage 2, his goal was to summit Kosciuszko in Australia starting from his home in Seattle. This was achieved in April 2010. Kilimanjaro in Africa was the destination in Stage 3 which was reached on June 14, 2011.
Founded to honor the legacy of fallen friends, our goal at Around-n-Over is to create educational opportunities from the experiences surrounding human powered journeys, and to use the same as co-fundraising programs toward our charitable goals. Please refer to our Score Card page for progress in our charitable and educational programs. Until now, Around-d-Over has leveraged over 100,000 USD toward charitable programs.
Six Summits Project has three remaining summits to reach by human power: Everest, Elbrus and Aconcagua.
STAGE 1: (summary page)
In 2003, Erden Eruç bicycled 5,546 miles roundtrip from Seattle to Denali (Mt. McKinley) towing all climbing gear (WHY?)
Walked in 67 miles over glaciers to reach base camp
Climbed 20,320 feet (6,194 meters), achieving a Sea-to-Summit climb of Denali - by human power
In May 2007, Erden bicycled from Seattle to the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon for his launch on the Pacific Ocean.
The starting point of the Pacific row was later moved from Tiburon to Bodega Bay, to avoid the strong tides at the Golden Gate. Erden bicycled from Tiburon to Bodega Bay to set the stage for departure.
Bodega Bay thus became the starting point of Erden's human powered circumnavigation.
After five weeks of waiting for the right conditions, Erden was finally able to launch his ocean rowing boat from Bodega Bay on July 10, 2007. His intentions were to reach Australia by rowing to climb the summit of Mt. Kosciuszko, which will be the second summit on the Six Summits list.
Erden reached the waters of Papua New Guinea and ended his crossing until after the typhoon season. 312 days spent on the Pacific Ocean became the new Guinness World Record for the longest time at sea by a solo ocean rower.
Erden returned to the same spot to row another 20 days on the Bismarck Sea, making landfall at Finsch Harbor on the north shores of Papua New Guinea. He became the 4th person to row the Pacific Ocean solo east to west
After beach walking from Finsch Harbor to Bukawa near Lae, PNG, Erden continued along the Solomon Sea shores until Oro Bay by sea kayak.
The tough Kokoda Track became the route south on the coast to coast walk from Oro Bay to Port Moresby, arriving on November 26.
The Coral Sea crossing was completed in 33 days between 8 December 2009 and 10 January 2010, by rowing from Port Moresby to Sharp Point near the tip of Cape York.
Between January 28 and February 15, Erden used a sea kayak to paddle south along the far northeast shores of the Cape York Peninsula to reach Cooktown.
3,607 km of pedaling brought Erden from Cooktown to Thredbo, an alpine village at the base of Mt. Kosciuszko, second on the list of Six Summits Project, then climbed it on April 10.
Until June 2010, Erden bicycled from Thredbo to Fremantle where he prepared his rowboat for the Indian Ocean.
He bicycled north to Carnarvon and launched on the Indian Ocean on July 13, 2010.
When he made landfall at Mahajanga in Madagascar after 137 days at sea, the London based Ocean Rowing Society declared Erden "the first person to row three oceans."
Erden rowed 26 additional days across the Mozambique Channel and reached Angoche in Mozambique on April 20, 2011. This completed the "first ever mainland to mainland crossing of the Indian Ocean" from Australia to Africa.
He bicycle from Angoche in Mozambique to Arusha in Tanzania then climbed Kilimanjaro. Summit day was 14 June 2011.
Visiting the Mateves Secondary School near Arusha which is one of our charitable causes, was part of this effort.
HOME STRETCH: (Overall summary document)
Erden bicycled across Africa to reach Lüderitz in Namibia then resumed his human powered circumnavigation journey by rowing 154 days across the South Atlantic to Guiria in Venezuela.
Within 10 days, Erden had transferred his rowboat from Guiria to Carupano, bicycled the short distance in between then relaunched by rowboat on the Caribbean Sea.
He rowed nonstop across the Caribbean, through the Yucatan Channel to reach Cameron in Lousiana in May 2012.
Erden continued west to Bodega Bay by bicycle to conclude his human powered circumnavigation on 21 July 2012.
We hope that you followed along:
If you have Google Earth installed on your computer, you can see the entire circumnavigation effort here.
Dispatches are on our home page, progress charts available from the buttons in the upper right corner of the same.
PRIOR SUCCESS:
On sabbatical from the Six Summits Project, Erden Eruç rowed alone from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands to the island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Sea. The row had started in Lisbon as a pair, arriving at Las Palmas on December 11, 2005. The solo Atlantic crossing time of 92 days which began on January 29, 2006 in Las Palmas, put Erden into the Caribbean Sea on May 2. On May 5, Erden made landfall at the island of Guadeloupe. With this solo crossing from the Canaries to Guadeloupe, Erden became the 33rd person in history to row across the Atlantic East to West single-handed.
92 days across the Atlantic solo from Canary Islands, landfall at Guadeloupe on day 96!!!
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Ocean Rowing Society -- Home Page -- Maps by ARGOS Beacon
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Why are we doing this?
We are in the business of realizing dreams, and helping others achieve theirs.
There are dreams that never go away. They live inside us. We learn to live with them. We tuck them away. We try to ignore them. We have commitments in the city. We feel guilty to even consider those dreams. Sometimes we indulge, lifting our eyes off the pages of a magazine with colorful pictures, and gaze into the distance. These dreams most often define the true individual inside us that wants to come alive.
Why is it that we accept as final our boundaries, and never reach beyond them? Is it because, as we grew up, we were told "to get real," or "to come down to earth" enough times that we are now set in our ways?
We are on this journey together to tell young students that dreams are possible with due diligence. We want to show them that they too can realize their dreams if they keep a positive outlook for life, seek proper advice and decide to take the necessary steps forward. We want to demonstrate that with collaboration comes understanding, and with understanding comes peace, which brings out the beauty in humanity.
But still: why take on such a long and demanding journey just to make that point? And why the summits?
One such dream was the path that Erden Eruç traced on a world map at his workplace in 1997. The path defined a human powered journey around the northern hemisphere, traversing over the summit of Everest on his way. This was the first time that he uttered "around and over" which later morphed to name this nonprofit. It sparked years of research and planning which evolved. When Erden met Göran Kropp, there was mutual excitement about the possibilities, and Göran offered encouragement while affirming Erden's dream. An unfortunate accident while rock climbing together led to Göran's death, and Erden decided to start his human powered journey around the world. To honor Göran's spirit, Erden's journey now includes reaching the highest summit on each of six consecutive continents along the way. He will touch these "from the sea to the summit" after approaching them by human power. The route has now evolved into a true circumnavigation.
The goal of Around-n-Over is to motivate and to educate students in elementary and middle schools. We have offered presentations which engaged the students, covering goal setting, realizing dreams, overcoming obstacles, and dealing with tragedy while using the journey as the backdrop. We have offered sessions with high school students where career choices, technology applications to adventure, business aspects of our project were the topics of discussion.
Our goal has been to remain environmentally conscious in our journey and in our presentations to empower the children with the skills to carry themselves responsibly in life and on their own mini-expeditions into the outdoors. Supporting the İLKYAR Foundation in Turkey and helping build additional classrooms at the Mateves Secondary School near Arusha in Tanzania have been our charitable projects. In the long run, we will become enablers, helping other adventurers to achieve their dreams, which will keep the inspirational stories in front of children.
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There is a petition on Number 10's web site about banning the use of the word Unlimited in advertising when the subject of the advert is not, in fact, unlimited. This is a common untruth, nay a lie, used most commonly in advertising broadband or other Internet access in the UK. If you have ever bought Broadband in the UK labelled as Unlimited, check your T's & C's and you'll most likely find that you're limited to a certain amount of usage every month. That's not what I call unlimited!
Ban the use of the word 'Unlimited' if the subject in question is limited.


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Academie française seeks to remove references in English
Sawyer Hogarthe January 7, 2022 2 min read
Edited by Oceane Théard, Gauthier Delomez
9:00 am, January 07, 2022 Changed in,
The French Academy of Criticisms of the new National Identity Card (CNI), translated into English, points to a "violation of the Constitution" that came into force on August 2, 2021. The "Immortals" are threatening to seize the state to remove these non-French-language references.
"Family name" next to "name", "given names" next to "first name" … these English languages may appear Your New National Identity Card (CNI)
, And make the members of the French Academy jump in wanting to see them disappear. From the spring of 2021, when the new document was issued, the company opposed this translation into English. The "Immortals" are advancing again and threatening to seize State Board
Attack on the "language of the country"
"We protested and everyone published articles saying it was not normal. It did not provoke any reaction," lamented Helen Guerrero de Encos, the permanent secretary of the French Academy, at Europe 1's microphone. "First, we've talked to the Prime Minister, we'll see what he has to say, he's going to repeal this rule, or we'll take legal action.
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse is the Permanent Secretary of the Academy Franchise.
Credit: Oceane Théard
For "immortals", this translation is unconstitutional, saying it is the "language of the French Republic". "It's out of place compared to the French language," says Helen Carer D'encos. "It's not just another language in this country, it's the language of this country," he adds. "This suggests that the French language is not enough to describe someone, to describe the most basic things," the permanent secretary of the academy asks.
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For those of you who were around during the original release of Microsoft's BitLocker, previously known as Secure Startup, you will remember that it was meant to completely eliminate the necessity for third-party security software. Yes, BitLocker was going to secure our machines against all forms of attack and make sure we never again lost data.
BitLocker is actually pretty good. It is nicely integrated into Windows, it does its job well, and it is really simple to operate. As it was designed to "protect the integrity of the operating system," most who use it implemented it in TPM mode, which requires no user involvement to boot the machine.
And that's where problems started.
Hands up: How many people have a TPM chip on their laptop? Everyone, we bet. It's a ubiquitous piece of hardware nowadays. OK, another show of hands for those who have enabled, and taken ownership of the chip? "Taken ownership?" You remember going through the personalization phase of the chip, enabling it in the BIOS, etc.? Remember, all TPMs are shipped disabled and deactivated.
You didn't do that before you deployed your laptops? In that case, BitLocker will be a bit of a struggle for you.
Fact 1. To use BitLocker without adding additional authentication, you need an enabled, owned TPM1.2+ hardware chip.
Fact 2. BitLocker with TPM-only protection is vulnerable to cold boot, Firewire, and BIOS keyboard buffer attacks.
There are some pretty simple attacks on TPM-only machines. Search for "BitLocker Firewire," "BitLocker cold boot," or "BitLocker forensic tool" and you'll find lots of research, and even a few tools that will unlock your nice "protected" machine and recover the data. There was even a trivial method that allowed an attacker to gain access to a BitLocker protected system as late as November 2015 (8 years after BitLocker's initial release); this has only recently been patched.
To make a machine secure, and by that we mean give you protection against having to disclose lots of personal information to all your customers if the machine goes missing, you need to use some form of pre-Windows authentication (with or without TPM; it makes no difference). Even Microsoft recommends this mode of operation.
For BitLocker, turning on authentication gives you a couple of choices. You can set a pin for the machine, and, if you want, you can also use a USB storage device (a memory stick, not a smart card) as a token. We wrote "pin"; we certainly did not write "your Windows user ID and password." In fact, we didn't mention users at all. BitLocker officially supports one login, so if more than one person uses a machine, you're going to have to share that with everyone.
Fact 3. BitLocker is secure only if you use a pin or USB stick for authentication.
Fact 4. There is no link between your Windows credentials and BitLocker credentials.
Fact 5. BitLocker does not support the concept of more than one user.
Even Microsoft's official advice tells you to use a 6+char pin, plus TPM for authentication—no using it in TPM-only mode.
So now your lucky BitLocker users have PCs protected, maybe with a TPM, but certainly with some form of authentication that is shared between the owner of the machine and with you (as administrator), and probably the system guys. You probably have an Excel spreadsheet with everyone's pin.
We hope so, because when those users start forgetting their pins, who's at the end of the phone? The good news is the pin never changes. There's no forced change or lifetime. That doesn't fit with your password policy? Did we mention that the PIN can be made only from the function keys, not the normal letter keys, unless you configure a special enhanced PIN mode that does not work on non-USA keyboards? Did we mention there are no complexity or content rules apart from length?
Fact 6. BitLocker PINs are usually Fn-key based. BitLocker does not support non-US keyboards.
For all of you who have implemented public key infrastructure smart cards, bought laptops with fingerprint sensors, or who have tokens such as ActivIdentity, common access cards, personal identity verification, etoken keys, Datakey cards, SafeNet cards, etc. You'd like to be able to use them for authentication to your PCs, wouldn't you?
Fact 7. BitLocker supports only USB storage devices and PINs—no integration with any other token.
Fact 8. Active Directory and additional servers are required to administrate BitLocker in a corporate environment.
There are Active Directory–based methods. The Group Policy Object settings will let you store the (fixed) recovery key in your AD. I'm not sure how you feel about that data getting propagated to every controller in your forest, but I'm sure you know and trust every AD administrator in your organization who (now) has access to those keys. If someone were to dump those keys and then quit, what would you do? It's not as if the key ever expires. We guess you could write a program and then run it on every machine to recreate the keys, or write down the recovery key and give it to the user to hold onto.
Let's review why we are going through this effort. The flippant answer is "because we were told to secure our machines," but what does that mean? Most likely your company falls under one of the 250+ global laws defining and mandating the protection of people's personal data, social security numbers, health information, credit card numbers, etc. Regulations such as PCI, HIPAA, HITECH, SOX, etc. You want to use BitLocker to encrypt your machines because when they get lost or stolen, you won't have to pay fines, or tell everyone you lost their data. You lost the machine, sure, but because the data was encrypted, no one can get access to it.
That the data was indeed protected at the time of loss.
That the protection method was appropriate given the type of data.
Fact 9. You need extra software to prove BitLocker was enabled and protecting the drive at the time of the theft to claim protection from personally identifiable information laws.
We know how to set GPOs etc. to mandate the use of BitLocker, but we also know how easy it is for a user to turn it off. Setting up an MBAM server with all its associated requirements (such as an additional SQL server) would increase your complexity as well as causing you to write scripts to perform automated deployments. We don't know of anything in Active Directory that gives me a definitive answer as to the state of protection of a given machine. There's even a command-line tool that can be run to completely (un)configure it. We need something that reports on the state of protection of a lost machine. Saying "Well, the policy says it should be encrypted" is not enough. Perhaps a reader can help out?
Let's finally take a look at implementing this solution. You do have a 100% Windows enterprise environment, don't you? What if you still have some XP, Vista, Business, or Macs? Are you going to leave those machines unprotected, or are you planning to run a mix of third-party software and BitLocker?
Fact 10. BitLocker encryption and administration supports only Windows—with no support for other operating systems, such as Mac or Linux.
You may think that we are not great fans of BitLocker—yet that's far from the truth. We would use it, and would recommend it to friends. We see it as really good for technical, trustworthy users. But that's not the market it's being promoted for. Nothing fills us with dread more than an enterprise product that requires yet another password, requires specific hardware that is not enabled by default, presents a black screen with white text to users (so archaic), does not conform to our recognized password/PIN lifetime policies, does not work on non-USA machines, and does not have audit-friendly output for the main purpose it serves, namely, to tell us whether this stolen machine is a liability.
Only one of the three machines he uses has a USA keyboard, so he can use Fn-mode PINs.
It never forces him to change his PIN.
He can turn it on and off whenever he likes without corporate IT people knowing.
He gets to use the TPM chip, even though it took him a whole day to work out how to enable it.
He gets a nice DOS-like screen when he turns on his machine, just like 20 years ago.
BitLocker is mostly controlled through a command-line script (Manage-bde).
His local IT team can't come and use his machine, or see what's stored on it without his knowing.
He just likes things to be done the hard way.
The post With Release of Windows 10, Questions About BitLocker Arise Again appeared first on McAfee Blogs.
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UBC Campus, Room WMAX 110 (PIMS)
4:30-5:20 Ronald van Luijk (PIMS/SFU/UBC)
Cubic points on cubic curves and the Brauer-Manin obstruction on K3 surfaces
Abstract: It is well-known that not all varieties over Q satisfy the Hasse principle. The famous Selmer curve given by 3x3 + 4y3 + 5z3 = 0 in P2, for instance, indeed has points over every completion of Q, but no points over Q itself. Though it is trivial to find points over some cubic field, it is a priori not obvious whether there are points over a cubic field that is galois. We will see that such points do exist. K3 surfaces do not satisfy the Hasse principle either, which in some cases can be explained by the so-called Brauer-Manin obstruction. It is not known whether this obstruction is the only obstruction to the existence of rational points on K3 surfaces. We relate the two problems by sketching a proof of the following fact. If there exists a smooth curve over Q given by ax3 + by3 + cz3 = 0 that is locally solvable everywhere, and that has no points over any cubic galois extension of Q, then the algebraic part of the Brauer-Manin obstruction is not the only one for K3 surfaces. No previous knowledge about Brauer-Manin obstructions or K3 surfaces will be necessary.
λ(λ(n)): A case study in analytic number theory
Abstract: A 2005 result of Carl Pomerance and myself identifies the normal order (that is, the asymptotic size for 100% of integers) of the twice-iterated Carmichael lambda-function λ(λ(n)), a function that arises when considering an exponential pseudorandom number generator xk+1 ≡ xkC (mod n). Often I suppress most of the technical details of the multi-stage proof in talks on this topic; however, today I will use the result as an excuse to point out the techniques involved, techniques that might be labeled "Erdős mathematics" — elementary yet involved and (in his case) inspired calculations.
4:10-5:00 Michael Bennett
Powers in progression, Chebotarev, and Hilbert class polynomials
Abstract: I will sketch some rather odd connections between ternary Diophantine equations, the Chebotarev Density Theorem and heights of Hilbert class polynomials evaluated at rational arguments.
SFU Campus, Room ASB 10900 (IRMACS)
simulcast on UBC Campus, Room WMAX 110 (PIMS)
3:00-3:50 Tony Shaska (Oakland University)
Genus two curves which admit a degree 5 map to an elliptic curve
Abstract: We study genus 2 curves C that admit a cover C → E to a genus 1 curve E of prime degree n. These curves C form an irreducible 2-dimensional subvariety Ln of the moduli space M2 of genus 2 curves. Here we study the case n=5. This extends earlier work for degree 2 and 3, aimed at illuminating the theory for general n. We compute a normal form for the curves in the locus L5 and its three distinguished subloci. Further, we compute the equation of the elliptic subcover in all cases, give a birational parametrization of the subloci of L5 as subvarieties of M2 and classify all curves in these loci which have extra automorphisms.
An extension of a p-adic algorithm due to Boyd, and consequences
Abstract: I will talk about a computational problem that I recently encountered. Suppose that p is an odd prime and y is rational, then define Jp(y) = {n : Σ1≤j≤n yj/j ≡ 0 (mod p)} . I have shown that it is possible to obtain results such as |J13(9)| = 18763, |J47(8)| = 27024, and |J7(2)| = 0. I will mention ways to apply my method to sums involving Fibonacci numbers, connections to classical problems, and a possible connection with mirror maps.
simulcast on SFU Campus, Room ASB 10900 (IRMACS)
3:00-3:50 Youness Lamzouri (Université de Montréal)
The two-dimensional distribution of values of ζ(1+it)
Abstract: In 1928, Littlewood proved that |ζ(1+it)| < (2eγ+o(1)) log log t assuming the Riemann Hypothesis, and conjectured that maxt≤T |ζ(1+it)| ∼ eγ log log T. Recently, Granville and Soundararajan computed the distribution function of |ζ(1+it)|, giving strong evidence for Littlewood's Conjecture. In this talk, we present several results on the joint distribution function of arg ζ(1+it) and |ζ(1+it)|. One consequence of our work is that almost all values ζ(1+it) with large norm (close to the conjectured maximum) are concentrated near the positive real axis. Indeed, we prove that the larger the arguments, the more it becomes rare to find values with large norm. Also for t ∈ [T,2T] and τ < (eγ+o(1)) log log T, we show that arg ζ(1+it) with |ζ(1+it)| ≈ τ is normally distributed with mean zero and variance depending on τ. Finally we prove similar results in the case of L(1,χ), where χ varies over non-principal characters modulo a large prime q.
3:00-3:50 Patrick Ingram (University of Toronto)
Diophantine approximation in arithmetic dynamics
Abstract: In 1978, Lang conjectured a lower bound on the canonical height of a non-torsion point on an elliptic curve which depends on various data related to the curve. This conjecture remains open (although there are several partial results). Much more recently, Silverman posited a more general conjecture about lower bounds on canonical heights in "arithmetic dynamical systems" (that is, systems defined by a morphism mapping a variety to itself), which at least roughly reduces to Lang's Conjecture when the underlying system is that defined by the multiplication-by-n map on an elliptic curve (n > 1). We'll discuss the first result towards Silverman's conjecture in which the underlying structure is not that of an abelian variety. Some other problems related to heights and diophantine approximation in arithmetic dynamics will come up along the way.
4:10-5:00 O-Yeat Chan (Dalhousie University)
Effective computation of Bessel functions
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Modular methods applied to Diophantine equations
Abstract: Deep results about elliptic curves, modular forms and Galois representations have successfully been applied to solve FLT and other Diophantine equations. Most of such applications broadly proceed along the following lines. To a hypothetical solution is associated a certain elliptic curve, called a Frey curve, and it is shown that the mod l Galois representation ρl associated to the l-torsion points of the Frey curve (with l, say, an odd prime occurring as exponent in the Diophantine equation) is irreducible. Then by modularity and level lowering, one obtains that ρl is modular of some explicitly known level (weight 2 and trivial character). Finally, the modular forms of this level provide (possibly in a non trivial way) information about the original Diophantine equation. In this talk I will first describe the above mentioned method in some more detail and then focus on the problem of finding Frey curves and proving irreducibility of ρl for small primes l.
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A Paley-Wiener theorem and Arthur's trace formula
Abstract: Modular forms may be recast and generalized as automorphic representations, which are objects of abstract harmonic analysis. The trace formula is a theorem in harmonic analysis which allows one to compare automorphic representations. The Paley-Wiener theorem is also a theorem in harmonic analysis. It characterizes the Fourier transform of smooth compactly-supported functions, and is essential in the proof of Arthur's trace formula. We shall expand on each of these statements, highlighting new results. This is joint work with P. Delorme.


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Swansea Eyeing Swoop for In-Demand Krasnodar Midfielder Viktor Claesson This Summer
Swansea City are preparing to make a move for Krasnodar's Swedish midfielder Viktor Claesson, but will face competition for his signature with a number of other teams also pursuing the 26-year-old, according to reports from both Sweden and Russia (via the Sun).
The report claims that Swans boss Carlos Carvalhal has earmarked the midfielder, who is contracted to the club until the summer of 2020, as a summer target, but that Bundesliga sides Werder Bremen and Eintracht Frankfurt are also interested in the former Elfsborg midfielder.
Swansea lining up a sensational summer move for international star midfielderhttps://t.co/1GZDjAkv65 pic.twitter.com/z6BwTDrMrh
— The Sun Football ⚽ (@TheSunFootball) April 16, 2018
Claesson, who came close to joining Rafael Benitez's Newcastle last summer, is said to be valued at £8m by the Russian Premier League side. That valuation could increase before the end of the season depending on the amount of rival interest.
Carvalhal will probably want to wrap up the deal before the start of the World Cup in June - with the summer transfer window opening on June 9th.
Claesson is set to travel to Russia with Sweden who play South Korea in their World Cup opener on June 18th. Should he impress in Russia, Krasnodar's valuation of the player could see a further price increase.
Claesson started off his career with Swedish side IFK Värnamo before he joined IF Elfsborg in 2012. The Swedish international spent four years in Borås, amassing over 130 appearances in which he scored 32 goals.
He moved to Russian side Krasnodar in January 2017, where has since made a total of 39 appearances and scored 10 goals.
This season, his nine goals and six assists in 26 league appearances have helped the club climb up to third in the table - just one position and three points off a Champions League qualification place.


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В парному розряді жіночого тенісного турніру Virginia Slims of Utah 1985, що проходив у рамках Світової чемпіонської серії Вірджинії Слімс 1985, Світлана Чернєва і Лариса Нейланд виграли титул, у фіналі перемігши пару Розалін Феербенк і Беверлі Моулд 7–5, 6–2.

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Kobe and Vanessa Bryant's Pattern of Destruction
By Brooke Miller
I was always fascinated (and totally nauseated) that LA Lakers star Kobe Bryant was able to both appear and participate in court in the morning -- ya know, for the whole being accused of rape thing in 2003, no biggie -- then travel to play a basketball game the same night, play it well, and then return to court, sometimes the next day.
He may be a sleazeball motherf'er who should never have been allowed to touch a professional basketball court with a 10-foot pole while the justice system tried to figure what the hell to do with his sick ass, but alas, he was given the green light to multi-task: sexual assault court and basketball court all at the same time. Awesome. I said it then and I'll say it now, if the guy knows how to do one thing well (clue: it ain't monogamy) it's to take the discomfort in his personal life and put it into the game.
But that was 2003, and this is 2011. Though as far as Kobe goes -- shocker, nothing's changed. He's still in the headlines for being a home-wrecker and his wife Vanessa, along with her dusty four million dollar I'm sorry I screwed someone else, but don't worry, I didn't rape her ring, is joining him.
This time it's not Kobe's home on the chopping block of wreckage though, and it's not Karl Malone's or Shaquille O'Neal's either. It's Laker's center, Pau Gasol. Poor guy.
The gossip is that Gasol's recent breakup is what threw the 7-foot-tall player's game off during the Western Conference Semi-Finals, landing the Lakers on the wrong side of a 4-0 sweep against the Dallas Mavericks, and knocking them out of the playoffs. Everyone loves a great blame game.
The thing is, I could care less about the LA Lakers winning or losing (sorry, I'm a Detroit sports fan). And I could also care less about the gossip and drama and the he said/she said that's currently giving Lakers fans a way to rationalize the loss. My interest in the details of any story simply perks up when there's a pattern. I love patterns. And the Bryants are part of a major pattern. And here it is...
First: Kobe not only cheats on Vanessa, but is accused of rape. Holy crap. Likely not the first time he's cheated, but the first time it's on the news and the first time there's nowhere to run. Being a public figure has its downside.
Then: During interviews for the investigation, Kobe throws teammate Shaquille O'Neal under a bus, exposing him for cheating on his wife and paying off the women to keep quiet. Wow. Cheating -- both Shaq and Kobe -- low rent for sure. Telling the press that your friend cheated just to distract people from thinking you're the only douche-bag on the Lakers? Double low rent. And the pattern of making others look bad to distract yourself from having to look at your own life begins.
Shortly after the affair, trial, and decision to stay married, Vanessa Bryant called co-Lakers wife Kay Malone to tell her that her husband, Karl Malone, an LA Laker at the time, had made an inappropriate pass at her. We don't know what really happened, whether Karl was flirtatious or not, but creating a press frenzy around someone else's husband being a dirtbag is an amazing way to make yourself feel better about the dirtbag you're sharing a bed with. Rock on, Vanessa. And the pattern continues.
I can almost bet there have been more behind the scenes stories throughout the years of Vanessa and Kobe doing a killer job of making their marriage seem less jacked up by using other people's relationships as bait. But, exciting for me, their pattern is back in the news. Case in point, Pau Gasol's love life.
According to many of the 919,000 articles that came up when I googled "Pau Gasol's breakup," Vanessa Bryant expressed some convincing words to Sylvia Lopez Castro, Pau Gasol's ex-fiancée, causing her to end the relationship. The result? The Lakers fans had a sad and heart-broken guy to blame for the losing streak, and Vanessa was sitting pretty with yet another example of why her own relationship is so not that bad.
Yes, misery loves company -- though it doesn't seem to love the Lakers. Misery also, when totally denied and suppressed, as it seems to be with Kobe and Vanessa, has a way of creeping out onto the rest of the world in an ugly way. Or, in a totally soap opera-ish kind of way. Take your pick, the Bryants seem to be interested in both.
So, be mindful of your misery, take responsibility for your issues and for your emotions, and catch yourself when you're vomiting your stuff onto everyone else. Because eventually the pattern will be all too clear, and someone will call you on it. And then the only one off their game...will be you. Cheers.
Brooke Miller is a Psychotherapist with an uncanny ability to communicate and socialize like a normal human being. But don't get too close, she might start analyzing you.
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The Energy Department announced on February 12, 2014 that the U.S. solar industry is more than 60 percent of the way to achieving cost-competitive utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity – only three years into the Department's decade-long SunShot Initiative. To help continue this progress, the Energy Department also announced today $25 million in funding to strengthen U.S. solar manufacturing for photovoltaic and concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies and to maintain a strong domestic solar industry – supporting the Department's broader Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative.
In the State of the Union address, President Obama highlighted the United States' growing role as a global leader in solar as demonstrated in a new industry report which recently found that U.S. utility-scale solar set a record with 2.3 gigawatts installed in 2013. Tomorrow, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will travel to Ivanpah Dry Lake, Calif., to dedicate the world's largest concentrating solar power plant – continuing U.S. leadership in clean energy.
"In just the last few years, the U.S. has seen remarkable increases in clean and renewable energy – doubling the amount of energy that we produce from solar and wind and supporting a strong, competitive solar supply chain that employs American workers in every state," said Energy Secretary Moniz. "To continue this growth and position the U.S. as a global leader in clean energy innovation, the Energy Department is helping to advance new technologies that further reduce costs, improve performance and support new jobs and businesses across the country."
Utility-Scale Photovoltaic 60 Percent Towards Meeting SunShot Goal
In 2011, the Energy Department launched its SunShot Initiative to make solar energy cost-competitive with traditional energy sources by the end of the decade. Through partnerships with industry, universities, local communities and the Department's national laboratories, the SunShot Initiative is working aggressively to drive innovation and lower the cost of solar energy – from more efficient, high-performing solar modules to streamlined permitting, installation and interconnection processes.
Today, the utility-scale PV industry is more than 60 percent of the way to achieving SunShot's target of $0.06 per kilowatt-hour. In the United States, the average price for a utility-scale PV project has dropped from about $0.21 per kilowatt-hour in 2010 to $0.11 per kilowatt-hour at the end of 2013. According to the Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. electricity price is about $0.12 per kilowatt-hour. Check out a new Energy.gov graph that shows how these costs have fallen in just the last three years.
Reductions in the cost of electricity are based on estimates of the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). The LCOE is a measure of the national average of electricity cost based on certain assumptions regarding financing costs and generation availability projected over the life of a generating asset. The LCOE model provides a benchmark for measuring relative changes in electricity costs.
During President Obama's first term, the United States more than doubled generation of electricity from wind, solar and geothermal sources, and installed solar capacity has grown ten-fold from 1.2 gigawatts in 2008 to an estimated 13 gigawatts today. To ensure America's continued leadership position in clean energy, the President has set a goal to double renewable electricity generation once again by 2020.
$25 Million to Boost U.S. Solar Manufacturing
Over the last three years, the cost of a solar energy system has dropped by more than 50 percent – helping to give more and more American families and businesses access to affordable, clean energy. Today, the Energy Department announced $25 million in new funding to boost domestic solar manufacturing and speed up the commercialization of efficient, affordable PV and CSP technologies. This funding opportunity will help to further lower the cost of solar electricity, support a growing U.S. solar workforce and increase U.S. competitiveness in the global clean energy market.
This new SunShot funding opportunity will support innovative projects that help solar manufacturers tackle key cost-contributors across the hardware supply chain and make improvements in a broad range of manufacturing processes that save time and money. Eligible projects may include developing advanced technology that lowers domestic solar manufacturing costs and developing and demonstrating components or new manufacturing processes that cut project construction and installation time. Find more information on the Solar Manufacturing 2 funding opportunity, including application requirements, HERE.
The Energy Department's SunShot Initiative aims to make solar energy fully cost-competitive with traditional sources of energy by 2020.
A February 13, 2014 Energy Department Press Release at http://tinyurl.com/k2vdkbb reported that a new industry report which found that U.S. utility-scale solar set a record with 2.3 gigawatts installed in 2013. As the first commercial deployment of innovative power tower CSP technology in the United States, the Ivanpah project was the recipient of a $1.6 billion loan guarantee from the Department's Loan Programs Office (LPO).
Ivanpah has the capacity to generate 392 megawatts (MW) of clean electricity -- enough to power 94,400 average American homes -- most of which will be sold under long-term power purchase agreements to Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison Company. The project is a joint effort by NRG, Google, and BrightSource Energy, and Bechtel served as the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor.
Ivanpah is one of five CSP projects that received loan guarantees from the Department, and when these projects are completed, they will provide a combined 1.26 gigawatts (GW) of electric capacity. These loan guarantees, are also helping to finance the first solar thermal storage project and the first power tower with solar thermal storage in the U.S., as well as some of the world's largest parabolic trough CSP plants. In addition to construction, operations and maintenance jobs, these projects are creating jobs in a national supply chain that reaches 39 states.
Currently, the LPO supports a large, diverse portfolio of more than $30 billion supporting more than 30 closed and committed projects. The LPO portfolio includes one of the world's largest wind farms; several of the world's largest solar generation and thermal energy storage systems; the first new commercial nuclear power plant to be licensed and built in the United States in three decades; and more than a dozen new or retooled auto manufacturing plants across the country. Learn more at http://lpo.energy.gov.
A December 13, 2013 release at http://tinyurl.com/ky6bt9x noted that according to a new U.S. solar industry report , the U.S. solar market continues to grow – reaching record-breaking levels. In Q3 2013, the United States installed 930 megawatts of photovoltaic, up 20 percent over Q2 2013 and representing the second largest quarter in solar installations in U.S. history. Cumulatively, solar capacity has already surpassed 10 gigawatts and by the end of the year more than 400,000 solar projects will be operating across the country.
U.S. Department of Energy www.energy.gov
Press Releases dated December 13, 2013 and February 12 and 13, 2014
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