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N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Market
N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid (CAS 1188-37-0) Market Insights 2019, Global and Chinese Analysis and Forecast to 2024
N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Market Insights 2019, Global and Chinese Scenario is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid industry with a focus on the Chinese market. The report provides key statistics on the market status of the N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid manufacturers and is a valuable source of guidance and direction for companies and individuals interested in the industry.Overall, the report provides an in-depth insight of 2014-2024 global and Chinese N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid market covering all important parameters.
3.Through the statistical analysis, the report depicts the global and Chinese total market of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid industry including capacity, production, production value, cost/profit, supply/demand and Chinese import/export.
5.The report then estimates 2019-2024 market development trends of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid industry. Analysis of upstream raw materials, downstream demand, and current market dynamics is also carried out.
6.The report makes some important proposals for a new project of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry before evaluating its feasibility.
There are 3 key segments covered in N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Market : competitor segment, product type segment, end use/application segment.
For competitor segment, the report includes global key players of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid as well as some small players.
For product type segment, N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Market listed main product type of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid market in global and china.
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Chapter One Introduction of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
1.1 Brief Introduction of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
1.2 Development of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
1.3 Status of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
Chapter Two Manufacturing Technology of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
2.1 Development of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Manufacturing Technology
2.2 Analysis of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Manufacturing Technology
2.3 Trends of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Manufacturing Technology
Chapter Four 2014-2019 Global and Chinese Market of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
4.1 2014-2019 Global Capacity, Production and Production Value of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
4.2 2014-2019 Global Cost and Profit of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
4.3 Market Comparison of Global and Chinese N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
4.4 2014-2019 Global and Chinese Supply and Consumption of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
4.5 2014-2019 Chinese Import and Export of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
Chapter Five Market Status of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
5.1 Market Competition of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry by Company
5.2 Market Competition of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry by Country (USA, EU, Japan, Chinese etc.)
5.3 Market Analysis of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Consumption by Application/Type
Chapter Six 2019-2024 Market Forecast of Global and Chinese N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
6.1 2019-2024 Global and Chinese Capacity, Production, and Production Value of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
6.2 2019-2024 N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry Cost and Profit Estimation
6.3 2019-2024 Global and Chinese Market Share of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
Chapter Seven Analysis of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry Chain
Chapter Eight Global and Chinese Economic Impact on N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
8.3 Effects to N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
Chapter Nine Market Dynamics of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
9.1 N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry News
9.2 N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry Development Challenges
9.3 N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry Development Opportunities
Chapter Eleven Research Conclusions of Global and Chinese N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
Figure N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Product Picture
Table Development of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Manufacturing Technology
Figure Manufacturing Process of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
Table Trends of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Manufacturing Technology
Figure N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Product and Specifications
Table 2014-2019 N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Product Capacity, Production, and Production Value etc. List
Figure 2014-2019 N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Capacity Production and Growth Rate
Figure 2014-2019 N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Production Global Market Share
Table 2014-2019 N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Product Capacity Production Price Cost Production Value List
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Capacity List
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Manufacturers Capacity Share List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Manufacturers Capacity Share
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Manufacturers Production List
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Manufacturers Production Share List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Manufacturers Production Share
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Capacity Production and Growth Rate
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Manufacturers Production Value List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Production Value and Growth Rate
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Manufacturers Production Value Share List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Manufacturers Production Value Share
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Capacity Production Cost Profit and Gross Margin List
Figure 2014-2019 Chinese Share of Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Production
Table 2014-2019 Global Supply and Consumption of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
Table 2014-2019 Import and Export of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
Figure 2018 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Manufacturers Capacity Market Share
Figure 2018 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Manufacturers Production Market Share
Figure 2018 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Manufacturers Production Value Market Share
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Capacity List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Capacity
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Capacity Share List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Capacity Share
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Production List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Production
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Production Share List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Production Share
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Consumption Volume List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Consumption Volume
Table 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Consumption Volume Share List
Figure 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Key Countries Consumption Volume Share
Figure 78 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Consumption Volume Market by Application
Table 89 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Consumption Volume Market Share List by Application
Figure 79 2014-2019 Global N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Consumption Volume Market Share by Application
Table 90 2014-2019 Chinese N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Consumption Volume Market List by Application
Figure 80 2014-2019 Chinese N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Consumption Volume Market by Application
Figure Industry Chain Structure of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
Figure Production Cost Analysis of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
Figure Downstream Analysis of N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid
Table Economic Effects to N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry
Table N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry Development Challenges
Table N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid Industry Development Opportunities
Table New N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acids Project Feasibility Study
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Efforts of the UAE's Emirates Red Crescent in Yemen
The Emirates Red Crescent is undertaking a number of efforts in Yemen to improve the conditions for the people living there.
The organization has implemented a wide variety of humanitarian and development projects in Yemen. At the moment, they are specifically targeting the cities which have been liberated from the Al Houthi militants, the extremist rebel group which is terrorizing Yemen.
One of the campaigns that ERC has launched is the 'Al Azariq in our eyes' campaign. This campaign aims to provide relief to thousands of families in Al Azariq which is in the Dhala province of Yemen.
Apart from these projects, ERC also focuses on education. It has established the Al Nahda School to provide primary and secondary education for the children. ERC has built 3 schools in total in addition to maintaining a further 17 schools. At the same time, ERC has also undertaken the renovation of 7 more schools.
Yemenis are certainly happy at the help provided by the UAE Red Crescent. It has the most prominent role in supporting education.
ERC has also sent convoys to aid Hadramaut. It delivered food aid to over 600 families.

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Alicia is my daughter's close friend. They attended Cleveland Institute of Music and New England Conservatory together, so Hannah flew back from Europe to be with the family and friends keeping vigil in Ann Arbor. Our thoughts and prayers are with Andrew, Alicia, their families and those who love them.
Donations to help support Alicia and Andrew can be made here.
From the vantage of American and western culture, Mormonism's half-familiar, half-exotic nature and history render it a magnetic case study on issues besetting contemporary scholars. The movement is sufficiently alien for comparative interpretation to be necessary, sufficiently familiar for comparative interpretation to be possible, and sufficiently complex to challenge the most able historical minds. Indeed, if we sustain Shipps's contention that, like Christianity or Islam, Mormonism constitutes a new religious tradition, it becomes a rarely accessible laboratory. The Saints are record-setting record keepers, lush almost without precedent, given their short history, in primary materials. Moreover, the movement is present and growing in the nation as a whole and especially in the American West, where The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is among the three largest "denominations" in two-thirds of all U.S. counties west of a vertical line running from Canada, through Denver, to Mexico. Beyond this, Sydney Ahlstrom's argument that scrutiny of Joseph Smith and his heirs "yields innumerable clues to the religious and social consciousness of the American people" requires augmentation in light of the dramatic internationalization of the church, which is affecting its nature and entwines diffusely with the spread of American influence abroad. Africa will soon harbor more Latter-day Saints than Europe; South and Central America will presently have more than the United States. Mormon history is uncommonly colorful, difficult, controversial, impacting, and unfolding. It no longer seems strange that scholars of all stripes, in trying to come to terms with America's distinctive religious legacy, find Mormon faith and culture tough to ignore.


Ive been using the torrent section exclusively because I can't seem to get Emule to do anything. I checked the forum but no one seems to have this particular issue. I've made exceptions through my firewall, open the proper ports. KAD justsays connecting while ed2k jst says disconnected. When I click a file from the forums it shows up in transfers but dosnt do anything. Is that because im not connected toanything or is it just going to take a really long time like ive read?
aside - why ed2k over bittorrent?
Also check if the number of known KAD nodes (clients) increases from the starting value, which I believe is 200? If yes that is a good sign that your KAD is wokring.
Nevertheless the two arrows indicating the connection state in the bottom right pane should be green, or at least turn green after a while.
To answer your question: yes it usually takes a long time, especially if you are new to the network (meaning no credits at all) and have only a few shared files.
With BT, a file can be dead after a week, a few weeks, a month. With ed2k, I can click links which have been posted 4-7 years ago and they still have sources.
With BT, I often get fakes when DLing new stuff, and lots of other stuff has bad quality, like no cropping, or no IVTCing, or simply too small a filesize to achieve anything qualitywise. With ed2k, there is some sort of quality control, and files being posted with bad quality get treated like that too.
Got a problem trying to get eMule to move again.
I did a reinstall, and now I have Win 8 (yes, burn me for it, blabla). I installed MorphXT 12.7, did the whole shabazz with ports and everything. Ports test was succussful, but the mule simply doesn't want to connect. Sometimes I get nodes (orange/red balls) in kad, but that's the best I got so far.
Tried connecting to servers, but that didn't work either.
Made an exception for the mule in the firewall. All other programs which have that, function normally.


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Home > Investors > News & Events > Press Releases > LivaNova Receives FDA Clearance for 3T Heater-Cooler Device Modification
LivaNova Receives FDA Clearance for 3T Heater-Cooler Device Modification
February 25, 2020 at 2:00 PM EST
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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2020-- LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN), a market-leading medical technology and innovation company, today announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for a device modification to its 3T Heater-Cooler® devices. The modification includes the installation of a 3T Aerosol Collection Set, as well as testing that demonstrates the effectiveness of its operating instructions. This modification has been implemented at no cost to customers on devices that have already been distributed and is being implemented on new units being prepared for distribution. Collectively, these modifications further reduce the potential risk of possible dispersion of aerosols in hospital operating rooms when used in accordance with Operating Instructions. Devices manufactured in accordance with this newly cleared 510(k) will not be subject to the current FDA import alert.
Through past and present field actions, LivaNova has been implementing the design modification on devices in the field throughout the U.S since October 2018. In connection with a product remediation plan that was announced in early 2017, the Company continues to make available to U.S. customers its 3T device loaner program, as well as a no-charge deep cleaning service for any 3T device with confirmed M. chimaera contamination. In other locations around the world, the Company has been successfully cleaning 3T Heater-Cooler devices and implementing the modification since receiving CE Mark in 2017.
"FDA clearance allows us to implement a permanent design solution for 3T Heater-Cooler devices used in the U.S. that further mitigates the potential risk of aerosolization," said Bryan Olin, LivaNova Senior Vice President for Clinical, Quality and Regulatory Affairs. "Heater-coolers are critical pieces of equipment for open-heart surgery, and LivaNova wants to ensure continued access to these important devices for the ongoing treatment of patients around the world."
The 3T Heater-Cooler Operating Instructions can be found on the LivaNova website.
More information and safety communications from the FDA regarding the 3T Heater-Cooler is available on the FDA website.
LivaNova PLC is a global medical technology and innovation company built on nearly five decades of experience and a relentless commitment to provide hope for patients and their families through innovative medical technologies, delivering life-changing improvements for both the Head and Heart. Headquartered in London, LivaNova employs approximately 4,000 employees and has a presence in more than 100 countries for the benefit of patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare systems worldwide. LivaNova operates as two businesses: Cardiovascular and Neuromodulation, with operating headquarters in Mirandola (Italy) and Houston (U.S.), respectively.
For more information, please visit www.livanova.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" concerning our goals, beliefs, expectations, strategies, objectives, plans and underlying assumptions and other statements that are not necessarily based on historical facts. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding 3T Heater-Cooler devices. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated in our forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those factors set forth in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, as supplemented by any risk factors contained in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and our Current Reports on Form 8-K. We undertake no obligation to update the information contained in this press release to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances.
LivaNova PLC Investor Relations and Media
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£925 in 1925 is worth £59,919.84 today
£925 in 1930 → 2022
GBP inflation rate in 2022
UK future inflation calculator
Value of £925 from 1925 to 2022
£925 in 1925 is equivalent in purchasing power to about £59,919.84 today, an increase of £58,994.84 over 97 years. The pound had an average inflation rate of 4.39% per year between 1925 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 6,377.82%.
This means that today's prices are 64.78 times higher than average prices since 1925, according to the Office for National Statistics composite price index. A pound today only buys 1.54% of what it could buy back then.
The inflation rate in 1925 was 0.00%. The current year-over-year inflation rate (2021 to 2022) is now 2.27%. If this number holds, £925 today will be equivalent in buying power to £945.96 next year.
Buying Power of £925
Converted amount (£925 base) £59,919.84
Price difference (£925 base) £58,994.84
CPI in 2022 1,204.875
£925 in 1925 £59,919.84 in 2022
GBP Inflation since 1750
Annual Rate, the Office for National Statistics CPI
Buying power of £925 in 1925
This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for £925 in 1925 (price index tracking began in 1750).
For example, if you started with £925, you would need to end with £59,919.84 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").
When £925 is equivalent to £59,919.84 over time, that means that the "real value" of a single U.K. pound decreases over time. In other words, a pound will pay for fewer items at the store.
This effect explains how inflation erodes the value of a pound over time. By calculating the value in 1925 dollars, the chart below shows how £925 is worth less over 97 years.
According to the Office for National Statistics, each of these GBP amounts below is equal in terms of what it could buy at the time:
Pound inflation: 1925-2022
Pound Value
1925 £925.00 -
1926 £920.03 -0.54%
1928 £895.16 0.00%
1940 £1,004.57 16.76%
1942 £1,193.55 7.14%
1979 £11,114.92 13.39%
1982 £15,933.87 8.61%
2009 £41,923.39 -0.53%
2022 £59,919.84 2.27%*
This conversion table shows various other 1925 amounts in today's pounds, based on the 6,377.82% change in prices:
Conversion: 1925 pounds today
£1 pound in 1925 £64.78 pounds today
£5 pounds in 1925 £323.89 pounds today
£10 pounds in 1925 £647.78 pounds today
£50 pounds in 1925 £3,238.91 pounds today
£100 pounds in 1925 £6,477.82 pounds today
£500 pounds in 1925 £32,389.10 pounds today
£1,000 pounds in 1925 £64,778.20 pounds today
£5,000 pounds in 1925 £323,891.01 pounds today
£10,000 pounds in 1925 £647,782.02 pounds today
£50,000 pounds in 1925 £3,238,910.11 pounds today
£100,000 pounds in 1925 £6,477,820.21 pounds today
£500,000 pounds in 1925 £32,389,101.05 pounds today
£1,000,000 pounds in 1925 £64,778,202.11 pounds today
How to Calculate Inflation Rate for £925 since 1925
1925 GBP value
Then plug in historical CPI values. The U.K. CPI was 18.6 in the year 1925 and 1204.87455923078 in 2022:
1204.8745592307818.6
£925 in 1925 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as £59,919.84 in 2022.
1204.87455923078 - 18.618.6
Mein Kampf is published by Adolf Hitler.
The Ku Klux Klan's first national march takes place in Washington.
The last Qajar Shah of Iran is deposed with Reza Shah Pahlavi taking over.
Scopes monkey trial ends in Dayton, Tennessee, finding John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution.
Raw data for these calculations comes from the composite price index published by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS). A composite index is created by combining price data from several different published sources, both official and unofficial. The Consumer Price Index, normally used to compute inflation, has only been tracked since 1988. All inflation calculations after 1988 use the Office for National Statistics' Consumer Price Index, except for 2017, which is based on The Bank of England's forecast.
You may use the following MLA citation for this page: "£925 in 1925 → 2022 | UK Inflation Calculator." Official Inflation Data, Alioth Finance, 17 Jan. 2022, https://www.officialdata.org/uk/inflation/1925?amount=925.
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A nation does not need to have a definite geographical territory but a state must always have a clearly defined territory over which it has a legal jurisdiction.
In modern times, a state cannot extend its borders without running into a problem with her immediate neighbour. The boundaries of a modern state are fixed. A nation, on the other hand, can extend beyond its territorial boundaries and could sometimes even occupy a wide geographical area. The Jewish Nation, for example, spreads into several countries.
A state has a government but a nation does not necessarily need to have an established government. Prior to the formation of the Jewish state, the Jewish nation had no established government.
The state has the right to participate in international relations. It is so recognized by other states. It can example join international organizations, recognize other states. In fact, international recognition is needed for acceptance among the comity of nations. A nation does not require such international recognition.
One of the attributes of a state is its sovereignty. A nation does not need such attributes.
A state is a legal entity. The term "nation" may be used without any legal or political implications.
1. a. Explain the terms nation and state.
b. Identify five differences between a state and a nation.
2. Which of the following is a major function performed by government?
6. Which of the following is related to government as a process of governing?
A. Implementation and adjudication of law.
B. The role of pressure groups within the state.
C. Disagreement between state and local government.
D. Abrogation of Fundamental Human Rights.
2. Which of the following is not a means by which government maintains law and order?
B. Maintenance of police and other security personnel.
C. Provision of socio-economic services.
D. Establishment of provisional associations.
8. Which of the following is a characteristic of government as an institution of state?


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Saints Fall to Gulf Coast in Overtime Despite 15 from David Jones
Gulf Coast State College
Gulf Coast State College 38 23 16 77
Santa Fe College 24 37 8 69
Pts: Jeremy Harris - 27
Reb: Jeremy Harris - 10
Ast: Jeremy Harris - 5
Pts: Joshua Hawkins - 16
Reb: Team - 8
Ast: Darrell Jones - 4
Gainesville, FL – For the second night in a row the Santa Fe Saints took a tough Panhandle team to the brink, falling to Gulf Coast State College in overtime 77-68.
The Saints (0-2) fell behind by 15 with nine minutes to go, but rallied to tie the game with 15 second remaining on an and one by David Jones. Jones missed the free throw for the lead, but SF held steady on defense, forcing the extra period.
In overtime the Commodores took the early momentum and rode it to the win.
"I'm proud of how hard we fought for the second day in a row to get back in the game," said Mowry. "We need to play better offensively in regards to turnovers and shot selection. Our guys are going to continue working hard."
D-Juan Taylor-Hodge finished with 15 points for SF, David Jones had 15, Josh Hawkins 13, and Darrell Jones 12.
The Saints will play one more game in Pensacola against Faith Baptist Prep on Saturday at 2:00 PM.


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March 26, 2018 Nancy McMillan
Night Demons by Brian Andreas
I'm taking a Fiction Workshop at Manhattanville College this spring. We're reading five books that develop setting especially well. At our first class, we discussed the novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a unique literary novel that describes imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. Khan implores Polo to describe the cities of his empire that he has seen, but the conversation ranges far beyond that, into philosphy and consciousness. A fascinating read.
Then, as common in writing classes, we did a free-write, with the prompt of creating our own invisible city. We read them aloud. My classmate wrote about Mozartina, a city where the children drill their piano exercises, and the work is all drudgery. The adults in Mozartina understand that someday, although unhappiness will come to each student, the "night music," a play on Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music - you know the catchy theme, it was used on Nickelodeon) will carry them through.
Music is invisible when it's performed, and its effect is mostly invisible, too. Yes, there are written notes on the page, but the actual sound can only be caught in the moment. Music was the perfect choice for building an invisible city, and, to be honest, I wish I'd thought of it it.
That week after class I kept thinking about what my classmate had written, how the drudgery and repetition involved in piano practice described in Mozartina was true for my own piano students. The students' parents and I work together to keep their child engaged. I find myself saying to my students, "You'll be so glad you stuck with it," even though I know they dislike hearing it almost as much as I dislike saying it. It's something, at their young age, they cannot possibly understand.
A few days later, I remembered the words on a piece of artwork that hangs in my studio waiting room. The piece, called Night Demons by Brian Andreas, was given to me by a teenage student years ago, after she failed her college music audition.
Although this student's ambition exceeded her talents, by age seventeen she understood the most important aspect of music: its power to soothe, elevate, and expand. She had experienced the way it can shift the invisible inner landscape, and strengthen her ability to face her life.
I felt in giving the art to me, she recognized herself in the piece, that she'd learned her own night demons could not help but sucuumb to the beauty of music, having "no stomach" for their work after hearing her play.
In Life in Music, A Writing Life Tags Invisible Cities, Calvino, A Little Night Music, Brian Andreas, piano students, piano teaching


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Cartelization Harries the UK Student
David S. D'Amato | @dsdamato | Support this author on Patreon | December 9th, 2010
Last month, government officials in the United Kingdom responded to an independent review of the education system by lodging a plan to raise the cap for tuition fees by almost three times. The program, heeding a supposed "austerity" approach to the country's budget, would set the ceiling at the equivalent of over 14,000 US dollars. The proposed plan was met with immediate protests, students objecting to the added burden of debt as an attempt to mend the government's balance sheets on the backs of those least able to carry the millstone.
Today, following the House of Commons vote authorizing the fee hikes, the protests have intensified with the government unleashing its thugs against the affronted students. British lawmakers, already on the defensive, maintain that the impact of the cost increase will be absorbed easily by students, that it's a fair, "sustainable" measure to counteract rising costs. Talk of economic sustainability — regardless of the British state's attempts to mollify citizen apprehensions — hardly rings true considering the cartelized design of the United Kingdom's state education system.
That system, though, is not unique or confined to the U.K. but is rather the standard assembled by all states, with some variations, around the world. In contemplation of education policy, many of us would raise few objections to the idea that those more able to pay ought to, through some arrangement, subsidize the education of the indigent population. That said, we need not defer to the assumption that such subsidies must necessarily ensue from the violence of the state.
Life insurance, for instance, is a kind of risk-anticipating subsidy, grounded on what we might consider a gamble, whereby some, the "losers" in that wager, ultimately subsidize others, the "winners" (forgive the irony in this particular example). Similarly, most people probably agree that, when all is said and done, the goals of whatever regimen society decides upon should be broad accessibility and a quality product in the education received.
Looking at the riots, it's easy to see students' cavils at the costs of their education as the callow attempts of the immature to avoid their responsibilities, to keep society at large on the hook for a service they benefit from. But to avoid that oversimplified characterization it's necessary to inquire into what exactly these students are paying for and where their money is going. In Britain as elsewhere, contrary to the drivel of lawmakers, huge percentages of education expenditures are going not to balance governments' budgets or improve quality, but to what economist Thomas DiLorenzo calls "a price-fixing conspiracy against the public."
As "the victims of the [government] school cartel" — a scheme that includes state-protected corporate gorgers — British student protestors have every right to complain. The high costs of formal education, no less a crisis in the United States, are completely manufactured by the constraints of statism, the vast potential supply side strangled by controlling interests. If the state were actually motivated by its stated purposes, we could expect to see improvements corresponding with increased expenditures, be they from tax revenues, student fees, or otherwise.
That heap of societal wealth, instead of improving the service we're superficially paying for, goes to feather the nests of everyone from big publishing companies, to university endowments, to contractors retained by government schools. Through the use of accreditation and a degree-focused corporate economy that actuates de facto attendance requirements for higher education (to approximate those imposed by law for early education), the state-corporate education cartels minimize the yield of education services.
In so doing, they exert an irresistible upward pressure on price and shove us into powerful academic institutions that sell extortionate letters to follow your name rather than substantive, practical education. "[T]he State," reflected Joseph Stromberg, "functions to balance the interests of large economic power blocs while maintaining their common ascendancy in the face of potential threats from below." His analysis correctly regards the state as a council defined by monopolization and manipulation of resources for its associates; whether they realize that or not, the frustrations of British students are a reaction to being hustled by that program, which feeds their money toward largely useless tasks.
Lower prices can only come if we abandon the state, allowing the supply to mushroom to meet demand. Though someday society may see the experiments in mutual "subsidization" that completely free interactions could issue in education, for now the only things being subsidized are bloated institutions that society could do without.
David D'Amato, Cartelisation Harries the UK Student, Dhaka, Bangladesh New Age, 12/14/10
David D'Amato, State-corporate cartel harries the UK student, The Canadian, 12/13/10


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Meeting Discusses the Work of Teixeira Coelho, Who Will Receive Title of Professor Emeritus
by Richard Meckien - published Sep 03, 2015 02:20 PM - - last modified Sep 18, 2015 11:17 AM
Rights: Original version in Portuguese by Mauro Bellesa. Translation by Carlos Malferrari.
José Teixeira Coelho Netto,
a specialist in cultural politics
The School of Communications and Arts (ECA), with support from the IEA, will hold on September 23, at 2 pm, a meeting on Expanding the Being's Sphere of Presence: Reflections on the Work of Teixeira Coelho, which will precede the ceremony to bestow the title of Professor Emeritus to José Teixeira Coelho Netto, professor at ECA's Department of Library Studies and Documentation, "for his significant work and intellectual career."
The event will be held in the Auditorium of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), in USP's Butantã campus. The ceremony (open only to guests) will take place at 6:30 pm in the same venue.
According to the organizers, the choice of guests "sought to combine intellectual rigor and affection in the broadest sense: people who affected and were affected by meetings, discussions, debates, his vast work, his restless and free thinking." See program below.
Teixeira Coelho specializes in Cultural Policy. He has a Ph.D. in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from USP's School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences (FFLCH), and completed a post-doctoral program at the University of Maryland (United States). He began his teaching career at ECA-USP in 1973, becoming a full professor in 1989, and has also taught at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Mackenzie Presbyterian University.
Currently, Teixeira Coelho is curator of the Curitiba Biennial, a contributor to the UNESCO Chair of Cultural Policy at the University of Girona (Spain), and consultant to the Cultural Policy Observatory of the Itaú Cultural Institute, where he coordinates the Books of the Observatory collection. He was curator-coordinator of the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP), director of the MAC-USP museum and curator of several exhibitions in both institutions. He has written several books on culture and art, as well as works of fiction. His book História natural da ditatura [Natural history of dictatorship], published in 2006, won the Portugal Telecom award in 2007.
Part 1: Expanding the Being's Sphere of Presence: Reflections on the Work of Teixeira Coelho
Coordinator: Lúcia Maciel Barbosa de Oliveira (ECA-USP)
2:30 pm Opening: Luiz Milanesi (ECA-USP)
2:50 pm Alfons Martinell (University of Girona, Spain)
3:10 pm Gerardo Caetano (Universidad de La Republica, Uruguay)
3:30 pm Intervention by José Teixeira Coelho Netto (ECA-USP)
3:50 pm Break
4:20 pm Celso Favaretto (School of Education and FFLCH-USP)
4:40 pm Regina Silveira (ECA-USP)
5:00 pm Manuel da Costa Pinto (journalist and literary critic)
5:40 pm Conclusion: Martin Grossmann (IEA and ECA-USP)
Part 2: Solemn Session of the Faculty of ECA-USP – Title-Bestowing Ceremony
18:30 pm Musical presentation
Opening of the work: Margarida Krohling Kunsch (ECA-USP director)
Salutation: Maria Helena Pires Martins (ECA-USP)
Statement by José Teixeira Coelho Netto (ECA-USP)
Statement by Margardia Krohling Kunsch (ECA-USP director)
End of Solemn Session
Photo: Cecília Bastos/Agência USP
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Charles III de Bourbon (c. 1554 - June 15, 1610), was Archbishop of Rouen, and the illegitimate son of Antoine de Bourbon, king of Navarre, and his mistress Louise de La Béraudière du Rouhet. His half-brother was King Henry IV of France.

Biography
On 13 March 1569, Charles was captured by the Catholic forces at the battle of Jarnac. Later that year, he became Bishop of Comminges, then officially bishop of Lectoure in 1590. In both circumstances Charles was an "administrator", since he did not seek to intervene in political or religious life unlike his predecessors. His half-brother Henry tried to establish him as archbishop of Reims in 1591 but he was unable to remove the ecclesiastical see from the control of the House of Guise.

Following Philippe Desportes's refusal of archiepiscopal seat of Rouen, Charles, who was quickly ordained a priest, was elevated to Archbishop of Rouen in 1594. In 1599 at the behest of his half-brother Henry, he officiated the wedding of his half-sister Catherine de Bourbon and Henry II, Duke of Lorraine. After briefly making a suggestion to hold the ceremony privately in the king's study, Charles, being overruled, performed the ceremony as instructed.

He kept his position until his resignation in 1604 in favor of Cardinal Francois de Joyeuse. In 1604, he became Abbott of Marmoutier, and was buried there in 1610.

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EDITORIAL: Curbing drug supply minus the killing
WAGING the war against illegal drug can be bloodless like what the operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Camarines Sur has shown to us in two separate anti-drug operations, four days apart, on November 4 and 8. The anti-drug operations were not only noteworthy because the confiscated drugs weighing two kilos were worth P10M to P12M but because the PDEA agents, unlike their police counterpart, spared the lives of the suspected drug dealers. Had the recent anti-drug operations in Camarines Sur involved the Philippine National Police (PNP), who knows where the suspects would be now, given the pattern where operations by police operatives resulted in the deaths of suspected drug users and pushers, even while the tiny volume of drugs confiscated would hardly tilt the balance of a regular weighing scale. It will be recalled that on Sept. 22 last year, four suspected drug users were mowed down by the police in Naga City at Sitio Matiway in Barangay San Felipe. One of the fatalities was Gualberto Manlangit Jr., the son of prominent lawyer Gualberto Sr. who died a year earlier, and another one, a balikbayan named Michael Alexander Bofete Imperial who had just arrived on vacation from Australia. Two other suspects were found lifeless inside the house with gunshot wounds. Like the other anti-drug operations conducted by the police, the official statement of the PNP was the oft-repeated line that the suspects fought off ("nanlaban") with the arresting law enforcement officers. Despite the police version of a gun battle, however, suggesting commotion before the suspects died, the bottles of liquor and glasses on the table where the suspects were supposedly drinking remained undisturbed even after the violent incident. What the police had found were a couple of sachets of suspected shabu which cost the lives of four young men. Compared to the Oplan Double Barrel and Oplan Double Reloaded of the PNP that resulted in the deaths of thousands of suspected drug users and pushers, what the PDEA agents in Camarines Sur teach us is that the battle against illegal drugs can be won without killing the suspects and yet yield significant result. It also shows that, indeed, illegal drug suspects would think twice before fighting off the better armed arresting officers and thus there is rarer chance of "nanglaban." It is worthwhile to note that the successful operation by PDEA Camarines Sur agents (where the suspects were kept alive after the arrest) somehow connects to the suppliers of shabu as in the case of the follow up operation that hooked the higher level of distribution channel to the two Nigerian nationals, who are suspected members of a drug cartel controlled by Nigerian syndicate. As it turned out, the four Filipino drug couriers arrested earlier in Naga City (after the drug's transport from Manila) by the PDEA agents led to the true source of the seized illegal drugs. It was fortunate for the suspects that they were not liquidated by the arresting PDEA officers after the "big haul of one kilo of shabu." Without witnesses but themselves, it could have been easy for the PDEA agents to plant firearms beside their dead bodies had they were summarily executed then and there. And with the President seemingly condoning extra-judicial killings related to anti-drug war, the PDEA agents could have even earned praise i f they killed the suspect using the "nanglaban" line of reasoning. President Duterte has transferred stewardship of the campaign against the illegal drugs to PDEA nationwide after a survey showed the people did not believe those killed were "nanglaban" and the trust rating of the PNP nosedived. But Duterte had warned that if PDEA fall short of their task, the PNP can always once again take over. Like what Mr. Duterte has already admitted, the PDEA will not succeed in eradicating the drug problem. Without clear guidepost to what a successful anti-drug campaign sans eradicating it means, PDEA will surely fail in the eyes of Mr. Duterte. With only 1,898 PDEA personnel spread nationwide compared to 129,000 policemen deployed in all municipalities, it will not be long that the war against drugs will again be handed to the PNP. Then, more bloodied bodies of suspected drug users and pushers will again hog the headlines. With the PDEA in the frontline of the anti-drug campaign, did we not notice that deaths of suspected drug users and pushers have now become scarce as the daily newscasts show, while seizures of the contraband drugs continue without the dreaded PNP personnel around?


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Elizabeth Taylor dedicated to Aids fight
Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:30
Elizabeth Taylor devoted the latter part of her life to the fight against Aids.
The Hollywood star founded the American Foundation for Aids Research (Amfar) following the death of her close friend Rock Hudson in 1985.
When Hudson announced in the early 1980s that he was HIV positive, the news stunned the world.
He was the first major public figure to fall victim to the disease.
Taylor immediately set up the charity and worked tirelessly for the cause.
"I am on a crusade against Aids and I'll battle forever even after a cure is found," she said.
"Making people aware of the disease, and comforting and embracing sufferers, has been my greatest role off screen."
Amfar has become one of the world's leading non-profit organisations for Aids research, prevention, treatment and education.
It has invested nearly 250 million dollars (£138 million) since 1985 and funded grants to more than 2,000 research teams worldwide.
Taylor also roped in her Hollywood friends to help.
Every year Amfar hosts a star-studded bash at the Cannes Film Festival. In recent years Taylor had been too ill to attend.
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The organisers reserve the right to change any part of the course and their decision on any matter concerning the race is final. Minimum age of entry is 18 years on day of race. Held under FRA rules, waterproof whole body cover, map and compass, whistle and emergency food are required.
Start and finish is at the Ard Whallan Outdoor Pursuits Centre in West Baldwin. GR 356830.
Please note that controls must be visited in numerical order.
Ascend to summit of Colden – Unmanned control (1).
Descend in southerly direction to valley floor. Manned safety control (2) and (6) first aid at bottom of stone wall GR 339834. Punch is on west side of river.
Traverse and ascend to Greeba summit. Unmanned control (4). GR 318816.
Return to the Manned safety control (6) first aid at GR 339834 at the bottom of the stone wall.
Any casualty can be evacuated from the following tracks.
The Creg, Colden to Manned Safety Control (2) section by way of the field above Ard Whallan to gate at GR 348831. Only 4 wheel drive to gate. After here by foot.
Also 4 wheel drive through Kings Forest to open fell at GR 324817.
Marshals with mobile phones plus first aid available at Manned Safety Controls (2/5), (3) and (4) plus floating marshal on call.


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The Pit Barrel Cooker: Barbecue's Cinderella Story
The BarbecueBible.com rating:
Ease of use: A
Performance: A
Value: A
Our recommendation: A great combination grill/smoker/charcoal-fired oven guaranteed to deliver great results to the rawest beginner, but high performance enough for a serious griller or smoker.
You know you've "arrived" when the barbecue community assigns an affectionate acronym to your grill or smoker—BGE (Big Green Egg), WSM (Weber Smokey Mountain), and now, PBC (Pit Barrel Cooker). Or when sales go in a few short years from thousands to millions.
Speaking of acronyms, we have to invoke just one more in order to tell the story of the Pit Barrel Cooker: UDS, aka "ugly drum smoker." Do-it-yourselfers—even competition barbecuers—have been fabricating them for years. Former Marine and company founder Noah Glanville was inspired by the crude smokers he and his fellow soldiers improvised from the plentiful 55-gallon drums they found in Iraq and Afghanistan. After burning out the petroleum, he recalls, "We'd build a fire at the bottom and suspend the meat over it from wire clothes hangers." That's how the idea for the business was born.
Steven and I first met Noah and his wife, Amber, in 2011 when they sent one of the early models of the PBC to Barbecue University in Colorado Springs, and later to the set of Project Smoke. At the time, the cookers were being made in Strasburg, a small town about 30 miles east of Denver. It was amusing to see how much attention this humble cooker—still only $299 including shipping for the continental U.S.—received from our students, despite being in the company of shiny stainless steel supergrills that cost thousands—even tens of thousands of dollars. We're not surprised the PBC now has a cult following.
Upon his return to the States, Glanville battled Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by developing a business plan for the smokers, which he decided to call the "Pit Barrel Cooker." He built 29 prototypes, finally settling on one made from a new 30-gallon lidded drum. The design is simple: A raised charcoal basket sits at the bottom. Oxygen enters the cooking chamber via a 3-inch hole with an adjustable cover. (Depending on your elevation, you basically set it and forget it.) Four parallel ¾-inch holes near the top of the drum accommodate two sturdy rebar rods; the meat hangs vertically from them on hooks. Alternatively, you can rest the meat on a grill grate (included), especially handy for direct grilling.
In a touch of whimsy, Glanville chose real horseshoes for handles on the sides and lid. Be careful: They get hot. Horseshoes were originally used to elevate the smoker too, but have since been changed to a more durable three-point barrel stand (giving the bottom a few inches of clearance, but you should still put pavers or fire-resistant grill mats underneath the unit).
Inside the cooker is where the real magic happens.
"The design may seem simple, but it's completely self-regulating," Glanville explains. "We don't have vents or thermostats. Once you light it, it does all the work for you." This means keeping the oxygen levels low to create an environment where the meat juices and fat drip on the coals without flare-ups. (So that's why meat, like ribs or beef tenderloin, can hang so close to the fire without burning.)
The closed environment also seals in moisture. You may be surprised, as we were, to find that the Pit Barrel Cooker has no water pan or drip pan. When the dripping meat juices hit the fire, they turn into what Glanville calls a "smoke fog" to flavor the meat.
Because the lid fits tightly when smoking or indirect grilling, the trapped air inside the cooker keeps circulating from bottom to top as it does in a convection oven. (You can leave the lid off for higher temperature direct grilling on a removable grill grate.) This means food generally cooks faster. A rack of ribs, for example, might cook to perfection in 3 to 3-1/2 hours versus 5 to 6 hours in a conventional smoker. Also, the temperature inside the cooker runs a little hotter—about 270 degrees in smoking mode, 30 to 40 degrees higher than usual smoking temperatures. But in our experience, this helps the meat, like ribs, pork shoulder, or brisket, develop good bark.
The Pit Barrel Cooker arrives fully assembled and ready to use. Set-up is super easy.
To begin, fill your charcoal basket level with briquettes (Glanville recommends Kingsford brand), remove 1/4 of them (40 briquettes) and place in your chimney starter, light the coals with the lid off and let burn for 12-15 minutes for elevations between sea level and 2,000 feet (at all other elevations let your coals burn for 20 minutes). Once these are lit pour them onto your unlit coals, place the lid on, and cook immediately. Add unsoaked wood chips to the coals if desired. Arrange the food on the hooks (use two for extra security) and hang from the rods.
Unless you're embarking on a very long cook (more than 6 hours), there should be no need to replenish the fuel.
Not content to rest on his laurels, Glanville moved production in 2014 from Colorado to California (he and his family currently live in Kentucky) and now manufactures the units out of heavier steel—18-gauge versus 20-gauge. The handsome outside is now porcelain enamel, more durable than the powder coating that was used originally. He has also developed a line of useful accessories which we'll cover in a future blog post.
And should you have any questions about the PBC, know that Glanville takes customer service very seriously. In fact, he includes his personal cell phone number with every shipment. What other company does that?
Here are Glanville's specific recommendations for using the PBC.
Whole beef tenderloin: Hang it with the head (big end) up. It should be medium-rare in 1 to 1-1/2 hours.
Rib-eye steak (1-1/2 inches thick): Direct grill 6 to 7 minutes per side with the lid off.
Baby back ribs: Hang and cook 3-1/2 to 4 hours.
Spareribs: Hang and cook 3 to 3-1/2 hours (curiously, Glanville says spareribs cook faster than baby backs).
Rack of lamb: Hang and cook 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Cedar planked salmon: Arrange on the grate and cook 20 to 25 minutes.
Sweet potatoes: Arrange on the grate and cook for 2 hours.
Artichokes: Arrange on the grate and cook for about 1-1/2 hours.
Corn on the cob (husk on): Arrange on the grate and cook for 45 minutes.
For more information or to order this workhorse of a cooker, click here.


The weather is getting nicer and nicer… that is when everyone wants to look better, work out more to be more toned and strong, but around these months we are also busier. We make more plans with friends and family and maybe go on vacation for a week or so.
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3. Decides that, in order to carry out the above-mentioned decisions of the Security Council, all the States Members of the United Nations should refrain from supplying Israel with any weapons and from providing it with any military aid until the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from all Lebanese territory.
In favour: China, France, Guyana, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Panama, Poland, Spain, Uganda, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Absteined: Togo, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Zaire.


A blog about my quilting, crochet, sewing, soap making, bag making and other crafty adventures, by a craftaholic.
I like to have a crochet project on the go, something simple that I can pick up and put down easily - normally done when I'm stuck in the car for a while with a sleeping child in the back seat.
This is my current project - more rainbows!
It's basically a giant granny square, with each row a different colour. It's not a true rainbow - the indigo and violet are more like purple and pink, but it's bright and colourful and that'll do. There is going to be a lot of sewing in of ends of threads when I've finished (not my favourite part!), but it'll be worth it.
Linking up to WIP Wednesdays at Freshly Pieced!
I am a self confessed craft addict and mum of one adorable munchkin. I mostly craft when said munchkin is sleeping, as the lure of a sewing machine pedal, or a ball of wool, is just too tempting.


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Plenty of 'what ifs' on tap for Week 1, including Missouri-Illinois
Situation Room: Keeping perspective in Week 1
Opening weekend offers questions, answers
By Rece Davis, ESPN.com
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Chase Daniel and Mizzou look to start the season with a win over Illinois.
Patience. Perspective. Nah. Let's go straight for the knee-jerk reaction.
We'll all be tempted to draw some conclusions from the opening week of college football.
Granted, the lineup of tomato cans ready to be knocked over could temper that temptation a bit.
I mean what can you really learn from Penn State playing Coastal Carolina … other than what a Chanticleer is? I think it's natural to want to confirm hunches or suspicions about certain teams. There are a few who might show their colors this weekend.
I can't wait for Missouri and Illinois on Saturday night. Maybe we'll see if Missouri really is golden and if the future is rosy for the Illini. It was a magical ride to Pasadena for the Zooker last year. But was that just a good Illinois team or are the Illini becoming a good program?
I'll admit I've been skeptical of Illinois' staying power in the past.
Answers, or at least big hints, come Saturday night. Has Juice Williams taken another step forward as a passer? Good programs replace leaders. Who is this year's J. Leman? It's not so much whether the Illini win, it's how they play that matters to me. Frankly, this is the type of game national title contenders win.
Missouri wants to join that realm. Win the game. Last year raised the bar. A check on Mizzou's maturity and how it handles prosperity is coming up in Saint Louis on Saturday night.
Other games this weekend might tip a few hands and have you revisiting your BCS predictions:
What if banged up Georgia slops around against Georgia Southern?
What if Mark Sanchez looks gimpy against Virginia?
What if Virginia Tech's O doesn't move … and neither does Tyrod Taylor's redshirt?
What if Michigan can't score?
What if Utah can?
Can this finally be Clemson and Tommy Bowden's year?
What if Clemson lives up to the hype? Would that sell you that these Tigers are of the Homer Jordan ilk?
What if Alabama's freshmen are really that good? What if they aren't?
What if Howard Schnellenberger was right about Texas?
What if he just made Texas mad?
What if I can't get the new "Dr. Lou, Dr Lou" jingle out of my head?
Definitive conclusions might not come easily after one week. But don't be blind to the first impression. They can be tough to shake. Like that Dr. Lou jingle.
Binding decisions will be handed down Saturday night on "College Football Final" in the debut of our new segment called "The Final Verdict." Piqued by issues like the ones discussed above, Mark May and Lou Holtz will present their cases on a major moment from the day. No court-appointed attorneys here.
The only inflexible rule? They have to believe in their position. In the unlikely event that my hall of fame partners should happen to see every pertinent issue the same way all day, I'll just say, "Notre Dame." That should spark some discourse.
The judge will encourage patience and perspective. However, even think about getting out of line and the contempt of court gavel will drop quicker than Trindon Holiday turns the corner. Sometimes, immediate impressions are the right ones.
Coach's Corner: Rule Changes
Former defensive coordinator and head coach Bob Davie will share his thoughts on various topics throughout this season. For Week 1, Coach Davie gives his take on five rule changes for 2008.
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Say goodbye to the 25-second play clock this season. What will it mean for teams and coaches?
Rule Change No. 1: Outside of the final two minutes of each half, the game clock will no longer remain stopped until the next snap after an incomplete pass or ball carrier running out of bounds. Instead, the clock will initially stop at the end of the play, then it will start again as soon as the ball is set for play by the referee. Inside of the final two minutes of each half, the clock stoppages will be handled as they've been in previous seasons.
Bob Davie: From a coach's perspective, the biggest concern to me is that for three straight years, they've changed the game clock rules. All coaches will adapt to it eventually, but it does leave them very vulnerable. I'm fine with the rule change itself, but there will be coaches who will make mistakes with this new rule. When they do, they're going to be labeled with the "poor clock management" tag because of it.
Rule Change No. 2: A 40-second play clock will replace the old 25-second version. Just like in the NFL, it will be started as soon as the previous play is blown dead.
Davie: This is a good rule because we now have some consistency. In previous seasons, it was up to the referee to decide when it would start and that would change from week to week. At least now, it can be consistent.
Rule Change No. 3: There is no longer a penalty for an incidental face mask (previously five yards for grabbing the mask). Now, only a 15-yard personal foul face mask penalty will be called.
Davie: I think this is probably a good rule, but my hope is that they are conservative when they do throw the flag. Obviously, a 15-yard penalty effects field position and can change momentum in games, so I'd like to see a conservative approach when they decide to call it.
Rule Change No. 4: For the first time, a horse-collar tackle will be flagged. Pulling down a ball carrier by the inside of the shoulder pads (if it occurs outside the tackle box) will be a 15-yard penalty.
Davie: I don't see this new rule being a big issue which will impact games this season. Anything that's implemented to protect these players is a good addition.
Rule Change No. 5: Coaches will still be given one opportunity per game to challenge a ruling on the field through instant replay. However, if the challenge is successful, that coach will have one more opportunity to challenge later in the game. No more challenges will be allowed after that, even if the first two are both successful.
Davie: This doesn't mean much to head coaches. There's a review system that's set up so every play is basically reviewed anyhow in college football. I think the rule is overrated. It makes sense that you're afforded another challenge if you are successful, but it doesn't affect anything.
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(All times ET)
10 a.m.: College GameDay from Atlanta. (ESPN)
11 a.m. Appalachian State at LSU (ESPN Classic)
Noon: Virginia Tech at East Carolina (ESPN)
Bowling Green at Pitt (ESPNU)
Syracuse at Northwestern (ESPN2)
3:30 p.m. USC at Virginia (ABC)
Utah at Michigan (ABC)
3:45 p.m. Delaware at Maryland (ESPNU)
6:45 p.m. Mississippi State at Louisiana Tech (ESPN2)
7:30 p.m. Boston College at Kent State (ESPNU)
8 p.m. Alabama vs. Clemson (ABC)
Michigan State at Cal (ABC)
8:30 p.m. Illinois vs. Missouri (ESPN)
• College football schedule | ESPN GamePlan
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Each week our bloggers will take a closer look at the story lines you should be watching. What's on tap for Week 1?
Will Clemson's offensive line answer questions? How will Virginia Tech's offense do? And what about North Carolina's D? ACC
Growing pains for Texas' green secondary? How aggressive will Missouri's defense be? Artrell Woods returns. Big 12
Keep an eye on Pat White's arm and Rutgers' running game. Is Louisville's defense better? And what about Pitt's poise? Big East
We finally see Michigan QBs Steven Threet and Nick Sheridan, but how about that Pryor guy? And don't forget Juice vs. Chase. Big Ten
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Q: Bound for the number of rational points on the modular curve By Mazur's theorems (Reference:- Modular curves and the Eisenstein ideal, 1977),
we know that the only rational points of X_0(N) for N any prime > 163 are
the two cusps (o) and (oo) (|X_0(N)(Q)| = 2 ).
Is there any bound for |X_0(N)(Q)|, where N is an arbitrary +ve integer?.
More Generally,
Is there a bound on the number of rational points on the modular curve
i.e. for |X_0(N)(K)|, where K is some number field. We know that |X_0(N)(K)| is finite.

A: Let me restrict throughout to prime $N \geq 23$. This ensures that, indeed, $|X_0(N)(K)|$ is finite, for any number field $K$.
If your question is "For given $N$ and $K$, how big is $|X_0(N)(K)|$?", then I don't really know. Certainly you'll have the two cusps, and possibly some "CM points" coming from CM elliptic curves; e.g., if $K = \mathbb{Q}(i)$, and $N$ splits in $K$. But these cusps and CM points are somehow "trivial". Remember Ogg in "Diophantine Equations and modular forms", 1975; "The conclusion toward which we are tending seems to be that modular curves only have rational points for which there is a reason".
If your question is "Given a number field $K$, is there a bound $C(K)$ such that, if $N > C(K)$, then $X_0(N)(K)$ is trivial?", then this question was studied by Momose in 1995 ("Isogenies of Prime Degree over number fields", Compositio Mathematica, 97). He proved (Theorem A in loc.cit.) that there is a bound $C(K)$ such that, if $N > C(K)$, then any noncuspidal point in $X_0(N)(K)$ is one of three kinds (which he calls 'Type 1', 'Type 2', 'Type 3'). He then asks "Under what conditions on $K$ are there only finitely many points of these three types?" For instance, he shows that, for $K$ quadratic and not imaginary quadratic of class number one, then $X_0(N)(K)$ has noncuspidal points for only finitely many $N$.
Making this $C(K)$ effective has been done in a paper of Agnès David ("Caractère d'isogénie et critères d'irréductibilité", Théorème II, available on the arXiV). This paper also explains effectively how Momose's Type 1 and 2 points can only occur for finitely many primes (the type II case might require GRH for a really strong Effective Cheboratev Density Theorem, I'm not sure). Type 3 points don't occur if you assume your $K$ does not contain an imaginary quadratic field and its Hilbert Class Field.
I was curious how large these bounds were in a specific example like $K=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{5})$; using the formulae in David's paper, I got that, for $N > 8 \times 10^{119}$, $X_0(N)(K)$ has only the two cusps.
Dmitry Vaintrob's answer to this question may also be useful. I think their Preprint is now on the arXiv.
EDIT. Regarding your new question "Is there any bound for $|X_0(N)(\mathbb{Q})|$, where $N$ is an arbitrary positive integer?", the answer is yes.
As a rough rule, $X_0(N)(\mathbb{Q})$ contains only the cusps. How many cusps are there? Page 107 of Diamond And Shurman's book contains a nice table, which tells you that the number of cusps is $\sum_{d|N}\phi(gcd(d,\frac{N}{d}))$.
If $N \leq 10$, or $N = 12,13,16,18,25$, then the genus of $X_0(N)$ is zero, and hence will have infinitely many rational points. If $N = 11,14,15,17,19,21,27$, then the genus is one; it turns out that these curves have rank zero, and in addition to the cusps, have $3,2,4,2,1,4,1$ more rational points, respectively. If $N = 37,43,67,163$, then, in addition to the cusps, there are $2,1,1,1$ more rational points, respectively. The results in this paragraph were certainly known before Mazur (I'm not quite sure exactly when).
Fact. For any other integer $N$, there are only the cusps.
This fact was proved for prime $N$ by Mazur. In the introduction to his "Rational Isogenies of Prime Degree" paper, he reduced the fact (for all $N$) to dealing with the cases $169,91,65,39,125$. I believe these cases were subsequently dealt with by work of Kenku and Mestre.

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Die USS Bullhead (SS-332) war ein U-Boot der Balao-Klasse der US Navy. Es wurde während des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Rahmen der Pazifikflotte im Pazifik gegen Japan eingesetzt. Aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach wurde die Bullhead am 6. August 1945, dem Tag des ersten Atombombenabwurfs auf Hiroshima als letztes Schiff der US Navy während des Zweiten Weltkriegs versenkt.

Das Boot war das einzige Schiff der US Navy, welches den Namen Bullhead trug. Der Name dient als Bezeichnung für verschiedene unterschiedliche Arten der Knochenfische, darunter die Groppen. (→ Siehe auch: USS Cabezon (SS-334).)

Technik und Bewaffnung
Die Bullhead war ein diesel-elektrisches Patrouillen-U-Boot der Balao-Klasse. Die Balao-Klasse wurde gegenüber der Gato-Klasse nur geringfügig verbessert und war wie jene für lange offensive Patrouillenfahrten im Pazifik ausgelegt. Insbesondere die Tauchtiefe wurde, basierend auf den Erfahrungen während des Krieges gegen Japan, vergrößert und der Innenraum verbessert. Äußerlich und in ihren Dimensionen glichen sich die Boote beider Klassen weitgehend.

Technik
Die Bullhead war 95 Meter lang und 8,3 Meter breit, ihr Tiefgang betrug maximal 5,1 Meter. Aufgetaucht verdrängte sie 1526 ts, getaucht 2424 ts. Der Antrieb erfolgte durch vier 16-Zylinder-Dieselmotoren von General Motors, Modell 16-278A, die je 1000 kW (1350 PS) Leistung brachten. Unter Wasser wurde das U-Boot durch vier Elektromotoren mit insgesamt 2740 PS angetrieben, die ihre Energie aus zwei 126-zelligen Akkumulatoren bezogen. Die Motoren gaben ihre Leistung über ein Getriebe an zwei Wellen mit je einer Schraube ab. Die Geschwindigkeit betrug aufgetaucht maximal 20,25 Knoten, getaucht schaffte die Bullhead noch 8,75 Knoten. Die mögliche Tauchzeit betrug 48 Stunden, die maximale Konstruktionstauchtiefe lag bei 120 Metern. In den Treibstofftanks konnten 440 Kubikmeter Dieselkraftstoff gebunkert werden, damit hatte das Boot einen Fahrbereich von 11.000 Seemeilen bei 10 Knoten.

Bewaffnung
Die Hauptbewaffnung der Bullhead bestand aus zehn 533-mm-Torpedorohren, sechs im Bug, vier achtern, für die sich 24 Torpedos an Bord befanden. Hinter dem Turm war ein 5-Zoll-Deckgeschütz angebracht. Auf dem Wintergarten waren eine 20-mm-Oerlikon-Maschinenkanone und eine 40-mm-FlaK untergebracht. Zusätzlich konnten zwei 12,7-mm-Maschinengewehre bei Bedarf an diversen Positionen des Schiffs montiert und nach Gebrauch wieder im Boot verstaut werden. Zur Ortung feindlicher Schiffe verfügte die USS Bullhead über ein JK/QC- und ein QB-Sonar unter dem Bug, an Deck waren JP-Hydrophone installiert. Am ausfahrbaren Elektronikmast war ein SD-Radar mit 20 Seemeilen Aufklärungsreichweite zur Ortung feindlicher Flugzeuge angebracht, zusätzlich verfügte das U-Boot über ein SJ-Oberflächensuchradar mit etwa zwölf Seemeilen Reichweite. Im getauchten Zustand konnte über das am Periskop angebrachte ST-Radar mit acht Seemeilen Reichweite ebenfalls eine Ortung feindlicher Schiffe erfolgen.

Geschichte

Das U-Boot mit der Nummer SS-332 wurde am 21. Oktober 1943 bei Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut auf Kiel gelegt. Der Stapellauf und die Taufe erfolgten am 16. Juli 1944. Taufpatin des Bullhead getauften U-Bootes war Mrs. Howard R. Doyle. Als Kommandant übernahm Commander W. T. Griffith die Führung des Bootes, das zunächst Probe- und Übungsfahrten vor der Küste Neuenglands durchführte.

Vom 21. März 1945 bis zu seinem Untergang am 6. August 1945 befand sich die Bullhead im Einsatz auf dem pazifischen Kriegsschauplatz. In dieser Zeit vollendete sie zwei Feindfahrten, wobei sie überwiegend im Südchinesischen Meer und im Golf von Siam operierte.

Erste Feindfahrt (März/April 1945)
Während der ersten Feindfahrt war ihre Hauptaufgabe das Beziehen von Positionen entlang der Flugrouten angreifender alliierter Flugzeuge bei deren Angriffen gegen Japan. In dieser Funktion konnte Bullhead drei Besatzungsmitglieder einer abgestürzten B-29 Superfortress retten. Außerdem wurden die Dongsha-Inseln zweimal mit der Bordartillerie beschossen, um die dortige japanische Funkstation zu zerstören.

Zweite Feindfahrt (Mai/Juni 1945)
Während der zweiten Feindfahrt war ihre Hauptaufgabe erneut die Sicherung alliierter Luftangriffe. Außerdem wurden bei Operationen im Südchinesischen Meer und im Golf von Siam am 18. und am 25. Juni 1945 zwei kleinere Frachtschiffe torpediert und versenkt. Zusätzlich kämpfte die Bullhead am 19. Juni einen kleinen japanischen U-Boot-Jäger nieder und versenkte außer diesem auch noch einen kleinen Segelschoner mittels Geschützfeuer. Zudem wurden ebenfalls durch Geschützfeuer zwei weitere leichte-U-Boot-Jäger beschädigt, ebenso ein weiterer kleiner Frachter.

Dritte Feindfahrt (Juli/August 1945)
Am 31. Juli 1945 lief die Bullhead zu ihrer dritten und letzten Feindfahrt aus. Sie sollte gemeinsam mit dem Schwesterschiff USS Capitaine (SS-336) und USS Puffer (SS-268) (Gato-Klasse) eine koordiniert operierende U-Boot-Gruppe, "Wolfpack" genannt, bilden und in der Javasee operieren. Am 6. August gab die Bullhead das letzte Lebenszeichen von sich, als sie meldete, soeben die Lombokstraße zwischen Bali und Lombok passiert zu haben. Dies war die letzte Nachricht von der Bullhead und ihrer Besatzung.

Nach dem Krieg ergaben Recherchen, dass das Boot wahrscheinlich kurz nach dem Absetzen der Positionsmeldung versenkt wurde. Am 6. August 1945 meldete ein japanisches Flugzeug vom Typ Mitsubishi Ki-51 zwei direkte Treffer und anschließend zehn Minuten lang das Aufsteigen von Luftblasen und Öl an der Stelle, an der das angegriffene U-Boot verschwand. Alle 84 Besatzungsmitglieder kamen ums Leben.

Auszeichnungen
Für ihre Einsätze im Zweiten Weltkrieg erhielt die Bullhead insgesamt zwei Battle Stars.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 USS Bullhead: Verlustliste
 USS Bullhead: Liste der Erfolge.

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Schiff im Pazifikkrieg
Schiffsverlust im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Schiffsverlust 1945
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Scarlet Pimpernel
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The year is 1792. The French Revolution, driven to excess by its own triumph, has turned into a reign of terror. Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women and children from the deadly guillotine. His foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauvelin is sworn to discover his identity and to hunt him down.
One of our favorite novels. Sir Percy is that daring Englishman who, with his loyal band of followers, dons disguises and rescues members of the French aristocracy. When he woos and marries Marguerite, but later suspects her of betraying one such aristocrat, the process becomes a bit more complicated. Fun, swashbuckling, and romantic. . . full of close calls and some pretty memorable dialogue.
Many readers clamored for more after reading The Scarlet Pimpernel, and the Baroness Orczy graciously obliged. They're not as cleveras the first book, but here are three sequels, made available for free from Project Gutenberg:
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We all deal with catastrophes in our life – big and small and in all parts of our lives. Even a cursory view of social media, the news or conversations around us will show that many feel this way in the aftermath of the recent U.S. Presidential election. This is not an article about the election or politics; while the reactions I have witnessed prompted me to write this, the lessons here are for all of us as we deal with challenges in our lives that can come from any source or direction.
As a leader, this is doubly important, for the ideas I will share will not only help you and your ability to lead (and lead by example), but will also help you help others, especially when the catastrophe is something shared by some, or all of your team.
To set the stage – something has happened or is happening in your life, or around you. It leaves you stunned, shaken and sad. You might be frustrated, mad or having other strong emotional reactions. All of this leaves you feeling immobilized.
You've been there. Now the question is, what do you do about it?
A long time ago I learned three questions to help deal with this situation. It was framed around what to do when you are worried. Chances are, in the moment I am describing, you would be worried. So let's look at those three questions, and how their answers will help you.
When living in the moment of catastrophe, ask yourself the three questions, in the order I am sharing them with you.
Is the situation that leads you to your current state of worry and concern a problem? Your first inclination will be "of course it is a problem." And it may well be. But ask yourself this question – it will help you put it all in the proper context.
If your answer is no – if it isn't really a problem; then let it go.
If it is a problem, ask yourself the next question . . .
OK, it is a problem, but how important is it? If it isn't that important, why are you fearful and immobilized? Asking this question helps you step back and see if this situation is really worth the anxiety and worry. Perhaps you are over-reacting.
If your answer is no – if it isn't super important; then let it go.
If it is important, ask yourself the final question . . .
3. Can You Change the Outcome?
If you have gotten to this question, you know that the situation is both truly a problem and is important enough to be thinking about. Now consider this; can you change (or affect) the outcome?
In other words, given this important problem, what can you do to impact it, change it, or improve it? If it is completely out of your control and influence, while you may not like it, there is no practical sense in worrying about it, is there?
So, if you cannot change or influence the outcome in any way, let it go.
But if the answer is yes, then it is time for you to act. What can you do to change the circumstances, keep this event from happening again, or change your perspective about it? Answering this question creates action, energy and momentum. It takes your focus off your pain, sadness, anger or shock and funnels it into something useful and productive.
The power of action, and then momentum is, well powerful.
What Do I Mean by "Let it Go"?
Let it go means stop thinking about it, worrying about it, or stewing about it.
It doesn't mean you have to like it, but it makes no sense and adds no value for you to continue to hold on to whatever it is.
Remember this process only encourages you to "let it go" if it isn't a problem, isn't important or if you can't change the outcome.
Let it go, means, let it go.
All of us face situations that are hard and that make us feel stuck. When in these situations remember and apply the technique I've shared with you here. Doing it will help you be healthier and happier, and doing it will help you lead more effectively, helping both you and your team be more focused and proactive.
Is it a problem? If no, let it go.
Is it important? If no, let it go.
Can you change the outcome? If no, let it go. But if yes, get to work.
What Does Your Worry Fix?
Sadly, it's the media keeping the flame of division and anger going. I look at the recent election as I looked at dealing with young strong-willed child who threw a tantrum every time I told her "no". When I learned to walk away from her when her behavior became a tantrum, the behavior stopped. Usually, it's just about getting their way through bad behavior. That's how I learned to "Let it go" as that what the advise given me by my child's Pediatrician. Great advice!
I think another important consideration is to think about the likely outcomes not just the possible ones. I have found in life that things rarely turn out as badly as I feared or as wonderfully as I hoped. There simply is no need to go to extremes in either direction. Wait to see what happens and be prepared to make the best of whatever comes. Fretting about it either way is just a waste of energy. Unfortunately, our media stirs things up for the sake of a headline. We need to all stand together to help our younger generation to make decisions based on facts, not feelings and to know that 'this too shall pass.' It always does.


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